32 results for "Mel Shields Bee correspondent"
James Blunt: Hardworking, straightforward and lyrical
Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 12:00 AMJames Blunt is home for three days "to do my laundry" after spending weeks on the road – the United Kingdom, Europe, Casablanca, Malta, you name it – touring behind his latest album.
A classic rolls with the times
Friday, July 22, 2005 at 4:25 PMThe fact that Stevie Nicks is kicking off Reno's annual celebration of nostalgia, Hot August Nights, at 8 p.m. next Sunday at the Reno Events Center shows how the party has evolved. In the beginning, the celebration centered on the 195...
Second City troupe strikes Sparks for Artown
Friday, July 16, 2004 at 4:05 PMIn 1959, a group of improvisational actors and comedians in Chicago named the theater they converted from a Chinese laundry Second City. They set the tone for everything comic that came after. Second City arrives in Sparks -- northern Neva...
Larry Wilson's weird world of wonder
Friday, July 16, 2004 at 4:05 PMIt's not often that a nightclub revue opens with a small talking bunny threatening physical harm if any recorders or cameras are used during the performance, but that is what opens "Wonderland," a new show at Harrah's Reno. ...
Ray Price marks 50th anniversary of his first hit
Monday, November 18, 2002 at 1:18 PMRebels often grow up to become the establishment. Then they rail about the rebels. A large number of country singers complaining about their current exclusion from the business, pushed out by the more-commercial recording artists, once did th...
Sorry, Bob, but here comes your nemesis
Friday, November 15, 2002 at 11:01 AMFielding West and Bob the Bird are back. West is the comedian-magician now starring in "Comedy Magic" at Harrah's Reno. Bob is the 17-year veteran co-star of his act, a poor creature who has had to undergo considerable torture, ...
B-52's: Fun and games -- but there's more to it
Monday, November 11, 2002 at 2:11 PMDeborah Harry bleached her hair and made it a trademark for Blondie. Cyndi Lauper turned her hair orange or multicolored. Boy George complimented his audiences for "knowing a good drag queen when you see one." And the B-52's spo...
Nevada Gambol: Platters spinning out their familiar hits
Monday, November 11, 2002 at 2:10 PMEven as Chapter One dedicates a segment of its rhythm-and-blues revue (now playing at Harrah's Reno) to the original Platters, the most recent incarnation of that legendary vocal group arrives at John Ascuaga's Nugget in Sparks this w...
Good humor rules at comedy clubs
Friday, November 8, 2002 at 11:50 AMThe market has made all the necessary corrections, and things are in balance once again. Demand no longer exceeds supply, and inferior product is rare. Not on Wall Street -- in comedy clubs. After a period in the 1980s when comedy clubs op...
The name says it all
Sunday, November 3, 2002 at 10:00 AMThe "Motor City All-Stars Rhythm and Blues Revue" at Harrah's Reno is exactly what it says it is. It is a revue. It is not a tribute show. It is not an impression show. It is a superior hour of entertainment, built around the mu...
