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Contents 7 mail Do the LIB adds excite?

43 noise Purity Ring’s spooky

8 as we see it A final toast to a

synth-pop at the Bowl, and a spin with Kacey Musgraves.

bar that changed the scene. Game time at Retro City. Cashman 2.0?

44 festival Blurring into the

12 weekly Q&A Meet the chef to the homeless, Juan Penate.

14 Feature | vegasy vows

magical melt of EDC 2015.

46 the strip Brooks & Dunn and ... Reba!

The love Twitter built. Elvis at the altar. Doing the Cupid Shuffle.

47 fine art Inspirational earth.

18 Feature | wandering in

fish. Ribs & Burgers (nuff said) and the legacy of Sushi Roku.

the desert Teensy ghost towns and glorious ruins of humanity and historic signage and odd art and ...

24 nights No more Bull. Party

50 food Other Mama’s splendid

54 calendar Rub elbows with the literati at the Writer’s Block.

in the ’burbs at Public School 702.

39 A&E Fine-art smorgasbord. 40 pop culture Musing on the reissued-album money pit.

41 screen The dirty bear is back. And so is Scream, for a fifth slash.

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Burning Man culture has improved EDC, but I’m not sure the EDC infusion has improved Burning Man. –Charity Morgan They have music at EDC? I thought it was just video game tones. –Aron Kozin

A DAY FOR FISH We asked where you’d be celebr-eating International Sushi Day on June 18. You answered.

Sushi Koma or Yama Sushi. –Sissy Britt

SEE YA NEXT YEAR Readers latched onto our EDC pro tips and offered their own advice. Keep these in mind for next year’s fest.

Don’t miss the sunrise sets. Never get there too early. Bring cash. The food situation sucks. Remember that phone service is bad. –Chris Ulloa-Padilla Drink lots of water. Don’t make fun of someone who may need medical attention; instead stop and offer your help. Make the environment the safe, loving place that it once was. –Shelly Rae My daughter brings wipes and antibacterial hand soap ever since someone threw up on her there. And I make her drink lots of Pedialyte. –Stephanie Fragoso Say “please” and “thank you.” Maybe try a “you’re welcome” or an “excuse me.” –Edward Riley Lay off the drugs, kids. –Darise Gallegos

DEEP THOUGHTS Our weekend coverage of EDC inspired ruminations on festival improvements and trends.

I love EDC. It’s amazing. Some people don’t understand it and that’s okay, but don’t judge by stereotype. Some of us truly enjoy it for the right reasons. If there is anything to improve it would be the venue [getting] better prepared and improving their cabs, shuttles, and general traffic exit plans. –Christina Cepeda All I see is money. Most choose to judge. Not me, I like the money they bring. –Edward Riley

SushiSamba! –Meredith Heller Kaya. –Adriana Rodriguez Raising Cane’s. –Michael Ray Jr.

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DOWNTOWN DOGG Life Is Beautiful added Snoop Dogg, Chance the Rapper, Ab-Soul and other acts to its fall festival lineup.

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Hey Life Is Beautiful, contrary to popular belief there’s plenty of people here that like more unique music than what you’re offering this year. –Jason Giffen I didn’t think I could care even less about this festival, but I was just proven wrong. –Carl Askew

FOND FAREWELL Legendary Las Vegas developer Kirk Kerkorian passed away June 15 at age 98.

I didn’t get the chance to meet Mr. Kerkorian. He has shaped Las Vegas! As a concierge it is an honor to work at a hotel he built that has brought so many tourists from all over the world to Las Vegas. Thank you, Mr. Kerkorian, for all you have given to Las Vegas! Deepest condolences to all your family and all those who had the pleasure to meet you, work with and be mentored by you. –Jennifer Pierce

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floor—was where everyone met. If you went out at all in Las Vegas between ’95 and ’03, you spent plenty of time at the Center Bar. This was the spot you were most likely to see a celeb back in the days before they were being paid for nightclub appearances. You’d ∑ It was “a trailblazer,” an “iconic hub,” and now this is the “end of an era,” find industry pros and local college kids partying together, before, dura chance to get one more drink at the “bar that changed Las Vegas ing and after shows at the Joint. It was always so packed, my crew used nightlife forever.” There’s certainly a lot of hyperbole floating to buy beers in the gift shop near Pink Taco and reassemble at Center around the announcement that the Hard Rock Hotel is closing FINAL TOAST Bar to avoid the long wait for drinks. down its infamous Center Bar this weekend. And yet this is the rare AT CENTER Things have changed, as they do, and the bar is ready for a makeoccasion when overstatement is appropriate. The Center Bar really BAR June 28, over. The center casino space will be renovated and reopened in did change the game. 7-10 p.m., Hard September when the $30 million project is complete. Until then, pay The resort on Paradise Road opened in 1995 as the extrapolated, Rock Hotel. your respects Sunday night with the Final Toast, where there will be Vegas-style version of the globally recognized Hard Rock Cafe brand, and drink specials and probably lots of nostalgic storytelling. it was immediately welcomed as something very different from that era’s It’s just fine that the Center Bar is changing, because it was really a product casinos. As Harry Morton, son of Hard Rock Hotel creator Peter Morton, told of its times, the convergence of a great, fun, rowdy idea with a whole lotta peome a couple years ago, it “promoted the sin of Sin City” when other new resorts ple looking for exactly that. And it did change Vegas. For proof, just look at the seemed more family friendly. The Hard Rock was where the rock stars were, the casino that kinda stole the Hard Rock’s thunder when it opened—the Palms. movie stars, the party-ready celebs and anyone who wanted to be around them, Pretty nice center bar over there, too. –Brock Radke and the Center Bar—smack in the middle of the oddly circular, sunken casino

Kind of a bug deal Risks and safeguards against West Nile Virus

∑ Last week the Southern Nevada Health District released detailed information regarding the presence of West Nile Virus-positive mosquitos in the area, including eight zip codes where the pests have been found. But the where isn’t as important as the what next, given the mobility of mosquitos and the possibility (however small) of being

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bitten and sickened, the symptoms ranging from flu-like to life-threatening. (Six residents have died from it since its first detection in Clark County; only two locals contracted it—and survived—last year.) As such, precautions are recommended for anyone in Clark County, and include eliminating or avoiding standing water, using DEET-infused insect repellant

and wearing long-sleeved shirts and long pants—yes, even in the beastly heat. On one hand, low contraction numbers hardly warrant hysteria, but Dr. Joseph Iser, chief health officer for SNHD, reminds us that there’s no telling how one will be affected before being bitten. So don’t wait to read the info and talk to your doc. –Mike Prevatt

as we see it…

Wake up A new Insomniac initiative tackles the hot-button issue of drugs in dance music > Remember When? Retro City Games can turn the past into your present.

8-bit paradise

ing to be busy for the first six months,” Ghougasian says, “and it was busy from the get-go.” They have systems ranging from Atari and ColecoVision Video-game nostalgia is on point at to Intellivision and Dreamcast, plus games for them all. Retro City By Jason Harris Nintendo (NES all the way to Wii U) is still the biggest market, with shoppers seeking their old favorites along with collector’s items like Aladdin, an import game that I still remember some of the great moments I had was PAL formatted. Most of the cartridges I saw were playing 8-bit Nintendo. The night I beat Super Mario priced below $10. The entire 8-bit system will run you only Bros. in one life. The dominance of Bo Jackson running $60, and the couple swaps out the pins so you might not over everybody in Tecmo Bowl. The epically excellent have to blow into the cartridge as much. skateboarding portion of T & C Surf Designs (and But this place is about more than just the equally disappointing surfing part). Maybe games. Says Haughaboo, “It’s all about the it’s cliché to be nostalgic for the gaming system RETRO CITY community ... There’s no place for everybody I grew up with, but to me the original Nintendo GAMES to bond and come to.” With that in mind, RCG is still the best. 693 N. Valle offers free game nights once a month that feaAnd it’s celebrated at Retro City Games, a Verde #5, ture 20 TVs and a 110-foot projector screen. shop just off Sunset and Valle Verde that’s like the 702-564-3011. They hold bi-weekly tournaments and charity neighborhood video stores I remember growing Mondayup. Games are displayed in a glass case. And Saturday, 10 a.m.- drives. And on June 28, they are sponsoring the premiere of the documentary Nintendo there’s always clutter, because there’s always 8 p.m.; Sunday, Quest, which will be screened at 2 p.m. in the more to sort for owners Douglas Haughaboo and 11 a.m.-7 p.m. UNLV Student Union. Nichole Ghougasian. Things are going well for Henderson’s preThe 20-somethings have known each other miere video-game couple. But should it all fall apart, for more than six years, and many of their date nights Ghougasian has a plan. “To be honest, if it didn’t work, have involved video games. Their collection became so we would close our doors and start all over again someepic that they decided to put their years of retail experiwhere else.” ence into their own shop last year. “We weren’t expect-

Focus amid chaos

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The Zen Center of Las Vegas faces an uncertain future The Zen Center of Las Vegas has been teaching people how to think outside of themselves for 21 years, so you’ll have to excuse it for diverting some focus back to itself. The not-so-Zen situation is this: the center is a nonprofit solely run by unpaid volunteers, and its east-side space was recently listed for sale by the owners. ¶ “The asking price is unaffordable for us. Hence, we are month-to-month until the property is sold,” says Zen Master Ji Haeng (translation: “Wisdom Action”), founder of the Kwan Um School of Zen-affiliated meditation center. Now that it must prepare for a costly relocation, it has launched a donation campaign through the YouCaring website, aiming for $10,000 by the July 1 deadline. Only a fifth of the needed funds have been pledged, so if you’re feeling mindful or generous, visit youcaring.com and search for Zen Center of Las Vegas. Regardless of what happens, Ji Haeng says the congregation (or sangha) of approximately 40 will still exist, though “how that takes shape remains to be seen.” –Mike Prevatt

We need to talk about drugs. That was the takeaway from a panel discussion during the recent EDMbiz conference in Las Vegas, and it’s a point that’s all the more urgent following the death of a 24-year-old man at last weekend’s Electric Daisy Carnival (an exact cause has yet to be determined). “It’s a hot-button issue,” said KCRW’s Jason Bentley, introducing the June 17 panel at the Cosmopolitan. “We didn’t ever want to go near it because of the negative connotations.” At this point, however, it may be impossible not to. “Is it time for us to set our own standards and help bring those at the smaller end of events up to the higher end?” moderator Mark Lawrence of the Association for Electronic Music asked. The answer is a long overdue yes. Insomniac is one of the few industry leaders with the resources to do so, and the promoter kicked off the discussion by launching #WeAreWideAwake. The initiative promotes health and safety awareness, encouraging fans to speak up if a friend needs medical attention rather than fear consequences. The initiative is far from perfect—drugs aren’t specifically called out, and useful info like how to look for signs of an overdose isn’t offered—but it arrived in tandem with an unusually open public discussion about drugs in dance music. Topics ranged from legal limitations to social stigma to whether drug-testing booths at events implicitly encourage use. “The reason it’s so important to talk about what you’re taking is that it’s probably not what you think you’re taking,” said panelist and DJ Brianna Price, who directed a documentary about drug use in dance music. Talking alone won’t solve the issues that lead to overdoses, but it could open the door to figuring out what will. “It’s heartbreaking, because we want to help you,” said panelist Maren Steiner, Insomniac’s director of health and safety. “So much of this stuff can be avoided, if people would just see something and say something.” –Andrea Domanick

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> creative differences David Sanchez Burr says his work was copied by another artist.

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A local artist’s accusation highlights the debate about “copying” By Kristen Peterson

Indianapolis artist and former UNLV professor Emily Kennerk won a $5,000 grant from international arts organization ArtPrize this month, honoring her proposal to create a 70-foot dinner table that would respond to sound waves from audience members whispering into a microphone. The vibrations would disrupt the table settings. Those knocked to the ground would be replaced. Titled “Whisper,” the interactive installation seems like an interesting concept and, depending how well executed, a fascinating piece. But to Las Vegas artist David Sanchez Burr, the idea is all too familiar. In 2009, Sanchez Burr—then a Master of Fine Arts candidate at UNLV—created a dinner table and used sound vibrations to alter it. In 2014 he revisited the dinner table idea with “Materialism Antagonism,” designed as a critique of “the influential class and its relation to the deterioration of democratic process,” this time with sound deconstructing an entire scale-model crystal dinner table and accoutrements. The concept of deconstructing with sound is one he’s honed over the years with several kinetic sound works in exhibits, including a residency at Cosmopolitan’s P3Studio. Learning of Kennerk’s award, Sanchez Burr posted on Facebook that Kennerk (whom he said was one of his former teachers) copied his work, adding that she attended its presentation in his thesis exhibit. Sympathetic commenters mentioned similar situations with other artists. But that list is long if we consider the past few centuries

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of famous artists’ famous works originating with or similar to another artist’s idea. Examples range from Manet to Picasso, Sherrie Levine to Andy Warhol, Marina Abramovic to Sturtevant. Some argue that in a work by an artist using an idea presented by another artist, only the intention needs to be different—not the art itself, particularly when it comes to appropriation. Others argue there is no such thing as an original idea, especially in art, where inspiration, exchange, borrowing and dialogue are part of an ongoing history. That’s no easy consolation for someone who created something and then watched someone else recreate. The law argues the point to varying degrees. Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were ordered to pay $7.3 million when found guilty of copying Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” for “Blurred Lines,” a song they co-wrote. Artist Shepard Fairey was accused of stealing a photograph of Barack Obama by an Associated Press freelance photographer, then manipulating it and selling prints, resulting in an outof-court settlement. Todd Goldman, founder of David and Goliath merchandising company, was accused of plagiarism for a praying kitten cartoon and settled with another cartoonist. The outcome of the Sanchez Burr situation could be anything, including nothing. Sanchez Burr says he brought the similarities to the attention of ArtPrize and is waiting to hear back before making a comment publicly. Kennerk, whose large-scale three-dimensional works often reflect and comment on suburban housing and the American dream, did not respond to a request for comment. An article announcing her prize said this was her first time using sound deconstruction as a medium. “Whisper” is slated to be featured at ArtPrize Seven in September and October in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Museums, a library and ... robot testing grounds? Drones and robots could become the Cultural Corridor’s newest tenants if the City of Las Vegas greenlights the top idea from the Strong Cities Strong Communities’ contest: a resource center and business incubator at Cashman Center. Las Vegans Brandon Wiegand, Zachary Conine, Michael Russell, Sallie Doebler and Curt Carlson won a half-million dollars from the federally funded, locally judged contest for their Unmanned Aerial & Robotics Resource Center pitch. The plan aims to boost Nevada’s share of the national commercial drone industry impact from $1.5 billion over the next 20 years to $15 billion by improving local STEM education and potentially attracting new businesses to the state. “The biggest challenge has been finding the right way to be helpful from a business aspect,” Doebler says, which is why the center is billed as part real estate, part investment vehicle. In 2012, the city received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to gather ideas to bolster the economy. Focusing on Cashman and other areas such as the medical district on Charleston, the contest received proposals from 49 states and 48 countries. The contest also awarded proposals calling for the ballfield to become a “Mid-Strip Main Street,” a sustainable business center and a Hispanic cultural hub. City spokesperson Jace Radke says existing leases with the 51s and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority mean change is not imminent, though the UARRC group says tenants could move in as soon as a year from now. Will the craft fairs get to stay? –Kristy Totten

