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FROM THE PUBLISHER With Mark Berryhill, senior executive producer of OK! TV, and host Mayleen Ramey, who attended our annual men's event at Queensridge. Andrea Bennett (in an amazing LaPina dress by David Helwani) and I celebrated our November cover at Hyde at Bellagio. ABOVE: In NYC for fall meetings, with Rita Veygman, marketing director for Dolce & Gabbana. LEFT: At the Rolex soirée at Wynn with Hugues de Pins, president, North America, of Vacheron Constantin. 34 VEGASMAGAZINE.COM 034_V_FOB_PubLetter_Dec13.indd 34 stay, play, dine, and shop in Las Vegas, but during the week before New Year's Eve, the energy is different: frenetic, palpable. (On the last day of the year alone, 300,000 people alight on the Strip.) Of course, our city is festively lit all year long, so it's not the lights that they come in droves to see. Vegas buzzes with a special electricity all its own during the holiday season. It might have something to do with the extra revelry Vegas offers during December through New Year's Eve, this year including concerts by Celine Dion, Bruno Mars, and Robin Thicke and sets by Diplo, Kaskade, and Calvin Harris, to name a few. Leading up to the dazzling end of 2013, the month of December here brings to life the American Country Awards show, the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, and the famed Rock 'n' Roll Vegas Marathon. Follow me on Twitter at Of course, it might also have something @josefvann and on to do with our unparalleled retail: Where vegasmagazine.com. else are nearly all the world's luxury brands within walking distance—in multiples? Yes, despite the fact that you won't see changing seasons or snow, Vegas is the ultimate holiday town—for giving, getting, and celebrating. At the end of 2013, I'm celebrating the people who constitute the Vegas magazine team here in town: Andrea Bennett, our esteemed and very talented editor-in-chief; Halee Harczynski, director of event marketing, who conceptualizes and activates more than 40 events per year; the sales team of Tiffany Carey, Jessica Zivkovitch, Vince Durocher, and Kacie Turpenen; Jennifer Palmer, our assistant distribution manager, whom I affectionately call our on-the-ground "optimizer"; and last but certainly not least, my assistant, Rue McBride, who has an uncanny instinct that helps our wonderful magazine flow every day of the week. Here's to you, Team Vegas, for making 2013 so fabulous! Happy new year, and onward and upward in 2014. PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRENTON HO (VEYGMAN); AL POWERS (DE PINS); 'LOS (HYDE) Fifty-one weeks of the year, tourists JOSEF VANN 11/19/13 9:34 AM