Luxe Life Blog • Archive for July 8, 2012

July 8, 2012 • 9:54 p.m.

Photos: LeBron James hosts NBA championship celebration at Tao

By Don Chareunsy Miami Heat star LeBron James hosted his official championship celebration at Tao in the Venetian on Saturday night. The NBA champion donned a pair of dressy Billionaire Boys Club sweat pants with suspenders and his trademark spectacles and dined at the restaurants with friends, including other Team USA teammates in town to train for the 2012 London Summer Olympics. After dinner, the group took over a VIP section on the dance floor upstairs in the nightclub. The ... Read more...

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July 8, 2012 • 11:33 p.m.

Photos: Liddell, Celeste host UFC Fight Week Party at Palms

By Don Chareunsy UFC Hall of Famer and legend Chuck Liddell and fellow UFC stars “Sugar” Rashad Evans, Arianny Celeste and other UFC Octagon Girls hosted the official UFC Fight Week Pool Party at the Palms Pool & Bungalows at the Palms last Thursday. MMA fan favorite Liddell kept it super casual and pool party appropriate in a green Headrush T-shirt and gray board shorts and was flanked by Celeste and fellow bikini babes Brittney Palmer, Rachelle Leah, Kenda Perez, ... Read more...

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July 8, 2012 • 3:08 p.m.

Photos: Moves like Jagger? Moves like Foster the People at Cosmo

By Jack Houston If given the choice, Foster the People would probably return to the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas every four months for the rest of their career. Saturday night’s performance at Boulevard Pool marked their fourth performance at the resort in less than two years, and the sold-out concert dispelled any notion that their most recent appearance could be considered overkill. Given the band’s relative ubiquity in Las Vegas since debuting at Book & Stage in March 2011, there ... Read more...

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July 8, 2012 • 10:58 p.m.

Photos: Chael Sonnen, B.J. Penn host parties at MGM Grand’s Tabu

By Don Chareunsy On Friday night, retired MMA star B.J. Penn, the only fighter to win a UFC lightweight and welterweight title, hosted a pre-fight party at Tabu Ultra Lounge in MGM Grand, while UFC middleweight fighter Chael Sonnen hosted his after-party Saturday immediately after his UFC 148 Main Event second-round TKO loss to Anderson Silva. Penn kept it casual in a gray polo and jeans walking the arrivals carpet as family members, including his mother Lorraine and his Aunty ... Read more...

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July 8, 2012 • 8:55 p.m.

Photos: Kevin Hart celebrates his 32nd birthday at Gallery Nightclub

By Don Chareunsy Actor and comedian Kevin Hart celebrated his 32nd birthday at Gallery Nightclub in Planet Hollywood last Thursday night. The handsome funnyman, dressed in black jeans and a camouflage-style T-shirt, arrived at the nightclub around midnight with a large group of friends. Hart, who recently won a BET Award for Best Actor for his leading-man role in the hit “Think Like A Man,” and his friends enjoyed Ciroc Peach and Ciroc Coconut and Moet & Chandon Imperial Nectar ... Read more...

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July 8, 2012 • 11:53 p.m.

Photos: B.o.B leads Saturday night Sunrise Sessions at Hyde Bellagio

By Don Chareunsy Six-time Grammy Award-nominated songwriter and rapper B.o.B performed at Hyde Bellagio on Saturday night. B.o.B arrived at the nightclub behind the Bellagio Fountains wearing shades with gold trim, a backward baseball cap, a T-shirt with the logo and word “victory” on it and bright, salmon-colored denim. B.o.B. posed for photographs on the arrivals carpet and stopped to take a few photographs with fans before heading inside. B.o.B and his entourage made their way to a VIP booth ... Read more...

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July 8, 2012 • 6:07 p.m.

Photos: Jason Derulo, with Jordin Sparks, at Rao’s, Celine, Venus, Pure

By Don Chareunsy Singer Jason Derulo’s latest visit to Las Vegas was jam-packed and included his girlfriend “American Idol” Season 6 winner Jordin Sparks. The R&B heartthrob capped his weekend Saturday night hosting and performing at Pure in Caesars Palace. Jason arrived at the hotspot holding hands with Jordin and posed for photographers on the arrivals carpet as fans screamed their names. The couple were seen cuddling and kissing in their VIP booth on Pure’s main stage before Jason took ... Read more...

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July 8, 2012 • 7:37 p.m.

Strip Scribbles: Goretorium, ‘Evil Dead the Musical,’ Angel, Zappos

Gore, terror and blood are the new tourist attractions coming to the Strip, so it’s the ghouls, ghosts and scary surprises of Halloween every night of the year. Bloody Marys take on a whole new meaning — with its own to-go bar. Director Eli Roth’s Goretorium opening in September promises “the most terrorizing haunt of a lifetime.” “The Goretorium will be a destination for horror fans and tourists from around the world 365 days a year,” Eli said. “We are ... Read more...

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Strip Scribbles: Axwell at Eclipse, Santana, ‘Being Oscar,’ Jerry Lewis

May 23, 2013 • 4:56 p.m.

It’s more than 24 hours of nonstop activities, and that’s before the huge attractions open up for Memorial Day Weekend. The insanity began ...

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Debbie Reynolds: More of Liberace the showman in HBO's ‘Candelabra’

May 23, 2013 • 3:03 p.m.

Actress Debbie Reynolds has just a few significant scenes in HBO's "Behind the Candelabra" but relished the chance to play Liberace's mother, ...

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