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Contents 7 mail It’s Habit vs. In-N-Out.

46 noise Mashup bands with

8 as we see it Free parking is

tasty names and tunes. Did Madge bring it? The Pluralses stay silly.

part of Vegas’ soul. Grilling out with atheists. Home means ... cocktails?

51 the strip Where’s Piff doing

14 Q&A The mayor of Lake Mead. 16 Feature | the clowns

db brasserie eclairs and clown motel by mikayla whitmore

are watching you Touring Tonopah’s haunted lodging.

18 Feature | season of yum From the “new doughnut” to a teainfused chocolate bomb, end your meal with a very, very good dream.

26 nights What Afrojack might

his Magic Dragon thing these days?

52 fine art The art of tearing apart and piecing back together.

53 stage A message in drag. 54 food & drink Stop missing out on Katsuya, wish Hank’s a happy 10th and put gravy on those fries! 58 calendar Three Halloween shows going bump in the night.

be for Halloween (hint: Bieber wig).

41 A&E Glenn Danzig is a fan of Portlandia, and covers of his songs.

42 pop culture Musing on moral-boycotting’s moment.

43 screen Truth, Burnt and the small-screen triumph of Evil Dead.

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NOM NOM NOM k Gimme Some Sugar Bake Shoppe’s Kristen LoVullo has sculpted fantastical treats for Kim Kardashian and Halloween Wars, but this ninja of fondant and modeling chocolate knows the power of dessert that’s unpolished and plain yummy. Like layers of fluffy chocolate cake, fudgy ganache and peanut-butter buttercream enrobed in salted caramel frosting, chocolate glaze and chewy caramel, then crowned with a caramel apple and roasty peanuts. Sweet and salty, crunchy and creamy, it’s a sensory dropkick. “You know you want to sink your teeth into that dripping caramel!”

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BULLISH FUTURE?

Are high school reunions unnecessary in the age of social media, or should you still go to yours?

The PBR World Finals took over the Thomas & Mack last week, as it has for the past 17 years. Next year, the event will have a new home.

Yeah, for the free alcohol. –Angie Wright

Attendees to PBR buy their tickets for next year’s performances a year in advance. This year, as they are purchasing tickets for next year at the new MGM arena, they have been complaining that MGM has increased the price almost 100 percent. Customers are assuming the increase is to help pay for the new arena. Add to this that there will be no parking garage or additional parking of any kind and it looks like MGM is taking an event that has helped our economy greatly for over two decades and encouraging it to leave. –William Hilton

Pfft. I didn’t go to mine. –Mohammad Chams I graduated with a class of 52 other students. We wouldn’t even need to rent out a venue! –Danyel Rhoads

FOODIE OBSESSION The sushi burritos at brand-new Jaburritos are making fast fans, mostly.

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I’m far from a sushi snob, but I’m no stranger to it. It seemed like sushi grade, just very generous portions. Clean taste, firm, cut well, proper temp ... We’re lucky our first sushi burrito place isn’t just some yahoo jumping on a trend. Homie appears to know what he’s doing. –Tamarisk Wood

NEW HABIT The Habit Burger Grill has arrived in Las Vegas, which means it’s time to once again debate our city’s best burger.

Not really a fan of the Habit. In-NOut tastes better. –Maria Serrano

It’s a combination of our two favorite foods! –Lacey Peckham

Bobby’s Burger Palace is the best chain. –Peter Yee

Somehow, this makes me terribly uneasy. –Ivana Martinovic Lazendic

Love their burgers and onion rings, and strawberry shakes are good, too. They are no more expensive than anyone else, and they are off the Strip. Glad they’re finally here. –Loree Richards

It’s awesome. I’ll be back. –Damian Kane Hansen

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WHAT PRICE VEGASNESS? ∑ In my head, the golden age of Las Vegas is this Sinatra

music video, with comped gin and shrimp and poker chips just flying. Everyone looks sharp and smiles big, because even if money is lost, the freebies make it feel like a wash, like the house and its guests are in it together. Nowhere in that vision are people dropping cash on the self-park. Yet that’s what the Strip might be facing. The murmurs started early last year, when MGM Resorts revealed that its new 20,000-seat arena would rely on existing properties—New York-New York and Monte Carlo, for sure, with others in the mix—to accommodate all those cars. Vague quotes from execs and vehement public conjecture have swirled since, and VegasTripping dropped a bomb last week, its sources saying fees are in store for parking garages across all MGM properties. “Think of it as the resort fee your Toyota has long been asking for,” VT’s Chuckmonster wrote. Comments on that story are pretty unanimous about the “money-grubbing bastards” and “sh*thead MBAs.” (Of course, someone played the “What’s next, pay toilets?” card.) But business is business, and it adapts. In 2008, MGM Resorts installed resort fees that are now ubiquitous on the Strip, and if the company starts charging for garage space, it’s likely to be a heavy domino again. There is significant money to be made, and considering that free parking is a unicorn in most metropolitan cores, it wouldn’t be an unreasonable move. Except that this is Vegas. Paying for parking here would feel like paying sales tax in Oregon. Chuckmonster sees the notion as “antivisitor,” but visitors are conditioned to shrug off paying too much for the fantasy. If free parking goes away, it’s just a little extra tacked onto their weekend. For us locals, it’s another deterrent to engaging with the Strip. But the indignation I’m hearing doesn’t seem as rooted in the potential wallet hit as erosion of the Vegas idea. If the city’s spirit is a welcoming hug, then self-parks have been the comforting squeeze before the release, the grounding assurance of Vegas’ desire to be the best time ever with the easiest access. If the house treats you to drinks and food and a room, it’s because you’ve spent money on the casino floor. Parking is the one thing they just give to everybody. As one VegasTripping commenter put it, it’s “sacrosanct” to the Strip experience. Like many other things I’ve taken for granted, the perk may still go the way of the hot towels at my neighborhood sushi restaurant. It was a gesture I never thought about until it was replaced by hand wipes in cheap plastic wrappers. The food, atmosphere and service haven’t changed, but somehow, it’s just not the same. –Erin Ryan

THE TACO SAYS ... ∑ It was controversial comedian Fat Jewish who raised the flag: “How do black people and tacos feel about the fact that they have no emoji representation, while TRAINS HAVE 12?” The social-media personality took to his channels in February, spotlighting a ridiculous inequity among the tiny Japanese pictograms that litter Internetland. The emoji gods, apparently, took note. On April 8 they answered with emoji people of color, and just last week they delivered tacos—and then some. Apple’s iOS 9.1 update presents 184 new emojis, including the middle-finger, the cheese wedge and glorious friends-of-the-pizza food staples the burrito and the hot dog. For Trekkies, there’s the Vulcan salute, and for rockers there’s the sign of the horns. Still, we wonder about the butterfly. The update brought a unicorn, a turkey, a scorpion and a dove carrying an olive branch, but no butterfly? We’ll see what the taco has to say about that. –Kristy Totten

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As We See It… >HEAVEN BACON Founder/ prophet John Whiteside, wearing the world’s greatest smock.

Another Vegas history An event at the Center reveals a generation of transgender milestones How far back do you think Las Vegas’ transgender history goes? Ten years? Twenty? According to local historian Dennis McBride, trans-related happenings in the Valley have been chronicled since the 1950s, from entertainers and community organizations to political milestones. In partnership with the Nevada State Museum and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada invited McBride to lecture on the city’s trans history October 23. Here’s a sampling of little-known facts he shared:

Bacon inroads A Sunday barbecue at the Slammer raises funds for an atheist church By Mike Prevatt On October 25, one day before the World Health Organization announced that bacon and other processed meats are carcinogenic, we were stuffing our faces with the delectable pork strips and watching Penn Jillette record his Penn’s Sunday School podcast. After getting an update about the attendance—organizers later estimated a turnout of 1,200—Jillette says, “It’s like Arlo Guthrie said at Woodstock: ‘Lotta freaks!’” Indeed, the lively scene at the Slammer—billed as a free barbecue hosted by Vegas-based skepticism/atheism organization the United Church of Bacon—is nearly as eccentric as the location; think First Friday meets Burning Man. Lotta funny hats, kids doing art, irreverence and, of course, bacon, the sacrament available in pork, turkey and vegan varieties. Also lotta volunteers, including a drag

‘Home Means (Southern) Nevada’ October 31 isn’t just Halloween. It’s also Nevada Day, the anniversary of the Silver State joining the union. And while the southern part of the state (including Clark County) got added in 1867, Bertha Raffetto completely ignored it in 1932 when penning Do you see sage and pine anywhere around here? And where the hell is the Truckee, anyway? Time for us to take action—and some creative license—and add a few 702-specific verses. –Mark Adams

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Home means Nevada Home means the desert Home means the yucca and cacti Out by the mighty Colorado Out where the heat never dies Here is the land where I lost that paycheck Casinos everywhere I can see Deep in the heart of the Mojave desert Home means Nevada to me Whenever the neon lights up the night The Strip and Fremont all abuzz Cocktails make everyone feel alright But only till they encounter the fuzz

• Local costume designer Hedy Jo Star, who at one point designed for Kenny Kerr’s Boylesque at the Silver Slipper, argued that Jorgensen’s procedure was not a real sexreassignment surgery. Star claimed that she was the first. • A longtime performer in the Riviera’s topless revue Crazy Girls was trans showgirl Jahna Steele, who was fired from the show after her gender identity was made public. McBride said Steele’s contract was eventually renewed after she garnered good publicity from the outing. • Las Vegas played host to the World’s Most Beautiful Transsexual Contest in 2004, hosted by Steele. • The U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs ended up changing its discriminatory policies toward transgender veterans because of local trans woman Tamara Pickett, who fought for equal treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder after being raped while in service. McBride said the VA initially argued that her gender identity was the source of her PTSD. –Mark Adams

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Nevada’s state song, “Home Means Nevada.”

queen named Brandon, who says, “I’ll be around if you need me—just grab my tits.” Not unlike a timeshare presentation, the party comes with a pitch: The church is launching a $500,000 Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to buy the Slammer from the Penn & Teller star—now decamped at a different residence—and turn it into the world’s largest skepticism/ atheism community center. The multi-colored mansionturned-playhouse off West Wigwam Avenue is, gloriously, a homeowners association nightmare, and developers would love to build more stucco sameness in its place. Thus the campaign and the church are promoted frequently—and theatrically, during Church of Bacon founder John Whiteside’s televangelist-like sermon, a satirical complement to more straightforward chatter about destigmatizing humanism and admonishing prejudice by (and legal advantages granted to) religious groups. During the live-entertainment segment, Jillette picks up a guitar and sings his “No Martyrs,” having his own Arlo Guthrie moment, at what might be the Vegas atheist community’s Woodstock. –Mike Prevatt

• Nightclub entertainer Christine Jorgensen, widely known as the first American to undergo sexreassignment surgery, performed at the Sahara in 1953 when, as McBride put it, she was “the most talked about personality in the country.” Local police threatened to arrest her if she wore female clothing on city streets.

