Monday is our open mic show. Where you and your views, ideas and opinions take precedent.Joining us is Shahab Zargari. He’s an award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker and faculty administrator in UNLV’s College of Fine Arts. He was on State of Nevada about a year ago promoting an album of cover songs created to support anti-suicide efforts through the Trevor Project.

When a proposal to inject $190 million per year into Nevada’s film incentives program circulated in the Legislature, eyes turned to Las Vegas—and rolled in exasperation. The bill would also have expanded the state’s film tax credit program, provided for a pair of Vegas-based studio projects to help boost workforce development and larger productions, and bolstered Nevada’s film industry.

Record label owner. Filmmaker. Photographer. Communications guru for the UNLV College of Fine Arts. Shahab Zargari wears more hats than almost anyone else in Las Vegas’ creative community.

Our country might still be mired in pandemic-born states of social isolation, but on the walls of Core Contemporary gallery in the Historic Commercial Center District, 20 artists meet in visual conversation. The occasion? The gallery’s second annual national juried art show, Use Other Door.