Contest Alert: Visit Las Vegas

To enter the contest, the entrant needs to create a video explaining why they deserve to take a break in Vegas, in under 60 seconds. The winner receives a trip to Vegas. Video entries will be accepted through 3/16/09.

See YouTube Page for all the details!

The video coincides with the Vegas Bound trip - where Visit Las Vegas took the small town of Cranfills Gap, TX to Las Vegas for a much needed vacation. Videos of this trip can also be found on the YouTube page.

K-Fed named 'Father of the Year'

Las Vegas club Prive has named Britney Spears' ex-husband, Kevin Federline, "Father of the Year."

The father of Sean Preston and Jayden James, as well as two other children with ex Shar Jackson, will be honored at a June 13 party he is hosting at the club, located at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

Just last fall Details magazine also named him father of the year, a title he shared with Larry Birkhead, father of the late Anna Nicole Smith's daughter.

Last month Lindsay Lohan's mother, Dina, was named "Top Mom" by Mingling Moms Organization, a Long Island-based charity.

Donny & Marie Osmond reunite in Las Vegas

Siblings Donny and Marie Osmond will reunite for a Las Vegas variety show beginning Sept. 9.

The stars of the former "Donny & Marie" variety show will perform Tuesday-Saturday for 26 weeks at the Flamingo Las Vegas hotel and casino. According to a hotel official, the 90-minute performances will be spread over an 8-month period.

The show is being billed as "a greatest-hits multimedia spectacle on a custom stage with multiple video screens and a cast of dancers," according to the AP. Tickets go on sale Monday and range in price from $85-$115.

"My version of a variety show has been what Vegas has known thus far," said comedian and impressionist Danny Gans, a Las Vegas mainstay who will co-present the show with Chip Lightman of GansLight Entertainment. "What we have now is a true variety show which conveys the real essence of America and the country's love of homegrown talent."

The Osmonds are no strangers to the Las Vegas stage. In the 1970s, the entire musical family shared a marquee with Elvis Presley at the Old International hotel, now the Las Vegas Hilton.

"Donny and Marie are timeless entertainers and cultural icons," said Don Marrandino, president of the Flamingo Las Vegas.

Toni Braxton was the latest act at the Flamingo. "Toni Braxton: Revealed" was set to end a two-year run in August, but went on hiatus after the singer was hospitalized for chest pain April 7. She is scheduled to resume May 6.

Everclear Las Vegas Contest

Everclear are performing a special release show in support of their new album, The Vegas Years, on April 20th and the band would like you to be their guest to celebrate the release with them in Las Vegas as the event is streamed live exclusively on SyncLive.com!

Everclear along with their friends at Travelworm.com and Popculturemadness are giving away a trip for two to Las Vegas where you and a friend will get an autographed copy of the new album, have a special meet and greet with the band and will watch the whole show right from the V.I.P. section at the world famous Mandalay Bay! Enter now to flyaway with Everclear! Contest ends tomorrow at noon.

Fergie and Josh engaged

TMZ.com has reported that Josh Duhamel has popped the question to his "glamorous" fiancee Fergie. The report says that the proposal was made "recently", but not on Christmas Day. We certainly wish them all the best, the couple has been together since 2004.

OJ Simpson runs his own "sting" operation

Las vegas police are question O.J. Simpson about this involvement in a private " sting" operation that took place at Palace Station hotel in Las Vegas. Apparently, Mr. Simpson was given information from a sports memorabilia dealer, that some collecters were illegally selling sports memorabilia that belonged to Simpson. Alfred Beardsley, the sports memorabila collecter, spoke exclusively to TMZ.com and claims that Simpson and others posed as customers who wanted to buy the suit Simpson wore when he was acquitted.
Beardsley says they entered the room and two men drew guns. He said Simpson was calling the shots during the alleged robbery.
Earlier today, Simpson told the AP he didn't break into the room, he just took what was his. According to another witness that was in the hotel room at the time, Bruce L. Fromong, claimed that the men had weapons and held them at gun point, but Las Vegas police have recovered no weapons at this time.