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With across-the-board upgrades, Aria is becoming the elite resort it always promised BY BROCK RADKE Carbone opened its doors at Aria last week, bringing flashy tableside service and hip energy to classic Italian-American cuisine. Another New York restaurant staking its claim on the Strip? Sure, but it wants to be something more. “For us, the most important thing is telling the whole story,” managing partner Jeff Zalaznick says. “Our story is that around 1958, it’s the glory days of New York-style Italian food. ItalianAmerican fine dining was at its peak. And a lot of the great things we are celebrating in New York

and-white tile pattern in the bar mimics the swimming pool at the Sands, and Carbone’s striking Red Room is as Vegas glam as it gets, with unusually tall, shimmering gold booths under a sparkling chandelier. It’s destined to become a hot spot, possibly even more so than Bardot Brasserie, the precise French restaurant from superchef Michael Mina that opened just steps away from Carbone early this year. Both are big moves, but Aria’s not done. December will bring Herringbone—the seafood-

> RED HOT Newly opened Carbone is another reason to spend time at Aria.

were also happening in Las Vegas.” This is why, when MGM Resorts came calling a few years ago, Zalaznick and his partners Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi were ready to listen. Carbone makes sense in Las Vegas. “We took over a 100-year-old restaurant on Thompson Street called Rocco, and I guarantee you there were people eating dinner at Rocco who were going to the Sands that weekend. There is a great parallel there.” There are just as many nods to Vegas as New York in the new restaurant’s design—the black-

oriented restaurant that already has three bustling locations in Southern California—from chef Brian Malarkey and Hakkasan Group. (Herringbone will also mark the return of Geno Bernardo as executive chef, the guy who made Nove Italiano at the Palms into a locals’ favorite.) These are just the latest turnovers at Aria, which opened as the intended centerpiece of MGM’s CityCenter complex in December 2009. In late 2012, the resort swapped out the underachieving Cirque du Soleil show Viva Elvis with the much more thrill-

ing and successful Zarkana. The Light Group-created steakhouse Union—wholly unnecessary with mega-earner Jean Georges upstairs, between Bardot and Carbone—was quickly replaced with crowd-pleasing Mexican fare at Javier’s. The nearby Deuce Lounge, also a Light invention, was replaced by a more open bar called Gem just this week, and another nondescript casino bar transformed into the swanky Alibi Cocktail Lounge last year. And then there’s Jewel, the next nightclub from Hakkasan Group, which will fill the former Haze space and Aria’s nightlife void. Dinner at Carbone followed by a party at Jewel ... get used to those plans. The club opens next year. Aria’s strengths have always been obvious. It’s huge. The rooms are as good as it gets, especially the upscale Sky Suites. It looks great and unique. There’s art everywhere. Don’t forget, CityCenter was supposed to change the game, despite its bad timing opening during the recession. Its scale was unprecedented. MGM CEO Jim Murren tried to build the worldclass urban gathering place Las Vegas didn’t have, with condo towers mixed among the hotel highrises. That’s not the way it turned out, but it still looks the part— especially Aria. It’s the programming of the resort that didn’t initially fulfill that promise. It felt too close to the familiar casino life at Bellagio, with similar restaurants, bars, clubs and shows. Now, things are different. MGM has clearly focused on bulking up the already impressive amenities at the centerpiece resort. CityCenter isn’t really a thing anymore. It’s all about Aria. “Things are changing, and that commitment was important,” says Carbone’s Zalaznick, adding that his deal was only ever going to be at Aria. “What you see now, this upgrading and innovating and bringing this new chapter in, it’s a whole new feeling here. It’s an exciting place to be.”

When word got out that the Cosmopolitan will replace its P3Studio with a restaurant, the usual gallery-closure lamentations followed, but because of P3’s unique offerings, the news hit with a little heavier thud. For the past five years, through its partnership with Art Production Fund in New York, P3Studio has brought contemporary artists to the Cosmopolitan to interact with the public through their residencies. The program has imported dozens of artists to the space, including Israeli-born Leor Grady, whose sitespecific works consider ideas of identity and home; The Bumbys, the anonymous appearance-appraising duo; New York photographer Abby Robinson, who presented a Body Imaging performance/installation complete with a doctor’s office; and New York-based British artist Shantell Martin, who brought her freeassociation drawing to its walls last month. P3 has also provided a platform for Las Vegas-based artists—Wendy Kveck, JK Russ and Brent Sommerhauser among them. Las Vegas artist Jesse Carson Smigel is the current artist in residence, with his game show performance/installation, Win, Lose or Have Fun! Artist Mikayla Whitmore (a Weekly photographer) is up next, with a November residency on memory-based projections. And ending the year will be Kate Gilmore’s and Franklin Evans’ Shelf Life (December 9-January 3), in which the New York artists use Las Vegas to create an elaborate installation. The Cosmo will close the studio at the end of the year to make room for new Japanese restaurant Zuma, expected to open in late 2016. The resort plans to continue its digital programming in the lobby and on the exterior marquee, which has featured work by Laurie Simmons, Yoko Ono, Tracey Emin and David Shrigley. As for P3Studio, the resort released a statement: “The Cosmopolitan is currently looking at new locations for P3Studio and is committed to its overall art program, which constantly looks to add unique and compelling experiences to enhance the guest experience.” We hope so. The open-studio residency, designed for artists to work with the public on collaborative projects and experiences, has provided a valuable exchange of ideas and creativity. –Kristen Peterson

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The mayor of Lake Mead New superintendent went from the Bronx to running one of the most visited national parks in the U.S.

Lizette Richardson

How big is Lizette Richardson’s new job? It’s 1.5 million acres big, 2,337 square miles big, $1.3 billion in infrastructure big. As the superintendent of Lake Mead National Recreation Area, she’s responsible for just about everything inside the expansive park, which includes land in two states and draws almost 7 million annual visitors. “It’s kind of like a mayor of a little city,” she says. “Anything you can think of, from all the personnel aspects to park operations, is really part of the superintendent role.” This is a return of sorts for Richardson, her second stint at Lake Mead after nine years as chief of maintenance and engineering at the park, and then a job overseeing capital improvement projects across the National Park Service. Now that she’s back, we talked to Lake Mead’s new boss about dealing with climate change, park service life-goals and showing kids the wonder of dark night skies. You grew up in the Bronx. Did you spend much time at national parks or doing outdoorsy stuff as a kid? Not

much. Growing up in New York, I wasn’t really that exposed to national parks. I think it’s really great that as part of the National Park Service centennial and as part of relevancy for the future we’re really focusing on kids and, especially if they’re in an urban area, to get them out and into camping and experiencing the dark night skies and wilderness so they can understand that. In your 11 years with the NPS have you visited many parks? Do you have a favorite? I’ve visited a lot in our

network here, Joshua Tree, Mojave, Zion. They’re all beautiful. And in my previous job, I got to see a couple of different parks, Cape Cod and Glacier. It’s hard to have a favorite. They’re all unique and interesting in their own way. Of course, I’m partial to Lake Mead. Is there some sort of badge of honor that you get for visiting all 59 national parks? We have little passport

stamps, so some people will go to all the parks and they’ll get their passport stamped. And then a lot of people also collect pins. I think you find a lot of folks in the park service, that’s one of their goals, to try to see how many parks they can visit throughout their lifetime.

Obviously Lake Mead is also seeing the effects of climate change and the drought. How are you dealing with the dropping water level? I know that we’ve got some

challenges, and I know that this summer they’ve reached really low levels of the lake, but we’re still trying to do as much as we can to maintain the access and do construction on the [boat] launch ramps. It is a serious issue. Right now we’re going on 14 years of the drought. Part of my position here will be working really closely with the Bureau of Reclamation on the lake levels and just trying to see what we need to do to keep access to the lake for visitors.

Do visitors understand what’s happening with the lake? Do you hear any misconceptions? Unfortunately, with

the drought issues and the lower lake levels you always hear people who are not familiar with Lake Mead say, “Well, they’re running out of water,” or “There’s not enough water there.” The lake is one of the largest reservoirs. We do have challenges with access, but once you get out there there’s plenty of space for everybody. Why do you think national parks are so important? A lot of the parks celebrate key items in our history. I think it kind of connects families and their heritage, and so you feel like that’s something important that can be passed down. Here at Lake Mead, I always like to go to the Junior Ranger programs and see all the little kids learning. Whether it’s about the different wildlife or the plants or cool things you can do in national parks, they’re just so excited and they’re just so eager to learn. –Sarah Feldberg

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Your previous job dealt with construction projects across the National Park Service and the effects of climate change. How are parks being affected? They

could be dealing with flooding or different temperature variations, hurricanes. Each one of the parks has very unique ways of dealing with it, so it is something that the park service is really taking seriously and trying to figure out what needs to happen as they’re making critical decisions for their parks and infrastructure in the future.

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Where fear stays A night in the Clown Motel

By Kristen Peterson photographs By mikayla whitmore Mikayla is frozen in the dark cemetery, sure that whatever’s rustling in the night behind me is going to attack us. I call her to higher ground. It’s cooler and breezy here: box seats to the haunting. She doesn’t budge and demands I come down, convinced that a ham-wielding clown is running around the parking lot of the adjacent motel. It had been a long ride. Eight hours to Tonopah (it should’ve been three), mostly in the dark. Stranded travelers load the town. The radiation leak near Beatty shut down 140 miles of the interstate, and floods turned the desert to chocolatey rivers. Trying to get north came with bizarre obstacles, but we needed to see about a ghost at the Clown Motel. “Come down here,” Mikayla says, actually stomping her feet. I only see cars sealed up for the night. No clown. No ham.

***** We head into the motel right next to the haunted cemetery, where Joe Mizzi checks us in and fields our questions about ghosts and clowns and flash floods. After a while an emergency worker walks in and says she’s tallying vacancies. Travelers unable to get through on the interstate keep rolling in. Churches may have to open to house them. The Clown Motel has only two rooms left, but they’re smoking so nobody wants them. Potential

boarders walk into the office and back out, hundreds of clowns staring at them. Laughing at them, really. The phone rings. It’s Luther. “No, Luther. We don’t have room for your weights,” Joe tells him, then hangs up. “Luther Manhole” is the famous prankster from 2012’s Longmont Potion Castle video, who called the motel repeatedly to request three rooms—one for himself, one for his weights and one for his raw meat. The dialogue derails with threats and warnings recorded and posted on YouTube with an image of the Clown Motel’s marquee, inspiring copycat callers. It’s an odd piece of the property’s mythology, which has grown around the innate creepiness of clowns and the nearby cemetery, where victims of a mining disaster are buried and believed to roam in spirit form. Mizzi’s not a believer, but he lives at the motel and knows what drives business. And he seems to really enjoy the novelty. Ghost Adventures filmed here, bringing significant attention (and airing a return October 24), as did a fictional clown motel featured in the video game Call of Duty. Celebrity George Takei apparently said he wants to be buried in the cemetery outside. So, yeah, business is good. “I had a girl whose parents flew her all the way from Australia to see the Clown Motel,” says frontdesk worker Marie Bruhn, adding that certain guests refuse to enter

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the office because of the clowns, insisting the paperwork be brought to them. Apparently the combination of plywood walls, shag carpet and clown figurines—some stacked two or three deep on the wooden shelves—is a little too much for some. There are hobo clowns, fairy clowns, circus clowns, clown candles, clown clocks, clown paintings, a life-size clown sitting in his chair with more clowns on his lap, and a life-size clown statue, equally nightmarish. “Why would you stay at a clown motel if you’re afraid of clowns?” Bruhn says. “It’s the thirdworst phobia in the world.”

***** Clown paintings hang above the beds in our room, which has been well lived in. We rest, unpack and head out to the cemetery again, pausing under a white sign serving as the gateway and listing the years 19061911. Miners are buried here, including those who died in the Belmont Mine disaster. Pioneers are buried here. Former Nye County Sheriff Thomas Logan was put in the ground in 1906, and allegedly still fires his gun. We stumble around the shadowy frontier plot with reverence and fear, wondering how far it stretches into the dark and careful not to trip on the rocks outlining each grave in the desert soil. One belongs to the father of the man who founded the baby-blue motel with white trim. Clown memorabilia collector Leroy David built it in 1990 as a tribute to his dad, who was killed in the Belmont fire. Mikayla wanders its misty parking lot. Her ivory skin, auburn hair and classic beauty have me thinking she’ll be mistaken for a ghost. A sudden hailstorm sends us for cover, and we head to the motel’s second level for a view. We pass clown after clown (one on every doorway) as we move down the blue

AstroTurf promenade, then back down to our room. We’d seen a full double rainbow that day. We sat parked on I-95 with other stranded cars before heading back to Vegas to take another route. We’d even been punked by a GPS that took us to a vacant lot in the black of nowhere. But when Mikayla points to a creamy smudge on the wall outside our door, things get weird. It’s gotta be ham grease. We go inside and sip our beers. Stories on the Internet claim that a staffer dresses as a clown with a ham to give guests their money’s worth. At this point, I’m convinced there could be a radioactive unicorn in the parking lot, and that a ghost with a chainsaw is about to let him in. But we see no phantoms and drift off to sleep, learning in the morning that it took Bruhn many years before she saw one. “I’ve been here 10 long years,” she tells us in the crisp day after the guests and rains have cleared out, leaving the haunted motel and cemetery bathed in sunlight. “I was in housekeeping a good seven years, and nothing ever happened. Then one day I’m behind the window folding laundry. A woman peeked her head back to look at me. I get up to tell her that she can’t be back here. Nobody can be back here. I come out here, and there is not a soul.” Bruhn says a medium who stayed there said there were no ghosts in the motel, but that when he arrived there was a woman standing behind the woman checking him in. Shown photos of employee Pam Jones’ deceased mother, he confirmed it was her. Jones walks into the back office, where we’ve been talking about the apparition. “She’s watching out for us.” Even having seen Pam’s mother on the property, Bruhn is practical when folks ask if the Clown Motel’s haunted: “I tell them what Joe tells them, ‘It can be if you want it to be.’”

