The first day of the annual Life Is Beautiful Festival kicked off Friday, as crowds of people began to arrive in downtown Las Vegas, but not everyone was feeling festive. Some business owners say the festival hurts profits.
Arts & Culture
At $285, the Life is Beautiful 3-day pass isn’t cheap. But scattered around the festival grounds are a number of goodies — even food — you can get for free.
The festival gates will open for the first time at 2 p.m. Friday for 2016’s Life Is Beautiful.
On the streets — and on the walls. That’s the focus for Life is Beautiful’s ever-expansive, and expanding, art program, which continues throughout the downtown festival Friday through Sunday.
Our arts picks this week include the Ethiopian group Fendika performing at the Winchester Cultural Center.
You don’t have to be German American to come to Jazz Night Tuesdays at the German-American Social Club of Nevada, 1110 E. Lake Mead Blvd., but it does raise the price of admission from the $2 members pay to a whopping $7, which really isn’t much for three hours of jazz by seasoned performers.
Subtitled “From Degas to Picasso,” the show — organized in partnership with Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts — spotlights 47 paintings, photographs and prints that explore growing urbanization in 19th- and 20th-century Europe and the U.S.
Most people imagine the life of a stand-up comic as a long series of anonymous hotel rooms and performing endless one-night gigs in dingy clubs with brick walls. Vinnie Favorito has been performing almost exclusively in Las Vegas since 2003. “It’s awesome,” Favorito said. “I have a great family and a great support system. Now I have a new family, (Red Mercury Entertainment). I’ve never been with such a professional crew as I am now. I’ve never been with a group that really cares the way this one does.”
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a 100-foot-high mural must be worth at least 10,000. What about 15 of those murals, some spanning the side of an entire building?
The Life Is Beautiful festival crews are working around the clock to get downtown Las Vegas set up for this weekend. We toured the festival grounds to see how the artwork was coming along.
The first Las Vegas International Juried Art Competition drew 207 artists entering more than 350 individual pieces of art.
Like the pop songs that power its narrative, “Beautiful — the Carole King Musical” follows a formula. But it’s a formula with both a beat — and a heartbeat. And that turns out to be a combination you can’t beat. (Or resist.)
As the fourth annual Life is Beautiful approaches, here’s a look back at some of our favorite moments, performances and art pieces from the past three years.
It’s a million-dollar question that’s long bedeviled Las Vegas fine art lovers: Can a city known more for spectacle than cultural substance ever have a major museum of its own?
On a table top mesa 70 miles from Las Vegas, a world famous piece of art sits unmarked and unprotected, right where its creator left it almost a half century ago.
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