{"id":8563,"date":"2012-02-23T11:14:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T19:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=8563"},"modified":"2012-02-23T11:14:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T19:14:33","slug":"slave-to-smithcoast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/slave-to-smithcoast\/","title":{"rendered":"Slave to SmithCoast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8564\" title=\"Smith Center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Smith-Center.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Smith-Center.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Smith-Center-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Smith-Center-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/>Those nice folks at <em>CityLife<\/em> must think I did all right by that last cover story because they&#8217;ve got me taking the lead on their media blitz vis-a-vis the impending (March 12) opening of the <strong>Smith Center for the Performing Arts<\/strong>. The three-auditorium venue is a cause near and dear to the hearts of such gaming-industry figures as <strong>Jim Murren<\/strong> (who&#8217;s in for $1 million), <strong>Don Snyder<\/strong>, <strong>Elaine Wynn<\/strong> ($5 million), <strong>Diana Bennett<\/strong> and others. It&#8217;s also the future home-away-from-home of <strong>Clint Holmes<\/strong>, hence my tendency to refer to it as <strong>SmithCoast<\/strong>. Anyway, I&#8217;m looking at a massive stack of reading materials plus a slew of interviews, hence the intermittent nature of S&amp;G this week. Thankfully, things have quieted down a bit since <strong>Steve Wynn<\/strong> went thermonuclear on <strong>Kazuo Okada<\/strong>&#8216;s posterior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those nice folks at CityLife must think I did all right by that last cover story because they&#8217;ve got me taking the lead on their media blitz vis-a-vis the impending (March 12) opening of the Smith Center for the Performing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/slave-to-smithcoast\/\">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":[60,51,4,11,54,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563"}],"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=8563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8565,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563\/revisions\/8565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}