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1. What does your zip code say about you? 2. The next wave of Vegas music: 10 acts to hear this year 3. How to do AVN right: Make the most out of your day at the porn convention 4. Threesome 101: Tips for a successful ménage à trois from the porn convention floor 5. Vegas for Real: Yes, people live here

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CREATIVITY AT COSMO From confessing your sins to Santa to being a contestant on a game show, there’s a lot to experience this year at Cosmopolitan’s P3Studio. The creative space just announced its 2015 lineup this week—find out all about the solid rotation of mid- and early-career artists (some local!) at lasvegasweekly.com.

Mail prostitution occurs practically everywhere you could imagine, and temptations are often, AVN is nothing I call exciting. –Demarcus Trey

Mariah’s arrival Mariah Carey is the latest Strip headliner, and you lovehate it.

Great voice and a nice addition to Las Vegas. –Aprile Bannister DeSimone

Cover to cover Last week’s Las Vegas Weekly featured local country act Jill & Julia in a tribute to a deliciously memorable album cover from 1965.

Wow! How many of your readers are way too young to get the tribute to the Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass album cover? My Southern Baptist mother had that album lying around the house when I was young. It was probably the most scandalous thing she owned. Love it! –Michbass Here’s a bit of trivia—Delores Erickson was the model on that album cover. Read all about it at Wikipedia ... She’s now living in obscurity in Kelso, Washington. –KillerB

Garden fresh The idea of installing a community garden in the former Arts Square sculpture park space seems like a natural fit.

I hope it is an organic food garden they use to feed the homeless. –Valerie Michael A garden would be awesome. Add a couple of swings, too. –Samantha Hernandez An area within the garden that had specifically seasonal Nevadagrown fruits and vegetables would be neat. –Live Love Envy

Return of the porn Another year, another AVN convention, right?

To do it right is to move it back to the Sands. It’s too f *cking small at the Hard Rock! –Paul Moe Morales When you live 24/7, 365 days a year in Las Vegas, where

Who cares? She’s washed up ... bring some real talent to LV. She and Britney can fight for “biggest loser.” –Dawn Bridgeman

DJ DISPUTE Nightlife editor Mike Prevatt’s claim that Light’s resident lineup is the one to beat inspired some debate.

Meh, only thing worthwhile is Carl Cox. –Aaron Olson Couldn’t agree less. Hakkasan has the best lineup easily, then XS, then Light, if not in a tie with Life, Marquee and Drai’s. Light’s main DJs are Alesso, Axwell, Ingrosso and my boy Stellar ... that’s it. Sorry, definitely not number one. –Nelson Martin Disclosure should have stayed independent. Their live set at Brooklyn Bowl was amazing. Light’s only going to book them for DJ shifts. –Kevin Herrera

Report Card Nevada’s recent ranking in Education Week’s Quality Counts report is just another reason to take a closer look at our system.

As a parent and educator, I can make comparisons with Nevada’s educational system and other states. This article is correct about exposing children early to structured learning experiences. A child’s formative/early learning years set their wiring and pace for the rest of their lives; this is a fact. Many of our underperforming children live in impoverished conditions where parents are typically lacking resources to support education. It’s just plain sad that children are born into a world and home where they are disadvantaged at the get-go! To blame hard-working, dedicated educators over something they have no control over adds nothing to the situation. –StarAliMistriel

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AsWeSeeIt OPINION + POLITICS + HUMOR + STYLE

TO TRIFECTA, WITH LOVE ∑ Dear Marty Walsh,

> FRAGMENTS (Clockwise) Kallus’ drawing; Hirsch’s Love Bot; Marty and Spud.

The sock otter got to me, with his mouthless smirk, sea-captain threads and jaunty posture as he pulled a sick wheelie on a roller skate, cutesy innocence jarred by comically sexual allusion. I had no idea what artist Angela Kallus intended when her pencil made him live. I just knew I wanted to see him again. But I didn’t have $400 to spend on something so ... extra. I’m sure you’ve heard that a million times. For every hardcore collector investing thousands in works that seem essential, there are legions who can’t reconcile any cost, or aren’t even comfortable enjoying art in a gallery setting. It can feel very stiff. Silent. Like the art almost shouldn’t be looked at if you don’t have the intellectual goods. Trifecta was the opposite for me. Your space was warm and real, with Spud in his smart little dog tie and the colorful range of work, from Sam Davis’ sadeyed stewardesses to Casey Weldon’s mutant cats. I picked up a kitschy bulldog sculpture by Miguel Rodriguez for $100, and a set of $12 domino Bots programmed by artist Gary Hirsch to lull me to sleep and make me brave and love me. I was always stoked to find something I could squeeze into my budget, but Kallus’ “Equestrian Portrait #2” felt out of reach. Until you said I could pay it off slowly, whenever and whatever I could afford. October 4, 2012, I made my $50 down payment. Last week, with just days left before you and Spud and your husband Pete would close the gallery to move back to Ireland, I paid it off. There was no contract. You never hounded me, despite how rarely I stopped by to trickle in money (twice). And on the last possible day, with the gallery stripped down to its bones, Pete was expecting me because you convinced him that I would show up. This random girl who came in a few times. I wish you’d been there to see the drawing finally pass into my hands. No doubt you’ve got a lot to do, packing and prepping for Late Until Eight, a last goodbye to artists and art lovers who’ve watched Trifecta become a force over the past 10 years and appreciated the evocative, beautifully wrought visions it shared. I’m probably the last person you’ll remember, but I will remember you. Every time I meet the otter’s mysterious plastic stare. You made it possible for me to buy a real piece of art, because you saw the look in my eyes and wanted me to have it. Trifecta was a business. But I, for one, am grateful you didn’t always run it that way. –Erin Ryan

MY ZIP CODE, MYSELF According to your address, you might be a soccer mom who digs renting movies and going to the zoo

8 LASVEGASWEEKLY.COM JANUARY 29–FEBRUARY 4, 2015

∑ I’m currently an American dreamer, but I used to be a bright young professional, and before that an affluent retiree and before that, a soccer mom. It’s not that I’ve had past lives, but instead several zip codes. Zip Code Lookup, a website created by Esri mapping, reveals what marketers

know about us based on where we live. By blending Census and marketing data, the company identified 67 American lifestyles, ranging from young to old, rich to poor, rural to urban. The results seem accurate, with obvious outliers. Though I don’t belong to a young, foreign-born fam-

ily in a multi-generational household, the breakdown is still amusing: “Renting movies, watching TV and playing video games provide entertainment at home,” the summary reads. “For special treats, we spend the day at a theme park or zoo.” My question is: What zoo? –Kristy Totten

MARTY WALSH BY ADAM SHANE; ART PHOTOS BY MIKAYLA WHITMORE; SOCCER BY SHUTTERSTOCK

As We See It…

What’s cooking? Scent chemistry to Oscars prep, Beauty Kitchen has been busy

> avn evolves Fans were still into posing with porn stars, but they also packed seminars at AEE.

Sexy shift With more visibility and interest, porn goes mainstream at AVN By Mark Adams Past the coffee shop housing sex toys, I slide by the bouncer and the women striking poses in Spandex. I’m not in an Amsterdam sex club, I’m at the Hard Rock Hotel. AVN just wrapped another installment of its Adult Entertainment Expo at the off-Strip resort Saturday night—and after an increase in attendance last year following a recession-fueled industry lull (as told to the Las Vegas Sun in 2014), the annual trade show saw more growth in 2015. “This time out we are packed to the gills,” says Sherri L. Shaulis, senior editor of AVN’s Pleasure Products. With exhibitors taking up more space in the convention halls, AEE’s B2B Adult Novelty Expo was moved to a nearby ballroom. “We’ve taken over areas of the hotel that we’ve never used before,” Shaulis says, mentioning

Prehistoric Vegas

the elevator lobby and the Fuel Café. But don’t think added square footage translated into more room to roam. Congested hordes surrounded busy booths, lines for starlet selfies caused a never-ending traffic jam, and fan seminars packed HRH’s Vinyl concert venue. Registration numbers for Internext, AVN’s B2B web component, were up according to Shaulis, and an AVN rep said over 35,000 were in attendance at AEE. Convention content expanded, too. “The fan element really skyrocketed this year for a number of reasons, not least of which I think is our ‘Sex Is …’ [fan seminar series]” Shaulis says. The AVN rep explains that as adult entertainment moves away from the fringe thanks to visibility (citing 50 Shades of Grey) and with technology allowing increased access to information, more people are interested in being educated about sex. So AVN amped up the seminar series this year, loading each day with multiple sessions and inviting sex therapists and doctors alongside the usual lineup of porn-star panelists. “It wasn’t a one-time fluke last year,” Shaulis says. “We are really here, we’re mainstream and people want their adult stuff.”

> it looks like a bunch of dirt, but ... It’s actually an excavation of a Columbian Mammoth tusk!

What you need to know about Tule Springs Fossil Beds Sloths the size of grizzly bears! American

“I’m not gonna pay someone $400 to paint chocolate on my face when I could do it myself,” Heather Marianna says with a big laugh. That attitude is why she started making her own face masks, soaps and body treatments years ago, and why in 2012, she shared her secrets with the world. Several how-to videos on her YouTube channel have over 100,000 hits, like the cellulite-busting body wrap made of corn oil, grapefruit juice, thyme and heat. As requests for her to sell her own products piled up, Beauty Kitchen morphed into a business. Made with all-natural ingredients like imported Shea butter and essential oils, the line includes everything from collagen eye gels to rosewater toners to an organic sugar skin polisher perfumed with jasmine and sandalwood. “Most of my stuff has five or less ingredients. It’s very pure.” Marianna concocts it all (she’s selftaught, though she says she’s working on her certification as an herbalist) and has just two employees in her new 3,000-squarefoot production facility and showroom in Boulder City. “I’m such a control freak,” she says with another laugh. Beauty Kitchen is mostly online, but clients can set up private sessions in the showroom to shop and customize. Monthly box delivery ($34.95 for a Big Box or $12.95 for a Mini Monthly) is a fun way to sample, and Marianna says there are nearly 4,000 subscribers so far. The boxes were part of the Golden Globes’ celeb gifting-suite and will have a presence at the Oscars and Grammys. She gushes about chatting with Viola Davis and Daniel Franzese, though Beauty Kitchen is about the rest of us being able to afford the same luxe pampering. Between making products, filming segments, attending events and hosting parties, Marianna sleeps about four hours a night. Good thing she’s got eye gels handy. –Erin Ryan Connect with Marianna and shop Beauty Kitchen at heathermarianna.tv.

lions! Dire wolves! Saber-toothed cats! Mammoths with 6-foot tusks and teeth the size of your head! The northwest Valley’s Tule Springs was home to these prehistoric animals, and today it’s a fossil-rich area with remains ranging from 3,000 to 200,000 years old.

¶ Once considered for housing development, the site became a protected national monument in December, and officials are in the process of putting together management and recreation plans. Meantime, visitors are welcome to park on public roads and explore the 22,650-acre swath along U.S. Highway 95 north of Aliante to Creech Air Force Base. ¶ “It’s important to remember that all park resources—fossils, plants, animals, artifacts and rocks—are to remain as you find them, so that other visitors can experience the same sense of discovery,” Christie Vanover of the National Park Service writes. And watch your step—you could literally stumble on a giant sloth. –Kristy Totten

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As We See It… > ASIAN UPDATE California Noodle House is new at the Cal.

Language barrier The Center’s GenderSense brought transgender issues to light

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New noodles are a good start Downtown’s casinos are in need of a flavor boost By Brock Radke The new California Noodle House is ideal. It’s a comfortable, neat space with warm decorative touches like a wall-mounted collage of noodle soup bowls and amber-glowing paper lanterns hanging from the ceiling. The Pacific Rim-influenced cuisine is still trendy, and there’s an open kitchen so you can watch your beef chow fun being made. Most importantly, it’s a brand-new restaurant in an old Downtown casino— Boyd Gaming’s California—serving the kind of food the Cal’s regulars are already looking for. Ideal. The unfortunate thing is that it took Boyd a long, long time to create the California Noodle House, to update the dining offerings at one of its three Downtown properties. And that’s the standard for the casinos on or around Fremont Street. Cruise through any of these spots, from Main Street Station and Four Queens to Binion’s and the Fremont, and you’ll notice a significantly stale restaurant selection. One thing we know about the Vegas visitor of today is that eating and drinking is just as, if not more important than gambling and seeing shows and shopping. In the LVCVA’s 2013 Visitor Profile Study, the average three-day trip expenditure for food and drink was $278.95, greater than the sum of spending for shopping, shows, sightseeing and local transportation. Vegas has become a food-tourist destination, clearly powered by the dynamic and diverse dining available a few miles south on Las Vegas Boulevard. Of course, we can’t compare Downtown casinos to the Strip, but if we did, it would be important to note that the Strip’s post-recession recovery has moved rather quickly compared to Downtown’s molasses-esque movement. Even when new casinos have not been constructed, there are always several hot new restaurants on the Strip. Food is a major driver now, and not just in the Strip’s megaresorts—just ask the folks at Station Casinos why they’ve dropped millions in the last couple of years updating the eats at their neighborhood properties. Downtown casinos are way late to this party, and that fact is even more glaring when you consider how important restaurant and bar business has been in the

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redevelopment of Fremont East (and for Downtown Project). The Golden Nugget has the best and most restaurants along Fremont Street, and its most recent move was replacing the classic Carson Street Café coffee shop with a tequila bar/Mexican restaurant and a Claim Jumper—not the most exhilarating adjustment. There’s literally nothing to eat in the Las Vegas Club. El Cortez is finally revamping its steakhouse, formerly the Flame, but the new thing won’t be done until spring. The Plaza has made a lot of effort with mixed results. A wholesale revamp a few years back brought the successful Hash House A Go Go, the swanky Oscar’s Steakhouse, and the quick-fun Pop Up Pizza, but the casino recently closed its sushi joint. The newest addition, Bier Garten, is a sunny place to enjoy a brew and brat, but it remains mostly undiscovered. The latest arrival in the city’s center, Downtown Grand, made food a top priority from day one, though it hasn’t become a dining must-do. (Pizza Rock, part of the adjacent Downtown 3rd complex, is a runaway success.) At the eastern end of the Fremont Street Experience, the D was able to generate and sustain excitement after a property-wide rebranding—it used to be Fitzgeralds—in 2012. Installing a new coffee shop and a Coney dog quick stop and bringing in the Detroit-operated Joe Vicari’s Andiamo Steakhouse proved to be wise investments that continue to pay off. Andiamo also fits because it shows shades of a classic Vegas gourmet room, which Downtown casinos have in spades. There’s Oscar’s at the Plaza, Hugo’s Cellar at Four Queens, Vic & Anthony’s at the Nugget and Top of Binion’s. Tourists and locals will always seek out these nostalgic experiences for special occasions, but there’s competition all over the Valley when it comes to the vintage vibe. Everybody loves a little old school, but a little is all you need. More than anything, Vegas visitors love the new. What haven’t they seen or done or tasted before? What’s changed since the last time they came to town, one or two or three years ago? The casinos under the canopy need to get with the program and serve up something fresh.

“What’s the very first thing you ask when someone is pregnant?” Holly Reese asked, illustrating the gender binary. Even before birth, we expect one of two boxes to be checked: boy or girl, male or female, blue or pink. But not everyone fits into those two boxes, which was the focus of the Center’s January 22 GenderSense, a training on transgender cultural competence for the greater Las Vegas community, but also specifically intended to reach lesbian, gay and bisexual locals who share the LGBT umbrella. The event was held in memory of Leelah Alcorn, a transgender Ohio teen who committed suicide in December due to a lack of understanding about her transgender identity. A blanket term, “transgender” encompasses those whose gender identity doesn’t align with the one assigned at birth. Reese kicked off the conversation by asking attendees to share terms used to describe the diverse transgender community, which include but aren’t limited to: trans, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, FTM, MTF and even terms from other cultures like hijra (India) and two spirit (Native American). Note the omission of tranny, transsexual, transvestite and hermaphrodite—now widely considered outdated and even offensive. “We never want to cause harm,” Reese said. “Go with the language someone gives you.” If it’s not given, communication is key. When some audience members expressed apprehension at not knowing which preferred gender pronouns to use (he, she, him and her are also part of the narrow gender binary), the Center’s youth services manager Cameron Catton advised simply, “Ask.” The conversation concluded with a discussion about the issues still affecting the largely marginalized transgender community, including health care, identification documentation and restrooms—and the moderators were quick to mention all are in need of support from allies, specifically the first three-fourths of the LGBT spectrum. –Mark Adams For more about GenderSense, visit lasvegasweekly.com.

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BATTLE OF THE BEERS SEATTLE

Beer: Pike Brewing Company IPA Hometown cred: Founded in 1989 by Charles and Rose Ann Finkel, Pike isn’t just in Seattle, it’s attached to the city’s beloved Pike Place Market and makes fabulously named beers like Kilt Lifter ruby ale and Old Bawdy barley wine. Type: India pale ale ABV: 6.3% Taste: Hoppy and bitter, with a clean finish If it were a Seahawks player, it would be: Russell Wilson— potent but refined.

> THE BIG BET Care to wager on Russell Wilson interceptions or Tom Brady passing yards?

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The best way to bet on the Super Bowl just might involve soccer BY CASE KEEFER Sports books offer proposition wagers for virtually everything on Super Bowl 49—so long as it pertains to the actual game. Tourists are annually disappointed to find out that offshore shops are the only place where they can gamble on things like New England coach Bill Belichick’s attire (sleeveless hoodie is a slight favorite over sleeved hoodie) or halftime performer Katy Perry’s setlist (“Roar” and “Firework” are co-favorites to be the opener). But frustrations fade when you really look at what oddsmakers have dreamt up within the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s rules. Every sports book in town prints pages of betting options with ways to get action on every notable player; the Westgate Las Vegas Superbook alone posted more than 350 prop bets on this year’s game. We did a deep dive on the Superbook’s inhigh-demand, novel-length prop book to uncover a sampling of this year’s options.

THE CLASSICS

• Total passing yards for Tom Brady: over/under 262.5 • Longest rush by Marshawn Lynch: over/under 18.5 THE CRAZIES

• Coach to use the first challenge flag: Bill Belichick minus-110 vs. Pete Carroll minus-110 • Which will have more: Manchester City goals against Chelsea minus-175 (risking $1.75 to win $1) vs. Russell Wilson interceptions plus-155 (risking $1 to win $1.55) MY PICKS

• Total tackles for Richard Sherman: under 3.5 at plus-110 • More receiving yards: Doug Baldwin plus-23.5 vs. Rob Gronkowski

THREE BIG GAME PARTIES TO CONSIDER Do you like to watch the game at your friends’ house? I’m talking about your friends with the really, really nice house. To catch that vibe, head to Crush, where big-screen viewing will be accompanied by butler-style service and a choice of à la carte eats or a buffet of shaved brisket sliders, chorizo paninis, fried calamari and bucket-of-beer specials. Special menu is $85. MGM Grand, 702-891-3222.

Cabo Wabo is having a Super Bowl party in its spacious, HDTV-packed Loft. There’s a 184-inch video grid up there, too. Admission includes an open bar of unlimited mixed drinks, margaritas, beer, wine, sangria and more, plus all-you-can-eat wings, sliders, taquitos and more. $200. Planet Hollywood, 702-385-2226.

RUSSELL WILSON BY DAVID J. PHILLIP/ AP PHOTO; TOM BRADY BY CHARLES KRUPA/AP PHOTO; CRUSH BY L.E. BASKOW

Only in Vegas can you hit a Super Bowl party inside a giant dayclub pool dome. Marquee’s Q Bowl promises to be one of the most unique viewing parties on the Strip. Splurge for the buffet and feast on salt-crusted filet mignon, honey barbecue riblets and truffled mac and cheese. Open bar or buffet $60, both $120. Cosmopolitan, 702-333-9000. –Brock Radke

Beer: Samuel Adams Cold Snap Hometown cred: When you think Boston beer, you think Sam Adams. Hell, they even make a Boston Lager. But Sam goes well beyond that ubiquitous draught with thoughtful seasonal beers like this refreshing wintry brew. Type: White ale ABV: 5.3% Taste: Light and refreshing, with notes of fruit and spice. If it were a Patriots player, it would be: Julian Edelman—light on its feet and surprising. Bottom line: We’ll take Cold Snap’s careful construction and flavorful finesse over Pike’s brawny hop punch, though were the two to fight it out, the IPA might leave Sam Adams a bit … deflated? –Sarah Feldberg

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Weekly Q&A

> INDUSTRY EXPERT Hospitality icon Danny Meyer is finally doing business in Las Vegas.

