Kristen Peterson

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Comic book has subject with a tragic side as well: Stories, graphics are all about getting drunk, including in Las Vegas; Monday, July 6, 2009; Bar stories are notoriously exaggerated, somewhat rambling and occasionally nonsensical. The best are amusing. The worst are depressing.
Revisiting the building blocks of their career: Thursday, July 2, 2009; It’s 100 degrees. Everyone is sweating.
If you failed driver’s ed, this salon may not be for you: Wednesday, July 1, 2009; Getting Las Vegas residents out of the strip-mall frame of mind is no easy task. Getting them downtown is even trickier. James Reza and Staci Linklater knew this when they opened Globe Salon in 2000.
People in the Arts: Shakeh Ghoukasian: A weekly snapshot of creative people living in the Las Vegas Valley; Tuesday, June 30, 2009; As a child, Ghoukasian was immersed in government-sponsored culture — ballet, opera, philharmonic. She attended music school until her family left Armenia in 1979 for Los Angeles.
Unabashedly inappropriate trio of artists reemerges: Monday, June 29, 2009; Ripper Jordan gave us Abe Lincoln muttering, “God, how I hate live theater,” riffs on the F-word, juggling Jesuses and cartoons of the well-known savior uttering colorful phrases about running the world.
A ‘camp’ for refugees of the recession: Organizer says free event will help people chart their own way to employment; Thursday, June 25, 2009; After seven years working as a multimedia designer for slot manufacturer IGT, Las Vegas resident Michael Baker left to start his own multimedia company. When the economy tanked, he needed to figure out a few things, so he headed to LaidOffCamp in Los Angeles.
Why not have a walkable arts cluster? We do, sort of: Downtown offers a lot, but people will still wonder, ‘What if ...’; Wednesday, June 24, 2009; Wouldn’t it be something if the city’s contemporary galleries, artist studios and boutique stores were clustered in one area? Add a coffee shop, a book store, maybe a restaurant and, wow, imagine the possibilities.
Going for 100: Conductor has no plans to retire at premature age of 88; Tuesday, June 23, 2009; A weekly snapshot of creative people living in the Las Vegas Valley.
At City Hall, artists from 50 states salute, or chide, their homes: Monday, June 22, 2009; Most Las Vegans have in common that they are from somewhere else — Texas, Florida, California, South Dakota, wherever.
Forget paint canvases, substitute skateboards: Friday, June 19, 2009; Don’t let the name fool you.