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?).
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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.
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.
Leading off the bottom of the first inning for your Las Vegas 51s, Tommy “The Renegade” Shaw!
Emerge creator and founder Rehan Choudhry says, “There is nothing else like Emerge, which is what motivated us to build it.”
Giada De Laurentiis is preparing two dinners for more than $200,000 after Saturday’s wild bidding at Nevada Ballet Theatre’s Black and White gala.
Randy Newman was honored Sunday for “Putin” in the Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals category.
“Our motto is to ignite and and unite, show a a lot of energy, hope and courage,” says Carlos Santana in his return to House of Blues at Mandalay Bay.