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CONTENTS 7 MAIL Rock in Rio (haters and

42 SCREEN Mad Max is blowing

defenders). Meadows memories.

(everything) up, and the Bellas are back in Pitch Perfect 2.

8 AS WE SEE IT The last brunch at Simon, body painting en masse and tales of Nepal aid workers.

44 NOISE Notes on Rock in Rio.

12 WEEKLY Q&A Marketing

46 THE STRIP A first look at the

pioneer Amanda Slavin.

glittering residency of Mimi.

14 FEATURE | PEDAL POWER

47 FINE ART Kennedy obsession is Deborah Aschheim’s new art.

Local BMX rider Roman Jaworsky is a phenom with serious dreams.

16 FEATURE | EMOTIONAL ENGINEER As Wynn turns 10, we chat with designer Roger Thomas on his legacy of sumptuous spaces.

And getting to know Shamir.

48 FOOD White Rabbit leads us to Filipino fusion. Eating the menu at Scratch House.

52 CALENDAR Movie-car mania!

WHITE RABBIT BY STEVE MARCUS

24 NIGHTS The Crystal Method on Hustler Club’s roof? Inside the new Vista Lounge at Caesars.

39 A&E Art show to golf tourney, Helldorado is a Vegas must-do.

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Mail > LEAVING NO DOUBT Gwen rocked the Strip.

together and performing those hits, there was no lack of energy, and I fell in love with them all over again! –Dan Cryer

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E n t E r t a i n m E n t

It was so well-organized, from the shuttle service to cashless purchases to the seamless flow of music! Loved No Doubt! Can’t wait for this weekend! –Pat Sheeran

DOG PARADISE Downtown’s Hydrant Club is making some two-legged fans, too.

YOU WANNA ROCK Our feedback charts show that many were skeptical about the Rock in Rio music fest, and that many had a great time during its opening weekend.

It should be interesting to see how mainstream, corporate pop and rock do against EDM. My guess is that it’s a completely different demographic. –Jginnane Not a true music festival. Radio Top 40 crap. Do they allow baby strollers? Or beach blankets? –Carlos Basaldua Pass. There’s too many other festival options to even entertain the idea of going to something like this. –Luke Freteluco Too expensive tickets! –Frank Suárez They are expecting over 50,000 people, yet there is not one parking spot! –Jerry Nielsen Why should a casino giant spring for a parking garage when they can just inconvenience local residents for free? –Shane Paterson With MGM having a part in the past couple of Pride festivities, will the festival grounds be the site for this or next year’s Pridefest? –David L. Nail

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Had a great time! Was onstage during Metallica and got to meet the band backstage! –Colleen Hart We went pretty late, as I was there specifically for No Doubt. The energy around Maná was extremely raw and definitely transcended language barriers. I’ve loved No Doubt since Tragic Kingdom, and I can’t believe after so many years

This place is great! I have had the opportunity to visit and take a tour. It is clean and well kept. The dogs just love it. The dog wash is out of this world perfect. The playground is nicer than most city parks. Wow is all I could say. –NevadaJayHawk

MEADOWS MEMORIES Brock Radke isn’t the only one getting all sentimental about a formerly bustling shopping mall.

I loved going to Taco Time in the food court. The Cookie Chef. Crawling through the hole to get inside Waldenbooks. Riding the carousel. Hanging out at Suncoast and Sam Goody and stopping by Jungle Zone. Probably my most favorite was eating at Ricardo’s. So many good memories at the Meadows. I’d love to see it alive again. –JDJuarez This was my mall growing up, too. Remember Rebel Britches? Oohs and Aahs? Miller’s Outpost? Wicks ’n’ Sticks? Going to see their Christmas displays with all the little woodland scenes with moving creatures was one of my favorite traditions! –Kerry Dunn Maybe you should shop there to show some support instead of writing this downer article about it! –Tricia Grove As an ’80s kid, malls were the center of our social structure. Movie theaters, arcades, music stores ... you could go with $20 in your pocket and watch a flick, have lunch and play some video games. It’s just a completely different generation now. I think Meadows suffers from a lack of variety. It was our go-to shopping center on the weekends and holiday season. My kids are in college now so I don’t go very often, but the stores are all basically clones of each other. Sad, really. –Ron Hudy

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AsWeSeeIt OPINION + POLITICS + HUMOR + STYLE

A LEGACY WORTH THE WORD ∑ The day after the madness of the

Mayweather-Pacquiao fight and all the events surrounding it, I headed over, as I’ve done on many Sundays, to brunch at Simon in Palms Place. My friends and I filled plates with cupcakes, sushi, brisket and colossal shrimp before we ordered Frosted Flakes-crusted brioche French toast, the McSimon (the best egg sandwich I’ve ever eaten, with sausage, bacon and American cheese) and biscuits and gravy. A dining companion hit the Bloody Mary bar while I kept things mellow with iced tea and green juices. Then we ordered another McSimon and some chicken and waffles before closing our meal with cotton candy, cookies and more cupcakes. We were there for more than two hours, in our own world, in a calm and happy and whimsical place unlike every other spot we had visited on this ridiculous weekend. Which is to say, I had a typical experience at Simon, and I’m thankful I got to do this one more time. Kerry Simon is sick, stricken with multiple system atrophy, for which there is no known cure. His Palms Place restaurant will close May 22, and it will be remembered for a lot more than its legendary brunch. The chef, of course, was ahead of all the comfort-cuisine and junk-food-dessert trends that have been sweeping the nation. He moved Simon from the Hard Rock Hotel to Palms Place, reopening it on May 31, 2008, and started brunch—the ultimate hangover cure or the ultimate bender continuation, depending on what kind of day you wanted—on January 1, 2009. There have been days when Simon was where I ate a quick dinner of

LYING DOWN ON THE JOB A few more things our mayor should defy traffic for

> ROCK ON, CHEF In Kerry we have always trusted.

meatloaf or chicken curry or even the off-menu “Iron Chef burger” (which did indeed have the chef reigning supreme on the Food Network) or where I sat for long, meandering late-night conversations, not unlike so many touring rock legends, worldfamous chefs, partying pro athletes and porn stars looking to unwind

∑ Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy announced it would begin shipping nuclear waste from Tennessee to Nevada to be stored at the Nevada National Security Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. In protest, Mayor Carolyn Goodman said she would lie down in the road to stop it. The outlandish proclamation inspired this list of causes she should also lie down for.

have had here. They’ve all visited because they adore Kerry Simon, as a friend, as a chef, as a source of nourishment for the mind, body and soul. The word “legacy” is overused, but it no doubt applies to Kerry. More than anyone in Vegas, he’s made dining fun. And don’t forget: He’s not finished. His

• To pick up and magically float MGM Resorts’ arena from the Strip to Symphony Park.

legacy lives on at Downtown’s buzzing Carson Kitchen. He’s seriously ill, let’s be frank, but he’s still Kerry Simon, a man who had an early 60th birthday party this week so he could enjoy one more memorable night at his unparalleled restaurant. You’ve got another week to do the same. –Andy Wang

• To speed up Ikea’s completion (we need meatballs). • To repeal the 10 p.m. city parking-

• To add a third showgirl to Oscar’s entourage, officially making it a harem. • To build a new monorail that runs a circuit from McCarran to the Strip to Fremont Street.

meter policy.

• To steal water from Nestlé’s waterbottling operation to refill Lake Mead. • To bring back the old Treasure Island pirate show.

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AS WE SEE IT…

CASH FOR CREATIVITY UNLV awards another crop of engineering wonders

> LOVE YOUR CANVAS Every Body Equal, organized by Skin City Body Painting’s Robin Barcus Slonina (above), was about celebrating equality, diversity and body acceptance.

RADICAL SELF-ACCEPTANCE

Skin City pulls a stunt to celebrate equality and diversity BY KRISTEN PETERSON Not long after arriving for a video shoot in the parking lot behind Downtown Spaces, Holly White had stripped to her panties and pasties and joined a choreographed routine with other halfnaked strangers. Regardless of cellulite, weight, age or social stature, they’d removed their clothing hours before it was even necessary, despite whatever body issues they walked in with. “I’m watching the layers strip off, physically and metaphorically,” Robin Barcus Slonina says while paying for a pizza outside her Skin City Body Painting studio. Of a man in his 20s walking around in briefs, she adds, “He has intense body issues. Now he’s walking around in pasties and underwear.” The scenario is what Slonina had hoped when planning the Every Body Equal mass body-painting event, for which she invited the public via Skin

City’s Facebook page. The point: to participate in a video designed to celebrate equality, diversity and body acceptance. She says it originated with artist Craig Tracy on the set for the reality show Skin Wars, where they both serve as judges. Tracy came up with the idea for a mass body-paint where people would roll over to reveal a logo. Slonina wanted to apply it to a social message that would cover race, age, gender, size and sexual orientation, so she recruited participants to help form a giant equals sign. During rehearsal, trains passed, garbage trucks came and went, wind blew and a camera crew stood at the ready. Pretty soon bodies of all shapes and sizes would be covered in paint for the video, set to be released in June. “This is about radical self-acceptance,” Slonina says. “All of our bodies are just blank canvases today.”

While patrons have been spilling out of Bar+Bistro for however many years, settling onto the outdoor patio for dinner or drinks, it turns out a code was being violated. ¶ Customers had been parcel-hopping, crossing from one official lot to another, naïve to the illicit conditions in the Tale of Two Parcels that recently unfolded Why is Bar+Bistro’s patio when owner Wes Myles was notified he was violating city rules by not having a Special Use Permit. He had said permit for his restaurant/bar inside the Arts Factory, but not suddenly off-limits? for the parcel snuggling the doors—land he’d bought separately after purchasing the Arts Factory in the ’90s. ¶ That explains the patio’s closure for the past two weeks, and why it won’t reopen until after the end of August. According to the city, Myles needs to get the permit and go before the Planning Commission. In addition to the $3,340 required for the permitting process (including a Site Development Plan Review), Myles says he’d have to pay an architect and land assessor and that he’s short on cash. Additionally, Code Enforcement assessed a $750 civil penalty and $180 re-inspection fee. ¶ Why now, after so many years? The city says the inspection officer just noticed. But until the situation is rectified, Myles says he can’t serve anyone on the patio. No First Friday events either. Quoting the title of a dogrelated event held on the patio last summer, the frustrated Myles says, “I Shih Tzu not.” –Kristen Peterson

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NOT IN MY PARCEL

Don’t know how to play the violin? Want to surf the longest waterslide in the world? Can’t find your kid’s must-have toy in the mess? Enter UNLV’s senior engineering students, who’ve been working all spring on technologyassisted fixes for “real-world” problems, like an app that teaches you to play a string instrument or a mechanism that organizes your child’s toy box. The 28 student teams unveiled their projects at UNLV’s annual Senior Design Competition May 7, presenting to a panel of judges working in tech advancement. And with a $4,000 grand prize and thousands more in categorical cash awards, these students weren’t just résumé building before graduation. Just look to the 2013 Senior Design Competition winner, Skyworks Aerial Systems, whose creators went on to partner with UNLV MBA candidates and ultimately win the Southern Nevada Business Plan Competition. Skyworks is now a fully functioning local company offering drone products and development kits. While many of this year’s concepts were completely practical—from retaining-wall reinforcements to compressive sensing stockings that better facilitate blood flow—some ideas filled colorful niches, like the Precision T-Shirt Cannon, which pinpoints exact spots in an arena to deliver sportswear to fans, or the Wunder smartphone app, which uses an “artificially intelligent algorithm” to plan a day-trip itinerary for those in unfamiliar locations. The top prize went to team Robo-hand for its prosthetic hand that grips through arm-movement sensing. But next semester, other projects will have a shot at that Southern Nevada Business Plan Competition (check out the tech wonders at unlv.edu/engineering). –Mark Adams

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AS WE SEE IT…

DEGREE OF RISK

AFTERSHOCK Local aid workers reflect on service in Nepal as another quake rocks Kathmandu

In the tech realm, is traditional college getting in the way? BY KRISTY TOTTEN Steve Jobs dropped out. Mark Zuckerberg dropped out. Belkin founder Chet Pipkin, described by Forbes as “the wealthiest tech entrepreneur you’ve never heard of,” dropped out. And the Thiel Fellowship pays teenage tech whizzes $100,000 to forgo college altogether to focus on “self education.” In tech, is traditional college going the way of the tube television? At last week’s two-day Collision Conference at World Market Center, a lack of degree at times seemed to be a badge of honor, an indicator of a higher career calling. Reached after the conference, Collision presenters and Las Vegasbased Skyworks Aerial Systems founders Jinger Zeng and Greg Friesmuth said there’s value in attending college, but the gold isn’t in the degree. Both Friesmuth and Zeng decided not to finish their mechanical engineering degrees when their consumer drone company took off last year. “You sit in a classroom and you think, ‘I should be at work’ or ‘I should be in a meeting,” Friesmuth says. Just a few credits shy of a bachelor’s degree, he says he feels qualified as an engineer, and doesn’t intend to return to school. “It’s not the piece of paper you’re going there for; it’s more the resources and interactions,” he says. Labs, professor expertise and socializing are invaluable experiences, he adds, and are hard to obtain outside a campus setting. “Everybody should go to college to get that experience,” Zeng says. “My best experiences in college were running student organizations and doing the Solar Decathlon [multidisciplinary] project.” Heather Wilde, chief technology officer at roceteer.com, a Vegasbased entrepreneurial coaching website, says it’s all about the end goal. Although she always wanted to become an engineer, Wilde studied mathematics and literature at St. John’s College and medieval British literature at the University of Cambridge. “Had I gotten a degree in engineering, I’d already be irrelevant,” Wilde says. “In most tech jobs, it’s much more relevant to have a background in liberal arts, which teaches critical-thinking skills.” An engineering-curriculum adviser at UNLV, Wilde says the

> COLLEGE TRY? Jobs and Zuckerberg didn’t need it.

problem with studying computer science at a university is the pace at which technology advances. Curriculum is often planned two years ahead to receive credentialing, and that often means it’s outdated. “Universities have trouble keeping up with nimble online education startups, which is likely why those companies are doing so well right now,” says George Moncrief, entrepreneur-in-residence at VegasTechFund. “Technology usually moves faster than curriculum can be developed, so it’s a career choice which requires constant learning beyond graduation in order to stay relevant in the marketplace.” Collision speaker Mike McGee earned film and political science degrees from Northwestern before deciding to go into tech. Because there wasn’t a computer coding boot camp near him, he and a college friend founded the Starter League coding school in Chicago. McGee sees both sides of the college question. On one hand, university is a lowstakes learning environment where students can make errors without serious consequences, and it’s where he met his co-founder. On the other, if someone wants to learn a specific skill like coding, boot camps suffice. For many of his students, the weekslong crash courses don’t replace col-

lege, but augment it, allowing professionals from different industries to solve unique problems. But a common criticism of boot camps is that the narrow skill set they teach becomes as outdated as curriculum at some point, unlike broader university experiences. “The problem is they’re not learning the baseline for business management, the critical-thinking skills they need, the background in theory and just general stuff that ... will help them grow their business,” Wilde says. In discussing the relevance of college in tech, both Wilde and Friesmuth point to Steve Jobs. “While he didn’t have a degree, he really did go to college,” Wilde says. “He went to Reed and went to almost every class they had there. He was more educated than people gave him credit for.” Though he dropped out after six months, Jobs audited several creative classes that enhanced his eye for design, later evident in Apple aesthetics. Whether or not they finish college, major in a non-tech field or pursue higher-learning alternatives, techies agree that networking and experience—not core requirements—are key to a successful future. Friesmuth adds, “If you’re only going to college for the classes you’re taking, you’re doing it wrong.”

