Tales of Terror!
Last Saturday I saw actor Joshua Kane perform a dramatic recital of Edgar Allan Poe material, including the Tell-Tale Heart, Hop-Frog, The Raven (of course), Cask of Amontillado. Sadly, he was forced to pass on the Masque of the Red Death (personal favorite) by a popular vote for Hop-Frog. To offset this injustice, please feel free to read it in it’s entirety at the Literature Network.
The performance took place on the first cold day of the season here in Las Vegas (a dark and windy night), downtown at the Historic 5th Street School’s auditorium. I can only hope more worthy arts events are staged there, although that would certainly add some quarters to the city coffers and some headaches to local arts enthusiasts, as there are only about 50 parking spaces available on site.
If there are more events, I’m sure you’ll be able find out about them on Artslasvegas.org, and If you want to learn more about the old schoolhouse, visit the UNLV Architecture site.
The Grammar School occupies land in between 4th street & Las Vegas Blvd, and has been recently renovated to match the large government building which sits next door, and in which Congress and the Justice and Defense departments have offices.
The area surrounding these buildings has been steadily cleaned up for years, but it only serves to make the blight immediately adjacent seem all the more unfriendly. Visiting DOJ administrators or Congressional staffers need only take a short drive down Bonneville to know how little affected by the Manhattanizing this area remains.
Tags: Arts, Edgar Allan Poe, Joshua Kane, Las Vegas, Manhattanizing, theater, theatre, urban planning
October 15th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Oh, what do you Vegasites know about the cold? We were toe deep in snow last Friday
Hmmm…I’d assumed the development of that area of Vegas had already started to go belly up years ago. o_0
October 15th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
FYI, much in the same way It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity, for most Las Vegans (get it right!), it’s the suddenness of the drop that makes it sting.
Keep in mind – I love it. Although my folks in Good Ol’ Brainerd, MN have an entirely different perspective on what “cold” means.
October 15th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Am I supposed to be impressed by this data, Maiku-Chan?
In fact, it looks quite similar to Reno’s local forecast.
And for YOUR info, kiddo, I can recall barely a year ago, sometime in late September, it had to be damn near 90 degrees in the afternoon, and then it SNOWED around 9:00 later that night…so don’t come snivelling to me about ‘sudden drops’ in temperature…
And here I was about to hand you a touche’.