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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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2027 stories by Corey Levitan

Fog Led to Vegas Plane Crash that Killed 6 in July: NTSB

According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), a thick and unexpected slab of fog contributed to the crash of the jet that killed six Southern California residents on their way home from Las Vegas in the early morning hours of July...

Corey Levitan August 3, 2023

KISS Opens Restaurant as Part of Potawatomi Casino Expansion

The Potawatomi Casino Hotel welcomed rock royalty on Tuesday, August 1. That's when KISS co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley showed up to open their 23rd Rock & Brews as part of the resort's $190 million renovation project. “Look at this place,...

Corey Levitan August 2, 2023

Mic That Cardi B Hurled into Las Vegas Crowd Fetching Nearly $100K on eBay

The microphone that Cardi B hurled into a concert crowd at Drai’s Beachclub on the Las Vegas Strip on Saturday, July 29, is now a piece of pop culture history that can be yours for $90,900. That’s what it’s fetching after 76...

Corey Levitan August 2, 2023

VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: Rio Buffet Won’t Be Back for More

The Carnival World Buffet at Rio Las Vegas, which closed along with the pandemic, won't be back for more. The off-Strip casino resort’s new operator, Dreamscape, who bought the Rio from Caesars Entertainment in 2019, has no appetite for buffets. Instead, it announced...

Corey Levitan August 2, 2023

Prestigious Journalism Award Recognizes Slain Las Vegas Reporter

Jeff German, the Las Vegas investigative journalist murdered last September, was announced on Wednesday as one of two recipients of the 2023 President’s Award from the National Press Club. "German's career covering crime in Las Vegas spanned four decades and he was...

Corey Levitan August 1, 2023

UPDATE: Police Report Filed by Fan After Cardi B Hurled Mic into Vegas Crowd

UPDATE: A concert goer filed a police report on Sunday, July 30, claiming to have been struck by the microphone hurled into the crowd by Cardi B during her concert at Drai's on the Las Vegas Strip a day earlier. According to...

Corey Levitan July 31, 2023

VEGAS MUSIC ROUNDUP: Lady Gaga to Return to Strip, Jonas Bros. Add Show

Lady Gaga will reboot her “Jazz + Piano” residency at the Dolby Live at Park MGM in Las Vegas. The superstar announced on Monday morning, July 31, that she will return for 12 more dates this fall. Those dates are August 31,...

Corey Levitan July 31, 2023

Transfix, Enchant Attractions Out at Resorts World

Las Vegas has apparently reached peaked immersivity, or at least Resorts World has. It will no longer display its immersive Transfix and Enchant attractions. Both ran at separate times on the same vacant 10-acre lot just south of the Las Vegas Strip...

Corey Levitan July 31, 2023

VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Floyd Mayweather Witnessed Tupac Shakur’s Murder

A viral Twitter video posted on July 26, 2023, purports to show boxing legend Floyd Mayweather claiming to be the most famous witness to rap legend Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder yet to come forward. “A car pulled up right here and shot...

Corey Levitan July 31, 2023

A’s Las Vegas Stadium May Not Get Retractable Roof Shown in Renderings

The proposed A’s stadium in Las Vegas is going back to the drawing board. Literally. A's director of design Brad Schrock told the Las Vegas Review-Journal this week that the team is instructing the architectural groups vying to build the ballpark to...

Corey Levitan July 28, 2023