A dam and legal gambling helped turn a desert town into an entertainment capital. Las Vegas keeps reinventing itself; I wonder what its next version will look like. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-the-desert-town-of-las-vegas-became-a-hotbed-of-magic-180989859/By Mikhail Orlov, Nov 13, 2026. 0 likes, 0 comments.