The Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks are pick ’em in Game 4 of the MLB World Series. The total is 9.
The Nevada Taxicab Authority has approved rate hikes for the three fixed-price zones between the airport and the Strip for the week surrounding the Las Vegas Grand Prix. All three fixed fares will increase by $15 from noon on Wednesday November 15 to noon on Tuesday November 21. The cab companies convinced the NTA by guaranteeing that 100% of the surcharge will pass through to the drivers, helping to ensure that a full complement of cabbies will be working the race and extra time spent accessing the Strip will be rewarded. For that week only, the fares will be: Zone 1 (Sunset to Tropicana) $37, Zone 2 (Tropicana to Flamingo) $41; and Zone 3 (Flamingo to the STRAT) $45.
The Duomo theater in the Masquerade Village wing of the Rio has closed and abruptly at that, according to Las Vegas Review-Journal entertainment columnist John Katsilometes. It was a small-show venue with four or five different acts performing there throughout the week; we reviewed one of them, Exxcite, which had just opened, in the September issue of the Advisor. In fact, the Duomo itself opened only a little more than a year ago (June 2022). It was also little more than an afterthought, unsupported by signage or much of an investment in infrastructure. Kats writes, "Word from the hotel is Comedy Cellar is moving into the now-former Duomo. A restaurant is reportedly planned for the current Comedy Cellar space."
The four-lane 760-foot bridge on Flamingo Road over Koval Lane has opened to traffic. The bridge will provide access for "approved vehicles" (hotel guests and employees, law enforcement, and first responders) access to the tourist corridor while race cars are on the circuit (Koval is on it, Flamingo isn't). At all other times, all vehicles are allowed on the bridge, allowing drivers on Flamingo to bypass the Koval traffic lights. The speed limit on the bridge is 15 miles per hour. No pedestrians are allowed and visibility of the circuit is blocked by metal walls. The good news is that after the week in which the bridge was constructed, traffic has opened again on Flamingo and Koval.
The Detroit Lions are -7 favorites over the Las Vegas Raiders in tonight's Monday Night Football game. The total is 46.
The Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks are pick ’em in Game 3 of the MLB World Series. The total is 9.
If you saw Andrew Economon appear as the first guest one of our earliest YouTube "Beer Fridays" episodes, you'll know the answer to the question in the title of this item. If not, you can watch it here (Andrew comes on at 11:45). Either way, if you want to read about him, mostly in his own words, there's a nice profile of Andrew on CDCGamingReports. And if you don't want to bother with either, we'll give you the essence of the marketing philosophy of Andrew, the general manager of Downtown Grand, home of $1 blackjack, $2 Nathans hot dogs and draft Pabst Blue Ribbon, $3.50 Pabst Blue Ribbon and shot of Evan Williams bourbon, $20 three-course lunch special at the Triple George Grill, and weekly blackjack mini- and video poker tournaments: "I’m just trying to get people in here and have fun with our value propositions. They might spend some money while they’re here.” What a concept. And what a refreshing breath of honesty during third-quarter earnings reports where every corporate CEO and CFO is banging the "guest experience" drum so loud that you can't help wondering who they're trying to convince.
Glittering Lights, the two and a half mile drive-through light show at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, is returning for the 23rd annual event. More than five million lights encompassed by 2,000 displays are set up along the course, which opens Thursday November 9 and runs through January 7 and is accessible 4:30-9 p.m. nightly. Tickets are $39 per carload per entry, with Fast Passes (skip the lineup) for $64, season passes for two vehicles $129, and Early Bird (in line before 6 p.m.) at $10 off. Tickets are available at GlitteringLightsLasVegas.com.
The Los Angeles Chargers are -9.5 favorites over the Chicago Bears in tonight’s Sunday Night Football game. The total is 45.5.
Your faithful member-services staff at the Las Vegas Advisor wracked our brains to put together a list of 100 FREE things to do in Las Vegas. It's a comprehensive reminder that Bargain City hasn't completely been subsumed by Gouge City. It's downloadable, so you can print it out and check off the free attractions, entertainment, and experiences as you go. Access it here or find it via the link in the Visit drop down or slider.
New York City social club, Zero Bond, has announced a new partnership with the Wynn. The exclusive club, open only to members who are approved in a "rigorous selection process" and pay an initiation fee of $1,000, plus annual dues of $3,850, is slated to open sometime in 2025. The application process says, "Financial requirements for membership, while significant, are not overly prohibitive." The name is the same as its unusual Manhattan address, 0 Bond Street, in the NOHO neighborhood (North of Houston) in Lower Manhattan.
The Texas Rangers are -145 favorites over the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 2 of the MLB World Series. The total is 9.
Careful if you're going be in Las Vegas while the Formula 1 festivities are going on and want to attend a show. Most productions on the Strip will be dark Thurs.-Sat. Nov. 16-18. Some will go on Thursday and Friday, but almost all are taking Saturday, the night of the race, off.
Treasure Island celebrated its 30th anniversary yesterday. Many of you probably recall that the night it opened in 1993, debuting the pirate show, the ships' cannons went off at the same moment that the Dunes down the Strip was imploded to make way for Bellagio. Also, it was the second of three newly dubbed "megaresorts" to open in what we called at the time "the Great Race," in which Luxor opened a couple of weeks earlier and MGM Grand opened a couple of months later. And it inadvertently launched the "family-friendly" era in Las Vegas -- inadvertently, because that was an unintended consequence of the pirate theme and show, at least according to developer Steve Wynn 30 years ago, even though MGM Grand debuted with a major amusement park on the property. In addition, Wynn introduced Cirque du Soleil to Las Vegas at Treasure Island; Mystere, too, is celebrating its 30th this year (in December). MGM Resorts picked up the property in 2000, selling it off to current owner Phil Ruffin in 2009 for $775 million.
Remember Tropical Storm Hilary that hit the Southwest in mid-August? The Mt. Charleston area, just west of Las Vegas, got hit the hardest hereabouts, so much so that the access roads have been closed and the residential communities in the mountains have been without water ever since. Up to eight inches of rain did an enormous amount of damage above 7,000 feet that's costing $11 million to rectify. The good news is that after two-plus months, the situation is starting to return to normal. The first road, up Lee Canyon (NV156), reopened last night; Kyle Canyon Road (NV157) is scheduled to reopen Nov. 3 and Deer Creek Road (NV158) Nov. 10. The bad news is that several of the most popular hiking trails, including Cathedral Rock and Mary Jane Falls, will remain closed for "at least two years." Still, only eight miles of trails will continue to be affected, leaving more than 130 miles open to the public. Lee Canyon Ski Resort is, somewhat miraculously, on schedule to open between mid-November and early December, depending on temperatures, precipitation, and snow-making.
