Vegas Entertainment

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

2012-01-30T18:21:00.001-08:00

This February… “All You Need is Love”

(and tickets to the best Beatles tribute show in the world!)

Las Vegas, NV, January 31, 2012: For the entire month of February, BeatleShow! at Saxe Theater inside Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood, is inviting you to celebrate your love for each other with the greatest hits of all time performed LIVE!

John, Paul, George and Ringo are offering $20 tickets to locals. To take advantage of this rare opportunity, just show your Nevada ID when you purchase your BeatleShow! tickets at the Saxe Theater box office through February 29, 2012.

Entertainment critics say BeatleShow! is as close as you can get to a real Beatles’ concert. No clowns in leotards. No tightropes. No music tracks. If you love the music of the Beatles, BeatleShow! is your only choice. Runs at 5:30pm, eight days a week at Saxe Theater. www.SaxeTheater.com

PETER NOONE AND HERMANS HERMITS

2012-01-28T17:02:00.000-08:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

JANUARY 27TH THE BIRTHDAY OF MOZART AND BARYSHNIKOV (IRONICALLY) I CELEBRATED BY ATTENDING THE CONCERT OF YET ANOTHER GREAT ARTIST AND ENTERTAINER...PETER NOONE.

ONLY FABULOUS....WHAT MORE CAN YOU WANT AFTER 76 MINUTES OF FUN AND MUSIC....THATS SENDING EVERYONE HOME FEELING HAPPY, BETTER AND FULL OF LOVE.

NOONE....LONG STANDING LEAD SINGER-ENTERTAINER JUST PUTS IT OUT EVERY TIME AND STILL HAS ALL OF HIS HAIR.

WHAT A SONG BOOK...DANDY...HENRY VII, MRS BROWN, LAMPPOST, HUSH AND ALL DONE IN THEIR ORIGINAL FORM.

NOONE NOW 64 STILL IN VOICE AND CHARACTER AT THE SOUTH POINTE CASINO THEATRE LAS VEGAS FOR A WAY TOO SHORT TWO NIGHTER.....HE JUST LIGHTS UP MY LIFE.

AMAZINGLY MANY IN THE AUDIENCE FIRST TIMERS FOR THIS SHOW...3 ON OUR TABLE...ALL LOVED THIS...ONE IN THE CROWD FOR OVER A HUNDRED OF THESE SHOWS...ONE FOR 51 AND SADLY FOR ME ONLY 23...NOT ENOUGH.

AT THURSDAYS SHOW, ELSEWHERE, I WAS THE OLDEST IN THE CROWD...FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE SOUTH POINT I WAS IN THE YOUNGER 5%....SOUTH POINT ENTERTAINMENT PLAYS TO LOTS OF US WHITE HAIR NO HAIR TYPES AND WE ARE ETERNALLY GREATFUL.

THE HERMISTS ARE KEYBOARD, TWO GUITARS AND DRUMS...NOT TOO LOUD AND RIGHT ON TIME THE STANDARD TRADEMARK OF THE SOUTH POINT THEATRE SHOWS....DROP THE PUCK...LETS GO...NO WAITING HERE...GREAT THEATRE AS ALWAYS WITH PERFECT SOUND AND PRODUCTION.

HOW MANY TIMES HAS NOONE SANG HENRY VIII...LAST NIGHT THE MILLIONTH TIME ACCORDING TO HIM.

THANKS PETER...THANKS SOUTH POINTE FOR PUTTING SUCH JOY IN MY LIFE...WISH I DIDNT HAVE SOME WHERE ELSE TO GO SATURDAY OR I WOULD HAVE GONE AGAIN.

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HITZVILLE

2012-01-28T16:34:00.000-08:00

Las Vegas’ #1 Motown Revue is Sharing the Love This Valentine's Day!

Las Vegas, NV, January 27, 2012: Motown Records brought us some of the best love songs ever written and this Valentine’s Day, Hitzville - The Show is giving locals a chance to experience these hits LIVE and enjoy dinner at one low price!

February 11th through February 19th, Hitzville – The Show is offering locals a dinner and a show deal for just $38 (plus taxes and fees). To purchase, guests simply present their Nevada IDs at the V Theater box office inside Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood and ask for the “In the Name of Love” package.

Each package includes a ticket to Hitzville – The Show and dinner at any one of four participating restaurants: Lombardi’s, La Salsa Cantina, Cheeseburger Las Vegas and the Spice Market Buffet.

Hitzville - The Show is the best authentic Motown show ever to hit Las Vegas. See the performance that earned standing ovations from legendary producer Berry Gordy and the “King of Pop” himself, Michael Jackson.

Dance in your seat to the hits of Gladys Knight & The Pips, The Temptations, Tina Turner, The Four Tops and Motown diva Diana Ross & The Supremes as they rock the stage. Be blown away by a sensational trio of women, a quartet of sizzling men, the outrageous Hitzville Band and our own “dreamgirl”… Ms. Jin Jin Reeves, winner of “Entertainer of the Year” at the B.M.A.

People magazine says, “You gotta hear this!” Igoshows.com calls it a “crowd pleaser.” Hitzville - The Show is hit after hit of Motor City magic. Reeves has been called the “female Danny Gans” for her tributes to Diana Ross, Tina Turner, and other Motown superstars.

Hitzville – The Show runs Monday through Saturday at 5:30 pm inside of the V Theater at Miracle Mile Shops, Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

TONY n' TINA'S WEDDING

2012-01-26T15:13:00.000-08:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

I DIDN'T LIKE IT 15 YEARS AGO AT THE RIO AND I DIDN'T LIKE LAST NIGHT AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD.

THAT SAID...IT WAS DIFFERENT THIS TIME AND BETTER THIS TIME AND SEEMED LESS VIOLENT AND IT STARTED RIGHT ON TIME...ALWAYS A GOOD START.

THIS, THE LONG RUNNING ACCLAIMED COMEDY DINNER SHOW AT THE V THEATRE.

ITS A FARCE...ITS BAD BEHAVIOR IN STEROTYPE AT A CONVENIENT SUPER VENUE AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD...702 949 6450

MAYBE THE ISSUE IS ME AND AGAIN I AM THE OLDEST PERSON WHEREVER I GO...THE WOMAN NEXT TO ME THOUGHT I WAS 85, HELL SHE MISSED ME BY 18 YEARS AS OF NEXT WEEK. ANYWAY I ALWAYS FEATURED WEDDINGS AS NON PARTICIPATORY INTIMATE PERSONAL LOVING SMALL TIME AFFAIRS....THIS OF COURSE AS ADVERTISED JUST THE OPPOSITE IN EVERY WAY. MY MARRIAGE IN 1974 WENT FOR VERY IMMEDIATE FAMILY AND ONE GUEST AND IT CONTINUES TO THIS DAY !

HERE THE AUDIENCE PARTICIPATES, DANCES AND INTERACTS...I NEVER SAW MYSELF DOING THE CHICKEN DANCE ! NOR WILL I ! ! ! I STILL DETEST AUDIENCE INTERACTION...I GO FOR THE PERFORMANCE...HERE THE ACTORS WERE ALL QUITE GOOD PLAYING DITZS OVER THE TOP AND A GOOD JOB OF IT AS THAT WAS THE MISSION.

BIG CAST 16 OR 18....FOOD WAS GREAT....SALAD, PASTA, CHICKEN, DINNER ROOL AND THE WEDDING CAKE AND IT CAME SOON AND ORDERLY FOR ABOUT 100 OF US.

MANY OF THE YOUNGER PATRONS PLAYED ALONG WHILE WE ATE...THERE IS AN ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL THIS WEEK AND I WOULD RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE YOUNGER THAN I AND ANYONE WHO WISHES TO PLAY ALONG.

DAVID SAXE AND HIS TEAM HAVE HALF A DOZEN SHOWS HERE THAT I PREFER TO THIS.

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THE NEW GENERATION

2012-01-23T18:18:00.000-08:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com

SHOWTIME BOXING AT THE PEARL CONCERT THEATRE AT THE PALMS CASINO RESORT LAS VEGAS !

21 MINUTES LATE LIKE ALL EVENTS ! ! !

6 BOUTS, MOSTLY LITTLE GUYS, BOXING IN ONE OF LAS VEGAS PERFECT ARENAS !

“Rico Ramos is a very good fighter. But I train very hard and when I train, no one can beat me. 2012 is going to be my time." Those the words of Guillermo Rigondeaux 9-0...main event winner over Ramos 20-1, that with a KO at 1.29 of the sixth round. KO. These 122 pounders fighting for an alleged championship...we all know that there are no championships just alphabetical call letter organizations who take money from fighters....YOU NEVER WILL SEE ANY OF THOSE LETTERS IN THIS COLUMN. Anyway they fought and it was what it was, small club card boxing which for us old time fight fans.....are eternally grateful.

Grateful also for a 7th round TKO by Joel Diaz Jr. 7-0 over Guy Rob 7-1.... top four guys on the card all undefeated and only one on the ticket with a losing record....IMPRESSIVE. Thanks to Goosen Tutor Promotions for that and all cards past, present and future.

Thanks also to Matt Villanueva 7-0-1 for another 7th round TKO, this over Mike Ruiz Jr. 8-2-1...these guys super flyweights 115 !

Inexperienced heavyweights went thru a competitive four rounds with Rodney Hernandez taking a 40-36, 40-36 and 39-37 unanimous decision over Razvan Cojanu.

THANKS AGAIN TO THE PALMS AND GOOSEN TUTOR FOR BOXING....LETS DO IT AGAIN SOON !

C 73 ..... lost 21 points for being 21 minutes late !

UNLV DANCE

2012-01-21T21:48:00.000-08:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

I REMAIN THE WORLDS STRONGEST SUPPORTER OF UNLV DANCE AND SYMPHONY !

MORE TODAY AND GREAT STUFF IT WAS !

THIS ON UNLV'S CAMPUS STUDIO ONE ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX !

JUST TWO PIECES FOR TWO SHOWS...TOO SHORT A RUN FOR THE EFFORT !

A GOOD OLD DAY ON A PATH FROM TWO KOREAN DANCERS...LOVELY MUSIC AND PACE FOR A TOO SHORT OPENING CLASSICAL SEQUENCE....THANK YOU !

NOW WHAT....80 MINUTES...EMIGRATION TRANSFORMATION....BALLET MINK AT UNLV...EXACTLY AS TITLED WITH VIDEO BACKGROUNDS...NARRATION AND LOVELY CREATIVE DANCE....21 PIECES WELL WRITTEN...WELL CHOREOGRAPHED AND PRETTY WELL DANCED...I JUST CAME OFF VEGAS THE SHOW WITH THE WORLDS GREATEST....TARA PALSHA....SO THE BAR WAS HIGH AND ALWAYS IS AND UNLV'S DANCERS IN TRAINING ALWAYS REACH OUT WITH THE BEST AND THAT WAS THE CASE TODAY.

7 DANCERS ...JUST ONE MALE...SINGER GUITAR AND NARRATOR AND A SHOW TO BE PROUD OF.

MARGARET MINK COLBERT....DIRECTOR CHOREOGRAPHER AND CREATOR...THANK YOU

5 MINUTES LATE

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TONY AND TINAS WEDDING

2012-01-19T20:06:00.000-08:00

Tony n’ Tina Celebrate 10 Year Anniversary and Invite You to Join the Party!

Las Vegas, NV, January 19, 2012: Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, the world’s #1 dinner comedy show, is celebrating its ten year anniversary performing in Las Vegas on January 31st. To mark the big occasion, the “happy couple” is offering $10 general admission to locals today through the end of the month.

At Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, the audience takes part in the fun as the wedding ceremony turns into a party after the reception is hijacked by a pregnant bridesmaid, stripper girlfriend and a drunken priest. The evening ends with a full Italian dinner, wedding cake and dancing!

Set in a charming, intimate showroom at the V Theater inside Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, the show’s cast members treat theater guests as family and friends of the bride and groom, including them in the festivities. “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding owes its longevity to the stars of the show. They’re all wonderful singers and actors, but it’s those clever, off-the-cuff interactions with the audience that make each performance unique, said co-producer Raphael Berko. I’m not surprised people keep coming back for more.”

“There is a true connection between the cast and the audience in Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, adds co-producer Jeff Gitlin. People don’t come to simply watch. This is an experience. You’re part of the wedding, part of the excitement. It’s so much more than a show.”

This special anniversary ticket offer is valid now through January 31, 2012. To make a reservation, call 260-7200 and give the box office agent code: TNT-10. (Please note the $10 admission does not include taxes and box office fees.)

Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding runs Friday through Wednesday at 7:30pm on the Mezzanine level of the V Theater. For more information about the cast and show, go to VTheater.com. To schedule an interview with the performers or to request

VEGAS THE SHOW

2012-01-19T19:39:00.000-08:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

THIS IS SIMPLY THE SIGNATURE SHOW IN LAS VEGAS...THE BEST THERE IS...MUST SEE ! ! !

OTHERS MAY EQUAL OR CHALLENGE OR TIE...NONE BETTER.

THIS TRUE FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS....PRODUCTION...TALENT...HISTORY...CREATIVITY...COSTUMES...LIVE MUSIC...STARTS ON TIME...THE ENTIRE TEAM GIVES YOU EVERYTHING EVERY SHOW.

THIS THE DAVID SAXE PRODUCTION AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD...ITS NOW IN ITS SECOND YEAR AND I FOR ONE HAVE NOT SEEN IT ENOUGH TIMES...SLIGHT CHANGES THRU THE RUN AND ALL GOOD...SOME OF THE SPECIALTY ACTS CHANGING....MAGICIAN JOSEPH GABRIEL COMES AND GOES AND IS ALWAYS GREAT AS WERE THE HAND BALANCING ACT LAST NIGHT.

THE SUPER STRENGTH OF THE PRODUCTION IS THE DANCE...WITH BIG FAST PRODUCTION FAST COSUTMED MOVES TO POPULAR MUSIC AT FULL SPEED ALL HIGHLIGHTED BY DANCER TARA PALSHA. HER PART IN "LUCK BE A LADY" IS AMONG MY ALL TIME LAS VEGAS FAVORITES...WHAT AN ATHLETE SHE IS, PERFECT TIMING AND GREAT EXTENSION...THAT RED HAIR AND GREEN DRESS ARE THE ULTIMATE MELD TO THE PERFECT DANCERS BODY AND LEGS. SOME OF THIS PRODUCTION DANCE NUMBERS ARE JUST OUTSTANDING...CAN CAN AND CABERT.

SHAWN AND JOHN SCOTT, THE NICHOLAS BROTHERS DANCE TEAM OF THE 21ST CENTURY ARE NEVER ON LONG ENOUGH FOR ME OR ANYBODY ELSE...THEY SEEM TO GETTING MORE TIME AND THEY JUST LOVE TO DO THE SHOW AS DO ALL THE PERFORMERS...THERE IS GENUINE EFFORT FOR THE PERFORMERS TO ENJOY DOING THIS OR TO MAKE THEM ACT LIKE THEY DO...IT PLAYS WELL.

ERIC JORDAN YOUNG IS ANOTHER MEGA TALENT WHO PLAYS MULTI PARTS IN MULTI COSTUMES WITH HIS MEGA ABILITIES AND PURE VOICE HE COULD HEADLINE ANYTHING ANYWHERE...HE IS THE OPENER AND THE CLOSER AND MOST OF THE MIDDLE...HE TOLD ME AFTER THE SHOW HE IS GOOD THRU DECEMBER...ALLOWING ME 11 MORE MONTHS TO SEE HIM AGAIN...THIS EFFORT GOES NON STOP TWICE A NIGHT EVERY NIGHT....EMAIL VEGAS THE SHOW 702 260 7200...IF YOU DONT LIKE IT I WILL GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY BACK.

THIS IS BEST DAMN THING IN TOWN AND REASONABLY PRICED...I CANT WAIT TO GO AGAIN.

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MAGIC PLANET HOLLYWOOD

2012-01-18T17:09:00.000-08:00

TV Stars Team Up, Opening New Magic Show at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino

Las Vegas, NV, January 18, 2012: Master illusionist Michael Turco from NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” has joined forces with ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars’” Lacey Schwimmer, to bring a unique style of entertainment to Las Vegas on February 16th: Michael Turco’s MAGIC AND MAYHEM… the hottest entertainment “mashup” in the afternoon!

MAGIC AND MAYHEM is a fusion of awe-inspiring illusions and fun audience interaction combined with the edgy stylings of one of America’s most famous choreographers. The show will take the stage inside Saxe Theater at Miracle Mile Shops - Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

A New Jersey native, Turco’s authentic vibe and trademark storytelling commands the audience’s attention. After headlining casinos in Atlantic City, Turco achieved nationwide fame in last season’s “America’s Got Talent.” Recently, Michael Turco and industry ally, Lacey Schwimmer, put their heads together to create this show concept they say will “stimulate the senses.”

“The time was right for me to make the leap to Las Vegas and Saxe Theater is the perfect fit. I am living my dream and couldn’t be happier to bring my show to the Entertainment Capital of the World,” said Turco.

Theater owner David Saxe agrees and calls MAGIC AND MAYHEM a great addition to the venue’s entertainment roster. “This show is perfect for all ages. Its youthful energy and innovative style will definitely set it apart from the rest,” said Saxe.

Lacey Schwimmer, professional dancer turned TV star says she’s proud to add Las Vegas show choreographer to her list of accomplishments. “I’m excited to be working with Michael Turco. I’m thrilled to be part of it!”

Michael Turco’s MAGIC AND MAYHEM will run 4pm daily. For more information, log onto SaxeTheater.com or call 702.260.7200. To schedule an interview, please send an email to pr@davidsaxe.com or call Shelley Bruner at 702.318.6490.

BOXING-FRIDAY PALMS LAS VEGAS

2012-01-16T22:02:00.000-08:00

RAMOS VS RIGONDEAUX
LANDS AT THE PEARL AT THE PALMS
ON JAN. 20 ON SHOWTIME®
CHAMPIONS COLLIDE
WBA SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
RICO RAMOS DEFENDS AGAINST
GUILLERMO RIGONDEAUX

LAS VEGAS – December 29, 2011 - Goossen Tutor Promotions will kick off 2012 with a World Championship bout headlining on the popular SHOWTIME series, ShoBox: The New Generation on Friday, Jan. 20. The ShoBox main event features World Boxing Association (WBA) super bantamweight champion Rico Ramos defending his title for the first time against the WBA interim champion Guillermo Rigondeaux, matching two world champions and two of the sport’s rising stars. The bout was originally scheduled for New Year’s Eve, but postponed after a fighter in the co-main event withdrew due to an injury. The championship event will be held at the Pearl at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nev. and broadcast on SHOWTIME at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast).

PAUL REVERE AND THE RAIDERS

2012-01-14T22:51:00.000-08:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

I AM NOW THE PROUD OWNER OF A THREE CORNERED HAT...... THANKS TO PAUL REVERE AND MY FRIEND FRANK ARNOLD !

REVERE AND HIS BAND OF MERRY MEN COMPLETED A TWO NIGHT SOLD OUT STAND AT THE SOUTH POINT IN A WAY TOO SHORT RUN.

PROBABLY NOW OVER 50, THE NUMBER OF THESE SHOWS I HAVE SEEN AND BELIEVE ME.... NOT ENOUGH YET...PAUL, 74, AND ROCKING FOR 54 YEARS NOW APPEARS TO BE ENDLESS IN HIS ZEST FOR FUN, ZANINESS AND THE ACTING LEADER OF ONE GREAT BAND.

MUSIC FROM THE 60'S..."HAVEN'T HAD A HIT IN 40 YEARS"...PLAYS GREAT AND DID TO THIS GROUP ON SATURDAY IN THE PERFECT SOUTH POINT VENUE....GOOD SOUND...PERFECT RAIDER PRODUCTION AND IT ALL STARTED RIGHT ON TIME FOR 90 MINUTES OF PURE ENTERTAINMENT. EVEN THO I HAVE BEEN THRU SOME OF THIS BEFORE IT STILL SEEMS SO FRESH AND REVERE MAKES UP A LOT AS HE GOES ALONG...."NOBODY HAVING MORE FUN THAN"...WELL MAYBE THIS REPORTER AND PAUL REVERE.

I THANK PAUL REVERE FOR ADDING SO MANY GREAT HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT TO MY LIFE AND HOPEFULLY MORE TO COME....THE RAIDERS STILL DO BRANSON AND A JANUARY ROCK AND ROLL CRUISE AND STILL TOUR THE COUNTRY. THANK YOU.

WITH MY HISTORY WITH THIS GROUP IT STILL NEVER FAILS TO AMAZE HOW MUCH FUN THEY HAVE AND HOW GENUINE THEIR LOVE TO PERFORM IS....ITS A ZEST FOR LIFE.

THANKS TO TO THE SOUTH POINTE ENTERTAINMENT GROUP FOR REACHING US OLD FARTS WITH THIS ENTERTAINMENT REALM....WE APPRECIATE IT AND WE SUPPORT YOU.

PAUL REVERE, EVER PATRIOTIC SALUTING US VIET NAM VETS AND ACTUALLY AIDING VETERANS...TRUE, SINCERE, MONETARY AND REAL....PAUL REVERE I LOVE YOU.

PAUL REVERE...."THE LAST MAD MAN OF ROCK AND ROLL" YOU SHOULD BE IN THE HALL OF FAME !

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TOP RANK BOXING

2012-01-14T16:58:00.000-08:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com

NICE SENARIO TO START MY 29TH YEAR OF COVERING BOXING IN LAS VEGAS !

TOP RANK PROMOTION....ALWAYS FIRST CLASS...WELL ORGANIZED...WELL MANAGED !

HARD ROCK JOINT ARENA....A SWELL VENUE...GREAT SIGHT LINES...GREAT PEOPLE FACILITY !

TOO LOUD OF COURSE....

STARTED ON TIME FOR ESPN FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS....ACTUALLY GOT TWO IN BEFORE THE HALF HOUR TV BREAK BEFORE THE MAIN EVENT.

I WAS IMPRESSED WITH CUBAN YORDENIS UGAS 11-0....SUPER LIGHT WEIGHT STAND UP FOCUSED LARGE FOR HIS WEIGHT BOXER WHO STOOD IN THE CENTER OF THE RING AND BOXING WITH TECHNIQUE AND POISE....HIS OPPONENT ESTEBAN ALMAREZ 10-4....GAME...OVER MATCHED.

NOT MUCH TO SAY FOR THE CARD AS THE MAIN EVENT AND TWO OTHER CAME TO A DRAW.

TWO UNEVENTFUL CARDS TO OPEN THE ESPN SEASON....BUT YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO PLAY THE GAME.

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LAS VEGAS WRANGLERS HOCKEY

2012-01-13T22:36:00.000-08:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com

GREAT SENARIO...

LAS VEGAS AMONG THE BEST ON OFFENSE AND DEFENSE GOES TO ONATRIO TUESDAY AND GETS BLASTED BY THEIR RIVAL 6-0.

FRIDAY ONTARIO AT LAS VEGAS...ONTARIO SHUTS OUT LAS VEGAS FOR 54 MINUTES AND LEADS 1-0 ON A DRIBBLER THRU THE LEGS OF GOALIE FALLON...

WRANGLERS WITH 9 SHOTS ON GOAL FOR 54 MINTES SET UP A PERFECT TYING GOAL BY ADAM MILLER AND GO TO OVERTIME.

10 SECONDS IN OVERTIME FOUR ON FOUR ONTARIO GETS A PENALTY AND 36 SECONDS INTO OVERTIME BARRY GOERS SLAMS THE WINNER OVER THE ONATRIO GOALIE TO WIN 2-1.

INCREDIBLE SENARIO....THEY PLAY SATURDAY AT 707 AT THE ORLEANS ARENA.

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TOP RANK BOXING

2012-01-12T22:38:00.000-08:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com

BOXING AT THE HARD ROCK LAS VEGAS FRIDAY NIGHT FIRST BELL AT 5 TV ESPN AT 6.

MAIN EVENT SUPER BANTAMWEIGHTS 122ISH MAIN EVENT TEON KENNEDY AND CHRIS MARTIN.

FIRST FIGHT FOR LAS VEGAS IN 2012....29TH YEAR COVERING BOXING FOR THIS REPORTER.

BE THERE.

LOS ANGLES GUITAR QUARTET

2012-01-08T21:08:00.000-08:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

YET ANOTHER TREASURED EXPERIENCE NOW IN MY QUIVER OF EVENTS ATTENDED !

THIS AT HAM HALL ON UNLV CAMPUS FROM THE UNLV PERFORMING ARTS CENTER PROGRAMMING.

IT WAS 8 MINUTES LATE.

I HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO EXPECT, BUT WAS GREATLY REWARDED AS OFTEN IS THE CASE BY TRYING SOMWETHING DIFFERENT AND TAKING A CHANCE.

YES !

4 EXCELLENT GUITAR PLAYERS, MOSTLY CLASSICAL, SOME UNFAMILIAR MUSIC ALL WITH A GREAT SOFT DELICATE SOUND THAT FLOATED THROUGH THIS GREAT THEATRE WHICH EXUDES GREAT SOUND ! NO ELECTRIC GUITARS ON THIS PERFECT AGENDA.

ALL THE PLAYERS DID SOME BACKGROUND ABOUT THE MUSIC WHICH IS ALWAYS A WONDERFUL TREAT FOR EDUCATION AND ENJOYMENT OF WHAT IS TO COME. I REALLY ENJOYED GIOACHINO ANTONIO ROSSINI OPENING AND A WONDERFUL VARIATION OF BIZET'S CARMEN AT THE END.

UNFORTUANTELY THE PROGRAM CONTAINED 5 YEAR OLD PROGRAMMING WHICH REALLY DIDN'T MATTER BECAUSE WHAT EVER THIS GROUP DID WOULD BE GREAT....SO SOFT TO THE TOUCH...SO DELICATE THE SOUND...SO PURE THE NOTES....I AM PRETTY SURE NOBODY HIT A WRONG CORD HERE.

AS ALWAYS THERE IS NO END OF WAYS TO SCREW THINGS UP...A WOMAN IN THE BACK ROW MADE FOUR TRIPS ACROSS THE CONCRETE FLOOR IN HER WOODEN HEELS CLOPPING ALONG BACK AND FORTH AND BREAKING MY CONCENTRATION AS WELL AS THAT OF MANY OTHERS. WHEN WE WERE IN AUSTRALIA AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, A FLAMING DANCER IN TAPS SHOES ON A SPECIAL WOODEN FLOOR WITH 11 MICROPHONES WAS NOT AS LOUD AS THIS MORON. I LIVED THROUGH IT !

SMALL CROWD FOR THIS....ALL THOSE WHO DID NOT ATTEND WERE LOSERS.

COMING UP AT HAM HALL

26 JANUARY EUROPA GALANTE WITH FABIO BIONDI AND METZZO-SUPRANO VIVICA GENAUX
11 FEBRUARY ITZHAK PERLMAN-WORLDS GREATEST LIVING VIOLIN PLAYER
19 MAY HAL HOLBROOK DOING MARK TWAIN

702 895 2787 EVENTS RECOMMENDED TO THE WORLD.

THANK YOU TO THE FOUR GREAT GUITAR PLAYERS AND THEIR TALENTS FOR THIS LOVELY EVENING AND THANKS TO UNLV FOR PUTTING FORWARD WORLD CLASS ENTERTAINMENT.

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INSURGO'S NUTCRACKER

2012-01-07T14:29:00.000-08:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

SIMPLY GREAT CREATIVE THEATRE

ALL DONE

AT THE PLAZA UPSTAIRS

LVRJ ENTERTAINMENT WRITER ANTHONY DEL VALLE SAW EXACTLY WHAT I SAW LAST NIGHT...GREAT SET...GREAT MUSIC...GREAT ACTING...NO DIALOGUE...THEY DID 40 MINUTES OF SOMETHING UNEXPLANABLE BUT IT GREAT THANKS

CALL 883 5500 insurgotheatre.org find out whats next where

7 minutes late

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NORWAY

2011-12-25T18:46:00.000-08:00

LETS GO TO NORWAY FOR THE NORTHERN LIGHTS CRUISE

23 DEC SAD ENDING AS JANET AND I LAY WALLOWING ON THE CABIN FLOOR IN OUR VOMIT FROM SEASICKNESS...AT 4 A M

NOW 10 FIVE HOURS TO LAND AND BERGEN.

22 DEC ALMOST OVER BREAKFAST...WOMAN FALLS ON THE WAY OFF THE SHIP...AS WE SPEAK....SHIP DELAYED WAITING FOR EMERGENCY ROOM RETURN....SHE HAS HAD A STROKE...AT SOME POINT WE GO...SHORT WALK IN THE SNOW AT TRONHEIM...BIG CITY...NOTHING TO SEE....MORNING WALK IN PERFECT SNOW FLAKES LOVELY....JACUZZIE WAKE UP...ONE MORE TIME....ANOTHER MAX MANUS VIDEO IF THE GUIDE RETURNS FROM EMERGENCY ROOM ....FRACTURES...2 HOURS LATE..WE LEFT...LUNCH GREAT.....DEPART SHIP ORIENATION...WALK CANCELLED....JANET GETS SEASICK.....PILLS AND BAND HELP...9 P M WALK ALONE...BAGS TO THE ROOM

TO FRIDAY PACK OPEN SEAS TO BERGEN ....PIZZA TO AIRPORT AT 4 A M.

21 DEC LOTS OF SLEEP....HEARTY BREAKFAST....RECROSSED ARTIC CIRCLE....DRANK COD LIVER OIL...GOT A HISTORIC SPOON....TROLL TALK....3 CITY TOURS TODAY...CAPTIANS DINNER....NICE....CITY WALKS...LEFT FOR OPEN SEAS...A BIT BOUNCY BUT NOT BAD...JACUZZI STILL WORKS.

