JOHN VARVATOS ROCKS OUT!

When I walked into the brand new and badass John Varvatos store at the Hard Rock Hotel, I was blown away by a huge wall of videos screens rockin' Yoko Ono during her screaming apple blossom phase in the early 70's.

I knew I was home.

The new John Varvatos store is a rockhead's dream. If it was a club, it would by my neighborhood hang where you could find my well dressed butt lounging across an animal print wing chair sipping on my Alien Tequila.

There's a whole wall of working old skool receivers that took me back to my uncle Rips' basement where he played jazz albums all day and night. He was hella cool and would have love this store.

Vinyl is the rule here. It's rare and on sale. Japanese imports of old Roxy Music LPs sit next to Cheap Trick and Indie Rock. I was in heaven from the first step in.

Oh yeah, the clothes!

John Varvatos is for the guy who aint a "Douche". No screaming prints or trucker hats with Tigers on acid for him. The style is high end cool, laid back hip. Jackets have the kind of details that your latest date notices when you're snuggled up in the VIP section at Closet Sundays all bottled up.

The latest collection has a Rock & Roll edge, but, it's still understated enough that you don't attract the paps. There's a suede jacket with shearling details that would work at the apres ski and when walking past the hoardes waiting to get into XS. The jeans are not too skinny and don't fall down past your Banana Republic boxers. The prices are right in the range for you to get a pair and a t-shirt and still hit Burger Bar for an Angus.

If you have time, head down to The Hard Rock Hotel and the John Varvatos store and rock out!

Psst...there's a secret VIP sale coming up. Tune back in on Monday and I mught just give you the password.

JOHN VARVATOS @ THE HARD ROCK HOTEL
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, 4455 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, NV 89169

Hours of Operation
Mon 11:00am-12:00am
Tue 11:00am-12:00am
Wed 11:00am-12:00am
Thu 11:00am-12:00am
Fri 11:00am-12:00am
Sat 11:00am-12:00am
Sun 11:00am-12:00am


http://www.hardrockhotel.com/las-vegas/shopping/john-varvatos/

America’s Party Fireworks Display to Return to the Rooftops!

New Year’s Eve pyrotechnic display to be fired from seven rooftop locations

LAS VEGAS (November 13, 2009) — Las Vegas Events (LVE) and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) announced today that the New Year’s Eve celebration known as America’s Party: Las Vegas New Year 2010 will include a spectacular fireworks show fired from seven rooftop locations along the Las Vegas Strip.

The firing locations (from the south, heading north) include the following resort properties: MGM Grand, Planet Hollywood, Aria, Caesars Palace, Treasure Island (TI), Venetian and the Stratosphere.

Fireworks by Grucci of New York will again coordinate the pyrotechnic display. The group recently created the spectacular Grand Opening of the Atlantis Hotel and The Palm Jumeirah in Dubai and has executed numerous presidential inaugurations and citywide celebrations. Locally, Fireworks by Grucci has produced many of Las Vegas’ largest special events and grand openings, including the official Las Vegas Centennial celebration.

In addition to designing the pyrotechnic display, Fireworks by Grucci will work directly with the Clark County Fire Department and Building Services to ensure both fire and structural safety guidelines.

“We are moving the fireworks show back to where it should be,” said LVE President Pat Christenson. “Fireworks by Grucci, the Clark County Fire Department and Building Services and the individual resort properties have worked tirelessly since January of this year to address the fire and structural safety issues associated with firing the show from the rooftops. Our goal each year is to design a show that is befitting of this city and provides a great backdrop for the thousands of revelers on the Strip.”

According to the LVCVA, Las Vegas hosts several hundred thousand visitors for New Year’s Eve.

"Las Vegas continues to be the best venue in the world to ring in the New Year," said Rossi Ralenkotter, president and CEO of the LVCVA. "The fireworks will culminate an evening of celebrity-hosted events at nightclubs, special dining experiences at restaurants, live music at the Fremont Street Experience downtown and much more. There is no other destination that offers the excitement on New Year's Eve."

Thematic elements and the musical portion of the fireworks show will be announced at a later date.

WHEN DID IT BECOME OK TO BE SO RUDE?

OK, I am now about to piss off some of my very closest and bestest.

However.

Would you PLEASE put your fucking FancyPhones down when you are being talked to?

Is it too much to ask to have you engage with the rest of the world for , oh, about 15 minutes or so without the latest Facebook updates from your "friend" in Uzbeiolia?

