More CityLife Picks ↓
Picks: Leslie Jamison
CityLife Picks Comments Feb 13, 2013 3:06pm[LITERATURE] TUESDAY, FEB. 19Writer Leslie Jamison sounds like an advertisement for precocity: She published her first novel, The Gin Closet, at 26, and saw it praised as “beautifully written” by...
Picks: ‘New Again’
CityLife Picks Comments Feb 13, 2013 3:05pmThe shutdown of the Las Vegas Art Museum four years ago this month was a blow to the valley’s cultural life. Yes, it was a set of galleries attached to a library rather than a freestanding museum-...
Picks: ‘Romeo and Juliet’
CityLife Picks Comments Updated: Feb 06, 2013 4:17pm[STAGE] FRIDAY-SATURDAY, FEB. 8-9Romeo and Juliet should not be love’s models. Love made heroic Romeo underestimate Tybalt, and Juliet turns to drugs to solve her problems. But as long as you don’t...
Picks: Wole Soyinka
CityLife Picks Comments Feb 06, 2013 3:45pm[LITERATURE] TUESDAY, FEB. 12Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has stood up to tyranny (a former authoritarian government of Nigeria). He was sent to prison for it (nearly two years in the late 1960s),...
Picks: ‘Reverse Engineering and the Red Eagles’
CityLife Picks Comments Feb 06, 2013 3:42pm[LECTURE] SATURDAY, FEB. 9This Atomic Testing Museum lecture is a two-parter: T.D. Barnes, said to have worked at the secret base in a black-ops capacity, will talk about how and why “reverse...
Picks: The Who
CityLife Picks Comments Feb 06, 2013 3:34pm[MUSIC] FRIDAY, FEB. 8 and SUNDAY, FEB. 10Roger Daltrey’s bristling re-creation of rock opera Tommy only whet the appetite for The Who’s other famous concept album, 1973’s Quadrophenia. That two-disc...
Picks: Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert
CityLife Picks Comments Feb 06, 2013 3:29pmAnthony Bourdain is a bad-ass. The man is so fucking cool, it’s rumored that his name, loosely translated into any language, means “bad-ass.”The affectation is global: Kurds, Namibians, Swedes and...
Picks: USA Sevens Rugby
CityLife Picks Comments Jan 30, 2013 3:54pm[SPORTS] FEB. 7-10While most of you will still be suffering from Super Bowl fatigue, we’ll be preparing for the big rugby sevens (that’s seven people on a team, rather than 15) tournament. And...
Picks: Brody Stevens
CityLife Picks Comments Jan 30, 2013 3:48pm[COMEDY] Tuesday, Feb. 5A comedy show is descending on downtown. “Bill and Greg’s Excellent Comedy Adventure,” hosted by the United Movement Organized Kindness charity, kicks off its funny series...
Picks: ‘Are People of Color More Homophobic?’
CityLife Picks Comments Jan 30, 2013 3:44pm[LECTURE] TUESDAY, FEB. 5A timely discussion, since President Obama pointedly included LGBT equality in his inaugural address. Juan Battle, a professor of sociology at City University of New York,...
