Imagine Dragons is a rock band, not a marching band. But the musicians from Las Vegas are performing during the halftime show of the College Football Playoff National Championship on Jan. 7.
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The long and short of the Bros story: The guys were torrid-hot for a couple of years in the late-1980s, then cratered, lost their riches, squabbled, regrouped, and returned to action with a pair of shows at London’s 02 Arena in August 2017.
Palm Springs Mayor Robert Moon also presented Newton with a proclamation naming the day in Newton’s honor.
The show will still deliver funds and awareness to the One Drop foundation, naturally. But the new production stars the character One (portrayed by a 7-year-old girl), who leads Everyman (played by a grown-up) on a journey of spiritual awakening.
As Jonnie and Mark Houstons’ first Las Vegas nightlife venture, On The Record is due to open New Year’s Eve at The Park MGM.
The Golden Knights held forth in one of the two swanky, private dining rooms. En route to the restaurant, the team stopped for a group photo at the Aria Sky Suites Living Wall, designed with a big GO NIGHTS GO! sign and team logo.
Typically clad in black and using just a black stool as his stage set, Sebastian Maniscalco’s act is focused on pointed commentary about his upbringing and current family
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.
Kiss mainstay Gene Simmons stopped into the Rio in VegasVille on Saturday on his cross-country tour delivering “The Vault.”
The Official Saw Escape Experience opens Jan. 26. The horror attraction takes over the aged building that was long home to the Paul-Son Gaming Company’s casino chip factory at 2121 Industrial Road.
The KATS! Bureau at this writing is Thomas Mack Center and the 59th Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. This year marks the last rodeo for Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Commissioner Karl Stressman, who is stepping down after a decade in ye olde saddle.
The back-beat of The Killers is up front about the band’s approach to the Dec. 1 Vegas Strong Benefit Concert at T-Mobile Arena. “We don’t care where we fall in the lineup, we can open, we can close,” Ronnie Vannucci says. “We’re just happy to assemble the masses.”
The Kats! Bureau at this writing is high atop T-Mobile Arena, where the Vegas Golden Knights will soon host the Arizona Coyotes — rather, the hated Arizona Coyotes — in our city’s first NHL game.
Steve Grad has verified the signatures on the first contract signed by Jackie Robinson with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, and the signatures on Robinson’s first contract with the Dodgers to play for the Montreal Royals in 1945.
Joey Pero originated the role of Nick Radel, but has yet to perform it in New York. He gets his chance Sunday night during the Tony Awards broadcast.
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