Table of contents for Spring 2020 in Chic Compass

Welcome aboard the Chic Compass spring edition! We packed our bags and went globetrotting for you once again. This time we are visiting Kuai, Hawaii to play a little golf and then we are traveling to London to do a fashion photo shoot. How about a tour of the Liberace Museum at the Thriller Villa in Las Vegas! After the tour, stop in at Old Soul to check out the great atmosphere and food after reading about the Chef behind the vision. While downtown, check out the stunning gallery of Rachel Cline for a fun afternoon of art browsing. After hours you can check out a show at the Smith Center called Composer Showcase. One of our newest writers, Jonathan Scott, got a personal interview with the creator and founder…

If you’ve never met Jennifer Main or have never seen her expressive, colorful art, you’ve missed out on both accounts—Jennifer, the person, and her artwork are extraordinary, exhibiting an aura of fun and a sense of spiritual well-being. Jennifer is one of the most beloved native Las Vegas artists. As a young child, she relished the joy of using her imagination to create something out of nothing. She was passionate about her art and used it as a more comfortable avenue to communicate and express herself rather than using her voice. At an early age, she knew from deep within that her calling was to be an artist. When she was in her teens, she applied for and was accepted into the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Performing and…

I was delighted to meet with Patrick Duffy to learn more about the Nevada School of the Arts located in the Historic Fifth Street School in old downtown Las Vegas. When I was told that, thanks to both Mayor Goodmans, the city owns the building and it belongs to the community, I naturally thought of the proverb, “Charity begins at home.” After all, with its meaning that a man’s family should be his foremost concern, it made sense that the city would step in to provide a place for its inhabitants to take advantage of what the school has to offer in the way of music, and the arts. Formerly called the Las Vegas Grammar School, the Historic Fifth Street School was constructed in 1936 on Fifth Street, which later…

For the past five million years, Kauai has been passionately ravaged by nature, shaped, sculpted, and chiseled into an infectiously beautiful island. The allure of this island’s beauty has enticed the world’s most esteemed golf architects to transform the “Garden Island” into “Golf’s Emerald Jewel.” This rare jewel is naturally blessed with verdant tropical foliage, lush rain forests, spectacular waterfalls, and rainbow covered coastlines that take your breath away. But it’s the elegance, brilliance, and architectural mastery of Kaua’i’s golf courses that made my heart race. Through an expenditure of millions of dollars in renovating their top courses, Kaua’i’ has created the quintessential golf experience. It’s visually astounding, emotionally thrilling, athletically challenging and deeply rewarding. The game of golf becomes fifth dimensional in Kaua’i! It is a regal pleasure and…

The late, larger-than-life Liberace once famously said, “You can have either the Resurrection, or you can have Liberace. But you can’t have both.” Well, it appears Liberace is having a resurrection of his own. “Mr. Showmanship,” as he was known around the world, would be celebrating his 100th birthday if he were alive today. But the master pianist never let anything like mortality keep him from taking center stage: As of this writing, there are efforts toward naming a Las Vegas street after him; a “Liberace Grill” restaurant is in final stages of completion in Southern California; and a reality television show called Finding Liberace is in development. But the crowning jewel of the Liberace legacy is his recently revived eponymous museum collection in Las Vegas, the city he called…

Welcome to our new edition of Chic Compass! In each of our editions we break all records by having our fabulous writers… writing about awesome subjects. And we feel very blessed to have these very talented and inspiring writers contributing to our magazine. In this edition you will be amazed to see all their contributions. When we first started this magazine, we had talked about fashion, travel, food, art, music and a few other subjects. We are still doing it and there is more! As we move forward with our life in Chic Compass, we can’t express enough thankfulness for our writers and those about whom we can write. It is at this time, I learned with great sadness that Alex Huerta, one of the treasures from the local art…

In a recent “round table” discussion at the Las Vegas Jazz Society headquarters, longtime supporters, promoters and entertainers discussed the plight of Jazz in Las Vegas. The conversation centered primarily on how to reach audiences and rebuild momentum for the once thriving Jazz community that had existed here in years past. Funding, venues and connecting supporters from around the Valley to the where and when the music is occurring is of primary concern. Oddly enough these concerns are pretty much the same as they’ve been since I began my association with the Jazz Society in the mid-70’s. The Las Vegas Jazz Society has been a mainstay in the support of Jazz since it was established as a non-profit 501(c)3 entity in 1975 by jazz musician Monk Montgomery (from the Montgomery…

In our lifetime, we meet many people who we find interesting, and, once in a while, we happen onto a person who awakens in us the awareness that we’ve met someone special. It is a person who inspires us and humbles us as we learn how they’ve maneuvered through life and what they’ve accomplished. For me, and many others, Aimmee Kodachian is that person. As a young girl, with undiagnosed severe dyslexia, she was ridiculed and bullied, never making it beyond a 4th grade level in school. One beautiful, sunny day, she was talking to her older brother about her desire to become a teacher. In spite of that seeming unlikely, he encouraged her to aim for that. As she left him to pour him a cup of tea, a…

I’m often asked, “What is beautiful looking skin to you?”, and my favorite reply is, “cancer free; everything else is preference.” Most people enjoy skin that is youthful in appearance with good volume, even skin tones and wrinkle free. As a Board Certified Dermatologist, who completed an extra year of Dermatology Research and three years of Internal Medicine Residency-I have 11 years of formal medical training after college. Each year I give a talk in Europe at the 5-Continent Congress Cosmetic meeting and I attend multiple other conferences during the year. With my training background and interest in what is state of the art, I have a number of opinions on how to make skin look its best depending on the person and the tools available. At Las Vegas Dermatology,…

Chic Compass Magazine Launch at European Kitchen and Bath inside the World Market Center Las Vegas (Photos courtesy of Ann Parenti) Las Vegas Suite Live Concert at Notoriety on Nov. 10, 2019 (Photography by Talbot Snow) (Photography by Ed Foster)…

Chic Compass sat down with Joe Pantozzi of Alpha Omega Wealth recently. We talked about questions to ask yourself in preparing for your future. Here are some of the insights that came out of our conversation. CHIC: What keeps your clients up at night? JOE: I’m getting very consistent answers on this: independence, taxes, government chaos, markets, their children’s security, charitable intent, and choosing the right planner! I have seen that these kinds of concerns are foremost for 95% of my people. So, with 500,000 financial professionals in the US, why are most having difficulty reaching financial Nirvana? The pros can’t agree on the meaning of SUCCESS and how to achieve it. More urgently, neither can the client, who should be calling the signals. (Hint: It’s not just “more money”.)…

The proverb “There but for the grace of God go I” is an expression of humility. It’s an acknowledgment that outside factors, such as God’s grace, have played a role in a person’s success in life. For many of us, we know that is true, particularly when we look around and see so many who are not as fortunate as we are, especially with Las Vegas being a place with a large number of homeless people. Where can those people turn for help? If you think you know everything about The Salvation Army, you might be surprised. I know I was when I learned all that is offered through their organization. I wanted to know the history of The Salvation Army and was surprised to learn that it was founded…