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CONTENTS 7 MAIL Readers help solve Vegas

40 POP CULTURE The joy (and

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nausea) of the TV episode recap.

8 AS WE SEE IT Monetizing the

41 SCREEN A sci-fi Insurgent.

Madness. History, via piñata cars. Really, really, really old books.

When pets tell people to kill.

13 WEEKLY Q&A LV Fashion Council’s Carrie Carter Cooper.

first album in eight years. Trade Voorhees unleashes his rhymes.

14 FEATURE | SPRING LOOKS

45 THE STRIP Penn & Teller’s

Seeking the season’s relaxed fashion wins in favorite Downtown haunts.

spendy—and silly—new illusion.

20 FEATURE | THAT’S FIERCE

OMNIA BY AL POWERS; BARTOLOTTA BY MIKAYLA WHITMORE

43 NOISE Modest Mouse’s

46 COMEDY Whitney Cummings gets her point (of view) across.

Inside the Junior League’s annual design battle of the teen phenoms.

47 FINE ART Kennedy Obsession!

24 NIGHTS Why Omnia is the

48 STAGE Motel is unnerving art.

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39 A&E Buddha art at Dray.

50 FOOD Asian variety at Inyo, and chronicles of a solo diner.

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ROCK ON Downtown favorite Pizza Rock expanded to the ’burbs this week. Find the Henderson spot where you can sample Tony Gemignani’s award-winning pies and get the lowdown on what will be different about the new restaurant at lasvegasweekly.com.

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MIDTOWN MEETS DOWNTOWN UNLV’s Nevada Conservatory Theatre is partnering with Cockroach again this month, presenting David Ives’ Venus in Fur at both the university’s Black Box Theatre and Cockroach’s Downtown space. Visit lasvegasweekly.com for more details on the partnership as we discuss the production with NCT artistic director Christopher V. Edwards.

GEEKY CREATIVITY Cirque du Soleil Chinese pole specialist Kent Caldwell creates shadow boxes and miniature wallmounted dioramas inspired in part by 1990s video games. “I do them to bring out the kid in me a little bit,” he says. “I’m building things I think my 5-year-old self would geek out about.” Learn more about Caldwell’s exhibit at lasvegasweekly.com.

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Here is a postcard I have of it. Enjoy! –MyEyeonVegas I’d like to see more articles like this! Very cool, even if we never find the answers. Only thing I can add is the Savoy was located where the abandoned bungee jump thing is across Circus Circus Drive from the main entrance. –Binzer777 The Savoy Motel was located behind the old Westward Ho, all now destroyed for the future Asianthemed casino and hotel. When the Westward Ho was still an active casino, you would have gone out the back door and seen portions of the three-story motel. –JohnAbbott1 Keno Lane was renamed Circus Circus Drive. It was not located behind Westward Ho. It was located behind the Travelodge that is still there north of Circus Circus. It was located in the vacant lot where bungee jump tower is now. –Richardo Tubbs

ART FEEDBACK Dawn-Michelle Baude’s review of photography exhibit While I Am Still prompted a response from the artist.

Thank you Dawn for your kind words regarding the educational element of this exhibition, which is very important to me. I take that as a compliment. You are absolutely correct, the work is too still. You nailed it! But what I feel you failed to recognize in these ever so still moments, is that disturbing and mystifying presence (if I may borrow your words) that moves from image to image, and from series to series. Perhaps even too disturbing

for some. You generalize photography as “a fraught medium, rarely able to shake its roots in documentation.” Have you seen what is happening in contemporary photography now? I suggest you begin some investigations. You may be surprised at what you find within this “fraught medium.” –Linda Alterwitz

FAREWELL TO HIPHOPSITE.COM The influential music website started right here in Vegas has finally retired.

When I moved to Vegas in the ’90s, you guys kept this Jamaican kid’s boom-bap palate fed with new artists from all over. Salute! –Missacool Pioneering website indeed. That was my main spot. Spent some dough there. –Mistamonotone

OMNIA PRESENT Hakkasan Group’s new Caesars Palace club is wowing visitors.

Such a gorgeous club! Was there for industry soft opening and this is hands-down the most visually impressive one built yet. More dancefloor space, three different rooms and more “walking friendly,” as opposed to “Hakka-Stairs.” –Vinh Phillip Duong Just came from there ... the place is insanely awesome. They did a great job with the full remodel. –JcgBigDaddy

BACKSPACE k In our feature on Downtown Spaces last week, we mentioned a partnership between Craft Acting Studio and comedian Brad Garrett. The affiliation is with Garrett personally, not his Comedy Club at MGM Grand.

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> 63 on one Can anyone stop Kentucky? You might not wanna bet on it.

Betting on Madness The NCAA Tournament’s first weekend—48 games in four days—has surpassed the Super Bowl as the biggest betting event of the year. Case Keefer helps guide you to the window Strategy • Ignore future odds. Instead of taking the price posted

on your chosen team to win the tournament—for example, undefeated favorite Kentucky at even money—start with a small amount and bet on that team to win each game on the moneyline, continually rolling over your winnings to the next contest. If you’re correct, the payout will be higher, and if you’re wrong, the initial risk is lower. • Bet the favorites you like early, and the underdogs late.

This football-betting gospel also applies to the NCAA Tournament, where the flood of casual gamblers almost always pours money onto the team giving points to inflate point spreads closer to tipoff. Stats • Offense wins championships. Eight of the past 10

champions have rated in the country’s top four in offensive efficiency, which is a measure of points scored per 100 possessions. This year’s four best teams at scoring are Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Duke and Villanova. • Wins and losses aren’t everything. Point differential is proven as a more accurate predictor of future success than a team’s win/loss record. Overall top-seed Kentucky, by no surprise, leads the nation in outscoring opponents, by an average of 21 points per game. A pair of No. 2 seeds, Arizona and Gonzaga, are closely behind the Wildcats, however, each winning by 18 points per game. Teams • More Wildcats. Arizona has emerged

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as one of the best postseason bets since TOURNAMENT the arrival of coach Sean Miller, going March 19-22, 15-5-1 against the spread in the NCAA 26-29 & April 4 & Tournament. Miller’s team has also gone 6; times vary; CBS, 9-2 versus the number during a current TBS, TNT, truTV. 11-game winning streak to end this season. Arizona is a scorching 22-12 against the spread on the year, but that’s still behind two other Wildcats in the dance—Villanova at 24-9 and Davidson at 22-6. • Road warriors. Teams that have demonstrated they can cash away from home are preferable for gamblers, since, obviously, no one has the luxury of a home court in the tournament. Northern Iowa is the best of the bunch in that regard this season—14-2-1 against the spread in neutral and away games. Trends • Power of 12. No. 12 seeds have been the most profitable

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teams to bet on over the first weekend of March Madness recently, having gone 23-13-1 against the spread since 2009. Twelfth-seeded teams have even beaten their first-round foes, fifth-seeded teams, in eight of the past 12 matchups. • Peaking at the right time. The old cliché might actually grade out as accurate. Only one team in the past 10 years has won the national championship despite not making at least the finals of its own conference tournament. That’s bad news for a trio of perceived contenders—Duke, Virginia and Baylor.

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tragic history on wheels

> idling Three iconic tragedies of the ’90s involved cars that became celebrities.

Car Show meditates on the tangles of celebrity and loss By Kristen Peterson

Decades are pared down to newsmakers, be they politicians, wars or celebrity scandals. In the mid-1990s came the bizarre trifecta of O.J., Selena and Tupac, each entangled in tragedies fed to television viewers through on-the-spot media and a common denominator: the car. In Car Show at the Clark County Government Center, artists Justin Favela and Sean Slattery look at the longtime bedfellows of tragedy and spectacle through the automobiles that became celebrities themselves, particularly the white Bronco involved in O.J. Simpson’s car chase on an LA freeway. (The Bronco is now available for parties and events, and was even displayed in the Luxor lobby in 2012.) The artists say observation of shared cultural experience dominates the exhibit’s sentiment, but the works create a dialogue extending beyond the usual mourning and media hysteria circling the events that happened in three consecutive years and are now two decades old. In “La Sangre Nunca Muere” Favela pays tribute to Selena—whose death, 20 years ago this month, prompted crying outbursts at his elementary school—through a life-sized piñatainspired rendering of the red GMC truck famous in the standoff between Selena’s murderer, Yolanda Saldivar, and the authorities. Favela focuses on

the idea of Saldivar, murderer and hostage, “being stuck,” offering a glimpse at her perspective. Colored with uneven red tissue paper, the truck appears as if it’s stuck in the ground and weeping. The bed of the truck is filled with fab-

ricated purple, pink and silver flowers, colors Selena wore in performance at the Astrodome, all forcing a convergence of the Shakespearian-level, real-life drama. “Proposal for a Memorial at Koval

and Flamingo” reflects Slattery’s response to the murder of Tupac Shakur, who was gunned down in Las Vegas while riding in a black BMW. The minimalist piece is presented as a tombstone of sorts, as the image of

Truly old-school

Rare cookbooks and cocktail guides pop up at Bauman Rare Books By Kristy Totten

When De Triclinio was printed in 1590, the United States wasn’t even an idea, Sir Isaac Newton had yet to discover gravity and Shakespeare had just debuted his first play. So it’s a time warp to hold a vellum-bound second edition of the work, also known as Pedro Chacon’s Survey of Classical Roman Dining Customs, which outlines in Latin the ancient culture’s eating habits—cuisine to etiquette, table settings to music. De Triclinio is the oldest piece in

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Bauman Rare Books’ Fine Food & Drink exhibit. The Bar-Tender’s Guide, a Complete Cyclopaedia of Plain and Fancy Drinks is another title of distinction, written by Metropolitan Hotel bartender Jerry Thomas in 1862. It’s the first cocktail manual published

car show by mikayla whitmore; bauman rare books by bill hughes

dissecting the prez Len Jessup outlines his plans for UNLV—and we analyze the hell out of it

the car became a shared memory of the event for Slattery and millions of others. But the open-ended standout is the 16-foot-tall white triangle monolith on which a white Bronco heads

in the U.S. and is the most expensive of the cookbooks at $9,000. Close behind, at $8,500, is a London Punch-House trading card featuring James Ashley, “the world’s first celebrity mixologist” and father of the modern cocktail. The show boasts other firsts, including the first French and Jewish cookbooks published in the States and 1838’s Vegetable Diet, one of the earliest books on vegetarianism. The collection spans history, ranging from Prohibitionera alcohol-making instructions to titles by celebrated food icons James Beard and M.F.K. Fisher. “David Bauman really wants to educate,” says Bauman rep Mary Olsson, “make the public more aware that [historical cookbooks are] out there and this great history exists.”

north. Titled “Highway to Heaven,” the artists say it signifies O.J.’s escape—whatever that may be—and leave it open-ended to spark dialogue and interpretations belonging to the viewers. Within the exhibit, it offers

a finality of sorts, a sense of looking in on the violence from a distant vantage point and spiritual perspective. The artists will discuss the work on March 20 at a reception held from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Government Center.

finding a unicorn

UNLV’s new president, Len Jessup, held a Campus Town Hall meeting at the university’s Student Union March 12, discussing his first impressions of and future plans for the campus, and fielding questions from students, faculty, staff and community members. Here are our impressions from Jessup’s community debut: Personality: This was Las Vegas’ first official taste of Jessup as a public speaker, and it was obvious Thursday afternoon that the recent University of Arizona transplant didn’t need to picture his new colleagues and students in their underwear. With effortless charisma, a dash of humor, a temperate speaking voice and maybe a smidgen too much Rebel pride (he’s only been here two months) Jessup captivated the crowd. I can see myself having a beer with this guy. What’s to come: The highlight of Jessup’s address was his plan to transform UNLV into a Tier One, researchintensive institution. UNLV’s president identified five pathways to Tier One that teams of staffers are already working on, including research and scholarly activity, community partnerships, the newly-announced School of Medicine and improving areas of UNLV’s campus infrastructure. How they’ll do it: While Jessup said the state “will do everything they can to help us,” he also conceded that more support—specifically, a new capital campaign tightly integrated with the university’s goals—is needed for the results he hopes to achieve. He cited nonprofit support and called out current fundraising efforts for the construction of Hospitality Hall, which will house the Harrah Hotel College, and plans for the School of Medicine. WTF? Not one word about budget cuts was uttered during the Q&A, after the university has slashed entire programs in recent years. Hey, students: Where were you? –Mark Adams

There are classics: Julia Child, Betty Crocker and Better Homes and Gardens. And valuable rarities: titles by horror actor Vincent Price and The Woman Suffrage Cook Book. But there’s only one new book stocked by Amber Unicorn: The Flavor Bible, a thick authority on mixing ingredients, and a necessity for all cooks, says Myrna Donato, who owns the book shop with her husband, Lou. Donato has collected cookbooks since age 10 and stocks about 16,000—one of the most admired collections in the country. She prefers classics, and anything by America’s Test Kitchen or WilliamsSonoma. “You know you can open the book and it’s going to work.” –KT

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Fest forward

The upcoming Further Future seeks to be a different sort of music and arts gathering by mike prevatt

> performers for the future Nosaj Thing and (below) Tim Hecker.

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leave-no-trace philosophy will also Southern Nevada has seen a be encouraged. handful of music festivals establish If we’re to draw comparisons, or announce themselves in the past Further Future would seem like an few years, so it might follow that underground and forward-thinking the next one to come along would version of Life Is Beautiful, a comset itself apart from the others—or mercial endeavor influenced by flat-out defy the current culturBurning Man, and a grander veral definition of one, like Further sion of the lesser-known Zero Point. Future, taking place May 1-3, 45 And like the latter, Further Future minutes outside Las Vegas. will reveal its remote southeastern “The word ‘festival’ has taken desert-mountain location—which on some particular connotations in won out over other Western spots recent years, for better or worse. due to our logistical/production Further Future does not aspire to infrastructure, weather and inspirbe a festival in this popular sense,” ing landscape—closer to the event. organizers say via email, speakAdmission wristbands to ing publicly about their event for Further Future currently cost the first time but requesting that $250, and will likely increase in their names not be made public. “A price as May draws closer. They’re Further Future event is a gathering only available through private of people with the common goal to passcodes distributed by commuspend time together celebrating the nity members affiliated with the infinite possibilities of the future, event and the organizers themwithout necessarily being shackled selves, who ask prospective passto the dictates of the past or the buyers without connections to cycles of present-day society.” introduce themselves and explain That might lack context, so allow why they’d like to attend in a prius to offer some details. The orgavate message to the Further Future nizers of Further Future Voyage Facebook page. “We do 001: The Beginning are place a high value on the also behind Robot Heart, integrity of our commuwhich produces under- Further nity and when sharing ground electronic music Future May ticket codes we want to events in its native New 1-3, $250+, locaYork City and operates tion TBD. further know that the people we are inviting have a basic a well-regarded theme/ future.com. understanding and appresound camp at Burning ciation of our values.” Car, RV Man every August in Northern and camping passes, as well as Nevada. As such, Further Future accommodations for those DIYhas booked some 60 musical acts, disclined, are also on sale. though neither they nor their preFurther Future organizers sentation will be conventional. spent years not only planning the Live, acclaimed electronic music event—their debut outside NYC artists like The Orb, Nosaj Thing, and, as its full title implies, the first Tim Hecker and Hundred Waters— in a series for Southern Nevada— as well as non-EDM DJs like John but conceptualizing something Tejada, Rob da Bank, Miguel Migs that would be nourishing for both and Las Vegas’ own Brett Rubin— mind and spirit, while still celwill perform 24 hours a day on ebratory and stimulating. multiple stages. “We have been privileged to Music may be “one of the key experience at Burning Man, and catalysts that drive our voyage to in particular for us personally happiness,” organizers say, but it’s through Robot Heart, the upliftonly one component. Visual and ing power of a community coming aural art displays; afternoon talks together in a culture of deep mutuby respected cultural, scientific al respect for one another and for and entrepreneurial figures (to be the present moment. We have also revealed at a later date); and health/ in our own lives been drawn to and wellness demonstrations and activawed by great thinkers and dreamities like yoga and meditation will ers, artists, scientists and entreprestrongly figure into Further Future, neurs, who can see past the future which will also feature curated and beyond the horizon. If we dining and beverage vendors (that could bring such minds together in only take payment via RFID chips that environment, just think what embedded in admission wristbands amazing conversations and ideas and linked to prepaid accounts) we might witness and what new and on-site camping/accommodapossibilities might be born!” tions. Open self-expression and a

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> CITY OF STYLE? Best Agency founder Carrie Carter Cooper is working to put Vegas on the fashion map.

