25 posts tagged “entertainment”

Impressionist Danny Gans' death last month was caused by a combination of heart and blood diseases and a powerful prescription painkiller used to treat chronic pain, the Clark County coroner said Tuesday.

The death was ruled accidental.

"Mr. Gans' health conditions placed him at greater risk for heart irregularities, and the hydromorphone was a factor that exacerbated those risks," Coroner Mike Murphy said at a news conference.

The official cause of death was acute hydromorphone toxicity because of chronic pain syndrome. Hydromorphone is a strong synthetic opioid commonly known as Dilaudid.

MGM Mirage casino co. says it may default on debt

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- MGM Mirage Inc., the gambling company owned by billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian, said Tuesday that it may default on its debt amid development of its biggest casino project ever, the $8.6 billion CityCenter in Las Vegas.

Unless the economy turns around and more people start gambling again, the Las Vegas-based casino company believes it will break its loan agreements this year, it said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

[HH: Shame on you, filthy degenerates! This is your fault for not doing your job. Now get out there and gamble like you mean it. Oh, and remember, there's always help and support available for your problem, just call this toll-free number. But do it later. You'll have to act fast as there's a coupon book with $50 free slotplay if you get to the casino in the next 30 minutes. Hurry, supplies are limited.)

That would mean a default on its senior credit facility, which MGM has asked to modify.

MGM Mirage will delay filing its annual report until March 17 because it is still assessing its financial position and liquidity needs, the company said in Tuesday's unscheduled filing. One factor in the delay, the company reported, was its decision last week to tap $842 million of its $4.5 billion senior revolving credit agreement to cover general expenses.

[HH: It would seem consumers aren't the only one's living off their credit cards....Maybe MGM should get in touch with one of those debt counseling places by calling the toll-free number at the bottom of their screen. After they call the gambling support toll-free number, of course.)

As of the end of September 2008, MGM Mirage had $13.29 billion in long-term debt.

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MGM Mirage has not reported on its financial position since September nor posted its earnings for the quarter that ended Dec. 31.

The March 17 report is to include an auditor's assessment of whether MGM Mirage can continue as a company.

As had been widely rumored for weeks, the Wynns have filed for divorce... for the second time.

Steve Wynn married Elaine in 1963, divorced in 1986, and remarried in 1991.

Announced yesterday, the divorce filing was made March 5 and papers were immediately sealed from the public, which means further details are unknown.

Also rumored is the possible cause of the breakup: that Wynn has fallen for a woman in her 40s.

Here's a list of what i think are the best free, paid and 3rd party apps available for the iphone and ipod touch. I personally have all of these apps on my phone and am kept quite busy with the ones on this list, my list is not a finished product since i keep searching for and adding and deleting different apps from my device but these ones as of today are the ones that have survived the cuts. If your a big fan of the iphone or ipod touch you might want to give these a try im sure you'll enjoy them.

Top Free iphone Apps

Shozu - ShoZu means you can share the moment, be it photos or video or a blog. You can send your stuff to friends and family, email or social networks as simply as pressing the button.

Tap Tap Revenge - is an iPhone music game that puts your rhythmic skills to the test in all-new ways. Tap through the beats or shake left and right as the arrows fall. Download exclusive tracks or take on your friends in Tap Tap's unique two-player mode.

fring -  Voip

& Chat service for mobile phones has launched their much awaited iPhone App via the App Store that allows iPhone users to make Skype and other VOIP calls over Wi-Fi and also chat with others on a variety of networks  including Skype, MSN, GoogleTalk, AIM, Yahoo, Twitter, ICQ.

Truphone - Truphone is a free application that lets you make international mobile
calls from your own phone over the internet at incredibly low rates.

Evernote - Evernote lets you remember anything that you want using your iPhone. You can jot down stuff that you need to buy for home, save interesting pictures when you're out with friends, take a snapshot of a product that you'll purchase later or capture an interesting quote from a conversation.

Exposure - Exposure brings the wonder of Flickr to your iPhone and iPod touch. If you like great photography, Flickr has the images and Exposure brings them right to your mobile device.

Last.fm - Listen to free streaming radio on your iPhone with Last.fm. Last.fm allows you to listen to your favorite artists, discover new music, and share music with the friends in your iPhone contact list. Based on your music taste, Last.fm creates radio stations from its 5 million+ track music catalog.