Danny Meyer is pretty much an institution when it comes to restaurants and hospitality, which makes you wonder: What took him so long to open a place in Las Vegas? The CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group and creator of iconic New York eateries such as Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern and Maialino (and author of best seller Setting the Table) sat with the Weekly outside his shiny, new, Strip-front Shake Shack at New York-New York to talk business, burgers and more. So this is Shake Shack Vegas. How is it different from other Shacks? I’d start

by saying how similar it is. In some respects it’s the most similar Shack we have to the original in Madison Square Park, for two reasons. It has a to-go window. I think it’s the only other one that’s actually a shack. And No. 2, when you look around the corner to what’s coming, we’ll be adjacent to a real park. So in those respects, very similar. What’s different is it’s far bigger than any Shack we have, and more modern. I just told a colleague that I think I’m jealous of this one, that we didn’t get one just like this in New York. MGM CEO Jim Murren told us last year he had to persuade you a bit to come to Vegas to be part of the Park project, that he talked you into it. There’s been

about 29 years of talking me into it,

Looking west, at last Shake Shack creator Danny Meyer, on bringing his beloved burgers to the Strip and not just on Mr. Murren’s part. I don’t know when things got heated up here, maybe call it the ’90s? Since that point, it’s been like a devil sitting on my shoulder, waving Las Vegas under my nose. One of the first times I visited, one of my partners said to me: You may or may not ever wanna come here, but it’s completely irresponsible to be ignorant. You need to know what’s happening here. And he was right. But really, it was not until Shake Shack that a project made sense and we finally said, let’s do it. What was the closest call before Shake Shack? There were probably four.

honest answer is I don’t know, but you can only do it the first time once and if it’s a really good experience, it kinda makes you want to do it again. It’s just natural. But we’ll see ... We’ve got a couple of businesses I could potentially see here. Shake Shack is not inside of a casino. Was that a difference maker? Part of my own

resistance to being in Las Vegas for years was just that. I never wanted to do that. Here, we are part of a vision MGM has that says, wait a second, it will actually help our business to not bury it, to draw more people down our way as opposed to a hotel driveway with a fountain or something.

But what was the closest? (Long pause)

It’s probably better not to say. Maybe those guys don’t even know they were a close call.

This is the farthest west Shake Shack has ever been. How exciting is that? It’s

huge. It’s exciting to have access to lot of people for the first time.

In my mind, every time a new casino has opened, they’ve probably called you about doing a restaurant. Absolutely.

We have a lot of West Coast people here who love burgers. America loves its

Does being here with Shake Shack pave the way for more projects in Vegas? The

burgers. We would never suggest this is the only burger or the last burger you should have. We just want to make sure

Shake Shack makes your rotation, and if we do that we’ll be in great shape. I think there’s a fun story here about the evolution of the role of the burger in American culture. If you go back to Happy Days, it was the pretext for showing off your car and hanging out with friends. And then someone thought, why don’t we turn that parking lot over quickly with drive-thru windows? And then, of course, fast food took hold. Today, I think Shake Shack comes in a little differently. We’ve kind of spun the clock backward to the parking lot, saying, Let’s enjoy hanging out. And also taking what we’ve learned from our white tablecloth restaurants about how to source meat and introduce quality product and hire people and train for hospitality. Mash all that stuff up and don’t take away everything people love about fast food, like ordering from a window or not having a waiter or waitress. What if you can have all that and still focus on quality? Speaking of hospitality, Vegas is really good at it. Are you excited to get a taste of the local industry culture? We are

absolutely eager to get to know the industry here. One of the first things we always do in any new city is get the team together and go eat at all the restaurants people [are talking about]. This city is built on taking exceptional care of the people in first class and the people in coach class. I mean, who does it better? –Brock Radke

“We would never suggest this is the only burger or the last burger you should have. We just want to make sure Shake Shack makes your rotation.” 12 LasVegasWeekly.com January 29–February 4, 2015

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LET THE BURGER BATTLE BEGIN 10 new contenders step into the ring

The Frenchie AT DB BRASSERIE

∑ In an indirect way, Daniel Boulud helped start the gourmet burger craze in Las Vegas. It was Hubert Keller, of course, who opened Burger Bar and set the standard on the Strip, but Keller was inspired by Boulud’s infamous DB Burger, stuffed with short ribs, black truffle and foie gras. That luxurious (and expensive) creation hasn’t made it to the menu at Boulud’s new Vegas restau-

rant (yet), but good luck finding a better bite than the Frenchie, an exquisite seven ounces of beef on a black pepper bun complemented by Morbier cheese, confit pork belly, tomato-onion compote, mustard and arugula. The French didn’t invent the hamburger, but they’ve certainly made some magnificent modifications. $19. Venetian, 702-430-1235. Daily, 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. –Brock Radke

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∑ Michael Mina on his burger philoso-

The Champ AT PUB 1842

phy: “Everybody is ready to tell you how to make the perfect burger. If you want to drum up a seriously opinionated conversation, talk about burgers. To me, it’s all about balance, the same philosophy that goes into creating any dish. How does the fat balance with the acid and

with the sweetness and with the spice? A burger is a complex dish, with all sorts of things going on, but you need a lot of acid to cut through that richness.” $15-$18. MGM Grand, 702-891-3922. Sunday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Monday & Thursday, 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 11:30 a.m.-midnight.

Black pepper potato brioche bun

Double bacon: crisp strips and brown sugar-tinged bacon marmalade

Classic American cheese Beef breakdown: 40 percent brisket, 20 percent short rib, 20 percent chuck “with a little dryage thrown in”

Creamy smoked Gouda hiding beneath

Pub 1842 secret sauce, made from soaking onions in pickle juice and concentrating into an aioli

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PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRISTOPHER DEVARGAS

The Bobby Blue Burger at Bobby’s Burger Palace ∑ Bobby Flay on creating distinctive burger flavor profiles: “I’m inspired by my travels around America, and because of that, the indigenous flavors of certain towns, states and regions wind up on burgers at Bobby’s Burger Palace. It’s also really important that we let the burger—this one has bacon, blue cheese, lettuce and tomato—speak for itself based on the superior ingredients we use. All the components of the burger from the bun to the beef to the condiments have to work in unison and be executed properly.” $9.50. 3750 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-598-0191. Daily, 11 a.m.-midnight.

Three stories about White Castle The infamous sliders are the perfect drunk food and a fine fit for the Strip By Andy Wang

home and enhance my haul with Pace Picante sauce or Tabasco. It doesn’t matter that it’s freezing outside and I am alone. I am warm and happy and not at all lonely, and I sleep the sleep of the good and the just.

• It’s 2007, summer, and I live in New York City, where I spend every Monday night at a poker game with a couple burgers about as much as a dozen pals. It turns out to be a game Velveeta-Rotel dip resembles Mexirun by nightlife and restaurant moguls, can food. Which is to say: There’s with frequent appearances from NFL very little in common, but who cares players, hip-hop impresarios, and when it tastes this awesome? sitcom stars who made millions in White Castle—the holy grail of syndication. Often, we order late-night food—is in Las food from a Chinese restaurant Vegas at last, having just across town, offering to pay for opened this week at Casino White the cab and add a hefty tip. But Royale. You don’t have to be Castle one night, we walk to a nearby Harold or Kumar to underCasino White Castle and get a crate of stand that being stoned or Royale, 100 sliders. I’ve never seen the drunk can enhance this ex702-227dudes at this game—guys who perience, but that’s only part 8531. 24/7. ran restaurants that served $18 of it. When your taste buds burgers and Creekstone Farms are at full capacity, the puffy porterhouses—eat so quickly. There bread, thin beef patty, salty cheese were maybe 25 of us, and the sliders and onions are a flavor explosion were gone in half an hour. beyond any of Guy Fieri’s orgy fantasies. Here are a few White Castle • It’s 2014, winter, and I’m in LA, memories that prove the point. where it isn’t cold. I am at my local grocery store buying organic baby • It’s 1997, winter, and I have just food and small-batch ice cream, moved to St. Louis to work for when I see that frozen boxes of a sports website. I am a bit of a White Castle are on sale. That night, recluse, working from 4 p.m. until after my twins are asleep, I micromidnight, waiting for baseball wave four sliders and douse them games to end so I can edit pithy in Tabasco. It’s around 9 p.m., which roundups about 4-6-3 double plays. is late when you have two babies A routine quickly develops: I stop in the house, and you know they’re at White Castle after my shift for going to be up at 6 a.m. By 10, I’m some sliders and sometimes a fish blissfully asleep. sandwich if I am feeling crazy. I go

∑White Castle sliders resemble

bobby blue burger by steve marcus

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Where’s the un-beef? WITH THE RIGHT EMBELLISHMENTS, VEGETARIAN BURGERS CAN BE GREAT By Erin Ryan Location 1: Lyfe Kitchen (140 S. Green Valley Parkway, 702-558-0131) Rationale: A place that puts quinoa and chia seeds in that many dishes has to be good at veggie burgers. ∑ Lyfe has an impressive record of making health food taste awesome. I had high hopes for its Garden Burger ($8.49), but the Gardein patty’s mildness was done no favors by basic toppings of romaine, tomato, red onion, pickle and dijonnaise that seemed to have lost its mustard. Everything was fresh. The oatmeal bun was fluffy and sweet. The patty was nicely charred. But where was the flavor? Maybe Lyfe should add tomato jam or balsamic onions or pesto—anything to infuse this inoffensive bite with some character. Location 2: Holsteins (Cosmopolitan, 702-698-7940) Rationale: Strip hot-spots known for burgers must understand that vegetarians expect fireworks, too. ∑ It seemed wrong that the tabletop’s cartoon cow was staring at my Urth Burger ($13), but maybe it was jealousy. The vegan patty rolls together everything from green peas, chickpeas and chives to tahini and lemon, giving it earthy richness. The texture starts with fried crunch like falafel, but the center is velvety, complemented by butter lettuce, tomato, thin cucumber, lots of sprouts and avocado on a sturdy bun. Word is that chef Anthony Meidenbauer created the Urth patty for a vegan high roller. I hope he tipped. Location 3: The Dillinger (1224 Arizona St., Boulder City, 702-2934001) Rationale: When competing restaurants say no one does burgers like the Dillinger, you want to believe that magic applies to legumes. ∑ Boulder City’s burger heaven recently changed up its veggie option with the Black Bean Burger ($8), a savory, silky puck of homemade beans topped with shredded lettuce, purple onion, tomato and a special-special sauce that’s actually a yogurt-based tzatziki. I added avocado for an almost burrito-ish effect and mowed through the plate in minutes. It was hearty but wholesome enough to make me feel I had room for apricot pale ale and sweet potato fries rife with cinnamon-sugar.

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The Royale with Cheese at B&B Burger & Beer ∑ Vincent Vega* explains this ultimate burger high: “Do you know what they call a Royale with Cheese in Las Vegas? Fantastic. Robiola cheese and Parmigiano-mascarpone cream? Are you kidding me? There’s a sensuous thing going on with this burger where you don’t talk about it, but you know it, and I know it, and Mario Batali knows it. That’s a pretty f*cking good burger. I don’t know if it’s worth 15 dollars but it’s pretty f*cking good.” (*Vincent Vega is a fictional character and may not have eaten this Royale with Cheese, but it’s awesome. It’s better if you do your best Travolta impression saying “Robiola” while you eat it.) $15. Venetian, 702-414-2220. Daily, 11:30 a.m.-2 a.m.

The Hangover Burger at MTO Café ∑ This burger literally cured a hangover, and I’m talking a serious hangover. A Downtown-drinking-all-day hangover. A multiple-banana-daiquiri-from-La-Bayouon-Fremont-Street hangover. An I’m-so-happy-Las-Vegas-more-please-I-might-die hangover. It was definitely due to the egg on the burger, fried a little harder than most, but still with a yolk runny enough to mingle with bacon and beef. The thick Tillamook cheddar helped, and the zingy special sauce spread through shredded lettuce was definitely heaven-sent. $13. 500 S. Main St., 702-380-8229. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Downtown Summerlin, 702-982-0770. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. –BR ROYALE WITH CHEESE AND HANGOVER BURGER BY MIKAYLA WHITMORE; VEGGIE BURGERS BY ERIN RYAN

‘The Original’ Umami Burger at umami burger

∑ There are several Umami burgers that just call your name from the menu: the Truffle burger; the Manly burger, with its beer-cheddar; I’ll even go for the veggiefied Sloppy Mami. But you sorta have to start with the Umami burger that started it all, especially if you’re a first-timer. So much thought and effort went into its design. How did they come up with this lovely, salty, crispy Parmesan disc, or know how good it would taste with shiitake mushrooms and the deep sweetness of roasted tomato? How did they discover a bit of briny anchovy would kick ketchup into untold territory? Those little details are what make Umami burgers so distinctive, and the reasons the Original is their best. $12. SLS, 702-761-7614. Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 11 a.m.-midnight. –BR

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The Double Shackburger at Shake Shack

∑ Shake Shack has arrived, and now Las Vegas’ collection of the world’s bestloved burgers is complete. Famed restaurateur Danny Meyer’s burger empire (see Page 12) began a decade ago as a Madison Square Park hot dog cart and has grown to 64 locations scattered across the globe. Our Shack, fittingly placed at New York-New York, is the first west of the Mississippi and sets up a burger battle for the ages—Las Vegas is the only city where you can eat and compare Shake Shack and In-N-Out side-by-side. The similarity between the iconic chains is striking: a surgeon-like precision and attention to delicious details like ingredient sourcing and made-toorder preparation; clean spaces and friendly, expedient service; moderate price points (although In-N-Out is cheaper across the board). Having had lots of Shackburgers in New York City and D.C., I’d been anxiously awaiting the Vegas opening, and I’m proud to proclaim that I’m firmly on Team Shack. The Double ShackBurger is an InN-Out Double-Double on steroids. Two freshly ground patties are modestly adorned with lettuce, tomato, American cheese and tangy ShackSauce (like a sharp fry sauce) layered between a grilled potato bun. The seemingly demure toppings allow each bite to focus on flavorful beef, grilled to perfect medium—unless you order differently, something you can’t do at the other place. Simplicity might be the Shake Shack theme, but it’s still a truly memorable burger. $7.99. New York-New York, 702-222-6730. Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-midnight; Friday & Saturday, 11 a.m.2 a.m. –Jim Begley

The Char Burger at The Wiener’s Circle ∑ It’s a simple equation that adds up to something special: Take the garden-fresh toppings from a classic Chicago dog—mustard, relish, onions, pickles, tomatoes and sport peppers—and slip them into a greasy, melty, beautiful cheeseburger. It’s a unique Windy City masterpiece, now the perfect bite in our neighborhood casino sportsbooks. $6.99. Red Rock Resort, 702-823-4700; Santa Fe Station, 702-658-4900. MondayThursday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 9 a.m.-10 p.m. –BR

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Double shackburger by mikayla whitmore; char burger by steve marcus

The Jerk Turkey Burger at Carson Kitchen

The Local Burger Hall of Fame

∑ Chef Matt Andrews on cracking the code for the best turkey burger ever: “Even I was surprised by the feedback from it. We almost sell more turkey burgers than Butter Burgers, which I never expected. It’s hard to find a turkey burger that isn’t dry and has real flavor, and we wanted to make one that was bold and spicy. We played with the content—should it be just dark or just white meat? We went with both, and a very traditional Caribbean jerk seasoning. The key is adding applesauce to keep the moisture and add a little sweetness, and then the mango chutney slaw brings it together. We knew it the day we nailed it, and it was pretty exciting.” $14. 124 S. Sixth St., 702473-9523. SundayThursday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

We’ll mention these tasty legends even though we don’t have to Burger Bar This really is the gourmet burger joint that started it all. Next trip, try the merguezstyle spicy lamb burger. Mandalay Place, 702-6329364.

The Bacon MacN-Cheeseburger at Guy Fieri’s Vegas Kitchen & Bar ∑ This behemoth burger is the epitome of what you can expect at Fieri’s first Vegas restaurant: massive portions of over-the-top, somewhat silly food, but somehow it all works together and tastes great. Adding thick, creamy macaroni and cheese on top of a burger could be offensive—possibly even blasphemous—but the contrasting textures make for a beautiful bite. And besides, there’s bacon mixed into that mac. I still don’t know exactly what Donkey Sauce is. Maybe that’s for the best? $20. The Linq, 702-731-3311. SundayThursday, 8 a.m.-midnight; Friday & Saturday, 8 a.m.-2 a.m. –BR Jerk Turkey burger by krystal ramirez; Bacon Mac-N-cheeseburger by christopher devargas

Fukuburger Asianinspired, a little bit dirty, deliciously memorable— just like Vegas. Can’t go wrong with the ultra-rich Tamago Burger. Find the truck at fukuburger.com. Dispensary Lounge A classically weird watering hole with an undeniably perfect meal. Until you’ve had Dispensary’s Steak Burger, your local eating checklist is incomplete. 2451 E. Tropicana Ave., 702-458-6343. Bachi Burger Truly a locals’ favorite, with flavor to spare. Check out the foie gras- and poached pear-topped Shogun Burger. Three locations, bachiburger.com. Fat Choy This gem is best-known for bao, rice and noodles, but its namesake burger boasts short ribs, bacon, a fried egg, cheddar cheese and roasted tomato. Do. Not. Miss. Eureka Casino, 702794-3464. –BR

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CLUB HOPPING Nightlife News & Notes

> FLYING DUTCHMAN Upstart producer Oliver Heldens takes over at Hakkasan Sunday night.

