2015-02-19 Las Vegas Weekly

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boulder highway and lucky foo’s by mikayla whitmore; westgate by l.e. baskow

Contents 7 mail Cuddling vs. brotheling

41 screen Five whole reasons

and Shake Shack vs. White Castle.

to watch the Oscars.

8 as we see it Another Vegas

43 the strip Under the sweet,

history. Lefty’s crib is up for sale, and Lake Mead is doubling down.

sweet wigs with Frank Marino.

12 weekly q&a UNLV’s MLS draftee Salvador Bernal.

14 Feature | what’s next

44 noise Dragons and Manson and Pinback, oh my!

46 fine art Roller. Skate.

for westgate David Siegel has big plans for the once-grand resort, from aesthetics to music.

48 print Mutant pets contend

16 Feature | colorful

sweets at ... Springs Preserve?

road If you think you know Boulder Highway, we’ve got the water-slide-on-shopping-cart to get you pondering.

with the apocalypse.

50 food Meats at Lucky Foo’s, 54 calendar Dr. Dog rocks.

24 nights Tasty brews at alt bar the Phoenix. LAX relaunches!

39 A&E Warren Haynes reflects.

40 pop culture RadioShack, and other things that died recently.

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> OH, HEY! A lion dancer surprises patrons at Kung Fu Thai & Chinese Restaurant.

YEAR OF THE GOAT Chinese New Year is better than New Year’s Eve. Why? Because it lasts longer. Today is the beginning of the traditional Spring Festival, and in Las Vegas, extravagant celebrations are just getting started. Visit lasvegasweekly.com to find out where to go, what to see and what to eat to properly celebrate the Lunar New Year.

BROADWAY IN LAS VEGAS The Smith Center has consistently delivered Broadway’s best, bringing both critical and commercial successes like The Book of Mormon, Wicked and Kinky Boots to the Reynolds Hall stage. The 2015-2016 Broadway Las Vegas series gets announced on Monday, so stay tuned to lasvegasweekly.com for deets on the Great White Way imports.

LOCAL LEGEND He has James Beard Awards and Michelin stars, so when chef Julian Serrano says he’s going to open a new restaurant, you’d better get excited. Go to lasvegasweekly. com to catch our interview with the culinary master behind Picasso, Julian Serrano Tapas and the upcoming Lago at Bellagio.

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MOST READ STORIES lasvegasweekly.com 1. Snacking on the Strip: White Castle vs. Shake Shack 2. Bally’s outdoor mall is just the latest renovation for a patchwork property 3. Professional cuddling is a real thing 4. Sex-ed for adults: Toyboxx is not your typical sex-toy store 5. Is Further Future the latest Las Vegas music festival?

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MAIL level with a lot of outdoor seating.

The building could have served as the gateway to Bally’s. The Linq has the High Roller as its draw and MGM’s Park will have the new arena. The Grand Bazaar Shops really doesn’t have any sort of “hook” to draw in people. –Vespajet We love Bally’s. Stay there all the time. But it was time to utilize the acreage in a better way than as a walkway. –Laura Wachler

CUDDLE TIME

Those are dated attractions that need to go, but these shops look like a flea market. –Teo Hernandez

Our annual Love & Sex Issue revealed that, yes, professional cuddling is a thing.

Jack White rocked Brooklyn Bowl.

That’s ridiculous. For that price you might as well go to the Bunny Ranch. –Katrina May

Jack was awesome! Truly a golden ticket, one I put up there with the Stones. –Aaron Richardson

If women seem to be the majority of the population that enjoys cuddling, then why are there only three men working for this service? –Jason Barnett

Las Vegan Jeffrey Howard hopes to launch a food truck that exclusively serves cereal.

MORE THAN FIFTY SHADES The film version of the BDSM-lite phenomenon earned a one-star review in the Weekly.

MEMORABLE MUSIC

BALANCED BREAKFAST

Let’s see ... get up, wash face, brush teeth, put on clothes, get in car and drive, or stumble into my kitchen and pour a bowl myself.

Hmm ... tough choice.

–Tom Custer

Why would it be anything but bland and neutered? That’s how the masses like it. –Peter Blasezyk

Uh, no! Might as well have an energy bar truck. –Raymond Mays

I chose to not waste my money on a movie that perpetuates every negative stereotype of a BDSM relationship. –Shelly Rae

Snacking on the Strip compared the new Vegas White Castle with the new Vegas Shake Shack.

I read all three books but don’t want to see the movie. My imagination vividly filled in the blanks.

–Lynne Marie True Simon

I can’t believe this is even a question. The big deal they are making of White Castle just blows my mind. –Eileen Murphy

MINOR MAKEOVER

These are not even in the same category of burger joints. How about you compare the Palace Station buffet to the Wynn buffet next? Las Vegas eagerly awaits your verdict. –Phil Schneider

The Grand Bazaar Shops are opening in front of Bally’s, a Strip property that could use a little love.

To me, the Grand Bazaar Shops as they’ve done it is completely the wrong approach. Bally’s sits on what is the heart of the Strip, but the Grand Bazaar doesn’t fully take advantage of this. Look at how popular the patio is at Mon Ami Gabi, which has a fantastic view of the fountain show at Bellagio.

Giada at the Cromwell also takes advantage of the location. Imagine if they would have built a two-story building at the front of the property in which the lower level was retail with a restaurant on the second

SNACK SMACKDOWN

Does it even matter? About half of the people are hungover or drunk and hungry. Drunk hungover people will eat everything and anything. –Carlos Castro Shake Shack is to Ferrari as White Castle is to Pinto.

–Jonathan Goostree Get some hamburger meat and cook your own at home.

–Rich Richard

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The rest of the story

> Black history Month UNLV’s Documenting project includes a 1997 interview with dancer Anna Bailey. .

lefty’s house Got $777,000?

Check out this infamous mobster’s crib

∑ People who live in glass houses ought to make them bulletproof, particularly if the stones they’re throwing are aimed at the mob. That’s sort of the approach Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal took with the ample windows overlooking the golf course in his Las Vegas home—steel framing, bulletproof doors and windows.

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“It’s kind of built like the Fort Knox of Las Vegas,” says Brian Burns, the listing agent for the famous home that once belonged to the mob-affiliated sports bettor-turned-FBI informant, whose life inspired Martin Scorsese’s Casino. Rosenthal died in 2008 at age 79.

The Las Vegas Country Club home, built in 1970,

∑ There’s textbook history, and then there’s the people’s story, told by those who weren’t necessarily in power but still had something to say. Stories about the 44 black men who worked among 20,000 white men to build Hoover Dam. About Las Vegas’ first African American neighborhood, displaced by the post office now known as the Mob Museum. About boisterous after-hours shows during the Moulin Rouge’s five-month heyday.

Such are the memories collected in Documenting the AfricanAmerican Experience in Las Vegas, a project by UNLV’s Center for Oral History Research. “Oral history included everyone in history, not just presidents and CEOs,” says Claytee White, director of the center. “Prior to this, we didn’t write history in that way.”

Oral history, or taping and transcribing spoken stories, gained popularity in the Find audio recordings, 1960s for its inclusive nature, which gelled transcripts and historical with the people’s movements of the day. photographs at digital.

In 1965, the state funded a program at the library.unlv.edu/aae.

University of Nevada, Reno, but it wasn’t until 2003 that UNLV got its own. The program has nine other projects, including histories of early Las Vegas, jazz greats, the Jewish community and Downtown neighborhoods.

Documenting the African-American Experience follows the Valley’s black community from its beginning in the early 1900s, when people came to work on the railroads, and touches on everything from the Basic Magnesium Plant and the Nevada Test Site to black entertainers in the ’70s. Las Vegas’ Westside, though not paved and lighted until the 1950s, boasted several establishments, among them the popular Idle Hour nightclub, a fried-chicken restaurant and a school. “Grocery stores were never off-limits, but they couldn’t go to shows on the Strip or restaurants,” White says.

Integration legally took place in the ’60s, but it wasn’t until 1971 that black Las Vegans got the casino jobs they sought. That year, the court issued a consent decree to give blacks 12 percent of all jobs in 18 hotels and across five unions. Previously, African-Americans had only worked behind the scenes. The collection also covers Ruby Duncan and the welfare movement, black showgirls, religion, sports and migration from Arkansas, Louisiana, Chicago and LA. White highlights the stories of Jackie Brantley, Faye Todd and Faye Daniels, the first three black women to achieve mid-level management in the casinos.

“Those interviews helped to show a multifaceted community,” White says. “From these interviews, we then conducted interviews with business owners, people from the faith-based community. … We got to see the other side—the back side of the house.” –Kristy Totten

was listed three weeks ago at $777,000. It still has many Rosenthal-era elements, including the bulletproof windows and some art and furniture, according to Burns. Potential buyers will also find smoked-glass mirrors and a sunken living room. “It’s very quintessential 1970s Las Vegas.”

–Kristen Peterson

Anna Bailey courtesy; lefty rosenthal’s house by JPM Studios

As We See It…

Price Hike Lake Mead fees could double in 2016

Five-Star standard From poolside pampering to concierge wisdom, hotels have to be on their game to impress Forbes By Mark Adams You’re lounging on a chaise, savoring the fresh orange slices given to you by the ever-so-attentive pool boy. Ninety minutes pass, and suddenly you’re being misted with Evian’s mineral-water spray. Another hour and a half passes, and chilled towels arrive.

Save for being fanned with palm fronds and fed grapes off the vine, you’re basically receiving the Cleopatra treatment. But this caliber of service isn’t solely for ancient royals or contemporary well-to-dos with mansion staffs to savor; it’s standard at hotels boasting the coveted Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star distinction.

On February 11 Forbes released its 57th list of Star Award winners, which included 115 Five-Star and 336 Four-Star hotels across the globe—and a handful of those are in Las Vegas, with five and 12 properties receiving Five- and FourStar ratings, respectively (from Five-Stars like Mandarin Oriental and Wynn’s Tower Suites to Four-Stars like the Cosmopolitan and the Four Seasons). A number of spas and restaurants also made the cut, from Guy Savoy (Five-Star) to Spa Mio at the M Resort (Four-Star).

Overheard in the audition line for America’s Got Talent

As a former pool boy charged with spraying down hotel guests with premium H20, I know that the Forbes (then Mobil) Travel Guide is about a lot more than commonplace benchmarks like a clean lobby, friendly faces at the front desk and turndown service. Properties prepare for the incognito evaluations all year, and Forbes’ Amanda Frasier says the hotel-rating entity looks at more than 550 specific service standards when deciding on a hotel’s rating (which can rise to near 1,000, if the property’s spa and restaurants are also being rated).

When we say specific, we mean specific. At Five-Star properties, guests must be greeted curbside within 60 seconds of pulling up. A fresh flower or live plant must be present in the guest room. Looking for a restaurant recommendation? The concierge better be ready—and knowledgeable—with three options for the guest to consider (though Frasier concedes that criteria do change in smaller towns with fewer dining selections).

Next time you’re planning a vacay, consider foregoing the user-submitted reviews on Expedia. With its secret shoppers scrutinizing properties around the world, Forbes might be your most reliable source.

A day at the lake could soon get expensive.

Lake Mead’s designation within the National Park System has changed, and the recreation area has proposed a hike in fees to meet its new group’s rates. The proposed fee increase, which could go into effect in 2016, would double the camping fee and entrance fees for vehicles and individuals on bikes or on foot. To boot, the group camping rate could jump from $30 to $80, and annual passes for vehicles and vessels could increase by $10 and $20, respectively.

Lake Mead NRA is encouraging the public to weigh in on the fee increases by commenting online or sending letters to the park superintendent through March 11. “This is a place where people come fishing every weekend, so we want to keep it affordable so they can continue to do that,” Lake Mead NRA spokesperson Christie Vanover says, adding that the park has received two-dozen comments so far.

For more information and to add to the discussion, visit nps.gov/ lake/parkmgmt/commentand-review.htm.

–Mark Adams

Advanced placement An educational bright spot for CCSD Good news for CCSD: Last week the district was

(February 12, Bally's)

named a College Board Advanced Placement

“​ You’re a girl wizard!”​ “Did you see the guy in the dragon costume?”

“It starts with the man in the mirror.”

“Where’s my mom?”

“If he’s a good magician he’ll make me disappear.”

“Oh, there’s my mom.” –compiled by Kristy Totten

2012 to 2014, more students took AP classes

district of the year for upping its AP game. From and passed with a score of three or higher. Participation jumped 9 percent, and the percentage of passing students increased 3 percent. Underserved minority students also enrolled and passed the tests at the same rate. ¶ The advanced courses prepare high schoolers for college curriculum and allow them to test out of college classes, thus saving money—an average of $1,800 in state and $6,000 out of state. Clark County School District was one of 547 districts honored (there are 13,000 in the U.S.). ¶ “This award reinforces that our district is headed in the right direction,” Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky says. To that we say, keep going! –Kristy Totten

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IN BRIEF

> SHOCK WAVE Losing Tark was intense without the other sports drama last week.

SURF’S UP Just what the Planet Hollywood hotel pool complex needed: big waves. The Strip’s first FlowRider Wave-in-aBox Double is set to arrive next month, providing experienced or beginning surfers, snowboarders, wakeboarders, skimboarders and skateboarders a “safe yet exhilarating environment” to perfect their skills. Finally, a daylife wipeout that won’t elicit gasps from the party crowd. –Brock Radke OPENING THE FLOODGATES Once underwater due to the 1938 filling of the reservoir, Lake Mead’s St. Thomas community was exposed in 2002 due to waning water levels brought on by drought. The national recreation area recently invited the public to share oral histories, documents and photos of the 150-year-old townsite, to be used for park brochures and displays lining the surrounding trails. Those interested in submitting should contact Leslie Paige at the National Park Service (702-293-8729, leslie_paige@nps.gov). –Mark Adams

WHAT JUST HAPPENED? Nursing a hangover from the craziest week ever in local sports BY BROCK RADKE We worshipped Tark. We named our youth rec league basketball teams after him; we were the Sharks.

He was a Vegas celebrity of the highest order, but he was one of us, our coach, our family. He taught us how to compete, how to win and when to fight. An old friend from those formative years put it best in a touching Facebook post: “You helped build a school so many of my family and friends have passed through.

My brothers, friends and I were groomed in your style of ball. We continue to play to this day. Thank you for so many moments of happiness in my childhood and young adulthood.”

We knew the time would come when we would have to say goodbye to Jerry Tarkanian, but it’s still a shocking loss. It’s because of what he meant to all of us. Tark was the embodiment of the eternal Las Vegas aspiration, to do more than leave one’s mark on this desert canvas. He made the rest of the world pay attention to Vegas.

We lost our greatest sports icon in a week in which athletic oddities dominated local headlines. On that same Wednesday, it was announced that Chicago’s Jackie Robinson West team was stripped of its Little League World Series title for having players from outside its geographical boundaries, giving the title to our very own Mountain Ridge team. Our small townness was in full glory when Mountain Ridge, the first Nevada team to advance to the Little League World

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Series, made its exciting playoff run in August. Now our sports community is trying to figure out how to celebrate this championship-by-default.

The day before that development, MGM Grand hosted a press conference in which our potential pro hockey team’s ownership group hosted NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and announced it was already more than halfway to its goal of collecting 10,000 season ticket deposits. With the MGM arena that would host the team under construction and set to open just west of the New York-New York casino-resort in about a year, this thing looks like it’s going to happen. The NHL isn’t making any promises, but this is certainly as close as our city has ever been to a major league pro sports franchise. (Unless you count Tark’s 1990-’91 Runnin’ Rebels squads, which could have beaten several NBA teams.)

Just days after exalting in our hockey-team dreams, our soccer-team dreams were dashed. The controversial plans to build a tax-subsidized, $200-million stadium at Downtown’s Symphony Park—bickered over for months by the Las Vegas City Council—were too uncertain for Major League Soccer, which messaged Mayor Carolyn Goodman to deliver the bad news: Vegas’ bid for an MLS team in 2017 or 2018 is not going to happen. It was another blow to our sports scene but probably worse for burgeoning Downtown, as the city will have to start fresh in developing the rest of Symphony Park. It was the bookend to a roller-coaster week we’re glad is over.

THAT’S WACK On May 2, Sunset Park will host the first-ever Wacky World of Sports. The “oddball athletic competition” will bring up to 500 teams into the fray, showcasing such sports as human foosball (isn’t that just soccer?) and reverse kickball (what exactly is the reverse of kicking?). Registration is open at clarkcountynv.gov/parks. Even if you’re not into mud volleyball, you can watch for free and get into the food trucks and bounce house (please, not in that order). –Erin Ryan

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Scrum’s the word Eight things I wrote in my notebook at this year’s USA Sevens Rugby tournament By Chris Bitonti This is my fifth straight year attending the tournament, and I’ve never seen it so full (an estimated 75,000-plus fans at Sam Boyd Stadium for the three-day competition). Saturday, in particular, is a blur of packed stands and costumed characters. One unfortunate consequence of the popularity: an increased line at the meat-pie stand.

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Football hooligans still reign supreme in the chanting department, but I’m hearing plenty of spirited jeers from sauced ruggers.

The most memorable is to the tune of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” cheering “Jesus can’t play rugby ’cuz he has holes in his hands.”

You could base a fast and delirious drinking game on the repurposing of the American flag as apparel. One drink for Spandex leggings, two for male Speedo, three for entire face and beard painting and finish your drink for full tuxedo and top hat riding an animatronic bald eagle.

Besides cheering for the U.S., I pick my teams using a weighted system based on jersey design, flag aesthetics and proximity to other fans. It’s a very scientific process

that can easily be swayed by the quality of their food stand in the courtyard.

