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The City Center, a joint venture project for MGM Mirage and Infinity World Development corp., is scheduled to start opening in just a couple of weeks on the Las Vegas Strip. This has been a very much anticipated face lift for Las Vegas. To hear some news reports, it not only will save Las Vegas from its unemployment crisis by employing thousands, it will save the planet as well with all its renewal resources in its design. And well, it is just plain cool. The first part of City Center to open will be Vdara on December 1st, 2009. This all suite hotel and spa has nightly rates from $159 to $2000. This is a nongaming, nonsmoking hotel. If you enjoy gambling, it is very close by in the City Center as well as entertainment, shopping and dining. Vdara offers a luxurious wellness spa ... Read the full blog post...

It is that time of year already! Ethel’s Chocolate Factory has lit the Christmas lights for the season in their famous cactus garden. Some cities have a Christmas Street and here in Las Vegas we have the Ethel M’s cactus garden. Odd, I know, but we like it. Last night local entertainers George Wallace, Zowie Bowie, Michael Grimm and the group Mosaic ushered in the winter season with Christmas songs and entertained the crowd while they waited for the lights to come on in the garden. I’m a big blues fan and was pleased that Michael Grimm played the only Christmas song I actually like. At about 6:30pm, the switch was hit and the desert garden illuminated in the night to cheers from the anxious onlookers. George Wallace offered a special deal to see his show later that night. He told everyone that the first one hundred ... Read the full blog post...

Friday’s adventures on the Las Vegas Strip started with a traffic jam, of course! I sat in traffic for about twenty minutes to go just a couple of blocks on Tropicana headed towards the Strip. So, I made like a tourist and took photos while I was parked there. I didn’t realize it at the time, but when I went through the photos I saw this one. It looks like a new version of the Beatles' Abbey Road album cover. Maybe it’s just me, but that’s what I see in it. Here is what I could get of the Tropicana while sitting in traffic. That casino is not easy to take a photo of from the road! So, this is the best I could do for you guys who have fond Tropicana memories. Okay, I guess there is a ship outside of the New York New York ... Read the full blog post...

Last night there was a private party on Fremont Street in Las Vegas, which I attended with some party animals from Wisconsin. I knew one of the girls, Julie, from about a year and a half ago when we went on a downtown Las Vegas adventure. She’s was a lot of fun and this time she was bringing friends. Julie claimed these gals were going to outdo her in the having a good time competition. I braced myself and my camera for an eventful evening. The event started early, at 7pm, which I find to be a real plus. I’m old and I eat dinner at 4pm with an African Grey Parrot. A 7pm party time sounds just about right for me. I can still go to sleep by 10pm. That is just how old I have become. The evening’s festivities started a little ... Read the full blog post...

I have some photos I’ve been saving up from when I was hanging out on the Las Vegas Strip a couple of weeks ago. At least most of them are from a couple of weeks ago. I know how you want to be in Vegas and gambling in person all live and up close and personal, so I thought I’d post them here for you to enjoy. I SO love my new camera! I was hanging out mostly on the Margarittaville balcony. I really like that little balcony. Whenever I’m walking around on that part of the strip, I like to just hang out there and get a little sun while watching the tourists walk by. On this particular day there were a couple of guys standing outside Margarittaville with a couple of Macaws. The birds were having a good time and the guys were having fun ... Read the full blog post...

The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art’s latest show is “12 + 7: Artists and Architects of CityCenter.” This new exhibition is in partnership with CityCenter Fine Art Collection and it debuted September 18th, 2009. I went to check it out, of course! This exhibition features sculptures, drawings, paintings and models by twelve contemporary artists and seven of the master architects who designed CityCenter. CityCenter will open to the public in December of this year. This art is on display in the meantime so you can get a bit of a preview of what this new Las Vegas development is all about. This exhibit will run through April, 2010. “CityCenter will be an international architectural achievement integrating the talents of world-renowned artists, architects and designers in one development; it will be a landmark of global taste and style,” said Jim Murren, Chairman and CEO of MGM Mirage. ... Read the full blog post...