Reporter:Corey Levitan
Corey Levitan joined Casino.org in 2022 after a long career covering Las Vegas. He currently covers entertainment, dining and gaming news in Las Vegas.
Corey spent six years covering the Vegas Strip for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he also wrote the most popular humor column in the city’s history. (For “Fear and Loafing,” he tried out 176 Vegas jobs, including poker player, blackjack dealer and Follie Bergere dancer.)
Corey has won more than 100 local, state and national awards for his journalism, which has also appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and the New York Post.
Corey is a New York native whose hobbies include playing guitar, trying to be a better husband, and arguing with strangers on Facebook.
Contact Corey at corey@casino.org.
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2083 stories by Corey Levitan
SPHERE OF THE UNKNOWN: Vegas Venue Now Hunting UFOs
At the same time new technology began helping thousands of fans inside the Sphere re-experience Dorothy dreaming of another world, new technology on top of the Sphere began tracking objects that might actually be from one. The Galileo Observatory -- designed by...
Boyd to Demolish Eastside Cannery in Las Vegas
The Eastside Cannery, a Boulder Strip casino that has remained closed since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, will be demolished. "It has been more than five years since we closed Eastside Cannery, and there is not sufficient market demand to reopen...
Poker Pro Jordan Cristos Jailed & Facing Charges in Multiple Threat Cases
Poker pro Jordan Cristos has $3,768,447 in career tournament earnings (per the Hendon Mob website) and a 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker title. But this week, he was just another defendant appearing in court remotely from Clark County Detention...
Las Vegas Antique Dealer Acquires Historic Casino Statues
When it opened, nine fountain statues greeted guests as they entered the original MGM Grand The statues were in place on Nov. 21, 1980 -- the day of the worst hotel fire in the US The fountain was removed during a renovation...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Dead Nevada Senator Kept on Ice for Reelection
EDITOR’S NOTE: A new “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s edition originally ran on April 21, 2023. Nevada’s US Senator Key Pittman died a few days before the November 1940 reelection that he was favored...
Coming to Vegas: Slots That Withdraw From Your Bank Account
Las Vegas slots players who run out of money during a session may soon be able to reload without ever getting up from their favorite machines A new payment system will let players link slot machines directly to their bank accounts sometime...
AI Shows Signs of Gambling Addiction, Study Finds
A new study finds that AI internalizes human gambling cognitive biases In a slot machine simulation, four different large language models bet until they were broke The AIs chased their gambling wins and losses exactly like gambling-addicted humans A new study finds...
VEGAS DINING NEWS: Strip to Get 3rd Country Star-Opened Honkytonk Restaurant, Gymkhana Sets Opening
Luke Combs announced Wednesday that he will open the second location of his Category 10 restaurant, bar and live country music venue in the Flamingo street frontage occupied until April 2024 by Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville. When it opens next fall, the Nashville...
Suspended Former Detroit Lion Arrested in Vegas for DUI
A former Detroit Lions safety currently serving a league suspension now also faces a misdemeanor DUI charge in Las Vegas. Tracy Walker III was arrested early Monday, October 20, according to KLAS-TV/Las Vegas. Walker, 30, was pulled over around 2 a.m. Monday...
Sphere Follows Yellow Brick Road to Record Profits
According to Sphere Entertainment Co. (NYSE: SPHR), its reimagining of “The Wizard of Oz” is generating blockbuster returns, with over $130 million in receipts from 1 million tickets sold as of October 17, just seven weeks after its August 28 premiere. The...
