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Indulge Your Cardsnapper Fantasies At Miracle Mile
Ever wondered what the life of a cardsnapper’s like? (It’s ok, we have too.) Well now you can – kind of.
These t-shirts from Città delle Luci in Miracle Mile tickled us. They’re the right color, the right lettering, and possibly even the right phone number (we aint calling to find out).
Yours for only $16.99 (make that a “$17 special”). The folks back home will love it (maybe).
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Surprise Of The Day: Luxor is Hot For Recycling
Normally when we write about Luxor we feel like we have a bit of a downer on it (well if they will employ Criss Angel, have a stupid no photo rule or run possibly fake competitions and offers…)
But today, we’re pleased to report that Luxor is in our good books because it recycles! Who’d have thought it?
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Drinking the Eiffel Tower Actually Deserves A Little Respect
Drinking the Eiffel Tower under the Eiffel Tower. See what we did there?
Ever wandered along the Strip and looked down on the people guzzling away at their Eiffel/Stratosphere towers as if their lives depended on it? So have we, friends. So have we. But however much we told ourselves souvenir drinks are so touristy and so trashy and so ghastly, there was always a little part of us despo to try it out ourselves. So when we got the occasion to indulge in some Stripside drinking thanks to our stay at Caesars last week, we knew exactly what we’d be chugging. And it would be 12 inches and shaped like the Eiffel Tower.
And now we’ve done it, we can say how harshly we judged imbibers in the past. Because it takes a lot of guts to drink an Eiffel Tower and risk throwing those same guts out the next morning. It requires strength – both physical and mental. And finishing it is a feat on a par with the finals of the Nathan’s hot dog contest.
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Lance Burton Knows How To Stop You Taking Photos
Well, here’s one way of stopping those pests who like nothing better than to spend an entire concert/show/speech taking photos (unless, of course, those pests are us, taking entirely necessary snaps for this website. Ahem).
We noticed this strict little sign at the Lance Burton Theater at the Monte Carlo last night. It says that not only are cameras etc prohibited during the performance (like anyone takes any notice of those signs) but that if you do do as everyone else does and break the rules, your equipment will be seized and your film destroyed.
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Looks Like Buzios Forgot to Put Anything In Their Fish Tank
What’s this we spy here? An empty water tank drawing attention to the plight of the over-fished oceans?
Um, no. It’s the scene outside Buzios Seafood Restaurant at the Rio.
Not that we want to knock the Rio (again), but normally, when there’s a tank full of water outside a fish restaurant, we assume that tank is going to be full of lobsters or crab or something to entice you in. Not this scene of nihilism.
Still, it was about 9pm on Sunday night when we took this, so maybe they’d had a busy night, what with all their two-for-one entree deals, and sold out all the lobster. Yes, maybe.
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Best Thing About Viva Elvis? The VE Shop
Spend your money with these nice people, not at the Box Office
As you might have gathered yesterday, we weren’t the biggest fans of Viva Elvis. But one thing we forgot to put on the “what we liked” list yesterday, is the VE shop.
We checked it out back in January, and it was fantastic. Of course, it has every Elvis CD, t-shirt and bit of kitsch you could possibly want, like the Memphis-made cashew crunch Elvis used to eat at Graceland:
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Todd English's P.U.B. Is Finally Open, Here's A Peek
What’s this? Could it be an open door? No, surely not. Really? It is? Yes! Todd English’s P.U.B is finally open in the Crystals. Hallelujah!
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It's Not Just Obama Going Down on the Strip Today
With all the heavy politicking going down in Vegas today, we feel the need to lower the tone and remind you what else is going down on the Strip. And thus we bring you a shot of the latest Hot Girls to Your Room van to grace us with its presence.
Is it just us, or is this a little more graphic than we’re usually treated to? We only saw it for the first time last week, and it’s not exactly the kind of thing that’s easy to miss.
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If Only The Rest of Vegas Would Follow McCarran's Green Lead
We’re just off down to McCarran to await the arrival of Mr President for the next four hours. Not that we mind too much – apart from the fact that the travel geek in us is highly excited about seeing Air Force One touch down on Vegas tarmac, we also thoroughly approve of McCarran’s green policies.
We’d seen the “McCarran’s going green” signs before, of course, but it was only the last time we went through that we realized just how far ahead it is than most of the rest of Vegas – and by “just how far ahead”, we mean “light years ahead”.
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Introducing Robo Valet At New York New York
We’re at risk of developing a serious crush on New York New York this week. First the revelatory WiFI experience at the ESPN Zone, now this: the Robo Valet, that we noticed the other day.
Instead of waiting for a guy in the booth to scan your ticket, you do it yourself, it logs you into the system, and you wait for the valet to bring it up. As little girls who grew up wanting to work in a supermarket just so we could scan stuff, this makes us very happy.
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A Lovely View from Koi, No Extra Tipping Required
This was our view from the Koi sushi restaurant inside Planet Hollywood, one of our favorite sushi restaurants on the Strip. The best part about this view? We had prime viewing of the Bellagio fountains.
Even better, we didn't need to grease anybody with tightly rolled twenties to get this view, on a Saturday night, either. We called Koi at 7pm, asking and receiving a reservation for two people at 8pm. When we arrived, we were politely told that we couldn't carry in any outside drink (we were swigging a mini-bottle of Chardonnay). So we chugged our vino and then the hostess promptly sat us in the intimate back room seating area, which you see on the restaurant website.
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This is Why You Shouldn’t Drive to Vegas Via the Hoover Dam on a Weekend
Don’t get us wrong. We love crossing the Hoover Dam and all. It’s beautiful, spectacular, a testament to man’s ingenuity etc etc (plus we always think of the scene at the beginning of Goldeneye, and we love a good Bond film). As the guy beside us in the video here puts it so eloquently, it’s an “intense dam”. But much as we love it, we wouldn’t want to queue for hours to get over it.
