Michael Grimm's appearance at Ovation at Green Valley Ranch helped boost a benefit show for local sax player Jeff Jordan. An all-star cast of performers didn't hurt, either.
A heart condition and subsequent complications have put sax man Jeff Jordan in a deep financial hole, and his fellow performers are helping him offset his medical bills with a show at Ovation at Green Valley Ranch.
When it opened in August 1981 at the old MGM Grand, there was nothing else like it. Thirty years on, still, there is nothing else like it. “Jubilee!” is Las Vegas’ own treasure chest filled with sequins, crystals and finely feathered costumes.
Jerry Lewis has several projects in progress, including a new telethon in Australia, and is as active as ever, as a profile in the edition of GQ reminds.
On a night that the Vegas rock band Moksha held a jammin' show at House of Blues, "Jubilee!" put on its characteristically tradition-steeped show at Bally's.
At Mandalay Bay on Friday night, Russell Brand tucked his wedding ring in his pocket, ventured into the audience to seek sexual partners and blew past one of the city's top female topless dancers.
Frankie Moreno has been busy recording for Sony Records, and he is still a popular live draw. Beginning Aug. 2, he is at The Lounge at the Palms. Meantime, Franky Perez has expanded his schedule and is to appear at Ovation at Green Valley Ranch.
Caesars Entertainment, which owns Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood and PH Towers Westgate, Paris, Flamingo, Harrah's, Bally's, Rio, Imperial Palace and Bill's Gamblin' Hall & Casino, held a parade Thursday morning for playing fair with its guests.
Russell Brand typically visits Vegas to walk a red carpet or attend a championship fight, but he is in town working this weekend -- one show at Mandalay Bay.
What you take from Oscar Goodman’s winding road as mayor of Las Vegas is that in three terms over 12 years, there was never a dull moment. No one wanted to be mayor of Las Vegas more than Oscar Goodman, that can be said.
It is October 2001, just weeks after the attacks of 9/11 rocked the country, sending it into a psychological and financial tailspin. Our resort industry is stricken as Americans fear boarding any aircraft bound for anywhere.
The man who started the year as the president of one of the Palms’ chief competitors is now president of the Palms. Joe Magliarditi, a longtime gaming executive who most recently was president and CEO of the Hard Rock Hotel, was formally announced today as president of the Palms.
Golden Rainbow's "Ribbon of Life" AIDS/HIV benefit drew 1,100 to Paris Theater, but next year the show will be in the 2,050-seat Reynolds Hall at Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
Maloof says the partnership with TPG and Leonard Green will allow the family to expand the Palms brand
Monday, June 27, 2011
George Maloof seems forever to be looking around, pacing through his own Palms resort and competing properties with his head on a swivel, checking out everything from a casino’s carpet patterns to the fixtures in the men’s room.
It all began when a guy described as an overzealous fan led an unauthorized tour of the Las Vegas home once rented by Michael Jackson. Soon there was a call to Metro. The guy leading the tour turned out to have a warrant out for his arrest and shouldn’t have been on the property, at all.
An exhausted Jerry Lewis bowed out of a speaking engagement in Sydney on Friday, but is expected to fulfill the next two such appearances before returning to his Las Vegas home.
It seems that each year, when “Phantom -- Las Vegas Spectacular” celebrates an anniversary, we ask, “Will it be around for another year?” The show keeps answering that question itself -- it celebrates its fifth anniversary at the Venetian on Thursday.
The 38th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Las Vegas Hilton Theater was as remarkable for who didn't show up as who did, but Susan Lucci and the two top game-show hosts on TV -- Lifetime Achievement Award recipients Alex Trebek and Pat Sajak -- did turn out.
Motorcycles, cannons, cars, even Super Bowl rings have been sold or pawned at Gold & Silver Pawn, home of the History Channel’s hit reality show, “Pawn Stars.” Bloody bayonets from the Civil War share space with unopened bottles of Dom Perignon from the 1920s, vintage Coke machines from the 1950s and action figures dating to the 1930s.
When last we checked in on the men of “Pawn Stars” at their Las Vegas Boulevard headquarters, it was March 2010, and the show had just erupted across cable television.
What can be said about Miss California USA Alyssa Campanella, Johnny Avello's odds-on favorite to win Sunday's Miss USA Pageant: She has a shapely form and a heavy foot.
Sarah Chapman has made her mark on Las Vegas, and the state of Nevada, for that matter, having secured a job as the director of a Henderson preschool and winning the Miss Nevada USA title.
Susan Lucci says she was "blindsided" by the abrupt announcement that "All My Children" would be canceled, a development not covered in her new autobiography, "All My Life."
Brody Dolyniuk's vision of a casino-based classic rock band led to a 14-year run with Yellow Brick Road. His final show with the band is Saturday night at Henderson Pavilion. What's next for him and one of the city's most popular live acts?
Chip Lightman led Danny Gans to Strip stardom and once produced Donny & Marie at the Flamingo. His latest venture is a cartoonish food truck specializing in melted cheese.
Many of the favorites of the Composers Showcase -- and a few impressive guests -- will turn out for the July 6 event, set for Garfield's Grand Atrium at the restaurant at the Lake at Desert Shore.
The song is called “Here Today.” It was written by Paul McCartney shortly after John Lennon was murdered on Dec. 8, 1980. As McCartney introduces the song, he says it is to remind us all to say what we want to say to those around us, because you never know when those people will be taken away.
Steve and Dana Arcana shared a love for John Waite music, and for making out, in the years before the onetime Babys vocalist performed at their wedding ceremony.
A month before Election Day, Michael Cornthwaite said the candidate he was backing -- Carolyn Goodman -- would win the race by 21 percent of the vote. He wasn't quite perfect; she won by 21.02 percent.
Emma, the 1-year-old daughter of Jeff and Melody Leibow, was diagnosed at 9 months old with neurofibromatosis, a condition that can allow tumors to grow unchecked on any nerve in the body.
The new series "Confessions: Animal Hoarders" examines abuses in animal ownership, which helped lead 200 lovebirds out of a bad scene and into a new home at Casa de Shenandoah.
"Love" celebrated its fifth anniversary at the Mirage on Wednesday, as Sir Paul McCartney was the lone surviving Beatle to usher in the landmark event.
Lorena Peril of "Fantasy" auditioned for "The Voice" in April, where she met the person she once impersonated -- Christina Aguilera. The result was that one said the other overdid the vocals during a rowdy version of "Proud Mary."
Sir George Martin was The Beatles' producer throughout their breakthrough recording career in the 1960s, and his son Giles has been entrusted with remastering the music heard in "Love," celebrating its fifth anniversary at the Mirage.
Goo Goo Dolls performed at the Red Rock Resort's Revolution concert series at Sandbar on Friday night. It was a show that offered more than just music.