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Posted At : July 14, 2008 01:19 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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So this governor of Nevada, who thinks casinos should be taxed for comped meals, accepted "an unidentified number" of comped, $800 seats to a UFC title event. Call me crazy, but if you're a public official who has openly equated comping with lost state revenue, isn't it just the teensiest, tiniest bit inconsistent or unseemly to belly up to the trough and accept a fistful of free tickets for yourself and your posse? But who has time for ideological consistency when there's a "party hearty, dude!" agenda to be pursued?
Speaking of nightclubs, media night at Christian Audigier The Nightclub (yes, that's the best they could manage for a name) was a yawn. It's another "me too" nightclub, shoehorned into an awkward configuration. Nor were the promised jellyfish anywhere to be seen. Clubs aren't my bag, but I've not seen another in Vegas so unimpressive as this.
The sightlines are better out on the al fresco deck, but that's a mixed blessing: What you get is a front-row view of dozens of tourists positioning themselves for the next showing of "Sirens of T&A" or whatever that lame-tastic bastardization of the old pirate show is called. You watch the tourists and they watch you back. It's a very democratic spectacle but you may feel like you're on display.
Some of the mixed drinks were good but the Audigier-branded house merlot is vile, rotgut stuff from which even buccaneers might abstain. It's so acidic I'm surprised it didn't eat a whole straight through the bottom of my stomach. The property's abbreviation-friendly GM opines that pretty soon people will be calling the place "C.A." I'm thinking they'll be calling it "closed."
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