{"id":9860,"date":"2012-10-16T13:06:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T21:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9860"},"modified":"2012-10-16T13:06:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T21:06:19","slug":"shame-on-you-derek-stevens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/shame-on-you-derek-stevens-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shame on you, Derek Stevens!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vue Bar<\/strong> at <strong>The D<\/strong> used to be one of the stronger bargain plays <strong>Downtown<\/strong>. In the land of the $8 draft, Vue offered $1 pulls and a <strong>Blue Moon<\/strong> would set you back <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8630\" title=\"theD\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/theD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/theD.jpg 179w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/theD-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/>a whole two bucks. However, The D&#8217;s PR reps have informed me that these brewski specials have been discontinued. (&#8220;<em>They no longer have running specials but do run different random specials from time to time<\/em>.&#8221;) Also, there are no longer any tables on the Vue patio, from which one used to be able to watch zipliners and other <strong>Fremont Street Experience<\/strong> denizens. Yes, I know Stevens has to pay for the recent makeover that expunged many of the remaining vestiges of <strong>Fitzgeralds<\/strong> from The D, but gouging patrons for a humble draft beer suggests he may be getting ideas above his casino&#8217;s station. And when that happens in Vegas, bad things usually follow.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Stevens, you have gone from a &#8220;george&#8221; to a &#8220;stiff.&#8221; Nice going, sir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vue Bar at The D used to be one of the stronger bargain plays Downtown. In the land of the $8 draft, Vue offered $1 pulls and a Blue Moon would set you back a whole two bucks. However, The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/shame-on-you-derek-stevens-2\/\">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":[28,155,51,4,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860"}],"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=9860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9861,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions\/9861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}