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Beckmann, Unger get intellectual about Las Vegas
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 2 days 1 hour 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 3 days 2 hours 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...
Governing the city is fine and all, but let's eat
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Public art 1, Bob Beers 0
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 4 days 7 min agoTen (more or less) random sentences from Oscar Goodman's new book
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 4 days 4 hours 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-...
Veteran local band Slow to Surface calls it a day
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 4 days 23 hours agoThe quintet, which last released music in 2012, transitioned from its...
The Rolling Stones: Not sucking at 50
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 1 week 1 hour 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 week 2 days 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 2 weeks 3 days 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...
On the scene at the immigration rally
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Lineup announced for Electric Daisy Carnival
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 2 weeks 3 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 2 weeks 5 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...
City council subcommittee votes 2-1 to preserve arts fund
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Prince, downsized: April 26, The Joint
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 3 weeks 1 day 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...
What is Nevada's Big Give?
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 3 weeks 2 days 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...
Brushed with fire: A studio visit with artist Zak Ostrowski
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 3 weeks 2 days 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...
Note to tourists: Being on vacation does not mean you can’t be run over
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 3 weeks 3 days 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...
