{"id":22,"date":"2009-09-30T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/9\/30\/Trop-Sands-purges-continue"},"modified":"2011-09-21T13:19:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T21:19:27","slug":"trop-sands-purges-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/trop-sands-purges-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Trop, Sands purges continue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It’s official: “Pit Bull of Comedy” Bobby Slayton<\/strong> has snarled his last at the Tropicana Las Vegas<\/strong>. Thus endeth a brief, inauspicious reign by Anthony Cools<\/strong> over the Trop’s upstairs showroom. A well-placed source advises LVA<\/em> that Beatles tribute show Penny Lane<\/em> was pulled after EMI<\/strong> hit it with a cease-and-desist letter. In any event, it left as invisibly as it arrived.<\/p>\n

Trop CEO Alex Yemenidjian<\/strong> still has three shows he inherited from predecessor Scott Butera<\/strong> but it’s pretty clear that he’s going to put his own stamp on the property. As for Cools, well, he’ll always have O’Shea’s<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Movement at Cosmo<\/strong>. Buried in the Review-Journal<\/em> (six items deep<\/a>) is the news that the Cosmopolitan<\/strong> has landed former Station Casinos<\/strong> executive Marshall Andrew<\/strong> asits CIO. Deutsche Bank<\/strong> looks serious about making that September ’10 opening date. Will the economy have improved sufficiently to have absorbed most of the CityCenter<\/strong> rooms and the Planet Hollywood Westgate<\/strong> ones by then (and maybe, but not very likely, Fontainebleau<\/strong>)? Boyd Gaming<\/strong> is betting otherwise. The Echelon<\/strong> cranes have been seen coming down, marking an additional hiatus in the project, which reportedly will not be resumed until 2012.<\/p>\n

There’s quite a debate<\/strong> going on at the Las Vegas Sun<\/em> on the rise and fall of themed resorts<\/a> on the Strip. Surf over, check it out, maybe weigh in, if the spirit moves you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s official: “Pit Bull of Comedy” Bobby Slayton has snarled his last at the Tropicana Las Vegas. Thus endeth a brief, inauspicious reign by Anthony Cools over the Trop’s upstairs showroom. A well-placed source advises LVA that Beatles tribute show … 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":[48,65,60,56,66,14,4,59,64,7,11,6,57,9,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"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=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7554,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/7554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}