Creating the spark

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The Las Vegas Fashion Council is working to diversify the city while offering inspiration and support Carrie Carter Cooper wasn’t born in Las Vegas—Reno, actually—but she’s been an integral part of this community for a long time. She moved here in 1970, started modeling at age 15, attended UNLV and, after working in LA and Asia, found her way back to Vegas to create Best Agency, now one of the most prominent entertainment and management companies in the city. Cooper’s entrepreneurial spirit is matched only by her passion for philanthropy and community-building; she’s a founding member of Nevada Women’s Philanthropy and has served on several nonprofit boards. She recently took another big step in merging her professional and philanthropic efforts

by founding the Las Vegas Fashion Council, a nonprofit trade association with the ambitious goal of making Vegas into a major player in the global fashion industry. How did the Las Vegas Fashion Council come to be? I started working on it in 2009 based

on the vision that Las Vegas is growing and evolving in so many amazing ways, and of course we have some of the most amazing retail experiences in the world here, and big convention events like MAGIC twice a year. In other nonprofit work that I do, I’ve been involved in these talks with different community leaders, and it’s all about diversifying the economy. I’d always thought, how is it that

we don’t have a fashion week here in Las Vegas as they do in so many other cities around the world? London, Milan, those other cities all have something in common, an association, a community effort coming together first before turning into a fashionindustry destination.

is like that, too. There is room for everybody. The Las Vegas Fashion Council officially arrived last year, but you’ve already staged some pretty big events. We have.

Our first was in December when we partnered with the Art Institute for the Little Black Dress student design competition, with scholarSo is the goal to get Las Vegas ship money for the winner. mentioned among those fashIn January we did ArtLive!, a ion-centric cities? We want to collaboration with the Modmake a name for ourselves ern art museum, which was as a fashion city. Typicaljust the perfect marriage, a ly people don’t make that win-win partnership. We aucassociation with Las Vegas. tioned off “Madison” manneShopping, yes. We want to quins painted by 10 different change that. artists. And our next event is at the Springs Preserve, an How? One immediate way eco-fashion event with four is to better expose what we different types of presentado have. Schools that have tions featuring work by stua great fashion curriculum. dents and emerging designThe Stitch Factory Downers. Everything is geared town is kind of a hub for toward continuing emerging artists to grow awareness to have a workof the organizaspace. We are METAMORPHOSIS tion while creatcreating compeECO-FASHION ing opportunities titions and fashSHOW April 23, for students to ion presentations 5-8 p.m., $25-$150. earn grants and where designers Springs Preserve, scholarships, and will have greater springspreserve.org. opportunities for opportunities to designers to showbe seen. We have case what they do and who incredible talent here in Las they are. Vegas and we want to create great partnerships in media and through nonprofits and As someone who grew up in corporations that will prothis industry and has done vide better support. And we so much charitable work in do eventually see bringing an this community, this must be established educational coma special effort for you. It is. ponent like an Otis or a ParI’ve been in business here sons to Las Vegas, whether since 1997 and I love givthat’s creating a free-standing back to the community, ing facility or expanding on and I’ve been lucky to have what UNLV, for example, is opportunities to engage with already offering. our great local nonprofits. It’s great to take my passion for what I know and what What kind of fashion city I’m familiar with and create would you like to see Las Vegas events around it all. Fashion become? I see it a little more really speaks to me, but also diverse, like LA or Chicago or the chance to be able to help Miami, or maybe San Francisspark that something, that co. It won’t be like New York, recognition a teenager or a which can’t be [duplicated], young person might have but then again you’re never that really makes a differgoing to be able to create ence in their life, when you another Las Vegas, either. No discover a passion you didn’t matter how many places get know you had, that means a gaming and resorts, there’s lot to me. –Brock Radke only one Las Vegas. Fashion

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With blossoms winking from the trees and the air turning luxuriously warm, you get the urge to throw your wardrobe out the window and start fresh. This season, the best looks are an exercise in relaxed precision, with fetching embellishments like mismatched jewelry, fringed heels or a loud belt playing rebel over a prim blazer. And just when you think florals have had their day ... “It’s time to forget the sweet mood of floral and have fun with this pattern. How? Mixing and matching! Different patterns and textures mixed in the same outfit are the bet for the season,” says fashion stylist Giovanna Gaba. “To keep the freshness, remember to also invest in good white clothing pieces.”

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In the Junior League’s Project Runway-style showdown, Vegas’ bold young designers break out he owns it immediately, with her flinty eyes and punk-rock mermaid hair, and the swagger she manages in truly dangerous heels. And then there’s the dress. It has a dozen moods, from the skirt’s sheer confection to the riveted quasibustle to the high-necked lace in front, architectural cutouts in back and jacket like a starry night dragged through red paint. It’s jarring and so beautiful. The designer, Beatrix Angelique, who also happens to be the model, is in high school. She’s one of 59 finalists in Fashion Forward, the Junior League of Las Vegas’ annual design competition. This March 14 runway blowout at Fashion Show Mall is the culmination of a six-month challenge that started with more than 200 students from eight local high schools. Looking at the refined darting on a satin jumpsuit and tights sporting a hand-drawn Stockholm skyline, it’s hard to believe that two months ago these visions were just sketches and piles

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of fabric. It’s even harder to believe that some of the designers are still learning to sew. Within an hour, one will be holding the big bouquet. And if the contest works the way it’s meant to, all will have the keys to something bigger. * * * * * It’s a Tuesday morning in January, and students from Southwest Career and Technical Academy are pinballing around Star Costume & Theatrical Supply. Sketches in hand, they have 15 minutes to find their fabrics. They can’t go over 9 yards, and the project mentors are telling them what moves well and what turns sewing machines into feather-jammed messes. Once they’ve picked these materials (donated by Star Costume) and notions like buttons and zippers (bought with Junior League-furnished $25 gift cards), they can’t add to their arsenals. And they can only work on Fashion Forward at school. Veronica Macsurak stares at the luscious pink bolt

in her hands, wondering if it can tell the right story— the love affair of Tsar Nicholas II and prima ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska. “When I heard Russia, I originally thought reds and blacks, bold, dark colors, so I’m going to do the opposite,” Veronica says of her desire to show another side, to balance romance and a militaristic edge in her view of St. Petersburg. It’s one of 10 inspiration cities assigned to the competitors under the “Passport to Fashion” theme, with Barcelona, Johannesburg, Melbourne, Montreal, Mumbai, Shanghai, Stockholm, Tel Aviv and Venice. From there, they could look to anything from ancient history to current style for aesthetic kernels. “I feel like it’s in my skill range, but the design—this is definitely all on my own,” Veronica says. Her face lights up talking about Chanel and Dior, but she’s trying not to echo anything specific. She wants this outfit to tell a story about who she is, too. “With fashion, it’s not one view for me. It’s the whole entire world.” L TO R: MAKIA LOVE, VERONICA MACSURAK, GRACE HUTCHINS

That technicolor exuberance characterizes Fashion Forward, which first hit the runway in 2008. It grew from a proposal by Las Vegas High School teacher Shannon Sheldon, who hoped a Junior League education grant could help put her students through a challenge inspired by Project Runway. “Being a seamstress myself, I fell in love with it,” says Britta Carlson-Sessums, a past president of Junior League of Las Vegas who was training new members at the time. When Sheldon’s proposal didn’t get chosen for grant funding, Carlson-Sessums got her okay to turn it into a development exercise for new volunteers that would go to the heart of the Junior League’s mission to enrich community and promote education. “It has grown and developed and I think become more creative, however, it was impressive what these kids did, even the first year.” Jimi Urquiaga was making tote bags and selling them on MySpace in 2007, when he signed up for the inaugural Fashion Forward. “I didn’t win, but as the

show was going on and I saw my dress walk on the runway, it was such a crazy feeling. I was like, ‘I want to feel this over and over and over again.’” After the competition Urquiaga designed a skirt collection, then produced a tribal fashion show, then started FAM, a showcase of fashion, art and music that got popular enough for radio sponsorship. Then he competed in a Fashion’s Night Out event and was named Las Vegas’ best new designer. Today, he’s a successful stylist focused on high-fashion editorial. Successful as in, contributing editor to Schön! out of London and Manifesto out of Hong Kong, along with contract jobs like styling music videos. He works with talented photographers like Greg Lotus and Robert John Kley, and his stunning visual narratives have been reposted by some of his idols. “The ones I love have shown love back,” he says, mentioning Riccardo Tisci, Peter Pilotto and Tom Ford. Now based in LA, the native Las Vegan sees Fashion Forward having “super-potential” to draw

the industry’s eye to a scene that loses a lot of its talent, and power to bust open the future for upstarts like him. “It really was what set off the spark.” * * * * * “They’re using their creative skills; they’re using their math skills; they’re using their organizational skills because they have finite resources. There’s a strategy involved, not just creativity, in creating a final garment. And then, of course, there’s technical skill in actually sewing and putting it together.” Carlson-Sessums’ rundown of Fashion Forward’s many layers is illustrated on a February day at Green Valley High. Half-sewn elements are being shown to Junior League mentors in the hope that wrong directions can be righted before it’s too late. Grace Hutchins is calm. In a black peplum top, Star Wars leggings and ankle boots, her style seems contrary to the cascading satin and pearled bodice of her competition piece.

L TO R: ALYSIA MARSHALL, BEATRIX ANGELIQUE, DESIGN BY EMILY PUMPHREY ON MODEL VICKY LEMGARCI / PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRISTOPHER DEVARGAS; HAIR AND MAKEUP BY SABRINA BATES-WHITED

“I’m obsessed with the 17th century. It’s actually what made me want to start sewing,” she says, explaining that she’ll twist the old-world silhouette by giving the skirt a healthy chop. She dyed the lace with Lipton tea, and she’s hand-beading a corset she’s building with zip ties. It’s no stretch for the 17-year-old, who started making clothes at 13. At 15, she won Fashion Forward, with a gown inspired by the musical Into the Woods. “I hand-traced and cut and burned at least 500 leaves,” she says with a laugh, recalling a few burns to her fingers. It was worth seeing her mom, aunt and grandma happily crying during the runway finale. This year’s theme is about getting away from gowns for a more contemporary feel, but Grace doesn’t see any disadvantage in her concept, which includes a chic Venetian mask made of paper and puffy paint. Her dream is to attend the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in LA, where she’d focus on costuming and a career in Hollywood (i.e. outfitting Jennifer Lawrence, whom she’s also obsessed with). She says she’d like to win an Oscar someday. That kind of chutzpa can only benefit from a mall full of people applauding your work. “They beam,” Carlson-Sessums says of the students’ runway moment. “They’re just glowing with this proud excitement that, I’m wearing something I created. … The Junior League is about empowering women. We don’t limit it to female students; it’s all students in fashion design, but a lot of them are young women that might not be your typical superstars in high school. And now they have an opportunity to stand out.” Grace’s classmates Makia Love and Alysia Marshall are still new to sewing, but their craftsmanship on the first-round muslin sheath and creativity in the original sketch launched them into the final. Makia is riffing on Montreal’s hockey culture, with skate-like combat boots, cropped wool trousers and a jersey-inspired top with an attached hood. And 15-year-old Alysia is looking to ’20s-era Shanghai for her pale blue gown with dramatic side slits. She says the color came from something her half-Chinese

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* * * * * It looks like a stylish bomb shelter in the belly of Fashion Show Mall, where contestants are prepping to rise through the floor and strut for crowds flocking to the lights and pop music and multimedia screens. It’s 20 minutes to show time, and they’re putting final touches on hair and makeup, clipping threads and pinning things that didn’t quite come together. Some outfits are dead giveaways to their inspiration cities, but most are cleverly derivative. A girl in a gorgeous Spanish cape accessorizes with horns, blending bull and matador. Makia paints athletic eye-black on her cheeks. A turban and a cloche are next to a braided topknot and the engineered cloud of teased curls on Beatrix. She practices her runway walk and the fluid removal of her coat, everything about it fierce. Back in January, when this dress was just pencil, she told me about Antoni Gaudí’s House of Bones in Barcelona: “His work is so vibrant—mosaic patterns and stuff, very intricate, a bunch of shapes. And he was inspired by nature.” She explained the skeleton effect of his structure, and how she would mimic it with fabric shredded and knotted into submission. The drawing come to life is striking, and the back is the star, bare skin and cords of red fabric in precision-cut windowpanes. Simple can be just as striking. Take the jumpsuit by Beatrix’s classmate Emily Pumphrey. With Melbourne, Australia, as her muse, she looked to the water, an iconic bridge and the simplicity of the local fashion. The crisscross top ties in the architecture, and meticulous pleating gives the pants a perfect fit on Emily’s model, Vicky LemGarci. Building her look on a maxi-dress pattern by a Melbourne designer, Emily wanted the sense of place to be authentic, but

the personality is hers. “It’s a little bit of me with a little bit of normal.” That’s the trick of fashion—creating something stirring and fresh yet familiar enough to resonate. It helps if the models have attitude, says CarlsonSessums, who’s on the judging panel and has a perfect view of the flourishes at the end of the runway. Veronica does a plié, turns and swings her detachable skirt onto her shoulders as a smart little cape. With ribbon-tied ballet flats and a tiara, she is adding drama, but her look isn’t a costume. “It’s simple, but it’s catching,” she said a few minutes before the show. “I really believe I accomplished what I was going for.” An hour slips by in a blur of sequined jackets, tiered chiffon frocks and pinstripe bell-bottoms. Special awards are given for things like use of color and theme. Then the top 10 are announced, including Grace, Beatrix and Veronica. There’s a lot of talent in the line, but Southwest Career and Technical Academy student Ilian Angulo’s elegant pantsuit and long jacket are on another level of craftsmanship. The garments look like they’re off the rack from the nearby Nordstrom. She wins an internship/mentorship at Artifact, a Singer sewing machine, an editorial fashion shoot and a place for her winning look in Artifact’s Town Square window. Second and third place go to Grace and Veronica. While the judges factored in the runway, they started picking winners the day before, in an exhaustive review of construction, inspiration boards and the rationales of the competitors. Some want careers in fashion, though Carlson-Sessums insists Fashion Forward isn’t just a professional springboard. It might teach a lifelong love of sewing. It might build confidence and friendships. It might be just a thrilling memory. However it affects these developing artists, supporters like Star Costume owner Marc Salls are blown away by what spills from their imaginations. “They put things together we don’t think will work, or they have created an accent or a little adornment, and all of a sudden you’re going, why didn’t we see that?” LVW

> style phenoms Grace Hutchins and Ilian Angulo—who took second and first place— lead Fashion Forward’s top 10 down the runway.

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HOT SPOTS OPENING DAY AT FOXTAIL POOL CLUB SLS has been open for months now, but Friday afternoon the partying public gets its first taste of the hotel’s dayclub concept at Foxtail Pool. So charge up your phone and get Instaready to score some bragging rights. Just remember: If it isn’t Facebook official, it didn’t happen. Behind the booth: Swiss producer/DJ EDX. March 20, doors at 10:30 a.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. ICE CUBE AT SURRENDER Aside from releasing singles for his impending Everythang’s Corrupt album since 2013, the rapper-turned-actor has been busy producing Straight Outta Compton,, a film bio of NWA, the pioneering hip-hop act co-founded by Cube, Dr. Dre and Eazy-E. Catch him live at the Encore nightspot Friday. In the booth: DJ What So Not. March 20, doors at 10:30 p.m., $40+ men, $30+ women.

