As we reported earlier in Know It A.L.L., Pure nightclub at Caesars Palace was having some trouble with an IRS probe that centered around what happens to all the freakin' money that changes hands at the velvet rope by people trying to circumvent the long lines into the club.

There's no report of the status of the IRS investigation but, judging from the fact that Pure is implementing a regulatory compliance program, it makes ya wonder if the shit is about to hit the fan for them soon.

If you go to clubs like Pure to mostly dance, read what one commenter on the article said (below).

The Nightclub VIP Experience (more)

Update: Evans defeats Jackson in UFC 114.

Seen at UFC 114: At UFC 114 at MGM Grand Garden on Saturday: NBA stars Tim Duncan and Tony Parker, Snoop Dogg, and Super Bowl champs Reggie Bush and Larry Fitzgerald. ... Also, actors David Spade, Sam Worthington, Forest Whitaker and Wilmer Valderrama.

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If you are planning on watching this evening's UFC 114 fight card (with a main event of "Rampage" Jackson vs. Rashad Evans) and don't have tickets for the fight itself, there are more and more public venues carrying the fight all the time.

Here's a list of places to watch UFC 114 plus a list of some fight-related parties. We have more parties in our Las Vegas Events listing, in case that wasn't enough.

(Update: We found a photo of the completed Encore Beach Club pool--see below)

Memorial Day holiday 2010 will be a pretty action-packed, partier-filled weekend as more than 300,000 visitors will be coming to town to check out entertainment options such as UFC 114 (and the UFC Fan Expo), a new nightclub/beachclub combo at Encore, boating at Lake Mead, the body and jokes of comedian Chelsea Handler and a slew of other activities.

The LV Convention & Visitors Authority expects this weekend to be about 4% more than last year visitor-wise (yet 5% less spending-wise) as people are in the mood to get away to a place with cheap room rates (i.e. Vegas). We're the top destination for the holiday on vacation booking websites such as Priceline, Orbitz and Southwest Vacations which is always a good sign.

This weekend is traditionally the busiest of the entire year for Lake Mead which will receive upwards of 200,000 visitors. The wind should be calming down a bit so boating conditions oughta be hunky dory (the actual name of a boat I bought from someone many years ago) but watch yourself afterwards.

Las Vegas police will be having the largest, most concerted DUI crackdown over the 3-day weekend with 5 friggin' checkpoints throughout the valley. Judging by the schedule posted (below), they will really be paying attention to Boulder Highway so drink a few bottled waters before attempting the trip home.

If you are looking for a new place to play both night and day (vanilla play, that is), you might want to check out Encore's' new dayclub and nightclub. The pool area is called the Encore Beach Club and the interconnected nightclub is called Surrender (both your inhibitions and your wallet, we suspect). We just found a photo of the pool area and we have an under-construction photo (both photos below) where you can see how the area borders Las Vegas Boulevard).

While there's an absolute boatload of events going on this weekend, we picked sexy comedienne Chelsea Handler (at Caesars on Saturday) as the photo to accompany this Know It A.L.L. not only because she's hot + funny (which is a great combo for a female...right up until she makes fun of our manhood) but because she plans on partying after her Vegas show with Jenny McCarthy (be on the lookout for them), she often does second shows drunk and some of her biggest fans are sluts (which we're big fans of so that kinda works).

We'll be out partying this weekend so say hi to the guy in the "Kasidie Owns My LowLife Ass" t-shirt...

DUI Checkpoints For Memorial Day Weekend, New Encore Playground (more)

This could explain why Mr. Admin has trouble hearing at lifestyle mixers...

A recent study of more than 11,500 men over the age of 40 seems to say that Viagra in particular and, perhaps, Cialis and Levitra, too, increase the risk of developing hearing loss.

(These types of) medications work in erectile dysfunction patients by their ability to increase blood flow to certain tissues in the body," said the study author. "It has been hypothesized that they may have a similar effect on similar tissues in the ear, where an increase of blood flow could potentially cause damage leading to hearing loss."

All this time he's been blaming his "What? What?!" at lifestyle parties on years of ear-blasting, head-bangin' rock 'n' roll but maybe it's really due to the all that "Vitamin V" in his system...

We've updated the Nightly Club Scene calendar and this time have included the pool parties. So if you want to know what's happening at most any club or pool in town on any given day or night, click on the link above (or the purple :Nightly Club Scen" link we always have listed below) and discover what's going on.

Also, you can click on the specific party name for additional details such as times, costs, etc.

The inside of the Hush Club has always reminded us of a small jazz or blues club, one you might find after going down a couple of flights of steps in hidden-away part of New York City. Of course, the jazz club would have to have an orgy bed, a sex swing and a dental chair now used for some very intimate oral exams to be more fully like Hush but still, the club has always had that feel for us (maybe they should rename it the "Blew Note").

Anyway, while Hush has had all sorts of performers on their small stage, including naked pole dancers, bad karaoke singers (and a few good ones), copulating couples and even fish-out-of-water comedians, they've never had a full-on live band entertain the partiers.

That all changes this Saturday (5/29) as a classic rock 'n' roll band out of So Cal called, appropriately enough, "Ride" performs (while you perform for them, perhaps) at the Industrial Road sex club. While the ol' Red Rooster has had rock bands for years, this will be a first for the sex club that looks like a jazz club.

