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The Attic to reopen in a new location
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 3 hours 32 min 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...
An excuse to visit Crystals mall: James Turrell's 'Akhob' exhibit
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 1 day 9 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 3 hours 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...
Huntridge Revival announces supporter perks
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 4 days 2 hours agoGun-safety advocates protest Sandoval's veto of background checks for gun purchases
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 4 days 6 hours agoKeil Corcoran talks STRFKR and his musical coming of age in Vegas
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 1 week 4 hours agoDisco 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...
Open Letter to the "East Village"
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 1 week 5 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...
Locals reign over Life is Beautiful lineup
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 2 weeks 1 day 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 1 day 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...
A tense exchange between Bob Beers and a critic
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 2 weeks 6 days agoPunk Rock Bowling: 5.27.13: The hardcore continuum
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 3 weeks 19 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 1 day 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 4 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...
















