ACM Awards host Reba McEntire called out previous hosting tandems Luke Bryan and Dierks Bentley, plus Bryan and Blake Shelton. Operating solo, McEntire said, “I guess they figured it only takes one woman to do the job of two men!”
Arts & Culture
The opening of “The Voice — Neon Dreams” at Hard Rock Hotel has been moved back to Sept. 17. The September date is in line with the debut of the TV show’s 15th season.
Marty Allen, the beguiling, bug-eyed comic legend whose “Hello, Dere!” was his lifetime catcphrase, will be honored with a celebration of life Friday at Rampart Casino’s Marquis Ballroom.
Jon Bon Jovi shouted it from the stage at T-Mobile Arena: “What could be better than a St. Patrick’s Day party in Las Vegas on a Saturday night?”
Former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman has said he’ll bet on anything — including a pair of cockroaches scrambling across a tile floor (let’s set up a tournament for that, eh?).
Roger Daltrey says of a return of The Who to the Strip: “We’ve got offers. If Pete wanted to do it, I would do it; let’s put it that way.”
The Moody Blues, who issued that masterpiece in 1967, are returning to Encore Theater for an engagement past their four-show spree in January.
Piff the Magic Dragon, the costumed comic-magician headliner at Flamingo Las Vegas, shaved the head of John Katsilometes during the St. Baldrick’s Foundation shave-a-thon at New York-New York’s Brooklyn Bridge.
“One Night For One Drop” featured songs by Jewel, appearances by her family, and a soaring dragon.
Zappos has agreed to an exclusive, five-year marketing partnership with Caesars Entertainment in the newly named Zappos Theater.
Sources familiar with booking at the venue pinpoint an August/September launch of a 26-show series for Queen with Adam Lambert.
Kiss mainstay Gene Simmons stopped into the Rio in VegasVille on Saturday on his cross-country tour delivering “The Vault.”
Todd Fisher is presiding over an estate sale for the ages, selling off much of the memorabilia collected over the years by his mother, Debbie Reynolds; and sister, Carrie Fisher.
Australian Bee Gees, a little show honoring a big act, celebrated its seventh anniversary in residence at Excalibur hotel-casino Saturday night.
“Viva Las Vegas” is everywhere, still, in this city. Vegas’s own rock superstars The Killers might well perform their version of the song Saturday night in their first show at MGM Grand Garden.