The Mojave Desert four hours southwest of Las Vegas is a dry, lifeless, unforgiving wasteland that most of civilized society does its best to avoid. It’s also what made it the perfect spot for the seventh annual Wasteland Weekend.
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The Life Is Beautiful festival starts up again at 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon.
The festival gates will open for the first time at 2 p.m. Friday for 2016’s Life Is Beautiful.
On the streets — and on the walls. That’s the focus for Life is Beautiful’s ever-expansive, and expanding, art program, which continues throughout the downtown festival Friday through Sunday.
Subtitled “From Degas to Picasso,” the show — organized in partnership with Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts — spotlights 47 paintings, photographs and prints that explore growing urbanization in 19th- and 20th-century Europe and the U.S.
Joss Whedon (creator of the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” TV show and director of the two “Avengers” movies) has formed a pro-Clinton PAC and is producing videos with big Hollywood celebrities.
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