High-End Sneakers and Cigars Totally Your Thing? Check Out "The Fresh Ones" Event!

Eight Lounge, the sophisticated and modern cigar and spirits lounge located inside Resorts World Las Vegas, will celebrate the love of cigars and sneakers at 2024’s first Sticks and Kicks “The Fresh Ones” event, starting at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 1. More information on the event can be found here.

Sticks & Kicks aims to bring these two communities together to celebrate the things they love with a refined evening filled with style and fun, so lace up and kick back at Eight Lounge with like-minded fans of high-end sneakers and cigars. DJ J-Krazy, a Las Vegas local with a track record of masterfully playing the best hits from the golden era of hip hop, 90’s and early 2000s, will provide the soundtrack for the evening.

To get the party started, a hosted bar will be available from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. featuring signature Sticks & Kicks cocktails such as the sweet and tangy Howler Head Old Fashioned made with Howler Head banana whiskey, bitters and honey and ginger syrup or the Jalisco Mule made with Patrón reposado, lime and Fever Tree ginger beer, among others.

Located in The District of Resorts World Las Vegas, Eight Lounge is open Monday through Friday from 4 p.m. to close and Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. to close. For more information and to make a reservation, contact (702) 676-7405 or visit eightloungelv.com

Photo courtesy of Clique Hospitality

Ready for Some Beautiful Ladies! Score A Free Fantasy Poster!

The award-winning topless female revue FANTASY: The Strip's Sexiest Tease at Luxor Hotel and Casino will share the football spirit by gifting football fans during their shows Wednesday, Feb. 7 to Sunday, Feb. 11. FANTASY is scheduled to perform at 10:30 p.m. during Big Game week, and tickets starting at $39.95 may be purchased here. 

 Any audience member with a Big Game ticket or wearing apparel from one of the teams participating in the game will be able to pick up a complimentary FANTASY poster featuring the alluring ladies of the cast at the merchandise counter. All guests can purchase additional FANTASY-branded treasures, including the new “2024 Under the Candela-Bra" calendar featuring sensuous pictures of the dancers seen in the show.  

 

FANTASY show times are scheduled nightly at 10:30 p.m. inside the Atrium Showroom and an additional 8 p.m. show on Sundays, with the exception of Sunday, Feb. 11. All guests attending the show must be at least 18 years of age or older with valid ID. For a full schedule and tickets, please visit FANTASYLuxor.com. Pre-show VIP experiences are also available on the website including an intimate tour and a souvenir bag which includes the new calendar and other FANTASY-branded gifts, some blackouts may apply. Tickets are also available at the Luxor box office or by calling 702.262.4400. 

Apply Today: More than $1 Million in Scholarships Available to Students Pursuing Restaurant and Hospitality Careers

 Nearly $1 million in scholarships are now available to post-secondary students pursuing one of the restaurant and hospitality industry’s myriad occupations. All individuals are encouraged to apply through March 15 at ChooseRestaurants.org/Scholarships. 

Available through the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF), academic scholarships are intended to cultivate the vast career opportunities available in the restaurant and hospitality industry – which offers more than 60 different professions. The 2024 application is open to students at all stages of their lives, whether career changers or high-school students pursuing an industry-related post-secondary degree. Financial awards range from $2,500 to $10,000 and can be used toward tuition and fees, books, room and board, and other school-related expenses.

“Our industry is vibrant, growing, and offers unlimited advancement potential for the people who want to invest in their careers,” said NRAEF president Rob Gifford. “These scholarships are a valuable way we’re equipping students from all walks of life with resources to reach for their dreams and supporting their formation as future restaurant industry leaders.” 

Last year, close to 300 people, ranging from 17 to 66 years old, received a NRAEF scholarship to support associate and bachelor-level studies in culinary arts, supply chain management, human resources, tourism and hospitality management, computer science, and more. Together, they represent the growing diversity in the industry, with nearly 47 percent self-identifying as a member of a community of color and 33 percent indicating they are the first generation in their families to pursue a post-secondary degree. Learn more about the 2023 class of scholarship recipients here. 

Funding for 2024 NRAEF scholarships is supported by: 

• Burger King Foundation 

• The Coca-Cola Company 

• Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers

• DiRoNA

• Darden Foundation 

• Glenn Petrini Smile Award

• HJ Heinz Foundation 

• Hormel 

• The J.M. Smucker Company

• PepsiCo

• Rachael Ray’s Yum-O! Organization 

• Rich Family Foundation 

• UniPro

• Women’s Foodservice Forum 

For full details, and to apply for a 2024 NRAEF scholarship now through March 15, visit ChooseRestaurants.org/Scholarships.

