If he starts giving this out for Christmas, does that mean no one gets a dick in a box anymore?
Of all the celebrity vanity projects one could have, we suppose tequila is a more noble calling than, say, Kim Kardashian’s celebrity perfume. But it still traps you in kind of crappy situation of being always in pitchman mode. And really, who has that kind of enthusiasm for hawking something 24 hours a day other than Billy Mays or Diddy? Apparently, Justin Timberlake is happy to throw his hat in the ring. He was spotted last night at Lavo knocking back his own 901 Tequila with a group of friends and business associates. If Diddy can shamelessly goad Chester French into recording “Ciroc Star” it’s only a matter of time before Timberlake pulls the strings on some unsuspecting boy band to record “901 Ways I Love You and Also These Fine Margaritas.”
Pierre Thomas and Lance Moore of the Saints were at Lavo inside Palazzo Friday night to celebrate their Super Bowl win, where they did dinner and then went up to the club to toast with Ace of Spades. You know there was at least one guy in the club that night who went heavy on the Colts who had to watch them knocking back Ace of Spades and was just seething the whole time. If Hank Baskett had walked into the club right when that was all going on, we’re pretty sure a crime would have been committed.
Downstairs at Lagasse’s Stadium, Roxy Olin, Gretchen Rossi, Slade Smiley, Gilles Marini and Shaun Sipos all came out for the premiere of Fly Girls on the CW. The Palazzo will be featured on the April 14 episode. We’re going to wait for the episode that involves Body Glove and knee pads, the way the Fly Girls are meant to be.
Over at Strip House, NASCAR driver Ryan Newman had dinner in the private dining room with 13 friends. Retired Ravens linebacker Jamie Sharper checked out DJ Homicide at Vanity inside the Hard Rock Hotel.
Yes, this is just a thinly veiled excuse to run Hendricks pics. (Photo by Al Powers. Additional photos by Powers, Denise Truscello)
We’re going to get through this quick, because if we stop and think too long about Christina Hendricks, we’ll just have that scene of her in the red dress in Season 1 stuck in our heads on loop. So here we go.
Hendricks was hanging out with Neil Patrick Harris Saturday night at Lavo inside Palazzo for dinner, which we’re sure was a nonstop Algonquin Round Table of bon mots about life as a television icon. If only Alf could have been there too to round out the trio.
Giuliana and Bill Rancic dined by themselves, while Kelly Bensimon of Real Housewives of New York City had dinner with friends before heading up to the club. Jeff Probst was also enjoying dinner there. Also eating was Wale, before he went up to the club and dropped a 20-minute set.
On Sunday, Harris was spotted at Hash House a Go Go for brunch with Probst and other friends. There goes that whole bon mot thing again. You heard it here: Neil Patrick Harris is our generation’s Dorothy Parker.
This satisfies our lone demand of fine dining: That all foodstuffs be named after ’80s commercials. It’s why we love the That’s-A-Spicy-Meatball and can’t get enough of Silly Welsh Rarebit, Trix Are For Kids. It’s not the only reason to like First Food & Bar’s You Got Peanut Butter In My Chocolate Cake, but it’s a solid jumping-off point.
The You Got … is a dense little square of layered peanut butter, mousse, chocolate cake and wafer cookie. It’s rich, without being super sweet. It actually reminded us a little of Nutter Butters, and when paired with the candy-fueled Kool-Aidishness of the Pop My Cherry, we thought the two could be sold together as the Summer, 1985 Combo.
“This is a new dessert we’re doing right now. It came down to a peanut butter and jelly combination. Even though it’s cherry, it kind of kicks off well. It goes good with chocolate against the cherry,” Chef Sammy DeMarco said.
Do them together and the cake takes a lot of the sweetness away from the drink (which isn’t super-sweet to begin with), so it winds up being a nice, bright refresher to keep your dessert fork plowing away at a steady pace.
Aw, crap. It’s almost Ash Wednesday already? We just finally got our forehead clean from last year.
At least a month of giving crap up for Lent (as if you’re going to make it four days into your pledge to eschew vodka) kicks off with a good party. You’ve got your Mardi Gras and your Carnaval and your oh-God-I-woke-up-in-another-dumpster-wait-I-can-blame-that-on-Fat-Tuesday?-Sure-I’ll-go-with-that parties.