HOT SPOTS ZOMBOY AT BROOKLYN BOWL Bass-music enthusiasts have a special event on their hands on Friday. That’s when producer/DJ Zomboy makes his Las Vegas debut. Expect a load of original songs—he’s only six months out from last year’s The Outbreak, and word has it that new tunes are on the way—and hope for a taste of the forthcoming Resurrection, which will feature remixes of the surging Brit bassmaster’s older material. Heroes X Villains, Getter and Laxx support. (And Weekly is a sponsor.) January 30, doors at 8 p.m., $35+. CHROMEO AT DRAI’S No, this won’t be one

Octagon Girls Arianny Celeste, Brittney Palmer and others play host for the Bellagio nightspot’s social-media-driven Follow Me Friday promo, which encourages you to tag ’em in any Instagram posts. In the booth: DJ Que. January 30, doors at 10:30 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. DESERT DUEL AT SILVERTON’S VEIL PAVILION Why stress about keeping the cold ones cold and the hot wings hot this Super Sunday? Ditch the couch and opt instead for the neighborhood hotel’s Super Bowl viewing party, where your ticket includes an all-you-can-eat spread (think stadium fare like dogs and wings) and two free drinks. A beer garden, on-site sports wagering and a shot at winning a 60-inch HDTV round out the bash. February 1, 2:30 p.m., $55. TAO BOWL AT TAO If you’re a foodie who loves

football, you’re probably not all that enthused of the Cromwell rooftop nightclub’s minito guzzle piss-hued beer and eat your weight concerts. Instead, Dave 1 and P-Thugg will in spinach dip Sunday afternoon, right? offer up one of their DJ sets—and make Enter Tao’s annual Big Game viewing their debut as Drai’s residents. Afraid the party, complete with an open bar (score!) It’s Super Bowl XLIX. electro-funk duo is just cashing in on the and the “Emperor’s Buffet” (2 to 5 p.m.) Now you don’t have to DJ craze? Don’t be. It’s played DJ gigs featuring the pan-Asian restaurant’s flastrain to translate for years, including ones at 1 OAK and vor-packed bites. We’ll take an IPA and from Roman Rehab. And besides, Dave 1 has no excuse some Dragon Tail spareribs, please. Oh, and numerals. for faking it behind the booth: His brothanother IPA … February 1, doors at 2 p.m., $65 er is world-champion DJ and Light resident (open bar only), $125 (open bar and buffet). A-Trak. January 30, doors at 10:30 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. OLIVER HELDENS AT HAKKASAN Hakkasan knows—and

LAIDBACK LUKE AT SURRENDER We’re not one to

gossip, but dude’s been around. The producer/DJ born Lucas Cornelis van Scheppingen has held court at Haze, Hakkasan, 1 OAK, XS, Wet Republic, Light … and, on Friday, Surrender, where he kick-starts his 2015 Wynn nightlife residency. A note to drunken revelers who like to climb up the booth and distract the DJs: Luke isn’t laid-back when it comes to kung fu—and he’s won gold medals at world championships to prove it. Nice guy, but I wouldn’t test his threshold. January 30, doors at 10:30 p.m., $35+ men, $25+ women. UFC OCTAGON GIRLS AT THE BANK This weekend might be all about the gridiron, but the Bank is devoting Friday night to the UFC ring. The MMA organization’s beloved

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The consortium of venues that make up Wynn’s nightlife profile— XS, Surrender, Tryst and Encore Beach Club—released its 2015 resident DJ lineup on January 26, and it looks a lot like last year’s. Largely foregoing the game of DJ musical chairs prevalent at most Strip competitors, the Wynn venues retained almost all of their biggest names and gained just a handful of additions. Regarding the former, Diplo, Zedd, Avicii, David Guetta, Skrillex and Dillon Francis remain onboard. The Weekly previously reported on the newbies, the venue quartet gaining defectors Arty (from Drai’s) and Laidback Luke (formerly of Light Group). Earlier this month, Wynn announced the exclusive residency of Kaskade, who’ll cease his Summer Lovin’ residency at Marquee. Noticeably missing from the announcement is Deadmau5, who had returned to XS after a brief stint at Hakkasan. He had been XS’ lone non-EDM, non-hip-hop talent. Speaking of Omnia: Calvin Harris has officially re-signed with Hakkasan Group. The Scottish EDM heavyweight inked a three-year deal that includes dates at Omnia, Hakkasan and Wet Republic, and a consulting role with the company that extends from new nightclub parties to music curation with the restaurants and forthcoming hotels. Bad news for house/techno fans: Life has officially ended Underground Sundays. “While we remain committed to a night dedicated to deep house, we will program these artists throughout the weekend, when the largest community of its fans are able to experience it,” a Life rep says. Good news for service industry peeps: The SLS nightclub is launching #IndustryLife on February 1 with DJ Five. The new Sunday promo will feature open-format music programming and admit locals for free before midnight. –Mike Prevatt

embraces—young hot shots. In 2013, it signed 18-year-old Danny Avila, and last year, it nabbed a barely adult Martin Garrix. For 2015, the MGM Grand megaclub has inked ascendant Dutch producer Oliver Heldens, best known for his Euro house bangers “Koala” and “Gecko,” who will turn 20 during his residency debut. February 1, doors at 10:30 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. CYMATIC SESSIONS WITH CHRIS JOHNSON AT DOWNTOWN COCKTAIL ROOM The Downtown Tuesday

nighter continues its showcase of Vegas talent this week with house DJ headliner Chris the Johnson. He goes all the way back to Drai’s Afterhours 1.0 (back when its host property was called Barbary Coast), so you can trust his musical instincts. Fellow locals Laguerre and Vixen support. February 3, 10 p.m., free.

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Neighborhood kid Kevin Holder grew up Downtown—and just opened a brewpub there, too By Leslie Ventura Kevin Holder is winding down inside his new brewpub, chatting HOP NUTS casually on the same side of the BREWING 1120 S. bar as his customers. On February Main St. #150, 70213, the baseball-capped Hop Nuts 816-5371, hopnuts Brewing owner and head brewer brewing.com. will celebrate his business’ grand Sunday-Thursday, 2 opening. For now, the low-key, p.m.-2 a.m.; Friday & speakeasy-like bar—which has no Saturday, 2 p.m.exterior signage—beckons only the 4 a.m. Grand opencurious, news of its soft opening ing February 13. spreading through Downtown by word of mouth. “This neighborhood is very familiar to me,” the 34-yearold Holder says. The Long Beach-born, Vegas-bred brewmaster has lived Downtown since ’92 and attended high school there. “I really like what’s going on in the Downtown area. I want to be a part of the neighborhood I grew up in, where I rode my bicycle as a kid. To have my own business here is a trip.” Working as an MRI tech until a few months ago—he graduated from UNLV with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology—Holder held down two jobs at Valley Hospital and an outpatient clinic, saving up money and interning at breweries in Portland, Oregon, and Reno as time permitted. “I was obsessed with brewing,” Holder says. “I’d get off work and brew all night, till five in the morning.” His experience has paid off. From the ales ($6 a pint) to the imperial stout and the Green Mamba Double IPA ($6 per 12-ounce goblet)—along with a rotating selection of obscure local brews—Hop Nuts features a well-rounded menu for craft-beer lovers, as well as newbie hopheads. Throw in plans for brewery tours, weekly live music shows and monthly cask-beer events, and Holder aims to deliver a different kind of happiness to Downtowners.

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Where to start Golden Ale Somewhere between a blonde and a pale ale, this is the least-hoppy brew on the inaugural Hop Nuts lineup. Don’t be fooled, though—it’s crisp and easy to drink, but the subtle hopping gives the beer a fresh and full-bodied flavor. A great gateway pour for the Bud Light crowd. IPA Hops from front to finish, the brewery’s IPA is floral and herbaceous, with notes of citrus at the end. A solid selection for the discerning hophead. If you fall into that category, opt for this instead of the pale ale. Imperial Stout Just like a cup of coffee, Hop Nuts’ imperial stout is dark, strong and bold. Notes of espresso and dark chocolate marry in the thick and creamy brew. And at 8.5 percent ABV, this ain’t for the faint of heart. –Mark Adams

Was your new song “Light” named after the venue? It was, actually. I had an amazing residency at Light last year, so I decided to do an homage type of thing to them. “The UnderHenrix ground” features February 4, the vocal hook doors at 10:30 “now let me p.m., $30+ men, see you work,” $20+ women. which was also Light Nightclub, incorporated in 702-693-8300. a Joe Brunning track famously supported by fellow Light resident Carl Cox. Why revisit that territory? They took it from Celeda herself, a song that she did an original of that came out on Star 69 [Records] many, many years ago. “Now let me see you work” was reused a lot by a lot of DJs, but Carl really brought it so people could really hear it. It’s a classic vocal, and I just wanted to bring it back. I started as an underground artist in the afterhours scene of Miami; I did marathon sets for a while and it was a big vocal in my set for many years. Do I detect breakbeats in “Reaper?” Yes! Nowadays I’m done with just sticking to one sound of music. Most people say an artist has to have a “certain sound.” I tend to push away from that. I’m making [music with] so many different things: hip-hop, trap, drum ’n’ bass. I’m finishing a song now—I’m waiting for vocals—a real old-school funk and soul track mixed with a little bit of hip-hop and horns from the ’60s. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the dance stuff, that’s my main thing, but I want to do different things, too. –Deanna Rilling

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SATURDAY

Clinton Sparks

1 OAK

Closed

Tropic Beauty models host; doors at 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women

Tropic Beauty Models

host; doors at 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women

ALIBI

DJs, 10 pm; lounge open 24 hours

Thursday Request Live

S.O. Mody

GorillaHead CD/ Video Release Party

ARTIFICE

Roc2; 10 pm; free; doors at 5 pm

w/others; 10 pm; free; doors at 5 pm

Sound

ARTISAN

Lounge open 24 hours

THE BANK

Glitz & Glamour Champagne Thursday: champagne for women until 1 am; doors 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

BEAUTY BAR

Old School Night Out

DJs HazeWonder, SumKid; doors at 9 pm; free

Latin Ladies Night

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DJs Justin Hoffman, Eddie McDonald, Frank Richards, others; 10 pm; $10; women, locals free; open 24 hours

UFC Octagon Girls host; DJ Que; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

EXA Party

Gravedad, Sonidero DJs; 10 p.m.; $5

Friday Night Live

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

Closed

Doors at 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women, locals free

Closed

Lounge open 24 hours

Doors at 5 pm

Double D Karaoke

Lounge open 24 hours

DJ Mayket, 10 pm, free; live jazz, 6-10 pm, free; lounge open 24 hours

Closed

Industry Night: Metal Mondays

Nickel Beer Night: Up in Smoke Pizza Party

Karate Karaoke

One of a Kind

w/others; 10 pm; free; doors at 5 pm

DJ M!KEATTACK DJs Joey Mazzola, Eric Martinez; 10 pm; $10, women and locals free; lounge open 24 hours

DJ Five

DJ G-Squared; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Jackson Taylor & the Sinners

All-Togethers, Whiskey Breath; 9 pm; free; doors at 9 pm

EDM Saturdays

WEDNESDAY

Social Sundays

DJs JustIN Key, Double J, midnight, free; drink specials, 11 pm-1 am; lounge open 24 hours

10 pm, free; doors at 5 pm

Latin Revolution

Karma Sundays

DJs Karma, E-Rock, Shift; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Church Superbass

DJs Neuropunk, Kaboom w/MC Mickey Flair, Miyuki, others; free; doors at 9 pm

Sunday Sessions

Doors at 9 pm; free

Lit

Doors at 9 pm; free

Doors at 9 pm; $5

Ladies Night Out

Live music, 9 pm; halfprice happy hour, 4-8 pm; $10 men, women free after 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

Live music, 9 pm; DJ Jace 1; happy hour, 4-8 pm; $10 men, $5 women after 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

DJs, 10 pm; live music, 9 pm; happy hour, 4-8 pm; $10 men, $5 women after 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

DJ ROB & The Star One All Stars Band live, 6 pm; happy hour 4-8 pm, doors at 4 pm

DJs Exile, Tommy Lin; half-off drinks for industry; happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm

$4 Blue Moons; happy hour w/half-price drinks, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm

Half-off drinks for women; live music, 9 pm; happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm

Throwback Thursday

Inked & Sexy Girls

Big Game Celebration Party (Vanity)

Closed

Big Game Viewing

Closed

DJ ShadowRed; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women, locals free

BODY ENGLISH

Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

CHATEAU

Closed

Downtown Cocktail Room

Happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

host; doors at 11 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

KnowleDJ

Pauly D; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

DJ Dre Dae

DJ ShadowRed; doors at 10:30 pm, $30+ men, $20+ women; local women free

DJ ShadowRed; doors 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women; local women free

Friday Night Social

Saturday Night Vibe

DJ Carlos Sanchez, 9 pm; happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

DJ Douglas Gibbs, 9 pm; happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

Doors at 2:30 pm; $125+

DJ Spair

Cymatic Sessions

Closed

Happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

DJs Chris the Johnson, Laguerre, Vixen; 10 pm; happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

Happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

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SUNDAY SUNDAY

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DJAfterhours Benny Black

Afterhours Doors at 8 pm; $25 men, Doors$20 at midnight; women $30 men, $20 women

DoorsAfterhours at 8 pm; $25 men, Doors at women midnight; $30 $20 men, $20 women

DJ bRadical Afterhours

DJ Seany Mac

DJ Seany Mac Country Club

Doors at 8 pm; $20 men, Doors at midnight; $30 $10 women, locals free men, $20 women before midnight

Ladies Night

9 pm, free; drafts/wells DJ $1 Shift for ladies, dance Doors at 107-10 pm;pm; $30+ men, lessons, 7 pm; doors at $20+ women 11 am

LatinBottomless Night Two-hour DJs Shark, I Am; Bubbles, 5-7 Sam pm and 7-9 doors at 9 pm; $30 men pm, $36; live music, 7-10w/ open bar, $20 women pm; doors at 5 pm w/ open bar Tiesto Karma

DJs Dzeko, Torres, Karma, 10 pm; $30 Shift; doors at 10:30 pm; $50+ men, $20+ women

10:30 Doors at 8 pm; pm; $20 $40+ men, men, $30+locals women $10 women, free before midnight

Ladies Night

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WolfCreek,Mahi 9 pm; $1 drafts/ live, 9for pm; $20; doors at 5 wells women, 7-10 pm; pm; noatcover doors 11 am

Tiesto

Austin Law Chromeo

Two-hour Bottomless Flashback Fridays Bubbles, 5-7 pm 10 and 7-9 DJ Kid Conrad; pm; pm, $36; 7-10 doors at 5live pm;music, $20 men, pm; doors free at 5 pm women

Two-hour Bottomless DJs Mike Fusion; 10 pm; Bubbles, 5-7 $30 pm and doors at 5 pm; men7-9 w/ pm,bar, $36;$20 doors at 5 pm open women w/ open bar

Eva Shaw

GBDC: Unicorn Mike Posner

Bowldoors at live; DJ E-Rock; Doors 1 pm,men, $10, local 10:30 pm;at$40+ $30+ women women free. Night: Doors at 8 pm; $20-$25

DJ Shift Country Nation

10 pm; $30drink men,specials, $20 live, 10 pm; women; 7-10 pm;doors doorsatat511pm; am; no cover $10-$20 after 10 pm

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Live Thursdays

DJ Michael Graves DJ Five

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$3 drafts, $4 wells & DJ Seany Mac craft beers, $5 wine, $6 Doors at 8 pm; free specialty cocktails, 5-7 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

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$1 drinks for women; $30 Closed all-you-can Jack Daniels boots, $20 all-you-can PBR boots; doors at 7 pm; $10

LAX

DJ Mike Bless; doors at 10 pm; $30 men, $20 women

Tiesto SNL

DJs Tigerlily, Shift; doors DJs Excel, 88, Cutso; doors 10:30 pm; $50+ men, $30+ at 8 pm; $10, $5 locals women

DJDJ Lightknife Konflikt

18 and Over

Buy one get one free Dance lessons; $30 happy hour, 6-8 pm; doors all-you-can Jack Daniels at 6 pm boots; doors 7 pm; $10, $5 for locals w/ID

DJ Wellman

8 pm; men, Doors at 10 pm;$20 $30+ men, $10 women $20+ women

DanSing Karaoke

live, 8 pm, Closed free; line dance lessons, 7 pm; doors at 11 am

8 pm; line Closed dance lessons, 7 pm; 2-for-1 drink specials; doors at 11 am

Two-hour Bottomless Doors5-7 at pm 5 pm Bubbles, and 7-9 pm, $36; doors at 5 pm

Two-hour Bottomless Sessions 5-7atpm and$30 7-9 8 Bubbles, pm; doors 5 pm; pm, $36; doors at$20 5 pm men w/open bar, women w/open bar

Live Music

DJ Casanova Closed

DJ Kay TheRiot Closed

10 pm, $30

10 pm; $30

DJ Seany Mac

$200 prize; Game Doors at 5Big pm; Party, 2no pm, $150; 2-for-1 cover drink specials, 7-10 pm; doors at 11 am

Oliver Heldens Nicolay

Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ DJ set; doors at 8 pm; free men, $20+ women

Doors atClosed 8 pm; $20 men, $10 women

Locals Night

Line Doors dance at lessons, 5 pm; 7 pm; drink specials; no coverdoors at 11 am

Lost Angels DanSing Karaoke

Five; 10:30 pm; $30 8DJpm; line dance lessons, men, women; doors at 7 pm;$20 drink specials; doors 5 pm;atno cover 11 am

Foreign Exchange

DanSing Karaoke

8 pm; line dance lessons, 7 pm; 2-for-1Closed drink specials, 7-10 pm; doors at 11 am

Two-hour Bottomless Bubbles,Closed 5-7 pm and 7-9 pm, $36; doors at 5 pm

DJ SINcere Closed 10 pm; $30

DJ Presto One

Doors atClosed 8 pm; $20 men, $10 women

DanSing Karaoke

8 pm; line dance lessons, Doors at 5 pm; 7 pm; 2-for-1 drink specials, no cover 7-10 pm; beer pong; doors at 11 am

DWNTWN ClosedWED

Closed Closed

Closed live; DJ 88; doors at 8 pm; $20

DJ Presto One; open Closed bar, 10 ladies champagne pm-midnight; doors at 8 pm; $20 men, ladies free

Doors at 8 pm; free

Lost Angels

10:30 pm; $30+ men, Closed $20+ women; doors at 5 pm, free

Closed Doors at 5 pm

Happy hour

Closed Doors at 5 pm

Happy hour

$3 drafts, $4 wells & Doors at $5 8 pm; free craft beers, wine, $6 specialty drinks, 5-7 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

$3 drafts, $4 wells & Closed craft beers, $5 wine, $6 specialty cocktails, 5-7 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

$3 drafts, $4 wells & Doors at $5 8 pm; free craft beers, wine, $6 specialty cocktails, 5-7 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

Closed Closed

Closed Doors at 5 pm

Closed

DJ Wellman

DJ Mike Bless; doors at 10 pm; $30 men, $20 women

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Buy one get one Drink specials forfree 21+; happy hour, 6-8 pm;at 7 dance lessons; doors doors at 6 pm pm; $10, $15 for 18-20

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Closed Doors at 8 pm; $20 men, $10 women

Happy hour

DJs, 8 pm; happy Live hour, 5-7 pm; Stella Artois, DJsfree 88, Crykit; doors 8-9 at 8 pm; pm; doors at$5 4 pm; free $10, locals

Hal Savar live,Darker, 6-9 pm; DJs Charlie happy hour,doors 5-7 pm; Phoreyz; at 8doors pm; at 4 pm; free $10, $5 locals

DJ b-Radical

Closed Doors at 8 pm; $20 men, $10 women

Closed DJ D-Miles, $150+; doors at 2 pm

Saturday Night Sous Tension

SoundBite Game Over Fridays

DJ Moby Marc Mac

Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ 10 pm; $30 men, $20+ women

Big Game Viewing

$30 all-you-can-drink; 10 pm, $30+ men, $20+ doors at 10:30 pm; $20, women; doors at 5 pm, $10 for locals after 12:30 free am

$25 all-you-can-drink; 10 pm, $30+ men, $20+ doors at 10:30 women; doorspm; at 5$20, pm, free for locals free

Sundaze

Bikini Bull Riding

DJ Skratchy Country Nation

10:30 men, $20 live, 10pm; pm;$30 drink specials, women; 7-10 pm;doors doorsat at511pm; am; no cover $10-$20 after 10 pm

Mahi live,Closed 9 pm; doors at 5 pm

DJ Wellman

Gold Saturdays Two-hour Bottomless DJs Madd5-7 Maxx, Bubbles, pm Justin and 7-9 Hoffman; 10 pm; doors7-10 at 5 pm, $36; live music, pm; $30 men w/open pm; doors at 5 pmbar, $20 women w/open bar DJDJ MOS; doors at 10:30 Eric Forbes pm; $30+ men, DJ Marc Mac; 10 $20+ pm; $30 women

Sevyn Streeter

DJsJazzy Charlie Darker, DJs Jeff, Burns; Phoreyz; doorspm; at 8$100+ pm; doors at 10:30 $10, men, $5 locals, $40+women womenfree

Ladies’ Night

11DJ pm, $200 prize; Tinashe; doors2-for-1 at 10 drink 7-10$20+ pm; pm;specials, $30+ men, doors at 11 am women

Bubbles TiestoFor

live; DJ DJ Loczi; doors at Exodus pm; $40+ men,at 8 DJ10:30 Presto One; doors $30+ women pm; $25 men, $20 women

Bikini Bull Riding Sundrai’s

live, 10 pm; 2-for-1 drink live; doors at 10 pm; $50+ specials, 7-10 pm; doors at men, $30+ women 11 am; $5-$20 after 10 pm

