John Przybys is a features writer who covers lifestyle topics, trends, popular culture, health and books. A native of Bedford, Ohio and a graduate of Kent State University, he covered news beats at papers in Ohio for 10 years before moving to Las Vegas to join the Review-Journal features staff.
The tribute comes from more than a dozen states and seven countries: 58 portraits, created in media and styles as wide-ranging as their points of origin by a diverse palette of artists, all of whom have volunteered their talent in service to the simple gift of remembrance.
It probably has a technical name, but let’s just call it the Four-Person Multilevel Headstand Monolith, which, after a few unsuccessful attempts, finally comes together as an impromptu tribute to the four young women who form its infrastructure.
A s the Las Vegas Philharmonic kicks off its 20th season this week, a look back through the orchestra’s first two decades reveals that its history has been as interesting as any piece of music its members have performed.
The Smith Center for the Performing Arts has received a grant that will allow it to fund arts education programs for more than 70,000 students in Southern Nevada.
When a beloved sports figure retires, it’s often said that person will never again have to pay for a drink in a local bar.
The Animal Foundation now allows Southern Nevadans to foster a pet for as little as a few hours on a Sunday afternoon to a three-day weekend.
Nevadans who’ve had schools named for them include teachers, school administrators, politicians, business people, philanthropists — even a nun and a cowboy movie star.
The messages — plaintive, defiant, encouraging, empathetic — appear on a poster sent to Southern Nevadans by, the poster says, “the Pulse family and all of Orlando” during the weeks following the Oct. 1 Route 91 Harvest festival shooting.
As they watch Richard McGee conduct the Nevada Pops Orchestra in selections from more than a half-century’s worth of music from “Star Trek,” fans of the classic science fiction series should understand something.
Over three days, 60 students get to know Steven Trepost intimately — his head, heart, lungs and blood.
They look like dyed fried eggs, or multicolored avocados cut in half, or artistic representations of cell drawings from grade-school science class.
And, by that more expansive definition, Anthony is fine with being chosen as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ Sexiest Vegan Next Door for 2018.
Remember when you were a kid and summer was an alluring expanse of wide-open days packed with fun stuff — or nothing at all — to do?
The winner of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” the co-directors of a writing program for rural Nevada teenagers and two National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honorees are among the Black Mountain Institute’s 2018-19 class of fellows and writers-in-residence.
Some of the millions of tourists who visit the Strip and downtown Las Vegas every year may not realize it, but they become accidental archivists helping to preserve our city for future historians.
