EPS Enterprise, owner of the Strip's Club Seven is rolling the dice and heading Downtown, with plans to open a second nightspot in the burgeoning Entertainment District, according to Club Seven's president, Zohar Robin.
The club's future address will be at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and East Fremont Street, currently occupied by a 7-Eleven and two other businesses.
Working with the city's Office of Business Development, Robin described it as a "big project," with a planned 15,000 square feet over two floors and nightly performances by DJs and live acts.
"It's not about just making money," Robin says, "but also about progress and the future (of Las Vegas' Downtown)."
The district is already home to Take 1 Nightclub and Benedetto's Italian Restaurant, the Beauty Bar and Hogs & Heifers, with the Downtown Cocktail Bar also in the works. The area is centered on East Fremont Street, from Las Vegas Boulevard to Eighth Street.
Fans of electronica and internationally famous DJs can rest easy knowing that Ice Metaclub isn't going anywhere. A recent item by the Las Vegas Review Journal's gossip columnist Norm Clarke stated that W Hotels is planning something for the parcel at 200 E. Harmon Ave., leaving it to readers to infer that the club would be demolished to make way for one of the chain's luxury properties. Not so, says Ice's director of marketing and special events, Marc Jay.
"Ice still has three years left of its lease and denies rumors concerning any plans for the W Hotel to redevelop the land," Jay said in a statement.
"With the recent addition of our new resident DJ, Las Vegas' own homegrown DJ Create, and a plethora of the biggest talent lineup on the West Coast, we would like to reassure our customers that we have no plans to vacate and will remain the driving force behind the ever-growing electronic music scene within Las Vegas."
We're in no position to throw stones about making mistakes in print, though.
It turns out that someone over at Southwest Construction misread a press release in reporting that the name of the Hooters Casino Hotel poolside bar is going to be Nipples. As much as the Weekly is enamoured with the name, we are saddened to say that the actual name will be Nipper's. The bar's logo is the cartoon image of a pirate with an eye patch, earring and gold tooth, which we can only assume was purchased at a Treasure Island garage sale. (On second thought, since it really wasn't our mistake to begin with, we'll reserve our stone-throwing rights ... for this week.)
Things will be getting a little spicier in Las Vegas thanks to Great White Entertainment and Sin gentlemen's club. Great White, known for its annual Fetish and Fantasy Halloween Ball, will be launching a series of R-rated parties at the massive Russell Road strip joint. Scheduled for Labor Day, New Year's Eve and Memorial Day, promoters promise a "massive, mind-bending, erotically charged throng of wild, partying humanity" in a press release.
Slated entertainment for Labor Day are DJs Scotty Boy and Miss Lisa and San Diego's Atash Maya fire and dance troupe; New Year's Eve will see Scooter & LaVelle, Scotty Boy and Atash Maya; with Memorial Day's lineup to be announced.
While the 20,000-square-foot venue will allow acts to show more skin, nudity won't be tolerated among guests, warns Great White, citing Clark County Code Section 8.20.020, which among other things, bans "the showing of the male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, whether covered or not."
Someone needs to tell the county that law is getting broken at strip clubs all the time. Or not.
Tabú is being told to immediately change its name by Tabú.
It seems that in the nightclub world, imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery. A club in Denver opened recently with the same name as Las Vegas' famous ultralounge. Located upstairs from the topless club and steakhouse Diamond Cabaret, Colorado's Tabú is an "8,000 square-foot, high-end dance lounge with plush décor, cutting-edge music" and an interactive lighting system by Reatrix, according to a press release from the business' owner, VCG Holding Corp. Reatrix is the same equipment as used by Vegas' Tabú. Tory Lowrie, VCG's chief executive officer, goes on to explain that the expected revenue from Tabú will help offset costs from purchasing the strip-joint restaurant.
Since learning about the new business—ironically enough through an e-mail sent from Tabú to Michael Milner, MGM Grand's executive director of Studio 54 and that other Tabú—MGM-Mirage's lawyers issued a cease-and-desist order against VCG Holding, which also owns Diamond Cabaret and other strip clubs in five cities, under the rubric of PT's Showclubs.
No word on whether Vegas' PT's chain is contemplating legal action also.