Just thinking about it...the band members oughta have some interesting memories. "Ya know, one time we played at this small club in Vegas where people were having sex while we played for them. It was hard to concentrate on playin', I tell ya. They didn't throw beer bottles they threw condoms!"

In case you are interested, here's the LowLife listing for the event.

The name David Cooper evokes strong responses in the Las Vegas swing community and, for the most part, those responses aren't particularly positive.

Many lifestyle party promoters and club owners have had their run-ins with the notorious Cooper either directly or, more likely, indirectly, via visits from police, zoning or licensing officials. He was generally unsuccessful at his numerous attempts to promote lifestyle parties or become a swing club operator (either because lack of customers or due to run-ins with the authorities) and, upon failure, had the attitude that if he couldn't succeed then none of the rest of us in the lifestyle could, either.

(Note: We've written about Mr. Cooper previously and you can start here if you want a lengthy background including quite a few links to news articles and videos.)

Anyway, Cooper has resurfaced, this time with a lawsuit naming Clark County, current and former commissioners and top county officials in federal court. The lawsuit alleges that since clubs like his former business neighbor, the Green Door, are allowed to exist and he can't, there's been a violation of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause.

And he may be right--I guess we'll see. It's just hard pulling for him when he's tried to screw (figuratively) so many in the lifestyle here in Las Vegas so many times for so many years...

There will undoubtedly be quite a few UFC fans in town this Memorial Day weekend for not only UFC 114 (Headline event: Rampage Jackson v. Rashad Evans) which takes place Saturday night at the MGM but also for the second UFC Fan Expo happening over at Mandalay.

Last year's inaugural Fan Expo was an unexpected success for UFC President Dana White as an estimated 30,000-50,000 MMA fight fans showed up to mingle with UFC fighters, watch exhibitions, check out the Octagon Girls and purchase MMA-related clothing, supplements and training supplies.

The expo is a 2-day event which starts this Friday at 10 a.m. White will give the keynote speech on Friday at noon with UFC money man, Lorenzo Fertitta giving his speech at 11:30 on Saturday.

For all you bald LowLifes there's a Dana White look-alike contest on Friday at 1:00 on Friday. You can take home $5 grand if you win!

We've found that UFC fans LOVE to par-tay so we expect the town to be gettin' crazy this weekend!

We don’t get too political in this column simply because politics is the ultimate saltpeter, i.e. once you find out that hot couple's political views you don't want to do 'em anymore (or only want to do them anally and with vigor which usually doesn't work on the first date) so we tend to stay away from those sort of hot-button-yet-wet-blanket topics.

However, once in awhile that type of subject matter makes its way into our happy-sexy-Vegasy space because it's unavoidable--we simply can't overlook something which impinges on our philosophy that consenting adults should be able to have sex with other consenting adults as long as no one gets hurt (more than they want to, at least).

But now, due to a heated U.S. Senate race here in Nevada, some of us may not be able to partake in an activity that we've grown to love over the years--Chicken Sex, as we like to call it.

To make a long story short, the controversy involves a Republican Senate hopeful (who used to be quite a do-able babe back in her beauty pageant days), her thoughts on the national healthcare bill and the idea of bartering for medical treatment using chickens as currency. And, of course, this chickens-for-checkups concept has been taken to another level with clever sign-holding protesters wearing chicken outfits during Nevada Republican rallies giving these fowl costumes such a bad name that they've been banned at Nevada polls this year. Yes, that's right--no chicken costumes around polling locations as that would be a political statement against a political candidate or issue which are strictly prohibited at voting stations.

So how does this affect us lifestyle playas, you ask? Well, it seems at the most recent Elite Party (which had a "theme-less" theme), the male of a party-going couple wore a chicken suit (see photo, left) but, due to the recent controversies with the feathery outfits, was eliciting more nervous laughter than the usual sexual fowl-play. The situation became much more tense when the chicken whipped out a sign that said "Chickens 4 Sex". At that point the organizers of the event, HeavenLasVegas, stepped in and took the sign away thinking that the message might be construed by authorities as paying for sex which would make the sexual activities at the party more than simply consensual fun.

"Where I come from we exchange sex for food all the time," said HeavenLasVegas spokesman Darren. "A couple of potatoes will get you a BJ, a whole bag will get you bonked easy peasy. But you Americans are so much more touchy about that sort of sex-for-consideration thing, especially during an election year, and with all the chicken shit that has been going on around here of late we didn't want to risk a donnybrook so we made the man remove his costume and ditch the sign."

Elite Parties has now added a new rule to their list of event do's & don't's: No Means No, No Single Males and No Chicken Costumes and/or Controversial Signs. Darren was quick to point out that while chicken costumes have been banned, chicken feathers are more than welcome, especially at their next event, which, coincidentally enough, is called "Flirty in Feathers".

It wasn't always like this in Nevada. Chickens used to have a good reputation. One of the state's most famous legal whorehouses--the Chicken Ranch--used to hold a "Mother Clucker Day" where the working girls would dress up in chicken feathers and parade around in front of prospective customers. To this day the Red Rooster swing club has their annual "Cocks 'n' Chicks" event where males don rooster outfits and females wear chicken attire and everyone has something called Chicken Sex but, according to a Rooster spokesman, the theme party's days may be numbered. "Chicken outfits have such a bad connotation right now I honestly don't know if we'll hold the event this year."

