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Mail Flamingo, so the fact that the new songs were at the end did not bother me. –BattleBorn1982

LOUD STRANGERS Elsewhere on the music scene, A Place to Bury Strangers blew folks away at Beauty Bar.

It was so loud my clothes were vibrating. Superb show! –Carl Askew

DELICIOUS ARRIVAL Pizza Rock has landed at Green Valley Ranch Resort. Let Henderson rejoice!

KILLING IT Our review of Brandon Flowers’ solo show at the Bunkhouse (see Page 43) touched some nerves.

The reason he doesn’t play all of his new songs is because Brandon and The Killers have always loved to surprise their fans, and that’s exactly what Brandon is doing, building up the anticipation for us fans and giving us something to look forward to. As for his tracks not being as good as they are when he has the rest of The Killers with him, maybe so, but at least Brandon is not lazy like Dave and Mark are. I can only imagine what goes on behind the scenes of this band. –Jon Deak Mark is definitely not lazy. He is always writing! Brandon is just a workaholic. Mark is on tour with Smashing Pumpkins as we speak. Do you know how long The Killers toured repeatedly and how long those tours were? They needed a break. –Larry Provenzano It’s still two months before the album. He hasn’t even put a second single out yet. I think reviewing this concert on the basis of that is slightly unfair. Every artist or band does this. Just saw a Muse concert in Belfast last week and they only played two new songs. –Officer Mudkip Brandon Flowers sounds perfect as always! He’s the best! –Malgorzata Kowalska-Nowosad

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Sounds like he’s still trying to make up for record sales on his first solo album. –Andrew Ferrall I was there and thought it was awesome. I am a diehard fan and found no problem with the cover at all. I also happen to like

It is a great place and great food. I have been to the one Downtown a few times over! –Tammy Nadeau I guess a pizza place on every corner isn’t enough. I love pizza, but damn! –Jeff Osterling That place is legit! Henderson has a ton of great pizza joints. –Cliff Flaro Finally don’t have to drive all the way Downtown for Pizza Rock. –Josh Vegaslife

SLOW PULSE New Netflix drama Bloodline is not as impressive as the streaming service’s other original programming.

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Remembering a beloved Downtownscene mainstay, DJ Aurajin By Mike Prevat t

∑ Few DJs could embody the musical heartbeat of

Downtown better than DJ Aurajin. Take any mix of people in a Fremont East or Arts District venue and Aurajin knew how to unite them through his unmistakably personal curation of urban standards. From traditional hip-hop to funk/soul chestnuts to house and electro to indie—maybe ending on a downtempo or otherwise atmospheric note—the vinyl enthusiast born Lemuel Granada could appeal to everyone at once. And if he didn’t win you over from behind his turntables, his bear hug and wide smile would close the deal. Downtown could use that hug and smile right now. On Monday, Aurajin passed away at UMC at the age of 38. His nephew confirmed—via a Gofundme page established to help family with Aurajin’s remaining medical expenses and funeral—that the longtime DJ suffered an aneurysm on Sunday and never recovered. We’ve lost not only one of the best DJs in Downtown Las Vegas—good enough to be a longtime member of the Get Back, Bargain DJ Collective and Rawkerz crews, a platter-flipper in the back rooms of the Griffin (where he might play A Tribe Called Quest) and Insert Coin(s) (usually Michael Jackson), a resident at Tao and an opener for Massive Attack, one of his very favorite acts—but one of its most ardent supporters. For longer than most of us, he worked and played there; he even lived there. He was one of the area’s friendliest faces. I never heard anyone speak ill of him, nor did I ever see him seethe or scowl. And you know someone is truly beloved when you lose track of all his pet names. Aurajin. Sebastian. Pokey. His nephew wrote that the Granada family called him Weng. Sometimes I’d just call him DJ, or neighbor, back when we lived three houses apart. And when we’d occasionally hang out with certain mutual friends of ours at, say, Beauty Bar or the old Buffalo, we had another name for him, the one I like the most—the one I think of when I see or recall his joyous, bespectacled face. Groove eternally, Seabass. A memorial will take place March 28 from 1-5 p.m. at Velveteen Rabbit, followed by a fundraising event on April 2 starting at 7 p.m. at Backstage Bar & Billiards.

Aloha and happy anniversary Three things we love about the 40-year-old Cal

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The gambling lore. In 1989, Stanley Fujitake caught an unbelievable hot streak at the Cal’s craps tables, holding the dice for three hours and six minutes—118 rolls. They called him The Man With the Golden Arm, and his feat is the reason why any Cal gambler who rolls for an hour or more is admitted to the Golden Arm Club and commemorated with a plaque on the wall of fame, located on the walkway between the Cal and Main Street Station.

The food. The oxtail soup special is legendary, but you can also get stuck on Zippy’s chili at the snack bar, sweet treats at Lappert’s ice cream or the macadamia nut-crusted chicken and shrimp at the Redwood Bar & Grill. –Brock Radke

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The island vibes. Downtown’s California Hotel & Casino is a big reason why Las Vegas is known as the Ninth Island. Sam Boyd created a travel company in the ’70s and ’80s offering affordable flight and hotel packages to bring Hawaiian tourists to his casino, and the rest is history. With its islandstyle amenities and events, the Cal remains Hawaiian headquarters, even for those now calling Vegas home.

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Bang for your buck Drai’s and Sheri’s Ranch offer excess to the extreme

> App judgment Ride Genie might get better, but for now it has issues.

Uber alternative?

Ride Genie is here and it’s ... clunky By Kristy Totten

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Uber isn’t legal in Nevada, but as of March 23, there’s supposedly a new way to hail a cab from anywhere in the Valley. It’s called Ride Genie, and it’s promoted by the Nevada taxi companies as an alternative to the controversial but convenient San Francisco-built app Uber. The thing is, Ride Genie doesn’t always work. The free smartphone download opens to show a real-time swarm of black vehicle icons hovering on the Strip—but that doesn’t mean the cabs will come when hailed. A recent request to take a $13 cab ride from the Weekly’s office to a restaurant three miles away was initially accepted by a driver but quickly canceled, and a subsequent search returned a message saying the vehicle type was unavailable. There were options to request a sedan for $53, an SUV for $58 or a limo for $63, but the price didn’t seem worth it for a lunch excursion. Two

additional requests to travel within Henderson also failed. At this point, it was time for Plan B. Granted, it’s a new app and improvements are likely in the works, but the experience is clunky. Ride Genie’s credit card scan only picks up the card number, leaving the user to type in name, expiration and CVV code. Once registered, pick-up location is automatically detected, but drop-off location is filled with the same address, and the app will allow the “ride” to be hailed, essentially charging the customer $4 plus fees to pass through a taxi’s backseat while parked. And the map search doesn’t recognize business names, so riders must Google exact addresses outside the app. While app-assisted cab-hailing might work better in areas like Downtown or the Strip, that doesn’t help those in the suburbs. Perhaps that’s why businesspeople with Henderson’s Chamber of Commerce recently voiced support for Uber in Nevada, and Sen. James Settelmeyer of Minden is working to introduce a pro-Uber bill during the 2015 Legislature. Not surprisingly, transportation organizations like the Livery Operators Association oppose Uber for trying to dodge bureaucratic oversight. With urging from Uber lobbyists, it’s possible a bill could emerge and pass this session. Until then, or until Ride Genie ups its game, sorry, suburbanites.

Jaw, meet floor. Las Vegas excels in over-the-top VIP packages, but the latest two surpass extravagance. Come April, Drai’s Beach Club and Nightclub will offer the Moby Dick—the first of the venue’s bottle bundles to hit the $1 million mark. The purchaser and 40 pals meet up at one of five coastal metropolises, board a chartered yacht, detonate two (!) three-minute fireworks displays and spray each other with 400 bottles of Champagne—in addition to all the premium bubbly actually designated for consumption. Meanwhile, more frugal ballers may opt for the Package of the Century at Sheri’s Ranch, centered around the upcoming Mayweather/Pacquiao fight. For $100,000, the Pahrump brothel is offering round-trip airfare, accommodations, tickets to the big match, transportation to and from the ranch—and sexytime privileges with all 24 of its ladies. Talk about bang for your buck. —Mike Prevatt

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IN BRIEF vegas on my mind

Schock to the system Dario Herrera finds parallels with the fast rise and faster fall of a young Congressman By Steve Frie ss

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> DÉJÀ VU Herrera, back in Las Vegas, knows what Schock (below) is going through.

LAS VEGAN OF RECORD Brittany Bronson is an English instructor at UNLV—where she earned an MFA degree last year—and a part-time server at a Strip restaurant. Now she can add New York Times op-ed writer to her crowded résumé. She and 19 other scribes were recently announced as new contributors to the pub’s expanding opinion section. –Mike Prevatt

a succession of mates who were abusive and cruel. When Herrera was 15, one stepfather forced him to move out and fend for himself. A basketball coach guided him through high school and on to college at UNLV, but Herrera never shook that emotional and material neediness. When others began to see political potential in him, he says, the flattery was irresistible. “I had never been shown that kind of attention ever in my life,” he says of the folks who asked him to run for the Nevada Assembly at 22. Also, he was really good at it. “It did come easy, and there was this underlying feeling that I wasn’t worthy of the responsibility I’ve been given. Now I can see why I couldn’t do the right thing when I had the opportunity ... It was also easy to become intoxicated with the influence, the power and the attention.” But how do people like Herrera and Schock lose themselves so thoroughly? “It’s the slow erosion of integrity and it’s a process of rationalization,” Herrera says. “You think you can take money and take favors and remain effective. That’s the story I told myself quite a bit, that I could play the game and people could give me huge amounts of money— and I’m not just talking about illegal money but huge campaign contributions, too—and think that I could remain effective because I was smarter than them or I knew right from wrong. It happens very slowly and very unmistakably.” Herrera now owns a social-media strategy firm and is married to the sister of rap superstar Pitbull, one of the company’s key clients. He moved away from Vegas for a time after his 29-month prison stint, but he’s back now so he can be near his three kids and do volunteer work with at-risk youth. His reinvention, it seems, can be a template for Schock. “Don’t forget that there are things to still be grateful for and things to look forward to even if it’s not what you thought it would look like,” Herrera advises. “Deal with what is versus what should have been. Take it one day at a time and live your life so well that when people meet you, what you’ve done before or your reputation that precedes you doesn’t meet their expectation of you.”

FUN FOR ALL Downtown’s new (and only) feminist-geared sex toy store, Toyboxx, has finally received its business license, according to owner Karoline Khamis. The shop will begin selling product as soon as First Friday, including a small assortment of books, lingerie, glass dildos and assorted jewelry for man-parts. Khamis plans to stock latex accessories and fashions; a wide range of lubes; glass, stone, platinum and metal toys; Hitachi and Njoy wands; and portable, USBfriendly goodies in the near future. –Leslie Ventura

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dario herrera by steve marcus; aaron schock by Seth Perlman/ap

Seventeen years ago, a fast-rising young politician sat in my office at the Clark County Government Center as baffled as the rest of us by the emerging revelations that the president of the United States had engaged in oral and phone sex with a beret-loving intern. “How,” Dario Herrera asked, the agony and anger of being let down by a hero clear in his face and voice, “could he have been so stupid?” Herrera, of course, would go on to be disappointing, too. At the time, he was about to become the youngest person elected to the Clark County Commission after having been the youngest person in the Nevada Assembly. He was handsome, charming and smart, the vanguard of a new generation of Hispanic men and women aspiring to American leadership. He was going places. Very soon, it turned to ashes. He took kickbacks from strip-club owner Michael Galardi in exchange for his vote. He would be convicted and sent to federal prison. Once synonymous with potential and promise, his name became a cautionary tale for other fasttracked young Nevada hotshots. That all came to mind this week as Congressman Aaron Schock, the 33-year-old Republican from Peoria, announced his resignation under a gathering cloud of malfeasance allegations. Schock, like Herrera, enjoyed early and fast success in politics thanks to a combination of sumptuous good looks, preternatural charisma and an uncanny instinct for political opportunism. He, too, had sycophants telling him how far he would rise—Herrera was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in 2002 and like Schock, could have been in Congress before age 30—but allowed hubristic recklessness to short-circuit it all. Questions swirl about lavish trips and sloppy expense reports, so Schock’s legal future could be as imperiled as his political one is dead. “I definitely identify with that fast rise and fast fall,” says Herrera, now a 41-year-old father of three who sports a scraggly, white-flecked beard. “I know how I felt to have let down the people who put so much trust in me. I know how I felt to let down my wife, my kids, my family and the folks who were early supporters of me. That’s gotta be going through his head, how with all the tools he had, with his life success and ambition, how he went from going places and now it turned very quickly. He’s doing a lot of reflection right now.” Maybe, although perhaps not yet. After all, Herrera took the stand in his corruption trial every bit as arrogant and in denial as he was when he did his misdeeds. It was in prison, he says, that he finally came to terms with how it all went south and what it would take to build a life worthy of respect again. Until Schock can understand why his awesome life just collapsed, Herrera says, he’ll be stuck. Most important is figuring out where the instinct for self-sabotage comes from, Herrera says. He had a chaotic, impoverished upbringing in Miami in which his mother had

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A Thrifty had been looted, too. You saw shattered windows. You saw items that had been taken out of the store. You saw burning buildings and people running across the street with items they had stolen. All of that was a huge source of a coming of age for me. If anything, the riots made me a little bit gun-shy about approaching AfricanAmerican literature or African-American history. I didn’t think it was meant for someone like me. Why do people think we should only study people like ourselves? Partly it’s under-

standable, because we only know our own experience. ... There are a lot of people who end up taking classes because they want to understand more about their own background, and I think that’s great. But I think you also need to realize that understanding another group’s history can also help you understand your own history.

> WRITE ON Lee’s first book explored the relationship between the American slave narrative and the Victorian novel.

Color vision Literature professor Julia Lee delves into all the shades of America that looks like them.” The Weekly caught up with Lee (who’s working on a cultural history of The Little Rascals) to talk similarities, differences and why Captain America may need a new look.

American literature there’s such eloquence around this sense of feeling like an “other” in American society, where you consider yourself an American yet others perceive you as something different. That feeling that I had always had, I could finally find expressed in literature. I remember reading W.E.B. Du Bois and hearing him talk about double consciousness and seeing that description and thinking, “My God.” He was able to express something that I had felt for so long.

How did the LA riots influence you to study African-American lit? I grew up in Los Angeles. My

Are minority experiences in the U.S. more different than they are similar, or the opposite? There

parents used to own a liquor store, then during the riots they owned a fast-food restaurant, a Pioneer Chicken. My parents never closed their store, but then the day of the riots, they closed their store and came home and suddenly there was all this fear that maybe their business would be burned down. ... A supermarket in the same mini mall had been looted.

is a shared experience of feeling like you’ll never be considered an American. Think about the Captain America movie. Captain America is a really good-looking, white, buff dude. Why is there not a black actor cast as Captain

What are the most important lessons you teach? Think

more critically. I want them to bring an extra sensitivity to what’s going on. In a class that talks about race, it’s common for people to be scared to talk about it because they don’t want to offend, but I think that’s almost the worst thing, to avoid it. It’s not like my students are all black or all Latino. They’re a really diverse group. I had a student ask, “How is this different from my experience because I’m blonde. When I walk into a room and people assume I’m ditzy and stupid because I’m blonde, isn’t that a form of double consciousness?” One of my black students said, “I can see why you would mistake that for double consciousness, but it is different in that you could change your hair color. I’m black. I walk in and people see I’m black and their interaction with me changes.” She taught double consciousness better than I did to this white student who I’m also really proud of for bringing it up. Where should a person who hasn’t read any African-American literature start? I would

start with Frederick Douglass. In this very short narrative, he writes about his experience of being born a slave. I love that narrative, because it tells you about the history of slavery but it also tells you about why literacy was so important to African Americans gaining power, and being able to essentially write their way to freedom. Ultimately what’s more powerful than physical resistance is literary, rhetorical, and using language to emancipate yourself. –Kristy Totten

“When you discuss all-American, it’s blond-haired, blue-eyed, plays baseball, apple pie.”

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It’s surprising to find a KoreanAmerican teaching an AfricanAmerican literature course, but UNLV assistant professor Julia Lee can’t imagine another career path. Lee first experienced racial tension as a teenager during the 1992 LA Riots, but didn’t revisit the issue until she studied black literature during grad school at Harvard University. She fell in love with the subject and decided to follow her heart despite the puzzled reactions. “I definitely had people tell me I should study Asian-American literature because it would make me more marketable,” Lee says. “It’s hard for people to imagine people of color in any other role than teaching the literature

How did it help you to learn about yourself? In African-

America, or an Asian actor or a Latino actor? When you discuss all-American, it’s blond-haired, blue-eyed, plays baseball, apple pie. All Americans who don’t look like that share in the feeling of that’s not me.

