As Frank Gatson Jr. goes about overhauling “Jubilee,” he knows a lot of people are watching him. Maybe even the ghost of Donn Arden.
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Kenny Rogers didn’t have to wait until his condition was post-mortem to see a couple of major honors.
There’s more than one place to hear “Drunken Lullabies” this weekend.
Comedy duo Cheech &Chong hit The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel on May 16, with War. Tickets start at $39.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at The Joint box office, 4455 Paradise Road, and Ticketmaster outlets.
Bill Cosby and I just conference-called people around Las Vegas and Texas for an hour. It was pretty, pretty, pretty amazing. Cosby (who performs Friday at TI) was telling me a story on the phone about his old days at the Las Vegas Hilton in the 1970s.
Country music fans will have the new High Roller observation wheel to steer them to this year’s events surrounding the Academy of Country Music awards, but they will need to show up with some cash. And not show up on Fremont Street, unless they are willing to settle for less-famous bands.
The version of “The Tempest” created by Teller and Aaron Posner is not stuffy Shakespeare by any stretch of the imagination.
If you ever find yourself onstage opening for comedian Ray Romano, heed the following advice.
Eric Jordan Young has done a show on the Strip more than 2,000 times for four years now, but no one is calling him a Las Vegas headliner. That’s the next thing he’d like to be.
You may remember “The Tom Green Show” for the stunts and pranks. But his stand-up career proves there was more to it — or at least to Tom Green.
Look, up in the sky, it’s Cirque du men.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture cited Dirk Arthur’s Wild Magic show in December for declawing lions and tigers, keeping a snow leopard in a rusty cage and chaining a bobcat in a dangerous way.
Of course, Cirque du Soleil wants you to see all of its Las Vegas shows. Knock yourself out, I’m sure they would say.
The Riviera always had a crazy number of show venues for what its room count and location could support. So don’t be surprised to learn it’s on the way back to hosting seven or eight titles again.
The Amazing Johnathan has already cheated death a few times, one Sunday afternoon in particular.
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