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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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1983 stories by Corey Levitan

Ex-UFC Fighter Phil Baroni Arrested in Mexico for Allegedly Killing Girlfriend

Former mixed martial arts fighter Phil Baroni is in Mexican custody for allegedly killing his girlfriend, the prosecutors’ office in the state of Nayarit confirmed Wednesday. The details were in a report published by the Observando en la Bahai newspaper. Baroni, 46,...

Corey Levitan January 5, 2023

MSG Entertainment Explores Tao Group Sale, Fertitta the Rumored Buyer: Report

Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (NYSE:MSGE) has hired Goldman Sachs to explore a sale of its controlling interest in the Tao Group nightclub and restaurant empire, according to a report in the New York Post. The money is needed to offset the...

Corey Levitan January 4, 2023

Las Vegas Mayor Road Rages Against I-15 New Year’s Traffic

After some Las Vegas tourists reported a 10-hour drive back to Southern California on Monday, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman called on the Golden State to live up to its promises and finish widening its portion of Interstate 15. In a tweet...

Corey Levitan January 3, 2023

Las Vegas Entertainment Company Spiegelworld Buys California Town

Spiegelworld – the Las Vegas producers of “Absinthe” at Caesars Palace and other adult-themed circus extravaganzas – has purchased the California town of Nipton. Nipton isn’t that big, about 80 acres in total. But that meant it wasn’t that expensive, either. Speigelworld...

Corey Levitan January 3, 2023

Lamar Odom Accuses Famed Brothel Owner of Trying to Murder Him

In a new FOX-TV tabloid news special, former LA Lakers star Lamar Odom accuses late brothel owner Dennis Hof of trying to murder him in 2015 when he famously overdosed on cocaine at Hof’s Love Ranch. On TMZ Presents: Lamar Odom: Sex,...

Corey Levitan January 2, 2023

Las Vegas Strip Sees 12 Tons of Wet New Year’s Eve Trash Cleared

Around 12 tons of garbage were removed from the Las Vegas Strip following last night’s “America’s Party” celebration, according to a tweet from Clark County. Picking up thousands of paper horns, party hats, and plastic cups between 12:30 a.m. and 4:30 a.m....

Corey Levitan January 1, 2023

MGM Resorts Sells Las Vegas Massacre Site

MGM Resorts International announced Friday that it has sold most of the land that became the site of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The buyer of  Las Vegas Village, as the parcel across from the Mandalay Bay Hotel and...

Corey Levitan December 30, 2022

Ex-Las Vegas Raiders Employee Files Discrimination Lawsuit Against Team

A former Las Vegas Raiders employee filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the team on Tuesday, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Nicole Brown-Adams worked as a human resources coordinator for the NFL team before she was fired in November 2020. In...

Corey Levitan December 29, 2022

Speeding No Longer a Crime in Las Vegas

Beginning Jan. 1, exceeding the speed limit by up to 30 mph is no longer a crime in Nevada. It will become a civil infraction that can’t lead to a bench warrant for your arrest – even if you neglect to pay...

Corey Levitan December 29, 2022

7 Places Where You Can Still Experience Classic Las Vegas

The history of Las Vegas has an unusual adversary: The people who own its landmarks. "New and improved!" has pretty much been the city’s only urban plan since mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel opened the extravagant Flamingo Hotel in 1946. Virtually nothing built...

Corey Levitan December 29, 2022