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John Katsilometes’ man-about-town column appears on daily on page 3A. Katsilometes moved to Las Vegas from Northern California in 1996 and spent two years with the RJ before moving to the Greenspun Media Group in 1998, where he served as an editor, magazine writer and columnist. He returned to the RJ in August 2016. He has won numerous state and regional awards, including the 2013 Nevada Press Association Journalist of the Year honor, and has been awarded three times for column writing by the Best of the West contest.
Las Vegas ‘gig’ performers are asking, “What am I supposed to do?” Keith Thompson says, “We do this.”
It didn’t take long for one of Las Vegas’ favorite sons to weigh in on Mayor Carolyn Goodman’s ill-fated interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN.
“Bar Rescue” star Jon Taffer says, “Rather than freaking out about the pandemic, I’ve just been focused on, ‘What do our businesses look like when we’re open?’ ”
Michael Jordan warned coach Phil Jackson about Chicago Bulls teammate Dennis Rodman’s getaway, “If you let him go to Vegas, we’re definitely not gonna see him.”
Ex-MGM Resorts and Wynn Las Vegas exec Sean Christie says of his new venture, “I think that companies are going to need companies like mine to create content and create ‘wow.’”
Wassa Coulibaly says of her new pandemic pieces, “You can wear these in a variety of ways. You can even wear them after the pandemic is over.”
Frontman and guitar great Billy Gibbons says from Las Vegas, “ZZ Top can’t sit still. The outlook for the coming year will be a bonus. It’ll be time to rage.”
Amid the COVID-19 shutdown, HyperX Tournament Director Kevin Forrstrom said, “I might be able to run this out of the house.”
Wayne Newton was photographed wearing a medical mask 55 years ago while buying a newspaper in L.A.
Live Nation President Joe Berchtold says, “We are highly confident that concerts in 2021, 2022 will be bigger than ever.”
Jimmy Denning of Tenors of Rock says of his fight with presumed COVID-19, “Imagine trying to breathe in and nothing happens, and you are suffocating.”
The Killers moved their Instagram Live Q&A back to perform in “One World: Together at Home.”
In ABC’s “Behind the Magic,” a physician who treated Roy Horn says, “He actually flatlined … or died.
International star and Las Vegas favorite Celine Dion has connected emotionally to her fans in English and French.