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Matthew Parvis

Matthew Parvis is 7-year Las Vegas resident who on top of trying to live like a tourist for Thrillist's Vegas edition, also assumes the role of Head of Content for the world's leading poker media outlet, PokerNews.com.

Latest Posts From Matthew

The Rockhouse -- The Venetian

Sep 17, 2013

7 NON-club places on the Strip you absolutely need to party at

Because sometimes you don't want to drop the equivalent cost of one of those Kia Souls all the cool hamsters drive just to get a table at a Vegas club, we rounded up the best places to party -- from lounges, to bourbon bars, to bar-bars -- that won't make you stand idly in lines, wear shiny shirts, or listen to that Deadmau6 dude.

McFadden's Las Vegas -- Big Daddy Burger

Sep 3, 2013

Vegas's 10 Summer openings you need to know about

From impressive sushi spots on the strip, to tequila madness downtown, to BBQ that would (almost) satisfy Fred Flintstone, these are the 10 Vegas openings of the Summer you should add to your "devour immediately before something weird happens with Carrot Top" list.

Best Places to watch Football in Vegas

Aug 27, 2013

The 7 best places to watch football in Las Vegas

While watching yet another bet on the Bills fall apart in the depths of a dirty sports book is something everyone should do in Vegas at least once, there are also legitimately inviting places to catch football around town.

e by Jose Andres

Aug 20, 2013

Is this the most amazing 15-course tasting menu in Vegas?

You would never find this place if you didn't know it exists.

Decadence D'Or -- $750 cupcake

Aug 13, 2013

This cupcake costs $750. Repeat: This cupcake costs $750.

Maybe you shouldn't get one for everyone in the third-grade class

Palms Midsummer Lingerie Fest

Aug 6, 2013

You should probably attend the Palms' Brazil-themed Midsummer Lingerie Fest

Returning to the Palms on August 17th for another year, Midsummer Lingerie Masquerade will once again urge women to don their lingerie-iest lingerie, plus wings and other stuff, while enjoying all the anonymity provided by wearing a really tiny mask.

best bachelor party suites in vegas -- las vegas

Jul 30, 2013

You MUST book one of these 7 absurd Vegas suites for your next bachelor party

Vegas bachelor parties are about pools, tables, clubs, strip clubs, buffets, and desperately trying to pick up women at all of them, except for the buffet.

Carmine's Vegas interior

Jul 23, 2013

An NYC legend just brought its famed family-style Italian to Vegas

First came New York-New York.

A photo diary of the highly prestigious Rehab Bikini Invitational

Jul 16, 2013

A photo diary of the highly prestigious Rehab Bikini Invitational

Hard Rock's Rehab, the Vegas pool party that essentially started 'em all, is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Rx Boiler Room -- entrance

Jul 9, 2013

Girls in corsets and an inside-out grilled cheese -- welcome to Rx Boiler Room

Steampunk is chugging into Vegas with the introduction of Rick Moonen's Rx Boiler Room, a restaurant and lounge in Mandalay Bay with 19th-century Victorian decor that seems like it's fused together with modern touches by some awesome mad scientist who drinks a lot -- think chalkboard paint walls, crest-inlaid concrete floors, ornate chandeliers, and gear boxes everywhere -- and features a menu that promises to combine "the alchemy of food & drink", which is less scary than it sounds, and basically means breakthroughs like an inside-out grilled cheese and bacon-wrapped bacon.

This 17,000sqft underground house near Vegas is the perfect place to wait out a nuclear apocalypse, and it's for sale

Jul 2, 2013

This 17,000sqft underground house near Vegas is the perfect place to wait out a nuclear apocalypse, and it's for sale

What do you do when you've got a boatload of cash thanks to working in the aerospace industry in the '70s, yet didn't think your products could properly defend our nation?

Electric Daisy Carnival

Jun 25, 2013

Gigantic laser boomboxes, hot girls dressed as bees, and further madness from Electric Daisy Carnival

This past weekend, Electric Daisy Carnival packed over 345,000 people into the Las Vegas Motor Speedway so they could dance in funny ways to 250 performers including Calvin Harris, Afrojack, Benny Benassi, Avicii, lots of other Swedish people, and Fatboy Slim, in an environment in which carnival rides, laser light shows, 25ft-high boomboxes, and even taller owls were the norm.