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A Sad Day For Golden Gate Hotel and Casino

Casinos and Gambling, Hotels, Las Vegas, Nevada, Sin City
Posted October 18th, 2007 by Christopher - 6 comments

golden gate hotel and casinoFor years I’ve enjoyed Downtown Las Vegas in a way that I think is lost on a lot of people. I actually have always kind of dug the old, kitschy vibe, the stuff with a little history, the stuff with a little character (and a lot of characters, at that…) I like walking into casinos (at least the clean ones, anyways) that have low ceilings with antique lighting fixtures and wood paneling – cashier’s cages with cute little brass bars. It’s sort of like the Old West. Do I go down there all the time? No, of course not. Do I feel a sense a security knowing that at least some things never change? Hell yes.

…But things change. Nowhere do things change as often or as quickly as they do here in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Diablo’s Cantina’s Opening Party Was El Bomb

Casinos and Gambling, Hotels, Las Vegas, Nevada, Nightlife, Sin City, Stories
Posted October 16th, 2007 by Christopher - 2 comments

She-devils at Diablo Cantina grand opening partyOkay, granted, I’m big on free food and even bigger on free liquor, but Light Group knows how to launch a new club, er, uh, bar… taqueria?!@#$? It’s more than just a Mexican food restaurant, for sure, but at the end of the day, it’s a restaurant and bar. You would have thought it was the next big thing – like Tao 2.0 or something – pretty funny, actually. For the record, I think all future openings in Las Vegas should also feature red devils on red carpets!

To be honest, we almost didn’t make it to the opening. Okay, to be precise we almost didn’t make into the opening –

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Playboy Bunnies Are Hopping Again at the Playboy Club Las Vegas

Adult Entertainment, Casinos and Gambling, Hotels, Las Vegas, Nevada, Nightlife, Sin City
Posted October 11th, 2007 by Christopher - Add comment

Playboy Bunny from Palms 1My girlfriend is a happy, satisfied subscriber to Playboy Magazine. Like me, she’s a photographer. Also like me, she’s a fan of naked women. She says she reads it for the articles, though… so who knows? Anyhow, on Friday she received her new issue of Playboy Magazine and was pleasantly surprised to see a cute girl in an old school Playboy Bunny outfit on the cover, complete with ears and a bow tie.

Last fall, almost exactly a year ago, in fact, Playboy and The Palms opened the new Fantasy Tower, complete with the first Playboy Club to open in twenty-five years.

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Tallest Building in United States in Las Vegas?

Hotels, Las Vegas, Nevada, Political and Social Awareness, Sin City
Posted July 22nd, 2007 by Christopher - Add comment

It’s been a couple of years now since I heard the early rumors of a very, very tall building project for Las Vegas being proposed by an Australian billionaire developer. It was being talked about around the same time that Ivana Trump announced her super-tall building on the property at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara. In fact, it was at a time when it seemed like all you heard on the news was the latest and greatest imaginings of super-wealthy developers for Las Vegas and the impending “Manhattanization” of our fair city.

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