Las Vegas Sports This Weekend: September 11-13
A world welterweight title on the line Saturday, the Raiders opening at home Sunday afternoon, and baseball all three nights. This is the...
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Things to Do in Las Vegas This Weekend: September 11-13
Mexican Independence Day weekend turns the Strip into the best Latin music festival in the country, and this year the bill runs from Mana at...
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Iron Mike Legacy: What to Expect at the Flamingo's Mike Tyson Experience
Forty years after a twenty-year-old Mike Tyson took the heavyweight title a couple of miles up the road, a walk-through exhibit about that...
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Miracle in the Desert: What to Expect at the STRAT's Emo Pool Party
An emo and pop-punk pool party at the STRAT, two sessions across a Friday and Saturday in mid-October. Standing room, 18 and over, and a...
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Jay and Silent Bob Save Vegas, and Three More Comics at the Palazzo Theatre in October
Four touring comics play the Palazzo Theatre across October, one night each, and they could not be less alike: a viral golf character, a...
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An R-Rated Magic Show or Lioz: Two Adults-Only Magic Shows, One Las Vegas Theater
Two adults-only magic shows run in the same Miracle Mile theatre, both 75 minutes. In one, the tricks work and the jokes are filthy. In the...
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Stripper 101 in Las Vegas: What Actually Happens in the 75-Minute Pole Class
Stripper 101 is a women-only pole class at the Miracle Mile Shops: 75 minutes, taught by working Las Vegas dancers, and nobody expects you...
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Yacht Rock, a Prohibition Bar, and a Free Cocktail: The Docksiders at the Venetian
A 1970s yacht rock band, playing a 1920s Prohibition speakeasy, up a concealed elevator above an ice bar, inside a hotel built to look like...
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Diana Ross Gets Three Nights, Lionel Richie Gets a Residency: Encore Theater This Fall
Two of the biggest voices in American music are booked into the same 1,500-seat room at the Wynn this autumn. Diana Ross takes three nights...
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No Forks at Tournament of Kings: What Excalibur's Jousting Dinner Show Is Actually Like
They give you a whole roasted chicken and nothing to eat it with. That's the second-strangest thing about the evening, and the strangest is...
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NHRA Nationals in Las Vegas: Four Seconds of Noise, and Every Ticket Is a Pit Pass
A nitro car covers a quarter of a mile faster than you can read this sentence. Las Vegas gets four days of it over Halloween weekend, and...
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Ricky Martin's First Fontainebleau Las Vegas Shows Land on Halloween Night
Two nights only, in a Las Vegas theater he's never played, and one of them is Halloween itself. Which of the two you book comes down to...
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In Las Vegas for Halloween 2026? Here's Where the Genuinely Scary Stuff Is
Halloween 2026 lands on a Saturday, which is the best draw the calendar gives you and the reason the good bookings are gone by mid-October....
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Mexican Independence Day in Las Vegas: Why the Party Lands September 11-13
Four properties, one weekend, and a Saturday where four Latin bills run at once. The holiday itself is a Wednesday, which is exactly why the...
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The Cast Rotates, the Show Doesn't: RuPaul's Drag Race LIVE! at the Flamingo
The queens change. The show doesn't. Six years into its run at the Flamingo, the Strip's biggest drag production keeps working because the...
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Behind the Claw Machine: Farrell Dillon and The Conjurors at The Magicians Room
There's a 200-seat magic theater on the LINQ Promenade whose entrance is inside a claw machine arcade. Two of the acts working it split so...
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King of Canyons vs Grand Celebration: Which Papillon Grand Canyon Landing to Book
Same helicopter, same time in the air, same champagne on the canyon floor. The two Papillon landing tours differ at the two ends of the day,...
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Hoover Dam by Raft or by Bus: Which Las Vegas Tour Actually Puts You at the Dam
Three Las Vegas tours put Hoover Dam in the title. Only two put you underneath it, on the water, in a stretch of river you cannot otherwise...
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Five Laps in a Ferrari F430 GT: Inside Dream Racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Everyone books it for the Ferrari. What actually decides your five laps is the simulator session beforehand, built to the same specification...
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The 5 Best Magic Shows in Las Vegas: From AGT Champions to a Dragon and His Chihuahua
Magic is the rare Las Vegas night that suits everyone -- date night, the family, a group that can't agree on anything else. And the Strip...
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