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I have met plenty of both, and I will take the surfer girl anyday.

We would be awfully bored, that's for sure. That club saved us, seriously.

Roger Sanchez is awesome. Period. Simply one of the top talents in house music right now.

It's still to early to answer those questions.

They've put a little La-La in Las Vegas # The gambling mecca's storied Strip is taking on more of a Sunset vibe of late as some of L.A.'s most popular night spots are establishing desert outposts. By Steve Baltin, Special to The Times Angelenos who party a little too hard in Vegas these days might be hard-pressed to recall which city they're actually in. In a town that proudly pilfers the identities of other locales to come up with its faux culture, Sin City is casting an eye to L.A. as its latest source of inspiration, with such local hot spots as Avalon, Forty Deuce, Spider Club, the Beauty Bar and the Rainbow Bar & Grill either recently opening or being planned for Vegas. Steve Adelman, a partner in the L.A. club Avalon, which he plans to open on the Strip in December, believes the migration of L.A. promoter Brent Bolthouse to the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel club Body English in May 2004 was a turning point in the cultural shift toward all things L.A. "Casino types aren't very creative when it comes to marketing, so they're creating L.A. brands to try to attract the L.A. audience. Body English was one of the models for that since the people who promote the club are very L.A.-based," Adelman says. For his part, Bolthouse has made sure Hollywood hipsters and other L.A. VIPs who frequent Body English find familiarity in Vegas. "We wanted to try to create an atmosphere from L.A., like they're home, they know us, they see a familiar face, Jackson [the doorman] is still out there, AM is still our DJ," he says. Jerry Greenberg, who opened the Vegas Rainbow last month with his brother Bob and L.A. Rainbow owner Mario Maglieri, has the same philosophy, promising that those who go to the new Rainbow will experience déjà vu, as the main room in the Vegas version will be a replica of the Sunset Strip hang. The move toward an L.A. state of mind in Vegas makes sense. According to the Las Vegas tourism board, Southern Californians account for 37% of the town's visitors (the board estimates that percentage is even higher on weekends). "Your market, a lot of it is Southern California, and the hotels want something with a brand name that has an identity," says Lorenzo Doumani, who plans to open the Majestic Hotel in 2007. And Ivan Kane, owner of Forty Deuce, says that played into why he opened a club in Vegas. "So much of L.A. chooses Vegas as their party destination over the weekend," he says. Since Body English opened, Bolthouse says he's seen a lot of his L.A. crowd become regulars in Vegas. "Over the course of the year, I saw people from L.A. who would go there a couple of times a month. There were some kids — using the term loosely — who would go every other weekend. I remember one time me and [actor] Danny Masterson went and we had such a good time we went back the next weekend." But if all you're leaving L.A. for is more L.A., why go at all? Because it's still Vegas, baby. What happens there, stays there. Beyond the gambling, it's like a free pass to go just a little wild, to cut loose, to get away from your L.A. responsibilities and job. Even if that job happens to be making movies or music. Because Vegas is certainly embracing the Hollywood scene, making it the hottest it's been for star-watching since Dino, Frank and Sammy had the run of the place. The CineVegas Film Festival in June, for example, brought out the likes of Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper and David Lynch. And the Hard Rock Hotel 10th anniversary weekend-long blowout this year looked like the MTV video music awards with a hint of the Emmys thrown in. A playground for celebrities THE Coldplay show at the Hard Rock club the Joint on that Friday night had Courteney Cox Arquette, Jessica Simpson, Fred Durst, Tommy Lee, Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor, Tara Reid, and Dave Navarro and Carmen Electra among the crowd hanging in the upstairs VIP balcony. The following night, Jessica Alba, members of Linkin Park, Mike Einziger of Incubus, wrestling diva Stacy Kiebler and Leelee Sobieski bounced between shows by Bon Jovi and Nine Inch Nails. Many of the celebrities then turned up at Body English to catch a 1 a.m. performance by Hollywood party band Camp Freddy. "There's something about that Vegas launch; it brings the celebrities out in droves, they stay out longer, they party harder," says E! Online's Lara Morgenson. "Vegas is the ideal playground for celebs. It has everything: high-class restaurants, spas that are incredibly private, clubs. And they know how to treat people, how to be discreet. So this younger generation really embraces it." For that weekend, Bolthouse and the Hard Rock Hotel arranged for a private jet to make two trips back and forth to Los Angeles to shuttle its hottest guests. "Once you set foot on that jet and you see people you know, people who are part of your social circle, it instantly makes you comfortable," he says. Actress Shannon Elizabeth agrees. "You see all your friends here. It's like hanging out at Spider Club on Friday night," she said at the event. With Vegas' appeal having been cyclical in the past and celebrities notorious for their fickle nature, can this latest love-fest last? Morgenson says it can. "I don't see it dwindling in the next five, six, 10 years," she says. "It's always going to appeal to the younger generation of Hollywood partyers, the Lindsay Lohans and the younger Lindsay Lohans." Bolthouse agrees. "I see it lasting with the Hollywood and celebrity people because of what Peter Morton is doing," he says, referring to the Hard Rock owner who just announced plans for expansion of the hotel and exclusive condos. "He's going to create L.A.'s answer to the Hamptons."

