Sh*t You May Have Missed While Singing Along to Cher


It’s Sh*t You May have Missed from October 17th to the 22nd.

Hey, all…BigAZMarty here and I know SYMHM is late, but I was out of town for a bit and only had my old Samsung Galaxy S3 which is not good to write with. So here is the news in a nutshell and some extra since I can now include this weekend (which will mean next weeks should be shorter unless something outstanding happens).

1. Moulin Rouge has found another investment group to try and build their resort, read here. Pay attention to the article as a transportation corridor for the investment (that hasn’t been approved or even mentioned) is an elevated expressway or monorail– something to go Downtown and North to where the Moulin Rouge would be from the airport. That is one long LV cost that may just never happen. It seems the last group didn’t have the money because of the newer bid that was that much higher. Nice render in the gallery of photos.

2. More bad news for the owner of the Alon property. It seems several Crown Resorts employees (i.e. 18 of them) were “detained” by China and are in interrogation. Read here. With all these issues with Crown Resorts, I’m not sure how much this will affect the start of the Alon construction as a lot of loans will be based on existing assets. Having employees in jail is not good asset management. I wonder when Mimi will notice and pack up and leave.

3. Station Employees at Palace Station vote down the union, unlike the sister property Boulder Station. Read here.

4. And with #2 happening Macau is quickly backing down on junkets again, read here. I am betting those numbers over the next couple of years will be much lower for Macau.

5. I must have missed this over the last couple of weeks, but no matter it was killed/dropped/kaput–the William Hill and Amaya merger that is–read here.

6. Interesting, the US Trustee is having issues over the legality of the CEOC bankruptcy, this is never a good thing and could cause it all to collapse and be sold piecemeal. Read here. Somewhere somehow, the Trustee is thinking “no way has the stock survived” if the auditor says it has legal issues worth $5.1 billion. And, a lot of “sales” would need to be reversed. If closed by Trustee, it’s a fire sale and no one wins except the people that buy the properties at auction.

7. Lucky Dragon gets approval from Nevada Gaming Commission to operate, read here. So that December opening date only has building inspectors and normal things like restaurant heath checks and such to get passed now.

8. The Raiders and UNLV stadium deal is getting closer to done. The Governor has signed it, read here. Mark Davis is already letting NFL Ownership know, read here. The NFL is still trying to keep them in Oakland though, but in January the owners vote. If 24 owners approve, Las Vegas will have Sunday Home games and expect all Comp Rooms in MGM properties and perhaps the close by casinos to no longer to be available on Sunday.

9. For my article on Bally’s redo, I now have two pictures, and a possible strip tie-in that would be awesome. I saw this Austin building, and it’s almost exactly what I thought it would look like (it’s the JW Marriot in Austin Texas). See what you think of the original render as a Grand Bazaar Shops replacement and think about the Jubilee Tower being reskinned like this from the corner of Flamingo and LV Blvd. We could use a little more LV flavor, though:

A rendering of the JW Marriott Hotel, breaking ground this summer on what was the former site of Las Manitas.

And the other side facing Paris would look like this:

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20. MGM has 20 days to put together damages from Phil Ivey, Chang Yin Sun on a $10M win at Borgata. The article doesn’t say if Boyd gets anything since they have since sold their share to MGM. Read here.

21. Planet Hollywood had the 7th Annual Battle of the Bra’s, read here…and enjoy the gallery. For pictures 12 of 17, isn’t that Lucky from O’Shea’s? I think he caught himself with those Pokemon balls. I hope he won…that looked awesome. Go Lucky!!!

22. Ethel M’s newly re-done factory store is re-opening Oct 28 (National Chocolate Day) read here and view the delicious gallery. With the announcement of this and M&M’s announcement of having Caramel M&M’s next year, I think I will be in Chocolate heaven. Hopefully, the M&M’s store will have those in the build your own rainbow dispensers.

23 Park Theater is racking up residency’s at an accelerated pace; Cher is the newest one, read here. And then something fun with her here. All I can say is this may be the last real showgirl in Las Vegas (Bob Mackey outfits and all), and she still looks good for it.

24. Seriously another “Market Study” about LV Nightlife…but surprising the Club scene is now #2 in spend so why not? Read here. What does this study mean? 1) Food and Bottle Service is so expensive that it is cutting into gambling revenue (that and too tight machines / tighter tables make this an endless loop scenario ending badly..it’s called pricing yourself out of existence). 2) Single? Forget the casino clubs…it’s all “friends” and not looking for hookups, just hanging out looking cool drinking hugely overpriced alcohol (by the way do they switch that out for the cheap stuff when you are just hammered I wonder?).

