A local duo featuring violin and cello debuted with a live performance at an east Las Vegas community center on Sunday.

As students in the UNLV Jazz Ensemble settled into their practice, their temporary stage, a classroom-studio on the second floor of the Ham Fine Arts building, was replete with stiff music stands and plastic chairs.

Last summer Lisa Rock left her house as seldom as she could. She says it's because of what was happening right outside her door.

Dave Loeb, Director of the Division of Jazz and Commercial Music at UNLV, conducts his players during a rehearsal Friday, Dec. 10, 2021.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, which runs one of the world’s largest jazz education program networks, has tapped UNLV to compete in the Jack Rudin Jazz Championship on January 10-11 in New York City. Only nine other colleges were chosen to participate.

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The UNLV Jazz program has been selected to compete in a two-day competition at Lincoln Center in New York.

His status as an art-world outsider, and as a staunch defender of “beauty” in art, drew him legions of fans and enemies alike.

Dave Hickey, a critic, popularly known for his book "Art Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy," has passed away at the age of 82.

Art critic Dave Hickey, known for his sharp wit and brash writing, died at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, of heart disease November 12 at the age of eighty-two.

The author of landmark books such as "Air Guitar" and "Invisible Dragon" died of heart disease.

Ukrainian-born, American conductor Taras Krysa has made a name for himself here in Las Vegas, throughout the United States and in Europe.