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Review: Namesake character of ‘Billy Elliot the Musical’ steals the show — and your heart
Stage Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 3:12pmThere 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...
Calendar, 5.9.13
Film Comments May 08, 2013 6:32pmCONCERTSThursday5.9Beam Music Center @ UNLVWoodwind Trio (5:30p, free)Beauty BarR.A.W. aka 6 Blocc, Imposter, Zaiaku, others (10p, no cover)Boulder Dam Brewing CompanyBen Lunn (8p, free)Boulevard...
Free Will Astrology, May 9
Free Will Astrology Comments Updated: May 08, 2013 6:29pmARIES (March 21-April 19)The Tarahumara Indians of northwestern Mexico are renowned for their ability to run long distances. The best runners can cover 200 miles in two days. The paths they travel...
‘What’s truest to me’: An interview with author H. Lee Barnes
Books Comments Updated: May 15, 2013 1:35pmI KNOW HIM AS LEE, or Barnes, and we’ve been friends since we met at a joint reading in a Las Vegas Book Festival a decade ago. I’d been so stunned by the power of his writing that I used part of my...
Crazy good: “Cuckoo’s Nest” is right at home in 2013
Stage Comments Updated: May 15, 2013 1:36pmRagTag Entertainment’s production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest electrified its sold-out opening night audience at the Onyx Theatre last weekend. Dale Wasserman’s adaptation of Ken Kesey’s 1962...
CineList, 5.9.13
Film Comments May 08, 2013 5:51pmNEW RELEASESThe Great Gatsby (PG-13, 143 mins) See review.Peeples (PG-13, 95 mins) The Peeples family have the ultimate say concerning their daughter’s marriage.NOW PLAYING42 (PG-13, 128 mins) Jackie...
Robert Beckmann takes us through his painting ‘The Three Graces’
Art Comments May 08, 2013 5:30pm“’The Three Graces’ acknowledges the vast and amazing forces of change happening in our valley. Seemingly overnight, hotels disappear, others are built, others, ‘underwater,’ await deconstruction....
