03.10.10
03.1.10
What? Not one drapey top among the bunch? (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)
JWoww — Jenni Farley of Jersey Shore celebrated her 25th birthday Saturday night, while her boobs celebrated their third. Regardless, there was cake enough for everyone celebrating a birthday, just like at the McDonald’s Playland. Except in this case, crawling through the ball pit meant something entirely different.
JWoww brought her boyfriend Tom Lippolis and eight others to dinner at Nove Italiano inside the Palms where Chef Geno Bernando brought out Obligatory Celebrity Cake No. 1. She and Lippolis had taken Bernando’s cooking class earlier in the day.
After dinner, JWoww and her father both got keys to the Playboy Club, which they must apparently keep in a fishbowl by the elevator now, the way they hand those things out. After that, the whole group went up to Moon to party until around 1:30 (with another cake), when JWoww and friends moved it downstairs to Rain to listen to Junkie XL.
Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer were plotting how to extract $300 million from the American public summer 2011 during dinner at N9NE Steakhouse, while the Jets’ Dustin Keller, MMA fighter Chuck Liddell and Pete Rose all had their own, far less insidious (except for Pete, we mean) things going on. Jay Cutler of the Bears started at Playboy Club then moved up to Moon.
By Jason Scavone
02.17.10
Jesus, enough with the hair already. (Photo by Shane O’Neal)
The Foo Fighters dropped a surprise performance last night at Rain inside the Palms for the AG Jeans MAGIC party. So … we guess you could say they threw a “Monkey Wrench” in people’s plans for the same old same old. See what we did there? Monkey wrench? Because there’s that song? High-five!
Frontman Dave Grohl — who’ll be back April 17 for Them Crooked Vultures at The Joint — started with dinner at N9NE Steakhouse in the private dining room. Then the band hit the stage in front of a crowd that included Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and the apparently-now-some-kind-of-it-couple Ryan Cabrera and Audrina Patridge.
Those two went up to Moon later where Jazzy Jeff and Kid Capri spun a set together. The Raiders’ Javon Walker and System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan were among the cluberratti too. Those are both people who are in clubs and people who belong to the Clubber Lang fan club.
Over at Vanity, third Madden brother Josh was the guest DJ for the S.L.A.T.E. MAGIC party. Holly Madison was there for that one. Madison was linked with Benji Madden in December, though she called him an “adventure buddy.” Which is appropriate, if she’s one of the Hardy Boys.
Tao got Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul for dinner. He and actor Ashton Holmes and their group left Tao to go check out the Foo Fighters and returned to Lavo for the True Religion Jeans party with Samantha Ronson on the turntables. Another jeans party, for Sovage, was at Blush inside Wynn Las Vegas. Angel McCord, sister of AnnaLynne, where she was chatting with designer and hip-hop artist Won-G.
By Jason Scavone
02.16.10
Still the only DJ to battle two-by-four with Freddy Krueger.
DJ Jazzy Jeff has the controls at Moon inside the Palms tonight, where Tankfarm is celebrating its new collection at Project. Clothing companies shouldn’t have names that cool unless they actually make jeans that come with a front-mounted cannon. (We’ve got your front-mounted jeans cannon right he– all right, we can’t bring ourselves to do it.) Satellite Bar gets Ignite Systems with Soto and Robdub. Click for more words and pictures »
By Jason Scavone
02.9.10
Clearly, we need to spend more time hanging out with The Veronicas. (Photos by Al Powers | SpyOnVegas.com)
If you wondered why people on the street were a little more nervous today, and maybe a little more hostile, it’s because we’ve got a Madden in town. People can sense that, like when horses know there’s rain coming or something. It also explains why people were whinnying out Good Charlotte songs. This seems to happen about every four to six weeks or so when one of the Maddens rolls in to DJ. Tonight it’s Benji at Moon inside the Palms. Expect the general populace to return to its normal, docile state tomorrow. Click for more words and pictures »
By Jason Scavone
01.27.10
Lil Jon: Huge Davey Concepcion fan. (Photo by Shane O’Neal)
Lil Jon came to spin at Moon inside the Palms last night, where the crowd included Australian snowboarder Dingo. Come on, Australia. You’re better than that. Don’t play into the stereotypes. You don’t have a skiier named Kangaroo. You don’t have an ice skater named Didgeridoo. You don’t have a luger named Paul Hogan. (Actually, you might. We haven’t checked his IMDB lately.)
By Jason Scavone
01.26.10
Oh Lil Jon, we just can’t stay mad at you. (Photo by Scott Harrison)
His collaboration with LMFAO might drive us insane because every time we hear it, it’s stuck in our head for roughly 83 days, but we can’t ignore that Lil Jon writes the songs with the most important messages of our time. He’s basically like a troubadour, penning the kind of words that come from deep within the soul. Either that or we feel way too strongly about shots. Regardless, he’s spinning at Moon inside the Palms tonight and J. Diesel is at Satellite Bar. Click for more words and pictures »
By Jason Scavone
01.26.10
Seriously, this could slot in on VH1 just fine. (Photo by Cody Boor)
In 1992 it was The Real World. In 1997 it was Survivor. In 2010, Jersey Shore. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the the next great leap forward in reality television: Top and the Dog.
Or, at least, it would be in the fantasy utopia we’ve constructed in our mind. There would also be Snooki teaching English as a Second Language. Anyway, Duane Chapman and his wife, Beth, were at Vanity inside the Hard Rock Hotel Sunday night, where they were hanging out with Carrot Top. The Chapmans were also spotted at Playboy Club and Moon at the Palms, which leads us to believe that someone who kept moving from Moon to Playboy to Vanity was about to get tased and dragged back to Hawaii.
By Jason Scavone
01.20.10
Ensuring a terrifying Mad Max future doesn’t befall us by helping provide access to water. (Photo by Shane O’Neal)
Joel Madden took his scheduled appearance in the DJ booth for Moon Tuesday last night at the Palms and turned it around to help the relief effort in Haiti, which, all things considered, probably makes up for “Little Things.”
Moon donated half the door to UNICEF’s Tap Project, for which Madden is the goodwill ambassador.
“Anyone that works at a nightclub in Vegas knows how much half the door is. It’s a lot of money. Every dollar right now counts. What UNICEF is doing in Haiti right now, they’re leading the water crisis right now. There’s a huge water crisis in Haiti. There’s no access to clean water. UNICEF has been in Haiti for almost 50 years already on the ground working,” Madden said. “Clean water is going to be the key to stopping a second-wave disaster.”
Over at Blush inside Wynn Las Vegas, Jay Sean did a 20-minute set that was being filmed for MySpace. It’ll go on the site next week, where it will be seen by the band street teams, camgirls, people’s moms who made a MySpace page after hearing about it from their kids in 2003, and defunct bars that make up 87 percent of the MySpace user base.
By Jason Scavone
01.19.10
You know, we’re not sure which one is which either. (Photo by Erik Kabik | Retna.)
Joel Madden, last seen popping in and out of Lavo with wife Nicole Richie for their New Year’s Eve countdown spectacular, comes back to town to spin at Moon inside the Palms tonight. A portion of the proceeds go to benefit the UNICEF Tap Project to aid in relief efforts in Haiti. Steve Walker is in the Satellite Bar. Benji Madden is still somewhere wondering how he could be replaced by Doug Reinhardt. Click for more words and pictures »
By Jason Scavone
