Steve Bornfeld
Associate Editor
Contact: 868-4578 • Email
One of the state’s preeminent entertainment writers, Bornfeld joins Vegas Seven as our newest associate editor. A fan of the word “peripatetic,” he has worked for 30 years as a features editor, writer and columnist at newspapers and magazines from New York to Las Vegas. Stops included Hearst Newspapers, Gannett News Service, the New York Post and both the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Las Vegas Sun. Honored by the Nevada Press Association, Best of the West and the Society for Features Journalism, he has extensively covered the arts, including the development of The Smith Center for the Performing Arts. A Bronx boy at heart, his only complaint about Las Vegas is that he can’t take the subway to work.
Recent Articles
Retitled '80s Show' Improves but Should Adjust Mockery Quotient
May 21st, 2013
Hand me my dictionary … Let’s see … “Determined.” Adjective. See “Sirc Michaels.”
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The Silenced Stage
Anthony Del Valle was the dean of Las Vegas theater criticism—and the best friend local theater had
May 21st, 2013
Anthony Del Valle was the dean of Las Vegas theater criticism—and the best friend local theater had
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A Son’s Success, a Dad’s Pride at 'Legends in Concert'
May 15th, 2013
Dawdling at the Flamingo Showroom … ten minutes till curtain-up on the 30th anniversary performance of Legends in Concert … fiddling with my phone … minding my own beeswax. … “Can I tell you an interesting story, sir?”
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Art
How to Celebrate ‘Celebrating Life!’
May 15th, 2013
Time again to honor Las Vegas’ creative seniors as the annual Celebrating Life! exhibit returns to the Charleston Heights Arts Center, featuring the work of Las Vegas’ 50-and-older visual artists.
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New Sin City Gallery Exhibit is Strong and Sexy
Artist JK Russ’ video celebrates female empowerment
May 15th, 2013
“There are lots of amazing women here doing amazing things and they don’t get held back as much as in other places,” says JK Russ, a contributor to Sin City Gallery’s current Behind Closed Doors exhibit. “That’s why women have a domination in my work. It’s my acknowledgment and appreciation of what I see women doing here in Las Vegas.”
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The End of 'Vegas'
May 15th, 2013
Vegas has crapped out. Based on a fictionalized version of the career of former Clark County Sheriff Ralph Lamb (portrayed by Dennis Quaid), the 1960s-set drama has been canceled by CBS after one season.
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He was homeless for a while and famous for a moment. Then San Francisco contortionist/dancer Alonzo Jones arrived in Vegas to make the Strip his ‘Turf.'
May 14th, 2013
Somewhere, a chiropractor hopes to hit the patient jackpot.
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'Centerfolds of Magic' Features Tricks and Topless Treats
May 8th, 2013
Whoa—are they oh-soooo-sensuously prestidigitating? In public? Performing explicit acts of legerdemain on one another in front of us?
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Remembering Kenny Kerr, Trailblazing Female Impersonator
April 29th, 2013
The way Kenny Kerr was—especially when he was Barbra Streisand—was emblematic of the campy-but-entertaining heart of Las Vegas. Our town’s father of female impersonators, Kerr died Sunday at age 60, leaving a legacy as the man who permanently planted the flag for that art form in this city.
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'Priscilla' Will Bring a Different Gay Vibe to the Strip
April 24th, 2013
Consider that the de facto moniker of the Venetian. Once home to the mondo-melodrama of Phantom—The Las Vegas Spectacular, it will soon house twin camp-fests when Rock of Ages is joined by Priscilla Queen of the Desert—The Musical, which will sashay into the property for an 11-week run beginning June 18.
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