media
Social
When a television through a window just isn’t subtle enough
April 12th, 2012
We don’t know exactly what happened March 28 at Little Buddha in the Palms—maybe a busboy started taking Hanoi Rocks jabs—but Vince Neil wasn’t happy. So, he took to Twitter to slam the staff there. Then, after five days of relative calm, the Mötley Crüe frontman renewed his attack on the Palms, urging his followers not to go there. Read more »
Vegas Tech
Pinning Down the Latest Craze
April 5th, 2012
Remember pinning magazine cutouts of your favorite actors, musicians and athletes to your bedroom wall when you were a kid? Not only was it a way to surround yourself with inspiring figures, but it also allowed you to show off your good taste to visiting friends. Read more »
Found Material
Prodigy’s Rise in Full Swing
(ESPN.com)
April 5th, 2012
Bryce Harper remains one of baseball’s brightest young stars, but we’re going to have to wait awhile for the 19-year-old Las Vegan to make his big-league debut. Read more »
Site to See
Run Batboy Run
(BatmanRunningAwayFromShit.Tumblr.Com)
April 5th, 2012
Shortly before Matt Damon began shooting the Bourne movies, co-star Franka Potente gave him a bit of professional advice: She told him to make a video of himself sprinting on a treadmill and to study it, as she had done before making Run Lola Run. Read more »
Media
Is The Smith Center the Last Good Thing?
March 29th, 2012
The opening of The Smith Center received far less national coverage than the opening of The Mob Museum. No surprise there; the world acknowledges what it’s already equipped to see. The Vegas mob narrative occupies a well-worn groove in American consciousness. So, now, does the tale of our Valley’s housing crash. Not so much the story of a performing arts center built at the very epicenter of the American Great Recession. Especially when it refuses to yield to the outsider’s need to turn it into a cautionary tale. Read more »
Found Material
Bryce Harper focused … and learning
ESPN.com
March 29th, 2012
He's the world's most famous member of the Syracuse Chiefs now. And really, friends, that shouldn't be a shock to anybody -- not even to Bryce Harper. He's still a mesmerizing attraction. He's still a dynamic talent. He's still baseball's most intriguing teenage mutant ninja prospect. But can we introduce some facts here? Read more »
Vegas Tech
3-D Printers Reshaping Our World
March 22nd, 2012
Some of the once-futuristic devices from Star Trek now seem quaint (our cellphones, for example, are already much smaller than the show’s communicators). Recently, another device has started to become available for the average person: the replicator. The MakerBot Replicator (yes, that’s its real name) is a 3-D printer that can make small objects of any shape. Industrial 3-D printers have been around for a while, but the Replicator is one of the first specifically designed for home use. Read more »
Site to See
The Old Gray Tumblr
LivelyMorgue.Tumblr.com
March 22nd, 2012
The New York Times has a Tumblr blog. This sentence is a spacer sentence, to allow that statement to sink in. Now, I repeat: The New York Times, pretty much the last unsullied daily newspaper left in this country, is on the same blogging platform as FuckYeahPeterPan.Tumblr.com. To the Old Gray Lady’s credit, however, The Lively Morgue is a class act. Read more »
Found Material
Fighting to Keep Their Edge
NYTimes.com
March 22nd, 2012
It once seemed that casino operators could do no wrong—just open the doors and watch the money roll in. But tough times have caused a much different climate in the gaming world, and a pair of New York Times stories shine a harsh spotlight on the industry. Read more »
Vegas Tech
New iPad Is No Big Deal
March 15th, 2012
Is it just me, or have Apple’s recent product announcements gotten significantly less exciting than when Steve Jobs was around? Read more »
