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CONTENTS 7 MAIL Longing for Blood, Sweat

47 NOISE On the scene as the

& Tears ... and Tacos El Gordo.

Bunkhouse rises again. Grooving to Yo La Tengo and Peaches.

MOVIES & CANDY BY ADAM SHANE; YO LA TENGO BY SPENCER BURTON

8 AS WE SEE IT How the Paris attacks struck music. Should the Fontainebleau be a theme park?

50 COMEDY A double-whammy

13 Q&A Outside Las Vegas head

51 THE STRIP New whimsy (in

Mauricia Baca.

new-old digs) from the Blue Men.

14 FEATURE | WHERE HUNGER

53 PRINT John Irving’s latest.

LIVES Mapping food insecurity in Las Vegas, and efforts to end it.

18 FEATURE | MANY THANKS Before we gather for the holiday, some gratitude for sunsets and bike lanes and hip-hop and ...

of female funniness at Venetian.

56 FOOD & DRINK Kosher tapas, East Coast lobster rolls and a feast of Glenfiddich at Stripsteak. 58 CALENDAR A Water Street watering hole turns 50 in style.

28 NIGHTS Happy Birthday to Steve Aoki, and a warm welcome back to classic Stoney’s.

43 A&E Mikayla Whitmore’s thoughtful projections at P3. 44 SCREEN J-Law! Seth Rogen! Jolie-Pitt! And journalists.

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BATTLING BIGOTRY Responding to student protests at Yale and Missouri, UNLV hired an officer to investigate discrimination complaints, and will redesign its African American Studies program. Read about these changes and others at lasvegasweekly. com.

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This year must be the season for coach Dave Rice’s Runnin’ Rebels to break through.

Downtown has come a long way and has really cleaned up nicely. –Cynthia G. Ramirez

Kids want to come here. And now as he gains more experience, Rice is choosing the “right” kids. This team may struggle a bit early, but they have a special quality about them. Go Rebels! –Ollie1114

[You] forgot Hennessey’s, Brass, LVCS ... been around a lot longer than most of those other places. –Andrew Northam If you didn’t mention Tacos El Gordo in this article I was going to cry BS. Respect. –Denise Bolaños A great area of Las Vegas that I hope will expand over time. –R. Christian Anderson

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC The finalists in the Main Street Signature Sculpture commission presented proposals this week.

I’m all for some new art Downtown but ... what’s the point of installing new art if homeless are going to be hanging around it? Tackle the bigger issues first please and then make the place prettier. –Matt Keller

MO’ MUSIC SLS is turning its shuttered nightclub into a new liveperformance space called the Foundry Hall.

Great idea! Get some good bands! –Charles McKinnon

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Sounds like a great setup! I’d love to see bands here, especially Tower of Power or Blood, Sweat & Tears! –Michael Haberland For some reason the HollywoodSunset Strip vibe doesn’t work here in Vegas. Music venue thing is a good idea. –Wero Jonea

The NCAA Tournament is not the goal. That should be a given. The team has to play like Rebels. They have to have heart, show passion and at least appear to care about each other. They must play sound, fundamental, enjoyable basketball. They must progress throughout the season and actually improve. Working to be a better person and player is why you go to college. Rice will never be able to get players to play at the level they need to play at to win consistently at a high level. Hire a real coach! –RebelRobert Rice was told he could reset the program last year and played five freshmen and almost lost his job. I can see Rice having success this season and doing what he should have done two years ago, leaving for a bigger conference. –ItsMeGary

BURGER STREET Flippin’ Good is the newest, but not the only place to get a burger Downtown.

There has been a McDonald’s inside the Plaza and in the D for decades, but they desperately need an In-N-Out Burger under the canopy. –Mike Tarayos Did we forget about Heart Attack Grill? Fairly certain that’s been there for around four or five years now. Flippin’ Good is okay, but nothing to rave about. Probably tastes better when drunk. –Carl Askew

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> GONE SILENT Most of those killed in the Paris attacks died inside the Bataclan theater, during an Eagles of Death Metal concert.

WHY THE SHOW GOES ON ∑ I keep imagining I’m inside the Bataclan in Paris, but in my mind it looks like the Joint, the Pearl or House of Blues. I scan the room ... merch guy selling T-shirts, superfans near the stage, music critic scribbling in his notepad … and then something explodes, and everything turns red.

I’ve spent much of my life in concert halls, and I’ve never really been scared. Not when over-aggressive moshpits have suddenly veered my way. Not in the wake of 2003’s Great White show fire in Rhode Island (though I did start mentally marking my exits after that). Not even after I stood a few feet from a stabbing amid a thick local crowd. Live performance, for me, has always been an escape, from real life, real worries and real danger. And now? I suppose it was always when, not if, this would happen.

Schools, churches, malls, movie theaters … why should concert venues be different? And in the same way some now watch films stealing occasional glances at the doors to the left or right of the screen, watching a band won’t be the worry-free experience it once was. I don’t plan to stop going, or even cut back, not because of some “then they win” machismo or because the odds tell me it’s still way safer than driving on the freeway. I’ll go because it’s what I do, and I can’t imagine my life without live music somewhere near the center.

I can’t say I won’t jump or shudder the next time a speaker pops or someone drops a bottle nearby, but right now I’m far more sad than scared. For the kids who went to a rock show, and never came back. For the merch man who should be setting up for the band’s next gig right now. And for the music critic, who became one of more than 80 tragic tales at a concert he tried to cover. It makes no sense, and it never will. My heart breaks for every one of them and their families. The world shouldn’t be like this. –Spencer Patterson

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ONE MORE TRY? Since Huntridge Revival LLC announced it would end its mission to buy and restore the 1940s-era art deco theater on Charleston and Maryland, a new developer, Dapper Companies, purchased three properties in the area and announced plans to eventually buy the theater. “We want to build on all the redevelopment efforts and momentum that have been happening on East Fremont Street and other parts of downtown and extend them to this corner and this neighborhood,” principal J Dapper says. “To us, it isn’t just about the Huntridge Theatre. It’s really about the whole Huntridge neighborhood.”

HEAD IN THE CLOUDS Adding to his growing renown and recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, 21-year-old hometown hero Shamir Bailey racked up another accolade last week, being honored by Out magazine as one of “this year’s most compelling LGBT people.” The magazine lauded him as a “poster child for a new generation of pop star: the post-queer, postgender, fearlessly original kind. … Bailey’s debut album, Ratchet, presents itself as a celebration of difference without the sloganeering that often accompanies proLGBT music.” –Kristy Totten

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BYE BYE, BIRDIE The Arts District will lose another gallery when Blackbird Studios shutters in January. The well-loved Commerce Street space championed emerging artists from Las Vegas and beyond. “Until the very end we stuck to our guns by never selling out,” owner Gina Quaranto wrote on Facebook, “and by curating every show whether the work was from a brand-new talent with no experience (and zero built-in collectors) or showing installation work that was absolutely never ‘sellable.’ We believed in the art and knew it needed to be seen. That was why we started this gallery so long ago, and we held true to that all these years.”

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As We See It… > Visiting vegas Daniel Keller’s “AmazonGlobalPriority Cairn Shelving Unit 1.”

Fontainewho Now that the big, blue, abandoned Strip resort is for sale, who should buy it and what should they do with it? Hakkasan Group The hospitality behemoth can use the Fontainebleau site to establish north Strip representation and intimidate its main competitors at nearby Wynn and Encore.

Universal Disney might have hangups about developing a themed resort in Las Vegas, but recent history shows its biggest rival will open for business anywhere. And Harry Potter slot machines are a no-brainer.

STATION CASINOS Are the neighborhood casino champs ever gonna get in the Strip game? Now’s as good a time as any.

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Creative soil The internationally renowned Zabludowicz Collection is bringing artists to the Vegas muse By Kristen Peterson Las Vegas has long drawn artists and writers wanting to explore and study the environment here, but this month’s launch of an artist residency by the international philanthropic Zabludowicz Collection not only brings artists to town, it integrates them with the local arts community as a way to foster broader dialogue. Poju Zabludowicz and his wife Anita have been collecting art since the mid-1990s. London’s Tate Modern has two Anita Zabludowicz galleries on its fourth floor, and Anita is also a trustee of the Tate Foundation. Poju is director of the London-based Tamares Group, which owns several properties in Las Vegas, including the Plaza. His family wanted to establish a privately funded museum in Las Vegas at 601 E. Fremont in 2009, but the city wanted the property developed faster.

The new residency marks a different way of recognizing the creative potency of Las Vegas, and Zabludowicz reps have been working with local contact Melissa Petersen, board president of the Contemporary Arts Center. Berlinbased artist Daniel Keller and writer Ella Plevin arrived earlier this month. U.K. artist David Raymond Conroy is next, followed by Korakrit Arunanondchai, born in Thailand and based in New York City. “The main motivation for the residency is the nature of Las Vegas itself, and the fascination it holds for generations of artists, writers and thinkers, especially around ideas of architecture, entertainment, escapism and frontiers,” says Paul Luckraft, curator of exhibitions for the Zabludowicz Collection. “Las Vegas is, of course, rich terrain to consider these pressing questions, and over a number of years many artists have expressed an interest in visiting and getting to know the place first-hand, digging down beyond easy assumptions or clichés.” The residencies end December 9, and will be followed by a two-day symposium that will allow artists, curators, historians and critics to discuss the Las Vegas arts scene and its possible evolution as a “cultural and creative center.”

The former owned the Cosmopolitan when it opened in 2010, and the latter’s four-year stint as CEO helped the forward-thinking property become a Vegas trendsetter. Lightning can strike twice, can’t it?

Erotic Heritage Museum The Fontainebleau building is already a giant phallus, and just think how much bigger the EHM could make its 10-foot interactive vulva!

NASCAR Race fans could use a themed Vegas home when EDC takes over the Speedway every year.

PHIL RUFFIN The shrewd owner of Treasure Island already tried to buy the Mirage from MGM Resorts this year, but no luck. He could always partner with his orange-coiffed pal ...

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From Tibet to the Trop

In the late 1960s,

Hey, anything to distract him from the election.

a Danish couple honeymooning in Nepal crossed paths with exiled Tibetan Buddhists, eventually meeting up with spiritual leaders of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, who sent them back into the world to share the teachings with the West. More than 45 years (and 600 Diamond Way Buddhist Centers) later, Ole and Hannah Nydahl succeeded by creating an international Karma Kagyu Buddhist organization of lay practitioners. ¶ Lama Ole will visit the Tropicana expected to draw more than 500 Buddhists from around the world, along with locals from the Diamond Way Buddhist Center Las Vegas. While not a visual parade of saffron, Sara Finnerty from the Las Vegas center says the event will see “the innate purity of all beings and all situations,” bringing it down from the mountains. ¶ While the conference is open only to registrants, anyone is welcome November 24 at 8 p.m. at the Tropicana conference center for a talk and meditation. Not your usual night at the slots, but this way you’re only dropping $15 at the door. –Kristen Peterson

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PYRAMID OF BISCUITS

The university’s station might partner with public radio

FAIR PLAY Peaceful gratitude amid the violence of certain holiday traditions BY STACY J. WILLIS It was Black Friday, early morning, at a Kmart in a small town. Shoppers—aggressive, overcaffeinated, elbow-swinging shoppers—squished into my personal space. I remember wiping sweat from my brow, digging in my wallet for an emergency Xanax and instinctively scanning for exits. But first, before leaving what seemed to be the only store in Big Bear, California, we had to find underwear. It was a couple of years ago. My girlfriend and I had driven from Las Vegas to the small mountain town on Thanksgiving day, and despite the best planning and packing—we remembered lighter fluid, an extra cord of wood, tire chains, two kinds

of things I was thankful for, as this was, of course, the season for gluttony and gratitude. I was grateful for our health, for the abundance of underwear at home, for Big Pharma, for all of our family and friends we’d slipped away from that year, for both whole cranberries and the sliceable canned variety, and for the peaceful cabin retreat. I took a deep breath and fell asleep, and dreamed of tagteam mixed martial arts fighting in the practical undergarments section. ***** When UFC fighter Ronda Rousey took a powerful kick to the head and fell flat on the mat last week-

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> FESTIVE INTENSITY From shopping to sports, America’s Thanksgiving rituals can feel a bit scrappy.

