Illenium Sphere Residency, Great Vegas Beer Festival, Jeff Dunham | Las Vegas Live

Las Vegas shows this week are led by the Illenium Odyssey residency at Sphere, alongside the Great Vegas Festival of Beer and Jeff Dunham live at Planet Hollywood. In this episode of Las Vegas Live, Adam Torres breaks down what to do in Las Vegas right now, plus two major updates in the city: the Hard Rock Guitar Tower rising on the former Mirage site and the opening of Cadence Crossing Casino in Henderson. 

The episode opens with What’s New in Vegas, starting with the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas construction update. The new guitar-shaped tower is now 36 floors up, blue glass has already been installed across much of the lower structure, and the project is moving toward a fourth quarter 2027 opening on the former Mirage site. The scale matters here, this will become one of the tallest hotel towers on the Strip and the first Native American-owned casino on the Las Vegas Strip. 

The second major update is the opening of Cadence Crossing Casino in Henderson. Boyd Gaming has opened its first brand-new casino development in the Las Vegas Valley in more than 20 years, built inside the fast-growing Cadence master plan community. That makes this more than a local opening, it is a meaningful development story for the broader Las Vegas market. 

On the entertainment side, Illenium’s Odyssey residency at Sphere anchors the week with a fully immersive experience designed specifically for the venue’s wraparound LED environment. The Great Vegas Festival of Beer brings more than 100 breweries to the Downtown Las Vegas Event Center, while Jeff Dunham performs at Planet Hollywood as one of the week’s most accessible headline shows. 

Other highlights include Jimmy O. Yang at the Encore Theater, Las Vegas Aviators baseball in Summerlin, Vegas Golden Knights home games at T-Mobile Arena, College Basketball Crown quarterfinals at MGM Grand, The Notebook at the Smith Center, Area15 and Omega Mart, and the Wizard of Oz experience at Sphere. 

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00:00 Welcome to Las Vegas Live

00:24 Sponsor Vegas Near Me https://www.vegasnearme.com/ 

00:47 Hard Rock Guitar Tower Update

02:49 New Henderson Casino Opens

04:24 Top 10 Kickoff

04:29 10 Wizard of Oz Sphere

05:42 9 Vegas Beer Festival

07:00 8 Jeff Dunham Live

08:06 7 Aviators Baseball Week

09:35 6 Jimmy O Yang Encore

10:49 5 Area 15 Omega Mart

12:30 4 Golden Knights Home Games

13:45 3 College Basketball Crown

15:08 2 Notebook Broadway Tour

16:45 1 Illenium Odyssey Sphere

18:35 Wrap Up and Next Week

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