***** Before leaving town we lunch at the historic Mizpah Hotel, built in 1907 on an old mine and known for its hauntings. The meal’s delicious, but we want to find the famous Lady in Red, a spirit who roams the hallways and is said to have left pearls on guests’ pillows. I ask our waitress if “Rose” is to be found on the hotel’s fourth floor, and she says the woman has been spotted throughout the hotel, and to try the fifth floor. “Photograph mirrors,” she says. “That’s where she usually appears.” We climb the wooden staircase, checking mirrors for signs of Rose. We feel her everywhere. If not her presence, then definitely the lore.

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Sweet spots $12, Sweets Raku The world is reduced to warming butter as Mio Ogasawara primes her crust, the delicate Japanese flour and golden California egg yolks making it more like a croissant puffing up right before it’s eaten, “so you get the aroma and the taste.” Topped with tart green-apple compote and a cloud of cream with just a murmur of sweetness, the deconstructed pie comes with honey ice cream and an apple that looks like an antique Christmas ornament. But crack open that sugar shell and cinnamon caramel spills from a perfect cream core onto your polished spoon. This is what happens when dessert winks.

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$9, DB Brasserie The éclair is a humble creature, just baked pâte à choux with cream and chocolate. It’s also “the new doughnut,” say culinary nerds. And in Robyn Lucas’ hands, the caterpillar-shaped sweet sprouts wings. Airy pastry touched with vanilla hugs peanut-butter caramel crémeux, or juicy lemon cream whipped with Plugrá butter, or roasted pumpkin swirled with brown sugar and cinnamon. On top? Bitter chocolate and fleur de sel, gold flakes and stars of torched meringue, and cream-cheese glaze with crisped pepitas. “You’re looking for that perfect bite, almost where it sings to you. Where you’re so happy and say, this is it. That sigh.”

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> CAPE-BACKED LUKE The producer/DJ plays a superhero-themed party at Surrender.

SPEAKWEEKLY AT LAVO CASINO CLUB As long as you’ve got the password, you’re welcome at this jazzy, boozy, Prohibition-era celebration, a team-up between Lavo Casino Club and Las Vegas Weekly. Get on the list at lasvegasweekly.com/lavo. October 30, 8-10 p.m., free. HAUNTED FUNHOUSE WITH NICKI MINAJ AT 1 OAK Are Nicki and Meek Mill engaged? If so,

will they do their best dancing-Drake spoof when “Hotline Bling” comes on at 1 OAK? October 30, 10:30 p.m., $40+ men, $30+ women. FORBIDDEN CITY WITH TIËSTO AT HAKKASAN

Themed as an ancient, abandoned palace, the MGM Grand megaclub’s annual Halloween weekend includes a $20,000 sexy costume contest Friday along with superstar Tiësto, supported by Zaxx and Turbulence. October 30, 10:30 p.m., $60+ men, $40+ women. SUPER YOU & ME WITH LAIDBACK LUKE AT SURRENDER The Encore club’s interior and win-

terized dome will be reimagined Mad Max-style all weekend, which should clash in an interesting way with Laidback Luke’s superhero-themed party. October 30, 10:30 p.m., $35+ men, $25+ women. FETISH & FANTASY HALLOWEEN BALL AT THE JOINT The iconically naughty bash is celebrat-

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FORBIDDEN BALL WITH LUDACRIS AT LIGHT

The first big party weekend since Light’s new management took over features GTA on Friday and rapper/actor Ludacris partying with Treats Magazine on Saturday. October 31, 10 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. THRILLER WITH CHRIS BROWN AT DRAI’S Nobody does MJ like C. Breezy, and even the legendary Quincy Jones put his stamp of approval on this “Thriller”-themed, rooftop live performance. October 31, 10:30 p.m., $100+ men, $50+ women. HALLOWEEZY WITH LIL WAYNE AT LIFE SLS club Life goes full zombie, coming back from the dead to

host a live show by Lil Wayne and a costume contest with $50,000 in total cash and prizes. October 31, 10:30 p.m., $50+ men, $40+ women.

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winter pool party. Dan Bilzerian hosts this Day of the Dead-themed, $10,000 bikini contest under the dome. November 1, 11 a.m., $23+ men, $14+ women.

CARNIVAL WITH SKRILLEX AT XS Close out Halloween weekend

with a vintage freakshow-theme and a Skrillex set. November 1, 10:30 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. NELLY AT FOXTAIL Just in time to kick off SEMA, Dub Magazine presents a live performance by Mr. Pimp Juice himself. November 3, 10:30 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women.

BROTHERS IN SONIC ARMS Steve Martinez talks culture shock and bringing underground house to Vegas You just got back home to New York after six months in Ibiza, which is routine for you. Does it take some getting used to? Yeah, we just landed. It’s a little bit of a shock. Being in Ibiza is such a certain lifestyle, the weather is a certain way, and Monday is Friday out there. It’s a totally different thing. New York is my favorite place, but it’s hard to come back to this chilly [weather] where it gets dark early.

THE MARTINEZ BROTHERS October 31, 1 a.m., $30+ men, $20+ women, Drai’s After Hours.

You already did some Vegas shows this summer, at Daylight and Drai’s. Are you trying to come to town more often? Yes, there is a more conscious effort to come out more, even though music-wise, it’s a little harder for us there, where it’s much more commercial. We’re trying to break in a different sound out there. But Drai’s is perfect for that. Everybody is all about the party there. It’s probably one of the only places in the world I can just chill and not care about the music. You and your brother dipped into dance and house music at a young age. Do you think that’s happening more these days with the popularity of EDM, and is that a good thing? I think it’s a great thing. The only thing I don’t like about it is the gimmick that’s been attached to DJing. But just getting into it and loving music at a young age, that’s always a beautiful thing, as long as it’s for the right reason. –Brock Radke

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Sian arrives at After’s afterparty

> SOUND SHAPER Afrojack helped design the audio system at Omnia, where he’s a resident.

For the discerning clubber, the music and vibe is more important than winning a Halloween costume contest. That’s where the After crew saves the day with a late-night bash at Foxtail, where Irishborn, Spanish-bred techno producer Sian will make his Las Vegas debut. Can you define “classic modern techno” for the uninitiated? It’s about making records that stay around for longer in this time of disposable releases flooding out every week. We want to create a more lasting image. In your early rave days, what tracks or DJs influenced you? Dave Clarke, Green Velvet, [John] Digweed—these were all rule-breaking DJs who mixed up genres and educated big crowds, regardless of their fame or standing. Tracks like “Desert Storm” or “San Trancisco” opened my brain up to the hypnotic power of ’90s dancefloor boogie! AFTER PRESENTS COYU AND SIAN with Spacebyrdz, Justin Baulé. October 31, 11:59 p.m., $20+-$30+, Foxtail.

Catching up with Afrojack

On Bugattis, Bieber for Halloween and sharing the jet-set love You’re in Vegas a lot. Does Halloween make a big difference when you’re playing here, or is it always just Vegas? Vegas is always up for a big weekend, but for Halloween it’s more than everybody getting dressed up to go to the club. The entire place goes through a metamorphosis, and it’s always cool to be part of that transformation. I hope everyone is getting ready because this is my last [show] at Omnia this year, and I’m gonna close it off with a bang. But I’m from Holland, and we don’t really do that much on Halloween. So no costume this year? I don’t know. I might wear a wig and pretend I’m Justin Bieber. You’re a resident at Omnia and Hakkasan. Will you be playing the new club Jewel when it opens next year? I didn’t even know about that. I started at Omnia this year, and it’s been great. It’s going to be my home for a while, for sure. I got to help design the sound system.

You’re in the news now for your lifestyle as much as your music. Apparently you’ve placed an order for the new Bugatti Chiron supercar. How do you feel about that kind of exposure? Honestly, it’s really dope that if I wanna buy a new car everyone gets as excited about it as me. If you buy something cool, you always wanna tell all your friends about it, so I guess the press does it for me sometimes. But it doesn’t do anything for me or the music, so I don’t really care. I try to keep my family out of PHANTOM OF the picture—I want them to have their own OMNIA WITH lives and privacy. But with the stuff I do, my AFROJACK privacy disappears.

with Mr. Mauricio, Mondo. October 30, 10:30 p.m., $50+ men, $30+ women, Omnia.

Maybe they’ll get your input for Jewel. I’m always down to help design clubs. There’s nothing more fun than to be part of creating a place where so many people have great experiences. Have you ever thought about creating and opening your own nightclub somewhere? Yes. I’ve been think-

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ing a lot about that, but it’s still just in the idea phase.

You’re expanding your label and changing up operations. What’s the priority right now? Right now the most important thing is that every song gets the attention it deserves. I’m bringing everything in-house and making sure everything is perfectly organized. Trust me, it’s a lot of work, but nothing is better than bringing the experiences I’ve had to other artists who are just starting. The time I had last year, [the] private jets and [big shows were] amazing, but more amazing is getting to share that with younger talent, the new generations. –Brock Radke

What’s on the horizon for your music and your label, Octopus? I’m about to release a new EP in November. I also have a remix coming on Bedrock for John Digweed and a few more things underway this year. Tattoos tell a story. What does your most meaningful one say about you? Well, I love the ones on my neck and hands. They mean I can never get a normal job! Commit 100 percent. Since you’re playing on Halloween, are you going to get into the spirit with a costume? My friends are trying to dress me up as Alice in Wonderland. I’m not sure how I feel about wearing a blue dress and blonde wig, but it could work out, no? –Deanna Rilling

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Canadian act, from its pioneering of the electro-industrial genre—which it turned into a jumping-off point with its myriad sounds and concepts (and remixes)—to its ostentatious, macabre performance style, which should make for an ideal Halloween eve. With Youth Code, October 30, 8 p.m., $28.50, 21+, Hard Rock Live. GAYTHEIST Why Gaytheist? Because Power Bottom was taken, or so says the Portland, Oregon, trio, which sounds one part stoner rock (evidenced in its heavy axe attack), one part punk (short and loud compositions). Check out its Alien-esque

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do barnyard in the boneyard Horses4Heroes brings its too-cute-to-be-real miniature ponies and goats to this benefit for the H4H Equestrian Center and the Neon Museum. Bonus adorbs points if wear your Halloween duds. October 31, 11 a.m., $5, Neon Museum. LONNIE HAMMARGREN’S NEVADA DAY OPEN HOUSE

Replicas of Stonehenge, giant casino signs and anything else imaginable abound in the 12,000-squarefoot home and yard of the former lieutenant governor (and on his roof )—and you can tour it during his 20th annual Nevada Day open house. October 31 & November 1, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., $15, 4318 Ridgecrest Drive, nevadadays.org.

How did you pick the songs for upcoming covers album Skeletons? It wasn’t easy. I’ve always wanted to do [Davie Allan & The Arrows’] “Devil’s Angels.” And of course, Elvis and [Black] Sabbath have to be on there. Everything else is just stuff I thought I could do a good job on and songs I wanted people to hear. Maybe some newer fans aren’t familiar with The Everly Brothers, although that’s incomprehensible to someone like me. There are a ton DANZIG & of Misfits and ROB ZOMBIE Danzig covers with Witch out there. Do you Mountain. have a favorite? I October 30, like the Metallica 8:30 p.m., version they did $50. The on Garage Days— Joint, 702“Last Caress” 693-5000. and “Green Hell.” Cradle of Filth did a nice cover of a Misfits track (“Death Comes Ripping”), and I know Behemoth did a Danzig track (“Until You Call on the Dark”). You recently filmed an episode of Portlandia. Are you okay making light of yourself? When you’re doing something like this, it’s a fine line between it being not cool and very cool, and I think they got it. I read it and I was like, “Yes! This is hilarious. I would love to do this.” The whole premise of the episode I’m on is just hilarious. –Chris Bitonti For more of our interview with Danzig, visit lasvegasweekly.com.

