Messy flapper hair is the new handlebar moustache.

California singer/songwriter Ryan Calhoun hits the stage at the House of Blues courtyard tonight for a free show. He’s had his stuff on Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Cougar Town, So You Think You Can Dance and One Tree Hill and topped iTunes singer/songwriter chart with “Who We Are.” So if he’s good enough for Courtney Cox, he’s good enough for you. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

If you’re going to go by just one name, it needs to be a lot cooler than Lloyd. (Photo by Jessica Blair | SpyOnVegas.com)

Lloyd, of the New Orleans Lloyds, kicked off his birthday celebration Saturday at Union inside Aria with a group of 20. He was also celebrating his mother’s, sister’s and aunt’s birthdays as well, which raises some serious questions about what the hell goes down in Novembers with the Lloyd family that ended in all these August birthdays?

That night, he hit the stage at Haze for a three-song set of “Girls Around the World,” Get it Shawty” and “Bed Rock.” Then he got the crowd to sing happy birthday to the girls, which is the kind of thing that very few people get to do for their mom, however very few people have mothers who would hang out in a club all night. It’s a recipe for spending the whole night trying to explain what a Ke$ha is.

At Tao, Asher Roth had a table for the night. On Sunday he hit up Tao Beach where he mentioned that he has a new song coming out based on last year’s performance there. He finished the night at Lavo where Antoine Wright jumped in the booth with DJ Vice. Click for more words and pictures »

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And then he spent the next 45 minutes telling those girls why they’ll never find a man. (Photos by Al Powers)

Love counselor, reality show host and smarmy wrangler of terribly broken women, Steve Ward of VH1′s Tough Love took his condescending advice carnival on the road where he hosted Match Make Marry at Tao Beach on Friday. He had girls rolling up on him in his cabana in search of advice, like “Don’t only try to date guys who drive Maybachs” and “Perhaps you should try not being such a shrieking harpy.”

That night Ward went to Tao, where he was celebrating a friend’s bachelor party. That’s got to be a good time, spending your whole bachelor party listening to Steve Ward tell you everything that’s wrong with your future wife. It’s probably just coincidence every wedding he’s invited to ends with a jilted bride crying in a heap at the altar.

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She probably knows a lot of people with Roman numerals in their names. (Photos by Tony Tran. Additional photos by Brenton Ho)

Tinsley Mortimer, who sounds like she should be a third-string prep school girl in a Fitzgerald novel is basically the ’10s version of a third-string prep school girl in a Fitzgerald novel — she’s the star of High Society, a reality show on The CW. Which is almost like not having a reality show at all. Anyway, she was at Tao on Friday to celebrate her 34th birthday along with sister Dabney Mercer. Of course she has a sister named “Dabney.” It was apparently Reality TV Day at the Venetian and Palazzo, because Alex Ferrer of Judge Alex and Kelly Bensimon of The Real Housewives of New York were at Tao Beach during the day. It was Bensimon’s third straight day. Steve Ward from VH1′s Tough Love was at Lavo for a bachelor party. Man, he must be fun at weddings.

Mortimer was at Tao beach on Saturday was back with Mercer, then took over Lavo for the night. Also there was Kid Sister, who performed at Tao Beach on Sunday where Mortimer was hanging out. Hunter Parrish from Weeds was at Lavo, too, mixing it up with a bacherlorette party. Which means being annoyed by a bachelorette party.

Back at Tao, Frank Vincent and Steve Schirripa from The Sopranos had dinner with members of the Las Vegas Mob Experience team. If Frank Vincent ever asks to speak to his associate in Italian during dinner, you pretty much have to run for your life, right?

