Kristen Peterson
Story Archive
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Art
This is your life, TastySpace: Saying goodbye to a Downtown gallery
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 Thanks for the memories, TastySpace.
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A&E
Welcome home, Helen: A Las Vegas literary magazine is born
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 Designed to capture the spirit of Southern Nevada through art and literature, Helen launched this month with a 56-page issue.
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Film
Screening at Inspire: Documentary 'The Space Between' looks at healthcare in Kenya
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 Catch the flick (and a Q&A with the filmmakers) at Inspire Theater this week. Find all the details here.
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Art
‘Home Sweet Home’ dioramas illustrate America’s obsession with violence
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014 The exhibit features scenarios so over the top you want to laugh—and so real you want to cry.
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A&E
Geoffrey Ellis’ photo exhibit blends Las Vegas’ present with its past at Brett Wesley Gallery
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014 It's inspired by the '70s and '80s Mob era.
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Music
Weekly Q&A: Storm Large on feminism, fringe pioneers and why you don’t touch Lou Reed
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014 Q&A: Storm Large's act works with both punk-rock and symphonic audiences. She brings it to the Smith Center this weekend.
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Art
New gallery Satellite Contemporary opens in Emergency Arts this month
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014 The new space is a joint effort by a trio of artists and faculty at Northern Arizona University.
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Art
Downtown's First Street Art Trail is coming to life
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014 Even as the gallery scene is slowing, the Arts District is getting some attention.
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A&E
Punks with heart: Hammer & Cycle’s art auction brings in the wheels
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014 Art and bikes and kids, topped with a Slayer-based success story.
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Art
The Arts District: Where have all the galleries gone?
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014 With galleries closing, creative spaces in the Downtown neighborhood have hit a low note.
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Art
Life is art inside the Western Hotel at LIB
Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014 The art component of Life Is Beautiful hit visitors with a multi-sensory wallop, the kind of one-two audio/visual punch taking over the streets outside.
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Art
Art couture: Bellagio exhibits one of artist Nick Cave's wearable sculptures
Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014 The artist's button-covered "Soundsuit" is now on display.
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Fine Art
Downtown’s TastySpace Gallery to close December 1
Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014 It’s another big loss for an arts scene already without CAC exhibits and preparing for Trifecta’s end.
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Art
What’s with the giant slides? Artists take over Western Hotel at Life Is Beautiful
Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014 “Freefall” is a vertical move from Tillinghast’s courtyard water installation (a 30-by-60-foot reservoir) last year at the Odyssey,
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A&E
Lady Rizo brings her irreverent cabaret show Downtown
Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014 It's renditions of well-known songs, but she makes them her own.
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Art
The birthday party machine: Artist Justin Favela’s Arkansas fiesta
Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014 Who wants cake, cake and more cake?
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Art
Cat, deconstructed: Everything to know about Jesse Smigel's oversized feline
Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014 Photo op! The local artist's "Snowball in Vegas" sculpture is now Downtown—and ready for your next selfie.
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Features
How to understand Plato's Theory of Forms
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 "Ideas exist nowhere and no when."
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Site Feature
How to extra clean your goods in the privacy of your own bathroom
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 "Cleanliness brings happiness."
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Features
How to grow dwarf citrus without a garden
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 All it takes is a large pot, compost ... and lots of patience.
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Print
Local authors highlight this year’s Vegas Valley Book Fest schedule
Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014 A mix of local and national writers will discuss their craft, telling stories and talking on issues pertaining to literature, society and writing.
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Art
Sush Machida on fish, air fresheners and his mural with Tim Bavington
Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014 "Art doesn’t choose anybody. It’s for everybody."
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Art
Jesse Smigel’s giant cat head is ready for its close-up
Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 Be the paw. Just be the paw.
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Art
A wide angle view of Nevada Artists through NAC's fellowships
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014 "I saw these common threads -- biography, place, memory..."
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Art
The beauty of strange circumstances and iconic stewardesses in Sam Davis’ ‘Jettison’
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014 Here, the women are on an adventure of another kind, regardless of the bleak and sudden surroundings.
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Art
Living with art: The suburban home turned private art gallery
Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 “If I like it, I’m going to get it and worry about where it’s going to go later.”
