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Entertainment & Nightlife
Guide to Entertainment and Nightlife in Las Vegas

Entertainment: From the talented to the absolutely amazing, Las Vegas offers the best in magic, theatre, dance, song and comedy. The gaming areas themselves provide sufficient entertainment for many guests. Gambling draws the majority of tourists and Las Vegas houses a variety of games in each venue. Every casino is vying for the tourist; to set themselves apart, the casinos build creative themes that dazzle your imagination.

One of the first casinos to use its architecture as a billboard was Caesars Palace. While impressive during the day, this building is stunningly lit at night to accent its Roman columns and beautiful fountains. Next door, you will find the Mirage, which boasts a towering, exploding volcano. Then there is Treasure Island where the Buccaneer Bay Pirate Show plays each night and you can watch a British frigate sink and be resurrected every hour. Combine music and water and you have the breathtaking performance of the Bellagio Fountains. It is a small world in Las Vegas, so visit the New York-New York Hotel and Casino complete with a scale model of the Brooklyn Bridge and Statue of Liberty. Or visit the Venetian and take a Gondola Ride along the canals. Travel to ancient Egypt with the pyramid-shaped Luxor. If you want to go to France, try the Paris Las Vegas and take a trip to the top of the Eiffel Tower. If you are a fan of towers in general, ascend the 1,149 foot Stratosphere Tower for an excellent view of the city, day or night. Many of the first hotels in Las Vegas were located on Fremont Street and built too close together to allow for the addition of flashy new themes. The Fremont Street Experience was devised to draw tourists to this older but still vibrant area of the city.

The attractions do not end at the door. The Excalibur Hotel and Casino invites you to be King Arthur's guest for dinner where you can eat with your fingers and enjoy the Tournament of Kings. Julius Caesar is not to be outdone, so one of the most amazing shows on the strip is found at Caesar's Magical Empire. Many of these stages are technical wonders, but none can compare to the presentation area for "O", a 1.5 million gallon tank of water used by the performers of the Cirque Du Soleil.

There is always entertainment for music buffs at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. The House of Blues in the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino presents great entertainment in an intimate setting. The Las Vegas Hilton Hotel, located adjacent the Las Vegas Convention Center, offers a trip to where no man has ever gone in Star Trek - The Experience. Perhaps you came to Vegas with a need for speed. Head out to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway either to watch a race or to get behind the wheel of one of those rockets yourself.

Las Vegas has worked hard to reinvent itself as a family destination, so bring the kids along. There are lots of great entertainment venues built with them in mind. The first child oriented hotel-casino was Circus Circus, complete with a Circus Midway full of carnival games and trapeze acts. The Circus Circus Adventuredome is a theme park built under a large (pink, of course) dome, so that the kids can ride the roller coaster year-round in climate-controlled comfort. For educational fun, visit the Southern Nevada Zoological and Botanical Park or the Gilcrease Nature Sanctuary and Orchards. You will find a petting zoo at Bonnie Springs Old Nevada where the kids can walk the Wild West and meet up with some mean hombres.

History is kept alive at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum where the dinosaurs move and sharks swim up to greet you. For hands-on education, the Leid Discovery Children's Museum can not be beat. Kids will love learning about science, medicine and math by doing it. Las Vegas history extends further back than the flashy casinos. Visit a slice of early history at the Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort Historic Park, the first non-native American structure built in the city. The Clark County Heritage Museum has rotating exhibits that change every season. This museum houses old buildings from the dam-building era, including the newspaper offices, a livery and several homes. An antique train is also part of the exhibit. Modern Las Vegas history was built on neon advertising. The Neon Museum provides a look at some of those historic signs. Not to be forgotten are the great performers who made the city famous. To that end, The Liberace Museum houses a large collection of the performer's personal effects and outlandish stage props.

The arts have always been an important part of this city's culture. The Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery shows local artists as well as national figures in the art world. More contemporary pieces can be found in the Las Vegas Art Museum. For live theater, check out the oldest running small theatre in the valley, the Las Vegas Little Theatre.

Nightlife: Las Vegas's nightlife has never been hotter or, for that matter, more competitive. Fueled by the "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" advertisements, resort-casinos on the Strip are going out of their way to create over-the-top experiences where average Joes and Janes can live out their fantasies. The number of high-profile nightclubs and trendy lounges continues to grow, each attempting to trump the other in order to attract not just high rollers, but A-list celebrities and the publicity that surrounds them. The latest converts to the Vegas nightlife scene are people who come to the city to lounge by the pool by day and party at the clubs into the early morning hours by night.

The Strip became a nightlife capital in the latter half of the '90s, drawing favorable comparisons to Ibiza, Spain, among "clubbers" worldwide. A wave of large dance clubs, such as the Luxor's Ra and the Hard Rock Hotel's Baby's (now Body English), opened up, followed by a trendy batch of cozier ultralounges like the Bellagio's Light and MGM Grand's Tabú.

The game of one-upmanship has continued -- recent additions that have kept the city hopping include the expansive PURE nightclub, at Caesars Palace; Mix, atop The Hotel at Mandalay Bay; and the redesigned Whiskey, at Green Valley Ranch. There's also the sizzling burlesque trend. Big in 1950s Vegas, bawdy burlesque lounges have made a comeback, with three new clubs dedicated to the art of striptease. Tangerine was the first to enter the public eye when it opened at Treasure Island (TI) in 2004. Ivan Kane then brought his popular Hollywood "back-alley" bump-and-grind Forty Deuce to Mandalay Bay, and the famous Pussycat Dolls opened an offshoot of its L. A. club in Caesars Palace in early 2005.

Like everything else in Vegas, the nightlife scene tries to be all things to all people. With all these choices, it's easy to find the perfect place for your night out on the town, whether it's a chic lounge, a mega-dance club, or even a strip joint.
 

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