First Amendment work you fight, because you believe in the slippery slope argument as well as a total conviction that consenting adults making movies for other consenting adults can never be called a crime no matter what is depicted, ever! I am sure this attitude is influenced by living in an adult [...]
I am back from my Washington DC adventure covering the trial of former Vegas show producer John Stagliano for obscenity. The charges arose from his day job as a director and distributor of pornography. I was working for the libertarian magazine Reason who allowed me to cover the trial as well as [...]
I am bad at traveling. That is why I love Vegas where everyone come to me. But some things are too important to stay-put.
I am flying to Washington DC today to begin covering the John Stagliano trial tomorrow. For years, Stagliano produced the Fashionistas dance show at Planet Hollywood/Aladdin. Stagliano is being [...]
Don’t hold your breath.
MGM Mirage surprised me by meeting today with the governor whose opponent for office the company has prominently endorsed. I wonder what came out of the meeting? According to the AP story running on the Sun site the news is great:
“Casino operator MGM Mirage is pledging to quickly pay [...]
I totally get that a city would donate a building to a clinic or some imaginary non-profit, and I even get that a building with a tenant is better than an empty building. But the way the city of Las Vegas always seems to give to private business by calling that [...]
Both Hooters Casino and Strip stalwart Riviera are worried about possible bankruptcy. Hooters, as a casino, is a relatively recent arrival that has had a hard time standing out in the already flesh saturated market of Vegas. One example of said competition being Riviera which offers out front as a come hither the assets of [...]
I was at this Heaven & Hell show at Palms’ Pearl venue in 2007. It was one of the first concerts in the months after Pearl opened. The sound quality of this clip is hideous especially considering how good the sound mix is inside Pearl. But the clip shows the energy Ronnie James Dio brought [...]
There are 470 articles currently logged by Google relating to reports that troubled actress Lindsay Lohan has signed on to play porno actress Linda Lovelace (whose real name was Linda Boreman) in an independent film, “Inferno.” One blog even claims Lohan has risked jail to promote this non-existent film. But right now “Inferno” has at [...]
Cathouse at Luxor opened as a restaurant with a menu by Kerry Simon and another room made into a nightclub lounge. But for whatever reason the venue never found a core following. Today a press release went out announcing that the restaurant is gone: effective immediately. Of course, the press release [...]
The Facebook group “Citizens Holding MGM Accountable” has begun to issue forth propaganda from very sympathetic subcontractors. Giroux Glass President Anne-Merelie Murrell tells her story above. What is interesting to me is her acknowledgment that a great deal of her work was done too quickly and without the proper paperwork. She [...]