The Texas Rangers are -155 favorites over the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 1 of the MLB World Series. The total is 8.5.
In a meeting with the Las Vegas Stadium Authority on Wednesday, the Las Vegas Athletics ballpark-construction manager Mortenson-McCarthy, the same firm that oversaw the Allegiant Stadium process, said that construction will start in April 2025 and be completed in January 2028. Mortenson-McCarthy also presented plans for community engagement (mostly the involvement of minorities and local businesses during the building), community benefits (living wages for stadium employees, diversity, and educational opportunities), and money allocated to two law firms for negotiating the contractual fine print. Among those details are the relocation clauses after the guaranteed 30-year lease period expires and a plan for the 30-year-old stadium if the A's move, which they're wont to do from time to time. A story on the website for Sports Illustrated, which has been critical of the A's ways of doing things, points out that a Nevada teacher's group, Students over Stadiums, could disrupt the plan if legislation it's sponsoring is voted on in the 2024 election. In addition, the A's won't be paying any rent to the landlord (Gaming & Leisure Properties) over the course of the 30-year lease and will have the opportunity to buy the stadium in 2058, though "of course the team won't buy it, because it'll be old by then. That's why they were happy to let the county take it." The SI story concludes, "As always, this entire plan feels half-baked. While some questions were answered or made official, the big ones, like where the team will play in 2025-27, how Fisher is paying for this project, and how this thing will actually look, are still looming."
What's next? What's coming up after the openings of Sphere, the Durango, and Fontainebleau? Anthony lays out the the new developments arriving in the next few years. Then Anthony and Andrew talk about another union action on the Strip in support of contract negotiations, which are coming down to the F1 wire. Peter Luger opened early at Caesars Palace; the guys discuss the pricey menu that, unexpectedly, includes a lunch special. The World Series is set and Anthony provides the opening line, along with the straight dope on how Mattress Mack fared with his beloved Houston Astros losing in the American League championship series. The Las Vegas Aces, on the other hand, get a nod for winning their second-in-a-row WNBA championship. The Question of the Week provides "advice on advice" and the Jackpot of the Week is yet another Megabucks moment, the fourth this year and third in Vegas. Finally, find out where and when the next Beer Fridays will take place. Hint: It's not in the office and it's not on Friday!
Golden Steer, the iconic Las Vegas steakhouse that opened in 1958 just west of the Strip on Sahara, is expanding for the first time since 1978. The restaurant, celebrating its 65th anniversary this year, is taking over the space next door, which was occupied by a Middle Eastern eatery that closed several months ago. The expansion will add 1,000 square feet and 60 seats, according to the story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and will be ready in time for the F1 race.
The Buffalo Bills are -9.5 favorites over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in tonight's Thursday Night Football game. The total is 43.
The opening ceremony of the Las Vegas Grand Prix will feature performances by nine acts, including such big names as Keith Urban, Journey, DJ Steve Aoki, and Swedish House Mafia. Blue Man Group and some Cirque du Soleil performers will also make appearances, along with all 20 drivers who will participate in the race. The ceremony will kick off at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday November 15 in front of an audience estimated at 30,000 in the stands around the "pit building." The show will also be televised on ESPN 2 and the F1 YouTube channel. Some tickets are available for the ceremony only, but you have to apply for them on F1's ticket page; no prices have been announced.
The reviews are starting to come in for our new James Grosjean book, The Ultimate Report -- The Book for Casino Carny Games. Casino-games expert Buddy Frank posted one yesterday on CDC Gaming Reports and an excellent review has been sitting on Amazon for a month. If you've been on the fence about buying this book, these are two good independent sources of information on what you'll find in it and the value you'll receive from it -- especially if you plan any of the dozen games James covers therein.
A story in yesterday's Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that the Dream Casino project on the south Strip, which has been in suspended animation all year, could restart in January. The developer of the 531-room hotel-casino going up next door to the Pinball Hall of Fame submitted documents to the county indicating that a bridge loan could close within two weeks and full financing is expected to follow by the end of the year. The funding would include debt to pay off a number of liens the property has been saddled with since construction was halted after running out of money last January. A spokesperson for the developer told the R-J that they hope the project, originally announced to open in 2024, will be completed in late 2025.
As if we needed more traffic problems on the Strip, we’ll get them today with the effects of the F1 traffic-snarling “Beast” hugely magnified by a Culinary Union protest. The Culinary will stage a four-hour civil-disobedience picket today on the Strip in front of Bellagio and Paris. The well-publicized plan is to begin the picket that will shut down single lanes in both directions at 4 p.m., eventually blocking all traffic lanes starting at 6 p.m., which will lead to the arrest of the participants. If you weren’t already heeding our warnings to avoid Flamingo near the Strip, you’d be well served to heed them -- and without fail -- today.
The Texas Rangers are -170 favorites over the Arizona Diamondbacks to win the MLB World Series. Game 1 is Friday.
The Megabucks jackpot was hit last Wednesday at Excalibur for $12,185,766. It was the third Megabucks progressive to be won in Las Vegas this year and the fourth in Nevada. A local hit it at the Cannery in July, a California visitor hit it at Aria in August, and a Reno woman hit it at the Atlantis in April. This one was the second largest for the year, after the $14 million in Reno; the other two were $10.4 million and $10.1 million.
In tonight’s deciding Game 7 of the National League Championship series, the Philadelphia Phillies are -150 favorites over the Arizona Diamondbacks. The total is 8.
U2 likes Las Vegas (or the band needs the money), so they've announced 11 more dates for their residency: January 26, 27, and 31; and February 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 15, 17, and 18. Big weekend in February: They'll be playing the Friday night before the Super Bowl. Tickets for the new shows will be available during a general on-sale starting tomorrow at 11 a.m. PT at Ticketmaster.com.
A commentary on the CDC Gaming Reports website discusses whether casinos can compete with other industries to attract and retain top-notch employees, especially "executive and professional talent" among the younger generations. Is the labor shortage permanent and is it due to much higher wages and more attractive opportunities in the tech, hospitality, and other competing industries? The commentary likens the casino business to the long decline of the auto industry in this country -- much more competition from "new products" and slow to evolve to changing market conditions. (Nevada, for example, is losing sports bettors due to its outdated in-person registration policy, finally expedited esports wagering last week, and still doesn't allow daily fantasy sports.) It's just one opinion, but it presents a strong argument for an impending shakeout in this industry.
