Kristen Peterson
Story Archive
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As We See It
Is Las Vegas really as transient as we think?
Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 We've all heard it: "Everybody leaves Las Vegas"
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Art
A recent arts study shows Las Vegas has some work to do
Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 SMU's Arts Vibrancy Index aimed to determine the "hotbeds of America's arts and culture."
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Features
The random allure of Boulder Highway: A story in photos
Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015 In the shadow of the Strip, the jumbled stretch of road tells another Vegas story.
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Art
Art to see right now
Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015 Alterwitz, 'Santa Confessional' and a UNLV MFA avalanche.
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Print
For the love of literacy: Two guys, a book festival and an adventurous seven-year-old
Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015 Bringing together Black History Month and Nevada Reading Week.
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As We See It
Smoked mirrors and bulletproof windows: Lefty Rosenthal’s crib is on the market
Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015 “It’s kind of built like the Fort Knox of Las Vegas."
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Sexuality
A historical tour of lust and romance, loosely inspired by the Strip
Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015 We all know that Italy was full of sex-monkeys during the Black Death ...
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Art
Marshall Bradford brings his erotic photography to Sin City Gallery
Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015 Nothing like a Friday night of tying up your guests.
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Music
LV Phil sends out a musical 'Gershwin Valentine' this weekend at the Smith Center
Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015 A beloved songbook and a Broadway vocalist? That's 'S Wonderful.
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Downtown
Downtown 2035 analyzes the area’s present and future prospects
Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015 The study, commissioned by the City of Las Vegas, offers some interesting findings to chew on.
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Art
Protecting ‘City’: ‘Levitated Mass’ more than screening in campaign for Heizer national monument in Nevada
Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 Conservation Lands Foundation is working to rally local support for the project.
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As We See It
Frozen in time: ‘Folies’ costumes acquired by Nevada State Museum
Monday, Feb. 9, 2015 "This is something I've been waiting for [for] the museum—a signature collection, something no one else has."
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Fashion
The colorful life and high fashion of Corinne Entratter Sidney
Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015 Raiding the 2,400-square-foot closet of Corinne Sidney, the former "black-belt shopper on Rodeo Drive."
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Art
Second Saturdays: New galleries put the art back in Emergency Arts
Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015 Downtown Las Vegas galleries team up.
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Art
Artist Laurie Simmons finds a place in the Strip’s bombastic visual chatter
Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015 Simmons has us rethinking the “ideal.”
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Art
The Art of Dialogue: Cappuccino potato chip inventor opens Downtown art gallery
Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015 Undoing boundaries, opening discourse.
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Music
Burt Bacharach brings the love buffet to the Smith Center
Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015 What the world needs now is the look of love. Find it Downtown this weekend.
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Art
Dear Santa, I have sinned--Cosmo’s P3Studio announces its 2015 artist lineup
Monday, Jan. 26, 2015 Residencies combine some form of installation, studio practice and display, and began January 7 with an immersive meditation nightclub experience.
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Art
A community garden in the Las Vegas Arts District? Maybe
Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015 Art and arugula and maybe a little Bloomberg money.
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Art
Vegas for Real: Yes, people live here
Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015 Catherine Borg's Scouted aims to present a more dimensional view of Las Vegas.
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Weekly Q&A
Joanne Goodwin on women in Las Vegas—perception and reality in the 20th century
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 Putting women back into history.
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A&E
Bye, Blue Angel: Motel comes down, but the iconic figurehead will remain
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 Demolition has begun.
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Art
Will artist Michael Heizer’s ‘City’ become a national monument?
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 A push to have “City” designated as a national monument has begun.
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Art
Trifecta owner Marty Walsh reflects on her gallery and the local arts scene
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015 Trifecta owner Marty Walsh closes her Arts Factory space, which became a staple of the arts scene for its consistency and quality, at the end of January.
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As We See It
Art, history and politics collide in an exhibition at the Mexican Consulate
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015 Past on paper: The exhibit features political cartoons from 19th-century Mexico.