Slim Jimmy comprise this up-and-coming rap duo, the Mississippi-born/Atlanta-based outfit spending a lot of 2014 riding the charts with singles off its debut album, SremmLife, including the “Throw Sum Mo” collabo with reigning rappess Nicki Minaj. Catch the act live at Tao Saturday night, with additional tunes supplied by Vegas vet DJ Eric D-Lux. March 21, doors at 10 p.m., $40+ men, $20+ women. CANDYLAND AT HYDE The Bellagio nightspot’s XIV Vegas Sessions party goes saccharin-sweet for the March edition, inviting partygoers to rage with Willy Wonka in a lollipop-sprinkled fantasy space perfectly fit for Candy Land’s Queen Frostine. Themed outfits are encouraged, and revelers can score prizes during the Golden Goose Egg Hunt. DJs D4NI3L and Julian Ingrosso will perform at the seasonal party, which returns for additional May and July editions this summer for the first time. March 22, doors at 6 p.m., $50+ men, $40+ women.

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BEAUTY WARS AT BEAUTY BAR Why watch stylists compete on commercialinfested reality TV when you can do so in the flesh? Salons duke it out in person—and with the assistance of makeup artists and some very game models—during this event, which also features live art, drink discounts and DJ EDOC. March 20, doors at 9 p.m., free.

DYRO AT DRAI’S BEACH CLUB Dyro might have been just another drops ’n’ feels Dutch producer/DJ if he hadn’t been blessed and anointed by his fellow countryman Hardwell, aka Mr. No. 1 in the World, who he joined in the studio for “Never Say Goodbye.” Enter a slew of big-room collaborations with Dannic and Bassjackers. Enter his own label, Wolv. Enter a residency at Drai’s rooftop party complex and his debut Saturday at the Beach Club. March 21, doors at 11 a.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. RAE SREMMURD AT TAO Brothers Swae Lee and

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stars and underwear models hosting nightclub events during AVN Week. But with gay nightlife, every week is the equivalent of AVN Week. This Studs edition of RevoSundays gives attendees three actors—Sebastian Kross and Sean Zevran of Falcon Entertainment and Scotty Marx of Randy Blue— to ogle over, not to mention DJ Pornstar, who also happens to be, well, you know. March 22, doors at 10 p.m., $20; locals free before midnight.

REWIND WITH SALT-N-PEPA AT 1OAK Rewind certainly isn’t the first flashback/throwback/nostalgiasoaked nightlife promotion, but it’s the newest—and it’s starting on the right foot. 1OAK launches its refreshed industry night with a performance from Salt-N-Pepa, still a favorite among open-format DJs everywhere. Speaking of which, DJ Turbulence will supply the tunes. March 24, doors at 10:30 p.m., $40+men, $30+ women, locals free.

Nightlife mainstay Drai’s Afterhours is making a few changes. It has expanded operating days; it’s now open Tuesday through Sunday, starting at 1 a.m. Those industry locals with valid ID will score free admission except on Friday and Saturday—also the two nights that the VIP room will be open (with its DJs playing hip-hop) and the main room DJs play house (they stick to open format the rest of the week). Also, the basement space’s early-Tuesday-night Country Club promo concluded on March 10, but fret not—Yacht Club returns to the Beach Club in April. Did you know that some of your favorite nightspots have their own Wi-Fi service, perfect to enable transmission of your most embarrassing club pics? Among the early adopters are Light and Daylight, Drai’s Nightclub and Beach Club (and the afterhours space downstairs), Marquee Nightclub and Dayclub (via the Cyber Dust app) and—just added— Surrender and Encore Beach Club. Hakkasan Group’s Vista Lounge will replace Shadow Bar at Caesars Palace on May 15, hotel president Gary Selesner told the Sun. We’re hearing elsewhere that the renovated space will feature large screens showing video and/or pictorial imagery of global landscapes and cityscapes to create a transportive atmosphere. Good news: The Delano Beach Club will be Mandalay Bay’s sister property’s foray into daylife—albeit a more grownup, relaxed version of it. Bad news: Unless you’re a Delano guest, you can only gain access if you rent one of its 16 cabanas. New parties: Gold Spike’s PYT #RetroWednesdays will round out with Time CapSoul on every fourth Wednesday, featuring ’80s and ’90s hits from DJ Lisa Pittman and guests, and DJ Hektor Rawkerz on every first Wednesday, spinning classic alternative. Warp LV brings more deep/tech house to the Valley with its weekly Wednesday night promo at Cazino (5150 Spring Mountain Road). And Urban Turban expands its underground-sounds program with Nu Fridays. –Mike Prevatt

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with remaining taps mainly devoted to beers from other local breweries. At press time, its lineup of originals included the Homeroom Hefeweizen, Pale Ale 101, Varsity Vanilla Porter, ABCD ESB (Extra Special Bitter) and Irish Red Ale. Our favorites from Old School’s inaugural crop: Irish Red Ale At 6.5 percent ABV, this is the strongest brew currently on offer (Wilson is focusing on sessionable beers). And with a toasty malt and crisp bite at the end, it’s my favorite from the first pours.

Vegas, it would make this lookout point even sexier. The VIP lounge: Actually, this intimate room is the natural spot for any house music insurgence, but for now, the Heart of Omnia beats almost entirely for bottle-service buyers and celebrity hosts—the two demographics that ruled the same space back when it was Pure’s main room. Also dominating now: a 360-degree placement of LED screens. The chandelier: Ah, yes, that thrusting Slinky of a lighting rig that dominated social media last week. It might be the Strip’s most impressive gizmo—and evidence that if Vegas nightlife’s reigning king isn’t Hakkasan Group CEO Neil Moffitt, it’s clearly Sigmund Freud. –Mike Prevatt

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It might be the most Las Vegas nightclub in Las Vegas. Whether that’s good or bad depends on your tolerance for hyperstimulation and disco spectacle. But there’s no denying the wow-factor at Omnia, the 75,000-square-foot club at Caesars Palace that’s twice the size of Pure, the venue it replaces. A few steps into the space and one quickly realizes that Hakkasan Group has outdone itself, even compared to its flagship, namesake nightclub at MGM Grand. There’s never a dull moment, never an eyebrow-raising sight more than five minutes from the next—never a time to catch your breath, frankly. Here’s a highlight reel: The main room: Imagine the oval-shaped, multilevel layout of Rain, the luxe golden touches of XS, the LED paneling of Drai’s, the sardine-packed dancefloors of Hakkasan and Marquee, the aerialists of Light and Life and the wall of candles at Tao, all acknowledged at the same club—it’s almost like Omnia is paying homage to all its competitors, while trying to best them at the same time. And it’s absolutely bonkers. The terrace: It used to be the class of Pure, and it’s even more so with Omnia; it’s the one area of the venue that’s subtle. But that’s not its most alluring feature. The main room can have its high-tech bells and whistles, but it can’t have that killer Strip-side view. And if the deep/ tech house movement ever migrates to prime time in Las

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VENUE

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

1 OAK

Closed

Khloe Kardashian

ALIBI

DJs, 10 pm; lounge open 24 hours

ARTIFICE

ARTISAN

Joslyn James hosts; 10 pm; free; lounge open 24 hours

DJ Eddie McDonald

DJs Style, Morpheus Blak; 10 pm, free; doors at 5 pm

Pornstaraoke

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

BEAUTY BAR

Doors at 9 pm; free

Latin Ladies Night

CHATEAU

DJ Eddie McDonald

Doors at 5 pm

Rinsed

BOND

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

Doors at 5 pm

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

BODY ENGLISH

DJ E-Rock

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

10 pm; lounge open 24 hours

THE BANK

BLUE MARTINI

SATURDAY

10 pm; lounge open 24 hours

DJ Kid Conrad

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

Throwback Thursday

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

DJ Earwaxxx

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Sound

#FollowMe Fridays Morgan Osman, Chantel Jeffries host; DJ Cobra; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Beauty Wars

DJ EDOC; hair/makeup contest; live art; doors at 9 pm; free

Friday Night Live

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

Rock Candy Fridays

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

DJ Morse Code

Scarlet

DJ M!KEATTACK

DJ Joey Mazzola; 10 pm; $10, women and locals free; lounge open 24 hours

Quincy Combs

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

Miami Flavor

SUNDAY

MONDAY

Closed

WEDNESDAY

Lounge open 24 hours

Doors at 5 pm

Double D Karaoke

Lounge open 24 hours

Closed

1OAK Rewind

Salt-N-Pepa live; DJ Turbulence; doors at 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women, locals free

Social Sunday

DJ Justin Key, others; midnight; free; open 24 hours

Industry Sundays DJ Irie; doors at 9 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Academy Beat League Tryouts

DJ De La O; doors at 9 pm; free

King of the City MC contest; DJs Shakespeare, Kelly, Mack; 9 pm; cover

EDM Saturdays

Sunday Sessions

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

TUESDAY

Closed

10 pm, free; doors at 5 pm

Lounge open 24 hours

Closed

Nickel Beer Night

Doors at 9 pm; free

Lit

DJs Stylust Beats, Einstyles, Awry, Biz:E, Beast Fremont; doors at 9 pm; $10

Doors at 9 pm; free

Ladies Night Out

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

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

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

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

Closed

After

DJ Pig & Dan, others, 2 am, $20, $10 women, locals; DJ Ease, doors at 10:30 pm, $20-$30

DJ Morse Code

10 pm, free; doors at 10 am

DJ Bayum

DJs Koko & Bayati

Closed

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

DJ CryKit

10 pm, free; doors at 10 am

Closed

DJ Technicolor

10 pm, free; doors at 10 am

Closed

DJ M!KEATTACK

10 pm, free; doors at 10 am

Closed

DJ Dirty Secret

10 pm, free; doors at 10 am

Rooftop Wednesdays

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

NIGHTS | club grid

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VENUE

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

Downtown Cocktail Room

DJ Lenny Alfonzo, others; 9 pm; happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

Downtown Soul

Friday Night Social

Saturday Night Vibe

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Afterhours

Doors at 1 am; $30 men, $20 women, industry locals w/ID free

DJ RossOne

DJ Carlos Sanchez, 10 pm; happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

Afterhours

Doors at midnight; $30 men, $20 women

The Weeknd

DJ Douglas Gibbs, 10pm; doors at 7pm; free

Afterhours

Doors at midnight; $30 men, $20 women

Adventure Club

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Cymatic Sessions

Closed

DJs 360, Laguerre; 10 pm; happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

Unfiltered Soul

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

Closed

Doors at 1 am; $30 men, $20 women, industry locals w/ID free

Afterhours

Doors at 1 am; $30 men, $20 women, industry locals w/ID free

DJs Rob Alahn, Doug Wilcox; 9pm; happy hour, 4-8; doors at 4pm; free

Afterhours

Sundrai’s

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

live; doors at 10 pm; $60+ men, $40+ women

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

Fabolous live; DJ Crooked; doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

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; doors at 5 pm

FOUNDATION ROOM

DJ Soxxi

Music With a View: Viva Espana

DJ Eric Forbes

DJ Casanova

GHOSTBAR

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

FIZZ

10 pm; free

DJ Benny Black

Ladies Night

GILLEY’S

Chad Freeman Band live, 9 pm; $1 drafts/wells for women, 7-10 pm; doors at 11 am

Tiesto

RJ Fox live; DJs Sam I Am, Marc Mac; 6 pm; $30

DJ Exodus

Bubbles For Beauties

DJs Greg Lopez, Sam I Am; free Champagne/vodka for women; 10 pm; $30

DJ Mark Stylz

Chad Freeman Band

Bikini Bull Riding

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

Tiesto

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

Hardwell

HYDE

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

Game Over Fridays

Saturday Night Live

Ladies’ Night

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

DJ Exodus

Chad Freeman Band

Doors at 5 pm

LAS VEGAS BULL

DJ b-Radical

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

DJs Dzeko & Torres, Irie; doors at 10:30 pm; $60+ men, $30+ women

Hanif, Chop808; DJs Zimme, 88; doors at 8 pm; $15

10 pm; $30, locals free

DJ Exodus; doors at 8 pm; $20-$25

DJs Dzeko & Torres, Gusto; doors at 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $20+ women

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10 pm; $30

DJ Mark Stylz; doors at 8 pm; $25 men, $20 women

HAKKASAN

Pete Rock & Slum Village

St. Patrick’s Day

DJ Five

DJs Zimme, Charlie Darker, Yo Yolie; doors at 8 pm; $10, $5 locals

18 and over

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

DJs Kill the Buzz, Kayper; doors at 10:30 pm; $60+ men, $30+ women

DJ Konflikt

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

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

Locals Night

DJ Seany MAC

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

DanSing Karaoke

DJ SINcere 10 pm; $30

DJ Benny Black

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

XIV Vegas Sessions: Candyland

Doors at 5 pm

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

DJ OB-One

Closed

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

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

DJ Kay theRiot; free custom glass with Guinness purchase; 7 pm; free entry

Dada Life

DJ Mark Eteson; doors at 10:30 pm; $50+ men, $30+ women

Lost Angels

6 pm, $50+ men, $40+ women; free

Doors at 8 pm; free

Doors at 5 pm

DJ David Clutch

DJ 88; doors at 8 pm; free

March Badness

Bullriding competition; $2 drafts, well drinks for locals; doors at 7 pm; $10, $5 for locals w/ID

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VENUE LAX

THURSDAY Doors at 10:30 pm; free open bar for women until midnight; $30 men, $20 women

DJ Dezie

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FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Doors at 10:30 pm; free open bar for women until midnight; $30 men, $20 women

Closed

DJ Dezie

Woman Crush Wednesday

Panorama Saturdays

LEVEL 107

11 pm; doors at 4 pm

LIFE

Closed

LIGHT

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

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

MANDARIN BAR

Doors at 5 pm

9 pm; free; doors at 4:30 pm

MARQUEE

Closed

DJ Brooklyn, Lisa Pittman; doors at 10 pm; $40+ men, $20+ women

OMNIA

Omnia Thursdays

DJs Fergie, Devin Lucien; doors at 10 pm; $50+ men, $30+ women

DJs Eva Shaw, Questlove; Miley Cyrus hosts; doors at 10 pm; $50+ men, $30+ women

Ladies Night

2-for-1 beer pong, $22, 11 am-9 pm; 100 oz. beer tower, $35; doors at 8 am

DJ Scene

DJs, 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

3LAU

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

Clockwork

Live music

Benny Benassi

PBR ROCK BAR

Doors at 10 pm

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

Drag Queen Bingo

PIRANHA

REVOLUTION LOUNGE

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

Get Back Thursdays

DJ G-Minor; doors at 10 pm; $20 men, women free

Krewella

F*ck It Friday

India Ferrah, Des’ree St. James, midnight; DJ Vago; 10 pm, free; open 24 hours

Bring Back the ’90s

DJs BenStacks, Alpha Q, Sincere, SumKid; doors at 10 pm; $20, women free

DJ Dezie; $5 Absolut drinks, 1-4 am; 11 pm; 15% off bottles; doors at 4 pm

Erick Morillo

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

Axwell

Doors at 10 pm; $50+ men, $30+ women

Live music

9 pm; free; doors at 4:30 pm

Scenic Sundays

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

11 pm; doors at 4 pm

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

DJ MakJ; doors at 10:30 pm; $25+, free for locals before midnight

Closed

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

Live jazz

Doors at 5 pm

DJs Lema, Lisa Pittman; doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women, locals free

Closed

DJs Rev Run & Ruckus; doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women, locals free

DJ Kittie; 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

#IndustryLife

6 pm; free; doors at 5 pm

Alesso

DJs Lema, M!KEATTACK; doors at 10 pm; $40+ men, $20+ women

Sky High Mondays

Andrew Rayel

Closed

Afrojack

Selfie Saturday

Omnia Sundays Doors at 10 pm

#Social Sundays

$20 open bar 9 pm-1 am w/ social media follow; doors at 8 am

El Deseo

India Ferrah’s Goddess Show, midnight; DJs Vago, Virus; 2-for-1 drinks, noon-8 pm; free; open 24 hours

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

DJ G Minor

Scotty Marx, Sebastian Kross, Sean Zevran host; DJ Pornstar; doors 10 pm; $20, locals free bef. 12 am

DJ Flow; doors at 10 pm; $20 men, women free

GTA

Afrojack

Beer Pong Tournament

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

Industry Mondays

Karaoke Night

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

Closed

2-for-1 beer pong, $22, 11 am-9 pm; 100 oz. beer tower, $35; doors at 8 am

La Noche

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

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

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

Closed

Revo Sundays

NIGHTS | club grid

VENUE

THURSDAY

Listings are accurate as of press time. For more info, contact venues directly.

