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Contents 7 mail China on the Strip and

42 noise It’s Vegaschella time.

Pawn Plaza Downtown.

Seattle garage-rockers The Sonics and local electronic duo Details.

8 as we see it Cursive—still a thing. Did Michele Fiore say it, or did we make it up? Lion cubs!

47 the strip Musicians dish on

12 weekly Q&A St. Vincent on

48 fine art Happy Slow Art

actual scars and music metaphors.

Day! The textured sculptures and thoughts of Lucky DeBellevue.

14 Feature | up in the air

marche bacchus by adam shane; daylight by joe janet

Monika Haczkiewicz leaps into the biggest spotlight for youth ballet.

16 Feature | eat (all) this Brunch, glorious brunch. From duck confit hash to white cheddar grits, we’ve got your definitive Vegas list.

the incomparable Diana Ross.

50 food It’s time to talk about fried chicken (a lot), and a new spot for great bread in the old ’hood.

54 calendar Kickflips vs. Kickdrums wants Vegas kids to skateboard, jam and grow up right.

24 nights Your primer on the Great Vegas Festival of Beer and Daylight’s new Sundown party.

Cover babystacks cafe

39 A&E Return of the Mac. 40 screen Does Daredevil suck less on TV? Can While We’re Young show another side of Ben Stiller?

photograph By mikayla whitmore food styling by roni fields-moonen

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COACHELLA COVERAGE Will AC/DC connect with the kids? Can Drake outdraw Jack White? And which small-font acts will break out with big performances? Weekly musicheads Spencer Patterson and Mike Prevatt will deliver all the answers, with festival updates throughout the weekend at lasvegasweekly.com.

TASTY TAKEOVER Downtown Summerlin has three different burger-centric restaurants and just announced another: A super-famous, wildly successful, fast-foodish eatery is coming in 2016. Find more, plus info about upcoming special dinners and food festivals in the latest installment of Dining News & Notes at lasvegasweekly.com.

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MOST READ STORIES lasvegasweekly.com 1. Return of the theme? Resorts World will bring splashy style back to the Strip 2. A bar in the desert? It’s not a mirage 3. Can Fukuburger help refresh the Hawaiian Marketplace? 4. The Weekly interview: High on Fire frontman Matt Pike 5. Kickass climber Alex Johnson on first ascents and finding home in Las Vegas

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OLD BECOMES NEW Will the stunning design of the upcoming Resorts World hotel take the Strip back to the era of themed casinos? And will there be pandas?

They need the themes to set themselves apart, otherwise they’re just a casino of varying levels of expense without any noticeable difference in luxury or enhanced experience. –Alexis Berner How can this be old school? a Chinese motif might be the new Imperial Palace, but calling it old school? That place better have $2 blackjack and $2 beers. –Vito Martini Time to start organizing a boycott for the panda exhibition before it is even brought into fruition. Pandas are an endangered species! We don’t need them exhibited here. –Lizeth Sarabia If you were endangered, where would you rather live? The forests of China or a Las Vegas hotel? –Derek Reynolds I love the Resorts World in the Philippines, but I know beyond a shadow of a doubt this one will take it to an extreme level! I’m so super-stoked by it! Can’t wait to see it! –Juan Carlos Crisologo Thank God for the themes to return! These box-based casinos like Wynn, Mandalay Bay, Encore, even CityCenter and others are just a bore. I was so sad we haven’t had any modern themed casinos back to kick the modern times up a notch. –InfiniteVoyage

MORE PAWN FOR YOUR BUCK The Pawn Stars guys are building their own mini-mall Downtown.

Reminds me of the boardwalk at a California beach, but no ocean! –Ronny Wolf I would bet that they wouldn’t have even come up with this idea had it not been for the Downtown Container Park. –Steven R. Brown If people are lining up in droves pretending to look at old corkscrews and generators but really trying to see Chumlee, you owe it to yourself to monetize it if you can. –Andrew Lee

FANCY BOOZE We drank the entirety of the Cromwell and found the boutique hotel’s cocktails to be quite stimulating.

Love them all! Bound is superb— one of the best places to drink on the Strip. Giada is fabulous! Been there a few times and cannot wait to go back, and this is coming from a local. –Sue Aucoin Seems like a wonderful idea, if only I could afford $16 drinks all night. –Chris Ulloa-Padilla

KOREAN DISCOVERIES The Weekly isn’t alone in exploring the Valley for amazing Asian cuisine.

Been to all those [restaurants] and Manna is the winner, a little Korean lady and a big black skillet. What a combo. Her husband is super-funny as well. Best prices, best quality of food. –Daverave702

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AsWeSeeIt OPINION + POLITICS + HUMOR + STYLE

> SLATED TO BE RAZED These classic buildings on Main may be replaced by new development.

BLOWING IN THE WIND ∑ The Arts District is in for a makeover, if the renderings posted on Main Street properties just north of Charleston Boulevard come to fruition. The plan is to demolish buildings there and replace them with free-standing structures that would accommodate restaurants, galleries and other businesses. The efforts initially drew ire back in 2013, viewed as pushing out artist tenants. So when those same property owners purchased Art Square for $3.2 million last month, someone mused, “Where should we move the Arts District?” The implication is that maybe the arts have run their course in these parts, particularly with investors eyeing other Downtown properties. Now that the area is flourishing with pedestrian-friendly businesses, dining options, bars and the long hoped for

THE NAME GAME

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THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF FLAMINGO AND THE STRIP Recognizing the intoxicating and unaccounted for aroma of barbecue. THE HARDEST PARTYING POD IN THE HIGH ROLLER OBSERVATION WHEEL Named for the first tourist to throw up inside one. THE ALLEY BETWEEN CASINO ROYALE AND VENETIAN Honorably

President Marc Abelman is on a mission to protect the street art while exploring ways to keep purveyors of the arts there, championing recent efforts such as Downtown Spaces. “As a neighborhood organization, we need to advocate for the artists,” Abelman says. “As we talk about this gentrification, how do you make sure the artists are included in the process? They are the reason the area has been marketable. Artists are always going to be nomadic. They’re going to build up areas and going to be pushed out. But why can’t we be different?” Eshagh Kermani, one of the new owners of Art Square, says there are no plans to change its arts focus. Blackbird Studios remains on Commerce Street. The Arts Factory is still home to galleries and studios, but it’s up for sale. Regardless, as revitalization charges on, the Arts District will look, and feel, different. –Kristen Peterson

dubbed “The Road of White Castle Regret.” BELLAGIO’S SOUTH ENTRANCE Memorialized as headquarters for the most aggressive population of porn slappers. THE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE AT HARMON Named after the kid with the sign that says “Kick me in the nuts for $20.” –Brock Radke

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∑ Streets, sandwiches, stars on the sidewalk, and then some: XS Nightclub at Wynn has named one of its tables for Jon Taffer, president of Nightclub & Bar and host of Spike TV’s Bar Rescue. Surely this ushers in a new era of Strip sites being memorialized for other important accomplishments, such as ...

coffee shop (Main Street hasn’t looked so polished in years), the landscape for galleries has changed. About a decade ago when the Arts District was really gaining momentum, galleries exhibiting bluechip work and emerging art-world stars were mixed in with small studio spaces and throwntogether efforts, painting a diverse scene dedicated to visual art. The short-lived condo craze and arena plan pushed some out and temporarily froze new lease opportunities, adding to the complaint that city code didn’t distinguish between a gallery and an art museum, a problem some saw inhibiting growth. While other cities provide incentives for arts efforts because they help revive neglected areas, the Arts District has never had anything other than name designation, a few public art projects and support from the city in First Friday’s early years. With the area’s recent changes, its 18b Neighborhood Association is ceremoniously recognizing those who paved the way.

as we see it…

War on writing

> no filter Michele Fiore speaks her mind.

Nevada students may have to start learning cursive

T h e W EE K LY Q U I Z

She said what?

Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore is racking up controversial quotes. Can you tell which of these bonkers statements actually belong to her?

“If standing for liberty and standing for the Constitution makes you a wacko bird, then I am a very, very proud wacko bird.” “As someone that carries a firearm on me like my panties and bra, I do break the law because I generally carry my gun in places where they say is a gun-free zone, because

I’m not going to be a victim of a stupid law.”

to us … with a bill for chemical castration or straight-up castration.”

“If it was up to me, if you uttered the words ‘gun control,’ we’d put you in jail.”

“We’re in 2015 and we have a black president, in case anyone didn’t notice. So the color and the race issue, I think it’s time that we put that to rest.”

“Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.” “If you really want to get serious about stopping the pimps and stopping this horrific activity with sex trafficking our children, come

“I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.” Answers: 1. Fiore 2. Ted Cruz 3. Fiore 4. Ted Nugent 5. Ed Koch 6. Fiore 7. Fiore 8. George W. Bush

“I’m politically 100 percent incorrect and believe political correctness is hurting truth and open, heartfelt dialogue.”

Can you read this now? If State Sen. Don Gustavson of Sparks has his way, Nevada schoolchildren will not only read cursive, they will write it proficiently as well. Gustavson is introducing a bill, SB 287, this Legislative session to require public and charter schools to teach cursive by third grade. In Nevada, cursive is optional in the classroom. It isn’t part of the Common Core, a K-12 math and literacy curriculum adopted by 43 states including ours, but it’s mandated in a number of states, including California, Georgia, Massachusetts and Tennessee. Proponents of longhand tout its positive effects on motor skills and hand-eye coordination, and argue that students need to learn cursive to read historical documents. Critics say script isn’t necessary in the digital age and that it takes time away from other, more important subjects. UNLV education professor and associate dean Linda Quinn sides with the latter camp. Quinn says it takes students about a year to learn cursive, and most schoolwork is now typed. “Making something that’s almost outdated mandatory seems counterproductive,” she says. “... We shouldn’t wipe it off the playing field, but maybe there should be more of a choice.” –Kristy Totten

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Lion cubs!

Lion Habitat Ranch owner Keith Evans throws a chunk of horse meat into the den as a full-grown lion jumps to retrieve it. The cat’s giant paws Five furry friends join the animal smack the thick wall of Plexiglas as Evans throws more meat, calling to the lion like a house cat. I’m here at the Henderson sanctuary to catch a crowd at the Lion Habitat Ranch glimpse of five cubs born on April 1. Although the count was originally six (one passed away on Sunday of unknown causes, and Evans is waiting on an autopsy), the litter is still noteworthy for its size, as lionesses normally average only two to three cubs. ¶ “Right now she’s really protective,” Evans says, referring to the mother, Pebbles. “When they get to be about 2 weeks old she won’t care anymore,” he adds, and the public is welcome to try and get a peek at the new family. ¶ Also on site are 48 adult lions (many of which were part of the now-shuttered MGM Lion Habitat), exotic birds like ostriches and emus and Ozzie the giraffe, who just celebrated his 1st birthday. “It’s really a shame that our state doesn’t have a zoo, period,” Evans says. He has more than 40 years of experience working with lions, but Lion Habitat Ranch recently faced a possible shutdown by the Clark County Zoning Commission due to the number of giant cats on the property. ¶ Established in Henderson in 1989, the park has been open to the public for the past two years and received nonprofit status in 2014. An agreement was reached in March that would allow it to stay open so long as no more cats are bred (beyond this litter) until the population drops below 40 lions. –Leslie Ventura

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AS WE SEE IT…

BRIEFS VEGAS ON MY MIND

FACT AND FICTION Half-truths and absurdities litter the debate over Internet gambling BY STEVE FRIE SS In last month’s Congressional hearing on a proposed ban on Internet gaming, anti-gambling absolutist Les Bernal tried to pull a fast one on Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond. Bernal mentioned the revenue the Bayou State gets from online lottery ticket sales and how much worse its $1.6 billion budget deficit would be without it. “Probably the reason why you have a $1.6 billion deficit is that it seems like the lottery was supposed to fill your budget gaps,” said Bernal, executive director of Stop Predatory Gambling. To which Richmond shot

claimed, “Killing personal, business and institutional finances, Internet gambling is widely known as the ‘killer application’ of the Internet.” Two things: Nobody ever says “killer application.” And nobody regards gambling as a killer app because a genre of online activity does not a killer app make. But Kindt wasn’t done. He also tied the 2008 economic collapse to, it seems, the ability to play $10/$20 No-Limit online. I’ve rewatched this bit about a thousand times, and it still makes no sense: “Wall Street is dangerously flirting again with trillions in unreg> CLICK AND KA-CHING Is gaming really the Internet’s “killer application”?

ulated derivatives. That is, financial side bets. In this context, vacuous Internet gambling financials predicated on gambling activities are in development, and Internet gambling stocks would tantalize a series of speculative bubbles which can only lead to another Great Recession or worse.” No member of Congress questioned Kindt’s wild claims. Equally bizarre were insistences by the sponsor of the Restoration of America’s Wire Act, Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, that it is impossible to ensure that people are in the states they say they’re in when they wager online. The Republican asked: “Does anybody really believe that technology can prohibit a 16-yearold from getting on a [Virtual Private Network] and really prohibit gaming in the state of Utah?” With this, the only sane person on the panel, attorney Parry Aftab,

VIRAL CULTURE There’s no better way to get the skinny on the Smith Center’s Broadway season than by watching Myron Martin and Seth Rudetsky discuss it with juicy, enchanting enthusiasm. Taped in Reynolds Hall, the video of “Seth’s Big Fat Broadway” sits on the Smith Center’s new blog, joining other tidbits including the Broadway season selection process and Las Vegas Philharmonic’s Donato Cabrera explaining symphony etymology. As Rudetsky would say, “That’s a brava!” –Kristen Peterson FRESH READ A new library is in the works for East Las Vegas in a neighborhood that has never before had a branch. Approved by the library district on April 1, the deal will bring a new library to 28th Street at either Sunrise Avenue or Bonanza Road. Plans are still being finalized, but Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Coffin says it could open in a couple of years: “It will not be a cheap library; it will be a world-class library.” –Kristy Totten

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back, “No, actually, my Republican governor did a billion dollars in tax breaks with no new revenue, so.” The room erupted in giggles, so silly was Bernal’s failed cheap shot. If only this had happened sooner. If only another member of the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations had been quick-witted enough to call out the string of half-truths and absurdities tossed out by those determined to tell the nation where and whether to gamble. To sum up the “expert” testimony of March 25, Internet gambling is responsible for funding ISIS, moneylaundering and official corruption. Pick any societal ill—poverty, child slavery, Kanye West—and it was probably mentioned. Also, it’ll bring on the next economic catastrophe because, University of Illinois business professor emeritus John Kindt

piped up and said, “I do.” Aftab is executive director of WiredSafety, a group focused on protecting vulnerable people online. She’s not some emissary of Vegas. She’d asked regulators in Nevada, Delaware and New Jersey, where online gambling is legal, and learned they do “prohibit any VPN. This technology is getting a lot better. What we will have is better than what we have now, which is nothing to stop them from gambling off of a Caribbean site from the U.S. in Utah and anywhere else.” She should’ve also informed Chaffetz that the bill’s primary supporter and his new BFF, Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson, relies on geo-locating technology to ensure the mobile gaming devices offered at Venetian and Palazzo aren’t used outside the hotel or even in certain private corners onsite. That’s harder to do than detecting if someone is in St. George rather than Mesquite. Still, Aftab did something valuable in asserting that private stakeholders could help police Internet gambling. “If we can have licensed providers, they will help police it because they’ve paid a lot of money for the ability to do so within the state,” she said, later pointing out, “If you outlaw the legal means of [online betting], the only means out there are the criminal sites.” Maybe there are good arguments or data to support banning online gambling and giving foreign hucksters the field to prey on Americans. But none was cited at the hearing. Nobody asked Bernal or Kindt to join us in the real world, where gambling exists because it’s fun for some people and a compulsion to others, the same as alcohol, fast cars or Netflix. Nobody said, “Dude, you’ve already said it can’t be contained, so how in that reality would you suggest protecting people?” Folks like Chaffetz might not like gambling, but in selecting the panelists and asking the questions at this hearing, they showed that they totally dig the Vegas business model. Like they say, the deck is always stacked in favor of the house.

