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Ones to Watch

Aug 01, 2022

These fresh faces in the arts scene are shaking things up in film, music, theater, and more

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2022 Fall Culture Guide

Aug 01, 2022

Clear your calendar app for these concerts, dance performances, literary events, musicals, plays, and more!

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The City Observed
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A Strip cultural legacy

Jan 25, 2021

Strip titan Sheldon Adelson deserves credit for expanding our vision of what Strip entertainment could be

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Friday Photo Challenge: Bringing the Outside In

Apr 24, 2020

Missing the outside world? This week, we staged our homes to recreate our favorite things to do

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See/Hear/Do
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Distance Learning (and Laughter and Music)

Apr 06, 2020

Culture and entertainment aren’t dead — they’re just safely six feet away. Here’s your stay-home list from our experts!

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Conversations to Keep You Company

Mar 30, 2020

Need some company while staying home? Here are some excellent podcasts for all tastes

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Friday Photos: Cloudy Skies, Hidden Paths, Sagging Signs

Mar 27, 2020

Solitude, urban scrawls, and wry commentary in the new reality

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Bulletin Board
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Coffee With the Freaks: Remembering Lenadams Dorris

Mar 09, 2020

Much of today's art scene sprung from the café culture Lenadams Dorris helped create

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Cowboy Poetry Gathering
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Verse from the New West

Mar 01, 2020

A stalwart Nevada tradition, the Cowboy Poetry Gathering isn’t just a festival – it’s a chronicle of a changing sense of rural identity.

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Verses from a Changing Frontier

Feb 10, 2020

Reflections on the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko

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Friday Photo: Chilling Geese, Basketball Blurs, and Sunny Reflections

Jan 31, 2020

More slices of life in the Las Vegas Valley from our shutterbugging staff

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photo by Josh Bell
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We’re all geeks now

Jun 18, 2019

A dispatch from two formerly fringe fan conventions reveals that "geek" culture has come a long way

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Book Binders
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The Binds that Tie

Dec 27, 2018

Bound by a mutual love of old books, bookbinders Pat McCarty and Leo Behnke pursue their timeless craft in a digital era.

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My Weekend Was Better Than Yours
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My Weekend Was Better Than Yours: October 20-21

Oct 24, 2018

Two days of books, authors, theater — and the perfect amount of rain

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Getting Medieval
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Getting Medieval

Oct 01, 2018

How I became a Vegas Golden Knights fan, one ecstatic tribal cheer at a time.

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Swan Lake
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One ballerina to another

Feb 01, 2017

Fifty years after Cynthia Gregory’s first performance of Swan Lake in San Francisco, she coaches Nevada Ballet Theatre’s Alissa Dale in the role.

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On their podcast, Latinos Who Lunch, Justin Favela and Emmanuel Ortega mix food, pop culture and identity politics into a defiantly brown voice for the Trump era
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Making their voices heard

Jan 01, 2017

On their podcast, Latinos Who Lunch, Justin Favela and Emmanuel Ortega mix food, pop culture and identity politics into a defiantly brown voice for the Trump era.

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What's up with the sky
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The art of the state

Aug 25, 2016

A sweeping new exhibit showcases the diversity, surprising similarities and sheer abundance of art being made across Nevada 

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We Will Review Anything
Photo courtesy of The Venetian and The Palazzo Las Vegas
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Baz – for the glitterati, not the literati

Jul 15, 2016

The singing soars and dancing dazzles. The sets and special effects amaze. Baz – Star Crossed Love is a gorgeous, voluptuous production. It’s also shallow, confusing and emotionally manipulative. 

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Okay, I dug Idaho!

Jul 11, 2016

At first blush, you might not have the faintest inkling that Idaho!

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DC Road Trip 2016
Father Anton Sommer, by Christopher Smith
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‘Recycled priest’ finds love of history in new parish

Mar 31, 2016

Stopping in at "the No. 1 attraction in Virginia City — St. Mary's in the Mountains Catholic Church

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DC Road Trip 2016
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'Either you hated him, or you loved him'

Mar 29, 2016

Everywhere you look, a sculpture protrudes from a surface, an oddity is embedded in a wall, a clay face looks back at you. It would take years of study to see every item that Van Zant incorporated into his monument. 

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Basque in tradition: Winnemucca's Martin restaurant

Mar 29, 2016

The secret to The Martin's famous Basque cuisine? Keep it simple, make it hearty -- and add lots of garlic.

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Encore: Jenna McClintock, left, and Marta Becket
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Dancer in the sands

Feb 23, 2016

At the Amargosa Opera House, a new talent carries on the tradition begun decades ago by visionary ballerina Marta Becket 

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Ocean Drive
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Vegas goes dark

Aug 27, 2015

Film noir set in Sin City explores the shadows beyond the neon — and offers a historic glimpse into a long-lost Vegas.

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