FRIDAY Fireball Fridays

REVOLVER

Closed

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

White Label Thursdays

SAYERS CLUB

DJ E-Swift, 10:30 pm, free; NCAA tournament, doors 9:30 am, $75 open bar

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

NSA Thursdays

Sessions

Live music, 10:30 pm, free; NCAA tournament, doors 9:30 am, $75 open bar

Stripper Circus Doors at 10 pm; free

Ice Cube

DJ Five

The Affair

TRYST

TUSCANY

live; DJ What So Not; doors at 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women

Brody Jenner and William Lifestyle DJ set; doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Saint Clair

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Silver Saturdays

Get Your Balls Wet

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

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

Sessions

Live music, 10:30 pm, free; NCAA tournament, doors 9:30 am, $75 open bar

Pornstars in Vegas Sean Zevran, Sebastian Kross host; DJ Pornstar; doors at 10 pm; free

Lil Jon

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

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

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

Mahi

Doors at 7 pm, free

Closed

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

Closed

Beer pong tournament, $25; doors at 8 pm; no cover

Confession Sundays

live; doors at 8 pm; free

Closed

MONDAY

Ladies Night

Rae Sremmurd

live; DJ Eric D-Lux; doors at 10 pm; $40+ men, $20+ women

Jermaine Dupri

DJ Turbulence; doors at 10 pm; $30 men, $20 women, local women & industry free

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

Closed

Amanda Avila

Corro Van Such

MK Ultralite

Laura Shaffer Vintage Vegas Cocktail Party

Piazza Lounge; 8:30 pm, free

T-Spot Lounge; 8:30 pm, free

Velveteen Rabbit

Doors at 5 pm

DJ 8-bits; 10 pm; free; doors at 5 pm

Closed

Doors at 10 pm; $50+ men, $20+ women

DJ Aurajin

David Guetta

Yellow Claw

T-Spot Lounge; 8:30 pm, free

T-Spot Lounge; 7:30 pm, free

Doors at 5 pm

Kaskade

Doors at 10 pm; $50+ men, $20+ women

Arty

Doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women, local women & industry free

Piazza Lounge, 7:30 pm; free

Doors at 5 pm

Moonshiners

Tinnitus

Piazza Lounge, 8:30 pm; free

T-Spot Lounge; 10:30 pm, free

Doors at 5 pm

Closed

DJ Five

Doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women, local women & industry free

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Stuff you’ll want to know about LAUGH Garfunkel & Oates “Can’t count all the ways how/ you speak in clichés now,” harmonize Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome on the satirical sing-a-long, “Pregnant Women Are Smug.” The acoustic-comedy duo isn’t afraid to say what we’re all thinking—and their candycoated delivery makes it that much better. March 21, 9:30 p.m., $40-$96, Venetian.

year of the buddha by steve marcus

HeaR Pete Rock and Slum Village The legendary NYC hip-hop producer/emcee/ DJ—famous for his integration of jazz and funk into rap music—has launched an ambitious tour, and he’s joined by Slum Village, co-founded by producer/rapper icon J Dilla (who died in 2006). With DJs 88, Zimmie, March 19, 8 p.m., $15, Insert Coins. Kool Keith Dr. Octagon. Black Elvis. Rhythm X. The lead Ultramagnetic MC. Few rappers have morphed so frequently— or as memorably—as this 51-year-old Bronx native. And though he might not be a

dominant force in the game at the moment, his cool catalog alone demands our respect. March 20, 9 p.m., $8-$10, LVCS. Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México The State Symphony Orchestra of Mexico takes the stage at UNLV, showing off classical flair during Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 in C Minor and a taste of its home country’s musical heritage with a guitar concerto by Mexican composer Manuel Ponce. March 20, 8 p.m., $25-$75. Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall.

Go Pahrump Balloon Festival Pahrump is purtier than you’d expect, especially from hundreds of feet up in the air. Take it in aboard one of over 20 hot air balloons—and enjoy food, live music, carnival games and arts and crafts once you’ve returned to terra firma. March 20-22, times vary, free entry, Petrack Park.

in an art show, he has been painting Buddha for the past year. Year of the Buddha features more than 60 pieces made in various styles and mediums, from aerosol to acrylic. “The most challenging thing was to keep the subject interesting,” he says. Why wait eight years to interpret the experience onto canvas? “A lot of things I saw there, heard there, they resonated later,” he says. “If I would’ve done it right after the trip, it would’ve been pretentious.” Dray will paint his last Buddhas in May before moving on to another to-be-determined concept. –Kristy Totten

DRINK RED BEER Still feeling queasy after Tuesday’s dyed-green drinking? Go red for the cure: One bottle or can of your favorite lager, 4-5 ounces of Spicy Hot V8 juice and a few dashes of your favorite hot sauce. Throw a pickle or a few olives in and wait for the vitamin-enriched, hair-of-the-dog cavalry to arrive. It won’t be long.

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Watch, read, repeat

The TV episode recap—for when viewing a favorite show isn’t nearly enough By Smith Galtney

These days, watching TV feels a little too similar to my old dating life: At first I’m commitment-phobic, insisting I don’t have the time to get all wrapped up in a series. Then I check out a first episode, and if that goes well, I promise myself to take it slow, keep it casual. Of course, my “one episode a night” rule instantly turns to four, and there’s no time for anything else ’cause it’s the only thing I want to talk about. When it all ends—and not to sound bitter or anything, but that’s what these shows do to you every time—I feel stranded and prickly. Friends try to hook me up with new series, but I tell them I’m fine. Really, I just need some space. Throughout all of this, I crave what is only human: consolation, synopsis, analysis, gossip. Back when the world watched TV programs at more or less the same time, these things were found at the proverbial water cooler, where co-workers gathered to dissect what had transpired the night before. But since DVRs and streaming services allow everyone to view a series on their own time, any discussion is quickly thwarted by, “Stop! I’m only on Episode 2!” Or worse, “Wait till I’m done breastfeeding and have time to watch!” Thankfully, the web is bursting with recaps, the relatively new trend of posting episode reviews as soon as they premiere. I’m partial to the ones on Vulture and The New York Times, while friends swear by the A.V. Club and Hitfix. Either way, these rush-job summaries—as informative and annoying as your real-life coworkers—fall into four distinct categories: The Straight-Up Synopsis. These plotfocused, just-the-facts rundowns are a huge help after watching, say, the more policy-driven episodes of House of Cards, where it’s easy to get lost in all the

> love, or love to hate? The season finale of Empire was star-studded. Was it good? Check the many, many recaps.

political babble. (Mommy, what’s a “backchannel”?) But when applied to a half-hour sitcom format, it can feel like reading a “See Spot Run” primer— pointless and rather insulting to one’s intelligence. The “Hate Watch” Hatchet Job. This is when the writer clearly loves hating the show, or just plain hates the show, and proceeds to cyberbully the crap out of it. Often, as with Rachel Shukert’s recaps of Smash a few years back, the results can be more fun than the show itself. Right now, the Empire recaps on Vulture are taking tons of irresistible cheap shots. “I hear Macy Gray will play another one of Hakeem’s lovers in a future episode,” writes Craig D. Lindsey. “I’m not looking forward to that sh*t at all.” The “I Can Do This Better” Proposal. Halfway through a Vulture recap of a Looking episode, I read this passage: “On Girls, so many

of the performers talk too fast and don’t land all of their jokes because they skim right past them. [Looking star Lauren] Weedman talks just as fast as, say, Zosia Mamet’s exhausting Shoshanna on Girls, but she gets her laughs by shaping certain words in her rapid-fire delivery, which is a matter of emphasis more than anything else.” Then I threw up in my mouth. The “This Isn’t a TV Show, It’s a Film” Thesis. Mostly reserved for works of A-List gravitas (Mad Men, The Wire, The Sopranos), these motherf*ckers go deep. We’re talking shot-by-shot analysis, Shakespearian reference, historical context, the works. It doesn’t get any better than Matt Zoller Seitz’s obsessive decoding of Breaking Bad, which deserves to be published as its own ebook. It’s too early to tell if Better Call Saul will inspire similar academic discourse. Perhaps I’ll give it a shot, once I’m ready to start dating again.

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Plug and play Sean Penn turns into a generic action hero in The Gunman

> on the verge (From left) Theo James, Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley debate the future of society.

FILM

Chaotic nonsense

Divergent sequel Insurgent is more action-packed but still incoherent By Josh Bell Too bad its characters aren’t any more interesting. The world of the Divergent movies (based on the The romance between Tris and the brooding Four (Theo novels by Veronica Roth) essentially makes no sense, but James) barely registers in this installment, and James at least the second movie in the series, Insurgent, isn’t once again makes very little impression as the romantic burdened with having to explain all of it. That exposilead. Woodley is stronger, but even she can’t sell Tris’ tion (about a society divided into five “factions” based underdeveloped character arc, which involves forgiving on personality and aptitude) often bogged down last herself for the extreme measures she’s had to year’s Divergent, but Insurgent rarely has time to take to survive. With an expanded role, Winslet stop and explain things. That’s good, because the gives the film’s most entertaining performance, central thrust of the movie is just as incoherent aabcc luxuriating in Jeanine’s aloof malevolence, and as it was the last time, but at least the increased INSURGENT Miles Teller brings a bit of liveliness to his role profile and budget mean that director Robert Shailene as a sarcastic opportunist. New additions to Schwentke (replacing Neil Burger) is able to do Woodley, the cast include Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer more to distract from it. Theo James, and Daniel Dae Kim, but none of them is given Once again, the hero of this dystopian future Kate Winslet. enough material to make much of an impression. is Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley), a so-called Directed The plot hinges on a meaningless thingama“divergent” who doesn’t fit into any of the five by Robert jig that holds the secrets to the entire factionmain factions. After being discovered for what Schwentke. based society, and once again much of the action she truly is and incurring the wrath of Jeanine Rated PG-13. involves tiresome fake-outs that take place in (Kate Winslet), the coldly calculating despot Opens Friday. dreams or simulations. It all leads to a surpriswho runs the Erudite faction, Tris spends most ingly conclusive ending for a movie that’s meant of Insurgent on the run from people who want to to set up a huge two-part finale. Tris’ story may not make kill and/or capture her. That gives Schwentke the oppora whole lot of sense, but by the end of Insurgent, it seems tunity to stage more extensive action scenes than in the to have wrapped up entirely. Perhaps this should be the previous movie, and Insurgent is often more exciting and cue for the filmmakers to quit while they’re ahead. more eye-catching than its predecessor.

Directed by Pierre Morel, who launched Liam Neeson’s second-wind career as an action hero a few years back, The Gunman attempts to do the same for an impressively beefed-up (and frequently shirtless, lest those muscles go unnoticed) Sean Penn. The two-time Oscar winner plays a former mercenary named Jim Terrier—he’s tenacious, don’t you know—who’s given up the life following a Congo-set prologue in which an assassination job goes horribly wrong. Years later, Terrier is back in Africa, trying to make amends by doing missionary work, but somebody evidently doesn’t want to let bygones be bygones. An attempt on his life forces him to proceed on a globetrotting tour of his checkered past, as he contacts variaabcc ous former associTHE GUNMAN Sean Penn, Javier ates in the hope of finding out who Bardem, Idris wants him dead. Elba. Directed If Penn seems by Pierre Morel. like the last actor Rated R. Opens in the world who’d Friday. feel at ease as a pistol-packing badass, well, that’s the main problem with The Gunman, which also suffers from an unimaginative script and Morel’s strictly workmanlike direction. Scowling his way through the movie, Penn’s Terrier is neither fun nor intimidating, merely peeved; he seems especially dull once The Wire’s Idris Elba shows up late in the going to demonstrate what steely charisma looks like when the actor doesn’t feel guilty for embodying it. The cast is great all around, actually—Ray Winstone, Javier Bardem and Mark Rylance also play notable supporting roles—but nobody’s given anything memorable to say or do. The film is as utterly generic as its title. –Mike D’Angelo

March 19-25, 2015 LasVegasWeekly.com

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> SIBLING RIVALRY Chandler and Cardellini are sister and brother in Bloodline.

Bad luck of the Irish Tense thriller ’71 recalls the days of the Troubles

dynasty in the Florida Keys. John’s seemingly stable family unravels (eventually) thanks to the return of his black-sheep brother Danny (Ben Mendelsohn, Animal Kingdom), whose presence agitates sister Meg (Linda Netflix drama Bloodline is glossy but dull Cardellini), youngest brother Kevin (Broadway actor Norbert Leo Butz), father Robert (Sam Shepard) and By Josh Bell mother Sally (Sissy Spacek) in different ways. All of the main cast members are strong, with Chandler, Netflix’s new drama Bloodline has such a great Mendelsohn, Cardellini and Butz creating a realistic cast and such impressive production values, it’s easy dynamic among siblings with very different personto give it a pass for being so dramatically inert. alities but a long shared history. Created by the Damages team of Todd A. Kessler, The show’s directors also make great use of the Daniel Zelman and Glenn Kessler, Bloodline features Florida Keys setting, with the heat and a similar structure, starting with vague humidity radiating off the screen (the visual unease and flashing forward to the apparstyle is the only indication of the fun pulp ent violent death of a major character, aabcc potential of the material, which is generwith the bulk of the action moving slowly BLOODLINE ally taken way too seriously). But from a toward that inevitable disaster. The three Season 1 available episodes of Bloodline available for review March 20 on Netflix. plot standpoint, Bloodline is completely flat, using its shifting timelines as a trick to make move slowly indeed, and very little of the mundane developments seem more ominous than they main narrative is particularly exciting. The story really are. In the second episode, the show skips over might pick up as the season goes on (and bingean apparently pivotal scene, so that the characters watchers won’t have to wait long to find out), but if can spend the rest of the episode arguing about what Damages is any indication, it may also build to a disreally happened. At the end, we return to the scene, appointing anticlimax. to discover that … things happened exactly as the one But how about that cast, huh? Friday Night Lights’ character present claimed. All of that fancy misdirecKyle Chandler is a mixture of brooding and upstandtion, and in the end it amounts to nothing. ing as John Rayburn, one of four heirs to a hotel TV

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Without a detailed familiarity with the various factions involved with the Irish Troubles in the 1970s, some parts of the thriller ’71 may be a little hard to follow. But director Yann Demange and writer Gregory Burke succeed at making those fine distinctions less important than the visceral danger that the main character, British soldier Gary Hook (Unbroken’s Jack O’Connell), is in from moment to moment, no matter who happens to be pursuing him. Hook gets separated from his unit on his first mission into the volatile war zone of 1971 Belfast, Northern Ireland, and has to figure out whom to trust as he attempts to make his way through unfamiliar streets and back to his barracks. Demange keeps the tension high throughout nearly the entire film, aaabc ’71 starting with the moJack O’Connell, ment Hook’s inexperiPaul Anderson, Richard Dormer. enced unit is deployed into the middle of a burDirected by geoning riot. Tracking Yann Demange. the shifting allegiances Rated R. among the secondary Opens Friday. characters can be a little difficult, but the disorientation mirrors Hook’s own confusion, as the people who seem the most trustworthy are often the first to betray him. Demange and Burke value thrills over political commentary, although Hook’s terrifying single-night ordeal proves equally effective at illustrating the inherent futility of the conflict. –Josh Bell

The Cobbler

Zombeavers

The Voices

The concept: Adam Sandler steps away from lowbrow comedies for an indie dramedy about a cobbler who can become anyone whose shoes he puts on.

