Nevada

TSA Agent in Vegas Confiscates Threatening Cupcake

Cupcake ©ms.Tea In what can only be explained as an act of hypoglycemic lunacy a TSA security agent at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas confiscated a cupcake from a passenger at security. According to Rebecca Hains, the TSA agent told her that her cupcake’s frosting was enough like a gel to violate TSA restrictions [...]

Get a Fake Marriage at Vegas’s Unusual New Wedding Chapel

Las Vegas Sign ©Mike_fleming Starting December 28th exhibitionist couples can say “I do” at the new wedding chapel located in The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. The glass-paned chapel will allow anyone passing by on the sidewalk to peek in at the ceremonies on the first-floor, Strip-side chapel. But this chapel isn’t just for quickie wedding [...]

Mystery Odors Delay Two US Airways Flights

US Airways Express ©abdallahh This week US Airlines was plagued by bizarre scents in their aircraft cabins and in one case the odor sent aircraft crew to the hospital. When passengers on Flight 439 from Philadelphia to Las Vegas noticed a persistant strange odor they were switched to a different aircraft. The aircraft switch delayed [...]

Tourists Learn to Drive Bulldozers at Vegas’ Newest Attraction

Bulldozer © Official U.S. Navy Imagery The Great Recession brought a 20-year construction boom in Vegas to a grinding halt. But an enterprising small business owner is turning lemons into lemonade and renting out idle heavy construction equipment by the hour in an adult-sized sandbox. MSNBC reports, Ed Mumm [the business owner] said he started [...]

Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with an Ultra-High Speed Video Camera

Videographer Tom Giulmette recently flew to Las Vegas to film a ping pong tournament, which requires a specialized camera to adequately capture the action. While trapped in his hotel room with nothing but a Phantom Flex ultra-high speed video camera (capable of recording at 2,564 frames per second!) and way too much time on his [...]

Reno City Council Peeved By Disastrously Bad, Overpriced Ad Campaign

© Renjishino Lots of cities hire second-rate agencies – or, more often, some politico’s nephew “who’s in advertising” – to create their ad campaigns. Those campaigns almost universally suck. Most of the time we’re grudgingly grateful for that because we’re suckers and we’re more than willing to max out our credit cards on travel. But [...]

Photo of the Moment: View from the Stratosphere, Las Vegas

Photo of the Moment: Playa Pups, Black Rock Desert

High Speed Levitating Train from California to Las Vegas?

The first real maglev train in the United States – a modest proposal that has been in the works for years – is still facing stiff competition from the typical bureaucratic blockades. As a former California resident, I’m keenly aware that some kind of mass-transit method from California to Vegas has dotted the editorial pages [...]

Welcome to The Republic of Molossia, Population: 4

The Republic of Molossia has a population of four. It is presently in a state of perpetual martial law, courtesy of the ‘foreign menace over the border.’ This border encompasses all of fourteen and a half acres, most of which can be found just outside Dayton, Nevada. There resides President Kevin Baugh, his wife, two [...]

Leaving Lost Vegas: Your Hotel’s Lost and Found is Very Revealing

We’ve all done it; the taxi is hitting the horn, you’ve still got sleep in your eyes, you force the zipper closed on your bags, take one last look around the room for anything left behind, and you leave…. ….Only to remember, once you’re halfway to the departure lounge, that you left your toiletry bag [...]

American Kitsch: Las Vegas’ Neon Boneyard

One thing I’ve always wanted to do is visit Las Vegas’ Neon Boneyard – “a collection of non-restored historic signs [from the Vegas strip] outdoors on a 3 acre site in Las Vegas”. The entire concept is so kitschy cool that it’s irresistible to me. Check out this Flickr set for a taste.