Peter Luger, the long-awaited steakhouse slated for Caesars Palace, has opened. Originally announced years ago, then a few weeks ago for a grand opening on November 1, the 136-year-old restaurant, the first outlet outside of New York, was ready on Thursday when it flung open its doors. The online menu doesn't have prices, but we tracked them down and here they are. Appetizers start at $15 for a house salad, pause at $25 for one of the Luger's signature dishes, three thick-cut slices of bacon (recommended to be combined with the sliced tomatoes and onions, $18, for a $43 starter), and climb up to $35 for the jumbo crab cake. The jumbo shrimp cocktail is $30, the half-tail Maine lobster cocktail is $40, and the oysters are $3.75 (each for when you order a dozen). Speaking of seafood, the towers are unique to Vegas: jumbo shrimp, oysters, lobster, and king crab for one or two $96, for three or four $180. And speaking of three-figure dishes, the generic "steak" (a New York strip) is $72 for one, $149 for two, $216 for three, and $286 for four and the rib steak is $90/$173. A half-broiled chicken is $45, grilled Atlantic salmon $47, lamb chops $75, and Dover sole $90. Sides such as potatoes, broccoli, asparagus, and creamed spinach are $15. Desserts -- cheesecake, strudel, mousse, ice cream, berries -- are also $15. So figure on a minimum of $250-$275 for appetizer, steak, tower, or entree, a couple of sides, and desserts for two. Sky's the limit with booze. It looks like the menu is for lunch and dinner; maybe we'll try the lunch specials, a half-pound burger ($25, add cheese $2, fries $5) or the New York strip sandwich for $30. Maybe. Peter Luger is open Wed.-Sun. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Mon.-Tues. 5-10 p.m.
The San Francisco 49ers are -7 favorites over the Minnesota Vikings in tonight's Monday Night Football game. The total is 44.
In tonight’s deciding Game 7 of the American League Championship series, the Houston Astros are -135 favorites over the Texas Rangers. The total is 9.
Don Laughlin, founder of and prime mover behind the gambling border town of Laughlin at the extreme southern tip of Nevada, has died at age 92. We've written about him several times; his life story is emblematic of the old-time gambler-casino boss. In this Question of the Day, we cover his first forays into the business in North Las Vegas. In this two-parter from 2013, we fill out his biography. (For Part Two, simply click on the Next button in the left-hand box below the answer.) To us, "the Don of Laughlin" is the last of of the line in his generation of casino pioneers. May his memory be a blessing.
The Philadelphia Eagles are -3 favorites over the Miami Dolphins in tonight’s Sunday Night Football game. The total is 52.
To celebrate the Las Vegas Aces second-in-a-row WNBA championship, a parade will take place starting at the corner of Tropicana and the Strip at 5 p.m. tomorrow evening. It will proceed north on the Strip in the southbound lane to Park Avenue, where it will turn left and continue on to Toshiba Plaza outside T-Mobile Arena. The party there will end at 7:30 p.m. Public access to Toshiba Plaza opens at 3 p.m.
"Weekends with Adele" has added 16 weekends in 2024: January 19, 20, 26, and 27; February 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, and 24; March 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, and 30; May 17, 18, 24, 25, and 31; June 1, 7, 8, 14, and 15. This is the second extension to the original dates earlier this year; the current shows end November 4. You can register for tickets for the 2024 dates through tomorrow; randomly selected hopefuls will receive a purchase code for tickets that will go on sale on October 26.
The LIOZ Show, a one-man parody-magic performance at the Venue at the Orleans by Israeli illusionist-comedian Lioz Shem Tov, will be closing on Saturday October 29. We offer a $20 discount with our Member Rewards Online coupon, so use it by a week from tomorrow or lose it.
Islam Makhachev is a -250 favorite over Alexander Volkanovski in today's UFC main event. In the other featured match, Khamzat Chimaev is -350 over Kamaru Usman.
Porter Airlines, the low-cost Canadian-owned-and-operated carrier that specializes in connections to U.S. cities, has announced new routes between its home base in Toronto and Las Vegas. The new daily round-trip service will begin on March 5 in Embraer E195-E2 aircraft, which feature two-by-two seating (no middle); free beer and wine will also be available. Fares start at $346 round-trip.
Announced early this year, Universal plans to open a "111,000-square-foot, year-round, horror-focused attraction" to be the anchor tenant in a 20-acre expansion at Area15. No timetable or capital investment was ever revealed and as far as we know, ground hasn't been broken, although the January announcement mentioned "the next six months." However, the attraction has now been named and ThemeParkInsider.com reports that it will be "Universal Horror Unleashed." Not much progress 10 months later, but we're posting it as a reminder that it's another in a long line of entertainment choices that will open here in the foreseeable future.
... Anthony and Andrew talk about rumors of two new Strip casinos, one major Strip non-casino property that refuses to die, and one North Las Vegas casino that has closed. Then they shake their heads throughout the discussion of "the Beast," the incredibly horrendous traffic situation along the F1 race route that continues to get worse, if that's even possible -- and it is. Learn where to avoid at all costs. Anthony goes into some detail about the best Chinese restaurants in town, of which there are countless, including his favorites. A local high school has the number-one football program in the entire country. The Question of the Week poses the critical question: How do you stop? If you've ever found yourself overstaying your welcome at a casino (vis-a-vis your own bankroll), you won't want to miss this segment. And finally, the Jackpot of the Week concerns a little-known video poker option called Dream Card, also known as Magic Deal, which produced three nice royals in one hand. Click the arrow and you're off to the races.
The partnership between MGM Resorts and Marriott International was originally announced to commence this month, but it's been postponed. A press release issued earlier this week indicates that the joint venture will launch "sometime in early 2024." The cyberattack obviously interrupted the implementation of combining the loyalty clubs, some hotel branding, and online gambling encompassed by the merger.
The New Orleans Saints are -2.5 favorites over the Jacksonville Jaguars in tonight's Thursday Night Football game. The total is 40.5.