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Art
A tale of two Dr. Sketchy’s drawing nights: Las Vegas and Boulder City
Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014 Artists (and non-artists) gather monthly for some cocktails and creativity at the anti-art school establishment.
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Art
Collector Branden Powers plants art on the streets for you to find
Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014 "Whatever happens is the art itself.”
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A&E
Weekly Q&A: Lynda Carter on Wonder Woman’s enduring legacy
Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014 Her legendary character will be featured on some Bally slot machines.
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Art
Another round of artists plant roots in Downtown Spaces
Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014 SolSis Gallery and Anthony Ortega’s EQLD Creations Art Studio have moved into the creative hub on Industrial Road.
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Music
Kristen Hertzenberg brings her soulful vocals back to the Smith Center
Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014 A “love-haunted set of blues, rock, jazz, folk and country”
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A&E
Las Vegas Philharmonic opens season with new conductor and famed opera singer
Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 The Masterworks concert featuring Deborah Voigt is the stuff of dreams.
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Art
East meets West in ‘Ghost Dogs: Japanese-American Legends’ at Donna Beam
Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 The commonality between them extends beyond the East-meets-West art elements and into the powerful messaging within the work.
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A&E
Liberace and Jerry’s Nugget signs glow again in Neon Museum’s Boneyard
Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 Both signs are part of the Boneyard’s permanent exhibit and are among six in the yard that have been restored.
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Art
Mexico: Perceptions, memories and dreams in artist’s Piñata utopia
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014 Justin Favela's cross-cultural social study of sorts that welcomes everyone to play along.
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Weather
Nature’s wrath: The problem with rain in the nation’s driest state
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014 Gov. Brian Sandoval declared a state of emergency in flood-damaged Moapa.
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People in the Arts
Pussy Riot joins the Life Is Beautiful speaker lineup
Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014 Two founding members of the feminist punk group will come to Las Vegas in October.
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Features
Mama was a showgirl: Vintage photos peek into glamorous Vegas life
Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014 This was how Tomlin knew his dancer mother throughout his early childhood—a gorgeous woman on display and at a distance.
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Art
Suzanne Shifflett brings ‘The Sum of All Its Parts’ to Sin City Gallery
Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014 The San Francisco tattoo artist pairs the art historical with the queer contemporary.
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As We See It
Echoes of Ferguson: Talking racial profiling in Las Vegas
Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014 Community members, including Congressman Steven Horsford, recently convened for a town hall meeting to discuss the issue.
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As We See It
From Cirque to travel and photography, Armand Thomas remains a storyteller
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014 The photographer is the second artist to show work at the Window at the Ogden.
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A&E
Artists explore language and action in ‘Words to Live By’
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014 Vivian Martian, Gina Alverson and Kris Krainock use words to create unexpected works.
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Art
The adaptive and resourceful might of supermen at Trifecta
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014 A humorous consideration of expectations, normalcy and, most of all, embracing change.
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Culture
Blue Angel uproar signals a clash between preservation and development
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014 “Fremont Street is really a historic scenic byway that needs to be preserved. This is a pressing matter."
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A&E
The Weekly Interview: NBT’s James Canfield
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014 Dance past and present this season at the Nevada Ballet Theatre.
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Art
Giant cat head to take over Downtown corner
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014 You had us at giant gnomes, Jesse. But, by all means, keep going.
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As We See It
A bright hope for the Cultural Corridor fades from view
Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014 Plans for a $45 million complex (and Rosemary's spinoff) at Reed Whipple are off the table for now.
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Art
The bureaucratic hurdles of public art: Looking at Clark County’s program
Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014 “Things are going to move along at a pretty slow rate, but pretty soon we’re going to start seeing art," Patrick Gaffey
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Art
Palm reading: The precision of Louis Varela-Rico’s suspended hand
Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014 ‘Organic Study No. 1’ marks a stylistic departure for Luis Varela-Rico
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A&E
Timeless glamour and haughty attitudes of Chris Jones’ billboard collages
Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014 Sexy, vintage and alluring, the 40-by-60-inch billboard collages combine fashion illustrations (from old Harper’s Bazaar magazines) and enhanced photographs of models, as well as other printed imagery.