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And then there was one

Jesse Waits is the lone man standing over XS, the most successful club in America BY mike prevatt The guy behind the No. 1 nightclub in the country used to fetch ice for drinks. Back in the late 1990s, concertgoers and late-night revelers at the House of Blues would find a young Jesse Waits behind the bar, supporting bartenders and confusing patrons who thought the same guy had just checked their IDs outside. (That was his twin brother, Cy.) Thousands of up-for-it tourists had to be equally confused some 10 years later seeing the two of them running around—or, more appropriately, just running—XS, the Encore venue where they served as managing partners. Nowadays, you’ll only see Jesse there. In the summer of 2010, XS lost both Cy and its other managing partner, Victor Drai, with whom the brothers had worked at his namesake afterhours operation and Tryst, another Wynn nightlife property. This left Jesse solely responsible for running the nightclub tied for No. 1 in the U.S., according to Nightclub & Bar magazine, along with No. 9 Tryst. Almost five years later, XS still (and exclusively) owns the No. 1 slot, reportedly grossing over $100 million last year—a remarkable feat given the nightlife scene’s considerable overgrowth and subsequent competitiveness, fixation on the newest shiny thing and threeyear relevancy limit for most venues. On the eve of March 28’s 6-year anniversary party—coinciding with the return of its internationally beloved resident DJ, Avicii— the club still carries an air of newness, thanks to a recent $10 million renovation, as well as one of relevance, due in part to a formidable exclusive-talent roster that includes dance-music giants Diplo, Kaskade, David Guetta and Skrillex. Jesse Waits’ sudden lone-wolf status didn’t evolve easily, despite a decade of nightclub management experience. But he had a vision, and a chance to implement ideas that would allow XS to progress in the increasingly cutthroat nightlife scene—ones that Drai previously opposed, like booking expensive DJs aligned with the nascent commercial dance-music movement, which new

competitor Marquee was already doing. “I was ready to move,” he says. “There were opportunities missed. I wanted to cultivate [DJ] relationships. Things needed to change.” And change they did. After Waits convinced Steve Wynn of the roster’s profitability—pointing to the sky-high numbers generated from XS’ second anniversary party, headlined by the ascending Deadmau5— Waits spent most of 2011 developing a resident program that would simultaneously spur lucrative bottle sales, break ground for the local nightlife scene and draw fervent music fans that would buy presale club tickets. “Imagine paying tens of thousands of dollars for artists you’re not used to [booking],” Waits says. “When we started the program, we were selective and careful. I was pitching and pushing for it, and kind of bringing performers to keep this coming.”

sion, Waits must consider whether it will fill more tables or sell more bottles of alcohol. That careful strategization is why XS is one of two nightclubs that can claim over $100 million in annual revenues. “We built all this stuff outside of the club to build more energy outside, to make people feel like they’re indoors, and build that business outside,” Waits says. “Two-thirds of the business is outside. We built the DJ booth to have two faces: inside and outside, [so DJs] play to both. ... Production took us two years to figure out, and it was all about customer service and making our ROI.” So how does Waits evolve XS from here? He’s already tweaked the DJ program, is booking table-filling residents more frequently than before, and signing on more hip-hop-friendly and open-format talent as EDM becomes less culturally dominant— though also dropping more house-oriented

“Imagine paying tens of thousands of dollars for artists you’re not used to [booking],” Waits says. Waits himself brought aboard a handful of DJs like Avicii and Afrojack, and hired entertainment director/EDM enthusiast Zee Zandi to round out the rest. A roster was unveiled in early 2012 and officially kickstarted XS 2.0, an alternate name Waits uses. “It changed us,” he says. “It carried us into the next three years.” But it’s only one aspect of XS’ second wind and durability. Waits maintains that his accessibility to all patrons and his face as its brand ambassador are also important, as is the club’s Encore location and design. “People can’t replicate what we have,” he says. “They walk in, they’re comfortable, they explore, they play blackjack, dip their feet in the jacuzzi, go talk to girls.” However, one factor looms over all the rest: VIP sales, the bulk of XS’ revenue. Before signing off on any six-figure DJ, hitech upgrade or any other club-related deci-

names like Robin Schulz for potential “new flavor and relevancy.” There’s also the March 30 launch of a new monthly Monday promotion called High Society Mondays, which will incorporate local and international artists and their artwork. “After six years, you see the same party and you stop going,” Waits says. “So this is for new energy.” And speaking of new energy, Waits foresees XS—and perhaps the rest of local nightlife—returning to a more communal and less observant atmosphere once people tire of the current DJ headliners. “What we’re planning to do is go back to the customer again, that nightclub integrity, to have people basically interact with each other and not the LED screens. Like a social scene,” he says, clearly eager to move on from the trends he’s helped establish and steer Strip revelers toward a new experience—maybe XS 3.0.

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ARTIST-TRANSFORMED UTILITY BOXES HAVE BEAUTIFIED A VITAL STRETCH OF URBAN VEGAS

> PUT SOME PRETTY ON IT Sush Machida’s funky cloudscape brightens the corner of Maryland and Desert Inn.

ZAP!-SCAPE BY KRISTEN PETERSON

For all the activity up and down Maryland Parkway, not much has been put into how the bustling corridor actually looks, resulting in a run-down swath of fastfood restaurants, cracked parking lots, aging shopping complexes and paltry landscaping. This for a high-traffic road built for cars but loaded with pedestrian and community activity. So it was a triumph of sorts when Clark County commissioned 20 artists to paint more than 90 utility boxes on the stretch between McCarran International Airport and Desert Inn Road, as part of Zap!, an ongoing public art project now in its 10th year. Visual overhaul and better urban design are deemed so vital to this corridor that the city, the county and neighborhood groups—each asserting the Parkway’s potential vibrancy— united to push for its redevelopment and salvation in the form of transit-

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related restructuring, along with a major public art project. In the meantime, the Zap! program has artwork dotting sidewalks and parking lots with bold colors, fine art, cartoonery and sophisticated design. “We have twice as many artists than ever before,” says Patrick Gaffey, cultural program supervisor with the county. “We kind of needed this many artists. Maryland Parkway is such an important street. It’s been central to people’s lives, and people really care about it.” Gaffey has been with the project since 2005, when the Friends of Winchester group set it in motion after a member saw a similar program in San Diego. Ten artists created works that year tapping into the area’s culture and history. Marty Walsh’s retro and shiny Proctor toaster nodded to summer temperatures and a former appliance store in the area. Suzanne Hackett-Morgan’s three eras

of television sets each pay tribute to local personalities from different decades, including weatherman Nate Tannenbaum and mob-connected casino exec Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal. It then expanded into the Paradise Park neighborhood, West Las Vegas and Desert Breeze Park, then into the Whitney and Cambridge neighborhoods. More than 60 artists have participated in the project, which moves next to Laughlin, and will pick up speed, with the county installing Zap! works twice a year throughout the Valley. Now on Maryland, which threads together UNLV, historic neighborhoods, high-density residential areas and Sunrise Hospital, there’s a giant brain in front of UNLV’s MFA Studios. Su Limbert’s wildlife, plucked directly from themes in her gallery work, covers a box near Flamingo and Maryland. Sush Machida’s impeccable Japanese and nature-inspired pop style is at

the intersection with Desert Inn Road. Lance Smith’s celestial woman is robed in blue near Tropicana and Maryland. Sean Russell’s dynamic abstract patterns sit on Russell, conversing with the architecture of the McCarran terminal across the street. Other Zap! artists have included Thomas Willis, Brian Porray, Noelle Garcia, Joseph Watson, Darren Johnson, Tatiana Hantig and Erin Stellmon, each meeting with owners of residences and businesses in the area to receive feedback before establishing their designs for the boxes. “The people in the neighborhoods, as well as most of the public in general, seem to very much appreciate and enjoy having original artwork,” says artist KD Matheson, who has participated in three projects for Zap! and admires the concept. “It brings art out into the world, visual poetry onto the streets.”

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had this vision of a ball of light inside my stomach growing and growing and growing and growing until it shot out of my eyes and out of my fingertips and enveloped the whole room and all of the grounds of the temple and everything I knew was around the temple that I could visualize. I could see silhouettes of people, and as my light hit them their light started shining brighter than my light. And it was almost instantaneous that I met myself for the first time,” Charles Ressler says, on the phone with me on his way to many somewheres, talking about enlightenment in Thailand as he tries to explain the crazy thing he’s about to do in Las Vegas. April 2, on the Smith Center stage where world-famous artists have stood, Ressler will tell the story of his life. Picture a set using “The Little Prince, Edward Scissorhands and Avatar as lenses to reimagine an artdeco bandstand show that you’d see in a Hollywood film.” Picture Ressler flying on silks and singing original songs and custom arrangements of favorites from the Great American Songbook, current pop and Broadway, amplified by an orchestra. He says the “alchemy and magic” start the moment you arrive, and that his personal tales are metaphors for three local nonprofits that will split all of the proceeds from his one-night-only creation, Brave. “I’m hoping that by telling the most vulnerable and the hardest and the most beautiful and joyous things that I know ... and also platforming the bravest people in our community, that maybe it can create a shift in the thinking of how things happen here. Brave is about changing your comfort zone.” Maybe Las Vegas can impact the status quo of the world, he muses. First, the people must be moved to let their light shine, whether or not it shoots from their eyes.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ADAM SHANE; GROOMING BY CADENA LAKSIS

* * * * * Ressler isn’t moonlighting from a production in a Strip showroom or even a tiny neighborhood theater. While press materials for Brave indicate a “decade-long professional acting career” (mostly on the stages of his native New York), he hasn’t been in that scene for more than a decade. He says he feels like a different person. Since he moved to Las Vegas four years ago, he’s established himself as one of those characters who’s always creating or talking about creating and trying to be connective tissue for the power players and the upstarts. He headed up marketing and sponsorships for First Friday for a time and has curated Downtown happenings from art events to speaker series. If you’ve been to Downtown Cocktail Room, you’ve probably seen him sipping Green Chartreuse with a splash of Yellow and talking about audacious things like they’re entirely ordinary. Brave, however, scares him—despite the impressive village he’s assembled to pull it off, from production director Larry Pellegrini (one of the creators of Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding) to executive producer Jeff Gitlin (a former agent with ICM Partners and 3 Arts) to music director Jimmy Lockett (whose Broadway chops include starring

roles in Cats and Starlight Express). Ressler has been onstage plenty. But he’s never worn so many hats for a show, because it has never been his. “This is some Barbra Streisand sh*t, you know what I mean? Nothing has prepared me.” When I saw him training on the aerial silks at Shine Alternative Fitness in early March, he was still learning the basics. He had about a month to get mentally and physically fit to maximize the dramatic spectacle and minimize the odds of untimely death. “The baby is growing. I know it’s there,” says his coach Delphine Gaillard, a Cirque soloist who performed in The Beatles Love for eight years. Ressler tells her that his skin is raw from the last session, and she affectionately says she doesn’t care. Hands gripping a green hammock, he flips up into a tuck and down into a hummingbird pose, Gaillard urging him to keep his knees straight. “Maybe you’re going to look at Charles’ routine and be like, ‘Okay, he’s doing two positions.’ That’s not the point. The point is, he’s doing what he wants to do. He’s doing his dream,” she says, adding that simple tricks can be the most moving. “You can do a triple flip, something very complicated and hard and painful, and people don’t react. You just fly, they’re like, ‘Wow!’ because it’s something you bring from your heart.” Ressler says they should try a triple anyway. He doesn’t appear to be stopped by thoughts of what’s realistic, considering Brave will debut about four months after he began working on it in earnest. The foundational story was a book proposal he started more than a year ago, and intended to finish during his October trip to Southeast Asia. It wasn’t a vacation so much as an escape. Ressler says the unraveling began with the end of the long relationship that brought him from New York to Vegas. Then the “fall-apart” started with Downtown Project. Ressler had been a ferocious cheerleader for the revitalization machine, which he worked with through First Friday. While he leaves founder Tony Hsieh out of it, he says some of the people who ended up running DTP were greedy “mean girls.” The suicide of Venture for America fellow Ovik Banerjee and the layoffs at DTP later in 2014 left Ressler “shattered.” So he flew to Bangkok alone, with no plan beyond a Burning Man-inspired desire to tap into some ancient Buddhist energy. Inside Phuket’s Chalong Temple, he had the vision of his inner light spreading. That, a visit to a Cambodian orphanage and a side trip to see an old friend in Switzerland helped Ressler decide that after everything Las Vegas had given him, he couldn’t leave without trying to make it better. I ask what the city has given him, and he has a hard time articulating it. Finally he talks about parallels to The Little Prince, a darkly whimsical children’s book that is his totem. “Just when the aviator is about to lose all his hope and die, the little prince says, sometimes if you imagine a well in a desert, one appears. And it’s not lost on me ... how Las Vegas begins with a well. Then over generations, this place has been consistently MARCH 26-APRIL 1, 2015 LASVEGASWEEKLY.COM

> HIGH NOTES Jimmy Lockett helps Charles Ressler learn his music, while I Have a Dream’s Lindsay Harper helps the Dreamers learn life skills.

built on the back of grief. And I do believe that in all situations except one grief always brings you a gift at the end, which is possibility. And that is Las Vegas. ... You don’t have a target on your back here with unique ideas. Nobody faults you for thinking of something and trying to make it come to fruition. This place is very brave.” ***** ven with responsive lighting designed by Todd VonBastiaans and sets made by artists Alexandria Lee, Amos Martinez and Justin Lepper, Ressler says the show’s big creative element is the coming together of its beneficiaries: I Have a Dream Foundation of Southern Nevada, Opportunity Village and the Las Vegas Philharmonic. Closest to his heart is I Have a Dream. He says that for the first six years of his life, he dealt with a heroin-addicted mother whom he was taken away from by Child Protective Services. In his eyes, that trauma echoes the circumstances of at-risk and underresourced kids adopted by I Have a Dream. Modeled on Eugene Lang’s original phenomenon in East Harlem, the local offshoot stays with its dreamers from sixth grade through freshman year of college, partnering with organizations like Three Square and Specialized Alternatives for Families and Youth to provide support customized to each kid, from counseling and success planning to basic needs. “When we meet the kids in the sixth grade, there is a lot of hesitation, because there are a lot of programs that promise the world to children ... and they don’t deliver,” says Lindsay Harper, I Have a Dream’s executive director for the past decade. “We start with a character development program, which really sits down with them and says: What are you afraid of? What kind of person do you want to

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be? Do you feel like you have purpose in your life? And then we start building a model around them.” Harper tells me about Otis. He was throwing desks and cussing out teachers when he came to the program. Through counseling, volunteering and labs on life skills and coping mechanisms, he overcame the anger rooted in feeling out of control and inadequate. Rather than “one of those statistics,” Otis is now a model student at West Preparatory Academy, with a 3.75 GPA and dreams of studying architecture at the University of Oregon. “What I know to be very true is that most children, if you sit them down and look them in the eyes and say, ‘You can do this,’ all of a sudden they start believing it,” Harper says. Las Vegas’ first dreamers, adopted

in 1996, finished the program in 2012, with 99 percent graduating from high school and going on to postsecondary education. That crushes the Nevada stat for at-risk, under-resourced kids, with only 24 percent making it through senior year. But for every Otis, $3,200 is spent annually, and Harper says $1 million must be raised to start a new cohort. Considering the impact of 75 to 100 kids realizing their worth and applying it, I Have a Dream seems like an easy sell. But Harper says it’s hard to make noise in the crowded philanthropic landscape. “I think we have more [nonprofits] per capita than any other state in the nation. … For a long time there’s been all of this silo building,” Harper says, applauding Ressler’s effort to spur collaboration and the hours he’s volunteered for the dreamers. “I hope [Brave audiences] walk away understanding that there is this really

