For all you diehard Trekkies out there (c’mon, I can’t be the only one), I have more tidbits on the ending of the Star Trek Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton. This information comes straight from the mouths (keyboards?) of some of the STTE castmembers who have made it such a memorable experience for [...]

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There’s a very interesting interview in the 7/20/08 Newsweek with the CEO of Amtrak, Alex Kummant, talking about the expansion of rail service in the U.S. as a result of high oil prices. I have long been a proponent of expanding the rail infrastructure in this country and increasing rail service in high-traffic [...]

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The Vegas Internet community is all abuzz tonight with the news that a great discount code (SDM060, “The Ultimate Escape”) that had been shared all over the Internet–on normally trusted sites–was only intended for certain MGM player’s club members, and many, many unhappy travelers have received emails from the MGM Grand telling them, essentially, that [...]

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…must come to an end, but do they all have to end at the same damn time???
Word hit the Internet today that the Star Trek Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton is closing in September. I figured it would close sometime this year, as news came in April that it had no contract beyond [...]

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“A single woman on vacation in Vegas. . .alone?”
“Yeah. Weird. We’re looking into it.”
(CSI Investigator Nick Stokes and Captain Jim Brass, CSI, “Play With Fire”)

The above exchange, when it first aired on TV in 2003, sparked quite a few outraged posts on some Las Vegas message boards I frequent. Mostly by women like me, some [...]

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