DJsBeauties Dzeko, Torres, DJs Eric Forbes, Marc Mac; Crooked; doors at 10 pm; free champagne/vodka for $100+ men, $30+ women women; 9:30 pm; $30

DJDoors W&W;at doors atfree 10:30 8 pm; pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Happy hour

Austin Law Busta Rhymes

live, 10 pm; 2-for-1 drink DJ set; doors at 10 pm; specials, 7-10 pm; doors at $30+ men, $20+ women 11 am; $5-$20 after 10 pm

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THURSDAY

GHOSTBAR LEVEL 107

DoorsDJ at 8Dezie pm; $20 men, 11 pm; doorslocals at 4 pm $10 women, free before midnight

DJ Benny Black

Ladies Night

GILLEY’S LIAISON

9Lambda pm, free; $1Lambda drafts/wells Nupm; dance for ladies, 7-10 DJ Ayler; doors at 10 pm; lessons, 7 pm; doors at $20+ 11 am

Latin Night

GOLD LIFE

DJs Shark, Sam I Am; doors at 9Closed pm; $30 men w/ open bar, $20 women w/ open bar

Tiesto & Macklemore

HAKKASAN LIGHT

MANDARIN HAZE BAR

HYDE MARQUEE

PBR INSERT COIN(S) ROCK BAR

RyanTorres, Lewis DJs Dzeko, Karma, Shift; doors pm; live; doors atat 1010:30 pm; $30+ $50+ men, $20+ women men, $20+ women DJ Scene

DoorsDoors at 10:30 at 5pm; pm$40+ men, $30+ women

Mahi

FRIDAY FRIDAY

AustinFridays Law Fantasy

live, 10 pm; 2-for-1 drink DJ Laszlo; doors at 10 pm; specials, 7-10 pm; doors at $20+ 11 am; $5-$20 after 10 pm

Flashback Fridays MakJ DJ Kid Conrad; 10 pm; Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ doors at 5 pm; $20 men, men, $20+ women women free

Tiesto Will.I.Am

DJs Dzeko, Torres, Doors at 10 pm; $50+ men, Crooked; doors at 10 pm; $30+ women $100+ men, $30+ women

Sevyn Streeter

live;Live DJ Loczi; doors at music pm; doors $40+ men, 910:30 pm; free; at 4:30 $30+ pm women

DJVice Shift

10:30 pm; $30 men, $20 Doors at 10 pm; $40+ men, women; doors at 5 pm; $20+ women no cover

Ladies Night

2-for-1Armstrong beer pong, $22, Neil 11 DJs am-9 pm; 100 oz. beer Charlie Darker, tower, $35; doors am Phoreyz; doors atat 88 pm; $10, $5 locals, women free

$1 vodka 9 pm, Doorsfor at women, 8 pm; free $5; 2-for-1 beer pong, $22, 11 am-9 pm; doors at 8 am

Michelle Holliday hosts, Closed 7-10 pm; $8 drinks w/text (“GAY” to 83361), 10 pm, free; open 24 hours

Happy hour Get Back

THE REVOLUTION LADY SILVIA LOUNGE

$3 drafts, $4 wells & Thursdays craft beers, $5 wine, $6 DJ G-Minor; doors at 10 specialty cocktails, 5-7 pm; pm; $20 men, women free doors at 4 pm; free

LAVO LOUNGE REVOLVER

Closed

SATURDAY SATURDAY Panorama

Doors at 8 pm; $25 men, DJs, 11 pm; doors at 4 pm $20 women

live, 9 pm;Closed $20; doors at 5 pm; no cover

Drag Queen Bingo

KRAVE PIRANHA

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F*ck it Fridays DJ Michael Graves India Ferrah, Des’ree St. $25 all-you-can-drink; James hosts, DJs Vago, doors at 10:30 pm; $20, Virus, 10 pm, free; open free for locals 24 hours

Good Foot Bonnie & SoundBite Clyde Dance Hal Savar live, 6-9 pm; Battle happy hour, 5-7 pm; doors DJs Phase, Sincere; doors at 4 pm; free 10 pm; $20, women free

Fireball Fridays

Buyspecials; one getLine oneDancing free Drink happy hour, pm; 101, 8-9:15 pm; 6-8 doors at 8 doors at 6 10 pmpm pm; $5 after

DoorsSaturdays at 8 pm; $25 men, DJ Dezie; $5 Absolut $20 women drinks, 1-4 am; 11 pm; 15% off bottles; doors at 4 pm

Austin Law Liaison Undressed live, 10 pm; 2-for-1 drink

DJs Mash-Up King, Ayler; specials, 7-10 pm; doors at doors at 10 pm; $20+ 11 am; $5-$20 after 10 pm

Gold Saturdays

DJsSteve Madd Maxx, Justin Angello Hoffman; pm; doors at 5 Doors at1010:30 pm; $30+ pm; $30 w/open bar, men,men $20+ women $20 women w/open bar

Eva Shaw Alesso

DJ MOS; doors at 10:30 DJ Stellar; doors at 10 pm; pm; $30+ men, $20+ $75+ men, $30+ women women

Mike LivePosner music

live; DJ E-Rock; doors at 9 pm; free; doors at 4:30 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ pm women

DJ Skratchy Wyclef Jean

10 pm; $30 DLux; men, $20 live; DJ Eric doors women; at 5 pm; at 10 pm,doors $40+ men, $20+ nowomen cover

2-for-1 beer pong, $22, SNL 11 am-9 pm; 100 oz. beer DJs Excel, 88,doors Cutso;atdoors tower, $35; 8 am at 8 pm; $10, $5 locals

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MONDAY MONDAY

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DJ bRadical Scenic Sundays

Sky Mondays DJHigh Seany Mac DJ Girl 6; 2-4-1 drinks for

DJ Seany Mac DJ Dezie

Woman Crush #LadiesBeLike DJ Wednesday Presto One; open

Bikini Bull Riding

Jamie Lynn Spears

Doors11atpm; 8 pm; DJ Kittie; doors at $20 men,4$10 pmwomen

11 pm, $200 prize; 2-for-1 Closed drink specials, 7-10 pm; doors at 11 am

Doors at 8 pm; locals, $5 Skyy drinks, 1-4 $20 men, $10 women am; 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

live, 8 pm, Closed free; line dance lessons, 7 pm; doors at 11 am

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DJs Mike Fusion; 10 pm; DJ Five; doors at 10:30 pm; doors at 5 pm; $30 men w/ $25+, free for locals before open bar, $20 women w/ midnight open bar

DJ Lightknife Selfie Saturday

Sous Tension DJ G-Minor

DJs, 8 pm; happy hour, 5-7 Doors at 10 pm; $20 men, pm; free Stella Artois, 8-9 women free pm; doors at 4 pm; free

Silver Buy one Saturdays get one free Drink specials; happy hour, 6-8line pm;dancing doors 101, 8-9:15 pm; at 6 pmdoors at 8 pm; $5 after 10 pm

DanSing Karaoke

8 pm; line Closed dance lessons, 7 pm; 2-for-1 drink specials; doors at 11 am

Live Music Sessions

ladies champagne bar, for 10 DJ Dezie; 2-4-1 drinks pm-midnight; doors at at 8 women; 11 pm; doors pm; $20 men, ladies free 4 pm

DanSing Karaoke

8 pm; line dance lessons, 7 pm; 2-for-1Closed drink specials, 7-10 pm; doors at 11 am

Doors at 5 pm Closed

Closed 8 pm; doors at 5 pm; $30 men w/open bar, $20 women w/open bar

Closed Closed

Doors at Closed 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Live jazz Closed 6 pm; free; doors at 5 pm

Closed Doors at 5 pm

Q Bowl Doors atViewing 5 pm; Party no cover

Carnage Doors at 5 pm; Doors atno 10cover pm; $30+ men, $20+ women, locals free

Moby

Closed Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

2 pm, $60-$120

The Big Game

2 pm, $100-$175; $20 open Nicolay bar 9 pm-1 am w/social DJ set; doors at 8 pm; free media follow; $50 open

BeerExchange Pong Foreign Tournament live; DJ 88; doors at 8

9 p.m.; $25 pm;open $20 bar until 2 a.m.; doors at 8 am

bar; doors at 8 am

$30 all-you-can-drink; Xtravaganza show w/ doors atBlake, 10:30 10 pm;pm, $20, Kenneth free; $10 fordrinks, locals after 12:30 2-for-1 noon-8 pm; openam 24 hours

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DJs Virus, Vago; $5 Closed mystery drinks; 10 pm; free; drink specials, 5-9 pm; open 24 hours

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DJ Five; 10:30 pm; $30 Closed men, $20 women; doors at 5 pm; no cover

Karaoke Night

10 pm; 2-for-1 beer pong, Closed $22, 11 am-9 pm; doors at 8 am

La Noche

DJ Majesty, Vago, 10 pm; karaoke Closed w/Sheila, 7-11 pm; 2-for-1 drinks, noon-8 pm; free; open 24 hours

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Small-town film fest

> MAGICAL BATTLE Season 2 of Wizard Wars kicks off with a party at the Sand Dollar.

The Dam Short Film Festival returns to Boulder City

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Stuff you’ll want to know about See WIZARD WARS The magic battle born in a Las Vegas apartment is now a hit show on Syfy, and its creator (former Weekly staffer Rick Lax) is hosting a Season 2 kickoff at the Sand Dollar, with magic-themed drink specials and a live spin on the show’s head-to-head wonderment. January 29, 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m., free entry.

HeaR RAKIM He’s been called the “God MC,” picked as a top-5 rapper by Chris Rock and in-song namechecked by LCD Soundsystem. If you already know about the quality of Rakim’s flow, you’ll be at the Bunkhouse Thursday—and if you don’t, head down for some schoolin’. With Rhyme N Rhyhm, January 29, $15-$20. Bishr Hijazi Arab Ensemble This Vegas

group—featuring its namesake guitarist/ oud player, along with Laraine Kaizer (violin), the Azzi brothers (percussion) and dancer Zhanna—blends classical and contemporary sounds from the Middle

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East. January 30, 7 p.m., free, West Charleston Library. A NIGHT OF COSMIC AMERICAN MUSIC Some of the best musical events come from the ancillary shows of Strip performers. Benjamin D. Hale, who plays Johnny Cash in Million Dollar Quartet, demonstrates his passion for American roots music with this program, which includes his backing band and guest singers. January 31, 5 & 8 p.m., $29-$45, Smith Center’s Cabaret Jazz.

GO GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST TORTURE If you’re pissed that the recent Senate report on the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation techniques” didn’t get the attention it deserves—and you should be—remind your fellow Americans during this local representation of a worldwide protest against torture. January 31, 1 p.m., Fremont Street Experience at Third Street.

After last year’s 10th-anniversary celebration, the Dam Short Film Festival has scaled back a bit to four days, but it’s still set to feature 141 short films in 21 different programs, plus mixers and get-togethers for film fans and a closingnight awards ceremony. Over the years, the DSFF has evolved into a major Boulder City cultural event, and it’s also one of the most filmmaker-friendly festivals around, including limo and red carpet opportunities for all filmmakers at the awards ceremony. That friendliness extends to local filmmakers, who get their spotlight in the “Battle Born Filmmakers” showcase (February 6, 7:30 p.m.). Veteran local filmmakers DAM SHORT Adam Zielinski, Sean FILM Jackson and Douglas Farra are among those FESTIVAL presenting new shorts. February 4-7, times vary, $9 Festival director per screening; John LaBonney passes $30highlights three $100. Boulder more notable festival Theatre, dam programs: “DSFF Noir” shortfilm.org. (February 5, 6 p.m.) is an entire program devoted to noir-style shorts. “Each year a handful of noir-ish films are submitted, but this year we had enough to give them their own program,” LaBonney says. “Not Like the Others” (February 5, 7:45 p.m.) is a collection of “wacky, bizarre, and nonconformist films that blaze their own trails,” according to LaBonney. And “Underground: The Naughty Side of DSFF” (February 6, 10 p.m.) is the closest thing the festival gets to avant-garde. As LaBonney notes, it’s “nothing that you wouldn’t see in an LA film festival, but in Boulder City it’s after-dark material.” That mix of small-town quaintness and artistic expression is exactly what makes the DSFF so special. –Josh Bell

RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE: BATTLE OF THE SEAONS No tea, no shade—last year’s

installment of this touring production featuring fan favorites from the popular Logo reality program was on point. These queens don’t just lip sync, so be ready for hilarious comedy routines and live performances from the talented ladies of Drag Race. House of Blues, February 1, 8 p.m., $30-$35.

> FILMS WITH FIRE Down in Flames will be featured at DSFF this year.

January 29–February 4, 2015 LasVegasWeekly.com

A&E | SCreen > O captain, my captain Law broods as the tortured submarine captain.

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The thrill is in the details A Most Violent Year delivers character-driven suspense Over the course of three features, filmmaker J.C. Chandor has demonstrated remarkable range, while bringing a distinctive vision to each story he tells. Few filmmakers could smoothly transition from the hyper-detailed, dialogue-heavy financialindustry drama Margin Call to the minimalist, almost completely dialogue-free survival story All Is Lost to the sweeping, thematically rich period drama A Most Violent Year, but Chandor has pulled off all three like each is the only kind of movie he could aaaac possibly make. Year is the filmmaker’s most fully realized A MOST VIOLENT project, as taut and gripping YEAR Oscar as his first two films, with the Isaac, Jessica same kind of intricate detail Chastain, Albert about its setting, along with a Brooks. Directed range of fascinating characby J.C. Chandor. ters, even those who show up Rated R. Opens for only brief moments. Friday. Set in New York City

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underwater gold Black Sea is an effective submarine thriller By josh bell screenplay by playwright Dennis Kelly) Even submarine captains are subject to ratchets up the tension as Robinson and downsizing, as Robinson (Jude Law) learns aaabc his men predictably start turning on at the beginning of Black Sea, when he’s BLACK SEA each other. Black Sea follows plenty of laid off by the salvage company for which Jude Law, Scoot conventions of the heist thriller, but sethe’s worked for more than a decade. Angry McNairy, Ben ting nearly all of it within the confines of at what he perceives as corporate indifferMendelsohn. a cramped, malfunctioning submarine ence, Robinson seizes on a plan to steal a Directed by Kevin gives those conventions extra tension cache of Nazi gold worth millions of dollars Macdonald. Rated and urgency. Macdonald directs with hidden in a sunken U-boat at the bottom of R. Opens Friday. no-nonsense economy, and Law takes the Black Sea. He puts together a motley the same approach to his role as a fedcrew of British and Russian seamen, buys a up working-class bloke. A few gauzy flashbacks rusty old submarine with money from a shady inveslayer on the regret a little too thickly, but when it tor and heads underwater to retrieve the gold. sticks to the increasingly chaotic undersea action, Surprisingly, things do not go according to plan, Black Sea is efficient and gripping. and director Kevin Macdonald (working from a

Three more: sub films to watch after Black Sea

Das Boot (1981) The mother of all submarine movies, director Wolfgang Petersen’s epic is rousing and rooted in grim details. The dubbed, edited version received six Oscar nominations, but the uncut, subtitled version is now widely available.

Crimson Tide (1995) It’s not quite The Hunt for Red October, but it’s pulpier and snappier, with two acting powerhouses, book-smart Denzel Washington and streetsmart Gene Hackman, going head-to-head.

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Below (2002) From Darren Aronofsky’s story to David Twohy’s movie, this is an unusual World War II-set submarine ghost story, with Twohy focused on spooky moments rather than big, dumb clichés. –Jeffrey M. Anderson

in 1981, Year delves into the inner workings of the heating-oil business, which doesn’t sound like a hotbed of intrigue, but turns out to be as ruthless as organized crime. Oscar Isaac channels early Al Pacino as Abel Morales, who’s worked his way up from the bottom to own his own heatingoil company, only to find himself the target of hijackers who steal his trucks and sell the oil to his competitors. In the midst of closing a multimilliondollar deal, being investigated by the crusading district attorney (David Oyelowo) and moving his family into a spacious new house, Abel tries to hold onto his values, determined to prove his worth as a legitimate businessman despite what everyone assumes, often rightly, about his industry. Chandor offers up a bleak vision of the American dream, contrasting Abel with his equally ambitious wife Anna (Jessica Chastain, in one of her best performances), who comes from a family of gangsters and has no qualms about bending the law. With beautiful, expansive cinematography from Bradford Young, Chandor shows his characters adrift in the enormity of their circumstances, whether the harsh streets of New York City or the vastness of a lavish mansion. Tense and uneasy even in its smallest details, yet still broad enough to feature a well-crafted car chase, A Most Violent Year is an exacting thriller with a rich sense of time and place, made by a filmmaker at the top of his game. –Josh Bell

A&E | screen film

race relations Black or White offers an awkward take on a heated custody battle

> nightly laughs We like you, Larry Wilmore.

cally the best part of the show, and he never hesitates to speak his mind on the topic of the day (within seconds of introducing the rape allegations against Bill Cosby as the second episode’s subject, Wilmore unequivocally stated his belief in Cosby’s guilt). The shakiest part of the show during its first week has been the middle panel-discussion segment, which features The Nightly Show begins life as a worthy a mix of comedians and political commentators talking Colbert successor By Josh Bell about the episode’s topic. Bill Maher used the same format to great effect for years on Politically Incorrect (and uses a similar format The Nightly Show’s Larry Wilmore faces a monuon his current HBO show, Real Time), but as a single mental task in taking over Stephen Colbert’s postsegment on a half-hour show, Nightly’s panel Daily Show time slot on Comedy Central, discussion doesn’t allow enough time for real but he’s proved up to it so far. Rather than interaction among panelists, who generally replacing Colbert’s mock-right-wing pundit aaacc promote their main talking points once or with another cable-news character, Nightly THE twice and then fade into the background as continues in the vein of Jon Stewart’s The NIGHTLY Wilmore moves on to the next panelist. A Daily Show (Stewart is an executive producSHOW WITH smaller group of people or a longer amount of er), with Wilmore, a veteran comedian and LARRY time might make the segment more substanwriter and former Daily contributor, offerWILMORE tive and rewarding. ing his comedic take on the day’s headlines. MondayAs with any show airing four nights a week, While Daily is the equivalent of a general Thursday, 11:30 Nightly will have time to develop and adjust, news program, Nightly (which was origip.m., Comedy and the important thing is that Wilmore is nally titled The Minority Report) focuses Central. a confident host, funny and engaged with primarily on issues of race, and each episode the subject matter. Given the overwhelming is built around a single topic. whiteness of late-night TV, Nightly provides a muchLike Stewart, Wilmore is good at using jokes to cut needed alternative perspective; the rest, presumably, down overblown public figures, and he isn’t afraid to will work itself out over time. be self-deprecating. His opening monologue is typi-

The daily Nightly

Writer-director Mike Binder achieves an impressive feat in Black or White, depicting a courtroom battle between a middleaged white lawyer and a working-class African-American family, and making the rich white guy into the underdog. That kind of deck-stacking pervades Binder’s clumsy melodrama, which stars Kevin Costner as Elliot Anderson, who’s been raising his biracial granddaughter Eloise (Jillian Estell) since her mother (his daughter) aaccc died in childbirth. When BLACK OR Elliot’s wife (Jennifer WHITE Kevin Ehle, seen only in riCostner, Octavia diculously beatific dream Spencer, Jillian sequences) dies, Eloise’s Estell. Directed paternal grandmother by Mike Binder. Rowena (Octavia SpenRated PG-13. cer) decides to sue for Opens Friday. custody of the girl. “This isn’t about black and white—this is about right and wrong!” Elliot bellows at one point, and when Binder occasionally pays attention to that idea, the movie can be poignant about adults losing sight of children’s interests when battling with each other. But mostly the movie is an excuse for Binder to set up straw-man arguments and tear them down disingenuously, with Elliot as the flawed but noble savior of his young granddaughter. None of the African-American characters is treated nearly as well, and even though the movie ends by affirming openness and tolerance, it gets there only at the expense of developing real characters beyond its single privileged perspective. –Josh Bell

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Set in a mysterious alternate world populated exclusively by women (all of whom appear to be amateur lepidopterists), director Peter Strickland’s follow-up to Berberian Sound Studio at first appears to be just a clever homage to ’70s European lesbian softcore. As the film observes its central couple (played by Chiara D’Anna and Borgen’s Sidse Babett Knudsen) engage in outré BDSM scenarios, however, it gradually, unexpectedly deepens into one of cinema’s most incisive and strangely touching portraits of a long-term relationship. Strickland employs the kinkiness and role-playing (most of which is merely suggested— there isn’t even any nudity) as an arresting metaphor for more mundane things people grudgingly do to make their lover happy, like indulging dull hobbies or enduring TV shows to which their partner is inexplicably addicted. There’s no duke in The Duke of Burgundy (the title refers to a butterfly), but in the wasteland of January releases, this movie is king. –Mike D’Angelo

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aaaaa THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY Chiara D’Anna, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Eugenia Caruso. Directed by Peter Strickland. Not rated. Available on video on demand.