As we said earlier, we don't like to get political on this site. But when the two major political parties soil something as beautiful and sensual as having sex in a chicken costume, something is wrong and we can't just let this issue die. We're calling the ACLU and we're gonna fight this thing. Besides, I just got my chicken costume cleaned in time for the Flirty In Feathers event and I'll be damned if politics is going to ruin my fun!

Some LowLife friends of ours live in Lubbock, Texas, and have commented that it is windy in that city probably 300 days per year. We've never been but then again, why would we? We get more than enough wind right here in Las Vegas!

Crusty ol' Mr. Admin has lived in Las Vegas for over 30 years and, while his memory is failing, he says he can't remember a spring where there has ever been as much wind as this one.

We traditionally experience windy conditions every spring but, for the most part, it's usally over by the end of April. This year we've seen a ton of gusty days with an extreme amount of high wind warnings and this kind of weather is continuing on right through May.

It's played havoc with this year's pool parties (in fact, tomorrow's Resurrection Sunday has been cancelled as the forecast calls for temps in the mid-60's with, of course, high winds) and has personally made my BBQ grilling less than enjoyable.

Frankly, I'm pissed. If I wanted to live in freakin' Lubbock I'd move there but I don't. Now, we had better get some good weather pretty damn soon or there will be hell to pay, mister!

First of all, before we get into talking about porn and how bad it is for you, etc., etc., it's a good thing we're all swingers here and don't need nor even consume porn, right? I mean, since we all get laid all the time whenever we want and play with anyone we find interesting on ALL or Kasidie, including single bi fems (c'mon, unicorns, make it a little more difficult for us to snare y'all), we really don't need porn due to the fact we have so much of the real thing, right? Uhhh, yeah, right...

So maybe some of us actually do like and consume porn (even though we don't really need it, of course) but there's a new study that says porn on the net is bad for you. Well, what did you expect?

Actually, that's a bit misleading because, being a LowLife, that's what I do--I mislead (and I speak in tongues, too, which comes in handy when munchin' on all those unicorns we bag).

No, the new study to which I refer isn't about the devastating effects porn content has on humanity around the globe (to say nothing of the debilitating effects around the labium minora and the frequently frayed frenulum) but about the websites themselves and what they do to ya.

Stick with me here--this is kind of interesting...

In a supposedly first-of-kind study, two universities--one on the U.S. and one in Austria--set up their own adult websites to better understand what goes on in the world of internet porn. What they found out should give you pause when considering whether to click on that link that promises the "hottest lactating mamas!" (although we fell for that one, too).

Basically, these universities became immersed in the adult web biz to see how it works firsthand and to take a look at the problem of malicious malware. They found that porn sites were a breeding ground for all sorts of software infections--more than anyone realized (except the infectors themselves) including the use of malware affiliate programs where you can get paid for each computer you infect!

There were several reasons for the incredible amount of internet maliciousness happening on porn sites, including an "almost total lack of policing or enforcement by the brokers who move traffic between adult websites". The main reason, it seems, is the pathetic vulnerability of the surfers themselves who "clicked many times on single links that were randomly directing them to anything but the media they were apparently after—a practice widespread among free porn sites." i.e., the customers were so horny they threw caution and reason to the wind just to fray that frenulum one more time...

We sent out an e-mail about Kasidie upgrades (you can read the entire note in this forum post) but need to make a small addition/correction.

If you want a so-called "Elite" membership status, leave LowLifeAdmin a note here on ALL once you've logged into Kasidie and I'll get the old fart to upgrade your that account for you.

Note: ALL doesn't have anything "elite" about it except, maybe, being a "certified LowLife" which I always liked the sound of--something you could tell your friends and they would say "we always knew that about you".

If you're a mixed martial arts fan, you should be in hog heaven for the next few months. There will be bouts between lower level, up-and-coming Vegas-based fighters, between fighters who genuinely don't like each other, fights between last-gasp has-beens, fights to finish off a reality series and a Goliath vs. Goliath battle that may just be the biggest thing in pay-per-view history. Take your pick--lots to choose from.

Coming up first will be MMA Explosion at the Hard Rock. This is a card that features a bunch of hungry next-gen fighters who just want to kick ass and progress to the next level. MMA Explosion is this coming Saturday (5/22) at The Joint.

What the Explosion fighters ultimately yearn for is a shot at being on a UFC card like the one coming to Las Vegas May 29th. UFC 114 has something that always seems to make for a great rivalry if not a great fight--hatred. It seems the headliners, Rashad Evans and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, genuinely don't like each other. And with the history between them we really don't think they will get all kissy-face afterwards no matter what the outcome.

UFC 115 won't be held in Las Vegas but that's ok with us as it features a couple of nearly washed-up fighters (who could still kick most anyone's ass on the planet) who may be looking at the end of the line if they lose (the UFC line, at least--they might be able to fight for a lesser organization). UFC legend Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell will take on former middleweight champion Rich “Ace” Franklin in the main event. Vancouver didn't seem to mind that the card wasn't top notch as the event was sold out in a hurry. You can watch the June 12th event in the comfort of your home, at various sports bars around town or maybe in a movie theater with 100's of your closest friends as it'll be shown at 337 theaters around the country.

