{"id":12354,"date":"2013-12-31T10:02:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T18:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=12354"},"modified":"2020-02-27T06:28:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T14:28:06","slug":"britney-it-sucks-bitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/britney-it-sucks-bitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney: It sucks, bitch"},"content":{"rendered":"

A ways back, when Gary Loveman<\/strong> was all Q-crazy, I pointed out that the letter ‘X’ also carries a high Scrabble value. Little did I suspect that the Aladdin \"britney-spears\"<\/a>Theater for the Performing Arts<\/strong> would become “the AXIS<\/strong>.” Programming will be done by Live Nation<\/strong>, giving the vendor simultaneous control<\/a> of MGM Grand Arena<\/strong> and Mandalay Bay Event Center<\/strong>. Ironically, Caesars Entertainments<\/strong>‘ new Britney Spears<\/strong> headliner show would fare better in those steeply raked venues. Unless you’re planning to spend the whole of the Spears spectacle on your feet, being a dancing fool, you’re unlikely to see the damned thing<\/a>, which the New York Times<\/em> termed “listless,” among other endearments.<\/p>\n

Ms. Spears’ vocals were so heavily reprocessed that she might as well have lip-synched the whole show. And what passed for songs were machine-tooled reiteration. The digital (or LED) graphics being splayed across the Axis walls were the only enlivening element of a thoroughly regrettable event.<\/p>\n

We couldn’t get into Bruno Mars<\/strong>‘ show at The Cosmpolitan<\/strong> but God forbid somebody had pulled the fire alarm. The narrow queue snaked far, far, far, far<\/em> back, down a hallway clearly not intended as ingress to a concert hall. Cosmo brass may say they planned it that way all along … and if you buy that cartload of crap lemme sell you this bridge in Brooklyn<\/strong>. Also, the 9 p.m. curtain time had come and gone without people being seated, from what I could tell, which is certainly keeping with the Cosmopolitan tradition of being a major-league property that’s run in minor-league fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A ways back, when Gary Loveman was all Q-crazy, I pointed out that the letter ‘X’ also carries a high Scrabble value. Little did I suspect that the Aladdin Theater for the Performing Arts would become “the AXIS.” Programming will … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,66,4,7,11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26214,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions\/26214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}