Slave to SmithCoast

Those nice folks at CityLife must think I did all right by that last cover story because they’ve got me taking the lead on their media blitz vis-a-vis the impending (March 12) opening of the Smith Center for the Performing Arts. The three-auditorium venue is a cause near and dear to the hearts of such gaming-industry figures as Jim Murren (who’s in for $1 million), Don Snyder, Elaine Wynn ($5 million), Diana Bennett and others. It’s also the future home-away-from-home of Clint Holmes, hence my tendency to refer to it as SmithCoast. Anyway, I’m looking at a massive stack of reading materials plus a slew of interviews, hence the intermittent nature of S&G this week. Thankfully, things have quieted down a bit since Steve Wynn went thermonuclear on Kazuo Okada‘s posterior.