The airport swelled with chaos as the streets fell eerily quiet. Seemingly overnight, Kathmandu, a city of 2 million, shrunk to a quarter of its size as residents fled. Aid workers spilled off planes and clamored around luggage carousels, while in the city locals huddled, afraid to re-enter their homes. “There was this palpable fear wherever you went,” says emergency medical technician Dave Mansfield. “It was more than anywhere else I’ve been—in the Philippines or even Haiti—there was just this dread hanging over them.” Las Vegans Mansfield and Erika Jensen of RescueNet, a volunteer emergency-aid organization, deployed to Nepal days after the April 25 earthquake, a 7.8-magnitude tremor that killed 8,000. They were among thousands of aid workers to descend upon the crumbling landscape, touching down in the capital city before trekking to rural mountain towns accessible only by helicopter, fourwheel-drive or days-long hikes. RescueNet’s team of 17 treated 183 injured people during its tour, patching wounds, flagging life-threatening conditions and offering emotional support. Jensen recalls a mute and deaf woman who greeted her in a mountain town: “She was describing with her hands everything, the earth shaking and things falling and the fear. Just to see her mime it all out, and then coming up to us and saying, ‘namaste, namaste, hello, welcome, thank you so much for being here.’ She pretty much stuck by us the whole time we were up there.” By the end of their trip, people reopened their shops and moved back into their homes, started up their cars and gathered in public places. Days after they returned home, a second 7-plus-magnitude quake occurred May 12, the day the Weekly spoke to Jensen and Mansfield. “That brought joy to our heart as we were leaving,” Jensen says. “Just seeing [that] they’re moving on and it’s going to be okay. And so to wake up this morning and find out it happened again ... I don’t even know.” –Kristy Totten

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WEEKLY Q&A

> THE CATALYST Amanda Slavin’s CatalystCreativ is about engineering inspirational experiences.

on- and offline. Millennials really want authenticity and they don’t want something fake, or something shoved in their face. They want to be a part of something that’s bigger than themselves and they want to feel heard. Why millennials? We focus on millennials and Generation Z, which is the next generation coming up. Millennials, by 2017, will be spending $200 billion per year. By the end of our lifetime, we’ll spend $10 trillion. Millennials is really where the buying power is, and it’s the future. Millennials and Generation Z want to change the world. The generations before us aren’t really in the same mind-set. What are your favorite experiences you’ve created? I love

ENGAGING GEN Z on socially conscious marketing, bedsheets made of bottles and awkward moments with Tony Hsieh

AMANDA SLAVIN

“Tinder for passions and expertise,” that connects career people based on their interests. The Weekly caught up with Slavin to talk about why intention matters in modern marketing, and just how much money millennials spend. CatalystCreativ focuses on community design. What does that mean? Community design we

now consider a service, as opposed to what we are. We’ve recoined ourselves an “experience studio.” Community design to us is engaging—we focus mainly on millennials—and so, we say, “How can we create experiences to engage millennials around your brand?” That usually means inspirational experiences

How do you decide what to do for each event? We start with

why. We asked clients, “Why are you doing this? What are you looking to achieve?” I have a master’s in education, but then I was in hospitality for five years, in marketing and events. We combined the two to help brands tell their stories through building a curriculum. We say, “What’s the

How did you come up with your current job? I went from

teaching to hospitality, and I was knee-deep in nightlife and events and marketing in New York City. I was doing a lot of events that didn’t fit with my teacher side. And so I met Tony Hsieh at a conference that I was working at, and he invited me to come to Downtown Vegas about three years ago. He didn’t remember inviting me out; it was really awkward. Then he asked me, “Why don’t we meet up at the Beat and you can tell me who you are and what you want to do with your life?” All I knew was that, from the time I went to that conference with all these remarkable entrepreneurs doing all these amazing things, to the time I met Tony in Vegas, I was trying to figure out how to use what I know, which is education and hospitality, but for good. I wasn’t invited to these TEDlike conferences; I was working them. So I said, “How do I provide more opportunities to people like me that can’t necessarily afford TED or will never be invited to TED because it’s the 1 percent ... and provide that to as many people as possible over and over again?” That’s how Catalyst Week started. How have you made a difference in the world? What are you really proud of? We had a longtime

local stand up during Catalyst Week recently and say, “I wanna just tell you that this is what I’ve been waiting for.” That was one of the most unbelievable moments. This is why I’m doing what I’m doing. We get testimonials from people who say, “I left my job and have such a better life!” or “I met the love of my life!” That is so unbelievable. If we can inspire just one person then we’re doing something right. –Kristy Totten

“I was trying to figure out how to use what I know, which is education and hospitality, but for good.”

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At 29, Amanda Slavin has worked in media, hospitality and events, earned a master’s in education and founded a company (she wasn’t among Forbes’ 30 Under 30 for nothing). But instead of focusing on any one of those interests, Slavin has rolled them all into CatalystCreativ, a socially conscious marketing firm that organizes interactive events for brands such as NPR, Dell, the Global Ocean Commission and Coca-Cola. Locally, Slavin and her remote, eight-person team put on Catalyst Week, an inspirational speaker series for Downtown Project that’s brought in names such as Slava Rubin, founder of Indiegogo, and Glee’s Harry Shum Jr. This month, CatalystCreativ will launch an app, a

what we just did for Starwood and Ekocycle for W Hotels. Ekocycle is CocaCola’s sustainability initiative. They take Coca-Cola bottles and turn them into other products like Beats by Dre headphones or Adidas sneakers. Will.i.am actually started it with Coca-Cola. It’s Ekocycle, so it’s Coke spelled backwards and then “recycle.” We helped launch this partnership to create sustainable, recyclable sheets for the property. It was a 200-person experience in New York City. We had a photobooth that was a bed with two pillows. We had vignettes where actors acted out experiences like “what would you do in a bed?”—the PG version. We showcased what it looked like to turn bottles into sheets, behind the bar.

message? What’s the objective? What’s the body of this experience? Who’s going to be providing that message?”

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Roman “RadRo” Jaworsky has his sights on the 2020 Olympics By Tovin Lapan

> BEAST ON WHEELS RadRo was born speedy. He started competing at 9, and won his first eight BMX races.

Roman Jaworsky sat the trophy down on the kitchen table and stared at it for a few moments, still unsure if the weekend in November was a dream. Maybe he’d wake up and it would still be the morning of the big race, and all of the stomach-turning nerves would return. It was an improbable victory, and the local rider was still soaking it in. It had been a year since Jaworsky’s 2013 BMX season ended in disaster. At Grand Nationals, the biggest annual domestic competition, he fell on the first turn and finished at the back of the pack. It was a bitter end to what was supposed to be a season that continued the rapid ascension of “RadRo” into the sport’s top ranks. All of 12 years old, Jaworsky stewed in self-evaluation over his frustrating finish, deciding he needed to rededicate himself to the sport that came so easily in the beginning.

“I was disappointed about 2013,” says Jaworsky, now 14. “I didn’t do well throughout the year, and then I fell at Grands. It was kind of like a wake-up call that I should start working harder.” In July 2014, South Point Casino hosted the Las Vegas BMX Nationals, and Jaworsky was back in form, thanks to improved training under U.S. Olympian (and fellow local) Connor Fields. He narrowly won, edging out Aram Schwinn, the best rider in the age group at the 2013 Grand Nationals. “Vegas was a big race,” Jaworsky says. “So, when I won here I knew I had a shot at the championship.”

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“ROMAN HAS THAT DRIVE TO BE THE BEST. HE DOESN’T GET MAD IF HE DOESN’T WIN, BUT HE WANTS TO FIND OUT WHAT HE DID WRONG, AND HE FIXES IT.” > DON’T SWEAT THE TECHNIQUE Coached by BMX royalty including his dad “BigRo” and Olympian Connor Fields, Jaworsky keeps it tight on the track.

“Roman is naturally very strong and fast off the start,” says the 22-year-old Fields. “This is a blessing and a curse, because when he’s not in front he’s not as comfortable and needs to work on his tactics, because as you get older and eventually turn pro no one is out in front all the time anymore.” Jaworsky has little idle time these days. He trains 10 to 12 hours a week, and also plays golf. He travels often for races, which means keeping up with homework while on the road. He loves tinkering with technology and built his own PC, and likes to race go-karts with his friends. His focus on long-term goals and willingness to put in the work would be the envy of most any parent of a teenager. He habitually thanks his parents, sponsors and coach for his success. “Roman does have a level of professionalism that is much further along than I would expect out of a 14-year-old,” Fields says. As Jaworsky was set to start his freshman year at Clark High School last fall, he was having his best season and stood within striking distance of the amateur title—to be determined at Grand Nationals in Tulsa, Oklahoma, right after Thanksgiving.

THE GRANDS plaque for the Arizona State BMX title his father won in 1981. Roman “BigRo” Jaworsky started BMX racing in San Diego when it first came on the scene in the 1970s. The roots of BMX trace back to Southern California, and Jaworsky senior was a natural. He won his first 35 races and a dozen state titles, but gave all of those trophies to the local track, except for the Arizona plaque. Around Christmas 2009, he thought his son might like to check out BMX. He took him into a Las Vegas shop, and the employee at the counter recognized BigRo. “He said I beat him for the state championship in 1980 and wanted to race again,” Jaworsky senior says. “I said I’m done, but I’m looking to get my son a bike.” RadRo was competing by the time he turned 9, and won his first eight races. He was hooked. He learned

quickly and joined the national circuit, taking long trips with his dad to cities across the country to race against the best riders. BMX racers whip through a single lap on a dirt track over jumps and hairpin turns. There are no points for style or tricks. The singular focus is speed. Jaworsky was born with speed, which set him apart and carried him to victories when he first started. “He’s always had that natural ability. He’s just good at it,” Jaworsky senior says. “Roman has that drive to be the best. He doesn’t get mad if he doesn’t win, but he wants to find out what he did wrong, and he fixes it.” As he got older the competition got stiffer, and he had to develop technique. After the fall in the 2013 finals, Jaworsky knew he needed focused instruction. He turned to Fields, who placed seventh at the London Olympics, higher than any other American.

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Jaworsky was a ball of nerves. Fields did what he could to calm him, including a game of “would you rather.” “Before his final Roman could barely speak,” Fields says. “I stayed with him up until the last minute and just talked to him about school, girls and all sorts of things that were not about BMX to keep his mind relaxed.” The amateur title is decided by points accumulated over the entire season. The more riders in your group, the more points you get for winning. In general the groups of older riders are larger, so Jaworsky earned fewer points with his victories. The setup makes it difficult for younger riders to take the title, and the last time someone younger than 16 won was 2005. RadRo waited at the starting gate, visualizing the race—every jump,

every turn and the exact number of pedals he would take. The announcer laid out the stakes: “Roman Jaworsky will take over the lead with a win, and only a win.” When the gate dropped he took off like a coyote was on his trail, legs pumping in blurry circles, his long blond hair spitting out the back of his helmet as he took an early lead. Aram Schwinn, who won the previous year in Tulsa and who Jaworsky edged out for the victory in Las Vegas in July, nipped at his back tire and threatened to pass. Jaworsky drove his legs harder. He stayed low over his handlebars and limited his air off jumps, just like his dad taught him. He fell back on his training with Fields: His technique was sound and he stayed tight through the turns. On the final turn Schwinn got caught up with another rider and fell. As Jaworsky crossed the line first he settled back onto his saddle, and pumped his right fist. The title was not his quite yet, though. He had to wait for the older groups to finish. One rider from the 17-18 age group was poised to overtake Jaworsky with a win, but he finished second. So Jaworsky finally had his title, and when he came home from Tulsa, cup in hand, he took a moment to enjoy it. “I just sat the trophy down and stared at it, I couldn’t believe I had won,” he says. Jaworsky also competed at the 2014 World Championships in Denmark, coming in fifth. He has quickly moved on to his next set of goals, winning back-to-back amateur titles and improving his world ranking. He also left a corporate team to start his own one-rider outfit, RadRo Racing, which gives him more freedom to work with different sponsors and to choose his own race schedule. He’s off to a good start in the 2015 season as the current points leader. Lurking in the back of his mind is his long-term goal, making the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team. “As someone who has been through the process of making the Olympics, I can tell you it is so incredibly hard to make that three-man team,” Fields says. “Roman definitely has the potential, and I think he has the right head for it. If he keeps on his current trajectory he has a chance.” MAY 14-20, 2015 LASVEGASWEEKLY.COM

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as Vegas exists mainly in our minds. In the actual world, it’s an improbable city in the desert. In your head, it doesn’t have to make sense. That’s not why you came or why you came back. The Vegas of your memories is the real Vegas, the fantastical escape, sensational and malleable. The Vegas of my mind isn’t a place as much as a feeling. It feels like celebration plus relaxation with a big dose of irrational extravagance. It feels like I have no business doing what I’m doing and that’s why it’s so great. It occurs when I walk into favorite hotels, the icons of the Strip, and get hit with both the obvious (erupting volcanoes, sky-high dancing fountains, gigantic stainedglass flowers) and the more subtly striking (lobby aquariums, natural light, tropical gardens, endlessly rich fabrics and finishes). Lately, it happens mostly when I’m at Wynn, because it’s simply the best place to be, somehow more stunning and sumptuous now that it’s 10 years old. As a disconnected kid growing up in this actual world, I could only wonder what treasures were hidden inside these temples, peering through the car window during the rare drive down the Strip or flipping through the Showbiz magazine that came with the Friday paper, hunting for clues about casinos, lounges, restaurants and other beautiful things that lived within. Now they’re at my disposal every day. I visit them every week, and I still maintain the childlike wonder I know Vegas visitors feel when they first arrive. It’s all about that moment, how it looks and pulls and excites, and isn’t it crazy that it’s someone’s job to create these feelings and experiences? Someone sculpted this wow. I say these things to Roger Thomas when we speak for the first time. If there’s one person most responsible for building the Vegas of my mind, he is that man. “Well, I’m flattered,” he says, “but I didn’t do it by myself.” Thomas is head of design for Wynn Resorts. Working closely with Steve Wynn, he’s responsible not only for the acclaimed vision of the Wynn and Encore hotels, but also for the two Strip resorts that changed Las Vegas more than any others—the Mirage and Bellagio. Thomas received the Designer of the Year award at the International Hotel Show in 2008 and the Jay Sarno Lifetime Achievement Award in Casino Design the following year. He’s been inducted into the UNLV Hall of Fame, and Architectural Digest has named him to the AD100 four times. The hotel rooms at Wynn were the first in the history of Las Vegas to receive the Forbes fivestar designation. The question is not about the impact Thomas has made here and throughout the casino and hotel industry, or how he has influenced the Vegas experience. Every casino shows some hint of aspirational—if not outright—luxury, or demonstrates the attention to decorative little details that make a big difference. Those are the master’s hallmarks. No, the question is: How does he do it? “The main objective is to create a place that is unique,” he says. “We have to invent not only the vocabulary and the idea of a place but also the customs and all the parts and pieces. Otherwise

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> SEA CHANGE Taking cues from his personal oceanic experiences and the natural evolution of the restaurant, Thomas redesigned Bartolotta in late 2013.

you’ll say, ‘Look, Harry, that’s the same chandelier as the place in blank,’ or, ‘I remember that chair, it was in blank.’ I don’t ever want to hear that.” It’s not as simple as finding special parts and creating lovely pieces. They must come together. “What we’re supposed to be doing is creating memories, spaces that are possibly romantic and mysterious and surprising, and very, very comfortable. It has to be intriguing, with some humor in it, and layered with details that you’ll want to investigate time after time. If you do that, then the guest will say, ‘I’ve never felt like this anywhere else,’ and they have to come back. That’s a big part of my job.”