Midomi - Sing--just sing or hum a few seconds of a song; Say--just say the song or artist name you're looking for; Type--just type a song or artist name the way it sounds, regardless of spelling; or Grab--just hold your phone to a speaker playing original music for a few seconds. Regardless of which way you search, midomi will find your song. Once you find a song, you can share it with friends, watch it online, or buy it from the iTunes store. You can also browse artist photos, albums, and biographies.

Stanza - Stanza is a free and fantastic ebook reader for your iPhone.

The free application comes pre-loaded with several sources for downloading free or public domain books (including the entire Project Gutenberg library), so you can easily download books like The Art of War, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, or Walden in just a few seconds without spending a dime.

Top paid iphone apps

OrbLive - OrbLive has released a 2.0 version with the ability to record live streams for later playback, zooming during playback, and a few other playback enhancements

Ocarina - a networked musical instrument that allows you to listen to songs being played around the world in real time.

RSoccer09 - For all you soccer fans, the best soccer app for your device!
High quality soccer game with many licensed teams.

Ace Tennis Online - Play 3D tennis on your iPhone with players online from around the world. Find an opponent and get going in a few seconds. Keep playing while you chat, manage a friend list and more. Moves use the accelerometer. You can also play offline against the computer.

iShoot - Battle your friends or the computer as you compete to be the last tank standing in this new take on the classic artillery game genre.

iShoot features 25 different weapons including shells, missiles, cluster bombs, and nuclear weapons which blast huge holes in the destructible photorealistic landscapes. Bury your opponents under a Portable Mountain only to watch them escape using the Excavator and repay the favor!

MONOPOLY Here & Now - Go Global with MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition on your iPhone! Why buy Baltic when you can own Istanbul? Trade in your Race Car mover for a Sumo Wrestler. The ultimate family-friendly entertainment comes alive with animations, multiple board views and customizable rules.

iBeer - Brew and drink beer on your iPhone and iPod touch.
This hilarious sight-gag is fully interactive and behaves like a real glass of beer thanks to the iPhone sensors and our spare time.

Tilt to sip, shake for foam, even pour iBeer from iPhone to iPhone. Modeled after our original e-spresso from 1999 this virtual pint of beer takes full advantage of iPhone's high-res screen, accelerometer, and speakers.

PocketGuitar - PocketGuitar turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a virtual guitar. You can press and strum strings, just like a real guitar.

You can choose the sound from 6 instruments - Acoustic-Electric Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Muted Guitar, Electric Bass and Ukulele. You can also choose effects from Distortion, Chorus and Delay and edit parameters.

iFitness - iFitness is a comprehensive exercise database that provides clear pictures and instructions – all within the palm of your hand.

Regular exercise is essential for becoming and staying fit. Experts recommend changing your workout routine regularly to keep your body from growing accustomed to the same old routine and to keep things interesting and enjoyable.

Top 3rd party (jailbroken) iphone apps

Cydia - It’s with Cydia that you download third-party applications to your iPhone or first-generation iPod touch. (Included are applications for regular folks as well as developers.

Cycorder - Cycorder lets you shoot videos with your iPhone’s camera at frame rates from 6 to 15 frames per second. The resulting movies are encoded with MJPEG compression lets you shoot videos with your iPhone’s camera at frame rates from 6 to 15 frames per second. The resulting movies are encoded with MJPEG compression

Snapture - Snapture 2.0,brings multi-touch gesture zoom, cleaner user interface a delay timer and four color modes. You can also now delete pictures on the "viewfinder" which is nice, or go slightly more advanced with the self-timer and the ability to shut off rotation. It's free as long as you jailbreak your iPhone, but $7.99 if you want the premium version without ads and with QuickView delete/thumbnail stack/thumbnail enlarge.

Twinkle - Discover, connect, and send messages to people nearby. Upload photos and update your Twitter account. Contact old friends and make new ones, all with Twinkle, the location-aware network for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

SmartRSS - The app is an RSS Reader and it has a wonderful GUI. It includes features like adding, deleting, editting feeds and refreshing feeds. The GUI is the best part of the app which uses many transitions. This app is a must have. The app is available in French and English versions.

VNsea - Now you can control your computer from your iPhone or iPod Touch. Install a VNC server on the one you want to control and setup the details in your device.

BossTool - When you run out of space to install applications. . .BossTool is here to help. This will move all of your applications to another partition(media). Once you do this you can install hundreds more(depending on the size of your device).

PhotoDial - Call your contacts by finding their photo.

