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Contents 7 mail Apparently Penn eats

45 noise Kurt Cobain’s home

plants, and readers are feeling dirty and dismayed about cake.

recordings emerge. Ghost terrifies and Mac Sabbath gets silly.

8 as we see it So how scary is

49 The Strip Murray Sawchuck

bacon? So what can Amazon get me in a flash? So what does the University District really need? So what’s the deal with palm trees?

keeps his head up.

50 fine art Cuba’s aesthetic resistance is up at Donna Beam.

14 Q&A Hiptazmic’s steampunk

51 dance Balanchine’s genius,

queen Christine Esposito.

courtesy of Nevada Ballet Theatre.

18 Feature | beard season

52 food & drink Salute keeps Italian simple in Summerlin. On the menu and mind of a Bazaar chef.

It’s No-Shave November, and we’ve got famous chins, sweet whiskers on the scene, style tips and more.

26 nights The synchronicity of

56 calendar Los Lobos, listings.

Oddfellows. Insta-celebs win big.

41 A&E Peaches entertains your

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42 screen A big dose of Bond.

Suffragette gets out the vote, and the new Peanuts gang stays true.

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COSPLAY & COCKTAILS? What’s next for the Lady Silvia space in Downtown’s Soho Lofts? How about a bar dedicated to character minutiae? We got the skinny on the new Millennium Fandom Bar and its weekly Friday night cosplay—find it at lasvegasweekly. com.

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2. Fear of losing free parking: At what price Vegasness?

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Mail PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE AT Every major event center in the nation charges for parking. There is no valid argument for free parking just because you think you’re entitled as a local. –Jokersmile If Strip properties implement a parking fee, I hope the county is smart enough to add a tax to pay for a comprehensive transit subway system for the Strip from the airport to UNLV to Downtown.

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ART DEPARTURE The Cosmopolitan’s P3Studio will soon turn into a restaurant.

The greatest place in Las Vegas to connect intimately with art is closing. To me, this begins the downfall of my beloved Cosmopolitan.

The point of it was to really see all that’s around you, to see this art and think about it, having that luxury within a usually frenetic Strip. –Rory L. Aronsky This is truly sad. The most innovative space in any hotel-casino, shuttered. I am glad to have had the honor of knowing several of the stupendous local artists who have had residencies.

–Chris Alpaca Ashley Hopefully it will be a hamburger joint. I have trouble finding those.

–Peter Blasezyk

DROOL AWAY Who would have thought our cover feature on delicious desserts would be so provocative?

The omission of the Key lime pie in a jar from Pot Liquor is borderline criminal. –Emild650 I read faithfully, and today it feels like I picked up a porn magazine.

Looking at this cover, I feel so dirty ... in a good, gooey, chocolate-covered, nut-sprinkled kind of way. –Renee Hoffsetz

Vegas is getting too greedy! No real perks, nothing is reasonably priced anymore. People used to come to Vegas for the great deals and cheap things to do ... Better get going on making gambling fun again. –Heather Baressi Paid parking is a sign that people want to be there. You don’t pay to park in Rifle, Delta or Craig, Colorado, you pay to park in Vail, Aspen, Downtown Denver. Buck up. It is a sign the economy is doing better. –Luke Werner Lopez

BIG ON BOYCOTTS Cultural Attachment questioned whether we should stop supporting offensive artists.

Articles like this highlight one of the biggest issues facing social justice advocates: privileged apathy. Of course the white, cis man doesn’t understand the value of action in these issues ... If you want a writer to editorially critique the actions of a queer/trans punk band, find a queer/trans writer, otherwise the perspective will be inherently skewed. As for Azealia Banks, she doesn’t have the right to call people that word in rage; no one does. Reclaiming vicious words is something communities do to diminish their assaultive impact. Using those words to insult does the opposite.

I understand this was an opinion piece ... Just please know that the views of a white, cis man, with regard to the volume of marginalized communities’ voices, are highly debatable. –Miranda Boyd

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The potential loss of free parking at Strip casinos continues to linger and cause debate.

The magical entertainer’s involvement in the Church of Bacon created this quirky convo.

The idea of hockey in the desert is sounding less and less viable.

Making it more difficult for locals to come to the arena is not a good move. –Johnny Lawless

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Hoop Dreams

An exciting first week of the NBA season just makes me wish harder our new arena was getting looked at for a basketball team instead of a hockey franchise.

–Brock Radke I have met the enemy

I went to Slate’s homepage recently and browsed about a dozen headlines on things that matter. Then I clicked “How electric eels really kill.”

If real journalism dies, now you know who to blame.

–Erin Ryan Capable substitute

Trevor Noah: A month in and the new Daily Show host proves he’s snarky and charming. I’m won over.

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Amazon wants to bring you soup in a serious hurry For all the times you’ve wondered where you’re going to locate an umbrella right before your Portland trip or a Cards Against Humanity box ahead of that night’s dinner party, we finally have Amazon Prime Now, which delivers a minimum of $20 worth of goods to Amazon Prime subscribers’ doors within an hour or two (your choice; see below). But the new service, which rolled out in Las Vegas last week, comes with notable caveats—its unavailability of Cards Against Humanity being a key one.

Before you can search for which chicken soups you can have delivered to your disease-riddled apartment—spoiler: at least 20—you must first download the Amazon Prime Now app onto your phone (and not your iPad, because that, mystifyingly, isn’t available yet).

The service is only available between 10 a.m. and mid-

night, so there will be no immediate-gratification drunkshopping once you get home from karaoke at Dino’s.

When you opt for free two-hour delivery—as opposed to the $7.99 one-hour option—you’re not getting your Breathe Right Nasal Strips within two hours of ordering. Instead, you must choose an available two-hour delivery block, which could push back the arrival further back than expected.

Your courier cannot receive a cash tip. Gratuity is an (elective) add-on during your order, and the minimum is $5, regardless of your order’s total.

There’s no dining delivery in Sin City yet, but fret not: You can still order Talenti Gelato right to your doorstep—but only the Caramel Cookie Crunch variety. Sea Salt Caramel remains, like way too many other necessities, a two-mile Target trip away. –Mike Prevatt

Oil change

Now that it’s cooler out, my once-liquid coconut oil has returned to a solid state, marking summer’s true end.

–Kristy Totten So Scrooge ME

I dismissed the Christmastree displays in local stores, chalking it up to the fact that some might need a few weeks to save up for that $4,400 Cashmere Pine.

But red cups at Starbucks when I’m breaking a sweat in a light sweater? Too soon, guys, too soon.

–Mark Adams

Making Midtown The UNLV development needs this stuff to thrive The Las Vegas Sun checked in last week on the progress of the Midtown UNLV project, a plan to enliven Maryland Parkway with redevelopment that would give the street more of a college-town atmosphere (Think: University Boulevard adjacent to the University of Arizona and Telegraph Avenue near the University of California, Berkeley). The Sun reported ground will soon be broken on the empty lot where the Freakin’ Frog and other businesses once stood, which will become a parking garage with retail space. What would spark the block? We have some ideas.

Indie coffee shop Coffee Bean is great, but every college needs an artsy espresso-teria nearby. Where else will discerning hipster types sip on overpriced cappuccinos while arguing about 21st-century consumerism?

Urban Outfitters Name one urban university without one nearby. We dare you.

Music venue University Theatre closed in 2007, and we haven’t enjoyed a local show (and some al pastor) at Yayo Taco since 2013.

Secret pizza The kids have to pack on the Freshman 15 somewhere.

Head shop Because college.

Freakin’ Frog 2.0 The original iteration was probably the campus’ favorite bar. –Mark Adams

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Not bringing home the bacon

> strong words Items from Battle of the Bras, a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society at Planet Hollywood.

The right kind of support?

Sorting through new guidelines for breast cancer screening BY ERIN RYAN Change is hard, especially when we get used to the idea that a particular way of doing things saves lives. On October 20, in Breast Cancer Awareness Month’s pink swath, the American Cancer Society released revised guidelines for early detection of the disease. Among the handful of new bullet points, clinical breast exams are no longer recommended as part of screening for women at average risk. Women 55 and older are now advised to get screened every other year. And the age when most women should start yearly mammograms rose from 40 to 45.

That last one has been the bomb that keeps exploding, with reaction from the media, the medical community and the public focused on the potential for confusion and far worse things, whether it’s insurance companies limiting coverage or cancers being missed. The ACS emphasizes that women “should have the opportunity” to start screening earlier if they wish, and that these guidelines are for women at average risk—meaning no family history, BRCA gene mutations or other obvious factors that up the odds of developing the disease from 12 percent to as high as 80. Even those at average risk might have a hard time deciding what to do when the experts don’t agree (for example, the American Society of Breast Surgeons supports the change to 45 while the American College of Radiology doesn’t). So I went to my expert, decorated breast surgeon Dr. Souzan El-Eid of the Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada.

“It’s true that earlier mammograms do save lives. All of the studies have shown that. But now we’re weighing risk versus benefit—yes, we are saving lives, but is it worth all the other false positives?” She’s talking about the fact that younger women have denser breast tissue, so it’s

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much harder to pick out subtleties on a mammogram. As a result, the chance that a lesion a radiologist spots will turn out to be benign is pretty high in a 40-year-old. On the flipside, hormones play a role in the aggressiveness of breast cancer, and they’re more active the younger you are, making early diagnosis vital. “The patient is anxious, the doctor doesn’t want to miss something and then be liable and then be sued or accused of delayed diagnosis. So we do tend to over-biopsy things, and the radiologists perhaps over-read things. And so, this is a national movement, so to speak, to control all that, in my opinion.”

That doesn’t mean El-Eid agrees with all the new guidelines. She still recommends clinical breast exams (“How am I going to examine a woman’s breast if I don’t touch it?”) and that routine screening begin at 40. If you’re highrisk, the key is determining “your specific risk” (though it’s important to know that breast cancer strikes women with no known risk factors other than being female). There’s an assessment tool on cancer.gov that will give you a rough number, but El-Eid isn’t much for percentages. “When patients ask me about statistics I never get into statistics, because if it’s 99 percent yes and 1 percent no and you happen to be that 1 percent, what difference does it make?”

It might be wise to approach the ACS numbers in that vein. El-Eid points out that 35 used to be the recommended age for a baseline mammogram. The ACS changed it to 40 about a decade ago, and insists that the change to 45 is based on the best medical evidence up to this moment, one representative telling NBC News that women must make “a personal decision” about when to start. For me, it’s easy. My mother had a mammogram in her 30s, and was diagnosed with breast cancer.

If you freaked out when a panel convened by the World Health Organization declared last week that processed meats such as bacon, sausages, ham and other cured products are a cause of colorectal cancer—and that red meat is a probable cause for cancer, too—don’t feel bad.

Anthony Nguyen, a Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancer and aerodigestive tumors, among other ailments, points out that complicated medical announcements like this one often require translation.

“This was actually not a new study but a review of old data, and those studies are all consistent,” he says.

“The classification is what’s important, and based on the strength of the evidence they’ve given it a Group 1 classification.”

Putting familiar, everyday foods into the same carcinogenic category as cigarettes is scary. We already know hot dogs aren’t good for us, but it’s important we know how bad they might be, even though the magnitude of cancer risk isn’t comparable to smoking cigarettes. WHO says eating 1.7 ounces of processed meat a day can increase your risk of colon cancer by 18 percent. “It’s a profound statement,” Nguyen says. “Not all processed meats are the same, so there is some difficulty in the study, and they wrote the risks increases by 17 percent if you eat 3.5 ounces of red meat a day. That’s a heavy hitter.

“While the literature and data is very consistent, more statistics and semantics can be very confusing.

Does eating a hamburger cause cancer? No, it doesn’t say that. It’s wise to understand your genetics and risks and know this data exists and maybe modify your lifestyle if you want good odds. Everything is odds in Las Vegas, and yours are worse if you’re eating these types of foods.” –Brock Radke

battle of the bras by wade vandervort

AS WE SEE IT… inside the old fronds at the top, and began trimming. The fronds—which together can weigh hundreds of pounds—collapsed, crushed his chest and suffocated him. He was the second trimmer trapped and killed in a palm tree in North Las Vegas within a month. This happens often enough that some communities have created outreach campaigns to warn workers of the danger, instructing them to cut old fronds from the outside first—but that’s difficult without a crane, and cranes are pricey.

So the tree that symbolizes carefree escapism—a symbol we use prolifically in Las Vegas—can literally trap and kill its caretaker. When I see old palms with heavy, brown fronds— ignored too long in a forgotten neighborhood awaiting stop-gap maintenance, I don’t feel carefree or exotic. I don’t think everything is fabulous.

PYRAMID OF BISCUITS

WHEN PALMS ATTACK

Worries that grow from one of Vegas’ favorite symbols of luxury BY STACY J. WILLIS

It’s a beautiful pink-and-purple evening when we walk out of the Downtown Summerlin movie theater and look toward the city skyline. Strip lights are twinkling, the air is cool, and a row of palm trees is in silhouette.

Palm trees were the symbol of choice here—not hyper-alert yuccas, not gangly chollas, not the scrubby Creosote bushes that grow unassumingly all over this desert— sky-high, carefree, imported palm trees. They’re a symbol of leisure and luxury, of tropical exoticism, of casting off worries and enjoying the moment. Palm trees say, Relax, everything is fabulous.

But tonight they’re stressing me out. Truth be told, they always get my head churning—and right now, they remind me of Indonesia, where one of the world’s largest environmental disasters is taking place: massive slash-and-burn fires aimed at clearing land primarily for palm-oil plantations. The burning rainforests and peatlands are spewing so much toxic pollution that half a million people are sick or displaced, some have died from respiratory illness and six provinces have declared states of emergency. Reductively, the fires are driven by the multinational palm-oil industry, so that land can be reused to grow palms to make oil to sell cookies, cosmetics, soap, soda— commodities galore.

I stop to stare at the tall, simple palms. I know it’s a whole different chapter of the tree’s story here, so I try to shake the buzzkill and absorb the intended lux-life vibe. But something about palm trees belies simple

IN BRIEF

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symbolism. Just as something about simple symbolism belies Las Vegas. * * * * * Psalm 92:12—The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. Though not native, palm trees inundate the city. They’re lined up in the median behind the Welcome to Downtown Las Vegas sign, they’re on top of Red Rock Resort, they’re on the Strip.

They’re in parking lots and parks and yards. With more than 2,500 species to pick from, they’re in every landscape architect’s repertoire. Some sell for upwards of $15,000, making them a black-market commodity: Thieves in LA dressed in orange work-crew uniforms were caught stealing city palm trees in broad daylight a few years ago.

CONNECTING BETS The tie between sports media and cultural memory is so thick, mention an inning in a postseason baseball game from any decade and it sets a place and time. At UNLV’s Center for Gaming Research, Alex Kupfer is exploring the idea through materials related to televised World Series of Poker tournaments at the Horseshoe Casino. Kupfer is the first of five Eadington Fellows for the 2015-16 year. His colloquium talk, “The Biggest Game on TV: Benny Binion, the WSOP, and the Nostalgic Construction of Poker’s Past,” takes place November 16 at 3 p.m. in Lied Library’s Goldfield Room. –Kristen Peterson

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Palm trees have a long history in human culture: Date palms were present in early Mesopotamian civilizations, providing high-calorie fruit, frond shade and stem fiber for ropes.

Palms were a symbol for early Greek and Roman victory; they were laid at Jesus’ feet; they are mentioned in the Quran more than 20 times. They grace the flags of nations and states; they provide medicine and fuel; they’re a landscaper’s easy staple and a marketer’s iconic building block. Tall and lean, short and squatty, fruitful or not, they’ve generally been viewed as lifegiving and positive.

And yet they also have a peculiar ability to take life away. In January, a 46-year-old North Las Vegas man died while trimming a 30-foot palm tree. He had climbed up the tree,

BEATS ONSCREEN Former DJ Jimmie Gonzalez (aka DJ Speedy) is off to a great start as a featurelength filmmaker. His debut movie, The Red Man, recently premiered at Belfast, Ireland’s Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival, where it won Best Feature and Audience Choice. The thriller—mostly shot in Las Vegas—is also steeped in the dance-music world: It’s about a DJ who suspects foul play by his psychiatrist and neighbor, and among its cast, crew and producers are electronicmusic icons John Acquaviva and Olivier Giacomotto. –Mike Prevatt

Triple irony: July, poolside at the Cosmopolitan. As tourists and locals bathed in layers of luxury, a play within a play emerged. A fire broke out and started burning palm trees—fake palm trees, in the desert, by the pool on the 14th floor. A huge plume of dark smoke showed up on social media. Guests fled. Was anyone drinking palm oil in their soda mixer? Wearing palm oil in their cosmetics? Eating palm oil in their chips when the fake palm tree/ imitation of a symbol of luxury/overlooked reminder of heinous deforestation in Indonesia caught fire?