In contrast to full 15-on-15 rugby league play, Sevens opens the pitch by whittling participants down to seven per team for two seven-minute halves. It makes for higher scores, longer runs, faster matches and increased excitement.

The U.S. finished in a respectable fourth place this year, even if we did get destroyed by South Africa, 31-0, in the third-place match. Seeing the States play for a meaningful place on Sunday was an added bonus.

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> BIG LEAGUER The speedy Bernal was drafted by Toronto FC.

Salvador “Sal” Bernal’s life and soccer career are full of significant firsts. After graduating from Clark High School he was the first in his family to go to college, where he was a four-year starter and collected almost as many accolades as goals.

He’s the first UNLV soccer player to earn all-conference honors four years in a row. In 2013, he was named an AllAmerican, the first at UNLV since 1991.

And in January he became the fourth UNLV player drafted to Major League Soccer—the first since 2008.

In December, Bernal was one of 55 players in the country invited to the MLS combine. But when the draft arrived in January, he fell to the fourth round, the 70th pick out of 84. The path was filled with divots, including questions about his national designation.

His family immigrated to the U.S. when he was 7. Bernal is a Mexican citizen, but he has a work permit under deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA), a program initiated by President Barack Obama that granted temporary legal residency to some young immigrants brought here illegally. MLS teams are allowed to sign a limited number of international players, and it’s unclear if 22-year-old Bernal will be classified as domestic or foreign.

He has dreamed of pro soccer since

Eye on the ball Salvador Bernal is small, fast, fierce—and headed to the pros he could run, ignoring critics who said the 5-foot-6, 135-pound forward relying on speed and dribbling skill was too small to excel even at the college level. As a freshman he vowed to secure an invite to the combine and win a Western Athletic Conference championship before his Rebel career ended. UNLV won the WAC championship this year after a thrilling shootout, but Bernal was sidelined with a knee injury that forced him out of the final five games. He recovered in time for the combine, and did enough for Toronto FC to call his name.

my sister. My teammates knew. I could trust them. I see them every day and they always had my back. It’s hard to tell people, still is, even after DACA. I don’t really like putting it out there, but [DACA] has given me the opportunity to do things I couldn’t before. When I got my work permit it was a huge load off my back. My family would get involved with some of the immigration actions, but at the same time it was scary to go out and do that stuff. We supported it, but at the same time didn’t want to put ourselves out there.

Where did your passion for soccer come from? My Dad. He’s the one that

What was the wait during the draft like?

basically made me love soccer. He was never a professional player or anything, but he loves it and soccer was always on TV in our house. Of course soccer is huge in Mexico, and I remember growing up in Mexico playing at preschool recess.

How did your immigration status affect you? I didn’t really know anybody else

that was in the same situation except

The third and fourth rounds were done via the MLS website. I wanted to be by myself, and I was in a friend’s dorm room with my laptop. As I kept refreshing the page and watching the names go by I started to think, ‘Am I going to get drafted?’ Things start running through your mind. When I finally saw my name, I just sat back in my chair and took it in. ‘Wow, I actually got drafted.’ That’s a moment I’ll always remember.

Do you think the question of your classification affected where you were picked?

It did stop people from drafting me.

I’m not from here, and we don’t know if I’ll be considered an international player. That was the big issue. Usually they want to use those spots on the older, more experienced players.

I was worried about that, but I’m glad Toronto drafted me and gave me an opportunity.

Looking forward to camp with Toronto FC, what do you want to work on? The

MLS is all about physicality, so they like big guys … I feel like I need to build some more muscle, but what I’ve been doing has gotten me here so I won’t change that. I’ll learn and become a better athlete and become a better soccer player. I’ll keep working hard and leaving my heart out on the field.

What advice would you give kids who have their own athletic dreams? What-

ever your mind is set on, keep doing it no matter the obstacles. Even if people tell you, ‘You are too small; you won’t be able to play.’ I didn’t care about that—that motivated me to shut those people up. Don’t listen to them, just believe in yourself, work hard and if you really have your mind and heart in it, you’ll achieve it. –Tovin Lapan

“When I finally saw my name, I just sat back in my chair and took it in. ‘Wow, I actually got drafted.’ That’s a moment I’ll always remember.”

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In 1969, Elvis made a comeback at the largest hotel in the world. The International was also the first true megaresort in Las Vegas, dazzling all comers with its cavernous showroom, luxurious suites and tri-form tower dominating the skyline.

In 1978, it hosted one of the biggest upsets in boxing history when Muhammad Ali’s heavyweight title was snatched by Leon Spinks. By then the property had been sold and renamed the Las Vegas Hilton, which racked up historic and cultural bullet points, from the scandalous 1991 Navy Tailhook meeting to the essentially weird Star Trek: The Experience attraction.

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ence. At least until 2011, when Colony Capital and Resorts International took over and unceremoniously renamed it LVH. In a blink, the storied casino-resort fell out of the capricious Vegas spotlight, though its vastness and just-off-Strip location smoldered with potential. Restyling older casinos has become commonplace in today’s Vegas. We watched Imperial Palace become the Linq, Barbary Coast become the Cromwell, and Sahara become SLS. The once-glorious Las Vegas Hilton has the best bones of them all, so it was only a matter of time before a new owner would pounce.

David Siegel is that man. The 79-year-old founder and CEO of Florida-based Westgate Resorts— one of the big three of the timeshare

industry, along with Wyndham and Marriott—purchased the property for around $160 million last summer and announced he would spend at least that much remaking it into Westgate Las Vegas. He’s connected to the property in a way that makes it seem like this was inevitable all along.

“I definitely saw a great opportunity here, but more important, it felt like it was my destiny to own the former International Hotel and make it a Westgate resort,” Siegel says. Not only were his parents frequent Vegas visitors in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, his former father-in-law worked as an entertainment manager for the Grand Ole Opry and was friends with Colonel Tom Parker. “One day [Parker] came to him and said, ‘I’ve got this hick singer

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and I want you to manage him.’ My father-in-law already had Eddy Arnold and Minnie Pearl and passed on this singer, so his best friend Colonel Tom Parker kept Elvis for himself, and the rest is history.”

When the International was six months old, Siegel visited with his family and saw Elvis perform for the first time. “Parker put us in the best seats in the showroom, right in front of the stage. I went back and saw him probably 15 times over the years. Little did I know some 45 years later on I’d be buying the hotel, but it does feel like I was kind of destined to do it.”

This isn’t Siegel’s first foray into Las Vegas. Westgate opened the Flamingo Bay timeshare resort in 1999, three miles off the Strip on Flamingo Road photograph by l.e. baskow

> UPDATING A LEGEND Room renovations are a big part of the Westgate revamp plan, according to David Siegel (at right middle).

as a 200-unit complex. “That was to get our feet wet in Vegas, and it was very successful,” Siegel says. His next move was much bigger, partnering with the Planet Hollywood resort on the Strip to build PH Towers, a 50-story building with 1,200 villas that opened in 2009. But the timing couldn’t have been worse. The recession was doing major damage to the entire timeshare industry, and the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy killed the Towers’ financing. Siegel says the banks “pulled the carpet out from under us” and eventually made a deal to sell the building in 2011. Today it’s Elara, a Hilton Grand Vacations resort.

“We went from being on top of the world in Vegas to losing our prize resort,” Siegel says. “But I’m a firm

believer that when one door closes, another opens, and as a result we now have Westgate Las Vegas. Our former property had 1,000 units, and this has 3,000. We didn’t have a casino, restaurants and meeting space. It was just a hotel, a dormitory. Today we have a 100,000-square-foot casino and 200,000 square feet of meeting space right next to the Convention Center.

We have 62 acres of prime land we’ll be developing for the next 25 years.”

The goal is to do more than restore the property to its former glory— Siegel wants to make it better than it ever was. “Not an inch of the property will be untouched,” he said.

All of the hotel rooms will be renovated—about 1,200 have already been refurbished—and a few hundred will

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be converted into timeshare units each year. Some of those conversions will be completed by knocking down walls and combining rooms. For example, the typical hotel room at Westgate is 450 square feet, so they’ll combine three to make a 1,350-square-foot, two-bedroom “lockout” suite, where you can close and lock adjoining doors to have a master suite with jacuzzi and kitchenette and a grand suite with a full kitchen, living room, bedroom and bath. Eventually, there also will be four-bedroom and six-bedroom units, now under construction.

Siegel says that after 15 or 20 years, when most of the hotel rooms have been converted into timeshares, Westgate will still have 30 percent of its rooms available at any given time for hotel reservations. “It will always be a convention hotel.”

Restaurant revamps are on the way, too. Westgate already added Sid’s Cafe, a classic coffee shop named for Siegel’s father, and new steakhouse, Italian and Mexican restaurants are in the works. A nightclub and dayclub is planned for the expansive bar and lounge space where the Star Trek attraction once operated.

The Westgate’s other strong assets include the iconic SuperBook, still the biggest race and sports book around, and one of the most convenient and active monorail stations along the tourist corridor—aided by close proximity to the Convention Center. Big Vegas entertainment has always been the property’s most prominent feature, and Siegel will double down. An announcement is planned for next week with details on a partnership with the Graceland estate that will create a new Elvis attraction and show at Westgate.

The revamped Shimmer Cabaret has already been retrofitted with new shows, including the long-popular local Prince tribute Purple Reign and topless production Sexxy.

If all these plans and changes sound a little different from what’s going on along the Strip, that’s the idea. “It won’t be the newest hotel in Las Vegas

but it will be just as nice, and it will be the friendliest,” Siegel says. “Our motto is to treat every guest like a high roller. We’re not going after the kids that come from LA bringing their cooler and their six-packs. We cater to middle America, people that want to vacation within their budget but feel like a Rockefeller.”

Las Vegas gets something more from the deal than a refreshed casino. Siegel is a character, another bold businessman to add to the legacy of colorful casino operators. He’s probably most recognized now for the 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles, which followed Siegel and his wife Jackie in their quest to build one of the largest and most expensive homes in the country against the crushing backdrop of the recession. Siegel sued the filmmakers for defamation. He also famously campaigned for thousands of his employees to vote for George Bush in 2000, ostensibly swaying the Florida results that cost Al Gore the presidency, and caused political controversy again in 2012 by emailing employees the message that if Barack Obama was re-elected, it might force Siegel to make some layoffs.

Despite such tabloid fodder, Westgate Resorts’ post-recession turnaround is undeniable—the company earned $742 million in 2013, up 23 percent from 2012. Siegel has rehired about 5,000 employees, including most of those who lost their jobs during the recession, and he also bought the Arena Football League’s Orlando Predators last year. His business is thriving, which made this the right time to do Las Vegas his way.

“I would like to leave my mark on Vegas, but I’m not egotistical enough to think I’m in the league of those legendary guys who transformed Vegas into what it is today,” Siegel says.

“But in doing so, those guys left out an important segment of the population. That’s our customer and that’s been our timeshare customer, someone who works hard and wants a good quality vacation they can afford, and that’s what we’re all about.”

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STRETCH OF ROAD In the shadow of the Strip, Boulder Highway tells another Vegas story PHOTOGRAPHS BY MIKAYLA WHITMORE

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It’s Thursday afternoon, and a grocery cart hauling a dirty swimming-pool slide has come to a halt, possibly mid-push.

Someone’s great idea interrupted.

A master plan hijacked. Potential exhausted. Nothing to see here, and everything to see here.

This is near where Fremont Street becomes Boulder Highway—the road that bootleggers found, the road that hosted workers on their way to the Dam, the road considered the other Strip, the Boulder Strip, with its newer hotels and local casinos contrasting the storied history on either side.

Stoplights dictate the rhythm of cars breezing past the old fiberglass pool. Clocking somewhere above the speed limit, anonymous and determined, they move quickly from point A to point B. Down the road, the spotty neon of the tiny motels and their vintage signs mingles with vacant lots, abandoned buildings, topped palm trees, RV and car sales, bars and small businesses. Eventually new stucco subdivisions echo the distant suburbs.

Resting like an easy chair on wheels, the pool slide has been abandoned like so much else here, an abrupt artifact on the landscape. Destination unknown.

It’ll be gone by morning.

The Valley’s other older areas get all the attention, relishing in the fame of yesteryear and revitalization. But so many stories live along this road, historian Mark Hall-Patton has given historic tours, touting the Prohibitionera hangouts, the Green Shack family restaurant, the flooding that wiped out part of the highway and Roxie’s legendary brothel and bar. He talks about the townsite of Whitney and its founder ranching the land, about the speakeasies and their raids. There’s Carver Park, which housed black workers at Basic Magnesium, and the Veterans Triangle, where streets are named for soldiers who died in WWII. Pieces of the past are still visible, mixing oddly with the present. It’s a landscape of jumbled architecture, where stunning mid-mod marvels neighbor contemporary strip malls, trailer parks, hot tubs on stilts, thriving casinos and empty car lots. And then there’s the whatever else that happens to show up out of nowhere.

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February 20, 8 p.m., $40.

LAX RELAUNCH The Luxor nightclub has been quietly renovating this winter, and while it has remained open, it will nonetheless officially celebrate its relaunch and face-lift with a Mardi Gras-themed party. What will you do to earn your beads? February 19, doors at 10:30 p.m., $30 men, $20 women, free on guest list.

the Hurricane-slinging, King Cake-eating fun of the Mardi Gras season is far from over. The Southern Highlands drinkery transforms into a Bourbon Street lounge Saturday night, encouraging revelers to wear celebratory masks and offering live jazz courtesy of the Outside Inn Trio and food and drink specials themed to the gluttonous holiday of overindulgence. February 21, 7 p.m., free entry.

MARDI GRAS PARTY AT DISTILL (SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS) Fat Tuesday might’ve been February 17, but

JAYCEEOH AT LIGHT Props! The LA-based

beatmeister rose above fellow Vegas residents and regulars Loczi, Lisa Pittman and Tina T to take the title on VH1’s Master of the Mix DJ-focused reality competition in 2013. Find out what’s behind that hype when the trap/electro DJ takes the tables at the Mandalay Bay danceteria Thursday night. February 19, doors at 10:30 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women.

DJ SKRATCHY AT TRYST Being from the Los Feliz part of LA’s Eastside, the young hip-hop/open-format turntablist was destined for notoriety given his ’hood’s proximity to Echo Park and Silverlake’s dive bars and the Hollywood house-party and club scenes. Two decades later, he’s still a fixture in Hollywood, but he’s conquered eastward—including the Strip. He headlines Tryst on Saturday (and if you miss him there, he’ll be at Drai’s Nightclub DJ Skratchy’s age when he the following night). February 21, doors began playing LA house at 10 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. parties, before breaking

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Hardstyle music—imagine a booming, hardcore version of trance, or a less playinto Hollywood clubs. ful form of gabber—doesn’t get much play AFTER WITH HARVARD BASS AT BODY in Las Vegas, save maybe the Basscon stage at ENGLISH The afterhours experiment at the Hard Rock Hotel’s longtime dance space continues EDC. Local promoter Ravealation is bringing it to the Strip on Friday, however, courtesy of Dutch hardstyle late Saturday night with the choice booking of San Diego favorite the Pitcher, LA hard-dance queen Lady Faith producer/DJ Harvard Bass, best known for his “Lazer and the American death metal/industrial-influenced Beams” collaboration with Green Velvet. His offerings—a Darksiderz. Finally—something that will drown out the funkier, sleazier take on tech house—haven’t been heard in arguing costumed panhandlers on the sidewalk below. these parts for over two years, and make for an ideal 4 a.m.

February 20, doors at 8 p.m., $35+. soundtrack. February 22, 2 a.m., $20, $10 women and locals.

RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE OFFICIAL SEASON 7 PREMIERE PARTY AT CHATEAU Las Vegas gets a little more fabu-

lous Friday night, when the queens from the seventh year of Logo’s drag-queen reality competition gather for a season-launching bash. The lovely ladies will serve up their signature “eleganza” and undoubtedly sip on some (Absolut product-placement-sponsored) cocktails.

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Robot Heart—the arts and music collective responsible for some of the most memorable and beloved events and gatherings at Burning Man and in its native New York City—will produce a festival-type happening called Further Future May 1-3 in “a secret location in the mountains not far from Las Vegas,” according to an email sent out to supporters.

Details remain scant, but we know it will be a 21-and-over event featuring electronic music, art displays and “visionary speakers,” and will likely utilize the customized mobile Robot Heart sound system, which has never been publicly used outside of Burning Man or NYC. We also know an initial 48 musical acts have been revealed, such as Thugf*cker, The Orb, Tim Hecker, John Tejada, Nosaj Thing, Rob da Bank, Henry Saiz and Las Vegas DJ Brett Rubin. Finally, the rub: Wouldbe attendees—said to be limited to 5,000—will only be able to buy tickets if they receive a unique Wantickets access code from the Further Future inner circle “to ensure the integrity of our community.” (Start making burner friends now.) More details to come.

Speaking of electronic-music gatherings, Electric Daisy Carnival general admission tickets are already sold out. A limited amount of $699 VIP passes remain.

Omnia will dub its posh, LED screen-adorned ultra-lounge Heart of Omnia, located near the entrance, and will feature talent such as DJ Ruckus and Rev Run, Questlove and DJ Jazzy Jeff, among others. However, it’s for VIPs. It opens along with the main club on March 13 for Tuesday and Thursday-Sunday operation.

After is teasing (but not yet divulging) “a new concept” for April called The Deep End, surely a double entendre suggesting that the afterhours entity is about to, ahem, wade into new waters.

