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CONTENTS 7 MAIL People really, really love

41 SCREEN Is The Good Dinosaur

their smooth-jazz radio the way it is.

good? Creed steps into the ring.

8 AS WE SEE IT Movement on

43 NOISE Adele rules the charts.

the Modern. Marking World AIDS Day with a lesson. Why we’ve lost respect for the dictionary.

The Polyphonic Spree rocks the Strip. Record Store Day gears up.

11 Q&A Wynn Tashman: student, advocate, big thinker.

RYAN PARDEY BY BRYAN HAINER; PANCHO’S BY ADAM SHANE

12 FEATURE | RYAN PARDEY

47 FINE ART The abstraction of Nicole Langille Jelsing.

49 SCENE Adventures in eSports.

MAKES SWEET MUSIC As he takes on booking the Bunkhouse, Pardey reflects on his musical past.

50 FOOD & DRINK New flavor at

16 FEATURE | JOY OF GIVING

54 CALENDAR Expressing love

Kicking off the holiday shopping ritual with bunches and bunches of thoughtful goodies.

for semi-forgotten ’90s music.

Pancho’s and Steamie Weenie, and digging Mothership’s hand pies.

24 NIGHTS Wear your whites to Life in Color. Crush does daylife.

39 A&E A “hippie with soul.” 40 POP CULTURE How are the laughs still so good on South Park?

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DOWNTOWN’S NEWEST HOPPY HANGOUT The brewification of Downtown Las Vegas continues, as veteran local brewery Tenaya Creek opened on Bonanza Road this week. So, what’s new and different? The Weekly makes the trip to the new brew emporium, taking in the digs and (of course) sipping on some suds. Find our first look at the experience, only online.

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CHANGE ON THE AIR The university’s KUNV radio station could soon come under the management of Nevada Public Radio.

A great example of such arrangements going wrong is the deal Georgia State University made with Georgia Public Broadcasting in 2014. GPB is paying $150,000 a year and student-run programming during the day is aired on a digital subchannel and streamed online. The deal was announced toward the end of the semester, so many students were already done with classes. –Vespajet

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I don’t believe this is a win-win. The university and its students own the station. Why should this change when it only supports the Board of Regents? It shouldn’t. –Jake Wagner It is a bad deal for UNLV. It basically gives the station away for promotional consideration. The cost of running the station is minimal and the potential great. –Kblexec As one who has listened to KUNV for years and has the free albums from the original days to prove it, I fail to see how this will benefit both UNLV and the community. I love NPR, but our community cannot financially support two stations. I’m scared for our jazz outpost. –Oaxdave

This is not a win-win in any way, shape or form. It is an attempt on the part of KNPR to steal a radio station from UNLV! The Board of Regents and UNLV President Len Jessup are going into this without all of the information they should have in order to make a fair decision. This will kill cultural diversity on public radio in Southern Nevada and it will remove jazz from the airwaves. The powers that be either don’t know the mission of KUNV or they don’t care. Write to your district’s regent today and be heard! –Saveyourmusic

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CASINO FOR SALE The unfinished, never-opened Fontainebleau Las Vegas building and land are up for grabs. Interested?

What an embarrassment of a project. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to buy this eyesore. $650 million purchase then another half billion to finish it? Embarrassing. –Wally M

MAINE ATTRACTION East Coast favorite Luke’s Lobster has opened at the Fashion Show on the Strip.

Please let folks know that seating is outdoors and that on a chilly November night you’re going to be, well, chilly! That being said, you are in for a super-delicious treat, the yummiest of lobstah rolls and the freshest clam chowdah. And trust me, this gal from Boston knows, and loves, her chowdah! Enjoy! –EvelynM

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> PARK PLACE The Downtown development that hosts the Smith Center, Discovery Children’s Museum and the Ruvo Center could get a Las Vegas art museum, too.

