The best Las Vegas experience is usually one that is a whirlwind. A couple of days of cards, dice, shows, and booze that goes by so fast the most vivid memory of the trip might be time spent at Harry Reid International Airport. Vegas at warp speed is...
By Boing Boing on Dec 8, 2023
Anthony Polito, 67, was a business professor hoping to end his career on a high note at the University of Nevada or one of Vegas's other respected towers of learning. None would hire him, though, and he went on a gun rampage, killing three faculty an...
By Boing Boing on Nov 9, 2023 in: Business
The surround-sight Las Vegas Sphere is an astonishing experience, but also extremely expensive to operate. It's lost $98.4m in its first financial quarter, reports the Las Vegas Sun, and the chief financial officer has resigned after a "bout of yelli...
By Boing Boing on Oct 27, 2023
32-year-old Andrew Warrender wandered the Turnberry Towers in Vegas with an AR-15–style rifle, but got off only one shot before it jammed and a security guard shot back. Newly-released footage shows him writhing in pain, disarmed but not dead, and...
By Business Insider on May 14, 2022 in: Travel, Food
The Rainforest Cafe, whose heyday came 25 years ago, didn't just live up to my memories. It far surpassed them — and many other attractions in Vegas.
By Jezebel on Jan 27, 2022
“There’s always an underlying situation that you know nothing about,” says Rebbie Jackson, the oldest of the showbiz Jackson clan siblings, referring to her youngest sister, Janet. The “underlying situation” being referenced is Janet’s n...
By Boing Boing on Dec 14, 2021
A man wearing a clown mask plowed a limousine through fences and gates at Las Vegas's McCarran International Airport last week with the goal of stealing a jet to fly into Area 51 so he could see the extraterrestrials rumored to be held at the secreti...
