Las Vegas

Is Your Band Doomed to Always Just Be a Local Act?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you s ... More >>

This Ridiculous "Club Tour" Across the U.S. Costs $6,600

So, these Australian promoters are offering "clubbing tours." They are bonkers. The company is called Pilgrimage, and their two week U.S. package takes foreign raver wannabes from L.A. to Las Vegas to New York to Miami, where they will go to dance clubs, pool parties, and private mansions. They'll ... More >>

4.7 Anza Earthquake Shakes SoCal

A moderate earthquake rocked Southern California this morning. And yes you felt it. From Las Vegas to San Diego to Culver City. And it was only a 4.7, says the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake was reported at ...

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 >>

Robert Earl Thomas: Empire Club Murder In Hollywood Sees Arrest

Updated at the bottom with the name of the suspect, victim. Headline has changed. First posted at 11:21 a.m. On a weekend of massive DUI patrols in Hollywood and Silver Lake, there wasn't a cop to be found when ugly fights in the heart of clubland turned into murder. It was so out in the open the a ... More >>

EDC Raver's Craigslist Ad Claiming She Got Pregnant by Anonymous Guy Goes Viral

Updated at the bottom: The poster got back to us and admitted it's a hoax. First posed at 3:11 p.m. Death and destruction seem to follow Electric Daisy Carnival almost wherever it goes, through no fault of its own: L.A. organizers did a nice job of putting on America's biggest festival stage in Las ... More >>

EDC Rave Could Lose Vegas Permit if Promoter is Convicted in L.A. Scandal

< /a>Updated at the bottom with a Vegas official saying EDC's license for next year could be denied if convictions are successful in the bribery case against rave promoters in L.A. First posted at 3:24 p.m. Tuesday. Headline has changed to reflect new info. The promoter of Electric Daisy Carnival, ... More >>

Interstate 15 to Vegas All But Shut Down

Update: Woo-hoo! All lanes have been reopened. The bad news? You'll still want to avoid the area (more at the bottom). First posted at 12:57 p.m. Bad news, party people. If you're driving to Las Vegas for the weekend to take advantage of off-season hotel rates and ever dipping gas prices (it's all ... More >>

10 Raver Deaths in 5 Years: Ecstasy Often Blamed

A Canadian doctor who wants to legalize ecstasy says the drug is safe and that it's only the adulterated version of MDMA you find on the street that can kill you. But doctors at Los Angeles emergency rooms have told us that pure ecstasy can kill, including causing vital oxygen deprivation to organs ... More >>

EDC Vegas Sees Two Attendees Die, Including One Who Reportedly Took Ecstasy

One of the reasons Electric Daisy Carnival moved to Las Vegas last year was the scrutiny (and subsequent scandal) sparked following the ecstasy overdose death of a 15-year-old attendee in 2010. Turns out she had sneaked into the party. Since then, organizers have had to come to terms with with the ... More >>

Top Ten Awkward Electric Daisy Carnival Dance Move GIFs

By Christopher Victorio and Ben Westhoff See also: *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs *Our complete EDC Las Vegas coverage We love you, Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas. In fact, here are five reasons why you rule the roost. But my oh my you dance funky. We're not saying we're any better; ... More >>

EDC Vegas Pulls Plug on Music Due to High Winds

See also Our EDC slideshow: Photos of ravers Update at 2:48 a.m: EDC is over for the night. Organizers are waiting for crowds to thin out before making an official announcement. More details and older updates at the bottom. Electric Daisy Carnval in Las Vegas tonight was shut down temporarily as a ... More >>

Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas Coverage Ahead

This weekend the traveling dance music bacchanal Electric Daisy Carnival comes to Las Vegas and, for some reason, you're not going to be there. Perhaps you couldn't afford the gloves with the glowing fingers, or your roommate ate all of your drugs. But never fear! Beginning Saturday morning and c ... More >>

Calorie Count's Portion Size Chart: Why You Should Visualize Your Pancake as Jack White's New CD

In this country, where super-sized portions are as normal as, well, being super-sized, it's difficult to keep perspective on the amount of food you're actually consuming. Between monstrously sized drinks and the seemingly endless parade of food in all-you-can-eat joints and Vegas-style buffets, how ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

