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FALL IS HERE

Contents 7 mail Clinging to free parking, plus ideas for the Harmon hole.

8 as we see it Nazarian’s big

42 pop culture The spooky songs and films of the season.

Strip gamble, porn’s big Vegas movie, and local sex-ed essays.

44 screen Tom Hanks, Steven

12 Q&A Forrest Griffin throws his

Spielberg and the Coen brothers? Fear gets cheeky in Goosebumps.

UFC strength behind philanthropy.

14 Feature | the spirit of the soak In the healing waters of Tecopa, California, people shed their clothes and earthly angst.

18 Feature | Boo! Halloween gilcrease Orchard by steve marcus; flock & fowl by mikayla whitmore

41 A&E What’s Doomtree up to?

will soon be upon us, so we tasted candy, hit the pumpkin patch and rounded up the best new scares. Plus: your TV has a dark secret ...

26 nights The partners behind Silent Partner. It’s GBDC time!

46 noise My Morning Jacket, Neil Young, Garbage, Panic! and more made for concertmania.

50 SCENE Lanterns rise again in the Mojave. Magic ensues.

52 print Patti Smith’s memoir. 54 food & Drink Flock & Fowl elevates chicken (and condones dipping). Bacchanal’s new bites. 58 calendar The Future is here!

Cover Showgirl Maren Wade PHOTOGRAPH By CHRISTOPHER DEVARGAS makeup by tai shane/makeup now vegas hair by Ellice Turner/makeup now vegas

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ARSE-TISTIC The installation of the City of Las Vegas’ latest public art project is underway, as artist-designed benches have arrived along Main Street. We took a seat and pondered. Find our observations at lasvegasweekly.com.

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HAUNTING THE COVER The Weekly’s own Confessions of a Showgirl columnist Maren Wade posed as a beautifully undead version of the Vegas icon, mashing up the drama of Día de los Muertos sugar-skull makeup and her own jeweled, feathered fabulousness. Her cred comes from stints in productions like Vegas! The Show and Fantasy, and her searing eye contact is honed guest-hosting TV shows like Channel 13’s The Morning Blend. ¶ Wade took a break from developing a stage show based on her playful column to share a few thoughts about the Undead Showgirl. “I was like, ‘Well, there has to be a lot of rhinestones.’ I made sure of that! And then I asked if I could smile in the pictures. (laughs) At first I was thinking, ‘I’m gonna look really scary,’ but I felt really sexy and really empowered. You know, there’s nothing like being dead to make you feel like you can do anything.”

FIND A SPOT We’re wondering what will happen to free parking on the Strip once the new arena opens next year.

People tend to forget the real reason this city exists and why all these hotels have shopping malls and showrooms and lounges and stadiums—to get people in the casino. The more value you create, the more people will come and spend money. The more of a hassle you make it, the less people come. –Adam Sternberg With the two new arenas, we definitely need to extend the CityCenter tram from Monte Carlo and across the Strip to the MGM Grand and from the Bellagio to Fashion Show Mall. Get together on a roundtable with the other casino owners and find a solution. –Vegassia The real issue is that there is no form of mass transportation being floated to move attendees to and from the arena. Until that is worked out, the pedestrian and auto traffic will be fubar. –Photorcyclist113

FILLING THE VOID The Harmon hole should become ...

How about a vertical produce farm? –Ecobiochar

Parking garage for the new stadium? –Liza Lamug How ’bout a new and improved, giant Glitter Gulch or a Tacos El Gordo, no? –Gary Evans A dog park. –Christopher Green I say it’s about time the Strip has a 24-hour daycare ... I’m sick of seeing crying babies with impatient parents strolling down the street at midnight. Drop the kids off somewhere they can have fun and you aren’t having a public meltdown. –Sara Grandinetti-Alvarez

SMART EATS Healthy food in schools. Go.

Adults set the pace for what their children like and eat at school and at home. –Todd Huelsman Hopefully kids will learn to eat healthier if they are introduced to healthier food choices at school. I know I learned all about junk food at school. Boy have things changed! –Patty Bengochea

CORRECTION k The October 8 issue incorrectly reported that a Big Bus Tour included information about Walmart at the Venetian. It should have been Walgreen’s.

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AsWeSeeIt N e w s + C u lt u r e + S t y l e + M o r e

Character study ∑ Sam Nazarian’s big gamble had all the makings of a

great Vegas story. When his hospitality company SBE opened SLS at the site of the former Sahara a year ago, it seemed certain Nazarian would join the pantheon of outsize personalities who’ve operated casinos on the Strip. His family’s success story is the stuff of legend; they gave up everything leaving Iran for LA and slowly built a new life, until a tech company they’d invested in merged with Qualcomm and made them a billion dollars. No one in his family had any hospitality experience when Nazarian entered the nightlife world. He once told The New Yorker his favorite hobby as a child was ironing dollar bills. He made TV cameos as himself and was a partner in Element Films, and he holds executive producer credits on films like Waiting, Pride and Mr. Brooks. Before he moved into a Summerlin mansion in 2012, his primary LA residence was a $12 million spot off Mulholland Drive previously owned by Jennifer Lopez. Nazarian bought the Sahara in 2007 and closed it in 2011, sticking a hand-written note to the glass doors that read, “Be back soon!” There was little faith he could turn the property into what he was planning, an edgy resort that would attract the type of visitor who frequented his LA clubs, hotels and restaurants—the “curious class” cultivated by the Cosmopolitan. But the support was overwhelming when SLS opened, with Nazarian titling himself “The SelfImposed Ambassador of the North End” of the Strip and receiving a standing ovation at an opening press conference. He called Las Vegas home. He said he received emails from Steve Wynn and Jim Murren rooting him on. “We’re not here to build a hotel and move on,” he said. But that is what Nazarian has done. He sold his Summerlin home, and he’s selling his stake in SLS to Stockbridge Capital Partners, the San Francisco group that already owned 90 percent of the property. SBE’s agreement with the resort transitions to a licensing deal, so everything continues operating unchanged, for now. If Nazarian’s style and personality were big parts of SLS, they’re still there ... on paper. Whether Stockbridge holds on or looks for a buyer, another rebranding likely awaits, and it makes the most sense to return to the Sahara name somehow. What about Sam? He might not be done in Vegas. SBE has other venues on the Strip, like Hyde Bellagio and Monte Carlo’s Double Barrel Roadhouse, and The Wall Street Journal reports a merger is being discussed with Morgans Hotel Group that could create a publicly traded company to manage hotels in major cities like Las Vegas, with Nazarian as CEO. Good or bad, maybe one turn deserves another. –Brock Radke

What happened to our Halloween parade?

∑ Only once have I ever a) worn a kilt in public and b) marched in a parade, and both happened at the 2010 debut of the Las Vegas Halloween Parade. For five years, the colorful march highlighted both Burning Man’s growing influence in Vegas and Downtown’s growth. But like so many recent setbacks, however, it might now remind us of the limits of the area’s boon. On October 5, Cory Mervis—owner of Flying Pan Productions LLC, the driving force behind the parade—announced

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it would take 2015 off. With a reported 70,000 attending the 2014 edition, and 100,000 projected for this year, Mervis tells the Weekly that higher staging and infrastructure costs scared off a prospective co-producing partner. “We are continuing to have discussions with potential partners, sponsors and supporters, and think this will allow us in 2016 to, once again, create the unique artistic, spectacular and participatory experience that the parade has provided over the past five years.” –Mike Prevatt

sam nazarian sun file; halloween parade by christopher devargas

AS WE SEE IT…

WHEN IN ROME A new porn parody was filmed at the Erotic Heritage Museum (of course)

DISTRICT IMPOTENCE Students and the ACLU call out deficiencies in CCSD’s sex-ed program When it comes to sex education, the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada seems hell-bent on shaming the Clark County School District, and now the students have joined the fun. In August, the nonprofit launched #SexEdSay, an essay contest asking CCSD students in grades 9-12 to share thoughts on the current sex-ed program, a lightningrod issue given the prospect of content revisions and policy changes firing up the community. Last week, the ACLU revealed the winning essays, which suggest curriculum deficiencies more embarrassing than any classroom discussion on sex. Among the students’ illuminating observations: “I have never been taught that people with vaginas do not, in fact, urinate out of their vaginas. Instead, I learned about my own anatomy from [Netflix’s] Orange Is the New Black.” –First-place $5,000 scholarship winner Samantha Gingrich

“There was a section on dating and relationships in our textbook, yet it assumed everyone was straight and that’s definitely not okay. Gay and questioning students can feel excluded easily by this.” –Second-place $3,000 scholarship winner Riley Schlemmer “Sex education should be updated to help prepare students emotionally and mentally for things they are likely to be exposed to on the Internet.” –Third-place $2,000 scholarship winner who remained anonymous due to “concern with their parents’ objection to sex education.” In late September, ACLU of Nevada parsed the sexed source material used in Clark County School District health classes, highlighting incorrect, obsolete, biased and confounding assertions. The District’s Sex Education Advisory Committee fixed six of the eight offending inclusions. –Mike Prevatt

WHY ARE WE OBSESSED WITH CRAPPY FOOD?

The Las Vegas citizenry is often described as apathetic, but one thing that gets residents more excited than a Donald Trump rally is the announcement that a previously absent fast-food chain is coming to Clark County. Social-media elation followed the news that Chick-fil-A—which recently received city approval to build at Sahara and Rancho— would finally bring its chicken crack to Nevada. I say chicken crack because it’s not the sandwich people jones for—it’s the controversial food additive MSG, which famously flavors the chain’s food and, like many of the ingredients in fast food, is purportedly linked to obesity and other conditions. ¶ But health concerns get overshadowed by the nostalgia usually tied to these chains. Our city’s many transplants pine for their hometowns (despite leaving them for here), so they clamor for childhood favorites—like the mushy, unsubstantial burgers of White Castle, which drew such long lines upon opening on the Strip that it closed for two hours to restock. Over-the-top jubilation also followed the introduction of suburban troughs like Steak ‘n Shake and Five Guys—whose burgers, quite frankly, pale in comparison to those by our own Dispensary Lounge and Rebel Republic. ¶ Surely another diabetesstoking franchise is making its way over. But will zealous fast-food addicts live long enough to queue up? –Mike Prevatt

Hollywood-blockbuster photo ops are all over Las Vegas, from the parts of Piero’s featured in Casino to the Caesars Palace front desk in The Hangover (“This isn’t the real Caesar’s palace, is it?”). Now you can stand where adult-film royalty has, er, stood, with the arrival of Night at the Erotic Museum, filmed on-location at the Erotic Heritage Museum. In this parody of the Ben Stiller family franchise Night at the Museum, James Deen plays a security guard watching over an institution where exhibits come to life at night to have their way with visitors. The film, now available for purchase, pays tribute to the golden age of porn with studs and starlets playing retro stars like Linda Lovelace and John Holmes. Oh, and Ron Jeremy plays the museum’s curator. While EHM’s executive director Victoria Hartmann says the museum has appeared in a number of small-scale projects, Night at the Erotic Museum is the biggest to be filmed there. Hartmann and owner Harry Mohney have been interested in such a project for years, and she says Mohney leveraged his extensive connections in the adult-film industry to make the movie happen. “It’s more than just wanting publicity for the museum,” says Hartmann, adding that its history and educational pursuits will be featured in the film. “Beyond the sex scenes … you get a look at the entire museum and what it all contains.” –Mark Adams

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As We See It…

‘richly visible’

> Ancient wonders Mammoth teeth and (below) tusks are among the treasures housed at the expanding Natural History Museum.

Patrick Duffy is the Center’s Person of the Year

Elbow room for T. Rex As the Natural History Museum finally grows, hundreds of ancient artifacts find a home By Kristen Peterson Marilyn Gillespie, founding director of the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, has typically needed only one succinct phrase to explain the challenge of running a museum in a small, landlocked space with little room for expansion: “Dinosaurs with an 11-foot ceiling.” So it’s a testament to her endurance and creative thinking that when the Bureau of Land Management needed a repository for nearly 800 boxes of artifacts— homeless since UNLV’s Harry Reid Center removed them four years ago—the Natural History Museum could accommodate the collection. It turns out that while the artifacts were in temporary storage in Carson City, the Natural History Museum acquired an extra 10,000 feet of space across the street from its facility on Las Vegas Boulevard—a considerable opportunity given that the museum had been operating with only 40,000 square feet, and only a sliver of that for collecting. The expansion, following accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums in 2013, made the Natural History Museum

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available as a federal repository for artifacts found in or returning to Nevada. “This was literally a crisis,” says Bryan Hockett, lead archaeologist and deputy preservation officer for the Nevada BLM. “UNLV said, ‘We can’t support the space anymore. You need to leave.’ We had been searching for another facility to curate these. [The Natural History Museum] is a facility set up to meet the requirements and has the best intentions for the collection.” And its new space is being outfitted with the support of grants from the BLM and City of Las Vegas. For a museum that launched 24 years ago without a collection, the recent chain of events has been monumental—elevating its status, some might say. “Part of what museums do is collect for posterity,” Gillespie says. “We were to the point where we were turning down things. Our goal is to be able to have a research facility. It’s going to be a brand-new program for us. The collection sent down here represents 40 years of artifacts by different archeologists that represent 10,000 years.” –Kristen Peterson

Las Vegas knows many sides of Patrick Duffy. Champion of art. Board member and benefactor of nonprofits. Fan of Bewitched because, “I escaped childhood while dreaming I was Endora.” And on October 17, Duffy will be named the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada’s Person of the Year. “Not only is he notable in the wider Las Vegas community, but he’s known very much in the LGBTQ community for his service and his passion here, in many, many ways. He is exuberant, charming, full of life and energy,” says the Center’s CEO Michael Dimengo, pointing to contributions ranging from curating ARTrageous to honing the Center’s crucial visitor experience, and an exceptional ability to help others feel affirmed in who they are. “I hearken back to a quote from Harvey Milk, the gay activist. ... He basically stated that we need to be visible, and we need to be richly visible with our own personalities. And that’s how I would describe Patrick.” At the Center’s Kaleidoscope honorarium gala at Drai’s, Duffy will be recognized alongside Ally of the Year Beano Solomon and Corporation of the Year Las Vegas Sands. And his name will be added to a distinguished list going back two decades, among honorees like State Sen. David Parks, Gender Justice Nevada director Jane Heenan and former ACLU leader Gary Peck. “The winners are luminaries and responsible, great people in Las Vegas. And I’m Patrick Duffy!” he says with a laugh, recalling that when the Center extended the honor he told them he hoped there was a strong backup. He says he doesn’t see himself as that kind of figure, but in 14 years in Las Vegas, Duffy has thrown his powerful energy and resources behind enriching the arts and advancing the social-justice missions of organizations like Opportunity Village and I Have a Dream. “What’s really good is when you can write the check out and you can watch where the dollars go and really see the impact.” The Center provides that opportunity, especially through connection with people struggling with self, as Duffy did growing up the first-born son of the Chicago Police commander, and later in overcoming addiction. He says it means so much to “address a group of youth and say, ‘Don’t let the adult in you cover up the little kid. … Please don’t define yourself by your baggage. And whatever you do, go about your day respecting everyone.’ … Respect of others will pave the way for understanding and acceptance no matter what.” –Erin Ryan

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Weekly Q&A Were you aware of global water issues before working with One Drop? I had no

idea what a large issue this was all around the world. You talk to people, and they don’t understand our water. They come and turn on a tap and drink clean water, and to them, that’s amazing. Millions of people around the world have to carry water miles and miles, and that’s all they have. It’s hard for fat Americans like myself to even understand that. Any conservation tips? They give out three-minute timers for your showers, but I have to cheat. Three minutes is not enough time for me to wash this giant body of mine, so I have to do it twice. I can get it done in six minutes. You’re two years into your charities role with the UFC. How has it gone?

UFC Hall of Famer Forrest Griffin puts a strong face on water conservation Forrest Griffin retired from fighting more than two years ago, but he’s stayed active in the UFC. The 36-year-old Hall of Famer and former light heavyweight champion transitioned immediately into a position coordinating charitable efforts for the world’s largest mixed martial arts promotion. And one of his biggest annual events comes this weekend with One Drop’s Walk for Water. Griffin serves as a co-chair for the threemile walk stretching from the Smith Center to the Springs Preserve. It was created to enhance awareness of the daily struggle endured by millions to obtain clean water. Food, music, raffles and carnival games await participants at the end of the trek. We caught up with Griffin to talk about Cirque aerobics, timed showers and life after the octagon.

You’re a four-year veteran of the Walk for Water. What keeps you involved? It’s a nice little walk,

and we make it fun. We’ll meet up, and I’ll take us through some aerobics maybe. I’m on a team this year. I don’t know how you can be on a walking team, but I am. ... It’s not a UFC team either. It’s my friends’ team. It’s a Paleo team—like the diet, which I don’t even do anymore, but I still hang out with those people. They’re probably still on the diet, but who knows? And where do the aerobics come from? Well,

you’ve got the Cirque du Soleil people, and they are committed to that sort of thing. It’s cool to see what they’re able to do. It’s like, “Yeah, people shouldn’t be able to do that, and I don’t understand how they can.”

Don’t you still train? I’m hesi-

tant to even call what I’m doing training, but I work out a bit. I try to do a little something every day. We’re fresh off a fight for the title you once held. What did you think of Daniel Cormier’s win over Alexander Gustafsson in UFC 192? It was either

the best or second-best 205pound title fight ever [next to Jon Jones’ 2013 win over Gustafsson], with Gustafsson being the bridesmaid in both of them. They were both great, and I was happy to see it, because the division doesn’t have the depth it once did.

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It’s been great and keeping me busy. We’re actually completely restructuring right now. We’ve always done charity stuff very piecemeal, but this is the first time we’re putting together a corporate responsibility program. It’s just a more specific way to do it, because a plan is always good.

The good fight

and train on something, work to get better as a fighter. I’m someone who needs goals and direction, and fighting provided that for me.

Is that something you pushed for? Not at all, but I’m very

excited for what we’re going to be able to do. It’s good for us because people in general don’t know the other side of fighting in the octagon. You see people punching and kicking and wonder, “Are those good people?” It turns out they are. The NFL has done a great job of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, and we’re looking to do things like that—not necessarily breast cancer but with water and all manners of charity. How much do you miss fighting? I miss the training a lot.

That was really fun for me. I had a team, so I never had to worry about what I was going to do. I was going to get up

Jon Jones looks set to come off of his indefinite suspension for his hit-andrun incident and challenge Cormier for the title. Does that rematch interest you? Of course,

because you never know what Jon Jones is going to be like when he comes back. We always think of him as so young, because he was the champion at 23 years old, but [at 28] he’s getting close to an age where not training for a year and not living an active lifestyle will contribute to your demise. Time will catch Jon if his own behavior doesn’t. He’s a good guy at heart, but he needs to do what he can do now, because he won’t be able to do it tomorrow. I don’t think guys that have done what he’s done at such a young age realize that physical ability won’t always be there. When did that realization happen for you? I remember

being 32 years old and feeling great, better than ever physically. Then at 33, I tore my shoulder and was out for eight months, and it was like I fell off a cliff. I was never the same. –Case Keefer

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> land of water (Clockwise from here) A 1971 photo of a bather; the labyrinth; Nancy Good outside the trading post; the campground bath; a Tecopa vista.

