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...WITHOUT WHOM THIS ISSUE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE DECEMBER 2013 Sabin Orr Photographer Sabin Orr moved to Las Vegas from Chicago in 2006. For this issue and many others, he photographed our Taste section opener. Had you been to Lotus of Siam before? Only as a photographer. Bill and chef Saipin are so nice and always insist that I try everything. I've sampled over 20 dishes and they're all fantastic. What are some of your favorite hidden-gem Vegas restaurants? My late-night go-to and comforting can't-miss restaurant is Sushi Wa. Chef Jun, Danny, and the others can't go wrong. Their baked rolls (especially the snow corn roll) with pomegranate sake are out of this world. Cathay Che Native Hawaiian author, freelance travel writer, and therapist Cathay Che, LMSW, penned our article "Ninth Island," about Las Vegas's many Hawaiian dining options. Your Hawaiian family has a strong Vegas connection. My parents honeymooned in Las Vegas at the Stardust, and Circus Circus hosted many of our family vacations. What is the best thing Hawaii has that Vegas doesn't and vice versa? The novelty of Jewly Hight A Nashville-based journalist who covers American popular and traditional music for a number of print, online, and radio outlets, Jewly Hight wrote our cover story. She is also the author of Right by Her Roots: Americana Women and Their Songs. And after attending the filming of an Alan Jackson show, she inadvertently made her music video debut earlier this year. How was your interview with Tim McGraw and Faith Hill? The timing of the interview couldn't have been better if we'd planned it. Until Hill and McGraw brought it up, I didn't realize they were precisely one day into their 18th year of marriage. Did you bond over being from the South? A funny coincidence that didn't come up during the interview, though my mother called to make sure I was aware of it, is that I attended high school in the same coastal Florida town where Hill's mother grew up. 36 being in the arid desert climate is part of the appeal, but it's hard to beat Hawaii's weather, beaches, and the fact that the fish you're eating in most restaurants was pulled out of the sea earlier that same day. Peter Carbonara Peter Carbonara, who wrote our feature on NV Energy, has been a professional journalist since 1983. What's the takeaway from the Berkshire Hathaway purchase of NV Energy? It's encouraging to see them being acquired by a company with big investments in renewable energy, but anything that involves money and politics is never going to be clear-cut. Utilities are like landlords: There are good ones and bad ones but no beloved ones. What's the future of the green energy movement? Its long-term success in the marketplace is probably inevitable, but it's going to take us a while to get there. Technology, though, has a way of surprising you. VEGASMAGAZINE.COM 036_V_FOB_Contribs_Dec13.indd 36 11/20/13 5:52 PM