The last time View checked in with the rock band Joei & The Fulcos, they’d returned to Summerlin after performing in the Zhangjiajie International Country Music Festival in China. Now, they’ve come off a 16-performance schedule in Europe, and Joei, 17, has been tapped to be in the independent film “Heidi” in a supporting role.
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A bit of history and plenty of music can make for a full calendar if you’re scouting out things to do this weekend. If that’s not what you want, hit a Hawaiian festival or crack a book for summer reading.
Johnny Mathis gave up a shot at the Olympics to make his first recording. Almost 60 years later, he’s still singing — and returns to Las Vegas to make his Smith Center debut.
The second annual Children’s Art Festival is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 31 at Centennial Hills Park, 7101 N. Buffalo Drive.
The Window, a multipurpose space with an artist-in-residence program, opened May 12 in the northwest corner space of The Ogden, 150 Las Vegas Blvd. North.
Find fun things to do in your neighborhood including a visit to the new “The Magic School Bus Kicks Up A Storm” exhibit at the Discovery Children’s Museum.
Brandon Burk directs Oscar Wilde’s comedy of manners “The Importance of Being Earnest” for Off-Strip Productions at the Onyx Theatre with as light a touch as the delicate crustless cucumber sandwiches that Algernon Moncrieff scarfs down while awaiting his guests in the opening scene. Burk skips the hoary Masterpiece Theatre treatment of this classic and instead surprises his audience with a play with moral irreverence as surprising and funny to today’s audience as it must have been when first performed in London.
Singer Jane Monheit, who’s becoming a regular at The Smith Center’s intimate Cabaret Jazz, returns this weekend for an exploration of the “Great American Songbook,” with pianist Michael Kanan as her “telepathic” partner in song.
That peerless wit, Oscar Wilde, described his play “The Importance of Being Earnest” as “a trivial comedy for serious people.” And that’s just one of this weekend’s offerings.
British artist Glyn Macey was scheduled to visit the Strip’s iconic “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign Friday, but he moved up the painting session to Thursday afternoon.