Outside the Tecopa Trading Post, a woman watches the sun lower behind the dark slopes of the Ibex Hills and nods hello. “That’s Darby,” she says of the giant lab at her side. “Donna,” she adds, gesturing toward herself. Darby plops her big body onto the ground. She’s had health problems, and Donna has been soaking her in the artesian runoff in the campground across the road. I rub my hands through her thick fur. “Have you been in yet?” Donna asks. Everyone asks. The geothermal water—seeping from the Earth’s crust, flowing into the private baths of this Southern California campground and string of desert resorts—is why they’re here. Tour buses arrive throughout the year, mostly unloading Koreans who have flown into LA, then set out for Tecopa to sit in the ancient water. Native Americans used these springs, horse and cattle rustlers, miners. Eventually, the snowbirds will arrive to do the same, retirees soaking their ailments in temperatures just above 100 degrees. You could come here and live on nothing, but have it all, including the Milky Way. “It’s a high-energy vortex,” says part-time local Paul Carter, a tanned, fit and shirtless 40-something truck driver everyone says can fix anything. “Some people are hard-core world travelers. They can stop anywhere. They choose here. A lot of people don’t know even how they find it.” He checks Darby’s paws for any signs of heat damage while his own dog Nylah circles the campground’s trading post to investigate, then returns. He calls her “honey.” Cars pass through the slow intersection that connects to the campground spreading over both sides of the road. Like Nylah, some travelers stop in to say hi, then move on. There’s no cell service. No texting. Conversation is abundant, a delicacy afforded those willing to pull into this former mining town, a gateway to Death Valley that for many is the destination itself. Like other tiny desert towns sitting quietly in the Mojave, Tecopa is noted for its rich history and legendary residents. It was named for Chief Tecopa of the Paiutes, who defended the land from white intruders but eventually sought peace. For a time it was home to Paul Watkins, the famous member of Charles Manson’s Family who testified against Manson, securing his conviction for the notorious Helter Skelter murders. Watkins founded the Death Valley Chamber of Commerce, and his daughter, writer Claire Vaye Watkins, grew up here, near the Old Spanish Trail. Brothers William and Robert Brown founded the mining outpost in 1875, originally naming it Brownsville. It’s an area favored by academics and geologists, as the rocks are up to 250 million years old. But really, it’s about the soothing water, the individual freedom and the quiet of the desert. “You’re in the middle of nowhere, and amazing things happen,” says Amy Noel, who owns the Tecopa Hot Springs Resort next to the campground. She’s talking about a woman in her 80s who rode through town on a horse, inspired by dancer Marta Becket, who moved here from New York more than 40 years ago to open a one-woman show in her Amargosa Opera House, which still stands. Seniors love it here, but eventually their children decide their parents are too old to continue wintering in such a remote area. There’s no hospital, only modest lodging, a restaurant, art gallery, cemetery, church, library, brewery and post office. Water and groceries are brought in from Pahrump. The nearest gas station is nine miles away in Shoshone, and the school in Tecopa is closed, because there aren’t enough kids

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> Tecopa moments Paul Carter and Nylah are hot-spring regulars; (above) a camping tourist, and the laundry of a local.

in town to keep it open. Students are bused into nearby Shoshone. It’s rugged—pampering without the velvet ropes. The resorts are humble structures on dry desert soil, but the population of about 150 jumps to 500 during the season. Snapshots of the snowbirds are tacked to the bulletin boards inside the community center. Shelley Scott, who moved here from Las Vegas, says that the community is big if you consider Shoshone, Tecopa, Amargosa and the China Ranch Date Farm “the suburbs of Death Valley.” Hula hoops are everywhere. We see one leaning outside a bus-turned-home under a thicket of palm trees near Tecopa’s labyrinth, where the wind on the plateau is knocking me off course as I run through howling because nobody can hear us anyway. We meet the bus’ tenant that night—an attractive, quiet woman named Izabelle Nuckle—a French-Canadian artist who settled in Tecopa last Christmas, learning of the town from her husband, who used to visit in the ’70s and ’80s. She helps maintain the Tecopa Hot Springs Resort, cleans the

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pool and works as a massage therapist. Her husband’s in the film industry in LA, and they’re looking to buy a permanent home here. The resort is run by LA-transplant Noel, who worked for 20 years at the J. Paul Getty Museum and had been visiting Death Valley since the late ’70s. Following a sabbatical in 2000 during which she volunteered at the Shoshone Museum, she dreamed big and bought the property with friends, moving to Tecopa in 2005. She’d already laid down the bones of the labyrinth formed of rocks representing different geological eras, then opened the art gallery to showcase the area’s rich artist population. At the former gas station now known as the Death Valley Internet Cafe, another gallery has taken form—paintings of American television shows and titles. Dozens, maybe more than 100, dominate the naturally lit dining room. Alex Gjestvang creates them daily. He has autism and came here with his older brother Robert Surdel, a former sous chef at STK at the Cosmopolitan who opened the cafe in May with chef Eric Scott. They’d always wanted to work together, Surdel

says of his brother. “It’s Two Chefs and an Artist.” Surdel knows the family that owns Delight’s Hot Springs Resort, where his restaurant operates, and made this move about 80 miles west and a world away for a change of pace, for the hot springs and to serve all-natural foods picked from local farms. “It’s all about being healthy. That’s what it’s really about,” he says. “I’ve lost 40 pounds out here. But there’s really a sense of community. A lot of friendships are made here, even if they’re not from here.” The community is international, and fluctuates depending who’s in town. At the campground, Michel Olson and Christy Horne of the Gypsy Time Travelers ride in on motorbikes after a day of exploring. Their famous gypsy rig is parked in Shoshone, but they’re here to say hello to friends outside the trading post. They spend as much as three months a year in the area soaking in the baths, Olson says, adding, “It’s my Ponce de León.” The pools in the campground’s cement, gendersegregated buildings are open 24 hours. As it is with all of the private baths, nudity is required. Minerals pull the soaps out of clothing, which degrades the water. Everything flows out into the marsh. So no shampoos, no lotion, no hair in the water. We stroll the grounds with Nancy Good, a welltraveled artist and musician who bought a house in Tecopa Heights more than three years ago with her husband Paul Barnes, and watched the “neglected” campground go downhill. They took over management in January with partner Ryan Thomas and spent four months remodeling, restoring and handling damage control online from years of the previous management. The campground has more than 200 sites, and at the base of the mountain behind the baths, Barnes built a stunning one-room, 11-by12-foot portable rental cabin with an 8-foot wooden porch. The plan is to build a village of these cabins, and a stage for music. The quaint trading post sells dry goods and camping supplies, a stock so thorough you can drive in with nothing but yourself and get everything you need to set up camp. There’s even a short-wave radio station that plays Flying Eye podcasts. This will be the first full season in business for Good and Barnes. Thomas, originally from Maryland, remembers a time in the late ’90s when it wasn’t possible to find a vacancy at the campground, before it went from 100 percent occupancy to just 6 percent. Under their management, they expect it to return to higher capacity, because they understand the culture: “There are people who live and breathe hot springs,” Thomas says. “They just go from hot spring to hot spring.” Good adds, “We’re stewards of this very special water, and we treat it that way.” At night we understand why Death Valley is designated an International Dark Sky Park. There’s an added dimension to the stars twinkling in the blackness, and we see so many of them. With most of the campers retired for the night and the locals talking outside, we slip out of our clothes, rinse off impurities and finally dip into the clear water. It’s silky, salty and 105 degrees. We’re naked under the open sky, soaking in time. Some say it’s just water. Others believe it’s magical. Baptized by the mystery and the minerals, we feel different. Healthier. Clean. Restored. Not in some supernatural way, but the water is so still. My friend Mikayla feels intoxicated. I feel like doing a million pull-ups on the bar above the water. I do 10,000. We don’t want to, but we have to get out. The water is hot. And the touch of it lingers. photographs by mikayla whitmore

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the whim of the evening breeze. A body was on the ground—there but not there, as he’d absentmindedly stepped over it, fully invested in the conversation that was now at its sweet spot. They breathed in the wet autumn air and talked about how poetic life seems when skies are grey and darkening. But then his mind took a walk. He was standing outside of the conversation, watching it. He knew this game. The doctor looked at the sky and asked, “So, you become those people?” “No, of course not. But I live a flicker of their lives somehow—the ideal version of their lives. I’m never them. I’m just seeing their reality as I perceive it, and sometimes it’s real. Or a shadow of real.” This was bullsh*t. His brain never shut off anymore, not with all these house guests stopping in all the time. And with so much company, things had fallen out of order. What he really wanted from the doctor was consistency, someone to anchor him. The doorbell rang. A waitress stopped at his table to ask for his order, and the bus arrived exactly when it was supposed to. He looked across the patio at a chair that was never there, eavesdropped on the discussion at hand. The woman talking about last summer on the houseboat smoked. She scratched her ankle and set her foot back down, extending her toes to examine them. “How do you come back?” the doctor asked. He thought about it, wanting only to say something interesting. He’d say the truth if he could find it. The body tripped him. He was taking steps backward and kicked his heel right into it. His face flushed at the thought of the doctor seeing him stumble. The door burst open, and strangers rushed onto the patio. They covered their noses and mouths as they looked at the guy on the ground. There was concern when they lifted him, a careful effort to not disturb things. It was then that he become aware of the knocking. What’s with that? Can’t somebody get that? It got louder, more forceful. Panicked. As they carried the body out, the strangers glanced around the house. His torn and bloody knuckles beat at the glass, but they didn’t hear. They didn’t see him. They just shut off the TV, and his world went black.

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1. Contact your most creative fashion friend: In my case, Pam Pereira, thrifting savant and owner of vintage Etsy shop Throwback Rack. 2. Ask her to escort you to a thrift store and promise favors: “It’s Savers! It’s down the street! It will be fast and easy and fun! I’ll buy your costume!” 3. Follow the leader: Pam rummaged through the racks as if flicking through TV channels, dismissing duds and proclaiming cool finds. To baggy purple overalls: “It’s so Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes!” To a teal suede vest-skirt combo: “It’s Dolly Parton! All you need is balloons and a wig!” To a plaid sweater-vest: “Yes! Totally Dorkytown! Let’s find nerd spex!”

4. Accessorize: Find the glasses, and whatever else completes the look. Collared shirt? Grandma trousers? How awesome is this 1980s-era algebra tome?!

5. Doubt yourself: Should we have gone with the baggy pants? The cowboy boots? The witchy steampunk coat? 6. Nah!: Go with your gut and settle on something original. When in doubt, start with an item you love and build on it. Whether scrubs, a spidery wedding dress or a cowboy ensemble, it’s dealicious—and you can always add blood. –Kristy Totten

The Coven of 13 The Freakling Brothers usually change out their “horror shows” every three or four years, and this year sees the Circus of Horrors haunt swapped out for the Coven of 13, which will require brave maze-walkers to pick their way through a large series of darkened—and darkly themed—trailers, dodging 13 witches lurking throughout. This being a Freakling Bros. production, expect the 13th one to be the real pantswetter. Through October 31, doors at 7 p.m., $14-$35. 4245 S. Grand Canyon Drive, freaklingbros.com.

Zombie Paintball Express For Fridays and Saturdays, the Bonnie Screams fright fest adds to its haunt profile an interactive experience requiring riders to sign a waiver, board a bus and shoot paintballs at approaching zombies. It’s like a Walking Dead safari. Through October 31, 7 p.m.-11 p.m., $20. Bonnie Springs Ranch, wickedhaunts.com. Friday the 13th 4-D: A Deadly 4-D Experience Ever pop in a horror flick and fast-forward to all the kills? Fright Dome loosely follows that concept for its first-ever 4D experience, where audience members will don 3D glasses and witness 13 gruesome kills in quick succession by Crystal Lake’s reigning sociopath, Jason. If that’s not unnerving enough, the booby-trapped theater’s special effects will have viewers squirming in and jumping out of their seats. Through October 31, 7 p.m.-midnight, $36-$100. Adventuredome, frightdome.com. –Mike Prevatt costume by christopher devargas

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LET’S GET SPOOKY!

on 12 of its 60 green acres each year. Families were out in droves, fathers ized I was missing out on a Halloween GILCREASE pushing red wheelbarrows full of fall’s ritual most other kids experience. I would ORCHARD bounty and children gleefully running wear a costume, go trick-or-treating and Tuesday, through the rows to claim pumpkins on carve a jack-o’-lantern, but I never got Thursday, the vine (50 cents per pound) as their to actually pick my pumpkin. My mom Saturday & own—but only when they spotted just always bought ours at the grocery store. Sunday through the right one. The Valley’s now dotted with parkOctober, 7 a.m.A tour guide megaphoned from a ing-lot knockoffs attempting to offer 2 p.m. 7800 N. covered-wagon caravan while people a pumpkin-patch atmosphere, with Tenaya Way, near the patch entrance munched on bales of hay on the asphalt and random 702-409-0655, Gilcrease’s apple-cider donuts and attractions like trains and trampolines— thegilcrease washed them down with pear cider. but the real It’s the Great Pumpkin, orchard.org. With a rainstorm on the way, a cool Charlie Brown experience can only be breeze was in the air. Looking at the towfound at Gilcrease Orchard. ering mountains with the Strip nowhere On a recent Sunday afternoon, a in sight, I didn’t even need to pick a pumpkin. The crowd had amassed at the Centennial Hills farm, Gilcrease experience was enough on its own. where more than 150 tons of pumpkins grow

∑ Growing up in Las Vegas, I never real-

A seed, or pepita, is born to face death: It will either find its way to Earth’s sweet soil, or a thorough crisping in the evil appliance humans call “oven.”

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In the ground a seed grows into a vine, then a flower, and finally a fruit. The awkward, bulbous baby punkin enrolls in school, squashes competition in debate club, is asked to leave swim team because it’s too buoyant, but goes on to Gourd Washington University.

After college, the grad must choose to follow in the starryeyed footsteps of famous pals like Cinderella’s carriage, or settle for a more traditional gig as a pumpkin pie or jack-o’lantern. In either role, it will be lucky to win a contest or two.

As a star, a prize pumpkin fades from the spotlight and succumbs to mold. As basic Halloween decor, its skin loses strength and its face caves in. And as a foodstuff, it’s roasted and eaten. But still, there’s hope as the cycle begins again. –Kristy Totten

GILCREASE ORCHARD BY STEVE MARCUS

∑ Snickers. Skittles. Kit Kat. Nerds. Halloween’s proven candy favorites aren’t going anywhere, and that’s a good thing. But it’s also nice to sort through your (kid’s) bag at night’s end and find something you’ve never seen before, something strange and potentially life-changing. With that in mind the Weekly went shopping, for stuff we’ve never tried—or even heard of—to see if any deserve a permanent spot in the Halloween candy canon.

Reactions: “Confusing.” “Surprisingly delightful!” “Just tastes like a Starburst with strange texture.” “Waxy, like I’m eating a flavored candle.” “Why mess with the original. It’s already so good.” “A little perfumey. I could smell them from five feet away.” “Holy crap, I like candy corn now!” Average score: 2.5 out of 5

Reactions: “Tastes the same.” “Love the food coloring. Should be a year-round thing.” “Pink interior and brown exterior looks like steak.” “The dullest use of food coloring ever.” “The name kills me.” “Makes me think of red velvet cake. Gross.” “Thank you, Jesus.” Average score: 2.9 out of 5

Reactions: “A little too cumbersome to chew. I’ll stick with my Kroger-brand, dinosaur-shaped fruit snacks.” “Nice gummy flavor.” “The cool shapes are where it’s at— Ray-bans and bicycles? Yes!” “Too gummy.” “Turns out gummy bowties and gummy crowns taste just like gummy bears.” “I just ate a paint brush! And a clock! Finally, randomness gets its day.” Average score: 2.6 out of 5

Reactions: “Yum, yum, yum. I could eat this all day.” “I have a problem with an orange, pumpkin-shaped peanut butter cup.” “Not as good as Reese’s Easter eggs, but I dig it.” “Looks like cheese, tastes like butter.” “I’d rather eat a skull than a pumpkin.” “So peanut buttery. I want a bag all to myself.” “No actual pumpkin flavor? Boo.” Average score: 4.2 out of 5

Reactions: “Cardboard hints with medical overtones.” “Not sour enough.” “Unpleasant texture.” “Tastes like a bootleg version of Sour Punch Straws.” “Good flavor, not too sweet.” “Kind of like chewing on a grocerystore twist tie.” Average score: 2.0 out of 5

Reactions: “A reminder why I don’t buy pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks.” “I would go to war for these.” “Not sure why one of the greatest candies ever feels the need to bastardize itself. I’m angry.” “They kind of taste like weed brownies.” “Surrender to the P-Spice.” “Like a kiss in the rain.” Average score: 2.7 out of 5

Reactions: “Tasty, but candy eggs make me think of Easter, not Halloween.” “Oddly addicting.” “Good for passive consumption.” “The chewiest jelly beans ever.” “Sneaky delicious (and the sourness varies by color).” “Like eating a butterfly cocoon in Beijing.” Average score: 2.6 out of 5

Reactions: “Good, but it ain’t no Red Vine.” “These should come with toothpicks.” “Tastes like plastic, but it’s fun to play with.” “It’s like gummy string cheese.” “Since when is fruit punch bitter?” “What I imagine a unicorn horn tasting like.” “Like eating Playdough.” Average score: 1.6 out of 5

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LET’S GET SPOOKY! ∑ Loving Halloween has nothing to do with this.

Yes, it is one of the best holidays, but trick-or-treating through age 26 was because of something else. 1990. The air was crisp and the sun had set over the Las Vegas Country Club, where my grandmother lived. Trick-or-treating had commenced. I was 3, and dressed as an angel. My mom, sister, aunt and cousins set a record pace against cutthroat teenagers pillaging the unguarded candy buckets, our pillowcases overflowing with king-size treats. We came to the very end of the neighborhood, to a dimly lit house with cobblestone bricks and white roses leading to a glass door with a sheer curtain. No jack-o’-lanterns, no ghosts hanging in a tree, just a bucket filled with candy. And no one else discovered it. We took almost all of the candy, figuring whoever set it out might be disappointed to find it mostly untouched. This was the beginning of an unspoken tradition, a strange sort of kindness to someone I never met. I knew an older lady lived there, as my grandmother mentioned her once in a while. Every year I returned to her house on the corner. Every year I found a full bucket until I poured it into my pillowcase. Even after I passed the socially acceptable age to ask for candy from strangers, I still visited that house late at night to take its sweet offering. As time went on, the once vibrant neighborhood began to tarnish. There were fewer and fewer traces of Halloween, yet the house on the corner always had that bucket delicately placed on the walkway. This past year, the bucket was gone. I knew the woman was, too. Staring at the cobblestones, at the empty place where her candy had always been, I cried for her. For the childhood I had known. I walked away with the pillowcase swinging lightly at my side. Over all the years I’d felt this bond with a total stranger, I hoped that even though I never saw her, she’d been watching from behind the curtain.

∑ You’ve heard of a Kegerator, but how about a keg-pumpkin? You’ll find five at

KHOURY’S HALLOWEEN PARTY October 30, 5-10 p.m., $25 all you can drink from the pumpkin kegs. 9915 S. Eastern Ave. #110, 702-435-9463.

