Let’s Try Getting the Airline Names Right, eh?
I love words and I love writers who nitpick and analyze our lazy conversational patterns. This blog piece by Patrick Smith, known as the pilot with a blog, captures perfectly the essence of how most people mess up the actual names of airlines. Here he teaches us the real names […]
Golden Steer and the Mob Museum: Two Great Vegas Joints
Yesterday we had a true mob double header here in fabulous Las Vegas. First we spent two hours discovering more than anyone could ever possibly need to know about organized crime, those who did the deeds and those who spent their careers capturing the bad guys. A true smorgasbord of […]
Downtown Las Vegas Loves the Old and is Proud of the New
We’ve been here for enough days to really get a sense of what downtown Las Vegas is like….and we’ve seen a lot of this vibrant city with a downtown that’s dramatically different from the famous Strip at the other end of North Las Vegas Boulevard. The hotel where we’re staying, […]
Downtown Las Vegas Lights It Up!
On my way from the airport to downtown Las Vegas, I asked my driver how hot it can get here. “I went to pick up my wife after work at 1 am, and it was 101 degrees!” he said. We are staying at the Downtown Grand Las Vegas, right near […]
Las Vegas is Next
I’m heading to Las Vegas tomorrow, joining a group of writers and spending all of our time in downtown Las Vegas, not the famous strip. I’ve only been to this glittering city once, and then I spent the whole time on the strip, attending a trade show and not seeing […]
Photos of the Week
Sometimes I just love my job, so much that I want to share some of the wonderful images that I get to work with, plus some that I shoot myself. I”m about to depart on Thursday for Las Vegas, and will have plenty of new photos. But here are a […]
Ice Bugs Could Really Help Around Here
These shoes have come up in several conversations with friends. First, someone told me about how she was becoming almost afraid to go out and walk because there were patches of ice that she might slip on, and did slip some times causing a lot of anxiety and fear. Then […]