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n a 2012 profile in The New Yorker—which detailed how Thomas and Wynn defied all traditional casino design standards with the Mirage, possibly the first Las Vegas resort that sought to liberate its patrons rather than ensnare them—Wynn is famously quoted saying, “Trying to separate Roger from whatever credit I’ve received in my lifetime is ridiculous ... Roger’s taste level and his creativity are 60 percent of the success we’ve had.” Thomas gracefully returns the praise today. “Everything I do, I do very much interlocked with Steve. Everything I’ve accomplished is because of the patronage of his vision.”

Their partnership is one of family. Born in Salt Lake City in 1951, Thomas grew up in Las Vegas from the age of 3. His father is E. Parry Thomas, the banker, visionary and true architect of Las Vegas. With his business partner Jerry Mack, Parry Thomas financed and developed the casinos that formed the Strip and drew visitors from everywhere; put together the real estate deals and personally guaranteed the loans that grew UNLV into a proper university; engineered Howard Hughes’ arrival and the subsequent buyout of the mob in Las Vegas; and mentored a young Steve Wynn, whom he considers his fifth son. Roger Thomas was 13 when he met Wynn and quickly came to see

him as an older brother. “I would listen to him say how we weren’t fooling anybody with the way Las Vegas looks,” Thomas says. “Fake marble doesn’t fool anybody. He’d say we needed to get the right guys in the hotels to have really good design, that you can’t create a theatrical veneer, you have to have substance and quality. I’d listen to all this with my father and knew he was absolutely right. That’s the Las Vegas I wanted to see.” Thirtyseven years ago, they went to work together to build it. Thomas’ first gig with Wynn was redesigning six penthouse suites at the Golden Nugget. They were all different, from the one inspired by a Victorian garden room to the

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At first, Roger Thomas says choosing his favorite spaces and places at Wynn is like a parent choosing favorite children. But then he realizes, “My favorite room is always the last one I did.” Soon, SW Steakhouse will be the spot, the next big renovation project at the now 10-year-old property. But for now, here’s Thomas on his three current faves, all recently redone.

“When thinking about a restaurant, I think about what’s going on the table, and in this room it’s the very best of classic Chinese cuisine. So we looked at classic Chinese architecture. For some reason, the whole world was right in the 16th century, including the Ming Dynasty in Asia. They had perfected the frog beam, called that because it resembles the hind legs of the frog. So in the seven years between the restaurant opening and me rethinking Wing Lei, the level of formality in restaurants had completely changed, and now everyone wants to walk into a party. What makes me want to walk into a space is a series of arches. It just beckons me: What’s down there? So we created this series of wide, white arches through the room, our 21stcentury version of the frog beam.”

“We all want second chances. We all want do-overs. In the Wedding Salons, we had learned a lot about who the customer was. Fashion changes, and so do the ways brides want their weddings. I had created a room before in all warm, blush tones, a little pink and light terra-cotta and peach and creamy white— various colors of wedding bouquets. Now, thinking about the ways brides and grooms think, precious metals are always involved. We thought of how brides looked against sterling silver and platinum and gold ... and I dare you to find a bridesmaid outfit that clashes with sterling silver. The walls in the foyer are embroidered in fine silk on fine silk with these dramatic white florals, and the salons are all about shimmer in the background, so the bride and groom will be the stars of their photos. It worked beautifully.”

one inspired by the exotic Orient to the one built around everything Thomas loved about French interiors of the 18th century. The most valued guests stayed in these apartment-style accommodations, and each VIP developed an affinity for his own suite and wanted to stay in the same one again and again. It became a problem if that suite was unavailable. “I learned that one really great accommodation is better than a selection,” Thomas says. “There is a school of thought that luxury means as many as you want, and I disagree completely. It’s real taste and ability and thought and comfort that make your experience wonderful, and we’ve made those decisions for you, and they’re all the right decisions.” The most expensive hotel-casino PORTRAIT BY ADAM SHANE

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ever built when it opened in 1989, the 3,000-room, Polynesian-themed Mirage famously blew away everything else that came before it. The welcoming lobby and casino spaces were grand and luxurious, but also open and airy in an unprecedented way. “Steve reasoned no one goes to dark places on vacation,” Thomas says, so they let the light in with a rainforest-themed atrium at the property’s entrance. When they made plans to outdo themselves with Bellagio, which opened in 1998, Wynn again directed Thomas to concentrate on creating the most extraordinary hotel on the planet, the most dramatic and elegant. Thomas traveled the world collecting his pieces, “going places

“I know [chef] Paul Bartolotta much better than I did when we originally did the restaurant. My original thought was about the basis of Italian cooking, which is olive oil, so we collected these huge, antique olive oil jars from all over the world ... none of which remain in the room today. Because of his extraordinary connection with the fishermen in the Adriatic and Mediterranean and how he presents this food, I thought a lot about fish. I’m allergic to seafood, so I couldn’t come at it from my own appreciation, but I love the image of fish. I love snorkeling. I thought about the way shafts of sunlight come through the water and watching my air bubbles rise through those shafts of light, so there they are, on the [walls] on the upper level. This is the fish’s point of view. Maybe it’s a bit strange, but it works well with the circular forms in the floor from the first imagination of the room. We left the other walls of pebble and brick, my memory of a moment of texture from traveling in Italy. The bottom level was originally carpet, but in order to raise the energy level and de-formalize the restaurant, we matched it to the stone on the upper floor. I think higher energy is always better in restaurants.” MAY 14-20, 2015 LASVEGASWEEKLY.COM

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I’ve never been to figure out how to manufacture Venetian chandeliers and things that have never happened in Las Vegas.” Dave Duggan—who came to Las Vegas to open Treasure Island before moving to Bellagio, and now works in construction and operations for Downtown Project— knows the difference between Wynn properties and everything else. As assistant director of engineering, it was his job to maintain the Bellagio’s beauty, often working with Thomas. “I think people go to those properties and realize it’s Roger Thomas and it’s on a different level,” Duggan says. “His boundaries are a lot broader. Now, a lot of that stuff gets value-engineered or taken out of the equation. That wasn’t the case back then.” Bellagio was astounding, a level of opulence that set an unapproachable standard ... until Wynn asked Thomas to do it again. “When Steve said the Wynn had to be the most amazing hotel on planet Earth, I told him, ‘If I knew you were going to ask that again, I wouldn’t have tried so hard the first time!’ But he was right. It’s fun to outdo ourselves.”

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he next time I talk to Roger Thomas, inside the gleaming gold and emerald green Wing Lei restaurant, he clarifies that concept. “I don’t think of actually outdoing myself. Anybody in a creative field learns from what they’ve just done, and in the process of doing a project, ideas seem to percolate and come forward. I don’t know anybody who

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says, ‘I think I’ll do this at the same level as the last one.’ Everyone sees the opportunity to improve on the last creation.” While creating Bellagio, Thomas spent a lot of time in London, Paris, Venice, Florence, Rome, New York and LA, and he stayed in many different hotels. So when preparing designs for the Wynn resort, he felt well-informed of the competition, the varying environments and levels of service. A hotel designer also designs opportunities for service, from equipping the concierge with the right desk to establishing mise en place in a restaurant to guarantee the transfer to tabletop is elegant and not clunky and uncomfortable, which everyone would notice. “All of those things are as important to me as the color of the walls or the texture of the coverings or the patterning of the carpet,” he says. “They’re all parts of the environment.” You probably won’t notice those elements at Wynn, and you’re not supposed to. But that’s also because you’re drawn to moments of charm like the lush, sparkling garden walkway, the crisp, bright check-in area and the whimsical Parasol Down bar that opens onto the Lake of Dreams. The resort’s restaurants, always considered a culinary pinnacle on the Strip, were essential design destinations from the start, and several have been renovated recently. “When we’re lucky enough to have someone in a room with us for a while, we want them to be thoroughly engaged,” Thomas says. “I often talk about rooms of possibility. In a restaurant, I want you to feel like your most romantic self.

I want the light to be so good that I never looked better than when I sat in this room.” This partially explains Wing Lei’s goldness—it’s one of the best colors of light reflection for human complexion. “If you bounce the light off gold onto your skin, we all look great.” Restaurateur Elizabeth Blau, who curated the dining lineups at Bellagio and Wynn before opening her own acclaimed restaurants in recent years, calls Thomas an inspiration and a mentor. “The magic of a restaurant starts with the design,” she says. “All the [ideas] for my own places started with working with Roger and Steve. The spaces [at Wynn] are just timeless. How can you ever tire of going to SW or Mizumi or Bartolotta? You don’t feel like you’re in Vegas.” The Wynn standard is just as evident in spaces people are meant to move through. In designing the retail promenade—the one lined with shops from Alexander McQueen, Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton and Manolo Blahnik— Thomas honed in on creating an interesting journey “punctuated with rhythm and cadence. I don’t want it to seem like a long route.” And though it’s still one of the Strip’s premier destinations for gaming, the Wynn casino functions as a relaxing thoroughfare. How do you turn a bustling, 111,000-squarefoot casino into something calm and comfortable? One of Thomas’ tricks was giving each blackjack table its own chandelier. “It was hard to do because gaming regulators insist on an extraordinary overview of security cameras,” he says. “But when we built a fullscale functioning model of our casi-

no, we developed chandeliers with cameras in them so we could prove to the board they’d have everything they wanted. We’re the only ones who have done that.” Thomas is a perpetual student influenced by the classics, but he forgoes emulation to use what he’s learned to inspire his own designs. Occasionally he’ll contradict those classics and see how far he can push things in an effort to find a new language and new forms. He’s forever drawing in sketchbooks, whether waiting to catch an airplane or sitting in meetings. He swims every weekend, for meditation as much as for exercise, and often leaps out of the pool to sketch an idea born between laps. With a game-changing body of work in Thomas’ wake, next on the docket are the finishing touches for Wynn Palace on the Cotai Strip in Macau, a multi-billion-dollar resort scheduled to open next year. Then, it’ll be the Wynn Everett resort in Massachusetts, a circular occurrence for Thomas, who was educated at Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. “There was a while in college where I was sure I would never leave the East Coast, never go back to Las Vegas again. But opportunities and exciting projects brought me back. I say I’ve been leaving Las Vegas since then, I just haven’t made it out of town yet. ... The minute the projects are not exciting, I’m out of here.” That’s one of the last things Roger Thomas says to me. And it’s a disheartening thought, because without his vision, my Las Vegas wouldn’t exist. But it does. It’s real. I can feel it. LVW

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> HELLO HOLLYWOOD Steve Castro slides from the Playboy Mansion to Marquee Dayclub.

HOT SPOTS TV PARTY TONIGHT AT DOUBLE DOWN Movie theaters that also serve booze are all the rage, but why settle for beer and wine with Hollywood pap when you can have Ass Juice with time-tested classics? The Double Down shows both its bar and film-exhibitor competitors how it’s done by projecting a punk-themed flick—this week: 1984’s Repo Man—on two screens painted to look like TVs, with free popcorn. More punk follows the film thanks to DJs Atomic and Fish. But until then—shut up and watch. May 14, 9 p.m., free entry. STEVE CASTRO AT MARQUEE DAYCLUB The LA-based beatmeister supplies sound regularly at Hollywood electronic dance music hot-spot Avalon, and also has a residency at the iconic Playboy Mansion. Find out why Friday afternoon, when the veteran DJ takes the tables at the Cosmopolitan pool club. May 15, doors at 11 a.m., $20 men, $10 women. ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY AT BLEND: THE DJ INSTITUTE It’s already been a year that Blend DJ

school has been churning out turntablists— and we mean real turntablists, as it starts its students out on the traditional wheels of steel. That’s excuse enough for a party—a parking lot party, in fact, with food trucks, a car show and performBillboard Award ing DJs Earwaxxx, J-Krazy, Spair and nominations for Taylor Mr. Vibe. May 16, 2-10 p.m., free. Swift this year, which

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Ask any beer geek in Las Vegas to name his five favorite breweries and you’d be hardpressed to find one who doesn’t mention the San Diego County-based operation, which has been churning out hop-heavy delights since 1996. We’re pretty spoiled with Stone’s distribution in the Valley, but true enthusiasts would be remiss to skip this draft domination. Not only will 50 Stone varieties be on tap, but brewmaster Mitch Steele will be on hand for boozy conversation—and hopefully a beer recommendation or two. May 16, noon, free entry. TOPS OFF AT ARTISAN EVOLVE BEACH CLUB

Topless-friendly pools abound in Sin City, but there’s only one that caters to couples who like to admire the female form in a less pervy atmosphere. Enter Evolve Beach Club at Artisan, which discourages unaccompanied men and offers an intimate, private

setting with ShadowRed on DJ duty. May 16, doors at noon, free with Nevada ID.

