In the Wings
What Do Non-EDC DJs Do During EDC Week?
June 18th, 2013
There are, at last count, roughly four DJs for every man, woman, child and small dog in Las Vegas during Electric Daisy Carnival Week. With a glut of stage slots to be filled, not to mention the spinoff events at the clubs all week, it’s easy to see how a DJ without any kind of Insomniac-approved official billing could feel like a Dickensian orphan pressed up against the wrong side of a window pane on Christmas Day. Read more »
Motley Crue Setting up Shop at The Joint Again
April 2nd, 2013
Apparently the Bullet Boys and Trixter were all booked up through the fall, because The Joint is bringing back Motley Crue for a return residency September 18-October 6. Read more »
Sabina Kelley is Ready to Rock(abilly)
March 29th, 2013
If you haven't been able to find a tin of pomade in a 50-mile-radius over the last couple of days, it's because the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender is back at The Orleans through Sunday. Read more »
Cirque Announces Name for Michael Jackson Show
'Michael Jackson ONE' will open for previews in late May at Mandalay Bay.
February 21st, 2013
See a title pattern here? After naming its Fab Four Vegas production The Beatles LOVE, Cirque du Soleil is sticking to that Legend Name/One-Word Descriptor formula. Read more »
Theater Director Says iPad Landed Him Back in Prison
Onyx Theatre's Brandon Burk explained his sudden disappearance in a letter posted to Facebook Thursday
February 15th, 2013
Brandon Burk, artistic director of the Onyx Theatre—who has done some stellar work there, including a recent, much-praised production of Sweeney Todd—has left his duties at the theater due to unusual circumstances. Read more »
Cirque Gearing up for One-off Extravaganza
January 31st, 2013
When Guy Laliberte puts on charity benefits, he doesn’t go small. Witness the million-dollar buy-in Big One for One Drop event he hosted at last year’s World Series of Poker that sent $111,111 to his One Drop Foundation. Now there’s going to be a one-night-only Cirque du Soleil performance for Laliberte’s water-access charity, the One Night for One Drop March 22. Read more »
The Season for Sweat
November 27th, 2012
You know that it’s getting close to the starting gun when local media starts relaying the road closures for next Sunday’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon on the Strip. Read more »
Get ‘Real’ Famous
November 16th, 2012
The Bravo TV network wants to peek behind the Strip’s façade to see what life is like for Las Vegans. Specifically, physically attractive Las Vegans who are in their 20s and early 30s with big personalities, little modesty and archetypal Las Vegas jobs. Read more »
The More Things Stay the Stupid Same
November 2nd, 2012
This is the original cover to Appetite for Destruction, an album that came out 25 years ago. It was controversial in 1987, and that's why the album wound up mostly having the cover you're familiar with. So naturally, let's still all be up in arms about it. Read more »
CNN's O'Brien Finds Direction in Diversity
October 22nd, 2012
Recently in town for the 2012 ADCOLOR Awards, which recognizes diversity supporters within the advertising and media industries, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien was presented with the CATALYST accolade from communications agency Draftfcb. We chatted with the Starting Point host about being an impetus for change, the presidential election and what she does in her spare time. Read more »