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and it comes the next day, he goes, “Chef Juan, this is God’s food. That’s how he provides to us.” I’m a big believer in that now, because sure enough when we hope for something to get donated that I cannot afford or it’s overpriced and I cannot dare order it, it comes in and gets donated. Do you recall the first meal you served from this kitchen? I

remember walking through here and knowing the necessity that it was to make better the meal service we were providing. I wasn’t satisfied. As soon as I came in we started cleaning. It needed to be clean, and it needed to resemble a sanitary kitchen. If we were going to provide health, hope and certainly dignity, it all starts with the way you handle the product that the clients are going to consume. Some of those clients help out in the kitchen. How do they benefit? We teach them

Serving hope Catholic Charities’ Juan Penate on “Jesus food” and second chances that start in the kitchen Lunch shift is over at Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada on the hottest day of the year yet, but Juan Penate betrays no fatigue. The executive chef of the St. Vincent Lied Dining Facility seems to have inexhaustible energy when it comes to serving nutritious meals made with limited means and inspired expertise to as many as 800 disadvantaged clients in the heart of the homeless corridor north of Downtown. Penate and chefs Paul Munson and Benito Montano prepare free community meals seven days a week, $4 breakfasts and lunches Monday through Friday and Meals on Wheels assistance to people who can’t make it to the facility, now in its 50th year. It’s a job he loves, but wishes one day there would be no need for. You’re part of a legacy that goes back 50 years, but on the other hand it’s a war you can never win. I always say if homelessness was a profit-

able business, it would be the perfect business

because it just keeps growing. The need is there. We see it on our sidewalks, day in, day out. So the evidence is there. You’ve gotta look the other way not to notice it. I understand Sands Expo and Convention Center has been a great help lately. If they have a con-

vention for 10,000 people or more, they’re always left with a tremendous amount of food. So through Ryan Green at Sands, through Three Square delivering it to us, we are able to feed many, many people. Last donation I got three weeks ago, I was able to feed 4,000 people. I would love to see more hotels and casinos get in the trend of giving their leftovers to the nonprofits so we could eliminate a bigger percentage of hunger in Las Vegas. Improvising must be an important aspect of your job. We never know what’s going to come in

through that back door. Sometimes we get things that are not so appealing, sometimes

we get things that we have to throw away right away because they are not servable, edible. And then sometimes we get surprised with filet mignon or a nice piece of swordfish or salmon. My chefs and I, we talk a lot, and we struggle. Sometimes there’s not enough food in the refrigerators. And then my budget is around $2,000, $2,300 a week to feed this mass amount of people. We rely on donations. We are very donation driven, but sometimes we don’t have enough. But there are always surprises.

Yeah. Chef Paul calls it Jesus food. If we don’t have something and we hope to get it,

the basic skills, the basic knife skills. We are strong on making sure you’re on time, that you’re groomed, that your hygiene is good. And then we teach them as much as they want to learn. Then we have a system in place. We have a partnership with Culinary Academy of Las Vegas, and we’re able to send them to get a certificate. We have had a few success stories from men we had trained in our kitchen. Soon enough, they leave the academy with a job lined up. Little by little they get their life back together. Do you see yourself working here for a long time to come?

I know for sure this is where I want to retire. This will be my last employer. I worked for different establishments, and I don’t think anything has pleased me so much as far as serving a client. I’d rather serve the clients I’m serving now than to serve those who have millions. –Matt Kelemen

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WEDDINGS ARE BETTER WITH ELVIS, EWOKS AND FLYING VAMPIRES

> FANTASTIC VOWAGE Elvis and Star Wars to Gothic and Western, Viva Las Vegas has a theme for you.

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og curls over the grinning cherubs of an altar fountain, and the jarring refrain of the Imperial March from Star Wars hits. Leggy Ewoks and dashing Jedi Knights come down the aisle, flanked by enough Princess Leia buns to attempt a world record. The chapel is full, and every guest is decked out for the commitment ceremony of Anakin and Amidala, aka Antonio and Paulina. The couple came all the way from Mexico to have Darth Vader officiate, and he makes them promise to control their dark sides. It’s a 30-minute display of love and ridiculousness, something the Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel does with relentless precision. The roots of the wedding destination on Las Vegas Boulevard go back to the mid-’90s, when founder Ron Decar was towing a horse-trailer dressing room

be shy. Pretty much anything you can so he could change rapid-fire from tuxedo dream up, Viva can conjure. to Elvis jumpsuit and sing for weddings VIVA LAS “You want it to be magical. It’s a all over town. He’d been holding down a VEGAS production. All of our background is lounge at the Tropicana, but the wedding WEDDING show business, so we’re used to makbusiness—especially in costume—got hot. CHAPEL 1205 ing everything bigger and grand,” says He turned a napkin sketch of a bride and Las Vegas Blvd. Decar, one of three in-house impersongroom with a hippie, a medieval knight, a S., 702-384-0771, ators bringing the magic (sometimes in Vulcan, a showgirl and the King into an vivalasvegas a corset and fishnets with mascara in his ad. “I had nothing—no costumes, no sets, weddings.com. sideburns). He says themed ceremonies no props. … People started calling, and I are 50-60 percent of Viva’s bookings, was like, ‘Oh no, it’s gonna work.’” and the most popular is the original, Viva Las Vegas now sprawls across six Elvis, who helped English tourists Helen and Mark indoor and outdoor chapels equipped for traditional Johnson renew their vows after 10 years. weddings and themed extravaganzas that range from “We got a bit drunk last night and that was it,” disco to gladiator to Gothic cemetery with an “aerial Mark joked, adding that Elvis was the obvious duet of vampires in love.” Want to drive down the choice to weave a wild thread into their love story. aisle in a pink Cadillac or Cinderella carriage? Want “It’s tradition, isn’t it? It’s too Las Vegas.” Spock and Alice Cooper to bless your union? Don’t

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TWEET OF FATE How a chance meeting on social media became a vow of love forever

> FACE TO FACE Kyle, Bryanna and her parents at Three Angry Wives, where they all were for the couple’s first real date in 2013.

he’s the kind of person who knows when to post a sloth meme, who fakes ginormous eyebrows for laughs, who muses on the inadequacy of certain crayons. Watching a video of her beautifully spare cover of Jenny Lewis’ “Acid Tongue” I get a sense of what he felt, caught up in the digitized molecules of a total stranger. “What got me was the bright red hair,” Kyle Harris says, recalling that December day in 2012 when he scrolled through his 20,000 Twitter followers and stopped on the face of Bryanna Mazzella. He ended up on her YouTube channel and watched her cover of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy.” Then he watched everything else, and tweeted that people should check out this girl who was really talented and really, really cute. He tells me this on speakerphone with Bryanna in New York, having just flown back from their Italian honeymoon. The tale of how his tweet profoundly snowballed has been in the news, major outlets from Good Morning America and Huffington Post to the U.K.’s Daily Mail pouncing on the 21st-century novelty of a couple falling for each other via Twitter, FaceTime and Skype and live-streaming their May 30 wedding on Periscope. But there’s a classic love story underneath. He was 22 and she was 20. He was going to school in Arkansas, where he’d lived his entire life. And she was crashing with her parents in Las Vegas, having just decided that UNR wasn’t the right fit. He tweeted about her music, a passion that makes her happy and proud, so she tweeted back. They connected every day after that for two months, and in February 2013, Kyle hopped on a one-way flight to Vegas. His parents thought he was

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going to LA to move in with friends. “Because if I told my very amazing, conservative Southern Baptist parents that I was moving to Las Vegas for a girl I met over the Internet, they would have killed me.” “He lied for love!” Bryanna says with a big laugh. Her parents bought the plane ticket. And they went along on the first real date, waiting at Boca Park’s Three Angry Wives as Bryanna and Kyle met at McCarran. The initial moment was overwhelming. “We said hi very awkwardly, and then Bryanna said, ‘Can I just hug you now?’ and we had a very long hug.” Long story absurdly short, they met her parents for a drink, moved in together and got engaged three months later. “But then I took it back immediately,” Bryanna jokes. “I was like, ‘You don’t mean right now, right? Because, I mean, it’s Vegas!” They set a date with a two-year engagement, time to test their relationship and for Bryanna’s dad to painstakingly bedazzle place cards for the reception. Kyle’s parents helped with wedding prep, too, once they’d gotten in the loop and seen their son’s happiness. Kyle: “She’s really helped me come out of my shell. Back then I was super-shy, and now …” Bryanna: “You have no fear.” Kyle: “I have no fear. I started doing Vine videos a while back. She would give me ideas and be in the skits with me, and I would do stupid things in public just to make people laugh. She really brought out the best in me.” For the past year the couple has been volunteering for Downtown Podcast, and developing their own creative endeavors. Hers is Hoodratz, understated custom fashion for dogs (expertly modeled by her Italian Greyhound Milo); his is a network for homegrown businesses called

Vegas Made. They can focus their energy now that the “two years of mass-production and planning” is over. The wedding took place in Bryanna’s native Long Island in her childhood parish, with a lavish reception at Tam O’Shanter country club—and everywhere else, thanks to Periscope. Bryanna says that people who’d followed their relationship on social media from the beginning expressed how nice it was to have “the closure” of seeing them wed. Especially given her insane gold dress, custom made by Puerto Rican designer Lissa Porrata in Moroccan silk, with a 21-foot veil. During the ceremony, she promised to be his sidekick and cheerleader, and to protect their jokes. He vowed he wanted nothing more than to love her and make her happy. “You would hear none of his vows, because he was actually sobbing,” Bryanna says. “And I don’t mean that to be embarrassing. I was completely overwhelmed by how emotional he was, in the best way possible.” The reception had bands and aerialists and a photo booth with (of course) an upload feature. The first dance was to “Little Things” by One Direction, whose manager never responded to Kyle’s pleas for a live rendition despite his Twitter camp having grown to 35,000 in the media whirlwind. Asked how they’ll leverage the attention, Bryanna laughingly says she can dream of getting a notification that Jennifer Lawrence is following her. “I don’t think we have fans. I think we just have people who are interested in what we’re doing and about our story. ’Cause I’m not a personality by any means. I’m just somebody who found love on the Internet and got married,” Kyle says. “In other words, we’re just two schmoes,” Bryanna adds, in the best way possible. –Erin Ryan

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Arts&Entertainment MOVIES + MUSIC + ART + FOOD

DOCUMENTING ART Barrick’s Recent Acquisitions tells the story of the scene

> DIGGING FOR BONES Do your own excavating at the Springs Preserve.

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Stuff you’ll want to know about SEE DINO SUMMER Not to be confused with Donna Summer, the Springs Preserve’s new dinosaur exhibit inside the Origen Museum comes with an animatronic T. Rex and Triceratops and the chance to excavate life-sized dinosaur bones. Through September 20, daily, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., $5-$19. SPEAKEASY CINEMA The Mob Museum digs deep for this

screening series of ’50s mobster noir movies, with selections including The Captive City, shot entirely in Reno, and Dark City, featuring an early Charlton Heston starring role. Admission includes complimentary cocktails. July 1-22, Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m., $12-$15/screening, $40-$50/series.

HEAR TUXEDO Jack of all musical trades Mayer Hawthorne also claims membership to several bands, including this electrofunk/boogie-pop duo he started with Seattle hip-hop craftsman Jake One. Music lovers looking for nu-school disciples of Chic, Cameo, Atlantic Starr, etc.— or a less-daft version of Chromeo—should

plan on it. June 27, 8 p.m., $25. Bunkhouse. THE RED PAINTINGS If the LA-by-way-of-Australia artrockers’ complex sound (imagine an orchestral Mars Volta or Trail of Dead) doesn’t get you Downtown, maybe this message from the band’s Facebook will: “We want YOU to be a part of our alien geisha creative circus! Offer your body as a human canvas and become a living work of art.” With Candy Warpop, June 29, 8 p.m., free, Beauty Bar.

EAT & DRINK TAPAS BY ALEX STRATTA/TENAYA CREEK PAIRING The new Tivoli Village gastro-ganza is hosting a feast where six courses will be matched with a different Tenaya Creek brew. An example: bacon and sage-wrapped dates with Bonanza Brown Ale. If you’re half as teased as we are, we’ll see ya there. June 25, 6-9 p.m., $48, RSVP at 702-483-3555. RX BOILER ROOM/CRAFTHAUS PAIRING

Henderson’s CraftHaus brewery teams with Rick Moonen’s creative comfortfood eatery for a dinner of Portuguese seafood Cataplana, kalbi-marinated skirt steak, New Bedford jumbo scallops and a sticky toffee pudding, paired with Moonen’s CraftHaus collabo Gone With the Wit, among other brews. June 26, 6 p.m., $60, RSVP at 702-632-9900.

For all the exceptional artists who’ve had a presence in Las Vegas, there’s been little more than a paper trail to mark their time here, no solid heritage collection to showcase works, ideas and discussions that evolved or transpired—aside from a chunk of works in the Las Vegas Art Museum collection. And so when the Barrick Museum switched its focus from natural history to art, it moved swiftly to build one, and last week opened its Recent Acquisitions exhibit, dedicated to the creative force and pursuits in and around Las Vegas. The show features work by Wendy Kveck, Daniel Habegger, Shawn Hummel, Sam Davis, Rita Abbey, Brent Sommerhauser, Danielle Kelly and more than two dozen others, including a handful of pieces donated to LVAM’s collection, which is housed at the Barrick. “We wanted to document what’s going on here now and form a solid collection,” says program director Aurore Giguet, adding that in the past six months the pursuit has sped up. Much of the work came to the Barrick with assistance from Shannon McMackin at VAST Space Projects, who helped bring in pieces by California artists Nicholas Shake, Patricia Burns and others who’ve shown (or participated in projects) here. Though the Valley’s gallery scene continues to be in flux, and career artists come and go, there’s now at least a place to celebrate, and learn from, the presence that’s been here. –Kristen Peterson

RECENT ACQUISITIONS Through September 19; Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.5 p.m.; Saturday, noon-5 p.m. UNLV’s Barrick Museum, 702-895-3381.

