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Your arts + entertainment calendar for August

Jul 31, 2017

Consume your weight in culture!

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Age of heroes
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Your arts + entertainment calendar for July

Jul 01, 2017

Sun's out!  Fun's out!

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Phantom
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Your arts + entertainment calendar for June

Jun 01, 2017

Do it do it do it do it!

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Your arts + entertainment calendar for May

May 01, 2017

Do it do it do it do it!

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Kveck work
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Your arts + entertainment calendar for April

Apr 01, 2017

Some stuff you can do this month, whatevz.

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Writers Imagine Las Vegas
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Your arts + entertainment calendar for March

Feb 27, 2017

Beware the guides of March! Except this one.  You can trust this one.  Look, no knife!

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Bonnie Raitt
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Your Arts + Entertainment Calendar for February

Feb 01, 2017

February might be a short month, but there's no shortage of culture to show you!  Here are some highlights.

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Dam Short Film Festival
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Your Arts + Entertainment Calendar for January

Jan 01, 2017

Cuba is a hotter potato than normal right now, with the recent death of Fidel Castro and its uncertain status vis a vis the U.S. government.

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The Las Vegas Bowl
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Your arts + entertainment calendar for December

Nov 29, 2016

It’s not the most famous college-football bowl game, or the most respected, or the most lucrative — but it is the most local.

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Hiromi
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Your arts + entertainment calendar for November

Oct 26, 2016

Take our advice: YouTube some clips of dynamic jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara’s Trio Project.

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Jethro Tull
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Your arts + entertainment calendar for October

Sep 27, 2016

Oodles of culture!

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Branford Marsalis Quartet
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The guide: Even more culture for September

Aug 29, 2016

Your arts + entertainment calendar for September.

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Explosions in the Sky
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Hot August culture

Jul 25, 2016

Your arts + entertainment calendar for August

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Wayne Kodey Bypassed Byways Snow Cap
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Your arts +entertainment calendar for July

Jun 27, 2016

Get your kicks with photographer Wayne Kodey’s decades-in-the-making set of shots from Route 66.

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Martin Kreloff
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Your arts +entertainment calendar for June

May 24, 2016

You’ve seen them on social media, TV and worldwide media — and hopefully in person — those neon-colored rock stacks in the desert south of town. Seven Magic Mountains

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Rachel Stiff - Framing the West
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Cultural highlights this month

Apr 29, 2016

Opening reception for Framing the West, Stiff’s exhibit of paintings abstracted from landscape forms. Good buzz on this one. Through June 24. 5:30p, free, 702-455-7340

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Pete Simi
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Cultural highlights this month

Mar 24, 2016

Okay, the title is super-group cheese. But if you want a shredtacular, shredtastic shred-a-thon, complete with shredded shred, then this is your night.

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Dave Hickey
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Cultural highlights this month

Feb 25, 2016

Your arts + entertainment calendar for March

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Gamblers Apprentice
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Cultural highlights this month

Jan 25, 2016

H. Lee Barnes, author of the classic Vegas novel The Lucky, busts out of the valley with his new Texas-set novel The Gambler’s Apprentice. His prose? Spare, tight. His stories? Moving, human. His cred? Been in the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame since 2009. 7p, free, thewritersblock.org

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Burnham
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Cultural highlights this month

Dec 23, 2015

Whew. For a while, it didn’t seem as though 2015 would ever end. But now that it has, let’s get 2016 off to a better, funnier start, thanks to this comedian and slinger of comic songs. 8p, $49 and up, hardrockhotel.com

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Ali Nanda
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Cultural highlights this month

Oct 26, 2015

Your arts + entertainment calendar for November.

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Wendy Kveck, J.K. Russ and Erin Stellmon (who moved away so recently that her local cred remains intact)
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Cultural highlights this month

Sep 24, 2015

These players get around — musically speaking, that is, with a classical guitar repertoire whose influences stretch from Greece to Mexico.

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Aug 28, 2015

Your arts + entertainment calendar for august

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Logan book cover
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Cultural highlights this month

Jul 29, 2015

Boor’s great-grandfather, a third-term Nye County sheriff, was gunned down under mysterious circumstances in 1906. Her book, Logan, explores that incident, recreating his life, as well as the explosive trial that followed his killing.

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Dirty Dancing
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Cultural highlights this month

Jun 29, 2015

You arts and entertainment calendar for July.

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