Living Las Vegas

Real Life in the Shadow of the Strip

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Resistance is Futile

Since I am not a diehard Star Trek aficionado, I might have gone my whole life without entering the parallel universe inside the Las Vegas Hilton. In fact, I didn’t even know about the Star Trek Experience until I shared a bench with a Ferengi on a city bus.
“Aren’t you the guy in those TV [...]

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New Bridge in Town: Mandalay Place

Bridges doubling as shopping malls have a long tradition in Europe, so I guess it’s not too surprising that Las Vegas, having already acquired a chlorinated Grand Canal and a digital-age Coliseum, should get an air conditioned Ponte Vecchio. Mandalay Place, like its slightly smaller Florentine predecessor, is a bridge you shouldn’t cross without some [...]

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Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville

The Flamingo is the oldest super resort on the Las Vegas Strip, and it was beginning to look its age. Bugsy Siegel’s brainchild seemed more historic than glamorous, even after periodic remodeling jobs. Then came a glimmer of hope. Beginning several months ago, the “You are Here” map in the lobby showed an under-construction project [...]

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Hofbrauhaus Las Vegas

Starbucks did it faster, and Disneyland did it bigger, but both followed the hallowed capitalist tradition of spawning all over the place. And now, like one of those rare desert plants that reproduces only once a millennium, Munich’s revered Hofbräuhaus has dropped a pup in Las Vegas.
I was actually very excited when I saw the [...]

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Blame It On the NFL

Howard Dean’s gotta be happy about Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction.” “I Have a Scream” has fallen off the charts while every twelve-year-old in America scours the Web for images that will prove once and for all she wasn’t wearing a pasty.
So here’s the irony of the undeniable tackiness of the Super Bowl’s halftime show and [...]

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