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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 »
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Romney Gives Pacquiao Bad Pep Talk
December 13th, 2012
Before his fight against Juan Manuel Marquez on Dec. 8 at MGM Grand Garden Arena, Manny Pacquiao reportedly met with a recently unemployed gentleman who told him, “Hi, Manny. I’m Mitt Romney. I ran for president. I lost.” You can see how well that worked for PacMan. But you guys! Romney is the real-life William H. Macy from The Cooler! Is he available to rent out to send to one’s enemies before they have important functions to attend? If so, he may finally be able to make some real money. Read more »
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McGraw, Hill Draw Megastars
December 13th, 2012
And as if to one-up “presidential candidate” on the audience luminary scale, when Tim McGraw and Faith Hill got to their opening weekend for Soul2Soul at the Venetian, they got a multiple-Oscar winner and beloved star of Bachelor Party Tom Hanks, plus favorite-musician-of-everyone-over-45 Bruce Springsteen. Although we imagine the lack of 28-minute, half-talked story-songs in the Soul2Soul set must’ve come as something of a disappointment to the Boss. Read more »
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Shania is the Country Lady Gaga
December 6th, 2012
Parading up the Strip with a herd of horses, Shania Twain finally kicked off her Caesars Palace residency, Still the One, on Dec. 1, after which she opted to move away from her traffic-ruining ranch-hand style and go back to the drawing board that gave us head-to-toe skintight leopard print. Read more »
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Bill’s Soon to Be No More; Drai to Helm Nightlife
December 6th, 2012
The long-gestating overhaul of Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall & Saloon (which really should feature the term “old-timey” in there somewhere) is finally coming to pass. Caesars is shutting it down Feb. 4, proceeding with a $185 million overhaul and opening it up under a new name in early 2014. Read more »
