Las Vegas Grand Prix 2026: Where to Watch the F1 Race
Three nights in November, Formula 1 turns the Las Vegas Strip into a racetrack and the city reroutes itself around it. Here's what Thursday,...
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Three nights in November, Formula 1 turns the Las Vegas Strip into a racetrack and the city reroutes itself around it. Here's what Thursday,...
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Metallica could fill a stadium any night they wanted. For Life Burns Faster they picked a room of 17,600 and a rule that no song repeats...
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College football's Las Vegas Bowl is back on New Year's Eve, Thursday, December 31, at Allegiant Stadium. The teams are named in early...
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Every room in Las Vegas sets its own rules about what you wear, and they shift with the time of day. Getting turned away from a club door,...
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A family show returning after five years away, a Myrtle Beach import with an R rating, and the downtown adults-only original. Which Las...
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A Las Vegas trip can cost $400 or $4,000 per person, and both are honest answers, because the city is built to take every budget. The...
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The $20 sandwich trick has been a Las Vegas legend since the 1990s, and it can still land you a better room in 2026, though rarely for $20...
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From a 40°F (4°C) December night to a 104°F (40°C) July afternoon, Las Vegas swings harder than most suitcases are packed for. Here's...
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Every big Strip hotel holds packages for guests who have not checked in yet. If you are traveling from outside the US, or just want...
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Two of the best things this city does at Christmas cost nothing and never close: a botanical garden torn down and rebuilt five times a year,...
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Las Vegas doesn't close for December 25. Four big productions, O and Blue Man Group among them, keep their Christmas Day dates, Creed and...
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She's still the youngest woman ever to write, produce and sing a Billboard number one, and she's called Las Vegas home for well over a...
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The Aces bring their WNBA semifinal against the Golden State Valkyries home to Mandalay Bay on Friday, and the Golden Knights host the Kings...
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Sebastian Maniscalco and Barry Manilow play Friday and Saturday. Empire of the Sun and Mark Farner take Friday, UNDERTALE's orchestra and...
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Blindfolded on stage, Marina Liani names objects her husband is holding up out in the crowd. Here's what to expect at Mind2Mind, the...
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Gerry McCambridge plays it for laughs at Planet Hollywood. Colin Cloud reads your face at Harrah's. At Fontainebleau, husband and wife James...
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A grocery store with a portal in the freezer, four year-round haunted houses, a John Wick mission and a cocktail party with circus acts....
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Step off the 108th floor, get fired up a tower spire, zip 12 stories over a promenade, or loop past a fake Manhattan? Four Las Vegas thrill...
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The hotel where Elvis held court for seven years, a live band at Alexis Park, or a 12,000-show veteran who paints the King's portrait...
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A new lineup every night, a stage full of water, or feathered showgirls and a Rat Pack band? V, WOW and VEGAS! THE SHOW are the three big...
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Circus acrobats in a tent, zombies running a 1958 nightclub, or Darth Vader with a burlesque routine? Three adult shows in Las Vegas that...
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Drag Race queens on the Strip, a drag bar where birthdays end up on stage, or live vocals at the Rio with the door open to 12-year-olds?...
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Two operators, one kind of flight: an EcoStar over the neon for about a quarter of an hour. Papillon circles The STRAT; Maverick names Circa...
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Big coach or small group, Skywalk included or bought at the rim, highway or helicopter? Six Grand Canyon West Rim tours from Las Vegas, with...
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Two Las Vegas shows put dinner on the table with the ticket over Thanksgiving: a medieval feast you eat with your hands, and an Italian...
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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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Ten nights of rodeo, and a concert calendar built around them: stadium country on the 11th, Thomas Rhett at the Colosseum, Texas bands at...
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One of these comedians hasn't told a dirty joke in decades. The other will find the person in row three who least wants to be found. Same...
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A big theater built for Broadway, or the room David Copperfield worked for a quarter century? December's four headline stand-up bookings...
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Thomas Rhett gets the rodeo's closing Saturday at the Colosseum. Before that, Texas favorites Casey Donahew with Josh Abbott Band, and...
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The crew that won the first season of America's Best Dance Crew has headlined in Vegas since 2010 without saying a word on stage. Their...
