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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.
Contact Corey at [email protected].
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‘John Wick’ Tourist Attraction to Open (Fire) in Las Vegas
Las Vegas will soon let you try on the shoes of a reluctant assassin without all those pesky real bullets flying at your head. An interactive attraction based on the popular John Wick action movies is set to open later this year,...
Apple CEO Tim Cook Visits Vegas Apple Store Before/After Robbers
Probably the most bizarre story to emerge from Las Vegas during Super Bowl weekend went unreported by local media until Wednesday, and had little to do with the big game. At least two thieves calmly, brazenly, and methodically robbed an Apple Store...
Las Vegas on Shortlist for Expansion Team: NBA Commissoner
Las Vegas’ hoop dreams dribbled closer to reality on Wednesday. That's when NBA Commissioner Adam Silver stated that the region is “definitely on our list” of cities being considered for an expansion team. Vegas has been rumored to be in line for...
WWE Presser Stokes Rumor of First Vegas WrestleMania in 30 Years
What Super Bowl? Fans of the WWE traveled to Las Vegas last week exclusively for the WrestleMania press conference on Thursday. At the event, fans got to see Dwayne “The Rock" Johnson, 51, announce his surprise return to SmackDown by slapping fellow...
VEGAS MUSIC ROUNDUP: Did Beyonce’s Super Bowl Ad Tease Sphere Residency?
Did Beyonce’s Super Bowl commercial for Verizon contain the world’s biggest Easter Egg for her fans? In the 90-second spot, Queen Bey concocts various viral strategies to “break” the carrier’s internet coverage. Co-starring "Vice’s" Tony Hale as her hapless assistant, she introduces...
Struggling New Mexico Town Wants Pueblo to Build Casino Complex
City commissioners in Raton, New Mexico, a city of about 6,000 located 100 miles northeast of Taos, have voted to move forward with the transfer of about 130 acres of vacant land there to a sovereign indigenous community. The Pueblo of Picuris,...
VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: Emmitt’s Finally Gets Opening Date
After two years of delays, the highly anticipated steak house from football giant Emmitt Smith will finally open on February 26. Emmitt’s Las Vegas, a modern steak house with Southern influences, will occupy the 30,000 square-foot, multi-story former Sugar Factory space at...
CONFIRMED: Usher Married Girlfriend in Las Vegas Following Super Bowl Halftime Show
UPDATE:?Usher’s wedding to girlfriend Jennifer Goicoechea, immediately following his halftime performance at Super Bowl LVIII, was confirmed by the singer's producer Bryan-Michael Cox, who announced, “Congrats to the newlyweds in the building!” as the couple entered a dinner party held at Aria’s...
Taylor Swift’s Super Bowl Ratings Boost
Sunday night’s Super Bowl is projected to set a record viewership of more than 120 million people, according to initial estimates by multiple news outlets. The official number will be announced by ratings agency Nielsen on Tuesday. That means that Super Bowl...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Hoover Dam Was Ever Officially Named Boulder Dam
On Sept. 30, 1930, when construction began on the dam at Black Canyon, 40 miles southeast of Las Vegas, Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur ordered that it be called Hoover Dam, after America’s 31st president. By an act of Congress...