Taking Broadway’s biggest hits and transplanting them to northern Nevada, the Sierra School of Performing Arts (SSPA) will perform its third annual “Broadway Bits” starting Friday and running throu...
Getting some experience on the Jimi Hendrix tour If guitarists before him were playing in the dark, Jimi Hendrix invented the light bulb. “He was the Thomas Edison of rock guitar,” said Eric Johnson, a guitar legend in his own right....
Review: 311 at the Knit RENO — With their biennial marathon concert just around the corner, rock/reggae/rap group 311 performed for a fairly full house Monday night at the Knitting Factory. Every other year, 311 ...
‘Butterflies’ teach gentle lessons of understanding Walking through the doors of the humble Laxalt Auditorium in Reno is like traveling back in time. Janice Joplin serenades through large speakers directed at the red velvet curtains as the actors f...
At its biennial March 11 show, rock/punk/hip hop/reggae band 311 is known to play sets of 60-plus songs that last for five or six hours. The group's current tour, which includes a stop at the Knitt...
The stage is like a time machine: A tie-dye painting decorates the wall and a velvet brown couch, reminiscent of something found in a modern-day vintage clothing store, is pushed into the right cor...
As the frontman for the Mavericks and a member of Los Super Seven, Raul Malo has applied his Roy Orbison-like delivery to an eclectic array of material. Malo brings his uniquely entertaining act to...
March is Youth Art Month and the Nevada Museum of Art is celebrating in true style with an exhibition of the winning works of the Scholastic Art Awards of 2010 – featuring artwork by middle and hig...
Robert Levon Been describes his music career with the band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club as moments in time all blurred together. Been says the memories of more than 800 shows played on tour, five s...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michael "Big Mike" Lynche made Kara DioGuardi cry and turned the rest of the "American Idol" judges giddy with a moving performance of "This Woman's Work."...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Actress Reese Witherspoon says her "Legally Blonde" character Elle Woods has been ousted as the most stylish woman to come to the nation's capital by first lady Michelle Obama....
The appeal of 3-D movies helped boost movie ticket sales by nearly 8 percent to a record $29.9 billion worldwide in 2009, according to the Motion Picture Association of America....