20DEC MIDNIGHT SYMPHONY...JUST A MILE FROM THE SHIP....FLUTE PIANO SOPRANO....ALL WORLD CLASS TALENT...GREAT ACOUSTICS IN THE PEAKED 75 DEGREE ANGLED CHURCH WITH ORGAN IN THE BALCONY....REALLY NICE SOUND....I WOULD HAVE SELECTED 13 DIFFERENT PIECES OF MUSIC $80 A POP...27 WENT...
NO LIGHTS SHORT NIGHT SHORT BREAKFAST...4 HR TOUR ON THE BUS INLAND....FERRY RIDE GREAT MUSEUM...NORWEGIAN ENGINEERING AND HYDRAULICS GO RIGHT TO THE HEAD OF THE CLASS....MAY IN FACT TEACH THE CLASS THE WAY THE BUILD AND DOCK BOATS....DROVE BUS ON THE FERRY....GREAT RIDE...LUNCH....WALK AND MOVIE AND MORE TODAY ...city WALK....TOUR OF OLD HURTIGREN SHIP AND THEIR MUSEUM....SHIP DEMONSTRATION OF FILLET OF SALMON AND PARTICIPATION....I PARTICIPATED....MORE TUES VIDEO ABOUT NORWAY PIX WITH HISTORIC COMPOSER EDWARD GRIEGS MUSIC, WONDERFUL AND FINAL EPISODE OF ....THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH.....COOK STILL DIES AMUNDSON OF NORWAY STILL ARRIVES AT THE S POLE FIRST...MORE FISH FOR DINNER AND STOP AT LOFTON ISLAND WWll MUSEUM...40-45 HIGHLIGHT OF THE TRIP...HISTORIC STUFF ALL THE UNIFORMS FROM ALL THE SIDES...THE FATHER OF THE MUSEUM THERE TO TELL THE STORYS HE HAS BEEN COLLECTING FOR 38 YEARS...WHAT A TRIP ...TO BED

19 dec ITS DRAGGING A BIT...MORE PICKLED HERRING AND ORANGE JUICE FOR BREAFAST...POLAR BEAR MUSEUM SOON.....HAMMERFAST CITY TOUR...NICE...CHURCH, CATHEDRAL....MUSEUM ...CITY STATUES.....NO DAY LIGHT AT NOON QUASI DEPRESSING...LOTS OF SUICIDES....NOT THE ONES I WANT THO.....GREAT LUNCH...ALWAYS SOUP...TOMATO ALONG WITH LOTS OF FISH......HELICOPTER DROP EXHIBITION ON 7....CLOSED THE JACUZZI ON SIX AND I MISSED IT....ROPE TYING ON SEVEN....EPISODE OF COOK-AMUNDSON RACE...HE IS ALMOST DEAD...MORE TONIGHT INCLUDING THE SYMPHONY AT 11 PM....GREAT MOVIE...MAX MANU...NORWEGIAN MEDAL OF HONOR WINNER WWll ....TRUE STORY....CRIBBAGE 1-1 TONIGHT I AM 4-1 ON THE TRIP SHE IS PLAYING BETTER BUT NOT AS LUCKY....SYMPHONY NOW AFTER MIDNIGHT WILL BE ON TUES PAGE.

18 DEC....KIRKNESS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT...MOST OF JAPAN LEAVING BOAT HERE...CANT SAY I HAVE SEEN ANY SPOT ON THE TRIP WITHOUT SEING LAND LIGHTS OR LIGHTHOUSE...BREAKFAST MORE HERRING AND ORANGLE JUICE. MORNING VIDEO...GREAT TOUR OF SNOW HOTLE...SLED DOGS AND DEER...NICE...BACK FOR LUNCH...LOBSTER AND CRAB LEFTOVER FROM LAST NIGHT...NOT ANYMORE....NAP...VIDEO ON NORTH AND PLUNGE INTO THE NORTH SEA...JESUS IT WAS COLD AND JANET MISSED THE PIX FIRST TRY..REINDEER STEAK...IT WAS GOOD 3 DESERTS....SENSATIONAL VIDEO 95 MINUTES OF HISTORIC MENS CHOIR FROM THE TOWN WE ARRIVE IN NOW...SELVERG OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT...NO LIGHTS TONIGHT...

17DEC...LATE BREAKFAST SUN DOES NOT SHINE TODAY...MOVIE...EARLY LUNCH AND CITY PAID TOUR..TOUR OF NORTHERN MOST INHABITED SPOT ON EARTH...GREAT ...GREAT VIDEO....LESS THAN HOUR A DAY SUNSHINE....11 DAYS A YEAR WITH SUN....SHIP VIDEO NOW ...NATIVE PEOPLE...I KISSED A GAINT CRAB...DINNER AND PROGRAM TONIGHT..JACUZZI STILL WORKS....
GREAT SEAFOOD BUFFET I HAD 14 LOBSTERS AND 23 CRABS...

SAW THE LIGHTS....SAW THE LIGHTS....SAW THE LIGHTS.

RIGHT AT THE START OF THE MOVIE TALES OF TELEMARK EVA CALLS US TO THE DECK FOR THE LIGHTS NOT POST CARD TYPE BUT LOTS OF WHISPS...
BACK TO THE B MOVIE...THEN AT 11PM LIGHTS AGAIN THIS TIME I SAW THEM FROM THE BACK OF THE BOAT IN THE JACUZZI...REALLY COOL...LOTS TOO THEY CAME AND WENT FAST....RETURNED TO ROOM AND MADE A TRIP AROUND BOAT ON LEVEL FIVE AND INTO A BEAUTIFUL HALF ORANGE MOON A SHOOTING STAR AND MORE FASTING MOVING LIGHTS POSSIBLEY MOST PROMINENT OF THE SET....MAYBE MORE
NEXT TWO DAYS AS WE ARE FAREST NORTH.
16 DEC GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP NOTHING ON FIRST NIGHT TRY FOR THE LIGHTS....LESS CLOUDS TODAY BETTER CHANCE....WORKING ON SECOND JACUZZI....FIRST ONE REHEATED JUST WARM...BETTER THAN NOTHING....TWO VIDEOS TODAY ONE ON NORTHERN NORWAY AND ONE ON AMUNDSONS RUN TO SOUTH POLE BOTH EXCELLENT....SHORT SHORE WALK...SHIP STOPS EVERY FOUR HOURS OR SO...PEOPLE GET OFF AND ON...FORK LIFTS ACTIVE...AMAZING TIMING...KIDS HAVE BOARDED ONLY TO PISS ME OFF....LUNCH...CITY TOUR TOMSO....GREAT WALK...WORLD CLASS ART MUSEUM...FREE THEY WOULD NOT TAKE A DONATION...INTERNET....JACUZZI WORKING GREAT....DINNER ANOTHER TALK AND BED....EVERYTHING IS EXPENSIVE....CLEAN COOL AIR NOT A CLOUD IN SITE...MAYBE TONIGHT EVA SAID SHE HAS NEVER HAD A WINTER TOUR WITHOUT SEEING THE LIGHTS....WE ARE OPTIMISTIC AND WELL. JUST SLIGHEST FAINTEST SINGLE WHITE LINE BRIEFLY OF THE LIGHTS..NOT A CLOUD IN THE SKY ...DIPPER AND 80 MILLION STARS OUT...ANOTHER GOOD TRY TONIGHT.

15 DEC CANT SLEEP ROOMS TOO HOT...CONTEST TODAY FOR EXACT TIME WE CROSS ARTIC CIRCLE...I GOT 0700 07 07...23O AM HERE CANT SLEEP...WORKING TO COMPUTERS ...THEY ARE SO SLOW...IF WE CAN KEEP THEM AND JACUZZI GOING I WILL MAKE IT.

14 DEC UP EARLY TOUR OF TRONHEIM....175 THOUSAND THIRD BIGGEST CITY IN NORWAY....GREAT CATHEDRAL TOUR...ALL LUTHERNS HERE....ONE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN NORWAY...LOTS OF EDUCATION HERE...LATE LUNCH USUALLY BUFFET THEN COUNTRY LECTURE....MORE OF THE MOVIE DINNER AND CITY TOUR AFTER THAT....ALL THE CITIES IN NORWAY HAVE BURNED DOWN....THIS ONE BORN IN 987 OVER 1000 YEARS OLD LOTS OF FISH AND FIRES HERE SINCE THEN.

13 DEC ROOMS WAY TOO HOT WAY TOO HOT....VISITED ALLSGOOD....MOLEN FOR WALKING TOURS...VERY NICE 17 AND 25 THOUSAND...CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS EVERYWHERE....MOLEN FAMOUS FOR JAZZ FESTIVAL...3 ASSHOLES MISSED THE SHIP HOW COULD YOU DO THAT....BEEN ME I WOULD NOT HAVE GONE BACK....DINNER...7 PART MOVIE ON AMUNDSON...SHACKLETON AND COOK GOING TO SOUTH POLE....3 EPISODES SO FAR AND THEY HAVE NOT HIT THE ICE YET...GUIDE AVA EVERYWHERE...ALWAYS ON TOP OF HER GOOD GUY GOOD HOST GAME....PEOPLE BOARDING ON AND OFF THE SERVICE SHIP CONSTANTLY....INTERNET SLOW...NO TVS IN ROOM....ROOMS SMALL BUT OK...FOOD GREAT...GOT SEA SICK GINGER PILLS BUT NOT LOTS OF ROCKING YET.

12 DEC....MUST BE MONDAY...9 HOURS AHEAD OF PACIFIC...GREAT BREAKFAST AT HOTLE...350 A NIGHT FOR THOSE OFF THE STREET...CENTER OF THE CITY .....CITY TOUR WHICH WE LOVE...REARRANGED AND DID EDWARD GREIG MUSEUM AND HOUSE FIRST...HISTORIC AND WONDERFUL...NORWAYS GREATEST EXPORT....COMPOSER OF PROMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE AND LOTS OF OTHER GREAT STUFF FROM HIS PIANO AND OTHER COMPOSITIONS....CITY TOUR BERGEN IN DARK...A TAD LATE BUT A GREAT GUIDE...SHE HAS A LAW DEGREE AND WAS SUPER INTELLIGENT AND WELL PREPARED FOR THE TASK. BOARDED THE RICHARD WILH...THREE MEALS A DAY FOR TEN DAYS....NOT ONE BUT TWO JACUZZIS ON BOARD ....REAR OF SIXTH DECK I AM IN 5 TIMES A DAY JUST LIKE HOME....GOT IN FOR SHIPS DEPARTURE UNDER THE SKIES AND FULL MOON UNDER THE BRIDGE REALLY COOL.

11 DEC ARRIVED IN BERGEN FOR RADISON ONE NIGHT THEY HAD A SAUNA POOL AND JACCUZZI...DARK TIL 1030 AM DARK AT 330...HAD LOVELY RECEPTION DINNER FOR 40 YANKEES WITH AVA WORLDS CURRENT GREATEST TOUR GUIDE.

10 DEC 2011---LAS VEGAS TO LOS ANGLES TO DETROIT TO AMSTERDAM TO BERGEN NORWAY...THERE WENT 24 HRS BUT THE FLIGHTS ALL GOOD AND WE GOT THE LUGGAGE.
From: Russ
To: 'John Mastalir'

MARK SAVARD

2011-12-07T23:22:00.001-08:00

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Marc Savard Comedy Hypnosis

Signs 3 Year Deal with V Theater – Planet Hollywood

Las Vegas, NV, December 7, 2011: V Theater owner, David Saxe, is proud to announce a 3 year contract extension with comedic hypnotist, Marc Savard. The new deal extends the performance agreement for Marc Savard Comedy Hypnosis through 2014, which would mark 8 years at the theater inside Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

Marc Savard Comedy Hypnosis is an energetic mix of comedy, hypnosis and brave volunteers who allow Savard to control their thoughts and actions live on stage. Savard uses his hypnotic skills to manipulate the minds of complete strangers all while keeping the audience rolling in the aisles with laughter. He’s thrilled to have the opportunity to continue performing at the V Theater. “We are already working on several exciting additions which will take the show to a whole new level, said Savard. That, combined with the theater’s new stage and LED video wall, will increase the production value exponentially.”

When Savard initially pitched the show concept to Saxe in 2007, he turned a skeptic into a believer. “I kept asking Marc how he was pulling off his tricks, and if he was ‘planting’ people in the audience, but his show is 100% real! He’s a certified clinical hypnotherapist and one of the most dynamic stage performers in Vegas, said Saxe. We’re honored to have him on our entertainment roster.”

In addition to his show, Savard has also produced a line of self-help programs designed to teach people how to utilize the powers of their subconscious and tackle every issue from weight loss and memory improvement to kicking nasty habits such as smoking and nail biting. He is releasing his first book, “Hypnosis: The A to Zzzzz of Stage Performing,” in early 2012.

Marc Savard Comedy Hypnosis takes the stage Saturday through Thursday night at 10 o’clock and is dark on Fridays. For more information and ticket prices, go to VTheater.com or call the V Theater box office at 702.260.7200. To schedule an interview with Marc Savard, please contact Shelley Bruner at 702.278.1389.

NEIL BERG'S BROADWAY HOLIDAY

2011-12-05T21:36:00.000-08:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER ! ! ! !

BROADWAY COMPOSER/LYRIST NEIL BERG HAS BROUGHT THIS HOLIDAY SHOW TO LAS VEGAS BEFORE BUT THIS TIME HE LOADED THE TRUCK !

5 MEGA BROADWAY ENTERTAINERS ON ONE BILL WITH BERG AT UNLV'S HAM HALL IN YET ANOTHER MEGA TALENTED PRESENTATION.

8 MINUTES LATE KILLED A PERFECT SCORE BUT THEY DID DO OVER TWO HOURS WITH BROADWAY AND HOLIDAY MUSIC FROM TWO KEYBOARDS, BASS AND ALMOST UNNOTICED PERCUSSION (A GOOD THING)....THE SOUND THEY BROUGHT TO THE PERFECT HAM HALL WAS MIXED TO THE EXQUISTE EAR IN FLAWLESS FORM.

GREAT MUSIC SELECTION FROM THE HISTORIC SONGBOOKS...NOBODY BREAKING IN NEW HITS HERE.

BERG PLAYS THE PIANO, NARRATES AND PREVIEWS THE PERFORMERS WITH A GREAT BACKGROUND AND PERSONAL HISTORY TO MAKE THIS AN OVER THE TOP SHOW.

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER OF IMPORTANCE....(WE LOVED THEM ALL)...

CHUCK WAGNER...ABOUT 6'7" 285 AN IMPOSING GENTLE GIANT SANG FROM BEAUTY AND THE BEAST...JEKYLL AND HYDE AND SVENGALI....WHAT A POWERFUL EMOTIONAL FORCE.

NATALIE TORO...A VOICE THAT COULD BRAKE GLASS...SHE DID EVITA...TALE OF TWO CITIES AND COULD BE THE GREATEST PROJECTOR OF LYRICS EVER.

TED LOUIS LEVY...HE IS TAP DANCER...WORKED WITH GREGORY HINES AND SAMMY...HE DANCED FOR US...ESPECIALLY ME...MR BOJANGLES...THE CHRISTMAS SONG AND SOME CREATIVE ADAPTIVE MATERIAL MARRIED TO HIS HISTORY....I NEVER WANTED TO SEE BOJANGLES AFTER SAMMY DIED 20 YEARS AGO...AND I NEVER WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN....BEING LEFT WITH THIS PERFECT INTERPRETATION WITH SUCH PASSION...I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS GUY.

RON BOHMER AND SANDRA JOSEPH...HUSBAND WIFE TEAM....HELL THEY DID THE PHANTOM ON BROADWAY...HER MORE CHRISTINE'S THAN ANY OTHER PERFORMER AND THEY GAVE US 15 MINUTES OF THIS AT THE END...WHAT A PAIR...THEY ASLO DID SOME SOLOS....BOTH WITH OVERPOWERING VOICE IN THIS PERCT SETTING AND PERFECT SOUND SYSTEM....CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS WERE POPING FROM THE SHRILL SOUND OF THESE TWO.

NO WAY THIS COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER....BERG ON TOUR THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY...I IMAGINE WITH CHANGING CAST...NONE BETTER THAN THIS ONE.

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COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA

2011-12-04T21:41:00.000-08:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

THE COLLEGE OF SOUTH NEVADA FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT IN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR TWO WEEK PROGRAM SCHEDULE OF SHOW PRESENTATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC...PRETTY GOOD STUFF.

MONDAY ORCHESTRA
TUESDAY CONCERT BAND
WEDNESDAY BIG BANDS
THURSDAY CHORAL CONCERT
FRIDAY- SATURDAY CHRISTMAS CAROL

LAST FRIDAY I ATTENTED MAHLERFEST....A COLOSSAL UNDERTAKING BY DANCE DIRECTOR KELLY ROTH...4 ACTS OF CHOREOGRAPHY WITH BERNSTEIN RECORDED MUSIC...SORT OF.

I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT THE DANCERS WOULD DO IF THE MUSIC STOPPED IN MID PIECE...THIS NIGHT I FOUND OUT...TWICE...THEY KEPT DANCING....A MAJOR DISTRACTION OF CONTINUITY BUT A CREDIT TO STUDENT DANCERS TO PLOW ON.

THIS WAS LONG AND LABORIOUS BUT CREATIVE AND WELL DANCED...BEING PREJUDICE TO DANCE I LIKED MOST OF IT....MED PIECE NARRATIONS SORT OF OVERDONE BUT QUASI INFORMATIVE...ROTH SAID THIS WAS MOSTLY FOR HIMSELF AND IT WAS...NO SMALL UNDERTAKING...NOT WELL RECEIVED....MAHLERS 9TH VERY VERY NICE...WISH I COULD HAVE CAUGHT IT ALL.

THEY WERE 12 MINUTES LATE FOR A TWO HOUR PLUS GIG...INEXCUSABLE...

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651 5483 FOR SHOW INFO ON THIS WEEKS PROJECTS.

GREGORY POPOVICH COMEDY PET THEATRE

2011-12-04T18:09:00.000-08:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

EACH TIME I SEE THIS SHOW I APPRECIATE IT MORE AND ASK MYSELF WHERE IN THE WORLD YOU WOULD EVER HAVE SUCH AN OPPORTUNITY TO SUCH GENIUS...COULD BE THE BEST SHOW IN TOWN.

TOO BAD I CAN'T GIVE IT A PERFECT SCORE THEY WERE 8 MINUTES LATE !

THIS RUN AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD...4 PM DAILY ...ONLY MAGNIFICENT.

THIS, ANY AGE CHILD CAN LOVE...AND OUR GROUP 59 59 62 AND 68;;;; AND WE ALL LOVED IT.

POPOVICH ONE OF THE WORLDS LAST GREAT VAUDEVILLIANS...WORKING WITH CATS AND DOGS AND BIRDS AND RATS, ALL A IN PERFECTLY PRODUCED HOUR SHOW INSIDE THE PLANET HOLLYWOOD ARCADE.

THIS RUN A TAD NEW WITH A GREAT FIREMANS THEME FOR OPENERS....THE PETS SO WELL TRAINED AND ANXIOUS TO PERFORM REALLY LOOK LIKE THEY ARE ANXIOUS TO GO ON FOR EACH SET.

A HELPFUL POSITIVE PIECE OF CRITQUE....BACKGROUND MUSIC TOO TOO TOO LOUD AND OFTEN DIALOGUE, DESCRIPTION OR PUNCH LINE IS OVERRIDDEN BY THIS USELESS NOISE.

THE OVERALL PRODUCTION AND TIMING FOR THIS MAGNIFICENT SHOW WITH 5 ASSISTANTS IS FLAWLESS AND ALL THE PETS TOO ARE HITTING THEIR MARKS....WE WERE IN THE FRONT ROW AND GOT THE CLOSEUP SHOTS...CATS SEEMED REALLY LARGE AND PLAYFULL...WAGGING TAILS WILL ALWAYS BE A PLUS IN ANYONES LIFE.

POPOVICH CONSTANTLY RAIDING ANIMAL SHELTERS FOR ACTORS...I JUST IMAGED HOW MUCH WORK AND LOVE ARE NEEDED TO GET SO MANY ANIMALS TO PERFORM...ACTUALLY 12 CATS ON ONE SET AND THEY ALL WERE ON MARK....LIVE THEATRE NEVER BETTER THAN HERE.

POPOVICH NO LONE ANIMAL GENIUS...HE DOES COMEDY, JUGGLING, ACROBATS, STHICK, PANTOMINE AND COMEDY...THEY DO THIS ALL IN ONE HOUR...ASSISTANTS ALL WITH ATHLETIC ABILITY AND TEAM PLAY IN THEIR ROLES...ALL EXCELLENT.

I HOPE I LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO SEE THIS AGAIN. HERE ARE THEIR WORDS....

Better Than Ever!

The world famous Gregory Popovich Comedy Pet Theater is back at V Theater with new purr-formers, unbelievable tricks and outrageous fun for the whole family with $1 from every ticket sold supporting local animal shelters.
Comedy Pet Theater features an amazing cast of housecats, dogs, even geese! Critics describe it as a unique blend of physical comedy, world-championship juggling and the extraordinary talent of performing pets, all of which have been rescued from animal shelters and transformed into Las Vegas stars.

Comedy Pet Theater takes the stage daily at 4pm and is dark on Wednesdays. Log onto VTheater.com for ticket information or simply call our agents at 1.866.932.1818. They would be more than happy to answer your questions.

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LAS VEGAS WRANGLERS HOCKEY

2011-12-02T23:25:00.001-08:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com

ORLEANS ARENA SATURDAY AT 707 VERSUS IDAHO

FRIDAY 4717 SAW A STRANGER ONE LAS VEGAS OUTSHOT IDAHO 57-16 AND LOST IN OVERTIME 3-2.

IDAHO GOALIE KUHN WITH THE HELP OF LOTS OF IRON POST AND CROSS BAR BANGS STOPPED 55 OF THE WRANGLERS SHOTS AND WON ON THE FIRST TWO OVERTIME SHOTS.

WRANGLERS GAVE UP TWO EASY ONES EARLY AND GOT ONE ON TEDDY BEAR NIGHT WHEN OVER A 1000 BEARS HIT THE ICE....THAT FOR SCHOOL CHARITY AND A LOVELY SITE...WRANGLERS TIE IT UP IN THE SECOND NO SCORE IN OVERTIME AND NONE IN THE THIRD PERIOD...THEN KUHN GAVE UP THE FIRST OVERTIME SHOT AND THEN SHUT DOWN FOUR MORE IN A ROW FOR 59 SAVE NIGHT.

LOTS FUN AND MORE ON TUESDAY AT 907 AGAINST ONTARIO...SEE YA THERE.

LAS VEGAS WRANGLERS HOCKEY

2011-12-02T23:25:00.000-08:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com

PLANET HOLLYWOOD SPECIAL EVENT

2011-11-30T19:30:00.001-08:00

Three Legendary Groups – One Powerhouse Performance

The Platters, Cornell Gunter’s Coasters & The Marvelettes Celebrate 10,000th Show

Las Vegas, NV, December 1, 2011: The Las Vegas show that takes audiences “back to the time of their lives” wants to give back to the city it calls home! The Platters, Cornell Gunter’s Coasters & The Marvelettes show is offering $20 tickets to locals December 1st through December 8th in honor of the show’s 10,000th performance.

The Platters, Cornell Gunter’s Coasters & The Marvelettes perform live in concert inside the beautiful Crown Theater at the Rio Hotel & Casino. The Platters is one of the best-selling groups of all time with more than a dozen top-20 hits including “The Great Pretender,” “Twilight Time,” and “Only You.” Cornell Gunter’s Coasters is known for such hits as “Poison Ivy,” “Charlie Brown” and “Yakkety Yak,” while The Marvelettes was Motown’s first group to have a #1 song on Billboard, “Please Mr. Postman.”

These iconic performers blast onto the stage, belting out the most popular songs and beloved ballads ever recorded in a high-energy performance you will never forget. Each show is all live from the vocals to the band, creating an atmosphere critics call a “timeless showcase.”

To take advantage of this special anniversary offer, locals simply need to show their Nevada IDs at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino box office December 1st through December 8th to purchase their tickets.

For more information about The Platters, Cornell Gunter’s Coasters & The Marvelettes, log onto CrownTheater.com or call 702.727.6966. To schedule an interview with the performers or to book them on your entertainment segment, please call Shelley Bruner at 702.278.1389.

NUTCRACKER

2011-11-24T10:27:00.001-08:00

Nutcracker Traditions in Las Vegas - What has more than 234 feet, thousands of yards of fabric, beloved characters and is one of Las Vegas' most cherished family traditions? For the past 30 years, Las Vegas friends and families have enjoyed the magic of Nevada Ballet Theatre's production of The Nutcracker.

This year's production is choreographed by Peter Anastos the Artistic Director of Ballet Idaho. It includes over 100 roles for children. Anastos' lighthearted and whimsical artistry brings to life imaginative choreography and ornate sets and costumes, with an elegant holiday party, a Christmas garland dance and a mix of magical characters.

In addition to an expanded run of 10 performances at Paris Las Vegas from December 17 to the 24th, the on-site Nutcracker Boutique will be open for great keepsakes and last minute holiday shopping. This year also features the popular Sugar Plum Party at a new venue--the Sugar Factory American Brasserie on December 18 at $50 for adults and $40 for children 12 and under with Nutcracker ticket purchase.

Nutcracker Tickets Are the Perfect Gift for the Entire Family!
Call (702) 946-4567 and order yours today.

UNLV PRESENTS

2011-11-24T08:59:00.000-08:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

ANOTHER WINNER HERE ! ! !

THIS A SPECIAL EVENT FROM THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AND COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS AT HAM HALL ON THE UNLV CAMPUS.

SUPRISINGLY THIS ONE 7 MINUTES LATE....71 MINUTES OF MUSIC...AS ALWAYS PERFECT SOUND IN HAM HALL.

FINALE FROM OVERTURE...SCHUMANN 1810-1856...9 MINUTES AND WAY TOO SHORT...LOVELY OPENING SELECTION ESTABLISHING MOOD AND TEMPO, EXPERTLY PLAYED BY UNLV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA UNDER THE DIRECTION OF TARAS KRYSA.

THESE EVENTS USUALLY INCLUDE HEADLINERS TONIGHT WE GOT TWO.

CONCERTO FOR CELL0 AND ORCHESTRA...HAYDEN 1732-1809....THE OLDER THE MUSIC THE BETTER. THIS 28 MINUTES OF CELLO WITH THE ORCHESTRA. 22 YEAR JULIAN SCHWARZ FROM SEATTLE THE CELLIST...PERFECTLY BLENDED STRINGS TO ORCHESTRA IN THIS MONSTROUS SOUND COMPOSITION PERFECTLY PLAYED. I REMAIN PARTIAL TO THE STRINGS WITH THIS BEING THE HEADLINE SELECTION OF THE CONCERT FOR ME...MY FRIEND FRANK REMARKED HE HAD NEVER HEARD THE CELLO PLAYED LIKE THAT BEFORE AND HE WAS REALLY IMPRESSED...THIS IN THE THEME OF...... GO TO THESE AND ALL EVENTS YOU CAN OFTEN EXPECT TO SEE NEW EXPERIENCES YOU MAY LIKE.

SHORT INTERMISSION...ONLY THING BETTER IS NO INTERMISSION...ALTHO HERE THE PIANO HAD TO MAKE ITS ENTRANCE.

PIANO CONCERTO NO.3...BEETHOVEN 1770-1827...HERE IS A DUDE WHO CAN COMPOSE ! WHILE I REMAIN A WORKING STUDENT OF TRYING TO ENJOY THE PIANO...THIS PRESENTTION PUSHED ME ALONG IN A BIG POSITIVE WAY. INGRID FLITER THE SOLOIST...SHE IS 38 AND WORLD CLASS...THE SELECTION ALLOWED FOR THE SOFT TINKLE TOUCH AND SHE APPLIED IT PERFECTLY. HERE IS THE PENULTIMATE EXAMPLE OF COMPOSITION OF PIANO AND ORCHESTRA AND AGAIN DELIVERED PERFECTLY UNDER MAESTRO KRYSA. FLITER BORN IN BUENOS AIRES AND IS ALREADY CONQUERING THE WORLD WITH RECORDINGS, CONCERTS AND TEACHING APPEARANCES AROUND THE WORLD.

BOY DO I LOVE THESE CONCERTS IN THIS FACILITY....THANK YOU UNLV

CALL 702 895 2787 FOR ALL FUTURE EVENTS...YOU CAN'T MISS ! NEXT MAHLER SYMPHONY WITH CSN DANCE (I WON'T MISS THIS ONE) AND NEIL BERG'S BROADWAY HOLIDAY...(I WON'T MISS THIS ONE EITHER)

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ABSINTHE

2011-11-22T06:50:00.000-08:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

I LIKE AND LOVE DAMN NEAR EVERYTHING I REVIEW AND WANT THEM ALL TO SUCCEED !

NOT THIS.....AT LEAST NOT ALL OF IT ! ! !

TWENTY YEARS AGO CIRQUE CAME TO TOWN IN A TENT WITH ITS UNIQUE COSTUMED CONSUMER FRIENDLY MIX OF COMEDY AND ATHLETICS AND IT BLOSOOMED INTO MULTI WORLD CLASS LAS VEGAS SHOWS...CONTINUING TO BLOSOOM.

ABSINTHE AT CAESARS PALACE BACK LOT TENT HAS HAD AN UP AN DOWN AREADY...THIS ON THE SECOND RUN AFTER LOSING ITS STAR ATTRACTION.

ABSINTHE IS A VARIETY SHOW WITH ACROBATS, STRIPPERS, AERILISTS, BALANCING ACTS AND SOME SUPER ATHLETES...ALL VERY VERY VERY GOOD AND ENTERTAINING.

SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS IS A HOST OWNER COMDEIANE AND HIS FEMALE PARTNER WHO MANAGE TO TAKE THE SHOW INTO THE GUTTER WITH THEIR UNFUNNY AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION ATTEMPT AT HUMOR...IT AUDIENCE PLAY IN I THINK....EITHER WAY ITS AWFUL AS IS NEARLY ALL PIECES WHERE THE CROWD PARTICIPATES. MAYBE THE BIG LESSON HERE IS HOW AWUFL AND OFFENSIVE I AM WHEN I SAY FUCK ALL THE TIME AND HOW I NEED TO CLEAN UP MY ACT..I THANK THEM FOR TELLING THIS STORY TO ME...I WILL WORK ON IT. THERE WAS NOTHING AMUSING ABOUT OIL CAN HARRY YELLING AT THE CROWD...HIS FEMALE ASSISTANT WAS THE EXACT TWIN TO HIS ACT...IF THEY COULD HAVE POPPED IN A COUPLE MORE OF THE CIRQUEISH ACTS THEY WOULD HAVE HAD A SHOW.6

I THINK I WAS THE OLDEST PATRON OF A COUPLE 100 THIS NIGHT...STARTED 6 MINUTES LATE, WAS TOO DARK BUT NOT TOO LOUD...SO THEY GOT 2 OF THE BIG 3 NEGATIVES WITHOUT THE CONTENT FACTOR.

I REALLY ENJOYED EVERYTHING BUT TWO GOOFBALLS IN THIS SHOW...ADDITION BY DELETIONWS !

