Las Vegas

Fore! Grab your putters and head over to Las Vegas’s hottest mini golfing green, Kiss fans! And guess what? It’s a glow-in-the-dark course, too. How cool, right?

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images If you were Motley Crue‘s notoriously decadent singer Vince Neil, where else would you want to celebrate your birthday but Las Vegas? Neil’s 51st birthday on Feb. 8 coincided neatly with the band’s residence at Sin City’s Hard Rock Hotel And Casino, which runs through Feb. 19, and his bandmates commemorated the occasion in style.

In anticipation of the band’s upcoming Vegas residency — kicking off tonight (Feb. 3) at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino — Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman has proclaimed today Motley Crue Day.

Gene Simmons always seems to get the last word and now he’s getting the last hole – on the very first Kiss-branded mini-golf course, which is scheduled to open March 2012 in Las Vegas.

Sin City, the rumors are true! Motley Crue announced that they will be performing a residency at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in February of 2012. For their sakes, we can only be grateful this didn’t happen 30 years ago, before they become more responsible adults.

Motley Crue will apparently follow in the footsteps of fellow classic rockers Elton John and Rod Stewart when they begin a residency in Las Vegas next year. The Las Vegas Sun reports a deal with the Hard Rock Hotel will be announced before Thanksgiving.

Further solidifying the city’s reputation as an adult playground, visitors to Las Vegas can now test out heavy machinery such as bulldozers and excavators in a giant “sandbox” located right off the strip.

Alice Cooper has revealed that upon meeting Elvis Presley for the first time, The King handed him a pistol and told him to put the gun to his (Elvis’s) head. Speaking to London’s Daily Mirror, Cooper said the incident occurred in 1971, in Elvis’s penthouse suite in a Las Vegas hotel: “Elvis took me into the kitchen, opened a drawer, and pulled out a loaded pistol, telling me to put it to his head.