“We’ve built a world-class, state-of-the-art museum that will rival any children’s museum or science museum in the country. But we have to make this a bigger part of the fabric of the community,” says Tifferney White, president and chief executive officer of Discovery Children’s Museum.
James Robinson produces everything from crime drama to iconic heroes’ adventures in his Huntridge neighborhood home.
World-famous prima ballerina Cynthia Gregory has found a place in Las Vegas, working with dancers in the Nevada Ballet Theatre as well as pursuing her own drawing and painting interests.
“I would just say that when people come to Las Vegas, the word on the street is, you have to come by the Conservatory to the Bellagio, and we live up to that standard every day,” says Jerry Bowlen, executive director of horticulture for MGM Resorts.
In a retail landscape littered with the never-to-be reanimated corpses of comic shops that have come and gone, Alternate Reality Comics has become a rare commercial survivor and Ralph Mathieu the unofficial godfather of Southern Nevada’s comic book universe.
“I marvel at how jazz musicians create jazz melodies. … It’s an American art form — it’s vibrant and it’s always changing. Some people say it’s a dead art form — no, it’s not,” according to Dave Loeb, director of jazz studies at UNLV.
Southern Nevadans can examine Tim Bavington’s technique in “Pipe Dream,” his outdoor sculpture at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts that is an interpretation of “Fanfare for the Common Man” by Aaron Copland.
“I don’t gamble and I’m not a huge drinker, but I love to be surrounded by ‘sin’ — put me in a smoky bar full of drinkers, gamblers, mobsters, entertainers and I feel like I’m in a movie,” he says.
Steve Huntsman, director of Super Summer Theatre’s “Beauty and the Beast,” talks theater, family and Vegas life in this week’s Vegas Voices Q&A.
Vegas Voices is a weekly question-and-answer series featuring notable Las Vegans. Keith Thompson wouldn’t dream of quitting his “day” job: music director for “Jersey Boys” at Paris Las Vegas.