The concept: Zombie. Beavers. Yep.

The concept: Cheerful, friendly Jerry (Ryan Reynolds) is actually a serial killer whose dog and cat talk to him (the cat tells him to kill, the dog tells him not to).

The reaction: Critics have been even less kind than they are to Sandler’s typical fare. Rolling Stone called it “beyond awful” and LA Weekly said it “invented a new category of terrible.”

The reaction: Surprisingly positive! It debuted at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where the LA Times said it had “fun moments” and “some clever awareness,” although Variety called it “an inspired idea in search of better gags and actors.”

The reaction: Although not as acclaimed as director Marjane Satrapi’s Oscar-nominated debut film Persepolis, it does hold a 77 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. –Josh Bell

A&E | noise C O N C E RT

> Good News Isaac Brock and Modest Mouse are back.

Five thoughts: A Place to Bury Strangers (March 12, Beauty Bar)

A L B U M | I n d i e R o ck

Familiar Strangers

modest mouse by John Shearer/AP; a place to bury strangers by spencer burton

Modest Mouse’s first LP in nearly a decade safely recalls its predecessors When a band goes eight years between albums, fans might justifiably expect new wrinkles, if not a complete sonic overhaul, when the long-awaited project finally lands. Not so for Modest Mouse, which stays well within its wheelhouse on sixth fulllength Strangers to Ourselves. And that’s not such a bad thing. The sprawling 15-song record plays like a surprisingly natural follow-up to 2007’s We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, which nudged the Washington-state favorites toward the mainstream in the wake of 2004 hit “Float On,” even as it stole glances back at more experimental early work. If anything, Strangers takes a few more stabs at the latter, like “Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996),” the harrowing—and gratingly constructed—tale of Gianni Versace’s serial killer (which somehow succeeds as a piece of re-listenable music) and repetitive shortie “God Is an Indian and You’re an Asshole” (which really doesn’t).

Most of Strangers’ 57-minute runtime, however, is given over to more comfortably late-era Mousey behavior, from first single “Lampshades on Fire,” a party-starter in the “Dashboard” mold, to pulsating six-minute mini-epic “The Ground aaacc Walks, With Time in a Box,” MODEST MOUSE seemingly designed to join Strangers to “Doin’ the Cockroach” and Ourselves “Tiny Cities Made of Ashes” as showstopping centerpieces in the band’s live repertoire. Better still are “The Tortoise and the Tourist,” featuring leader Isaac Brock’s familiar calm-verse/ yelping-chorus vocal pattern, and “Ansel,” the true story of Brock’s brother’s death in a hiking accident. As with every Modest Mouse record, there are skippable tracks (the dull “Be Brave”) along with a certain sense of sameness (haven’t we heard “The Best Room” somewhere before?), and nothing here approaches the band’s absolute best work, oldies like “Cowboy Dan” and “Never Ending Math Equation” and more recent triumphs like “Spitting Venom.” Yet to an extent, Strangers to Ourselves still succeeds, as a reminder that some bands don’t need to change to maintain our attention. –Spencer Patterson

Ranging from a fuzzed-out ’90s feel to a more restrained slowcore style, Philadelphia fourpiece Creepoid primes the sizable outdoor crowd nicely for the hypnotic headliners to come. APTBS instantly fills the Downtown air with sound—not as ear-crushingly loud as during the Brooklyn band’s epic ’08 Vegas debut, but enough to leave a post-show buzz, despite having earplugs in place throughout. The mix is spot-on, with Oliver Ackermann’s guitar, Dion Lunadon’s bass and Robi Gonzalez’s drums all occupying the exact right amount of space. Lunadon often drives the melody down low, pairing with Gonzalez to create the throbbing heart of what could, in other hands, be a pop song, while Ackermann washes swirling, distorted layers over the top. Around the midpoint, the three men gather near the stage’s center and build an electronic pulse that borders on danceable. Over the next 10 minutes, the piece transforms from the show’s most accessible number to its noisiest—impressive range from a group famous for delirious sonic assaults. From strobing lights to fog clouds to psychedelic videos, theatricality plays a significant role in APTBS’ live approach, yet the trio pulls off arty without seeming pretentious. It feels like we’re watching a passionate garage band, one with access to superior audio and visual equipment. In a somewhat surreal episode, longtime booker Ruben Rodriguez—recently replaced in that role by Beauty Bar’s owners—ascends to the stage between songs. He speaks to Ackermann, wanders around a bit and then shouts something into the mic. Kudos to the band for being so tolerant of the intrusion, and kudos to Rodriguez for the many memorable shows he’s staged at the venue these past few years. –Spencer Patterson

ALBUM | Indie Pop

Twin Shadow Eclipse aaacc Twin Shadow, aka R&B-tinged mad electro-rock scientist George Lewis Jr., has always had designs on being more than a mere retro revivalist or indie-leaning New Waver. That’s evident on his major label debut Eclipse, which finds Lewis blooming into a powerful mainstream soul-pop vocalist on the level of Sam Smith or Patrick Stump. “When the Lights Turn Out,” the Peter Gabriel-esque “I’m Ready” and especially the Drake-reminiscent standout “Flatliners”—a dynamic, piano-speckled plea about salvaging a fractured relationship—are dramatic, manicured ballads tailor-made for the Top 40. Twin Shadow’s bid for pop’s brass ring sometimes feels generic rather than transcendent, though; the string-laced “To the Top,” in particular, sounds like any number of songs released in recent years. Eclipse’s more oddball moments—the distorted synthrock burst “Watch Me Go,” upbeat ’90s house jam “Old Love/New Love” and “Alone,” a lovely R&B duet with Lily Elise—strike a better balance between innovation and tradition. –Annie Zaleski

March 19-25, 2015 LasVegasWeekly.com

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> Trade show Voorhees and his flock celebrate at Hard Hat.

New Experience The Beat’s longtime open mic moves to the Center

LO C A L S C E N E

Where Creepshow meets Cool

North Las Vegas rapper Trade Voorhees unleashes his latest LP by LESLIE VENTURA

know it’d end up killing her right there.” Then it’s back to Voorhees’ upbeat self, “I’ma be the coolest mother*cker on Earth,” he raps, like that murder-y stuff never happened. “I don’t want people to take away that this is some Insane Clown Posse, I want to chop you up into little pieces [thing],” Voorhees says. “I’m not Brotha Lynch. I [ just] find horror movies fascinating enough to the point that I want to write about them.” One track even uses the title credits from Creepshow 2, one of his childhood favorites. But beyond Voorhees’ creep factor stands a smart, tightly produced album full of deep bass, jazzy samples, looping vocals and the hazy vibe that made Kid Cudi a household name. Like some sort of hangover daydream, Voorhees’ LP somehow manages to be boisterous and carefree, disturbing and gritty—all at the same time.

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A small crowd sits attentively among the stark-white walls of Blackbird Studios. At the front of the room, Coastwest Unrest performs an intimate set, powered by political and religious imagery and bursting beyond any specific genre. Blues. Americana. Hip-hop. Jazz. Brothers Noah (vocals/guitar/harmonica) and Josh (drums) Dickie spring-load the show with a multitude of layers and elements—and there are just two of them. Watching Noah effortlessly sing, strum the guitar and play the harmonica strapped to his neck—while his brother holds everything together with fluid beats—it’s clear coordination runs in the Dickie family. ¶ Before Coastwest began, New England author Michael T. Fournier delivered a reading from his sophomore novel, Swing State. And though the gig seems like an unlikely pairing, Coastwest and Fournier have actually been sharing the stage on and off since they met in Maine five years ago. Tonight’s Blackbird set marks their sixth show together. “I think we’re just cut from the same cloth,” Noah says. Fournier also wrote an installment in the 33 1/3 series on classic Minutemen album Double Nickels on the Dime. “He’s really into punk rock. We’re not a traditional punk-rock band, but I think it ultimately stems back to the spirit of the punk-rock scene, and he’s very much into that.” ¶ Coastwest Unrest’s upcoming LP, Black Desert Sweet Mojave, will be out in June. –Leslie Ventura

Power duo

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trade voorhees by spencer burton; human experience by serena perkins; coastwest unrest by bill hughes

Trade Voorhees is surrounded by a circle of faces chanting his lyrics. “In Northtown, the dude’s like a god,” local rapper Hassan explains. It’s Friday night at the Hard Hat Lounge, and Voorhees’ fans are here supporting his midnight drop of an untitled LP. “Vegas, what’s up?” he shouts, triggering another callback from the folks at his feet. Then the set ends, his entourage follows him—where he goes, they go. Voorhees’ new album (available through tradevoorhees.com) features some chilled-out tracks, but the ones that truly stand out are more subversive—like the tribute to Psycho’s Norman Bates or a song about a boy accidentally killing his mother. “They kept me in this box/’cause they think I killed my mom/Stuck inside solitary since I was 7/But was I wrong?/She would beat and mistreat me/I just pushed her off some stairs/I didn’t

It’s Monday night and the Beat is packed— and not because of some secret DJ set or Elijah Wood spotting. The Downtown coffee shop has been like this most Mondays for the past five years, bringing in local poets, musicians and community members for an open-mic night called the Human Experience. Tonight marks the Experience’s final night inside the Beat, however, so attendees preface poems and songs with warm farewells to its longtime home. By the time you read this, the open mic will have already debuted at its new digs—inside the Center. Co-host Misty Reign says the LGBTQ hub was chosen partly because it can accommodate more guests. “The Beat was the absolute perfect place for us when we first started, but the crowd has grown so much,” she explains. Besides the addition of an actual stage, the move also means Human Experience will be 18-and-over, rather than 21-plus, moving forward. “We’ll be able to grow even more as a HUMAN community, because we’ll EXPERIENCE be able to include so many Mondays, other people,” Reign says. 7-11:30 p.m. (signOtherwise, she says, Huups at 6:30 p.m.), man Experience will remain free. The Center, largely the same, providing 702-733-9800. a safe, creative space for artists to share their work without judgment (part of the “respect the mic” philosophy). “It was the only place I really felt comfortable being myself,” says Reign, who began attending the Experience in its earliest stages. “I met people who pushed me to be a better artist. I was attracted to this environment, and I’ve been there ever since.” –Leslie Ventura

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> funny business Penn & Teller can now claim the best use of cow ever.

T H E K AT S R E P O RT

Elsie and the vanishing man

photograph by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

A slimmer Penn & Teller add new tricks to their show—one of which cost half a million bucks By John Katsilometes Creating an act that took six years to develop and cost upwards of $500,000 is, in and of itself, a remarkable feat. This is true even for Penn & Teller, who have never allowed their stage show to grow stale, even for a moment. The new, four-minute trick, dubbed the Vanishing African Spotted Pygmy Elephant Act, is the latest inspired misadventure presented onstage at the Rio’s Penn & Teller Theater. This is not a real elephant. That must be understood. Rather, it is a cow named Elsie, affixed with plastic elephant ears and a fairly convincing trunk. Elsie is presented after a video clip, 20 audience members are invited to the stage, the ears and trunk fall away and—after milking a bit of drama—Elsie disappears from sight. The crowd’s response is a happy blend of laughing and cheering. All this for half a million bucks. The act is not fiscally responsible, but P&T are hardly worried about the balance sheet. It all works out in the end, as long as the duo remains true to their shared artistic vision. “The one thing we’ve never done in our show is an act with large livestock,” Jillette says. “I wanted to do it. I had been saying for years, ‘We’ve got to do something with a cow,’ and with this act, we have the wonderful combination of disappointment and amazement.” If the arrival of Elsie were the only update in Penn & Teller’s career, it would be worth a return to their show. But as has been evident throughout a 40-year partnership, there is never just one act or one show or one project to unearth. The two men are endlessly

developing, creating, disappearing and reappearing, and most obvious in this process is the physical form of Jillette himself. The audible member of the act has dropped more than 100 pounds since last fall, and stands now at about 225 pounds on a 6-foot-7 frame after embarking on a diet that eliminated all animal products, salt, fat, oil and refined grains. He consumes fresh fruits and vegetables, corn, rice and “a wicked-lot amount of Brussels sprouts, potatoes and spinach.” Despite having turned 60 this month, Jillette’s new energy level has him taking steps at his home, the notorious “Slammer,” three at a time. Remedied, as if by magic, is the arthritis in his thumbs and the eczema on his skin from living for three decades in the desert climate of Las Vegas. “Everything is so much better now, I’m embarrassed at how terrible I felt before.” Jillette’s stamina boost will serve him well in the next few months. But before the summer hits, there’s the niggling matter of banking a season of the Penn & Teller CW series, Fool Us. The hour-long show, in which magicians attempt to perform a trick or act the duo cannot figure out, was originally a hit in England, and this is its second season on U.S. television. Should anyone “fool” P&T, he or she wins a spot as opening act for the show at the Rio. The upcoming season will be taped onstage during April at the Rio, with 13 episodes to be recorded in 10 days. Fool Us is how Piff the Magic Dragon and his tiny-pooch sidekick, Mr. Piffles, wound up in Vegas, incidentally. His real name is Jon van der Put, and he

long but not nearly as visually dynamhelped develop the Vanishing African ic, is the Atheist’s Deck of Cards (a Spotted Pygmy Elephant Act. In this takeoff on the spoken-word religious segment, Elsie is introduced after a number from the late-1940s, “The slickly produced video clip showing her Deck of Cards,” as recited by a soldier at home at the “Secret Pasture of Penn who uses the deck as his own bible). & Teller.” Twenty audience members Jillette wrote a lengthy script for the are summoned to the stage and gather act, and also learned to play six chords around a platform with a reed-covered on the guitar to use as a soundtrack roof, made to look like a hut in the as Teller works through a dense but African wilderness. Penn & Teller don satisfying piece based on the safari costumes (at least the work of theoretical physicist hats) and manage to remain Lawrence Krauss. steadfastly serious through- PENN & TELLER On a Vegas stage, eight out the elaborate farce. Saturday“You can’t say, ‘This is a Wednesday, 9 p.m., minutes is an eternity. You can easily quaff a pint of PBR Podunk thing we’re doing, $83-$105. Rio, in that time. But the P&T because Siegfried & Roy 702-777-2782. audience stays with this trick, made tigers disappear, we’re all the way to the end. “It’s doing it with a cow,’ because not what they expect, but it’s okay,” then you’ve lost the creative tension. Jillette says. “They leave thinking, But if we do it right we have this ‘The elephant, the atheist card trick … moment of huge disappointment, Copperfield’s never going to do that.” then the response that the crowd gets And the slimming ringleader laughs, that it is a comedy piece. They get the knowing that what he’s said is funny joke, and it’s not really a magic piece.” and, as always, right on the mark. Another new act, nearly twice as

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Nothing f *cking hurts anymore. What’s more important for My lower back kind of hurts, but a comedian, being hilarious or that’s pretty much it.” having a strong point of view? This is where Cummings is in Many industry insiders will tell her life. She’s largely successful. you it’s the latter. If a comedian She’s confident. And by slumhas a distinct point of view, it can ming it with men who don’t have be honed, branded and eventualtheir act together, she puts herly, in one form or another, money self in awkward situations. Like (and maybe hilarity) will folthe argument she had with some low. Whitney Cummings brings schlub who thought she might be a clear POV to the stage. She’s trying to get pregnant. “Trust me, monetized it many times over. if I got pregnant with your child Luckily, she’s also really funny. my lawyer would come over and Cummings knows who she terminate that sh*t himis, and she’s comfortself. Don’t you worry, I able with it. This security don’t want a white baby ... opens her act up to lots of aaacc When I want a baby, I will topics. Instead of lame- WHITNEY ly joking about how she CUMMINGS go to Africa and buy one like an adult.” couldn’t get a date, the 2 March 14, There were certain Broke Girls co-creator dis- Venetian. exaggerations that didn’t cussed how her success work. When Cummings feigned has made it harder to date. She shock at the depravity of men’s used to be poor and dated guys sexual desires today, it was as if who could pay for her: “I now this was news to her. But she has understand why you hate us. It’s always played around with edgy because we owe you so much subjects, so drawing a line in the f *cking money.” sand was unnecessary. At the end Cummings often appeared on of the night, Cummings told the Chelsea Lately, and like the host crowd she’s working on material of that show, Chelsea Handler, for an upcoming HBO special. her age is central to her perThe jokes aren’t all there yet, but sona. Gone are the days where with this point of view, by the she’ll tell a man, “Your dick is time the special airs, it’s likely to so big, it hurts.” She continues, make her a lot more money. “It doesn’t hurt. I’m in my 30s.

