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A portion of Las Vegas Boulevard closed to traffic Thursday evening to allow revelers to ring in 2021.
Tourists and locals braved a raging pandemic Thursday night to end a year of unimaginable crisis with a hopeful eye toward a fresh start and descended on Las Vegas to celebrate the beginning of 2021.
It’s been a difficult year for buffets, and the start of 2021 isn’t looking much better. Effective Jan. 10, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas’ Wicked Spoon buffet will “temporarily cease operations.”
To end 2020, New Year’s Eve features fireworks in downtown Las Vegas with other parties planned around the valley.
Despite the cancellation of the annual New Year’s Eve fireworks show on the Las Vegas Strip, a portion of the boulevard and Interstate 15 on and off ramps will shut to traffic to ring in 2021.
The Mirage will open the new year by shutting down totally from Mondays through Thursdays, MGM Resorts International announced Monday.
With the Strip’s annual midnight fireworks show canceled, fewer roadways will be closed to vehicular and fewer officers will be required to patrol them, Las Vegas police said.
Olive Garden plans to open a restaurant in the Showcase Mall, Clark County records show.
Las Vegas room rates have trended well below average this year, but prices listed for New Year’s Eve are skyrocketing.
Piff The Magic Dragon and Tape Face remain active Strip headliners in COVID.
Ross Mollison says, “These kids have got nothing, and unemployment runs out in Nevada in two weeks.”
Bill Clinton and several Vegas entertainers led Tony Hsieh’s tribute.
Wynn Fine Art gallery is open in Palm Beach, Fla., though Steve Wynn is based in Las Vegas.
Lance Burton says of Vegas: “I was so excited and grateful to be doing my magic act in the city I had been dreaming of.”
