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HENDERSON GETS ASSEMBLY CANDIDATE.
Henderson businessman Stephen Silberkraus announced last week he will be a Republican candidate for the Assembly District 29 seat held by Democrat Lesley Cohen. The district lies mostly in Henderson and includes the Green Valley neighborhood.Silberkraus, 32, said he is running on a platform to improve public education and create more jobs by diversifying the economy.
“When you see that things are not being done well, you have two choices: You can stand by, or you can work to make things better. I care about the welfare of the community and the future that my son will face.”
Silberkraus operates a small multimedia and publishing company and has lived in Henderson since 2001. Over the past two years, Silberkraus has been working with NASA and the California Science Center about the decommissioning and history of the space shuttle....
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LACK OF FUNDS HAMPER OPERAS' EFFORTS
The opera scene in Las Vegas remains in flux despite a cultural renaissance fueled by The Smith Center for the Performing Arts and the burgeoning Arts District.
The two established local independent opera companies struggle to raise money to stage productions, which often are more elaborate and costly than those presented by other arts organizations. This leaves the UNLV Opera Theater program as the most consistent presenter of opera productions in the valley.
However...
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INSTANT ANTIQUARIAN - Stephen Silberkraus preserves a fleeting art form.
Coco Chanel famously said that “fashion is made to become unfashionable.” The same is true for technology, which is made to become obsolete. Most of us rush forward to acquire new inventions, leaving a trail of forgotten iPhones, tape decks and film cameras in our wake.
Not so for Stephen Silberkraus, who collects that old purveyor of instant gratification: Polaroids. He has 178 cameras, more than 2,000 photos and cases of expired, out-of-production film. “It’s definitely a little eccentric, I’m not going to lie,” Silberkraus says. “But it started really simply. I didn’t even realize how many I had until I sat down to count one day, and went, ‘Oh, my God, what have I done?’”
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