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Picks: Muse
CityLife Picks Comments Mar 13, 2013 4:17pm[MUSIC] Sunday, March 17Since its 2003 breakout, Muse has grown more and more prog-rock — more classical flourishes, more doomsaying, more general ostentatiousness. This should normally discourage...
Picks: ‘The Elixir of Love’
CityLife Picks Comments Mar 13, 2013 4:13pm[OPERA] Saturday-Sunday, March 16-17Here’s the Cliffs Notes version of this opera: Poor guy loves rich girl; rich girl won’t give him a second look. A sergeant shows up and tries to swoop on rich...
Picks: Michael Bolden fundraiser at Origin India
CityLife Picks Comments Mar 13, 2013 4:10pm[GOOD CAUSE] FRIDAY, MARCH 15Michael Boldon was the Desert Cab driver killed during the recent shootout and explosion on the Strip — an innocent victim of random fate. “Our hearts go out to the...
Lose + Find
CityLife Picks Comments Mar 06, 2013 4:50pm[ART] OngoingFour-eyed cats. People aging from rust, mold or moss. These are the unmistakable hallmarks of Casey Weldon’s whimsical, unsettling vision, where a devious, freighted ambiguity lurks....
Die Die Die
CityLife Picks Comments Mar 06, 2013 4:47pm[MUSIC] Sunday, March 10This New Zealand-to-SXSW noise punk trio takes its cues from more American hardcore punk, especially from the Steve Albini-fronted Big Black (Albini even recorded the band’s...
Next to Normal
CityLife Picks Comments Mar 06, 2013 4:43pm[STAGE] March 8-23Three Tony awards distinguish this emotional 2008 rock musical, which follows the struggles and heartbreaks of a suburban family with a mentally ill mother. Normal brushes upon...
Vegas Streats 2nd Anniversary and Restaurant Week
CityLife Picks Comments Mar 06, 2013 4:40pmIF THERE’S A COMMON thread linking the second anniversary of downtown’s Vegas Streats festival and charity-based Restaurant Week, it’s accessibility.Vegas Streats, the second-Saturday cultural confab...
Picks: Sex For Sale
CityLife Picks Comments Feb 27, 2013 5:10pm[LECTURE] THURSDAY, MARCH 7Calm down — it’s a lecture. About prostitution, a subject Nevada knows a little something about, from legal brothels to streetwalkers to high-dollar escorts. There are...
Picks: Sapient
CityLife Picks Comments Feb 27, 2013 5:08pm[MUSIC] TUESDAY, MARCH 5Portland rapper Sapient is another example of indie rap finally adding Las Vegas to its tour routes. More a streetwise storyteller than a hired gun of the generic rap gestapo...
Picks: The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass
CityLife Picks Comments Feb 27, 2013 5:05pm[MUSIC] SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 2-3Wait, mass? Isn’t that the thing we resisted so ardently when we were kids? Who goes to that anymore? Well, we might go to a thing called A Bluegrass Mass. The 50-...