UNDIES FOR A CAUSE Socks and underwear, the gifts we all dreaded getting as kids. But going without new ones would be a much worse scenario. That’s why Caridad and Nacho Daddy have partnered up for Undie Sunday, a sock and underwear drive benefiting Catholic Charities, the Shade Tree and Salvation Army. The first of its kind in Southern Nevada, the April 12 event starts at 3 p.m. and will feature drink specials, with 10 percent of proceeds going to charity. So get to giving at Nacho Daddy’s Downtown location Sunday by raising a glass—so much more fun than unwrapping a box of tube socks. –Molly O’Donnell

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> tasty metaphor Using pizza, Clark makes a case for why we shouldn’t hate music we don’t relate to.

Are you a vegetarian? No, but I

just turned 32 and lost my taste for red meat. It was a strange thing. You know what’s more interesting, certainly, is that Popeye was a propaganda campaign? Wartime propaganda. ... But it turns out the guy, whoever was entering the statistics on the iron content of spinach, accidentally had the decimal point in the wrong place. I mean spinach has iron, but it’s not like, Wow. Spinach knocks it out of the park.

elegant adrenaline Grammy-winning musician St. Vincent on living dangerously, biking with David Byrne and Popeye propaganda Annie Clark broke out as a solo artist in 2007 (following stints in The Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens’ band)—but in 2014 the mainstream music world took notice. Better known by her stage name, St. Vincent, the 32-year-old spent nearly all of last year touring behind her eponymous fourth LP, which won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album. The Weekly caught up with Clark in Toronto a week before her Vegas debut. You have this move, this shuffle that’s so quirky and odd—it looks like you’re gliding across the floor. How difficult was it pinning that down? It’s some-

thing that started happening kind of naturally, on the Strange Mercy tour, where it was just a

backwards shuffle, just a natural movement. It’s not that hard. It’s one of the few things that’s easier to do in heels. ... I do have a pretty gnarly gash on my hand from being in Sao Paulo on Saturday and falling on a wooden floor. Does that kind of stuff happen often? Yeah. I’m a

very physical person in general—I like to run really fast, and I like to feel out of breath, and I like the adrenaline and I like a little bit of danger, so, yeah, I get hurt often. I will never have beautiful knees ever again. ... I have a permanent indentation on my left leg from an incident in Japan. I don’t know. I think I need more iron, probably. When you stop eating red meat that’ll happen.

their own room or in their own head that they eventually forget how to interact with other people in an analog way. But the other part of it is, if you have curiosity and generosity of spirit, you can go and learn about anything. What did you learn from collaborating with David Byrne? Never

look back. Just by watching his exuberance about all things, and his curiosity about all things. I would liken playing music and collaborating with David to doing what I You performed with the surdid a number of times, followviving members of Nirvana at ing David through a city on a their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bicycle. There are times when induction; you toured with David you’re worried that you’re Byrne and sang on a Swans almost going to get hit by a album—it seems like you’re car. There are times where comfortable playing almost anyyou go, “Uh oh, the sidewalk thing. I like a challenge. I also ended and now we’re riding like seeing how other people on a highway.” Other times work, ’cause there’s always you’re like, “Why are we in this something to learn. And on a industrial part of Melbourne?” creative level, there’s a whole But then ultimately lot to learn from music you end up at a beautiyou don’t like that much. My producer ST. VINCENT ful beach or an amazing art gallery, and it’s John Congleton said, April 10, 8 always an adventure. “If I hear something, p.m., $25. and I don’t like it, I Boulevard don’t assume the prob- Pool, 702When you think of Vegas, lem is with the music. 698-7000. what does it evoke? I I assume the problem think of Dave Hickey, is with me, and I want to figthe great art/music/culture ure out what there is to like in critic. He says the mistake something, or what is interestpeople make when they go to ing about it.” Vegas—he loves Vegas—is that If somebody gave you they try to view Las Vegas a free pizza and you had a through the lens of the rest of bite and you were like, “Oh, America, but really we ought to I don’t really like this pizza. view America through the lens I don’t like olives. It’s not my of Las Vegas. It’s just America thing,” you wouldn’t be mad with an exclamation point after at it. You wouldn’t be like, everything. ... I don’t really “What the f*ck is this free gamble with money. pizza?” You just wouldn’t. But for some reason, we live in a Luckily there’s a lot more to do time where you can have anyin Vegas now. Yes! And I know thing you want essentially for that there are rad kids in Vegas. free, if not actually for free, in I think it’s easy to be a kid who terms of music. So people are likes whatever in New York able to sample things with no City, but I’m from the suburbs specific personal investment. of Dallas and my heart is very ... Music is so powerful that much with the suburban kids it still makes people angry if kind of growing up in a culthey don’t like it. turally barren landscape and making their own and seeking it out. –Leslie Ventura Technology is a big theme on the album. What are your thoughts on digital and social media? It

can be divisive in that people can spend so much time in

For more of our interview with Clark, visit lasvegasweekly.com.

“Music is so powerful that it still makes people angry if they don’t like it.”

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> EXHIBIT A Monika Haczkiewicz proves that Las Vegas can breed serious ballerinas.

MOMENT OF GRACE

Nevada’s great ballet hope is a long-limbed 17-year-old poised to seek her future in New York By Sarah Feldberg 14 LASVEGASWEEKLY.COM APRIL 9-15, 2015

Monika Haczkiewicz floats across the floor in a series of spins and jumps. A faint smile on her face, she pops onto the blunted toe of one satiny pointe shoe. A pink-tighted leg flies above her head as if it’s the most natural thing in the world. PHOTOGRAPH BY L.E. BASKOW

Alone in the studio, proportions are hard to judge. Those lithe, powerful legs seem too long for the slender body attached to them. They stretch forever, swinging forward and back, propelling the dancer up, up, up. She must be 5-foot-10, even 6 feet. Haczkiewicz giggles. She’s actually 5-foot-5. Compared to most ballerinas, she says, “I’m really short.” Compared to most high school ballerinas, the 17-year-old Las Vegas Academy junior is also immensely talented. The daughter of current and former Cirque du Soleil acrobats, Haczkiewicz possesses that potent stew of athletic genes, natural ability and an intense training regimen. She’s the rare little girl who dreamt

of being a professional ballerina and might actually be one. While other kids dropped dance classes for softball teams or school plays, Haczkiewicz has been practicing—attending ballet school, traveling to summer intensives, performing with Las Vegas Ballet Company—for almost her entire life. Since she first put on a tutu at age 3, she’s been working toward this year and this moment, toward the opportunity to show the greater ballet world what she can do. Now, if everything goes right, if she dances as well as she is capable of, if she can focus under the fog of enormous pressure, this could be the start of a beautiful career. For those not entrenched in the world of professional ballet, the Youth

America Grand Prix, or YAGP, usually elicits blank stares or perhaps a well-meaning question about car racing. But for young dancers hoping to make a living out of pirouettes and grand pliés, the annual event is like the BCS Championship and NFL Scouting Combine rolled into one. Founded in 1999 by a pair of former dancers from Russia’s renowned Bolshoi Ballet, YAGP is both showcase and contest, an international summit that scouts up-and-coming talent then puts the best and brightest in front of artistic directors from many of the top ballet companies in the world. Catch the right eye and even if you don’t win, you could be going home with a scholarship or contract. “If you really are serious about becoming a professional ballet dancer, it’s a wonderful thing to do,” says Monique Meunier, a former principal dancer with New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre soloist who judges for YAGP. “The exposure—you need the right training, the right teacher, the right facilities, the brain for it—if you pass, you will be seen.” Most talented kids, however, will not be seen. To “pass” on to the finals in New York, ballet dancers first need to navigate one of the regional semifinals, earning at least an average score of 95 points out of 100. In some cities no one advances—dreams are dashed, hard lessons swallowed. For 2015, YAGP held 19 semifinals, from Buenos Aires and Osaka to San Francisco and Austin. And for the first time ever, they came to Las Vegas. “I said to the girls, ‘There will be a lot of competition. There will be a lot of people coming to Las Vegas from everywhere, because they think there’s no talent here,’” says Tara Foy, artistic director of Tara Foy’s Elite Ballet and Haczkiewicz’s coach. Foy wore the town’s reputation like a badge of honor, determined to show that serious ballerinas are being made here. Haczkiewicz is Exhibit A. The Vegas native has the physique of a dancer—wide shoulders over a tiny waist resting atop “incredible, gorgeous, long, hyper-extended legs,” as Foy describes them. “But she also has a strength behind her dancing,” says Vegas-based judge Meunier. “That’s a very difficult combination to find, the mix of flexibility and strength.” Which is not to say that Haczkiewicz is a fully formed prima ballerina. Like any developing dancer, she has problem areas: proper alignment, maintaining her turnout, weak hips. She and Foy have been working on those issues for five months, preparing for YAGP with weekday afternoons of pointe work, floor barre and pilates, spending weekends drilling solos again and again. Asked how many hours a week

she trains, the full-time high school student sounds daunted. “Oh my gosh … Hold on,” Haczkiewicz says, counting quietly to herself. “Thirty or more hours. It’s a lot of work.” There are days, of course, when she’d rather go to the mall with friends than pull on her leotard and head back to the barre. “I cannot stand doing pilates and floor barre,” she laughs. “I just want to put my pointe shoes on and dance. “When I’m onstage it’s the most amazing feeling in the entire world. I can’t explain. It just feels so amazing. I love it.” That’s important, too. The panel at YAGP is assessing technique and positioning, but it’s also searching for an emotional connection with the audience, a true performer who brings something extra to the stage. “We’re looking for potential,” says Meunier. “The body, the feet and the legs. If you’re trained properly, there’s a certain quality. You can just tell by the way they walk out. You know immediately.” When Haczkiewicz stepped onstage to perform variations of Don Quixote and Giselle at the Las Vegas semifinal on January 31, Meunier recognized that spark of potential. “She tore it up out there. I felt like I was watching a performance, not a competition. And we all saw it; we were like, ‘Whoa.’” Sewn into her pointe shoes with dental floss, Haczkiewicz felt it, too. In the audience, her mother Ursula felt it, pride overwhelming the jittery nerves. And Foy felt it, even after seeing the pieces rehearsed countless times. “I had tears in my eyes. I cried,” Foy recalls jubilantly. “It was the most incredible thing that I had seen from one of my students—holding the arabesque, that wistfulness, the lightness of the way she was portraying Giselle.” Haczkiewicz placed second in Las Vegas, scoring the 95 she needed to move on to the YAGP finals in New York. She’ll spend a week there, attending master classes under the gaze of companies like the Royal Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, and preparing to run her solos one last time in front of the judges at Lincoln Center on April 15. She could come home with a contract for a major ballet company, she could be offered a coveted scholarship, she could even be the object of a ballet bidding war. Or she could be heading back to Las Vegas Academy for her senior year. “She’s going to be up against some wicked talent,” Foy says. But “for me, she’s already won. Whether she comes in first or 150th, that is immaterial. It’s the buildup to this, it’s going through the process of this. She is prepared for anything and everything.” APRIL 9-15, 2015 LASVEGASWEEKLY.COM

> FOOD WITH A VIEW Marche Bacchusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; brioche French toast is a winner.

Sweet and savory combos on overload. Flavors from Mexican to Cajun to Asian to barbecue. Way too much Champagne. This is your checklist of the most deliciously decadent weekend meals in the brunchiest city anywhere. PHOTOGRAPH BY ADAM SHANE 16 LASVEGASWEEKLY.COM APRIL 9-15, 2015

BABYSTACKS CAFE Maybe it’s the seemingly infinite variety of pancakes—cinnabun is a particular guilty pleasure—or Asian breakfast riffs like Rick’s adobo-fried rice or the Spam scramble. But there’s always a line at Babystacks, and it’s always worth the wait. Even an ever-expanding empire with a quartet of locations across the Valley has done nothing to assuage the crowds, so go early. Four locations, babystackscafe.com. Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-2 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. –Jim Begley

BABYSTACKS FOOD STYLING BY RONI FIELDS-MOONEN; BABYSTACKS AND BAGEL CAFE PHOTOGRAPHS BY MIKAYLA WHITMORE

BAGEL CAFE A great delicatessen is a community institution, and Bagel Cafe is ours. Bulky, smile-inducing bagels of every flavor imaginable smothered with scallion cream cheese, beautiful lox and fresh, crisp veggies are only the beginning. Buttermilk pancakes, smoked fish salads, egg sandwiches or Benedicts ... there are so many reasons there are so many people eating here every morning. 301 N. Buffalo Drive, 702-255-3444. Monday, 6:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; Tuesday-Friday, 6:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday, 7 a.m.-5 p.m. –Brock Radke EAT At the forefront of the Downtown dining revolution, Natalie Young opened Eat when there was nothing else. Now more than two years later, after so many other eateries have popped up in the neighborhood, hers remains one of its only brunchworthy destinations. Most importantly, she’s still doling out a chicken-fried steak that would make a Texan cry tears of joy ... because as written in the prophecy, the revolution will be led by a righteous chicken-fried steak. 707 Carson St., 702-534-1515. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. –JB HASH HOUSE A GO GO With classics like chicken and waffles, inventive (and gigantic) eggs Benedicts (with mashed potatoes!) and scrumptious sweet-tooth options like the Snickers-filled pancake, Hash House has

> STACKED Bagel Cafe does its namesake justice.

been serving up “twisted farm food”— and winning the hearts of locals—since 2009. And now, thanks to all that delicious overindulgence, Valley residents have plenty of locations to choose from. Five locations, hashhouseagogo.com. Hours vary. –Mark Adams MARCHE BACCHUS Everybody knows this Desert Shores jewel’s lakeside location is ideal for Sunday brunch, when escargot Persillade, crab and asparagus Benedict, buckwheat crepes with fresh fruit and the legendary lobster salad croissant jump off the menu. But now you also know to do brunch during lunch on Saturday, when free wine tastings can be part of your menu. Hello. 2620 Regatta Drive, 702-804-8008. Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. –BR MTO CAFÉ The original MTO Café is a bright venue for Main Street biz meetings. The second location in Downtown Summerlin is an airy nook for the shopping set. Both offer morning grinds from waffles with berries to the MTO Breakfast, a large, photogenic plate featuring a trio of eggs, chicken-sausage links, turkey bacon, griddled mashed potatoes, toast, tomato slices and mixed greens. Oh, and some Spam, too. Somehow it just looks extra-healthy and delicious in all the refulgent sunshine. 500 S. Main Street, 702-380-8229. Downtown Summerlin, 702-982-0770; hours vary. –Greg Thilmont NORM’S EGGS CAFE Though not gritty enough to be a greasy spoon, Norm’s serves some damn fine diner favorites. Worth the trip alone is an off-menu item not often seen ’round these parts. S.O.S.—aka chipped beef on toast—might not sound particularly appetizing, but this salty, dried beef dish is the perfect foil no matter what you did last night. Norm won’t judge you. 3655 S. Durango Drive #29, 702-431-3447. Daily, 6:30 a.m.-3 p.m. –JB

> PUT AN EGG ON IT Babystacks’ skillets are calling your name.

