Steve Wynn could probably have had any show he wanted, but he chose Avenue Q, the Sesame Street and Muppets-inspired show that has to include a disclaimer denying its roots in the program and advertising. What the show’s creators don’t have to disclaim are the three Tony Awards the show won in 2004 for best [...]

Posted December 30, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Travel. Tags: avenue q, funny, fuzz, kate, kate monster, las vegas, las vegas nv, monster, muppet, musical, nevada, performance, puppet, puppet show, q, sandee, show, theater, vegas, wynn. 7 Comments.

We didn’t get to go to Barstow as planned, but I couldn’t leave Las Vegas without a peak at the desert. Fortunately, Red Rock Canyon isn’t far from town, and the Blue Diamond Highway does a nice loop there and back.
Along the way I found that the town of Blue Diamond has a new welcome [...]

Posted December 29, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Photoblog, Travel. Tags: blue diamond, blue diamond highway, desert, las vegas, las vegas nv, nevada, photos, red rock canyon, red rocks, road trip, vegas. Be the first one.

The wind along Las Vegas Boulevard was blowing hard, so it hides the fact that I’m currently sporting one of the worst haircuts of all time.
I’ve been meaning to take a picture of this damn sign for years — and more so after seeing beatnickside’s collection of Vegas photos.
welcome sign, welcome, sign, neon, welcome [...]

Posted December 27, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Photoblog, Travel. Tags: fabulous, headshot, las vegas, las vegas nv, neon, nevada, portrait, self portrait, sign, vegas, welcome, welcome sign, welcome to fabulous las vegas. One Comment.

Nobody’s saying what caused it, but things didn’t go as planned at the MGM Grand Sunday night. We were told our room wasn’t ready when we tried to check in a little before midnight, so we ambled over to the cafe for a midnight breakfast on the house. Then at 3 AM, when our rooms [...]

Posted December 26, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Travel. Tags: best laid plans, customer service, hotel, las vegas, las vegas nv, mgm grand. belagio, nevada, plan. plans. voucher, problem, problem resolution, the best laid plans, there was no room at the inn. One Comment.

The Bellagio is all done up for the holidays, Vegas-style (which means it’ll give you a headache).
2005, holiday, holiday cheer, holidays, nevada, postcard, las vegas, nevada, las vegas nv, winter, happy holidays

Posted December 26, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Photoblog, Travel. Tags: 2005, happy holidays, holiday, holiday cheer, holidays, las vegas, las vegas nv, nevada, postcard, winter. Be the first one.

I guess not everybody in Nevada loves the Test Site as much as this postcard might suggest, but hey, what do tourists know? The image comes from _roberta’s Flickr photostream, and she doesn’t seem too critical.
About 850 miles southeast today, the Trinity Site — where the world’s first atomic weapon was detonated in a test [...]

Posted October 1, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Photoblog, Politics & Controversy, Technology, Travel. Tags: alamogordo, alamogordo new mexico, atomic, atomic bomb, atomic weapon, mercury, mercury nevada, nevada, new mexico, nuclear, nuclear bomb, nuclear test, nuclear test site, nuclear testing, nuclear weapon, test site, trinity, white sands, white sands missile range, white sands new mexico, white sands test range. 4 Comments.

The above image is my followup to my Nevada Test Site Tour post from last month and comes courtesy of Adam Schneider’s very useful GPS Visualizer (you really need to see it full-sized, though). I still don’t have a cable to connect the ancient Magellan GPS I used to a computer, so I manually entered [...]

Posted May 25, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Photoblog, Technology, Travel. Tags: gps, las vegas, map, mercury, nevada, nuclear. 2 Comments.

I can’t help but like beatnickside’s Las Vegas Flickr photo set. It’s one of the most photographed of cities, but these photos are fresher than that. Sometimes enteraining, sometimes informing, the shots of Vegas’s glitz and glamour show special attention to detail.
This week is Vegas week at MaisonBisson, since I’m out here before heading to [...]

Posted April 26, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Photoblog, Travel. Tags: beatnikside, las vegas, las vegas nv, nevada, photo, photos, vegas, welcome to las vagas. 15 Comments.

As it turns out, I love Vegas. Here’s why.

Posted July 27, 2002 by Casey
Categories: Travel. Tags: flesh, las vegas, las vegas nv, moon hoax, nevada, nuclear test site, nukes, peyote, vegas. 108 Comments.