{"id":9501,"date":"2012-08-20T10:11:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T18:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9501"},"modified":"2012-08-20T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T18:16:06","slug":"tv-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/tv-time\/","title":{"rendered":"TV time!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst I’m tinkering with the third edition of Eating Las Vegas<\/a><\/em> by John Curtas<\/strong>, Max Jacobson<\/strong> and Al Mancini<\/strong>, here are a couple of recent episodes from Vegas Video Network<\/strong>. The first features Bally’s Las Vegas<\/strong> lounge singer — and killer performer — Taylor Hicks<\/strong>, of whose Strip residency<\/a> you have been hearing such good things of late. Kelly Clinton Holmes<\/strong> (Nunsense<\/a><\/em>) hosts, so things should be easy on the eyes. It’s somewhat camp in a Seventies-Vegas way, but perhaps that adds an element of charm. I’ll let you be the judge.<\/p>\n

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Then, on a more sobering note, Living in Las Vegas<\/em> takes up the subject of local health and how, frankly, atrocious it is. I can vouch for this, too. One gets precious little access or time from the health-care system here and, as the victim of various and sundry maladies, it wouldn’t say my quality of life is being improved. It’s more like having one’s death slightly postponed … but not too much so, as that would inconvenience the HMOs<\/strong>, as capricious as Greek gods and twice as implacable.<\/p>\n

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