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Thursday, November 13, 2025 2:30 PM Image aggregated from Las Vegas Review-Journal. Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal Email, LinkedIn, and more The decline in tourism has put a dent in the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s revenue stream with room tax and gaming fee receipts down 14 percent from a year ago in the first quarter of the 2025-26 fiscal year. LVCVA Chief Financial Officer Jim McIntosh told board members Wednesday a drop was anticipated — but not as much as what occurred and a robust convention calendar in early 2026 should help toward a rebound. Board members didn’t comment on a quarterly report presented Wednesday that ...

While big budget Hollywood movies tend to focus on supernaturally good looking friend groups finding connection through battles with supervillains, every once in a while a lonely little film shows up to the party. Though that film might be standing against the wall, solo cup in hand, saying that it doesn’t really “do parties” – we’re still glad it came. Not every moment of our lives can be spent in the company of others, and though life may be a highway (according to Rascal Flatts, at least) sometimes you gotta ride it solo. In celebration of isolation, here are some of the best movies about loneliness ever made. Lean up against the exposed brick, and let the wallflower in your spread its roots. Her (Warner Bros.) Directed by Spike Jonze, Her is the story of Theodore Twombly – ...

Do you care if the music you're listening to is artificially generated?That question - once the realm of science fiction - is becoming increasingly urgent. An AI-generated country track, Walk My Walk, is currently sitting at number one on the US Billboard chart of digital sales and a new report by streaming platform Deezer has revealed the sheer scale of AI production in the music industry.Deezer's AI-detection system found that around 50,000 fully AI-generated tracks are now uploaded every day, accounting for 34% of all daily uploads. Image: File pic: iStock The true number is most likely higher, as Deezer's AI-detection system does not catch every AI-generated track. Nor does this figure include partially AI-generated tra...

Well, this is a strange one. Just minutes before it was set to deliver its financial results for the first half of its 2025-26 fiscal year, Ubisoft mashed the brakes on the whole thing, postponing the release of its results to an unspecified future date. The company also requested that European exchange Euronext halt trading of the company's shares and bonds from November 14 until the publication of its results.No reason for the postponement or trading halt was provided, but these things are rarely the result of good news. They often arise from events like unexpected major news announcements or regulatory problems that can have the potential to trigger panic selling. (Image credit: Ubisoft)There's no sign that's the case here, but Ubisoft is in a unique and precarious situation right no...

People remaking Stephen King movies is about as common as, well, people making Stephen King movies in the first place. For every new adaptation of a King story we see out there, there’s at least one or two new spins on something that’s already happened. For every The Life of Chuck, there’s a new Firestarter or Carrie. For every The Long Walk, there’s a new Salem’s Lot or Pet Sematary. Of course, there are also many Stephen King adaptations that have not yet been remade. Some shouldn’t. Classics like The Shawshank Redemption, Stand by Me, or Misery come to mind. Others have, and we still can’t believe it. That we’ve seen multiple versions of The Shining or The Stand, for example, is still sort of mindboggling. (And yes, we’re looping in a few long-form TV adaptations in here too.) But the...

On Wednesday, Nov. 12, the band Chicago took the stage at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall. Though audience members did not fear lightning strikes the way they might have at a previous MSU Chicago performance, the atmosphere was still electric.  In May of 1970, Chicago was among the likes of Jefferson Airplane and Rotary Connection as they played to a rain-soaked crowd of 35,000 on a rather muddy Old College Field. Ray Walsh, now owner of East Lansing’s Curious bookstore, had covered the event for The State News.  "Chicago was one of the groups that came out last," Walsh said. "They quit doing the concert after a while because there was so much rain coming down and nobody could hear anything." Despite the chaos that ensued ...

Privately-held Valve Corporation, a relatively minor player in a juggernaut’s world of gaming, has potentially pulled off a generational coup. In a surprise hardware showcase announced yesterday, the firm did more than introduce a new line of sleek devices—it ignited a wildfire of speculation across the gaming and tech industries, with Microsoft (MSFT) again attracting fresh takeover target rumors.Meet Your ETF AI Analyst At the center of the frenzy is Valve’s upcoming Steam Machine, a polished PC–console hybrid slated for early 2026. Though Valve insists it is “still a PC,” the product’s intent is unmistakable: to sit in the living room, run Steam like a console, and blur the line between traditional PC gaming and plug-and-play console experiences. Based on initial fan reactions, th...

Filmmaker Osgood Perkins—the man you brought you 2023’s Longlegs and 2025’s The Monkey—is back with a new creepy horror film opening in theaters this weekend, Keeper. Directed by Perkins, with a screenplay written by Nick Lepard, Keeper is a surrealist horror movie that stars Emmy-winning actor Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) as a woman named Liz, who is left alone in a secluded cabin for the weekend, after her husband Malcolm (Rossif Sutherland) abruptly leaves in the middle of their anniversary celebration. Now that’s just rude! Especially because now Liz has to deal with this supernatural evil entry that’s stalking her. Ugh! The Keeper movie is a tiny, two-actor film that came to be because Perkins had to pause production on The Monkey amid the 2023 writer and actors’ strike. Yay s...

Over the summer, it was story time with Jeffrey Liles and Robert Wilonsky. Two Dallas music culture historians delved into in-depth topics for a one-night-only storytelling experience. The audience was instructed to write one single word on an index card. A band, genre, concert, or album, the word was the inspiration and jumping-off point. The show is spontaneous, leaving people to be engaged and inspired, as Wilonsky provides the necessary context and chronological order needed to fill in Liles’ timeline. This weekend, Liles and Wilonsky are doing it again for Storytellers at The Kessler: Cottonmouth, Texas Chapter 2. Wilonsky will return for hosting duties while Liles is back to reflect on a transformative time in Dallas music history. When news happens,...

AC thVRsday In his weekly column, Android Central Senior Content Producer Nick Sutrich delves into all things VR, from new hardware to new games, upcoming technologies, and so much more.Last night, I lay in bed playing Lumines Arise til my arms started to ache from holding my Steam Deck in the air. This afternoon, I placed my Meta Quest 3 on my head and seamlessly continued my progress in the game, this time with an unparalleled sense of immersion that my Steam Deck could never hope to offer.It's this type of hybrid play-as-you-please gaming haven that Valve planted the roots for when it launched the Steam Deck several years ago, which is now entering the blooming stages as the Steam Frame launches in early 2026.The Steam Frame, as the new VR headset is called, is a standalone "Steam De...