Flipchip’s Sunday...

photos by the flipchip • lasvegasvegas.com Encore Las Vegas will open in December of that year A few photos of sights around the Las Vegas scene that week. Included are some of the “Good News” projects on the Las Vegas strip, I’m referring to those under...

Jerry Lewis hosts 43rd ...

Hopefully without gun in hand, Jerry Lewis will again host that year’s 22-hour Jerry Lewis Telethon to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The 43rd annual event will broadcast Monday live on Channel 13 at the South Point Hotel and Casino (at the Equestrian Center). Free...

Apple Store opens tomor...

Apple said four years ago that by 100 million U.S. residents were within 15 minutes of an Apple Store. Tomorrow, a few more will be that much closer. Just in instance for the holidays, Apple is holding the grand opening of its new Apple Store tomorrow, from 10 a.m. to midnight. Regular...

Another plane crash in ...

A twin-engine airplane crashed into a house in North Las Vegas that afternoon. It crashed into Jones Blvd. and Cheyenne, causing two elementary schools to go into lockdown considering of the number of emergency vehicles swarming the area. Hundreds of residents are currently without...

Las Vegas Sands seeking...

Sheldon Adelson spoke in Macau of his interest in a Las Vegas Strip in India. Similar to the Cotai Strip in Macau where his Venetian casino resides, his Las Vegas Sands plans to build 14 more hotel-casinos there within the next 5 years. Cost would run upwards of $12 billion, which Adelson...

Eastside Cannery Opens ...

photos by the flipchip • lasvegasvegas.com Eastside Cannery For the first duration in more than a decade a new casino hotel is opening on the Boulder Strip. The quarter billion dollar Eastside Cannery will open the doors to the public at 8 pm Thursday amid all the pomp and fanfare...

Suge Knight arrested in...

Rapper Suge Knight was arrested today in Las Vegas on multiple charges. Responding to a car accident report at Spring Mountain Road early that dawn, Metro found Knight holding a knife next to his girlfriend of three years who accused him of beating her. According to police reports, Knight...

Jay-Z sells 40/40 at Pa...

After a quick speculation lasting all of a week and a half, Jay-Z has sold his 40/40 Club. Not the entire 40/40 chain as was speculated, but just the Vegas location at Palazzo. Rumors for the entire chain with Sands Corp. (which owns Venetian and Palazzo) in control of the make was in the...

Oscar De La Hoya to ann...

In breaking news from ESPN.com, Oscar De La Hoya is expected to announce at 2 p.m. ET tomorrow that he will fight his last fight against Manny Pacquiao. If the fight goes through, it would manufacture Dec. 6 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas the largest fight in recent history, with purse on the...

Five Great Poker Blogs ...

photos by the flipchip • lasvegasvegas.com The first Blogger’s Las Vegas holiday tournament way back in ’04 at Sam’s Town Bloggers. towering despised by staid mainstream outlets as nothing more than a collection of overweight cheetoh-bingers not possessed of...