With the recent tragic passing of Danny Gans, I got to thinking, has the Strip ever gone "dark" for an hour to mourn the passing of a Vegas celebrity, like Sinatra or Elvis? If so, I'd be interested in knowing who and how many.

One of my memories of my first trip to Las Vegas was seeing the picketers outside of The New Frontier. I remember hearing that they had been there for years. Can you tell me about the history of the labor action, how long it went on for and how is was resolved?

Can you please tell me what Barney Vinson is doing these days? Is he still working or did he retire from the casino business?

Am I correct or just romancing the Mafia when I say that in my opinion, when the Mafia had control, the city was much safer? That is, the mob didn’t allow criminals to mess with their customers.

In your recent QoD on Danny Gans, you said he was named "Entertainer of the Year" 11 years in a row. Was this an award or a poll that he won, or was it bestowed on him by an organization or publication?

Why aren’t you saying anything about the death of Danny Gans?

Can you recap some of the more famous daredevil stunts performed in Las Vegas?

Can you please tell me what year the mob was out of Vegas for good?

Whatever happened to the animatronic Foster Brooks that was placed in the MGM Grand when it first opened in 1994? It was described as costing over $150,000, and took over 825 man-hours to build.

In place of today’s previewed question about hotel key cards and identify theft, we’re running a different security-oriented question. The reason for the substitution is that this one’s topical, so we wanted to run the answer while it was still in the news. We’ll run the key card answer on 5/7/09. This question was also submitted by a journalist whose work we greatly admire, so we wanted to help out with the answer to his query asap – and we got a QoD out of it in the process!