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Aussie Football Team Suffers Vegas Hangover
Fallout from an end-of-season recreational trip to Las Vegas late last year has resulted in the separation of more than one member of Australia’s Brisbane Lions football team from their romantic partners, reports Britain's Daily Mail. The bombshell was dropped on Friday...
A’s Fans Protest Las Vegas Relocation Outside Oakland Coliseum
They probably didn’t outnumber the fans inside Oakland Coliseum, as they hoped to. But the A’s fans who gathered for a rally outside the stadium on Thursday night got their point across... The team’s loyal, decades-strong, hometown fan base does not support...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Celine Dion Helicoptered to and From Caesars Palace
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 June 5, 2023. Happy birthday (tomorrow), Celine Dion! Celine Dion has suffered enough misfortune. A rare degenerative neurological disease, Stiff Person’s...
WWE and UFC to Merge Forces in Vegas Event – Report
One of the martial arts UFC mixes in may be ... professional wrestling. Ever since the WWE and the UFC completed their merger into TKO Group Holdings last September, the two sports entertainment giants have mulled possibilities for crossing over. Reportedly, these...
Al Pacino to Make Vegas Return, Says Film Credit Application
Movie producers are good at keeping secrets. Their jobs depend on the public not knowing exactly where and when movie stars will assemble to work ,since lookie-loo crowds often ruin scenes. But applying for tax credits to the Nevada Film Office, a...
Former Maryland Casino Operator Settles Sex Harassment Suit
Golden Entertainment Inc., the former owner and operator of Rocky Gap Casino in Flintstone, Maryland, will pay $100K to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit. The suit was filed in 2020 by the Baltimore field division of the U.S. Equal Employment...
Man Busted for Vegas DUI Was Celebrating Police Academy Graduation
While Chasen Bradford was understandably happy to have graduated the police academy in Henderson, Nevada, on March 21, celebrating by getting drunk and driving a day later cannot have been one of his better ideas. At 10:20 p.m. last Friday, a woman...
Tony Hsieh Estate Selling Long-Shuttered Western Casino in Vegas
The Western, one of the scariest Las Vegas casinos to enter even before it was permanently shuttered in 2012, is back on the market four years after the death of its famous last owner. Richard Hsieh, the father of late Zappos CEO...
VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: R.I.P. Trevi, Robert Irvine’s Public House, Nightmare Café
When the Tropicana closes on April 2, it will take with it a Las Vegas restaurant that, much like the casino resort itself, has seen more culturally relevant days. When Robert Irvine, former host of the Food Network shows “Restaurant: Impossible,” “Dinner:...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: You Can Buy Legal Weed On the Strip
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. 26, 2023. Las Vegas is a town built on deception -- primarily that your odds of winning a jackpot are...
