After months of speculation, it’s official. Prince’s 3121 and 3121 Jazz Cuisine open Nov. 10 at Rio in Las Vegas. Here’s what visitors can expect:

• Wednesdays: Prince Presents, featuring various artists TBA (friends of Prince and special guests). Ticket prices begin at $31.21.
• Thursdays: 3121 Latin Libido Night. $31.21 cover.
• Fridays and Saturdays: Prince Live. Tickets are $125.

Tickets will be available at the Rio ticket office and through Ticketmaster beginning later this week.

3121 Jazz Cuisine will open daily at 5 p.m., featuring a menu created by Executive Chef Lena Morgan.

The day started out great with a mention in Norm Clarke’s Las Vegas Review Journal column and news that we’ve been nominated for a few 2006 Trippies at Vegas Tripping. Longtime listeners know that we rarely begin the day without reading Norm’s column, so this mention is huge for us. And Vegas Tripping is one of our favorite Las Vegas sites, so the award nominations mean a lot. If you’re so inclined, we would appreciate your vote in the best podcast category, but please throw your best Web site and best blog votes to someone more deserving.

This week’s Las Vegas podcast includes:

• Swingers opening clip
• Las Vegas Hilton’s days may be numbered
• Prince gets a restaurant at Rio
• The Producers at Paris… starring Germany’s favorite lifeguard
• Wrong Casino Royale
• Goodbye Stardust
• Tons of listener calls

Direct download of the podcast: Five Hundy By Midnight 10/29/06 (53:12 min, 48.9 MB) or subscribe.

Look for an announcement this week from Harrah’s about the long rumored Las Vegas club deal with Prince we’ve talked about on several recent podcasts. One detail that has not yet been widely reported is that Prince’s personal chef is getting his own restaurant too. Look for Rio to replace its steakhouse, Fiore, with the new place, which will likely be named 3121 Jazz Kitchen or something similar.

This week’s Las Vegas podcast includes:

• Dodgeball opening clip
• Changes at Paris (because Harrah’s wants to keep you safe!)
• Show closings at Harrah’s and Rio
• More soon-to-be-official Prince 3121/Club Rio news
• South Coast becomes Michael Gaughan’s South Point
• Music from LOVE coming to your CD player soon
• Stardust auction
• $7,500 for a night with Dennis Rodman
• $6,000 for a burger at Palms
• Pornslappers decend on Fremont Street
• A who’s who of who cares
• Steve Wynn is clumsy
• Listener e-mails
• Vegasbrothers.com
• Topless pools, smoking in casinos, Lake Las Vegas Hyatt
• Five Hundy cures the sick, puts people to sleep

Direct download of the podcast: Five Hundy By Midnight 10/25/06 (46:20 min, 42.6 MB) or subscribe.

We’re not going to get this week’s action packed episode of Five Hundy by Midnight, the Original Las Vegas Podcast, recorded until midweek. We have a lot to talk about, but a couple things came up today that derailed our plans to record today. Sorry for the delay.

Apple Corps and EMI Music announced today the release on Nov. 20 of The Beatles LOVE album, featuring the music from the Las Vegas show of the same name. The album will be released on CD and DVD, with the DVD version containing a the album in surround sound with three extra minutes of music. This show and the music have been getting rave reviews, and The Beatles have a few fans, so this CD will probably sell a few copies.

One of our favorite restaurants, Michael’s, is relocating from Barbary Coast to South Coast (soon to be South Point), according to the Las Vegas Business Press. We heard rumors about this several weeks ago, but Boyd Gaming’s spokesman was unable to confirm the rumors at that time. Turns out it’s true. We’re glad to see this Las Vegas gem will be around for years to come.

This week’s Las Vegas podcast includes:

• Vegas Vacation opening clip
• Rat Race is horrible
• World Series of Poker cuts off online poker site entries
• Las Vegas book reviews
• The Battle for Las Vegas
• Stripped: 20 Years of Secrets from Inside the Strip Club
• Las Vegas Little Black Book
• K-Fed rocks CSI
• Tim tries out a new catch phrase
• Correction: Tuna’s is located in Eveleth, not Ely

Direct download of the podcast: Five Hundy By Midnight 10/15/06 (37:13 min, 34.2 MB) or subscribe.

Anyone interested in following the fallout from the bullshit anti-Internet-gambling act Bush signed into law today should head over to the page Card Player magazine set up to track all of the latest info. It contains the most complete coverage I’ve seen.