It’s what a Roman palace would have looked like…if Bootsy Collins was emperor.

Everyone in town has their favorite club or hot spot and that club they absolutely loathe. Very few people agree on which clubs are hot and which are not and the debate rages to this day.

OR DOES IT!??!?!?!?!

Thanks to the New York Post, the authority on all things Las Vegas, we now have a handy guide listing the “Five Must-Hit Clubs in Vegas” and five “Sin City Spots to Avoid.” The list is as follows:

Five Hot:
1. XS
2. Haze
3. Tao
4. Rain
5. Vanity

Five Not:
1. Pure
2. Christian Audigier
3. Prive
4. Voodoo Lounge
5. Mix

No real shockers on the list but we have to say we’re a bit upset that Ovation didn’t make the cut on the Hot list. C’mon, NYP, if you haven’t danced to poorly-covered Lionel Richie songs next to a 70-year-old woman who wants to tell you about how amazing her grandchildren are then you haven’t really experienced Sin City.

By Jared Harmon

Feeling the b-a-s-s bass. (Photo by Scott Harrison | Retna. Additional photos by Erik Kabik | Retna.)

Big Boi was at Pure inside Caesars Palace Friday night to do a nine-song set of OutKast tunes that included “Rosa Parks,” “So Fresh, So Clean,” “Ms. Jackson” and “The Way You Move.” Unfortunately, he wasn’t wearing the plaid suit from the “Way You Move” video like we so desperately had hoped. Now our only hope is that Don Cherry hosts a club one night.

Big Boi was joined by wife Sherlita Patton and was surrounded by Antoine Walker, Mario Barth and MTV’s Mike “The Miz” Mizanin. Mizanin was earlier at Christian Audigier the Nightclub inside Treasure Island where Jonathan Sadowski, Aaron Yoo and Nick Mennell from the Friday the 13th remake were hosting a well-timed Friday the 13th party.

That’s a remake of the original, not the one where Jason was in space. You don’t remake Citizen Kane, you don’t remake Gone with the Wind and you don’t remake Jason X. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

Fashion, the American Pie 2 way. (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)

Designer Christian Audigier kicked off his independent When I Move You Move trade show today at Caesars Palace, bringing in the big guns to highlight his lines, his three debuting brands (Evel Knievel, Deathcryption and Rock Fabulous along with the Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart), more than 50 licensees and participating lines, including Snoop Dogg’s Co Co Ri. Snoop was there for day one, along with Tara Reid and Nicky Hilton. No, Snoop’s line isn’t made entirely out of hemp.

By Jason Scavone

Yeah, yeah, he’s attractive. In a really pretty way. (Via New Line Cinema)

As our stint here at Fiasco draws to a close, we thought it might be OK to share some personal information: despite a post to the prior, we actually don’t like Jason Lewis. See, his Sex and the City character – Smith – threw a wrench in our grand plan to name our future kid with a first name that’s also a last name. Now, any kid named Smith is going to be immediately be branded with a Carrie Bradshaw-loving mom, but it isn’t so. He would actually have just a really mean mom. And a really weak-willed dad because it’s harder to pitch a last name first name to a potential baby daddy than you would think.

So, in conclusion, we will be at Pure in Caesars Palace tonight, confronting Jason Lewis about mucking up our imaginary child’s future.

If you were going to name your child Apple or something, we can’t help you, but here’s a few other places famous people will be in town this weekend, should you have beef of your own. Click for more words and pictures »

By Michelle McKay

Poor Macaulay Culkin. (Via MySpace.com)

Is Tori Spelling a MILF? Is it acceptable to even use the word, “MILF” anymore? What nightclub best suits a celebration for the birth of your second child? Did Donna finally give it up to David? Did that happen on the show? How did we forget that?

You can have the answers to all these questions and more tonight, as former 90210 and current reality TV star Tori Spelling hosts at Christian Audigier in Treasure Island.

Vegas native daughter Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase for the kids still recovering from Comic-Con) is set to host Saturday at Audigier.

By Michelle McKay

You know she’s making him wear that visor so no one notices his hair is nicer.

Putting ponies, streamers and balloon parties behind her (for now – they always come back), Ashley Scott of Maxim’s Hot 100 of 2008 celebrated her birthday Friday night at Christian Audigier inside Treasure Island.

Scott was joined by actress Amy Smart and comedian/actor/former-Heather-Locklear-boytoy David Spade for the occasion, which included a red rose and sparkler-topped yellow cake that put Fudgie the Whale to shame.

The group stretched the night out all the way to last call, at which point the club’s staff gathered together to wave a collective buh-bye directed right at Spade.

By Michelle McKay

If you stare long enough and relax your eyes, George Clooney appears in that empty space. (Photo by Erik Kabik | Retna)

Almost two months after reports surfaced of a split with George Clooney and his nippled Batsuit (rumored to be the actual chest-related issue that spurred the break up), Sarah Larson was on the red carpet at Tao at the Venetian Friday night.

WIth a group of 10 in tow, Larson dined on Chilean sea bass satay, pad Thai noodles and Tao’s signature giant fortune cookie before heading up to a champagne-stocked VIP table on the dance floor. No word on what the cookie’s fortune said, but we’ve witnessed some pretty prescient snack foods in our time and imagine it mentioned something about booze and house music.

So You Think Can Dance judge Nigel Lythgoe was also at the club, drowning his sorrows in beer and Grey Goose while, presumably, witnessing many, many people who think they can dance. Click for more words and pictures »

By Michelle McKay

Christian Audigier and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Screen prints of tattoos on the left, monitors that can look in on the dance floor on the right. Even the entrance to Christian Audigier the Nightclub strives to set the tone before you walk in.

The newest club from Pure Management Group, set to make its grand debut July 4 at Treasure Island, is rooted in the fashion designer’s aesthetics. The walls are draped in red, crushed velvet curtains. Couches are all black faux crocodile. Rhinestone-encrusted skulls deck out the VIP area. Tables and bartops are covered in reflective red glass. Dancing poles are lit from underneath with red light. The floor and accents are all done in black. Screen printings of what looked like trolls holding swords were done in black and backlit in red behind the bar. In fact, with a little pyro, it would be like drinking in the seventh circle of Hell — without all that messy bother about eternal suffering.

It’s an intimate setting on the inside, but features several changes of level to keep the eye moving. From a sunken bar on the right to the dance floor to a lower VIP area that gives way to a raised VIP section on the left, ending in large mirrors (framed in Audigier roses), the effect is to give the feeling of extending the space of the former Tangerine location. The DJ booth, at the rear of the dance floor, will be a showcase area with an Audigier stitch piece as a backdrop. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

Shaving only slows you down in the world of fashion. (Via ChristianAudigier.com)

Fashion designer Christian Audigier — responsible for the look of Ed Hardy, Von Dutch and other brands slavishly worn by fashionistas — is taking on nightclubs. On Fourth of July weekend, Christian Audigier The Nightclub at Treasure Island will open under the auspices of Pure Management Group. Finally, the public’s demand for a club with tattoo-inspired design will be met.

The joint will feature a pair of jellyfish tanks, which is great, because there usually aren’t enough tentacle-related injuries in nightclubs these days. The club will also sport skull-and-rose encrusted mirrors, black glass chandeliers and a black pebble stone bar with a red mirror bar top and a fire effect. So, if the tentacles don’t get you, the fire might. Officials promise the venue is not an elaborate super villain death trap, but we’ve fallen for that one before. Last time we drink at the Temple of Doom, we can tell you that much.

Naturally, there will be an Ed Hardy boutique nearby for all your pre- and post-club shopping needs.

By Jason Scavone