Editor’s note: TPG’s Erica Silverstein accepted a free trip from Carnival Cruise Line to cruise on Carnival Celebration’s first sailing from Miami. The opinions expressed below are entirely hers and weren’t subject to review by the line. For its 50th birthday, Carnival Cruise Line gave itself a celebration — specifically, the just-unveiled Carnival Celebration, the second ship in the line’s Excel class. And it’s clear that Celebration isn’t your mother’s, or grandmother’s, Carnival cruise ship, taking the company into its next half-century with a more modern, updated version of Carnival’s “Fun Ship” style. Carnival referenced this evolution when it chose Cassidy Gifford, daughter of Carnival’s original spokeswoman Kathie Lee Gifford, as godmother of the ship, closing the books on the...
BRETT’S VEGAS VIEW Contributed by Jackie Brett STATION CASINOS WILL OPEN NEW WILDFIRE CASINO ON FREMONT: Station Casinos is unveiling plans for its new Wildfire Casino location on Fremont set to open in early February. The property will offer unmatched gaming options, an STN Sports book, and popular food outlets IHOP and local Mexican eatery Tacos El Pastor. Crews have already installed exterior signage on the building. The all-new 21,000-square-foot casino will feature more than 200 of the latest and most popular slot machines, plus bar-top gaming and electronic table games. In addition to a lively bar, Wildfire Casino will feature an STN Sportsbook for prime sports viewing and will serve as a location for account activation, over the counter,...
In summer 2022, a hot-pink digital billboard popped up downtown near the headquarters of the Coca-Cola Co., bearing a series of paeans to the diet beverage TaB: “I’m saving a can of TaB to be buried with me.” “I spent more for my last TaB than I did on my wedding dress.” Here and in Buckhead, the billboards were paid for by the SaveTaBSoda Committee, which formed after Coca-Cola put a number of underperforming products, including TaB, on ice. “It was 2020,” committee vice president Jenny Boyter said. “It was like, Can enough bad things happen?” TaB debuted as Coca-Cola’s first diet drink in 1963, featuring the artificial sweeteners cyclamate and saccharin. Despite concerns over side effects—the FDA ultimately banned...
(Left: Ethan Miller/Getty Images, Right: Juan Manuel Serrano Arce/Getty Images) Boxing superstar Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is calling out soccer icon Lionel Messi for allegedly disrespecting Canelo’s home country by kicking a Mexican jersey during a celebratory World Cup victory video. In the viral video, Messi and his Argentina teammates can be seen celebrating their 2-0 win World Cup win over Mexico in their locker room. As ESPN notes, a seated Messi appears to lightly kick a Mexican jersey during a team chant. He better pray to God that I don't find him' – World champion boxer Canelo Alvarez threatens Lionel Messi after video shows the Argentina captain ‘kicking’ Mexico jerseyCanelo Alvarez has threatened Lionel Messi after accusing him of disrespecting...
Council to consider Midtown, gun resolutionsDuring a special meeting starting at 5 pm on Wednesday, Nov. 30, the Santa Fe City Council is scheduled to discuss and vote upon the master and community plans for the Midtown site—the culmination of a series of “moving forward” public meetings this month. The Council will also hear a resolution from Mayor Alan Webber that seeks to prohibit deadly weapons at some city facilities—a proposal he first mentioned last May in his newsletter. According to an accompanying memo, while the New Mexico constitution prohibits local governments from “regulat[ing], in any way, an incident of the right to keep or bear arms,” NMSA 1978, Section 30-7-2.1, prohibits deadly weapons in “any...public buildings or grounds, including...
