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Neo-Romance
CityLife Picks Comments May 15, 2013 3:07pm[ART] ONGOINGAs terrific as her collages are, J.K. Russ goes them one better in this installation by adding video elements to still images of burlesque performers in downtown settings. The works are...
Review: Former Gov. Bob Miller waxes about being the ‘Son of a Gambling Man’
Books Comments May 15, 2013 3:07pmFORMER GOV. BOB MILLER was never shy about his father: Ross Miller Sr. was a mob-connected, rough bar owner and bookmaker in Chicago who came to Las Vegas to work in the then-new casino industry,...
Broadway Meets Hollywood
CityLife Picks Comments May 15, 2013 3:07pm[STAGE] FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MAY 17-18Even people who hate musicals make an exception for Super Summer Theatre, which allows for eating and boozing under the stars at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park....
CineList, 5.16.13
Film Comments May 15, 2013 3:07pmNEW RELEASESErased (R, 104 mins) An ex-CIA agent (Aaron Eckhart) and his daughter try and dodge their would-be assassins.PICK - The Iceman (R, 106 mins) See review, this issue.Kon-Tiki (PG-13, 119...
Las Vegas Paranormal Conference
CityLife Picks Comments May 15, 2013 3:07pm[CONFERENCE] SUNDAY-TUESDAY, MAY 19-21Explore the supernatural side of Las Vegas with ghost hunters Robert George Allen and Janice Oberding at the three-day Las Vegas Paranormal Conference at the...
Kendrick Lamar
CityLife Picks Comments May 15, 2013 3:07pm[MUSIC] Wednesday, May 22There are three dominant rapper archetypes in Los Angeles: The gangbanger (Dr. Dre), the indie kid (Tyler the Creator) and the thoughtful (or “conscious,” per common parlance...
Review: Namesake character of ‘Billy Elliot the Musical’ steals the show — and your heart
Stage Comments May 15, 2013 3:05pmThere are three things you’ll immediately notice in the beginning of Billy Elliot, the live musical version of the acclaimed 2000 movie now being staged at The Smith Center. One: The contrast between...
Review: H. Lee Barnes explores the post-traumatic life of an MGM Grand fire survivor in new novel
Books Comments May 08, 2013 6:54pmIt’s 1980, and Jude is a young blackjack dealer at the MGM Grand when a fire breaks out in the hotel. Unlike 85 others, he narrowly escapes the inferno, but emotionally he is deeply scarred by the...
UNLV’s BFA show finds young artists getting ready for what comes next
Art Comments May 08, 2013 6:49pmThe recent BFA artist talks at UNLV were filled with bits of sharp things, wounds, confessions, curiosities and dreams remembered, artistic concepts layered on top like a soothing balm. Deeps words...
Review: ‘Gatsby’ is a stylized, blingy good time
Film Comments Updated: May 10, 2013 10:50amHere’s what we don’t get in Baz Luhrmann’s seductive, blinged-out, 3-D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby: a real critique of Jazz Age excesses. Oh, sure, in a...
