{"id":19948,"date":"2017-07-17T06:58:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T14:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=19948"},"modified":"2017-07-17T06:58:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T14:58:33","slug":"cromwell-re-do-planned-the-other-sin-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/cromwell-re-do-planned-the-other-sin-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Cromwell re-do planned; The other Sin City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the contest to re-name the <strong>Cromwell<\/strong> (perhaps as something less puritanical) has gone down the memory hole, that doesn&#8217;t mean the boutique casino is off <strong>Caesars Entertainment<\/strong>&#8216;s radar. Far from it. The company has <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/web1_cromwell_rendering_web_1-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/web1_cromwell_rendering_web_1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/web1_cromwell_rendering_web_1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/web1_cromwell_rendering_web_1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>announced a fleet of changes to the former <strong>Barbary Coast<\/strong>. For one thing, <strong>Giada<\/strong> will no longer have to carry the freight as the property&#8217;s sole restaurant. Caesars has rolled out 24-hour diner <strong>Eatwell<\/strong>. Whereas Giada aims to Improve You, Eatwell is strictly comfort-food focused. Tucked into the north side of the Cromwell, it&#8217;s equally convenient to <strong>Flamingo<\/strong> customers.<\/p>\n<p>Evidently the <strong>Interlude<\/strong> bar wasn&#8217;t performing up to snuff, so several changes are on the way. These include more video poker and an expanded live-entertainment stage. Interlude always did seem a bit forlorn so I&#8217;m not surprised at the re-think. &#8220;Developments are in progress at Interlude to enhance plush seating, soften lighting and create a more open ambiance,&#8221; quoth Caesars. For VIP guests, a 30-machine, high-limit slot area will be added to the casino.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, the company is taking a step back from the comforting tradition of <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/TheCromwellroomrendering-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/TheCromwellroomrendering-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/TheCromwellroomrendering-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/TheCromwellroomrendering.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>the in-person concierge. In their place comes &#8220;<strong>Ivy<\/strong>,&#8221; an electronic concierge service that can make dinner reservations or take housekeeping requests, all via text message. And, in the biggest change of all, the Cromwell is adding a 50-seat sports book (get there early), with a nine-by-32-foot video screen. That&#8217;s a lot of changes for one casino but CEO <strong>Mark Frissora<\/strong> seems to have decided that the Cromwell needs a little bit something more for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>* Speaking of the Flamingo, it has a new entertainment draw in reptilian magician <strong>Piff the Magic Dragon<\/strong>. As you can imagine, the season premiere of <i>Game of Thrones<\/i> offered Piff a promotional opportunity too rich to resist.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GHqimA0HfJY\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>* Hard as it may be to believe, <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> wasn&#8217;t always &#8220;Sin City.&#8221; No, that honorific once fell upon <strong>Newport<\/strong>, <strong>Kentucky<\/strong>. Today the Bluegrass State is allergic to casinos but, in the Thirties, Newport was rife with brothels and gambling. It wasn&#8217;t an &#8216;open city&#8217; like Las Vegas, either: &#8220;During this time, the city was under the constant sway of gangland mob bosses, and violence wasn\u2019t uncommon as various factions competed with one another.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, with the rise of Vegas in the Fifties, organized crime began to lose interest in Newport. The change of image was spearheaded by a citizens&#8217; committee that pushed back against the &#8220;Sin City&#8221; image. An attempted frame-up of Sheriff <strong>George Ratterman<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-admin\/post-new.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blew up in the Mob&#8217;s face<\/a> and also brought the wrath of Attorney General <strong>Robert F. Kennedy<\/strong> upon the city. As Ratterman put it, \u201cthe other side knew what was coming, and they left quietly, on their own.&#8221; And, with that, Las Vegas laid claim to the crown of Sin City, a title it has never relinquished since.<\/p>\n<p>* Lists of Las Vegas must-see spots invariably contain the obvious (the <strong>Neon Museum<\/strong>, the &#8220;<strong>Hand of Faith<\/strong>&#8221; gold nugget) but <em>Atlas Obscura<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/lists\/17-secret-vegas-spots-it-would-be-a-sin-to-miss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">has done a little work<\/a>. Personally, we think its nominations of <strong>Frankie&#8217;s Tiki Room<\/strong> and <strong>Lonnie Hammergren<\/strong>&#8216;s indescribably bizarre mansion\u00a0are right on the money. And the site really did its research\u00a0by including <strong>Kiel Ranch<\/strong>. As the article&#8217;s title implies, it would be a sin to miss these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the contest to re-name the Cromwell (perhaps as something less puritanical) has gone down the memory hole, that doesn&#8217;t mean the boutique casino is off Caesars Entertainment&#8216;s radar. Far from it. The company has announced a fleet of changes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/cromwell-re-do-planned-the-other-sin-city\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,18,4,7,140,116,189,74,87,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19948"}],"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=19948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19949,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19948\/revisions\/19949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}