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Remembering the Moulin Rouge
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 1 hour 45 min agoFlouting the Jim Crow laws that were still in effect at the time, the Moulin Rouge opened in 1955, billed as the nation’s first desegregated resort. Commemorating the 58th anniversary of the...
R.I.P. Anthony Del Valle, former CityLife stage critic
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 3 days 7 hours agoYou can champion blunt honesty all you want, but you'll never gauge the true thickness of your skin until you've been evaluated by Anthony Del Valle. Local entertainment figures — and theater...
Beckmann, Unger get intellectual about Las Vegas
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 1 week 5 hours agoLast night, Vast Space Projects held a cross-discipline dialogue between artist Robert Beckmann and author Douglas Unger about the elusive and enigmatic identity of Las Vegas. The event coincided...
Review: J.J. Abrams goes Michael Bay in new 'Star Trek' flick
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 1 week 1 day agoThe title Star Trek Into Darkness sounds a little like a Calvin Klein fragrance. Into Darkness? What the hell does that mean? Maybe that’s appropriate, though, since this film has subtle hints of...
Veteran local band Slow to Surface calls it a day
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 1 week 3 days agoThe quintet, which last released music in 2012, transitioned from its...
The Rolling Stones: Not sucking at 50
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 1 week 5 days agoThe Rolling Stones, as a band, are 50 years old. They've earned the right to do whatever they want. They can swarm around Katy Perry on stage because they're our favorite dirty old men. They're...
Firefly Paradise to reopen in new location by month's end
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 2 weeks 3 hours agoAccording to a statement by owner John Simmons, the original Firefly location on Paradise Road, which was shuttered by the Southern Nevada Health District two weeks ago after diners became sick,...
Someone's already suing Firefly for getting sick
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 3 weeks 1 day agoHere’s one for your “Well That Didn’t Take Long” file: The first lawsuit has been filed in the wake of the recent Firefly food-poisoning flap.
Sari F. Utschen claims in a proposed class...
Lineup announced for Electric Daisy Carnival
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 3 weeks 2 days agoLast year, Pasquale Rotella, founder and CEO of Insomniac, promised to de-emphasize headliners when programming the Las Vegas edition of Electric Daisy Carnival, 2012's most-attended American...
Firefly diners sickened by salmonella
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 3 weeks 3 days agoAt first glance, it seems the recent closure of the original Firefly restaurant by the Southern Nevada Health District was just the latest in a rash of closings of prominent restaurants. But on...
Prince, downsized: April 26, The Joint
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 3 weeks 6 days ago"Las Vegas, you mind if I play some guitar?"
As if Prince had to ask. Even fairweather fans of the Purple One — though, mysteriously, not the stodgy compilers of best-guitarist magazine...
Brushed with fire: A studio visit with artist Zak Ostrowski
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 4 weeks 1 day ago“Here, can you hold this for a second?”
Artist Zak Ostrowski hands me a small blowtorch spewing a slender stream of blue fire. Verifying I’m comfortable with my charge, he steps away for a...
Three areas where Coachella soared on Sunday: Day three, weekend two
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 1 month 1 day agoTo paraphrase Wu Tang Clan, a Coachella hangover ain't nuthin' to fuck with.
And when we say "hangover," we don't mean the alcohol variety. For who the hell has time to imbibe and impair...
Nochella, April 20: People in their late 30s love Band of Horses
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 1 month 3 days agoWhat is it about Band of Horses that brings all the Gen X'ers to the yard? Is it the sweet, oceanic waves of haunting guitar that found Saturday night's show at The Cosmopolitan's pool consisting...
Four Coachella bands worth comment: Day two, weekend two
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 1 month 3 days agoIf the first day of the second weekend of the Coachella music festival begged hitting as many performers as possible, Saturday's less-remarkable roster encouraged and allowed for spending more...
My day at Coachella: Day one, weekend two
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 1 month 4 days ago
Nochella, April 18: Hot Chip, cool crowd
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 1 month 5 days agoThat's more like it, Las Vegas.
Yesterday we reported on the dickbaggery taking place at the Of Monsters and Men show. Well Hot Chip's Thursday night crowd at The Boulevard Pool made up for...
Nochella, April 17: Of Monsters and Men and rude attendees
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 1 month 6 days agoWe don't normally like to do this, but this is one of the rare occasions where it has to be said. To the audience for Of Monsters and Men: You're a dick.
Maybe that's not fair. After all, ...
Changes in progressive leadership coming
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 2 days 4 hours agoAs the Nevada legislative session winds down, several of the key players from the progressive bench are bowing out of future policy fisticuffs.
Scot Rutledge, executive director of the...
Morbid reminder: freeway signs tally roadway deaths
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 3 days 21 min agoStarting tomorrow morning at 4 a.m., the Department of Transportation will roll out morbid reminders to...
Governing the city is fine and all, but let's eat
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 week 2 days agoPublic art 1, Bob Beers 0
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 week 2 days agoTen (more or less) random sentences from Oscar Goodman's new book
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 week 2 days agoAbsolutely nuts! (p. 34)
His knees had been smashed and his genitals had been poked and crushed with a cattle prod before he died. (p.74)
I think he invoked the Fifth Amendment thirty-...
On the scene at the immigration rally
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 3 weeks 1 day agoCity council subcommittee votes 2-1 to preserve arts fund
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 3 weeks 3 days agoWhat is Nevada's Big Give?
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 4 weeks 1 day agoNevada's Big Give wants you to give big. It's a statewide online philanthropy campaign that asks residents (or even generous neighbors) to kick some dough to their favorite cause.
Already...
Note to tourists: Being on vacation does not mean you can’t be run over
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 month 1 hour agoNumerous studies list Vegas as ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS CITIES IN WHICH TO BE A PEDESTRIAN. Much of the blame can be put on drunken drivers, speeding drivers and roads designed for speed rather...
A step forward: Nevada Senate okays repeal of gay marriage ban
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 month 1 day agoDenim Day, April 24, takes a stand against sexual assault
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 month 1 day agoIf you hate sexual assault, you had better wear some denim to prove it. If you hate denim, well, suck it up for the cause.
Wednesday, April 24, is Denim Day, an international awareness...
Immigration reform protest planned for May Day
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 month 2 weeks agoWhat the frack?
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 month 2 weeks agoTo frack or not to frack?
This isn’t a question from Battlestar Galactica, but a serious environmental issue. Several companies have expressed interest in bringing the...
Musical chairs happening at new gay and lesbian center
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 month 2 weeks agoThe morning of April 6 was a memorable day for Candice Nichols. That morning, she oversaw the grand opening and ribbon cutting of the new Gay and Lesbian Center of Southern Nevada -- aka...
Power and water: Yes to clean energy, no to dirty water
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 month 3 weeks ago1,600 years isn't a bad run: hearings on Nevada's gay-marriage ban
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 month 4 weeks agoTen years: Visual commentary by Aaron McKinney
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 2 months 4 days agoOn the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. Topical art by Aaron McKinney.
Quote of the week (so far)
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 2 months 4 days ago“JOHN, YOU’RE GOING TO BE PAID FOR TWO MORE YEARS, NO MATTER WHAT.”
— County Commissioner Tom Collins, offering a single morsel of good news for Constable John Bonaventura on Tuesday....