Diva Land in Las Vegas

Diva Land in Las Vegas

Frank Marino is the star and emcee of a fabulous show featuring the best female Diva impersonators in Las Vegas. Imperial Palace has found its Queen at last. Frank takes the stage 6 nights a week wearing glamorous costumes. He makes a spectacular entrance and changes into new gowns between each act.
 His wigs and jewelry are beautiful. Feathers, lace and glitter are a girl’s best friend as is demonstrated in his gowns. Frank is definitely Joan Rivers and his quick wit and humor is unsurpassed. He didn’t miss a beat in the delivery of his jokes.


Frank Marino as Joan Rivers

For 75 minutes the audience is electrified by the dancers, and the music. It is a non stop, high energy show from all the performers. The likeness is uncanny and the entertainers have perfected the moves and gestures.

Madonna is the first one to come on stage and she is fabulous.The audience is loving it as she dances with her boy toy dancers. Also commanding the stage is Brittany Spears whose likeness is spot on. The song selections are perfect and the audience is feeling the rhythm and the beat.


Madonna                                               Brittany Spears

Beyonce is portrayed and exaggerated as having a big butt and it is comical watching her dance.  It was amusing and all in good fun which brought a lot of laughter from the crowd.


     Beyonce


    Dancers

My favorite performer was Cher in her sexy see through black leather outfit. I remember when Cher went on the naval ship to perform for the service men and they were all going wild. I guess it was because they hadn’t seen anyone like her for quite some time and to think that her son was playing in her band in the back ground.


     Cher
Divas also feature Diana Ross, Dolly Parton, Lady GaGa, Celine Dion, Tina Turner, Liza Minnelli and Bette Midler. It was believable watching them going through their routines and you could see that they truly believed they were the star.


     Cast


After the end of the show Frank greeted every person coming out of the theater and took the time to take pictures and talk to the fans. He makes everyone feel comfortable and that is why I will call him the gracious Queen of the Imperial Palace. Long live the Queen.

                                            Nikki Artale and Frank Marino

The Biggest Tattoo Show on Earth

Mario Barth has once again put together a spectacular convention which showcased some of the world’s top artists and traditional tattoo masters.

This historical event was held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on Oct 2-4, 2009 where the top professionals held seminars and one-on-one sessions. Mario Barth is the owner and chief tattoo artist at Starlight Tattoo, with 20,000 customers, making it the most successful studio in the world. Mario has an extraordinary celebrity clientele, including Sylvester Stallone.


Sylvester Stallone Mario Barth                 Sylvester Stallone


Mario Barth

It looked like Stallone was looking to get another tattoo as he took his time looking at the tattoo books and talking to a few of the artists.


Stallone & Pili Mo’o

Pili Mo’o, a samoan tatau artist had a large crowd watching him do his hand tapping tatau. Pili trained under the late Sua Sulu’ape Paulo 11 of Samoa. Sylvester Stallone was very interested in talking to Pili.



Mad Max Beers and his wife Amy came from Michigan for the convention. Max has been tattooing since he was 15 years old and does his tattoo’s free hand, after a lot of studying, reading and researching. Amy said her 4 year old daughter Giovanna has started to draw and is a budding artist.


Max & Amy Beers

Chris Pearson from San Antonio had the most outstanding tattooed face. I asked him which tattoo was the most painful and he said it was his nose. Good thing he has a small nose so it didn’t take that much time to do. Chris said his first tattoo was at the age of 13 and now at the age of 33 he is well on his way to a full body tattoo. He was having his back done as I spoke to him.


Chris Pearson                                 Chris Pearson

Next came the judging of the best black & White, best color, best tribal and best tattoo of the day. Tattoo Lou was one of the judges.




As I roamed around I found mostly everyone who was having a tattoo done, were relaxed and enjoying the attention as everyone stopped to talk and take pictures.







I was very impressed with the work of two new artists who were sketching free hand and hopefully the pictures will find their way onto someone’s body.


                                                                               Hector

I was most excited to see a booth that was set up to audition people for a new reality show. Tattoo Masters Worldwide. I am a reality show junkie so this caught my immediate attention.


Krista Ayne Show Host                        Tattoo Lou Show Executive

The kick off was this week and auditions started to select 30 participants to get tattoos from the best 15 up and coming new artists. The show will tape in Los Angeles and the winner of the best tattoo will win a shop in New York and the person getting the winning tattoo will receive $25,000.


Now you have to know that I did audition for the show because I have secretly always wanted to get a tattoo and never had the nerve to do it. Now that I have attended a couple of tattoo conventions, I find the art work to be so beautiful and my desire has grown. I would have an angel tattoo but I haven’t decided where it will be. You can give me some suggestions when you see me, or send me your comments.