Sidney Barnes, executive director of the Motown Alumni Association in Las Vegas, has been a part of the music business since the early 60’s. He began working for the Motown label, then went on to work in the recording studio, and live in concert, with some of the greatest acts in the music business, including Janis Joplin, The Rolling Stones, and Jimi Hendrix.

Extreme artist Jean Francois discovered his passion for art at an early age. In 1975, after a chance meeting in Figueras, Spain with the flamboyant artist Salvador Dali, Jean realized that the quiet life of the studio artist was not for him. Searching for a methodology that would harness his technical skills and allow a rapid, spontaneous style of work, he created Extreme Art in the early 1990’s.

Len writes the weekly online column, “Lenny’s Las Vegas,” for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He covers the Las Vegas scene for a world-wide audience. Lenny, a 32-year resident of Las Vegas, is a former managing editor of the Las Vegas Sun, as well as managing editor of Gaming Today and executive editor of CityLife and Las Vegas Business Press.

Dane Short is a senior at UNLV and handles the marketing for his family business. His mother “was doodling one day and wrote down ‘LOVE IS ALL U NEED’ with each letter stacked on top of the other.” After the symbol had been cast in sterling silver, the family soon discovered that the piece contained every letter of the alphabet.