Brunch is the most important meal of the week at many of the country’s best restaurants, wildly creative places with menus that riff on all-over-the-map flavors. Every weekend can be a delicious journey with a kimchi Benedict at Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink in Miami, or Burmese pork stew at Tasty n Sons in Portland, or clams with grits and chorizo at Woodberry Kitchen in Baltimore, or corned beef-cheek hash at M.B. Post in LA, or pecan pie French toast at Buttermilk Channel in Brooklyn. The point of all these widely acclaimed restaurants is bold flavors and no boundaries in a relaxed setting, which is what you’ll also find at Las Vegas’ own DW Bistro. ¶ This food is as aggressive and fun as anything you’ll find across the country. This is Jamaica meets New Mexico, a culinary combo so potent and fresh that it feels distinctly American. Jerk fried chicken and waffles. Slow-cooked pork simmered in New Mexico chilies with eggs and rice. Vegas is lucky it gets to enjoy this adventure every weekend. And like all the other aforementioned fantastic brunch restaurants, DW Bistro makes it feel like it’s not a big deal. But it is. 6115 S. Fort Apache Road #112, 702-527-5200. Saturday & Sunday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. –Andy Wang APRIL 9-15, 2015 LASVEGASWEEKLY.COM

> FEAST YOUR EYES Peruvian shrimp and grits at Border Grill and (below) a parfait from Jazz Brunch at Wynn’s Country Club.

BORDER BRUNCH AT BORDER GRILL Almost four years after Border Grill at Mandalay Bay shook up the scene with an unlimited small-plates brunch, Border Brunch is still humming along, delivering baconjalapeño PBJs (a transcendent trio of smoke, salt and sweet), egg-white oysters Rockefeller and other scrumptious bites. It’s so successful, the brunch concept has been imported back to LA (about time LA learned something from us). $34.99, $10 bottomless mimosas. Forum Shops at Caesars, 702-854-6700. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7403; Saturday & Sunday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. –JB JAZZ BRUNCH AT THE COUNTRY CLUB With stunning golf course views, an all-you-can-eat menu and buffet-style offerings, live music and a New Orleans vibe, the Country Club’s long-running brunch remains one of the most beloved and decadent meals in Las Vegas—like everything else at Steve Wynn’s properties, it’s top notch. Favorite bites: the

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freshest smoked salmon ever, sausages at the carving station, seafood ceviche, unlimited crab legs, shrimp and oysters, eggs Versailles, crepes Bienville and a great grilled Wagyu beef hot dog. Don’t forget the boundless bubbles. $64. Wynn, 877-321-9966. Sunday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. –Don Chareunsy GOSPEL BRUNCH AT HOUSE OF BLUES Praise the lord and pass the jambalaya. Recently updated with music curated by gospel star Kirk Franklin, this House of Blues institution is a different kind of party brunch. Live carving stations slicing up roasted turkey and juicy prime rib hit the Vegas-style buffet spot, augmented by an omelet station, Southern classics like biscuits and country gravy and “Low Country” rice salad with white chocolate bread pudding for that sweet tooth. $59.95. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. Sunday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. –BR FOUNTAINS BRUNCH AT JASMINE This overthe-top experience might very well be the best decadent brunch in town. The view of Bellagio’s fountains—you’re practically inside them—is incredible, made even more mesmerizing when paired with a glass of bubbly. The bright decor and food are elegant and sumptuous. Standout dishes include duck, braised short ribs, fresh seafood (crab legs, oysters and mussels), dim sum and for dessert—what else?—a chocolate fountain. $58. Bellagio, 702-693-8865. Sunday, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. –DC

VERANDA AT FOUR SEASONS Those hot, fresh mini-doughnuts, though ... weekend brunch at the Four Seasons connected to Mandalay Bay has provided a heavenly escape for years, and the friendly restaurant was recently re-styled as a charming trattoria. Of course, that weekend morning doughnut station hasn’t gone anywhere, and the dual benefits of a buffet line and full service keep Veranda among our favorites. Don’t miss the tiramisu croissant French toast, the foccacia eggs Benedict or the Italian Screwdriver cocktail. $39 (à la carte menu also available). Four Seasons, 702-632-5000. Saturday & Sunday, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. –BR

BORDER GRILL BY MIKAYLA WHITMORE; COUNTRY CLUB BY BEVERLY POPPE

STERLING BRUNCH AT BLT STEAK When Bally’s Steakhouse closed last year before becoming BLT Steak, gone were the infinite pours of Perrier-Jouët Champagne, unlimited American sturgeon caviar and an epic lobster, cognac and Boursin omelet. But the Strip’s most lavish brunch returned to a newly renovated room with its mainstays intact and BLT’s famous giant popovers. All is right with the world once again. $90. Bally’s, 702-967-7999. Sunday, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. –JB

> SWEET! Fruit-smothered tiramisu croissant French toast at Veranda.

The celebrated Simon brunch comes to an end in May after seven years, when the Palms Place restaurant closes its doors. Gone will be the all-youcan-eat menu and buffet highlighted by a sushi chef, Frosted Flakes French toast and the Junk Food platter with pink cotton candy, not to mention the unlimited brunch bar of Bellinis, Bloody Marys, Champagne and mimosas. This poolside brunch featured wonderful natural light, servers in pajamas and hard bodies sunbathing while you devoured another round of chicken and waffles. It will always be one of our most unique indulgences. Thank you, Kerry Simon. $39.50, $20.50 Bloody Mary and Bubbles bars. Palms Place, 702-944-3292. Sunday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. –DC

Veranda by mikayla whitmore

In need of a hangover cure? Looking to pregame the buffet? Look no further than the suburban South Point, where Bloody Marys run $1 every day until noon. These casino bars use Finest Call Bloody Mary mix, and the bartenders know how to complement it perfectly with a squeeze of lemon, a decent dose of Worcestershire and a dash of hot sauce. Did we mention it only costs a dollar? At the Henry inside the Cosmopolitan, you can opt for the Mary Pickford or AllAmerican varieties of Bloody (featuring sriracha- and horseradish-infused vodka, respectively) or stick with the classic. Cosmo makes its own mix, and it tastes so fresh you’d swear the mixologist was picking tomatoes off the vine. A Bloody Mary is basically a meal in a glass, and Hash House A Go Go wants you to get your daily serving of veggies. This is a simple Mary of tomato juice and “secret ingredients” (we’re thinking celery salt, Worcestershire and hot sauces), plus Hash House’s signature garnishes: spicy pickled green bean, jalapeño-stuffed olives and a petite dill pickle, all soaking up the boozyfresh goodness. –MA

> Wake Up BIG! Serendipity 3’s Wagyu eggs Benedict awaits, and at Buddy V’s (below), try a few meatballs with brunch!

Buddy V’s The man might be known as “the Cake Boss,” but here, his savory offerings are even better. Sometimes it’s the little things, like the polenta croutons in the Caesar salad. Sometimes it’s the staples like thick, smoked applewood slab bacon. As for the sweets, the top choice is the Panettone French toast, a Christmas treat all year long. $34.95, $14.95 bottomless featured drinks. Venetian, 702-607-2355. Sunday, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. –Jason Harris

Serendipity 3 Perch on the patio and people-watch while working your way through Willy Wonka-esque creations like Bigger Than Your Head Pancakes with chocolate chips or blueberries; the Saints & Sinners French Toast Log with bacon, sunny side-up eggs and potatoes; or a crazy Benny of cornmeal-crusted, fried and poached eggs with a Wagyu beef slider on a housemade biscuit plus sausage gravy. Don’t forget to save room for those famous desserts. Caesars Palace, 702-731-7373. Saturday & Sunday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. –BR

La Cave Exactly what is butler-style brunch? At this cozy hideaway, it’s basically a buffet where you don’t have to leave your seat. Servers pass with platters of New Yorkstyle egg sandwiches, mushroom grits, veal short rib hash and cornflake-crusted brioche French toast, and you grab and eat everything, all morning long. Butlers are cool. $48, $20 bottomless brunch cocktails. Wynn, 702770-7375. Sunday, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. –BR

Tableau One of the better-kept Strip dining secrets is also one of the most elegant breakfast restaurants in the city—the crisp, sparkling Tableau near Wynn’s Tower Suites. Start with French press coffee or the Purify, a kicked-up juice of honeydew, green apple, kale, cayenne and honey. Then consider duck confit hash and eggs or brown butter apple pancakes with cinnamon mascarpone butter and Vermont maple syrup. Wynn, 702-770-3330. Daily, 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m. –BR

Let’s be real: Bouchon brunch is all you need. Thomas Keller’s epic bistro is the rare place where a memorable meal is somehow understated, even if you open with California Sterling white sturgeon caviar or the Grand Plateau seafood sampler of a whole lobster, oysters, shrimp, clams, mussels and crab. From exquisite pastry and bread to the roasted chicken with bacon-chive waffle, there’s no such thing as disappointment here (Friday-Sunday, 7 a.m.-2 p.m., 702-414-6200). ¶ But the Venetian won’t stop, and it added Daniel Boulud’s DB Brasserie to the brunch mix last year (Saturday & Sunday, 1:30 a.m.-3 p.m., 702-430-1235). Besides the bottomless mimosas and Bellinis, DB keeps it French with Alsatian tarte flambée, charcuterie and classic onion soup, plus quiche Forestiere laced with Gruyere and crispy duck hash with Yukon potatoes. There’s a deadly new Cubano sandwich on the menu, too. ¶ Meanwhile, just a few steps away in Palazzo’s lobby, the often overlooked Morels French Steakhouse & Bistro has been brunching it up in stellar fashion for seven years now (Saturday & Sunday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., 702-607-6333), offering a tasty assortment ranging from classic cheese fondue to salad Niçoise to banana-mascarpone French toast to smoked salmon crepes. –BR

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serendipity 3 by mikayla whitmore; buddy v’s by steve marcus

> Love Me Two Times (Above) Brooklyn Bowl’s Jim Morrison and (below) savory spreads at Hearthstone.

Bardot Brasserie Everlasting rosé for 20 bucks. Chilled seafood platters and croissant Benedicts with smoked salmon or Swiss chard. The Croque Madame of your dreams. Welcome to Bardot Brasserie, aka brunch heaven. It’s like if Bouchon had a little too much to drink and got a little sexy and decided, yes, I’ll have a side of macaroni and cheese with my king crab buckwheat crepe smothered in beurre blanc. Best new brunch? How about best new restaurant. Aria, 702-590-8638. Saturday & Sunday, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. –BR

Hearthstone This new neighborhood palace

is hitting on all cylinders, including a recently unveiled brunch rivaling the best in town. Everyone does chicken and waffles, but this version combines duck confit and waffles with maple bourbon syrup. And how about loco moco with a dry-aged burger and chicken rice? Best of all is the tableside Bloody Mary cart, because why be bothered with a buffet when the buffet can come to you? Red Rock, 702-797-7344. Saturday & Sunday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. –JB

Brooklyn Bowl There’s a reason Bowl brunch doesn’t start until noon: Because it’s super-laidback-awesome, and you’ll want to stay all day. Get rolling on sweet, sassy Drunken Palmers and pretend you’re not gonna order the Jim Morrison, fried chicken with a 10-inch buttermilk pancake. The Bayou omelet is stellar, crammed with smoked trout, collard greens and provolone. The Sloppy Josephine is unbelievable, a shepherd’s pie-ish ramekin of pleasure—mashed potatoes, Sloppy Joe meat, baked eggs, way too much cheese. Brooklyn Bowl, why are you so perfect? Linq, 702-862-2695. Saturday & Sunday, noon-4 p.m. –BR

Pot Liquor This new barbecue dynamo offers one of the best brunch deals around—a selection of special dishes with endless Bellinis, Bloodies or mimosas for under $20. Menu options include smoked brisket hash with potatoes and two eggs, pulled pork and waffles with spiced apple compote, grilled bacon steak and eggs with white cheddar grit cakes and chicken fried steak with buttermilk biscuits and gravy. The casual and comfortable atmosphere is a perfect match for the hearty Southern fare. Town Square, 702-816-4600. Sunday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. –DC

Fat Choy All your Fat Choy favorites are available during brunch, like chef Sheridan Su’s incomparable sesame noodles, but weekendonly options include treasures like the decadent Fat Benedict, which adds crispy pork belly to take the dish to a new level. Steak and eggs, featuring a kalbi-marinated flatiron, two over-easy eggs and potatoes, is so good you’ll be dreaming about it until next weekend. Eureka Casino, 702-794-3464. Sunday, 9 a.m.-10 p.m. –JH

Yardbird Chicken gets the red-carpet treatment in this new Strip-side cathedral of the South. Unctuous chicken liver toast is offal-y good, while Mama’s chicken biscuits highlight the more traditional form of fowl for which the restaurant is famous. And Chicken ’n’ Watermelon ’n’ Waffles is just the combination you never knew you were looking for. Thanks, Yardbird! Venetian, 702-297-6541. Saturday & Sunday, 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. –JB

brooklyn bowl by mikayla whitmore; hearthstone by peter harasty; atomic liquors by bill hughes

There comes a point in every boozy brunch when you reach the bottom of your bottomless mimosa. We’ve all been there. The servers make fewer and fewer rounds, the pours become less bubbly and more orange, and then, like a waffle they forgot to put the fried chicken on top of, the check comes. What to do? Enter The Secondary Location™. The Secondary Location is where you go when you don’t want to go home, but you can’t stay at brunch. It’s where the drinks get cheaper, the food gets greasier and the conversation gets looser. New friends join the party and jokes that seemed offensive just a few mimosas ago find a kinder audience among the beer bottles, nachos and ill-advised shots of Location No. 2. If you’re coming from DW Bistro, Born and Raised (7260 S. Cimarron Road, 702-685-0258) is the spot. From Honey Salt, head to Cantina Laredo (Tivoli Village, 702-202-4511) for its 11 a.m.-5 p.m. happy hour on Saturdays. If you’re Downtown at Eat, Atomic Liquors (917 Fremont St., 702-982-3000) is a quintessential post-brunch hang. The point is to keep the good times rolling without breaking the bank, the seal or the law. Accomplish that and you can move to The Tertiary Location™, which is like The Secondary Location but even further from reality. –Jack Houston

NIGHTS > HODOR’S HOUSE Nairn hits the decks at Ghostbar.

HOT SPOTS UNDTLV PAINT IT RED AT CONTAINER PARK

Uniting midtown with Downtown, Ravealation is behind this all-ages Thursday night event geared toward UNLV students. Local hip-hop/EDM hybrid act Splitbreed headlines, with support from Manimals and Tevineleven. April 9, 6 p.m., free entry. DIMITRI VEGAS AND LIKE MIKE AT HAKKASAN

There are a few things you might not know about the Greek/Belgian EDM duo. One: They’re the No. 2 DJ act in the world, if you put any stock into DJ Mag’s yearly poll—which slots them above Calvin Harris, David Guetta and a slew of better-paid and more-famous DJs. Two: They’re brothers. Three: They’ve got an album in the works, due out later this year. Maybe they’ll give you a taste of it during their Hakkasan debut. April 9, doors at 10 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. STAR STUDDED AT SHARE Lesbians don’t have many nightlife options in Las Vegas, but Share—usually known for its gay male clientele and underwear-clad go-go boys—is throwing down the welcome mat with a new industry night for girls who like girls. It sweetens the deal by offering a $10 liquor bust. April 9, doors Drag performers at 10 p.m., free.

