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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

Las Vegas Sets Record for Most Consecutive Days Below 100 Degrees

Las Vegas has officially broken a weather record, and it's a good one, for a change. The National Weather Service office in Las Vegas announced that Monday's high of 97 degrees marked 291 consecutive days where the temperature failed to reach 100...

Corey Levitan June 27, 2023

Frankie Valli, 89, Weds Fourth Wife at Westgate Las Vegas

He walked like a man, down the aisle for the fourth time. Frankie Valli, who turned 89 on May 3, married longtime girlfriend Jackie Jacobs, 60, at the Westgate Las Vegas Hotel & Casino on Monday. “It’s terrific to have found love...

Corey Levitan June 27, 2023

WSOP Player Apparently Won Bracelet While Awaiting Trial for Intent to Murder Wife

According to Poker News, a man awaiting trial for allegedly attempting to murder his wife is believed to have won a World Series of Poker bracelet in an online game in Michigan last week. According to the Traverse City Record-Eagle, Rudy Gavaldon,...

Corey Levitan June 26, 2023

Why Aliens Keep Visiting Las Vegas

Earlier this month, we brought you the story of the US Air Force whistleblower who claims the US government has multiple spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin, and actual alien bodies, in its possession. Since then, Las Vegas has had a UFO sighting that...

Corey Levitan June 26, 2023

Bracelet & a Ring: Poker Champ Proposes to Girlfriend After WSOP Win

For poker pro AP Louis Garza, the $1.3 million he won in Event #50 of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas on Saturday night just wasn’t life-changing enough. So the San Antonino resident dropped to both knees and changed...

Corey Levitan June 25, 2023

Las Vegas Billionaire: ‘I Gave Up Seats on Doomed Submersible’

Las Vegas billionaire Jay Bloom claims he gave up two seats on the ill-fated submersible Titan, whose five passengers perished in an implosion while exploring the Titanic shipwreck on Sunday. Bloom is the reported billionaire who brought the Mob Experience to the...

Corey Levitan June 23, 2023

Diver Who Perished in Submersible Rescued Crowning Las Vegas Titanic Artifact

French deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, one of the five people aboard the Titan submersible who perished in a tragic implosion on Sunday, was responsible for salvaging what is now the main attraction of the Titanic exhibit at the Luxor Hotel & Casino...

Corey Levitan June 22, 2023

Las Vegas Company Aims to Build Spaceport in Desert

A Las Vegas-based company says it wants to build a space airport, along with a casino hotel, on 240 acres of land it owns near Sin City’s border with Pahrump. According to Las Vegas Spaceport, it has been cleared by the Securities...

Corey Levitan June 22, 2023

Puff, Puff, Passage: Cannabis Scores Two Major Vegas Victories This Week

Las Vegas lawmakers gave cannabis users two great excuses to light up in celebration this week. Nevada state regulators conditionally approved the first two cannabis consumption lounges for Las Vegas. Also, the Las Vegas City Council passed an ordinance making it more...

Corey Levitan June 21, 2023

Fred Armisen to Lead a Punk Rock Museum Tour in Vegas

Comedy icon Fred Armisen will conduct two guided tours through the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas next month. But why? Well, before achieving legendary status on "Saturday Night Live" and "Portlandia," Armisen was the drummer for Trenchmouth. He and singer Damon...

Corey Levitan June 21, 2023