We should never, ever go through our photos looking for something to post on this blog, because while we’re looking, we sometimes find photos that make us really, really hungry. The evidence is below.

Curse you, hard drive!

Oh, yeah, this succulent dish is served up nightly at Les Artistes Steakhouse at Paris Las Vegas.

Not big into carnivorian (not a real word) pleasures? You’re covered. Les Artistes makes everything it makes satisfying and delicious. (Bonus points for knowing the movie that’s from.)

Yes, even the green stuff is amazing.

Bonus factoid: Although the interior of Les Artistes Steakhouse may appear edible, it’s not. FYI.

Eye-boggling! (Again, not a real word, but accurate.)

Fans of Barry Manilow are having a field day at Paris Las Vegas. Aside from enjoying the music legend’s winning show, they are also discovering lots of “Barry bling.”

A day or two ago, we spied this snappy costume in a fancy display case in the lobby area of the Paris Las Vegas.

Fancy!

There was some information in the case about the history of the Copa-inspired costume, but since “reading” is a little 1996, we just took another photo to give the costume some context.

Classic!

Nearby, the Barry Manilow store offers up its own bling, the kind you can take home with you!

We stopped to chat with the Manilow store mavens, Oscar and Amanda, two die-hard fans who formerly worked at the Manilow store when the show was at the Hilton. They love Barry’s world so much, when the show moved, they moved. We did say “die-hard,” didn’t we?

Don't bet against Oscar and Amanda in a game of Barry Manilow trivia.

Oscar and Amanda love what they do, and tend to be the go-to experts about all things Manilow. Fans know these two by name, and often call to find out the latest Manilow-inspired offerings.

The most popular items in the store? T-shirts! Maybe no surprise there.

Also big sellers: The signature, sleek Manilow water bottle container thingy (see the pic below), the exclusive Manilow purse (nobody called it a “Man Purse,” but it seemed fitting), show programs and, of course, Barry Manilow’s CDs, especially his latest, “Beautiful Ballads & Love Songs.”

You're gonna need a bigger suitcase.

A great aspect of the Manilow store is that 10% of purchases go to Manilow Music Project.

Nice job on the hand modeling, Oscar! Your check's in the mail.

The Manilow Music Project highlights the importance of music programs in schools and donates instruments and materials to school music programs. Find out more.

Update: The plot thickens. Here’s some background on the famous “Copacabana” coat.

Let’s see. What would it take to drag us away from our comfy, air-conditioned cubicle on a balmy Vegas day like today? You guessed it: Holly Madison!

Holly Madison, star of Peepshow and the endlessly-fascinating reality series, “Holly’s World,” sauntered into the Pleasure Pit at Planet Hollywood to help publicize the fact that her hotel, and others in the Harrah’s Entertainment family, don’t charge the resort fees common in much of Las Vegas.

Please, Holly, the incessant flirting with this blog. It's embarrassing.

There were more details about the evils of resort fees, but we were far too busy watching Holly Madison work the gaggle of photographers and bloggers who mindlessly follow her everywhere she goes. Ahem.

Adding to the fun was the unveiling of a graphic representation of how much Vegas visitors needlessly spend on resort fees each year, an amount estimated to be about $12 million. Hello. That’s a lot of clams.

That's what 12 million bucks looks like. And there's some cash in the photo, too.

We did our due diligence as a Las Vegas blog and counted each and every dollar on display at the event. It came out to be about $160,000. Apparently, it wasn’t supposed to be a “literal” $12.7 million. Still, a lot of clams.

When Holly Madison was asked about the discrepancy between the “graphic representation” of $12 million and the actual $160,000, Madison said, “Look! I’m pretty!” Some things, you just can’t argue with.

Bonus currency factoid: On the back of a $100 bill, the Independence Hall clock reads approximately 4:10.

Seriously, though, resort fees (an average of $20 per night) suck. Like a jet engine.

As if Holly Madison talking about resort fees weren’t enough to get their suckiness to sink in, there’s also a new giveaway, free to enter, to drive the point home. You could win $21,900 (a year’s worth of resort fees you’d spend somewhere else). Enter, already.

Thank you, Holly, for making what could have been a dry presentation about how to save gobs of money in Vegas into quite the spectacle.

We recently breached security to bring you an exclusive photo of one of Vegas’ most closely-held mysteries: Singer Matt Goss’ closet!

Note: Not Matt Goss' actual closet. You'll live!

Kidding!

We suspect this isn’t too far off, however, given the Caesars Palace singer’s penchant for groovy “lids.”

The man knows how to rock a "topper."

If you’re in the mood to emulate Matt Goss’ distinctive fashion sense, just take a stroll across the street from Caesars Palace to the always-lively Carnaval Court outside Harrah’s Las Vegas for a handy kiosk filled to the, ahem, brim with hats of all shapes and sizes.

And when we say all shapes and sizes, we mean all.

Yes, we purchased one. And we can’t wait to wear it the next time we take in Matt Goss’ popular show at Caesars.

