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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 MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Casino Carpets are Designed to Trick You into Gambling More
EDITOR’S NOTE: A new "Vegas Myths Busted” publishes every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s edition originally ran on March 24, 2023. “Ugly carpets are the results of extensive market research,” claims a website called gamblingsites.org. “Tacky carpets with weird...
VEGAS MUSIC ROUNDUP: Bruno Mars Fans Go Gaga, Tickets on Sale for Life is Beautiful’s Sad Consolation Prize
Fans of Bruno Mars got what they wished for this week when the singer introduced his sold-out Dolby Live crowd to Lady Gaga, his partner on the new single, “Die With a Smile.” The two top-grossing Park MGM headliners performed the ballad...
UPDATE: Former Las Vegas Official Sentenced for Murdering Journalist Who Investigated Him
UPDATE: Former Las Vegas elected official Robert Telles was sentenced on Wednesday evening to life in a Nevada Department of Corrections facility with eligibility for parole after 20 years. EARLIER:?Robert Telles, the former Clark County Public Administrator, was found guilty Wednesday of...
LOST VEGAS: The Frank Rosenthal Show
“The Frank Rosenthal Show” has gained legendary status since airing on local Las Vegas TV from 1977-79. In fact, the mind boggles that there was ever such a thing as “The Frank Rosenthal Show.” Taking the idea of hiding in plain sight...
VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: Red Rock Enters Tavern Biz, Marky Mark’s Mexican Premiere
Red Rock Resorts is about to launch its own standalone neighborhood tavern brand. Seventy Six Taverns by Station Casinos?will offer food, gaming, entertainment and a full bar in seven off-Strip Las Vegas locations. The name references 1976, the year Frank Fertitta Jr....
Scott Thorson, Liberace’s Las Vegas ‘Boy Toy’ and Co-Star, Dies at 65
Scott Thorson, who played a big part in Liberace’s love life and a little part in his late '70s Las Vegas stage show, died on August 16. Thorson, who was 65, had been battling cancer and a heart condition at an LA...
Bally’s Sets Date for Tropicana Las Vegas Implosion & Party
The Tropicana, one of the last vestiges of Las Vegas’ mafia-dominated 1950s Rat Pack era, will be imploded in the wee hours of Wednesday, October 9, according to its current owners. Or, at least what’s left of the casino icon’s already-gutted pair...
Cruise Ship Casino Busts Four For Fraudulent Credit Cards
Four passengers on the MSC Magnifica out of Miami went a different kind of bust in the cruise ship’s casino. Michael F. Emmanuel, 35; Tyrisha Delgato, 38; Devin Jones, 28; and Quentin Marcellus Tuck, 32, were each charged with an organized scheme...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: You Can Drink However and Wherever You Want on the Strip
The sipping of frozen cocktails from 3-liter tubes -- a common sight along the Strip and Fremont Street downtown -- suggests that Las Vegas is a booze Disneyland with no restrictions on how and where it may be imbibed. In reality, though,...
Here’s How the New Neon Museum in Las Vegas Might Look
Last week, the city of Las Vegas tweeted a rendering of how the Neon Museum will look when it moves to its new location and reopens in 2027.? And then it quickly deleted the tweet. The rendering had been shared as part...