Two More Week-Ends Of Playoff Football! Check Out This #AYCE At Proper Eats Food Hall

Proper Eats Food Hall, a collection of highly sought-after imports and only-in-Las Vegas destinations inside ARIA Resort & Casino, will be extending the offer of their all-you-can-eat Ultimate Tailgate Package throughout the professional football playoffs on Sunday, Jan. 21; and Sunday, Jan. 28.

Priced at $65, the Ultimate Tailgate package will include unlimited eats at nearly all of Proper Eats’ concepts, including Lola’s Burgers, Wexler’s Deli, Seoul Bird, Egghead, Pizzaoki, Shalom Y’all, Laughing Buddha and Easy’s Donuts. Guests can add cut-rolled sushi from Temaki for an additional $20. The package is available only to guests seated in the Proper Bar area and food orders will be taken in increments of two. Guests will be limited to three hours to take advantage of the package and everyone at the same table must participate in the offer. Beverages, including soft drinks, draft and bottled beers, wines and handcrafted cocktails, are available to order separately.

Proper Eats is open daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday; and 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. More information about Proper Eats can be found on the website at www.propereatslasvegas.com

Get Your Slice of The Pie For Charity! Now At Evel Pie!

Mark McMillian

Evel Pie has announced they are kicking off their Charity Pie program for 2024 with a bang, collaborating again with NFL and ‘Next Level Chef’ veteran Mark McMillian for a third time. Now available, McMillian’s special “Next Level Cheese Steak Slice” is made with a ranch and garlic oil base, mozzarella, seasoned cheese steak beef, green peppers and finished with Grill’n McMillian Mesquite olive oil. 

Created in collaboration with Evel Pie Executive Chef Richard Verhagen, the pizza will be sold by the slice only for $7 each, with $1 from each again benefiting St. Jude’s Ranch for Children, whose mission is to transform the lives of abused and at-risk children, young adults, and families by empowering them to create new choices and new hope in a caring community.

“Every time I collaborate with Richard and the Evel Pie team is better than the last, and I couldn’t be more excited about this pizza,” says McMillian. “Getting to create something delicious and give something back at the same time–you can’t beat that!”

Live Hard, Ride Fast, Eat Pizza. Evel Pie, inspired by legendary daredevil Evel Knievel, celebrates one of the most influential figures to the city of Las Vegas. Created by High Horse Entertainment in collaboration with the Knievel family, Evel Pie offers New York pizza slices with an array of classic and exotic toppings, dive bar cocktails and local beers until the early hours of the morning in an all-American environment featuring memorabilia, pinball machines, a stuffed bighorn sheep and a statue of the man himself. Evel Pie has won several accolades including recognition from the International Pizza Expo (Second Place, Gluten Free pizza), Best of Las Vegas (Readers’ Choice), Las Vegas Weekly (Best Pizza In Las Vegas), Gayot (Top 3 Best Vegas Pizza 2020), Silver State Culinary Awards (Best Pizza) and more.

To date, Evel Pie has raised and/or given away tens of thousands of dollars to support local charities and those affected by crisis. 

Evel Pie is located at 508 East Fremont Street, Las Vegas, NV 89101.

(CREDIT: Courtesy Evel Pie)

The Year of The Dragon Roars Into The STRAT! Great Food And Entertainment!

 

Celebrate the Year of the Dragon at The STRAT Hotel, Casino & Tower with traditional dishes offered at CHĪ Asian Kitchen, a celebratory lion dance performance and more offered in honor of the Lunar New Year.

CHĪ Asian Kitchen, serving authentic and reimagined Asian dishes, will offer an array of traditional Lunar New Year dishes from Friday, Feb. 9 through Sunday, Feb. 11. With ingredients that symbolize prosperity, happiness, good fortune and abundance in the new year, selections will include Soup of the Sea, made with lobster, snow crab, scallops, shrimp, green onions and shiitake mushrooms, priced at $25; Peking duck salad with watermelon radish, cucumbers, mandarin oranges and almond ginger-plum vinaigrette, priced at $45; Shaoxing drunken chicken with baby bock choy, ginger sow, Huadiao rice wine and goji berries, priced at $33; and seafood hot pot made with scallops, shrimp, littleneck clams, black cod, lettuce, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, green onions and ginger garlic sauce, priced at $36. A festive cocktail, “Year of the Wood Dragon,” will be available, made with Don Julio Reposado Tequila, Haiken lychee vodka, yuzu, lime, strawberry and pink peppercorn reduction and aquafaba, priced at $13. The full menu will also be available.

