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Magician David Copperfield on Epstein’s List, ‘Did Magic Tricks’
Not even David Copperfield can make this vanish. When highly anticipated court files were unsealed on Wednesday evening, they revealed the Las Vegas magician on a list of names connected to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. In a May 2016 deposition, according to...
Poker Legend Daniel Negreanu Reveals Why He Lost $2M in 2023
Not all poker legends release a profit/loss statement every year to the public, as well as to the IRS. In fact, there’s only one we can think of. And Daniel Negreanu was refreshingly transparent about what a lousy 2023 he had. In...
UNLV Prof Killed in Mass Shooting Has Burglars Hit Las Vegas Home
Burglars have added to the misery of those who loved and admired Naoko Takemaru, one of three professors murdered in the December 6 mass shooting at UNLV. Three people burglarized Takemaru’s Las Vegas home on December 26, according to KLAS-TV/Las Vegas, which...
Las Vegas Outlaws Standing Still on Pedestrian Bridges
No, you didn’t click on The Onion by mistake. When the governing body overseeing the Las Vegas Strip introduced this bill on November 22, few believed it would pass. Who in their right mind would declare standing still on a pedestrian bridge...
VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: New Strip Food Court, Health Closures
A new food collective is coming to the Strip. Miracle Mile Shops (MMS), the indoor mall adjacent to Planet Hollywood, plans to launch Miracle Eats in the fourth quarter of 2024, according to a company press release. The new food court will...
LOST VEGAS: The Lucky Strike Prospector Statues
When the Lucky Strike Club casino opened in 1954 at 117 Fremont St. in downtown Las Vegas, two 12-foot prospectors stood guard from the top of its rooftop sign. Seventy years later, those statues are still around. They have survived three casino...
Vegas Myths We COULDN’T Bust in 2023
We'll start off 2024 with an admission ... No matter how much we tried and tried again, we didn't always succeed. Though we are fairly certain that the oft-repeated Las Vegas stories below are all baloney, we have yet to come up...
Legendary Las Vegas Comic Shecky Greene Dead at 97
Legendary Las Vegas comic Shecky Greene died at his Las Vegas home on New Year's Eve at age 97. His wife of 41 years, Marie Musso Greene, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal he died of natural causes. Greene, along with Don Rickles...
Tupac Murder Suspect May Have Ordered Witness Death From Jail: Report
Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis, accused murderer of superstar rapper Tupac Shakur, may have ordered -- or at least approved of -- the murder of a witness in his case from jail. Prosecutors made this shocking allegation in court paperwork filed on...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Las Vegas Strip is in the City of Las Vegas
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 Oct. 28, 2022. The "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada" sign is a liar, not about the fabulous part,...
