After a phenomenal two-year run, Lewis Black is ready for a vacation.

Mike Weatherford
Flamingo Las Vegas entertainers are becoming branded with “Dancing with the Stars,” but in two out of three cases it’s not an association the casino is bragging about.
Las Vegas is a city of unusual professions. Drive-through wedding minister? Gondolier? Check.
The press release went out on the day of Cher’s Aug. 6 return to the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. The pop diva would debut "a new ensemble … an eyeful of glitter and sequins" for her "Believe" encore.
That’s right. A press release. For a costume.
There’s boring bad and there’s brilliant bad. Even when you’re talking topless vampires, as in “Bite,” they couldn’t shake their groove fangs all of four years without a spark of warped genius.
If your name is Cher, it’s a good summer in Las Vegas. Everyone else had to work a little harder.