{"id":2089,"date":"2010-01-28T17:21:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T01:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2021-06-03T07:38:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:38:57","slug":"palms-matt-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/palms-matt-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Palms: “Matt Who?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Freddy Mercury<\/strong> meets Andrea Bocelli<\/strong>.” That’s one description applied to androgynous vocalist Jimmy Hopper<\/strong>, whom The Palms<\/strong> has signed for a once-a-week concert series. This is a sweet deal for customers: It’s a three-hour show and it’s free<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The seating policy is first come, first served (or, as a French monarch put it, “After me, chaos”) and one can presumably wander in and out as your fancy takes you. We’re talking an old-school Vegas lounge act here, much spoken of but rarely seen of late. (Not to beat on the Riviera<\/strong> but it generated some resentment by curtaining off its lounge and trying to run it as a profit center.)<\/p>\n

Jimmy Hopper doesn’t look<\/strong> quite like any Vegas headliner I’ve seen to date (think family-friendly Goth). Gosh knows, we could use a reprieve from the recent string of performers who all too clearly think they’d have been running with the Rat Pack<\/strong>, had they only been playing the Strip 50 years ago. (I’m looking at you, Chris Phillips<\/strong>, and you, Matt Somethingorother<\/strong>.) Short of getting Vince Neil<\/strong> to dust off his Sinatra songbook, I can’t think offhand how George Maloof<\/strong> could have done better.<\/p>\n

The Palms’ new Sunday-night crooner will be hanging out his shingle in the room which annually hosts Podcast-a-palooza<\/strong> and which is now being called “The Lounge<\/strong>.” What? That’s its old<\/em> name? Right, Palms folks did make a big deal last year of calling it something else … lemme see … oh yeah, “The Gossy Room<\/strong>.” Whatever became of that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Freddy Mercury meets Andrea Bocelli.” That’s one description applied to androgynous vocalist Jimmy Hopper, whom The Palms has signed for a once-a-week concert series. This is a sweet deal for customers: It’s a three-hour show and it’s free. The seating … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,4,64,55,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29655,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/29655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}