LAS VEGAS -- After completing a top-to-bottom cosmetic overhaul just a couple of years ago, Treasure Island is gearing up for yet another makeover, this time to further reduce the pirate theme, add more upscale touches, and even change the hotel's name ... sort of.

The giant pirate marquee will be replaced with a spiffier version, without the eye patch-wearing bandit, and will trumpet the hotel as the T.I., perhaps a slight nod to the late 1970s-era nickname for the Desert Inn when it was in its swinging heyday.

Although the fan favorite Pirate Battle stunt show out front will remain, it will also get an update, reportedly adding some Cirque du Soleil-style acrobatics to the mix.

All of this will be timed to celebrate the hotel's 10th anniversary this fall.

Okay, so you were too old to get on "American Idol" (go Kimberly L.), but you still want that feeling of being a superstar, right? Well, Las Vegas oldies station KQOL is teaming up with the Rampart Casino at the JW Marriott to offer a 5-week karaoke contestfor anyone brave enough to take the microphone and face the judges. Each Wednesday at 7 p.m., singers will get the chance to sing one song in an elimination round. Winning contestants advance to a finals round on May 7, and the big winner will get a vacation to Hawaii, which may not be a million-dollar record deal, but is still pretty cool. For more information contact the JW Marriott hotel.

After his submarine-themed restaurant, Dive, took one and closed at the Fashion Show Mall, you'd have thought director Steven Spielberg would've kept his fingers out of the competitive Vegas dining market. Well, you'd be wrong, as the Oscar winner is planning to bring a branch of his popular Los Angeles seafood restaurant, Crustacean, to the Strip. According to the gossip columns, the Vegas version will be a three-story affair with a restaurant and nightclub, somewhere near the Aladdin.

Congratulations go out to Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman who easily won re-election last week, to absolutely no one's surprise. The wildly popular, outspoken former mob attorney beat out a field of five rivals by capturing an astounding 86 percent of the vote, a record in the city. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the mayor was quoted at a rally in his honor as saying he was "honored" and "humbled" by his victory.

He then took a pause for appropriate comic affect and said, "I'm not really humbled."

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