Khoury’s Fine Wine and Spirits on October 30, when the liquor store/hangout will use the seasonal squash to serve up some seasonal suds. “We’re basically doing the same thing [as using a firkin] but with a pumpkin,” owner Issa Khoury says, adding that each pumpkin will range from 50 to 100 pounds. “It’s just something different and fun.” Khoury asked a handful of local breweries to craft something festive for the store’s third-annual Halloween bash, and the tap lineup sounds autumnally delicious: Bad Beat’s Oktoberfest Märzen, CraftHaus’ Fall Maple Spice Ale, a pumpkin ale from Big Dog’s, Joseph James’ Apricot Tart sour and a version of Tenaya Creek’s Hauling Oats Oatmeal Stout infused with coffee and cinnamon. At $25, the party’s all-you-can-drink price point is right. So break out that costume and drink as much as you want! That is, until the keg—er, pumpkin—is kicked. –Mark Adams

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The Neon Boneyard will be even more bewitching with music by TotesCity, food from Cheffinis, giveaways, a costume contest and complimentary drinks. October 30, 7 p.m., tickets start at $55.

Cabaret Jazz hosts a performance by this power trio doing alt-rock renditions of Rat Pack-era classics, plus a costume contest judged by UNLV fashion expert Deirdre Clemente. October 30, 8 p.m., tickets start at $35.

> Scary Hot Sexy styles like our cover model’s Día de los Muertos-inspired costume are encouraged at F&F.

Makeup by Tai Shane/Makeup Now Vegas; Hair by Ellice Turner/Makeup Now Vegas

By Mark Adams 1. Bragging rights. Maxim, The Los

8. To laugh your ass off at the

Angeles Times, Travel Channel and others have praised F&F as a can’tmiss party, the latter dubbing it one of the top 10 events in the world.

humorous getups. Have you ever seen a giant condom walking around with Jesus and Wonder Woman?

2. Because everyone is in costume. The website’s dress-code page even says, “looky loos and party poopers are encouraged to go elsewhere.” 3. To ride a giant banana! Forget

do you know of that have lasted two decades? Right?

been thinking about selfies and photobombs this entire time.

16. Want to fly your freak flag?

10. For ideas for next year’s costume.

your friends? It’s still fun to watch others, no?

6. There’s a Human Petting Zoo.

12. To buy naughty nov-

4. To whip, tickle and tie up your party pals on the BDSM stage.

5. Don’t want to get naughty with

7. Eye candy. Some of the sexiest people will sport some of the sexiest costumes. Even the guys get racy—we’re looking at you, shirtless Scotsmen in above-the-knee kilts. photograph by christopher devargas

15. How many parties in Las Vegas

9. PHOTO OPS! Admit it—you’ve

11. To cut a rug to some solid beats. From EDM and Top 40 to house, trance and hip-hop, F&F runs the musical gamut. Behind the booth this year: DJ Dan, DJ Skribble, Donald Glaude, Scooter & Lavelle and more.

the mechanical bull—sexual innuendo makes everything better.

14. The Fetish Fashion Show by “German fetish shop” the Black Room.

FETISH & FANTASY HALLOWEEN BALL 20TH ANNIVERSARY October 31, 10 p.m., $88 GA, $269 VIP, $49.50 after 1 a.m. Hard Rock Hotel, hallo weenball.com.

elties from F&F vendors.

13. Electrifying performances. With fire-breathers, stilt walkers and dudes using chainsaws to send sparks into the air, it’s epic.

With a mask on, your neighbors won’t know you’re the one in the black latex grinding on your beau.

17. To watch humans riding humans like horses—with clothes on! 18. To get rained on by a giant papiermâché phallus spouting confetti. (The obvious chaser for that giant banana ride.)

19. When else will you see the Joint turn into a massive nightclub?

A special performance from Grammy-nominated Omarion (“Post to Be”) highlights the Bellagio club’s Halloween celebration. October 31, 10 p.m., tickets start at $30 for men, $20 for women.

The Sunset Station resident band rocks another Saturday night while you compete for a grand prize of $1,000 for the best Halloween getup. Remember: no masks on the casino floor, and you have to be a Boarding Pass member to win. October 31, 10 p.m., no cover.

Thought SLS’ swanky nightclub was closed? Let’s call it undead. It’ll be resurrected for a night with Lil Wayne, part of the property’s Halloween weekend of entertainment that also includes DJs Fedde Le Grand and Gareth Emery. October 31, 10:30 p.m., tickets start at $30.

The Encore megaclub will be transformed into a vintage freakshow all weekend long, including Halloween night, when Kaskade headlines the party. October 31, 10:30 p.m., tickets start at $30 for men, $20 for women. –Brock Radke

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BEACH TO BRUNCH AT LAVO The fifth season of Lavo’s fantastically festive Champagne Brunch Saturdays launches this weekend, with ladies in swimwear receiving a complimentary open bar from 2 to 3 p.m. October 17, 2 p.m., reservations required, table minimums vary.

REV RUN & RUCKUS AT HAKKASAN The classic-to-cur-

LOUDPVCK AT HARD ROCK LIVE RVLTN brings the rent combo of Run, who recently bicoastal duo of Kenny Beats and Ryan Marks to the Strip found out he’s going to be a for this genre-defying, 18-and-over electronic show. Saymyname and Midnight Tyrannosaurus prograndpa for the second vide support. October 17, 8:30 p.m., $30. time, and Ruck, who’s dating Australian Victoria’s Secret JAIME NARVAEZ AT DRAI’S model Shanina Shaik, returns to the AFTERHOURS Known to bust out the big room at Hakkasan Thursday congas and timbales to add live, deeper night. October 15, 10:30 p.m., grooves to his funky, anthemic sets, Didier Cohen’s age when $30+ men, $20+ women. Jaime Narvaez will keep us dancing till he got hired to do A&R daylight in Drai’s basement. October 17, for Epic and RCA SOURMILK AT 1 OAK Dabbling in and 1 a.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. Records all around the spectrum of hip-hop, Cali native SourMilk teams with LA Leakers HUDSON MOHAWKE AT XS The Scottish Kanye signee once known as DJ Itchy (real partner Justin Credible for SunDrai’s this weekend, but you can catch him solo first at the name: Ross Birchard) released his Lantern EP this Mirage’s nightclub Friday night. October 16, 10:30 p.m., summer on Warp Records and brings his fresh, glitchy, $40+ men, $30+ women. genre-manipulating sound to Movement Mondays. October 19, 10:30 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. DIDIER COHEN AT TRYST The Australian TV personality has seemingly left that career behind, ditching his LOST ANGELS WITH DJ CROOKED AT HYDE It’s going Australia’s Next Top Model gig to tour and pursue music to be a beautiful night by the water at Bellagio. Amp full-time. Summery September track “Skyline” shows it up with the Lost Angels industry party, fueled off his big-room-house ambitions. October 16, 10:30 p.m., by Knyew founder Crooked. October 20, 10 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. $30+ men, $20+ women.

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Break out the flamingo beer bongs— Ghostbar Dayclub returns for a fifth season of daytime debauchery this Saturday. Back in 2011, the Palms party phenom pioneered the combo of pool-less, underthe-sun raging and over-the-top visuals, and other venues have since borrowed its neon-infused, EDC-esque vibe. But as the OG, GBDC should definitely be on your Vegas revelry bucket list. Partygoers can expect the usual sensory overload for Season 5: vibrant rave wear and GHOSTBAR Halloween costumes, DAYCLUB ostentatious bottle prePalms, 702sentations, confetti show942-6832. ers and an utterly bumpin’ Saturdays, soundtrack sprinkled with 1 p.m., $20+ nostalgic tunes that’ll men, $10+ have the entire room singwomen. ing along. (Think: Dr. Dre’s “The Next Episode” and 50 Cent’s “In Da Club.”) This season’s calendar is full of fun themes—Halloween’s Day of the Killer Costumes (October 31), a rodeo-inspired bash (December 5) and GBDC’s Pajama Jam (December 12) and Holiday Giveaway Extravaganza (December 19)—plus days hosted by celebrities who match the random, fun-loving nature of GBDC itself, like Champagne-shower enthusiast/nightlife photographer Kirill Was Here (October 24), controversial comedian Josh “The Fat Jew” Ostrovsky (November 14) and Instagram sensations Baddiewinkle (November 7) and F*ckJerry (November 21). You’ll need a few things to ensure optimal enjoyment while knocking back paper-bagged forties and getting caught in confetti downpours. Here’s a handy checklist: Glow-in-the-dark fanny pack Last year’s NYE noisemakers Rainbow tutu Slatted Kanye shades Uber (because you might hit the shot-ski a few times) Comfortable shoes (come on, ladies, leave the heels at home) Body glitter Advil (for the day after—duh!) –Mark Adams

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Vegas party architects Lauren Linck and Zee Zandi strike out on their own By Mike Prevatt The name Silent Partner is a curious one for the new booking/marketing/branding company founded by Lauren Linck and Zee Zandi. They are highly visible on social media, the two often photographed in celebratory huddles with their peers in Vegas nightlife and the jet-setting DJs they promote. But their professional aim is to thrive behind the scenes—to drive the party rather than join it. Known for their allegiances with the most prosperous nightlife companies in town—Linck a Hard Rock Hotel hospitality veteran, Zandi helping elevate the performer stable at Wynn nightlife and Angel Management Group (where Linck also worked as a social-media manager) and both having just left ATM Artists, the mega-DJ management company that had been programming Light and Daylight—the two have struck out on their own with Silent Partner, which bucks the tradition of in-house booking and social-media marketing at local dance venues. Its biggest strength is its formidable connections—Zandi to the international DJ community, Linck to the entire online nightlife world—which promise to ramp up the entertainment offerings and Internet presence of its nightclub clients. In a market where it’s easier to boast about a nightclub’s DJ roster than its revenue and social media engagement numbers, Zandi has the sexier responsibilities: continuing to book the most indemand talent, a job that has increased her profile parallel to that of Las Vegas nightlife. But the public has to know about the parties in the first place, which is where promotional whiz Linck comes in, pushing the event from inception to execution. She coordinates photography for the headliner, arranges video to, as she puts it, “tell the story online,” manages meet-and-greets and contests, and even helps motivate the venue’s staff to market both the club

and themselves. “Lots of venues don’t allow staff to have their phones during their shifts, but we just learned that Ten [Nightclub in Newport Beach] does, and that’s smart,” says Linck, a former Rehab server herself. “It allows the cocktail waitresses to interact with the guests.” Silent Partner will exclusively book electronic music acts in Las Vegas for Marquee, along with marketing and/or programming at Ten, Temple in San Francisco and Parq in San Diego, and hyping beverages like VOCO vodka/coconut water. From there, Linck and Zandi hope to sign contracts

not only with clubs in other markets, but lifestyle brands and products. Given their experience at ATM, it’s no surprise they want to branch out into artist management—eventually. “We want to get the projects we’ve already started going and make them successful,” Zandi says. “Next year we’ll start the management side, take one or two artists we believe in … really give it our all.” Which is to say Silent Partner wants to truly go national. But Vegas nightlife shouldn’t fret about losing two of its biggest talents. “Vegas will evolve and be its own monster on its own,” Linck says. “But we can help people who are part of that evolution.”

New operators emerge at Light With Hakkasan Group and Cirque du Soleil both confirming last week they are no longer involved with Light and Daylight, new operators for the Mandalay Bay clubs have emerged. Play Management, a new company founded by Colin Comer and John Pettei, both former executives with the Light Group, is now in control. The two industry veterans, who serve as managing partners working with the venues’ owner, the Yucaipa Companies, have said they don’t have any specific design or branding changes planned. Light at Mandalay Bay opened on Memorial Day Weekend 2013 as a collaboration between the Light Group and Cirque du Soleil. The day-and-night pool club Daylight opened at the MGM Resorts property that summer. Hakkasan Group took control of both venues late last year with a $36 million buyout of the Light Group, and confirmed last week the termination of its management deal. Cirque also announced last week it had pulled out of Light, in order to focus on live entertainment and creating new shows. In a somewhat related announcement from MGM Resorts, Revolution Lounge at Mirage—another venue that was at one time connected to Hakkasan and Cirque—is set to close this week and will be replaced by a new concept in 2016. –Brock Radke

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> tent revival Margaret Cho is set to testify at TI on Friday.

A chat with Lazerbeak of hip-hop collective Doomtree With such a large collaboration—five MCs, two of whom write beats, plus two producers—how do you avoid a too-manycooks situation in the studio? I don’t know if it’s possible, to be honest. That’s just something we’ve learned to live with. It’s a lot of people to please, and it goes beyond the songs themselves—deciding on the artwork or the song titles or what promotional direction to take. All of those decisions are being made in-house by seven people, so it’s a challenge. But ultimately I think it gives us a creative edge. You don’t just make a song and slap it on the record. Songs really get molded into a specific shape. Why did you write the DOOMTREE material for [January album] with AstroAll Hands in a remote cabin? nautalis. [These days] the only way October 18, 9 to get people’s undivided p.m., $22. The attention, myself included, is Sayers Club, to just break out and hole up. 702-761-7618. It ended up working really well—not only the songwriting but the bonding and the reconnection. When you can only use a landline and you’re not constantly getting blown up by everybody, it really is conducive to centering and refocusing.

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see kickstarter film festival This free program gathers feature films and shorts financed via the crowdfunding service, including Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s hilarious vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows and Don Hertzfeldt’s Sundance-winning animated short World of Tomorrow. October 15, 7 p.m., RSVP at filmfest.kick starter.com, Regal Village Square. WIN, LOSE OR HAVE FUN! “Macho Man” Randy Savage hosts Jeopardy! for the grand prize of ... cereal? Enter local artist Jesse Carson Smigel’s P3Studio show at the Cosmo, where game-show set design collides with punny trivia and curious white-elephant prizes. Through November 8; Wednesday & Thursday, 5-10 p.m.; Friday-Sunday, 6-11 p.m.; free.

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GO Bukowski: man and myth Local poet Lee Mallory reveals his long-ago “mentoring by the ol’ Lion,” in a workshop sharing letters, poems and journal notes and attempting to answer questions like, “Is self-destruction a path to poetry?” October 17, 2 p.m., free, Winchester Cultural Center. MASTERS WORLD PASTA EATING CHAMPIONSHIP

How much pasta can you can consume in eight minutes? Pros—like hot dog champ Matt Stonie— and amateurs dig in under the Arc de Triomphe for an event hosted by restaurateur Steve Martorano. October 17, 1 p.m., free; post-event dinner at Martorano’s, 8 p.m.

Doomtree makes very layered records. How difficult is it to translate that live? It’s tough. Oftentimes we’re adding even more layers than are on the original stuff. Luckily, the rappers are so good at cutting through that—their voices and their energy command the room. I love our records, but I think our live shows are the reason people have stuck with us. It really is a unique experience, different than most other rap shows. –Chris Bitonti For more of our interview with Lazerbeak, visit lasvegasweekly.com.

Hear father john misty Having trouble finding the singer-songwriter’s Lou Reed-influenced Taylor Swift covers since he took them down? You just might hear one at the Cosmopolitan. Arrive early for the opener, garagerock hero Mikal Cronin. October 15, 8 p.m., $23, Boulevard Pool. social distortion The SoCal punk act celebrates the 25th anniversary of its breakthrough self-titled third album by doing the thing it does best: hitting the stage and rocking the beer out of your cup. With Oil Boom. October 16, 7:30 p.m., $35, House of Blues.

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A&E | pop culture C U LT U R A L AT TAC H M E N T

Fright club Halloween’s almost here, so hide out with these scary sights and sounds By Smith Galtney

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Stalker anthems always sound a little sweeter during this time of year, and if there’s a more chilling song than Randy Newman’s “Suzanne,” I’m not ready to hear it. After finding a number on a bathroom wall, a lowlife tracks down a woman and makes lots of promises from afar. The song’s last verse—“And when you go to the pictures, and I know you do/Don’t bring no one with you, ’cause I’ll be there, too”—could be the creepiest set of lyrics I’ve ever heard. Unless that “Hey, little girl is your daddy home?” line from Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m on Fire” or the “Put your tiny hand in mine” part from George Michael’s “Father Figure” count. My vote for scariest song, however, goes to

Richard & Linda Thompson’s “Did She Jump or Was She Pushed?” A sort of forensic report of a woman found “lying in a pool of herself with a twisted neck,” the lyrics present an unhinged party girl who burned many bridges, giving many motives to many men as she ran from the truth toward a forever that never happened. “They found some fingerprints right around her throat,” sings a deadpan Linda Thompson, her then-husband Richard icing up his guitar. “They didn’t find no killer, and they didn’t find no note.” That the two were basically divorcing while recording the tune only adds an air of perverse poignancy. Their number had been traced. The killer was calling from inside the house.

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So it’s that the time of year again. Some of you will soon dust off that tired ol’ Freddy Krueger glove. Maybe you’ve just purchased this year’s “Slutty _____” getup. Perhaps you’re even ironing out your new Kim Davis wig. Me? I’ll be celebrating like I always do: from the comfort of my couch. And for us costume-averse, party-pooped, pop-culture obsessives, October is the coolest time of year for staying in and geeking out on movies and mixtapes. I never need Halloween as an excuse to watch Carrie, my favorite horror movie of all time. If the 1976 original was the first flick to keep me up at night, it was also the first story to truly disrupt my childhood brain. I related to an outcast like Carrie White, but how could I feel sorry for someone who goes on a murder spree? And why the hell did she bisect Miss Collins, the closest she ever had to a friend, with a basketball goal? No matter how many times I watch this movie, I still wish somebody could somehow do the right thing. But even the good deeds lead to the inevitable bloodbath, and that always freaks me out. That’s not the case with Burnt Offerings, another ’76 movie that scared me sh*tless back in the day. It’s about a family who looks after a musty ol’ house that’s clearly got a mind of its own. (The story partly inspired you-know-who to write The Shining.) But what was terrifying 40 years ago seemed pretty dumb last week, thanks in no small part to hilarious overacting from Karen Black, Oliver Reed and Bette Davis. Aside from a pale, grinning, beyond-creepy character named the Chauffeur, who still made my spine tingle, this was a major waste of time—“a big buildup to nothing,” to quote Leonard Maltin. I rarely get through this month without watching Halloween, because when the hell else can you watch it? The scares wore off years ago, but it still gets me off as a piece of filmmaking—the music, the steadicam shots, plus my favorite movie neighborhood ever. I took a photography class several years ago, and when the teacher said, “If you want to know how to photograph houses, watch Halloween,” I knew I was in the presence of greatness. In fact, the last time I was in LA, I waited till my partner was asleep so I could duck in a cab and take pictures of 1530 N. Orange Grove Ave., the home where Laurie Strode babysat Tommy Doyle. How’s that for supreme dork-itude? In between movies, it’s all about the turntable and a stack of old disco and house records that I cherish. There’s Cerrone’s “Supernature,” an epic Island of Dr. Moreau-esque tale set to sci-fi Eurodisco beats. Danny Darrow’s “Doomsday” is 10 minutes of fritzed-out noise in 4/4 time, as a freaky serial-killer voice whispers, “Doomsday’s a-comin’, so let’s get down to it, let’s drown in our juices of love.” More house/techno-minded folks hungry for something perhaps more contemporary might prefer Green Velvet’s “The Stalker (I’m Losing My Mind).” Over warped, wiggling, ominous synths, a mush-mouthed voice drones, “They were wrong when they said cats only have nine lives. Yours died a long time ago.” On the dancefloor, no one can hear you scream …

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Monster mash Beloved book series Goosebumps awkwardly transitions to the big screen

> the negotiator Hanks as a lone bastion of integrity.

