Standing with a friend somewhere inside Oddyssey Noir on a Saturday night, I realized that although I had been to this place numerous times in preparation for its 2026 reopening, led by their new head of nightlife and events at AREA15, Steven Guttman, looking around, it seemed that I was lost. It was a lot easier to find my way around with the house lights on during the daytime hours, when I was graciously given a couple of tours leading up to tonight's special event.
Leaders in Training, known as LIT, is a community-based nonprofit rooted in East Las Vegas and dedicated to developing youth leadership while strengthening local communities through education and empowerment. Founded in 2012 in response to the needs expressed by students and families, the Las Vegas-based college access and leadership development organization serves first-generation students across Southern Nevada.
Grace does not arrive cleanly. It does not announce itself or ask permission. It rarely looks like virtue when it first appears. More often, grace shows up hungry, frightened, inconvenient — trailing behind you on a walk, perched on borrowed wings or waiting quietly to see whether you will notice at all.
To know stage and screen actor Alan Cumming is to love him, his flamboyant fashion style and all of those over-the-top characters he has portrayed during his decades-long career. It is no wonder his "Shakespeare-quoting Machiavellian fashion diva" host character on the four-year-old competition reality show "The Traitors" has already earned him multiple Emmy Awards. His campy, theatrical persona seems to be a hyperbolic version of himself.
For the first time in Ecuador, Art Hearts Fashion, known for its iconic runway showcases in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami and New York, brought its global vision to Quito in December 2025. The landmark Itchimbía Park set the stage for a celebration of design in the Middle of the World.
Las Vegas has always been a city of reinvention. One night you're at a show watching a performer defy physics; the next morning you're walking into the Las Vegas Convention Center and watching technology defy what we thought skincare could do. At CES, hosted yearly in Las Vegas, beauty tech wasn't just an afterthought. It was an emerging category resonating its belonging among hardcore tech gadgets and gurus.
Crown Block sits atop Reunion Tower, a gleaming jewel high above the Dallas metroplex, with a Las Vegas connection in Elizabeth Blau and her husband, chef Kim Canteenwalla, of Blau & Associates, whose reputation for excellence makes Dallas a natural addition to their collection of restaurant jewels.
John Parenti's story begins in New Jersey, where a childhood encounter with music set the course for his life. At 4 years old, he walked in on his older brother's band and something ignited within him. "I saw the drummer in particular, and I knew I was going to do music for the rest of my life," Parenti remembers. Encouraged by his family, he received his first snare drum and later a drum set. The young boy practiced diligently and immersed himself in learning music.
In Las Vegas, where over-the-top shows and giant drinks often steal the spotlight, Daniel Ponsky is quietly doing something far more enduring: teaching people to truly understand what's in their glass. As the resident mixologist at The Cabinet of Curiosities at Horseshoe Las Vegas, Ponsky reshapes how guests think about flavor, balance and creativity. He does it one drink at a time.
Most people almost never meet the villain in an economic story. They don't shake its hand, see its face or shout at it directly. Yet every person in America has spent the last five years living with it, staring it down every day in grocery aisles, at gas stations and inside their mortgage bills. That villain has a name: inflation.
