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Rio Hotel & Casino is transforming The Venue inside Masquerade Village into a multi-use entertainment complex. The redes...
08/10/2026

Rio Hotel & Casino is transforming The Venue inside Masquerade Village into a multi-use entertainment complex. The redesign brings two showrooms, immersive dining and a new Box Office Bar hosting rotating pop-up events and specialty cocktails throughout the year.

Rio leadership frames it as a milestone in the property's push to become a full-scale destination for both locals and visitors, with live shows, dinner experiences and private event space on the way.

Source: FOX5 Vegas — https://www.fox5vegas.com/2026/08/05/rio-hotel-casino-transforms-venue-into-new-entertainment-hub/

The architects behind Bellagio and Wynn Las Vegas have formally launched their own firm. Tony Marnell and David Howryla,...
08/05/2026

The architects behind Bellagio and Wynn Las Vegas have formally launched their own firm. Tony Marnell and David Howryla, whose working relationship dates back to 1994, have founded Marnell Howryla Architecture, bringing about 60 architects and designers together to carry forward a design legacy that spans Rio, The Mirage, Bellagio, Caesars Palace, and Wynn Las Vegas.

Marnell described the philosophy behind decades of casino resort design: buildings that operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week require the same precision as medicine, from minor touch ups to major surgery.

Full story: https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/architects-behind-bellagio-wynn-launch-new-las-vegas-firm-3858420/

MySpace might be coming back, and this time its owners say they've learned from the last attempt.Brothers Chris and Tim ...
08/03/2026

MySpace might be coming back, and this time its owners say they've learned from the last attempt.

Brothers Chris and Tim Vanderhook, whose company Viant Technology bought the platform from News Corp in 2011, confirmed in filmmaker Tommy Avallone's new documentary that a relaunch is actively in the works. No launch date has been set. The comeback is expected to move forward without co-founder Tom Anderson, the internet's original "first friend."

What's notable is that the audience never fully left. User counts reportedly climbed from around 200,000 in 2023 to close to 6 million earlier this year, driven largely by people in their 30s and 40s stepping back from algorithm-heavy feeds and looking for something that feels more personal again.

Full story: https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/myspace-seeking-revival-its-owners-plan-comeback-effort-once-popular-social-media-platform

Whether a two-decade-old brand can find its footing in a completely different digital landscape is the real question. Curious where you land on it.

R.D. Talley Books is back, and this time it's on the second level of Fashion Show Mall. The first Black-owned bookstore ...
08/02/2026

R.D. Talley Books is back, and this time it's on the second level of Fashion Show Mall. The first Black-owned bookstore on the Las Vegas Strip held its grand reopening this past Saturday after owner Roderick Talley was forced out of his original Forum Shops space in May when the lease ended.

The new location is open seven days a week, 10am to 9pm, and it's already doing what it did before: pulling in local authors, longtime customers, and tourists looking for something the big retailers don't carry. Staff describe the shop as built around inclusivity first, a place where people from every background can walk in and see themselves on the cover of a book.

It's the kind of story that says something about where Las Vegas is heading, small, independent, and built by people who refused to let a closed door be the end of it.

Full story: https://www.fox5vegas.com/2026/08/02/first-black-owned-bookstore-las-vegas-strip-celebrates-grand-opening-new-location/

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For eight decades, Vegas has sold itself on entertainment. One local investment executive thinks the next chapter should...
07/28/2026

For eight decades, Vegas has sold itself on entertainment. One local investment executive thinks the next chapter should be finance.

Ken Winans runs Winans Investments here in town, and he has a bold pitch: turn Las Vegas into the Wall Street of the West. His reasoning starts with a striking fact. Thousands of mutual funds, ETFs, and investment managers still call California home, even as the industry quietly explores other options. Winans, who started his career in San Francisco, says those old financial hubs have turned into what he calls ghost towns.

His pitch for Vegas: better weather, lower costs, modern infrastructure, and a city that already knows how to entertain high-value clients better than almost anywhere else in the country.

It's not a done deal. Nevada spends less than one percent of its state budget on economic development, and Winans says it will take a real public-private push, and maybe a formal invitation from the governor, to make this happen.

But if it does, this city adds a second identity. Not just where people come to play. Also where people come to build wealth.

📌 Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal — https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/vegas-business/building-las-vegas/could-las-vegas-become-the-wall-street-of-the-west-3853951/

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There's a building on South Sixth Street downtown that a lot of longtime locals will recognize. It was André's for almos...
07/28/2026

There's a building on South Sixth Street downtown that a lot of longtime locals will recognize. It was André's for almost 30 years, the restaurant that put serious French cooking on the map in Las Vegas before the Strip ever did. It closed at the end of 2008 and sat untouched for close to two decades.

