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.
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Exhibit to debut next year will also include working distillery
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.
The city of Las Vegas unveiled the First Street Art Trail Nov. 6 with four, of what officials hope to become many more, art projects.
Move over, studded bracelets and chandelier earrings. Right now, it’s all about nails. Rhinestones, 3-D designs, textured topcoats and new offerings from fashion royalty have upped the ante on fingertips, said Kahlana Barfield, beauty director for InStyle magazine.
“How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” the 1961 hit musical comedy by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows, offers a parallax view of the business world that continually causes us to shift our viewpoint between modern and postmodern perspectives.
Arts-smart and status for gratis. Becoming the first and gaining the second is the apparent windfall for Las Vegas, with local schoolchildren reaping the riches. That’s the goal, at least, of a new project involving the Clark County School District, the Smith Center for the Performing Arts and what is widely considered America’s cultural headquarters, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in an essentially cost-free collaboration.