Vegas Magazine Articles

Hot on the tail of her critically acclaimed Broadway show Dame Edna: Back With A Vengeance!, the incomparable international housewife, megastar and style guru is coming to Vegas. Having specially tailored her extravaganza for Sin City audiences, Dame Edna: A Dame in the Desert begins a 16-show limited engagement at the Luxor Las Vegas on December 18th.

As people who epitomize the personality of the "new" Las Vegas go, few do so with the aplomb or individual style of Penn Jillette. He's the outspoken half of the comic duo Penn & Teller, the maverick entertainers who over the last 30 years have parlayed their unique sensibility into everything from writing for publications (The New York Times, Playboy) to portraying themselves on Fox's The Simpsons (one of popular culture's greatest honors) to delving into academia, lecturing at Oxford University and the Smithsonian Institution as well as MIT, where they serve as Visiting Scholars.

Spring must be the season for Stevies on the Las Vegas Strip. First, the whirling dervish of rock herself, Stevie Nicks, takes over the fabulous Colosseum at Caesars Palace for a four-night limited engagement beginning May 10th. According to Nicks, "It's basically going to be favorite songs, which you don't always get to do. This is actually a chance for me to go back all those many, many years."

Keep Memory Alive, the fund-raising arm of the Lou Ruvo Alzheimer's Center, is one of those rare events that receive the full support of everybody in its community. Not because people feel that they'll be put in good stead politically with those who run the organization — although that's part of it (let's be honest, why do you think folks like Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo buy tables at some of these shindigs?