This Friday, it opens again. French Riviera Tropézienne Bakery is moving in, its third location in the valley, with coffee on the house that first morning. The full bistro arrives in September.

Some buildings hold onto their story. This one's about to write a new chapter.

📌 Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal — https://neon.reviewjournal.com/dining-out/french-bakery-sets-opening-date-in-former-home-of-legendary-restaurant-3339500/

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Las Vegas homebuilders reached the halfway point of 2026, and the numbers tell a clear story: fewer people are buying.Ne...
07/27/2026

Las Vegas homebuilders reached the halfway point of 2026, and the numbers tell a clear story: fewer people are buying.

Net home sales through June came in at 4,284, down 15 percent from the same period last year. New-home permits were down 25 percent. Closed sales were down 22 percent. June itself was the slowest month of the year so far.

Here's the twist: prices barely moved. The median price on a newly built home in June was $525,000, essentially flat year over year. Builders aren't slashing prices to move inventory. Buyers are just staying on the sidelines, waiting for lower mortgage rates and a clearer economic picture.

📌 Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal — https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/housing/las-vegas-homebuilders-sales-keep-tumbling-this-year-3854606/

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For decades, Vegas sold decadence. Now it's selling the recovery from it, and doing it at a luxury price point.Raeya Wel...
07/27/2026

For decades, Vegas sold decadence. Now it's selling the recovery from it, and doing it at a luxury price point.

Raeya Wellness in Boca Park offers memberships up to $1,195 a month for services like lymphatic massage and red-light therapy. A new private club called Everhaus is opening this fall with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, cold plunges, and IV infusions. And on the Strip, spas at Aria, Bellagio, and Caesars Palace are already leaning into the same shift.

The people behind it aren't guessing. The wellness economy hit $6.8 trillion worldwide in 2024, and it is expected to reach $9.8 trillion by 2029. At the same time, fewer Americans are drinking than they have in decades.

Vegas has always known how to read a room. Right now, the room wants to feel better, not just have a better time.

📌 Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal — https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/vegas-business/innovation/las-vegas-bets-big-on-the-booming-wellness-economy-3854002/

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Something is being built at the Flamingo, and nobody's saying what. More than a dozen construction permits have gone thr...
07/27/2026

Something is being built at the Flamingo, and nobody's saying what. More than a dozen construction permits have gone through the city, all of them listing the same vague description: "Restaurant." A $7.8 million contract valuation. A mezzanine build-out. That's it. That's all anyone knows.

This isn't the first time Caesars Entertainment has hidden a project in plain sight. Gordon Ramsay Burger was filed under the name "Bird Bar." Pinky's by Vanderpump was "Purple Zebra." Both opened without much warning once construction wrapped.

One theory: this could be the return of something like the old Paradise Garden Buffet, shuttered since the start of the pandemic and long since torn down.

We'll be watching this one closely.

📌 Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal — https://neon.reviewjournal.com/dining-out/mystery-8m-restaurant-taking-shape-at-the-flamingo-3339432/

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Happy National Tequila Day — and a look at how far the category has climbed.Tequila has spent the last decade quietly re...
07/24/2026

Happy National Tequila Day — and a look at how far the category has climbed.

Tequila has spent the last decade quietly repositioning itself alongside cognac and fine whiskey as a serious luxury spirits category. Long-aged extra añejo expressions, single-barrel selection programs, and collaborations with luxury crystal houses have pushed collector-grade bottles into six and seven figures.

Here's where the category currently tops out:

1. Tequila Ley .925 Diamante — $3.5 million. The world record holder, held in a one-of-a-kind platinum decanter set with 4,100 diamonds (18.5 carats), designed over 10 months by Jose Dávalos Mejía.
ley925.com

2. Clase Azul 15th Anniversary Edition — $450,000. A hand-painted ceramic decanter with 24-carat gold inlay, released in a run of just two bottles to mark the brand's 15th year.
claseazul.com

3. Tequila Ley .925 Ultra Premium — $225,000. The actual Guinness World Record holder for most expensive tequila ever sold, double-distilled in copper pot stills and aged six years at Hacienda La Capilla.
ley925.com

4. Avión Hand Selected Reposado, Custom Label — $13,680. Buyers hand-select their own barrel and receive a custom-labeled bottle, aged 8 to 11 months with notes of caramel, vanilla, and rose.
tequilaavion.com

5. Patrón en Lalique: Serie 2 — $7,500. One of only 299 hand-numbered crystal decanters made in Alsace, France, holding an extra añejo aged up to 8 years across French oak, American oak, and sherry casks.
patrontequila.com

Premiumization in tequila is no accident. It's the same trajectory cognac and Japanese whisky have followed, and it's reshaping how the spirit shows up on back bars and in collections across Las Vegas.

What's your favorite tequila brand? Tell us in the comments.

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