25. M Resorts and Tropicana corporate owner has to replace a newly retired CFO, read here. I guess the retirement was a surprise to everyone. Hopefully, that is a good thing and not a bad thing.

26. Vital Vegas covers opening of Turmeric Flavors of India downtown, read here.

27. Vital Vegas is also covering what’s going on at the Linq shops..not much to see here, please move on (just kidding we love shots of no progress…should get a reaction of WTH from management).

28. Buy some Harley Davidson Cafe memorabilia (thanks to Vital Vegas for the link) review and buy here until Nov 4th.

29. Front Desk Tip points to this article on five best places to watch football, read here. PBR Rock Bar is awesome because it immediately counters the newly expensive PH Sportsbook, nicely. My wife and I got our game on the projection screen and stayed for 3.5 quarters before leaving in disgust (not with bar/food/staff/service…just our football team). We will be back there again next time we are in PH and on a Sunday morning. And he’s right the tots are awesome.

30. Big Mess BBQ opens at Sam’s Town, from EATER Vegas read here. 5-meats for under $25? Holy Cow…but personally I have only 2 Brisket and Sausage. If they had tri-tip, I would have 3. Maybe I’ll do a Big Mess BBQ run when we get to town early and are hungry but don’t want to get valet parked yet.

31. A demo no one knew about? Yup and Las Vegas Advisor has it here. The Golden Palms is gone (used to be a HoJo – Howard Johnson’s). Long ago I used to work as a LAN Administrator ( the person who does everything across several sites from PC and Cables to Servers) for Johnson Controls. They used to have their LV Training at the HoJo, but I never stayed there, they always put me up in The Orleans or Rio. All I remember was the elevators were super slow and smelled of leaking hydraulic fluid.

32. Damn…glad I didn’t get those Stones tickets, they canceled their October 19th show due to Mick’s throat issues. Saturday is a go still.

33. Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood sold, the previous owner (not Caesars) supposedly sold for $1.1B, read here. Casino Resorts need to take notice; the investment money is going to malls, not casinos. And Miracle Mile has way more normal shops than say, Crystal’s.

34. Planet Hollywood is getting a mini-residency from Boy George and Culture Club at the PH 2nd floor Mezzanine Theater. Also, “The Clairvoyants” from AGT are joining the AGT show in Las Vegas according to Robin’s Wicked Whispers + Racy Rumor’s read here.

35. Also from Robin, some history of what the strip was like 35 years ago in the 1980’s from two Las Vegas VIP’s Larry Ruvo and Ken Henderson, fun read here.

And that’s it for this week’s news, and now over to our editor-in-chief Michael Movestro with our stuff.

Thanks, BigAzMarty! Here’s a look at the stories we shared last week at Vegas Bright!

36. I wrote a piece on A Nostalgic celebration at the site of Biff Tannen’s Pleasure Palace.

37. Sailordude shares his Vegas Bucket List.

38. BigAzMarty would be making some changes if he were CEO of Bally’s Las Vegas.

39. Andy B. travels across the pond to enjoy his Vegas Musts.

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40. Michael James reviews what the latest Nevada Gambling Revenue numbers mean to him.

41. Hard_3 reviews Jokesters Comedy Club: Down and Dirty at The D.

42. I shared a moving Memorium of ‘I <3 Burgers’ now closed.

43. Greg C. brings us a photo essay of recently-departed classic neon structures.

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Tidbits from our social media: 

In addition to sharing all of our articles via our Facebook and Twitter, we also share some interesting news/announcements and deals.

These are the pieces of info that were shared this week via our Facebook page by Sammasseur and Greg C.

That’ll do it for last week, this week’s SYMHM will be up this Friday for all the News Around the Web for this week!

[Images: Greg C, Andy B. , CherWorld]

3 thoughts on “Sh*t You May Have Missed While Singing Along to Cher

  1. JW Marriot in Austin would be excellent at Ballys, as long as that’s not a CVS out front.

    24. Did they recommend a place for singles?

  2. >re-skin Ballys

    At what point would it be better to just tear it all down and rebuild new? (im looking at you Excaliber, Luxor, Ballys) They can put lipstick on a pig but in the end the bones of these places (ceiling height, room size/layout, windows, bathrooms, technology) are just from another era. Especially Ballys; it has such a prime location and view that they arent doing it any justice by keeping it the way it is imo.

  3. We saw The Clairvoyants at AGT Live show last night and got to meet them afterwards. Pictures on my Twitter (@TroySwezey) to prove it.
    Partied with some of the cast of Purple Reign once. Some of those folks like(d) to smoke lots of the marijuana. No pictures to prove that.

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