Vegas!
The New York Times puts the tit back in titillation
Saturday, August 25th, 2007It’s the newspaper of record, so you know it’s gotta be important:
In recent years the Mirage, Wynn Las Vegas, Caesars Palace and Mandalay Bay have introduced what they call European sunbathing. It takes place in sequestered pools, often requires an additional admission, and men always pay more than women (as much as $50 a day, [...]
The high art of losing slowly: Station Casinos says it shouldn’t suck to be a sucker
Saturday, August 25th, 2007LVRJ:
Station Casinos starts a marketing campaign this weekend for a new video-poker format that industry executives say will change the way video poker play is bought.
Marketed as “Guaranteed Play,” the format allows players a certain number of hands no matter how badly play goes.
A player buys 75 hands for $20 or 200 hands for $40, [...]
Selling 8-track tapes in an iPod market: Golden Gate embraces the future with a slot club, ticket-in/ticket-out technology
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007When you’re 101 years old, people will forgive you for taking things a little easier. But the dowdy old Golden Gate at Fremont and Main is ready to take on the challenges of a new century: Ticket-in/ticket-out slot machines and a brand new frequent player’s club:
The very first player’s card for Club 1906, bearing the [...]
Last words on the New Frontier: “It’s unbelievable what he’s done with the place falling apart”
Saturday, July 14th, 2007The New Frontier goes the way of all frontiers sometime this weekend, no one knows quite sure just when. The RJ has an encomium, along with a think-piece on what might happen to bull-ridin’, mud-wrestlin’ Gilley’s, the prime attraction of the fly-blown barfly on the Strip.
The second-oldest of the old joints, the New Frontier was [...]
What should be done about the perpetually unprofitable Las Vegas Monorail?: “Push the company to get rid of it before they’re too broke to tear it down”
Thursday, July 12th, 2007The show normally runs for only two acts. And like a Las Vegas showroom extravaganza, it never really goes anywhere.
Act I: A financial oversight firm downgrades the bonds of the Las Vegas Monorail.
Act II: Flak-catchers at the Las Vegas Monorail dismiss the criticism, insisting that this or that innovation will turn things around any day.
And [...]
“It’s one of the things you do in Vegas — go to the Strip, check out shows, go to Fremont, pummel an armed robber”
Thursday, July 12th, 2007What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas — more’s the pity. When vacationing Sooners throw caution to the wind, the bad guys quiver and quake. From KLAS-TV.com:
A black eye was not the kind of souvenir Air National Guardsman Evan Skinner planned to take back to Oklahoma.
Evan Skinner explained, “When he pulled the gun out he [...]