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SAMPSON BOXING

2011-11-21T07:13:00.000-08:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com

WELL HERE IS A REFRESHING NEW BOXING PROMOTION COMPANY THAT HAS JOINED THE LAS VEGAS SCENE.

THIS THERE FIRST EFFORT AT THE TEXAS STATION SUNDAY.

MINUSES....NOT TOO MANY...15 LATE...INTERMISSION...LACK OF PROMOTIONS. NOT BAD

PLUSES...SIX GOOD FIGHTS...ALL FIGHTERS ON THE CARD APPEARED...RAP MUSIC GREATLY REDUCED...NICE VENUE SET UP...SOME COMFORTABLE CONTINUITY BETWEEN FIGHTS.

THREE MENS FIGHTS AND THREE WITH WOMEN...AFTER THIS THERE SHOULD NEVER BE ANY NEGATIVITY DIRECTED AT WOMENS BOXING....ALL 6 LADIES CAME TO FIGHT AND DID AND STACEY REILE STEPPED TO THE HEAD OF THE CLASS TAKING ALL BUT ONE OF TEN ROUNDS FROM DAHIANA SANTANA IN THE DAYS BEST FIGHT. REILE HAD IT ALL, SHE WAS IN SHAPE, SHE BOXED, SHE PUNCHED, SHE WAS AGGRESSIVE, SHE HAD TALENT...SHE DID IT ALL....YES.

MAPI TV FAILED TO PROVIDE REPLAYS ON TV SCREENS IN THE ARENA AND THIS WAS A DOWNER.

SOME INTERESTING THINGS I NOTICED AT THE FIGHT....4 TABLES RINGSIDE FOR DINNER AND THEY SERVED THE MEALS WITH SALAD, MAIN COURSE, AND DESERT...I FELT LEFT OUT...WE GOT TO HEAR ALL 313 VERSES OF THE MEXICAN NATIONAL ANTHEM...NEITHER HEAVYWEIGHT SAT BETWEEN ROUNDS...ONE THEN SAT PERMANENTLY...STAFF HELPFUL AND FRIENDLY...LOTS OF ROUNDS FOR YOUR MONEY IN PRETTY GOOD MATCHES.

SOME TOUCHING UP HERE AND SAMPSON BOXING CAN DO FAR....THANK YOU .

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LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC + PINE

2011-11-19T23:08:00.000-08:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

THERE IS LOTS OF GREAT STUFF ON THE STRIP EVERY NIGHT....BUT NOTHING LIKE THIS !

I REMAIN SO VERY PROUD TO SAY I LIVE IN LAS VEGAS WHERE WE HAVE THE LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC !

TONIGHT IT GOT EVEN BETTER !

PRE SHOW (7 MIUTES LATE)... CONDUCTOR DAVID ITKIN DOES A PRE SHOW TALK AND USUALLY BRINGS ALONG THE SOLOIST...TONIGHT HE BROUGHT ONE OF AMERICAS TREASURES !

Can't believe I have lived this long and never heard of Rachel Barton Pine until tonight.

The pre shows continue, if possible, to get better and better and better...I love the history and nuances of the music and this information helps me enjoy the concert even more. Tonight, Pine came out, grabbed the microphone and immediately took over with her history, her charm, her personality, her playing and that ever special twinkle in her eye. I sat in row four and she looked me right in the eye and explained the evenings gig and her part in it....so sensational to hear from a genius like this and then she proved it with her artistry...more to come here.

The idea of these pre show talks is the best decision since they put slot machines in the bar. NOT LONG ENOUGH FOR ME.

Tonights program all selections that played at the highest level to my listening ear.

Aaron Copeland....Appalachian Spring Suite...relatively long 21 minute opening number to offset the shortness of the following selection. This a traditional music piece for ballet that plays well for orchestra as a popular selection unlike most other pieces for ballet. Nice look from the fourth row to see the various instruments working, especially the harp and strings...I have not heard this one enough times yet.

Alexander Glazunov...Violin Conccert in A minor, Op 82...Rachael Barton Pine violin... aheadliner on any card anywhere any time. Pine had already won me over in the pre show and while I remain partial to any violin concerto (Tchiakovsky's in particular) I had not heard this one before and it leaps to the top of any list. Pine with strong emotional efforts fires out the delicate solos in exhilarting fashion. The music a perfect blend of solo violin and orchestra as previewed in the pre show and this displayed in its entirety. This, 21 minutes of heaven.

After her two standing ovations Pine returned in my favorite colored purple gown to fire out some Paganini that included a pre piece talk about gambling, Las Vegas and the music...she did this with the same poise, delivery and class with which she played...no microphone, perfect delivery and sincere charm. This 36 year old virtuoso has already conquered the world, she is spokesperson for music, foundations and education while playing into her current world tour, she has the world at her feet and after all this she appeared in the lobby to sign autographs...I wish I could have taken her home and have her play for me every day.

Short 16 minute intermission.

Robert Schumann ....Symphony no.3, Op.97 E-flat major, Rhenish.

Conductor Itkin said this was his favorite and wished he could play it every year...32 strings, 7 cellos, 7 bass....46 strings how can you go wrong. I said after Pine that Schumann has a big job following that...he did....I retreated to the top row of the balcony for the symphony sound I like best...I got it.

In his opening remarks Itkin said the magic number is 126....days remaining until the Philharmonic moves to the Smith Center...I remarked..."I don't want to go"...the guy next to me said "me either".

The Ham Hall on UNLV campus here remains the ultimate venue for me and while I wish the Smith Center well, I fail to be able to project anything better...Ham could not sell out this magnifcent performance for 2200 ?

Started on time.

103 A+ A+ A+

LARRY GATLIN

2011-11-18T22:33:00.000-08:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

I have a special love for this performer....one of the great American songwriters !

Gatlin now 63 appearing at the South Pointe Casino Theatre on a 3 night run just folksy, fun, historical and the genuine good guy he has always been.

For an old fan like myself this is just "feel good stuff".

Gatlin touring with brothers Steve and Rudy for over 40 years remains the showman and lead performer...he is just a natural showman...all American flag flying patriot who has written songs for almost 50 years and still grabs the spotlight with his homey one of the guys approach.

I first interviewed Gatlin 30 years ago in South Dakota when he was then on one of his righteous causes...something he still profess and he always seems to be on the right side.

After opening with God Bless America...the Gatlins run through the Gatlin songbook...the true essences artistry....singer songwriter.

It has been a long time since I heard All THE GOLD IN CALIFORNIS, NIGHTIME MAGIC AND BROKEN LADY.....what nice stuff...you can still get the lyrics here...not too late...not too loud...not too dark...JUST RIGHT.

The South Pointe entertainment lineup again steps to the head of the class with continued class acts...here again to sold out houses....Gatline thru Sunday and hopefully on return trips here.

101 A+

PET THEATRE

2011-11-17T23:14:00.001-08:00

World Famous Comedy Pet Theater Back at V Theater for Remainder of 2011 and 2012After touring the West Coast, Gregory Popovich's Comedy Pet Theater is back at V Theater inside Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood for for the rest of 2011 beginning November 21st. Comedy Pet Theater features an amazing cast of housecats, dogs, parrots… even geese and mice! Critics describe it as a unique blend of comedy, world-champion juggling, and the extraordinary talents of more than 30 performing pets. Gregory Popovich has rescued the animals from shelters all over the country and transformed them into Las Vegas stars! Popovich is a fifth-generation circus performer who learned early on how to develop strong bonds with animals. He released his first book "You CAN Train Your Cat" in late 2009 and has been featured on The Tonight Show, David Letterman and in USA Today, just to name a few. Comedy Pet Theater will run 4pm daily 2012. See below for schedule or for more information go to http://vtheater.com/cpt.htm or call (702) 260 7200.

November 21-December 4 - 4:00pm - no dark dates
December 17-29 - 4:00pm - no dark dates

HANDS MEET FEET

2011-11-17T23:03:00.000-08:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

This a UNLV Department of Dance and The College of Fine Arts Presentation.

VERY NICE ! ! !

12 PIECES.... LOCAL FRESH CHOREOGRAPHY...COLLEGE DANCERS...MOSTLY GIRLS...3 GUYS AND ALL VERY GOOD PRE PROFESIONALS WORKING HARD UNDER UNLV DANCE CHAIR LOUIS KAVOURAS.

8 minutes late and a the usual useless 10 minute intermission.

I ENJOYED IT AND NOT AS MUCH ROLLING AROUND ON THE FLOOR AS USUAL.

SOJOURNER PIECE 6 BEFORE INTERMISSION WITH 3 PAIRS ESPECIALLY GOOD...I LIKED THE COMEDY SPOOF CHOREOGRAPHED BY MARGOT MINK WITH A REAL LIVE WHITE MINK TROLLED ACROSS THE STAGE TWICE...WHAT A KICK !

A SALUTE TO THESE STUDENT DANCERS...NICE EFFORT AND REALLY PRETTY WELL DANCED...I LIKED THEIR ENERGY.

THANK YOU !

88 B+

LAS VEGAS WRANGLERS HOCKEY

2011-11-12T22:54:00.000-08:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com

AS GOOD AS IT GETS ....WRANGLERS TRAIL ALL THE WAY ...WITH 9 SECONDS LEFT TIE IT UP 3-3 AND IN OVERTIME KILL 4 ON 3 PENALTY AND WITH 25 SECONDS IN OVERTIME WIN BEFORE 5170 AT THE ORLEANS ARENA.

TEAMS GO AT 207 SUNDAY LETS BE THERE !

PAY ATTENTION

2011-11-11T19:16:00.001-08:00

Las Vegas, NV-- If everything goes their way, on November 25th, Jerry and Mike Thompson will have a budget in place to make their second feature film. Las Vegas natives educated at UNLV’s film school, the Thompson brothers have a long list of award-winning short and feature length films that have screened all over the world. All of these projects were funded out of pocket. The filmmaking duo is now hoping to raise the entire budget for their latest venture, “The Popovich Pet Theater and the Voice of the Fabled American West,” via the website kickstarter.com.

According to the website, “Kickstarter.com is a new way to fund creative ideas and ambitious endeavors ... [and] is powered by a unique all-or-nothing funding method where projects must be fully-funded or no money changes hands.”

Jerry and Mike Thompson have been working with legendary performer Gregory Popovich for years on a variety of creative projects for TV and the timing felt right to take their collaboration to the next level. “We’ve worked so closely with Gregory over the years, and we started talking about how great it would be to write a feature for him to star in. Writing something around his stage persona has been really fun and plays so well to his Keaton and Chaplain antics. So we’re excited to have a way to get a project like this funded.”

The Thompson brothers aren’t strangers to independent film and enjoyed a strong premiere with “Thor at the Bus Stop,” which showed in festivals and theaters around the world. “Kickstarter wasn’t around when we were working on ‘Thor,’ so the prospect of being able to reach out to our fan base and essentially pre-sell access to the final film is very motivating. We can see the finish line right from the start and it keeps us going,” said Jerry.

Most independent artists struggle to find time for their own creative endeavors, due to the difficult fundraising environment during the last 10 years for off-beat projects. Kickstarter has proven to be a successful medium to solve that problem with hundreds of millions of dollars raised for hundreds of thousands of projects.

Funds raised on Kickstarter, will allow Jerry and Mike to hire a crew for the three week shoot, something they weren’t able to do with “Thor.” “We called in a lot of favors on ‘Thor.’ With this project, we made a decision up front that we weren’t going to do that again. With ‘Thor at the Bus Stop,’ we could shoot on weekends and everyone donated their time. Gregory has taken time off his performing and touring schedule for the film, so we pretty much have to devote every day to shooting. That’s too much to ask of our friends. We own our equipment, so really it’s just personnel during production, food and props that we need to account for.” The money would also allow the team to produce original music, special effects & titles, language transcriptions, cover legal fees, as well as the process of combining all of these elements for the final edit.

Despite an army of fans, both Jerry and Mike recognize the challenge ahead. “We only have two weeks left to get this thing funded or it isn’t happening. Let’s just say neither of us is getting a whole lot of shut-eye and we need all the help we can get,” said Mike. With 25k to go, it seems like an uphill battle, but one they’re prepared to weather.

The Thompson brothers’ The Popovich Pet Theater...” Kickstarter project runs through FRIDAY NOV 25th, 2:00AM EST. If the goal isn’t met by the end of the run, no funds change hands. Those interested in supporting the project, should visit http://kck.st/nDC5dv to learn more.

For more information, contact Jerry Thompson at 702-812-4467 or at jerry@lightforgestudios.com
Kickstarter Link: http://kck.st/nDC5dv http://www.popovichmovie.com/

The Thompson brothers’, “The Popovich Pet Theater and the Voice of the Fabled American West,” Kickstarter project runs through FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2:00AM EST. If the $28,000 goal isn’t met by this time, then no funds will be released to the filmmakers. Those interested in supporting this project should visit http://kck.st/nDC5dv to learn more.

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For more information about this project, or to schedule an interview with the Thompson brothers or with Gregory Popovich, contact Jerry Thompson at 702-812-4467 or at jerry@lightforgestudios.com
Kickstarter Link: http://kck.st/nDC5dv
http://www.popovichmovie.com/

About “The Popovich Pet Theater and the Voice of the Fabled American West” Feature Film
Popovich is a fifth generation circus performer living in a junkyard in Las Vegas with his two best friends, Rex and Sebastian, a dog and a cat respectively. Because he loves animals, his junkyard has become a haven for strays in the neighborhood. But when his angry neighbor reports him to Animal Control, Popovich and his animal friends are forced to raise money through a series of schemes to save the animals.

Each of the film’s 15 cats and 10 dogs were once strays that were rescued from animal shelters.

About Jerry and Mike Thompson
Jerry and Mike Thompson are independent filmmakers located in Las Vegas, NV. They have made dozens of award winning short films and music videos. “The Popovich Pet Theater and the Voice of the Fabled American West” will be their second feature length film. Their first feature film, “Thor at the Bus Stop,” played in film festivals all over the world.

OH WHAT A NIGHT

2011-11-11T08:57:00.000-08:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

WORLD CLASS STUFF

They started 3 minutes late to scratch a perfect score but I gave it back to them for not having an intermission !

Here is the best part...you can still go...Summerlin Library and Performing Arts Center 1771 Inner Circle Drive 878 7529...playing to capacity crowds.

The program says A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO FRANKIE VALLIE AND THE FOUR SEASONS

THATS IT....EXCACTLY...75 minutes all music we know !

This truly wonderful enjoyable sounds for people my age. I am not sure how this foursome was assembled I have seen some of them and some of this before and we are talking first class talent, first class voice and nice show production with some corny jokes bridging the songs.

Brandon Albright was sort of the lead, he is local with lots local musical history and he is a headlinger.

Bob Hyatt one of the cast that has performed this production locally before and he also works the Las Vegas circuit.

Steve Huntsman also in this production previously was able to show off his beautiful voice and comedy talents.

Blake Pullen played the host and brought a veteran musical history to the show.

Hell these guys were all great and great together and looked sensational in their studdly gray suits !

Signature Production does this show and I have yet to see any of their work that I did not like...most in the spectacular category like Oh What A Night.

Signature has used this library theatre before and they do it in a first class fashion...this without live music what would be cost prohibitive.

Can't say enough good stuff about this one...I am pre prejudiced to Valli, Jersey Boys and the Bob Gaudio songbook...so what...I am going again.

WALK LIKE A MAN

99 A+

COMPLEXION CONTEMPORARY BALLET

2011-11-06T06:52:00.000-08:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

UNLV annualy puts together a schedule of extraordinary performances of the top cultural arts events in the world...this season no different.

The Vanda Masters Series Saturday certainly topped its own history with COMPLEXIONS CONTEMPORARY BALLET.....this an offspring of Alvin Ailey dance New York.

It is world class first rate stuff....with Dwight Rhodes and Desmond Richardson founding artistic directors...modern dance with mechanics from the classics.

Richardson was here to dance and rates among the worlds best....I THOUGHT SO ON THIS NIGHT...what a body....what speed...what expression...what timing....it is always grest to see people perform who are truly exception at what they do....this the message sent here. With Richardsons influence present...the 14 dancers exhibited this high level of energy and expression.

The company brought their own sound board (most of the music too loud and not classical enough for me) high tech lighting for the still great Ham Hall on UNLV campus....everything works on this stage and I pray these events will continue.
Maybe 200 on this night...lots of competition as always in Las Vegas with the strip and UNLV-BOISE STATE football...the arts need our support.

The program like all started late and included two too many intermissions...Richardson danced.... SOLO....as the title implies with choreography from Rhoden....this piece the example of all the postives I mentioned about Richardson...actually too brief.

The entire company concluded with RISE....also choreographed by Rhoden who did the entire program...high speed mechanics in perfect red costumes for a great finale.

I LOVE THE DANCE.

Next in the UNLV series Ingrid Fliter, Piano....Julian Schwarz, Cello November 22 at 8 pm at Ham....count me in...702 895 2787 for you...support the arts !

98 A+

LAS VEGAS CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE

2011-11-05T07:41:00.000-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

11 minutes late...two too many intermissions ! NEGATIVES OUT OF THE ROAD !

This the concluding performance of the LVCDT fifth year and they continue to do a sensational job, world class dance, world class production, world class choreography and world class dancing....especially by founding father Bernard H Gaddis.

LVCDT now traveling and working in benefit shows locally will extent to the Smith Center on May 29th.

Every performance from this group has had something that just knocked my socks off...not in this program. It was all well done and well performed just not at the overwhelming level that they have stamped on themselves.

BRETHREN....7 guys bare chested in white skirts on some Christlike Cross mission that was performed flawlessly that was too long and repititious.

VESPERS....6 girls working with chairs...music too booming and repeating and this was also too long and involved some rolling around on the floor...I did not dislike it...it was well done with exceptional costumes and lighting.

METAMORPHOSIS TWO...Gaddis and Christopher McKenzie pair statuesque...too short and the best of show.

MOOD INDIGO...12 dancers in varied sequences in beautiful blue costumes, full speed and this one was the right length.

LVCDT remains world class in every way...impressive to see what they can do with a library theatre....WEST LAS VEGAS LIBRARY...LIGHTING, STAGING, SOUND, MOVEMENT AS WELL AS PERFORMANCE AND PROGRAMS.

I am sorry I was not as overwhelmed with this as I was with their previous performances...you can't make me love it...I CAN'T WAIT FOR THEIR NEXT SHOW...THIS IS RECOMMENDED TO THE WORLD...2 SHOWS REMAIN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY..702 366 9436

88 B+

PLANET HOLLYWOOD

2011-11-03T22:52:00.000-07:00

Las Vegas Theater Owner Issues Annual Challenge:

Support Veterans November 11th!

Las Vegas, NV, November 3, 2011: Theater owner David Saxe is offering free show tickets to the men and women who serve our country this Veterans Day. Saxe is also issuing his annual challenge to other Las Vegas and Henderson business owners to support our Vets.

“We should always look for opportunities to give back to those who have served in the Armed Forces, to let them know their community appreciates the tremendous sacrifices they’ve made to protect our freedom,” said Saxe.

All veterans and active-duty military who present proof of military service will receive a complimentary ticket to see any one of four shows at Saxe Theater & V Theater inside Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

The shows include V The Ultimate Variety Show, BeatleShow!, The Mentalist and VEGAS! The Show. VEGAS! The Show recently celebrated its one year anniversary and is already the hottest show on the Strip. Featuring a cast of more than 40 singers, dancers, showgirls and live big band orchestra, critics call VEGAS! The Show the “best of Las Vegas all on one stage.”

The complimentary show tickets will be issued on a first come, first serve basis Friday, November 11th at the Saxe Theater and V Theater box offices and will be valid for any of the shows that day.

Proof of military service includes a U.S. Uniform Services I.D. Card, U.S. Uniform Services Retired Identification Card, current Leave and Earning Statement, photograph in uniform, Veterans Organization Card (American Legion, VFW, etc.) and DD214.

For more information, please contact Shelley Bruner at 702.318.6490 or send an email to pr@davidsaxe.com.

Shelley Bruner
Director of Advertising & Public Relations
David Saxe Productions
920 S. Commerce Street
Las Vegas, NV 89106
702.318.6490

Confidentiality Notice: This message including any attachments contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message, or any attachment, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the original sender or David Saxe Productions at 702-243-9820 immediately by telephone or by return E-mail and delete this message along with any attachments, from your computer. Thank you.

DANCE DANCE DANCE

2011-11-01T20:35:00.000-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

The Nevada Ballet Theatre season kicked off with a two nighter at the Paris Hotel Casino Theatre....super venue...five pieces....as usual it was late.

GREAT DANCE THROUGHOUT.

I remain a colossal fan of dance and and this company and this show again illustrated why....world class dance...world class choreograpy...world class costumes and now inventive new contemporary pieces with a touch of the classics.

CONCERTO BAROCCO......FROM GEORGE BALANCHINE WITH THE DOUBLE VIOLIN CONCERTO FROM SEBASTIAN BACH. ALL THE ELEMENTS HERE...TEN GIRLS IN CLASSIC WHITE WITH MALE LEAD GRIGORI ARAKELYAN. JUST SUPER...LOTS OF EFFORT WITH A FULL STAGE OF PERFECT DANCERS MARRIED TO THE VIOLIN. THEY STARTED WITH THEIR BEST STUFF THIS DAY !

CINQ GNOSSIENNES...... FROM NBT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR JAMES CANFIELD...FIVE SHORT PIECES WITH A LOT OF IT IN SILHOUTTE FORMS IN FRONT OF LOVELY COLORFUL FULL SHEET BACKGROUNDS. NOTHING TO NOT LIKE HERE.

LONG INTERMISSION WITH PROMOS AND THANKS AND NOW THREE MORE PIECES.

TOO BEAUCOUPM....... FROM THE HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO...16 GUEST DANCERS IN ALL WHITE OUTER SPACE COSTUMES...ATHLETIC...WELL DANCED...TOO LONG.

PETITE MORT................... CHOREOGRAPHY JIRI KYLIAN WITH LIVE PIANO AND MOZART COMPOSTION...HARD TO GO WRONG WITH THIS...CONTAINED SOME WONDERFUL SOLOS AND PAIRS AGAIN IN SILHOUTTE FORM IN FRONT OF THE FULL SHEET COLOR SET...IT WAS NICE.

UP...FINALE...CHOREOGRAPHY FROM CANFIELD AND MUSIC FROM RICHARD ROGERS...BLUE MOON IN DIFFERENT REPEATED VOCALES FOR THE SOLOISTS AND PAIRS...ALISSA DALE YOU WERE CATS PAJAMAS IN YOUR SET.

A FEW LIGHTING ISSUES, OVERALL VERY STRONG...ENJOYED A RARE THIRD ROW SEAT...EYE LEVEL TO THE STAGE AND AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONCENTRATE ON LOWER LEG LEVEL WORK WHICH I REALLY ENJOYED...THE BALLET LIKE SOME ART TO BE ENJOYED AT DIFFERENT TIMES FROM DIFFERENT LEVELS.

THIS WHOLE THING JUST NBT SIGNATURE WORLD CLASS DANCE.

ONE MORE SHOW AT THE PARIS...THE NUTCRACKER...DECEMBER 17 TO 24...702 946 4567

NBT MOVING TO THE NEW SMITH CENTER IN 2012...I AM HOPING THE THEATRE IS UP TO DANCE COMPANYS CONSISTENT EFFORTS.

91 A-

P B R WORLD FINALS

2011-10-30T21:39:00.000-07:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com

THE PBR HAS NOW BECOME THE NUMBER ONE EVENT IN LAS VEGAS ON THE LAS VEGAS ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE....NASCAR BACKUP JUST A SKOOSH !

BOOTH EVENTS WORLD CLASS....GREAT EVENTS....GREAT PRODUCTION AND CREDIBILITY AND BOTH ARE ALL AMERICAN....FLYING THE FLAG...EATING APPLE PIE...SALUTING THE FLAG AND THE MILITARY AND BOTH EVENTS... FAN FRIENDLY...BEER...BLUE JEANS WITH QUALITY PEOPLE.

THE PBR JUST FINISHED 5 EVENTS AT THE THOMAS AND MACK CENTER ON THE UNLV CAMPUS...THE FACILITY ONLY PERFECT FOR THE EVENT AND THE PBR AND THEIR PRODUCTION TEAM PLAY IT LIKE A STRADIVARIUS !

ON TOP OF THE FACT THAT THE PBR HAS A QUALITY EVENT WITH WORLD CLASS COMPETITION...I JUST FEEL GOOD GOING....THE WHOLE THING IS FAN FRIENDLY WITH HORNS AND WHISTLES AND CLOWNS AND GIVEWAYS FROM SPONSERS AND FRIENDS AND THE PROGRAM IS THE PROTOTYPE FOR WHAT THEY TAUGHT US IN PROMOTION-PRODUCTION-ADVERTISING IN COLLEGE.

I LIKE A WELL OILED MACHINE AND UNLIKE THE BALLET WHICH I FOLLOWED THE PBR WITH....THE PBR STARTS ON TIME.

A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO ALL WHO MAKE THIS EVENT SUCH A SUCCESS... THEY ALL BE BACK IN LAS VEGAS NEXT OCTOBER AND I RECOMMEND THIS EVENT TO THE WORLD. pbr.com

NO ONE WHO ATTENDS THIS EVENT HAS REGRETS.... THIS INCLUDES THE ENTIRE LAS VEGAS ENTERTAINMENT REPORTING STAFF....WE ENJOYED HELPING PROMOTE THE PBR.

GREAT TO SEE FANS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD AND ESPECIALLY BRAZIL WHICH PROVIDED THE CREAM OF THE CROP RIDERS FOR 2011.

SILVANO ALVES THE NEW WORLD CHAMPION....$1.4 MILLION ....NO WORDS HERE OR ELSEWHERE PROVIDE THE BUZZ YOU GET AT THE PBR WORLD FINALS.

102 A+ A+

LAS VEGAS CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE

2011-10-30T21:25:00.000-07:00

THIS WEEKEND

The Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theater Fall Concert Series 2011
November 4,5,& 6 at the Las Vegas Library Theater. For more information
visit their website at www.LVDance.org or call (702) 366-9436

PBR NATIONAL FINALS

2011-10-29T21:47:00.000-07:00

BY John Mastalir jmastalir@yahoo.com

IT JUST DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS !

FOUR NIGHTS IN THE BOOK...GRAND FINALE SUNDAY AT 1130AM THOMAS AND MACK CENTER LAS VEGAS.

WHAT A WORLD CLASS EVENT THIS IS FOR EVERY REASON.

MAY BE THE BEST IS THE PEOPLE AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION THEY HAVE NOT TO MENTION THE WORLD CLASS EVENT THEY PRESENT WITH LIMITLESS DANGERS.

HERE ARE FEW MORE RANDON THOUGHTS.

CLOWN CLINT RASMUSSON A SUPER ENTERTAINER AND HE ENRICHS MY LIFE.

GUILHERME MARCHI FROM BRAZIL IS THE SIGNATURE ATHLETE FOR THIS ORGANIZATION WITH HIS CHARM, STRENGTH, DEDICATION, GOOD GUY PERSONNA AND HIS HALL OF FAME ABILITY TO RIDE BULLS AND DO IT WITH CLASS....HE HAS BECOME ONE OF MY HEROES...TONIGHT ON A NEVER RIDDEN BULL NAMED SANCHO...MARCHI SCORED 90 AND BECAME THE FIRST OF 23 TO RIDE THE BULL.

17,000 PRETTY GOOD FANS SUPPORTED THIS EVENT AND I AM PROUD TO BE ONE OF THEM.

SUNDAY THE FINALE AT THE THOMAS AND MACK AND I THANK THE PBR FOR ALL THAT THEY ARE FOR COMING TO MY HOME TOWN FOR THEIR FINALE.

I THANK THE STAR SPONSERS OF THIS TOO, WRANGLER, COOPER TIRE, JACK DANIELS, FORD AND DICKIES AMONG MANY OTHERS...I WISH THE PBR WAS RUNNING THE COUNTRY.

101 A+

NEVADA BALLET THEATRE

2011-10-28T23:45:00.001-07:00

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will be performing two Las Vegas Premiere's - Jiří Kylián's Petite Mort and Sharon Eyal's Too Beaucoup for Dance Dance Dance! opening Nevada Ballet Theatre's 40th Anniversary Season on the Las Vegas Strip at Paris Las Vegas October 29 & 30.

Jiří Kylián choreographed Petite Mort for the Salzburg Festival in commemoration of the second centenary of Mozart's death. He chose as his music the slow movements of two of Mozart's most beautiful and popular piano concertos and plays with black baroque dresses, which at times appear to exist separately from the dancers and at others to be molded to their bodies.

Too Beaucoup is a full-company work created for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago by Sharon Eyal and her co-creator Gaï Behar. This world premiere is the choreographic sequel to Bill, a piece created by Eyal and Behar for Batsheva Dance Company in 2010, inspired partly by the video artist Bill Viola. Bill is about things people experience very strongly, which change without notice - like a view passing by.

NBT will be performing George Balanchine's Concerto Barocco; and Canfield's Cinq Gnossiennes with live accompaniment along with Canfield's Up, a ballet performed to versions of Richards Rogers "Blue Moon."

Listen to KNPR's "State of Nevada's" interview with Glenn Edgerton (Artistic Director of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago) and James Canfield discuss the pieces being performed.

LESS STAR ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY

2011-10-28T23:37:00.000-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas

PBR....TWO FLIGHTS LIVE AND 4 ON TV AT ORLEANS ARENA...BULLS WIN BIG TONIGHT

ORLEANS ARENA....WRANGLERS 9 COLORADO 3...11 TOO MANY GOALS ...LAMPEE HAT TRICK PLUS ONE AND TWO ASSISTS FOR RECORD 6 POINT NIGHT.

WORLD SERIES ON TV...GLAD THAT CRAP IS OVER

COLLEGE FOOTBALL ON TV MORMANS SMOKED BY TCU

SATURDAY UNLV FOOTBALL AND PBR 4

4 STAR ENTERTAINMENT THURSDAY

2011-10-27T22:20:00.002-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

6 P M PBR BULL RIDING AT THOMAS AND MACK LAS VEGAS ....FIRST HOUR

710 P M ORLEANS ARENA HOCKEY WRANGLERS LOSE 5-3 GIVING UP 4 THIRD PERIOD GOALS...
DURING THE HOCKEY GAME ON 3 TVS...WORLD SERIES GAME 6...WORST BASEBALL IN
HISTORY...
ESPN FB VIRGINA 28 MIAMI 21
VERSUS TV...FINAL 4 ROUNDS OF PRB BULL RIDING ...KEY EVENT OF DAY

DURING TV BREAKS WE WERE ABLE TO SWITCH TO THE ANIMAL PLANET FOR SOME KEY COLD WEATHER VIEWING OF MUSK OXEN, BEARS, WOVERINES AND FOXES.

