[arve url="https://youtu.be/mFolHboS8G4" title="Hanging out with SmileyJoe Wiley" /] When my friend Joni from LV Wedding Connections told me she had a great comedian I needed to meet, she was right, like always. Comedian SmileyJoe Wiley is his name and he has a new gig I think you are going to like. (Checkout LV Wedding Connections) His show is on a party bus. Yes, a … [Read more...] about Hanging Out with SmileyJoe Wiley (video)
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Finding Redd Foxx
[arve url="https://youtu.be/qf9gZImZ_D0" title="Finding Las Vegas Headliner Redd Foxx's grave and last residence" description="The comedian Redd Foxx lived and died in Las Vegas" upload_date="2020-04-04" thumbnail="11782" loop="no" muted="no" /] Being locked down, quarantine, whatever, I'm not able to get out and do tours... The good news is that I am getting a few things … [Read more...] about Finding Redd Foxx
My Lost Interview with The Guardian Angel of Route 66
My last post was about the Historic Route 66 Fun Run and how it is started each year by the man many call "The guardian of Route 66" Angel Delgadillo. So I thought I needed to follow that up with an interview I did with Angel a few years before. But I needed to find it. Let me start by saying that it's been an honor of mine to be able to call Angel my friend. Since my … [Read more...] about My Lost Interview with The Guardian Angel of Route 66
Rick’s Restoration Revisited
We are coming up on Season Seven, episode four for History Channel's show American Restoration. This will be the first season without Vegas resident Rick Dale and his gang from Rick's Restoration. So the other day I had a few minutes to kill while in downtown Las Vegas, I decided to pop over and see what's new with Rick and the gang. Apparently, Rick and the show's … [Read more...] about Rick’s Restoration Revisited
Remembering Breck Wall
It was a simple passing in the news on Monday. Sadly it was an easy thing to miss. Las Vegas show creator and actor Breck Wall had died at the age of 75. If the name rings a bell, than you are really a Vegas fanatic. Breck Wall is best known around Las Vegas for his 40 years of the comic revue "Bottoms Up." Yes, forty years! I first caught the act when we moved here in … [Read more...] about Remembering Breck Wall
Wayne Newton Update
Ever since we were the first to break the story with photos, almost every other entertainment rag magazine and blog has followed up with "exclusive" breaking news. Including cell phone photos about a plane sitting in Las Vegas icon, Wayne Newton's backyard. So we thought maybe it was time for a "NewtonLand" update. I drove by there a few days later and saw that his horses … [Read more...] about Wayne Newton Update
Monday with Frank
So how was your Monday Morning? My Monday Morning?? Well, not really your typical Monday morning. Nope, I spent mine with a mobster. Not just any mobster, but our favorite one, Frank Cullotta. Frank was in town to do a little business and so he invited me to tag along as he did a radio interview on the ever-popular Heidi Harris morning talk show KDWN 720. Ok, maybe not … [Read more...] about Monday with Frank
Call Me Jimmy
That’s all. He said to just call him Jimmy. Jimmy is one of the many characters that give downtown Las Vegas its unique charm. You will find Jimmy dancing to the music and entertaining the tourists down on Fremont Street. When pressed on what he does, he says he is in sanitation. “You know, pushing a broom and things like dat.” According to Jimmy, everyone is here … [Read more...] about Call Me Jimmy
