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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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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...
Airbnb Offers ‘Inside Out’ Crib in Las Vegas
To celebrate Friday’s release of the movie “Inside Out 2,” Airbnb is engaging in a feat of crass commercialism that would trigger Disgust, but also tickle Joy. It has recreated Riley’s Emotional HQ in the real world and is offering it for...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: The Strip is 100% Powered by Renewable Energy
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Vegas Myths Busted" publishes every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today's entry in our ongoing series originally ran on March 10, 2023.? The city of Las Vegas is the first large city in the country to be served...
Fontainebleau to Introduce Pro Pickleball to Las Vegas Strip
Fontainebleau will host the Las Vegas Strip’s first professional pickleball tournament. The Las Vegas Pickleball Cup, part of the Professional Pickleball Association Tour, will be played at the north Strip resort from August 27 through September 1. And yes, there is a...
VEGAS MUSIC ROUNDUP: Sphere Lands Eagles, Tom Jones Returns
We told you it would happen nearly a year ago, and now it’s official. The Eagles will perform at the Sphere in Las Vegas. The reunited SoCal-formed rock band on Thursday announced eight shows at the $2 billion venue, from September 20...
‘Friends Experience’ Pivoting to MGM Grand Las Vegas
They’ll be there for you when “The Friends Experience: The One in Vegas” debuts at the MGM Grand later this year, just in time to still celebrate the classic NBC sitcom's 30th anniversary. “Las Vegas is the perfect destination,” Stacy Moscatelli, CEO...
Record Number of West Nile-Infected Mosquitos Plague Las Vegas
Las Vegas is buzzing in a bad way right now. The Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) has positively identified more than 3,000 mosquitos infected with West Nile virus. That’s the highest level of infectious mosquitos in the known history of Las Vegas....
With No More Goodmans to Elect, Las Vegas Will Have a Mayoral Runoff
With no more Goodmans to elect for mayor, the voting residents of the city of Las Vegas were stumped at the polls on Tuesday. While 13 candidates ran in the nonpartisan primary to become Sin City's next big cheese, none received more...
Celine Dion Will FOR SURE Return to Vegas Stage
We don’t know the date, but we know there is one in mind. Hoda Kotb revealed the bombshell on the “Today” show Tuesday morning, telling her co-hosts that, when she asked Celine Dion when she would return to the stage, something wonderfully...
VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: Mysterious Exit #2 for Famed Bellagio Chef, Vegas Beardless Again, More!
Chef Roy Ellamar’s surprise 2021 departure from Harvest by Roy Ellamar -- the much-celebrated, Hawaiian-tinged fresh American dining spot he opened at the Bellagio six years earlier -- has never been satisfactorily explained. Now, under similarly mysterious circumstances, Ellamar has left another...