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Boycotting boycotts

> JUSt SAY NO As a member of the LGBT community, is Azealia Banks allowed to slam it?

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music”). The band credits the tweets to a friend who had access to its account and has nobly apologized (“[we] commend the scene for … taking such quick action when it comes to confronting transphobia”). Still, they’ve been exiled from two labels, and G.L.O.S.S. ain’t having it, telling Billboard, “Whirr can suck [our] transexual dick, now and forever.” Oh well, so much for high roads. A month ago, Azealia Banks kicked up a crapstorm when she called the LGBT community the “gay white KKK.” This gets complicated, as Banks is a black woman rooted in gay house and ball cultures, both of which were defined by black males who were influenced by females. Regardless of gender or preference, she’s literally one of the gayest human

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beings making music today. So when a fickle busybody like Perez Hilton gets all pissy about her using the word “f*ggot,” it’s easy to see how Banks, of all people, has the right to go there. Or at least consider her other missive: “If one word can put your entire community in distress, you’re DOOMED.” I’d write Banks off if her album, Broke With Expensive Taste, wasn’t one of the best things I’ve heard this decade. But if I held every artist accountable for every idiotic thing they ever said and did, I’d have a very small and boring record collection. Why would I stop listening to Banks when I still listen to Phil Spector productions? I just hope the owners of Shake Shack never offend the gays. Otherwise I’ll hate myself even more after mauling my double Shack Burger.

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Don’t see Stonewall because it whitewashes queer history. (But also because it sucks.) Don’t shop at Dolce & Gabanna because they spoke ill of same-sex marriage. (Not that you’ve ever shopped there anyway.) Don’t support The Martian because Matt Damon recently miffed the blacks and the gays. (As if you ever watch anything until it’s on Netflix.) Don’t eat anything from Chik-fil-A or Barilla pasta because it tastes like hate. (Yet do binge on rainbow-colored Doritos, which smack of unicorn kisses!) Never forget that Paula Deen and Ellen DeGeneres are racists. And most importantly, don’t hate that lion-murdering dentist, not when the slightly-less-anorexic models of the world are getting strung-up and fat-shamed. Like anyone who spends roughly 94 percent of his or her day on social media, I inevitably get caught up in the latest outrage/controversy du jour. Right now my Facebook “Trending” sidebar lists Olivia Wilde calling Trump “xenophobic” (yay! um, who’s Olivia Wilde?), the New York police union calling for a boycott of Tarantino movies (right, like anything’s gonna keep me from seeing Hateful Eight) and the World Health Organization declaring processed meats can cause cancer (for the love of Mary, NOT BACON!!). Yet two recent uproars—one involving two indie bands, the other involving a hip-house diva, both executed by Twitter—have me turning a willful, admittedly un-P.C. blind eye. Just ’cause I kinda like it when music folks misbehave. On October 17, Bay Area shoegazer unit Whirr initiated a series of tweets aimed at G.L.O.S.S., a feminist punk band from Olympia, Washington, that features multiple transgender members. Tweets began innocuously enough (“Lol @ G.L.O.S.S.,” “There’s nothing not hilarious about that ‘band’”) before turning seriously douchey (“just a bunch of boys running around in panties making sh*tty

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On the Campaign Trail

> best of enemies Thornton and Bullock as political rivals.

Our Brand Is Crisis turns a political documentary into Hollywood mush By Mike D’Angelo

It’s not often that a hard-hitting documentary gets adapted into a wacky star vehicle, but that’s precisely the case with Our Brand Is Crisis, which even retains the documentary’s unusual title. Released 10 years ago, the original film, directed by Rachel Boynton, chronicled the efforts of American campaign strategists, headed by James Carville (who famously aabcc ran Bill Clinton’s OUR BRAND IS 1992 presiden- CRISIS Sandra tial campaign), Bullock, Billy to elect Gonzalo Bob Thornton, Sánchez de Anthony Mackie. Lozada as presi- Directed by David dent of Bolivia Gordon Green. in 2002. To Rated R. Opens most people, Friday. those events didn’t exactly scream “Sandra Bullock comedy,” but director David Gordon Green—whose résumé includes both art movies like George Washington and such lowbrow yuk-fests as The Sitter and Your Highness—apparently saw that as a challenge. The result, though energetic and intermittently amusing, is about as disjointed as you’d expect. Oddly, the new movie turns its Carville figure—a slick American operative named Pat Candy, played by a bald Billy Bob Thornton—into the antagonist. Bullock’s character, “Calamity” Jane Bodine, is whol-

ly fictional, and screenwriter Peter Straughan (Frank) creates a longstanding rivalry between the two, in an effort to add a personal angle. Jane has retired to a secluded cabin in the woods when the story begins, but gets tracked down there by a couple of desperate campaigners (Ann Dowd and Anthony Mackie), who persuade her to help them market widely hated former (fictional) Bolivian president Pedro Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida), who’s giving it another shot and is currently running a distant fifth in

the polls. The film’s title refers to her offbeat strategy, which involves convincing the electorate that Bolivia is on the brink of a major crisis that only a volatile, quasi-dictatorial candidate like Castillo can possibly avert. Functionally directed by Green (who seems to be trying to remain anonymous), Our Brand Is Crisis suffers from a laborious first act that spends way too much time trying to score laughs from Jane’s has-been status before finally letting her snap into barracuda mode. Once she does,

Bullock and Thornton have a reasonably good time with their barbed rivalry, and Straughan finds ways to re-engineer some of the documentary’s more fascinating behind-thescenes details. When it comes time to pretend this Hollywood production actually cares about the Bolivian people, however, Jane’s abrupt change of heart feels more cynically poll-tested than anything in the narrative proper. The only thing less believable than the ending is the fact that this movie exists in the first place.

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Media matters Truth takes a high-minded view of a TV-news scandal Starting with its highfalutin title, Truth is very concerned with lofty ideals. Writer-director James Vanderbilt’s paean to the virtues of journalism can feel a bit belabored, prone to grandiose speechifying and awkward exposition. At worst, it’s like watching an episode of Aaron Sorkin’s ill-conceived HBO drama The Newsroom. But Vanderbilt isn’t as condescending as Sorkin could often be, and he has a top-notch cast to deliver his impassioned plea for a dying profession. ¶ A fiery and committed Cate Blanchett plays 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes, who in 2004 put together a story that questioned then-President George W. Bush’s military service—and was later widely discredited, although Mapes and her team stood by their reporting. That team included CBS news icon Dan Rather (Robert Redford), who eventually resigned from his position over the scandal. Vanderbilt focuses on the various pressures (deadlines, politics, anxious sources) that contributed to cutting corners on the story, and he frames the subsequent investigation as a witch hunt aimed at Mapes in particular. ¶ It’s not surprising that a movie based on Mapes’ own book is sympathetic to her, but Blanchett makes her a person worth rooting for, and Vanderbilt makes a strong case that the substance of the report was unfairly dismissed over questions about the authenticity of a few documents. He makes that case over and over again to diminishing effect, although Redford (channeling Rather’s folksy wisdom) and the aaacc TRUTH Cate Blanchett, Robert rest of the supporting cast give it some much-needed energy. The movie is never Redford, Dennis Quaid. Directed by James quite as rousing as it’s trying to be, but it comes close enough. –Josh Bell Vanderbilt. Rated R. Opens Friday.

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> supernatural warriors Campbell and Dana DeLorenzo fight the undead.

A mediocre meal Burnt cooks up bland drama

Back from the dead

Ash vs. Evil Dead is an entertaining continuation of the horror-comedy movies By Josh Bell to take out one of the demons known as Deadites. Fans of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead movies who were The show offers a cursory justification for the disappointed in director Fede Alvarez’s excessively Deadites’ return, but that fits perfectly with the films’ gory but largely humorless 2013 remake will likely emphasis on jokes and gore over detailed plot mechanics. be pleased by the new Starz series Ash vs. Evil Dead, Thus far, none of the new characters have Ash’s charm, which brings back original series star Bruce Campbell although longtime Raimi collaborator Lucy Lawless along with Raimi himself, for a continuation of the makes an intriguing entrance as a mysterious woman story from Raimi’s films. Non-fans might be a little who might have ties to the series mythology. Raimi confused by the show’s first episode, which picks keeps the focus primarily on Ash, and he skillfully right up with hero Ash (Campbell), living in a aaabc combines goofy humor with some nasty horror Michigan trailer park and still haunted by the ASH VS. imagery, making clever use of his TV-level specialevents of the movies (although third movie Army EVIL effects budget and throwing in several of the movof Darkness seems to have been excised from conDEAD ies’ trademark demon-POV shots. tinuity) nearly 30 years later. Saturdays, Raimi isn’t on board to direct any episodes Ash eventually offers his retail-store co-worker 9 p.m., beyond the pilot, though, and it’s not clear how Pablo (Ray Santiago) a brief explanation of his Starz. this fundamentally insubstantial story will carry history fighting off demons that possess and kill an entire 10-episode season. The first episode people (complete with clips from the movies), but runs 40 minutes, while subsequent installments are mostly the show assumes its audience will already have set to run only 30, indicating that Starz considers the a strong familiarity with (and affinity for) Ash and his series primarily a comedy. Campbell certainly has the adventures. It’s not a bad assumption to make, and Raimi wit and charisma to make Ash a welcome weekly TV and Campbell both seem to be having a blast revisiting presence, but without Raimi, he might have to carry old territory in the pilot. Ash is still quippy and somewhat the show on his own. For now, at least, he seems to be dim, but he’s always able to come through with his trusty up to the task. “boomstick” (aka shotgun) or chainsaw hand when he has

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Ten years ago, before he was an Oscar-nominated movie star, Bradley Cooper starred in the Fox comedy series Kitchen Confidential, playing a fictionalized version of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain as a once-selfdestructive bad boy given a second chance to run his own restaurant. He plays a similar character in the culinary dramedy Burnt, only without much of the warmth and humor he brought to Kitchen Confidential. Cooper’s Adam Jones is such a handsome charmer, he’s the only man ever to sleep with a certain feared lesbian food critic, and of course he’s also such a brilliant chef that even his greatest rival concedes he’s the best there is. What could possibly go wrong for a guy this amazing? Well, not a whole lot, which is aabcc what makes Burnt BURNT Bradley a rather flat drama Cooper, Sienna that coasts on the Miller, Daniel star power of its Brühl. Directed cast (actors like by John Wells. Uma Thurman, Rated R. Opens Emma Thompson Friday. and breakout star Alicia Vikander waste their talents in meager roles). Adam is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict starting over as the executive chef of an upscale London restaurant, but the movie never conveys any kind of anguish over addiction or recovery. Instead it breezes through a predictable plot about a self-absorbed jerk becoming slightly less selfabsorbed, all while romancing the one woman (Sienna Miller) who isn’t immediately smitten with him. Like Jon Favreau’s similarly themed Chef (this film’s original title), Burnt is filled with glossy images of gorgeously prepared food, but its characters and story are significantly less flavorful. –Josh Bell

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> BEHIND THE SCENES Cohen became an activist for state film tax incentives while putting together Red Herring.

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Three questions with local filmmaker Joshua A. Cohen What took so long between the end of shooting and the movie finally being released? It’s been a very long and expensive learning process. We had sound issues on set, so that took a long time to fix afterward. I was a younger screenwriter, so there were some script issues, and it took the director/editor, Ousa Khun, and I a while in post-production to get this two-hour thing down to 90 minutes. Then there was a hard drive crash. I couldn’t get a hard drive back from one of my guys—I had to hire an attorney to do Obviously that. Each time this is a pasyou put your sion project faith in somefor you, but one, and they say you aren’t the they’ll get it done director. What quickly and for was the motithis price, and it vation behind RED HERRING Robert Scott takes a lot longer hiring an out- Howard, Tim Tucker, G. Eric Miles. and it costs a lot side director? Directed by Ousa Khun. Not rated. more, and then Directing is Opens Friday. you’ve got to go such a difficult hire someone else afterward. and precision job. There’s so much that has to go into making a great What’s the current state of film. There’s so many nuances that the film tax incentive? We got go into every single frame. And I it changed from a pilot program did not feel that I was experienced to a permanent law, and we were enough to helm a project of this attempting to get our funding back size. I really need to spend a couafter it all went to the Tesla batple of full productions watching tery factory. We’re trying to find a big, established feature directors way to get our funding back before work from start to finish before I the next [legislative] session, but attempt that myself. If I got milotherwise it might be 2017 before lions of dollars to make a movie, I we can really start making big wouldn’t trust it in my hands. I’d movies here again. –Josh Bell put it in experienced hands. It’s been a long journey for local screenwriter and producer Joshua A. Cohen to bring his debut feature, Red Herring, to screens, one that found Cohen taking on a position as one of the lead activists for film tax incentives in Nevada. Six years after wrapping principal photography on the crime thriller, Cohen is finally bringing it to audiences, with a weeklong theatrical run at AMC Town Square starting on October 30, followed by a DVD and VOD release on November 10.

