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Fontainebleau Announces 1st Seven-Figure 2024 F1 Las Vegas Race Package
Fontainebleau has announced this year’s first guaranteed way to spend $1 million at the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix before you even arrive. “The Aston Martin Million Dollar Package” will fly you and up to five friends to Vegas on a private...
Mandalay Bay Already De-Delanoing for W Welcome
Renovations are already underway to transform the Delano into the W Las Vegas, even though the former hotel-within-a-hotel is expected to operate at Mandalay Bay until mid-December. The renovations are expected to last through 2028. By 2027, all rooms and suites will...
LOST VEGAS: Wynn’s $28 Million Popeye
In 2009, Jeff Koons, known for his shiny sculptures of balloon dogs and toy trains, started building three 6-foot-5 Popeye statues out of a literal ton of mirror-polished steel. They took two years for the pop artist and his staff to complete....
A’s Owner Pledges $1B to Build Vegas Stadium, Still Won’t Show Us the Money
Last week, Athletics executive Sandy Dean claimed that team owner John Fisher and his family will invest $1 billion into constructing the promised $1.5 billion A’s stadium on the Las Vegas Strip. However, no money has left any bank accounts yet. According...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: The Mayor of Las Vegas Presides Over the Strip
There’s another big election on November 5 -- for the city of Las Vegas. Residents will get to decide their first mayor who isn’t a Goodman in 25 years. (Both Oscar Goodman and his wife, Carolyn, maxed out at three terms each.)...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: ‘World’s Most Haunted Object’ at Zak Bagans Museum
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 Feb. 3, 2023. The centerpiece of Zak Bagans’ The Haunted Museum in downtown Las Vegas is a wine...
VEGAS DINING NEWS: Vanderpump’s Fashionably Late Opening, Netflix & Chili, Golf Slices
Pinky’s, the third Las Vegas Strip eatery from reality TV star Lisa Vanderpump, will hold its grand opening party on December 5th. That date is via the Las Vegas Review-Journal, though it may not represent the date it opens to the public....
How Cleopatra’s Barge at Caesars Palace Looks Right Now
We knew it was gone. The destruction of Cleopatra’s Barge at Caesars Palace, one of the last surviving relics of retro-Vegas kitsch design on the Strip, began this spring. But seeing it gone -- thanks to new photos of the construction zone...
Las Vegas Alt-Rock Festival to Reunite Panic! at the Disco
It looks like 2025’s When We Were Young (WWWY) may be your only chance to ever see Panic! At the Disco, if you haven't already. The alt-rock cavalcade, which just wrapped its 2024 edition less than two weeks ago, announced the full...
Las Vegas Sphere Enters Politics with Harris Campaign Ad
The Harris-Walz campaign has taken out biggest advertisement of the 2024 presidential race on the biggest video screen in the world. The Sphere in Vegas debuted its first political activation on its Exosphere on Tuesday, for the final week before Election Day....