THROW-CHELAS SPRING FLING CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT AT MADE L.V. The Tivoli Village eatery

needed to set a new Guinness Record Sunday.

brings back its now-annual bean-bag toss tournament Saturday afternoon, complete with tailgate-friendly drink specials like 2-for-$5 PBR tall-boy cans, $3 Fireball shots and $5 Deep Eddy Vodka-spiked lemonades. The double-elimination tourney also features Masters Tournament coverage and a live remote broadcast from 95.5 KWNRFM. Start practicing that technique now! April 11, 10:30 a.m., $20 for tourney entry ($25 day of ). KRISTIAN NAIRN DJ SET AT GHOSTBAR Hodor, a DJ? Pretty ridiculous, right? No more so than Chumlee getting behind the DJ booth a few weeks back—or Game of Thrones in general, frankly. But the towering actor has been DJing enough to tour— one called the Rave of Thrones, which includes this Vegas date—and according to his Soundcloud

page, dude forgoes the usual bigroom dance pop for house music. To which Ghostbar will hopefully be receptive. April 11, doors at 8 p.m., $25+ men, $20+ women.

GUINNESS WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT: LARGEST DRAG PERFORMANCE AT HARD ROCK CAFE They

betta werk! Local drag queen Kitty Litter and a gaggle of glamazons will attempt the Guinness World Record for Largest Drag Queen Stage Show Sunday morning at our original Hard Rock Cafe (4475 Paradise Road) during its monthly drag queen brunch. The ladies have to beat the 55 female impersonators from GSWS Columbus, who claimed the title at the Ohio city’s Axis Nightclub in July 2014. Bonus: Dressing in drag scores you a free mimosa. April 12, 11 a.m., free entry. EPYK CHARITY KICKBALL BBQ AT FOX RIDGE PARK Nightlife entertainment collective EPYK is

CLUB HOPPING Nightlife news & notes

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KIESZA AT MARQUEE The Coachella spillover is in full effect this week, with many of the Southern California festival’s acts touching down in Vegas throughout the weekend—including 2015 breakout star Kiesza, who takes the stage at the Boulevard Pool Monday night. She stops by the Cosmo club for an after-concert performance during the space’s Marquee Mondays promo, which also features resident DJ Jason Lema. April 13, doors at 10 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women.

Heldens (April 14 at Omnia), Axwell (April 17 at Omnia), Flosstradamus (April 17 at Surrender) and New World Punx (aka Ferry Corsten and Markus Schulz; April 17 at Life). Speaking of Corsten and Life, the two are teaming up for a May 29 event in partnership with former DJ Mag No. 1 club Space Ibiza. It will be a local version of Corsten’s Full On party at the Spanish megaclub, with support from Space resident and Balearic house DJ Camilo Franco. The Ogden’s bar and performance venue Scullery closed last week, with Future Restaurant Group selling its interest and Downtown Project seeking another managing partner and

concept for the space. Disco-llaneous: Vista Cocktail Lounge, which replaces Shadow Bar, is set for a mid-May opening. As reported earlier, its large LED screens will project iconic global locales. Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man and Redman will perform live April 12 at Drai’s Nightclub. Fellow rapper Lil Wayne will play Foxtail Pool Club on May 2, following the Floyd Mayweather/Manny Pacquiao fight, with tickets already $110-$220. Future performs at sister club Life the next night, with tickets priced $55-$110. Sapphire Pool and Dayclub will open May 1, the same day the long-running Ditch Fridays party returns to Palms Pool. –Mike Prevatt

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Bummed you’re missing Coachella? You can club-hop on the Strip for the next two weeks and catch some of the Southern California festival’s DJ acts. The latest booking: Pete Tong and Gorgon City on April 10 at Life, with the latter act making its Vegas debut. Other Coachella overlap DJ bookings in clubland include: Sebastian Ingrosso (April 10 at Light), Alesso (April 11 & 18 at Light), DJ Snake (April 11 at Surrender, April 19 at XS), Porter Robinson (April 11 at Marquee Nightclub), R3HAB (April 11 at Life, April 17 at Foxtail Pool Club), Oliver

staging its yearly, dance-friendly kickball tournament and barbecue with charity in mind. Those ponying up for raffle tickets—where one can win a three-day EDC ticket—or signing up to join EPYK’s team for the April 19 AIDS Walk will party proudly knowing proceeds will benefit Aid for AIDS of Nevada. There will also be a potluck and, of course, live DJ talent; for more info, visit EPYK’s Facebook page. April 12, 11 a.m.-8 p.m., free; donations & potluck contribution encouraged.

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Daylight takes it past dusk with its new weekly house party, Sundown By Mike Prevatt For those wondering how Hakkasan Group will distinguish between its three giant dance clubs, look to the diversely programmed Light—and now its pool complement, Daylight, which will debut the first deep-house daylife promotion on the Strip on April 26, headlined by Israelto-LA DJ Guy Gerber. Called Sundown, the new weekly Sunday party starts a little later than the average daylife event to accommodate dusk sets by its headlining DJs. The concept is the baby of Light/ Daylight’s entertainment and brand development VP (and dance music enthusiast) Zee Zandi, along with Daylight’s marketing manager Pearce Cleaveland and U.K. DJ/Sundown resident Nic Fanciulli. Sundown’s genesis is rooted in both Zandi’s pre-EDM house-music bookings and her most recent ones for Light—namely Carl Cox and Disclosure, the former’s afterhours nights allowing for the latter’s new DJ residency at both Light and Daylight. “With the success with the Carl Cox nights, when 2015 rolled around, I was like ... I want to work with

[Disclosure] more than anything,” Zandi says. That U.K. duo’s residency debut on March 28, the first of its Wild Life parties in Las Vegas, was a hit with both performers and clubbers, which bodes well for its May 17 debut at Daylight for Sundown. The new promo’s timing seems to be a key component—in terms of when it takes place and how it benefits from the recent takeover of Light and its sister venues by Hakkasan Group. “We have [an] amazing amount of support from the whole company, which is going to help us … and we’re not conflicting with anyone else’s hour, really,” Zandi says. “When people are done at Marquee Dayclub or Encore Beach Club, they can come to Sundown. That’s gonna benefit us.

Another thing we strategically did: It was important to have California support. We made sure people could stay here and then [fly] home so they could work on Monday.” Know who else is supporting Sundown and its headliners? Local house DJs. Zandi stressed the importance of having a non-exclusive roster of Vegas DJs to play at every Sundown, and has already recruited afterhours favorites Spacebyrdz, Justin Baulé and Brett Rubin, along with prolific Strip DJ M!KEATTACK and Light resident Stellar, for starters. “We need everyone to work together,” Zandi says. “We want a family vibe.” Figures in the deep-house scene publicly bemoaned the lack of Vegas talent supporting the international DJs at Life’s Underground Sundays (which

A user’s guide: The Great Vegas Festival of Beer

collaboration beer Banana Split, a German-style hefeweizen brewed with vanilla beans and cacao nibs conceived by a crew of local brewers. The tent will also feature a cherry stout from new-to-the-scene Tonopah Brewing Company and Joseph James’ Super Smoker, a strong Scottish-style ale at 10 percent ABV made with a home-smoked malt. Other familiar participants include Big Dog’s, Chicago Brewing Company, Tenaya Creek, Brasserie Saint James and Gordon Biersch.

Suds, snacks and sounds on a springtime Saturday afternoon—must be Motley Brews’ Great Vegas Festival of Beer returning to the streets of Downtown. Here’s a snapshot of what hopheads of all levels can expect:

FOR THE CASUAL BEER FANS Choose from 400 brews by more than 100 breweries. Locals like CraftHaus, Hop Nuts and Triple 7 will join national sudsmakers—from the Bruery and

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GREAT VEGAS FESTIVAL OF BEER April 11, 2-7 p.m., $40-$55, greatvegasbeer.com. Dogfish Head to Abita, Rogue and Brooklyn—pouring their signature brews, some offering interesting pours as well. We’re intrigued by Banger’s grapefruit saison and Rogue’s sriracha stout. FOR THE BEER GEEKS Looking for rare pours and limited-edition local beers? Breweries from around town and up north will be serving just that at the Nevada Craft Brewers Association Pavilion. That’s where you’ll find the NCBA

FOR THE NOVICES & BEER-CURIOUS This year Motley Brews takes over the Western Hotel for the GVFB’s BrewLogic informational sessions, where aficionados and amateurs alike can gain more knowledge. Learn how to make beer vinegar with local chef Justin K. Hall, find out how to incorporate deep-fried delights during Stone Brewing Co. Craft Beer Ambassador Bill Sysak’s ale and doughnut pairing session and broaden your horizons with an introduction to sour beers. FOR THE NOT-SO-EASILY-AMUSED Is imbibing delicious brews not enough? Don a pair of headphones at the Silent Disco or opt for life-size pub games at the Human Arcade. Music-minded? Local acts Brumby and Josh Royse provide the live tunes this year. –Mark Adams

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FOR THE FOODIES Beer is becoming an epicurean experience, as is the festival with its new “gastropub” area. Foodies can look forward to beer-inspired menus (with most bites around $5-$8) from local eateries Echo & Rig, the Goodwich, Cantina Laredo, Stack, DW Bistro, Lulu’s Bread & Breakfast and more. I personally was a fan of Truck U Barbeque chef Mike Minor’s burnt-ends burrito paired with Green Flash’s Le Freak at a recent tasting preview.

has since ended), and it would seem Daylight is focused on not alienating the locals. Throw in Fanciulli’s integrity within the international house scene, and Sundown would seem to have all its necessary ducks in a row to deliver a weekly non-afterhours event that successfully sells deep house to Strip revelers—though Zandi might still be crossing her fingers. “When I believe in something, I give it my all and hope for the best, especially with everyone’s support,” Zandi says. “We want to work with everyone, the deep-house scene, the people from LA and Miami—whoever it is. And we want the artists to support it—it can’t work without them.” Additional Sundown headliners will be announced shortly. For more info, visit daylightvegas.com.

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ebration of scallywags and shoulder parrots is back at Lorenzi Park, and so is the cardboard regatta (“Those things REALLY floated!”), the Craft Beer Experience and that bawdy juggler you can’t get enough of. When you can win an award for the “Best Sinking” and a cruise aboard a real ship, there really is no excuse not to grow a beard and bust out that puffy shirt. April 10-12, times vary, $8-$13.

high obstacles and intricate footwork. It’s a different kind of Vegas spectacle. April 15-19, times vary, $30-$115, worldcuplasvegas.com.

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all-day celebration of Latino culture—complete with Mariachi battles, community outreach groups, guest speakers, a Zumba showdown and authentic food—aims to attract families and benefit charities. Music acts La Santa Cecilia and Voces del Rancho headline. April 11, 1-9 p.m., $5-$50, Cannery. EQUESTRIAN WORLD CUP The ring

at the Thomas & Mack Center is about to be packed with international talent in World Cup championships for jumping and dressage. That means powerful horses and skilled riders taking on insanely

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better than a new restaurant unleashing a new menu? The consistently delicious Carson Kitchen in Downtown’s John E. Carson building just dropped a pork belly Cuban sandwich with tasso ham and manchego cheese, flanked by spicy tater tots. Stop drooling. $13.

BALANCE FOOD FOR THOUGHT Replace bad juju with good starting April 12, when the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District launches Food for Thought, a program that waives $2 in library fines for every dry good donated to Three Square Food Bank. lvccld.org.

The Weekly playlist: Full Mac attack

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With Christine McVie back with Fleetwood Mac for the first time in 17 years, gear up for Saturday’s show by spinning songs from all three singers. “Monday Morning” (Fleetwood Mac, 1975) In which Lindsey Buckingham introduces himself—and his penchant for undeniable pop hooks—to the world at large. FLEETWOOD MAC April 11, 8 p.m., $50-$200. MGM Grand Garden Arena, 702-891-7777.

“Think About Me” (Tusk, 1979) A buoyant, semi-forgotten pop-rock

gem from McVie, later covered by The New Pornographers.

that for range?

“Sisters of the Moon” (Tusk, 1979) This typically haunting and lyricallymysterious Stevie Nicks number was resurrected by the band onstage in 2013.

“Tusk” (Tusk, 1979) Buckingham got weird on the Mac’s critically divisive ’70s-capping double-LP, but when it worked, the band sounded better than ever.

“Songbird” (Rumours, 1977) McVie’s signature ballad, which is followed on the band’s biggest album by her classic disco romp, “You Make Loving Fun,” just three songs later. How’s

“Gold Dust Woman” (Rumours, 1977) “Rock on gold dust woman/Take your silver spoon/Dig your grave.” All these years later, Stevie still makes us shudder. –Spencer Patterson

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> midlife crisis Watts and Stiller struggle to remain youthful.

Aging gracefully Al Pacino blusters his way through Danny Collins

FILM

Balancing act

Noah Baumbach gets too cynical in While We’re Young By Mike D’Angelo who valiantly struggle to keep up. The line between sardonic and sour can be a tricky Baumbach mines some great jokes from his unusual one, and writer-director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and take on the generation gap during the film’s first half; the Whale, Greenberg, Frances Ha) doesn’t always navione sly running gag shows the older couple to be gate it successfully. While We’re Young, his latest effort, more wed to the latest tech devices than are Jamie starts off on one side of the line and eventually topples and Darby, who (like good hipsters) are heavily onto the other side, retroactively makobsessed with all things analog. Both Josh ing the entire film feel unduly mean-spirited. and Jamie are documentary filmmakers, That clearly wasn’t Baumbach’s intention—he aabcc however—that’s how they meet, when Jamie takes steps clearly designed to avoid it—but WHILE WE’RE unconscious resentment appears to have taken YOUNG Ben Stiller, approaches Josh as a fan—and While We’re Young eventually engineers a confrontation over at some point. Naomi Watts, between the two that, despite Baumbach’s Too bad, because While We’re Young has a Adam Driver, best efforts to make Josh somewhat pathetic fantastic premise, potentially rich in insightful Amanda Seyfried. and self-righteous, still winds up making the humor. Middle-aged and deliberately child- Directed by Noah kids look a whole lot worse. In particular, less, married couple Josh (Ben Stiller) and Baumbach. Rated there’s a plot twist regarding somebody’s Cornelia (Naomi Watts) are just reaching the R. Opens Friday. motives that shoves the movie in an overly point in their lives where they’re starting to cynical direction, to the point where it feels harbor deep regrets about their choices when more like the kind of film Neil LaBute used to make they meet a couple in their 20s, Jamie (Adam Driver, 10 or 15 years ago—stuff like In the Company of Men from Girls) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried). These two and The Shape of Things. That’s not a good fit for young hipsters (there’s no other word) embrace spontaBaumbach, who’s at his best when any bitterness is neity, creativity and cultural artifacts from before they accompanied by a heavy splash of wry. were born; their friendship energizes Josh and Cornelia,

FILM

In Danny Collins, Al Pacino plays a rock star—a legend, someone as important to the music world as Pacino is to the acting world. Like Pacino, however, whose last culturally significant role was nearly 20 years ago (in 1997’s Donnie Brasco), Danny Collins knows that his glory days are behind him. aabcc People still fawn DANNY over him, but COLLINS Al only in a nostalPacino, Annette gic way, and he’s Bening, Bobby accomplished Cannavale. little of note for Directed by Dan a long, long time. Fogelman. Rated So the discovery R. Opens Friday. that John Lennon had been a fan, and had written him an encouraging letter—which Danny never received— inspires a sudden, gargantuan crisis of conscience. Writer-director Dan Fogelman was inspired by a true story—the Lennon letter is real, though the actual musician who never saw it is British and obscure. Not much here feels genuine, however. Pacino mugs shamelessly, as usual, and it’s left to Bobby Cannavale, playing the son Danny fathered with a groupie and then forgot about, and Annette Bening, as a hotel manager Danny keeps hustling for a date, to give the film a touch of gravity and dignity. –Mike D’Angelo

It’s a little early for awards season, but Woman in Gold has all the hallmarks of prime Oscar bait: It’s based on the inspiring true story of Maria Altmann, an Austrian Jew who fled the Nazis during World War II and in the late 1990s battled in court to reclaim five Gustav Klimt paintings that the Nazis stole from her family. Oscar winner and beloved icon Helen Mirren plays Maria as a combination of sassy grandma and hardened survivor, and Ryan Reynolds attempts to stretch his serious-acting muscles as the lawyer who takes her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Altmann’s story is stirring and complex, but aabcc WOMAN IN GOLD the filmmakers smooth it out and simplify it, padding it with generic WWII flashbacks Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, and making every courtroom battle into a clichéd, heavy-handed triumph. In pursuit of Tatiana Maslany. Directed by Simon prestige, it loses the qualities that make the story worth telling. –Josh Bell Curtis. Rated PG-13. Opens Friday.

