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2027 stories by Corey Levitan
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...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Actor Lee Marvin Shot Vegas Vic with an Arrow
EDITOR’S NOTE: “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes new entries every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s entry in our ongoing series originally ran on June 19, 2023. Longtime visitors will recall that Vegas Vic once had a voice. A recording inside the smiling...
VEGAS MUSIC NEWS: Clarkson Returns, Beyoncé Won’t Say, Donny Replaces Marie
Kelly Clarkson begins a new Vegas residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace this summer. “Studio Sessions -- The Las Vegas Residency” will perform 18 times between Independence Day and Thanksgiving. “I’m so excited to be back in Vegas!” Clarkson said in a statement from Caesars Entertainment....
