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Another Miss

As a 30-year resident of Atlantic City and now a resident of the Las Vegas area, the Miss America Pageant seems to be following me around. So when Miss Indiana, Katie Stam (below), won the pageant this weekend at Planet Hollywood, it started me to reminisce about my love-hate relationship with it.

There was much consternation […]

Eastside Evidence

You could hardly pick a worse time to open a new casino, yet here were the folks of Cannery Resorts last week, debuting the new Eastside Cannery on Boulder Highway in Las Vegas. If the first night was any sign, the property may beat the odds. As the 8 p.m. grand opening loomed, thousands of […]

Reverse Revenues

We became so used to increasing revenues in both Atlantic City and Nevada, it’s somewhat of a shock when the monthly figures are a disappointment. That is so true this week in both jurisdictions. One begins to wonder how we’re going to recover.

Atlantic city saw revenues fall by 11 percent in June, the biggest dip […]

Sheldon’s Follies

It seems that in her God-awful book, Winners Take All, Christina Binkley’s choice to exclude Sheldon Adelson as one of the Las Vegas moguls she covers (Steve Wynn, Gary Loveman and Kirk Kerkorian where her choices), is looking much worse than originally thought. It seems the billionaire chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands is […]

A New Face at the Mirage

With Danny Gans moving to a headlining gig at Wynn Las Vegas, his former casino is working to remove all traces of its former star performer.
Mirage officials announced yesterday a five-year contract with Terry Fator—winner of America’s Got Talent—that could be worth as much as $100 million. Fator will start performing in February 2009 in […]