Posted by Nolan Dalla on Nov 20, 2013 in Blog |

Sylvia Brown is dead.
Good riddance.
This self-described “psychic” who conned millions of people around the world for four decades, this revolting fraud who took advantage of the weakest and most emotionally vulnerable people in our society — solely for her own personal fame and profit — passed away on Wednesday night. Unfortunately for the good citizens of planet earth, her death came 77 years too late.
Yes, she was 77.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Nov 20, 2013 in Blog, Book Reviews |

When Malcolm Gladwell releases a new book, it’s an event.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Nov 19, 2013 in Blog, Las Vegas |

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges — and too many fences around public parks.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Nov 16, 2013 in Blog, Las Vegas, Personal, Rants and Raves |

I’m not the one who lost. Primm lost. They lost my business — forever.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Nov 15, 2013 in Blog, General Poker |

Scotty Nguyen Set to Headline “Poker Night in America” at Peppermill Reno
Tournament Series Includes Top Pros, Ten-Day Event Runs Nov. 15-25
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Nov 15, 2013 in Blog, Movie Reviews |

What if you could go back in time. Would you?
If given the opportunity, I suppose most of us would choose to rewind and relive certain events in our lives over again. We’d try to fix what we messed up. Correct mistakes we made. Take back something we said.
Then again — would our lives actually turn out any better if we could do them over and over until we finally got it right? What about the lives of those around us? Wouldn’t their lives be disrupted too and turn out differently? What if everyone else is perfectly happy with how things turned out the first time around? Do they get to voice an opinion? These are a few of the serious questions worth pondering in the new film “About Time.”
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Nov 14, 2013 in Blog, Las Vegas, Rants and Raves, Restaurant Reviews |

How difficult is it to make a crepe?
Well, it might as well be rocket science if you’re dining at the newest cafe-restaurant which just opened up at Tivoli Village, in Summerlin. Wanna’ guess what the name of this new place is? Try this: The Crepe.
The most outrageous thing about our lunchtime visit today was — WE NEVER GOT ANY CREPES!
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Nov 13, 2013 in Blog, General Poker |

I’ve just learned Michael “Little Man” Sica has passed away.
Sica may have been known as “Little Man” a nickname given for his smallish stature. But he was a giant of joy and one of the funniest and most decent people I’ve ever met in poker.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Nov 13, 2013 in Blog, Movie Reviews |

Every so often a movie comes along which may have the power to change things.
“Wadjda” is such a movie.
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