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A&E | POP CULTURE

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

SOAKING IN THE ’70S

Listening to the Stones and Zeppelin for the first time, again BY SMITH GALTNEY A recent New Yorker cartoon pictured a pair of balding, middle-aged dudes standing before a rack of topline audio equipment, staring holes in one of those high-rise, cinder-blockthick turntables. “The two things that really drew me to vinyl,” read the caption, “were the expense and the inconvenience.” It’s funny ’cause it’s true. No matter how many articles credit vinyl’s comeback to young, nostalgia-huffing hipsters, the recordcollecting industry lives and dies by those who have a little extra cash and time on their hands. As a middle-aged dude with no kids, I qualify on both counts and therefore am putty in the hands of record labels still trying to squeeze obscene profits from their back catalogues. Have you browsed through a vinyl bin lately? The prices are absurd. Neil Young’s Harvest for $46.99? The Queen Is Dead for $34.99? Abbey Road almost feels like a steal at $24.99. I try to be sensible about this, but that didn’t stop me from paying $46 for Portishead’s Dummy, or from spending $93 last week on “deluxe” reissues of Sticky Fingers by the Stones and Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti. In the case of Sticky Fingers, I was powerless. I’ve never owned a copy of the album in its original form—with the Warhol-designed, denim-clad crotch cover and working zipper that

opens to reveal another crotch clad in briefs. One of the great pop gimmicks of the 20th century, it’s actually quite scandalous in action, “sex personified,” as Michael Kors once said. As the opening chords of “Brown Sugar” filled my living room, making way for that first verse about a slave master whipping women, Sticky Fingers felt as sleazy and racy as ever. But the rest of the first side, particularly “Wild Horses,” sounded shrill enough to make me wonder how much care went into this supposed “remaster.” The additional disc of live cuts and outtakes wasn’t bad, but four cuts from the Stones ’71 set at the Roundhouse in London only makes you want more. Maybe if I zip and unzip that zipper several times a day for the next few weeks, it’ll justify the $35 setback. Physical Graffiti was pricier ($58), but since a sticker promised it was “remastered and produced by Jimmy Page,” I felt fairly confident it wouldn’t disappoint. It hasn’t. Zeppelin always paid more attention to detail in the studio than the Stones ever did, and Page’s latest crack at their flawed, monster opus really comes alive here. For an album I’ve only ever listened to on CD, it’s nice to appreciate this for the four-sided mess it is. (In my perfect world, “Boogie with Stu” would last as long as “Kashmir.”) Maybe I’ll even get around to the outtakes disc

someday, after I stop dropping the needle on “Bron-Yr-Aur” and “Down by the Seaside” and the rest of Side 3. Feeling an urge to break free from the ’70s, I pulled out a used copy of R.E.M.’s Reckoning that I found in a

shop last week. It hadn’t been remastered, nor was it repressed on “virgin 180-gram vinyl,” whatever that might be. It’s just the original album, and it sounded really good. I ignored that it cost only $10.

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A&E | screen FILM

Me, me, me Indie sensation Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is smug and self-serving

> got the munchies Wahlberg and Ted raid the fridge.

FILM

Bear necessities

The foul-mouthed stuffed animal returns in Ted 2 By Mike D’Angelo sublimely trailer-trashy Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth), Ted Seth MacFarlane doesn’t make movies so much as now wants to have a child, but he lacks the necessary he fashions longer, more elaborate containers for his anatomical details. random riffs and pop-culture references than his longWhen he and Tami-Lynn try to adopt (following a running animated TV series Family Guy allows. At couple of inane artificial-insemination schemes—one of the same time, though, he seems to provide his actors which involves Tom Brady, playing himself ), the state with a uniquely relaxed atmosphere that brings out of Massachusetts informs Ted that he is technitheir shaggier side. (Odd, given that he began cally not a person but property, meaning that he his career in animation and tends to be a rather has no rights whatsoever. The movie then turns stiff performer himself when using more than aaacc TED 2 into an extended courtroom drama that’s nearly just his voice.) as earnest as it is parodic, at times seeming to be Ted was a decidedly hit-and-miss affair, joke- Mark halfway serious about comparing Ted’s plight to wise, but Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis had Wahlberg, the horrors of African-American slavery. real chemistry together—their characters genu- Amanda Still, Ted 2, like its predecessor, is mostly just inely seemed to like each other, above and beyond Seyfried, an excuse for MacFarlane to throw out as many the dictates of the script—and the parallel bro- voice of Seth crass, knowing punchlines as he can in the hope mance between Wahlberg’s man-child John and MacFarlane. that some of them will stick. The sequel relies MacFarlane’s lewd talking teddy bear was equally Directed more on Family Guy-style allusions to other moveffortless. Even the most arbitrary gags felt like by Seth MacFarlane. ies, and it unwisely brings back Giovanni Ribisi they had a context. as Donny, who again wants to kidnap Ted and Sadly, Kunis’ Lori is absent from the inevitable Rated R. Ted 2, which barely acknowledges that she ever Opens Friday. again threatens to stop the film cold every time he appears. When John and Ted are just hanging existed (even though she married John at the end out and busting each other’s chops, however, the charm of the first movie; they’re now divorced). MacFarlane remains intact. And Seyfried is more than appealing has found a worthy replacement, however, in Amanda enough to make the loss of Kunis tolerable. She even Seyfried, who plays a civil-rights attorney Ted hires to manages to overcome MacFarlane’s typically goofy decirepresent him in the stuffed-animal equivalent of the sion to name her character Samantha L. Jackson. Dred Scott trial. Having found his own sweetheart, the

Near the end of the movie, the dying girl (named Rachel) of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl chastises the main character for his “over-the-top humility,” and Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s film version of Jesse Andrews’ novel (which won both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival) has the same problem. Like teenage protagonist Greg (Thomas Mann), it’s so relentlessly self-deprecating that it ends up being self-aggrandizing. It’s a humblebrag of a movie. Initially, though, it’s at least somewhat clever, in its lighter, funnier first half, as the sullen, awkward Greg reluctantly befriends Rachel (Olivia Cooke) at the behest of his meddling mother (an underused aaccc Connie Britton). ME AND EARL Greg and his best AND THE friend Earl (RJ DYING GIRL Cyler), whom he Thomas Mann, refers to only as a Olivia Cooke, RJ “co-worker,” make Cyler. Directed pastiches of clasby Alfonso sic films that are Gomez-Rejon. crosses between Rated PG-13. the “sweded” Opens Friday. movies of Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind and the plays Max Fischer puts on in Wes Anderson’s Rushmore. Gomez-Rejon demonstrates some of the worst traits of those filmmakers, with cutesy interludes of stop-motion animation and showy camera work that often distracts from the drama. As Rachel’s leukemia gets worse, the movie turns into a film-nerd version of The Fault in Our Stars, only with much less sincerity. Rachel and especially Earl exist mainly to prop up Greg’s trite journey of self-discovery, and his big emotional moments arrive without any real impact. What started as a mildly funny if overly self-satisfied comedy ends up as a disingenuous tearjerker, as phony as one of Greg and Earl’s home movies. –Josh Bell

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> scooby gang The Scream teens track a murderer.

When animals attack Zoo takes its silly premise very seriously

Half-baked horror

Scream goes from classic movie to underwhelming TV series By Josh Bell ters and storyline, all new creations for the series, recall a “You can’t do a slasher movie as a TV series,” says mid-level ABC Family drama more than a horror classic. Noah (John Karna), the resident pop-culture expert in There was a playfulness to even the worst of the Scream MTV’s reimagining of Scream, and that’s about as sophismovies that is absent here, and what’s left is a mediocre ticated as the self-awareness gets in this wan TV adaptamurder mystery that, as Noah points out, seems like an tion of the iconic horror-movie series. Calling attention ill-advised concept for an ongoing series. to the show’s poor long-term prospects is not exactly the Co-creator and executive producer Jill Blotevogel best way to win the audience over, and the first episode worked on Harper’s Island, a 2009 CBS series of Scream lacks the clever deconstruction and that also followed the template of a slasher movie, sense of humor that writer Kevin Williamson and director Wes Craven brought to the original movie aabcc although it was specifically set up as a limited series (and failed to sustain its momentum), so (Craven is credited as an executive producer on the SCREAM she has some idea of how to structure this kind of show; Williamson had no involvement). Tuesdays, story. Only one episode was available for review, Aside from Noah’s meta-commentary, the main 10 p.m., so it’s hard to say how Scream’s central mystery, element that ties this new version of Scream to MTV. in which a mysterious figure is killing teens who the films is the presence of a killer in a black hood cyber-bullied a classmate, will play out. The plot may and white mask who taunts his victims via threatening or may not come together in the end, but the execution, phone calls (and also via text messages and social media, with unimpressive acting and bland dialogue, is unlikely something handled much more effectively in the recent to improve. Brand name aside, Scream is a generic thriller feature film Unfriended). Even the iconic “ghostface” with more pretty faces than creative ideas. mask has been redesigned, though, and the main charac-

The big reveal at the end of the first episode of Zoo involves a bunch of house cats in a tree, which gives you a sense of how unsuccessful the show is at creating the kind of tension and menace it aspires to. Deadly serious when it ought to be at least a little campy, Zoo envisions a world in which animals aaccc have begun to coordinate ZOO deadly attacks on Tuesdays, humans, and only a 9 p.m., handful of people realize CBS. what’s going on. Those people include a zoologist turned safari guide (James Wolk), a plucky newspaper reporter (Kristen Connolly) and a curmudgeonly animal pathologist (Billy Burke). As they track lion attacks in Botswana and missing kitties in Brentwood, they witness the beginning of a global catastrophe (or cat-astrophe, if you will). Based on a novel by the ultraprolific James Patterson (co-written with Michael Ledwidge), Zoo is set up as a blockbuster event, but it feels disappointingly limited, with a handful of characters standing in for what is meant to be a worldwide epidemic. The animal attacks are more cheesy than scary, and the hints of a conspiracy storyline are already tiresome after a single episode. Zoo could have been silly, over-the-top fun, but instead it’s plodding and monotonous. –Josh Bell

FILM

Beyond Snakes on a Plane A look at Samuel L. Jackson’s thriving B-movie career Big Game (2015) This Finnish movie, available June 26 on VOD, features Jackson as the president of the United States, who has to evade terrorists with the help of a 13-year-old Finnish boy when his plane crashes in the wilderness.

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Barely Lethal (2015) Jackson’s Hardman runs a school that trains young girls to become deadly assassins, and he has to track down one of the students who’s escaped and decided to make a normal life for herself.

Meeting Evil (2012) Jackson plays a charismatic psychopath who accepts a ride from a downtrodden middle-aged man (Luke Wilson) and then puts the man through hell in the name of teaching him to stand up for himself.

Arena (2011) As the head of the illegal underground fighting competition known as the Deathgames, Jackson is surrounded by scantily clad female assistants and forces an upstanding fireman played by Kellan Lutz to battle other captives to the death.

Unthinkable (2010) Jackson is a sadistic “interrogator” who tortures a suspected terrorist to get him to reveal the locations of three nuclear bombs in this button-pushing thriller. –Josh Bell

A&E | noise

> Pure and Natural Megan James’ vocals sounded sublime inside Brooklyn Bowl.

A L B U M | C O U N T RY

Her own country Kacey Musgraves stays true to herself on Pageant Material

C O N C E RT

Five thoughts: Purity Ring

(June 23, Brooklyn Bowl)

Braids has just taken the stage, and although the floor is full of bodies, many are too busy having their own conversations or taking selfies to actually notice. This makes for a miffed fan—especially since I’m more excited to see this opener than headlining Purity Ring. No waiting here: Braids plays my favorite song,— “Sore Eyes” off April album Deep in the Iris—second. The dance-forward track’s lyrics are even more indecipherable live, so I’m wondering how many people know it’s actually about watching porn. The song builds layer upon layer of synth and percussion—the vast electronics swell and the kick-drum swallows Taylor Smith’s quick, gritty synth-beats. There are only three members in Braids, but each adds something important to the mix. It makes for a gigantic sound so beautiful it’s almost overwhelming. “We just played that song so hard we killed a microphone,” singer Raphaelle Standell-Preston says. Drummer Austin Tufts’ overhead drum mic is blown,

but the percussionist carries on, filling every space with hyperactive energy until it’s time to make way for Purity Ring. Braids closes with current single “Miniskirt,” and the crowd cheers after Standell-Preston sings its most notable lyrics: “But in my position I’m the slut, I’m the bitch, I’m the whore, the one you hate.” Before heading off stage, she pauses to say goodbye. “I don’t want this tour to end … This tour has been one of the best times of my life.” I enjoyed Braids so much, Purity Ring’s starry synth-pop seems lackluster by comparison. Last time I saw them, it was during 2013’s Life Is Beautiful, and the band impressed with a setup filled with lights and beams triggered by percussionist Corin Roddick. Tonight they’ve brought similar gear, but after witnessing Electric Daisy Carnival this past weekend, it’s going to take more than intricate stage lighting to wow me. The debate of the night (among three drummers) seems to be whether or not Roddick is actually triggering beats when he hits his cluster of diamond-shaped beams, or if he’s just triggering the lights. Either way it’s striking, especially if you haven’t seen the band before. Vocalist Megan James sounds perfect—light and airy as always—and the lively crowd, packed tightly on the floor, is enjoying every minute of the set. For me, the band’s high note comes during Shrines track “Fineshrine,” but fans seemed equally enthralled with the entire set, whether they were getting cuts from the duo’s 2012 debut or this year’s slightly poppier, dancier LP, Another Eternity. –Leslie Ventura

Kacey Musgraves’ second majorlabel album opens with a double entendre-filled ode to smoking pot, indicating right away that the singer-songwriter isn’t interested in pandering to the Nashville establishment that has largely kept her off country radio while she wins awards and critical acclaim. The rest of Pageant Material follows suit, doubling down on the “be yourself” sentiments of Musgraves’ 2013 hit “Follow Your Arrow,” sometimes a little repetitively. Nearly half the songs on the album have some sort of message about following your arrow, whether it’s “Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy” on catchy single “Biscuits” or “Love hard, live fast, die fun” on “Die Fun” or “You can’t be everybody’s cup of tea” on “Cup of Tea.” Musgraves wraps these messages in quirky turns of phrase and pleasant melodies, but they do feel a little worn out KACEY by the end MUSGRAVES of the album. Pageant Material Musically, aaabc Pageant Material is refreshingly low-key, with none of the arena-rock bombast that dominates modern country. Musgraves (who co-wrote and co-produced the entire album) mixes down-home twang with the pop-friendly sheen that landed her an opening slot for Katy Perry. “I’d rather lose for what I am than win for what I ain’t,” she sings on the title track, and Pageant Material sounds like another win. –Josh Bell

ALBUM | PUNK

When Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst reactivated his politically charged punk band Desaparecidos in 2010, it was one of the more welcome (if unexpected) reunions in recent years. During its brief initial existence, the group released a fantastic record, 2002’s Read Music/Speak Spanish, before summarily breaking up. Judging by Payola—Desaparecidos’ first fulllength since returning—Oberst & Co. have been storing up plenty of anger in the meantime toward a variety of things: government hypocrisy, unlawful surveillance, racism, subpar health insurance, unnecessary wars, historical ignorance. As a result, the album’s lyrics are scathing and pointed (“All the founding fathers sowed their seeds into servant girls,” starts one song), which gives Payola ferocious urgency. It also helps, of course, that Desaparecidos hold nothing back musically, from shrill keyboards and grungy shredding to hollering gang vocals and Oberst’s raw-throated rasps. “City on the Hill” employs drilling riffs for maximum alarm; “Radicalized” seethes with needling guitars; and “Te Amo Camila Vallejo” feels a Desaparecidos rough-hewn hybrid of Against Me! and Gaslight Anthem. In fact, Payola channels its ire into compact songs, Payola aaabc ensuring the album is both abrasive and accessible, and thus maximizing its impact. –Annie Zaleski

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A&E | festival

The blurring around me

Electric Daisy Carnival’s sensory explosion is like nothing else on Earth By Kristen Peterson

It’s 1,000 degrees on the racetrack. Furry animals from some magical wonderland are embracing one other with permanent joy stitched into their monochromatic costumes, and I’m thinking Disneyland has some competition. Maybe decorated youths busting into spontaneous dance while ambling through forests of electric attractions isn’t for everyone, but when glowing mushrooms, lighted trees and illuminated daisies are your landmarks, you know you’re in for something interesting. “Welcome, welcome,” no one is actually saying, but you feel like royalty anyway, like the china’s been dusted, the silver polished and the door flung wide open. They’ve been expecting us for quite some time, all 100,000-plus of us, and everyone’s glad to have arrived. The men are topless, the women are fit and the mood is genuinely celebratory, as if a war somewhere has ended or Moses has been on the mountain too long. Faux-fur leg warmers cuffing so many calf muscles tell me that a lot of stuffed animals had to die for this weekend. Same with the animal heads. Somewhere a Build-A-Bear Workshop has been raided. But I get it. Why build a bear when you can be one? The more sensible wear practically nothing for this night party that crashed onto the Speedway.

