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VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: Closing Time for Margaritaville on Strip
Margaritaville on the Las Vegas Strip will close by the end of May. The X/Twitter account "Las Vegas Locally" broke the news this week, and Vital Vegas confirmed that singer Jimmy Buffett’s famed restaurant has lost its lease with Caesars Entertainment. According...
AI Takes the Wheel to Direct Traffic at Fremont Street Experience
Las Vegas is launching a pilot program that will use artificial intelligence to monitor and control pedestrian traffic at the Fremont Street Experience. A $1.4 million federal grant will be used to install the system in and around the crowded downtown tourist...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Buddy Hackett’s ‘Oral Contract’
EDITOR’S NOTE: “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s entry in our ongoing series originally ran on June 12, 2023. Plenty of wild stories about the comics who headlined Las Vegas in the ’50s and ’60s are true....
New ‘Tesla Tunnels’ Approved for Musk’s Vegas Loop
On Tuesday, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) board approved two new tunnels for the Vegas Loop, Elon Musk’s underground transportation system on and around the Strip. The extension will run for two miles beneath Paradise Road, from Thomas &...
Nearly Abandoned Mall Outside Vegas Soon to Have Only One Tenant
Only two stores are left open at the Primm Mall, 40 miles southwest of the Las Vegas Strip. And one of them is about to close. When national designer clothing chain Michael Kors shuts up shop there on or around March 25...
Las Vegas Snatches Movie Industry Event from Hollywood
It’s still a long way from the “Hollywood 2.0” envisioned 18 months ago by recent transplant Mark Wahlberg. But Las Vegas just snatched a major film and TV event away from Southern California. The American Film Market (AFM) is headed to...
Las Vegas’ Murray the Magician Banned from The Magic Castle
Murray Sawchuck is already losing his Las Vegas showroom when the Tropicana closes on April 4. Now, the magician is no longer welcome at magic's most prestigious showroom, either. The poofy-topped prestidigitator has been banned from the Magic Castle in Hollywood, where...
‘America’s Got Talent’ Calls It Curtains in Las Vegas
America’s still got talent. But the Luxor in Las Vegas won’t be showcasing it after this spring. “America’s Got Talent Presents Superstars Live,” the Simon Cowell-produced variety show that opened in December 2021, will close on May 11. “It has been an...
Slots a Fun Reintroduces Coin Slots to Vegas Strip
Circus Circus updated its Slots a Fun floor on Friday. Or, more accurately, they downdated it. The separate casino area, located next to Circus Circus’ main building, now features 85 coin-operated slot machines, many from the last millennium. (Technically, the mix of...
Roundtrip Train Ride from Rancho Cucamonga to Vegas – Would You Pay $400?
Commuting back and forth from Southern California by high-speed rail won’t only take longer than flying, it was revealed this week. It will also cost more. The bad news came directly from Brightline founder Wes Edens, who told the L.A. Times that...
