At least we looked good even though we only got a bronze medal. Several of the members of Team USA Basketball that recently competed in the World Championships had one thing in common: they all use a baggy basketball short-clad barber from a small shop in West Las Vegas.
LeBron, Dwayne, Chris Paul and even Brad Miller used the same hair cutter as does Shawn Marion and Gilbert Areanas.

There are just some things about Las Vegas that visitors don't understand...

While North Las Vegas has long been considered a bastard step-child of it's bigger and more glamorous brother Las Vegas, it never has been publicly accused of having too many pigs until now.
Seems a pig farmer in NLV is experiencing community creep with new developments springing up all around him and the home owners are none too happy about the smell.
However, these 3500 pigs are doing more for the environment than the neighbors are as they recycle garbage from 22 of Las Vegas' casinos, including Caesars, Bellagio and the Venetian.

If you went to the Pimp & Ho event at the Orleans at the beginning of the month (and especially if you didn't), the photos from that sexy event are now posted. There were quite a few hotties running around...

A Las Vegas fixture for 21 years, Splash, the variety show at the Riviera Hotel, will close at the end of this month. The production, which brought us water and motorcycle stunts, variety acts and some exposed breasts has decided to call it quits September 30th. No reasons given for the decision.

Massive amounts of Cocaine will be hitting the Las Vegas streets starting in November only this time it's in a new liquid form. "Cocaine" is a new energy drink with a controversial name that is already in So Cal and soon to be on Las Vegas shelves.

The winner of 6 Golden Raspberries and widely considered one of the worst movies ever, "Showgirls" is being turned into a musical and will appear on a Las Vegas stage, according to New York Magazine.
Come to think of it...the movie was so bad it was good and might just make a perfect musical.

If all goes through as expected, Las Vegas will get a resort which will include America's largest indoor waterpark, a snowdome for indoor skiing, a couple of hotels, an events arena along with top notch stores and restaurants.
Armed with a billion dollars in financing and Disney and Universal Park experience, the masterminds behind this project hope to create not just another theme park but a "landmark" with an entertainment area to be larger than Disneyland.

Hey, it's only 5 bucks off but at least it's something! We've negotiated with the wild and crazy Fetish and Fantasy Halloween Ball for a discount on tickets for AmericanLowLife members.
The F & F Ball is something to experience at least once and while it isn't a lifestyle event per se, it is pretty darn sexy.
Click here for more information, the Ticketmaster link and some HOT PHOTOS from past events!

There's a new party in town and it boogies to the sounds of Sugar Hill Gang, Brothers Johnson, Earth Wind & Fire and Chic as well as Black Eyed Peas, Puff Daddy and Nelly. KQOL 93.1 was an oldies station and is, well, still an oldies station for the most part, but this time around plays funk, disco and classic hip hop. They call it The Party and if that's your kind of get-down music, give it a listen.

It used to be relatively easy to find food late night/early morning when Vegas was a Rat Pack town. Now, unless you want to visit a 24-hour casino coffee shop, there aren't quite as many options. Here's a list of where some of the locals eat in the wee hours...

Guess Las Vegas didn't have a lot of talent to offer the top-rated TV show as only 11 contestants made it through to the Hollywood round of competition.

Las Vegas' McCarran Airport, the nations 5th busiest airport, has announced ambitious plans for expansion over the next several years including a new concourse, a bunch of new gates and miles of new conveyor belts to handle your soon-to-be RFID-tagged luggage.
With 41,000 new hotel rooms being added to Las Vegas in the next 4 years, they had to come up with something to deal with the increased airport traffic.

In shocking news, it seems there are working girls advertising their services on Craig's List. Can you believe they would do such a thing?
While there are a whole lotta sluts on this site (and god bless ya for being here!), as far as we know they aren't here professionally. If you hear of any, let us know and we'll handle it... (work a trade-out, perhaps?)

With the announcement of the Stardust's closure date, the memories of the historic casino are bubbling to the surface. The Stardust, built in 1958, was the first to offer sports betting and the first casino to have female dealers.
The closure was moved up a couple of months to November 1st since so many employees are leaving. Look for a demolition near the end of the year to make room for a multi-billion dollar project.

In what is already a controversial project, an historic Las Vegas building is being renovated to create a Mobster's Museum, tracing our towns' "founding fathers".
Says Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman: "The mob founded us, and I never apologized for them because I represented them, and they made me a rich man."
The museum should open in 2008.

The Las Vegas City Council voted to immediately revoke the liquor license of one of Las Vegas' more popular gentlemans clubs, Crazy Horse Too, effectively shutting the place down. Another misbehavin' strip club owner? Go figure...
Update: The club briefly shut down and then reopened, defying the City's closure order.

If you are "Drop Dead Gorgeous" and would like to be in an irreverent, tongue-in-cheek and zany spoof of traditional beauty pageants, maybe you oughta enter this bad girl contest. Top prize is $2,500 plus a bunch of gifts. There are two more local contests remaining, one on September 17th and the last Vegas one on October 15th at Beauty Bar downtown (click on the "Drop Dead Gorgeous" tab) with the finals in Miami in December.

Word on the street is that the high class Red Rock is quickly becoming a middle class locals joint. We can understand the cuts in upper management but when you try and save costs by cutting the go go girls from the lounges and bars something just ain't right. Next to go, it is rumored, are the DJ's and expensive live bands which would turn the place into a Boulder Station, a far cry from the lofty Strip-competing goals the Red Rock started out with.

Most Las Vegas hotel pools and those hot-body pool parties require you to be a registered guest to attend. A few allow paid customers but those usually have a long line.
How do people get around all of this to hang out by the hottest pools in town? Perhaps this article can shed some light...

If you're in Vegas while your favorite team is playing and you don't want to hang in one of the many, large casino sports books to watch the game, head on over to where the local team fanatics view the event.
Here's a listing of sports bars that cater to particular NFL teams...

If you travel from L.A. to Las Vegas or vice versa, I-15 traffic is about to become really bad for awhile. The worst of it will start in early October when entire parts of the interstate will be shut down on the weekends (of course) to build a new I-15/I-215 interchange near Devore, CA.
Alternate routes will involve driving an extra 50-100 miles. If you can't avoid Cajon Pass you are in for hours of delays rather than minutes.
Can you say "I Fly SWA"?

Just when we thought we got rid of the old clownster, he's coming back for more. Jerry's MDA telethon had been held in L.A. for the past 10 years but is heading back to Las Vegas where over half of the 40 shows have originated from. This time the telethon will be broadcast from the South Coast.
Actually, we never got rid of Jerry at all as he lives just a few blocks from the Strip. He also doesn't particularly like Los Angeles...

Labor Day weekend is a good party weekend but it's also a bad weekend for DUI's. Metro police and NHP will be setting up several DUI checkpoints throughout the Valley 7p-3a each evening.
Vegas is 10% higher than the national average when it comes to alcohol being involved in deadly crashes.
While we would never drink and drive, of course, we'll still be taking the back roads and coming home after 3:00 in the morning...

If you bought tickets for the Barbra Streisand's November 18th concert at the MGM off of e-Bay, they might not be any good. Seems someone bought a whole bunch of tix with stolen credit card numbers and sold the them on e-Bay. They have since been canceled by TicketMaster.