STRIPPERS AND HUSTLERS TEN TIMES MORE POPULAR THAN SEAN HANNITY

HEATHER CHADWELL OF VH1’S ROCK OF LOVE: SHOCKINGLY MORE POPULAR IN VEGAS THAN SEAN HANNITY

From the Los Angeles Times blog The Movable Buffet

Richard Abowitz made this hilarious discovery for his Vegas-themed blog: It turns out that strippers and hustlers are more popular in Las Vegas than radio host Sean Hannity. By ten times.

 

 

Hannity held a Fox News event at the Orleans Arena earlier this year. Abowitz discovered it drew 3,200 people. Meanwhile the upcoming Strippers and Hustlers Ball at the same arena is expecting over 30,000 people to attend over a two day period during Labor Day weekend. Here’s why:

 

THIS LOSER HAS FIVE WOMEN AT THE STRIPPERS BALL

Hannitize that!

The Strippers and Hustlers Ball used to be called the “Pimp N’ Ho Ball,” but apparently that’s too politically incorrect even for Las Vegas.

Of course, it’s not exactly shocking that strippers are ten times more popular than Sean Hannity. Maybe it’s because the Strippers Ball has blazing hot, scantily clad, drunk women as a draw. Sean Hannity used Lee Greenwood and Oliver North.

In all fairness, it was no contest. Strippers1 Hannity 0.

 

SEAN HANNITY

NEW CASINO OPENS IN LAS VEGAS ONE WEEK FROM TODAY

THE NEW EASTSIDE CANNERY

Despite a sagging local economy and the halt of numerous construction projects on the Strip, there is actually one casino that is OPENING in Las Vegas. The Eastside Cannery will open its doors next Thursday.

Far from the Strip (figuratively if not literally), the Eastside Cannery is located on the old Boulder Highway. The new hotel is 16 stories and has 307 rooms.

LAS VEGAS TV REPORTER FIRED AFTER SOLICITING DUDES FOR THREEWAY SEX ON CRAIGSLIST

JEFF GRADNEY

According to Norm! of the Las Vegas Review Journal, tv reporter Jeff Gradney of KTNV has been fired after he and his girlfriend were accused of soliciting male partners for sexual purposes on the Internet.

Norm! quotes Gradney’s ad on Craigslist as reading:

 

 

“hot, intensely passionate couple looking for a cool guy to play with.”

The posting reportedly SHOWED A PHOTOGRAPH of Gradney and his girlfriend having sex. Somebody recognized Gradney from his work on tv and informed the station.

Gradney had been with KTNV (the Las Vegas ABC affiliate) for three years. He had previously been with KING 5 in Seattle.

This is just the latest controversy involving channel 13 on-air personalities. Last month longtime sportscaster Ron Futrell was fired after a hit and run accident. In 2005 weekend weather anchor Rob Blair was fired after accidentally referring to Martin Luther King Jr. as “Martin Luther Coon” on a taped station promo that went over the air.

VEGAS SMUT CARD PEDDLERS TURNED INTO HUMAN BILLBOARDS

 

Anyone who’s ever been on the Las Vegas Strip is familiar with the annoying derelicts who hand out cards for “adult oriented” businesses.

Now, according to the Los Angeles Times blog The Movable Buffet, Vegas smut peddlers are taking their marketing to “the next level.” They’re hiring people as human billboards.

You may not like scummy people handing out scummy material for scummy businesses, but the writer of The Movable Buffet makes a great point. The Vegas laws apply to everyone.

Richard Abowitz says casinos would be just as happy to ban union protesters as the people handing out smut cards but they can’t. That’s why when union workers recently shut down construction of the CityCenter project over safety concerns and briefly picketed the Strip nobody questioned their right to do so.

LAS VEGAS CASINO TO SHUT DOWN STAR TREK: THE EXPERIENCE

 

Thank God. One of the worst ideas and most embarrassing themed venues in Las Vegas history will finally come to a merciful end in just a couple of weeks. The Las Vegas Hilton is closing Star Trek: The Experience.

From the start, this was a stupid idea.

After all, it’s an entire themed attraction based around Star Trek geeks. And unless your idea of fun was watching drunk Trekkies,

 

 

Or finding a place where you can actually speak Klingon to somebody who’s pathetic enough to dress up like a Star Trek character every day,

 

 

Star Trek: The Experience sucked! (Actually, still sucks. It won’t officially close for good until September 1st.)

That won’t be soon enough. Frankly, I can’t remember a more awful attraction. Even loyal Star Trek enthusiasts thought the place was a ripoff. Here’s an online review from one of the well-known travel websites:

 

“I am a Star Trek fan – and dragged my family (husband and 16 year old son) to this ‘experience’…and had to apologise afterwards for wasting their time. Never mind it costs $40 each just for the basic experience – it’s just exploitation.”