Finally, LAX isn’t the only party spot sporting a new look. Rhumbar has refreshed its interior bar and outdoor patio, the latter boasting improved features that allow comfy cocktailing in cold and hot temps. –Mike Prevatt

NATIONAL MARGARITA DAY AT DIABLO’S CANTINA

One tequila … two tequila … three tequila … (dance)floor!

Cinco de Mayo isn’t the only day in the sun for the classic cocktail, so consider celebrating at the Monte Carlo cantina with an all-you-can-drink margarita bar from 7 to 11 p.m. Did we mention the drink tastings and salt-rim contests? February 22, 5 p.m., free entry.

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Nights the video games projected onto the wall for anyone to play and the curated selection of craft beers expanding upon the usual draft suspects limiting brew drinkers at other gay bars.

There’s even a monthly lesbian night (Lady Nation), and Cressy and Heins say it’s their most popular promotion—also unconventional, given that most lesbians tend to avoid local LGBT bars and clubs, which typically cater to gay men. But the three owners made a conscious decision not to focus solely on the gay-male demographic. They saw their ideal business appealing to all kinds of alternativeminded people, like the ones at the parties they preferred to attend—and like themselves.

“Originally, we were saying [the bar was] gay/ gay-friendly, and we figured out that wasn’t the right thing, so we went with gay/alt. Gay meaning that was our niche market, and we’re gay, and the bar is absolutely a gay bar, through and through,” Cressy says. “But this is also an alternative bar, which means we’re radically inclusive and accepting of the alternative scene, which includes everything: bi, ‘try,’ transgender … maybe polyamorous people, maybe people that don’t choose to identify with anything at all.”

The transition has been noticeable. When I > watching the burn would visit the Escape Lounge, it was almost Patrons view the birthday exclusively the domain of gay men in their 20s roast of the Phoenix’s hostess, Keyska Diva. and 30s, almost always sitting around the bar and gambling, and it was hard to distinguish one night from any other. On a recent Tuesday, I spotted gay men of every age group—most of them co-mingling in their skivvies for the bar’s Underwear Night, where handing your jeans over means a discount The Phoenix rises as a true alternative for the LGBT scene—and beyond on drinks—a handful of trans patrons, a few lesbians, a male and female making out near the bar, By mike prevatt and a middle-aged woman who regularly visits the bar just to play video blackjack. And despite the [with] its art and next-level partying and selfYou’ve seen the Phoenix. Its full-frontal art—by video-poker machines, the Phoenix always seems expression.” that we mean the large, fiery mural covering the to possess a social environment and participatory That influence is evident in the aesthetic of the entire building front—has replaced the Statue of energy, mostly due to its dance-music DJs, stage interior metal lightbox sign bearing the venue’s Liberty replica as West Sahara Avenue’s dominant performers and themed events. iconography (made and designed by burners), the conversation-starter. It’s the worksmanship of local Perhaps the bar seems so suited to its left-of-center events and dance music artist Gear Duran, whom Phoenix co-owner Gabriel various patrons because its new owners on certain weekend nights, the colorful Cressy met at a Burning Man-themed event. He have a connection to them that the precreations the triad/co-proprietors allow complimented Duran on his art, started talking The Phoenix vious one didn’t. Heins—who worked as artists to hang and sell (especially during about his new bar and soon Duran was helping 24/7. 4213 W. a bartender at the Escape Lounge long events like Blazing Art, which packed transform what was once the Escape Lounge into Sahara Ave., before successfully buying and rebrandthe bar two weeks ago), and the weekthe Phoenix.

702-826-2422, ing it with his boyfriends—didn’t fret ly Burning Mondays confab that draws Burning Man is a huge inspiration to Cressy facebook.com/ losing his loyal customers. It was attractenthusiasts of the world-famous festival and his two partners in business and life, Landon thephoenixlv. ing new ones that would determine the up at Black Rock Desert.

Heins and Shawn Hunt—and, by extension, their bar’s future.

It’s all nontraditional for an LGBTbar, which they bought from its longtime owner in “We made [our purchase of the bar] known, and oriented lounge. But the Phoenix seems to stray 2012 and officially took over early last year. “We’ve they were really excited—especially of the changes, from tradition whenever possible, from the Sunday had the bar for two years, but this will be my fifth and us getting new people in the bar,” Heins says. “I night live band—hardly a gay-bar staple—and the year at Burning Man,” Cressy says. “[Landon] think they mostly liked that we cared.” random hula-hoop sessions on the dance floor to has also been to Burning Man. It’s affected me,

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

Clinton Sparks Doors at 8 pm; $25 men, Doors$20 at 10:30 pm; $40+ women men, $30+ women

DoorsDJ at 8E-Rock pm; $25 men, Scott Disick hosts; doors at $20 women 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women

DJ bRadical

DJ Seany Mac

Ladies Night

GILLEY’S ALIBI

9DJs, pm,10 free; drafts/wells pm;$1lounge open for ladies, pm; dance 247-10 hours lessons, 7 pm; doors at 11 am

Latin Night

GOLD ARTIFICE

Dr.Shark, Sketchy’s DJs Sam I Am; doors at 9 pm; School $30 men w/ Anti-Art open women w/ 8 pm; bar, free;$20 doors at 5 pm open bar Tiesto

HAKKASAN ARTISAN

HAZE THE BANK

DJs Dzeko,open Torres, Karma, Lounge 24 hours Shift; doors at 10:30 pm; $50+ men, $20+ women Glitz & Glamour DJ Scene Champagne Thursday: Doors at 10:30 $40+ champagne forpm; women women untilmen, 1 am;$30+ doors 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Vinyl Never Dies

HYDEBAR BEAUTY

Mahi Surrounded

By Thieves, live, 9 pm; $20; doors at 5 Quitters, Sounds of Threat, no cover Mercypm; Music; Rinsed DJs inside; free; doors at 9 pm Latin Ladies Night

INSERT COIN(S) BLUE MARTINI

Austin Law

DJs, loungedrink open live, 10 pm; 2-for-1 24 hours specials, 7-10 pm; doors at 11 am; $5-$20 after 10 pm

Flashback Fridays DJ Kid 10 pm; IcyConrad; Hollow

doors 5 pm; $20atmen, 10 pm; at free; doors 5 pm women free

Sound Tiesto

DJs Justin Hoffman, Eddie DJs Dzeko, Torres, McDonald, Frank Richards, Crooked; doors at 10 pm; others; 10 pm; $10; women, $100+ men, $30+ women locals free; open 24 hours

Sevyn Streeter live; DJ Loczi; doors at #FollowMe Fridays pm; $40+ men,pm; DJ10:30 Que; doors at 10:30 $30+$30+ men, women $20+ women

DJ Shift

10:30DJ pm;De $30La men, O$20 women; at 5free pm; Doors doors at 10 pm, no cover

Friday Night Live Neil Armstrong

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

Live music, 9 pm; DJ Jace DJs Charlie Darker, 1; happy hour, 4-8 pm; $10 Phoreyz; doors at 8 pm; men, $5 women after 11 $10, $5 locals, women free pm; doors at 4 pm

Throwback Thursday

Rock Candy DJ Michael Graves Fridays

KRAVE BODY ENGLISH

Closed DJ Hope; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

THE BOND LADY SILVIA

$3 drafts, $4 wells & DJ Earwaxxx craft beers, $5 wine, $6 10 pm, free; doors at 10 am specialty cocktails, 5-7 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

LAVO LOUNGE CHATEAU

Closed

Happy hour

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

SoundBite

Hal DJ Savar live,One 6-9 pm; Evil happy 5-7 pm; doors 10 pm,hour, free; doors at 10 am at 4 pm; free

Austin Law

DJs,10 10pm; pm;2-for-1 loungedrink open live, 24 hours specials, 7-10 pm; doors at 11 am; $5-$20 after 10 pm

Gold Saturdays Burlesque

DJs Madd Justin 8 pm, $10 Maxx, (performance Hoffman; 10 pm; doors at 5 area); Scarlet with DJs pm; $30Morpheus men w/open bar, Style, Blak, 10 $20 w/open pm,women free; doors at 5bar pm

Shaw DJ Eva M!KEATTACK

DJ doors at 10:30 DJ MOS; Joey Mazzola; 10 pm; pm; $30+ men, $10, women and$20+ locals women free; lounge open 24 hours

DJPosner Five Mike

DJ G-Squared; doors at live; DJ E-Rock; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women women

DJ Skratchy Downtown

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

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

Bikini Bull Riding

Jamie Lynn Spears

11 Lounge pm, $200 prize; open 24 2-for-1 hours drink specials, 7-10 pm; doors at 11 am

live, 8 pm, free; dance Lounge openline 24 hours lessons, 7 pm; doors at 11 am

Sundaze

DJs Mike Fusion; 10 pm; 5 pm doors atDoors 5 pm;at$30 men w/ open bar, $20 women w/ open bar

Moby

Lounge openpm; 24 hours Doors at 10:30 $30+ men, $20+ women

Open Mic with Doors at 5 pm French TV

Free, 8 pm; doors at 5 pm

WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY

One of a Mac Kind DJ Seany

#LadiesBeLike

DJ Turbulence; doors at Doors at 8 pm; $20 men, 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ $10 women women, locals free

DanSing Karaoke

8 pm; line dance lessons, Lounge open 24 hours 7 pm; 2-for-1 drink specials; doors at 11 am

Live Music Sessions Vegas Blues Dance 8 pm; doors at 5 pm; $307 Class/demonstration; menfree; w/open bar,at$20 pm, doors 5 pm women w/open bar

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

DanSing Karaoke

8 pm; line dance lessons, 7 Lounge hours pm; 2-for-1open drink24 specials, 7-10 pm; doors at 11 am

Double D Karaoke Closed 10 pm, free; doors at 5 pm

LoungeClosed open 24 hours

LoungeClosed open 24 hours

Lounge open 24 hours Closed

Closed Closed

Closed Closed

Closed Closed

Doors at 5 pm; Doors 9 pm; free noat cover

LostBeer Angels Nickel Night: DJ Five; 10:30 pm; $30 EPYK Takeover men, $20 women; doors at

Doors at 5 pm; Karate Karaoke

Industry Sundays

DJs Spider, Karma, Shift; Closed doors at 9 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Night Riots

10 pm;Bounce $30 men, $20 women; doors at 5Stacks; pm; DJs Cristyle, Ben noatcover doors 9 pm; free

Doorsand at 5 the pm;Flea, Tapioca noMorphine; cover Sweetest doors at 9 pm; free

EDM Saturdays

Sunday Sessions DJ ROB & The Star One Nicolay All Stars Band live, 6 pm;

Lit Foreign DJs Exile,Exchange Tommy Lin;

DJ set; doors at 8 pm; free happy hour 4-8 pm, doors at 4 pm

live; DJdrinks 88; doors at 8 half-off for industry; pm; $20 happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm

Closed Closed

Closed Closed

SNL DJs, 10 pm; live music, 9 DJs Excel, 88,hour, Cutso; doors pm; happy 4-8 pm; at 8men, pm; $10, $5 locals $10 $5 women after 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

TUESDAY TUESDAY

Doors at 9cover pm; $5 5 pm; no

noat cover Doors 9 pm; free

Ladies Night Out

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

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

Closed Closed

Closed Closed

DJ Lightknife After

$30 all-you-can-drink; Harvard Bass, Spacebyrdz, doors at 10:30 others, 2 am, pm; $20,$20, $10 $10 for locals afterdoors 12:30at women & locals; am $20-$30 10:30 pm,

Sous Tension

DJs, 8 DJ pm;Evil happyOne hour, 5-7 pm; freefree; Stella Artois, 8-9 10 pm, doors at 10 am pm; doors at 4 pm; free

Happy hour

Happy hour

Happy hour

$3 drafts, $4 wells & DJ Technicolor craft beers, $5 wine, $6 10 pm, free; doors at 10 am specialty cocktails, 5-7 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

$3 drafts, $4 wells & DJ John Cha craft beers, $5 wine, $6 10 pm, free; doors at 10 am specialty cocktails, 5-7 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

$3 drafts, $4 wells & DJ Atom E craft beers, $5 wine, $6 10 pm, free; doors at 10 am specialty cocktails, 5-7 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

Closed Closed

Closed Closed

Closed Closed

Doors atClosed 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women, locals free

DJ Reaction

DJone Mika Gold one get one freepm, Buy get one free DJBuy ShadowRed, 10:30 DJ ShadowRed; doors at happy hour, 6-8women, pm; happy hour, 6-8 pm; doors $30+ men, $20+ 10:30 pm, $30+ men, $20+ doors at 6 pm at 6 pm local women free; RuPaul’s women, local women free Drag Race party, 8 pm, $40

Happy hour

$3 drafts, $4 wells & DJ Crykit craft beers, $5 wine, $6 10 pm, free; doors at 10 am specialty drinks, 5-7 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

DJ Casanova

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VENUE

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Downtown Cocktail Room

Doors at 4 pm; free

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

Afterhours

SPONSORED BY: Drai’s nightclub

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Friday Night Social

Afterhours

SATURDAY Saturday Night Vibe

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

Afterhours

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Closed

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

DJs Roy Evans, Laguerre; 10 pm; happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

Closed

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

Closed

Cymatic Sessions

Afterhours

Country Club

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

DRAI’S AFTERHOURS

Doors at midnight; $30 men, $20 women

DRAI’S NIGHTCLUB

DJ set; doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

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

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

DJ Skratchy; doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Closed

Closed

Closed

Two-hour Bottomless Bubbles, 5-7 pm and 7-9 pm, $36; live music, 7-10 pm; doors at 5 pm

Two-hour Bottomless Bubbles, 5-7 pm and 7-9 pm, $36; live music, 7-10 pm; doors at 5 pm

Two-hour Bottomless Bubbles, 5-7 pm and 7-9 pm, $36; live music, 7-10 pm; doors at 5 pm

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

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

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

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

FOUNDATION ROOM

DJ Soxxi

Bubbles For Beauties

Bubbles For Beauties

DJ Eric Forbes

DJs, 10 pm; $30

DJ Kay TheRiot

DJ SINcere

GHOSTBAR

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

FIZZ

Chromeo

10 pm; $30

DJ Exodus

Ladies Night

GILLEY’S

Easy 8s, 9 pm; $1 drafts/ wells for women, 7-10 pm; doors at 11 am

Calvin Harris

HAKKASAN

DJs Burns, Jeff Retro; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

HYDE

Mahi live, 9 pm; doors at 5 pm

INSERT COIN(S)

DJs MamaBear, CryKit; doors at 8 pm; free

Live Thursdays

Future Funk

Doors at midnight; $30 men, $20 women

3LAU

Doors at midnight; $30 men, $20 women

Vicetone

Doors at midnight; $30 men, $20 women

Sundrai’s

DJs Sam I Am, Marc Mac; free champagne/vodka for women; 9:30 pm; $30

DJs Turbulence, others; free champagne/vodka for women; 10 pm; $30

DJ Exodus

live; doors at 1 pm, $10, local women free. Night: Sarah Herron hosts; doors at 8 pm; $20-$25

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

Wolfcreek

Bikini Bull Riding

DJ Benny Black; doors at 8 pm; $25 men, $20 women

Wolfcreek

GBDC: Vassy

live, 10 pm; drink specials, 7-10 pm; doors at 11 am; $10-$20 after 10 pm

live, 10 pm; drink specials, 7-10 pm; doors at 11 am; $10-$20 after 10 pm

Calvin Harris

Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano

DJs Burns, Jeff Retro, OB-One, DJ Irie; doors at 10:30 pm; $75+ men, $40+ women

DJ Scooter

DJ Mark Eteson, OB-One, Gusto; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

DJ b-Radical

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

DJ Seany MAC

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

Locals Night

Line dance lessons, 7 pm; drink specials; doors at 11 am

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

Game Over Fridays

Saturday Night Live

DJs 88, Val Fleury; doors at 8 pm; $10, $5 locals

10 pm; $30

DJ Seany MAC

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

DanSing Karaoke

10 pm; $30

DJ Presto One

Jax Taylor hosts; doors at 8 pm; $20 men, $10 women

DanSing Karaoke

8 pm; line dance lessons, 7 pm; drink specials; doors at 11 am

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

Closed

Don Diablo

DJ Mark Eteson; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Closed

Closed

Doors at 5 pm

Doors at 5 pm

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

Doors at 5 pm

Doors at 8 pm; free

Closed

Closed

Doors at 8 pm; free

DJ Joe Maz

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

DJs Chuck Fader, Phoreyz; doors at 8 pm; $10, $5 locals

10 pm; $30

Lost Angels

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VENUE

THURSDAY

LAS VEGAS ARTIFICE BULL

$1 drinks for women; $30 with Tas, 6 pm, $10; Drink all-you-can Jack Daniels Up mixer, 8 pm, free; doors boots, $20 all-you-can PBR at 5 pm boots; doors at 7 pm; $10

Drink specials for 21+; at 5doors pm at 7 danceDoors lessons; pm; $10, $15 for 18-20

Dance lessons; $2 drafts, Doors at pm well drinks for5locals; doors at 7 pm; $10, $5 for locals w/ID

Betty Who

LAX ARTISAN

performs; doors 10:30 Lounge open 24athours pm; $30 men, $20 women

Doors atMICS 10:30 pm; $30 DJs Jmen, Diesel, Key; 10 $20JustIN women pm; $10; women and locals free; open 24 hours

M!KEATTACK Doors at 10:30 pm; $30 DJmen, Joey $20 Mazzola; 10 pm; women $10, women and locals free; lounge open 24 hours