“This is some Barbra Streisand sh*t, you know what I mean? Nothing has prepared me.” VOICE REHEARSAL AND I HAVE A DREAM BY STEVE MARCUS; CHARLES RESSLER PORTRAIT BY ADAM SHANE

big need in our community to support our students, and that all kids matter, and that even somebody as poised and beautiful and amazing as Charles has come from environments like the kids that we’re serving.” Recognition isn’t an issue for Opportunity Village. The 60-year-old institution operates three campuses, serving 2,000 individuals with intellectual disabilities every day. It hosts high-profile events and has become a model for other nonprofits, as it generates 80 percent of its own budget through donations and productive endeavors ranging from document shredding to cookie sales. The problem is the perception that such a strong organization doesn’t need support. “No good deed goes unpunished,” Linda Smith says with a weary laugh. The associate executive director and chief development officer began volunteering > building community Opportunity Village’s OVIPs working hard and (below) at Opportunity Village more than 30 years ago, and the Philharmonic’s musicians playing hard. she points out that for the past nine, the state has not increased the fund that bolsters its resources. “Nevada ranks bottom of the pile in available funds for people with intellectual and related disabilities. It’s the worst in the nation, so thank God for Opportunity Village.” She speaks from the heart, as a mom whose life was changed by it. “My own son Christopher was born with Down syndrome. I was pretty well told to put him away, put him in an institution, forget about him,” Smith says. But at Opportunity Village, he has learned a simple trade and earns wages alongside his peers (which totaled nearly $8 million last year). “Opportunity Village becomes more than an employment training center. It’s social; it’s friendships; it’s a place where you can learn; it’s a lifeline for families like mine.” The next phase is a residential campus, as individuals with disabilities are starting to outlive their caregivers. A campaign has been launched, and the presence Opportunity Village will have in the lobby She hopes they remember last year’s Life Is during Brave is a chance for the community to meet its Beautiful, too, when the orchestra played Beatles hits “best sales representatives.” Ressler says their warmth alongside dancers and acrobats from Cirque du Soleil’s and genuine curiosity make you think about your own Love. “It was one of the greatest things we did,” says emotional disabilities. “If I fit in anywhere, as someone Crawford, who sees Brave as another way to harness who doesn’t fit in in this world, it’s at O.V.” the energy and chemistry of multiple creative forces. “I Ressler also gushes about the Las Vegas think everybody’s reaching across the aisle and saying, Philharmonic, the resident company of the grand hall let’s think about what we can do together. ... How can where he’ll perform Brave. “The Philharmonic has we reach more people?” done some extremely brave things in order to engage this community,” he says, adding that it * * * * * was launched in a city where maybe a If Ressler’s other vision manifests, these thousand people give a damn. causes will reach a sellout crowd of 2,050. Jeri Crawford is one of those people. BRAVE April 2, “The environment around me turned to When her fiancé (now her husband of 11 8 p.m., $22-$99 the stage at Reynolds Hall, and I could years) asked her to move to Vegas, she (limited $5 & $10 see and experience the feeling of what it said that was fine as long as he bought tickets for Smith was like to be performing on that stage. season tickets to the symphony. Center newbies And then the next flash was a Facebook Soon after arriving from her native with the promo post that said: ‘I just sold out Reynolds San Diego, Crawford joined the code BEBRAVE). Hall.’ And it had 237 comments on it. ... I Philharmonic’s board, and a decade later, Smith Center’s thought, I wonder how you do this?” she volunteers as president of the board Reynolds Hall, He got a primer December 20, perand the entire organization. She has seen 702-749-2000. forming a 14-song revue at the Smith the Phil through changes both challengCenter’s Cabaret Jazz to mark his 30th ing and triumphant, some tied to develbirthday. He says he learned of the opporopment of the greater culture. “What’s tunity while he was abroad and had less than two weeks happening here reminds me of where the arts were 20 to put it together. It didn’t show. From Sarah Vaughan’s or 25 years ago in San Diego,” she says. “There’s a lot of “Black Coffee” to “Curbside Prophet” by Jason Mraz, incentive to work with other organizations in town to he made familiar songs new and gripping. Not because try to rebrand this Las Vegas that we live in.” he was technically flawless. Because he seemed totally The Phil will do its part in its first full season with committed, from high notes to asides about who he is. conductor Donato Cabrera, unveiling a slate of new “Charles is one of the most real people you will ever programming this week. There’s a build-your-own meet. He is not pretending to be the way he is. He is series and spotlights on small ensembles, and the youth the way he is. And he has the ability to completely be concert series is expanding to serve 32,000 students in that onstage,” says his voice coach Jimmy Lockett, a over two weeks. Buzz-worthy guest acts include fusion Juilliard-trained composer and singer who’s directing orchestra Pink Martini and Broadway star Alexandra the music for Brave. Silber, and while Crawford is thrilled about such visitWorking with Ressler over the past six months, ing talent, she hopes supporters remember that Phil Lockett has seen amazing charisma, insane work ethic musicians actually live in this community, so dollars and a way of communicating that is “enormously powpaid to them go back to Las Vegas. opportunity village by christopher devargas; LV philharmonic courtesy

erful and entertaining.” Does he think it’s a little nuts what his student is planning to do April 2? Absolutely, given the timeline. But when insanity works, it looks a lot like bravery. “I do not think you can bring expectations, because they will not be met. If you’re thinking spectacle, or if you’re thinking arty, or if you’re thinking intimate, or if you’re thinking grandiose, the best thing you can do is leave all that alone. Because what you’re getting is Charles, and Charles is a unique individual. ... For him, everything is a personal statement that has import and meaning for this moment.” When it comes, Ressler will unleash what he considers his greatest strength: “a voice that works.” And he’s not talking about his falsetto. He knows people might love or hate what he has to say, and that some might see Brave more as an opulent showcase than a heartfelt fundraiser. “It’s what I can give back that drove it, more than what I can gain. Which is also a lot, and that’s kind of the point,” Ressler says. “By helping everyone around you, you’re also helping yourself.” His goal is to raise $150,000 for the dreamers, musicians and OVIPs, made possible by sponsors like Zappos and Switch four-walling Reynolds Hall. And coinciding with Brave, he’ll launch dreamMaker, his app for sharing and realizing dreams. Michael Cornthwaite, a prolific Downtown entrepreneur who provided input on dreamMaker last May, doesn’t know much about Brave but plans to attend. He relates to Ressler’s nerve, to his “passion and disregard for the scope of the challenges.” “When I first got involved Downtown, I was young and naive. I may not have done some of the things that I did if I had been more realistic about the time and sacrifices necessary,” Cornthwaite says. “Downtown needs 100 more of this kind of person.” Ressler says that he’ll wake up on April 3 with no money and no idea what’s next. But on April 2, no matter who’s there or how they feel about his treatment of Nat King Cole or his ball of light, all he can do is let it rip. March 26-April 1, 2015 LasVegasWeekly.com

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> HOWDY STRANGER Avicii returns from his 9-month hiatus to play XS’ 6th anniversary.

HOT SPOTS LUKE SHAY AT DRAI’S BEACH CLUB The 24-yearold DJ/producer from Virginia Beach was first a piano student, and now the LA transplant takes both that experience and its classical influences to produce some damn good dance music. He just played Drai’s Nightclub March 21 in support of Adventure Club, which chose Shay as the winner of its “Wonder” Remix Competition in 2014. Catch his tunes live on the rooftop Cromwell complex’s pool side Friday afternoon. March 27, doors at 11 a.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. SAMMY ADAMS AT REHAB “In Vegas, yeah, I drink Jäger, throw bangers, get serenaded by ladies basically naked” spits the up-and-coming pop-rapper in his 2012 “All Night Longer” single. There’s a good chance that scenario might happen Saturday afternoon when Adams sets up shop poolside for a performance during the Spring Break edition of the iconic Hard Rock Hotel debauch-fest. March 28, doors at 11 a.m., $20+ men, $10+ women. BOULDER CITY BEERFEST AT WILBUR SQUARE PARK The lake-

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side town’s now-annual beer bash stirred” first appeared, returns to Wilbur Square Park AVICII AT XS Well, hello there, in the novel Saturday for an afternoon of suds, Tim. It’s been a minute—or more Diamonds Are accurately, 401,760—since your snacks and sounds benefiting nonprofit Forever. last Las Vegas performance. But Operation Homefront. Expect pours from now that you’ve ended your healthlocals and regionals like Banger, Tenaya Creek, mandated hiatus, you can rejoin the rest of Ninkasi and Stone, with grub from local food trucks (including Sausagefest, Sauced and Ben’s BBQ and EDM royalty and XS—which, coincidentally, will Smokehouse) and tunes courtesy of Thee Swank be celebrating its sixth birthday Saturday night Bastards, The Delta Bombers and more. Cheers! (see Page 14). You’ll finally get to see what they’ve March 28, 1 p.m. (early entry), 3 p.m. (GA entry), done with the place. And we’ll finally get to hear $45 advance/$60 at the door (early entry), $30 what new musical tricks you’ve got up your flanadvance/$40 at the door (GA entry). nel sleeves. March 28, doors at 10 p.m., $50+ men, $20+ women. WILD LIFE WITH DISCLOSURE AT LIGHT The English house/UK garage duo behind the Sam CRIZZLY AT HARD ROCK LIVE Dubstep. Crunkstep. Smith-assisted “Latch” is kicking off its 2015 Light Drumstep. Derpstep. To most of us, the Austin proDJ residency—the American base for its beloved, ducer/DJ’s range of bombastep (you’re welcome, global Wild Life party—in event-like style. Joining Crizzly) sounds pretty uniform. But to the hunit is versatile producer/DJ Eats Everything, San dreds of fans undoubtedly planning to support the Francisco figurehead/Dirtybird co-founder Justin man born Chris Marshall at the unlikely low-end Martin and Scottish disco-meets-Detroit upstart HQ on the Strip, it’s an adventure that will plunge Jackmaster. In summary: This lineup is legit. March them into every crevice of nu-school bass music. 28, doors at 10 p.m., $50+ men, $30+ women. Joining Crizzly on this date of the Real Thugz Tour

CLUB HOPPING Nightlife news & notes

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004: STK ROYALE AT STK The nightlife-friend-

ly Cosmopolitan steakhouse celebrates four years of fun, concept-driven, Monday-night parties (and scrumptious steaks) with a James Bond-themed anniversary bash. Expect shadow-box dancers, jazzy tunes courtesy of live vocalist Nieve Malandra and Belvedere’s Spectre vodka martini, the latter branded after the upcoming installment of the scintillating spy movie franchise. March 30, 10 p.m. ’80S FLASHBACK WITH HEKTOR RAWKERZ AT GOLD SPIKE The new PYT #RetroWednesdays

promo at Gold Spike largely hones in on Top 40 nostalgia, but every first Wednesday, Hektor Rawkerz (from the Rawkerz DJ crew) will be playing ’80s alternative. So for those of you who like to groove to acts like The Smiths, Depeche Mode, The Cure and New Order—and what curmudgeon doesn’t?—this is your new weeknight jam. April 1, doors at 9 p.m., free.

chatter and merely want to party, here are the official NCB spots and dates to program into your calendar: Encore Beach Club with Tommy Trash (March 29, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.), the Bank Industry Party (March 29, 10 p.m.-4 a.m.), Palms Pool welcome/kickoff party with a live performance by Nelly and a DJ set by Nick Cannon (March 30, 7-9:30 p.m.), Marquee Opening Platinum Party with a live performance by T-Pain and a DJ set from Vice (March 30, 9 p.m.-4 a.m.), Hyde Bar Rescue Happy Hour (March 31, 7-9 p.m.), XS Top 100 Platinum Party with Avicii (March 31, 9 p.m.-4 a.m.) and Hakkasan Platinum Party with Tiësto (April 1, 9 p.m.-4 a.m.). And don’t underestimate the drunken potential

of the trade show, where unlimited samples of exhibitor products could mean … a hangover. So pace yourself, laminate holder. For more details, including pass/ badge admission info, visit ncbshow.com. Disco-llaneous: Organizers for Habitat Saturdays recently announced a hiatus, revealing plans to move the techno/house weekly from Satay Thai Bistro & Bar to a new location. And Hakkasan/Omnia resident Mark Eteson will co-produce a track with Paul van Dyk on the veteran’s upcoming artist album The Politics of Dancing 3, due out May 4. “Heart Like an Ocean” will open the album and feature vocalist Tricia McTeague. –Mike Prevatt

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It’s that week the entire nightlife industry gets together, talks about the business and invades damn near every nightclub in town. Yes, it’s Winter Music Conference/Miami Music Week, but I’m actually referring to the Nightclub & Bar Convention & Trade Show, taking place March 30-April 1 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. And don’t write off the convention part: This year’s slate of panels, talks and seminars appears to be the most promising yet. But if you (like your peers in Miami) aren’t interested in any of the daytime

is Dotcom and K Theory. March 28, doors at 8 p.m., $30 general admission, $50 VIP.

NIGHTS

> bubbly bromance Champagne showers don’t discriminate at Foxtail Pool Club

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Five things to know about Foxtail Pool Club

The SLS’ new cool-down spot, from swordfish salad to Steve Angello

pool gigs, theming will include the flower walls from the Pool season is upon us, which means the debut of billboards and possibly even a maze at the entrance. His SLS’ Foxtail Pool Club, an extension of the midsize debut at the venue coincides with its grand-opening party Foxtail Nightclub. And I couldn’t have asked for nicer on April 25. Rebecca & Fiona and Erick Morillo round out weather during my March 22 visit to check out the pool’s the big weekend with headlining gigs the day before and most notable features. after, respectively. You may want to pass on model-turnedThe food and drinks: “The skewers, the ceviche, the DJ Brooke Evers’ exaggerated knob-turning and ahi poke tuna with coconut milk, the tacos, the year-old EDM staples, however. swordfish salad—the food, I promise you, is Property perks: “If you book a room here better than any other club food in the city,” says Foxtail Pool all summer you have free access to the pool— Memphis Garrett, director of nightlife opera- Club SLS, 702even if Steve Angello is playing,” Garrett says. tions. The ceviche alone is some of the best I’ve 761-7621. FridayYou’ll get four wristbands, there’s no fine print ever had. Garrett’s drink suggestions were also Sunday, doors at excluding holiday weekends and you get insperfect, with both the SoBe Vice and Pineapple 10:30 a.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. and-outs if you need a disco nap. Smash refreshing and not too sweet. Foxtail at night: It debuts April 1. “We’re The duckies: Per the tradition started at building a half-pipe [for the debut] over the small pool,” sister property Hyde Beach in Miami, a giant metallic Garrett says, adding that the venue will feature weekly rubber duck kicks it in the corner of the venue. Keep an night-swimming events (including an 18+ event with eye out for embroidered duckies on the towels and little Borgore on April 16) and live performances on the new rubber ones on the reserved signs. stage—and show off the much-talked-about 3D projecThe headliners, namely Steve Angello: “His creative tion mapping. –Deanna Rilling side is awesome,” Garrett says, adding that for Angello’s

Table Hostess, Liquid Pool Lounge Clean Bandit, “Rather Be” (The Magician Remix) Skrillex & Diplo (feat. Justin Bieber), “Where Are U Now” The Weeknd, “Often” (Stellar Remix) AlunaGeorge, “Your Drums, Your Love” Don Diablo, “Got Me Thinkin’” Odeza (feat. Zyra), “Say My Name” Duke Dumont, “The Giver” Flux Pavilion & Dillon Francis, “I’m the One” Kennedy Jones, “Dip” Nick Jonas (feat. Tinashe), “Jealous” (E-Man & Ikon Remix)

Open-air Cellar

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Springtime gets me looking southeast, toward the outdoor drinking (and dining) options grouped MILO’S CELLAR in Boulder City’s inviting historic district. The Dillinger and Boulder Dam Brewing Co. are two 538 Nevada Way, of my favorite spots with patio seating, but when I’m looking to pair fresh air with wine, Milo’s 702-293-9540. Cellar is the place to be. ¶ The 10-year-old BC anchor features a fully stocked wine shop inside, Sunday-Thursday, and purchased bottles can be consumed onsite for a $10 corkage fee. When I popped in over the 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; weekend, however, I sampled from the expansive by-the-glass list by ordering the Flight Plan—any Friday & Saturday, three 3-ounce pours for $15. My picks (with help from a knowledgeable waiter): a crisp 2012 Calina 11 a.m.-11 p.m. chardonnay from Chile, a fruity 2012 Klinker Brick Old Vines Zinfandel from Lodi, California, and a lush 2013 Ponzi pinot noir from Oregon’s Willamette Valley, my favorite among the trio. ¶ Milo’s also offers salads and sandwiches, but the main draws for me are the wine, the dozen outdoor tables and the great escape—even if it’s just 20 minutes down the road. –Spencer Patterson

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VENUE

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

1 OAK

Closed

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

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

ALIBI

DJs, 10 pm; lounge open 24 hours

DJ Eddie McDonald

ARTIFICE

ARTISAN

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

SUNDAY

MONDAY

Closed

10 pm; lounge open 24 hours

DJ Eddie McDonald

10 pm; lounge open 24 hours

Lounge open 24 hours

Doors at 5 pm

Double D Karaoke

Pornstaraoke

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

Lounge open 24 hours

Closed

DJ Kid Conrad

THE BANK

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

BEAUTY BAR

Doors at 9 pm; free

Scott Disick

Sound

#FollowMe Fridays DJs Miles Medina, Romeo Reyes; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Part Time

Latin Ladies Night

BLUE MARTINI

BODY ENGLISH

BOND

CHATEAU

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Lost Angels

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

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

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

LEVEL 107

11 pm; doors at 4 pm

LIFE

Closed

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

DJ Mustard

Baauer

LIGHT

DJs, 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

Markus Schulz

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

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

Doors at 5 pm

9 pm; free; doors at 4:30 pm

MARQUEE

Closed

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

OMNIA

Omnia Thursdays

MANDARIN BAR

Live music

Carnage

PBR ROCK BAR

Doors at 10 pm

Ladies Night

$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

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Panorama Saturdays

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

Fedde Le Grand

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

DJs Easts Everything, Justin Martin, Jackmaster; doors at 10 pm; $50+ men, $30+ women

Live music

9 pm; free; doors at 4:30 pm

Alesso

DJs Lema, M!KEATTACK, Ashley Wallbridge; doors at 10 pm; $50+ men, $20+ women

Showtek

DJs Mark Eteson, Jazzy Jeff; doors at 10 pm; $50+ men, $30+ women

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

F*ck It Friday

Snap Backs and Fly Kicks

DJs Phase, Sincere; doors at 10 pm; $20, women free

Sky High Mondays 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 Five; 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

Closed

DJ Kittie; 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

#IndustryLife

Disclosure (DJ set)

DJs Mark Eteson, Bee Fowl; doors at 10 pm; $60+ men, $30+ women

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

Scenic Sundays

Selfie Saturday

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

DJ G Minor

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

6 pm; free; doors at 5 pm

Posso

DJs Lisa Pittman, LC; doors at 10 pm; $40+ men, $40+ women

DJ Eric D-Lux

T-Pain

live; DJs Vice, Lema, Romeo Reyes; doors at 10 pm; $40+ men, $20+ women, locals free

Afrojack

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

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

Closed

Beer Pong Tournament

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

Industry Mondays

DJ FAED (Five & Eric D-Lux); doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women, locals free

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

DJ FX Fabian; doors at 10 pm; $20, locals free before midnight

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VENUE

THURSDAY

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

FRIDAY Wear Your Status

REVOLVER

Closed

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

SAYERS CLUB

White Label Thursdays

DJs Spair, Teeko, doors at 10:30 pm, free

NSA Thursdays

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

DJ Justin Credible

The Affair

TRYST

TUSCANY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Silver Saturdays

Get Your Balls Wet

Drink specials; Line Dancing 101, 8-9:15 pm; doors 8 pm; $5 after 10 pm, free for those in red/green/yellow

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

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

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

Sessions

Live music, doors at 10:30 pm, free

Stripper Circus

DJ Casey Alva; doors at 10 pm; free

RL Grime

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

DJ Eric D-Lux

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

Melo D

Sessions

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

Lou Lou White

Doors at 7 pm, free

Closed

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

Closed

Men of Share

Closed

Doors at 10 pm; free

DJ Turbulence

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

Closed

Amanda Avila

Corro Van Such

Nik at Nite

Laura Shaffer Vintage Vegas Cocktail Party

Doors at 5 pm

Closed

T-Spot Lounge; 8:30 pm, free

Enter the Void

International Playground

DJs Athenas, Fish; 10 pm; free; doors at 5 pm

DJs Selectaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Scream, Jr. Ska Boss; 10 pm; free; doors at 5 pm

Zedd

Avicii

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

Skrillex

Snoop Dogg

live and DJ set; doors at 10 pm; $50+ men, $20+ women

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

Velveteen Rabbit

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

Ladies Night

Confession Sundays

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

Piazza Lounge; 8:30 pm, free

WEDNESDAY

Closed

live; doors at 8 pm; free

Lil Jon

TUESDAY

Closed

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

Live music, doors at 10:30 pm, free

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

MONDAY

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

Piazza Lounge; 7:30 pm, free

Doors at 5 pm

Slander

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

Piazza Lounge, 7:30 pm; free

Doors at 5 pm

Jermaine Dupri

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

Zowie Bowie

Nieve

T-Spot Lounge, 11:30 pm; free

Piazza Lounge; 8:30 pm, free

Doors at 5 pm

Avicii

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

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Closed

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> WHOLE LOTTA ZEP Fathom’s Classic Music Series event is the closest you’ll get to a reunion … for now.