SushiSamba at Palazzo brings in samba dancers for their Carnaval party tonight at 9 and 10 p.m. (This isn’t to be confused with the Carnivale party, which will just befuddle and alienate you.) They’re running a live feed from Rio on the restaurant’s screens and they’ll be slinging Caipiriñha.
Meanwhile, the Fremont Street Experience does the Fat Tuesday Pub Crawl tonight. The first 1,000 to check in at 425 Fremont (next to Walgreens) get free beads. Entertainment includes David “Mojo” Poe, Contino Band and Bob Sachs’ Dixieland Trio, plus drink specials are available at the Golden Gate, Gold Diggers at Golden Nugget, Fitzgerald’s Vue Bar, Casino Bar at the Fremont and Benny’s Bullpen at Binion’s. Text 99158 to RSVP.
David Arquette, starring in the Singin’ in the Rain reboot by Werner Herzog. (Photos by Al Powers)
David Cox — rolling without Courtney Cox, but with her niece — celebrated his clothing line, PROPR, last night at Lavo inside Palazzo. The line was developed with musician Ben Harper and ex-Penguin creative director David Bedwell, and Arquette personally did their T-shirt collection.
He set up in the private dining room, getting a magnum of Dominus to go with dinner and told the assembled crew that his biggest fear was losing Cox’s niece, who was on her first trip to Vegas. His second-biggest fear was that Alexis Arquette could turn up any minute. He also made his way over to XS at Encore.
Come on, say it with us just once, Kim. “Off with their …” (Photo by Scott Harrison | Retna. Additional photos by Denise Truscello)
In the span of a week, Reggie Bush went from winning the Super Bowl to handing out stuffed teddy bears at Lavo. That is just … good God. Someone get that poor sap a beer and a trip to Rick’s, pronto. That’s way too much of a swing in seven days.
He was at Lavo inside Palazzo Saturday night where Kim Kardashian hosted the Queen of Hearts Ball. Sadly, she didn’t order anyone’s head off. Seems like a perfectly good waste of a title for the evening. While on the red carpet, former Dancing with the Stars partner Mark Ballas, who had dinner earlier with girlfriend and former American Idol contestant Joanna Pacitti, surprised Kardashian.
Kardashian and Bush had dinner at Lavo before heading up to the club. She got her teddy bear and obligatory nightclub cake and took pictures with fans before jumping on the mic to shout out the crowd. Also there were Real Housewives of Orange County stars Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley, and Alexis and Jim Bellino. Jim surprised Alexis with a trip to Vegas, while Rossi and Smiley were celebrating their anniversary. Rossi was also celebrating the debut of her single, because apparently no one learned goddamn anything from Boogie Nights and “The Touch.”
Now if you had said “Cheryl Burke lingerie show” then we’d have something. (Photos by Tony Tran | SpyOnVegas.com)
Dancing with the Stars dancer Cheryl Burke was dancing at Lavo inside Palazzo last night … dance. She was there with a crew of five others for Label Junkie, which featured a Strings Lingerie fashion show. In case you were still looking for last-minute V-day gift ideas and you were torn between “lingerie” and “even more lingerie.” Run down the pictures at SpyOn.
She’s also available for groundbreakings. (Photos by Erik Kabik. Additional photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)
Eastwick’s Lindsay Price cut the ribbon at Palazzo’s Laguna Champagne Bar Saturday night, officially opening the swankified center bar/lounge that was converted to a bubbly hotspot late in the fall. And really, where else could you go to hear three chicks with electric string instruments churning out Zeppelin’s “Black Dog?” Nowhere, that’s where.
Before things picked up, Jamie Kennedy and Jennifer Love Hewitt shared a bottle of Dom Perignon, although they abandoned their perch fairly quickly. They also bagged dessert at Lavo. For her part, Price declared it a girlfriends’ weekend after doing lunch at Morels and before checking in at SushiSamba and Lavo and a Sunday lunch at First.
Backstreet Boy and older brother to Aaron’s Party sensation of late 2000, Aaron Carter, was with his girlfriend at Lavo inside Palazzo last night for dinner, as was Lil Jon. Both of them went upstairs but only one of them was drinking Patron from a Bedazzled bottle. Also at Lavo was Jason Giambi, who should totally do up the Gatorade jug on the Rockies’ bench like that.
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