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How Pasquale Rotella Built His Rave Empire

The man behind EDC is not going away, felony charges be damned

Las Vegas Strip Shooting Captured On Amazing Dash-Cam Video

Recently broadcast dash-cam video (after the jump) of an explosive clash between drivers on the Las Vegas Strip that ended with three dead could shed new light on a case that reached all the way to Los Angeles. Ammar Harris, a self-described pimp who police said was behind the wheel of a Range Rove ... More >>

Ammar Harris, Suspect In Crazy Vegas Strip Shooting, Arrested In L.A.

Updated below. First posted at 1:58 p.m. See also: Crazy Vegas Strip Car-To-Car Shooting Involving Maserati Ends With 3 Dead. When ultra-violence broke out on the Las Vegas Strip one week ago we had a feeling the investigation would somehow lead to Los Angeles. It did. The Las Vegas Metropolitan ... More >>

Ammar Harris' ID'd In Vegas Strip Shooting; Cops Say He's Armed & Dangerous

See also: Crazy Vegas Strip Car-To-Car Shooting Involving Maserati Ends With 3 Dead. Las Vegas police tonight said a man who lives only a mile from Thursday's horrific car-to-car shooting on the Strip is the suspect in the attack. Cops identified Ammar Harris, 26, as a suspect at-large: They said ... More >>

Crazy Vegas Strip Car-To-Car Shooting Involving Maserati Ends With 3 Dead

Updated at the bottom: The LAPD is actively searching for an SUV like the one involved in the shooting. First posted at 1:19 p.m. Three people were killed after someone in a Range Rover opened fire on a Maserati on the Las Vegas Strip early this morning, police said. The brazen attack in the middl ... More >>

Emily McCaughan, EDC Vegas Raver Her Fell to Death, Had Ecstasy, GHB in Her System

The Electric Daisy Carnival attendee who fell 20 stories from a Las Vegas hotel room after expressing thoughts of paranoia died accidentally, the Clark County Coroner-Medical Examiner ruled this week. The official cause of 22-year-old Emily McCaughan's death was "multiple blunt-force injuries," the ... More >>

Beef Experts Discover New Cut of Steak

If there was a Nobel prize for meat, the team of researchers at Oklahoma State University's Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center (FAPC) would probably be a shoe-in this year. The group has discovered an entirely new cut of beef they've named "The Vegas Strip Steak," which is being hail ... More >>

L.A. Beerathon Canceled by California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control

​Updated after the jump with a response from the department, who claims Beerathon organizers need their own liquor license. Originally posted at 6:45 a.m. The first annual Los Angeles Beerathon -- set for Saturday, March 31 -- has been called off by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverag ... More >>

Emerson College Is Building a Giant See-Through Film School on Sunset Boulevard

Remember when we told you, about a year ago, that East Coast film schools were pining for westward expansion? Well in the case of Emerson College, whose mothership is situated in Boston, that day has come. On Thursday morning, Emerson officials, along with Councilman Eric Garcetti and L.A. Mayor An ... More >>

Pets Banned on Las Vegas Strip; Drunk Douchebags Still Allowed to Roam Freely

Since when was stuff allowed to be BANNED on the Las Vegas Strip, unregulated runway of all things debaucherous? The Las Vegas Sun reports that government officials in Clark County (yeah, apparently Vegas is located within a real-life county, not just autonomous Vegasland) approved an ordinance tod ... More >>

Sexy Lingerie Business is Booming, Says Frederick's of Hollywood

They say that the vice business does just fine in a down economy: Drinking, sex, gambling -- all good. Been to the Vegas Strip lately? We're not sure if this falls into that category, or if it's a sign that people are feeling flush enough to get freaky again. But L.A.'s own legendary lingerie ret ... More >>

The McDonald's Channel: Fast Food HDTV

​ The reprogramming of America just keeps getting scarier. First Oprah launched her own television channel (OWN), and now McDonald's is doing the same. Not on your home HDTV (yet), but in its own restaurants. The McDonalds Channel (McDTV, doubtless) will soon be in some 800 California restaura ... More >>

Cop's Book Says Sean Combs, Suge Knight Ordered Tupac and Biggie Killings

Top detective on rap murders says LAPD pulled the plug despite confessions

This is How Motley Crue's Vince Neil Likes to Party in Vegas Waiting for His DUI Verdict: Eyewitness Account

Vince Neil: his DUI mugshot from June, 2010 (left) and a candid shot for a fan at a secret, decadent Eyes Wide Shut style party this past December​ According to Billboard, Motley Crue singer Vince Neil "avoided the media and quietly pleaded guilty Wednesday [today] to driving drunk last summe ... More >>

Jeff Corliss of Venice Needs $3 Million To Fly Without Parachute: Dude, I Can Do This

SmithsonianJeb Corliss and the "Stealth 2" flying suit. ​Of course he's from Venice, Los Angeles, California. Smithsonian has the story of Jeb Corliss: The dream has recurred since childhood: I jump, and I can fly. Corliss hopes the wing suit he designed (photo), will enable him to jump from a ... More >>

Movie Reviews: After the Cup, Shrek Forever After, Prince of Persia

Also, Sex and the City 2, Survival of the Dead and more

Movie Reviews: Here and There, The Philosopher Kings, The Oath

Also, The Living Wake, Holy Rollers, Shrek Forever After

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>

CityCenter: Vegas 4.0

How Frank Gehry, Nancy Rubins, Cesar Pelli, Maya Lin and others are reinventing California’s favorIte playground

Supergraphics Be Banned: City Attorney Scores Another One Against Billboard Blight

If you're frustrated by the city's inability to control those Times Square/Vegas Strip-like digital billboards and towering, slab-sided "supergraphic" ads, there's a crusader on your side, and he actually works for us -- unlike those other city politicians who seem to work for developers, media comp ... More >>

Boxing, Sex and Madness: Mike Tyson, James Toback and the Ties That Bind

In Tyson documentary, boxer tells it in his own words

Hustler After Dark: Flynt Building to Turn Off Lights Saturday

Rome's Colosseum. Sydney's Opera House. San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. And now Beverly Hills' Flynt Publications Building. What these august monuments to the human spirit have in common is that, along with the Las Vegas Strip, they will all turn off their lights tomorrow during Earth Hour. Thos ... More >>

Chai Thung: Isaan Also Rises

The unexpected Thai restaurant

Stage Raw: The Sarah Palin Dictionary

Tribal Flush: Pechanga People "Disenrolled" en Masse

On the eve of what could be the largest gambling expansion in U.S. history, a tale of power, betrayal and lost Indian heritage

Tribal Warfare

Indian gaming lines up powerful allies

The Gambler’s Index

Layover, With Cheese

Plastic Pie

Fifth Lady Down

The death of the Desert Inn. Is this the end of Vegas cool?

Ambition and Delight

And beauty