Las Vegas Sun

October 11, 2008

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From left to right, the members of Naturally 7, a capella septet: Warren Thomas, Armand "Hops" Hutton, Garfield Buckley, Roger Thomas, Roderick Eldridge, Jamal Reed and Dwight Stewart.

Full band, no instruments
MUSIC: Limelight hits virtuoso a cappella group after performance clip lands on YouTube, goes viral
Fri, Oct 10, 2008 (2 a.m.)
By Jerry Fink
Seven New Yorkers were captured on a video singing a cappella last year in a Paris subway. The clip landed on YouTube and helped launch a group’s career.
Byron Stripling has played with the Count Basie Orchestra under the direction of Frank Foster, backed Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie, and performed solo with the Boston Pops. He is artistic director of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra.
Conveying the spirit of Louis Armstrong
PHILHARMONIC:
Friday, October 10, 2008
By Kristen Peterson
The Las Vegas Philharmonic will take its first chops at pops Saturday with a tribute concert that features trumpeter Byron Stripling emulating the jazz legend Louis Armstrong.
Art museum + entertainment = boom?
DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS: Billionaire wants to show his collection, help attract Fremont district biz
Friday, October 10, 2008
By Joe Schoenmann
A European billionaire and contemporary art collector wants to convert an old fingerprinting station on East Fremont Street into a museum that would house his extensive collection.
Moviemaker Ted V. Mikels has seen a revival of interest in his style of campy horror films, which include "Blood Orgy the She-Devils" and "Mark of the Astro-Zombies."
It’s gory. It’s scary. It’s camp. Just don’t call it trash.
LAS VEGAS AT LARGE : Ted V. Mikel’s 60-year career as low-budget filmmaker has its own rewards
Thursday, October 9, 2008
By Brendan Buhler
What makes for a 60-year career in the movies?
Evi performs in "Raw Talent Live," a musical that premiered Friday at the Sahara. The show's creator sees it as an underground production that's "perfect for the Sahara."
Strip veteran’s musical dark, ambitious, meandering
Review:
Thursday, October 9, 2008
By Jerry Fink
ND Durr arrived in Las Vegas in 2004 leading a troupe of 50 Cuban performers for her lively musical “Havana Night Club.”
Henry Rollins' "Recountdown" tour stops in Las Vegas tonight. The tour is so named because the waning days of the campaign are "just a countdown to the next recount."
Five Stages With Henry Rollins
SPOKEN WORD:
Thursday, October 9, 2008
By Joe Brown
The original straight-talk express, Henry Rollins, is rumbling into town, and as always, he’s got a lot on his mind.
With a zombie lurking behind her, Alexis Jones of Las Vegas looks for a way out of the Fright Dome at Circus Circus on the Strip.
Fright Dome: Dark, scary meets hot, heavy
REVIEW: At huge, frightening Halloween attraction, teen romance abounds
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
By Joe Brown
There are monster houses in Las Vegas, and then there’s the Fright Dome, the annual megahaunted house at the Adventuredome at Circus Circus.
"I live in the now, for the first time in my life, and I'm really enjoying that. I don't want to get too bogged down in the future," Wynonna Judd said about new way of looking at life.
Her newest music has ties to the past
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
By Jerry Fink
Wynonna was a 20-year-old fledgling entertainer when the Judds released “Mama He’s Crazy” in 1984. She grew up and fought her personal battles in the public eye.
Painter James Rieck, who teaches at Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., chose to focus on the sleek bathing caps in a German fashion catalog advertising "Kurort" wear at mineral baths.
Posturing in advertising not so different from history of painting
ART:
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
By Kristen Peterson
When looking at James Rieck’s paintings in “Cure Resort,” on display at Dust Gallery in the SoHo Lofts, it’s not surprising to learn that the artist was a commercial muralist for 10 years.
Clothes make the king, queen
FAIRS AND FESTIVALS : Renaissance festival royals get their period stuff online, at local ‘superstore’
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
By Joe Brown
There’s a lot of talk about Las Vegas as a city of the future, a place that has forgotten or simply paved over history.
John Beane is an actor, director and leader of Onyx Theatre.
Six questions for John Beane
Director of the alternative Onyx Theatre in Las Vegas
Monday, October 6, 2008
By Joe Brown
John Beane is director of the alternative Onyx Theatre in Las Vegas and artistic director of the Insurgo Theater Movement, a “wild west avant-garde acting ensemble,” which presented its first season of plays at Onyx this year.
‘Caveman’ star to moonlight at Fitzgeralds
COMEDY:
Monday, October 6, 2008
By Jerry Fink
Kevin Burke will need jogging shoes this week to juggle a starring role in “Defending the Caveman” with a stand-up comedy act.
Artist Catherine Borg is lit by a projection of her digital video installation "Self-tending," which is part of her exhibit at The Arts Factory in downtown Las Vegas. She uses video, sculpture and drawing as well as photography, but considers all her work in those media photographic.
Catherine Borg
PEOPLE IN THE ARTS:
Monday, October 6, 2008
By Kristen Peterson
A weekly snapshot of creative people living in the Las Vegas Valley
With more songs to tap, Panic will offer less spectacle
MUSIC:
Monday, October 6, 2008
By Jerry Fink
Jon Walker tells how a kid from Chicago ended up riding a rocket ship to success with the Las Vegas band Panic at the Disco.
What can’t Brady do?
HEADLINER : Improv star moves effortlessly from film to CD to the stage, and never runs out of steam
Friday, October 3, 2008
By Jerry Fink
Improv virtuoso Wayne Brady is back in the house, and the house is full.
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