That was quick. Elizabeth Herridge, the former managing director for the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, was appointed June 11 as interim executive director for the Las Vegas Philharmonic. This week she was clearing out her office. No word yet on the reason for her departure, but the Philharmonic had anticipated Herridge’s employment to last ...
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Blues fans headed to Boulder Station tonight — or any Thursday for the next several months — need to reset their GPS for Green Valley Ranch. In case you missed my blog last week, here’s the story: Boulder Station is turning the Railhead into a buffet — temporarily. While the Railhead is ...
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Vegas isn’t really the cultural wasteland some folks think it is. And it isn’t strictly for adults, contrary to popular belief. It has its share of family activities that can expose the kiddies to something a little more esoteric than the backsides of scantily clad women on the rear of taxi cabs. The ...
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Only in Vegas would a popular music venue be turned into a buffet, even temporarily. But check out the Railhead at Boulder Station, which has featured everyone from bluesmen Ronnie Brooks, Roy Rogers, Coco Montoya and Tommy Castro to jazz band Hiroshima and country legend Merle Haggard. Now, you get fish and ...
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Comedian Rocky Laporte sounds like a street-smart trucker from Brooklyn. His monologue is sprinkled liberally with “dis” and “dat” “does” and “yooze” and wry observations accentuated by an occasional dirty word. In fact the Brooklyn native was driving a truck in Chicago 20 years ago when he found delivering jokes was ...
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You may want to sit down for this one: NBC’s “Today,” that white-bread, middle-of-the-road morning television show for stay-at-home moms is sending viewers to the Double Down Saloon. Yes, move over misfits, hipsters, punk rockers, tough guys, Bettie Page look-a-likes and lowbrow arty types. There might be some new faces at ...
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There isn’t a lot of favorable infrastructure defining our scrappy Arts District — trees, benches, clean walkways and street signs. But ask area business owners and they’ll swoon over Mayor Oscar Goodman’s support of the district and of the arts. Some have even campaigned for him because of his support ...
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One of the more fascinating books on contemporary Las Vegas (as seen through urban studies and architecture) is about to be released by Berlin publishing house, Jovis. “Urbanizing the Mojave Desert: Las Vegas,” (192 pages) details rapid urbanization of the Valley as studied and photographed by Ralph Stern, associate professor ...
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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts will be leaving its corporate office near the airport and move into new downtown digs. “It’s the right thing to do,” says Myron Martin, president of the Performing Arts Center Foundation. “We need to be downtown. We need to be near the site.” Martin says ...
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Before creating elaborate sculptures of Ten-in-One sideshow stars, Holley Bakich did her homework. This wasn’t just some kitschy project she was taking on for the novelty. Bakich studied their lives, their spouses and children, their fame, their misfortune, their beauty and camaraderie and created three-dimensional portraits of the “human oddities” ...
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