4 STAR DAY....MORE OF SAME FRIDAY

THURSDAY 4 STAR DAY FOR ENTERTAINMENT

2011-10-27T22:20:00.001-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas

PBR NATIONAL FINALS

2011-10-26T21:50:00.000-07:00

by john mastalir jmastalir@yahoo.com

ITS THE 19TH YEAR OF THE PROFESSIONAL BULL RIDERS FINALS IN LAS VEGAS AT THE THOMAS AND MACK CENTER...TRULY AMONG THE GREATEST EVENTS IN THE CITIES HISTORY !

TONIGHT THE FIRST OF FIVE CHAMPIONSHIP ROUNDS....BULLS 34 COWBOYS 9
BEST SCORE RYAN DIRTEATER ON BOISD'ARE

THE REST OF THIS ....RANDOM THOUGHTS ON A GREAT EXPERIENCE.

YOU MEET A BETTER CLASS OF PEOPLE HERE !

ITS RED WHITE AND BLUE AND WAVE THE FLAG..... ALL AMERICAN !

FIRST CLASS SHOW PRODUCTION WITH TV....GREAT SPONSERSHIP...GREAT PROGRAMMING !

THERE TRULY IS EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR WITH ONLY 8 SECONDS OF SUCCESS TO RIDE...9 RIDERS SUCCEDED TONIGHT ...THATS 72 SECONDS OF WIN....LOTS OF SHOWTIME AND ANTICIPATION !

TERRIFIC PRE GAME SHOW...HORNS AND WHISTLES AND SINGERS AND FLAGS AND FIRE AND FIREWORKS IN A PERFECT LAS VEGAS VENUE.

FILLED THE BOTTOM HALF OF THE VENUE TONIGHT MAYBE 10,000....MORE EXPECTED FOR THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY AT 6 AND SUNDAY AT 1130AM....TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE THOMAS AND MACK !

LOTS OF BLUE JEANS AND COWBOY HATS...WEARING MINE TOMORROW !

FAN OF THE NIGHT FROM SOUTH DAKOTA...MY HOME STATE !

WITH A JOURNALISM DEGREE FROM SOUTH DAKOTA IN 1972...IT WAS TRULY AMAZING TO SIT BEHIND THE ANNOUCERS AND WATCH THEM WORK FROM SCRIPT...A COLORED CHRISTMAS TREE COMPUTER SCREEN AND AD LIB...THEY MADE IT LOOK EASY !

THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD WEEKLY THROUGHOUT THE STATES CONCLUDING HERE, HOW LUCKY WE ARE FOR THIS EXPERIENCE.

LIKE NASCAR, THE PRODUCTION AND TIMING OF EVERYTHINBG ARE PERFECT AND FAN FRIENDLY !

THE TOTAL EXPERIENCE RUNS LIKE A SWISS WATCH....THEY HAVE DONE THIS ALL BEFORE !

THE FIRST BULL GOT HIS HORN BETWEEN THE VEST AND FLAK JACKET OF ONE OF THE CLOWNS SETTING THE TONE OF EXCITEMENT AND DANGER FOR THE ENTIRE WEEKEND. HE RECOVERED AND LIKE EACH OF THESE EVENTS MORE THAN BUMPS AND BRUISES FOR LOTS OF RIDERS 1

I CONTINUE TO BE AMAZED BY THE BOBCAT DRIVER WHO RAKES THE INFIELD BETWEEN FLIGHTS !

IN THE WHAT MORE CAN THEY DO CATEGORY THEY HAVE ADDED GOLD SEQUINS TO THE DIRT !

THE THINKING NEVER STOPS HERE !

GREAT TO WORK WITH PBR PR HEAD JACK CARNEFIX WHO NEVER STOPS AND IS ON HAND FOR ALL MEDIA AND ALL THEIR NEEDS !

QUITE A FEW SMOKELESS TOBACCO USERS IN THIS CROWD...USING PLASTIC CUPS !

PRETTY SURE THIS CROWD WAS ALL YOUNGER THAN ME....BUT THATS THE DEAL DAMN NEAR EVERYWHERE !

LOTS OF COMMERICALS AND NEVER MORE THAN 4 RIDES TO TV BREAKS...WITH 43 RIDERS YOU CAN DO THE MATH....BUT THEY NEED SPONSERS WITH WRANGLER, JACK DANIELS, COOPER TIRE AND FORD CARRYING THE HEAVY END.

CLASS CLOWN FLINT RASMUSSON PRETTY MUCH THE SIGNATURE FACE TO THESE EVENTS...HE IS FIRST CLASS FUN, LOTS OF ENERGY AND HE IS PEOPLE FRIENDLY !

ONE OF THE ARENA CLOWNS HAS A TV CAMERA ON HIS SAFETY HELMET...THINKING HERE NEVER STOPS !

PBR OWNS A GIANT VIDEO SCREEN (TWO SIDED) THAT OVERFLOWS WITH REPLAYS...AMAZING THAT LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY...THOMAS AND MACK...SAM BOYD STADIUM AND THE ORLEANS ARENA ARE LIGHT YEARS BEHIND THE TIMES HERE !

INDOOR FIREWORKS SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF ME AND I AM NOT TOO CRAZY ABOUT FIRE EITHER !

THE COWBOY ROPER IN THE ARENA HAS A PINK ROPE....NO END TO THE THINKING HERE !

I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT FOUR PROGRAMS !

102 A+ A+

NEVADA BALLET THEATRE

2011-10-25T23:16:00.000-07:00

See James' Canfield's Up - a ballet performed to versions of "Blue Moon"*(including Cowboy Junkies and Billie Holiday) - a part of Dance Dance Dance! opening Nevada Ballet Theatre's 40th Anniversary Season on the Las Vegas Strip at Paris Las Vegas October 29 & 30.

NBT will also be performing George Balanchine's Concerto Barocco; and Canfield's Cinq Gnossiennes with live accompaniment. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will also be performing two Las Vegas Premiere's - Jiří Kylián's Petite Mort and Sharon Eyal's Too Beaucoup.

Tickets from $29. Buy now. Special Offer - $40 Premium Seat (normally $55**) for Opening Night plus No Cover, Front of Line access to Chateau Nightclub and Gardens. Use code Bravo at checkout.

(702) 946-4567

* "Blue Moon" was written by Richard Rogers (with lyrics by Lorenz Tate) - one of two individuals to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony and Pulizer Prize.

**Not including box office fees.

UNLV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

2011-10-25T22:50:00.000-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

SO MANY SYMPHONYS TO BE HEARD SO LITTLE TIME....GOT THREE MORE TONIGHT.

UNLV FOOTBALL TEAM RANKED 151ST OF 120
UNLV BASKETBALL TEAM RANKED 36TH OF 221
UNLV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RANKED NUMBER 1 AHEAD OF THE ENTIRE FIELD

THE UNLV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AT THE PEAK OF ITS POWERS TONIGHT ON CAMPUS AT HAM HALL FOR THREE PERFECT PIECES.

MUSIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR TARAS KRYSA ABLE TO SELECT MUSIC TO MY EAR ON THIS NIGHT. MR KRYSA THE REASON YOU REMAIN ONE OF MY HEROES IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID TONIGHT AND WHEN YOU GO TO BE THIS EVENING....THINK TO YOURSELF...JOB WELL DONE !

MUSSORGSKY...DAWN ON THE FLOWER...7 MINUTES OF SOFT STRINGS CONDUCTED BY ONE OF THE STUDENTS. PERFECT OPENER.

RACHMANINOV...RHAPSODY ON A THEME OF PAGANINI....SOLOIST JAE AHN-BENTON ON THE PIANO...THE PERFECT MELD OF ALL ORCHESTRA PARTS ESPECIALLY THE STRINGS TO THE PIANO. PROGRAM DESCRIBED IT PERFECTLY..."RACHMANINOV ARTFULLY BLURS THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN SOLOIST AND ACCOMPANIST"...GREAT STUFF. WHILE I REMAIN PARTIAL TO THE STRINGS THIS PIECE AND ITS DEVELOPMENT HELPED ME LEAN A TISH TO THE PIANO...SOLOIST JUST MAGNIFICENT IN HIS YOUTH, HIS APPROACH AND HIS LOW KEY VIRTUOSITY.

INTERMISSION

STRAVINSKY....L'OISEAU DE FEU...THE FIREBIRD OF COURSE THE SIGNATURE PIECE FOR STRAVINSKY AND THIS SWEET 25 MINUTES MIMICKED THAT CLASSIC...AGAIN REFERING TO THE PROGRAM..."OUTSTANDING BALANCE BETWEEN LYRIC AND RHYTHMIC ELEMENTS".

VERY ENJOYABLE SELECTION OF MUSIC TONIGHT...WELL PLAYED...WELL CONDUCTED AND IN THE SOUND PERFECT HAM HALL.....AUDIO HERE REMAINS UNSURPASSED IN THE WORLD.

SURE GLAD I LIVED TO HEAR THIS AND ANXIOUSLY AWAIT THIS GROUPS NEXT CHALLENGE.

WHILE THE LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC IS UNFRIENDLY TO THE PATRONS THE UNLV SYMPHONY WELCOMES THE WORLD TO GREAT WONDERS. CALL 895 2787 FOR FUTURE PROGRAMS.

THANK YOU TO 58 PLAYERS AND ONE GREAT CONDUCTOR TONIGHT, YOU HAVE CONTINUED TO ENRICH MY LIFE. I MADE THE CHOICE TONIGHT OF MUSIC OVER HOCKEY AND IT WAS THE CORRECT ONE.

STARTED ON TIME WITH ALL ELEMENTS IN PLACE.

101 A+ A+

NEVADA BALLET THEATRE

2011-10-24T21:17:00.000-07:00

LAS VEGAS WRANGLERS HOCKEY

2011-10-24T00:12:00.000-07:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com

LAS VEGAS 3 BAKERSFIELD 2....OVERTIME....LAMPREY YOU ARE NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD.

GREATE HOCKEY SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE ORLEANS ARENA

TUESDAY 707 UTAH AT LAS VEGAS

FRIRDAY AND SATURDAY COLORADO AT LAS VEGAS 707

THE KINGSTON TRIO

2011-10-23T23:08:00.000-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

54 YEARS AND COUNTING FOR THIS FOLK GROUP.....

THE SOUTH POINTE HOTEL AND CASINO THEATRE HOSTING THIS WEEKEND THREE NIGHTER TO SOLD OUT CROWDS FOR MUSIC FROM THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES FOR THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES AND OLDER.

ALWAYS GLAD TO HEAR MUSIC I KNOW AND NOT NEW STUFF...NO PROBLEM WITH THAT HERE.

GEORGE GROVE OF HENDERSON WITH A COLOSSAL HISTORY REMAINS ONE OF THE WORLDS GREATEST BANJO PLAYERS...HE ALSO DOES PRECUSSION AND VOCALS...AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME.

BOB ZORN ....LEAD....BIG HISTORY WITH FOLK GROUPS AND THE TRIO....CAN REALLY SING...I HAVE ENJOYED BOB THROUGH THE YEARS AND HE TOO ON THE TOP OF HIS GAME TONIGHT.

RICK DAUGHERTY...BARITONE...BEAUTIFUL VOICE AND COMEDY LINES.

THE TRIO ALWAYS HAS BEEN A FOURSOME WITH BASS...ALSO PERFECT TONIGHT.

BOB SHANE THE DADDY OF THE KINGSTON TRIO LIVES IN PHOENIX AND USUALLY MOTORS UP FOR THE LAS VEGAS GIG...DID TONIGHT AND SANG HIS CLASSIC ....SCOTCH AND SODA... AS WELL AS... TOM DOOLEY...BOB IN THE LAST CLASS OF THE HALL OF FAME AND STILL IN VOICE AT 80.

JUST A WONDERFUL 90 MINUTES IN A PERFECT VENUE FOR AN APPRECIATE CROWD...THANKS TO THE SOUTH POINTE FOR BRINGING JOY TO MY LIFE AND TO LOTS OF OTHERS...

THE SHOW STARTS ON TIME, GOES 90 MINUTES AND LEAVES YOU WANTING MORE....GREAT SOUND IN THIS VENUE AND WITH THIS PROGRAM YOU GET TO HEAR ALL THE LYRICS....WHAT A NOVELTY.

SOUTH POINTE BRINGING IN THE LETTERMEN AND THE GATLIN BROTHERS AMONG OTHERS...SUPER SPOT FOR PEOPLE MY AGE (67)....NICE TO BE IN A CROWD WHERE I AM NOT THE OLDEST PATRON.

NOT ENOUGH GOOD THINGS TO BE SAID ABOUT THIS SHOW....I AM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE SUCCESS OF THIS IS....LYRICS...TALENT...SOUND...HISTORY...STORYTELLING....MAYBE WHEN WE HEAR ....PETE SEEGERS...."WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE", THE QUESTION IS ANSWERED...MAYBE ITS A COMBINATION OF ALL THE ABOVE....SPECIAL THANKS TO THE GROUP FOR THEIR CLOSER "CALIFORNIA".

ONLY A+ A+ 97 HERE

LAS VEGAS WRANGLERS HOCKEY

2011-10-22T06:50:00.000-07:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR

HOME SEASON OPENS AT THE ORLEANS FOR THE TENTH YEAR TO 5962 WITH A 4-1 WIN OVER ONTARIO.

THE GREATEST PRO SPORTS FRANCHISE EVER IN LAS VEGAS AT THE GREATEST FACILITY.

HOME GAME 2 TONIGHT AT 707 AGAINST BAKERSFIELD AT THE ORLEANS ARENA.

NO SYMPHONY CREDENTIALS...I AM AT THE GAME...SEE YA.

UFL

2011-10-22T06:49:00.001-07:00

ITS OVER

VIRGINIA 17 LAS VEGAS 3

THREE SEASONS OF GREAT FOOTBALL

THANK YOU

UFL

2011-10-20T21:38:00.001-07:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, October 20, 2011

UNITED FOOTBALL LEAGUE ANNOUNCES 2011 AWARD WINNERS

Destroyers' Schottenheimer is League's Coach of the Year; Rhodes, Schweigert and Woods earn top player honors

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JACKSONVILLE, FL – Thursday, October 20, 2011 – In advance of Friday's two postseason games, the United Football League today has announced its 2011 award winners.

Marty Schottenheimer of the Virginia Destroyers is the 2011 UFL Coach of the Year after leading the first-year franchise to a 3-1 record and a spot in the UFL Championship Game. The UFL's leading rusher and all-time touchdown leader, Destroyers running back Dominic Rhodes, is the 2011 UFL Offensive Player of the Year, Omaha Nighthawks safety Stuart Schweigert, one of the UFL's top tacklers and interceptors, is the 2011 UFL Defensive Player of the Year and Sacramento Mountain Lions return dynamo Aaron Woods, the UFL's top kickoff returner, is the 2011 UFL Special Teams Player of the Year.

Schottenheimer guided the Destroyers to a spot in the title game in both his and their first UFL season. Virginia won its first three games of the season, and went 2-0 at the Virginia Beach Sportsplex. The sixth-winningest Head Coach in National Football League history, Schottenheimer now has earned Coach of the Year honors in two different leagues, having previously done so in the NFL in 2004 by numerous organizations while he was with the San Diego Chargers and by Football Digest in 1997 when Schottenheimer was guiding the Kansas City Chiefs.

Rhodes led the UFL in rushing for a second year in a row in 2011, gaining 410 yards and averaging 5.2 yards per carry in four games. Rhodes also paced the league in carries (79), rushing touchdowns (six), overall touchdowns (six), yards from scrimmage (502) and all-purpose yards (502). Rhodes, whose 16 touchdowns is a UFL all-time high, also led the Destroyers with 13 catches.

Schweigert tied for second in the league with 31 total tackles (19 solo, 12 assists) in 2011, and was third in the UFL in interceptions with two. He was Omaha's tackle leader, and added a fumble recovery and a half-tackle for loss in his second UFL season. Schweigert was the UFL Week 3 Defensive Player of the Week following a seven-tackle, one-interception, one fumble-recovery effort at Sacramento.

Woods set the UFL record for longest kickoff return (47 yards) this season, and now has the league standard for longest play on a kickoff return and punt return (60 yards). He led the league with his 23.6-yard kickoff-return average, as well as pacing the circuit with 16 returns and 378 yards. His 459 all-purpose yards were second in the league behind Rhodes.

The 2011 UFL Championship Game will be Friday at 8 p.m. Eastern between the Destroyers (3-1) and the Las Vegas Locomotives (3-1) at the Sportsplex. A consolation game between the Nighthawks (1-3) and the Mountain Lions (1-3) will be Friday at 8 p.m. Eastern (7 p.m. Central) at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha.

UFL COACHES OF THE YEAR2009 - Jim Haslett, Florida Tuskers2010 - Jim Fassel, Las Vegas Locomotives
2011 - Marty Schottenheimer, Virginia Destroyers

MORE STRINGS

2011-10-20T20:46:00.000-07:00

You are cordially invited to UNLV Symphony Orchestra second concert of 2011-2012 season! Program to include works by Stravinsky, Rachmaninov and Mussorgsky!
Jean Ahn Benton is featured as our soloist and winner of annual UNLV Symphony concerto competition!

Please come and support our talented young musicians!

UNLV HAM HALL PROBABLY 7

Program Notes

Dawn on the Moscow River
Modest Mussorgsky

Dawn on the Moscow River began as a Prelude to Khovanshchina, Modest Mussorgsky’s epic opera
about the political turmoil surrounding Peter the Great’s accession to the throne. Mussorgsky began
compiling the libretto for the opera, which he wrote himself, in 1872. Over the following nine years,
Mussorgsky shifted his attention between Khovanshchina, Boris Godunov, and Sorochintsï Fair, leaving
Khovanshchina unfinished at the time of his death in 1881. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, a prolific Russian
composer and Mussorgsky’s close friend, took it upon himself to orchestra and complete a number of
Mussorgsky’s works, including Khovanshchina. He assembled the work into its present form from two
separate versions. Even still, the opera takes approximately four hours to perform. The comparatively
short prelude lasts a mere six minutes and sets the stage for the opera by subtly evoking a sunrise. The
prelude is a lyrical string of variations based on a Russian folk song. The work avoids bombastic
outbursts, moving seamlessly between different orchestrations and harmonizations of the folk song.
Dawn on the Moscow River has since solidified its place in orchestral literature as an independently
performed tone poem. Dmitri Shostakovich also orchestrated the prelude.

STRINGS

2011-10-20T20:42:00.000-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

TONIGHT AT THE HENDERSON PAVILLION 300 YOUTH STRING PLAYERS IN FOUR GROUPS ENTERTAINING THE HELL OUT OF ME.

YES

GREAT WORK KIDS...STAY ON TRACK...I LOVE YOU ALL AND THE TEACHERS AND ORGANIZERS.

DEATH

2011-10-20T20:30:00.000-07:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com

I HAVE NOW SEEN THE DEATH OF 4 PRO FOOTBALL LEAGUES, 2 BOXERS AND ONE RACE CAR DRIVER AND THEY ALL SADDEN ME EQUALLY !

THE LATEST, UFL FOOTBALL AND DRIVER DAN WHELDON...THE DEBATE ENSUES AS TO THE SAFETY OF AUTO RACING AT ANY LEVEL...I FOR ONE OVER 50 YEARS EVER WENT TO A RACE TO SEE CAR WRECKS AND CARNAGE...WHICH IS WHAT HAPPENED SUNDAY AT THE LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY WITH 15 CARS ENCOMPASSED IN TRAGIC RESULTS.

PEACE, LOVE AND SAFETY TO ALL SPORTS WHERE THE PARTICIPANTS HAVE NEVER BEEN ON STRIKE.

LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY

2011-10-16T07:08:00.001-07:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com

I HAVE SAID THIS BEFORE AND HOPEFULLY I WILL SAY IT AGAIN...

IF THE GOVERNMENT WAS RUN BY THE MANAGEMENT OF THE LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY AND NASCAR ALL OUR TROUBLES WOULD BE OVER.

WE ARE TALKING ORGANIZATION AND PROFESSIONALISM TO THE nth DEGREE.

MORE OF THE SAME SATURDAY FOR THE TRUCK RACES....DURING MY LUNCH THERE WAS A LADY WASHING THE FRONT WINDOWS OF THE MEDIA CENTER...AS SIMPLE AS THIS IS IT JUST TELLS ME EVERYONE IS SCHEDULE ON THE BALL AND DOING THERE JOB...I WENT INTO THE BIG RESTROOM AND A MAN WITH A MOP WAS AT HIS JOB...TRULY IMPRESSIVE....THEY RELEASED A PRE EVENT SCHEDULE WITH THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AT 1234...DEANA MARTIN HIT IT TO THE CUE AND AT 1235:30 THE FLYOVER WAS SCHEDULED...AT EXACTLY THAT TIME MARTIN HIT...HOME OF THE BRAVE AND THE AIR FORCE RAN 4 FIGHTER JETS IN PERFECT FORMATION OVER THE SPEEDWAY....ALWAYS A GREAT LOCATION FOR THEM BECAUSE THE NELLIS AIR BASE IS DIRECTLY EAST OF THE SPEEDWAY AND WE SEE THEM LAND AFTER THE RETURN FLYOVER.

THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE RACE FOR 40,OOO AND 34 TRUCKS...A SIMPLE LITTLE TASK FOR THE LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY.

RON HORNADAY JR. ENJOYED THE EVENT MORE THAN ANYONE...HE WON THE RACE.

TODAY AT 1245 FOR 34 OPEN WHEEL INDY CARS EXACTLY THE SAME WILL TRANSPIRE.

UFL

2011-10-16T07:06:00.000-07:00

LOCOS EDGE NIGHTHAWKS 13-6
TO SECURE SECOND PLACE IN UFL STANDINGS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - OMAHA, NE - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2011 - The Las Vegas Locos secured a firm grip on second place in the United Football League standings with a narrow 13-6 victory over the Nighthawks despite being outplayed for much of the contest by their hosts at TD Ameritrade Park.

"I thought our guys showed composure and no quit, and that's the two ingredients if you're going to come back on somebody," said Locos head coach Jim Fassel.

The Nighthawks took an early lead by capitalizing on a blocked punt on Las Vegas' first offensive series and returned the ball to the Locos five-yard line. The Nighthawks offense, led by quarterback Jeremiah Masoli, was unable to gain any positive yardage on three plays before kicker Jeff Wolfert put the hosts ahead with a 23-yard field goal.

Omaha had a chance to extend its lead early in the second quarter but instead of kicking a 30-yard field goal, the Nighthawks faked the kick but failed to convert the attempt into a first down and turned the ball over on downs. Las Vegas completed a 44-yard pass on its first play after taking over possession but the Nighthawks defense recovered to force the Locos to punt.

Nighthawks head coach Joe Moglia said: "I think it's pretty simple, you get the opportunity, not just in the red zone but inside the five or six yard line, I expect to score touchdowns and if you can't get that done you don't deserve to win the game.

"Offensively, clearly we did a poor job of making plays, we were not nearly as consistent, and that's my fault."

Stuart Schweigert led a strong defensive effort by the Nighthawks with an interception in the second quarter that led to Omaha's second field goal, this time a 25-yarder by Jeff Wolfert put the Nighthawks up 6-0 with 4:30 remaining in the first half.

The Locos were able to get on the scoreboard as the first half ended on the strength of a 53-yard field goal by Clint Stitser to make the score 6-3 in favor of the Nighthawks, who should have enjoyed more of an advantage at the interval.

Las Vegas found the end zone on their first possession of the second half when running back Marcell Shipp reached scored on a 10-yard run with 7:31 left in the third quarter earn a 10-6 lead. On Omaha's ensuing possession, the Nighthawks drove the ball to the Locos 23-yard line but the usually reliable Wolfert missed his 40-yard field goal attempt.

Omaha had another opportunity to score as they drove to the Las Vegas 9-yard line before getting pushed back to the 20. The drive stalled and Jeff Wolfert attempted a 37-yard field that was again no good and the score remained 10-6.

PBR NATIONAL FINALS

2011-10-12T19:55:00.000-07:00

LAS VEGAS 25-30 OCTOBER

The inaugural PBR Legends Reunion will officially begin the 2011 PBR Built Ford Tough World Finals in Las Vegas. MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, which was the site of the first five PBR World Finals from 1994-98, will host a series of events beginning at 4 p.m. with the Founders Forum, and continuing until 9 p.m. with the PBR Built Ford Tough World Finals Kickoff Party.

The golf tournament will be a scramble with a 7:30 a.m. shotgun start at Royal Links Golf Club. The entry fee is $375 per person or $1,500 per team, which includes four players and a tee box sponsorship. Each team will include a PBR rider. Proceeds benefit the Wrangler National Patriot Fund, which raises funds to support American military veterans and their families.

The Texas Hold ‘Em tournament has a $150 entry fee and will be at 9 a.m. at the MGM Grand Poker Room. Proceeds will benefit the Rider Relief Fund which aids injured athletes competing in the sport of bull riding at any level. There will be up to 20 PBR riders included in the field with bounty knockout prizes.

The bowling tournament will be held at 8 a.m. at South Point Bowling Center. The entry fee is $150 per person or $450 per team. Proceeds benefit the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the future of amateur football at the local, state, and national levels. Each team will include a PBR rider.

Click here to download the charity event registration form

At the Heroes and Legends Celebration Tuesday night, Tater Porter and Brent Thurman will be inducted into the Ring of Honor, and Leanne Lambert will receive the Sharon Shoulders Award. The ceremony will also include the inaugural presentation of the Brand of Honor and Jim Shoulders Lifetime Achievement Award to Little Yellow Jacket, and Rob Smets, respectively.

Confirmed Legends Reunion attendees include PBR founders and Ring of Honor members Clint Branger, Cody Custer, Jerome Davis, Bobby Delvecchio, David Founier, Michael Gaffney, Cody Lambert, Daryl Mills, Ty Murray, Aaron Semas, and Jim Sharp. Other members of the Ring of Honor scheduled to attend are Randy Bernard, Wacey Cathey, J.W. Hart, Justin McBride, Charlie Sampson, Jerome Robinson, and Adriano Moraes.

The special day gives bull riding fans an opportunity to meet their favorite riders. Every rider who has competed since the PBR began has been invited to Las Vegas to participate in the largest PBR Meet & Greet ever. Each of the competitors in the 2011 Built Ford Tough World Finals will also be at the unique event.

Each Legends Reunion ticket package contains tickets to the Founders Forum, Alumni Meet & Greet, Heroes & Legends Ceremony, and the Built Ford Tough World Finals Kickoff Party, as well as a commemorative Legends Reunion ball cap and an autograph book. For more information please click here.

PBR Fan Club members can purchase a Legends Reunion ticket for $75 by telephone at (800) 732-1727 or at www.TeamPBR.com. The general public can purchase a package that includes the Legends Reunion ticket and World Finals tickets for Round 1 on Wednesday and Round 2 on Thursday for only $150, a savings of $170, by telephone at (866) PBR-SHOW or at www.UNLVTickets.com.

For special PBR Legends Reunion hotel room rates at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, click here or call (800) 929-1111. For more information about MGM Grand, visit www.mgmgrand.com or call (855) 275-5733.

PBR Legends Reunion
7:30 a.m. Charity golf scramble at Royal Links Golf Club
8 a.m. Charity bowling tournament at South Point Bowling Center
9 a.m. Charity Texas Hold ‘Em tournament at MGM Grand Poker Room
3:30 p.m. Charity awards presentation at MGM Grand Premier Ballroom
4-5 p.m. PBR Founders Forum at MGM Grand Premier Ballroom
5-6:30 p.m. PBR Alumni Meet & Greet at MGM Grand Premier Ballroom
7:30-9 p.m. PBR Heroes & Legends Celebration at MGM Grand - Studio 54
9 p.m. PBR Built Ford Tough World Finals Kickoff Party
MGM Grand – Studio 54 (must be 21 years old to attend)

About the Professional Bull Riders, Inc. (PBR)
The PBR is the world’s premier bull riding organization. More than 100 million viewers annually watch over 400 hours of primetime PBR programming on VERSUS, NBC, CBS and networks around the world. The PBR has awarded over $100 million in prize money and 20 riders have earned over $1 million, including Justin McBride with $5.5 million -- the most of any western-sports athlete in history. The PBR was nominated as 2010 Sports League of the Year at the Sports Business Journal Sports Business Awards, alongside the National Football League, National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball. Nearly 2 million fans attend Built Ford Tough Series and Touring Pro Division events each year. For more information on the PBR, go to www.pbr.com, or follow on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TeamPBR and http://twitter.com/TEAMPBR.

NEVADA BALLET THEATRE

2011-10-09T19:42:00.000-07:00

LAS VEGAS WRANGLERS HOCKEY

2011-10-09T19:16:00.000-07:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com

EVERYTHING STILL THE SAME...

BEST SPORT VALUE IN LAS VEGAS...

BEST FACILITY AT THE ORLEANS CASINO HOTEL ARENA...

BEST COMPETITION AS THE GAMES REMAIN EVEN, COMPETITIVE AND FUN...

THE WRANGERS OPEN SEASON NUMBER 9 ON 21 OCTOBER AT 707 AT THE ORLEANS...

THREE EXHIBITION GAMES THIS WEEK PRODUCED WINS AT COLORADO AND ONTARIO...

TODAYS GAME A 3-1 LOSE AND IF THE SECOND PERIOD WOULD HAVE BEEN ONE SECOND SHORTER THE WRANGLERS WOULD HAVE BEEN SHUT OUT...NONE TO MATTER EXHIBITION PLAY WITH THE TEAM FLYING TO ALASKA TO OPEN THE SEASON THIS WEEKEND.

MORE OF THE SAME AT THE ARENA WITH THE GREAT MANAGEMENT, FRIENDLY STAFF AND GREAT ICE...

OBVIOUSLY THE VIDEO REPLAYS HAVE NOT IMPROVED AND THE WAY TOO LOUD RAP MUSIC CONTINUES AT EVERY PLAY STOPPAGE AND IT WILL I UNDERSTAND AS LONG AS THE OWNER WANTS IT SO ITS HIS GAME.

SAW SOME RETURNOMNG PLAYERS I LIKED TODAY AND RETURNING OFFICALS IN TODD OWEN AND WALLY LACIOUX...LOVE THE OFFICALS WHO KEEP THE PEACE.

