Las Vegas What to Do in Vegas
There’s no limit to the things you can do during your visit. We’ve come up with a few ideas though to get you off to a flying start.
Sugarcane Opens at The Palazzo
Last week we mentioned the restaurant SushiSamba had opened at The Palazzo. This weekend, its companion lounge area had its grand opening.
Sugarcane, as the nightclub has been dubbed, debuted on Friday and is the first West Coast location for SushiSamba’s late night offerings. A dark corridor from the restaurant leads guests to the 4,000-sq-ft venue, which looks like no other club in town that I’ve seen.
The stage, dance floor and DJ booth are made of bamboo, as well as …
Date: August 17th, 2008 |
1 comment
Vegas Dining - July Short Bites
A quick month-end round-up of various dining news from around Las Vegas:
BLT Burger is finally open at The Mirage. The restaurant sits on the former site of the white tiger habitat and average prices range from $8 for a veggie burger to $17 for the American Kobe burger. BLT is open daily at 11am, closing at 2am Sunday through Wednesday and 4am Thursday through Saturday.
Blue Martini at Town Square (south of Mandalay Bay near South Point) has a great daily happy hour from 4pm until 8pm. Select appetizers and drinks are discounted half-price, such as seared tuna (normally $13), …
Date: July 31st, 2008 |
1 comment
Exploring the Darker Side of Criss Angel and Believe
As promised, here are more of the new images from the show Believe, a joint production between illusionist Criss Angel and Cirque du Soleil that will be housed at the Luxor.Part of the storyline takes place in a nightmare world, and these images certainly show the costuming taking a darker turn from the brighter colored images we showed in the previous post
Note the interesting mixture of Victorian, Renaissance and Gothic styles in the costuming.
Date: July 30th, 2008 |
No Comments
Yellowtail Sushi Hosts Grand Opening Celebration
This past Friday, the Light Group opened the doors to its newest dining venture, Yellowtail Sushi Restaurant & Bar at the Bellagio, with a grand opening celebration.
Following tradition, Bellagio president Randy Morton joined exeutive chef Akira Back and others involved with the restaurant in a Japanese Sake Barrel ceremony. During the event, a barrel full of said sake is broken open by wooden mallets for good luck and then the beverage is served to everyone in attendance.
Here are a few photos from the event:
…
Date: July 29th, 2008 |
No Comments
Venetian to Offer New Poker Themed Interactive Show
In Vegas, you can play poker. You can watch others play poker. You can also take in a show on the Strip in between rounds of poker. So what’s left? The Venetian thinks it has the answer.
This fall, the resort will debut The Real Deal!, a new interactive poker-themed stage show starring a cast of actual pro poker players.
The live show will offer said pros playing on-stage while the audience members have the chance to play along from their seat. Merchandise and cash prizes up to $1 million will …
Date: July 23rd, 2008 |
No Comments
Vegas Comedy Notes: Cheech and Chong, Bill Engvall, Lewis Black
If you enjoy a night of laughs, check out some of these upcoming shows:
* * * * * * * * * *
Reunited Cheech & Chong to Perform at The Pearl
If there was a comedy duo that epitomized the 70s, its the legendary Cheech and Chong. Their free-spirited, and weed-influenced, humor captured the attitude of the times, and they released nine albums between 1972 and 1985. These albums rocketed to the top of the charts and garnered them four Grammys.
They then took their act onto the big screen, starring in eight films, beginning with Up In Smoke in 1978, and going on to other classics such as Nice Dreams and Still Smokin’. These cemented them a huge cult following.
Date: August 7th, 2008 |
1 comment
The Choreography of Cirque du Soliel’s Believe
In the last two posts, I showed you some great new stills from the upcoming show Believe, which will be opening soon at the Luxor.
One last set of new images from the upcoming Criss Angel and Cirque du Soleil production is a pair of photos showcasing the dancers.
In the first photo, note the oddly-angled body positions and serious, almost scowling facial expressions.
Now, when paired with the costuming, the same positioning and expressions add to the menacing atmosphere of the fantasy nightmare world of the show’s storyline, even though most of …
Date: July 30th, 2008 |
1 comment
Launch Dates for Criss Angel’s Cirque du Soleil Show Pushed Back
Though illusionist Criss Angel is hard at work on finishing touches for his upcoming Cirque du Soleil show, Believe, the Luxor issued a statement this week that preview dates have been pushed back slightly to give him a little more time to tweak some things in the show, especially since the theater took longer to finish than expected.
Preview performances were scheduled to begin September 1st and run through the 11th, but they will now start on September 12th. The gala premiere date has also been changed from September 12th to October 10th, 2008.
Customers holding tickets for cancelled performances will either be re-scheduled or their tickets will be refunded. For more information, contact the Luxor box office at 800.557.7428 or 702.262.4400.
In the meantime, Cirque du Soleil has issued some new images from the show that look absolutely fantastic:
Date: July 30th, 2008 |
No Comments
Why the Las Vegas Monorail is a nightmare
Anyone who has seen the “Simpsons” episode called Marge vs. the Monorail already has a good idea how this story will likely end. To sum it up, a city that has no use for one gets swindled into installing a modern monorail system that seems to go nowhere. In the case of fictional Springfield, it went in a loop around town, and in the case of Las Vegas, it goes back and forth so far behind the Strip that most people don’t even realize it’s there, much less give in to the temptation to ride it.
I would love to report that the Las Vegas Monorail was a valuable part of its future transportation scheme, but unless they can get authority to extend the line to McCarran Airport soon, this thing will probably be closed down or begin collapsing on its own. By the way, the city’s taxi drivers are major opponents of extending the monorail to the airport, which is as understandable as it is sad, since it would certainly put quite a few of them out of work in 2020 or whenever they’d complete the thing.
Here’s why the Las Vegas Monorail sucks:
The thing handles like a Tijuana taxi
When you first hear that a new monorail system has been built in a city drowning in cash, you would naturally expect it to be built somewhere in the NASA/Disneyland range of quality, but nothing could be further from the truth. Once underway, the carriages shake and rattle down the track so much that most people start looking for parachutes and emergency exits, just in case. This might be the biggest surprise of all, that the newest monorail since North Haverbrook’s has been built with all the precision of a prison riot.
Date: July 27th, 2008 |
6 comments
Guitarist Slash Kicks Off Bottle Rock It Concert Series
Starting this Saturday, July 5th, Red Rock Resort, in conjunction with SpyOnVegas.com, kicks off a weekly summer concert series that will offer a wine-tasting charity option.
Called “Bottle Rock It,” the event will feature some of the hottest musicians playing poolside for $20-$30 a ticket. For an additional $15, guests can enjoy an organic wine tasting section with the proceeds going to benefit the Las Vegas Springs Preserve.
This Saturday, legendary rocker Slash (Guns’n'Roses, Velvet Revolver) and his Blues Ball Band will headline the first concert. Joining him onstage will be Alice in …
Date: July 4th, 2008 |
1 comment
