Filed under: Nightlife, Sexy Vegas, Event Finder
Vegas Pop Blog: Limo? Check.Corsage? Check.Condoms? Check.Patron? Grey Goose? Check and check.Sounds like an average prom checklist for prom night, but these aren’t teenagers celebrating the end of a high school career. These are pro (and some semi-pro) partiers and… Read more
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Filed under: Casinos, Star Spotting, Poker & Gambling
Vegas Pop Blog: The Hard Rock Poker Lounge opened in grand style over the weekend with a poker tournament that brought out Vegas’s pokerati and a familiar name winning the grand prize.His Honorable Mayor Oscar Goodman cut the ceremonial ribbon, a sexy black number,… Read more
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Filed under: DNC-GOP-08
Vegas Pop Blog: We are here in Minneapolis, getting ready for the IMPACT FILM FESTIVAL II - The Republican Sequel. Things on the ground are very fluid, given the looming hurricane that threatens to steal all the Convention’s thunder (and use it to flatten… Read more
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Filed under: DNC08
Vegas Pop Blog: Holy crap. What do I talk about first? The amazing end to our amazing festival at the DNC, with a packed screening of RFK Remembered hosted by the Kennedys which brought the whole theater to tears? Kerry Kennedy talks about the experience of seeing… Read more
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Vegas Pop Blog: Never a dull moment here at the Impact Film Festival. Our opening film was Battle in Seattle, a narrative feature about the tumultuous events at the 1999 WTO meeting in Seattle, directed by Stuart Townsend. I finally got a chance to watch the whole… Read more
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Vegas Pop Blog: Today went by fast and furious. In reverse chronological order, it ended with IMPACT FILM FESTIVAL throwing the rocking-est party of the Convention so far, packed and hopping, with Nelly performing. That’s my party!Who knew I liked Nelly? But I do…. Read more
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Vegas Pop Blog: So, this may be my first time as Programming Director of a big. politically influential film festival (or of any film festival at all) but even I knew this wasn’t good. It was 15 minutes before the beginning of the Opening Film of the festival, we… Read more
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Vegas Pop Blog: Oh man. And I thought I was kidding. Just got back from the Fair, where you could buy, in no particular order, steak, chicken breasts or pot roast on a stick, key lime pie on a stick, macaroni ‘n cheese on a stick, Red Bull on a stick, deep-fried… [...]
Filed under: DNC08
Vegas Pop Blog: Two great and memorable moments today (three if you count chatting up Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, but more on that later).Our middle screening of the day was Trouble the Water, a powerful exploration of poverty in America as told through the… Read more
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Filed under: DNC08
Vegas Pop Blog: I’ve never understood why the political parties don’t have their conventions in Vegas. Vegas has an infrastructure and atmosphere built for conventions. Conventioneers will have a better time in Vegas and there are no political motives on selection… Read more
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