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Gonzo, Gonzo, Gonzo, and Some Bourdain Too

With The Rum Diary pre-roll hype starting to reach fever pitch, venerable skin mag Playboy has fluffed up an astonishing array of articles about our... » continue

Kick Ass: Room77.com

One of the most frequently asked questions in the history of Las Vegas internets is, "What room should I request?" or some variation thereof. So... » continue

Awesome: Project Neon

Project Neon, a blog dedicated to cataloging and mapping New York City's neon signs, has unleashed a free iPhone app containing the fruits of their... » continue

I Miss The Mob

Bingo. cc: Jim Murren et al. PS. The Vegas Internet Mafia Family Picnic is coming in October! More details will be posted soon!... » continue

Golden Nugget Redesigns Website

As we expected, The Golden Nugget has updated their website, porting over the design they built for their recent purchase and re-branding-in-progress of the old... » continue

ESPN Folds Poker Programming

Last Friday, the U.S. Attorney Generals in New York unleashed sweeping indictments of the top three internet poker websites - PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com and AbsolutePoker/Ultimate Bet... » continue

All Aboard The Railroad Pass's

Ever been to the Railroad Pass casino on Boulder Highway in Henderson? Don't worry, neither has Jim Murren, the CEO of the company that... » continue

There's Gold In Them Thar Internet Poker Rooms!

Let us mark today - March 24, 2011 - as the day that the brick and mortar casino companies got serious about gaming on the... » continue

What Brian Thinks : Closing

Some of you have heard the bad news that Trippies award-winning website/forum WhatBrianThinksAboutLasVegas.com - the only website written on a cocktail napkin - has decided... » continue

Cosmopolitan Mobile Website Launches!

Just a quick note to those of you tuned into the iDevice/Android/mobile of your choice world. The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas has launched its Flash-free... » continue

The Vegas Shuffle Podcast

There's a (relatively) new podcast in town and it is hosted by none other than Anthony N. Curtis. No, not the legendary coupon slinging... » continue

Cosmopolitan To Launch Mobile Site

The Cosmopolitan is on the verge of launching a new mobile targeted version of their Trippies Award Winning Website which will be located at m.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com. They... » continue

Set Your Netflix to Vegas Overload

We here at VT love Netflix. No, not the snail mail, "I'll gladly give you a DVD tomorrow if you send me your previous... » continue

Twitter Racketeering For Fun And Profit

Suddenly, with the pitching of a pet peeve the size of a pebble, the tenuous world of the so called "Twitter Twins" - brothers Chris... » continue

Stratosphere's New Print Ad

The Stratosphere has taken out a half page ad in the Los Angeles Times touting their new goodness.... the tagline: Elevate your Expectations Accurate!... » continue

MGM PR Rewrites Jim Murren's Wikipedia Entry

It is a popular thing to bash Wikipedia. It is often unreliable, contains strangely sourced information and when accurate isn't always thorough. While... » continue

Awesome: Hipmunk.com

I hate booking airline tickets. Hate. Hate. Hate. Hate it. My local metropolis is served by four airports with different airlines 30 miles away... » continue

Circus Circus Gets Cutesy

Here's one for the UI / web design dorques in the crowd, courtesy of Circus Circus. Check it or use it. I almost half expect... » continue

Bellagio Debuts New Website

Bellagio has launched a brand new for 2010 website, almost three years to the day since they launched the last one (that sucked.) This one... well...... » continue

Mini Tycoon Casino : Farmville For Casino Dorques

No doubt all of you have been barraged by "please water my crops" and "Mary Jo just found a brown fox on her farm" messages... » continue

RateVegas Launches VegasQuiz for iPhone

Yeah, yeah we know. "But this has been in the App Store for the last X days." Well, not everyone is tuned into... » continue

Aria Reboots Website

Aria has rebooted its website. Gone is the dark blue city scape, replaced by lovely brown interiors and readable fonts. Yes, they've... » continue

FF: JimMurren

A few weeks ago, our cozy circle of Twitter dorques became aflutter at the news that the one and only James 'Jim' 'Jimbo' Murren, CEO... » continue

I'll Bet You Ten Bucks...