Dirk Arthur, a mainstay Las Vegas headliner, illusionist, and big-cat performer of days gone by, died in Las Vegas last Friday at age 63 of an apparent heart attack. Arthur began his career in Las Vegas in the 1990s and continued to perform up until 2015 at Westgate in Dirk Arthur's Wild Illusions. After that, animal-rights activism pretty much ended any chance he might have had to ply his big-animal trade on stage here. Still, he kept his big cats at his home, struggling to care for them and himself without much income. A fellow performer and animal-refuge proprietor told VitalVegas' Scott Roeben, "I do not believe my friend Dirk died of a heart attack, but rather of a broken heart." Scott knew Arthur personally and you can read his eulogy and see a few photos here.
According to FrontOfficeSports.com, the NFL's senior director of events says that the league plans to insert Las Vegas into the rotation of regular Super Bowl hosts, including Miami, New Orleans, Phoenix, and Los Angeles. "We know [Allegiant] is a very special place," the executive told FrontOfficeSports. "All 32 [teams’ fans] converge on this city."
The Las Vegas Aces won Game 4 of their best-of-5 WNBA Finals series last night at Mandalay Bay to become league champions for the second year in a row. It's the first repeat for any team since 2001. They were 10-1 in the playoffs, losing only once to the New York Liberty in the Finals. The Liberty were led by 2023 league MVP forward Breanna Stewart and superstar guard Sabrina Ionescu; they stormed into the lead in the first quarter and led 23-13. Vegas chipped away at the lead and with eight seconds left in the game, were ahead by a point. New York guard Courtney Vandersloot missed the winning shot at the buzzer and the Aces took down the nail-biter 70-69. Aces forward A'ja Wilson was named Finals MVP. Thanking her teammates, she said, "We cried together. We prayed together. And now we're popping champagne together!”
The Las Vegas Aces went 2-0 to start the WNBA championship series, then lost Game 3 in New York to the Liberty on Sunday by a score of 87-73. Tonight's Game 4 starts at 6 p.m. at Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay. The Aces are 19-1 at home this year in the regular and playoff seasons and the one loss wasn't to the Liberty, which they beat twice at home.
Room rates charged by the major hotel-casinos during Formula 1 week continue to plummet. With race day exactly a month away, the Las Vegas Review-Journal conducted another survey and found that some rooms are 70% less expensive than when F1 rates were originally announced. That doesn't mean they're a good deal by any stretch of the imagination, but it does mean that they're not selling the way the eternally optimistic (about suckers' money) casinos hoped and planned. Rooms at the Linq listed for $2,695 a year ago are now going for $810, a 70% drop (and, we assume, are readily available at that price), while Paris has gone from $3,500 to $1,513 (57%), Planet Hollywood from $4,337 to $1,525 (65%), and Caesars from $5,323 to $2,420 (55%). All the rooms have dropped from 15% to 42% in the last month.
Roughly 3,700 hotel-casino employees, members of the United Auto Workers, Teamsters, Engineers, Carpenters, and hospitality unions, staged a work stoppage yesterday at noon at the three Detroit casinos, 12 hours after the union contracts expired and late-night negotiations failed to resolve the remaining contract issues: inflation-pacing wages, job security, and better retirement benefits, among others. The walkout includes dealers, valet parkers, food-and-beverage employees, and cleaning staff. The casinos have announced that they'll remain open for the duration of the strike, which could be awhile, with workers insisting that they won't return until the contracts are finalized and approved. Meanwhile, the clock continues to tick tick tick on labor negotiations between the casino companies and 53,000 union employees in Las Vegas; a union official told Channel 13 on Monday, "There’s been no movement whatsoever on economics.” Unlike in Detroit, Las Vegas union members have been working without a contract for nearly six months.
You thought it was bad before? Flamingo is now completely blocked in both directions at Koval while a temporary bridge designed to accommodate traffic flow during the Formula 1 race is built. Similar disruptions are on the way with the building of two more temp bridges about to begin. Avoid Flamingo directly east of the Strip.
Chicago’s iconic Portillo’s has announced plans to open in Las Vegas. Famous for its Chicago dogs and Italian beef sandwiches, it will join Giordano’s as a Windy City transplant, though it hasn’t been announced when that will be.
Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White has been making a lot of media noise since Sphere opened two weeks ago about his burning desire to stage a UFC fight at the venue and his fervent wish to be the first sporting event at the high-tech arena. He wants to schedule the event for September 2024, claiming it will take that long to "understand the venue's full capabilities and how best to deploy them," according to an article on FrontOfficeSports.com. The story digs deeper past White to examine the possibilities of other sporting events occurring at the arena and concludes that, though the leagues and teams worry Sphere will overwhelm games at the venue, which isn't geared toward sports, and existing long-term relationships and contracts with other arenas will certainly get in the way, "Even without a single sports event held there yet, Sphere has created a buzz within the business of sports that has no direct precedent."
The Dallas Cowboys are -1 favorites over the Los Angeles Chargers in tonight's Monday Night Football game. The total is 49.5.
A new digital "museum" is on its way from Korea to the Strip. Arte Museum bills itself as a "fusion of various digital-media technologies and visual creativity" to present the environment through a hyper-realistic projection through which "visitors experience nature unconstrained by time and space." The Korean digital-design company d'strict is opening the $25 million, two-story, 30,000 square-foot exhibition space at 63, the shopping center attached to the Shops at Crystals between Aria and the Cosmopolitan sometime next month. The show, "Eternal Nature," will surround guests with "towering waterfalls, vast beaches, blooming flowers, breaking waves, forest landscapes, the northern lights, and infinite star fields," plus a “Light of Las Vegas” zone, customized for this venue. Tickets will be on sale soon.
Following Kylie Minogue at the Venetian's new "intimate" 1,000-seat concert venue Voltaire, singer-songwriter Christina Aguilera, who's sold 75 million records and won six Grammys, will do a 10-show residency to launch the new year. The shows will be on Dec. 30 and 31, January 5 and 6, February 2, 3, 9, and 10, and March 1 and 2. Tickets are on sale now starting at $424.
The Buffalo Bills are -14.5 favorites over the New York Giants in tonight’s Sunday Night Football game. The total is 43.5.
Formula 1 is hyperaware that the term "paddock" for its Las Vegas race headquarters is also the surname of the October 1 mass shooter. Liberty Media, owner of the race, awhile ago announced that it planned to rename the property in deference to local sensitivities, but apparently hasn't been able to come up with anything suitable. Still, it announced yesterday that for now, the term that will be used is "pit building." We can't say that it makes much sense to us; a pit (large hole in the ground) and a building (a structure with a roof and walls) aren't exactly a match made in heaven. And yes, we know that a pit is the area where race cars are serviced (derived from the pre-times before fast hydraulic lifts, when cars were driven over a pit and serviced from below). You might think, like we do, that out of all the F1 advertising agencies, one ad wonk could find a better designation. We have a few ideas, but no one's offering to pay us for them.