Thankfully, few were hurt and no one was killed. It wasn’t an environmental disaster that displaced villagers and suffocated children and demolished a rainforest for shampoo.

Instead, the resort swiftly reopened the area and escapism resumed.

Fabulously.

Truth is, the palm tree is a beautiful and multifaceted plant. But the reason I like them is in spite of, not because of, their overused connotation of leisure. I see them as fellow witnesses to our folly, dropped into all kinds of chaos, mutually uncomfortable and yet madly resilient.

YOUNG TALENT The 2015 Alumna of the Year for UNLV’s Greenspun College of Urban Affairs might have only graduated three years ago, but journalist Hannah Birch has some serious cred on her resume: a Pulitzer Prize. The 2012 graduate, who was part of The Seattle Times team that scored the prestigious honor for the paper’s breaking-news coverage of a deadly mudslide, is being honored at two receptions this week during UNLV’s annual Homecoming celebration. –Mark Adams

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Reveling in the future-past with Hiptazmic’s Christine Esposito

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Pocket watches whose glass fronts reveal floating gears and tiny skeleton keys; ornate sepia necklaces decked with fantastical creatures; top hats, round rubber goggles, spyglasses and vintage suitcases packed for travel to another realm.

Once you’ve seen the steampunk aesthetic, blending Victorian antiqueness with the technology of tomorrow, it’s easy to recognize its calling cards. And they’re becoming more visible as the subculture grows, even in a city that has a limited engagement with the past in its love of all things future.

Hiptazmic is one big reason in a small space, the boutique tucked into a print shop on the northwest corner of the Arts Factory. With handcrafted accessories, art and steam-inspired goods, owner Christine Esposito has been on a mission to pull Las Vegas into steampunk’s rusty time machine for more than four years. She strapped on her goggles and boots and dished about exploring this unique world through her art and imagination.

> GEARING UP Steampunk timepieces add a little anachronism to the accessory game.

She loves making 3D art on canvases using the same types of gears, bullets and vintage books that I do. Her series of steampunk heart art canvases have been very popular and tend to sell quickly. I also like to bring in some ready-made How did you discover steampunk? Years items that complement what we creago, before it became as “mainstream” ate. We sometimes bring in earrings and trendy as it is now, we were showor rings, and I am also always on the ing at a goth and dark subculture event hunt for cool vintage antiques to add to where I was exposed to steampunk for displays. Most of them I eventually sell the first time. off, so even the decor is ever-changing and interesting. We also have What defines it? Usually set in started adding some costume an anachronistic Victorian pieces like corsets, spats and or quasi-Victorian alternate HIPTAZMIC hats we decorate ourselves. And history, it’s a subgenre of sci- Sundayno steampunk aesthetic is comence fiction that features Thursday, 11 plete without goggles; every airadvanced machines using the a.m.-6 p.m.; ship pirate time traveler needs steam power of the 19th cen- Friday & some goggles! tury. I thought, how cool is Saturday, 11 that—the combination of Vic- a.m.-7 p.m. torian clothing accented with Arts Factory, Your steampunkery shares space mechanical contraptions, not facebook.com/ with a screen-printing business. to mention the creative sto- hiptazmic.

The custom tees, clothing and ries and characters based in vinyl for signs and banners are fictitious worlds. It was just so my husband’s doing, so you can appealing. For me, steampunk is what see it’s a whole-family operation. the past would look like if the future had happened sooner.

How long have you been in the Arts FacWho makes Hiptazmic’s otherworldly baubles—and how? The majority of the

steampunk jewelry and accessories are made by me. My daughter, Gabby, works with me once in a while as well, especially with hair pieces like the combs and flower clips. Pieces are made from a variety of items: using repurposed, vintage and new charms, gears, broken jewelry, watch pieces and found objects.

Assemblage art is just a blast to create.

I love adding bits and pieces from just about everywhere.

And the art? Most of the steampunk-

themed wall art is done by my daughter.

tory, and how has your experience been there as a boutique vendor? This Octo-

ber it is actually four years since we have been in our current location at the Arts Factory. We have also doubled in size during that time. We were inside a couple other spaces with the Going Green Gallery with my aluminum can art and accessories for about two years before that. And before that, we were the first vendors to be outside in the back lot at the Arts Factory during First Friday for several years. Clearly, we love the Arts Factory!

How do you fit into the complex’s creative patchwork? Since we started out-

side as First Friday vendors, I think the artists in the building kind of viewed us as more “craft” than art at first. I embraced this; I like the idea of not being so traditional as an artist and a maker. I guess in the scheme of things ... for what was there in the building, we were very different and didn’t fit in that well. So we had to find our own niche. But we opened Hiptazmic at a good time. Besides galleries and studios, the only other non-gallery places were really Happy Panda and HellPop Comics. We liked the idea of a retail wing of the building. We became a kind of trio.

How do your customers find you? We started out with quite a following from selling online and vending during First Friday for years. Folks were happy to see us with a permanent location they could visit any day of the week. Tourists who wander through the building will almost always find us open. ...

Word of mouth has played a big part.

Return customers also come in for my husband’s work, custom vinyl signs

and clothing. Many galleries and artists in the Arts District use him for vinyl and signage for art shows, etc.

If you had the ability to make any steampunk invention, tool or accessory, what would it be/do? Hmm, so many

to choose from! But I am fascinated with winged things, so I think I would create some type of steam-powered, winged personal airship that also functioned as a time machine. It would be embellished with all kinds of intricate metalwork. Imagine all the amazing gears, charms and doodads I could go back in time and collect to create with.

Future plans? Earlier this month I

opened my online Anachronic Whimsy shop at the new Amazon Handmade site. So I will be focusing on upcoming holiday sales and events in Hiptazmic, custom orders and creating more steamy goodness for my new online shop. When spring rolls around, though, who knows? Hiptazmic Studio may be expanding yet again.

–Molly O’Donnell

“For me, steampunk is what the past would look like if the future had happened sooner.”

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> FAKE TATTOOS, REAL BEARD Walker has been growing his current beard since his hair bounced back from chemo.

This is the season of razors sitting idle on sinks and chins disappearing in silky and wiry, trimmed and untamed, curly and cascading decoration. Growing a beard might be about solidarity with No-Shave November, or it might be a permanent state of face. Either way, “beard” isn’t just a familiar noun. It’s a verb, meaning “to confront and oppose with boldness, resolution and often effrontery.”

On this page (and Page 20), you can see such boldness on Curtis Joe Walker, a local photographer who calls it his “chemo beard.” Walker went through treatment for lung and testicular cancer last year, losing his hair as the drugs ravaged his fastgrowing cells. Coming from a very personal place, he thinks No-Shave November strikes an exceptional balance between a fun, hair-centric gimmick and important work surrounding a heavy subject.

“It just fits,” he says. “Because when you go through chemo, it’s the

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one thing you can’t have.”

Walker has since grown a doozy of a beard, and shared it at the November 1 kickoff of Atomic Liquors’ monthlong contest benefitting the American Cancer Society. Men and women and all manner of face fur were invited to go for greatness in categories like Awesome Man Beard and ’Stachiest MoFo. This is just one local example tapping into the good-hearted levity of No-Shave November, which encourages folks to forgo shaving (and

grooming, if employers allow) “to evoke conversation and raise cancer awareness.” Not to mention funds.

Through December 31, the organization pledges to give no less than 80 percent of donations to participating charities ranging from the ACS to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

When the web-based nonprofit launched in 2009, it reportedly raised $2,000—and last year brought in more than $1 million. It happened because eight kids lost their dad to cancer,

and creatively fought back. On the No-Shave November site, their sentiment boils down to this: “We want every participant to embrace their hair for the many cancer patients that lose theirs due to vigorous treatments.

We believe that together, anything is possible, and we’ll get closer to eradicating cancer one whisker at a time!”

–Erin Ryan For details and ways to get involved, visit no-shave.org.

PHOTOGRAPH BY GREG ANDERSON; MAKEUP/STYLING/TATTOO APPLIQUE BY TAI SHANE/MUA

> NOW AND THEN Chuck Twardy today and in 1977 (below).

Zabi Naqshband, 31, service manager at McGhie’s Ski Bike & Board; bassist for Illicitor

Describe your beard.

Joe Buck has a beard. Yes, Joe Buck. That might be the best sign yet the trend shark is circling patiently, waiting to be hurdled. Prince Harry we can take, maybe even Tom Brady and the entire lineups of both World Series teams, but when Jack Buck’s boy comes bristly cheeked, it might be time to lather up.

Not that I mind, really. I’ve had a beard most of my adult life, going back to college days, and during those decades I’ve been happily oddball. I mean, people used to notice a beard.

It stood out, marked a maverick. The only downside to this emerged when neatly groomed parents introduced me to their children. Most got a look at the fur framing my face and ran away in fear, although a few brave toddlers would tug at it. Nowadays, though, with so many bewhiskered dads, I no longer traumatize kids when I bend down to say hello.

I should admit that vanity rears its hairy head here, too. I have vitiligo, blotches of pigmentless skin around my mouth, and the beard obscures it.

About two years ago, just to check on things, I shaved. Aside from terrorizing my wife when I emerged from the bathroom, I found most people did not notice the vitiligo. In fact, most did not notice I was clean-shaven. So perhaps I misattribute my eccentricity. But after a year I tired of shaving and grew back the beard.

Somewhat against trend, I keep mine short. Not the perpetual twoday stubble favored by fashion models

I started growing a beard as early as I can remember, and its current form started nine years ago. I grew it for a Halloween costume and just kept it. It’s not all one color— there’s lots of colors in there. I don’t know if that’s me being Afghan or if it’s just genetics.

What products are you fond of using?

(talk about welcomes overstayed) but close-cut. I used to rely on barbers to do that, and between visits I took scissors to the mustache every few weeks to keep it from colonizing my teeth.

But back in my Las Vegas days, a stylist at Curl Up N Dye suggested I get a Wahl trimmer like the one she used, and I’ve been keeping the fuzz at a reliable quarter-inch ever since. I need to do this because when the beard gets much longer, it bugs me. Not the look of it. The feel, thrusting its coarse tendrils into the air around my face, tickling my Adam’s apple in a brisk wind.

This might have something to do with age, too. The bushy beard didn’t trouble me in my 20s. It was, forgive me, authentic. So I can understand why flannel-shirted Williamsburg lads prefer the Stonewall Jackson cut—especially drizzled with a fine craft cider while listening to Bon Iver.

Along those lines, I don’t much care for the sculpted look, with incised lines or squared-off at the lips sans ’stache—sorry, ostentation rarely wears well. I thought the medium-

length chin forest favored by Cubs hurler Jake Arrieta this summer was fine, although it wasn’t much help against the more scruffily hirsute Daniel Murphy.

Much longer, though, and you’re drifting dangerously into Duck Dynasty territory, and, well, let’s not.

Besides, at my age I must be mindful of the Edward Lear limerick: There was an old man with a beard, Who said: It is just as I feared!

Two owls and a hen, Four larks and a wren Have all built their nests in my beard.

These days, I more resemble the middle-aged “justice” described by Jaques in his “seven ages” speech from Shakespeare’s As You Like It: “In fair round belly with good capon lined/ With eyes severe and beard of formal cut.” I wish I could keep the belly trimmed, too, but I’ll take the author of King Lear over Edward Lear any day.

For a really long time I would just use whatever my wife had on the counter, whatever girl products were around.

[Then] I started noticing companies making beard products, so I started trying stuff out. My friend Luke has this really awesome giant beard, and he started making a product, which I like. I’ve tried the dollar beard stuff online, but I like Luke’s better.

How does your mom feel about your beard?

If it was her way, it would be like half the size that it is now. After 9/11 and even now, our society doesn’t take too well to Middle Eastern people. It’s kind of a relief to go from being called a terrorist to being called Duck Dynasty. –Leslie Ventura

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Juan Ramirez, Fino for Men

Curtis Joe Walker, 38, photographer

Describe your current “chemo beard.”

All of my hair has been growing from the same moment at the same rate without ever being cut for the last 13 months. … You’ve got awkward stages where you just don’t like what’s going on. You suffer through those and make the most of it, and then on the other side it just gets better and better, and now I’m on my way to Gandalf-land.

What is it like going from clean-shaven to bearded?

It really does give you a different outlook on life, [and] people treat you different because you’re a different book now; you’ve got a different cover. When I shaved the last one off, my daughter said to me, “You look like you don’t want to murder everyone all the time now.” (laughs)

Any tips for eating while bearded?

Sandwiches are great. They were obviously invented by someone with facial hair.

–Erin Ryan

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“I’d say 75 percent of people do ask for advice. The other 25 percent treat their beard like it’s their child,” this master barber says with a laugh.

“They really take pride; they know what they want.” In the business for seven years, Ramirez says he has practiced his razor-work skills a lot more during his four years at the men’s grooming lounge near the Lakes—and beards are now his favorite thing to cut.

“What I like to tell my clients is, treat it like it’s your hair,” he says, adding that guys should shampoo and condition their facial hair every two to three days. “By shampooing, you strip away a lot of the natural oils, and it tends to dry out your beard.”

Not sure what beard type would best complement your face? Ramirez took his time finding his signature style (a thin line accenting his jawline), but advises customers to stay away from commercial razors and to comb their faces often. “That’s how you train your beard, to either lay or fill out a certain way, or to give it the look that you want.”

Martin Corona, Hi-Rollers Barbershop “A lot of people don’t know that a lot of maintenance goes into a beard,” says the owner and barber at this Downtown spot. “You don’t just grow it out and leave it alone. You have to actually do things to it if you want it to look nice.”

Hydration is key in Corona’s suggested regimen, from conditioning the beard (“leave it in a little bit while

you’re in the shower”) to applying beard oil and beard lotion (which helps “hold the beard in place” in addition to hydrating the hair).

Corona also suggests combing or brushing the beard to avoid tangles, and blow-drying the beard so it lies down on the face correctly. “If I don’t blow-dry my beard it looks like a big

afro on my face.”

Patchiness a problem? Corona dispels the myth that shaving promotes more hair growth. “That’s not true. It’s all hereditary.” His answer?

Patience. “Once it grows in it will actually fill in and cover a lot of the patches, the majority of the time.”

–Mark Adams

“I’ll be right there.” That was my girlfriend’s reaction when I told her I’d just shaved my face for the first time since we’d been together. Nothing too unusual about her wanting to see it, right? Except that she was in Manhattan, and I was in Phoenix.

I didn’t mean to shave off my entire beard, only to trim it. But my clippers didn’t have a guard, and I slipped, badly, the cold blade meeting the middle of my cheek, chopping as it went. No hiding that, I thought, so I removed the rest. I looked upon my bare face for the first time in more than two years and … I hated it. Surely, this wasn’t what I looked like before. I mean, so much skin. And that shape? Yuck.

True to her word, my girlfriend flew cross-country the next day to see me— and it’s a good thing she did. Otherwise, after 17 years as my wife, she’d still have never laid eyes on the beardless me. Because that was the last time I shaved.

–Spencer Patterson SELF-PORTRAIT BY CURTIS JOE WALKER; MARTIN CORONA BY ADAM SHANE

Alchemy Beard Elixir “That stuff is probably my favorite. It gets rid of the little fly-aways, and it makes your beard lay down really nice.” –MC ($25, alchemyhaircare. storenvy.com)

Chrome Futura Safety Razor Ramirez suggests any single-blade safety razor (many can be found at the Art of Shaving) because “It does the work that it needs to do.” Schick and Gillette often promote razors with numerous blades, but Ramirez says those are more likely to irritate the skin. ($105, theartofshaving.com)

Muk Spa Argan Oil Repair Shine Spray “If you have a fine beard you should use more of a spray, because oil would weigh it down and make it look flat, instead of full like it’s supposed to.”

