Future Zowie Bowie member. (Photo by Scott Harrison. Additional photos by Erik Kabik, Dave Proctor | Retna)
Everything went all retro this weekend with Billy Idol at The Pearl — although he was flashing his abs like The Situation. That’s a thing that really needs to stop. Like, right now. The Venn diagram of people who want to see abs and people who want to see Billy Idol barely touches.
Also on the nostalgia trip was Meat Loaf Friday night at The Joint, where his daughter, Pearl, opened. She’s married to Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian, who was at the gig. Throwback rockers Wolfmother did Friday Night Live at the Hard Rock Hotel pool, which is about the closest you’ll get to Zeppelin without going to 1976.
A team of Italian grandmothers was working around the clock to fatten him back up.
OK, everybody be cool. It appears that 50 Cent has eaten a sandwich. You can put the cupcakes away, hide the restaurant-sized tub of butter and return the bacon-wrapped turducken to the freezer. We’re through the worst part of this crisis.
In an effort to go to DeNiro-esque levels for a film role, Fiddy had dropped his weight down to 160 for a role in Things Fall Apart as a cancer patient. Last night, he was at The Pearl looking significantly less emaciated.
Who is this one? Whose favorite son? Just by his action has the traction magnets on the run.
For the lovers and not the fighters (or at least the absurdist, goofball comedy fans and not the fighters) this is Las Vegas’ other mega-event weekend when Conan O’Brien brings the Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour to The Pearl at the Palms Saturday and Sunday night.
The good news: There are still tickets left for Sunday night’s show. The bad news? The cheap (ish) seats are sold out. We couldn’t find any $75 tickets, but you can still land the $100 and $150 ones. The L.A. shows got Jim Carrey as a gust star, Chris Isaak was in San Francisco, Eddie Vedder in Seattle and the San Diego show had Jason Mraz drop in. So the very real possibility of, say, a Wayne Newton guest spot is alive and well.
Things were going well at the concert when someone mistakenly yelled, “Hike!”, causing Suh to rampage through the casino until hearing a whistle. (Photo by Denise Truscello)
University of Nebraska defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh dined at N9NE Steakhouse inside the Palms Friday night with a group of nine and enjoyed the rock shrimp and fried crisp calamari for appetizers before digging into a filet with blue cheese and stuffed shrimp. This was all a precursor for Suh’s trip to see Jay-Z perform at the Pearl Concert Theater on Saturday.
Suh is the projected number one draft pick in the upcoming NFL Draft (No. 2 if the Rams are stupid, and let’s face it, they ARE the Rams) but he is still completing his degree at Nebraska. We assume he got some sort of special permission to skip class to make the trip to Vegas and that, as the University’s highest profile student, he will have to make up any tests, quizzes and homework he misses while he’s away. I mean just because he’s a month away from being a multi-millionaire doesn’t mean a star athlete should receive special treatment from a school most known for its athletic program, right?
Also spotted at the steakhouse was cowardly boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Sitting in the main dining room, he came in with a party of 11 people comprised mostly of bodyguards and lookouts with pictures of welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao taped to their forearms. He enjoyed the rock shrimp, the New York steak and Alaskan king crab for dinner but had to have it pre-cut and fed to him as his hands were busy trembling with fear.
Really, we just wanted a reason to put up a picture with Rihanna in it.
Has anything good happened in ’09? Anything at all? Other than the Yankees winning the World Series, we mean. Trainwreck economy, pop-star icons dropping dead (We’ll mourn ya till we join ya, Swayze) and now even underpants are capable of knocking a 757 out of the sky. You can begin the long, slow process of drinking enough to black out the whole crap year with a few tunes. Maroon 5 headlines at The Pearl, along with opening act and baring-his-dong-enthusiast Jason Segel for $125, $150 or $200. Or, choose from a stone-cold plethora of other shows. Click for more words and pictures »
Overly high-waisted pants? Jacket with obvious shoulder pads? Blublocker sunglasses? We’re pretty sure Laday Gaga is our grandma.
Professional freak show Lady Gaga rocked the house at the Pearl Concert Theater inside the Palms on Friday night.
The sold out show featured several of Ms. Gaga’s signature costume changes, futuristic sets and overall feeling of unsettling weirdness and she touched on all her nightclub mainstays like “Just Dance” and “Poker Face.” The music, much like Lady Gaga herself, was said to be “oddly attractive” after a brief initial encounter but “downright repulsive” under closer scrutiny.
