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Britney Offers a Piece of Piece of Me
Britney Spears’ two-year residency Britney: Piece of Me won’t open until December 27, but she had her grand arrival at Planet Hollywood on Tuesday. Read More
Park It At Sunset Park’d
Foodies and fun-lovers, mark your calendars! The first-ever Sunset Park’d Food Truck and Music Festival passes through this Saturday, November 16. The Clark County Department of Parks and Recreation has put together the daylong, all-ages event in celebration of Sunset Park’s recently completed renovations, and they’ve gone all-out with a tasty line-up of treats and tunes. Read More
Life Is Beautiful Live Blog Recap
Relive the action at the Downtown mega-festival with updates from Vegas Seven staff and the social mediaverse. Read More
Britney Spears Reveals Details of Planet Hollywood Residency
After months of foreplay, Britney Spears made it official today, announcing on Good Morning America that she will commence a two-year residency at Planet Hollywood as of New Year’s weekend. Read More
CD Reviews: Beats Antique, William Close and Hunters
This is what I imagine Burning Man to sound like. Granted I’ve never made the pilgrimage, but in my mind, Beats Antique would play constantly. Read More
Diesel Power
From the dusty annals of a science-fiction franchise belonging to another age, that of Pitch Black (2000) and The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) and several video-game variations, here’s a modestly scaled summer picture continuing the legend that time and many moviegoers forgot. And it’s fun! Read More
Raising Brows
Last November at Mandalay Bay Events Center, Lila Downs dominated the Latin Grammys’ stage with her earth-trembling vocals among a throng of colorfully adorned Mexican folk dancers, not to mention her winning Best Folk Album for 2011’s Pecados y Milagros (Sins and Miracles). Read More
You Make It, You Break It
If you build it … it will crumble. And if you come—just to see that concept rendered artistically and interactively—see David Sanchez Burr. Read More
Night of the Living Dead Audience
Do this long enough and you forget. This night was a forget-me-not. Inside the Plaza’s nondescript, curtained-off Bonkerz comedy club, this critic is reminded of how hard it is to do what this column critiques. Read More
Another Hit?
Alcoholics and addicts have plenty of options for cultural entertainment. People in recovery? Not so much. The distinction—between alcoholics/addicts and people in recovery, as well as their respective social lives—was the reason for Las Vegas’ inaugural REEL Recovery Film Festival, which saw its Las Vegas debut September 7-8 at UNLV’s Philip J. Cohen Theatre. Read More