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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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2028 stories by Corey Levitan

Madonna Announces 2023 World Tour with Las Vegas Date

Madonna has announced a world tour that will make its final US stop on Saturday, October 7 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The “Celebration” tour will spotlight her 40 years of hits. Some tickets go on sale Tuesday. Produced by Live...

Corey Levitan January 17, 2023

Indiana’s First Casino, Former Aztar Riverboat, For Sale

Indiana’s first casino is now on the market for $16M. Casino Aztar opened on Dec. 8, 1995 and became a floating fixture on the Ohio River shoreline in downtown Evansville for the next 20 years. Since 2019, it has operated in New...

Corey Levitan January 16, 2023

Las Vegas Indy Autonomous Challenge Sees World Speed Record Set

The highlight of CES 2023 for racing fans was the second annual Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), at which the victorious Team PoliMOVE (from Italy’s Politecnico di Milano and the University of Alabama) set the world record for an autonomous vehicle on a...

Corey Levitan January 16, 2023

Teller Returns to Penn & Teller Show in Las Vegas Following Heart Surgery

Raymond Teller returned Thursday night to the magic and comedy act he cofounded with partner Penn Jillette in 1975. Their show at the Rio in Las Vegas unexpectedly closed in October so the silent half of Penn & Teller could undergo and...

Corey Levitan January 15, 2023

Arrest Report Reveals New Details in Caesars Palace Heist

“Give me hundreds or I’ll shoot you!” That's what 37-year-old Jared Allen-James Booth yelled at a casino cage manager at Caesars Place early on Jan. 9, according to a newly published arrest report. The manager immediately complied with the request by opening...

Corey Levitan January 14, 2023

Nicolas Cage Mourns ‘Devastating’ Loss Of Ex-Wife Lisa Marie Presley

Nicolas Cage says he’s “heartbroken” over the death of his ex-wife, Lisa Marie Presley. Elvis Presley's only child died of cardiac arrest on Thursday, Jan. 12, after being rushed to an L.A. hospital. She was only 54. Cage, who was married to...

Corey Levitan January 14, 2023

Las Vegas Remembers Lisa Marie Presley

The late Lisa Marie Presley was honored Thursday night in the town once ruled by her daddy. Following news of the singer-songwriter's death from a heart attack at age 54, fans left flowers and candles outside the Graceland Wedding Chapel, along with...

Corey Levitan January 13, 2023

Lisa Marie Presley, Only Child of Elvis, Dies of Cardiac Arrest

Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of late music legend Elvis Presley, died Thursday after being hospitalized for a heart attack. The singer-songwriter was 54. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter...

Corey Levitan January 12, 2023

Poker World Mourns Las Vegas Mainstay Hank Yang

The poker world is reeling from the loss of Hank Yang, a member of the high-stakes community for more than a decade. His death was announced on Twitter on Wednesday by fellow poker pro Jesse Segall, who called Yang “The most generous/friendly...

Corey Levitan January 12, 2023

Westgate Las Vegas Celebrates Austin Butler’s ‘Elvis’ Golden Globe

After actor Austin Butler won a Golden Globe on Tuesday night, what happened in Vegas was a celebration fit for a king. The next morning, the Westgate, the casino hotel where Elvis Presley headlined from 1969 to 1976 – and where he...

Corey Levitan January 12, 2023