Michael Jackson made several appearances in Las Vegas over the years. The King of Pop was also friends to Steve Wynn, Siegfried and Roy.
The following is a timeline for the different appearances Michael Jackson made to Las Vegas from when he first performed at the MGM Grand in 1974 to the day of his passing, June 25th 2009.
1974 - The Jackson 5 performed at the original MGM Grand
Nov. 19, 2003 - An arrest warrant for Michael Jackson is issued on multiple counts of child molestation. Jackson is in Las Vegas when the warrant was executed
Nov. 20, 2003 - Jackson leaves from the North Las Vegas airport to fly to Santa Barbara, California to turn over his passport and be fingerprinted
Nov. 20, 2003 - Jackson returns to Las Vegas landing at the Henderson Executive Airport that same evening. His children are with him and he causes quite a stir as his motorcade drives around the valley for two hours. He waves and shakes hands with fans along the way. He stays the night at the Green Valley Ranch Resort
Dec. 24, 2006 - US magazine reports that Jackson moved into a house in the gated community of Spanish Trail
May 18, 2007 - A settlement is reached at the Clark County District Court between Jackson and company auctioning Jackson memorabilia at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
May 30 & 31, 2007 - Personal items of Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 are auctioned off in a two-day event. Among the items auctioned are personal letters from Jackson to his siblings as well as clothing and even the first drafts of famous Jackson 5 songs. The items had been confiscated from a warehouse when one of Jackson’s associates went bankrupt
This year, the 2009 NHL annual awards show will take place in Las Vegas and it’s promising to be a grand event. The show can be seen on Versus in the U.S. starting at 7:30 p.m. ET, and at 8:30 p.m. ET on CBC.
Festivities begin Wednesday June 17th with the NHL Charity Shootout Presented By PokerStars.net. A charity No-Limit Texas Hold ‘em poker game will be held at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino and feature top stars from the NHL and the professional poker world playing to raise money for their favorite charities.
Among the NHL stars playing are Roberto Luongo, Alexander Ovechkin, Mike Richards, Jeremy Roenick, Sheldon Souray and Kris Versteeg, as well as former NHL All-Stars Pat LaFontaine, Cam Neely and Luc Robitaille. Professional poker players participating include Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer.
But that’s just the appetizer to the big show Thursday at The Palms. That’s where the best of the best from the 2008-09 season will compete to take home the hardware. Again the show can be seen on Versus in the U.S. starting at 7:30 p.m. ET, and at 8:30 p.m. ET on CBC.
Is this one of the funniest Las Vegas bachelor party movies ever made? Is this a morning after experience you’ll never regret, or is it just another post-party night headache? 411.com’s movie reviewer Jeremy Thomas gives us the lowdown.
Films about weddings traditionally shoot for the female demographic. It is tradition—in Hollywood, anyway—that a wedding is the moment every woman looks forward to and every man deeply fears, and thus it is no surprise that that the vast majority of films marketed around the matrimonial ceremony are built for the fairer sex. Just in the past year or we’ve had films such as Made of Honor, Mamma Mia!, Bride Wars, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past that have taken the institution of marriage and spun it into female-driven laughs (in theory, at least), and only I Love You Man that’s taken more of a guy-oriented look on the tradition of getting married.
Occasionally however there is that film that comes along that bucks the unfortunately-named “chick flick” trend, making a wedding-related film that tries to appeal to guys as equally as it does women. Enter The Hangover, directed by Todd Phillips and starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham and Justin Bartha.
The Hangover opens with Phil (Cooper) calling up the about-to-be-married Tracy (Barrese). Phil looks beat up, dirty and run ragged; in the background his friend Stu (Helms) and Tracy’s brother Alan (Galifianakis) sit on a badly-beat up classic Mercedes. Tracy is freaking out because Phil, Stu and Alan haven’t yet returned from a trip with her husband-to-be Doug (Bartha), and the wedding is supposed to happen in five hours. Phil gives a resigned look and says “Yeah….that’s not gonna happen.” From there we move back two days to learn that the four men are in Los Angeles, about to head to Las Vegas for a night out as Doug’s bachelor party.
Stu is a dentist who is henpecked by his shrewish, evil girlfriend of three years Melissa (Harris), while Phil is a prick-ish school teacher who cheats his kids out of money via a bogus fee for a field trip so he can add it to the Vegas weekend fund. Alan, for his part, just isn’t quite right. He’s bright, but has no real social skills to speak of. The four take Doug’s soon to be father-in-law up on his offer to take his Mercedes on the trip. Once they get to the hotel, they toast to the night…one which they wake up from with no memory and no Doug. The groom is missing, their hotel suite is beyond trashed, and there’s a tiger and a baby in the room.
It then becomes a backward mystery as Phil, Stu and Alan try to piece together the wildest night that Las Vegas may have ever seen, encountering among other things a stripper (Graham), a very pissed-off Asian man with no clothes and a tire iron (Jeong), a pair of cops who lost their patrol car (Riggle & King) and Mike Tyson himself as they race to find their friend and get him back to the wedding on time.
This year, the 141st Belmont Stakes will take place on Saturday, June 6th 2009 at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.
Appropriately named the Test of the Champion, the Belmont Stakes is the final and most demanding leg of the Triple Crown Series and is held traditionally on the first Saturday that falls on or after June 5th. It is also the longest and most demanding race in the series, at 1 1/2 miles.
Only a select few of the 11 horses racing in the 2009 Belmont Stakes will be up to the challenge of competing this final lengthy race, so if you are going to be betting on the Belmont at a Las Vegas racebook, then you should do your research as to what horse best has the stamina to run at top speed.
The 141st Belmont Stakes lineup does not include Preakness winner Rachel Alexandra, but Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird is a contender and will be riding again with winning jockey Calvin Borel, who will attempt to score yet another victory in this Triple Crown series.
Borel has stated, “Now that this decision is made, I am excited to come to New York and ride Mine That Bird in the Belmont Stakes. I would like to thank Chip Woolley, and Mark Allen and Dr. Leonard Blach for being so gracious and allowing us to wait for this decision.”
Here are your Belmont Stakes Contenders for June 6th, 2009
Mine That Bird
Brave Victory
Charitable Man
Chocolate Candy
Dunkirk
Flying Private
Luv Gov
Miner’s Escape
Mr. Hot Stuff
Summer Bird
Nowhere To Hide
Criss Angel's Las Vegas Cirque Du Soleil Show "Believe" Bombs
Columnist Doug Elfman, from The Las Vegas Review Journal reports that Criss Angel fans flew in from as far away as London to see his new Cirque du Soleil show Believe at the Luxor on Friday. The verdict by many? Creatively, “Believe” is a possibly unsalvageable “waste of time” and a “dead end” that literally bored some audience members to sleep.
On Saturday night, reaction was even worse. “Everyone in the bathroom was chanting ‘bull—-’” from the urinals, Damon Ranger of Chicago told me Saturday. “It was absolutely awful. You can ‘Believe’ how bad it is — because it’s terrible!”
People streamed out of the theater on Saturday screaming about how poor it was. A group of six women was led by a woman yelling furiously, demanding their money back. “Dude, it’s a train wreck,” Ranger said. On a scale of 1 to 10, he declared “Believe” a zero.
Note: this post was originally made a month ago, but vegasenews.com wanted to bring attention to the comments being made in response to this post. If you have a story about your experience at Criss Angel’s Cirque Show, please share it with us. The critics have spoken. This show needs to come to end. People are getting ripped off and arn’t afraid to say it.
