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LAS VEGAS -- The first thing to realize on Saturday evening (Dec. 12) at the Encore Theater in the Wynn Hotel is that it's not a Garth Brooks concert. It actually is a one-man stage show with a guitar as his only prop.
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With that tune a favorite of his father's, he said Brooks, 47, officially ended a nine-year retirement and started what could be a five-year engagement at the Wynn Las Vegas.
Singer is a bit rusty but makes up for it with intimate shows
The triumphant arrival of Garth Brooks may be the first glimpse of the next Las Vegas and a new showbiz paradigm: the anti-spectacle. After a decade of ever-more-elaborate (and impersonal) Cirque-dominated, can-you-top-this? extravaganzas -- epitomized by Celine Dion and then Bette Midler -- Brooks and Steve Wynn are keeping it simple.
Garth Brooks is the anti-spectacle — unplugged, unpretentious, just a singer and his songs.
The newly unretired country superstar explores his own and others' songs, working the crowd and playing for more than two hours.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Long before trendy nightclubs used velvet ropes to keep out unwanted guests, Caroline Astor was maintaining exclusive lists of socialites deemed worthy of an invite into her Beechwood mansion in Newport.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A new book chronicles the lives of some of Newport's richest and most glamorous residents, recounting — in sometimes unflattering detail — their excesses, mannerisms and taste for luxurious living.