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DESERT PATROL She���s now rocking her job as vice president of public relations for the Light Group and its roster of popular clubs, bars, and restaurants, which includes favorites such as 1 Oak, The Bank, and Yellowtail, plus LG newcomers Red Square and Citizens Kitchen & Bar, at Mandalay Bay. Before heading west, Brennan was an editor in celebrity journalism. Now that she���s creating news instead of covering it, Brennan���s experience in the high-octane world of the rich and famous serves her well. She���s not only the point person for redcarpet events; she���s the one who makes sure that stars from Rihanna and Usher to Mario Lopez and Taylor Swift have a memorable Hidden talent: experience once they show up at a venue ���I���ve been she represents. And as a former magazine horseback riding insider, she intuitively knows how to get the since I was a kid, and I found a most positive media play possible from really great photos, videos, and other developments at stable here called the Light Group���s list of high-end properties, Hunter���s Edge.��� including new parent company Morgans Last laugh: ���I just Hotel Group���s work with Mandalay Bay finished reading I and THEhotel. Was Told There���d Be Cake by When Brennan���s not busy creating buzz at Sloane Crosley, work, the 34-year-old is almost always out who I went to and about exploring her new surroundings high school with. and endearing herself to locals. She���s fallen in I couldn���t stop love with the noodle shop Monta Ramen in laughing!��� Vegas���s Chinatown, and on a recent trek to Mount Charleston in the Spring Mountains she couldn���t get over the abundant natural beauty just outside the city. ���There are so many things going on here,��� says Brennan, noting that Vegas���s ���amazing energy and endless activities��� keep homesickness for New York well at bay. Brennan���s new social and work circles have become a major bonus to living here, too. ���Vegas is so different from what I expected,��� she says. ���The people here are unbelievably friendly. I���ve lived in the New York area my entire life, save for a few years here and there. But moving to Vegas has been the easiest transition. It makes it easy not to miss New York, even though it���s my home.��� In late March the group launches Light at Mandalay NYC TRANSPLANT CASEY BRENNAN, THE LIGHT GROUP���S Bay in collaboration with Cirque du Soleil. The NEWEST VP, DEBUTS HER FIRST BIG PROJECT. 38,000-square-foot club is the first to feature Cirque BY AARON RASMUSSEN performers, who will entertain revelers in a state-of-theart production that combines sound, lighting, and special effects. ���I am beyond thrilled,��� she says, ���to be asey Brennan loves the bright lights and big city, so when the New involved in this project.��� Brennan���s enthusiasm for what life has brought her lately doesn���t require Yorker got a job offer that combined them, she pounced. ���I came to Las Vegas to work for the Light Group,��� says Brennan of the impetus any spin. ���A year ago, I would never have imagined myself in Las Vegas for her move in September 2012 from the city that never sleeps to, well, working in PR and marketing for one of the city���s biggest hospitality companies,��� she says. ���This has been the most amazing adventure.��� V another city that never sleeps. ���I was ready for a new experience.��� INSIGHT C 50 PHOTOGRAPHY BY ERIC ITA into the light VEGASMAGAZINE.COM 050_V_SP_DP_Brennan_Spring13.indd 50 2/11/13 1:10 PM