Even in these days of high-tech literature delivery systems, there’s nothing like enjoying a book — or a book-related item ortwo — around the holidays. Here are some gifts that the book lover in your life will appreciate.
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As one of the city’s cultural ambassadors, Joshua Wolf Shenk knows exactly what he’s up against when trying to shape the public perception of Las Vegas into that of a bustling arts hub.
Sure, it’s about books. Lots and lots of books. But the Las Vegas Book Festival could just as well be named the Las Vegas Ideas Festival.
Sure, they’re lanterns rising into the nighttime sky. But for RiSE Festival participants, each lantern is a blank canvas that carries into the heavens messages, in the form of drawings or words, that express joy, pain, regret, gratitude, sorrow, hopeor any other emotion they need to feel, and share, in that moment.
It’s been nearly 14 years since Vicky Brosius participated in her first Harvest Festival with her husband Ron. She remembers long hours of prepping, her anxiousness before the doors opened and the bustling crowd that poured into Cashman Center when the festival began.
The messages — plaintive, defiant, encouraging, empathetic — appear on a poster sent to Southern Nevadans by, the poster says, “the Pulse family and all of Orlando” during the weeks following the Oct. 1 Route 91 Harvest festival shooting.
Hedgehogs and geckos and snakes, oh my!
It’s easy to take museums for granted. Or, worse, to think of them just as warehouses for stuff from the past.
A different kind of special effects are planned for a show running at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday.
Dan Reynolds spent two years in Nebraska on his Mormon mission. Thus, as a teenager, he promoted the very church positions he opposes in his documentary, “Believer.”