Saldek
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^What are the peak times for High Roller?
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R.I.P. Ann B. Davis, who played the Brady Bunch's beloved maid Alice.
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The demolition of the Harmon at City Center will officially happen. This will cost $11.5 million to dismantle floor by floor.
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The Shops at Summerlin has been renamed as Downtown Summerlin and will reopen October 9, 2014.
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I'm Blue Knights Alumni from 1994-1995.
I think I may have seen you perform. I remember seeing the Blue Knights compete at Drums Along The Bay in Hampton, VA one of those years. The competition was late in the season, a week before DCI finals. I believe Phantom Regiment won that show and I think you guys were either second or third.
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Rock In Rio is coming to Las Vegas!
Rock in Rio plans permanent venue on Las Vegas StripBy JASON BRACELIN
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Currently, it’s a dusty lot populated by clusters of rocks and islands of weeds with a plywood fence hiding its drabness from the bright lights of the Strip.
A little over a year from now, promoters say, it will be transformed into the City of Rock, a permanent, 33-acre, open-air concert venue with a capacity of 80,000 at the southwest corner of Sahara Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard.
The grounds will serve as the home of the Rock in Rio music festival, which makes its American debut here on two consecutive weekends in May 2015, with different acts each week.
“I would like it to be the Super Bowl of music festivals,” says Rock in Rio founder Roberto Medina in a Skyloft suite at the MGM Grand on Monday, where new details emerged surrounding the previously announced event.
One of the biggest music festival brands in the world, Rock in Rio current encompasses shows in Brazil, Spain and Portugal.
At last year’s festival in Rio, where Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Metallica, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi and dozens of other acts performed, all 600,000 tickets were sold out in four hours, according to event organizers.
All Rock in Rio concerts are centered in the City of Rock grounds built specifically for each site.
The Vegas City of Rock, which will cost $40 million to construct, will consist of a circular layout with various themed streets corresponding with American, British and Brazilian cultures.
There will be five stages, including an electronic and an indie stage.
MGM Resorts, with Cirque du Soleil and investment firm The Yucaipa Companies, will oversee construction of the new venue, which is committed to hosting the bi-annual event in 2015, 2017 and 2019.
“We are going to create the infrastructure and grounds enabling this thing to happen,” says Bill Hornbuckle, president and chief marketing officer at MGM Resorts International. “It’ll be fully astro-turfed, there will be paving and other infrastructure in play — electric, sewage, etc. — so that when this event comes and goes, the balance of the time it can be used for other festivals — jazz, country, food.”
Hornbuckle says that he could see the grounds hosting one-off sporting events like boxing and UFC cards and Major League Soccer games.
According to Hornbuckle, the plan is to grow the festival to eight days by 2019, where it would take place over two four-day weekends with one weekend centered around rock artists and the other weekend around pop performers.
The partnership between MGM Resorts and Rock in Rio was facilitated by Cirque du Soleil, who came became familiar with Rock in Rio while touring their shows in Brazil.
“When (Rock in Rio) told us they were looking at breaking into the North American market, we said, ‘OK, we have the perfect city for you and we have a great partner to introduce you to,’” says Jerry Nadal, senior vice president, resident shows division at Cirque du Soleil. “It was kind of a no-brainer for us. We think it’s the next wave of entertainment out there.”
There won’t be Cirque acts performing at Rock in Rio, but the company will supply production support culled from among their 2,000 Vegas-based employees as well as marketing and sales assistance.
Though no artists have been announced for Rock in Rio yet, Medina says that there already have been 10,000 tickets reserved for the concerts on the event’s website (http://www.rockinrio.com) since they began promoting the shows last month in a series of newspaper advertisements.
Tickets will officially go on sale in January. In the meantime, there will be a promotional event in New York City’s Times Square in September where, according to Medina, a major act will perform and where details of the lineup will most likely emerge.
Medina also says that there will be a major media campaign to promote the festival.
“We already have $30 million invested in communications in the U.S.,” he notes in Portuguese, speaking through a translator.
Hornbuckle says that the City of Rock grounds will take about 45 days to set up and another 30 days to tear down after the event is over, with the venue’s infrastructure remaining in place, and hopes that Rock in Rio will help revive the stagnant north end of The Strip, benefiting adjacent properties like Circus Circus and, in future years, the new SLS Las Vegas hotel and casino, which is scheduled to open over Labor Day weekend.
“I think the happiest guy in town today is Sam Nazarian,” he says of the founder and CEO of the SBE Entertainment Group, which owns SLS Las Vegas in partnership with San Francisco-based private equity firm Stockbridge Capital Group. “It’s going to help Circus Circus, it’s going to help that whole end of the Strip, because it’s had a couple of tough years as we all know.”