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Watered-down margaritas everywhere, yet the bartenders look lonely and bored, as if they’re selling fur coats in hell. “Nobody’s drinking here,” somebody says, explaining that festivalgoers are on ecstasy and so they don’t need it. Apparently cocktails are old hat at this party. I order two. So many Indian chiefs walking past, and I’m wondering if this is offensive to anyone, but then I remember Christ led us in here, wearing black Nike swoop tennis shoes and flowing robe. Nothing’s sacred. The Wide Awake Art Car’s 60,000watt mobile sound system pumps vibrations into the night. Anything structural vibrates. Inside is outside, even in the clean, minimalist media room where the bartenders are extremely kind and snacks are piled everywhere. Three bags of Cracker Jack give me baseball stickers I tuck away for something important someday. I was told there’d be art, but it’s hard to separate the sculpture and installations from the theater, and maybe there shouldn’t be a line when everything blurs into one insanely vibrating, moving thing. The carnival rides spin while flames spew from contraptions and fireworks explode in the sky. The giant owl watching the crowd from above the main stage shifts his eyes back and forth, and I’m thinking every city needs one of these. Rows of colored Christmas lights hang on the festival exterior, and a Buddha sits placid while EDCers lounge at its base. We say goodbye to it all much later than we’d planned, because it was too mind-blowing to walk away from. And it’s only the first night. Find more of our Electric Daisy Carnival team coverage at lasvegasweekly.com.

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A&E | the strip

> TOGETHER AGAIN Brooks, McEntire and Dunn reunite at Caesars Palace.

T H E K AT S R E P O RT

Boot Scootin’ Fun

Country hits the Colosseum in the form of Reba, Books & Dunn By John Katsilometes

Circus Maximus. Brooks & Dunn also played that room, and in 2006 all three played the Las Vegas Hilton, though the dates staggered, with Reba playing spring and summer gigs that year and Brooks & Dunn performing in December. As the return to Vegas has already indicated, the Reba and Brooks & Dunn residency is an exercise in entertainment, education and illumination. From the opening weekend, we found: The trio are still impressed at having their images grace marquees overlooking the Strip. “We were hanging our heads out

the window, taking pictures of the sign outside,” Ronnie Dunn said. “We were hoping we’d hit a red light so we could fire off enough shots.” The setlist went through multiple versions before landing on the 30 songs played at the Colosseum. The key was

to ask, “Which ones do I like to sing among my own songs?” McEntire explained. “I picked out my favorites, and they picked out their favorites, and we put them together.” Brooks added, “Ronnie and I had put together a good hour and a half or two of just good songs we could agree on, on our own, and cut that in half. So we’re playing a lot of medleys, mashing up some of those songs, which was something we really hadn’t done before.” Thus, the list pulls a high quality of hits from both acts, like “Play Something Country,” “Boot Scootin’ Boogie,” “Why Haven’t I Heard From You?” “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia,” “You Lie,” “You’re

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Merle Haggard once asked Kix Brooks why The Last Rodeo had to be the last. “We had him out for the last two weeks of our tour, which was a big honor for us,” Brooks said last week during a round-table media session at Caesars Palace. “We were sitting on his bus in Woodstock in New York, looking out at this sold-out crowd, and he said, ‘Damn, Kix, what are you doing?’ I said, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said, ‘Look at all those people. Why would you want to leave this?’” This was in 2010, on the last leg of what was to be the last tour headlined by Brooks & Dunn, a duo that debuted in 1990 and had enjoyed more success than they’d ever imagined. Which led to Brooks’ answer to Haggard’s inquiry. “I said, ‘Damn, Merle. I loved Pancho & Lefty,” Brooks said, referring to the 1983 album recorded by Haggard and Willie Nelson. “You and Willie did one freakin’ album and quit! Ronnie and I made it 20 years! Are you kidding me?” Today, Brooks & Dunn are not done. They are now two-thirds of a trio headlining the Colosseum, along with country legend Reba McEntire. The table-setting title of this production, Reba and Brooks & Dunn: Together in Vegas makes the point clear: These are stars of equal billing sharing a stage on the Strip. The triumvirate launched its residency on June 17, with shows continuing this month, in early July again in mid-December. It’s a reintroduction to Las Vegas for all three superstars. Reba debuted in the city in the mid-1980s, opening for Roy Clarke at Caesars Palace’s

A&E | fine art

Nods and winks

> UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE Works by Brent Holmes and (below) Mikayla Whitmore in Basin & Range.

Local artists take on the expanse of Basin and Range and epic works woven into the landscape

photographs by mikayla whitmore

By Dawn-Michelle Baude Basin & Range, curated by Checko Salgado, spotlights Basin and Range Province, a geographical area with Oregon’s Crater Lake at one end and Guadalajara, Mexico, at the other. The entire state of Nevada sits in Basin and Range. And so do two internationally revered artworks by Michael Heizer—“City,” a mile-long sculpture made of earth and concrete about 50 miles from Area 51, and “Double Negative,” a monumental earthwork slitting the mesa near Overton. Any exhibition about the area has to deal with Heizer’s two sovereign works ... which poses a problem. Shows dedicated to cultural touchstones often succumb to fawning and cliché. Not so here. Of the 22 pieces in Basin & Range, most take on Heizer in interesting ways—from the 1,500foot thread in Brent Holmes’ “False Positive” (the length of “Double Negative”), to the pigments in Christopher A. Jones’ “Horst & Graben” (made from “Double Negative” soil samples), to Justin Favela’s “Family Fiesta” (a videotaped performance with piñatas bridging the 50-foot “Double Negative” gap). But the standout piece is Javier Sanchez’s “Untitled.” Using powdered chalk (a mineral mined statewide), Sanchez delineated a compass on the gallery floor indicating “true” north, i.e., Heizer’s monumental “City.” At compass center perches a neon sign with numerical degrees governing the architectural angles in Heizer’s masterpiece: 45 (blue), 90 (pink), and 180 (tangerine). Sanchez’s use of native mineral and fabricated neon in a simple, unlikely union draws attention to latent cultural conflict: rural vs. urban, environment vs. development, nature vs. civilization. The compass also pinpoints the central opposition between Heizer’s remote, austere “City”— inspired by archeological ruins and famous only among specialists—and the ever-accessible, glamorous mecca of Las Vegas, known to all worldwide. Heizer’s “City” is not yet open to the public (trespassers arriving via unmarked, unpaved roads risk reprisal), but once it is, Las Vegas will be the gateway to international art tourism. Pointing to Heizer’s achieve-

ment, Sanchez’s compass is more of a wink than a bow. Other artists come at Heizer more obliquely. Julian Kilker’s installation, “Annie and the Shaman,” references nuclear testing and Native American culture (Heizer’s works abut test site and ancestral lands), while Weekly photographer Mikayla Whitmore’s “Sprink Break” archival video installation, Jen Kleven’s “Urban Naturalism” photograph

and Mark Brandvik’s “Westy” panel conjure nostalgia for landscapes yet to be preserved (Heizer’s artworks are instrumental in the conservation movement). Similarly, Robert Beckmann contributes two skilled “water” paintings, “Weir” and “Entrance to Lake Mead.” The exhibition also features three videos, including “Oscillations,” an intriguing work by David Sanchez Burr riffing on Heizer’s cultivation of silence.

Basin & Range sometimes feels uneven, and the videos in particular feel rushed. That said, it’s an interesting, worthwhile exhibition foregrounding Basin and Range Province and the art it inspires. aaabc BASIN & RANGE Through September 5; Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.5 p.m. UNLV’s Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, 702-895-3893. June 25–JULY 1, 2015 LasVegasWeekly.com 47

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Local store Cheeseboy Comics had a makeshift altar set up at its booth, where fans could participate in (non-legally binding) weddings officiated by various costumed characters. On Saturday afternoon, I watched couple Jonathan and Celeste (who was dressed as Harley Quinn) get married by Lady Deadpool, in what Jonathan joked was probably the closest they would come to an actual wedding. A Cheeseboy employee blew bubbles, Celeste held a paper bouquet made from repurposed comic-book pages, and everyone yelled “Excelsior!” when the couple kissed. Costumes galore! Some of my favorites: a Hulk Hogan/ Deadpool combo, complete with a

blond mustache over the mask; a man dressed as Power Girl, including prominent prosthetic breasts (sexist, or ironic comment on sexism?); a gender-swapped Han Solo and Princess Leia, with the man in Leia’s slave bikini and the woman sporting Han’s boots and blaster; a Superman wearing a full suit of armor, with the S logo drawn in silver on the breastplate. Local comics creator Larime Taylor, whose serialkiller series A Voice in the Dark was published last year by Image Comics, offered original sketches at his booth, a common convention practice. The difference is that the disabled Taylor draws by holding his implements in his mouth, creating sketches as swiftly and skillfully as any other artist at the convention. It was great to see artist duo Ninjabot (Arnel Baluyot and Estefania Rodriguez) return to town with a booth at the convention, after their move to Portland, Oregon, a few months ago. The married couple have become big stars in the fandom world, and they shared their plans for the upcoming Comic-Con International in San Diego, where they’ll be debuting an exclusive Blade Runner print.

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A&E | stage

> Shrew move Taming brings the Utah Shakespeare Festival back where it all began.

Go ahead, binge

The Utah Shakespeare Festival packs a wallop with rotating repertory theater By Jacob Coakley Globe, “We really wanted to celWith all the hype around ebrate the space,” Vaughn says. Netflix releasing whole seasons So they stocked it with some of shows at the same time and the of Shakespeare’s greatest hits, behavior it induces, it’s easy to forincluding a Game of Thronesget that repertory theater was the influenced King Lear; Henry IV original binge-watch. The Utah Part Two, which features several Shakespeare Festival has perfectactors continuing in their roles ed the model, and it drops six new from last year to give it a deepproductions for voracious viewers er sense of characterization and this weekend. connectivity; and Shrew, which is “People love coming, and they directed by Utah Shakes founder love being able to see true rotatFred C. Adams. It all leads to a ing repertory theater,” says Brian season focused on change, posVaughn, co-artistic director of sibility and revolution. Utah Shakes. He directed Henry “King Lear is very much a play IV Part Two this summer and that revolves full circle by the end is also starring in Taming of the of it. And Henry IV has Shrew (Shakespeare’s elements of that too, with classic tale about its transition of father to romantic war). “They UTAH son and the son inheritcan see a musical in the SHAKESPEARE ing the sins of the father,” afternoon, Shakespeare FESTIVAL Vaughn says. “And in the evening; the next 255 W. Center St., Taming of the Shrew is afternoon they can see Cedar City, Utah, the first play that opened a comedy or contempo- 435-586-7878, in our outdoor space. rary American drama. bard.org. Finishing the season in There’s not a whole lot that space with Adams coming back of organizations that really operto that, it’s a full circle.” ate that way anymore.” This year Utah Shakes is also And Utah Shakes doesn’t stop presenting Amadeus, a portrait of there. There are literary seminars artistic genius and twisted jealevery morning where patrons can ousy; the classic farce Charley’s talk about the plays and producAunt; and musical favorite South tions, costume and prop seminars Pacific. Audience members can dip to learn how the shows are built— in for an enjoyable show—or go and for those who really want to full throttle and see them all, findcollect them all, a “Complete the ing their own connections. Canon” scorecard so people can “You begin to find these simitrack how many of Shakespeare’s larities in the plays and how they works they’ve seen. relate to each other,” Vaughn says. Since this is the last year for “And that’s one of the thrilling their famed outdoor Adams things for our audience, to be able Theatre—constructed in the to see some connective tissue.” same style as Shakespeare’s

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other mama by mikayla whitmore; ribs & burgers by steve marcus

> GOING BIG Like many restaurants at the Forum Shops, Sushi Roku is about much more than its namesake food.

MÉNAGE DES BAIES

T H E S P E C TAC L E C I R C U I T

RICH IN FISH

Sushi Roku is an excellent example of the Forum Shops’ dining decadence

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BY ANDY WANG Sushi Roku, where in 2007 I ate a $225 Ultra Highroller Roll with toro, Kobe beef, spiny lobster tempura, white truffles, Beluga caviar and 24-carat gold flakes, is an OG Spectacle Circuit destination. Despite its difficult-to-find location on the third floor of the Forum Shops at Caesars, it’s been a popular restaurant for the beautiful and wellheeled who purchased those heels downstairs. They come to eat consistently good Asian fusion. There are creative sushi rolls, of course, like the crab dynamite with curry mayo. There are pristine sushi tastings with fish that’s carefully sauced and garnished. There’s the delightful nori senbei that’s like chips with sour-cream dip, except the chips are made with seaweed and the dip is wasabi cream. There are potstickers stuffed with American Wagyu beef. A meal could also include delicate, nuanced specialties like a colorful tuna and beet carpaccio or oysters with chili ponzu. On a recent visit, I enjoyed a texture bomb of pork belly over crispy rice. Unlike other sushi strongholds, there are Strip views from this perch, which has been enhanced with something the restaurant has wanted for years but finally got clearance to add in 2015: signs on its Strip-facing windows to let the sushi-loving masses walking by know what awaits upstairs. Even without the signage, Sushi Roku, part of a hip, celebrity-friendly chain of restaurants based in LA, has thrived since it opened in 2004. It makes more money than all the other Sushi Rokus except the one in Santa Monica (although the new Newport Beach outpost should chart near the top in its first year). The Forum Shops is a perfect, logical place for Sushi Roku. The upscale mall has long been home to grand, familiar restaurants with legacies and ultra-rich regulars around the country. Walk in from the street and you’ll see an outpost of South Beach’s Joe’s Stone Crab and

SUSHI ROKU SUSHI BY CLAIRE THOMAS; INTERIOR BY BEVERLY POPPE

2 oz. Belvedere Wild Berry Vodka 4 oz. Rekorderlig Strawberry-Lime Cider Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries for garnish Lime and strawberry slices on skewer for garnish

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LA’s Border Grill. Enter from the casino side and there’s Wolfgang Puck’s Spago—still one of the dominant players in Beverly Hills—and New York City’s the Palm. Sharing the third floor with Sushi Roku is New York’s Il Mulino. These are all places where Spectacle Circuit crowds have swarmed for years, in some cases for decades, when the idea of coming to see and be seen didn’t involve tweeting or Instagramming every show-off move. But these places are fun in 2015, too, if you want to post pictures of your colossal crab claws at Joe’s or the endless parade of small plates at Mary Sue Milliken’s and Susan Feniger’s excellent Border Brunch. By the way, Sushi Roku’s Ultra Highroller Roll—with its ridiculously decadent combo headlined by marbled beef, fatty tuna, and the crackle of caviar—is now available on request for an inflation-adjusted $280. If you’re one of those people who believes that you should pay for experiences instead of things, maybe put it on your bucket list. Go buy a bottle at Omnia afterward and that roll might even feel like a bargain. Even on the Spectacle Circuit, it’s easy to find perspective.