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You don’t have to settle for a roof over your head. (Photo by Bryan Steffy)

Cisco and Shwayze along with Jason Smith kick off two days at Tao for Chris Young’s birthday tonight. They’re doubling down at Tao Beach tomorrow, when Dirt Nasty hosts. So that gives you options as to whether you prefer your chill-out identified pop bands indoors or outdoors. We love having options. Click for more words and pictures »

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At least Jim Gray wasn’t following him around. (Photo by Jessica Blair. Additional photos by Tony Tran | SpyOnVegas.com)

Earlier today, ESPN posted, and then spiked, a story about LeBron James’ weekend at Tao and Lavo. Deadspin, ever vigilant about the Worldwide Leader, caught it and posted a cached version of the story by Arash Markazi, who was among James’ crew Saturday night.

Why the there-it-is, there-it’s-gone treatment? Well, Darren Rovell says it had nothing to do with anyone from James’ camp. Deadspin reports that ESPN gave a half-assed excuse about how it was never supposed to be published in the first place.

While we’re certainly not ones to say a kiss-and-tell job is beyond the pale, anyone who’s spent more than 10 minutes in a club knows that the whitewash was about as overreacty as overreactions get. Click for more words and pictures »

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Not a bad plan at all. We’re definitely starting our own charity poker tourney. (Photos by Erik Kabik | Retna)

UNLV alum and Mavs forward Shawn Marion put it all together over the weekend. Charity poker tournament. Celebrating Michelle Williams’ 30th birthday party. Er, well. He put those two things together at least. But hey, Destiny’s Child and poker! That counts, right?

Friday night saw Marion at Tao for the preparty, bringing in Dwyane Wade, Drew Gooden of the Bucks, Jason Maxiell of the Pistons, Mekhi Phifer, Omarosa, model Claudia Jordan, Marie Jones of Girlfriends, singer LaToya Lucket, True Blood’s Natasha Alam, The Bachelor’s Bob Guiney, Amazing Race contestants Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho, and Joe Reitman.

The tournament was Saturday at the Palms to benefit The Shawn Marion Foundation and UNLV single parents. Also turning up to play were The Real World’s Trishelle Cannatella and Annie Duke. After the tournament, Marion turned up at Moon with Phifer and another 14 friends, while Kevin Durant had his own crew of 20. Rapper Wale only brought seven, because he can’t box out for crap. He did, however, do a few songs for the crowd.

Meanwhile, the exact opposite of a basketball player, Matthew Perry was at Surrender with a couple of dudes until around 2 a.m.

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LeBron James, showing as much enthusiasm as he did during the Celtics series. (Photos by Denise Truscello)

LeBron James wasn’t going to come here unless he could get a table with Jim Gray and donate a few bottles of Patron to the Boys & Girls Club, but in the end, he relented and took his talents to The Venetian.

It must’ve been an easy decision considering the amount of top-level NBA talent that would be around him all weekend.

James kicked things off Friday night at Lavo, where he was joined by the Hornets’ Chris Paul, the Hawks’ Josh Smith, the Grizzlies’ Rudy Gay, the Celtics’ Rajon Rondo, the Bobcats Larry Hughes and just for good measure, Shaun Phillips of the San Diego Chargers. Teammate Dwyane Wade and the Nuggets’ Chauncy Billups turned up later after coming over from Tao. It was probably kind of scary for ‘Bron, all alone in the club without Wade or Chris Bosh at his table. Click for more words and pictures »

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When gearheads get sensitive. (Photos by Al Powers)

Jeremy Ray Valdez and Erika Alexander were at Lavo last night to celebrate the premiere of Benjamin Bratt joint La Mission for Latin night Seduxion, benefiting the Nevada Coalition Against Sexual Violence. The flick centers around car restoration, until father Bratt discovers Valdez’s terrible secret. It sounds like a Lifetime production of Pimp My Ride.

Also at Tao was MMA fighter Matt “The Hammer” Hamill, while over at N9NE Steakhouse, the Rev. Run stopped in with a friend. John Cleese took in Peepshow at Planet Hollywood, as did Southland’s Michael Cudlitz.

By Jason Scavone

(Photo by Tony Tran | SpyOnVegas.com)

Looking down the barrel of an armed and dangerous unit. It’s like every nightmare we’ve ever had about prison all in one.

By Jason Scavone