The iconic Bellagio opened on October 15, 1998 (we were there), which means it's celebrating its 25th anniversary today. A week ago, the Clark County Commission proclaimed Oct. 15 the official Bellagio Resort & Casino Day. We'd love to say that MGM Resorts is pulling out all the stops to celebrate, but all we've heard thus far is about a "giant 24-hour party for its employees on Friday." They did issue a press release with some big 25-year numbers: The fountains have put on 183,700 shows; 1,221 of the 6,000 team members started on day one (25%); the property has hosted 13,508 weddings and opened 547,500 bottles of champagne; and Cirque du Soleil's O has performed 11,345 shows and sold 19.1 million tickets. Steve Wynn designed the property and ran it until MGM Resorts bought it, along with the Mirage and Treasure Island, out from under him in 2000.
Tune into this week's LVA YouTube Weekly Update for -- drum roll, please, Maestro: a discussion about the annual Global Gaming Expo (G2E) that Andrew loves attending to see all the cool new machines and games; the arrest of a Henderson resident who has admitted to being involved in the murder of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas in 1996; the grand opening of Zippy's Hawaiian fast-food outlet, reminiscent of a couple of other major arrivals in town; an update on the remaining Circa Survivor contestants; the answer to the Question of the Week about walking on the F1 race route; and the Jackpot of the Week, the $50,000 winner of a Super Bingo tournament at the Plaza, which can't help to warm your hearts with a very happy ending. All with the quick click of your mouse.
Nine months after President Joe Biden mentioned junk fees in his 2023 State of the Union address, the Federal Trade Commission has introduced a proposed rule that would ban "hidden and bogus fees" charged to consumers by hotels, airlines, live-ticket events, and the like. The FTC estimates that these opaque charges can cost consumers an "extra $80 billion every year." The rule would impose transparency on extra fees, preclude businesses from using and/or misrepresenting hidden fees, and prohibit businesses from advertising prices that leave out mandatory charges, such as resort fees. It wouldn't, however, prevent companies from adding the fees or limit what they can be, just that consumers need to know the total price they'll pay up front. The rule will soon be published in the Federal Register; when it appears, people can comment for 60 days.
IFLScience.com, a UK-based science website, has issued a report on two coin-toss studies. The first found that "coin tosses aren't 50/50 after all. You can tip the odds ever so slightly in your favor." How? "According to one team, when you toss a coin, you introduce a tiny amount of wobble to it." Due to "precession" (the rotational motion of the axis of a spinning body, such as the wobbling of a spinning top), the coin spends slightly more time in the air with the initial side facing up. So the coin has a higher chance of landing on the same side that was facing up when tossed, known as "same-side bias." A second study was performed to check the first by 48 people who flipped 350,757 coins from 46 different currencies and determined a 50.8% chance of the coin showing up the same side it was tossed from. The study's conclusion: If a coin-toss is employed to determine a deciding outcome, "the starting position of the coin is best concealed."
We hear from a subscriber that the Great Wall Chinese restaurant at West Charleston and Rancho is closing. According to our correspondent, the landlord jacked up the rent, "so they decided to call it quits." It opened in 1966 and has been a favorite of locals, making numerous lists of best Chinese restaurants, for big portions and inexpensive prices. Many Las Vegans, including us, will be sorry to see it go.
To calculate the average retirement income needed to live comfortably in the 50 U.S. states and D.C., financial site GOBankingRates examined five elements of retirement: groceries, healthcare, housing, utilities, and transportation. From those, they extrapolated the annual income necessary to retire, adding another 20% for the "comfortable" prospect. Nevada ranked 29th cheapest out of the 51 jurisdictions at $66,415 in annual income. Note that GOBanking Rates didn't include gambling in its consideration. Most expensive was Hawaii at $121,228, preceded by D.C. ($99,980), Massachusetts ($97,699), California ($90,399), and New York ($88,444). Least expensive were Mississippi ($55,074), Oklahoma ($56,508), Alabama ($56,769), Kansas ($56,899), and Iowa ($57,485). On either side of Nevada (arithmetically and geographically) were Idaho ($64,459) and Utah ($66,480).
The Las Vegas Aces are 2-0 against the New York Liberty in the WNBA championship finals. The current champions have soundly beaten New York, 99-82 in the first game last Sunday and 104-76 in the second game on Wednesday. If they win Game 3 in the best-of-five series, they will sweep the playoffs with a record of 8-0 (2-0 against the Chicago Sky and 3-0 against the Dallas Wings). They'll also be the first WNBA team to repeat as champions since the 2002 season. Game 3 is on Sunday in New York at noon PT.
The Kansas City Chiefs are -10.5 favorites over the Denver Broncos in tonight's Thursday Night Football game. The total is 47.5.
In all the years we've reported on all the classic-rock groups that have appeared in Las Vegas, this is the first time we've ever had the pleasure to announce the appearance of Tommy James and the Shondells. The band was founded in Michigan in 1964. Their first hit was "(My Baby Does the) Hanky Panky" in 1965, followed by the smash hits "I Think We're Alone Now," "Mirage (one of our favorites), “Mony Mony,” “Crimson and Clover” (with one of the greatest first vocal notes in rock 'n' roll), “Crystal Blue Persuasion,” “I Think We’re Alone Now,” "Sweet Cherry Wine," “Draggin’ The Line,” and eight other Top 40 hits. Actually, this is the first time we've heard that the current band, including Tommy James (now 76), is touring at all. They're making only seven stops between this month and next March, one of them at the Golden Nugget Showroom on October 27. Tickets are on sale now starting at $90.
The most interesting product being rolled out at this year's Global Gaming Expo (G2E) is a machine that combines video poker and sports betting introduced by IGT, which calls it "the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of slots.” On the machine, you can play video poker and make in-game sports bet at the same time, all from your credits on the meter. Choose your VP variation from the multigame screen, then toggle to the "equivalent of a sports betting kiosk" with the touch of a button. While you're playing VP, a sports ticker runs across the bottom of the screen, but you can pin your game of choice to the screen "for even faster access to in-game bets." The sports-betting screen has all the options available at a kiosk and sports book; a betting ticket is printed, which you can also redeem at the machine if it's a winner; the payout is reflected on the credit meter. "For accounting and reporting purposes, the machine notes in the background how much was bet for sports and how much for video poker." You cash out your combined credits in the usual fashion by printing the TITO ticket. No word, of course, about whether the sports bet odds are worse than at the kiosk or book, but we'd lay 100-1 they're not better and 10-1 they're not even the same.