of cranberry sauce—we realized we hadn’t packed any underwear whatsoever. I don’t want to debate the necessity of underthings right now, but let me state for the record that in this particular instance, I voted no. No, I would not like to go to any store on Black Friday, much less an astonishingly popular Kmart. But I went with her out of love and a heroic sense of duty. And I abandoned her before she even found the 60-percent-off undies trough out of wisdom and a heroic sense of selfpreservation. While waiting in the car chomping on a sedative, I mentally checked off the bucket-list item “Go Shopping on Black Friday,” which was actually never, ever on my bucket list, and I swore I’d never go again. I examined my ribs for bruises. Then I closed my eyes and remembered the long list

end, I was shocked. Yes, she was the undefeated champ and it was a major upset, but also, a thought hit me the way Holly Holm’s foot hit Rousey: Why am I watching this? My adrenaline was rushing and I was thoroughly engaged in an absolutely brutal sport, just like the 56,000 fans that packed the Australian stadium and multiple thousands of others watching on pay-per-view. In fact, just before Rousey was leveled, I might have been yelling, “C’mon, hit her!” or some other weirdly violent, spittle-riddled invective. To be clear, I’m a pacifist. But the very next day, as Rousey woke up in the hospital, reportedly fine-ish, I was leaping off the sofa cheering as an NFL quarterback got sacked— just moments after another hardhit player had been taken from the field by ambulance. I say this with a dose of shame, because many of

my more socially conscious friends have given up watching the NFL and other head-injury-prone sports, as the notion that watching someone risk brain injury for our entertainment is barbaric. “It’s an unfortunate part of the game,” NFL commentator Cris Collinsworth said when they loaded into an ambulance an Arizona Cardinals player whose extremities went numb after a helmet strike. UFC President Dana White was quoted as saying of Rousey’s surprising knockout, “These are the moments in fighting that make it so crazy, and so fun.” ***** I celebrated Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area’s 25th birthday this week with a hike, ever grateful that Congress decided to protect the area. After scrambling up a boulder-filled trail, I stopped to watch some climbers dangling overhead. While my hikes are a relaxing hobby, their sport is an intricate, skilled affair. You don’t hang off of a 60-foot vertical wall without knowing that you risk injury and death. I thought of mountaineer George Mallory’s famous quote about Mount Everest: Why climb the mountain? “Because it’s there.” The love of challenge draws us in at every turn, inviting strategy and risk into every arena, the American paragon being the free market. One of the biggest retail sellers of climbing equipment, REI, announced that it would not be open Black Friday, offering instead the counter-culture, get-outdoors message, “#OptOut.” It seemed ludicrous from a bottom line point-of-view—the biggest shopping day of the year! But, of course, it was shrewd marketing, as it solidified their brand. Well-played, REI. Americans are a game-playing bunch. This Thanksgiving I’m thankful that we strive to contain our competitive impulses to a field governed by rules, with an ideal of fair play. I’m super-grateful that on Black Friday, I’ll be taking a morning hike and then watching college football, while competitive shoppers perform flying elbow strikes to get the last 55-inch TV. And of course, I’m grateful for my undies.

After recent programming shifts that created more opportunities for UNLV students, university radio station KUNV might soon change again. President Len Jessup has requested approval of a management and programming agreement between UNLV and Nevada Public Radio, wherein NVPR would assume management, programming and operation of the station. If approved by the Board of Regents at the December meeting, the partnership would also feature a facility-use agreement for NVPR to utilize Greenspun Hall’s broadcast studio and office space. According to a UNLV Board of Regents briefing paper, major goals of the partnership, which would last until at least October 2021, include “a significant increase in audience size, elimination of UNLV’s financial responsibility for the operation of the station, an increase in marketing of UNLV activities and programs, and continuity in meeting the academic needs of the university and its students.” The agreement would also provide undergraduate internships and graduate fellowships at the station and training opportunities with NVPR’s broadcast professionals. “This partnership will provide NVPR an opportunity to address our goal of engaging younger and more diverse individuals in public media production and management,” Nevada Public Radio head Florence Rogers said by email. “Content will better reflect our community when we train, hire and appeal to a younger and more diverse audience.” Models include a 15-year-old partnership between Pasadena City College and Southern California Public Radio, and a similar one struck between Ohio’s Miami University and Cincinnati Public Radio in 2009. According to the briefing paper, both higher-ed institutions were relieved of the financial responsibility of running their stations and received significant value in promotional underwriting. But the paper also includes arguments against the agreement, including a potential decrease in student opportunities at the station. “It’s a win-win to create rich educational and paid opportunities for students interested in broadcast and digital media,” Rogers said, anticipating that the partnership will steadily increase opportunities and build a pipeline of talent for local media outlets that will offer more diverse viewpoints to consumers. –Mark Adams

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Prayers on demand

PrayerSpark connects you to the digital blessings of spiritual leaders—for a price By Kristen Peterson

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The blessings themselves are free, but if a user wants a chosen “Spiritual Leader” to send the blessing digitally, there’s a 99-cent charge. Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Native American and Australian Aboriginal spirituality are among the options. There’s even a Wiccan reverend. Feder says the vetting process sought leaders who were generally interfaith, LGBTQ-friendly and personally involved with a charity. More than 80 percent of prayer fees go to the spiritual leaders, including sales of greeting cards, flowers and other vectors for their blessings. Tigrett, who lives in an ashram in India and is PrayerSpark’s brand ambassador, said by email: “At such a transition point into global, mobile connectivity ... PrayerSpark is a long overdue gift to the social network’s library.” He describes it as a gather-

ing of global leaders dedicated to selfless service and love, “whose mission is to help us in our struggle to deal with the collective social, moral and spiritual afflictions arising out of the 21st century.” Feder says the for-profit business is in beta. Thousands have used it since its January launch, he says, with more than 3,300 sessions and 2,945 users in the past week. PrayerSpark has more than 46,000 Facebook followers. In addition to designing a new website, PrayerSpark—which includes Las Vegas radiologist Dr. Daniel Saurborn as its chief wellness officer and COO— is building a wellness app for addiction and recovery, partnering with local drug and alcohol treatment program Solutions Recovery, Inc. Its Indiegogo campaign has raised more than $3,000 of its $25,000 goal for the business-tobusiness app. The aim is to reduce the

92 percent relapse rate by providing a digital support system, along with virtual tokens for sobriety. “We will be tracking efficacy of our apps. First up, watching the reduction in relapse rate in addiction,” Feder says. In addition to its own mission, this new product could draw more users to PrayerSpark. Though paying for prayers might launch red flags for some, others might argue it’s not that different from tithing, televangelist healing, Scientology treatments or even psychic readings. And the bulk of humanity on every continent calls upon prayer, blessings and affirmations for improvement and rehabilitation. When asked whether users must believe prayer works for it to be effective, Feder says, “not necessarily,” pointing out that Buddhists and other denominations don’t pray to a deity. “Just knowing that someone you respect and admire is thinking about you helps.”

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“Login to request a prayer.” If anything encapsulates the melding of ancient healing traditions and 21stcentury sensibilities, that clickable phrase on Las Vegas-based interfaith affirmation website PrayerSpark might be it. Congregations pray for the sick. Communities pray for victims. Greeting cards wish recipients speedy recoveries. And the digital age has given us religious sites and apps featuring downloadable masses and daily prayers, blessings on demand—you name it. When all is upside-down, physically, emotionally or mentally, we pray. Right? It’s what we’ve always done. And then what? Depends who you ask. Intercessory prayer research, including Duke Medicine’s famous MANTRA project that focused on heart patients, has yielded results mostly unsupportive of the medicinal power of prayer. But these studies—broken into approaches including strangers praying, peers praying, nobody praying or spiritual leaders praying—showed some evidence of therapeutic effect ranging from patient stress levels to rates of return to the hospital. PrayerSpark founder and CEO Michael Feder references these findings often. A Las Vegas resident who traveled the world researching spirituality, Feder was called on to work with Isaac Tigrett (co-founder of Hard Rock Cafe and House of Blues) to develop the Spirit Channel, a venue dedicated to religion. He hadn’t thought about studies on noetic healing for years, but when Nelson Mandela’s family asked people to pray for the ailing icon, Feder recalled MANTRA and thought, what if? “I wanted to create a system where I could deliver third-party prayer,” Feder says. “If you have a heart valve tear or a broken leg, you need a surgeon. Prayer works in depression, stress, pain management. PrayerSpark can turn on the power of the mind to help heal.” In creating PrayerSpark, Feder was also interested in those who didn’t identify with organized religion. Working with a small team, he rounded up spiritual leaders from various beliefs and launched the interfaith affirmation company that allows users to request prayers and blessings.

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Outside Las Vegas Foundation’s Mauricia Baca on our Valley’s epic trail project and the outdoors as magical tape This time of year, it’s easier to adventure on Netflix than come up with a reason to experience the outdoors. But Mauricia Baca and her team have a simple charge for couch potatoes, and everybody else: “Get outside, Las Vegas!” Outside Las Vegas Foundation’s mission of connecting people to their surroundings—and each other—is much bigger than simply getting them to step out the front door. Working with local and state government, community groups, neighborhoods, schools and corporations, OLVF is tackling everything from health and wellness issues to traffic congestion and pollution. How? By leading the charge to link the Valley with trails, educating people about outdoor opportunities and amenities, fostering a love of wild

parks and trails for so many reasons—health, education and the basic joy of being outside. When it comes to health, the simplest thing you can do is put on a pair of comfortable shoes and go for a walk. Add in being on a trail or in a park, and you get a great experience that is fun and that makes you healthier. In a state where 35 percent of kindergartners are overweight or obese, this is important. When it comes to education, our trails and parks are tremendous outdoor classrooms—botany, ecology, history, geology— you can see them all illustrated. These are places that bring textbooks to life and can inspire imagination. Add in the fact that being outside has been shown to help with attention deficit disorder and improve focus, and you have a real recipe for success for our youth.

jog over brings you to the McCullough Hills Trail. The 215 Trail is building that link on the west side.

OLVF’s Park of the Week web feature shines a light on the difference between “outside” and most people’s conception of “nature.” We want people

2012 and to date have connected over 8,000 youths to outdoor experiences. ... It’s really incredible when you see a child who has grown up looking at mountains from far away actually get to that place and light up as they explore.

to find their piece of nature. For some in more urban areas, this can be a park or a trail that runs through a neighborhood. ... You can sit under a tree, watch the birds, check out lizards crawling, see desert plants. And the important thing is that these are incredibly accessible experiences. ... Southern Nevada has over 1,000 miles of trails, thousands of acres of local parks and millions of acres of public lands.

places through workshops and creating online resources to help get us out there. Who couldn’t use this kind of push off the couch?

How goes the OLVF-led Vegas Valley Rim Trail, and its aim of a loop that would exceed 100 miles? Thanks to the great

You’ve been a trial attorney for the Department of Justice and a community organizer in New York City. What drew you to Outside Las Vegas? The

efforts of all of the jurisdictions, the Vegas Valley Rim Trail—the idea that a trail can encircle the Valley and literally and figuratively link our special places—is taking shape. You can now travel along the Las Vegas Wash Trail (crossing through North Las Vegas, Las Vegas and Clark County) to the Wetlands Park, to the River Mountains Loop Trail. A

mission really resonated with me ... the idea of connecting people to our outdoor places. At the end of the day, people protect what they love and value. Outside Las Vegas Foundation brings together the idea that our outdoor places are special and worthy of care and respect with the idea that these places are of incredible value for our community. Why are they valuable? People of all ages need

Who is the big beneficiary? Bike commuters? Hiking enthusiasts? Neighbors looking to connect? All of the

above. The River Mountains Loop trail provided the model. Visit that trail and any day you’ll see hikers, people walking dogs, cyclists ... people from the area or even someone visiting from Japan or Australia checking out that trail. It’s a place for our local and global community to come together. I’d love the Vegas Valley Rim Trail to be that on a larger scale someday. OLVF’s education program includes micro-grants to help pay for field trips, especially for lower-income and at-risk youth. Has it been successful? We began in February

What’s your favorite nearby place to get outside? That is a

very hard question. My cozy go-tos are the trails near my house where we walk with our dogs and bike with our family. But we love to stay at the campgrounds at Mount Charleston, raft down the Black River, check out the colors at Red Rock Canyon or Valley of Fire, and the quiet of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. It’s too hard to pick one. ... I think of my stepdaughter, who said the most amazing thing: “When I’m away from nature for too long, it’s as though I have a tear in my heart ... when I get outside it’s like it gets taped back up and I feel better.” It’s simple as that. Being outside just makes me happy. –Molly O’Donnell For more of our interview with Baca, visit lasvegasweekly.com.