If you're a fan of the reality series The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) then you're probably interested in how the TUF 11 season ends. Well, as usual, it ends in the ring at the Palms (Pearl Theater June 19) where the two finalists will decide what's what. Interestingly enough, the two teams are coached by the aforementioned Chuck Liddell and by another MMA legend, Tito Ortiz. While Liddell could be coming off a career-ending loss in UFC 115, Ortiz could be facing something much worse--a stint in the pokey. Mr. Ortiz was arrested in a domestic violence dispute after allegedly practicing some MMA moves on his porn star girlfriend Jenna Jameson.

The word is that Ms. Jameson had "visible injuries" but Ortiz said he did nothing wrong. Supposedly, Jameson has been battling an addiction OxyContin for over a year and suffered a relapse which led to an argument. Ortiz maintains he didn't touch her--that's just the way MMAers have sex and that porn stars should be used to it (ok, I made that last part up). We'll see if Ortiz is still around as coach of his TUF 11 team by the time the finale actually happens.

And now for the big fight and we mean BIG. This is a long overdue matchup between two of the biggest fighters in MMA. UFC 116 (July 3rd) will be fought in Las Vegas at the MGM and will headline 6'2", 265 lb Shane Carwin and 6'3", 265 lb Brock Lesnar to see who owns the UFC heavyweight title (note: listed weights are fighting weights as both fighters generally push 300 lbs in between bouts).

Lesnar and Carwin were slated to face off both at UFC 106 and UFC 108 but ultimately both matchups were canceled due to Lesnar's then-unknown illness, which turned out to be diverticulitis. Lesnar eventually lost around 40 pounds while suffering through it, but after minor surgery and rest, Lesnar announced in January that he'd been medically cleared by doctors to resume training and fighting. Lesnar is favored in the bout (Lesnar -200, Carwin +160) and it just could be one of the larger pay-per-view audiences in history.

An interesting note on Carwin. He's a mechanical engineer who attended the Colorado School of Mines and he's also a pretty good athlete as he was an NCAA wrestling champ and an All-American in football at Western State. And, as this video shows, he's got some vertical leap as he can dunk a basketball, too.

While it may be a summer of love and sex for LowLifes in Las Vegas, it’ll also be a summer of knockouts and submissions in the MMA world...

The list just keeps getting longer. Maybe this will be it for awhile...

So, here we go again: There's a new club in the Rio showroom! Surprise, surprise! It's been home to, among others, a hot nightclub called Club Rio (late last century, that is), the now-deceased Danny Gans, topless rockers in Eroktica, the artist formerly known as Prince Rogers Nelson (i.e. Prince), and, more recently, ND (a lady with a rich daddy who keeps trying things with a bunch of dancin' Cuban defectors).

There really isn't another room like it with it's combo showroom and/or nightclub layout complete with video walls and seating for 900 so maybe this next iteration will actually work. If you've ever partied in L.A. you've at least heard of the Viper Room (possibly because Johnny Depp used to co-own it or River Phoenix o.d.ed there) and you know it's club where live bands perform and Hollywood stars hang out. Now, one of the former co-owners of the club (the post-Depp owners) has decided to take his turn at seeing if he can do something the Club Rio space.

Introducing the "Crown Theater and Nightclub", a great place to party and hear the likes of--are you ready for this?--Devo (yep, still around), Jerry Lee Lewis (yes, still alive), Queensryche, Squeeze and, one of our favorites, The English Beat. The Crown plans 150-200 live events per year--a "rock 'n roll, indy-type venue"--mixed with nightclub events. The club probably won't be hip and happenin' enough for Hollywood stars but I'm pretty sure we'll give it a try.

Here's a list of the concerts planned so far. Definitely a diverse offering...

There's a new bar in town that looks like it's offering a great place to flash dem boobies. It's called the Stripper Bar Las Vegas and, supposedly, it's the only bar in town run by strippers (we don't believe it's actually run by strippers, btw, but why ruin the fantasy as the girls play the part and that's what matters, isn't it?).

It's a cozy li'l place--think small--in the Miracle Mile Shops of Planet Hollywood right next to the V Theater. The fems working there are, as you might expect, dressed in a stripper's pre-strip tease attire and every 1/2 hour or so they stop serving the customers food and drink and start serving them a pole dance.

Besides pole dancin' drink servers, the most noticeable thing about the place is the entrance. That's where you pass between the legs of a 31 foot tall stripper named Sin City Sindy.

The fun part--and we hate to ruin the surprise so we'll yell "spoiler alert!"--is the fact that since nearly everyone is gonna look up at Sindy's crotch to see if she's wearing a g-string, the bar has, um, inserted a camera into her, ah, crotch area, so that it can capture Candid Camera shots of people trying to sneak glances at the big gal's undercarriage. You can check out the photos of your gawking once you get inside.

We kinda thought this might be a good place to pose for a LowLife Flash so, if you whip out "da girls" in front of Sindy, we'll give the first one submitted to our Flash feature a free lifetime membership on Kasidie! Groovy, eh?

