Nightlife to left, right this weekend
Las Vegas has turned gay all of a sudden. It's also going all Sean Hannity on us. And there's your weekend. Enjoy!
• GAY
The gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender action starts downtown tonight at 8 with the annual Pride Night Parade. Afterward, a bunch of Pride-y parties go down in gay spots such as FreeZone in the "Fruit Loop" on Paradise Road near the Hard Rock.
The parade is free of course. It starts at Fourth Street and Charleston Boulevard, then travels north up Fourth.
But Saturday's Pride Festival at the Clark County Government Center amphitheater costs $10 to check out 210 exhibitors. Children younger than 5 get in free. Children 5 to 17 pay $6 each. For more, surf LasVegasPride.org.
The gayness coincides with downtown's First Friday, the monthly evening when people drink and stumble through free art exhibits along Charleston and Main Street (FirstFriday-lasvegas.org).
• REPUBLICANS
Sean Hannity's in town, and please, please, please, Sean, think about stopping by the Pride Festival to enlist Log Cabin Republicans to attend your "Freedom Concert" at the Orleans Arena on Saturday night.
At "Freedom," Ollie North appears and signs books, and Lee Greenwood sings "God Bless the USA." For tickets ($25-$35), call 284-7777.
What is this concert, a fundraiser for the flag pin industry? No, it's partly a benefit to raise cash for an alliance that gives scholarships to children of U.S. soldiers who have been killed or maimed.
Hannity, the sole male sex symbol on Fox News, is not bringing lefty co-host Alan Colmes. And don't expect other liberals to grace The Orleans.
"We've invited them all. They just don't want to come," jokes Jack Landreth, program director of radio sponsor KXNT-AM, 840.
• AND DANCE NUMBERS
Frankie Valli is supposed to walk a 6 p.m. red carpet to break in the new Four Seasons-inspired "Jersey Boys" musical at the Palazzo. Other possible red carpeters are Joe Pesci, John Cleese and, uh ... La Toya Jackson?
So if you want to gawk, check out the red carpet. But you can't go to the invite-only show later because you're not a very important person, thanks, sorry.
Doug Elfman's column appears on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays. Contact him at 383-0391 or e-mail him at delfman@reviewjournal.com. He also blogs at reviewjournal.com/elfman.
