Two more months cooped up?
Be a good boy and you can
run around the yard.
Moksha's Angela Kerfoot, invoking wood nymphs against the naysayers
This spring’s Neon Reverb Musical Festival brings nearly 100 bands — one-tenth of a kiloband — to multiple dowtown venues, and it all started last night. With [...]
In space, no one can hear you scream, ''You wanna slow down a little, asshole?!"
So, even a month after February’s much-reported communications satellite collision, some of us in the office [...]
In space, no one can hear you scream, ''You wanna slow down a little, asshole?!"
So, even a month after February’s much-reported communications satellite collision, some of us in the office (me) are still fretting over all this man-made space debris strewn throughout Earth’s orbit like swamp gnats around the noggin" [...]
Art, you’re much loved here
Which is why this is so hard:
Gotta let you go.
A Clark County official urged lawmakers to raise the fees for filing court documents to help pay for nine new district judgeships in Clark County. Jeff Wells, assistant Clark County manager, told the Assembly Judiciary Committee that adding nine judges would cost $28 million and the county would need the [...]
A scene from Cirque's upcoming production, ''Blàm''
One more Cirque-related blog post, then we’ll calm down…
Today, the Cirque du Soleil Cultural Action Department (cool!) announces its 5th annual “Collective” art exhibition, set to open this First Friday, Feb. 6 [...]
A scene from Cirque's upcoming production, ''Blàm''
One more Cirque-related blog post, then we’ll calm down…
Today, the Cirque du Soleil Cultural Action Department (cool!) announces its 5th annual “Collective” art exhibition, set to open this First Friday, Feb. 6 from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. at the Arts Factory’s Rever Gallery.
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And I'm still catching stacks of quarters off my elbow.
When I first saw Cirque du Soleil’s Mystère five years ago, my expectations were calculatedly low. Never having seen a Cirque production or even a Strip production, I [...]
The merest breath across these can send them hurtling through space and time.
I’ve been seeing these long, skinny table shuffleboard installations standing unused in Vegas bars for the entire [...]
Hand over your cash, or the life-sustaining elixir gets it...
CineVegas Film Festival, the valley’s annual bringer of much new, worthwhile, independent (and not) cinema just got a little cooler. The Green Film Series [...]
Yes, a plane crashed into the Hudson River and no one died, and we humans are all very happy about this. The birds, though — the vertebrate class that caused this near-tragedy — they’ve got to be upset. And not just over the grisly death-by-turbine-blade [...]
(L to R: Barker, AM) "Dodged a bullet" just doesn't cut it.
It’s not often you see Clubland infused with much sentimentality, but something dear happened at Luxor’s LAX nightclub this week. On Wednesday, LAX co-owner DJ AM showed up to man the decks along with ex-Blink 182 [...]
2009 has already brought its first music venue casualty. The cozy, high-potential Ice House Lounge shut its doors abruptly on Jan. 2, mere days after a sales closure for the property unexpectedly fell through. Former manager Mark Hornsby tells CityBlog the unnamed buyer had promised to [...]
San Francisco-based electronica event promoter Spundae returned to Vegas Jan. 1 and it worked out well. The 15-DJ party, “Day One: A Family Affair,” happened at Rio’s Voodoo Lounge, where the newly remodeled interior (dungeon-like cracked wall design, primitive art-covered ceiling low enough to reach up and touch if you’re [...]
Victor Drai, spacemaker extraordinaire
So, Encore’s mother of all megaclubs XS had its pyrotechnic launch on New Year’s Eve, and the place blew up as expected. CityBlog was there by 9 p.m., just ahead of a dressed, chomping-to-get-in horde for the history books, all abuzz in a [...]
There IS some precedent for this kind of thing.
It’s been a few days since Christmas, but that’s OK, because this tale is timeless.
I’ve seen a lot of holiday DJ performances in Vegas and elsewhere, but never a December [...]
Tonight, Dec. 22, 8 p.m. marks the official unveiling of Encore, but we among the press did get to visit the high-end resort earlier than the general public — by nine hours. Mega-developer Steve Wynn’s love for big surprises at his new properties meant all media outlets were kept in [...]
Easier to navigate than an aisle full of people, because you can climb over toys without getting punched or infected
The local nightlife industry’s collective heart grew three sizes [...]
When Tshidi Manye sings Elton John's ''Circle of Life'' like this, your inner child will beat down your outer adult.
CityBlog recently attended a very-much-in-advance press event for [...]
Moving is hell.
