Kristen Peterson
Story Archive
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As We See ItA pair of art exhibits explore a city in foreclosure crisis
Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010 Two artists set out independently to grapple with these larger-than-anything-that-has-ever-hit-our-community issues in consecutive solo exhibits at the Contemporary Art Center.
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A&EKiller sounds come to a church, courthouse, gallery and concert hall - all this week
Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010 With autumn approaching, classical music lovers are thinking symphonically.
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CultureThe final curtain: Amargosa Opera House visionary Marta Becket prepares to bow out
Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010 “I’m not going to live forever. I can’t imagine the afterworld being as beautiful as this. I’d like to know what it’s like over there. I’m getting myself ready for that.”
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CultureThree otherworldly exhibits you really need to see
Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 September is for sculptures.
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EducationAgainst all odds, Clark County continues to fight to keep music education alive
Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 It’s hard to believe that Clark County is again named one of the “Best Communities for Music Education."
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EntertainmentCaldwell's Game
Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010 If animals spoke up, these are a few things they just might say...
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PoliticsIs Nevada snubbing local artists?
Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010 The portrait painting of departing state governors often becomes thorny.
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CultureThe past is always present at Clark County Museum's Heritage Street
Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010 Stories of early residents and businesses are told through mannequins, furnishings and old newspaper clippings.
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As We See ItDon’t cry for our culture, Las Vegas
Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010 Even without Lied Discovery Children's Museum, the Cultural Corridor is strong.
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ArtYoko's marquee moment
Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 Yoko Ono becomes the latest artist to try reaching tourists where they least expect it.
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A&EInstallation celebrates sexuality among seniors and the disabled
Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010 ... because everyone appreciates a little love making.
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EntertainmentThe creator of Downtown’s much-discussed “Paintbrushes" defends his creation
Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 Artist Dennis Oppenheim says it all comes down to "programming."
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EntertainmentFinding space for Place Gallery
Monday, Aug. 2, 2010 “It’s almost unbelievable. That’s how crazy it is.”
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Culture
'Paintbrushes' arrives as Gateway to Arts District
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Soon, Dennis Oppenheim's "Paintbrushes" will be hard to miss.
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CultureWhat can a new exhibit tell us about the foreclosure crisis?
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 A juxtaposition of myth and reality plays out in Emily Kennerk’s exhibit, America’s No. 1 Foreclosed City: Las Vegas.
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ArtAn arts update: Vegas Valley Book Festival, Nevada Ballet Theatre and LV Philharmonic
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 The Weekly's Kristen Peterson gives you a few notes.
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As We See ItDowntown’s Emergency Arts has much planned for its second floor
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Open less than three months, it seems the multi-use creative space designed to diversify the Entertainment District is actually taking off.
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Arts DistrictBrett Wesley Gallery cancels tonight's music series because of copper thieves
Thursday, July 15, 2010 Just when it seems Downtown has had enough bad news for one week, Brett Wesley Gallery takes a hit.
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DowntownCAC draws a crowd, burp, raises funds
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 Holding a fundraiser in 110-degree heat on the tarred patios behind the Arts Factory in the hellish sun of July seemed a bit risky.
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As We See ItA quick thought on Downtown hatin’
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 Kristen Peterson on the angry divide between the city’s suburbanites and those crazy folks who live and work Downtown.
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ArtBeer for art
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 Amid dried-up funding and a nutty economy, the nonprofit Contemporary Arts Center is hosting a summer fundraiser to keep its doors open and programming in check.
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CultureDowntown sound
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 Preview Thursday, which happens on the eve of every First Friday, has become the art event for collectors and gallery crawlers who want the art without the festival atmosphere.
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PrintA perfect evening for ‘Bananafish’
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 It seems like any other night in any low-lit piano bar...
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CulturePop and glamour
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Artist Martin Kreloff is old Hollywood, pop art, Broadway show tunes and Miami art deco.
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As We See ItWhose park is it, anyway?
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 There’s a bit of irony in the air as residents discuss four proposals for the Las Vegas Veterans Memorial Park, slated for Huntridge Circle Park, an area once mired in controversy over the homeless, scores of whom are veterans.
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CultureNew-look Trifecta
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 More than five years after opening a gallery in the arts district, Marty Walsh has remained a success story.
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As We See ItCulture takes a hit
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 To help reduce an overwhelming deficit, the city of Las Vegas will close Reed Whipple Cultural Center to the public on July 1.
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EntertainmentShakespeare with a wink and a nudge
Friday, June 11, 2010 "Erotic Shakespeare" exposes the bard's sexual side.
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As We See ItHistory and pasties
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 Elaborate costumes, photographs, playbills, promotional material, scrapbooks, diaries at the Burlesque Hall of Fame Museum.
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ArtTransforming environments
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 Two new exhibits detail change from different perspectives.
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DanceThe best in burlesque
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 It’s funny, madcap, sexy, acrobatic, country, western, disco, classical, bebop, vaudevillian and circus-like.
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PoliticsChickens for music videos
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Sue Lowden's roast continues one Chickengate YouTube video at a time.
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As We See ItDave Hickey and Libby Lumpkin say goodbye
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 They were adored, fawned over, hated, respected, energizing and revered. And now they are leaving.
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ArtArts District project takes a hit
Monday, May 17, 2010 The Mission loses a chunk of land to foreclosure.
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ArtEmergency launch
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Walking into artist Jerry Misko's tiny, stylized gallery in Downtown's new Emergency Arts, you'd never know that latex-gloved nurses once stitched wounds in the wee cube.
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Culture'Speaking' loudly: Latest Bellagio exhibit is the show to see
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 When you’re part of a multi-billion-dollar corporation and you’re looking to build an exhibit around the Picassos and Renoirs in your collection, what do you do?
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CultureWhat’s new Downtown?
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 The city of Las Vegas has gradually been decreasing its funding for First Friday.
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TransportationSome arts-district businesses are miffed over new ACE bus line
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 "It’s like pulling the carpet out from underneath somebody."
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SexualityA place to come out to
Thursday, April 29, 2010 After years without one, Las Vegas' LGBT community finally has a place to "come out to."
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ArtAll-night art party, LGBT style
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 The 12-hour ARTrageous art party raised funds for the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada.
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EntertainmentWhere have all the burlesque dancers gone?
Saturday, April 24, 2010 They parodied American culture and titillated audiences. What happened when their reign ended?
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ArtMad for mid-mod
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 Hello, future. Hello, plastics. Hello, middle-class American opportunity, suburbs, car culture, biomorphic shapes and the Space Age.
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MusicGuitaristocracy
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 Las Vegas is filled with cultural treasures, but many of them are hidden.
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EntertainmentBurlesque snapshot
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 The “Strippers’ Smithsonian” prepares to make burlesque history in a new Downtown home.
