How does one get on the career path to be fake Larry Mullin and fake Adam Clayton, anyway? (Via myspace.com/vegasu2)

Vegas U2 — a band that tells you everything you need to know right in their name — headlines Garage Days at McFadden’s inside the Rio tonight just in in time for the start of its Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day celebration tonight. It’s true. Check your calendar. It’s a mere six months until you’ll be puking green beer with a guy from Amherst named Sully. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

Look how sincere the guy on the left looks. (Photo by Jessica Blair | SpyOnVegas.com)

McFadden’s in the Rio is throwing an Irish toga party tomorrow night at 10 p.m.

This is your chance to finally find someone who’ll roleplay your Animal House fantasies with you. And not just the toga scene – the toilet paper-stuffed bra scene, too.

Drink specials throughout the night, including:

• All-you-can-drink cocktails, domestic beers and house wines from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. ($30)
• $3 you-call-it drinks, starting at midnight.

  By Michelle McKay

(Photo by Ray Alamo | SpyOnVegas.com)

Look, you have your Ultimate Fighting Championship, and we have ours.

By Jason Scavone

Curtis Armstrong, the guy who played Booger, is now an expert on the music of Harry Nilsson. Talk about walking the nerd walk.

McFadden’s inside the Rio celebrates no more classes, no more books and certainly no more teacher’s dirty looks with its Naughty and Nerdy School’s Out Bash. Girls dolled up like schoolgirls and guys dressed up like members of the A/V Club can enter to win a three-day cruise along the Mexican Riviera. Guys dressed like naughty schoolgirls, however, aren’t eligible. We’re sure you can find some other time to wear that plaid skirt. Did you lose your suspenders and/or fishnets? Explore your options at 10 p.m., unless noted. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

No, Stephanie, for the sixth time, it’s not a rohypnol cooler. Would we do that to you? Don’t answer that. (Photos by Scott Harrison)

Playboy playmate Stephanie Larimore was at McFadden’s inside The Rio Saturday night with a couple of childhood friends to do a little dancing on the bar and help judge a blow job shot contest.

Could we just quit it with the “dirty” drinks? We have nothing against them in their own right, but if we have to hear one more meathead make the same tired joke about sand getting in all the wrong places every time some girl orders a sex on the beach, we’re going to throw up in our Manhattan.

In related playmate news (we’ve said before and we’ll say again — you can never have enough) Athena Lundberg celebrated her birthday at Hawaiian Tropic Zone at Planet Hollywood resort Saturday night.

By Jason Scavone

For whom is this situation more embarrasing? Discuss. (Photo by Scott Harrison)

You have to give him this much credit: 17 years after releasing his hit single and 16 years, 364 days and 22 hours after becoming a punchline for everyone from 3rd Bass to Ice-T, Vanilla Ice is still out there doing “Ice, Ice Baby.”

And still, apparently, getting girls to show off the goods for it. At least, that’s what happened Saturday night at the Rio’s McFadden’s, when Ice was apparently a huge hit with a bacherlorette in a beer-swilling competition.

At least he didn’t destroy McFadden’s with a bat.

By Jason Scavone

Shortly after this picture was taken, Vanilla stared longingly at a pair of parachute pants in a store window.

You’ve got your Bogart in Casablanca, you’ve got your Gable in Gone with the Wind, you’ve got your Cooper in High Noon, but if you really want to capture that stoic, hard-but-soulful leading man vibe, you need to look no further than Vanilla Ice in Cool as Ice. See, they called it that because the star was named Vani– well, you get it.

You could even get your chance to ask him about it because Vanilla, who will never escape that name no matter how much he insists on returning to his birth name, Rob Van Winkle, will be on hand at McFadden’s inside the Rio Saturday at 11 p.m. to do all those things he’s known so well for. You know, sending word to one’s mother. Being white. Etc. We hope he plays that song from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.

By Jason Scavone

(Photo by Ray Alamo | SpyOnVegas.com)

McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon inside the Rio attracted all sorts of interesting visitors the last few days, starting with a batch of NASCAR drivers on Thursday night. Racers Mike Bliss and Kenny Wallace, who later appeared for an autograph signing at the Hard Rock Hotel Friday, chilled at McFadden’s with Smash Mouth singer and Las Vegas resident Steve Harwell (whose song, “You’ll Never Catch Me” appears on the soundtrack for IMAX NASCAR 3D).

Things got crazy at McFadden’s Saturday night when Jackass star Steve-O hosted a bash at the venue, with a little help from UFC fighters Kendall “Da Spyder” Grove and Phil “NYBA” Baroni and Steve-O’s bodyguard Reginald Pace.

Steve-O was up to his usual high jinks, dancing shirtless atop the bar with a bevy of excited women, pulling a light fixture from the ceiling to spotlight the crowd, holding the fixture’s hot bulb to his bare chest, unsuccessfully attempting to balance a chair on his chin and, from atop the bar, slamming a wooden bar stool down on the floor. Click for more words and pictures »

By Pj Perez

(Photo by Hew Burney | SpyOnVegas.com)

Even though they’re still trying to wash out the taint of Ron Jeremy from his appearance last week, McFadden’s — the new Irish pub inside the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino — is moving forward with plans for a three-day bash celebrating its grand opening next weekend.

The festivities begin on Thursday, Jan. 24 at 8 p.m., with a full open bar for the public from 9 to 10 p.m. The next evening, Area 107.9-FM and SpyOnVegas.com present Open Bar from 6 to 9 p.m., featuring free Guinness and Miller beer. And finally, on Saturday, Entourage’s Kevin Dillon hosts the finals of a beauty competition that starts at 8 p.m., with $1000 cash going home with the winner. And probably a kiss from Dillon. Much better than a kiss from Ron Jeremy.

By Ashley Rice

(Photos by Scott Harrison | REX Features)

As promised, adult film legend Ron Jeremy turned out to celebrate the opening of McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon at the Rio on Wednesday night. He was joined by adult film actress Jessica Bush (whew, at least there was one camera-friendly porn star in the place!) for photos before going into full-on silly mode, grabbing the DJ’s microphone to tell a few jokes before mounting the Irish pub’s bar to pour shots of McFadden’s signature Bobo cocktail into customers’ mouths.

By Pj Perez