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Rodeo season does something strange to this city's calendar. For ten days in December, Las Vegas fills with people who came to watch eight...
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Sixty years on, the Motown songbook still fills rooms -- and Las Vegas has three tribute shows built entirely around it. A polished,...
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Las Vegas runs two exhibits of real, preserved human bodies, one at the Luxor and one at Horseshoe, and plenty of visitors only find out...
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A hard rock band whose singer earned the job the hard way, a guitar hero back on a bill he walked away from in the nineties, and a harmony...
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Vegas's Eiffel Tower was supposed to be full-scale. The airport next door said otherwise. That compromise is why the Strip's two great...
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One turns a slow circle 550 feet over the middle of the Strip. The other stands twice as tall at the north end, with an outdoor deck and a...
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Five Fridays, five bands, one small room on Fremont Street. The Golden Nugget hands its Showroom to a different rock act every week through...
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Las Vegas runs four permanent Cirque du Soleil shows at the same time, and they are not interchangeable. Each one is built around a...
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For one night a year the most famous road in America is not a road. Barricades go up while it is still early, every lane empties, and the...
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The name is the joke. The show is not. Creed are back with the original four, playing the catalog that put Scott Stapp's voice on every rock...
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The voice that sang Jack Skellington in 1993 belongs to the man who wrote the music, and for two nights in November he does it live with the...
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A championship decided over two nights at a working rodeo arena, or a whole franchised league settling its season across three days on the...
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This is the version where you hear everything. Bryan Adams brings the Bare Bones show back to Encore Theater for five nights in late...
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There's no NBA franchise in Las Vegas, which is what makes this rare. The Lakers and the Warriors meet at T-Mobile Arena in October, close...
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The dirt they compete on gets graded, used, and then stored on the UNLV campus until the following December. Ten nights, seven events, and...
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Two Las Vegas off-road companies have almost the same name and sell completely different days. One puts you in a Baja race truck over a...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Headliner comedy tours come and go, but the city's resident comedy clubs are the reliable laugh -- open most nights, with a rotating mix of...
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No stage, no spotlight, no reveal you can see coming. Just a dim speakeasy, a drink you didn't order, and a performer who seems to already...
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Sim racing with a champagne bar, a live game show where you're the contestant, or a playground that pours cocktails after dark. Vegas...
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One of these three shows has no script at all, and the front row is the material. Vegas comedy gets a lot rawer than the marquee names...
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Close enough to watch the hands, or close enough to end up holding the cards? Three Vegas magic rooms sell the same intimacy and then split...
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Three comics, three single nights, three weeks apart, and no second chances. One is dry and quotable, one is warm and early, and one will...
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Three decades of arena tours in two languages, and somehow never a Las Vegas residency. That changes this fall, but only for eight nights,...
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All three start with a van at your hotel and end with red rock in your camera roll. What actually separates them is how early you have to be...
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Plenty of performers can do the voice. Gordie Brown sings in it, which is a different and much harder trick, and it's why 70 minutes...
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Thirty years of movies, specials, and residencies, and Eddie Griffin still does his sharpest work off-script, in a phone-free Vegas room...
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He's a FISM European champion and a French-TV name who chose a 4 p.m. slot at the Laugh Factory over a flashy Strip marquee. Once you watch...
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Most tribute acts hope you'll squint and just go along with it. Piano Man does the opposite. It sends a Broadway "Movin' Out" alum to the...
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Same pink Jeep, same open-air Wrangler, three completely different days: the Strip lit up at night, old Vegas by daylight, or a red-rock...
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One of these has a policy stating you get no refund if the fear is too much for you. Another has a cocktail bar in the lobby and lets in...
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The longest Maverick tour is seven hours and gives you two hours in the air. A shorter one gives you more. Total tour length and actual...
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Bring your swimsuit. That instruction is printed right on the ticket, and it tells you everything about what these nights actually are: not...
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Most people remember the voice and forget she was a drummer first. Carpenters Legacy remembers, and the moment Sally Olson sits down behind...
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Vegas is built on things that look dangerous and aren't. This is the exception. The robots really do destroy each other, the outcomes really...