Pageonce - allows you to monitor all your accounts in one easy to use, clean interface. With once touch, and on one screen, I have all the critical information for my bank accounts, Netlifx queue, cell (including minuets and texts message count), credit cards, PG&E etc. I highly recommend it, but schedule about 30mins to setup your account at www.pageonce.com. Your passwords and sensitive account information are never displayed incase your phone goes missing.

The Bloomberg app is one of the best apps out there. The app is a shinning example how great design can make mountains of complex information accessible and easy to understand. Through this app I have a much better grasp how the stock market works, and I finally have a solid definition on the term blue-chips.

Jaadu VNC, you can connect to your computer from anywhere in the world as long as you have cell phone reception or wi-fi hookup. Awesome. From the remote location, you can view files, open apps, run a presentation etc. The biggest feature is that it turns your iPhone into a second monitor with touch controls. Here is a link with more info and screen shots. Download VNC lite for free to get the basic idea.

Christmas at Caesars Palace Las Vegas

Caesars Palace is usually a nice place to take a stroll but around Christmas time the lights and the trees really give you that special holiday feeling. Think about it, artificial trees, artificial snow, artificial ice and reindeer. Las Vegas is all about the make believe.

Paris Las Vegas at Christmas

Do the French ever find a kind word to say at Christmas? Don’t worry at Paris Las Vegas everyone is nice and they never forget Christmas. The city of lights transforms into the city of Christmas lights.

Christmas Decorations at the Monte Carlo Las Vegas

I don't know about you but the Christmas Decorations they use at the Monte Carlo Las Vegas scare me. Really, is it Mardi Gras in December? The Monte Carlo usually has a number of trees set up in its lobby and they all have some very interesting ornaments.

The Lights of Las Vegas

The Las Vegas lights are only brighter during Christmas.

Christmas at the Bellagio Las Vegas

The Bellagio Las Vegas does Christmas very well. The gardens have the large Christmas Trees and the lobby is decorated in such a festive fashion that you almost forget that everything is so expensive.

Christmas at the Rio Las Vegas

The Rio Las Vegas has some good decorations during the holidays. You can expect some Christmas themes in their Masquerade in the sky show as well as throughout the resort.

My bet is that when the new XS nightclub opens at the Encore to its fully sold-out crowd on New Year’s Eve, more than one of the new Black Pearl drinks will be sold -- even though it’s $10,000! It is the world’s most expensive cocktail -- but you do get two glasses of the concoction to share with your soul mate. The club’s new signature cocktail will actually be known simply as The One, and the cocktail recipe is of rare vintage Dom Perignon Enotheque champagne and a shot of prized Louis XIII Remy Martin Black Pearl cognac. You can’t get more expensive champagne or cognac if you tried. As a keepsake of experiencing the world’s best, you will be presented with either a ladies 18k gold chain and black pearl pendant or a set of men’s sterling silver cufflinks with black pearl insignias.

Danny Gans.

*Is it possibly true that included in the new contract Steve Wynn executed with entertainer Danny Gans, he gets two rounds of golf a week as a perk at the prestigious and super-private Shadow Creek Club? Danny is adding 50 percent new material to his long-running Strip show, which moves to Steve’s new Encore in February. … Other leftover notes from my opening-night jottings: It took a total of three years from start to finish to execute the sprawling XS day-and-night entertainment complex. … The Switch restaurant, where the ceiling and walls change five times during the unique dining experience, was Steve’s very own idea -- and it’s the only restaurant in the world that becomes its own different venue nightly! I’ve got a reservation there next Monday with my longtime friend executive chef Marc Poidevin. Although we’ll have photos of Marc in his kitchen and at his antique Parma ham-slicing machine, The Switch is the one restaurant Steve says he will never allow to be photographed by anybody for any reason. That’s solely because you have to see the amazement with your own eyes as the changing scenes, sliding walls and retracting ceilings could never be captured on film or video for full effect. I’ll do my best to describe it for you next week, but my advance peek yesterday proved it will be more than the food that will make your mouth open wide! … The official red-carpet, star- studded gala opening of Encore will be Jan. 24 to coincide with Steve’s own birthday, and more than 200 VIP guests including Hollywood celebrities will be on hand for that soiree!

*In a late-breaking series of escalating rumbles this morning, it may well be that yet another major Strip hotel will be sold now to an out-of-state gaming company with plenty of cash on hand that has been looking for a while to expand into Las Vegas. This could be very interesting to see new neighbors at play as Steve Wynn keeps insisting “let’s decorporatize the Strip” -- as he did at last night’s Encore opening.