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Spy master Tom Hanks confidently carries Cold War drama Bridge of Spies By Mike D’Angelo ing one was tantamount to representing a child molestApart from that unfortunate time when he played a er. Nonetheless, Donovan insists on giving his client foreigner with a funny accent (and we’ve all agreed to his best effort, endeavoring to keep him from being forget The Terminal exists, right?), Tom Hanks dependexecuted by arguing that his actions were noble and ably serves as a figure of moral rectitude in Steven patriotic, whether or not they benefited the U.S. Good Spielberg movies. Saving Private Ryan saw him risk his thing he succeeds, too, because a few years later, when own life, and that of his company, to rescue a U.S. solan American fighter pilot (Austin Stowell) dier whose mother had already lost three is shot down over Russia, Donovan gets sons to World War II. His FBI agent in another assignment: Go to East Germany Catch Me if You Can is so determined to nab aaabc and offer Abel in trade. a notorious con artist that he even works BRIDGE OF SPIES Written by Matt Charman and then on Christmas Day. But Hanks has never Tom Hanks, Mark rewritten by the Coen brothers (who seem been quite as enjoyably righteous as he is in Rylance, Amy Ryan. to have added a layer of wry humor), Spielberg’s new film, Bridge of Spies, playDirected by Steven Bridge of Spies unfolds with an olding a character who’s strong-armed into Spielberg. Rated school efficiency that manages to feel performing tasks that even his own family PG-13. Opens Friday. classical without specifically aping clasconsiders borderline detestable. sic Hollywood movies (as, say, Steven The year is 1957, and James B. Donovan Soderbergh did in The Good German). Not every ele(Hanks), an insurance lawyer, has been “asked,” in the ment works—Spielberg doesn’t seem to know what to strongest possible way, to defend Rudolf Abel (Mark do with Donovan’s wife (Amy Ryan), and he loses his Rylance), accused of spying for the Soviet Union. (The way in a subplot involving a college student who accifilm, based on actual events, mostly skims past one of dentally gets trapped on the wrong side of the newly the most fascinating tales in the annals of international built Berlin Wall. But the duet between Hanks and espionage, involving a little boy who’s given a hollow Rylance, as men on opposite sides who forge a bond of nickel with microfilm concealed within.) McCarthyism mutual respect, achieves something very difficult: It had largely died down by that time, but America still makes rooting for integrity fun. looked upon Communists with sheer loathing; defend-

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Although the books might have thrilled readers, Goosebumps the movie is less intent on being scary and more focused on fast, loud action, special effects, dorky humor and a tentative teen romance. Director Rob Letterman previaabcc ously made the GOOSEBUMPS critically slammed Jack Black, flop Gulliver’s Odeya Rush, Travels—also with Dylan Minnette. Jack Black—and Directed by Rob Goosebumps Letterman. Rated brings that same PG. Opens Friday. kind of broad, lowbrow approach to the beloved teen horror series. Teen Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) moves with his single mom (Amy Ryan) from the big city to the small town of Madison, Delaware. Zach doesn’t seem to fit in at school, and the only person he meets is a suit-wearing misfit named Champ (Ryan Lee). Zach does connect with his next door neighbor, Hannah (Odeya Rush), who seems to be kept prisoner in her house by her mysterious father (Black). Stuffed into a pair of glasses and restrained in a specific role, Black gives one of his more likable performances. Investigating, Zach and Champ discover that Hannah’s father is R.L. Stine, the famous author of the Goosebumps series. Unfortunately, they also discover a series of locked, original manuscripts that, once opened, release real live monsters into the world. It’s all rather graceless, and yet it has a certain kind of good cheer. It harks back to a time when monsters were the main draw of scary movies, and young viewers could test themselves by sitting through the movies, all the while secretly loving them. Monster fans of today will have fun identifying their favorites as they flit by in cameos, although the movie is too awkward and overwhelming in general to feel old-fashioned. –Jeffrey M. Anderson

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> home sweet home Wasikowska wanders through her creepy abode.

Fractured family Goodnight Mommy explores domestic horrors

a dilapidated yet strikingly beautiful cross between Wuthering Heights and Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion. There, Edith soon discovers that she’s more prisoner than mistress, constantly watched over by Thomas’ aloof and judgmental sister Lucille (Jessica Chastain). Also, the house is full of ghosts, who chase Edith and implore her to seek out the deadly (but ultimately not very interesting) family secrets. Del Toro is great at establishing Crimson Peak is all creepy atmosphere the spooky setting, from the open-air skylight that offers By Josh Bell a constant flutter of leaves or snow, to the vats of viscous red clay in the basement, to the attic workshop full of creepy, half-functional toys. But his screenplay (coAfter overloading on bombast with his would-be written by Matthew Robbins) is less compelling, doing blockbuster franchise Pacific Rim, director Guillermo little to update or subvert its old-fashioned del Toro returns to his horror roots with ghost-story elements, aside from adding the elegant haunted-house story Crimson state-of-the-art special effects. Peak. The movie is so elegant, actually, that aaacc Edith’s plight recalls the main charit feels a little musty, and while its atmoCRIMSON PEAK acter of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca and sphere is spectacular, its story is a bit stale. Mia Wasikowska, Wasikowska’s own recent performance as Set in 1901, it stars Mia Wasikowska Tom Hiddleston, Jane Eyre (in Cary Fukunaga’s underratas American socialite Edith Cushing, a Jessica Chastain. ed 2011 adaptation). Wasikowska brings shy and bookish aspiring novelist who Directed by some real sorrow and grit to her role as eschews society balls and romantic Guillermo del Toro. the tragic heroine, and Hiddleston (who’s overtures until she meets the dashing Rated R. Opens played an evil Norse god and a vampire yet reserved Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Friday. in the past few years) is great at being Hiddleston). The story gets off to a bit of eerily seductive. But Chastain is miscast a slow start, but eventually Edith marries as the dour, jealous Lucille, and as her role in the story Thomas and is whisked away to his family home in becomes increasingly important, the narrative loses England, a decrepit estate that sits atop a mine of conmomentum. Like the house it’s set in, it’s a sight to veniently symbolic blood-red clay. behold, but eventually unable to keep itself together. The house itself is a marvel of production design, film

Beautiful horrors

Although its trailer went viral a couple of months ago as “the scariest of all time,” Austrian horror movie Goodnight Mommy is more slow burn than all-out terror. It starts with twin brothers Lukas and Elias (played by real-life twins Lukas and Elias Schwarz) readjustaaabc ing to the presence GOODNIGHT of their mother MOMMY Susanne (Susanne Wuest), Wuest, Lukas just home from Schwarz, Elias an unnamed, apSchwarz. Directed parently cosmetic by Severin Fiala surgical procedure and Veronika Franz. and with her face Rated R. Opens covered almost Friday. completely by bandages. Mom’s uncanny appearance is matched by some unsettling changes in behavior, to the degree that her sons start to suspect she might be an impostor. Writer-directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz create a mounting feeling of dread as Lukas and Elias become more and more certain that something is wrong, and the second half of the movie amplifies that feeling while also twisting it around. The measures the two young boys take to prove that their mother is not really their mother are extreme and often difficult to watch, but they’re no more intense than the emotional upheaval of realizing that a person you love unconditionally has suddenly and irrevocably turned on you. That, more than anything, is what makes the movie truly scary. –Josh Bell

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Before achieving international success with lush martialarts epics like Hero and House of Flying Daggers, Chinese director Zhang Yimou was known for his understated domestic dramas (including the Oscar-nominated Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern), many of which starred renowned Chinese actress Gong Li. Zhang and Gong reunite for Coming Home, an understated domestic drama that may not live up to their earlier work, but is still a strong showcase for actors Gong and Chen Daoming. ¶ Gong plays a woman so traumatized by the imprisonment of her husband (Chen) during China’s Cultural Revolution that she’s unable to recognize him when he’s finally released years later. The case of selective movie amnesia is a little contrived, but Zhang and his stars wring genuine emotion out of it, aided by Qigang Chen’s evocative score. There’s a tragedy to the situation that mirrors the historical tragedy around it, and Zhang takes it all seriously, making the movie a striking mix of melodrama and melancholy. –Josh Bell

Family history

aaacc COMING HOME Gong Li, Chen Daoming, Zhang Huiwen. Directed by Zhang Yimou. Rated PG-13. Opens Friday.

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A&E | noise > FULL RANGE Young began solo before rolling into The Monsanto Years with Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real.

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No repeats My Morning Jacket keeps it fresh for its Vegas unveiling

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Like a hurricane Neil Young makes his Vegas return an epic, exhaustive experience By Spencer Patterson their proponents, would indeed make an appearThe last time Neil Young played Las Vegas, he ance. Just not yet. The concert’s next segment left his new concept album in his suitcase, escaping teamed Young with POTR for a series of mostly Greendale for a journey through his past at the old deepish cuts that ranged from balmy (“Out on the Joint in 2003. In his long-overdue return Sunday Weekend,” “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”) to night at the Cosmopolitan, the iconic rocker found harrowing—“Words (Between the Lines of Age),” a way to do both—perform material from a messagewhich marked the first appearance of Young’s driven new record and unload a concert’s worth of familiar fuzzy electric guitar tone. classic cuts: He simply played all night. After POTR leader Lukas Nelson took his lone The lengthy affair actually began before showlead vocal on “September Song,” a tune once recordgoers even entered the Chelsea proper, in an anteed by his famous father Willie, the Monsanto portion room filled with tents offering literature on “Earth of the evening began. Young made sure we knew, by Ecology,” “Freedom and Justice” and more, along singing the word “Monsanto” at least 20 times over with headphoned tests of Young’s digital music the next half hour. Whatever your stance player, Pono. Next up: Jenny Lewis, whose on GMOs, there can be no debate about twangy folk-rock went over well with the the lack of subtlety in Young’s latest projlargely older audience, as did her reminder aaaac ect, and that’s surely the point, to call out that she’s a Vegas native whose parents NEIL YOUNG Starbucks, Chevron and Walmart so directwere once Sands lounge residents. “If I October 11, ly, listeners couldn’t possibly misinterpret could tell my dad, who’s no longer with the Chelsea. the purpose. But only the most fanatical us, that I was here opening for Neil Young, Young fan would deny that the clunky lyrihe’d freak out,” she said. cal content let down some otherwise quality compoYoung, who turns 70 next month, arrived onstage sitions, and the crowd had thinned noticeably before a bit before 9 without fanfare, sitting at a piano to the last of four consecutive Monsanto cuts finished. deliver a stirring solo rendition of “After the Gold Those who left missed out on the show’s finest Rush.” His unmistakable—and amazingly healthy— stretch, a noisy rock assault reminiscent of Young’s high-pitched voice continued to soar through the best days with Crazy Horse. It began with a monChelsea once he switched to acoustic guitar (sprinstrous “Cowgirl in the Sand,” during which Young kled with harmonica), standing in a mid-stage spotand Nelson dueled through three long jam sections, light as he reeled off “Heart of Gold,” “Old Man” and each more vicious than the last. “Powderfinger” kept “Long May You Run” before sidling up to an organ the mood dark and heavy, and the closing “Love and for “Mother Earth (Natural Anthem).” Only Love” challenged 1991’s killer Weld version in As five-man backing band Promise of the Real intensity. By the time the six men encored with “The got into position, roadies in white hazmat suits Loner” and “Cinnamon Girl,” nearly three hours had began spraying canisters of steam at potted plant passed, and Young had dazzled us into submission props—as if to remind us The Monsanto Years, once again. Young’s swipe at genetically modified foods and

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My Morning Jacket was still performing just before midnight on October 10, but at that point, it had already performed the best rock show Vegas had seen in 2015. Assured, intuitive, transcendent, sublime, fluid, invigorating—the list of superlatives within the concertgoing parlance could continue and still apply to the masterstroke display the Kentucky quintet graced upon the surprisingly robust crowd at Brooklyn Bowl. It takes quite the brass pair aaaac to schedule two nights in a city MY you’ve never publicly played, MORNING especially when your post-hype JACKET profile makes the $50 price October 10, tag seem a little steep. Even Brooklyn gutsier: MMJ programmed Bowl. zero overlap between the two setlists, with the very new and very old favored during Friday’s show, and the chestnuts associated with its mid-2000s golden era making up the lion’s share of Saturday’s setlist. That might’ve made the band’s job easier for the latter show, but it was hardly coasting. From opener “Believe (Nobody Knows)”—from this year’s The Waterfall—to the anthemic, obvious closer, “One Big Holiday,” there were no discernible missteps by or disconnect between the musicians, no awkward transitions between MMJ’s myriad genre flirtations, which revealed a well-oiled machine. Bassist Tom Blankenship and drummer Patrick Hallahan kept the ship steady, coated by Bo Koster’s atmospheric and melodic assists on keys (especially during the supernatural disco of “Touch Me I’m Going to Scream Pt. 2”). Meanwhile, guitarist Carl Broemel and vocalist/ guitarist Jim James traded lead axe duties and provided the fireworks, notably on riff-heavy “What a Wonderful Man,” “Lay Low” and, the show’s climax, “Anytime,” three of six performed tracks from 2005’s highly acclaimed Z. I could make the flippant argument that Saturday’s show was a delayed Vegas date for that album’s tour, but that’s probably just me regretting that I missed Friday’s show. Vegas got the full My Morning Jacket experience last weekend, and better late than never. –Mike Prevatt

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> FESTIVAL FURY Urie and Angelakos (below) get Amplified.

Back to the ’90s Garbage digs deep for a concert celebrating its debut album

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Passion at the disco

Wine Amplified’s Friday headliner demonstrates why it got top billing Heading into night one of last weekend’s Wine Amplified Festival, if you’d asked me which band I was most excited to see, the easy answer would have been Passion Pit. And if you’d asked which band I was most ambivalent about, it would have been Panic! At the Disco. But by night’s end, the story was completely different. Let’s start with Passion Pit, the dance-pop band I would have said would headline this fest in any city not directly affiliated with Panic! At the Disco. To be clear, when referring to Passion Pit, I’m talking about singer-songwriter/keyboardist/only member Michael Angelakos, plus whomever he decides is playing with him at any given time. He replaced everyone in the touring band, and judging from Friday night, these guys have yet to click the way the previous lineup did. Angelakos uses so many vocal effects and samples in the studio, it’s very difficult to re-create that genius in a live setting. Previously, I’ve been impressed with his band’s ability to make it work, but here it was rough from the start. “Little Secrets,” which used to be the mainset closer, moved to the opening slot and lost some of

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its power. It wasn’t until the last third of the set, when hits “I’ll Be Alright,” “Carried Away,” “Talk a Walk” and “Sleepyhead” were played, that Passion Pit regained the momentum that made it such a must-see act in the past. Brendon Urie, lead singer of Panic! At the Disco, knows all about replacing band members; he’s the only original member left in the band. But where the latest Passion Pit lineup is still trying to find its footing, Panic! seems to have gelled. The band that once had bottles thrown at it overseas has emerged stronger. “Vegas Lights” is an expression of hometown love. Early hits “The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage” and “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” have a more polished feel live. A cover of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” while not the most creative choice, showcased Urie’s powerful voice. Even “Nine in the Afternoon” meshed well with the full-on electro-dance-pop set. On record, there’s no question: I’m still picking up a Passion Pit album every time. Live, it’s a different story— for now. But that can change as quickly as band lineups. –Jason Harris

Garbage’s latest tour is a 20thanniversary celebration of the band’s self-titled debut album, but the alt-rock quartet didn’t simply run through the album’s 12 songs Saturday night at the Cosmopolitan’s Boulevard Pool. aaabc Opening with GARBAGE B-side “SubhuOctober 10, man,” they proBoulevard Pool. ceeded to split the album into its two “sides,” with another batch of bonus tracks in between. In all, there were only two songs in the 22-song set that didn’t come from the 1995 album’s sessions. That made the show a real treat for longtime fans, with some songs that haven’t been part of the band’s setlist since the ’90s, but it caused a bit of a mid-show lull. Some of the biggest hits came early on, and it was a while before the band played a couple of later hits for the encore. But for those willing to follow Garbage on this particular nostalgia trip, it proved to be rewarding. Singer Shirley Manson commanded the stage, making herself heard despite a sometimes-muddy sound mix at the beginning, and her bandmates confidently re-created the intricate rock/electronic mix of the album. Little-played songs like “Not My Idea” and “Dog New Tricks” sounded just as powerful as the hits, which themselves got a bit of sprucing up: “Only Happy When It Rains” with a moody, slow opening, and “Vow” with an intense extended coda. The crowd was subdued at times, but the energy surged just before the encore. “Bow down to me,” Manson sang on “Supervixen,” and everyone was happy to comply. –Josh Bell

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A&E | noise lo c a l s c e n e

Staying true to their scene For ska five-piece Be Like Max, it’s all-ages or nothing

> By the way, Which one’s Max? BLM takes a load off.

loved so far. “We can make easy money another five-week coast-to-coast tour, [here], we have cheap rent and a lot which includes a key hometown gig: Be Like Max of cities are close to us that we can an October 24 release show for third Release party with tour to,” Fine says. The all-ages scene album Against All Odds, at Vinyl inside The Holophonics, also tends to support ska and reggae the Hard Rock Hotel. “That’s pretty big Drinking Water, The bands—like The CG’s and Drinking for us right now,” Tegtmeier says. “On a CG’s, Anti-Vision. Water, who are also on the bill for the weekend in Vegas? It’s crazy.” October 24, 6 p.m., album-release show. The new album focuses on the band’s $10. Vinyl, 702“We take that sh*t seriously, because tough-as-nails work ethic and the harsh 693-5000. we’re pretty much shut out from the realities of growing up in Vegas. It’s all industry and bigger bands,” Fine says. there on the lead single, “Sin City Rude “We built our following from the underground … Kids.” But the city has rewarded Be Like Max’s and that’s pretty rad.”–Leslie Ventura hustle, and has allowed them to do what they’ve

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A&E | the strip T H E K AT S R E P O RT

> Action Bronson Lon and the band go silver Saturday at the Smith Center.

star power

Lon Bronson’s Vegas institution marks 25 years with a Smith Center doubleheader By John Katsilometes

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showed up several times to sing for late-night audiences. An odd assortment of celebs dropped into Le Bistro: Tom Jones, The Righteous Brothers, Mick Fleetwood, David Lee Roth, Fee Waybill of The Tubes, David Cassidy (Bronson was an original member of Cassidy’s The Rat Pack Is Back cast at the Desert Inn), actor Jeremy Piven, Eddie Brigati of The Young Rascals, Kevin Eubanks from The Tonight Show, Skunk Baxter of Steely Dan. But not every experience was a winner. Weird Al Yankovic was invited to the stage by Bronson one night and declined to join the band, only to be chided mercilessly by the bandleader before finally walking out. Comic Jackie Mason fell asleep during a show. Jones was often asked to sing, only to put his hands to his throat, a sign that he needed vocal rest. “You never knew what was going to happen at the Riv, ever,” Bronson says. If there was a “golden era” for the band, it was then. They moved to the Golden Nugget in 2004, then were hustled out the next year. A six-month stretch at Margaritaville at the Flamingo, “Playing for people

who were eating and drinking and did not care about the music,” followed. “That period nearly broke up the band. It was bad.” Bronson’s friend Brody Dolyniuk, founder of the popular cover band Yellow Brick Road, suggested Bronson to then Station Casinos entertainment head Judy Alberti, who booked the All-Stars at the Railhead at Boulder Station. They later found a groove at another Station venue, Ovation at Green Valley Ranch, where they performed regularly until the spot closed to make room for a bingo parlor in 2012. Today the All-Stars play the first Thursday of each month at Club Madrid, along with their recurring shows at Cabaret Jazz. At 56, Bronson has no misconceptions about the future of the band. It is now. “I don’t see us touring, and we don’t have any ambitions beyond doing what we’re doing and playing the Smith Center.” The 25th anniversary is a moment to mark time, no more, no less. Someday there will be a last call for the Lon Bronson All-Star Band, and that would indeed be a first.

