My wife and I just spent a week in Wyoming, visiting Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, and Jackson Hole. During the Yellowstone portion, I set a new personal record for use of the word “WOW!” Words — and even two-dimensional photos — fail to describe the beauty of Yellowstone, one of America’s greatest public spaces. Most […]
I have been on the road quite a bit this year — New York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas — but for the first time in years, I haven’t rented a car in any of the cities I’ve visited. Instead, I’ve used the ride-sharing app Lyft. I’ve not only avoided the cost of the rental […]
If you watch “Poker Night In America” on CBS Sports Network, you might have caught a glimpse of me on Monday night when they aired a show that was recorded during Thanksgiving weekend 2015 at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida. My wife and I happened to be down there for the holiday, so […]
In the last 15 years, horse and dog tracks have added poker and other games because the race business is dying. This is not the 1920s, when horse racing was prevalent enough to have a song about it open up the Broadway musical “Guys and Dolls.” Now the cards (and in some states, slots and […]
In February, I wrote about a horrible stay I had at the Flamingo in Las Vegas. It had been a decent hotel, but years of neglect have turned it into a dump. After I said so — in an open letter on this site to Mark Frissora, CEO of parent company Caesars Entertainment — I received an apology […]
Like many people, I was surprised the Nobel Prize For Literature went to Bob Dylan — not because his lyrics don’t qualify as literature (they do, as much as any other poetry that’s not set to music), but because I didn’t know the Nobel committee gave out lifetime achievement awards. The legend of Dylan lives […]