03.9.10

A THREE-HOUR TOUR

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See? This is what happens when you don’t pack enough food or women to withstand a shipwreck.

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03.5.10

0305FRI: THE ROUNDUP

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Band photo or Match.com ad? YOU DECIDE.

“Next Big Thing” and “Cat & Mouse” duo Nikki and Rich hit the stage at The Bank inside Bellagio tonight. On their MySpace page, Nikki and Rich describe themselves as “Lauryn Hill meets The Supremes while hanging out with Alicia Keys listening to Outkast ‘Hey Yah’ (sic).” So, basically their musical style is every musical style ever, with the notable exception of klezmer music. Click for more words and pictures »

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03.1.10

DON’T TAKE MONEY, DON’T TAKE FAME

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Can’t believe Huey Lewis wasn’t invited. They should be ashamed. (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)

The Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health held the Power of Love Gala Saturday night at Bellagio with a performance from Barry Manilow doing “Can’t Smile Without You,” “Looks Like We Made It” and “Copacabana with nary so much as a backing saxophone from The News. It’s like the whole thing was organized by Ray Parker Jr. or something.

Holly Madison, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman, Andre Agassi and Stefi Graf, Leeza Gibbons, Brad Garret, Wolfgang Puck and Thomas Keller were all there for the three-course Puck and Keller dinner. A charity auction offered up a watch designed by Madison, an afternoon of lunch and tennis with Agassi and Graf, lunch with DeVito and the cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and two seats to a game of hold ‘em with Garrett and Ray Romano. Which, if you throw Kevin James in there too is just about the plot to the next Adam Sandler movie.

Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman were also in town, although they were here to go weightless on a Zero G flight out of McCarran airport. It was Kidman’s Christmas present from Urban. That’s a cool gift, but it does kind of set the standard for needing to lay on more and more gravity-free gifts. Christmas 2009: Weightless flight. Christmas 2010: Hover tree. They had dinner with the rest of the fliers at the Four Seasons

Finally, Avatar actor Sam Worthington was at Dos Caminos for Margaritas and tacos. He was with an unidentified female friend, who we’re assuming was 10 feet tall, blue and juggling balls of unobtanium. It’s Oscar season, people, and you have to do what you can to campaign.

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02.21.10

0221SUN: THE ROUNDUP

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Steve Aoki is excited about web revisions. (Photos by Erik Kabik)

It’s new website time, kids! Our sister site, SpyOnVegas.com, is launching version 3.0 of all the oh-crap-I-can’t-believe-I-did-that-last-night photos you can handle. We’ve seen it, and it’s completely awesome. You should make sure to refresh like a fiend today. To celebrate, The Bank at Bellagio hosts the launch with Steve Aoki in the DJ booth. Want to come along for the ride? Hit the RSVP here. Click for more words and pictures »

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02.2.10

THIS IS WHY WE WON’T SEE AVATAR

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James Cameron is getting a little too cocky. The 3-D glasses were one thing, but making your audience put these on is just mean.

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01.25.10

CONRAD SCOPES BOOK IN CAKE FORM

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America’s favorite author. (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)

Lauren Conrad — about the only Hills girl not to comment on Heidi Montag’s surgical remodeling, which is a bummer because we could’ve used a nice dose of palpable hate — hosted Friday night at The Bank inside Bellagio without boyfriend Kyle Howard.

Conrad kept quiet most of the night, but opened up when the club brought out a cake for her Feb. 1 birthday from Jean Philippe sculpted like her upcoming book, Sweet Little Lies: An L.A. Candy Novel. that comes out Feb. 2. It’s about a girl who’s friend got a reality show. And it’s a sequel to her other L.A. Candy book, which was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. That … can’t be right, can it? Can we at least get a new bestseller list where the books are by people who might have taken an English class at community college once?

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01.24.10

0124SUN: THE ROUNDUP

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We have a better choice for who the sex symbol is in this photo …

The Bank at Bellagio brings in 944’s Sex Symbols of Las Vegas, a crew that includes Jessica Hinton, Jason Craig, Joey Williams, Felix Cane, Jaymes Vaughan, Mila Corsunova, Alexander Christensen, Sara Bradley, Marco D’Angelo and Carey Hart. Snubbed yet again: Penn & Teller. Click for more words and pictures »

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01.18.10

LAVIGNE JOINS RITTER ON STAGE

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It’s like they had an eyeliner fight before coming out on stage. (Photos by Hew Burney | SpyOnVegas.com)

All-American Rejects singer Tyson Ritter was in at The Bank inside Bellagio Sunday night to do “Dirty Little Secret” among other songs when Avril Lavigne came out to join him on stage for two songs. Now everyone’s going to be like, “Oh, those two should totally date,” or however that would look when a 15-year-old girl texts it out. Which would totally fit Lavigne’s M.O. of trying to hang around guys capable of impregnating her with the Most Musically Annoying Baby in the History of Babies.

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12.29.09

TWILIGHT: THE COLLEGE YEARS

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(Photo by Roman Mendez | SpyOnVegas.com)

Things really took a turn for Team Edward once they all relocated to L.A. after senior year.

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12.18.09

1218FRI: THE ROUNDUP

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It’s cool. We’ll let him star in the adaptation of our unicorn books.

New Moon’s Jackson Rathbone celebrates his 25th birthday at The Bank inside Bellagio tonight for the much underserved vampire/nightclub enthusiast crossover market. Or werewolves. Or whatever he’s supposed to be. Look, the point is, between wizards and vampires, we’re going to blow all that crap out of the water when we launch our new line of books for adolescent girls about a bunch of used-to-be-happy-but-now-brood-all-the-time sexually frustrated unicorns. We’ll figure out how to get dolphins who love shopping but feel awkward in their maturing dolphin bodies into the sequel. What we’re trying to say is: Feel free to start leaving canvas bags full of money on our porch. Click for more words and pictures »

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