If you are traveling to Las Vegas this holiday weekend in hopes of seeing the Legendary Lead Singers of the Temptations tribute show at the Sahara be aware that according to our pal Mike Weatherford at the Las Vegas Review Journal the show has been temporarily halted due to an injunction filed in Los Angeles earlier this week.

The producers are scrambling to find another tribute show to put in its place until all the legalities over the Temptations and use of the name can be worked out.

Read more about here:

http://www.lvrj.com/living/13860872.html 

You can always see ex-teenage heart throb and crooner, Frankie Avalon and his pal, Bobby Rydell at the Orleans instead. 

As Las Vegas, its citizens and all those folks from out of town in support of the candidates get ready for Saturday's landmark caucus, US District Judge James Mahan has ruled against the attempt by the Teachers Union to block at large precincts on the Las Vegas Strip. 

He ruled that the Democratic Party had the right to set its own rules and that he did not want to set a precedent that could affect other caucuses throughout the country.

Speaking of people in town in support of the candidates, I ran into Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villagroisa at Dona Maria's Tamales on Las Vegas Blvd. South Saturday evening.  He took a few minutes to talk with me and I told him that I had to travel all the way to Las Vegas to finally meet my mayor.  He is in town in support of Hillary Clinton.

The Review Journal is predicting that Clinton and Romney will be the big winners on Saturday (though Obama and the Culinary Union supporters may have something to say about that).  The hotels are besieged by news crews wanting to film in the casinos.  Seems many of the crews have the same idea, have the reporter at a gaming table pushing a big tower of chips to the middle of the table so that the reporter can then say "Candidate name here is bucking the odds here in Las Vegas".  We would hope that the news coverage on Saturday will have a bit more orginiality to it.

If you live in Las Vegas and are confused about the caucus or have questions there is an article in today's Review Journal that hopes to provide the answers.

http://www.lvrj.com/news/13861052.html 

Our pals over at the Las Vegas Sun (with their new and improved website) also have some tips for those taking part in this historic event:

http://www.lasvegassun.com/politics/voterguide/2008/caucus101/ 

Doubling down as the caucus draws near (I couldn't resist, sorry). 

We are barely into 2008 and word came on Friday last week that the lobby of the first Travel Lodge was being destroyed.

This is, we believe, the first Travel Lodge that opened in Las Vegas. It is located across from Circus-Circus and the lobby fronted on Las Vegas Blvd. South.

Maxwell Kelch and his family owned this Travel Lodge when it first opened in 1957 and Kelch is credited with bringing the Travel Lodge chain to Southern Nevada.

The current owners are keeping the motel room section of the building and will rebuild a new, smaller lobby where the old one stood.

Progress, Las Vegas-style.  At least it won't be a Walgreen's.

 

Tomorrow morning's Las Vegas Review Journal is coming out in support of Barack Obama on the Democratic caucus.

On Thursday morning they will publish their pick for the Republic caucus. 

It certainly isn't politics as usual this year in Las Vegas.