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1983 stories by Corey Levitan
Vegas Music Festival ‘Life is Beautiful’ Dies
The 2025 Life is Beautiful festival won't be taking place in downtown Las Vegas Created by former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh in 2013, the festival was sold to Rolling Stone/Penske in 2022 The festival's website has been taken down As we predicted...
Foundation for Hard Rock Las Vegas Guitar Hotel Rises from Ashes of Mirage Volcano
Construction of the new Hard Rock Guitar Hotel is progressing on the Las Vegas Strip The replacement for the former Mirage is scheduled to be completed in 2027 Created by Steve Wynn, the Mirage is credited with transforming the Strip and ushering...
VEGAS MUSIC NEWS: Boys are Back(street), Boyz II Men II Cosmo
The Backstreet Boys will fill the Sphere. Well, hopefully, they'll fill it. The early-naughts boy band announced Wednesday on social media “Into the Millennium,” its summer residency at the globular marvel. “Backstreet’s baaaaaack baby!” lead boy Nick Carter posted to Instagram. “We’re...
Viral Vegas Moment With Usher Broke Up Her Family, Keke Palmer Says
By attending Usher’s residency at the Park MGM’s Dolby Live theater on July 5, 2023, actress/singer Keke Palmer set in motion a series of events that led to her and her then-boyfriend, actor Darius Jackson, now sharing custody of their young son....
Westgate Las Vegas Ends Free Parking … Or Does It?
Westgate Las Vegas, the house that Elvis built and one of the last bastions of free parking left in Las Vegas, says it’s now charging for what casino execs have come to see more as a privilege than a right. So far,...
A’s Come Up Short on Las Vegas Stadium Parking Spaces
A land-use permit filed last week by the Athletics with Clark County for their proposed Las Vegas Strip baseball stadium has more than 5,000 shortcomings -- all of which are parking spaces. The A’s have allotted for only 2,470 parking spaces in...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Disney is Buying Circus Circus
It feels like we just shut down this idiocy five months ago because we did. Only it wasn’t Circus Circus that the Walt Disney Company was supposedly purchasing just because the Las Vegas casino resort markets itself to children, it was Excalibur...
Steve Wynn Asks Supreme Court to Lower Defamation Threshold
Disgraced former casino mogul Steve Wynn has petitioned the US Supreme Court to reverse or modify a landmark decision that has guided libel law since 1964. The court’s decision in New York Times v. Sullivan established the “actual malice” standard in defamation...
VEGAS DINING NEWS: Vegas Taco Bell Wants to Marry You, Health Dept. Closes Boyd Casino Eatery
If the idea of a Las Vegas wedding isn’t cheesy enough for your taste, Taco Bell has solved your problem and then some. Its location at 3717 S. Las Vegas Blvd. (in the Harmon Corner Plaza next to Planet Hollywood) is offering...
LOST VEGAS: Vegas Vic’s Forgotten Little Brother
Everyone's heard of Vegas Vic, the cowboy second in Las Vegas neon signage fame only to "Welcome to Fabulous..." Most people also know that Vic has a cowgirl counterpart, Vegas Vickie. But everyone seems to have forgotten Las Vegas' other neon cowboy...