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> PITCHING IN Volunteers are essential in the fight against hunger, including at the Las Vegas Rescue Mission.

scratching the surface Hunger is a bigger problem in Las Vegas than you think By Brock Radke Yes, there is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever may be the difficulties of the undertaking, I should like never to be unfaithful either to one or to the others. –Albert Camus It doesn’t immediately make sense for Las Vegas to be hungry. Southern Nevada’s identity is wrapped up in the perception of Vegas, the glitz and the fun, a place to indulge and overindulge. The real Las Vegas, though still dynamic, is plagued with the real problems of any growing American metropolis, and in some cases those problems are worse here. Feeding America, the nation’s largest hunger-relief charity with a network of more than 200 food banks, conducts its signature study Map the Meal Gap every year, measuring the rate of food insecurity across the country. Food insecurity is often characterized as not knowing where your next meal is coming from, but the study defines it as the household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food. The most recent Map the Meal Gap estimates there are 49 million food-insecure people in the U.S., one in every six, including 16 million kids, one in every five. Nevada has the fifth-highest rate of childhood food insecurity in the country, with some staggering numbers coming from Clark County—305,430 food-insecure people, nearly 16 percent of the population, and one in every four children. “I call it the paradox of Las Vegas, because you have some of the world’s most expensive retail and fine dining and lodging, and the best shows on Earth, and then just a mile or two away the contrast is stark,” says Brian Burton, president and CEO of Three Square food bank. “I think every American city has large numbers of working poor and homeless and peo-

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ple who are struggling under crushing conditions. Here, it’s just a little more pronounced because of the face that we show to the world.” Founded in 2007 by Eric Hilton of the famous hotel family, Three Square has quickly and efficiently become much more than Southern Nevada’s only food bank and the region’s hub in the fight against hunger. It’s a national model for collaborative community partnership, working closely with dozens of businesses, nonprofits, food distributors, the school district, government entities and thousands of volunteers. Three Square provides more than 34 million pounds of food and grocery product—more than 28 million meals—per year to more than 1,300 community partners. It’s also the leading local organization researching the issue. “What I love about this food bank is innovation,” says Burton, who came to Las Vegas five years ago from Dallas, where he supervised a smaller Methodist food bank. “We’ve been able to do a lot of practices bigger, better and smarter than a lot of other places, and we’ve imported a lot of business culture here. We are a nonprofit, but that doesn’t define us.” That approach has sparked the organization’s rapid growth and guided its operations and partnerships. Three Square receives food through donations from individuals and organizations, and by collecting unused products from grocery stores and purchasing food from retailers, among other channels. Its hundreds of partners—churches, schools, shelters, community and senior centers—order and pick up food at the bank to distribute to those in need. Faith-based organizations make up the majority of distributors, and Three Square strives to direct volume to neighborhoods with the highest concentrations of atrisk populations, for example, in cen-

tral and North Las Vegas and around the Valley’s eastern perimeter. Touring its impressive North Las Vegas facilities and learning about how efforts like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—an outreach program allowing lowincome families to purchase healthy foods, sometimes on the same day as applying for assistance—are bridging the gaps of local hunger, catching those slipping through the cracks, one could get the idea that Three Square is making a major difference against what seems an insurmountable problem. Burton says it will take 52 million pounds of food to solve the local meal gap; we’ll be at 40 million this year. He says we’re “nipping at the heels,” of local hunger and have the determination and resources to overtake it.

***** But hunger is not a stand-alone issue. And recession-era factors that ballooned unemployment, expanded poverty and exposed a lack of support structures across the U.S. were highly concentrated in Southern Nevada. You can find proof of that, along with uplifting success stories, at any of the local organizations providing free meals to the homeless and the hungry. John Fogal, director of development at Downtown’s 45-year-old Las Vegas Rescue Mission, measures success one story at a time. “One way is volume, the number of meals we’re able to provide,” he says. The mission built a new dining hall in 2009, skyrocketing the number of meals served each month from 12,000 to approximately 32,000. “But the other way is that inside those numbers, each one of those has a story of an individual striving for success.” He tells the tale of a homeless woman who first came to the mission for a meal, then another, before NoVEMber 19-25, 2015 LasVegasWeekly.com

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Through the end of the year, donations made to Three Square Food Bank will be matched dollar-for-dollar by seven businesses as part of the sixth annual Holiday Match Challenge. Backing this year’s effort: Barrick Gold, Boyd Gaming, Crovetti Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, IGT, L.L. Bradford CPAs, Towbin Automotive Group and UnitedHealthcare. A half-million dollars or more can be raised through this challenge for Three Square programs. Since its inception, the Holiday Match Campaign has raised nearly $2 million, or approximately six million meals for those in need in Las Vegas. If the holidays are the time we tend to give most, this is a great way to do it. Find out how at threesquare. org/how-to-help.

she was eventually convinced to get off the streets and stay in the shelter for a week, which turned into a full stay in the mission’s addiction recovery program. Her initial unsociable ways—she never looked up, rarely spoke—were attributed to the damages caused to her teeth and mouth from methamphetamine use. After graduating from the recovery program, she began working at a local Walmart, returned to the mission to volunteer and was eventually promoted and transferred to a store in Florida—and became a public speaker sharing her own story at corporate gatherings. With a staff of 43 and volunteers numbering around 1,300, the rescue mission, originally a tiny storefront on Bonanza Road making sandwiches for the homeless, has evolved into a onestop shop, also offering emergency beds, a thrift store and a voucher program providing various necessities for the homeless transitioning into homes. A nonprofit fully dependent on donations, it’s truly a product of the community, more evidence that as big as this problem might be, Las Vegas’ generous heart seems up for the challenge.

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> MAN WITH THE PLAN Three Square’s Brian Burton.

“We definitely saw a surge in donations when the economy got tougher. All of a sudden it was closer to home,” Fogal says. “There were individuals down here in line who were probably making $90,000 a year two years earlier.” A former pastor who has lived all across the country, Fogal has been in Las Vegas for six years and was initially surprised at how widespread the issues of food insecurity and homelessness are here—back to the paradox, the beautiful and the humiliated. “We do have that stereotype. But the flipside of that is most

people don’t realize how generous and caring and giving this community is.” The mission wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t.

***** Coming to terms with Las Vegas’ hunger can be difficult. A simple starting point: understanding and accepting that anyone can be hungry. Las Vegas might have less generational poverty than older cities, but only because it has had fewer generations—and as Burton points out, those groups develop a set of survival skills that includes knowledge of available

resources like food banks and other mature institutions. We’re still building that network of resources. Scary and continued growth in the number of food-insecure families points to high numbers of formerly middle-class people standing in the food lines. Looking at the 2015 map of Las Vegas food insecurity (produced by Dr. Craig Gundersen, Feeding America and Three Square, with help from Applied Analysis) can be a chilling experience. I bought a home this year, a nice place with a swimming pool in the suburbs, brushing up against the affluent master-planned community Summerlin. My 89117 zip code has an alarming food-insecurity rate of 17.1 percent, and it’s just one of many unpleasant surprises on the map. The Spaghetti Bowl area tallies a 27.5 percent rate. The allegedly blissful ’burbs register in the low teens. We could get frustrated by the assumption that Las Vegas is still figuring out how to take care of itself. But we’ve always been late bloomers. “Where we are in our development is probably where a lot of other cities were 40 years ago,” Burton says. “Most of those cities had not figured out a lot of things in the ’70s that they’re doing well now. Will it take 40 years to catch up? I don’t think so. We have a whole different world, different technologies and information.” And people like him are working hard to take advantage of this new, different world to solve this oldest of problems. PHOTOGRAPH BY ZACK W

Thankfulness has a profound range. In a moment, it might be about taking a bite of a really great sandwich. Or it might be about having food at all, or being alive in the wake of a tragedy the world won’t ever stop mourning. ¶ Because we have so much to be thankful for, we’re able to spend a few pages celebrating the everyday good—calling out slices of Las Vegas life that inspire and delight and affirm, and remind us to let the little things count. ILLUSTRATIONS BY TRAVIS JACKSON; PHOTOGRAPH BY MIKAYLA WHITMORE

> THANKS, NATURE! Rain, and Red Rock Canyon.

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It should be called Plant Portal, for its transportive quality. For the parrots and koi ponds and the labyrinth of trees. For the blooming vines twisting throughout this secret garden. Crossing over Plant World’s threshold is like stepping out of the wardrobe into Narnia—quiet, mysterious and decidedly elsewhere. Outside along Charleston the city bustles per usual, oblivious to the magic that awaits beyond these gates. But in here, in this true desert oasis, reality dissolves; adults shed their worries and wander like children. Was that a squirrel that slipped between the planters? Possibly, or perhaps it was a satyr. –Kristy Totten

Oysters. Specifically oysters from all over the place that only cost a few bucks any given night at Other Mama.

The die-hard local music scene, which routinely gets up off the ground, dusts itself off and soldiers on when favorite venues shutter.

That summer is over, and that fall feels more like spring, and that really there’s no winter unless you’re at the Bellagio Conservatory.

IKEA’s promise. We won’t see the inside till summer, but the outside is already a blue beacon perfectly framed by Las Vegas’ red hills, giving motorists on the 215 something solid to hold onto every single day.

The art inside Circus Circus’ acrobat area.

The Writer’s Block, for making Vegas feel like a “real” literary city.

$32 massages at the Nevada School of Massage Therapy’s public clinic.

BG Bistro, a surprising Bulgarian date-night spot.

The Weekly’s drivers, who deliver us to you every single Thursday.

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Sushi burritos, fused daily (and deliciously) at chef John Chien Lee’s red-hot Jaburritos. SLS. Spend a little time on property and it’ll win you over with stylish fun and stellar food and drink.

Waze, because this construction sucks. The community-based traffic and navigation app uses information gathered from other users on the road to save everyone on the network valuable time— and gas money. The almond latte at PublicUs.

Rain.

Bellagio Gallery of Fine Arts’ Picasso exhibit—a rare opportunity to study the master’s printmaking skills, through January 10. The blissful solitude of being on top of Red Rock Canyon after climbing one of its walls. With gummy bears.

The slow but steady stream of optimism upon which Southern Nevada sportsdom floats. Maybe Coach Sanchez can turn UNLV football around. Maybe we will get a hockey team. Maybe the 51s will get a new stadium. Maybe this is the year the Runnin’ Rebs realize their potential. Maybe.

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> FRESHNESS IN THE DESERT (Clockwise from top left) Other Mama’s oysters, IKEA’s promise, South Point’s Bloodys and Plant World’s beauty constantly excite us.

Barrick Museum Museum, building a stellar collection of works by Vegas artists while rotating in emerging and established artists from elsewhere. Hip-hop at Drai’s. It wasn’t long ago that Strip music venues and clubs avoided booking the genre, and now we’ve got Drai’s, which might have the strongest lineup of resident hip-hop acts … anywhere? Traffic that’s not LA bad, even when it’s kinda sucky. The Lucky Dragon. We don’t know much about it, but it’s a new hotel and casino and it’s deep into construction, and that’s good enough. Designation of the Basin and Range National Monument, protecting more than 700,000 acres of Nevada wilderness and the prehistory it holds. The north side of UNLV’s campus, all shady and green and great to stroll. The Get Back, still the best part of First Friday. Western sunsets.

It opens its doors to the greater community with its Centerpiece arts and culture series, and this year’s educational presentations—including panel discussions on AIDS awareness, transgender cultural competency and local trans history—were informative and entertaining. And turnouts have been inspiring, too. So many Las Vegans, gay and straight, trans and cis, want to learn more about the LGBTQ+ community, and the Center provides a casual and comfortable atmosphere. Save us a seat at the next installment. –Mark Adams

The Strip’s party machine, from crews that reset the dancefloors and pools to servers as cool as they are gorgeous, DJs who know to play “Vivrant Thing” to promoters making sure the lines stretch through the casinos. A good night in Vegas is on another planet, and we get to live on it. South Point’s Bloody Marys, because they’re a dollar, every day before noon.

Brooklyn Bowl, which continues to put performance quality first when filling its music calendar. Here’s hoping the crowds get more consistent. Fanny’s Bistro. Come for the chicken Waldorf, stay for the love. Quail in our parking lot—families living in rich desert landscaping, scurrying about in perfect formation. Nevada Way in Boulder City. Main Street U.S.A., 30 minutes away. Diner delectables at the Coffee Cup, wine time at Milo’s Cellar, homemade ice cream at Grandma Daisy’s and unique antique finds at Back in Thyme—go ahead, make a day of it. NOVEMBER 19-25, 2015 LASVEGASWEEKLY.COM

Our ever-giving Chinatown, where no matter how many times we go, there’s another amazing spot we still need to try. Thoughtful dissenting voices on social media who aren’t afraid to go against the grain, who persevere despite the preponderance of butthurtedness and bomb throwing, who disprove the notion that all Las Vegans are ambivalent or apathetic.

Snugged in next to Circus Circus, this is the place to go for footlong hot dogs, personal freedom, karaoke, cheap booze and a good ol’ unpolished north-end Strip atmosphere, with a staff of locals who will tell you their dreams if you play your cards right. It’s older and dated, a no-frills Vegas slice, where character comes to drink. –Kristen Peterson

Local/independent concert promoters who take chances on acts Vegas wouldn’t otherwise get.

Movies & Candy, on behalf of local cinephiles and noncommittal Netflix DVD subscribers.

Green lanes, bike shares, the 3-foot passing rule and anything else making it a better world for cyclists. Especially drivers who remember what it was to be a kid riding the streets and trusting that cars would do no harm.

