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PR-inside.com) LAS VEGAS (AP) - The Nevada Gaming Commission says it will allow the investment arm of Dubai to acquire a bigger stake in MGM Mirage Inc. The plan given final approval Thursday authorizes Dubai World to acquire up to a 20 percent stake. That's an increase from the 9.4 percent sta...

By rss@youtube.com (Ombras) Just a photo tribute to Molly Sims, Vanessa Marcil and Nikki Cox. Author: Ombras Keywords: Molly Sims Nikki Cox Vanessa Marcil Las Vegas TV Women Semi Naked Music Added: November 19, 2008

A woman has been sentenced to 10 years to life in a Nevada prison for stabbing her poker player husband to death in a luxury Las Vegas condominium. Police found Gustafik's body April 13, 2007, after a lawyer in California directed authorities to in a blood-spattered bedroom in a 23rd floor c...

Gary Loveman said at a casino industry conference Wednesday in Las Vegas that Harrah's, the world's largest gambling company by revenue, and its competitors will have to change how they do business for the rest of his professional life.

 Canada - Frank Fahrenkopf, the president and CEO of the American Gaming Association, told an audience at the Las Vegas Convention Center that smaller casino gambling ... Gaming revenues tumble nationwide Las Vegas Review - Journal

By content@casinocitytimes.com MGM Mirage announced today it is teaming up with an Asian development company to build a "Las Vegas-style" casino in Vietnam.

By Alisa Gould-Simon Las Vegas [Flickr/mandj98] ·The best free airport wifi around [BB] ·Thanksgiving to see fewest number of travelers in six years [CNN] ·Penthouse looking to buy Vegas casino and hotel [USAToday] ·Luxor’s Hilton Hotel gets $45 million facelift and a... Las Vegas [Flickr/mandj98]

By Alasdair I can’t say that I’ve ever been a fan of the whole Las Vegas type glitz and glamour, it’s always struck me as a bit of a sham.  So i was slightly sceptical when i was asked to review a website for the City of Henderson, Nevada, which purports to be a Las Vegas Arts & Entertainmentwebsite, natu...

The complaint accuses Knight of striking Melissa Isaac. Police say they arrested Knight after they saw the founder of bankrupt Death Row Records beating the woman while brandishing a knife in a parking lot near the Las Vegas Strip. Knight's Death Row Records was known for releasing semina...

By info.rss@cro.consumer.org (Consumer Reports) Autos staff were in Las Vegas all of last week at SEMA, wearing out our shoe leather. What happens in Vegas, may stay in Vegas, but in this case, our Autos team is talking: they've been blogging away all week at a furious pace. Here's a breakdown of their posts by category of interest:

By sherri Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan is putting together a cabaret-style show for a string of dates at The Palms in Las Vegas, beginning in mid-February. According to an inside source, the shows will feature both comedy and music. Tool has been on vacation since the end of last year, when it finished an 18-month tour in support of its 2006 album, 10,000 Days. November 17, 2008 Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan is putting together a cabaret-style show for a string of dates at The Palms in Las Vegas, beginning in mid-February. According to an inside source, the shows will feature both comedy and music. Keenan is not a stranger to this kind of gig — he told us [...]   [read the full post]

The chief executive of Penthouse says the company is looking to buy a casino on the Las Vegas Strip and generate business by tying it to the adult magazine and Web site empire. Penthouse was founded in the United Kingdom in 1965 and moved to the United States four years later.

By musicalmystery Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) avoids his own Apogee Awards ceremony to gamble at a Las Vegas casino, leaving his deceased father’s friend and business partner, Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges) to collect the award. As Stark leaves the casino with his entourage, he is approached by Vanity Fai...

By Joy A few weeks ago, I attended a work conference in Las Vegas. It was my first time there, and with any luck, I’ll never go back.  Unlike most of the people who go to Las Vegas, at least I can say I went for my job.  But….ugh. I’m just going to cop out right now, and simply list my reasons Why I Hate Las Vegas:

The California proposition's approval has sparked some angry protests against its supporters, particularly members of the Mormon Church and other faiths. Comedian Wanda Sykes, who was in town performing on the Las Vegas Strip, made a surprise appearance Saturday. Sykes said the passa...

