City Cast Las Vegas
💉 Should Medicaid cover Ozempic?
March 20, 2025 · Rob Kachelriess
🤔 Do we feel old yet?
March 29 marks three years since City Cast expanded to Las Vegas 🥳 As an early birthday gift to us — and you — today’s episode of City Cast Las Vegas revisits all the cool stuff you can get for free on your birthday in Las Vegas 🤑
From food to casino play and more, we cover it all. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]
What's CITY Talking About?
🎰 Roman Empire Gets Smaller
You may have forgotten it’s even there, but the empty, inactive rotunda on the Strip-side of Caesars Palace will probably get torn down later this year. No word on what might replace it. (I’m placing bets on a CVS.) [Las Vegas Review-Journal]
💉 Ozempic, by the People for the People
Nevada lawmakers are considering a new law that would allow the state’s Medicaid system to cover weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Supporters say it would help offset the costs connected to treating obesity. [Nevada Current]
🛬 Rough Landing in Henderson
Nobody was hurt when a small plane skidded off the runway and into a ditch while landing at the Henderson Executive Airport. (Still worth it to avoid Southwest’s new baggage fees.) [KSNV]
🏒 And Now, Sports
- Congrats to the UNLV men’s ice hockey team 🏆 The Skatin’ Rebels won their first-ever American Collegiate Hockey Association championship, defeating the Adrian College Bulldogs. [KVVU]
- Today is the first official day of March Madness with viewing parties all over Las Vegas to watch the NCAA college basketball tournament. I wish you the best of luck with your bracket. [Hey Las Vegas ✍️]
- The College Basketball Crown, a tournament featuring teams that didn’t make it to March Mardness, hits the hardwood in Vegas later this month with games at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and T-Mobile Arena. [USA Today]
What To Do
Thursday, March 20
- ✍️ Whitney Writers Corner at Whitney Library | 4 - 6 p.m. | Free | Tropicana & Nellis
- 🎙️ Introduction to Podcasting at Enterprise Library | 4:15 - 5:15 p.m. | Free with registration | Shelbourne & Las Vegas Blvd.
- 🧼 Soap Making Workshop at Alexander Library | 5 - 6 p.m. | Free with registration | North Las Vegas
- 🎶 Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: In Concert at Reynolds Hall | 7:30 p.m. | $40.30+ | Smith Center
- 🎙️ An Evening with Will Smith at House of Blues | 7:30 p.m. | $49.50+ | Mandalay Bay
Friday, March 21
- 😋 Annual Pahrump Chili Cook-Off at Petrack Park (through March 23) | 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. | Free admission | Pahrump
- 🌝 Spring Equinox Sound Bath at Queendom Cultivation | 5 p.m. | $25 | Sahara & Durango
- 🎭 Steel Magnolias at Las Vegas Little Theatre (through March 23) | 7 p.m. (some performances 2 p.m.) | $35 | Chinatown
- 🎸 Grunge Nation at Count’s Vamp’d | Doors open 7:30 p.m. | $5 | Sahara & Rainbow
- 🖤 Goth Night at Millenium Fandom | 8 p.m. | No cover | Downtown
🙏 Sending warm thoughts to Norm Clarke, along with his family and friends. The former Review-Journal columnist is no longer receiving cancer treatment and is now in hospice. I used to run into him here and there when I was a newbie Vegas journalist and he was always more friendly than he needed to be. A class act for sure 👍
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