“Jabbawockeez” dancer Abenamar “B-boy Ben” Honrubia has spent more than 15 years break dancing, which has not only turned into a career and a show on the Strip but also resulted in his winning numerous competitions.
Arts & Culture
A knitting a crocheting group at the West Flamingo Senior Center hosted a “Yarn-a-Thon” event this month, creating yarn flower murals. The group plans more meetings throughout the year.
As his father yelled at his mother yet again, Jimmie Ray Cantrell, then 11, heard something that would change his life. He learned he was illegitimate, and that the enraged man on the other side of the thin wall was not his true father. Now, the Summerlin resident’s play, “Mittie’s Song,” based on his book of the same title, has premiered at the Plaza Playhouse Theater in California.
If life is a cabaret, old chums, then Friday”;s “Love & Art” cabaret represents life for Off-Strip Productions, which is hoping to raise funds for its upcoming season at the Onyx Theatre.
Call it a tale of two singers.
From the Strip to the street, downtown’s Life Is Beautiful Festival will feature a wide array of arts presentations as part of the Oct. 26-27 event.
Despite its tiny size, a nanometer — a billionth of a meter — looms large in the realms of nature and science. For proof, and for fun, look no further than the “Small, Smaller, Nano” miniexhibit at the Discovery Children’s Museum through Dec. 3.
This is no ordinary studio session. You can’t tidy your hair or pose in any traditional sense of photo-taking. This picture will be of a body part of your choosing.
The musical beat goes on at the UNLV Performing Arts Center, which celebrates its 38th season with a 2013-14 schedule that includes pianist Peter Nero, contemporary jazz group the Rippingtons and the Moscow Festival Ballet.
My theater snobbery against Broadway musicals adapted from Hollywood movies was dealt a serious blow by “Legally Blonde, The Musical,” produced and directed by Philip Shelburne at Super Summer Theatre. The 2007 Broadway show is not only funnier than the original 2001 film comedy with Reese Witherspoon, but, thanks to the music, it also has more heart — except for one little part.
After four decades as a member of Willie Nelson’s musical family, Mickey Raphael’s pretty good at that game. He has to be — because that’s what playing with Nelson is all about.
Chris Isaak may be a Vegas kind of guy. But not necessarily the kind of Vegas guy you think.
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