The Pinball Hall of Fame plans to move to a newly built facility on the south Strip. The Las Vegas arcade has been based out of a building near UNLV since 2009. Its operators are looking to build a 27,000-square-foot facility. The arcade currently has 250 pinball machines, but an additional 800 are in storage.
Some carry-on bags at McCarran airport will soon be scanned with the same type of technology used by hospitals for medical images. CT imaging is already used to screen checked baggage. The scanners will be deployed to McCarran and 14 other U.S. airports in the next few months, allowing the TSA to see items more clearly. Each machine costs at least $350,000. Over time, the TSA said it expects processing to be faster. The technology may someday allow travelers to keep liquids and laptops in their bags.
Bagans, proprietor of Zak Bagans’ Haunted Museum at 600 E. Charleston Road, has in his clutches a painting of Manson with Manson’s ashes in the eyes. This is a common medium for the painting’s artist, Ryan Almighty, who uses human blood (in this instance, his own) and human remains to create his artwork. Bagans, host of Travel Channel’s paranormal investigation series “Ghost Adventurers,” received the painting at his Las Vegas attraction on Saturday morning. He is having it framed, and plans to display the work beginning Wednesday, in a museum room dedicated to convicted killers.
The Adult Superstore on Main Street has closed its doors for good after 45 years. The shop, which offered a multitude of adult toys, novelty items and movies, opened in 1973. Four other locations remain open. A note on the front door tells customers, “We can’t fully express our sorrow.” Adult Superstore was awarded Best of Las Vegas adult store by the Review-Journal in 2016 and 2017 .
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Wynn Las Vegas is the only casino where dealers share 15 percent of their tips with who they say are supervisors The policy was implemented in 2006 because Wynn’s high-end customers tend to tip more than at other resorts. As a result, dealers were taking home more than their bosses. In 2006 the positions of pit boss and floor supervisor were eliminated and replaced by the position of casino service team leader, whose goal is to improve customer interaction, the company said. Congressional legislation passed in March says that tips cannot be shared with supervisors and managers A judge will decide whether a casino service team leader is a supervisor
Here are the top five defensive players to watch in in Southern Nevada next season. No. 5: DT Jordan Butler, Desert Pines No. 4: LB Kyle Beaudry, Liberty No. 3: DE Darnell Washington, Desert Pines No. 2: CB Kyu Kelly, Bishop Gorman No. 1: DE Treven Ma’ae, Bishop Gorman
Juan Herrera-Perla pulled double duty in his early days with the Lights FC. The defender took classes online so he could graduate in April. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in business management. Defender Miguel Garduno believes those brains show up on the field. Miguel Garduno
A 9-year-old startup famous for selling socks online and wholesale opens this week on the Las Vegas Strip. Stance will open its eighth U.S. location Friday at the Fashion Show shopping center, a location determined in part by the company’s online retail data. “Nowadays, you have to be a data-driven product,” said Paul Zaengle, Stance’s executive vice president of retail.
Israeli hoteliers Asher Gabay and Benny Zerah bought Motel 8 on the south Strip for $7.4 million, records show. They plan to bulldoze the property and build a hotel-casino. Motel 8 was built in the 1960s and used to be one of several roadside inns on what’s now the south Strip. But it looks out of place today, dwarfed by the towering Mandalay Bay right across the street.
