{"id":9314,"date":"2012-07-11T16:02:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T00:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9314"},"modified":"2020-09-21T05:07:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:07:03","slug":"starship-to-victorville-and-sundry-curiosities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/starship-to-victorville-and-sundry-curiosities\/","title":{"rendered":"Starship to Victorville … and sundry curiosities"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, I don’t know who Cobra Starship<\/strong> is but their “#1Nite” (yes, that’s how they spell it) is the sort of bubble-gum pop that ought to stick to the top of the charts. It’s another entry in that can’t-fail music-video genre, “Wacky\u00a0Weekend in Vegas<\/a>.” What sets this one somewhat apart is the use of the Neon Museum<\/strong> and the Pinball Hall of Fame<\/strong> among its locations, which also include nightlife’s version of a pilgrimage to Lourdes<\/strong>: Pure<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Bet you didn’t know that it’s possible to simultaneously drive past Binion’s Gambling Hall<\/strong> and Harrah’s Las Vegas<\/strong>, only to pull into the Gold Strike<\/strong>, down in Jean<\/strong> (Cobra Starship is livin’ large!), which turns out to have a totally rockin’ sports book. Maybe I’ve just gone crazy from the heat<\/a> but, if you live here, the “creative geography” routinely on display in, say, CSI<\/em> is pretty droll.<\/p>\n

\"\"When Cobra Starship heads<\/strong> home to Los Angeles<\/strong> after their palatial Gold Strike stay<\/a>, they could stop over in Newberry<\/strong>, Calif., to see a house that sits atop an extinct (we hope) volcano and enjoys a fascinating backstory. Since the domicile has just been donated by owner and TV personality\u00a0Huell Howser<\/strong> to Chapman University<\/strong> and will become student living quarters<\/a>, Cobra Starship should feel in the right millieu.<\/p>\n

\"\"Victorville and<\/em> bust<\/strong>. What keeps Sig “The Fixer” Rogich<\/strong>‘s Choo-Choo to Nowhere on track? At one end, there’s the juice of Sen. Harry Reid<\/strong> (D-NV). At the other is the utter desperation of the City of Victorville<\/strong>, which is under SEC<\/strong> scrutiny for the apparent misappropriation of civic funds<\/a>. Behaving like a bunch of Caesars Entertainment<\/strong> executives, city fathers have blown public money on such things as $103 million worth of private-sector airplane hangars.<\/p>\n

Now, Victorville is so destitute and its unemployment so high (14%) that vulture capitalist WalMart<\/strong> is swooping for the kill, preparing to build a pair of ultra-low-wage super stores in the high desert. Given the thirst for jobs, Victorville citizenry presumably isn’t in the mood to ask questions about the viability of building a big-ass park-and-ride for commuter rail between their city and Las Vegas<\/strong> … and both Siggy and Old Sixty Votes are probably very aware of that.<\/p>\n

\"\"Food Network has been<\/strong> all over Vegas like a cheap suit lately. Guy Fieri<\/strong> has been helping put Cajun eatery<\/a> Lola’s<\/strong> and the Eurasian cuisine<\/a> of Forte<\/strong> on the map. Now, having exhausted the possibilities of Phoenix<\/strong>, evidently, Food Network<\/strong>‘s\u00a0Mystery Diners<\/em><\/a> series is reportedly headed for Sin City, too.<\/p>\n

Finally …<\/strong> nothing says “I love you” like giving that special someone a ring that doubles as dice. Just imagine all the arguments you’ll settle just by seeing who rolls the higher number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, I don’t know who Cobra Starship is but their “#1Nite” (yes, that’s how they spell it) is the sort of bubble-gum pop that ought to stick to the top of the charts. It’s another entry in that can’t-fail music-video … 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":[109,34,18,51,14,4,7,52,11,9,19,100,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314"}],"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=9314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28004,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions\/28004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}