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VEGAS MUSIC NEWS: T-Pain’s Free Playoff Party, Madonna’s Vegas Burn, Charli XCX’s Big Finale
Grammy-winning rapper T-Pain is set to headline a free concert prior to Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals. The performance will take place 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 9 outside T-Mobile Arena on Toshiba Plaza. That’s only two hours before puck drop....
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Gambling Was Always Legal in Las Vegas
Though gambling was the dominant industry in Las Vegas from the 1940s through the early 2000s, it was outlawed here from 1909 until 1931, and heavily restricted before that. After the original Mormon settlers departed and before the railroad arrived, Las Vegas...
VEGAS DINING NEWS: No Encore for Jardin, Palms Shutters Earl of Sandwich
Jardin, a popular breakfast and brunch restaurant at Encore for a decade, has permanently closed. The restaurant originally shut down for planned renovations earlier this year, with the intention of sharing its space in the evenings with another planned concept, the Four...
Man Charged with Murder After Influencer Anunay Sood’s Fatal Fentanyl Overdose at Vegas Casino
A grand jury indicted Thamrong Hill on second-degree murder charges for selling fentanyl to influencer Anunay Sood at the Wynn Video shows Sood’s fiancée buying $40 fentanyl from Hill at a Wynn slot machine before her husband’s overdose Hill was arrested weeks...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Vegas Vickie Originally Went by Sassy Sally
EDITOR’S NOTE: “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes new entries every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s entry in our ongoing series originally ran on April 22, 2024. Vegas Vickie, Vegas Vic’s better neon half, is the victim of a salacious rumor that has...
Station Casinos Hit With Class-Action Suit Over Cyberattack
A newly filed class-action lawsuit alleges that Station Casinos failed to take adequate steps to secure customer data during a March 2026 cyberattack The suit claims the locals casino company's inadequate security systems allowed unauthorized access to sensitive personal information Station Casinos...
LOST VEGAS: The Resorts World That Could Have Been
Paul Steelman, founder of the Las Vegas-based Steelman Partners architecture firm, says he “feels sad” every time he enters Resorts World because it became “a lot less” than previous proposals his firm rendered beginning in 2012. Appearing on the most recent edition...
VEGAS MUSIC NEWS: BTS Hearts Vegas, Rod Speed, Tom Jones Returns
BTS, which played four sold-out shows at Allegiant Stadium last month, will return to Las Vegas this fall. On Tuesday (June 2), iHeart Media announced that it nabbed the K-pop superstars to headline the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Festival, taking place Sept. 18-19...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Lake Mead to Draw Water from San Diego Desalination Plant
On May 21, the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) voted to start negotiating a water swap with the San Diego County Water Authority. If a deal is eventually struck, Las Vegas would help fund extra production at San Diego’s Carlsbad desalination plant....
Station Casinos Hacked Earlier This Year
Station Casinos suffered a March 2026 data breach involving unauthorized access to an employee’s account Compromised data included sensitive personal information like Social Security numbers, prompting credit monitoring services for victims The company claims the breach did not negatively impact its overall...
