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Sapphire’s offers UFC on 100" screens
May 27, 2011 – 3:00 pm | Comments Off
Sapphire’s offers UFC on 100" screens

If you want to catch the UFC along with hundreds of naked women, Sapphire's, the world's largest strip club, is broadcasting it on three 100″ HD screens. The live event from the MGM Grand Arena features …

Terry Fator on divorce, "handlers" + Barry Manilow
May 25, 2011 – 3:00 pm | Comments Off
Terry Fator on divorce, "handlers" + Barry Manilow

OK, so the podcast is up and you can hear Terry Fator and his ex-wife Melinda discuss — or not discuss as the case may be — their marriage. I’ve also analyzed …

Birdy Bin Laden Is Dead, We Think
May 21, 2011 – 3:00 pm | Comments Off
Birdy Bin Laden Is Dead, We Think

Justice has been done. We got Birdy Bin Laden. Probably. The other day I posted about this bird in the neighbor’s tree that was dive-bombing to frighten — but not attack — our dogs. Here’s the YouTube video again…

VIDEO: The Bird That Terrorizes My Dogs
May 18, 2011 – 3:00 pm | Comments Off
VIDEO: The Bird That Terrorizes My Dogs

Explain this? Anyone?

The Strip is LIVE Tonight @ 8pm PT
May 18, 2011 – 3:00 pm | Comments Off
The Strip is LIVE Tonight @ 8pm PT

Oscar Goodman may be working overtime to ensure his wife replaces him as the official face of Vegas, but it’s been a heckuva lot easier for the city’s unofficial mascot, Holly Madison, to spread her fame …

Carolyn Goodman’s Contextual Problems
May 15, 2011 – 11:00 pm | Comments Off
Carolyn Goodman’s Contextual Problems

There is a very troubling pattern emerging with Las Vegas mayoral front runner Carolyn Goodman that came up last Wednesday when I moderated the forum for the Lambda business group with both candidates and again tonight: Mrs. Goodman is not capable…

Sahara’s Short, Humdrum, Dry-Eyed Goodbye
May 15, 2011 – 7:00 pm | Comments Off
Sahara’s Short, Humdrum, Dry-Eyed Goodbye

On Friday night, I emailed my Las Vegas Weekly editors my idea for my next column, which I proposed to be a look at how little emotion has been stirred up by Monday’s…

Real World suite available to the public
May 11, 2011 – 7:00 pm | Comments Off
Real World suite available to the public

Want to party like a celebrity? How about a reality star? The Real World suite (#1168) is now up for grabs and available to be rented from Hard Rock at the lowly cost …

The GLBT Mayoral Forum I Moderate on Wed
May 9, 2011 – 1:00 pm | Comments Off
The GLBT Mayoral Forum I Moderate on Wed

As crushed as many readers and podcast listeners may be to learn this, Chuck Monster of VegasTripping.Com cannot actually run for mayor of Las Vegas. That’s a shame, too, given…

Pickle-eating contest at The Mirage
May 6, 2011 – 11:00 pm | Comments Off
Pickle-eating contest at The Mirage

Do you like pickles or do you like like pickles? How many of them can you eat in the shortest amount of time? The Carnegie Deli (at The Mirage) is holding its first-ever pickle-eating contest on May 13, with a …

Moilanen Kills His Blog
May 5, 2011 – 7:00 pm | Comments Off
Moilanen Kills His Blog

Well, that didn’t take long. Within hours of the appearance of my column in the Weekly on Tom Moilanen, he has deleted his blog from the Internet. Moilanen’s a CSN communications professor who finds racist epithets appropriate …

LVW Col: The Nasty Professor
May 5, 2011 – 3:00 pm | Comments Off
LVW Col: The Nasty Professor

The theme of this week seems to be people who think that whatever they do on their personal blogs has no bearing or relevance to their public/”real” lives. Discredited HotelChatter.Com scribe Julia Buckley was baffled when an all-too-similar account by …