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There Are No After Hours at Victor Drai's New Hollywood Club But There is Food
We managed to grab some time with Victor Drai last night at the E! After Oscar party for which Drai opened his new nightclub, Drai's Hollywood, just for the occasion. Located on top of the W Hollywood, the nightclub is simply put, massive.
In total, the club has 20,000-sq.ft. for debauchery, including an outdoor patio with cabanas and daybeds lining the pool. Views are prime here as you can see up into the Hollywood Hills and straight into downtown.
The slick banquettes backed with deep red tiles inside the main area of the club are huge, fitting at least 8 to 10 skinny starlets. And the room is surrounded by floor to ceiling windows. There's a large bar at the back and another one by the pool but surprisingly, the dance floor was a bit small. However, we loved the ladies' restroom. The stalls were spacious and fitted with those dual flusher toilets. This of course is going to get a lot of people in trouble here.
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So, Mariah. Are You Thinking What We're Thinking?
Far be it from us to pass judgment on anyone’s belly – we know the temptations of the Vegas buffet all too well – but, as we watched Mariah Carey at the Colosseum on Saturday night, we couldn’t help being a little bit spellbound by her tumtum.
At first we thought we’d leave it at a tweet, but then we got home and checked out the video we took an illicit spy sent us of the gig, and we were even more spellbound. Doesn’t she look a bit, well, preggers?
There’s been those rumors about how she and Nick Cannon were despo to get pregnant (from the National Enquirer, of course, but we all know how that reliable is these days).
There’s the new gold dress she wore in LA and the fact that she told us on Saturday one of her dresses was a “new ensemble” because she’d almost had a “wardrobe malfunction” in the previous one.
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Hussong's Rock n Roll Mariachis Will Croon at You as You Eat
As you might have noticed had you been following our Twitter feed last weekend, we have a new group in danger of overtaking Matt Goss in our musical affections at the moment. Who could possibly remove the halo from the Gossmeister, you might well ask?
Let us introduce you to Gino Juarez, Aurelio Audy and Tito Martinez, otherwise know as the rock ‘n’ roll mariachis at Hussong’s Cantina in the Shoppes At Mandalay Place.
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A Day in the Life of a Chippendale (Plus What the Show's Actually Like)
Insert your own fantasy scenario here
It’s been nearly two weeks since we saw the Chippendales at their 3000th show, and now that we’ve had time to shrug off our mortification at being touched up and having nipple rings thrust in our face, we’re ready for the review.
But first, the interview. Want to know what a day in the life of a Chippendale is like? Or the surefire Chippendale way to attract the laydees? Click here for our rather flustered video chat with Chip Nathan and Chip Jason – or, as they describe themselves, “GQ” Nathan and “Bad Boy” Jace.
Three things we should point out before we go: first, FYI, we saw the show along with other journos at the invitation of the Chips. Second, because of this, we saw it in less than ideal circumstances – ie sober, on our lonesome and therefore mortified at the idea that the rest of the audience would think we had gone to see the Chippendales by ourselves. Third, in our personal opinion, there’s nothing less sexy than someone thrusting their sexiness upon you. So we knew from the start that these dudes would not be our type.
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Obama Hearts Vegas (And So Does His Mother-in-Law)
It’s official: Barack Obama loves Vegas. We know this because he just told us during his smackdown with the Chamber of Commerce and the LVCVA at Aria (which turned into less of a smackdown than we expected – seems like the attendees were too busy filming O on their camera phones to make nasty faces at him). From the horse’s mouth:
Before I go any further, let me set the record straight. I love Vegas. Last night I hit a flush on the river* and cut the deficit in half
He said what he meant when he said people shouldn’t be blowing their college funds on a trip to Vegas, was that, um, people shouldn’t be blowing their college funds on a trip to Vegas. See? He was speaking in literal terms. It’s just that, because he’s normally so full of all these flowery images, it passed people by. That’s his story, anyway, and he's sticking to it.
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Obama's In Vegas, Made a Lightning Quick Arrival At McCarran
So we spent most of yesterday afternoon hanging with the President. Well, kind of – we actually spent most of it cordoned into a little press pen on the runway at McCarran, watching the TV reporters apply their makeup (MAC, obvs), the Secret Service do their Reservoir Dogs impressions, and wondering whether our little card that said “White House Press Pool” would get us anything on eBay.