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rated the band.” Lon Bronson settles into a booth When Bronson’s All-Stars first inside the Peppermill’s Fireside played the Smith Center in September Lounge, just south of the lifeless 2013, it marked a turning point for a Riviera, where 25 years ago in happier band that had been known strictly as days he cut loose his All-Star Band. a lounge act. It was a long trek to that “I haven’t been here in a long, long venue, beginning with Bronson’s days time,” he recalls, nodding toward the as company manager for the Crazy famed fire-and-water pit. “That down Girls adult revue. He uprooted from there was the make-out zone, in the New York in 1985, took a job that was old days. It might still be. When you supposed to be a two-week gig and left it was always daylight, and there has lived in Vegas ever since. was a bar next door, the Night Gallery, Tiring of working in a quasi-corthat was really creepy. Just like the porate environment (even in such a old TV show, a very creepy place.” titillating show as Crazy Girls), he A voice from a nearby table calls grew eager to return to his passion, to Bronson. “I know you,” says the the trumpet. The famous story is man in a booming voice. “I’m sh*t that he had an “epiphwith names, but I’ve been any” one night in 1989, a musician around here while watching Tower for 25 years, and I know LON BRONSON of Power at Calamity you’re somebody.” ALL-STAR BAND Jayne’s Nashville Nevada “Well, I’m Lon 25th Anniversary on Boulder Highway. He Bronson,” says Lon Concert, October recruited a few musicians Bronson. “That’s it!” the 17, 7 & 10 p.m., $20and pitched his concept— man says, elated to have $35. Smith Center’s for a similar such band in run into this Vegas instiCabaret Jazz, 702Las Vegas—to then-Rivtution. 749-2000. iera entertainment direcFor 25 years Bronson tor Steve Schirripa, who and his band have filled remains a fan to this day. lounges and showrooms with what The Monday-night gig became he calls “industrial-strength” sound. legendary around town. Comics who As sturdy and strong as an old Chevy Schirripa had booked at the com350 V8 engine, the Lon Bronson edy room would hustle to Le Bistro All-Star Band marks its silver anniLounge and perform for a few minversary—and it’s increasingly silver utes. Those who regularly stopped these days for Bronson’s band and by the Riv to sing and play included its fans—Saturday with two shows at Drew Carey and Penn Jillette. A Cabaret Jazz. The latter was to be the pre-fame Wayne Brady (working at only concert, until it became obvious the MGM Grand Adventures Theme that more than 240 seats would be Park at the time) famously asked to required to aptly celebrate this event. sing with the band and was turned “When the Smith Center came away; Bronson had no idea who along, it was a step up the ladder,” he was. Joe Walsh of The Eagles Bronson says. “It’s just reinvigo-

A&E | scene

Illumination Once again, Rise turns the Mojave into a lightscape By Kristen Peterson | Photographs by Mikayla Whitmore

The desert floor is a giant beach sprawling with families and friends parked on bamboo mats in the sand by unlit tiki torches. Folk-revival sounds from an LA band rev the crowd and amplify the landscape while others are still on the freeway locked in traffic, winding through the vast parking lot or on foot trekking the long path to the entrance. Organizers say more than 10,000 have come to the Rise lantern festival at the Moapa River Reservation just north of North Las Vegas—despite the fiasco of last year’s launch, where messy traffic, poor organization and gnarly behavior dominated memories. People obviously wanted it back. “This is fairly unique,” says Peng Lei, who drove in from LA with his wife and friends to see it happen. “There aren’t very many people who do this.” Organizers delay the launch to accommodate those stuck in traffic. Eventually the air smells of lantern oil, and flames illuminate the crowd. The boxy white paper votives scribbled with hopes and dreams move upward, soaring. Some bump into attendees and skitter before rising. More than 20,000 lights go into the blackness, creating their own galaxy while soft, dreamy, ethereal music pours out over giant speakers. For a while, the complaining about traffic getting here and debates about whether lanterns will be retrieved or litter the landscape is swallowed by the marvelous chorus in the sky.

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A&E | stage

Communal tales

Two theater productions explore how stories can come together in real time By Jacob Coakley We tend to think of stories as coming from a singular source. Homer—not generations of Greek storytellers—wrote the Odyssey. But sometimes things are more complicated than that, as highlighted by two new plays opening in Las Vegas this week. She Kills Monsters, by Qui Nguyen, is directed by Sarah O’Connell for Off-Strip Productions. The show at the Onyx shares the story of Agnes, who’s dealing with the loss of her sister—by playing through a Dungeons & Dragons “module” the sister wrote. As Agnes learns how to play the game, the audience also learns, letting the play occupy the space between epic fantasy and traditional theater. “What’s great about the play is that the protagonist has the point of view of the audience,” O’Connell says. “It’s got a heart, but it’s also got swords and swashbuckling and dragon slaying.” A Summons From the Tinker to Assemble the Membership in Secret at the Usual Place, presented by A Public Fit and written by APF co-founder Joe Kucan, takes place in a new space uniquely converted for this show in Fremont Center (on the corner of Fremont and Maryland). The play takes its inspiration from Fritz Lang’s classic 1931 film M, and asks the audience to examine its own choices while creating its narrative. “We transform the audience into a collective group that serves a purpose more than just being a watchful observer,” Kucan says. “Part of the mystery of the show is the audience > POINTS OF VIEW (Above) Chip Mash and Amy Smith realizing who they are in this world, who they are rehearse She Kills Monsters; Scott McAdam (left) and meant to be in this world and what the expectation Mark Gorman rehearse with other cast members from is upon them.” A Summons From the Tinker ... As different as they might be, both pieces place an unusual emphasis on O’Connell: You need something to the act of communal storytelling, the calibrate your choices against to go idea of many people coming together SHE KILLS MONSTERS back and check, okay, are we meetto create a narrative. I sat down with October 16-31; Thursdaying or serving our intention in doing O’Connell and Kucan in the unfinSaturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, this in the first place? Or have we ished space for Summons to talk about 5 p.m., $20. Onyx Theatre, deviated? And if we’ve deviated, is stories and tellers. 702-732-7225. that okay? Is it time to reset? Have we learned that the deviation is more A Summons From What are some of the rules around interesting than our original intent? the Tinker … Through creating one story with multiple tellKucan: Even Bertolt Brecht realers? O’Connell: There might be a lot November 1; Thursdayized he had to be entertaining. Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, of people throwing up their ideas, but 2 p.m., $25. Fremont at the end of the day you’re fooling How do you make the audience a yourself if someone isn’t making deciCenter, 100 S. Maryland participant in the storytelling, too? sions, calling the shots. Someone has Parkway, apublicfit.org. O’Connell: There are ways to make to make a choice. Otherwise there’s the audience know that they’re no progress to a final piece that you important, that will engage them and engage them can really offer that isn’t confusing or fraught with in the story. Sometimes that involves audience parchallenges that the audience doesn’t need; they’re ticipation in directions we’re used to, like calling out not going to enjoy it. For me, the thing I’ve learned a suggestion in an improv game. And other times it is that everyone has to agree to the rules of the game has to do with choosing things that audiences will that are in play. Like D&D, it’s both open-ended and recognize is something in their own life. there are rules. Kucan: I try really hard these days, to really Kucan: If we all start to play football—and some think about one person, where that one audience of my friends we were playing American football member’s experience may deviate and what inforand my other friends were playing soccer, European mation I can leave out, so I can have 100 different football—there would be no game. It would be experiences, just in one moment. Because I think cacophony. It would be crazy. So you absolutely it’s kind of important. Part of communal storytelling have to establish the rules. We have to know right is that we all share a thing—that is the plot and the away what the game is.

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story—but we all have individual reactions … I try to really remember and look for those places where we can find those single-person moments that are separated from the stuff that you’re doing. I think that’s part of creating a community. A community is a group of individuals. And we may share any number of things, but once you lose track of the individual within that, then who are we talking about? O’Connell: Everyone has their point of view, and the playwright has a POV, and the director has a POV, so you’ve got all these points of view exchanging in this activity, so no one’s experience is going to look 100 percent the same. But if you have that shared journey, they don’t necessarily have to. It’s not something that you get in the beginning or in the middle or in the end—it’s the whole experience, that collective memory that is now shared. It’s unique to everyone who’s in the room in that moment and no other time. I think that audiences have to go on that journey. Even if it’s a 30-second play, or a threehour, or a three-day thing—they’re going to go on that journey, and have shared the experience, and it’s the actual experience that’s the same. But not their idea of what the story is, if that makes sense. And just the fact that even though it looks different, whatever that one thing is may be different from person to person, the fact is that we’re all collectively changed at the same moment in the same room and in the same space.

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A&E | PRINT > UNPLUGGED Patti Smith tells powerful tales, whether she’s singing or writing.

FIVE TALKS TO CATCH AT THE VEGAS VALLEY BOOK FEST In its 14th year, the Vegas Valley Book Festival is loaded with so many interesting writers and educators that whittling down your options will be excruciating. Here’s a look at five of the free talks taking place October 17 at Downtown’s Historic Fifth Street School. The Free Speech Battleground: From Paris to the Digital Frontier UNLV journalism professor and expert in First Amendment law Stephen Bates moderates a talk between panelists Gene Polincinski, COO of the Newseum Institute; Leslie Griffin, a constitutional law professor at UNLV’s William S. Boyd School of Law; and Hal Berghel, founding director of the Identity Theft and Financial Fraud Research and Operations Center and CyberSecurity Research Center. 12:30-1:30 p.m., Room 125.

THE WEIGHT OF WORDS

Patti Smith’s memoir turns small moments into heavy reflections BY HEATHER SCOTT PARTINGTON M Train exists mostly in the ordi“Nothing can be truly replicated,” nary spaces of Smith’s life—time spent Patti Smith says in her new memoir, M watching TV at home, time spent on Train. “Not a love, not a jewel, not a single airplanes and in cafés. But whether line.” Yet in the span of her book, the she writes of a dream or a lost coat, musician distills ineffable, tragic human she connects threads of memory, pain existence into a collection of experiences, and the absurdity of human experimeditating on the intangible permanence ence. “I have always hated loose ends,” of loss over a lifetime. Through freely she tells us. associated vignettes and artful snapshots Smith is as captivating narrating a of her life—a catalog of the unremarkable meal (“Just silence black coffee olive oil told in remarkable language—the artist fresh mint brown bread”) as she is illuscreates an elegy for objects, people and trating the nature of masterpiece. At one muses she’s left behind. Smith’s M Train point she delineates the different types demonstrates, once again, the artist’s abilof masterful work, and then pages later, ity to turn a phrase or an image on its aaaac M TRAIN refutes her assertion: “The truth is that head. Her routines and quirks permeate By Patti Smith, $25. there is only one kind of masterpiece: a the narrative repetitively; her bleak days masterpiece.” Though she settles on a and spartan way of living allow for both single idea, her work is richer for the struggle. M Train quiet moments and mournful reflection. floats languorously from past to present, from dream to A sense of grief permeates M Train. “We want things waking moment. Smith grieves for lost things, people we cannot have,” she writes. “We seek to reclaim a and places. Her work embodies a constant yearning, certain moment, sound, sensation. I want to hear and the effect of her amalgamated experiences is a picmy mother’s voice. I want to see my children as chilture of life that becomes about accepting loss. There’s dren. Hands small, feet swift. Everything changes. Boy a conceit carried through the book about writing when grown, father dead, daughter taller than me, weeping there’s nothing to say; in Smith’s moments of nothing, from a bad dream. Please stay forever, I say to the though, she says everything. things I know. Don’t go. Don’t grow.”

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Literary Nonfiction: The Elegance of the Truth Author Gregory Crosby moderates a discussion on writing reality featuring best-selling author and Esquire writer-atlarge Mike Sager; Black Mountain Institute Executive Director and author Joshua Wolf Shenk; Dinah Lenney, author of Bigger than Life: A Murder, a Memoir; and Bert Ashe, professor, noted explorer of black identity through black hair and author of Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles. 1:45-2:45 p.m., Auditorium. Do Issues Matter?: Style and Substance in the 2016 Election Political columnist Steve Sebelius moderates a panel featuring conservative writer and policy scholar Steven Hayward, Atlantic writer Molly Ball and UNLV history professor Michael Green. 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Room 125. The Voice of the Mojave Battleborn author (and Story Prize winner) Claire Vaye Watkins, who spent much of her childhood growing up in Tecopa, California, and Pahrump (with her famous father Paul Watkins, defector from the Manson Family) is interviewed by Gailmarie Pahmeier. 3-4 p.m., Auditorium. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Race and Ethnicity in the 21st Century Manoucheka Celeste, professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at UNLV, moderates a discussion between the aforementioned Ashe; Oskana Marafioti, whose memoir American Gypsy captures life as an outsider in America; Iranian-American writer Melody Moezzi (Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life and War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims); and Wendy C. Ortiz, LA-based essayist and creative nonfiction and fiction writer. 10-11 a.m., Room 125. –Kristen Peterson

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A local couple’s new Flock & Fowl might make you obsessed with a single dish By Brock Radke brisk sesame-soy. Also on the plate: pickIf you were going to choose one led cucumbers and mustard greens. You’ll single plate of food to build a restauwish for more of both. Add a fried egg or a rant around, it probably wouldn’t be Chinese sausage to this plate for a couple Hainanese chicken rice. I might. I’m pretty far dollars more, pair it with iced chrysanthealong on the food-nerd spectrum, and many mum, green or oolong tea of us are obsessed with super($3-$4), all brewed fresh daily, simple dishes rich with tradiand you’ve had the Flock tion. Besides, I grew up on a & Fowl lunch experience. relative of this chicken, a dish Congratulations, food nerd. passed down from grandma to There’s other stuff on the mom: chicken pan-fried then menu at this mini-eatery stewed with garlic and dipped run by Fat Choy and former in soy sauce, served with Great Bao operators Sheridan steamed rice and spinach sauSu and Jenny Wong. Fried téed in coconut milk. Happy to chicken wings ($5-$8) are finmake it for you sometime. ished spicy Szechuan-style or This Hainan chicken Thai-style (fish sauce, garlic ($8.99), the Flock & Fowl and lemon), and fried chicken version, is even more simple tenders come with rice and than mom’s. The chicken is those three sublime sauces. poached and served warm, no Get a half Cornish game hen bones but skin still on, along plus an organic vegetable salad with rice cooked in the chick- FLOCK & FOWL 380 with grapes, cranberries and en’s fat and a cup of the broth. W. Sahara Ave., 626-616sunflower seeds in sesame vinAs the menu says, “Eat it any 6632. Tuesday-Saturday, aigrette ($9.99), or have your way you desire, but some peo- 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. hen with rice, of course. Freshple like to dip.” The chicken brewed Vietnamese coffee (Mary’s organic) is unbelievcould go with anything. Fried chicken bao ably tender and tastes only of chicken, even buns ($4) have popped up on the menu, too. though you can smell plenty of garlic inside Flock & Fowl is clearly a labor of love, this tiny, six-table restaurant a few steps and a charming one at that. Su is a local chef west of Las Vegas Boulevard. The rice also who has held fast to his style and food, even tastes like chicken. when it had him cooking in a food truck Dipping should be mandatory, and ceror a hair salon. At Fat Choy, his beloved tainly not just in the subtly savory broth. Chinese-American diner at Eureka Casino a Three signature sauces all made fresh are few blocks away, he gets to show off all his individually fantastic—scorching, bright favorites. At Flock & Fowl, all he needs is one. orange sambal, sharp ginger-scallion and

Fancy feast

> go big Add a whole lobster to your buffet style.

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The Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace is offering guests new gifts to celebrate its three-year anniversary. The extravagant all-you-can-eat experience now has even more options with an Bacchanal celebrates emphasis on fancy, but many of them come at an added cost. three years with enticing, Consider them luxury items. What else would you call whole creative new dishes poached lobster and Sasanian Imperial Caviar? (For those items, add an extra $150 on top of your meal.) Here are some other new Bacchanal bites: Snack flights are a beautiful plate of six thoughtful offerings. Grapes and radishes in absinthe present diverse textures as both soft and crunchy items soak up the unique alcohol’s flavor. House-made crispy rice crackers are a wonderful vehicle for creamy edamame goodness, and porcini mushroom meringue with foraged mushroom mousseline and edible soil is the most decadent parfait you’ll ever have. Grilled snapper ($26 per pound) is a jaw-dropping melding of flavors. Accompanying the New Zealand Tai snapper are licorice and fennel crystals, smoked cod taramasalata, and a yuzu, sake and bergamot foam. A medley of tiny vegetables gives the entire plate body. A dessert trio takes the already playful dessert station and goes full-on whimsical. My favorite is Masquerade, featuring BACCHANAL BUFFET Caesars Palace, white chocolate masago, huckleberry and elderflower mousse, 702-731-7928. Breakfast: Monday-Friday, a huckleberry liquid sphere, the gold nugget cinnamon biscuit, 7:30-11 a.m. Lunch: Monday-Friday, a crystal sugar sphere and lemon-honey-agave bubbles. It 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Dinner: Daily, 3-10 p.m. sounds frou-frou, but it’s more like a high-end play on PB&J. Brunch: Saturday & Sunday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. –Jason Harris

flock & fowl by mikayla whitmore

BRAZILIAN CURE

INGREDIENTS 1 1/2 oz. Leblon Cachaça (Brazilian sugarcane spirit) /4 oz. Cedilla Açai Liqueur

1 1/2 oz. açai juice 1 (whole) lime cut into chunks Fresh passion fruit (garnish)

METHOD

THE VAULT IS COMING TO FREMONT STREET What looks like a bank but acts like a bar? The Vault, a new American spirits bar by the creators of Container Park’s Oak & Ivy, scheduled to open in February along Fremont East. Taking over the space formerly inhabited by a check cashing business (and most recently Coterie), the Vault’s décor will draw on that history, with vault doors and vintage bank lockboxes, says Chris Gutierrez, Oak & Ivy’s lead bartender, who spoke to the Weekly from Kentucky as he sourced Woodford Reserve barrels. While Oak & Ivy is American whiskey-forward, the Vault covers a broader range of American spirits, including craft gins, vodkas and

rums. A large selection of barrelaged cocktails will be menu highlights, as well as seasonally updated drinks with fresh juices and housemade sodas. The team is working to develop original snacks and might partner with nearby restaurants for more food options. Education will be key at the Vault, including a library of books about cocktails and their history in America. Gutierrez says he wants to make it as easy as possible for newcomers to learn about and enjoy the Prohibition/ craft scene. “We don’t serve whiskey,” Gutierrez says. “We serve guests, and we have whiskey.” Sounds like a policy to bank on. –Kristy Totten

STIFF DRINK A vision of things to come at the Vault.

