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First media notice

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Grandissimo got its first media notice on September 13, in John L. Smith’s column in the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

GRAND SARNO: After devouring a galley copy of David G. Schwartz’s new book on the wild life and times of casino man Jay Sarno, I can only say aficionados of Las Vegas history will love it when it becomes available in late October. It’s titled “Grandissimo: The First Emperor of Las Vegas.”

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John L. Smith was kind enough to write a few words about the book, which you can read on the Advance Praise page.

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Breaking the Casino News in Vegas Seven

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I don’t have a Green Felt Journal in this week’s Vegas Seven, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t contribute. This time out, I focused my gimlet eye on the fact that, several times over the past year, “local bloggers” beat the mainstream media to the punch: Looking back at the past year, several important casino

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Writing about gambling

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Based on a discussion in my Gambling and the Media class, I wrote a little essay about how gambling’s depicted in film and literature. Now it’s a Las Vegas Business Press column: Looking at how gambling is depicted in books, films, and television says a lot about how people perceive the pastime, but it often

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Stuff I didn’t say yesterday

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If you missed my brief appearance on Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell last night, I’ll give you a quick recap. I was part of a panel that talked about the Terence Watanabe case, which was news because his attorney talked to Good Morning America. I’d prepared some factoids about a previous high-profile attempt to use “the

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Casino carpet in the LVRJ

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What can I say? Seriously thinking about casino carpet has gone mainstream. From the LVRJ: We walk all over it, cover most of our floors with it, and, when we see it for the first time, proclaim it either grand or gaudy. But have you ever seriously contemplated carpet? Other than its functionality — and

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