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.
Welcome to PodKats, this is Kats, John Katsilometes of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. I am on Page 3A, every day and online all the time! Mat Franco is a champion of “America’s Got Talent,” and a champion on the Strip. He has headlined for three years at a theater named for him at Linq Hotel. “It flies by!” he says. Chris Phillips of Zowie Bowie opened at Rocks Lounge at Red Rock Resort in 2006. His band performs there on at 11 p.m. Fridays and Thursdays and Saturdays at 3rd Street Stage on Fremont Street Experience. Phillips, as always, brings the party while delivering the maverick spirit of Las Vegas. Murray Sawchuck has performed since 2002 in Las Vegas, and is about to move from Planet Hollywood’s Sin City Theater back to the Laugh Factory. He headlined that room until 2014, when he moved to Sin City Theater, and talks of his resilience and success on the Strip.
Welcome to PodKats, this is Kats, John Katsilometes of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. I am on Page 3A, every day and online all the time! We caught up with longtime rocker Vinny Adinolfi of Bronx Wanderers. Vinny is front man of the family act at Windows Showroom at Bally’s, and he has a lot of Vegas stories to tell. Jerry Lopez and Santa Fe & The Fat City Horns have been a Las Vegas institution since the mid-1970s. He talks of his time with Ricky Martin on the “Livin’ La Vida Loca” tour and some of the stars who have seen the band over the years. Patrick Hughes holds the keys to the upgrades to the famous Fremont Street Experience light canopy, which will be totally overhauled in time for a fancy party on New Year’s Eve 2019.
Welcome to PodKats, this is Kats, John Katsilometes of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. I am on page 3A, every day and online all the time. We chat with Frankie Moreno, the Las Vegas showman who created the show’s theme song and who has headlined Carnegie Hall in October. Moreno has released a string of albums and is looking forward to mixing performing-arts center shows with his Vegas dates in 2019. Rock legend Carlos Santana tells of his musical and spiritual influences (ranging from John Lennon, John Coltrane and Jimi Hendrix), and recalls performing onstage with Eric Clapton as he returns to House of Blues at Mandalay Bay. Iconic producer Jeff Kutash reveals his inspiration for “A Mob Story” at Mandalay Bay; Kutash produced the great water show “Splash” at Riviera, and his history in Vegas dates to opening for Elvis Presley at the Las Vegas Hilton.
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