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Led Zeppelin While there’s still no dice on an official regrouping, the second Classic Music Series installment by Fathom Events centers on archival concert footage from the British rock behemoth—a no-brainer given the popularity of Fathom’s 2012 cineplex version of the quartet’s one-off reunion show in 2007. March 30, 7:30 p.m., fathomevents.com for prices & locations. Blinded: Awoken Local artist Allison Streater uses mixedmedia collage to sort through emotions, from the desire for material possessions to the struggle against hardship. “This series followed me over several years through times of great self-development, introspection and severe pain,” she explains. Empathize at her reception, March 27 at 5:30 p.m. Through May 15, free, Winchester Cultural Center.

HEAR SYMPHONIC SPECTACULAR The Las Vegas Philharmonic kicks it up with classical showpieces as

part of its Pops Series. Leading off with Rossini’s overture to The Barber of Seville, the program also includes works by Tchaikovsky, Bernstein, Rimsky-Korsakov, Sibelius, Copland and Newman. March 28, 7:30 p.m., $26$94, Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall.

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Body of work Fabulous Figures brings a strange, compelling range of sculpture to Clay Arts Vegas Oh, look! It’s a big, beautiful woman with a cow body for legs. It’s a baby dangling from a rack on the wall. It’s … chocolate? Clay Arts Vegas show Fabulous Figures, juried by sculptor and UNLV professor Mark Burns, features 23 interpretations of human and animal forms by artists from across the States. “Timeout” by Salt Lake City artist Fabulous Clayton Keyes Figures won best of show Through for its concept March 31; and execution, a Mondayscorned toddler Saturday, hanging from its 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; underarms on two Sunday, 11 wall hooks. There a.m.-6 p.m. are demons and Clay Arts aardvarks, nudes Vegas, 1511 S. and abstracts, and Main St., 702a few works by 375-4147. invited artists like German-born Gerit Grimm, who creates chocolate-y brown, unglazed works thrown by wheel—an unusual approach in the world of sculpture. “We wanted a variety of techniques and aesthetics,” says studio co-owner Thom Bumblauskas, whose sculpture “Dave the Bunny,” a tank topwearing biker-type donning rabbit ears, flips off visitors as they reach the center of the show. –Kristy Totten

MILLION DOLLAR BURGER A classic deal at a classic restaurant awaits. Through April 12, Morton’s the Steakhouse offers its Million Dollar Burger, topped with foie gras, black truffle butter and braised short ribs on a brioche bun, with a glass of Stag’s Leap’s the Investor for $39, which is a lot less than a million dollars. 400 E. Flamingo Road.

GO WHISKEY REVIVAL Ready for two days of spirit sipping? If samplings of artisan whiskeys and other American craft boozes don’t quench your thirst, this Bar Back USA event also includes the Turn of the Century Whiskey Dinner at 6 p.m. Friday for $99, featuring guidance from Diageo master distiller Dr. Tom Turner. March 27, 7-11 p.m. & March 28, 2-6 p.m., $49-$79, Golden Nugget, goldennugget.com/ lasvegas/whiskeyfest.asp.

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Doing time Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart team up in Get Hard through some obvious comic paces Before becoming overwhelmed to get him ready to face hard time. by cheap prison-rape jokes, Get Mainly that involves preparing Hard actually has the potential to for being raped and/or fending be an incisive takedown of oneoff being raped, culminating in percenters, embodied in finance a graphic, tasteless and unfunny executive James King (Will Ferrell), scene of James attempting to peran oblivious upper-upper-class dooform oral sex on a man he picks up fus with a spoiled trophy fiancée at a gay hangout. (Alison Brie). But James’ convicFor all its ill-advised humor tion for fraud and embezzlement is about race and sexupresented as an obvious ality, Get Hard is less frame job, and the movie aaccc offensive than inconshifts focus from indictGET HARD Will sistent and misguided, ing the elite to building Ferrell, Kevin especially in its thirda bromance between Hart, Alison Brie. act focus on the belaJames and Darnell (Kevin Directed by Etan bored investigation into Hart), the man he hires to Cohen. Rated R. clearing James’ name prepare him for life in Opens Friday. (ending in a drawnprison. out, unnecessary action Although Darnell is sequence). Ferrell and Hart have an upstanding family man, James decent chemistry, but the material assumes that because he’s black, is too thin to offer a proper showhe’s been to prison, and Darnell lets case for their talents. Get Hard the misconception slide because he tries for easy laughs over intelneeds the money. But Darnell’s lack ligent commentary, but it doesn’t of experience ends up not being all succeed at either one. –Josh Bell that important, as he puts James

FILM

> Chilling Out Monroe (center) and friends pause between bouts of terror.

Everyday horror It Follows is relentlessly scary By Mike D’Angelo Though its title makes it sound like the first Twitter horror movie, David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows actually boasts a discomfitingly creepy, very physical premise. Teenager Jay (Maika Monroe) is chloroformed by her date immediately after they have sex, awakening strapped to a wheelchair. As it turns out, though, Jay’s assailant is now trying to warn her, not harm her. He just needs her to sit still while he explains (and shows her) what’s

But it never stops coming, ever. And

evanescent nature of passion. It

can change shape at will. ¶ Mitchell’s

happened:

the only way to get rid of it is to pass

doesn’t really matter all that much

rules for this evil force don’t always

it to someone else, by having sex

what It Follows means, though,

make logical sense, and a climactic

with them.

because the film tramples on your

showdown at an indoor pool fizzles,

nervous system at every moment,

but It Follows is still the best horror film to emerge in years. It lingers.

By sleeping with him, she’s contracted a curse. From now on, she’ll be relentlessly pursued by

On its face, this sounds like yet

a malevolent force that’s always

another horror movie that serves as

forcing you to constantly scan

walking in a straight line toward her,

a metaphor for sexually transmitted

the frame in search of innocuous

no matter where on the planet she

diseases, in the tradition of early

background extras who might be

goes. While the thing can take any

David Cronenberg. Mitchell arguably

moving slowly but steadily toward

human form, it can’t move any faster

has something more nuanced and

Jay. It’s like Where’s Waldo? if Waldo

than a brisk walk—it’s easy to outrun.

interesting in mind, tying into the

were a supernatural serial killer that

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aaaac IT FOLLOWS Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto. Directed by David Robert Mitchell. Rated R. Opens Friday.

FILM

Invasion of the cute aliens Home uses an odd premise for familiar lessons

> boys in the ’hood Hart prepares Ferrell for his gang initiation.

> slumber party Mazar gives Foster a youthful makeover.

Youth is king

Home opens with aliens invading Earth and forcibly relocating the entire human population, which seems like an odd way to begin a family-friendly animated movie. Instead of following human resistance fighters who take on the unwelcome invaders, Home treats the whole thing like a wacky misunderstanding, since the alien Boov are cute and clueless, led by a pompous leader (voiced by aabcc Steve Martin) who HOME Voices touts his ingeof Jim Parsons, nious strategy Rihanna, Steve of running away Martin. Directed from all problems. by Tim Johnson. Since the Boov Rated PG. are being pursued Opens Friday. by the dangerous Gorg, they must constantly flee to new planets and inadvertently take them over. Despite the premise’s potential for satire or social commentary, the main focus of the movie is a familiar mismatched-friends story, as human tween Tip (Rihanna) finds herself teamed up with a misfit Boov named Oh (Jim Parsons). They learn lessons about family and bravery in typically bland kid-movie fashion, in the context of an alien-invasion story that doesn’t make much sense. Parsons’ literalminded Oh is basically a purple alien version of his character on The Big Bang Theory, where he’s honed the ability to be extremely annoying. Home is only mildly annoying, tolerable enough for children who like funnycolored aliens but forgettable enough that parents should be able to easily ignore it. –Josh Bell

So far, TV Land’s original sitcoms have been resolutely old-fashioned, made to fit in with the reruns that the channel is known for, but Younger is looking to change that. A single-camera show without a studio audience,

Younger is more sophisticated than typical TV Land fare, although it too attempts to recapture the spirit of a past TV series. In this case it’s Younger creator Darren Star’s Sex and the City, with Younger positioned as the ’10s Brooklyn version of the HBO NYC classic. ¶ Younger stars Bunheads’ Sutton Foster as a 40-year-old divorcee who pretends to be 26 to land a job in publishing and start her life anew. Like its protagonist, Younger sometimes struggles to appear hip, and its characters talk about generational differences more than anyone in the real world. But Foster is charismatic and likable, the supporting cast (which includes Hilary Duff and Debi Mazar) is strong, and the show’s version of New York is as magical (and unrealistic) as anything Carrie Bradshaw ever experienced. –Josh Bell

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A clear and present danger?

Documentary Going Clear exposes the dark side of Scientology By Josh Bell

nition to the film, it’s the lessProlific documentarian Alex recognizable figures who provide Gibney has made feature films the most compelling testimony. about subjects ranging from Enron Gibney talks to a number of forto Lance Armstrong to Fela Kuti, mer high-ranking Scientology and with Going Clear: Scientology figures, some of whom were in and the Prison of Belief, he takes the church for decades, and their on another subject that has been accounts of abuse and manipuextensively covered and analyzed lation are powerful indictments already. At his best, Gibney is good at of both founder L. Ron Hubbard distilling complex issues into acces(who died in 1986) and current sible, entertaining films, and he church leader David Miscavige. mostly accomplishes that with this The first half of the movie, which adaptation of Lawrence Wright’s details church history popular book about the and Hubbard’s rise to controversial Church prominence, can be a of Scientology. Anyone aaabc little dry, but as Gibney who’s been paying GOING CLEAR: allows each interview attention to Scientology SCIENTOLOGY subject to talk about over the past several AND THE PRISON the specific instances years, whether by read- OF BELIEF March that led to their deparing Wright’s book or 29, 8 p.m., HBO. ture from the church, following the work of he frames the story in more emojournalists like Tony Ortega, probtionally powerful terms. ably won’t learn anything new from There’s little deviation from the watching Going Clear. But as an familiar structure of talking-head overview of the history and the interviews and archival footage, main criticisms of Scientology, but everyone that Gibney talks to Going Clear is effective, especially has something worthwhile to say, when Gibney spends time on the and they accumulate a damning more personal stories of his various case against Scientology without interview subjects. coming off as bitter or vindictive. Those subjects generally fall That case may not necessarily be into two categories: reporters new or groundbreaking, but it is like Wright and Ortega, and forworth presenting, and Going Clear mer Scientologists like filmmakgets it out there in a direct, engager Paul Haggis and actor Jason ing way that will leave viewers Beghe. While those two bring eager to learn more. some show-business name recog-

A&E | NOISE

> Simply Irresistible? Flowers channels Palmer at the Bunkhouse.

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C O N C E RT

Reveling in the past

Brandon Flowers offers just three new songs at his Bunkhouse debut By Mike Prevatt Nicks’ “Edge of Seventeen,” or in another new song, Brandon Flowers’ first American concert ahead “Digging Up the Heart,” which recalled uptempo of the release of his second solo album took place on George Strait. Even Flowers’ shiny sports jacket March 21 of this year, but it almost could have haplooked like a loaner from Huey Lewis. pened in 2010—or 1988, for that matter. The mind also boggled at the lack of a dedicated Instead of favoring songs from The Desired Effect, keyboardist onstage, despite the obvious need for due out May 18, The Killers’ frontman performed one. Instead, we got synth tracks piped in and seven cuts from his first solo album, 2010’s Flamingo, two just-serviceable guitarists. Even more not counting a bonus cut from that record’s astounding in this scenario: Closer “Mr. deluxe edition (“Right Behind You”). In fact, aabcc Brightside” was essentially an edit of the he didn’t play a Desired track until 11 songs Brandon decidedly synthy Jacques Lu Cont remix. into his 16-song show, which also included Flowers Not that it didn’t sound good. It was, unsuronly two other new cuts, four Killers chestMarch 21, prisingly, a set highlight, as was the song nuts and, bafflingly, a cover of Robert Palmer’s Bunkhouse before it, “Only the Young,” the most reso“Simply Irresistible.” Saloon. nant song Flowers has written since 2008, If I had been a diehard fan, I imagine I’d and “Dreams Come True,” a robust newbie be pissed that I was getting a throwaway and debuted on the Bunkhouse stage with confidence irony-free cover—of a song that encapsulates everyand stridency. They balanced out the loss of oomph thing that was artificial and insipid about the ’80s, no experienced during “Read My Mind” and a Johnny less—rather than a new original. Cash-lite rendition of “Jenny Was a Friend of Mine,” That said, ’80s radio cheese has been Flowers’ both suffering without The Killers driving them. If primary inspiration for the past five years, which there’s one thing Flowers needs to avoid once he’s includes the last Killers’ record, Battle Born. You on tour proper, it’s reminding audiences that his could hear it in “Can’t Deny My Love,” the first primary bandmates aren’t behind him. single off Desired, which sounded a lot like Stevie

Kendrick Lamar’s latest isn’t just an amazing second big-label record, backed up with and produced by titans in their own right. To Pimp a Butterfly is a response. It’s hope that Compton’s very own can lead a charge for social change, an incredibly necessary confrontation to a series of unanswered questions. Specifically: What the hell is going on right now? The album has its hits (the Pharrell-produced “Alright,” the Isley Brothers-sampling “i,” the Assassin-assisted “The Blacker the Berry”), monstrous excursions into jazz and spoken word and free-form insanity all, and molds other artists will inevitably go crazy trying to fill. But this album isn’t for the singles. How could Lamar write another “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe” when “u,” a self-reflective assault both jarring and sincere, was threatening to pour out? How could he write another “Swimming Pools (Drank)” when staring down the barrel of police brutality, its incredibly dark headlines dripping down the face of the national media and pooled at the feet of culture’s consciousness? These are songs that need to be heard, for present’s sake. And what’s reassuring is they are. Butterfly reached Kendrick Lamar a Spotify To Pimp a Butterfly recordaaaaa breaking 9.6 million streams its first day up. That means Lamar’s mainstream appeal will finally put something important in front of masses who badly needed a beacon of hope in a hurricane of contrived pseudo-contemporaries. When we look back on music of the early 21st century, this will be a standout. Lamar’s last record, Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, made a lasting impression on hip-hop. But To Pimp a Butterfly will make a lasting impression on damn near everything. –Max Plenke

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COURTNEY BARNETT Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit aaabc Magnetically neurotic even when she keeps her cool, Courtney Barnett has been climbing the indie ladder since 2013 breakout single “Avant Gardener.” On her debut LP Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, the Aussie singer-songwriter sounds as unabashedly wordy and awkwardly charming as on previous project The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas. Whether she’s rambling about her slacker self or fictional characters—“I’m not going to work today/Gonna count the minutes that the train’s running late/Sit on the grass/Building pyramids out of Coke cans”—Barnett’s bouncy Sheryl Crow-y cadence and dry Stephen Malkmus-ish delivery make the banal seem interesting. “I lay awake at 3 staring at the ceiling/It’s a kind of off-white, maybe it’s a cream,” she muses on “An Illustration of Loneliness (Sleepless in New York).” ¶ Like finding a stranger’s diary and discovering it’s too good to put down, listening to Sometimes I Sit opens a door into Barnett’s blaringly insecure world, from the self-deprecating “Small Poppies” to the aggressive “Pedestrian at Best.” Filled with jangly ’90s nods and bluesy ’70s muscle, Barnett’s work is best when she’s her candid, sardonic self—and lucky for us, that’s almost always. –Leslie Ventura

