From old-school movie stars looking for a memorable way to find fans to pop stars who went for an out-of-this-world new alias, here are celebrities who took stage names when they hit the big time.
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Items from Siegfried & Roy’s two Las Vegas estates are being offered to the public through Bonhams auction house in Los Angeles.
Elvis Presley’s licensing company warns any “infringing chapel” in Vegas is risking legal action by portraying the King.
The four primary members of the Eagles bowed it out Friday night. We might not see them in Vegas again.
Keith Urban called out, “Just a Saturday night in Las Vegas!” as Nicole Kidman arrived and departed at the Colosseum.
“Mad Apple” is Cirque’s effort to deliver a fast, smaller-scale production at New York-New York.
Billy Gibbons says the new ZZ Top album “Raw” is due this summer, and the band is back at The Venetian in December.
His first big film role was in Jonathan Demme’s “Something Wild” as Melanie Griffith’s character’s hotheaded ex-convict husband Ray.
The former “House of Cards” star ran London’s Old Vic Theatre between 2004 and 2015.
“Mad Apple” is the most recent Cirque show to open on the Strip since “R.U.N” at Luxor bowed in 2019.
Dennis Blair says of George Carlin’s final show, “The last week at The Orleans, he was OK. He didn’t have all the energy he used to have, but he was OK.”
Wayne Newton’s “Up Close and Personal” production is running 7 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays through Dec. 18.
Aerosmith has announced that Steven Tyler is back in addiction treatment after relapsing following foot surgery.
Fletch Walcott is a great singer with a great memory for lyrics. He put both to use Monday night on “Don’t Forget the Lyrics.”
As anyone who has followed out exploits over the years knows, the lounge scene is our babbling brook. But the lounges are vanishing from the VegasVille landscape.