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The second annual Life Is Beautiful festival is kicking off this weekend on Friday, Oct. 24. This year’s event is all about inspiring people to recognize the beauty in life – wherever they are in their personal lives – it is about embracing life, finding happiness and seeing the world from a different lens. To achieve this, the creator of Life is Beautiful enlisted local Las Vegas chefs to inspire patron’s palettes, a bounty of musicians to inspire the soul and they’ve grouped together world-renowned artists to invoke the heart and mind with unifying artistic themes.

I’m from a small town in Colorado known as Loveland. I grew up idealizing rock stars and get star struck when I see a celebrity, specifically a rock and roll idol. An embarrassing admonishment, and a slight tangent, as I walked passed Dave Navarro in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in my first year in Vegas, I shouted out, ‘There’s Trent Reznor!’

After the heat of summer dies down and the pools begin to close, that doesn't mean the party stops in Vegas. In fact, things get even hotter in the winter with a pretty decent list of day parties ready for you to join in all the fun.

It doesn’t matter who you are, you’ve at some point frequented a dive bar and enjoyed it. For those that claim they’ve never been to a dive bar, well, you are definitely missing out. If you’re in Vegas, then just know we’ve got an abundance of dive bars of all varieties depending on your personal preferences. Not sure what makes a good dive bar? Well, you’re in luck because we have 24-hours on a dive-bar bender that will help you find which one you like the most and why you need to make sure you frequent one every time you’re in Sin City.

It’s time to get your Guinness beer drinking on at Rí Rá Irish Pub as they attempt to break a Guinness World Record for hosting 16 days of live music 24 hours each and every day.

At exactly 1 p.m. on October 1, several bands of a variety of musical styles will be playing their hearts out back-to-back, as they only take 25-second breaks between songs and five minutes between sets.

It's that time of year when the costumed folks in Las Vegas come out in full force and their outfits get even more bizarre, but don't worry, it's just in celebration of one of the best events in town: Halloween.

If you don’t make it to LIMELIGHT at The Plaza Hotel & Casino by November 1, you will be missing out on one of the best shows ever creatively consummated. Making blanket statements like this isn’t often a good idea but, seriously, this is one of the best shows I’ve ever seen in oh-so-many realms.

With the Bunkhouse Saloon officially opened, folks visiting and living in Las Vegas are not only thrilled with the cleaned up divey-ish bar, but also with the ongoing lineup of Indy bands, the beverages and, well, the food.

There are a number of things people are raving about with the newly-opened venue and we can see why. A cool lineup of ongoing bands including RJD2 and Blonde Redhead at prices that are shockingly affordable. We’re talking like $5 to $20 depending on the band. Yep, that’s pretty inexpensive in Vegas, especially to see a live band.

As the 2014 Life Is Beautiful (LiB) festival slated for Oct. 24 – 26 gears up, the art portion of the already hefty lineup of entertainment is getting amped up with expanded programming over last year’s artistic concepts.

This year, there will be two reigning initiatives during the event – both with strong themes of interactivity. The first initiative participants will get a chance to enjoy includes a ‘live urban gallery’ with murals and installments throughout the streets of the festival.

The majestic Bellagio fountains have been known to inspire visitors to propose to their significant other, they’ve been the backdrop for thousands upon thousands of pictures and, as we all know, they’ve been featured in countless movies including Ocean’s Eleven.

Now, however, the Bellagio fountain, light and music show is amping up its musical selection to match the musical DJ diversity this town is known for. Beginning Sept. 17 at 7 p.m., the fountain and light show will also now include an “exclusive three-song medley” from one of Sin City’s hottest DJs: Tiësto.