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 some [...]
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 redevelopment sure seems unfair. [...]
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 does not admit the [...]
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 notes that one glass [...]
It seems that the proposed virgin auction allegedly being moved from Australia to Nevada would violate Federal law despite brothel prostitution being legal in parts of Nevada. And, not just any law. According to Las Vegas Sun, the proposed virgin auction violates the infamous Mann Act. Some history: Few laws have seemed as arbitrary in [...]
The document dump on CityCenter’s construction billing dispute I linked to yesterday between MGM Mirage and Perini is a fascinating though very partial glimpse of the acrimonious rift between the two giants that is now on the way to court. Perini’s release hints at events from over a year ago when CityCenter almost fell into bankruptcy, suggests MGM [...]
For two days I have been trying to reach Matthew Archbold of National Catholic Register. And, for two days he has chosen to ignore my request for an explanation/interview on a bizarre opinion piece he authored for NCR. As I blogged earlier, an Australian reality show is allegedly planning to auction off the alleged virginity [...]
