Gals glide, slide, whirl and twirl at Pole-a-Palooza competing for $10,000 prize. DJ Karma will be providing the soundtrack.

From the venue:

The Bank’s superlative Sunday night super-party sets the tone with the return of everybody’s favorite, Pole-A-Palooza! Gals, get ready to hit the pole and compete for the $10,000 prize! Resident DJ Karma is on hand to make sure the night rocks steady so come and unleash your pole princess at The Bank!

Miss America Organization

As we congratulate Miss Wisconsin Laura Kaeppeleron on being crowned Miss America 2012 Planet Hollywood in Vegas, we learned one thing – blonde is no longer in vogue … at least this year anyway.

All five of the top five contestants including Miss Arizona Jennifer Sedler, Miss California Noelle Freeman, Miss New York Kaitlin Monte and Miss Oklahoma Betty Thompson are all of the non-blonde persuasion. While blondes do have more fun, maybe the seriousness of the economy and all of the other crap in the world had judges join Team Brunette.

Laura performed “Il Bacio” during the talent portion and even won the talent portion of the unaired, first-night preliminaries. Other prelim winners were Miss Utah Danica Olsen (fitness), Miss Oklahoma (talent), Miss Texas Kendall Morris (fitness), Miss New York (fitness) and Miss Hawaii Lauren Cheape (talent).

In addition to winning the title, Laura won a $50,000 scholarship and will travel 20,000 miles each month raising awareness for her charity Circles of Support – which mentors kids of jailed parents – and the Miss America Organizations platform partner, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

Should she not be able to fulfill her duties, Miss Oklahoma is on deck and will takeover as first runner-up with Miss New York in the hole (to continue the baseball analogy) as second runner-up.

Memphis at Spearmint Rhino

Vegas strip clubs often get overlooked for New Year’s Eve celebrations. Maybe it’s because they don’t package and promote New Year’s as an event – they should.  They could bring in some famous strippers for a special performance which would certainly bring in more folks than Scott Disick. And hell, even if you didn’t didn’t want to lean on the celebrity crutch, boobs kind of sell themselves.

Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club is having a performance by Tone Loc. Not sure that’s what we’re going for, but we’ve heard ‘Wild Thing’ in strip clubs a million times all over the world so it’s not that much of a stretch. It’s a start.

If you don’t want to hang out with celebrities on The Strip and looking for just a plain strip to ring in the new year, here are your best bets.

On the opposite end of the celebrity/talent spectrum, you have Stevie Wonder performing live at the Cosmopolitan on New Year’s Eve. Take the holiday out of the equation and it’s a special treat in and of itself. Ringing in the new year while Stevie WOnder performs, well, doesn’t get much better than that. Prices, as expected are well, kinda pricey, but includes the aforementioned Mr. Wonder and open premium bar.

On a programming note, with the street closures in preparation for all of the hoopla on The Strip, it’s recommended you get there as early as possible.

The show starts at 10:30PM so even if you’re in bed (or someone else’s bed) by noon, you should still be good to go.