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  • Culture

    Wednesday, June 9, 2010

    This past spring in New York, soprano and UNLV doctoral candidate Martha Banks took top honors at the Classical Singer magazine competition.

  • Entertainment

    Wednesday, April 14, 2010

    A Choreographers’ Showcase blends artists from the various Cirque du Soleil productions and Nevada Ballet Theatre in a collaboration that reveals the depth of Las Vegas’s choreographic and dance talent.

  • Culture

    Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009

    This performance could have gone seriously wrong.

  • Entertainment

    Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009

    The billboard top-10 classical artist will accompany the Las Vegas Philharmonic for Gershwin’s “Piano Concerto in F.”

  • Nevada Ballet Theatre

    Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009

    It’s always exciting to attend the first performance of a new ballet season—especially one that showcases the efforts of a new artistic director. If only the results had equaled the anticipation.

  • Fine Art

    Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009

    Film meets Philarmonic at the Pops Series' A Night at the Movies.

  • Dance

    Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009

    If you are neither friend nor relative of a student dancer, why should you spend the money on a ticket to see them? Here's why...

  • Entertainment

    Thursday, July 2, 2009

    Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance is a welcome change from the latest Cirque shows' overstaged, under-choreographed spectacles. Loosely held together by its Irish folklore-based, good-versus-evil plot, the show revolves around Irish step dancing and its modern variations.

  • A&E

    Thursday, June 18, 2009

    Thirty years after Kelly Roth & Dancers’ New York debut, the company will present a retrospective of dances and multimedia projects created by its choreographer and director, Kelly Roth.

  • UNLV

    Thursday, March 19, 2009

    The paired works on this weekend’s UNLV Opera Theatre bill abandon the upper classes and the mythical characters that form the basis for most grand opera, instead focusing on the plight of ordinary people. How refreshing.

  • Dining

    Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009

    One of the most popular protein sources in the American diet, not all tuna is created equal.

  • Entertainment

    Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009

    From its passionate opening symphony to its romantic finish, the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s All-Tchaikovsky Program is the perfect choice for a Valentine’s Day date.

  • Dining

    Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009

    When you work late or have a million things to do before you finally go home, it’s tempting to do the fast-food thing or resume your friendship with the local pizza-delivery guy. An alternative is to cruise your local Trader Joe’s.

  • Dining

    Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008

    Masala and stir-fry dishes often depend on making a ginger and garlic paste to act as an integral layer of flavor. Laxmi Ginger-Garlic Paste is one good shortcut.

  • Dining

    Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008

    Winter is here, and what better way to revel in the cold than with ice cream? Yup. Nothing like ice cream on a cold day to make you forget those 100-degree moments in July.

  • Culture

    Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008

    For its fall outing, the College of Southern Nevada Dance Department offered a bill mixing an abstract and intellectually distant duet with a large-scale cynical view of interpersonal relationships, stopping along the way for an introspective solo and a psychedelic trip down Boomer memory lane.

  • Entertainment

    Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008

    One year it’s a ballerina escaping the Nazis, the next year Princess Diana shares the stage with the Heaven’s Gate mass-suicide cult—mixing it up is the name of the game for Kelly Roth and the College of Southern Nevada dance department.

  • Entertainment

    Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008

    Co-directors Richard Havey and Gail Gilbert have created the Nevada Dance Project—a dance umbrella that offers the opportunity for contemporary choreographers and dancers to show their best work, new or preexisting, but always original.

  • Entertainment

    Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008

    One of the recent highlights of the local dance scene has been the unique collaboration between the high-concept Cirque du Soleil and the classically oriented Nevada Ballet Theatre.

  • Entertainment

    Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

    Giselle tops most ballet companies’ wish lists. One of the most significant works of the Romantic era, the ballet has challenged dancers and directors since its 1841 debut in Paris.

  • Features

    Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008

    From ballet based on Chinese folklore to the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Geri Jeter offers the fall forecast in the performing arts.

  • Four Queens

    Thursday, May 22, 2008

    A gentle reminder that the most kick-ass deals are still Downtown