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Strip Scribbles: Liquid at Aria and HRH Beach Club at Hard Rock open
Liquid at CityCenter.
Photo: The Light Group
Today’s the day for the debut of the Strip’s newest adult-only pool lounge and restaurant Liquid at MGM CityCenter’s Aria, while the grand opening is April 8 with DJ Tiesto. Guests can explore the luxurious private cabanas with 40-inch flat-screen TVs, two dipping pools, sprawling chaise lounges and plush day beds surrounding a 1,200-square-foot main pool.
Liquid also offer poolside pampering and a premier party experience Thursdays through Sundays. To celebrate, there’s a Liquid Passion drink made with fresh blood orange puree.
Meantime, the Bud Light folks have teamed up with the Hard Rock Hotel for a five-day World’s Largest Pool Party that began yesterday and continues through Sunday and serves as the opening of the HRH Beach Club. UFC is hosting tomorrow night’s private reception, and then The All American Rejects will perform Saturday night.
Bud’s bosses hope 3,000 people will be partying. ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live is sending correspondent Yehya Mohamed to be an honorary lifeguard, and Sirius XM’s Covino & Rich will broadcast their satellite radio show live poolside. Ustream will broadcast live video of the concert, and a giant NCAA basketball bracket will adorn the entire face of HRH tower with men on high-wires changing scores, positions, victories and losses throughout the first weekend of March Madness.
*Pure Management Group confirmed this morning longtime rumors that it would shut Company Kitchen & Pub House alongside LAX in the Luxor. The space is being converted into casual nightlife venue Company Lounge. It will be open three nights a week in tandem with LAX and serve cocktails in the ultra lounge.
Javier Santiago, a teacher and dedicated climb athlete from Mexico, was the overall winner of the 2nd annual 108-floor, 1,455-step vertical race up Stratosphere with a time of 7:26.
Courtney Swenson of Las Vegas was the first female to finish the second annual 108-floor, 1,455-step vertical race up Stratosphere with a time of 9:59. This is the second consecutive year that she has finished first.
*Stratosphere hosted the second annual Scale the Strat 2010 extreme stair climb and raised more than $90,000 for the American Lung Association in Nevada to help prevent lung disease and promote lung health. More than 130 participants from across the U.S. and Mexico competed in the two-day event. Javier Santiago, a teacher and dedicated climb athlete from Mexico, was the winner of the 108-floor, 1,455-step vertical race with a time of 7:26. Courtney Swenson of Las Vegas was the top women’s finisher for the second consecutive year at 9:59.
*An 88-minute documentary titled Gone Too Soon about Michael Jackson’s death will be released this summer by celebrity biographer Ian Halperin. His bestseller Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson was released last year. He shot more than 300 hours of footage inside Michael’s camp here in Las Vegas and L.A. interviewing the King of Pop’s lawyer, bodyguards and other staff, but no members of the family!
Meantime, the re-created planned London home for Michael’s run of This Is It concerts went on display in Ireland. The collection includes Michael’s “Beat It” jacket, a 24-karat gold mega couch and artwork from Neverland. The exhibit by Julian’s Auctions will be on display at the Museum of Style in County Kildare, Ireland, until May 30 when it will be shipped to Macau and Japan for exhibit before arriving in Las Vegas on June 14. It will be on display at Planet Hollywood until the worldwide auction takes place there over three days starting June 25. Michael’s elaborate couch alone is expected to sell for more than $130,000. He ordered it for his London residency but never saw it before his death.
The Lion King at Mandalay Bay.
*The Las Vegas cast of Disney’s award-winning The Lion King at Mandalay Bay will turn up again tomorrow on the re-airing of Live With Regis and Kelly on The CW. The segment aired back in November when the cast opened the TV show on location at Steve Wynn’s Encore.
What Not to Wear host and Miss America Pageant correspondent Clinton Kelly at Planet Hollywood on Jan. 27, 2010.
*Fashion guru Clinton Kelly, who was last here for the 2010 Miss America Pageant, returns to town this weekend to make over the fashionably challenged. The author and style host of TLC’s What Not to Wear will be at Fashion Show, and six Las Vegas ladies will join six others from California and Arizona to reinvent themselves with his guidance. Clinton promises to give them dream makeovers from head to toe before they strut their new stuff and looks in a fashion show on the mall runway. The event is planned for 2 p.m. Saturday as part of the Macy’s Make Over America Tour.
Kid Rock celebrates St. Patrick's Day at O'Sheas on March 17, 2010.
Joel Madden and Nicole Richie host the New Year's Eve party at Lavo in the Palazzo on Dec. 31, 2009.
STAR SURVEILLANCE
You be the judge as to whether it was Kid Rock or a look-alike who stopped by O’Shea’s’ four-day block party on the Strip last night. We’ve only got a cell phone photo, so you make the call! … Actress Vanessa Hudgens and actor boyfriend Zac Efron attended the early performance of Cirque du Soleil’s Mystere at Treasure Island last night. … Peepshow star Holly Madison had lunch at Society Cafe in the Encore yesterday. … Joel Madden of Good Charlotte was at Moon in the Palms last night playing DJ and spinning an amazing turntable set. No signs of Nicole Richie, though!
David Copperfield is flanked by Phantom cast members Anthony Crivello (Phantom) and Kristi Holden (Christine Daae).
TONIGHT’S TIPS
Miracle magician David Copperfield begins a monthlong engagement at MGM’s Hollywood Theater through April 28. … Comedian David Spade starts two back-to-back weekends of shows at The Venetian. … Access Hollywood host Billy Bush hosts his third annual benefit dinner for Lollipop Theater Network at Tao in The Venetian after he wraps the ShoWest awards. Billy’s group takes the magic of movies playing in theaters to children confined to hospitals nationwide due to life-threatening illnesses. Also at Tao’s Worship Party tonight, hip-hop star Chingy celebrates his birthday. … Playboy Comedy hosts Cort McCown and Paul Hughes welcome Ashton Kutcher’s Punk’d co-star Steve Rannazzisi and Dave Chappelle’s co-writer Neal Brennan to The Playboy Lounge at the Palms for shows twice nightly through Saturday. … I can safely spill the beans about Dirty Little Secret, who play Carey Hart’s Wasted Space at the Hard Rock. … Masked magician Jeff McBride presents another of his monthly Wonderground shows at The Olive with artists, tarot readers, dancers and performers including Jeff and fellow conjurors Bizarro, Jordan Wright and Scott Hitchcock. … Rain in the Palms hosts the ultimate retro-inspired roller-skating disco party Down and Derby with resident skate guard DJs SHR3D and Nugget and special guest DJ Robert O. controlling the 1970s roller disco turntables.
Sex and the City.
TOMORROW’S TEASES
We’ll have the full photo report from the red carpet and star award presentations at ShoWest with the Sex and the City stars and The Hangover’s Zach Galifianakis. Plus, the most unusual convention of our calendar year devoted entirely to pot. Yes, cannabis! Yep, Mary Jane! It’s 50,000 feet of floor space at Mandalay Bay to showcase all things marijuana, including artwork from roach papers. We promise to only get high over the entertainment coming to town with our Royal Robin Rundown of weekend attractions!
Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.
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