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Jim Murren from MGM Resorts International on CNBC

By Marc May 11, 2011

I'm usually on top of my Vegas news, but news of MGM refurbishing rooms at Bellagio and MGM Grand must have slipped by me. Jim Murren, CEO of MGMRI, discussed…

John Unwin From Cosmopolitan on CNBC

By Marc May 10, 2011

John Unwin from the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas was on CNBC today and offered nothing new. In fact, the most interesting thing to me were the lack of people walking…

Sahara Closing?

By Marc March 2, 2011

Where there's smoke there's usually fire. I'm not much about rumors, but the rumor of Sahara closing seems too close to being true to not be true. Here's a tour…

Out With The Old In With The New

By Marc February 10, 2011

There have been a bunch of restaurant and bar closings in Las Vegas over the past few weeks and the latest is, no surprise to most Vegas nerds, Silk Road…

Ca$h In Your Chips!

By Marc December 30, 2010

Check your pockets for leftover $25,000 chips! Bellagio is recalling (by April 22, 2011) and discontinuing all use of $25,000 chips as many were taken during a robbery a few…

I Want You To Steal The Diamonds

By Marc December 3, 2010

I like Oceans 13 more than I should. Not a lot of people like the movie and I'm cool with that. Every time AAA announces their 5 Diamond award winners …

Vegas Memories Featuring Dido “White Flag”

By Marc October 20, 2010

I was tweeting back and forth with a few people the other night and I was brought back one of my favorite Vegas memories that I’m finally deciding to share.

As I’ve said before a lot of my Vegas memories are tied to music that I hear on a particular trip. The soundtrack to this day was Dido’s “White Flag“, a song I would normally not listen to, notice or think about.

This trip to Las Vegas was for a friends bachelor party a few years ago. I wasn’t as experienced as I am now, but I was one of the few people that had been to Las Vegas, so I knew where we needed to be and when and how often.

We decided to get an early start to our first morning in town. After a 99 cent mimosas over breakfast at Harrah’s we headed over to Bellagio for a little blackjack at 10:something AM. After a few amazing vodka drinks most of us were buzzed by 11am. This is when I noticed Dido playing for the first of many times this day.

It wasn’t even noon when we left the Bellagio and headed downtown. It was my first time downtown. We did a lot of exploring, but since it was a bachelor party we, initially, decided to skip gambling and went to the world famous Glitter Gulch for some more drinks and entertainment.