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Carol Cling
Former arts reporter
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Carol Cling was an arts writer and movie critic at the Review-Journal before retiring in 2018. From Orange County, California, Cling graduated with honors from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and studied screenwriting at the American Film Institute and the BBC in London.
When a group of Nevada arts advocates went to Washington, D.C., a few weeks ago to talk up continued funding for the National Endowment of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, they didn’t know their efforts would be successful.
Here are the best bets for arts culture this week in Las Vegas.
Octogenarian Andre has always known his own mind. But lately, his mind seems to be drifting — out of his control.
Clowns have played in everything from circuses to silent movies.
In his legendary career, Leonard Bernstein played many roles: conductor, pianist, TV star, cultural ambassador.
If only composer Andrew Lloyd Webber had listened to that great sage of the stage, Dirty Harry Callahan.
The Charleston Heights Arts Center looks like a million dollars.
In 1960 Las Vegas, music meant Liberace. Or Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and their fellow Rat Packers. Or the various orchestras accompanying their Strip showroom stints. But on one night in 1960, music meant Leonard Bernstein.
Las Vegas may be far from the Emerald Isle, but a free, all-ages St. Patrick’s Day Festival will transform downtown’s Historic Fifth Street School, 401 S. Fourth St., from 1 to 8 p.m. Saturday, with music by local bands Darby O’Gill and the Little People and Killian’s Angels and award-winning Irish band Socks in the Frying Pan, pictured.
When composer Andrew Lloyd Webber contacted lyricist Glenn Slater’s agent to ask about collaborating on a “Phantom of the Opera” sequel, Slater had an instant response.
It takes more than two to tango at this weekend’s “Tango Malambo.”
At the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas, Karan Feder oversees a collection that includes some 8,000 pieces from the Tropicana’s long-running Folies Bergere.
The Las Vegas Philharmonic and the theater troupe A Public Fit are hoping to not only serve but expand their audiences.