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Dirk Arthur Returns to the Strip, Freaky Vegas Rejoices

Where: 3555 Las Vegas Blvd South [map], 89109
August 26, 2010 at 1:10 PM | by juliab | 1 Comment

Normally, as you know, we wait until Freaky Friday to impart this kind of news, but today we have magic news of such breathtaking importance that we thought we should do it straight up and freakify Thursday as well. Dirk Arthur is coming to O’Sheas!

Not just Dirk, either, but his tigers as well. Uncaged. Doing their shizzle between 10 and 40 feet away from you in the showroom upstairs. Incredible.

The 60 minute show – called Dirk Arthur’s Wild Magic - starts September 13 and will run at 7pm and 9pm every night except Wednesday and Friday. They’re promising:

A high-energy show that blends comedy, dance, magic and a rare opportunity to see the largest collection of awe-inspiring large, exotic cats in Las Vegas.

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Criss Angel Doesn't Care if He's a Magic Joke, Because He's 'Already Paid'

August 20, 2010 at 4:28 PM | by juliana | 3 Comments

We all know how reviled controversial Criss Angel is here in Las Vegas (even Carrot Top makes fun of him) but Angel's reputation in the magic world is an actual joke (Yeah, despite that whole Magician of the Century award.)

At the Magic Castle in Los Angeles (which is THE academy for magicians), Criss Angel's "magic" was ridiculed several times onstage during one act from a magician-comedian who called Angel's magic secret "editing" and said his next TV show after "Mindfreak" would be called "Brainfart." Magician catfight!

Later when we mentioned to another magician that Angel was an actual joke during the act, that magician said, "He should be." So it's safe to say that Criss Angel will probably not be welcomed with open arms inside The Magic Castle.

He also will not be welcomed with open arms at the house of this angry show-goer who left a review of "Believe" on our sister site, HotelChatter. GoldHunt writes:

We attended this worthless show on Aug 11, 2010 the last night of our honeymoon. What a complete letdown and horrific waste of our time and money. We were ripped off to the tune of $144.00 by false advertising (read lies) from the show promoters.

More from Goldhunt can be found below.

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Paul Vigil's Got a New Show, But You'll Need to Drink For This One

Where: 3400 Las Vegas Blvd S [map], 89109
August 13, 2010 at 11:11 AM | by juliab | 0 Comments

If close proximity to strangers bothers you, you'll like his new show

We’re beginning to think of this as The Curse Of VegasChatter. First we show love to Circus Circus, and it ups its resort fee. Now, after we’ve lauded Paul Vigil at King Ink as the only truly free show in Vegas, he goes and starts charging.

We jest (kind of). What’s actually happened is that his free, private weekend shows have gone down so well at the Mirage that they’ve got him to do a proper, full on show every Wednesday at 7pm. And there’s a two drink minimum implemented for this one.

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Listen Up Vegas, Jenny McCarthy Wants Some Magic

August 6, 2010 at 3:06 PM | by juliab | 0 Comments

We always had Jenny McCarthy down as a pretty good egg, but this week she soared in our estimation with a single tweet:

In vegas. What happened to all the magicians? Looking for a good cheesy show. No tigers and no one with the last name of Angel.

Jenny, we feel you. maybe you’d like to be the celebrity ambassador for our Keep Vegas Magic Alive campaign?

In the meantime, we recommend Paul Vigil. Definitely the best trick turner in this town.

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Paul Vigil May Just Be The Only Free Show in Vegas. And That's Magic.

Where: 3400 Las Vegas Blvd S [map], 89109
July 30, 2010 at 12:43 PM | by juliab | 3 Comments

Promise that this photo isn't staged - our friend took it and everyfink.

We have, of course, spent the last week mourning the Vegas demise of Luke Jermay. But at the same time as not washing our hair, eating lots of ice cream and reliving the time he refused to read our mind because he'd already met us, we've been getting out there and finding ourselves a new psychic man.

People, not only have we found him, but he’s better than Jermay in that his show is free and the audience is restricted to you and your party. Yes, he will give you a private show for free. And yes, it's fantastic.

His name is Paul Vigil and he works every Friday and Saturday night at King Ink in the Mirage. In fact, he’s Mario Barth’s personal magician or something, and on weekends he’s allowed out of the King Inker’s house to enthrall his inkees and any members of the public who join them.

Vigil does up close street magic (think Blaine rather than Copperfield) and he wanders around the “club” bit of KI asking you if you’d like to see some tricks. Then he does them - to you, for you. Tricks which are, no other word for it, amazeballs.

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Mental! Luke Jermay Is No More In Vegas

Where: 3555 Las Vegas Blvd South [map], 89109
July 23, 2010 at 12:08 PM | by juliab | 0 Comments

Ladies and gents, prepare your best sad faces for we have some deeply depressing news to impart: Luke Jermay has left the Strip.

Not only that, but he’s left Vegas and returned to Blighty. So much for the British invasion (although to be fair we’ve still got Matt Goss and Tom Lowe and, um, if we must, Robin Leach.

What we’re really sad about though is seeing another good magic(ish) show hit the dust. We really liked Mental and much as we love O’Sheas, we think it’s a poorer place without it.

