Rising up from the desolation is the one shiny thing on the New York side's skyline, the new Seneca NiagaraCasino, a hopeful mirage where grannies, suburbanites and cash-strapped locals two-thirds of whom subsist on public assistance unload lives of quiet desperation, quarter by quarter, into the slots.
This time, he says he'll stick to performing through March 31 at the New Victory before moving on to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and a 10-week stint at the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi, Miss.