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...Sacramento Kings basketball team, sold their local casino and built the Palms off-Strip and gave it no particular theme, figuring Vegas visitors would find out which hotel fit their demographic. (Wynn will also be unthemed, as will the Palazzo. The MGM Grand and the Mandalay Bay have almost entirely shed their film and Asian themes.) "I wanted to build the ultimate party place," says George Maloof, 40, the brother who runs the hotel. "I wanted to make sure I cultivated young Hollywood. In the '70s, '80s and most of the '90s, Hollywood didn't really come to Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strip Is Back! | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...tore down its amusement park and now houses two nightclubs (a third is opening soon) and a replica of Paris' Crazy Horse, La Femme, in which the dancers' costumes consist of a stringless G-string, one of many great new technologies to come from Las Vegas. At the Mandalay Bay, the House of Blues' new lounge has a Friday party for swingers. The hotel has a pool called the Moorea Beach Club where European-style bathing is encouraged. Some dealers at the Rio wear thong bikinis at night, and the Hard Rock has blackjack in the pool. The newest Cirque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strip Is Back! | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...joints. It didn't go well. So for now, they're compromising with burlesque, which is the kind of stripping Janet Jackson was supposed to do. Burlesque dancers do shows at Tangerine at TI, which opened over the July 4 weekend, and 40 Deuce, which opens at the Mandalay Bay this fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strip Is Back! | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...ride, runs the 4-mile stretch from the convention center up the Strip to the MGM Grand, and someday is supposed to connect all the way from the airport to downtown. Turnberry and CENTRA Properties plan to build a 1.2 million-sq.-ft. outdoor mall near the Mandalay Bay, which will further the invasion of stores such as Saks, Macy's, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom, now housed at the Fashion Show mall, which is close to finishing a $1 billion renovation. And downtown is building a giant furniture showroom that hopes to steal business from San Francisco and maybe even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strip Is Back! | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...reform abroad as from limited growth opportunity at home. Indeed, after MGM Mirage announced plans last month to build a casino in Macau, Merrill Lynch predicted that the development would will add five times more value to the company than its proposed mega-merger with the Strip-centric Mandalay Bay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vegas Plays to the World | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

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