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A&E | The Strip

T H E K AT S R E P O RT

Staying sharp

Cirque retools and refocuses in the face of edgy Strip competition By John Katsilometes

have since followed by generating terrific word of mouth around town and robust ticket sales. In the face of this Strip-wide challenge to its artistic superiority, what was Cirque to do? “When you are a leader in a category of show, in order to remain edgier than the competition, you have to refresh,” Cirque du Soleil President Daniel Lamarre said just before the One Night for One Drop charity show March 20 at the Mirage. “We are getting back to where the show is more modern, and becoming more and more the talk of the town, which was the way we were when we started.” Lamarre said that for the past few years there has been a concerted effort by competing productions to target Zumanity artistically while cutting into its audience. “That’s totally accurate,” he responded. “I look around the Strip at other shows and I understand this. We know in our shows that if we bring a new twist or new acts, it will be a great way for those shows to maintain their leadership positions in each category.” As always, Cirque also competes with itself. Since Zumanity opened, the company has launched a half-dozen shows (one of which, Viva Elvis, opened and closed at Aria). The changes to Zumanity have been a tighter presentation throughout and updated choreography from Yanis Marshall, who has redesigned several familiar numbers. One of the more dazzling examples is the redmohawked aerialist Brandon Pereyda soaring over the crowd in a harness

> BALANCING ACT Zumanity strives to stay sexy and edgy.

made of chains, backed by a live cellist and vocalist. The show still features what is the only extended kiss involving gay male characters of any major Strip production—this after an impassioned cage fight in which the combatants wear red pumps with sixinch-high heels. The show’s comedy remains both biting and campy, with host Edie (as portrayed by the swiftwitted Christopher Kenney) toggling the hosting duties with the hormonally charged Shannan Calcutt and Nicky Dewhurst. The show still climaxes with an orgy on its circular stage, involving a few hand-picked audience members. What Cirque delivers, always, is the grandeur of its staging. The theater in the round at New York-New York has 1,250 seats, more than double the capacity of the Spiegeltent at Caesars. Cirque does nothing on a diminished scale these days, and moving 138,000 tickets a week to its eight Strip shows is always a challenge. “Our priority is to bring this refreshing to the public, through marketing, because we are so excited about what we have done,” Lamarre said. “We have already seen a pickup

in sales for Zumanity.” Cirque will next focus on Love, its artistic and business partnership with The Beatles. That show will celebrate its 10th anniversary in June 2016, and movement is already afoot to refresh that show visually and (especially) musically. When producer Giles Martin, son of legendary Beatles producer George Martin, was in Las Vegas last fall, he marveled at the technological wizardry Cirque had lavished upon Michael Jackson One at Mandalay Bay. Clearly, Love, too, is already ripe for an upgrade by Cirque’s lofty standards. “We already have a good idea about what we want to do, and we have been working with Giles and Dominic Champagne, the director who has been in on the show since the beginning,” Lamarre said. “We’ve met with the people from MGM [Resorts], and we are all in line with what we should be doing with the show.” When asked when that timeline for a revamp of Love is to begin, Lamarre laughed and said, “It started yesterday.” Of course. That is always Day One on the timeless calendar of Cirque du Soleil.

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It’s easy to be edgy when you’re new to the scene, but not so much when you’re a seasoned veteran. Cirque du Soleil, born on the streets of the tiny Canadian town of BaieSaint-Paul and introduced to Vegas in a tent at the Mirage 23 years ago, understands this reality all too well. Consider the company’s sexy adult production Zumanity, relaunched to splashy fanfare at New York-New York in February. In its original form, Zumanity was deemed a radical production. The show was such a jarring shift in Cirque’s family-friendly tenor that in the production’s first few months, scores of ticketholders walked out too offended to finish the night. By means of comparison, Absinthe cast members chuckle at the more than 220 audience members who have strode out of its tented venue over the show’s four-year run at Caesars Palace. But in its infancy back in 2003, Zumanity was blowing away those numbers. The show was chasing away at least 100 ticketholders per performance, because the adult content was so unexpectedly offensive. In the time since, however, that particular show and even Cirque in general had lost its mojo (to use a phrase that itself has lost its mojo). A dozen years after launching, Zumanity was no longer the show to see if you wanted the edgiest experience on the Strip. Absinthe has become the leader in a cluster of shows seeking to strip Cirque of its leadership role among productions with adult themes and humor. Others, like Zombie Burlesque at the Miracle Mile Shops’ V Theater,

A&E | COMEDY

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> CRAZY EYES Chris D’Elia’s physicality and characters are still fun, but his new bits aren’t fully formed (much like the Undateable tour).

NBC’s Undateable cast struggles to go from screen to stage

The cast of NBC sitcom Undateable features some buzz comics, a few of whom have already created great specials. The live version should have been a slam dunk, but Friday night we got the comedy equivalent of an airball. Cast member David Fynn is not a comedian, which he reminded us whenever something fell flat. He said showrunner Bill Lawrence was supposed to host but couldn’t make it; still, there’s no reason Fynn couldn’t have properly introduced the gang and sent them onstage to enthusiastic applause. Things hit an upswing with Ron Funches and his easy drawl. Funches, the program’s aaccc large, huggable, black friend, had one of the NBC’S best takes on the N-word I’ve heard. “I don’t UNDATEABLE believe you should ever use that word to TOUR hurt people. But I do believe we should use March 20, it to shame our pets. ... If you have a parakeet House of Blues. that thinks it’s better than you. ‘Oh, you think you’re better than me just because you can fly? Flying-ass ni**a, you wouldn’t be sh*t without me. I buy your birdseed. I buy the scarves you refuse to wear.” Rick Glassman arrived next and didn’t fare as well, filled with reasons he can’t close the deal with women and his fear of “going soft.” When it was time for his closer, he first claimed it would take too much time then said, “I’m pretending to have material, but I really ran out,” before awkwardly leaving the stage. Brent Morin’s high-energy set picked things up again. His Northeast persona worked perfectly when describing how having too many apps can ruin your life when you’re wasted. On drunk-emailing your boss: “You’ll be like, ‘You know what, Ted? You’re fat. Your daughter smells like toast. Your business plan is sh*t. Your wife’s whorey. I’ll see you Monday. Lol. Smiley face. Angel face. Two Zs. Eight lines down. XX space space for no reason. Huh? Send.’” If you spent any time in the LA comedy scene in 2013, you knew Chris D’Elia was the “it” comic. His special White Male. Black Comic. was one of that year’s best. Kudos to the talented D’Elia for leaving signature material behind, but his new stuff doesn’t yet pack the punch of his greatest hits. His trademark physicality and characters are still fun, but the bits aren’t as fully formed. It will likely get there, but it’s not there yet, much like this tour. –Jason Harris

FIVE THOUGHTS: GARFUNKEL AND OATES

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(March 21, Venetian) Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci look harmless, but as anyone who’s seen Garfunkel and Oates’ eponymous IFC show knows, these two can load a twee song with more awkward sex talk than a Dr. Ruth marathon. Midway through the set, the duo ditches its instruments to rap about never learning how to give a hand job. Because, “Once you’re in your 30s no one will teach you,” Lindhome says. The kicker’s in the chorus: “How can I learn when you always make me stop?” Some of Garfunkel and Oates’ best moments come when they tell the stories behind their songs, particularly “Go Kart Racing (Accidentally Masturbating).” “I just pulled my go-kart over and waited the 10 minutes out. You can’t orgasm in a go-kart in Utah. It just feels so wrong.” The set was full of web favorites, like “Weed Card,” about getting marijuana through a doctor’s prescription, and “I Don’t Know Who You Are,” about running into people who insist they know you … and you haven’t got a clue who they are. “You’re bland as f*ck. Get a catchphrase. Get an accent,” the duo sings. “You don’t even look a little familiar to me, and I blame you.” One of the funniest songs of the night was “The College Try,” about Lindhome’s “bisexual phase,” which ends with her realizing she’s totally freaked out by vaginas. Among a bunch of squealing ewws and oh-my-Gods, Lindhome shrieks, “I can’t believe I have one of those!” Even more awkward was Micucci admitting that’s her dad’s favorite song. Garfunkel and Oates save their most famous skit, “The Loophole,” for the final part of their set. “Do you guys know what God’s loophole is?” Lindhome asks—it’s about staying “pure through anal.” “It happened in my high school a lot,” she adds.” With lyrics like, “Yeah my chastity belt has locks, but sometimes you have to think outside the box,” it’s hard to imagine IFC cancelling the duo’s show after just one season. Maybe their crass brand of ukulele-comedy is just better suited for the stage. –Leslie Ventura

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A&E | scene

Roll with it, baby

Roller disco Down & Derby is a lively nightlife tangent By Mark Adams

> PARTY ON WHEELS Young or old, hipsters to hip-hoppers, Down & Derby draws them all to Gold Spike.

hip-hoppers, singles to couples and groups, Down & Derby definitely draws a diverse crowd. While the event is a roller disco, it was obvious from the soundtrack and attendees’ ensembles (think gold lamé and ’70s workout attire meets the fanny packs and neon of the ’80s) that a wide spectrum of retro is embraced at the nightlife alternative. Disco-era hits like Stevie Wonder’s “Do I Do” and George Benson’s “Give Me the Night” were complemented by ’80s synth-pop

(Bananarama’s “Cruel Summer”) and hip-hop tracks spanning decades, from Young MC (“Bust a Move”) and Beastie Boys (“Brass Monkey”) to Sir Mix a Lot (“Jump on It”) and Kriss Kross (“Warm It Up”) and more recent tunes from Nelly and Jay Z. While I didn’t muster up the courage to take to some skates that night, I refuse to be a roller-rink wallflower next time around. Now, I just gotta work on my moves …

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A&E | fine art

> look again By the time Millei puts brush to canvas, he’s done hundreds of watercolor studies.

Absolute control

John Millei’s deliberate confidence gives his work gravitational pull By Dawn-Michelle Baude

position, too, pulls the viewer in. The You can’t stroll around John Millei’s linear forms don’t lead the eye out of If 6 Turned Out to Be 9: Selected Work, the frame; instead, they stop short of at UNLV’s Marjorie Barrick Museum. the edge and rebound, holding attenNope—you have to stand there. In front tion inside the painting where layers of each painting. Look some more at and depths continuously unfold. those forms and shapes. Step back. With their lively palettes and comSquint a bit. Move on to the next paintpositional verve, Millei’s “JD” ing; come back to the last one. and other works seem to recall It’s as if each work manifests a Abstract Expressionism and/ specific gravitational pull, an aaaab or Action Painting. Wrong. elusive pictorial depth, a tac- IF 6 TURNED There’s not much paint-whattile network of specific inten- OUT TO BE 9 you-feel, spontaneous gestural tions that tows the viewer’s Through June combustion here. This work focus back inside the abstract 30; Mondayis about control. By the time composition and anchors it Friday, 9 a.m.-5 Millei puts brush to canvas, there. You don’t see this exhi- p.m. (Thursday he’s done literally hundreds bition; you experience it. until 8 p.m.); of watercolor studies. Each Consider “Jack Daniels and Saturday, noonpainting deploys a known, Jeopardy,” a heady 2011 canvas 5 p.m. UNLV’s asserting Millei’s trademark, Barrick Museum, even intimate, language. The painter’s familiarity with his stylistic moves. The “JD” can- 702-895-3381. forms and palette gives every vas has three types of paint— brush stroke deliberate confidence. oil, Flashe vinyl acrylic and aluminum The exhibition presents outtakes enamel. Millei’s repertoire of paint from several bodies of work over the applications come next: pasty-thick laypast decade—all of which appear noners and watery-thin coats, high-gloss representational. Two works from the colors and deep matte. His signature recent Hat Head series, for example, silver aluminum reflects light away; his display bold explorations of geomdense black absorbs it. The thick/thin/ etry and blocks of color. But on closer reflective/absorptive strategy generates inspection, the faintest resemblance to a canvas with visual force. The com-

a portrait emerges: a head, with long hair, in a wide-brimmed hat. Here as elsewhere, Millei “abstracts” from nature, revealing the underlying architecture of things, because structural relationships are the engine of his compositions. In the masterful Maritime series, ship rigging is abstracted into grids and curves; in the humorous works from the Procession group, fig-

ures are dressed as adorable cones. If 6 Turned Out to Be 9 takes its title from a Jimi Hendrix song celebrating you-do-what-you-got-to-do individualism. And Millei does just that. Despite his insistence on control—of materials, of applications, of the composition—his work exhibits the palpable freedom of a painter in full possession of his power.

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PAUL BEATTY’S SQUIRM-WORTHY ART

Rife with wit and awareness of history, The Sellout speaks the unspeakable about race BY HEATHER SCOTT PARTINGTON

such absurdity. When we first meet him, the What is post-racial America? eponymous character of Paul Recent headlines suggest a definiBeatty’s novel The Sellout is “gettion is hazy. Or, as Beatty’s novel ting high in the highest court in illustrates, post-racial America the land.” He’s before the Supreme means an America both self-aware Court after confessing to police and unable to fix itself. Its irreverthat he has both reinitiated segence is tempered with so much regation and owns a slave. “I’ve humor that the characters are able whispered ‘Racism’ in a postto speak the unspeakable. The racial world,” he says. work is rife with wit and awareBonbon, as “the Sellout” is ness of history. Beatty has a strong, known, is a black man from the ironic and profane voice. fictional town of Dickens: He writes with deliberate an “agrarian ghetto” in LA. provocation. There’s nothHe’s the son of a college aaacc ing politically correct about professor who raises him THE The Sellout, and its charthrough a series of social- SELLOUT acters’ flawed logic draws science experiments. By Paul attention to America’s Bonbon’s father is shot and Beatty, $26. greatest faults. But in this killed by an LAPD officer, scathing, humorous tale, the satiand soon after, Dickens is wiped rist accurately portrays the reality from the map to save California of American identity and institufrom additional embarrasstional racism. ment. Bonbon decides to redraw The Sellout doesn’t take itself too Dickens’ borders—literally, by seriously, and Bonbon takes us on painting a line—and in the enactmany tangents. But Beatty’s driving ment of his Swiftian modest proforce is the desire to explain—both posal, ameliorates the plight of its Bonbon’s journey and America’s. black residents by resegregating He utilizes stereotypes so that he schools and buses. He unifies his might challenge them; by drawcommunity, making the argument ing our attention to the tropes of that LA is already one of the most race and racial discussion—and segregated areas in the country. our complacency with them—he “You’re either citizen or slave,” creates a work that indicts us as Bonbon says. When Hominy, the a nation. “Silence can be either last surviving member of the Little protest or consent,” Bonbon says, Rascals gang, demands Bonbon “but most times it’s fear.” Beatty’s enslave him, Bonbon sees no writing in The Sellout is raucous choice. “Let’s be clear,” he tells us, and unafraid; just the kind of caus“I tried to ‘free’ Hominy countless tic, squirm-worthy art that brings times.” But Hominy won’t accept about change. his freedom. The Sellout revels in

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WELCOME TO GUAM Red Rice brings satisfying Chamorro cuisine to the Valley BY BROCK RADKE

We’re all suckers for a new food discovery, the experience of trying an ethnic or regionally specific cuisine for the first time. As Las Vegas’ restaurant landscape continues to grow and diversify, these discoveries become rare. We have lots of different kinds of food now. We’ve tried everything, right? Nope. Just a few months ago, what seems to be our only Chamorro restaurant arrived on food-rich Eastern Avenue. This is the cuisine of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, way out in the Pacific. Las Vegans are very familiar with Hawaiian and Philippine food, which are good reference points for Chamorro. Nevada also has a relatively sizeable Chamorro population, all the more reason for you to check out Red Rice, a small, friendly spot operated by the recently transplanted Tenorio family. Here’s the crowd-pleasing gateway dish: the Hafa Adai (which is sort of the Chamorro “aloha”) plate ($11.50) is piled high with juicy barbecued chicken marinated in soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic and ginger; a meaty pork spare rib with uncompromising tenderness and a similar, soy-focused flavor; a golden, flaky, addictive empanada; a bit of green salad with creamy, zingy dressing; and chicken kelaguen, a cold, citrusblasted dish kinda like Peruvian ceviche. The foundation, of course, is the red rice (hineksa’

aga’ga), deep orange from cooking in annatto seed (achiote) broth. That’s a whole lot of tasty. The Fiesta Plate ($12.50) tacks on crispy lumpia, barbecued beef and shrimp patties. You can lighten your load with nene (baby) plates (under $6), with just one meat, a smaller portion of rice and salad. Instead of chicken, kelaguen can also be made with beef, shrimp, or my favorite, octopus ($6.75 à la carte), where the citrus sting resonates through enjoyably chewy bites. Sour, tangy and vinegar-influenced flavors appear throughout the cuisine, especially in cold side dishes like the spicy cucumber finadene ($2.25) and cucumber and radish kimchee ($3.25). After one bite, I’m obsessed with Red Rice’s version of a Spam musubi ($2.75), a nori-wrapped rectangle of that smoky hineksa’ aga’ga, a slab of grilled Spam and yellow pickled daigo radish. I’m used to the too-sweet, too-salty, still-awesome musubi available at every Hawaiian plate lunch joint; this one has rich, round flavor, transforming a goofy, low-brow dish into RED RICE 9400 S. Eastern something special, if not much more respectable. Ave. #106A, 702-912(Spam is not for everyone, I guess.) 4826. Monday, Tuesday, Red Rice is something unique for us, but more Thursday & Sunday, noonimportantly, it’s just great, easy comfort food. 7 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, There are a lot of lunch options along Eastern noon- 8 p.m. Avenue, but for now, this is mine.

