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Hakkasan Details coming forth
February 14th, 2013
When the Bon Appetit crew gathered at Hakkasan San Francisco for the announcement of the Vegas Uncork’d roster, a few details came out about the soon-to-open MGM Grand location of the resto. Read more »
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Valderrama Does Hyde Without Lovato
February 7th, 2013
Apparently Wilmer Valderrama’s on-again, off-again relationship with Demi Lovato is back to “off again,” because when he rolled into Hyde on February 2 with his friends for his 33rd birthday, she didn’t come along. Read more »
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Gronk Does Exactly What You’d Expect Gronk to do
February 7th, 2013
You know how people always talk about sports as a way to give “troubled kids” something to do so they don’t wind up on the streets? The kind of thing where there’s a hope these kids will outgrow their rambunctious ways and become productive members of society? Read more »
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Nobu Trusts De Niro With a Weapon
February 7th, 2013
That Robert De Niro was there with chef Nobuyuki Matsuhisa for the February 2 ribbon cutting on Nobu Hotel wasn’t surprising. De Niro co-owns the Nobu restaurants and hospitality group with Matsuhisa. What was surprising is that someone trusted the nearly 70-year-old actor with a samurai sword to do the cutting. Read more »
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Even the Backstreet Boys Are in Their 30s
January 31st, 2013
One more thing to remind you that you’re soon to be in the hip-replacement set: Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys just turned 33. He celebrated January 26 with girlfriend, Lauren Kitt, and his sister, Angel, at Tao, where he talked about how the new Backstreet album would have a more mature sound. Read more »
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All-Star Drum Squad Takes Over Vinyl
January 31st, 2013
We live in a golden age of banging on random stuff—Recycled Percussion, Blue Man Group, Chris Brown if someone hands him a couple of drumsticks and puts him in a room with Frank Ocean and/or Rihanna. So when the Street Drum Corps took their percussion act to Vinyl, it just seemed au courant. Read more »
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Statham, J-Lo Bring Parker Premiere to P-Ho
January 31st, 2013
If there’s one thing Jason Statham loves, it’s rifling out gravelly voiced quip after gravelly voiced quip in mid-tier action movies. If there are two things Jason Statham loves, it’s that whole quip thing and premiering those flicks at Planet Hollywood. Read more »
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CES Delivers Headphone Bounty
January 17th, 2013
The main event came January 10, as Ludacris hosted the Soul Headphones party at Tao, and the man who started it all, Dr. Dre, was at Marquee. The Doctor sent out Rick Ross to handle performance duties, and for half an hour he did it like some sort of entity in charge of other people, while Dre hung back with Jimmy Iovine. Read more »
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Burke and company blow off pageant-judging steam
January 17th, 2013
Somewhat less star-studded was this year’s Miss America pageant, January 12 at Planet Hollywood. But the lack of Dr. Dre and Rick Ross didn’t stop judges Cheryl Burke, Bradley Bayou, Sam Champion, Mary Hart, Daymond John, McKayla Maroney and Katie Stam Irk from hitting up Stoney’s for the official judges’ after-party, along with the winner, Miss New York, Mallory Hagan. Read more »
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Holly Soaks in ’80s Metal
January 10th, 2013
The launch of ‘80s nostalgia/Tom Cruise movie completist show Rock of Ages was January 5 at the Venetian, and even though not one stinking member of Trixter was invited, the show did draw a very pregnant Holly Madison and babydaddy Pasquale Rotella, future headliner Claire Sinclair, the JabbaWockeeZ, chef Carla Pellegrino, Angel Porrino from Absinthe. Read more »
