{"id":279,"date":"2009-10-15T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/10\/15\/Signs-of-the-Times"},"modified":"2009-10-15T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T21:08:00","slug":"signs-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/signs-of-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

In less than an hour, Steve Wynn<\/strong> is going to make an extra-special, triple-secret, top-hush "entertainment announcement" via a Wynn Resorts<\/strong> Web-cast. Don't tell anyone but … he's going to reveal that Garth Brooks<\/strong> will be playing Encore<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Which we know partly because it's been the worst-kept secret on the Strip and even more so because it was announced today in Nashville<\/strong> at 7 a.m. Vegas time<\/em>. But we're all s'posed to pretend that we didn't hear anything and it's all going to be a big-ass surprise and whatnot. Yeah, that's the ticket.<\/p>\n

This underscores how ill-tuned the casino industry is to the news business — and furthermore, how it still hasn't made the adjustment to the global village of online media. People like Wynn (or Jenn Michaels<\/strong> over at MGM Mirage<\/strong>) continue to operate as though the daily newspaper were the only game in town and people's primary source of information.<\/p>\n

Sorry, but what happens in Nashville no longer stays in Nashville until the next news cycle. It makes it to Vegas in the blink of a Tweet.<\/p>\n

Vintage Vegas<\/em>\/Matt Goss<\/strong>. Both are reviewed by Richard Abowitz<\/strong>, who makes a number of thoughtful observations<\/a> re<\/em> lounge acts in general. He's a bit lenient on both Zowie Bowie<\/strong> and the Gossmeister<\/a>, IMO. Vintage Vegas<\/em><\/a> is so bad you'll want to see it so you can talk about it at parties. Goss is just bad and in a very uninteresting way. If a yawn could wear a white suit, it'd be Matt Goss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In less than an hour, Steve Wynn is going to make an extra-special, triple-secret, top-hush "entertainment announcement" via a Wynn Resorts Web-cast. Don't tell anyone but … he's going to reveal that Garth Brooks will be playing Encore. Which we … 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":[28,105,4,64,11,32,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"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=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}