Snoop should get some boots like that. (Photo by Edison Graff)

They should’ve called it the Snooperdraft, but you know, too late now. Snoop Dogg and fantasy football went together like weed and sitting in front of your computer editing your fantasy football roster this weekend as Snoop headlined the Superdraft tailgate party Friday at the Palms pool.

American Idol’s Fantasia joined him on stage during the day, while that night she celebrated the release of her third album, Back to Me at Rain. She did “Bittersweet” and a cover of “Purple Rain,” getting Snoop to return the favor on stage. After her recent suicide attempt, Fantasia addressed the crowd, saying, “They thought I was finished. They thought I was done. I would never, ever stop. I don’t care what no one says.”

Coming out for the show, or possibly to tweak their roster of wide receivers, were Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, Soleil Moon Frye, Stacy Keibler, Danny Masterson, Flavor Flav, Michael Phelps and Shannon Elizabeth. Kutcher, Moore, Masterson, Frye, Elizabeth, Phelps and Keibler all had dinner earlier at N9NE Steakhouse, while Fantasia was in the private dining room with Gavin Maloof.

During the day, Warren G, ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt, Kurupt and Phelps were poolside for Shwayze.

Phelps was at Moon Saturday night, while Five Finger Death Punch were at the Playboy Club. Baron Davis and Tayshaun Prince had dinner at N9NE, as did Keibler.

Finally, on Sunday, Pauly Shore judged the Playboy Club Model Search where Jamillette Gaxiola was named Miss September. She’s a Vegas local who will forever be able to tell her friends that Pauly Shore was totally into her. Congratulations?

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Practically the same person from this angle. (Photo by Joe Fury)

Bobby Brackins, or, Lil Lil Wayne, was at the Palms Pool Friday afternoon with a crew of five before he jumped up to do “143″ for the sunbathing crowd. It’s as close to the Lil Wayne experience as they were going to get until Weezy gets out for good behavior.

Later, Brackins did an encore show at Moon when he turned up there around 1 a.m. Downstairs, the Plain White T’s were on the main stage at Rain to listen to Z-Trip.

Over at the Hard Rock Hotel, Tech 9 kicked back after spending a week shooting a video with a night at Vanity. He was front and center for a master class in contrived nickname by association bandwagoning with Jon “The Unit Manfe, who’s The Situation’s trainer and fitness video. Wait, we’re sorry. We meant Mike “The ‘$5 million, Jesus, really, America?‘ Situation” Sorrentino. Click for more words and pictures »

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(Photo by Sullivan Charles | SpyOnVegas.com)

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That, is apparently, how low you can go. (Photo by Jessica Blair | SpyOnVegas.com)

Skatemageddon explodes tonight. Between RollerCon and tonight’s Down & Derby at Rain, Vegas is Ground Zero for anyone who straps wheels to their feet. We’re looking at you, bear-riding-a-unicycle. Tonight, it’s the Pants-Off Dance-Off with DJ SHR3D as RollerCon attendees get in for free. Plus, they save on tips because you don’t have to valet a pair of skates.

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Continuation bizzets, yo.(Photo by Shane O’Neal | N9NE Group)

Poker Stars threw a private party for the World Series of Poker Sunday night at Rain inside the Palms, and they brought in Snoop Dogg to teach an audience full of gamble-crazed shut-ins what it means to cut loose and get a little street. Like Dangerous Minds but with about 40 percent less Michelle Pfeiffer.

In less turn-and-river dominated environs, Suns assistant coach Dan Majerle was at Ghostbar after a day of sharing a cabana with eight friends down at the pool. The Kings’ Tyreke Evans and DeMarcus Cousins turned up at N9NE.

On Saturday, Shaquille O’Neal and Eater X discussed hot dog eating strategy at Serendipity 3 before Shaq’s showdown with Joey Chestnut on Shaq Vs. By 2014, Shaq will rule Major League Eating. Just you wait and see. We’re pretty sure when he was in Orlando, Shaq ate Penny Hardaway as it is. Click for more words and pictures »

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We’ve been in firehouses. They’re never this awesome.

Last month’s 11th Annual Fire & Rain Firefighter Bachelor Auction scored $50,000 for the Firefighters of Southern Nevada Burn Foundation.

