Melinda Sheckells
Contact: 868-4536 • Email
Our fashion and style team leader has crafted the content and fashion imagery for several of the city’s best publications. She is currently the editor-in-chief of Vegas/Rated magazine and the fashion editor of Wendoh Media's custom publications including Crystals magazine and the in-room publication for Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. She joined Wendoh Media in 2009 from her previous position as group managing editor of Niche Media's Western Division where she oversaw publications such as Vegas magazine, Las Vegas Home + Design, CityCenter magazine, Wynn magazine and Style magazine (the publication of the Venetian and the Palazzo). In 2008, Sheckells co-authored and edited a coffee table book chronicling the history of Caesars Palace. She also frequently appears as a special correspondent on local and national news programs including the Travel Channel, NBC 3 and FOX 5.
Recent Articles
In My Shoes
Follow along with Vegas Seven style editor Melinda Sheckells as she tours California's Napa Valley
May 2nd, 2013
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The Bard’s New Digs
William Shakespeare may be a big part of the future of Downtown Las Vegas. How do you build a fresh home for a timeless classic?
April 24th, 2013
The decades-long effort to revitalize Downtown Las Vegas (it didn’t start with Zappos, kids) has had its Shakespearean twists: good intentions gone awry, virtue unrewarded, high hopes, deep funks and soaring ambitions. So the area is an appropriate new home for the Las Vegas Shakespeare Company, which moved to the erstwhile Reed Whipple Cultural Center and is spearheading its $45 million expansion.
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Summer Break, With Structure
April 24th, 2013
Do you have a budding Frank Gehry or Zaha Hadid at home? If so, the place for them to hang out this summer is DDC2, the UNLV Downtown Design Center’s first-ever Design Day Camp.
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Napa by Way of Vegas
Meet the Sin City expats who are making wine country an even better place to drink
April 22nd, 2013
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Snow Cream Comes to Vegas
April 22nd, 2013
Chef Jet Tila—formerly of Wazuzu in Encore, now running his The Charleston Restaurant and Gastrolounge in Santa Monica—will make his way back to Las Vegas for Memorial Day weekend, when he will open a casual concept at 3735 Spring Mountain Road, Suite 206. Kuma Snow Cream ("kuma" is Japanese for polar bear) will offer varieties of "snow cream," a creamy dessert made from condensed milk and shaved ice.
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Concert Review: Rihanna
Mandalay Bay Events Center, April 12
April 15th, 2013
I’m quite fond of Rihanna when she’s on the red carpet. She’s bold. A good girl gone bad who oozes sex—both the kitten kind and the dirty kind. But that’s all from the neck down. I don’t always love her from the neck up, because she looks, well, mean. A couture dress is not often best paired with the icy, angry, standoffish gaze for which she has become known.
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Tiësto Joins Hakkasan Lineup
February 28th, 2013
After months of rumors and speculation, Tiesto has been confirmed by sources at Angel Management Group to be the second resident DJ at Hakkasan Restaurant and Nightclub, set to open in April.
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A First Look at Hakkasan Las Vegas
From the studs, a megaclub rises
February 26th, 2013
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From Vegas with Love
This Valentine’s Day, show your sweetheart that you also love your city and buy local
February 11th, 2013
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A Small Bite
Tasteful Tidings
February 7th, 2013
If ever there was a brand perfectly matched to the current Las Vegas scene it is Hakkasan, the behemoth restaurant-nightclub scheduled to open this spring at MGM Grand, a collaboration with Angel Management Group.
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