–JR ($35, mukusa. com)

Tusk & Hide Trading Co. Beard Oil

Roy Page, 44, owner and amplifier/vacuum tube specialist at Roy’s Repair-O-Rama; lead guitarist of The Black Jetts

Describe your beard.

No mustache. No chin. Just giant sideburns. … I can’t begin to tell you how many young ladies have asked to braid them.

How long have you had that style?

I started growing the ’chops in 2001. They’ve been wrecked several times working on cars, motorcycles— and smoking.

What’s your all-time favorite beard?

“The oil actually keeps your beard hydrated and promotes healthy beard hair growth.”

–MC ($25, tuskandhide.com)

I really wanted the huge beard, but I wasn’t a fan of the mustache. [Without one] it looks like you’re Amish, or Abraham Lincoln. Some really bad ’90s rap-metal dudes did that. –Mike Prevatt

Small Horn Comb “You have to keep combing it or brushing [your beard] during the day,” Corona says. “If not it’s just going to tangle up like regular hair.” ($40, theartofshaving. com) –Mark Adams

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Lane Olson, 51, general manager at PublicUs

Describe your beard.

It’s gray, and my hair is not gray. When I’m working I twist it up so that it doesn’t drag or gross anybody out when I’m working with food.

What are your grooming techniques?

I wash it and condition it every day. I know there’s beard products, and occasionally I’ll use them if I need to tame it down a little bit. For the most part I’m twisting it up so that it’s more like a chin bun.

Why is PublicUs so beardy?

We want people to show their personality and be who they are. A lot of places require people to cover up and shave.

It wasn’t an intentional thing to pick guys with beards, but it was definitely intentional to have a variation of types of people. –Leslie Ventura

Flowers in beards are fun, cute, seen-it-on-Pinterest, good job, dude. The Gay Beards don flowers sometimes, too, but better than that, the BFFs from Portland dazzle their 70,000 Instagram followers with unexpected ornaments like glitter and glowsticks, even the odd Lego or cocktail umbrella. Nothing is off limits. Validating the term “flavor savor,” Brian Delaurenti and Johnathan Dahl incorporate foodstuffs, adorning their facial forests with healthful and junk foods alike. It’s kale one day, Fruity Pebbles the next. For Halloween, they did spiderwebs and candy corn, and for Pride they did rainbow paint. Every day feels like a holiday on the Gay Beards’ page. “We tend to think the world needs more love and laughter,” they say on their profile. Done and done. –Kristy Totten

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Robert Teddy, 47, pastry chef; instructor at Le Cordon Bleu

Describe your beard.

My beard is an entity of its own, and I say that because it seems to get more attention than I do.

Depending on the beard, can that attention be negative?

You have to beard responsibly. You cannot eat soup in public. You cannot eat an ice cream cone in public. And women can be critical. I know some women who will talk to me, and their eyes never leave my beard. It’s like, ‘Hey, sister, eyes up here!’ (laughs)

Answers: 1. Frederick Douglass 2. Dr. Teeth 3. James Harden 4. Hagrid 5. Charles Darwin 6. G.I. Joe 7. Santa 8. Joaquin Phoenix 9. Brian Wilson 10. Ghenghis Khan 11. Ernest Hemingway 12. Fidel Castro

There’s a picture of me in the operating room, moments after being born, and my dad—and his beard—are there. His beard was present for most of my childhood, such that every picture I ever drew of him had that furry line. It carried so much weight in my consciousness that I didn’t trust clean-shaven men, famously going into shrieking convulsions as Mom tried to put me in a pool with a teenage swim teacher. No beard? No freaking way.

Then one weekend, my parents went to Vegas to renew their vows. My sister and I ran for the door when they got back, and left skid-marks as we tried to stop our slide into the arms of this alien. It had smooth cheeks and a big shiny chin and naked lips, and the more we cried, the more its face twisted. It looked at our mother and said, “This is your fault.” She explained that Daddy shaved for her, that it really was him underneath all that skin.

He never grew the beard again, and I learned to swim. –Erin Ryan

You won silver at the National Beard and Moustache Championships in 2012, but your beard probably got more attention on Halloween Wars, which your team won this season.

I asked the Food Network producers, why did you single me out and have me on the show? They said, “Honestly, it was your beard.” –Erin Ryan

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ONE LAST TRYST Pay a final visit to the Wynn trailblazer So Tryst started it all, sorta. Well, first it had to become itself— don’t forget that Wynn’s initial foray into nightclub operations 10 years ago was called La Bête. It was run by mostly food and beverage executives, and it didn’t work at all. When Victor Drai came in and transformed the space into Tryst, a new standard was set— luxury and intimacy and a wild party. The indoor-outdoor setup, the cascading waterfall, all the sexy. Its success paved the way for the Encore expansion of XS, Surrender and Encore Beach Club, ushering in the Wynn DJ boom. ¶ Now it’s time to say goodbye. Tryst shutters after one more party on November 7, and appropriately, DJ Dave Fogg (who helped open the venue) will be in the booth.

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Bar—then called Barbarella. Owner John Gardner took The video’s fiery crosses burned an impression into my Graham under his wing, taught him how to DJ and, in 2009, eyes. In a bar full of subversive religious imagery, they had him run a new Barbarella at Austin’s Red River Cultural were nonetheless the most noticeable.

District, back when the Texas capital’s so-called hipster Later, Harvey Graham, owner/DJ of the new scene was limited to a Beauty Bar. (Sound familiar?)

Downtown video bar and dance spot, smiled wide Fast-forward six years, when a Wired article and called it just another example of the on Downtown Project that featured an old synchronicity that had colored both his venue Florida friend inspired Graham—then looking and experience in Las Vegas up to that point.

Oddfellows to open a bar/club on his own—to check out From his nearby bag, he pulled a copy of Swiss 150 Las Vegas Vegas and, eventually, the downstairs Ogden psychiatrist Carl Jung’s Synchronicity. I told Blvd. S. #190, space once occupied by the Scullery. him that was also the name of the first album 702-834-3377.

“These weird coincidences were happenI ever owned, and he nearly knocked over his Tuesday-Sunday, ing, and I just felt like I was being pulled to beer. “By The Police?! This is awesome!” doors at 8 p.m., do it here,” Graham says. “And this space was Graham frequently evokes the unexplained no cover. really what it was. I was like, this is perfect. To and metaphysical, the phenomena of the mind, me, it was built to be a dance club.” He severed the secret and the unknown—as does his bar. ties from Barbarella Austin—he still co-owns another in Hence its name, inspired by the old fraternal society of Houston—and signed the lease, joined by business partlodges; the religious iconography; the ouija boards; the ner/Austin DJ Jacob Travelle. hidden dance room (soon to be further concealed by a That mellow soft opening has evolved into word of swinging bookcase); and the waiting-to-be-installed neon mouth and busy weekends. The Halloween edition of beckon that merely reads IOOF (it’s a sign from an actual New Noise saw a packed dancefloor and a hopping bar, International Order of Oddfellows lodge). “I want it to be where longtime Downtown bartender Tim Kam served a place people discover,” Graham says. up gin and tonics and vodka cranberrys, which he adverIt’s also the next in an evolving tradition of indie-centric tised pretentiously to troll craft-cocktail culture. Graham Downtown hangs, albeit with the video-bar twist and delighted in revealing Oddfellows’ menu almost as much a separate, dedicated dancefloor. Fixed weekly promos as he does its synchronistic mojo. “I love this bar, I love include Thursday’s funk/soul/’70s rock party Grits & Gravy, my staff and I think we’ll have something special.”

Footloose Friday’s alt-’80s reverie (Madonna aside) and

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So your latest ’gram got 15 likes, but you’re still a few hundred away from being considered elite. Don’t worry, you can mingle with Vegas’ notable social-media junkies this week when Surrender throws its third annual Instagrammy Awards, celebrating 100 local “Insta-makers” within the nightlife, creative and entertainment worlds.

“Three years ago, when social media like Twitter was really popular and people were exploring that, Instagram was still slowly moving into 3RD ANNUAL INSTAGRAMMY the socialmedia world,” AWARDS says Steven November 11, Lockwood, the 10:30 p.m., $45+ men, $35+ women, Encore club’s executive direcSurrender. tor of marketing. “People were getting more on [Instagram], and I liked it a lot better. I wanted to do a socialmedia party, and in my line of work— music, nightclubs—the Grammys is the biggest award you can get. So I just put those two together.”

It wouldn’t be the Intagrammys without some serious swag. All 100 Insta-makers will receive a custom Instagrammy trophy—a mirrored iPhone 6s Plus, etched with the winner’s name and handle.

Surrender’s marketing and host teams scoured local Instagram accounts to find Vegas’ most influential tastemakers—chefs, socialites, entrepreneurs and more. “You have to have at least a couple thousand followers, and your pictures have to have a few hundred likes on most of them,” Lockwood says.

Didn’t make the cut? Don’t worry.

The event’s open to the public (with RL Grime on the decks) so you can take some notes from the Instafamous—and begin your efforts to take home a trophy next year.

–Leslie Ventura

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VENUE

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

1 OAK

Closed

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

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

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

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

ARTIFICE

Doors at 5 pm

Doors at 5 pm

Doors at 6 pm

Doors at 6 pm

Doors at 5 pm

American Jazz Initiative

Doors at 5 pm

ARTISAN

Lounge open 24 hours

Artisan Afterhours

Artisan Afterhours

Lounge open 24 hours

Lounge open 24 hours

Lounge open 24 hours

With DJ Yanel; 11 pm; no cover; lounge open 24 hours

Closed

Closed

Closed

J. Espinosa

THE BANK

CHATEAU

DOWNTOWN COCKTAIL ROOM DRAI’S AFTERHOURS

DRAI’S NIGHTCLUB

EMBASSY NIGHTCLUB

FOXTAIL NIGHTCLUB

DJ Kid Conrad

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

Midnight; $10, no cover for women, locals; lounge open 24 hours

Jidenna

DJ Five

ShadowRed

DJ Carlos Sanchez

Thursday Edition

Midnight; $10, no cover for women, locals; lounge open 24 hours

Miss Chateau Pageant

DJ Lenny “Love” Alfonzo

Afterhours

DJ Neva

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

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

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

SATURDAY

Live, with DJ Ikon, DJ Que; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Closed

9 pm; no cover; doors at 4 pm

With percussionist Cayce Andrew; 9 pm; no cover; doors at 4 pm

Afterhours

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

3LAU

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

With guests; 9 pm; no cover; doors at 7 pm

Afterhours

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

Dannic

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

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

Viva Latin Thursdays

Rosa d’Oro Fridays Doors at 10 pm; $10 men, no cover for women

With Mr. Bob; doors at 10 pm; $10 men, no cover for women; Latin Afterhours at 3 am

Red Bull Global Rallycross Party

Michael Woods

Fedde Le Grand

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

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

Global Saturdays

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

7:30 pm; no cover; doors at 5 pm

Latin Fusion

DJ Shift

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

Chateau Wednesdays

Closed

Closed

Closed

Cymatic Sessions

DJ Douglas Gibbs

With Sour Milk; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women, no cover for locals

Doors at 10 pm; $10 men, no cover for women

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Doors at 4 pm

Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women, no cover for locals

DJ Rob Alahn

Doors at 4 pm

With Eta Carina, Rafael LaGuerre, guests; 9 pm; no cover; doors at 4 pm

With DJ Doug W; 9 pm; no cover; doors at 4 pm

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Afterhours

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

SunDrai’s

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

Dragon Sundays

Doors at 10 pm; $10 men, no cover for women

Blueprint Sound Takeover

With DJ Direct, C.L.A., Earwaxxx, more; 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

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THURSDAY Seany Mac

Benny Black

Exodus & Mark Stylz

GOLD SPIKE

Live, with Amanda Rose; 10 pm; no cover; lounge open 24 hours

Elko

The Chainsmokers

Doors at 8 pm; $25+ men, $20+ women

Cobra Zebra

Live, with Freddy B; 10 pm; $10+ men, free for women; lounge open 24 hours

Above & Beyond

With Fergie DJ; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

With Mark Eteson; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Lounge open at 5 pm

10 pm; $38+ men, $26+ women; lounge open at 5 pm

DJ Crooked

HYDE

LAX

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Throwback Thursdays

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SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Lounge open at 5 pm

Lounge open at 5 pm

Lounge open at 5 pm

Lounge open at 5 pm

Lounge open at 5 pm

GBDC with Baddie Winkle

DJ b-Radical

Seany Mac

Seany Mac

Presto One

DJ D-Miles

With DJ Mark Mac; doors at 10 pm; $20+ men/ women; lounge open at 5 pm

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

HAKKASAN

FRIDAY

Doors at 10 pm; $20+ men/women; lounge open at 5 pm

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DJ Corona

With Aybsent Mynded; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Hosting, with Exodus & Mark Stylz; doors at 1 pm; $20+ men, $10+ women

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

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

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

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

Haleamano

Sunday Spike Football Party

Lounge open 24 hours

Lounge open 24 hours

10 pm; no cover; lounge open 24 hours

Closed

Closed

Closed

Lost Angels

Lounge open at 5 pm

Lounge open at 5 pm

With Konflikt; 10 pm; $38+ men, $26+ women; lounge open at 5 pm

Infamous Wednesdays

Closed

Closed

Closed

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TiĂŤsto

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Closed

Doors at 8 pm; no cover

Closed

9 am; no cover; lounge open 24 hours

Cyberkid

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

Dash Berlin

OMNIA

Closed

Thursdays on the Terrace

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

With Lema; doors at 10 pm; $41+ men, $23+ women

Chuckie

With Gregori Klosman, Turbulence; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

With DJ D-Miles, 10 pm; no cover; lounge open at 5 pm

Making the Cut

With Aybsent Mynded, Karam vs. Casanova; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Ava Fiore

Hosts; college football party; doors at 11 am; no cover

Hosts; Sunday football party; doors at 9 am; no cover

Closed

Closed

Closed

Soul Train Weekend with Ginuwine

Closed

Closed

Closed

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

With Frank Rempe; doors at 10 pm; $41+ men, $23+ women

Closed

With Lema; doors at 10 pm; $32+ men, $23+ women

Closed

Closed

Nicky Romero

Sundays on the Terrace

Live, doors at 10 pm, $30+ men, $20+ women

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Freddy B

Don Diablo

With Fergie DJ; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Dijital

10 pm; $38+ men, $26+ women; lounge open at 5 pm

Jessica Burciaga

Closed

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Vice

With Ansolo, DJ Sinatra; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

DJ Mustard

Dash Berlin

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

DVBBS

Closed

With DJ Crooked; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Closed

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FRIDAY

Drag Queen Bingo

PIRANHA

SHARE

Hosted by Michelle Holliday; 7 pm; no cover; open 24 hours

Evolving Thursdays

Doors at 10 pm; no cover

Ladies’ Night

STONEY’S

Doors at 7 pm; $10 men, $5 women; $1 well, wine and drafts for women

SURRENDER

Closed

TAO

Worship Thursdays with Juicy J

With DJ Five; 10 pm; $23+ men, $14+ women

Dave Fogg

TRYST

VANGUARD LOUNGE

VELVETEEN RABBIT

VOODOO LOUNGE

XS

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

Runnin’ Thursdays

Open 24 hours

Stripper Circus

SATURDAY Afterhours with DJ J Diesel

La Noche Latin Night

Boylesque

Share Saturdays

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Doors at 10:30 pm; $45+ men, $35+ women

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Wind Down

Unprotected Decks

Doors at 7 pm; $10 men/ women, $5 locals and military with ID

Lil Jon

DJ set; doors at 10:30 pm; $35+ men, $25+ women

Politik

Justin Credible

Run DTWN

Industry Mondays

With India Ferrah; no cover; open 24 hours

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

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

Sinful Sundays

WEDNESDAY

Plus Piranha Idol Karaoke with Shiela at 7 pm; no cover; open 24 hours

All American Saturday

Alie Layus

TUESDAY

4 am; no cover; open 24 hours

Cale Dodds

Doors at 10 pm; $23+ men/women

MONDAY Hosted by Desree St. James; no cover; half-off drinks for industry with ID, 4-9 pm

Doors at 10 pm; no cover

A Trak

SUNDAY With India Ferrah and guests, 1:30 am; El Deseo show, 1 am; no cover; open 24 hours

Doors at 10 pm; no cover

Live; doors at 7 pm; $15 men/women, $5 locals

SPONSORED BY: hyde bellagio las vegas

Doors at 10 pm; $32+ men, $23+ women

Grand Closing Party with Dave Fogg

RL Grime

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

The Rapture

With Bad Antikz; 10 pm; no cover; doors at 4 pm

With DJs Mckenzie, Sucio; 10 pm; no cover; doors at 4 pm

With DJ Soulcutz, 10 pm; no cover; doors at 6 pm

With Teddy P, 9 pm; no cover; doors at 6 pm

Doors at 5 pm

Doors at 6 pm

Doors at 6 pm

Doors at 5 pm

Doors at 8 pm; $20+ men/women

Doors at 8 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Doors at 8 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

With Chippendales and Girls of X-Rocks hosting; 11 pm; $20+ men/women; doors at 8 pm

Will Sparks

RL Grime

Studio V

Can I Kick It?

