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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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2028 stories by Corey Levitan

Wynn/Encore Las Vegas Officially End Free Self-Parking Because of Sphere

Wynn Resorts, which owns and operates Wynn and Encore Las Vegas, on Friday announced the end of free self-parking starting Sept. 27, 2023. That’s two days before the opening of the MSG Sphere behind the Venetian. And that’s no coincidence. When this...

Corey Levitan September 8, 2023

ALL NOT: Vegas’ All Net Arena Misses Another Deadline

This week, the All Net Resort and Arena project on the Las Vegas Strip missed another deadline and requested another extension. The 22,000-seat basketball arena and nongaming hotel project -- proposed for the 26 vacant acres between the Sahara and Fontainebleau --...

Corey Levitan September 8, 2023

LOST VEGAS: Las Vegas Park Horse Track Stood Where Elvis AND The Beatles Would Perform

Las Vegas Park opened 70 years ago this week. And you can easily be forgiven for never having heard of the one-mile horse track that was located on the site of today’s Las Vegas Country Club, Las Vegas Convention Center, and Westgate...

Corey Levitan September 7, 2023

Wynn Resorts Settles Sexual Harassment Suit with Salon Workers

Wynn Resorts Ltd. settled this week with nine anonymous women who filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the company in 2019, as the Las Vegas Review-Journal first reported.  The terms of the settlement agreement, filed in U.S. District Court, remain confidential, leaving...

Corey Levitan September 7, 2023

Bellagio Faces Flack for Felling Fountain Trees For F1

MGM Resorts, which owns the Bellagio, has begun removing a beloved row of shade trees lining the casino resort’s Las Vegas Strip sidewalk. This is so it can build a grandstand for the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix race taking place...

Corey Levitan September 7, 2023

Nevada Gaming Commission Nominates Mississippi Magician to Black Book

A magician who allegedly uses his knowledge of distraction to scam casinos was nominated Wednesday to Nevada’s List of Excluded Persons. That’s the infamous “black book” banning people for life from all casinos in the Silver State. The Nevada Gaming Control Board...

Corey Levitan September 6, 2023

A’s Las Vegas Stadium Deal Could Strike Out Via Referendum Petition

A referendum petition was filed in Nevada on Wednesday targeting the $380 million in public funding already approved by the state legislature to help finance a $1.5 billion baseball stadium for the Oakland A’s on the Las Vegas Strip. The petition would...

Corey Levitan September 6, 2023

Tupac Siblings Cast Doubt on New Las Vegas Murder Investigation

Two of Tupac Shakur’s siblings have cast doubt on the investigation reactivated this summer by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department into the 1996 murder of the rap superstar on the Las Vegas Strip. In an interview published this week by TMZ,...

Corey Levitan September 6, 2023

Harvest Music Festival Memorial Design Approved for Las Vegas

The Clark County Commission on Tuesday approved a permanent memorial for the victims of the 2017 Las Vegas massacre. The memorial will be erected on two acres of the former Las Vegas Village. That was the site of the Route 91 Harvest...

Corey Levitan September 5, 2023

Rap Video Could Lengthen Rap Sheet for Las Vegas Murder Suspect

A rap video posted by a murder suspect refers to a fatal shooting he committed two years ago, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Kenjuan McDaniel, 25, faces a charge of open murder with a deadly weapon in the 2021...

Corey Levitan September 5, 2023