The Gnocchi Master, hidden in the shadows. (Photo by Scott Harrison | Retna)
There are really only two Renaissance men left (three, if you count Renaissance Man star Danny DeVito): Linebacker/author/actor/mohawk enthusiast Brian Bosworth and musician/comedian/winemaker/occasional mohawk enthusiast Maynard James Keenan.
Of the two (again, discounting DeVito), only one of them has a genre-bending tour launching at The Pearl Oct. 29. No, Seahawks fans, it’s not Bosworth.
Keenan’s Puscifer, a freewheeling mix of music, video and performance art, debuted at The Pearl in February. He’s taking the show on the road, with its first stop back a return engagement at the Palms. Just don’t expect the project to stay strictly a band — Keenan talked about everything from turning it into an Adult Swim staple to a cooking show.
(Expect Keenan’s culinary tutor, Wynn chef Alex Stratta, to be in the audience. “Absolutely, I’m definitely going to go to that. I saw them the last time they were here. I really enjoyed it. I’ve seen him with Tool a few times as well. I really like (Puscifer). It’s a departure from Tool, but it’s got the same spirit I think. Half my kitchen is just crazy for him, so he’s still a very popular guy,” Stratta said. “My AM staff, they’re all pretty much going. It’s Thursday night so more than likely my nighttime guys are S.O.L. as they say.”)
Keenan was soft-spoken, laid-back and unassuming. He spent our interview last week petting his Yorkie and trading jokes with Primus/A Perfect Circle/Puscifer drummer Tim Alexander. We would’ve been hard-pressed to pin him down as the same guy who wrote “Hooker with a Penis.” Still, we sat in a corner of the lobby at The Pearl and talked to Keenan about the tour, gnocchi and carrying the torch for Andy Kaufman vis-a-vis Vegas clubs. Click for more words and pictures »
Does that mean Mimi has to officiate the ceremony? (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)
Mariah Carey was back for her second weekend at The Pearl inside the Palms — which just happened to coincide with husband Nick Cannon’s birthday weekend. And what sort of birthday treat does he get? He gets to — wait for it — dance next to the soundboard! Man, that is so much better than a cake shaped like a race car and some sweet new Nintendo games.
During the show, one gentleman went on stage to propose to his boyfriend during the show, which we guess is the equivalent of putting your proposal on the scoreboard at Dodgers Stadium. Except with significantly less chance of accidentally having your moment interrupted by a Manny Ramirez foul ball.
After Saturday’s show they went to The Bank at Bellagio to celebrate Cannon’s birthday. He still totally didn’t get the race car cake there either. What a gyp.
Daft Punk robots and Kylie Minogue at the center of the solar system year-round? (Photo by George Bekich)
The U.K.’s Mirror is reporting that last Sunday’s Kylie Minogue show at The Pearl was such a hit that according to sister Danni, “She has now been asked to take the show back to Vegas and extend it as a residency over there. I’m so proud of her.”
It is, of course, material from a British tabloid, so take it with an appropriately chunky grain of salt. If true though, you’d have this international superstar coming in for a residency at a time that, while it might not be the prime of her career anymore, certainly isn’t the downside either. The show drew Paris Hilton, Doug Reinhardt, Vanessa Minnillo, Carson Kressley, Howard Stern and wife Beth Ostrosky while they were all in town for various reasons, so it would have the potential to be one of those must-stop celeb spots, like Love or the back of an ambulance after Rehab*.
We’ve reached out to officials to see if there’s anything to this, or if it’s just a star’s sister running her mouth.
She’s bestowing the gift of glitter. (Photos by Denise Truscello)
Mariah Carey is doing a limited engagement at The Pearl inside the Palms starting Friday night, and she was rehearsing the show inside the friendly confines of the music venue earlier in the week. Shows are set for Friday and Saturday, and again Oct. 9 and 10. Tickets start at $129, with this being the smallest venue Carey has played. We haven’t seen what the over/under is yet on Nick Cannon DJ Sets for the four nights she’s in town but we’re assuming it’ll stand at at least six.
Maybe she’ll really like doing smaller venues and you can see her doing after-concert shows at Divebar. It would certainly raise our level of respect for Mimi.
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