Black Mountain Institute’s public talks and lectures, bringing in serious, Pulitzer-winning writers and scholars. A gloriously cerebral mindf*ck.

That Carlito’s Burritos is bringing its badass New Mexican cuisine to a larger space (and closer to our office). That Las Vegas has quietly become a great gelato town, from Gelatology to Gelato Messina to the underrated Jean Philippe Patisserie. The roads and towns of rural Nevada.

Harry Reid, for eight years of keeping our state almost bulletproof— suck it, Yucca Mountain!—as the majority leader. Here’s to a richly deserved retirement.

The way the Adventuredome glows when the sun directly hits, like it was put on this Earth to reflect secret messages into space. That the Fremont Cannon is red.

Entertainers, who defy death and belief and sing and play and dance and joke their hearts out and catch more marshmallows than it is possible to catch in their mouths so everyone who experiences Las Vegas will be amazed and tell their friends and always remember. And, of course, all of our readers. Have a safe and scrumptious Thanksgiving!

> EMBLEMS OF HAPPY (Top to bottom) The Fremont Cannon is red, the Writer’s Block is cool, and Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken deserves its blue ribbon.

Shake Shack and Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken are a few feet from each other, realizing all our finest fast-food dreams. The crowd-pleasing qualities of these two tasty, quick-casual eateries are emblematic of Downtown Summerlin, a massive but breezy development that has continued to blossom with new stores, restaurants and family friendly programming like movie nights and weekend farmers’ markets. It really is becoming the center of everything for those living nearby, and a worthy ’round-the-Beltway destination for everybody else. Those who would make fun of its suburbanosity might find themselves assimilating quickly with a single day’s stroll and a few bites of an ice-cream cookie sandwich. –Brock Radke

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how to prepare for a weekend of snow satisfaction As Las Vegans, we’re spoiled. We get the best of everything: great weather, celebrity restaurants, every show imaginable—the list goes on and on. But when you already live in one of the top getaway destinations in the country, where do you get-away to? Cue: the Spring Mountains. Yes, during the winter months those snowy peaks looming over the Valley are prime daytrip destinations for skiing, snowboarding and even tubing.

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When packing for a day trip to the Spring Mountains, it’s important to remember that, while close in proximity, it can be a completely different world up there. Your elevation will change over 4,000 feet, and the weather can be 20-30 degrees cooler than what it is in the Valley. Even if you’re just heading up for the afternoon, a wellvetted pacing list can make all the difference.

Skiing and snowboarding clothes

The trick to building a proper snow-sports outfit is layering. You’ll need to stay warm but not get overheated, so being able to add and subtract layers as needed is crucial. Start with tight-fitting base layers and then work your way out. n Long underwear and a light, merino wool undershirt are a great place to start. For your under layer, look for materials that will retain heat and help with sweat wicking, like merino wool or polyester blends. n From there, add a sweater, turtleneck or hoodie (being able to zip and unzip can help with temperature control). n Over that, you’ll need thick, waterproof ski pants and a waterproof jacket. For snowboarders especially, look for longer jackets that will cover your butt.

Prepare for an altitude change

PRO TIP: If it’s your first time on the slopes, do yourself a favor and take a lesson. Skiing and snowboarding with friends is great, but it can become an intuitive process for experienced riders, which means they might struggle when it comes time to explain the basics.

but if you do get sick ... For people who are sensitive to the change, drinking lots of water and eating nutritious food (especially foods rich in potassium and carbohydrates—bananas are a great option) will help eliminate any discomfort. Keeping ibuprofen and ginger chews on hand can also help.

Accessories

Waterproof socks need to be a top priority. They should be thick and woolly, but not too bulky. And definitely don’t wear two pairs. If your socks are too bulky or you’re wearing multiple pairs, it can end up limiting the blood circulation in your feet, AKA you’ll lose sensation and your toes will feel even colder. You’re also going to need ...

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Don’t forget sunscreen. Trust us, regardless of your complexion or affinity to the desert sun, the UV rays are at their strongest on snowy, mountain peaks. Save yourself the pain (and the inevitable raccoon tan lines) and wear waterproof SPF 40 or higher. Reapply every 2 hours.

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You’re going to need skis, ski boots, ski poles or a snowboard and snowboard boots.

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PRO TIP: Either bring your own or rent from the resort, but try to avoid borrowing gear from friends. For either skiing or snowboarding, the right fit is essential. If your boots are too tight or too loose, or the bindings are improperly adjusted, even just slightly, you’re going to have problems. Resorts will be able to professionally fit your boots to ensure that they’re just right.

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> ROOFTOP PARTY Trey Songz celebrates his birthday Saturday at Drai’s.

FRIENDS-GIVING AT LAVO CASINO CLUB The

Weekly is partying again at Lavo Casino Club, and there are no in-laws allowed at this holiday gettogether. Plenty of free drinks, though, especially if you donate non-perishable food items for HELP of Southern Nevada. RSVP at lasvegasweekly.com/ inlawfree. November 20, 8-10 p.m., no cover. BEHIND CITY LIGHTS ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY AT VELVETEEN RABBIT Food trucks, live art, dance

performances and music indoors (Midnight Affair, Brock G, Shaun Saville and more) and outdoors (Behind City Lights, Rabbit Hole) make this a diverse Downtown party from the local music collective specializing in house, techno, indie and underground hip-hop. November 20, 9 p.m., no cover. BASS GRAVY 7TH HELPING AT BUNKHOUSE The Bunkhouse is back again (see Page 48), and so are the drum ’n bass events. This one features the Bay Area’s Bachelors of Science, LA’s APX-1 and some locals, too. November 20, 9 p.m., $10. TREY SONGZ BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT DRAI’S

Tremaine Aldon Neverson turns 31 over turkeyday weekend. Considering the R&B stud’s fans are mostly younger than that, we bet they don’t know where he got the chorus for latest hit “About You.” November 21, 10:30 p.m., $60+ men, $40+ women. BRODY JENNER WITH DEVIN LUCIEN AT HEART OF OMNIA The

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stalwart reality star and his new DJ partner, LA’s Devin Lucien, make the jump from smaller Hakkasan Group clubs to the big-small room at Omnia (with Nervo in the big-big room). November 21, 10:30 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. EMO NIGHT BROOKLYN AT BROOKLYN BOWL

Flash back 10 years (or more) when Yellowcard’s Ryan Key DJs a night of pop-punk and emo-rock. And yes, this is an 18-and-over event. November 21, 11:30 p.m., $8-$10+. VIRGIL ABLOH AT XS Kanye West’s best bud and creative consigliere is also the man behind Milan-

based fashion line Off-White, and he also DJs, including at Movement Mondays to cap fight week. November 23, 10:30 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. ROYAL CRAWL AT THE LINQ PROMENADE Slide through the Linq’s bars while checking in on royal crawl.com to win prizes like Lyft rides and hotel rooms. Cost includes four drinks and a ride on the High Roller, with some proceeds benefitting Three

Square. November 25, 8 p.m., $25 advance, $30 day of. CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING FEAST AT THE GOLDEN TIKI Jelly beans, buttered toast and pop-

corn served on Frisbees on a ping-pong table. Sounds like Thanksgiving to us! Add free spiked punch for people dressed as pilgrims, natives or Peanuts characters and a performance by The Sharps and the holiday is made. November 25, 9 p.m., no cover.

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Rendezvous, the new gay club first reported on by Las Vegas Weekly last week, has pushed back its opening date to November 20 inside the former Seamless space on Arville Street. SuicideGirls returns to Vegas this weekend with Blackheart Burlesque at Vinyl at Hard Rock Hotel, also on November 20. The official Golden Boy/Canelo Alvarez post-fight party will be held at Light on November 21, hosted by Alvarez and Oscar De La Hoya with a live performance from T-Pain. The Mandalay

Bay club recently announced J. Cole as its New Year’s Eve headliner, while Drai’s will ring in 2016 with Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill. Vegas native 3LAU continues movin’ on up. After playing steady at Drai’s and Foxtail throughout the summer, he’ll debut at Hakkasan November 27 and at Omnia December 8. Venue-roving underground dancescene promoter After is launching an artist management arm, with its under-construction website offering a list of names including Agent Orange, D-Unity, Matt Minimal, Spektre, Steve Mulder and others. Stay tuned to afterlasvegas.com for upcoming event info. –Brock Radke

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> deep party Steve Aoki contemplates life year-round, not just on his birthday.

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Chatting up Steve Aoki as he preps to celebrate his birthday at Hakkasan Is it true you still haven’t fully moved into your home in Henderson? I’m moving

in [this week]. I’m still spending four months of the year living in Ibiza, and now I’m back, but for the last two years I’ve been living in an apartment waiting for my house to be built. But it’s like, stage one of 10 stages of development.

Sydney, so it is what it is wherever I am. That’s the lifestyle. Your Steve Aoki Charitable Fund will focus on Keep Memory Alive next year, among a few other groups. I’m really excited you

brought that up because it’s local but at the same time, it’s so incredibly global. The reach from that organization and what it’s doing in Las Vegas is some of the most important research on brain Are you still working on a possible restaudegenerative diseases, and it’s incredirant project in Las Vegas? I do have some ble that it’s happening in our own neighother businesses in the pipeline, and borhood. Raising money is part of it, but some other fashion [stuff ], but I don’t I also like to provide insight into this want to make announcements, you world to the demographic that knows know, put the cart before the horse. me through music. There’s not much discourse there yet, so You are one of the rare superstar I’m happy to at least become DJs with a very well-defined life- STEVE AOKI a bridge, to get people constyle brand. How do you manage with Fergie DJ, nected. And that’s part of what your various enterprises? I’ve DJ Turbulence. Neon Future means, to build always had a cultural brand, November 21, our own future through sciso to speak, even before I 10:30 p.m., ence and technology, to have was a DJ. But I wouldn’t say $40+ men, happier, healthier, longer lives, brand. That’s a strange term. $30+ women. and to have memories. What The way I see it, it’s a com- Hakkasan, are we without memories? munity, or it’s building some- 702-891-3838. thing special for a community. I started Dim Mak [records] in ’96. In Speaking of memories, what was your college, we had our own little culture most memorable show of the year? I and scene we built. The thing about played Omnia for the first time and a brand is you’re thinking more about that was one of my absolute favorites, the bottom line than how you’re affectbecause it was a locals show. I haven’t ing culture. Whatever I do, I think had a lot of chances to do that—it’s about it that way, from the artists’ perbeen more big weekend shows when spective and not the bottom line. the tourists come through, and I love doing that, too. It’s a new crowd and energy every single time. But locals, You’ll turn 38 at the end of the month. they don’t have the allure and mysYou’re already a pretty inward-looking tique of Las Vegas because it’s your dude, but do birthdays make you conbackyard, and I was really curious template things like mere mortals do? how it’d be, and it just went down Yeah. I never really thought about it much bigger. It blew my expectations like that, though. I do have days when out of the water. And it’s my home I reflect on life, that sense of clarity turf now, the people that live here and and presence, but it doesn’t necessarwork in this industry, so it was really ily have to be on a birthday. I rememheartwarming. –Brock Radke ber a birthday in India, and one in

Stoney’s brings the country back

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I’ve never been so happy to see sawdust on a dancefloor. Stoney’s Rockin’ Country reopened at Town Square October 16, and this iteration of the beloved dancehall just feels right. ¶ “We definitely countried it up a little bit,” Stoney’s co-founder Chris Lowden says. “It feels more comfortable.” ¶ After moving from its original spot on Las Vegas Boulevard south of Town Square in October 2012, the venue did away with some of its signature, country-western charm. Skee-ball and other arcade games got the boot, and the once-dusty floor seemed perpetually squeaky-clean. The tunes started to change, too, as hip-hop and Top 40 tracks were added to the once country-dominated soundtrack. Lowden, who says he wasn’t happy with the direction, parted ways with the venue’s management early in 2014, taking the Stoney’s brand with him. “I wanted a country place.” ¶ After a temporary closure, the space reemerged as the Las Vegas Bull, sticking with the eclectic music format and a more mainstream nightclub focus—though that operation was short-lived, closing in June. ¶ Lowden wanted to bring the boot-scootin’ back, and not only because his name’s on the lease. “We believe there is good value in Stoney’s Rockin’ Country,” he says, adding that he and operators Porchlight Hospitality have created a “true country-western dancehall” for Stoney’s third life—including an exclusively country playlist, more beer-pong tables, an American flag sculpture made of beer cans and barbecue through a partnership with Pot Liquor Contemporary American Smokehouse. ¶ Lowden says they’ll emphasize live entertainment, booking touring acts like The Voice’s Cassadee Pope, who rechristened its stage on opening night. “Our focus here is to be the country-western destination in Las Vegas, to be that place where everybody can come and just dance and have a great time.” –Mark Adams

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Blue Man Group comes full circle—to its original Luxor home By John Katsilometes The glistening paint never fades from Blue Man Group. The forever muted, three-man troupe of performance artists never feels old or trite or otherwise dulled. The Blue Men have headlined on the Strip for more than 15 years, a seamlessly successful run covering four venues in three hotels. In the face of heavy competition for ticket sales all over the city, how do they remain fresh? Blue Man Group co-founder Chris Wink mulls that question. He’s standing at the front of the stage at Luxor’s Blue Man Group Theater, a new haunt for the act, while flanked by co-founder Phil Stanton and MGM Resorts Entertainment and Sports President Richard Sturm. “One thing we don’t do is dilute,” Wink says after a pause. “We don’t think, ‘Let’s come up with a second show,’ and take half the pieces out and fill it up somehow. We are concentrated on this show, and it’s our flagship show.” Stanton times his answer just as Wink clips off his own. “We just keep making this work,” he says. “We keep evolving, we keep making this work, so we can be better each time.” The tacit and frequent comparison is with Cirque du Soleil, for their precision performance art and languageexclusive stage production. Cirque, of course, dominates the Strip in pure numbers with its eight shows. The balance of those shows has opened since BMG premiered at Luxor in early 2000. “But you can clearly see a difference in strategy,” Wink says.” There are eight Cirque shows. There’s one Blue Man Group … This show represents all eight shows, all in one. It’s the best of everything.”