With DJ Duran; 10 pm; no cover; doors at 4 pm

With DJs Sucio, Exile; 10 pm; no cover; doors at 4 pm

With Byra Tanks, Zack the Ripper; 10 pm; no cover; doors at 4 pm

Doors at 5 pm

Doors at 5 pm

Doors at 5 pm

Doors at 8 pm; $20+ men/women

Doors at 8 pm; $20+ men/women

Doors at 8 pm; $20+ men/women

Closed

Closed

Sin City Sundays

Closed

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

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

SKAM Sundays with Justin Credible

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

Jermaine Dupri

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

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Arts&Entertainment MOVIES + MUSIC + ART + FOOD

FRIEND OPPORTUNITY Checking in with Deerhoof guitarist John Dieterich On playing old songs: When I first started playing in this band, we would play a song 10 times [while recording] and then another 30 times on tour, and then you’re like, Okay, I’m sick of this song.

But over the years that feeling has left me. Any material is just a blank slate, an opportunity to see what the music shows you. You can still find new things in it.

On August’s improvised set in front of Switzerland’s Large Hadron Collider: I

> PIT BOB Robert De Niro in Casino.

TRUST US

Stuff you’ll want to know about SEE THE REAL STORY BEHIND CASINO Robert De Niro’s Ace Rothstein is based on gaming expert-turnedskimmer Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, but how much of Martin Scorsese’s 1995 film is fiction? Hear Oscar Goodman, two FBI agents and others share what really happened. (The event itself is sold out, but visit themobmuseum.org on Saturday for a Livestream link.) November 7, 7 p.m., Mob Museum.

YELLOW FACE Ethnic tension, accidental hypocrisy, Broadway egos—this play by David Henry Hwang has everything, the story swirling around the miscasting of a Eurasian pimp.

November 6-22; Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m.; $10-$15; Las Vegas Little Theatre.

SCREAM UNTIL MIDNIGHT The Sci Fi Center drops 1959 classic House on Haunted Hill and a variety show featuring “weird magic, spirit communication, ghostly manifestations and ghastly mayhem.” So, just a typical weekend.

November 7, 9:30 p.m., $15.

PEACHES BY AARON GARCIA

HEAR VIVA SKA VEGAS Hub City Stompers, Voodoo Glow

Skulls and more are on deck for this year’s skanka-thon, which moves to Vinyl but remains all-ages.

Bonuses: a free kickoff party at Hard Rock Cafe (Paradise) the night before and the Ainsworth-hosted Soul Shakedown afterparty. November 7, 5 p.m., $20-$25.

PEACHES Her former band was called The Sh*t, but the electro-punk maverick remains just that, colloquially speaking. She deftly upends your understanding of women, men and sex while entertaining your pants off, metaphorically speaking. With Christeene, November 11, 8 p.m., $22-$27, Brooklyn Bowl.

DEERHOOF with Cy Dune, The Anti-Job. November 5, 9 p.m., $12. The Sayers Club, 702-761-7618.

met this guy, James Beacham, at a show in New York, and he was like, “It would be cool to have you guys play at the Hadron Collider.” Then the last time we played in Paris, he made the trip and came to our show, and he was much more serious about it, like, “Let’s plan this. Let’s make it happen.” It was his brainchild, and he went through all of the incredible red tape, as you might imagine at a place like that. It was not easy for him, but it was the greatest experience, so organized. I’m really happy with the way it came out.

On Deerhoof’s longevity: You start off as

good friends and you become more like family, which is more complicated.

I think the fact that we live in different places now in some ways is a good thing.

It makes it hard for us to practice, but allows everyone to go their separate ways. When we get together we’re happy to see each other, and we have a lot of fun. –Leslie Ventura For more of our interview with Dieterich, visit lasvegasweekly.com.

GO VEGAS VALLEY COMIC BOOK FESTIVAL Celebrate the illustrated word with podcast and writing workshops, documentaries and panels—including one with Girls Night Out creator Amy Chu. November 7, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., free, Clark County Library.

BIKES FOR BRATS Hammer & Cycle bicycle club’s whiz-bang art auction and bike drive moves to the Mesquite Street artist studios this year. It will feature works by stellar Vegas artists, with proceeds going directly for wheels for area kids. November 7, 6-9 p.m., 418 W. Mesquite St. #130.

The Bunkhouse Series at the Sayers Club at SLS is sponsored by Southern Wine & Spirits, Live Nation, Downtown Container Park and Greenspun Media Group.

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A&E | screen > Crash Landing Craig emerges unscathed to live another day.

Winks and nods Look out for these Spectre references to the classic Bond canon In The Man With the Golden Gun Bond squared off against Scaramanga, the world’s top assassin, in a hall of mirrors “fun house.” You can spot echoes of it as Christoph Waltz’s Oberhauser lures Bond into the mazelike, booby-trapped remains of MI6’s headquarters.

Bond has had several dustups onboard trains, but none is more iconic than the showdown in From Russia With Love between Sean Connery and Robert Shaw. Spectre’s best action bit homages that scene, when Daniel Craig finally squares off with an opponent—Dave Bautista—who is physically stronger.

Spectre’s bravura opening sequence finds Bond tracking a bad guy through the Day of the Dead festival in Mexico City, but our hero has covered familiar ground before: from running for his life through the Junkanoo parade in Nassau, in Thunderball, to fending off steel-toothed henchman Jaws on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, in Moonraker.

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A Bond farewell

Daniel Craig (possibly) says goodbye in the uneven Spectre By Josh Bell flirts with topical concerns about excessive surveilIf, as he’s strongly indicated in recent interviews, lance, the social commentary is mostly an afterDaniel Craig is done playing James Bond, then Spectre thought. Director Sam Mendes (who also helmed wraps up his run pretty definitively. It’s so focused 2012’s Skyfall) and the four screenwriters make more on wrapping things up, actually, that it strains a bit of an effort to give the story emotional resonance for too hard to tie all four of the Craig-starring Bond Bond, but that too falls short, especially compared to movies together, by way of a villain who becomes retthe surprisingly affecting work Craig and Judi Dench roactively responsible for every act of terrorism and contributed to the superior Skyfall. sabotage in the previous movies. That’s Franz Spectre succeeds mainly as a series of Oberhauser (Christoph Waltz), who remains dazzling set pieces connected by a thin plot, in the shadows (sometimes literally) for the aaacc and its opening, set in Mexico City during first half of the movie, before revealing himSPECTRE the Day of the Dead celebration, is the perself as the architect of Bond’s misery as well Daniel Craig, fect example of its strengths and weaknessas a long-lost figure from Bond’s past.

Christoph es. It begins with an astounding long take It’s a lot of baggage to place on one Waltz, Léa from cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema, character, and that’s before a twist that Seydoux. encompasses both evocative scenes of cosadds another layer to Oberhauser’s connecDirected by tumed crowds and a thrilling mid-air battle tion to the Bond mythology. After 2006’s Sam Mendes. in a helicopter, and ends up having little Casino Royale offered up a stripped-down Rated PG-13. bearing on the actual plot of the movie. The take on the veteran secret-agent characOpens Friday. chases and fight scenes that follow are genter, subsequent movies have reintroduced erally thrilling, and the movie wraps up with some of the campier elements of the Bond Bond exhibiting some uncharacteristic restraint, both franchise, and Spectre brings in the titular evil secret in his treatment of his nemesis and in his relationship organization, joining classic supporting characters M with his latest love interest (Léa Seydoux). Spectre (Ralph Fiennes), Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) and gives Craig a nice sendoff, but in the process it loses Q (Ben Whishaw), plus a tricked-out car, a brutish some of what made his Bond movies so appealing in Jaws-like henchman (Dave Bautista) and a ridicuthe first place. lously complicated torture device. Although the plot

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The villain’s lair might be the greatest of all Bond tropes, and the greatest of all Bond lairs was Blofeld’s lavish hideout in You Only Live Twice, a futuristic complex, complete with rocket-launching pad and monorail, fitted inside an extinct Japanese volcano. Spectre pays tribute with a hideaway stashed inside a Moroccan crater. Also watch for the nod to Blofeld’s sleek Swiss Alps lair in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

Craig’s run as Bond has often been marked by scenes of 007 being dressed down or suspended by his boss, M, or analyzed by his villains (particularly Javier Bardem in Skyfall) or leading ladies (Eva Green in Casino Royale). Look for more of the same here. –T.R. Witcher

A&E | screen > patron saint Meryl Streep as real-life suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst.

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Good grief The Peanuts Movie delivers a faithful rendition of Charlie Brown and friends

ordinary wife and mother, working long, arduous hours in an industrial laundry that reveals the literal origin of the word “sweatshop.” As it happens, several of her coworkers are secretly activists, and one of them, Violet Miller (Anne-Marie Duff ), invites Maud to attend a meeting of their group, the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). Initially reluctant to cause trouble, Suffragette flatly dramatizes an important Maud comes around after her experience attempting to fight within the system fails miserably. Before long, she’s movement By Mike D’Angelo more militant than activist, joining women like Edith Ellyn (Helena Bonham Carter) who have escalated Compassion is a worthy quality in a human being, beyond minor bouts of civil disobedience, but filmmakers who prioritize it above all committing acts—like the bombing of a else produce movies that offer little more house—that arguably qualify as terrorism. than worthiness. Suffragette, as its title sugaabcc In theory, that shift into violence ought gests, tells the story of the battle to secure SUFFRAGETTE to be both exciting and thought-provoking, women the vote, focusing on the movement Carey Mulligan, raising the question that would later be as it unfolded in England during the years Anne-Marie Duff, posed by Malcolm X, regarding the civil just prior to World War I. But while it’s Helena Bonham rights movement: Can the oppressed ever gratifying to see that a film about this imporCarter. Directed by achieve their goals without essentially tant subject was written and directed by Sarah Gavron. Rated declaring war on their oppressors? (For women, neither director Sarah Gavron (Brick PG-13. Opens Friday. the “yes” argument, see Martin Luther Lane) nor screenwriter Abi Morgan (The King Jr. and Gandhi.) Suffragette has little Invisible Woman) demonstrates any willinginterest in making viewers think, however. Instead, the ness to grapple with history’s messy complexities. This film does everything short of superimposing frownyis an emphatically rah-rah picture, expending most of its face emoticons on the screen as Maud’s fight for equality energy on conveying how hard life was at the time for destroys her marriage, threatens to take away her child those lacking a Y chromosome. No viewer’s preconcepand otherwise turns her into a figure of derision and tions will be challenged. scorn. It’s designed to make you shake your head at the Given the many real-life suffragettes Morgan could Neanderthal attitudes that ostensibly civilized societies have chosen, it’s telling that she’s invented a composite once held, rather than inspire debate about how much character as her primary heroine. When the film begins, those attitudes persist. in 1912, Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan) is a perfectly film

Get out the vote

Given the crass, commercialized way that classic animated characters like the Smurfs and the Chipmunks have been adapted for recent feature films, fans of the late Charles M. Schulz’s beloved Peanuts characters were probably wise to worry about the new big-screen version.

But aside from its use of computer aaacc animation, The THE PEANUTS Peanuts Movie is MOVIE Voices of extraordinarily Noah Schnapp, faithful both to Hadley Belle Schulz’s comic Miller, Alexander strips and to the Garfin. Directed many animated

by Steve Martino. specials that still Rated G. Opens air regularly on Friday.

TV (it helps that Schulz’s son Craig and grandson Bryan serve as producers and co-writers).

It’s so faithful that it’s a bit like watching the Peanuts greatest hits. All of the major characters (Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, Sally, Schroeder, etc.) and most of the minor ones are present, and the animation style is designed to mimic Schulz’s drawings and the classic specials. The central plot is about hapless kid Charlie Brown (voiced by Noah Schnapp) trying to win the affections of the mysterious Little Red-Haired Girl, but it makes room for plenty of diversions that incorporate almost every well-known Peanuts moment, from the “wah-wah” sounds of adults speaking, to Lucy calling Charlie Brown a “blockhead,” to Snoopy fantasizing about battling his fighter-pilot nemesis the Red Baron.

Those fantasy sequences serve mostly to pad out the running time, and the biggest problem with The Peanuts Movie is that it doesn’t have enough material to justify its feature length.

Longtime fans will appreciate the reverence and attention to detail, and kids should enjoy the story’s simple charms, although they might get a bit fidgety before it all wraps up. –Josh Bell

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Finding his voice Aziz Ansari makes his own way in Master of None and occasionally inscrutable.

On Parks and Recreation, Aziz Co-created by Ansari and Parks Ansari’s Tom Haverford was most writer Alan Yang, Master of None often the target of jokes, and while has a familiar setup, with Ansari as he experienced a bit of personal a single, 30-something struggling growth, he was a buffoon all the actor in New York City. way to the end of the But this isn’t Ansari’s series. Ansari himself, aaabc version of Friends; the however, is much smart-

MASTER OF supporting characters er and more self-aware NONE Season drift in and out of what than Tom, as he’s demon1 available are mostly self-constrated in his stand-up, November 6 tained episodes, which his recent book Modern on Netflix. tackle big issues in offRomance and now his kilter ways that can be Netflix series Master of as odd as they are funny.

None, which draws from Like Louie, Master of None someboth of those sources. Like Louis times seems a bit scattered, and C.K., Ansari is influenced more by not everything Ansari tries works. independent film than by TV (and But when the show does succeed, particularly by the dramas of the it captures Ansari’s unique voice, 1970s), and Master of None has giving it a deserved spotlight. a loose, low-key tone that makes –Josh Bell it both charmingly unpredictable

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Friends to the end aabcc MISS YOU ALREADY Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore, Dominic Cooper. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke.

Rated PG-13. Opens Friday.

Miss You Already opens with a sweet, well-observed montage detailing the lifelong friendship between Milly (Toni Collette) and Jess (Drew Barrymore)—so naturally the next scene features Milly getting diagnosed with cancer. From there, the movie is a relentless tearjerker, as Milly slowly succumbs to the disease and Jess tries to cope with the inevitable loss of her best friend. Along the way, Milly has troubles with her husband (Dominic Cooper), Jess gets pregnant, and various supporting characters lend their support to Milly’s increasingly futile struggle. The tears flow easily, but the movie doesn’t really accomplish much else, and while Collette throws herself into her performance as a dying woman, Barrymore is too lightweight to properly balance her out. Although it flirts with real darkness in a sequence examining the damage a selfish Milly does to her closest relationships, Miss You quickly heads back to safe, Hallmark-movie territory as it culminates in both a death and a birth, for maximum weeping potential. –Josh Bell

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> ENJOYING HIMSELF Trey Anastasio played Brooklyn Bowl during Halloween weekend.

Under a blood red sky

There’s no better night to experience Ghost’s wild theatrics

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album, Paper Wheels, released to acclaim just the day before.

Generally speaking, the new record sounds like a celebration of the 1970s, and that’s what most of the three-hour, mostly improvisational show (with a 20-minute intermission) evoked as well, with the versatile Anastasio and his custom guitar summonsing the blues, R&B and even Steely Dan-esque Trey Anastasio forgoes holiday jazz-rock (the latter represented exuberantly by surprises for musical focus “Bounce”). TAB’s remarkable three-member horn

by Mike Prevatt section also strengthened forays into funk (heard throughout the night, especially during a dynamic “Last Tube”), progressive jazz (James Casey’s primal Trey Anastasio likes spending—and going big sax run during “Burlap Sack and Pumps”), reggae during—Halloween in Las Vegas. It’s the only city (Toots & the Maytals’ “Sweet and Dandy”) and he and the primary band he fronts, Phish, have even zydeco (Chris Ardoin and Double chosen twice (1998, 2014) for their legClutchin’s “Acting the Devil”). endary Halloween arena shows, where Phish material surfaced with ace they cover someone else’s album. And he aaabc versions of “First Tube” and “Alaska,” was an active participant during the first TREY with chestnuts “You Enjoy Myself” and two Vegoose festival weekends (2005 and ANASTASIO “Cavern” lyrically referenced during an ’06), playing at various times with the BAND “old world” version of Guy Lombardo’s Trey Anastasio Band, along with acts like October 31, “Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Widespread Panic, Dave Matthews and Brooklyn Bowl.

