The Talk About Las Vegas Podcast | a podcast by Ira Sternberg

This week, Ira spoke with James Gavin. Author and journalist James Gavin , whose latest book, “Is That All There Is-The Strange Life of Peggy Lee,”, is Manhattan-born and a graduate of Fordham University. Aside from his dozens of features in the New York Times, he has written for Vanity Fair, Time Out New York, […]

This week, Ira spoke with Tom Ryan. Tom Ryan, who opened Toms Urban on the Las Vegas Strip at New York-New York Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas in December 2014, is not your typical restaurateur. He is not a chef and didn’t study restaurant management. In fact, he never expected to find himself in the restaurant […]

This week, Ira spoke with Norm Clarke. Norm Clarke’s popular “Vegas Confidential” column is featured Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the Las Vegas Review Journal. Clarke is a Montana native, whose background includes more than 15 years in Denver as a baseball writer, sports journalist, and man-about-town columnist. He had a 12-year stint with the […]

This week,  Ira spoke with Jack Jones. Two-time Grammy Award winner and Emmy winner, Jack Jones, whose new album, “Seriously Frank,” features a tribute to Frank Sinatra during the yearlong celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth, was born in Hollywood, California, on the night his singer/movie star father, Allan Jones, recorded his hit, […]

This week, Ira spoke with Pat Boone. The legendary Pat Boone just released a new album, “R&B Duet Hits,” with among others, James Brown, Smokey Robinson, and Earth Wind and Fire, and distributed by Cleopatra Records. With a career that has spanned more than 60 years, Boone has achieved an amazing number of accomplishments. He […]

This week, Ira spoke with Pat Boone. The legendary Pat Boone just released a new album, “R&B Duet Hits,” with among others, James Brown, Smokey Robinson, and Earth Wind and Fire, and distributed by Cleopatra Records. With a career that has spanned more than 60 years, Boone has achieved an amazing number of accomplishments. He […]

This week, Ira spoke with Mike Hammer. Comedian and magician Mike Hammer, who headlines his own show at the Four Queens, has performed his interactive act for thousands of companies, colleges, comedy clubs and casinos in all 50 states. Corporate clients have included Sony, Dell, Toyota, Lexus, Harrah’s, AT&T, Microsoft, Frito-Lay, and Symantec. Hammer was […]

This week, Ira spoke with Mike Hammer. Comedian and magician Mike Hammer, who headlines his own show at the Four Queens, has performed his interactive act for thousands of companies, colleges, comedy clubs and casinos in all 50 states. Corporate clients have included Sony, Dell, Toyota, Lexus, Harrah’s, AT&T, Microsoft, Frito-Lay, and Symantec. Hammer was […]

This week, Ira spoke with Wanda Jackson. Wanda Jackson, the Queen of Rockabilly and the first lady of Rock and Roll, will be making a rare Las Vegas appearance, headlining at Backstage Bar and Billiards in Downtown Las Vegas Saturday, October 31. Jackson was born in Maud, Oklahoma on Oct. 20, 1937. She spent her […]

This week, Ira spoke with Wanda Jackson. Wanda Jackson, the Queen of Rockabilly and the first lady of Rock and Roll, will be making a rare Las Vegas appearance, headlining at Backstage Bar and Billiards in Downtown Las Vegas Saturday, October 31. Jackson was born in Maud, Oklahoma on Oct. 20, 1937. She spent her […]