ART WHERE IT BELONGS ∑ A contemporary art museum in Downtown Las Vegas seems closer to becoming a reality after the Modern’s community briefing last week at the Smith Center’s Troesh Studio Theater. The informal conversation spotlighted the board’s new steps and solid footing, along with support from the city and other entities, including the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. Chair Katie O’Neill discussed recent strides and fundraising goals— $1 million by August—that if met will

PIRATES AND ROBOTS AND HEROES, OH MY Treasure Island adds pop-culture icons to its kitschy collection

lead to the city’s designation of a parcel of land in Symphony Park. “We feel very strongly that we’re going to hit that number,” she said, adding that the board has been raising funds privately. It won’t commit to any architectural plans until the parcel is determined. At that point, the city will offer another $1 million matching grant the next year. Among those in attendance were cultural leaders Myron Martin and Don Snyder, who led the efforts to develop the Smith Center; Scott Adams, deputy city manager for the City of Las Vegas; Nancy Deaner, director of the city’s Office of Cultural Affairs; and artists and representatives from the arts community, includ-

ing Tarissa Tiberti from the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art and Aurore Giguet from UNLV’s Barrick Museum. Also showing support and interest was David Walker, executive director and CEO of the Nevada Museum of Art. “We have a great interest in being a museum engaged with the entire state,” he said. “We would very much like to be a part of this project here. These art museums aren’t just temples to contemporary art. We are educational institutions; that’s what we do.” In reference to the Modern, he said, “We are here to do what we can to make this dream happen.” The Modern, a name that could change as the project evolves, was

conceived and initiated in 2011 by developer and gallery owner Brett Sperry. A public announcement followed in 2013 about plans to build a $35 million museum and education center on a small parcel of land in the Arts District, with an unveiling of architectural renderings. O’Neill, a native Las Vegan (and great-grandaughter of Benny Binion) who studied art history at the University of Pennsylvania and spent 10 years in the gallery world in New York before moving back, has been involved with the Modern since joining its advisory board four years ago. “We’re busy,” she said. “We’re rolling up our sleeves. We’re looking at other museums, models we can follow.” –Kristen Peterson

∑ A walk-through exhibit that immerses audiences in the world of Optimus Prime, Megatron and the never-ending battle of Autobots vs. Decepticons. Or maybe you prefer to be surrounded by Iron Man, Hulk, Thor and the rest of Marvel’s Avengers over Hasbro’s Transformers? Both pop-culture phenomenons are coming to life in Las Vegas soon, when Victory Hill Exhibitions brings new attractions to the 28,000-square-foot space above the CVS store at Treasure Island on the Strip, at the northwest corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Spring Mountain Road. An odd fit? Not at all. In recent years, TI has traded in its swashbuckling pirate theme in favor of a one-stop-tourist-shop approach. Its Strip-side lagoon is lined with Starbucks, Gilley’s and Señor Frog’s, so why not drop Captain America into the mix? –Brock Radke

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SYMPHONY PARK BY STEVE MARCUS

AS WE SEE IT…

UNDERSTANDING HIV/AIDS

> UNDER FIRE Some UNLV students are calling for Hey Reb’s removal.

The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign and a number of marquees and landmarks will turn their lights red December 1, commemorating the 17th annual World AIDS Day, which aims to unite the global community in the fight against HIV/AIDS, support those living with the conditions and honor those who have lost their lives. The event is happening on the heels of actor Charlie Sheen’s recent announcement that he is HIV-positive, which put conversations surrounding HIV/AIDS more in the national spotlight. It’s an important dialogue to have, so we reached out to Aid for AIDS of Nevada to get the latest stats and terminology. 8,449 People who have tested positive for HIV/AIDS in Clark County in 2014, according to the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health.

CHARACTER STUDY

Will UNLV keep mascot Hey Reb?

Though he’s presented as a Western frontiersman, UNLV mascot Hey Reb is under fire for the second time this year for perceived Confederate ties. Sen. Harry Reid urged the Board of Regents in June to “take a look” at the controversial mascot following a racially motivated shooting at a black church in South Carolina, and last week UNLV students, in solidarity with the University of Missouri and Yale, staged antiracist protests, calling for bolstered ethnic-studies programming and Hey Reb’s retirement. Within the next two weeks, UNLV’s head of diversity, Rainier Spencer, will release a report on Hey Reb’s history, possibly including recommendations on how to proceed. A deadline wasn’t given for the decision,

though a name change would require approval by the Board of Regents. UNLV has a history of controversial mascots. In 1955, the university’s precursor, CSNS, voted to adopt the Rebel name and a Confederate wolf mascot, Beauregard. In 1971, students voted to keep the Rebel, but replaced Beauregard with a Revolutionary War soldier. And in 1983, “independent mountainman” Hey Reb debuted, undergoing a makeover in 1997 to appear even more pioneer-like, though that perception hasn’t stuck. “We are one of the most diverse campuses in the nation,” a student shouted during the Nov. 17 protest, as reported by the Las Vegas Sun. “Why do we still have that f*cking racist mascot?!” –Kristy Totten

