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Former Las Vegas Review-Journal entertainment columnist Mike Weatherford’s Cult Vegas chronicles the major moments — the camp, the extreme, the awful — of Vegas’s Golden Age, capturing the magic and mystique of Las Vegas’ first half-century as The Entertainment Capital of the World. This gorgeous entertainment retrospective is packed with showroom esoterica, descriptions of near-forgotten corners of Vegas cult musicology, odd trivia, oddball movies, and unsung heroes of a bygone era.
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Pat Christenson’s Rock Vegas chronicles the contemporary history of concert bands, venues, promoters, and marketers, as seen through the eyes of one of the live-music industry’s most prominent participants. Christenson has been an integral part of more than 500 live-music events in Las Vegas over 35 years and in the pages of this book, he shines a spotlight on the events and circumstances and behind-the-scenes innovation that finally allowed Vegas to rock — and opened the door for the greatest live-music explosion in American-entertainment history.
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