Arts & Culture

Bach’s back. Don’t remember the last time the classical cat played Vegas, but since Cirque du Soleil hasn’t yet concocted an extravaganza based on Johnny Sebastian’s greatest hits, he’ll stick with the Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society, using the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as a Bach-drop.

Before he died, Warren Bates trained his Nikon on some of the lonesomest places on earth. To him, Zzyzx Road was not an Interstate 15 exit to drive past on the way to Southern California. It was an invitation. An exhibit of his work, “road to zzyzx,” will be open to the public Saturday through June 4 at the Left of Center gallery in North Las Vegas.

Screaming. Chaos. Darkness. Brutalization and enslavement of women, pounding their fists into the dirt at center stage, wailing, gasping to breathe as heaving sobs leave their bodies quivering.