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Sunny Sinclair Perks Up Entertaining 'Pin Up'
April 9th, 2013
Start here: Claire Sinclair is a tasty, made-for-Vegas combo—a dish of rich cheesecake served with a slice of apple-pie exuberance. Read more »
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Follow the Bouncing 'Raack' to its New Home at The D
April 2nd, 2013
Wow, get a load of that Raack! C’mon—producers Angela and Matt Stabile must’ve wanted someone to write that so they could blurb it on a Raack N Roll poster. Happy to oblige, kids. Read more »
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Las Vegas Academy of the Arts Celebrates 20 Years
March 27th, 2013
The Las Vegas Academy of the Arts has been honored with 10 Grammys—a first for any school in the country. One of the institution’s guitar ensembles performed at the National Guitar Association, and jazz studies students have won the Reno Jazz Festival and performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival. The school has an award-winning Mariachi ensemble, and has been invited to perform at the Thespian International Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska. LVA student artwork hangs at the educational wing at the Congressional Building in Washington, D.C. Add a Distinguished Magnet School of America nod and a five-star rating in the district, and it’s fair to say, 20 years after the school was founded, that the LVA experiment has worked. Read more »
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Sky Falls as Jersey Marks a Milestone
Say goodbye to one. Say thanks for staying to the other.
March 26th, 2013
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Cirque du Soleil Gears Up for a One-Off Extravaganza
The performance benefits Guy Laliberté's water access foundation One Drop
March 19th, 2013
When Guy Laliberté puts on charity benefits, he doesn’t go small. Witness the million-dollar buy-in Big One for One Drop event he hosted at last year’s World Series of Poker that sent $111,111 to his One Drop Foundation. Now there’s going to be a one-night-only Cirque du Soleil performance for Laliberté’s water-access charity, One Night for One Drop on March 22. And doctor, it’s going to raise some serious dough, with tickets starting at $1,500 and going up to $250,000 for certain limited VIP packages. Read more »
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The Rocket of 'Ages'
A day with Mark Shunock, the actor who launches the laughs as the nutty narrator of the Venetian’s rock-out musical
March 19th, 2013
Scampering down the onstage staircase onto the funk-a-licious set of the Venetian’s Rock of Ages, “Lonny”—our narrator and guide through this self-mocking musical awash in ’80s hair-band kitsch—introduces himself and the show’s cast of kooks. Read more »
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Revamped Show Proves That Loving Motown is Just ‘Human Nature’
March 12th, 2013
Every town–at least in these United States–is Motown. Resist those grooves, beats and moves and you might get your citizenship revoked. Can’t get off to “Get Ready”? Bolshevik. Read more »
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David McKee Trades His Theater Column for a Shot on the Stage
March 12th, 2013
Last summer, David McKee, a prominent Las Vegas theater critic, abandoned the column he’d penned for three years. He bowed out and, literally, entered stage right as spying busybody Polonius in Hamlet at Onyx Theatre. Read more »
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The Jets & the Sharks & Me
As musical comes to The Smith Center, our arts critic recalls its impact and the life lesson it taught
February 19th, 2013
