08.26.08

G-UNIT ROLLS INTO TABU


Young Hot Rod’s single “I Like to Fuck” was recently honored by the Academy as the Least Subtle Song of All-Time.

Tabu at MGM Grand brought in Tha Alkaholiks to kick things off for a 20-minute set at a KNYEW Clothing party and ended up with the G-Unit. Sorry, Lloyd Banks fans, but this time it was Young Hot Rod who got on stage for a surprise show while KNYEW co-founder DJ Crooked took over on the turntables.

The Vegas-based boutique is the product of Crooked and DJ Neva.

By Jason Scavone

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07.8.08

HEY BIG SPENDER


(Photo by Hew Burney | SpyOnVegas.com)

We’re sure you stunned all your friends and wowed the ladies by sending that five bones to a fiery grave. For your next trick, you should melt down a handful of nickels there, Billy Gates.

By Jason Scavone

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06.10.08

DJ DOUBLE DIP


DJ Scotty Boy, left, clearly loves the Blow. (Photo by Jessica Blair | SpyOnVegas.com)

DJ Scotty Boy got the night off from spinning for Rok Box at Tabu inside MGM Grand for his birthday. He was joined by DJ AM to celebrate. Also there was former Olympic wrestler and current MMA fighter Dan Henderson.

If you were a former Olympic wrestler would you ever stop putting people into half nelsons? We wouldn’t. That includes the clerk at the grocery store, the cop who’s writing us a ticket and Estelle Getty.

By Jason Scavone

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06.10.08

JUST GET YOUR OWN DRINK


(Photo by Jessica Blair | SpyOnVegas.com)

“Wait, which one of us is supposed to be Lady and which one is The Tramp?”

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06.3.08

SYSTEMLEAVESITSKEYSUPONTHETABLE

Easily in the top five of drug-friendly, Armenian, borderline prog metal bands ever. (Via myspace.com/soad)

Drummer John Dolmayan and bassist Shavo Odadjian of System of a Down dropped by Rok Box at MGM Grand’s Tabu last night to swig Red Bull/vodkas and hanging out with DJ Scotty Boy.

You know guys, Serj Tankian is busy putting out solo records. Maybe you shouldn’t be worrying so much about clubbing, and should be thinking about getting the band back together to put out another record like Toxicity. No one wants to be the metal version of the rest of ‘N Sync after Justin Timberlake left, however, an album of all System-ish covers of ‘N Sync songs would be inspired.

By Jason Scavone

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04.29.08

LAVIGNE PARTIES, PREPS FOR SHOW


One more Kid’s Choice Award away from being taken seriously as an artist. (Via AvrilLavigne.com)

Avril Lavigne dropped in on Tabu at MGM Grand last night for its Rok Box party, drinking Grey Goose Screwdrivers until 3 a.m. Lavigne is in town for a show tonight at The Pearl inside The Palms. Lavigne, according to Canadian Business Online, was the seventh-most powerful Canadian in Hollywood in 2006, which really doesn’t speak well of Canada. She ranked behind Jim Carrey, Mike Myers and William Shatner, but ahead of an empty Molson bottle, a dirty set of goalie’s pads and Matthew Perry.

Also at Tabu last night was Dennis Haskins, who isn’t Canadian, but if he were, would probably rank somewhere between Shatner and Keanu Reeves.

Following the concert, the official afterparty will be at Moon, featuring DJ P, who will showcase no fewer than 14 independent remixes of “Sk8er Boi.”

By Jason Scavone

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04.24.08

SEVEN YEARS OF SOUNDBAR


Please stop dripping Visine on the table. It’s not funny anymore.

House Society Crew DJs Keith Evan, Carlos Sanchez and B. Minogue are celebrating seven years of the Soundbar party tonight at MGM Grand’s Tabu by bringing in DJ Doc Martin to spin deep house and make sturdy, dependable shoes.

Soundbar started out at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay and has bounced around seven venues before landing at Tabu.

By Jason Scavone

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04.16.08

TABU GOES COUNTRY


Is this a Carrie Underwood PR still, or the first four seconds of a Valtrex commercial? (Via CarrieUnderwoodOfficial.com)

Carrie Underwood was at Tabu inside MGM Grand yesterday to tape her latest video, “Last Name,” in which a sweet, naive young girl comes to Sin City for a weekend and wakes up married to a guy whose last name she doesn’t know.

So, it’s come to this, then, has it Carrie Underwood? You’re blatantly stealing our life story without so much as a hint of a royalty check? We’ll tell you what, that girl may have seemed sweet and innocent, but no one that pure, no matter how much Patron they’ve had forced down their throat, agrees to a quickie wedding with six strippers and a drunken Elvis impersonator in the chapel.

Some of Tabu’s staff served as extras in the video, undoubtedly an insidious gateway to leading our precious nightclub staff down the pernicious, dusty road to Nashville.

By Jason Scavone

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04.15.08

BLACK GETS TO ROOT OF ALL EVIL AT TABU

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We’re betting he did some comical sputtering. (Via LewisBlack.net)

Comedian Lewis Black dropped in at Tabu inside MGM Grand last night where he and his entourage drank bottles of Silver Oak wine and posed for pictures with fans of rant-based comedy.

If only he had gotten here a day earlier, he could’ve adjudicated a mock trial between Arsenio and Eddie Murphy about which was more evil: Harlem Nights or Daddy Day Care.

By Jason Scavone

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03.26.08

KICKIN’ IT OLD SKOOL

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Jamie Kennedy not included.

Break out your copy of Krush Groove and start practicing your headspins, because your time, intrepid b-boy who still wears track suits and adidas with no laces in 2008 who we just made up, has come.

Legendary beatboxer Doug E. Fresh comes to Tabu’s old-school hip-hop party, Slide, inside MGM Grand tomorrow night. Breakdancers are welcome to come test their mettle against Mr. Freeze of the Rock Steady Crew. Unfortunately, a Bronx subway car from 1978 will not be provided for all your graffiti needs.

By Jason Scavone

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