By Mike Sweeney
Even if you don’t know the name Chuck Jones, you’re probably still familiar with his work. Over the course of his distinguished 60-year career, he created over 300 animated films and helped bring to…
It’s official: come spring of 2012, Vegas will be Broadway-bound, and The Smith Center for the Performing Arts will make history as the city’s first state-of-the-art venue dedicated primarily to performance art. Subscriptions to the center’s first Broadway series, featuring…
by Chad Felix
Let’s be honest; we haven’t exactly been fair to the opera. The form, once a hugely popular and respected means of art and entertainment, has fallen out of favor in our time. The question is “why?” …
By Chad Felix
It’s a scenario not all that uncommon: someone, be it a local or a visitor, critic or a layman, denounces the cultural scene of this, our neon town. And sure, big name museums have never been…
By Chad Felix
In Las Vegas, good musical entertainment resonates far beyond the confines of the Strip and into our very own backyards. It’s advertised on modest flyers; it hides in warm, local dives; and it’s calling out to fellow…
By Chad Felix
In darkness, whether under the vast, starry blanket that is the night sky or in even stranger locales where light rarely wanders, we humans become a little less audacious and a little more helpless. The problem…
By Chad Felix
Ours is an art scene that has habitually taken a back seat to bigger, louder parties. First Friday and a re-vitalized downtown arts district notwithstanding, the Vegas art scene is one more often entirely overlooked than actively…
By Chad Felix
Tchaikovsky’s holiday season: visions of sugarplums and the mouse king; the waltzing of flowers and snowflakes; that magic castle and the iconic Nutcracker come to life. Despite a lukewarm reception at its 1892 debut in St. Petersburg,…
By Lisha Ross
We got slots that jingle, jangle, jingle, but we wouldn’t exactly call it music. And until the Las Vegas Philharmonic delighted audiences with their first virtuoso performance on Independence Day 1998, few musical institutions existed to transcend…
By Lisha Ross
The Gateway to the Cultural Corridor, as the somewhat seedy area behind Stratosphere is known, may seem an unlikely locale for a gallery, and yet there it is. The Gateway Gallery Public Arts Collection began five years…
By Aly Wagonseller
It’s been a tough year for state legislators trying to balance a budget fraught with revenue losses from a declining tax base. So tough that they considered closing down several state parks, including Spring Mountain Ranch, the…
By Lisha Ross
Life is culture. Living is learning. You can learn about it while surfing the History or Discovery channels. You can sift through various websites and take your best guess as to whether the information is accurate or…
A Cultural Hub in the Making
By Lisha Ross
In a city with a never-ending “out with the old” attitude, it’s invigorating to come across an antique like the historic Fifth Street School. Those of us who rarely venture downtown…
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