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VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Bad Players Kill the Blackjack Game
EDITOR’S NOTE: “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes new entries every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s entry in our ongoing series originally ran on Sept. 30, 2022. In the game of blackjack, it's a common myth that the player on third base, the...
Las Vegas Police Drop the Mic-Throwing Charges Against Cardi B
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has closed its investigation into the alleged, and now world-famous, battery committed by Cardi B last Saturday at Drai's Beachclub. No charges will be filed. During her performance, Cardi B hurled her microphone at an audience...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