Seeking the gold

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> THE MAN WITHOUT FEAR Cox takes out bad guys without even looking.

Bundling up for winter Where five main storylines stand as Game of Thrones bloodies up again Warning: Spoilers from Seasons 1-4 included below.

The devil you know

A familiar Marvel hero gets a solid new start in Daredevil By Josh Bell a slow start, parceling out bits of the title charThe Marvel cinematic universe makes a big acter’s origin story over flashbacks in the first leap with the debut of Daredevil, the first of five two episodes, and taking its time to introduce interconnected series set to premiere on Netflix the supporting cast. But once Vincent D’Onofrio over the next few years. The first four (includappears onscreen as Wilson Fisk, the dapper ing A.K.A. Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist) crime-boss villain known in the Marvel comic will each focus on a single character, and then all books as Kingpin, things pick up considerably, four characters will team up for the miniseries and Fisk turns out to be an even more fasciThe Defenders. It’s a project every bit as ambinating and complex character than the tious as the movies that lead into The protagonist. Avengers, and will play out over 60 hours, Clearly influenced by Christopher as opposed to the 8-10 hours that make up aaacc Nolan’s Batman movies, Daredevil is dark each movie cycle. MARVEL’S To start with, though, things are pretty DAREDEVIL both thematically and visually, taking place in poorly lit warehouses and alleys, simple. The first five episodes of Daredevil Season 1 and it can be a little dour and humorless. make a few oblique references to the larger available But it also takes advantage of Netflix’s Marvel universe, but anyone who’s never April 10 lack of restrictions to show the full conseseen the movies or watched the other on Netflix. quences of superhero violence, physically Marvel TV shows would have no problem (Matt is constantly getting beat up) and starting out with the adventures of Matt psychologically. The 2003 Daredevil movie starMurdock (Boardwalk Empire’s Charlie Cox), a ring Ben Affleck made the character seem silly lawyer by day and masked vigilante by night. An and cartoonish, but the version in this series, accident with a truck of mysterious chemicals with a toned-down, all-black costume, is more when he was a child robbed Matt of his sight, but relatable and more human, a guy just trying to greatly enhanced his other senses. make a small difference in his crime-ridden Although Matt has superpowers of a sort, neighborhood. Eventually he’ll get caught up Daredevil is much more grounded and smallin a larger superhero story, but for now he’s the scale than the Marvel movies or even the Agents center of a solid, gritty crime drama. of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series. The series gets off to

Tyrion Lannister Season 4 was an emotional roller-coaster for both Tyrion and HBO viewers. After being falsely accused of the murder of his nephew Joffrey and betrayed by the woman he loved, Tyrion went on a killing spree, first strangling the traitorous Shae, then dispatching a crossbow shaft into his father Tywin (who died on the toilet). Now we’re left hoping the hunted Tyrion can stay alive—and in the Seven Kingdoms, life’s pretty damn cheap already. Arya Stark She went from praying for justice to dispensing it, showing real killer instinct as she ruthlessly slayed Polliver with her sword. After her captor the Hound was killed by Brienne of Tarth, Arya boarded a ship for Braavos (the land her swordplay teacher, Syrio Forel, came from). Arya’s eventual transformation into a major badass appears to be coming soon. Daenerys Targaryen Let’s face it: For a fantasybased series, there’s been a serious lack of dragon action so far. But we think that could change in Season 5. When last we saw the Mother of Dragons, Daenerys was chaining up two of her creatures upon learning that one had killed a child. Which means there’s one big, angry dragon out there somewhere. Given the Targaryens’ history of riding dragons into battle, can a dragon-riding Daenerys be far behind? Jon Snow He successfully defended Castle Black from the wildlings, captured Mance Rayder and buried the woman he loved, but we get the feeling Snow’s biggest challenges are yet to come. After all, things tend to go badly for his family, the Starks, who are all either dead or missing. And then there’s that whole thing about his true parentage, which should continue to be a huge source of discussion among fans this season. Theon Greyjoy Theon has turned out to be one of the show’s most intriguing characters, first betraying the Stark family at Winterfell, then becoming a slave to Ramsay Bolton. The things Ramsay has done to Theon are largely unprintable, and now he’s a shell of a man who calls himself Reek. Given that Reek is on his way back to Winterfell—and now does Ramsay’s bidding—we’re both terrified and fascinated to see what he does next. –Ken Miller

GAME OF THRONES Sundays, 10 p.m., HBO. Season premiere April 12.

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Coachella comes calling

Sorting through the SoCal fest’s annual Vegas spillover shows By Annie Zaleski Hozier Why go: The gritty Irish singer-songwriter is on top

of the world right now, courtesy of the booming, voice-of-God hit “Take Me to Church.” Hozier’s commanding voice is just as mesmerizing live—and so are his blues- and folk-inflected songs, thanks in large part to his ace touring band. First spin: “Take Me to Church” is the hit everyone knows, but the vintage-soul slow dance “Someone New” has a warmer, more personal touch. Show details: With Low Roar, April 9, 8 p.m., $30-$65, the Chelsea. Panda Bear Why go: Noah Lennox co-founded indie darling

Animal Collective, which is good enough reason. As a solo artist, Lennox builds on the electronic, experimental and multimedia-fond bent of his main squeeze; resulting in an immersive, rhythmheavy experience that’s disorienting and mindaltering in the best ways possible. First listen: 2011’s “You Can Count on Me,” a synthand programming-heavy drone that’s an accessible gateway to Panda Bear’s more elaborate work. Show details: With Ducktails, April 10, 9 p.m., $20, Bunkhouse Saloon. STEELY DAN Why go: Donald Fagen’s and Walter Becker’s classic

rock juggernaut has a reputation for studio perfectionism, which also permeates its concerts, meticulous recreations of the band’s greatest hits. But a Steely Dan show isn’t stiff and formal; come for the musical precision, but be prepared to let loose. First spin: The jazzy stabs and smooth harmonies of “Peg” are a must. Show details: April 11, 8 p.m., $95-$205, the Pearl. Jungle Why go: This London-based soul troupe is a rare

breed of studio-project-turned-live-band: a seamless success. Thanks to a cadre of talented musicians and vocalists, Jungle’s retro disco, pointed post-punk, checkered funk and slinky R&B is wholeheartedly groovealicious. First spin: “Time,” a falsetto-laden tune that sounds unearthed from a time capsule buried during Studio 54’s heyday. Show details: Opening for Alt-J, April 13, 8 p.m., $40-$100, the Joint. Ghostface Killah & Raekwon Why go: They’re two of the most prolific and

innovative members of the hip-hop-trailblazing Wu-Tang Clan, and their many collaborations and separate releases—including Raekwon’s forthcoming LP, Fly International Luxurious Art—underscore that neither seems content resting on his laurels. First spin: “Heaven & Hell,” from 1995’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx..., a boundary-crossing combo of laidback R&B, hip-hop and soul. Show details: With Marion Write, Trade Vorhees; April 13, 9 p.m., $25-$28, Brooklyn Bowl.

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Bad Religion Why go: The legendary SoCal act remains one of the most reliable (and relatable) veteran punk bands around, courtesy of gravelly-voiced frontman Greg Graffin’s college-instructor-lecturing stage presence; white-hot drumming from Brooks Wackerman; and a spate of technology- and authority-fearing songs. Bonus: Keith Morris’ Off! is opening. First spin: “21st Century (Digital Boy)” was one of the band’s mainstream breakthrough hits, and it remains an irresistible pop-punk earworm. Show details: With Off!, April 13 & 14, 7 p.m., $30-$32, House of Blues. Lykke Li Why go: The Swedish indie songstress often gets

overshadowed by other artists, simply because her

wrenching confessions about heartbreak are so subtle. When those observations collide with her vulnerable, pure-pop voice, however, she deserves to be elevated above the pack. Plus, after taking a sudden break from touring earlier this year—seemingly driven by health and emotional concerns— who knows when she’ll hit town again? First spin: “I Follow Rivers,” the Depeche Mode-y synth-goth jam from 2011’s stellar Wounded Rhymes. Show details: With Ryn Weaver, April 14, 8 p.m., $20, Cosmopolitan’s Boulevard Pool. Brand New Why go: Though the wildly influential emo rockers

haven’t released an album in six years (and counting), the Long Islanders remain a steady touring presence, and the band’s concerts remain cathartic, discordant displays of interpersonal conflict and inward-directed angst.

First spin: 2006 LP The Devil and God Are Raging

Inside Me, its emotional turmoil matched only by its distorted, noisy post-hardcore ferocity. Show details: With Circa Survive, The Weaks; April 17, 8 p.m., $36-$41, Brooklyn Bowl. KIMBRA Why go: Although still known best as the female

co-vocalist from Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know,” this New Zealand-born singer is far more than an afterthought. Her solo work—such as 2014’s quirky, electro-pop gold-rush The Golden Echo—showed that she has the charisma, voice and originality to be a main attraction. First spin: The Kylie Minogue-ish “Miracle,” a postdisco, pre-New Wave song dominated by skyscraping, smoky-soul vocals. Show details: With Mikky Ekko, April 18, 9 p.m., $20-$25, Hard Rock Live. Sturgill Simpson Why go: The Kentucky-born alt-country man is

experiencing the same kind of renaissance as fellow outliers Jason Isbell, Nikki Lane and Lydia Loveless. Simpson’s not-so-secret weapon is his voice—the aural equivalent of buttery leather—and twanging, longing songs in the grand tradition of hardscrabble, shot-and-a-beer country acts. First spin: “The Promise,” a cover of When in Rome’s New Wave trifle that becomes an aching plea for understanding—and a solemn vow of comfort. Show details: With The Lone Bellow, Electric Western; April 23, 8 p.m., $22-$24, Brooklyn Bowl. Chicano Batman Why go: It’s rare to find a band so rooted in tradi-

tion, yet so slavishly devoted to forward momentum. Then again, few bands are anything like Chicano Batman, whose unique amalgamation of sounds—organ-fried psych-rock, Brazilian bossa nova, surf-rock rhythms and sultry soul—and stellar musicianship combine for a sizzling live experience. First spin: “Cycles of Existential Rhyme,” a good approximation of the band’s groove-heavy gigs. Show details: With Rudy De Anda, The Commons; April 24, 9 p.m., $8., Beauty Bar.

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April 9, 9 p.m., $18-$22, Brooklyn Bowl. St. Vincent, April 10, 8 p.m., $25,

Boulevard Pool (see interview, Page 12). RAC & St. Lucia, April 11, 8 p.m., $20, Boulevard Pool. Marina and the Diamonds with Kiesza, April 13, 8 p.m., $25, Boulevard Pool. The Cribs with Close to Modern, Warblood, April 14, 9 p.m., $10. Interpol with Guy Blakeslee, April 15, 8 p.m., $25, Boulevard Pool. Stromae with Freedom Fry, April 16, 8 p.m., $25, Boulevard Pool. Alabama Shakes with Allah-Las, April 18, 9 p.m., $40-$44, Brooklyn Bowl. Built to Spill with Braided Waves, April 20, 9 p.m., $15-$20, Bunkhouse.

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A&E | noise

> Flocking In Swans will bring the strange to Coachella.

Desert drive

Eight reasons this week’s Coachella festival is worth the road trip Ride Of the few reunited bands on the Coachella poster, none boasts a font size as big as Ride, arguably the most tuneful of the shoegazer bands that ruled the early 1990s British indie scene. The band will end its 20-year silence with a gorgeous racket of guitars and pedals inside an intimate tent. Friday, 5:25 p.m., Gobi Tent. –Mike Prevatt

PARQUET COURTS Rock isn’t dead, but you might not realize that looking at the 2015 Coachella poster. A festival once rich in next-wave guitar groups seems to have all but fazed them out. One notable exception: these fidgety Brooklyners, who sound like they’ve been listening to loads of Television, Talking Heads and The Modern Lovers. Saturday, 1:25 p.m., Gobi Tent. –SP

THE WAR ON DRUGS Adam Granduciel’s indie-rock gang Father John Misty John seemed a bit out of place when Tillman’s last Coachella perforI caught them at last year’s mance proved he’s as much a avant-garde Austin Psych Fest, showman as a crooner. For his but the band’s dreamy melodies return, he and his band come and carefree spirit should hit all loaded with musically crisp and the right spots on Coachella’s lyrically tart tunes from the cerlush fields as the sun sets on tain best-of-year candidate, I day one. Friday, 6:10 Love You, Honeybear. p.m., Coachella Stage. Saturday, 8 p.m., Outdoor –Spencer Patterson Theatre. –MP COACHELLA VALLEY

Todd Terje and MUSIC & ARTS SWANS Having seen the Olsens The FESTIVAL April Michael Gira’s extreme, Norwegian nu-house 10-12 & 17-19, experimental ensemble king’s much-revered Empire Polo Club, once before, I feel safe performance at last Indio, California. predicting the group’s year’s FYF Fest only Saturday-capping set whetted the appetite for another. will be the weekend’s most intense Thankfully, Terje returns to the in terms of volume, dark lyrical SoCal festival scene, this time content and musical forcefulness. with his percussion ’n’ strings That said, I can’t imagine what band the Olsens in tow for a it might feel like truncated to fit more organic and hearty prea 55-minute time-slot. Saturday, sentation. Friday, 9:20 p.m., Gobi 12:05 a.m., Gobi Tent. –SP Tent. –MP Gesaffelstein It’s fitting that Frenchman Mike Levy uses a SQUAREPUSHER British German moniker—while his seducelectronicist Tom Jenkinson tive chords and playful grooves returns to the fest after a 14-year might conjure up Paris (by way of absence, bringing a vaunted live Chicago), the hard beats and omireputation and a Warp Records nous synths scream Berlin. Fatigued pedigree to his slot opposite Friday headliner AC/DC. Prep festivalgoers will be rewarded should they power through Sunday by listening to DnB classic Hard night and save the last dance for his Normal Daddy (1997) and recent dystopian disco. Sunday, 9:20 p.m., skittish success Ufabulum (2012). Mojave Tent. –MP Friday, 10:50 p.m., Gobi Tent. –SP

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> Urban Envvironment Lloyd (left) and Nocom woo the shopping set.

