He's the designer responsible for the Bellagio, the Wynn, and the newly opened Encore hotel. As he prepares to retire, Roger Thomas reflects on a life with business partner Steve Wynn and how his aesthetic transformed the face of Las Vegas forever.
The temptation
exists in our culture to relate current events to famous
past historical moments via some cliched shorthand.
Every scandal is a something-gate. Every trend du jour
is the new black. And in this digital era, every new
version of something that happened before is a 2.0 -- like
the overly simplistic effort to brand the protests that
followed the passing of Prop. 8 as Stonewall 2.0.