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An excuse to visit Crystals mall: James Turrell's 'Akhob' exhibit
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 1 day 5 hours agoRenowned 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...
Former Mars Volta and ATDI singer debuts new band at Artifice
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 2 days 26 min agoThere 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...
Keil Corcoran talks STRFKR and his musical coming of age in Vegas
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Disco Inferno: An exhibit for our hellish summer
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 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...
Locals reign over Life is Beautiful lineup
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 2 weeks 23 hours agoThe 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.
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Talk: Can 'art therapy' assist those with brain disease?
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 2 weeks 23 hours agoThe 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...
TONIGHT: Our Las Vegas celebration exhibit shows growing dynamic of public art
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 2 weeks 4 days agoA 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...
Punk Rock Bowling: 5.27.13: The hardcore continuum
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 3 weeks 16 hours agoIt 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...
Punk Rock Bowling, 5.26.13: Stepping out of the box
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 3 weeks 22 hours agoArriving 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...
Punk Rock Bowling, 5.25.13: Are we not punks?
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 3 weeks 2 days agoWhen 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.
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Remembering the Moulin Rouge
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 3 weeks 3 days 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 4 weeks 5 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 month 2 days 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 month 3 days 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 month 5 days agoThe quintet, which last released music in 2012, transitioned from its...
The Rolling Stones: Not sucking at 50
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 1 month 1 week 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 1 month 1 week 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 1 month 2 weeks 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...
The Attic to reopen in a new location
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 8 min 48 sec agoThe 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...
Huntridge Revival announces supporter perks
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 3 days 22 hours agoGun-safety advocates protest Sandoval's veto of background checks for gun purchases
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 4 days 3 hours agoOpen Letter to the "East Village"
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 week 4 days agoDEAR “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...
Attorney General says city energy-efficiency proposal violates state law
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 week 6 days agoA 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...
New life: After being told she couldn't conceive, violence survivor Ainjil Reyes delivers a girl
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 week 6 days agoEIGHT. 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
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 2 weeks 6 days agoChanges in progressive leadership coming
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 3 weeks 6 days 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 weeks 6 days 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 month 3 days agoPublic art 1, Bob Beers 0
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 month 4 days agoTen (more or less) random sentences from Oscar Goodman's new book
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 month 4 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 1 month 2 weeks agoCity council subcommittee votes 2-1 to preserve arts fund
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 month 2 weeks agoWhat is Nevada's Big Give?
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 month 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks agoDenim Day, April 24, takes a stand against sexual assault
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 month 3 weeks 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...