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For the top brass in the Las Vegas and Los Angeles EDM club scenes, dance music is proving a heck of a payday. The hospitality trade journal Nightclub & Bar released its annual list of the 100 highest-grossing nightclubs in America , and EDM-heavy clubs in Las Vegas dominate the upper reaches. Tied for first are a pair of venues that pioneered and cemented the superstar-DJ club concept as a major moneymaker. Wynn Resorts' XS and Marquee in the Cosmopolitan are tied for first place, each with estimated revenues of $80 million to $90 million in 2012.

An artist-in-residence program underway through April 21 at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas allows visitors to see women's apparel created without a single swatch of fabric. Designer Jennifer Henry will be showcasing the clothing that she describes as “alternative material couture” inside the resort's P3 Studio. Live models and mannequins will be wearing her one-of-a-kind dresses. A photo exhibit will illustrate more of the 200 creations she has made since starting her Flockflockflock design business in 2009.

Game boys (and girls) can belly up to the Cosmopolitan's EA Sports Bar, a popup concept that's part sports bar, part lounge and part arcade. It's set on the casino's ground floor, where fans can tune in to sporting events on a half dozen high-definition TVs while gamers can square off on one of three Sony PlayStations. The 2,500-square-foot space is decked out with leather chairs, sofas and a (low-tech) foosball table. The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South 877.551.7778 www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com - Jamie Wetherbe, Custom Publishing Writer

With the March Madness college basketball tournament getting underway Tuesday, Sin City is a slam-dunk for hoops fans who can't afford costly courtside seats. Throughout the tournament, Vegas resorts are offering special enticements for a fraction of the cost of a trip to Atlanta for the Final Four action. At the Cosmopolitan , the fun gets underway during the second- and third-round games March 21-24, when the hotel's Brera Ballroom takes on the look and feel of a live sporting event.

Taylor Swift is on the cover of the December issue of Cosmopolitan, and inside she talks about what she does and doesn't want in romance. Unfortunately, the cover type deems her "Crazy for a Kennedy. " But since it went to press, she broke up with Conor Kennedy. So listen up, guys. The magazine hits newsstands Nov. 6. [Cosmopolitan] Ellen DeGeneres dressed up on her Halloween show as Sofia Vergara, wearing a copy of the Zuhair Murad dress in which the actress had a wardrobe malfunction at the Emmys.

It's an unlikely pairing: Cosmopolitan, the magazine known for its frank sex advice and sultry photo spreads, will debut a line of products for J.C. Penney, the struggling retailer often associated with dowdiness. Cosmo announced Thursday that it has launched a collection of lingerie, sleepwear, shoes and handbags - all imbued with a “fun, fearless female” vibe - exclusively at J.C. Penney. The products are available at more than 600 stores nationwide and online. The styles were created by Cosmo's editorial team in tandem with design teams from J.C. Penney.

Vegas loves to reinvent, and visitors love to do whatever's new new new. Enter the pop-up wedding chapel at the Cosmopolitan , which opens Dec. 28, just in time for impromptu New Year's Eve nuptials at the tony hotel on the Strip. Packages start at $170 for a quickie wedding, about $9,999,830 less than Kim Kardashian supposedly paid for her ceremony. The deal: These funky packages work for those who really do want to say I do and those who don't (no paperwork required for the fake wedding option)

It takes a lot of nerve to advertise a new $3.9-billion casino-hotel development with a line that begs to be mocked. Yet the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas has held tight to its tagline, "Just the right amount of wrong. " As the latest major development to open on the Las Vegas Strip, the Cosmopolitan has endured many wrongs since the project broke ground in 2005. Foreclosure, changes in concept and ownership, extensive redesigns and, oh, that little inconvenience called the recession. But this hotel, built atop a former parking lot, is a confident competitor.

Remember when it seemed preposterous that a French three-star chef would sign on for a restaurant in Las Vegas? And it turned out that not one but four highly decorated French chefs eventually launched Vegas outposts? Even in these rocky economic times, Vegas is sprouting new restaurants. As long as visitors keep rolling their bags up to hotel reception desks, Vegas keeps building. Latest entry? The Cosmopolitan, and in its wake a starry collection of restaurants from well-known chefs and restaurateurs.

— A beefy guy with a high-pressure air gun strapped to his back marches across the pool deck at the Cosmopolitan hotel's new Marquee Dayclub in Las Vegas, flanked by seven waitresses in electric purple bikinis. The women wave inflatable sharks in the air and carry a giant cake. They are celebrating the 10th anniversary of Soundbar — a weekly house-music party — as part of the hype surrounding Marquee, one of two new pool parties to open in Sin City this summer. What began in 2004 with the launch of a massive pool party called Rehab at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is reaching new levels this year as Marquee debuts alongside Nikki Beach at the newly renovated Tropicana hotel.