LEVEL 107 THE BANK

Ladies’ Night Booze Yoga

Glitz & Glamour Champagne Thursday: Dezie ladies’DJ open champagne 11 pm; doors atat 4 pm until 1 am; doors 10:30 pm; $40 men, $20 women

Nocturnal Nectar

LIFEBAR BEAUTY

Iesha Spinks, Truestar, Closedat 10 pm; others; doors $5; women free before midnight

Noches Azul

BLUELIGHT MARTINI

MANDARIN BODY ENGLISH BAR

MARQUEE CHATEAU

PBR DRAI’S ROCK BAR AFTERHOURS

DRAI’S PIRANHA NIGHTCLUB

REVOLUTION FOUNDATION LOUNGE ROOM

Jayceeoh LiveDJ music, 9 pm; happy DJ Neva; doors at drinks, 10 pm; hour w/half-price $30+ $20+women women& 4-8 pm;men, $10 men, local men free Throwback Thursday Doors at 5 pm

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

FRIDAY FRIDAY

SATURDAY SATURDAY

18 and Over

Locals Stampede

DJ IKON

DJ Madd at DJs, 11 pm;Maxx; doorsdoors at 4 pm 10:30 pm; $40 men, $30 women

MadR3HAB About Me

Von Kin, Twenty 8; DJs Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ RPS; doors at 9 pm; $5 men, $20+ women

Blue U

Morgan Page DJs, 10:30 pm; Jeremy Doors at6:30 10 pm; Cornwell, pm;$40+ happy men, women hour, 4-8$20+ pm; $10 men, $5 women after 11 pm TJ Lavin Live music

hosts; DJ Koko; doors at 9 pm; free; doors at 10:30 pm; $30 men, $20 4:30 pm women

DJ Jimmy Lite Cedric Gervais

Panorama MKTO

live; Saturdays DJs Five, G-Squared; DJ Dezie; $5 Absolut doors at 10:30 pm; $40 drinks, 1-4 $20 am; women 11 pm; 15% men, off bottles; doors at 4 pm

EDX Pop That

DJ Tony Arzadon; DJs Byra Tanks,doors DJ Zo,at 10:30 pm;Viv, $30+ men, doors $20+ Vicious others; women at 10 pm

Ibiza Int’l Nights Norman DJ Gil Barba,Doray midnight;

Doors 10 pm; $40+ men, live at music, 9 pm; happy women hour, $20+ 4-8 pm; $10 men, $5 women after 11 pm

Delure Models Live music

hosts; DJ Casanova; doors 9 pm; free; doors at 4:30 at 10:30 pm; $30 men, $20 pm women

Darkerdaze Vice

SPONSORED BY: Las Vegas SPONSORED Bull Cowboy BY: resqwater Town

SUNDAY SUNDAY

MONDAY MONDAY

TUESDAY TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY

Doors at 5 pm Closed

Doors at 5 pm Closed

Doors at 5 pm Closed

Doors at 5and pm Dre; 10 Hosted

by Dale pm; doors at 5 pm; free

LoungeClosed open 24 hours

LoungeClosed open 24 hours

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

J Diesel

DJ JustINClosed Key; 10 pm; free; lounge open 24 hours

Industry Sundays Scenic Sundays

DJs Crooked, Neva; doors DJ Kittie; 11 pm; doors at at 10:30 pm; $30 men, $20 4 pm women

Latin Revolution

Sky High Mondays DJ Girl 6; 2-4-1 drinks for Closed locals, $5 Skyy drinks, 1-4 am; 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

#IndustryLife

DJ Borgore; at 10:30 Doorsdoors at 9 pm pm; $25+, free for locals before midnight

Sunday Sessions

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

DJLive Casanova jazz

Doors at 10:30 pm; $20 6 pm; free; doors at 5 pm men, $10 women

Hospitality Blue

Happy hour w/half-price Closed drinks, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm

Doors at 5 pm Closed

Vice

Closed

DJ Audio1; doors at 10:30 Doors at 10 pm; $40+ men, pm; $40+ men, $20+ $20+ women women

Closed Closed

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

Ladies Night Afterhours

2-for-1 beer pong, $22, Afterhours 11 am-9 pm; 100 oz. beer Doors at midnight; tower, $35; doors at 8$30 am men, $20 women

2-for-1 beer pong, $22, Afterhours 11 am-9 pm; 100 oz. beer Doors at midnight; tower, $35; doors at 8$30 am men, $20 women

$20 open bar 9 pm-1 am w/ Afterhours social media follow; doors Doors at midnight; $30 8 am men,at$20 women

#Social Sundays

Beer Pong Tournament Closed

Drag Queen Bingo

Rupaul’s Drag Race Afterparty Warren Peace

Michelle Holliday hosts, DJ Jayceeoh 7-10 pm; $8pm; drinks w/text Doors at 10 $30+ men, (“GAY” to 83361), 10 pm, $20+ women free; open 24 hours

Jasmine Masters, others; Doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, India Ferrah hosts; 10 pm, $20+ women free; open 24 hours

Get Back Music With a View Thursdays Live music; 6 pm; free;

Good Foot Bubbles for Promoter Battle Beauties

Wayna Morris hosts; DJ doors at 5 pm G-Minor; doors at 10 pm; $20 men, women free

DJsEric BenForbes, Stacks,Marc Sumkid, DJs Mac; Sincere; doors at 10 10 pm; $30; doors at pm; 5 pm $20, women free

Xtravaganza

Kenneth performs; MikeBlake Hawkins DJs Vago, 2-for-1 Doors atVirus; 10 pm; $30+ drinks, noon-8 pm; free; men, $20+ women open 24 hours

DJGreg G Minor DJ Lopez

DJ atpm; 10 pm; DJFlow; Sam Idoors Am; 10 $30; $20 men, doorswomen at 5 pmfree

El Deseo

DJs Virus, Vago; $5 DJ Shift mystery drinks; 10 pm; Doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, drink specials, 5-9 pm; free; $20+ women open 24 hours

Revo Sundays DJ Marc Mac

Doors at 10 pm; $20, locals 10 pm; $30; doors at 5 pm free before midnight

DJClosed Dezie

11 pm; doors at 4 pm

Nickel Beer Night

Closed Doors at 9 pm

DJ Larose Royce; doors at Doors at 10 pm; $40+ 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $20+ men, $20+ women women

$1 vodka for women, 9 pm, Doors at midnight; $30 $5; 2-for-1 beer pong, $22, men, $20 women 11 am-9 pm; doors at 8 am

Double D Karaoke

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

Industry Mondays

Downtown Fight Club with Closed inflatable ring; doors at 9 pm; $10

Tickets & Tinis

Free martini w/movie stub; Closed happy hour w/half-price drinks, 4-8 pm

Doors at 5 pm Closed

Closed Closed

Karaoke Night

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

Woman Crush Wednesday

Closed DJ Dezie; 2-4-1 drinks for women; 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

Karate Karaoke Closed Doors at 9 pm; free

Girls Night Out

Half-offStellar drinks for women; Doors 10 pm; $30+ DJs,at midnight-3 am;men, live $20+ women music, 9 pm; happy hour, 4-8 pm

Doors at 5 pm Closed

Rooftop Wednesday

Closed DJs Larose Royce, others; doors at 10:30pm; $40+ men, $20+ women 2-for-1 beer pong, $22, 11 am-9 pm; 100 oz. beer Closed tower, $35; doors at 8 am

La Noche

Hot Mess w/Des’ree St. Closed James, 10 pm, free; half-off drinks w/industry ID, 4-9 pm; free; open 24 hours

DJ Majesty, Vago, 10 pm; Drai’s Yacht Club karaoke 7-11 pm; Doors atw/Sheila, 10 pm; $40+ men, 2-for-1 drinks, noon-8 pm; $20+ women free; open 24 hours

DJClosed Sa7age 10 pm; $30; doors at 5 pm

DJClosed Sa7age 10 pm; $30; doors at 5 pm

2-for-1 drinks, noon-8 pm; Closed free; open 24 hours

DJClosed SINcere 10 pm; $30; doors at 5 pm

NIGHTS | club grid

VENUE

Listings are accurate as of press time.

For more info, contact venues directly.

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

REVOLVER

Closed

Drink specials; Line Dancing 101, 8-9:15 pm; doors at 8 pm; $5 after 10 pm

Drink specials; line dancing 101, 8-9:15 pm; doors at 8 pm; $5 after 10 pm

ROCKHOUSE

Happy hour, 2-6 pm, 11 pm-2 am; $50 open bar; Kill the Keg unlimited drafts, $20, 2-9 pm; doors at 11 am

Happy hour, 2-6 pm, 11 pm-2 am; $50 open bar; Kill the Keg unlimited drafts, $20, 2-9 pm; doors at 11 am

$50 open bar; 100 oz. beer tower, $35; doors at 8:30 am

ROSE. RABBIT. LIE.

Doors at 5:30 pm

Doors at 5:30 pm

Doors at 5:30 pm

Fireball Fridays

SAYERS CLUB

Bands. Beats.

Vibes.

10:30 pm; doors at 7 pm, free

NSA Thursdays

SHARE

Desrae Pendavis hosts; DJ J Diesel; $10 liquor bust; doors at 10 pm; free

SURRENDER

Closed

TAO

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

TRYST

DJ IKON; doors at 10 pm; $30 men, $20 women, local ladies, industry free

DJ Five

TUSCANY

The Affair

Amanda Avila

Piazza Lounge; 8:30 pm, free

Velveteen Rabbit

Doors at 5 pm

XS

Closed

Sessions

Live music, 10:30 pm, free; doors at 7 pm

Stripper Circus

DJ Majesty; doors at 10 pm; free

Flosstradamus

Doors at 10:30 pm; $35+ men, $25+ women

DJ Politik

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

DJ Dave Fogg

Sessions

Live music, 10:30 pm, free; doors at 7 pm

Kidd Madonny

DJ J Diesel; half-off drinks, 10 pm-midnight;

Dillon Francis

Doors at 10:30 pm; $35+ men, $25+ women

DJ Eric D-Lux

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

DJ Skratchy

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

Kenny Davidsen Show

Corro Van Such

Piazza Lounge; 8:30 pm, free

DJ 8-Bits

DJ Aurajin; 10 pm; free; doors at 5 pm

Manufactured Superstars

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

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Silver Saturdays

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

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SATURDAY

SUNDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Closed

Closed

Drink specials; Line Dancing 101, 8-9:15 pm; doors 8 pm; $5 after 10 pm

Ladies Night

Taco Tuesdays

$50 open bar; doors at 8:30 am

9 pm; happy hour, 2-6 pm, 11 pm-2 am; doors at 11 am

$1.50+, $5 tequila shots, $7 margaritas; happy hour, 2-6 pm, 11 pm-2 am; doors at 11 am

Happy hour, 2-6 pm, 11 pm-2 am; $50 open bar; Kill the Keg unlimited drafts, $20, 2-9 pm; doors at 11 am

Closed

Closed

Closed

Doors at 5:30 pm

Doors at 7 pm, free

Doors at 7 pm, free

Doors at 7 pm, free

Doors at 7 pm, free

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Doors at 9 pm; $45+ men, $35+ women, locals free

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Confession Sundays

Closed

MK Ultralite

T-Spot Lounge; 10 pm, free

Doors at 5 pm

Doors at 5 pm

Diplo

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Renaissance man Checking in with Gov’t Mule leader Warren Haynes Jazzman John Scofield has said you sent him some homework for this Sco-Mule tour—50 songs for him to learn. Yeah, I mean, some of them are really easy. He and I are used to working together in a way where sometimes we just learn a couple of songs at soundcheck and play ’em that night or the next night. We’re not going to spend a ton of time rehearsing at the beginning of the tour.

It will keep expanding as we go along.

I’m guessing the GOV’T MULE collaboration caught some with John of your fans off-guard Scofield. when it started 20 years February 22, ago. That was the first time 8 p.m., $25we had done this much $28. Brooklyn instrumental music and Bowl, 702this much jazz-influenced 862-2695. music. But this far down the road, even though it’s odd for a band like Gov’t Mule to put out two CDs of all-instrumental music, it’s still something, I think, that our fans have grown to expect through the years.

> GOODBYE PAWNEE The era of Leslie Knope, Ben Wyatt and company comes to a close.

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Stuff you’ll want to know about See PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES FINALE After seven seasons, the local-government sitcom comes to an end, having launched Chris Pratt and Amy Poehler to superstardom and given the world the genius of Ron Swanson. Tune in to see how things wrap up for the denizens of Pawnee, Indiana.

February 24, 10 p.m., NBC. FRESH OFF THE BOAT An Asian-American family

moves from D.C. to the Orlando ’burbs in 1995, and culture-shock hilarity ensues in this new comedy from ABC that perfectly balances clever humor with moving familial moments. You’ll be laughing out loud (and smiling) the entire episode. Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

Surrounded by Thieves—to the stage to play their debut LPs in full, while the latter previews its April opening by selling its first batch of vinyl.

February 19, 9 p.m., free, Beauty Bar. MARK HUFF The longtime Las Vegas singer-songwriter and troubadour may have moved to Nashville more than a decade ago, but he clearly knows you can always come home. Welcome him and former Benway Bop Records owner Ronn Benway back for what’s sure to be a night of old friends—and old friends with new music. February 19, 8:30 p.m., $5, Bunkhouse Saloon.

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It’s been about a year since The Allman Brothers announced that they were calling it quits. As a fan of the band yourself, it had to be pretty cool to be part of that story for 25 years. I was a huge fan from the time I was 9. My oldest brother had the first record when it came out, and I loved Gregg’s voice and the guitars with Duane and Dickey [Betts]. … It was a once-in-alifetime opportunity, and I can’t begin to express how honored I feel to have been given that opportunity. It’s very bittersweet for me, because I’ll miss playing that music with those people. That’s the only band on the planet that can play that music, and it’s some of my favorite music of all time.

–Matt Wardlaw

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C U LT U R A L AT TAC H M E N T

In memoriam

These musical trailblazers won’t be forgotten, even if the Grammys skipped them over By Smith Galtney

It’s been nearly two weeks since the Grammys aired, and my Facebook feed is still clogged with Kanye discourse (“He’s a douchebag!” “Yeah? Then you’re a racist!”). And surely somebody somewhere is still seething that Joan Rivers, who won a posthumous Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album, was omitted from this year’s “In Memoriam” tribute. That might not have ruffled any feathers if the short segment, which almost qualified as “rapid-fire,” hadn’t squeezed in non-musical types like Robin Williams.

Ken Ehrlich, the show’s producer, insists there was no disrespect intended. “It was just that [Joan’s] Grammy involvement was certainly less than Robin’s,” he stated. (Williams, after all, won five Grammys throughout his career; Rivers just the one, received right before the tribute aired.) “I try and put a limit on the ‘In Memoriam’ and just have to make choices at some point.” Which is basically a really long, very polite way of saying, “Tough!”

Here’s a list of other recent, uncelebrated deaths.

Apologies to singer-songwriter Lesley Gore, who was way too popular to be included ...

1. Edgar Froese. A founding member of Tangerine Dream, the German psychedelic-synth group famous for spacey, side-long instrumentals with titles like “Geburt (Genesis)/Reise Durch Ein Brennendes Gehrin (Journey Through a Burning Brain),” Froese’s passing earned a measly one mention in my Facebook feed—shocking, given the number of music geeks I know. But the pop-ambient score he wrote for Risky Business left quite an impression on my teenage brain. If most boys left that movie wanting a pair of Wayfarers and a Porsche and to be inside of Rebecca De Mornay, I just wanted the soundtrack, so I could listen to “Love on a Real Train” forever.

2. Rod McKuen. One of the best-selling poets of all-time, McKuen was also an insanely prolific singersongwriter who contributed to recordings by everyone from Sinatra to Streisand and even Madonna.

Critics abhorred him (“gooey schmaltz that wouldn’t pass muster in a freshman creative-writing class”), and his spoken-word albums (filled with maudlin laments and syrupy odes to his cat) are the definition of kitsch. Yet McKuen, who eventually came out as gay, offered cryptic glimpses into what life was like for so-called “bachelors” before Stonewall—sad, lonely and deeply unfulfilled.

Duran and countless other prettied-up, primped-out pop stars. Without this guy, the ’80s would have been, like, seriously bunk.

4. RadioShack. Not quite a death, perhaps, since many of its location will just turn into Sprint stores, but it’s hard not to get misty-eyed with remembrance now that this American institution has filed for bankruptcy. It was where I got my first stereo. It was where I always bought those little microcassettes so I could record classes and interviews, maybe even blackmail someone. It was where we used to buy those little thingamajigs and convert them into drug paraphernalia! Instead of giving the 94-year-old company a proper goodbye, though, the press cracked a lot of jokes about the Shack’s irrelevance, inspiring a segment on Last Week Tonight With John Oliver and a fitting epitaph: “Laugh while you still can, sh*theads.

Because, one day you, too, will be obsolete.”

3. Steve Strange. In addition to fronting Visage, the British synth-pop band most famous for the hit “Fade to Grey,” Strange also co-founded the Blitz Club, the wildly influential nightclub that served as ground zero for the New Romantic movement, which spawned Adam and the Ants, Culture Club, Duran

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film

Short circuit See the Oscar-nominated short films in theaters this weekend

> THE RINGER NPH is the man when it comes to hosting awards shows.

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Thank the Academy

Five potential reasons to watch the Oscars By Josh Bell

The performances of nominated songs are often staid and boring, so it’ll be nice for Tegan and Sara and comedy troupe The Lonely Island to add a bit of goofiness to the show.

J.K. Simmons is virtually guaranteed to take the stage as winner of Best Supporting Actor for his role as a sadistic music teacher in Whiplash, and when he does, it will mark the culmination of a decades-long career as one of the best character actors in movies and TV. I expect he’ll give a hell of an acceptance speech.