LO C A L S C E N E

All in the Details

Meet a synthy duo outfitted for a local breakthrough Walking up the stairs inside Urban Outfitters at Planet Hollywood, I can already hear the mellow, chilling electronics of Vegas duo Details. At the top, a crowd of family and friends has gathered, and shoppers pause to hear the band’s hazy synth-pop. The pair face some technical difficulties at first; Tamara Nocom’s drum pads aren’t working, but she and multi-instrumentalist John Lloyd press on like pros. Tonight marks just their second performance (the previous gig was a house show), and playing on the Strip can be intimidating for any band. Still, Details seems to understand that you’ve got to start somewhere, and they aren’t afraid to take some risks. “We’ve both been playing music for a really long time,” says Nocom, who also handles vocals. “I’ve been drumming since I was 11.”

Teaming up in April 2014, Lloyd and Nocom spent last summer and fall working on debut EP Matter (available at detailsband.com). It conjures up comparisons to Purity Ring and The xx, an impressive piece of work from two new-on-the-scene 21-yearolds. “Everything’s gonna be okay/Oh, it’s been a long day/Oh, the night is

young,” Nocom croons coolly on “Long Day,” her vocals gliding across Lloyd’s glitchy, dark dream-pop melodies. Live, Details’ homemade projections—swirling pastel hues and ambient lights—provide an even greater sensory experience. Nocom and Lloyd have already honed in on their creative chemistry, now it’s just a matter

of refining the live show. If Details can work out the kinks, they could easily become one of the city’s needto-know bands. –Leslie Ventura

DETAILS Next show: April 15, 11 p.m. free, the Griffin. facebook.com/ detailsband

details by bill hughes; Viva Las Vegas by corlene byrd

> Viva Viva Las Vegas’ annual rockabilly meet-up revved up the Orleans.

F E ST I VA L

In 2015, subculture is king. And few tribes have remained as consistently uniform and visible as Rockabilly. The Americana lifestyle has continued to gain traction nationally and across the world, and for its followers, the Las Vegas festival known simply as Viva is like an annual pilgrimage to Mecca. ¶ While traditionally, Rockabilly brushes up against many smaller subcultures (Tiki, Ghoulie, Greaser, Surfer, Psychobilly) and demarcations tend to be strictly enforced, Viva is a chance to set all divisions aside and celebrate the shared culture. The popularity of the 18-year-old fest is no surprise; I mean, what part of the ethos can’t you experiThe surprising kinship and ence at Viva? There’s a chrome-laden car show, bowling, great bands, pop-up tattoo parlors, a smorgasbord of retro goods, bursounds of Viva Las Vegas lesque shows, pool parties—you can even view multiple Batmobiles (Batmobi?) and Grandpa Munster’s Dragula. ¶ Saturday, the festival’s largest day by attendance, was capped this year by musical headliner The Sonics, an act pulled straight out of the garages of the 1960s. Even with 50 silent years between albums, the Seattle quintet showed no signs of rust as ripping guitar tones blared from the same Fender twin amps. Forgotten hits like “Have Love Will Travel” and “Cinderella” found new life among an audience obsessed with venerating past times. ¶ As a tepid fan of their movement, I found nearly all attendees in the converted Orleans parking lot tolerant of my non-billy-ocity and excited to share their grooming tips, which was impressive considering maintaining a Rockabilly look in this weather was no small feat. Desert wind and heat are rarely kind to tight pomps and living-dead-girl glamour. But where else but the always accepting pavement of Vegas could such a subculture thrive to the point of ever-so-coolly leaving the periphery? –Chris Bitonti

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leading lady

Early reports have Diana Ross headlining in style at the Venetian By John Katsilometes

Sometimes you gotta talk to the band. The guys and gals who make the music, and in many cases write that music, will tell you what’s what with a superstar performer. I once asked (name of Las Vegas music director withheld) about working with (an international contemporary music and television superstar) and was told that this star was always one cocktail away from a show-stopping meltdown. The early lesson here is, if you are a superstar, behave yourself around the band. Word spreads, fast, of the ill-tempered, narcissistic, offputting behavior of star headliners. Occasionally, a musician will even record a headliner’s backstage rant, like the time decades ago when Paul Anka’s evisceration of his band after a show was caught on audio. The resulting diatribe is legendary among Las Vegas musicians, who understand such outbursts as, “The guys get shirts! Don’t make an effing maniac outta me! It’s like football, baseball, anything else! The guys get shirts!” and, “When I effing move, I slice like an effing hammer!” and, “Do you want me to get Vinnie Falcone up in front!? Is that what you want?!” The superstar headliner needed some, uh, Anka management. So it was that when Diana Ross was booked for nine shows at the Venetian Theatre, I wondered if she was prone to such outbursts or diva-like behavior. She would have earned the right, as one of the first female legends of the rock ’n’ roll era, and let’s not be naïve about the level of entitlement that can accompany great fame. Some superstars who have performed in some of Las Vegas’ most famous venues have run afoul of everyone from hotel entertainment directors to room-service staff to limo drivers. And how is it working with Ross? “She has been great,” says her local trumpet player hired to play the Venetian. “She’s been nothing but friendly and gracious to work with, and I’m not just saying that. She has been wonderful to us, onstage and backstage.” That musician is well-known around town. Name’s Danny Falcone,

soaring voice caught, cracked and son of Vinnie (noted earlier), the music even fell a little flat. director for Frank Sinatra in Sinatra’s Good. That means she’s actually later years. Danny is joined in the singing. Ross show by some of the city’s great Ross makes room in the show horn players. He is flanked onstage by for her musicians to stretch out and trombonist Nathan Tanouye and sax solo (typically times for another cosman Eric Tewalt. All three of the Vegas tume change). Solos are not foreign players are in Celine Dion’s orchestra to the guys in the Santa Fe lineup, (and we hope that doesn’t change, who swing to great effect at the as Celine has recently shaken up her Palms’ Lounge as bandleader Jerry onstage lineup) and Santa Fe & The Lopez calls them to the front. But Fat City Horns. Ross’ lead sax player, sometimes, a headliner will John Scarpulla, fills out the permit backing players to roaring horn section. The good vibes around THE ESSENTIAL perform a solo only if they are in their original posithe show are reflected DIANA ROSS tion onstage. Some won’t onstage. Ross enters by April 10, 11, 15, 17 even permit the musician gliding down an aisle in & 18, 8 p.m., $60to look at the star during the theater, nodding to $200. Venetian that solo. audience members while Theatre, 702But after Falcone’s spirsinging “I’m Coming Out.” 414-9000. ited solo on opening night, Onstage she looks the audiwhich he performed near the front ence straight in the face, and asks for of the stage, Ross turned to him and the house lights to be turned up so said, “Danny, that was wonderful.” she can make out all those faces. It’s a small gesture, but one that The security team at the Venetian does matter, especially to someone has a concern it had not expected with Falcone’s performing pedigree. in a Ross show: fans pushing their The trumpet player recalls postway toward the stage to be near or show meetings he sat through as even touch a 71-year-old singer. Ross’ stars whose names grace marquees show, stuffed with hits from The unloaded on the band. Supremes and her solo career, scoots One legend in particular, well right along as if powered by her own known to the Falcone family, adrenaline. Though she changes engaged in such famous “chew-out” gowns a few times, she does conmeetings for decades before finally nect on a genuine level. During her putting the hammer away. You can debut performance on April Fool’s guess the name of that star. Day, there were moments when her

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Singular stamp

Sculpting with pipe cleaners and painting with inked rubber, Lucky DeBellevue explores repetition By Dawn-Michelle Baude Lucky DeBellevue is an artist of materials—from pistachio shells to weather stripping. The P3Studio artist-in-residence got major art-world attention in 2002 with his monumental pipe-cleaner sculptures exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In DeBellevue’s hands, the pipe cleaner is more wire than fuzz, a building material accreted into structures that are, by turns, solid, ephemeral, witty, beautiful and strange. In DeBellevue’s Collaboration/Exchange open studio at the Cosmopolitan, pipe cleaners are the medium of an interactive artwork; participants twist and hook their contributions to DeBellevue’s armature, creating a fuzzy, webby, futuristic object with a vaguely utilitarian purpose: Prototype for a whimsical laser curtain? Intergalactic thermal quilt? P3Studio participants also select from a trove of abstract rubber blocks, ink up and stamp, leaving one print on the gallery wall and taking the other as souvenir. But DeBellevue’s own paintings-in-progress grab focus. They feature motifs made from abstract rubber stamps collected over a decade; the shapes recall hieroglyphs, or the ancient scripts of Sumer and Palmyra. DeBellevue prints on painted linen ground, not once but twice or more, delivering visual echoes of the original impression. In contrast to the flamboyant pipe-cleaner sculptures, his paintings have a muted, earthy palette. The color, shapes and eroded images combine to produce COLLABORATION/ an elusive exoti- EXCHANGE cism. Mayan? Zulu? Through April 12, Another series— Wednesday-Sunday, block-print checker- 6-11 p.m. P3Studio at boards—pings both the Cosmopolitan, Modernism and 702-698-7000. naiveté. Some paintings are doubled/tripled and cut to display a “flap” that reveals a mirror image of the surface. It drapes from the frame like a tongue. While DeBellevue’s show summons various critical debates—art vs. craft, high art vs. low art, intention vs. purpose—they miss the point. This work is first about material, then about pattern. A fascination with repetition, whether of structure or motif, is at the heart of DeBellevue’s current practice. One wall at P3Studio, for example, is stamped with rows of rectangles and used as a backdrop for printed works—pattern on top of pattern. The patterns aren’t perfect—the gesture of the artist stamping a block in a particular way will never be repeated. In the end, DeBellevue comments on the irreducibility of gesture and, by extension perhaps, of artists. There is, after all, only one Lucky DeBellevue.

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Slow Art Day honors the idea of truly taking it all in By Kristen Peterson work of art, and then later discuss If dug from the wreckage it with others. and dusted off hundreds of years It’s a simple idea, but these from now, the introduction to days a monumental act, one that Camille Paglia’s Glittering Images requires actually putting aside the might seem a cautionary prelude phone for 10 minutes and revoltto an intellectual end times of ing against the mind-dulling sorts, a last-minute plea for socionslaught of abbreviated informaety to take hold of its senses and tion to absorb color, form, line and actually “see.” process, an activity that is being Prompted by the onslaught of studied scientifically for its cogniimages distracting us by the nanotive effects. But for now, there is second, the intro to the art-history that experience of allowbook asserts the imporing art to rejuvenate the tance of finding focus SLOW ART senses and send the mind amid so much “visual DAY April 11, on its own boundless clutter.” The process of noon-5 p.m. (1 exploration. looking at art, Paglia says, p.m. discussion). In Las Vegas, the realigns our senses. UNLV’s Barrick Barrick Museum is hostIt was within this Museum, 702ing Slow Art Day, encourreality that businessman 895-3381. aging visitors to sit with Phil Terry decided to paintings by John Millei spend more than 30 minin the artist’s solo exhibit, If 6 utes in front of a Hans Hoffman Turned Out to Be 9, followed by a painting—surpassing, he says, guided discussion at 1 p.m. the usual “17 seconds” most So farewell to the whir of brevmuseumgoers spend in front of ity, the casual glance at art and individual works and a launching the dismissal of attentiveness. a movement. The beauty of Slow Art Day lies Slow Art Day has since gained in the idea that it’s purely about traction and been formalized by the viewer plunging into the work museums and galleries. Nearly before them—no dictated pre200 are participating this year, tense, no art dogma. Just a private each encouraging visitors to spend conversation. as much as 10 minutes looking at a

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> NEW AND DIFFERENT Fresh flavors abound at Fremont Street’s new PublicUs.

A first look inside PublicUs A place Downtown for good bread? That’s only the beginning

Fremont Street and Maryland Parkway was one of the most forlorn intersections in Old Vegas. A vintage commercial building, generous with sidewalk windows and pre-Interstate Era architecture, sat largely empty, seemingly so far from the new monuments of Downtown. A few weeks ago, however, the much anticipated PublicUs opened in the completely refurbished northeast corner unit there, filling one of Downtown’s “food desert” holes—a lack of good, locally baked bread. PublicUs’ hallmark items are its boules, rustic bowling balls of French bread ($6). They’re crusty and substantial, each day’s lim- PublicUs ited supply sacked away by customers to eat at 1126 Fremont home or torn into in their cars. For prepared St., 702-331foods, PublicUs has a walk-up system where 5500. Daily, diners order at a counter from a daily printed 6 a.m.-10 p.m. menu and a number of on-display salads and sides they dub “The Kitchen Table.” Recent sandwiches have included coffee-rubbed roast beef with Brie cheese, pear-horseradish slaw, hazelnuts and truffle aioli ($12) and pork schnitzel with braised red cabbage ($13). Knife-andfork entrées range from seared ahi with bok choy and wild mushrooms ($16) to a hash-like roasted pork belly with black “forbidden” rice and fried egg ($13). The Kitchen Table larder features plates with a rotating selection of items, like arugula with pomegranate, prosciutto and shaved Grana Padano ($4.50), or red quinoa with green grapes and goat cheese ($4.50). Vegetables are heavily represented, from roasted cauliflower to shishito peppers. Sweets include bread pudding or Guinness cheesecake, perfect with PublicUs’ advanced coffee and tea offerings. The restaurant’s espresso machine alone is a wonder of culinary artistic design. It looks like a Ford Galaxie 500 hooked up with a flying saucer. The interior design is unique, filled with custom woodwork and slatted tables with curved ends. Interior trees bring a welcome verdant atmosphere to a hot climate—it’s a refreshing place even for laptop-toting business types on working breaks. –Greg Thilmont

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Montaditos at Bin 702 You gotta hand it to the Spanish— nobody does snacks with drinks better Bin 702 than the originators of tapas. Sonny Container Ahuja knows that, which is why he borPark, 702rowed the Spanish mini-sandwiches 826-2702. known as montaditos for his menu. ¶ SundayAhuja, who also operates Downtown’s Thursday, 11 O Face Doughnuts, added a tantalizing a.m.-11 p.m.; selection of these bar-friendly bites at Friday & his Container Park spot Bin 702, a charm- Saturday, 11 ing nook that notched a Wine Spectator a.m.-1 a.m. Award of Excellence last year. Cute little four-inch rolls are filled with drool-worthy combos like salty bresaola and triple-creme Saint-André cheese or turkey with Brie and apricot jam ($2.25 each or six for $12). A glass of this, a bite of thinly shaved air-cured pork loin with honey butter, another glass, another montadito ... there goes the afternoon, in the best possible way. –Brock Radke

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photographs by mikayla whitmore

> SIMPLY CRAVEABLE Whether it’s in a sandwich or in the form of tender strips, PDQ’s poultry hits the spot.

