...and tomorrow I'll have full coverage with pictures, video and commentary. In the meantime, follow my Tweets (I'm @TheStripPodcast) all evening as I spit out thoughts, quips, quotes and images to the extent that that AT&T Black Hole known as Aria...

To unwind, avoid deadlines or reward myself after a story has been filed, I like to log onto the Internet Scrabble Club and play head-to-head timed Scrabble games with strangers around the world. Why Scrabble has not shut this thing down as they did...

I think I was stricken last week with a bug going around called CityCenteritis, the fatigue that is setting in surrounding that little collection of buildings that's been in all the papers lately. Still, the Mandarin Oriental gala opening on Dec. 4...

Steve Wynn had asked me not to air the audio of our recent conversation, but he gave me full permission to report the newsworthy stuff that we discussed in writing. I was going to use this sequence about Bette, Garth, Garth's plane, Beyonce and more in...

In this week's Vegas media shocker, Dave Berns, the host of KNPR's two-hour daily talk and interview show "State of Nevada," left his job abruptly today. It was a poorly kept secret around KNPR and among those who appeared often on the program --...