🚀 go-pugleaf

olskool@ix.netcom.com (olskool) wrote:

>The Orleans Hotel and Casino is a new addition to the fast-growing
>panoply of Las Vegas theme hotels.   While it only gives one a faint
>glimpse of life -- including nightlife -- in the Crescent City, there
>are some things to recommend this place.   Like the lounge, where
>Rhythm & Blues and contemporary jazz bands alternate with real New
>Orleans zydeco and Cajun acts -- I say real because most of the
>musicians are authentic Cajuns, and play that authentic, hypnotic
>bayou-born music dominated by accordian and "spoons".   
>
>There are also a number of excellent restaurants, including The French
>Market Buffet which has excellent, authentic Louisiana Creole/Cajun
>cuisine.   In the different restaurants, one can sample delicacies like
>crawfish etouffe and jambalaya -- mmmmmm-mmm!    Red beans and rice, a
>New Orleans staple, is also available.
>
>And for Mardi Gras?   "Throw me somethin', mista!"    The cry goes up
>all over the place for doubloons and beads of purple, gold, and green,
>just like they throw of Carnival floats down in the Big Easy ever year.
>
>The Orleans Hotel and Casino.   A little New Orleans in Las Vegas.

Thanks for the ad for the hotel.   This reads too much like ad copy to take
with more than a grain of salt.    Besides, should I really believe someone
who calls Zydeco a New Orleans music form??   There are tens of thousands
of Black Cajuns who would call you on that.