Local music: Who to look for in 2013
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 4 months 2 weeks agoIf 2012 left consumers of local music a little hungry, these upstart acts suggest a more fulfilling 2013. From electronic to hardcore, punk-pop to prog instrumental, hip-hop to jazz, the following...
Local art: Who to look for in 2013
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 4 months 2 weeks agoSo, what kind of art will we find in 2013? Looking at the tealeaves from 2012 offers up some direction on who to keep our eyes on this year.
Matthew Couper has been flirting with the Las...
NYE 2012: The Black Keys and Divine Fits at The Joint
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 4 months 2 weeks agoI think I let myself believe it would be the best show I’d see all year, this 2012-closing Black Keys show at The Joint. I let myself believe the crowd would be polite and easy-going and wearing a...
Play like you mean it: The Killers, Dec. 28, The Cosmopolitan
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 4 months 3 weeks agoThere were times during last night's Killers homecoming at The Cosmopolitan's Chelsea Ballroom where I felt physically uneasy, from the unnervingly flexible floor often pounced upon by 4,000 fans...
Body English reopens as alternative to EDM onslaught
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 4 months 3 weeks agoIt took years before the megaclubs embraced dance music as the primary programming format. But thanks to the hundreds of millions of dollars it has generated and the cultural "EDM" explosion that...
Cowtown Guitars to also get TV show?
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 5 months 2 days agoAnother Vegas institution may get its own TV show. Right after punk mainstay The Vermin announced an upcoming pilot for an undisclosed cable network, and our own dining writer Al Mancini revealed...
Smith Center nabs 'The Book of Mormon' for 2014
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 5 months 3 days agoIn a move we're sure will be widely appreciated by both musical fans and the valley's large Latter-Day Saints population, The Smith Center has nabbedThe Book of Mormon for its 2013-2014 Broadway...
Our food critic gets a TV show
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 5 months 1 week agoAl Mancini is more than just our longtime dining writer. He's also a freelance food journalist and the host of a video blogging (or vlogging, if you're gross) series on his website. He just...
Local theaters to broadcast 12-12-12 benefit concert live
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 5 months 1 week agoWe're over the 12-12-12 posts already. But there's one aspect of it we're morbidly curious about, and that involves the heavily rumored, not-denied teaming of Paul McCartney and at least one...
Imagine Dragons go platinum
Culture Alert Comments Permalink 5 months 1 week agoWe mean this as a compliment: We're no longer surprised when Imagine Dragons hits a crazy "you've made it now, son" landmark. This time, it's something they share with The Killers, Ne-Yo and Panic...
