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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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Guitarist Jake E. Lee Addresses Las Vegas Shooting

Jake E. Lee reached out from his Las Vegas hospital bed on Thursday, where the former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist is recovering from multiple nonfatal gunshot wounds. “I deeply appreciate all the concern and well wishes,” Lee posted on the Facebook page of...

Corey Levitan October 17, 2024

New A’s Las Vegas Stadium and Casino Renderings

We still don’t have a detailed financial plan from A’s owner John Fisher for building his team’s new stadium on the Las Vegas Strip, but we do have some pretty new drawings of how the ballpark and an adjoining Bally’s Crop. casino...

Corey Levitan October 17, 2024

Convicted Murderer of Las Vegas Reporter Gets Additional Prison Time

Robert Telles, a former Clark County Public Administrator, who was sentenced to 20 years to life in August for stabbing Las Vegas newspaper reporter Jeff German to death in 2022, received additional prison time Wednesday in Eighth Judicial District Court. Judge Michelle...

Corey Levitan October 16, 2024

VEGAS DINING NEWS: World’s Biggest In-N-Out, Venetian Building Food Hall

A new In-N-Out Burger is currently under construction in Vegas on the third-floor roof deck of The BLVD, the 400K square-foot retail, entertainment and dining plaza being built on the site of the old Hawaiian Marketplace at 3755 S. Las Vegas Blvd....

Corey Levitan October 15, 2024

Former Ozzy Osbourne Guitarist Jake E. Lee Shot in Las Vegas

Jake E. Lee, former guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne, was shot while walking his dog in Las Vegas on Tuesday morning, TMZ was the first to report. Lee, 67, is currently in intensive care at a Las Vegas hospital. Though he was shot...

Corey Levitan October 15, 2024

Caesars Virginia Casino to Debut with Gordon Ramsay Joint

When Caesars Virginia opens later this year in Danville, it will have its own Gordon Ramsay restaurant. The casino resort's Ramsay’s Kitchen will be the first eatery in Virginia to license the celebrity chef's name and likeness. Though it hasn't been confirmed,...

Corey Levitan October 15, 2024

VEGAS MUSIC ROUNDUP: 50 Cent Residency, Rejects Reject Alt-Rock Festival

50 Cent will play his first Las Vegas residency, “In Da Club,” at PH Live at Planet Hollywood from December 27 through January 4. This includes a massive New Year’s Eve bash. “I always bring the energy, and Las Vegas is the...

Corey Levitan October 15, 2024

Lisa Vanderpump Buys $5M Vegas Mansion

Lisa Vanderpump and her husband, Ken Todd, recently purchased a $5 million Las Vegas mansion to cut down on all the private jetting from her Las Vegas restaurants to their home in Beverly Hills, according to TMZ. Vanderpump's $3.5 million Pinky’s by...

Corey Levitan October 14, 2024

VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Sinatra Got His Teeth Knocked Out by a Casino Exec

Carl Cohen, the 250-lb. vice president of the Sands Hotel, delivered a roundhouse punch to Frank Sinatra’s mouth on Sept. 11, 1967. That punch was well-deserved, but it didn't knock his teeth out. Two days earlier, the Sands, upon orders from new...

Corey Levitan October 14, 2024

Museum Extends Passenger Service on Las Vegas Hoover Dam Railroad

The return passenger train to Henderson, Nev. from Boulder City experienced a slight delay on Thursday -- of 89 years. At 5:30 p.m., a six-car train departed Boulder City (home of the Hoover Dam) with a couple dozen exuberant railway aficionados, Nevada...

Corey Levitan October 11, 2024