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...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Elizabeth Dole welcomed 250 veterans to the World War II memorial Thursday to honor their service and introduce a TV miniseries on the battles of the Pacific....
LONDON (AP) -- Album lovers may rejoice a little at last: a British court says Pink Floyd, purveyor of iTunes-unfriendly concept records, cannot be unbundled....
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Merlin Olsen, a Hall of Fame defensive lineman and member of the Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome Foursome" who followed up football with a successful television career in "Little House on the Prairie," NFL broadcasts and commercials, has died. He was 69....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A stage adaptation of John Grisham's first novel, "A Time to Kill," will have its world premiere next year in Washington in what is being billed as a "pre-Broadway" production....