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Corey Levitan
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LOST VEGAS: The Lucky Strike Prospector Statues
When the Lucky Strike Club casino opened in 1954 at 117 Fremont St. in downtown Las Vegas, two 12-foot prospectors stood guard from the top of its rooftop sign. Seventy years later, those statues are...
Vegas Myths We COULDN’T Bust in 2023
We'll start off 2024 with an admission ... No matter how much we tried and tried again, we didn't always succeed. Though we are fairly certain that the oft-repeated Las Vegas stories below are all...
Legendary Las Vegas Comic Shecky Greene Dead at 97
Legendary Las Vegas comic Shecky Greene died at his Las Vegas home on New Year's Eve at age 97. His wife of 41 years, Marie Musso Greene, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal he died of...
Tupac Murder Suspect May Have Ordered Witness Death From Jail: Report
Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis, accused murderer of superstar rapper Tupac Shakur, may have ordered -- or at least approved of -- the murder of a witness in his case from jail. Prosecutors made this...
Las Vegas Strip’s Oldest Rooms Permanently Closed Since November
It’s no longer news that the Tropicana Las Vegas is not long for this world. Sometime in the next couple of years, if all goes according to plan, the casino resort will be imploded to...
Tommy Smothers: Las Vegas Loses Another Icon in 2023
Tommy Smothers, the elder half of the legendary Smothers Brothers comedy duo, died Tuesday at his home in Santa Rosa, Calif. following a battle with lung cancer. He was 86. "Tom was not only the...
EAT YOUR FACEOFF: Joey Chestnut Enters Las Vegas Bagel-Eating Championship
When it comes to the world’s greatest bagels, no one thinks of Las Vegas. When it comes to the world’s greatest bagel eaters, that’s a different story. On Saturday, January 13, for the second straight...
Las Vegas Could Break Wedding Record on NYE Thanks to ‘123-123’
No U.S. city’s economy relies more on magical thinking about numbers than Las Vegas. And the magic number Sin City is banking on now is 12/31/23. Its repeating “1-2-3-1-2-3” pattern made the town’s wedding industry...
Poker Champ Claims He Was Kidnapped by Gang in Extortion Plot
The FBI is reportedly investigating claims made by the family of mid-stakes poker champ George Janssen that he was kidnapped and held captive for more than a month. According to WJRT-TV/Flint, the 41-year-old Michigan father was...
Taylor Swift Zooms Past F1 in 2023 Vegas Ticket Sales: Stubhub
Taylor Swift’s two concerts in Las Vegas were a bigger draw than the inaugural Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, which casino companies have claimed was the most lucrative event in Las Vegas history. That's...
