It’s probably harder to be impressed when you were there for the real thing. (Photo by Christina Petras)

George Harrison’s widow, Olivia, brought her 91-year-old mother a performance of Love last night at The Mirage. She was already in town yesterday for the Carlos Santana Guitar Heaven, which features a Santana version of the late Beatle’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” with India.Arie and Yo-Yo Ma. Who should really do his own solo cover, “While My Cello Gently Weeps.”

Harrison was one of the driving forces in getting Love rolling initially, and said last night’s performance was the most high energy she had seen.

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Couldn’t we just cut to the chase and make her the ring girl? (Photo by Scott Harrison | Retna)

Playboy’s Erica Chevillar was at Crown Nightclub inside the Rio Friday night to host the MMA Xplosion Ring Girl competition. See, someone got punched so hard they knocked off the “e” in “explosion,” and that’s what they were left with. The winner got $500 and the right to pace a cage holding a “2″ placard.

Mel B was still in town filming for Mel B, It’s a Scary Life. She brought husband Stephen Belafonte and daughters Phoenix and Angel to the 7 p.m. show of Love at The Mirage, ducking backstage with the camera crew trailing her while she talked about performer Halil Gashi’s body and Belafonte flirted with the dancers. So, that sounds like a good-time family dynamic.

Over at the Palms, Javon Walker and fellow free agent Keith Bulluck had dinner at N9NE Steakhouse, where J.A. Adande was having dinner with Robert Horry. The Warriors’ Devean George was there with a group of 10, while the Kings’ Omri Casspi. It was like one big Summer League sleepaway camp. All they needed was Darko Milicic to show up with his He-Man sleeping bag. Click for more words and pictures »

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we don’t know. It doesn’t look … gin-y enough. (Photo by Bryan Steffy)

Hizzonner was at Hussong’s Cantina inside Mandalay Place last night with owners Scott Frost and Jeff Marks to be added to the joint’s Charcoal Wall of Fame. He drank Bombay in the tequila shop because Oscar Goodman, that’s why.

Love is celebrating its four-year anniversary tomorrow, and to get the festivities going, four cast members went to Niagara Falls last week for the start of Ringo Starr’s summer tour. All things being equal, if you found yourself in that situation, would you be able to resist the temptation to pack Ringo in a barrel and send him over the falls like some kind of Hanna-Barbera cartoon? Because we couldn’t. It’d be like any time Fred and Daphne had to save that week’s guest star. Except instead of Don Knotts, it was a former Beatle.

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Luke Perry, shortly before eloping to Canada. (Photo by Ana Dobrijevic. Additional photos by Hew Burney)

We’re really not down with this whole Luke Perry-with-a-full-beard thing. There was a time where his sideburns were a shining beacon on a hill — a signpost that you, too could do anything. Anything like hang around with Shannen Doherty, or somehow get mixed up with the mob in Beverly Hills. Those sideburns meant something, and now they’re gone. Is it a symbol of the passing of childhood? Innocence destroyed? That people get tired of being called “Dylan” on the streets? We’ll never know.

Anyway, Perry and his girlfriend, Madison, were at Love inside The Mirage for Friday night’s 7 p.m. show. When he went backstage, Perry dropped to his knees to thank the cast. Now Luke Perry will be marrying the entire cast of Love. Presumably, in Canada, where that sort of thing is legal. Also only legal in Canada? Chad Kroeger of Nickelback. He was spotted at Bare earlier in the day. Thanks, Canada. Thanks loads. We always knew you secretly hated us.

At the Hard Rock Hotel, Wasted Space did an afterparty for Xfanz with porn stars Teagan Presley, Sunny Leone, Ron Jeremy, Lisa Ann, Andy San Dimas, Kagney Linn Karter, Sarah Sloane, Brynn Tyler and Jenny Hendrix. Poker pro Chris Ferguson was there for a friend’s birthday, while Eva Misle, who’s opened for Miley Cyrus, was at Vanity. Click for more words and pictures »

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Skating is not a crime … in Brazil. (Photo by Samantha Fisher. Additional photos by Hew Burney)

X Games gold medalist Fabiola da Silva, the Brazilian inline skater who’s won more than 50 medals on the LG ACtion Sports World Tour and has seven golds and a silver from the X Games, brought boyfriend and Brazilian basketball player Fernando Fischer to Love at The Mirage Friday night. Those totals make her the most decorated female athlete in X Games history. Which is not the same thing as being the most decorated woman in Brazil. Final Destination actress Ali Larter came later, for the 9:30 p.m. show. Earlier, she was spotted at First inside Palazzo to watch the Blackhawks put the screws to the Sharks. Richard Kind, the creepy uncle from A Serious Man, was also in with a group of friends.

