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Book Review: California Hotel and Casino

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Dennis Ogawa and John M. Blink, with Mike Gordon. California Hotel and Casino: Hawai’i’s Home Away from Home. Honolulu: Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai’i, 2008. 135 pages. Some casinos get all of the hype, while others fly below the radar but are consistently good performers. The California, in downtown Las Vegas, is definitely one of […]

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Queen for a day

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Interesting piece in the LA Times today about yet another one-day casino: Las Vegas casino openings typically demand red carpets, cocktail parties, celebrity guest lists and fireworks. But not so at the Queen of Hearts — it's a one-day casino. This spartan, eight-hour event is everything the Strip is not: small, unpretentious and quiet, with

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