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> REBEL IN VEGAS 10 songs from her latest album was a bit much.

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Grunge-y duo Local H is a fitting opener, but I wish we’d landed one of the Failure/Hum co-headlining shows the East Coast got in August. Even after almost 20 years off, (October 22, Fremont Country Club) Failure looks and sounds tight enough to be straight out of ’97 … minus the iPad-controlled sonics, multiple LCD screens and total lack of flannel. The band opens with a mega-block of tunes off June’s The Heart Is a Monster before diving into the old stuff. If you weren’t a fan, it would be near-impossible to tell the difference. In contrast to when same-era group Helmet performed 1994’s Betty in its entirety earlier this year, which felt somewhat dated, songs off Failure’s Another Planet (1996) and Magnified (1994) sound ageless and relevant. It’s a testament to how forward-thinking and ahead of its time the band was—and remains. If you were to remove any piece of Failure’s sonic puzzle you’d lose the perfect aural landscape the band masterfully creates. It genuinely creates something more than the sum of its parts. –Chris Bitonti

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the second act, visually represented by nostalgic motifs, her recent ballad “HeartBreakCity” got little attention and drew tepid applause, unlike the roars that greeted the first two lines of her 1984 cover of “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore.” Later, boring bonus cut “Rebel Heart” inspired more audience chatter, and the only satisfaction Too much Rebel Heart mars an otherwise that came from “Unapologetic Bitch” awkwardly ending the main set was the arena airing of local duo Shelco engrossing Madonna show Garcia and Teenwolf’s production work. That said, Rebel Heart’s best (and best-received) song, Madonna remains the ballsy legacy act that rou“Ghosttown,” proved to be a new classic, partly due to tinely—and generously—favors her most recent songs Madonna’s full-throated performance. A few backing tracks over the safe-and-easy greatest hits show. For this year’s aside, the singer generally displayed impressive trek, however, playing 10 songs from this year’s vocal chops despite the show’s 135-minute duration Rebel Heart was too much. The dominance of and her 57-year age. She created genuinely intimate new material worked for 2001’s Drowned World aaacc tour, which almost exclusively spotlighted two MADONNA moments with her ukulele versions of “True Blue” and Edith Piaf’s “La Vie en Rose,” each preceded of her best albums, Ray of Light and Music, but October 24, by hilarious banter with the audience. And she also given Rebel Heart’s inconsistent songwriting and MGM Grand defied her age with assured footwork throughout, mismatched stylistics—Madonna’s vocals sound Garden by her lonesome during a spare, hip-hop-influenced like a square peg being hammered into the trap, Arena. version of “Like a Virgin” and with her sizable dance dubstep and dancehall tracks—it pockmarked an troupe during rousing versions of favorites “Deeper and otherwise compelling and well-executed October 24 Deeper,” “La Isla Bonita” and “Dress You Up.” show at MGM’s Grand Garden. It’s a shame the energy in the seats rarely matched Four weaker Rebel Heart cuts especially plagued that onstage, and Madonna frequently, and rightly, made the first of the show’s four acts—the standard narrative her frustration known. Just what we’d expect from structure of a Madonna tour—only memorable for the both Vegas’ comp-heavy crowd—and pop’s unapologetic singer’s reliably fearless interpretation of religion and bitch. –Mike Prevatt specifically her love/hate relationship with it. During

Deftones fans are a devoted bunch, selling out a Tuesday night show in advance. Nearly half an hour before opener Plague Vendor takes the stage, the Brooklyn Bowl floor has even less wasted space than the headliners’ beloved albums do. Pre-show buzz has spread that Deftones might use this tour to debut new material off the completed and forthcoming eighth record. Though no new songs wind up on the setlist, the band dusts off a few cuts rarely played on recent tours, including “Needles and Pins,” “RX Queen” and “Around the Fur,” during a 95-minute set. The excitement proves too much for one patron, who does what can only be described as the world’s worst stage dive. He manages to rush past security before throwing himself in the empty area between the stage and the barrier. “Around the Fur” feels like the night’s highlight, with frontman Chino Moreno flailing his entire upper body while shrieking out the final verse. But he tops himself during “Passenger.” Moreno goes, in his words, “dancin’ on a wire,” walking tightrope-style down the bar that stretches to the back of the venue. Deftones have separated from mid-’90s alt-metal contemporaries by continuing to make music that connects with the fanbase. This performance in a long line of local stops isn’t heavy on nostalgia, as newer tracks like “Swerve City” and “Rocket Skates” beat out ubiquitous singles “My Own Summer” and “Change” for the loudest reaction. –Case Keefer

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Musical mayhem

Mashup acts like Mac Sabbath and Vegas’ own Franks & Deans toe the line between high-concept art and silly fun By Jason Scavone On a Wednesday night in early fall, four members of Franks & Deans prepare to take the stage at the Double Down Saloon, clad in matching tuxedo T-shirts. The outfits encapsulate everything that makes the group what it is—a counterintuitive blend of old-school swank and slapdash incorrigibility. It’s an obvious choice for a band that plays punk covers of Rat Pack swing, where NOFX’s “Stickin’ in my Eye” intertwines with “Mr. Bojangles;” where “The Lady Is a Tramp” comes with a jumped-up sleaze that makes it less about a brassy cocktail-era dame than a girl you’d see through dive-bar Marlboro haze, whose grudging attention you can rent for the price of a Hamm’s. Obviousness doesn’t make it any less perfect. Which is fitting, because we’re living in the Age of the Tuxedo T-Shirt: an era of highconcept mashups that are getting more prolific, more specific and far more delightfully bizarre.

> MASH & BANGERS Conceptual rockers Franks & Deans, top, and Mac Sabbath.

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***** “I understand why it clicks with me,” Mike Odd says in his Emo Phillips lilt. “I’m frankly surprised at the level that it’s connecting with people massively. I thought it was going to be a niche, weirdo thing. Usually when I’m in love with something, it doesn’t get this big.” Odd is the manager of Mac Sabbath, the quartet of terrifying McDonaldland dopplegangers who rework Black Sabbath songs till they’re about fast food. “Children of the Grave” becomes “Chicken for the Slaves,” “Iron Man” turns into “Frying Pan,” ad—inexplicably—infinitum. Mac Sabbath’s members never speak directly to the media, and legend has it frontman Ronald Osbourne came to Earth through a wormhole in the space-time continuum. Odd groans when he learns the band will play Vinyl the same night Rob Zombie and Danzig co-headline the Joint inside the same Hard Rock Hotel, leaving demonic hamburger Slayer Mac Cheeze dueling with Zombie’s “Demon Speeding.” In a sense, Odd embodies the struggle to make a practical living through the subtle arts of high

weirdness. He also doesn’t seem to understand why Mac Sabbath has suddenly become a viable operation. “I guess for people who like psychedelic hard rock and cheeseburgers, it goes over pretty well. We’ve been in Washington, and we’re going to Colorado, so, you know …” Even beyond the stoner demographic, though, it’s a golden age for acts like this. We used to see an occasional Dread Zeppelin or Richard Cheese, but now they seem to be everywhere—frequent Vegas players Metalachi, Macaulay Culkin’s VelvetUnderground-meets-’za tribute The Pizza Underground, girl-power-touting The Dan Band and punk-poppers Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies. Part of the credit should go to an old-school hip-hop ethos, part to DJ culture and a significant chunk to the Internet, where aggregator-site head-

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Neon Indian Vega Intl. Night School aaaac Chillwave pioneer Neon Indian is the brainchild of musician/Ted Talk deliverer Alan Palomo, and third album Vega Intl. Night School finds the group delving into retro territory, utilizing vintage synths and playing with ’80s synth-pop and R&B styles. Lead single “Annie” was all over indie radio playlists during the summer, with a sunny, dancehall-infused beat, but it’s much more UB40 than Buju Banton. The grooving “The Glitzy Hive” finds Paloma in his element, channeling old school boogie-woogie like a preThriller Michael Jackson, while the hilarious “Dear Skorpio Magazine” has him penning a letter to a defunct adult magazine over filtered, MF Doom-y bounce. The crown jewel of the album comes in the two-part “Slumlord” and “Slumlord’s Re-Lease,” a gorgeous ode to ’80s action movies, which bleeds into deep house cut “Techno Clique.” Despite its wide array of influences, Neon Indian maintains a signature sound throughout its latest LP. Class is in session. –Mike Pizzo

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Vegas punks The Pluralses sound like they write at the bar (and they do) By Leslie Ventura It’s midnight at the Double Down, and I’m two Jamesonand-gingers in, not nearly enough considering The Pluralses are only on their second song and singer Trent Clausen is screaming about fellatio. This band is hilarious, ridiculous in all the wrong but oh-soright ways. Before I can even start head-banging, that love-fest of a song is over. In true punk fashion, each song clocks in at around a minute. “This is a formal apology about having a bowl cut,” vocalist/ bassist Clausen says before diving into the third number, aptly titled “I’m Sorry I Had a Bowl Cut.” It’s that kind of material—a hybrid of Screeching Weasel, NOFX and The Vandals—that makes you want to pour over the band’s liner notes, not because you’re going to find anything poignant there, but because you want to memorize every offensive word and sing them out loud. “This is a song about how we all met transporting cocaine to Cuba,” Clausen says later in the set—a great origin story even though the three musicians actually met while in various Vegas punk outfits back in the ’90s. Before The Pluralses, Clausen played in Dead Birds and Blind Kids, and he currently works as the House of Blues’ production manager. Drummer Lazer Lavin—

you might know him because he’s recorded and engineered loads of albums in this city—was formerly in Civic Minded Five. Guitarist Kurt Kangieser still plays with The Mapes. “The only goal we ever had, ever, was to have fun,” Clausen tells me after the show. “We were all in bands before this that at some point in time took themselves too seriously. We just started a band that made us laugh.” The band just released its fulllength, E Pluralses Unum, digitally at thepluralses.bandcamp.com, even though the songs are so short they’d actually fit on a 7-inch. How do the guys come up with their gems? “Sometimes, we don’t have practice,” Lavin says. “We just go to the bar.” And there’s a track about mayo. “There’s no innuendos,” Clausen reassures the audience. “It’s just about mayonnaise.” When someone in the crowd shouts, “Miracle Whip!” Clausen yells, “F*ck Miracle Whip!” right back. It’s the sort of raw, comedic energy you won’t find at most shows. In one tightly packed, 30-minute set, The Pluralses have mentioned sex more times than I could count, sang an ode to one of the world’s most hated condiments and squeezed in tunes about rattlesnakes, tummy aches and “cocaine submarines.” It’s not for the faint of heart—but punk rock shouldn’t be, anyway.