Think).” Another interesting cover Phil Lesh. moment: Anastasio running a fiddle over The six-string samurai dialed it back his guitar like an e-bow during the Charlie Daniels just a bit for his fifth All Hallows Eve in Sin City, Band’s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” And Anastasio and his namesake band settling for two then there was the “MacArthur Park” encore, which nights at the relatively intimate Brooklyn Bowl was more Donna Summer than Jimmy Webb thanks sans guests and gimmicks, and no complaints to trumpeter Jennifer Hartswick’s soaring vocals, there. Anastasio and his six-piece band stuck to the and the mini-chorus line of showgirls that joined music—even on October 31, despite the festive vibe the band. For all the treats Anastasio bestowed this and costume parade offstage. The musicians seemed Halloween, he saved his one trick for the end. to be observing something else: Anastasio’s 10th solo

Halloween treats

There’s no better way to spend Halloween than watching an opening act named for one of the kings of Hell, and a headliner that worships all of them.

First, London-based Purson kept House of Blues’ dementedly costumed crowd moderately entertained with 40 minutes of vintage rock ’n’ roll, but the highlight of the set came as the five-piece exited the stage. Theatrical Swedish metal outfit Ghost immediately began exercising its mastery in setting a dark mood, as a backdrop of stained-glass church windows illuminated blood red while thin fog and faint choir music filled the front of the venue. As the horn-masked band of “nameless ghouls” eventually aaacc emerged one by one, an imagery that GHOST can come across as trite in the band’s October 31, recorded output felt more effective House of brought visually to life.

Blues.

The two guitarists and bassist traversed the stage around their skeletonfaced, vestment-clad vocalist, Papa Emeritus, as if possessed by a higher, er, lower power. The demonic danceteam movements provided ample room for Emeritus, who spent most of the night with his arms outstretched as if he were satanically blessing the crowd. But Emeritus never let the theatrics, which included swinging a thurible to spread incense, overshadow his eerie and oddly cozy voice while the band burned through a 17-song set drawing heavily from this year’s Meliora.

Emeritus also delivered sermons on vampirism, cannibalism, carnality and avarice to the captivated congregants between songs. Much like Halloween itself, Ghost is a mostly silly idea that’s fun enough to observe annually. –Case Keefer

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Anytime someone tells you America isn’t the greatest country in the world, you ask them where else a bunch of dudes could dress up as McDonald’s characters and sing Black Sabbath covers about hamburgers and actually make good money doing it. ¶ Kudos, Vegas. This is the type of offbeat Random thoughts from Mac show you’d expect on the coasts, but the crowd was mighty.

Sabbath’s show (October 30, Vinyl) One guy even knew all the words to the spoof songs. And you guessed it, he was standing alone. ¶ More than the music, I took great enjoyment from lead singer Ronald Osborne’s dedication to puns. Some of the simpler fast-food freebies were other bands he’s played in—CinnaBonJovi, Gwarby’s, Dairy Queensrÿche and Dokken Donuts. These were necessary to get to that painfully excellent next level of Van Halens Crafters, which as Osborne pointed out made no sense since it didn’t have a food tie-in. The piéce de résistance, however, was mentioning Mac Sabbath’s time touring with British group Bauhaus of Pancakes, who played their smash hit “Taco Bela Lugosi’s Dead.” ¶ The commitment to Halloween was impressive. Band members Slayer MacCheeze and Grimalice wore costumes on top of costumes—Slayer was dressed as a pirate and Grim was a ghost. It works on so many levels.–Jason Harris

The Bauhaus of Pancakes

trey anastasio by erik kabik; ghost by bill hughes; mac sabbath by wayne posner/erik kabik photography

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Bend don’t break Escape the Fate battles through changes to stay sharp

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Private Cobain

Home Recordings give fans an intimate glimpse at the Nirvana leader’s creative process The Kurt Cobain faithful will take whatever his estate and Universal Music can wring out. With Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings, the late Nirvana frontman/songwriter’s lone solo album of alternate takes and unreleased demos, thirsty fans get a two-fer: the chance to eavesdrop on his creative process and hear him at his most musically raw and stripped-down. It’s just him and his guitar, recorded lo-fi with a boombox.

The audio doodles and rough drafts—culled from more than 200 hours and 100 tapes discovered by filmmaker Brett Morgen while he made the HBO doc of the same name—are often interesting, if only occasionally compelling and too infrequently resonant.

His experimental bursts hint at textures later heard on Nirvana’s In Utero but will only excite patient

audiophiles or Cobain students.

And some of the goofy skits and throat-clearings are grimacing.

There is, however, some gold mined. An early demo for “Clean Up Before She Comes”—a loaded title in retrospect—features a lurking guitar melody worth chewing Kurt Cobain on. The previously unreleased “She Montage of Heck: Only Lies,” performed with bass The Home guitar, counterbalances its damnRecordings ing lyrics (“I really hate her”) with aaacc tuneful allure. Conversely, “And I Love Her” is a rare romantic moment from Cobain toward both the object of his affection and The Beatles. And the Daniel Johnston-like, 11-minute medley “Do Re Mi” captures a fragile Cobain just before he died.

It all nonetheless begs an obvious question: Would Cobain really have taken any of these works in progress and creative belches out of the vaults? The 2003 publication of his Journals established that nothing he eked out is sacred, and Home Recordings suggests the same. Its contents don’t just sound intimate, they sound private. That said, the point has been rendered moot.

Montage of Heck: Home Recordings is for enthusiasts eager to sample Cobain’s artistry in its pre-baked form.

Let them eat batter. –Mike Prevatt

In the two and a half years since Escape the Fate released its last album, the band’s lineup has experienced sizeable turbulence: Original bassist Max Green rejoined and then subsequently left the band, while guitarists/brothers Monte and Michael Money also departed, leaving drummer Robert Ortiz as the lone original member of the Vegas-birthed group.

Still, Escape the Fate hasn’t missed a beat with Hate Me, studio album No. 5. The band Escape The Fate utilizes its recent Hate Me aaabc unrest as lyrical fuel: Multiple songs center around emerging stronger after weathering adversity (or shedding backstabbing ex-friends), or discuss using pain as a motivator to stay focused on future better days. With producer Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, P.O.D.) at the helm, Hate Me also features some of the band’s most accessible (and radio-friendly) music yet. There’s the Linkin Park-reminiscent title track; the acoustic-based, Top 40 pop grab “Let Me Be”; and the pop-punk-tinged “Remember Every Scar.”

That doesn’t mean Escape the Fate has gone soft. On the dramatic metalcore attack “Just a Memory,” frontman Craig Mabbitt snarls, “How did I let you stab me in the back?” and “Trusting you was a f*cking mistake,” while on the gothgrooving, Marilyn Manson-esque “I Won’t Break” he sneers, “You’re still a joke, a hypocrite, you are a fake.” Things get even heavier on “Les Enfants Terribles,” which combines thrashing, metallic guitar curls with growling gang vocals and occasional spooky electronic programming.

Escape the Fate’s thirst for vengeance is all the more effective because it’s nuanced, which keeps Hate Me from dissolving into one-dimensional rage.

–Annie Zaleski

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Ellie Goulding has said that Delirium is her “big pop album,” and while she’s had big pop hits before (“Lights,” “Anything Could Happen,” “Burn”), ELLIE Delirium indeed sounds like a significant step in her evolution as a pop star.

GOULDING Unfortunately, that means it’s fairly generic, with little of the offbeat charm Delirium that made Goulding stand out when she debuted as a club-friendly singeraaacc songwriter in 2009. ¶ Although she shares writing credit on all but one of the album’s songs, it’s the typical phalanx of writers and producers from the pop-industrial complex (Greg Kurstin, Max Martin, Ryan Tedder, etc.) who make the biggest mark. Those people help Delirium make up in catchy hooks what it lacks in personality. Songs like “Something in the Way You Move,” “Codes” and lead single “On My Mind” are tailor-made for maximum radio and club airplay, and Goulding’s ethereal voice melds well with the slinky synths and driving beats. ¶ That voice, more than the bland lyrics and the safe musical arrangements, is what makes these songs shine. Goulding can invest interchangeable sentiments about good times and pretty people with a bit of mystery. Any more than that has been sacrificed for the sake of big pop. –Josh Bell

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> Ride the Tiger From left, Schramm, McNew, Hubley and Kaplan, touring as a quartet for the first time since 1987.

Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan preps us for the indie veterans’ Vegas return By spencer patterson Let’s start with baseball. I feel kind of bad asking about your Mets, since they lost the final game of the Series last night … But you’re doing it any-

way. (laughs) True. Let’s make it optional then. Any thoughts about the Mets’ season? It was a

great season. No one expected them to get this far. It’s disappointing to get that close, but you have to have perspective.

Your current tour has generally been described as acoustic. Is that accurate? It’s completely in the format of

part [for Schramm]; it’s just kind of rethinking the song, which is some[August album] Stuff Like That There. thing that we do with or without a Dave [Schramm] plays electric guitar, fourth member. We’re always open and bassist James [McNew] and I have for tinkering with things and pickups on our instruments. trying them a different way, Acoustic is almost a eupheYO LA with different instruments or mism at this point, but to the TENGO just a different feel. … There’s extent that that’s acoustic, it’s November 11, a song on our second album all like that. James will play 9 p.m., $20. called “3 Blocks From Groove the whole thing on upright The Sayers Street” that dates back to our bass, I’ll play it all on acoustic Club, 702very first show, and even then guitar and Georgia [Hubley] 761-7618. we came up with two differwill be standing up front with ent ways of playing it. her drum set.

So no keys and no 20-minute feedback freakouts. Precisely.

What was involved in adapting old songs to this format and lineup? It’s not even

Looking at the setlists from your recent European shows, I tried to imagine what a song like “Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind” would sound like stripped down this way. That one began almost

just a matter of adding a new guitar

as a joke. I think James started playing

the bass part one day and everybody laughed, and then it was like, I don’t know, why don’t we try it? And we just love the arrangement.

How have you gone about choosing artists to cover for projects like Stuff Like That There or [1990’s] Fakebook? We like

the idea of a mixture. We’d be less likely to do a record that was entirely songs by [better-known artists like] Hank Williams and The Cure and less likely to do one that was entirely songs by Antietam and Great Plains.

What we’re really drawn to is finding a line that connects those things.

How do you listen to and find new music these days—is it more digging in crates or bouncing around online? The Internet to

me is more a reference than a way of lis-

tening. If I’m listening to music for fun it’s usually on the stereo. I like going to record stores, especially when we’re on tour. It seems like something I do more of when we’re traveling than when I’m at home, but it’s still a big part of my life.

Do you prefer vinyl or CDs, or does it matter? I like buying 45s (laughs), but

I came home from Europe with a big pile of CDs, so I’m not an absolutist.

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The success of that event—which raised some $20,000, Mehrdad says— and the experience of being onstage with and surrounded by old mates has Faded Grey mulling future possibilities. “There were so many people from Vegas who came out to see it, it The hardcore heroes of Tomorrows felt like a hometown crowd,” he says.

Gone reunite for two rare shows “But we know a lot of Vegas people

BY SPENCER PATTERSON couldn’t make it, so there was some chatter after the show that we should do a Vegas show, maybe something next In the annals of defunct Las Vegas bands, year, maybe for charity.” few are spoken of with as much consistent In the meantime, Mehrdad has concenreverence as Faded Grey. When guitarist Shay Mehrdad returns home to play a muchtrated on relearning Tomorrows Gone’s anticipated reunion set this weekend, howcatalog, much of which he last played in ever, old-school fans will turn out not for 1997 (not counting a one-off 2002 reunion the melodic hardcore outfit that at Cafe Espresso Roma). He’ll ruled the all-ages scene from 1998 get in one practice with the guys TOMORROWS through 2002, but for the one that before the band plays a house GONE spawned that band. show—all-ages, he stresses—at with Lady, Tomorrows Gone “wasn’t a the Womb Room Friday night, The Reform, terrible band” in its own right, and then Saturday’s main event.

Nonoxynol 9, Mehrdad laughs over the phone, “I feel pretty sharp with the Boba Fett Youth, “especially the stuff we were songs, especially since a few Bent Tool, spilled over into the Faded Grey doing from the middle to the end Intentions of years,” he says. “It’s gonna be a of the group, like on our [1997] Hate. November different dynamic when we all 7-inch. The songs were headed in 7, 8 p.m., $12-$15. get in the room, but hopefully a cool direction, and they laid the Backstage Bar it’ll come back to us quickly.” groundwork for Faded Grey. The & Billiards, It also turns out this year’s bands were two parts of a similar 702-382-2227.

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Within days of the two filing for divorce, she was being introduced during Angel’s show Believe at the Luxor, with him telling fans to “expect big things from her” in the near future.

Asked if his ex-wife would make a great magician, Sawchuck spends several seconds mulling his answer.

Finally, he says, “I think she can be a great magician, because she is a great performer. I think she has great potential to follow in the steps of Melinda [the First Lady of Magic, the first female magician to headline on the Strip] or other female magicians who maybe are not as famous … If she were here right now, I’d say to live life to the fullest and have no regrets. I wish her all the success in the world.”

The resulting personal and professional void left Sawchuck with his one-off gigs across the country, including such remote outposts as Cactus Pete’s in Jackpot, and his steady Planet Hollywood gig. This is where Sawchuck showed the type of met> Home Base Sawchuck plans to spread his tle that has allowed him to remain magic from his Planet Hollywood home. onstage for more than a dozen years in Vegas, even as a host of similarly capable entertainers have tried and falT H E K AT S R E P O RT tered. He has partnered with YouTube wizard Seth Leach to produce a series of videos shared around the world.

In the first Sawchuck is shown Even amid turmoil, Murray Sawchuck continues to raise his public profile drinking from a bottle of Champagne

By John Katsilometes on a public bench near the Downtown Grand. A security officer, his face pixilated, approaches to bust him … but service announcement video clips PH’s mezzanine level. That kicked off Over the past year, Murray Sawchuck slips the bottle in a bag at McCarran International Airport.) a bumpy period for Sawchuck, which Sawchuck has felt the loss. He’s lost and makes it vanish. The whole thing But it had become apparent earlier saw his father die from cardiac arrest in his venue. He’s lost his father. He’s seems as if it could be staged, this year that Crawford was June. John Sawchuck had nearly died lost his onstage assistant and wife— but Sawchuck insists it’s real, interested in a more promiin April, only to make a recovery long one and the same—to a fellow Las and so far, the two-minute nent career than appearing MURRAY enough to spend several more weeks Vegas magician. But Sawchuck is not video titled How to Escape in Sawchuck’s box of magic. SAWCHUCK with his son. at a loss for words. He’s not lost focus, a Cop With Magic has regisA model for Playboy’s Wednesday, “I’ve learned this in my life,” his zeal for performing or his uncanny tered more than 27 million web publication and a for- Thursday, Sawchuck says over a cup of coffee acumen for promotion. mer dancer in Fantasy at the Saturday-Monday, hits from the SoFloAntonio after a show. “Your happiness doesn’t And good for him. Sawchuck is Facebook page, a clearingLuxor, Crawford had been 4 p.m., $35-$45. depend on what happens to you, but the recently star-crossed yet indehouse for such distinctive working with her husband Sin City Theatre, how you respond to what happens. In fatigable afternoon magician at Planet on developing her own Planet Hollywood, video clips. Sawchuck has the last 18 months I’ve been kicked out Hollywood’s Sin City Theatre. The recorded three other “guerilmagic act. A video clip of her 702-777-6737. of the Trop, lost my father, lost my wife 13-year Vegas performer is holding la” videos, to be given similar performing a trick in which and partner. But I am okay, because I tight to his daily 4 p.m. time slot like posting prominence. she disassembles and reascontinue to believe in who I am.” an NFL running back protecting the It’s all part of Sawchuck’s master sembles a parasol caught the attention As a performer, Sawchuck is a flawfootball. He’s uniformly billed as the plan: use his cozy Vegas afternoon of the producers of Britain’s Got Talent, less orator who boasts a host of classiCelebrity Magician, familiar for his show as a launching pad for a weekly the version of America’s Got Talent cally fashioned magic tricks, like makcobalt-blue suit and shock of highTV series. He has appeared as a guest in her native England. She was given ing a bowling ball appear from a large rising blond locks. on more than 100 TV shows, most notaa spot on the show and reached the artist’s tablet and finding an audience “This suit is from Armani—Salvation bly his own run on America’s Got Talent finals due largely to a performance in member’s phone inside a deflated balArmani,” he jokes, characteristic of his (when he just missed finishing in the which she made herself and a motorloon. Standing rod-straight and recitthrowback comedy stylings. As he protop 10) and as a recurring expert on cycle disappear, and then reappear in ing his shtick with the precision of a duces a deck of cards, he scans the audiPawn Stars. “Some of my heroes are the theater’s wings within seconds. ’50s radio DJ, he shares the stage with ence and says, “I usually do this card the guys who beat the odds and made it Crawford’s BGT run ended in May. the dullard janitor character Lefty, trick for 1,000 people. But 82 will do.” on TV,” Sawchuck says. “Merv Griffin, So did her appearances with her husplayed effortlessly by Doug Leferovich, Sawchuck hails from Vancouver, Lawrence Welk, Ed Sullivan. They had band. Sawchuck began using substitute himself a terrific sleight-of-hand artist.