Once again, Oscar-watchers will have the chance to see the nominated liveaction and animated short films before the ceremony this weekend, playing at three local theaters after an early run at AMC Town Square last week.

The live-action program is refreshingly devoid of the kind of glum socialissue dramas that the Academy tends to reward, and the highlights are sweet, low-key stories. “Parvaneh,” about the unlikely friendship between two Zurich teenage girls, one an illegal immigrant from Afghanistan, takes several turns that seem to be heading toward clichéd misery, only to avoid every narrative pitfall. “Butter Lamp” travels the world in a single static shot, as OSCARan itinerant portrait NOMINATED photographer takes SHORT FILMS pictures of families February 20-22, in remote Tibet, postimes vary, ing them in front of $10. Century backdrops of tourist Suncoast, locales in a subtle but Century South effective commentary Point, AMC on globalization.

Town Square.

The Disney short “Feast,” which played in front of Big Hero 6, leads the animated program, but its story of a hungry dog is a little slight and cutesy, especially compared to recent Disney nominees “Paperman” and “Get a Horse!” Chances are it won’t bring Disney a win this year; instead look for the beautiful and moving “The Bigger Picture,” about two brothers dealing with an aging mother, to be the top contender. Its mix of painted and stop-motion animation is creative and striking. The Norwegian short “Me and My Moulton” has an opposite visual style, bright and simple, but its funny coming-of-age story about a young girl and her eccentric family makes it just as memorable. –Josh Bell

Hosting the Oscars is a thankless job that has defeated many funny, charming performers, but this It’s pretty common for an undeserving movie to year’s host, Neil Patrick Harris, has made hosting win Best Picture, but if assumed frontrunner Boyhood awards shows into one of his greatest takes the top award this year, it will be one of strengths. After his multiple stints hosting the most deserving winners in a long time. the Tonys and the Emmys, Harris is a conSometimes it’s a good thing when the ACADEMY summate pro who knows when to make a Academy does exactly what everyone AWARDS self-deprecating joke, when to mount a huge expects it to do.

February 22, musical number and, most importantly, 5:30 p.m., ABC. when to get out of the way and let the No matter how many people are highawards speak for themselves. lighted in the annual “In Memoriam” montage of figures in the film industry who died during the previous year, there’s always at least one egreThe Academy’s failure to nominate The Lego Movie gious omission to upset viewers. Who will it be this for Best Animated Feature is a travesty, but at least the year? Bob Hoskins (notably left out at the BAFTAs)? movie’s ridiculously catchy theme song, “Everything Harold Ramis? Joan Rivers?

Is Awesome,” got a nomination for Best Original Song.

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A&E | screen FILM

A vivid portrait Mr. Turner takes an off-kilter approach to the biopic

> underdogs Not Costner’s greatest movie, but at least he didn’t have to fake an accent.

FILM

work as fruit and vegetable pickers whenever they aren’t in school. Despite his lack of experience, he convinces the principal to let him start a cross-country team, taking a gamble on his students’ untapped potential.

Shockingly, that potential pays off, and the McFarland team overcomes racism from richer rival schools and McFarland, USA is a formulaic and skepticism from local parents to rise to the state championships. Along the way, Jim and his family learn to forgettable sports drama By Josh Bell appreciate the vibrant community in which they’ve found themselves, and his students, only some of whom Kevin Costner’s days of playing athletes onscreen are get actual personality traits, learn that this clueless white over, but he’s successfully transitioned into roles as the guy is actually pretty okay. guy in charge of the athletes, whether as a pro-football Costner invests Jim with some genuine general manager in Draft Day or as a high humanity, and director Niki Caro, who made a school cross-country coach in the Disney solid working-class drama with 2005’s North drama McFarland, USA. Costner’s weary, aabcc Country, captures the town’s mix of grit and lived-in performance is the best thing about MCFARLAND, resilience (with plenty of sun-dappled imagthis predictable underdog sports drama, based USA Kevin Costner, es from cinematographer Adam Arkapaw). on the true story of a cross-country team from Maria Bello, Carlos But the story, fictionalized and streamlined the impoverished central California town of Pratts. Directed by to fit a familiar template, proceeds exactly McFarland that achieved surprising success Niki Caro. Rated PG. as expected, with every character fulfilling a in the late 1980s.

Opens Friday. preordained role. Jim is much less of an egreCoach Jim White (Costner) comes to gious white-savior type than he could have been, but the McFarland as a last resort, after losing a series of jobs students barely register as people in a movie that should thanks to his short temper and stubbornness. Set up as really be about their struggles. McFarland, USA is wellthe high school’s assistant football coach, White quickly intentioned and largely inoffensive, but as any coach notices the swift running of many of his students, chilknows, good intentions aren’t enough to go the distance. dren of Mexican immigrants who live in poverty and

Running on empty

TV

“Humans!” harrumphs painter J.M.W. Turner (Timothy Spall) in Mike Leigh’s sprawling, unconventional biopic Mr. Turner, a portrait of the artist as an old crank. Providing virtually no context for his story of the renowned landscape artist’s later years, Leigh strings together scenes that are alternately funny, sad, bitter and baffling, sometimes all at the same time. A curmudgeonly misanthrope who grunts and grumbles as often as he speaks actual sentences, Turner devotes so much energy to his chaotic paintings of ships and trains that he has very little patience for human interaction. Yet Spall gives the man depth and feeling at unexpected moments, even when his reactions appear inexplicable.

It’s sometimes aaabc frustrating to watch MR. TURNER scenes of Turner Timothy interacting with Spall, Dorothy fellow artists and Atkinson, intellectuals and Marion Bailey. not have a clear Directed by Mike idea of who they Leigh. Rated R. are, but Leigh gives Opens Friday. a rich sense of Turner as a human being, from his fraught interactions with his family to his dysfunctional romantic relationships (he treats his long-suffering housekeeper like a combination of a Roomba and a RealDoll). The Oscarnominated cinematography by Dick Pope is gorgeous, frequently evoking Turner’s own work. Turner himself is not nearly as majestic, but that’s what makes him a perfect subject for Leigh’s typically earthy storytelling. –Josh Bell

Matthew Perry is looking for the third time to be the charm in his attempted return to sitcoms. After the failures aaccc of Mr. Sunshine and Go On, the former Friends star has THE ODD retreated to the old-fashioned multi-camera format and COUPLE revived a classic concept with The Odd Couple, based on the 1965 Neil Simon play and subsequent 1970s Thursdays, sitcom. The setup remains the same, with divorced longtime pals Oscar Madison (Perry), a boorish slob, and 8:30 p.m., CBS. Felix Unger (Thomas Lennon), an uptight neat freak, deciding to room together. Although the first episode adds a bit of raunchiness to the humor, it’s full of creaky jokes and predictable situations, goosed by raucous, unwarranted studioaudience laughter. Perry plays a familiar womanizing cynic (Oscar even has the same occupation, sports radio host, as Perry’s Go On character), and Lennon tones down his weirdness. The result is tiresome and forgettable, which makes it perfect filler for CBS’ Thursday-night lineup of popular but moronic sitcoms. –Josh Bell

Sitcom leftovers

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A&E | The strip t h e k at s r e p o rt

Drag force

Approaching 30 years on the Vegas stage, Frank Marino remains a savvy showmaker

Highlights from a recent backstage Thirty minutes after finishing his visit with the Strip’s longest-running show at the Linq and meeting and headliner: greeting dozens of fans at the showroom entrance, Frank Marino still On keeping the show fresh: “The has a little diva in him. “Do you see difference between Divas and La any advertising about me around this Cage is, in Divas we don’t rest on our hotel?” he asks. “Walk around and tell laurels. Yes, you’re going to see the me if you see one picture. No. It’s all staples—Diana Ross, Cher, Madonna, on the entertainer.”

Liza. They go crazy for Liza. But The star and founder of Frank we do have to get the new crowd Marino’s Divas Las Vegas often vents in, so we have the Katy Perrys, the in such a way. He is frequently an Rihannas. It’s very hard to find new amalgam of his onstage portrayal people, because they have to be at the of Joan Rivers and the real Frank level of the people who are already Marino who runs the Divas Las Vegas in the show. I don’t want a big drop. operation. He’s not completely alone, My audience is prom kids to senior though sometimes it seems so, as citizens. You have to find people who Marino works and lives in a parteverybody knows.” nership with his life partner, Alex On the possibility that some characSchechter, and the compaters won’t work in the show: ny for which Schechter is “We put Adele in and she an executive, Adam Steck’s bombed. Donna Summer Frank SPI Entertainment. bombed, too, and that’s my Marino’s In September, Marino fault, because we didn’t do Divas Las will celebrate 30 years as it right. Adele just wasn’t a Vegas Nightly, a Strip headliner. He first big enough star to integrate 9:30 p.m., starred in An Evening at into the show. Legends [in $79-$101. Linq La Cage at the Riviera and, Concert] has an Adele in their Theater, 702for the past five-plus years, show, and her voice was flaw794-3261. has headlined in Divas Las less and amazing, like Adele’s, Vegas, in what is now the and that’s why it sold. But I Linq (formerly Imperial do best when I go like a horse Palace and the Quad). Oddly enough, in a race, blinders on the sides, and Marino will outlast his original hotel, don’t look behind me at what someone as the Riv is now due for sale to the else is doing. I prevail that way.”

LVCVA and will be demolished this On his reputation as one of the most year. media-savvy entertainers in Las Vegas: But Marino, in his ever-present “I am a self-proclaimed media whore.

Joan Rivers role, just keeps moving You have to work to be noticed. along, advancing his show with such There’s a thing in town called Cirque new characters as Shania Twain, Katy du Soleil. So, you can’t stop. Maybe I Perry, Rihanna and Pink. He plans to should change the name of my show add Cyndi Lauper and Pat Benatar, and to Cirque du So Gay.” would love to find a guy who can delivOn the pressures on entertainers to er a dynamite Miley Cyrus. “I’m always produce, market, direct and perform looking for the next hot mess,” he says. in their own shows: “At the Riv, I was

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> still gorgeous Feathers and Frank Marino get along swimmingly.

actually an employee of the producer, but I had a deal with the producer of La Cage, and they had a deal with the hotel. It’s called a two-wall. Best situation ever. You got a guarantee of X-amount of dollars … Now, I’m a vendor, I pay a lot of money for a latenight time slot in a hotel that doesn’t have a front door. It’s a four-wall deal, and the way it works is you are totally responsible for everything.”

On the biggest challenge in his show today: “Trying to sell the show to

men. What do I mean by that? The wife will see me on television, and when they’re on vacation—after she’s bought tickets to her Cirque show and Jersey Boys—she’ll see me on a cab and say, “I saw him on TV, on such-and-such a show. Let’s go see him.” I’d bet, nine times out of 10, the

husband says, ‘I don’t wanna see it!’

But she’ll drag him to the show—pun intended—and he’ll love it.”

On keeping the Rivers character in the show after her death: “She has a

huge fanbase, and those people want to see her. At 82 years old, her average fan was 26 at the time of her death.

Amazing. I went to her funeral, and told her daughter, Melissa, “I’m going to take it out.” She said, “Don’t do that. If anybody would want you to keep doing it, it would be my mom.”

So I keep it in and the audience actually loves her more now than when she was alive.”

On his next destination after stepping away from the stage: “The grave

(laughs). I say always that I would like to retire at 55 from the stage. But if I’m still gorgeous, I’ll keep going.”

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A&E | noise Album | pop-Rock

Done with mirrors

> FORWARD PROGRESS? The Dragons aren’t moving in any one direction with their second album.

Imagine Dragons’ second album finds its now-famous creators playing it safe By Smith Galtney tine sound as a means of moving forward?

The winners of the Weekly’s Readers Of course not!

Choice poll for Best Local Indie band back From there, things get very familiar, fast. in 2010, Imagine Dragons went on to hit the “Gold,” the band’s requisite reflection on big-big time with 2012’s Night Visions—a success (“first comes rare rock blockbuster the blessing of all that that moved two milyou’ve dreamed, but lion copies, plus then comes the cursanother nine for the es of diamonds and single “Radioactive.” rings”), battles material (The mere act of typennui with an army of ing that word means fist pumps. The colosI’ll be singing the damn sal, timpani-clobbered chorus for another beats of “I’m So Sorry” three months.) Now, and “Polaroid” land after picking up a right back on arenaGrammy for Best Rock ready turf. Elsewhere, Performance and piss“I Bet My Life” thumbs ing off fellow nominee its nose at all the haters Josh “f *ck Imagine who insist this band Dragons” Homme, sounds too much like they’re back with Imagine Dragons Coldplay by sounding Smoke + Mirrors—a Smoke + Mirrors aaccc exactly like … Mumford spit-shined, eyes-on& Sons? And there’s a the-prize successor moment in “Hopeless Opus,” when the voice that’s eager to be all things for everybody. of singer Dan Reynolds gets fed through a Things start promisingly enough: “Shots,” sampler (“ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb”) that lita synth-poppy tune with U2-esque guitar erally made me LOL. and a bridge lifted straight from a Peter It’s entirely possible Imagine Dragons Gabriel album, is a breezy and utterly irrewill have the last laugh. If they stick around sistible tune about a guy who “shot a hole long enough, maybe they’ll even pull a through every single thing that I love.” Its Journey and have their legacy reconsidered spare sweetness gets you wondering, Could 30 years down the line. Or they might just this be one of those radical, rip-it-up-andbecome another Hootie & the Blowfish. I’m start-again sophomore efforts? Have the not banking on either.

Dragons decided to scale back their elephan-

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Cupid and his gun

The five least romantic moments from Marilyn Manson’s Valentine’s Day show

By Deanna Rilling If you’re anti-Valentine’s Day, then spending the Hallmark holiday with the Antichrist Superstar seems an appropriate protest against all things romantic and cuddly. Fortunately—and with what appeared to be the aid of copious amounts of booze—Marilyn Manson put out for fans at the House of Blues on February 14 for the Vegas stop of the Hell Not Hallelujah Tour. It was easy to shrug off the singer’s often incoherent slurs, because the music still delivered (even if Manson’s voice wasn’t quite on point). While goth couples abounded— and I even ended up miraculously meeting an awesome guy at the show, so I wasn’t without a Valentine after all—Manson seemed to ignore the holiday, for the most part. I thus present his five least lovey-dovey moments.

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“Get your pussies ready and your cocks hard.” Manson’s instructions to the crowd are far from Shakespeare’s sonnets, but they’re met with resounding cheers. Nearby some out-of-place-looking club rats asks, “Where’s the mosh?”

Manson makes a monitor his bitch … repeatedly. After fornicating with said stage gear, he assures us that, “Just because you’re in Vegas doesn’t mean you’re hookers.” Thanks for the vote of confidence. And thanks, by the way, for The Pale Emperor, probably your best work since 1996.

“Cupid Carries a Gun.” Manson doesn’t go for the obvious performance with the song “Valentine’s Day.” Appropriately, “The Dope Show” is followed up by “Third Day of a Seven Day Binge,” which is what Manson appears to be going through.

“We hate love, we love hate!” Nothing gives a middle finger to romance like a crowd wildly chanting against it, just before Manson launches into “Irresponsible Hate Anthem” to close out the concert.

–Deanna Rilling

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Not many bands can evoke their home city through their music, but San Diego’s Pinback most It’s good to see Pinback still in fine form certainly does—well, for me, anyway. It’s one major reason I enjoy listening to the indie trio: The experience feels relaxing but refreshing, alternatingly cloudy and sunny.

And Thursday night at Backstage Bar & Billiards, Pinback transported me with faithful recreations of its catalog chestnuts. ¶ And yet, the group actively engaged its nearly 200-strong audience by thwarting certain expectations created by the recorded output. It often accelerated the tempos, as it did with the beloved “Fortress.” That song and others—seemingly inspired by aaabc the angular guitar/bass interplay of Television and Wire, the tuneful finger-picking and nearPINBACK mumbled delivery of Kurt Cobain and the subtle R&B pluck of Spoon—highlighted Pinback’s February 12, trademark minimalism, though it was often rounded out with synth and keyboard samples Backstage that filled in where guitarist/singer Rob Crow, bassist/singer Zack Smith and drummer Chris Bar & Prescott couldn’t. ¶ The band’s compositional depth truly bore out during an epic, 11-minBilliards. ute-plus “Grey Machine,” featuring the trio’s great narrative ascension, as well as Smith’s and Crow’s distinct vocal harmonizing—a frequent highlight elsewhere, too. The two also demonstrated how well they complement each other when throwing out their respective chord progressions, as they did during a more sprightly version of old favorite “BBTone.” But they might have shone brightest when their emotional projection transcended their precise handiwork. No one could deny the melodic charms of “Good to Sea,” which Crow robustly belted out, and show-closer “Prog” sounded nearly as triumphant—like a traffic-free highway cruise from Escondido to Coronado Beach. –Mike Prevatt

Feeling San Diego

imagine dragons by Eliot Lee Hazel; Pinback by spencer burton

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A&E | fine art

American life, on wheels Roll translates roller-rink memories into artworks in sound, imagery and light By Kristy Totten singing the Crystal Palace jingle.

