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Reporter: Corey Levitan

Corey Levitan joined Casino.org in 2022 after a long career covering Las Vegas. He currently covers entertainment, dining and gaming news in Las Vegas.

Corey spent six years covering the Vegas Strip for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he also wrote the most popular humor column in the city’s history. (For “Fear and Loafing,” he tried out 176 Vegas jobs, including poker player, blackjack dealer and Follie Bergere dancer.)

Corey has won more than 100 local, state and national awards for his journalism, which has also appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and the New York Post.

Corey is a New York native whose hobbies include playing guitar, trying to be a better husband, and arguing with strangers on Facebook.

Contact Corey at corey@casino.org.

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1531 stories by Corey Levitan

Elvis Returning to Las Vegas as a Hologram

Elvis Presley last played Las Vegas on Dec. 12, 1976, eight months before his death. At least he did in person. A new production promises to bring the king back to his throne as a hologram, either late in 2024 or early...

Corey Levitan January 4, 2024

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...

Corey Levitan January 4, 2024

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...

Corey Levitan January 3, 2024

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...

Corey Levitan January 2, 2024

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...

Corey Levitan January 2, 2024

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...

Corey Levitan January 2, 2024

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...

Corey Levitan January 1, 2024

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...

Corey Levitan January 1, 2024

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...

Corey Levitan December 31, 2023

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...

Corey Levitan December 29, 2023