There was a time when Amy Winehouse was being looked at as a possible Vegas headliner. Her voice was compared to Aretha Franklin while her delivery and sound were contemporary. No, she was not Fiona Apple. But who knows what happened to the recording career of Fiona Apple? Still, Winehouse held a lot of potential. [...]
In light of the judicial attack on major poker sites the casinos in Vegas were quick to run away from recently embraced partnerships with same companies. But the celebrity poker pros, many of whom receive lucrative sponsorships and allow their names to be used by these sites appear to be more circumspect. Poker legend Doyle [...]
Her show does not open until next month but yesterday Celine Dion showed up and Vegas groveled at her feet. When she first came here in 2003, people wondered about her ability to sell tickets at prices that sailed as high as her irritating voice. Now she is a rare sure thing for Vegas: a [...]
I am working on a story about Criss Angel or trying to. For some reason he has been putting great effort into not allowing me to report on him. His efforts have become a sort of farce to themselves. See for yourself: The forty-something Angel has blocked me on Twitter:
I have been slow to review Gilbert Gottfried who is appearing at Las Vegas Hilton as the debut act in their Icon’s of Comedy showcase. The reason is that his act left me befuddled, and I am not sure what to make of him. Of course, this is a unhelpful view to bring to readers [...]
This is a great video of the boring reality of red carpet coverage. Anyway, porn star Bree Olson is now in the news after being linked by TMZ to Charlie Sheen. The site says they were spending time together at the Palms. Here is Olson arriving at The Palms on Saturday night for the AVN [...]
Carrot Top and Criss Angel spotted at Cosmopolitain last night!
In an interview former Caesars headliner Bette Midler compares working in Las Vegas during the recession to being aboard Titanic. But the most damaging story Midler offers is about customer service. Las Vegas used to have the best customer service in the nation. Now, after more than a year of indebted casinos companies, such as [...]
Last night the bankers of Deutsche Bank had one huge party off the bad loan to a developer that left them owning a casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Here is some footage of the exclusive party from last night celebrating the bank’s accidental foray into a megaresort opening. So, far Cosmopolitan has managed to [...]
A friend e-mailed to tell me she had seen a pathetic infomercial of Criss Angel hawking his magic kit. There is a pretty amusing clip of him doing same on some shopping network. My head got dizzy as host and magician could not even keep clear if the kit was a $250 value or had [...]
