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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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1757 stories by Corey Levitan

VEGAS DINING NEWS: MGM Resorts Considers Charging for Window Tables

According to the Public Gaming Research Institute, Deutsche Bank analyst Carlo Santarelli authored a note to investors stating that MGM Resorts is “exploring additional ways to generate revenues through creative strategies, including tiered seating in restaurants.” This comes as a shift toward...

Corey Levitan January 11, 2025

Hit-and-Run Driver Who Put Las Vegas Bus Driver in Coma Leaves HUGE Clue at Crime Scene

Erika Bruce was driving home late one night last week from Barstow, Calif. when another vehicle plowed into hers. The collision forced her off the road and into a ditch. Now she lay in a coma in the hospital, where doctors are...

Corey Levitan January 10, 2025

VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Casinos Employ Coolers to Stop Hot Streaks

EDITOR’S NOTE: “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s entry in our ongoing series originally ran on Aug. 14, 2023. In the Oscar-nominated 2003 movie "The Cooler," William H. Macy portrays a downtown Las Vegas casino employee whose...

Corey Levitan January 10, 2025

Warner Bros.’ Las Vegas Film Studio Proposal Loses its Developer

One of two major Hollywood studios proposed for Las Vegas no longer has anyone to build it. Newport Beach, Calif.’s Birtcher Development is no longer set to construct Warner Bros. Studios Nevada, a 34-acre film complex the studio giant proposed to build...

Corey Levitan January 9, 2025

9 Las Vegas Celebrity Restaurants That Flopped

Name recognition isn’t enough to carry a restaurant to Las Vegas success. The novelty of a familiar name might initially draw crowds. But to sustain them requires something truly special beneath the hype. The recipe for a long run on the Strip...

Corey Levitan January 9, 2025

New Violations Unearthed in Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop Construction — Report

Working in the darkness beneath the Las Vegas Strip didn't keep Elon Musk’s The Boring Co. out of sight of a new investigation into the environmental, health, and safety violations it has so far committed during the construction of the Vegas Loop...

Corey Levitan January 8, 2025

DOME FREE: Mirage Las Vegas Atrium Removed

To those who only saw the initial renderings of how the Hard Rock Las Vegas would look when it opens in spring 2027, this is gonna hurt. As we told you right after the Mirage closed its doors last July, the cherished...

Corey Levitan January 7, 2025

WAIT…THEY PLAYED VEGAS? Entertainers Who You Never Knew Performed There

Many musicians and comedians placed their stamp on pop culture without Las Vegas’ help. Others performed here in their early years, but some of their acts weren’t even remembered by the audiences who caught them, since they were opening acts. Of the...

Corey Levitan January 7, 2025

Brightline High-Speed Rail Could Connect Vegas to San Fran

California announced a plan on Monday to connect the Brightline High-Speed Rail line, currently under construction from Las Vegas to LA, to San Francisco via a new high-speed rail it proposes in the Mojave Desert. But that's only if a long-delayed bullet...

Corey Levitan January 6, 2025

PAMELA ANDERSON … SERIOUSLY: Actress Talks “The Last Showgirl” in Vegas

It didn’t snag the Golden Globe she was up for on Sunday night, but we live in a world where there's actual Oscar buzz for Pamela Anderson. The former “Baywatch” babe plays a Las Vegas showgirl facing the end of her career...

Corey Levitan January 6, 2025