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.
Hundreds of Elvis Presley artifacts, including his high school yearbooks and first gold album, are at the center of a legal dispute that erupted after Westgate Las Vegas Resort closed the legendary rock star’s exhibit late last month.
