Goodbye Stardust
The Stardust, the hotel where I got my first big Vegas gambling win back in 1994 (a few hundred bucks playing screaming-hot nickle blackjack), is being torn down. Here’s the ‘before’: …and here’s the ‘after’:…
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The obsession is back
Oh, Lord, it’s gonna be a long season. America’s obsession with the freaks that pop up when this show gets going every year is just amazing. These early episodes always prove some realities to me:…
The game, Part II
My favorite television show is The Wire. I did a stint as a cop reporter in Little Rock more than 20 years ago, when the city had one of the nation’s highest per-capita murder rates…