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Making Sense Of WynnLasVegas.com

By now you've probably heard that Wynn Las Vegas has launched ...

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Wynn Tower Not So Sweets

Whether it was a big fight weekend or the week leading up to Christmas, if either Wynn or Encore had a Tower Suite available, you could expect it to cost a modest $90 more per night over their standard offerings. And that, dare I say, was a good value for the benefits of which I�ve exhausted numerous times. But last month, I noticed a huge disparity in the cost of these rooms over regular accommodations. Sure, they were now offering extra freebies like in-room breakfast at...

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\m/: Mastodon, Opeth, Ghost April 25th at Mandalay Bay

LUXOR: Hotel Guest Dies of Legionnaires

Green Valley Ranch Gives Head

\m/: Mastodon, Opeth, Ghost April 25th at Mandalay Bay

Calling all metal heads! This year is shaping up to be a great one for live music... one of our early picks for tour of the year - a mind bending triple bill featuring alternating headliners Mastodon and Opeth plus support by Swedish Satan rockers Ghost - have finally announced their long rumored tour. The 30 date "Heritage Hunter Tour" includes a stop at the House of Blues (Mandalay Bay) on April 25th. In addition, they have made note that for this show,...

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LUXOR: Hotel Guest Dies of Legionnaires

The Southern Nevada Health District announced today that a recent guest of Luxor (owned by MGM Resorts International) has died after contracting Legionnaires disease. This is the second reported outbreak of Legionnaires disease in Las Vegas in the last 12 months, and the third reported case at Luxor. Two previous - unreported - outbreaks of Legionnaires took place during guest stays in March 2011 and April 2011. In response to these two cases, the SNHD headed over to Luxor to do testing and procure swabs and...

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\m/: Mastodon, Opeth, Ghost April 25th at Mandalay Bay

Green Valley Ranch Gives Head

Green Valley Ranch Gives Head

Very soon it will be pool season, and Green Valley Ranch is holding a job fair to staff its own cement pond with servers, bartenders, and other personnel. Here, check out their ad: Well, she sure is purty. I guess. Kinda. Wait'is that her head? No, no, it's not! That's someone else's head photoshopped on that girl's body. I wonder how that poor model's audition for that advertisement went... "Okay, you're Mindy? Says here you're 96 pounds? Good....

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Cosmopolitan: The Right Amount of Double Dong

How many times has this happened to you? VT reader benzz took his wife to Cosmopolitan where they had an epiphany. Take it away benzo.... Just spent a few days in a Terrace Studio with my wife. Trip goes like they always do...mainly me boring her with architectural and design-y trivia about every building we see from our deck. She was amused by the WC wallpaper, which I pointed out to her is a repeating pattern of reclining women. Then, a day...

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Dickhead For A Day

Ahhhh, the whale's tales - stories of truly discretionary compage from casino hosts of the top players. Stories like the guy who lived his rock star fantasies by leading a band at The Joint or the dude who went for a swim inside Mandalay's Shark Reef. But those were years ago. Leave it to MGM to even bean count these experiences under a catchy new moniker: "M life Moments." But whatever. For the last six months, MGM has been marketing these experiences as something attainable to...

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Step Aside, Mandarin Bar... Hyde Is Here

Somewhere behind an uninviting, overwhelmingly hideous wall where Fontana's video poker once stood is a new space with a reputation that was tarnished before it even opened. It's run by the guy who closed Sahara. It forced the closure of one of everyone's favorite bars. It put yet another nightclub inside Bellagio. And yeah, it makes that front wall lining the casino look hideous. Everyone hates Hyde for all the reasons listed above. Stop. I went on its second eve of operation. Yes, eve. I had absolutely zero interest...

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Sayonara Jay Fenster!

We've received word earlier today that friend of VT and Caesars Inc. Super Tweeter Jay Fenster is leaving the company to take a position running the social media show at Cannery Resorts. This is a big deal. Jay is one of us. He got his start writing Vegas guidebooks and maintaining a short-lived but awesome Las Vegas tourism blog before selling his soul to The Borg. For the last few years, Jay has become a Las Vegas social media powerhouse tasked with maintaining...

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deadmau5: It's Something Special

When you see a concert at the Hollywood Palladium, there's always that one guy... It doesn't matter whether you're there to see a band who writes their own songs or a DJ who presses play on a MacBook Pro behind a veil of smoke machine haze. Somewhere amongst the crowd - perhaps he stood in line next to you - there's a guy eager to tell you about his lucky day: June 9, 1972. You see, The Rolling Stones announced a last-minute gig at the Hollywood Palladium...

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Make Your Own Cosmo Tweets!

Ever wish you could make your own esoteric @Cosmopolitan_LV tweets at home? You know, the kind you might better associate with a SoHo independent newspaper rather than a $3.9 billion dollar resort on the Las Vegas Strip? Well now you can, with this handy @Cosmopolitan_LV Tweet-Kit! Simply select a word from the A, B, and C columns, hashtag that shit, and you've got a Cosmo tweet! Tweets like, "Aboriginal Kid Robot Cocktails #PartyRock" and "Craft Brewed Lobster Lattes #nom"! Have fun, but remember -...

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MGM Grand Is Having A Contest

Time to put that barely used Hotmail or Yahoo! email box to some good use... giving it up to the spam gods in exchange for the opportunity to win a free stay in one of the MGM Grand's froshly redesigned hotel rooms. Simply go here and throw your email address into the volcano. Good luck! P.S. The official VT review of the new MGM rooms is coming next week!...

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\m/: Mastodon, Opeth, Ghost April 25th at Mandalay Bay

LUXOR: Hotel Guest Dies of Legionnaires

Viva La Revolution Okada!

Fun times in the Wynn Resorts boardroom over the last few weeks as majority stockholder Kazuo Okada (for whom the restaurant is named) is waging an internal war to either wrestle control of the company away from Steve Wynn or at the very least give him a thorough public spanking in the financial press. The tiff originates from a $150m donation Wynn Resorts made to the University of Macau, a token of good will in advance of neighboring Wynn Cotai's construction and opening. Miffed by...

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