From David Itkin’s perspective, as the conductor and director of the Las Vegas Philharmonic, there is only one obstacle standing in the way of the orchestra: money.
Argument is good for art. But today, it’s my day. I get to celebrate what I think was the local theater season’s best by handing out my 11th annual “Tony” awards — “Tony” referring to this writer, a committee of one.
It has been a boffo year at the box office for movie characters who began their lives as colored drawings on the printed page.
The poster for “America the Beautiful” says it all.
And now, for 26 things you will never see or experience in the Las Vegas music scene:
In the grand hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, a runway is the center of attention. Neon lights, fog effects and loud house music set the scene. It’s business as usual at MAGIC (Men’s Apparel Guild in California), the fashion trade show that visits Las Vegas twice a year.
We’ve all been there. The dressing room, flooded in a sea of denim, tears threatening to drop.
Barack Obama, who will accept the Democratic nomination for president tonight at Denver’s Invesco Field, favors an expansion of government-run health care to cover millions of uninsured Americans.
A group of northwest valley homeowners filed a lawsuit against Clark County on Monday, attempting to stop the construction of a shooting park so far north of town that it abuts a mountain.
Bartender Gin Caley’s six-month wait ends tonight.
CARSON CITY — More evidence of Nevada’s economic decline came Wednesday as the Department of Taxation reported sales of taxable products by businesses in the Silver State plunged by 6 percent in June.
The much-rumored closing of the 8-month-old 40/40 Club at the Palazzo became official Wednesday.
In tough times shoppers turn to the bargain bin, and a group of clothing merchants in Las Vegas for fashion week hope retailers will do the same.