The late entertainer Louis Prima is a Las Vegas icon. When he and Keely Smith and saxophonist Sam Butera and The Witnesses debuted at the Casbar Lounge at the Sahara in 1954, they took over the town and the town was never the same. Prima, who had a career as a big band leader before [...]

Ovarian cancer is no laughing matter, unless you’re Pam Matteson. The 56-year-old comedian ripped a page from Robert Schimmel’s notebook and jokes about the disease that she fought to a standstill two years ago. “I just wrote a rap song about ovarian cancer symptoms and I’m going to put it on Youtube,” says the Las [...]

JIMMY MULIDORE Jazz fans packed the Roma Grill, 9570 S. Eastern, Saturday night. The legendary Jimmy Mulidore and his combo debuted at the Roma and hopefully they will become a fixture in the restaurant which offers a reasonably priced Italian menu. For Vegas new-comers who may not be familiar with Mulidore, he has been in [...]

As a teenager Genevieve Dew sang with the St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra, where she learned to sing in seven languages. Years later she came to Las Vegas to sing at the Rio as a “BevErtainer,” a new concept in entertainment created by producer Dick Foster. The gig that introduced the St. Louis native to Vegas [...]

Traditional-blues-shattering performer Jason Ricci returns to Las Vegas Thursday night, his first engagement here since August when he thrilled audiences in two shows – one at Boulder Station and one at Texas Station. That was his introduction to Vegas, his debut. Those were the days when Station Casinos experimented with expanding its long-running Boulder Blues [...]

At the funeral of the legendary jazz singer Joe Williams in April,1999 the late Robert Goulet said, “His memory will live as long as our memories live.” The quote appeared in an AP story when the memory of Williams was still very much alive. Today, 11 years later, our memories of the man who gave [...]

Rick Faugno came to Las Vegas two years ago to star as Frankie Valli in the Broadway hit musical “Jersey Boys” at the Palazzo. Since his arrival he has taken on a second hit – as himself in “Songs My Idols Sang (And Danced!).” Faugno showcased his revue in August at the South Point’s 400-seat [...]

Before “The Dirty Joke Show” begins an announcer warns folks with sensitive ears to leave and go see “Donny and Marie.” That’s good advice for those who don’t like the “F” word, which seems to be used two or three times in every sentence in this comedy showcase of potty mouth humor at Hooters, which [...]

One of the town’s most tireless performers – and most personable – returns to the Suncoast showroom March 13-14. Clint Holmes has been a local fixture for the past 11 years, arriving in 1999 to perform at the Golden Nugget for seven months before moving to Harrah’s, where he performed for more than six years. [...]

It took awhile, but drag star Frank Marino is finally living his dream – his own show on the Las Vegas Strip. “Frank Marino’s Divas Las Vegas” is a delightfully decadent evening of pure entertainment by a cast of female impersonators that includes tributes to Lady GaGa, Beyonce, Britney, Tina Turner, Shirley Bassey, Whitney Houston, [...]