- A heart kick-started by rock
- Band hound channels lifetime passion for her local music magazine
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By Joe Brown
- In Las Vegas, you can declare yourself to be whatever you want to be, and the town will give you a chance to live up to it. Meet Sally Steele, a classic example of Vegas self-reinvention, who has proclaimed herself “the publishing queen of rock ’n’ roll.”
- Take Five: 'American Idols Live'
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By Joe Brown
· Wednesday, July 2, 2008
- Start painting your homemade “I heart David” signs, Las Vegas. This year’s herd of freshly manufactured pop stars is on the move and headed our way.
- Latin band Indigo sizzles Summerlin Saturday nights
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By Jerry Fink
· Wednesday, July 2, 2008
- Add vibrant Indigo to the brilliant pinks and oranges of the Mexican restaurant Agave. That’s one recipe to put color into beige-centric Summerlin.
- Luaus amid the towers
- For 17 years, the Imperial Palace has hosted Polynesian feasts around its rooftop swimming pool
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By Jerry Fink
· Tuesday, July 1, 2008
- For a couple of hours about 500 people escape reality and forget they are sitting poolside at long banquet tables on the roof at the Imperial Palace, surrounded by hotel towers.
- LOOKING IN ON: ENTERTAINMENT Late comedian’s friends collect money for trees to honor his memory
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By Jerry Fink
· Monday, June 30, 2008
- Comedian Bernie Allen left behind a host of friends who are now raising money to plant a living memorial to the man who made Frank Sinatra laugh.
- Embracing commercialism
- Donovan not ashamed that it’s one way he’s bringing his music to new generation
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By Joe Brown
· Monday, June 30, 2008
- When you get a moment with a real rock legend, you want to connect.
- TAKE FIVE: CLINT BLACK
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By Jerry Fink
· Friday, June 27, 2008
- Fans won’t ever confuse country singer/songwriter Clint Black with country singer/comedian Rodney Carrington, but Black might be edging onto Carrington’s side of the stage.
- No-strings stardom
- Henderson woman prepares to air her inner rock star at musical mime competition
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By Joe Brown
· Friday, June 27, 2008
- She who is about to rock, we salute her.
- Q+A: Steve Katz 35 years of blood, sweat and tears lead back to Vegas
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· Thursday, June 26, 2008
- The underground press panned Blood, Sweat & Tears for performing at Caesars Palace in 1973, accusing the group of selling out.
- This ‘Room’ should have a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign
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By Joe Brown
· Thursday, June 26, 2008
- Harrah’s headliner Rita Rudner and her husband, Martin Bergman, have written a play. And it’s having its world premiere at the nonprofessional Las Vegas Little Theatre. A wisp of a sitcom, “Room 776” is not nearly ready for prime time. Or Sunday matinees.
- TAKE FIVE: COOL ART TO BEAT THE HEAT Art can be a great excuse to party
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By Kristen Peterson
· Thursday, June 26, 2008
- Nothing going on in Vegas, right? Wrong. Here you go: Two nights of gallery openings and neighborhood art parties, interactive performance art by Wendy Kveck, and an introduction to contemporary art collecting and collectors at the Las Vegas Art Museum.
- Name that musical
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By Joe Brown
· Wednesday, June 25, 2008
- Inspired by Lord Lloyd Webber’s wistful wishes, the staff of the Sun came up with dozens of suggestions for Vegas-based musicals.
- How do you stage Vegas?
- Songwriter is confident he’s got the topic that will make a hit musical: Poker
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By Joe Brown
· Wednesday, June 25, 2008
- Las Vegas has never really had a show to call its own. Tim Molyneux thinks he’s got it. It’s called “All In: The Poker Musical,” and he’s previewing it in a cast staging at the Rio during the World Series of Poker.
- GEORGE CARLIN: 1937-2008 Misfits’ icon cracked wise
- Comedian abandoned nice-guy-in-tie shtick early on — in Las Vegas, no less — and wrung laughs with brilliant, irreverent social essays
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By Jerry Fink
· Tuesday, June 24, 2008
- I recall seeing George Carlin for the first time in the early ’60s on “The Tonight Show” when he was still wearing suits with pegged pants and narrow lapels and thin ties and trying to be a stand-up comedian who told jokes in the vein of Jonathan Winters that made everyone laugh.
- Is Pahrump pop king’s refuge?
- After The Wall Street Journal reports that Michael Jackson is there, rumors are flying and the local populace is, for the most part ... laughing
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By Brendan Buhler
· Monday, June 23, 2008
- Is Michael Jackson in Pahrump? Has it, at long last, come to this? Has the Howard Hughes of Pop moved to the great weird magnet in the desert? Who knows? Officially, no one. So we went to Pahrump to look for ourselves.