Bonus hat trivia that’s probably only interesting to us: There’s an ongoing historical debate raging about why American men drifted away from the practice of wearing hats every day (as they did for decades). Some pin the decline of hat-wearing on John F. Kennedy, specifically because they assert he didn’t wear a hat during his 1961 inaugural address. Cooler heads say the trend was already in progress, and JFK was just a convenient scapegoat for hat makers and others who, at the time, didn’t have the benefit of the Interwebs to find out the truth behind this fascinating societal shift.

If you’d like to see the man who’s bringing hats (not to mention sexy) back, see Matt Goss at Caesars Palace.

This Las Vegas blog promises a little nonsense from time to time, and we make sure to deliver. Here’s today’s installment! We grabbed this shot on a local Sin City byway. Are you seeing what we’re seeing?

Are those road construction folks trying to tell us something?

The World Series of Poker just added an overflowing shot of awesome juice to the fruity cocktail that is Facebook! Questionable metaphors aside, this news is pretty sweet.

The world’s biggest name in poker, World Series of Poker, has teamed up with the geniuses at California’s Playdom, Inc. to create a game on Facebook that will let poker players from around the world get the WSOP experience 24-7. Play it, already.

WSOP and Facebook go together like peanut butter and chocolate. But, you know, without the tooth decay.

The new WSOP game is a revamp of Playdom’s popular, existing game, Poker Palace. The game will take online poker to the next level with WSOP-infused promotions and giveaways. Virtual WSOP bracelets will be in the mix, too.

The game will be rolled out on additional social networks (remember MySpace?) soon.

Poker fans will be able to choose from a variety of offerings at WSOP on Facebook, including single table play money, virtual cash games and single-table tournaments featuring both full-table and short-handed play. All the games will feature “play” money only. Get that disappointed look off your face. It’s fun!

Visit here to check out the new WSOP game on Facebook, and learn more about the World Series of Poker here.

In Israel, the movie “The Hangover” is titled “Stopping in Vegas on the Way to a Wedding.”

Many of the scenes in "The Hangover" were filmed at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Stay at Caesars Palace. Tiger not included.

Here’s today’s Vegas casino puzzler. This blog provides you with 10 names, and you get to guess which ones are slot machines and which are the titles of adult films. Sound like fun? Here we go!

1. “Thailand Fantasy”
2. “Griffin’s Gate”
3. “Max Action”
4. “Scatter Magic”
5. “Pirate Bay”
6. “Jewels of India”
7. “Torch of the Gods”
8. “Wild Ways”
9. “Unicorn Dreaming”
10. “Moon Festival”

Easiest quiz ever. Why? They’re ALL popular slot machines, but we like the way your mind works!

We are so fired (again) for this blog post.

Let us know how you did in the Comments section, and thanks for playing.

Our excitement about the unveiling of Numb in Caesars Palace has been building for several weeks now, and we’re pleased to report it was entirely worth the wait. This colorful new offering at Caesars is a cut above the ubiquitous bars serving up frosty beverages around Vegas. It has a style, a vibe, a flavor all its own.

Numb is such a happy place. Literally and figuratively.

The first thing you notice is Numb’s distinctive design. The lively colors (which change often) can be seen clear across the casino floor, and beckons the parched to this unassuming watering hole.

The next things you notice at Numb are, well, the establishment’s top-notch hiring practices!

Bartenders Judy and Andrea are as refreshing as Numb's cocktails.

From your very first sip, Numb just feels like a party! The free samples flow freely, too. Apparently, Numb distributes hundreds of free samples a day. That’s because it’s nearly impossible to choose just one of the signature drinks on display.

Numb factoid: We hear the signature concoctions at Numb took 10 years to develop.

The most visible, ice-based drinks are: Up All Night, Naked Colada, Purple Haze (Numb’s most popular, and for good reason), Strawberry Butterfly (close second, succulencewise) and Mango Kush. Numb is a full-fledged bar, too, so you can get your favorites, from Captain Morgan to Captain Morgan. (Is our bias showing?)

Draft beers include Numb Light, Pyramid Hefeweizen and Newcastle Brown Ale.

The distinctive, soothing decor sets the stage for the ambrosial delights to come. Yes, we said “ambrosial.” Thank you, Interwebs thesaurus!

It's like someone is shooting off fireworks fashioned from high-grade hooch.

Other highlights of the intoxicating menu: the Blue Genie, Numb Cappuccino (di-to-the-vine), Prickley Pear and Numb Lemonade (featuring a kicker of Skyy Ginger vodka).

The Acai Mojito is a crowd-pleaser with Pitu Cachaca rum, VeeV (Acai spirit), blueberries and fresh mint. We don’t have to know what those things actually are to say we’d give up our firstborn child to have another.

We're thinking Numb's mojito may just have been the concoction that inspired the bar's name!

Insider scoop: There’s another Numb location coming to Harrah’s Las Vegas soon. More news to come on that front.

See how many libation jokes we're not making?

Overall, Numb is more than worth a stop, and very much worth a taste. Fair warning: Once you get that taste, you’ll be hooked.

Check out a few more exclusive pics from this new soiree spot inside Caesars Palace, located near the entrance to the Appian Way shops.