Build drink over ice and berries in a highball glass. Garnish with lime slices and strawberry slices on a skewer.

This drink is adorable, refreshing and layered with booze, aka everything we like in a summer cocktail. The vodka keeps things crisp, while its berry notes are perfectly elevated by the strawberry and lime flavors in the hard cider.

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

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A&E | Short Takes Special screenings Boozy Movie Wednesdays Wed, 8 pm, free with cocktail purchase, 21+. 7/1, Tron. Inspire Theater, 107 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-489-9110. Dive-In Movies Mon, 7 pm, $5, hotel guests free. 6/29, Monsters vs. Aliens, Independence Day. Cosmopolitan Boulevard Pool, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-698-7000. Las Vegas Lift-Off Film Festival Through 6/27, short films and awards, 7 pm, free. Theater: PAL. Info: lift-offfestival.com. Midnight Brewvies Mon, movie plus popcorn, midnight, free. Elixir, 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, Henderson, 702-272-0000. Movies in the Square Thu, sundown, free. 6/25, Maleficent. 7/2, Paddington. Town Square, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. S., mytownsquarelasvegas.com. > a boy and his dog Josh Wiggins and his canine companion in Max.

National Theatre Live 6/25, The Audience starring Helen Mirren, 7 pm, $13-$15. Theaters: CAN, COL, SF, SP, VS. Info: fathomevents. com. Nintendo Quest 6/28, documentary screening plus filmmaker Q&A, 2 pm, $10. UNLV Student Union, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway. Info: nintendoquest.com. Outdoor Picture Show Sat, dusk, free. 6/27, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The District at Green Valley Ranch, 2225 Village Walk Drive, Henderson, 702-564-8595. Sci Fi Center Mon, Cinemondays, 8 pm, free. 6/25, The Human Centipede (First Sequence), The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence), 7 pm, $7. 6/266/27, The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence), 8 & 10 pm, $10. 5077 Arville St., 855-501-4335, thescificenter.com. Speakeasy Cinema Wed, classic mobster noir movies plus historical presentation, complimentary alcoholic beverages, 6:30 pm, $12-$15 per screening, $40-$50 entire series. 7/1, The Captive City. Mob Museum, 300 Stewart Ave., 702-229-2734. Summer Movie Date Night Alternate Fridays, sundown, free. 6/26, 10 Things I Hate About You. Town Square, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. S., mytownsquarelasvegas.com. Ted Double Feature 6/25, Ted, Ted 2, 5:45 pm, $15. Theaters: SF, SP Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou Tue, 1 pm, free. 6/30, Arsenic and Old Lace. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.

New this week Just the Way You Are (Not reviewed) Enrique Gil, Liza Soberano, Yves Flores. Directed by Theodore Boborol. 90 minutes. Not rated. In Filipino with English subtitles. A popular teen bets his friend that he can make a nerdy new girl at school fall in love with him in 30 days. Theaters: VS Max abccc Josh Wiggins, Thomas Haden Church, Lauren Graham. Directed by Boaz Yakin. 111 minutes. Rated PG. This shamelessly manipulative family

drama follows sullen teenager Justin (Wiggins) as he learns important life lessons while taking care of the military dog left behind by his late brother. The heavy-handed message is matched by the terrible dialogue, one-dimensional characters and sloppy third-act attempt at generating suspense. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, ST, TS, TX, VS

Crowe. 105 minutes. Rated PG-13. Crowe’s Hawaii-set dramedy about a military contractor (Cooper) falling in love with his Air Force liaison (Stone) is a mess from start to finish. It’s a halfbaked romance full of dead-end subplots and startling leaps in character development, with a third-act turn into a nearly incomprehensible conspiracy storyline. –JB Theaters: DTS, GVR, ST, VS

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl aaccc Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. 105 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 41. Theaters: GVR, RR, VS

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, DI, RR, ST, TX, VS

Ted 2 aaacc Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried, voice of Seth MacFarlane. Directed by Seth MacFarlane. 115 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 41. Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, DTS, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS

Now playing ABCD 2 (Not reviewed) Varun Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor, Prabhu Deva. Directed by Remo D’Souza. 147 minutes. Not rated. In Hindi with English subtitles. Choreographers from Mumbai work to win an international hip-hop dance championship. Theaters: VS 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: SC Aloha aaccc Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams. Directed by Cameron

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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: SC, TC Dope aaabc Shameik Moore, Kiersey Clemons, Tony Revolori. Directed by Rick Famuyiwa. 105 minutes. Rated R. Geeky inner-city teenager Malcolm (Moore) has to fend off dangerous characters when he ends up with a backpack full of drugs meant for someone else. Writer-director Famuyiwa mixes winning comedic moments with serious, life-or-death situations, often at the same time, like a cross between Adventures in Babysitting and Boyz N the Hood. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DI, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SP, TS, TX Entourage aabcc

Adrian Grenier, Jeremy Piven, Kevin Connolly. Directed by Doug Ellin. 104 minutes. Rated R. Based on the HBO series that ran from 2004 to 2011, Entourage picks up where it left off, with Vincent Chase (Grenier) directing a movie, and Ari Gold (Piven) worrying about money. Like the show, it’s lightweight and pleasurable, even if it doesn’t really skewer any of this Hollywood behavior. –JMA Theaters: DTS, GVR, PAL, SF, SHO, SP, ST, TS, VS 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: SC Far From the Madding Crowd aaabc Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. 119 minutes. Rated PG-13. Danish filmmaker Vinterberg (The Celebration, The Hunt) takes a stab at one of Thomas Hardy’s most famous novels, cutting and condensing it in a way that underlines the author’s protofeminism. And he gets a quietly terrific performance from Mulligan, who makes Bathsheba Everdene very much her own. –MD Theaters: SC Felix and Meira (Not reviewed) Martin Dubreuil, Hadas Yaron, Luzer Twersky. Directed by Maxime Giroux. 105 minutes. Rated R. In French with English subtitles. A married Orthodox Jewish woman falls in love with a secular man. Theaters: VS 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: ST Home aabcc Voices of Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin. Directed by Tim Johnson. 94 minutes. Rated PG. After the cute, clueless alien Boov invade and take over Earth, human tween Tip (Rihanna) teams up with misfit alien Oh (Parsons) to save the planet. It’s a familiar mismatched-friends story, tolerable enough for children who like funnycolored aliens but forgettable enough that parents should be able to easily ignore it. –JB Theaters: ST, TC 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: COL, ST, TC I’ll See You in My Dreams aaacc Blythe Danner, Martin Starr, Sam Elliott. Directed by Brett Haley. 92 minutes. Rated PG-13. This dramedy about aimless retiree Carol (Danner) is a low-key amble through a brief period in her life, as she takes a few steps to shake up her settled but lonely routine. Danner is charming, and the talented supporting cast offers gentle laughs and a few moments of heartfelt emotion. –JB Theaters: VS Inside Out aaabc Voices of Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind. Directed by Pete Docter. 94 minutes. Rated PG. Pixar’s latest animated feature takes place almost entirely inside the brain of an 11-yearold girl, focusing on the five core emotions—Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust and Anger—who control her behavior. It’s

A&E | Short Takes Rose Byrne. Directed by Paul Feig. 115 minutes. Rated R. The plot is the least interesting element of this plot-heavy movie, in which McCarthy’s insecure CIA analyst is thrust into the field after the apparent death of her partner. That stuff is all just window dressing for the comedy, though, and McCarthy delivers, even when the overstuffed plot drags the movie down. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Tomorrowland aabcc George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Raffey Cassidy. Directed by Brad Bird. 130 minutes. Rated PG. A teenage prodigy (Robertson) teams up with a grumpy ex-inventor (Clooney) to discover the hidden futuristic city of Tomorrowland and eventually save the world. This slow-paced, convoluted and strangely preachy movie is more of a presentation about the concept of adventure stories than an actual exciting adventure story. –JB Theaters: COL, ST, TS, VS

> emotional journey Joy searches for home in Inside Out. a funny movie with a remarkably wise message, but parents of pre-teen kids be warned: It will wreck you. –MD Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX Insidious: Chapter 3 aaccc Stefanie Scott, Lin Shaye, Dermot Mulroney. Directed by Leigh Whannell. 97 minutes. Rated PG-13. This horror prequel features none of the main characters of the previous Insidious movies, instead focusing on an earlier case handled by psychic Elise Rainier (Shaye). It’s an underwhelming, standard-issue ghost story, relying mostly on jump scares, without the sense of dread that made the original movie stand out. –JB Theaters: CH, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, ST, TS, TX, VS Insurgent aabcc Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet. Directed by Robert Schwentke. 119 minutes. Rated PG-13. The sequel to Divergent bypasses the exposition about its dystopian future, but it remains just as nonsensical. There are more exciting action sequences and better special effects, but the characters are still flat, and the plotting is still an incoherent mess. –JB Theaters: TC Jurassic World aabcc Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins. Directed by Colin Trevorrow. 124 minutes. Rated PG-13. The fourth movie in the series about genetically engineered dinosaurs returns to the theme-park setting, with a new deadly dino wreaking havoc on the fully operational park. Two decades after the groundbreaking original, this sequel arrives as just another overstuffed, CGI-filled blockbuster about people running and yelling. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX Love & Mercy aaabc John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks. Directed by Bill Pohlad. 120 minutes. Rated PG-13. This biopic focuses on two periods in troubled musician Brian Wilson’s life, with Dano as the young Beach Boy and Cusack as the middleaged burnout. Dano and Cusack’s per-

formances don’t necessarily line up, but each captures Wilson convincingly, and the filmmakers don’t try to fit his life into a particular movie formula. –JB Theaters: DTS, GVR, ORL, ST, VS Mad Max: Fury Road aaabc Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult. Directed by George Miller. 120 minutes. Rated R. Taciturn drifter Max Rockatansky (Hardy, replacing Mel Gibson) returns for the first time in 30 years, on another post-apocalyptic adventure. The thin plot is an excuse for director Miller to stage bravura car chases and action sequences, which should be more than enough to satisfy fans. –JB Theaters: GVR, ORL, ST, TS, TX, VS 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: TC 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: SC, ST, TC Pitch Perfect 2 aabcc Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow. Directed by Elizabeth Banks. 115 minutes. Rated PG-13. Everything in this sequel to the 2012 surprise hit college a cappella comedy is a little bigger, but none of it is better. The songs are still catchy, the stars are still charming, and some of the jokes are still funny, but the original’s freshness has been replaced by a dutiful retread. –JB Theaters: COL, ST, TS, VS Poltergeist aaccc Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kyle Catlett. Directed by Gil Kenan. 93 minutes. Rated PG-13. Poltergeist is considered a horror classic, so a remake ought to have a unique point of view, or at least deliver some solid scares. Kenan’s new version of the 1982

haunted-house story has neither, recycling most of the original’s major plot points with a few half-hearted modern updates. –JB Theaters: BS Ride the Thunder (Not reviewed) Eric St. John, Joseph Hieu, Pierre Nguyen. Directed by Fred Koster. Rated PG-13. An American Marine and a South Vietnamese soldier form a bond during the Vietnam War. Theaters: VS Saint Laurent aabcc Gaspard Ulliel, Jérémie Renier, Luis Garrel. Directed by Bertrand Bonello. 150 minutes. Rated R. In French with English subtitles. Anyone interested in the life of legendary fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent probably won’t get much out of Bonello’s impressionistic biopic, which is heavy on dreamy

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

imagery and light on facts and insights. At two and a half hours, it wears out its welcome long before it ends. –JB Theaters: SC San Andreas aaccc Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario. Directed by Brad Peyton. 114 minutes. Rated PG-13. Johnson plays a fire department rescue pilot who attempts to save his wife and daughter when a series of massive earthquakes strike California in this moronic, mushy, painfully predictable disaster movie. Its wholesale devastation of California is an impressive feat of special effects, but the destruction eventually becomes repetitive. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX

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

(DTS) Regal Downtown 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 (GVR) Regal Green Valley Ranch 2300 Paseo Verde 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 (SC) Century Suncoast 9090 Alta Drive, 702-869-1880

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

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

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

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: SC

Spy aaacc Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham,

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

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

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: TC

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

(SS) Regal Sunset Station 1301-A W. Sunset Road, Henderson, 702-221-2283 (TX) Regal Texas Station 2101 Texas Star Lane, North Las Vegas, 702-221-2283 (TS) AMC Town Square 6587 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-362-7283

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

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

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

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

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GET LITERARY Sure, the Writer’s Block sells books, but the Downtown retailer is much more than a bookstore—just look to two of its weekend events. ¶ Saturday afternoon is the second Local Author Showcase, which features Valley-based writers specializing in a chosen genre. After May’s inaugural sci-fi/fantasy edition, non-fiction will be the focus on June 27, with local scribes who write about everything from entrepreneurism to tai chi to hiking to the Italian region of Calabria representing. Participating authors have their books displayed in the front of the store throughout the month, which culminates with the meet-and-greet showcase every final Saturday. “Folks come for one author, but then they meet the other authors,” says Scott Seeley, who co-owns the store with his husband, Drew Cohen. “Some were leaving with four books.” ¶ The night before that showcase, the Writer’s Block hosts its own book club gathering (independent clubs also congregate at the space at times), where book- THE WRITER’S BLOCK worms can discuss Linn Ullmann’s The Cold Song, praised by both The Book club: June 26, 6-8 p.m. New York Times and The New Yorker in 2014. Seeley says the store’s Local Author Showcase: official club will meet every other month, with selections alternating June 27, 5-7:30 p.m. 1020 from classics to contemporary titles. –Mark Adams Fremont St., 702-550-6399.

