Elton John’s return to Vegas was a bigger surprise than Celine Dion. For one thing, Dion’s return wasn’t a surprise. The promoter and casino had been publicly yearning for Dion since the moment she left Vegas. John’s “The Red Piano” was also a success at Caesars Palace Colosseum. But John seemed to tire of the [...]
Not exactly fact checked by Letterman. Dion did not take a break from her Vegas show for her twins. Her show closed with no set plan to return. The replacements announced: Cher (hard to forget since she is still performing) and the middling Midler show. Dion’s show closed, and she is returning with a new [...]
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics opens its entry describing the form with repeated end words for all six lines though in varying order across six stanzas as well other rules that depend on the particular approach to the sestina with “The most complicated of the verseforms initiated by the troubadours.” The entry goes [...]
I sort of love how outside media cover Vegas. On the day Celine Dion taking up residency at Caesars has justifiably grabbed headlines comes this story from Guardian on the new Caesars headliner: Matt Goss. Who? Well, Goss played a 3 month gig at the lounge at the Palms. He is now moving to a [...]
And, it is official: Celine Dion returns to Vegas on March 15, 2011. Tickets go sale Friday. In a statement released today, Dion offered: “I’m coming back home to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace and I’m very excited about it. With the orchestra and the band we’re going to be able to perform our songs [...]
Las Vegas entertainment has never seemed so dull. Review-Journal’s Mike Weatherford wrote a column that made this point, and I was surprised by how many people were upset about him stating the obvious. I had an interesting conversation yesterday with one of the “doers” of Las Vegas. Unlike myself, this person brokers deals for everything [...]
By combining music sales and concert ticket sales for the past 10 years, The Los Angeles Times music blog has offered a list of commercial champions headed by Celine Dion: “Dion earned the title of Ultimate Top 10 champ for the decade that recently ended, thanks in large part to the money she piled up [...]
