Arts-smart and status for gratis. Becoming the first and gaining the second is the apparent windfall for Las Vegas, with local schoolchildren reaping the riches. That’s the goal, at least, of a new project involving the Clark County School District, the Smith Center for the Performing Arts and what is widely considered America’s cultural headquarters, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in an essentially cost-free collaboration.
The kitchen staff at Giada’s Italian Cucina in Henderson are so skilled, they can even make escarole taste good.
Where’s your elf respect, dude?
Las Vegas native Franky Perez left home to pursue his music career when he was a teenager.
Remember those crappy school Christmas pageants you had to be in as a kid, you know, where you played, like, a tree or something? Well, now you can watch other kids do the same, sort of, but with guitars and dance beats and hopefully a bit less crappiness as the equally poppy and clubby Family Force 5 enlivens the season by headlining “The Christmas Pageant” tour, along with screamo favorites Forever The Sickest Kids in addition to the emotive Secondhand Serenade and Shorelines End. Make like a tree, once again, and leave for the festivities at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Tickets are $25-$35; call 632-7600.
Todd Rundgren is a musical mimic, one who once helmed a Beatles sound-alike album called “Deface the Music.”
Jon Anderson’s songs are often about peace and harmony. The ongoing politics of the band Yes? Not so much.
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