Canada, and arrived on the Strip in 2002 the ambition to succeed in a medium assistants or performing the show only Until this summer, Sawchuck had in a show at the since-razed Frontier. that, let’s face it, they were not built for.” with Lefty. In September, Crawford been joined onstage, and in life, by He’s bounced around venues over the Another hero of Sawchuck: P.T. informed Sawchuck that she wanted his strikingly effective stage assistantyears, and seemed to find an afternoon Barnum, the great American showout of their personal and professional wife Chloe Crawford. The two were groove at Laugh Factory until the hotel man-huckster. And like Barnum, partnership, with plans to join Criss married in 2012, and had carved a hooked big-act illusionist Jan Rouven Sawchuck knows his way around the Angel’s multimillion-dollar magic familiar three-person lineup with to play Tropicana Theater. That led circus. His goal is simple: Keep the acts empire, headquartered in Las Vegas.

Lefty at Planet Hollywood. (The Sawchuck on a Valley-wide hunt for a spinning, and keep the blue suit clean.

The message was clear: Angel had three are still shown in TSA publicvenue, which led to Sin City Theatre, on

magic and loss

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A&E | FINE ART > POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES Through Windows is a testament of spirit in the face of isolation and struggle.

A window on Cuba Realities of the isolated island nation, through the eyes of artists who lived them

By Kristen Peterson rest of world.

Following his announcement As expected, the show has a heavy he would work toward normalTHROUGH political thrust. It actively embodies izing U.S. relations with Cuba, WINDOWS, the experience through works that President Obama urged in his State of THROUGH reveal a beautiful collective soul and the Union address that the trade embarCURTAINS, testament of spirit in the face of surgo with the Caribbean island be lifted.

CALL ON US: veillance, isolation, shortages, shaky Watching this, along with the rest CONTEMPORARY trust and departures of friends and of the world, was UNLV art professor CUBAN ART family, all defining so much of Cuban Robert Tracy, who decided to jump Through November culture in recent decades. in and curate an exhibit of contem14; Monday-Friday, The tone is immediately set with a porary Cuban art that would offer a 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Donna monitor at the gallery entrance showlook at the reality of life in the isolated Beam Fine Art Gallery, ing live surveillance of Delgado’s country as the machine of change was 702-895-3893.

“Outside Also” in the next room: four in motion. doors with locks and peepholes conCuban-born artist Angel Delgado, nected vertically into a square, allowing viewers who spent prison time for a performance in a to peer into the confined and suffocating space— Cuban gallery, was already based in Las Vegas, neighbors looking at neighbors under the larger exhibiting works on themes of liberty and oppresvoice of government. sion at Amanda Harris Gallery of Contemporary From there, it’s a plunge into installations, Art. Tracy enlisted Las Vegas-based curator and paintings, digital videos and mixed-media sculpwriter Emmanuel Ortega, and together they met tures of emotional, visceral and intellectual heft. with Delgado to map out a plan.

Ariel Orozco’s “Cuba Libre” takes over the galThe resulting exhibit, Through Windows, lery’s loft with sprawling islands of drinking Through Curtains, Call on Us: Contemporary glasses filled with desert sand designed to ignite Cuban Art at UNLV’s Donna Beam Fine Art geopolitical reflection, creating trepidation in Gallery, brings together the work of four notable those who walk through. Sandra Ramos’ beguiling artists whose international reach reflects life animated videos of evolving sequences feature an inside and outside Cuba, throwing light on the illustrated Alice from Through the Looking Glass, artistic merits of a place largely cut off from the

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observing and participating in her own peculiar island wonderland where Columbus, Uncle Sam, Lenin and Marx have played a role.

Sandra Ceballos’ digital prints present pop culture’s indomitable characters: a video-game heroine emerges in a watery effect, and superhero types stand formidable against a backdrop of political-based scrawl referencing Marx and Lenin. Delgado’s wall installation of neatly hung pristine toilet seats, each marked with a door knob, cabinet handle, peephole or door knocker, directly references his arrest after defecating on a communist newspaper at a 1990 art exhibit in Havana, protesting increasing government censorship.

“We wanted to consider the idea of having different perspectives from different parts of the world,” Ortega says, citing Guantanamo-born Ceballos, who still lives in Cuba; Havana-born Delgado; Sancti Spiritus-born Orozco, who lives in Mexico; and La Habana-born Ramos, who lives in Havana and Miami. “A lot of these artists met and talked and shared exhibition spaces in Cuba, in Mexico and in the U.S., starting from the ’90s, so in a way this is a school of ’90s artists that are influencing a new generation of artists that are coming from Cuba.”

For viewers, it delivers what Tracy had hoped for: a window into a culture rich with creative and intellectual perseverance under great economic and political strain.

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A&E | dance > BALANCING ACT Come for the ballet, come earlier for the conversation.

da n c e

Good ear, good feet Ballet legend Balanchine is richly toasted with movement, music and stories from very old friends

photograph by virgina trudeau

By Kristen Peterson on Tenth Avenue,” originally choWhen George Balanchine reographed for the musical comarrived in the U.S. in the early 1930s edy, On Your Toes, was the first of after leaving Russia and spending Balanchine’s collaborations with nearly 10 years in Europe, it was Rodgers and Hart. expected that something amazing But for Balanchine junkies, the might unfold. Not only had the program actually begins 45 minutes son of a composer excelled at choprior to the performance with a reography and—having studied conversation in the Troesh Theater music—forged a deep connection between Balanchine’s longtime between music and dance, he’d personal assistant, Barbara Horgan, been handpicked by an American and former New York City Ballet patron to establish a school that principal dancer Heather Watts, would rival those in Europe. who worked with But the way he revoBalanchine. lutionized ballet and Featuring live music influenced 20th-centuA BALANCHINE by members of the Las ry dance was nothing CELEBRATION Vegas Philharmonic, A short of mind-blowing, November 7, 7:30 Balanchine Celebration a merging of the past p.m.; November 8, stands out from the and future—the old 2 p.m., $29-$139. rest of the season’s world and the new— Smith Center’s lineup. Of the four that would blast the Reynolds Hall, programs that Nevada discipline into another 702-749-2000.

Ballet Theatre will realm with its feet still present at Smith planted in tradition.

Center’s Reynolds Hall for its It was as if his first piece writ2015-16 season, three (including ten in America, “Serenade,” was The Nutcracker in December) are some sort of announcement: This story ballets, breaking the compais what I’m going to do here. ny’s recent tradition of introducOn November 7 and 8, ing more contemporary numbers Nevada Ballet Theatre presents and somewhat avant-garde proA Balanchine Celebration, which, gramming. in addition to “Serenade,” (set Among the lineup is the return to “Serenade for Strings in C” of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet

by Tchaikovsky, to whose music in May, which in 2013 was the Balanchine felt a deep connecfirst story ballet, aside from tion) includes “Slaughter on Tenth Nutcracker, that NBT had preAvenue” (Rodgers and Hart) and sented since Giselle in 2008. The “Who Cares?” (Gershwin). other is a February production of It’s a program that demonProkofiev’s Cinderella just in time strates the breadth of the late chofor Valentine’s Day. reographer’s interests. “Slaughter

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> easy to love Salute’s seafood misto risotto and salmon carpaccio, and below, gnocchi alla sorentina.

Simple sophistication Salute upgrades Italian food at Red Rock Resort By Brock Radke

true to its own sense of taste and sophistication.

When Hearthstone opened around this Two must-eat starters (both $13) epitomize that time last year, its arrival was quite dramatic, balance. Crispy zucchini flowers will be fried cheese for several reasons: It was the first off-Strip to some, and heavenly ricotta crunch-clouds to othrestaurant by the Light Group; the renovation of ers, nestled with pesto. Order the albacore crudo its space at Red Rock Resort was a major project; every time, paper-thin slices of rich fish made luxuand the “rustic American dining” theme seemed to rious with avocado and orange, further dressed with encompass everything, from oysters and charcuterie Calabrian chili and fried red onion. Great to pizza and steaks. ways to set the tone.

Now we have Salute, a casual Italian Groups will want to start with a large destination also at Red Rock from essen- SALUTE assortment of antipasto ($24), meats, tially the same people (the new com- TRATTORIA cheeses and marinated veggies, or perpany is called Clique Hospitality). Like ITALIANA haps Federal Hill, Rhode Island-style Hearthstone, this restaurant space has Red Rock Resort, calamari ($15) with cherry peppers and been opened up and re-styled with com- 702-797-7311. lemon. Salads go Caesar, caprese or fortable, if less dramatic, results. The inti- Sunday-Thursday, chopped, but give me the Insalata Mista mate patio, surrounded by winding water 5-10 p.m.; Friday & ($10) with shaved fennel and marinated fountains, is gorgeous and likely to be Saturday, 5-11 p.m. tomatoes among the greens. packed during these optimal fall months.

The big, showy dish is fettucine in But the menu at Salute couldn’t be more vodka sauce ($22) tossed tableside in a half-wheel different from Hearthstone’s. Focused on Southern of parmesan cheese. A little flair never hurt nobody.

Italian fare crafted by executive chef Luciano Sautto You’ll want to add meatballs, too ($8). The less and augmented by a tight, well-priced wine list, flashy pastas are well-cared-for, especially the Salute’s food is familiar and simple, far from overindulgent spinach pasta lasagna ($19), presented whelming with options. This is no doubt designed to in beautiful layers with even more beautiful sauces accommodate neighborhood folks hungry for conof bechamel and Bolognese. It’s perfect. Go lighter venient pasta and chicken parm, and Salute effortwith capellini in tomato sauce with vegetables ($17) lessly finds a way to please that crowd while staying

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or find the middle with classic linguine and clams ($23) or noodles topped with roasted eggplant and caciocavallo cheese curds.

Entrées offer your greatest hits, from veal parm or marsala to chicken piccata or with crispy skin and preserved lemon ($24). Seafood fans can celebrate with risotto stocked with shrimp, clams and seabass ($35) or get their branzino whole, simply grilled or salt roasted ($35). For dessert, there’s really only one thing to do, and that’s all of the above, an assortment of tiramisu, bomboloni, toasted coconut cake and more ($9).

With its approachable food and prices and impressive feel and presentation, Salute should quickly find its way into neighborhood favorite status ... even in a Summerlin where dining is a lot better than it used to be.

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> FEAST FORWARD Step aside, Kobe beef—Bazaar Meat has something better.

STAR GOSSIP

CHEF TALK David Thomas, Bazaar Meat

There’s a certain energy inside Bazaar Meat, when the dinner rush gets going and smoke from the wood-burning ovens starts rising and servers start whacking massive chicharrones with silver mallets and bartenders start stirring foggy concoctions into fresh cocktails. As executive chef, David Thomas is at the center of that circus, running the kitchen inside José Andrés’ ambitious SLS “meat house,” where there are almost 100 dishes on the menu every night. Thomas says that menu’s a work in progress, the result of an ongoing quest for new purveyors to work with and new products to highlight. “The search never stops, and the evolution of the menu will be forever. It’s always moving forward.”

On not being a steakhouse: “We get lumped into the category just because we offer so much beef, but José really doesn’t want it to be called a steakhouse. It’s an experience surrounding all things carnivorous. Meat doesn’t have to fall into the beef and pork category.”

On building the menu: “When we went through the R&D process, we tasted almost 500 cuts of different meat and animals and parts of the animal to really hone in on what we felt would benefit the guest.”

On cows that pre-date Kobe: “One of our most popular ribeyes is called the Washugyu, and the farm it’s coming from is Lindsay Ranch in Oregon. The Washugyu cattle breed is one that actually pre-dates Kobe cattle in Japan.

It was a working breed rather than a consumption breed, and they brought the breed to the U.S. and crossbred it with American Angus. [Lindsay Ranch] holds a lot of the same practices they do in Kobe in the Hyogo Prefecture.

Between the diet and the environment, they’re doing very similar practices in how they treat the animals, and it shows in the final results.”

On how to cook luscious suckling pig: “We start the process very, very slow, where the skin side goes down first in the cazuela and we add a little bit of water to the bottom and salt. And it goes into a wood oven at about 300 to 350 degrees, and we close the door of the oven so there’s no flame; it’s just the smoke and the temperature. Our whole pigs are from 10 to 12 pounds. They take two and a half to four hours, and it’s a real slow and low process. It’s almost confiting or rendering and slowly cooking the meat. Then we take it out, we flip the pig back over so the skin side is up, we load the oven full of wood and we bring the temperature up to about 450 degrees with lots of flame. It’s the high heat and flame that then crisps the skin. The reason why it’s so good is really just the pigs themselves. We don’t do anything special. We use salt, water and fire. That’s it.

–Sarah Feldberg

SMALL BITES Dining News & Notes

Guy Fieri will bring his El Burro Borracho Mexican restaurant to the Rio in early 2016, taking the poolside place of former seafood restaurant Buzio’s. Fieri’s partnership with Caesars Entertainment already includes Guy Fieri’s Vegas Kitchen & Bar at the Linq and a Burro Borracho (which loosely translates to “drunken donkey”) at Harrah’s Laughlin resort. ¶ Restaurant Guy Savoy at Caesars Palace will host its first Sense…ational Dinner November 18 at 6:30 p.m., a “sensory journey” curated by food engineer Veronique Anastasie utilizing six dishes from the Signature Menu. Through varying techniques like blind tasting, diners will learn the history of the dishes and some of the secrets behind the preparation. Tickets are $475 and include wine and Champagne pairings and can be purchased by calling 702-731-7967. ¶ The annual Ultimo weekend at Venetian and Palazzo returns December 17-20, a lavish celebration of Italy featuring guest chefs and diverse special events. This year’s highlights include an all-day Bocuse d’Or Team USA culinary competition event, and the Grand Banquet in the Venetian’s Grand Colonnade with chefs Thomas Keller, Philip Tessier, Shaun Hergatt and Ming Tsai. For event and ticket info, visit venetian.com/ultimo. –Brock Radke

CHEF DAVID THOMAS BY STEVE MARCUS

INGREDIENTS 1 1/2 oz. SelvaRey Cacao Rum /4 oz. Cruzan Banana Rum

3

/4 oz. fresh lime juice

3

Float (1/4 oz.) Pierre Ferrand Dry Orange Curaçao Caramelized fresh banana slice* (garnish) Junior Merino Energized Chocolate Rimmer (rim)

METHOD Shake first three ingredients with ice and then strain into a chilled 7-ounce cocktail coupe glass, rimmed with Junior Merino Energized Chocolate Rimmer. Serve with a float of orange curaçao and garnish with a caramelized banana slice. *To make a caramelized banana slice, cut a 1-inch fresh banana slice and pour brown sugar over it on one side. Using a crème brûlée torch, burn the sugar until melted. Once cool, pierce through with a cocktail pick.

