They’re determined to test just how much you love your Southern Rock.

The actual jukebox will let you off the hook cheaper on “Freebird,” but the actual jukebox doesn’t come with a drum kit, either. Acoustic Soul, on the other hand, charges $100 to break out the magnum opus you still call for even at a Jay-Z concert — but they’re taking other requests via Facebook and Twitter from their extensive songbook, and playing the top requested tunes at tonight’s 9:30 p.m. O’Sheas performance and filming them for Harrah’s social media sites.

It’s nice to see that technology has evolved fancy new ways of allowing you to scream, “Play some Skynyrd, man.”

By Jason Scavone

Beer pong, without the beer apparently. (Photos by Scott Harrison. Additional photos by Erik Kabik | Retna)

Holly Madison notched her first beer pong win today with a victory over O’Sheas House Leprechaun (all the finest hotels have one) Brian “Lucky” Thomas. We sincerely hope that Thomas asked her if she had a little Irish in her, and if not, would she like some.

Those cups, however appear to be missing a key ingredient in beer pong: Beer. Kind of a hollow victory, no? You can’t play shuffleboard without the board. Then it’s just staring at a pile of sawdust and pucks.

By Jason Scavone

Not just something you hallucinate after drinking! (Photos by Erik Kabik | Retna)

You just can’t spell Irish without (H)olly Mad(I)(S)on. Crap. We’re a couple letter short. Regardless, Madison is taking on Lucky the Leprechaun in a beer pong battle of the … titans? Er. We’ll re-word that later. O’Sheas is staking its claim as the Strip’s Irish paradise again this year (by which we mean they have an uncontrollable love of the accordion and a terrifying dearth of potatoes) with an all-day festival starting at noon. DJ Irish will be on the turntables while live music starts at 1 p.m. with Joshua Tree. Kings Of Kenmare go on at 3 p.m., Limey Bar at 6 p.m., the Sin City Sinners at 9 p.m. and Irish go-gos all night from 6 to 11 p.m. You can also win your way to the World Series of Beer Pong with a $40 satellite tournament. As if you weren’t going to drink 10 cups of cheap beer anyway. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

This is roughly what you’re going to be able to see, as this guy is going to be BURIED UNDER A PILE OF SNAKES.

On the plus side, at least someone’s coming to Vegas who can clear up what a herpetologist actually is, instead of what everyone around here assumes it is. On the minus side, he’s going to have to spend 10 days in a glass box with 100 snakes to do it for Venom in Vegas.

Sure, just like anyone woul– GAH. 100 DEADLY, VENOMOUS SNAKES. IN A BOX. A BOX FULL OF SNAKES.

Donald Schultz will be in the box. He’s doing it for the Animal Planet show Wild Recon where he’s the host who acquired the title of “venom expert” through what we can only imagine was an unfortunate lifetime of, you know, this:

Schultz will be put in the 16-by-20 box, which will sit in the alley between O’Sheas (who clearly haven’t abandoned the spirit of Freaks) and Margaritaville, on Sunday with cobras, pythons and rattlesnakes. He’s starting with 50 and having five snakes added a day because, well, you want to be sensible about this kind of thing. You wouldn’t want to start with 75 deadly snakes, because that’s just some kind of crazy publicity stunt. Specifically, they’re double-bagged mystery snakes he has to open as they get tossed in, and, perhaps, have his new friend come out and say hello. Like this:

The glass box will come equipped with a bed, a frosted-glass restroom and cameras to monitor the whole thing. We’re glad they thought about his ability to get comfy when sleeping with his 100 deadly, venomous snakes. It’s so hard to get a good night’s rest without the proper bedding and living nightmare fuel crawling all over your legs.

The Feb. 9 Wild Recon will air footage from filmed-24-hours-a-day stunt, which includes Schultz extracting venom from the snakes to be used in research. Really, why not up the ante on trapping yourself with deadly snakes by taunting deadly snakes? O’Sheas also promises (armored) local entertainers and media will go into the box with Schultz. We will not be among them. At all. We already know we look way too delicious to snakes, and we’re not going to exacerbate that situation.

Of course, on the off chance Schultz gets bitten, Animal Planet has three experts on standby. Which we assume we means they have someone waiting with to drop a hand grenade in the box if Schultz is a lost cause and the Flamingo is in danger of becoming Snake Disneyland.

By Jason Scavone

We’re honestly going to miss this. (Photo by Erik Kabik | Retna)

One of our favorite shows on the Strip, Freaks, is leaving O’Shea’s (effective immediately). No word yet on whether the Anthony Cools-produced show is going to soldier on in a different location, but it’s definitely a bummer. At least we’ll always have a souvenir vagina dart, and no one can ever take that away from us.

Prior to Freaks, the crew had worked together as Swingshift Sideshow, and appeared on The Gong Show with Dave Attell.

UPDATE: Cools said he’s currently shopping the show around in search of a new location. You know, Garth is only at the Encore Theater on weekends …

By Jason Scavone

Admit it, you always knew it would end like this for Vince Neil: With go go dancers and a midget. (Photos by Erik Kabik | Retna)

Has it been 20 years already? 20 years of low limits, goofy promotions, the this-could-collapse-at-any-moment-iest parking garage in town and a curious smell lingering around the casino floor for O’Sheas. How did the Irish-esque casino celebrate? Beer pong and Vince Neil.

Actually, that’s like the blueprint for how all future anniversaries should be celebrated. Including your grandparents’ 50th.

Neil was hanging around with O’Sheas house leprechaun Brian Thomas as well as World Series of Beer Pong founders Billy Gaines and Duncan Carroll Saturday afternoon, which tied into the new WSOBP area at the casino. Gaines and Carroll took on comers in Beat the Founders games, and a tournament awarded an entry to the 2010 World Series of Beer Pong Jan. 1 to 5 at the Flamingo.

By Jason Scavone

Ahem. GAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH. (Photos by Erik Kabik | Retna)

Tucked away upstairs at O’Sheas is a dark, shabby little theater. It looks like in another life it could have been the unmarked back room at a speakeasy where guys paying a dime for a mug of bad suds could have gone to see shady burlesque, filled with anxiety, titillation and shame.

It’s the perfect setting for Freaks.

Swingshift Sideshow, which had performed everywhere from Dive Bar to The Gong Show with Dave Attell, has been packaged by Anthony Cools for consumption on the Strip. They opened at O’Sheas Wednesday night to a crowd that include Nathan Burton, The Amazing Johnathan, George Wallace and Cools. It’s also the most interesting, exciting, nerve-wracking show to hit Las Vegas Boulevard since Montecore tried the Roy tartare. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

Aw, man, he’s going to get corned beef all over the carpet. (Photos by Erik Kabik | Retna)

Well, it’s already after noon, so we’ll go ahead and assume you’re all already drunk by now — but just in case you were waiting for an official seal of approval to begin assaulting your liver with green dye and cheap suds, Mayor Oscar Goodman just handed the key to the city to a leprechaun. Great. Now there’ll be leprechauns running around everywhere, taking over the place. You’d think the pots of gold would be great, but you try walking through the Bellagio when it’s crowded and you’re tripping over three-foot paranoid drunks whining about rainbows and singing “Wild Rover.”

If you’re still looking for something to do, here are a couple more items that didn’t make our comprehensive St. Patrick’s Day roundup: Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone