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The new Attic at 1010 N. Main St. PHOTO: KRISTY TOTTEN

The Attic to reopen in a new location

8 min 48 sec ago

The good news is The Attic will be back in business shortly, hopefully by August if all goes as owner Mayra Politis plans. The bad news is, they need to buy a wheelchair lift to comply with...

PHOTO: LAUNCE RAKE

Huntridge Revival announces supporter perks

3 days 22 hours ago
So you’re thinking of contributing to the effort to save the Huntridge Theatre from its slow decline into crumbling irrelevance — what will it get you? Besides the hoped-for result of a revived and...
PHOTO: LAUNCE RAKE

Gun-safety advocates protest Sandoval's veto of background checks for gun purchases

4 days 3 hours ago
They’re not done yet, advocates for “gun safety” said Thursday as they protested Gov. Brian Sandoval’s veto of a law requiring background checks for many gun sales. The veto quashed yet another...
There's some "East Village" for ya

Open Letter to the "East Village"

1 week 4 days ago

DEAR “EAST VILLAGE,”
 
I note with some interest that a group of investors in the downtown area are rewriting place names. Specifically, you, the area of east of downtown along Fremont...

Tags: culture

Attorney General says city energy-efficiency proposal violates state law

1 week 6 days ago

A proposal from Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Beers to eliminate energy-efficiency requirements for rehabbed buildings older than four years — a proposal that would affect would-be re-dos in...

Dave, Ainjil and Sofia

New life: After being told she couldn't conceive, violence survivor Ainjil Reyes delivers a girl

1 week 6 days ago

EIGHT. That’s how many gunshot wounds Ainjil Reyes sustained — and survived — in a horrific 2008 machine gun attack carried out by her estranged husband.

Her boyfriend, Jonathan “Caine...

A tense exchange between Bob Beers and a critic

2 weeks 6 days ago
As we document in the May 30 CityLife, a proposal from Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Beers to eliminate energy-efficiency building codes from refurbished or repurposed downtown buildings constructed...
Tags: Energy

Changes in progressive leadership coming

3 weeks 6 days ago

As 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...

Tags: news
COURTESY: Nevada Department of Transportation

Morbid reminder: freeway signs tally roadway deaths

3 weeks 6 days ago
Slow down, the signs will remind you. Don't drive drunk. People have died on these roads.
Starting 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

1 month 3 days ago
The Las Vegas City Council is starving.Although there are certainly nearby culinary destinations, council members saluted plans to put a restaurant right across from the new City Hall, on the ground...
Tags: Civics
OK, so maybe this isn't the BEST argument for public art ...

Public art 1, Bob Beers 0

1 month 4 days ago
Las Vegas will continue to fund local arts projects with a regular, 1-percent set-aside from the city’s annual capital-improvements budget.The City Council voted 6-1 to reject Councilman Bob Beers’...
Tags: art

Ten (more or less) random sentences from Oscar Goodman's new book

1 month 4 days ago

Absolutely 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-...

Tags: Politics
Marching along Las Vegas Boulevard

On the scene at the immigration rally

1 month 2 weeks ago
Flush from his victory on gun control, Harry Reid rallied a crowd of thousands for immigration reform during a rally in downtown Las Vegas Wednesday. He was joined by the Democratic congressional...
Tags: Immigration

City council subcommittee votes 2-1 to preserve arts fund

1 month 2 weeks ago
The Brit-pop '70s band 10CC used to sing “Art for art’s sake, money for God’s sake.” The Las Vegas City Council, or at least its recommending subcommittee, might have hummed the song Tuesday as it...
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What is Nevada's Big Give?

1 month 3 weeks ago

Nevada'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

1 month 3 weeks ago

Numerous 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

1 month 3 weeks ago
On Monday, gay men and lesbians have moved a step closer — a big step closer — toward the right to legally marry their partners in Nevada. On a mostly party-line vote, the Nevada Senate voted 12-9 to...
Tags: Gay Marriage
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Denim Day, April 24, takes a stand against sexual assault

1 month 3 weeks ago

If 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...

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James Turrell's 'Akhob' installation at Louis Vuitton at CityCenter (COURTESY: LOUIS VUITTON)

An excuse to visit Crystals mall: James Turrell's 'Akhob' exhibit

1 day 5 hours ago

Renowned L.A. artist James Turrell recently made his Strip debut inside CityCenter, with a permanent installation entitled “Akhob,” which means “pure water” in Egyptian. The artwork lives up to...

