Remembering the Moulin Rouge
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 46 min 55 sec 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 3 days 6 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 week 4 hours 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 week 1 day 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 week 3 days agoThe quintet, which last released music in 2012, transitioned from its...
The Rolling Stones: Not sucking at 50
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 1 week 5 days 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 2 weeks 2 hours 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 3 weeks 1 day 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...
Lineup announced for Electric Daisy Carnival
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 3 weeks 2 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 3 weeks 3 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...
