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Curated content and comedic viewpoints on Society, Politics, Entertainment & Las Vegas!
Jamey, John and Special Guest Julia discuss how the city of Las Vegas has leaked into many celebrated, classic and infamous novels and literary pieces throughout the recent decades. These discussions are paired with their anecdotes of living and working in the city like no other.
“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas
“The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kandy-Kolored_Tangerine-Flake_Streamline_Baby
“Learning from Las Vegas the Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_from_Las_Vegas
“Leaving Las Vegas”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaving_Las_Vegas_(novel)
“The Desert Rose”
http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Desert-Rose/Larry-McMurtry/9780684853840
“Beautiful Children”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Children
Vegas Gossip
The plug has been pulled on Renegades at Caesars Palace. The experimental show that was essentially a rap session with former sports bad boys, e.g. Jose Canseco and Jim McMahon, closed without warning prior to the end of its originally planned run.
Westgate Las Vegas has installed a system on its machines that allows players to order drinks without having to wait for a cocktail waitress. The order is relayed to the bar where the drink is prepared and delivered. As an added feature, the menu presented lets players know what they can be comped, with higher-tier players offered a bigger selection. It will be interesting to see how this goes over. The process has been put in place in Atlantic City and its prompting complaints from cocktail waitresses who don’t like being reduced to cocktail retrievers and, we presume, are getting fewer tokes.
Two new triple-zero-roulette wheels have been spotted. One is at Planet Hollywood and the other is at New York-New York, meaning that both Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts have joined in the gouge that had belonged solely to the Venetian before now. The extra zero raises the casino edge from 5.26% to 7.69%.
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