Category - Outdoors and Other Interests
Las Vegas Renaissance Fair – WLVS on Location!
Dudes in costumes playing Magic the Gathering. Jesus I’m stoked. 
All kidding aside, starting this Friday and running through Sunday, the 2007 Las Vegas Renaissance Festival is going on at Sunset Park. It’s $10 per person per day or $25 if you’re bored and have the stamina and/or will to go for all three days.
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The Air Up Here…
Wow. Who the hell would want to be inside? I just got back from dinner about thirty minutes ago and of all the reasons why I call Las Vegas home, the air out here – tonight – is high up on the list. As I recently wrote, “Magical Weather Week” changes everything around here, weather-wise. The highs this week are the very low nineties, which might sound hot, but for the dry air, it’s great. You are still comfortable enough outside to go to the pool all day and then as the sun goes down, you just want to change into some jeans and stay outside..
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The Long, Beautiful Road Home
There are a lot of changes in the works for “While Las Vegas Sleeps” at present. My annual summer trip to visit friends and family in Texas has proved to be very good for near-term plans for our site here. Some things I’ve been planning on doing for a while now are just about to start happening, so I’m really excited.
My friend Kelly from Houston took the drive back from Houston to Las Vegas with me and we took the slightly-longer-but-completely-worth it northern route home – the I-40 (old Route 66) way. You can get to the Texas Gulf Coast faster by traveling down I-10, but it’s just nowhere near so beautiful.
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7/7/7 – It’s Your Lucky Day! – Thousands Marry in Las Vegas
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Okay, it’s true: I don’t believe in luck. Big time superstitions – even small, insidious ones – can be the undoing of any gambler, but mostly, I have always been big on mathematics and science and not so much on defying the inevitable. The law of large numbers is on your side, so long as you’re gambling with an edge. I’ve seen that principle in practice so many times, if I have a “belief,” it’s in the math.
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