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Everything inside is carved from ice. The walls, the seats, the glass in your hand. Outside it's 110 degrees and you're wearing a fur parka...
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The field rolls outside on 540 wheels. The torch is the largest 3D-printed object on earth. The owner nicknamed the whole thing the Death...
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Downtown is too spread out to walk and too good to drive past. Four Segway tours launch from the same Container Park starting line and...
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Some of the country's best wine lists are hiding inside Strip restaurants you'd never think to walk into. This 21-plus luxury bus tour hands...
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No phones, no flashlights, no light at all -- just seven courses you taste your way through in total darkness while night-vision servers...
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It took four magicians to fill the room David Copperfield left behind. Now You See Me Live brings the films' Four Horsemen to the MGM Grand...
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Your seat glides forward, your feet dangle over nothing, and a 52-foot screen wraps your whole view as you soar over the Grand Canyon with...
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Forty minutes from the neon, the Colorado River winds through Black Canyon below Hoover Dam, past hot springs and emerald coves. Two guided...
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Big Bus runs three open-top double-decker tours that look alike but aren't: a daytime hop-on hop-off pass for getting around, a panoramic...
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Tim McGraw rarely plays Las Vegas, which makes this five-night Colosseum run worth planning around. Three decades of chart-topping country,...
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Flying boxes over the crowd, a LeSabre replica for the encore, and five guys who once fielded 100,000 fan calls a week. New Kids on the...
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Two afternoon magic shows have quietly claimed the 2-to-4 p.m. window most of the Strip ignores. One's a daily walk-up on Las Vegas...
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Sharks overhead, a Komodo dragon around the corner, and the air conditioning cranked. Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay is the desert's most...
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A $120 million show on a stage that surrounds you on every side, narrated by Anthony Hopkins, built by the team behind The Lion King's...
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Genital origami, delivered deadpan to a room that can't quite believe it signed up for this. Puppetry of the Penis is the most committed,...
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Past the last casino south of the Strip, fast gets real. At Speed Vegas Motorsports Park you can drive a Ferrari on a real road course, race...
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One of these you can bring the kids to. The other rents you an AK-47. Both are off-Strip Vegas bucket-list thrills where a pro handles the...
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There are performers who play Las Vegas, and then there is Mary J. Blige -- a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer who does not perform so much as bear...
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Most Las Vegas attractions want to show you something. These three want to bend your perception of reality -- a surreal...
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Las Vegas has no shortage of family-friendly spectacle. The Atomic Saloon Show is the opposite, on purpose. From Spiegelworld, it is a...
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Every hotel implosion leaves something behind: the sign. The Neon Museum is the open-air sanctuary for the marquees that lit the most famous...
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Some Las Vegas attractions exist to be experienced. These two exist to be photographed -- and there is no shame in that. One drops you onto...
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Between the slot machines, Las Vegas hides a cluster of world-class history exhibitions with nothing to do with gambling. A doomed ocean...
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Hoover Dam is the closest big day trip to the Strip -- about forty minutes out, and a genuine National Historic Landmark. But there is a...
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You do not need a long drive to find stunning scenery near Vegas. Red Rock Canyon is twenty minutes from the Strip, and Valley of Fire glows...
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Some Vegas day trips are a quick spin out and back. These are not those. Zion's towering cliffs, Bryce Canyon's otherworldly hoodoos, and...
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Everybody books the Grand Canyon. Fewer people realize you can spend a Vegas day hunting UFOs on the Extraterrestrial Highway, descending a...
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Before the megaresorts, Las Vegas ran on tuxedos, martinis, and a microphone. Two tribute shows keep that era alive -- an ensemble that...
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If your TV habits run toward pawn-shop haggling and custom car builds, Las Vegas has a strange gift: the real shops from those reality shows...
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Las Vegas has brunch shows that go well beyond the expected. A Motown soul show at a boutique resort off-Strip, and a punk rock afternoon in...
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Here is what first-timers underestimate about Vegas: some of the most spectacular scenery in North America sits within a day's drive of your...
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The Colosseum at Caesars Palace has hosted some of the biggest names in music history, and this November it adds a global phenomenon: LISA....
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When two of the biggest names in modern country team up for a stadium tour, Las Vegas tends to get the grand finale -- and it does here....
