Well, well, well, you just can’t tell

It’s our one hard and fast rule in life: You can never have too many opportunities to hear “My Michelle.” Tonight, Steven Adler brings his eponymous Adler’s Appetite to Wasted Space. It is, coincidentally, your chance to see Chip Z’Nuff, of Enuff Z’Nuff fame, on stage. We know you’re a closet “New Thing” fan. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

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How much money would you pay to see a show where Ron Jeremy solved maritime mysteries? $1,000? $5,000? We’re pretty sure we’d borrow money from relatives to make that happen.

By Jason Scavone

Like the ’27 Yankees of porn. By which we mean they’ve inspire 27 yankees. (Photos by Hew Burney | SpyOnVegas.com)

It’s nice to get a little mid-year fix while we’re waiting for January and the return of the Adult Entertainment Expo. The Annual Gentlemen’s Club Owners Expo and the Annual Adult Nightclub & Exotic Dancer Awards Show is going on at The Mirage. It’s a trade show for strip club owners, but they also handed out their own awards last night, with Lisa Ann capturing Adult Movie Entertainer of the Year. The convention goes through Wednesday where it closes with the Woodystock Entertainer Showcase & Party At Rick’s Cabaret. It’s the most perfectly named stripper gathering that we can think of, including our pitch for Bonerthon ’10.

The afterparty was at Wasted Space and brought out porn stars Sunny Lane, Monique Alexander, Mary Carey, Nikita Cash, Raven Alexis and the ever-present Hedgehog, Ron Jeremey. SpyOnVegas has your adult entertainer fix.

By Jason Scavone

If a band could spring fully formed from an Ozzfest …

Bodies are hitting the floor at the soon-to-be-departed Wasted Space inside the Hard Rock Hotel with Drowning Pool when they hit the stage with Nonpoint. Shameful confession time: Back in the bad-old-days of nu-metal we fell in love with, and still dig, Nonpoint’s old-school hip-hop mash-up “The Tribute“. We’re going to chalk it up to youthful indiscretion combined with a love of Slick Rick, Busta Rhymes and Method Man. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

Soon in this space: Simulcast! (Photo by Hew Burney | SpyOnVegas.com)

That sports book that’s going to replace Wasted Space we told you about last week? It’s going to be another operated by Cantor Gaming.

Cantor is the company behind In-Running wagering, which is also available at the M Resort and Palazzo.

The new sports book will open in spring 2011, though the Hard Rock confirmed that there’s no firm timeline for Wasted Space’s closure. Now we can start speculating as to whether Body English will ever reopen, but as a bingo parlor.

By Jason Scavone

It’s kind of a mixed reaction to the news. (Photo by Tony Tran | SpyOnVegas.com)

The Hard Rock Hotel is making more changes to its nightlife landscape, with sources close to the situation confirming rumors that Wasted Space, the Carey Hart co-owned club that just celebrated its two-year anniversary, will be closing to make way for a new sports book.

Staff were notified in a pre-shift meeting last night. Though there isn’t a firm date for the changeover, it’s assumed that the nightclub/concert venue will have at least until October, as they’re still booking that far out.

This comes on the heels of the July 13 announcement that Angel Management Group was taking over operation of Rehab at the Hard Rock Beach Club.

Additional reporting by Xania Woodman.

By Jason Scavone

Also starting to look a little Sandra Bullock-ish. (Additional photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)

Jennifer Love Hewitt celebrated the slow, inexorable march to Judith Light-hood when she hosted Stereo Loves Love Saturday at Palazzo’s Azure in honor of her new Lifetime movie, The Client List. It’s only a matter of time before she crosses paths with a domestic violence-crazed Brian Dennehy.

After she did the cabana thing, Hewitt was at Lagasse’s Stadium for a screening of the movie, which premieres today on Lifetime. You know what we think of when we think “Sports book?” Lifetime movies. Oh, don’t you remember the one where Meredith Baxter played an abused wife who had to murder her husband and was also a pole vaulter? It’s a Lifetime classic.

Over at Wasted Space inside the Hard Rock, Corey Taylor did a solo acoustic performance that included a few covers including Johnny Cash’s “Give My Love to Rose,” Pearl Jam’s “Black,” and, for some reason, the Steve Miller Band’s “Fly Like an Eagle.” He dedicated a song to recently deceased Slipknot bassist Paul Gray, whose widow, Brenna Gray, was in the crowd. Earlier in the day, the Hard Rock dedicated a case to Taylor and Slipknot. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

Flo Rida, seen here not believing how goddamn hot it is here. (Photos by Denise Truscello)

Flo Rida probably didn’t need Flavor Flav’s help picking out girls, but he got it anyway. Flav jumped on the Palms pool stage for “Low” to help bring girls up to dance during the song. In a shocking twist, Flav didn’t even make them compete on television for his affections. It’s like our whole world is turned upside-down.

Upstairs at the Playboy Club, Corey Feldman was wearing a polka-dot suit and sunglasses, because apparently there was some kind of convention going on at the Palms for people who dress weird and were famous 15 or more years ago.

Over at Wasted Space inside the Hard Rock Hotel, Halestrom broke out a trash can drum set for their acoustic show. Corey Taylor, tonight’s Friday Night Live performer, was there to check it out, as were members of Five Finger Death Punch and Avenged Sevenfold. Apparently only bands with numbers in their name were being let in.

By Jason Scavone

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Look, nobody’s going to take your crime spree seriously at this rate.

By Jason Scavone

Kevin Shea, not the only Comedy Central warrior at the Wasted Space rodeo.

It was a year ago today that the L.A. Comedy Club got back on its feet. The month prior, Trader Vic’s had announced it was closing at the Mircale Mile Shops and that left the club, which ran on Vic’s second floor, without a home. Man, if there is anything sadder than a homeless comedian, we don’t know what it is. Unless it’s a homeless comedian who just had all his stuff stolen by another homeless comedian.

Joaquin Trujillo, who founded the club along with Matt Chavez, moved the operation to the Four Queens and almost immediately started going to work on expanding to the Hard Rock Hotel. After an audition show early in May with Bret Ernst, the club started running weekly showcases at Wasted Space June 18.

“We’ve been courting them for almost a year,” Trujillo said. We had to convince the Hard Rock our brand fits their brand. We’ve got a long term contract with them, and it should be pretty fun.” Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone