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NEWS ABOUT: Las Vegas Strip

Las Vegas Strip stories: 10 news summaries

 Complaints Curb 
 Vegas Stripper-Mobile 

'We're going to be good citizens' despite uptick in business

Nov 13, 09 8:35 PM CST
(AP) - A Las Vegas strip club has agreed to stop an advertising promotion that involved hauling bikini-clad exotic dancers around in a truck. Larry Beard, marketing director of Déjà Vu Showgirls, said today he's taking his lawyer's advice and parking the truck. "We're going to respect the opinion of... More »

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entertainment • advertising • Las Vegas • strip club • stripper • Las Vegas Strip • complaints • D?j? Vu Showgirls

 CityCenter: Las Vegas' 
 $8.5B Stimulus Bet 

Hotel-casino-condo-shopping behemoth brings 12K jobs, optimism to battered state

Sep 23, 09 6:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - A gigantic addition to the Las Vegas Strip is a one-stop stimulus package for a city and state walloped by the recession and an $8.5 billion bet that happy days are near again. With 12,000 jobs, the CityCenter project—a kaleidoscope of condominiums, boutique hotels, shopping, and, of... More »

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Las Vegas • debt • recession • casino • CityCenter • hotel • credit crisis • condominium • Las Vegas Strip • financial crisis

 What Downturn? Vegas 
 Gets New $2.3B Resort 

Mogul riding high while rivals, Vegas struggle

Dec 20, 08 4:15 PM CST
(Newser) - Recession has dimmed the glittering lights of Las Vegas, but it hasn’t stopped hotel and casino mogul Steve Wynn, AFP reports. Wynn is preparing to open the lavish $2.3 billion resort Encore on Monday as Sin City weathers its worst economic meltdown in decades. “I don't owe... More »

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Las Vegas • MGM Mirage • casino • Steve Wynn • Las Vegas Strip • Wynn Las Vegas

Rare Snow Blankets
Vegas Strip

Schoolkids get first snow day in 30 years
as traffic snarls

Dec 18, 08 4:13 AM CST
(Newser) - The heaviest snowfall in nearly 30 years has left the Vegas Strip looking like a winter wonderland, the Las Vegas Sun reports. Local schoolkids are getting their first snow day since 1979. Traffic is snarled across the city as the weather stuns snow-novice drivers, and strands hundreds of tourists in... More »

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weather • Las Vegas • Nevada • snow • snowstorm • Las Vegas Strip

 Iconic Sign Is Fabulous Indeed 

Nearly 50 years later, designer discusses her creation

Jun 14, 08 10:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's been nearly a half-century since the iconic "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign went up on the Strip, and Betty Willis is still as sharp as she was when she designed it, Las Vegas Weekly reports. Willis created the neon design back when the Strip still intersected dirt... More »

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architecture • Las Vegas • design • Nevada • icons • Las Vegas Strip

 Barkley Gambling Debt: $400K  

Former NBA star promises to pay casino to head off felony charges

May 15, 08 8:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Charles Barkley admitted today that he owes a Las Vegas casino $400,000 and promised to pay up quickly, the AP reports. The former NBA star fessed up after the Wynn Las Vegas casino filed a complaint and the local DA threatened felony charges. "I'm not broke, and I'm... More »

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NBA • gambling • Las Vegas Strip • Charles Barkley

ANALYSIS

Guggenheim Vegas Failure
a Rare Stumble

Starchitect Koolhaas bears some blame for museum's woes: critic

May 13, 08 5:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Now that the shutdown of the Guggenheim Museum's Las Vegas satellites is complete, many in the art world are faulting museum leaders in New York for not understanding the realities of the Strip. But for one LA Times critic, it's not just the Guggenheim that misread Vegas. Rem Koolhaas,... More »

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architecture • art • Las Vegas • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • Las Vegas Strip • Venetian • Rem Koolhaas

Guggenheim's Vegas Gallery Craps Out

Art doesn't play on the Strip; museum outpost folds after 7 years

Apr 11, 08 10:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Guggenheim Museum's second venue on the Las Vegas Strip is closing its doors after 7 years. The nonprofit satellite gallery, which presented works from both the New York museum and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, was housed in the decidedly for-profit Venetian Hotel. A larger space folded only 18... More »

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art museum • art • Las Vegas • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • Thomas Krens • Las Vegas Strip

Fire Closes Las Vegas Casino

Monte Carlo evacuated as firefighters contain 3-alarm blaze on roof

Jan 25, 08 3:16 PM CST
(Newser) - A three-alarm blaze at the Monte Carlo hotel-casino has been contained, the Las Vegas Sun reports, and the 3,200-room property on the Strip has been evacuated. Authorities told the AP no major injuries were reported. Smoke and flame erupted from the casino roof at 11 this morning, with debris... More »

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fires • casino • Las Vegas Strip

Judge OKs Vegas Casino Caucuses

Clinton supporters' suit dismissed; Obama seen as beneficiary

Jan 17, 08 1:42 PM CST
(Newser) - A federal judge today dismissed an effort by Hillary Clinton supporters to block Saturday caucuses for Las Vegas Strip shift workers, reports the AP. The lawsuit claimed the at-large precincts created for the workplace caucuses gave those voters too many delegates. The decision is expected to benefit Barack Obama,... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • casino • lawsuit • Nevada caucus • Culinary Workers Union • Las Vegas Strip • Hillary Clinton supporters

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