CULTURE: Kill the Spangles: Liberace Museum Closing!

Goodbye, glitz. Las Vegas is shutting its spangly Liberace museum after dwindling Sin City crowds lost interest in viewing artifacts from the life and times of the show-off pianist who brought "over the top" to a new level. What will happen to the Baby Grand covered with rhinestones and turkey-feather tux Liberace wore when he emerged from a giant egg at Radio City Music Hall? Some of the items will go on traveling exhibits. The rest will go into storage, waiting to re-emerge in better times, reports CNN. Walter Valentino Liberace, who died in 1987 at the age of 67, opened his own museum, which drew 450,000 annual visitors in its heyday.