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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
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A Friessmas To Remember!
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 16 October 2009
Today I'm 37. (And yes, that was me above.)
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Podcast-a-Palooza FOR YOUR LIFE!
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 14 October 2009
OK, folks! As you can see above to your right, the Podcast-a-Palooza is approaching this SATURDAY at the Palms.
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BREAKING: ERICH BERGEN CAST ON GOSSIP GIRL w/ LADY GAGA!
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 8 October 2009
It's nice when your friends land on their feet!
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This Week's LVW Col: Frittering Top Chef
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 8 October 2009
Frittering Top Chef?Why the Vegas hype machine must turn up the head now on its biggest culinary momentBy STEVE FRIESSHubert Keller was on the line, enthusiastically dishing about the wonderfulness for him that has been his ride this year with the Bravo reality hit Top Chef. Keller, proprietor of Fleur de Lys and Burger Bar at Mandalay Bay, was a finalist on Top Chef Masters and then appeared again a few weeks ago to help assess the output of the contestants battling it out in the regular season, which is, of course, set here in Vegas.
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Wednesday Musings: Tech + Journalism
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 7 October 2009
Continuing to trickle out some of the nuggets I've been storing up for a while on different topics, today's grouping is tech and journalism...
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Manilow To Open At Paris On V-Day Weekend?
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 7 October 2009
The official announcement just came that Barry Manilow's tenure at the Hilton ends Dec. 30. KVBC's Alicia Jacobs had reported as much last month and I had already Tweeted on Oct. 1 that I had confirmed that Manilow was in talks with Paris LV to move over there.
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Vegas Drama Club Drama!
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 7 October 2009
Ut-oh. Them Bible thumpers are at it again. Then again, they wuz kinda provoked.
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Tuesday Musings: Food Edition
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 6 October 2009
Been hanging on to a lot of little tidbits for a while, so I'll be grouping them this week and posting them as we go along. First up are topics that are loosely related by their relevance to food.1. Inappropriate, Party of One. Did John Curtas, the brilliant KNPR food critic whom I very much admire and whose recommendations I flawlessly follow, really Tweet this below about Namaste Indian Cuisine?
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Postscript on the Gay Sex Museum Drama
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 5 October 2009
Remember how I got all concerned last week that the first images the media would have of gays tying the knot under the domestic partnership law that went into effect on Oct. 1 would look like this...
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Is This Cruelty or Good Fun?
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 5 October 2009
I thought it was good fun, but evidently many who have visited PawNation.Com, one of my new clients and the site for whom I covered last month's SuperZoo pet-goods show at Mandalay Bay, seem to think it's animal cruelty to do this...
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Your Sunday Reading Assignments
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 4 October 2009
I've finally caught up on weeks of reading and found some stuff of Vegas relevance to recommend. Most is from today's paper, actually, but some is kind of old, but if you haven't seen it, it's new to you:
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ACK! It's actually STILL on!
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 30 September 2009
It was too easy, too logical, for it to be true. And it wasn't.QVegas associate publisher Earl Shelton canceled his public nuptials at the Erotic Heritage Museum, but evidently some other couples are still moving forward with this horrible idea of marking the commencement of the new domestic partnership law with ceremonies at a sex museum officiated by an Elvis and, maybe, featuring drag-queen nuns.
