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Kid Cudi performs a sold-out show at the Foundry on Sunday, March 13, 2016, at SLS Las Vegas.
Kid Cudi and Pitbull pack ’em in; ‘One Night’ means one community; Billy Idol wants into new Rat Pack
March 16, 2016
The Kats Report Bureau at this writing is in recovery mode, having wound around the scene at Pitbull’s show Saturday night at Axis at Planet Hollywood and Kid Cudi at the Foundry in SLS Las Vegas on Sunday. ...
Pitbull returns to Axis on Saturday, March 12, 2016, at Planet Hollywood.
Monday By the Numbers: Pitbull’s pricey drink, Kid Cudi’s couch, Jerry Lewis aims for 100
March 14, 2016
Playing this week at Monday By the Numbers Lounge (or the MBTN, as we call it), the folks at St. Baldrick’s Foundation, Pitbull, Kid Cudi, Jerry Lewis, Omnia and the sports book at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Let’s ...
Exterior of SLS from Paradise street on August 22, 2014.
County approves new Wynn shopping center, convention building and pool at SLS
Feb. 3, 2016
A new shopping center a and convention building with a rooftop pool and bar are headed to two Strip resorts under separate plans approved today by Clark County ...
Matt Minichino, SLS vice president of nightlife and entertainment, and Kurt Melien, president of Live Nation in Las Vegas, speak during a preview of the Foundry on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, at SLS Las Vegas.
SLS Las Vegas has a fighting chance with the Foundry
Jan. 19, 2016
The Foundry is the latest flurry offered by SLS Las Vegas and its parent company, Stockbridge Capital. The 1,800-capacity music hall was formally unveiled last Thursday with a set by multi-instrumentalists Daniel Park and Ben Carey of Lifehouse ...
Keith Thompson conducts the orchestra during “God Lives in Glass” on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015, at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
Trio of barnburner events proves that it’s never dark in Las Vegas
Nov. 19, 2015
This stretch of VegasVille events started Sunday afternoon, either after church or during the afternoon NFL games, depending on your religious practices. It began with Keith Thompson in tears ...
An exterior view of SLS Las Vegas.
Stockbridge approved to acquire remaining 10 percent of SLS; Nazarian, SBE Entertainment out
Nov. 19, 2015
Stockbridge Capital received final approval from Nevada gaming regulators today to acquire the remaining 10 percent of SLS Las Vegas. Stockbridge already owns ...
An exterior view of SLS Las Vegas.
SLS Las Vegas reports $38.7 million loss in 3rd quarter
Nov. 13, 2015
SLS Las Vegas reported its third-quarter earnings to the Securities and Exchange Commission today. The SLS has yet to overcome the challenge posed by its location on the far end of the north Strip, well removed from the foot traffic and visibility enjoyed by the resorts farther south. But the resort made some progress in the third quarter on the casino side, where revenue rose to $9.9 million from about $9.5 million in the second quarter and ...
Hotel towers are shown during a tour of work on the SLS Las Vegas resort, formerly the Sahara, Wednesday, March 13, 2013.
SLS Las Vegas teaming with Starwood to rebrand hotel tower
Nov. 9, 2015
SLS Las Vegas announced today that one of its hotel towers will eventually be managed by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., a deal that will rebrand the tower and ...
Show producer Andy Walmsley welcomes all those in attendance for the ENTSpeaks performance at the Inspire Theatre on Tuesday, October 21, 2014. L.E. Baskow.
Andy Walmsley’s ‘Drop the Mic’ ready for mime time Nov. 17 at SLS
Nov. 7, 2015
Emmy Award-winning set designer Andy Walmsley is producing “Drop the Mic.” This sleight-of-mouth cavalcade is set for Nov. 17 at the Sayers Club at SLS Las Vegas. In a distinctively Las Vegas moment, the idea was …
"SAAM by Starck"  by French designer Philippe Starck is shown in the porte cochere during the grand opening of the SLS Las Vegas (formerly the Sahara) Friday, Aug. 22, 2014.
SLS Las Vegas, Hilton loyalty program no longer affiliated
Nov. 6, 2015
SLS Las Vegas is no longer part of a special collection of upscale hotels associated with Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc., ending the money-losing Strip resort’s access to ...
An exterior view of SLS Las Vegas.
Sam Nazarian’s SBE Entertainment will no longer manage SLS
Oct. 6, 2015
Sam Nazarian, the businessman who led the creation of SLS Las Vegas, is selling his ownership stake in the financially struggling Strip resort and his company will no longer manage the property. San Francisco-based real estate investment firm Stockbridge Capital Partners, which already owns 90 percent of the resort, is buying the 10 percent that Nazarian and ...
Wayne Newton at his home Casa de Shenandoah on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015, in Las Vegas.
Casa de Shenandoah shines amid stars; Piff parlays ‘AGT’ run into headlining gig
Sept. 18, 2015
The Wayne Newton museum is now open, and the VIP party Thursday drew an impressive and wide-ranging collection of Las Vegas name-checks. Carrot Top; Lance Burton; Clint Holmes and Kelly Clinton-Holmes; Sabrina Bryan; Melody Sweets of “Absinthe”; Mark Shunock, Troy Burgess and Robert Torti of “Rock of Ages”; Jennifer Cox; Chippendales guest host Tyson Beckford; and ...
Branding the brand: SLS Las Vegas has featured several Fred Segal boutique outlets.
SLS Las Vegas-Fred Segal ‘productive collaboration’ closes out
Sept. 10, 2015
For the hotel’s first year of operations, Fred Segal was the exclusive clothing and accessories retailer at SLS Las Vegas. The hotel now has other plans.
An exterior view of SLS Las Vegas.
SLS Las Vegas reports a loss of $48.7 million in second quarter
Aug. 18, 2015
SLS opened last August as a reincarnation of the former Sahara hotel-casino, and its first year has been financially difficult to say the least. The most recent SEC filing reaffirms ...
Scott Kreeger is the president and COO of SLS Las Vegas.
Amid struggles, SLS reaffirms its efforts to attract locals
July 17, 2015
SLS Las Vegas is by no means a neighborhood casino: It’s located on the Strip, which many locals avoid, and a lot of its chic restaurant and nightlife options feel like they’d fit in at other upscale, tourist-focused resorts. Yet the financially struggling SLS still wants local residents to ...