Drake has panache, we’ll give him that. His opening-night residency performance is also the 10-year birthday celebration of Encore 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.
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.”
At 8 p.m. March 16, “One Night For One Drop, Imagined by Cirque du Soliel” and sponsored by Colgate, airs in a one-hour special on CBS.
“There is not a single person on the planet that could sing this song but you,” she said, through tears. “Thank you for believing in us.”
I feel I’ve spent time with the stars of Naked Magicians in some previous life, maybe during a bachelor party to Las Vegas before I ever moved here.
MGM Resorts officials approached Lady Gaga last year, in the run-up to her residency headlining run at the Park Theater, about possibly using one of her songs in the show. Gaga chose “Bad Romance.”
As recently as mid-January, co-producer and show host Michael Franzese said he was targeting an April return to the stage at the Plaza.
Ester Goldberg is an unattached, untethered woman of a certain age. She comes at you with all the nuance of a sequined wrecking ball, floating F-bombs and flaying all cultures and demographics with equal zeal.
“Elvis Presley’s Heartbreak Hotel in Concert,” charting the Kings early years, opens at Harrah’s Showroom on April 15, performing 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays (dark Tuesdays) with additional 3 p.m. performances Sundays.
Xavier Mortimer spent three years at Sin City Theater before an Angelic turn of events forced him to seek the Windows opportunity.