WILD LIFE AT LIGHT After the March debut of Wild Life with Disclosure—which DJs for the local edition of the international party— and the announcement of the next installment, two things became clear. 1. Light was serious about having legit house music events. 2. The headliner isn’t even the most exciting part of the night. For the follow-up party, Disclosure will be supported by Claude VonStroke, Pomo and Maya Jane Coles—and we’re pretty sure that the latter two are making their Strip debut on Saturday. (Disclosure also plays Light’s daylife complement Daylight on Sunday, with local DJs Brett Rubin and Spacebyrdz.) May 16, doors at 10:30 p.m., $40+ men, $20+ women. BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS AFTERPARTY AT LIFE American Idol alum Kelly Clarkson, Brit-pop

CLUB HOPPING Nightlife News & Notes

TEMPTATION SUNDAY AT LUXOR Better order those Andrew Christian briefs, and don’t forget to hit the gym for leg day! That’s right, the Strip’s first gay pool party is back this weekend, and we’re expecting some serious man-candy to be lounging poolside. If visual temptation isn’t enough to lure you to the Luxor oasis, maybe musical enticement will? West Hollywood gay bar the Abbey’s resident beatmeister Casey Alva supplies the soundtrack for Temptation’s Sunday afternoon season opener. May 17, doors at 1 p.m., $20, $10 locals, text VEGAS to 77948 for free guest list between 1 & 2 p.m.

the track landing at No. 9 on the iTunes top 10 singles’ chart late last year. Will shuttered Aria danceteria Haze be replaced with a new Hakkasan Group-managed nightclub concept by next winter? Anonymous brass recently revealed to the Sun that initial designs have been submitted, and clubbers should expect something more intimate than its predecessor. Haze closed last November. Disco-llaneous: The folks behind Nickel F*cking Beer Night at Beauty Bar are launching new water-toythemed party Super Soaker on May 23 at the Bunkhouse. … Tao will be

the site of the Billboard Music Awards’ official pre-party on May 16, and hosting the affair is rapper Wiz Khalifa. … Wet at Night returns to Wet Republic on Wednesday, May 20 with DJ act Dada Life. –Mike Prevatt Camping season is upon us, which means one thing for hop-head outdoorsy types: canned craft beer. And now brew enthusiasts have one more local beer to throw in the cooler, as Henderson’s CraftHaus launches 16-ounce four-packs of its Evocation saison and Resonate IPA this week. Find ’em at Khoury’s, Sprouts, Whole Foods, Total Wine and Trader Joe’s. –Mark Adams

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Local producer/DJs Shelco Garcia and Teenwolf have just released their second big-producer collaboration in six months: “XXX” with Dutch house figure and Surrender/Encore Beach Club resident Laidback Luke. The percussive electro-banger came out May 11 on Luke’s Mixmash label, to which Garcia and Teenwolf are signed. The North Las Vegas duo previously co-produced Madonna’s “Unapologetic Bitch” with another Wynn nightlife regular, Diplo,

sensation Ed Sheeran and “All About That Bass” songstress Meghan Trainor are just a few of the acts to appear at the annual honors this weekend. Didn’t score tix? Settle for Billboard’s official awards-show afterparty, featuring a set by rising house DJ MakJ—and possibly a pop-star sighting or two. May 17, doors at 10:30 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women.

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> ON TOP The Crystal Method takes to the roof this weekend.

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The Crystal Method returns to DJ the grand opening of Hustler Club’s rooftop venue BY DEANNA RILLING The Las Vegas icons who helped put Sin City on the electronic music map are returning home for a pair of gigs. Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland, known to fans as The Crystal Method, will again give us a much-needed dose of breaks, bass and bleeps when they headline the grand opening of Fuso, the rooftop party spot at Hustler Club. The two parties overlap with the pair’s recent promotion of the The Crystal Method Remixed collection. There used to be a rumor that you guys started out DJing in strip clubs, correct? Jordan: (laughs) Right! Yes. I think it was just a Wikipedia thing. Kirkland: Back in the day, Justin [King] and

Steven [Abbott] at [record label] City of Angels made that up and put some stuff in there about that … just making stuff up to make us sound more interesting. We went to a lot of strip clubs, but we never DJ’d at any of the strip clubs. It’s ironic that now you’ll be playing one with your gigs at Hustler Club’s rooftop nightlife concept, Fuso. Kirkland: Many times, strippers are on top of people. We’re now going to have a party on top of strippers. It’s a little different, but I like it. You’ll be doing a DJ set this time, but why haven’t you brought your recent live show to your hometown? Jordan: Well, we typically do that when we’ve got a new album out, but we only did one last year. We did one in LA, a major production with all kinds of guest singers and musicians, and it was a lot of fun. We were hoping to take it out on the road, but it was a really expensive show to put on. We needed to string a bunch [of shows] together, but we couldn’t get enough strung together to do a tour. It’s just been mainly DJing.

Sometimes at festivals, we’ll play the TCM2000 Bass Odyssey [with] the guitar CDJs. But yeah, I’m sure we’ll play live again, we just don’t know when. You’ve said that 2014’s self-titled album could be your last LP and that you might switch to only releasing singles or EPs. Does that still hold true? Jordan: I think we’re always working on what we think is the next album. We might just choose to release singles and EPs instead of waiting so long in between [full-length albums] now. We haven’t decided yet, though. Kirkland: I definitely don’t think we put any sort of restrictions on what we can do, but the world is just a different place and we have to acclimate to that by thinking more EP. But when we start thinking EP, we get closer to thinking LP … producing albums is definitely a lot of fun.

THE CRYSTAL METHOD with C.B. Shaw. May 14 & 15, doors at midnight, $50 ($25 with Nevada ID). Fuso Nightclub at Hustler Club, 702-795-3131.

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The Shadow Bar at Caesars Palace was truly a product of its time. Planted on the edge of the casino in 2001—opposite the VISTA Colosseum before there was a Colosseum!—the swanky nightCOCKTAIL spot quickly became memorable for its seductive, silhouetted LOUNGE Caesars and Hakkasan team up dancers behind the bar. Is she wearing anything? We could Caesars Palace, 702-731-7852. again for Vista Cocktail Lounge never know for sure. ¶ Maybe the Shadow Bar lived longer than it should have. New restaurants and nightlife venues Daily, 5 p.m.have poured in around it, most notably the recent addition of Hakkasan Group’s megaclub Omnia. So it’s no late. Opens wonder Caesars charged Hakkasan with operating its replacement, Vista Cocktail Lounge, which opens this May 15. week. ¶ Vista will be similarly driven by visuals, though ostensibly naked ladies aren’t on the menu. Patrons will be treated to any number of iconic cosmopolitan skyline views thanks to a variety of LED portals … as if Las Vegas isn’t already a breathtaking destination. A 35-foot bar layered with banquettes and communal tables provides varied lounge experiences, and yes, custom-crafted cocktails are on the way. ¶ “We are aiming to set a new bar for cocktail lounges in Las Vegas,” Caesars regional president Gary Selesner said in a statement, pun likely intended. Take note that the property has also recently renovated its lobby bar and installed the Apostrophe Bar near Rao’s restaurant. “Our ambition is that not only will Caesars Palace be known for offering the best in culinary and entertainment, but also now for world-class nightlife.” –Brock Radke

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VENUE

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

1 OAK

Closed

Blackout Fridays

John Legend and Chrissy Teigen

ARTISAN

Porn actresses host; 10 pm; free; lounge open 24 hours

Pornstaraoke

DJ Kid Conrad

THE BANK

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

CHATEAU

Closed

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

Sound

DJs Justin Hoffman, Eddie McDonald, Frank Richards, Justin Key; 10 pm; $10; women, locals free

#FollowMe Fridays Ana Cheri, others host; DJs Que, Neva, Crooked; doors at 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women

DJ Justin Hoffman

DRAI’S AFTERHOURS

DRAI’S NIGHTCLUB

FOUNDATION ROOM

Afterhours

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

DJ Scooter

HYDE

Adventure Club

Afterhours

Doors at midnight; $30 men, $20 women

Music With a View

Bubbles For Beauties

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

DJs Dzeko and Torres, Shift; doors at 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women

Doors at 5 pm

DJ Exodus

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

Calvin Harris

DJs Burns, Justin Credible; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

DJ Five

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

WEDNESDAY

Closed

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

Lounge open 24 hours

DJs Que, Shift; doors at 9 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Closed

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

Closed

DJ Casanova

DJ Kay theRiot

DJ SINcere

DJ Turbulence

Social Sunday

DJs Double J, Justin Key, Joey Mazzola, others; midnight; free; open 24 hours

Closed

Energy Reset

DJ 360, MC Ray, 10 pm; health & beauty showcase, 8 pm; $10, $5 local men, women free; open 24 hours

Closed

DJ Mike Carbonell

Afterhours

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

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

Afterhours

Sundrai’s

Big Sean

DJ Soxxi

DJs Earwaxxx, Sam I Am, Marc Mac; 6 pm; free

TUESDAY

DJ KnowleDJ

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

hosts; doors at 10 pm; $40+ men, $20+ women

10 pm, free; Rock Jam, 9 pm, free

MONDAY

Industry Sunday

DJ Five

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

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

Tiësto

HAKKASAN

Afterhours

Doors at midnight; $30 men, $20 women

DJ M!KEATTACK

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

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

DJ Benny Black

GHOSTBAR

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

host; DJ E-Rock; doors at 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women

SUNDAY

DJs Sour Milk, others; free Champagne/vodka for women; 10 pm; $30

DJ Mark Stylz

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

Tiësto

DJs Dzeko and Torres, Mr. Mauricio; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

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

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

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10 pm; $30

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

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

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Doors at 5 pm

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

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

MARQUEE

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Martin Solveig

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

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TRYST

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Afrojack

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

The Affair

Carnage

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DJs Devin Lucien, Tyler Sherritt; doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Closed

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

DJ Dave Fogg

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

Avicii

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

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

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Audien

Afrojack

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DJs Dwyane Sun, Five, Fergie; doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women, locals free

Karaoke Night

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

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

DJ Snake

Closed

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

Closed

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

Closed

David Guetta

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

Closed

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

Wiz Khalifa

hosts; Billboard Awards pre-party; doors at 10 pm; $40+ men, $20+ women

DJ Crooked

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

Nightswim

Movement

RL Grime; doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women, local women, industry free

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VENUE

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

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Doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women, locals free

Doors at 11 am; $40+ men, $10+ women

DAYLIGHT

Closed

DRAI’S BEACH CLUB

Doors at 11 am; $20; locals free

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EBC at Night

DJ RL Grime; doors at 11 am; $35+ men, $25+ women

Closed

GTA

Doors at 11 am; $30+ men, $20+ women

DJ Luke Shay

Doors at 11 am; $30+ men, $20+ women

Zedd

Doors at 11 am; $50+ men, $30+ women

Borgore

SATURDAY DJ E-Rock

Doors at 11 am; $40+ men, $10+ women

Alesso

Doors at 11 am; $30+ men, $20+ women

Milo & Otis

DJ D-Wayne; doors at 11 am; $30+ men, $20+ women

Avicii

Doors at 10 am; $60+ men, $40+ women

R3HAB

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

Doors at 10:30 am, $30+ men, $20+ women

Free Champagne for women, 11 am-1 pm; doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women

Doors at 11 am; $30+ men, $20+ women

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MARQUEE DAYCLUB

Closed

Doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women

PALMS POOL

Doors at 8 am; $10, local women free

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Pink Cookies

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DJ Javier Alba

Doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women

Hot 100 Contest

DJ Irie; doors at 11 am; $30+ men, $20+ women

Tritonal

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Quintino

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David Guetta

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Danny Avila

Doors at 10:30 am, $30+ men, $20+ women

Free Champagne for women, 11 am-1 pm; doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women

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Calvin Harris

DJ Burns; doors at 11 am; $100+ men, $50+ women

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

Industry Mondays

Drai’s Yacht Club

Ashley Wallbridge DJs Frank Rempe, KnowleDJ; doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women

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DJs Disclosure, Spacebyrdz, Brett Rubin; doors 4 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women, locals free

DJ Lema, doors at 11 am; $30+ men, $20+ women

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DJ Dig Dug

Doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women

Cabanas For a Cause

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Tiesto

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Arts&Entertainment MOVIES + MUSIC + ART + FOOD

> HELL YEAH! Vegas’ favorite rodeo parade is back.

TRUST US

and tethered hot air balloons (on Saturday only). May 15-17, times vary, $10, free for kids under 12.

DILLINGER BLOCK PARTY It’s a block party, which means: food, beer, raffle, beer, car show, beer, contests, beer, beer-pong, beer, kid stuff, plus music from local bands like Same Sex Mary, The Clydesdale and The All-Togethers. Plus beer. May 16, 3:30 p.m., free, 1224 Arizona St., Boulder City.

Stuff you’ll want to know about

HELLDORADO DAYS If you’ve never done Helldorado, your Las Vegasness is in question. The Downtown rodeo-based tradition has been around since 1934 and returns to its new location from last year, Symphony Park, with the parade, art show, golf tournament and other good times. All proceeds, as always, benefit local charities. May 14-17, elkshelldorado.com.

PARTY OV BLOWOUT BIRTHDAY BASH Need an excuse to visit Opportunity Village’s Magical Forest beyond the holidays? The nonprofit is celebrating its 60th birthday by dressing up the family-friendly forest à la The Wizard of Oz. The fun will include rides, live entertainment, a Hofbräuhaus beer garden

WATCH MAD MEN SERIES FINALE Will Don Draper finally find peace? AMC’s existential advertising drama may or may not answer that and other questions in its final episode, the culmination of seven seasons of angst, pitch meetings and awesome outfits. May 17, 10 p.m., AMC.

EAT FOOD REVOLUTION DAY DINNER Local charity Create a Change Now holds its

annual Food Revolution Day Dinner at the new Vegenation restaurant Downtown, featuring the skills of its chef Donald Lemperle as well as Jesse Moreno (MGM Grand), Holly Fonda (Bite Vegan Bakery), Johnny Church (MTO Café) and Shane Stuart (GrassRoots). May 17, 6:15 p.m., $75, facebook.com/vegenationlv.

LEARN DR. JACK HORNER AT LVNHM Remember

Dr. Alan Grant from the Jurassic Park movies? His real-life paleontologist inspiration, Dr. Jack Horner, will speak on Saturday at the Natural History Museum on how the horns, plates, spikes, etc. of dinosaurs weren’t actually used to defend against or attack other animals—surely threatening the fantasies of any 6-year-old boy in attendance. May 16, 2 p.m., $10, free for children 2 and under.

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LATER, LETTERMAN

Reflections on a late-night giant who never treated us like idiots BY SMITH GALTNEY

> GRILLIN’ LIKE A VILLAIN Dave memorably interrogates Paris.

David Letterman was via a montageheavy, hits-packed, third anniversary special that aired in 1985. It played on a constant loop on our VCR—the Velcro suit, the stupid human tricks, Chris Elliott. In fact, when I arrived at NYU four years later, I remember walking by Just Bulbs, a store Letterman featured in a remote segment, and thinking, “Wow, I really am in Emerald City!” Older, grumpier, CBS-era Dave isn’t so easily packaged. In his review of the recently aired David Letterman: A Life on Television, critic and Letterman fan Ken Tucker noted, “The problem with the greatest-hits

approach ... is that [it] reduces him to one mode: wacky. And the best thing about Letterman is that he’s never been just funny.” Sure, you can cherry-pick some very funny moments from his 2007 interview with Paris Hilton, shortly after she was released from jail, but the whole thing is a master class in not giving a f*ck. It doesn’t get any better than Hilton taking a stand—“I’ve moved on with my life, so I really don’t want to talk about it anymore”—and Dave knocking her down: “See, this is where you and I are different. Because this is all I wanna talk about.” That’s a world away from Jimmy

Fallon, who comes off like he’s having a slumber party with Taylor Swift. And I particularly dislike James Corden. Last month, his show featured an April Fool’s stunt involving Katie Couric (and her stunt double) taking a nasty fall down some stairs. They played it like it was real, but c’mon! There was a whole studio full of people, and I’m supposed to believe that Corden was the only one who’d rush to Couric’s aid? I like that Dave never tried to bullsh*t us. I like how he didn’t treat us like idiots. Maybe I’ll even drive to a friend’s house on May 20. That way, I can say goodbye to him in person.

