Steve Friess speaking at UNLV

As promised, here’s information about the latest Author Event sponsored by UNLV Libraries and the Center for Gaming Research. Steve Friess, who you might know as one of the most famous Vegas podcasters around, will be speaking at UNLV November 8. From the CGR website: WHAT: Steve Friess, author of GAY VEGAS, will speak, answer

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Check your head

I was going to write a lengthy post about the proliferation of public art in my neighborhood, but I’ll save that for another day, when I have the pictures to prove my point. I’ve also got a major announcement about an author event at the Center for Gaming Research, but I’m doing that later. I

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Poker literature website, blog

If you like to read and also like poker, Tim Peters, who writes for Card Player (among other venues), has a great site here: The literature of poker… Tim has links to his articles, his reviews of several books, and a blog that details his adventures–and commentary on–the world of poker. Best of all, he’s

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gambling & culture

City Center East announced

Great news for Atlantic City: it seems that City Center East–a Strip-style condo/casino/retail development–is one step closer to happening. From the AC Press: No longer content with building a mere casino, gaming giant MGM Mirage Inc. plans to develop a mini-city of gambling, hotel towers and luxury condominiums that would dramatically redefine the Atlantic City

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Free Fremont

I was looking at a brochure for the Las Vegas Marathon when I noticed something: even though we’re not running under the Fremont Street Experience this year, part of the course takes us through East Freemont. Yeah, that’s how it’s spelled. You can see it on this course map. Some people will say it’s just

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The wife jackpot

It took a big story to get me back into gambling. From the Telegraph: Yudhisthir lost Draupadi gambling. Centuries on, another woman of Malipada village in Khurda, about 20km from here, was put on bet. Binodini Moharana (19) was hurriedly married off to 28-year-old Kailash Moharana, a carpenter, on September 19 after her brother-in-law lost

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Enforced jolility

Questions: If this piece didn’t mention The Office, would it still be brilliant? Answer: Yes. I’ve had a bit of a problem with “coercive fun” or, as I’ve called it, enforced jolility (I’m pretty sure that’s not a word, but it sounds like one) in the workplace. It seems to defeat the whole purpose, wastes

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Shifting mores in Mass

Massachusetts used to have a reputation as a haven for blue laws–and bluenoses–but gambling is gaining in popularity. From Boston.com: Three years ago, you couldn’t even buy a six-pack of beer on Sunday in most Massachusetts cities and towns – and now the governor is proposing not just one but three casinos. Despite some lingering

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Bingo in AC

With the closing of the New Frontier, the last bingo room on the Las Vegas Strip was also shuttered. Casino bingo is definitely on the way out in Las Vegas, but it’s still going strong in Atlantic City. From the AC Press: Sounding like a TV game show host, Jason Smida called out numbers while

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OJ in Vegas

I just had to post this one. From KLAS: Las Vegas investigators will continue questioning O.J. Simpson today and possibly tomorrow about his involvement in a break-in at a local hotel. Metro police held a news conference at 12:20 p.m. and said the investigation is still in its infancy. Police say just before 8 p.m.

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