{"id":3821,"date":"2010-06-10T14:18:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T22:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2010-06-10T14:18:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T22:18:26","slug":"lights-camera-mafia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/lights-camera-mafia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights, camera, Mafia!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mel McGowan<\/strong> of bizarrely named Visioneering Studios<\/strong> sketches the broad outlines of an “immersive, interactive, experiential, multi-sensory journey.” (What you talkin’ about, Willis?) If the following is a demonstration of the technology that’s to be employed …
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… I fear that something cheesetastic is in the offing. And here, ladies and gentlemen, are the stars of our show:
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It’s the First Family of The Family. If my name were Meyer Lansky II<\/strong>, I’d give serious thought to changing it — although it probably gets him better tables in restaurants and keeps people out of his face. (I never thought I’d describe Nancy Spilotro<\/strong> as “cute” but she’s the sprightliest of the ladies on parade.)<\/p>\n

My suspicion that Oscar Goodman<\/strong>‘s long-sought downtown Mob Museum<\/strong> is going to be better (more historically serious, less whiz-bang) and a worthy companion to the Atomic Testing Museum<\/strong> at UNLV<\/strong> has hardened into a certainty. However, with the Tropicana Las Vegas<\/strong> as its Strip pied-a-terre<\/em>, McGowan’s Mafia amusement park is sure to do heavier foot traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mel McGowan of bizarrely named Visioneering Studios sketches the broad outlines of an “immersive, interactive, experiential, multi-sensory journey.” (What you talkin’ about, Willis?) If the following is a demonstration of the technology that’s to be employed … … I fear … 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":[48,140,50,8,87,9,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821"}],"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=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3822,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions\/3822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}