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The show is UP: Cheap Trick
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 18 September 2009
Here's this week's episode of "The Strip" featuring a conversation with Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick. It was fun for me to recall my own Rockford roots -- my first newspaper job -- and Amy and I had some excellent banter about the week's news. Click on the date below to listen or right-click to download and hear it at your leisure.
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This week's LVW Col: Sparring With Hal
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 17 September 2009
Here's this week's LVW col, the second straight about a theatrical octogenarian with Vegas ties! This week's podcast is coming later tonight. -SteveDon't Call It A Downer!Even at 81, Broadway legend and Phantom director Hal Prince has lost none of his enthusiasm for hat he doesBy STEVE FRIESS
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The Strip is LIVE @ 7 p.m. PT w/Rick Nielsen
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 16 September 2009
We're on tonight at LVRocks.Com at 7 p.m. PT with my interview with Rick Nielsen of the legendary band Cheap Trick.
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News Flash: Luv-It *IS* In A Scary 'Hood!
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 15 September 2009
Hoo-boy! The Vegas whine machine is in full throttle now!
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CSI's Vegas Attraction Off To Slow Start
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 14 September 2009
OK, so here's something I want to see succeed. I really do. I just don't know if it will. And the data I've been shown is telling me that the MGM and others have a climb ahead of them.
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Hal Prince: The Las Vegas Spectacular
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 10 September 2009
We were just going to hop over this week, but then I had my interview this morning with legendary Broadway producer-director Hal Prince of Phantom, Evita, Fiddler, Sweeney Todd, Damn Yankees, Cabaret and Pajama Game fame.
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This Week's Col: Ted V Mikels is Broke
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 10 September 2009
A German journalist and listener/reader, Markus Hundt, told me about Ted V. Mikels over lunch last week and I was fascinated. Since I love meeting these off-beat Vegas characters, it seemed like a natural column. Then I found that his story, like that of Tony Curtis way back when, was less happy than it seemed. Read on. -sfWhen Life Isn't A MovieCult director Ted V. Mikels goes from making low-budget films to no-budget livingBy STEVE FRIESS
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Top Secret Tourist Tip of the Year
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 9 September 2009
So I'm working on this little story about all the weird stuff going on around Vegas for 9/9/09 and I start going through all the promotional emails I had received pertaining to said numerology. Most was junk.
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Sunday Media Musings for Tourists
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 6 September 2009
I caught up on some of the media I had missed this week this morning and wanted to point out a few things:
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Buh-bye, Earl Turner?
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 5 September 2009
Journalist Esther Lynn, who gossips about Vegas online as Claire Voyant, reported yesterday that "Earl Turner is no longer part of the [Las Vegas] Hilton's Shimmer Cabaret show." He's been
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What All The Fuss Is About
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 5 September 2009
The professional, four-camera HD-quality video from "Las Vegas Celebrates The Music of Michael Jackson" remains out of reach for the moment as Erich needs to make time to go work with the company that shot it on post-production, but demand has been quite high for some -- any! -- quality video of Elijah Johnson's stunning performance in last Saturday's show at the Pearl.
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Vegas Friday Foto Fun
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 4 September 2009
[Update: A commenter noted that the KYK4FSH plate could be related to this fishing group. Totally possible!]I don't have much time -- still laboring to get back on track after the benefit -- but I've had these images sitting on my desktop waiting for their blog moments. When better than a Friday of a holiday weekend?First of all, someone needs to tell Google Maps...
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This week's LVW col: What's I Just Do That For?
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 4 September 2009
Here's this week's LVW column, going inside the mindset of why I did the MJ concert. -sf What'd I Just Do That For?My wild, wacky, journalistically complicated Michael Jackson benefit journeyBy STEVE FRIESS
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Cirque Buys Other VIVA ELVIS Domains
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 3 September 2009
Yesterday, I broke the news that the Cirque du Soleil show at Aria will be called Viva Elvis. The creator-director had told me so and I discovered that Cirque owns the domain VivaElvis.Com. I wondered on VegasHappensHere.Com yesterday why the company hadn't yet snapped up VivaElvisLV.com and VivaElvisLasVegas.Com, variations that would be wise for them to own as a standard preventative measure taken to ensure traffic doesn't go elsewhere by accident.
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MJ Benefit: The Dirt
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 3 September 2009
As you might imagine, I had to bite my tongue a LOT this summer for the good of the effort to raise $100,000 as co-producer of "Las Vegas Celebrates The Music of Michael Jackson." Biting my tongue, however, was not in my nature and now I'm ready to explode.Tomorrow, I open up in my Las Vegas Weekly column, but there's more that didn't find a home or deserved more detail than I had space for there. Ready?
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The show is UP: The Next Big Li'l Thing
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 3 September 2009
I pulled rank as the producer of the MJ show to have the first serious interview with Elijah Johnson since he exploded on stage in the Pearl. Tomorrow I should have video to show those of you who weren't there what we all witnessed, but until then, here's this week's show with the revelation that Johnson leaves the cast of Lion King in October because he's outgrown the role. Seriously. His dad says the contract says he can't grow more than 2 inches. (!?!) Also, thanks MUCH to Dave McKee of Las Vegas Advisor for filling in for Miles at such short notice as co-host.
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Is there FINALLY A Name For The Elvis Show?
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 2 September 2009
[UPDATE: Further evidence is found here.]
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The Strip is LIVE tonight w/ELIJAH JOHNSON
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 1 September 2009
Everyone agrees: The breakout star of our Michael Jackson benefit this weekend was "Lion King" star Elijah Johnson, the 11-year-old dynamo who burst on stage and reminded everyone what it
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Analyst: MGM Mirage Should Cut CityCenter Condo Prices In HALF
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 1 September 2009
My Facebook friends may be aware that both Jon Ralston and I have unwisely tangled with a certain hysterical, ridiculous and flamboyant high-end real estate dealer who clai
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Is Criss Angel Finding His Groove?
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 31 August 2009
[UPDATE: A MGM Mirage spokeswoman wrote me back: "At this time, it is all temporary signage."]
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The Show is UP: Keeping Up With Joan
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 28 August 2009
Somehow even with all the MJ tribute craziness, we managed to pull off a pretty good show with the irrepressible Joan Rivers. She's spunky, that one. No time for an AAC edition, though, and I've been advised NOT to split the feed in two, so I may abandon the AAC format so as to not annoy the non-iTunes peeps out there with burdensome extra download material. People really hate that, so I've learned. Anywho, right-click on the date below and save it to your computer.
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R.I.P. Dominick Dunne
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 26 August 2009
[Note: Hear my lengthy interview with Dominick Dunne from Sept. 2008 while he was here covering the O.J.
