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"What Happens in Vegas"
This Ashton Kutcher-Cameron Diaz romantic comedy needs fewer sunsets and more lap dances and tequila shooters.
Even Las Vegas gets the blues
Revenues are down, disproving the "gambling is recession proof" theory. But hotel rooms are up, up, up
The U.S. attorneys scandal gets dirty
As Congress prepares to grill Alberto Gonzales, Salon has uncovered another partisan issue connected to the mass firings: Pornography.
Stardust memories
Las Vegas, it seems, can never offer enough glam, glitz and gambling. But what goes up in this perpetual boom town must always come crashing down.
Smearing the U.S. attorneys
New details show the Bush administration's "document dump" gives a misleading rationale for the firing of two U.S. attorneys.
Killing Jared
Matt Baker was a restless teenager in suburban Las Vegas who loved gangster movies and acting cool. Nobody could imagine he wanted to murder his best friend and bury him in the desert.
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
The NFL scouting combine: Wake up, fans! Mistakes are being made. Plus: Pacman's $81,000 strip-club visual.
Finally, women can pay for sex too!
Heidi Fleiss is opening a new brothel near Las Vegas -- for women.
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
A match-fixing scandal centering on referees has stunned German soccer. That sort of thing has never happened in the U.S. Why not? And could it?
Rack 'em up
She looked great with small breasts, I told my plastic surgeon buddy as he pumped up his patient's implants. Hey, it's Vegas, he said -- there's no such thing as too big.
Out of luck
FX's new dark comedy "Lucky" follows a hipster Vegas gambler as he wallows in the low life. Don't bet on it.
Let Tyson fight
Since when did boxing's czars get in the business of legislating morality?
Eye witness?
Zeta-Jones denies plastic surgery rumor; porn star and alleged Cruise-defamer Kyle Bradford is "sensual" and "honest." Plus: Liz Hurley figures out the Matthew Perry problem -- he was on drugs!
Bright lights, big weirdness
Sex on dirty carpets, betrayal, decapitation, spirit possession, mega-money and a defendant they're calling the "Black Widow." Can Las Vegas' latest lurid trial be good for its image? You bet.
Censorama! A gambling resort for persecuted writers
Move over Siegfried & Roy, here comes Salman Rushdie. Now more than ever, Las Vegas is for smart people too.
Pam Gravy's dancing panda
Real, screw-with-your-head magic in Vegas, and Trey Parker is Neil Diamond.
Julie Strain: Ultravixen!
At "6-foot-1 and worth the climb," the star of Playboy TV's "Sex Court" is Hollywood's queen of the B's.
Thirty reasons why
See, I say to myself, even your parents expect you to be rocking in Vegas on your 30th birthday.
Egomania!
Lucianne Goldberg's is monumental; Judge Jerry's is bigger than Judge Judy's; Rick Rockwell's is black-and-blue; but Muhammad Ali's is definitely the greatest of all time.
Bill Belew, the man who dressed the King
The creator of the glorious "Burning Flame of Love" and other sartorial extravaganzas recalls what it was like to design costumes for the messiah of Memphis.
Megamorphosis
I now know what it feels like to be hated by every guy in a bar because the four hottest girls there are dancing intently around you. And yet, I am not all that distracted.
Have yourself a merry Jimmy Buffettmas
Pour yourself a drink and forget the presents. December 25 offers plenty of other reasons to celebrate.
"In Nevada" by David Thomson, "24/7" by Andris Martinez and "Double Down" by Frederick and Steven Barthelme
The harsh beauty of Nevada, the glitzy pleasures of Vegas and the thrill ride of gambling.
Letters to the Editor
Must Camille turn her blade on her own community? Plus: Fighting the "Babywise" bible; was Pope Pius XII a Nazi pawn?
Artist's little helper
Fred Tomaselli's work offers the experience of taking drugs in the safest possible way -- through the eyes.
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