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The liberal comic delights in taking down his hecklers By Jason Harris On Muslims versus Catholics: Comedy is the only art form “Mecca—that’s their Vatican City, where certain audience members and they cut the heads off of think that by disrupting the perhomosexuals in the town square. formance, they’re somehow addThey don’t do that at the Vatican. ing to the show. It’s a weird form Who would run the Vatican?” of entitlement that usually drags While Maher stayed consisthings down for everyone. But in tently in the groove, he was just the case of Bill Maher, watching as consistently interrupted by the him spar with haters Friday night crowd: a Hillary Clinton basher, at the Pearl was just as exciting as the obligatory Trump supporthearing him deliver his best lines. ers, the good Christian lady and, Maher is likely the most famous about as often, those who actucomedian to represent liberally agreed with him. Maybe they als. At a time when the political thought they were part of the left seemed not to have a voice night’s panel. that was both confrontaWhatever the case, Maher tional and funny, he stepped up. Between Politically aaabc was ready for them. A critique of his talk-show hosting Incorrect and Real Time, BILL has been that he often interthe New Jersey-bred comic MAHER rupts guests to make his own has shared his views on just October points. Onstage that’s a great about everything for the 24, the advantage. It provided the past two decades. So it’s a Pearl. show with an organic feel, wonder anyone would pay with a bit more edge. He brought money to see him and not realthe same ruthless attitude to his ize the type of incendiary comedy hecklers as he did to his best jibes. headed their way. Maher asked a man who called On the Republican party: “I Hillary Clinton a corporate whore never said all Republicans are racwhat he does for a living. “I’m ist, because they’re not. But if you retired,” he responded, to which are a racist and you’re looking for the comedian countered, “You look a party ...” a little young to be retired. What, On getting out of the Middle do you have daddy’s money?” East: “America has got to get over Maher might make most of his this idea that we can bring democown money on TV these days, but racy to the Middle East if we just it’s clear he still loves stand-up kill every last one of them. We comedy. Audience participation have different gods. They have and all. Allah. We have money.”

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A&E | The strip > LITTLE DRAGON Piff scores another coup with his new show at the Flamingo.

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By John Katsilometes show, only to fall short of winning the This all started with a costume title (British ventriloquist Paul Zerdin party, where John van der Put was the took the top prize). The exposure only one to arrive in costume. He wore has led Piff to his own open-ended a green-satin dragon outfit, a full-body residency at the Flamingo, where suit of the type where once you zip it he’ll star in Piff the Magic Dragon, on, it’s on for the night. Monday through Wednesday begin“I walk in, and nobody was in cosning November 9. Also scheduled is tume. Even the host had changed. I Piff ’s Piffmas Piff-Tacular, running said, ‘Well, I can’t change. I’m stuck nightly December 21-30. in this,’” van der Put says today, Van der Put came to be known in smirking at the memory. “So I went Las Vegas as a featured performer in to a corner in my costume, grumpy Vegas Nocturne, the Spiegelworld proand drinking red wine.” duction at the Cosmopolitan’s Rose. Van der Put was already working as Rabbit. Lie. When that show closed a comic magician in those early days, after a largely applauded but highly when he lived in London and strugunprofitable run of seven months, van gled to find regular work. His magic der Put showcased his act around the was a fine act, but his grumpiness city. He also performed at the Flamingo wore thin, and he became the type of room, long the home of insult comic performer not likely to be invited to Vinnie Favorito. Van der Put drew the the same club twice. But that night, attention of Matt and Angela Stabile, the party’s host took note of van der who produce X Burlesque at the hotel. Put’s peeved expression and cocked The Stabiles launched the X Comedy eyebrow and told him, “You should Show, with Piff joining hosts Nancy work that costume into your act.” Van Ryan and John Bizarre and comic Joe der Put answered, “I could be Piff the Trammel (and later Mat Black). As Magic Dragon. You might have heard Piff performed in that show, he audiof my older brother ... Steve.” tioned for AGT, wowing the judges “I had that line, straightaway,” and national TV audience and embarkthe 35-year-old van der Put says. “It ing (as Mr. Piffles would say) on a run worked because the dragon character that nearly led to him winning the is just me in a dragon suit, but as soon championship. as I tried it, it was funny. The idea of a Much to his chagrin. “My whole magic dragon who uses his magic to do plan was not to win,” van der Put says. card tricks, instead of fighting crime “There is nothing funny about winor somehow helping society, is funny.” ning. I should never be the winner. The act was incomplete, though. It’s not good on a character level.” Van der Put was able to work a Yet Piff kept advancing, his blend solid 20-minute set but wanted more of pithy comedy and close-up substance in his onstage magic, incorporating the pantrole. Soon after donning ing distraction of Mr. Piffles, the dragon suit onstage, he PIFF THE resonating with the national was working the Edinburgh MAGIC TV audience. He made the Festival Fringe and noticed DRAGON finals at New York’s Radio City that one of the organizers Begins Music Hall, performing for a had brought her Chihuahua November national TV audience of many to the performance. 9, Mondaymillions and a live audience “I was thinking, ‘This char- Wednesday, of 6,000. He had considered acter needs a gimmick,’ so I 8 p.m., $50using an act certain to fail— used her Chihuahua, and it $70. Bugsy’s in which he fires Mr. Piffles got a lot of laughs,” van der Cabaret, from a cannon—because he Put says. “So the next day I Flamingo, felt the judges and home audiwent out and adopted this 702-733-3333. ence would hate seeing the scraggly dog, not in a good dog shot across the theater. state, to use in the act. I felt Instead, he invited Penn & Teller to if it didn’t work onstage, at least it the stage for an act that involved him would have a good home.” being levitated while guessing a card The combination of Piff and Mr. picked by Mel B. That bit fell flat, and Piffles is an artistic, broadcast and Piff got his wish. box-office hit—van der Put jokes that “I just printed some posters, ‘Loser Mr. Piffles can’t walk the streets withof America’s Got Talent’,” van der out being mobbed—largely as a result Put says. “But the whole experience of their long run on America’s Got of AGT was great. We’re selling out Talent. Piff reached the finals of that

everywhere. We did 2,000 in Denver and did 12 shows in Edmonton in a week. We just sold out in Tampa. Believe me, before America’s Got Talent, we were not selling out.” The popularity is evident on social media, where van der Put is especially appealing for his deadpan demeanor. His own website accurately describes Piff’s disposition as, “Larry David in a dragon suit.” His Twitter account has grown organically from 20,000 followers to more than 80,000, his Instagram from seven followers (“I never used it,” he says) to more than 68,000. His YouTube hits have sur-

passed 12 million. Van der Put has continued to work with Penn & Teller on their stage show, having appeared on the duo’s contest show Fool Us before arriving in the U.S. He hopes to use Las Vegas and the Flamingo as a base for his national and even international performing career. “I have several hours of material I can use, that I’ve developed over the years,” van der Put says, “and Mr. Piffles has a lot of time left. He’ll be 8 in November … He has his own security now. I just hope he doesn’t get too big.”

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A&E | fine art

Picking up the pieces

Three artists play with destruction and recombination at the Barrick Museum By Dawn-Michelle Baude

> FORCED PERSPECTIVE Russ’ “Floral Flirtations” (top) and a piece from Stellmon’s “13 times” series shift the lens.

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Break Ups and Tear Downs at the Barrick Museum presents Las Vegas artists Wendy Kveck and JK Russ, along with former Las Vegan Erin Stellmon, who recently left for the East Coast. Deconstruction is key to the exhibition: All three artists process visual representations by cutting them up. But the “break up” and “tear down” title omits that the artists also reassemble the fragments, generating fresh, new ways of looking at familiar content. Kveck and Russ take on the female form, subject matter notoriously fraught with cliché. Working in Dr. Frankenstein mode, they dissect sexualized images, swapping out a face for a mask, legs for wings, assembling strange composite beings. It’s almost as if the images require radical surgery in order to transform banal, submissive females into powerful feminine creatures worthy of close attention. While Kveck prefers paint, Russ recombines found images in paper collages, creating mythical beings, often woman/bird or woman/snake hybrids set in fantastic, desert landscapes. Something archaic, even primal, pulses in Russ’ work. In “Floral Flirtations,” for example, an outsize ’50s pin-up gal perches incongruously amid phallic succulents, a microbe/ cactus hat on her head. She’s defamiliarized in such a way that she’s both approachable and threatening. In “Fruit of the Joshua Tree,” Russ and her assistants collaged a multitude of eyes and lips into a feminized fruit resembling a aaaac Hindu goddess who might suddenly KVECK, RUSS take on human form, either kissing & STELLMON: you or striking you dead. This dualBREAK UPS & ity—an enticing, almost twee allure TEAR DOWN coupled with latent discomfort—gives Through January Russ’ work depth, resonance and 23; Monday-Friday, sophisticated humor. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. As for Kveck, collaged images result (Thursdays until in “grotesque” female portraits as 8 p.m.); Saturday, extravagant as they are transgressive. noon-5 p.m. UNLV’s She begins by appropriating, cutting up Barrick Museum, and combining photographs of inebri702-895-3381. ated co-eds and coloring-book princesses, sometimes “activating” the women in performances subsequently photographed for further processing. The composite females end up in paintings that seduce, fascinate and horrify by turns. In “The Most Popular Girl”—a pinky-red canvas on the verge of igniting—the deformed woman with jagged contours is both monstrous and beautiful. In “Lake Cosman,” the surface is gentler, the content no less disturbing: sleeping beauty is unconscious, even dead—an Ophelia floating away on effervescent dreams. The tension between desire and disgust repays sustained interest with unfolding discovery. In contrast, Stellmon uses collage to abstract ends. She cuts up architectural photographs into geometric components and recombines them in 3D bas reliefs with Futurist appeal. In “Binion’s Horseshoe Restoration,” for example, photo fragments form a robust mandala threatening to spin out of control. More recent work veers into drawing, where Stellmon’s first-rate draughtsmanship comes forward. In the “13 Times” series, sinkholes are rendered as mysterious, disconcerting objects of beauty. The 97 works in Break Ups and Tear Downs feel a little thin in the cavernous Barrick Museum, a fact that neither the artists’ installations nor expert hanging by Aurore Giguet can camouflage. The exhibition would have been better served in a smaller gallery. That said, the show is vibrant, intriguing and not to be missed.

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Not just playing dress up

Las Vegas Little Theatre balances drag comedy and complicated emotions in Casa Valentina By Molly O’Donnell

lone flaw. The conversation soon “I’m so pretty, I should be set turns serious, making it clear there’s to music,” a man in a house dress more at stake than learning how to and bejeweled turban says to a walk in heels. Charlotte has come guy snapping his photo. While the with a purpose: to suggest they all line gets a laugh from the crowd, go on record with the government Bessie’s contentedness becomes in an effort to normalize crossemblematic of everything so many dressing. Some, like the Judge (Troy real people lack. Casa Valentina Tinker), are afraid of the exposure; offers serious belly laughs, or as others like Terry (E. Wayne Worley) the play’s muse Oscar Wilde might are reticent to throw the gay comhave inspired Picasso to say, lies munity under the bus. that tell the truth. Set in the ’60s at What shakes out is that there’s a resort for cross-dressers, the Las no unity in the “world of selfVegas Little Theatre production made women” just yet. When adeptly treats the seemingly light things heat up, people subject matter of men are physically and emotrading tips on lipstick, tionally wounded, and while revealing the his- aaaac tory of a complicated CASA VALENTINA not just those leading a double life. Gillen Brey political movement. Through November deserves special menA versatile set show- 8; Thursdaytion for effectively playing four rooms at once Saturday, 8 p.m.; ing a “GG” (genuine plays host to the drama Sunday, 2 p.m., girl) caught between of a getaway for a $21-$24. Las Vegas loyalty to her husband group of close friends Little Theatre, and the profound conand a few outsiders, 702-362-7996. fusion of being marincluding closeted ried to someone who’s cross-dresser Miranda becoming someone else. It seems (Michael Blair), Valentina’s—or even in a realm where men wear George’s (Glenn Heath)—acceptdresses, women still don’t wear ing wife Rita (Gillen Brey), and the pants. trans political leader Charlotte This is, in part, why the show is (Rob Kastil). Characters like Bessie so thought-provoking. It captures (Brian Scott) humorously demona moment in a movement, showstrate the fun of shedding men’s ing us the interior of an evolution, clothes, described as the Mexican from the cross-dressing world food of fashion: eight ingredients eager to be accepted but not necserved 75 different ways. The start essarily to accept, to the rainbow of the play is a series of such wellspectrum of queerness we know timed and well-delivered barbs. At today. So while the laughs are big times, though, the silliness of the in this little production, the story first act can feel overdone, dragit tells proves that dress up is so ging out the drag. much more serious than play. Fortunately this is the show’s

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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: BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, ORL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SP, SS, TS, TX

The Importance of Being Earnest 11/3, broadcast of production from London’s Vaudeville Theatre, 7 pm, $13$15. Theaters: COL, SF, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. The Metropolitan Opera HD Live 10/31, Wagner’s Tannhäuser live, 9 am, $17-$25. 11/4, Wagner’s Tannhäuser 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. Outdoor Picture Show Sat, dusk, free. 10/31, Monsters University. The District at Green Valley Ranch, 2225 Village Walk Drive, Henderson, 702-564-8595. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 10/30, augmented by live cast and audience participation, 10 pm, $9. Theaters: TC. Info: rhpsvegas.com. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 40th Anniversary Through 10/31, Fri-Sat 10 pm, $5.50-$8.50. Theaters: TS Sci Fi Center Sun, Doctor Who Night, 6 pm, free. Mon, Cinemondays, 8 pm, free. 10/31, Hocus Pocus, The Rocky Horror Picture Show with live shadow cast, 8 pm, $9. 5077 Arville St., 855-501-4335, thescificenter.com. Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou Tue, 1 pm, free. 11/3, Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.

