{ thoughts on a world of chance from David G. Schwartz }

Archive for September, 2008

Bombastic living

Monday September 29th, 2008 in life in vegas | 1 Comment »

What’s Trop worth?

Wednesday September 24th, 2008 in atlantic city, business of gambling | 1 Comment »

Queen for a day

Tuesday September 23rd, 2008 in business of gambling | No comments »

Low expectations are funny

Monday September 22nd, 2008 in business of gambling | 1 Comment »

Harrah’s total email fun

Friday September 19th, 2008 in photos, writing | 1 Comment »

Why you should leave cats alone

Thursday September 18th, 2008 in atlantic city, haphazard world | 1 Comment »

Pinnacle deadlines?

Wednesday September 17th, 2008 in atlantic city, business of gambling | 2 Comments »

Slotless bars in topless clubs

Tuesday September 16th, 2008 in business of gambling | No comments »

Whining professor

Monday September 15th, 2008 in life in vegas | 2 Comments »

2 new articles

Thursday September 11th, 2008 in atlantic city, business of gambling, writing | No comments »

Things are getting worse…

Wednesday September 10th, 2008 in business of gambling | No comments »

New AC website

Tuesday September 9th, 2008 in atlantic city | No comments »

Downtown revisited

Monday September 8th, 2008 in uncategorized | No comments »

Arrogance

Friday September 5th, 2008 in atlantic city, gambling & culture | 2 Comments »

Gaming Hall of Fame updated, completed

Thursday September 4th, 2008 in what's new | 1 Comment »

Vegas bribery evolved

Wednesday September 3rd, 2008 in life in vegas | No comments »

Robo-poker at the Excal

Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 in business of gambling | No comments »

RGJ on casino carpet

Monday September 1st, 2008 in gambling & culture | No comments »

David G. Schwartz

the die is cast

is the online home of David G. Schwartz, who writes extensively about Las Vegas, gambling, and history.

He's the Director of the Center for Gaming Research at UNLV and has a Ph.D. in United States history from UCLA. He's also taught a range of subjects, running the gamut from hospitality security to gambling history to writing creative non-fiction.

You can learn more about him on the about page.