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The Mirage Wants You Stay for a Weekend and Be Hydrated for The Year

Vegas contests never get old. That's because we all dream of striking it rich so we can go strike it rich in Sin City. The latest Vegas sweepstakes comes from The Mirage who has partnered with FIJI water to offer one winner a three-day, two-night stay with a private cabana poolside plus complimentary bottle service, dinner for two at BLT burger AND a year's supply of FIJI water delivery service. How's that for a Mirage? (yuk, yuk.)

All you have to do is head over to Mirage.com/FIJISweepstakes and fill out the entry form with your pertinent info.

You can also check off whether or not you'd like to receive offers from The Mirage and from Fiji Water. Normally, we like to uncheck those boxes but we get superstitious with these contests and we think our entry will be disregarded if we don't sign up for the spam emails. It's up to you. Just make sure you enter before August 20.

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HSN Becomes Harrah’s Shopping Network, Free Vegas Trips Up For Grabs

We caught wind of Harrah’s and HSN teaming up for a summer promotion and had many questions. First off, it’s apparently just HSN now and not Home Shopping Network? A move surely meant to confuse us even further as to which three letter at-home hawker we should be watching. Secondly, will this pairing mean that we can buy Matt Goss magnets, pawned jewelry, and girls direct to our home from the comfort of our couch?

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Who Doesn't Want To Wynn This Sweepstakes Contest?

While we've been chronicling all the cheap but sometimes, difficult ways to get deals in Vegas, it never hurts to just try your luck on a sweepstakes contest, especially when the prize is Wynn Las Vegas.

Off and Away, a new travel site that's about to launch next week, is building some buzz for their site by giving away this "epic experience" at the Wynn.

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Aria To Have 'Sex' Before The Rest of Us

Hotels have been going crazy offering up Sex and The City themed packages to rabid fans of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda but it looks like Aria Resort and Casino has topped them all.

Thanks to a partnership with Skky Vodka, "Sex and The City 2" will be shown at Aria in the VIVA Elvis theater the day before it opens to the rest of the country. Apparently, the movie will cap off a month of "Cocktail Couture" that has been going on at MGM Mirage properties where specialty Skky Vodka drinks inspired by the movie have been served up to lovely ladies and fabulous men on their way to play the SATC slots (Or so we assume. We must have been too occupied with the BoB to notice these drinks.)

Currently, the movie night and its after-party at the GOLD Lounge are invite-only but you can enter to win a VIP Getaway Package to Aria which will include not only the movie screening but a $2,500 shopping spree as well. You can enter the contest at www.arialasvegas.com/city or www.spyonvegas.com/city by May 14 which is this Friday! Hurry as fast as your Louboutin heels will let you!

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The Miss USA Ladies Are Here To Heat Up The Strip

At Caesars, turning the Garden of the Gods into the Garden of the Goddesses (that’s from our imaginary Robin Leach phrasebook, btw)

Not being redblooded males, we were confused when we heard excited thigh rubbing over Twitter yesterday at the arrival of the Miss USA contestants at Planet Hollywood. Did we just get déjà vu or didn’t they already do that in January? (Around the time of Sexy Snake Man’s residence, IWRC.)

Anyhoo, closer inspection reveals that we failed to note the fine but important distinction between Miss USA (this week’s girls) and Miss America (the January lot). How silly of us! Must have been distracted by the dreaded boob envy.

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Planet Hollywood Will Be Hot for Miss America Next Week

No, we don't know what's with the white roses or the dodgy clothes choices, either

And there you were thinking that with the porn stars gone, Vegas had little to offer in the way of fake boobs, ironed hair and foil nails. How wrong you were. For a start, we saw a load of that at Tao last weekend. But more importantly, they’ll be all over Planet Hollywood next week because the Miss America pageant is coming to town.

As well as the pageant beauties, you can also gawk at the judging panel, which includes Vivica A Fox, former Miss America turned opera singer Katie Harman and, rather less easy on the eye, Rush Limbaugh.

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Blue Vinny Triumphs in the Battle For New York, New York

There’s the face of a leader if ever there was one…

Here’s proof that a little bit of fake tan can go a long long way. The Vinnys competition at New York, New York is over, and the blue one won it.

In case you forgot (really? You have more pressing things on your mind?) the Vinnys were two actors campaigning to be the next spokesperson for NYNY. Vinny Red won’t mind if we say he was small, bald and a bit podgy, kind of a Jason Alexander lookalike. Vinny Blue was taller, marginally hotter, with a dodgy fake tan that didn’t quite fill up to his hairline. A bit like a poor man’s Will Ferrell.