New this week Burnt aabcc Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl. Directed by John Wells. 100 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 44. Theaters: CAN, CH, COL, DI, DTS, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Dancin’ It’s On (Not reviewed) Witney Carson, Chehon WespiTschopp, Gary Daniels. Directed by David Winters. 89 minutes. Rated PG. Two teenagers from opposite backgrounds fall in love while preparing for a dance competition. Theaters: COL, FH, TX, VS Felix Manalo (Not reviewed) Dennis Trillo, Bela Padilla, Mylene Dizon. Directed by Joel Lamangan. 176 minutes. Not rated. In Filipino with English subtitles. Biopic about the founder of the Church of Christ in the Philippines. Theaters: ORL, VS

> be prepared The teens of Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse.

Our Brand Is Crisis aabcc Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Joaquim de Almeida. Directed by David Gordon Green. 107 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 43. Theaters: BS, CAN, CH, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX Red Herring abccc Robert Scott Howard, Tim Tucker, G. Eric Miles. Directed by Ousa Khun. 91 minutes. Not rated. This local feature has decent production values but a convoluted, idiotic story and shaky acting. It’s a crime thriller without thrills, about an annoying, unlikable detective (Howard) investigating a series of murders connected to his best friend. True to its title, it’s full of red herrings, a series of twists that amount to nothing. –JB Theaters: TS Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (Not reviewed) Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller, Joey Morgan. Directed by Christopher Landon. 93 minutes. Rated R. Three teenagers must use their scouting skills to save their town from a zombie outbreak. Theaters: PAL, RP, TS Street (Not reviewed) Beau Casper Smart, Mark Ryan, Kate Miner. Directed by Bradford May. 100 minutes. Rated PG-13. A former wrestling champion gets caught up in the world of underground fighting. Theaters: PAL Truth aaacc Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Dennis Quaid. Directed by James Vanderbilt. 121 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 43. Theaters: BS, COL, FH, ORL, RR, SC, SP, SS, TS

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: SC

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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: TC 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: COL, ST, VS Boruto: Naruto the Movie (Not reviewed) Voices of Yûko Sanpei, Kokoro Kikuchi, Ryûichi Kijima. Directed by Hiroyuki Yamashita. 110 minutes. Not rated. In Japanese with English subtitles. Feature film based on the Naruto manga and anime series, featuring the children of the original main characters. Theaters: TS Bridge of Spies aaabc Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan. Directed by Steven Spielberg. 135 minutes. Rated PG-13. In his fourth film for Spielberg, Hanks plays a lawyer who’s strong-armed into defending an accused Soviet spy (Rylance). Based on actual events, the film unfolds with superb old-school efficiency, and achieves something very difficult: It makes rooting for integrity fun. –MD Theaters: BS, CAN, CH, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX Crimson Peak aaacc Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. 119 minutes. Rated R. Shy American socialite Edith Cushing

(Wasikowska) marries an English baronet (Hiddleston) and moves to his creepy, ghost-filled family estate. Del Toro is great at establishing the spooky setting, but his screenplay is less compelling, doing little to update or subvert its old-fashioned ghost-story elements. –JB Theaters: CAN, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, 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: COL, ST, 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. A pair of young twin brothers suspect that their mother, returned home from an unnamed surgical procedure, may be an impostor. Writer-directors Fiala and Franz create a mounting feeling of dread, and the second half of the movie amplifies that feeling while also twisting it around. –JB Theaters: VS Goosebumps aabcc Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush. Directed by Rob Letterman. 103 minutes. Rated PG. Black is fun as teen horror author R.L. Stine, but the bigscreen Goosebumps movie is more focused on fast, loud action, dorky humor and special effects than it is on being spooky. Monster lovers may get something out of it, but it’s all rather graceless. –JMA Theaters: BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SP, SS, TS, TX 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

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: 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: CH, COL, DTS, FH, ORL, SC, SF, SP, TS Jem and the Holograms aaccc Aubrey Peeples, Stefanie Scott, Hayley Kiyoko. Directed by Jon M. Chu. 118 minutes. Rated PG. This ill-conceived live-action adaptation of the ’80s cartoon series about a rock star with a secret identity attempts to shoehorn many of the show’s ridiculous ideas and catch phrases into a mostly serious, straight-faced story about the perils of fame. It’s boringly predictable, drawn-out and cheesy. –JB Theaters: CH, COL, DI, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, 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: ST, TX

A&E | Short Takes The Last Witch Hunter aaccc Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood. Directed by Breck Eisner. 106 minutes. Rated PG-13. This noisy, cluttered movie with cheap, globby-looking digital effects features a paltry battle between one-dimensional bad guys and a one-dimensional hero. Diesel plays his character cool, but is no fun to be around, and his co-stars suffer for it. A cursed affair from director Breck Eisner (Sahara). –JMA Theaters: BS, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX

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, 702-5074849 (CAN) Galaxy Cannery 2121 E. Craig Road, North Las Vegas, 702-639-9779

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-lookaway drama. –JB Theaters: CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, 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: BS, COL, DI, RR, SC, 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: TC 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 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: CH, COL, ORL, RR, SF, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension aaccc Chris J. Murray, Brit Shaw, Ivy George. Directed by Gregory Plotkin. 88 minutes. Rated R. Promising to answer all the questions about the found-footage horror series’ haphazard mythology, the sixth Paranormal Activity movie throws together some unsatisfying explanations along with familiar creaks and loud noises, making for a pretty pathetic finale. By finally allowing the

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demon to be seen, the filmmakers only make the movie less scary. –JB Theaters: PAL, RP, TS 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, Lifetime-style 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: GVR, ORL, ST 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: TC Rock the Kasbah aaccc Bill Murray, Kate Hudson, Leem Lubany. Directed by Barry Levinson. 106 minutes. Rated R. A washed-up American talent manager (Murray) gets stranded in Kabul and eventually discovers a shy Afghan teen with a beautiful singing voice. Levinson can’t find the right tone for the mess of a screenplay, which sidelines its one interesting character in favor of another story about a middle-aged white dude finding his purpose. –JB Theaters: CAN, CH, FH, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Shaandaar (Not reviewed) Alia Bhatt, Shahid Kapoor, Pankaj Kapur. Directed by Vikas Bahl. 144 minutes. Not rated. In Hindi with English subtitles. Two big Indian families come together for a wedding at a European castle. Theaters: VS

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 interagency 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: CAN, COL, DI, DTS, FH, ORL, PAL, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Sinister 2 (Not reviewed) James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon, Robert Daniel Sloan, Dartanian Sloan. Directed by Ciarán Foy. 97 minutes. Rated R. A single mother and her two sons move into a haunted house. Theaters: TC Steve Jobs aaacc Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen. Directed by Danny Boyle. 122 minutes. Rated R. Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s lively but somewhat empty biopic reduces the Apple co-founder and CEO’s life to three moments in time. Sorkin’s dialogue crackles when it focuses on professionals trying to solve complex problems, but the script falters when it tries to understand Jobs as a person. –JB Theaters: BS, CAN, CH, DTS, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX 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 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: TC 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: BS, DI, SC, 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-oldmen vibe. –MD Theaters: SC 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: ST 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: ST, VS 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 integration in the 1970s. Theaters: COL, SF, SP, ST, TS, TX, VS JMA Jeffrey M. Anderson; JB Josh Bell; MD Mike D’Angelo

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THREE SHOWS: HALLOWEEN EDITION

> WANDA AND THE BOYS Jackson and Together Pangea rock Vegas for the holiday.

Wanda Jackson See the First Lady of Rockabilly live and you’ll fall in love all over again. From rockers like “Hard Headed Woman” to softer stuff like “Right or Wrong,” Jackson’s expansive repertoire is the perfect soundtrack for your pin-up costume dreams. And yes, the 78-year-old legend still has those buttery, smoky chops. Don’t miss her when she brings new meaning to the phrase, “time warp.” With The Delta Bombers, The Yawpers, Shanda & The Howlers, Catman, DJ Lucky LaRue. October 31, 8 p.m., $20-$25, Backstage Bar & Billiards. Together Pangea Every garage-rock enthusiast should end the night at the Griffin, for a free show from this Burger Records four-piece. Last year’s rip-roaring Badillac became the soundtrack to my summer, so hearing those songs on Halloween should be sweeter than a bag of my favorite candy (Twix, FYI). The LA band just played Orange County’s Beach Goth fest, and here’s hoping the spooky vibes carry over for their Vegas show. With Leather

LIVE MUSIC T H E ST R I P & N E A R BY Brooklyn Bowl 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. Monica, Rico Love 11/12, 9 pm, $25-$45. Catfish John: A Grateful Dead Tribute 11/14, 9 pm, free. Motionless in White, The Devil Wears Prada, The Word Alive, Upon a Burning Body, The Color Morale 11/15, 5 pm, $22-$25. Mac Miller, Tory Lanez, Michael Christmas, Njomza, Alexander Spit 11/17, 7:45 pm, $33$38. Linq, 702-862-2695. The Colosseum Elton John 10/3010/31, 6:30 pm, $55-$500. Celine Dion 11/3-11/4, 11/7-11/8, 11/10-11/11, 11/13-11/14, 11/17-11/18, 11/20-11/21. Caesars Palace, 702-731-7333.

Ghost It would be tough to find a band more appropriate for Halloween than these Swedish metallers. The singer, known as Papa Emeritus III, dresses as a demonic, skeleton-faced pope, and the rest of the crew are

robed and horned “Nameless Ghouls.” Even freakier, Dave Grohl produced 2013’s If You Have Ghost EP and is rumored to have dressed as a Nameless Ghoul himself. Is there anything scarier than a Foo Fighter dressed as a demon playing Swedish metal? With Purson. October 31, 8 p.m., $25, House of Blues. –Leslie Ventura

The Cosmopolitan (Boulevard Pool) 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. Bryan Adams 7/2, 7 pm, $32-$57. (Rose. Rabbit. Lie.) Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox 12/30-1/2, 9 pm, $50. 702-698-7000. Double Barrel Roadhouse DB Dead 10/31, 11 a.m., free. Monte Carlo, 702222-7735. 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 Thru 10/31, 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, 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 10/25, 9 pm; 12/3, 10 pm.

Biran Lynn Jones 10/30-10/31, 10 pm. Kenny Allen Band 11/6-11/7, 10 pm. Country Nation 11/13-11/14, 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 11/14, 7 pm, $35. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5222. House of Blues 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, 5/205/22, 5/25, 5/27-5/29, $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 11/1911/21, 8 pm, $55-$70. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. The Joint Rob Zombie, Danzig, Witch

Lungs, Warblood, DJ Fish. October 31, 9 p.m., free, Griffin.

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Calendar Zombiewood, Ne Last Words, The Holy Pariah, My Own Nation 11/13, 8 pm, $10-$12. Cirka:Sik, American Slideshow, Jinxy Bear, Swamp Pussy, Ill Patients, The CG’s, Gold Monkey 11/14, 8 pm, $10-$12. Hate Eternal, Misery Index, Beyond Creation, Rivers of Nihil, Spiritual Shepherd, Casket Raider, Man Made God 11/16, 7 pm, $11-$13. Twisted Insane & Easy Money, Liquid Assasin 11/17, 9 pm, $20-$24. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-3531. Mickie Finnz Live music Daily, 4-7 pm. Shows free unless noted. 425 Fremont St., 702-3824204. The Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) Kenny Loggins 11/10, 6:30 pm, $39-$179. Erich Bergen, Norm Lewis, Capathia Jenkins, Clint Holmes, Patina Miller 12/31, 7 pm, $39-$125. 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. 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. Reckless in Vegas 10/30, 8 pm, $35-$45. Spectrum, Radiance 11/14, 7 pm; 11/15, 3 pm; $37-$40. The Skivvies 11/20-11/21, 7 pm, $39-$45. 361 Symphony Park Ave., 702-749-2000.

