{"id":424,"date":"2008-07-03T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/7\/3\/Holeinthewall-casinos-reviewed"},"modified":"2019-03-14T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:42:23","slug":"hole-in-the-wall-casinos-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/hole-in-the-wall-casinos-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hole-in-the-wall casinos reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the current City Life<\/em>, Lissa Townsend Rodgers<\/strong> visits a few<\/a> of Las Vegas’ less publicized casinos, in search of $1 booze. The Gold Spike<\/strong> is lauded, provided your “goal is simply to get as drunk as possible as quickly as possible as cheaply as possible<\/em>,” and don’t mind the smelly\/scary vibe that is uniquely the Spike’s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the in-house brew at Ellis Island<\/strong> is pronounced “fairly meh,” Rodgers follows with an impassioned ode to the casino’s weekend karaoke nights. On such occasions, Ellis Island “becomes a hotbed of guys in fedoras and girls in their Friday night miniskirts, cramming the tiny, low-ceilinged lounge for karaoke, cheering each other through parodically impassioned versions of ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ and meandering-pitch renditions of ‘Landslide<\/em>.'” Still, I worry about the sense of fun of people whose idea of cutting loose is to sing the National Anthem.<\/p>\n

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Purty, yes. But good?<\/em><\/p>\n

But Ellis Island comes off as a veritable Bellagio when contrasted with the Elardi family’s Casino Royale<\/strong>. Or “a casino that’s housed in a neon-trimmed faux-Victorian<\/a> hideosity with a Denny’s sticking out the side,<\/em>” as Rodgers describes it. Worse still are the margaritas, which she likens to a lime-flavored snow cone.<\/p>\n

As long as we’re plugging<\/strong> our favorite local alt-weekly, I’d be remiss in not *cough*<\/em> plugging *cough*<\/em> my reviews of And When Did You Last See Your Father?<\/a><\/em> (a must for Jim Broadbent<\/strong> fans) and two Criterion reissues<\/a> of films by Louis Malle<\/strong>. If that’s your bag, as we used to say in the Seventies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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