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A&E
Liberace to return to Las Vegas as a hologram
Friday, Jan. 2, 2015 Welcome back, Mr. Showmanship.
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Art
Artist JK Russ and the bird women of Cosmo’s P3Studio
Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014 Leggy and feathered bird women, chic and defiant on the harsh landscape.
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Art
Celebrating Christmas, Vintage Vegas style: The Blue Angel of Glen Heather
Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014 “We wanted to do a Las Vegas Christmas."
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Art
Artist Justin Favela’s piñata-inspired Nativity—Vegas, Mexico and Bethlehem
Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014 Justin Favela at the Mexican Consulate
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Art
‘Twenty Years of Design Excellence’ at Barrick highlights Nevada’s award-winning architecture
Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 Reflecting and Projecting is as much about the process as it is about the end result.
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Art
Pushing color to the cusp of recognition: Three questions with David Ryan
Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 Balancing discrete shapes with analog sensibility.
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As We See It
Following through: The promise of I Have a Dream Foundation
Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 Changing lives one dreamer at a time.
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Culture
Embracing History: The stories in and of the F Street underpass
Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 A public nod to Las Vegas history like none other in this town.
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Features
Holiday gift guide: (Not) just for kids
Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014 For iconic toys and collectibles, head to Kettlemuck's in Henderson.
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Print
Holiday gift guide: Great reads from the University of Nevada Press
Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014 Christmas in Nevada, Hoover Dam, Women at Work in Las Vegas
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Unions
Picket lines for progress: Exhibit tells the story of the Culinary Union
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 Audio, images and artifacts chronicle its nearly 80-year relationship with the hotel industry at the UNLV Lied Library.
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Art
Depicting death: Artists take on the great inevitable
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 In our leftovers we all look the same.
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A&E
The Cosmo’s giant fortune-telling cat wishes you well
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 Here tourist, tourist...
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Art
43 Days: Artist Javier Sanchez in solidarity with Mexico’s missing students
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 “In Mexico every day is the day of the dead, and the day of the disappeared, and the day of the mutilated, and the day of the bereaved. "
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Art
Smoke my hookah, caterpillar -- more tales to live out at Skin City
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 Las Vegas artists take on the nonsensical underworld of Lewis Carroll.
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Art
Treasure chest: Secret artwork hidden behind breasts at the Venetian revealed
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 "They were trying to re-create Renaissance Venice, and I was giving them contemporary art.” --Toland Grinnell
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Art
Artist-designed benches will 'beautify' Downtown, but must they function?
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 Ass-burn? We can fix that.
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Downtown
Fremont East before and after—a local’s story in images
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014 Fascinated with the speed of the changing landscape Downtown, photographer Richard Brian captured his neighborhood.
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A&E
Gig Depio’s ‘A Brief History’ tackles immigration, politics and social media
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014 His decadent paintings are almost operatic.
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Art
Weekly Q&A: Photographer Shelbi Schroeder focuses on the naked—and real—female form
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014 “I just started being obsessed with who I am and able to love who I am without having to hide behind clothing and hide behind my cellulite and hide behind my rolls.”
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Art
Big changes for Downtown’s Modern?
Friday, Nov. 21, 2014 "It's time to refresh the project, look at options of location and ensure that our communication about the project is more clear than it has been in the past."
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Art
Hot glue, anyone? Art Bar at UNLV’s Barrick Museum is a creative respite for everyone
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014 Even professional exhibiting artists have sat down at the space, creating works that eventually went into gallery shows.
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A&E
More than Pretty Eggs: Bellagio’s ‘Faberge Revealed’ looks at Russia’s designer to the tsars
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014 Opulence, decadence, excessive ornamentation and extreme wealth.
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A&E
Not your grandma’s slots: The art and technology of today’s multisensory machines
Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014 The gaming machines of the future are built by teams of video-game caliber animators and artists—and they’re hitting casino floors today.
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Art
Olivia Gatti’s ‘The Motherlode’ at TastySpace looks at family
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 The moments between the moments, the experiences that slip away and the “beauty in the ordinary.”