By Hugh Jackson A study that the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce bought to prove that the biggest bidnesses belonging to the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce should never have to start paying taxes (that was the point of the study, right?) didn't say what the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce says it said.(Sun)

World Series of Poker nears finish Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV - He was given $1000 spending money for the trip to Las Vegas. He parlayed his efforts into the Top 10 chip leaders by Day 4 and held his own. ...

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High school for $40000 a year really is bargain Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV - Before coming to Las Vegas, Lynch promoted Exeter at Navajo reservations in Arizona. Phillip Gay, a casino supervisor at the Las Vegas Hilton and father of ...

By noreply@blogger.com (Neil) There. I got on a plane, flew to Las Vegas, got off the plane, discovered that Penn and Teller were doing a "corporate gig" in my hotel, so ate some sushi and then went in search of them. I gave Penn (who wants to keep bees) a round of honeycomb from my hives, and talked about bees and beekeeping, an...

By pjwa LAS VEGAS - What is a family man who doesn’t drink, doesn’t gamble and has trouble staying up to watch David Letterman doing in Las Vegas with his wife and kids? Two words: The Beatles. So what have we learned today? One will leave Vegas with more money in his bank account if he or she stays out of...

By Marc Cooper Las Vegas, Nevada - My good friend Micah Sifry framed this historic day perfectly right about noontime. "The hands that picked the cotton are the... Las Vegas, Nevada - My good friend Micah Sifry framed this historic day perfectly right about noontime. "The hands that picked the cotton are the...

By info.rss@cro.consumer.org (Consumer Reports) Just as the SEMA show is sensory overload in a truly Las Vegas way, the city has its own twist on car culture. Take, for example, that Vegas plays host to the Liberace Museum, home of the piano showman’s collection of truly unique customs. Notables include a vintage Rolls Royce covered entire...

NORM: Vegas Reflections Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV - It wasn't long before he was covering mob stories and casino stories, "which were often one and the same in those days," Knapp said. ...

Performers have much to ponder about careers after shows close Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV - She came to Las Vegas in 2001 to perform in "Storm" at Mandalay Bay, which closed in 2002. For two years after that, she worked in a loan office. ...

By Hugh Jackson Deeply grateful for all that Republicans in Washington have done for this nation both at home and abroad, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which is a newspaper, has endorsed incumbent Republican congressman Jon Porter over Democratic challenger Dina Titus in Nevada's...

It’s the perfect time for Libby Lumpkin, executive director of the Las Vegas Art Museum, to talk about collecting. The Southern California minimalist exhibit — two-thirds of that exhibition was borrowed locally. These were very precious works of art and that work is really challenging f...

Near the end of the 1995 Martin Scorsese film “Casino,” the Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal character, portrayed by Robert DeNiro, laments how the new corporate Las Vegas imploded all the mob-run Las Vegas resorts. “Everybody works on the success of those who came before them, but Frank Rosenth...

Last year, fewer than 300 people showed up at the West Las Vegas offices of the Foundation for an Independent Tomorrow looking for help with bus fare or the gasoline they needed to get to work or to school. Yet another sign of the times, said Dan Goulet, director of United Way of Southern Nevad...

Despite the difficulty in making reeds in this climate, he says, Las Vegas presents ample opportunity to collaborate with composers, including UNLV’s composer in residence, Virko Baley, and to perform music that reflects the Southwest and Vegas (sounds of Zion National Park and casi...

The Las Vegas Review-Journal won 19 first-place journalism awards and five advertising awards. The Nevada Appeal in Carson City won one journalism award and one advertising award. The Sun’s investigation into construction accidents on the Las Vegas Strip won three awards.

A look back on its accomplishments and growth since its launch in 1966 offers perspective on the evolution of the Las Vegas Valley. “Las Vegas is no different from anywhere else,” says Lichtenstein, the ACLU of Nevada’s general counsel since 1996.

“Less is a bore,” proclaimed the little book about Las Vegas architecture. It’s time for a new look at Las Vegas. What Venturi and Scott Brown did, Schwarz says, was take a look at Las Vegas and ask, “What does the rest of the world have to learn from what’s happened in Las Vegas?”

“This is a growing area, there is a growing Jewish population here,” she said. “We heard great things about Las Vegas.” “Outside of New York and the Miami area, Las Vegas has the third largest Holocaust survivor population,” Friedman said.