How many times have you instigated a friendly wager amongst online acquaintances? If you've spent any time whatsoever reading this website, you know that... » continue

International Grand Opening Invitation on eBay

Here's a big time score for you Vegas collector nuts, an original invitation to the Grand Opening of the International Hotel and Casino (now the... » continue

Aria Breeze Cafe and Pool Deck Pictorial

One of our favorite architecture/design blogs Contemporist has republished a great pictorial of the many groovy architectural features in, on, near and around Aria's pool... » continue

Palms Launches New Website

Sometime in the last month or so, The Palms has launched a brand new website, chock full of flashy insanity. The logo also appears to have... » continue

Rio Uses VT To Fight Dirty

Ugh. When will this stop? Shortly after we broke the news that Wynn would be implementing a resort fee, Caesars Palace was quick to throw a... » continue

Dr. Dave and Casino Twitter Usage

Ah, the early(ish) days of Twitter. The days when The Admiral actually scored the brilliantly simple handle of @Hunter (he was the 903rd person to... » continue

MGM Grand Launches Roaring New Website!

The standard bearer for 'bitchin' Las Vegas casino websites, Tha' MGM Grand, has launched a new one which roars like the coug that it... » continue

Hard Rock Launches Awesome New Website

The Hard Rock has launched a brand new website, which is... well... pretty f'ing awesome (unless you use one of those hotly discussed fruit company... » continue

Monte Carlo: Your Gateway To Failure

VT reader Antman73 gave us the heads up on Monte Carlo's much-needed website redo over on the board. Now, I'm no web design expert, but... » continue

A Precedent For Wynncore

By now, most of you are aware of that little argey bargey we had with Wynn Resorts' lawyer goons over the Wynncore.com domain name last... » continue

MGM Mansion Maybach : Buy It Now!

The Mansions at MGM Maybach is for sale on the eBay. Buy It Now for a cool $225,995... barely 6g's over the starting bid. A two year... » continue

The Venetian Macao Stole My Photo

If I'm lucky, I'll manage to take one really great photograph each year. The best photo I took in 2007 was outside of... » continue

Luxor: I Heart Patrick Dempsey (Update)

The Luxor Hotel Casino has just announced to its 12,809 Twitter followers - in the form of a question - that they love prime time... » continue

The Day The Mob Saved Vegas

We spend a lot of time pointing out how completely boobish, borderline insulting or pathologically useless the majority of Las Vegas casino marketing is. ... » continue

Sorry For Your Luck!

People often forget that Mork and Mindy was a spin-off of Happy Days. The same could be said for Sorry For Your... » continue

The Evolution Of 'Hi, I'm Steve Wynn'

Speaking of golden nuggets we found on YouTube, we've assembled a half-assed collection of videos which chronicle the evolution of the "Hi, I'm Steve Wynn"... » continue

The Death Watch: In COLOR!

Hell officially has frozen over. Our dear friend Nick Christensen, the original Las Vegas casino blogger, has moved his Trippies award winning website Las Vegas Casino... » continue

The New AriaLasVegas.com

For a long time I complained that the ARIA project was all about architecture and lacked any supporting information. Now, with the launch of... » continue

Every Casino Website Should Have This

ARIA's been quietly adding little, valuable bits of information on their site over the last few weeks - so little in fact that sometimes I... » continue

The Buffet is Closed

Ah. Los Angeles. The city I live in. The City of Angels. Paradise at the gates of hell. Tinseltown. ... » continue

El Cortez Changes Name And Redesigns Website

The state of the El Cortez website has been a running gag here for about five years - much to the chagrin of longtime VT... » continue

Those Damn Techies From California

Another one of those damn techies from California has stuck his finger in the Vegas pie again. No, not me... but our partner in... » continue

I Found More Shit On eBay

I collect Vegas stuff... the really cool stuff. Through the wonders of eBay, I've managed to snag uncut felt from a Binions Horseshoe... » continue

Dear Planet Hollywood, Your SSL Cert Is Fail

Why is it that whenever I get the itch to book a hotel room, the hotel in question's website booking system is broken? Last... » continue

Caesar's Palace

I'm not afraid to admit that I am a lousy speller and a lousy writer. I don't use spell check, I don't reference... » continue

Caesars Palace Sold To Mobster For $40M Cash

Reputed mobster Chuck 'Squidlid' Marinara just bought Caesars Palace for $40M ill-begotten virtual dollaz on the Facebook. You attack my property, I'll killya. You try... » continue

Palazzo Reservation Fail

Miss Monkay sent me an instant message earlier today which said "let's book something for Vegas next weekend... I gotta do the thingy for my... » continue