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

Jaw 11/21, 8 pm, $26-$30. Linq, 702862-2695. The Colosseum Reba, Brooks & Dunn 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. Celine Dion 8/27, 8/28-8/30, 9/1, 9/49/5, 9/8-9/9, 9/11-9/12, 9/29-9/30, 10/210/3, 10/6-10/7, 10/9-10/10, 11/3-11/4, 11/7-11/8, 11/10-11/11, 11/13-11/14, 11/1711/18, 11/20-11/21, 12/20-12/31, 1/2, 1/6, 1/9-1/10, 1/12-1/13, 1/16-1/17, $55-$250, 7:30 pm. Aretha Franklin 8/14, 8 pm, $55-$160. Enrique Iglesias 9/13-9/14, 9 pm, $40-$300. Plácido Domingo 9/15, 8 pm, $80-$500. The Who 9/19, 10:30 pm, $96-$501. Elton John 10/13-10/14, 10/16, 6:30 pm, $55-$500. 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. Willie Nelson, Emi Sunshine 7/26, 7 pm, $35. (Boulevard Pool) Barenaked Ladies, Violent Femmes, Colin Hay 7/18, 8 pm, $50. Of Monsters and Men 8/13, 9 pm,

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Stephen Ragga Marley 8/4, 7:30 pm, $26-$31. Heart 8/13-8/15, 11/19-11/21, 8 pm, $55-$70. Motörhead, Saxon, Crobot 8/21, 7 pm, $36-$57. Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers 9/5, 8 pm, $29-$44. Carlos Santana 9/16, 9/189/20, 9/23, 9/25-9/27, 11/4, 11/6-11/8, 11/11, 11/13-11/15, $90-$350, 8 pm. The Tragically Hip 10/3, 7:30 pm, $43-$55. Halestorm 10/17, $30. Ghost 10/31, $25. Kamelot, DragonForce 12/7, 7 pm, $22-$25. Rhyme N Rhythm Mon, 9 pm, free. Live swing music Tue, 9 pm, free. Blues Wed, 8 pm, free. Phil Stendek Thu, 8 pm, free. Singles Sat, 9 pm, free. Gospel Brunch Sun, 10 am & 1 pm, $27-$50. PJ Barth Trio Sun, 8 pm, free. Mandalay Bay, 702632-7600. The Joint Kenny Chesney 7/3-7/4, 8 pm, $155+. Third Eye Blind, Dashboard Confessional 7/11, 8 pm, $40+. Steve Miller Band 7/25, 8 pm, $50+. Juanes, Ximena Sariñana 7/30, 7:30 pm, $60+. Brit Floyd 7/31, 9 pm, $35+. Peter Frampton, Cheap Trick 8/22, 8 pm, $50+. Primus and the Chocolate Factory, The Fungi Ensemble 9/4, 8 pm, $43+. Incubus 9/6, 8 pm, $70+. Five Finger Death Punch, Papa Roach 9/19, 6:15 pm, $50+. Scorpions, Queensrÿche 10/7, 8 pm, $60+. UB40 10/16, $40-$55. J Balvin 10/24, 8 pm, $60+. Little Big Town 12/4, 8 pm, $35+. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5222. Mandalay Bay (Events Center) 5 Seconds of Summer 7/17, 7:30 pm, $50-$100. Fall Out Boy, Wiz Khalifa 8/7, 7 pm, $25-$70. Kelly Clarkson, Pentatonix 8/15, 7:30 pm, $40$125. Juan Gabriel 9/13, $69-$229. (Mandalay Beach) 311 7/3-7/4, $55-$95. Switchfoot, Drew Holdcomb & The Neighbors, Colony House 7/10, $34. Pepper, Iration 7/17, $35+. Sugar Ray, Uncle Kracker, Eve 6, Better Than Ezra 7/16, $35, 9 pm. Ziggy Marley 7/31, $43. Lost ‘80s Live ft. ABC, Wang Chung, Naked Eyes, A Flock of Seagulls & more. 9/26, $35. 702632-7777. MGM (Grand Garden Arena) Rush 7/25, 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. Mötley Crüe 12/27, 7 pm, $25-$150. 702-891-7777. Orleans Throwback Sizzling Jam 7/17, 7:30 pm, $42. Don McLean, Judy Collins 7/18-7/19, $40. Espinoza Paz, El Komander, La Adictiva, Los Torres 7/25, 8 pm, $50. The Bacon Brothers 8/1-8/2, $30. CSNSongs 8/15-8/16, $20. Coyote Countryfest 8/29, 7 pm, $20. Brass Transit 8/29-8/30, $20. Air Supply 9/4-9/6, $40. 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. 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 Alice in Chains 7/18, 8 pm, $53+. Melissa Etheridge 8/7, 8 pm, $49+. Fifth Harmony 8/13, 7 pm, $33+. Jackson Browne 8/21, 8 pm, $63+. Alejandra Guzman 9/12, 8 pm, $33+. Oliver Dragojevic w/UNLV

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Brooklyn Bowl John Butler Trio, Anderson East 6/26, 8 pm, $28-$33. Fishbone, RNR, Franks & Deans 6/27, 9 pm, $15-$18. Reggae Bowl: Big Mountain, New Age Trie 6/28, 9 pm, $15-$20. Sasha McVeigh, Beau Hodges Band, Megan Barker 6/29, 8 pm, free. Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead Simulcast 7/3-7/5, 5 pm, $15-$45. Funky Meters 7/4-7/5, 9 pm, $20. Tortured Soul 7/6, 8 pm, free. Earphunk, Barry Black 7/9, 9 pm, free. Machine Gun Kelly 7/10, 9 pm, $25-$30. Adler, Paper Tigers, Strange Mistress 7/11, 8 pm, $22-$28. Kevin Fowler 7/15, 8 pm, $18-$22. Jurassic 5, RDGLDGRN, RNR 7/16, 8 pm, $35-$85. The Offspring, The Garden 7/17, 8:30 pm, $43-$48. Between the Buried and Me, Animals as Leaders, The Contortionist 7/18, $20. Stooges Brass Band 7/19-7/20,

8 pm, free. Easy Star All-Stars, The Movement 7/27, 8 pm, $17-$20. Ky-Mani Marley 7/29, 8 pm, $17-$20. Danzig, Pennywise, Cancer Bats, Brave Black Sea 7/31, 7:30 pm, $36$39. The Suffers 8/6, 9 pm, free. Everclear, Toadies, Fuel, American Hi-Fi 8/8, 8 pm, $40. Common Kings 8/15, 9 pm, $20-$22. The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Black Ryder 8/16, 8 pm, $30-$35. George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Yojimbo 8/18, 9 pm, $28-$33. Modest Mouse 8/20, 9 pm, $55. Coal Chamber, Fear Factory, Devil You Know, Saint Ridley, Madlife 8/21, 6:30 pm, $20$25. Jill Scott 8/27, 8 pm, $46-$100. Psychedelic Furs, The Church 9/8, 8 pm, $30-$35. Lettuce 9/23, 9 pm, $20. Robert Randolph, Amy Helm, The Handsome Strangers 10/6, 8 pm, $20-$30. My Morning Jacket, Strand of Oaks 10/9-10/10, 9 pm, $50. Blues Traveler 10/22, 8 pm, $28-$33. Trey Anastasio Band 10/30-10/31, 9 pm, $43-$50. Peaches 11/11, 8 pm, $22-$27. Yellowcard, New Found Glory, Tigers

$35. Slightly Stoopid 8/14, 9 pm, $35. D’Angelo & The Vanguard 8/21, 7 pm, $50. Damian Jr. Gong Marley, Stephen Ragga Marley, Morgan Heritage, Tarrus Riley 9/24, 8 pm, $43. Counting Crows, Citizen Cope 10/3, 7:30 pm, $55. Charli XCX, Bleachers 10/9, 8 pm, $26. Garbage, Torres 10/10, 8 pm, $40. Father John Misty, Mikal Cronin 10/15, 8 pm, $23. The Neighbourhood, Bad Suns, Hunny 10/30, 8 pm, $25. 702-6987000. Dive Bar Mentors 6/26-6/27, 10 pm. Total Chaos, Corrupted Youth, Ravagers, Brutal Resistance 6/28, 9 pm, $6-$8. Three Bad Jacks 7/11, 9 pm, $10. 4110 S. Maryland Pkwy., 702586-3483. Double Down Dr. Phobic & The Phobic Tones, The Damn Times, Boyfriend Material 6/26, 10 pm, free. The Swamp Gospel, Time Crashers, Eddy Bear & The Cubs, Detroit Disel Power 6/27, 10 pm, free. Jagged Lines, The Night Owl Massacre 6/28, 10 pm, free. Franks & Deans’ Weenie Roast, Black Cat Grave 7/1, 10 pm, free. The Raven Claw Hammer 7/2, 10 pm, free. Durango 66, The Fever, High Card Drifters 7/3, 10 pm, free. The Heiz, The Psyatics, Foreign Bodies, Gigantic, Boreal Hills 7/4, 10 pm, free. Matt Woods, Crossroads Exchange, Abram & The Reluctant Bounders 7/5, 10 pm. Smooth Hound Smith 7/8, 10 pm, free. TV Party Tonight w/ Atomic Fish 7/9, 9 pm, free. False Cause, 40 oz. Folklore, Lambs to Lions, The Wreckless 7/10, 10 pm, free. S.F.T., Los Carajos, Burien, Die Nasty, Mystic Perception, Vegas Threat 7/11, 10 pm, free. Bargain DJ Collective Mon. Unique Massive Tue, midnight. The Juju Man Wed, midnight. Punk Rock Bingo first Wed of the month. Blooze Brothers Third Sun of the month. Shows 10 pm, free unless noted. 640 Paradise Rd., 702-791-5775. Flamingo Olivia Newton-John 7/7-7/11, 7/14-7/18, 7/21-7/25, 8/4-8/8, 8/11-8/15, 8/18-8/22, 9/1-9/5, 9/8-9/12, 7:30 pm, $69-$139. 702-733-3333. Gilley’s Chad Freeman Band 7/23, 9 pm; 7/24-7/25, 10 pm. Kenny Allen Band 8/27, 9 pm; 6/5-6/6, 8/28, 8/29, 10 pm. Austin Law 6/11, 8/20, 9 pm; 6/12-6/13, 8/21-8/22, 10 pm. Brian Lynn Jones Band 6/18, 9 pm; 6/196/20, 10 pm. Scotty Alexander Band 6/25, 7/30, 9 pm; 6/26-6/27, 7/31-8/1, 10 pm. Country Nation 7/3-7/4, 10 pm. Brodie Stewart Band 7/17-7/18, 10 pm. Shows $10-$20 after 10 pm unless noted. Treasure Island, 702-894-7722. Hard Rock Hotel Rusted Root, Moksha 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 Taylor Caniff 6/29, 6:30 pm, $21. Turnpike Troubadours 7/23, 7 pm, $17-$21. Say Anything, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Modern Baseball, Hard Girls 7/31, 7 pm, $20$25. Hard Rock Cafe (Strip), 3771 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-733-7625. House of Blues Steel Panther 6/27, 9 pm, $22. Strange Days 7/3, $12. Dizzy Wright 7/4, 6 pm, $25-$30. Jowell y Randy 7/9, $35. Los Enanitos Verdes/Maldita Vecindad 7/11, $45. Bonfire 7/15, $10. Corey Taylor 7/18, 7 pm, $23-$26. Led ZepAgain 7/30, $12. Tokio Hotel 8/1, 7 pm, $22-$25.

Calendar Symphony Orchestra 9/26, 8 pm, $69+. Palms, 702-942-7777. Piero’s Pia Zadora Fri & Sat, 9 pm, two-drink minimum. 355 Convention Center Dr., 702369-2305. Planet Hollywood Earth, Wind & Fire, Chicago 7/17, 8 pm, $70-$219. J. Cole, YG, Jeremih, Bas, Cozz and Omen 7/18, 8 pm, $41-$200. Britney Spears 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. La Arrolladora 9/13, 9 pm, $59-$175. Ricky Martin 9/15, 8 pm, $50-$160. 702-234-7469. Rí Rá The Black Donnellys 6/25, 6/28, 8:45 pm, 6/5-6/6, 6/19-6/20, 6/26-6/27, 9 pm. John Windsor 6/8, 6/15, 6/29, 8:45 pm. The American Diddle Idols 6/30, 8:45 pm. Mandalay Place, 702-632-7771. 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. Silver Sevens (Corona Cantina) Jimi Brent 6/18. Drew Baker Band 6/19-6/20. Macek Brothers Duo 6/23-6/25. Dyana Collins Band 6/26-6/27. 4100 Paradise, 702-733-7000. Tuscany Danny Lozada Sun & Thu 10 pm, free. Kenny Davidsen Celebrity Piano Bar Fri, 10 pm, free. Live music Sat, 10 pm., free. 255 E. Flamingo Rd., 702-893-8933. Vinyl Michael Grimm 6/26-6/28, 7/3-7/5, 7/177/19, 7/24-7/26, 7/30-7/31, 8/2-8/3, 8/7-8/9, 8/14-8/16, 8/21-8/23, 8/28-8/30, Thu, Fri, Sun, 8:30 pm; Sat, 6 pm & 8:30 pm, $20+. A Steampunk Concert Fantasy 6/17, 7/15, 11 pm, $10+. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5000. Wynn (Eastside Lounge) Michael Monge WedThu, 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., 702-719-5100. Backstage Bar & Billiards GoldBoot, More Amor, Almost Normal 6/26, 8 pm, $7-$10. Jesika von Rabbit, Night Club 6/27, 8 pm, free. Rewind 6/27, 11 pm, free. The Alpha Complex, White Knuckle Riots, Fall Rise 6/28, 7 pm, $10. Madame Cocquette’s Jazz House Cabaret 6/30, 10 pm, $15. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Bar & Bistro Out of the Desert Bluegrass Band Sun, noon, free. Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd., 702-202-6060. Beauty Bar ‘80s vs. Rockabilly 6/27, 9 pm. The Red Paintings, Candy Warpop 6/29, 9 pm. Teenage Bottle Rocket, The Bombpops, Guilty by Association, Mercy Music, Franks & Deans 7/3, 8 pm. Astronauts Etc. 7/12, 8 pm. Shannon & The Clams 9/27, 9 pm. 517 Fremont St., 702598-3757. The Bunkhouse Kitze & The CPUs 6/25, 9 pm, free. Kristeen Young, Fea, The Astaires, Gloom Bloom 6/26, 9:30 pm, $10. Tuxedo 6/27, 8 pm, $25. The Meatmen 6/28, 9 pm, $10-$12. Kayo Dot 6/30, 10 pm, $10-$12. Calvin Love 7/2, 9 pm, $8-$10. Metrik, Jay Ruue, Blacklab, Kain, McNazty, Bushido Brown, BA, Snyper MC, Emcee Typer 7/3, 10 pm, $5. Tristen, Motopony, Big Harp 7/7, 8:30 pm, $10-$12. Trans AM 7/11, 9 pm, $10-$12. Cayucas 7/16, 10:30 pm, $12. Hawthorne Heights, Sleepwave, Bonfires 7/19, 7:30 pm, $12-$15. The Drums, Froth 8/18, 8 pm, $15. Melt Banana, Torche 7/26, $20. The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers 9/17, 9 pm, $10-$12. In the Valley Below 11/13, 9 pm, $12-$14. 124 S. 11th St., bunkhousedowntown.com. Downtown Container Park Wolf Creek Band 6/26, 9 pm, free. Philip Stendek 6/27, 5 pm, free. Reckless in Vegas 6/27, 9 pm, free. 707 Fremont St, downtowncontainerpark.com. Downtown Grand Lit 7/4, 8 pm, $20+. Empire Records 7/18, 8 pm, $5. Journey Unlimited 8/8, 8 pm, $5. Wanted 8/22, 8 pm, $5. Mick Adams and the Stones 9/5, 8 pm, $5. 206 N. 3rd St., 702-719-5100. Fremont Street Experience Smash Mouth, Toad the Wet Sprocket 6/27, 9 pm.

