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- Poet laureate headlines Vegas Valley Book Festival
- Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
- You might say she is America’s next top poet. Kay Ryan, the United States poet laureate, will make her first appearance in Nevada on Thursday night, when she reads from her work at the Fifth Street School to open the annual Vegas Valley Book Festival.
- Wayne Newton: The story, but not the sound
- The only thing fans will enjoy about this show is the memories it evokes
- Monday, Nov. 2, 2009
- I had been warned that Wayne Newton can’t sing anymore. Apparently it’s been common knowledge for years that his voice is shot.
- Unashamedly, comedian Kathy Griffin seeks spotlight, lets it fly
- Friday, Oct. 30, 2009
- Kathy Griffin has nabbed two Emmy Awards for her hit reality show — and she won’t let anyone forget it. She carries the trophies along with her to TV talk show interviews and has done everything short of legally changing her name to “Emmy award-winning comedian Kathy Griffin.” Griffin then set her sights on a Grammy nomination, naming her CD “For Your Consideration” — and got one last year. And now she’s aiming for the Nobel Prize in Literature — or at least a few minutes on Oprah’s couch. The comedian’s autobiography — cheekily titled “Official Book Club Selection” (see item 2) — went right to No. 1 on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list last month. Griffin performs back-to-back stand-up shows at Mandalay Bay tonight.
- 'The Shawl': Smart and spooky
- Mamet play about a psychic, a client and a mysterious third delivers
- Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009
- “The Shawl,” a seldom-performed three-hander by David Mamet, culminates in a seance.
- Two groups, many voices, spellbinding results
- Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009
- Maybe it’s a stretch to call it “Glee” for grown-ups.
- A year in, Criss Angel’s ‘Believe’ hasn’t changed much for the better
- Monday, Oct. 26, 2009
- It’s time for your annual checkup, Criss Angel.
- AARP’s full slate gives reason to embrace your age
- Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009
- This is a particularly good week to be over 50 in Las Vegas: AARP, the world’s largest member organization for people 50 and up, is taking over the town starting today, with a celebrity-salted three-day national-attention-getting event called “Vegas@50+.”
- Nevada Ballet Theatre dazzles by degrees
- New artistic director Canfield heats program to a thrilling techno-music boil
- Monday, Oct. 19, 2009
- For his first program as new artistic director of Nevada Ballet Theatre, James Canfield used the frog-in-a-pot-of-water strategy. The curtain opened on Saturday night with a comforting and familiar, business-as-usual, lukewarm performance of George Balanchine’s “Rubies.”
- Compelling ‘Bronx Tale’ is refreshingly good theater
- Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009
- I wondered why Chazz Palminteri’s “A Bronx Tale” was suddenly booked into the Venetian Showroom for a limited run this month.
- Fright Dome: Circus Circus fear factory teems with terrific human horrors
- Monday, Oct. 12, 2009
- If your friends and colleagues show up strangely and suddenly hoarse or voiceless one morning, it’s a good bet that they visited Fright Dome the night before.
Or that they are moonlighting there.
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Recent Blog Entries (view all entries)
- "Madness" ends too soon in Las Vegas
- Tuesday, July 14, 2009
- Kathy Griffin carted off Las Vegas stage
- Friday, July 3, 2009
- Michael Jackson: 'The Greatest Show on Earth'
- Thursday, June 25, 2009
- "Badly behaved audiences, performers, critics..."
- Wednesday, June 24, 2009
- Patti LuPone swipes at Kardashian, Hilton, Electra
- Wednesday, June 24, 2009
- Where Americans want to live: Las Vegas makes the Top 20
- Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009
- Rudner extends Harrah's run until the end of time
- Friday, Jan. 16, 2009
- The loneliest booth at the CES expo
- Friday, Jan. 9, 2009
- Surrounded on all sides by blinking, bleeping objects in matte metallic finishes, the homey, homely wooden media storage units look like the chunky, low-slung, couch-sized stereo "console" your parents bought for the rumpus room in the early '60s.
- Schwinn peddles 'eBike hybrid'
- Friday, Jan. 9, 2009
- What could be less high-tech than the humble bicycle? Especially a Schwinn bike?
- 'Girls Gone Wild' crew competes with electronics for attention
- Friday, Jan. 9, 2009
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