02.26.10

(Photo by Hew Burney | SpyOnVegas.com)
FINALLY, someone is doing something about bring all that Wonder Woman fanfiction we wrote to life. In this week’s episode, Wonder Woman has to stop Cheetah by making out with another, slightly different costumed Wonder Woman. Actually, all the episodes are pretty much like that.
By Jason Scavone
02.25.10

We kind of don’t care that this is only tangentially roller skating related. (Photo by Hew Burney | SpyOnVegas.com)
Tonight marks another edition of Down & Derby at Rain inside the Palms, with DJs Shr3d and Ob-One. Dave and Mahoney from 107.5 will be on hand tonight for the retro skate party. As always, you can RSVP here for $5 admission or just drop $10 at the door. Also as always, you’re going to have to spend your afternoon doing the Hustle and listening to “Superfly” just to get ready.
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
01.25.10

In our head, Chefdance would totally involve legwarmers. (Photo by Joe Fury)
The Three 6 Mafia joined Z-Trip Friday night to hit the stage at Rain for Revolution after dinner at Nove Italiano. And while that’s mildly notable, what’s kind of awesome is that Nove’s Chef Geno Bernardo, along with Kerry Simon, cooked for more than 200 VIPs at Chefdance, the big culinary event at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Simon’s Palm Place joint and Nove were the only two Vegas restaurants represented. Also, Chefdance would be a fantastic sequel to that 1983 Jennifer Beals movie.
Upstairs at Ghostbar, hoops broadcaster Malik Rose and two friends had drinks before going down to check out Three 6. Oakland Brad “At least I’m not JaMarcus Russell” Gradkowski and five friends were at Moon.
Vanity at the Hard Rock Hotel went the sports route, with Carl Lewis and Bryan Clay. We assume Lewis wasn’t allowed on the microphone. The Cowboys’ Patrick Crayton, Marion Barber and Tashard Choice were also in, trying to figure out how they could be the only team in the NFL to get rolled so badly by the Vikings without so much as one classic Brett Favre game-losing pick in the playoffs.
By Jason Scavone
01.21.10

We can do this too, if we happen to fall down exactly right. (Photo by Hew Burney | SpyOnVegas.com)
Down and Derby returns to Rain inside the Palms tonight. Last month’s pre-Christmas roller rage drew in Kid Sister, and if you missed that — or don’t know what you’re getting yourself into — head over to the mammoth SpyOn gallery from that night. The hipster-retro party features DJs SHR3D and Supra, and of course, skates are available to rent for $5. Break out the day-glo, kids.
By Jason Scavone
01.18.10

Also not appearing in the remake? Burgess Meredith. This is total BS. (Additional photo by Al Powers)
Clash of the Titans actress Izabella Miko bounced from Rain to Playboy club to Moon Saturday night while she was celebrating her 29th birthday. That’s the Clash remake. Not the awesome one with Harry Hamlin. Because if she was celebrating her 29th birthday and was in the 1981 original she would’ve had to have been like a baby extra or something. To be fair, we would absolutely go see a movie called Clash of the Baby Titans.
Over at Lavo, 24’s Katee Sackhoff celebrated the new season with her Battlestar Galactica co-star Tricia Helfer first with dinner and then at the club where Sackhoff doled out some autographs. That show has been on 8 years already and we remember people complaining after like Season 3 that it was just Kiefer Sutherland doing the same stuff over and over again. By this point he’s got to be accusing like, the local clown college of being a secret terrorist cell, doesn’t he?
Bill Rancic was there, too, meeting with E! executives. Probably just to thank them for not being NBC executives.
By Jason Scavone
01.18.10

So … shiny.
Donny Osmond’s Dancing with the Stars runner up Mya was in at Jet inside The Mirage Friday night to do two songs for the crowd, which is great, but our general rule is when it looks like someone has enough sequins going on that it looks like they have two disco balls for boobs, we don’t notice the musical performance. Which is fine. It’s really a win-win.
Over at XS inside Encore, 2007 Playmate of the Year Sara Underwood had a table looking over the dance floor. She went with the plain white dress instead of the clearly superior sequined number. Or maybe, really, it’s just us who get distracted by anything shiny.
Also at XS were Larry Johnson and Bengals teammate Domata Peko, after doing their part to be the first domino in the Jets’ quest to keep failing upward until the Colts do to them what they did to the Ravens, who are essentially just a slightly richer man’s Jets anyway.
Also on Friday, Kid Capri was at Rain to fill in for Z-Trip. You know what you never see? Hip hop tribute bands. Someone should get on that and form Kid ‘n’ Play Capri to successfully re-create the classic early days of hip hop and also house parties.

By Jason Scavone
01.4.10

(Photos by Edison Graff)
Maroon 5 played through the New Year with a flurry of balloons at midnight — making this the most fun anyone’s ever had at a Maroon 5 concert — during their end-of-2009 show at The Pearl inside the Palms. Kirsten Dunst and Jason Segel joined the countdown. You don’t want to know what Forgetting Sarah Marshall’s nakedest dude Segel did for “One!”
Dunst popped up again at Simon inside Palms Place for her New Year’s Day lunch (American Idol winner Kris Allen and wife, Katy, were there for dinner). Dunst was at Rain Friday to hear Z-Trip spin where she was dancing with a girlfriend. Spider-Man, we assume, was busy fighting the Green Goblin. Earlier in the evening, though, she was at Love inside The Mirage with her boyfriend drinking Patron on the rocks while a wheelchair-bound Dame Elizabeth Taylor was watching the same show.
Maroon 5’s Adam Levine had dinner with Segel Saturday night at N9NE Steakhouse, and must’ve out-lasted the shot-blasting Levine, because he was seen at 4 a.m. upstairs at the Playboy Club rolling solo. We have no idea how that went for him. Is it harder to pick up girls after the world has seen your dong? Only Jason Segel and Harvey Keitel know for sure.

By Jason Scavone
12.18.09

As opposed to Kid ‘n Play coming out to play. (Photo by Hew Burney | SpyOnVegas.com)
Down and Derby made its debut at Rain inside the Palms last night with Kid Sister on hand to hit the stage. My Buddy, unfortunately, missed his connecting flight from Seattle and couldn’t make the show. SpyOn has galleries of all the day-glo roller skating action you can handle here, here and here.
By Jason Scavone
12.17.09

Sure. We know how it is. Any excuse to wear Daisy Dukes in public.
It’s moving day for Down & Derby. The retro roller-skating party comes to Rain inside The Palms tonight after taking several spins around Beauty Bar’s rink. Kid Sister hosts and does a live performance, while DJ $HR3D and DJ Nugget flex the funk for the party that doubles as the official toy drive of Chet Buchanan & The Morning Zoo. Bonus points if the toys are vintage ’70s and still in the box. Double bonus points if it’s Twiki.
By Jason Scavone