Over time, the relationship between musician and place becomes downright symbiotic. Springsteen and New Jersey, Cobain and Seattle, Newton and Las Vegas. The same goes even for the most hallowed of sounds.
RJ Magazine
We’ve so ruthlessly professionalized the notion of culture that we often imagine it to be a thing that can be provided only by the elect, a strange noble peerage of those who have “made it.”
These are the stories of six artists whose work portrays — and seeks to protect — the Mojave Desert.
How opera star Rachael Wilson sang her way from Southern Nevada to the grand stages of Europe
With all due respect to writers, I humbly submit that music can take us further and faster and deeper into the galactic dust of our dreams.
Forty years ago, Las Vegas stirred from a civic slump and planted the seeds of a brilliant sporting future.
Tired of dead ends in Hollywood, Jim Cowan moved to Las Vegas and bet his career that the strange, surreal art he loved would be a big deal. It was a winning gamble.
Kids — and their social, emotional and intellectual growth — are at the center of Polita Simpson’s mission to create the foundation for good lives through the power of art.
Quinn Callahan opened the Rock Dance Studio in 2009. It is now home to some of the top dancers in the world.
Long before The Smith Center for the Performing Arts came along, Charles Vanda helped pioneer high culture in Las Vegas.
Chantal Chandler’s “Zine Within a Zine” Celebrates a Downtown Las Vegas Childhood.
Tyler Jones, founder and CEO of Blue Heron Homes, discusses modern design, luxury living and his future in a vintage Vegas neighborhood
How three Golden State architects helped Las Vegas find its form, and its groove
Behind Michelle Rohl’s embodiment of Janis Joplin is the story of her own legendary life in Vegas rock