STILL TIME TO GET YOUR TICKETS FOR SEASON AND FOR GAME DAYS...lasvegaswranglers.com

LOTS OF PLAYERS AND A COACH FROM THIS TEAM HAVE PROGRESSED TO THE NHL...MORE WILL...

SEE YA AT THE GAMES..

PRO FOOTBALL LAS VEGAS

2011-10-08T21:16:00.000-07:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com

THE BEST FOOTBALL TEAM THAT EVERY PLAYED IN LAS VEGAS IS THE LAS VEGAS LOCOS UFL TWO TIME DEFENDING LEAGUE CHAMPION....TONIGHT THEY PROVED IT IN EVERY WAY.

LOCOS MOVE TO SECOND PLACE IN THE UFL STANDINGS WITH HOME OPENER VICTORY OVER NIGHTHAWKS

LAS VEGAS, NV - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2011 - The two-time defending UFL champion Las Vegas Locos rode the arm of Chase Clement and the leg of Clint Stitser to a 30-10 victory over the Omaha Nighthawks before a crowd of 6,500 on Saturday night at Sam Boyd Stadium.

Clement, the 2010 UFL Championship Game MVP, completed 21 of 30 passes for 254 yards and one touchdown and also rushed for another score while Stitser, who was signed after the Locos' opening weekend loss, was a perfect 3-of-3 on field goals while scoring the game's first nine points.

The Locos (2-1) moved into second place with the victory at the halfway point of the season, while the Nighthawks fell to 1-2 and the two teams will meet again in Omaha next weekend on Saturday, October 15.

The Locos opened the scoring with a 24-yard field goal by Stitser with 1:03 left in the first quarter, capping a 74-yard, 10-play drive.

Clement completed 4 of 5 passes for 77 yards on the series, including a 47-yarder to wide receiver Andrae Thurman on third and 16 at the Las Vegas 14.

The Locos increased the lead to 6-0 early in the second quarter on a 34-yard field goal by Stitser that followed an interception by free safety Nick Turnbull of a deflected Jeremiah Masoli pass that he returned to the Omaha 17-yard line. Stitser's third field goal was a 45-yarder with 3:51 remaining before intermission that made it 9-0. That capped a 67-yard, 15-play drive that began on the Las Vegas 9.

Las Vegas extended its lead to 16-0 early in the third quarter when Clement hit tight end Jamie Petrowski slicing across the middle with a 15-yard touchdown pass. Clement was 3 of 3 for 40 yards on the 52-yard, 8-play drive.

Omaha (1-2) finally got on the scoreboard with a 43-yard Jeff Wolfert field goal with 4:00 to go in the third quarter. That capped a 63-yard, 11-play march that included a 20-yard run by Garrett Wolfe.

The Locos increased their lead to 22-3 midway through the fourth quarter on a 6-yard sweep around right end by Clement. The 68-yard, 7-play drive was highlighted by a 44-yard completion from Clement to wide receiver Saalim Hakim up the left sideline.

Omaha finally found the end zone with 4:40 to go when Masoli scrambled to his right and lobbed a 21-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Aubrey Quarles, but had left their comeback too late.

After Las Vegas recovered the ensuing onside kick, running back Marcel Shipp concluded the night's scoring with a 28-yard touchdown run with 2:10 remaining. Shipp finished with a game-high 76 yards rushing on 13 carries.

Box score to follow.

About The United Football League: The UFL provides high-quality professional football during a traditional fall season while embracing innovation and fan interaction. The UFL serves its local communities with pride and dedication, and aims to provide every fan with an exciting and memorable game experience. The inaugural 2009 champion Las Vegas Locos won a second championship in 2010, lifting the William Hambrecht Trophy with a 23-20 win over the Florida Tuskers. The 2011 season will feature the Locos, Omaha Nighthawks, Sacramento Mountain Lions and Virginia Destroyers. The UFL is led by Commissioner Michael Huyghue and is funded by a consortium of private investors. For season tickets, more information and to interact with passionate football fans, please visit www.UFL-Football.com.

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GOLDEN BOY BOXING FRIDAY TEXAS STATION

2011-10-06T18:42:00.001-07:00

The four fighters who'll compete tomorrow on ShoBox: The New Generation live on SHOWTIME ® (11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) made weight Thursday.

Unbeaten lightweights Sharif Bogere and Francisco Contreras, who will fight in the main event at Texas Station Gambling Hall & Hotel in Las Vegas, weighed 135 pounds each. Undefeated Jermell Charlo and Francisco Santana will clash in the eight-round junior middleweight co-feature. Charlo weighed 153 1/2 pounds; Santana 154.

001/002/003: Bogere (left) and Contreras face off and pose after Thursday's weigh-in at Texas Station.

004: Charlo and Santana square off.

Tickets, priced at $25 and $50, are on sale at the Texas Station Rewards Center or through Ticketmaster by calling (800) 745-3000 or online at www.ticketmaster.com.

REMINDER: The exciting ShoBox fight last May 13 between Bogere and Raymundo Beltran can be viewed in its entirety at sports.sho.com.

At http://sports.sho.com/#/boxing/videos/769

LAS VEGAS (Oct. 6, 2011) – In a battle of unbeatens, popular Sharif "The Lion" Bogere (20-0, 12 KOs) will defend his NABO lightweight title against hard-hitting Francisco Contreras (16-0, 13 KOs) in the 10-round main event tomorrow/Friday, Oct. 7, on ShoBox: The New Generation live on SHOWTIME ® (11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast).

In the co-feature at Texas Station Gambling Hall & Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev., undefeated Jermell Charlo (15-7, 7 KOs) takes on Francisco Santana (12-2-1, 6 KOs) in a eight-round junior middleweight match.

Tickets, priced at $25 and $50, are on sale at the Texas Station Rewards Center or through Ticketmaster by calling (800) 745-3000 or online at www.ticketmaster.com.

WEIGHTS: Bogere and Contreras weighed the division-limit 135 pounds. Charlo tipped scale at 153½ pounds, Santana 154.

REMINDER: The exciting ShoBox fight last May 13 between Bogere and Raymundo Beltran can be viewed in its entirety at sports.sho.com. Bogere survived a cut over the left eye and an inspired performance by the upset-minded underdog to capture a bloody, close, crowd-pleasing 10-round decision at Primm, Nev. Bogere won a hard-fought, unanimous nod over Beltran by the scores of 96-94 twice and 97-93, but some felt it could have gone either way. SHOWTIME announcers Curt Menefee and Steve Farhood both scored it a draw.

PRO FOOTBALL LAS VEGAS

2011-10-05T21:56:00.001-07:00

Las Vegas Locomotives Host First Home Game Saturday, Oct. 8

What: The two-time defending United Football League Champion Las Vegas Locomotives host their first home game of the 2011 season against the Omaha Nighthawks. The Locos (1-1) and Nighthawks (1-1) are playing for sole possession of second place in the UFL standings.

Who: Las Vegas Locomotives, led by head coach Jim Fassel

Omaha Nighthawks, led by head coach Joe Moglia

When: Saturday, Oct. 8
3 p.m. Pregame Fan Fest, Press Box opens

5 p.m. Kickoff

Where: Sam Boyd Stadium

7000 E. Russell Rd.

Las Vegas, NV 89122

GAME 3: LAS VEGAS LOCOS (1-1) HOST OMAHA
IN THE TEAM’S HOME OPENER AT SAM BOYD STADIUM

Site: Sam Boyd Stadium

Date: Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011

Kickoff: 5 p.m. (PDT); 7 p.m. (CDT); 8 p.m. (EDT)

Media

Radio: FOX Sports Radio 920 AM; http://werlv.com/ (Las Vegas)

KOZN 1620AM; http://1620thezone.com (Omaha)
Announcers: Mitch Moss (play-by-play), Doug Marsh (color) – Las Vegas

Mike'l Severe (play-by-play), Matt Seigel (color) – Omaha

UTAH

2011-10-02T18:38:00.000-07:00

29 SEPTEMBER...DRIVE TO CEDAR CITY UTAH...PRE SHOW LECTURE...NOISES OFF
NEW MEXICAN CHAIN RESTAURANT
PRE SHOW LECTURE...DAIL M FOR MURDER
30 SEPTEMBER...POST SHOW SEMINAR...PROP SHOW SEMINAR...BOTH BRILLIANT
DRIVE TO ST GEORGE ...LITTLE MERMAID AT TUACHAN
1 OCTOBER.....DRIVE TO CEDAR CITY...ACTORS SEMINAR...DAVID IVERS BRILLIANT
COLLEGE FOOTBALL NORTH DAKOTA 26 SOUTHERN UTAH 20...AWFUL FOOTBALL
DRIVE TO ST GEORGE....GREASE AT TUACHAN...BRILLIANT

UNLV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

2011-09-27T21:02:00.000-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

I am just glad to be alive and to enjoy this !

Last night I went to Rick Faguno (plays Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys)...he was 4 minutes late...when I saw the musicians come out...there were no strings...I was heartbroken...he sang 3 songs I never heard of.....I left....

NOT TONIGHT

The UNLV Symphony Orchestra right on time to the second, 35 strings, 63 pieces.... classical music to the T at Ham Hall on UNLV campus.

For a school embarassed by the basketball players conduct and the ineptness of their football team this orchestra continues to be a shinning star representing the school...and for a number of years with changing personnel and students.

The glowing gem to this marvel is UNLV professor of orchestras and conductor Taras Kyrsa, one of my personnel heroes with a record to prove it. I was thinking of the organization and instruction needed for 63 personalities, abilities and tempermanents and he had each performing perfectly. 63 students in uniform black gowns and suits with no shirttails out...the UNLV football team wishes they could look and play like this, everybody on the same page with timing, rehersal, preparation and results.

I am not an expert on classical music but I know what I like and I will know if there is a sour note or two available....not tonight !

The exciting thing about the classical music program is you never know what you will get and of course..... some better than others and all to taste...my taste tonight.

Johannes Brahams...Academic Festival Overature...perfect brief opening number just 13 minutes..

Ralph Vaughn Williams....Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis...just brilliant and not the first Williams piece I have fell in love with...after the Brahams piece I noticed the horns and percussion leaving...instantly judging..."this can't be bad". Just great 35 strings alone in three separate orchestras in a clever never before seen arrangement. Great string stuff with the principals highlighting several sections. Just 15 minutes with the perfect ending....leaving me wanting more..HARD TO TOP THIS.

Intermission....I thought Krysa was on the NFL halftime schedule...12 minutes exactly.

Robert Schumann...Symphony No.4 in D Minor, Op.120...full orchestra...loved it...840 and I am in the car.

One of my themes is ...."SO MANY SYMPHONYS TO BE HEARD...SO LITTLE TIME"...I cashed in on three more tonight before I die.

Call UNLV 895 2787 for upcoming programs like this and similar good stuff.

A big thank you to conductor Krysa and these students for making my day !

102 A+ A+

WOMAN OF THE YEAR

2011-09-20T17:28:00.000-07:00

‘WOMAN OF THE YEAR’ FOR THE 2012 BLACK & WHITE BALL

Annual fundraiser to be held at ARIA Resort & Casino, CityCenter Las Vegas on January 28

Sponsored by:

LAS VEGAS, NV (Monday, September 19, 2011) – Nevada Ballet Theatre is thrilled to announce Eva Longoria as its Woman of the Year. An actress, producer, philanthropist and activist, Longoria will accept this honor during the company’s annual fundraiser on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at ARIA Resort & Casino, CityCenter Las Vegas.

“Eva is a talented performer who maintains a giving spirit in her career,” said NBT Co-Founder and Co-Chairwoman Nancy Houssels. “Her charitable work is impressive, specifically her work with “Eva’s Heroes” which she founded. We are excited to celebrate her many accomplishments, shed light on her philanthropic endeavors – a side not often seen by the public – and welcome her as a part of the NBT family.”

Touted as the “crème de la crème” of society events by Luxury Las Vegas Magazine, the Black & White Ball is one of the most highly attended events of the social season, hosting an array of local celebrities, dignitaries, VIP’s and arts supporters. Since 1985, this star-studded gala has enabled NBT to present professional company dance productions, quality dance instruction within its affiliated Academy and expose students in at-risk communities to the art form of dance through its outreach program, Future Dance.

Past honorees of the Black & White Ball include luminaries of the stage and screen such as Debbie Reynolds, Chita Rivera, Celine Dion, Bette Midler, Marie Osmond and most recently Priscilla Presley. Nevada Ballet Theatre honored these legendary women for their dedication to the world of arts and entertainment and many of them have enjoyed a special connection to Las Vegas .

ABOUT EVA LONGORIA

Golden Globe-nominated, Screen Actors Guild Award-winning, and ALMA Award-winning, Longoria currently stars as “Gabrielle Solis” on the ABC-megahit, “Desperate Housewives.” The multi-Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning show has more than 30 million viewers in the United States and is shown in over 208 countries around the world. Longoria has received numerous awards, including a People's Choice Award for “Favorite Female TV Star,” Teen Choice Award, TV Guide’s “TV’s Sexiest Star,” People's “50 Most Beautiful People, People En Español’s “50 Mas Bellos,” Rolling Stone's “People of the Year,” and was ranked three years in a row in the prestigious FORBES Celebrity 100, as well as TWO years in a row as the “#1 Hottest Woman in the World” on Maxim's annual ‘Hot 100” list. Additionally she was named “Philanthropist of the Year” by the Hollywood Reporter, and was recently selected as an honoree for Variety’s “Power of Women Awards” among many others.

HITZVILLE

2011-09-16T21:44:00.000-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

WHAT NOT TO LIKE ABOUT THIS..... ! ! !

COULD BE AS GOOD AS ANYTHING IN TOWN...! ! !

FIRST CLASS IN EVERY WAY FOR EVERY REASON...! ! !

David Saxe at Planet Hollwood V Theatre continues to produce world class entertainment and this show was more of the same...especially on this night...everything just clicked...did for me anyway and thats my main concern.

HITZVILLE THE SHOW MOTOWN REVUE 702 932 1818 ....530 P M IN THE MIRACLE MILE

I can't say enough good things about this....STARTED ON TIME...first class talent...four guys two gals....6 piece live music with everybody wearing suits and ties...this was presented to me as opening night, first class ....we are giving you our best.

I have seen three Motown revue shows in the last month and they all were very very good and this one had SPECIAL SOUL....how great these guys looked in the purple, red, white and black suits and the gals in their exquisite gowns and everybody could dance and sing.

The music I guess is the hook here but it was presented in a world class fashion that enhanced the take....who ever produced this can step to the head of the class for a job extremely well done...great continuity...great dance and soul moves to the sound and terrific effort by the talent. Sorry I have not seen this sooner but I am on my way back....seems to be some tweaking going on according to other patrons....I always like things the way they are and this I would not want changed in anyway.

I suppose Motown is not my favorite music, altho it is to my historic taste...this is so well done it takes me back to my 60'S.

BINGO....THANKS FOR MAKING MY DAY

101 A+ A+

LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC

2011-09-10T22:17:00.000-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

NO ONE IS PROUDER OF THIS ORCHESTRA THAN I...I CONTINUE TO SALUTE, SUPPORT AND ENDORSE THEIR EVERY MOVE.

TONIGHT A SLIGHT DOWNER !

Conductor David Itkin beginning his fifth season continues to bring class, education and great music to the city.

The last few years Itkin has held a pre show discussion highlighting the nights music and special guest...tonight we got 27 minutes of fun and games with Itkin and solo viola guest Miles Hoffman. These pre shows continue to be as good or better than the concerts...tonight it was a draw...Hoffman and Itkin discussed their history, their humor and the program.

Itkin address's the audience before most pieces and tonight told of his preparation in Little Rock for his upcoming concert 10 years ago...They decided not to postpone and went with the show to a full house...tonight we all stood and sang the National Anthem...as an American, a veteran and a team player...I was touched and I thank Itkin for this as well as all his genius.

4 minutes...totally unacceptable...last month I was at the Sydney Opera House...at 8 o'clock they closed the doors and dropped the puck....no late seating...tonight stragglers petered in with their cell phones on, searching for direction. an irritant I can't seem to overcome...1500 of us arrived on time ready for kickoff.

Mikhail Glinka 1804-1857....Overture to Russian & Ludmilla...8 minutes opening,
acceptable

William Walton 1902-1983....Viola Concerto...I DID NOT LIKE IT...it was the music
which seemed to allow the horns to over
power the viola. Hoffman on stage for
this 28 minute 3 movement piece...he is
6 foot 5 and seemed to tower over the
music which he read...usually soloists
work from memory...with Hoffmans bio
elbowing Bernstein and Rostropovich I
expected more.

This was probably the music, which I have the right to dislike and did..... and everything is to taste...I also dislike rap and have preferences for Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky and have gloated in the past over music I did like...not Walton tonight. I am sure Hoffman was on top of his game but, it did not grab me.

22 minutes of intermission

DA DA DA TUH

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)...Symphony No. 5 in C minor Op.67
This as good as it gets and while I
am not
Beethovens greatest fan...this remains
among the worlds greatest pieces of
music...perfectly played by our 66 piece orchestra with 47 strings...at my
age I always think this might be the
last time I hear this and I treasured
the moment...29 minutes of heaven.

This, a short program...8 minutes for Glinka...29 for Walton and 29 for Beethoven........you do the math, looks like 66 minutes of music...in the car at 940 and in the shower at 10. Not a full house and I continue to pull for the LVPHIL
to sell tickets in the new Smith Center next fall...Ham Hall remains only perfect in its sound system...it was again tonight...altho it will be a pleasure to get to Hell because it will be cooler than it was in Ham Hall tonight. I continue to be irritated and perplexed at the ignorance of our audiences who applauded after every movement, their education leaves room for improvement.

I continue to love and support the LVPHIL which goes again November 19 here at Ham Hall with Copland, Glazunov and Schumann which I know I will enjoy.

lvpinfo@lvphil.com 702 895 2787

I continue to score all events minus one point for every minute late so thats 96 before kickoff

B+ 89

UFL

2011-09-10T18:01:00.001-07:00

COUNTDOWN TO THE UNITED FOOTBALL LEAGUE
2011 SEASON KICKOFF

Five Days To Go… It’s all-action off the field too…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – JACKSONVILLE, FL – Saturday, September 10, 2011 – Five days from today the United Football League kicks off its third season when the Omaha Nighthawks welcome the Virginia Destroyers to TD Ameritrade Park at 7pm CT / 8pm ET on Thursday, September 15. Two days later in Sacramento, the Mountain Lions host the defending champion Las Vegas Locomotives at Hornet Stadium at 10.30pm PT / 7.30pm ET.

From ticket deals to benefit nonprofit groups and preseason parties to radio shows and throwing out the first pitch at a baseball game, the teams of the United Football League have been busy away from the long days of training camp through a variety of off-field activities.

Non-profit fundraising:

The two-time defending champion Las Vegas Locomotives continue to reach out to the Las Vegas community by offering local nonprofit groups a fundraising opportunity with home game tickets during the 2011 season.

All nonprofit organizations can now buy $20, $15 or $10 home game tickets at half price, plus a $1 facility fee, and the groups can then resell the tickets at face value to raise proceeds for their organizations. To purchase tickets, nonprofit members can call 702.877.LOCO.

Busting open the Zone:

Dave and Buster's will be the place to be on Tuesday nights during the Omaha Nighthawks season. The entertainment restaurant and the team signed a deal establishing Dave and Buster's as the host of the weekly Nighthawks Radio Hour.

Hosting the show will be local radio personality and Nighthawks fan Mike'l Severe from 1620AM The Zone. "Dave and Busters is the perfect place for fans to be a part of the show, grab a great meal and have some fun," said Mike'l.

The Zone will broadcast the weekly show live from Dave and Buster's and will feature players and members of the football staff every Tuesday night starting with a pre-season special on September 13 at 7pm.

Preseason party in Sacramento:

The Sacramento Mountain Lions hosted a Season Kickoff Party at Sacramento State’s Hornet Stadium. Head coach Dennis Green and his Mountain Lions practiced and then addressed the fans. The players signed autographs following the practice.

“This was a great opportunity for our fans to get their first look at the team on their home field,” Mountain Lions senior vice president Joe Wagoner said. “Additionally, fans are friends. And it’s a great chance for them to get reacquainted with each other as our season gets closer.”

The Lady Lions mingled with fans, posed for photos and put on a performance. Mojo, the Mountain Lions mascot, was on hand for photographs and autographs as well. Season-ticket holders were able to check out their seat locations. The entire Mountain Lions front office staff were on on hand and fans were able to purchase season tickets, individual tickets and team merchandise.

Radio sensation:

The Virginia Destroyers and ESPN Radio 94.1 are teaming up to bring fans exciting United Football League action. ESPN Radio 94.1 already carries the Norfolk Tides and Norfolk Admiral games and is adding the Destroyers to its stable of sports offerings to Hampton Roads fans. The Max Media station will carry both home and away games for the 2011 season. When ESPN Radio 94.1 is unable to air a Destroyers game due to a prior commitment, sister station 1310 AM will broadcast the action.

Former NFL player and Norfolk Virginia native William Fuller, who played professional football for 13 seasons as a defensive lineman for the Houston Oilers, Philadelphia Eagles and the San Diego Chargers, will provide game analysis. Fuller grew up in Chesapeake and played football at Indian River High School before going on to the University of North Carolina.

Longtime ESPN Radio 94.1 sports anchor Tony Mecurio will co-host the Marty Schottenheimer Show every Tuesday throughout the season at 4.25pm. Coach Schottenheimer’s debut show will recap training camp and focus on the Destroyers’ first game against the Omaha Nighthawks on September 15 in Nebraska.

Pitch perfect:

Head coach of the Las Vegas Locomotives, Jim Fassel, teamed up with the Las Vegas 51s baseball team and threw out the ceremonial first pitch as they faced off against the Salt Lake City Bees. Coach Fassel was joined at the game by Locos coaching staff and some players.

Get your gear:

Omaha Nighthawks fans have turned to Lawlor's Custom Sportswear for all their game day gear needs from the moment the team was announced and now have one more reason to stop by the sportswear store. Tickets in the $15 to $45 range will be available for the Nighthawks home opener on September 15 at the 84th and J street location.

"Lawlor's is excited to offer Nighthawks Game Tickets," said Pat Lawlor. "Our goal is to be a 'One Stop Shop' for all Nighthawks fans. We are looking forward to a great season of Nighthawk football!"

Virginia in safe hands:

Virginia Destroyers have announced William Mayer as the new owner of the team. Mayer has been a UFL investor and owner since the league’s inception, owning the New York Sentinels that played during the inaugural 2009 UFL season. In 2010, the Sentinels moved to Connecticut, becoming the Hartford Colonials with Mayer at the helm.

“I know the Destroyers have gone through a period of uncertainty,” said Mayer. “What has impressed me the most is the unwavering support of fans and the Hampton Roads community during those tough times. I wanted to become a part of that spirit and commitment.”

About The United Football League: The UFL provides high-quality professional football during a traditional fall season while embracing innovation and fan interaction. The UFL serves its local communities with pride and dedication, and aims to provide every fan with an exciting and memorable game experience. The inaugural 2009 champion Las Vegas Locos won a second championship in 2010, lifting the William Hambrecht Trophy with a 23-20 win over the Florida Tuskers. The 2011 season will feature the Locos, Omaha Nighthawks, Sacramento Mountain Lions and Virginia Destroyers. The UFL is led by Commissioner Michael Huyghue and is funded by a consortium of private investors. For season tickets, more information and to interact with passionate football fans, please visit www.UFL-Football.com.

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NO SEX PLEASE WE'RE BRITISH

2011-09-10T07:23:00.000-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

A comedy farce at the Las Vegas Little Theatre...opening night...runs thru September 702 362 7996 www.lvlt.org 3920 |Schiff Drive central Las Vegas (Spring Mountain and Valley View)

I continue to support all live theatre...this I did not like and it had very few pluses...nice lighting and nice set and they did tell the story.

It was 9 minutes late, weak script, over the top imitation of Noises Off with 8 exit opportunitys and they over used them all. The plot simple enough, newlyweds overvisited by guests, family and pornography.

While the night before in Five Guys Named Moe...where I liked all the characters, here I didn't like any of them...over played...over the top... and I genuinely did not laugh...it was the job of the production to do so...they failed.

One of the main characters was hoarse with a bad voice unaudible with and without a head microphone which set the whole thing off into negativity.

LVLT continues to try and I salute this...a big failure here involving all the variables.

65 D

LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC

2011-09-09T19:04:00.001-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

OPENING NIGHT 2011 - 2012 SEASON

IT DOESN'T GET BETTER THAN THIS

LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC ARTEMUS HAM CONCERT HALL 10 SEPTEMBER 2011...PRE SHOW TALK WITH CONDUCTOR DAVID ITKIN AT 715

GUEST ARTIST MILES HOFFMANN,VIOLA
OVERTURE TO RUSSLAN & LUDMILLA MIKHAIL GLINKA

VIOLA CONCERTO WILLIAM WALTON

SYMPHONY NO. 5 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

WHAT A NIGHT

702 895 2787 FAX 702 893 7757 lvpinfo@lvphil.com

"FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE"

2011-09-09T18:36:00.000-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

PRETTY DIFFICULT TO DESCRIBE THIS, BUT IT WAS DAMN GOOD AND I LIKED IT !

Super Summer Theatre 2011, outdoors, at the Spring Mountain State Park 23 miles west Las Vegas on Charleston to Red Rock ! 702 594 play...thru September...www.supersummertheatre.org....best value ticket in Las Vegas !

This the fourth offering of the four week season and I am sorry I missed the first three but elated that I got see this one.

A musical by Clarke Peters featuring Louis Jordan's Greates Hits originally produced by the Theatre Royal Stratford East....salute...good scripts nice creative new songs.

Director Steve Huntsman selected six perfect actors who worked their ass off and delivered all the lines and songs and dance in perfect fashion.

This was really a bunch of nonsense wound together by great directing, blocking and talent in a perfectly enjoyable evening under the stars.

I am reading the bios on these actors now and I loved them all..

NOMAX...........BRENT ROBERTS
LITTLE MOE......KEITH DOTSON
EAT MOVE........RICH FRIESON
BIG MOE.........CARNELL JOHNSON
FOURE EYED MOE..QUAVAIOL LEONTAY
NO MOE..........ROBERT WEST

On opening night it looked like all six were anxious to get out of the chute and get it on and they sure did....and I thank them for a wonderful fresh presentation.
Three gals filled roles along with 7 pieces of live music anchored by the bass.
A tap dancing babe in a beautiful orange dress did not the senario at all !

GOSH THIS WAS FUN

Maybe a little bit loud and too much audience participation but me thinks it was part of the script...nice 90 minutes that started on time. I think there was a story line to this but I didn't care.

98 A+

UFL

2011-09-08T21:55:00.001-07:00

For Immediate Release:

Sept. 8, 2011

Las Vegas Locomotives Cut Down Roster to 51 Men for United Football League Regular Season

LAS VEGAS – After two weeks of training camp, the Las Vegas Locomotives (Locos) cut their 70-man roster down to the United Football League (UFL) requirement of 51 players on Thursday, Sept. 8.

Cuts began earlier in the week when quarterback Chad Friehauf, fullback Brian Holley and linebacker Wesley Flagg were released on Tuesday, Sept. 6.

“We had some tough decisions to make,” said Locos Head Coach Jim Fassel, who has been evaluating the players throughout training camp. “All of these guys are talented, so it just came down to who showed the most on the field and who best fit our needs at this time. I’m happy with the guys we have on this roster from top to bottom.”

The Locos came into camp with tremendous depth at wide receiver with ten pass catchers on the roster. They ultimately cut four: Anthony Jackson, Eric Peterman, Kenyada Tatum and veteran Locos player Tab Perry.

Other offensive casualties included running backs J.J. Arrington and P.J. Hill and linemen Ryne Holstrom, Joe Tonga and Adam Tadisch.

Defensively, three cornerbacks were released from the team, including Jameel Dowling, Antonio Smith and Las Vegas native Gerard Lawson. Former UNLV standout linebacker Beau Bell was released along with fellow linebackers Chase Vaughn and Dave Philistin. Defensive lineman Lawrence Wilson was also sent home.
Place kicker Brandon Coutu was also released.

The 2011 Locos team must now focus on preparing for their first game of the season on Saturday, Sept. 17 against the Sacramento Mountain Lions.

About the Las Vegas Locomotives

The Las Vegas Locomotives are the two-time defending champions of the United Football League (UFL). Led by Head Coach Jim Fassel, the team plays all home games at Sam Boyd Stadium and is the last of the four original UFL franchises to continue playing in its original home city. Fassel also serves as president and general manager of the franchise. Known as “The Locos” to local fans, the team has developed a strong following throughout Las Vegas by maintaining an active role in the community and showing strong leadership both on and off the field.

Keep up with all Las Vegas Locomotives news, scores and information by following the team on Facebook (Las Vegas Locos) and Twitter (@LasVegasLocos).

Las Vegas Locomotives Complete 2011 Schedule:

Week 1: Saturday, Sept. 17 at 7:30 p.m. – at Sacramento

Week 2: Saturday, Sept. 24 at 4 p.m. – at Virginia

Week 3: Oct. 1 – Bye

Week 4: Saturday, Oct. 8 at 5 p.m. – vs. Omaha*

Week 5: Saturday, Oct. 15 at 5 p.m. – at Omaha

Week 6: Saturday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. – vs. Sacramento*

Week 7: Thursday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. – vs. Virginia*

*designates home game

All times are PST and games are subject to change

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NO SEX PLEASE WE'RE BRITISH

2011-09-07T21:40:00.000-07:00

A dizzy string of madcap mix-ups
and action-packed chaos.

Opening this weekend!

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No Sex Please, We're British!
by Alistair Foot & Anthony Marriott
Performing on our Mainstage, Sept 9 - 25, 2011
(Thu/Fri/Sat at 8pm, 2nd Sat & Sundays at 2pm)

To order tickets online, click
on the image above!

Set in the 1970’s, Peter and Frances Hunter start their married life in an apartment above Peter’s employer, the National United Bank. Frances sends away to sell Scandinavian glassware in an attempt to help the couple afford a house of their own. What arrives isn’t glassware but, rather packets of pornographic postcards! Matters are further complicated by a bumbling chief cashier, the branch manager, a meddling mother-in-law, and a drowsy bank Inspector. This door slamming, mistaken identity filled, hilarious comedy is sure to tickle the stuffiest shirts.

