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Elon’s Boring Company Makes List of ‘Dirty Dozen’ Worker Safety Violators
The National Council of Occupational Safety and Health (COSH) doesn’t dig the Boring Company. It's named Elon Musk’s tunneling business to its annual list of “Dirty Dozen” workplace safety offenders. According to the COSH report, workers at the Boring Company say Musk...
Oscar De La Hoya Lists Knockout Vegas Mansion for $20M
Former boxing champ Oscar De Hoya is attempting to flip the Las Vegas abode he purchased only two years ago for a profit just north of $5 million. He paid $14.6 million for the home in May 2022. De La Hoya, aka...
Oakland A’s Seek $500M Investor to Finance Vegas Stadium
The Oakland A’s are, once again, holding their baseball hats out for more money. According to a report in the L.A. Times, team owner John Fisher has just hired a firm called Galatioto Sports Partners to help attract one or more private...
Grateful Dead Museum Truckin’ to Venetian Las Vegas
The Venetian on the Las Vegas Strip will host an exhibit celebrating the legacy of the Grateful Dead. The Dead Forever Experience will open one day ahead of the Dead & Company's headlining summer residency at the Sphere on May 15 in...
New Casino Resort and Arena Proposed for Site of Vegas Strip’s Failed All Net Project
The Las Vegas Strip site of the failed All Net Arena project just may become a resort and basketball arena after all. LVXP, a new consortium of Las Vegas real estate developers that obtained the 27 vacant acres at 2601 S. Las...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Gordon Ramsay Booted a Drunken Taylor Swift from His Restaurant
Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, returned to the Las Vegas Strip this weekend, to attend Patrick Mahomes' Las Vegas Golf Tournament dinner on Saturday night at the Bellagio. They were much better behaved than during their last appearance together in...
LOST VEGAS: Dancing Waters, Strip’s First Fountain Show
“Carmen Miranda, Danny Thomas, and other big entertainers here are being upstaged by a new star that dances, is pretty, but has no sex appeal,” read a wire story by United Press (UP) on May 3, 1955. “The new celebrity? Plain, ordinary...
Is Elon’s Boring Company Illegally Dumping Dirt Behind Vegas Strip?
A Clark County Commissioner has accused Elon Musk’s the Boring Company of illegally dumping wet dirt and other material dug out for its Vegas Loop underground tunnel project in a private Las Vegas lot just east of the Strip. “Thanks to @OyVegas,...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Dead Nevada Senator Kept on Ice for Reelection
EDITOR’S NOTE: A new “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s edition originally ran on April 21, 2023. Nevada’s US Senator Key Pittman died a few days before the November 1940 reelection that he was favored...
Casinos That Were Never Casinos
The word casino didn’t always refer to a gambling establishment. Deriving from casa, which is Italian for house, it originally denoted a small villa or summer house. During the 19th century, the word evolved to encompass social clubs and other buildings where...
