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Recent Articles
Harry Reid
Why don’t all Nevadans like Harry Reid? Because they don’t know him. That and more, according to Harry.
July 29th, 2010
You may have noticed that this issue of Vegas Seven is chock full of the Best of the City. To keep up our end of the bargain, Seven Questions needed to take on someone with enough staying power to last the two weeks this issue is going to be out on the stands. One Nevada politician clearly fills that bill: U.S. Sen. Harry Reid.
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Fluff LeCoque
You learn a few things about Las Vegas after 29 years at the helm of Jubilee!, like the fact that beautiful girls are always in vogue and things were better around here in the ‘60s.
July 22nd, 2010
In a city that is constantly changing, there is little time for nostalgia, which makes 86-year-old Ffolliott “Fluff” LeCoque a member of an increasingly exclusive club. She is the dancer-turned-stage-manager of Bally’s Jubilee! The last revue standing on the Las Vegas Strip celebrates its 29th anniversary on July 30, and LeCoque is a Jubilee! original.
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Michael Boychuck
The Oscar de la Renta of hair talks about blondes in general, Paris Hilton in particular and getting his hands on Christina Aguilera
July 15th, 2010
Every industry has its celebrities. If you like fashion, Oscar de la Renta is your guy. If you travel and/or eat, Anthony Bourdain is the man. And if you like hair, Michael Boychuck is our resident superstar.
Boychuck is best known for his coloring skills, and has an affinity for blondes, as is evident in his long relationship with Paris Hilton. But his client list includes non-blondes like Mandy Moore, and sometimes-blondes like Fergie.
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Sami Ladeki
World travels inspire creator of Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza
July 8th, 2010
It was 1968 and like so many young men at that time Ladeki was drafted to serve in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Unwilling to give up his U.S. visa and return to Lebanon, Ladeki spent two years working in an Army mess hall. “It was scary,” Ladeki says. “Looking back now, it was the best experience I’ve had in my life.”
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Lacey Jones
A talk with ‘Poker Barbie’ reveals how she got her start in the game, and why you shouldn’t underestimate her
July 8th, 2010
Although poker is a notorious boy’s club, Texas native Lacey Jones has found a way to reconcile her model looks with an ability to keep pace with some of the world’s best card players. Jones learned to play poker at a young age to earn candy money. She played throughout high school and college, scoring extra cash at nearly all-male tables.
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Nik Richie
Done something you’re not proud of? Nik Ritchie, the blogger behind The Dirty, sure hopes so. Ritchie talks about his site, his boundaries and topping yourself in Vegas.
July 1st, 2010
TheDirty.com is one tabloid blog among many, but the salacious stories and alcohol-fueled escapades you’ll find on the site feature your co-workers, best friends or that girl down the street. It came to fruition as DirtyScottsdale.com in 2007, the brainchild of Hooman Karamian, known to his fans as Nik Richie. Richie launched his site as a blog where anyone could submit pictures of their roommate, boss or sister being naughty. Within a year, TheDirty.com as we know it was born. Richie has expanded his citizen journalism into 150 markets, including Las Vegas, which gets the most submissions per month at about 1,000.
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Wayne Brady
June 24th, 2010
Wayne Brady was first introduced to TV audiences on the improvsational comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway? for which he won an Emmy. With stints hosting his own gig, The Wayne Brady Show, and a part in the Broadway revival of Chicago, Brady, 38, has proven himself more than just an improv comedian. He grew up in Florida, where he got his start performing in high school productions, and by 17 knew the stage was his calling.
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Josh Agle, a.k.a. Shag
The master of mid-mod cool discusses his inspiration, hedonism in Las Vegas and why he’d name a bar after himself
June 17th, 2010
Classic cocktails, tiki masks and Rat Pack cool cats live on in the mind of artist Josh Agle, better known as Shag. Agle’s quirky pieces are filled with women sporting beehive hairdos and wolves in Wayfarers, and have earned exhibitions from Tokyo to Las Vegas. Agle, 47, grew up in Hawaii and Southern California and has been painting for as long as he can remember, but it was 15 years ago that he made art his full-time job.
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Phil Shalala
The man who turned summer in Vegas into a giant pool party talks about Rehab, hanging out at the El Cortez and his favorite place in town
June 10th, 2010
In Las Vegas, summer is synonymous with adult-only pool parties soaked in liquor and teeming with barely clad girls. The grandfather of all pool parties is Rehab at the Hard Rock Hotel, and the man behind Rehab is Phil Shalala, the resort’s vice president of marketing, and all-around brand guru.
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Tony Hsieh
The man who made Zappos.com a household word talks about the company, his new book and why Henderson is a little like San Francisco
June 3rd, 2010
Tony Hsieh, the oldest of three sons, was born to Taiwanese immigrants. He grew up in Marin County, Calif., and never liked the idea of working for others—he quit a promising post-college job at Oracle to start LinkExchange out of his apartment living room, a company he eventually sold to Microsoft for $265 million when he was 24.
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