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Club gig bad for Wentz’s feet
April 26th, 2012
Now that Fall Out Boy is done, Pete Wentz has turned to electronic music to fill the emo-shaped hole in his heart. His two-man operation, Black Cards, had a gig along with Spencer Peterson at Pure on April 21. And that’s when the wrath of osteology struck. Read more »
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Iron-ing out the Tyson stage show
April 19th, 2012
By most accounts, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth wasn’t the train-crashing-into-the-Hindenburg-at-Chernobyl level of disaster that many (OK, we) expected it to be. This may be bad news to those of us whose favorite form of entertainment is rubbernecking, but good news for Mike Tyson’s chances of realizing his stated dream of bringing the show to Broadway. Read more »
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Ruffalo, Eisenberg—magic men
April 19th, 2012
Now You See Me, slated for a 2013 release, did some filming at both Aria and downtown’s Golden Gate on April 10. It’s about a team of illusionists who slough off some of their gains to audience members while also being pursued by a crack FBI squad. Will they get away with it and go on to have further heisty adventures? Only time and a $100 million box-office bow can tell. Read more »
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Madison, Salling hop down the bunny trail
April 12th, 2012
As holiday weekends go, Easter and Passover isn’t nearly as sexy as Halloween. Or Christmas. Or the Fourth of July. Or even Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Yet a couple of celebs managed to do their club-ly duty, despite all that talk of lamb’s blood and plagues floating around in the air. Read more »
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Wynn was premature on Climaxx
April 12th, 2012
It will still go down in the annals of bad names, but Climaxx won’t explode onto the scene at the Wynn as planned. At least this means cleanup won’t be nearly as messy three nights a week. Read more »
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Jordan comes up short, but his Invite draws celebs
April 5th, 2012
At least when the Charlotte Bobcats lose, they don’t have to hang around Ashton Kutcher in a cowboy hat. Michael Jordan, the Bobcats’ owner, wasn’t so fortunate at his own golf tournament, the March 29-April 1 Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational at Shadow Creek. Read more »
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Country music, now with kabuki makeup and pyrotechnics
April 5th, 2012
The 47th annnual Academy of Country Music Awards on April 1 at MGM Grand Garden Arena is a celebration of all things country music. The pedal-steel guitars! The forlorn lyrics! “Detroit Rock City” and “Rock and Roll All Nite!” Read more »
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Electric Daisy to make its courtroom debut
March 29th, 2012
It’s been a rough week for Insomniac, the promotion company behind Electric Daisy Carnival. But the good news (well, for you, the general EDC ticket-holder, not so much for the people in charge) is that legal troubles won’t stop the festival from taking place in June. Read more »
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Not in this Mau5’s house
March 29th, 2012
While Avicii was spinning at the Ultra Music Fest on March 25 in Miami, Madonna, in arm-socks like she was Britney Spears circa 2001, queried the crowd, “How many of you have seen Molly?” It was only the second least-subtle reference she was making to the drug—she was also sporting a top with the name of her new album (sigh): MDNA. Read more »
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Vanity celebrates defunct HBO show about vanity
March 29th, 2012
Don’t think the end of Entourage means that was last time you could see Vince and Matt Dillon’s Brother and The Short One all together in one spot. No, Vanity on March 24 was all about reliving the magic of season after season of thinly drawn conflict melting away into a placid puddle of absolutely no repercussions, character growth or meaningful change. Read more »