Place the lime chunks in a shaker tin and muddle with a pestle/muddler. Add the rest of ingredients and one cup of ice. Shake all ingredients together and pour — do not strain — into a 12-ounce rocks glass. Garnish with fresh passion fruit.

A healthy dose of antioxidants in a boozy cocktail? Sign us up. This drink is flavorful, decadent and full of açai, the delicious superfood hailing from the Brazilian Amazon.

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

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A&E | Short Takes integration in the 1970s. Theaters: AL, COL, ORL, PAL, SF, SP, ST, TS, TX, VS

> civil unrest A town in turmoil in Woodlawn.

Now playing 99 Homes (Not reviewed) Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern. Directed by Ramin Bahrani. 112 minutes. Rated R. A man goes to work for the same real estate broker who evicted him in hopes of getting his family’s home back. Theaters: GVR, SC Ant-Man aaabc Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly. Directed by Peyton Reed. 117 minutes. Rated PG-13. Semi-reformed thief Scott Lang (Rudd) is recruited by scientist Hank Pym (Douglas) to steal a version of a size-changing suit from a greedy technocrat. Ant-Man plays things relatively safe, but it’s still a different sort of Marvel superhero movie, a looser, funnier and lower-stakes story than Marvel’s typical world-ending spectacles. –JB Theaters: COL

Special screenings Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 10/22, broadcast of performance from Lincoln Center, 7 pm, $16-$18. Theaters: COL, ORL, SF, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. André Rieu’s 2015 Maastricht Concert 10/20, concert documentary plus interview, 7 pm, $15. Theaters: VS. Info: fathomevents.com. Attack on Titan - Part 2 10/20, 10/22, feature film based on manga series, 7:30 pm, $7.50-$10.75. Theaters: ORL, SC, SF, SP, ST. Info: attackontitanthemovie.com. Back to the Future Triple Feature 10/21, 4:30 or 5 pm, $5-$11.50. Theaters: AL, COL, ORL, RR, ST, SF, SHO, SC, SP, SS, TX, VS Boozy Movie Wednesdays Wed, 8 pm, free with cocktail purchase, 21+. Inspire Theater, 107 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-489-9110. Ed Sheeran: Jumpers for Goalposts 10/22, 10/24-10/26, concert documentary plus red carpet footage, Thu, Mon 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun 12:55 pm, $16. Theaters: CAN, ORL, SF, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. Kickstarter Film Festival 10/15, program of Kickstarter-funded films What We Do in the Shadows, T-Rex, Afronauts, Submarine Sandwich, World of Tomorrow, 7 pm, free, RSVP required. Theaters: VS. Info: filmfest. kickstarter.com. The Metropolitan Opera HD Live 10/17, Verdi’s Otello live, 9:55 am, $17$25. 10/21, Verdi’s Otello encore, 6:30 pm, $16-$24. Theaters: COL, ORL, SF, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. Midnight Brewvies Mon, movie plus popcorn, midnight, free. Elixir, 2920 N. Green Valley

Parkway, Henderson, 702-272-0000. National Theatre Live 10/15, Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch, 7 pm, $13-$15. Theaters: COL, ORL, SF, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. Outdoor Picture Show Sat, dusk, free. 10/17, Casper. The District at Green Valley Ranch, 2225 Village Walk Drive, Henderson, 702564-8595. Reel Rock 10 Film Tour 10/22, touring festival of adventure sports films, 7 pm, free. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702507-3400. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 40th Anniversary Through 10/31, Fri-Sat 10 pm, $5.50$8.50. Theaters: TS Roger Waters The Wall 10/18, concert documentary, 12:55 pm, $13-$15. Theaters: SF, SP, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. Sci Fi Center Sun, Doctor Who Night, 6 pm, free. Mon, Cinemondays, 8 pm, free. 10/17, The Thing (1982), 8 pm, $1. 5077 Arville St., 855-501-4335, thescificenter.com. Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou Tue, 1 pm, free. 10/20, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947). Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702507-3400.

New this week Bridge of Spies aaabc Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan. Directed by Steven Spielberg. 135 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 43. Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX Coming Home aaacc Gong Li, Chen Daoming, Zhang

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Huiwen. Directed by Zhang Yimou. 111 minutes. Rated PG-13. In Mandarin with English subtitles. See review Page 44. Theaters: SC Crimson Peak aaacc Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. 119 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 44. Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Goodnight Mommy aaabc Susanne Wuest, Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz. Directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz. 99 minutes. Rated R. In German with English subtitles. See review Page 44. Theaters: VS Goosebumps aabcc Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush. Directed by Rob Letterman. 103 minutes. Rated PG. See review Page 43. Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX Once I Was a Beehive (Not reviewed) Paris Warner, Mila Smith, Clare Niederpruem. Directed by Maclain Nelson. 119 minutes. Rated PG. After the death of her father, a teenage girl spends the summer with her cousin at a camp for Mormon girls. Theaters: SF Phoenix (Not reviewed) Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf. Directed by Christian Petzold. 98 minutes. Rated PG-13. In German with English subtitles. A disfigured concentration-camp survivor searches post-World War II Berlin for her estranged husband. Theaters: TC Woodlawn (Not reviewed) Caleb Castille, Nic Bishop, Sean Astin. Directed by Andrew Erwin and Jon Erwin. 125 minutes. Rated PG. A bornagain Christian helps a high school football team struggling with racial

Black Mass aaacc Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch. Directed by Scott Cooper. 122 minutes. Rated R. Depp undergoes a startling physical transformation as James “Whitey” Bulger in this historical biopic, but opts to make the notorious Boston crime boss just the latest in his series of vaguely inhuman freaks, portraying him less as a typical gangster than as a Nosferatustyle ghoul. –MD Theaters: DTS, FH, GVR, ORL, PAL, SHO, SP, SS, ST, VS Etiquette for Mistresses (Not reviewed) Kim Chiu, Kris Aquino, Iza Calzado. Directed by Chito S. Roño. 122 minutes. Not rated. In Filipino with English subtitles. Unbeknownst to each other, five successful women are all having affairs with the same married man. Theaters: ORL, VS Everest aaacc Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin. Directed by Baltasar Kormákur. 121 minutes. Rated PG-13. This big-budget drama about the day in 1996 when eight climbers died on Mount Everest is not as informative as any of the several books on the subject, but it is viscerally exciting, with awe-inspiring visuals. The characters don’t make much of an impression, but the mountain and the storm do. –JB Theaters: AL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RR, ST, VS Grandma aaabc Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden. Directed by Paul Weitz. 79 minutes. Rated R. Tomlin brings fire to the title role, an aging lesbian poet who spends a day trying to round up funds for her granddaughter (Garner) to get an abortion. Some of the episodic interactions are a little forced, but the movie shines when it focuses on the multigenerational connections and conflicts. –JB Theaters: GVR, SC The Green Inferno aaccc Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Aaron Burns. Directed by Eli Roth. 103 minutes. Rated R. Roth attempts satire in this horror movie about student activists captured by a cannibalistic Amazon tribe, but he misses the mark. Instead of taking down privileged Americans, the movie wallows in nasty exploitation, with a series of gory acts of savagery by natives who are never given any motivation or agency. –JB Theaters: BS, COL, PAL, SC

He Named Me Malala aaccc Directed by Davis Guggenheim. 87 minutes. Rated PG-13. Anyone wanting to learn more about Malala Yousafzai, the extraordinary Pakistani teenager who survived an assassination attempt and then became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize, should consult something other than this blandly incurious infomercial disguised as a documentary. –MD Theaters: COL, VS Hotel Transylvania 2 (Not reviewed) Voices of Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Andy Samberg. Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky. 89 minutes. Rated PG. Dracula and his fellow monsters try to get Dracula’s half-human grandson to embrace his vampire side. Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SP, SS, TX 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 funny movie with a remarkably wise message, but parents of pre-teen kids be warned: It will wreck you. –MD Theaters: COL, TC The Intern aaccc Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo. Directed by Nancy Meyers. 121 minutes. Rated PG-13. For a movie that’s supposedly about life experience, The Intern shows very little. De Niro (as a “senior intern”) and Hathaway (as his boss) give everything they can to keep this company afloat, but filmmaker Nancy Meyers polishes and bleaches every scene, drizzling them in tinkly, twittery music; it’s scrubbed of life. –JMA Theaters: AL, BS, CH, COL, DTS, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS Jazbaa (Not reviewed) Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Irrfan Khan, Shabana Azmi. Directed by Sanjay Gupta. 130 minutes. Not rated. In Hindi with English subtitles. A lawyer must take on an impossible case in order to save her kidnapped daughter. Theaters: VS 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: TC Ladrones (Not reviewed) Fernando Colunga, Eduardo Yáñez, Miguel Varoni. Directed by Joe Menendez. 98 minutes. Rated PG-13. In Spanish with English subtitles. A legendary thief comes out of retirement to stop a family of unscrupulous landowners from stealing a community’s resources. Theaters: CAN, ORL, ST, TX The Martian aaaac Matt Damon, Jeff Daniels, Jessica Chastain, Chiwetel Ejiofor. Directed by Ridley Scott. 141 minutes. Rated PG-13. Astronaut Mark Watney (Damon) is left behind on Mars when the rest of his team believes him dead. Damon carries the film with an excellent performance that conveys Mark’s mix of ingenuity and loneliness, and the story makes furious calculations and engineering simulations into gripping, can’t-look-

A&E | Short Takes away drama. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TX, VS Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials aaccc Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster. Directed by Wes Ball. 131 minutes. Rated PG-13. There are no mazes in this sequel to The Maze Runner, but there sure is plenty of running. The second movie in the dystopian sci-fi series based on the popular YA novels just throws together a bunch of overused post-apocalyptic elements and careens haphazardly from one to the next. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CH, COL, DI, FH, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SP, SS, TX Minions aabcc Voices of Pierre Coffin, Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm. Directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda. 91 minutes. Rated PG. In the two animated Despicable Me movies, the little yellow pill-shaped creatures were reliable sources of pratfalls, pranks and puns, but given the task of carrying their own 90-minute feature, they quickly wear out their welcome. It’s just a series of silly set pieces barely held together by a halfformed plot. –JB Theaters: ST Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation aaabc Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. 131 minutes. Rated PG-13. The fifth movie in the action series finds Cruise’s secret agent Ethan Hunt once again on the run after being disavowed by the very government he works for. While not the strongest in the remarkably consistent series, it’s still entertaining and exciting, an example of the best in blockbuster filmmaking. –JB Theaters: GVR, VS No Escape abccc Owen Wilson, Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan. Directed by John Erick Dowdle. 103 minutes. Rated R. Wilson and Bell are miscast in serious roles as an American married couple who’ve just moved with their two young daughters to an unnamed country in Southeast Asia, hours before an armed coup begins. The action that follows is mostly laughable when it isn’t tedious or insulting. –JB Theaters: SC Pan aaccc Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund. Directed by Joe Wright. 111 minutes. Rated PG. This Peter Pan prequel gives the character a cluttered and unnecessary origin story, retrofitting him with a clichéd Hollywood “chosen one” narrative. It’s a rush of special effects that signify nothing, telling a story that pretends to add to a beloved mythology while instead mostly just cheapening it. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TX, VS Pawn Sacrifice aabcc Tobey Maguire, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Sarsgaard. Directed by Edward Zwick. 114 minutes. Rated PG-13. This conventional biopic about troubled chess champion Bobby Fischer (Maguire) is a superficial portrait of a complex man. It’s more interested in his mental anguish than his talents (which are only occasionally depicted effectively), and his relationships with the supporting characters are pretty thinly drawn. –JB Theaters: SC The Perfect Guy aaccc Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy, Morris

Chestnut. Directed by David M. Rosenthal. 100 minutes. Rated PG-13. A successful lobbyist (Lathan) becomes a stalking target for her unhinged ex (Ealy) in this overwrought, Lifetimestyle thriller. It’s too ridiculous to work as serious drama, but it takes itself too seriously to succeed as camp. Instead, it strands three talented actors in a story that devolves quickly from grounded to histrionic. –JB Theaters: AL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RR, ST, TX Pixels aaccc Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Josh Gad. Directed by Chris Columbus. 105 minutes. Rated PG-13. When aliens invade Earth with replicas of ’80s video-game characters, the president (James) calls on loser Sam (Sandler) and his fellow video-game nerds to save the day. Based on a 2010 short, Pixels is mostly genial and family-friendly, but also plodding and frequently boring, with listless performances and a moronic plot. –JB Theaters: ST Rudrama Devi (Not reviewed) Anushka Shetty, Rana Daggubati, Allu Arjun. Directed by Gunasekhar. 165 minutes. Not rated. In Telugu and Tamil with English subtitles. Biopic about 13th-century Indian queen Rudrama Devi. Theaters: ST Sicario aaaab Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. 121 minutes. Rated R. Blunt plays an FBI agent who gets in over her head when she agrees to join a special inter-agency task force intended to take down a Mexican drug kingpin. Brolin and Del Toro co-star as operatives with questionable tactics and loyalties; the tension throughout is palpable. –MD Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, DTS, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TX, VS Singh Is Bliing (Not reviewed) Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson, Kay Kay Menon. Directed by Prabhu Deva. 140 minutes. Not rated. In Hindi with English subtitles. A Punjabi man falls in love with a foreign woman. Theaters: VS Sleeping With Other People aaabc Alison Brie, Jason Sudeikis, Adam Scott. Directed by Leslye Headland. 95 minutes. Rated R. College lovers Lainey (Brie) and Jake (Sudeikis) reunite a decade later but pledge to remain just friends in this predictable but well-crafted romantic comedy. Writerdirector Headland (Bachelorette) invests a somewhat formulaic story with genuine, flawed characters and a frank tone about both sexuality and emotional hang-ups. –JB Theaters: VS Southpaw aabcc Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, Oona Laurence. Directed by Antoine Fuqua. 123 minutes. Rated R. Former boxing champion Billy Hope (Gyllenhaal) attempts to mount a comeback in this contrived melodrama. The direction and the performances end up pounding the audience as hard as Billy in his early fights, and there isn’t much relief in his eventual drawn-out triumph. –JB Theaters: TC Straight Outta Compton aaacc O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell. Directed by F. Gary Gray. 146 minutes. Rated R. Seminal ’80s hip-hop group N.W.A. gets the musical-biopic treatment, with Ice Cube played by his dead-ringer son (though it’s Mitchell, as Eazy-E, who’s

> out of the rubble Nina Hoss in Phoenix.

the potential breakout star). It’s fairly standard-issue, but the time is definitely right for a cathartic portrait of the group that sang “F*ck Tha Police.” –MD Theaters: GVR Trainwreck aabcc Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson. Directed by Judd Apatow. 125 minutes. Rated R. Comedy Central star Schumer wrote the latest film directed by Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, This Is 40), and also plays the lead, a commitmentphobic journalist who falls for a surgeon (Hader) she’s profiling. It’s a perfectly ordinary rom-com that merely swaps the genre’s standard gender clichés. –MD Theaters: SC Un Gallo Con Muchos Huevos (Not reviewed) Voices of Bruno Bichir, Carlos Espejel, Angélica Vale. Directed by Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste. 99 minutes. Rated PG-13. In Spanish with English subtitles. A young, timid rooster must stand up to an evil rancher who threatens his family. Theaters: BS

Theaters (AL) Regal Aliante 7300 Aliante Parkway, North Las Vegas, 702-221-2283 (BS) Regal Boulder Station 4111 Boulder Highway, 702-221-2283 (PAL) Brenden Theatres at the Palms 4321 W. Flamingo Road, 702-507-4849 (CAN) Galaxy Cannery 2121 E. Craig Road, North Las Vegas, 702-639-9779

The Visit aaabc Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. 94 minutes. Rated PG-13. Teenage siblings Becca (DeJonge) and Tyler (Oxenbould) start noticing strange things while visiting the grandparents they’ve never met before. Shyamalan brings impressive skill to the disreputable found-footage genre, effectively mixing comedy and scares and adding cinematic flair to the genre’s typically artless style. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, COL, DI, ORL, PAL, RR, SC, SF, TX A Walk in the Woods aabcc Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson. Directed by Ken Kwapis. 104 minutes. Rated R. Redford and Nolte attempt to hike the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail in this adaptation of Bill Bryson’s bestselling 1998 memoir. Bryson was only 44 at the time, however, whereas Redford is 79 (and Nolte 74); consequently, the movie version has a distinct grumpy-old-men vibe. –MD Theaters: SC

Summerlin 2070 Park Center Drive, 702-221-2283 (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

The Walk aaacc Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon, Benedict Samuel. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. 123 minutes. Rated PG. Zemeckis’ film about Philippe Petit’s high-wire walk between the towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 attempts to blow the story up into a grand Hollywood spectacle, with mixed results. Zemeckis struggles with the personal drama, but when he gets to the walk itself, his excessive technical wizardry works wonders. –JB Theaters: CAN, CH, COL, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TX, VS War Room (Not reviewed) Priscilla Shirer, T.C. Stallings, Karen Abercrombie. Directed by Alex Kendrick. 120 minutes. Rated PG. A couple turns to prayer to save their troubled marriage. Theaters: FH, ST, TX, VS JMA Jeffrey M. Anderson; JB Josh Bell; MD Mike D’Angelo

(SF) Century Santa Fe Station 4949 N. Rancho Drive, 702-655-8178 (SHO) United Artists Showcase 3769 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-221-2283 (SP) Century South Point 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-260-4061 (SC) Century Suncoast 9090 Alta Drive, 702-869-1880

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

(SS) Regal Sunset Station 1301-A W. Sunset Road, Henderson, 702-221-2283 (TX) Regal Texas Station 2101 Texas Star Lane, North Las Vegas, 702-221-2283

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

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

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

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

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

(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

(DTS) Regal Downtown

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

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THE FUTURE IS NOW Twenty-six years ago, a 78-year-old man traveled 60 years into the past to encounter his 18-year-old self. Confused? You clearly haven’t rewatched the Back to the Future series recently, specifically Part 2. In that film, Biff Tannen went back in time to hand himself an almanac of bet-able sports results and become the wealthiest man alive—and proprietor of Biff Tannen’s Pleasure Paradise Casino & Hotel. ¶ Look closely, and you’ll notice Biff’s casino resembles one here in Las Vegas: the Plaza, shots of which were digitally incorporated into the Pleasure Paradise’s design. And since October 21, 2015 marks the day Marty and Doc rode their DeLorean to the future (and back to the past), the Downtown property will celebrate its connection by throwing a party to rival the Enchantment Under the Sea dance. From 6 to 11 p.m., the Plaza’s Beer Garden hosts the festivities, featuring replica versions of the time machine and the Libyans’ Volkswagen bus, characters from the films, drink specials like Doc’s Wake Up Juice (a Basil Hayden Bloody Mary) and an 8 p.m. BTTF costume contest, with a $500 prize awaiting the winner. ¶ Bonus: The same day, 11 Century and Regal theaters in the Valley will show all three Back to the Future films (let’s call it a Back-to-Back-to-Back to the Future marathon), for the price of a single movie ticket. So make like a tree, and get over there. –Spencer Patterson