And that’s from a Star Trek “fan.” Actually, the price was raised to $42.99. That’s for two “rides” and a tour of Star Trek memorabilia. Plus another 15 bucks if you wanted visual proof for your friends that you’ve never had sex with a woman. That’s how much the Hilton charged for you to get your picture taken sitting in the “captain’s chair” on the set of the fake Enterprise.

 

 

The only way the place stayed open THIS long without going out of business was it had a bar.

 

 

The bar served giant, smoking drinks with about ten shots of booze in each one. That wasn’t enough.

 

 

If you had enough giant drinks you could hit on girls who looked like this:

 

 

Unfortunately, by the time you shelled out $42.99 on the ticket, $15 on a picture and $20 a drink, you probably spent enough money that you could have gotten a Vegas hooker to come to your door. For the same amount of money I’m sure she would have gladly painted her body green and had sex with you (all the while spanking your ass and calling you Captain Kirk.)

 

 

Now THAT’S a Star Trek Experience that I could endorse.

LATEST VEGAS MONUMENT TO EXCESS

MINUS 5 BAR

The latest trendy Las Vegas theme bar opens at Mandalay Bay next month. And, you’ve got to hand it to the creators of Minus 5, their concept is truly unique. Everything at Minus 5 (including the bar) is made out of ice. It is being touted as America’s first “ice lounge.”

Critics are deriding the idea as just the latest example of Vegas excess. Environmental groups are decrying the waste of an ice bar in the middle of a desert.

The term “Minus 5” refers to the bar’s temperature, a constant -5 celsius (or 23 degrees farenheit.) The bar is so cold that patrons are allowed to stay for only half an hour. The bar provides customers parkas, hats and mittens. The price of admission to Minus 5 is $30. That allows you 30 minutes and one drink. Customers can by another two drinks during their stay although the selection is limited. Minus 5 serves only vodka. 

Inside the club, chandeliers and drink glasses are also made out of ice. There are currently five other Minus 5  bars all in Australia and New Zealand. Las Vegas is the first American outlet with franchises expected in Miami and Hawaii.

 

AT MINUS 5 EVEN THE DRINK GLASSES ARE MADE OUT OF ICE

LAS VEGAS MAYOR WANTS 80,000 SEAT FOOTBALL STADIUM AND EVERY SUPER BOWL

LAS VEGAS MAYOR OSCAR GOODMAN: THE ONLY POLITICIAN IN HISTORY WHO ONCE HAD HIS OWN GIN ENDORSEMENT CONTRACT

Maybe Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman has started drinking before press conferences. Who knows? After all, this is the same mayor who once told a room of fourth graders that his hobby was “drinking.”

For whatever reason, Goodman picked Tuesday to float the biggest trial balloon of his political career. Goodman says he wants to build an 80,000 seat football stadium in Las Vegas. He also laid out his plans for the proposed facility.

The mayor wants Las Vegas to be the permanent host for the Super Bowl. His plan would also have the NFL move every Monday Night Football game to Sin City.

Of course, none of these things are ever going to happen. The National Football League HATES Las Vegas. Still, it’s an interesting plan.

On a more realistic note, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority announced it was hiring a lobbying company to help the city with “transportation issues.” Specifically, the company will try to secure federal funds to improve U.S. highway 93 to Phoenix and lobby for Los Angeles/Las Vegas train service. An LA-Las Vegas train study would include magnetic-levitation technology and proposals by Amtrak for conventional rail.

 

DUMBEST WHORE IN VEGAS

SARAH COURNEDE

Meet Sarah Cournede. Ms. Cournede has the distinction of being either the most dimwitted or the unluckiest hooker in all of Las Vegas.

Cournede and her sister (described by police as “known prostitutes”) were involved in a scuffle at the Wynn Las Vegas casino. Unfortunately for the Cournede sisters they chose to solicit the wrong guy when they were trolling for potential customers last month. The working girls hit on a fairly well known billionaire. Steve Wynn. Wynn is not only happily married and one of Nevada’s staunchest critics of prostitution, but he also happens to OWN THE CASINO the two ho’s were working in.

Wynn responded by walking Sarah Cournede to the door then calling security. A melee erupted. That’s when Maria Cournede slapped Wynn in the face in his own casino.

Both sisters were arrested on charges of trespassing. Wynn refused to press battery charges.

 

STEVE WYNN

PAUL PIERCE IN VEGAS GIRLFRIEND DRAMA

PAUL PIERCE

Norm! of the Las Vegas Review Journal has details about how Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce spent his Saturday night. Pierce’s evening included hanging with Playboy bunnies, a $700 bottle of cabernet and some “girlfriend drama” involving thrown shrimp.

Pierce was pulled over by Las Vegas Metro police early Sunday morning. He was released after passing a field sobriety test.

LAS VEGAS TV STATION FIRES LONGTIME SPORTS ANCHOR

RON FUTRELL

Las Vegas ABC TV affiliate KTNV has fired reporter Ron Futrell after he was arrested over the weekend for leaving the scene of a car accident. Futrell was a longtime Las Vegas sports anchor.