Nightlife

The 2014 Las Vegas nightlife obituaries

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Krave at TW Theater & Nightclub
Bill Hughes

Haze

CityCenter’s sole megaclub concept ended its near-five-year run in October (after opening in December 2009) with a send-off soundtrack supplied by house/techno legend Carl Cox. And while the club suffered from what could be called a programming personality disorder—Haze toyed with everything from big-name DJ names like Cox to celebrity appearances and open format sets from local DJs—its trendy-as-f*ck bookings (the venue was the first to bring Macklemore & Ryan Lewis to a Las Vegas stage) kept clubbers queuing up at the velvet rope. Haze operator Light Group said in September the closure will make way for a new concept this year. —Mark Adams

Krave

The LGBT dance spot may be the only entity to technically make our mortal roll call twice. Its supersized, Downtown-relocated incarnation Krave Massive hadn’t even fully opened before the state closed its doors. After original founder Sia Amiri bought the name back from Krave Massive’s mismanaging proprietor Kelly Murphy in 2013, Krave 2.0 opened at the Tommy Wind Theater on the Strip, though it never regained the popularity it enjoyed on weekends in the mid-to-late 2000s at the Miracle Mile Shops. Amiri has vowed to return with a new concept and location, but plans have yet to materialize. —Mike Prevatt

Moon

The Palms nightspot opened in October 2006 atop the hotel’s then-Playboy-branded Fantasy Tower, first concentrating on celebrity-focused marketing and themed parties like its popular Bang! industry night. In later years local DJs and experimental bookings (like Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke and drum ‘n’ bass artist LTJ Bukem) dotted the calendar, which came to a close in April 2014—two years after the closure of downstairs neighbor the Playboy Club. How many nightclubs can say they outlasted a 60-year-old American institution? At the time of its closure, Palms said the vacant space would be making way for a new nightlife concept. —MA

Pure

Nine-plus years is a long lifespan for a nightclub. But even the mighty Pure, which ushered in Vegas nightlife’s celebrity-host era and showed the Strip how to make millions off European bottle service—to say nothing of surviving an IRS raid and investigation in 2008, which spooked every casino with a velvet rope—finally succumbed to clubber fatigue, cultural shifts and, frankly, its sprawling competition. But Caesars won’t be club-less for long. Hakkasan Group is already renovating the space for Omnia, projected to open this spring. —MP

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