Dropkick Murphys 7/10, 9 pm. Theory of a Deadman 7/18, 9 pm. Spin Doctors, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies 8/1, 9 pm. Kansas, Blue Oyster Cult 9/6, 9 pm. Downtown Las Vegas, vegasexperience.com. Gold Spike Avalon Landing 6/25, 10 pm, free. Josh Royse 6/26, 10 pm, free. 217 Las Vegas Blvd. N., goldspike.com. Griffin Live music Wed, 10 pm, free. 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577. Hard Hat Lounge The Funk Jam Wed, 10:30 pm, free. 1675 Industrial Rd., 702-384-8987. LVCS Geto Boys, Ne Last Words, Charlie Madness, The Tribe 6/28, 9 pm, $12-$15. Otep, The Reaction, Downfall 2012, Autumn in Stitches 6/30, 9 pm, $12-$15. Ces Cru, Joey Cool, Houston Zizza 7/9, 9 pm, $10. Moonshine Bandits, J Gamble, N.E. Last Words, Jelly Roll, Crucifix 8/21, 9 pm, $10. 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 Safety Orange 6/25, 9 pm; 6/26, 10 pm. Sexton Blake 6/27, 10 pm. Sexytime 6/28, 9 pm. JV Allstars 6/29-6/30, 9 pm. The Leeroy Jenkins Incident 7/1, 9 pm. Happy hour music 4-7 pm daily. All shows free. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-4204. The Smith Center Annaleigh Ashford 6/27, 7 pm; 6/28, 2 pm, $49+. Lyle Lovett and His Large Band 7/25, 7:30 pm, $25+. Johnny Mathis 7/31, 7:30 pm, $29+. 361 Symphony Park Ave., 702-749-2000.

The ’Burbs Babes Rockin’ Sports Bar Fever Red 6/25. Sonic Affair 6/26. Flashback 6/27. 5901 Emerald Ave., 702-435-7545. Cannery Three Dog NIght 6/27, 8 pm, $20+. Van De Guzman 6/18, 6/24-6/25, 8:30 pm, free. Van De Guzman, Jimi Brent 6/19-6/20, 6/26-6/27, 7 pm, free. 2121 E Craig Rd., 702507-5700. Distill Summerlin All shows free & begin at 8 p.m. 10820 W. Charleston Blvd., distillbar. com, 702-534-1400. Eagle Aerie Hall Traitors, Lifeforms, Genocide District, Words From Aztecs, Locust, Mephitic Origins 7/3, 5 pm, $13-$15. No Zodiac, Unit 731, No Altars, Presagers, Mental Prison, DIstinguisher, The Devil Who Decieved Them, Amongu 7/16, 5 pm, $11-$13. Forever Came Calling, Season Change, You Me and Everyone We Know, Life Pacific, New and Improved 7/17, 5:30 pm, $13-$15. Hail the Sun, Artifex Pereo & Eidola, 16 Hours Remain, Courvge, I am Of Terra, Journey 2 Rapture, Amarionette 7/21, 5 pm, $12-$15. Like Moths to Flames, The Plot in You, Myka Relocate, Yuth 7/31, 5:30 pm, $15-$17. King Conquer, Here Comes the Kraken, Adaliah, Dealey Plaza, The Devil Who Deceived Them 8/18, 5 pm, $13-$15. 310 W. Pacific Ave., 702-645-4139. Elixir Stefnrock 6/27. All shows at 8 p.m., free. 2920 N. Green Valley Pkwy., 702-2720000. Fiesta Henderson (Coco Lounge) Gregg Peterson 6/26-6/27, 7:30 pm, free. Drum N’ Girl 7/3-7/4, 7:30 pm, free. Randy Anderson Band 7/10-7/11, 7:30 pm, free. Shows at 7:30 pm. 702-558-7000. Fiesta Rancho (Club Tequila) 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) Elvis, The Aloha Concert Tribute 8/8, 7 pm, $30-$42. Shows free with drink purchase. M Resort, 800745-3000. 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) 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.

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3Eighty3, Dellacoma 8/8, 8:30 pm, $10-$15. Tom Keifer 8/14, 8:30 pm, $20-$25. Orgy, First Class Trash, Crackerman 8/21, 9 pm, $10-$15. The Winery Dogs 11/7, 8:30 pm, $20-$25. John Zito Electric Jam Wed, 9 pm, free. 9:30 pm, free. 6750 W. Sahara, 702-220-8849. The Dillinger Marty Feick Thu, 7 pm. Stefnrock First & third Sat, 8:30 pm, free. 1224 Arizona St., 702-293-4001. Dispensary Lounge Uli Geissendoerfer Trio Fri-Sat, 10 pm. 2451 E. Tropicana, 702-458-6343. Eastside Cannery (Marilyn’s Lounge) Claudine Castro Band Mon, 10 pm. Phoenix Wed, 9 pm. Spazmatics Sun, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702507-5700. Milo’s Cellar Live Music Thu, 8 pm, free. 538 Nevada Hwy., 702-293-9540. Ron DeCar’s Event Center Jazz Conversations Big Band Series: . Jim Fitgerald 6/27, Sat, 1 pm, $15. Swingin’ Sundays Sun, 5 pm, $10. 1201 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-384-0771. Sam’s Town NiteKings Sun, 7 pm, free. Shows free unless noted. 5111 Boulder Hwy., 702-284-7777. Star of the Desert Arena Banda Cuisillos 6/27, 8 pm. Kenny Rogers 7/25, 8 pm. Buffalo Bill’s Resort & Casino, 31900 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Primm, 800-386-7867.

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Louie Anderson 7/24-7/26, 7:30 pm, $40+. South Point, southpointcasino. com. Big Al’s Comedy Club Wed-Sun, 8 pm, $20. Gold Coast, 702-251-3574. Bonkerz Comedy Club Downtown Grand Fri-Sat, 8:30 pm, free (with two-drink purchase). 206 N. 3rd St., 702-719-5100. Bonkerz Comedy Club JW Marriott Shows 7 pm, $15. 221 N. Rampart Blvd., 702-507-5900. Bonkerz Comedy Club Primm Fri, 8 pm & 10:15 pm; Sat, 10:15 pm; $10. Primm Valley Resort , 31900 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 800-386-7867. Bonkerz Comedy Club Silver Sevens Fri-Sat, 10:30 pm; $10. Silver Sevens Hotel & Casino, 4100 Paradise, 702733-7000. Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club All shows at 8 pm, $65-$87. MGM Grand, 891-7777. Jim Breuer 7/10-7/11, 7:30 pm, $25+. South Point, southpointcasino.com. Bill Burr 6/26-6/27, 10 pm, $70+. Mirage, 702-792-7777. Carrot Top Wed-Mon, 8 pm, $50-$60. Luxor, 702-262-4900. Margaret Cho 10/16, 9 pm, $44-$72. Treasure Island, 702-894-7111. Jeff Civilico Sat-Mon, Wed-Thu, 4 pm, $39-$50. Quad, 888-777-7664. Andrew Dice Clay All shows at 9 p.m., $59+. Vinyl, hardrockhotel.com. Comedy After Dark Wed-Sun, 10 pm, $40-$60. LVH, 702-732-5755. Jeff Dunham Wed-Sun, 7 pm; Sat-Sun, 4 pm, $72. Planet Hollywood, 702531-4320. Vinnie Favorito Nightly, 8 pm, $55$100. Flamingo, 702-733-3333. Eddie Griffin Mon-Wed, 7 pm, $90$182. Rio, 702-777-7776. HydroComics Unleashed Wed, 9 pm, free. Lucie’s Lounge, 3955 Charleston Blvd., 702-776-6417. The Improv Allan Havey, Matt Knudsen, Leah Kayajanian Thru 6/21. Rocky LaPorte, Ron Morey, Jak Knight 6/23-6/28. Flip Shultz, Jeff Richards, Sany Danto 6/30-7/5. Dennis Blair, Gilbert Lawand, Aiko Tanaka 7/7-7/12. Graham Elwood, Gary Brightwell, Jessica Michelle Singleton 7/14-7/19. Tue-Sun, 8:30 & 10 pm, $30-$45. Harrah’s, 702-369-

Adrenaline Sports Bar and Grill Kantation Ruthless 6/27, 8 pm. Haster, Journey 2 Rapture, No Words 7/2. Burn Unit 7/4, 9 pm, free. Mike Pinto 7/10, 8 pm. Tailgun 7/11, 8 pm. Bella Novela, Niki, The Steady Extras 7/18, 8 pm. Shanda & The Howlers 7/25, 7:30 pm. 3103 N. Rancho Dr., 645-4139. Arizona Charlie’s Boulder (Palace Grand Lounge) Go Big 6/26-6/27, 9 pm. All shows 9 pm, free. 4575 Boulder Highway, 888-236-9066. Arizona Charlie’s Decatur (Naughty Ladies Saloon) The Good Fellas 6/26-6/27. Jerry Tiffe Fri, 4 pm. 740 S. Decatur Blvd., 702-258-5200. Boomers Live music Wed, 10 pm, $5-$10. Hip Hop Roots Fri, 10 pm, $5. 3200 Sirius Ave., 702-368-1863. Boulder Dam Brewing Holes and Hearts 6/26. Space Karate 6/27. American Voodoo 7/3. Blue String Theory 7/10. Wake Eastman 7/11. Justin Mather 7/16. Jimi Prima Band 7/17. Out of the Desert 7/18. Unscene Patrol 7/23. Tommy Alexander 7/24. Joe Teichman 7/25. Holes and Hearts 7/31. Thu, 7 pm; Fri & Sat, 8 pm, all shows free unless noted, Fri-Sat, 8 pm; Wed-Thu, 7 pm. 453 Nevada Way, Boulder City, 702-2432739. Boulder Station (Railhead) Jonny Lang 8/21, 8 pm, $30-$60. Yellow Brick Road Fri, 9 pm, $5. Bee Gees Gold Sat, 9 pm, free. El Moreno Carrillo Sun, 11 pm, $5-$10. (Kixx Bar) Joey Vitale Fri, 8 pm. Reflection Sat, 8 pm. 702-432-7777. Count’s Vamp’d The Bobby Blotzer Ratt Experience, Cyanide 6/27, 9 pm, $10-$15. John Corabi 7/2, 9 pm, $10-$15. Art of Dying, Mclinton 7/3, 8:30 pm, $10-$15. Burn Unit 7/19, 8:30 pm, free. Wednesday 13, Death Division 7/10, 9 pm, $10-$15. Armored Saint, Dinner Music For the Gods, Tyrants By Night 7/11, 9 pm, $10-$15. Drum Wars: Carmine and Vinny Appice & Their All Star Band 7/18, 9 pm, $10-$15. Sin City Sinners 7/30, 10 pm, free. Let it Rawk, London 8/1, 9 pm, $10. Texas Hippie Coalition, Red Sky Mary,

COMEDY

5000. Jim Jefferies 10/3, 8 pm, $45. The Joint, 702-693-5000. The Joe Show Thu-Sat, 8 pm, $30. Tuscany, 255 E. Flamingo Rd., 702629-0715. Jokes With Friends Thu, 10 pm, free. Nacho Daddy, 9925 S. Eastern Ave., 702-462-5000. Knockout Comedy Super Show ft. Marlon Wayans, Bruce Bruce, COrey Holcomb, Mark Curry, Capone 6/27, 8 pm, $80-$120. Planet Hollywood, planethollywoodresort. com. L.A. Comedy Club Tue-Sun, 9:30 pm, $39-$62. Ballys, 702-777-2782. The Laugh Factory Shows at 8:30 & 10:30 pm. $29-$45. Tropicana, 702739-2222. Laughternoon Adam London Daily, 4 pm, $20-$25. The D, 702-388-2111. Jay Leno 7/4, 9/18, 11/20-11/21, 10 pm; 9/19, 9 pm, $60-$80. Mirage, 702792-7777. M Resort Comedy Night Fri, 9 pm, free with drink purchase. M Resort, 702-797-1000. Bill Maher 10/24, 8 pm, $49+. Pearl, 702-942-7777. Carlos Mencia 7/3-7/4, 8 pm, $40+. Orleans, orleanscasino.com. The Mac King Comedy Magic Show Tue-Sat, 1 & 3 pm, $33. Harrah’s, 702369-5000. Party Improv Comedy Thu-Sun, 7 pm, $25, 2 drink minimum. Planet Hollywood, 702-531-4320. Russell Peters 9/6, 8 pm, $49+. Pearl, 702-942-7777. Paula Poundstone 6/19-6/20, 8 pm, $20+. Orleans, orleanscasino.com. Puppetry of the Penis 8 pm, $45-$49. Erotic Heritage Museum, 3275 S. Industrial Rd., eroticheritagemuseumlasvegas.com. Red Skelton Tribute Sat-Tue, 2 pm; $35-$40. Westin Las Vegas, 160 E. Flamingo Rd., 702-245-2393. Riviera Comedy 40 is Not the New 20 Mon-Sat, 10 pm, $40. Riviera, 855468-6748. Sapphire Comedy Hour Fri-Sat, 8 pm, $20. Sapphire Gentlemen’s Club, 3025 Industrial Rd., 702-796-6000. S.E.T. Improv Comedy Mon, 8 pm, $10. Onyx Theatre, 953 E. Sahara Ave., 702-732-7225. Side Splitting Sundays Sun, 10 pm, free. Boomers, 3200 Sirius Ave., 702368-1863. Sin City Comedy & Burlesque Show 8:30 pm, $38-$49. Planet Hollywood, 702-777-7776. Christopher Titus 7/31-8/2, 7:30 pm, $20+. South Point, southpointcasino. com. Steven Wright 7/10-7/11, 8 pm, $35. Orleans, orleanscasino.com.

