Tag - Downtown Las Vegas
Las Vegas Grand Prix
The last couple of nights people have started arriving in town for The Las Vegas Grand Prix. This is exactly the kind of thing that is great for Las Vegas. Special events with a special brand of customer coming into town for a unique event that’s a first. Las Vegas’ downtown will definitely benefit from the exposure and the renovations and changes that are taking place, and the Golden Nugget in particular, will get a premier event to showcase the new look. Whether you love him or hate, Oscar Goodman is great for this town and this is a great example of the kinds of things that were not taking place before he went into office.
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Baby, We’re Gonna Be Up Five Hundy By Midnight!
Bloggin’ ain’t easy. For a blog to be successful you have to write well and write regularly as a bottom-line commitment if you hope to establish and maintain a good readership. My recent week-and-a-half lapse is evidence of how easily it is for other things in life to override the time needed to carefully pick topics and put together good posts. In the blogosphere, we have quotas to meet. That’s just for those of us currently writing, mind you. I can only imagine how much time and effort must go into planning and producing a regular podcast….
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Redesigned Golden Nugget is Fabulous
Tonight I was showing a friend that recently moved to the Las Vegas Valley around town and we ventured downtown for a bit while I was helping him learn the major streets. We decided to go into the Nugget and walk around for a little while. The last time I was in the Golden Nugget they were in the middle of the renovations. I could see work progressing in the pool area and could tell it would be really nice once completed, but the whole place was a mess. I recall it taking twenty minutes just to find a restroom which was hidden upstairs near the buffet.
Today my visit was much different.
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The Happiest Mayor On Earth…
Our mayor, Oscar Goodman, is a man with both a colorful past and a colorful present. Goodman became widely known for representing mafia enforcer Tony “The Ant” Spilotro back in the day (Joe Pesci played the screen version of Tony Spilotro in “Casino” with not much but the name changed.) More recently he was given national attention for telling a class of fourth grade students if he were lost on a deserted island he’d like to have his favorite bottle of gin with him, because he really enjoys drinking, apparently, as he listed to the same group of kids “drinking” among his hobbies. He says he’s the George Washington of mayors, in that he can not tell a lie. Hell, I have to say – honesty is something refreshing in any politician, even if he might not be accused of speaking to his audience with the greatest sense of appropriateness.
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