{"id":90349,"date":"2022-05-01T22:53:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T05:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90349"},"modified":"2022-05-01T22:53:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T05:53:17","slug":"vegas-comings-and-goings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/05\/01\/vegas-comings-and-goings\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Comings and Goings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Adele <\/strong>is in a pickle.&nbsp; <em>Caesars<\/em> <em>Palace<\/em> has made it clear that her aborted residency must debut this summer or there will be dire financial consequences.&nbsp; As you\u2019ll recall, she pulled the plug on the production literally hours before it was supposed to debut.&nbsp; The major problem was that she never jived with the concept of designer <strong>Esmeralda Devlin <\/strong>\u2013 which is fascinating since she designed Adele\u2019s 2016 world tour.&nbsp; But, no matter \u2013 the songstress has fired her entire creative team.&nbsp; In their place, she has hired <strong>Kim Gavin <\/strong>and <strong>Stufish <\/strong>\u2013 I say as if I know what a Stufish is.&nbsp; I know Starfish, but I suspect that\u2019s a different thing.&nbsp; Sorry, Charlie.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Vegas, <strong>Dionne Warwick <\/strong>has cancelled her residency at <em>The Stirling Club<\/em>.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s start with the fact that nobody in Vegas has ever heard of <em>The Stirling Club <\/em>&#8211; which, as it turns out, is a small supper club precipitously perched on the fringe of the famed Vegas Strip.&nbsp; If you head to the south side of Las Vegas Boulevard, it is kinda across the street from the <em>Circus Circus <\/em>RV Lot.&nbsp; You know what they say \u2013 location, location, location.&nbsp; After six shows, Dionne herself put the kibosh on the residency &#8211; which was supposed to run until the end of the year.&nbsp; Alas, <em>The Stirling Club <\/em>was renovated to Dionne&#8217;s standards, and now it sits there with no act.&nbsp; Might I suggest <strong>Carrot Top<\/strong>?&nbsp; Or <strong>Gallagher<\/strong>?&nbsp; If nothing else, they&#8217;d make a bundle selling slickers to the people in the front rows.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adele is in a pickle.&nbsp; Caesars Palace has made it clear that her aborted residency must debut this summer or there will be dire financial consequences.&nbsp; As you\u2019ll recall, she pulled the plug on the production literally hours before it was supposed to debut.&nbsp; The major problem was that she never jived with the concept<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90350,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90349\/revisions\/90350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}