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gambling & culture Archives

Get paid to study in Vegas

Tuesday July 31st, 2007 in gambling & culture, life in vegas | No comments »

Garden Grove casino?

Monday July 30th, 2007 in gambling & culture | No comments »

WSOP 2007 rundown

Tuesday July 24th, 2007 in gambling & culture | No comments »

NBA ref gambling scandal

Friday July 20th, 2007 in gambling & culture | No comments »

Yang is WSOP champ 2007

Wednesday July 18th, 2007 in gambling & culture | No comments »

PA hooked on slots?

Wednesday July 11th, 2007 in gambling & culture | No comments »

Macau’s Fortune

Monday July 2nd, 2007 in business of gambling, gambling & culture | No comments »

Get paid to do research in Las Vegas

Wednesday June 27th, 2007 in gambling & culture, what's new | No comments »

Asian high rollers: the new thing?

Wednesday June 13th, 2007 in atlantic city, gambling & culture, life in vegas | No comments »

Harrah’s Surfaces

Wednesday May 30th, 2007 in business of gambling, gambling & culture | No comments »

70s slots with music to match

Friday May 18th, 2007 in gambling & culture | No comments »

Berkley to the rescue?

Friday May 4th, 2007 in gambling & culture | No comments »

Rose hustles the gambling record

Friday March 23rd, 2007 in gambling & culture | No comments »

NM bans cockfighting

Wednesday March 14th, 2007 in gambling & culture | No comments »

Sublibellous advertising

Wednesday March 7th, 2007 in gambling & culture | No comments »

Talking Justice…and Casinos

Monday March 5th, 2007 in gambling & culture | No comments »

Casinos into libraries

Friday March 2nd, 2007 in gambling & culture, haphazard world | No comments »

Anti-casino archives

Thursday March 1st, 2007 in gambling & culture, haphazard world | No comments »

Pachinko funds N. Korean nukes?

Monday December 4th, 2006 in gambling & culture | No comments »

G2E hopefuls

Monday November 20th, 2006 in gambling & culture, life in vegas | 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.