Nourished by millions of visitors annually to the Strip, the giving tree that is Cirque has given and given. The seeds were planted by Steve Wynn in the Mirage parking lot in November 1993 with the tent show “Nouvelle Experience.”
The contract that keeps the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, where it has been hosted since it was corralled from Oklahoma City in 1985, is due to expire after the 2014 event.
The centerpiece of the Las Vegas Independent Film Festival, "40 West" is a rough saga played out on two stages: A limo carrying Wayne Newton, and a sketchy hotel room in East Texas.
It’s Viva Jerry time at Bally’s Jubilee Theater, as Jerry Springer hosts “The Price Is Right Live” stage show, dealing Plinko discs like poker chips and even uncorking a highly credible Elvis impression. That’s right.
The hotel has grown almost boundlessly over the past 10 years in its physical structure and its readily recognizable brand: the Palms. “A Maloof Family Resort” reads the hotel marquee, a lasting nod to its founding family.
Manny Pacquiao entered tonight's WBO World Welterweight title bout against Juan Manuel Marquez as a prohibitive favorite, by sports bettors and thousands of Filipinos at MGM Grand Garden Arena.
If you know Dave Rice, the answer is self-evident. But you ask anyway, because the response flips open his character: Have you ever gambled? The 43-year-old head coach of UNLV’s men’s basketball team, a man who has spent much of his adult life in Las Vegas, grins slightly. He blinks, as if waiting one extra count to deliver the obvious: “No.”
Oscar Goodman has parlayed a career in defending reputed mobsters and three terms as mayor of Las Vegas into a courtroom show with tantalizing potential.
Andre Agassi announced Saturday night that Kirk Kerkorian donated $18 million to the Andre Agassi Foundation for Education, pushing the night's total at the 16th annual Grand Slam for Children to $26.1 million.
Marie Osmond's voice began to give out during a performance at Flamingo Las Vegas on Wednesday night, and she was taken to the emergency room as a precautionary measure, a spokesman confirms.
Donny Osmond is nursing a bum hip, but he's still chipper and quick with a jab toward Marie. He's also speaking vaguely of a TV project that is not a talk show but will be centered on Vegas.
Brad Garrett opened his club at the Tropicana in July 2010 in the space once occupied by his idol Rodney Dangerfield, but he never did see a consistent profit.
Michael Douglas says he has beaten cancer, meaning the highly anticipated film starring him as Liberace can proceed next year. “Behind the Candelabra” is the title of the film.
Tom McCartney took over as president of the Tropicana in December 2009. During his tenure, the hotel embarked on a $165 million, South Beach-themed makeover.
Lifesize Elvis is usually a fixture at Bonanza Gifts, but not on Friday night, when he added Las Vegas-centric decor to the PollyGrind Film Festival red carpet.
In the fall of 2001, Jeff Candido and his wife, Sophie, took a quick trip to Lake Havasu, Ariz. Candido had just teamed with his creative partner Jason Hoff at R&R Partners in Las Vegas on an ad campaign to promote the city with a previously unexplored theme.
"Halloween" producer Malek Akkad partnered with Fright Dome owner and operator Jason Egan without even needing to see the attraction at Circus Circus in person.
Coming off his triumphant "Red Piano" performances, which ended in 2009, Elton John needed something different. He has achieved just that with "The Million Dollar Piano."
Lady Gaga's show-stopping set closed out the two-day iHeartRadio Music Festival at MGM Grand Garden Arena, which drew 25,000 to the arena and 10 million listeners and viewers across the country.
Nikki Beach opened with a grand White Party in May, which officials hoped would mark a new era of resort entertainment in the city. Four months later, the club operator and Tropicana have parted ways.
Time to play psychic: In mid-October, millions of network TV viewers will watch in astonishment as Oscar Goodman is shot at The Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas. I’m talking of Oscar Goodman the thespian, though, not the real-life former Las Vegas mayor and mob attorney.
Those wondering where Las Vegas might recapture its cocksure attitude need to check into shows piloted by Frankie Moreno, Santa Fe & The Fat City Horns, Lon Bronson and Kelly Clinton Holmes.
Brad Garrett's charity poker tournament to benefit his Maximum Hope Foundation drew an eclectic array of participants, including the man forever known as "George!"
Beginning Monday, a sizable segment of the Tropicana’s Mafia-themed interactive museum will be shut down for an indefinite period so officials can make “significant improvements” to the entertainment venue.
Wilbur Brewer and Willy Huys hadn't seen each other since 1945 and had no correspondence at all since 1979. But Willy found Wilbur, finally, in Las Vegas, setting up a reunion for the ages.
Produced by Adam Steck, piloted by Zowie Bowie and designed by Emmy Award winner Andy Wallmsley, "Name That Tune Live" boasts plenty of Las Vegas entertainment credibility.
Rick Faugno has performed as Frankie Valli in "Jersey Boys" for five years, including more than three in Las Vegas. He's now ready to go solo, full time, at Shimmer Cabaret.
Priscilla Presley has long been a proponent of telling the Elvis Presley story onstage, but says Cirque du Soleil's decision to move away from that narrative will make the show better.
Veteran comic actor Steve Harvey, host of "Family Feud" and featured in "The Original Kings of Comedy," brings the 2011 Ford Hoodie Awards to Mandalay Bay.
Jake Walden's fans, known as "The Dreamers," helped pay for his acclaimed new album "Same Something Different." He performs tonight at Don't Tell Mama.
During an appearance on "Kats With the Dish," David Saxe talked of his youth in Las Vegas as producer of his sister Melinda's magic show, and how he continues to needle Cirque du Soleil.
In May, the Muscular Dystrophy Association announced that Jerry Lewis would make one final appearance at September's MDA Labor Day Telethon. It was announced today by the MDA that Lewis had completed his tenure as national chairman and would not be part of the telethon after all.
During an interview Monday night on "The Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert asked Tony Hsieh if suffering, not happiness, would be a better business model for Zappos.