Brian Rouff is a longtime resident of Las Vegas and the author of Dice Angel, Money Shot, and Restless City (A Las Vegas Serial Novel). His latest release, The House Always Wins, is a rollicking, classic roulette spin on the very essence of Sin City. -Reviews- “A whirlwind romance leads an unlikely pair of newlyweds to Las Vegas, home of …
Vegas Bars, Beers, Sports and Dining
BRETT’S VEGAS VIEW Contributed by Jackie Brett BINION’S IS ADDING RETRO-ROOMS AND NEW CIRCULAR BAR: The historic Binion’s property is joining the exciting changes taking place in Downtown Las Vegas on Fremont Street. Hotel room construction and the bar will be completed by summer. For starters, after a decade of the hotel rooms being closed, they will be renovated and …
Marriage, Mobsters and Mayhem: Las Vegas Style
The House Always Wins: A Vegas Ghost Story If only sand dunes could talk. As a long-time Sin City resident, I’ve heard more rumors about bodies in the nearby desert than I’ve hit four-of-a-kinds in casinos. In The House Always Wins, author Brian Rouff adroitly avoids the cookie cutter mob boneyard of dust and cacti. Instead he unearths a ghostly, …
Vegas Valentine’s Specials and Foodie Fun
BRETT’S VEGAS VIEW contributed by Jackie Brett THE STRATOSPHERE REBRANDS TO ‘THE STRAT’: Golden Entertainment, Inc., which took ownership in late 2017 of The Stratosphere, Casino, Hotel & Tower, is beginning its transition and rebranding of the iconic property to The STRAT Hotel, Casino and SkyPod. Two TV spots ran during the Super Bowl: “Strat Rising” announced the resort’s rebranding, …
Tenacity: The Evolution of an Entrepreneur
Tenacity is a highly energetic memoir written by Brooklyn born former Marine, Ron Coury. He details the struggles he faced and the losses he endured in this eye-opening personalized chronology of how the determined entrepreneur survived the “Good Ol’ Boy” days of early Southern Nevada. –Reviews– “In this remembrance of his life and times, Coury provides an account that’s both …
Marine’s Tenacity Outs Inner Corruption
From Corruption to Cancer with Doses of Courage Las Vegas business entrepreneur, Ron Coury, dishes out doses of courage throughout his nearly tell-all personal handbook, “Tenacity.” His mentions of the vanquished Mob might make you, like many Sin City townies, wish for their continued presence in the city. Rather than engage in bloody retribution, Coury takes the high and extremely …