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...game." Even casinos that never featured poker are opening new rooms. Within a few months, the Hard Rock will debut a new enclosed room with 10 to 12 tables offering rock 'n' roll poker. "There'll be some rock memorabilia in the room, the cards will have a more neon look to them, you won't hear the blaring music that's on the main casino floor," Pestrichello says. "And purple felt on the tables - I wouldn't rule it out." Affleck, who also plays poker in Los Angeles, feels Las Vegas has a special charm. "The appeal of casinos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deal Me In | 7/25/2004 | See Source »

...other dimensions to the town, open the door to more people." The other U.S. licensee, Las Vegas Sands, averages more than 30,000 visitors a day at the $240 million Sands Macao, which uses the Portuguese spelling. But the Sands, with its golden façade and shimmering neon-purple fountain, will have some sibling rivalry in 2006 when its parent company finishes an $800 million replica of the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, complete with imitation canals and singing gondoliers. Sands chairman Sheldon Adelson is so gung ho about Macau that he is enlisting partners in a $10 billion project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exporting The Fun | 7/25/2004 | See Source »

...this makes the perfect setting for an America in which Rush Limbaugh can be a recovering druggie and conservative icon--an America that wants the binge and the purge, the sin and the penitence, all in one neon package. Until we find a better metaphor for our split moral personality, what happens in Vegas will stay ... on TV. --Reported by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viva Las Vegas | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...service from the cops who have fallen for her.) It doesn't make Ruth envious, just depressed and - it's her nature - sarcastic. "Well, you must admit," she expectorates, when half of the Village shows up for one of Eileen's pot-luck dinners, "for bad location and no neon sign, we're doin' a hell of a business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Bravo! Encores! | 6/12/2004 | See Source »

...soon as she came in with her characteristic mink coat I knew we would be friends,” Butler says. “She is an eccentric personality. She wears neon pink and cheeta...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Whether Donning Coats of Bright Red or Fur, Concert Pianist Basks in Spotlight | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

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