January 29–February 4, 2015 LasVegasWeekly.com

A&E | NOISE > firebreathers Fans get an early listen inside Imagine Dragons’ interactive art gallery at the Cosmo.

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Checking in on: Amarionette Bassist Ron Wells talks new album and getting crowds rowdy You might not know Amarionette, but the band, in one iteration or another, has been kicking around Vegas for years. Often compared to Coheed and Cambria, they’re looking to do big things in 2015. How did the band form? Amarionette itself has been around for a while, [but singer] Quin White is the only original member left. Essentially what happened was Amarionette broke up seven or eight years ago. Then Quin hit me up and [guitarist] Nick Raya AMARIONETTE with Stolas, Mad up, and Nick is a Arrow, A Friend package deal with a Foe, Alaska. [drummer] Justin February 20, 6 Brooklyn. Quin hit us up to do a private p.m., $10, all-ages, Christian-rock thing. Eagle Aerie Hall, facebook.com/ Nick brought up that we should bring amarionettelv. back Amarionette. [Rhythm guitarist AJ Sarmiento joined the band later.] How would you describe the sound? It’s a mixture of rock and funk and airy experimental stuff, but poppy at the same time. So it’s a weird sound.

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An early peek inside Imagine Dragons’ pivotal sophomore album By Leslie Ventura A group of students hammer the drums behind Imagine Dragons as they play the Transformers: Age of Extinction theme song, “Battle Cry.” The scene cuts to a collage of the band collaborating with director Michael Bay, signing autographs and performing at sold-out stadiums. I’m inside Rose. Rabbit. Lie., and tonight, 200 diehard fans are here for a sneak-preview of Imagine Dragons’ anticipated second album, Smoke + Mirrors, out February 17. But before the listening sesh starts, we’re treated to a short clip about the band and a Q&A session with artist Tim Cantor. The San Francisco native was commissioned to create album artwork, one painting for every song, 13 in total. A teenage girl raises her hand to ask Cantor a question, then envelops the girl to her left in a giant hug, tears flowing down her face. The excitement in the room is palpable—and the Dragons are still an hour away from dropping in unexpectedly. “This night is really about you guys,” says band manager Mac Reynolds. “You’re the people who’ve been talking about and supporting the band for five years.” We’re led into a dark room overlooking Las Vegas Boulevard, where a space has been converted into an art

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gallery for the night, with Cantor’s paintings on every wall. A thumping beat starts to trickle through the headphones we’ve been provided. New-album opener “Shots” finds the group in different territory, built on synthy, dance-pop beats and starry melodies. “I’m sorry for everything I’ve done,” Dan Reynolds sings, the Vegas-bred band’s signature grand choruses and marching drums still front and center amid sharp guitar lines. Reynolds’ confessional tone, drowned in apologies and self-reflection, is dominant. “Everything is crashing down/You’re all I know/I’m ready for everything that I believe in to drift away,” Reynolds sings on closer “The Fall.” The result is a darker, more evolved version of their Night Visions sound. Bursts of light continue to flicker throughout the record (“I Bet My Life”), but the Dragons also experiment, from the Arctic Monkeys-ish “I’m So Sorry” to the elemental, industrial-rock of “Friction.” Smoke + Mirrors finds the band not where it left off, but in the middle of the group’s quick rise to stardom, documenting the ups and downs and learning how to make sense of it all. But if Visions made Imagine Dragons famous, on Mirrors, they sound driven to achieve even more.

What are your goals for 2015? The main one is to write, record and put another record out. We put a record out every year, so we’ll be in Portland hopefully sometime early this summer recording a full-length. What can crowds expect from your live show? Hype. We like to get our crowds rowdy. We’re a very rowdy band for how heavy we’re not. We like to make people jump and sing and get active. We’re very active onstage. But we like to sound clean. We don’t want to sound like drunken idiots. –Jason Harris

A&E | noise SPENCER PATTERSON Thanks to modern technology (read: easily found, freely available tunes), I’ve surely heard more music recorded during the past five years than from the previous 15 combined. To whittle it down, I relied on my heart as much as my head, letting my peculiar tastes guide me to 10 albums that wouldn’t make me popular at bring-your-iPod parties. Boston Spaceships, Let It Beard (2011) Those who know me or follow my writing won’t be surprised to see a Robert Pollard project claim the top spot, but I’ll go a step further and proclaim this behemoth—teaming him with bassist/producer Chris Slusarenko and (Decemberists) drummer John Moen for the last of five Spaceships full-lengths—my favorite rock record of the past 20 years. Joanna Newsom, Have One on Me (2010) Kate Bush, Sandy Denny and Joni Mitchell, meet Miss Newsom. With this dizzyingly emotive, wildly consistent three-disc set, she achieved singer/songwriter nirvana for me. Tim Hecker, Ravedeath, 1972 (2011) When I need to wipe all thought and simply be, this slab of harsh-but-beautiful crashing ambience helps me focus every time. Kurt Vile, Wakin on a Pretty Daze (2013) That rare summery record you can play all year ’round. The title(ish) cut still owns my soul. Barn Owl, Lost in the Glare (2011) If the dusty desert waited till dawn, then snarled to life and struck, it might sound like this moody music from guitar manipulators Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras. White Fence, For the Recently Found Innocent (2014) With an assist from his producer Ty Segall, Brit-rock worshipper Tim Presley ratchets up the sonic intensity and delivers his most indelible batch of tunes yet. Liars, WIXIW (2012) The most unfailingly interesting band of the 2000s shape-shifts yet again, this time into an icy electronic force. Zs, New Slaves (2010) An assault on the senses, all-instrumental and totally unrelenting, equal parts jazz, noise and WTF. Women, Public Strain (2010) Every time I hear it, my heart aches over the death of Chris Reimer, whose stately guitar work turned the Canadians’ last album (especially final song “Eyesore”) into an indie all-timer. Wugazi, 13 Chambers (2011) Mashups rarely connect with me, so this Fugazi-meets-Wu Tang splice-job (from Cecil Otter and Swiss Andy) making my list says it all: It’s so much more than a novelty.

Halfway point Our music critics recount their favorite albums from the decade’s first five years

> On the Regular Joanna Newsom, Boston Spaceships, LCD Soundsystem and (below) Arcade Fire held down the top spots on our half-decade lists.

joanna newsom by Annabel Mehran; arcade fire by guy aroch

MIKE PREVATT I’m so over these summary lists. Not only do I despise ranking one beloved piece of work over another, the tallies will eventually contradict one another anyway. To wit: No less than four of my go-to albums of the past half-decade failed to place on my respective year-end top 10 lists. But you readers love lists. And I love these 10 records—for now. LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening (2010) A great concluding effort by a seminal indie act, This Is Happening is yet another inspired merging of melody, rhythm and composition by that great merger of subgenres, James Murphy. Arcade Fire, Reflektor (2013) One of the albums I left off my year-end list for that year, my three or four experiences with it having left me a little cold. Some 20 or 30 spins later, I might just adore the disco/post-punk/ Caribbean opus as much as its creators’ revered debut, Funeral. Frank Ocean, Channel Orange (2012) Not since Prince’s 1987 epic Sign o’ the Times have I connected with an R&B record like I have with Ocean’s assured breakthrough second release. Foals, Total Life Forever (2010) The Brit quintet eased off a tad on the math and funk of its debut, Antidotes, and infused some space, (often tropical) flavor and maturity into its second longplayer. Explosions in the Sky, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (2011) I received 11 records last Christmas, and the one that made me the happiest upon its unwrapping was the Austin, Texas instrumental/post-rock act’s sixth release, which never fails to offer me solace when I need it. The Field, Looping State of Mind (2011) Swedish producer Axel Willner’s meditative but escapist third album keeps growing on me, especially during long LA car trips. Jon Hopkins, Immunity (2013) The ambient/electronic producer proves beautiful music doesn’t have to be front-loaded with sentiment, major chords or climaxes. Robyn, Body Talk (2010) Hands down the best dance pop album—technically compiled from the three Body Talk EPs the Swedish veteran released in 2010—of the decade so far. Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) Sorry, not sorry. Kanye’s monster—his most consistent and ambitious release—transcends both his own hubris and hip-hop in general. The War on Drugs, Lost in a Dream (2014) Just when I think I’m going to kick this addictive rocker, I press play again for another fix. Can I re-rank last year’s list?

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Human behavior Björk gets personal on latest album Vulnicura of Vulnicura focuses on moving In recent times, Björk’s music on—how she rediscovered her own has tended to favor a global (if voice and sense of self (“Mouth not interstellar) perspective. But Mantra”) and stayed strong for her from song one on Vulnicura, the daughter (“Quicksand”). Icelandic innovator makes it clear Björk wraps this precise lanshe’s created an album rooted in a guage with music that emphasizes very specific, personal matter: her striking textures over linear strucnow-splintered relationship with tures: intricate string arrangements, artist Matthew Barney. “Show me futuristic synth zaps, emotional respect/I have eerie electronic programemotional needs,” she ming and nuanced singing implores on the stringBjörk that conjure Homogenic’s adorned “Stonemilker.” Vulnicura melodic contortions. The Of course, this being aaaac album’s most captivatBjörk, calling this collecing moment might be its tion a “breakup record” fulcrum, the sprawling “Family,” both oversimplifies things and which has co-production from undermines the sophistication of The Haxan Cloak and Kanye West her songwriting. The album’s first producer Arca. Warped-sounding six songs are a complex, elegant electro ambience, reedy orchestras cycle examining her mental and and Björk’s criss-crossed vocals physical state before and after the combine to convey despair over her breakup. Bitter barbs, flashes of family’s changes. As a song like that doubt and indifference, and memounderscores, Vulnicura’s beauty— ries of better times quickly give and agony—stem from the record’s way to crumpled anguish, grief attention to detail and defiant vulabout her lost family and, ultinerability. –Annie Zaleski mately, acceptance. The last third

The Weekly playlist: Jack White live wish list “The Big Three Killed My Baby” (The White Stripes, 1999) This merciless thumper shook the Joint when the Stripes played in ’03.

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version of this Easterndoused oldie would bring it back. “300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues” (Icky Thump, 2007) This one, off the Stripes’ swan song, showcases his mellow-blues side— sprinkled with bursts of guitar fire.

“Sixteen Saltines” (Blunderbuss, 2012) Two minutes, 36 seconds of White at his playful best. –Spencer Patterson

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A bigger tent Amid changes, the ‘Improssario’ continues expanding his empire

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By John Katsilometes This is no way to run a show. Unless that show is Absinthe. “I can’t keep up with what’s going on. I have no idea. We have no plan,” Ross Mollison, the roguish “Improssario” and founder of Spiegelworld, says when assessing his company’s jewel production. “It’s management by haphazard luck.” Maybe, but Mollison is not the gent you’d want to challenge to a night of Texas Hold ’Em, or, if you will, Crazy Eights. Forever plucking the winning cards from his socks, Mollison has presided over an unqualified hit at Caesars Palace. Absinthe has been a critical success since it opened at Roman Plaza in April 2011. The show’s reinforced and light-trimmed tent is routinely filled, or nearly so. It demonstrates no signs of flagging, even though most of the cast has turned over since Absinthe set up in Vegas. “We feel a lot of the success is our constant change, which is opposite what any sane person would do when running a show,” Mollison says. “Usually, you keep with what works. We’ve built a show that has been as good as it gets, yet is constantly changing. It makes no sense, but the show is

still great and is still doing great business.” The most prominent shift in the onstage presentation since Absinthe opened is the November departure of character Penny Pibbets, the production’s seemingly indispensable cohost. Pibbets resurfaced swiftly, developing her own one-woman gig showcased for three weeks in December and January at Art Square Theater. The Penny Pibbets Show rekindled the inspired moments and effects of Pee Wee’s Playhouse, with Pibbets working the audience in the 100-seat theater, performing manic monologues and teaching the antiquated art of sock puppetry. There was the aggressive application of makeup during a self-help oration, followed by a plume of talcum powder so thick, audience members were sent into spasms of coughing and laughing. Pibbets’ show caused something of a ripple across the entertainment scene, as room operators on the Strip took notice and mulled how and when to possibly stage The Penny Pibbets Show as a resident show. Not so fast, though. Having been replaced in the show by the character Joy Jenkins (who is Pibbetslike in her disposition and delivery and billed as

Penny’s cousin), Pibbets is heading for the touring version of Absinthe. She is scheduled to perform as part of the show’s opening cast. “That’s how we’ve planned to do it, anyway,” Mollison says. “But we could go three shows in and Gaz [the Gazillionaire] could fire her again. She’s a great talent, but not much of an assistant.” The Improssario is reciting his own plotted explanation of why Pibbets stepped away from Absinthe at Caesars, but still remains part of the Spiegelworld family. Conversely, the Gaz character remains and can be portrayed onstage by an assortment of artists. There will be an Australian Gazillionaire, adopting the crappy French accent and verbally flaying audience members seated in the front row, same as on the Strip. The touring version of the show has been rehearsing in Las Vegas and opens next month in a spiegeltent in Newcastle. It will spend four weeks there, then move to Crown Perth, the luxury hotel operated by James Packer’s Crown Resorts. After a three-month stay in Perth, Absinthe will tour that country. The show will be similar to Absinthe on the Strip for its representation of characters, but with some new acts in the mix. Mollison is fired up about an aerial act in a cage (who wouldn’t be?) and a parallel-bar routine that will take the place of the Frat Pack high-wire bit that closes the show at Caesars. Meanwhile, the other major Spiegelworld production, Vegas Nocturne, exists, but in a sort of comatose state. The adult comedy-circus has been latent since closing last July at Rose. Rabbit. Lie. The show’s title and a couple of its featured acts were resurrected in a showcase in New York City, but it has not returned in full since it left Cosmopolitan, a fractured partnership that has resulted in a yetunresolved volley of lawsuits. “With Vegas Nocturne, we want to make it the absolute best it can be for the partnership we’re in, and we are looking at opportunities not just in Vegas,” Mollison says. “We need partners who are simpatico with what we want to do. Right now, we’re waiting to see how Vegas plays out, because there are a lot of new things coming to the city, some very big shows like the Frank Sinatra show [Frank: The Man, The Music] at the Palazzo, and ShowStoppers [at Encore Theater].” On this point, Mollison allows, “We want to make a decision that is the right decision.” From Improssario and Gazillionaire and the rest of the Spiegelworld power brokers, the right decision for the inactive Nocturne will require some planning. But where’s the fun in that? In the meantime, just pour another shot of Absinthe.

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That’s what his latest project is about, albeit more steeped in his background as an artist (he studied sculpture at the University of Houston). Scott and his wife, Chyllis, opened the new Rhizome Gallery in Emergency Arts, a small space dedicated mostly to works by emerging career artists, including Melinda Laszczynski, an MFA candidate at the University of Houston, whose After Party is the gallery’s first show. Folding in thematically with the year’s biggest party (the reception was January 2), After Party sets the tone for the Scotts’ intentions with the space: smart, but fun. Laszczynski’s formal and frosting-esque paintings, placement of paint skins, excitingly jovial yarn garland and deflated

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they want to encourage dialogue with sculpture of mylar balloons suggest art that’s accessible. With her focus an imprint of an evening’s immedion education and literacy (she’s an ate aftermath, and the artist’s appreassistant professor at UNLV) and his ciation of material. The next show, I crossover interest in social Hope This Doesn’t Succulent behavior and art, the project (fixed on the theme of sucseems expected—even for culents) mixes it up with a RHIZOME two people with not a lot of group of emerging and estabGALLERY free time (he’s preparing to lished artists from different 520 Fremont defend his dissertation). cities, including Sam Davis, St., 702But it’s no sweat to them. who has shown at Trifecta 907-7526, Though this is their first galGallery over the years. rhizomegallery, they’ve weathered severRhizome is an artist-run lery.com. Call al big moves together for their space, but Scott has no plans for hours. educations and even survived to show his own work, which the chip debacle of 2014. focuses on liminal spaces and “We’re just trying to have fun, crossing the boundaries of sociology, which is going to be our approach,” art and education, the latter being the Chad Scott says. “We’re creating this approach the couple wants for the as we go.” gallery. As researchers and teachers

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Chad Scott is discussing the nearcollapse of society that occurred when his idea for a cappuccino potato chip made him one of four finalists in Lay’s Do Us a Flavor contest last year. Not only was Scott, an artist working toward his Ph.D. in sociology, told online to kill himself for suggesting such a thing, but also to never invent anything again. Forget the power of art. Apparently all it takes to undo boundaries is messing with the American junk diet. But minus the death threats and some initial shock over the polarizing nature of incongruent foods, this was sort of Scott’s thing: discourse, dialogue, the kind of conversation that comes from introducing something new and different.

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> UNDENIABLY SOUTHERN Yardbird goes big with Chicken ’n’ Watermelon ’n’ Waffles, and below, fried green tomato BLTs.

French philosophy Jacques Café brings refined, healthful fare to Summerlin

The bird is the word

The South rises again at the Venetian’s Yardbird By Jim Begley

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Having lived in Knoxville for seven years (and being married to a West Tennessee girl), it goes without saying that I have a great appreciation for Southern food. True Southern chefs combine various methodology—a lot of frying, sure, but the unfettered use of butter and cheese is also very important—with unique regional ingredients to craft dishes that have influenced American cuisine But not everything succeeds. The sweet tea isn’t sweet— like few others. And so my love of food from the Land a crime punishable by death in a true Southern restaurant. of Dixie, coupled with its relative scarcity here in Las And don’t bother with the St. Louis-style pork ribs ($32). Vegas, raised my expectations for the arrival of Yardbird Instead of falling off the bone, mine were so tough Southern Table & Bar at the Venetian. I could hardly hack my way through the meat. With Yardbird’s second location—the origiThen there’s the perplexing case of the nal is in not-so-Southern Miami—Vegas gets Yardbird delicious chicken. Yardbird is rather proud of a selection of dishes it’s unaccustomed to. For Southern its fried chicken, as there are four different instance, there are fried green tomato BLTs Table & Bar ($14), a unique take on the classic sandwich. Venetian, 702-287- preparations on the menu, including Chicken ’n’ Watermelon ’n’ Waffles ($36) and Mama’s Thick, salty pork belly seated atop a fried green 6541. MondayChicken Biscuits ($14). The former is served tomato slathered with house-made pimento Thursday, 11 with utterly addictive spiced watermelon and cheese provides a not-so-healthy introduction a.m.-midnight; savory, cheese-laden waffles, while the latter to these iconic Southern fruits. The remarkable Friday-Sunday, arrives slicked with pepper jelly. Brined for 27 toasted peanut hummus that rescues a bland 11 a.m.-2 a.m. hours, the chicken is infused with more flavor dish of Florida heirloom tomatoes ($16) could than your standard fast-food rendition. But be a great dish by itself. across a series of tastings, the skin—the most important The South’s fascination with offal is showcased in rich part—varied substantially in crispness and was never chicken liver toast ($5). Slathered on thick grilled counquite crisp enough. It’s still probably better than any try bread with a sharp Fresno pepper relish, this is a fine other fried chicken in town, but I can only hope that with representation of the less-embraced part of the fowl. The time, the kitchen will find more consistency. same ingredient reappears in the Dirty Little Farro ($10), If the Confederacy had won the War of Northern where the ancient grain—similar to Israeli couscous—is Aggression, there’d probably be a lot more Southern food surrounded with pork sausage and exquisitely melded to go around. But whether or not you believe the South with chicken liver mousse. The mineral-y mousse doesn’t will rise again, you’re bound to find something of interest overwhelm, and is a fine display of moderation for which on Yardbird’s intriguing, satisfying menu. Yardbird should be applauded.

