As one of the hosts of the Las Vegas– based radio show Flip the Strip (launched this summer, airing live on Saturdays from 5 to 6 p.m. on KXNT, or streaming on radio.com), Melinda Sheckells is known as Vegas’s gal-about-town. Her partner in crime and cohost, Mark ... More

As a little girl growing up on a farm in Bremen, Ind., Christina Stembel, CEO and founder of Farmgirl Flowers in San Francisco, initially dreamed of becoming an actress. “We had this little TV that had like five channels, and it came in fuzzy, but it was my only real ... More

Jennifer Sampson, the president and CEO of United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, has big ideas and isn’t afraid to implement them. That’s the reason there are a couple hundred thousand fewer impoverished people in Dallas than if trends had continued, and why a popular nonprofit restaurant has ... More

After over 10 years spent making the careers of pop’s most successful artists (Lady Gaga, Eve and Fat Joe to name a few), current Vice President of Brand Experience at Juice Press, Leah Landon, set her sights on a new leg of popular culture: fitness. Now in More

Hot on the tails of his new no-reservations restaurant UB Preserv, James Beard Award-winning Chef Chris Shepherd is set to unveil not one, but two, new concepts before year’s end—Georgia James steakhouse in July and One Fifth Mediterranean debuting in September. Yet, the very driven Shepherd is ... More

For more than 14 years, San Francisco–based interior designer Grant K. Gibson has been busy creating fresh and timeless spaces, ranging from private residences in the Bay Area and New York to tasting rooms for wineries in Healdsburg and St. Helena. His latest project is a salon ... More

A quick scroll through Jamie O’Banion’s Instagram and one may wonder how the mother of three could possibly do everything that she does, and do it all seemingly flawlessly. For starters, she seems to exist on little to no sleep, yet she looks perfectly put-together, 100 percent of ... More

As a Miami resident, I’m most excited about creating a place that I personally want to go to and can recommend to my friends and associates,” says Neil Shah, president and chief operating officer of Hersha Hospitality Trust, a multi-billion-dollar hotel and real estate firm. “We’re offering unique, non-touristy ... More

AfterBuzzTV cofounder Maria Menounos knew there was a hunger for TV series after-shows—just how big that appetite was, she never could have predicted. With billions of international eyes and ears devouring AfterBuzz’s 150-plus hours of weekly original content, Menounos and her producer husband, Keven Undergaro, have a ... More

Las Vegas in the early aughts was the right place and time for Andy Masi. The town was shedding its previous family-friendly persona, transforming into a culinary destination, and thanks to Masi, nightlife became an entity of its own. Now, he’s reinventing the scene again with endeavors at the Palms, ... More