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April 24, 2024

Music

  • Foo Fighters perform at Park MGM Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021.
    Foo Fighters rock on long into the night at 'the house of Gaga'
    The Foo Fighters — the band that Dave Grohl formed more than a quarter century ago — were at the Dolby Live Theater at Park MGM for the first of two shows this weekend. And if the Foo Fighters hold to form, tonight's show will be every bit as long, every bit as loud and every bit as entertaining as Thursday's concert.
  • People demonstrate Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington. Inside the court Wednesday, justices heard arguments in a case from Mississippi, where a 2018 law would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, well before viability.
    Abortion rights advocates, at local panel discussion, state their belief: ‘Roe is dead’
    Local organizers with Planned Parenthood and Make It Work — a nonprofit that organizes women of color around economic issues — along with pro-choice attorneys and an abortion patient spoke Wednesday to about two dozen people about Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case heard earlier Wednesday at the Supreme Court.
  • Carrie Underwood made her Las Vegas debut with the premiere of REFLECTION: The Las Vegas Residency at Resorts World Las Vegas Wed. Dec. 1, 2021.  (Courtesy of Resorts World/Ralph Larmann)
    On opening night of Carrie Underwood’s residency, a spectacle for the eyes and ears
    The 90-minute show featured Carrie Underwood’s seven-person band, a cast of dancers, a host of aerialists and acrobats, dazzling stage sets and, of course, the headliner.
  • A exterior view of Allegiant Stadium Thursday, April 29, 2021.
    ACM Awards show moving to Allegiant Stadium
    The Academy of Country Music awards show is getting a NFL-sized upgrade next year as it moves to a new home at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on March 7. The ACM and ...
  • From left, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger perform during the Rolling Stones' "No Filter" tour stop at Allegiant Stadium, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021.
    Rolling Stones’ ‘No Filter’ stop brings kinetic energy to Vegas
    This wasn’t your father’s Rolling Stones concert Saturday at Allegiant Stadium. Heck, it wasn’t your father’s father’s Rolling Stones concert. But it was pretty close.
  • Old Dominion gets up close and personal in Chelsea shows
    Old Dominion gets up close and personal in Chelsea shows
    Old Dominion rolled into Las Vegas for a couple of concerts over the weekend, rolled out no doubt leaving fans impressed not only with their hits but with the band members’ knack for writing No. 1 songs for other artists. The contemporary country music band played shows Friday and Saturday nights to full houses at The Chelsea …
  • Lady Gaga performs during her 'JAZZ & PIANO' residency at Park Theater at Park MGM on January 20, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
    Glitz, glamour and Gaga: ‘Jazz & Piano’ provides quintessential Vegas show experience
    For more than two hours Thursday, Gaga — backed by a full orchestra and the Brian Newman Quintet — entertained with standards from the Great American Songbook, including numbers from Cole Porter, Nat King Cole, Bart Howard and Frank Loesser. Gaga also delivered stripped-down versions of four of her own hits — “Is anyone here a fan of my old records?” she asked shyly — including “Born This Way” and “ Poker Face.”
  • Michael Bublé performs at T-Mobile Arena Saturday, March 28, 2019.
    All joking aside, Michael Bublé and his orchestra present an entertaining evening
    Backed by a 34-member big band orchestra, Bublé delivered what the audience came to see. Especially moving was his Nat King Cole-like rendition of Jeri Southern’s 1952 hit, “When I Fall in Love,” “Forever Now,” inspired by …
  • Keith Urban performs during his "Keith Urban Live - Las Vegas" show at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. (Courtesy of Caesars Palace/Andy Snyder)
    In resumption of residency at Caesars, Keith Urban lets his guitar speak the loudest
    From crisp riffs to full-blown guitar solos, Urban’s mastery of the instrument was on display Friday throughout the hour and 40 minutes he was onstage, especially on his renditions of “God Whispered Your Name” from his latest studio album, “The Speed of Now, Part I,” “Take Me Home,” his hit with Pink, and his Grammy-winning “…
  • Brent Kutzle, left, and Ryan Tedder of One Republic perform in 2015 in Las Vegas. The band returned this past weekend for a pair of shows at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood.
    One Republic and its frontman spin entertaining tales at Planet Hollywood shows
    The storytelling wasn’t solely in song this past weekend when One Republic performed a pair of concerts at Planet Hollywood’s Zappos Theater. The group’s frontman, Ryan Tedder, kept audiences …
  • Usher performs Friday, July 16, 2021, at the grand opening of “Usher: The Las Vegas Residency” at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
    Usher sings, dances and romances to an adoring Colosseum audience
    An anxious and lively crowd stood on its collective feet from the moment Usher entered the theater from the Colosseum’s lobby, drawing loud cheers as he walked down an aisle on the orchestra level to the stage — appropriately enough to his tune “My Way” — until he took his final bow. …
  • AJ McLean, from left, Kevin Richardson, Brian Littrell, Nick Carter, and Howie Dorough of The Backstreet Boys appear at the 61st annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 2019.
    Backstreet Boys back in Las Vegas for a Christmas residency
    Everybody, Backstreet's back — in Vegas. The pioneering boy band is returning to the Las Vegas Strip with “A Very Backstreet Christmas Party,” a series of 12 holiday shows at the Planet Hollywood resort this ...
  • College of Southern Nevada's Mariachi Plata vocalists Precious Carrasco and Yasmine Duenes pose for a portrait, Friday Dec. 18, 2020.
    Southern Nevada mariachi students shine on national stage
    The best of the brightest young mariachis in the United States come from the College of Southern Nevada.
  • An exterior view of the Majestic Repertory Theatre, 1217 S. Main St., Sunday May 7, 2017.
    Las Vegas performing art venues eagerly await aid from stimulus bill
    Help appears to be on the way as Congress included $15 billion for small art and entertainment venues as part of a $900 billion coronavirus relief package.
  • British rock and blues guitarist Peter Green, a founding member of Fleetwood Mac, appears backstage Saturday, April 7, 2001, before performing with his own band, Peter Green's Splinter Group, at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, in New York. Lawyers representing the family of Peter Green, say in a statement Saturday July 25, 2020, that he has died, Green was 73.
    Fleetwood Mac blues guitarist Peter Green dies at 73
    B.B. King once said Peter Green had "the sweetest tone I ever heard. He was the only one who gave me the cold sweats."
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