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Corey Levitan joined Casino.org in 2022 after a long career covering Las Vegas. He currently covers gaming news on the US West Coast, including 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.
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VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: Top Chefs’ Retro Inactive, Major Food Hall Cooked
The Sundry Food Hall at the UnCommons residential development in southwest Las Vegas is closing on Saturday, June 22, a little over a year after it opened. “The Sundry was created through a bold, imaginative vision to bring a cosmopolitan food hall...
VEGAS MUSIC ROUNDUP: More Eagles Sphere Shows Announced as Lip-Syncing Questions Emerge, Hans Zimmer’s Surprise Tour Finale
After announcing a fall run at the Sphere last week, the Eagles have added four Nov. shows to its upcoming residency, bringing the total to 12. The full itinerary is now September 20, 21, 27, and 28; October 11, 12, 18, and...
Missing Persons Website Posts Pics of Clothes Worn by Still-Unidentified Body in Lake Mead Barrel
A half a century submerged in Lake Mead was too much of a licking even for a Timex. NAMUS.gov, the website of the US government’s National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, has posted photographs and descriptions of the clothing, shoes, and watch...
After Vegas Weed Misadventure, Howie Mandel Finds Wife in Pool of Blood
Howie Mandel says he found his wife lying in a pool of blood following a cannabis-related fall during a recent Las Vegas trip. During a February stay at Fontainebleau Las Vegas, the comedian and “America’s Got Talent” co-host told TMZ, his wife,...
VEGAS MUSIC ROUNDUP: Fontainebleau Poaches David Guetta from Wynn, Lil Wayne Two-Times
Recent EDC headliner David Guetta, a staple at Wynn Las Vegas’ XS Nightclub and Encore Beach Club for more than 10 years, has taken his business across the street to Fontainebleau Las Vegas. The Grammy-winning French DJ will perform a two-year residency...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Celebrity Chefs Work in Their Own Restaurants
One myth we busted a few Mondays ago -- that Gordon Ramsay booted Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce from his Hell’s Kitchen restaurant for being too drunk -- encompassed a second myth that we saved for this edition: that celebrity chefs actually...
Vegas Sphere Imposes, Then Lifts, Ban on Phish Bong-Ripper
An avid Phish fan’s bid for stoner glory on 4/20 made him the first -- and probably last -- person to take a bong hit in the Las Vegas Sphere. Instagram user @acid_farts, whose real name is undisclosed in media reports about...
Owners Secretly Selling Las Vegas Cannabis Hotel
The owners of Las Vegas’ first “cannabis-forward” hotel want to puff, puff, pass it to someone else. Elevations Hotel and Resorts has listed the Lexi for an undisclosed price via the commercial realtor Paramount Lodging Advisors. Failures are never announced in corporate...
DOJ Loses Foreign Agent Appeal Against Steve Wynn
A federal appeals court has thrown out an appeal filed by the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) in May 2023 against disgraced former Wynn Resorts CEO Steve Wynn. The DOJ’s original lawsuit sought to compel Wynn to register under the Foreign Agents Registration...
Mirage in Las Vegas Holding Liquidation Sale
Soon, you can furnish your new Airbnb with Steve Wynn’s gutted dreams. Starting Aug. 1, everything inside the rooms in The Mirage’s towers will be up for grabs. Las Vegas-based liquidator Proximity Capital will clear the property ahead of its three-year metamorphosis...