My baby daughter, Lisa (she’s 49), called me Monday night, and asked me what I was doing Tuesday? Naturally I replied, “nothin’, why?” Then she explained, that a co-worker (Lisa works at Wynn) told her about Cold Creek, and that if you go there you’ll see some wonderful wild Mustang horses. Lisa (day off) was […]
With the opening of the Mob Museum at the Tropicana, and the soon to be opened Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, downtown, it’s only natural that a smart promoter would create a show around a famous mobster. The most famous criminal name associated with Las Vegas, was Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegal, famous […]
Ran into an old friend the other day, when I decided to check out that white hotel/casino you pass as you drive out I-95, heading to Arizona and parts unknown. I was personally heading to Boulder City to see a friend, when he called my cell, and suggested we meet at the white building—called Railroad […]
If you were wondering what happened to last Friday’s column, the simple answer is that I was at Desert Springs Hospital, when I normally write the column. I had some blockage in my right side carotid artery, which needed taking care of. Let me tell you something I think is very important. Most of the […]
Things have been a wee bit slow this week, so I’m going to let you, my loyal readers, read a story about a once Grand Hotel that was loved by one-and-all. Some of the story is accurate as hell. Some is speculation, and some is pure dislike on this writer’s part of what has taken […]
Well, gang, the “Boys of Thunder,” have come and gone. They left behind a bunch (about 275,000) happy race fans, who gathered at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, starting last Friday March 4th. The crowd on Sunday, alone, was estimated at a tad over 150,000 for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Kobalt Tools 400, won by […]
The Las Vegas Motor Speedway will be busy as a bee-hive this weekend, with the running of the $6,250,000.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup Kobalt Tools400 race, at noon Sunday, March 6, with its sister race, the $1,200,000.00 NASCAR Nationwide Series Sam’s Town 300 at noon Saturday, March 5. Management of the speedway are expecting a near […]
This is going to be a busy week at the, “Good Ol’ Boys” hangout. For, this is the week, when the Las Vegas Motor Speedway turns it’s 1 ½ mile super-banked-tri-oval into Speedway City, as it hosts some 80 plus of the best automobile drivers in the world. Hey, gang, “The Boys of Thunder,” will […]