Tonight: Music, a movie or bingo?
The live music scene is heating up as the weekend inches closer and an unusual ‘mockumentary’ opens on the big screen at the Wheeler tonight. Also, there’s bingo.
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- Poker at the Radio Music Awards
- HorrorShare Presents UK Horror Movie Innovation
- Riverdale bingo battle continues tonight
- It’s Showtime: FilmCrave Innovatively Adds Movie Trailers
- CW Twin Cities Beat: Wine pairing; Cosmic bingo
- Facing the Facts: Internet Gambling
- Country music stars urge passage of bingo bills
- Jens Lekman “Bingo” Single Due in July
Interesting gambling information:
- The first games that we would recognize as modern roulette were introduced in Paris casinos around the end of the 18th century. In the mid 19th century the single zero game was invented in France, this reduced the casino's edge thereby increasing the odds of the player.
- Lotteries, along with their close derivative bingo, are the most popular kinds of gambling. The popularity of lottery games is not limited to state-run lotteries. Indian tribes run lotteries and illegal lotteries still exist.
- Las Vegas in Nevada owes its success to the mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel who organized gaming and bookmaking operations for The Mob (the Mafia).
- U.S. News and World Report did a comparison of crime rates in cities with gambling versus those that do not. The crime rates were significantly higher in the places that allowed gambling.
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