The Folies Bergère is the longest running production shows in Las Vegas, nestled at the Tropicana Hotel/Casino for the last 50 years or so. That’s not counting the original spectacle in Paris, France (that’s the one with the real Eiffel Tower).  read more »

This past weekend I was in Cape May to attend the wedding of one of my nieces. I grew up in South Jersey and lived "at the shore" for many years B.C. (before casinos) in Atlantic City. The old pier that housed Cafe Ole' that I played at on Satuday nights is long gone replaced with multi-storied condos and the old rundown houses are now spiffy high-end Bed and Breakfast palaces.  read more »

Friday night-the place is bustling with check-ins, show goers, hungry people, and optimistic gamblers looking to break the bank (or at least make enough to walk out a winner). My sister-in-law works here and wanted to go to a show her husband didn’t want to attend so my wife went with her and because she had pulled some neck muscles a few days earlier, I drove her there to be safe.  read more »

Many people decry the lack of inexpensive alternatives to the current costs of enjoying oneself in the “new” Las Vegas. Vegas used to be a town of cheap rooms, inexpensive food, and free entertainment. But all that's been changing since the sixties when they figured out they could take the talent in the lounges, build a closed-in theater, put the acts in there and start charging admission.  read more »

Weird Scenes Inside A Gold Mine -This is the first in a series of weekly blogs I've launched that will try to capture the irony and spirit of “a city gone wild” in a perspective that will show different types of lifestyles, concert and show reviews, nutty people and the things that happen to them, and a contemporary view of this Twenty-first century gold rush that shows no sign of stopping.  read more »

Competing circuses have come and left in a town packed with three-ring stages. The Democratic Debates or "Why I Stopped Worrying and Began to Love the Obama," are now history, while across town Orenthal James Simpson, one of the most hated men in America in modern times (politics aside) went before a judge who determined that he will stand trial for whatever charge the prosecutor can dream up.  read more »

"Only Moments"

by Nick Oliva

"We are always in two worlds at once,
and neither of them is the world of reality.
One is the world we think we are in,
the other is the world we would like to be in."
—Henry V. Miller  read more »

OJ Simpson is a suspect in a possible armed robbery in Las Vegas at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino. Apparently OJ Simpson entered a guest’s room at the Place Station Hotel and took some belongings.  read more »