With all its great food choices, for some reason Las Vegas has a dearth of quality neighborhood cafés, places you can call your own. Summerlin’s latest entry in this category is Jacques Café, where proprietor and chef Jacques Pauvert—who has cooked all over, from Africa to Hawaii—serves all three meals and many different plates. For breakfast, you can’t go wrong with a freshly baked croissant filled with egg, ham and cheese ($5.30), flaky and buttery as it should be. I like Jacques’ pastrami sandwich ($7.95) a Jacques lot, brined for five CafÉ 1910 days and served on Village Center ciabatta bread with Circle #1, 702Gouda, sauerkraut, 550-6363. red peppers and Mondayaioli. It’s like French Saturday, 7 a.m.- deli fare. My favorite 9 p.m.; Sunday, dish was from the 8 a.m.-2 p.m. dinner menu. Steelhead salmon belly ($17) is flat-out delicious over proper al dente house-made pasta in red miso cream sauce with mushrooms. Pauvert told me his philosophy is to make food like they did 50 years ago, using fresh and local ingredients but to do it in a way people will still be doing it 10 years from now. He goes to great lengths to build flavors using healthy ingredients, like his house-made tofu that offers vegetarians a very different and tasty option. As it stands, this neighborhood café is off to a great start, with the likelihood that things will only get better. –Jason Harris

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At the Sterling Brunch, a $90 meal can feel like a bargain By Andy Wang Some have complained the lobster There’s no place on the planet tails aren’t as big and the crab legs that screws up your relationship with aren’t as good as they used to be, but money as much as Las Vegas, but not this is still the brunch benchmark. just in the way you think. Vegas is full Sterling is the best unlimited seafood of wallet-emptying temptations and bounty you’ll find, and it also serves experiences, but it’s also home to some steakhouse-worthy beef along with of the most fantastic deals in the world. other fantastic meats like Nueske’s slab Once you’ve spent time eating around bacon. Plus, it more closely resembles Spring Mountain Road, eating Asian the calm, luxurious experience you food almost anywhere else might feel get at Wynn’s Country Club or Simon like a ripoff. Once you’ve bought a deepat Palms Place than the typical buffet ly discounted Burberry and Ferragamo death match. Somehow, splitting into wardrobe at the Premium Outlets, 15 buffet stations and à la carte ordering percent off at Neiman Marcus seems restores a sense of grace to all-you-canlike an insult. eat Sunday afternoons. Those who visit Vegas to ball out Sure, you can beat the house by of control aren’t immune to counting drinking Champagne and eating big every dollar. High rollers who have plates of steak and shellfish, no problem betting $500 per but I bet it doesn’t quite hapblackjack hand and spending pen like that. This brunch isn’t $2,000 for nightclub bottle Sterling run by rubes, so every meal service get annoyed when Brunch BLT that club charges them $8 for Steak at Bally’s, starts with BLT Steak’s signabottled water, because water is 702-967-7258. ture warm Gruyére popovers. This is cheesy bread for kings, free on the casino floor. In this Sundays, 9:30 what a luxury real estate broworld, $8 for a bottle of water a.m.-2:30 p.m. ker who joined me for brunch is nonsense even though $400 called the best bread he’d ever had in for a bottle of vodka is fine—it’s just part Vegas. It’s hard to eat just one popover. of the spectacle. Eat two, and you might be halfway to Me? I like to focus on positive full. They know this. Every bite of bread experiences, like how a $90 brunch is one less bite of caviar or lobster. can seem like a bargain. The Sterling When I see these popovers, I think Brunch at Bally’s dates back four of the time my parents yelled at me decades but was relaunched at the when I was 10 and grabbed a banana on new BLT Steak last year. (The price is a cruise-ship buffet. They were incred$85 if you have a players card, which ulous. There was shrimp cocktail and is free, so maybe get one.) It’s a comprime rib, and I went for a banana? pletely different experience than the They wanted me to never behave like buffets at other upscale casinos. Yes, that kind of sucker ever again. you’ll stand in line for Alaskan king But look, I never pass up a chance to crab legs, lobster tails and filet mignon, eat that BLT cheesebread. You’ll think but there’s also civilized waiter service of that bread longer than you will any and unlimited pours of Perrier-Jouët crab leg. You can get a crab leg so many (usually $25 a glass at BLT) and as other places. Sometimes it’s fine to let many orders as you want of hacklethe house win. back caviar or tuna tartare.

Small bites Dining News & Notes Truffles and Bacon Café, chef Jacqueline Lim’s tiny, delicious diner that won us over last year, is about to be much more accessible. Initially located inside an antique market near Sunset Park, the restaurant is moving into a storefront at 8872 S. Eastern Ave., just off the Beltway, and should open in mid-February. If you haven’t tasted the bruschetta sampler or the French toast bread pudding, get ready. ¶ Wine-centric events abound in the coming weeks. Aureole is pairing with Darioush for a wine dinner February 5 ($225, 702-632-7401); PBS’ annual Splendor in the Glass tasting event features a guest appearance by chef Hubert Keller on February 7 at Westgate ($85-$100, 702-799-1010); and Honey Salt’s Farm Table dinner series continues February 9 with a spotlight on Gary Farrell Vineyards ($45-$70, 702-445-6100). ¶ For non-grape juice needs, turn to the Juice Standard, which will open its second local store this spring in Green Valley at 2530 St. Rose Parkway. It’ll serve specialty coldpressed, organic, signature juice blends just like the original shop at 4555 S. Fort Apache Road. –Brock Radke

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A&E | Short Takes Special screenings Cinemark Classic Series Sun, 2 pm; Wed, 2 & 7 pm, $7-$10. 2/1, 2/4, Funny Girl. Theaters: ORL, ST, SF, SP, SC Dam Short Film Festival 2/4-2/7, short films, parties, more, times vary, $9 per screening, passes $30$100. Boulder Theatre, 1225 Arizona St., Boulder City, damshortfilm.org. Erotic Movie Night Fri, 7 pm, free. Erotic Heritage Museum, 3275 Industrial Road, 702-794-4000. Game of Thrones: The IMAX Experience 1/29-2/5, IMAX screenings of Game of Thrones episodes “The Watchers on the Wall” and “The Children” plus season five preview, times vary, $14-$17.50. Theaters: AL, PAL, SS The Metropolitan Opera HD Live 1/31, Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann live, 9:55 am, $16-$24. 2/4, Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann encore, 6:30 pm, $15-$22. Theaters: COL, ORL, SF, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. Midnight Brewvies Mon, movie plus popcorn, midnight, free. Elixir, 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, Henderson, 702-272-0000. Rediscovering Pakistan: The Untold Tale 1/31, documentary screening, discussion with filmmaker Moin Khan, 2 pm, free. UNLV Student Union, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway. Sci Fi Center Sat, Doctor Who weekly, 5 pm, free. Mon, Cinemondays, 8 pm, free. 1/31, Two Thousand Maniacs!, Blood Feast, 8 pm, $5. 5077 Arville St., 702-792-4335, thescificenter.com. Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou Tue, 1 pm, free. 2/3, The Keys of the Kingdom. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.

New this week The Amazing Praybeyt Benjamin (Not reviewed) Vice Ganda, Richard Yap, James “Bimby” Aquino-Yap. Directed by Wenn V. Deramas. 100 minutes. Not rated. In Filipino with English subtitles. Military hero Private Benjamin is forced to work as a bodyguard to a spoiled rich kid. Theaters: VS Black or White aaccc Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer, Jillian Estell. Directed by Mike Binder. 121 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 41. Theaters: AL, CAN, DTS, FH, GVR, ORL, PAL, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Black Sea aaabc Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. 115 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 40. Theaters: COL, ST, TS, VS The Loft (Not reviewed) Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller. Directed by Erik Van Looy. 108 minutes. Rated R. Five men who share an apartment where they conduct illicit affairs discover a dead woman in their secret hideaway. Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS A Most Violent Year aaaac

Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, Albert Brooks. Directed by J.C. Chandor. 125 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 40. Theaters: AL, BS, DTS, GVR, ORL, SC, SP, TS, TX

> back in time The time-traveling teens of Project Almanac.

Project Almanac (Not reviewed) Jonny Weston, Sofia Black-D’Elia, Amy Landecker. Directed by Dean Israelite. 106 minutes. Rated PG-13. A group of teens build a time machine. Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX

Now playing American Sniper aaccc Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Luke Grimes. Directed by Clint Eastwood. 132 minutes. Rated R. Cooper’s performance is the strongest element of this biopic about Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle. It’s a simplistic, pandering tribute to the American military, aimed at an audience that prizes patriotism over drama and isn’t interested in complexity when telling the stories of so-called American heroes. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DI, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX Annie aaccc Quvenzhané Wallis, Jamie Foxx, Rose Byrne, Cameron Diaz. Directed by Will Gluck. 118 minutes. Rated PG. This new film version of the 1977 Broadway musical about an adorable orphan (Wallis) who melts the heart of a high-powered industrialist (Foxx) uses fewer than half of the original songs. The insipid material isn’t improved by equally cloying new songs, crass product placement, dated pop-culture jokes and movie stars who can’t sing. –JB Theaters: CH, COL, TX Baby (Not reviewed) Akshay Kumar, Rana Daggubati, Taapsee Pannu. Directed by Neeraj Pandey. 140 minutes. Not rated. In Hindi with English subtitles. An elite squad tracks deadly terrorists in India. Theaters: VS Big Eyes aaacc Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston. Directed by Tim Burton. 105 minutes. Rated PG-13. Burton and his Ed Wood screenwriters take on the true story of Margaret Keane (Adams), whose paintings of big-eyed children were hugely popular in the 1960s, when her husband Walter (Waltz) took credit for them. It’s a fascinatingly bizarre popculture story, but Burton rarely gets below the surface in telling it. –JB Theaters: ST, VS Big Hero 6 aabcc Voices of Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, T.J. Miller. Directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams. 108 minutes. Rated PG. Based loosely on an obscure Marvel comic book, this Disney animated adventure features a bright, friendly world and some exciting action sequences, plus a very entertaining character in cuddly robot Baymax. But its superhero-team origin story is bland and familiar, with Scooby-Doo-level plotting and underdeveloped characters. –JB Theaters: COL, TX Birdman aaabc Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts. Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. 119 minutes. Rated R. Keaton gets a much-needed comeback vehicle in Iñárritu’s entertaining chamber piece, playing a washed-up actor—famous for playing a Batman-like superhero called Birdman—who’s now directing and starring in a chaotic Broadway play. Seemingly composed of a single continous shot, the film also boasts Norton,

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Watts and Andrea Riseborough as fellow actors. –MD Theaters: AL, COL, ORL, SF, SP, ST, TX, VS

wooden performance. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DI, DTS, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX

Ruffalo are better still, but the movie huffs and puffs to freight a fairly banal case history with Meaning. –MD Theaters: COL, SC

Blackhat aabcc Chris Hemsworth, Tang Wei, Viola Davis. Directed by Michael Mann. 133 minutes. Rated R. Hemsworth plays a hacker furloughed from prison to help an FBI agent and a Chinese official track down the person responsible for a cyber attack on a Chinese nuclear power plant. Blackhat is a stylistic treat that is essentially incoherent when it comes to plotting, characterization and dialogue. –JB Theaters: ORL, SP, ST, VS

Cake aabcc Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Sam Worthington. Directed by Daniel Barnz. 101 minutes. Rated R. Aniston does her best as a bitter lawyer suffering from chronic pain in the aftermath of a vaguely defined accident. Her award-nominated performance is the best part of this mediocre movie, a listless indie drama that never goes much of anywhere, with moments that are framed as revelatory but contain little revelation. –JB Theaters: DTS, GVR, ST, VS

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies aabcc Martin Freeman, Luke Evans, Richard Armitage, Ian McKellen. Directed by Peter Jackson. 144 minutes. Rated PG-13. The conclusion of Jackson’s three-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy novel is underwhelming, dispatching with the previous films’ main villain in the first 10 minutes and then turning to an interminable battle. The title character spends most of the time on the sidelines, and the attempted grandeur is mostly empty. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, COL, ORL, RR, SC, SF, SS, TX

Boyhood aaaac Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette. Directed by Richard Linklater. 165 minutes. Rated R. Linklater’s grand experiment, in which he shot a little bit of footage every summer for 12 years in order to capture a boy (Coltrane) growing up in front of the camera, proves to be, in its beautifully aimless and unhurried way, a real film, not merely a cute gimmick. –MD Theaters: VS The Boy Next Door abccc Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, John Corbett. Directed by Rob Cohen. 91 minutes. Rated R. After one ill-advised night of carnal passion, a middle-aged teacher (Lopez) finds herself being stalked by her hunky, unstable neighbor (Guzman). With its painfully obvious plot twists and moronic characters, Boy is so terrible that it’s actually quite funny at times, thanks especially to Guzman’s intensely

Exodus: Gods and Kings aaccc Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley. Directed by Ridley Scott. 150 minutes. Rated PG-13. Exodus lacks the boldness and personality of Darren Aronofsky’s recent biblical film Noah, instead plodding dutifully through the story of Moses’ liberation of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt. Not that the movie doesn’t deviate from and embellish the biblical narrative, but it does so only in service of typical blockbuster bombast. –JB Theaters: ST, TC Foxcatcher aabcc Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo. Directed by Bennett Miller. 134 minutes. Rated R. Carell gives an uncharacteristically dramatic performance (wearing a big prosthetic nose) as John E. du Pont in this fictionalized version of a real-life tragedy. Tatum and

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 aaacc Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth. Directed by Francis Lawrence. 123 minutes. Rated PG-13. After enduring the titular tournament of death twice now, headstrong teenager Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) has moved on to fighting directly against her totalitarian government. Mockingjay may lack the action and excitement of the previous two movies, but it makes up for it in greater emotional and thematic resonance. –JB Theaters: AL, GVR, RR, ST, VS The Imitation Game aaacc Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode. Directed by Morten Tyldum. 114 minutes. Rated PG-13. Cumberbatch stars as Alan

A&E | Short Takes Turing, the English mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the Nazis’ Enigma code. While that material is quite exciting, however, the film’s attempts at a character study, treating Turing as someone on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum, are less successful. –MD Theaters: AL, CH, DTS, GVR, ORL, PAL, SF, SP, ST, TX, VS

The Wedding Ringer AACCC Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley CuocoSweeting. Directed by Jeremy Garelick. 101 minutes. Rated R. This contrived bromance involves a lonely rich guy (Gad) hiring a professional best man (Hart) to stand in at his wedding. Hart is likable, but the story never builds on its ridiculous premise, stumbling through unfunny set pieces and vulgar humor, without any worthwhile payoff. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TX, VS

Inherent Vice aaabc Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. 148 minutes. Rated R. Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel about an LA private eye (Phoenix) in 1970 has a ridiculously complex story, but its incomprehensibility is part of the point. Vice is a little too long and meandering for a shaggy-dog story, but even (or especially) when it’s completely baffling, it’s frequently very funny. –JB Theaters: VS Interstellar aaacc Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain. Directed by Christopher Nolan. 169 minutes. Rated PG-13. Nolan’s three-hour, effects-heavy sci-fi epic (about the search for a new planet for humanity to inhabit) turns out to be a soft-hearted plea for the power of love, ultimately relying on sentimental platitudes. At the same time, Nolan creates overwhelming, often breathtaking suspense in a number of astonishing set pieces. –JB Theaters: SC, ST Into the Woods aaacc James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep. Directed by Rob Marshall. 124 minutes. Rated PG. Directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago), the long-awaited screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s fairy-tale musical boasts a strong cast, including many actors (like Kendrick) who can actually sing. Unfortunately, Act 2 of the stage production has been gutted, and the result is a movie that’s only half satisfying. –MD Theaters: CH, COL, ORL, PAL, RR, SF, SS, ST, TX, VS Mortdecai aaccc Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor. Directed by David Koepp. 106 minutes. Rated R. Depp acts primarily with his goofy mustache in this strained caper that is more witless than witty. As English nobleman and art dealer Charlie Mortdecai, Depp puts on another funny voice but fails to do anything funny, and the comedic mystery surrounding him is limp and uninvolving. –JB Theaters: AL, CH, COL, DI, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TX, VS Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb aaccc Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Dan Stevens. Directed by Shawn Levy. 98 minutes. Rated PG. Made from the “kids-won’t-care-how-badly-weslapped-this-thing-together” school of filmmaking, the third movie in the Night at the Museum series brings the usual cast to London to save their magic tablet. The movie brings up ideas and lets them drop, clumsy cutting ruins most of the jokes, and visual effects are plentiful and lifeless. –JMA Theaters: AL, BS, CH, COL, ORL, RR, SC, SS, TX Ode to My Father (Not reviewed) Hwang Jung-min, Yunjin Kim, Oh Dalsu. Directed by Yoon Je-kyoon. 126 minutes. Not rated. In Korean with English subtitles. A Korean man spends his life separated from his father following the Korean War. Theaters: VS

Whiplash aaabc Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser. Directed by Damien Chazelle. 107 minutes. Rated R. Teller plays an aspiring jazz drummer who has either the good or bad fortune to fall under the tutelage of a sadistic teacher-conductor (Simmons). There’s not much to the film apart from their weird sort of S&M relationship, but with two lead actors this formidable, that’s enough. –MD Theaters: ST, VS

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Paddington aaabc Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Nicole Kidman, voice of Ben Whishaw. Directed by Paul King. 95 minutes. Rated PG. Somehow the new Paddington movie seems modern while at the same time holding firmly to its quaint, lovely ideals. The movie includes a few big slapstick moments, but they arise naturally out of the character’s unfamiliarity with the civilized world. Ben Whishaw voices the CGI bear. –JMA Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SP, SS, TX Penguins of Madagascar aabcc Voices of Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Christopher Knights. Directed by Eric Darnell and Simon J. Smith. 92 minutes. Rated PG. The no-nonsense penguins who stole scenes in the Madagascar animated movies get their own feature, proving again that characters who are funny in small doses aren’t necessarily suited to carrying entire movies. The penguins’ madcap adventures fighting an evil octopus are occasionally cute and occasionally clever, but mostly just end up exhausting. –JB Theaters: ST, TC, VS Selma aaabc David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Carmen Ejogo. Directed by Ava DuVernay. 127 minutes. Rated PG-13. Selma is a sometimes powerful, sometimes stilted look at the 1965 march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Oyelowo) from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama to rally for voting rights for African-Americans. The filmmakers create a sense of real life being lived, rather than just facts and figures being dramatized. –JB Theaters: CAN, COL, ORL, PAL, RR, SF, SP, ST, TX, VS Spare Parts (Not reviewed) George Lopez, Carlos PenaVega, Marisa Tomei. Directed by Sean McNamara. 113 minutes. Rated PG-13. A team of working-class Hispanic high school students enters a prestigious robotics competition. Theaters: BS, DI, ORL, PAL, TX Strange Magic (Not reviewed) Voices of Alan Cumming, Evan Rachel Wood, Kristin Chenoweth. Directed by Gary Rydstrom. 99 minutes. Rated PG. A mysterious potion sends a group of elves, goblins, imps and fairies on an

adventure. Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TX Taken 3 abccc Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Forest Whitaker. Directed by Olivier Megaton. 109 minutes. Rated PG-13. Neeson returns as former secret agent Bryan Mills, who has to clear his name after being framed for murder. Lacking the strong hook of the original, this sequel blunders through action-movie clichés, with nonsensical twists, inconsistent characterization and one of the most incoherently shot and edited car chases in recent memory. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DI, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TX

minutes. Rated PG-13. Redmayne gives an impressive physical performance as famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, conveying a vivid sense of a lively mind trapped inside an unresponsive body. Alas, the movie, which gives science short shrift, is primarily about Hawking’s bland relationship with his first wife (Jones). –MD Theaters: COL, SC, ST

