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Kalloch, who does not drink, is excited about the change. “I think what people are demanding of HoCo is not just happy hours and alcohol, but casino nights and courtyard movies,” he says...
...night was spent discussing, often in the Ojibwa's language, the need to spend more time with children, talking to them in the native tongue and teaching them the traditional dances, meeting more often, watching less TV. Meanwhile, the flashing sign in front of the Seven Clans Casino at Red Lake read WE ARE ONE IN OUR SORROW AND OUR LOVE. --With reporting by Sarah Sturmon Dale/ Minneapolis
...Macau has been undergoing an economic boom since the local government ended a longstanding monopoly and opened the casino business to foreign investors in 2002. But the Cotai Strip takes the boom, and the city's glitz factor, to a whole new level. The first part of the project, slated for completion in 2007, includes Hilton, Marriott, Dorsett, Sheraton, InterContinental, Regal and Four Seasons hotels and casinos in addition to Adelson's own Venetian Macao. Besides more than doubling the number of hotel rooms in the city, the 1.3-km Cotai Strip's initial phase will boost entertainment and business...
...Adelson says he's encouraged by the success of his Sands Macao casino opened last May. The Sands is already approaching $1 billion in gambling revenue (compared with an annual take of $450 million at Adelson's Las Vegas flagship, The Venetian) and is expected to break even in the next few months. Adelson is so confident in his vision of a Vegas of the East?an idea that he says came to him in a dream?that he's trademarked the phrase "Asia's Las Vegas." And why, by the way, does Asia need a Las Vegas? Says Adelson...
Your story about the exhibition of Ralph Lauren's vintage autos [Feb. 28] referred to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' loan of 21 Monets to "the gallery at Steve Wynn's Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas." You said Wynn paid the museum a "reported $1 million" in exchange for the loan of the Monets. Wynn sold the Bellagio in 2000 and today has no connection to it or to the Monet exhibition, a collaboration between our gallery and the Boston Museum that required significant investment of time and money on both parts...