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A CityCenter Tour Pictorial
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 13 November 2009
I debated what image to use atop this post. I could have shown this cool one below, from the foot of Veer Tower...
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Bette Midler Fans Unite! Ack!
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 12 November 2009
Eek! The Bette peeps are pipin' mad over this week's Las Vegas Weekly "Strip Sense" column assessing Bette Midler's disappointing level of community involvement and less-than-Cher-y level of sales. And AEG tells me Bette sold the most tickets for the Colosseum last year which is kind of cheating since she also had the most shows. Oh well. I stand by my point of view. -sfBette Midler leaving after seemingly unhappy residencyBy STEVE FRIESS
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Maybe My Best Piece This Year
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 11 November 2009
Earlier this year, I read a fascinating piece in the R-J by Keith Rogers about a North Las Vegas man whose father had perished in World War II. The man never knew his dad, having been born two weeks after his cargo plane crashed in the Himalayas somewhere. But Arizona adventurer Clayton Kuhles had found the plane -- and 14 others -- in an effort that picks up the serious slack in the US government's efforts to recover MIAs from World War II.
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The Show is UP: Lily Tomlin
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 11 November 2009
This was a particularly fun one because interviewing someone like Lily Tomlin is not what one would reasonably expect from a journalistic career in Las Vegas. (Others who fit this bill have included Harvey Fierstein, Maya Lin and Dominick Dunne.) I hope you agree I made the most of it. Click on the date below to make it play or right-click to save it and listen at your leisure.
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76-Second Travel Show: "Las Vegas: ScIeNce City"
Blog: REID ON TRAVEL - 10 November 2009
Episode #008F E A T U R I N G * 7 6 * B O N U S * S E C O N D SIncludes interview with "inclinator expert" at the Luxor;music courtesy of New York City's defunct TW-in-87.Good trips often get a "moment" -- that single experience where, when the trip's reflected on, your thoughts fall first.
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My $67.48 WSOP-Rio Vegas Adventure
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 10 November 2009
Yesterday morning, having watched the World Series of Poker for 17 hours and stayed up all night, I had a hallucination driving home. It was 6 a.m. and I had a seven-mile straight-shot to get there, but there was a man standing on a traffic island who stepped off it. That's all he did and I wasn't near him, but the nightmare scenario went through my mind that I was beyond exhausted and could have killed him if I had been in that lane.
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The M's Limp Top Chef Catch-Up Try
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 9 November 2009
Now that it's universally agreed that the M Resort has blown its moment in the spotlight by not doing anything Top Chef-ish and places like Mandalay Bay and the Wynn are heavily promoting their involvements, someone over there decided to do this:
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CityCenter's CLASSLESS Move
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 7 November 2009
They go and commission the great architect Sir Norman Foster to build a hotel-condo called the Harmon. Then, because of construction defects, bad economic foresight and lax oversight, they chop it in half, lose the condos and delay the opening by a year.And now they turn it into that crassest and lamest of New Vegas tropes, a billboard?
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Bye Bette + Buffet! Hi, Viva Elvis!
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 5 November 2009
Some comings and goings today.* Bette Midler announced today she's done with the Colosseum after two years. Her last show is Jan. 31. Her statement was peculiar in scrambled backhanded slaps at Las Vegas and inscrutable explanation of her future plans:
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Bravo to Top Chef Tasting Menus!
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 4 November 2009
Having spanked the city for not doing anything interesting with its Top Chef moment, I have to send out kudos to the folks at Wynn Las Vegas' Bartolotta and Mandalay Bay's RM Seafood.
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An Important Tweak in Wynn Scalping Policy
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 4 November 2009
Back when I first got on the soapbox about the potential disaster that is the Wynn-Garth Brooks anti-scalper crusade, I wrote this:I thought of a partial solution, but these rules don't allow for it: Wynn should accept refunds less, say, 10 percent. They know they can resell them, so at least that solves the problem of what people can do if their circumstances change at the last minute, if they get sick or snowed out or whatever.
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Wynn Atty Writes To VegasTripping
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 3 November 2009
Sigh.Irony -- and parody -- may be dead in Vegas.The fine folks at VegasTripping.Com were working on a funny little parody website, WynnCore.Com. This is all that there is right now...
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Paris LV Loses Gay Ad Award...
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 29 October 2009
...but should be honored to be among the nominees for this:
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Here We Go Again With Sherm
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 28 October 2009
Circulation figures in newspapers are tricky business.
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Fabulous Bathrooms of the Nevada Desert
Blog: Desperately Seeking Root Beer - 28 October 2009
It's safe to say that most people visiting Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada are not there to see the bathrooms. I wasn't there to see the bathrooms either, I was there to see the red sandstone formations and the sweeping desert landscapes — or, more accurately, I was in search of an antidote to Las Vegas. Finding out en route that Valley of Fire was where they filmed Captain Kirk's death scene in Star Trek Generations was nerd-icing on the cake.
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Puzzling over the R-J's circulation gain
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 27 October 2009
The latest newspaper circulation data was released today and it was horrifying. The New York Times has shed 7.2% and is now below 1 million in sales per weekday, USA Today dropped 17 percent and lost its No. 1 ranking to the Wall Street Journal, and overall average daily circulation plunged 10.6 percent. See the report and list here.
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Steve Wynn: Socialist?
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 25 October 2009
On Oct. 13, Steve Wynn went on Fox Business Channel to say this of President Obama's health care aims:"We are seeing socialism-lite here. It would be OK if it worked, it never works.”Two days later, he was on the Encore Theater stage with Garth Brooks explaining how he would approach ticket sales for the country singer's comeback appearances:
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Travelogue: Burning Man to Hemet, CA
Blog: Tales from Technomadia - 24 October 2009
Time Period: September 6 – October 24 Miles Driven: 1179 (not including non-RV trips) Post Burning Man we only had one specific goal – to make it to Hemet, CA for much needed down time. We had met some folks in the area during our travels earlier in the year that we only had the opportunity to visit [...]
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The show is UP: The Podcast-A-Palooza Episode!
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 23 October 2009
Here's the Podcast-a-Palooza episode featuring a really solid conversation with Chazz Palminteri. We'll be recording again on Saturday 5-6 pm and our guest will be chef Hubert Keller. More in a post on Friday, but try to join us at LVRocks.Com for that if you can.
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This Week's LVW Col: Wynn Plays It Safe
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 22 October 2009
There was something odd about the Garth announcement. All the spectacle of it came from...Garth. Wynn was almost a bystander. That got me to thinking. And here's what I wrote for this week's "The Strip Sense" column in the Weekly. -sfBack to Basics -- And Garth!After lots of trial and error, Steve Wynn is playing it safeBy STEVE FRIESS
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Planet Hollywood Towers: A Special Preview
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 20 October 2009
