{"id":891,"date":"2008-07-24T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/7\/24\/A-dirty-rotten-shame"},"modified":"2020-05-16T19:48:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T03:48:35","slug":"a-dirty-rotten-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/a-dirty-rotten-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"A dirty rotten shame"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to<\/a> local entertainment scribe Mike Weatherford<\/strong>, the new ownership at the Sahara<\/strong> is trying to re-up with promoter Larry Marshak<\/strong>‘s ersatz<\/em> Platters\/Coasters\/Marvelettes<\/strong> act. Thanks to the byzantine histories<\/a> of these groups and their ever-rotating membership, sufficient loopholes have existed for Marshak to peddle a variety of impostor bands hither and yon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The groups whose identities Marshak counterfeits have the common root of being ones whose members were largely anonymous to the public and were comprised of African Americans and a time when the latter were second-class citizens, with little means of recourse. The impostor act at the Sahara perpetuates a shameful history of exploitation<\/a>. Current casino owner Sam Nazarian<\/strong> has a chance to either break with this sharecropper business or become complicit in it. Deplorably, it looks like he’s opting for Door #2.<\/p>\n

Chip off the old block<\/strong>. If you go to www.billyung.com<\/em>, you’ll find the son of Columbia Sussex<\/strong> CEO William J. Yung III<\/strong> striking out on his own<\/a>, starting with an Osage Beach, Missouri resort. My favorite page is this one<\/a>. No, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, does it? Maybe the Web site designers were too busy puffing around Columbia Sussex HQ on the elder Yung’s miniature choo-choo train<\/a> (see end of story).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to local entertainment scribe Mike Weatherford, the new ownership at the Sahara is trying to re-up with promoter Larry Marshak‘s ersatz Platters\/Coasters\/Marvelettes act. Thanks to the byzantine histories of these groups and their ever-rotating membership, sufficient loopholes have existed … 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":[15,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891"}],"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=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27082,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/27082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}