First lady Melania Trump’s town hall meeting Tuesday about the opiate-addiction crisis is being staged at a legendary Las Vegas venue — International Theater at Westgate Las Vegas.
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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.
The 19th and 20th seasons of “Hell’s Kitchen” will be staged at Gordon Ramsay’s torridly popular, Strip-side restaurant. Ramsay himself made that announcement Friday night as he held his one-year anniversary party at Caesars.
All five high-level suites have been ‘re-imagined,” with Empathy Suites designed by famed artists Damien Hirst, who was in Friday night’s fete.
The show was announced during Travis Pastrana’s wildly hyped trifecta of stunt jumps dubbed “Evel Live” on the Las Vegas Strip in July
Billy Nye, a famed TV personality who is forever educating and embracing the qualities of energy, appears in a video promoting the partnership and will also officially kick off the event May 17 at Cosmic Meadow Stage.
The Power of Love gala, which benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, will this year honor Lionel Richie, who turns 70 on June 19.
Scott Sibella, a Las Vegas native and UNLV grad, has reportedly taken a buyout from MGM Resorts International.
Brian and Lynn McMullan and McMullan’s Irish Pub are hosting their 13th annual St Baldrick’s Foundation Shave event all day Saturday at their hot spot on 4650 W. Tropicana Ave.
Drake has panache, we’ll give him that. His opening-night residency performance is also the 10-year birthday celebration of Encore Las Vegas.
Las Vegas Strip headliner Donny Osmond has been unmasked. The famous male mainstay of the Donny & Marie production in the duo’s eponymous theater at Flamingo Las Vegas was indeed the costumes Peacock on the Fox-TV competition show.
Ross Mollison is a known Vegas historian who especially fancies the downtown core, such old-west-themed casinos Binion’s Gambling Hall and under-the-radar hangs as Atomic Liquors.
Richard Fink IV was adrift at C on Monday afternoon. For a while, we didn’t know if he’d sink or sing.
The Palms is pumping a resort-wide, festival atmosphere when it opens Kaos Nightclub.
Jimmhy Kimmel told his audience Monday that that tickets for all shows running April 1-5 at a yet-t0-be announced venue would be available online.
Janet Jackson is the youngest member of the iconic Jackson family, and started her entertainment career on the 1970s sitcom “Good Times.”
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