The festivities will continue on The STRAT’s casino floor, where a traditional lion dance will be performed by Lohan School of Shaolin at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 10. One of the most popular traditions during Lunar New Year, lion dances are believed to bring prosperity and good fortune for the upcoming year. Performers dance in extravagant lion costumes, which symbolize power, wisdom and superiority, and in celebration of the Year of the Dragon, a special 10-person dragon will be added to the performance.

Guests may try their luck and play for the chance to win free slot play, promo chips, dining credit, Tower admissions, show tickets and more during the money tree gaming promotion. Held from 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 16 and Saturday, Feb. 17, guests will receive a prize envelope for every 1,500 base points earned while playing their favorite games. Up to three envelopes may be earned.

More information is available on the website at www.TheSTRAT.com.

Photo courtesy of Golden Entertainment, Inc.

Pinkbox Doughnuts Gets' SPOOKY! Taste the Night Crawler and More!

 On Monday, Oct. 2, Pinkbox Doughnuts® will begin its month-long celebration of Halloween with an extended line up of adorably spooky and delicious doughnut creations, including:

• The Vampire -- Glazed raised ring with vampire teeth toy and vampire décor

• Halloween Swirl -- Orange frosted raised shell filled with cheesecake and topped with a purple swirl

• Halloween Mummy -- Chocolate frosted raised shell filled with cookies n cream whip, topped with Oreo Crumble and mummy décor

• Night Crawler -- Chocolate frosted raised shell topped with green frosting, Oreo crumble, and gummy worms

• Spider Ring -- Pink frosted "Ube" (purple sweet potato) cake topped with spider web decor and a spider ring

• Chocolate Jack -- White frosted raised shell filled with chocolate whip and topped with Jack Skellington décor

• Creepy Crawler -- Orange frosted raised ring topped with a glazed chocolate Pee Weez and spider décor

• It's Ya Birthday -- White frosted raised shell filled with birthday cake whip and topped with blonde Oreo and party décor

• Frankie Bar -- Green frosted raised bar filled with chocolate whip and topped with Frankenstein décor

• Strawberry Mummy Doughsicle -- Strawberry frosted raised bar filled with white whip and topped with mummy décor

• Booo -- White frosted raised ghost filled with confetti whip and topped with ghost décor

• Eye See You -- White frosted croissant doughnut topped with eyeball décor

• Purple People Eater -- Vanilla cake topped with grape buttercream, covered in purple icing and monster décor

• Vampire Pooh -- Chocolate cake topped with chocolate buttercream, covered with chocolate icing, Halloween sprinkles, and vampire décor

• Vegan Pumpkin -- Orange frosted raised vegan shell filled with pumpkin vegan buttercream and topped with pumpkin décor

• Halloween Pee Weez -- Glazed vanilla cake Pee Weez with Halloween Sprinkles

 

The Halloween doughnuts will be available until Oct. 31 at all Pinkbox locations as well as for pre-order online.

 

Rounding out the October doughnut offerings is October’s doughnut of the month: the Great Grape, a purple frosted raised shell filled with grape whip, topped with grape sugar and a grape rosette. The Great Grape is also available from Oct. 2 through Oct. 31 at all Pinkbox Doughnuts locations.

 

For more information on Pinkbox Doughnuts, store locations, hours, and doughnut varieties, please visit www.pinkboxdoughnuts.com.

 

Driving School B.R.A.K.E.S. Has Upcoming Sessions with Drag Racing Champion Doug Herbert

For the first time in its 15-year history, the B.R.A.K.E.S. (Be Responsible And Keep Everyone Safe) national teen pro-active driving school founded by multi-time Top Fuel drag racing champion Doug Herbert will hold training sessions in Las Vegas.

Taking place on October 7 and 8 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the free program features hands-on instruction in distracted driving awareness, panic braking, drop-wheel/off-road recovery, crash avoidance and car control/skid recovery – all the biggest causes of crashes for new drivers.

Each session features three hours of training, starting with a classroom presentation followed by extensive instruction behind the wheel of brand-new vehicles from the Kia lineup. To register, please visit www.putonthebrakes.org.

Established in 2008 following a tragic car crash that claimed the lives of Herbert’s sons Jon and James, the GuideStar Platinum-rated 501(c)(3) addresses a leading cause of death among teens – car crashes – helping to improve road safety and prevent other parents from facing the heartbreaking loss of a child. To date, B.R.A.K.E.S. has trained more than 110,000 teens and their parents, saving countless lives and making U.S. roadways safer.

