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- Stern sidekick in town for Strippers and Hustlers Ball
- Eric the Midget uses radio gig to get foot in acting doors
- Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
- Growing up in the small community of Rodeo, Calif., Eric Lynch had no idea he would reach such great heights.
- New music, magic acts give Vegas taste of something different
- Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
- Two dynamic shows have opened in Vegas — one is music, the other magic. “Hitzville” is a Motown revue loaded with talent, and “Magic at the Edge” is a no-frills production that will amaze you.
- Keeping the dance hall days alive
- Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
- Howard Newman is straight out of Damon Runyon — a talkative, streetwise gambler with a profound Brooklyn accent and a confident manner.
- He put the world on to swing
- Trumpeter who blazed through New Orleans, Hollywood, Vegas unhonored
- Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008
- It’s time to give Louis Prima his due.
Actor Bruce Dern has a Las Vegas street named for him, for Pete’s sake. So does Ben Johnson. Neither had his name on Vegas marquees or set the neon nights ablaze with music. - Henderson couple so ‘cavelike’ they’ll be married on ‘Defending the Caveman’ stage
- Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008
- The producers of “Defending the Caveman” held a nationwide search for the “most cavelike couple” and found the winners in Henderson.
- One outrageous party coming to Vegas, direct from San Francisco
- Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008
- It started as a lark, a way to raise money for a nudist presidential candidate.
- Comic takes raunchy act to bigger digs at the Flamingo
- Favorito is up for insulting you seven nights a week
- Monday, Aug. 18, 2008
- Insult comic Vinnie Favorito moved from the tiny O’Sheas a few weeks ago and is packing the 200-seat showroom at the Flamingo, renamed Bugsy’s Cabaret after Second City closed up shop.
- Sticking to the old game
- Lawrence, picking up Carlin’s dates, will do what he does best — sing, make people laugh
- Friday, Aug. 15, 2008
- In this election year, I vote for Steve Lawrence as the new Mr. Las Vegas — icon of a bygone era when the Entertainment Capital embraced class, talent, showmanship and personality.
- Elegance, athleticism on ice
- Surreal, Cirque-like show at the Riviera is one way to beat the heat
- Monday, Aug. 11, 2008
- Surrealism pulses through “Ice: Direct from Russia.”
- Getting into Tina Turner's voice got her noticed
- Monday, Aug. 11, 2008
- Michelle Marshall went from welfare to the back of a limo in Hollywood.
- Tom Jones show just the beginning of drummer’s night
- Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008
- When Herman Matthews finishes drumming behind Tom Jones he’s pumped and ready to keep playing.
- Finding his country place
- Record companies didn’t know what to make of him — but audiences always have
- Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008
- Record executives didn’t know what to do with Travis Tritt when they first signed him. He was a country singer clad in leather with long hair while his contemporaries wore cowboys hats and starched jeans.
- Pauly Shore’s dad has own comedy career, and it’s taking off
- Monday, Aug. 4, 2008
- Most folks have started slowing down by the time they reach 78, but not comedian Sammy Shore. Shore, best known to the younger generation as the father of comedian Pauly Shore, has had a resurgence.
- Bands galore at Amplify!
- Friday, Aug. 1, 2008
- Ever wonder what happened to Vanilla Ice?
- Motown fixture starts new chapter in Vegas by getting involved
- Thursday, July 31, 2008
- Sidney Barnes could retire and bask in reflected glory.
- ‘Phantom’ among the things that keep her happily busy
- Wednesday, July 30, 2008
- Choreographer Gillian Lynne has taken a lot of dance steps in her day — waltzing through a career that began at 16 with the Royal Ballet in London and still going strong. At a saucy 82 years old, age seems almost irrelevant for Lynne.
- Celebrating the '80s
- Go-Gos’ Carlisle is proud to be out of touch with U.S. music scene
- Tuesday, July 29, 2008
- As she approaches 50, Belinda Carlisle sees things a bit differently from when she was a young musician on the way up in the ’80s. For one thing, the former lead vocalist of the Go-Gos isn’t impressed with today’s U.S. music scene.
- Five groups revive music of era in Regeneration Tour
- Tuesday, July 29, 2008
- Music agent Carlos Keyes decided he wanted to pay homage to the music of his youth and created Regeneration Tour 2008, a 20-city tour that comes to Las Vegas on Saturday.
