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From Grace to Goss
Nevada Ballet Theatre celebrates 40 years by christening its new Smith Center home with an array of special guests
May 3rd, 2012
Dance, perchance? Absolutely—and historically, too, as Nevada Ballet Theatre pirouettes into its first performance May 5 at its permanent new home, in Reynolds Hall at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts. Read more »
Showstopper
Open letter to Mitt: Embrace Donny & Marie
May 3rd, 2012
Acting as your (apolitical) adviser, may I suggest a campaign stop? Our bastion of fulsome wholesomeness: Flamingo’s Donny & Marie show. Why: The M Word. Read more »
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Skate Mates
Victor and Jenny Arata defy danger and gravity to amaze audiences
April 26th, 2012
Psychological snapshot: They’re young, friendly, attractive, intelligent and, by the standards of the gravity-obeying world, candidates for psychiatric counseling. Try their gig and see if a family member doesn’t sign commitment papers. Read more »
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Wired for Weirdness
Pop parody icon Weird Al Yankovic never tires of satire
April 26th, 2012
Weird Al” Yankovic has grown to become history’s biggest comedy recording artist with three Grammy Awards, four gold records and six that have gone platinum. His newest album, Alpocalypse, which includes parodies of Lady Gaga, the White Stripes, Katy Perry and several originals, was nominated for the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. Read more »
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Write-Face!
Las Vegas playwrights are on the march to add new voices to local theater
April 19th, 2012
New words to say, new characters to interpret them, new ideas to challenge us. No Felix and Oscar, no Willy and Biff, no Romeo, oh Romeo. Can you handle that, theatergoers? Read more »
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Gone Country
Grace Potter savors short, intense affair with the cowboy crowd
April 19th, 2012
Despite her Vermont origins, Grace Potter has the talking voice of a California-bred Playboy surf bunny—husky, ditzy blondish, laced with innuendo. Her singing voice is just as sexy, but it’s also a powerful, wild instrument, Janis Joplin-like in the way it stirs a range of emotions. Read more »
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From ‘Jersey’ to Tribeca
Local actor and his Migraine are film-festival bound
April 19th, 2012
When Joe Barbara’s short film Migraine makes its world premiere this month at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, he hopes he’ll be in the audience. Read more »
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Mrs. T
Overcoming her own adversity, Kiki Tyson shows steely determination in bolstering the life and post-ring career of Iron Mike
April 12th, 2012
Fate will not be denied, not matter what logic suggests. Once you toss a wedding ring out of a window, logic dictates you’ve likely tossed the marriage as well. You, however, are not either of the Tysons. Read more »
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Newly Minted Clint
Holmes stakes his claim as The Smith Center’s local star
April 12th, 2012
Las Vegas, we have liftoff. The Cabaret Jazz room has obtained orbit. The Branford Marsalis Quartet fired the jets to launch the “jazz” side of the club (after tepid opener SFJAZZ Collective). Now the room’s monthly fixture, Vegas’ own Clint Holmes, has done likewise for the “cabaret” portion. Read more »
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Advantages of a Holly-jolly Vegas
April 5th, 2012
Give the showgirl her shout-out. Look around: Holly Madison appears to be everywhere every hour of the day and night, seeming to singlehandedly carry Vegas goodwill on her surgically inflated, Lloyd’s-of-London-insured D cups. (We’ll skip jokes about her being the Breast of Las Vegas. … Oops.) Read more »
