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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.