The Las Vegas City Council took 1,000 votes in a recent one-year period on issues vital to the city’s future and important to citizens. Still, the Las Vegas numbers are on the high end of the scale, Svara said. “What’s unusual is the extent to which there is this unanimity here,” he said.

By webmaster Last week, Sanchez watched her star climb to the top of a prop piece only planned for dancers to scale; perhaps a Xanax-inducing moment for those underwriting the 61-year-old star’s next 197 shows at Caesars Palace.

By webmaster LAS VEGAS — Like the temples of the ancient Roman world that it simulates, the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas is an environment suited to extravagant immortals. The artists who’ve graced its huge stage have all achieved that status in which one name not only serves but also explai...

While the DVD includes favorites from Groban's three best-selling albums, including "Canto Alla Vita" and "Alla Luce del Sole" from his double-platinum self-titled 2001 debut, and "You Raise Me Up" and "Remember When It Rained" from the multi-platinum 2003 album Closer, the majorit...

Las Vegas — TV Guide has reported that there’s been a lot of activity regarding a proper wrap-up for the NBC series. Apparently NBC initially asked Vegas creator Gary Scott Thompson to whip up a quick ending for the last episode to hastily wrap up the series. When Thompson reportedly refused...

Each state winner was presented with a long-stemmed iris and nine were given the first award of their 10-day visit to Vegas: “The Quality of Life” winners were Miss Alabama, Miss Florida, Miss Massachusets, Miss Minnesota, Miss Nevada, Miss North Carolina, Miss, Oklahoma, Miss Rhode I...

Las Vegas, Nevada) -- The strained relationship between the Ultimate Fighting Championship and its heavyweight champion Randy Couture has taken another bad turn -- directly into a Las Vegas courtroom. Source: Las Vegas Review Journal and www.mmanewsdesk.com 

By DarkUFO PACKING HEAT...AND POUNDS- "LAS VEGAS" CELEBRATES A SPECIAL 100th EPISODE-A fugitive on the run has been tracked to the Montecito and every bounty hunter and FBI agent around has come looking to make the capture. Danny (Josh Duhamel), Mike (James Lesure) and Cooper (Tom Selleck) can’t help...

By DarkUFO Sam takes care of couple Sherry and Rodney. Sherry used to be slightly overweight like her husband but has lost many pounds since she decided she wanted to fit in her grandmother's wedding dress. When Sherry leaves Sam and Rodney alone, the latter admits to Sam that he doesn't think he can go t...

By Brett Love Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEdIt's always interesting going back to see something that you were once fond of again. Sometimes they hold up, and sometimes you are left shaking your head wondering what could have been in the air in 1982 that made you like this pile of crap. That's how I headed into t...

By Hartford Courant When James Caan leaves “Las Vegas” in the first episode of the fall season, his replacement as owner of the Montecito Casino will be Tom Selleck. Caan was let go in part because NBC was putting the show on the budget (Nikki Cox will ...

• Tom Selleck joining "Las Vegas"  - Selleck is coming to the series at the same time that James Caan, who starred as the casino's chief executive, is departing. Caan, who had previously ...

By Bob Sassone Tom Selleck is joining the cast of the NBC drama Las Vegas this fall. He'll play the new owner of the casino, taking over from James Cann, who has left the show along with Nikki Cox. The only way the show was going to be renewed was to cut the budget, so they're gone (though I wonder how much Selleck...

By Whitney Pastorek But last weekend, an elaborate series of events took me to Las Vegas and plopped me down in the middle of an event that even my country-loving, native-Texan brain could barely comprehend: Rascal Flatts and their "Me and My Gang" Tour. During NASCAR weekend. In Vegas. It was like the All-Star g...

Coyote Ugly: Modeled after the East Village original that was famously portrayed in the '00 movie, Coyote Ugly in Vegas is the pretty similar to the real deal except that your bar-dancin', loud talkin' bartender's other job is stripping so you will probably get a better show than in NYC.

By MikeZintel Mike M got us tickets. Mike seemed to know his way around Vegas pretty good, and was a great host. Mike is on one of the folks who you don't see much, but plays a critical role in making your experience productive by writing the code that makes the remote debugger work. Tricky stuff too. Mike got the...