But his heavily gelled hair has won the day and his victory was announced this morning on the Brooklyn Bridge (the Vegas one, not the real one – at least, we hope it was the Vegas one).

Blue Vinny’s new job will entail “providing hospitality” to guests, and “working with employees to enhance the guest experience”. Sounds like our kind of job. Let’s just hope his taste in tracksuits will sharpen up and his suits will get a little less shiny if we’re going to have to see him around every day.

[Photo: Erik Kabik/RETNA]

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Does Vegas.com Want You To Adopt a Stripper?

Apologies (or Your Welcome?) for the multiple stripper coverage this week but it's what hot this week. Wow, Stripper Coverage is a pretty good oxymoron.

So you know how when you sign onto Facebook and these small ads pop up on the right-side column telling you completely useless information about products, companies, events and other stuff you have no interest in? And then in some cases, they even slap up a picture of one of your friends. Yeah, we never pay much attention to them either.

But this time, we noticed an ad for Vegas.com that said this "Adopt a Stripper." We screencapped the ad here which said, "Be a fan and change a stripper's life by providing necessities like body glitter, 10-inch heels and college tuition." WTF? Naturally we had to click.

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Easiest Way to Get Yourself to Vegas for New Year’s? Tweet About It

You’ve seen their “What happens here, stays here” advertisements all over television. Now, the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority is turning to the tweetosphere, rewarding one lucky Vegas fanatic who tweets about Sin City with a free New Year’s vacation in town.

The promotion, dubbed a "tweepstakes," lasts from now until Dec. 3.

Entering is relatively simple, provided you’re familiar with Twitter and how the social networking site works.

First, follow the LVCVA on Twitter. Next, tweet your excuse to be in town for New Year’s Eve. All tweets must include “@Vegas” and “#lvsweeps” to be eligible. These codes enable the LVCVA to track who’s saying what.

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So, How Are The Vinnys Doing?

For those who are a little in the dark about who The Vinnys are, allow us to give you a brief recap. New York, New York is holding a contest for a new spokesman (yep, Vinny...you’re too sharp for us) and to maintain long-term interest, they are letting us poor souls decide who the winner should be.

At the heart of it are two actors who who credits include The Sopranos Last Supper at the Tropicana. They are Vinny Blue (real name Tom Cassell) and Vinny Red (real name Jon Paul Raniola) and yes, they have fans who wear corresponding colored t-shirts to show their support for their guys.

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Chew on This: 50 Meatballs in 10 Minutes

In case you missed it yesterday, Joey Chestnut shoved 50 meatballs into his mouth in 10 minutes at the first-ever Martorano’s Masters Meatball Eating Championship The Rio Las Vegas. The contest was actually sanctioned by something called the Major League Eating. In total, Chestnut consumed 6.25 pounds of meatballs and for his troubles, won a $1,500 cash prize.

The second place winner, Pat "Deep Dish" Bertoletti, managed to finish 49 meatballs but being one ball short, he only received $750 for his cash prize. A 105-pound woman named Sonya Thomas wasn't too far behind with 42 meatballs ($500 prize) and a rookie named Ben Monson consumed 38 meatballs to finish in fourth place ($250 prize.)

Here's what else is on in Vegas:
· Cher adds more dates in Spring 2010 [Newswire]
· PHanatic Pass at Planet Hollywood; $599 for any 10 nights you want [PH Vegas]
· A Twitter Deal for The Rio is not valid on any weekend whatsoever [Rio LV Social]
· The only acceptable Snuggies to wear clubbin' in Las Vegas [LV Weekly]

[Photo: ABC Local]

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The Ultimate Sin City Contest: Confess Your Sins for a Free Night at MGM

Folks come to Sin City to do exactly just that--get their sinning on, whether it be too much gambling, too much drinking, too much shopping, too much eating or even too much sexing it up. And usually everyone leaves Vegas with the infamous catchphrase ringing in their minds, "What happens here, stays here."

But MGM Grand is wondering why does sinning have to be so bad? The hotel casino has kicked off a new Twitter contest called MGM Grand Sin where Twitterers "confess" their sins and each month at random, the hotel will select a winner to receive a free room night. All folks have to do is follow @mgmgrand and tweet their sin, followed by #mgmsin.

We checked out the hashtag to see what other folks are confessing. Most of the "sins" so far seem to be mild--late-night online shopping, addiction to Cirque shows, not calling your sister all weekend, etc. We really don't think these are deserving of a free night's stay though. However, MGM is keeping tabs of "Unforgivable" sins and the one that made us laugh out loud was this: "I peed in the MGM Fountain." Did you get arrested?

Our sin? It's that we love this Twitter contest. It's our favorite one yet. It's easy, you could win a free room and hey, you get something off your chest.