msnbc.com’s “Today Travel” questions publisher Anthony Curtis about controversial hotel resort fees.
Jan. 10, 2010
You don’t have to have a degree in revenue management to understand why more and more properties are relying on resort fees. “It’s like the airlines,” said Anthony Curtis, president of LasVegasAdvisor.com, an online newsletter. “It’s as if they’re saying, OK, the rate is $50, but we’re going to hold $15 over here and advertise a rate of $35.” Continue reading
The Atlanta Journal-Cnstitution profiles local writer-turned Vegas writer Matt O’Brien, author of Huntington Press best-sellers Beneath the Neon and My Week at the Blue Angel.
Jan. 7, 2011
When Matt O’Brien spent Christmas back in his hometown of Decatur, he kept receiving a steady stream of text messages, all from Las Vegas, where he’s lived the past 13 years, working as a journalist and short-story writer.
“Thanks, man, for getting us out of the tunnels,” read one. “Cold and rainy … this week,” said another. “Can’t imagine being down there for the holidays.” Continue reading
Anthony Curtis’ nationally syndicated weekly column.
Jan. 5, 2011
It was a mostly controlled New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas where, despite huge crowds—an estimated 320,000 visitors—no violent incidents were reported on the Strip. Bystanders stood shoulder-to-shoulder (in sub-20-degree temperatures) to take in the elaborate fireworks show, then headed back into the casinos or to their cars, and the Strip was cleaned up and fully accessible by early morning Continue reading
Love for Huntington Press’ Eating Las Vegas: The 50 Essential Restaurants from Media Bistro’s “FishbowlLA”.
Nov. 19, 2010
Given that John Curtas has been chronicling the Las Vegas restaurant scene for two decades via radio (KNPR 88.9 FM), TV (KLAS CBS-TV), print (Las Vegas Weekly) and now the Internet (eatingLV.com), it’s remarkable that it’s taken this long for him to come out with a book like Eating Las Vegas: The 50 Essential Restaurants.
The guide was officially launched on Wednesday at the MGM Grand’s L’atelier (one of the tome’s Top Ten eateries), and given the fact that The Strip is such a critical LA power player destination, the choices will no doubt reverberate out here as well. Curtas wrote the book with fellow food critics Max Jacobson and Al Mancini, who each had veto power and as a group used that privilege seven times.
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December 19, 2010
With this month’s opening of the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, many believe that the city’s amazing 21-year roll may have come to an end. Following the opening of the Mirage in 1989, dozens of casinos came on line over the following two decades to make Las Vegas one of the most vibrant cities in the world. However, there are no major new projects in the works in 2011, nor are any expected to even Continue reading
Dec. 15, 2010
LasVegasAdvisor.com President Anthony Curtis was this morning interviewed on “Good Morning America” for his take on the December 14 heist at Bellagio, in which an armed robber got away with over $1.5 million in casino checks, some of them very high denomination.
December 1, 2010
The corporate name of the Harrah’s casino brand, which until recently was Harrah’s Entertainment, has been changed to Caesars Entertainment. Interestingly, Caesars Continue reading
Love from Huffington Post for Huntington Press’ latest title, the Eating Las Vegas restaurant guide.
November 23, 2010
We’ve got something for the food-loving traveler in everyone. If you’re visiting Las Vegas soon, be sure to take John Curtas, Max Jacobson and Al Mancini’s new book, Eating Las Vegas: The 50 Essential Restaurants, along with you. Continue reading
November 12, 2010
The Travel section of today’s USA Today carries a big feature by Kitty Yancey about the Top 10 decadent things to do in Las Vegas, for which Anthony Curtis and Las Vegas Advisor were a major source of information, and shared stories of the seamier sides of Sin City.
Over drinks at the Golden Gate Hotel & Casino downtown, where eye candy in fringed bikinis shimmies on a platform outside and dances and deals Continue reading
Anthony Curtis’ nationally syndicated weekly column.
November 10, 2010
Jonathan Duhamel emerged from a starting field of 7,319 to become the first Canadian to win the World Series of Poker’s Main Event and a first prize of just under $9 million. Floridian John Racener took home $5.5 million as the runner-up. The combination of the Continue reading
October 27, 2010
ThrillistVegas gives some love to Huntington Press’ new title My Week at the Blue Angel.
Author Matthew O’Brien of Beneath The Neon journeys back to the depths of Vegas to deliver unclean tales of prostitutes, ex-cons, homeless folk, and more that rule the city’s underbelly and reside in everything from the Continue reading
Anthony Curtis’ nationally syndicated weekly column.
Sept. 20, 2010
While the nightclub business has exploded in Las Vegas over the past half-decade, it’s been anything but a smooth ride. Competition has taken its toll Continue reading