OXFORD’S WORD OF THE YEAR ISN’T EVEN A WORD I’m an emoji user. An enthusiast, even. I was stoked to get the taco and can’t wait for the butterfly. When emoji people of color debuted, I held down the gray alien fully expecting a green option (but no). I’ve sent vengeful “peace outs” to exes and used a string of “dead” emoji faces with Xs for eyes to call in sick. So you’d think I’d be happy about Oxford Dictionaries’ 2015 Word of the Year, the “face with tears of joy,” but I’m conflicted because I don’t think that’s what it means. ¶ Oxford’s Word of the Year has recently hinged on our digital lives. In 2009, it was “unfriend,” and since then we’ve done a lot of unfriending based on annoying “selfies” (2013’s WotY), cat “gifs” (2012) and “vape” videos (2014). In 2011, Oxford chose “squeezed middle”—referring to struggling average earners—and in 2010 it was “refudiate,” Sarah Palin’s cringe-worthy conflation of two smart-people words. To which 2015’s WotY emoji would be a great reaction, because I’ve always taken it to mean “hilarious” or “laughing until you cry.” ¶ Whatever its meaning, the honored emoji’s popularity skyrocketed this year, rising from 9 percent of all U.S. emoji use in 2014 to 17 percent today. And while we do have reasons to shed tears of joy—social reform sparked by university protests, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Awakens the man bun’s imminent death—a dictionary choosing a pictogram that’s open to interpretation is ironic. Dictionaries, by definition, define. “You may know it by other names,” Oxford’s 2015 announcement says of the icon. Okay … or you may pick a word with a concrete meaning. –Kristy Totten

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HIV vs. AIDS “HIV is human immunodeficiency virus. It’s the actual virus that infects individuals who are living with HIV,” says AFAN Education Supervisor Andrew Evanski. “AIDS is a diagnosis that someone [living with HIV] can receive upon reaching less than 200 T-cells per milliliter of blood.” 375 New HIV diagnoses in Clark County in 2014, according to DBPH. ‘Living with’ HIV/AIDS “[HIV/AIDS] has changed from a terminal illness to a chronic illness,” Evanski says. “We say ‘living with HIV’ because it’s just a chronic disease. It’s something that they’ll live with for the rest of their life because there’s no cure, but it is a manageable disease by taking retroviral [medication].” 68 The percentage of new HIV diagnoses in Clark County in 2014 that were a result of male-to-male sexual contact, according to the Division of Public and Behavioral Health. “No identified risk” (17 percent) and heterosexual contact (8 percent) were the transmission categories with the next highest percentages. –Mark Adams

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Remembering Walt A Las Vegas character, and a great and generous man, is gone By Steve Friess

That day at UMC when I brought Walt over to meet my friend David might very well have been the day Walt’s heroic past became real to me. Before we walked in, we glimpsed David, all of 33 years old, through the door’s window sitting with his back to us, his flimsy hospital gown wide open. “My God,” Walt gasped, taking in how David’s skin seemed stretched to barely cover the pointy parts of his emaciated frame. “This boy is like something out of the ’80s. I didn’t think this happened to people anymore.” In 2004, it happened much less

Yet now that Walt has died, I worry about remembering him as a caricature rather than as a character. I can write about the outlandish things he said and the f *ck-it-I’m-old Sophia Petrillo manner with which he said them. There’s the bejeweled jockstrap he got as a gag gift and gyrated in at his 80th birthday party. That night in the late ’90s—before it was quite so acceptable—when Walt loudly informed a waitress at the Boulder Station coffee shop that we couldn’t order yet because “Terry, who is my gay lover, is still > Walt And ME Steve Friess and Walt, exploring the Bellagio Conservatory.

