Sandy Zimmerman’s SHOW REVIEWS- “Interview with Grandma Lee” By Sandy Zimmerman (Photos were shot by Sandy Zimmerman during the show) I had a chance to meet and interview Grandma Lee, finalist of the “America’s Got Talent” television show, following her show at the Bonkerz Comedy Club Showroom, inside the Palace Station. She recently appeared for [...]

This Week in Las Vegas By Mike Kermani ROSE PARTY Blush boutique Nightclub is having a Rose Party, with Chris Harrison host of the BACHELOR, who will be handing out roses, Fri, July 30; MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM MASQUERADE PARTY  The world’s infamous party isn’t only at the Playboy Mansion, now A Midsummer’s Night Dream Gods [...]

I discovered pretty quickly that when you move to Las Vegas and say, “come visit me sometime”, people actually take you up on it fairly frequently. This is a destination place, sort of like living in Disney World but here you really do live in the midst of it all. And so they come and [...]

June 20 will mark the 10th anniversary of the first story that I wrote about vocalist/keyboardist Joe Darro appeared in the Las Vegas Sun. Now 75, Darro continues to perform at venues around town. Until recently he was at an Italian restaurant in Green Valley called Frediani’s, where jazz was an important part of the [...]

How much is an exclamation point worth! We may find out if Tony Sacca follows through on his threat to sue pal David Saxe for allegedly stealing the title of a show. About five years ago Sacca (an entertainer/producer/syndicated TV show host/co-owner of a nightclub on Fremont Street) created a musical revue he calls “Vegas [...]

When I mention Tecopa Hot Springs to local Las Vegans, I usually receive one of two reactions:   a blank stare and a “huh?” or “I love that place!  What a great weekend getaway.” It all began hundreds of years ago when Spanish explorers discovered Native Americans—Paiute and Shoshone—-utilizing the hot springs. Aside from them, most [...]

May 27 marks the end of a jazz era in Las Vegas. Dan Ellis, leader of the Las Vegas Classic Jazz Band, says Boyd Gaming has pulled the plug on the long-running afternoon music performance. “A lot of fans are going to be upset,” said Ellis, a keyboardist. The roots of the six-piece band stretch [...]

Internationally acclaimed singer Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio will be honored with a star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars Thursday, April 29. The free ceremony will take place at 2 p.m. at the Crown Theater inside the Rio. Estefan was born in Cuba in 1957. When Fidel Castro seized power in 1959 [...]

I turned 65 on April 25 and since then have been doing a lot of reflecting about everything. When glam/rock star Brett Michaels suffered a brain hemorrhage last week, I recalled interviewing him in November, 2008 to advance a performance at the Aliante. It was a decent interview. He played up his charming lover-boy role, [...]

Tears well up in his eyes, his voice chokes and he stops talking until he composes himself. Emir Lopez is 40 years old, an aspiring filmmaker who recently finished “Cigar Song,” a script loosely based upon his eventful life. Almost 30 years have passed since he was taken from his native Cuba and transplanted to [...]