Blue Man Group has tweaked, updated and fully overhauled its show many times over the years, often because of its occasional theater relocations. The show enjoyed laudatory reviews, strong business and a cozy business partnership in its first run at Luxor, which spanned 2000-2005 in the theater now home to Criss Angel. Just as BMG was completing its original five-year contract with Luxor owner Mandalay Resort Group, the hotel was sold to MGM Mirage—and then-incoming Luxor President Felix Rappaport said at the time that he would have loved to keep the Blue Men in that theater. Instead, the musical Hairspray moved in for an illfated, 15-week run. BMG moved to the Venetian, spending seven years there and another three at Monte Carlo before returning to a place the founders say they should never have left. “We weren’t necessarily trying to leave the Luxor. You sign these five-year deals, but you never know,” Wink says. When Blue Man Group moved to Monte Carlo in 2012, a BMG-themed walkway, theater entrance and gift shop were constructed. But the resort’s refined, European vibe and décor didn’t blend well with BMG’s aggressive, technically innovative and oftentimes vaudevillian attitude. “Monte Carlo and Blue Man just sort of sounds random, which it sort of was,” Wink says. “We were kind of living [in] our own little portal there.” Blue Man Group once more adjusted to fit the needs of a new venue this spring. That’s when MGM Resorts abruptly informed the show it would need to move from Monte Carlo, and its 1,200 seats, to the 830-seat venue

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Structural purity

Two artists converse in paint, ceramics and midcentury motifs By Dawn-Michelle Baude

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A “midcentury modernism” vibe pulses in the Paintings and Ceramics exhibition at Michele C. Quinn Fine Art. It’s more than a ’50s palette of paprika and pumpkin, sea foam and sunflower colors. More than organic shapes and sharp contours. It’s in the show’s feeling—a kind of classy optimism that goes hand-in-hand with “midmod,” a design movement associated with clean lines and simplified forms. The two artists— Shawn Hummel in painting and Elicia AslinHummel in ceramics—share a similar concern: How do you translate historic midcentury motifs into contemporary art? Hummel approaches the problem through architectural transformation. His paintings are sourced in architectural studies by luminaries aaaac of midcentury design, such SHAWN as Eames, Frey, Saarinen and HUMMEL AND Loewy. The principle is col- ELICIA ASLINlage. The artist selects details HUMMEL: from building projects and PAINTINGS layers them in a process that AND CERAMICS approximates the mind-bend- Through January ing moves of Op Art. The com- 31, by appointplexity of the picture planes ment. MCQ Fine is partly obtained through Art Advisory, multiple perspectives, partly 620 S. 7th St., through the Prismacolor pal- 702-366-9339. ette, and partly through the dynamism in the architectural plans themselves. The result is an aggregate of geometric purity. In the masterful “Rapson, Smith, Knorr/Eliot,” the push-pull of perspectives and color recalls M.C. Escher on the one hand, Mondrian on the other. Linear structure is also prominent in AslinHummel’s ceramic vessels. The wrapped and molded forms feature attenuated contours that owe more to sculpture than to potting. With their white glazing and simplified, often flattened, structure, these polished works have nothing whatsoever to do with the lumpy earthiness often associated with the ceramic medium. In the most impactful works, Aslin-Hummel reinforces structural purity with a single black or gray line. Other vessels sport stencil-cut ceramic decals, often in vibrant biomorphic shapes. A third group is decorated with vintage decals trimmed and collaged into homey, retro designs. Although not an explicitly collaborative show, the works in Paintings and Ceramics are clearly in dialogue. Hummel and Aslin-Hummel make their most convincing aesthetic statements when they maintain purity and tone down ornament. Hummel’s paintings on birch plywood panels are an interesting exploration of his linear technique, but compromise pictorial elegance with busy wood-grain. The ceramics topped with kitschy decals register primarily as amusing design, achieving a pleasant surface rather than a significant form. Those criticisms, however, should be put in the perspective of a strong show that successfully translates markers from a popular period in design history into contemporary art.

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Irving’s new novel is meaningfully dark and classically quirky BY CHUCK TWARDY Edward Bonshaw, descendant of a The Avenue of Mysteries that Scot who converted to Catholicism John Irving chose for the title while playing mahjongg with a nun of his latest novel runs through on the ship carrying him to colonial Mexico City, and its princiAmerica. He will fall for a transpal landmark is the Basilica de vestite named Flor, and Juan Diego Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. will wind up in Iowa City. Legend holds that Our Lady of This is classic Irving, whose Guadalupe, the patron saint of thoroughfares of mystery often Mexico, appeared to a man named T-junction at Quirky Lane. The Juan Diego in 1531, although author of The World According to Irving’s Juan Diego holds that she Garp, The Cider House Rules and was an indigenous spirit hijacked A Prayer for Owen Meany has freby Roman Catholicism. quently examined life and love, as Actually, this opinion came to well as events of his own life. And Juan Diego via his sister Lupe, at age 73, he’s taking on elemenwho reads minds, knows peoples’ tal issues of memory, narrative pasts and predicts some parts and faith. Juan Diego, of the future. The sibonce priestly interpreter lings, at least when we of his sister’s vivid profirst encounter them, aaaac nouncements, 40 years live in a shack at the AVENUE OF garbage dump outside MYSTERIES By later relives those days Oaxaca, where 14-year- John Irving, $28. in dreams. A novelist, he flies to the Philippines old Juan Diego rescues to honor a memory, accompabooks and teaches himself to nied by an apparently imaginary read Spanish and English—hence mother and daughter, possibly “dump reader” is his epithet— Guadalupe stand-ins. and Lupe, a year younger, spouts Irving quotes the novelist Juan incomprehensible gibberish only Diego as observing, “Real life is too her brother can translate. “The sloppy a model for good fiction.” Virgin Mary was an imposter, The omniscient narrator occain the crazy child’s opinion; the sionally seems uncertain about Virgin of Guadalupe had been the characters’ motives. This offhand real deal, but those crafty Jesuits touch, along with the peculiar cirhad stolen her for their Catholic cumstances—Juan Diego and Lupe agenda,” Irving writes. join a circus, too—helps lighten a The Jesuits running the orphansometimes dark story. age to which the siblings eventually repair are more kindly than Find more by Chuck Twardy at crafty, though. New among them chucktwardy.com. is a young man from Iowa named

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es as small plates along with more traditional My first food-writing gig over five entrée options. I suggest starting with a pretty years ago was for a Jewish monthly outstanding hummus con carne ($13); while magazine. Though I’m unequivocally the hummus is more than serviceable, topping goy, I did my undergrad at a heavily Jewish it with some of the best shaEast Coast college where I warma around elevates the dish. learned a little about the High Dark meat chicken blended with Holy Days and a lot about good just a bit of lamb fat—“for flavor,” lox and bagels, so I was comper our server—and spiced with pletely prepared for the gig. A a mixture hinting heavily of cinfew years back, I gave up the namon, it’s flavorful enough for mantle of the Vegas Valley’s you to forsake the pig, and it foremost kosher food scribe, so appears in various forms across keeping tabs on this particular the menu: stuffing mushrooms in restaurant scene hasn’t been the shawarma setas rellenas ($9), my priority. as fajitas ($13), and in an entréeBut when I stumbled across sized portion ($19). All are worth Aníse Tapas & Grill on Durango ordering. just south of Edna, it piqued If you’re not down for shamy curiosity enough to check warma, try the moussaka slidit out. You should, too. ers ($13). Lamb and beef sliders Aníse is somewhat atypiare topped with harissa, tzatzical of a kosher restaurant—at Aníse Tapas & Grill ki and fried Japanese eggplant. least here—because it’s not 3100 S. Durango Dr., You won’t even miss the cheese. outwardly kosher. Quick 702-586-4088. MondayElsewhere, drunken avocado refresher: The basic tenets Thursday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; empanadillas ($12) are egg rolls of kosher cooking are no Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; shellfish, pork or intermix- Saturday, 6:30 p.m.-midnight; stuffed with avocado and cilantro. The drunkenness comes from the ing of dairy and meat. Both Sunday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. accompanying Patron jalapeñothe Aníse menu and website agave sauce, which delivers a balindicate it, while the prereqance of sweet and heat. uisite rabbinical- supervisory certificate is Be aware: Pricing will run slightly higher visible from the dining room. But it has than your typical neighborhood restaurant, contemporary décor with quirky faux planand because the owners recognize the sabtation shutters, serves a litany of alcoholic bath, Aníse is closed from Friday to Saturday beverages and delivers interesting eats that sundown. Just don’t want you to be surprised. at first glance don’t appear to fit the format. Given the propensity of yarmulkes during If you’ve spent any time in other kosher resrecent visits, it’s obvious the local Jewish comtaurants about town, you know exactly what munity has taken notice. Now it’s time for the I mean. rest of us to do the same. Aníse offers an array of Mediterranean dish-

Lobster Las Vegas Luke’s brings its iconic rolls to the Strip > sea and be seen Las Vegas is Luke’s first West Coast location.

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> variety show Sea bass, above, and hummus con carne, at left.

New York City’s East Village can go toe-to-toe with any place in America for the most quality restaurants per square LUKE’S LOBSTER foot. So it says something that within that high-quality Fashion Show Mall, culinary corridor, Luke’s Lobster is a must-try destination. 702-866-6602. That’s where I first tried the delicious lobster roll, and it’s the Sunday-Thursday, reason I’m thrilled Luke’s has opened its first West Coast out- 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; post Strip-side at the Fashion Show. Friday & Saturday, The Vegas branch is perhaps Luke’s smallest, basically 11 a.m.-midnight. a hut with four tables off to the side. In the summer, you’ll likely wait for a seat, but the food is worth it. The lobster roll ($18) is better than the ones going for double that price at other Strip restaurants. What they do so well here is keep it simple; having grown up in Maine, founder Luke Holden knows to let the seafood speak for itself. Everything that goes on the roll is there solely to accentuate the taste of the sweet claw and knuckle meat installed in a buttered, toasted bun, including a subtle lemon-butter, spices and a bit of mayo. There are also crab rolls ($14) and shrimp rolls ($10). I prefer the latter, as the shrimp is plump and juicy. For an extra $7 or $8 you can make it a soup combo, adding creamy lobster bisque or clam chowder with potatoes in a velvety broth. The combo also comes with crispy Cape Cod potato chips, a snappy sour pickle and your choice of Northeastern-based beverage. The Blueberry Main Root soda is my favorite, a satisfying, not cloyingly sweet carbonated drink. It’s nice to know you no longer have to go back East for one of its great tastes. –Jason Harris

anĺse tapas & Grill by christopher devargas

CANTALOUPE ISLAND

INGREDIENTS 1 1/2 oz. Grey Goose Le Melon Vodka /2 oz. Aperol Apéritif

1 oz. lemon juice /2 oz. mint syrup

1 tbsp. cantaloupe chunks /2 oz. pasteurized egg white (optional for texture and froth)

Fresh cantaloupe ball, micro basil (garnish)

METHOD

SMALL BITES Dining News & Notes Some of the city’s favorite chefs opened new restaurant projects in the past week. Alex Stratta has debuted Salt & Pepper, a southern-food eatery, in place of his recently shuttered tapas restaurant at Tivoli Village. Gen Mizoguchi, who originally landed in Las Vegas with the acclaimed Kabuto, has opened Yui Edomae Sushi on Arville near Spring Mountain. And Marc Sgrizzi, who formerly operated Parma, just opened Chef Marc’s Trattoria at Sahara and Durango. ¶ Ferraro’s Taste and Learn series returns on November 21 from 4 to 6 p.m., with the spotlight on the Pio Cesare winery, known as one of the first producers in the Piedmont area. Four different wines will be paired with unique dishes for $65. Reservations can be made at 702-364-5300. ¶ Stripsteak at Mandalay Bay will host a Glenfiddich pairing dinner on December 1 at 7 p.m., four courses for $75. Need a teaser taste? How about Hudson Valley foie gras with seared diver scallop and lentil ragout with Glenfiddich 15-year Solera Reserve. Reservations can be made at 702-632-7200. –Brock Radke

Place the melon chunks in a cocktail shaker and muddle briskly. Add the other ingredients to the shaker and fill with ice. Shake well and strain into a seven-ounce martini glass. Garnish with a cantaloupe ball and micro basil.

