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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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Las Vegas Overstated F1 Race’s Vegas Impact — Report
The marketing firm paid by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) exaggerated the benefit to Las Vegas of hosting the first Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, according to a new report. On Tuesday, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal,...
Most Bellagio Las Vegas Trees Planted to Replace Those Felled For F1 Now Dead
Of the 14 fir trees replanted last fall in front of the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip, a whopping 13 are no longer alive. The trees replaced similar, but more mature, evergreens felled to make way for a Formula 1 Las...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Slot Machines Can Be ‘Due’
EDITOR’S NOTE:?“Vegas Myths Busted” now publishes new entries every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition.?Today’s entry in our ongoing series originally ran on Aug. 5, 2022. One of the most enduring myths of the casino floor is that a slot machine...
Nevada Court Weighing Referendum to Strike Out Public Funding of A’s Vegas Stadium
The Nevada Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments on whether an initiative should be allowed on the November ballot that would place the question of public funding of the Oakland Athletics’ Las Vegas stadium in the hands of the public. Last June,...
OJ Simpson, NFL Great, Suspected Double Murderer, Convicted Casino Robber, Dies
O.J. Simpson, the disgraced former NFL hall-of-famer and suspected double murderer whose name came to be associated with Las Vegas casinos in the worst possible way, died in Las Vegas on Wednesday following a cancer battle. He was 76. “On April 10th,...
LOST VEGAS: The Hoover-Damned Town of St. Thomas
The human remains uncovered by the receding waters of Lake Mead claim the headlines, and rightly so. But they're not the only secrets that climate change has forced the nation’s largest reservoir to give up. Located on the northern reaches of what...
Off-Strip Ellis Island in Vegas Expanding Casino Floor
Ellis Island, a family-owned casino resort located a block east of the Las Vegas Strip, is expanding its casino footprint. The expansion will add 6,415 square feet, according to Clark County planning documents, including a new sportsbook and back-of-house area. “This renovation...
Vegas Strip Clubs Wrestle in Court Over Animal Names
The Spearmint Rhino has been at the top of the topless game in Vegas since 1999, before most of its currently featured employees were born. And now a new competitor is discovering just how territorial the original strip club with a gum-flavored...
Reggie Jackson ‘Embarrassed for Baseball’ by A’s Vegas Plans
Former Oakland A’s slugger Reggie Jackson says he’s “embarrassed for baseball” by the Oakland Athletics’ planned relocation to Las Vegas. The five-time World Series winner and two-time World Series MVP shared his distaste for his former team on the New York Post’s...
ESSAY: Remembering ‘The Beatles LOVE’ in My Daughter’s Eyes
When our daughter was three, I gave her the most unfathomably special gift I could think of, something I dreamed of having at her age but knew I never could … the memory of having seen the greatest band of all time...