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Picks: KODO
CityLife Picks Comments Jan 30, 2013 3:42pm[MUSIC] FRIDAY, FEB. 1Crash course in what you’ll see at a Japanese taiko drumming performance: An ensemble of percussionists playing drums that range in size from bedside table to studio apartment,...
Picks: ‘Gruesome Playground Injuries’ and ‘Night of the Living Dead’
CityLife Picks Comments Jan 30, 2013 3:40pm[STAGE] February 2-17We get the feeling local venues are interpreting the upcoming Valentine-y season the same way The Simpsons often did, going the gory route (Itchy and Scratchy, “I Love Lisa”) in...
Picks: ‘A Clockwork Orange’
CityLife Picks Comments Updated: Jan 24, 2013 3:01pm[STAGE] Jan. 25-Feb. 10Anthony Burgess claimed his controversial 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange was “misunderstood,” especially after Stanley Kubrick famously brought it to the big screen in 1971 (and...
Picks: UNLV vs. UNR
CityLife Picks Comments Updated: Jan 24, 2013 3:01pm[SPORTS] TUESDAY, JAN. 29So it turns out there’s another university in this state. It’s in a town called “Reno,” which is an ancient aboriginal name meaning “pimple on Vegas’ ass.” True story! Or, if...
Picks: Ray Kurzweil
CityLife Picks Comments Updated: Jan 24, 2013 3:01pm[LECTURE] Sunday, Jan. 27Big thinker Ray Kurzweil’s talk is called “How to Create a Mind” — a name that’s scoffable until we consider his inventions, all firsts in their fields. Kurzweil dreamt up...
Picks: SquidHat Anniversary Weekend
CityLife Picks Comments Updated: Jan 24, 2013 3:01pm[MUSIC] Friday-Saturday, Jan. 25-26To celebrate its first birthday, SquidHat Records is throwing a two-day showcase. But instead of just being a place to show off its year-one signees — The Dirty...
Picks: Ben Folds Five
CityLife Picks Comments Updated: Jan 24, 2013 3:45pm[MUSIC] Friday, Jan. 25Just when the grunge onslaught threatened to turn our weary eardrums into Tarantinian geysers of blood, the piano-led Ben Folds Five came along, offering subversive reprieve (“...
Picks-Joffrey Ballet
CityLife Picks Comments Jan 16, 2013 3:55pm[DANCE] Tuesday-Wednesday, Jan. 22-23A Jane Austen-inspired ballet. It really doesn’t get more romantic that that. “America’s company of firsts” will perform a different repertoire each night of...
Picks-Uberschall and Terry Bozzio
CityLife Picks Comments Jan 16, 2013 3:49pm[MUSIC] Sunday, Jan. 20Terry Bozzio used to drum for Frank Zappa and Missing Persons. He’s notorious for going way, way over the top with his drum set. Like, if viking longboats used as many drums on...
Picks-Carol Queen’s ‘Peep Show’
CityLife Picks Comments Jan 16, 2013 3:45pm[SEX TALK] Friday, Jan. 18Carol Queen’s “Peep Show” at the Erotic Heritage Museum is nothing like the one that makes you see CoCo’s bionic mammaries. No, this peep show is more of a spoken word event...