The slightly unconventional flavor combinations in this cocktail are what make it great. The taste of the melon vodka and cantaloupe reign supreme, while the mint syrup draws out the citrus notes in the Aperol and highlights the tartness of the lemon juice.

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

> the three investigators Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Secret in Their Eyes.

Cinemark Classic Series Sun, 2 pm; Wed, 2 & 7 pm, $5-$10. 11/22, 11/25, Oklahoma!. Theaters: ORL, ST, SF, SP, SC The Metropolitan Opera HD Live 11/21, Berg’s Lulu live, 9:30 am, $17$25. 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. Sci Fi Center Sun, Doctor Who Night, 6 pm, free. Mon, Cinemondays, 8 pm, free. 11/24, The NeverEnding Story, 8 pm, $1. 5077 Arville St., 855-501-4335, thescificenter.com. Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou Tue, 1 pm, free. 11/24, Dressed to Kill (1946). Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.

New this week By the Sea aaccc Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie Pitt, Mélanie Laurent. Directed by Angelina Jolie Pitt. 132 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 44. Theaters: SC The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 aaacc Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth. Directed by Francis Lawrence. 137 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 44. Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX The Man in 3B (Not reviewed) Lamman Rucker, Christian Keyes, Brely Evans. Directed by Trey Haley. 93 minutes. Rated R. A mysterious man moves into a New York City apartment building and brings danger with him. Theaters: TS The Night Before aabcc Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anthony Mackie. Directed by Jonathan Levine. 101 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 44. Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX Room aaacc Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen. Directed by Lenny Abrahamson. 118 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 45. Theaters: SC Secret in Their Eyes aabcc Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman. Directed by Billy Ray. 111 minutes. Rated PG-13. An FBI agent (Ejiofor) and a prosecutor (Kidman) investigate the murder of their colleague’s daughter in this unremarkable thriller, a remake of the 2009 Oscar-winning Argentine film. Kidman and Roberts (as a traumatized, vengeful mother) are miscast, and both the central unrequited romance and the plot’s political connections are poorly realized. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CH, COL, DI, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX Spotlight aaaac Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel

McAdams. Directed by Tom McCarthy. 128 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 45. Theaters: COL, GVL, DTS, ST, TS, VS

Now playing The 33 aabcc Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche. Directed by Patricia Riggen. 120 minutes. Rated PG-13. A movie about the 2010 incident that saw 33 Chilean miners trapped underground was inevitable, but there was no need for it to be so patently phony. Apart from a hammy Banderas, most of the characters amount to a grimy, bearded look of concern and a single tossed-off trait. –MD Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DTS, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, VS 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, TC, 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

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with superb old-school efficiency, and achieves something very difficult: It makes rooting for integrity fun. –MD Theaters: AL, BS, FH, GVR, ORL, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS

Courtney Gains. Directed by Andy Palmer. 91 minutes. Rated R. A band of escaped serial killers terrorize a carnival. Theaters: TS

Burnt aabcc Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl. Directed by John Wells. 100 minutes. Rated R. Adam Jones (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 self-absorbed jerk becoming slightly less self-absorbed. –JB Theaters: AL, COL, SF, 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

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: COL, ST, 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, CH, COL, DI, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SP, SS, TS

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: ST, VS 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 The Funhouse Massacre (Not reviewed) Robert Englund, Scottie Thompson,

The Green Inferno aaccc Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Aaron Burns. Directed by Eli Roth. 103 minutes. Rated R. Roth attempts satire in this horror movie about student activists captured by a cannibalistic Amazon tribe, but he misses the mark. Instead of taking down privileged Americans, the movie wallows in nasty exploitation, with a series of gory acts of savagery by natives who are never given any motivation or agency. –JB Theaters: TC 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: VS Hotel Transylvania 2 (Not reviewed) Voices of Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Andy Samberg. Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky. 89 minutes. Rated PG. Dracula and his fellow monsters try to

get Dracula’s half-human grandson to embrace his vampire side. Theaters: CH, COL, DI, ORL 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, FH, SC Labyrinth of Lies aabcc Alexander Fehling, André Szymanski, Friederike Becht. Directed by Giulio Ricciarelli. 122 minutes. Rated R. In German with English subtitles. A dull composite character (Fehling) represents the German lawyers who prosecuted former Nazis in the 1950s. Director and co-writer Ricciarelli is so fixated on assigning accountability that he ends up belaboring his entirely valid points, making the movie more about spouting facts than effectively dramatizing them. –JB Theaters: VS The Last Witch Hunter aaccc Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood. Directed by Breck Eisner. 106 minutes. Rated PG-13. This noisy, cluttered movie with cheap, globby-looking digital effects features a paltry battle between one-dimensional bad guys and a one-dimensional hero. Diesel plays his character cool, but is no fun to be around, and his co-stars suffer for it. A cursed affair from director Breck Eisner (Sahara). –JMA Theaters: BS, ORL, TS

A&E | Short Takes > checkmate Daniel Craig faces a clever foe in Spectre.

Love the Coopers (Not reviewed) John Goodman, Diane Keaton, Ed Helms, Olivia Wilde. Directed by Jessie Nelson. 106 minutes. Rated PG-13. Four generations of the Cooper family face unexpected events when they get together for Christmas. Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, VS

(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

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, DI, FH, GVR, ORL, PAL, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, VS Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials aaccc Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster. Directed by Wes Ball. 131 minutes. Rated PG-13. There are no mazes in this sequel to The Maze Runner, but there sure is plenty of running. The second movie in the dystopian sci-fi series based on the popular YA novels just throws together a bunch of overused post-apocalyptic elements and careens haphazardly from one to the next. –JB Theaters: BS, COL, SC 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 Miss You Already aabcc Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore, Dominic Cooper. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. 112 minutes. Rated PG-13. Lifelong best friends Milly (Collette) and Jess (Barrymore) struggle to cope when Milly is diagnosed with cancer. 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. –JB Theaters: ST, VS My All American acccc Finn Wittrock, Aaron Eckhart, Sarah Bolger. Directed by Angelo Pizzo. 118 minutes. Rated PG. The true story of college football player Freddie Steinmark (Wittrock) is an excruciatingly boring and poorly written movie about a great guy whose life is great— until he finally gets cancer in the third act. It’s a complete failure as drama, with the actors reduced to mouthpieces for greeting-card sentiment. –JB Theaters: AL, COL, CH, FH, ORL, PAL, SF, SP, SS, ST, TS, VS No Escape abccc Owen Wilson, Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan. Directed by John Erick Dowdle. 103 minutes. Rated R. Wilson and Bell are miscast in serious roles as an American married couple who’ve just moved with their two young daughters to an unnamed country in Southeast Asia, hours before an armed coup begins. The action that follows is mostly laughable when it isn’t tedious

Theaters

(CAN) Galaxy Cannery 2121 E. Craig Road, North Las Vegas, 702-639-9779 (CH) Cinedome Henderson 851 S. Boulder Highway, Henderson, 702-566-1570 (COL) Regal Colonnade 8880 S. Eastern Ave., 702-221-2283 (DI) Las Vegas Drive-In 4150 W. Carey Ave., North Las Vegas, 702-646-3565 (DTS) Regal Downtown Summerlin 2070 Park Center Drive, 702-221-2283 or insulting. –JB Theaters: TC 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, COL, ST, TC 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, TS The Peanuts Movie aaacc Voices of Noah Schnapp, Hadley Belle Miller, Alexander Garfin. Directed by Steve Martino. 86 minutes. Rated G. This big-screen computer-animated version of Charles Schulz’s beloved comic-strip characters is faithful almost to a fault. The central plot is about hapless kid Charlie Brown 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. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SP, SS, TS The Perfect Guy aaccc Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy, Morris Chestnut. Directed by David M. Rosenthal. 100 minutes. Rated PG-13. A successful lobbyist (Lathan) becomes a stalking target for her unhinged ex (Ealy) in this overwrought, 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 Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (Not reviewed) Salman Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Anupam Kher. Directed by Sooraj R. Barjatya. 171 minutes. Not rated. In Hindi with English subtitles. A king and his peasant doppelganger switch places. Theaters: ST, VS 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 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: COL, DTS, ORL, ST, VS Spectre aaacc Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux. Directed by Sam Mendes. 148 minutes. Rated PG-13. Craig’s possible final outing as secret agent James Bond focuses a bit too much on wrapping up his story and bringing back familiar elements of the Bond franchise. Spectre succeeds mainly as a series of dazzling set pieces connected by a thin plot. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, VS 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: SC

(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

Suffragette aabcc Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter. Directed by Sarah Gavron. 106 minutes. Rated PG-13. Mulligan plays an ordinary wife and mother in early 20th-century London who joins the fight to secure women the vote and gradually turns into an outright militant. That ought to be exciting and thought-provoking, but instead it’s mostly dully worthy—history as self-congratulation. –MD Theaters: GVR, VS

(ORL) Century Orleans 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., 702-8891220

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

(SF) Century Santa Fe Station 4949 N. Rancho Drive, 702-655-8178

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: TC Woodlawn (Not reviewed) Caleb Castille, Nic Bishop, Sean Astin. Directed by Andrew Erwin and Jon Erwin. 125 minutes. Rated PG. A bornagain Christian helps a high school football team struggling with racial integration in the 1970s. Theaters: ST, VS JMA Jeffrey M. Anderson; JB Josh Bell; MD Mike D’Angelo

(RP) AMC Rainbow Promenade 2321 N. Rainbow Blvd., 888-262-4386 (RR) Regal Red Rock 11011 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-2212283 (ST) Century Sam’s Town 5111 Boulder Highway, 702-547-1732

(SHO) United Artists Showcase 3769 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-221-2283 (SP) Century South Point 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-260-4061 (SC) Century Suncoast 9090 Alta Drive, 702-869-1880 (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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GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY Have you ever partied where your grandparents did when they were 20-somethings? Rarely does a bar in the Valley stay relevant—or open—long enough for multiple generations of locals to saddle up to the same bartop, but that’s the situation at Henderson’s Gold Mine Tavern. “We have people who come in here [whose] grandparents used to come here … or their parents met here and got married,” says Gold Mine’s manager, Stacey DeMarco. “We’re kind of a Cheerstype bar. We’ll have half of the seats filled with people who all met here.” ¶ Situated on the charmingly quaint Water Street, the bar has been continuously operating since its 1965 opening—and this Saturday the local institution celebrates that longevity with a 50th anniversary party. First operated by Henderson councilman Giles “Bud” Franklin, the bar has survived two changes of ownership and a few identities, from biker bar to its current status as a live music venue, where local bands play on Friday and Saturday nights. This weekend’s birthday bash features a set from rock ’n’ roll cover band Forget to Remember. The anniversary party will also feature specials on ’60s-inspired cocktails, food-truck grub, tastings from Hendo breweries CraftHaus and Joseph James and raffles benefitting Nevada State College and Basic High School’s Dr. Joel and Carol Bower School-Based Health Center, which addresses GOLD MINE TAVERN’S 50TH unmet healthcare needs for Henderson children. ¶ It’s quite obviANNIVERSARY PARTY ous that Gold Mine is decidedly locals-focused—which will make November 21, 7 p.m., free. toasting its golden anniversary even sweeter. –Mark Adams 23 S. Water St., 702-478-8289.