Come on people, let’s support freaky Vegas. Everyone go out and see a magic show this weekend because it's starting to feel like every time you clap for a Cirque show, a mindreader/magician/contortionist dies. Just make sure it’s not Believe.

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Anthony Cools is a Man of Impeccable Taste, As Proven By This Photo

Where: 3555 Las Vegas Blvd South [map], 89109
July 16, 2010 at 3:04 PM | by juliab | 3 Comments

Wonder if she'll be at his show tonight?

A totally gratuitous Freaky Friday this week, although we’d contest that no mention of the delicious Mel B is gratuitous.

Anyhoo. We knew Holly Madison was a woman of good taste, seeing as she revealed a couple of weeks ago that she’s friends with Scary Spice, but we didn’t have Anthony Cools marked down as the same (must have been those weird highlights wot prejudiced us against him).

But according to his Twitter, he’s well tasteful, because he was living it up with Mel last night at Tao. Cools, not only are you a lucky bastard but Mel suits you, because you’re looking pretty fly in that pic. And Mel, as ever, looks smoking. Next time give us a call, yeah?

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Magic! Ariann Black Brings Girl Power to the Westin

Where: 160 East Flamingo Road [map], 89109
July 2, 2010 at 1:03 PM | by juliab | 0 Comments

We like to think we’re a) feminists and b) up there on our Vegas magicians but it hadn’t occurred to us until the other day that there hasn’t been a lady magician here since the ill-fated Scarlett and her Seductive Ladies of Magic.

Until, that is, last month when Ariann Black opened at the Westin Casuarina. If you haven’t heard of her, she’s been around Vegas a while – she’s performed downtown and at the Riviera, and was the opening act for The Amazing Johnathan the year before last - and she also enjoys the dubious accolade of being the official Female Magician of the Year for 2004 , 2008 and 2009 (dubious because the idea of a female magician makes men laugh, as we found when we hung out at the Westin the other night).

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There's a Magician Roaming Around Wynn and Encore

Where: 3131 Las Vegas Blvd. South [map], 89109
June 17, 2010 at 11:36 PM | by Mr Pappagiorgio | 0 Comments

All your bobbles belong to me.

We’re not sure how we’ve missed this one up until now but Wynn and Encore have had a resident magician/illusionist for the past few months. Shimshi. That’s it, just Shimshi. His resume includes stints at Mirage and Planet Hollywood. In 2008, he was the “last magician standing” on America’s Got Talent. We couldn’t find exactly when he was eliminated other than he didn’t make the final ten. But we’re guessing there was at least one magician that season and he beat them all.

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The Luxor Really Wants Us To Believe

Where: 3900 Las Vegas Blvd South [map], 89119
June 11, 2010 at 11:30 AM | by juliab | 0 Comments

You know, if we didn’t know any better, we’d think someone was trying to give us a subliminal message or something. Because this is what we received when we checked in at Luxor last week.

The key to our room: Criss Angel Believe. The folder that the key came in: Criss Angel Believe. And what’s that, a nice welcome letter from the Luxor peeps to those of us checking in? Naw, it’s a note from Criss Angel, asking us to come and experience “an amazing evening of mind-blowing illusions” (if he’s meaning the one that should have given us the impression our room was clean, then someone needs to tell him, that illusion aint working).

On the back are some celeb quotes. Celine, calling it entertaining. J Lo, saying it’s a “beautiful, spectaular, emotional, magical journey” (did she maybe say that when she was pregnant and the hormones were going wild?). Gene Simmons calling it an “imaginative spectacle”. And good old Robin Leach’s verdict: “The Greatest Magic Show in the World” (sic).

Criss signs off:

Are you ready!?

No, pet, not quite yet we’re not. Not quite yet.

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The Psychics of O'Sheas Are Here To Solve Your 1am Conundrums

Where: 3555 Las Vegas Blvd South [map], 89109
May 21, 2010 at 1:28 PM | by juliab | 0 Comments

Luke Jermay may not be at O’Shea’s any longer, but you know what is? Psychic Universe.

Yes, take your pressing questions (for O’Shea’s they would be: should I go home with that guy/girl or will they turn out to be wearing Ed Hardy underwear, should I throw all my money at the tables tonight, will that last $3 Irish Car Bomb turn out to be a mistake?) along to the psychics, and they will tell you what you need to know.

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Is Magic On the Way Out in Vegas?

May 14, 2010 at 2:28 PM | by juliab | 0 Comments

These people agree that Copperfield’s still got it

We at VegasChatter have absolutely no problem in declaring that we have a thing for magic shows. We love to be astounded, we love to get our little brains churning over how they did it, and we love cursing loudly when David Copperfield magicks a car out of thin air.

But we’re getting worried, because at the moment it seems like the magic shows, they are dying. Lance Burton is going. Siegfried and Roy are officially never coming back. Luke Jermay and Dirk Arthur are both looking for work but, from their silence, not finding much. Steve Wyrick was spotted limping away from Vegas this morning. Even his royal sexiness Copperfield is stuffed away in a grotty theater, when by all sense of what is right in the world, he should be commanding the Strip with his hotness awesome tricks.

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