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Patrons were able to return to the Slots-A-Fun casino this afternoon and Las Vegas Boulevard was reopened after a suspicious package was found earlier today at the Las Vegas Strip casino.

By Deidre Woollard Each group is connected with their own Total Experiences Specialist (one of the friendly faces shown above) who handles all details of the group's itinerary both before and during their stay, booking all reservations, offering insider recommendations, and arranging VIP privileges....

As part of our blowout coverage of Wayne Newton, we asked our readers for their questions for Mr. Las Vegas. Newton was kind enough to answer them.

The owner of the 2,518-room Planet Hollywood hotel-casino on Monday reported another quarterly loss and disclosed that its lenders are now in control of its finances. BH/RE LLC, the Las Vegas Strip resort's parent company, said that for the quarter ended Sept. 30 it lost $17.5 million vs. a l...

By Adrian Chen Just read an article about a truck that drives around Las Vegas with a stripper dancing in it, and boy are my preconceived notions about that place tired (from being completely confirmed.) Whatever happens in Vegas, is ridiculous in Vegas. Viva Las Vegas!

By Hugh Jackson For years, North Las Vegas Mayor Mike Montandon has shilled for the problem gambling industry, er, neighborhood casinos and also served as a reliable yes-man for the sprawl lobby. Naturally he thinks he should be governor. But it turns out... For years, North Las Vegas Mayor Mike Montandon ha...

Las Vegas, NV (USA) - With the return of UFC® superstar Tito Ortiz engaged in a rematch with former UFC light heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin and two of the welterweight class' most exciting knockout artists, Josh Koscheck and Anthony Johnson, ready to trade hands, the Ultimate Fi...

With Las Vegas tourism in the dumps, Virginia Ridgway, a retired gift shop owner in Goldfield — a mining boomtown decades before Vegas became a vacation hot spot — is doing her part. She hosted a luncheon to present her catchphrase, “Deal Vegas In,” to tourism bigwigs in Las Vegas including...

By Lanee Neil Bernardo joined the N9NE Group to develop Nove Italiano, and with Bernardo in the kitchen, Nove Italiano is slated to be one of Las Vegas’s most acclaimed Italian restaurants. Just as N9NE Steakhouse, the group’s original restaurant concept, revolutionized the American steakhouse, N...

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Four years ago, a San Francisco chef took a gamble and opened up his San Francisco kitchen to the first challenge of a new Bravo TV show called “Top Chef.” At the time, Hubert Keller came across as tough and grouchy but the show was a hit and his Fleur de Lys in California became a place of intrigu...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge said Tuesday she'll decide after a closed-door review with a Los Angeles prosecutor and police detective whether to release documents stemming from search warrants issued in Las Vegas in the Michael Jackson...

When a severed leg is discovered in the Everglades belonging to a girl who went missing from Las Vegas a week earlier, Horatio Caine (David Caruso) sends for Dr. Ray Langston (Laurence Fishburne).This launches a crossover that begins on "CSI: Miami," moves to "CSI: NY" and finishes up in La...

VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash was joined by all-star lineup of musicians — including VELVET REVOLVER bandmates Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, plus Joe Perry (AEROSMITH), Rick Nielsen (CHEAP TRICK), Courtney Love (HOLE), and Franky Perez (SCARS ON BROADWAY) — for a s...

By Brian Moylan Tonight at midnight, same-sex couples in Nevada will be able to register as domestic partners. How are Vegas gays commemorating the event? By squabbling over whether or not to have a big gay wedding. Please, it's not gay enough! So, here are some even gayer ways the radical queers in Vegas ca...

The Las Vegas Review-Journal is reporting that Bob Stupak, the man behind the towering Stratosphere Casino on the Vegas strip has died.

In a city of knockoffs and impersonations,  how do you go about reinterpreting a great piece of music without being tainted as a copycat? Well, it helps if you’re already a legendary rock band in your own right behind you, too. That’s how Cheap Trick’s doing it anyway, landing at the Las Vega...

Welcome to a special interview edition of The Strip. The first-ever Phantom Fan Week is coming to Las Vegas in mid-September, so Steve decided it was time to check back in with legendary Broadway producer and director Hal Prince. That event marks the first time Prince has returned to Vegas s...

By MisterHippity Although I like to call it Top Chef Minors, the bores at Bravo actually call this show Top Chef: Las Vegas. The live blog takes place in the comments section below, where all are welcome to participate, and the show gets underway on Bravo at 10 pm Eastern.

This week, on the Strip: We spoke to her nearly two years ago and she was hinting at a comeback she didn’t want to jinx. And, in fact, Broadway legend – and Steve’s gayest obsession – Patti Lupone did have a trick up her sleeve: A few months later, she returned to the Great White Way in the title ro...

Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV Now he's off again, to the Las Vegas Club, a venerable but not particularly storied downtown spot. And let's just say I think Tinoco's will bring more to the Las Vegas Club than the Las Vegas Club brings to Tinoco's. The negatives are that the casino ...

All-out online effort is fading, report says Las Vegas Review - Journal Some of Greenspun's online projects include an interactive database detailing old mob connections to Las Vegas casinos, a casino map and a timeline of ... and more »

Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV Garth Brooks, shown in this undated photo, entertained 600 to 800 people Monday at Wynn Las Vegas. Danny Gans and Elvis Presley had something else in common, besides dying young. Both entertainers were linked after their deaths with Dilaudid, ...

It may be one heckuva a recession, but the Hard Rock Hotel has pulled out all the stops on its new version of The Joint, spending $60 million on the posh new concert venue and signing modern Las Vegas’ first resident rock ‘n roll act in Carlos Santana. The 61-year-old guitar legend granted Ste...

Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV - K.R. Lewis The saying, "Only the good die young" was truly proved at the passing of Danny Gans. I have never seen any of his shows but thought he had a great voice. We had made plans to go to one of his shows this summer. Now this will never be realized. ...

The 4000-room Aria hotel and casino, 500000 square feet of retail and some 2700 condos would be featured in the mixed-use project on the Strip. Now that everything between the developers is fine and financing is in place too, CityCentre is being ...

Vegas hometown band, The Killers, de-flowering the new Joint music venue at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas Friday night to a sold out show of 4000 fans. Keanu Reeves, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Adrien Brody, Carlos Mencia, Raven-Symone, Alex Trebek and ...

By JoeinVegas(noreply@blogger.com) Last Saturday evening we went to see one of the final performances of Folies Bergere at the Tropicana. It’s the oldest show in Vegas, in its 49th year, which they say is also the longest running show in the world. The web site says: “The timeless musical extravaganza embodies the very essence...

By webmaster Cher’s show at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace is an ultra-glitzy, 90-minute production spectacular that leaves audiences breathless and wanting more, performing her hits from across the decades backed by breathtaking choreography and all the Vegas-style trimmings.

Still. a recent review of the Encore in the Los Angeles Times concludes: "That dry desert floor outside town is littered with the corpses of pundits who have proclaimed that Las Vegas is overbuilt. And there's probably a special section in that cemetery for people who underestimated Steve...

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner Click here to hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. But what if you want to head out West? Walters Golf in Las Vegas is offering 30 percent off green fees if you prepay, says the company’s director of reservations. The offer includes

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...

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?”

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner This podcast is supported by Florida Golf and Travel and St. Andrews Golf Tours. Hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. In this week’s podcast, host Dave Berner talks to Ben Irwin, business development manager of charitybuzz, about how his company connects philanthropic wo...

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner Hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. Rio Secco Golf Club is a bruiser of a Las Vegas golf course, says TravelGolf.com’s Brandon Tucker. Former USGA Technical Director Frank Thomas of FranklyGolf.com talks about his new putting studio near Orlando.

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner Plus, now is a great time to play golf in Las Vegas. One of the best places to play is Silverstone Golf Club, says Director of Golf Ross McCullough “We have a phenomenal backdrop just to our north … [and] we have a couple par 5s that we are known for,” he says. “The longest par 5 in Nevada is located o...

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...

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner This podcast is supported by Walters Golf in Las Vegas, Scottish Golf Holidays and San Diego Golf Central. Hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. Golf is blossoming in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. In this week’s podcast, host Dave Berner talks to TravelGolf.com’s Br...

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...

It seems that the Parents Television Council (PTC) has a problem with the last two episodes of Las Vegas. They’ve filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over an image that was shown on the February 15th installments of the five-year-old drama.

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner This podcast is supported by St. Andrews Golf Tours, Premiere Golf and MyrtleBeachGolf.com. Hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. In this week’s podcast, Equipment Editor Kiel Christianson talks to host Dave Berner about PowerBuilt’s new FZ-1 line, which has Fuzzy Zoelle...

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 TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner This podcast is supported by Walters Golf in Las Vegas and Scottish Golf Holidays Hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. Perhaps only in Las Vegas would someone think of combining golf with beautiful women. In this week’s podcast, host Dave Berner talks to Mark Blais, direct...

By supernaturalfic@gmail.com Title: To Live and Die in Las Vegas Rating: R Pairing/Characters: Sam/Dean (also Sam/Dean/Crossroads Demon) Warning: There’s Wincest, and het sex that is actually demon sex and also threesome sex. Something for the whole family. None of it particularly graphic. Oh, and not a death story.

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 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.