LIVE MUSIC T H E ST R I P & N E A R BY Brooklyn Bowl Polyrhythmics & Jelly Bread 11/19, 9 pm, free. Dizzy Wright, Hopsin, Jarren Benton, DJ Hoppa 11/20, $25, 8 pm. Yellowcard, New Found Glory, Tigers Jaw 11/21, 8 pm, $26-$30. Public Image Ltd 11/25, 9 pm, $30-$50. Allen Stone, Bernhoft, Cameron Calloway 11/27,8 pm, $20$25. Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe 11/27, 1 a.m., $20. Gogol Bordello 11/28, 9 pm, $30-$35. Fortunate Youth 11/29, 8:30 pm, $12-$15. Brett Dennen 12/1, 9 pm, $20. Nashville Unplugged 12/5, 9:30 pm, $25. John Brown’s Body, Pure Boots 12/14, 8 pm, $15-$18. Maoli and Through the Roots, Bad Neighborz 12/15, 8 pm, $15. Pretty Lights 12/31-1/1, 10 pm, $60-$80. Stick Figure 1/23, 8:30 pm, $15. Lamb of God, Anthrax 2/11, 7 pm, $35. Galactic, Son Little 3/1, 9 pm, $22-$25. Vance Joy, Elle King, Jamie Lawson 3/5, 8:30 pm, $40. Gary Clark Jr. 3/12, 9 pm, $30-$50. Coheed and

Cambria, Glass Jaw, Silver Snakes 3/25, 8 pm, $27. Underoath 3/26, 7:30 pm, $25. The Used 5/24-5/25, 8 pm, Linq, 702-862-2695. The Colosseum Celine Dion 11/2011/21, 12/30-12/31, 1/2, 1/6, 1/9-1/10, 1/12-1/13, 1/16-1/17, 2/23-2/24, 2/26-2/27, 3/1-3/2, 3/4-3/5, 3/8-3/9, 3/11-3/12, 5/175/18, 5/20-5/21, 5/24, 5/27-5/28, 5/31, 6/1, 6/3-6/4, 7:30 pm, $55-$500. Reba, Brooks & Dunn 12/2, 12/4, 12/6, 12/9, 5/3, 5/6-5/7, 5/10, 5/13-5/14, $60-$205. Elton John 1/20, 1/22-1/23, 1/26-1/27, 1/29-1/31, 4/16, 4/17, 4/19-4/20, 4/224/23, 4/26-4/27, 4/29-4/30, 6:30 pm, $55-$500. Mariah Carey 2/2, 2/5-2/6, 2/10, 2/13-2/14, 2/17, 2/19-2/20. 8 pm, $55-$250. Tsai Chin 2/12, 9 pm, $58$188. Steve Martin & Martin Short 3/6, 6:30 pm, $50-$180. Rod Stewart 3/19-3/20, 3/23, 3/25-3/26, 3/29, 4/14/2, 4/5, 7:30 pm, $49-$250. Caesars Palace, 702-731-7333. The Cosmopolitan (Chelsea) Sam Hunt, Carter Winter 12/4, 8 pm, $30. Bruno Mars 12/31, 9 pm, $150. The Cure 5/19, 8 pm, $50-$100. Bryan Adams 7/2, 7 pm, $32-$57. Willie Nelson & Family 1/8, 8 pm, $20-$45.

(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 Lambs to Lions, The Quitters, Sector 7-G, Child Endangerment 11/20. The Heiz, New Cold War, Franks & Deans, The People’s Whiskey, The Psyatics 11/21. Andalusia Rose 11/22. Thee Swank Bastards’ Basstravaganza 11/25. The Slants, The Negative Nancys, Jerk 11/26. The Tiki Bandits, Franks & Deans, The Mapes 11/28. Uberschall 11/29, midnight. Franks & Deans’ Weenie Roast 12/2. Cherry 2000, Authentic Sellout 12/4. Ivana Blaize’s Pussyrama 12/6, 9 pm. Bargain DJ Collective Mon. Unique Massive Tue, midnight. The Juju Man Wed, midnight. Shows 10 pm, free unless noted. 640 Paradise Road, 702-791-5775. Flamingo Olivia Newton-John Thru 11/21, 11/24-11/28, 12/1-12/5, 12/15-12/19, 1/1-1/2, 7:30 pm, $69-$139. Donny & Marie Thru 10/17, 10/20-10/24, 11/3-

11/7. 11/10-11/14, 7:30 pm, $105-$237. 702-733-3333. Gilley’s Easy 8’s 11/26, 9 pm; 11/27-11/28, 12/26, 10 pm. Scotty Alexander Band 11/19, 9 pm; 11/20-11/21, 12/31, 1/1-1/2, 10 pm; 10/21, 9:30 pm. Chad Freeman and Redline 12/3, 10 pm. Kenny Allen Band 11/6-11/7, 10 pm. Country Nation 11/13-11/14, 10 pm. Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band 12/412/6, 10 pm. Locash, Rainey Qualley 12/7-12/12, 11 pm. Shows $10-$20 after 10 pm unless noted. Treasure Island, 702-894-7722. Hard Rock Live Rockie Brown Band, The Lique, Funk Jam 11/23, 8 pm, $10. Queensrÿche 1/9, 8:30 pm, $25-$35. Europe, War of Kings 1/23, 8 pm, $30. Hard Rock Cafe (Strip), 702-733-7625. House of Blues Collective Soul 11/12, 7 pm, $33-$36. Heart 11/19-11/21, 8 pm, $55-$70. DSB 12/3, 7 pm, $15. Parkway Drive 12/6, 4:30 pm, $25. Kamelot, DragonForce 12/7, 7 pm, $22-$25. Falling in Reverse, Atreyu, From Ashes to New, Assuming We Survive 12/19, 5 pm, $23-$26. Steel Panther 1/8, 1/15, 1/22 8 pm, $22. Marianas Trench 1/16, 6 pm, $22-$25. Carlos Santana 1/27, 1/29-1/31, 2/3-2/6, 5/18, 5/20-5/22, 5/25, 5/27-5/29, $90-$350, 8 pm. Charles Kelley, Maren Morris 1/28, 7 pm, $25-$28. At the Gates, The Haunted & Decapitated 2/18, 5:30 pm, $23-$25. Billy Idol 3/16, 3/18-3/19, 3/26, 5/4, 5/6-5/7, 5/11, 5/13-5/14, $80$150. (Crossroads) Looped Sun, Thu, 9-11 pm, free. Nothing but the Blues Mon-Wed, 8-11 pm, free. Rockstar Karaoke Fri, 9 pm-midnight, free. Get Up and Dance Sat, 9 pm-midnight, free. Gospel Brunch Sun, 10 am, 1 pm, $60. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. The Joint 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. Rob Thomas, Adam Lambert 12/5, 8 pm, $41. Gary Allan, Clare Dunn 12/1112/12, 9:30 pm, $40-$125. Bastille, Silversun Pickups, Fidlar, The Moth & The Flame 12/15, 8 pm, $40-$150. Morrissey 1/2, 8:30 pm, $45. Bullet For My Valentine, Asking Alexandria 2/6, 7:30 pm, $32. Rascal Flatts, Rhythm & Roots 2/17-3/5, 8 pm, $40. Twenty One Pilots 7/15, 7 pm, $43. 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 Puscifer 12/12, 8 pm, $43$103. Styx 1/16, 8 pm, $40-$86. Joe Satriani 3/4, 8 pm, $40-$95. Il Volo 3/25, 8 pm, $40-$95. Il Divo 11/16/16, 8 pm, $68-$150. Palms, 702-942-7777. Planet Hollywood Britney Spears 11/20-11/21, 12/27-12/28, 12/30-12/31, 9

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pm, $57-$180. 702-777-2782. Rí Rá The Black Donnellys John Windsor 11/23, 11/30 8:45 pm. The American Diddle Idols 11/24-11/26, 11/29, 8:45 pm, 11/27-11/28, 9 pm. The Black Donnellys ft. George Murphy Thru 11/19, 11/22, 8:45 pm, 11/20-11/21, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. Mandalay Place, 702-632-7771. Rockhouse Rockhouse Live Mon, 9 pm, free. Venetian, 702-731-9683. The Sayers Club 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. Stoney’s Rockin’ Country Lucas Hoge 11/20. The Cains 11/27. Dancing lessons 7:30 pm. Town Square, 702435-2855. 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 Diana Ross 11/20, 8 pm, $60-$226. 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 Bless the Fall, Stick to Your Guns, Emarosa, Oceans Ate Alaska 11/19, 6 pm. Conflict of Interest, Wretched Sky, Bravo Delta, For the Fight 11/21, 8 pm, $10. All that Remains, Devour the Day, Audiotpsoy, Sons of Texas 11/25, 7:30 pm, $20. Slaybells Fire 11/28, 4 pm, $25. Ratt, Firehouse, The Babys, Eric Martin 11/29, 7 pm, $20. Reverend Horton Heat, The BellRays, The Lords of Altamont 12/4, 9 pm, $25-$45. South of Graceland 12/5-12/6, 10 pm, free. Thrillbilly Deluxe 12/10, 10 pm, free. American Icon: Johnny Cash Tribute 12/12, 10 pm, free. Ekoh, Almost Normal, Avalon Landing, Gregory Michael Davis 12/16, 7:30, $5. Otherwise 12/26, 9 pm, $15. The Fighter & The Kid, Brendan Schaub, Bryan Callen 1/10, 7:30 pm, $28. Anti-Flag, Leftover Crack, War on Women, Homeless Gospel Choir, Blackbird Raum 2/28, 7 pm, $18. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5000. Wynn (Eastside Lounge) Michael Monge Wed & Thu, 9 pm, $10. 702770-7000.

D OW N TOW N Artifice Vegas Jazz Tue, 7 pm, $15. Thursday Request Live First Thu, 10 pm, free. 1025 S. 1st St., Ste. 100., 702-489-6339. Backstage Bar & Billiards Bombshell Bingo 11/19, 8 pm, $5. Madball, Strife, Cold Existence 11/20, 8 pm, $15-$20. Almost Famous Karaoke 11/24, 8 pm, free. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Beauty Bar Holiday Madness Party ft. Trade Voorhees, Anglo Sax, Sparkle Barf, Doms Gauge, Mr. EBranes, N.O.V.N., Casy Clawson, Burnel Washburn 11/19, 9 pm, $5. The Rocket Summer, Paradise Fears 11/20, 9 pm, $12-$15. Orange Revival 11/22, 9 pm, free. AC Slater 12/1, 9 pm, $10. Nikki Lane 12/3, 8 pm, $12-$15. Yowda 12/4, 9 pm, free. Everlast, No Red Alice 12/5, 9 pm, $18-$22. King Daniel 12/10, 8 pm, $10. Chicano Batman 12/11, 9 pm, $12-$15. Agnostic Front, Brick