Los Angeles Kings center Brad Richardson spent some time with fans at Vanity inside the Hard Rock Hotel, while Maseo from De La Soul hung out in the DJ Booth with Eric D-Lux after doing a set poolside for Friday Night Live. The upside of getting bounced in the first round of the playoffs is more time to go party. We’re going to go ahead and pretend that’s why the Sabres got right down to the business of losing to the Bruins in the first round. For the hardcore Buffalo nightclub scene.

Over at N9NE Steakhouse, Floyd Mayweather Jr. rolled in with a group of 25 to celebrate a couple of birthdays. Barry Bonds traveled lighter, with a group of five. Seven if you count the two extra chairs it took to support his massive head. Playboy Comedy Club headliner and Curb Your Enthusiasm actor J.B. Smoove also was in for dinner. Click for more words and pictures »

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Lisa Kudrow, seen here with David Schwimmer in 1995. (Photo by Samantha Fisher)

Hotel for Dogs star Lisa Kudrow had dinner at Bartolotta last night, following it up with a performance of Love with her husband, Michel Stern as they celebrated his parents’ 63rd wedding anniversary.

After the show, Kudrow signed autographs Romy and Michele-style on a pack of Post-Its while Stern’s folks, in from France, spoke with the Francophone members of the cast. Also there for the show was boxer Ricky Hatton, whose offer to communicate in the universal language of punching was declined.

Over at the Palms, Ludacris had dinner at N9NE Steakhouse, no doubt famished from spending so much time in the Sex Room. The Sacramento Kings’ Tyreke Evans and a group of seven, including his boss, George Maloof, were also in.

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How long you gonna milk this whole thing, Canada? (Photo by Ana Dobrijevic)

The gold-medal winning Canadian women’s bobsled team continued their city-wide tour of every Cirque show ever with a Friday trip to see Love at The Mirage where they got more of the national hero treatment. Why don’t you just be all cocky about it Canada? We won some medals too, you know. We think. Did we? We dunno. We’ll pay attention when Michael Phelps is in it again and stands a chance of groping another cocktail waitress.

The bobsledders, Kaillie Humphries, Heather Moyse and Amanda Morle also turned up at Lavo inside Palazzo Friday night and at Simon at Palms Place on Sunday for brunch. Over at sister club Tao, Zach Galifianakis had dinner with his family. And by his family, we mean his beard.

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Two minutes later! (Photo by Shane O’Neal)

Record-producer-who-we-always-confuse-with-Creed-frontman-Scott-Stapp Scott Storch (sorry about that, Storch) was at Ghostbar Saturday night partying with Tera Patrick when Duran Duran drummer Roger Taylor turned up around 1 a.m.

Even the presence of the backbeat behind “Union of the Snake” couldn’t keep Patrick there, though, as she decamped for Rain with her friends where they rejoined Storch’s table.

The Duranies were in town for a private concert and took advantage of downtime on Sunday to hit up Wet Republic where Simon Le Bon caught up on his reading. If 1985 poolside Simon Le Bon knew that 2010 poolside Simon Le Bon would be reading instead of cashing on easy New Wave tail, he’d have been furious.

Bassist John Taylor took the evening to go see Love at The Mirage, where Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas was there with his wife, Marisol, and her parents. And you’re telling us for one night that Cirque couldn’t find a way to work “The Reflex” into the production? Weak.

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Aren’t we ready as a society for more Jon Bon Jovi submarine movies? (Photos by Samantha Fisher)

New Jersey’s third-favorite sons (behind Springsteen and the Shore house) were in town early this weekend. Beatles nut Richie Sambora finally talked Jon Bon Jovi into going to see Love Friday night at The Mirage ahead of their Saturday MGM Grand Garden Arena show. They started with a group of 16 doing dinner at Japonais. After the show they met the cast, where Sambora and Bon Jovi got a round of applause and Sambora talked to members of the audio team about “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” What? NOT “Wanted Dead or Alive?” Well then what’s the point of even inviting Richie Sambora?

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We really want to meet the rest of his potato-themed relatives. (Photos by Al Powers)

Nelly did a half hour at Tao last night to support his Apple Bottom Jeans along with younger brother City Spud. He must be a second cousin to Ron White’s Tater Salad. Nelly dropped “Hot in Herre,” “E.I.,” :Shake Ya Tailfeather,” and “Dilemma” for the crowd, where Marlon Wayans, Tito Ortiz and Phil Hellmuth. For a full look at the night, check out SpyOn.

Over at The Mirage, Sharon Stone brought her son, Roan (Roan Stone? That’s a thing? That is a thing.), to see Love at the 7 p.m. show. They hit the gift shop afterward for T-Shirts. Earlier, they were at the Secret Garden and planned to take a trip to the Hoover Dam today.

Hines Ward was spotted at N9NE Steakhouse with a group of 11 in the private dining room. Roger Clemens was hanging out with members of Santana’s band at B.B. King’s Blues club at The Mirage. They didn’t actually want to hang out with the Rocket, they just heard you can play the hell out of the saxophone when you’re doing HGH.

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