Transportation plans around the F1 race are coming together. The final traffic-control proposal will be submitted to the county on October 19, ostensibly for rubber-stamping, but yesterday, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority signed a $300,000 contract for buses to transport center Strip employees to and from satellite parking locations during the week surrounding the Las Vegas Grand Prix. The LVCVA will provide free bus transportation from 4,300 free parking spots at at least 10 satellite lots for an estimated 10,000 employees impacted by the road closures for the race. (Employees who take the Monorail will have to pay the $5 fare.) As for the public, park-and-ride locations and ride-share pickup and dropoff points are still being determined and an app with relevant transportation information will be rolled out shortly. The Regional Transportation Commission is altering public-bus routes for that week and issuing warnings about "major delays" on routes to, from, and through the race area.
Contrary to all the reporting that MGM Resorts is back to normal after last month's cyberattack, our correspondent Larry S. sent in an eyewitness report that "there's still a problem using express comps at MGM," meaning the comps issued at kiosks for the convenience of not having to wait in lines at the players club booths. We've also heard, though admittedly secondhand, that some systems at the booths themselves aren't back to normal. We also heard from Edward H. at Borgata in Atlantic City that "all the (non-sports betting) kiosks were down." Curious that all the systems with which MGM takes in money are operating, while the ones where the casino issues rewards have yet to return fully. If we were conspiracy-minded ...
Longtime LVA subscriber Mark E. sent this video from the YouTube Game Show Network channel. He says that they've been posting old
episodes of the game show "To Tell the Truth." The one he sent dates all the way back to 1974, nearly 50 years ago, in which the first contestant is Bob Stupak. It's fun to watch him, looking so young, along with the imposters and the way they answered the panel's questions and how many were fooled. To us, there's a dead-giveaway response by Stupak, which you'll no doubt pick up on, though the panel didn't. "To Tell the Truth" first aired on CBS in 1956 and ran through 1981, then on and off between 1990 and last year. Our very own Jean Scott and Anthony Curtis also appeared as contestants on the show. As for Stupak, you can read his life story in our book, No Limit -- The Rise and Fall of Bob Stupak and the Stratosphere Tower.
A solar eclipse, when the moon situates itself between Earth and the sun, will cross Las Vegas' sky on Saturday morning starting at 8:08 a.m. The total eclipse will start at the Oregon coast near Eugene at 9:13 a.m. and head into Mexico near Corpus Christi, Texas, at noon Central time; the nearest spot to southern Nevada to view the totality will be in Cedar City, 170 miles northeast. In Vegas, the partial eclipse will cover 80%-85% of the sun, with the maximum eclipse at 9:26 and normalcy returning just before 11. As always, be very careful looking at it; if you plan to, best is to do so through solar filters, but other techniques are safe (Dr. Google can prescribe them). The next solar eclipse over Vegas won't happen for another 22 years (Aug. 12, 2045).
In a public interview with CNBC reporter Contessa Brewer at the Global Gaming Expo under way at the Venetian, MGM Resorts CEO Bill Hornbuckle told the audience that though the cyberattack was "corporate terrorism at its finest," the company didn't pay any ransom to the hackers, protected credit-card and banking information, and was put to the test by the ordeal. Hornbuckle said, “We reacted quickly to protect the data. You saw us shutting down systems by our own design. We found ourselves in an environment where for the next four or five days, with 36,000 hotel rooms and regional properties, we were completely in the dark. Telephones, hotel systems, casino systems, key systems, and I could go on and on weren’t functioning. For a couple of weeks, it was devastating.” He also noted that the hack happened so quickly, MGM was defending the systems in a “whack-a-mole fashion.” The reason they decided not to pay the ransom was it would have taken the company just as long, if not longer, to work their way out of the situation as it would have if the hackers had given them the encryption keys.
The MegaMillions jackpot had climbed to $361 million in 15 drawings without a winner when it was hit on Friday by a single ticket somewhere in Texas. The last time the jackpot was hit was on August 15 and it was the largest Mega Millions jackpot ever won in the Lone Star State, breaking the record set there in September 2019 at a piddly $227 million. It was also the ninth Mega Millions jackpot hit this year, which hadn't happened since 2014. The jackpot reset to $20 million. Meanwhile, no one bagged the Powerball jackpot in last night's drawing and it now sits at $1.73 billion, second largest in U.S. lottery history. It's also the first time in Powerball history that consecutive jackpots have exceeded $1 billion. When it was last hit on July 19, the grand prize was $1.08 billion. The lump-sum payout on this one is now $757 million.
The Las Vegas Raiders are -1 favorites over the Green Bay Packers in tonight's Monday Night Football game. The total is 45.
The Culinary and Bartenders union will initiate picket lines on Thursday in front of eight MGM and Caesars hotel-casinos as contract negotiations have bogged down to a crawl. It will be the first time in that the Las Vegas Strip has seen a gauntlet of picketing hospitality workers. In a plea for support, the unions are asking visitors not to cross the lines. Union members voted overwhelmingly last month to authorize a strike and a walkout could be called any day.
An article on YahooFinance.com enumerates the major slump of casino stocks since early August, "with some entering bear-market territory after dropping more than 20%." It reports that the "biggest losers have been the world's largest gambling stock by total valuation, Las Vegas Sands, and MGM Resorts," which is still recovering from the cyberattack. Only a single stock out of the top ten largest-cap gambling companies (Light & Wonder) "has eked out a gain in the second half of the year, edging up just 0.5%," and "casino stocks have plunged so much over the past two months that they're even underperforming the S&P 500." The article goes on to cite the gambling industry as a leading economic indicator of potential rough seas ahead: "When people have less money to spend, they're more likely to use it to buy food or pay rent than bet on roulette or blackjack in Las Vegas." We'll know more when third-quarter earnings reports start coming in over the next couple of weeks.
The Culinary and Bartender unions, which represent 53,000 hospitality workers here, wrapped up another week of negotiations on Friday with "no real movement" from MGM Resorts or Caesars Entertainment. The unions voted to authorize a walkout that a union official told Reuters "could happen anytime after October 6." With F1 looming large on the horizon (five and a half weeks away) and a number of marquee events between now and then, plus six months of negotiations that started in April, this game of brinkmanship is starting to get serious for the casinos.
