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ABOVE: I couldn't be happier to welcome chef Daniel Boulud back to Vegas; his DB Brasserie opens soon in Venetian. We got to reconnect at chef Kerry Simon's Fight MSA dinner at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. LEFT: My husband, Reid, and I were thrilled to attend Cirque du Soleil's One Night for One Drop, which raised $6 million for the One Drop Foundation. Deputy Editor Nicole Rupersburg and I celebrated Britney—and Nicole's new appointment—at our Winter issue cover party. OK! TV host Mayleen Ramey and I donned Hervé Léger to illustrate the metallics trend for our Spring Fashion issue. Editing this issue—both our 11th anniversary issue and our Women of Influence issue— was personally gratifying for me. While we have brought you a Men's Issue for years, this is the first edition of Vegas dedicated to the women who have inf luenced this city in incred- ibly important ways. So much in this issue—from the tale of Helen J. Stewart's unofficial founding of the city to the present-day story of Heather duBoef 's creation of a women's grant-making organization that concentrates its funds for the greatest possible impact, from the strength of our women's panel to Gabrielle Union's very personal narrative about becoming a women's advocate—resonates for me. My own pioneer ancestors walked west across this country in the 19th century, holding babies, pushing handcarts, and losing husbands along the way, and all through this issue I catch glimpses of that same frontier spirit. So you can imagine that to cut the two-and-a-half-hour conversation among some of our city's female power players into a feature you can finish in 15 minutes was no easy task. Happily, you can read a longer transcript of our discussion at vegasmagazine.com. We've had a busy month of events at Vegas. I toggled between power women moderator and sparkly gold Léger-wearing OK! TV fashion contributor (my pioneering ancestors valued f lexibility, after all). We celebrated America's favorite comeback girl, Britney Spears, at the release party for our Winter cover, on which she appeared. And I officially welcomed another powerful woman to our ranks—our new deputy editor, Nicole Rupersburg. Welcome, Nicole! ANDR EA BENNETT Follow me on Twitter at @andreabennett1 and on vegasmagazine.com. PHOTOGRAPHY BY AL POWERS (RUPERSBURG) 32 VEGASMAGAZINE.COM FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 032_V_FOB_EdLetter_MAYJUNE_14.indd 32 4/22/14 3:06 PM