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

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A&E | Short Takes Special screenings American Cheerleader 11/5, 11/8, cheerleading documentary, Thu 7 pm, Sun 12:55 pm, $10.50$12.50. Theaters: COL, ORL, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.

Home Alone 25th Anniversary 11/8, 11/11, movie plus special introduction, times vary, $5-$12.50. Theaters: COL, ORL, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.

Lincoln Center at the Movies 11/12, Ballet Hispanico performances of CARMEN.maquia and Club Havana, 7 pm, $16-$18. Theaters: COL, ORL, SF, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.

Midnight Brewvies Mon, movie plus popcorn, midnight, free. Elixir, 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, Henderson, 702-272-0000.

National Theatre Live 11/10, Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch, 7 pm, $13-$15.

Theaters: COL, ORL, SF, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.

Sci Fi Center Sun, Doctor Who Night, 6 pm, free.

Mon, Cinemondays, 8 pm, free. 11/10, The Exorcist III, 8 pm, $1. 5077 Arville St., 855-501-4335, thescificenter.com.

Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou Tue, 1 pm, free. 11/10, The Woman in Green. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.

New this week Everyday I Love You (Not reviewed) Enrique Gil, Liza Soberano, Gerald Anderson. Directed by Mae Czarina Cruz-Alviar. 122 minutes. Not rated.

In Filipino with English subtitles.

A young woman falls in love with another man while her boyfriend is in a coma.

Theaters: ORL, VS Heneral Luna (Not reviewed) John Arcilla, Mon Confiado, Arron Villaflor. Directed by Jerrold Tarog.

118 minutes. Not rated. In Filipino with English subtitles. Biopic about Filipino military leader Antonio Luna.

Theaters: ST, VS Miss You Already aabcc Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore, Dominic Cooper. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. 112 minutes.

Rated PG-13. See review Page 44.

Theaters: COL, ORL, ST, TS, VS The Peanuts Movie aaacc Voices of Noah Schnapp, Hadley Belle Miller, Alexander Garfin. Directed by Steve Martino. 86 minutes. Rated G. See review Page 43.

Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX Spectre aaacc Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux. Directed by Sam Mendes.

148 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 42.

Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Suffragette aabcc Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter. Directed by Sarah Gavron. 106 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 43.

Theaters: DTS, SP, TS, VS

> astronaut blues Matt Damon in The Martian.

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 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: ST, VS 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: AL, BS, CAN, CH, GVR, ORL, PAL, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX Burnt aabcc Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl. Directed by John Wells. 100 min-

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utes. Rated R. Adam (Cooper) 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 selfabsorbed jerk becoming slightly less self-absorbed. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, DTS, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS 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: AL, COL, ORL, PAL, RR, SF, SP, 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 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 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: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SP, SS, TS, TX Hotel Transylvania 2 (Not reviewed) Voices of Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Andy Samberg. Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky. 89 minutes. Rated PG. Dracula and his fellow monsters try to get Dracula’s half-human grandson to embrace his vampire side.

Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, ORL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SP, SS, TS, TX Inside Out aaabc Voices of Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind. Directed by Pete Docter.

94 minutes. Rated PG. Pixar’s latest animated feature takes place almost entirely inside the brain of an 11-yearold girl, focusing on the five core emotions—Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust and Anger—who control her behavior. It’s a funny movie with a remarkably wise message, but parents of pre-teen kids be warned: It will wreck you. –MD Theaters: 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: COL, DTS, ORL, SC, SF, SP 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 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: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DI, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX The Martian aaaac Matt Damon, Jeff Daniels, Jessica Chastain, Chiwetel Ejiofor. Directed by Ridley Scott. 141 minutes. Rated PG-13.

Astronaut Mark Watney (Damon) is left behind on Mars when the rest of his team believes him dead. Damon carries the film with an excellent performance that conveys Mark’s mix of ingenuity and loneliness, and the story makes furious calculations and engineering simulations into gripping, can’t-lookaway drama. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, GVL, GVR,

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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, SC, TX

(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

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

(CH) Cinedome Henderson 851 S. Boulder Highway, Henderson, 702-566-1570 (COL) Regal Colonnade 8880 S. Eastern Ave., 702-221-2283 (DI) Las Vegas Drive-In 4150 W. Carey Ave., North Las Vegas, 702-646-3565 (DTS) Regal Downtown Summerlin 2070 Park Center Drive, 702-221-2283

No Escape abccc Owen Wilson, Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan. Directed by John Erick Dowdle. 103 minutes. Rated R. Wilson and Bell are miscast in serious roles as an American married couple who’ve just moved with their two young daughters to an unnamed country in Southeast Asia, hours before an armed coup begins. The action that follows is mostly laughable when it isn’t tedious or insulting. –JB Theaters: TC Our Brand Is Crisis aabcc Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Joaquim de Almeida.

Directed by David Gordon Green. 107 minutes. Rated R. Adapted from a 2005 documentary (of the same title) about U.S. campaign strategists consulting on the 2002 Bolivian presidential election, Our Brand Is Crisis reconceives the material as a comedy for Bullock, playing a wholly fictional operative marketing a fictional Bolivian politican (de Almeida). Sporadic laughs, but it feels poll-tested. –MD Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX Pan aaccc Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund. Directed by Joe Wright. 111 minutes. Rated PG. This Peter Pan prequel gives the character a cluttered and unnecessary origin story, retrofitting him with a clichéd Hollywood “chosen one” narrative. It’s a rush of special effects that signify nothing, telling a story that pretends to add to a beloved mythology while instead mostly just cheapening it. –JB Theaters: AL, CH, COL, ORL, RR, SF, ST, TS, TX 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 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.

(FH) Regal Fiesta Henderson 777 W. Lake Mead Parkway, Henderson, 702-221-2283 (GVR) Regal Green Valley Ranch 2300 Paseo Verde Parkway, Henderson, 702-221-2283 (GVL) Galaxy Green Valley Luxury+ 4500 E. Sunset Road, Henderson, 702-442-0244 (ORL) Century Orleans 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., 702-8891220

> clandestine rendezvous Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies.

(RP) AMC Rainbow Promenade 2321 N. Rainbow Blvd., 888-262-4386 Rosenthal. 100 minutes. Rated PG-13. A successful lobbyist (Lathan) becomes a stalking target for her unhinged ex (Ealy) in this overwrought, Lifetimestyle thriller. It’s too ridiculous to work as serious drama, but it takes itself too seriously to succeed as camp.

Instead, it strands three talented actors in a story that devolves quickly from grounded to histrionic. –JB Theaters: 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 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 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: AL, CAN, COL, DTS, ORL, PAL, SHO, SP, SS, ST, 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: DTS, GVR, SC The Transporter Refueled (Not reviewed) Ed Skrein, Loan Chabanol, Ray Stevenson. Directed by Camille Delamarre. 96 minutes. Rated PG-13.

Former mercenary and current special-ops driver Frank Martin faces off against a group of criminals out for revenge.

Theaters: TC Truth aaacc Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Dennis Quaid. Directed by James Vanderbilt.

121 minutes. Rated R. Vanderbilt’s

well-acted, impassioned paean to the virtues of journalism—about the 2004 CBS News scandal that brought down Dan Rather—can be a bit belabored, prone to grandiose speechifying and awkward exposition. It’s never quite as rousing as it’s trying to be, but it comes close enough. –JB Theaters: SC, TS

(RR) Regal Red Rock 11011 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-2212283

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, TX

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

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, TS, 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: SF, ST, VS JMA Jeffrey M. Anderson; JB Josh Bell; MD Mike D’Angelo

(ST) Century Sam’s Town 5111 Boulder Highway, 702-547-1732 (SF) Century Santa Fe Station 4949 N. Rancho Drive, 702-655-8178

(SP) Century South Point 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-260-4061 (SC) Century Suncoast 9090 Alta Drive, 702-869-1880 (SS) Regal Sunset Station 1301-A W. Sunset Road, Henderson, 702-221-2283 (TX) Regal Texas Station 2101 Texas Star Lane, North Las Vegas, 702-221-2283 (TS) AMC Town Square 6587 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-362-7283 (TC) Regency Tropicana Cinemas 3330 E. Tropicana Ave., 702-438-3456 (VS) Regal Village Square 9400 W. Sahara Ave., 702-221-2283

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> HOWL AT THE MOON Perez (center) and Los Lobos play Saturday, without Neil Young.

THREE QUESTIONS WITH LOS LOBOS’ LOUIE PEREZ You’ve said that the band prefers to “create their magic on the fly” in making records. Do you at least have song skeletons in place? On this last record,

we had a couple of preliminary sketches—literally, David [Hidalgo] had some ideas on his cell phone. So we went into it with that, which is the equivalent of jumping out of an airplane. (laughs) But because of the experience we have together, we trust and have faith that it’s going to happen.

Even after the success of “La Bamba” and the Kiko album, it seems like the band always had

LIVE MUSIC T H E ST R I P & N E A R BY Brooklyn Bowl 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. Yellowcard, Linq, 702-862-2695.

The Colosseum Celine Dion 11/4, 11/711/8, 11/10-11/11, 11/13-11/14, 11/17-11/18, 11/20-11/21. Reba, Brooks & Dunn 12/2, 12/4, 12/6, 12/9, $60-$205. Mariah Carey 2/2, 2/5-2/6, 2/10, 2/13-2/14, 2/17, 2/19-2/20. 8 pm, $55-$250. Rod Stewart 3/19-3/20, 3/23, 3/25-3/26, 3/29, 4/1-4/2, 4/5, 7:30 pm, $49-$250.

Caesars Palace, 702-731-7333.

The Cosmopolitan Chelsea) Sam Hunt, Carter Winter 12/4, 8 pm,

to swim pretty hard against the current. When we took up tra-

ditional Mexican instruments, you know, what teenager does that? Everything we’ve done, we go by our own intuition, by what moves us, and sometimes, it calls for some radical moves.

We’ve always accepted that challenge.

I hear you have a good Neil Young story. I was sit-

ting backstage at Shoreline Amphitheatre, about to play Neil’s Bridge School Benefit, and we had sent out this request, just a shot in the dark, “Could you let Neil know that we’d like

$30. Bruno Mars 12/31, 9 pm, $150.

(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 Live!

Sat, 9 pm, 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 11/1711/21, 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, 10/20-10/24, 11/311/7. 11/10-11/14, 7:30 pm, $105-$237.

702-733-3333.

Gilley’s Easy 8’s 11/5, 11/12, 11/26, 9 pm; 11/27-11/28, 12/26, 10 pm. Scotty Alexander Band 11/19, 9 pm; 11/2011/21, 12/31, 1/1-1/2, 10 pm; 10/21, 9:30 pm. Chad Freeman and Redline 12/3, 10 pm. Shows $10-$20 after 10 pm unless noted. Treasure Island, 702894-7722.

Hard Rock Live Mayday Parade, Real Friends, This Wild Life, As It Is 11/15,

for him to come up and play ‘Cinnamon Girl’ with us?” I’m sitting there, and I see a pair of cowboy boots, and I look up and it’s Neil Young. He says, “Do you tune your Es down to D?” I say, “Yeah, that’s the only way to do it.” And he smiles and says, “Okay, cool,” and then he came up and played it with us. It was fantastic. –Matt Wardlaw For more of our interview with Perez, visit lasvegasweekly.com.

LOS LOBOS November 7, 8 p.m., $15-$48. Henderson Pavilion, 702-267-4849.

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 Carlos Santana 11/4, 11/6-11/8, 11/11, 11/13-11/15, 1/27, 1/29-1/31, 2/3-2/6, 5/18, 5/20-5/22, 5/25, 5/275/29, $90-$350, 8 pm. The Wonder Years, Motion City Soundtrack, State Champs, You Blew It 11/5, 6 pm, $23.

King Diamond, Exodus 11/9, 7 pm, $35-$50. Ride 11/10, 7:30 pm, $30.

Collective Soul 11/12, 7 pm, $33-$36.

Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600.

The Joint Café Tacvba 11/18, 8 pm, $35-$120. Warren Miller’s Chasing Shadows, Lee Canyon Lift Patrol 11/21, 7:30 pm, $20. West Coast Feast ft. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, DJ Quik, Collie Buddz, Tha Dogg Pound 11/27, 9 pm, $45. Little Big Town, Ashley Monroe 12/4, 8 pm, $35-$150. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5222.

Mandalay Bay (Events Center) Roberto Carlos 11/20, 8 pm, $100$175. Maroon 5 12/30-12/31, 8 pm, $100-$225. Iron Maiden 2/23, $62-

$103. Ellie Goulding 4/9, 7:30 pm, $36-$55. 702-632-7777.

MGM Grand (Garden Arena) Latin Grammy Awards 11/19, 8 pm, $125$500. Andrea Bocelli 12/5, 8 pm, $78-$403. Mötley Crüe 12/27, 7 pm, $25-$150. Demi Lovato, Nick Jonas 8/13, 7 pm, $28-$92. 702-891-7777.

Orleans (Showroom) Bret Michaels 11/21-11/22, 8 p, $66-$94. Josh Turner 12/2-12/5, 8 pm, $55. Charlie Daniels Band 12/11-12/12, 7 pm, $30-$55. 702365-7075.

Palace Station (Jack’s Irish Pub) Forget to Remember Fri & Sat, 9 pm, free. 702-547-5300.

The Pearl Godsmack, Red Sun Rising 11/14, 8 pm, $53-$93. Puscifer 12/12, 8 pm, $43-$103. Palms, 702-942-7777.

Rí Rá The Black Donnellys 11/4-11/5, 11/8, 11/10-11/12, 11/15, 8:45 pm. 11/611/7, 11/13-11/14, 9 pm. John Windsor 11/9, 11/16, 11/23, 11/30 8:45 pm. The American Diddle Idols 11/24-11/26, 11/19, 8:45 pm, 11/27-11/28, 9 pm. The Black Donnellys ft. George Murphy 11/17-11/19, 11/22, 8:45 pm, 11/20-11/21, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted.

Mandalay Place, 702-632-7771.

Rockhouse Lydia Ansel 11/8, 11/15, 8 pm, free. Rockhouse Live Mon, 9 pm, free. Venetian, 702-731-9683.

The Sayers Club Eliza Battle 11/4, 10 pm, $10 (locals free). Deerhoof, Cy Dune, The Anti-Job 11/5, 9 pm, $12$15. In the Valley Below 11/13, 9 pm, $12-$14. The Polyphonic Spree 11/18, 9 pm, $25-$27. The Solid Suns 11/25, 10 pm, $10 (locals free). Plain White T’s 12/31, midnight, $50. Buckin Fridays Fri, 10 pm, $10. SLS, 702761-7618.

Tuscany Danny Lozada Sun & Thu 10 pm, free. Kenny Davidsen Celebrity Piano Bar Fri, 10 pm, free. Live music Sat, 10 pm., free. 255 E. Flamingo Road, 702-893-8933.

Venetian R5 12/29, 1/1, 8 pm; 12/31, 7:30 pm, $55-$150. Carly Rae Jepsen 12/30, 8 pm; 12/31, 10 pm, 1/2, 8 pm, $56-$75. John Fogerty 1/8-1/9, 1/13, 1/15-1/16, 1/20, 1/22-1/23, 8 pm, $60$350. 702-414-9000.

Vinyl 4B, Dirty Lazrs, Laissez Faire, Trel 11/5, 9 pm, $10. Soulfly, Crowbar, Shattered Sun, Incite 11/6, 8 pm, $20-$35. Viva Ska Vegas ft. Hub City Stompers, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Interupters & more 11/7, 5 pm. Misfits 11/11, 8 pm, $25-$45. Escape the Fate, A Skylit Drive, Sworn In, Sirens & Sailors, Myka, Relocate 11/12, 6:30 pm, $17-$19. Hard Rock Hotel, 702693-5000.

Wynn (Eastside Lounge) Michael Monge Wed & Thu, 9 pm, $10. 702770-7000.

D OW N TOW N Artifice Vegas Jazz Tue, 7 pm, $15.

Thursday Request Live First Thu, 10 pm, free. 1025 S. 1st St., Ste. 100., 702-489-6339.