often. But for whatever reason, unchecked disease ravaged David, and he’d traveled from Chicago to Vegas to seek my help. A few months later, of course, he would be dead. On our way home that day, Walt was uncharacteristically muted, sullen, shocked. He was such a reliably boisterous presence in my life, a curmudgeon with a pithy aphorism always at the ready. Now he was elsewhere, muttering to himself again and again, “I did not think this happened anymore.” This moment replays itself unbidden as I contemplate the life of Dr. Walter Herron, who died November 19 at a Las Vegas hospice at age 90. For a decade, he and his 71-year-old widower, Terry Wilsey, reveled in their recurring roles in my Weekly columns as “The Olds,” my own private Statler and Waldorf. They sat in the proverbial balcony box of my Las Vegas life making wry, wicked and uncompromising observations that were as insightful as they were amusing.

parking the car.” Or the time he got drunk at Thanksgiving and scandalized my then-13-year-old Little Brother, his mom and grandmother with jokes about the enormity of his dick. Yes, Walt was wacky and ribald, and those who loved him reveled in his naughty crustiness. But that wasn’t what made him a great man. And, yes, he was a great man. Walt, as I was reminded by his flashback that day with David, had already lived a life of great purpose before we met. He was an American patriot who sublimated his sexual orientation in the 1950s to serve as a flight surgeon in Korea. He married a single mother and raised her son as his own after she left them both. It was a cosmic repayment—his grandparents raised him when, at the height of the Great Depression, his own mother abandoned him. Walt never made the big bucks in medicine. Instead, he worked first as a small-town doctor in Pomeroy, Washington, and later as a public

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health official in Tacoma. In the early 1980s, after being fired as department director by the mayor for revealing his sexual orientation at a public meeting to emphasize the health needs of gays and lesbians, he and Terry came to Vegas. Thus began his career as a doctor at the Veterans Administration hospital, where he stood on the front lines of the AIDS crisis. Other health workers were terrified of the sickly young men and their deadly virus; Dr. Herron made sure to hug each of them because, he once told me, “Human beings need to be touched so they know we know they are human.” By the time my then-partner Jim and I met Walt and Terry at a gay book group we formed in 1997, Walt had recently retired from the VA and was starting a dotage of playing piano, painting abstract art, attending medical lectures and spending luxurious afternoons reading thick tomes about gay people or British royalty. He relinquished the mantle of gay activist to Terry but remained a reliable donor, volunteer and presence for any local LGBT cause. They lived modestly, honestly, generously. Still, back then I wouldn’t have given two odd old dudes much thought were it not for Jim, an aspiring doctor. He and Walt bonded over medicine, and soon the four of us were inseparable. Indeed, Walt taught me the importance of not looking past older people, of the infinite value and thrill of listening to them talk about the lives they lived. In exchange, he and Terry provided me with a familial structure in Las Vegas, even after Jim and I broke up. For a decade, I ate dinner at their place at least once a week, often running interference or listening with bemusement as a boy does when his fairy grandparents squabble over nothing important. It’s been more than a year since Walt, who suffered from dementia, could recognize me. We’ve had plenty of time to prepare. But death forces you to realize an unwelcome change is permanent, so it hurts. I’d say I’ll never forget him, but Walt hated when people said that. “You could get Alzheimer’s someday,” he’d say, “and then you’d be a liar.” Man, I miss that old crank.

Recent developments aim to make animal handling more responsible It’s been a busy week for pet-ownership issues in the Vegas Valley. Here’s a rundown of recent developments aimed at saving animals and increasing owner and dealer responsibility. Feral cats spared: On November 17, the Clark County Commission deputized the Animal Foundation’s Community Cats program to trap, spay or neuter, vaccinate, ear-tip for identification and then return unowned and outdoor cats. While this won’t fully appease county residents who groan at the sight of roaming or feral felines in their neighborhoods, it ought to reduce the amount breeding in the community—which lowers the homeless cat population—and caught for destruction. It’s a program that has been successful in other large cities, and its pilot program here has saved nearly 500 cats since June. Exotic pets, explained: The commission also established permits, registration fees and inspections required for owners of exotic and wild animals (think: wolves, monkeys, boa constrictors 12 feet and under, among others—all codified in the amendment), with the “inherently dangerous” varieties (tigers, bears, hyenas, rattlesnakes, etc.) banned from ownership by basically everyone. Despite protestation during last Tuesday’s joint meeting and online by the anti-animal-regulation constituency, the concerns leading to the measures included protecting animals from inexperienced owners and community members from potential attacks. Buyer beware: The City of Las Vegas will soon consider a proposed ordinance to limit pet retailers and dealers to only selling, displaying and giving away dogs and cats from shelters and nonprofits, thus banning those from private breeders and so-called puppy mills. While that limits the choices of consumers looking for pure-bred animals, and threatens the futures of stores that currently sell them, it promises to divert more local animals away from euthanasia and toward loving homes—which, like the county amendments, isn’t just a responsible act, but a humane one. –Mike Prevatt

