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

The Attic to reopen in a new location

5 hours 13 min 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...

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 10 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 5 hours 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
PHOTO: LAUNCE RAKE

Huntridge Revival announces supporter perks

4 days 3 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 8 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...
STRFKR (COURTESY PHOTO)

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

1 week 6 hours 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
There's some "East Village" for ya

Open Letter to the "East Village"

1 week 5 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...

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Locals reign over Life is Beautiful lineup

2 weeks 1 day 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.

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Tags: downtown
Painting by Alzheimer's patient Lester Potts

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

2 weeks 1 day 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

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
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Punk Rock Bowling: 5.27.13: The hardcore continuum

3 weeks 21 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 1 day 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.

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

Remembering the Moulin Rouge

3 weeks 4 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