Following announcements of observation wheels, roller coasters and zip lines going up all over town, an Australian entrepreneur says he wants to build a wakeboarding, snowboarding, surfing and white-water rafting experience in the vicinity of the Las Vegas Strip.
The plan for Vegas Extreme calls for a $50 million 40-acre amusement park that would also include motocross and a white sand beach and open by late 2014.
While the venture sounds speculative at best — the price of the land alone could exceed the budget — the adventure quotient in Las Vegas is undeniably rising, led by the observation wheel that will be part of the Linq project on the Strip. The wheel has risen well above the Quad and is scheduled to be operating by early next year.
» "Peepshow" closing: "Peepshow," the sexy topless show at Planet Hollywood that has featured the likes of Holly Madison, Scary Spice and, most recently, Coco Austin, will conclude its four-year, 1,500-show run Sept. 1. No replacement has been announced.
» Free Franky: There’s no charge to see Franky Perez in The Lounge at the Palms at 10:30 p.m. Saturdays. Perez was big on the national scene a few years back, and you can hear his music regularly on the TV show "Sons of Anarchy." His show is almost always on the in-the-knowers’ short list of best lounge acts in Vegas.
» Five50: The just-opened Five50 pizza restaurant outside the sports book at Aria takes its name seriously. The pies are baked at 550 degrees, individual slices go for $5.50 and a daily happy hour with 50-cent draft beer starts at 5:50 p.m. and runs till 7. The pizza maker is James Beard Award-winner Shawn McClain, who also runs the restaurant Sage at Aria.
Question: Is it true that Google glasses aren’t allowed in casinos?
Answer: Many casinos are banning Google’s new hi-tech eyewear, known as Glass.
The James Bond-style computerized spectacles are equipped with a tiny webcam and a wireless computer that enable the wearer to take pictures, shoot video and surf the Internet. Hence, the glasses are being disallowed under anti-device laws. Interestingly, they’re also banned in showrooms to prevent the recording of shows for bootlegging.
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