See you there!

Tomorrow afternoon, at 12:15 p.m. (just in time for the lunch-hour crowd), UNLV‘s Design, Science & Technology program presents an unusual — for it — lecture. It’s entitled Taming Vice: How Machines and Architecture Changed the Culture of Gambling. The speaker will be visiting scholar Kah-Wee Lee, doctoral candidate in architecture at the University of California-Berkeley. Lee holds forth in the Special Collections Reading Room, on the third floor of beautiful Lied Library. For more info, go to gaming.unlv.edu. I’ll be there: Just look for the overweight guy with the straw hat.

P.S.: If I seem more morose than usual, it’s because I’ve just penned a “Question of the Day” on the future (gloomy) of the north Strip. Contemplating all of those failed projects would turn anyone into Eeyore.