arts & entertainment
Courtesy photo - Pianist Conrad Tao, 15, will perform as a special guest for the Reno Philharmonic s "Art of the Concerto" performances on Sunday and Tuesday. Tao was named the Davidson Fellow Laureate and his talent has earned him a $50,000 scholarship from the Davidson Institute for Talent Development. The art of making music look easy
Virtuoso pianist performs with the Reno Phil for ‘Art of the Concerto’
Mar 10, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Courtesy photo/Max Crane - Guitarist Eric Johnson will perform Friday as part of the Experience Hendrix Tour stopping at the Silver Legacy in Reno. Johnson will be joined by other guitarists. 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....
Mar 10, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Tribune/Nathan Orme - Nick Hexum, 311 lead singer, performs Monday night at the Knitting Factory in Reno. 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 ...
Mar 09, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Tribune/Cortney Maddock - Jill, played by Meredyth Martin, ponders whether or not to take the nice and shiny apple from Mrs. Baker, played by Debi Braat, who is trying to convince Jill to stay way from her son. ‘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...
Mar 05, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Whitney Myer Band to perform at Great Basin Brewing Co.
by AnnElise Hatjakes
Mar 03, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Musician Whitney Myer has released a CD and performed at local venues for more than nine years — and she’s only in her early 20s.
Learning to count to 311



by Nathan Orme
Mar 03, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
With luck and wit, theater company entertains
by Cortney Maddock
Mar 03, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Singer Raul Malo performs at the Nugget
by Tribune Staff
Mar 03, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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 at Nevada Museum of Art
by Tribune Staff
Mar 03, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Band rolls into town at the speed of blur
by Cortney Maddock
Feb 24, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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...

top entertainment news
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Motion controls and social gaming were the hot topics at this week's Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of game designers, programmers and executives....
By DERRIK J. LANG
Sat Mar 13 04:21:49 -0600 2010
NEW YORK (AP) -- Joy Behar, Cynthia Nixon and the ABC drama series "Brothers & Sisters" are among this year's recipients of media awards from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation....
Sat Mar 13 21:14:28 -0600 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The name of the late actor Corey Haim was found on a fraudulent prescription for a powerful painkiller that authorities said Friday was obtained through a major drug ring....
By ANTHONY McCARTNEY and GREG RISLING
Sat Mar 13 06:23:31 -0600 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- To further cut costs at its movie studio, The Walt Disney Co. said Friday that it will shut a San Francisco-area facility used to capture the performance of Jim Carrey for his digitally animated character, Scrooge, in "A Christmas Carol."...
By RYAN NAKASHIMA
Fri Mar 12 19:23:33 -0600 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Prosecutors say a man has pleaded no contest to receiving a Rolex watch stolen from Orlando Bloom's house during a spate of celebrity burglaries....
Fri Mar 12 16:40:43 -0600 2010