Would it kill you to actually taste that $15 cocktail just laid down in front of you by the person who is now glaring at the top of your head as you bury your face in ,well, NOTHING?

OK, I'm old, but, I do remember , not so very long ago, when my friends and I would go out and hold witty, semi-literate convos about everything from politics to how fat Belinda from The Go Go's had gotten. We managed to do this without making sure somewhere on the other side of town wasn't having having a better time with their $199 idiot box.

Now, I feel like I'm in some virtual social Pinball machine getting bounced back and forth between places I'm not even at.

Let's be honest, it's RUDE. I can only think of two reasons to spend all of your time on a fancy phone or texting away like a Squirrel on Meth. You either have nothing to say, or nothing to add to the conversation.

Either way, why are you taking up a seat?

Btw, If someone wanted to prove me wrong about this epidemic of callous and decidedly boorish behavior, I'll take one in white with a red cover.

IN / OUT DC YOU FIGURE OUT WHICH IS YOU

DAVID MIXNER
BABAK MOVAHEDI
JENNA LOWENSTEIN
BABS SIPERSTEIN
MARSHA BOTZNER
KYLE BAILEY
HALO LOUNGE
BILL JACOBS
ANNE MARIE WILLIAMS
CLEVE JONES
MATTHEW KINSEY
SHELLEY BERKLEY
ANDREW MARTIN
US AIRWAYS
COACH
MOSSAD
PERRY CARLSON
SHARONE BELT
KIP WILLIAMS
CHIP ARNDT
STACY ANNE CHIN
ADAM BOUSKA
ANGELA GREEN
LADY GAGA
JEFF PARSHLEY
ROBIN MCGEHEE
RON VIRTU
STUART WILBUR
REVEREND DONNA
REVEREND IRENE
PASTOR MOORE
TJ WILLIAMS
WENDY MICHELLE FORBES
DAVID MCELHATTON
CHLOE NOBLE
CHELSEA SALEM
ILONA KADAR
FRANK VOCI (This one I'll tell you, he's just a pocket full of cute!)
MEL
DON DEW
SETH "FLOWER POWER IS GAY POWER" FOWLER
TANNER EFFINGER
LOCH POWELL
AND EVERYONE I FORGOT!

OH YEAH, HARRY REID!

THE POWER OF 20 TONIGHT!

Ever so often, a free meal and a Bottle of the potatoes just fall right into the lap of yours truly.

Tonight is one of those nights!

AND I have an outfit! My look is sorta V Magazine meets James Dean with a stop along Malcolm Mclaren way. You know, modern Buffalo Boy. I might even spray my hair!

It seems that tonight I'm being honored along with several other denizens of this hot little burgh as "The Power of 20"!

Oh. My.

Sumptuous, the evening promises to be. It will begin with a reception (lavish, no doubt) at STACK Restaurant at the Luxurious Mirage Resort. After I eat everything not nailed down...uh, I mean...we will then retire to VIP tables and the aforementioned Potato Juice at REVOLUTION LOUNGE.

Honey, if you haven't been to Revolution, well, you simply, haven't.

It's FAB!

Really. I swear.

This night of Glamour comes courtesy of the best VIP Team in town, Eric Zawid, Jason Baca and The Light Group along with Super Chic (and hella cute) Ultra Promoter Eduardo Cordova.

Of course, no event in town worth it's salt(and this one is worth a lot of salt)happens without a lending hand from Q Vegas Magazine.

Have you noticed how Q Vegas has steadily moved itself into a position as a "premium" magazine? I have. The days of being something you just glanced at in a club are gone. The Q is well on it's way to being "our" 944 or Vegas magazine. And we should have an upscale, intelligent magazine documenting what goes on here Las Vegas. Kudos.

Well, I know you're dying to know who the other 19 folks being honored are, well, here goes:

TV ANCHOR CHRIS SALDANA (he's cute)

HARRAHS CORP'S GWEN MIGITA (has kept me from having my head explode on more than one occasion)

HARRAHS EXEC JAMES HEALEY (very tall that one, very tall)

FORMER MAYOR AND MAJOR GAMING EXEC JAN JONES (Hot. It's not sexist if a Gay guy says it)

WYNN/ENCORE'S JOHN MCCOY (have you been to XS? OH MY GAWD CHANDLER BING!)

CELEBRITY STYLIST KIM VO! (J'adore him! I'm so filling him with potato juice and getting ALL the dirt from LaLa!)

