The Las Vegas Raiders (7-8) will close out the season on the road Sunday against the Denver Broncos (5-10) in an AFC West clash. Both teams have been eliminated from playoff contention, so pride and draft positioning are on the line this weekend. Kickoff is set for 4:25 p.m. ET […]
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Tony Hsieh is gone, but his Las Vegas vision is finding new life
Tony Hsieh speaks at a conference in Las Vegas. The former Zappos chief executive, who died after being trapped in a fire in November, transformed the city in ways that are helping it attract a new wave of tech workers. (Charley Gallay / Getty Images) Tony Hsieh had ambitions that […]
Tony Hsieh: Las Vegas honors late entrepreneur’s legacy
Tony Hsieh always fantasized about making money. As a kid, he did garage sales, sold custom buttons, took on a paper route and, after he quit that job, started his own newsletter. Hsieh went on to much bigger undertakings and left an especially big mark on his adopted hometown of […]
Online Betting, Big Winner As Coronavirus Shuts Down Las Vegas
UNITED STATES—Vegas is hurting. Sadly that’s not because a plane load of high rolling Japanese and Russian industrialists have arrived and spun-up a couple of hundred million in the exclusive Salon Privé areas of the Bellagio, Venetian and Aria Casino. It is because people are simply not travelling to Sin City. […]
What’s open, what’s closed this weekend in Las Vegas
LA cracks down on ‘nightclub’ house; Las Vegas casinos could be inflaming COVID spread; Florida marks 10K deaths
As COVID-19 outbreaks at schools continue to pop up causing students and staff in some states to quarantine, a new study suggests that children may play a larger role in community spread of the new virus than previously thought. Researchers in Massachusetts found that some children who tested positive for […]
Thousands of online listings are violating L.A.’s new short-term rental law
Crowds packed meetings at L.A. City Hall on short-term rentals, including this 2016 Planning Commission hearing. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) Tenant activists celebrated when Los Angeles ushered in new rules to clamp down on renting homes for short stays, saying the city needed to stop landlords who were […]
Inside L.A.’s Raging ‘Fast Fashion’ Coronavirus Hot Zone
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty Carlos had been out of work for nearly a month in April when his roommate in Los Angeles, a fellow garment worker from Mexico, contracted COVID-19. Carlos, who declined to provide his last name or the name of his employer for fear of retaliation, […]
Inside LA’s Raging ‘Fast Fashion’ Coronavirus Hot Zone
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty Carlos had been out of work for nearly a month in April when his roommate in Los Angeles, a fellow garment worker from Mexico, contracted COVID-19. Carlos, who declined to provide his last name or the name of his employer for fear of retaliation, […]