LIVE MUSIC T H E ST R I P & N E A R BY Brooklyn Bowl Blues Traveler, Matt Jaffe 10/22, 8 pm, $28-$33. Pepper, Ballyhoo! 10/24, 8:30 pm, $25-$27. Deftones 10/27, 8 pm, $27-$42. Rusted Root, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Moksha 10/29, 8 pm, $27-$32. Trey Anastasio Band 10/30-10/31, 9 pm, $43-$50. Rebel Souljahz, Tribal Theory, Teki 11/5, 8 pm, $20-$23. The Dandy Warhols, The Shelters 11/6, 9 pm, $20-$23. Moon Taxi 11/8, 9 pm, $18-$20. Peaches, Christeene 11/11, 8 pm, $22-$27. Mac Miller, Tory Lanez, Michael Christmas, Njomza, Alexander Spit 11/17, 7:45 pm, $33-$38. Motionless in White, The Devil Wears Prada, The Word Alive, Upon a Burning Body, The Color Morale 11/15, 5 pm, $22-$25. J Boog, Spawnbreezie 11/18, 9 pm, $18-$20. Yellowcard, New Found Glory, Tigers Jaw 11/21, 8 pm, $26$30. Public Image Ltd 11/25, 9 pm, $30-$50. Gogol Bordello 11/28, 9 pm,

$30-$35. Fortunate Youth 11/29, 8:30 pm, $12-$15. Gary Clark Jr. 3/12, 9 pm, $30-$50. Linq, 702-862-2695. The Colosseum Elton John 10/16, 6:30 pm, $55-$500. Celine Dion 11/311/4, 11/7-11/8, 11/10-11/11, 11/13-11/14, 11/17-11/18, 11/20-11/21. Reba, Brooks & Dunn 12/2, 12/4, 12/6, 12/9, $60-$205. Mariah Carey 2/2, 2/5-2/6, 2/10, 2/132/14, 2/17, 2/19-2/20. 8 pm, $55-$250. Rod Stewart 3/19-3/20, 3/23, 3/253/26, 3/29, 4/1-4/2, 4/5, 7:30 pm, $49$250. Caesars Palace, 702-731-7333. The Cosmopolitan (Boulevard Pool) Father John Misty, Mikal Cronin 10/15, 8 pm, $23. The Neighborhood, Bad Suns, Hunny 10/30, 8 pm, $25. Bruno Mars 12/31, 9 pm, $150. (Chelsea) Sam Hunt, Carter Winter 12/4, 8 pm, $30. (Rose. Rabbit. Lie.) Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox 12/30-1/2, 9 pm, $50. 702-698-7000. Double Barrel Roadhouse Crossroad South 10/17, 9 pm, free. Monte Carlo, 702-222-7735. Double Down Bargain DJ Collective Mon. Unique Massive Tue, midnight. The Juju Man Wed, midnight. Shows 10 pm, free unless noted. 640

Paradise Road, 702-791-5775. Flamingo Olivia Newton-John 10/2710/31, 11/17-11/21, 11/24-11/28, 12/1-12/5, 12/15-12/19, 1/1-1/2, 7:30 pm, $69-$139. Donny & Marie Thru 10/17, 10/2010/24, 11/3-11/7. 11/10-11/14, 7:30 pm, $105-$237. 702-733-3333. Gilley’s Easy 8’s 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/26, 9 pm; 11/27-11/28, 12/26, 10 pm. Scotty Alexander Band 10/15, 12/17, 9 pm; 10/16-10/17, 12/18-12/19, 10 pm. Scotty Alexander Band 10/15, 11/19, 9 pm; 10/16-10/17, 11/20-11/21, 12/31, 1/1-1/2, 10 pm; 10/21, 9:30 pm. Chad Freeman and Redline 10/22, 9:30 pm, 10/23-10/24, 12/3, 10 pm, 10/25, 9 pm. Biran Lynn Jones 10/30-10/31, 10 pm. Shows $10-$20 after 10 pm unless noted. Treasure Island, 702-894-7722. Hard Rock Live Skinny Puppy, Youth Code 10/30, 8 pm, $29. Mayday Parade, Real Friends, This Wild Life, As It Is 11/15, 5:30 pm, $26. Hard Rock Cafe (Strip), 702-733-7625. Hard Rock Hotel Pool Rock Star Beer & Music Festival ft. Noise Pollution, Smells Like Nirvana 10/17, 7 pm, $35. House of Blues Halestorm 10/17, $30. Seether, Saint Asonia 10/20, 6:30 pm,

$33-$43. Korn 10/23, 7:30 pm, $50. The Adicts 10/30, $17-$20, 6:30 pm. Ghost 10/31, $25. Carlos Santana 11/4, 11/6-11/8, 11/11, 11/13-11/15, 1/27, 1/29-1/31, 2/3-2/6, 5/18, 5/20-5/22, 5/25, 5/275/29, $90-$350, 8 pm. The Wonder Years, Motion City Soundtrack, State Champs, You Blew It 11/5, 6 pm, $23. King Diamond, Exodus 11/9, 7 pm, $35-$50. Ride 11/10, 7:30 pm, $30. Collective Soul 11/12, 7 pm, $33-$36. The Wonder Years 11/5, 5 pm, $23$25. Heart 11/19-11/21, 8 pm, $55-$70. Parkway Drive 12/6, 4:30 pm, $25. Kamelot, DragonForce 12/7, 7 pm, $22-$25. Falling in Reverse, Atreyu, From Ashes to New, Assuming We Survive 12/19, 5 pm, $23-$26. Charles Kelley, Maren Morris 1/28, 7 pm, $25$28. (Crossroads) Looped Sun, Thu, 9-11 pm, free. Nothing but the Blues Mon-Wed, 8-11 pm, free. Rockstar Karaoke Fri, 9 pm-midnight, free. Get Up and Dance Sat, 9 pm-midnight, free. Gospel Brunch Sun, 10 am, 1 pm, $60. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. The Joint UB40, Ali Campbell, Astro, Mickey Virtue 10/16, $40-$55. Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin, Nothing More 10/22, 7 pm, $40-$175. J Balvin, Becky G 10/24, 8 pm, $60$200. Rick Springfield, Loverboy, Avalon Landing 10/25, 8 pm, $40$175. Rob Zombie, Danzig, Witch Mountain 10/30, 8:30 pm, $50-$175. Café Tacvba 11/18, 8 pm, $35-$120. West Coast Feast ft. Bone ThugsN-Harmony, DJ Quik, Collie Buddz, Tha Dogg Pound 11/27, 9 pm, $45. Little Big Town 12/4, 8 pm, $35-$150. Gary Allan, Clare Dunn 12/11-12/12, 9:30 pm, $40-$125. Bastille, Silversun Pickups, Fidlar, The Moth & The Flame 12/15, 8 pm, $40-$150. Bullet For My Valentine, Asking Alexandria 2/6, 7:30 pm, $32. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5222. Mandalay Bay (Events Center) Roberto Carlos 11/20, 8 pm, $100$175. Maroon 5 12/30-12/31, 8 pm, $100-$225. Iron Maiden 2/23, $62$103. 702-632-7777. MGM Grand (Garden Arena) Madonna 10/24, 8 pm, $43-$383. Latin Grammy Awards 11/19, 8 pm, $125-$500. Andrea Bocelli 12/5, 8 pm, $78-$403. Mötley Crüe 12/27, 7 pm, $25-$150. 702-891-7777. Orleans (Arena) The Masters of Funk ft. Bar-Kays, Switch, Brick, Original Lakeside, One way, Mary Jane Girls, Dazz Band 10/17, 8 pm, $50-$80. (Showroom) Jim Belushi & The Sacred Hearts 10/31-11/1, 8 pm, $40. Bret Michaels 11/21-11/22, 8 p, $66$94. Josh Turner 12/2-12/5, 8 pm, $55. Charlie Daniels Band 12/11-12/12, 7 pm, $30-$55. 702-365-7075. Palace Station (Jack’s Irish Pub) Forget to Remember Fri & Sat, 9 pm, free. 702-547-5300. The Pearl Judas Priest, Mastodon 10/17, 8 pm, $73+. Godsmack, Red Sun Rising 11/14, 8 pm, $53-$93. Puscifer 12/12, 8 pm, $43-$103. Palms, 702-942-7777. Planet Hollywood Britney Spears 10/16-10/17, 10/21, 10/23-10/24, 10/28, $60-$195. 702-234-7469. Rí Rá The Black Donnellys 10/2010/22, 10/25, 8:45 p.m.; 10/23-10/24, 9 p.m. John Windsor 10/19, 10/26, 8:45 p.m. Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones 10/15, 10/18, 8:45 p.m.; 10/16-10/17, 9 p.m. The Crooked Jacks 10/27-10/29, 8:45 p.m.; 10/30-10/31, 9 p.m. Shows free unless noted. Mandalay Place, 702-632-7771.

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Rockhouse Rockhouse Live Mon, 9 pm, free. Venetian, 702-731-9683. The Sayers Doomtree, Astronautalis 10/18. Crash Kit 10/21, 10 pm, $10 (locals free). The Dirty Panties 10/28, 10 pm, $10 (locals free). Eliza Battle 11/4, 10 pm, $10 (locals free). Deerhoof, Cy Dune, The Anti-Job 11/5, 9 pm, $12-$15. In the Valley Below 11/13, 9 pm, $12-$14. The Polyphonic Spree 11/18, 9 pm, $25$27. The Solid Suns 11/25, 10 pm, $10 (locals free). Buckin Fridays Fri, 10 pm, $10. SLS, 702-761-7618. 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 Road, 702-893-8933. Venetian The Judds 10/16-10/17, 10/21, 10/23-10/24, 8 pm, $60-$225. John Fogerty 1/8-1/9, 1/13, 1/15-1/16, 1/20, 1/22-1/23, 8 pm, $60-$350. 702-4149000. Vinyl New Kingston 10/18, 8 pm, $12-$20. The Internet, Moonchild, Little Simz, Tay Walker 10/23, 9 pm, $15. Be Like Max, The A-OKs, The Holophonics, Drinking Water, The CG’s 10/24, 7 pm, $10. Corrosion of Conformity 10/25, 8 pm, $17. The Sword, Kadavar, All Them Witches 10/21, 8 pm, $20-$35. The Internet 10/23, 9 pm, $15-$35. Be Like Max 10/24, 7 pm, $20-$35. Corrosion of Conformity 10/25, 8 pm, $17-$35. Mac Sabbath 10/30, 9 pm, free. Soulfly, Crowbar, Shattered Sun, Incite 11/6, 8 pm, $20-$35. Viva Ska Vegas ft. Hub City Stompers, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Interupters & more 11/7, 5 pm. Misfits 11/11, 8 pm, $25-$45. Escape the Fate, A Skylit Drive, Sworn In, Sirens & Sailors, Myka, Relocate 11/12, 6:30 pm, $17$19. The Struts, Andrew Matt 11/14, 9 pm, $11-$25. The Story So Far 11/18, 7 pm, $21-$24. Bless the Fall, Stick to Your Guns, Emarosa, Oceans Ate Alaska 11/19, 6 pm. Reverend Horton Heat, The BellRays, The Lords of Altamont 12/4, 9 pm, $25-$45. Otherwise 10/26, 9 pm, $15. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5000. Wynn (Eastside Lounge) Michael Monge Wed & Thu, 9 pm, $10. 702770-7000.

D OW N TOW N Artifice Vegas Jazz Tue, 7 pm, $15. Thursday Request Live First Thu, 10 pm, free. 1025 S. 1st St., Ste. 100., 702-489-6339. Backstage Bar & Billiards Wanda Jackson, Delta Bombers, The Yawpers, DJ Lucky La Rue, Catman Eddy Bear & The Cubs 10/31, 8 pm, $20. Tankcsapda 11/6, 8 pm, $35. The Album Leaf 11/14, 8 pm, $10-$15. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Beauty Bar Vehicles, Midnight Clover, We Can Be Trees, FreeLSD’s Bad Trip 10/15, 9 pm, free. Hassan, Anthony James, Funkshuay, The Real Ulysses, Thomas Berry, Cash Colligan, Shotty, Austin Dixson, Mike Mikey 10/16, 9 pm, free. Vinyl Williams, JJUUJJUU, Candy Warpop 10/18, 8 pm, free. Mercy Music, Sic Waiting, The Core, The Quitters 10/21, 9 pm, free. Beat Battles 10/25, 9 pm. Tav Falco’s Panther Burns 10/26, 8 pm, $10-$12. Ed Rush, Optical 10/27, 9 pm, $10. Gaytheist 11/2, 8 pm, free. Shayna Rain and the Part-Time Models, Bloomish, Yaquina Bay 11/11, 8 pm, free.

Calendar Swingin Utters, The Bombpops, Success 11/17, 9 pm, $12. The Rocket Summer 11/20, 9 pm, $12. Nikki Lane 12/3, 8 pm. Everlast 12/5, 9 pm, $18. 517 Fremont St., 702-5983757. Downtown Container Park 707 Fremont St, downtowncontainerpark.com. Downtown Las Vegas Events Center Daughtry 10/17, $35. All Time Low, Sleeping with Sirens, One OK Rock, Neck Deep 10/24, 6 pm. Rise Against, Killswitch Engage, Letlive 11/21, 8 pm, $40-$80. 200 S. 3rd Street, dlvec.com. Fremont Country Club Failure, Local H 10/22, 8 pm, $18-$20. Gwar, Born of Osiris, Battlecross, We Gave it Hell 10/23, 7 pm, $20-$25. Lagwagon, The Briefs, Runaway Kids 11/11, 8 pm, $20-$22. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-6601. Fremont Street Experience Frank & The Steins Thru 11/1, dark Mondays & 10/20, 8 pm, free. Downtown Las Vegas, vegasexperience.com. Golden Nugget Morris Day and the Time 10/16, 8 pm, $32-$76. Little River Band 10/23, 8 pm, $76-$109. Ohio Players 10/30, 8 pm, $32-$65. Foghat 11/6, 8 pm, $21$65. Village People 11/13, 8 pm, $32-$65. Eric Burdon & The Animals 11/20, 8 pm, $32-$87. Jefferson Starship 11/27, 8 pm, $21-$65. Edgar Winter 12/18, 8 pm, $32$65. (NFR) Tanya Tucker 12/3, $43-$87. Big and Rich 12/4, $54-$142. Trace Adkins 12/5, $109-$164. Terri Clark 12/6, $43-$87. Merle Haggard 12/7-12/8, $109-$164. LeAnn Rimes 12/9, $54-$109. Alabama 12/10-12/11, $163-$252. Shows at 10 p.m. 129 E. Fremont St., 866-946-5336. Griffin Together Pangea, White Reaper, Leather Lungs, DJ Fish 10/31, 9 pm, free. Live music Wed, 10 pm, free. 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577. Hard Hat Lounge The Funk Jam Wed, 10:30 pm, free. Florescent Flames Second Sat, 9 pm, free. Foundation Factory Fourth Sat, 8 pm, free. 1675 Industrial Road, 702-3848987. LVCS Abigail Williams, Today is the Day, Meade Avenue, The Holy Pariah, Firewater Folklore 10/15, 8 pm, $8-$10. Freakshow Wrestling Halloween Death Party ft. Boogeyman vs. Gangrel, Rad Beligion, Time Crashers, Techno Destructo, Jenn O. Cide 10/16, 7:30 pm, $20. Walk Proud, Vegan Jihad, Rule of Thumb, Bipolar, Unfair Fight, Battle Stag 10/24, 8 pm, $12-$15. Sepultura, Kataklysm, Belphegor, Spun in Darknes, Pilars of Creation, Levitron 10/25, 7 pm, $25-$30. Mondo Generator, Peter Pan Speedrock, Radio Moscow, Vegas Threat 10/29, 8 pm, $8-$10. 425 Fremont St., 702382-3531. Mickie Finnz Crown Avenue 10/15, 9 pm. Bad Noise 10/16. Tony Venniro Band 10/17, 10 pm. JV Allstars 10/18-10/19, 9 pm. The Leeroy Jenkins Incident 10/20-10/21, 9 pm. Live music Daily, 4-7 pm. Shows free unless noted. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-4204. The Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) Kenny Loggins 11/10, 6:30 pm, $39-$179. The Tenors 2/20, 7:30 pm, $24-$95. (Cabaret Jazz) Clint Holmes 11/6-11/7, 12/3-12/5 8:30 pm; 11/8, 12/6 2 pm; $37-$46. Goapele 10/1510/16, 7 pm, $29-$69. Lon Bronson All-Star Band 10/17, 7 & 10 pm, $20-$35. George Bugatti & Vincent Falcone 10/19, 7:30 pm, $39-$45. Jane Monheit, Jim Caruso & Billy Stritch 10/23, 7 pm; 10/24, 6 & 8:30 pm; $39-$65. Glenn Williams: Remembering Robert (Goulet) 10/25, 2 pm, $25. 361 Symphony Park Ave., 702-749-2000.

The ’Burbs Cannery 2121 E. Craig Road, 702-507-5700. Eagle Aerie Hall Secrets, A Friend a Foe, From Where We Came, I Am of Terra 11/3, 5:30 pm, $12-$15. 310 W. Pacific Ave., 702645-4139. Green Valley Ranch (Hanks) Dave Ritz Tue, Thu, 6 pm; Sat, 7 pm. Rick Duarte Wed, 6 pm. Nick Mattera Fri, 6 pm; Sat, 7 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702-367-2470. M Resort (M Pavillion) Martin Nievera 12/12, 7 pm, $32-$46. Shows free/drink minimum. M Resort, 800-745-3000. Rampart Casino (Addison’s Lounge) Wes Winters Tue, 6 pm. Mark O’Toole Wed, 6 pm. Shows free unless noted. JW Marriott, 221 N.

Rampart Blvd., 702-507-5900. 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 Fri & Sat, 9 pm. The Dirty Sat. 11 pm, $10. (T-Bones) Dave Ritz Wed, 6 pm; Fri, 7 pm. Rick Duarte Thu, 6 pm; Sat, 7 pm. Shows free unless noted. 11011 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-797-7777. Santa Fe Station (Revolver) Bro Country Thu, 8 pm. (4949 Lounge) Jared Berry Thu, 7 pm, free. 4949 N Rancho Drive, 702-658-4900. Sienna Italian Authentic Trattoria Vegas Good Fellas Thu, 7:30 pm. Red Velvet Fri & Sat, 8:30 pm. 9500 Sahara Ave., 702-3603358. Silverton (Veil Pavilion) 3333 Blue Diamond Road, 702-263-7777. South Point Tower of Power 10/16-10/18, 7:30 pm, $45-$55. Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers 10/23-10/25, 7:30 pm, $45-$55. The Lettermen 10/30-11/1, 7:30 pm, $25$35. Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns Mon, 10:30 pm, $5-$10. Dennis Bono Show Thu, 2 pm, free. Wes Winters Fri & Sat, 6 pm, free. Spazmatics Sat, 10:30 pm, $5. 702-7978005. Suncoast 9090 Alta Drive, 702-636-7075. Sunset Station (Club Madrid) Yellow Brick Road Fri, 9:30 pm. Zowie Bowie Sat, 10 pm. (Gaudi Bar) Ryan Whyte Maloney, Cali Tucker Fri, Sat, 7 pm. Willplay Sat, 7 pm. (Rosalita’s) Tony Venniro Fri, 7 pm. Peter Love Sat, 7 pm. (Sunset Amphitheater) 1301 W. Sunset Road, 702-547-7777. Texas Station (A-Bar) Darrin Michaels Fri & Sat, 7 pm. (South Padre) VooDoo Band Fri, 9 pm. Yellow Brick Road Sat, 9 pm. 702-6311000.

