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Get 2 Free Tickets to see Penn & Teller..

Get 2 Free Tickets to see Penn & Teller..

Are you a fan of Penn and Teller? Well, from now till the first of the year fans will have the opportunity to donate blood and receive free tickets to their show.

For the past 15 years, the Rio hotel-casino headliners have partnered with United Blood Services to remind people of the need for blood donations during the Christmas and New Year seasons.

Fans who donate blood now through Friday, Jan. 1 will receive two complimentary tickets to Penn and Teller’s Las Vegas show. The vouchers can be used any time, except Saturdays, through July 31, 2016. 

United Blood Services is located at: 6930 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas

Also, donations are accepted at these two locations… 

4950 W. Craig Rd.
Las Vegas, NV 89130

601 Whitney Ranch Dr. Bldg. D, Suite 20
Henderson, NV 89014

AUDIENCES ARE EATING UP PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON AT FLAMINGO..

AUDIENCES ARE EATING UP PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON AT FLAMINGO..

You won’t see him frolic in the autumn mist. Not in a land called Honalee. Not anywhere. (Some mythical being immortalized in poem and song already cornered that shtick.) You might not even think he stands outs in a crowd—just another green (with bursts of red and gold), grumpy, scaly creature walking his Chihuahua on the Strip. And yet …

“There’s nothing women in Las Vegas love more than a magic dragon,” says John van der Put—Piff the Magic Dragon to you—as Angela Stabile, co-producer of his headliner gig at the Flamingo, can affirm. “He gets proposals all the time,” she says with a touch of amazement. Piff clarifies: “It’s the joy I exude.”

Perhaps it’s the joy of dyspepsia. At least onstage. Anyone who’s seen the London-born, dragon-costumed comedian/magician in Vegas venues, at tour stops and on America’s Got Talent—where he advanced to the season finale before being bumped from the competition—knows his personality is built on a foundation of dour, deadpan ’tude. He looks like he’d rather be anywhere else—and there’s nowhere else he wants to be.  Read more…

http://lasvegasmagazine.com/entertainment/2015/dec/11/piff-the-magic-dragon-flamingo-comedy/#/0

THE KATS REPORT: EVEN AMID TURMOIL, MURRAY SAWCHUCK CONTINUES TO RAISE HIS PUBLIC PROFILE..

THE KATS REPORT: EVEN AMID TURMOIL, MURRAY SAWCHUCK CONTINUES TO RAISE HIS PUBLIC PROFILE..

Over the past year, Murray Sawchuck has felt the loss. He’s lost his venue. He’s lost his father. He’s lost his onstage assistant and wife—one and the same—to a fellow Las Vegas magician. But Sawchuck is not at a loss for words. He’s not lost focus, his zeal for performing or his uncanny acumen for promotion.

And good for him. Sawchuck is the recently star-crossed yet indefatigable afternoon magician at Planet Hollywood’s Sin City Theatre. The 13-year Vegas performer is holding tight to his daily 4 p.m. time slot like an NFL running back protecting the football. He’s uniformly billed as the Celebrity Magician, familiar for his cobalt-blue suit and shock of high-rising blond locks.

“This suit is from Armani—Salvation Armani,” he jokes, characteristic of his throwback comedy stylings. As he produces a deck of cards, he scans the audience and says, “I usually do this card trick for 1,000 people. But 82 will do.” READ MORE…

http://lasvegasweekly.com/ae/2015/nov/04/the-kats-report-murray-sawchuck-turmoil-raise-prof/

Piff the Magic Dragon, Mr. Piffles to headline at Flamingo..

Piff the Magic Dragon, Mr. Piffles to headline at Flamingo..

It had to happen! The applause was too raucous. British comedian and magician John van der Put, who is better known by his stage name Piff the Magic Dragon, has landed his own Strip variety show.

And he’ll have as his co-star Mr. Piffles, the “world’s first magic performing Chihuahua.” Expect to hear the official announcement any day now that he will star in Bugsy’s Cabaret theater at Flamingo Las Vegas, where “X Burlesque” adult cabaret sizzles nightly in a later time slot. Read more….

http://lasvegassun.com/vegasdeluxe/2015/oct/26/piff-the-magic-dragon-mr-piffles-headline-flamingo/