The ’Burbs Cannery Cannery Luggnutt Thru 10/31, Wed-Thu, 8:30 pm, free. Luggnutt, Saxman Brown Thru 10/31, Fri-Sat, 7 pm. Bella Donna 10/30-10/31, 8 pm, $10. Shaun South 11/411/14, Wed-Thu, 8:30 pm, free. Shaun South, Cat Daddy 11/4-11/14, Wed-Thu, 7 pm, free. Paul Revere’s Raiders 11/7, 8 pm, $28. Lights Out: A Tribute to Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons 11/13-11/14, 8 pm, $15. Patrick Puffer 11/18-11/28, Wed-Thu, 8:30 pm, free. Patrick Puffer, Clifton James 11/18-11/28, Fri-Sat, 7 pm, free. Legends of Motown 11/20-11/21, 8 pm, $15. 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. Elixir Michael Louis Austin 11/6. Rick Foell 11/7. Yvonne Silva 11/13. Michael Anthony 11/14. Kelly Dorn 11/20. Thomas Rojas 11/21. Tim Mendoza 11/27. Shaun South 11/28. Music from 8-11 pm, free unless noted. 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, elixirlounge.net. Green Valley Ranch (Grand Events Center) Ronnie Milsap 2/20, 8 pm, $20-$50. (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. 702367-2470. 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) Con Funk Shun, DJ R.O.B., The Funk All Stars 10/31, 8 pm, $29$39. 3333 Blue Diamond Road, 702-263-7777. South Point 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. 702-797-8005. Suncoast The Official Blues Brothers Revue 11/14-11/15, 7:30 pm, $18-$44. Blue Moon Swamp: A Tribute to CCR 11/21-11/22, 7:30 pm, $18-$44. All-4-One 11/27-11/28, 7:30 pm, $18-$44. 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

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Performing Arts Christ Church Episcopal Advent-Christmas Recital 12/6, 4 pm, $15. 2000 S. Maryland Parkway, sncago.org. 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 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. 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. Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall, 702-749-2000. Onyx Theatre She Kills Monsters 10/29-10/31, 8 pm, $20. Mister Wives 11/12-11/14, 11/1911/21, 11/27-11/28, 8 pm; 11/22, 5 pm, $20. 953 E. Sahara Ave., 702-732-7225. Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) Ragtime Thru 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. (Troesh Studio Theater) Violet 10/30-11/1, 8 pm; 10/31-11/1, 3 pm; $34. 702-749-2000. UNLV (Rando-Grillot Recital Hall) 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. (Artemus W. Ham Hall) Rockapella’s Holiday Concert 12/5, 8 pm, $20-$70. 702895-3332. Winchester Cultural Center The Jaroslav Svěcený and Václav Mácha 11/5, 2 & 7 pm, $10-$12. Izel Ballet Folklorico 11/7, 6:30 pm, $10-$12. Consul presented by Sin City Opera 11/13-11/14, 11/20-11/21, 7 pm; 11/22, 2 pm, $15. Life in Death Festival 11/1-11/2, 5 pm, free. 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. Art2 Downtown Arts Festival 11/14, 11 am, free. 18b Arts District, art2downtownartsfestival.com. Bourbon Book Club 11/19, 6 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock.org. Courtroom Conversation: The Real Story Behind Casino 11/7, 7 pm, $25. Mob Museum, 300 Stewart Ave., 702-229-2734. Creepy Crawly Trunk or Treat 10/30, 5 pm, free. CenturyLink parking lot, 3436 Aldebaran Ave., centurylink.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 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. Hypnosis Unleashed Tue-Sun, 8:30 pm, $30-$40. Binion’s, 128 E. Fremont St., 702382-1600. Las Vegas Latin Caribbean Festival 10/2911/1, times and prices vary. Florida Cafe, 1401 S. Las Vegas Blvd., lvcaribfest.com. Life in Death Festival 11/1-11/2, 5 pm, free. Winchester Cultural Center, 702-455-7340. Monday’s Dark with Mark Shunock 11/16, 9:30 pm, $20-$30. Vinyl, 702-693-5000. National Novel Writing Month Write-In 11/1, 11 am, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock.org. National Novel Writing Month Workshop Wed thru Nov, 6 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock. org. Neon Lit: A Poetry and Fiction Reading 10/30, 7 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock.org. Christopher Norment Book Signing 11/17, 7 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., 702-550-6399. Poet Laureate Open Poetry Readings 11/14, 12/12, 2 pm, free. Winchester Cultural Center, 702-455-7340. Rocky Horror Picture Show 40th Anniversary 10/30, midnight, $10. Tropicana Cinemas, 3330 E. Tropicana Ave., 702-810-5956. Sevens Live Music, comedy & spoken arts. Tue, 7 pm, one-drink minimum. Silver Sevens, 4100 Paradise, 702-733-7000. Soul Train Awards 11/6, 530 pm, $55-$85. Orleans, 702-284-7777. Suicide GIrls: Blackheart Burlesque 11/20, 8 pm, $25-$50. Vinyl, 702-693-5000. Sunset Park’d 11/14, noon, free. Sunset Park, 2601 E. Sunset Rd., sunsetparkd.com. Toys for Tickets All-Star Jam ft. Tyler Farr, Jerrod Niemann, Eric Paslay, Canaan Smith, Old Dominion, Cam and Mickey Guyton 12/6, 7 pm, free with toy donation. Red Rock, 702-797-7777. 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. Boxing: Douglas vs. Sherrington 11/6, 6 pm, $20-$76. Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, 800-745-3000. 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. 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 Indian National Finals Rodeo 11/3-11/7, times vary $15. South Point, southpointarena.com. National Finals Rodeo 12/3-12/12, 6:45 pm, $58-$232. Thomas & Mack, unlvtickets. com. Rocky Mountain Gun Show 11/7-11/8, times vary, $15. South Point, southpointarena. com. 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.

HOROSCOPE

free will astrology

By Rob Brezsny

ARIES

LEO

SAGITTARIUS

March 21-April 19

July 23-Aug. 22

Nov. 22-Dec. 21

On a January morning in 1943, the town of Spearfish, South Dakota, experienced very weird weather. At 7:30 a.m. the temperature was minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit. In the next two minutes, due to an unusual type of wind sweeping down over nearby Lookout Mountain, thermometers shot up 49 degrees. Over the next hour and a half, the air grew even warmer. But by 9:30, the temperature had plummeted back to minus 4 degrees. I’m wondering if your moods might swing with this much bounce in the coming weeks. Halloween costume suggestions: roller-coaster rider; Jekyll and Hyde; warm clothes on one side of your body and shorts on the other.

“A very little key will open a very heavy door,” Charles Dickens wrote in his short story “Hunted Down.” Make that one of your guiding meditations in the coming days, Leo. In the back of your mind, keep visualizing the image of a little key opening a heavy door. Doing so will help ensure that you’ll be alert when clues about the real key’s location become available. You’ll have a keen intuitive sense of how you’ll need to respond if you want to procure it. Halloween costume suggestion: proud and protective possessor of a magic key.

“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.” So says Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield. Can you guess why I’m bringing it to your attention, Sagittarius? It’s one of those times when you can do yourself a big favor by sloughing off the stale, worn-out, decaying parts of your past. Luckily for you, you now have an extraordinary talent for doing just that. I suspect you’ll also receive unexpected help and surprising grace as you proceed. Halloween costume suggestion: a snake molting its skin.

TAURUS

VIRGO

CAPRICORN

April 20-May 20

Aug. 23-Sept. 22

Dec. 22-Jan. 19

How dare you be so magnetic and tempting? What were you thinking when you turned up the intensity of your charm to such a high level? I suggest you consider exercising more caution about expressing your radiance. People might have other things to do besides daydreaming about you. But if you really can’t bring yourself to be a little less attractive—if you absolutely refuse to tone yourself down—please at least try to be extra kind and generous. Share your emotional wealth. Overflow with more than your usual allotments of blessings. Halloween costume suggestion: a shamanic Santa Claus; a witchy Easter Bunny.

The ancient Hindu text known as the Kama Sutra gives extensive advice about many subjects, including love and sex. “Though a man loves a woman ever so much,” reads a passage, “he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking.” Take that as your cue. In the coming weeks, stir up the intimacy you want with a great deal of incisive talking that beguiles and entertains. Furthermore, use the same approach to round up any other experience you yearn for. The way you play with language will be crucial in your efforts to fulfill your wishes. I expect your persuasive powers to be even greater than usual. Halloween costume suggestion: the ultimate salesperson.

Speaking on behalf of your wild mind, I’m letting you know that you’re due for an immersion in revelry and festivity. Plugging away at business as usual could become counterproductive unless you take at least brief excursions to the frontiers of pleasure. High integrity could become sterile unless you expose it to an unpredictable adventure or two. Halloween costume suggestions: party animal; hellraiser; social butterfly; god or goddess of delight. Every one of us harbors a touch of crazy genius that periodically needs to be unleashed, and now is that time for you.

GEMINI

LIBRA

AQUARIUS

May 21-June 20

Sept. 23-Oct. 22

Jan. 20-Feb. 18

In the last 10 days of November and the month of December, I suspect there will be wild-card interludes when you can enjoy smart gambles, daring stunts, cute tricks and mythic escapades. But the next three weeks will not be like that. On the contrary. For the immediate future, I think you should be an upstanding citizen, a well-behaved helper and a dutiful truth-teller. Can you handle that? If so, I bet you will get sneak peaks of the fun and productive mischief that could be yours in the last six weeks of 2015. Halloween costume suggestion: the most normal person in the world.

I encourage you to be super rhythmical and melodious in the coming days. Don’t just sing in the shower and in the car. Hum and warble and whistle while shopping for vegetables and washing the dishes and walking the dog. Allot yourself more than enough time to shimmy and cavort, not just on the dancefloor but anywhere else you can get away with it. For extra credit, experiment with lyrical flourishes whenever you’re in bed doing the jizzle-skazzle. Halloween costume suggestions: wandering troubadour, street musician; free-styling rapper, operatic diva; medicine woman who heals with sound.

I hope you will choose a Halloween costume that emboldens you to feel powerful. For the next three weeks, it’s in your long-term interest to invoke a visceral sense of potency, dominion and sovereignty. What clothes and trappings might stimulate these qualities in you? Those of a king or queen? A rock star or CEO? A fairy godmother, superhero or dragon-tamer? Only you know which archetypal persona will help stir up your untapped reserves of confidence and command.

CANCER

SCORPIO

PISCES

June 21-July 22

Oct. 23-Nov. 21

Feb. 19-March 20

Members of the gazelle species known as the springbok periodically engage in a behavior known as pronking. They leap into the air and propel themselves a great distance with all four feet off the ground. What evolutionary purpose does this serve? “They are dancing for joy,” naturalist David Attenborough declares. Given the lucky breaks and creative breakthroughs coming your way, Cancerian, I foresee you doing something similar. Halloween costume suggestions: a pronking gazelle; a hippety-hopping bunny; a boisterous baby goat.

I expect you to be in a state of continual birth for the next four weeks. Awakening and activation will come naturally. Your drive to blossom and create might be irresistible, bordering on unruly. Does that sound overwhelming? I don’t think it’ll be a problem, as long as you cultivate a mood of amazed amusement about how strong it feels. To help maintain your poise, keep in mind that your growth spurt is a natural response to the dissolution that preceded it. Halloween costume suggestions: a fountain; an erupting volcano; the growing beanstalk from the “Jack and the Beanstalk” fairy tale.

It’s time to stretch the boundaries, Pisces. You have license to expand the containers and outgrow the expectations and wage rebellion for the sheer fun of it. The frontiers are calling you. Your enmeshment in small talk and your attachment to trivial wishes are hereby suspended. Your mind yearns to be blown and blown and blown again! I dare you to wander outside your overly safe haven and go in quest of provocative curiosities. Halloween costume suggestions: mad scientist; wild-eyed revolutionary; Doctor Who.

october 29–november 4, 2015 LasVegasWeekly.com

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