Heart Attack Grill Customer Has Heart Attack -- While Eating 6,000 Calorie Burger

Courtesy of the Heart Attack Grill​Everything is bigger and flashier in Las Vegas, even the heart attacks. Halfway through eating a 6,000-calorie Triple Bypass Burger, a customer at the Las Vegas outpost of Heart Attack Grill began experiencing chest pains and had to be wheeled out of the rest ... More >>

Elephant's Foot, Sea Turtle Boots, Leopard Pelt Found For Sale Online: Feds Make Busts

This is news that will surely send PETA members into kiniptions that will require the aid of first responders. The U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. today announced they've filed charges against a dozen people for selling endangered animals and related clothing, including boots made out of sea turtle ... More >>

Porn Convention AVN Lets You Attend Show Virtually, Via Laptop (Which is Probably Less Sticky, Hopefully)

So you've always wanted to attend the L.A.-based porn industry's grand convention in Las Vegas, but were too afraid to ask? Perhaps you don't like hand sanitizer, sticky people, and tattoos (at least in-person)? Well, AVN, the annual industry confab put together by the Chatsworth-based Adult Video ... More >>

Bouchon Bakery Coming to LA Sunday Suppers

Cathy Chaplin / gas•tron•o•myBouchon Bakery in Las Vegas​Bouchon fanatics who can't get enough of Thomas Keller's bread and pastries can cheer up because Bouchon Bakery is set to open August 17th in Beverly Hills. Pastry chef Roy Shvartzapel will be overseeing croissants, pastries, muffi ... More >>

Electric Daisy Carnival Rave Organizers Say Las Vegas Party Was a Rousing Success

Colin Young-WolffFans at EDC in Vegas.​In a statement issued late Tuesday, Insomniac Events, the L.A.-based organizer of the three-day Electric Daisy Carnival rave in Las Vegas, said it was a rousing success. This after EDC moved to Vegas following controversy for its L.A. edition at the Col ... More >>

Electric Daisy Carnival: Vegas Could See Nearly One-Third The Cops The LAPD Puts on Smaller Raves Here: Are They Really Ready For This?

YouTubeA girl in a crush of people at EDC in L.A.​Updated with LAPD Deputy Chief Patrick Gannon's thoughts on rave deployment, at the bottom. As Electric Daisy Carnival hits Sin City for what promoters are anticipating will be their biggest rave yet, the big question is, is Las Vegas really p ... More >>

Statue of Liberty on U.S. Postage Stamp Is Actually Newer, Hotter Vegas Version From 'New York-New York'

​​Everything's sexier in Vegas! Even New York's world-famous Statue of Liberty, apparently. Her likeness stands over the Las Vegas strip, torch raised...

No Experience Needed to Work Security at Controversial 'Electric Daisy Carnival' Rave in Vegas

Caesar SebastianRavers at EDC.​If you're still looking for work after nearly three years of economic malaise in Southern California, a controversial L.A. rave promoter might have a job for you. An recent ad in Craigslist states that a crowd management company is hiring 700 security guards, ti ... More >>

Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

--Portland, OR: Restaurateur discovers 1809 Italian cookbook. --Anchorage: Local pigs' popularity leads to pork drought. --Duluth: Chocolate-covered sausage. --Las Vegas: Chefs offer suggestions on treats for Santa. --Middleton, WI: Restaurant to hold Seinfeld-inspired Festivus fundraiser --San Fr ... More >>

Amazing Rants Overheard at Venice Beach: "Journalists are the dogs of war!"

​Ranter: Fifty year-old businessman from Ghana Location: Inka Deli, 1425 Ocean Front Walk, Venice Beach Time: 1 p.m. on a Monday Topics Covered: The mercenary nature of journalism; English's many different terms for butler; mysterious blood rituals; how and why reporters insinuate without dir ... More >>

(Video) Bellagio Hotel In Vegas Robbed Of $1.5 Million ... In Chips

APLet's just call him Chip.​Talk about ninja. Authorities say a helmet-clad robber took $1.5 million worth of chips from the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas and got away on a sport-bike motorcycle. Did the douche gunman make it back to L.A? And, the real question, let's just say you get away wit ... More >>

Rodger Jacobs, Writer, Stuck In Vegas And Near Homeless, Gets Some Help -- From L.A.

