Honestly, yesterday I did not make two calls I should have made. I should have checked on the horrible and tragic goings on with Wayne Newton who has been dealing with family misfortune on an epic scale even as process servers show up to his house to evict him. The Kats Report made the calls [...]
If I had to be jealous of one person in Las Vegas it would be Penn Jillette. First off he knows more about Dylan than I do. Then there is the fact that he gets to work with Teller, who like Penn is one of the most brilliant people I have ever interviewed. I do [...]
One other ways to gamble on Vegas is to buy stocks in casino companies. And, that is where gaming analysts come into play. I am not a stock buyer, and as much as I thought about the analysts, they always seem to declare that the future will be more-or-less exactly like the present only a [...]
Pure led the charge in bringing celebrity hosting to Vegas filling the nights with the likes of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Mariah Carey. Of course, these are different times. But apparently the need to have someone, anyone, really, host remains. And, so the caliber of the celebrity has slowly dropped down to the level [...]
Yesterday I got a wonderful yet almost surrealistic press release from Harrah’s. What was wonderful is that Harrah’s simply was announcing the hotel rooms at their Vegas casinos (Paris Las Vegas, Bally’s, Rio, Caesars Palace, Flamingo, Imperial Palace and Harrah’s) are priced as they are priced when you pay for them. Wow? Why would such [...]
This is a community that has rarely done well at stasis. Las Vegas annual round-ups are usually about previewing all the new things about to open. Not this year. Even last year there was CityCenter to expect as well as some projects that wound up not opening at all. Beyond Cirque’s “Viva Elvis,” I can [...]
Sometimes the perfect promotional trinket comes along. And, this time the Hard Rock delivered it in the form of a mirrored invite for the grand opening of their truth-in-advertising nightclub named: Vanity. Also, a neat fit for a Vegas nightclub slogan “It’s all about you.” Of course, if you really want it to be all [...]
The reality as we end 2009 is that there has never been a better time to be a tourist or a worse time to own a business in Las Vegas. There is some payback to this. In recent years, Las Vegas specialized in a sort of insistent gouging: deals loaded up with fine print, and [...]
It was MGM-Mirage chairman & CEO Jim Murren’s moment in the sun, literally MGM-Mirage could not have scripted more perfect weather. The sunny day today might be the first bit of luck CityCenter has received from the universe that kicked everything, (all documented by the media) including a moment where the project poised almost on [...]
Today there is only one story in Las Vegas: The opening of CityCenter. The shouting argument that has dominated Vegas– death star or salvation–will end, and the colossus will take its place as part of the Strip’s iconic yet ever changing creations. Welcome, CityCenter, to Fabulous Las Vegas. (photos Sarah Gerke)
