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NEW DAM FEE: Hoover May Charge Visitors Just to Drive to It
Guided tours of the Hoover Dam currently cost $30 per person -- only $10 if all you want to do is enter the visitor’s center -- plus $10 to park a vehicle you've driven there. Now, a newly built toll plaza suggests...
Remembering The Mirage, the Vegas Game-Changer That Closes This Week
This Thursday, The Mirage, the casino resort that remade Las Vegas, closes up shop for good. The body of what was once the world’s largest resort will live on, as the 3,000-room structure with the 91,000-square-foot casino gets transformed into the second...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: NASA Faked Moon Landing in Vegas Desert
This Saturday marks 55 years since NASA fooled most of the world into thinking that humans walked on the Moon. In 2019, a study conducted for C-SPAN found that 6% of respondents and an alarming 11% of millennials actually believe this asshattery....
WSOP Poker Player Suffers Heart Attack, Continues in Main Event
Even a heart attack isn’t serious enough to keep a poker pro out of the World Series of Poker Main Event, which opened July 3 at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. Adam Rude of Clarksville, Tenn. told the Poker News website...
VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: EDO No. 3, Tamba’s Strip Return
The owners of Las Vegas’ Anima by EDO and EDO Tapas & Wine are going for a trifecta. Roberto Liendo, Joe Mikulich, and James Beard-nominated Chef Oscar Amador will open Braseria in early 2025. The Spanish-French brasserie will debut at The Collective, a...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: The Imperial Palace was Shaped Like a Swastika
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 Nov. 11, 2022. A popular myth has resurfaced since the LINQ Hotel replaced the Imperial Palace on the Las...
No Sphere Residency for Beyoncé, Who Could Land Elsewhere on Vegas Strip — Report
Talks have broken off between Beyoncé and the Sphere, the Vegas venue she teased about playing in a February Verizon commercial. However, according to the New York Post, the pop superstar could land elsewhere on the Strip. Reps for the singer, whose...
Pete Rose Claims Gambling Scandal Cost Him $100M
While gambling in Las Vegas in 2007, Nebraska businessman Terrance Watanabe lost $127 million, believed to be one the biggest gambling losses ever. Pete Rose came close. The former Major League Baseball icon, now 83, claims that gambling cost him $100 million,...
Bally’s Files Implosion Permit Application to Drop Trop
Bally’s Corporation, which closed the Tropicana Las Vegas last April and has slowly been demolishing it since, filed an application to implode the casino resort’s two 22-story towers on Thursday. The permit application, filed with Clark County, requests the implosion of the...
Las Vegas Stripper Sued for Committing Relationship Fraud
An Arkansas man is suing a Las Vegas exotic dancer for $38.5 million, claiming that she “hoodwinked into thinking they were in an exclusive, romantic relationship” for 10 years. According to KNWA-TV/Fayetteville, which obtained a copy of the lawsuit and broke the story...
