Five Hundy by Midnight 161: Stripping Elvises, Closed Museums and Buttless Pants

/ Tim / 15 Comments

Las Vegas podcast #161 includes:

  • 12 Sexiest Las Vegas Jobs opener
  • Harrah’s Entertainment becomes Caesars Entertainment
  • Harrah’s diamond lounge update
  • Guggenheim and Society of Seven are closing
  • Matty-O’s 1973 Las Vegas video
  • Listener calls about free concerts at Green Valley Ranch, Fireside Lounge at Peppermill, Cowboy Cabaret show review, fun with a raspy voice, Bodies, getting bumped from a hotel, Planet Hollywood’s pool and Prince-themed slot bonus round ideas
  • Call us at (702) 866-9494


Five Hundy By Midnight 4/13/08 (46:51 min, 43 MB)

Goodbye Harrah’s Entertainment, Hello Caesars Entertainment

/ Tim / 9 Comments

Harrah’s Entertainment, the ginormous casino owner we love to hate and hate to love, announced today it is changing its name to Caesars Entertainment. This isn’t a huge surprise, as the Caesars name carries more prestige.

In 2004, Park Place Entertainment, then-owner of Flamingo, Bally’s, Paris and Caesars Palace along with a bunch of casinos outside of Las Vegas, changed its name to Caesars Entertainment. Harrah’s Entertainment acquired Caesars Entertainment a few months later.

So what does this name change mean? When we complain about diminishing diamond lounge benefits and 10 minutes later rave about free room offers, we’ll be calling it Caesars instead of Harrah’s. Other than that, probably not much.

Five Hundy by Midnight 160: We Love the Daylife

/ Tim / 20 Comments

Las Vegas podcast #160 includes:

  • Sure Bet opener
  • MGM Grand introduces Wet Republic ultrapool
  • Harrah’s downgrades player benefits
  • Fremont gets a Dunkin’ Donuts
  • E-mails about opera, Vegas drinks and a Las Vegas poetry podcast
  • Listener calls about Palazzo, Sylvia Browne, Four Queens, Red Rock, the happiest place on Earth and a new Las Vegas game
  • Call us at (702) 866-9494


Five Hundy By Midnight 4/06/08 (35:53 min, 33 MB)

Five Hundy by Midnight 158: Restored, Rested and Rambling

/ Tim / 18 Comments

Las Vegas podcast #158 includes:

  • How I Met Your Mother opener
  • Where we’ve been
  • Las Vegas trip photos on Flickr
  • Crown Las Vegas cancellation
  • Plaza and Cosmopolitan financing problems
  • Titanic and Bodies move to Luxor
  • Luxor restaurant updates
  • Harrah’s inspections continue
  • Calls about the Hard Rock, Top Gun slots, Planet Hollywood, Pong slots, Las Vegas Strip hookers, pool construction, Bette Midler, Sylvia Browne and much more
  • Call us at (702) 866-9494
  • Mike Doughty: The Gambler


Five Hundy By Midnight 3/26/08 (51:28 min, 47.3 MB)

The Site is Back… Sort of

/ Tim / 20 Comments

For the second time in two months, the server hosting our site crashed. Our Web host, Midphase, took four days to get the site back online (again). Unfortunately, recent data has been corrupted, so we lost everything from the past two months. I have backups of all of the posts and the comments and will be working to get everything online as soon as possible. As a result of all of this fun, show #158 is going to be delayed by a few days. Once I have everything working, I’ll be switching Web hosts in hopes this doesn’t happen again. Thanks for your patience.