Modified On January 20, 2011
Here is the LVR-J article by Mike Weatherford. And here’s the oddest part, a quote from comic John Padon, one of the partners in the new venture:
Righthaven LLC has teamed up with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Denver Post to sue ‘mom and pop’ websites, as well as nonprofit, political action, public interest, writers, and forum board operators for copyright violations. The strategy of Righthaven is to sue hundreds and thousands of these websites and counts on the fact that many are unfunded and will be forced to settle out of court. Nearly all cases are being filed in a Nevada Federal Court and must be fought in this jurisdiction. You are not safe from Righthaven if you are out-of-state.
We have removed the quote in order to protect ourselves from legal action.
Huh? Say wha?!? But, wait, there’s more:
Righthaven LLC has teamed up with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Denver Post to sue ‘mom and pop’ websites, as well as nonprofit, political action, public interest, writers, and forum board operators for copyright violations. The strategy of Righthaven is to sue hundreds and thousands of these websites and counts on the fact that many are unfunded and will be forced to settle out of court. Nearly all cases are being filed in a Nevada Federal Court and must be fought in this jurisdiction. You are not safe from Righthaven if you are out-of-state.
We have removed the quote in order to protect ourselves from legal action.
Let’s recap: Three comics in front of a brick wall is “so 1985,” but comics with burlesque is avant garde? In reality, it’s so 1955.
Sex and comedy? They know what they’re doing. They’ve been in the desert for a long time. (To paraphrase Joe Mantell‘s most famous line, “Forget it, Jake. It’s Vegas.”)
And Weatherford’s been in the desert for a long time– He interviewed the Halves of the Staff for a nice Valentine’s Day piece back in 1993! So he knows the landscape and chronicles all the changes in the Vegas comedy scene in this fine article.
We’ll be in town from the 5th through the 13th (The Male Half is at the Comedy Club at the Riv), so we’ll probably hop on over to the new room at the Harmon. And then again in August, when the Female Half plays that same room.
It’ll be in tomorrow’s Las Vegas Review-Journal. A story by Mike Weatherford will tell of a new comedy club opening on the Vegas Strip. Sin City Comedy Club will open at the Harmon Theater, next to the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.
It will feature three comics, one show a night, seven nights a week at 7 PM. The late show will be the current occupant of the theater, John Edward Szeles, better known as The Amazing Johnathan.
Opening night, appropriately enough, is Wednesday, April 1. Details will follow.