{"id":191,"date":"2009-08-22T03:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/8\/22\/Chintz-thy-name-is-"},"modified":"2009-08-22T03:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T07:40:00","slug":"chintz-thy-name-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/chintz-thy-name-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Chintz thy name is &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <strong>Harrah&apos;s Entertainment<\/strong>. We&apos;ve just returned from the formal opening of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/vacationplanner-showdetail.cfm?ShowID=513\" class=\"broken_link\"><em>Matsuri<\/em><\/a>. The 8 p.m. show started at 8:16, due in no small part to the fact that the <strong>Imperial Palace<\/strong> had one usher working the entire showroom. One showroom. One usher. By the time a reinforcement showed up, the damage had been done. (Oh, and the cocktails there are awful. It&apos;s enough to give temperance a good name.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"251\" height=\"275\" src=\"\/userfiles\/Image\/CarrieNation.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>The new Imperial Palace bartender<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Matsuri<\/em> itself is very good, that rare show which gives real meaning to the baneful phrase, &quot;high energy.&quot; It&apos;s like all the fun, acrobatic parts of a <strong>Cirque du Soleil<\/strong> spectacle minus the fey pretentiousness. Or, as the saying goes, &quot;All killer! No filler!&quot; (Really.) The only regrettable element is <em>Matsuri<\/em>&apos;s playing in a venue that&apos;s badly understaffed.<\/p>\n<p>Harrah&apos;s Entertainment: Where the customer almost matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Harrah&apos;s Entertainment. We&apos;ve just returned from the formal opening of Matsuri. The 8 p.m. show started at 8:16, due in no small part to the fact that the Imperial Palace had one usher working the entire showroom. One showroom. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/chintz-thy-name-is\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80,28,4,7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"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=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}