Heading to Las Vegas (North Platte Telegraph)

The North Platte Telegraph Back in June, Gretchen Bergquist of Oxford went from being Miss Panhandle to Miss Nebraska 2008. Now Bergquist is hoping to gain a new title as she prepares to compete in the Miss America Pageant on Jan. 24 in Las Vegas.

Tix Corporation Achieves Another Milestone With 250,000 Discount Dinner Reservations Sold in Las Vegas in 2008 (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)

STUDIO CITY, Calif., Jan. 5, 2009 -- Tix Corporation , a leading integrated entertainment company providing discount and premium ticketing services, event and branded merchandising, and production/promotion of live concert and theatrical events, today announced that during 2008, the Company sold more than 250,000 discount dinner reservations to Las Vegas area restaurants.

Wynn's Encore steals the show (The Salt Lake Tribune)

Las Vegas » Is this the worst moment ever to open a fancy new casino? You're entitled to wonder that, given that Steve Wynn's 2,034-room, $2.3 billion Encore took its first bets in late December in the middle of a national financial nervous breakdown.

Recession muffles buzz at tech show (Boston Globe)

America's biggest technology trade show won't be quite so big this year. The four-day Consumer Electronics Show that begins next week in Las Vegas is expected to draw fewer visitors as the weak economy drains corporate travel and marketing budgets.

World's Biggest Electronics Show Suffering from Slowing Economy (AnandTech)

CES in Vegas is expected to be smaller this year with less glitz...

Out with (some of) the old, in with the new (Las Vegas Sun)

2009 opens with uncertainty on almost every front, and the arts and entertainment scene is no exception. Still, there are plenty of bright spots on the cultural horizon in Las Vegas.