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> SAYING GOODBYE Supporters wave to President Kennedy’s barricade moments before he is killed; (below) mourners view Bobby Kennedy’s body as it passes by train.

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Deborah Aschheim’s Kennedy Obsession focuses on the people watching the president By Kristen Peterson In mining historical archives for Kennedy-era photographs, artist Deborah Aschheim bypassed images of the famous family, opting instead for the crowds caught up in the reverie and spirit of Kennedy fever. In Kennedy Obsession, on display at UNLV’s Barrick Museum, her large-scale drawings (based on historical photographs) return to life the national optimism of the time and a pre-Nixon respect for public office. But how those moments are recalled is the thrust of Aschheim’s work. As she notes about memory, “every act of retrieval is an act of recoding.” Long invested in memory-based projects and residencies (including those dealing with dementia patients), the artist continually explores the mental processes of remembering by collecting stories. She’s interested in the recent past, such as the Kennedy years, because it exists somewhere between memory, history and myth. The detailed ink drawings in Kennedy Obsession create an intimate connection for the viewer, bringing past to present. But eerily, we know we have information that those featured didn’t have at the time, offering us a more complex interpretation of particular moments. For example, “November 22, 1963 (Main Street)” shows an exhilarated crowd lined up roadside in the bright sunlight to see President Kennedy and his motorcade. The drawing is made from a photo taken just minutes before Kennedy’s car turned into Dealey Plaza, where he would be assassinated. Other images show Kennedy greeting crowds, whether on travels to Latin America or on the White House lawn—posed photo ops of enamored voters or science students meeting the Commander in Chief. Mourners pay respect to the late Bobby Kennedy as his body travels past by train. The drawings, made from rarely seen photographs, some

In 2010 artist David Sanchez Burr launched a project based on the idea of a community broadcasting itself in real time, an art experience reliant on chance and audience participation. He provided the instruments and other sound devices, the audience interacted and the project evolved, moving from Sequoia National Park to galleries and art spaces in Las Vegas and Tennessee. Next month the itinerant radio station heads to (re)happening, a celebrated experimental art event in North Carolina at the site of the legendary and short-lived Black Mountain College, where in 1952 John Cage held what is considered to be the first Happening in the United States. As one of 80 participating artists from around the world, Sanchez Burr will attach speakers playing the live broadcast to helium balloons released into the forest—a perfect fit for (re)happening, built on chance and observer participation. Then it returns to Las Vegas, where on April 18 and 19 the artist will be the Neon Museum’s first artist in residence, installing portable radios in the museum’s second Boneyard for a live visitor-created field of sound that will broadcast through the facility in a lowfrequency FM transmission. This time, the instruments will be accompanied by visitors talking about the museum’s historic signs using provided text or their own memories. The family-friendly artist residency, a collaboration between the Neon Museum and the Barrick Museum (which will later exhibit the instruments and audio recordings), is designed to be an annual event featuring artists whose children influence or participate in their work. For Sanchez Burr, it’s another opportunity to bring the community into art making in which the social dynamic, however it plays out, is a main ingredient. –Kristen Peterson

taken from contact sheets and not yet digitized, focus on the people rather than the Kennedys. For them, the memory is more monumental and lifelong, Aschheim says. But to whom the “obsession” belongs is open-ended. For Aschheim, the Kennedy era represents a mythical time, the end of optimism and the point in her childhood when her memories were beginning to fully develop. But it was so defining in people’s lives that a San Francisco clinic dealing with memory (where Aschheim was an artist in residence) asks patients where they were when Kennedy was assassinated as part of a neurological exam. “That’s how big it is,” she says, that it implies “if you can’t remember that, then something’s wrong.” KENNEDY OBSESSION Through June 6; MondayFriday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (Thursday until 8 p.m.); Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Barrick Museum, 702-895-3381. Opening reception March 20, 6-8 p.m.

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Born in Japan but raised in England, Kazuo Ishiguro has the unique ability to view British culture from within and without. The Booker Prize-winning 1988 novel that set his fame, The Remains of the Day, was written “in the pitch-perfect voice of an English butler,” as Susannah Hunnewell put it in The Paris Review, but it neatly isolated the flaws both in the man and the social system he served so punctiliously. Ishiguro’s earlier novels were set in Japan, so Remains surprised some readers. But characters and conundrums predominate in Ishiguro’s work. “For me, the essence doesn’t lie in the setting,” he said in his 2008 interview with Hunnewell. He said he was writing “a novel about how societies remember and forget,” and had rejected postwar France because it would be “a book about France.” He chose, instead, post-Roman England, circa 450, when the Anglo-Saxons either exterminated or assimilated the Celts. In The Buried Giant, Britons and Saxons live in uneasy peace, Christian Britons in earthen warrens and pagan Saxons in stockade villages, in a land ters speak decorously and cautiously of real and imagined dangers, such gauge whom to trust and what is owed as a dragon who is thought to have aaaac afflicted everyone with “the mist,” or THE BURIED one another as intrigues play out and truths about their quests emerge. loss of memory. An old couple, Axl and GIANT But just as a postwar Parisian setBeatrice, set out from their Briton vilby Kazuo ting would have prescribed aspects of lage to find their son but also to recover Ishiguro, the narrative, Anglo-Saxon England who they were and are. They learn $26.95. shapes this one. The entwined quests about themselves, in action and memform a fable analogizing memory, ory, amid the episodes of their quest, oblivion and revenge. Along the way, it hints as it intersects with those of two heroic figures, that perception makes memory, both for people a young Saxon warrior named Wistan and the and peoples. Fable as a literary form by nature aged Gawain, nephew of Arthur. It appears lacks subtlety, but Ishiguro deftly sustains a Wistan and Gawain are on the same quest, but vivid and absorbing story whose metaphors Wistan has rescued a 12-year-old boy who has fully resolve only at the end. yet another, seeking his missing mother. Ishiguro tells these tales partly as omniFind more by Chuck Twardy at scient narrator and partly in third- or firstchucktwardy.com. person character point-of-view. His charac-

Big Hard Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky, Image Comics, March. ∑ This double-entendre collection of one of the most unusual books on the stands is indeed big and hard: Its pages are bigger than those of the monthly issues, it collects all 10 to date for a page count topping 250 and, of course, it’s hardcover. The story? Just your typical heist comic. In which the two protagonists have the power to stop time. But only when they orgasm.

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Archie vs. Predator #1 by Alex de Campi, Fernando Ruiz & Rich Koslowski, Dark Horse Comics, April. ∑ In the tradition of 1994’s The Punisher Meets Archie comes an even more unlikely crossover, in which the badass space monster best known for hunting future governors and Aliens-with-a-capital-A comes to Riverdale to hunt the least dangerous game: Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica. It’s a four-issue miniseries, so the matchup can’t possibly be as one-sided as it sounds. Groo Vs. Conan by Mark Evanier, Sergio Aragonés & Thomas Yeates, Dark Horse Comics, April. ∑ This is a crossover so obvious that it’s almost shocking it didn’t happen earlier. Aragonés’ Conan-parody character Groo, created in 1982 and going from publisher to publisher over the years, finally crosses swords with Conan himself, now that both are with the same publisher. While it flatters Groo fans more than Conan fans, its sheer weirdness makes it broadly appealing. SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki, Drawn & Quarterly, May. ∑ Tamaki’s This One Summer recently became the first graphic novel to receive a Caldecott. This one’s a bit … different. Set in a prep school that’s half Hogwarts and half Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, Academy balances sarcastic afterschoolspecial setups with superhero genre jokes, all involving characters whose weird appearances and powers mask just how hilariously teenaged they are. –J. Caleb Mozzocco

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One is the tastiest number Why Las Vegas is the absolute best place to dine alone By Andy Wang There’s no better place than Las Vegas, a city with no limits and no judgments, to dine alone. Once, while I was playing in a poker tournament, my wife took a comp I’d received playing cards, went by herself to the bar at Michael Mina Bellagio and ordered a special tasting menu with wine pairings. Being a solo diner got her extra attention, even though she was mostly happy to read The New Yorker quietly as she sipped Qupé wines. The bartender gave her an extra generous pour of Syrah, which caused a manager to raise his eyebrows. But after he walked away without saying anything, my wife beamed at the bartender. “Don’t worry,” she told him. “I tip in cash.” She drank extremely well the entire meal. I have a friend who likes to eat alone at Wing Lei before meeting friends at SW Steakhouse. He’ll order at least two Wing Lei entrées for himself and tell the staff he’s in a hurry because he has to be at dinner in 45 minutes, and they’ll just smile like this makes complete sense, which it does, but only in Vegas. Eating alone has involved me doing things

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like: cutting my waiting time at Palace Station’s Oyster Bar down to 15 minutes during a holiday weekend; ordering 8 a.m. spaghetti Bolognese at Café Bellagio; eating miso clams off the specials menu while sitting at Raku’s counter at 2 a.m. to decompress after a good showing in a poker tournament; watching the Super Bowl while eating chicken curry at Simon and realizing I had met one of the other solo diners at Jasmine, where she was working on a night that ended in Phil Ivey and Irv Gotti coercing me into drinking too much absinthe. All of this might sound like bragging, but who cares? Vegas is a city built on being willfully overthe-top. And no place is better at merging excess and grace than Wynn, so it’s no surprise that my top pick for solo dining is the bar at Bartolotta Ristorante di Mare. It’s no secret that Paul Bartolotta, with his fish that flies commercial and his mysteriously sourced langoustines, serves seafood nobody else has. It’s also no secret that the chef’s tasting menus, in which he dazzles tables with fritto misto and perfect pastas and hard-to-find whole

fish and lobsters before instructing servers to “blanket the table” with an insane assortment of gelato, sorbet and granita, are one reason that high rollers visit again and again. Sitting at Bartolotta’s bar is a different experience that can be just as special. If you’re lucky, Rich, a bear of a man who’s one of the city’s finest bartenders, will be standing in front of you. He’ll know when to ask you questions, when to make friendly conversation and when to leave you alone. My order is usually an appetizer plate of sautéed clams or fried Mediterranean fish followed by a pasta, maybe spaghetti with Sardinian bottarga or rigatoni with scorpion fish. Or when I’m feeling especially frisky, I’ll see if the kitchen will make me spaghetti topped with those famous langoustines. The whole meal is always flawless and always takes less than an hour, even when I feel like lingering and having a leisurely chat with Rich. And then I’m done, ready to go meet friends at whatever restaurant or bar or club they’re at, knowing that it’s already been a great night and not worrying about what’s going to happen next.

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Asian variety might mean mostly Japanese, but that’s a good thing at this new Chinatown spot BY JIM BEGLEY I feel like I’m living out Groundhog Day. It seems like every other week I’m professing the virtues of yet another up-and-coming Japanese restaurant, a testimonial to the recent influence of the Land of the Rising Sun on our culinary scene. Inyo Asian Variety, located in the space formerly occupied by Buldogis and Maple Tree Café, is yet another welcome addition to our Chinatown. But this one is a wee bit different than the others. As its name suggests, Inyo offers dishes from China, Korea and Thailand, with, of course, some stuff from Japan. With stints as executive chef at both Cosmo’s Blue Ribbon and the former Little Buddha at the Palms, chef Gregg Fortunato has some serious Asian chops, so it’s no surprise the menu wanders across the Far East. But “Asian Variety” is still a bit of a misnomer; outside of a handful of dishes, we’re really talking about another Japanese restaurant. Sure, Inyo’s shrimp shumai ($7) are as good as you’ll find on any dim sum cart in town, while the Thai chicken wings ($5 for four) are sufficiently funkified with fish sauce for a flavor profile you probably haven’t encountered. Of the two fried rice options, the smoky scrambled egg-topped crab is more successful than the muddled oxtail (both $8). Best of all are salt and pepper prawns ($7), an entrancing dish. Be sure to eat the whole prawn, because all the flavor is concentrated in the chitinous shell and gooey head, an intense flavor bomb. Still, the emphasis is on Japanese cuisine, and that’s where the chef excels. Do not miss out on the yari ika ($14), which is simply an epiphany—a lightly charred, grilled whole squid basted in ridiculously good gar-

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lic-soy butter. It’s a shame the dish isn’t served with a side of rice to sop it all up. Fortunato’s tako carpaccio ($8) presentation is befitting a chef with Strip experience; the octopus dish is as visually appealing as it is crisply flavored. Black cod sukiyoyaki ($12) rivals Nobu’s renowned rendition at a fraction of the price, while sizzling sake sashimi ($8) surprises with hints of heat from the sesame oil. As good as the rest of the menu is, there’s no need to wander toward the kushi skewers, which seem to be available anywhere along Spring Mountain Road these days, although the togarashi-infused salt served with these is quite a treat. Now that Inyo has its liquor license, you can enjoy a Tokyo Black Porter along with your yari ika. That’s something worth doing over and over and over again.

Combine Deep Eddy vodka, Jägermeister Spice, simple syrup and lemon juice in a shaker. Cover and shake well. Pour contents into a tall glass over ice and top with Brooklyn Lager. Garnish with orange peel.

March Madness is in full swing, which means basketball, betting and booze. This drink is an update on the party staple: beer, lemonade and vodka punch. The Brooklyn Lager adds an extra dimension of flavor, while smooth caramel malts carry you to the finish. This drink is as potent as one could hope, while upholding the dignity of an adult cocktail.

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

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A&E | Short Takes Special screenings Boozy Movie Wednesdays Wed, 8 pm, free with cocktail purchase, 21+. 3/25, Snatch. Inspire Theater, 107 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-489-9110. The Divergent Series Double Feature 3/19, Divergent, Insurgent, times vary, $18-$22. Theaters: AL, CH, FH, GVR, ORL, PAL, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Drake’s Homecoming 3/19, Drake concert from 2009 at Toronto’s Sound Academy, 7:30 pm, $10.50-$12.50. Theaters: ORL, SF, SP, ST. Info: fathomevents.com. Erotic Movie Night Fri, 7 pm, free. Erotic Heritage Museum, 3275 Industrial Road, 702-794-4000. Four Blood Moons 3/23, film based on book by Pastor John Hagee, 7:30 pm, $10.50-$12.50. Theaters: CAN, COL, ORL, SF, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. Midnight Brewvies Mon, movie plus popcorn, midnight, free. Elixir, 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, Henderson, 702-272-0000. > praise the lord Brian Bosworth in Do You Believe? Rear Window 3/22, 3/25, film plus recorded intro by TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz, 2 & 7 pm, $10.50-$12.50. Theaters: COL, ORL, SF, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. The Royal Ballet Cinema Season 3/19, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, 7 pm, $16-$18. Theaters: COL, SF, SP, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. Sci Fi Center Mon, Cinemondays, 8 pm, free. 3/21, Aliens, 8 pm, $3. 3/22, Charlotte’s Web (2006), noon, $5 suggested donation for V Animal Sanctuary. 5077 Arville St., 702-792-4335, thescificenter.com. Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou Tue, 1 pm, free. 3/24, To Kill a Mockingbird. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.