DIVA LARRY EDWARDS (That's Miss Larry, if you're Glamourous!)

THE LADY DJ / PROMOTER LISA PITTMAN (She rules)

THE MAN SPREADS GOOD HEALTH AND HALF NAKED BOYS ALL OVER THE VEGAS VALLEY MALCOLM AHLO OF CRUSH ( Adorable, that one!)

TAO/LAVO IS REPPED BY THE INIMITABLE MIKE SNEDEGAR

CULTURE , SWEETIE, CULTURE, IS ON HAND WITH ARTIST NICK SAN PEDRO ( I used to drive to San Pedro for a boy, or was it a fish taco place? Or was it a boy named Nick in El Monte who worked at a place that sold fish tacos? Ah. The 90's Don't remember them at all.)

BLOWN OUT PRODUCTIONS OWN PETER JOBSON IS ON HAND AFTER A SUCCESSFUL RUN OF THE HILARIOUS CHICO'S ANGELS! (Cute in a real "Courtship of Eddie's Father" sorta way.)

RAUL DANIELS FROM THE N9NE GROUP WILL BE IN THE HOUSE AS WELL

THOSE POLITICAL MUCKY MUCKS STATE SENATOR DAVID PARKS OF NEVADA AND THE BOB FORBUSS ARE BEING HONORED AS WELL (You wanna talk Nevada politics, and who doesn't, talk to Forbuss!)

THE CUTE AS A BUG STEVE ERICS IS BEING HONORED AS WELL (He puts the diversity in @ SNAPI)

THAT NAUGHTY SIN CITY SISTER SYBRINA BERNABEI WILL BE THERE AS WELL (Wonder what the confession booth and some potato juice will bring forth?)

AND FINALLY, THE MAN THAT ACTUALLY GAVE GAY VEGAS A POINT TO START AT, SUPER CLUBBER , AND QUITE CLEVER, TERRY HERNANDEZ ROUNDS OUT THE LIST (If you ever want to blame someone for me popping up on the scene, blame Terry, he intro'd me to simple EVERYONE.)

I hope you can come by and join us all tonight as we celebrate just being friends and a community.

Ta.

Ta.

IN / OUT IN THE LV: FIGURE OUT WHICH IS YOU

HOLLY MADISON
ERIC ZAWID
LAURA MARTIN
BRIAN GREENSPUN
ITSME MO
MUNDO
STEVE FRIESS
ROBERTA LANGE
AUBREY ODAY
ALI SPUCK
GAIL BOWMAN
DR JERRY CADE
ROBIN LEACH (OK, THIS ONE I'LL TELL YOU : OUT)
SUPERCAR LIFE
STUDIO 8 TEN
LADY GAGA
BILL JACOBS
EARL SHELTON
NIGHTBEAT MAGAZINE
JAMIE MORRIS
THE BANK
GWEN MIGITA
THAT CUTE BOY ON THE BALCONY THAT HAS A BF BUT I DON'T CARE
CHICOS ANGELS
THE EROTIC HERITAGE MUSEUM
MORALISTS
HOT AJ
CHARO
PAUL MURAD

MOMMIE QUEEREST: A COMEDY WITH BALLS!

Experience the Glamorous Hollywood life of Joan Crawford and his, uh, her adorable children, Christina and that other little kid in this behind the scenes (and under the girdle) look at life in Hollywood's' Golden Age. No more Transylvanian Trannies throwing bread at one another for you! Midnite is for Crawford, family & HOLLYWOOD!

Follow Joan as he, uh, she rises to the very top of the star filled galaxy! Marvel at adorable little terror, uh , moppet Christina's transformation from a precocious little unwanted, uh, adopted child into a budding young woman in the blink of an eye. Marvel at their daily life of chores, gardening, cocktails and beard removal, uh, the magic that was HOLLYWOOD!

OK, look. You're gonna laugh till you wish you had worn those Depends you keep for when Grandma visits. Jamie Morris & Brooks Braselman lead a cast of the funniest quick change artists to hit the stage since, well, EVER!

Imagine. What if Joan Crawford was REALLY a MAN?!?

If?

Friday, October 2, 2009 at 12:00am
Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 1:15am
ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCES AT THE ONYX THEATER
THE ONYX THEATER (in the Commercial Center)
953 E. Sahara Las Vegas
http://www.onyxtheatre.com/
Las Vegas, NV