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Ocean Resort Casino: Review

The Ocean Casino and Resort, or is it the Ocean Resort and Casino? Either way, “Ocean” boasts one of the best casino hotel rooms I’ve stayed in. They are, by all accounts, the best basic rooms in Atlantic City. While...

Carousel Bar: New Orleans

Just off the lobby of the Hotel Monteleone is one of the more famous, albeit gimmicky, hotel bars in the country, Carousel Bar. While bereft of saddled mammalian for your squiffy self, the ornate chairs and bar top...

M life MasterCard: Review

The M life MasterCard seemingly serves a singular purpose for cardholders: cheap Pearl status. It’s an inoffensive, but rather boring card that isn’t as useful as one would hope. It doesn’t mean it...

Harrah’s Joliet: Review

Joliet’s centerpiece is the old prison, an intimidating penitentiary palace famously loathed by Jake and Elwood. The city and the prison have a shared history. But there is a little more to the city beyond simply...

Voyager: Detroit

Recently, the lovely Fanwife proposed an impromptu weekend trip to Detroit. For many, that may not seem like an altogether joyous proposition. I’ve made my fondness for the city well known. Much of that fondness is...

Alinea: Chicago

Fanwife and I were frantically weaving in and out of traffic on our way downtown. Normally, it takes about 35 minutes from our house to get to Chicago’s North Side. On this day, a bad accident had us at a virtual...