Indomitable Las Vegas has defied critics and counterpunched its way to the big time. But with every breakthrough, things get broken.
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A UNLV professor considers the present — and possible futures — of artificial intelligence
In his new book Frontier Fake News: Nevada’s Sagebrush Humorists and Hoaxsters, Richard Moreno digs into the Sagebrush School and the early history of fake news in Nevada.
The chief chocolatier for Las Vegas-based Ethel M Chocolates on holiday flavors and the secrets of the sweet life.
For decades, Las Vegas marketed itself with cowboy mythology. It never really stopped.
Chantal Chandler is an artist and writer who grew up near downtown Las Vegas, and she shares some of her childhood experiences in this issue’s “Zine Within a Zine.”
The Super Bowl is a crowning moment for Las Vegas. Here are five local sporting events — from megafights to Golden Knights — that helped pave the city’s way to the big time.
With all due respect to writers, I humbly submit that music can take us further and faster and deeper into the galactic dust of our dreams.
Over time, the relationship between musician and place becomes downright symbiotic. Springsteen and New Jersey, Cobain and Seattle, Newton and Las Vegas. The same goes even for the most hallowed of sounds.
We’ve so ruthlessly professionalized the notion of culture that we often imagine it to be a thing that can be provided only by the elect, a strange noble peerage of those who have “made it.”
How opera star Rachael Wilson sang her way from Southern Nevada to the grand stages of Europe
Forty years ago, Las Vegas stirred from a civic slump and planted the seeds of a brilliant sporting future.
Tired of dead ends in Hollywood, Jim Cowan moved to Las Vegas and bet his career that the strange, surreal art he loved would be a big deal. It was a winning gamble.
Kids — and their social, emotional and intellectual growth — are at the center of Polita Simpson’s mission to create the foundation for good lives through the power of art.
Quinn Callahan opened the Rock Dance Studio in 2009. It is now home to some of the top dancers in the world.