The San Francisco 49ers are -3 favorites over the Dallas Cowboys in tonight’s Sunday Night Football game. The total is 45.5.
in a press conference on Friday, Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority CEO Steve Hill told reporters that the period from now until the end of February features “an unprecedented lineup of events that will have a staggering economic impact on southern Nevada,” which analysts have estimated at multiple billions of dollars. The lineup launches tomorrow with the Global Gaming Expo (G2E, 30,000 attendees). Then come the PBR Team bull-riding championship (Oct. 20-22), the SEMA auto-market show (Oct. 31 to Nov. 3, 140,000), the Naismith Hall of Fame college basketball series (Nov. 6), the Las Vegas Grand Prix (Nov. 16-18), the Pac 12 football championship (Dec. 1 at Allegiant Stadium), the NBA inaugural in-season tournament (Dec. 7-9 at T-Mobile), the National Finals Rodeo (Dec. 7-16), the Las Vegas Bowl college football game (Dec. 23), and of course New Year’s Eve (400,000 predicted). The list goes on: CES (Jan. 5-8, 125,000), World of Concrete (Jan. 23-25, 50,000 a year ago), Super Bowl week (February 5-11), and finally the International Builders Show (Feb. 27-28, 50,000). Phew. Barring some serious unforeseen circumstance, the Las Vegas juggernaut will continue to roll on and on.
No one hit the 300-million-to-1 Powerball grand prize in last night's drawing. It was the 34th consecutive drawing without a winner (since July 19) and the jackpot now stands at $1.55 billion, third largest in Powerball history and fifth-largest in U.S. history. The lump-sum cashout is $680 million. The next drawing is tomorrow night.
Anthony attended the Blackjack Ball last weekend and provides a full report on the event, including the background on the second woman in a row to be inducted into the Blackjack Hall of Fame, along with the winner of the skills contest: our very own Frank B. Then they launch into a fast series of updates: the new parking fees at the Wynn/Encore, the continuing disruptions from and a new controversy about F1, the opening of Sphere, and the upshot of the MGM cyberattack. Anthony attended upwards of 40 Monday Night Football parties over the past few weeks and recommends the best of them, the Question of the Week is about the mini-blackjack tournament at Downtown Grand, and the Jackpot of the Week is the smallest it will ever be -- find out how little and why, and all of the above, by clicking the arrow.
These aren't just run-of-the-mill billionaires. The cutoff for qualifying for the Forbes 400 Richest Americans is now $2.9 billion. The combined net worth of these 400 is $4.5 trillion, tying the record set in 2021. Elon Musk tops the list with $251 billion; Jeff Bezos is a distant second with $161 billion. Sheldon Adelson's wife Miriam "and family" check in at number 24 with $32.8 billion, while Steve Wynn sits at #338 with $3.2 billion, though he no longer has much, if anything, to do with Nevada. Several other rich Nevadans made the list in aerospace, fast food, and software.
A "5D projection experience" has been announced to open at the LINQ. The attraction, called Dreambox 360, is a 5D theater, which employs seat and environmental special effects to simulate natural phenomena, such as wind, rain, snow, frost, lightning, thunder, and impact of explosions. It appears that "The Arctic Ghost Ship: A Quest in Search of the Lost Rum," a 15-minute animated adventure presented in 360-degree visuals for audiences of up to 35 people, will be run during the week; on weekends, it'll be "The Weekend Trip," described as a "psychedelic experience offering trippy projections, a live DJ, an open bar, and such 5D effects as thunderstorms and blizzards." Dreambox 360 is slated to open in early 2024 and tickets will be available in "upcoming months."
An opinion piece in the Nevada Independent starts off with a detailed description of how the cyberattack against MGM Resorts developed, then goes on to ask relevant questions and assume that we'll never know the answers. Given the $200 million in cyber insurance that covers MGM and the losses it sustained by either delaying or refusing to pay the ransom, plus the undisclosed millions (reported at between $15 million and $30 million) paid by Caesars after a similar cyberattack a few weeks earlier to resume operations immediately, the piece wonders aloud if, just as "Nevada’s casinos aren’t legally allowed to pay off the mob anymore, [should] Nevada’s casinos not be allowed to pay off cybercriminals"? It presents persuasive arguments from the market and law-enforcement sides, but concludes that ... well, read it yourself and see, then decide which side you're on.
MGM Resorts filed a report yesterday with the Security and Exchange Commission and admitted that the cyberattack will cost the company $100 million in adjusted earnings in September. Of course, cyber insurance will mitigate most if not all of the losses. CEO Bill Hornbuckle also issued a statement to customers, indicating that hackers didn’t obtain any of their bank account or credit-card information, but did "likely" obtain a limited number of Social Security and passport numbers from customers who did business with the company before March 2019. This was the first detailed information that MGM has released since hackers disrupted the company's computer systems on September 10. The SEC filing contained some financial details, particularly concerning reduced occupancy rates due to the impact of MGM's reservations system, but said that the company is "well positioned" for the fourth quarter and "does not expect that it will have a material effect on its financial condition and results of operations for the year." The customer statement said that the company responded swiftly to the attack, shut down its systems to forestall the exposure of customer information, and began a thorough investigation that included coordinating with federal law enforcement agencies and working with external cybersecurity experts, thus the hack didn't compromise any critical customer financial information. However, names, contact information, genders, dates of birth, and driver’s license numbers of some customers in the database were stolen. MGM has set up a call center at 800-621-9437 Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Central and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Central; if you call, use the engagement number B105892. The company also established a dedicated webpage yesterday that starts, "We recently learned of a cybersecurity issue affecting our company" and goes on to answer questions the public might have.
The Washington Commanders are -6 favorites over the Chicago Bears in tonight's Thursday Night Football game. The total is 45.
You can get a one-minute video glimpse of the Formula 1 starting line, grandstands, and paddock building on a tour given News3LV by Renee Wilm, the CEO of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, on Monday. With six weeks to go for the opening ceremonies, they obviously have a ways to go, but Wilm is upbeat on cue.
A study by Clever, a real-estate data company, last month ranked Las Vegas the “No. 3 Taco City” in America. First was Austin; last was Cleveland. Las Vegas has 7.2 taco restaurants per 100,000 residents (most are probably Roberto’s). Now a Yelp list of the “Top 100 Taco Spots in the U.S.” puts Las Vegas’ Aroma Latin American Cocina (2877 N. Green Valley Pkwy.) at #1. Others from Vegas making the list are YOURWAY Breakfast and Lunch at #17, Bajamar Seafood & Tacos at #19, Chicali Tacos at #27, and Garden Grill #41.
