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Derek Jeter and Jessica Biel Hit Vegas Hard
If they don't want to be known as the next hot, young, well-traveled couple, Derek Jeter and Jessica Biel aren't doing a great job hiding it. People reports that the pair spent the weekend "cozying up all over Las Vegas."
In record time the twosome hit up The Wynn, Palms, and Hard Rock Hotel to gamble, eat, and dance with pals. Later in the night, the duo spent some time inside a VIP booth at Body English, but they're still remaining mum about the suspected relationship.
Jeter even responded "Hell, yes!" when asked in public (out in LA) if he was still single, back on Nov. 15. The trend of sneaking away on a secret trip for the weekend, a la Kate & Owen (Hawaii) and Nick & Vanessa (Santa Barbara), while trying to deny a new love affair certainly seems to be taking off, though Vegas isn't exactly destination inconspicuous now is it.
[Photo: The Bosh]
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Sharkey Takes a Bite Outta Vegas.com
Times columnist Joe Sharkey recently visited the headquarters of Vegas.com, and found that it is officialy the best. Office. Ever. Turns out that it's nothing out of the ordinary there when "a bunch of Hooters Girls show up with buckets of beer on ice and chicken wings."
The Vegas-centric online booking service now has plans to expand to airports, and has already touched down in Burbank. Vegas.com plans to bring Vegas acts to its airport booths, like it did with magician Mac King at Burbank.
While the website won't give you ultra-personal service with an exclusive feel, it does come in handy if you're looking for a one-stop shop with detailed information on just about every show in town. It also wouldn't hurt to make contact with the staff, if only for the off chance they might invite you over for some of those Hooters wings.
[Photo: Stephanie Asher]
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Hell's Bells! No More Late-Night Vegas Weddings!
Looks like it's time to play Taps instead of the Wedding March in Las Vegas. As the Wall Street Journal reports today, Vegas will no longer be offering round the clock wedding services, starting tomorrow. Last call will now be midnight; the Marriage Bureau hopes to save $200,000 a year with the change in operating hours.
They were only offering this service on the weekends before the change, but we do find it sad that this Vegas tradition is going the way of the Dodo. Sure, it will reduce the number of horribly misconceived marriages, but the whole point of Vegas is horribly misconceived things--all you need to do is walk down the Strip to figure that out. All-night weddings, we bid you a fond adieu.
[Image via My Daily Struggle/Flickr]
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Las Vegas's The Circuit party newsletter
Our friendly neighborhood Gridskipper points us to a nifty service offered out in Las Vegas for those with Nevada IDs: sign up for The Circuit email newsletter, and get on the list for places like Tao and Pure in a snap. The magic worker is a writer named Xania Woodman. Don't you about you, but we picture Lucy Lawless with a vodka bottle and a notepad.
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Vegas Deals
If all you Vegas Virgins want to make sure you finish up your vacation with more than just the clothes on your back, it makes sense to take advantage of all the cheap stuff that Vegas has to offer. (We hear that the runner-up motto after "What happens here, stays here" was "99 cent shrimp cocktail!") Evidently not ones to pass up a bargain, the Boston Globe hits up the Las Vegas Advisor's Anthony Curtis for his best locations for cheap food, free shows, Elvis, and other good stuff.
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The Vegas Virgin
The Denver Post has a great commentary on Vegas Virgins--either those that have never been there, or in this case, someone that was there 20 years ago, which is basically like they've never been in the first place.
Said subject leaves his kids at home to "fend for themselves" and heads with his wife for the strip where he proceeds to lose $2,000 very quickly. He offers some great commentary:
What's not to like? You can smoke indoors, drink for free, party like it's spring break most any night, and buy a little hope with every spin of the roulette wheel. Las Vegas is phony. Yes it is. But it is more real in its phoniness than most people's reality.
He does get a little deep-annoying sometimes, and actually walks out of the way to Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville (why!?) but all in all sort of renewed our love-hate relationship with Sin City just a little bit...
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More Elvis in Vegas
As if there weren't already enough of the King in Vegas, it's about to get worse. CKX Inc, the new owners of Elvis Presley Enterprises, have announced that they are buying a new space for an Elvis museum in Vegas. Additionally, they have plans to build a "world-class Elvis attraction on the Vegas strip."
The company has vowed to take Elvis further then Nashville and hopes to significantly expand the brand. Stay tuned for any more developments in the kingdom of sequined jumpsuits and fried banana & peanut butter sandwiches.
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W Las Vegas
Starwood Hotels, owners of the W Hotel line, have announced plans to "expand dramatically" in Vegas. They've joined with Edge Resorts to build a project that will include a new casino, W Hotel, residential unit and shopping area totalling over 375,000 square feet to open in 2008.
The property will be just east of the strip, next to the Hard Rock. Apparently they are quite confident of their success:
"The other properties will orbit around us," Ross Klein, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for W Hotels Worldwide, told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday.
We'll keep you posted as more unfolds...
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