John Beane, artistic director of Insurgo Theatre Movement and the cutting-edgiest drama hound in town, announced recently that he’ll be soon leaving his post as director of Onyx Theatre, the sweet little 100-seat auditorium inside the [...]
With the official grand opening of Steve Wynn’s hyper-opulent Encore Las Vegas coming up in mid-January, there’s a separate sub-bass-and-strobes buzz in the air about XS, the aptly named ultra-super-mega club that’ll grace that property to the tune of 40,000 square feet (including the pool) and more [...]
Kids in the Hall's Bruce McCullough as "Gavin"
The fourth annual Las Vegas Comedy Festival happened last weekend, and did pretty much what it was supposed to do: generate laughs and cash with a 20-plus comedian docket including big names [...]
Love newspaper comics? Hate them? Did you love them at first, but then got older and bemused at an industry fueled by soulless, long-tenured strips so incredibly out-of-touch and weakly conceived as to preclude any possibility of eliciting laughter, other than the nervous titters we always [...]
The other girl next door
Comic Jill-of-all-trades Ellen DeGeneres is bringing her brand-new “Even Bigger Really Big Show” to next week’s Las Vegas Comedy Festival, scheduled for Thu., Nov. 20, 7 p.m. at Caesars Colosseum. Two days ago, she treated a handful of us [...]
''Makes bread better than grandma's and I WILL LIVE FOREVER!''
In the public mind, since their invention, late-night cable infomercials have passed through all the overlapping stages of bewildering, insulting, laughable, compelling, numbing and passé. What’s next for a TV advertainment [...]
Now that my old home of Nawth Cackalacky is done counting and Obama’s ended up with a crushing 364 electoral votes, I can’t help but wonder: Have we just witnessed a reverse Obama effect?
While we’ve been hand-wringing all this time over visions of latently racist white voters chickening in the [...]
''I can escape anything ... besides this bottomless pit of pathological narcissism.''
Looking for some quality, decompressive post-election entertainment? Pick something other than Cirque du Soleil’s new Criss Angel: Believe show, now showing at Luxor.
Last Thursday’s media [...]
Vote for Change
I swear this is true.
I had a dream last night where I found myself watching late-night TV (did Neanderthals dream of staring at cave paintings?) and the scene was of a gay man telling a nondescript male friend how hard it still sometimes [...]
"It's Chupacabra that will swing this election, Scully, whether you believe it or not."
For the next week, no temptation Sin City can wave before me will match the online tragedy of poll addiction: the compulsive checking and re-checking of [...]
''Hmm...write plays or shoot a bunch of people?''
Believe it or not, Vegas has a Samuel Beckett Festival. Not only that, but the one going on right now is the 6th annual Samuel Beckett Festival. It’s actually [...]
"Dude! Me, like ... melt!"
“Audience interactive” stage show Point Break Live has arrived at Planet Hollywood’s V Theater, and it’s not good. I had the misfortune (albeit the enlightening kind) of attending opening night last week, and the live action anyone-can-be-Keanu Reeves send-up [...]
There's Hope in that thar box, Pandora...
Looks like Pandora.com, the elegantly innovative, free music-streaming project written about on CityBlog here and later here, just may survive after all.
Last August, it [...]
''AARRRRGGHH!!!''
So yeah, Donny and Marie have been in town since Sept. 9, hitting the Flamingo Showroom stage five nights a week (two shows on Saturday) with contract-stipulated verve and rictus jaws like those you’ll find in 18th century medical journal illustrations of tetanus patients:
Night No. 2 of the first ever Neon Reverb Downtown Music Festival (of which CityLife is a sponsor) is now a jangly, electro-acoustic memory, collectively imprinted on show-goers by nine bands at three venues. One was the [...]
Just got emailed this videotaped guerrilla-style comedy assault from ex-Second City Las Vegas actor Michael Lehrer.
It seems he’s recently skipped town in the wake of improv-based SCLV’s August disbanding. (Even when you’re a veteran troupe known for its rigorous training tradition and star-studded list [...]
Solid one-man performances are few and far between in Vegas, so here’s an early heads-up for you community theater devotees with a special appreciation for the solo show (all 15 of you).
Saturday, Sept. 6, long-time local actor Taylor Haynes performs playwright Ross Howard’s [...]
From the ashes of our poor, cooked Vegoose, a cool new 3-day festival with a name just as bad. This weekend, my posse and I hit San Francisco’s foggy, lusher-than-life Golden Gate Park for the [...]
Perhaps this location could provide the space you need?
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All that, and the forehead of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