New this week ’71 aaabc Jack O’Connell, Paul Anderson, Richard Dormer. Directed by Yann Demange. 99 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 42. Theaters: GVR, VS Do You Believe? (Not reviewed) Ted McGinley, Mira Sorvino, Andrea Logan White. Directed by Jonathan M. Gunn. 115 minutes. Rated PG-13. A pastor goes on a journey to renew his faith. Theaters: BS, COL, RR, SC, SP, TS, TX The Gunman aabcc Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba. Directed by Pierre Morel. 115 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 41. Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, DTS, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX Insurgent aabcc Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet. Directed by Robert Schwentke. 119 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 41. Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS

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Aislinn Derbez, Mauricio Ochmann, Papile Aurora. Directed by Pedro Pablo Ibarra. 106 minutes. Rated PG-13. In Spanish with English subtitles. A woman whose job is to flirt with men to test their fidelity falls for her latest target. Theaters: ST, TX 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, GVR, ORL, PAL, RR, SC, SHO, TX Big Hero 6 aabcc Voices of Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, T.J. Miller. Directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams. 108 minutes. Rated PG. Based loosely on an obscure Marvel comic book, this Disney animated adventure features a bright, friendly world and some exciting action sequences, plus a very entertaining character in cuddly robot Baymax. But its superhero-team origin story is bland and familiar, with Scooby-Doo-level plotting and underdeveloped characters. –JB Theaters: TC 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, VS Black or White aaccc Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer, Jillian

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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: VS The Boy Next Door abccc Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, John Corbett. Directed by Rob Cohen. 91 minutes. Rated R. After one ill-advised night of carnal passion, a middle-aged teacher (Lopez) finds herself being stalked by her hunky, unstable neighbor (Guzman). With its painfully obvious plot twists and moronic characters, Boy is so terrible that it’s actually quite funny at times, thanks especially to Guzman’s intensely wooden performance. –JB Theaters: TC Chappie AACCC Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Ninja, Yolandi Visser. Directed by Neill Blomkamp. 120 minutes. Rated R. Writer-director Blomkamp (District 9) proves to be a one-hit wonder with his third feature, about a future police robot given artificial intelligence. Chappie is inconsistent, overreaching and often preachy, the second movie in a row in which Blomkamp demonstrates visual flair but fails at both social commentary and basic storytelling. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, TS, TX Cinderella aabcc Lily James, Richard Madden, Cate Blanchett. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. 105 minutes. Rated PG. Branagh’s live-action remake of the 1950 Disney animated classic about a downtrodden girl who falls in love with a prince is a straightforward retelling of the fairy tale, without any twists or stylistic innovations. It’s a lavish production, but it’s also dramatically inert, led by a pair of good-looking but forgettable actors. –JB

Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX Crazy Beautiful You (Not reviewed) Kathryn Bernardo, Daniel Padilla, Lorna Tolentino. Directed by Mae Cruz-Alviar. 114 minutes. Not rated. In Filipino with English subtitles. A spoiled young woman is forced to join her mother on a medical mission, where she falls in love with a wholesome young man. Theaters: VS The Duff AAACC Mae Whitman, Robbie Amell, Bella Thorne. Directed by Ari Sandel. 101 minutes. Rated PG-13. It may be based on an idiotic catch phrase (the “designated ugly fat friend”), but The Duff is a fairly clever and heartfelt teen comedy about an awkward nerd (Whitman) who enlists her jock neighbor (Amell) to give her a makeover and, of course, falls in love in the process. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CH, COL, ORL, RR, SF, SP, TS, TX Fifty Shades of Grey acccc Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eloise Mumford. 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, GVR, ORL, PAL, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, TS Focus aaabc Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Adrian Martinez. Directed by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra. 104 minutes. Rated R. Smith and Robbie have fantastic chemistry as a pair of con artists in this glossy, uneven drama. The movie’s first half is playful and sly, but the second half is less successful, building up the suspense and then pulling back the curtain a few too many times. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, ST, TS, TX, VS 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: GVR, ST, VS 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 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: COL, SC 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 (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,

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first wife (Jones). –MD Theaters: TC, VS

The Lazarus Effect AACCC Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass, Sarah Bolger. Directed by David Gelb. 83 minutes. Rated PG-13. A talented cast is wasted in this moronic horror movie about medical researchers attempting to bring people back from the dead. Once they do, something evil comes back, too, stalking the characters through underlit, sparse sets in predictable fashion. –JB Theaters: AL, CH, DI, ORL, PAL, RR, SF, SS, ST, TS, TX

Unfinished Business abccc Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco, Tom Wilkinson. Directed by Ken Scott. 91 minutes. Rated R. Vaughn continues his losing streak with this alternately obnoxious and maudlin (and consistently unfunny) comedy about three businessmen on a crazy business trip to Germany. The movie itself often feels unfinished, with erratic pacing, jarring tonal shifts and jokes that get cut off before they can play out. –JB Theaters: COL, FH, PAL, RR, SC, ST, TS

McFarland, USA aabcc Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Carlos Pratts. Directed by Niki Caro. 128 minutes. Rated PG. Costner’s weary, livedin performance as a high-school coach is the best thing about this predictable underdog sports drama, based on the true story of a cross-country team from the impoverished, primarily Latino central California town of McFarland that achieved surprising success in the late 1980s. –JB Theaters: CH, COL, FH, ORL, RR, SP, ST, TX, TS, VS

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

Mr. Turner aaabc Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey. Directed by Mike Leigh. 150 minutes. Rated R. Spall plays painter J.M.W. Turner in Leigh’s sprawling, unconventional biopic, 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, and sometimes all at the same time. –JB Theaters: VS Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb aaccc Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Dan Stevens. Directed by Shawn Levy. 98 minutes. Rated PG. Made from the “kids-won’t-care-how-badly-weslapped-this-thing-together” school of filmmaking, the third movie in the Night at the Museum series brings the usual cast to London to save their magic tablet. The movie brings up ideas and lets them drop, clumsy cutting ruins most of the jokes, and visual effects are plentiful and lifeless. –JMA Theaters: TC 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: COL, DI, SC Red Army aaacc Directed by Gabe Polsky. 76 minutes. Rated PG. Polsky’s documentary about the Soviet national hockey team ends up mostly focused on one man, the entertainingly combative Viacheslav “Slava” Fetisov. It’s a little disappointing that Polsky gives limited screen time to other players, but what Red Army loses in comprehensiveness, it makes up for in entertainment value. –JB Theaters: SC Run All Night aaacc Liam Neeson, Joel Kinnaman, Ed Harris. Directed by Jaume ColletSerra. 114 minutes. Rated R. Neeson plays an aging hitman on the run with his estranged son (Kinnaman), dodging gangsters and cops, over the course of one long night. Director

> making an entrance Lily James as Cinderella.

Collet-Serra concocts some sludgy, thrown-together action scenes, but he has an appreciation for actors, and the scenes between old-time wiseguys Neeson and Harris have a touching shorthand. –JMA Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DI, DTS, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel aabcc Dev Patel, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench. Directed by John Madden. 122 minutes. Rated PG. Nearly all of the characters return for the continuing story of a ramshackle retirement home for British pensioners in India. The storylines are mostly half-hearted, centered on the romantic couplings that blossomed in the previous movie. The talented actors make the experience pleasant enough, even if it drags on for too long. –JB Theaters: BS, DTS, FH, GVR, ORL, SC, SF, SP Selma aaabc David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Carmen Ejogo. Directed by Ava DuVernay. 127 minutes. Rated PG-13. Selma is a sometimes powerful, sometimes stilted look at the 1965 march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Oyelowo) from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama to rally for voting rights for African-Americans. The filmmakers create a sense of real life being lived, rather than just facts and figures being dramatized. –JB Theaters: CAN, COL, FH, ORL, PAL, SP, ST, TS, TX, 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: ST, VS 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, CH, COL, DI, FH, ORL, PAL, RR, ST, TS, 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-ofthe-week movie. –MD Theaters: GVR, ST, VS

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: TC

What We Do in the Shadows aaacc Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh. Directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi. 86 minutes. Not rated. Clement and Waititi (Flight of the Conchords) bring a familiar understated, deadpan humor to the story of three vampires who live together in a rundown house in Wellington, New Zealand. Even when the laughs get less frequent, they continue through to the end, with plenty of quotable lines. –JB Theaters: VS Whiplash aaabc Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser. Directed by Damien Chazelle. 107 minutes. Rated R. Teller plays an aspiring jazz drummer who has either the good or bad fortune to fall under the tutelage of a sadistic teacher-conductor (Simmons). There’s not much to the film apart from their weird sort of S&M relationship, but with two lead actors this formidable, that’s enough. –MD Theaters: VS

Taken 3 abccc Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Forest

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 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

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

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> FLYING IN Lockwood (third from right) and A Lot Like Birds play Eagle Aerie Hall on Sunday.

THREE QUESTIONS WITH A LOT LIKE BIRDS VOCALIST CORY LOCKWOOD

And then we laid the album out with the entrance being the first track going through the hallway and ending with the room with no purpose, the idea that many homes have a room that nobody really uses anymore. I wanted that to be the closer.

Each song on your latest album No Place represents a room in a house. Can you explain that concept?

nitely was nerve-racking, because it is a little more unconventional. It’s hard to get people to wrap their heads around the concept, like, “Here’s a new single, completely out of context!” But it worked. We were thrilled with how many people picked it up. It did have that mystery of, “Here’s a song that’s one room of the house, go check out the rest of it.” –Chris Bitonti

We had been touring pretty extensively—seven, eight, nine months out of the year—so the idea of home became really foreign to us. I wanted to explore the idea of what a home really means and to break it down room by room. How did that process work? [Guitarist] Michael Franzino and I would sit down and pick a room, a bathroom or a bedroom or the kitchen, and I would tell him my ideas. For instance, for the living room I wanted to discuss the irony in calling it a living room, because obviously if you’re spending all your time in your living room you’re not really living. With the basement, how isolated and creepy it is—it’s the only un-homey part of a home.

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Was it hard to sell a concept record to your label, given the way sales have shifted to singles? It defi-

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A LOT LIKE BIRDS with Icarus the Owl, Amarionette, Spiritual Shepherd, Pool Party, Almost Awake. March 22, 5 p.m., $13-$15. Eagle Aerie Hall, 310 W. Pacific Ave., 702-498-4488.

The Cosmopolitan (Chelsea) Hozier 4/9, 9 pm, $30+. Brian Wilson, Rodriguez 7/10, 7 pm, $50. (Boulevard Pool) Ratatat, Sylvan Esso 4/8, 9 pm, $28. St. Vincent 4/10, 9 pm, $25. RAC, St. Lucia 4/11, 9 pm, $20. Marina and the Diamonds, Kiesza 4/13, 9 pm, $25. Lykke Li, Ryn Weaver 4/14, 9 pm, $20. Interpol 4/15, 9 pm, $25. Stromae 4/16, 9 pm, $25. X107.5’s Our Big Concert ft. Cage the Elephant, Dirty Heads, New Politics, Big Date, Joywave 5/28, 6 pm, $40. Barenaked Ladies, Violent Femmes, Colin Hay 7/18, 8 pm, $50. 702-6987000. Dive Bar One Eyed Doll, Irie, Someday Broken 4/25, 9 pm, $8-$10. 4110 S. Maryland Pkwy., 702-586-3483. Double Down Bargain DJ Collective Mon. Unique Massive Tue, midnight. The Juju Man Wed, midnight. Punk Rock Bingo first Wed of the month. Blooze Brothers Third Sun of the month. Shows 10 pm, free unless noted. 640 Paradise Rd., 702-7915775. Flamingo Olivia Newton-John Thru 3/21, 5/26-5/30, 6/2-6/6, 6/9-6/13, 7/7-

7/11, 7/14-7/18, 7/21-7/25, 8/4-8/8, 8/118/15, 8/18-8/22, 9/1-9/5, 9/8-9/12, 7:30 pm, $69-$139. 702-733-3333. Gilley’s Chad Freeman Band 3/19, 9 pm; 3/20-3/21, 10 pm. Scotty Alexander Band 3/26, 9 pm; 3/273/28, 10 pm. Shows $10-$20 after 10 pm. Treasure Island, 702-894-7722. Hard Rock Live The Devil Wears Prada, Born of Osiris, The Word Alive, Secrets 3/24, 5 pm, $21. Crizzly, Dotcom, K Theory 3/28, 8 pm, $30$35. Kimbra, MikkyEkko 4/18, 8 pm, $20-$25. Hard Rock Cafe (Strip), 3771 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-733-7625. House of Blues Local Brews Local Grooves: Empire Records, Elvis Monroe, RnR 3/21, 7 pm, $35-$45. Jazmine Sullivan 3/29, 6:30 pm, $30$32. Bad Religion 4/13-4/14, 7 pm, $30-$32. Nightwish 4/30, 7 pm, $43$78. Sun, 8 pm, free. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. The Joint Widespread Panic w/ Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe 3/27 w/ Chris Robinson Brotherhood 3/28, 8 pm, $55+. Sixx: A.M., Apocalyptica 4/10, 8 pm, $35. Kenny Chesney 4/3-4/4. AltJ, Jungle 4/13, 8 pm, $40. Three Days

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D OW N TOW N Art Bar Ryan Whyte Maloney Thu, 6 pm. Live music Fri-Sat, 6 pm. Downtown Grand, 206 N. 3rd St., 702719-5100. Backstage Bar & Billiards Death Division, Cimino, Tyrants By Night, Within the Cochlea 3/19, 8 pm, $5. Rock En Espanol 3/21, 8 pm, $10. Lee DeWyze, Beau Hodges Band 3/25, 8 pm, $18. Castle, Spritual Shepherd 3/26, 8 pm, $10-$15. The Dirty Hooks, The Stone Foxes, Love Vendetta, Toy Bombs, Jack & The B-Fish 3/27, 8 pm, $9-$11. High on Fire, Savious, Demon Lung 4/5, 8 pm, $15-$20. Contortion, Rule of Thumb, Last Words, Within the Cochlea 4/10, 8 pm, $5-$7. Buck-ONine, Kemuri, Dan Patthast, Light Em Up 4/17, 8 pm, $11-$13. Felipe Esparza 5/1, 8 pm, $25-$40. Agent Orange, In the Whale, Happy Campers 5/30, 8 pm, $12-$15. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Beauty Bar Reverend Petyon’s Big Damn Band 3/29, $10-$15, 9 pm. Prawn, Frameworks 4/2. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. The Bunkhouse The Cure Tribute Night 3/20, 8 pm, $5-$8. Hamell on Trial 3/27, 10 pm, $10. Hawthorne Heights, Courage My Love, Mark Rose, Shane Henderson, Dayseeker 3/28, 9 pm, $12-$15. Panda Bear 4/10, 9 pm, $20. Dengue Fever 4/11, 9 pm, $10-$12. Psychostick 4/19, 8 pm, $10$12. Vegas on the Mic Second Tue of the month, 8 pm, free. 124 S. 11th St., bunkhousedowntown.com. Clark County Government Amphitheater Jazz in the Park ft. Selina Albright, Jackiem Joyner, Steve Oliver 5/9. Elan Trotman 5/16. Marc Antoine 5/23. Spyro Gyra 5/30. Brubeck Brothers 6/6. 7 p.m., free. 500 S. Grand Central Parkway, 702455-8200.. Downtown Grand Roxy Gunn Project 3/20-3/21, 9 pm. 206 N. 3rd St., 702719-5100. Downtown Las Vegas Events Center Sammy Hager & The Circle 4/11, 7 pm, $64+. 200 S. 3rd St., dlvec.com. Fremont Country Club RX Bandits, Mad Arrow, Cloud Captive 3/23, 7 pm, $16-$18. Streetlight Manifesto 5/21, 8 pm, $21-$26. 601 Fremont St., 702-382-6601. Golden Nugget Bobby Vinton 3/20, 8 pm, $72-$109. Sheena Easton 3/27, 8 pm, $39-$61. Tracy Lawrence 4/3, 8 pm, $32-$109. Morris Day & The Time 4/10, 8 pm, $32-$109. The Sing Off 4/17, 8 pm, $29-$109. The Oak Ridge Boys 4/24, $54-$109. Earl Thomas Conley 5/1, 8 pm, $21-$76. Aries Spears 5/8, 8 pm, 10:30 pm, $21-$43. Christpher Cross 5/15, 8 pm, $32-$109. Blood, Sweat & Tears 5/22, 8 pm, $32-$109. Night Ranger 5/29, 8 pm, $32-$76. 129 Fremont St., 702385-7111. Griffin Live music Wed, 10 pm, free. 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577. Mob Bar Reckless in Vegas 3/27, 9 pm, free. 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 Jake Shimabukuro 3/20-3/21, 7 pm, $39+. Garrison Keillor 4/16, 7:30 pm, $29+. Ramsey Lewis Trio 4/17-4/18, 7 pm, $45+. Bruce Hornsby 4/18, 7:30 pm, $32+. The Piano Guys 5/11, 7:30 pm, $24+.

