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

Once again on Sunday, the South Point in far south Las Vegas was bustling. Crowded race and sports book. Busy poker room. Full table games. And a long line that seemed to barely budge for the buffet. Was on my way out after a humdrum session in the poker room, wending my way down the […]

Expect a crowd at T-Mobile Arena on Saturday night. But it won’t be for professional hockey. Rather it will be for UFC 290 with Alexander Volkanovski battling Yair Rodriguez for the featherweight championship. VSiN noted that Volkanovski played championship team rugby in his youth and [...]

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 [...]