Zak Starkey’s three-person band is called Sshh, pronounced “shush,” named for Starkey’s girlfriend vocalist Sshh Liguz.
Arts & Culture
The Killers and Imagine Dragons would be apt bands to rock the Manchester benefit show organized by Ariana Grande, but neither band can make it.
Mike Tyson met Muhammad Ali when Tyson was admitted to a detention center. The young Tyson was impressed by Ali’s fame before he was enamored of boxing.
Il Divo will perform at Venetian Theater, where the Sands once stood and where the Rat Pack once held court, and their banter and stage performance will hearken to those days.
Mike Tyson was a hit with “Undisputed Truth” at Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club at MGM Grand. His second round performance follows the release of his new book, “Iron Ambition.”
The Empty Booth was unoccupied for Steve Martin, but it was unoccupied nearly every other night in the mid-to-late 1970s by Riviera owner Meshulam Riklis.
Tropicana Theater has been dark since “Band of Magicians” hauled out in November, but “Masters of Illusions” and an ice show are set to move in.
She helped to start the Reno Arts Commission, which soon after founded the month-long, citywide arts festival now known as Artown. She was also instrumental in creating the McKinley Arts and Culture Center.
With voting ending in just days, First Friday elects “Suffrage” as the theme for the downtown arts district’s November event, which runs from 5 to 11 p.m.
A naked woman dancing in the vicinity of the Las Vegas Strip? If you think you’ve been there and seen that, think again.
This month, the footprint of First Friday’s closed-street portion will shift as only areas north of Charleston Boulevard will be closed to traffic.
Many tourists think of Las Vegas as the home of glitz and glamour, not homemade arts and crafts. For at least one weekend each year, denim, handcrafted items and music played on the banjo and washboard return to the Cashman Center, 850 Las Vegas Blvd. North.
First Friday Las Vegas LLC, the organization that puts together the monthly First Friday arts festival, is taking a month off in July, but that doesn’t mean the artists and galleries will.
First Friday organizers invite Las Vegas filmmakers to participate in a First Friday film competition. Cinematographers can submit a three-to-five minute film with the theme “Secrets of First Friday,” all shot during the March festival.