NO Overnite Parking » Archive
Entrepreneur presents twist on French toast at Food Net audition
The eighth season of Food Network Star (airs in Las Vegas on Cox Channel 42 and 1042 in high def) is gearing up with open casting calls across the nation. And in Las Vegas, the casting judges have opened their space for auditions on August 20, a definite dog day. But hey, if you can handle Vegas when it’s this hot, chances are you can stand the heat of the FN cable kitchen during the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Uncategorized
Biographical sketch of Las Vegas Mayor Goodman serves-up humor at Theater7
Inside the confines of a non-descript space about the size of a small apartment but immediately adjacent to the large boulevard that bears the name “Las Vegas,” is where a handful of actors from Theatre7 consummate – in “Oscar: A Good Man” – a humorous sketch of the man whose popularity among locals as mayor rivals even some prominent Strip entertainers. Oscar Goodman’s 12-year tenure as mayor of Las Vegas has provided ample material for the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Uncategorized
London calls his icons together for a tribute to pop & roll greats
“Why sound like me when I can sound like everyone else,” mused Greg London during a recent performance of “ICONS” at the Riviera Hotel and Casino. Sounds like a performer with a serious identity disorder, but in the case of London it’s not about suffering from multiple personalities even though he hears voices in his head. Rather, the award-winning entertainer has simply leveraged a state of mind that enables him to effectively channel over thirty pop … Read entire article »
Filed under: Uncategorized
Cirque du Soleil’s “Love” provides electrifying visuals of an Octopus’s Garden and much more
How is it that the explosive convergence of kinetic, creative and dramatic energy generated by Cirque du Soleil’s “Love” has not launched the Love Theater into orbit like the many mushroom clouds so familiar to Vegas of the 1950s? It’s because this Cirque production succeeds so well, that even an earth-rattling atomic explosion won’t separate it from the destiny of audiences whose beautiful fate is to experience this 90-minute tribute to Beatles music. But it’s more … Read entire article »
Filed under: Uncategorized
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 »
Filed under: Entertainment
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 »
Filed under: Entertainment
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 »
Filed under: Entertainment
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 »
Filed under: Entertainment
Charo charms with poise, presence and fiery talent
Charo is one of but a few headliners whose name has adorned a Vegas marquee in one-word fashion only—Frank, Elvis, Wayne and Cher also come to mind. But to experience her high level of energy and enthusiasm live in person is to suggest there should be two names gracing the Riviera marquee, as in Charo-Charo. In other words, one name for each of what seems like two people co-habitating the petite frame of this entertainment firecracker … Read entire article »
Filed under: Entertainment
Lucky Jets takes flight in hanger at Henderson Airport launch
In a dynamic city where launch parties are as ubiquitous as the ultra lounges they regularly introduce, the take-off of Lucky Jets in Southern Nevada stands out like a well-executed, taildragger landing in the three-point attitude. Successfully conceptualized for a market segment that positions issues of Robb Report on an ostentatious coffee table for curious eyes, good-looking, privately-invited business executives and the well-heeled gathered to partake in hand-passed hors d’oeuvres, an open bar and tours of luxury … Read entire article »
Filed under: Industry