But you might want to hurry. While Stripper Bar just recently opened, the word is business hasn't been booming so we're not sure how long Sindy will be exposing herself...

The Sorta-Contest Rules
Sorry--and we're probably gonna get in trouble with the ACLU--but we only want females to flash. (Men, do you really want to whip it out in front of a 31 foot female? That would be worse that the shrinkage that happens after a dip in a cold swimming pool). And we must see boobies (clearly) and we need to see Sindy so the shot will probably be from a regular camera due to the distance (although these cell-cams are getting better and better all the time). Anyway, the prize is a lifetime pass to our sister site Kasidie.com and it goes to the first photo submitted which conforms to the rules. Got it? Now go get it!

There's karaoke and then there's karaoke. Las Vegas has all sorts of Karaoke offerings from the traditional to the sexy--ya just gotta know where to look.

If you're looking for the traditional, check out this listing which has over 60 local venues including Rockstar Karaoke at Cabo Wabo Cantina (Planet Hollywood) and down 'n' dirty karaoke at one of Vegas' best dive bars, Dino's Lounge. One of the newest and classiest karaoke joints is called Karaoke Q Studio (on Jones Ave. near Spring Mountain) which has 13 private rooms seating up to 20 people. You can even make a DVD of your session. Check out these pics of the facilities.

If you want a naughtier atmosphere, head on over to Brando's for porn star karaoke--called Karaoke XXX--where actual porn stars get on the mic and show that they have a little more talent than just being able to have sex on camera (although some don't seem to have much more talent than the sex part). Karaoke XXX is organized by our bud, adult actress Rebecca Love (who generally sticks to those "Skin-a-Max" type of softcore movies). The porn stars don't get naked since Brando's Bar is just a regular locals' sports bar but they do get raunchy and suggestive and tend to pop out of their skimpy clothes from time to time.

If you want to see a combo of naked breasts and karaoke then head over to the Velvet Lion, a topless club near the Rio Hotel for Stripper Karaoke. On Monday nights, the strippers will both sing and strip at the same time often getting help from another stripper to get them through a song. Customers can sing, too, but can't take off their clothes, unfortunately. Sapphire Gentlemen's Club also has a karaoke room in case you wanted to book a party there.

Customers used to be able to take off their clothes and do most anything they wanted when Hush Club had their Friday night Karaoke. We took advantage of the night a couple of times (and thoroughly punished the listeners) and even attended a private karaoke party at Hush that was a wild 'n' crazy blast. Unfortunately, Hush doesn't do Karaoke anymore unless specifically asked by a group.

There ya go lifestyle crooners--plenty of place in Vegas to whip out the mic and belt out a tune, whether on-key or not.

While the scantily-clad food & bev servers looked good, the food really wasn't so, while the idea sounded like a winner in theory (sexy fems in lingerie serving dinner in a French bordello setting), Luxor's CatHouse (the restaurant side only) will be turned into yet another one of those ultralounges.

PurrfectLV has held many of their weekend mixers at CatHouse so the revamped space (without that restaurant/lounge divider) will probably be more conducive to a larger group getting a bit more intimate.

Hopefully the CatLounge, or whatever they intend to call it, will keep the the server's outfits, at least.

While Las Vegas is full of perverts of all kinds, we really aren't all that kinky (you know, refined and somewhat cultured perversion) and we certainly don't have much of a kinky culture to speak of. The Erotic Heritage Museum has been trying to change all that since they opened last year and the co-sponsoring of a kinky film festival--CineKink--might just help.

CineKink features a wide variety of movies, documentaries and movie shorts spotlighting such subject matter as BDSM, sex toys, rough sex and swinging (yes, swinging--see notes on this movie below).

The films are showing at the very cool alternative film & live venue Onyx Theatre in Commercial Center, near the Green Door in the back of the BDSM supply store called The Rack.
(Note: don't let the fact that Onyx is in Commercial Center daunt you--it is a 1st class venue and you'll be glad you braved Commercial Center's randy reputation).

Here's the LowLife listing for the CineKink film festival complete with movie descriptions, times, etc. Now get your kinky self over there and check it out!

A Look at the Movie "Swingers" (more)

...but, if we wanted to follow the lead of singer Jon Bon Jovi--specifically what he did back a few decades or so ago (and we were single with a prospect)--we'd get married in one of those little chapels in Las Vegas just down from the Strip (wait a minute, we did that already but in a different chapel).

Here's the story:
During a stop in Los Angeles on the New Jersey tour in 1989, Bon Jovi secretly took a trip to Las Vegas, where he married his high school sweetheart, Dorothea Hurley on April 29, 1989 at the Graceland Wedding Chapel on Las Vegas Boulevard near the Stratosphere.

Ah, but Bon Jovi wasn't the only celeb married at Graceland. According to their website, other musicians such as Billy Ray Cyrus, Aaron Neville and members of popular groups such as Def Lepard, KISS, Deep Purple and The Thompson Twins have all tied the knot here as well.

Should you go, you can't get a Bon Jovi or Billy Ray Cyrus-themed wedding (although we hear you can get a Miley Cyrus-style lapdance at Treasures after the vows) but you can, of course, purchase an Elvis-themed ceremony which would make it an oh-so-Vegas event.

