MS casinos run ashore
Despite opposition from some religious conservatives, it looks like land-based casinos will be coming to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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news about gamblingRat Pack vs. Devil
As the debate over moving casinos on shore heats up in Mississippi, I think that Bob Lizarraga’s print “The Rat Pack vs. the Devil for Control of the Strip” is somehow appropriate. If I ever redo my office with a them, I’d deck it out in Lizarraga prints. I just thought of something. When something
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gambling & cultureThe New Die is Cast
I’ve done a minor site redesign, so If you’ve got the site cached, hit REFRESH. Otherwise things will look pretty funky. Changes include: – new color scheme – new professional section detailing my consulting, speaking, and executive seminars. – a new gallery: G2E 2005 Coming soon…RSS syndication, other changes. If you know anything about migrating
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what's newGambling at the Last Supper?
Another day, another clash between religion and gambling, it seems. First of all, a Mississippi state representative from Pass Christian has called would-be moralists out over their insistence that Katrina was doing God’s bidding: Rep. Jim Simpson of Pass Christian couldn’t believe the e-mails he received from some self-proclaimed Christians this week attempting to lobby
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gambling & cultureGod strikes back?
I’ve been waiting to hear this: the hurricanes that have recently struck the Gulf Coast are, apparently, God’s way of punishing us. Unfortunately, no one can agree just what we’ve done that’s so bad. There’s the usual suspects–gambling, drinking, etc–but nearly every religious zealot with a beef is stepping up to the plate on this
Blogging and RSS
Anyone have any thoughts on how to either a) enable RSS feeds in Greymatter or b) migrate my existing Greymatter blog into Word Press? I’ve spent all morning trying to do both and have, regrettably nothing to show for it. Email if you’ve got any ideas, preferably easy to follow. Also, if anyone wants to
How many slots are there?
The full question is, how many legal slot machines are there in the United States? Thanks to an article in the always-accurate Gaming Today, I have a quick answer for you. Plus, you’ll get a wild guess for how much money they earn in a day and throughout the year.
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gambling & cultureA Gambling Bear
Dealing with gambling, history, and popular culture for a living, I like to keep abreast of new developments. This means a whole bunch of things: following financial results for casino companies, checking out casinos for the latest games and promotions, and seeing how gambling is depicted in art. Today I decided to spend five minutes
Payday in AZ
I don’t generally follow the banking industry, nor do I claim to know much about it, but I’ve got a sneaking suspiscion that payday loan places are a rip-off. So I was intriuged to find out that Arizona now has more payday loan businesses than Starbucks and McDonalds–combined.
Peppermill grows
If, like me, you enjoy the Reno Peppermill, you are in luck: there’s going to be more of it soon.
Goodbye Grand
Last year, I snapped a picture of the Grand Casino Gulfport’s barge: The Grand didn’t fare so well in Hurricane Katrina: it was swept from its moorings and deposited across Highway 90. Today, I was emailed a series of photos of its implosion: Why the implosion? Read on…
Rebuilding the Gulf Coast
The major casino companies involved in the Gulf Coast have already announced that they intend to rebuild. But will it be on land or water? Mississippi gov. Haley Barbour, speaking more broadly of the general reconstruction of the region, said that “if we rebuild the Coast and South Mississippi back just the way it was
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news about gamblingA t-shirt for the times
I’m waiting for this poster to arrive in the mail some day…it’s an even-money bet as to whether I would find a place for it in my office. It would balance out my brand new “ROBOTcasino” poster. This isn’t a parody, either: the “Taiwan Fulgent Entertainment Company” was giving them away at G2E. The poster
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haphazard worldA new exhibit
I had a ton of great stuff with which to inform and entertain everyone today, but the only news I have time for is directly work-related. With the help of Nishanth Bezawada, my grad student assistant, I have posted a beta version of the online version of the now-famous G2E 2005 exhibit “A Centennial Celebration
More G2E
As I write this, the Global Gaming Expo 2005 is in its waning hours. There are a host of stories in the LV Sun and RJ about the technologies unleashed this year–mostly server-based gaming, which is largely still in testing mode. There were a ton of attendees and exhibitors this year. I’ve spent most of
At G2E
For those of you who are curious, my session this morning at G2E on the Wire Act was, I think, a real success. Bob Blumenfeld gave a great summary of the US/Antigua WTO case and Bill White from Global Cyber discussed the possibilities of intra-state legal Internet gaming. All in all, an interesting session. I
G2E is here!
As the Las Vegas Review Journal will tell you, the Global Gaming Expo has arrived. I was down there yesterday–working on a Sunday again–to drop off some materials for the big centennial of Las Vegas gaming exhibit, and the place was already buzzing. I’m expecting to be down there most of this week, so chances
Gambling after Katrina
I know people say that the casino industry is recession-proof, but this might be taking this too far. Steve Lopez of the LA Times has a great story about someone gambling in Lake Charles, Louisiana, even though his New Orleans-area home is still underwater. Evidence, perhaps, that the human urge to gamble is almost as
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gambling & cultureCentennial Gaming History
One of the things that’s been taking up my time in recent weeks has been creating “A Centennial Celebration of Gaming in Las Vegas,” an exhibit that will run at this year’s Global Gaming Expo. Curious?
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gambling & culture, life in vegasOne year in
It’s hard to believe, but Die is Cast is one year old this week. Here’s a few random thoughts: If Rome on HBO couldn’t get any cooler, there was gambling–and a gambling-related brawl–that, according to episode 2’s title, “brought down the republic.” Was the gambling scene historically accurate? In a sense, yes: all the archaeological