A story on Thrillist quotes the president of the Oakland A's who said, "For us to build a ballpark on it, the entire site [Tropicana] needs to be clean. Part of it will be taken down manually, but part of it will be imploded. That will be a big celebration." He also mentioned that the team is talking to the Neon Museum about "incorporating vintage signs and marquees into the design, perhaps as part of the scoreboard. You could even tour the stadium on a non-game day and see the different signs, doubling as a mini-museum." The Thrillist piece quoted an internal memo citing late 2024 and mid-2025 for the Trop to close; a new hotel-casino will be built "around" the stadium and will probably be called Bally's. Major League Baseball still needs to approve the A's move to Vegas and a vote is expected next month.
No one beat the 300-million-to-1 odds in the Powerball drawing last night and the jackpot rose to an estimated $1.2 billion, third-largest in Powerball history. There were two Match 5 + Power Play $2 million (in New York and South Carolina) and two Match 5 $1 million winners (Delaware and Michigan). The last Powerball jackpot was hit on July 19 for $1.08 billion. which is now the fourth largest in the multi-state-lottery company's history. This jackpot's lump-sum total is $552 million. The next drawing is tonigh; Powerball has three drawings each week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.
An unidentified slot player hit a $1.5 million jackpot while playing a Wheel of Fortune Triple Gold Gold Spin machine at the Golden Nugget sometime on Sunday.
The Aces say they’ve sold out their three home games at the 12,000-seat Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay for the WNBA best-of-five championship series. The Aces will face the New York Liberty; games 1 and 2 and a fifth if necessary will be played in Vegas. Game 1 is on Sunday at noon local time. The Liberty beat the Connecticut Sun in four games to earn their first trip to the Finals in 21 years, while the Aces are looking for the WNBA's first back-to-back titles since 2002. The two are the league's top teams. Of the Aces' six losses this season (against 34 wins, an .850 win percentage), two were to the Liberty, both in New York. But the Liberty smashed the Aces in a fifth meeting in the Commissioner's Cup final on Aug. 15 in Las Vegas. That game didn't count in the season standings, but the Liberty's decisive 82-63 victory marked their first Cup title in franchise history. The Liberty ended the season with a 32-8 record. So this series is being touted as between "dream teams" and will be anything but a walk in the park for the home team. Which is why no tickets remain on the main selling site; on the resellers, they're ranging from $40 to $120.
First announced in March 2018, Zippy's, the 57-year-old Hawaiian restaurant chain with 22 locations on Oahu, Maui, and the Big Island, has issued the crowd-handling rules for its long-awaited debut a week from today at 10:10 a.m. First, no one will be allowed to start lining up outside the front door until 6 a.m. The grand opening ceremony will start at 9:50 with a traditional Hawaiian blessing. The first guests will be presented with a maile lei, the traditional Hawaiian wedding flower necklace; the first 500 will get a free fan. Also, Zippy's requests that, due to the anticipated crowds, "you bring your aloha with you." In other words, your patience, fellowship, and love. For the first week, traffic patterns will be altered to accommodate the hordes and drivers will be directed to overflow parking spots and the dropoff location for ride shares. Located at 7095 Badura Avenue in west Las Vegas. (near Warm Springs and Buffalo), this is Zippy's first location outside of Hawaii. The 24/7 restaurant is known for its Hawaiian take on chili (its signature dish), fried chicken, oxtail soup, saimin, loco moco, mahi sandwiches, and Zip Pac bentos.
The Seattle Seahawks are -2.5 favorites over the New York Giants in tonight's Monday Night Football game. The total is 46.
The timetable for the first casino approved for Japan has been pushed back. The joint-venture project between MGM Resorts International and ORIX Corp. and earmarked for Osaka Bay had a tentative completion date of 2029. That date has been revised to fall 2030.
A mere couple of days after Ellis Island announced F1 tickets from viewing spots in its Front Yard sports bar, EI is offering discounted seats in its grandstand along Koval Avenue at Turn 4. Now through October 5, when you buy one ticket for $1,500, you get the other for half-off. Two seats in the grandstands will run you a total of $2,626.56, including taxes and fees. And you can select your seats from the seating chart on the ordering page (and you'll also see that of the nearly 700 seats, almost exactly half, 355, are still available).
Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who admitted in his 2019 memoir Compton Street Legend that he provided the gun that killed Tupac Shakur near the Las Vegas Strip in 1996, has been arrested on one charge of murder with a deadly weapon. It's believed that Davis didn't pull the trigger, but in Nevada, you can be charged with a crime, including murder, if you're involved in the crime. Police are identifying Davis as the "ringleader" of the events that transpired the night of September 7 on E. Flamingo near Koval. He was one of four suspects in the Cadillac from which the shots were fired and his nephew, Orlando Anderson, is widely suspected as the shooter. Anderson himself was killed in a drive-by a couple of years later. Davis, now 60, was arrested near his home in Henderson on Friday. If convicted of murder with a gang enhancement, he'll almost certainly spend the rest of his life behind bars.
SNF Chiefs/Jets
The Kansas City Chiefs are -7.5 favorites over the New York Jets in tonight’s Sunday Night Football game. The total is 41.5.
The Las Vegas Aces swept the Dallas Wings 3-zip to advance to the WNBA championship series for the second year in a row. The Aces are now 5-0 in the 2023 playoffs. They'll face the winner of the New York Liberty/Connecticut Sun semi-finals series; the Liberty (2-1) can end it with a win in this afternoon's game.
We've been looking through the videos of the launch of Sphere by U2 on Friday and this is the best one we've seen so far. It's only two minutes long, but you won't believe your eyes. Sorry to have to say it, but: Eat your heart out, Fremont Street Experience.
The month of October presents a nearly perfect weather picture after the summer snapshot that drips with sweat. Normal high temperatures range between 87 on the first of the month and 74 on the last, normal lows between 65 and 53. The record highs for the month have come in the first few days over the years: 103 on Oct. 1 in 1978 and 100 on Oct. 2 and 4 in 1980 and 1947, respectively. It can get pretty cold at night (perfect sleeping weather with the windows open and the air-conditioner finally shut off); the record lows range from 44 (Oct. 3, 1950) down to 26 (Oct. 30, 1971). In general, Vegas sees no precipitation in October, with clear sunny skies all the livelong month.