Backstage Bar & Billiards Urai Vagyunk Turnenak, Tankesapda 11/6, 8 pm, $35.LVHC Punk Rock Reunion ft. Lady, Nonoxynol 11/7, 8 pm, $12-$15. The Album Leaf 11/14, 8 pm, $10-$15. 601 E. Fremont St., 702382-2227.

Beauty Bar Implants, Zom Sawyer 11/6, 9 pm, free. The Rabbit Hole ft. Kastle 11/10, 9 pm, $10.Shayna Rain and the Part-Time Models, Bloomish, Yaquina Bay 11/11, 8 pm, free. Twin River, Holes and Hearts 11/16, 8 pm, free. Swingin Utters,

The Bombpops, Success 11/17, 9 pm, $12. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757.

Downtown Las Vegas Events Center Train, The Fray 11/7, 7:30 pm, $30$100. Rise Against, Killswitch Engage, Letlive 11/21, 8 pm, $40-$80.

200 S. 3rd Street, dlvec.com.

Fremont Country Club Lagwagon, The Briefs, Runaway Kids, Pears 11/11, 8 pm, $20-$22. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-6601.

Fremont Street Experience Gary Sinise & The Lt. Dan Band 11/14, 7:30 pm, free. Downtown Las Vegas, vegasexperience.com.

Golden Nugget Foghat 11/6, 8 pm, $21-$65. Village People 11/13, 8 pm, $32-$65. Eric Burdon & The Animals 11/20, 8 pm, $32-$87. Jefferson Starship 11/27, 8 pm, $21-$65. Shows at 10 p.m. 129 E. Fremont St., 866946-5336.

Griffin Live music Wed, 10 pm, free. 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577.

Hard Hat Lounge The Funk Jam Wed, 10:30 pm, free. Florescent Flames Second Sat, 9 pm, free. Foundation Factory Fourth Sat, 8 pm, free. 1675 Industrial Road, 702-384-8987.

LVCS Kutt Calhoun, Flawless, King QP, Frankie Goldie & Rey Weeden 11/12, 9 pm, $10-$12. Mechanical Manson, 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. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-3531.

Mickie Finnz Garage Boys 11/5, 9 pm.

Stoked 11/6-11/7, 10 pm. JV Allstars 11/8-11/9, 9 pm. The Leeroy Jenkins Incident 11/10-11/11, 9 pm. 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. (Cabaret Jazz) Clint Holmes 11/6-11/7, 12/3-12/5 8:30 pm; 11/8, 12/6 2 pm; $37-$46. 361 Symphony Park Ave., 702-749-2000.

THE ’BURBS Cannery Cannery 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 11/1811/28, Fri-Sat, 7 pm, free. 2121 E. Craig Road, 702-507-5700.

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) Stealin’ Chicago 11/7, 8 pm, $15. 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, 800745-3000.

Rampart Casino (Addison’s Lounge) Wes Winters Tue, 6 pm. Mark

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Red Rock (Rocks Lounge) In Its Entirety Concert Series: Rush’s ‘Moving Pictures’ 11/13, 7:30 pm, $15. Orny Adams 11/21, 8 pm, $25-$35. 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.

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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. Trick Pony 12/5, 7:30 pm, $22-$44.

9090 Alta Drive, 702-636-7075.

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(Rosalita’s) Tony Venniro Fri, 7 pm. Peter Love Sat, 7 pm. (Sunset Amphitheater) 1301 W. Sunset Road, 702-547-7777.

Texas Station (A-Bar) Darrin Michaels Fri & Sat, 7 pm. (South Padre) VooDoo Band Fri, 9 pm. Yellow Brick Road Sat, 9 pm. 702-6311000.

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4575 Boulder Highway, 888-236-9066.

Arizona Charlie’s (Naughty Ladies Saloon) Jerry Tiffe Fri, 4 pm. 740 S. Decatur Blvd., 702-258-5200.

Boulder Station (Railhead) Diamiond Rio 11/13, 8 pm, $23-$43. Boulder Blues ft. Coco Montoya 11/19, 6 pm, $5. Carl Palmer 12/4, 8 pm, $8 pm. (Kixx Bar) Reflection Fri & Sat, 8 pm. 702-432-7777.

Count’s Vamp’d Saliva, The Everyday Losers, EMDF 11/4, 8:30 pm, $10-$15.

Burn Unit 11/5, 8 pm, free. John 5, Doyle, American Monster 11/6, 9 pm, $18-$22. The Winery Dogs, Kicking Harold 11/7, 8:30 pm, $20-$25. Sin City Sinners, Graham Bonnet 11/12, 10 pm, free. 9:30 pm, free. 6750 W. Sahara, 702-220-8849.

Dispensary Lounge Uli Geissendoerfer Trio Fri & Sat, 10 pm. 2451 E. Tropicana, 702-4586343.

Dive Bar Geekapalooza ft. Tippy Elvis, The Doubleclicks, Time Crashers, Super Zeroes, 3D6 11/7, 8 pm, free. The Sloths, The Astaires, Strange Mistress 11/8, 9 pm, $7. 4110 S. Maryland Parkway., 702-5863483.

Eastside Cannery (Marilyn’s Lounge) Claudine Castro Band Mon, 10 pm. Phoenix Wed, 9 pm. Spazmatics Sun, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702-507-5700.

Fiesta Henderson (Coco Lounge) All shows 7:30 pm. 702-558-7000.

Fiesta Rancho (Club Tequila) Sherry Gordy: Take the Stage Thu, 7 pm, $5-$10. (Cabo Lounge) Shows free unless noted. 702-6317000.

German American Social Club Vintage Classic Jazz Night Tue, 7 pm, $4. 1110 E. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-649-8503.

Milo’s Cellar Live Music Thu, 8 pm, free. 538 Nevada Hwy., 702-293-9540.

Ron DeCar’s Event Center Jimmy Wilkin’s New Life Orchestra 11/14, noon, $15. Bruce Harper Big Band ft. Elisa Fiorillo 11/21, noon, $15. 1201 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-4538451.

Sam’s Town Los NiteKings Sun, 7 pm, free.

Shows free unless noted. 5111 Boulder Hwy., 702-284-7777.

Comedy Boomers Side Splitting Sundays Sun, 9 pm, free. 3200 Sirius Ave., 702-368-1863.

Craig Ranch Regional Park Amphitheater 628 W. Craid Rd., 702-633-2418.

The D Laughternoon Starring Adam London Daily, 4 pm, $20-$25. 702-388-2111..

Hard Rock Hotel (The Joint) Cedric the Entertainer 12/30, 9 pm, $50. Bo Burnham 1/30, 8 pm, $50. 702-693-5000.

Harrah’s (Main Showrom) Mac King Tue-Sat, 1 & 3 pm, $33. (The Improv) Darryl Lenox, Marc Price Thru 11/8. Henry Phillips, Avi Liberman, Wendi Starling 11/10-11/15. TueSun, 8:30 pm; Fri & Sat, 10 pm; $30-$45.

702-369-5000.

Luxor Carrot Top Wed-Mon, 8 pm, $50-$60.

702-262-4900.

MGM Grand (Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club) Nightly, 8 pm, $43-$87. 702-891-7777.

Mirage Jay Leno 11/20-11/21, 10 pm; $60-$80.

Ray Romano 12/4-12/5, 12/11-12/12, 10 pm, $60. Daniel Tosh 11/13, 10 pm; 10/17, 11/14, 7:30 pm. 702-792-7777.

Orleans (Showroom) Gary Owen 11/13-11/14, 8 pm, $40. Aries Spears 11/27-11/28, 8 pm, $44$66. 702-284-7777.

Planet Hollywood (Las Vegas Live Comedy Club) Edwin San Juan Nightly, 9 pm, $56-$67, V Theater. (PH Showroom) Jeff Dunham Wed-Sun, 7 pm; Sat-Sun, 4 pm, $72.. (Sin City Theatre) Sin City Comedy & Burlesque Show Nightly, 8:30 pm, $38-$49.

702-777-2782.

Quad Jeff Civilico Sat-Mon, Wed-Thu, 4 pm, $39-$50. 888-777-7664.

Rampart Casino (Bonkerz Comedy Club) Thu, 7 pm, free., 702-507-5900.

Red Rock (Rocks Lounge) Orny Adams 11/21, 8 pm, $25-$35. Hal Sparks 1/23, 8 pm, $25$35. Justin Willman 2/20, 8 pm, $25-$35.

702-797-7777.

Rio Eddie Griffin Mon-Thu, 7 pm, $73-$136.

702-777-2782.

The Sayers Club (Bonkerz Comedy Club) Thu-Sat 8 pm, $10. SLS, 702-761-7000.

South Point Jay Mohr 11/6-11/7, 7:30 pm, $25$35. 702-797-8005.

Tropicana (The Laugh Factory) Nightly, 8:30 & 10:30 pm, $35-$55. 702-739-2222.

Treasure Island 12/4, 9 pm, $53-$83. Whoopi Goldberg 11/13, 9 pm, $58-$99. Billy Gardell 11/27, 9 pm, $44-$72. 702-894-7111..

Venetian Whitney Cummings 11/28, 9:30 pm; 1/2, 8 pm, $50-$118. Lisa Lampanelli 10/31, 8 pm; 12/26, 8 pm, $50-$118. Garfunkel & Oates 11/7, 9:30 pm, $40-$96. Iliza Shlesinger, Sarah Colonna 11/14, 9:30 pm, $40-$96. 702-414-9000.

Performing Arts Christ Church Episcopal Advent-Christmas Recital 12/6, 4 pm, $15. Adam J. Brakel 1/8, 7:30 pm, $15. Hans Uwe Hielscher 2/5, 7:30 pm, $15. David Dorway 4/29, 7:30 pm, $15.

2000 S. Maryland Parkway, sncago.org.

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. Smith Center, 702-749-2000.

Nevada Ballet Theatre A Balanchine Celebration: From Tchaikobsky to Rodgers & Hart to Gershwin 11/7, 7:30 pm, 11/8, 2 pm, $29-$139. The Nutcracker 12/12, 8:30 pm, 12/13, 1 & 5:30 pm, 12/18, 7:30 pm, 12/19, 2 pm $ 7:30 pm, 12/20, 1 & 5:30 pm, $29-$179.

Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall, 702-7492000.

Onyx Theatre Mister Wives 11/12-11/14, 11/1911/21, 11/27-11/28, 8 pm; 11/22, 5 pm, $20.

The Blanche DeBris Emergency Xmas Broadcast 12/10-12/12, 12/17-12/19, 8 pm; 12/13, 5 pm, $20. 953 E. Sahara Ave., 702732-7225.

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Patricia D. Cafferata Signing and Reading 12/4, 7 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.

Scott Deitche Reading and Book Signing 12/3, 7 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock.org.

Disney on Ice presents Frozen 1/6-1/11, times vary, $38-$83. Thomas & Mack Center, unlvtickets.com.

Downtown Podcast Thu, 9 pm, free. Inspire Theater, 107 Las Vegas Blvd. S., downtownpodcast.tv.

Ethel M Chocolates Holiday Cactus Garden 11/11, 5 pm to 10 pm, free. Ethel M Chocolate Factory and Cactus Garden, 2 Cactus Garden Dr., ethelm.com.

Fitness America Weekend 11/20-11/21, times vary, $50-$150. Golden Nugget, fitnessamerica.com.

Hypnosis Unleashed Tue-Sun, 8:30 pm, $30-$40. Binion’s, 128 E. Fremont St., 702382-1600.

Julia Lee Signing and Reading 1/22, 7 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock.org.

Kim Macquarrie Signing and Reading 12/10, 7 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock.org.

Made L.V. Guest Chef Dinner ft. Vincent Pouessel 11/11, 6:30 pm, $39. Made L.V., 450 S. Rampart Blvd, Ste. 120, 702-7222000.

Monday’s Dark with Mark Shunock Anniversary 12/14, 8 pm, $20-$50. Vinyl, 702-693-5000.

Monday’s Dark with Mark Shunock 11/16, 9:30 pm, $20-$30. Vinyl, 702-693-5000.

National Novel Writing Month Workshop Wed thru Nov, 6 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock. org.

Nitro Circus Live 11/21, 8 pm, $42-$128. MGM Grand Garden Arena, 702-891-7777.

Christopher Norment Book Signing 11/17, 7 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., 702-550-6399.

Piff the Magic Dragon Mon thru Wed starting 11/9, 8 pm, $50-$70. Bugsy’s Cabaret at Flamingo, 702-733-3333.

Poet Laureate Open Poetry Readings 11/14, 12/12, 2 pm, free. Winchester Cultural Center, 702-455-7340.

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Sk8 to Elimin8 Cancer 11/19, 3:30, $10. Fiesta Rancho SoBe Ice Arena, 2400 N Rancho Dr., fiestarancho.sclv.com.

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.

Switch: Trans* Clothing Swap Thu, 5 pm, free. Gay & Lesbian Community Center, 702733-9800.

Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival 11/7, 930 am, free. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Rd., vegasvalleycomicbookfestival.org.

Windmill Music Club Highway 61 Revisited 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. Mandalay Bay Events Center, 702-632-7777.

Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational 11/26-11/27, noon, $47-$157. Orleans, 702284-7777.

Indian National Finals Rodeo Thru 11/7, times vary $15. South Point, southpointarena.com.

Rocky Mountain Gun Show 11/7-11/8, times vary, $15. South Point, southpointarena. com.

Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl 12/19, 12:30 pm, $24-$110. Sam Boyd Stadium, unlvtickets.com.

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Ultimate Fighter: Team McGregor vs. Team Faber Finale ft. Frankie Edgar vs. Chad Mendes 12/11, $150-$350.

UNLV Football Hawaii 11/7, 3 pm, $24-$69.

San Diego State 11/21, 7:30 pm, $17-$53.

Sam Boyd Stadium, unlvtickets.com.

Galleries Amanda Harris Gallery of Contemporary Art By appointment. 900 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-769-6036.

Arts Factory 107 E. Charleston Blvd, 702-3833133. Galleries include: Joseph Watson Collection Wed-Fri, 1-6 pm; Sat, noon-3 pm; Sun, 11 am-2 pm. Suite 115, 858-733-2135.

Sin City Gallery Wed-Sat, 1-7 pm; Sun, 11 am-2 pm. Suite 100, 702-608-2461. Suite 135, 702366-7001, trifectagallery.com.

Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art Picasso: Creatures and Creativity Thru 1/10. Daily, 10 am-8 pm, $11-$16. 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-6937871.

Blackbird Studios By appointment. 1551 S. Commerce St., 702-782-0319.

Brett Wesley Gallery Wed-Sat, 1-7 pm. 1025 S. First St. #150, 702-433-4433.

Clark County Government Center Rotunda 500 Grand Central Parkway, 702-455-7030.

Clay Arts Vegas Mon-Sat, 9 am-9 pm; Sun, 11:30 am-6:30 pm. 1511 S. Main St., 702-375-4147.

Downtown Spaces 1800 Industrial Road, dtspaces.com. Galleries include: Candy Wolves Studio 702-600-3011.

Skin City Body Painting 702-431-7546.

Solsis Gallery 702-557-2225.

Spectral Gallery Sat, noon-10 pm & by appointment.

Urizen Gallery First Fri, 6-10 pm.

Wasteland Gallery Mon-Fri, 10 am-2 pm. 702475-9161.

Emergency Arts 520 Fremont St. Galleries include: Satellite Contemporary 973-964-3050.

Rhizome Gallery 702-907-7526.

Gainsburg Studio & Gallery Mon-Sat, 10am5pm. 1533 West Oakey Blvd, 702-249-3200.

Las Vegas City Hall Chamber Gallery In Focus: Downtown Architecture by Ryan Reason & Jennifer Burkart Mon-Fri, 7 am-5:30 pm, 495 S. Main St., 702-229-1012.

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620 S. 7th St., 702-366-9339.

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UNLV Barrick Museum Mon-Fri, 9 am–5 pm; Thu, 9 am-8 pm; Sat, noon-5 pm. 4505 S Maryland Parkway., 702-895-3381 Donna Beam Fine Art Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-2 pm. 702-895-3893.

Lied Library The French Connection Thru 10/31. Mon-Thu, 7:30 am-midnight; Fri, 7:30 am-7 pm; Sat, 9 am-6 pm; Sun, 11 am-midnight.

West Las Vegas Arts Center Wed-Sat, 9 am-7 pm. 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-229-4800.

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