Love it or hate it, everyone has a VonBastiaans built a lighted sign that roller-skating story. In CAC’s first popblinks rink-related phrases. Kerlin up exhibition of 2015, Las Vegas Weekly made a field guide to Western roller writer and art curator Kristen Peterson rinks, based loosely on the Peterson draws memories from artists who have Field Guide to Birds. Misko is hosting a connection to the disco-y pastime and, a snack bar. And Whitmore (a phoin particular, Crystal Palace roller rink tographer for Weekly’s parent comon Boulder Highway. pany Greenspun Media Group), will “I chose roller skating, because I project video onto a crystal like really cheesy, over-the-top ball. When that light hits the Abba-meets-Xanadu-meetsROLL wall, the effect is a mosaic of nostalgia. Honestly, that’s the February softball-sized video tiles. first thing that came into my 20, 6-9 “I loved when the lights head,” Peterson says. “This p.m. BLVDS would dim and they shined the is about people at different House, 509 S. light on the ball for couples,” stages in their lives reflecting Seventh St. Whitmore says. “In fourth on a sentimental shared expegrade I was at Crystal Palace rience.” for a school field trip, and I was Exhibiting artists include supposed to skate with a boy named Shannon Eakins, Justin Favela, Bekah Johnny. My dad was chaperoning, and Just, Alisha Kerlin, Jen Kleven, Jerry it was getting too late, so just as the Misko, Krystal Ramirez, Lance Smith, couples skate began we had to leave.

Mikayla Whitmore, Thomas Willis, Todd Someone else danced with Johnny. It VonBastiaans and Abigail Goldman. was heartbreaking. I was supposed to Favela and Willis created a sound marry Johnny.” piece from people calling in and

Art to see right now

While I Am Still Melding science and the psyche, Linda Alterwitz captures the black and white and the gray areas in between in works that are simultaneously ominous and warm. The mid-career retrospective presents five series of the artist’s work and includes haunting images made from medical imagery and photography. Alterwitz’s layered Mojave-based works consider dimensions of life, and her “Just Breathe” series includes portraits made from breathing patterns of subjects lying on their backs with cameras photographing the sky in 30-second intervals. Through May 9, the Studio at Sahara West.

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> Skate or Die! Roll over to BLVDS on February 20.

Alterwitz, Santa Confessional and an MFA avalanche

Santa Confessional Ensuring a stake in Christmas morning prosperity through childhood department-store testimony begins and (unfortunately) ends in childhood, but in Santa Confessional artist David Colman revives the ritual and adds religion. By marrying the early Catholic Church’s “selling of indulgences” with Santa visits in a wooden “open-air” confessional, Colman bridges the similarities in an interactive performance piece that has salvation and consumerism in the same transaction.

Through March 8, Cosmopolitan’s P3Studio.

MFA With simultaneous shows at MCQ Fine Art Advisory, Brett Wesley Gallery and Nevada Humanities Project Gallery, UNLV’s talented crop of MFA candidates gets ample exposure this month.

Highlights include Maureen Halligan’s minimal color and pattern pieces and Audrey Barcio’s mixed-media works. While Brett Wesley shows only MFA work, MCQ’s exhibit (held as a fundraiser for MFA candidates, culminating with an auction) also includes works by professors and artists outside the university.

Nevada Humanities focuses on works inspired by the environment. MCQ: February 20, 6-8 p.m.; Brett Wesley: Through February 28; Nevada Humanities: Through March 27. –Kristen Peterson

photographs courtesy

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> who needs a plot? Glen or Glenda is about laughs.

Attack of the killer fomatoes

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Glen or Glenda’s exuberant camp is partly an audience creation By Jacob Coakley But don’t worry if your pitchThe genius of shows like ing arm isn’t the best. There MST3K—or its predecessors, the are other jokes, too. Stephen R. late-night horror hosts on local TV Sisson as the “Scientist” (a part stations of the ’70s—is their abiloriginally played by Bela Lugosi) ity to reframe dreck for laughs. imbues his over-the-top German They peppered viewings with accent with more queeniness jokes and invited audiences to join than its seen since the death of them in laughing at the movies.

Empress Augusta. Glenn Heath John Tomasello’s Midnight Fomato is delightfully wide-eyed and Society takes this conceit one step frenetic or filled with shame as further: He added “fomatoes.”

Glen-Glenda (he also Socks stuffed with cotdisplays a mean backton batting, fomatoes free hand when returning the audience from having aaaac volleys of fomatoes, so to think of clever jokes, GLEN OR aim well). Anita Bean or memorize a script of GLENDA charmingly plays his predetermined actions February clueless girlfriend, along to join in the creation of 20-March 7, with several other roles. camp. All they require is a Friday & Other parts are covered great sense of timing and Saturday, by a troupe of actors a decent arm to pelt the 11 p.m., $20. gamely changing cosactors as they try to put on Onyx Theatre, tumes, flinging fomatoes a show. The rewards are 702-732-7225. back into the audience immense. Tomasello’s latand filling out the show est so-bad-it’s-good offerwith as many outrageous characing, Glen or Glenda, adapted from ters and funny bits as possible— the film by Ed Wood, is a fantastiincluding a sex-change operation cally funny, cathartic experience. sequence with overlarge scissors There’s something purely enterand a drill. If it’s in questionable taining about pelting the actors taste, it’s in here. with harmless cotton balls, and it Don’t bother with plot. There only becomes funnier as they swat really isn’t one. (There wasn’t one them away using newspapers and in the movie, either.) Go for the other props, or as they try and keep laughs. Pay extra to sit in the front a straight face while playing dead row and gather more fomatoes as in a maelstrom of fake fruit. The they come off the stage, or spring creation of camp humor becomes for larger bags of fomatoes to something other than an ironic fling. The more you give, the more intellectual exercise. It becomes laughs you’ll get. actual exercise.

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A&E | PRINT OF UNICORNS AND ZOMBIES Manuel Gonzales’ fantastical fiction is about to blow up Black Mountain Institute’s Emerging Writers Series gives Las Vegans a chance to get to know big names just before they hit their tipping point. Manuel Gonzalez is there, from his short story collection, The Miniature Wife, Wife to his forthcoming novel, The Regional Office Is Under Attack!

> GRUMPY CAT Mort(e) contends with evil ants and existential questions.

WHAT THE WILD THINGS ARE

Sentient animals probe human nature and Nature itself in Mort(e) BY CHUCK TWARDY Of all the horrible fortunes you figure await millennia-old ant queen who has bred an army of horrapacious humans in the payback of an enraged Nature, rifyingly huge ants that erupt from massive anthills our pets rising up against us, suddenly endowed with and level cities. The ant queen transmits a chemical human sentience and size and limbs, must rank among memory-force to animals and cedes them surface the worst. Cat owner Daniel Martini has already susEarth. This is the TV-screen background to Daniel’s tained significant cognitive assault, watching both his life-meltdown. Sebastian’s transformation is only the marriage and humanity’s grip on the planet dissolve, last indignity. and is at the point of killing wife, children and self The challenge of any fantasyscape like this is mainwhen Sebastian the cat, enlightened and embittered, taining plausibility consistently, anticipating any skeplevels him with his own shotgun. tical reader’s Well then how …? Repino manSebastian becomes the title character of ages to sustain the story without prompting Mort(e), a first novel of notable depth and much puzzlement. Only rarely does exposition aaaac invention by Robert Repino. After the conintrude on the story of Mort(e) as he searches MORT(E) frontation with Daniel, Sebastian reluctantly for a lost dog—a cross-species friend from erstby Robert takes up with a special-forces-like band of while times—and his destiny in resolving the Repino, $27. wild animals, also newly imbued with human novel’s central questions: Will the ant queen attributes. He takes the name Mort(e), Repino crush humanity? Should she? And what’s love explains, because he has killed but also because it got to do with it? Without giving away too much: No, was “the name of a regular guy named Mort who well … and a lot. was meant for a life surrounded by loved ones,” the Human religion figures in the novel’s moral and “e” in parentheses because that sort of life was still existential questing, but Repino probes human nature, only notional for Mort(e), regardless of how well he’d and Nature itself, without getting preachy. It’s noteabsorbed human symbols and social quirks. worthy that Mort(e) underscores his skepticism of Mort(e) is a “choker” among the wild animals, once human beliefs by leaving the society of animals and collared and unsexed, but he enjoys the favor of leader humans altogether.

Culdesac, a bobcat who knows Mort(e) is destined for something. That’s because Culdesac communicates with the force that released and empowered him, a Find more by Chuck Twardy at chucktwardy.com.

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Some of your work relies on elements of fantasy, MANUEL but set in our mundane GONZALES reality. What inspired you READING to, say, put a love-struck February zombie in a cubicle?

19, 7 p.m., Most of my stories in this free. UNLV’s collection came out of a Greenspun “what if?” moment. ... My Hall daughter got a unicorn toy Auditorium, from McDonald’s on a road 702-895-5542. trip and wanted to rename it, and I thought, “Oh, what would I name a unicorn if I had one (Sabre Bitch was my first thought),” and that led to, “Oh, what if I had a unicorn,” and then, “Oh, what if my best friend had a unicorn?” The zombie story began in the same way, except the “what if” was, “What if the zombie got to tell his own story; what would that be like?”

You also toy with divisions between fiction and nonfiction. nonfiction I find the distinction between fiction and nonfiction kind of blurry and fascinating because of that blur. As a fiction writer, my job is to create these elaborate lies that somehow get to some deep kernel of truth, but there are all these hoops I have to jump through—I have to create believable characters and realistic situations, or if the situations aren’t realistic, I have to make them seem realistic. But nonfiction, I mean, no hoops!

That’s not true, of course. ... But I love how, in nonfiction, you can get away with tons more exposition, and how the tone and language allow you to sidestep any number of other “rules” in the world of fiction.

What is your novel about? The Regional Office trains at-risk but uniquely powered young women to battle the encroaching forces of darkness, and then one day it’s under attack. ...

It’s been a lot of fun to write. –Molly O’Donnell

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FOOD

Feeling lucky?

Lucky Foo’s adds new flavors to the neighborhood foodscape By Jim Begley cheese and avocado shouldn’t work, but it does, with its I have a secret. I’m actually a fire protection red onion jam providing just the right hint of acidity and engineer moonlighting as a food writer. (By propelling it beyond the rather bland Lucky Rice ($8). the way, Las Vegas food writer is the greatest Elsewhere on the menu—and available all the side gig in the world). As an engineer, I understand my time—Foo dogs ($7) are a treat, limitations. I don’t dare design miniature Kurobuta sausages bridges, because I’m not a strucswaddled in potato chips with tural engineer, even if I spend a a spicy karashi mustard and a fair amount of time around them house-made “bulldog” barbewhen designing casinos. cue sauce. Think of them as What does that have to do pigs in a blanket—on bath salts. with food? Well, in a similar Also appealing are the Stellar manner, DJs and nightlife folk Chips ($5), simple salted and tend to hang out in food circles fried wonton chips served with as the line between restaurants ginger-tinged dipping sauce. and clubs blurs. And what hapIn the sushi section, the pens when club people open Crispy Rice Delight ($8) tops restaurants? Like a bridge by a fried rice cake with the trio Begley, it could be a disaster. of spicy tuna, sambal aioli and And yet, in the case of local thin slices of jalapeño for layscenester Michael Fuller and ered levels of heat, and a delighthis crew at new Asian-fusion ful contrast of textures. And spot Lucky Foo’s, it’s not. Not at the Lemon ($13) delivers on its all. As a matter of fact, it needs simple promise of citrus with to become a part of your regurazor-thin lemon slices atop a lar rotation, particularly if you California roll gilded with yelhappen to live in Henderson. lowtail and salmon. Accentuated The eatery transitions into a by a drizzle of yuzu ponzu, citrus hangout for the nightclub set in Lucky Foo’s 8955 S. Eastern Ave., sharpness highlights without the wee hours—it’s occasionally 702-650-0669. Daily, 11 a.m.-1 a.m. overwhelming. open until 3 a.m.—but during the day, it’s a comfortable restaurant decorated like the hip cousin of P.F. Chang’s. This normalcy is particularly true at lunch, when club denizens avoid sunlight like vampires. It’s also the only time the inexplicably good Forbidden Black Rice ($12) is served. An Asian rice dish with cotija

Elsewhere, the 1,000-degree robata grill delivers a smoky, spicy, shrimp and jalapeño bacon skewer ($11). It’s no surprise that a bacon-wrapped shrimp is irresistible, but Lucky Foo’s offers so many other surprises, the type of excitement that deserves return visits.

> NEIGHBORHOOD JEWEL Lucky Foo’s potato chip-wrapped sausages (left) and Forbidden Black Rice are memorable meal makers.

A history of chocolate

> CHOCOLATE HISTORY Find everything you ever wanted to know at Springs Preserve’s new exhibit.

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dispersing capuchin monkeys. From there, though, it’s all human desire that drives chocolate’s trajectory. Displays feature replicas of Mayan grinding stones and drinking vessels from the millennia when chocolate was a bitFind a sweet, sensuous education ter, frothy liquid. at Springs Preserve The hall moves into the era of the Aztecs, the Spanish conquest of Mexico and the exportation of chocolate to Europe. Sugar is Oh, chocolate, we heart you. It’s estimated added, and suddenly the earthy beverage is that sales of the dark, sensuous comestible rake served sweetly in dainty ceramic cups to the in some $20 billion each year in the U.S. alone. likes of Marie Antoinette and Goethe. Solid Valentine’s Day, of course, brings a huge spike chocolate bars follow later. The in chocolate sales as lovers reach for exhibit’s color really pops with boxes filled with Theobroma cacaoChocolate: cases filled with imaginative packflavored nuggets.

The Exhibition ages from chocolatiers of the 19th Las Vegas is a major destinaThrough May 3, century and beyond. It ends with tion for Valentine’s Day trips and a Springs Preserve. glimpses into the modern trade, town where tons of cacao-based at how seed pods are harvested products are purveyed year-round. and how West Africa has become the source of So it’s perfect that the Springs Preserve has much of the world’s cacao. opened Chocolate: The Exhibition, an informaThe impressive exhibit was created by the tive installation that traces the history of cacao Field Museum in Chicago—one of the world’s from ancient Mesoamerica to our modern day great archival institutions—with support from commodities exchanges. the National Science Foundation. Importantly The exhibit begins on the natural side, with for local cacao-loving science buffs, the exhiba (faux) cacao tree and images of the jungle it is supported by the Vegas Valley’s very own creatures that are essential to its native life Ethel M Chocolates. –Greg Thilmont cycle, from flower-pollinating midges to seed-

lucKy foo’s by mikyala whitmore

KENTUCKY SUNSHINE

INGREDIENTS 2 OZ. BULLEIT BOURBON 3/4 OZ. APEROL 1 OZ. MEYER LEMON JUICE 1/2 OZ. PECAN SYRUP 1/2 OZ. EGG WHITES

METHOD

DYNAMITE EATS More exciting Japanese? Check out the east side’s Yatai

> YUM TIME From left, Yatai’s dynamite, coconut shrimp and corn cheese.

Yatai hides on the northwest corner of Tropicana and Pecos, tucked behind a gas station in a strip mall surrounded by other strip malls. Its style of Japanese pub food is familiar for those who frequent several similar Spring Mountain Road restaurants, but none are more affordable than Yatai, where I couldn’t find anything over $9. ¶ The menu breaks into sections, like grilled, deep fried, tempura and raw. Coconut shrimp ($3) was an immediate standout thanks to a sweet batter and a sweeter, perfectly complementary dipping sauce.

Garlic calamari ($5.95) is full of its advertised flavor, but an accompanying sauce would have been nice with this one. ¶ Dynamite ($7.95), one of my regular dishes, is all about the seafood at Yatai—no rice resting below it, just scallops and calamari on a sizzling plate accompanied by zucchini. Dry seaweed flakes bring out extra umami, and the melted Parmesan cheese becomes an essential part of its savory sauce. ¶ This new restaurant’s location could be an obstacle, but Yatai’s food is good enough to overcome it. –Jason Harris

YATAI BY L.E. BASKOW; COCKTAIL BY MIKAYLA WHITMORE

YATAI JAPANESE GRILL & PUB 4865 S. Pecos Road #5, 702454-0055.

Daily, 5 p.m.midnight.

Combine all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Cover and shake well. Pour contents into a highball glass over ice. Garnish with a slice of tangerine, a strip of cinnamon bark and a sprig of mint.

It seems that here in Las Vegas, we’re welcoming spring a little early this year, and the warm weather has us craving refreshing cocktails. We asked Francesco Lafranconi what this drink is best paired with.

He simply smiled as if reading our minds and replied, “good company.” So round up your friends, get outside and enjoy that good ol’ Kentucky Sunshine.

Cocktail created by Francesco Lafranconi, Executive Director of Mixology & Spirits Education at Southern Wine and Spirits

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A&E | Short Takes 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: COL

Special screenings Aerosmith Rocks Donington 2014 2/26, broadcast of Aerosmith concert from June 2014, 7 pm, $13-$15.

Theaters: ORL, SF, ST. Info: fathomevents.com.

Boozy Movie Wednesdays Wed, 8 pm, free with cocktail purchase, 21+. 2/25, The Princess Bride. Inspire Theater, 107 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702489-9110.

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: COL, ST

Daryl Hall & John Oates: Recorded Live in Dublin 2/19, concert film plus backstage footage, 7 pm, $13-$15. Theaters: ORL, SF, ST. Info: fathomevents.com.

Erotic Movie Night Fri, 7 pm, free. Erotic Heritage Museum, 3275 Industrial Road, 702-794-4000.

Exhibition on Screen 2/24, video tour of Rembrandt: The Late Works at London’s National Gallery and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, 7 pm, $10.50-$12.50. Theaters: COL, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.

Hispanic Film Series 2/19, The Mambo Kings, discussion led by scholar Luis Bonilla, 6:30 pm, free.

Charleston Heights Arts Center, 800 S. Brush St., 702-229-6383.

