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Kanye West, Lady Gaga cancel Las Vegas concert
Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009
We won’t get to see the Kanye West/Lady Gaga travelling road show at Mandalay Bay Events Center on Nov. 13 after all. The co-headlining tour, featuring two of the more conversation-provoking stars in contemporary music over the past several weeks, was abruptly canceled this afternoon. An MGM Mirage spokesman and a news release issued by Live Nation confirmed that the 34-city tour was scuttled today, but gave no reason why.
Goodman marks Mob Museum progress
Internal construction begins at building that served as courthouse
Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009
An homage to the legendary shooting of seven men in 1929 will be on display when the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement opens in early 2011. In a news conference this morning at the museum site on Stewart Avenue between Fourth Street and Casino Center Boulevard, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman announced that the brick wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre would be part of the so-called Mob Museum's exhibit.
Aerosmith’s back in the saddle again
Friday, July 24, 2009
Aerosmith is on one of those extended tours that serve no purpose other than to bring the band once more to the masses. Its most recent album, “Just Push Play,” was released eight years ago.
‘Southern Belle’ of 702.tv gets real in SOAPnet show
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
To say Emily Gimmel feels comfortable in front of a camera would understate reality — or in this case, reality TV.
Roy Horn: More than birthdays to celebrate
Almost six years after vicious attack by tiger, Horn’s rehabilitation is ongoing
Thursday, May 14, 2009
You watch Roy Horn walk, gingerly but with little aid, and you wonder how much more improvement remains in his tireless quest for rehabilitation.
Danny Gans: A star of our own
No other current entertainer was identified as closely with Las Vegas as Danny Gans
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Terry Fator had a great seat Friday afternoon in what was once the Danny Gans Theatre at The Mirage: middle section, second row, third from the aisle. But the stage sat still as Fator, seated nearly alone in a darkened theater that today is named for him, absorbed the news that the man who inspired him to move to Vegas had died.
Gathering for a good cause, and good-bye to Siegfried & Roy
Monday, March 2, 2009
Montecore sat onstage, uncaged, unleashed. A few feet away stood Roy Horn, donning a Gothic-style, black-and-white stage costume and acknowledging an audience standing and applauding a singular dramatic moment in Las Vegas history.
New Miss America 'blessed' to win crown
Miss Indiana becomes 83rd pageant winner in televised Las Vegas event
Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009
She said it over and over tonight: “I’m blessed. … So blessed. … This is a blessing. … I’m so very blessed. … I have the blessing of family. ... The scholarship money is a blessing.”
Despite changes, Miss America pageant still reigns
Winner to be crowned tonight in televised event at Planet Hollywood
Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009
Memories of Bert Parks warbling, “There She Is, Miss America” might have faded, and the newly crowned Miss America now takes her first steps in her new sash and tiara on the Strip, but the tradition of Miss America remains powerful in the culture of beauty pageants. Tonight, a new Miss America — the 82nd — will be crowned at the Planet Hollywood Theatre for the Performing Arts.
No. 4: U2 plays tribute show after 9/11
Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008
The audience swayed to the classic-rock house music, and when the familiar guitar intro to “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” kicked in, whoever was manning the volume jacked it up past nine, to 11, and out marched the band whose soaring live performance would certainly pay tribute to the still-wrenching tragedy. As the band charged into “Elevation,” the lights stayed up, almost to the song’s end as fans bounced and roared. Maybe America wasn’t quite “back,” but U2 was.

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Funny Face: Carrot Top's stage act a mask of contradictions
Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
This all started with a kindly nun and a simple bell. Sister Benedict was her name, the principal at St. Mary’s Catholic School in Rockledge, Fla., a town of about 25,000 that sits on the state’s east coast, near Cape Canaveral. The town is heavily populated by NASA scientists and engineers who over the years sent American astronauts into orbit and onto the moon. The young son of one of those NASA engineers was Scott Thompson, a diminutive redheaded kid who kept to mostly kept to himself, uninterested in the other uniformed St. Mary’s students.
Noteworthy: Sandoval as husband material, McCartney recalls radio career, and Handler paints The Colosseum blue
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
While working the crowd at a gala event, gubernatorial hopeful Brian Sandoval makes Guy Smiley look like the Luxor sphinx.
Wayne Newton -- Mr. Las Vegas -- answers the questions of readers
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009
Prodded by fans, Wayne Newton looks back on his long career and speaks to pranks by Robert Goulet and tantalizingly odd requests made by audience members.
New face of Monte Carlo includes all the faces of Caliendo
Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009
Impressionist Frank Caliendo felt some trepidation as he considered a gig on the Strip, but Dana Carvey said go for it.
Ten minutes with Chelsea Handler is better than no minutes with Chelsea Handler
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
Chelsea Handler has had one guest she describes as "the end of society as we know it," and it is not a Kardashian.
A lesson in information dissemination, with a little Twitter and a lot of Agassi
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009
A tweet sent by Sports Illustrated actually tipped off other news organizations, including "60 Minutes" and Katie Couric, about Andre Agassi's meth use.
Of tanking, drugs and 'Slim': In 'Open,' Andre Agassi beats the odds
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009
Not many celebrities can own up to using crystal meth, giving up in big matches and failing drug tests with no penalty. But Andre Agassi is not a typical celebrity.
Buchanan was one of the city's truly flamboyant characters
Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009
James "Bucky" Buchanan was a big-game hunter who had starred in the reality series "Las Vegas Law" and represented many high-profile clients.
Life in the Limelight: Wayne Newton
Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009
Wayne Newton is going to tell a story, and it’s not about his playing poker with Sinatra, recording with Bobby Darin or counseling Elvis about his divorce. It’s about the day he realized Vegas was home. It speaks volumes about Newton, 50 years a Vegas showman and now headlining through April in what might be his final residency in Las Vegas, the autobiographical “Once Before I Go” at the Tropicana.
Vocal strain prompts Wayne Brady to call off 'Making It Up' until 2010
Friday, Nov. 6, 2009
His contract at The Venetian to perform "Making It Up" has been extended as a result of postponed dates this month so he can rest his voice.

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