On this episode of the Sun on the Strip, entertainment writer Brock Radke welcomes Las Vegas Weekly’s Geoff Carter to discuss this week’s Strip showbiz news:
- MGM Resorts has announced it will build a community and athletic center on the former festival site of the One October tragedy.
- The Metarama Gaming & Music Festival set for October at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds has been canceled.
- SLS officially became Sahara Las Vegas last week and more renovations are on the way.
- Spiegelworld’s “Atomic Saloon Show” opens this week at the Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian, er, Palazzo.
- The Colosseum at Caesars Palace reopens this weekend with two concerts from Keith Urban.
- Matt Goss has extended his show at the Mirage through November.
- The Big Blues Bender is taking over the Hard Rock Hotel.
- O’Sheas is celebrating 30 years on the Las Vegas Strip all month long.
- An Italian restaurant opened at MGM Grand and an Asian restaurant closed at Encore.