Calendar Top, Bro Loaf 12/15, 8 pm, $12-$15. Sudden Passion 12/16, 9 pm, free. Avenues, Mercy Music, War Called Home 12/19, 9 pm, free. The Generators, The Civilians, The Astaires 1/16, 9 pm, $5. The Love Cop 12/28, 9 pm, free. Metalachi 2/11, 9 pm, $12-$15. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. Downtown Container Park Elko 11/20, 7 pm. Stoked 11/20, 9 pm. Patty Ascher 11/21, 7 pm, free. The Fab 11/21, 9 pm. The Retrolites 11/27, 7 pm. The Moonshiners 11/27, 9 pm. Cameron Calloway 11/28, 7 pm. Rock and Roll Rebels 11/28, 9 pm. 707 Fremont St, downtowncontainerpark.com. Downtown Las Vegas Events Center Rise Against, Killswitch Engage, Letlive 11/21, 8 pm, $40-$80. 200 S. 3rd Street, dlvec.com. Fremont Street Experience (Main Street Stage) Ashley Red 11/19, 11/26, 10 pm. Spandex Nation 11/20-11/22, 10 pm. 80s Station 11/23, 11/25, 10 pm. Empire Records 11/24, 10 pm. (1st Street Stage) Yellow Brick Road 11/19, 11/26, 8 pm. Alter Ego 11/2011/21, 8 pm; 11/22, 7 pm. Tyler James 11/2211/23, 8 pm. VooDoo Cowboys 11/24, 8 pm. HaleAmano 11/25, 8 pm. (3rd Street Stage) Garage Boys 11/19, 7 pm; 11/20-11/21, 8 pm. Zowie Bowie 11/19, 10 pm. 80s Station 11/20-11/21, 11 pm. Metropolis 11/22, 10 pm; 11/23, 7 pm. Tony Marques 11/23, 10 pm; 11/26, 7 pm. Alter Ego 11/24, 7 pm. Monroy 11/24-11/26, 10 pm. Empire Records 11/25, 7 pm. Shows free unless noted. Downtown Las Vegas, vegasexperience.com. Golden Nugget Eric Burdon & The Animals 11/20, 8 pm, $32-$87. Jefferson Starship 11/27, 8 pm, $21-$65. Edgar Winter 12/18, 8 pm, $32-$65. (NFR) Tanya Tucker 12/3, $43-$87. Big and Rich 12/4, $54-$142. Trace Adkins 12/5, $109-$164. Terri Clark 12/6, $43-$87. Merle Haggard 12/7-12/8, $109-$164. LeAnn Rimes 12/9, $54-$109. Alabama 12/10-12/11, $163-$252. Shows at 10 p.m. 129 E. Fremont St., 866-946-5336. Griffin Live music Wed, 10 pm, free. 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577. Hard Hat Lounge Jessica Manalo, Maxwell Fresh 12/10, 9 pm, free. 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, 702384-8987. LVCS Stevie Stone, Donnie Menace, King QP, Sicc, Bom Green, The Tribe 11/19, 9 pm, $10-$13. Devin the Dude, Potluck, Doms Gauge, Donnie Menace, Charlie Madness, King QP, Danyull 12/2, 9 pm, $15-$17. Black Knights Rising, Tail Gun 12/4, 9 pm, $15-$17. Rittz, Donnie Menace, King QP, Bom Green 12/11, 9 pm, $15-$17. Nik Turner’s Hawkind, Hedersleben, The Pysatics, Grim Reefer 12/12, 8 pm, $8-$10. Mushroomhead, 9Electric, Unsaid Fate, Ne Last Words, Bag of Humans, EMDF 12/13, 8 pm, $15-$18. DJ Ma-T, LKA 12/16, 9 pm, $22. Obie Trice, Chemis, King Qp, Anglo Sax, Donnie Menace, Slykat & Spyder, The Poke Masters, Vessel 12/18, 9 pm, $15-$20. Flotsam and Jetsam, The Thrill Killers, Spun in Darkness, My Own Nation 12/20, 8 pm, $10-$12. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-3531. Mickie Finnz JV Allstars 11/19, 11/22-11/23, 9 pm. Josh Royse Band 11/20, 10 pm. The Black Jacks 11/21, 9 pm. The Leeroy Jenkins Incident 11/24-11/25, 9 pm. Live music Daily, 4-7 pm. Shows free unless noted. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-4204. The Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) Erich Bergen, Norm Lewis, Capathia Jenkins, Clint Holmes, Patina Miller 12/31, 7 pm, $39-$125. The Tenors 2/20, 7:30 pm, $24$95. (Cabaret Jazz) Clint Holmes 12/3-12/5 8:30 pm; 12/6 2 pm; $37-$46. The Skivvies 11/20-11/21, 7 pm, $39-$45. Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band 11/27, 7 pm; 11/28, 6 pm; 11/29, 8:30 pm; $47-$69. Travis Cloer 12/7, 6:30 & 8:30 pm, $50-$65. Bronson, Brody & Beatles 1/20, 8 pm, $15-$35.Laura Osnes 12/11-12/12, 7 pm, $39-$59. Kristen Hertzenberg & Philip Fortenberry 12/19, 2:30 & 7 pm, $26-$36. Susan Anton 1/8-1/9, 7 pm, $35-$59. Lucie Arnaz 1/15-1/16, 7 pm, $39-$55. Christine Ebersole 1/22-1/23, 7 pm, $39-$59. Keola Beamer, Henry Kapono, Moanalani Beamer 1/29-1/30, 7 pm, $37$59. Lisa Fischer 2/19, 7 pm; 2/20, 6 & 9 pm, $37-$65. The Tenors 2/20, 7:30 pm, $24$95. Esteban, Teresa Joy 2/21, 3 & 7 pm, $45-$55. Lucy Woodward 2/26-2/27, 7 pm,

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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. Las Vegas Philharmonic Cabrera Celebrates Sibelius 11/21, 7:30 pm, $26-$96. The Snowman 12/5/12-6, 2 pm; 12/5, 7:30 pm; $26-$96; 12/6, 2 pm, $46-$96. Cabrera Conducts Rachmaninoff 1/9, 7:30 pm, 1/10, 2 pm, $26-$96. Pink Martini 2/6, 7:30 pm, $100-$250. Spotlight Series 2/16, 4/26, 5/3, 7:30 pm, $168. Smith Center, 702-7492000. Nevada Ballet Theatre 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, 702-749-2000. Onyx Theatre Mister Wives 11/19-11/21, 11/27-11/28, 8 pm; 11/22, 5 pm, $20. Elf U: A Crash Course in Christmas 12/4-12/19, Sat, 11 am & 1 pm, $10. The Eight: Reindeer Monologues 12/4-12/19, Fri & Sat, 10 pm, $15. 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. Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) Elf the Musical 11/24-11/29, times vary, $29-$129. New Year’s Eve at the Smith Center 12/31, 7 pm, $39-$125. The Cat in the Hat 1/13, 6:30 pm, $15-$23. Riverdance 1/26-1/21, $29$129. Panties in a Twist 2/2-2/6, $35-$43. The Symphonic Rockshow Presents: The Best of British Rock 2/5, 7:30 pm, $29-$59. Cinderella 2/13, 7:30 pm, 2/14, 2 pm, $29-$139. Elephant & Piggies We Are in A Play 2/17, 6:30 pm, $15-$23. The Bridges of Madison County 2/23-2/28, $29-$129. A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder 3/8-3/13, $29-$139. One Night For One Drop 3/18, 7 pm, $104-$329. (Troesh Studio Theater) ’Twas a Girls Night Before Christmas: The Musical 11/24-11/28, 7 pm; 11/28, 2 pm; $35-$43. My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m Home for the Holidays 12/2-12/5, 7 pm; $35-$40. Driving Miss Daisy 1/15-1/17, 8 pm; 1/16-1/17, 3 pm; $34. Shen Yun: A Gift From Heaven 1/21, 7:30 pm; 1/22, 8 pm; 1/23, 3 pm & 7:30 pm, 1/24, 1 pm. Bad Jews 3/3-3/5, 8 pm; 3/6, 2 pm, $35-$45. (Cabaret Jazz) Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill 2/12-2/14, 8 pm; 2/132/14, 3 pm, $34. 702-749-2000. UNLV (Rando-Grillot Recital Hall) Larry Del Casale & Carlos Barbosa Lima 11/21, 8 pm, $45. Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society: Mozart & Bach 11/29, 3 pm, $15$20. Amernet Quartet ft. Rachel Calloway 1/28, 7:30 pm, $27-$30. Andrew York 2/20, 8 pm, $41-$45. Chelsea Chen 2/26, 7:30 pm, free.Jens Korndorfer 4/8, 7:30 pm, free. Duo Deloro 4/13, 8 pm, $41-$45. Dorothy Young Riess 5/20, 7:30 pm, free. (Artemus W. Ham Hall) Rockapella’s Holiday Concert 12/5, 8 pm, $20-$70. Sarah Chang and Julio Elizalde 2/6, 8 pm, $25-$75. Polish Baltic Philharmonic 3/17, 8 pm, $25-$75. Orlowsky Trio 4/2, 8 pm, $20-$70. (Judy Bayley Theatre) Nevada Conservatory Theatre: The Magic of Seth Grabel 10/17, 7 pm, $30. 702-895-3332. Winchester Cultural Center Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Consul 11/20-11/21, 7 pm; 11/22, 2 pm, $15. Mark Deramo 12/12, 2 pm, $10-$12. The Slam Poets 12/12, noon, free. James and the Giant Peach 12/18, noon & 6 pm, $5-$7. 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 702455-7340.

Calendar Special Events Alvin and the Chipmunks Live on Stage 12/2, 3:30 pm & 6:30 pm, $18-$65. Orleans, orleansarena.com. A Winter Festival 12/18, 5:30 pm. Walnut Recreation Center, 3075 N. Walnut Rd., 702-455-8402. Bill O’Riley and Dennis Miller: Don’t Be a Pinhead 12/5, 7:30 pm, $86-$501. The Colosseum, Caesars Palace, 702-731-7333. Bourbon Book Club 11/19, 6 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock.org. Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Feast 11/25, 9 pm, free. Golden Tiki, 3939 Spring Mountain Rd., 702-222-3196. Patricia D. Cafferata Signing and Reading 12/4, 7 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock.org. 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 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. Hometown Holidays 12/5, 4 pm, free. Huckleberry Park, 10325 Farm Rd., providencelv.com. Honey Salt Pre-Thanksgiving Farm Table Feast 11/23, 6:30 p.m., $45-$70. Honey Salt, 1031 S. Rampart Blvd., 702-445-6100. 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. Mannheim Steamroller Christmas 12/3, 7:30 pm, $35-$75. Orleans, 702-284-7777. Monday’s Dark with Mark Shunock Anniversary 12/14, 8 pm, $20-$50. Vinyl, 702-693-5000. Monday’s Dark with Mark Shunock 11/16, 9:30 pm, $20-$30. Vinyl, 702-693-5000. Motley Brew’s Great Vegas Festival of Beer 4/9, 3 pm, $30-$80. Fremont East, greatvegasbeer.com. National Finals Rodeo Pink Party ft. Josh Thompson 12/7, 10 pm, free. Westgate, 3000 Paradise Rd., 702-732-5111. Nitro Circus Live 11/21, 8 pm, $42-$128. MGM Grand Garden Arena, 702-891-7777. Opportunity Village’s Great Santa Run 12/5, 10 am, $45 adults, $30 children. Downtown Las Vegas, lasvegassantarun. org. Piff the Magic Dragon Mon thru Wed, 8 pm, $50-$70. Bugsy’s Cabaret at Flamingo, 702-733-3333. Poet Laureate Open Poetry Readings 12/12, 2 pm, free. Winchester Cultural Center, 702-455-7340. Repeal Day Celebration 12/5, 6 pm, $40$46. Mob Museum, 702-229-2734. Sevens Live Music, comedy & spoken arts. Tue, 7 pm, one-drink minimum. Silver Sevens, 4100 Paradise, 702-733-7000. 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. Switch: Trans* Clothing Swap Thu, 5 pm, free. Gay & Lesbian Community Center, 702-733-9800. Toys for Tickets All-Star Jam ft. Tyler Farr, Jerrod Niemann, Eric Paslay, Canaan Smith, Old Dominion, Cam and Mickey Guyton 12/6, 7 pm, free with toy donation. Red Rock, 702-797-7777. Windmill Music Club Highway 61 Revisited 12/20, 4 pm, free. Windmill Library, 7060 W Windmill Lane, 702-507-6030.

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LEO

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Nov. 22-Dec. 21

Urbandictionary.com defines the English word “balter” as follows: “to dance without particular skill or grace, but with extreme joy.” I nominate this activity to be one of your ruling metaphors in the coming weeks. You have a mandate to explore the frontiers of amusement and bliss, but you have no mandate to be polite.

How well do you treat yourself? What do you do to ensure that you receive a steady flow of the nurturing you need? According to my reading of the omens, you are now primed to expand and intensify your approach to selfcare. If you’re alert to the possibilities, you will learn an array of new life-enhancing strategies.

If you were embarking on a 100-mile hike, would you wear new boots that you purchased the day before your trip? Of course not. Your feet would soon be in agony. You would anchor your trek with footwear that had already adjusted to your idiosyncrasies. Apply a similar principle to a different long-term exploit.

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April 20-May 20

Aug. 23-Sept. 22

Dec. 22-Jan. 19

You’ve arrived at a crossroads. From here, you could travel in one of four directions, including back toward where you came from. Steep yourself in the mystery of the transition that looms. Pay special attention to the feelings that rise up as you visualize the experiences that may await you along each path.

To activate your full potential in the coming weeks, you don’t need to scuba dive into an underwater canyon. I recommend you consider trying the metaphorical equivalent. Explore the recesses of your own psyche, as well as those of the people you love. Ponder the riddles of the past.

I expect you to do a lot of meandering. At times your life may seem like a shaggy dog story with no punch line in sight. Your best strategy will be to cultivate an amused patience; to stay relaxed and unflappable as you navigate your way through the enigmas, and not demand easy answers or simple lessons.

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Jan. 20-Feb. 18

English model Katie Price has been on the planet for just 37 years, but has already written four autobiographies. I propose that we choose this talkative, self-revealing Gemini to be your role model. In the coming weeks, you should go almost to extremes as you express the truth about who you have been.

You should refrain from relying on experts. Be skeptical of professional opinions and highly paid authorities. The useful information you need will come your way via chance encounters, playful explorations and gossipy spies. Folk wisdom and street smarts will provide better guidance than elite consultants.

The Confederation of African Football prohibits the use of magic by professional soccer teams. Witch doctors are forbidden to be on the field but most teams work around the ban. Magic is viewed as an essential ingredient in developing a winning tradition. I invite you to experiment with this approach.

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Oct. 23-Nov. 21

Feb. 19-March 20

A flyer showed a photo of a 9-yearold male cat named Bubby who desperately needed expensive dental work. I longed to donate but thought, “Shouldn’t I funnel my limited funds to a bigger cause?” I realized that now is a time to adhere to the principle “think globally, act locally” in every way imaginable.

Some athletes think it’s unwise to have sex before a big game but scientific studies contradict this theory. There’s evidence that boinking increases testosterone levels for both men and women. As you approach your equivalent of the “big game,” Scorpio, I suggest you consider a new strategy.

Slavery is illegal everywhere and yet there are more slaves now than at any other time in history. I feel you are in a phase when you can respond to this predicament. Express gratitude for all the freedoms you have and vow to take full advantage of them, and lend your energy to an organization that helps free slaves.

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