...and believe me, he's happy about it although he probably can't admit it to mom.

The Miss USA beauty pageant returns to Las Vegas this weekend and the event is sexier than ever. It only figures the contest would get sexed up over the old days as this is the one Donald Trump owns and, as we all know, he likes 'em young and beautiful and not necessarily possessing of talent. This is the contest that doesn't care if you can sing or act or dance or really think all that much as contestants are only judged on how they look in evening gowns, bathing suits and whether they want world peace, to help kids or erradicate cancer in our lifetime (i.e. there's an interview portion). Whatever you do, don't come out against gays getting married while holding handguns and wanting to get into the military which is--sort of--what Miss California did last year (which caused deep-thinking Perez Hilton to have just an absolute hissy fit).

The pageant is being held at Planet Hollywood once again but the girls have been making appearances all over town in various states of undress. We used to think seeing the contestants in bathing suits would be about as risque as you could get for a nationally televised beauty pageant but, lo and behold, The Donald has taken it to a new level. More on that in a second, however (I know, such a tease).

First, hot girls in swimsuits.
The 51 babes competing in the pageant all headed over to, among other places, Caesars Palace, changed into their swimwear and frolicked around in the water. While our new big boss, Mr. Kasidie, tried to get the girls to go topless at Caesars' Venus pool, the Trumpster would have none of it and we all had to settle for bikinis at the new Garden of the Gods pool complex (Mr. Kasidie was promptly escorted out, btw).

One of the more interesting changes in the pageant--something the pre-Trump owners are undoubtedly turning over (and over) in their graves about--is the lingerie shoot the contestants partook in. All 51 girls modeled in the scanty attire and--lawd almighty!--there's some real talent in that group!

Check out below for a sample of a few of the girls. Then check this page for the the top 5 photos as voted by the Huffington Post readers (there's also a making-of video there). Then, if you want to see all 51 of the femme fatales in their lingerie, click on the link to the sexy slide show we have for ya.

We like the direction the Miss USA show is heading. Maybe next year the gals will do a nekid photo shoot at the Resurrection pool party...

A Taste of Some of the Contestants in Lingerie, Who the Judges are and Pageant Times, Location, Etc. (more)

Despite the fact the Strip Las Vegas Magazine still owes us money from unpaid advertising commissions and also an article we wrote for them a few years back, there's no denying that they put out some good work from time to time.

Because of their decidedly Playboy-like content, SLV has difficulty finding locations where they can place their free, high-gloss mags. We usually pick ours up at Lee's Liquors since we're in the store so much.

Recently they've started putting the entire issue online in a digital version and we gotta say, they've done an excellent job with the latest issue.

Check out this link for some very sexy photo spreads (and risqué ads, too, as the advertisers--many of them local gentleman's clubs--can get a lot sexier than a normal publication). We particularly like the feature entitled "Dirty Sirens" with its bi-fem theme of three greased-up & tattooed chicks getting to know each other better.

The owners, Scott & Brittany Santos, are a very progressive couple and it wouldn't surprise us at all if they had a profile on this site or on Kasidie.com. Scott is also the chief photographer and is getting better and better all the time at his craft.

Whether you're a Cher fan or not, ya gotta give it to the ol' gal (and, come to think of it, we probably would give it to her if the timing were right). She just had her two year anniversary at Caesars Palace and is looking rather amazing for a 64 year old.

Now, we totally understand that Cher has had numerous cosmetic surgeries--going so far as to call herself a "plastic surgery poster girl"--but, while most ladies her age still wanting to express their sexuality would be giving gummy bj's in the bathroom of the Sun City Summerlin activities center, Cher is lookin' slim, svelte and spry in her revealing Bob Mackie costumes on the stage of the Colosseum.

For that we salute the pop star diva! Way to go, ya sexy grand-milf...

Desperate Housewife star Eva Longoria is probably wondering why she decided to become a Las Vegas nightclub and restaurant owner. First, at her Beso restaurant in the Crystals shopping center inside CityCenter, a husband of a minority partner in the venue had to be forcibly evicted from the premises the other day. Seems he had pretty much taken over the place and was verbally and physically abusive to both customers and staff and even went so far as to throw a bottle of Champagne at one of the chefs.

Here's gossip dude's take on the reason for the raid, a look at the "textbook operation" of the eviction team and Eva's subsequent post-raid calm-'em-down meeting yesterday with her restaurant workers . When we first heard of the raid we saw Ms. Longoria lookin' stress-free--such an actress!--while she was watching her husband, San Antonio Spurs basketball player Tony Parker, play hoops in Phoenix.

The TV star also had a bit of trouble at her nightclub Eve, also in the CityCenter retail complex. Remember the dude who bitch-slapped his girlfriend at the time, singer Rihanna? Well, Chris Brown was in town to sing the national anthem at the Mayweather/Mosley fight last weekend (no, contrary to some reports there was no Brown/Rihanna rematch on the undercard). Afterwards, the 20-year old singer tried to get into Eve and, when he was denied entry, supposedly "went ballistic on the bouncers and kept repeating, 'Do you even know who I am?'" an onlooker reported. (Yes, Chris, they probably did know who you were and would have let you in had they not known)

Sorry about that Eva. We really do want you to succeed in Las Vegas. Maybe you should hang around a little more and keep an eye on things--so we can keep an eye or two on you...