PASS THE BULL’S BALLS

Sharing is caring in Searsucker’s social dining room

There’s a party in the dining room, a cocktailswilling, snack-sampling get-together where groups blur, bites are passed and strangers meet. That’s how chef Brian Malarkey pictures a busy night at the new outpost of his popular eatery Searsucker, opening March 27 at Caesars Palace. Malarkey, who grew up on a ranch in Oregon and became executive chef of San Diego’s Oceanaire Seafood Room at 30, parlayed a final-four performance on Top Chef into a budding restaurant empire. The flagship is Searsucker, a cowboy-chic concept built around playful takes on American cooking in an atmosphere that’s more dinner party than fine dining. It’s a social scene, the chef says, “a lot of shared tables and people getting together and meeting each other and buying each other drinks and buying each other food.” The broad menu is a mix of crowd-pleasers and conversation pieces—breakfast-for-dinner egg and bacon ($16) with bourbon-braised pork belly and brown-butter hollandaise or wild boar chops ($41) served with boar bacon waffles and blueberry gastrique. Cocktails are whimsical and fresh, featuring ingredients like pickled carrot and house-infused cucumber gin. When a special menu designed around sending

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dishes to other tables debuts in April, you may be able to buy your neighbor SEARSUCKER duck-fat fries or the Cowboy Caviar— Caesars Palace, listed sans description—which is 702-866-1800. actually fried bull’s balls doused with Daily, 5 p.m.Champagne mustard vinaigrette and 2:30 a.m. Opens served with fried veggies and onion March 27. jam. “People eat them and then they get hyped up,” Malarkey laughs. “They think they’ve really overcome a huge obstacle in life.” Watching those kinds of reactions is one of the chef’s favorite things about Searsucker, where the kitchen is in the dining room. “As cooks, we work really hard and we don’t get paid as much as we think we deserve,” he says, “but the reward is you create a dish and you can watch it leave the window, you can watch it go to the guest and you can watch their reaction to eating it.” –Sarah Feldberg

MORE WITH MALARKEY! Go-to drink: “Everyone who knows me knows this answer is pretty easy, it’s a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc.” Favorite food destination: “I don’t ever get tired of going to New York.” Guilty pleasure: “Salami and cheese.” Must-have tool: “A quality knife.”

RED RICE BY MIKAYLA WHITMORE; SEARSUCKER COURTESY

WINTER’S LEMONADE

INGREDIENTS > CHAMORRO FEAST Fill up at Red Rice with (clockwise from right) the Hafa Adai plate, octopus kelaguen and musubi.

1.5 oz. Crown Royal Regal Apple Whisky 3/4 oz. Piehole Pecan Pie Whiskey 2 oz. lemon sour mix 3/4 oz. ginger ale

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Lemon swath and mint leaves to garnish, dash of bitters

Garnachas Mexican Street Food brings the good stuff

METHOD Build drink over ice in a tall glass, starting with Crown Royal Apple Whisky, Piehole Pecan Pie Whiskey and lemon sour mix. Stir. Top with ginger ale and a dash of bitters. Garnish with lemon swath and mint leaves.

texture to a Chinese bao dumpling—soaked in I recently noticed some whimsical signage on guajillo pepper sauce, griddled and stuffed with a nondescript building at Valley View and Sirius GARNACHAS chorizo, potatoes, heaps of shredded lettuce featuring a yellow bull and the name Garnachas. MEXICAN and fresh cotija cheese. You’ll need a fork for Inside I found a clean, brightly painted, colorfully STREET FOOD this squishy but not soggy torpedo. decorated, mom-and-pop eatery. 3111 S. Valley View In my growing handful of visits, I’ve also First, I tried a satisfying bowl of pozole ($8), Blvd., 702-272had a tostada ($3) piled liberally with rich, filled with plenty of pork hunks and hominy 0267. Daily, 10 chipotle-flavored chicken tinga. Next up, I’ve grains in delicate broth. On the side, I tried a a.m.-10 p.m. got my eye on the huarache with beef ($6) taco al pastor ($2.50), featuring crispy pig meat and the daily guisado ($8), impromptu chef’s and a slice of pineapple as garnish. I’ve been back for the pambazo ($9), a sandwich built choice stews that can contain anything from albondigas with extremely soft, fine-floured bread—almost similar in (meatballs) to pulled pork. –Greg Thilmont

GARNACHAS BY CHRISTOPHER DEVARGAS

This drink combines the warm, rich flavors of homemade pie with hints of salty-sweet lemonade. A twist on the summer classic, this drink is the perfect nod to winter as we move into spring. It combines the robust flavors that we associate with cold months, with the refreshing kick we look forward to when it’s warm.

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

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> ice queen Kate Winslet hatches an evil plot in Insurgent.

Boozy Movie Wednesdays Wed, 8 pm, free with cocktail purchase, 21+. 4/1, From Dusk Till Dawn. Inspire Theater, 107 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702489-9110. The Breakfast Club 30th Anniversary 3/26, 3/31, film plus retrospective featurette, 7:30 pm, $12.50. Theaters: COL, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. Cinemark Classic Series Sun, 2 pm; Wed, 2 & 7 pm, $7-$10. 3/29, 4/1, Gigi. Theaters: ORL, ST, SF, SP, SC Erotic Movie Night Fri, 7 pm, free. Erotic Heritage Museum, 3275 Industrial Road, 702-794-4000. Led Zeppelin 3/30, compilation of concert footage from Led Zeppelin’s career, 7:30 pm, $13-$15. Theaters: ORL, SF, ST. Info: fathomevents.com. Midnight Brewvies Mon, movie plus popcorn, midnight, free. Elixir, 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, Henderson, 702-272-0000. Nfinity Champions League 2 4/2, 4/4, broadcast of cheerleading championship, Thu 7 pm, Sat 12:55 pm, $10.50-$12.50. Theaters: COL, ORL, SF, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. Sci Fi Center Mon, Cinemondays, 8 pm, free. 3/28, Predator, Predator 2, Predators, 7 pm, $7. 3/29, Charlotte’s Web (2006), noon, $5 suggested donation for V Animal Sanctuary. 5077 Arville St., 702-7924335, thescificenter.com. Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou Tue, 1 pm, free. 3/31, Cape Fear (1962). Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.

New this week Get Hard aaccc Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, Alison Brie. Directed by Etan Cohen. 100 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 40. Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, DTS, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Home aabcc Voices of Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin. Directed by Tim Johnson. 94 minutes. Rated PG. See review Page 40. Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS It Follows aaaac Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto. Directed by David Robert Mitchell. 100 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 40. Theaters: AL, BS, COL, FH, ORL, PAL, RR, SC, SF, SHO, TS, TX

Now playing ’71 aaabc Jack O’Connell, Paul Anderson, Richard Dormer. Directed by Yann Demange. 99 minutes. Rated R. British soldier Gary Hook (O’Connell) gets separated from his unit in 1971 Belfast. Without a detailed familiarity with the factions involved with the Irish Troubles, some parts of ’71 may be hard to follow. But the filmmakers succeed at making those distinctions less important than the visceral danger that Hook is in. –JB Theaters: GVR

A La Mala (Not reviewed) 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, SC 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 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

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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, CH, FH, GVR, ORL, PAL, RR, SC, SF, 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 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 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: BS, COL, RR, TS 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, PAL, RR, SHO, 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: CAN, GVR, ORL, PAL, RR, SHO, SP, ST, TS, TX The Gunman aabcc Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba. Directed by Pierre Morel. 115 minutes. Rated R. An impressively beefed-up (and frequently shirtless, lest those muscles go unnoticed) Penn attempts to follow Liam Neeson’s footsteps as a middle-aged badass in this globetrotting action flick, directed by Taken’s Pierre Morel. Penn seems uncomfortable, though, and he’s stuck in a film that’s as generic as its title. –MD Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, DTS, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX Hot Tub Time Machine 2 ACCCC Rob Corddry, Clark Duke, Craig Robinson. Directed by Steve Pink. 93 minutes. Rated R. The first Hot Tub Time Machine was a pleasant surprise, but this sequel is worse in every way.

The plot is overly convoluted, with the main characters traveling to the future to prevent an assassination. The jokes are tasteless, repetitive and unfunny, the production values are low, and the characters are abrasive. –JB Theaters: TC 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 Insurgent aabcc Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet. Directed by Robert Schwentke. 119 minutes. Rated PG-13. The sequel to Divergent bypasses the exposition about its dystopian future, but it remains just as nonsensical. There are more exciting action sequences and better special effects, but the characters are still flat, and the plotting is still an incoherent mess. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX 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: SC, TC

A&E | Short Takes 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, CH, COL, DTS, FH, ORL, PAL, SF, SHO, SP, ST, TS, TX

> like father, like son Joel Kinnaman and Liam Neeson in Run All Night.

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, RR, ST, TS, TX 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, ST, TX 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, SC, TC 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 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, 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, SP 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 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, COL, ORL, PAL, ST, TS, TX 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

Taken 3 abccc Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Forest Whitaker. Directed by Olivier Megaton. 109 minutes. Rated PG-13. Neeson returns as former secret agent Bryan Mills, who has to clear his name after being framed for murder. Lacking the strong hook of the original, this sequel blunders through action-movie clichés, with nonsensical twists, inconsistent characterization and one of the most incoherently shot and edited car chases in recent memory. –JB Theaters: TC

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: ST

Theaters

(DTS) Regal Downtown Summerlin 2070 Park Center Drive, 702-221-2283

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

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(FH) Regal Fiesta Henderson 777 W. Lake Mead Parkway, Henderson, 702-221-2283 (GVR) Regal Green Valley Ranch 2300 Paseo Verde Parkway, Henderson, 702-221-2283

(CAN) Galaxy Cannery 2121 E. Craig Road, North Las Vegas, 702-639-9779

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

(CH) Cinedome Henderson 851 S. Boulder Highway, Henderson, 702-566-1570

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

(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

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

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

(SF) Century Santa Fe Station 4949 N. Rancho Drive, 702-655-8178 (SHO) United Artists Showcase 3769 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-221-2283 (SP) Century South Point 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-260-4061 (SC) Century Suncoast 9090 Alta Drive, 702-869-1880 (SS) Regal Sunset Station 1301-A W. Sunset Road, Henderson, 702-221-2283 (TX) Regal Texas Station 2101 Texas Star Lane, North Las Vegas, 702-221-2283 (TS) AMC Town Square 6587 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-362-7283

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

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

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

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

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MUSICAL MISCHIEF It takes a particular brand of chutzpah to fashion a show exclusively around Broadway’s worst flops. Yet that’s exactly what Amanda Kaiser, whose musical revue Flop! plays Sunday, March 29 at the Onyx, is doing. ¶ Kaiser will be joined in the show by a lineup of singers performing these songs, which begs the question: What about the songs? “Sometimes an epically doomed musical can be the most entertaining!” chirps Kaiser, whose favorite flop is the legendary quick-close Carrie: The Musical, which went over with audiences about as well as a bucket of pig’s blood. Kaiser will also share stories about that and other famous flops. “Each failed show presents FLOP! such a wonderful March dose of juicy gos29, 7 p.m., sip to share with $15. Onyx the audience. Bad Theatre, reviews, mixed 702-732with all the prob7225. lems and drama involved in getting to the Great White Way, only to pack up and close shortly after opening. It’s some wicked-wild stuff!” ¶ But still, what about the songs? Can they be any good if they’re drawn from flops? “Like a stunning diamond ring as an accessory to an otherwise horrific choice of outfit, these songs are featured as hits on their own, as the diamonds in the rough (often very rough) shows they come from. And these hidden musical gems deserve to be shared and celebrated.” –Jacob Coakley

LIVE MUSIC T H E ST R I P & N E A R BY Brooklyn Bowl Jessie’s Girl 3/27, 8 pm, $11. Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Roosevelt Collier 3/27, 1 a.m., $13-$17. Trampled by Turtles 3/30, 8 pm, $21$28. Milky Chance, James Hersey 4/9, 9 pm, $18-$22. Clean Bandit, Meg Mac 4/10, 9 pm, $22-$25. Ghostface Killah, Raekwon 4/13, $25. Brand New, Circa Survive 4/17, 8 pm, $37$41. Alabama Shakes, Allah-Las 4/18, 9 pm, $41-$44. Sturgill Simpson, The Lone Bellow 4/23, 8 pm, $22$24. Andy Frasco and the U.N. 4/24, $8. Zappa Plays Zappa 4/25, 9 pm, $39-$72. Morgan Heritage, Jemere Morgan 4/27, 8 pm, $13-$17. OK Go 4/28, 9 pm, $22-$28. Umphrey’s McGee 5/1, 7 pm; 5/2, 8:30 pm, $30$99. The Expendables 5/14, $15. Little Dragon 5/19. Shakey Graves, Barr Brothers 5/21, 8 pm, $17. Xavier Rudd & The United Nations 5/26, 8 pm, $19$22. Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters 5/28, $77. Jenny Lewis 5/30, 8 pm, $28-$33. Yelawolf 6/12, $15. Between the Buried and

Me 7/18, $20. Linq, 702-862-2695. The Colosseum Rod Stewart Elton John 3/27-3/28, 3/30-3/31, 4/3-4/4, 4/6-4/7, 4/10-4/11, 4/13-4/14, 6:30 pm, $55-$500. Reba, Brooks & Dunn 6/24, 6/26-6/27, 7/1, 7/3, 7/4, 12/2, 12/4, 12/6, 12/9, $60-$205. Aretha Franklin 8/14, 8 pm, $55-$160. The Who 9/19, 10:30 pm, $96-$501. Caesars Palace, 702731-7333. 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 5/265/30, 6/2-6/6, 6/9-6/13, 7/7-7/11, 7/14-7/18, 7/21-7/25, 8/4-8/8, 8/11-8/15, 8/18-8/22, 9/1-9/5, 9/8-9/12, 7:30 pm, $69-$139. 702-733-3333. Gilley’s Scotty Alexander Band 3/26, 9 pm; 3/27-3/28, 10 pm. Shows $10-$20 after 10 pm. Treasure Island, 702894-7722. Hard Rock Live 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 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. Mastodon 5/1, 8 pm, $30-$32. Walk the Moon 5/9, 6:30 pm, $22-$25. Juicy J 5/19, 8 pm, $28-$40. Carlos Santana 5/20, 5/225/24, 5/27, 5/29-5/31, 9/16, 9/18-9/20, 9/23, 9/25-9/27, 11/4, 11/6-11/8, 11/11, 11/13-11/15, $90-$350, 8 pm. Ministry 6/10, 8 pm, $40-$90. Dizzy Wright

7/4, 6 pm, $25-$30. Rhyme N Rhythm Mon, 9 pm, free. Live swing music Tue, 9 pm, free. Blues Wed, 8 pm, free. Phil Stendek Thu, 8 pm, free. Singles Sat, 9 pm, free. Gospel Brunch Sun, 10 am & 1 pm, $27-$50. PJ Barth Trio Sun, 8 pm, free. Mandalay Bay, 702632-7600. The Joint Widespread Panic w/ Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe 3/27 w/ Chris Robinson Brotherhood 3/28, 8 pm, $55+. Sixx: A.M., Apocalyptica 4/10, 8 pm, $35. Kenny Chesney 4/3-4/4. Alt-J, Jungle 4/13, 8 pm, $40. Three Days Grace, Pop Evil, Brave Black Sea 4/17, 8 pm, $29+. Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo 4/18, 8 pm, $40+. Journey 4/29, 5/1-5/2, 5/6, 5/8-5/9, 5/13, 5/15-5/16, 8 pm, $60-$250. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Rusty Maples 5/22, 9 pm, $35+. Gipsy Kings 5/28, 8 pm, $40+. Whitesnake 6/4, 8 pm, $35. Third Eye Blind, Dashboard Confessional 7/11, 8 pm, $40+. Juanes, Ximena Sariñana 7/30, 7:30 pm, $60+. Brit Floyd 7/31, 9 pm, $35+. Peter Frampton, Cheap Trick 8/22, 8 pm, $50+. Scorpions, Queensrÿche 10/7, 8 pm, $60+. UB40 10/16, $40$55. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5222. Mandalay Bay (Events Center) Charlie Wilson 3/28, 8 pm, $50-$130. New Kids on the Block 5/1, 7 pm, $40-$125. Neil Diamond 5/17, 8 pm, $60-$175. Nickelback 7/3, 8 pm, $25-$105. 5 Seconds of Summer 7/17, 7:30 pm, $50-$100. Fall Out Boy, Wiz Khalifa 8/7, 7 pm, $25-$70. (Mandalay Beach) 311 7/3-7/4, $55-$95. Sublime with Rome 5/22, $50. The Script 5/30, $45. Lee Brice 6/5, $45. Chris Young 6/7, $45. Switchfoot, Drew Holdcomb & The Neighbors, Colony House 7/10, $34. Pepper, Iration 7/17, $35+. Ziggy Marley 7/31, $43. Lost ‘80s Live ft. ABC, Wang Chung, Naked Eyes, A Flock of Seagulls and more. 9/26, $35. 702-632-7777. MGM (Grand Garden Arena) Fleetwood Mac 4/11, 8 pm, $50-$200. Iggy Azalea, Nick Jonas, Tinashe 4/25, $40-$70. Bette Midler 5/22, 8 pm, $95-$310. Madonna 10/24, 8 pm, $43-$383. 702-891-7777. Orleans NiteKings Wed, 4 pm. Rick Duarte Fri, 9 pm. Acoustic Den Sat, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., 702-365-7075. Palace Station (Jack’s) Peter Love Trio Fri, 9 pm. Willplay Sat, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702-547-5300. Palazzo (Palazzo Theatre) Frank: The Man. The Music. ft. Bob Anderson Tue-Thu, Sat, 8 pm; Fri 9 pm, $72. (Laguna Champagne Bar) Jimmy Hopper Thu-Sun, 9:30 pm, free. 3355 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 702-4144300. Palms (The Lounge) Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns Mon, 10:30 pm, $10. 702-944-3200. The Pearl Steely Dan 4/11, 8 pm, $94+. Joe Bonamassa 5/1-5/2, 8 pm, $89$130. The Moody Blues 5/3, 8 pm, $63-$133. Tedeschi Trucks Band, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Doyle Bramhall II 6/9, 6:30 pm, $63+. Alice in Chains 7/18, 8 pm, $53+. Jackson Browne 8/21, 8 pm, $63+. Alejandra Guzman 9/12, 8 pm, $33+. Palms, 702-942-7777. Piero’s Pia Zadora Fri & Sat, 9 pm, two-drink minimum. 355 Convention Center Dr., 702-369-2305. Planet Hollywood Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga 4/10-4/11, 8:30 pm, $69$250. Britney Spears 4/15, 4/17-4/18, 4/22, 4/24-4/25, 4/29, 5/1-5/2, 5/6, 5/8-

