Las Vegas Weekly

1 week ago | lasvegasweekly.com | Amber Sampson

COMPLEX AS EVERLast year’s ComplexCon raised an exceptionally high bar for celebrity-filled festivals. The two-day event, dedicated to fashion, hip-hop, art and sneakers, attracted a whopping 60,000 people to the Las Vegas Convention Center and featured A-list rappers like Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Big Sean, Machine Gun Kelly and Offset. Travis Scott and Playboi Carti headlined 2024’s lineup, and this year’s installment has kept that momentum going.

1 week ago | lasvegasweekly.com | Amber Sampson

Tiffany Haddish might be an open book, but she’s far from predictable. She’s a Grammy-winning comedian, a celebrated author and a Hollywood actress who still owes us Girls Trip 2. But she’s also the woman who grew up visiting the rodeo in Brawley, California with her family. She even took a trip to Nashville’s Music City Rodeo and hung out backstage with Tim McGraw. There are layers to Haddish’s famously unfiltered persona.

1 week ago | lasvegasweekly.com | Shannon Miller

While hibernation season for most mammals is winter, for us Las Vegans, it’s summer. We stock up on supplies, post up in our air-conditioned environments and wait it out until it’s safe to go back outside. Summer can be a long period of inactivity for our bodies. But it doesn’t have to be. According to Forget the Gym founder and personal trainer Dave Vaughan, there are a lot of easy workouts you can do indoors with little to no equipment.

1 week ago | lasvegasweekly.com | Shannon Miller

Buying a townhouse in 2022 was one of the most frustrating, financially confusing and emotional things I’ve ever done. I still half-joke that it was a traumatic experience, and three years later, I’m not sure it wasn’t. But here’s the way I made it through: I had help. My mom had years of experience under her belt as a real estate agent and a vice president at a homebuilding company. Without her, I would have thought closing on a property was nearly impossible. Unsurprisingly, I’m not alone.

1 week ago | lasvegasweekly.com | Amber Sampson

Las Vegas and Havana were cut from the same cultural cloth. Both cities experienced a Golden Age of glitz in the 1950s, drawing the likes of Liberace, Nat King Cole and the Rat Pack to their posh nightclubs and luxurious hotels. Havana had the legendary Tropicana cabaret club. Las Vegas had the Copa Room. They both had the mob. With that bit of history to chew on, it’s no wonder Havana 1957 at the Flamingo feels so distinctly like home.