I too am wondering why they haven't posted anything for August.

What is better than Avalon? Certainly not any venue in Vegas.

Word is La Bete will be closing for a few weeks for renovations.

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/2005/07/14/linepass.html LINE PASS: A New Empire Club hopes to bring back era of elegance By Martin Stein A new nightclub is rising up from the ashes of the troubled Utopia. The Empire Ballroom, behind the Walgreens at 3765 Las Vegas Blvd. S., promises to return patrons to an era of lost elegance and service, according to Salvatore Jenco, general manager and visionary. The sunken dance floor has been filled and the stage extended, but for now, the rest is stripped-down walls and floors. The vision, then, comes from a nifty, 3-D, animated tour played out on Jenco's laptop to the sounds of Miles Davis' "Freddie Freeloader." But Jenco—who last captained LA's Viper Room with his 21 Jumpstreet friend, Johnny Depp—is so passionate about the project, there is little room for doubt. A new VIP area is being constructed Strip-side. A second VIP area will be to the dance floor's side, a third will consist of eight alcoves on the second floor, and a fourth will be on the upstairs patio. The Strip-side and patio areas will have their own video and sound systems, able to broadcast the main rooms' action—or something completely different, as customers request. In total, the approximately 16,000-square-foot club will have room for 1,301, all treated as VIPs, as Jenco says people were in the 1920s, '30s and '40s. "It will have a classy, upscale, luxurious, '30s-speakeasy feel," he says. Heck, there'll even be a coat-check girl. On the laptop's screen and in Jenco's eyes, there will be exposed brick walls, candle sconces and a custom-made, 9-foot-by-7-foot chandelier with intelligent lighting effects tucked away inside. The color scheme will incorporate a lot of reds, browns and burgundies. Parking concerns will be addressed with valet service and access to three lots behind the club. Comparing the venue to soup, Jenco says it's important to concentrate on the broth. Make the broth as toothsome as possible, and you can add chicken, beef, fish, anything, and you'll still have a great soup. Similarly, Empire Ballroom will play host to DJs, live music, private events and even live theater. Jenco is most proud of the sound system by France-based L-Acoustics, including a cutting-edge, tweaked Kudo V-DOSC speaker running off of a Midas XL4 mixer. Basically, he explains, it means the music will be cleaner and not as blaring as at other clubs. Vegas clubgoers will be able to check that out for themselves soon, with a soft opening scheduled for mid-August, followed by an opening party in late September. "We're not looking to compete with anyone at all," Jenco says. "We're looking to be the competition."

One of the best in the business. If you dig tribal, he is absolutely not to be missed.

There is nothing for you to do in Vegas at 18 bro. And no, I am not joking, you really are out of luck.

I would also recommend Basic, held every other Friday at the King King, on Hollywood Blvd. I also recommend checking out Qool, held during happy hour time on Wednesdays. The smaller parties is where it's at in LA right now.

If you're going to be there on a Saturday night, I recommend trying to squeeze in some time to check out Avalon. It is the premiere nightclub on the west coast. Unfortunately, the quality of clubs in LA drops off precipitously after that.

Haha. Real problem over there is that demand routinely exceeds supply, and the doormen often exceed firecode capacity, making that club exceedingly uncomfortable. That's too bad too, because when capacity is kept at a comfortable level, that club is fun.

Their fire code capacity is 440. If that's not tiny to you, then so be it. I call that tiny.

Surely you jest. Tangerine is tiny, and it is also very poorly designed. It is very miserable to be in when it is very busy.

LMAO @ high around 80. I wish it was back down to 80 by then.

Very, very rarely, if ever, would a hotel in this town, the ones on the Strip at least, keep your deposit instead of refunding it. They can resell your room in 10 minutes.

I understood that C2K is being converted to a theater, either for Blue Man Group or The Phantom of the Opera.

No, it sure doesn't tell the whole story. Ra mgmt. should seriously consider changing that. as it is very misleading. I mean come on, we've all been there several times. That place is pretty small.

Uh, no. If that were accurate, that would make Ra larger than Crobar Miami. In reality, it is not even close.

I heard that rumor as well, several months ago. I heard from some good sources that it is going in at Planet Hollywood. We shall see though. I actually hope it's not at the Palazzo, because if it is, then it will not be opening for several years.

Nice one sir. Best of luck, but what is this you say about Crobar? I understood it was going in at the Aladdin/Planet Hollywood. So it is going to be at the Venetian now?

lol, MGM? I will just assume this is a Freudian slip on your part. Pure is at Caesars, and I know you know that...lol

Sorry bro, there's really no comparison between Las Vegas and NY. The closest you're going to get to NY out here is the Carnegie Deli at the Mirage. We don't have anything on the level of Crobar (although that's on the way), Avalon or Cielo.