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NoMad Hotel to Check Out of Park MGM on Las Vegas Strip
The NoMad will soon be no more on the Las Vegas Strip. The boutique luxury hotel, which currently occupies 293 rooms on the top four floors of Park MGM, has been evicted by its new corporate owners. Hilton acquired a majority controlling...
VEGAS MUSIC ROUNDUP: Boyz II Men II Cosmo, Mariah Carey-ing Over, Change is Beautiful
Boyz II Men, the top-selling R&B group of all time, have announced four upcoming shows at the Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan: August 23, 24, 30, and 31. The Boyz performed a hit residency at The Mirage from 2013 to 2019, and last...
DOJ to Sue Ticketmaster/Live Nation for Ticket Monopoly
The Justice Department is preparing to file an antitrust lawsuit in federal court against Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, according to multiple reports. At issue is Live Nation’s alleged monopoly over live entertainment in the US and the exorbitant fees...
New Paris Las Vegas Tower, Annexed from Horseshoe, Getting Rare Balconies
Many unusual attributes will accompany the new Versailles Tower at Paris -- unusual even for Las Vegas -- when it fully opens later this year. First of all, it’s not new at all, but one of the oldest towers at the former...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: To ‘86’ Someone Was Vegas Mob Slang for Murder
The bodies of so many murder victims were buried in the desert outside Las Vegas that, many of you have undoubtedly heard, it transformed the number "86" into a verb. The term is alleged by multiple internet sources to derive from a...
Las Vegas Overstated F1 Race’s Vegas Impact — Report
The marketing firm paid by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) exaggerated the benefit to Las Vegas of hosting the first Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, according to a new report. On Tuesday, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal,...
Most Bellagio Las Vegas Trees Planted to Replace Those Felled For F1 Now Dead
Of the 14 fir trees replanted last fall in front of the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip, a whopping 13 are no longer alive. The trees replaced similar, but more mature, evergreens felled to make way for a Formula 1 Las...
Nevada Court Weighing Referendum to Strike Out Public Funding of A’s Vegas Stadium
The Nevada Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments on whether an initiative should be allowed on the November ballot that would place the question of public funding of the Oakland Athletics’ Las Vegas stadium in the hands of the public. Last June,...
OJ Simpson, NFL Great, Suspected Double Murderer, Convicted Casino Robber, Dies
O.J. Simpson, the disgraced former NFL hall-of-famer and suspected double murderer whose name came to be associated with Las Vegas casinos in the worst possible way, died in Las Vegas on Wednesday following a cancer battle. He was 76. “On April 10th,...
LOST VEGAS: The Hoover-Damned Town of St. Thomas
The human remains uncovered by the receding waters of Lake Mead claim the headlines, and rightly so. But they're not the only secrets that climate change has forced the nation’s largest reservoir to give up. Located on the northern reaches of what...