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Gold Coast Orchetra ft. Christy Bailey 10/24, noon, $15. Jimmy Wilkin’s New Life Orchestra 11/14, noon, $15. Bruce Harper Big Band ft. Elisa Fiorillo 11/21, noon, $15. 1201 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-453-8451. Sam’s Town Los NiteKings Sun, 7 pm, free. Shows free unless noted. 5111 Boulder Hwy., 702-284-7777.

Comedy Boomers Side Splitting Sundays Sun, 9 pm, free. 3200 Sirius Ave., 702-368-1863. Caesars Palace (The Colosseum) 702-7317333. Craig Ranch Regional Park Amphitheater Paul Rodriguez 10/24, 8 pm, $20-$25. 628 W. Craid Rd., 702-633-2418. The D Laughternoon Starring Adam London Daily, 4 pm, $20-$25. 702-388-2111.. Hard Rock Hotel (The Joint) Cedric the Entertainer 12/30, 9 pm, $50. Bo Burnham 1/30, 8 pm, $50. 702-693-5000. Harrah’s (Main Showrom) Mac King Tue-Sat, 1 & 3 pm, $33. (The Improv) Darryl Wright, Sandro Iocolano Thru 10/18. Brian Scolaro, Tony Camin, Alli Breen 10/20-10/25. Vince Morris, Carrie Snow, David Gee 10/27-11/1. Darryl Lenox, Marc Price 11/3-11/8. Tue-Sun, 8:30 pm; Fri & Sat, 10 pm; $30-$45. 702-3695000. Luxor Carrot Top Wed-Mon, 8 pm, $50-$60. 702-262-4900. MGM Grand (Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club) Nightly, 8 pm, $43-$87. 702-891-7777. Mirage Jay Leno 11/20-11/21, 10 pm; $60-$80. Ray Romano 10/23-10/24, 12/4-12/5, 12/1112/12, 10 pm, $60. Daniel Tosh 10/16, 11/13, 10 pm; 10/17, 11/14, 7:30 pm. 702-792-7777. Orleans (Showroom) Don Rickles 10/17-10/18, 8 pm, $88-$110. Gary Owen 11/13-11/14, 8 pm, $40. 702-284-7777. Palms (The Pearl) Bill Maher 10/24, 8 pm, $49$99. 702-942-7777. Planet Hollywood (Las Vegas Live Comedy Club) Edwin San Juan Nightly, 9 pm, $56-$67, V Theater. (PH Showroom) Jeff Dunham Wed-Sun, 7 pm; Sat-Sun, 4 pm, $72.. (Sin City Theatre) Sin City Comedy & Burlesque Show Nightly, 8:30 pm, $38-$49. 702-777-2782. Quad Jeff Civilico Sat-Mon, Wed-Thu, 4 pm, $39-$50. 888-777-7664. Rampart Casino (Bonkerz Comedy Club) Thu, 7 pm, free., 702-507-5900. Red Rock (Rocks Lounge) Rita Rudner 10/17, 8 pm, $25-$35. Orny Adams 11/21, 8 pm, $25-$35. Hal Sparks 1/23, 8 pm, $25-$35. Justin Willman 2/20, 8 pm, $25-$35. 702797-7777. Rio Eddie Griffin Mon-Thu, 7 pm, $73-$136. 702-777-2782. The Sayers Club (Bonkerz Comedy Club) Thu-Sat 8 pm, $10. SLS, 702-761-7000. South Point Jay Mohr 11/6-11/7, 7:30 pm, $25$35. 702-797-8005. Tropicana (The Laugh Factory) Nightly, 8:30 & 10:30 pm, $35-$55. 702-739-2222. Treasure Island Margaret Cho 10/16, 9 pm, $44-$72. Bill Engvall 10/23, 12/4, 9 pm, $53$83. Whoopi Goldberg 11/13, 9 pm, $58-$99. Billy Gardell 11/27, 9 pm, $44-$72. 702-8947111.. Venetian Whitney Cummings 11/28, 9:30 pm; 1/2, 8 pm, $50-$118. Lisa Lampanelli 10/31, 8 pm; 12/26, 8 pm, $50-$118. Jennifer Coolidge 10/3, 9:30 pm, $40-$96. Roseanne Barr 10/17, 9:30 pm, $50-$118. Jen Kirkman 10/24, 9:30 pm, $40-$96. Fortune Feimster 10/24, 9:30 pm, $40-$97. Garfunkel & Oates 11/7, 9:30 pm, $40-$96. Iliza Shlesinger, Sarah Colonna 11/14, 9:30 pm, $40-$96. 702-4149000.

Performing Arts Christ Church Episcopal Advent-Christmas Recital 12/6, 4 pm, $15. Adam J. Brakel 1/8, 7:30 pm, $15. Hans Uwe Hielscher 2/5, 7:30 pm, $15. David Dorway 4/29, 7:30 pm, $15. 2000 S. Maryland Parkway, sncago.org. Cockroach Theatre The Whale 10/15-10/17, 10/22-10/24, 8 pm; 10/18, 10/25, 2 pm. Art Square Theatre, 1025 First St. #110, cockroachtheatre.com. Erotic Heritage Museum Judy Forever

in My Heart 11/8, 2:30 pm, $18-$20. 3275 Industrial Rd, 702-794-4000. Italian American Club Voices of Rudy: The Journey to the Movie 11/13, 7:30 pm, $30. 2333 E. Sahara Ave., 702-457-3866. Las Vegas Philharmonic Passport to the World 10/24, 7:30 pm, $26-$96. Cabrera Celebrates Sibelius 11/21, 7:30 pm, $26-$96. The Snowman 12/5/12-6, 2 pm; 12/5, 7:30 pm; $26-$96; 12/6, 2 pm, $46-$96. Cabrera Conducts Rachmaninoff 1/9, 7:30 pm, 1/10, 2 pm, $26-$96. Pink Martini 2/6, 7:30 pm, $100-$250. Spotlight Series 2/16, 4/26, 5/3, 7:30 pm, $168. Smith Center, 702-749-2000. Nevada Ballet Theatre A Balanchine Celebration: From Tchaikobsky to Rodgers & Hart to Gershwin 11/7, 7:30 pm., 11/8, 2 pm, $29-$139. The Nutcracker 12/12, 8:30 pm, 12/13, 1 & 5:30 pm, 12/18, 7:30 pm, 12/19, 2 pm $ 7:30 pm, 12/20, 1 & 5:30 pm, $29-$179. Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall, 702-7492000. Onyx Theatre She Kills Monsters 10/15-10/17, 10/22-10/24, 10/29-10/31, 8 pm; 10/25, 5 pm, $20. Mister Wives 11/12-11/14, 11/19-11/21, 11/2711/28, 8 pm; 11/22, 5 pm, $20. The Blanche DeBris Emergency Xmas Broadcast 12/1012/12, 12/17-12/19, 8 pm; 12/13, 5 pm, $20. 953 E. Sahara Ave., 702-732-7225. Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) The Book of Mormon Thru 10/18, 7:30 pm, 10/17-10/18, 2 pm, $36-$160. Room on the Broom 10/21, 6:30 pm, $15-$23. Ragtime 10/27-11/1, 7:30 pm; 10/31, 2 pm; $30-$130. Simply Ella 11/13, 7:30 pm, $35-$125. God Lives in Glass 11/15, 3 pm, $19-$79. Elf the Musical 11/24-11/29, $29-$129. New Year’s Eve at the Smith Center 12/31, 7 pm, $39-$125. The Cat in the Hat 1/13, 6:30 pm, $15-$23. Riverdance 1/261/21, $29-$129. Panties in a Twist 2/2-2/6, $35-$43. Cinderella 2/13, 7:30 pm, 2/14, 2 pm, $29-$139. The Bridges of Madison County 2/23-2/28, $29-$129. (Troesh Studio Theater) Miss Margarida’s Way 10/22-10/24, 7 pm; 10/24-10/25, 2:30 pm; $49. Violet 10/30-11/1, 8 pm; 10/31-11/1, 3 pm; $34. ’Twas a Girls Night Before Christmas: The Musical 11/24-11/28, 7 pm; 11/28, 2 pm; $35-$43. My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m Home for the Holidays 12/2-12/5, 7 pm; $35-$40. Driving Miss Daisy 1/15-1/17, 8 pm; 1/16-1/17, 3 pm; $34. 702-749-2000. Treasure Island (Mystère Theatre) A Choreographers’ Showcase 10/18, 1 pm, $25-$45. UNLV (Rando-Grillot Recital Hall) Pacifica Quartet 10/22, 7:30 pm, $27-$30. Thomas Strauss 11/1, 7:30 pm, free. Larry Del Casale & Carlos Barbosa Lima 11/21, 8 pm, $45. Amernet Quartet ft. Rachel Calloway 1/28, 7:30 pm, $27-$30. Andrew York 2/20, 8 pm, $41-$45. Chelsea Chen 2/26, 7:30 pm, free.Jens Korndorfer 4/8, 7:30 pm, free. Duo Deloro 4/13, 8 pm, $41-$45. Dorothy Young Riess 5/20, 7:30 pm, free. (Artemus W. Ham Hall) UNLV Wind Orchestra: Raise the Roof 10/1, 7 pm, $10. National Circus and Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China 10/2, 8 pm, $20-$70. UNLV Dance: In Orchestra 2 10/16-10/17, 7:30 pm; 10/17, 2:30 pm, $18. Well Strung 10/24, 8 pm, $20-$70. Rockapella’s Holiday Concert 12/5, 8 pm, $20-$70. Sarah Chang and Julio Elizalde 2/6, 8 pm, $25-$75. Polish Baltic Philharmonic 3/17, 8 pm, $25-$75. Orlowsky Trio 4/2, 8 pm, $20-$70. (Judy Bayley Theatre) Nevada Conservatory Theatre: The Magic of Seth Grabel 10/17, 7 pm, $30. 702-895-3332. Winchester Cultural Center The Consul presented by Sin City Opera 11/13-11/14, 11/2011/21, 7 pm; 11/22, 2 pm, $15. 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 702-455-7340.

Special Events Alvin and the Chipmunks Live on Stage 12/2, 3:30 pm & 6:30 pm, $18-$65. An Executive Chef’s Culinary Classroom With Executive Chef Edmond Wong. 11/10, 7 pm, $135. Bellagio, 866-406-7117. Bill O’Riley and Dennis Miller: Don’t Be a Pinhead 12/5, 7:30 pm, $86-$501. The Colosseum, Caesars Palace, 702-731-7333. Charles Bukowski: Man and Myth 10/17, 2 pm, free. Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 McLeod Dr., 702-455-7340. Courtroom Conversation: The Real Story

Calendar Behind Casino 11/7, 7 pm, $25. Mob Museum, 300 Stewart Ave., 702-229-2734. Disney on Ice presents Frozen 1/6-1/11, times vary, $38-$83. Thomas & Mack Center, unlvtickets.com. Downtown Podcast Thu, 9 pm, free. Inspire Theater, 107 Las Vegas Blvd. S., downtownpodcast.tv. Ethel M Chocolates Holiday Cactus Garden 11/11, 5 pm to 10 pm, free. Ethel M Chocolate Factory and Cactus Garden, 2 Cactus Garden Dr., ethelm.com. Fetish & Fantasy Halloween Ball 10/31, 10 pm, $50-$100. The Joint, 702-693-5222. Freakling Bros. Trilogy of Terror ft. Castle Vampyre, Gates of Hell, Coven of 13 Beginning Oct. 9, 7pm-11 pm, Sun-Thu; 7 pm to midnight, Fr-Sat., $14-$15. Grand Canyon Shopping Center, 4245 S. Grand canyon Dr., 702-362-3327. Henderson Oktoberfest 10/24, 4 pm, $10$15. Henderson Events Plaza, 200 Water St., 702-267-2171. Mannheim Steamroller Christmas 12/3, 7:30 pm, $35-$75. Orleans, 702-284-7777. Monday’s Dark with Mark Shunock Anniversary 12/14, 8 pm, $20-$50. Vinyl, 702-693-5000. Monday’s Dark with Mark Shunock 10/19, 11/16, 9:30 pm, $20-$30. Vinyl, 702-6935000. Motley Brew’s Downtown Brew Festival 10/24, 5 pm, $35-$80. Clark County Amphitheater, 500 S. Grand Central Parkway, downtownbrewfestival.com. Nitro Circus Live 11/21, 8 pm, $42-$128. MGM Grand Garden Arena, 702-891-7777. Nicholas Schou 10/17, 7 pm, free w/admission. Mob Museum, 300 Stewart Ave., 702229-2734. Christopher Norment Book Signing 11/17, 7 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., 702-550-6399. Jessica Lee Richardson Book Signing 10/24, 7 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., 702-550-6399. One Drop Walk for Water 10/17, 8 am, $20$25. Smith Center, onedrop.org. Sevens Live Music, comedy & spoken arts. Tue, 7 pm, one-drink minimum. Silver Sevens, 4100 Paradise, 702-733-7000. Suicide GIrls: Blackheart Burlesque 11/20, 8 pm, $25. Vinyl, 702-693-5000. Switch: Trans* Clothing Swap Thu, 5 pm, free. Gay & Lesbian Community Center, 702733-9800. Vegas Valley Book Festival 10/15-10/17, times vary, free. Historic Fifth Street School, 401 S. Fourth St., vegasvalleybookfestival.org. Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival 11/7, 930 am, free. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Rd., vegasvalleycomicbookfestival.org. Windmill Music Club 11/15, 12/20, 4 pm, free. Windmill Library, 7060 W Windmill Lane, 702-507-6030.

Sports AMA Pro Flat Track Finale 11/20-11/21, 7:30 pm, $45-$55. Orleans, 702-284-7777. American Bucking Bull Inc. World Finals 10/19-10/23, times vary, $10-$50. South Point, southpointarena.com. Boxing: Bradley vs. Rios 11/7, 3:30 pm, $53-$403. Thomas & Mack, 702-739-3267. Cotto vs. Canelo 11/21, 2 pm, $150-$2,000. Mandalay Bay Events Center, 702-632-7777. California Saddle Horse Futurity 10/2910/31, times vary, free. South Point, southpointarena.com. Cinch Boyd Gaming Chute-Out 12/10-12/12, 2 pm, $50-$110. Orleans, 702-284-7777. Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational 11/26-11/27, noon, $47-$157. Orleans, 702284-7777. Friesian World Cup 10/29-10/31, times vary, free. South Point, southpointarena.com Global Force Wrestling Amped 10/23, 8 pm, $10-$125. Orleans, 702-284-7777. Indian National Finals Rodeo 11/3-11/7, times vary $15. South Point, southpointarena. com. Las Vegas Tennis Open 10/19-10/25, times vary, $5. UNLV, Frank and Vicki Fertitta Tennis Complex, unlvtickets.com. Monster Energy Cup 10/17, 6 pm, $56-$76. Sam Boyd Stadium, unlvtickets.com.

Monster Energy Supercross Finals 5/7, 6:30 pm, $180. Sam Boyd Stadium, unlvtickets. com. Monster Jam World Finals 3/17, 5:30 pm; 3/18-3/19, 7 pm, $80-$180. Sam Boyd Stadium, unlvtickets.com. National Finals Rodeo 12/3-12/12, 6:45 pm, $58-$232. Thomas & Mack, unlvtickets.com. PBR World Finals 10/21-10/24, 6 pm; 10/25, 1 pm, $30-$170. Thomas & Mack Center, unlvtickets.com. Rocky Mountain Gun Show 11/7-11/8, times vary, $15. South Point, southpointarena. com. Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl 12/19, 12:30 pm, $24-$110. Sam Boyd Stadium, unlvtickets.com. Runnin’ Rebel Madness 10/22, 7 pm, free. Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, 200 S. 3rd Street, dlvec.com. UFC: Fight Night ft. Paige VanZant vs. Joanne Calderwood 12/10, $75-$225. Ultimate Fighter: Team McGregor vs. Team Faber Finale ft. Frankie Edgar vs. Chad Mendes 12/11, $150-$350. UNLV Football Boise State 10/31, $24-$69. Hawaii 11/7, 3 pm, $24-$69. San Diego State 11/21, 7:30 pm, $17-$53. Sam Boyd Stadium, unlvtickets.com. World Series of Team Roping 12/5-12/8, 9:30 am, price TBA. Orleans, 702-284-7777.

Galleries Amanda Harris Gallery of Contemporary Art By appointment. 900 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-769-6036. Arts Factory 107 E. Charleston Blvd, 702-3833133. Galleries include: Joseph Watson Collection Wed-Fri, 1-6 pm; Sat, noon-3 pm; Sun, 11 am-2 pm. Suite 115, 858-733-2135. Sin City Gallery Wed-Sat, 1-7 pm; Sun, 11 am-2 pm. Suite 100, 702-608-2461. Suite 135, 702366-7001, trifectagallery.com. Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art Picasso: Creatures and Creativity Thru 1/10. Daily, 10 am-8 pm, $11-$16. 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-693-7871. Blackbird Studios By appointment. 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 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 Road, dtspaces.com. Galleries include: Candy Wolves Studio 702-600-3011. Skin City Body Painting 702-431-7546. Solsis Gallery 702-557-2225. Spectral Gallery Sat, noon-10 pm & by appointment. Urizen Gallery First Fri, 6-10 pm. Wasteland Gallery Mon-Fri, 10 am-2 pm. 702-475-9161. Emergency Arts 520 Fremont St. Galleries include: Satellite Contemporary 973-964-3050. Rhizome Gallery 702-907-7526. Gainsburg Studio & Gallery Mon-Sat, 10am5pm. 1533 West Oakey Blvd, 702-249-3200. Las Vegas City Hall Chamber Gallery In Focus: Downtown Architecture by Ryan Reason & Jennifer Burkart Mon-Fri, 7 am-5:30 pm, 495 S. Main St., 702-229-1012. Left of Center Tue-Fri, noon-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-3 pm. 2207 W. Gowan Road, 702-647-7378. Michelle C. Quinn Fine Art By appointment. 620 S. 7th St., 702-366-9339. P3Studio Wed-Thu, 5-10 pm; Fri-Sun, 6-11 pm. Cosmopolitan. UNLV Barrick Museum Mon-Fri, 9 am–5 pm; Thu, 9 am-8 pm; Sat, noon-5 pm. 4505 S Maryland Parkway., 702-895-3381 Donna Beam Fine Art Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-2 pm. 702-895-3893. Lied Library The French Connection Thru 10/31. Mon-Thu, 7:30 am-midnight; Fri, 7:30 am-7 pm; Sat, 9 am-6 pm; Sun, 11 am-midnight. West Las Vegas Arts Center Wed-Sat, 9 am-7 pm. 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-2294800. Winchester Cultural Center Art Gallery Tue-Fri, 10 am-8 pm; Sat, 9 am-6 pm. 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 702-455-7340.

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