It's gone from a circus act to a regular city. The experience of Las Vegas now is less Rat Pack and more brats in the car, from Dino (Dean Martin) and his friends and swingers to minivans and shopping malls. It's just a big Western city. |
Las Vegas now is less Rat Pack and more brats in the car. It's just a big Western city. |
Never really liked it that much. |
New Orleans has a lot of energy talent. You can't build that from scratch. |
The decade began with the economy off track, but the population boom kept rolling along and is on track to nearly match the record 1990s. The country found places to keep booming, shying away from the high-cost coasts and seeking the South and the mountain West. |
The dispersion shows this is one well-networked country with big social networks. |
The schedule isn't favoring us. But it's a good event and you have to make the best of it. |
Their line was the difference today. Our fourth line was playing great and you're going to need that. |
These things have always happened organically. What we don't have experience with is a contrivance of this, where it's engineered. |
They have two qualities that allow them to receive so many people: They're big and they're close. They're also part of a cultural zone in the South that people would feel most connected to. |
We had the play set up well. We moved the puck up high, down low and over to me. |
We have given Robert a chance to compete for the Stanley Cup. |
We're not really talking about it, |
You can build a big metro economy purely out of high-level services. You get people there with gambling, then rope them into consuming other things. |
You know you're doing something special, and part of something, but nobody is thinking about it day to day. |