Wednesday, Dec. 24

*Celebrated French chef Guy Savoy arrives from Paris for Christmas and New Year’s celebrations at his swank Caesars Palace restaurant, and for tonight and tomorrow, he’s cooked up a special $130 per person, five-course Bubble Bar menu with oysters, Dover Sole, the world famous artichoke and black truffle soup, a baby black truffle chicken and a chocolate fondant, plus of course the most amazing selection of champagne wishes!

Thursday, Dec. 25

*Merry Christmas, everybody! Believe it or not, Jet nightclub in The Mirage is open with a visit from DJ Tiesto, who’s on his In Search of Sunrise Tour for two nights with a special appearance by Farsheed. It’s safe to expect this holiday havoc to party on till dawn.

Friday, Dec. 26

*The first ladies of soul are angling for a slot on President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration day concert. In the meantime, though, The Pointer Sisters are at Silverton Casino Lodge for one night only.

*It’s a celebration with Kool & the Gang for two nights at the Las Vegas Hilton as the four guys have you dancing to all their favorite hits. They’ll hold the fort till Barry Manilow’s Monday night return.

*Hometown crooner and pianist Brian Evans, who is racking up those TV composer credits, sings for his supper in two weekend shows at the Trump International Hotel that will now continue on weekly.

*The tribute Eagles band known as Hotel California throw down the welcome mat at the Suncoast Hotel with a concert of -- what else? -- Eagle hits. … Comedian Jo Koy starts a three-night gig with Asian overtones at South Point. … The Maz Jobrani trio will raise the roof at the House of Blues in Mandalay Bay.

Frank Mir.

Saturday, Dec. 27

*It’s all about UFC 92 action tonight in the headlined and anticipated battle of warriors Rashad Evans and Forrest Griffin. After the mixed martial arts fight, almost every club in town is throwing a party. It starts at LAX in the Luxor when UFC head honcho Dana White hosts his official UFC after-fight party. Not to be outdone, Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell will host his haymaker at Studio 54 in the MGM Grand, and he’ll announce the winner of an Iceman Rx Hummer H2 prize. Elsewhere in MGM, Wanderlei “The Axe Murderer” Silva will host his party in Tabu Ultra Lounge. Fighter C.B. Dollaway teams up with the MTX AudioFight team to host the UFC 92 after-party at Hawaiian Tropic Zone in Planet Hollywood’s Miracle Mile. Ultimate Fighter Season 8 champion Ryan “Darth” Bader and world extreme cage fighters Jamie “The Worm” Varner and Aaron “A-Train” Simpson also will attend the frenzied festivities.

Frank Mir.

*The Monkees aren’t coming into our zoo, but lead singer Davy Jones will be in town. He’s booked for a one-night holiday weekend gig at Silverton Casino Lodge.

*My longtime producer pal Ron Dante, who has the Archies back on the charts, opens for singing sensation Imelda Papin at The Orleans for one night only.

*If heavy rock is your thing, you’ve got an amazing five-pack lineup appearing at the House of Blues in Mandalay Bay. The Cab appears with The Higher, The Maine, Ashbury and A Phoenix Forever.

Sunday, Dec. 28

*Body English nightclub at the Hard Rock Hotel doesn’t let up on the bridge weekend between Christmas and New Year’s. LL Cool J is the special guest for the Sunday school that lets the ladies in schoolgirl outfits drink champagne without a check!

Coming up this weekend

Our incredible photos and interviews with daredevil stunt drivers Robbie Maddison and Rhys Millen. They know they could die when they make those New Year’s Eve jumps here in Vegas. They know they will have to stare death in the face. How will they do it? How do they face it? Vegas DeLuxe has the candid and chilling conversations with Robbie, who will attempt to scale the Arc de Triomphe at Paris Las Vegas, and Rhys, who will attempt to back-flip a pickup in The Rio’s parking lots. They both admit that what they are trying to do could very well kill them. Then we’ll be back on Monday to go Dancing With the Stars and get ready for all the fleet-footed stars coming to play here for the incredible New Year’s parties!

In the meantime, Dec. 25 (tomorrow) marks the start of the 12 days of Christmas. Our sexy, sassy starlets at the cabaret revue Crazy Girls at the Riviera present their gift of a photo package with their interpretation of a time-honored favorite: “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Beginning tomorrow, we’ll run the first photo, and each day thereafter, another photo will be posted.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everybody, from all of us at SincityNow!