Lady Gaga’s midshow name adjustment and many costume changes peppered her “Jazz + Piano” relaunch.
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David Lee Roth has spent 50 years as a showman, first with the Van Halen brothers in the early 1970s. He’s calling it quits in Vegas in January.
Oscar Goodman’s joke didn’t hit the mark, but his hosted dinner was a winner at the Plaza.
As The Gazillionaire once said, or didn’t, you can’t spell “ten” without “tent.” Gaz’s peerless production, “Absinthe,” turns 10 this Thursday, appropriately on April Fool’s Day.
Nieve Malandra is first up as 1923 Prohibition Bar at Mandalay Bay returns to live entertainment.
Producer Kenneth Feld said of Siegfried Fischbacher, “The world of magic said good-bye to one of its greatest innovators.”
Lance Burton says of Vegas: “I was so excited and grateful to be doing my magic act in the city I had been dreaming of.”
Vegas historian Brian “Paco” Alvarez led Tony Hsieh on a First Friday tour, recalling, “He didn’t buy the art. He bought an art event.”
The home where Tony Hsieh suffered life-ending injuries is owned by Rachael Brown, a longtime Zappos employee and well-known Vegas cellist.
Tony Hsieh’s fellow downtown Las Vegas visionary Derek Stevens and his wife, Nicole, are taking lead on a Viva Vision tribute.
Rumors bubbled over Thursday that the former Bears QB and the “Fox Nation” personality were an item, after being spotted together recently at a bar in Nashville.