Another long day in my office at the Wynn Las Vegas. Everyone else had left around 5 PM and I stay another three hours, heading out at 8 PM. It's a twenty-minute walk from deep in the bowels of the main casino's multi-tiered basement to my room in the Encore tower. The casino floor is just beginning to hum. The retirees and cargo-shorted millennials are giving way to the better-dressed, high-rolling guests of assorted gen...

What a memorable evening for a one-night stand. It is the mid-1980's and I am tour managing a new band for Warner Bros. We are playing a showcase club in the midwest and the club manager and I had been trading teasing lines and double entendres since load in." Her name is Donna and she runs the venue well. She's a sharp operator with a quick wit. As the day and evening progresses a joking, semi-sexual tension develops bet...

Karin and I had known each other for six or seven months. We shared a lot of mutual friends and common interests. Most of our contact was in groups, at parties, trips to ball games and beach outings. We would gravitate to each other at these events. We had both grown up outside NYC and while we loved LA, we missed the bustle of Manhattan, the theater district and a good delicatessen. I was working as the production manage...