The Art of the Gamble, and Sunshine 300 Days A Year

The cast of characters gathered around the table on a weekend afternoon. The lady in the No. 1 seat wore mirrorlike sunglasses. An older guy sat next to her. A pony-tailed woman with a sparkly rhinestone cap that read BOSS was in the No. 3 seat. An agitated gray-haired guy wearing black glasses [...]

Ah, the drama. The color, the rush, the thrill of the unexpected cross-check. And, the pandemonium — particularly when the Knights score. Yes, the Vegas Golden Knights are headed for the Stanley Cup Final to face the Florida Panthers — WAIT. Make that, were headed to the Stanley Cup Final [...]

Roughly halfway through “First Man,” the Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 11 astronauts blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in a fiery, thunderous ascent that almost seems to shake the theater. It’s a powerful scene in a 2-hour, 21-minute film that traces the life of [...]

Three years have passed since the coronavirus descended over Las Vegas, temporarily shutting casinos and roiling tourism. A closed buffet restaurant at the Suncoast in western Las Vegas illustrates the noticeably different landscape of 2023. The buffet, known as the St. Tropez, wasn’t the [...]