Like Tupac, it’s full of California love.

Summer comes, and summer goes in a flurry of Labor Day. What they can never take from our summer, however, is our ice cream. Because if we have to steal a Good Humor truck and Cannonball Run across the country in an outlaw chase while we polish off the last of what’s in the freezer, we will. More than damn near any of the frozen novelties — except for maybe the Bomb Pop and Bubble O’Bill, the Creamsicle has left its indelible mark on summer.

Naturally, it needs to be in booze form.

N9NE Steakhouse and Nove Italiano at the Palms are bringing out the California Creamsicle for Labor Day weekend, inspired by the citrus sellers of Southern Cali. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

So hot, such terrible taste. (Photo by Scott Harrison | Retna)

In a shocking case of trading down, Kat Von D confirmed she was split up from Nikki Sixx, then was spotted at N9NE Steakhouse Saturday night with Hitler-salutin’, Sandra Bullock-cheatin’ Jesse James. (She also confirmed that Motley Crue guitarist Mick Mars gives the dumbest advice ever.)

Yesterday, the tattoo mavens were holding hands and being affectionate when they toured Bodies: The Exhibition at the Luxor. One staffer asked Von D for a photo, and helped fix the camera after the flash broke, but James hightailed it out to the next gallery to duck photos.

Today, Von D denied there was anything romantic going on between the two of them. Which means she just discovered who the hell Michelle McGee was.

By Jason Scavone

Why is No. 12 so angry? Lighten up, dude.

Former Denver Bronco John Elway dined at N9NE Steakhouse inside the Palms Thursday night along with a party of five in the main dining room. The Super Bowl winning quarterback enjoyed crab cocktail and the Dover sole and toasted Ernest Byner several times.
Also dining at N9NE on Thursday was hip-hop artist Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges who ordered the tuna tartare and the Dover sole, which he described as “mouf watering.”

By Jared Harmon

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 »

By Jason Scavone

‘How many career goals? Nah. Still not invited.’ (Photos by Tony Tran | SpyOnVegas.com)

Jamie Foxx, Paris and Nicky Hilton, David Katzenberg and Stacy Keibler are so powerful that when they took over the private dining room at Lavo Friday night, they didn’t even need to invite Michael Phelps and Wayne Gretzky. Apparently no matter what you’ve accomplished in athletics, it’s not enough. No one’s counting medals on Dancing with the Stars.

Phelps, in town for his birthday, was having dinner with a group of friends that included Miss California Nicole Johnson, and Gretzky came over to say hello to the only other person on the planet he could talk to about dominating a sport so hard it hurts, who wasn’t named Michael, Lance or Tiger.

When things shifted upstairs, Foxx played cheerleader for the Lakers, hyping the championship for hours to a crowd that included Olivia Munn, Celtics fans on the verge of blows and a bored everyone else by the fifth time Foxx wouldn’t shut up about how awesome Pao Gasol is. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

Free bottle if you can draw a slashing minor in the club.

Well that isn’t remotely fair. Ryan Kesler of the Vancouver Canucks was at Down & Derby last night at Rain. Actually, he should’ve brought his pads, too, and cross-checked the hell out of anyone who tried to cross the blue line.

N9NE Steakhouse semi-regular Steven Jackson of the St. Louis Rams was in with a friend, while Charles Oakley had a crew of seven and Larry Fitzgerald was in the private dining room. The Rev. Run mixed it up with a trip to Nove Italiano. During the day, Clinton Portis had a cabana for 12 at the Palms pool.

By Jason Scavone

We’re kind of jealous of anyone who can pull off a cape in public.

The Rev. Run, who’s headlining Ditch Friday tomorrow at the Palms pool, got a jump on things with dinner at N9NE Steakhouse last night with his manager. Which, we assume means the restaurant was carefully combed over beforehand to remove Sucker MCs. It’s like when the Secret Service preps a location for the president. More or less the same thing.

The Run’s House main agent wasn’t the only one with a show out and about — Corey Harrison and Chumlee of Pawn Stars were at Bonkerz for America’s Got Talent finalist Grandma Lee, hanging out after the show with the septuagenarian stand-up.

By Jason Scavone

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 »

By Jason Scavone

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.

By Jason Scavone

As Rivers said, this man knows the way to make the top of the charts.

The man who gave us Nelly Furtado’s “Promiscuous,” record producer Timbaland, was at The Lion King at Mandalay Bay with wife, Monique, and a crew of 25 last night for her birthday. We’re still holding that whole Nelly Furtado thing against him, though. After the show, they went backstage where the cast sang Monique “Happy Birthday.” Of all the ways to celebrate your birthday, doing it with a man-lion with a swively head has to be the best. We guess.

At the Palms, Miami wideout Brandon Marshall had dinner at N9NE Steakhouse with six others, and Washington running back Clinton Portis ate at Nove Italiano with two guests. It’s all pointing to a big weekend for sports stars in town, between the Mayweather-Mosley fight and the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. (OK, fine. They’re here for the fight. No one except us and newsboys from the ’30s care about the Derby.) Boxer Winky Wright was at the Hard Rock Hotel’s Johnny Smalls for a late dinner.

Tao had Fred Taylor of the Patriots, free agent Jevon Kerase and the Buffalo Bills’ Roscoe Parrish and Marcus Stroud. Portis and Marshall both found their way to Tao, with Portis bringing teammate Larry Johnson. Also turning up were the guys from The Killers, drinking Jaeger Bombs and vodka. Model Selita Ebanks, who hosts at Lavo tonight, was spotted as well.

By Jason Scavone