PHOTOGRAPH BY J.P. FILO AP PHOTO/CBS

While I’ve been keeping up with the final weeks of Late Show With David Letterman via entertainment sites and video links, I must admit I haven’t been watching the actual show. Little keeps me up past 11 p.m. anymore, except maybe a House of Cards binge, and as a “cord cutter” who gave up basic cable years ago, I couldn’t tune in even if I wanted to. Unless, perhaps, I dig out those ol’ rabbit ears—the ones I haven’t tossed, in case of a zombie apocalypse—yet the mere act of typing a Jurassic phrase like “rabbit ears” makes my middle-aged joints ache. But I’m hipper than I thought, according to an article in The New York Times earlier this week. It states that, once Letterman signs off on May 20, he’ll leave a late-night landscape “where late-night TV shows are increasingly not being watched at night, not for more than a few minutes and not on a TV.” Lamenting this viral makeover, fellow late-night host Jimmy Kimmel explains, “People are just plucking your greatest hits, without having to sit through the rest of the show. There’s more focus on singles than on albums.” Of course, talk shows have been anthologized well before the Internet came along. As a kid, I loved it when Carson broke out the highlight reel. (The tomahawk clip!) And my true introduction to NBC’s Late Night With

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> MAX POWER Hardy nonchalantly escapes an explosion.

SAME OLD SONG Pitch Perfect 2 offers diminishing returns

FILM

of survivors, and after convincing them of his inherent goodness, he reluctantly agrees to help them in their vaguely defined quest for salvation. In this case, the group is led by the indomitable Imperator Furiosa (an Mad Max is back in the intense, satisfying excellent Charlize Theron), who is determined to rescue Fury Road BY JOSH BELL five young women from the clutches of Immortan Joe, for whom they are intended as breeders and sex slaves. Beyond those broad strokes, the plot isn’t particularly Every time Mad Max returns to the screen, his important (or coherent). The point of Fury Road, like post-apocalyptic world gets a little more post-apocathe other Mad Max movies, is to showcase director and lyptic. From 1979’s Mad Max through 1981’s The Road series creator George Miller’s talents for insane stunt Warrior and 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Max work, and in that sense it delivers monumentally. Miller Rockatansky (played in the original three movies by Mel has put every dollar of his budget into staging a Gibson) went from dedicated police officer to series of car chases and action sequences that leather-clad drifter, and his society went from take up almost the entire running time, and he’s dingy and rough to savage and unforgiving. aaabc Now that Max has returned after 30 years MAD MAX: FURY done it primarily with practical effects, includaway, and his creators have their biggest bud- ROAD Tom Hardy, ing dozens of tricked-out vehicles. Fury Road is a marvel of action choreography, even if the get ever to chronicle his latest adventure, the Charlize Theron, crashes and explosions get a little repetitive apocalypse his world endured has once again Nicholas Hoult. grown worse. In Mad Max: Fury Road, with Directed by George after a while. As a story, it’s not quite as engaging, although Tom Hardy replacing Gibson as Max, there’s Miller. Rated R. Miller and co-writers Brendan McCarthy and not even a memory of any world before the Opens Friday. Nick Lathouris attempt to add some feminist burned-out hellscape where the characters subtext to the post-apocalyptic posturing. Theron helps live. Gasoline and water are still in short supply, as are, carry that off, but ultimately it runs a distant second to apparently, fertile women, since they’re the resource that the nonstop action. For most fans, though, that action the series’ latest terrifying warlord, Immortan Joe (Hugh will be enough, proving that even after three decades, Keays-Byrne), is determined to hoard. Miller can still wow audiences with fast cars and massive In broad strokes, Fury Road has the same plot as the explosions. last two Mad Max movies: Max is captured by a group

MAD AGAIN

One of the difficulties in creating a sequel to a surprise hit is that the story usually hasn’t been designed to continue, so the filmmakers may have to undo developments that made the first movie satisfying. That’s one of the problems with Pitch Perfect 2, a mildly entertaining sequel to the unexpectedly popular 2012 a cappella comedy. After turning the Barden Bellas from laughingstocks into champions, writer Kay Cannon has to go back and make the all-female collegiate singing group into underdogs again. So once again they have to lay it all on the line at a big competition (the world championships). Once again main character Beca (Anna Kendrick) is torn between the Bellas and a hipper musical aabcc occupation (an PITCH internship at a PERFECT 2 recording studio). Anna Kendrick, Once again there Rebel Wilson, are impromptu a Brittany Snow. cappella battles, Directed by mashups of Elizabeth Banks. popular songs and Rated PG-13. jokes about hefty Opens Friday. singer Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson). Once again Kendrick sings “Cups,” putting it in viewers’ heads for weeks. Everything in Pitch Perfect 2 is a little bigger, but none of it is better. The first movie was appealingly unassuming, but now Cannon and director/ co-star Elizabeth Banks (behind the camera for her first feature film) have a whole fanbase to serve, and they throw in celebrity cameos, bland new characters and mediocre subplots, resulting in a movie that’s overstuffed but dramatically thin. The songs are still catchy, the stars are still charming, and some of the jokes are still funny, but the freshness of the original has been replaced by a dutiful retread. –Josh Bell

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> SECRET RENDEZVOUS Juliette Lewis and Matt Dillon try to get to the bottom of things.

A NOVEL TWIST Far From the Madding Crowd is a refreshing take on a classic

WAYWARD PLOTTING

Mysterious drama Wayward Pines eventually loses its way BY JOSH BELL or hallucinating some or all of his experiences (an Wayward Pines starts off as an intriguing mystery, idea that gets quickly dropped). “The more you see, with elements of shows like Lost and The Prisoner the less anything makes sense,” bartender Beverly (and, to a lesser extent, Twin Peaks, the influence (Juliette Lewis) tells him in the second episode, as touted in all the promotional materials): Gruff Secret she’s become his only ally in town, and that turns out Service agent Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon) finds himto be a useful motto for the show as a whole. Even as a self stuck in the seemingly idyllic Idaho town of schoolteacher played by Hope Davis delivers an infoWayward Pines, at first because he’s incapacitated by dump monologue that lasts nearly half of the a car accident and then because the entire fifth episode, every answer opens up three or town appears to be conspiring to prevent four more plot holes. him from leaving. What is going on in this aabcc Davis, Lewis and Dillon are just three of the wholesome, sinister place? WAYWARD Readers of the source novels by Blake PINES Thursdays, talented actors the producers have managed to cast, and Melissa Leo (as a cheerily sadistic Crouch already know the answers (assum- 9 p.m., Fox. nurse) and Terrence Howard (as the town’s ing the 10-episode miniseries adaptation menacing, ice-cream-loving sheriff ) are pardoesn’t change them), but anyone else may ticular standouts. Filmmakers M. Night Shyamalan be a little flabbergasted by the time they get to the (also an executive producer), Zal Batmanglij (Sound fifth episode (appropriately titled “The Truth”) and of My Voice) and James Foley (Glengarry Glen Ross) discover that this isn’t a conspiracy thriller but a conare among the episode directors, and they create some voluted sci-fi story. moody, disturbing atmosphere. But all the creepy set The show is better in the early episodes, when pieces and engaging performances are no match for Ethan is trying to figure out what’s going on, and the increasingly absurd exposition. there’s a question of whether he might be imagining

Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd features a heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, who’s usually portrayed as a wild force of nature. (The most famous onscreen interpretation of the role is Julie Christie’s, back in 1967.) Carey Mulligan has a different view of the character—one that’s less rousing but arguably more intriguing. So forthright, direct and plainspoken are her rejections of impoverished suitor Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts) and wealthy suitor William Boldwood (Michael Sheen) that it’s all the more wrenching when she finally loses her heart to the dashing but duplicitous Sergeant Troy (Tom Sturridge). Directed by Denmark’s Thomas Vinteraaabc berg (The Celebration, FAR FROM The Hunt), this latest THE MADDING adaptation of Hardy’s CROWD Carey novel, running a brisk Mulligan, two hours, necessarily Matthias does a lot of cutting Schoenaerts, and condensing, with Michael Sheen. Sergeant Troy’s true Directed beloved, Fanny Robbin by Thomas (Juno Temple), taking Vinterberg. the worst of it. On its Rated PG-13. own terms, however, Opens Friday. it’s a solid telling of Hardy’s classic story that chooses to underline the author’s particular brand of proto-feminism. Mulligan so convincingly makes Bathsheba a woman with no need for a husband that she threatens to make Hardy’s happy ending—a rarity for him—play false. But that’s a small price to pay for her welcome company. –Mike D’Angelo

F I L M | VO D

Slow is the operative word in John Maclean’s meditative Western Slow West, about a young man’s doomed quest to reunite with the love of his life. Sixteen-year-old Jay (Kodi Smit-McPhee) travels from Scotland to Colorado in 1870, and just as he’s overwhelmed by the savagery of the frontier, he meets stoic drifter Silas (Michael Fassbender), who offers to help him track down the girl who got away. Despite the familiar Western setup, writer-director Maclean is more interested in meditations on love and death than in gunfights, and most of the movie is a quiet, discursive journey with flashes of dry humor. That is, until the blood-soaked finale, a beautifully staged and filmed shootout with moments of heartbreak and irony, sometimes simultaneously. Jay’s fate is both poetic and anticlimactic, delivered with the same mix of deadpan wit and Old West grit as the rest of the movie. –Josh Bell

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> TAKE TWO Flowers’ second album delivers more than his first

A L B U M | SY N T H - P O P

NO HOLDS BARRED

Brandon Flowers unleashes on his second solo album

In a recent Rolling Stone interview, Killers frontman Brandon Flowers said that he was “holding things back” on 2010 solo debut Flamingo. That might explain why that record sounded so stilted, dragged down by an overuse of Vegas metaphors and overproduction. Flowers’ second solo effort, The Desired Effect, is a vast improvement: Although certainly meticulous—for that, thank co-producer Ariel Rechtshaid, who has helped guide the flawless pop of Sky Ferreira, Haim and Vampire Weekend— it also contains some of the most effortless-sounding music of his career. As always, Flowers mines inspiration from everything ’80s. The seductive “Can’t Deny My Love” is late-night Miami Vice disco-pop with synth stabs and soul-tinged backup vocals; “Lonely Town” boasts horn accents and gospel choir wails; “Diggin’ Up the Heart” sounds like Springsteen at a state fair, thanks to carousel-esque keyboards and hotrodding guitars; and subdued highlight “Between Me and You” features spidery piano from Bruce Hornsby and

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brute lyrical honesty: “There’s a power in letting go/I guess I didn’t want to let you know.” Another standout, “I Can Change,” even samples Bronski Beat’s “Smalltown Boy,” a move that amplifies Flowers’ anguished vocal longing. The Desired Effect’s lyrics are reflective and earnest. Songs dig up past emotional pain—covering religious uncertainty, broken romances and childhood loneliness—as if doing so will exorcise any lingering uncertainties. Mostly, that sincerity doesn’t feel cloying, although “Still Want You” is clunky, between its processed Pee Wee’s Playhouse synths, helium-voiced choir and strange sentiments (“Crime is on the rise/I still want you”). Yet this song is the exception rather than the rule, bearing out Flowers’ assertion to Rolling Stone that he “just want[s] to write the best thing I can and put it out right now.” Mission accomplished. –Annie Zaleski

A L B U M | R& B

WORTHY OF THE BUZZ Local product Shamir drops a stunning debut album

Ratchet explores a lot of different territory—it’s a party album, but there’s some somber stuff on there, too. My album as a whole is kind of just a life story—starting out with Vegas, which was the beginning of everything, where I’m born and raised. “Head in the Clouds” is kind of about leaving your mark after you’re gone, after you’re dead, just wanting to leave something more substantial behind—and everything in between that goes into life—heartbreak, love, frustration. There’s songs for all of that. I just think it’s kind of a life’s body of work. You’ve said you have no gender. Growing up in North Las Vegas, was it hard identifying that way? It was never really a problem. I’ve always been very colorful and out there. Obviously there were a few ignorant people, but they were never paid attention to. … I think Vegas is really tolerant, way more tolerant than places people think people are more tolerant, like LA or New York. I just think that we don’t care, maybe because we have bigger fish to fry. You still haven’t played a show in Vegas. Last time we talked, you said your release party would likely be here. What happened? Just pretty much timing. In April, I was doing a lot of press and I had to go to Europe and then I had my West Coast tour. The timing was off. But there’s definitely plans of a party in Vegas, probably at the end of this summer or the beginning of fall. –Leslie Ventura For more of our interview with Shamir, visit lasvegasweekly.com.

BRANDON FLOWERS BY ERIK KABIK

Don’t underestimate North Las Vegas—especially its musicians. It brought us former R&B radio act 702, Madonna/Diplo-collaborators Shelco Garcia & Teenwolf and now Shamir Bailey, arguably this year’s hottest new artist. The 20-year-old singer and former member of local lo-fi pop duo Anorexia has recently been interviewed by The New York Times, The New Yorker and New York magazine—to say nothing of Pitchfork, the Guardian and the hundreds of blogs that have been praising him since last year’s Northtown EP. ¶ Bailey is a scribe’s golden goose, SHAMIR Ratchet aaaac with his sudden rise, post-SXSW buzz, singular look, quotable wit, nonspecific gender expression and sexuality—and, oh yeah, talent. Despite his prepubescentsounding voice, he comes of age on Ratchet, a knockout first full-length that blurs more lines than the singer himself. Part electro-pop fantasia, part Chicago house update, part Topshop R&B playlist, Ratchet is the inspired work of Bailey and producer/manager Nick Sylvester, the latter clearly empowering the former. ¶ On the defiantly sassy “On the Regular,” Bailey recalls the assertive delivery and wordplay of M.I.A.—and musters up some Northtown chutzpah—when he quips, “Don’t try me, I’m not a free sample/Step to me and you’ll be handled.” On “Call It Off,” his dismissive, disaffected air is complemented by a looping, flamboyant bassline and squirrely synth. And the pulsating, deep-grooved “Head in the Clouds” boasts such steady dancefloor reverie, it’s as if Bailey and Sylvester channeled house-music pioneer Jesse Saunders—who, by the way, has a North Las Vegas residence. Let’s hope Bailey keeps his, too –Mike Prevatt

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> RIO IN REVIEW No Doubt and (right middle) The Gaslamp Killer performed during the fest’s first weekend.

