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Do You Really Perform Better When You Drink?
A couple of experts unveil their Optimal Altered State theory on how a little imbibing might indeed sharpen your competitive edge
March 11th, 2010
It’s down to the 8-ball, you have a length-of-the-table shot, and everything has built to this glide of the cue. Do you reach for the chalk or do you reach for the Guinness? It’s the final frame in a bowling competition; you need a strike and six pins to win. Do you reach for the hand-dryer or polish off your Jack and Coke? Read more »
Green Felt Journal
Taverns maintain big role in gambling ecosystem
March 11th, 2010
From Irish pubs to Mexican cantinas, it seems that every culture puts its own stamp on imbibing. The United States has generated its own share of distinctive drinking niches—tiki bars flowered in California before spreading across the country in the 1960s, and microbreweries have become almost ubiquitous. Read more »
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Stranger Than Fiction
A webcam game of Chatroulette can be a dicey affair—just watch!
March 4th, 2010
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Tell Me Something Good
Time for Las Vegas to get on the live-storytelling bandwagon. It’d be good for us!
February 25th, 2010
Mention the names Copioh, Roma, Rainbow or Enigma to a longtime Las Vegas hipster and you’ll likely get nostalgic recollections of the vibrant Bohemian poetry landscape that lived—and eventually died—in those smoky Las Vegas cafés. Shepherded by John Emmons, the city’s slam-poetry scene of the late 1980s to mid-1990s gave name to a number of notable locals, including Gregory “The Professor” Crosby (whose words are bronzed at the Las Vegas Poets’ Bridge and who now teaches English at the City College of New York), Metropolitan Police officer (and dynamic poet) Harry Fagel and Rodney “the Solitary Man” Lee (now a local high school teacher). Read more »
Green Felt Journal
Does the little guy still have a shot on the Strip?
February 25th, 2010
Last year at around this time, “deconsolidation” was the buzzword along the Strip. MGM Mirage had just announced its sale of Treasure Island to Phil Ruffin, formerly of the New Frontier. Investment bankers and industry analysts announced that, just as the previous 10 years had seen Strip casinos swept into progressively larger corporate empires, the next era would see them splinter into smaller fiefdoms fortified by hedge-fund and private equity investment. Read more »
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Cheap Luxury
It’s hard to imagine what will happen to the Fontainebleau now that it’s in Carl Icahn’s hands.
February 18th, 2010
Carl Icahn has a problem. Sure, he got what looks like a great deal when he picked up the unfinished Fontainebleau at the north end of the Strip for a paltry $150 million. The Fontainebleau’s first owners, Florida-based Fontainebleau Resorts, had already sunk a couple billion into the property to get it 70 percent complete before they went belly-up and pulled the plug on construction. Read more »
Green Felt Journal
Adopting the old ‘split-level’ strategy
February 18th, 2010
By David G. Schwartz Read more »
Re-Eating an American Classic
February 11th, 2010
A longtime McRib lover tries to rekindle that old processed-meat magic Read more »
