Rick Lax
Rick wrote the books Fool Me Once: Hustlers, Hookers, Headliners, and How Not to Get Screwed in Vegas and Lawyer Boy: A Case Study on Growing Up. Lax enjoys playing Mafia (the party game, not the Facebook game), and hopes to turn Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit into a cult film before he dies. He currently writes for Las Vegas Weekly.
Blog Post Archive
- The glory, the woe…of this one card trick
- Monday, Oct. 17, 2011
- Cleverboy's new card trick
- This gave me pause
- Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011
- Thoughts on Claudette Porter's tragic birthday.
- No broken jaws here
- Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011
- Surviving and thriving at the Mirage poker room
- Leftover questions from the G2E gaming convention
- Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011
- When did the U.S. gaming industry become Zimbabwe?
- The opposite of a free lunch
- Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011
- $55 will only get you one way
- Is Full Tilt really a Ponzi scheme?
- Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011
- ...or are we all misusing the term?
- Creepy mannequin alert
- Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011
- Found at the Miracle Mile
- Yes, but what about the badass men?
- Friday, Aug. 19, 2011
- A brief chat with Victor Arata, Absinthe's roller-skating acrobat
- Did Mitt Romney ever figure out who let the dogs out?
- Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011
- Maybe he should ask again.
- The '90s are the new '80s
- Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011
- 3 questions with musical nostalgist Robby Wingfield
- 2 nights, 2 shows, 2 mini-reviews
- Monday, July 25, 2011
- Spoiler alert: both were good.
- Mixing it up
- Tuesday, July 5, 2011
- Rick Lax's one-word review of MIX at Mandalay Bay.
- Coming down
- Monday, June 27, 2011
- What to listen to after Electric Daisy Carnival
- Speeding ticket horror story
- Sunday, June 19, 2011
- This one is bad...
- This really happened
- Wednesday, June 15, 2011
- If you play poker, you've got to read this.
- What the hell just happened?
- Saturday, May 28, 2011
- Memorial Day Weekend, Night 1
- Why magicians and bowling don't mix
- Thursday, May 26, 2011
- Highlights from the IMX magic convention
- Ten million, shmen shmillion
- Monday, May 23, 2011
- But what about Ron?
- I’m the worst
- Wednesday, May 11, 2011
- Cleverboy's poker faus pas
- Brick and mortar and mind reading
- Friday, May 6, 2011
- Take that, Internet!
- 5 observations from my birthday party @ Marquee
- Tuesday, April 26, 2011
- For those of you who couldn't make it...
- Me & M. (Bison)
- Saturday, April 16, 2011
- I'm even better at Street Fighter II than I am at Saved By the Bell trivia.
- Movin' on up
- Friday, April 15, 2011
- Cleverboy joins a club.
- Slowmo Wushu
- Friday, April 8, 2011
- Cirque for boys
- Marquee Monday mini-memoir
- Tuesday, March 29, 2011
- Industry night at Marquee—you can tell because when the deejay said, “Put your hands in the air if you make money in Vegas,” everybody did just that.
- March Sign Roundup
- Thursday, March 24, 2011
- Mind your numbers and your letters.
- The 80s, loved
- Saturday, March 12, 2011
- Judging TAO's 80s lookalike contest
- 5 observations from the 2011 Nightclub & Bar Trade Show
- Wednesday, March 9, 2011
- Dispatch from the (very temporary) Las Vegas Convention Center MegaClub
- The Other Mafia
- Monday, March 7, 2011
- It's better than poker. Better than chess. Better than beer pong. It is the greatest game.
- Magically Spoiled
- Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011
- The World Magic Seminar comes to The Orleans Hotel.
- 'Fool Me Once' book release party
- Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011
- Eat your heart out, Dan Brown.
- CES's blue booth babe
- Friday, Jan. 7, 2011
- My roommate is a WOW Draenei Priest.
- Cleverboy's book has dropped
- Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011
- Las Vegas Weekly's very own Rick Lax had his second book published.
- Untruths in local food advertising
- Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010
- Is this spice rack more famous than Michael Jackson?
- A heartfelt holiday apology
- Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010
- Or, why you should never trust anything Rick Lax suggests.
- Diplomacy and dog $h!t
- Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010
- Not on my front porch, please.
- My high school reunion: diplomacy after a decade
- Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010
- What was I expecting?
- Did George Bush write George Bush's memoir?
- Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010
- The answer might surprise you...
- The one person who can turn this country around (isn't her)
- Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010
- Hint: He's got a book coming out...
- H&M now giving away books with underpants, sorta...
- Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010
- Rick Lax's 'brief' photo roundup.
- Books on iPads & Buddhist monks on Ritalin
- Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010
- You can't view a scratch-&-sniff popup page on an iPad.
- Calling all formerly unpopular girls
- Monday, Nov. 8, 2010
- The most honest personal you've ever read.
- Interracial hand touching
- Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010
- Walgreens is serious about 2 things: diversity and "HI" fives.
- Turning down Oprah
- Friday, Nov. 5, 2010
- Why won't Rick Lax go on The Oprah Winfrey Show?
- From Nut A to Nut B
- Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010
- Rick Lax gives "Letters from a Nut" author Ted L. Nancy a taste of his own nuttiness.
- You are entering a card trick-free zone
- Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010
- This is why Harry Potter doesn't do card tricks.
- Clevermom visits Vegas
- Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010
- How do I live without a TV in my bathroom mirror?
- Awesome vans & impractical magic
- Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010
- Cleverboy's random photo roundup.
- Poetry & truth for consenting adults
- Friday, Sept. 17, 2010
- Rick Lax left Vegas, went home, and found this.
- Butterflies, cocktail napkins and women
- Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010
- A hypnotist and a magician help guys meet girls.
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