“...a hilarious farce that will make you roll with laughter, blush with embarrassment and leave exhausted. ”
— The Statler's Waldorf

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WINTER DANCE PARTY

2011-09-03T08:00:00.000-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

DON'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS !

BUDDY HOLLY TRIBUTE SHOW AT THE SOUTH POINT LAS VEGAS STRIP SOUTH.... WITH J P RICHARDSON AND RICHIE VALENS !

This runs through the weekend and is recommended to the world...the sold out crowd Friday night loved it...I was at the head of the class.

This, run number 2 for this show at the South Point....run number 1 came on 3 February 2011 ...the 52nd anniversary of the plane crash outside the Surf Ballroom near Clear Lake,Iowa.

First, the South Point....FIRST CLASS...WORLD CLASS....GREAT SHOWROOM...GREAT STAFF...GREAT TECHS...SOUND SYSTEM AND LIGHTING PERFECT...THEY STARTED RIGHT ON TIME AS I HIT THE SHOWROOM AT 7:30 THE LIGHTS WENT OUT AND THE SHOW ENDED AT 9P M... TO THE SECOND...EVERYONE AT THE CASINO WAS PERSONABLE, HELPFUL AND HAPPY TO SEE ME...WHAT A NOVELTY...THERE MUST BE SOME MANAGEMENT HERE...WOW...LETS GO BACK OFTEN. THE SHOWROOM HERE RUNS LOTS OF TRIBUTE GROUPS AND HAS GARNERED MY BUSINESS BEFORE AND WILL AGAIN....THANK YOU SOUTH POINT FOR BEING WHAT YOU ARE.

MY WIFE ONLY GOES TO THE SHOWS ONCE.....LAST NIGHT SHE WENT FOR THE SECOND TIME !

JOHN MUELLER PLAYS BUDDY HOLLY...LOTS OF ENERGY...GREAT LOOK ALIKE...J P RICHARDSON JR PLAYS HIS FATHER...LOVELY MAN, GREAT TAKES...NICE STAGE PRESENCE AND HE CAN SING...RAY ANTHONY DOES RICHIE VALENS...BETTER LOOKING THAN VALENS, WONDERFUL YOUNG PERFORMER...HE HAD THE MOMENT OF THE NIGHT WHEN THE FIRE ALARM CAME ON DURING "DONNA"...HE COMPLETED THE NUMBER AND THEN SAID..."I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT SONG WAS STILL THAT HOT", CAN'T MAKE IT UP ! TWO SEGEMENTS FOR ALL AND A FINALE WITH ALL THREE DOING CHUCK BERRY'S JOHNNY B GOODE. THE MAGIC HERE IS THE LYRICS WITH HOLLY RECODING ONLY 40 SONGS AND WRITING 23 OF THEM...ALL THE MUSIC PRE 1959 MADE FOR ME...I LIKED IT ....NOSTALGIC...REPEATED AND WITH THE SIMPLE LYRICS. THE WORLDS GREAT COMPOSER...LENNON-MCCARTNEY HAVE OFTEN REFERED TO THE BUDDY HOLLY INFLUENCE...THIS SHOW INDICIATIVE OF FRANKI VALLI'S REMARK FROM 1988..."ALL THE GREAT MUSIC HAS BEEN WRITTEN".

FOUR BACK UPS...BASS..DRUMS...GUITAR AND SAX...I DON'T KNOW IF THERE WAS A SAX ON THE 1959 WINTER DANCE TOUR THRU THE UPPER MIDWEST...BUT I DO KNOW THEY USED A HOUSE BAND ON TOUR BAND AND THE CRICKETS...J R ALLISON...JOE MAULDIN AND NIKI SULLIVAN DID NOT DO THE TOUR. THE SAX VERY VERY CLOSE TO OVERPOWERING THE LYRICS HERE AND WOULD BE MY ONLY NEGATIVE....I DID DO A SHOW EARLIER THIS WEEK WHERE THAT HAPPENED...THUSLY THE LYRICS ARE KILLED...LYRICS THE GENIUS OF THE BEATTLES AND OF COURSE BUDDY HOLLY TOO.

THAT'LL BE THE DAY, PEGGY SUE, TRUE LOVE WAYS.....RAVE ON.

ONLY 102 A+ A+ RECOMMENDED TO WORLD...MAYBE THE JUST THE OLD WORLD WHICH APPRECIATES IT

I MIGHT GO AGAIN.

AUSTRALIA and HOME

2011-08-16T16:27:00.000-07:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com

ANOTHER OF THE WORLDS GREAT JOURNEYS

11-12 AUGUST 2011...LEAVE LAS VEGAS 29 HOURS...CROSS DATELINE AND ARRIVE IN AUSTRALIA

13 AUGUST 2011...ARRIVE IN CAIRNS AUSTRALIA...MEET TOUR GUIDE...GAZ...HE IS THE GREATEST...WALK THE CITY TOUR...CATCH 6 AIRPLANES DOING A SHOW OVER THE CAIRNS BAY, A LOVELY ACCIDENT IN TIMING...DINNER DOWNTWON....LESS THAN A MILE FROM OUR HOTEL OF OUR NIGHTS...THE DAMN THING HAS A WARM WATER JACCUZZI...I AM IN 4 TIMES DAILY.

14 AUGUST 2011...CAIRNS...GREAT BARRIER REEF...WHAT TO SAY...BOAT TRIP OUT AND BACK...I GOT SICK OF COURSE BUT RALLIED TO SNORKEL THE REEF, WALK ON THE OCEAN IN DIVERS SUIT AND MASK AND TAKE THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT TOUR ...TWICE...STAFF SENSATIONAL ...ITS SORT OF AN ISLAND ON THE REEF REST STOP...HOW MANY HAVE DONE THIS.

15 AUGUST 2011...CAIRNS...BREAKFAST TRAIN TRIP TO KURANDA...WONDERFUL,SCENIC, COOL,HISTORIC, TOP OF THE HILL CITY, TOURIST TRAP TYPE BUT GREAT WITH BUTTERFULY WORLD, BIRD WORLD, KOALA PICTURES, SHOPPING AND THE WORLDS WORST SMOOTHIES...TOOK THE TRAM DOWN THE HILL OVER THE RAIN FOREST CANOPY WITH TWO BEAUTIFUL STOPS. A LAS VEGAS MAGIC SHOW AT THE CASINO THIS NIGHT...SMALL NOT REAL GOOD...LACKING PRODUCTION AND LATE...CAUGHT A LOVELY FIREWORKS SHOW OVER THE BEACH ON THE WAY TO THE SHOW...CHINESES FOOD COURT DINNER AFTER THE SHOW. YAH.

16 AUGUST 2011...OUR 35TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY IN LAS VEGAS
OUR 36TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY ON EASTER ISLAND
OUR 37TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY AT ALICE SPRINGS CENTRAL AUSTRALIA
A LOVELY DAY FLEW FROM CAIRNS TO ALICE...DEAD CENTER AUSTRALIA AND NEAR AYERS ROCK...DOWNTOWN WALKING TOUR AND SHOPPING TRIP...BARBECUE BY OUR TOUR GUIDE...KANGAROO, PRAWNS, LAMB, BEEF AND CHARM WITH OUR 17 MEMBER TEAM TOUR GROUP...ALL PLAYED ALONG AND A DIGEREDOO SHOW...WHAT A TRIP THIS WAS...BEST GUY IN THE WORLD, FULL PRODUCTION WITH SLIDE SHOW AND LASERS 88 MINUTES...2 SETS OF PERCUSSION AND ONE DOOOOOOER. FABULOUS...SLEPT WELL AND LONG...COOL IN THE WINTER HERE AND THE SMELL OF FIRE ASH IN THE AIR...ROMANTIC.

17 AUGUST 2011...ANOTHER DAY IN HEAVEN....ALICE SPRINGS AUSTRALIA...WALKED DOWNTOWN...HOSPITAL MUSEUM...GREAT...QUEENS MUSEUM...GREAT-HISTORICAL-ANCIENT...SHE WAS HERE AND THE PRINCE GOT FOOD POISONING HERE...AFTERNOON TOUR ...FLYING DOCTORS PROGRAM MUSEUM...ALL OVER THE PROVINCE...GOOD...RURAL STUDENT EDUCATION PROGRAM...MUSEUM...EDUCATE 120 KIDS OVER A SPACE THE SIZE OF TEXAS...DO IT ONLINE AND THRU THE MAIN...TERRIFIC...TELEGRAM HILL MUSEUM...LIVE KANGAROOS...HISTORICAL TELEGRAM SETUP THRU THE COUNTRY FROM SOUTH TO NORTH 100 YEARS AGO...CAMEL TRAINS...SUPER SPOT...WENT TO TALLEST HILL IN THE CITY TO OVERLOOK THE AREA...LOTS OF FIRE SMOKE RESIDUE IN THE AIR...GREAT SPOT...COOL HERE IN MIDDLE OF WINTER...TEAM DINNER WITH OUR GROUP OF 18 ...EVERYONE PLAYED ALONG...GREAT FOOD IN THE CITYS HOT SPOT...ALL SORTS OF HISTORIC SHIT ON THE WALLS...VERY NICE ...FOOD GOOD AND PRICEY.
TO BED...SOME WITH A.M. BALLOON TRIP WE GO TO AYERS ROCK FOR ONE NIGHT...6 HOURS ON THE BUS HERE...ANOTHER DAY IN HEAVEN

18 AUGUST 2011....ARRIVE AT ULURU AND A LIKE ROCK FOR HIKE AND TOUR....LONG RIDE WITH MOVIES ON THE BUS AND A CAMEL STOP RIDE...BIG GORGEOUS SUNSET PARTY OVER THE ROCK...ORDUVES

19 AUGUST 2011...UP EARLY FROM OUR $450 NIGHT ROOM....THIS FOR SURISE ON THE ROCK...TOUR THE BASE FOR PICTURES AND INFO...GREAT GUIDE AND ON TO AIRPORT TO MELBOURNE....LONG TRIP TO SYDNEY AND THEN MELBOURNE TWO FLIGHTS BUT THE WERE SAFE AND SMOOTH
20 AUGUST 2011 MELBOURNE...UP EARLY FOR ALL DAY TRIP TO PENINSULA ISLAND...SAW KANGAROOS, SHITING SEA GULLS... AND TINY PENGUINS WHICH EMERGE FROM THE OCEAN AT DUSK AND RETURN INLAND TO THEIR DIRT CAVES IN THE DARK...IT IS AMAZING...THEY ARE IN THE UNION AND HAVE DONE IT FOR 10,000 YEARS...CUTE LITTLE BASTARDS.

21 AUGUST 2011 MELBOURNE...WHAT A DAY...RAIN FOREST TRAIN TRIP WITH WINE TASTING AND ZOO TRIP....GREAT TRAIN RIDE 30 MINUTES....GREAT MEAL AT WINE FACTORY....GREAT VISIT TO THE RURAL ZOO WITH BIRD EXHIBIT FOR OVER A 1000 FANS...TRIP BACK TO MELBOURNE...LEFT AT 1956 OLYMPIC STADIUM FOR AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL...GOT BACK FOR THE LAST 3 QUARTERS...TERRIFIC....MELBOURNE LOST 117-110...LOTS OF RUNNING AND KICKING 40,000 AT THE GAME I LEARNED FROM ONE OF THE NATIVES....$7 CAB RIDE TO HOTEL....COULD HAVE WALKED IT...JANET AND I HAD PASTA, TOMATO PUNKIN SOUP AND ICE CREAM....HOW ABOUT A DAY LIKE THAT !

22 AUGUST 2011....MELBOURNE TO SYDNEY...2 AND HALF HOUR FLIGHT...CITY T0UR...FREE OPAL AT OPAL FACTORY MUSEUM...FAREWELL DINNER...LOTS OF USUAL LOUD MUSIC...I LEFT AT 7 FOR PIANO QUINTET CONCERT...MURO...BEETHOVEN...DVORAK...PERFECT ACOUSTICS IN LOVELY LITTLE DOWNTOWN THEATRE.

23 AUGUST 2011...SYNDY BUS TOUR WITH PICS OF PARKS..OPERA HOUSE ...BAY...BRIDGE...ACTUALLY RAINED A TICH...LOVE THESE CITY TOURS...GUIDE GARY WEST WHO LIVES HERE LED THE TOUR..AFTER LUNCH OPERA HOUSE TOUR...GREAT GUIDE, HISTORY AND PICS...JOHN MASTALIR GOES TO OPERA ...LEBOHEN...1931 VERSION...THEY HAD READER BOARDS AT EYE LEVEL...FIRST CLASS PRODUCTION WITH FULL ORCHESTRA AND GREAT TALENT....THEY STARTED ON TIME...BARE BREASTED WOMEN TOO BUT THEY DID NOT DO CURTAIN CALLS...I HAVE SEEN THE OPERA AT AGE 66 AND LIKED IT.

24 AUGUST 2011..SYDNEY...BLUE MOUNTAIN ALL DAY BUS TRIP AND EXTRA TOUR, COSTLY LOVELY MOUNTAINS WITH AN ONION LUNCH BUFFET...PICS OF 3 SISTERS...PERFECT DAY...TOURED ANIMAL PARK AND GOT PROGRAM STAMPS FROM ALL THE ANIMALS...LOTS OF KOLAS AND BIRDS AND DINGOS. TOURED 2000 OLYMPIC VILLAGE...SYNDEY SAYS IF ANY FUTURE CITY CANNOT PERFORM THEY WILL BE READY IN 2 WEEKS...BACK OF OPERA HOUSE FOR WORLDS GREATES FLAMINGO DANCER...SOLO...WITH VOCAL AND GUITAR...BOY IT WAS GREAT...HE WAS LATE...JANET LOVED HIM....BURGER KING AND BACK TO RYDGES HOTEL WHICH FAILED TO MAKE UP THE ROOM FOR THE THIRD TIME ON THE TRIP.

25 AUGUST 2011...SYDNEY TO LOS ANGLES 13 HOURS 13 MINUTES...ONLY 43 MINUTES FROM LA TO LAS VEGAS....HUGS AND KISSES FOR WORLDS GREATEST TOUR GUIDE GARY WEST...GAZ.
JUST BACK OF LAS VEGAS FOR KENNY KERR AND HIS LAS VEGAS DIVAS SHOW ...HE HAD ON 14 GOWNS.

NORWAY IN SEPTEMBER

boxing at the HARD ROCK

2011-08-08T23:30:00.000-07:00

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LAS VEGAS (Aug. 4, 2011) – Boxing promoters Don King Productions and Golden Boy Promotions will include a World Boxing Council United States heavyweight national championship, a World Boxing Association FEDECARIBE regional junior lightweight championship and a handful of boxing’s top undefeated rising stars on the non-televised undercard of the SHOWTIME® Bantamweight Tournament Final: Winner Takes All that pits International Boxing Federation bantamweight champion Joseph King Kong Agbeko against undefeated WBC silver bantamweight champion Abner Mares on Saturday, Aug. 13 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

In a twelve round bout, WBC No. 12-ranked heavyweight contender Eric “Drummer Boy” Molina (17-1, 13 KO’s), from Lyford, Texas , will take on Warren “The Hit Man” Browning (14-1-1, 9 KO’s), from London , Ky. , for the WBC U.S. heavyweight national championship. The WBA FEDECARIBE super lightweight title will be on the line when undefeated Cuban-born Angelo “La Cobra” Santana (10-0, 7 KO’s), from Miami , Fl. squares off against Jesse Carradine (7-1-1, 3 KO’s), from Cincinnati , Ohio in a nine round fight.

Former interim World Boxing Organization Bantamweight Champion and former World Boxing Association Flyweight Champion Eric Morel (44-2, 22 KO’s), born in Puerto Rico but now fighting out of Madison, Wis., will be featured in a bantamweight attraction scheduled for 10 rounds against Daniel Quevedo (13-11-2, 8 KO’s) from Los Angeles, Calif.

Undefeated lightweight rising star Luis Ramos Jr. (19-0, 8 KO’s), from Santa Ana , Calif. , will risk his perfect record against “Dangerous” David Rodela (15-4-4, 6 KO’s), from the boxing hotbed of Oxnard , Calif. , in an battle slated for 10 rounds.

Also in action will be rising star Carlos Molina (14-0, 7 KO’s) of Norwalk , Calif. , who will put his unbeaten record on the line in an eight round junior welterweight bout against an opponent to be named.

Eric Molina is an intriguing heavyweight prospect. His dream is to become the first Mexican American heavyweight world champion, and he’s off to a good start. He’s a hard worker inside the gym and in life as evidenced by the fact he earned a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from University of Texas at Brownsville and has volunteered to work with special needs children in his native Texas .

He’s a tall, rangy boxer at 6 foot 6 inches, but his Mexican toughness comes out in the ring as he is a busy heavyweight. Possessing an 84-inch full reach, he can cause problems for any opponent.

Molina will be tested by Warren Browning, a former Toughman champion, who fought undefeated cruiserweight Ryan Coyne last summer and was within striking distance of pulling an upset going into the ninth round before being caught with a punch on the ear that ended the fight.

Eric Morel is on a nine-fight winning streak that dates back to 2005. The 35-year-old, who turned professional in 1996, won the WBA flyweight world title in 2002 and made five successful defenses. He is coming off of a fourth-round technical knockout over former world title challenger Luis Maldonado on April 1. Morel will face the younger Quevedo, a 27-year-old on a three-fight win streak that includes two early knockouts in 2011.

Undefeated lightweight Angelo Santana has one of the most interesting back stories in boxing. Like so many Cubans before him, Santana jumped onto a makeshift raft with 27 others in the summer of 2007 and washed up in Miami three days later. Just 10 days later, a boxing manager brought him to the attention of Don King, who signed him immediately. Four months later, Santana’s first appearance as a professional came when he appeared at Madison Square Garden on the undercard of Felix Trinidad vs. Roy Jones Jr. He won that night and has won every night since.

Santana looks to maintain his perfect record against Jesse Carradine (7-1-1, 3 KOs) of Cincinnati . Carradine had a successful amateur career and is tall for his weight at 5 feet 10 inches. A skilled boxer, he excels when he can keep shorter opponents at a distance where he can ply his craft. Carradine also benefits from the wisdom and sage advice of trainer Donald Turner, who guided Evander Holyfield and other greats of the sport.

Rising lightweight star Luis Ramos Jr., is coming off the biggest win of his career against former world title challenger Francisco Lorenzo on June 3. The 23-year-old undefeated southpaw, a former amateur star who has also defeated respected veteran Walter Estrada, will face another tough test against David Rodela in the first 10-round fight of his career. The 29-year old Rodela has paid his dues with wins over Kevin Kelley, Julio Gamboa and Gamalier Rodriguez on his way to this all-Southern California showdown.

Also hailing from Southern California is Norwalk junior welterweight prospect Carlos Molina. A professional since 2007, the 25-year-old Molina has made steady progress through the competitive local circuit, drawing rave reviews along the way. In his most recent bout, Molina scored a near shutout win over John Figueroa last November and after a minor injury that sidelined for the first half of 2011, he is eager to get back in the ring and continue on his road to the top.

The Bantamweight Tournament Final: Winner Takes All is promoted by Don King Productions and Golden Boy Promotions and is sponsored by Corona .

Tickets, priced at $200, $100, $75, $50 and $25, along with a limited number of VIP suite seats priced at $150, are on sale now and may be purchased at the Hard Rock Hotel Box Office, all Ticketmaster locations, online at www.Ticketmaster.com or by phone at (800) 745-3000.

The highly anticipated 12-round world title match and Bantamweight Tournament Final between Joseph Agbeko (28-2, 22 KOs), from Accra, Ghana, and Abner Mares (21-0-1, 13 KOs) of Hawaiian Gardens, Calif., by way of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, was originally scheduled for April 23, but was postponed when Agbeko was injured moments after arrival at Los Angeles International Airport during fight week. Doctors at a nearby hospital diagnosed the champion with sudden onset sciatica, a back injury.

Agbeko, who had never previously missed a fight, was told by a Los Angeles physician to receive treatment and wait six weeks before resuming training after the April 23 postponement. He has resumed training and will be fully fit to face Mares on Aug. 13.

Agbeko will be making his first start since recapturing the IBF crown with an impressive 12-round unanimous decision win over then-unbeaten Yonnhy Perez in the bantamweight tournament semifinal on Dec. 11, 2010, in Tacoma , Wash. Agbeko convincingly won a thrilling give-and-take battle by the scores of 117-111, 116-112 and 115-113. Their exciting fight came in a rematch of a 2009 Halloween night slugfest that Perez won on points.

It will also be the first fight back for Mares since the semifinals in Tacoma, where he rallied dramatically to earn the most significant victory of his career, a 12-round split decision win over former two-division world champion Vic Darchinyan in a bloody, knockdown-laden affair. Mares recovered from a deep cut along his hairline in the opening round, the first knockdown of his career in the second round and a point-deduction in the fourth round to floor Darchinyan in the seventh round en route to a victory by scores of 115-111, 113-112 and 111-115.

BOXING HARD ROCK LAS VEGAS 13 AUGUST

2011-08-05T23:07:00.000-07:00

The Bantamweight Tournament Final: Winner Takes All
Undercard Features Regional and National Title Championships
Plus Some of Boxing’s Top Undefeated Rising Stars In
Support of Main Event Featuring World Title Battle Between
Joseph King Kong Agbeko and Abner Mares On Saturday, Aug. 13
at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
_____________________________________________________________________________________

LAS VEGAS (Aug. 4, 2011) – Boxing promoters Don King Productions and Golden Boy Promotions will include a World Boxing Council United States heavyweight national championship, a World Boxing Association FEDECARIBE regional junior lightweight championship and a handful of boxing’s top undefeated rising stars on the non-televised undercard of the SHOWTIME® Bantamweight Tournament Final: Winner Takes All that pits International Boxing Federation bantamweight champion Joseph King Kong Agbeko against undefeated WBC silver bantamweight champion Abner Mares on Saturday, Aug. 13 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

In a twelve round bout, WBC No. 12-ranked heavyweight contender Eric “Drummer Boy” Molina (17-1, 13 KO’s), from Lyford, Texas , will take on Warren “The Hit Man” Browning (14-1-1, 9 KO’s), from London , Ky. , for the WBC U.S. heavyweight national championship. The WBA FEDECARIBE super lightweight title will be on the line when undefeated Cuban-born Angelo “La Cobra” Santana (10-0, 7 KO’s), from Miami , Fl. squares off against Jesse Carradine (7-1-1, 3 KO’s), from Cincinnati , Ohio in a nine round fight.

Former interim World Boxing Organization Bantamweight Champion and former World Boxing Association Flyweight Champion Eric Morel (44-2, 22 KO’s), born in Puerto Rico but now fighting out of Madison, Wis., will be featured in a bantamweight attraction scheduled for 10 rounds against Daniel Quevedo (13-11-2, 8 KO’s) from Los Angeles, Calif.

Undefeated lightweight rising star Luis Ramos Jr. (19-0, 8 KO’s), from Santa Ana , Calif. , will risk his perfect record against “Dangerous” David Rodela (15-4-4, 6 KO’s), from the boxing hotbed of Oxnard , Calif. , in an battle slated for 10 rounds.

Also in action will be rising star Carlos Molina (14-0, 7 KO’s) of Norwalk , Calif. , who will put his unbeaten record on the line in an eight round junior welterweight bout against an opponent to be named.

Eric Molina is an intriguing heavyweight prospect. His dream is to become the first Mexican American heavyweight world champion, and he’s off to a good start. He’s a hard worker inside the gym and in life as evidenced by the fact he earned a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from University of Texas at Brownsville and has volunteered to work with special needs children in his native Texas .

He’s a tall, rangy boxer at 6 foot 6 inches, but his Mexican toughness comes out in the ring as he is a busy heavyweight. Possessing an 84-inch full reach, he can cause problems for any opponent.

Molina will be tested by Warren Browning, a former Toughman champion, who fought undefeated cruiserweight Ryan Coyne last summer and was within striking distance of pulling an upset going into the ninth round before being caught with a punch on the ear that ended the fight.

Eric Morel is on a nine-fight winning streak that dates back to 2005. The 35-year-old, who turned professional in 1996, won the WBA flyweight world title in 2002 and made five successful defenses. He is coming off of a fourth-round technical knockout over former world title challenger Luis Maldonado on April 1. Morel will face the younger Quevedo, a 27-year-old on a three-fight win streak that includes two early knockouts in 2011.

Undefeated lightweight Angelo Santana has one of the most interesting back stories in boxing. Like so many Cubans before him, Santana jumped onto a makeshift raft with 27 others in the summer of 2007 and washed up in Miami three days later. Just 10 days later, a boxing manager brought him to the attention of Don King, who signed him immediately. Four months later, Santana’s first appearance as a professional came when he appeared at Madison Square Garden on the undercard of Felix Trinidad vs. Roy Jones Jr. He won that night and has won every night since.

Santana looks to maintain his perfect record against Jesse Carradine (7-1-1, 3 KOs) of Cincinnati . Carradine had a successful amateur career and is tall for his weight at 5 feet 10 inches. A skilled boxer, he excels when he can keep shorter opponents at a distance where he can ply his craft. Carradine also benefits from the wisdom and sage advice of trainer Donald Turner, who guided Evander Holyfield and other greats of the sport.

Rising lightweight star Luis Ramos Jr., is coming off the biggest win of his career against former world title challenger Francisco Lorenzo on June 3. The 23-year-old undefeated southpaw, a former amateur star who has also defeated respected veteran Walter Estrada, will face another tough test against David Rodela in the first 10-round fight of his career. The 29-year old Rodela has paid his dues with wins over Kevin Kelley, Julio Gamboa and Gamalier Rodriguez on his way to this all-Southern California showdown.

Also hailing from Southern California is Norwalk junior welterweight prospect Carlos Molina. A professional since 2007, the 25-year-old Molina has made steady progress through the competitive local circuit, drawing rave reviews along the way. In his most recent bout, Molina scored a near shutout win over John Figueroa last November and after a minor injury that sidelined for the first half of 2011, he is eager to get back in the ring and continue on his road to the top.

The Bantamweight Tournament Final: Winner Takes All is promoted by Don King Productions and Golden Boy Promotions and is sponsored by Corona .

Tickets, priced at $200, $100, $75, $50 and $25, along with a limited number of VIP suite seats priced at $150, are on sale now and may be purchased at the Hard Rock Hotel Box Office, all Ticketmaster locations, online at www.Ticketmaster.com or by phone at (800) 745-3000.

The highly anticipated 12-round world title match and Bantamweight Tournament Final between Joseph Agbeko (28-2, 22 KOs), from Accra, Ghana, and Abner Mares (21-0-1, 13 KOs) of Hawaiian Gardens, Calif., by way of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, was originally scheduled for April 23, but was postponed when Agbeko was injured moments after arrival at Los Angeles International Airport during fight week. Doctors at a nearby hospital diagnosed the champion with sudden onset sciatica, a back injury.

Agbeko, who had never previously missed a fight, was told by a Los Angeles physician to receive treatment and wait six weeks before resuming training after the April 23 postponement. He has resumed training and will be fully fit to face Mares on Aug. 13.

Agbeko will be making his first start since recapturing the IBF crown with an impressive 12-round unanimous decision win over then-unbeaten Yonnhy Perez in the bantamweight tournament semifinal on Dec. 11, 2010, in Tacoma , Wash. Agbeko convincingly won a thrilling give-and-take battle by the scores of 117-111, 116-112 and 115-113. Their exciting fight came in a rematch of a 2009 Halloween night slugfest that Perez won on points.

It will also be the first fight back for Mares since the semifinals in Tacoma, where he rallied dramatically to earn the most significant victory of his career, a 12-round split decision win over former two-division world champion Vic Darchinyan in a bloody, knockdown-laden affair. Mares recovered from a deep cut along his hairline in the opening round, the first knockdown of his career in the second round and a point-deduction in the fourth round to floor Darchinyan in the seventh round en route to a victory by scores of 115-111, 113-112 and 111-115.

For more information, visit www.donking.com or www.goldenboypromotions.com, become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/GoldenBoyBoxing or follow the event on twitter at www.twitter.com/GoldenBoyBoxing or www.twitter.com/abnermares00.

For information on SHOWTIME Sports Programming, including exclusive behind-the-scenes video and photo galleries, complete telecast information and more, please go the new SHOWTIME Sports website at http://sports.sho.com/.

About Don King Productions:

Don King Productions has promoted over 600 world championship fights with nearly 100 individual boxers having been paid $1 million or more. DKP also holds the distinction of having promoted or co-promoted seven of the 10 largest pay-per-view events in history, as gauged by total buys, including three of the top five: Holyfield vs. Tyson II, 1.99 million buys, June 1997; Tyson vs. Holyfield I, 1.6 million buys, November 1996; and Tyson vs. McNeeley, 1.58 million buys, August 1995.

DKP has promoted or co-promoted 11 of the top 20 highest-grossing live gates in the history of the state of Nevada including five of the top seven: Holyfield vs. Lewis II, paid attendance: 17,078, gross: $16,860,300 (NOTE: Also second-highest live-gate gross for any event in the history of the world.), date: Nov. 13, 1999; Holyfield vs. Tyson II, paid attendance: 16,279, gross: $14,277,200, date: June 28, 1997; Holyfield vs. Tyson I, paid attendance: 16,103, gross: $14,150,700, date: Nov. 9, 1996; Tyson vs. McNeeley, paid attendance: 16,113, gross: $13,965,600, date: Aug. 19, 1995; and Trinidad vs. De La Hoya, paid attendance: 11,184, gross: $12, 949, 500. Sept. 18, 1999.

About Golden Boy Promotions:

Los Angeles-based Golden Boy Promotions was established in 2002 by Oscar de la Hoya, the first Hispanic to own a national boxing promotional company. In 2007, in its fifth year of promoting, Golden Boy Promotions set a record by selling over 2.5 million in pay-per-view homes in a single night. Also in 2007, Golden Boy Promotions established the record for highest grossing pay-per-view homes in a single year with more than 4 million total. In 2009, the company broke records again by breaking the million mark in pay-per-view homes again with the return of Floyd Mayweather. Golden Boy Promotions is one of boxing’s most active and respected promoters, presenting shows in packed venues around the United States and the world on networks such as HBO, HBO Latino, HBO Plus, SHOWTIME, TeleFutura, Televisa, ESPN2 and Fox Sports Net.

Golden Boy Promotions currently has over 70 fighters under contract, from future Hall of Famer Bernard Hopkins to current world champions and superstars Saul Alvarez, Robert Guerrero, David Haye, Chris John, Amir Khan , Marcos Maidana, Anselmo Moreno and Victor Ortiz. Also included on the company’s roster are top contenders Librado Andrade, Erislandy Lara, Abner Mares, Daniel Ponce De Leon and Peter Quillin as well as highly regarded prospects Adrien Broner , Danny Garcia, Frankie Gomez, Seth Mitchell, Carlos Velasquez and Deontay Wilder.

