Take an ordinary novel, add a dash of sex, an utterance of blasphemy, a spell of supernatural weirdness and a sprinkling of salty language and what do you get? A book that someone somewhere will argue shouldn’t be found anywhere near a library shelf.
When poet Juan Felipe Herrera was a boy, he learned to find beauty everywhere.
The Utah Shakespeare Festival’s fall season kicks off Thursday in Cedar City with the Bard’s early comedy “Two Gentlemen of Verona.”
The “Thomas & Friends” touring exhibit pulls into the Discovery Children’s Museum on Saturday for a 3½-month run, combining the fun of Thomas the Tank Engine with the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math curriculum known as STEM.
You can take Broadway in the Hood out of the ‘hood — which is exactly what happens this weekend as the theater troupe launches its 2015-16 season at The Smith Center with “Once on This Island.”
If “The Book of Mormon” rings your bell, a ticket lottery for the Tony-winning show’s Smith Center return should be music to your ears.
Casa de Shenandoah? More like Casa de Wow. And for anybody who’s driven past the gates of Wayne Newton’s estate near the corner of Sunset and Pecos roads and wondered what lay behind, finding out firsthand now is possible.
The Neon Museum, which turns 20 next year, has been around for longer than many of us have lived in Las Vegas.
Robyn Carr is a best-selling romance novelist, but don’t think of her books as romances. Think of them as stories about people who just happen to, after a few unexpected and often nasty twists and turns, live happily ever after. Mostly.
There are many ways to celebrate Roald Dahl Day. You can suck on an Everlasting Gobstopper. Walk across a carpet seething with snakes. Or you can simply read some Roald Dahl.
They seem mournful, like ships’ whistles sometimes can be, but it’s probably not fair to blame the whistles for that.
Saturday’s Las Vegas Philharmonic concert — the first in a season planned by music director Donato Cabrera — includes Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, featuring soloist Andrew Tyson.
Named for a huge totem set on fire on the festival’s last night, Burning Man participants dedicate their time to art and community. Check out the photo gallery of this year’s event.
The Las Vegas Harvest Festival Original Art & Craft Show brings artists and craftspeople from across the country, but many of the exhibitors are from right in the Las Vegas Valley’s backyard.
The Discovery Children’s Museum turns 25 on Wednesday — and launches a year-long celebration to commemorate its debut on Sept. 9, 1990.