INCOME TAX COCKTAIL

HAND OVER THE CHICKEN

Bird-based franchise PDQ arrives in North Las Vegas, happiness ensues BY BROCK RADKE

Can we have a serious discussion about fried chicken? Let’s get into this, because I’ve got some fried chicken issues that need to be aired. First, it’s one of my favorite foods. Isn’t it one of yours? It’s awesome. We love it. But it’s tricky. It’s not like pizza (or sex, depending on your preferred cliché). When it’s bad, it’s not still pretty good. Have you ever had McDonald’s breakfast chicken biscuit? Have you ever spit McDonald’s breakfast chicken biscuit all over your car? Whether you’re getting it from a drive-through window or an upscale, comfort-food-focused eatery, fried chicken is too inconsistent. And by the way, why do we celebrate this dish so much when some fancy restaurant serves it, yet ignore the homey neighborhood joint doing the same food? Is the beautiful golden poultry at sandwich with stuffing spices and cranberry, or brand-new Yardbird more essential than the stuff better yet, a crispy turkey breast sandwich with at nearly 10-year-old M&M Soul Food? (Not to PDQ 3737 W. thick pickle coins, firm tomato and crisp lettuce. knock fancy chicken ... I just went back to Blue Craig Road, It reminds me of the monstrous fried pork loin Ribbon to bask in the matzoh meal-and-paprika- 702-410-6747. sandwiches of the great state of Iowa, only it’s coated glory. So delicious.) Daily, 10:30 probably much better for you. When I want fried chicken, I want perfect a.m.-10 p.m. Recently I spoke to Danny Meyer, the finefried chicken. That appears to be the objective dining restaurateur who just made hundreds of at PDQ, the weeks-old North Las Vegas outlet millions when his Shake Shack franchise went public, and of a chain started by some corporate restaurant pros in one of the themes of our discussion was that fast food Tampa, Florida, in 2011. PDQ spread across the South can be good food. PDQ certainly fits that model, and it’s and now we have it, and this summer we’ll get another clear these chicken people are spending a lot of time on one on West Sahara. the overall experience, too. The new Craig Road restauBut don’t wait until then. Fresh, hand-breaded chicken rant is big and fast and really, really clean, and the staff is tenders, lightly seasoned and well-balanced between juicy exceptionally friendly. This is normal behavior for a new and crunchy, come in meal deals ($7.29-$9.29) or in sandbusiness in a new market, but it feels like this opening wich form ($4.29) on spongy wheat or egg buns. Watch standard will continue. how fast you eat these chickens. Most importantly, it’s totally craveable food, made There’s more. The coleslaw has blueberries. There are simple and convenient. When it comes to PDQ, I have no seven dipping sauces, from Buffalo Bleu to Creamy Garlic. chicken grievances. Let this be the end of my fried chicken There’s a chocolate peanut butter milkshake ($3.49-$4.99). therapy session, at least for now. And you can get a Thanksgiving-inspired turkey breast

PDQ BY MIKAYLA WHITMORE

INGREDIENTS 1 1/2 oz. Bombay Sapphire Gin 1/4 oz. Cinzano Sweet Vermouth 1/4 oz. Cinzano Dry Vermouth 1 1/2 oz. orange juice 2 dashes Angostura Bitters Dehydrated orange round for garnish

METHOD Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake thoroughly and strain into a chilled cocktail coupe glass. Garnish with a dehydrated orange round.

This drink evolved from one created in 1906 by Johnnie Solon, a bartender at the Waldorf Astoria New York, and became the Income Tax Cocktail a few decades later with the introduction of bitters. Ironic, right? What’s important to remember is that this cocktail survived Prohibition and WWI, became what it is during WWII and is still being published in magazines 70 years after that. And you, well, you survived yet another tax day. Drink up.

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A&E | Short Takes Special screenings

> on the trail Britt Robertson and Scott Eastwood take The Longest Ride.

Beyond the Mask 4/14, faith-based action-adventure film, 5 pm, $12.50. Theaters: RR. Info: beyondthemaskmovie.com. Boozy Movie Wednesdays Wed, 8 pm, free with cocktail purchase, 21+. 4/15, Natural Born Killers. Inspire Theater, 107 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702489-9110. Cinema in the Circle 4/10, Hook, 6:30 pm, free. Huntridge Circle Park, 1251 S. Maryland Parkway.

Four Blood Moons 4/9, film based on book by Pastor John Hagee, 7:30 pm, $10.50-$12.50. Theaters: ORL, SF, SP, ST. Info: fathomevents.com. Midnight Brewvies Mon, movie plus popcorn, midnight, free. Elixir, 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, Henderson, 702-272-0000.

Saturday Movie Matinee 4/11, Birdman, 2 pm, free. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702507-3400. Sci Fi Center Sun, Game of Thrones viewing party, 6 pm, free. Mon, Cinemondays, 8 pm, free. 4/11, The Princess Bride, The Rocky Horror Picture Show with live shadow cast, 8 pm, $9. 5077 Arville St., 702-792-4335, thescificenter.com. The Squeeze 4/12, feature film world premiere plus Q&A with filmmakers, 7 pm, $25, benefits Three Square. Wynn Las Vegas, 3131 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-770-2270. To Light a Candle 4/10, documentary about Baha’i education in Iran, 7 pm, free. Las Vegas Baha’i Center, 7035 W. Oakey Blvd., 702-838-9191. RSVP: lvbahaicenter@ hotmail.com. Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou Tue, 1 pm, free. 4/14, Test Pilot. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.

New this week Danny Collins aabcc Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner. Directed by Dan Fogelman. 106 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 40. Theaters: DTS, SC, SP Freetown (Not reviewed) Henry Adofo, Michael Attram, Phillip Michael. Directed by Garrett Batty. 113 minutes. Rated PG-13. Six Liberian missionaries flee civil war in their country. Theaters: ST, TS The Longest Ride (Not reviewed) Britt Robertson, Scott Eastwood, Melissa Benoist. Directed by George Tillman Jr. 139 minutes. Rated PG-13. The lives of a young couple intersect with an older man who recalls his own youthful romance. Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, DTS, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX

Furious 7 aaacc Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez. Directed by James Wan. 137 minutes. Rated PG-13. Replacement director Wan freshens the seventh film of this ridiculous series with a great villain (Statham) and several razzle-dazzle set pieces, and replaces the usual machismo with “family”-type bonding. But he also can’t stop the movie from raging too long and running out of gas early. –JMA Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TX, VS Get Hard aaccc Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, Alison Brie. Directed by Etan Cohen. 100 minutes. Rated R. A buffoonish finance executive (Ferrell) hires a man he believes to be an ex-con (Hart) to help him prepare for prison after he’s falsely convicted of fraud. For all its ill-advised humor about race and sexuality, Get Hard is less offensive than inconsistent and misguided. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, DTS, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TX, VS

Exhibition on Screen 4/14, video tour of Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum plus behind-the-scenes footage, 7 pm, $12.50-$15. Theaters: COL, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.

R5: All Day, All Night 4/16, concert film featuring band R5, 7 pm, $10.50-$12.50. Theaters: COL, SF, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.

suspense and then pulling back the curtain a few too many times. –JB Theaters: TC, VS

Street (Not reviewed) Beau Casper Smart, Mark Ryan, Kate Miner. Directed by Bradford May. 100 minutes. Not rated. A former wrestling champion gets involved in the underworld of bare-knuckle boxing. Theaters: PAL While We’re Young aabcc Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried. Directed by Noah Baumbach. 97 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 40. Theaters: DTS, VS Woman in Gold aabcc Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Tatiana Maslany. Directed by Simon Curtis. 109 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 40. Theaters: AL, FH, GVR, RR, SC, SP You’re My Boss (Not reviewed) Toni Gonzaga, Coco Martin. Directed by Antoinette Jadaone. 116 minutes. Not rated. In Filipino with English subtitles. A woman and her assistant switch places. Theaters: VS

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: VS

mance 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: BS, DI, ORL, 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 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: BS, CH, TC, TX

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, TC

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, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TX

American Sniper aaccc Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Luke Grimes. Directed by Clint Eastwood. 132 minutes. Rated R. Cooper’s perfor-

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy (Not reviewed) Sushant Singh Rajput, Anand Tiwari, Swastika Mukherjee. Directed by

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Dibakar Banerjee. 135 minutes. Not rated. In Hindi with English subtitles. In 1940s Calcutta, a Bengali private detective tracks an evil genius. Theaters: VS Do You Believe? (Not reviewed) Ted McGinley, Mira Sorvino, Andrea Logan White. Directed by Jonathan M. Gunn. 115 minutes. Rated PG-13. A pastor goes on a journey to renew his faith. Theaters: BS, SC, SP, 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 Effie Gray aaccc Dakota Fanning, Greg Wise, Tom Sturridge. Directed by Richard Laxton. 108 minutes. Rated PG-13. Effie Gray is a tasteful, restrained and mind-numbingly boring take on the relationship between 19th-century British author John Ruskin (Wise) and the title character (Fanning), who endured a loveless and sexless marriage to Ruskin before leaving him for painter John Everett Millais (Sturridge). –JB Theaters: VS 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: BS, GVR 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

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: BS, ORL, SC Home aabcc Voices of Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin. Directed by Tim Johnson. 94 minutes. Rated PG. After the cute, clueless alien Boov invade and take over Earth, human tween Tip (Rihanna) teams up with misfit alien Oh (Parsons) to save the planet. It’s a familiar mismatched-friends story, tolerable enough for children who like funnycolored aliens but forgettable enough that parents should be able to easily ignore it. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TX, VS The Imitation Game aaacc Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode. Directed by Morten Tyldum. 114 minutes. Rated PG-13. Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the English mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the Nazis’ Enigma code. While that material is quite exciting, however, the film’s attempts at a character study, treating Turing as someone on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum, are less successful. –MD Theaters: TC, VS 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, GVR, ORL, PAL, RR, SF, SHO, SP, ST, TX, VS It Follows aaaac Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto. Directed by David Robert Mitchell. 100 minutes. Rated R.

A&E | Short Takes Mitchell, who made the sweet teen romance The Myth of the American Sleepover, returns with a terrific, discomfitingly creepy horror film about a malevolent force that’s always walking in a straight line toward its victim (Monroe), no matter where on the planet she goes. –MD Theaters: AL, BS, FH, ORL, PAL, RR, SC, SF, SHO, 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 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: FH, ORL, SP, ST, VS The Lazarus Effect AACCC Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass, Sarah Bolger. Directed by David Gelb. 83 minutes. Rated PG-13. A talented cast is wasted in this moronic horror movie about medical researchers attempting to bring people back from the dead. Once they do, something evil comes back, too, stalking the characters through underlit, sparse sets in predictable fashion. –JB Theaters: ST, 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, ST, VS Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb aaccc Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Dan Stevens. Directed by Shawn Levy. 98 minutes. Rated PG. Made from the “kids-won’t-care-how-badly-weslapped-this-thing-together” school of filmmaking, the third movie in the Night at the Museum series brings the usual cast to London to save their magic tablet. The movie brings up ideas and lets them drop, clumsy cutting ruins most of the jokes, and visual effects are plentiful and lifeless. –JMA Theaters: TC Paddington aaabc Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Nicole Kidman, voice of Ben Whishaw. Directed by Paul King. 95 minutes. Rated PG. Somehow the new Paddington movie seems modern while at the same time holding firmly to its quaint, lovely ideals. The movie includes a few big slapstick moments, but they arise naturally out of the character’s unfamiliarity with the civilized world. Ben Whishaw voices the CGI bear. –JMA Theaters: TC

> religious turmoil Missionaries face danger in Freetown.

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: BS, CH, GVR, ORL, SC 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: FH, GVR, SC Selma aaabc David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Carmen Ejogo. Directed by Ava DuVernay. 127 minutes. Rated PG-13. Selma is a sometimes powerful, sometimes stilted look at the 1965 march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Oyelowo) from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama to rally for voting rights for African-Americans. The filmmakers create a sense of real life being lived, rather than just facts and figures being dramatized. –JB Theaters: TC 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: TC 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: VS 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: TC

The Wedding Ringer AACCC Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley CuocoSweeting. Directed by Jeremy Garelick. 101 minutes. Rated R. This contrived bromance involves a lonely rich guy (Gad) hiring a professional best man (Hart) to stand in at his wedding. Hart is likable, but the story never builds on its ridiculous premise, stumbling through unfunny set pieces and vulgar humor, without any worthwhile payoff. –JB Theaters: TC What We Do in the Shadows aaacc Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh. Directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi. 86 minutes. Not rated. Clement and Waititi (Flight of the Conchords) bring a familiar understated, deadpan humor to the story of three vampires who live together in a rundown house in Wellington, New Zealand. Even when

the laughs get less frequent, they continue through to the end, with plenty of quotable lines. –JB Theaters: VS Wild Tales aaabc Ricardo Darín, Oscar Martínez, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Érica Rivas. Directed by Damián Szifrón. 122 minutes. Rated R. In Spanish with English subtitles. A more sophisticated, less gory version of movies like the V/H/S series, Wild Tales features six segments that start with mundane events before building to violence, betrayal and (sometimes) death. It’s an inconsistent anthology, but a deft mix of comedy and thrills keeps things fresh and surprising. –JB Theaters: SC JMA Jeffrey M. Anderson; JB Josh Bell; MD Mike D’Angelo; NS Nick Schager

Theaters

Summerlin 2070 Park Center Drive, 702-221-2283

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(SP) Century South Point 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-260-4061 (SC) Century Suncoast 9090 Alta Drive, 702-869-1880

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

(SS) Regal Sunset Station 1301-A W. Sunset Road, Henderson, 702-221-2283

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KICKIN’ IT FOR KIDS Some shred on a guitar; others shred on skateboards. Kickflips vs. Kickdrums promotes both for Las Vegas youth. The fundraiser benefits Girls Rock Vegas, a music camp for girls, and Push Forward Skateboarding, a club for boys, two organizations that promote positive pastimes and mentorships for young people. “It allows kids to create a hobby that will keep them out of trouble,” Girls Rock Vegas organizer Pam Pereira says of the two youth groups. “There aren’t really a whole lot of things for kids of that age to do in this town.” Sunday’s event will feature skateboarding demos, music by the Girls Rock Vegas campers, food from Origin India and raffle prizes. Upon entry, guests KICKFLIPS VS. KICKDRUMS donate $10 to either organization. “They can say who they want the April 12, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., money to go to,” Pereira says. “We hope people are like, ‘Here’s for $10 donation. 1324 S. Sixth St., both.’ That would be cool.” –Kristy Totten 702-860-7557.