Caesars Palace’s own Matt Goss dons his trademark chapeau and makes some sweet, soulful love to the camera on the August cover of Luxury Las Vegas magazine.

Smoldering gazes, you just got owned.

You know you want it. Click here for a larger version.

Also of note, check out Matt Goss’ line of jewelry, now available online. No, we don’t get a piece of that action, we just think it’s cool that the guy can croon like nobody’s business and design jewelry. Probably not at the same time, but it’s still cool.

He talks about the jewelry here, among other things.

See Matt Goss do his groovy-Vegas-throwback-thing in The Gossy Room at Cleopatra’s Barge inside Caesars Palace.

Summer in Vegas about to get more extreme at one of the Strip’s hottest party spots, Rockhouse. The patio bar outside Imperial Palace hosts “Squirt Guns and Bikini Buns” on Jul. 30. Rule of thumb in Vegas, you can’t NOT have a blast at an event with “squirt guns,” “bikini” and “buns” in its name.

Today's science question: Can something be cool and hot at the same time. Rockhouse says "yes."

The water-fight-and-bikinis-fueled blow-out kicks off at 2:00 p.m. Party-goers will enjoy two-for-one drafts and well cocktails and $5 shots poured by Rockhouse’s phalanx of bikini-clad bartenders (2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.). Since one cannot live by bikinis alone, food offerings will include burgers, chicken fingers, corndogs and chimichangas.

While you’re there, grab one of Rockhouse’s famed 80-ounce guitar drinks. The always-rowdy Rockhouse is a must-see, “only in Vegas” experience. One you might even remember. Vaguely.

The World Series of Poker wants to treat a lucky winner to a VIP package featuring insider access to the 2010 World Series of Poker Final Table. Go for it and you could win!

Being a VIP rocks. You get to look askance at the common folk, whatever "askance" might actually be.

The Grand Prize package includes airfare to Las Vegas, a VIP suite at a bigtime Sin City hotel and the best seats in the house for the final poker throwdown in November. This is an experience money can’t buy.

This Las Vegas blog does love it some free stuff! Find out more and enter.

It’s true, Jul. 27 is National Creme Brulee Day. Finally, a national day we can really get behind.

This Las Vegas blog would like to humbly suggest its current favorite: The to-die-for-although-not-literally creme brulee at the Eiffel Tower Restaurant at Paris Las Vegas.

Your taste buds would give you a high-five, but taste buds, you know, don't have hands.

As our spectacularly appealing photograph attests, this dessert is fresh, it’s crispy and sweet on top, and cool and creamy and mouthwatering where it’s supposed to be cool and creamy and mouthwatering (downstairs). And it’s made all the more delicious because it’s set against the refined atmosphere of one of the world’s most romantic restaurants. Hey, that’s not just our opinion. Just ask one of the many couples that gets engaged there each evening.

Oh, and guys, don’t be deterred by the romance thing. What’s not to love about a dessert prepared with a blowtorch?

Yes, we breached security to get this photo. Somebody had to.

After you try this creme brulee, you’ll wish every day were National Creme Brulee Day. (And, actually, it can be at the Paris, thank goodness.)

On Jul. 30, the Bally’s showgirl spectacular, Jubilee!, celebrates its 29th year on the Las Vegas Strip. This show has legs! (Good puns, like over-the-top Vegas shows, never go out of style.)

We took this photo at a recent event. We figured it would come in handy.

Good news for Nevada residents. To commemorate the show’s anniversary, locals can get $29 tickets through Aug. 31. The special anniversary ticket offer can be redeemed at the Bally’s Box Office by showing a Nevada I.D. and mentioning code JBANIV.

Bonus find: Take a look at this Q&A with “Jubilee!” dancer-turned-stage manager Fluff LeCoque.

They say roller derby is making a comeback. What better place for it to come back than Vegas? We bumped into the members of a local roller derby group, the Sin City Rollergirls (below), at a recent, wedding-themed event. (Long story.)

Sin City Rollergirls members Josie Savage, Geneva Conviction and Rusty Kuntz. Note: Those might be their "roller derby names."

The Sin City Rollergirls are in their off-season until September (visit here for their schedule), but never fear!

Get your fill of roller derby action at Rollercon, Jul. 28 through Aug. 1. What’s Rollercon? This popular convention features more than 1,000 “rollergirls” from around the world, all gathering in Las Vegas to “share stories, raise some hell and get their skate on.”

Event highlights include sessions with interesting names like “Ninja Blocking,” “Zebra Huddle,” “Yoga for Skaters” and “Double Decker Happy Hour Loop,” whatever those might actually be. Get all the Rollercon details here. Teams with colorful names will be challenging other teams with color names for roller derby supremacy. Names include: Vegine Regime, Chalksuckers, Like a Virgin, Fakin Bacon, Co-Ed Cripplers and Puppy Pile.

Catch the lively Rollercon events at Fremont Street and the Las Vegas Sport Center.

Read more about the Sin City Rollergirls.

Why not don some skates yourself? Explore the much-lower-impact Roller Boogie events at Crown Theatre, Sunday nights, inside Rio Vegas.