Slaughter caught the end of the ’80s “hair band” era, and it wasn’t the kind of band anyone thought would still be around.
Shows
The opening night of “Sexxy” was a reminder that Jennifer Romas knows just about everyone involved in Las Vegas entertainment. Whatever happens next, wherever she goes, she will be, well, noticed.
Last week’s hullabaloo over George Strait playing at least four Las Vegas arena concerts next year got me wondering: Has any other superstar kept getting more and more popular over the years without doing one thing different?
Magicians like to turn things inside out, and two of them are doing just that to the conventional rules of working one’s way up the Las Vegas ladder.
Pitbull’s show turns out to be a perfect fit for the remodeled Axis and the club-generation visitors it targets with its standing-room general-admission areas up front.
Lance Burton is a laid-back guy, so maybe it’s no surprise that what he calls “a leisurely pace” to make his first movie ended up being five years.
Seinfeld has been the Colosseum at Caesars Palace’s most consistent annual visitor, the only entertainer not to have skipped a year since it opened.
Lionel Richie is old enough to remember the days when Las Vegas wasn’t cool.
On August 5, 2015, Siegfried and Roy’s tigers Indira and Svengali became parents of four cubs that were shown for the first time to the public last Saturday.
Stage magic is a small world, any way you measure it.
The coming week is packed with headliners, most of them enduring stars who have made a Las Vegas tradition of the multi-day celebration surrounding Wednesday’s Mexican Independence Day, or Grito de Dolores.
Mat Franco’s odds are good for a long run as the Strip’s next resident magician at The Linq Hotel.
The show ended 12 years ago, but Siegfried & Roy are still introducing new stars: Four tiger cubs will make their debut at noon Saturday at the retired illusionists’ attraction at The Mirage.
The Las Vegas-based comedy magician Piff the Magic Dragon made the Top 10 cut on “America’s Got Talent” Wednesday, putting him into the NBC talent show’s final showdown on Tuesday.
Some people just don’t give up on Las Vegas entertainment, or trying to close the gap between what is and what should be on the Strip.