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South of Graceland 7/17, 9 pm, $30+. Puddle of Mudd 7/31, 9 pm, $25+. Tribal Seeds 8/21, 9 pm, $25. Blue October 9/18, 9 pm, $30+. Live 10/2, 9 pm, $35+. Hard Rock Live Kimbra, MikkyEkko 4/18, 8 pm, $20-$25. Metro Station, SayWeCanFly, 7 Minutes in Heaven, The Runaway Lives 4/27, 5 pm, $14$17. Hard Rock Cafe (Strip), 3771 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-733-7625. House of Blues Bad Religion, OFF! 4/13-4/14, 7 pm, $30-$32. Falling in Reverse 4/25, 5:30 pm, $22-$25. Nightwish 4/30, 7 pm, $43-$78. Mastodon 5/1, 8 pm, $30-$32. R. Kelly, Lil’ Kim 5/3, 8 pm, $150+. Walk the Moon 5/9, 6:30 pm, $22-$25. Juicy J 5/19, 8 pm, $28-$40. Carlos Santana 5/20, 5/22-5/24, 5/27, 5/295/31, 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. Steel Panther 6/13, 6/20, 6/27, 9 pm, $22. Dizzy Wright 7/4, 6 pm, $25-$30. Kelly Clarkson, Pentatonix 8/15, 7:30 pm, $40-$125. Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers 9/5, 8 pm, $29$44. The Tragically Hip 10/3, 7:30 pm, $43-$55. 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 Sixx: A.M., Apocalyptica

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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 Contortion, Rule of Thumb, Last Words, Within the Cochlea 4/10, 8 pm, $5-$7. Buck-O-Nine, Kemuri, Dan Patthast, Light Em Up 4/17, 8 pm, $11-$13. Helmet 4/30, 8 pm, $18$21. Felipe Esparza 5/1, 8 pm, $25$40. Anaal Nathrakh, Incite, Secrets of the Sky 5/13, 8 pm, $12-$15. Agent Orange, In the Whale, Happy Campers, Assorted Jellybeans 5/30, 8 pm, $12-$15. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Bar & Bistro Out of the Desert Bluegrass Band Sun, noon, free. Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd., 702202-6060. Beauty Bar Candy Warpop, Fever Red 4/12, 9 pm, free. The Cribs, Warblood, Close To Modern 4/14, 9 pm, $10. Sic Waiting, Mercy Music, The Core, Fredward 4/18, 9 pm, free. Prawn, Frameworks 4/23, 9 pm. Chicano Batman 4/24, 9 pm, 8 pm. Inter Arma, Yautja 4/29, 9 pm. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. The Bunkhouse Battleborn Poetry Slam 4/9, 7 pm, $5. Social Club 4/9, 9 pm, $5. Panda Bear, Ducktails 4/10, 9 pm, $20. Dengue Fever, L.A. Witch, Prehistoric Slapstick 4/11, 9 pm, $10-$12. The Downtown Fiction, Very Much Alive, I’d Die For Lo Fi 4/12. Mixtape Monthly 4/13, 9 pm, free. Benjamin Booker, Small Wigs 4/16. J Live 4/17, midnight, free. Psychostick 4/19, 8 pm, $10$12. Built to Spill, Braided Waves 4/20. Whirr, Wildmoth, Alaska 4/22. Moving Units, Glass Spells 4/23, $10-$12. We Are Scientists, Kingswood 4/26, 9 pm, $10-$15. Buck 65, Astronautalis 4/27, 9 pm, $10-$15. Peach Kelli Pop, Sang Bleu 4/29, 9 pm, $5-$7. A Tribe Called Red 4/30, 11 pm, $10-$12. 124 S. 11th St., bunkhousedowntown.com. Downtown Las Vegas Events Center Sammy Hagar & The Circle 4/11, 7 pm, $64+. 200 S. 3rd St., dlvec.com. Fremont Country Club First Class Trash, Audiovibe, Quantum 4/17, 8 pm, $16-$20. Streetlight Manifesto 5/21, 8 pm, $21-$26. 601 Fremont St., 702-382-6601. Golden Nugget 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. 129 Fremont St., 702-385-7111. Griffin Live music Wed, 10 pm, free. 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577. LVCS Incite, Better Left Unsaid, Slaves and Blades 4/14, 8 pm, $7-$9. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-3531. Mob Bar The Jeremy Cornwell Project Thu, 8 pm. Shaun DeGraff Band Fri, 8 pm. Dueling Pianos Sat, 8 pm. Yvonne Silva Sun, 6 pm. All shows free. 201 N. 3rd St., 702-259-9700. The Smith Center Garrison Keillor 4/16, 7:30 pm, $29+. Ramsey Lewis Trio 4/17-4/18, 7 pm, $45+. Bruce Hornsby 4/18, 7:30 pm, $32+. Clint Holmes First Fri & Sat, 8:30 pm; first

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Brooklyn Bowl Milky Chance, James Hersey 4/9, 9 pm, $18-$22. Moksha 4/10, 9 pm, free. Ghostface Killah, Raekwon 4/13, $25. The Suicide Sirens 4/14, 9 pm, free. Sin City Sinners 4/15, 4/22, 9 pm, free. Steel Pulse 4/16, 8 pm, $30-$33. Brand New, Circa Survive, The Weaks 4/17, 8 pm, $37-$41. Alabama Shakes, Allah-Las 4/18, 9 pm, $41-$44. Fortunate Youth, Hirie, Highdro 4/19, 8 pm, $8-$10. The Grouch, Eligh, Zion I 4/20, 8 pm, $15-$20. 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. Sebastian Bach, Conflict of Interest, Bravo Delta 4/26, 8 pm, $20-$25. Morgan Heritage, Jemere Morgan 4/27, 8 pm, $13-$17. OK Go, White Arrows 4/28, 9 pm, $22-$28. Umphrey’s McGee 5/1, 7 pm; 5/2, 8:30 pm, $30-$99. Kinky, Daniella Spalla 5/3, 8 pm, $25. Mariachi El Bronx 5/4, 8 pm, $17-$22. The Steppas, Lovd Ones, For Twenty Daze, The L81z 5/11, 8 pm, $15. The Expendables 5/14, $15. Linq, 702862-2695. The Colosseum Rod Stewart Elton John 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. 702-698-7000. 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. Hard Rock Hotel Courtney Love 5/15, 9 pm, $35+. Kottonmouth Kings 6/19, 9 pm, $25+. Rusted Root 6/26, 9 pm, $30+. Nelson 7/10, 9 pm, $30+.

4/10, 8 pm, $35. 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, 5/85/9, 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. Hard Rock Hotel, 702693-5222. Mandalay Bay (Events Center) 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. 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, 5/85/9, 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. 702-234-7469. Rock in Rio Festival Ft. Taylor Swift, Metallica, Linkin Park, No Doubt, The Deftones, John Legend 5/8-5/9, 5/15-5/16, $298-$498. Rockinrio.com. Tuscany Danny Lozada Sun & Thu 10 pm, free. Kenny Davidsen Celebrity Piano Bar Fri, 10 pm, free. Live music Sat, 10 pm., free. 255 E. Flamingo Rd., 702-893-8933. Vinyl 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. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5000. Wynn (Eastside Lounge) Michael

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Bootlegger Bistro Hot Club of Las Vegas 4/12, 2 pm, $12-$15. 7700 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-313-6778. Boulder Dam Brewing American Voodoo 4/10. The Saturday Giant 4/11. Justin Mather 4/16. Rick Berthod Band 4/17. Out of the Desert 4/18. Holes and Hearts 4/25. Scott Helmer 4/30. All shows free unless noted, Fri-Sat, 8 pm; Wed-Thu, 7 pm. 453 Nevada Way, Boulder City, 702-243-2739. Boulder Station (Railhead) Bee Gees Gold Fri, 10 pm, $5. El Moreno Carrillo Sun, 11 pm, $5-$10. (Kixx Bar) Joey Vitale Fri, 8 pm. Reflection Sat, 8 pm. 702-432-7777. Count’s Vamp’d John Zito Electric Jam Wed, 9 pm, free. 9:30 pm, free. 6750 W. Sahara, 702-220-8849. The Dillinger Marty Feick Thu, 7 pm. Stefnrock First & third Sat, 8:30 pm, free. 1224 Arizona St., 702-293-4001. Dispensary Lounge Uli Geissendoerfer Trio Fri-Sat, 10 pm. 2451 E. Tropicana, 702-4586343. Eastside Cannery (Eastside Events Center) 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. Milo’s Cellar Live Music Thur, 8 pm, free. 538 Nevada Hwy., 702-293-9540. Ron DeCar’s Event Center 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., 702284-7777. Star of the Desert Arena 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, 800-386-7867.

Comedy Roseanne Barr 4/11, 9:30 pm; 6/6, 7:30 pm, $50-$118. Venetian, 866-641-7469. Big Al’s Comedy Club Wed-Sun, 8 pm, $20. Gold Coast, 702-251-3574. Bonkerz Comedy Club Downtown Grand Fri-Sat, 8:30 pm, free (with two-drink purchase). 206 N. 3rd St., 702-719-5100. Bonkerz Comedy Club JW Marriott Shows 7 pm, $15. 221 N. Rampart Blvd., 702-5075900. Bonkerz Comedy Club Primm Fri, 8 pm & 10:15 pm; Sat, 10:15 pm; $10. Primm Valley Resort , 31900 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 800-3867867. Bonkerz Comedy Club Silver Sevens FriSat, 10:30 pm; $10. Silver Sevens Hotel & Casino, 4100 Paradise, 702-733-7000. Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club All shows at 8 pm, $65-$87. MGM Grand, 891-7777. Wayne Brady 4/17, 10 pm, $40+. Mirage, 702792-7777. Jim Breuer 4/13-4/14, 7:30 pm, $35. South Point, southpointcasino.com. 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 4/9, 4/11-4/12, 4/16, 4/184/19, 4/23, 4/25-4/26. All shows at 9 p.m., $59+. Vinyl, hardrockhotel.com. Comedy After Dark Wed-Sun, 10 pm, $40$60. LVH, 702-732-5755. Whitney Cummings 5/22-5/23, 9:30 pm, $74$118. Venetian, 866-641-7469. Jeff Dunham Wed-Sun, 7 pm; Sat-Sun, 4 pm, $72. Planet Hollywood, 702-531-4320. Vinnie Favorito Nightly, 8 pm, $55-$100. Flamingo, 702-733-3333. Fortune Feimster, Cameron Esposito 4/25, 8 pm, $40-$96. Venetian, 866-641-7469. Billy Gardell 4/10, 9 pm, $44-$77. Treasure Island, treasureisland.com. Eddie Griffin Mon-Wed, 7 pm, $90-$182. Rio, 702-777-7776. HydroComics Unleashed Wed, 9 pm, free. Lucie’s Lounge, 3955 Charleston Blvd., 702776-6417. The Improv John Melendez, Ronnie Schell,

Calendar Jessica Michelle Singleton 4/14-4/19. Max Alexander, Tracey MacDonald 4/21-4/26. Tue-Sun, 8:30 & 10 pm, $30-$45. Harrah’s, 702-369-5000. The Joe Show Thu-Sat, 8 pm, $30. Tuscany, 255 E. Flamingo Rd., 702-629-0715. Jokes With Friends Thu, 10 pm, free. Nacho Daddy, 9925 S. Eastern Ave., 702-462-5000. L.A. Comedy Club Tue-Sun, 9:30 pm, $39$62. Ballys, 702-777-2782. Lisa Lampanelli 4/4, 8 pm; 6/13, 9:30 pm, $50$119. Venetian, 866-641-7469. The Laugh Factory Shows at 8:30 & 10:30 pm. $29-$45. Tropicana, 702-739-2222. Laughternoon Adam London Daily, 4 pm, $20-$25. The D, 702-388-2111. M Resort Comedy Night Fri, 9 pm, free with drink purchase. M Resort, 702-797-1000. The Mac King Comedy Magic Show TueSat, 1 & 3 pm, $33. Harrah’s, 702-369-5000. 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, 702531-4320. Puppetry of the Penis 4/14-4/19, 4/21-4/26, 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., 702245-2393. Don Rickles 4/25-4/26, 8 pm, $80+. Orleans Arena, 702-284-7777. Riviera Comedy 40 is Not the New 20 MonSat, 10 pm, $40. Riviera, 855-468-6748. 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., 702-368-1863. Sin City Comedy & Burlesque Show 8:30 pm, $38-$49. Planet Hollywood, 702-7777776.

Performing Arts 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 . Marvel Universe Live 4/23-4/26, times vary, $20+. Thomas & Mack, marveluniverselive. com. Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella 4/285/3, 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 4/29-5/2, 7 pm; 5/25/3, 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, 7 pm, $135. Bellagio, 866-406-7117. Animal Foundation’s Best in Show 4/26, 1 pm, $8-$25. Orleans Arena, animalfoundation.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. Great American Foodie Fest 4/30-5/3, times vary, $8-$13. Rio, 3700 W Flamingo Rd, greatamericanfoodiefest.com. Monday’s Dark with Mark Shunock 4/20, 5/18, 6/15, 7/20, 8/17, 9/21, 10/19, 11/16, 9:30 pm, $20+. Vinyl, hardrockhotel.com.

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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. Sake Fever 4/17, 7 pm, $100-$125. Red Rock, 11011 W Charleston Blvd., unlvino.com. UNLVino Grand Tasting 4/18, 7 pm, $125-$150. Paris, 3655 S Las Vegas Blvd., unlvino.com. Wizard World Las Vegas Comic Con 4/24-4/26, times vary, $35-$75. Las Vegas Convention Center, 3150 Paradise Rd., wizardworld.com. Winefest 5/15-5/17, times vary, $75-$199. Golden Nugget, goldennugget.com.

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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. Joe Weider’s Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend 9/17-9/19, 7 pm, $72+. Orleans, orleansarena.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. Takahiro Ao vs. Ray Beltran, Mikael Zewski vs. Konstantin Ponomarev 5/1, 5 pm, $50$100. Cosmopolitan, 702-698-7000. 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, 702383-3133. Galleries include: Joseph Watson Collection Wed-Fri, 1-6 pm; Sat, noon-3 pm; Sun, 11 am-2 pm. Suite 115, 858-733-2135. Sin City Gallery Wed-Sat, 1-7 pm; Sun, 11 am-2 pm. Suite 100, 702-608-2461. Suite 135, 702366-7001, trifectagallery.com. Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art Daily, 10 am-8 pm, $11-$16. 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702693-7871. Blackbird Studios Fri-Sun, noon-7 pm. 1551 S. Commerce St., 702-782-0319. Brett Wesley Gallery Wed-Sat, 1-7 pm. 1025 S. First St. #150, 702-433-4433. Clark County Government Center Rotunda Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm. 500 Grand Central Parkway, 702-455-7030. Clay Arts Vegas Mon-Sat, 9 am-9 pm; Sun, 11:30 am-6:30 pm. 1511 S. Main St., 702-3754147. Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-2 pm. At UNLV, 702895-3893. Downtown Spaces 1800 Industrial Rd., dtspaces.com. Galleries include: Wasteland Gallery Thu, 6 pm-9pm; Fri & Sat, 6 pm11pm, Sun-Wed by appointment. Emergency Arts 520 Fremont St., 702-6863164. Gainsburg Studio & Gallery Mon-Sat, 10 am-5 pm. 1533 West Oakey Blvd, 702-249-3200. Left of Center Gallery Tue-Fri, noon-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-3 pm. 2207 W. Gowan Rd., 702647-7378. Michelle C. Quinn Fine Art Advisory By appointment only. 620 S. 7th St., 702-3669339. P3Studio Lucky Debellevue: Collaboration/ Exchange Thru 4/12. Wed-Sun, 6-11 pm. Cosmopolitan. West Las Vegas Arts Center Wed-Sat, 9 am-7 pm. 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702229-4800. Winchester Cultural Center Art Gallery Tue-Fri, 10 am-8 pm; Sat, 9 am-6 pm. 3130 S. McLeod Dr., 702-455-7340.

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