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‘Elf’ leading the merry way to Christmas

“Elf the Musical” is based on the 2003 movie hit, which stars Will Ferrell as the endlessly goofy Buddy the Elf, who 1) discovers that he’s not really an elf and 2) leaves the North Pole to search for his real father in New York City.

 
Vegas Stripped: Balancing chaos with art — VIDEO

Between the ages of eight and 14, Clarice Tara lived under an umbrella of mental abuse from her mother’s boyfriend. At 14, she left to live with her father, whose abuse of drugs drove Clarice to forms of self-abuse herself.

Sound off on downtown sculpture

Before the end of next year, there’ll be a sculpture in downtown Las Vegas — on a traffic island at Main and Commerce streets.

Local dancers to perform Ailey’s ‘Night Creatures’

LVCDT dancers will perform “Night Creatures” — featuring music by late jazz great Duke Ellington — Nov. 13 at The Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall.

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Check out what the Smith Center has to offer in 2016

Newcomers from Liza Minnelli to the Beach Boys join such returnees as Chick Corea and Bela Fleck, Engelbert Humperdinck, the Tenors and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in 2016.

Comic books are for everyone these days

Few Southern Nevadans are as avid fans of the words-and-pictures medium as Pj Perez, who appreciates comic books as a fan, as a comic book writer and illustrator, and as a publisher of comic books and graphic novels through Pop! Goes the Icon, his own publishing house.

7 things you didn’t know about the Neon Museum — PHOTOS

As rapid as a new Las Vegas landmark is constructed, another one is demolished. Memories of those attractions continue to shine bright at the Neon Boneyard Museum.

 
Tap legend Prince Spencer dead at 98

Prince Spencer, who tap-danced his way across color barriers as a member of the Four Step Brothers, died Thursday, weeks after celebrating his 98th birthday Oct. 3.

‘Ragtime’ strikes a familiar chord

“Ragtime: The Musical,” which kicks off its national tour at The Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall through Sunday.

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