Leno To Return To Las Vegas
Papers Not Signed For Binion's Buy
UPDATED: 12:32 p.m. EST January 26, 2004
Jay Leno is bringing the Tonight Show back to Vegas for a week of shows in May. The late night comic will tape from the now mostly unused showroom at Paris Las Vegas starting May 10, the third time in the last 10 years the show has visited Sin City.
There's nothing Earth-shattering to report in the saga of Binion's Horseshoe Casino in downtown Vegas. The 50-year-old legendary home of the World Series of Poker was forced to close suddenly a couple of weeks ago after federal officials seized funds owed to a union. Harrah's stepped in a few days later and announced it would buy the joint but, as of this writing, the contracts on that sale have not been formally signed, the casino remains closed and approximately 1,000 employees are still out of work.
Your wallet can get a little lighter the next time you head to one of the Coast Casinos, and this time it's not just because you're going to lose money. The four hotels in the corporate chain -- Orleans, Suncoast, Barbary Coast, and Gold Coast -- have begun the process of combining their separate players' clubs into one entity, so you'll only have to carry one of those plastic cards. Right now, only Orleans and Gold Coast are on the plan but the other two casinos should be following suit shortly.
The rumors are flying fast and furious in the local Las Vegas press about yet another Cirque du Soleil show going into the Mirage to replace Siegfried & Roy. Of course, no one is saying anything officially yet, but the "where there's smoke there's fire" school of thinking suggests that this is pretty much a done deal.
Crews haven't even turned a shovelfull of dirt yet, but you can already buy a condominium in a future luxury building at the MGM Grand. The Residences at MGM Grand, as it will be called, will be as many as six 40-story condo towers built at the northeast corner of the hotel property. Ground breaking on the first of the towers is expected this summer, with completion by late 2005. You can get a sneak peak in the sales and information office in the MGM Grand's Studio Walk shopping area. As you would expect, the units won't be cheap -- a low-floor studio will start around $350,000, with the high-end penthouse suites going for $1.5 million.
If you've always dreamed of being a star on the Vegas stage, you have an opportunity to fulfill that dream, with open auditions for an upcoming multimillion-dollar production. Of course, the only hitch is that you may not be recognizable to friends and family since you'll made up as a Borg. The new attraction being added to the Star Trek Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton will be called "Borg Invasion 4D," and producers are looking for a few good Borg, Starfleet officers and Ferengi to bring the whole thing to life. If, unlike myself, you actually understood the words in the previous sentence, you can visit the attraction and ask for an application, or send a head shot and resume to STAR TREK: The Experience, Las Vegas Hilton, 3000 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, NV 89109. May the force be with you.
There's nothing Earth-shattering to report in the saga of Binion's Horseshoe Casino in downtown Vegas. The 50-year-old legendary home of the World Series of Poker was forced to close suddenly a couple of weeks ago after federal officials seized funds owed to a union. Harrah's stepped in a few days later and announced it would buy the joint but, as of this writing, the contracts on that sale have not been formally signed, the casino remains closed and approximately 1,000 employees are still out of work.
Your wallet can get a little lighter the next time you head to one of the Coast Casinos, and this time it's not just because you're going to lose money. The four hotels in the corporate chain -- Orleans, Suncoast, Barbary Coast, and Gold Coast -- have begun the process of combining their separate players' clubs into one entity, so you'll only have to carry one of those plastic cards. Right now, only Orleans and Gold Coast are on the plan but the other two casinos should be following suit shortly.
The rumors are flying fast and furious in the local Las Vegas press about yet another Cirque du Soleil show going into the Mirage to replace Siegfried & Roy. Of course, no one is saying anything officially yet, but the "where there's smoke there's fire" school of thinking suggests that this is pretty much a done deal.
Crews haven't even turned a shovelfull of dirt yet, but you can already buy a condominium in a future luxury building at the MGM Grand. The Residences at MGM Grand, as it will be called, will be as many as six 40-story condo towers built at the northeast corner of the hotel property. Ground breaking on the first of the towers is expected this summer, with completion by late 2005. You can get a sneak peak in the sales and information office in the MGM Grand's Studio Walk shopping area. As you would expect, the units won't be cheap -- a low-floor studio will start around $350,000, with the high-end penthouse suites going for $1.5 million.
If you've always dreamed of being a star on the Vegas stage, you have an opportunity to fulfill that dream, with open auditions for an upcoming multimillion-dollar production. Of course, the only hitch is that you may not be recognizable to friends and family since you'll made up as a Borg. The new attraction being added to the Star Trek Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton will be called "Borg Invasion 4D," and producers are looking for a few good Borg, Starfleet officers and Ferengi to bring the whole thing to life. If, unlike myself, you actually understood the words in the previous sentence, you can visit the attraction and ask for an application, or send a head shot and resume to STAR TREK: The Experience, Las Vegas Hilton, 3000 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, NV 89109. May the force be with you.
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