The June 19 auction at Rain inside the Palms brought out 550 bidders. We’re pretty sure the high bid from a woman whose house was on fire, though, kind of missed the point. “Don’t you want to see me with my shirt off?” “No, please just go stop my cat from burning up.” Psh. Whatever, lady.

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Well. She’s half right. (Photo by Shane O’Neal)

It was a full weekend of Shore invasion, with double-barreled guido birthday celebrations, plus, the debut of the only line of clothes you’ll ever need as long as you’re moving to Secaucus.

The Situation took over Sugar Factory at the Miracle Mile Shops where he doled out gelato to fans Saturday afternoon. He hit Vanity that night before hosting at Rehab on Sunday. SpyOn is loaded full of galleries from that shindig.

Pauly D, meanwhile celebrated his birthday Saturday at the Palms pool, rolling into a cabana around 2:30 p.m. and manned the turntables. He turned up later that night at Moon before bouncing over to Rain.

JWOWW launched her Filthy Couture clothing line at Ghostbar Saturday night — she even walked the runway — and also did Moon and Rain, taking off around 3 a.m. Ronnie hosted at Jet inside The Mirage on Friday, leaving only Snooki, Vinnie and terrible, terrible Sammi Sweetheart on the outside looking in.

Pauly D had dinner at N9NE Steakhouse Sunday night before heading up to Ghostbar, where Evander Holyfield was with a group of five.

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We need to make this happen for a real dog, because fetch would be stunningly hilarious. Cruel, but hilarious.

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Note pimp-hat Elvis in the background. (Photos by Beverly Oanes | SpyOnVegas.com)

Oil up. Your skates, we mean. You could oil yourself up, too. It probably makes the collisions easier, but it’s really not necessary. Hot, but unnecessary. What were we talking about? Right. Down & Derby returns to Rain at the Palms tonight with DJs SHR3D and Nugget, and featuring Bonics. Click for more words and pictures »

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Great. Now we have to clean drool off the screen. (Photo by Sullivan Charles | SpyOnVegas.com)

We really weren’t sure we were going to make it through the night after eating our way through Taste of the Nation last night at the Palms. Somehow, we survived, but it was close. We regret nothing.

Dozens of restaurants set up shop around the Palms pool and inside at Rain. Some of them were from top-of-their-game star chefs like Rick Moonen and Martin Heierling. Some of them were old favorites like Capital Grille and Rosemary’s. And some were the guy from Green River Sake who kept making us do shots, who we could’ve hung out with all night if we we weren’t blocking the aisle and annoying people trying to get through. Seriously, though, he was like Johnny Sake-seed — straight-up thrilled to be handing out shots. It’s hard not to get infected by that kind of joie de vivre. (Although we guess joie quotient increases exponentially with sake consumption.)

Mostly, though, there were sliders. Oh man, were there a lot of sliders. There were plenty of rad offerings that weren’t sliders (Sensi’s lamb tandoori, Carnevinos meats-and-cheeses extravaganza), but it’s worth noting that all those things did suffer from not being sliders. This is why we put together a list of our four favorite sliders from the event. For a bunch of straight-up food porn, check out the gallery at SpyOn.

• 4.) Lavo’s Kobe Meatball sliders. Sure, maybe it’s just a fancy, mini meatball sub, but try to find an Italian that doesn’t love meatball subs.
• 3.) Top of the World’s Vietnamese duck confit sliders. So ducky, yet with a spicy kick. Is duck just plain always better in Asian preparations? We’ll have to investigate. By eating a bunch more duck.
• 2.) Capital Grille’s filet mignon sliders. We’re actually angry we’re not eating these right now. A little pan seared filet, a whole lot of awesome. Served with homemade chips that are great, yet you manage to ignore them because it means time wasted not eating more filet.
• 1.) Union’s crispy veal sliders. Union, coming out of the box swinging, like the debut White Stripes record. A nice, thick cut of so-juicy-it’s-falling-apart in a reduction with shallots they just called “veal sauce.” If they wanted to call it shoe sweat stew, we still would’ve thought long and hard about stealing the whole tray from the server.

By Jason Scavone