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Climb aboard at the Springs Preserve for a Vegas history lesson

Climb aboard at the Springs Preserve for a Vegas history lesson

A piece of the Old West is now serving passengers at the Springs Preserve as a train takes them on a 20-minute ride down the Preserve’s 2.2-mile Exploration Loop Trail. This narrated tour of Las Vegas history rolls past hundreds of native plants, birds and animal species like peregrine falcons, snowy egrets and black-crowned night herons [...]

Dinner in the Sky to rise to the occasion in Vegas

Dinner in the Sky to rise to the occasion in Vegas

Las Vegas is about to embark on an unparalleled epicurean adventure. Dinner in the Sky broke ground today and will open mid-summer, offering diners an open-air gourmet dinner experience 180 feet above the ground. Located just minutes from the Las Vegas Strip, this new Las Vegas attraction will also offer a spacious reception area on [...]

Drinks, dunes, drums & drives for dads in Vegas on Father’s Day

Drinks, dunes, drums & drives for dads in Vegas on Father’s Day

It’s almost Father’s Day, and dad deserves to be recognized in Vegas style, with candy, a shave, a cigar or a chance to get his adrenaline pumping. Many Las Vegas attractions, stores and spas are offering specials for dad’s big day. Sugar Daddies Dad will feel like a kid again with a sweet vintage gift [...]

Head to downtown Vegas for one last fling before the ring

Head to downtown Vegas for one last fling before the ring

Downtown Las Vegas takes the planning out of your bachelorette party as the D and Golden Gate hotels team up to bring you Downtown Fling Before The Ring. The non-traditional, affordable bachelorette party experience sends party goers on a scavenger hunt spanning the bright lights and colorful canopy of the Fremont Street Experience. Ladies will partake in a [...]

Top 10 Thrill Rides in Vegas (with Videos)

Top 10 Thrill Rides in Vegas (with Videos)

I have a confession. I’m a closet adrenaline junkie searching for my next fix. Like most thrill-seekers, I sometimes find life on the ground a bit mundane and monotonous. You can walk. You can run. You can hop, skip or even Prancercise. But that’s pretty much where the fun stops. Sigh. Thank goodness for Vegas [...]

Fabrik Fridays adds feminine flair to Vegas steakhouse

Fabrik Fridays adds feminine flair to Vegas steakhouse

There’s something about the word steakhouse that sounds inherently masculine. Not to say that a woman can’t enjoy the heck out of a nice, juicy cut of steak. But the traditional steakhouse concept seems to exude testosterone. Well, there’s very little that’s traditional about Vegas … and that includes the steakhouse. Case in point: SHe [...]

Ready to zip with views of the Vegas Strip?

Ready to zip with views of the Vegas Strip?

Thrill seekers will soon have another reason to come to Vegas. By the end of summer, you should be able to soar 400 feet in the air on a 10-second zip ride (not to be confused with a zip line) between the Rio hotel’s 50-story Masquerade tower and Ipanema tower. VooDoo SkyLine will launch from [...]

Zip it on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas

Zip it on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas

Those who want to zip down the Fremont Street Experience on Flightlinez zip line should zip on down to the Fremont Street Experience before it’s gone. The current zip line will soon be no more. But don’t distress my thrill-seeking friends. A  new two-level “zoom” line called SlotZilla will soon be taking its place, just east of 4th [...]

Top 10 water attractions in Las Vegas

Top 10 water attractions in Las Vegas

Summer in Vegas isn’t just hot, it’s “I feel like I’ve been marinated, charbroiled and left to shrivel up into an atrophied shell of a human … but I’m also doing shots of tequila off this sweaty stranger’s chest so I’d sort of like to see this through” hot. These 10 water attractions will help cool you off.

Boyz II Men race to help Vegas charities

Boyz II Men race to help Vegas charities

Members of the four-time Grammy-Award winning band Boyz II Men brought motownphilly back to Pole Position Raceway in Las Vegas on Sunday in support of Speedway Children’s Charities and their own charity, Boyz II Men House.

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