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The bad news: The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is wrapping up and will end tomorrow, January 13. That means no more fun gadget announcements and breathless product release liveblogs on your favorite tech news sites.

The good news: Thanks to CES, Ford teamed up with in-flight WiFi provider Gogo to offer a free 30 minutes of WiFi on flights heading into or out of Vegas during the CES dates. Sure, that means the free internet access from 35,000-feet comes to a halt tomorrow, but wait... ]]> JetSetCD 2012-01-12T11:33:58-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/12/28/13486/661

After cashing in on a wedding and a move to NYC, Kim Kardashian has found a way to make a few bucks ringing in the New Year.

It's being reported that TAO Nightclub in Las Vegas is paying Kim $600,000 to host multiple events at the venue in 2012, including their New Year's Eve Party.]]> cmb 2011-12-28T13:48:06-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/10/11/124849/24

When it comes to Halloween, Heidi Klum is the hostess with the mostest. Her legendary parties bring out celebs like Kim Kardashian, Michelle Trachtenberg, John Legend, and Brooklyn Decker, not to mention some over-the-top costumes.

This year Heidi is moving her 12th annual Halloween bash from NYC to Las Vegas for the first time. The party will be held at TAO on Saturday, October 29 at 10pm with DJ Questlove providing the perfect soundtrack. ]]> cmb 2011-10-11T12:48:49-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/9/20/144849/934

It may not be as famous as the Golden Arches, but here’s an arch we always wanted to see: “The Biggest Little City In The World” on Virginia Street in Reno.

We always wanted to go to Reno to check it out as a grubby Vegas but were sold on the idea when we came across a postcard from the 1940s of Reno, with old cars passing under this glorious arch. And we knew we really had to go.

The Reno Arch was built in 1926 in advance of the Transcontinental Highways Exposition the following year, but it was only in 1929 that the slogan was coined, after a competition (the winner got $100 for inventing the phrase). ]]> juliab 2011-09-21T11:07:39-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/9/19/94016/5088

So you expect things to be a little bit backward when you leave the bright lights of Vegas for the expanse of nothingness that is the Nevada desert—but 30 years backward? 40, even? That comes as a surprise.

But that's just about how old these postcards of the Las Vegas Strip are that we found on sale in Beatty, NV. Two hours northwest of Vegas on the 95, Beatty's best known for its proximity to Death Valley, its neighboring ghost town, Rhyolite, and its brothels.

What we didn't realise till we got there is just how tiny it is. Scarily tiny. Bad-things-might-happen-to-you tiny. Luckily, a Reno native had advised us to stop at the candy store, so we did. The candy store, by the way, is called Eddie's World and has a massive photo of Eddie the owner on the gas pumps outside. FYI.]]> juliab 2011-09-19T10:49:24-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/9/14/104623/745

Much has been written about the Shady Lady Ranch, one of the most famous of the Nevada brothels and the place that played brief home to the one and only prostidude.

So you can imagine our innocent excitement when we realized that our Vegas-Reno roadtrip would not only pass several brothels, but the very Shady Lady itself.

We have no idea how the girls of the Shady Lady make a living because it is miles out in the middle of nowhere. Beatty itself is about 2 ½ hours northwest of Las Vegas, and the Shady Lady is another 31 miles north of that.

Maybe people come for the view? Because the 95, which runs pretty much parallel to Death Valley at that point (it’s just the other side of the mountains, here) is pretty spectacular. ]]> juliab 2011-09-14T10:46:23-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/9/12/13012/0024

Nevada probably isn’t top of many people’s lists for road tripping (in fact we lived in Vegas for 18 months without ever venturing north, thinking Arizona and California were better bets), but when we had to drive from LV to San Francisco last week, we took the opportunity to make a drive we’d always thought about doing – Vegas to Reno.

One of the first things we came across on the road was the Nevada Test Site, the site of hundreds of nuclear tests from 1951-1994, just 71 miles northwest of Vegas. It's where tourists from Vegas used to be driven out to see the blasts - you could even see the mushroom clouds from Fremont Street in Downtown Vegas back in the day. ]]> juliab 2011-09-12T14:11:30-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/