Referring to Medina’s background in advertising — he owns one of the largest ad firms in Brazil — Hornbuckle sees Rock in Rio as a vehicle to promote Vegas as a whole.
“At the core of their company, these guys are marketeers,” he says. “They’ll spend $25 (million), $30 million promoting this event globally. The net beneficiary of that is the brand of Las Vegas. Yeah, MGM Resorts will benefit highly from that, but at its core, this is a Las Vegas sell.”
Contact reporter Jason Bracelin at jbracelin@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0476. Follow on Twitter @JasonBracelin.
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The sequel is currently filming in NYC.
Ian Ziering, Vivica A. Fox, Mark McGrath and Judd Hirsch will be in the movie.
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The list of participating restaurants and their menus have been released for Las Vegas Spring Restaurant Week. There could possibly be more added before the event starts.
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I can say I have had the privilege to see almost every single Cirque Show that has ever been created, I wish I can see them all, I love them!
Wow. That's an amazing number of them you have seen, and I am so envious.
But, which shows are/were you missing? It sounds like it's only one or two, but I
cannot remember which ones.
I am missing the following.
Kurios (Upcoming Touring Show)
Cirque du Soleil (Retired will never see)
La Magie Continue (Retired will never see)
Le Cirque Reinvente (Retired will never see)
Zaia (Retired will never see)
Zed (Retired will never see)
So I have only missed 5 Cirque shows, the first three were before my time, and Zaia was in Maccau and Zed was at Tokyo Disney.
Did you ever catch Wintuk and Banana Shpeel? Wintuk played a few winter seasons in NYC but Banana Shpeel was short-lived.
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The company recently announced a brand new touring show that will debut in April. There aren't many details yet but it seems to have a Steampunk theme.
http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/shows/kurios/default.aspx
The director is Michel Laprise, who created Madonna's Superbowl halftime show and MDNA tour.
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^Your link is to Smith & Wollensky's from last year. Also a very good steakhouse in Vegas!
OOPS! Fixed that for ya!
But I'll go ahead and leave the Smith & Wollensky's menu from last year so people can get an idea of what they offer for LVRW.
http://www.smithandwollensky.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/SW_LVRW.pdf
And yes, it is a very good steakhouse!
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Las Vegas Spring Restaurant Week runs from March 7-14 this year.
None of the prix fixé menus have been posted yet but they should be up soon. Many of the top restaurants all over the city have some great deals for this event.
Two restaurants have announced their dinner menus for Las Vegas Restaurant Week.
Alizé at the top of the Palms
http://toprestaurantslasvegas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/1-2014-Alize-Restaurant-Week-2014.pdf
André's Restaurant & Lounge at the Monte Carlo
http://andrelv.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/1-20-Andres-Restaurant-Week-2014.pdf
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I really want to see Alegria! I saw it on video and thought it was amazing.
Unfortunately, the curtain has permanently fallen on Alegría. Cirque recently retired the production a few weeks ago in Antwerp, Belgium.
Here's a final cast photo
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Las Vegas Spring Restaurant Week runs from March 7-14 this year.
None of the prix fixé menus have been posted yet but they should be up soon. Many of the top restaurants all over the city have some great deals for this event.
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Bao Bao met the media yesterday. She makes her public debut in a few weeks.
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Giant Panda cub Bao Bao trying to rock climb in mom's enclosure at the National Zoo.
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What does the external comments mean......height of 156 feet to elevation of approx. 242 feet?
They probably means the elevation from sea level is a maximum 242-feet. I remember one of the press releases for Apollo's Chariot stating that the ride would climb 250 feet above sea level even though the actual lift is 170-feet tall.
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They just posted on Facebook that I-305 will reopen tomorrow.
It's back! Rev up your engines -- Intimidator 305 will be back starting tomorrow, Saturday September 14th! Thank you for your patience while we worked with the ride's manufacturer this summer. -
The Goddard Group just posted this drop ride concept that they developed for BGW back in the late 1990s on their Facebook
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This week we're going to bring you a series of FIVE AMAZING UNREALIZED ATTRACTIONS that were well into the development process before the plug was pulled for one reason or another.First up- check out this never-before-seen DROP TOWER concept developed in the late '90's for BUSCH GARDENS WILLIAMSBURG (now Busch Gardens Europe).
Because of the park's height and noise restrictions (pre-Mach Tower), the ride would actually have shot riders DOWN, below ground, into a cavern of FIRE BREATHING DRAGONS!
I really wish this would've been built!
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This is pretty funny but I was scared a cross beam would smack him!
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^Here are a couple pics of the flooding on the Strip and Caesar's casino.
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That's karma for ruining what was left of the themeing at treasure island.
LOL
Universal Orlando Resort (USO, IOA) Discussion Thread
in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
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Jimmy Fallon and Kevin Hart ride HRRR. Kevin is hilarious! I'd love to ride a coaster with him.