This year, the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards will be held at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand, on April 1^st, 2012. Award nominations will be announced this Thursday.

If last year’s Annual Academy of Country Music Awards is an indication of how good this year’s awards show is going to be, then guests and attendants are going to be in for an amazing show, with outstanding performances from country music stars.

This year, the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards will be hosted for the second year in a row, by Reba McEntire and Blake Shelton. The awards event will take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena as well as the Zac Brown Band at Mandalay Bay Events Center, with the second annual ACM Fan Jam. Both hosts will be at both venues hosting.

This year, the highlight of ACM will be the performances by Jason Aldean, the Band Perry, Kenny Chesney, Lady Antebellum, Martina McBride, Rascal Flatts and Kenny Rogers as they collaborate with the legendary to Lionel Richie.

Last year, one of the highlights of the night was the performance of “Walk This Way” with Steven Tyler and Carrie Underwood.

Tickets went on sale today, so get them before they’re gone!

The grand opening of the Chuck Jones Experience will be this Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 11 a.m. The attraction will be opened at Circus Circus’ Skyrise Tower near its Adventuredome.

The Chuck Jones Experience is a memorial attraction created to memorialize Chuck Jones, the creator of some of the most iconic cartoon characters in history, including Wile E. Coyote, Pepe le Pew, and the most popular and beloved cartoon characters of all time, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.

Jones passed away in 2002, so this memorial comes a decade later after his passing.

The Chuck Jones Experience features a unique learning center for animation, as well as a 1930s-style movie theatre. Of course, the Chunk Jones Experience would not be complete without a visit to Chuck Jone’s studio, which was re-created for the attraction. There will also be a display for visitors that will allow them to have a bit of extra fun, and create their own sound effects and voiceovers for the displays.

There will be more than 250 pieces of Chuck Jones’ animation work and art pieces on permanent display housed in the 10,000-square-foot center. Many have said that the Chuck Jones Experience has the largest collection of original work by Jones’.

Although Chuck Jones can’t be there himself, the next best thing are his relatives, who will attend the grand opening of the attraction this Thursday. This is a great family attraction, and ticket prices are free for children under 4, $14.95 for visitors ages 5 through 17 as well as those 65 and older, military personnel and students, and $19.95 for adults.

Coming to Las Vegas in 2012, Motley Crue will be setting up shop for almost three weeks at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in the first week of February. The band has promised an amazing show that guests won’t soon forget, which they have described as “a psycho circus of heavy metal, pyro and possibly some naked women.”

Motley Crue is Los Angeles-based, and they are a multiplatinum band that has been rocking out for 30 years. The band is in their planning stage of production, and an insider of the band, singer Vince Neil compared the set up to Cirque du Soleil.

In a conference call to announce the series, Vince Neil said “This show is going to be more towards the Cirque-type, over-the-top, full-production thing. We’re really not interested in just going out there and playing songs. We want to make a full-blown interactive show.”

One can’t help but wonder if Motley Crue is pursuing a more interactive lively show because they are in Las Vegas and competing with some stiff competition, including the likes of Elton John, Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Santana, and Rod Stewart? Motley Crue had better bring their A-game, but by the sounds of it, they’ll be offering up an amazing show.

Tickets are on sale now at www.Motley.com. Ticket prices range from $41 to $81, so get your tickets before they’re gone!