Las Vegas Casino Trying to Evict Night Club
August 29th, 2013 at 9:40:46 AM
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I haven't seen the show, but tossing condoms into the crowd is kind of strange. I guess...
http://news.yahoo.com/las-vegas-casino-seeks-evict-raunchy-nightclub-081408890.html
http://news.yahoo.com/las-vegas-casino-seeks-evict-raunchy-nightclub-081408890.html
Buffering...
August 29th, 2013 at 9:49:37 AM
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*The Palazzo says actors — some nearly naked — toss condoms into the crowd*
"Hey, this gum tastes like rubber!"
"Hey, this gum tastes like rubber!"
"What, me worry?"
August 29th, 2013 at 10:39:14 AM
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Just sounds like a publicity stunt to me. "Too raunchy for Vegas? I've got to see that!"
August 29th, 2013 at 10:48:03 AM
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Quote: PapaChubbyJust sounds like a publicity stunt to me. "Too raunchy for Vegas? I've got to see that!"
No, I've actually heard that the place is very...uh, let's just say..."unique". I've never been there myself (no desire either), but a friend and his girlfriend had gone there and said it had a statue of someone named Buck Angel there. Since we had no idea who that was, I decided to google him/her/it, and we almost threw up. (Watch, I bet a bunch of people google "buck angel" now...haha)
Fighting BS one post at a time!
August 29th, 2013 at 12:04:27 PM
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First of all let me say that litigation and the owner of The Venetian/Palazzo are no strangers. He sues. If the other side should outlast his flurry of pretrial motions and actually win, he appeals... endlessly until those who cross him go away chatting to themselves en route to bankruptcy court.
Second, ALL Vegas casinos value their gaming licenses more than they value the income derived from prostitution or prostitution related activities. ALL hotels know that a certain measure of their convention business, daytime business and nighttime business is related to sexual encounters of a brief and transitory nature and that while many such encounters may have an element of mutual and intense attraction most such encounters have an element of primarily monetary concern. Casinos don't want hookers stealing chips or even cashing them. Casinos don't want hookers being so blatant on inappropriate as to raise alarms or the interest of the Gaming Board. Hiring topless dancers to loiter by a particular hotel's pool was merely a way to re-create the famed "Naked City" area that used to exist when cheap apartments and sun-tanned dancers coexisted quite peacefully with each other. Things went too far only when the topless dancers decided to get paid by both the hotel and the males at the pool and the Gaming Board's eyebrows started an upward swing.
The most interesting aspect is that dark cabaret is a currently a very "in" concept. The performers are by no means overly dressed, the themes are by no means toned down for public consumption, there is a core element of people who proudly admit to various lifestyles focused primarily on multiple partners. Indeed one could even say that things like Burning Man and certain notable Intentional Communities are a sort of rotation for many of the performers. Whatever songs or circus acts are performed, there always seems to be an accompanied Belly Dancer often featuring modest pyrotechnics. Many of today's attendees at a dinner theater do not expect to see condoms on the table but quite frankly many of today's attendees at theaters do indeed expect young ladies and condoms to be on open display. The Edwardian Era is clearly embraced with its adherence to certain publicly directed standards while clearly embracing the private rejection of such standards. People dress well, eat well, drink well, show a flair for fashion and style, celebrate both a four pm Tea Time and a five pm cointrea/absinthe hour. An evening of Dark Cabaret will often feature songs in five or six languages, allusions to literary greats, endless double entrendres, and an utterly obvious celebration of hedonism. Food, drink, song and sex. Life is lived to the nines. Young ladies wear green "absinthe cuffs" that cost over two hundred dollars or an absinthe choker that runs to nearly a grand. No one denies the role that capitalism and commerce play in life. Multiple partners are assumed, a liberal arts education is assumed, an orientation to pleasure as its own reward is assumed, in general wealth is assumed.
I'm sure The Palazzo knew what they were doing and have milked the experiment to its fullest but now wish to re-emphasize that no matter how difficult things were in Vegas, primacy goes to the gaming license, not to the club crowd.
Second, ALL Vegas casinos value their gaming licenses more than they value the income derived from prostitution or prostitution related activities. ALL hotels know that a certain measure of their convention business, daytime business and nighttime business is related to sexual encounters of a brief and transitory nature and that while many such encounters may have an element of mutual and intense attraction most such encounters have an element of primarily monetary concern. Casinos don't want hookers stealing chips or even cashing them. Casinos don't want hookers being so blatant on inappropriate as to raise alarms or the interest of the Gaming Board. Hiring topless dancers to loiter by a particular hotel's pool was merely a way to re-create the famed "Naked City" area that used to exist when cheap apartments and sun-tanned dancers coexisted quite peacefully with each other. Things went too far only when the topless dancers decided to get paid by both the hotel and the males at the pool and the Gaming Board's eyebrows started an upward swing.
The most interesting aspect is that dark cabaret is a currently a very "in" concept. The performers are by no means overly dressed, the themes are by no means toned down for public consumption, there is a core element of people who proudly admit to various lifestyles focused primarily on multiple partners. Indeed one could even say that things like Burning Man and certain notable Intentional Communities are a sort of rotation for many of the performers. Whatever songs or circus acts are performed, there always seems to be an accompanied Belly Dancer often featuring modest pyrotechnics. Many of today's attendees at a dinner theater do not expect to see condoms on the table but quite frankly many of today's attendees at theaters do indeed expect young ladies and condoms to be on open display. The Edwardian Era is clearly embraced with its adherence to certain publicly directed standards while clearly embracing the private rejection of such standards. People dress well, eat well, drink well, show a flair for fashion and style, celebrate both a four pm Tea Time and a five pm cointrea/absinthe hour. An evening of Dark Cabaret will often feature songs in five or six languages, allusions to literary greats, endless double entrendres, and an utterly obvious celebration of hedonism. Food, drink, song and sex. Life is lived to the nines. Young ladies wear green "absinthe cuffs" that cost over two hundred dollars or an absinthe choker that runs to nearly a grand. No one denies the role that capitalism and commerce play in life. Multiple partners are assumed, a liberal arts education is assumed, an orientation to pleasure as its own reward is assumed, in general wealth is assumed.
I'm sure The Palazzo knew what they were doing and have milked the experiment to its fullest but now wish to re-emphasize that no matter how difficult things were in Vegas, primacy goes to the gaming license, not to the club crowd.
August 29th, 2013 at 12:51:38 PM
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Quote: PapaChubbyJust sounds like a publicity stunt to me. "Too raunchy for Vegas? I've got to see that!"
I don't know if its a publicity stunt per se, but The Act just got added to my ToDo list...
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