Wild aaaac Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski. Directed by JeanMarc Vallée. 115 minutes. Rated R. Witherspoon and director Vallée clearly have great respect for author Cheryl Strayed and her attempt to leave behind a troubled past while hiking more than a thousand miles. They approach the story with grace and subtlety, downplaying big revelations and instead focusing on the small steps that Cheryl (Witherspoon) took. –JB Theaters: COL, SC The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death AABCC Phoebe Fox, Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine. Directed by Tom Harper. 98 minutes. Rated PG-13. This horror sequel takes place at the same creepy, abandoned mansion as the original, only decades later. Harper relies heavily on the creepy atmosphere of the house and the surrounding town, but he relies even more heavily on sudden loud noises, which are the source of the movie’s meager scares. –JB Theaters: BS, TX

The Theory of Everything aaccc Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, David Thewlis. Directed by James Marsh. 123

Unbroken aabcc Jack O’Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, Miyavi. Directed by Angelina Jolie. 137 minutes. Rated PG-13. This glossy biopic depicts World War II hero (and Olympian) Louis Zamperini (O’Connell) as more of a superhuman ideal than a person. Director Jolie cranks up the oppressively rousing score and gets some sweeping camerawork from topnotch cinematographer Roger Deakins, but the movie often feels like a parody of a feel-good biopic. –JB Theaters: BS, SC, SF

Theaters

Summerlin 2070 Park Center Drive, 702-221-2283

(SF) Century Santa Fe Station 4949 N. Rancho Drive, 702-655-8178

(AL) Regal Aliante 7300 Aliante Parkway, North Las Vegas, 702-221-2283

(FH) Regal Fiesta Henderson 777 W. Lake Mead Parkway, Henderson, 702-221-2283

(SHO) United Artists Showcase 3769 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-221-2283

(BS) Regal Boulder Station 4111 Boulder Highway, 702-221-2283

(GVR) Regal Green Valley Ranch 2300 Paseo Verde Parkway, Henderson, 702-221-2283

(PAL) Brenden Theatres at the Palms 4321 W. Flamingo Road, 702-507-4849 (CAN) Galaxy Cannery 2121 E. Craig Road, North Las Vegas, 702-639-9779 (CH) Cinedome Henderson 851 S. Boulder Highway, Henderson, 702-566-1570 (COL) Regal Colonnade 8880 S. Eastern Ave., 702-221-2283 (DI) Las Vegas Drive-In 4150 W. Carey Ave., North Las Vegas, 702-646-3565 (DTS) Regal Downtown

(GVL) Galaxy Green Valley Luxury+ 4500 E. Sunset Road, Henderson, 702442-0244

JMA Jeffrey M. Anderson; JB Josh Bell; MD Mike D’Angelo

(SP) Century South Point 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-260-4061 (SC) Century Suncoast 9090 Alta Drive, 702-869-1880 (SS) Regal Sunset Station 1301-A W. Sunset Road, Henderson, 702-221-2283

(ORL) Century Orleans 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., 702-889-1220

(TX) Regal Texas Station 2101 Texas Star Lane, North Las Vegas, 702-221-2283

(RP) AMC Rainbow Promenade 2321 N. Rainbow Blvd., 888-262-4386

(TS) AMC Town Square 6587 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-362-7283

(RR) Regal Red Rock 11011 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-221-2283

(TC) Regency Tropicana Cinemas 3330 E. Tropicana Ave., 702-438-3456

(ST) Century Sam’s Town 5111 Boulder Highway, 702-547-1732

(VS) Regal Village Square 9400 W. Sahara Ave., 702-221-2283

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> THE HIT MAKER Bacharach rolls into Reynolds Hall.

BACHARACH’S LOVE BUFFET If Anyone Who Had a Heart were to piece together a medley of Burt Bacharach songs at 30 seconds a song, the performance would last five hours. (In the Land of Make Believe, that would be The Beginning of Loneliness, because Only Love Can Break a Heart.) ¶ And Bacharach, for those not familiar with the eight-time Grammy winner, is a love buffet. Along with lyricist Hal David, he nearly defined the sound of radio for decades. Point is, the songwriter, now in his 80s, is so famously and successfully prolific that an evening of just his full-length hit songs would triple the length of a usual Vegas show, meaning that his January 20 performance at the Smith Center will leave some music unsung. ¶ But that’s the price for having an American icon onstage. Accompanied by three singers and a backup band, even if Bacharach taps into only a sliver of his repertoire, fans will likely BURT BACHARACH be throwing him Baby It’s You looks and knowing that Long After January 30, 7 p.m., $29-$125. Tonight Is All Over, What the World Needs Now is The Look of Love. Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall, –Kristen Peterson 702-749-2000.

LIVE MUSIC T H E ST R I P & N E A R BY Brooklyn Bowl Keller Williams & The Motet 1/31, 9 pm, $11-$17. The Wailers 2/2-2/3, 9 pm, $22-$28. Jack White 2/4, 9 pm, $65. Naive Melodies 2/5, 8:30 pm, free. Hellyeah, Devour the Day, Like a Storm 2/6, 8 pm, $28-$33. Tribal Seeds 2/7, 9 pm, $22+. Iration, Stick Figure, Hours Eastly 2/16, 8 pm, $26-$28. Flight Facilities 2/28, 9 pm, $22+. Railroad Earth 3/22, 8 pm, $22-$28. The String Cheese Incident 2/13-2/15, 8 pm, $55+. Lotus 2/14-2/15, midnight, $17. Chronixx, Protoje, Kelissa, Keznamdi 2/20, 9 pm, $17. Gov’t Mule, John Scofield 2/22, 8 p.m., $25-$28. Phantogram, Talk in Tongues 2/23, 8 pm, $28. Flight Facilities 2/28, 8 pm, $22. Ozomatli 3/1, 8 pm, $25. Dan + Shay, Canaan Smith 3/21, $22-$27.50. Railroad

Earth 3/22, 8 pm, $22-$28. Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Roosevelt Collier 3/27, 1 a.m., $13-$17. Trampled by Turtles 3/30, 8 pm, $21-$28. Milky Chance, James Hersey 4/9, 9 pm, $18-$22. Clean Bandit 4/10, 9 pm, $22$25. Zappa Plays Zappa 4/25, 9 pm, $39-$72. OK Go 4/28, 9 pm, $22-$28. Umphrey’s McGee 5/1, 7 pm; 5/2, 8:30 pm, $30-$99. Linq, 702-862-2695. The Colosseum Elton John 3/20-3/21, 3/23-3/24, 3/27-3/28, 3/30-3/31, 4/34/4, 4/6-4/7, 4/10-4/11, 4/13-4/14, 6:30 pm, $55-$500. Rod Stewart 1/27, 1/301/31, 2/3, 2/6-2/7, 2/10, 2/14-2/15, 7:30 pm, $49-$250. Reba, Brooks & Dunn 6/24, 6/26-6/27, 7/1, 7/3, 7/4, 12/2, 12/4, 12/6, 12/9, $60-$205. The Who 9/19, 10:30 pm, $96-$501. Caesars Palace, 702-731-7333. The Cosmopolitan (Chelsea) Billy Idol, Broncho 2/21, 8 pm, $50+. Pentatonix 2/28, 8 pm, $20-$30. Jason Mraz 3/14, 8 pm, $50. Hozier 4/9, 9 pm, $30+. (Boulevard Pool)

Interpol 4/15, 9 pm, $25. Stromae 4/16, 9 pm, $25. 702-698-7000. Dive Bar The Toasters, Mustard Plug, The Scoundrels, Tiki Bandits, Frank & Deans 2/6, 9 pm, $10-$12. 4110 S. Maryland Pkwy., 702-586-3483. Double Down Bargain DJ Collective Mon. Unique Massive Tue, midnight. The Juju Man Wed, midnight. Punk Rock Bingo first Wed of the month. Blooze Brothers Third Sun of the month. Shows 10 pm, free unless noted. 640 Paradise Rd., 702-7915775. Flamingo Olivia Newton-John 3/103/14, 3/17-3/21, 5/26-5/30, 6/2-6/6, 6/9-6/13, 7/7-7/11, 7/14-7/18, 7/21-7/25, 8/4-8/8, 8/11-8/15, 8/18-8/22, 9/1-9/5, 9/8-9/12, 7:30 pm, $69-$139. 702-7333333. Gilley’s Country Nation 1/30, 2/272/28, 10 pm. Austin Law 2/5, 3/5, 9 pm; 2/6-2/7, 3/6-3/7, 10 pm. Scotty Alexander Band 2/12, 3/26, 9 pm; 2/13-2/14, 3/27-3/28, 10 pm. Wolfcreek

2/20-2/21, 10 pm. Chancey Williams Band 3/12, 9 pm; 3/13-3/14, 10 pm. Chad Freeman Band 3/19, 9 pm; 3/203/21, 10 pm. Shows $10-$20 after 10 pm. Treasure Island, 702-894-7722. Hard Rock Live Kate Voegele, Leroy Sanchez 2/7, 6 pm, $12. The New Mastersounds, Moksha 2/9, 7 pm, $16. Mod Sun 2/13, 5 pm, $13. Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, Authority Zero 2/14, 6:30 pm, $23-$25. Bayside, Senses Fail, Man Overboard, Seaway 3/13, 7 pm, $20. The Devil Wears Prada, Born of Osiris, The Word Alive, Secrets 3/24, 5 pm, $21. Hard Rock Cafe (Strip), 3771 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-733-7625. House of Blues Carlos Santana Thru 1/31, 5/20, 5/22-5/24, 5/27, 5/29-5/31, $90-$350, 8 pm. Guster, Kishi Bashi 1/22, 7 pm, $27-$29. Wale 1/27, 7:30 pm, $55-$111. Ru Paul’s Drag Race 2/1, 7 pm, $30-$50. Silverstein, Beartooth, Hands Like Houses, My Iron Lung 2/3, 5 pm, $18-$22. Cannibal Corpse, Behemoth, Aeon, Tribulation 2/6, 5 pm, $28-$30. Badfish, Phil and the Blanx 2/7, 7 pm, $24-$26. The Spazmatics, Days After Hail 2/12, 6:30 pm, $20. Paper Tigers 2/13, 7:30 pm, $12. Steel Panther 2/13, 2/20, 9 pm, $22. Marilyn Manson 2/14, 7:30 pm, $60. Gilberto Santa Rosa 2/16, 7:30 pm, $43-$47. Kalin & Myles 2/19, 6 pm, $18-$20. Dr. Dog, Hanni El Khatib 2/21, 8 pm, $25$30. In Flames, All That Remains, Wovenwar 2/22, $25-$28, 5:30 pm. Taking Back Sunday, Letlive, The Menzingers 2/24, 5 pm, $28-$29. Cold War Kids 2/28, 6:30 pm, $20-$23. Schism 3/3, 7:30 pm, $10-$15. Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience 3/6-3/8, 7:30 pm, $28-$75. Bayside, Senses Fail, Man Overboard, Seaway 3/13, 7 pm, $20. Nightwish 4/30, 7 pm, $43-$78. Mastodon 5/1, 8 pm, $30-$32. Rhyme N Rhythm Mon, 9 pm, free. Live swing music Tue, 9 pm, free. Blues Wed, 8 pm, free. Phil Stendek Thu, 8 pm, free. Singles Sat, 9 pm, free. Gospel Brunch Sun, 10 am & 1 pm, $27-$50. PJ Barth Trio Sun, 8 pm, free. Mandalay Bay, 702632-7600. The Joint Seether, Papa Roach, Kyng & Islander 2/7, 7 pm, $40+. Rascal Flatts 2/25, 2/27-2/28, 3/4, 3/6-3/7, 3/11, 3/13-3/14, 8 pm, $40+. WIdespread Panic w/ Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe 3/27 w/ Chris Robinson Brotherhood 3/28, 8 pm, $55+. Sixx: A.M., Apocalyptica 4/10, 8 pm, $35. Kenny Chesney 4/3-4/4. Alt-J, Jungle 4/13, 8 pm, $40.Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo 4/18, 8 pm, $40+. Journey 4/29, 5/15/2, 5/6, 5/8-5/9, 5/13, 5/15-5/16, 8 pm, $60-$250. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 5/22, 9 pm, $35+. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5222. Mandalay Bay (Events Center) Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull 1/31, 7:30 pm, $50-$200. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 2/21, 8 pm, $75-$125. Chris Brown, Trey Songz, Tyga 3/7, 8 pm, $50-$126. Nickelback 7/3, 8 pm, $25-$105. 5 Seconds of Summer 7/17, 7:30 pm, $50-$100. 702-632-7777. MGM (Grand Garden Arena) Grasshopper 2/28, 8 pm, $58-$168. Fleetwood Mac 4/11, 8 pm, $50-$200. Iggy Azalea, Nick Jonas, Tinashe 4/25, $40-$70. Bette Midler 5/22, 8 pm, $95-$310. (Crown Royal Gold Buckle Zone) 702-891-7777. Orleans Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band 2/7-2/8, 8 pm, $30-$61. NiteKings Wed, 4 pm. Rick Duarte Fri, 9 pm.

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Acoustic Den Sat, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., 702-365-7075. Palace Station (Jack’s) Peter Love Trio Fri, 9 pm. Willplay Sat, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702-547-5300. Palazzo (Palazzo Theatre) Frank: The Man. The Music. ft. Bob Anderson Tue-Thu, Sat, 8 pm; Fri 9 pm, Beginning 1/24, $72. (Laguna Champagne Bar) Jimmy Hopper Thu-Sun, 9:30 pm, free. 3355 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 702-414-4300. Palms (The Lounge) Sin City Sinners 1/31, 10 pm, free. Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns Mon, 10:30 pm, $10. 702944-3200. The Pearl Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band 3/15, 7:30 pm, $73-$153. Steely Dan 4/11, 8 pm, $94+. Joe Bonamassa 5/1-5/2, 8 pm, $89-$130. The Moody Blues 5/3, 8 pm, $63-$133. Palms, 702942-7777. Piero’s Pia Zadora Fri & Sat, 9 pm, two-drink minimum. 355 Convention Center Dr., 702-369-2305. Planet Hollywood Britney Spears 1/30-1/31, 2/4, 2/6-2/7, 2/11, 2/13-2/14, 2/17-2/18, 2/20-2/21, 2/25, 2/27-2/28, $60-$195. Ricardo Arjona 3/15, 8 pm, $59-$181. Weird Al Yankovic 5/12-5/16, 8 pm, $59-$89. 702-234-7469. Rock in Rio Festival Ft. Taylor Swift, Metallica, Linkin Park, No Doubt, The Deftones, John Legend 5/8-5/9, 5/15-5/16, $298-$498. Rockinrio.com. Stratosphere David Perrico and Pop Evolution First & third Tue, 10:30 pm, $20. 800-998-6937. Tuscany Danny Lozada Sun & Thu 10 pm, free. Kenny Davidsen Celebrity Piano Bar Fri, 10 pm, free. Live music Sat, 10 pm., free. 255 E. Flamingo Rd., 702-893-8933. Vinyl Brett Scallions 2/6, 11:30 pm, $30. The Glorious Sons, Luminoth, Systemec 2/18, 8 pm, $22. Machine Head 2/19, 9 pm, $23+. Tiger Box 2/20, 9 pm, $25+. That 1 Guy 2/28, 9:30 pm, $13+. Ed Kowalczyk 4/2, 9:30 pm, $40. Nekromantix 4/4, 9 pm, $20+. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-6935000. Wynn (Eastside Lounge) Michael Monge Wed-Thu, 9 pm, $10. 3131 S Las Vegas Blvd.

D OW N TOW N Artifice Pistol Shoebox 1/30, 10 pm, free. GorillaHead 1/31, 10 pm, free. 1025 S. 1st St., Ste. 100., 702-4896339. Backstage Bar & Billiards Hunter Beard, Keddy Mac, Dub-Raw, JMZ Dean, Ekoh, Elmer Demond 1/31, 8 pm, $10-$15. The Blasters, The Yawpers, Delta Bombers, Eddy Bears & The Cubs 2/5, 8 pm, $12$15. Pinback 2/12, 8 pm, $16-$20. Fishbone, The Untouchables 3/1, 8 pm, $21-$25. 601 E. Fremont St., 702382-2227. Bar & Bistro Out of the Desert Bluegrass Band Sun, noon, free. Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd., 702202-6060. Beauty Bar Hard Pipe Hitters, Poor Me, FireWater Folklore, 12 Good Summers 1/30, 9 pm. Jackson Taylor & The Sinners, The All-Togethers, Whiskey Breath 1/31, 9 pm, $5. A Place To Bury Strangers 3/12, 9 pm, $8-$10. 517 Fremont St., 702-5983757. The Bunkhouse Rakim, RnR, DJ Wizdumb 1/29, 8 pm, $15-$20. King Tuff 1/30, 9 pm, $10-$12. Todd

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Venniro Sat, 6 pm. Ryan Whyte Maloney, Cali Tucker Sun, 9 pm. (Hanks) Dave Ritz Tue, Thu, 6 pm; Sat, 7 pm. Nick Mattera Fri, 6 pm. Jeremy James Sat, 7 pm. Rick Duarte Wed, 6 pm. (Lobby Bar) Shai Peri, Christina L Thu, 8 pm. Christina L Fri, 8 pm. Cayce Andrew Sat, 8 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702-367-2470. M Resort (M Pavillion) Elvis, The Aloha Concert Tribute 3/14, 8/8, 7 pm, $30-$42. Shows free with drink purchase. M Resort, 800-745-3000. Rampart Casino (Grand Ballroom) (Addison’s Lounge) Wes Winters Tue, 6 pm. Mark O’Toole Wed, 6 pm. All shows free unless noted. (J.C.’s Irish Sports Pub) All shows free unless noted. (Round Bar) All shows free unless noted. JW Marriott. 221 N. Rampart Blvd., 702-507-5900. Red Rock (Rocks Lounge) In Its Entirety Concert Series: Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ 2/13, 7:30 pm, $15. Zowie Bowie Fri, 10 pm. The Dirty Sat, 11 pm, $10. David Perrico Pop Strings Orchestra Sat, 11 pm, free. (Onyx) Jared Berry 12/31, 9 pm. Willplay Fri, 8 pm. Tim Catching Sat, 9 pm. The Dirty Sat. 11 pm, $10. (T-Bones) Dave Ritz Wed, 6 pm; Fri, 7 pm. Rick Duarte Thu, 6 pm; Sat, 7 pm. Shows free unless noted. 11011 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-797-7777. Santa Fe Station (Chrome Showroom) Magic of Motown Sat, 10 pm. Jerry Tiffe 2/4, 3/4, 6:30 pm. Vegas Goodfellas 2/11, 3/11, 6:30 pm. Best of the Crooners 2/18, 3/18, 6:30 pm. Las Vegas Jazz Society 2/25, 3/25, 6:30 pm. (Revolver) Bro Country Thu, 8 pm. 4949 N Rancho Dr., 702-658-4900. Sienna Italian Authentic Trattoria Vegas Good Fellas Thu, 7:30 pm. Red Velvet Fri-Sat, 8:30 pm. 9500 Sahara Ave., 702-360-3358. South Point Beginnings 2/6-2/8, 7:30 pm, $25+. Tower of Power 2/13-2/15, 7:30 pm, $45+. The Diamonds 2/20-2/22, 7:30 pm, $25+. McCartney Years 2/27-3/1, 7:30 pm, $25+. Bill Medley, McKenna Medley 3/6-3/8, 7:30 pm, $45+. The Lettermen 3/20-3/22, 7:30 pm, $25+. Dennis Bono Show Thu, 2 pm, free. Wes Winters Fri-Sat, 6 pm, free. Spazmatics Sat, 10:30 pm, $5. 702-7978005. Suncoast Piano Men: A Tribute to Sir Elton John & Billy Joel 1/31, 7:30 pm, $16+. Rita Coolidge 2/12-2/15, 7:30 pm, $16. 9090 Alta Dr., 702-636-7075. Sunset Station (Club Madrid) Walt Aldridge 1/30, 8 pm. Barry Black Fri, 9:30 pm. Zowie Bowie Sat, 10 pm. (Gaudi Bar) Ryan Whyte Maloney, Cali Tucker Sat, 7 pm. Willplay Sat, 7 pm. (Rosalita’s) Tony Venniro Fri, 7 pm. Peter Love Sat, 7 pm. (Chrome Showroom) Shows free unless noted. 1301 W. Sunset Rd., 702-547-7777. Texas Station (A-Bar) Darrin Michaels FriSat, 7 pm. (South Padre) Crossfire Fri, 9 pm. Yellow Brick Road Sat, 9 pm. 702-631-1000.

