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 party bus, so it's an intimate (socially distanced) even with a few friends or coworkers, … [Read more...] about Hanging Out with SmileyJoe Wiley (video)
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Finding Redd Foxx
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 checked off my "to-do" list in the office. And it is a very long list! One of those things was to find where the late Las Vegas headliner Redd Foxx was buried. Redd Foxx Does Vegas For those of you of a certain generation. More specifically my … [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 that 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." I first caught the act when we moved here in 2001. The campy, vaudeville-style burlesque show was playing at the Flamingo. The last … [Read more...] about Remembering Breck Wall