Sam Morris, Las Vegas SunRodger Jacobs​This is a story about two cities and, perhaps, how different they are. Sunday the Las Vegas Sun published a first-person essay by Rodger Jacobs, a longtime L.A.-based journalist, playwright and documentary film producer, who moved to Las Vegas to care fo ... More >>

Missing Woman Mitrice Richardson Spotted At Rio Hotel In Vegas Recently; Authorities Focus On Sin City

​Los Angeles police on Thursday announced they were focusing on Las Vegas in their search for 25-year-old Mitrice Richardson, who went missing last summer after leaving the sheriff's Lost Hills station in early morning darkness. Authorities actually addressed the woman directly, sending a mess ... More >>

Beyond

More Fun With Maps: The Great American Pizza-Guns-Strip Clubs Map

Floating Sheeppizza, guns and strip malls map​ Maps are cool. Maps generated by geography academics are very cool. And maps generated by geography academics which show the relative density of pizza to guns to strip clubs are just flat out brilliant. Which is what this map, by Floating Sheep, a ... More >>

2010 James Beard Finalists Announed: Suzanne Goin, Matt Molina, Michael Cimarusti, Jonathan Gold, Patric Kuh Nominated

James Beard​Twitter is at it again. The 2010 James Beard Award Finalists were announced this morning via the foundation's Twitter account. L.A's Suzanne Goin, of Lucques, AOC Wine Bar, Hungry Cat and Tavern was nominated for Outstanding Chef, while Matt Molina of Mozza and Michael Cimarusti of ... More >>

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Ask Mr. Gold: Northern Comfort. In Winter, Khao Soi Hits the Spot

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I just returned from a trip to Southeast Asia, and while in northern Thailand, I discovered the yellow noodle dish with chicken in curry and coconut milk, known as khao soi. It's the perfect winter comfort food (spicy and cr ... More >>

CityCenter: Vegas 4.0

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

Las Vegas Grows Up: Architecture Review

Cristina Natsuko Paulos Creates Hanafuda Cards with a Lolita Sensibility

Cristina Natsuko Paulos at Work​ A painter, animator and puppet-maker, Cristina Natsuko Paulos has a whimsical, almost Lolita sensibility that we can appreciate. Central to her work are The Twins, mirror image little girls each bearing eyes of different sizes. Her pieces have appeared in galle ... More >>

Top Bartender Reality Show Casting Call Tomorrow: Give It Your Best On the Rocks

The casting call for contestants for season two of the Absolut vodka and LX.TV/NBC reality series "On the Rocks: The Search for America's Top Bartender" is being held tomorrow at Seven Grand. The winner will head to Las Vegas with seven other regional finalists to battle it out with an ice pick for ... More >>

World Tea Expo Report: The Untouchables -- Mouse Petit Fours. Plus Tea Meanies

Gendy AlimurungMice-a-fours: So fetching to look at ... but how do they taste? They don't just have tea at the World Tea Expo in Las Vegas. They have all the stuff that goes around the tea. This means cups, saucers, teapots, tea cozies, scones, pots of honey, and petit fours shaped like cutely ant ... More >>

Ultra-Sexy BIG INTERNATIONAL EVENT

Killer Fashion Instincts

Quick: name that band. Who is it, the latest art damaged country punks to stagger out of Joshua Tree? Some long lost side project of J.D. Souther, Jackson Browne and Neil Young? The Devendra Banhart fan club? Any way you look at 'em, their beards are impressive: it takes a long time, and a total dis ... More >>

Rocking Ladies and Gold Diggin'

The Gambler’s Index

Sucker

25 Reasons I Returned to L.A. from Sweden, Las Vegas, and Texas

Fifth Lady Down

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

The Greatest Art Show on Earth

(Be careful not to splash marinara sauce on the paintings.)

L.A. Mob Does Vegas

Mickey Mouse Mafia still kicking

Gambling on Disaster

E Design’s roll of the ice

Postcards from the Edge

Off the Strip:

A Guide to Weird Las Vegas