Stay ConnectedPodKats! is a weekly hang with the biggest names in entertainment, hosted by man-about-town columnist John “Kats” Katsilometes of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. You can find his column on page 3A every day and online all the time at http://reviewjournal.com/Kats.
Thanks to longtime Vegas headliner Frankie Moreno for the PodKats! theme, ‘Biggest Cat in Town,’ from the album Broke Down in Paradise.
My guest on this episode of PodKats! is the founder of Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, Mr. Scott Bradlee himself. The show has opened its residency at 1Oak Nightclub at the Mirage. The show runs Tuesdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. PMJ, as it is known, is an artistic time machine. The band re-imagines popular music into vintage genres. Including swing, Motown, doo-wop, and jazz. The music is from artists ranging from Lady Gaga to Adele, The Strokes to Katy Perry and the White Stripes. Jaclyn McSpadden, Aaron Turner, and Janien Valentine are among the Vegas performers in the show.
My guest on this episode of PodKats! is TV and stage performer Craig Ferguson. He left his late-night talk show in December 2014 after a decade on CBS. Ferguson set ratings records and earned a Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting for his interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu. As the host of “Celebrity Name Game,” Ferguson was awarded the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Game Show Host two years in a row. He is at Green Valley Ranch Resort at 8 p.m. Friday.
Our guest this week on PodKats! is a column favorite and a dear friend. Comic actor Brad Garrett, who runs Brad Garrett’s comedy club at the MGM Grand! Garrett has performed on the Strip since the 1980s, as an opening act for such legends as Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra. Of course, he was a co-star with Ray Romano in the long-running sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond” and more recently on ABC’s “Single Parents.” Garrett is closing in on his 5th anniversary at the club in the hotel’s underground promenade, as he says accurately, right next to the pretzel stand.
Our guest this week on PodKats! is supermodel Christie Brinkley. She is starring as Roxie Hart in the national tour of “Chicago” at The Venetian Theater from April 10-14. She talks about how she first performed the role on Broadway, her memories of Las Vegas, her fitness program and how she wound up as a boxing photographer and correspondent. Starting with the 1980 Muhammad Ali-Larry Holmes title bout at Caesars Palace.
Our guests on PodKats! No. 19 are artists who appreciate classic contemporary music. Earth Wind & Fire is onstage for 6 shows at Venetian Theater. Founding member and bassist Verdine White talks of his longevity, on and off the stage, and what inspired him to play the bass. AND, a good friend of the Kats! Column for years, Yellow Brick Road founder Brody Dolyniuk is back in town.
I am on the prowl, indeed! Welcome to PodKats! This is Kats, John Katsilometes, of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. My column is called Kats!, appropriately enough. Find it on page 3A every day online all the time. My guest on this episode of PodKats! is the great Dana Carvey, appearing Friday and Saturday night at the Mirage, along with Ray Romano in the hotel’s Aces of Comedy Series. Carvey is famous as a cast member on “Saturday Night Live,” and spinoff film “Wayne’s World.” He performs many impressions, including both presidents Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. He is also working on an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez impression.
I am on the prowl, indeed! Welcome to PodKats! This is Kats, John Katsilometes, of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. My column is called Kats!, appropriately enough. Find it on page 3A every day online all the time. Our guests on this episode of PodKats! are performers involved in shows where there is a lot of disrobing. Up first is Vinny Guadagnino, famous as a cast member of “Jersey Shore” who is guest-starring in “Chippendales” at the Rio from April 26th through May 26th. And, the Naked Magicians, who are really magicians and are almost entirely naked, are in residency at Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club at the MGM Grand.
I am on the prowl, indeed! Welcome to PodKats! This is Kats, John Katsilometes, of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. My column is called Kats!, appropriately enough. Find it on page 3A every day online all the time. Our guests on this episode of PodKats are members of the cast of Ester Goldberg’s Totally Outrageous Brunch, which is opening this month at The Sayers Club at SLS Las Vegas. The adult variety show will perform at 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Airington portrays Ester, a funny and foul-mouthed redhead of a certain age. The show is loaded with talented Las Vegas performers. In this roundtable discussion at the Sayers Club, we are joined by cast members Anne Martinez, Sarah Hester Ross and music director Aaron Fuller, and also co-producers Steve Wilson and Kevin Beebee.
I am on the prowl, indeed! Welcome to PodKats! This is Kats, John Katsilometes, of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. My column is called Kats!, appropriately enough. Find it on page 3A every day online all the time. Our guest on this episode of PodKats is Ice Cube, who is headlining House of Blues at Mandalay Bay. He is a trailblazer among rap artists who broke in the 1980s with NWA. He’s an accomplished actor in such movies as “Boyz in the Hood!” “Friday” and “Barbershop.” He’s also the CEO of his own basketball league, the Big 3. Cube talks about his upcoming show at House of Blues, his political views, his sports endeavors. Including his interest in the Las Vegas Raiders and the possibility of a headlining residency on the Strip.
I am on the prowl, indeed, as theme song indicates! Welcome to PodKats! This is Kats, John Katsilometes, of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. My column is called Kats!, appropriately enough. Find it on page 3A every day online all the time. The scene is hop-hop-hopping folks. On this episode of PodKats!, we catch up with Westgate Las Vegas Superbook Vice President Jay Kornegay, Smith Center for the Performing Arts President Myron Martin, and New York-New York entertainment executive AND former “Fantasy” singer Stephanie Sanchez.
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