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Few artists turned pop on its head like Olivia Rodrigo, and this December she brings her arena show to Las Vegas for two nights -- December...
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Some catalogs are impossible not to dance to, and Earth, Wind & Fire's is at the top of the list. This October the funk-and-soul legends...
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Ten of the best Las Vegas puzzles available right now — from a quick 500-piece retro casino design to 1,000-piece neon cityscapes and a...
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Most artists of Carlos Santana's stature play arenas. This run does the opposite: An Intimate Evening with Santana - Greatest Hits Live...
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When British music conquered America, it rewrote what pop sounded like -- and Las Vegas has never stopped paying it back. From mop-top...
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Some of the greatest performers in music history will never tour again -- but in Las Vegas, the next best thing happens nightly. The city...
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The female revue is the cornerstone of the Las Vegas bachelor party -- the one show the whole crew agrees on, built for the groom's...
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The male revue is the engine of the Las Vegas girls' night -- the bachelorette parties, the milestone birthdays, the crews who flew in just...
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The Eagles have been on a farewell run for years now -- hundreds of shows worldwide, a record-breaking Sphere residency that they have...
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Three residencies, three genres, one summer at Sphere. Kenny Chesney kicks things off June 19 with his return to the venue's 4D sound and...
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Las Vegas has always been a city built around performers who stayed long enough to become part of the place itself. Three of them are still...
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The Wizard of Oz at Sphere takes a film shot in 1939 for a screen a fraction of this size and rebuilds it across 160,000 square feet of...
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Two video game concerts. Same venue. Nine days apart. Sonic Live in Concert brings 35 years of the franchise's soundtrack to Resorts World...
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Las Vegas has more family-friendly entertainment than most people realize -- and some of it is genuinely excellent, not just tolerable for...
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August 2026 brings two of the sharpest names in stand-up to Las Vegas within the same weekend. Sebastian Maniscalco plays four shows across...
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Sir Tom Jones -- 86 years old, voice still intact, catalog still undeniable -- makes his Encore Theater debut at Wynn Las Vegas with three...
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October 2026 in Las Vegas does not follow a theme -- and that is the honest appeal of it. Engelbert Humperdinck plays two nights at Westgate...
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A rock concert trapped inside a haunted magic show. Alice Cooper -- the godfather of shock rock, with a career spanning more than five...
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Five nights at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Josh Groban -- one of the most instantly recognizable voices in contemporary music -- brings...
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Eight nights at PH Live inside Planet Hollywood. Scorpions -- one of the most enduring hard rock bands on the planet -- bring Wind of...
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Three of the most distinctive voices in stand-up comedy land in Las Vegas within the same weekend in July 2026. Jimmy Carr brings two nights...
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Las Vegas welcomes approximately 40 million visitors a year, operates 150,000 hotel rooms at over 80% occupancy, and generates more than $13...
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The Las Vegas Strip is 4.2 miles long and everything looks closer than it is. Plan it wrong and you spend half the day overheated and...
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Most Las Vegas thrills happen to you while you stand still. SpeedVegas is the exception — a purpose-built motorsports park 15 minutes...
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Most visitors spend their entire Las Vegas trip within a half-mile of their hotel. They leave having seen the spectacle — and having...
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Las Vegas has three magic shows worth your night — and they have almost nothing in common. Penn & Teller make you question what you know....
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An anniversary in Las Vegas deserves more than a nice dinner and a walk past the fountains. These four shows are the best the Strip has to...
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Las Vegas has more world-class entertainment than almost any city on earth — and none of it requires a casino chip. Here's your complete...
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Twenty-one years at the Luxor and Carrot Top is still the most genuinely surprising comedy show on the Strip. Here's the honest answer to...
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Live Motown, bottomless mimosas, and a brunch menu built for celebrating — the Ahern Boutique Hotel's Sunday experience is unlike anything...
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Crystal costumes, old Hollywood glamour, and the world's most famous Martini Glass act — Dita Von Teese's residency at Voltaire is Las...
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Real scares, real sets, and the full weight of two legendary horror franchises — the SAW and Blair Witch escape rooms at Egan & Co. are...
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