F E ST I VA L

A FAIR DEBUT

Rock in Rio USA’s first weekend held few surprises, good or bad BY MIKE PREVATT

ROCK IN RIO PHOTOS BY FRED MORLEDGE AND L.E. BASKOW; METALLICA BY FRED MORLEDGE

Reports of Rock in Rio’s early demise were greatly exaggerated. For all the slings and arrows about [insert inconvenience or uncool music act here] and armchair attendance projections for the first day of the festival’s rock weekend, the Brazilian import did just fine. While not a blockbuster debut, or likely a profitable one, the first weekend—dedicated to mostly rock acts—saw 37,000 walk through the gate on Friday, with 45,000 visiting on Saturday. Life Is Beautiful has yet to draw those single-day numbers. And with half of the attendees hailing from Southern California, and about a quarter visiting from somewhere else—according to what organizers told the LA Times—that meant money was being spent both at the box office and at our casinos and businesses. Which was the whole point of having Rock in Rio make its American debut here; we locals, while still lured, weren’t really the target demographic. Which is also why it largely looked like what a tourist thought a Vegas music festival should look like. Actually, it looked like the Vegas version of a county fair. It had rides (a zipline directly over the main-stage audience, a Ferris wheel and a bizarre exhibit where people boarded Mercedes Benz SUVs that went up and over a fake hill), a diverse offering of food from all over the place (including several local eateries and food trucks), old-fashioned facades, plenty of (fake) grass, a few animals (or people dressed up as

them), magicians and a modern hoedown at the EDM stage. And then there were the main attractions: the bands, ranging from acts that tried way too hard (Hollywood Undead, The Pretty Reckless) and ones that didn’t try hard enough (No Doubt, Linkin Park) to ones that tried hard and nailed it (Sepultura, Maná). It all went down pretty much as planned, which was good on the organizational side but didn’t facilitate buzz. A few surprises popped up, including how much the novelty acts and costumed entertainers added to the atmosphere of each Rock Street,

the 150 fans that showed up onstage ahead of Metallica (and stayed there for the duration of the band’s performance) and the convenience with which one could top up and pay with the cashless RFID wristbands. Speaking of surprises and receptions: Doomy hip-hop/indie DJ The Gaslamp Killer won over his audience despite the dyspepsia and dystopia in the music he played (Death Grips, Run the Jewels). And though its onlookers were few, big band SpokFrevo Orquestra—largely influenced by American jazz—was a revelation with its modern and enlivened take on the rhythmic Brazilian folk

TOP BILLING Reflections on the headliners No Doubt It’s midnight when Friday’s headliner takes the stage, capping a long day for those of us who have been here since Saints of Valory started at 3:30 p.m. No Doubt wastes no time, launching into a hit parade of a setlist without a clunker to be found. The early part of the band’s set pulls heavily from its midto-late career—radio hits like

“Hella Good” and “Hey Baby”— and we go nine songs before Gwen Stefani and her mates dive into breakout third album Tragic Kingdom. There’s still so much raw power in numbers like “Excuse Me Mr.,”

“Sunday Morning,” “Just a Girl” and “Spiderwebs,” and Stefani remains an engaging frontwoman equally capable of bravado and vulnerability in her performance. –Chris Bitonti

style known as frevo. SpokFrevo Orquestra isn’t returning for this weekend’s pop program, but for those going, be sure to check out Bossacucanova, which infuses electronic music into bossa nova. Other things to keep in mind: Mayer Hawthorne has been added, but Sam Smith canceled due to impending vocal-cord surgery. And bring 1. earplugs, as the main and EDM stages can get loud, 2. money, because food and beer are pretty expensive, and 3. a coat. Rock in Rio continues this weekend, but to paraphrase the festival’s organizers, it’s not really rock and it won’t feel like Rio.

Metallica The band didn’t hit the main stage until 35 minutes after its 11:10 p.m. start time, then played for over two hours. That meant the crowd was a bit lethargic at times, even though hardcore fans were happy to participate in audience sing-alongs on classics like “Master of Puppets” and “Sad but True.” “It got quiet out there—that scares me,” frontman James Hetfield noted after a strong rendition of “The Unforgiven” that seemed to get little response. But fans rallied even as the hour got later, cheering and

chanting before the encore. Metallica remains a dependable but predictable live act, and the set was full of concert staples—“Enter Sandman,” “Nothing Else Matters,” “Seek & Destroy”—played the same way as always. The only real surprise was “King Nothing,” played for the first time since 2011, giving a relatively rare spotlight to the Load/Reload era that the band seems mostly determined to forget. –Josh Bell For more weekend one band reports, visit lasvegas weekly.com.

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> MAKIN’ IT HAPPEN Mariah arrives in Vegas for her new residency.

T H E K AT S R E P O RT

A NEW NIGHT

Colosseum resident Mariah Carey opts for elegance over adrenaline BY JOHN KATSILOMETES

rolls out what amounts to 18 mini-production numbers. The Colosseum’s famed sound system carries her high vocal register to the rafters. The stage is adorned with giant butterfly wings, long her trademark effect. Behind the performance is the theater’s vast LED screen, which over the course of the show displays a montage of old photos from the singer’s youth, an oceanscape illuminated by a lighthouse, and a color-splashed carnival scene for “Fantasy.” The very blueprint of the Mariah run at the Colosseum, set to include more than 50 shows over two years, is refreshingly uncomplicated. She has 18 No. 1 hits, and here she paces through them in chronological order. So Mariah’s legions of fans are treated to full-production presentations of such hits as “Love Takes Time” and “I Don’t Wanna Cry,” the audience instinctively singing along. “I’ll Be There” is backed by photos, of Carey and a little Michael Jackson, as the singer is joined by duet partner Trey Lorenz from the MTV Unplugged performance from 23 years ago. The carnival for “Fantasy” features a video cameo from the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard. The undeniable question about Carey’s show is, how is her voice? She still sings as high as the sky,

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and some published reports claim she’s using tracks on those upper notes. It’s difficult to say. If Carey is singing without tracks, she’s doing it very well, and if she is using tracks, she’s also doing that well. Mariah moves in a measured way, sashaying across the stage in gowns draped in shiny accouterments—among them a silver-sequined top and white skirt and gown in either a pumpkin or salmon hue, depending on the lighting. At the May 6 premiere, the zipper on the latter broke open, requiring some onstage repair work. The heavy choreography was left to her 10 backing dancers, who at times hoisted the superstar across the stage or boogied as she was carted around in a vintage pink T-Bird convertible and even on a Jet Ski. The aquatic plaything is brought out in a re-creation of the video for “Honey,” with comic/Rio headliner Eddie Griffin shown on the big screen interrogating the superstar. The show culminates with the lone song that is not a No. 1 hit, “Infinity.” Glowing chandeliers hang over that song, and the show’s template assures there is to be no encore. Mariah’s performance is generous, fulfilling and familiar. If it’s a dance party you’re after, you’ll find it across the street.

PHOTOGRAPH BY MIKAYLA WHITMORE

In November 1997, the venue that’s now Axis at Planet Hollywood was closed for renovations as its host hotel was partially knocked down and rebranded. That concert hall was the venerable Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts, and the final performance was a rip-roaring show by Mötley Crüe. It was a wild night in a venue that, over the years, had presented such powerhouse bands as Rush, Kiss and Jane’s Addiction. Women clambered onstage, attempting to corral drummer Tommy Lee and flashing the crowd. Guitarist Mick Mars, already on unsteady spindles, was knocked down by a fan during the song “Primal Scream,” and the show was briefly halted as Metro officers dragged the guy offstage. Six years later, the Colosseum at Caesars Palace opened with an elegant show by Celine Dion, under the title A New Day. There was no rushing of the stage, unless you count the acrobatics by Celine’s Cirque-like backing dancers. Rather, this was a lush and comfortable concert, befitting the beautifully appointed venue, and the beginning of an enormously dignified run by Celine that continues today. Celine will be back in August after her break to care for her ailing husband, René Angélil, and her own vocal troubles. Both of these venues are now under the Caesars Entertainment umbrella, which owns both PH and Caesars Palace. These are venues of like size (both around 4,000 seats these days) that are positioned across the Strip from each other, and are home to shows by some of the top recording artists ever. But there’s a difference: The Colosseum is a music box, and Axis a boom box. When talk of a Mariah Carey residency surfaced on the Strip, the obvious venue was the statelier Colosseum. When Jennifer Lopez began showing up at performances at both venues, and even as she performed a New Year’s Eve Show at the Colosseum, speculation was directed toward Axis. It’s been confirmed: J. Lo will appear at the thumping theater, which has been reconfigured to feel more like an ultra nightclub, on Britney Spears’ off nights. Carey and her many sequined costumes fit the Colosseum ideally, as the title of her residency, Mariah #1 to Infinity, indicates. In this show, Carey

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> FLIPPING THE LENS Aschheim’s drawings uniquely focus on the era of JFK’s presidency.

HYPERREALITY CHECK

Deborah Aschheim explores the tension between personal and collective memory BY DAWN-MICHELLE BAUDE “Memory” is a tough sell in a city that constantly reinvents itself and obliterates its former identity. Yet it’s the subject of the peculiar and haunting Kennedy Obsession show at the Marjorie Barrick Museum. New media artist (and current UNLV artist-in-residence) Deborah Aschheim—known for her elegant installations exploring the science/ art divide—has turned her attention to the game-changing era of JFK’s presidency. Although the exhibition has a finished feel, Kennedy Obsession is a work-in-progress glimpse of Aschheim’s larger project exploring tensions between personal and collective memories. Hyperrealism emanates from the

suite of 13 medium-format drawings. Sourced from photographic archives at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, the black-and-white images seem to be accurate copies from a day in the life of the president. Uh … no. Aschheim deforms the originals throughout. First, she blows up the photographs. Then she traces them onto Dura-Lar, a translucent medium that blurs everything that’s not high-contrast. When a particular face falls in shadow—a youngster, say, from a group of Canadian Girl Guides propping up their Chucky-esque doll on the White House lawn—Aschheim uses related photographs and/or films to fill in the obscured part of the original image. When that falls

short, she uses imagination. And this is where it gets interesting: In the process of “copying” images—the crowd awaiting JFK’s Dallas motorcade; the adoring female coterie in Costa Rica—Aschheim reinvents them. It is almost as if Aschheim is depicting that old saw from neuroscience—“every act of retrieval is an act of encoding”— which is science-speak for the fact that every time we recall a memory, we change it. Aschheim’s images are so insistently crisp that they’re suspect, in the way that dementia sufferers insist they know something they don’t. The strangeness is in the marks themselves. In “November 21, 1963 (San Antonio),” for example, Aschheim outlines, but does not fully trace, Jackie Kennedy; parts of the drawing mimic photorealism, other parts are expressionistic, hovering

on the verge of disappearing or coming into view. Upon closer inspection, a minute strategy of erasure emerges: Once the figure is modeled on Dura-Lar, Aschheim goes back in and removes bits. The omissions suggest top-shelf skills in draftsmanship as much as they do the dilemma of filling in or losing memories. In Kennedy Obsession, Aschheim deliberately portrays events seared into witnesses’ memories—I saw JFK!—that were humdrum public duties for the Cold War president who narrowly averted nuclear warfare and produced civil rights legislation. Although JFK was the first president to consciously engineer his public image, he is absent in most of Aschheim’s works. Yet his presence is felt in the gaps or just outside the frame, looming large and imperfectly encoded in the collective memory of history.

aaaac KENNEDY OBSESSION Through June 6; Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.5 p.m.; Saturday, noon-5 p.m. UNLV’s Marjorie Barrick Museum, 702-895-3381.

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FOOD E AT T H E M E N U

FRESH NEW GEM

Travel a little to experience the brilliant Scratch House BY JASON HARRIS There’s a new restaurant focusing on local, quality ingredients. The style is heavily French with a modern twist. And the food is delicious. Now tell me where the restaurant is located. On the Strip, right? Or how about Summerlin? Maybe it’s somewhere in trendy Downtown? The answer is Boulder City, and the restaurant is Scratch House. The chef is Silviu Briceag, whose background is as interesting as the plates he presents. Before his culinary career, he was an economist in his home country of Romania. Thankfully, he fell in love with cooking, trained in some of the finer pubs of England and moved to Toulouse, where he honed in on classical French techniques. What comes out of his kitchen honors those traditions with wrinkles that make the food his own. Believe it, Vegas. This place is worth the trip.

CRANBERRY INFUSED FRIED BRIE It’s listed in the “to share”

section, but honestly, you’ll want to eat it all. It’s like mozzarella sticks for the Hamptons. Upscale fried cheese! The Brie is filled with cranberries, then panko crusted and lightly fried. The delicate cranberry sauce on the plate takes it over the top. ($21.99) PAN SEARED CHILEAN SEA BASS Normally at a restaurant like

this, I go for steak, but this was my favorite entrée. You couldn’t possibly cook a piece of fish better, with a crispy crust and flaky body. Tarragon new potatoes bulk up the plate. The crawfish beurre blanc, full of butter and saffron, is decadent. Acidic confit red peppers cleanse the palate, getting you ready for your next bite. ($25.99) SIGNATURE FILET MIGNON

This is 8 ounces of high-quality, grass-fed beef, so it’s amazing that Briceag has managed to make the other components worthy focal points of the plate. The wild mushrooms have a wonderfully firm yet approachably soft texture. The parsnip purée is creamy and gives needed starchiness. And the blackberry bigarade sauce could win a competition, sweet and unique. ($38.40) MERINGUE ROULADE I’ve never tried a dessert like this before. A caramel pineapple meringue is light as air, with caramel rum sauce, chantilly cream and homemade vanilla ice cream. It’s a must-try. ($6.99) HOMEMADE SORBET

Beautifully simple, and that texture ... so smooth. The three flavors rotate depending what the chef finds in season. Raspberry has some nice sweetness. Passion fruit gives you a tart opposite. And four fruit (which is really five fruits) combines lemon, lime, grapefruit, orange and banana. It’s the best of the three. ($4.45)

SCRATCH HOUSE 1300 Arizona St., Boulder City, 702-754-1300. Tuesday-Sunday, 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m.

