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Doug Elfman
Doug Elfman is a national award-winning entertainment columnist who writes Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays in the Review-Journal. A one-time investigative reporter, rock critic and TV reviewer, Doug covers entertainment culture on and off the Strip. He also reviews video games in his nationally syndicated Game Dork column.

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Friday, Feb. 05, 2010 at 2:26 AM
Thursday was charity day. Over at Andre Agassi's prep school, Agassi and wife Steffi Graf met with Santana, who pledged to ask his Hard Rock concert fans to donate to the Agassi Foundation. Courtesy photos by Denise Truscello/WireImage. Mike...
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Thursday, Feb. 04, 2010 at 10:04 AM
Things to do this weekend: UFC 109 Saturday at Mandalay Bay; Joe Rogan Friday at House of Blues; George Strait with Reba McEntire and LeAnn Womack Saturday at MGM; Nomo Saturday at Aruba Showroom; Vince Neil performs at his Feelgood's bar for his...
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Wednesday, Feb. 03, 2010 at 6:58 PM
The intrinsic problem with journalists who do MAJOR COMMENTARY about video games is that they try to sum up everything about games in one fell swoop, almost always focusing on the negative. That daft plan would be akin to summing up the entirety of...
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Wednesday, Feb. 03, 2010 at 10:49 AM
Holly Madison and Carrot Top made silly poses at Lee Canyon Ski Resort on Groundhog Day. So no, Holly didn't really get karted away to a hospital. A "fake-date" is the phenomenon where a guy friend and girl friend go do something together....
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Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 at 5:03 PM
The great Las Vegas boxing champ Floyd Mayweather cozies up to the great Las Vegas dancer (sometimes, at MGM's Crazy Horse Paris) Carmen Electra, Friday night at Eva Longoria Parker's club Eve at Aria. Carmen came with her fiance Rob Patterson, the...
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Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 at 4:54 PM
I wanted to be comedian when I was a kid. I'm still a comedian dork. So it was a real treat when I helped judge a comedian-off at the Improv at Harrah's the other night. Jason Bean caught the competition on this here video....
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Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 at 2:51 PM
Sheena Easton taught me something I never knew. Musicians tell each other tons of musician jokes. “Tons and tons and tons,” says Sheena (who sings Friday and Saturday at South Point). As a single mom living in Summerlin, Sheena...
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Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 at 1:59 PM
On Monday, Dirk Arthur took a little tiger cub to a Hebrew academy so kids could pet his tail for luck. I wrote about that in Tuesday's column. But here are extra pix from the day. I snapped the first shot below. The rest are courtesy of the Adelson...
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Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 at 12:22 PM
On stage this week: Heart plays Friday-Saturday at the Las Vegas Hilton ... LeAnn Rimes sings Friday at the new ballroom at Eastside Cannery on Friday ... Sheena Easton performs Friday-Saturday at South Point ... On Sunday at the Palms, there's a...
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Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010 at 12:05 PM
Meg Ryan and Adam Carolla came to town to help celebrate the birthday of Dan Finnerty of the Dan Band, a surprise birthday set up by Dan's wife Kathy Najimy. Also in tow: Helen Hunt, Ricki Lake (Helen Hunt and Ricki Lake played Miss Pacman at...
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Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010 at 7:24 PM
Planning your weekend? Check out this week's VegasLand Video where we give you all the scoop on Robert Schimmel ... what Vegas' "Jersey Boys" and other musicals do different than Broadway ... plus one of Vegas' best-kept secrets, the blues...
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Saturday, Jan. 09, 2010 at 1:28 PM
I'm getting ready for tonight's porn awards at the Palms. But I thought y'all might want to see candid shots I snapped at the Adult Entertainment Expo -- at least what the ones that are clean enough to print. Here's my newest friend (photo taken by...
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Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Here at the ass-end of 2009, I bid adieu to this annus horribilis with a look back at my Favorite Interviews of 2009, some hot photos of Holly Madison (obviously), some New Year's Eve toasts, my favorite show, restaurant and massage place in Vegas,...
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Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009 at 11:31 AM
B.B. King opened his new blues club and restaurant in the Mirage on Friday and rolled out a red carpet for blues stars and Willie Nelson, then they performed for the usual invited crowd of entertainment journos and Vegas VIPs. I went. It was nice....
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Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009 at 3:39 AM
Who says nightclubs and radio stations are self-involved? Well, they are. But this is pretty damn impressive video, where KLUC-FM, 98.5 and clubs Tryst and XS deliver $70,000 worth of donated toys, including 200 bicycles, to HELP of Southern Nevada,...
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