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2006 2007 Winter Schedule: Dec 1, Jan 5, Feb 2 The family's left, the leftover turkey tryptophan's worn off and what do you have to look forward to between now and the next holiday? Why, First Friday, of course! It's the best excuse December 1 has to offer to get you out of the house, out on the bustling streets of Downtown and into art galleries and tents where you can find unique gifts for

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Exhibit to raise funds, awareness By Kristen Peterson Las Vegas Sun Positive Vegas, a newly organized HIV/AIDS support group, is celebrating its launch with Art4AIDS, a fundraising art exhibit near the Commerce Street Studios. The exhibit at First Friday coincides with World AIDS Day. Several local artists are contributing or painting works that reflect their interpretation of AIDS in

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An exploration of sexuality and gender By Kristen Peterson Las Vegas Sun Judging by the billboards and nightclub ads, Las Vegas likes its women naked, chesty and, more important, submissive. So how dare the Contemporary Arts Collective meddle with the city's traditional ways by bringing in a sexually explorative exhibit on the nuances of gender? "We liked what it had to say," says Brian "

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The Contemporary Arts Collective Now Located in the Historic Holsum Bread Building The Gateway to the Las Vegas Arts District 231 West Charleston Boulevard, Suite 110 Las Vegas, Nevada 89102 (702) 382-3886 Or Visit their website at http://www.lasvegascac.org

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ART-CASINO CENTER AND COLORADO ART @ THE FUNK HOUSE-- Retina Confection, opening reception first friday oct 6, art @ the funk house 6-10pm works by Crystal J. Taylor medium :acrylic,ink,watercolor. show hangs til nov 1 Admire Rick and his mad skills on the didgeridoo. Outside we have live art demonstrations, performing artists, & who knows what else? Plus up to 25% discount on merchandise for

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The Contemporary Arts Collective Now Located in the Historic Holsum Bread Building The Gateway to the Las Vegas Arts District 231 West Charleston Boulevard, Suite 110 Las Vegas, Nevada 89102 (702) 382-3886 Or Visit their website at http://www.lasvegascac.org

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COMING SOON!!!

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Just as the city keeps on moving in the right direction, so I have to as well. Neither a whore nor a drunk, I'll be getting out of Vegas unscathed. And the city is giving me a good reason to be happy doing so, with temps in the 110's. Too damn hot. The nice thing about leaving Vegas will be the return visits. My first big city home, New Orleans, remains almost unchanged with every visit.

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From the vintage computer of Cindy Funkhouser comes this email about the upcoming First Friday activities... "First Friday June 3 With so many venues and only four hours to sample them, you must have missed a few spots at May’s enormous First Friday. Come down in June and see what’s new at your old favorites and also to check out the new, newer and newest locations. Holsum Lofts gives glimpses

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The desert epicenter where the military industrial complex meets alien menace turns 50 this month. Dreamland Resort is celebrating that milestone with an Area 51 - 50-th Anniversary campout celebration. All are invited, "We cordially invite security personnel and other guests from the Groom Lake Base. Please join us in celebrating half a century of military aviation history." Yeah, like that's

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When you are a big-time rock and roll god, fame can make you do strange things. You get to a hotel, throw TVs out the window, do loads of drugs and have sex with every groupie within arm's reach. But what do you do after all that? Frontman for the Queens of the Stone Age Josh Homme draws on walls. He and his tattoo buddies remove the art from the walls of various hotel rooms, tattoo them and

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If ever there was a city that deserved a guide to get tourists past a cliched and two-dimensional bill-of-goods that is sold to them, it's Vegas. While working at the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, I remember being assailed by a crunchy bohemian type about the crass commercialism, the soullessness, and thorough lack of culture in Vegas. Mind you, this was in the Rem Koolhaas-designed museum

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If the Mini is too big, and the Yugo too short, how about a Smart Car? These teeny European cars are now being Americanized by ZAP World Cars and being made available in the US. The Americanization includes being fed a steady diet of Big Macs, watching Fox News, and making provocative military statements about the remaining members of the Axis of Evil. And the first one is coming to Nevada.

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Desert Storm Baptist Church Originally uploaded by Las Vegas Arts and Culture. Luke 4 The Temptation of Jesus 1Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert, 2where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. 3The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of

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More fun audio exploration from the kids at LVEXPERIMENTAL.ORG. As usual they are hosting this event at the very cool Aruba Hotel & Spa.

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Does it matter if the museum lending the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art great art doesn't want to share its name on the exhibition title? Not really, but it is fun to make a big fuss about it. The Boston Globe's article about the next chapter in the Museum of Fine Arts/Bellagio art story touches upon that big fuss and the continuing criticism about the crass commercialism of the arrangement.

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May's Vegas Centennial/First Friday events list (courtesy of the First Friday website) is huge. But worth reading, so enjoy. . . The month of May has become synonymous with gigantic First Friday, and this year the festival has practically outgrown itself. In celebration of the Centennial First Friday is actually stretching into Saturday (10am-5pm). Come down and check out the largest First

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What started out as the first meeting of the Las Vegas Modern Committee (LV ModCom) in a Henderson Barnes and Noble ended with drinks, cigarettes, swing dancers, and a tour of the Aruba Hotel & Spa (formerly the Thunderbird Hotel) on the Vegas Strip. Last week, the Friday night meeting went well, with new people trying to feel out their common interest. Lawyers, city employees, writers, and

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Wynn Las Vegas opened to a packed house, with people reportedly waiting up to three hours to enter the new mega-casino. However, the art gallery has yet to open, which may explain why there is no link for it on the resort's site. In contrast to the spectacle of the new, Vegas' newest museum will be opening its doors on May 6th. The old post office now new "Post Modern" will be hosting its

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There will be future articles about local Vegas happenings, including a report on the rather enjoyable first meeting of the Las Vegas Modern Committee. Until then, you can read the just published New York Times article on the Liberace Museum.

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Vegas is known for its architecture, but with its tendency to destroy buildings more than a week old, historic preservation is not the city's biggest priority. On the national stage it has a charismatic reputation, but Vegas is no Palm Springs or LA. Without the Vegas Strip and its signature casino glam and glitz, Vegas does not compare to many cities large and small when it comes to

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Thanks to the Daily Show, it has been brought to this website's attention that Newt Gingrich will be speaking at the Silverton Hotel and Casino. The former Speaker of the House will be at the Hideaway Theater on April 14th, before Twisted Sister and after John Kay and Steppenwolf. If you feel like posing some questions to Newt, PBS's Frontline website The Long March of Newt Gingrich is a good

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Right now, there is no official "Steve Wynn's List of Art Only Steve Wynn Could Afford" website. So with that in mind, the following is an attempt to see what Mr. Wynn has owned in the past, and what may be on display when Wynn Las Vegas is planned to open in April 2005. Sometimes Google searches are intensive, like panning for gold. Occasionally that effort is rewarded with a chunk of

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London-based artist Banksy has struck again. Surreptitiously installing pictures in the Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum of Natural History, he literally wore a beard, mustache and long coat to hide the smuggled artwork. The Wooster Collective has pictures of the works put on display and their installations, a virtual how-to on placing artwork in

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From Figler Media and Consulting (figlermedia@earthlink.net) comes news of a literate lesbian invasion at The Artisan Hotel!!! "Two book tours converge into one in Las Vegas on Monday, March 21st, 2005, at 7 PM at the fabulous Artisan Hotel.   The Contemporary Arts Collective, in conjunction with Dayvid Figler, present Michelle Tea & Laurenn McCubbin supporting their new collaboration, Rent Girl

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