In a room tucked high above the basketball courts at the Lied Memorial Boys & Girls Club, about a dozen students gather for an hour every week to master the arts — not athletics — and play with bows — not balls — as Tianna Harjo introduces them to the violin.
For the past 20-plus years, local high school students eager to follow that star have had exactly one place to go: the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts. This school year, however, the options have expanded.
Over the past several weeks, Michael Green, an associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has added another entry to his usual roster of entertainment-related activities: politics-watching.
