Alex Rodriguez hits with stripper

A Las Vegas stripper has been identified as the mystery blonde photographed with New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez.

The New York Post reported Friday that Joslyn Noel Morse, 30, who most recently performed at Scores, 3355 Procyon St., was with Rodriguez last week when the two were photographed on their way to a strip club.

Morse worked at Scores from May 2005 to last October, a source told me.

The Post ran a Page 1 photo of Morse from her topless shoot that appeared in Playboy's October 2001 edition of "Casting Calls."

Rodriguez is married and was seen with his wife on Thursday night in Boston.

FLOWERS: 'SO MUCH JEALOUSY'

Brandon Flowers, frontman for The Killers, says it's "pathetic" that some of the group's early local followers have turned on them.

The indie crowd that once packed small clubs like Tramps to embrace The Killers has moved on, he said.

"There's so much jealousy that goes on in Las Vegas about what we've done. And it's kind of a shame," he told free-lance writer Steve Friess, who co-hosts thestrippodcast.com with Miles Smith.

"We'll sell out the show, but a lot of the people are going to be from L.A. It's pretty pathetic," Flowers said in an interview before The Killers' concert at the Hard Rock Hotel on Friday. "It's a common thing for people in your hometown to kind of shy away.

"The people who filled Tramps up, those people aren't going to be in the front as they were before we sold any records. They're going to be bitching about it on blogs."

THE SCENE AND HEARD

"Political Insiders," hosted by CityLife editor Steve Sebelius, has been canceled by KTNV-TV, Channel 13, effective next week, Sebelius confirmed. He said KTNV general manager Jim Prather made the decision after the show's producer, Mark Whitehead, recently joined KVBC-TV, Channel 3. "Mark was really the heart and soul of the show, producing as well as editing and adding graphics and visual effects," said Sebelius, who added that the time commitment to the show was detrimental to his job at CityLife. He had one month left on his contract. ...

Cleto Escobedo III, band leader on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," is performing with his band, the Cletones, at 9 p.m. Monday at The Beatles Revolution Lounge (Mirage) before the first West Coast listening party for Paul McCartney's 21st solo album, "Memory Almost Full."....

A second theater will be opened for CineVegas' opening night screening of "Ocean's Thirteen" on Wednesday. To buy tickets and sponsorship packages, call 952-5530. ...

Correction: KXNT-AM, 840 is holding "Radio Star 3" auditions today at the South Point. I mistakenly stated in Friday's column that the auditions were Friday. They run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom.

SIGHTINGS

ESPN baseball analyst Orel Hershiser, leaving the poker room at Bellagio on Friday. On Thursday he was seen having dinner with friends at Martinis near Summerlin. ... Fox News New York-based reporter Rick Levanthal, chatting with Harrah's exec Don Marrandino at the Epicurean event Thursday at the Flamingo pool.

THE PUNCH LINE

"During a nine-month strike in 2002, the Weather Channel broadcast reruns." -- From David Letterman's "fun facts."

Norm Clarke can be reached at 383-0244 or norm@reviewjournal.com. Find additional sightings and more online at www.normclarke.com.