We ran across a new feature in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, "Nevada's largest newspaper" (doncha know), that could be helpful to both visitors and locals alike trying to figure out which of the many (mostly) Strip nightclubs and/or pool parties to check out.

The R-J has put together a comprehensive compilation of photos from, uh, let's see, how many is that? Um, 4 across by 7 down is, well, 28 (even after a night of chocolate martini's the mind is as sharp as a freakin' tack!) oh so incredible Vegas party hotspots you can stand in line for.

Go to THIS LINK and check out the 28 different slide shows, which include pics of places like Moon, Pure, and XS to Krave, Stoney's and Rehab.

Former Playboy model, actress and writer--yes, writer--Jenny McCarthy was in town yesterday (and, hopefully, she's still here) and it looks like it didn't take her long to get over her recent breakup with funnyman Jim Carrey. After eating dinner at the Palm's N9ne steakhouse, she went upstairs to the Playboy Club with her sisters and some other female friends and did some heavy kissing with a mystery man.

No one knows who he is--not even Jenny herself, it seems. Reacting to media inquiries about who the kissing partner was she tweeted: "Yes I kissed a mystery man in Vegas. Everyone wants to know who he is or what his name is.... So would I. Lol."

It would have been cooler if she had been 3-way kissing a couple but it's still kinda sweet to think ol' Jen would just walk up to someone in a Vegas club and start munchin' on them.

In any event, it gives us a good excuse to post a hot photo of one of our fave Playmates of all time (the one on the left, not the one below) . The main reason we love her is because she has talent that reaches beyond just modeling. As an example, did you happen to catch her in that gross-but-hilarious bit in her movie "Dirty Love" where she's in a grocery store trying to find a maxi-pad and bleeding all over the place to the point that others are doing slip-n-falls in her puddles of blood? (see photo below where she tries to clean up the mess) Instant classic! (well, maybe not to film critic Roger Ebert but what does he know, anyway?).

We still love Jenny even if Ebert doesn't although we probably wouldn't have her over in our bed while she's on her period...

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A lot of talented musicians have migrated to Las Vegas which makes for some very good cover bands around town. Some have quite a diverse repertoire, playing songs from current hits all the way back to the 60's (perhaps in rock, perhaps in country, perhaps a mixture of most everything). You can find these at all sorts of bars and lounges around town (and wedding receptions, too!). Other bands choose to focus on a specific era such as those that specialize in classic 70's rock or 80's metal. You'll find these types at many of the Station Casinos main clubs and at rock stops like Feelgoods (names like Yellow Brick Road, Sin City Sinners, and HighWire might sound familiar).

Las Vegas also sees more than it's share of [url:news?N=1480 "tribute" bands]]--those bands that assume the identity of a (usually) well-known person or group. They impersonate the real thing, often sounding better than the actual stars themselves (which makes sense considering the stars have often led a hard life of touring, drugs, sex and inter-band catfights while the cover band version simply need to grab the essence of the band and go with it).

Some of these tribute bands land regular gigs now and then--ala' Purple Reign (Prince) and Fab Four (Beatles). The Fremont Street Experience will often hire these kind of bands en masse and make a tribute festival out of it as they did with last year's Summer of '69 (which featured trib bands playing Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival and the like) their most recent New Year's Eve celebration where the likenesses of KISS, Rolling Stones and Aerosmith rocked and rolled in 2010. (Note: I suppose Elvis tribute artists fit in here, too, although we're gonna leave these guys out of this conversation as the whole Elvis-tribute/impersonation thing has taken on such gargantuan proportions that it's a different animal)

Then there are the hybrid Cover + Tribute bands--the ones that not only sound the part but dress and act the part. They usually cover a specific genre such as 80's new wave or 70's disco or 80's hair band. As with the top cover bands, these guys seem to land work on a regular basis around Vegas. Two of the best new wave bands are the Spazmatics (currently at Santa Fe), who dress in a neo-nerdy-Devo kinda way, and our personal favorites Loveshack (just ended a gig on Fremont Street) who dress in all sorts of 80's get-ups and feature both male and female lead singers.

We've mentioned Steel Panther on this site before. These boys embody all the naughtiness of those hedonistic 80's hair bands and, after long stints at Aliante and Green Valley Ranch, are now exclusively at the House of Blues every Saturday night.

Another band of this ilk we really like is a disco band called Boogie Knights--a very talented band that's been in Vegas for years, bopping in and out of one club or another. Just when you think they have a permanent home they are gone. But we just noticed they landed another gig in town, this one at the M Resort on Thursday nights. They play all sorts of different dance songs from the era and, even though it's an all-male group, you'll look twice as they sing a Donna Summer or Sister Sledge tune to perfection. So, if you're lookin' the shake, shake, shake that booty this evening, head on down I-15 for some Boogie Knights. Let's get down tonight!

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Wynn Resorts owner, Steve Wynn, recently revealed that his new girlfriend (although there have been unconfirmed reports that she's his new EX-girlfriend) has a killer ass.

