Archive for July 14th, 2010

MGM Resorts touts green award in Vegas, Detroit

LAS VEGAS (AP) — MGM Resorts International says 11 of its Las Vegas properties and the MGM Grand Detroit hotel-casino have received high marks from a program that audits and evaluates environmentally sustainable hotel operations.

Allegiant Air to give away free ticket to Las Vegas

If you were thinking about booking a plane ticket for Las Vegas, now is the time to book your flight and fly for free.

UFC 116 Drugs Tests Clean

Fourteen UFC 116 competitors tested negative for steroids and drugs, according to an email distributed by the Nevada State Athletic Commission on Wednesday.

MGM eyes Barangaroo

LAS Vegas’s MGM Resorts International hopes to be named operator of the Barangaroo luxury hotel within the $6 billion regeneration project.

Sheryl Crow Every Hour on the Hour Today

Today VH1 and CMT simultaneously premiere Sheryl Crow’s new music video for the song “Summer Day”

Lady Gaga Getting Mixed Up For U.S.

Lady Gaga is the latest artist to take songs from a hit album and have them remixed and released as a new album.

Palms turns up its nose at effort to scent casino

Ever since it shot to fame as the setting of MTV’s “Real World” series in 2002, the Palms has enjoyed a reputation as the sexy, young hipster among Las Vegas resorts. It has used everything it can to stay popular with the 20-somethings — reality TV-fame, celebrity patrons, trendy nightclubs, a new concert venue, a recording studio

Classic Hollywood: Buster Keaton’s silents and some early talkies

Two versions of ‘Steamboat Bill, Jr.’ and several mid-1930s gems are coming out on DVD. “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” was Buster Keaton’s last independent feature before making, as he would later say, the biggest mistake of his career by giving up his own studio and signing with MGM.