For the top brass in the Las Vegas and Los Angeles EDM club scenes, dance music is proving a heck of a payday. The hospitality trade journal Nightclub & Bar released its annual list of the 100 highest-grossing nightclubs in America , and EDM-heavy clubs in Las Vegas dominate the upper reaches. Tied for first are a pair of venues that pioneered and cemented the superstar-DJ club concept as a major moneymaker. Wynn Resorts' XS and Marquee in the Cosmopolitan are tied for first place, each with estimated revenues of $80 million to $90 million in 2012.

Taylor Swift is on the cover of the December issue of Cosmopolitan, and inside she talks about what she does and doesn't want in romance. Unfortunately, the cover type deems her "Crazy for a Kennedy. " But since it went to press, she broke up with Conor Kennedy. So listen up, guys. The magazine hits newsstands Nov. 6. [Cosmopolitan] Ellen DeGeneres dressed up on her Halloween show as Sofia Vergara, wearing a copy of the Zuhair Murad dress in which the actress had a wardrobe malfunction at the Emmys.

It's an unlikely pairing: Cosmopolitan, the magazine known for its frank sex advice and sultry photo spreads, will debut a line of products for J.C. Penney, the struggling retailer often associated with dowdiness. Cosmo announced Thursday that it has launched a collection of lingerie, sleepwear, shoes and handbags - all imbued with a “fun, fearless female” vibe - exclusively at J.C. Penney. The products are available at more than 600 stores nationwide and online. The styles were created by Cosmo's editorial team in tandem with design teams from J.C. Penney.

In her bestselling 1962 book "Sex and the Single Girl," Helen Gurley Brown dared to tell American women that they inherited their "proclivity" for sex, that it "isn't some random piece of mischief you dreamed up because you're a bad, wicked girl. " When her frank and exuberant mix of advice, exhortation and naughty girl talk became a publishing phenomenon, thousands of women wrote to seek her advice, and she would sit at home at night in Los Angeles, trying to answer them all. One night, her husband, the movie producer David Brown, had an idea while he watched her type.

Before there was Carrie Bradshaw, Joan Holloway and “Fifty Shades of Grey,” there was Helen Gurley Brown. The legendary author and Cosmopolitan magazine editor from 1965 to 1997 who died on Monday emboldened a generation of women with her controversial views about female sexuality, and laid the groundwork for today's sexualized fashion and celebrity culture, which is digested by men and women alike. Before she took over at Cosmopolitan, she wrote the 1962 advice book “Sex and the Single Girl,” which taught women to forget about marriage, and worry about sexual and financial independence instead.

Helen Gurley Brown, longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and author of the classic 1962 book "Sex and the Single Girl," died Monday. She was 90. Brown joined Cosmopolitan in 1965 and served as its editor for 32 years, giving it its signature pro-sex, love-quiz, headline-popping style. She retired from the magazine in 1997. In January of this year, just weeks before turning 90, Brown donated $30 million to the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Stanford School of Engineering to establish the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation.

For many of us, it's time to hit the fast-forward button to move beyond 2010, with its depressing economy and nasty political campaigns. As the clock ticks toward midnight on Dec. 31, here's what to look for from revelers in Las Vegas, who may well chant "Roll on 2011!" America's Party, as it's dubbed, climaxes with fireworks at midnight, shot from the rooftops of seven Strip hotels. While the pyrotechnics will be visible from anywhere in the Strip's sea of humanity, certain locations — with a price tag attached, of course — will provide excellent vantage points not only for what's happening in the sky, but also for people-watching.

Wait, are those wine fairies ascending skyward, on their way to pluck the perfect vintage from the clouds? Yes! At Aureole - an offshoot of the New York original by celerity chef Charlie Palmer - dining is a show-stopping Vegas glitz-fest. Watch (in awe) as cat-suited damsels are hoisted up a four-story glass tower, filled with more than 60,000 bottles of wine. And the food? Dinner is a three-course prix fixe, with seasonal dishes that reflect Palmer's signature progressive American cuisine.

Scarpetta, in Italian, means “little shoe,” or the shape bread takes when used to sop up every last bite. And you're bound to do just that at Scott Conant's Italian eatery, a hit not just in Vegas, but in New York, Miami and Beverly Hills, as well. Both rustic and haute, Scarpetta is rich in modern interpretations of Italian classics. Sample light appetizers like tuna susci with marinated vegetables and preserved truffles, followed by house-made pasta - go for simple spaghetti in tomato sauce with basil, or smoked ricotta casonei with pistachios and poppy seeds - all of it, simply sublime.