Jason Bowman, APA marketing director, chats about the “World’s Largest Pool Tournament” at Westgate Las Vegas on August 16, 2017. (Ron Kantowski/Las Vegas Review Journal)
Astrophotographer John Mowbray shows you how to photograph the eclipse
Brandon Pereyda, a Vegas native, is a headliner and aerialist in Cirque du Soleil’s Zumanity. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
The Review-Journal’s Todd Dewey, handicapper Kelly Stewart (@KellyInVegas) and Wynn sports book director Johnny Avello preview the Ravens’ season in the seventh of a series of 32 NFL team videos in 32 days. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Los Angeles Lakers and the Portland Trail Blazers will face off Monday, July 17, 2017, in the NBA Summer League championship game at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.
From the archives: OJ Simpsons arraignment hearing before a judge for a 2007 robbery at Palace Station.
OJ Simpson has been at Lovelock Correctional Center since December 2008. Now, he has the chance to walk free this October. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
UFC lightweight Kevin Lee talks about his preparation for his five-round fight with Michael Chiesa at UFC Fight Night 112, why he’s not chasing money fights and what it takes to standout with the promotion.
Johnny Nuñez from The Ultimate Fighter season 25 recaps the matchup between Dhiego Lima and Hayder Hassan, updates on Cody Garbrandt’s back injury and talks about breaking up fights between the coaches on the show.
Ed Graney and Michael Gehlken from the Review-Journal discuss how the Oakland Raiders QB Derek Carr and DE Khalil Mack reacted to the news that the team is moving to Las Vegas and recap the news from the first day of the team’s off-season program.
Michael Gehlken from the Las Vegas Review-Journal recaps the Oakland Raiders news conference from the start of their off-season program and breaks down what their latest discussion on former NFL running back Marshawn Lynch is.
Jerry Izenberg, boxing Hall of Fame writer, discusses his new book “Once There Were Giants” at his home in Henderson Nevada, on April 17, 2017. (Ron Kantowski/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Oakland Raiders defensive end Khalil Mack says the team is focused on winning, not their eventual move to Las Vegas. Mack also says what fans in the city have said to him about the move.
Pilots train at Desert Rock Airport on the Nevada National Security Site using the Sandstorm UAV, an experimental unmanned aircraft system developed to fly through radioactive airspace.
Matt Youmans, Kelly Stewart and Tony Miller give their picks for the college bowl games.
Matt Youmans, Kelly Stewart and Tony Miller give their picks for NFL and college football for week fifteen.
Ashley Anna Parks, a volunteer at the Gay and Lesbian Center of Southern Nevada, talks about their life as a transgender person.
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.
After marrying at 20, her husband joined the army, and they moved to Texas. But after his return from a tour in Iraq, he became verbally and physically abusive. Cutting away from him, she set out to find some semblance of peace.
She apprenticed at a tattoo shop for 6 months, where a resident tattoo artist had her sit at a desk and draw human portraits over and over. During that time it became clear she wanted to do art for life.
She credits the Las Vegas art community for allowing her to thrive and grow as an artist.
“This art community seems to be elevating each other instead of there being this competition,” she says.
This fall is her second year at UNLV where she is working on her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts. Her main project is a series of portraits called “The Weight”. She arranges for friends to meet with her, talk about a time in their life when they felt a heaviness from suffering, and then asks them to pose in a way that they feel best shows where they are mentally at in handling the weight of the situation. She then photographs them, and later draws their portrait with pencil or colored pencil.
She recently began putting the portraits on mirrors. “The viewer is just as important if not more important than the artwork itself,” she says. It was important that viewers see the subjects in these drawings as experiencing a “weight” that she believes is universal. Her greatest goal is to connect viewers to that idea and receive some level of peace from that camaraderie.
“We all suffer alone but we’re not alone in that suffering,” she says. “Instead of dwelling on that heaviness, I had to see it as something as this is going to lift me up this is going to give me strength.”
The heaviness, she says, is usually circumstantial, and when you get through it, it becomes a source of strength. In the meantime, connecting with others assuages the pain.
You can find her work on Facebook at “The Art of Tara” and on Instagram @claricetara. Beginning in December an exhibit of her work will be displayed at Jana’s RedRoom in the Arts Factory in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Rick Velotta tests out the services of Uber, Lyft, and taxi cabs.
Matt Youmans, Kelley Stewart and Tony Miller give their picks for NFL and college football for week two.
Hugo Carbajal Jr., Francis Carbajal, and Edgar Medina, three of the men accused of ramming police cars, who are charged with 47 counts including burglary, grand larceny and assault with a deadly weapon, appeared in court before Justice of the Peace Melissa Saragosa on Monday.