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LAST WORD

> SAVORY RAINBOW Pork tocino quesadilla, meet pork sisig rice bowl; below, chicken adobo tacos run in packs of three.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE White Rabbit Café serves authentic and accessible Filipino cuisine BY JIM BEGLEY minus the sour. Each is divine in its porkiness. In a city awash in Asian food, Filipino fare is severely Pick your protein and then comes the entrée ($7.50 less mainstream than its Far East relatives. The local each). While the majority are Mexican-centric—includJapanese food invasion is overwhelming, while Chinese ing a taco trio, burrito and carne fries—their impact is and Thai joints dot the landscape. But accessible Pinoy substantially less important than your actual meat choice cuisine is seriously lacking. There are exceptions—Café itself. In fact, the smattering of vinaigrette slaw De Cebu serves a noteworthy lechon, and Max’s on the tacos hardly impacts the dish at all. More crispy pata is epic; unfortunately, most other interesting is the burrito, where a melding of garlocal Filipino joints trend toward uninviting. WHITE lic rice, fried egg and Swiss cheese is swaddled Which leads us to White Rabbit Café. After RABBIT CAFÉ in a tortilla. But best of all is the quesadilla, parbeginning as a SoCal food truck before tran- 3429 S. Jones ticularly so with tocino. An oozy combination of sitioning into a brick-and-mortar restaurant, Blvd., 702-866Monterey Jack and cheddar provides a foil for the White Rabbit spent the last couple of years 2360. Sundayprowling the streets of Las Vegas. In December Thursday, 11 a.m.- pork’s inherent sweetness. Don’t be afraid to explore the sides ($2.50 it opened up in a cozy standalone spot across 9 p.m.; Friday each) and extras. Well worth the 50-cent upgrade, from popular China Mama, making it easier to & Saturday, 11 rice rife with toasted garlic bits is a welcome track down their “fusion” fare. a.m.-11 p.m. addition to your bowl. And mini lumpia come six A meal at White Rabbit is essentially a Choose to an order and are stuffed with—you guessed Your Own Adventure. Begin in the section of it!—pork. Particularly interesting is the spaghetti ($7.50). meats, which inexplicably includes a vegetarian option. More sugary than the version you’re familiar with but not Beefsteak is a lot like pot roast. The Filipino stalwart chickcloying, the marinara is an appealing mix of sweet and en adobo is also an option. I’d suggest selecting from the meat with a hint of spice. trio of pork options, because this is where the Rabbit excels. If you’ve got room for dessert, the white chocolate My least favorite of the three is the spicy/sweet lonchamporado ($4) awaits. Described as a sweet white ganisa—less a reflection on the sausage’s quality than chocolate porridge, it’s essentially a milky rice pudding praise for the excellence of the other options. The crispy topped with fresh strawberries and chips of something sisig is reminiscent of Mexican carnitas in all the best tasting suspiciously like FrankenBerry cereal. This oddly ways, finely diced pork belly pan-fried with jalapeño pepnostalgic notion only makes it easier to explore your new pers and onions for heat and texture. The wild red, wokfavorite Filipino fare. fried tocino reminds me of Chinese sweet and sour pork,

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INGREDIENTS 1 oz. Tanqueray Ten 1 oz. Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur 1 oz. Green Chartreuse 1 oz. fresh-squeezed lime juice Lime slice for garnish Maraschino cherry for garnish

METHOD Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Cover and shake thoroughly. Strain and pour into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry and lime slice, twisted to release the citrus oils and juices into the drink.

This Prohibition-era cocktail combines equal parts of all four ingredients, making for a perfectly balanced drink— and one that can easily be converted into bigger batches. The Last Word is grounded by the herbal flavors of gin and Chartreuse, while the maraschino liqueur sweetens it and the citrus juice adds a welcome sour kick.

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A&E | SHORT TAKES SPECIAL SCREENINGS

> HOW ABOUT THEM APPLES? David DeSanctis in Where Hope Grows.

Boozy Movie Wednesdays Wed, 8 pm, free with cocktail purchase, 21+. 5/20, Blazing Saddles. Inspire Theater, 107 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702489-9110. Cinemark Classic Series Sun, 2 pm; Wed, 2 & 7 pm, $7-$10. 5/17, 5/20, The Blues Brothers. Theaters: ORL, ST, SF, SP, SC Driving Miss Daisy 5/14, broadcast of Broadway performance starring Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones, 7:30 pm, $10.50$12.50. Theaters: COL, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. Hispanic Film Series 5/21, The Milagro Beanfield War, discussion led by scholar Luis Bonilla, 6:30 pm, free. Charleston Heights Arts Center, 800 S. Brush St., 702-229-6383. Midnight Brewvies Mon, movie plus popcorn, midnight, free. Elixir, 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, Henderson, 702-272-0000. Pitch Perfect Marathon 5/14, Pitch Perfect, Pitch Perfect 2, 4:45 pm, $15. Theaters: ST R.E.M. by MTV 5/19, music documentary, 7:30 pm, $13$15. Theaters: SF. Info: fathomevents. com. Sci Fi Center Sun, Game of Thrones viewing party, 6 pm, free. Mon, Cinemondays, 8 pm, free. 5077 Arville St., 866-834-9019, thescificenter.com. Stratford Festival HD 5/21, broadcast of Antony and Cleopatra from Canada’s Stratford Festival, 7 pm, $16-$18. Theaters: COL, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou Tue, 1 pm, free. 5/19, The Tarnished Angels. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400. Vegas Indie Film Fest 5/15-5/18, feature and short film screenings, parties, more, various times and locations, $10 suggested donation to Three Square Food Bank per screening. Info: viff.net.

NEW THIS WEEK Far From the Madding Crowd AAABC Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. 119 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 43. Theaters: DTS, SC Mad Max: Fury Road AAABC Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult. Directed by George Miller. 120 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 42. Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Pitch Perfect 2 AABCC Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow. Directed by Elizabeth Banks. 115 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 42. Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, DTS, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Where Hope Grows (Not reviewed) Kristoffer Polaha, David DeSanctis, McKaley Miller. Directed by Chris Dowling. 95 minutes. Rated PG-13. A

self-pitying former professional baseball player befriends a man with Down syndrome. Theaters: BS, SC, TS

NOW PLAYING The Age of Adaline AABCC Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford. Directed by Lee Toland Krieger. 110 minutes. Rated PG-13. Lively’s stilted, mannered acting actually works in her favor playing a seemingly immortal woman born in 1908. Adaline falls in love and wistfully looks back on her long, lonely life, but neither the romance nor the regret is particularly convincing. The plot is dull and predictable, especially in its turgid second half. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CH, DTS, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SF, SHO, SP, TS, TX American Sniper AACCC Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Luke Grimes. Directed by Clint Eastwood. 132 minutes. Rated R. Cooper’s performance is the strongest element of this biopic about Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle. It’s a simplistic, pandering tribute to the American military, aimed at an audience that prizes patriotism over drama and isn’t interested in complexity when telling the stories of so-called American heroes. –JB Theaters: TC Avengers: Age of Ultron AAABC Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth. Directed by Joss Whedon. 141 minutes. Rated PG-13. The Marvel superheroes (including Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and more) team up for their latest adventure, taking on evil robot Ultron. Writer-director Whedon manages to include an impressive amount of character development and clever dialogue, although eventually

the action set pieces and cluttered plot steamroll over the drama. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX 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: 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: BS, RR, SC, SF Clouds of Sils Maria AAABC Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz. Directed by Olivier Assayas. 124 minutes. Rated R. Binoche does her usual outstanding job as a movie star feeling anxious about returning to the play that launched her career—but in the role of the older woman her original young character seduced. But it’s Stewart, as the star’s personal assistant, who’s the revelation here. –MD Theaters: GVR

Danny Collins AABCC Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner. Directed by Dan Fogelman. 106 minutes. Rated R. Pacino plays a legendary rock star who discovers, decades after he’d started coasting on his success, that John Lennon had written him a fan latter that might have inspired him to try harder, had he only read it at the time. Pacino himself could use such a letter from Laurence Olivier. –MD Theaters: SC 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 The D Train AAACC Jack Black, James Marsden, Kathryn Hahn. Directed by Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel. 97 minutes. Rated R. Black deftly handles the funny aspects of this ostensible comedy about a guy trying to persuade a former high school classmate (Marsden) to attend their 20-year reunion. He’s on shakier ground, however, when a surprising turn of events turns the movie from a comedy into a drama. –MD Theaters: BS, GVR, PAL, SC Ex Machina AAACC Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander. Directed by Alex Garland. 108 minutes. Rated R. Isaac plays a tech genius who invites one of his employees (Gleeson) to conduct a series of interviews with his latest creation: a humanoid robot named Ava (Vikander). The film raises plenty of probing questions about artificial intelligence, but it isn’t as smart as it pretends to be. –MD Theaters: BS, CH, DTS, FH, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SF, SHO, SP, TS, TX

Fifty Shades of Grey ACCCC Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eloise Mumford. Directed by Sam TaylorJohnson. 125 minutes. Rated R. Existing in a tepid middle ground apt to disappoint both hardcore fans of E.L. James’ bestselling novel and newbies expecting something scandalous, Fifty Shades of Grey flounders thanks to its leads’ lack of chemistry, inert direction and limp faux-salacious sex scenes. –NS Theaters: TC 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, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, ST, TS, TX 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, DI, SHO, SP, ST, TX 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

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Erdogan. Directed by Russell Crowe. 111 minutes. Rated R. For his directorial debut, Crowe plays an Australian farmer searching for the remains of his sons after the World War I Battle of Gallipoli. The movie’s pseudo-mystical elements never quite connect with Crowe’s old-fashioned, melodramatic storytelling, especially the cheesy romance, and Crowe slathers every emotional moment with a sappy, overbearing score. –JB Theaters: GVR, RR, SP

> SCREAM QUEENS Sofia Vergara and Reese Witherspoon in Hot Pursuit.

Hot Pursuit AACCC Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara, John Carroll Lynch. Directed by Anne Fletcher. 87 minutes. Rated PG-13. Witherspoon and Vergara have minimal chemistry as a cop and a criminal, respectively, in this lazy, unfunny action-comedy, which combines weak, repetitive jokes with desultory copdrama plot points. The jokes mostly rely on tired gender stereotypes and jabs at Witherspoon’s short stature and Vergara’s curves and incomprehensible accent. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX 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: ORL, RR, ST, TS It Follows AAAAC Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto. Directed by David Robert Mitchell. 100 minutes. Rated R. 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: BS, DI 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: TC Kid Kulafu (Not reviewed) Robert Villar, Alessandra de Rossi, Cesar Montano. Directed by Paul Soriano. 120 minutes. Not rated. In Filipino with English subtitles. Biopic about the life of boxer Manny Pacquiao. Theaters: ORL 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: TC 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.

While We’re Young AABCC Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried. Directed by Noah Baumbach. 97 minutes. Rated R. Baumbach follows his terrific Frances Ha with the story of a middle-aged couple (Stiller and Watts) whose lives are upended when they befriend a much younger couple (Driver and Seyfried). Alas, what starts off hilariously sardonic gradually turns uncomfortably sour. –MD Theaters: GVR

Once they do, something evil comes back, too, stalking the characters through underlit, sparse sets in predictable fashion. –JB Theaters: TC Little Boy (Not reviewed) Jakob Salvati, Kevin James, Emily Watson. Directed by Alejandro Monteverde. 106 minutes. Rated PG-13. An 8-year-old boy relies on his faith to end World War II and bring his father home. Theaters: AL, ST, TS, TX 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: BS, SC 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: ST, TC Monkey Kingdom (Not reviewed) Directed by Mark Linfield and Alastair Fothergill. 81 minutes. Rated G. Nature documentary featuring the monkey population of Sri Lanka. Theaters: AL, TS Noble AABCC Deirdre O’Kane, Sarah Greene, Ruth Negga. Directed by Stephen Bradley. 100 minutes. Rated PG-13. This biopic about Irish activist Christina Noble, who started a foundation to care for orphaned children in Vietnam, is wellintentioned but dull. The movie fails to connect Noble’s rough upbringing with her later activism, and its bland positivity lacks any real impact. –JB Theaters: TS Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 ABCCC Kevin James, Raini Rodriguez, Neal McDonough. Directed by Andy Fickman. 94 minutes. Rated PG. Six years after thwarting a heist at a New Jersey mall, bumbling security guard Paul Blart (James) ends up doing the same at a Las Vegas hotel. Mall Cop 2

suffers from indifferent plotting, listless action and apathetic jokes that often don’t appear to have punchlines. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DI, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SP, TS, TX The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel AABCC Dev Patel, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench. Directed by John Madden. 122 minutes. Rated PG. Nearly all of the characters return for the continuing story of a ramshackle retirement home for British pensioners in India. The storylines are mostly half-hearted, centered on the romantic couplings that blossomed in the previous movie. The talented actors make the experience pleasant enough, even if it drags on for too long. –JB Theaters: SC The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water AABCC Voices of Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Mr. Lawrence. Directed by Paul Tibbitt. 92 minutes. Rated PG. The second

THEATERS (AL) REGAL ALIANTE 7300 Aliante Parkway, North Las Vegas, 702-221-2283 (BS) REGAL BOULDER STATION 4111 Boulder Highway, 702-221-2283 (PAL) BRENDEN THEATRES AT THE PALMS 4321 W. Flamingo Road, 702-507-4849 (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

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

movie starring animated undersea creature SpongeBob SquarePants features all the familiar characters in an adventure to track down the stolen recipe for Krabby Patties. The story drags over the course of 90 minutes, with mild humor and a strained climax that mixes the animated characters with live action. –JB Theaters: TC Unfriended AAAAC Shelley Hennig, Moses Jacob Storm, Renee Olstead. Directed by Levan Gabriadze. 82 minutes. Rated R. This impressively inventive horror movie takes place entirely on a teenage girl’s computer screen, using social media, video chats and other technology to tell a story of revenge from beyond the grave. The plot is familiar, but the execution is creative and involving, with strong acting and relentless pacing. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, DI, GVR, ORL, SC, TX

Woman in Gold AABCC Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Tatiana Maslany. Directed by Simon Curtis. 109 minutes. Rated PG-13. The true story of Maria Altmann, an Austrian Jew who fled the Nazis during WWII and later battled to reclaim paintings that the Nazis stole from her family, is stirring and complex, but the filmmakers smooth it out and simplify it, making every courtroom battle into a clichéd, heavy-handed triumph. –JB Theaters: BS, FH, GVR, RR, SC

The Water Diviner AABCC Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Yilmaz

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

SUMMERLIN 2070 Park Center Drive, 702-221-2283

(SF) CENTURY SANTA FE STATION 4949 N. Rancho Drive, 702-655-8178

(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 (SP) CENTURY SOUTH POINT 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-260-4061

(GVR) REGAL GREEN VALLEY RANCH 2300 Paseo Verde Parkway, Henderson, 702-221-2283

(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

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(VS) REGAL VILLAGE SQUARE 9400 W. Sahara Ave., 702-221-2283

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THE ’80S ON WHEELS It’s just too cheesy and crazy to ignore, and if that doesn’t pull you in, there’s also the opportunity to contribute to the Children’s Miracle Network. Las Vegas Car Stars takes over the Fremont Street Experience this weekend with its parade of famous vehicles including the original Batman Batmobile, the Starsky & Hutch Ford Gran Torino, The A-Team van, Herbie from The Love Bug and more. But the event doubles down on the mobile nostalgia with a special celebration in honor of the 30-year anniversary of Back to the Future. Yes, the flux capacitor-upgraded DeLorean will be Downtown, as will Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and other cast members. Oscar Goodman will be on hand Friday to present a proclamation—you know, because he’s still sorta the mayor, right?—and LAS VEGAS CAR STARS: Saturday is when the “celebs” show up for appearances and autoBACK TO LAS VEGAS May 14graphs and perhaps a little lightning-induced time travel. Perhaps. 16, free. Fremont Street Experi–Brock Radke ence, lasvegascarstars.com.

