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10 of the best clubs and gig venues in Las Vegas

Las Vegas city guideLas Vegas holidaysReviewThe music and clubbing scene in Vegas attracts the world's very biggest names to its dive bars, outrageous clubs and chillaxin' venues, say Chuckmonster and Spencer Patterson As featured in our Las Vegas city guide The Joint at the Hard Rock HotelWe'll admit it, we weren't too thrilled when Las Vegas's most iconic rock room announced it would double in size. After all, this was the place where the Stones stripped down, where Neil Young ditched Greendale, where Metallica and the Chili Peppers rang in the New Year, where Jack White's guitar spontaneously burst into flames.

Birmingham New Street station review: a 'value-engineered' icon of compromise

Architecture and design blogArchitectureReviewIt may be an improvement on the old station, with a light-flooded atrium and a huge concourse, but the Foreign Office Architects project is a very British trade-off When a young London-based duo won an international competition for the Yokohama ferry terminal in Japan in 1995, there was a collective gasp of incredulity. The shock was not only that the couple, still in their early 30s, could land a £150m port project on the other side of the world, but that their design was unlike anything seen before.

Can unapproachable makeup work as a man repellent?

Beauty hacksLife and styleIf bolder choices such as strong liner and bleached brows make you feel safer, give them a go The hack Does “unapproachable” makeup scare men off? The test With over 124m views on TikTok, the unapproachable makeup trend has become a firm gen Z favourite. The brief seems to be: “Looking so good they’re too scared to approach you,” according to TikToker Megi Hebeja – the “they” in question being men.

Dame Anita Roddick | Business

BusinessObituaryDame Anita RoddickPioneering green entrepreneur who used the profits of her ethical beauty business to campaign for a better worldDame Anita Roddick, who has died aged 64 after a brain haemorrhage, opened her first Body Shop in Brighton in 1976. The year is important. The beauty business was not then about bodies, which were merely the soaped tail end of the face and hair market, its lotions laboratory tested, industrially concocted and sold through chemists' chains or the phoney salons of department stores.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, its my son! Coming to terms with Downs Syndrome

The first ever photograph of Wil flying. Photograph: Alan LawrenceThe first ever photograph of Wil flying. Photograph: Alan LawrenceFamilyAlan Lawrence has a son with Down’s Syndrome. As a photographer, he wanted to shine a light on the negative attitudes towards the condition – and his little boy showed him how A few weeks before my son Wil was due, I was sitting at my computer working when I suddenly had the strangest feeling.