You've never set foot in a casino. But now that one has plunked down in Detroit like Dorothy's house smack in the middle of Oz, maybe curiosity will get the better of you. Your head will spin. Starting today, the MGM Grand Detroit never closes.
Casinos are a weird combination of luxury, urgency, irritability and nonchalance.
The MGM will sound like an astonishing cross between a marimba concert and a video arcade. You'll hear undertones of cards snapping and vague top-40 music, accompanied by the constant tinkle of tokens pouring out of the more than 2,300 slot machines. There are no sharp noises to make folks jumpy at casinos. Voices are swallowed up in the general hubbub. The MGM features a luxuriously decadent art-deco Hollywood atmosphere with lots of honey gold and subtle accents of greed and excess.