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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...
Mark Wahlberg’s Latest Acting Role: Las Vegas Gym Operator
Mark Wahlberg announced on Instagram on Friday that his latest gift to his new hometown is a new gym. Named Municipal Gym Fitness and Recovery, after the actor’s sportswear company, it will be located in Summerlin, the tony northwestern Vegas suburb that...
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....
VEGAS MUSIC NEWS: Duran Duran, Rejects Rebook, Santana Won’t Stop
Duran Duran will headline a New Year’s Eve eve show at Fontainebleau’s BleauLive Theater on Monday, December 30. "Duran Duran is more than a hit-making powerhouse, they are an iconic household name that always brings the energy for an incredible show," Fontainebleau...
TikToker Tests How Long It Takes for Vegas’ Costliest Buffets to Boot Her
The poor Las Vegas Strip buffet is not only on its last (crab) legs, the handful that remain are under attack from social media influencers with anti-social agendas. In August, a troll who calls himself Mister Lewis Lux harassed staff, wasted food...