PERFORMING ARTS Avenue Q 7/10-7/11, 7/16-7/18, 7/23-7/25, 8 pm; 7/12, 7/19, 7/26, 2 pm, $25. Las Vegas Little Theatre, 3920 Schiff Dr., 702-362-7996. Ken Block Show 7/25, 7 pm, $15. Starbright Theatre, 2215 Thomas Ryan Blvd., 702-240-1301. Kelly Clinton Show 7/18, 7:30 pm, $18. Starbright Theatre, 2215 Thomas Ryan Blvd., 702-240-1301. Dirty Dancing 7/14-7/19, 7:30 pm; 7/187/19, 2:30 pm, $29+. Smith Center, thesmithcenter.com. For the Record: Baz Mon-Sun, 8 pm, Tue dark; $55+. Light Nightclub, Mandalay Bay, bazlasvegas.com. Izel Ballet Folklorico 6/27, 6 pm, $10$12, Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Dr., 702-455-7030. Jeff McBride’s Wonderground Variety show. Third Thu of the

month; 8, 9 & 10 pm; $10. Olive Mediterranean Restaurant Lounge, 3850 E. Sunset Rd., 702-451-8805. Josh Keating 7/8, 7 pm, $12. Starbright Theatre, 2215 Thomas Ryan Blvd., 702-240-1301. Las Vegas Philharmonic: Beethoven & Brahms 9/12, 7:30 pm, $50. Smith Center, thesmithcenter.com. Neil Diamond: A Tribute 6/27, 7 pm, $18. Starbright Theatre, 2215 Thomas Ryan Blvd., 702-240-1301. Panties in a Twist 7/14-7/18, 7 pm; 7/18, 2 pm, $35+. Smith Center, thesmithcenter.com. Re-Designing Women 7/9, 7/10, 7/11, 7/13, 7/16-7/18, 8 pm, 7/12, 5 pm, $25. Onyx Theatre, 953 E. Sahara Ave., 702-732-7225. Simply Ella 11/13, 7:30 pm, $35+. Smith Center, thesmithcenter.com.

SPECIAL EVENTS The Art of Naked Yoga Tue, Thu, 7 pm; Sat, 6 pm; $20. Harry Mohney’s Erotic Heritage Museum 3275 Industrial Rd., eroticheritagemuseumlasvegas.com. An Executive Chef’s Culinary Classroom With Executive Chef Edmond Wong. 6/30, 7/23, 8/27, 9/29, 10/13, 11/10, 7 pm, $135. Bellagio, 866-406-7117. CLIF Bar CrossVegas 9/16, $55. Desert Breeze Soccer Complex, W. Desert Inn Rd., crossvegas.com. Harvest Festival 9/11-9/13, 10 a.m., $4-$9. Cashamn Center, 850 Las Vegas Blvd N., harvestfestival.com. Wock As One: Summer Dance Intensive 2015 A benefit for AFAN and Sunrise Children’s Hospital. 7/15-7/17, times vary, $200-$325. The Rock Center for Dance, 8210 S. Maryland Pkwy., wockasone.com. Jazz Film Festival 7/10-7/11, times vary, $25. Starbright Theatre, 2215 Thomas Ryan Blvd., 702-240-1301. Local Author Showcase 6/27, 5 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., 702-550-6399. M.E.N.U.S. presented by Epicurean Charitable Foundation 9/11, $500. The Beach at Mandalay Bay, 702932-5098. Monday’s Dark with Mark Shunock 7/20, 8/17, 9/21, 10/19, 11/16, 9:30 pm, $20+. Vinyl, hardrockhotel.com. Miss Nevada 6/26, 7 pm; 6/27, 2 pm, $25+. Smith Center, thesmithcenter. com. Neon Clash of the Champions Dance Competition 7/18, 7 pm, $15. Cashman Center, 850 Las Vegas Blvd. N., ateamlv.com. Nukes and Asteroids 6/30, 6 pm, $10-$20. National Atomic Testing Museum, 755 E. Flamingo Rd., nationalatomictestingmuseum.org. Ribbon of Life 6/28, 1 pm, $45-$200. Tropicana, goldenrainbow.org. Jessica Lee RIchardson Book Signing 10/24, 7 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., 702-550-6399. Sevens Live Music, comedy & spoken arts. Mon, 7 pm, free with one drink minimum. Silver Sevens, 4100 Paradise, 702-733-7000. Switch: Trans* Clothing Swap Thu, 5 pm, free. Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada, 401 S. Maryland Pkwy, 702-733-9800. Tapas by Stratta Tenaya Creek craft beer pairing 6/25, 6 pm, $48. Reservations required. Tapas by Alex Stratta, Tivoli Village, 702-4823555. Vegas Valley Book Festival 10/1510/17, times vary, free. Historic Fifth Street School, 401 S. Fourth St., vegasvalleybookfestival.org.

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Windmill Music Club 6/28, 4 p.m., free. Last Sun of the month. Windmill Library, 7060 W. Windmill Ln., 702-507-6036. Writer’s Block Book Club 6/26, 6 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., 702-550-6399.

SPORTS Joe Weider’s Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend 9/17-9/19, 7 pm, $72+. Orleans, orleansarena. com. Las Vegas 51’s vs. El Paso 7/6-7/8, 7:05, $10-$25. Reno 7/11-7/13, 7:05 pm; 7/14, 12:05 pm. Salt Lake 7/15-7/16, 7:05 pm; 7/17, 12:05 pm. Sacramento 6/26-6/27, 6/29, 7:05 pm; 6/28, 12:05 pm. Games $10-$25 unless otherwise noted. Cashman Field, 850 Las Vegas Blvd. N., milb. com. Las Vegas Outlaws vs. Portland Thunder 6/28. New Orleans Voodoo 6/25, 2 pm, $18-$198. Thomas & Mack, unlvtickets.com. UFC: Aldo vs. McGregor 7/11, 4 pm, $128-$103. MGM Grand, ticketmaster. com. USA Basketball Showcase 8/13, times vary, $15+. Thomas & Mack, unlvtickets.com.

GALLERIES Amanda Harris Gallery of Contemporary Art Thu-Fri, 5-8 pm, and by appointment. 900 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 702-769-6036. Arts Factory 107 E. Charleston Blvd, 702-383-3133. Galleries include: Joseph Watson Collection Wed-Fri, 1-6 pm; Sat, noon-3 pm; Sun, 11 am-2 pm. Suite 115, 858-733-2135. Sin City Gallery Wed-Sat, 1-7 pm; Sun, 11 am-2 pm. Suite 100, 702-608-2461. Suite 135, 702-366-7001, trifectagallery. com. Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art Daily, 10 am-8 pm, $11-$16. 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-693-7871. Blackbird Studios Fri-Sun, noon-7 pm. 1551 S. Commerce St., 702-782-0319. Brett Wesley Gallery Wed-Sat, 1-7 pm. 1025 S. First St. #150, 702-433-4433. Clark County Government Center Rotunda Abraham Abebe Thru 7/10. Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm. 500 Grand Central Parkway, 702-455-7030. Clay Arts Vegas Mon-Sat, 9 am-9 pm; Sun, 11:30 am-6:30 pm. 1511 S. Main St., 702-375-4147. Downtown Spaces 1800 Industrial Rd., dtspaces.com. Galleries include: Wasteland Gallery Thu, 6 pm-9pm; Fri & Sat, 6 pm-11pm, Sun-Wed by appointment. Emergency Arts 520 Fremont St., 702-686-3164. Gainsburg Studio & Gallery Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm. 1533 West Oakey Blvd, 702-249-3200. Left of Center Gallery Tue-Fri, noon-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-3 pm. 2207 W. Gowan Rd., 702-647-7378. Michelle C. Quinn Fine Art Advisory By appointment only. 620 S. 7th St., 702-366-9339. P3Studio Wed-Sun, 6-11 pm. Cosmopolitan. UNLV Lied Library The French Connection Reception 5/17, 2 pm. Open thru Oct. Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-2 pm. At UNLV, 702-895-3893. West Las Vegas Arts Center Wed-Sat, 9 am-7 pm. 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-229-4800. Winchester Cultural Center Art Gallery Tue-Fri, 10 am-8 pm; Sat, 9 am-6 pm. 3130 S. McLeod Dr., 702455-7340.

HOROSCOPE

free will astrology

By Rob Brezsny

ARIES

LEO

SAGITTARIUS

March 21-April 19

July 23-Aug. 22

Nov. 22-Dec. 21

During hikes along my favorite trails, I’ve gotten to know the local boulders quite intimately. It might sound daft, but I’ve come to love them. I’ve even given some of them names. They symbolize stability and constancy to me. When I gaze at them or sit on them, I feel my own resolve grow stronger. They teach me about how to be steadfast and unflappable in all kinds of weather. I draw inspiration from the way they are so purely themselves, forever true to their own nature. Now would be an excellent time for you to hang out with your own stony allies, Aries. You could use a boost in your ability to express the qualities they embody.

One summer afternoon when I was 7 years old, my friend Billy and I grabbed an empty jar from my kitchen and went looking for ants. Near the creek we found an anthill swarming with black ants, and scooped a bunch of them in the jar. A little later we came upon a caravan of red ants, and shoved many of them in with the black ants. Would they fight? Naturally. It was mayhem. Looking back now, I’m sorry I participated in that stunt. Why stir up a pointless war? In that spirit, Leo, I urge you to avoid unnecessary conflicts. Don’t do anything remotely comparable to putting red ants and black ants in the same jar.

The advanced lessons on tap in the coming days are not for the squeamish, the timid, the lazy, or the stubborn. But then you’re not any of those things, right? So there shouldn’t be a major problem. The purpose of these subterranean adventures and divine interventions is to teach you to make nerve-racking leaps of faith, whether or not you believe you’re ready. Here’s one piece of advice that I think will help: Don’t resist and resent the tests as they appear. Rather, welcome them as blessings you don’t understand yet. Be alert for the liberations they will offer.

TAURUS

VIRGO

CAPRICORN

April 20-May 20

Aug. 23-Sept. 22

Dec. 22-Jan. 19

“Everyone is a genius at least once a year,” wrote German aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. “The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.” According to my astrological analysis, Taurus, your once-a-year explosion of genius is imminent. It’s even possible you will experience a series of eruptions that continue for weeks. The latter scenario is most likely if you unleash the dormant parts of your intelligence through activities like these: having long, rambling conversations with big thinkers; taking long, rambling walks all over creation; enjoying long, rambling sex while listening to provocative music.

In order for everyone in your sphere to meet their appointed destinies, you must cultivate your skills as a party animal. I’m only slightly joking. At least for now, it’s your destiny to be the catalyst of conviviality, the ringleader of the festivities, the engineer of fun and games. To fulfill your assignment, you may have to instigate events that encourage your allies to leave their comfort zones and follow you into the frontiers of collaborative amusement.

“Man’s being is like a vast mansion,” observed philosopher Colin Wilson, “yet he seems to prefer to live in a single room in the basement.” Wilson wasn’t just referring to Capricorns. He meant everybody. Most of us commit the sin of self-limitation on a regular basis. That’s the bad news. The good news, Capricorn, is that you’re entering a time when you’re more likely to rebel against the unconscious restrictions you have placed on yourself. You will have extra motivation to question and overrule the rationales that you used in the past to inhibit your primal energy. Won’t it be fun to venture out of your basement nook and go explore the rest of your domain?

GEMINI

LIBRA

AQUARIUS

May 21-June 20

Sept. 23-Oct. 22

Jan. 20-Feb. 18

“I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring,” says author Paul Auster. “It would be tedious to be alive.” But he goes even further in his defense of inconsistency, adding, “Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do.” This bold assertion may not apply to everyone all the time, but it does for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. You should feel free to explore and experiment with the high art of changing your mind. I dare you to use it to generate extravagant amounts of beauty.

Your symbolic object of the week is a magic wand. I recommend that you visualize yourself as the star of a fairy tale in which you do indeed have a wand at your disposal. See yourself wielding it to carry out a series of fantastic tricks, like materializing a pile of gold coins or giving yourself an extraordinary power to concentrate or creating an enchanted drink that allows you to heal your toughest wound. I think this playful imaginative exercise will subtly enhance your ability to perform actual magic in the real world.

“An obscure moth from Latin America saved Australia’s pastureland from the overgrowth of cactus,” writes biologist Edward O. Wilson. “A Madagascar ‘weed,’ the rosy periwinkle, provided the cure for Hodgkin’s disease and childhood leukemia,” he adds, while “a chemical from the saliva of leeches dissolves blood clots during surgery,” and a “Norwegian fungus made possible the organ transplant industry.” I think these are all great metaphors for the kind of healing that will be available for you in the coming weeks, Aquarius: humble, simple, seemingly insignificant things whose power to bring transformation has, up until now, been secret or unknown.

CANCER

SCORPIO

PISCES

June 21-July 22

Oct. 23-Nov. 21

Feb. 19-March 20

In its early days, the band Depeche Mode had the infinitely boring name Composition of Sound. Humphrey Bogart’s and Ingrid Bergman’s classic 1942 film Casablanca was dangerously close to being called Everybody Come to Rick’s. And before Charles Dickens published Bleak House, a scathing critique of the 19th-century British judicial system, he considered 11 other titles, including the unfortunate Tom-all-Alone’s. The Solitary House that was always shut up and never Lighted. I bring this to your attention, Cancerian, as the seeding phase of your personal cycle gets underway. The imprints you put on your creations will have a major impact on their future. Name them well.

The taskmaster planet Saturn wove its way through the sign of Scorpio from October 2012 until the end of 2014. Now it has slipped back into your sign for a last hurrah between now and mid-September. I urge you to milk its rigorous help in every way you can imagine. For example, cut away any last residues of trivial desires and frivolous ambitions. Hone your focus and streamline your self-discipline. Once and for all, withdraw your precious energy from activities that waste your time and resist your full engagement. And try this ritual: Write either, “I will never squander my riches” or “I will make full use of my riches” 20 times—whichever motivates you most.

“She is hard to tempt, as everything seems to please her equally,” said artist Anne Raymo in describing a hedonistic acquaintance. A similar statement may soon apply to you, Pisces. You will have a talent for finding amusement in an unusually wide variety of phenomena. But more than that: You could become a connoisseur of feeling really good. You may even go so far as to break into a higher octave of pleasure, communing with exotic phenomena that we might call silken thrills and spicy bliss and succulent revelry.

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JUSTIN FAVELA’S CHOP SHOP | ALIOS ON MAIN STREET | JUNE 22, 2015 | 7:30 P.M. Conjuring Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory, cut-up pieces are sprawled about. Tissue paper and glitter cover the floor, and Selena hums over the speakers. This is Justin Favela’s Chop Shop. He is taking apart prior art pieces and using the materials to make new creations. A corner of the room holds a pile of chicken nuggets, an homage to The Simpsons, a stack of mini lowriders—I can’t help but wonder where the giant Butterfinger BB’s are, but there’s still time. After all, the garage closes at 9. –Mikayla Whitmore