The Las Vegas Monorail is to public transportation what Milli Vanilli is to music and Ron Artest is to sports. A big, sad joke. The long-touted, never-delivering monorail finally reopened on Christmas Eve after a four-month shutdown. What prompted the shutdown? Oh, nothing much. Just metal parts falling from the moving tram not once, not twice but three times. That’s no big deal on The Strip, one of the most densely populated streets in America right? Even still the monorail’s mechanical blunders are not its biggest flaw. No, that’s ... full post »

Las Vegas is a lot of things. Sophisticated isn’t necessarily one of them. For the town that pretends to be too cool for the room is more like an eager suck up desperate to be favored by the most popular in the class. This is a town that lives for celebrity worship. Much more than New York, way more than even LA now, the slightest – and I mean slightest – celebrity sighting is cause for commotion. In Casear’s the other night, the presence of a B-list movie shooting almost ground the entire casino to a halt. People stood up on ... full post »

Reader Keith Johnson makes an excellent point in noting that the equipment company Titleist is the only one associated with American golf responding to English golfer’s Paul Casey’s “I-hate-Americans” rant. This is what it’s come to in our new corporate PC world. Wimps no longer hide behind their mothers. They hide behind their mother corporations. Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson do not step up and fire back at what was essentially just an admission from Casey that European Ryder Cup team actually cares about winning. (Truly, a foreign concept.) No, they leave ... full post »