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Changes in progressive leadership coming

41 min 31 sec ago

As the Nevada legislative session winds down, several of the key players from the progressive bench are bowing out of future policy fisticuffs. 
Scot Rutledge, executive director of the...

Tags: news
COURTESY: Nevada Department of Transportation

Morbid reminder: freeway signs tally roadway deaths

20 hours 27 min ago
Slow down, the signs will remind you. Don't drive drunk. People have died on these roads.
Starting tomorrow morning at 4 a.m., the Department of Transportation will roll out morbid reminders to...
Anthony Del Valle (COURTESY: CRAIG L. MORAN/REVIEW JOURNAL)

R.I.P. Anthony Del Valle, former CityLife stage critic

1 day 3 hours ago

You 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...

Tags: stage
"The Three Graces," by Robert Beckmann

Beckmann, Unger get intellectual about Las Vegas

5 days 1 hour ago

Last 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...

Tags: art

Review: J.J. Abrams goes Michael Bay in new 'Star Trek' flick

6 days 1 hour ago

The 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...

Tags: film

Governing the city is fine and all, but let's eat

6 days 20 hours ago
The Las Vegas City Council is starving.Although there are certainly nearby culinary destinations, council members saluted plans to put a restaurant right across from the new City Hall, on the ground...
Tags: Civics
OK, so maybe this isn't the BEST argument for public art ...

Public art 1, Bob Beers 0

6 days 23 hours ago
Las Vegas will continue to fund local arts projects with a regular, 1-percent set-aside from the city’s annual capital-improvements budget.The City Council voted 6-1 to reject Councilman Bob Beers’...
Tags: art

Ten (more or less) random sentences from Oscar Goodman's new book

1 week 4 hours ago

Absolutely 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-...

Tags: Politics
Singer Benwood of Slow to Surface (FILE PHOTO: BILL HUGHES)

Veteran local band Slow to Surface calls it a day

1 week 22 hours ago
We had Slow to Surface pegged to survive the apocalypse. Sadly, the local rock warhorse ended its 13-year run today. 
The quintet, which last released music in 2012, transitioned from its...
Tags: music

The Rolling Stones: Not sucking at 50

1 week 3 days ago

The 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...

Tags: Live Music
Bacon-wrapped dates from Firefly Tapas Kitchen & Bar

Firefly Paradise to reopen in new location by month's end

1 week 4 days ago

According 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,...

Tags: dining
Firefly's bacon-wrapped dates (FILE PHOTO: TODD LUSSIER)

Someone's already suing Firefly for getting sick

2 weeks 6 days ago

Here’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...

Tags: dining
Marching along Las Vegas Boulevard

On the scene at the immigration rally

2 weeks 6 days ago
Flush from his victory on gun control, Harry Reid rallied a crowd of thousands for immigration reform during a rally in downtown Las Vegas Wednesday. He was joined by the Democratic congressional...
Tags: Immigration
EDC 2013 poster

Lineup announced for Electric Daisy Carnival

2 weeks 6 days ago

Last 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...

Tags: nightlife
Firefly owner John Simmons (FILE PHOTO: BILL HUGHES)

Firefly diners sickened by salmonella

3 weeks 23 hours ago

At 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...

Tags: dining

City council subcommittee votes 2-1 to preserve arts fund

3 weeks 23 hours ago
The Brit-pop '70s band 10CC used to sing “Art for art’s sake, money for God’s sake.” The Las Vegas City Council, or at least its recommending subcommittee, might have hummed the song Tuesday as it...
Prince at The Joint (COURTESY: KEVIN MAZUR)

Prince, downsized: April 26, The Joint

3 weeks 3 days 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...

Tags: Live Music
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What is Nevada's Big Give?

3 weeks 5 days ago

Nevada'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...