Vegas Magazine Articles

The beginning of 2007 saw the members of YouTube darling Panic at the Disco-founder and chief songwriter/lyricist Ryan Ross (guitar, keyboard, backing vocals), co-founder Spencer Smith (drums), frontman Brendon Urie (lead vocals, guitar, keyboard) and Jon Walker (bass guitar, keyboard, backing vocals)-taking time off from their furious touring schedule to start writing songs for a follow-up album to their double-platinum debut, 2005's A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. Around mid-year, though, they decided to scrap everything they had written and start again.

Las Vegans are in for a special treat on May 22nd, when Neiman Marcus presents the latest collection from Oscar de la Renta at Wynn Las Vegas. It's happening at the annual luncheon/fashion show to benefit the Nathan Adelson Hospice, Southern Nevada's only nonprofit hospice program providing quality care and compassionate support to patients and families, regardless of insurance or ability to pay.

I'm coming out!" With this phrase, which has become the theme of LGBT pride the world over, one of the music industry's true icons- the Queen Supreme, the disco diva, the silver-screen siren and the woman who asked us all to touch her in the morning-Diana "Call Her Miss" Ross took the stage of the Venetian Ballroom, headlining the concert that served as the culmination of the grand-opening celebration for The Venetian's new Palazzo sister property.

What do Freddie Mercury, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and The Beatles have in common with Dean Martin, Dame Shirley Bassey, Bing Crosby, Otis Redding and the Bee Gees? Well, for one thing they represent some of the biggest names in the history of recorded music. And they all sang songs that have been covered in the past 10 years with both critical and commercial success by Grammy-nominated Canadian crooner Michael Bublé. The baby-faced boy from British Columbia has used the past decade to introduce a new generation to the music that we Las Vegans can trace back to our city's genesis.