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5/9, 5/13, 5/15-5/16, 5/20, 8/5, 8/7-8/8, 8/12, 8/14-8/15, 8/18-8/19, 8/21-8/22, 8/26, 8/28-8/29, 9/2, 9/4-9/5, 9/9. $60-$195. Weird Al Yankovic 5/125/16, 8 pm, $59-$89. Na Ying 5/23, $28-$228. J. Cole, YG, Jeremih, Bas, Cozz and Omen 7/18, 8 pm, $41-$200. La Arrolladora 9/13, 9 pm, $59-$175. Ricky Martin 9/15, 8 pm, $50-$160. 702-234-7469. Rí Rá The Black Donnellys 3/26, 3/29, 3/31, 8:45 pm; 3/6-3/7, 3/20-3/21, 3/273/28, 9 pm. John Windsor 3/30, 8:45. The All shows free. Mandalay Place, 702-632-7771. Rock in Rio Festival Ft. Taylor Swift, Metallica, Linkin Park, No Doubt, The Deftones, John Legend 5/8-5/9, 5/15-5/16, $298-$498. Rockinrio.com. Route 91 Harvest Festival ft. Florida Georgia Line, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw and more. 10/2-10/4, times vary, $199. MGM Resorts Village, rt91harvest.com. Stratosphere David Perrico and Pop Evolution First & third Tue, 10:30 pm, $20. 800-998-6937. Tuscany Danny Lozada Sun & Thu 10 pm, free. Kenny Davidsen Celebrity Piano Bar Fri, 10 pm, free. Live music Sat, 10 pm., free. 255 E. Flamingo Rd., 702-893-8933. Venetian The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Godesses ft. Las Vegas Philharmonic 6/10, 8 pm, $66-$176. 3355 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 702-287-5922. Vinyl Spafford 3/27-3/28, 11:30 pm, free. Survivorman 3/29, 8:30 pm, $25+. Alice: A Steampunk Concert Fantasy 4/1, 5/20, 6/17, 7/15, 11 pm, $10+. Ed Kowalczyk 4/2, 9:30 pm, $40. Nekromantix 4/4, 9 pm, $20+. Mushroomhead, The Family Ruin, Doyle 4/5, 7:30 pm, $23. Nonpoint, 36 Crazyfists, Scare Don’t Fear 4/10, 8 pm, $20. Deap Vally 4/15, 9 pm, $12+. The Dan Band 4/17, 9:30 pm, $25. Secondhand Serenade, Ryan Cabrera, Nick Thomas, Wind in Sails, Runaway Saints 4/24, 6:30 pm, $18+. Dr. John Cooper Clarke 4/30, 8 pm, $20. Saxon 5/27, 8:30 pm, $22. Todd Rundgren 5/30, 8 pm, $30+. Amaranthe, Santa Cruz, I Prevail 5/31, 8 pm, $22+. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5000. Wynn (Eastside Lounge) Michael Monge Wed-Thu, 9 pm, $10. 3131 S Las Vegas Blvd.

D OW N TOW N Artifice Vegas Blues Dance Tue, 7 pm, free. Thursday Request Live Thu, 10 pm, free. 1025 S. 1st St., Ste. 100., 702-489-6339. 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 Castle, Dinner Music for the Gods, 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. Bar & Bistro Out of the Desert

Calendar Bluegrass Band Sun, noon, free. Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd., 702-2026060. Beauty Bar Reverend Petyon’s Big Damn Band 3/29, $10-$15, 9 pm. Prawn, Frameworks 4/2. 517 Fremont St., 702-5983757. The Bunkhouse Lolipop Records Explosion Tour 3/26. Hamell on Trial 3/27, 10 pm, $10. Hawthorne Heights, Courage My Love, Mark Rose, Shane Henderson, Dayseeker 3/28, 9 pm, $12-$15. Tomorrow’s Tulips, Headwinds 3/30. The Giving Tree 4/1. Gymshorts, No Tides, Black Mambas, Kids in Heat 3/31. AMFS 4/2. Rusty Maples, Mercy Music, Illicitor 4/3. Home Cookin’ 4/4. Boyfrndz, Future Death, Firewater Folklore, Narrowed 4/6. Battleborn Poetry Slam 4/9. Panda Bear 4/10, 9 pm, $20. Dengue Fever 4/11, 9 pm, $10-$12. The Downtown Fiction 4/12. Benjamin Booker, Small Wigs 4/16. Psychostick 4/19, 8 pm, $10-$12. Built to Spill, Braided Waves 4/20. Whirr, Wildmoth, Alaska 4/22. Moving Units 4/23. We Are Scientists 4/26. Crocodiles 5/21, $10. Torche, Melt Banana 6/26, $20. 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 Container Park Wolf Creek 3/27, 9 pm. Daniel Park, Jill & Julia 3/28, 9 pm. Haleamano 3/29, 2 pm. 707 Fremont St, downtowncontainerpark.com. Downtown Las Vegas Events Center Sammy Hager & The Circle 4/11, 7 pm, $64+. 200 S. 3rd St., dlvec.com. Fremont Country Club Streetlight Manifesto 5/21, 8 pm, $21-$26. 601 Fremont St., 702-382-6601. Fremont Street Experience Downtown Las Vegas, vegasexperience.com. Golden Nugget 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., 702-385-7111. Gold Spike Hard Candy 3/26, 10 pm. Bernie Smithers Blues Bus 3/27, 10 pm. Haleamano 3/28, 10 pm. Thunderdoem 3/31, 7 pm. 217 Las Vegas Blvd. N., goldspike.com. Griffin Live music Wed, 10 pm, free. 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577. Hard Hat Lounge Behind City Lights 3/27, 10 pm. 1675 Industrial Rd., 702-384-8987. LVCS Dirtbag Dan, Charlie Madness, Snap Murphy, N.O.V.N., Ulysses, Jackie G., Anglo Sax 3/28, 9 pm, $8. Nekromantix, The Legendary Boiler Makers, The Tiki Bandits, Dead at Midnite, Franks & Deans 4/3, 8 pm, $15-$18. Death By Stereo, Rule of Thumb, Winter Will Follow, Since We Were Kids, Someday Broken 4/4, 8 pm, $10. Incite, Better Left Unsaid, Slaves and Blades 4/14, 8 pm, $7. Crobot, Heavy Honey, Gorilla Head, Within the Cochlea, Roaches in the Kitchen 4/21, 8 pm, $8-$10. Sworn Enemy, Wretched, Hammer Fight, Dark Sermon, Cold Existance, Rule of Thumb 4/22, 8 pm, $8-$10. Fayuca, Haleamano, New Age Tribe 4/25, 8 pm, $8-$10. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-3531. The Smith Center Garrison Keillor 4/16, 7:30 pm, $29+. Ramsey Lewis Trio 4/174/18, 7 pm, $45+. Bruce Hornsby 4/18, 7:30 pm, $32+. The Piano Guys 5/11, 7:30 pm, $24+. Duncan Sheik 4/24-4/25, 7 pm, $39+. Spectrum and Radiance 5/8-5/9, 7 pm; 5/10, 3 pm, $37+. David Perrico 5/13, 10 pm. Lisa Hilton 5/15-5/16, 7 pm, $37. James Tormé 5/29-5/30, 7 pm, $37. Clint Holmes First Fri & Sat, 8:30 pm; first Sun, 2 pm; $35-$45. 361 Symphony Park Ave., 702-749-2000.

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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. Four Tops 4/18, 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 Patrick Genovese 3/27. Stefnrock 3/28, 4/10, 5/16, 5/29. Marty Feick 4/3, 4/24, 5/8. Shaun South 4/4, 4/25, 5/9. Scott Starr 4/11. Phil Spector 4/17. Nick Mattera 4/18, 5/2, 5/23, 5/30. All shows at 8 p.m., free. 2920 N. Green Valley Pkwy., 702-2720000. 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) Hotel California 5/23, 7 pm, $20-$30. Elvis, The Aloha Concert Tribute 8/8, 7 pm, $30-$42. Shows free with drink purchase. M Resort, 800-745-3000. Rampart Casino (Grand Ballroom) (Addison’s Lounge) Wes Winters Tue, 6 pm. Mark O’Toole Wed, 6 pm. All shows free unless noted. (J.C.’s Irish Sports Pub) All shows free unless noted. (Round Bar) All shows free unless noted. JW Marriott. 221 N. Rampart Blvd., 702-507-5900. Red Rock (Rocks Lounge) 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. (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 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) 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

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E V E RY W H E R E E L S E Adrenaline Sports Bar and Grill Love Sick Radio, Madlis, Light ‘Em Up, In Urgency, Tony Savelio 3/27. 3103 N. Rancho Dr., 645-4139. Arizona Charlie’s (Naughty Ladies Saloon) Jerry Tiffe Fri, 4 pm. (Palace Grand Lounge) Boomers Live music Wed, 10 pm, $5-$10. Hip Hop Roots Fri, 10 pm, $5. 3200 Sirius Ave., 702-368-1863. Boulder Dam Brewing Holes and Hearts 3/27. Cletus & Mexican Sweat 3/28. All shows free unless noted, Fri-Sat, 8 pm; Wed-Thu, 7 pm. 453 Nevada Way, Boulder City, 702243-2739. Boulder Station (Railhead) Bee Gees Gold Fri, 10 pm, $5. El Moreno Carrillo Sun, 11 pm, $5-$10. (Kixx Bar) Joey Vitale Fri, 8 pm. Reflection Sat, 8 pm. 702-432-7777. Count’s Vamp’d Cash’d Out 4/4, 10 pm, free. John Zito Electric Jam Wed, 9 pm, free. 9:30 pm, free. 6750 W. Sahara, 702-220-8849. The Dillinger Marty Feick Thu, 7 pm. Stefnrock First & third Sat, 8:30 pm, free. 1224 Arizona St., 702-293-4001. Dispensary Lounge Uli Geissendoerfer Trio Fri-Sat, 10 pm. 2451 E. Tropicana, 702-458-6343. Eastside Cannery (Eastside Events Center) Jay & The Americans, The Vogues 4/11, 8 pm, $11+. (Marilyn’s Lounge) Claudine Castro Band Mon, 10 pm. Phoenix Wed, 9 pm. Spazmatics Sun, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702-507-5700. Italian American Club 2333 E. Sahara Ave., 702-457-3866, iac.com. Milo’s Cellar Live Music Thur, 8 pm, free. 538 Nevada Hwy., 702-293-9540. Ron DeCar’s Event Center Bruce Harper Big Band 3/28. Jimmy Wilkins’ New Life Orchestra 4/4. Michael Ray Tyler Big Band 4/11. Bruce Harper Big Band 4/18. Jim Fitzgerald and His Gold Coast Big Band 4/25. Jazz Conversations Big Band Series Sat, 1 pm, $15. Swingin’ Sundays Sun, 5 pm, $10. 1201 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-384-0771. Sam’s Town NiteKings Sun, 7 pm, free. Shows free unless noted. 5111 Boulder Hwy., 702-284-7777. Star of the Desert Arena Restless Heart 3/28, 8 pm, $11-$35. Banda Machos 4/11, 8 pm. Foreigner 4/25, 8 pm, $11-$66. Merle Haggard 5/2, 8 pm. The Commodores 5/23, 8 pm. Buffalo Bill’s Resort & Casino, 31900 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Primm, 800-3867867.

COMEDY Louie Anderson Wed-Sat, 7 pm, $60$102. Plaza, 702-386-2110. Roseanne Barr 4/11, 9:30 pm; 6/6, 7:30 pm, $50-$118. Venetian, 866-6417469. Big Al’s Comedy Club Wed-Sun, 8 pm, $20. Gold Coast, 702-251-3574. Bonkerz Comedy Club Downtown Grand Fri-Sat, 8:30 pm, free (with two-drink purchase). 206 N. 3rd St., 702-719-5100. Bonkerz Comedy Club JW Marriott Shows 7 pm, $15. 221 N. Rampart Blvd., 702-507-5900. Bonkerz Comedy Club Primm Fri, 8 pm & 10:15 pm; Sat, 10:15 pm; $10. Primm Valley Resort , 31900 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 800-386-7867. Bonkerz Comedy Club Silver Sevens Fri-Sat, 10:30 pm; $10. Silver Sevens

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Hotel & Casino, 4100 Paradise, 702733-7000. Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club All shows at 8 pm, $65-$87. MGM Grand, 891-7777. Wayne Brady 4/17, 10 pm, $40+. Mirage, 702-792-7777. Jim Breuer 4/13-4/14, 7:30 pm, $35. South Point, southpointcasino.com. Hannibal Buress 4/4, 8 pm, $40-$54. House of Blues, houseofblues.com. Bill Burr 6/26-6/27, 10 pm, $70+. Mirage, 702-792-7777. Caroline Rhea, Elayne Boosler 3/28, 9:30 pm, $40-$96. Venetian, 866641-7469. Carrot Top Wed-Mon, 8 pm, $50-$60. Luxor, 702-262-4900. Jeff Civilico Sat-Mon, Wed-Thu, 4 pm, $39-$50. Quad, 888-777-7664. Andrew Dice Clay 3/26-3/28, 4/9, 4/11-4/12, 4/16, 4/18-4/19, 4/23, 4/254/26. All shows at 9 p.m., $59+. Vinyl, hardrockhotel.com. Comedy After Dark Wed-Sun, 10 pm, $40-$60. LVH, 702-732-5755. Whitney Cummings 5/22-5/23, 9:30 pm, $74-$118. Venetian, 866-641-7469. Jeff Dunham Wed-Sun, 7 pm; Sat-Sun, 4 pm, $72. Planet Hollywood, 702531-4320. Vinnie Favorito Nightly, 8 pm, $55$100. Flamingo, 702-733-3333. Fortune Feimster, Cameron Esposito 4/25, 8 pm, $40-$96. Venetian, 866641-7469. Craig Ferguson 5/23, 8 pm, $25+. Cosmopolitan, 702-698-7000. Billy Gardell 4/10, 9 pm, $44-$77. Treasure Island, treasureisland.com. Eddie Griffin Mon-Wed, 7 pm, $90$182. Rio, 702-777-7776. Kathy Griffin 4/3, 10 pm, $60+. Mirage, 702-792-7777. Kevin Hart 5/24, 8 pm, $49-$129. Mandalay Bay Events Center, 702632-7777. HydroComics Unleashed Wed, 9 pm, free. Lucie’s Lounge, 3955 Charleston Blvd., 702-776-6417. The Improv Pete Correale, Cathy Ladman, Sandy Danto Thru 3/29. James Stephens III, Joe Dosch 3/314/5. Tue-Sun, 8:30 & 10 pm, $30-$45. Harrah’s, 702-369-5000. Gabriel Iglesias 4/3-4/4, 5/23-5/24, 10 pm, $60+. Mirage, 702-792-7777. Eddie Izzard 6/12-6/13, 8 pm, $53+. Pearl, 702-942-7777. Jim Jefferies 10/3, 8 pm, $45. The Joint, axs.com. The Joe Show Thu-Sat, 8 pm, $30. Tuscany, 255 E. Flamingo Rd., 702629-0715. Jokes With Friends Thu, 10 pm, free. Nacho Daddy, 9925 S. Eastern Ave., 702-462-5000. Jo Koy 3/20, 9 pm, $55+. Treasure Island, 702-894-7722. L.A. Comedy Club Tue-Sun, 9:30 pm, $39-$62. Ballys, 702-777-2782. Lisa Lampanelli 4/4, 8 pm; 6/13, 9:30 pm, $50-$119. Venetian, 866-6417469. The Laugh Factory Shows at 8:30 & 10:30 pm. $29-$45. Tropicana, 702739-2222. Laughternoon Adam London Daily, 4 pm, $20-$25. The D, 702-388-2111. Jay Leno 5/15, 6/13, 7/4, 9/18, 11/20-11/21, 10 pm; 9/19, 9 pm, $60-$80. Mirage, 702-792-7777. M Resort Comedy Night Fri, 9 pm, free with drink purchase. M Resort, 702-797-1000. The Mac King Comedy Magic Show Tue-Sat, 1 & 3 pm, $33. Harrah’s, 702369-5000. Kathleen Madigan 6/12, 10 pm, $30+. Mirage, 702-792-7777. Bill Maher 3/21-3/22, 8 pm, $43-$93. Pearl, 702-942-7777. Dennis Miller 4/17-4/18, 8 pm, $55+. Orleans Arena, 702-284-7777. Party Improv Comedy Thu-Sun, 7

