Michael Jackson tribute artists Jalles Franca and Santana Jackson are not masked per pandemic directives, but they’ll wear the glove.
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David Copperfield owns the largest collection of Houdini artifacts in the world. He’s being honored with his hero in December.
The Discovery Children’s Museum’s first virtual “non gala” will be hosted by Clint Holmes and feature performances by Jewel, Mat Franco and Matt Goss.
Las Vegas singers, songwriters and musicians are set to perform an online all-star benefit telethon starting Friday.
Nathan Apodaca, known on TikTok as @420doggface208, posted twice Tuesday night from the Strip. The clips have generated hundreds of thousands of views.
Piff The Magic Dragon has worked his magic away from the live stage, winning “Tournament of Laughs” and mastering comedy magic online.
Lorena Peril’s first full-time job was at a nursing facility in San Francisco. She returned this week.
Dionne Warwick, a recording superstar dating to the early 1960s, is being honored with the Silver State Equality, Nevada’s Ally Leadership Award at Silver State’s virtual gala.
Pete “Big Elvis” Vallee of Harrah’s says, “We’re trying different things to see what works, and right now we’re back and singing ambience.”
Actor and stand-up Sebastian Maniscalco reached out to a VIP who could not make his invite-only performances at Wynn Las Vegas this weekend.
Piff The Magic Dragon is the first faux-reptile to return to the Las Vegas Strip. But ahead of Piff’s re-opening, the female revue “X Country” is back at Harrah’s Cabaret.
As the host of all this activity, Mosaic has found itself as an unlikely industry leader among venues able to reopen during COVID.
John Katsilometes estimates he was at least 6 feet away from the performers at Le Cabaret, a distance Gov. Steve Sisolak himself endorses.
Acclaimed director Kenny Ortega was in the original Lake of Dreams creative team, and is back 15 years later.
The adjoining “Bodies … The Exhibition” and “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” have reopened on Luxor’s second-level mezzanine.