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...dining has become so high-end it employs more master sommeliers than any other U.S. city. The hotels only get more and more extravagant and opulent. One of the must-have features is a posh spa: every Strip hotel has one, such as the 69,000-sq.-ft. Canyon Ranch SpaClub at the Venetian, which has a two-story rock-climbing wall. Luxury designer shops, from Louis Vuitton and Gucci to Armani and Dior, are so common that they seem practically like Gaps in Vegas. Just down the Strip from the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, which is inside the Venetian...
With the Palms' success, the once secretive Vegas is courting the media. The Golden Nugget is the focus of The Casino; the Discovery Channel's American Casino follows the Green Valley Ranch hotel; Extra has regular Vegas segments. Vegas even has its own impressively attended comedy and film festivals. "The whole entertainment industry is looking to Las Vegas," says Trevor Groth, the director of programming of CineVegas, who persuaded Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn and Dennis Hopper to show up for last month's sixth annual festival. "It's a suburb of Los Angeles...
...U.F.C. video game will allow you to fight as Lorenzo, who apparently is much stronger than he looks. Their parents gave them a bunch of local casinos, which, along with revenue made from consulting with Native Americans on casino operations, they have used to build the slick Green Valley Ranch Resort & Spa, a hotel about 15 minutes from the Strip that is the choice for celebrities who are too cool for the crowds. As in the Palms, the casino--which is on a different floor from the lobby and contains a food court--is for local regulars and the rooms...
...what Mayor Goodman calls, without irony, the intellectual center of Vegas. That center is being defined, in true American fashion, not by an ocean or an island but by a stretch of highway. "That's the view," says Lorenzo Fertitta from the presidential suite at the Green Valley Ranch. "The Strip is the beach and the water...
...Mayor Goodman calls, without irony, the intellectual center of Vegas. That center is being defined, in true American fashion, not by an ocean or an island but by a stretch of highway. "That's the view," says casino owner Lorenzo Fertitta from the presidential suite at the Green Valley Ranch. "The Strip is the beach and the water." "We're going through the reverse of what so many cities have suffered through, this flight out of the city," says Jim Murren, president of MGM Mirage and a longtime Vegas resident. Two weeks ago, the city unveiled a $650 million monorail...