At one point the crowd faced off with a line of patrolmen at the edge of the blocked-off Fremont Street Experience.
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John Katsilometes’ man-about-town column appears on daily on page 3A. Katsilometes moved to Las Vegas from Northern California in 1996 and spent two years with the RJ before moving to the Greenspun Media Group in 1998, where he served as an editor, magazine writer and columnist. He returned to the RJ in August 2016. He has won numerous state and regional awards, including the 2013 Nevada Press Association Journalist of the Year honor, and has been awarded three times for column writing by the Best of the West contest.
“I really thought I was going to be killed that night,” Norm Johnson says of the Watts riots. “I literally drove through a mob.”
Lady Gaga postponed a “Chromatica” listening party in the wake of protests over George Floyd’s death.
FSE’s Viva Vision video screen is displaying a 144-hour countdown leading to the moment, at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, when Vegas hotel-casinos are allowed to reopen.
Mayfair Supper Club’s return to the present tense will be watched with great interest as shows return under COVID-19 safety directives.
Wynn entertainment director Rick Gray informed members of the production Thursday morning that they would be furloughed.
“The response went through the roof,” the owner of the D Las Vegas and Golden Gate said a day after giving away 2,000 flights to tourists across the country.
The hit musical’s run from September through October at The Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall has been postponed, Myron Martin announced Wednesday.
Derek Stevens, co-owner of the D Las Vegas and Golden Gate, gave away 2,000 one-way flights to Las Vegas from 24 U.S. cities.
Canada’s Investissement Quebec company has issued Cirque du Soleil a loan of up to $200 million and offered to buy the company outright.
As a result of the COVID-19 shutdown, the Bellagio fountains turned off the faucet March 17.
Marklen Kennedy developed “Labor of Love,” and his premiere party itself was a show.
Tommy Rocker says, “People need to know that we have followed all the guidelines to reopen, that’s the main thing.”
The “Tiger King” directors doc will delve into the night of Oct. 3, 2003, when Roy Horn was after dragged off-stage by a white tiger.
For 25 years, Megan Belk’s family has touched the Las Vegas entertainment community in myriad ways.