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      Damien Hirst shark that sold for about $8m is fourth 2017 work dated to 1990s

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 6 days ago - 12:00

    Exclusive: Sculpture bought by US billionaires was made almost 20 years after date that appears in its name

    A Damien Hirst shark preserved in formaldehyde that was purchased by American billionaires was dated to the 1990s even though it was not made until 2017.

    The 4-metre (13ft) tiger shark, dissected into three parts, is the centrepiece of a luxury bar in the Palms casino resort in Las Vegas. It first appeared in the casino six years ago, with the title: The Unknown (Explored, Explained, Exploded), 1999.

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      Ex-FBI informant charged with lying about Bidens arrested again

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 23 February - 00:47

    Alexander Smirnov, who claims to have Russian intelligence links, taken into custody after meeting at lawyers’ offices in Las Vegas

    The former FBI informant who is charged with lying about a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving Joe Biden’s family was again taken into custody in Las Vegas, two days after a judge released him, his attorneys said.

    Alexander Smirnov was arrested during a meeting on Thursday morning at his lawyers’ offices in downtown Las Vegas. The arrest came after prosecutors appealed the judge’s ruling allowing 43-year-old Smirnov, who holds dual US-Israeli citizenship, to be released with a GPS monitor ahead of trial. He is charged with making a false statement and creating a false and fictitious record.

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      Ex-gang leader’s trial in killing of Tupac Shakur delayed

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 20 February - 20:23

    Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis, charged with killing hip-hop icon, says people willing to help him post bail don’t want to appear in court

    A trial date has been pushed back from June to November for a former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with killing hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas, and his new attorney said Tuesday that he expects to be able to post bail soon to be released from jail to house arrest.

    Duane “Keffe D” Davis stood in custody and told Clark county district court judge Carli Kierny that people who are willing to help him post $750,000 bail don’t want to appear in court for a “source hearing” to show that the money was legally obtained.

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      One From the Heart review – ambitious Coppola romance with charm and goofy innocence

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 14 February - 13:00

    In a stylised, almost dreamlike Vegas, a jaded couple’s escapist infidelities can’t deny their essential love’s gravitational pull in this tender throwback to a golden age romantic drama

    Actually, it was from the head as much as anything: a movie that arose from Francis Coppola’s shrewd, professional calculation that he could create and control an entire old-fashioned Hollywood romantic drama from his own studio, Zeotrope. The result was a lavish production which was very ambitious, hubristically or perhaps even ruinously so. But at the same time it looks oddly small scale, emotionally parochial and essentially monogamous – certainly a downshift from the colossal sweep of Apocalypse Now or The Godfather.

    With its re-release now after more than 40 years, with six minutes added, One From the Heart reveals itself as a minor Coppola, but it is certainly a heartfelt romance-fantasia with charm and often a kind of goofy innocence; at one point the hero climbs a neon structure (that ubiquitous neon glow of 80s Hollywood) and gets electrified with his hair standing up, like a comic-book character.

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      Usher and longtime partner married in Las Vegas after Super Bowl half-time show

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 13 February - 13:53


    R&B superstar married Jenn Goicoechea, his partner since 2019, at Vegas Weddings hours after half-time headline appearance

    Usher and his longtime partner Jenn Goicoechea married in Las Vegas just hours after the R&B superstar’s headline appearance at the Super Bowl half-time show, according to officials and documents.

    The officiant who wed the pair is known to dress as an Elvis Presley impersonator.

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      Glitz and glamour at Super Bowl takes shine off New York fashion week

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 12 February - 16:53

    Kansas City Chiefs v San Francisco 49ers was more than a football game as sports stars and celebs hit the sartorial spotlight

    New York fashion week’s biggest show didn’t happen on a catwalk, or even in New York, but in a Las Vegas football stadium.

    The Super Bowl was the dressiest, glitziest event of the most important week in the fashion calendar, with the world’s most famous designers competing to dress players, performers and high-profile guests, and celebrities vying to turn heads with avant garde clothing choices.

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      The $7bn bet that couldn’t lose: how Vegas became America’s sports capital

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 8 February - 16:06

    No event signals Las Vegas’s arrival as a US sporting mecca like the Super Bowl, which takes place in the city after an abrupt reversal in philosophy

    Sidewalks and overpasses festooned with red and purple signage. Corporate installations and official merchandise stands still being erected. Sprawling casino floors filled with fans clad in football jerseys, huddled around table games and feeding bills into NFL -branded slot machines. The first Super Bowl to be played in Las Vegas was still days away, but the signposts of America’s high holy day were already in full view on a drizzly Monday afternoon up and down the famous Strip.

    They were scenes that would have been unthinkable even a decade ago, when the major US professional sports leagues – none more than the NFL – uniformly shunned Vegas for its associations with gambling culture. But when the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs kick off the nation’s biggest sporting event on Sunday at Allegiant Stadium, it will mark the culmination of a city’s improbable rebranding from old gambling town to America’s sports capital.

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      Multiple victims reported in shooting at University of Nevada Las Vegas campus

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 6 December - 20:56


    Statement from Las Vegas police indicates the shooter was ‘contained’ with multiple reports saying attacker was dead

    Police have warned that there are possibly “multiple victims” in a shooting reported at the campus of the University of Nevada Las Vegas campus.

    Officials said that the multiple victims were reported about midday Wednesday at Frank and Estella Beam Hall, also known as BEH.

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      F1’s videogame-like Las Vegas race defied critics’ complaints

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 20 November - 13:37 · 1 minute

    McLaren driver Oscar Piastri (81) of Australia drives by the Sphere during the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday, November 18, 2023 on the Las Vegas Street Circuit in Las Vegas, NV.

    Enlarge / Las Vegas' animated Sphere provided part of a spectacular backdrop for the Las Vegas street race. Luckily for F1, the racing more than lived up to the hype. (credit: Bob Kupbens/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images)

    This past weekend, Formula 1 held its inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix. In many ways, this race was something new and unusual for the racing series, something that created plenty of tension among more traditional fans, many of whom suspected that an abundance of style over substance was at work. Things didn't get much better after the first day's practice, with one car written off and another damaged by poor track preparation. But by the time the checkered flag flew at the end of Saturday night's race, even the skeptics had come around, for the cars didn't just look spectacular on track, they gave us the closest—and one of the most thrilling—race of the year.

    The way an F1 event normally works is that a promoter pays the sport a sanctioning fee— somewhere between $20 million and $55 million —and then the sporting circus turns up and races, then leaves. But Liberty Media, which owns F1, decided that it would handle promoting the Las Vegas race itself.

    It put plenty of money where its mouth was, too. It built a new permanent pit complex, also housing the fancy Paddock Club hospitality suites, topped off with a massive animated display for a roof. And the 3.8 miles of city streets that made up the track had to be entirely resurfaced with more than 100,000 tons of paving to create the smooth racing surface the sport expects. All in, Liberty spent at least half a billion dollars of its own money on the event.

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