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Mental Goes Free, And You'd Be Mental Not To See It
Looks like everyone’s favorite tattooed English mindreader on the Strip Luke Jermay is trying to confuse us. First there was the announcement of his new show, Dirty Thoughts. Then Anthony Cools, who produces the show, kept tweeting about big changes to Mental, but every time we asked the O’Sheas O’Sheas lot, they professed total ignorance.
Anyway, now we know what the change was – and it’s a good one. Instead of charging $49 for tickets, it’s now free. Yes – an hour of a brilliant show (that we’ve been saying that you should go see since August, as it happens) for free.
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Todd English's P.U.B: Hold the Pickles and It Could Be Great
Hurrah! So Todd English’s P.U.B is finally open in the Crystals. We’ve shown you what it looks like, we’ve told you about the eggtimer trick (down your pint in seven seconds and you don’t have to pay for it). Now let’s get onto the heavy stuff – what the food is like. Our tipster told us that prices would be very cheap for the Strip, and the menu would be based on a "huge English pub style menu". Here’s what we found.
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Easy Now... The Brits Are Coming, And They're Spinning Tunes
Remember when British Airways launched its direct flights to Vegas from Heathrow and we predicted a Brit invasion on the Strip? Turns out either we were wrong, or they’re keeping themselves on the d-low, because we’ve seen disconcertingly few drunken Essex girls and boys in the past week.
One place they’re making themselves felt, though, is the Crown and Anchor pub. And not just in its essential pubbishness, but with its free, weekly Saturday night British Invasion party.
At 9pm, out comes DJ Felix (a proper English name if ever there was one) spinning songs from the 60s to the 90s. We went last week and caught the likes of Erasure, New Order and Depeche Mode. ‘Choons! If he could only throw in some Take That this week, we’ll be sorted.
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A Very British Scandal At The Bellagio, And How To Avoid Your Own
Slight scandal doing the rounds across the pond at the moment. It was revealed by the Guardian today that the Head of the BBC, Director General Mark Thompson, dropped £647.50 ($1072) of expenses on two nights at the Bellagio earlier this year.
$1072? How odd. Because we’re looking at the website now, and we can see rooms available for $129. Also, a friend of ours is, right now, shacked up in said Bellagio, having paid the princely sum of £500 ($828) for five nights and flights from London, all in.
So what we’re thinking is, someone either got a bad, bad deal, or someone booked a nice, nice room. Possibly a penthouse suite (from $359) or even a two-bed penthouse suite (from $699). Wonder which it is, Mr Thompson?
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A First-Time British Guide To Vegas: Part Two
Greetings, fellow British folk. So yesterday we prepared you for the shock of your first time in Vegas, and told you how to feast on the American side of Sin City.
We know you’ll love it here. But we also understand that Vegas is like orange squash - a big bottle of America concentrate. And, during your stay, you may well feel like some dilution before you can drink it again. So here’s where to go for a little taste of the green green grass of home. Or, rather a taste of the UK, as Vegas imagines the UK to be. Let’s go all Vera Lynn.
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A First-Time British Guide To Vegas: Part One
Brits on the Strip are here to stay thanks to the new British Airways service from London and the phenomenally good package deals that they’ve been touting to haul us over the Atlantic.
But if you’re one of them (the first sign of a Brit being that you’ll never call yourself British) and it’s your first time, you might be disappointed.
Coming from London, we feel your pain. We made our first trip to Vegas expecting to see Clooney and the Oceans boys hanging out in the casinos (or at the very least, fit men in dinner jackets), Hunter S Thompson clones gurning along the hotel corridors, and Cameron Diaz tottering out of a wedding chapel. We drove down the Strip looking for an ailing Nicolas Cage or an Elvis lookalike walking to work.
Needless to say, on arrival, we were sorely disappointed. We wanted to hide in our room, read our copy of Valley of the Dolls, listen to Frank Sinatra and weep quietly for our shattered dreams. Luckily for us, we were staying at Planet Hollywood and said room was less than inspiring, so we ventured out. And thus we learned to love Vegas.
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Four Days Into the BA Flights, and They're Too Expensive For Us
A whole week since the British Airways launch party for its London-Vegas flights, and four days since the flights themselves started. And what has happened?
Well, according to BA’s CEO Willie Walsh (that’s him checking in at Heathrow T5 with Mayor Goodman and his showgirls), London-Vegas is BA’s best-performing new route "by far", with the inaugural flight on Sunday full.
So far, so good. Unfortunately, the inaugural was also 90 minutes late, due to a brake fluid leak, meaning that they missed being greeted by Holly Madison, who had to go and perform in Peepshow.
The next day, Willie Walsh was given the keys to the city, Mayor Goodman threw a special lunch for British press at the Bellagio, and the Brits were let loose on the Strip to start tweeting about $12 diet cokes at the Wynn and the Grand Canyon making them feel "uncomfortable" (no, we have no idea what she means about that either, unless it's an undiagnosed fear of heights coming through).
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A Glimpse Into the Very Near Vegas Future: Brits On The Strip
Three signs of a good night: you wake up clutching a poker chip in one hand, Elvis Presley’s email address in the other, and your camera seems to have magicked up pictures of you with vodka luges and feather boas that you definitely don’t recall going anywhere near. This was our morning after the BA London-Vegas route launch party at Studio Valbonne in London last night.
Mayor Goodman was guest of honor along with his wife, Carolyn, his showgirls (six of them) and his Elvis impersonator. Two Cirque du Soleil folk were doing acrobatics around the room, Rain DJ Paul Oakenfold was on the decks, and everyone was in the party spirit – including the waitress who was so sozzled that she fell over as she was taking a picture of us with Elvis.
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Oscar Goodman Is Bringing His Showgirls To London To Christen BA's New Route
Have you heard of London's mayor Boris Johnson? He’s um, a buffoon character. Instead of neat politician hair, he has a woolly blond thatch, instead of saying bland politician things, he likes to weigh in with jokes that others sometimes take offence to, and instead of being a dull politician who nobody really cares about, Londoners either love him or hate him.
Boris likes to think he’s one of a kind, but he’s about to meet his match – Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman is crossing over the pond this month for the launch of British Airways’ direct London-Vegas flights on October 25.
Along with meeting Boris and, possibly, the Queen (he's working on that), he'll be guest of honour at an as yet top secret party.
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Where Do the Brits in Town Go For Some Kippers?
The numbers for ex-pat Brits living in Sin City are hard to come by, given the transient nature of Las Vegas and that there's no definitive census taken for that purpose. However, with many social organizations in town that cater to those who grew up under the Union Jack, there is a ballpark figure, and they put it well into five figures (i.e. at least 10,000) and with that readers, means there has to be a store to cater their across the pond needs - and that is where British Grocers comes into place.
Now here is a store that caters to all the Brits, and the devoted anglophiles needs. You want proof? They have sausage rolls, bangers, meat pies, Devon cream (if you never had, ‘tis a pity), digestive biscuits (we call ‘em cookies), kippers and much more. Also, if you are the kind who is into ersatz British kitsch, then why not buy a Union Jack apron, or a Queen Elizabeth II alarm clock, because it is not uncommon to find such cute knick knacks in here.
