{"id":59,"date":"2009-08-14T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/8\/14\/Tamares-animal-cruelty"},"modified":"2009-08-14T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T21:45:00","slug":"tamares-animal-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/tamares-animal-cruelty\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamares&apos; animal cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man about town <strong>Steve Friess<\/strong> has <a href=\"http:\/\/thestrippodcast.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/from-files-of-omg.html\">all the gory details<\/a>, plus video:<object width=\"344\" height=\"344\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Imt8avmFBEg&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Imt8avmFBEg&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"344\" height=\"344\">Now that new owners have actually made the ex-<strong>Tamares Group<\/strong> dump the <strong>Gold Spike<\/strong> actually rather spiffy and friendly, the <strong>Vegas Club<\/strong> now takes the wilted palm of being Downtown&apos;s <strong>most depressing casino<\/strong>. It&apos;s a no-frills, charmless grind joint, utterly devoid of atmosphere. Casino play, even on a Friday night, was desultory, as though the customers were so despairing they didn&apos;t care where they played.<\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"344\" height=\"344\">The much-hyped &quot;fetish&quot; pit is a joke. It&apos;s tamer than any <strong>Britney Spears<\/strong> video and the costumes look like they were bought at a Halloween store. It&apos;s cheap &#8212; and not in a good way.<\/object> The wife-beater-wearing female dealers at the Gold Spike are much, much sexier &#8230; some of the hottest in Vegas, if that&apos;s your thing.<\/p>\n<p>The sports book, once the pride of the Vegas Club, has been turned into a pretty spacious showroom, but that&apos;s about the nicest thing you can say for the place. Downtown needs entrepreneurs but Tamares is content to be a slumlord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man about town Steve Friess has all the gory details, plus video: Now that new owners have actually made the ex-Tamares Group dump the Gold Spike actually rather spiffy and friendly, the Vegas Club now takes the wilted palm of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/tamares-animal-cruelty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[98,51,53,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}