Mark Cohn was shot in the head during a 2005 carjacking attempt. He still gets nervous as a passeenger.
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Ringo Starr loves playing Las Vegas, enough to entertain thoughts of an extended engagement on the Strip.
Enjoy drafts, a giant LED screen and cheap drafts on election night at an uncommon post — Caesars Palace’s sports book.
On Friday, Charlie Watts hit Casa de Shenandoah to visit fellow Arabian horse breeder Wayne Newton. On Saturday, he rocked T-Mobile Arena.
The highly anticipated razing of “The Slammer,” Penn Jillette’s longtime home on West Wigwam Avenue in southwest Las Vegas, was halted Monday when the tank that was procured to level the house got stuck in the front room.
Olivia Newton-John is hosting a cancer-awareness event at Hard Rock Cafe on the Strip and Jeff Leibow returns to Palazzo Theater for NF Hope Concert.
Vocalist Bernard Fowler and sax man Tim Ries joined the Jimmy McIntosh Band for a rowdy night at an old Vegas rock club.
Mick Jagger is suffering from a serious throat problem. Thus, Wednesday’s Rolling Stones show is canceled.
The Washington Post, Fox News and USA Today lead the media onslaught on VegasVille the night before the presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Monday morning, Gov. Brian Sandoval signed off on a stadium that could one day be home to the Raiders and a $1.4-billion expansion of the Las Vegas Convention Center. A couple of hours later, he walked onstage at the Thomas & Mack Center to check out the set of Wednesday’s third and final presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
The timing of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize in Literature was just hours before he took the stage on the Strip.
Donny & Marie opened at the Flamingo on a six-week contract in the fall of 2008. They have not left.
Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” has become a ubiquitous anthem, showing the artist’s widespread appeal as he claims the first announced mini-residency at Park Theater at Monte Carlo.
Matt Goss is still big in the U.K., and has established a home in Vegas that might include MGM Resorts.
It was something of a test, loading “One Epic Night” into the Plaza Showroom. Anyone observing this show knew the pass-fail grade would be rendered quickly. Well, “One Epic Night” opened Sept. 29. It closed and loaded out this afternoon.