Midnight Brewvies Mon, movie plus popcorn, midnight, free. Elixir, 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, Henderson, 702-272-0000.

The Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2/20-2/22, live action and animated programs, times vary, $10. Theaters: SC, SP, TS Sci Fi Center Mon, Cinemondays, 8 pm, free. 2/21, B-movie marathon, 5 pm, $5. 5077 Arville St., 702-792-4335, thescificenter. com.

Stratford Festival HD 2/25, broadcast of King Lear from Canada’s Stratford Festival, 7 pm, $16$18. Theaters: COL, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.

Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou Tue, 1 pm, free. 2/24, Twelve O’Clock High. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.

New this week The Duff (Not reviewed) Mae Whitman, Bella Thorne, Robbie Amell. Directed by Ari Sandel. 101 minutes. Rated PG-13. A teenager seeks to reinvent herself after she learns she’s been dubbed the “designated ugly fat friend.”

Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX English Only, Please (Not reviewed) Jennylyn Mercado, Derek Ramsay, Kean Cipriano. Directed by Dan Villegas. 115 minutes. Not rated. In Filipino with English subtitles. A man hires a language tutor to help him translate an angry letter to his exgirlfriend into Filipino.

Theaters: VS Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (Not reviewed) Rob Corddry, Clark Duke, Craig Robinson. Directed by Steve Pink. 93 minutes. Rated R. Three friends who discovered a hot tub time machine use it again to save one of them from assassination.

> high school confidential Mae Whitman and Robbie Amell in The Duff.

Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX

origin story is bland and familiar, with Scooby-Doo-level plotting and underdeveloped characters. –JB Theaters: TC, TX

actually quite funny at times, thanks especially to Guzman’s intensely wooden performance. –JB Theaters: BS, DI, ORL, SC, TX C’est Si Bon (Not reviewed) Jung Woo, Kim Yoon-seok, Han Hyojoo. Directed by Kim Hyun-seok. 122 minutes. Not rated. In Korean with English subtitles. Romance and success among a group of Korean folk musicians from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Theaters: VS

Now playing

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, Watts and Andrea Riseborough as fellow actors. –MD Theaters: COL, DTS, VS

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, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TX

Black or White aaccc Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer, Jillian Estell. Directed by Mike Binder. 121 minutes. Rated PG-13. Binder achieves an impressive feat here, 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 Costner as a man fighting for custody of his biracial granddaughter. –JB Theaters: CH, COL, DTS, SF, SP, ST, VS

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: TC

Black Sea aaabc Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. 115 minutes. Rated R. Laidoff submarine captain Robinson (Law) hatches a plan to steal an underwater cache of Nazi gold. Surprisingly, things do not go according to plan, and Macdonald ratchets up the tension as Robinson and his men start turning on each other. When it sticks to the chaotic undersea action, Black Sea is efficient and gripping. –JB Theaters: 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

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 middleaged 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

McFarland, USA aabcc Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Carlos Pratts. Directed by Niki Caro. 128 minutes. Rated PG. See review Page 42.

Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Mr. Turner aaabc Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey. Directed by Mike Leigh.

150 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 42.

Theaters: VS

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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: TC Fifty Shades of Grey acccc Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Luke Grimes. Directed by Sam TaylorJohnson. 125 minutes. Rated R. Existing in a tepid middle ground apt to disappoint both hardcore fans of E.L. James’ bestselling novel and newbies expecting something scandalous, Fifty Shades of Grey flounders thanks to its leads’ lack of chemistry, inert direction and limp faux-salacious sex scenes. –NS Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DI, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TX 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 Ruffalo are better still, but the movie huffs and puffs to freight a fairly banal case history with Meaning. –MD Theaters: SC The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies aabcc Martin Freeman, Luke Evans, Richard Armitage, Ian McKellen. Directed by Peter Jackson. 144 minutes. Rated

The Imitation Game aaacc Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode. Directed

by Morten Tyldum. 114 minutes. Rated PG-13. Cumberbatch stars as Alan 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: DTS, GVR, ORL, SF, SP, ST, 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: ST, TC 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: COL, ST Jupiter Ascending aabcc Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Eddie Redmayne. Directed by Andy and Lana Wachowski. 125 minutes. Rated PG-13.

This convoluted sci-fi epic from The Matrix filmmakers the Wachowskis boils down to another story of a Chosen One who saves the world and falls in love. The Wachowskis remain impressive stylists, and if Jupiter were as accomplished in its plotting and character development as in its visuals, it would be brilliant. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TX Kingsman: The Secret Service aabcc Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson. Directed by Matthew Vaughn.

129 minutes. Rated R. A street tough known as Eggsy (Egerton) is recruited to join super-secret private spy organization Kingsman in this loose adaptation of the comic book by Mark Millar

A&E | Short Takes (Kick-Ass). Meant as a self-aware parody of James Bond-style superspies, Kingsman lacks the wit and style of the best Bond adventures. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, DTS, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TX, VS

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: SC, TC

> bedroom eyes Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan in Fifty Shades of Grey.

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: TC

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, CH, DI, ORL, PAL, RR, SF, SP, SS, ST, TX, VS

Old Fashioned ABCCC Rik Swartzwelder, Elizabeth Ann Roberts, LeJon Woods. Directed

by Rik Swartzwelder. 115 minutes.

Rated PG-13. A born-again Christian (Swartzwelder) sets out a strict code of conduct for his courtship with a young free spirit (Roberts) in this plodding, creepy romance. Rather than sweet and heartwarming, their relationship is off-putting and awkward, and the movie drags toward its pseudo-wholesome, paternalistic conclusion. –JB Theaters: VS 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: BS, CH, COL, RR, SC, SF, 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: TC Project Almanac aaccc Jonny Weston, Sofia Black-D’Elia, Sam Lerner. Directed by Dean Israelite. 106 minutes. Rated PG-13. A group of irritating teenagers discover a time machine in this forgettable thriller. It takes what feels like an eternity to get to the actual time travel, and the eventual consequences are vague and rushed.

The found-footage style is distracting, and the vapid characters aren’t worth watching as they stumble toward discovery. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CH, COL, DI, ORL, PAL, RR, SF, SS, TX Roy (Not reviewed) Jacqueline Fernandez, Arjun Rampal, Ranbir Kapoor. Directed by Vikramjit Singh. 146 minutes. Not rated. In Hindi with English subtitles. A mysterious thief has his various adventures made into a series of movies.

Theaters: 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: SP, ST, VS Seventh Son (Not reviewed) Ben Barnes, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore. Directed by Sergey Bodrov. 102 minutes. Rated PG-13. A young man becomes the apprentice to a powerful warrior and must fight an evil witch.

Theaters: AL, CH, COL, ORL, PAL, RR, SF, SP, ST, 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: ST The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water aabcc Voices of Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Mr. Lawrence. Directed by Paul Tibbitt.

92 minutes. Rated PG. The second movie starring animated undersea creature SpongeBob SquarePants features all the familiar characters in an adventure to track down the stolen recipe for Krabby Patties. The story drags over the course of 90 minutes, with mild humor and a strained climax that mixes the animated characters with live action. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TX, VS Still Alice aaacc Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart. Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. 101 minutes.

Rated PG-13. Moore fully deserves the acclaim she’s received as a linguistics professor who’s diagnosed with earlyonset Alzheimer’s disease. The movie itself isn’t up to her high standard, though, gradually deteriorating—much like its heroine—from an astringent drama to a more generic disease-of-

the-week movie. –MD Theaters: DTS, GVR, ORL, VS 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: BS, DI, GVR, ORL, SC, TX The Theory of Everything aaccc Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, David Thewlis. Directed by James Marsh. 123 minutes. Rated PG-13. Redmayne gives an impressive physical performance

Theaters (AL) Regal Aliante 7300 Aliante Parkway, North Las Vegas, 702-221-2283 (BS) Regal Boulder Station 4111 Boulder Highway, 702-221-2283 (PAL) Brenden Theatres at the Palms 4321 W. Flamingo Road, 702-507-4849

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, VS Two Days, One Night aaaab Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée. Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. 95 minutes. Rated PG-13. In French with English subtitles.

Best Actress nominee Cotillard plays a Belgian factory worker who must persuade fellow employees to forgo a sizable bonus so that she can be rehired.

The world would be a better place if everyone were required to watch this magnificently empathetic film and think hard about its lessons. –MD Theaters: SC

(DTS) Regal Downtown Summerlin 2070 Park Center Drive, 702-221-2283 (FH) Regal Fiesta Henderson 777 W. Lake Mead Parkway, Henderson, 702-221-2283 (GVR) Regal Green Valley Ranch 2300 Paseo Verde Parkway, Henderson, 702-221-2283

(CAN) Galaxy Cannery 2121 E. Craig Road, North Las Vegas, 702-639-9779 (CH) Cinedome Henderson 851 S. Boulder Highway, Henderson, 702-566-1570

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

(DI) Las Vegas Drive-In 4150 W. Carey Ave., North Las Vegas, 702-646-3565

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: SC JMA Jeffrey M. Anderson; JB Josh Bell; MD Mike D’Angelo; NS NIck Schager

(SF) Century Santa Fe Station 4949 N. Rancho Drive, 702-655-8178 (SHO) United Artists Showcase 3769 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-221-2283 (SP) Century South Point 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-260-4061 (SC) Century Suncoast 9090 Alta Drive, 702-869-1880

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

(COL) Regal Colonnade 8880 S. Eastern Ave., 702-221-2283

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: VS

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

(SS) Regal Sunset Station 1301-A W. Sunset Road, Henderson, 702-221-2283 (TX) Regal Texas Station 2101 Texas Star Lane, North Las Vegas, 702-221-2283 (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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> PET SOUNDS Toby Leaman (third from left) and Dr. Dog hit House of Blues on Saturday.

THREE QUESTIONS WITH DR. DOG BASSIST TOBY LEAMAN It looks like you guys have a blast on tour, but you’re also big on the recording process. Which do you prefer? Usually whatever

one we’re not doing (laughs).

After about a month of either one, you want the other. I guess if we had to give one up, we’d give up the touring part, ’cause we’ve always been a studio band. But we love to tour, [and] I feel like we’re better than we ever have been.

You and [co-songwriter] Scott McMicken have known each other since eighth grade. What’s the key to having such a longlasting working partnership and

LIVE MUSIC T H E ST R I P & N E A R BY

everybody has to evolve is sort of flawed in essence. I mean, who the hell evolves in real life? Nobody really evolves.

That’s sort of a flawed thing that started in the ’60s with The Beatles. Not everybody’s The Beatles. You don’t have to change the world with every record you put out. Quality is quality. –Leslie Ventura

You’ve said it’s important for bands to stay relevant, but you haven’t set out to be a trendy band, either. How do you evolve while not worrying about what’s charting? I think

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that’s probably the best way to evolve, doing it based on what you feel. This idea that

DR. DOG with Hanni El Khatib.

February 21, 9 p.m., $25. House of Blues, 702-632-7666.

Pentatonix 2/28, 8 pm, $20-$30.

Jason Mraz 3/14, 8 pm, $50. Hozier 4/9, 9 pm, $30+. (Boulevard Pool) Ratatat, Sylvan Esso 4/8, 9 pm, $28.

RAC, St. Lucia 4/11, 9 pm, $20. 702698-7000.

Flamingo Olivia Newton-John 3/103/14, 3/17-3/21, 7:30 pm, $69-$139.

702-733-3333.

Gilley’s 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.

Country Nation 2/27-2/28, 10 pm.

Austin Law 3/5, 9 pm; 3/6-3/7, 10 pm.

Chancey Williams Band 3/12, 9 pm; 3/13-3/14, 10 pm. Chad Freeman Band 3/19, 9 pm; 3/20-3/21, 10 pm. Shows $10-$20 after 10 pm. Treasure Island, 702-894-7722.

Hard Rock Live The Pitcher, Lady Faith, Darksiderz 2/20, 8 pm, $27$35. 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 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. Mandalay Bay, 702-6327600.

The Joint Rascal Flatts, Craig Wayne Boyd 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+. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5222.

D OW N TOW N Artifice Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School 2/19, 8 pm, free. Icky Hollow 2/20, 10 pm, free. Scarlet 2/21, 10 pm, free. Bad Faerie Ball 2/28, $10-$15.

Vegas Blues Dance Tue, 7 pm, free.

Thursday Request Live Thu, 10 pm, free. 1025 S. 1st St., Ste. 100., 702489-6339.

Backstage Bar & Billiards Guitarmageddon 2/19, 8 pm, free.

Ambush Americana, Twenty8, Rob and Pure Joy, Bella Novela 2/21, 8 pm, $5. Horror in the Moonlight, Leatherbound Crooks, Rumor Has

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It, Porcelain Hill, The Core, Tonight We Fight, Shotty, Nino Nixon/Ratt One, Amanda Gabel 2/20, 7 pm, free. Fishbone, The Untouchables 3/1, 8 pm, $21-$25. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227.

Bar & Bistro Out of the Desert Bluegrass Band Sun, noon, free. Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd., 702202-6060.

Beauty Bar Sounds of Threat, Mercy Music, The Quitters, Surrounded By Thieves Cage & Sadistik 2/24, 9 pm.

Love Vendetta, Black Beans & Hippie Liver, Jam Stain 2/27, 9 pm, free. A Place To Bury Strangers 3/12, 9 pm, $8-$10. Reverend Petyon’s Big Damn Band 3/29, $10-$15, 9 pm. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757.

The Bunkhouse The Biltmore Boys, The Youngest, Brad Bailey 2/18, 9:30 pm, $5. Surfer Blood 2/21, 7:30 pm, $10-$12. Parlor Mob 2/22, 8 pm, $10-$15. Cobalt Cranes, Charts 2/23, 9 pm, $5-$7. Capsula 2/24, 9 pm, $5-$7. T Bird and the Beaks 2/25, 9:30 pm, $8-$10. Heartless Bastards 2/26, 9 pm, $15-$20. La Luz, The Shivas 3/1, 9:30 pm, $10. Howlin’ Rain, The Blank Tapes 3/5, 9:30 pm, $8-$10. 124 S. 11th St., bunkhousedowntown.com.

Fremont Country Club Sheppard, Runaway Lives, Brodir, Play for Keeps 2/23, 9 pm, $26-$28. 601 Fremont St., 702-382-6601.

Fremont Street Experience Cheap Trick 3/7, 9 pm, free. Downtown Las Vegas, vegasexperience.com.

Golden Nugget Christette Michele 2/20, 8 pm, $32-$65. Tommy James and the Shondells 2/27, 8 pm, $61$109. 129 Fremont St., 702-385-7111.

Griffin Live music Wed, 10 pm, free. 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577.

Mob Bar The Jeremy Cornwell Project Thu, 8 pm. Shaun DeGraff Band Fri, 8 pm. Dueling Pianos Sat, 8 pm.

Yvonne Silva Sun, 6 pm. All shows free. 201 N. 3rd St., 702-259-9700.

The Smith Center Ana Gasteyer 2/202/21, 7 pm, $39+. Jimmy Mulidore 2/26, 7 pm, $35+. The Lon Bronson Band ft. Larry Braggs 2/28, 8 pm, $15. HAPA 3/6-3/7, 7 pm, $35+. Jake Shimabukuro 3/20-3/21, 7 pm, $39+.

Clint Holmes First Fri & Sat, 8:30 pm; first Sun, 2 pm; $35-$45. 361 Symphony Park Ave., 702-749-2000.

THE ’BURBS Cannery The Fabulous Thunderbirds 2/21, 8 pm, $30+. Billy Ocean 3/7, 8 pm, $30. Peace Frog 3/13-3/14, 8 pm, $10. Mopars at The Strip: Phoenix 3/27, 6 pm, free. Mopars at The Strip: Queensryche 3/28, 7:30 pm, $25. 2121 E Craig Rd., 702-507-5700.

Eagle Aerie Hall I the Breather, I Before Giants, On Letting Go, IOF, Words From Aztecs 2/19, 5:20 pm, $13-$15. Stolas, Mad Arrow, Amarionette, A Friend, A Foe, Alaska 2/20, 6 pm, $10. Your Life Is Over, Leather Bound Crooks, Courvge, Minnow, Pool Party, New and Improved, Ambedo 2/27, 5 pm, $10-$13. 310 W. Pacific Ave., 702-6454139.

Elixir Stefnrock 2/20. Nick Mattera 2/21. Scott Starr 2/27. Shaun South 2/28. Shows at 8 pm, free. 2920 N. Green Valley Pkwy., 702-272-0000.

Fiesta Henderson (Cerveza Lounge) Josh LaCount Wed, 8 pm. 702-5587000.

Fiesta Rancho (Club Tequila) Take the

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Brooklyn Bowl Chronixx, Protoje, The Indiggnation 2/20, 9 pm, $17. Gov’t Mule, John Scofield 2/22, 8 pm, $25$28. Phantogram, Talk In Tongues 2/23, 8 pm, $28. Flight Facilities, Touch Sensitive 2/28, 9 pm, $22+.

Ozomatli, Hellride, N.E. Last Words 3/1, 8 pm, $28. Korn 3/13, 9 pm, $55$61. Rebel Souljahz, The Jimmy Weeks Project 3/15, 9 pm, $20. Linq, 702-862-2695.

The Colosseum Rod Stewart Elton John 3/20-3/21, 3/23-3/24, 6:30 pm, $55-$500. Caesars Palace, 702-7317333.

The Cosmopolitan (Chelsea) Billy Idol, Broncho 2/21, 8 pm, $50+.

friendship? With any kind of working relationship, you have to make sure that everybody wants to do the same thing, that everybody’s on the same page, and if they’re not, try to figure out what you can do to make it work. We’re not really writing for anybody but ourselves.