- Rare female magician to take stage
- Scarlett will spice show at V Theater on Strip with dancing, characters
- Monday, July 28, 2008
- Female magicians still form an exclusive club.
- Jail guard using hip-hop concert to fund his dream project for youths
- Friday, July 25, 2008
- Metro Corrections Officer Darry Lighten is putting on a hip-hop concert to raise money to fund his dream.
- Comic juggles entertainment, patriotic cause
- Thursday, July 24, 2008
- Chris Bliss might be a comedian and juggler whose prowess became a viral Internet success. But what Bliss most wants to talk about is his dream of putting a monument to the Bill of Rights in every state.
- Playing for the working man
- Q+A: Eddie Montgomery of Montgomery Gentry
- Tuesday, July 22, 2008
- Eddie Montgomery — half of the country duo Montgomery Gentry — gushes with unbridled enthusiasm. He’s got lots to wave about. His duo is opening for Toby Keith on his “Biggest and Baddest” tour, which stops Saturday at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.
- Jazzman of many instruments to play at Green Valley Ranch
- Tuesday, July 22, 2008
- Multi-instrumentalist David Van Such will be playing some hot licks on a cool jazz night Wednesday by the pool at Green Valley Ranch Station Casino.
- It’s good therapy: Evenings of jazz
- Nova, a quartet, fills Hilton’s Tempo Lounge with music to chill out by on Thursdays
- Monday, July 21, 2008
- An alien sound wafts over the clang of the slots, the buzz at the blackjack tables and the cheers from the sports bettors.
- Half a century later, Smothers Brothers still making ’em laugh
- Monday, July 21, 2008
- In the verdant, sun-basked wine country north of San Francisco, comedian Tommy Smothers talks seriously over the phone about his life, his career and the peace he has discovered in the vineyards of Sonoma Valley.
- Ron Shock’s a stand-up guy now, but road was bumpy
- Ex-con comedian’s love
- Friday, July 18, 2008
- It’s a long road from felon to funny man but it’s a journey comedian Ron Shock would not have missed.
- Country, strings attached
- Four classically schooled female violinists turn on the twang
- Monday, July 14, 2008
- Take equal parts fiddling, beautiful women and sexy dancing — combine them all in a country bar and you have an explosive formula for a good time.
- Leaping Lipizzaners! Stallions to strut their stuff at South Point
- Monday, July 14, 2008
- The World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions return to Las Vegas this weekend to thrill anyone who appreciates equestrian beauty.
- Pogo’s owner to keep the reopening party going
- Tavern to host three-day jazz jam session and barbecue
- Thursday, July 10, 2008
- One evening for a grand reopening party isn’t enough for Bill Stypowany, proud new owner of Pogo’s Tavern.
- ‘Family’ says it all about Belushi
- Wednesday, July 9, 2008
- At the start of his career, Jim Belushi lived in the shadow of his comedian brother, John.
- Comedian Davis won’t let anything keep her down
- Tuesday, July 8, 2008
- She’s just 3-foot-6, but Las Vegas comedian Tanyalee Davis stands shoulder to shoulder with other comics who work in the trenches of comedy clubs.
- Latin band Indigo sizzles Summerlin Saturday nights
- Wednesday, July 2, 2008
- Add vibrant Indigo to the brilliant pinks and oranges of the Mexican restaurant Agave. That’s one recipe to put color into beige-centric Summerlin.
- Luaus amid the towers
- For 17 years, the Imperial Palace has hosted Polynesian feasts around its rooftop swimming pool
- Tuesday, July 1, 2008
- For a couple of hours about 500 people escape reality and forget they are sitting poolside at long banquet tables on the roof at the Imperial Palace, surrounded by hotel towers.
- Late comedian’s friends collect money for trees to honor his memory
- Monday, June 30, 2008
- Comedian Bernie Allen left behind a host of friends who are now raising money to plant a living memorial to the man who made Frank Sinatra laugh.
- TAKE FIVE: CLINT BLACK
- Friday, June 27, 2008
- Fans won’t ever confuse country singer/songwriter Clint Black with country singer/comedian Rodney Carrington, but Black might be edging onto Carrington’s side of the stage.
