Pimp My Vacation: Custom Cars Rumble into Las Vegas
Posted on September 8, 2008 - Filed Under Las Vegas, Video | Leave a Comment
Video and Story: Russ Johnson
I have never really been a car buff. My several midlife crises have not involved hot cars, hot babes and certainly had nothing to do with buffing up at a gym. But last fall I admit to having a ball at the SEMA show in Las Vegas. […] Read More..>>
Feed the Tiger: The Future of Las Vegas
Posted on January 21, 2008 - Filed Under Hotels & Resorts, Las Vegas, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
Traffic at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (c) Russell Johnson
Feed the Tiger: The Future of Las Vegas
When will it end? Why as our salaries shrink, our expectations dwindle, our house values plummet, our IRAs squeal like piggies being led to slaughter, does that supersize-me oasis of bare buns, aged […]
Las Vegas and CES: Whither the Cannonballs
Posted on January 17, 2006 - Filed Under Las Vegas, Audio | Leave a Comment
Buccaneeresses at TI (Treasure Island) AARGH!
Las Vegas & CES: Whither the Cannonballs
AUDIO STORY MP3
Captain, I dare say we have two parallel but equal universes here. On the Las Vegas Strip we have TI (in another time warp it was called Treasure Island), now more appropriately labeled TA: scantily-clad buccaneeresses pole dance around the masts of […]
Read More..>>Old Las Vegas
Posted on January 10, 2006 - Filed Under Las Vegas, Audio | Leave a Comment
The Flamingo Hotel (c) Russell Johnson
Old Las Vegas
I just returned from Las Vegas where I hosted a talk show during the International Consumer Electronics Show. You can find podcasts of it at www.lunchat.com/blog, the site of Lunch @ Piero’s, a yearly get together of technology innovators and the media. I’ll be posting a few interviews […]







