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Religion can rock, too: Las Vegas provides avenues for young band to demonstrate its talent; Friday, Aug. 29, 2008; Meet the band: Summit Grove, a young — median age 19 — Las Vegas group to watch.
‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ performed live, 40 years after release: Quintet reprises songs of the album the Beatles never played in concert; Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008; The Beatles never performed “Sgt. Pepper” in concert, but Friday at Texas Station we’ll get the closest thing. Las Vegas is the last stop on a 10-city tour for a unique tribute event.
Cynical, funny play takes pokes at Hollywood’s deceptions: Monday, Aug. 25, 2008; A recent hit off- and on Broadway, Douglas Carter Beane’s cynical comedy “The Little Dog Laughed” is being staged in what may be the most dramatic venue in Las Vegas.
Meet Richard Cheese: He’ll grate on you, make you laugh and sing along: Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008; Make room in the Rat Pack pantheon, fellas. Move over Frank, Sammy and Dean ... here’s Dick.
Diamond songs sung true: Impersonator may even top the real thing for Vegas crowds; Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008; You come to Las Vegas and you want things your way, right? This is your time, and you’re spending money, and you’re gonna have it just how you want it.
'Aida' shines under the stars: Production, setting make for a wonderful evening of entertainment; Monday, Aug. 18, 2008; The show begins in your car.
Serious music, now with fun: Piano legend would approve of event’s new category; Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008; Given your choice of two pianos — an austerely elegant jet-black Steinway grand or Liberace’s own rhinestone-encrusted Baldwin, sparkling with rainbow colors in the spotlights — which would you pick? Sparkly proved irresistible to most of the junior pianists at the Competitors Showcase for the 2008 Liberace Piano Competition on Sunday afternoon, including 8-year-old Natalie Rule of Las Vegas.
Beg, borrow, steal a ticket: Steely Dan brings perfectionist blend of jazz, pop to Pearl; Friday, Aug. 8, 2008; Las Vegas, along with New York and Los Angeles, has been a continuing motif, metaphor and milieu for the songs of Steely Dan, offering a glamorous/seamy setting for a cast of morally ambiguous characters.
Unplugged tunes in a neon city: Weekly showcase features local acoustic music; Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008; One of the most plugged-in cities in the world, Las Vegas seems to have every kind of entertainment you could wish for.
The stupidity antidote: Joel McHale’s nascent stand-up routine borrows from his show’s skewering of bad TV; Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008; Joel McHale — who hosts "The Soup," a weekly recap of the best of the worst on TV — watches the bad so you don’t have to, earning him a following that considers him the antidote to the nation’s stupidity epidemic.