- Misfits’ icon cracked wise
- Comedian abandoned nice-guy-in-tie shtick early on — in Las Vegas, no less — and wrung laughs with brilliant, irreverent social essays
- Tuesday, June 24, 2008
- I recall seeing George Carlin for the first time in the early ’60s on “The Tonight Show” when he was still wearing suits with pegged pants and narrow lapels and thin ties and trying to be a stand-up comedian who told jokes in the vein of Jonathan Winters that made everyone laugh.
- Making up a character
- Cosmetics magician Ron Wild creates the Phantom on the face of actor Anthony Crivello
- Monday, June 23, 2008
- Makeup artist Ron Wild carefully stretches the paper-thin elastic bald cap over Anthony Crivello’s thick head of wavy black hair, the first step in transforming the handsome actor into the deranged character in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom, the Las Vegas Spectacular.”
- Not even critics are going to slow this guy down
- Thursday, June 19, 2008
- Fans love Michael Bolton. Critics hate him.
- Crosby, Stills and Nash
- Thursday, June 19, 2008
- Graham Nash still burns with the same passion he had in the ’60s.
- Take your pick: Country crooner, ‘Crazy Girls’ or edgy comedy
- Thursday, June 19, 2008
- “Hicktown” catapulted country artist Jason Aldean into the national limelight in 2005. This week, Aldean will open for Tim McGraw when the country superstar stops Saturday at Mandalay Bay.
- Modern comedy is his offspring
- Improv founder has watched dozens of comedians take wing
- Wednesday, June 18, 2008
- Slightly built, with thinning hair, wearing glasses and casually dressed, Budd Friedman looks more like a retired advertising executive than the King of Comedy.
- After 50 years, this master still knows what makes America laugh
- Wednesday, June 18, 2008
- Shelley Berman has worn a lot of hats during his 50-year career — stand-up comedian, author, teacher, lecturer, TV actor, movie star. Berman, 82, brings his stand-up act to the Improv at Harrah’s this week.
- Jesters follow fads, but jokes remain in demand
- Wednesday, June 18, 2008
- Comedy changes with the times, ebbing and flowing with each hot comic, says Mark Lonow of the famed Improv Comedy Club franchise. “Comedians have changed. They come and go, stylistically,” Lonow says.
- One way or another, these bands are hot
- Deals with UFC, a Grammy-winning producer up their odds
- Tuesday, June 17, 2008
- When the Killers and Panic at the Disco hit the big time, it made local bands realize that Las Vegas could be their launchpad for fame and fortune.
- Country alive and kickin’ at Dixie’s
- Monday, June 16, 2008
- The 100-year-old fiddle sounds new as Scotty Alexander bows through lively versions of Charlie Daniels’ “The South’s Gonna Do it Again” and George Strait’s “The Fireman.”
- Garland’s daughter embraces legend’s legacy
- Monday, June 16, 2008
- Lorna Luft, youngest daughter of Judy Garland, is a card-carrying member of a small club. The members include the likes of Lisa Marie Presley, Frank Sinatra Jr. and Sean Lennon.
- Musical is tribute to ‘Wizard of Oz’ composer
- Thursday, June 12, 2008
- Convention Center Way becomes the Yellow Brick Road for the next few weeks, ringing with the sounds of Harold Arlen.
- Face lift doesn’t alter spirit of old Vegas jazz bar
- Thursday, June 12, 2008
- Pogo’s is being jazzed up.
There are new booths and carpeting. Even the stage, moved from the west wall to the east, is new. - Casals of comedy doesn’t do jokes
- Tuesday, June 10, 2008
- It’s always worth checking in with caustic comedian George Carlin.
- Duo to see if play’s the thing for Vegas
- Monday, June 9, 2008
- Comedian Rita Rudner and producer Martin Bergman sound like a team.
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- Eastside Cannery casino to open Thursday
- Man shot in North Las Vegas casino lot identified
- Five bus robbery suspects sought (with video)
- Court rules in favor of Vegas unions
- Low cost is Eastside Cannery’s major innovation
- Lots to do over Las Vegas Labor Day weekend
- Henderson announces first female police chief
Calendar
- Bridge to Forgiveness art exhibit at Atomic Testing Museum (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.)
- Rock 'n Roll Wine tasting at Marche Bacchus (7 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
- Jeff McBride Magic at the Edge at Palace Station (7:30 p.m.)
- The LA Comedy Club’s One-Year Anniversary Weekend (7:30 p.m. to 9:15 p.m.)
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