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Grateful Dead Museum Truckin’ to Venetian Las Vegas
The Venetian on the Las Vegas Strip will host an exhibit celebrating the legacy of the Grateful Dead. The Dead Forever Experience will open one day ahead of the Dead & Company's headlining summer residency at the Sphere on May 15 in...
New Casino Resort and Arena Proposed for Site of Vegas Strip’s Failed All Net Project
The Las Vegas Strip site of the failed All Net Arena project just may become a resort and basketball arena after all. LVXP, a new consortium of Las Vegas real estate developers that obtained the 27 vacant acres at 2601 S. Las...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Gordon Ramsay Booted a Drunken Taylor Swift from His Restaurant
Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, returned to the Las Vegas Strip this weekend, to attend Patrick Mahomes' Las Vegas Golf Tournament dinner on Saturday night at the Bellagio. They were much better behaved than during their last appearance together in...
LOST VEGAS: Dancing Waters, Strip’s First Fountain Show
“Carmen Miranda, Danny Thomas, and other big entertainers here are being upstaged by a new star that dances, is pretty, but has no sex appeal,” read a wire story by United Press (UP) on May 3, 1955. “The new celebrity? Plain, ordinary...
Is Elon’s Boring Company Illegally Dumping Dirt Behind Vegas Strip?
A Clark County Commissioner has accused Elon Musk’s the Boring Company of illegally dumping wet dirt and other material dug out for its Vegas Loop underground tunnel project in a private Las Vegas lot just east of the Strip. “Thanks to @OyVegas,...
Casinos That Were Never Casinos
The word casino didn’t always refer to a gambling establishment. Deriving from casa, which is Italian for house, it originally denoted a small villa or summer house. During the 19th century, the word evolved to encompass social clubs and other buildings where...
Impersonated Vegas Restaurants Sue Uber Eats
He threatened legal action, and now he’s taking it. James Trees, the chef-owner of Esther’s Kitchen, has filed a class-action suit against Uber Eats, along with three other Las Vegas restaurants. The suit claims the website and app allow scammer food-preparers “to...
Tropicana Implosion Approved by Las Vegas Officials
Clark County has approved a permit filed by Bally’s Corp. to implode the historic Tropicana Las Vegas. The Rhode Island-based company has until October 20 to drop the Trop. The approval was granted on April 20, nine days after the permit was...
‘My Client Was Lying’ — Attorney for Accused Tupac Murderer
The defense attorney representing the accused murderer of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur said on Wednesday that his client, Duane “Keffe D” Davis, repeatedly lied about his involvement in the 1996 drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. “He himself is giving different stories,” attorney...
LOST VEGAS: ‘Tony The Ant’ Spilotro’s Circus Circus Gift Shop
When people talk about the mob running Las Vegas, they’re not referring to the gift shop at Circus Circus. But that’s exactly what Anthony Spilotro, the high-ranking Chicago Outfit member who inspired Joe Pesci’s character in the 1995 movie “Casino,” ran in...
