Cover Stories
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The Education of Henry Chanin
Behind the largest jury award in Nevada history is the story of a man who helped shape modern Las Vegas
December 16th, 2010
Henry Chanin was just stepping out of a gondola in Venice, Italy, when the weariness descended. “I was weak as a puppy,” he remembers. “I couldn’t walk. I had no idea what was going on.” Chanin and his wife, Lorraine, were experienced travelers and urban walkers, but the mile and a half to Hotel Bonvecchiati, just off St. Mark’s Square, may as well have been a marathon. Henry walked 10 steps, sat down, walked another 10, stopped. By the time they arrived, the Chanins realized their vacation was over. Read more »
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
Only Connect
The Cosmo opens itself up to the city, and the city is better for it
December 9th, 2010
In its architectural elegance and sheer scale, the 67-acre, seven-building CityCenter may have opened the door for 21st-century urbanism on the Strip, but its new neighbor, the slender Cosmopolitan, may prove to be the real model for urban development moving forward. Read more »
Why Not?
Why not turn Springs Preserve into our Central Park?
December 2nd, 2010
Sounds like a daydream, but it was part of the original mission statement. Unfortunately, an important aspect of the vision was overlooked: The Central Park seamlessly meshes with the city around it. Read more »
Shopping Guide
It's Bananas
Whether you’re looking for designer duds or vintage treasures, here’s your guide to our bustling retail world
November 25th, 2010
It is true that some of the world’s best fashion and luxury shopping is conveniently located in one hot spot: the Las Vegas Strip. However, there is more beyond the Boulevard. Pockets and capsules of great retail dot the Valley; one just needs guidance on where to look for the buried treasure. The even better news is that more shopping options are on their way, including an expansion at the Las Vegas Outlet Center, the highly anticipated Tivoli Village at Queensridge and the nine new stories at the Cosmopolitan. Read more »
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Seducing Las Vegas
In his new book, Strip Search, photographer Albert Watson gets our city to show its range of personalities
November 18th, 2010
Albert Watson and I have two things in common: We both love Las Vegas and we both love strippers. But that’s where our similarities diverge. While I’m the editor of a local lifestyle magazine (944), the Scottish-born Watson, blind in one eye from birth, is a famous fashion photographer. He’s shot more than 100 covers of Vogue, dozens of covers for Rolling Stone, and pretty much every important person and celebrity over the last 40 years. He’s a commercial and an artistic success—everything that good photographers aspire to be. The industry magazine Photo District News named him one of the 20 most influential photographers of all time. Read more »
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The Freedom Fighters
Long before the Tea Party, libertarians dreamed of a world without government
November 11th, 2010
We came for the freedom and stayed for the good life. We built businesses, families, fortunes, homes—so many homes—and in the first years of the new millennium we could be forgiven for believing that here, in a city built on flirtation with the forbidden, we owed our success to the glory of having been left alone. The rest of the country paid lip service to the American dream; we lived it. Lady Liberty resided in New York Harbor, but she had a floorshow in Vegas. Read more »
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The November Nine
Our inside line on who’ll go home from the World Series of Poker’s final table with an $8.9 million paycheck
November 4th, 2010
It’s the Super Bowl of poker, affectionately referred to as the November Nine. It will draw thousands of rabid poker fans to the Rio hotel-casino’s Penn & Teller Theater beginning Nov. 6, and thousands more will get shut out because of the limited seating, causing a spectacle much like a heavyweight boxing match. Read more »
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Guise & Guile
Haute and harrowing looks for All Hallow’s Eve
October 28th, 2010
Photographer Danielle DeBruno, Desert Ice Studios Makeup artist Natasha Chamberlin, MAC Cosmetics Hairstylist Sarah Vickrey Read more »
Brushes With Greatness
October 21st, 2010
Greatness is all around us, though it often takes hindsight to realize it. Sometimes greatness is in the people we meet—famous and obscure, outlandish and refreshingly normal, people who become central to our lives and folks who, even after the encounter, remain blank slates for the imagination. Sometimes greatness is in the moment—the confluence of time and place in which we feel ourselves, even for an instant, transformed. Greatness is in our community, our childhood, our grand mistakes and miraculous recoveries. Greatness is in our ability to get through it all and live to tell the tale. These are our tales. Read more »
The Restaurant Awards
Vegas Seven’s inaugural celebration of the city’s best dining
October 14th, 2010
When this publication launched, the first thing we did was hire Max Jacobson as our food critic. Besides the obvious need for weekly food coverage in our dining mecca, we knew when the time was right—when we’d had enough of 2010 to chew on—we would roll out our very own Restaurant Awards. Read more »