LIVE MUSIC T H E ST R I P & N E A R BY Brooklyn Bowl The Expendables 5/14, $15. Little Dragon, Sango 5/15. Ekoh, Paper Tigers, Almost Normal 5/16, 8 pm. Soja, Blue King Brown 5/19, 8 pm, $28. Shakey Graves, Barr Brothers 5/21, 8 pm, $17. Big Sam’s Funky Nation 5/21, midnight, $9-$11. Xavier Rudd & The United Nations 5/26, 8 pm, $19-$22. Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squa, The Simpkin Project 5/27, 9 pm, $10-$15. Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters, JD McPherson 5/28, $77. Linq, 702-8622695. The Colosseum 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. Rod Stewart 7/31, 8/1, 8/5, 8/8, 8/9, 8/12, 8/15, 7:30 pm. Caesars Palace, 702-731-7333. The Cosmopolitan (Chelsea) Brian Wilson, Rodriguez 7/10, 7 pm, $50. Brantley Gilbert, Carter Winter 7/24, 8 pm, $65. (Boulevard Pool) Our Big Concert ft. Cage the Elephant,

Dirty Heads, New Politics, Big Data, Joywave 5/28, 5 pm, $40. Billy Currington 5/29, 8 pm, $35. 702-6987000. Dive Bar Faster Pussycat 5/17, 9 pm, $10-$13. The Faction, Guilty By Association, Bad Samaritans, Loose Change 5/23, 9 pm, $25. Duane Peters Gunfight, The Briggs 6/12, 9 pm, $8-$10. UK Subs 6/13, 9 pm, $12$25. Slaughter and the Dogs 6/19, 9 pm, $8-$10. 4110 S. Maryland Pkwy., 702-586-3483. Double Down TV Party Tonight ft. DJ Atomic & DJ Fish 5/14, 9 pm. 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., 702791-5775. 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+. 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 Earl Sweatshirt, Vince Staples, Remy Banks 5/15, 8 pm, $29$34. Luke Wade 5/16, 8 pm, $17-$21. E-40, Stevie Stone 5/17, 8 pm, $33$47. Bianca Del Rio 5/24, 7 pm, $39$45. Dick Dale 6/3, 7 pm, $25-$29. Veil of Maya, Revocation, Oceano, Gift Giver, Entheos 6/4, 5 pm. Hard Rock Cafe (Strip), 3771 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-733-7625. House of Blues Juicy J 5/19, 8 pm, $28-$40. Carlos Santana 5/20, 5/225/24, 5/27, 5/29-5/31, $90-$350, 8 pm. Ministry 6/10, 8 pm, $40-$90. Steel Panther 6/13, 6/20, 6/27, 9 pm, $22. Gospel Brunch Sun, 10 am & 1 pm, $27-$50. PJ Barth Trio Sun, 8 pm, free. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. The Joint Journey 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. The Cult & Public Enemy 6/6, 8 pm, $45+. Steve Miller Band 6/25, 8 pm, $50+. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5222. Mandalay Bay (Events Center) Neil Diamond 5/17, 8 pm, $60-$175. (Mandalay Beach) 311 7/3-7/4, $55-$95. Sublime with Rome 5/22, $50. 702632-7777. MGM (Grand Garden Arena) Bette Midler 5/22, 8 pm, $95-$310. Eagles 5/24, 8 pm, $85-$275. Rush 6/25, 8 pm, $60-$180. Aerosmith 8/1, 8 pm, $50-$150. Madonna 10/24, 8 pm, $43-$383. Andrea Bocelli 12/5, 8 pm, $78-$403. 702-891-7777. Orleans One Night with the King 5/16-5/17, 8 pm, $20+. Air Supply 5/22-5/24, 8 pm, $40+. The Fab Four 6/13-6/14, 8 pm, $20. NiteKings Wed, 4 pm. Rick Duarte Fri, 9 pm. Acoustic Den Sat, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., 702365-7075. Palace Station (Jack’s) Forget to Remember Fri-Sat, 9 pm, free. 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 Tedeschi Trucks Band, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Doyle Bramhall II 6/9, 6:30 pm, $63+. Palms, 702-942-7777. Piero’s Pia Zadora Fri & Sat, 9 pm, two-drink minimum. 355 Convention Center Dr., 702-369-2305. Planet Hollywood Britney Spears 5/15-5/16, 5/20, 8/5, 8/7-8/8, 8/12, 8/14-8/15, 8/18-8/19, 8/21-8/22, 8/26, 8/28-8/29, 9/2, 9/4-9/5, 9/9. $60-$195. Weird Al Yankovic 5/12-5/16, 8 pm, $59-$89. Na Ying 5/23, $28-$228. A.R. Rahman 6/7, 8 pm, $49-$179. Earth, Wind & Fire, Chicago 7/17, 8 pm, $70-$219. J. Cole, YG, Jeremih, Bas, Cozz and Omen 7/18, 8 pm, $41-$200. La Arrolladora 9/13, 9 pm, $59-$175. Ricky Martin 9/15, 8 pm, $50-$160. 702-234-7469. Rí Rá The Whiskeydicks 5/14, 5/17, 8:45 pm; 5/15-5/16, 9 pm. John Windsor 5/18, 5/25, 8:45 pm. Derek Dempsey & Celtic Soul 5/19-5/21, 5/24, 8:45 pm; 5/22-5/23, 9 pm. The Black Donnellys 5/26-5/28, 5/31, 8:45 pm; 5/29-5/30, 9 pm. Mandalay Place, 702-632-7771. Rock in Rio Festival Ft. Taylor Swift, Metallica, Linkin Park, No Doubt, The Deftones, John Legend 5/8-5/9, 5/15-5/16, $298-$498. Rockinrio.com. Route 91 Harvest Festival ft. Florida Georgia Line, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw and more. 10/2-10/4, times vary, $199. MGM Resorts Village, rt91harvest.com. Stratosphere David Perrico and Pop Evolution First & third Tue, 10:30 pm, $20. 800-998-6937. Tuscany Danny Lozada Sun & Thu 10 pm, free. Kenny Davidsen Celebrity Piano Bar Fri, 10 pm, free. Live music Sat, 10 pm., free. 255 E. Flamingo Rd., 702-893-8933. Vinyl Alice: A Steampunk Concert Fantasy 5/20, 6/17, 7/15, 11 pm, $10+. Saxon 5/27, 8:30 pm, $22. Todd Rundgren 5/30, 8 pm, $30+. Amaranthe, Santa Cruz, I Prevail 5/31, 8 pm, $22+. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5000.

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

D OW N TOW N Artifice Vegas Blues Dance Tue, 7 pm, free. Thursday Request Live Thu, 10 pm, free. 1025 S. 1st St., Ste. 100., 702-489-6339. Art Bar Ryan Whyte Maloney Thu, 6 pm. Live music Fri-Sat, 6 pm. Downtown Grand, 206 N. 3rd St., 702719-5100. Backstage Bar & Billiards Empire Records ft. Bella Strings 5/14, 7:30 pm, $10. Bobby Meader Music, Jesse Pino, Teddi Tarnoff & the Northern Lights, Niki 5/15, 8 pm, $5. Blues Accelerant, Johnny Bennett, Tui McMillan, Bright Light Innuendo, The Roscoes, Unique Massive 5/16, 8 pm, $5. Ballyhoo! Light Em Up, Alific, Europa 5/18, 8 pm, $11-$14. 601 E. Fremont St., 702382-2227. Bar & Bistro Out of the Desert Bluegrass Band Sun, noon, free. Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd., 702202-6060. Beauty Bar Motown Party 5/20, 9 pm. Squirtgun, The Core, New Cold War, Caskkit, Pooky Forrest 5/21, 8 pm. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. The Bunkhouse Black Pistol Fire 5/19, 8 pm, $10. Crocodiles 5/21, $10. Frank Turner, Laura Jane Grace, Bob Log III 5/23, 10 pm, sold out. The English Beat, The Skints, Chris Murray 5/24, 10 pm, $20. Big Talk 5/26, 8 pm, $15. Pinata Protest 5/30, 9 pm, $10-$12. The Rentals, Rey Pila, Radiation City 6/3, 9 pm, $15-$18. E Life and Times 6/16, 9 pm, $8-$10. Melt Banana, Torche 6/26, $20. 124 S. 11th St., bunkhousedowntown. com. Clark County Government Amphitheater Jazz in the Park ft. Selina Albright, Jackiem Joyner, Elan Trotman 5/16. Marc Antoine 5/23. Spyro Gyra 5/30. Brubeck Brothers 6/6. 7 p.m., free. 500 S. Grand Central Parkway, 702-4558200. Fremont Country Club Streetlight Manifesto 5/21, 8 pm, $21-$26. 601 Fremont St., 702-382-6601. Fremont Street Experience Carl Ferris 5/14-5/15, 5/17-5/22, 7 pm, free. free. Yellow Brick Road 5/14, 5/21, 8 pm, free. Monroy 5/14, 5/21, 10 pm, free. Zowie Bowie 5/14, 5/21, 10 pm, free. Jimmie Ray’s Black Train, 5/15, 8 pm, free. Spandex Nation 5/155/16, 10 pm; 5/17, 9 pm, free. Cash Presley 5/15, 10 pm; 5/16-5/17, 8 pm, free. Downtown Las Vegas, vegasexperience.com. Golden Nugget Christpher Cross 5/15, 8 pm, $32-$109. Blood, Sweat & Tears 5/22, 8 pm, $32-$109. Night Ranger 5/29, 8 pm, $32-$76. 129 Fremont St., 702-385-7111. Griffin Live music Wed, 10 pm, free. 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577. LVCS Death at Midnight, The Daftys, Inazuma, The Peabrains 5/14, 8 pm, $12-$15. Twiztid, Kung Fu Vampire, Davey Suicide, The Damn Dirty Apes, Kissing Candice, Donnie Menace, Ne Last Words, Dim 5/15, 7 pm, $20-$23. Voodoo Glow Skulls, The Phenomenauts, Green Jello, Barbwire Dolls, Rule of Thumb, Since We Were Kids, Brutal Resistance 5/21, 8 pm, $15-$18. Eric Gales 5/13, 8 pm, $6-$8. Decide, Entombed A.D.,

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CALENDAR Hate Eternal, Black Crown Initiate, Pillars of Creation, Spun In Darkness, Levitron 6/11, 5 pm, $20-$25. Potluck, Wrekonize, Prevail of Swollen Members 6/23, 9 pm, $10-$13. Geto Boys, Ne Last Words, Charlie Madness, The Tribe 6/28, 9 pm, $12-$15. Insomnium, Ominium Gatherum 8/29, 9 pm, $12-$15. Krisiun, Origin Aeon, Alterbeast, Soreption, Ingested 9/17, 8 pm, $17-$20. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-3531. Mickie Finnz Garage Boys 5/14, 5/17, 9 pm. Incognito 5/15-5/16, 10 pm. The Leeroy Jenkins Incident 5/20-5/21, 5/27, 9 pm. Blue String Theory 5/22, 10 pm. Crown Avenue 5/23, 10 pm. JV Allstars 5/18-5/19, 5/24-5/26, 9 pm. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-4204. The Smith Center Lisa Hilton 5/15-5/16, 7 pm, $37. Lon Bronson Band 5/22, 7 pm, $15+. Guys Sing Dolls 5/23, 2 pm & 8 pm, $35+. James Tormé 5/29-5/30, 7 pm, $37. Steve Tyrell 6/12-6/13, 7 pm, $39+. Samba Exotica 6/19-6/20, 7 pm, $35+. Frank Sinatra Jr. 6/20, 7:30 pm, $29+. Annaleigh Ashford 6/27, 7 pm; 6/28, 2 pm, $49+. Clint Holmes First Fri & Sat, 8:30 pm; first Sun, 2 pm; $35-$45. 361 Symphony Park Ave., 702-749-2000.

THE ’BURBS Cannery Shaun South 5/14, 8:30 pm, free. Shaun South, Dean Bradley 5/15-5/16, 7 pm, free. The Hipsters 5/16, 9 pm, free. 2121 E Craig Rd., 702-507-5700. Distill Summerlin Nick Mattera 5/16, 5/30. Rick Foell 5/23. All shows free & begin at 8 p.m. 10820 W. Charleston Blvd., distillbar. com, 702-534-1400. Elixir Stefnrock 5/16, 5/29. Nick Mattera 5/23, 5/30. All shows at 8 p.m., free. 2920 N. Green Valley Pkwy., 702-272-0000. Fiesta Henderson (Coco Lounge) Against the Grain 5/15-5/16. Route 66 5/22-5/23. Greg Peterson 5/29-5/30. Shows at 7:30 pm. 702-558-7000. Fiesta Rancho (Club Tequila) Le Mar Le

Warren 5/15, 5/29. Banda Rancho Nuevo 5/16, 11 pm, $10. Queen Aries & Friends 5/22. Banda Destructora 5/23, 11 pm, $10. Proyeccion De Durango 5/30, 11 pm, $10. Shows at 9 pm, free unless noted. Take the Stage Thu, 7 pm. (Cabo Lounge) Cool Change 5/15. Pagie & Friends 5/22. Eagle One All Stars 5/29. Shows at 8:30, free unless noted. 702-631-7000. Green Valley Ranch (Hanks) Dave Ritz Tue, Thu, 6 pm; Sat, 7 pm. Nick Mattera Fri, 6 pm. Jeremy James Sat, 7 pm. Rick Duarte Wed, 6 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702367-2470. M Resort (M Pavillion) Hotel California 5/23, 7 pm, $20-$30. Elvis, The Aloha Concert Tribute 8/8, 7 pm, $30-$42. Shows free with drink purchase. M Resort, 800-745-3000. Rampart Casino (Addison’s Lounge) Wes Winters Tue, 6 pm. Mark O’Toole Wed, 6 pm. All shows free unless noted. (J.C.’s Irish Sports Pub) All shows free unless noted. (Round Bar) All shows free unless noted. JW Marriott. 221 N. Rampart Blvd., 702-5075900. Red Rock (Rocks Lounge) Gary Street 5/29, 7 pm, $5. Zowie Bowie Fri, 10 pm. The Dirty Sat, 11 pm, $10. David Perrico Pop Strings Orchestra Sat, 11 pm, free. (Onyx) Jared Berry Thu, Sat, 9 pm. The Dirty Sat. 11 pm, $10. (T-Bones) Dave Ritz Wed, 6 pm; Fri, 7 pm. Rick Duarte Thu, 6 pm; Sat, 7 pm. Shows free unless noted. 11011 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-797-7777. Santa Fe Station (Chrome Showroom)Keiko Matsui 5/16, 8 pm. Best of Crooners 5/20, 6:30 pm. Corro Van Such 5/27, 6:30 pm. Black Jacks 5/15. Paul Charles Band 5/22. Chrome 5/29. Reckless in Vegas 5/30. All shows free unless noted. (Revolver) Bro Country Thu, 8 pm. (4949 Lounge) Jared Berry Thu, 7 pm, free. 4949 N Rancho Dr., 702-658-4900. Sienna Italian Authentic Trattoria Vegas Good Fellas Thu, 7:30 pm. Red Velvet Fri-Sat,

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