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The High Life tour

The High Life tour

You don’t have to drink beer to appreciate getting the inside scoop on how beer is brewed, as I recently discovered during my 90-minute tour of the Miller Brewing Company in Cream City, aka Milwaukee, Wisc. There’s tons of relevent stuff to take in during the insightful indoor and outdoor walkabout around this gigantic plant located nine minutes from downtown. You’ll hear the backstory on German immigrant Frederick Miller, who arrived in Milwaukee in 1855 … Read entire article »

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Living on the Fringe in Winnipeg

Living on the Fringe in Winnipeg

When I woke yesterday morning some 40 miles from the Canadian border, I had no idea I’d catch a one-woman stage show with a Vegas connection in Winnipeg later that evening. But then again, I didn’t count on meeting four Canadians at a McDonalds in East Grand Forks, MN the day before who would tell me about the Fringe Festival. So after arriving in the provincial capital of Manitoba and getting my bearings on this overtly … Read entire article »

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Matt Goss is Sinatra, New Vegas and Telecaster cool

Matt Goss is Sinatra, New Vegas and Telecaster cool

At last night’s show in The Gossy Room at Caesars Palace, I couldn’t help noticing Matt Goss wore a wristwatch on his left hand, but his right hand was bare. My thinking is that someone who generates such high levels of energy, exertion and output during the execution of his day job would want to record every calorie and footstep on a wearable fitness tracker. It’s what people do these days. But then again of what real use are such electronic … Read entire article »

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Big laughs from Little voices at Tropicana Las Vegas

Big laughs from Little voices at Tropicana Las Vegas

It’s the 1950s. Ottawa, Canada is the mise-en-scène. Imagine a middle school homeroom full of students when at once the class clown draws a bead on the teacher and attempts – covertly or otherwise – to imitate the adult figure at the chalkboard. Ensuing laughter from the back row? Teacher mulling over disciplinary action? Fast-forward a handful of decades to the Laugh Factory comedy theater inside the Tropicana Las Vegas where Rich Little explains how he more or less got his … Read entire article »

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Offbeat road & rail weekend on SoCal Amtrak awaits adventurous Las Vegans

Offbeat road & rail weekend on SoCal Amtrak awaits adventurous Las Vegans

Adventurous Las Vegans will want to take advantage of an offbeat, quick but memorable road & rail weekend aboard Amtrak California’s Coast Starlight and Pacific Surfliner passenger trains. You’ll have to leave the Las Vegas Valley early but I-15 will most likely be void of traffic as you zip through the Mojave Desert on an early Saturday morning toward Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. To be sure, this road & rail weekend is not necessarily … Read entire article »

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Jan Rouven unveils unbelievable Illusions in new show at the Riviera Las Vegas

Jan Rouven unveils unbelievable Illusions in new show at the Riviera Las Vegas

“Everything in life is predetermined,” explains Jan Rouven as he prepares the audience for the outcome of yet another of his signature, mind-blowing illusions in “Illusions.” The new show premiered at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas March 1. Although Rouven keenly demonstrates how that evening’s performance will be the crossroads of predetermination for an unsuspecting audience member chosen at random – much to the amazement of the remaining audience, he’s able to magically … Read entire article »

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Peepshow has the nursery rhymes you won’t find on the kiddie bookshelf

Peepshow has the nursery rhymes you won’t find on the kiddie bookshelf

Ex-Hawaiian Tropic model and Hooter’s waitress Holly Madison has a few to offer at Planet Hollywood around 9 p.m in the PH showroom. The Peepshow headliner is currently making her first week of appearances on stage with a selection of adult-themed nighttime stories familiar to most of us including classics like Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater and Three Men in a Tub. The simple plot finds Little Bo Peep, Madison’s character, drawn to an adventure down nursery rhyme row looking – … Read entire article »

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Nine-year-old Jackson impersonator is relevant for Vegas show fans at Stratosphere

Nine-year-old Jackson impersonator is relevant for Vegas show fans at Stratosphere

It could not have been more symbolic or telling: one day after Michael Jackson’s sudden passing, a nine-year old Vegas native makes an appearance at a popular Las Vegas Strip tribute production in full Jackson garb and demonstrates pop culture’s love and adoration for the King of Pop. Nicolas, a mere fourth-grade student, has been enamored of Michael Jackson since the former was as old as Jackson when at age five he first energized a microphone with his tenor … Read entire article »

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Bite celebrates fictional Count and 1,500 performances at Stratosphere

Bite celebrates fictional Count and 1,500 performances at Stratosphere

An 1897 novel by the Irish author Bram Stoker serves as the basis for “Bite” at the Stratosphere. The fast moving, sexy stage production with rock ‘n roll compositions recounts the age-old search for an ideal mate and has been blessed with 1,500 performances, nearly half a million paying customers and, on the occasion of its five year anniversary, sunny champagne toasts. Even though Stoker’s novel about a Transylvanian count with the peculiar name of Dracula … Read entire article »

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Stratosphere tribute artists are real deal in American Superstars

Stratosphere tribute artists are real deal in American Superstars

The Patty Duke Show, which ran on ABC for several years in the early- to mid-1960s, was introed bya catchy theme song describing the sitcom’s two main characters: “Still they’re cousins, identical cousins and you’ll find, they laugh alike, they walk alike, at times they even talk alike/You can loose your mind, when cousins are two of a kind.” Duke famously played the role of both cousins. Enter the American Superstars tribute show at Stratosphere Las Vegas … Read entire article »

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