At the Tea Party rally this weekend in Searchlight elderly people seem to have taken on Nevada dust while trying to hear slogans through a crap PA.
From the Las Vegas, non-partisan, perspective, the real question: how do you make money on this? Well, the answer is move the Party from a field in Searchlight to [...]
Over the next few weeks, every Tuesday, I am going to offer you a favorite spot in Vegas. Since Vegas is a bandwagon town, rather than innovate, we present endless varieties of the same thing. That actually makes picking a favorite easy, because the same product is being repackaged and there is going to be [...]
On Thursday I went to the rehearsal for the Michel Legrand tribute that took place Friday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. I was there to interview Frank Sinatra Jr. who is appearing at Suncoast April 9-11. I have seen him perform in Vegas before and there is a similarity between his voice and [...]
I am constantly amazed by Penn & Teller. They break every Vegas headliner rule. One of the most important traditions in Vegas entertainment is to avoid divisive political issues. I doubt Criss Angel, for all his cartoon edginess, would ever voice an opinion on something as controversial as abortion. Yeah, I am serious. Headliners stay [...]
There are challenges to finding bargains in Las Vegas. But the short answer to if you can enjoy 4 days in Vegas now for $1000: easily. There are just so many discounts that this is a comfortable amount to plan a trip here.
Nothing wrong with showing how to enjoy Vegas with enough money to do [...]
Last week I attended Marie Osmond’s return to the stage after her son’s funeral. I noted that despite the professionalism of Osmond, the performance was clearly painful for her: “The show was not a banal staged triumph over grief; this was clearly a first step for her, and one she handled with [...]
Wow, this is a stupid advertisement. I don’t often have opinions on political matters. But you can really tell that this was created by people outside Las Vegas and Nevada. I do think it is a scandal that Nevada gaming authorities gave Dubai World a pass on the behavior of a sovereign dictatorship no matter [...]
I don’t often link to my other writing here. But this week’s LA Times column was about the local benefit for Vegas musician Bill Fayne, and so I really wanted to share this story with you. The online version lacks Sarah Gerke’s photo of Louie Anderson from the print paper and so [...]
The annual SXSW festival in Austin, Texas is happening now. And, that reminded me of a depressing conversation I had there with guitar player/writer Lenny Kaye in March, 1999. This was just before I moved to Las Vegas. Kaye is the guitar player in The Patti Smith Group. In 1999, after years out of the [...]