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The ’Burbs Cannery Mopars at The Strip: Phoenix 3/27, 6 pm, free. Mopars at The Strip: Queensryche 3/28, 7:30 pm, $25. Patrick Puffer Wed-Thu, 3/4-3/14, 8 pm. Patrick Puffer/Glenn Nowak Fri-Sat, 3/4-3/14, 7 pm, free. Shaun South Wed-Thu, 3/18-3/29, 8 pm. Shaun South/ Glenn Nowak Fri-Sat, 3/18-3/29, 7 pm. Bobby Kimball and Kenny Cetera 4/4, 8 pm, $20. DND Project, Fri-Sat, 7 pm, free, Tue-Thu, Sun, 8 pm. 2121 E Craig Rd., 702-507-5700. Distill Summerlin All shows free & begin at 8 p.m. 10820 W. Charleston Blvd., distillbar. com, 702-534-1400. Eagle Aerie Hall Within the Ruins, We Gave It Hell, Man Made God, 16 Hours Remain, Mephitic Origins, Amongu, Full Fledged 3/27, 5:10 pm, $13-$15. Barrier Villains, 2x4, Left Behind, Words From Aztecs, The Devil Who Deceived Them, Distinguisher 3/28, 5:20 pm, $13-$15. Out With the Old, Leota, Tonight We Fight, Courvge, Almost Awake, Smile Asterisk, Year One 4/3, 5:20 pm, $11-$13. Destruction of a King, Keepsake, Words From Aztecs, On Letting Go, Oscillation, Providence, Among Sheep 4/18, 5:20 pm, $11-$14. Europa, New and Improved, Pool Party, Smarter Than Robots, Our Name Our Story, Venture, Twenty 81, Punchable Face 4/25, 5:20 pm, $11-$13. 310 W. Pacific Ave., 702-645-4139. Elixir Scott Starr 3/20. Nick Mattera 3/21. Patrick Genovese 3/27. Stefnrock 3/28. All shows at 8 p.m., free. 2920 N. Green Valley Pkwy., 702-272-0000. Fiesta Henderson (Cerveza Lounge) Josh LaCount Wed, 8 pm. (Coco Lounge) Shows 9 pm, free. 702-558-7000. Fiesta Rancho (Club Tequila) Take the Stage Thu, 7 pm. (Cabo Lounge) Shows free unless noted. 702-631-7000. Green Valley Ranch (Grand Events Center) All-Star Guitar Pull ft. Montgomery Gentry, Josh Turner, Jana Kramer, Austin Webb, A Thousand Horses, Mo Pitney 4/2, 7 pm, $29-$59. (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. 702-367-2470. M Resort (M Pavillion) Elvis, The Aloha Concert Tribute 8/8, 7 pm, $30-$42. 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) Frankie Moreno 4/11, 7 pm, $19-$39. 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. Las Vegas Jazz Society 2/25, 3/25, 6:30 pm. (Revolver) Bro Country Thu, 8 pm. 4949 N Rancho Dr., 702658-4900. Sienna Italian Authentic Trattoria Vegas Good Fellas Thu, 7:30 pm. Red Velvet Fri-Sat, 8:30 pm. 9500 Sahara Ave., 702-360-3358. South Point The Lettermen 3/20-3/22, 7:30 pm, $25+. Crystal Gayle 4/24-4/26. Kingston Trio 5/1-5/3, 7:30pm. Winter Dance Party 5/8-5/10, 7:30 pm. Deana Martin and Big Band Swing 5/29-5/31, 7:30 pm. Dennis Bono Show Thu, 2 pm, free. Wes Winters Fri-Sat, 6 pm, free. Spazmatics Sat, 10:30 pm, $5. 702-797-8005.

Suncoast Four Freshman 4/4-4/5, 7:30 pm, $16+. Elvis My Way 4/10-4/11, 7:30 pm, $16+. 9090 Alta Dr., 702-636-7075. Sunset Station (Club Madrid) Bill Luther, Scott Reeves 3/20, 8 pm, $10. Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine 3/21, 8 pm & 10:30 pm, $25-$45. David Tolliver 3/27, 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 (A-Bar) Darrin Michaels FriSat, 7 pm. (South Padre) Crossfire Fri, 9 pm. Yellow Brick Road Sat, 9 pm. 702-631-1000.

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Performing Arts The Food Chain 3/19-4/4, 7 pm, $20-$25. Onyx, 953 E. Sahara Ave., Ste. #16, onyxtheatre.com. Girls Night: The Musical 3/26-3/28, 7 pm, 3/28-3/29, 2 pm, $35. Smith Center, 702749-2000. Hal Prince’s Broadway: An Evening in Word and Song 5/14, 7:30 pm, $24+. 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 . Las Vegas Philharmonic Pops IV: Symphonic Spectacular 3/28, 7:30 pm, $26-$94. Smith Center, 702-749-2000. The Legend of Tumbleweed Gulch A children’s play. 3/20,7:30 pm, $15. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Rd., tumbleweedgulch.com. London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas 3/30, 7:30 pm, $29+. Smith Center, 702-749-2000. Newsies Thru 3/22, 7:30 pm, 3/21-3/22, 2 pm,

$39+. Smith Center, 702-749-2000.

Special Events An Executive Chef’s Culinary Classroom With Executive Chef Edmond Wong. 3/19, 7 pm, $135. Bellagio, 866-406-7117. Animal Foundation’s Best in Show 4/26, 1 pm, $8-$25. Orleans Arena, animalfoundation.com. Corks & Kegs 3/21, 5 pm, $45-$55. Silverton Casino, silvertoncasino.com. Dowtown Podcast Thu, 9 pm, free. Scullery, 150 Las Vegas Blvd., 702-910-2396. Expanding the Arts: Suddenly Sondheim 3/20, 7 pm, $50. Faith Conservatory of the Fine Arts, 2015 S. Hualapai Way, faiththeatre.com. Local Brews, Local Grooves Empire Records, Elvis Monroe, Franks N’ Deans 3/21, 7 pm, $35. House of Blues, mandalaybay.com. Motley Brew’s Great Vegas Festival of Beer 4/11, 3 pm, $30-$75. Fremont East, Downtown Las Vegas, greatvegasbeer.com. One Night for One Drop ft. John Legend 3/20, 7:30 pm, $100+. The Mirage, onenight.onedrop.org. Run Away with Cirque du Soleil 3/28, 7 am, $27-$37. Springs Preserve, springspreserve. org. Stellar Gospel Music Awards 3/27-3/28, 7 pm, $50-$200. Orleans Arena, 702-284-7777. Switch: Trans* Clothing Swap Thu, 5 pm, free. Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada, 401 S. Maryland Pkwy, 702-733-9800. Whiskey Revival 3/27-3/28, times vary, $49$79. Golden Nugget, goldennugget.com. Wizard World Las Vegas Comic Con 4/24-4/26, times vary, $35-$75. Las Vegas Convention Center, 3150 Paradise Rd., wizardworld.com.

Sports Jhonny Gonzalez vs. Gary Russell Jr. 3/28, 6 pm, $25-$200. Pearl, ticketmaster.com. Hoops & Hops 3/19-3/21, 8:30 am-9 pm, $45$375. Cosmopolitan, cosmopolitanlasvegas. com. Las Vegas Outlaws vs. San Hose Saber Cats 3/30, 7:30 pm, $18-$198. Thomas & Mack, AFLoutlaws.com.

Galleries Amanda Harris Gallery of Contemporary Art Thu-Fri, 5-8 pm, and by appointment. 900 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 702-769-6036. Arts Factory 107 E. Charleston Blvd, 702383-3133. Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art Daily, 10 am-8 pm, $11-$16. 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702693-7871. Blackbird Studios Fri-Sun, noon-7 pm. 1551 S. Commerce St., 702-782-0319. Brett Wesley Gallery Wed-Sat, 1-7 pm. 1025 S. First St. #150, 702-433-4433. Clark County Government Center Rotunda Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm. 500 Grand Central Parkway, 702-455-7030. Clay Arts Vegas Mon-Sat, 9 am-9 pm; Sun, 11:30 am-6:30 pm. 1511 S. Main St., 702-3754147. Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-2 pm. At UNLV, 702895-3893. Downtown Spaces 1800 Industrial Rd., dtspaces.com. Galleries include: Wasteland Gallery Thu, 6 pm-9pm; Fri & Sat, 6 pm11pm, Sun-Wed by appointment. Emergency Arts 520 Fremont St., 702-6863164. Gainsburg Studio & Gallery Mon-Sat, 10am5pm. 1533 West Oakey Blvd, 702-249-3200. Left of Center Gallery Tue-Fri, noon-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-3 pm. 2207 W. Gowan Rd., 702647-7378. Michelle C. Quinn Fine Art Advisory By appointment only. 620 S. 7th St., 702-3669339. P3Studio Lucky Debellevue: Collaboration/ Exchange Thru 4/12. 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.

HOROSCOPE

free will astrology

By Rob Brezsny

ARIES

LEO

SAGITTARIUS

March 21-April 19

July 23-August 22

November 22-December 21

You’re entering a time and space known as the Adlib Zone, where, fertile chaos and inspirational uncertainty are freely available. Improvised formulas will generate stronger mojo than timeworn maxims. Creativity is de rigueur, and street smarts count for more than book-learning. 1. Don’t be a slave to necessity. 2. Be as slippery as you can be and still maintain your integrity. 3. Don’t just question authority; be thrilled about every chance you get to also question habit, tradition, fashion, trendiness, apathy and dogma.

According to the international code of food standards, there are 13 possible sizes for an olive. They include large, extra large, jumbo, extra jumbo, giant, colossal, super-colossal, mammoth and super-mammoth. If I had my way, Leo, you would apply this mind-set to everything you do in the coming weeks. It’s time for you to think very big. You will thrive as you expand your mind, stretch your boundaries, increase your territory, amplify your self-expression, magnify your focus and broaden your innocence.

“Creating is not magic but work,” says Kevin Ashton, author of the book How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery. In other words, inspiration is a relatively small part of the creative process. The more important factors are self-discipline, organized thinking, hard work and attention to detail. And yet inspiration isn’t irrelevant, either. Brainstorms and periodic leaps of insight can be highly useful. That’s a good reminder as you enter a phase when you’re likely to be more imaginative and original than usual.

TAURUS

VIRGO

CAPRICORN

April 20-May 20

August 23-September 22

December 22-January 19

By 1993, rock band Guns N’ Roses had released five successful albums. But on the way to record their next masterpiece, there were numerous delays and diversions. Band members feuded. Some were fired and others departed. Eventually, only one original member remained to bring the task to conclusion with the help of new musicians. The sixth album, Chinese Democracy, finally emerged in 2008. I’m seeing a similarity between Guns N’ Roses’ process and one of your ongoing projects, Taurus. The good news is that I think most of the hassles and delays are behind you, or will be if you act now.

“Half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough,” proclaimed humorist Josh Billings. That’s an exaggeration made for comic effect, of course. (And I think that some of life’s troubles also come from saying no too much and not saying yes enough.) But for you, Virgo, Billings’ advice will be especially pertinent in the coming weeks. In fact, my hypothesis is that you will be able to keep your troubles to a minimum and boost your progress to a maximum by being frugal with yes and ample with no.

The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes was a good Capricorn, born January 6, 1854. In the course of Arthur Conan Doyle’s 60 stories about his life, he revealed his exceptional talent as an analytical thinker. His attention to details was essential to his success, and so was his expertise at gathering information. He did have a problem with addictive drugs, however. Morphine tempted him now and then, and cocaine more often. Let this serve as a gentle warning, Capricorn. In the coming weeks, seek more relaxation and downtime than usual. But be sure that doesn’t cause you to get bored and then dabble with self-sabotaging stimuli.

GEMINI

LIBRA

AQUARIUS

May 21-June 20

September 23-October 22

January 20-February 18

The anonymous blogger at Neurolove. me gives advice on how to love a Gemini: “Don’t get impatient with their distractibility. Always make time for great conversation. Be understanding when they’re moody. Help them move past their insecurities, and tell them it’s not their job to please everyone. Let them have space but never let them be lonely.” I endorse all that good counsel, and add this: To love Geminis, listen to them attentively, and with expansive flexibility. Don’t try to force them to be consistent; encourage them to experiment at uniting their sometimes conflicting urges. Now feel free, Gemini, to show this horoscope to those whose affection you want.

Your mind says, “I need more room to move. I’ve got to feel free to experiment.” Your heart says, “I think maybe I need more commitment and certainty.” Your astrologer suggests, “Be a bit more skeptical about the dream lover who seems to be interfering with your efforts to bond with the Real Thing.” I’m not sure which of these three sources you should heed, Libra. Do you think it might somehow be possible to honor them all? I invite you to try.

English is my first language. Years ago there was a time when I spoke a lot of French with my Parisian girlfriend, but my skill faded after we broke up. I do have some mastery in the language of music, thanks to my career as a singer-songwriter. Having raised a daughter, I also learned to converse in the language of children. And I’ve remembered and worked with my nightly dreams every day for decades, so I speak the language of dreams. What about you? In the coming weeks, I bet you’ll be challenged to make more extensive use of one of your second languages. It’s time to be adaptable and resourceful in your approach to communication.

CANCER

SCORPIO

PISCES

June 21-July 22

October 23-November 21

February 19-March 20

You have recently been to the mountaintop, at least metaphorically. Right? You wandered out to the high frontier and ruminated on the state of your fate from the most expansive vista you could find. Right? You have questioned the limitations you had previously accepted, and you have weaned yourself from at least one of your devitalizing comforts, and you have explored certain possibilities that had been taboo. Right? So what comes next? Here’s what I suggest: Start building a new framework or structure or system that will incorporate all that you’ve learned during your break.

“Without your wound where would your power be?” asked writer Thornton Wilder. “The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on Earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living.” Let’s make that one of your ongoing meditations, Scorpio. I think the coming weeks will be an excellent time to come to a greater appreciation for your past losses. What capacities has your suffering given birth to? What failures have made you stronger? What crucial lessons and unexpected benefits have emerged from your sadness and madness?

Do you need a reason to think sharper and work smarter and try harder? I’ll give you four reasons. 1. Because you’re finally ready to get healing for the inner saboteur who in the past has undermined your confidence. 2. Because you’re finally ready to see the objective truth about one of your self-doubts, which is that it’s a delusion. 3. Because you’re finally ready to stop blaming an adversary for a certain obstacle you face, which means the obstacle will become easier to overcome. 4. Because you’re finally ready to understand that in order to nurture and hone your ample creativity, you have to use it to improve your life on a regular basis.

March 19-25, 2015 LasVegasWeekly.com

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POLARIS RZR MINT 400 | JEAN, NEVADA | MARCH 14, 2015 | 11:30 A.M. Spent a pretty cool day down in Primm and Jean, covering the Polaris RZR Mint 400 limited race. Found out the best way to cover it would be in a four-wheeled vehicle, so I spent a fair amount of time walking the course searching for vantage points. With over 100 miles of racing there’s a lot of territory to see. So I hiked up to a mountainous spot, hauling a long, heavy lens, which definitely paid off. Some of the best images come from a change of perspective, and shooting from places most won’t go. Next year, maybe a helicopter would be even better. –L.E. Baskow

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