O arrived half an hour late, meaning it was too dark for our camera to get anything but blurry pics, and to make it harder for us, he took the steps of Air Force One at a run, possibly because he was running scared of Vegas after his latest comments, possibly because he was late for his $30k a head dinner at George Maloof’s house, or (less) possibly because he wanted to try a last minute make up session with Mayor Goodman, who’s still refusing to meet him unless he apologizes for dissing Vegas (and buys him a martini).
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This is Why You Shouldn’t Drive to Vegas Via the Hoover Dam on a Weekend
Don’t get us wrong. We love crossing the Hoover Dam and all. It’s beautiful, spectacular, a testament to man’s ingenuity etc etc (plus we always think of the scene at the beginning of Goldeneye, and we love a good Bond film). As the guy beside us in the video here puts it so eloquently, it’s an “intense dam”. But much as we love it, we wouldn’t want to queue for hours to get over it.
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We're On the Billboard At Caesars (Oh, As Is Matt Goss)
It was as we were at the Sports Illustrated launch last week that we noticed that Caesars had finally got around to adding Matt Goss to their video roster on the billboard.
There we were, twiddling our thumbs as we waited for the models to arrive and do their ridiculous pseudo Beatles walk outside the Mirage, when we noticed sexy Mayor Goodman looking glum by himself. And then we noticed the Goss in the background to keep him company. Two of our favourite Vegas men in the same shot. Chouette!
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How Many Chippendales Does it Take to Carry a (Beef) Cake?
You know those jokes, how many drunkards/feminists/Irishmen does it take to change a lightbulb? Well last night we found ourselves doing a variation on the theme: how many Chippendales does it take to arrange a cake? The answer, as you can see from this video, is five. Two to lift it onto the table, arrange it, and prop it up on a towel, and three to flex their pecs in the background and fist-bump the lifters.
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Inside The PH Towers By Westgate...Er, Or is it The PH Tower?
Guess The Hotel revealed!!!
We braved the Super Bowl madness over the weekend and checked into the new PH Towers By Westgate, adjacent to the Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.
Overall, we were happy with what we got for our money, especially since we read some awful reviews on TravelPost before we got there. And being a timeshare resort we were scared that we would be kidnapped by timeshare salesmen and forced to listen to a timeshare pitch in a windowless room below the casino. (Thankfully, that never happened.)
However, the biggest drawback for this hotel is that it's really attached to the Miracle Mile shops rather than Planet Hollywood. Which means, you have to walk through the mall to get to the PH casino. And then you have to walk back through the mall to get to your room. Do it five times on Super Bowl Sunday and it gets old real quick.
Check-In: We rolled up on Saturday afternoon at 2pm to the PH Towers entrance where valet (it's free!) helped us carry our bags out of the car. NOTE: If you're arriving by taxi, specify that you are going to PH Towers, not Planet Hollywood. Otherwise, you will be dropped off at the Planet Hollywood entrance and will be forced to schelp through the mall to PH Towers.
The check-in line was no less than five minutes and we were on our way to the 37th floor.
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The Transformation of Matt Goss: A Guide For Brits
Performing at the Palms. A far cry from Bros.
A few days ago our housemate was talking to some Brits over in Vegas, and was telling them about the Strip’s newest Singing Sensation That Is Matt Goss (™). Their response? Matt Goss from Bros? At Caesars Palace? As if.
People, we know it can be hard to think past the bleached hair, the fringed leather jackets and the ripped denim of his boyband days. In fact, we know this because we too were unbelievers, and we only had our epiphany when we went to see his show as a joke.
Last week we told Goss newcomers a few home truths about the sleekmeister’s shady 80s past, so we thought it only fair to provide the same service for those of you who last saw him in Bros. Expunge that from your memories, and start with a clean slate, because he’s been through five major changes since 1991.
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10 Things You Need to Know About Matt Goss
It’s official – the Gossmeister is the talk of the Strip, and in honor of him, until his show opens, we’re officially renaming Mondays Matt Goss Mondays. This week: what America needs to know about him. Because he aint always looked like this.
Call it the Emperor’s new clothes effect. As the excitement from the Matt Goss Caesars launch died down over the weekend we had several people shuffling up to us and asking us, as token Brits, who exactly the Gosster was. Each said exactly the same thing – we’ve heard/seen that he’s awesome, but where had he sprung from? Sit back and let us inform you.
