South Point Resort Las Vegas
A Labor day tradition, The Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, begins Sunday at 9PM ET on a TV channel in your city. The 2010 Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon is coming live for 21 continuous hours from the South Point Resort in Las Vegas.
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Monte Carlo Las Vegas
Saturday night marked the end of a fourteen year run for master magician, Lance Burton, at the Monte Carlo Resort on the Las Vegas Strip.
A critically acclaimed showman, Burton is said to have decided to terminate his show contract after hotel management requested a cut in the production's budget. With Las Vegas rapidly running out of magic men we expect to see Lance Burton reappearing any day now at a new strip address.
Veer Towers at CityCenter Las Vegas
On-line travel site, Orbitz.com, says the Number One Labor Day Destination is Las Vegas. A majority of the party-goers for the three day, official end-of-summer bash would rather be in Las Vegas. And why not? The Great Recession version of Las Vegas continues the long tradition of being the most fun place on the planet.
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At the risk of becoming the ParisHiltonParisHilton blog, we hear that Paris Hilton has been booted from Wynn Las Vegas.
With an apparent zero tolerance policy for drugs (or needing to distance themselves for stockholders), Hilton has been banned from both Wynn and Encore, following her arrest for cocaine possession over the weekend.
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Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas announced they have forged an agreement with Marriott Hotels to promote the high-end Las Vegas resort. The $3.5 billion resort project located on the Las Vegas Strip between CityCenter and the Bellagio will join the exclusive Marriott Autograph Collection. The Las Vegas casino/hotel/resort will benefit from the more than 30 million strong customer data base operated by Marriott.
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Tom Schneider, 2007 WSOP Player of the Year
The latest installment from ESPN of the 2010 WSOP Main Event tracks the march of eliminations on Day 2 that will finally become the November Nine for one of the nine seats at the most exclusive poker table ion the world, the final table of the Main Event of the World Series of poker.
Flipchip photos from the 2010 WSOP available with this link.
Could one mistake have cost one of Las Vegas's nightclub moguls his high-profile job?
After getting arrested with girlfriend Paris Hilton, several sources are reporting that Cy Waits has been let go of his duties as managing partner of Tryst (at Wynn Las Vegas) and XS (at Encore). No word yet on the status of his twin brother Jesse, who co-manages.
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Lost Vegas: The Redneck Riviera, Existentialist Conversations with Strippers, and the World Series of Poker by Paul ‘Dr. Pauly’ McGuire [Buy Lost Vegas][Visit the Lost Vegas Home Page]
If you like Dr. Pauly's writing you'll love this book, if you like Vegas you'll love this book, in short, if you're reading this blog the odds are you'll love Lost Vegas.
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Waiting for help
A Las Vegas Metro Police cycle cop was left in the middle of Flamingo Road just south of Eastern Avenue after an accident separated the officer from his ride.
Flipchip shot these photos Sunday evening of the unidentified Metro officer moments after the accident. Details of the crash were unavailble.
This has been a very unlucky year for Las Vegas Metro Police. Driving any vehicle in Las Vegas has always been akin to prop betting with the devil. Good thing we're a city of gamblers.
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This is probably the best-looking mugshot you'll ever see
A fume-filled Escalade near Wynn Las Vegas caused a motorcycle cop to pull it over, suspecting marijuana.
Hilton's boyfriend Cy Waits (who manages the Tryst nightclub at Wynn) was driving, with Hilton in the passenger seat.
Later, when Hilton pulled lip balm from her purse (possibly in preparation for the mugshot), a bag of cocaine allegedy fell out.
Both were booked and released from Clark County jail.
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