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Sept 2011

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One 2 Watch: The Mad Caps

Sep 01, 2011

Blues, rockabilly, sweat, sex, violence and camp — from two skinny twentysomethings

Robots are taking over our airwaves. Every other song you hear nowadays is shot through with Auto-Tune, synthesizer or the womp womp womp of chordless bass — and it represents the push toward a genre that promises the reversal of everything the musical classics spent years to build — all on instruments that need a three-prong outlet to function.

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One 2 Watch: Ruth Pe Palileo

Sep 01, 2011

She writes and directs edgy, off-the-wall plays — staged on a coupon-clipping budget When a specialist in the plays of Samuel Beckett with a Ph.D.

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One 2 Watch: C.J. Patton

Sep 01, 2011

Her breezy, confident style hides a secret: This young violinist plays until it hurts

C.J.

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One 2 Watch: Luis Varela-Rico

Sep 01, 2011

He’s making beauty take flight in the streets — with or without permission

A man in gray-rimmed glasses with long dark hair curling out from underneath a ball cap scans the intersection, the cameras.

“Always a little nervous,” he explains.

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The 2011 Fall Culture Guide

Sep 01, 2011

Clear your calendar for the next few months. You’re going to be busy.

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All things to all people

Profile: Kim Bavington

Sep 01, 2011

“You just let them go at it.”

It’s not a sentiment normally associated with construction paper and crayons: “I think kids need to think progressively, they are our future … they must be able to think creatively and see how thinking creatively changes the world.

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Theater: Singing with a net

Sep 01, 2011

“We do our best to keep it fun,” says RagTag Entertainment Artistic Director Andrew Wright. Since bursting onto the Vegas scene a year ago, RagTag has been a beehive of activity, test-driving theatrical works in progress.

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Business: Diversity and change

Sep 01, 2011

Sammy Davis Jr. once joked, “I’m colored, Jewish, and Puerto Rican.

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Music: Radio Reverb

Sep 01, 2011

The old-school model of college radio has been on hiatus in Las Vegas since 1998, when UNLV station KUNV made the switch to a primarily jazz-based format, ditching programming such as the legendary “Rock Avenue” alternative rock show. Luckily, Donald Hickey, a former Rock Avenue DJ and fixture in the Vegas music scene, aims to fix this.

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Sonnet boom

Sep 01, 2011

Erica Anzalone’s gutsy verse embraces — and explodes — formalism

Few bards these days can rock a red dress and cowboy boots and still be taken seriously by their professors and academic peers. But Las Vegas poet Erica Anzalone makes it look easy as she steps up to the microphone in the Contemporary Arts Center on this March afternoon.

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Business

The art of commerce

Sep 01, 2011

For artists who don’t know a capital gain from a canvas stretcher, there’s Financial Groove

When sidewalk performers start shaking it in Lady Liberty costumes to remind you it’s tax season, artists might be thinking something different, like: Can they claim that costume as a business expense? For those who make their living in the performing arts, whether to write off their outfits is just one item on a list of unusual financial concerns.

Jessica Scheitler is the owner and operator of Financial Groove, an accounting and bookkeeping firm that exists to bridge the gap between the Internal Revenue Service and the world of artists.

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Community

Into the light

Sep 01, 2011

As Pride celebrates its 28th year, pioneering gay community activists remember the struggles -- and the triumphs

Nowadays, it's pretty easy to be a gay activist in Las Vegas. It's no longer risky to be out of the closet in most quarters - even at Nellis Air Force Base - thanks to laws that protect workers and customers from discrimination based on sexual orientation.

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Dining

Eat this now: Pecan pie and Paneer shaslik

Sep 01, 2011

Pecan pie at Delmonico’s Pastry Chef Stephanie Nikolic tells us the origins of Delmonico’s recipe for this Southern dessert staple are unknown, but it’s so popular, “it comes with the restaurant and no one would dream of taking it off the menu.” One bite past the crackling crust, bursting with pecan, butter, egg and sugar goodness and you will taste why.

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The Dish: Pizza

Sep 01, 2011

The first rule of slice club Some of the best pizza in town is tricky to find — but worth the search Pizza is the most subjective foodstuff of all. You love it.

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Museum of the possible

Sep 01, 2011

The Nevada Museum of Art Las Vegas stands in sharp contrast to the Smith Center for the Performing Arts. Whereas the Smith Center is dignified (or one might say even triumphantly staid) in its grand architectural gesture to the Hoover Dam, the Southern Nevada Museum of Art is quietly daring.

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Talk hard die free

Sep 01, 2011

If cell phones are outlawed in cars, only outlaws will play Angry Birds while merging in the Spaghetti Bowl

News item: On Oct. 1, a new state law goes into effect that bans talking on a cell phone or texting while driving.

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Letters

We would have saved the rooster

Sep 01, 2011

We would have saved the rooster

Editor’s note: The Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals would not have euthanized a rooster given to the organization. This fact was incorrect in an article (“Gives you wings,” August 2011).

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When the sun goes down

Sep 01, 2011

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