SUPERSIZE EP: Mafia Wars, Vegas Style

Immediately after Mayor Oscar Goodman was elected, he got
into political hot water for suggesting the city open a mob
museum. And yet in the next 18 months, Vegas will be getting not
one but two of them. The Las Vegas Mob Experience is set to open
at the Tropicana in December and the Mob Museum in downtown Las
Vegas is due sometime in 2011. In this supersized episode of The
Strip, we’ll hear from prominent proponents of both. First, Steve
speaks to Meyer Lansky II, the grandson and namesake of the
legendary mob boss who first sent Bugsy Siegel to Las Vegas.
Then, later, we have a conversation with Dennis Barrie, the
curator for the downtown entry into the mob-artifacts
sweepstakes. Barrie created the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame in
Cleveland and the International Spy Museum in Washington D.C. and
was at the center of a major controversy in the late 1980s over
the display in a n museum of sexually explicit Robert
Mappelthorpe photos.


In Banter: Banning hula hoops, some gay-straight observations
about topless shows, the Cosmopolitan gains steam, news on the
Garth Brooks scalping front and more.


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