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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.
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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.
Eat
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.
Drink
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.
News
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.
Eat
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
Drink
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.
Travel
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.
Eat
Jul 23, 2013
An NYC legend just brought its famed family-style Italian to Vegas
First came New York-New York.
Lifestyle
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.
Eat
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.
Lifestyle
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?
Lifestyle
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.
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