Through their participation in the pro-active defensive driving program, B.R.A.K.E.S. graduates are 64 percent less likely to get in a crash within their first three years of driving, according to an independent study conducted by Dr. Paul Friday of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

The weekend in Las Vegas is among the many first-ever visits to new locations for B.R.A.K.E.S. in 2023, aligning with the program’s goal of hosting an unprecedented number of training sessions throughout the U.S. in 2023.

In addition to Nevada, B.R.A.K.E.S. will visit new locations in Kentucky, and Texas this year, while having already completed its first-ever training in Nebraska in August. The program also returns to popular venues in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

Expansion of the life-saving program has been facilitated by three fleets of 22 all-new vehicles provided by Kia. This includes popular models Carnival, Forte, Niro, Rio, Seltos, Sorento, Sportage, Soul and Telluride.

“The growth of our program has exceeded any expectations I could ever have had when B.R.A.K.E.S. was established 15 years ago in memory of my two sons Jon and James” explains Herbert. “On behalf of our entire organization, I’d like to thank Kia America for its support, which has been invaluable in helping us make U.S. roadways safer. Together, we’re helping teens and their parents become more confident and prepared behind the wheel.”

B.R.A.K.E.S. is NOT Driver’s Ed. It is a FREE, hands-on, advanced driver training program taught by professional instructors, including current and former members of law enforcement, professional racers and stunt drivers. B.R.A.K.E.S. maintains a low two-to-one student-to-instructor ratio to maximize educational effectiveness.

About B.R.A.K.E.S.

Doug Herbert’s B.R.A.K.E.S. (Be Responsible and Keep Everyone Safe) is a GuideStar Platinum-rated 501(c)3 non-profit whose mission is to prevent injuries and save lives by training and educating teenage drivers and their parents about the importance of safe and responsible driving. B.R.A.K.E.S. was founded in 2008 after Top Fuel drag racer Doug Herbert lost his two young sons, Jon and James, in a tragic car crash. Today, more than 110,000 teens and parents from 50 different states and five countries have participated in the B.R.A.K.E.S. intensive training course.

"Disco Divas" Sizzle on The Stage at Alexis Park!

 Remember roller skating and disco? What about hot summer nights listening to Donna Summer and Tina Turner's songs? Step back in time and groove along with these FANTASTIC “Disco Divas!

The iconic Cher puts in an appearance as does the perky and bubbly Olivia Newton-John. The new show is currently running at the Alexis Park Showroom and it is sure to take you back to “Last Dance”, “Let’s Get Physical” “I Feel Love” and “Do You Believe.”  “Rolling on the River” energized the audience and the audience LOVED it! 

These ladies know how to perform and their voices match our beloved Disco Divas perfectly. The showroom is intimate and all the seats offer great views of the stage. This show is fun, glitzy, and feels good!

During sets, TVs are set up by the stage and display iconic commercials and other fun remembrances from the 70’s. Does anyone remember “my bologna has a first name…?” This snippet brought claps and cheers from the audience. It is little touches such as this that ensures the audience has a super enjoyable experience.

Escape the Vegas heat and enjoy some sizzlin’ hot fun with the “Disco Divas” now playing at the Alexis Park Showroom. Now playing every Friday and Saturday at 5pm.

Alexis Park Resort

375 E. Harmon Ave.

Las Vegas, NV 89169

 www.ticketkite.com/disco_divas

 

Taste The Tequila And Meet Movie-Star Mark Wahlberg!!

Showcasing his Flecha Azul Tequila, Mark Wahlberg will make a splash at SOAK Pool at Palms Casino Resort. Admission (and parking) is free to SOAK Pool, guests must be over 21 and doors open at 11 a.m.  While at SOAK Pool, Wahlberg will pose for photos, interact with guests, and may even get behind the bar to serve a few drinks.  Pool season is in full swing and SOAK Pool is the perfect place to soak up the sun. Featuring two levels and a variety of ways to make a splash, there’s something for everyone. Lounge at one of the two main pools or get a private cabana with a plunge pool overlooking the main oasis. Looking for a more luxurious experience? Be sure to check out the VIP pool on the top level. With its own bar and private cabanas, it’s the perfect place to enjoy a drink and relax in style. To reserve a cabana or for more information, visit  https://www.palms.com/experiences/soak-pool/

When:

Saturday, June 24 

Doors open at 11 a.m.

Where:

SOAK POOL

Palms Casino Resort 

4321 W Flamingo Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89103