Tags: art
Cedric Bixler-Zavala of Zavalaz

Former Mars Volta and ATDI singer debuts new band at Artifice

2 days 26 min ago

There he was, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, standing against the wall watching opening act Dot Hacker like he was a paying ticketholder, unmistakable with his signature 'fro and unmissable to anyone...

Tags: Live Music
STRFKR (COURTESY PHOTO)

Keil Corcoran talks STRFKR and his musical coming of age in Vegas

1 week 1 hour ago
Portland-cum-Los Angeles band STRFKR has a lot of celebrate when its bus drives into Las Vegas this week. The band will have just completed its late-spring tour, which introduced new visual...
Tags: music
"Disco Inferno" exhibit at Momas and Dads (COURTESY)

Disco Inferno: An exhibit for our hellish summer

1 week 1 day ago

“Have we got it hot enough? The heaters are on and everything,” joked artist Matthew Couper. Summer settled on Las Vegas during First Friday, just in time for the opening of the new exhibit Disco...

Tags: visual arts
The Killers (COURTESY)

Locals reign over Life is Beautiful lineup

2 weeks 23 hours ago

The promoters of the Life is Beautiful festival promised to include locals in its first edition, and its just-released lineup looks to deliver on that declaration.

...

Tags: downtown
Painting by Alzheimer's patient Lester Potts

Talk: Can 'art therapy' assist those with brain disease?

2 weeks 23 hours ago

The double line of cars waiting to valet at the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health stretched all the way down to the street entrance. Guests stopped for a glass of wine or canapé before filing into...

Tags: art
A Daily Frame photo of the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (COURTESY: GINGER BRUNER/OUR LAS VEGAS)

TONIGHT: Our Las Vegas celebration exhibit shows growing dynamic of public art

2 weeks 4 days ago

A large flat cake with “Our Las Vegas” scripted in red dominated a small table. Visitors, artists and city employees sipping lemonade in between forkfuls of cream cheese frosting filled the...

Tags: art
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Punk Rock Bowling: 5.27.13: The hardcore continuum

3 weeks 16 hours ago

It was a slow, ambling, unsteady exodus out of the outdoor festival for Punk Rock Bowling last night. The attendees had just completed a three-day live punk marathon at the makeshift venue, to say...

Tags: Live Music
Brandon Buck of Surrounded By Thieves (PHOTO: STEPHANIE GONZALES)

Punk Rock Bowling, 5.26.13: Stepping out of the box

3 weeks 22 hours ago

Arriving to the scene of Punk Rock Bowling music festival before the crowd yesterday, you found an unpaved downtown lot littered with smashed sunglasses, metal studs, safety pins, miniature liquor...

Tags: Live Music
Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo (PHOTO: STEPHANIE GONZALES)

Punk Rock Bowling, 5.25.13: Are we not punks?

3 weeks 2 days ago

When you get right down to it, punk is — theoretically speaking — no different than any other music genre, and its festivals follow the same template as the other multi-band gatherings.

...

Tags: Live Music
A showgirl poses at the Moulin Rouge (COURTESY UNLV SPECIAL COLLECTIONS)

Remembering the Moulin Rouge

3 weeks 3 days ago

Flouting 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...

Tags: history
Anthony Del Valle (COURTESY: CRAIG L. MORAN/REVIEW JOURNAL)

R.I.P. Anthony Del Valle, former CityLife stage critic

4 weeks 5 hours ago

You 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...

Tags: stage
"The Three Graces," by Robert Beckmann

Beckmann, Unger get intellectual about Las Vegas

1 month 2 days ago

Last 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...

Tags: art

Review: J.J. Abrams goes Michael Bay in new 'Star Trek' flick

1 month 3 days ago

The 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...

Tags: film
Singer Benwood of Slow to Surface (FILE PHOTO: BILL HUGHES)

Veteran local band Slow to Surface calls it a day

1 month 5 days ago
We had Slow to Surface pegged to survive the apocalypse. Sadly, the local rock warhorse ended its 13-year run today. 
The quintet, which last released music in 2012, transitioned from its...
Tags: music

The Rolling Stones: Not sucking at 50

1 month 1 week ago

The 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...

Tags: Live Music
Bacon-wrapped dates from Firefly Tapas Kitchen & Bar

Firefly Paradise to reopen in new location by month's end

1 month 1 week ago

According 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,...

Tags: dining
Firefly's bacon-wrapped dates (FILE PHOTO: TODD LUSSIER)

Someone's already suing Firefly for getting sick

1 month 2 weeks ago

Here’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...

Tags: dining