E v e ry w h e r e E l s e Adrenaline Sports Bar and Grill Bow Wow Wow, Midnight Clover, The Unwieldies, Water Landing, Irie 2/7, 8 pm, $8-$10. Mechanical Manson, E.M.D.F., Meade Avenue 2/28, 8 pm, $8-$10. Open Mic Night Thu, 7 pm. 3103 N. Rancho Dr., 645-4139. Arizona Charlie’s (Naughty Ladies Saloon) The Good Fellas 1/30-1/31, 9 pm. Jerry Tiffe Fri, 4 pm. (Palace Grand Lounge) Gregg Peterson 1/23-1/24, 9 pm. Jamestown 1/301/31, 9 pm. Boomers Live music Wed, 10 pm, $5-$10. Hip Hop Roots Fri, 10 pm, $5. 3200 Sirius Ave., 702-368-1863. Boulder Dam Brewing The All-Togethers 1/30. Phil Friendly Trio 1/31. Space Karate 2/6. Out of the Desert 2/7. Jimmy Prima Band 2/13. Toney Rocks 2/14. Justin Mather 2/19. DJ Hayden 2/20. The AllTogethers 2/21. You Knew Me When 2/27. All shows free unless noted, Fri-Sat, 8 pm; Wed-Thu, 7 pm. 453 Nevada Way, Boulder City, 702-243-2739. Boulder Station (Railhead) Bee Gees Gold Fri, 10 pm, $5. El Moreno Carrillo Sun, 11 pm, $5-$10. (Kixx Bar) Joey Vitale Fri, 8 pm. Reflection Sat, 8 pm. 702-432-7777. Count’s Vamp’d John Zito Electric Jam Wed, 9 pm, free. 9:30 pm, free. 6750 W. Sahara, 702-220-8849. The Dillinger Marty Feick Thu, 7 pm.

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Stefnrock First & third Sat, 8:30 pm, free. 1224 Arizona St., 702-293-4001. Dispensary Lounge Uli Geissendoerfer Trio Fri-Sat, 10 pm. 2451 E. Tropicana, 702-4586343. Eastside Cannery (Eastside Events Center) Brian McKnight 2/15, 7 pm, $20+. (Marilyn’s Lounge) Claudine Castro Band Mon, 10 pm. Phoenix Wed, 9 pm. Spazmatics Sun, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702-507-5700. Italian American Club Tony Sacca, Denise Clemente 2/21, 8 pm, $25. 2333 E. Sahara Ave., 702-457-3866, iac.com. Milo’s Cellar Live Music Thur, 8 pm, free. 538 Nevada Hwy., 702-293-9540. Ron DeCar’s Event Center Michael Ray Tyler Orchestra 1/31, 1 pm, $15. Jimmy Wilkins New Life Jazz Orchestra 2/7, 1 pm, $15. Bruce Harper Big Band, Elisa Fiorillo 2/21, 1 pm, $15 Charles McNeal Big Band 2/28, 1 pm, $15. Jazz Conversations Big Band Series Sat, 1 pm, $15. Swingin’ Sundays Sun, 5 pm, $10. 1201 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-384-0771. Sam’s Town The Police Unity Tour ft. Crossfire 2/7, 8 pm, $10-$15. NiteKings Sun, 7 pm, free. Shows free unless noted. 5111 Boulder Hwy., 702-284-7777. Winchester Cultural Center The Strip Kings 2/6, 7 pm, $10-$12. Joe Lano Guitar Ensemble ft. Jobelle Yonely 2/15, 2 pm, $12$15. 3130 S. McLeod Dr., 702-455-7030.

Comedy Louie Anderson Wed-Sat, 7 pm, $60-$102. Plaza, 702-386-2110. Roseanne Barr 2/28, 4/11, 9:30 pm; 6/6, 7:30 pm, $50-$118. Venetian, 866-641-7469. Big Al’s Comedy Club Wed-Sun, 8 pm, $20. Gold Coast, 702-251-3574. Bonkerz Comedy Club Downtown Grand Fri-Sat, 8:30 pm, free (with two-drink purchase). 206 N. 3rd St., 702-719-5100. Bonkerz Comedy Club JW Marriott Shows 7 pm, $15. 221 N. Rampart Blvd., 702-5075900. Bonkerz Comedy Club Primm Fri, 8 pm & 10:15 pm; Sat, 10:15 pm; $10. Primm Valley Resort , 31900 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 800-3867867. Bonkerz Comedy Club Silver Sevens FriSat, 10:30 pm; $10. Silver Sevens Hotel & Casino, 4100 Paradise, 702-733-7000. Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club Ian Bagg, Dave Landau, Matt Markman Thru 2/1. All shows at 8 pm, $65-$87. MGM Grand, 891-7777. Wayne Brady 2/27, 4/17, 10 pm, $40+. Mirage, 702-792-7777. Bill Burr 6/26-6/27, 10 pm, $70+. Mirage, 702792-7777. Caroline Rhea, Elayne Boosler 3/28, 9:30 pm, $40-$96. Venetian, 866-641-7469. Carrot Top Wed-Mon, 8:30 pm, $50-$60. Luxor, 702-262-4900. Jeff Civilico Sat-Mon, Wed-Thu, 4 pm, $39$50. Quad, 888-777-7664. Andrew Dice Clay 2/6-2/8, 2/13-2/15, 3/12, 3/14-3/15, 3/20-3/22, 3/26-3/28, 4/9, 4/114/12, 4/16, 4/18-4/19, 4/23, 4/25-4/26. All shows at 9 p.m., $59+. Vinyl, hardrockhotel. com. Comedy After Dark Wed-Sun, 10 pm, $40$60. LVH, 702-732-5755. Whitney Cummings 3/13-3/14, 5/22-5/23, 9:30 pm, $74-$118. Venetian, 866-641-7469. Jeff Dunham Wed-Sun, 7 pm; Sat-Sun, 4 pm, $72. Planet Hollywood, 702-531-4320. Bill Engvall 3/6, 9 pm, $60+. Treasure Island, 702-894-7722. Vinnie Favorito Nightly, 8 pm, $55-$100. Flamingo, 702-733-3333. Fortune Feimster, Cameron Esposito 4/25, 8 pm, $40-$96. Venetian, 866-641-7469. Craig Ferguson 3/13, 8 pm, $25+. Cosmopolitan, 702-698-7000. Garfunkel & Oates 3/21, 9:30 pm, $40-$96. Venetian, 866-641-7469. Eddie Griffin Mon-Wed, 7 pm, $90-$182. Rio, 702-777-7776. Kathy Griffin 4/18, 10 pm, $60+. Mirage, 702792-7777. Kevin Hart 5/24, 8 pm, $49-$129. Mandalay Bay Events Center, 702-632-7777. HydroComics Unleashed Wed, 9 pm, free. Lucie’s Lounge, 3955 Charleston Blvd., 702776-6417.

The Improv Allan Havey, Don McEnery, Alycia Wood Thru 2/1. Owen Benjamin, Sean Kent 2/3-2/8. Dat Phan, Suli McCullough, Matt Merchant 2/10-2/15. Graham Elwood, Gary Brightwell, Matt Markman 2/17-2/22. Tue-Sun, 8:30 & 10 pm, $30-$45. Harrah’s, 702-369-5000. Gabriel Iglesias 4/3-4/4, 5/23-5/24, 10 pm, $60+. Mirage, 702-792-7777. The Joe Show Thu-Sat, 8 pm, $30. Tuscany, 255 E. Flamingo Rd., 702-629-0715. Jokes With Friends Thu, 10 pm, free. Nacho Daddy, 9925 S. Eastern Ave., 702-462-5000. L.A. Comedy Club Tue-Sun, 9:30 pm, $39$62. Ballys, 702-777-2782. Lisa Lampanelli 2/7, 9:30 pm; 4/4, 8 pm; 6/13, 9:30 pm, $50-$119. Venetian, 866-641-7469. The Laugh Factory Shows at 8:30 & 10:30 pm. $29-$45. Tropicana, 702-739-2222. Laughternoon Adam London Daily, 4 pm, $20-$25. The D, 702-388-2111. Jay Leno 2/28, 5/15, 6/13, 7/4, 10 pm, $60-$80. Mirage, 702-792-7777. Loni Love 2/14, 9:30 pm, $40-$97. Venetian, 866-641-7469. M Resort Comedy Night Fri, 9 pm, free with drink purchase. M Resort, 702-797-1000. The Mac King Comedy Magic Show TueSat, 1 & 3 pm, $33. Harrah’s, 702-369-5000. Kathleen Madigan 6/12, 10 pm, $30+. Mirage, 702-792-7777. Bill Maher 3/21-3/22, 8 pm, $43-$93. Pearl, 702-942-7777. John Mulaney 3/6, 10 pm, $54-$65. Mirage, 702-792-7777. Kevin Nealon 2/20-2/21, 7:30 pm, $16+. Suncoast, 702-636-7075. Party Improv Comedy Thu-Sun, 7 pm, $25, 2 drink minimum. Planet Hollywood, 702531-4320. Ray Romano & David Spade 2/20-2/21, 4/104/11, 10 pm, $80+. Mirage, 702-792-7777. Red Skelton Tribute Sat-Tue, 2 pm; $35-$40. Westin Las Vegas, 160 E. Flamingo Rd., 702245-2393. Don Rickles 2/21-2/22, 8 pm, $80.Orleans, 702-365-7075. Riviera Comedy Club 40 is Not the New 20 ft. Matt Kazam Mon-Sat, 10 pm, $40. Richie Minervini, Johnny Pizzi Thru 2/1, 8:30 pm, $30. Riviera, 855-468-6748. Joe Rogan 1/30, 10 pm, $40+. Mirage, 702792-7777. Rita Rudner 2/11, 2/25, 3/4, 3/11, 7:30 pm, $60$100. Harrah’s, 702-369-5000. Sapphire Comedy Hour Fri-Sat, 8 pm, $20. Sapphire Gentlemen’s Club, 3025 Industrial Rd., 702-796-6000. S.E.T. Improv Comedy Mon, 8 pm, $10. Onyx Theatre, 953 E. Sahara Ave., 702-732-7225. Side Splitting Sundays Sun, 10 pm, free. Boomers, 3200 Sirius Ave., 702-368-1863. Sin City Comedy & Burlesque Show 8:30 pm, $38-$49. Planet Hollywood, 702-7777776. Sinbad 1/30-1/31, 8 pm, $50+. Orleans, orleanscasino.com. Trailer Park Boys 2/22, 8 pm, $40-$125. The Joint, 702-693-5222. Ron White’s Comedy Salute to the Troops 3/4, 7:30 pm, $80-$119. Mirage, 702-792-7777.

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Sports Arenacross Championships 5/1, 8 pm, $40. South Point Arena, southpointarena.com. Arenacross 5/3, 8 am, $20. South Point Arena, southpointarena.com. Boyd Gaming 300 NASCAR Xfinity Series 3/7, 8:30 am, $30-$69. Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 7000 North Las Vegas Boulevard, lvms.com. Championship Bull Riding 3/7, 8 pm, $20$60. South Point Arena, southpointarena. com. Ellis Mania 10 2/21, 8 pm, $20+. The Joint, 702-693-5222. Jay Cutler Desert Classic 4/4, times vary, $30-$78. The Pearl, ticketmaster.com. Harlem Globetrotters 2/5, times vary, $24+. Orleans Arena, orleansarena.com. Kobalt 400 Nascar Spring Cup Series 3/8, noon, $49-$110. Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 7000 North Las Vegas Boulevard, lvms. com. Monster Jam World Finals XVI 3/26, 6 pm; 3/27-3/28, 7 pm, $92-$192. Sam Boyd Stadium, unlvtickets.com. Stratosphere Pole Day 3/6, noon, $25. Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 7000 North Las Vegas Boulevard, lvms.com. UFC 183: Silva vs. Diaz 1/31, 3 pm, $250$1,000. MGM Grand Garden Arena, 702891-7777. UNLV Men’s Basketball Air Force 1/31, 7 pm, $15-$100. Fresno State 2/10, time TBA, $15-$100. Boise State 2/18, 8 pm, $15-100. Wyoming 2/28, 5 pm, $15-$100. San Diego State 3/4, 8 pm, $20-$110. Thomas & Mack, 702-739-3267. UNLV Women’s Basketball Colorado State 2/7, 4 pm. New Mexico 2/21, 2 pm. Utah State 2/25, 7 pm. San Jose State 3/6, 5 pm. All games 5 p.m. Cox Pavilion, 702-739-3267.

Galleries Amanda Harris Gallery of Contemporary Art Thu-Fri, 5-8 pm, and by appointment. 900 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 702-769-6036. Artistic Armory 5087 S. Arville St., 702-5479005. Arts Factory 107 E. Charleston Blvd, 702383-3133. Galleries include: Joseph Watson Collection Wed-Fri, 1-6 pm; Sat, noon-3 pm; Sun, 11 am-2 pm. Suite 115, 858-733-2135. Sin City Gallery Wed-Sat, 1-7 pm; Sun, 11 am-2 pm. Suite 100, 702-608-2461. Trifecta Gallery Mon-Fri, 11 am-5 pm; Sat-Sun, 11 am-3 pm. Suite 135, 702-366-7001, trifectagallery. com. Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art Daily, 10 am-8 pm, $11-$16. 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702693-7871. Blackbird Studios Fri-Sun, noon-7 pm. 1551 S. Commerce St., 702-782-0319. Brett Wesley Gallery Wed-Sat, 1-7 pm. 1025 S. First St. #150, 702-433-4433. Clark County Government Center Rotunda Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm. 500 Grand Central Parkway, 702-455-7030. Clay Arts Vegas Mon-Sat, 9 am-9 pm; Sun, 11:30 am-6:30 pm. 1511 S. Main St., 702-3754147. Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-2 pm. At UNLV, 702895-3893. Downtown Spaces 1800 Industrial Rd., dtspaces.com. Galleries include: Wasteland Gallery Thu, 6 pm-9pm; Fri & Sat, 6 pm11pm, Sun-Wed by appointment. Emergency Arts 520 Fremont St., 702-6863164. Gainsburg Studio & Gallery Mon-Sat, 10am5pm. 1533 West Oakey Blvd, 702-249-3200. Left of Center Gallery Tue-Fri, noon-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-3 pm. 2207 W. Gowan Rd., 702647-7378. Michelle C. Quinn Fine Art Advisory By appointment only. 620 S. 7th St., 702-3669339. P3Studio The Octave of Visible Light A Meditation Nightclub By Lia Chavez. Thru 2/8. Wed-Sun, 6-11 pm. Cosmopolitan. West Las Vegas Arts Center Wed-Sat, 9 am-7 pm. 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-229-4800. Winchester Cultural Center Art Gallery Tue-Fri, 10 am-8 pm; Sat, 9 am-6 pm. 3130 S. McLeod Dr., 702-455-7340.

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By Rob Brezsny

ARIES

LEO

SAGITTARIUS

March 21-April 19

July 23-August 22

November 22-December 19

Do you have an entourage or posse helping you work magic you can’t conjure up alone? Is there a group of co-conspirators prodding you to be brave and farseeing? If not, whip one up and brainstorm about some new adventures for all of you to embark on. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you especially need the sparkle and rumble that a feisty band of allies can incite.

In 1768, Britain’s Royal Society commissioned navigator James Cook to lead a long naval voyage west to Tahiti, but it turned out that task was a prelude to a bigger, secret assignment. I foresee a comparable progression for you, Leo. The task you’ve been working on lately has been a prelude. Soon you’ll receive your “sealed orders” for the next leg of your journey.

Talking will be your art form in the coming week. It’ll be healing and catalytic. Here are a few tips to ensure the best results. First, listen as passionately as you speak. Second, make it your intention to communicate, not just unload your thoughts. Third, reflect on the sometimes surprising revelations that emerge from you. They’ll give you new insights into yourself.

TAURUS

VIRGO

CAPRICORN

April 20-May 20

August 23-September 22

December 22-January 19

The cosmos seems to be granting you a license to be brazenly ambitious. I’m not sure how long this boost will last, so I suggest you capitalize on it while it’s surging. What achievement have you always felt insufficiently prepared or powerful to accomplish? What issue have you feared was beyond your understanding? Rethink your assumptions. At least one of those “impossibilities” may be more possible.

According to computer security company Symantec, you’re not in major danger of contracting an online virus from a porn website. The risk is much greater when you visit religious websites, often built by inexperienced programmers and more susceptible to hackers’ attacks. I suspect you’re more likely to be undermined by nice, polite people than raw, rowdy folks. Just be careful.

Let’s say you want to buy an 18-karat gold ring. To get that much gold, miners had to excavate and move six tons of rock, then douse it with poisonous cyanide, creating toxic waste. Is the gold ring worth that much trouble? What if I told you that over the course of the next five months, you could do what’s necessary to obtain a metaphorical version of a gold ring? Would you do it?

GEMINI

LIBRA

AQUARIUS

May 21-June 20

September 23-October 22

January 20-February 18

When I attended the University of California at Santa Cruz, my smartest friend was Gemini writer Clare Cavanagh. Her work has been so skillful that Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Czselaw Milosz selected her as his biographer. He insisted that she come up with “questions no one’s asked me yet.” Formulating evocative questions is a Gemini specialty. I invite you to exercise that talent to the hilt.

Life has a big, tough assignment for you. There’s not much wiggle room, I’m afraid. Here it is: You must agree to experience more joy and pleasure. The quest for delight and enchantment has to rise to the top of your priority list. To be mildly entertained isn’t enough. To be satisfied with lukewarm arousal is forbidden. It’s your sacred duty to overflow with sweet fulfillment and interesting bliss. Find ways to make it happen!

In 1899, the King of the African nation of Swaziland died while dancing. His only son, Sobhuza, was soon crowned as his successor, despite being just 4 months old. Eventually he showed great aptitude for the job and ruled until his death at age 83. I’m getting a Sobhuzatype vibe as I meditate on you, Aquarius. New power may come to you before you’re fully ready to wield it. But you will grow into it.

CANCER

SCORPIO

PISCES

June 21-July 22

October 23-November 21

February 19-March 20

“Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you,” writes poet John Ashbery, “at incredible speed, traveling day and night ... But will he know where to find you?” I think Ashbery’s scenario is accurate in a metaphorical way. Life is in fact working overtime to bring you gifts and help. Make sure you cooperate! Heighten your receptivity. Have a nice long talk with yourself, explaining why you deserve it.

You may have never sampled the southeast Asian fruit called durian. Some people regard it as the “king of fruits,” and describe its taste as sweet and delicious. But other people find the durian unlikable, comparing its aroma to turpentine or decaying onions. I foresee the possibility that your imminent future will have metaphorical resemblances to the durian, Scorpio. My advice? Don’t take things personally.

In the 1951 animated movie version of Alice in Wonderland, Alice says to herself, “I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.” I hope you won’t be like her, Pisces. It’s an excellent time for you to heed your own good advice. In fact, I suspect that doing so will be crucial to your ability to make smart decisions and solve a knotty problem. You’ve got to walk your talk.

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