About Showtime Networks Inc.:
Showtime Networks Inc. (SNI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CBS Corporation, owns and operates the premium television networks SHOWTIME®, THE MOVIE CHANNEL™ and FLIX®, as well as the multiplex channels SHOWTIME 2™, SHOWTIME® SHOWCASE, SHOWTIME EXTREME®, SHOWTIME BEYOND®, SHOWTIME NEXT®, SHOWTIME WOMEN®, SHOWTIME FAMILY ZONE® and THE MOVIE CHANNEL™ XTRA. SNI also offers SHOWTIME HD™, SHOWTIME 2 HD™, THE MOVIE CHANNEL HD™, SHOWTIME ON DEMAND®, THE MOVIE CHANNEL ON DEMAND™ and FLIX ON DEMAND®. SNI also manages Smithsonian Channel™, a joint venture between SNI and the Smithsonian Institution. All SNI feeds provide enhanced sound using Dolby Digital 5.1. SNI markets and distributes sports and entertainment events for exhibition to subscribers on a pay-per-view basis through SHOWTIME PPV®.

About Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas:

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is a premier destination entertainment resort in Las Vegas, owned by Brookfield Real Estate Finance Fund II, a division of Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM) and managed by WG-Harmon, LLC, a subsidiary of Warner Gaming, LLC. Built in 1995, the property completed a $750 million expansion in 2010. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino offers an energetic entertainment and gaming experience with the services and amenities associated with a boutique luxury resort hotel. The property is known for its innovative nightlife and music scene where acts such as The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Paul McCartney, Incubus, Linkin Park , Foo Fighters and The Killers have all performed. Features of the property include an 11-story Hard Rock Hotel tower with 640 guest rooms, 17-story Paradise Tower with 490 rooms and suites and the all-suite HRH Tower with 359 suites, eight spa villas and seven penthouse suites; 72,000 square feet of casino space; 80,000 square feet of flexible meeting and convention space; the luxurious Vanity Nightclub; Reliquary Water Sanctuary & Spa; Reliquary Salon; 4.8 acres of tropical pool paradise; REHAB, the trendsetting Sunday afternoon pool party; The Joint concert venue; Hart & Huntington Tattoo Co.; restaurants including Rare 120 steakhouse, the Tuscan-style Italian eatery AGO, world-renowned Nobu, Johnny Smalls, Pink Taco and Mr. Lucky’s 24/7 diner; numerous cocktail lounges; several retail stores; and a state-of-the-art Fitness Center. For room availability and additional information call 800.HRD.ROCK (800.473.7625) or visit www.hardrockhotel.com.
CONTACTS: Alan Hopper, Don King Productions: (954) 418-5839

NEVADA BALLET THEATRE

2011-08-05T22:57:00.000-07:00

NEVADA BALLET THEATRE PRESENTS ITS SEASON OPENING AT THE PARIS THÉÂTRE:
DANCE DANCE DANCE! ON OCTOBER 29 & 30

COMPANY TO SHARE THE STAGE WITH HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO ; PROGRAM TO INCLUDE WORKS BY BALANCHINE, KYLIÁN, CANFIELD AND MORE

LAS VEGAS, NV (Thursday, August 4, 2011) - Nevada Ballet Theatre (NBT) commemorates its 40th Anniversary season with an exciting fall opening performance, DANCE DANCE DANCE!, joining together NBT and Chicago’s famed contemporary dance company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. This diverse program will be presented on Sat., Oct. 29 at 8 pm and Sun., Oct., 30 at 2 pm and includes works by George Balanchine, Jiri Kylián, James Canfield , Sharon Eyal and Gaï Behar.

The program opens with George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco, with music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Concerto in D minor for Two Violins). Premiering in 1941, this ballet provides an inside look into Balanchine’s unique blending of music and movement. Dancers personify violins as they give life to the rhythms and emotions in Bach’s score. Characterized by swift, light jumps and clean arm movements, this ballet is staged by former New York City Ballet Soloist and Balanchine Trust Repetiteur, Sandra Jennings.

Hubbard Street takes the stage for the Las Vegas premiere of Too Beaucoup choreographed by Sharon Eyal with co-creator Gaï Behar and music by Ori Lichtik. Created for Hubbard Street in 2011, it is a sequel to Bill, a piece created for the Batsheva Dance Company in 2010 and inspired by video artist Bill Viola. Too Beaucoup aims to manipulate and replicate precise and robotic movement that offers a sense of watching a 3-D video. Because of this, music, costumes and lighting become just as important as the movement. Leading dance critic Hedy Weiss of the Chicago Sun-Times recently remarked of this work: ….”the overall impact — and sheer heat of the dancing — was undeniable.”

Cinq Gnossiennes, a powerful and moving contemporary ballet by James Canfield , consists of bold, yet fluid choreography. With live accompaniment, five dancers skillfully execute this unforgettable work that explores human relationships and loss.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago performs the epic Petite Mort, also a Las Vegas premiere, choreographed by Jirí Kylián and set against two of Mozart’s most beloved piano concertos – Piano Concerto in A Major (Adagio) and Piano Concerto in C Major (Andante). This thought-provoking ballet features six women and six men and six fencing foils (small swords) - which create a symbolism more evident than a traditional story line. “There are so many small gestures and actions that ultimately turn out to be the most breathtaking moments,” said Hubbard Street dancer, Kellie Epperheimer. Meaning “small death,” emotions play a significant role in this riveting ballet including energy, silence and vulnerability. It was first performed by Nederlands Dans Theatre in 1991 for the Salzburg Festival in honor of the second centenary of Mozart’s death.

“Both Glenn Edgerton (Artistic Director, Hubbard Street ) and I share similar visions which were passed down to us by our mentors during our careers,” said James Canfield . “These inspirations bring us together again to present a program of artistic and technical depth for the community of Las Vegas .”

The program culminates on a high-spirited note with the return of James Canfield ’s upbeat and lively ballet, UP. Debuting in 2002 by Oregon Ballet Theatre in honor of Richard Rodger’s 100th Birthday, this work encompasses seven distinct versions of Rodger and Hart’s popular ballad, “Blue Moon” – each one brought to life through Canfield’s inventive choreography. Artists range from the soulful sounds of jazz artist Billie Holiday, to the country and alternative rock sounds of The Cowboy Junkies.

THE PROGRAM

Concerto Barocco Bach/Balanchine Nevada Ballet Theatre

Too Beacoup Lichtik/Eyal/Behar Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Cinq Gnossiennes Satie/Canfield Nevada Ballet Theatre

Petite Mort Mozart/Kylián Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Up Rogers/Hart/Canfield Nevada Ballet Theatre

TICKET INFORMATION AND GROUP SALES

Tickets can be purchased for $29 and up (plus fees) by calling the Paris Théâtre Box Office at (702) 946-4567 or (877) 374-7469, online through www.nevadaballet.org or in person at the Paris Théâtre Box Office. Group sale pricing is available and can be purchased by calling Joel Mann at the Paris Théâtre at (702) 967-4938. The Paris Théâtre is located at Paris Las Vegas, 3655 Las Vegas Boulevard South .

ABOUT NEVADA BALLET THEATRE

Under the artistic direction of James Canfield , Nevada Ballet Theatre is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and the largest professional ballet company and dance Academy in the state. Committed to the highest artistic standards, this classically-based company is at home in an eclectic repertory, moving easily from the classics to the high-energy contemporary ballets. The mission of Nevada Ballet Theatre is to educate and inspire statewide, regional and national audiences and vitally impact community life through professional company productions, dance training and education and outreach. Nevada Ballet Theatre will be a resident company of The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in 2012.

ABOUT HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, under the artistic direction of Glenn Edgerton, celebrates 34 years as one of the most original forces in contemporary dance. Critically acclaimed for its exuberant, athletic and innovative repertoire, Hubbard Street presents performances that inspire, challenge and engage audiences worldwide. The company’s ensemble of dancers displays unparalleled versatility and virtuosity, allowing Hubbard Street to expand its eclectic repertoire with works by master American and international choreographers. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago also contributes to dance’s evolution by developing new choreographic talent and collaborating with artists in music, visual art and theatre. Since Lou Conte founded the company in 1977, Hubbard Street has expanded beyond its main company to include Hubbard Street 2, which cultivates young professional dancers and choreographers, performs nationally and internationally with a diverse and engaging repertoire; extensive Education & Community Programs which offer city- and state-accredited professional development for teachers to incorporate movement into curricula and allow young people to experience dance; and the Lou Conte Dance Studio, which offers a wide variety of classes weekly in jazz, ballet, modern, tap, African, hip hop, yoga, Pilates and Zumba®, at levels from basic to professional, as well as workshops and master classes.

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JERSEY BOYS

2011-08-03T20:43:00.000-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

AS GOOD AS IT GETS.....COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER, THEY COULD HAVE STARTED ON TIME...11 MINUTES LATE...... THAT WAS THE ONLY NEGATIVE.

JERSEY BOYS AT THE PELAZZO RESORT-HOTEL CASINO...LAS VEGAS STRIP !

I HAVE TO CONTINUE TO BRAG ABOUT WHAT GREAT SHOWS WE HAVE IN LAS VEGAS AND HERE IS ANOTHER, RIGHT AT THE TOP OF ANYTHING EVER PRODUCED IN LAS VEGAS AND AGAIN FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS (EXCEPTING STARTING ON TIME)....941 PRETTY LATE FOR US OLD FARTS AND LOTS OF LOCAL OLD FARTS LOVE THIS SHOW...2:21 ON THIS NIGHT WITH AN 8 MINUTE INTERMISSION...I HEARD PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY IN LINE FOR THOSE EXPENSIVE REFRESHMENTS ! I HEADED FOR HOME AT 12:02am.

ANYWAY...JERSEY BOYS AN ENTITY IN ITSELF FOR MULTI SHOWS PLAYING THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY OFF AND ON ON A ROTATING BASIS.... AND FOR SURE NONE BETTER THAN THIS ONE. I LOVE WORLD CLASS STAGING AND LIGHTING.... AND THE SOUND WAS HEAVENLY...OH YA BOB GAUDIO WHO WROTE MOST OF THESE FRANKIE VALLI CLASSICS PLAYS NO SMALL ROLE IN THE BIG PICTURE...ACTUALLY AS HE SAYS IN THE PLAY, "NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT ME"...RIGHT YOUR ARE BOB.

THE SHOW IS A PLAY ON THE LIFE OF FRANKI VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONS, NOT A CONCERT... AND THE MUSIC WONDERFULLY INTERWINED IN THE STORY WITH PEFECT LIVE BACKUP AND FLOATING DRUMS STANDS, REAPPEARING MAGIC MIKE STANDS AND BACKUP MUSIC TO THE SECOND PER PRODUCTION.

THE TIMING IN THIS AS WONDERFUL AS EVERYONE EVER..IT IS ON CUE, ON THE MARK WITH THE SOUND AND LIGHTS MELDING PERFECTLY...DID I MENTION HOW GREAT THE SOUND WAS....I'M A BIG BEATTLES FAN...4 GUYS-GREAT MUSIC...MONDAY WE WENT TO HUMAN NATURE...4 GUYS-GREAT MUSIC...JERSEY BOYS...4 GUYS-GREAT MUSIC.....SOME JACKASS AT THE START OF ALL THIS IN THE 60'S SAID ...."FOUR GUYS...DRUMS...3 GUITARS...IT WILL NEVER WORK". RIGHT...... JUST THREE OF GREAT SHOWS OF ALL TIME PLAYING NOW IN LAS VEGAS AND AT THE TOP OF THEIR GAME.

THE CURRENT "BOYS"...RICK FAUGO AS FRANKIE VALLI...SENSATIONAL VOICE AND TALENT
...JEFF LEIBOW AS NICK MASSI...PERFECT ODD MAN OUT
...DEVEN MAY AS TOMMY DEVITO...WHAT AN ASSHOLE...WHAT AN ACTOR
...PETER SAIDE AS BOB GAUDIO...THE STRAW THAT STIRS THE DRINK

THIS A MARVOLOUS CAST WITH LOADS TO TALENT, GREAT VOICES AND PERFECT TEAMWORK IN THEIR EFFORT TO TELL THE FRANKIE VALLI STORY. LANGUAGE STRONG AND REAL AND WRITE DONE THE LINE IT PLAYS THE STORY LINE WELL.

THIS IS NOT REALLY A PRETTY STORY HISTORICALLY, BUT IT IS WITH HAPPY ENDING AND ACCURATELY PORTRAYED HERE.... 8 SHOWS A WEEK DARK MONDAY...WE CATCH THE LATE SHOW TUESDAY AND THE GREAT COMPLIMENT TO THE ENTIRE SHOW....THEY MADE IT LOOK LIKE IT WAS OPENING NIGHT....MY GREAT SALUTE TO THE ENTIRE PRODUCTION.

NICE TO KNOW THIS IS 4 MILES FROM MY HOME AND I CAN GO ANY NIGHT...MAKES ME SLEEP GOOD...IN SEEING THIS OVER AND OVER YOU CAN PICK SOME CLEVER NUANCES YOU MIGHT MISS THE TIME BEFORE...SUCH AS THE LINE IN NAMING THE GROUP..."WHAT THE HELL ARE THE FOUR SEASONS...DIDN'T VIVALDI HAVE THAT"....FRANKI'S WIFE OR WIFE TO BE AT THE TIME HAS SOME GREAT LINES AND DELIVERS THEM PERFECTLY...JUST NO DEAD MEAT IN THIS.

THE 8 MINUTE INTERMISSION ON THE CLOCK WAS COVERED BY CONTEMPORARY BLACK AND WHITE MOVING VIDEO...I PASSED ON THOSE EXPENSIVE REFRESHMENTS AND LOVED THE SHORT MOVIE !

WHEN CAN I GO AGAIN....I AM PROGRAMMED....NICE CROWD TUESDAY LATE.

COULD HAVE BEEN A PERFECT SCORE

89 B+

BOXING AT THE COSMOPOLITAN

2011-08-02T20:02:00.000-07:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com

WITH THE DEMISE OF CLUB BOXING AT THE ORLEANS...A VOID CAME TO BE....NO MORE !

THE COSMOPOLITAN HAS STEPPED FORWARD WITH AN ESPN TV ENGAGEMENT AND NOW PRODUCED 3 CARDS AT THE ENORMUS STRIP PROPERTY....EASY IN AND OUT HERE TOO THROUGH THE BACK DOOR HARMON ENTRANCE (IT AVOIDS THE STRIP).

ANYWAY, UNLIKE THE MGM WHERE JOURNALISM IS NOT WELCOME, THE STAFF AT THE COSMOPOLITAN WELCOMES EVERYONE WITH OPEN ARMS AND A PLAN TO BE CONSUMER FRIENDLY...TRULY A JOY TO COVER FIGHTS AT THIS PROPERTY...ITS IN A PERFECT COMFORTABLE 4TH LEVEL EASY ACCESS CONVENTION ARENA.

MORE OF THE SAME PLANNED HERE.... STAY TUNE HERE AND TO ESPN FOR COVERAGE...SUPER HELPFUL TO TAPE THESE MATCHS AND REVIEW THEM FOR CONTENT AND REVIEW.

FRIDAY'S CARD NOT THE WORLDS BEST MATCHES, BUT ITS ALWAYS A CHALLENGE TO MATCH EM UP RIGHT...IN THE MAIN EVENT LAMONT PETERSON STOPPED VICTOR CAYO AT 2:46 OF THE 12TH AND FINAL ROUND...14 SECONDS TO GO WHEN CAYO QUIT ALTHO HE REALLY NEVER STARTED IN THIS ONE.

YORDANIS DESPAIGNE WON ON DISQUALIFICATION IN A LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT MATCH...THIS AT 45 SECONDS OF THE FIFTH ROUND...THIS ONE NO PICNIC EITHER.

RANCE BARTHELEMY A UNANIMOUS 79-72, 78-73 AND 76-75 DECISION OVER SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT GENARDO ROBLES....THE ONE MATCH THAT WENT TO THE CARDS.

SERGEY KOVALEY A SECOND ROUND LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT KNOCKOUT IN A SCHEDULED 10 ROUNDER AND BADOU JACK A SECOND ROUND LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT KNOCKOUT IN THE PRE TV WARMUP..NEITHER OPPONENT WANTED TO FIGHT AND DIDN'T.

THANKS TO THE COSMOPOLITAN FOR THE GREAT FACILITY AND THE EVENT...HOPEFULLY THEY ARE WORKING ON MORE COMPETITIVE MATCHES !

95 A

HUMAN NATURE

2011-08-02T12:55:00.001-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

SMOKEY ROBINSON PRESENTS AUSTRALIAS'S HUMAN NATURE !

IT WAS 8 MINUTES LATE.

AS GOOD A SHOW AS THERE EVER WAS IN LAS VEGAS AND FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS !

THIS GOES SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AT THE IMPERIAL PALACE SHOWROOM 888 777 7664

CAN'T SAY ENOUGH GOOD THINGS ABOUT THIS....OH...IT COULD HAVE STARTED ON TIME !

4 WHITE AUSTRALIAN SINGERS DOING MOTOWN...THEY HAVE BEEN AT IT 21 YEARS...THEY LOOKED YOUNG TO ME...THO EVERYBODY DOES...THIS A WELL HONED, WELL REHEARSED 88 MINUTES THAT PLAYED AS GOOD AS OR BETTER THAN MOTOWN ITSELF. GOD I LOVED IT.

MAYBE THE CHOREOGRAPHY AND STEP MOVES WITH THE MUSIC WON ME OVER EARLY...BUT THE SINGING AND 7 PIECE BACKUP GROUP WENT TOGETHER LIKE THE 4 TOPS AT THE TOP OF THEIR GAME.

GREAT TO SKIM OFF THE BEST OF THE 60'S MOTOWN AND FOLLOW PERFECTLY THE ARRANGEMENTS AND VOCALS...THESE GUYS CAN ALL SING AND DANCE AND THEY ALL DID.

AT LEAST 4 COSTUME CHANGES, SOME VOCALS WITHOUT BACKUP WHICH PLAYED PERFECTLY...NICE CROWD...MOSTLY WHITE...I AM NEVER CRAZY ABOUT BRING UP AN AUDIENCE MEMBER AND ON THIS NIGHT THEY GOT A DITZ !

LOTS OF WORK AND EFFORT IN PUTTING THIS TOGETHER AND ALL THE EFFORT WAS NOT LOST ON ME...JUST BEAUTIFUL TO SEE THE MOVES AND THE SMILES TELLING US THEY WERE GLAD TO BE HERE...I WAS TOO.

SOME OF THE GREAT STAGING OF THIS INCLUDED VIDEO THAT I LIKED, HISTORICAL, INFORMATIVE AND CURRENT...PRE SHOW OPENING INCLUDED TRIVIA ON A SCREEN FOR PEOPLE MY AGE AND I DID WELL ....LOVED IT.

THIS IS RECOMMENDED TO THE WORLD...THEY SAID THEY HAVE A YEAR RUN AT THE I P....I AM PLANNING MY NEXT VISIT SOON.

92 A-...COULD HAVE HAD A 100 IF THEY WOULD HAVE STARTED ON TIME.

FIRE AND FURY

2011-07-31T20:23:00.000-07:00

BY JOHN MASTALIR jmastalir@yahoo.com

With the demise of Guilty Boxing at the Orleans, club boxing in Las Vegas was without a home...NO MORE !

How wonderfully refreshing to see the South Pointe Casino Hotel and KZ Event Productions combine to fill the void !

Friday's 7 bout card was in fact..... Fire and Fury...boxing and more. I have loathed the delays, dead time and endless intermissions at boxing events for 25 years here in Las Vegas...all due to television and bad promotion. NOT HERE !

The damn thing started on time, my biggest bitch of all, and the between fights dead time was filled with "the karate kid"...a fire magacian with a real act....and between round dancers which were quite good.

The South Pointe convention arena was set up pretty well for this, with its low ceiling...they had a big crowd and a totally complete satisfing entertainment program....LAS VEGAS ENTERTAINMENT NEWS....covers all entertainment as well as boxing and tonight we got it all ! I still went to bed trying to figure out how TELEFUTRA and ESPN could both hold boxing events on this same night at the same time in Las Vegas, and I was told TELEVISON was the answer.

It still continues to amaze me how in spite of everything the sound man can hit the rap music at the bell after every round and never miss a beat...still truly awful.
I guess I can't have it all.

There was Fire and Fury, and even smoke in the ring for the main event...I didn't sneeze or cough before Friday night and haven't stopped since...don't know if they are to blame or not...I continue to be amazed at the cost of indoor fireworks, lazers and nearly naked women for the headliner to enter the ring...in my ancient senario I always think of worst case results like one of the curtains catching on fire....all the precautions were fulfilled here though and they go me home safely.

BOXING....HELL YES !

And while this was a club card with quasi simulated fictional titles and boxers no one had every heard of .....that is not the point....they still have to play the game and this night everyone played well. Good action fights with guys who wished to compete and did and showed some skills and entertained.

A swing bout between Ramon Montano 17-10-2 and Juan Suazo 8-4-3 might have been the best bout of the night...both men never stopped swinging for 18 minutes and Suazo got a 60-54, 59-55 and 58-56 call.

It never fails to amaze me what you see...Hector Munoz had the top half of a pistol tatooed over his right buttocks eclipsing his trunks to reveal the theory he was packing heat...just amazing what the thought process is that goes on here...Ravshan Hudaynazarov (16-0) didn't care he beat Munoz every round..altho Munoz made the effort !

After alleged TV title fights with Kahn and Klitsko in my recent memory it was impressive to open this card with light heavyweights Gayrat Ahmedov 17-0-1 and Billy Baily 11-12 they came out and fought hard and they did it for all 8 rounds.

The main event showcased a top B level light heavyweight Beibut Shumenov 12-1 and Danny Santiago 31-5-2....Shuenov scored the KO at 46 seconds of the ninth round...hey this guy is focused, intent, in shape, aggressive and brings the fight to his opponent...here is guy I want to see again.

As my readers know I never use sanctioning alphabet call letters of fight organizations in my storys...there are no champions or....there are 244...you make the call...the point is Shumenov can fight and does.

Finally with the unfriendly atmosphere presented at the MGM where they discourage journalism and hold the philosophy at their cards that says...don't do that, don't go there, you can't do that...we don't want you here.....THE SOUTH POINT AND KZ PRODUCTIONS welcomed us with open arms...the staff was friendly, helpful and accomodating and they put out a world class press kit with everything I wanted to know and more...I read it all.

A first class entertainment event recommended to the world and I for one anxiously await their next event.

99 A+

THE ELECTRIC TRIO

2011-07-31T19:41:00.000-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

PIANO, VIOLIN, CELLO.........HAYDEN, RACHMANINOV, MENDELSOHN

SUNDAY AFTERNOON 83 MINUTES STARTED LATE AT THE WINCHESTER CULTURAL CENTER

LOVELY SLECTION OF MUSIC...WELL PLAYED...PERFECT

92 a-

boxing friday at south pointe

2011-07-28T22:08:00.001-07:00

Weights from Las Vegas

Beibut Shumenov 175 lbs. Danny Santiago 173 lbs.

Headlines TeleFutura’s ‘Sólo Boxeo Tecate’ telecast Friday live from South Point Hotel Casino

12 Rounds – WBA/IBA World Light Heavyweight Championship

Beibut Shumenov (11-1, 7 KOs), Champion, Las Vegas, NV 175 LBS.

Danny Santiago (31-4, 19 KOs), Challenger, Ocala, FL 173 LBS.

10 Rounds – WBA FEDALATIN Welterweight Championship

Ravshan Hudaynazarov (14-0, 12 KOs), Champion, Las Vegas, NV 146 LBS.

Hector Munoz (19-5-1, 12 KOs), Challenger, Albuquerque, NM 146 LBS.

8 Rounds – WBA International Light Heavyweight Championship

Gayrat Ahedemov (16-0-1, 11 KOs), Las Vegas, NV 174 ½ LBS.

Billy Bailey (11-11, 4 KOs), Bakersfield, CA 178 ½ LBS.

4/6 Rounds – Super Featherweights

Lonnie Smith (13-2-2, 9 KOs), Las Vegas, NV 130 LBS.

Eduardo Arcos (16-4-1, 13 KOs), Tijuana, Baja, Mexico 129 ½ LBS.

6 Rounds – Lightweights

Ramon Montano (17-9-2, 2 KOs), Las Vegas, NV 139 ½ LBS.

Juan Suazo (7-4-3, 5 KOs), Tucson, AZ 137 ½ LBS.

4 Rounds – Super Featherweights

Joel Diaz (4-0, 3 KOs), Palmdale, CA 127 ½ LBS.

Esteban Nichol (3-1, 3 KOs), Denver, CO 127 ½ LBS.

4 Rounds – Cruiserweights

Medzhiad Bektemirov (5-0, 5 KOs), Houston, TX 185 LBS.

Chad Davis (3-8, 0 KOs), Phoenix, AZ 192 LBS.

NAME: “Fire & Fury”Championship Boxing Card

DATE: Friday, July 29, 2011

VENUE: South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada

PROMOTER: KZ Event Productions (the Shumenov brothers – WBA/IBA World Light Heavyweight Champion Beibut and Chingis – own and operate the Las Vegas-based KZ Event Productions) in association with Golden Boy Promotions, Don Chargin Productions, Guilty Boxing and South Point Hotel Casino, and sponsored by Cerveza Tecate and AT&T

TICKETS: Starting at $25 and available for purchase at South Point’s box office, online at www.SouthPointEventCenter.com/tickets.php, or by calling 1.702.797.8055

TELEVISION: TeleFutura’s “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” broadcast begins at 11:30 PM ET / PT (10:30 PM CT).

INFORMATION: Doors open at 5:30 PM PT, first bout at 6:00 PM PT

For additional information about “Fire & Fury,” Shumenov or any of KZ Event Productions’fighters, visit www.KZEventProductions.com. For more information on Golden Boy Promotions, visit www.goldenboypromotions.com, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/GoldenBoyBoxing or visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/GoldenBoyBoxing.

? Fans at home can also be part of the action by participating in Cinturón Tecate and voting for the fighter in the main event who displays the most character in the ring by sending a text message to 55333. Voting will be open through the end of the weekend.

About KZ Event Productions, Inc.

KZ Event Productions is a full service, international boxing promotional company in Las Vegas, Nevada. Owned and operated by Beibut and Chingis Shumenov, its growing stable of champions include WBA/IBA light heavyweight World Champion Beibut Shumenov, WBA FEDALATIN welterweight champion Ravshan Hudaynazarov, WBA International light heavyweight champion Gayrat Ahmedov and WBA International light welterweight champion Alexandr Zhuravskiy.

About Golden Boy Promotions

Los Angeles-based Golden Boy Promotions was established in 2002 by Oscar de la Hoya, the first Hispanic to own a national boxing promotional company. In 2007, in its fifth year of promoting, Golden Boy Promotions set a record by selling over 2.5 million in pay-per-view homes in a single night. Also in 2007, Golden Boy Promotions established the record for highest grossing pay-per-view homes in a single year with more than 4 million total. In 2009, the company broke records again by breaking the million mark in pay-per-view homes again with the return of Floyd Mayweather. Golden Boy Promotions is one of boxing’s most active and respected promoters, presenting shows in packed venues around the United States and the world on networks such as HBO, HBO Latino, HBO Plus, SHOWTIME, TeleFutura, Televisa, ESPN2 and Fox Sports Net.

Golden Boy Promotions currently has over 70 fighters under contract, from future Hall of Famer Bernard Hopkins to current world champions and superstars Saul Alvarez, Robert Guerrero, David Haye, Chris John, Amir Khan, Marcos Maidana and Victor Ortiz. Also included on the company’s roster are top contenders Librado Andrade, Abner Mares and Daniel Ponce De Leon as well as highly regarded prospects Adrien Broner, Danny Garcia, Frankie Gomez, Erislandy Lara, Seth Mitchell, Carlos Velasquez and Deontay Wilder.

About Cerveza Tecate
Tecate, cerveza con carácter, is the largest beer brand to sponsor boxing matches in the U.S. Part of its commitment to make boxing accessible to consumers is the title sponsorship of “Sólo Boxeo Tecate,” which creates an opportunity for local fans to witness some of the most exhilarating fights by today’s up-and-coming prospects. Additionally, Tecate has been a primary supporter of Golden Boy Promotions’ marquee events since 2007, and has launched a variety of initiatives to ensure consumers are part of the boxing experience, including boxer autograph signing sessions, commemorative cans, PPV mail-in rebate offers, and most recently the launch of a mobile museum “Tecate Museo de Boxeo,” which showcases decades of the most memorable moments in the sport.

-KZ-

FIRE AND FURY WEIGH IN

2011-07-27T14:18:00.000-07:00

To: jmastalir@yahoo.com‘FIRE & FURY’ OFFICIAL WEIGH IN ALERT

WHAT: “Fire & Fury” Official Weigh-In

WHO: BEIBUT SHUMENOV DANNY“The Bronx Bomber” SANTIAGO

WBA/IBA Light Heavyweight Champion Challenger

Las Vegas, NV Ocala, FL

11-1, 7 KOs 31-4-1, 19 KOs

Also….

RAVSHAN HUDAYNAZAROV(14-0, 12 KOs), WBA FEDALATIN Welterweight Champion, Las Vegas, NV

HECTOR MUNOZ (19-5-1, 12 KOs), Challenger, Albuquerque, NM

GAYRAT AHMEDOV(16-0-1, 11 KOs), WBA International Light Heavyweight Champion, Las Vegas

BILLY BAILEY(11-11, 4 KOs), Bakersfield, CA

LONNIE SMITH(13-2-2, 9 KOs), Las Vegas, NV

EDUARDO ARCOS(16-4-1, 13 KOs), Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

RAMON MONTANO(17-9-2, 2 KOs), Las Vegas, NV

JUAN SUAZO(7-4-3, 5 KOs), Tucson, AZ

MEDZHID BEKTEMIROV(5-0, 5 KOs), Houston, TX

CHAD DAVID(3-8, 0 KOs), Phoenix, AZ

JOEL DIAZ(4-0, 3 KOs), Palmdale, CA

ESTEBAN NICHOL (3-1, 3 KOs), Denver, CO

WHEN: Thursday, July 28, 2011 – 6 PM/PT (On Scale)

WHERE: Grand View Lounge, South Point Hotel Casino, 977 Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas, NV

WHY: The official weigh-in for Friday night’s “Fire & Fury” championship boxing card at South Point Casino Hotel, presented by KZ Event Productions in association with Golden Boy Promotions, Don Chagrin Promotions, Guilty Boxing, Solo Boxeo Tecate and South Point Hotel Casino

Tickets, starting at $25.00, are available to purchase at South Point’s box office, on line at www.SouthPointEventCenter.com/tickets.php, or by calling 1.702.797.8055

Go on line to www.KZEventProductions.com for additional info

JULY 30 KICK BOXING

2011-07-25T14:03:00.001-07:00

Vegas Entertainment

Monday, July 25, 2011
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

I remain a solid supporter of Las Vegas Little Theatre and all live theatre everywhere.