Mandalay Bay (Events Center) Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 2/21, 8 pm, $75-$125. Chris Brown, Trey Songz, Tyga 3/7, 8 pm, $50-$126.

Charlie Wilson 3/28, 8 pm, $50-$130.

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 Robert Cray Band 2/28, 3/1, 8 pm, $30+. Marshall Tucker Band 3/6-3/7, 8 pm, $30+. NiteKings Wed, 4 pm. Rick Duarte Fri, 9 pm. Acoustic Den Sat, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., 702365-7075.

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) Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns Mon, 10:30 pm, $10.

702-944-3200.

The Pearl Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band 3/15, 7:30 pm, $73-$153. Steely Dan 4/11, 8 pm, $94+. 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 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. Ricky Martin 9/15, 8 pm, $50-$160. 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.

Silver Sevens All shows 9:30 pm, free.

4100 Paradise, 702-733-7000.

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.

Venetian G.E.M. 2/21, 8 pm. 3355 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 702-287-5922.

Vinyl Machine Head 2/19, 9 pm, $23+.

Tiger Box 2/20, 9 pm, $25+. Battle Tapes and the Beta Machine 2/22, 9:30 pm, free. That 1 Guy 2/28, 9:30 pm, $13+. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-6935000.

Wynn (Eastside Lounge) Michael Monge Wed-Thu, 9 pm, $10. 3131 S Las Vegas Blvd.

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Stage Thu, 7 pm. 702-631-7000.

Green Valley Ranch (Drop Bar) Jared Berry Thu, 7 pm. Rick Duarte Fri, 6 pm. Tony 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. 702-3672470.

M Resort (M Pavillion) Jamm 2/21, 2/28, 9:45 pm. Elvis, The Aloha Concert Tribute 3/14, 8/8, 7 pm, $30-$42. (Ravello Lounge) The Old School Show 2/20, 2/27, 10 pm.

(Hostile Grape) Cameron Calloway 2/20, 7 pm. Curtis David 2/21, 7 pm.

Anna Duerden 2/27, 7 pm. Zach Winningham 2/28, 7 pm. Shows free with drink purchase. M Resort, 800745-3000.

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) Zowie Bowie Fri, 10 pm. The Dirty Sat, 11 pm, $10. David Perrico Pop Strings Orchestra Sat, 11 pm, free. (Onyx) 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. 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., 702-6584900.

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 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.

702-797-8005.

Suncoast The Man In Black: A Tribute to Johnny Cash 2/28, 3/1, 7:30 pm, $16+. 9090 Alta Dr., 702-636-7075.

Sunset Station (Club Madrid) Billy Montana 2/20, 8 pm, $10. Brian White 2/27, 8 pm, $10. 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 (Dallas Events Center) DSB: An American Journey 2/21, 8 pm, $15. (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 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.

Boomers Live music Wed, 10 pm, $5-$10. Hip Hop Roots Fri, 10 pm, $5.

3200 Sirius Ave., 702-368-1863.

Boulder Dam Brewing Justin Mather 2/19. DJ Hayden 2/20. The AllTogethers 2/21. You Knew Me When

2/27. Blue String Theory 2/28. 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 Enuff Z’Nuff, Cyanide 2/19, 9:30 pm, free. Gilby Clarke, Sin City Sinners 2/20, 10 pm, free. Dilana, Systemec, Fever Red 2/21, 9:30 pm, free. Sin City Sinners 2/26, 10 pm, free. 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.

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, 702-458-6343.

Eastside Cannery (Marilyn’s Lounge) Claudine Castro Band Mon, 10 pm.

Phoenix Wed, 9 pm. Spazmatics Sun, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702507-5700.

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 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 TNiteKings Sun, 7 pm, free. Shows free unless noted. 5111 Boulder Hwy., 702-284-7777.

Star of the Desert Arena Buffalo Bill’s Resort & Casino, 31900 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Primm, 800-386-7867.

Winchester Cultural Center Las Vegas Youth Camerata Orchestra 2/21, 2 pm. The Vaginia Monologues in Spanish 2/27-2/28, 3/1, 7 pm. 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, 866641-7469.

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., 702-507-5900.

Bonkerz Comedy Club Primm Fri, 8 pm & 10:15 pm; Sat, 10:15 pm; $10.

Primm Valley Resort , 31900 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 800-386-7867.

Bonkerz Comedy Club Silver Sevens Fri-Sat, 10:30 pm; $10. Silver Sevens Hotel & Casino, 4100 Paradise, 702733-7000.

Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club All shows at 8 pm, $65-$87. MGM Grand, 891-7777.

Wayne Brady 2/27, 10 pm, $40+.

Mirage, 702-792-7777.

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.

Comedy After Dark Wed-Sun, 10 pm, $40-$60. LVH, 702-732-5755.

Jeff Dunham Wed-Sun, 7 pm; Sat-Sun, 4 pm, $72. Planet Hollywood, 702531-4320.

Vinnie Favorito Nightly, 8 pm, $55$100. Flamingo, 702-733-3333.

Eddie Griffin Mon-Wed, 7 pm, $90-

$182. Rio, 702-777-7776.

HydroComics Unleashed Wed, 9 pm, free. Lucie’s Lounge, 3955 Charleston Blvd., 702-776-6417.

The Improv Graham Elwood, Gary Brightwell, Matt Markman Thru 2/22. Tue-Sun, 8:30 & 10 pm, $30-$45.

Harrah’s, 702-369-5000.

The Joe Show Thu-Sat, 8 pm, $30.

Tuscany, 255 E. Flamingo Rd., 702629-0715.

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.

The Laugh Factory Shows at 8:30 & 10:30 pm. $29-$45. Tropicana, 702739-2222.

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.

George Lopez 3/13-3/14, 10 pm, $60$80. Mirage, 702-792-7777.

M Resort Comedy Night Fri, 9 pm, free with drink purchase. M Resort, 702-797-1000.

The Mac King Comedy Magic Show Tue-Sat, 1 & 3 pm, $33. Harrah’s, 702369-5000.

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, 702-531-4320.

Ray Romano & David Spade 2/20-2/21, 4/10-4/11, 10 pm, $80+. Mirage, 702792-7777.

Red Skelton Tribute Sat-Tue, 2 pm; $35-$40. Westin Las Vegas, 160 E. Flamingo Rd., 702-245-2393.

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. Riviera, 855-468-6748.

Rita Rudner 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.

Amy Schumer 4/24, 8 pm, $45.

Cosmopolitan, 702-698-7000.

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., 702368-1863.

Sin City Comedy & Burlesque Show 8:30 pm, $38-$49. Planet Hollywood, 702-777-7776.

Daniel Tosh 3/27, 10 pm; 3/28, 7:30 pm, $60+. Mirage, 702-792-7777.

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.

PERFORMING ARTS The Addams Family 2/20-3/7, Fri-Sat, Mon, 7 pm; Sun, 1 pm, $15. Summerlin Library Theatre, 1771 Inner Circle Dr., broadwayboundlv.com, 702-838-5131.

Broadway in the Hood: Once on This Island 3/13-3/15, 6:30 pm; 3/14-2/15, 2:30 pm, $21. Smith Center, 702-7492000.

Girls Night: The Musical 3/26-3/28, 7 pm, 3/28-3/29, 2 pm, $35. Smith Center, 702-749-2000.

Jeff McBride’s Wonderground Variety show. Third Thu of the month; 8, 9 & 10 pm; $10. Olive

Mediterranean Restaurant Lounge, 3850 E. Sunset Rd., 702-451-8805 .

John Tartaglia’s ImaginOcean: 3/12, 6 pm, $13+. Smith Center, 702-7492000.

Kodo One Earth Tour 2/12, 7:30 pm, $29+. Smith Center, 702-749-2000.

Las Vegas Philharmonic Pops IV: Symphonic Spectacular 3/28, 7:30 pm, $26-$94. Smith Center, 702-7492000.

Las Vegas Philharmonic Masterworks IV: Cabrera Conducts Mendelssohn & Schumann 3/7, 7:30 pm, $26-$94. Smith Center, 702-7492000.

London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas 3/30, 7:30 pm, $29+. Smith Center, 702-7492000.

Momix Alchemia 3/10, 7:30 pm, $19+.

Smith Center, 702-749-2000.

Newsies 3/17-3/22, 7:30 pm, 3/21-3/22, 2 pm, $39+. Smith Center, 702-7492000.

Nevada Ballet Theatre: A Gala Performance 2/21, 7:30 pm, $29+.

Smith Center, 702-749-2000.

Nice Work If You Can Get It 2/24-3/1, 7:30 pm; 2/28 & 3/1, 2 pm, $39+.

Smith Center, 702-749-2000.

Once On This Island 3/13-3/15, times vary, $21. Smith Center, 702-7492000.

Shen Yun 3/2-3/4, 7:30 pm, $54+. Smith Center, 702-749-2000.

Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society 2/22, 3 pm, $10. Lee and Thomas Beam Music Center, UNLV, 702-895-2787.

Stage Kiss 2/27-2/28, 3/5, 3/7, 3/12-3/14, 8 pm; 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 2 pm, $20. Art Square Theatre, 1025 S. First St., #110, cockroachtheatre.com.

Trouble in Tahiti 2/20-2/21, 2/27-2/28, 8 pm; 2/22, 4 pm, $15. Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Dr., 702-455-7030.

SPECIAL EVENTS AFAN AIDS Walk 4/19, 8:30 am, free, $25 donation encouraged. Town Square, afanlv.org.

An Executive Chef’s Culinary Classroom With Executive Chef Edmond Wong. 3/19, 4/30, 5/26, 6/30, 7/23, 8/27, 9/29, 10/13, 11/10, 7 pm, $135. Bellagio, 866-406-7117.

Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation: An Evening of Hope 3/6, 6 pm, $150. World Market Center, 495 S. Grand Central Pkwy., candlelightersnv.org.

Dowtown Podcast Thu, 9 pm, free.

Scullery, 150 Las Vegas Blvd., 702910-2396.

Expanding the Arts: Suddenly Sondheim 3/20, 7 pm, $50. Faith Conservatory of the Fine Arts, 2015 S. Hualapai Way, faiththeatre.com.

Las Vegas Car Stars: Back to the Future 5/14-5/16, times vary, free.

Fremont Street, lasvegascarstars. com.

Love for Literacy Festival 2/21, 9 a.m., free. West Las Vegas Arts Center, 947 West Lake Mead Blvd., 702-2294800.

Monday’s Dark with Mark Shunock 3/16, 4/20, 5/18, 6/15, 7/20, 8/17, 9/21, 10/19, 11/16, 9:30 pm, $20+. Vinyl, hardrockhotel.com.

Motley Brew’s Great Vegas Festival of Beer 4/11, 3 pm, $30-$75. Fremont East, Downtown Las Vegas, greatvegasbeer.com.

Run Away with Cirque du Soleil 3/28, 7 am, $27-$37. Springs Preserve, springspreserve.org.

Switch: Trans* Clothing Swap Thu, 5 pm, free. Gay & Lesbian Community

Center of Southern Nevada, 401 S. Maryland Pkwy, 702-733-9800.

Southern Nevada Sons and Daughters of Erin St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival 3/14, 10 am, free.

Henderson EVents Plaza, 200 Water St., hendersonlive.com.

The Vagina Monologues 2/28, 7 pm, $12. Artemus Ham Hall, UNLV, unlv. edu.

SPORTS Boyd Gaming 300 NASCAR Xfinity Series 3/7, 8:30 am, $30-$69. Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 7000 North Las Vegas Boulevard, lvms.com.

Ellis Mania 10 2/21, 8 pm, $20+. The Joint, 702-693-5222.

Kobalt 400 Nascar Spring Cup Series 3/8, noon, $49-$110. Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 7000 North Las Vegas Boulevard, lvms.com.

UNLV Men’s Basketball 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 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, 702-7393267.

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., 702-547-9005.

Arts Factory 107 E. Charleston Blvd, 702-383-3133. 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., 702-693-7871.

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, 702-4557030.

Clay Arts Vegas Mon-Sat, 9 am-9 pm; Sun, 11:30 am-6:30 pm. 1511 S. Main St., 702-375-4147.

Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery MonFri, 9 am-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-2 pm. At UNLV, 702-895-3893.

Downtown Spaces 1800 Industrial Rd., dtspaces.com. Galleries include: Wasteland Gallery Thu, 6 pm-9pm; Fri & Sat, 6 pm-11pm, Sun-Wed by appointment.

Emergency Arts 520 Fremont St., 702-686-3164.

Gainsburg Studio & Gallery Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm. 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., 702-647-7378.

Michelle C. Quinn Fine Art Advisory By appointment only. 620 S. 7th St., 702-366-9339.

P3Studio 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., 702455-7340.

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HOROSCOPE

free will astrology

By Rob Brezsny

ARIES

LEO

SAGITTARIUS

March 21-April 19

July 23-August 22

November 22-December 21

There are many different facets to your intelligence, and each matures at a different rate. So for example, your ability to think symbolically may evolve more slowly than your ability to think abstractly. Your wisdom about why humans act the way they do may ripen more rapidly than your insight into your own emotions. In the coming weeks, I expect one particular aspect of your intelligence to be undergoing a growth spurt: your knowledge of what your body needs and how to give it what it needs.

When faced with a big decision, you might say you want to “sleep on it.”

In other words, you postpone your final determination until you gather more information and ripen your understanding of the pressing issues. And that could indeed involve getting a good night’s sleep. What happens in your dreams may reveal nuances you can’t pry loose with your waking consciousness alone. And even if you don’t recall your dreams, your sleeping mind is busy processing and reworking the possibilities.

In Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” a lawyer hires a man named Bartleby to work in his office. At first Bartleby is a model employee, but one day everything begins to change. Whenever his boss instructs him to do a specific task, Bartleby says, “I would prefer not to.” As the days go by, he does less and less, until finally he stops altogether.

Take inspiration from his slowdown. Haven’t you done enough for now? It’s time to recharge your psychospiritual batteries.

TAURUS

VIRGO

CAPRICORN

April 20-May 20

August 23-September 22

December 22-January 19

What is the proper blend for you these days? Is it something like 51 percent pleasure and 49 percent business? Or would you be wiser to shoot for 49 percent pleasure and 51 percent business? I will leave that decision up to you, Taurus. Whichever way you go, I suggest that you try to interweave business and pleasure as often as possible. You are in one of those action-packed phases when fun dovetails really well with ambition.

In 1962, Edward Albee published his play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?

Albee says the title came to him as he was having a beer at a bar in New York City. When he went to the restroom, he spied the words “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” scrawled in soap on the mirror. I urge you to be alert for that kind of inspiration in the coming days, Virgo: unexpected, provocative, and out of context. You may be furnished with clues about the next plot twist of your life.

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

That’s what American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson advised. Even if you’re not naturally inclined to see the potential wisdom of that approach, I invite you to play around with it for the next three weeks. Just for now, experiment with the possibility that trying lots of experiments will lead you not just to new truths, but to new truths that are fun, interesting and useful.

GEMINI

LIBRA

AQUARIUS

May 21-June 20

September 23-October 22

January 20-February 18

In 1900, the world’s most renowned mathematicians met at a conference in Paris. There the German whiz David Hilbert introduced his master list of 23 unsolved mathematical problems. His well-defined challenge set the agenda for math research throughout the 20th century. I’d love to see you come up with a list of your own top unsolved problems, Gemini. You now have extra insight about the catalytic projects you will be smart to work on and play with during the coming years.

Edward III had a favorite poet: Geoffrey Chaucer. In 1374, the king promised Chaucer a big gift in appreciation for his talents: a gallon of wine every day for the rest of his life. That’s not the endowment I would have wanted if I had been Chaucer. I’d never get any work done if I were quaffing 16 glasses of wine every 24 hours. Keep this story in mind as you contemplate the benefits or rewards that might become available to you. Ask for what you really need, not necessarily what the giver initially offers.

French Aquarian painter Armand Guillaumin isn’t as famous as his fellow Impressionists Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro, but he wielded a big influence on them both. His career developed slowly because he had to work a day job to earn a living. When he was 50 years old, he won a wad of free money in the national lottery, and thereafter devoted himself fulltime to painting. Your odds of experiencing financial luck will increase to the degree that you work to improve the best gifts you have to offer.

CANCER

SCORPIO

PISCES

June 21-July 22

October 23-November 21

February 19-March 20

“Spanipelagic” is an adjective scientists use to describe creatures that typically hang out in deep water but float up to the surface on rare occasions. The term is not a perfect metaphorical fit for you, since you come up for air more often than that. But you do go through phases when you’re inclined to linger for a long time in the abyss, enjoying the dark mysteries and fathomless emotions. Any day now, however, I expect you’ll be rising up from the Great Down Below and headed topside for an extended stay.

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To make the cocktail known as Sex on the Beach, you mix together cranberry juice, orange juice, pineapple juice, peach schnapps and vodka. There is also an alternative “mocktail” called Safe Sex on the Beach.

It has the same fruit juices, but no alcohol. Given the likelihood that your inner teenager will be playing an important role in your upcoming adventures, Scorpio, I recommend that you favor the Safe-Sexon-the-Beach metaphor. At least temporarily, it’s best to show a bit of protective restraint.

“It isn’t normal to know what we want,” said pioneering psychologist Abraham Maslow. “It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.” That’s the bad news, Pisces. The good news is that you may be on the verge of rendering that theory irrelevant. In the coming weeks, you will be better primed to discover what you really want than you have been in a long time. Write a formal statement in which you declare your intention to achieve full understanding of the reasons you are alive on this planet.

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