In an interview with a Hong Kong newspaper, the Casino owner said he liked a couple of things about his new gal: her eye for design and the aforementioned physical attribute.

"When we were first going out she would make a comment about space, and she'd be dead right," Wynn said . "And I'd think, 'Don't tell me that. On top of everything else, besides having the greatest butt in the world, she also has the designer gene!' It's like God made a woman for me. The only thing that stops my world from being perfect is that Elaine is not happy."

He also gives a tip on how to dump a long-time wife and trade her for a younger model: take her to see the movie "Gigi", the story of an older man who falls for a sweet young thing.

The main point of the column on Wynn was that the Wynn Resorts board of directors brought up the subject of Wynn's successor. He's not sure who that might be at this time but he knows it won't be his girlfriend or his two daughters.

Just in case you haven't read your LowLife mail, we wanted to post the news here so you won't miss it. We're pretty sure this is a good thing...

American LowLife Acquired!
Well, it was bound to happen, I suppose. We built American LowLife with bailing wire and duct tape and kept it going with a combination of love, insanity and massive amounts of alcohol. We spent our savings, our 401k and even begged a few dollars from some of our members in the form of donations (thanks for that--it paid for things like hosting fees, a few upgrades and some of that previously mentioned alcohol).

Along the way, we had a few offers from various companies to purchase American LowLife but it was never the right situation. They either wanted to neutralize us as possible competition or simply acquire our member base with no regard for the offbeat culture we've developed over the past five years.

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In the beginning, eyecandy sound bar & lounge right there in the middle of Mandalay Bay's gaming floor could probably get by as a lounge and not a nightclub. It was free and had multiple entrances like many hotel lounge areas have. Of course, having a DJ and a large dance floor kind of blurs the lines, but eyecandy claimed to be a lounge so we took 'em at face value. But on a recent weekend visit to eyecandy we had a difficult time finding the entrance to the "lounge" as they were all blocked off and, when we finally did, there was a big burley door man, a velvet rope and--what's this?--an entry fee. Hmmm--what happened to the lounge we used to go to?

It seems it wasn't only us who wondered this as another venue inside the hotel got a little bent out of shape over the so-called lounge. Rumjungle, a 12-year old club in Mandalay, which starts out as a restaurant and ends the evening as a dance club, got kinda pissed over the whole eyecandy thing right from the get-go, saying that the "sound bar" violated the terms of their lease with the resort which stipulates that Rumjungle is to be the sole nightclub in the hotel. They also say that the resort failed to send sufficient "comp" business, perhaps trying to slowly kill off the club so Mandalay can put something else in the space.

At least that's what Rumjungle is stating in their bankruptcy filing. Mandalay, on the other hand, is saying that the joint is "a decade-old and outdated nightclub that has suffered continuing revenue declines for several years due to competition". Ouch! These bankruptcies are so much like divorces, aren't they?

Mandalay is right to a degree. Rumjungle used to be pretty popular but has grown increasingly irrelevant in recent years. But we don't see how the resort can say eyecandy doesn't meet most--if not all--of the requirements for a nightclub. Another interesting twist to this whole thing is that Rumjungle is subsidiary of China Grill Management which has an extensive relationship with Mandalay in that they also own and operate China Grill, Red Square and Red, White & Blue at the hotel. Rumjungle's parent company isn't filing bankruptcy, at least for now, but we wonder how the overall relationship will be once the lawsuits--and the name-calling--dies down.

Around the first of the year we had heard that Las Vegas' biggest entertainment export--the Killers--were taking time off from each other and that they had cancelled the Asian leg of their world tour due to the illness (and eventual death) of singer Brandon Flowers' mother but all along the band dismissed reports that Flowers was leaving the band to pursue a solo career.

Well, Brandon may not be leaving the band but he's definitely got a solo album coming out and he's keeping his Las Vegas roots shining bright and clear in beautiful SIn City neon red (see sign to right). And the new album--entitled "Flamingo"--must be with the band's blessings as the teaser for the album is on the Killer's official website.

Additionally, as this article states, "it appears Flowers isn't the only Killer taking a break, as drummer Ronnie Vannucci has signed up to perform in a supergroup called Mt. Desolation, featuring members of Keane, Mumford & Sons, Noah and the Whale and the Long Winters."

About a year ago we ran a Know It ALL talking about how the how the new Tropicana Hotel owners were going to spend $165 million in renovating the aging resort. While the Trop hasn't finished the entire upgrade--the pool is supposed to re-open today but still have to open a new nightclub and add some bars and restaurants--they are just about ready to unveil the newly designed rooms in the property's 569-room Paradise Tower.

The rooms will range from 396-441 sq. feet, feature 42" flat panel TVs, wireless internet, clock-radios with docking stations and pillow top beds. The Trop has always had a good location but the accommodations have been second-rate for quite some time now so it's good to hear--and to see, judging by the photos--that it might be a perfect place to take back that couple you just met in the bar.

We'll find out soon enough as JPJustParties will be the first lifestyle group to break in the new beds during their upcoming National Swingers Convention in mid-June. The JP partiers will have the whole tower to themselves (plus another 700 or so suites and rooms elsewhere in the hotel) so the Paradise Tower truly oughta be a swinger's paradise for several days. The Trop won't know what hit 'em--and their new rooms!