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Corey Levitan
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A’s to Play in Sac-Town for 3 Years Before Vegas Move
The Oakland Athletics announced on Thursday that they will play ball in Sacramento for three seasons beginning in 2025. The hosting venue will be Sutter Health Park, a 14K-seat baseball field that is majority-owned by...
Gaming to Return to Historic Moulin Rouge in Vegas — For 1 Day
The experience itself won’t be much –- taking a few spins on a slot machine in a trailer on a vacant lot littered with broken glass and loose cement. But the bragging rights to having...
VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: Sin City’s Lone James Beard Finalist
Only one of four nominated semifinalists from Las Vegas made it to the finals of this year’s James Beard Foundation Awards, considered the Oscars for restaurants. Steve Kestler of Aroma Latin American Cocina in Henderson...
Vegas Strip’s First Jewish Hotel and Temple Proposed for Half-Acre Once Coveted by Steve Wynn
Plans for the Last Vegas Strip’s first Jewish-themed hotel, featuring its first synagogue and kosher restaurants, have been submitted for approval to Clark County. Equally as interesting as the proposed King David Hotel, however, is...
VEGAS MUSIC ROUNDUP: Nostalgia Overload! (Duran Duran, Heart, Pat Benatar, ABBA Avatar Show)
The latest cluster of new Las Vegas concert announcements reads like a classified ad from 1984, with the majority of dates booked by, ironically, the newest casino on The Strip. Heart, featuring sisters Ann and...
MY NIGHT AS A TROPICANA SHOWBOY: Vegas Reporter’s Unique Remembrance
At 2 a.m. Tuesday morning, the Tropicana in Las Vegas will close for the last time after almost 67 years, supposedly to make way for a new baseball stadium. To honor her legacy, I'd like...
Steve Wynn About to Make Aspen’s First $100M Home Purchase
Casino pioneer and disgraced Wynn Las Vegas chair Steve Wynn is still worth $3.4 billion, according to Forbes. Yet even he is going halfsies on the first home purchase to crack $100 million in Aspen,...
Impending Tropicana Demolition Stokes Fear of Frontier Redux
In May 2007, billionaire Phil Ruffin sold the historic Frontier casino resort on the Las Vegas Strip to an Israeli-owned real-estate investment group for a then-record $1.2 billion. "We've been successful with the property,” Ruffin...
LOST VEGAS: 1969 West Las Vegas Riots
Google “West Las Vegas Riots” and you'll be shown stories about an uprising that erupted in the historically Black part of Las Vegas -- in response to the Rodney King verdict in 1992. Though that...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: The Cadaver Brothel
In 2018, a Las Vegas man was reportedly arrested for using the premises of his employer, the Clark County Coroner’s Office, to run a “cadaver brothel” during closing hours. This is not an April Fools'...
