Exciting times here in Las Vegas — for the first time, we have a professional team to cheer for. As of the time of this writing, the Vegas Golden Knights are 7-1 and second place in the Pacific Division. Yes, the season is young with many games to go, but no one could have predicted […]
Knights on Ice — A Desert Avalanche
If you’ve never heard of an avalanche in the desert, it’s because yesterday, the Golden Knights caused the first one ever, racking up seven goals against the Colorado Avalanche. The first four minutes of the game were spent entirely in the Colorado defensive zone. The closest any Avalanche player got to the red line was […]
Knights on Ice — A Knight-Style Hangover
In the now-famous movie Hangover, a group of guys venture to Vegas and after a night of debauchery and mayhem, they wake up to find a tiger in their room. Well, the Chicago Blackhawks spent three days in Las Vegas before their game on Tuesday night and though they didn’t find a tiger in their […]
Greater Vegas — Thousands of Pronghorn? In Neva...
Pronghorrn are unique for a number of reasons. They’re not related to antelope, deer, elk, caribou, sheep, or goat. The resolution of their eyes, extremely wide-set, as big as an elephant’s, and sharp, has been compared to eight-power binoculars. But mainly, these graceful creatures are fast. Pronghorn are the fastest land animal on the continent. They […]
Knights on Ice—No Worries
Outplayed? Outshot? Forced to play your third-string goalie? No need to worry! We’re the Vegas Golden Knights. I’m not sure how the VGK do it. This team just knows how. Do what? Win, that’s what! It’s almost like the rope-a-dope made famous by Muhammad Ali—he just leaned back on the ropes and let his opponent […]
Halloween in Vegas
It’s still a week until Halloween and many venues are already well into their ghostly celebrations. Here are some highlights of haunted happenings around the valley: Haunted Houses & Attractions Fright Dome – Circus Circus – 19-22, 26-31 – $37.95-$149.95 – 7 p.m.- midnight Freakling Bros. Trilogy of Terror – 4245 South Grand Canyon Dr. – Oct. 18-22, 25-28 […]
Knights on Ice—Hockey Pizza Family
When I left New York City to move to Las Vegas to play blackjack professionally, I left behind four things behind that were very important to me: New York-style pizza, the New York Rangers, my family, and my brother and sister officers with whom I was proud to serve and protect; those friendships with my […]
Knights on Ice—Ship It and Tuck It
Two expressions often heard here in Las Vegas, especially in casinos, are “ship it,” in reference to winning a pot at a poker table, and “tuck it,” the action when you hold what you believe to be a winning blackjack hand. Well, T-Mobile Arena doesn’t have any poker and blackjack tables, but tonight there was […]
Greater Vegas—Lehman Caves Part 2
Park naturalists take you and up to 19 other visitors into the Lehman Cave complex at Nevada’s Great Basin National Park, 300 miles northeast of Vegas. The 60- to 90-minute tours ($8, $10) take place every day of the year except holidays and let me tell you, this is an excursion to the inside — inside […]
Knights On Ice—58 Seconds
Editor’s Note: Las Vegas’ first major-league sports team, the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights, is in action and has begun its season 3-0. This is the first installment of a new blog, written by LVA’s Joe Pane, that will chronicle the VGK’s historic inaugural season and appear exclusively at LasVegasAdvisor.com. You could hear a pin drop in the […]
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