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Reporter: Corey Levitan

Corey Levitan joined Casino.org in 2022 after a long career covering Las Vegas. He currently covers entertainment, dining and gaming news in Las Vegas.

Corey spent six years covering the Vegas Strip for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he also wrote the most popular humor column in the city’s history. (For “Fear and Loafing,” he tried out 176 Vegas jobs, including poker player, blackjack dealer and Follie Bergere dancer.)

Corey has won more than 100 local, state and national awards for his journalism, which has also appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and the New York Post.

Corey is a New York native whose hobbies include playing guitar, trying to be a better husband, and arguing with strangers on Facebook.

Contact Corey at corey@casino.org.

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2099 stories by Corey Levitan

Taylor Swift’s Super Bowl Ratings Boost

Sunday night’s Super Bowl is projected to set a record viewership of more than 120 million people, according to initial estimates by multiple news outlets. The official number will be announced by ratings agency Nielsen on Tuesday. That means that Super Bowl...

Corey Levitan February 12, 2024

Super Bowl $1M Bet Has Chiefs Fans Fearing ‘Drake Curse’

A $1.15 million bet on the Kansas City Chiefs to beat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII has worried Chiefs fans heading into Sunday’s big game. It's not that the bet is astronomically large, but that it was placed by...

Corey Levitan February 11, 2024

Las Vegas Strat Transforms into Giant Tequila Bottle for Super Bowl

On Thursday night, the Strat joined the bandwagon of Las Vegas casino resorts transforming their facades into lucrative product ads to gain exposure from media outlets covering the Super Bowl. And why not? After all, the Luxor is a giant Dorito. The...

Corey Levitan February 9, 2024

Floyd Mayweather Drops More than $1M on Super Bowl Suite

Floyd “Money” Mayweather lived up to his nickname recently, shelling out $1.13M on a Super Bowl suite. The retired boxer bragged about it on Instagram, where he posted a copy of his receipt. Mayweather, 46, was among the highest-paid athletes during his...

Corey Levitan February 9, 2024

Prince Harry Shocks NFL Players by Appearing at Super Bowl Honors

Prince Harry made a surprise appearance on Thursday night at the annual NFL Honors event, held at Resorts World Las Vegas, leaving players starstruck. “All you guys do on and off the field is truly remarkable,” the 39-year-old royal told the crowd....

Corey Levitan February 9, 2024

DJ Tiesto Pulls Out of Super Bowl, Replacement Announced

Just three days before Super Bowl LVIII, one of its key promised performers, DJ Tiesto, pulled out because of what he described on social media as “a personal family emergency." “Me and my team have been preparing something truly special for months,...

Corey Levitan February 8, 2024

Where the Super Bowl Winners Will Party in Las Vegas

The San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs have each chosen a Las Vegas site for their victory parties. TMZ has learned, because they always know everything, that the 49ers’ victory party will be at Omnia Nightclub at Caesars Palace, while the...

Corey Levitan February 8, 2024

VEGAS MUSIC ROUNDUP: Mariah Returns, Christina Extends

Mariah Carey is staging her third Las Vegas residency, "Mariah Carey: The Celebration of Mimi Live in Las Vegas,” which will bring eight shows to Dolby Live at Park MGM from April 12 to 27. A press release announcing the tour stated...

Corey Levitan February 8, 2024

Celine Dion Sings Backstage at Grammys in New Video

By far the best performance at this year’s Grammy Awards was kept a secret until Tuesday night. That’s when R&B artist Sonyaé Elise posted this video to Instagram of her vamping and harmonizing on an unidentified gospel-style song with none other than...

Corey Levitan February 7, 2024

Anti-Abortion Activist Climbs Sphere in Las Vegas

A pro-life activist climbed to the top of the Sphere in Las Vegas on Wednesday morning. Maison Des Champs, a 23-year-old free-climber and anti-abortion activist who calls himself the “Pro-Life Spiderman,” free-climbed to the top of the 367-foot-tall concert venue, where he...

Corey Levitan February 7, 2024