That said...we a total meltdown here...started late...no air conditioning on Sunday afternoon...unrecognizable script (can't follow the storyline...whatever it is) and an awful production. Not everyone left at intermission and some got some laughs out of this colorful farcial takeoff from the 1988 film.

Hardest of all to believe is the Las Vegas Review Journal reviewer Anthony Del Valle gave this an A...maybe you should try it and see if you are on the same page as Anthony....I usually agree 100% with his reviews and grading....not here.

My wife called it the most amateurish thing she has ever seen with wrinkled costumes...some that didn't fit and undefinable script delivery by the actors.

Catching farts in a jar didn't seem to play well for me....I fart more than anybody and enjoy it temporarily, but saving them in a jar never occured to me !

61 D- for a colorful backdrop and a continuing effort to present theatre.
Posted by Ed Bruce at 1:47 PM

DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS

2011-07-25T13:47:00.000-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

I remain a solid supporter of Las Vegas Little Theatre and all live theatre everywhere.

That said...we a total meltdown here...started late...no air conditioning on Sunday afternoon...unrecognizable script (can't follow the storyline...whatever it is) and an awful production. Not everyone left at intermission and some got some laughs out of this colorful farcial takeoff from the 1988 film.

Hardest of all to believe is the Las Vegas Review Journal reviewer Anthony Del Valle gave this an A...maybe you should try it and see if you are on the same page as Anthony....I usually agree 100% with his reviews and grading....not here.

My wife called it the most amateurish thing she has ever seen with wrinkled costumes...some that didn't fit and undefinable script delivery by the actors.

Catching farts in a jar didn't seem to play well for me....I fart more than anybody and enjoy it temporarily, but saving them in a jar never occured to me !

61 D- for a colorful backdrop and a continuing effort to present theatre.

CALIFORNIA

2011-07-23T22:46:00.000-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

ITS NOT ALL LAS VEGAS....ACTUALLY HAD TO PAY FOR SOME OF THIS !

JULY 15 AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE AHMANSON THEATRE DOWNTOWN LOS ANGLES..
THE BRIGHT STREAM...WORLD CLASS BALLET ....THEY WERE LATE.

JULY 16 LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE....I LEFT MY HEART....3 DUDES DOING TONY BENNETT MUSIC
THEY WERE GREAT...THEY WERE LATE.

JULY 17 IRVINE COLLEGE THEATRE...GAY MEN ALIVE COURSE...THEY WERE GREAT...THEY
WERE LATE

JULY 18 RODIN BRONZE...LAGUNA ART SCHOOL...THEY WERE GREAT...THEY WERE ON TIME.

JULY 19 ESCONDIDO...LAWRENCE WELK THEATRE...DINING AND A MATINEE...MUSIC OF
A MARRIED COUPLE...THEY WERE GREAT...THEY WERE LATE.

JULY 20 LAGUANA PAGENT OF THE MASTERS...ONE OF THE TREASURES OF THIS EARTH
GREAT...IT WAS LATE...NOT AS GOOD AS USUAL...STILL GREAT

JULY 21 FULLERTON...PATSY CLINE SHOW WITH CHRISTA JACKSON AND SALLY STRUTHERS..
THEY WERE GREAT THEY WERE LATE

JULY 22 DROVE TO LAS VEGAS

JULY 23 PRIMM NEVADA...NEIL SEDAKA...HE WAS GREAT HE WAS LATE.

UFL

2011-07-22T18:53:00.000-07:00

Dear Fans,

Today we announced that the 2011 United Football League season will now kickoff in mid-September as opposed to August 13 as originally announced. At the conclusion of last season we announced that we would play in August because we believed then, and now, that playing in August provides a compelling opportunity for us to offer meaningful games during the NFL preseason. At the time we could not have predicted that the uncertainty of the NFL and NBA lockouts would create a destabilizing, negative impact throughout the professional sports industry.

The uncertainty that gripped pro sports delayed many essential business agreements until late in the offseason. In order to provide the product that UFL fans have grown to expect after two seasons we decided it was in the best interest of our fans, our players, our staff and our brand to push back kickoff. Our ownership group, our staff and the entire UFL family remains committed to providing a great 2011 season.

Players and Coaches had arrived in our cities to prepare for the season. Many of them will now depart for a few weeks at league expense. We will announce a new training camp and season schedule shortly which will provide a timeline for their return. Some players and coaches will remain in our cities to help market their team.

We are appreciative of your support. We began this venture during the worst economy of our lifetime. In recent years the economy has shown little improvement and, even during a time of hardship for many of you, it is your support that has sustained us. More than 400,000 of you have attended our games. Many more have tuned in to our telecasts. We intend to provide the same great football and experiences that you have supported through our first two seasons in 2011 and beyond.

We will offer refunds for those who may not be available to attend all of our games given the new schedule. We will reward your loyalty with a great product, a great experience and additional incentives to thank you for your loyalty. We know that no incentive can match your dedication but we want you to know how important you are to all of us here at the UFL.

I look forward to seeing you at our games beginning in mid-September. Our Coaches and our players are fired up and ready to provide you with great games throughout the season and I cannot wait to see which team ends up winning the UFL Championship Game this season.

Sincerely,

Commissioner Michael Huyghue

DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS

2011-07-22T18:52:00.001-07:00

"...a bubbly score; comic homages to showbiz classics; and the aim of vaulting over the lines of good taste whenever possible." – New York Times
Performing NOW on our Mainstage, July 21 - 31, 2011
Thu/Fri/Sat @ 8pm, Sun @ 2pm • Tickets: Adults $25; LVLT Subscribers $20

Directed by Walter Niejadlik

Musical Director Toby McEvoy

Asst. Director/Stage Manager Gillen Brey

Choreographer Sarah Spraker

BOOK by JEFFREY LANE
MUSIC & LYRICS by DAVID YAZBEK

Based on the film "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
written by Dale Lainer, Stanley Shapiro & Paul Henning

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is presented by special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI 421 W 54th St New York NY 10029
Phone 212-541-4684 Fax 212-397-4684 www.MTIshows.com

Based on the popular 1988 film, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS centers on two con men living on the French Riviera. The first is the suave and sophisticated Lawrence Jameson, who makes his lavish living by talking rich ladies out of their money. The other, a small-time crook named Freddy Benson, more humbly swindles women by waking their compassion with fabricated stories about his grandmother's failing health.

After meeting on a train, they unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this small French town isn't big enough for the two of them. They agree on a settlement: the first one to extract $50,000 from a young female target, heiress Christine Colgate, wins and the other must leave town. A hilarious battle of cons ensues, that will keep audiences laughing, humming and guessing to the end!

Click here to purchase tickets online!

OR, Call 702.362.7996, or visit us during Box Office
hours at 3920 Schiff Drive, LV, NV

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BOXING FRIDAY

2011-07-22T18:38:00.000-07:00

UNDERCARD ANNOUNCED FOR BLOCKBUSTER FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS CARD, JULY 29 AT
THE COSMOPOLITAN OF LAS VEGAS

Rances Barthelemy, Sergey Kovalev, Badou Jack and Cameron Kreal all scheduled for battle

The undercard has been announced for the Warriors Boxing blockbuster FIGHT NIGHTS at The Cosmopolitan III at The Chelsea Friday, July 29 and televised live on ESPN Friday Night Fights.

Several exciting matchups are scheduled in addition to the 12-round IBF Super Lightweight elimination bout between the Dominican Republic’s once-beaten IBF #3-rated Victor “Mermelada” Cayo (20-1, 18 KOs) and Washington DC’s IBF #4-ranked Lamont Peterson (24-1-1, 14 KOs) and the sensational 10-round light heavyweight showdown between Edison “Pantera” Miranda (34-5, 29 KOs) and Yordanis Despaigne (8-1, 4 KOs).

Topping the all-action undercard will be Miami, Florida, via Cuba’s undefeated knockout artist Rances “Kid Blast” Barthelemy 12-0 (10 KO’s) in an eight-round super featherweight matchup against Kansas City’s Gerardo Robles (14-9, 6 KO`s).

In a 10-round battle with a touch of international flavor, Chelyabwsk, Russia’s undefeated Sergey Kovalev (15-0, 13 KO`s) will face Nairobi, Kenya’s Douglas Otieno (23-6, 12 KO`s) for the NABA Light Heavyweight Championship.

Also featured is a six-round light heavyweight scrap between Las Vegas’ (via Sweden) Badou Jack “The Ripper” (6-0, 5 KO`s) and Athens, Georgia’s Timothy Hall Jr. (6-11, 4 KO`s); and in a four-round lightweight attraction, popular Las Vegas fighter Cameron Kreal will make his highly anticipated pro debut against fellow Las Vegas resident Franky Martinez (0-3).

TOP KICKBOXING EVENT

2011-07-22T18:33:00.001-07:00

Mexico’s Aguilar: A Most Unlikely Hero

Heavyweight in Action on Kickboxing Empire

World Championship Card

Saturday, July 30, at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

Despite being a heavyweight from a country known for producing boxing stars, plus competing in a sport that is much more popular in Europe and Asia, Tijuana, Mexico’s Edwin “El Tigre” Aguilar has kicked and punched his way to multiple kickboxing titles and a successful MMA career.

He’s even become a movie and television star in his homeland.

In all, he is, indeed, a most unlikely hero.

Aguilar will appear in one of the featured bouts against Las Vegan Chidi Njokuani on the nationally and internationally televised world championship Kickboxing Empire card on Saturday, July 30, at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

Mexico is not exactly a hotbed for kickboxing, but Aguilar is working hard to change that.

“I’m ready and looking forward to fighting in Las Vegas,” he said. “Mexico is known for boxers, but, hopefully, the success I have had and will continue to have will help put Mexican kickboxers on the map.”

Aguilar’s list of accomplishments dating back to the 1990s is impressive on many fronts.

He is a multiple-time Muay Thai world champion, Muay Thai North American Champion, a five-time national champion, a three-time Pan American champion, a national champion in Sanchou and Vale Todo, an international MMA fighter; he’s even had one professional boxing bout, which he won by knockout. In between, he’s found time to star in movies, open a chain of Team Tiger gyms and is a frequent guest on Mexican television.

“I work hard and I train hard and good things keep happening,” he explains. “I think that because there aren’t a lot of fighters like me in Mexico, I stand out and that’s helped me get recognized by the Mexican people.”

Aguilar says he’s seen his opponent, Njokuani, fight and is ready for a tough test.

“He’s very strong and extremely tough and I’m going to need all my skills to beat him,” said Aguilar. “But I always perform well on the big stages like this. Knowing so many people will be watching will push me to be better than ever. I’m really looking forward to July 30.”

The world championship card at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino contains the finest collection of international kickboxers to compete in Las Vegas in four years and includes five current and former world champions.

The card starts at 7:30 p.m. (Pacific) July 30 with doors to The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino opening at 6:30.

Tickets—priced at $25, $35, $50, $75, $100 and $125—are available at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino box office daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and through Ticketmaster, either by calling 702-474-4000 or 800-745-3000 or going on line at ticketmaster.com

Headlining the card is Alain “The Panther” Ngalani of Hong Kong against Dzevad “BH Machine” Poturak of Sarajevo, Bosnia, for the International Kickboxing Association super heavyweight championship.

Other international fighters include Denis Goncheronok of Minsk, Belarus; Sergiano Cario of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Pavel Turuk of Minsk, Belarus; and Tim Thomas of Birmingham, England.

Other Las Vegans on the card include professionals Shawn Yarborough and Sofie Bagerdhai plus amateurs Lee Henry Lily, Hector Lopez and Lindsay Barnes.

The nationally and internationally televised card July 30 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is promoted by Martial Arts Association in conjunction with Kickboxing Empire, both of Las Vegas.

In addition to the Ngalani-Poturak IKA super heavyweight championship, other bouts July 30 include:

BOXING SATURDAY AT SOUTH POINTE

2011-07-20T22:19:00.000-07:00

Hudaynazarov & Ahmedov making names on
‘Fire & Fury: Shumenov-Santiago’ card
TeleFutura’s “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” July 29 telecast live from South Point Hotel Casino
LAS VEGAS (July 18, 2011) – Undefeated, world-rated KZ Event Productions fighters Ravshan Hudaynazarov and Gayrat Ahmedov have become as difficult to fight as it is for boxing fans to correctly pronounce and spell their last names.
The dynamic duo from Uzbekistan, now fighting out of Las Vegas, will be defending their respective titles in 10-round bouts on the July 29 “Fire & Fury” pro boxing card, headlined by their promoter Beibut Shumenov’s third title defense against two-time world title challenger Danny “The Bronx Bomber” Santiago, on TeleFutura’s “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” broadcast live from South Point Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
“Fire& Fury” is promoted by KZ Event Productions (Shumenov and his brother, Chingis, own and operate the Las Vegas-based KZ Event Productions) in association with Golden Boy Promotions, Don Chargin Productions, Guilty Boxing and South Point Hotel Casino and is sponsored by Cerveza Tecate and AT&T. Doors open at 5:30 PM PT, the first bout at 6:00 PM PT and the TeleFutura broadcast begins at 11:30 PM ET / PT (10:30 PM CT).
Tickets, starting at $25, are available for purchase at South Point’s box office, online at www.SouthPointEventCenter.com/tickets.php, or by calling 1.702.797.8055.
Fans at home can also be part of the action by participating in Cinturón Tecate and voting for the fighter in the main event who displays the most character in the ring by sending a text message to 55333. Voting will be open through the end of the weekend.
Shumenov (11-1, 7 KOs), the reigning and defending World Boxing Association (“WBA”) and International Boxing Association (“IBA”) Light Heavyweight Champion, lives and fights out of Las Vegas. The 2004 Kazakhstan Olympian set a light heavyweight record for capturing a world title in the fewest career fights, 10, when (Jan. 10, 2010) he won a 12-round decision against Gabriel Campillo in Las Vegas. He has since successfully defended his WBA/IBA titles twice against No. 1 mandatory challenger Viacheslav Uzelkov (UDEC12) and three-time world champion William Joppy (KO6). In only 11 profights, Beibut has defeated four world champions (Campillo, Joppy, Byron Mitchell and Montell Griffin) and two world title challengers (Uzelkov and Epifanio Mendoza).
WBA #15 ranked Santiago (31-4-1, 19 KOs), fighting out of Ocala, Florida, was featured on the third season of The Contender reality television series.
Hudaynazarov and Ahmedov are trained by Kevin Barry, the 1984 Olympic Silver Medalist, and Dewey Cooper at Team Barry Boxing in Henderson, Nevada. “Both of these guys have had tremendous training camps,” Barry reported. “I expect them to have great performances. Beibut sets the bar high for Ravshan and Gayrat, who train with him, and Beibut has been a great leader for them to follow in the gym.”
Hudaynazarov (14-0, 12 KOs), the WBA FEDALATIN Welterweight Champion who is rated No. 9 by the WBA, defends his title in a 10-round bout against former USNBC titlist Hector “The Hurricane” Munoz (19-5-1, 12 KOs).
“Ravshan has improved so much,” Barry said. “He’s taking it to another level and is stronger than ever before. He’s already right on mark for the 29th. I believe he’s heading towards a world title.”
WBA No. 2-rated light heavyweight contender Ahmedov (16-0-1, 12 KOs) defends his WBA International belt against veteran Max“The Fireman” Heyman (24-11-4, 14 KOs) in another 10-rounder.
“Working as a team has really helped Gayrat prepare for this fight,” Barry noted. “He has stepped up to No. 2 in the WBA and he’s getting very close to a very big fight. He has been motivated by Beibut’s success and his turn will come. I’m veryoptimistic about Gayrat.”
The co-feature between popular Las Vegas super featherweight Lonnie Smith (13-2-2, 9 KOs) and Robert “The King” Vargas(5-1-1, 0 KOs) is also scheduled to air on TeleFutura’s “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” broadcast. Smith, rated No. 13 by the USBA, is riding an eight-fight win streak.
Las Vegas fan favorite Ramon Montano(17-9-2, 2 KOs) faces welterweight Juan Suazo (7-4-3, 5 KOs) in a six-round match. Also on the card against an opponent to be determined is Freddie Roach-trained, unbeaten super featherweight prospect Joel Diaz(4-0, 3 KOs) in a four-round bout. All fights and fighters are subject to change.

LAS VEGAS BEST SHOW

2011-07-12T15:24:00.001-07:00

VEGAS! The Show Offering FREE Show Tickets to Same-Sex Married Couples

Las Vegas, NV – July 1, 2011 Las Vegas’ hottest, new stage production, VEGAS! The Show, continues its ongoing support of gay rights by offering FREE show tickets to same-sex married couples through the month of July.

The offer is in response to New York becoming the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage, joining Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and the District of Columbia.

LGBT married couples who show proof of their union at the Saxe Theater box office will receive two free tickets to the show. Theater owner, David Saxe, hopes this gesture will inspire other business owners across the nation to throw their support behind the movement. “The New York state Senate vote was a huge milestone, affording gay and lesbian couples the rights, dignity and respect that come with marriage. No matter how you look at it, this is a ‘human’ rights victory and it deserves to be commemorated.”

VEGAS! The Show takes the stage, twice nightly, at the Saxe Theater inside Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. Featuring a cast of more than 40 singers, dancers, showgirls and a live big band orchestra, this large-scale production takes the audience on a journey through the “glory days” of Las Vegas when The Rat Pack ruled, glamorous showgirls filled the stage and Elvis was the king of Vegas.

For more information about VEGAS! The Show, please

VEGAS THE SHOW

2011-07-12T14:40:00.000-07:00

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

Started 9 minutes late....the only negative !

This the David Saxe masterpiece at Planet Hollywood !

What can they do to make this better.....NOTHING ! ! !

As good a show as any one ever produced...all positives...everything perfect...a must see, as good as anything in Las Vegas....whatever the best show in Las Vegas is....this one at the top of my list surpassed by none possibly equalled.

I have seen this before and will again...RECOMMENDED TO THE WORLD...and often.

There is just everything right about this and the performers leave with that "I feel good" reaction as you leave the theatre.

702 492 3960.........................866 80-shows....CAN'T WAIT TO GO AGAIN !

Where to start....David Saxe who runs through entertainment shows hourly at this venue has herein reached the pinnacle of history, talent search and production. The show theme is the history of Las Vegas entertainment, its done in 85 minutes with every possible nuance covered.

I guess.... ERNIE...is the star of the show....Eric Jordan Young, plays multi parts and he is only great in all of them....he sings, dances, does sthick and history and he makes you love him. How many of us have played Carniege Hall....Young has ! Not to say others in the cast are not equally talented...they are and they all enjoy performing.

Mr and Mrs Scott decided to have a child and the world was blessed with identical twin tap dancers who appear too briefly, Sean and John Scott look like young men everybody would be proud to call their own..... here their part of the act leaves you really wanting more..... they love to dance (full speed I might add) and are crowd favorites every night.

I am personally in love with Tara Palsha, her red hair and her green dress and her dance accompaniment to the Sinatra medly a show stopper...gee she is great...perfect size, sensual, sexy, attractive, timely, great dancer, exceptional long leg stretches and points...I have not had enough of her in my life....do not overlook all the dancers male and female who also perform at the highest level....As I write this I have just come from the ballet Gisselle 3D movie and I was thinking of the types of dance in the two shows...Gisselle, slower, larger, big stage, orchestra, traditional choreography...here at Vegas the Show...compact, multi costumes, full speed, sensual, humorous, with lots of WOWS ! ! !, live music and more modern choreography...in conclusion a comparision is not fair...both brilliant dance and Vegas the Show...live every night and real close to home ! ! ! !

What more good things can I say about this....during Sammys Candy Man song the girls troll the audience throwing candy....maybe I will go again after I post this story.

Large cast and production who hit the sound, lights, sets and timing perfectly.

THANK YOU for enriching my life...please stay forever or until I die !

91 A-

BOXING FRIDAY AT TEXAS STATION

2011-07-09T08:52:00.000-07:00

SHOBOX: THE NEW GENERATION

MATCHING PROSPECTS TOUGH
FOR THE LAST DECADE

10th Anniversary Highlights, Stats and Facts

Undefeated Junior Lightweight Diego Magdaleno Faces Alejandro Perez,

Casey Ramos Meets Joselito Collado In Battle Of Undefeated 130-pounders,

Friday, July 15, Texas Station Gambling Hall & Casino, Las Vegas ,

Live at 11:05 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast) on SHOWTIME®

NEW YORK (June 30, 2011) – In the realm of boxing series, none sticks to its mission statement as closely as the popular ShoBox: The New Generation, which celebrates its 10th anniversary on Friday, July 15, at 11:05 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast) from Texas Station Gambling Hall & Casino in Las Vegas. The Top Rank-promoted doubleheader will feature a night of junior lightweight action with undefeated Diego Magdaleno (19-0, 7 KOs) squaring off against Alejandro Perez (15-2-1, 10 KOs) and Casey Ramos (13-0, 4 KOs) taking on Joselito Collado (12-0, 3 KOs ) in a battle of unbeatens.

10th Anniversary Highlights, Stats and Facts …

ShoBox: The New Generation – The Mission

Televise a boxing series to serve as a proving ground for hungry, willing prospects. Thrust young up-and-comers from the anonymity of undercards to the glare of the national spotlight. Match each fighter against his toughest opponent to date and, in the process, expose untested hopefuls – but more importantly – build future champions.

For the last decade, ShoBox has garnered critical acclaim and industry respect by adhering to its central purpose: featuring prospects in pivotal fights where padding the win column stops and their true road to contender status begins. The series is so well defined that it has been added to the boxing lexicon. As characterized by Wikipedia, a “ShoBox fighter” refers to a “quality prospect primed for tougher competition.”

SHOWTIME implemented this decidedly boutique approach with the overall picture in mind.

“Creating a platform for young fighters is something that is not only important to SHOWTIME, but to the sport of boxing generally,” said Ken Hershman, Executive Vice President & General Manager, SHOWTIME Sports®. “With ShoBox, we seek out prospects that are willing to challenge themselves with high-risk bouts in exchange for national exposure. It’s a win-win for all involved, including our subscribers who get the entertainment of competitive fights and an introduction to the new generation of future champions.”

A staggering 87 fighters who fought on ShoBox moved on to challenge for a world title, with 42 of those fighters becoming world champions. The first future champ to emerge from ShoBox dates back to the series’ initial telecast on July 21, 2001. Leonard Dorin scored a ninth-round TKO over fellow unbeaten Martin O’Malley. Two fights later, Dorin was a world champion. With 157 ShoBox telecasts and 42 eventual world titlists, ShoBox enjoys a rough average of featuring a future champion every fourth show.
ShoBox – By the Numbers

42 – Fighters who fought on ShoBox and went on to win a world title. Notables include:

•Andre Ward
•Diego Corrales
•Nonito Donaire
•Chad Dawson
•Timothy Bradley
•Paul Williams
•Juan Manuel Lopez
•Robert Guerrero
•Carl Froch
•Kermit Cintron•Kendall Holt•Paulie Malignaggi•Kelly Pavlik
•Andre Berto
•Victor Ortiz

89 – Fighters who fought on ShoBox and went on to challenge for a world title

52 – Matches between undefeated fighters

89 – Fighters who suffered the first loss of their pro careers

6 – Fighters who won a world title after losing on ShoBox:

•Luis Collazo
•Robert Guerrero
•Eric Aiken
•David Diaz
•Isaac Hlatshwayo
•Cornelius Bundrage
157 – Telecasts

321 – Fights

58 – Cities that hosted a ShoBox event

5 – Most appearances on ShoBox

•Andre Ward
•Ishe Smith
•Robert Guerrero
•Sechew Powell
•Kendall Holt
•Mike Arnaoutis
•Chris Avalos

ShoBox – Behind the Numbers

For Openers: Gary Russell Jr. is the only boxer to make his pro debut on ShoBox.

Quickest Out Of The Gate:

· T.J. Wilson KO 1 Travis Walker (15 seconds) on Oct. 19, 2007

· Allan Green KO 1 Jaidon Codrington (18 seconds) on Nov. 4, 2005

· Sechew Powell KO 1 Cornelius Bundrage (22 seconds) on May 6, 2005

Rematches: There have been only two rematches in the history of ShoBox. Each time, the loser in the first fight won the second by knockout.

•T.J. Wilson KO 1 Travis Walker (Oct. 19, 2007); Walker KO 2 Wilson (Feb. 28, 2008)
•Gamaliel Diaz W 10 Robert Guerrero (Dec. 2, 2005); Guerrero KO 6 Diaz (June 23, 2006)
The Hall Recall – Executive Producer Gordon Hall’s Quintessential ShoBox Fights:

•Juan Urango (13-0) vs. Mike Arnaoutis (10-0-1) – D 12 – Aug. 5, 2004
The Hall Recall: “This fight was an all-out war that ended in a draw and is a classic example of two undefeated, talented fighters facing each other early in their careers on ShoBox.”

•Robert Guerrero (16-0-1) vs. Gamaliel Diaz (19-5-2) – Diaz SD 12 Guerrero – Dec. 2, 2005
The Hall Recall: “A perfect example of a ShoBox fight where the young fighter is tested by the more seasoned fighter who had experience going into the later rounds and could move. Robert lost the fight in a split decision, but more importantly, he learned from the defeat, went on to avenge the loss on ShoBox and later won a world title.’’
•Tim Bradley (21-0) vs. Junior Witter (36-1-3) – Bradley SD 12 Witter – May 10, 2008
The Hall Recall: “Before challenging for the junior welterweight title in Witter’s U.K. backyard, Bradley had never fought outside of California and was coming off the longest layoff of his career. Bradley’s knockdown of Witter in the sixth round was the turning point in the fight and he went on to win a split decision. Bradley developed in his three previous ShoBox appearances, which helped put him in position for this fight – where he became the first ShoBox fighter to win his title on ShoBox.’’

•Marcus Johnson (20-0) vs. Dyah Davis (18-2-1) – Davis UD 10 Johnson;
Danny O’Connor (14-0) vs. Gabriel Bracero (14-0) – Bracero UD 8 O’Connor;
Willie Nelson (16-0-1) vs. Vincent Arroyo (10-1) – Arroyo MD 8 Nelson – April 8, 2011
The Hall Recall: “Three talented and touted prospects walked into the ring undefeated and walked out with a loss. And all on the same night… now that’s what I’m talking about!”

Ringside Analyst Steve Farhood’s Memorable Moments
•The face of Ebo Elder after he rallied with a 12th-round TKO over Courtney Burton
(Dec. 17, 2004)•The 12th-round drama of Lucian Bute-Librado Andrade I
(Oct. 24, 2008)•Ricky Hatton's ring entrances to "Blue Moon"
(Oct. 27, 2001, Dec. 15, 2001, Sept. 28, 2002)
Steve Farhood’s 10 Best ShoBox Fighters

o Tim Bradley

o Lucian Bute

o Diego Corrales

o Chad Dawson

o Nonito Donaire

o Robert Guerrero

o Joan Guzman

o Ricky Hatton

o Andre Ward

o Paul Williams

Steve Farhood’s 10 Best ShoBox Fights

o Kendall Holt KO 1 Ricardo Torres

(July 5, 2008)

o Carlos Abregu KO 4 Irving Garcia

(May 1, 2009)

o Juan Urango D 12 Mike Arnaoutis

(Aug. 5, 2004)

o Ebo Elder KO 12 Courtney Burton

(Dec. 17, 2004)

o Lucian Bute W 12 Librado Andrade

(Oct. 24, 2008)

o Sechew Powell KO 1 Cornelius Bundrage

(May 6, 2005)

o Mike Oliver W 12 Gary Stark

(Feb. 16, 2007)

o Kuvanych Toygonbayev W 10 Andrey Tsurkan

(May 22, 2003)

o Stevie Murray W 10 Martin Watson

(April 1, 2004)

o Orlando Cruz KO 5 Leonilo Miranda

(Jan. 16, 2009)

For information on SHOWTIME Sports Programming, including exclusive behind-the-scenes video and photo galleries, complete telecast information and more, please go the new SHOWTIME Sports website at http:// sho.com/sports.

About ShoBox: The New Generation
Since its inception in July 2001, the critically acclaimed SHOWTIME boxing series, ShoBox: The New Generation has featured young talent matched tough. The ShoBox philosophy is to televise exciting, crowd-pleasing and competitive matches while providing a proving ground for willing prospects determined to fight for a world title. The growing list of fighters who have appeared on ShoBox and advanced to garner world titles includes: Leonard Dorin, Scott Harrison, Juan Diaz, Jeff Lacy, Ricky Hatton, Joan Guzman, Juan Urango, David Diaz, Robert Guerrero, Kelly Pavlik, Paul Malignaggi, Kendall Holt, Timothy Bradley, Bernard Dunne, Yonnhy Perez, Yuri Foreman, Andre Ward and Cornelius Bundrage.

About Showtime Networks Inc.
Showtime Networks Inc. (SNI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CBS Corporation, owns and operates the premium television networks SHOWTIME®, THE MOVIE CHANNEL™ and FLIX®, as well as the multiplex channels SHOWTIME 2™, SHOWTIME® SHOWCASE, SHOWTIME EXTREME®, SHOWTIME BEYOND®, SHOWTIME NEXT®, SHOWTIME WOMEN®, SHOWTIME FAMILY ZONE® and THE MOVIE CHANNEL™ XTRA. SNI also offers SHOWTIME HD™, SHOWTIME 2 HD™, THE MOVIE CHANNEL HD™, SHOWTIME ON DEMAND®, THE MOVIE CHANNEL ON DEMAND™ and FLIX ON DEMAND®. SNI also manages Smithsonian Channel™, a joint venture between SNI and the Smithsonian Institution. All SNI feeds provide enhanced sound using Dolby Digital 5.1. SNI markets and distributes sports and entertainment events for exhibition to subscribers on a pay-per-view basis through SHOWTIME PPV®.