pm, $25, 2 drink minimum. Planet Hollywood, 702-531-4320. Russell Peters 9/6, 8 pm, $49+. Pearl, 702-942-7777. Puppetry of the Penis 4/14-4/19, 4/214/26, 4/28-5/3, 5/5-5/9, 8 pm, $45-$49. Erotic Heritage Museum, 3275 S. Industrial Rd., eroticheritagemuseumlasvegas.com. Ray Romano & David Spade 4/10-4/11, 10 pm, $80+. Mirage, 702-792-7777. Red Skelton Tribute Sat-Tue, 2 pm; $35-$40. Westin Las Vegas, 160 E. Flamingo Rd., 702-245-2393. Don Rickles 4/25-4/26, 8 pm, $80+. Orleans Arena, 702-284-7777. Riviera Comedy Larry Reeb, Penny Prince Thru 3/29, 8:30 pm, $30. Jackson Perdue, Robert Duchaine 3/30-4/5, 8:30 pm, $30. Mon-Sun, 8:30 pm, $30. 40 is Not the New 20 Mon-Sat, 10 pm, $40. Riviera, 855468-6748. Sapphire Comedy Hour Fri-Sat, 8 pm, $20. Sapphire Gentlemen’s Club, 3025 Industrial Rd., 702-796-6000. Amy Schumer 4/24, 8 pm, $45. Cosmopolitan, 702-698-7000. S.E.T. Improv Comedy Mon, 8 pm, $10. Onyx Theatre, 953 E. Sahara Ave., 702-732-7225. Shaq’s All-Star Comedy Jam ft. Aida Rodriguez, Billy Sorrells, Kelly Walker. Aliante, 7300 Aliante Pkwy., 702-692-7777. Side Splitting Sundays Sun, 10 pm, free. Boomers, 3200 Sirius Ave., 702368-1863. Sin City Comedy & Burlesque Show 8:30 pm, $38-$49. Planet Hollywood, 702-777-7776. Daniel Tosh 3/27, 10 pm; 3/28, 7:30 pm, $60+. Mirage, 702-792-7777.

PERFORMING ARTS 50 Shades! The Parody Tue, 7:30 pm & 9:30 pm, Wed-Sun, 7:30 pm, $69+. Bally’s, 50shadesvegas.com, 702777-2782. Annie 5/26-5/31, 7:30 pm; 5/30-5/31, 2 pm, $34+. Smith Center, 702-7492000. Brave 4/2, 8 pm, $22+. Smith Center, 702-749-2000. The Breasts of Tiresias 5/16, 5/225/23, 7 pm; 5/24, 2 pm, $10-$15. Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Dr., 702-455-7030. The Food Chain Thru 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, 702-749-2000. Hal Prince’s Broadway: An Evening in Word and Song 5/14, 7:30 pm, $24+. Smith Center, 702-749-2000. I Am Enough 4/1, 7 pm, free. Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada, 401 S. Maryland Pkwy, 702-733-9800. Ivy & Bean the Musical 4/15, 6 pm, $13+. 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, 702-7492000. Las Vegas Philharmonic Pops V: A Tribute to the Music of Frank Sinatra 5/16, 7:30 pm, $26-$94. Smith Center, 702-749-2000. The Legend of Tumbleweed Gulch A children’s play. 5/1, 7:30 pm, $15. Clark County Library Performing Arts Center, 1401 E. Flamingo Rd., tumbleweedgulch.com. London Symphony Orchestra,

Michael Tilson Thomas 3/30, 7:30 pm, $29+. Smith Center, 702-7492000. Marvel Universe Live 4/23-4/26, times vary, $20+. Thomas & Mack, marveluniverselive.com. Nevada Ballet Theatre: Giselle 5/9, 7:30 pm; 5/10, 2 pm, $29+. Smith Center, 702-749-2000. Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella 4/28-5/3, 7:30 pm, 5/2-5/3, 2 pm, $39+. Smith Center, 702-749-2000. Steve Solomon’s Cannoli, Latkes and Guilt: The Therapy Continues 4/295/2, 7 pm; 5/2-5/3, 3 pm, $35+. Smith Center, 702-749-2000. Voice of Rudy: The Journey to the Movie 4/25, 7 pm, $34+. Smith Center, 702-749-2000.

SPECIAL EVENTS AFAN AIDS Walk 4/19, 8:30 am, free, $25 donation encouraged. Town Square, afanlv.org. An Executive Chef’s Culinary Classroom With Executive Chef Edmond Wong. 4/30, 5/26, 6/30, 7/23, 8/27, 9/29, 10/13, 11/10, 7 pm, $135. Bellagio, 866-406-7117. Animal Foundation’s Best in Show 4/26, 1 pm, $8-$25. Orleans Arena, animalfoundation.com. Boulder City Beer Fest 3/28, 1 pm, $30-$60. Wilbur Square, Boulder City, bouldercitybeerfestival.com. Bubble-Licious 4/16, 7 pm, $125-$150. Venetian, unlvino.com. Clark County Fair & Rodeo 4/8-4/12, 4 pm. Clark County Fairgrounds, 1301 West Whipple Ave., Logandale, ccfair.com. Dowtown Podcast Thu, 9 pm, free. Scullery, 150 Las Vegas Blvd., 702910-2396. Las Vegas Car Stars: Back to the Future 5/14-5/16, times vary, free. Fremont Street, lasvegascarstars. com. Monday’s Dark with Mark Shunock 4/20, 5/18, 6/15, 7/20, 8/17, 9/21, 9:30 pm, $20+. Vinyl, hardrockhotel.com. Motley Brew’s Great Vegas Festival of Beer 4/11, 3 pm, $30-$75. Fremont East, Downtown Las Vegas, greatvegasbeer.com. Pirate Fest 4/10-4/12, times vary, $8-$30. Lorenzi Park, 3343 W Washington Ave., piratefestlv.com. Pinoy Pride Celebration ft. Rebel Souljahz, One Magical Night. 4/3-4/5. Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, 200 S. 3rd St., dlvec.com. Run Away with Cirque du Soleil 3/28, 7 am, $27-$37. Springs Preserve, springspreserve.org. Sake Fever 4/17, 7 pm, $100-$125. Red Rock, 11011 W Charleston Blvd., unlvino.com. Stellar Gospel Music Awards 3/273/28, 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. UNLVino Grand Tasting 4/18, 7 pm, $125-$150. Paris, 3655 S Las Vegas Blvd., unlvino.com. Vegas Beer & Music Festival 4/3, 7 pm, $45. Foxtail Pool Club, SLS, vegasbeerandmusicfestival.com. Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend Car show, burlesque, fashion show, bowling & music by Dion, The Sonics, The Chop Tops and more. 4/2-4/5, times vary, $30-$140. Orleans, vivalasvegas.net. Whiskey Revival 3/27-3/28, times vary, $49-$79. Golden Nugget, goldennugget.com. Wizard World Las Vegas Comic

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SPORTS Arenacross Championships 5/1, 8 pm, $40. South Point Arena, southpointarena.com. Arenacross 5/3, 8 am, $20. South Point Arena, southpointarena.com. Bad Intentions Boxing 4/11, 7 pm, $35+. Westgate, westgatevegas.com. Geico Endurocross 5/1, 8 pm, $38+. Orleans, orleansarena.com. Jay Cutler Desert Classic 4/4, times vary, $30-$78. The Pearl, ticketmaster. com. Jhonny Gonzalez vs. Gary Russell Jr. 3/28, 6 pm, $25-$200. Pearl, ticketmaster.com. Joe Weider’s Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend 9/17-9/19, 7 pm, $72+. Orleans, orleansarena. com. Las Vegas Outlaws vs. San Hose Saber Cats 3/30, 7:30 pm, $18-$198. Thomas & Mack, AFLoutlaws.com. Lion Fight 22 Kem Sitsongpeenong vs. Jo Nattawut 5/22, 5 pm, $45+. Sunset Station, sclv.com. FEI World Cup 4/15-4/19, times vary, $30-$1,500. Thomas & Mack, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, unlvtckets.com. Wacky World of Sports 5/2, 8 am, $100 per team. Sunset Park, clarkcountynv.gov.

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, 702-383-3133. Galleries include: Joseph Watson Collection Wed-Fri, 1-6 pm; Sat, noon-3 pm; Sun, 11 am-2 pm. Suite 115, 858-733-2135. Sin City Gallery Wed-Sat, 1-7 pm; Sun, 11 am-2 pm. Suite 100, 702-608-2461. Suite 135, 702-366-7001, trifectagallery. com. Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art Daily, 10 am-8 pm, $11-$16. 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-693-7871. Blackbird Studios Fri-Sun, noon-7 pm. 1551 S. Commerce St., 702-782-0319. Brett Wesley Gallery Wed-Sat, 1-7 pm. 1025 S. First St. #150, 702-433-4433. Clark County Government Center Rotunda Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm. 500 Grand Central Parkway, 702-4557030. Clay Arts Vegas Mon-Sat, 9 am-9 pm; Sun, 11:30 am-6:30 pm. 1511 S. Main St., 702-375-4147. Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery MonFri, 9 am-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-2 pm. At UNLV, 702-895-3893. Downtown Spaces 1800 Industrial Road, dtspaces.com. Emergency Arts 520 Fremont St., 702-686-3164. Gainsburg Studio & Gallery Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm. 1533 West Oakey Blvd, 702-249-3200. Left of Center Gallery Tue-Fri, noon-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-3 pm. 2207 W. Gowan Rd., 702-647-7378. Michelle C. Quinn Fine Art Advisory By appointment only. 620 S. 7th St., 702-366-9339. P3Studio 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. Winchester Cultural Center Art Gallery Tue-Fri, 10 am-8 pm; Sat, 9 am-6 pm. 3130 S. McLeod Dr., 702455-7340.

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free will astrology

By Rob Brezsny

ARIES

LEO

SAGITTARIUS

March 21-April 19

July 23-August 22

November 22-December 21

The term “jumped the shark” often refers to a TV show that was once great but gradually grew stale, and then resorted to implausible plot twists in a desperate attempt to revive its creative verve. I’m a little worried that you may do the equivalent of jumping the shark in your own sphere. APRIL FOOL! I lied. I’m not at all worried that you’ll jump the shark. It’s true that you did go through a stagnant, meandering phase there for a short time. But you responded by getting fierce and fertile rather than stuck and contrived. Am I right? And now you’re on the verge of breaking out in a surge of just-the-right-kind-of-craziness.

“The national anthem of Hell must be the old Frank Sinatra song ‘I Did It My Way,’” declares Richard Wagner, author of the book Christianity for Dummies. “Selfish pride is Hell’s most common trait,” he adds. “Hell’s inhabitants have a sense of satisfaction that they can at least say ‘they’ve been true to themselves.’” Heed this warning, Leo. Tame your lust for self-expression. APRIL FOOL! I was making a little joke. The truth is not as simplistic as I implied. I actually think it’s important for you to be able to declare “I did it my way” and “I’ve been true to myself.” But for best results, do it in ways that aren’t selfish, insensitive or arrogant.

If you were a ladybug beetle, you might be ready and eager to have sex for nine hours straight. If you were a pig, you’d be capable of enjoying 30-minute orgasms. If you were a dolphin, you’d seek out erotic encounters not just with other dolphins of both genders, but also with turtles, seals and sharks. Since you are merely human, however, your urges will probably be milder and more containable. APRIL FOOL! In truth, Sagittarius, I’m not so sure your urges will be milder and more containable.

TAURUS

VIRGO

CAPRICORN

April 20-May 20

August 23-September 22

December 22-January 19

If you happen to be singing lead vocals in an Ozzy Osbourne cover band, and someone in the audience throws what you think is a toy rubber animal up on stage, DO NOT rambunctiously bite its head off to entertain everyone. It most likely won’t be a toy, but rather an actual critter. APRIL FOOL! In fact, it’s not likely you’ll be fronting an Ozzy Osbourne cover band any time soon. But I hope you will avoid having to learn a lesson similar to the one that Ozzy did during a show back in 1982, when he bit into a real bat—a small flying mammal with webbed wings—thinking it was a toy. Don’t make a mistake like that. What you think is fake or pretend may turn out to be authentic.

No matter what gender you are, it’s an excellent time to get a gig as a stripper. Your instinct for removing your clothes in entertaining ways is at a peak. Even if you have never been trained in the art, I bet you’ll have an instinctive knack. APRIL FOOL! I lied. I don’t really think you should be a stripper. But I do recommend you experiment with a more metaphorical version of that art. For instance, you could expose hidden agendas that are causing distortions and confusion. You could peel away the layers of deception and propaganda that hide the naked facts and the beautiful truth.

“The past is not only another country where they do things differently,” says writer Theodore Dalrymple, “but also where one was oneself a different person.” With this as your theme, Capricorn, I invite you to spend a lot of time visiting the Old You in the Old World. Immerse yourself in that person and that place. Get lost there. And don’t come back until you’ve relived at least a thousand memories. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating. While it is a good time to get reacquainted with the old days and old ways, I don’t recommend that you get utterly consumed by the past.

GEMINI

LIBRA

AQUARIUS

May 21-June 20

September 23-October 22

January 20-February 18

In the spring of 1754, Benjamin Franklin visited friends in Maryland. While out riding horses, they spied a small tornado whirling through a meadow. Although Franklin had written about this weather phenomenon, he had never seen it. With boyish curiosity, he sped toward it. At one point, he caught up to it and lashed it with his whip to see if it would dissipate. This is the kind of adventure I advise you to seek out, Gemini. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. I don’t really believe you should endanger your safety by engaging in stunts like chasing tornadoes. But I do think that now is a favorable time to seek out daring exploits that quench your urge to learn.

Give yourself obsessively to your most intimate relationships. Don’t bother cleaning your house. Call in sick to your job. Ignore all your nagging little errands. Now is a time for one task only: paying maximum attention to those you care about most. Heal any rifts between you. Work harder to give them what they need. Listen to them with more empathy than ever before. APRIL FOOL! I went a bit overboard there. It’s true that you’re in a phase when big rewards can come from cultivating and enhancing togetherness. But if you want to serve your best relationships, you must also take very good care of yourself.

Some Aquarian readers have been complaining. They want me to use more celebrity references. They demand fewer metaphors drawn from literature, art, and science, and more metaphors rooted in gossipy events reported on by tabloids: “Tell me how Kanye West’s recent travails relate to my personal destiny.” So here’s a sop to you kvetchers: The current planetary omens say it’s in your interest to be more like Taylor Swift and less like Miley Cyrus. Be peppy, shimmery and breezy, not earthy, salty and raucous. APRIL FOOL! I wouldn’t write about celebrities’ antics if you paid me. Besides, Miley Cyrus is a better role model for you than Taylor Swift.

CANCER

SCORPIO

PISCES

June 21-July 22

October 23-November 21

February 19-March 20

Novelist L. Frank Baum created the make-believe realm known as Oz. Lewis Carroll conjured up Wonderland and C. S. Lewis invented Narnia. Now you are primed to dream up your own fantasy land and live there full-time, forever protected from the confusion and malaise of the profane world. Have fun in your imaginary utopia, Cancerian! APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. It’s true that now would be a good time to give extra attention to cultivating vivid visions of your perfect life. But I wouldn’t recommend that you live there full-time.

It’s after midnight. You’re cruising around town looking for wicked fun. You stumble upon a warehouse laboratory where zombie bankers and military scientists are creating genetically engineered monsters from the DNA of scorpions, Venus flytraps and Monsanto executives. You try to get everyone in a party mood, but all they want to do is extract your DNA and add it to the monster. APRIL FOOL! Everything I just said was a lie. I doubt you’ll encounter any scenario that extreme. But you are at risk for falling into weird situations that could compromise your mental hygiene. To minimize that possibility, make sure that the wicked fun you pursue is healthy, sane wicked fun.

Annie Edson Taylor needed money. She was 63 years old, and didn’t have any savings. She came up with a plan: to be the first person to tuck herself inside a barrel and ride over Niagara Falls. (This was back in 1901.) She reasoned that her stunt would make her wealthy as she toured the country speaking about it. I recommend that you consider out-ofthe-box ideas like hers, Pisces. It’s an excellent time to get extra creative in your approach to raising revenue. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. It’s true that now is a favorable time to be imaginative about your financial life. But don’t try outlandish escapades like hers.

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