Weekly Q&A provide a mock story about a boy who’s had his bike stolen, and there are some ambiguous details in what really happened to the bike. We teach the children everybody’s role in the courtroom, what happens during the investigation process, what happens during the court process, what a witness is supposed to do. And then our second session has law students who volunteer for communityservice credit with the law school, and they play the roles [including] the defense attorney, the district attorney, the bailiff, and the kids get to play the judge and the witness of the story about the boy who had his bike stolen. So they get questions about the bike and what happened that day, and then we go through the proceedings of an ordinary trial.

> student and teacher Tashman helps kids understand the legal system.

Describe a rewarding moment working for the program.

Knowledge is power

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UNLV law student Wynn Tashman advocates for underrepresented youth Court can be a scary place for a kid. That’s why UNLV law student Wynn Tashman works for Kids’ Court School, a program designed by professor Rebecca Nathanson to educate child witnesses about the legal process. “I always have been passionate about youth advocacy, and also about LGBT causes,” says Tashman, who’s fusing those passions and using his experience working with Nathanson to develop his own educational intervention program for LGBT youth facing bullying and harassment in schools. The ever-busy academic took time out of his demanding schedule to discuss his involvement with Kids’ Court School and how his own curriculum aims to improve situations at school for LGBT youth.

What made you want to get involved in Kids’ Court School? Kids’ Court School is actu-

ally what drew me to UNLV for law school. I really want to create, in my own career, a program that helps youth who are underrepresented, and it’s based on educational psychology and research—so Kids’ Court School is the perfect model. What brings kids to the program? They’ve been

victims of abuse and neglect, or it could be a Family Court proceeding; it may be divorce [or] custody. ... A lot of them have gone through traumatizing experiences. What do they experience in Kids’ Court School?

A model courtroom with characters that represent the different people in the court—a judge, the district attorney and so on—and we

There are certain things that we include in our curriculum, like if an attorney asks you a difficult question, instead of making up an answer, it’s okay to say, “I don’t know,” or “Can you rephrase that? I didn’t understand it,” for clarity purposes. When you see the kids ask those clarifying questions during the mock trial, that’s the bingo moment. As a Ph.D. candidate, you’re designing a similar educational intervention program for LGBT youth being treated badly at school. I recognized

that it’s a real epidemic— bullying, harassment, discrimination of LGBT youth in schools—and I wanted to do something about that. So there’s some preliminary research that suggests if you have supportive programs, like a Gay-Straight Alliance, for example, in a high school, that [LGBT students] are going to be more likely to report when they get bullied. … I wanted to create a curriculum that is going to be implemented in after-school settings, so like the GSA, for example, and it’ll teach the LGBT youth about what the reporting procedure is, how

you go through that stepby-step. We’ll go through a simulation, where they get to do a mock reporting, or a mock trial like at Kids’ Court School, and it’ll also give them access to curriculum about LGBT history or LGBT resources available locally. That way it’s connecting them to things they might not be given access to in their school setting. Is something personal driving this project? I was very fortu-

nate in my high school experience as a gay man. I had a really safe ride. I understand that not everybody has that experience. … I definitely felt misunderstood by a lot of my peers and more isolated, I guess, so I can understand not having a sense of community, not knowing that these are things you can discuss with adult authority figures— teachers, school administrators, school counselors, and maybe not even their parents at home. It’s great, I think, to put someone in the school setting who is really actively showing that their presence is affirmed, it’s welcome, and it’s a topic that shouldn’t be taboo or treated negatively. Is it your goal to have the intervention program you’re designing implemented in local schools? I have this over-

arching plan of what I want to do in the Las Vegas community over the next few years. It’s a lot of training programs and educational implementations for judges, for attorneys, for probation officers, for foster care, for teachers, for students. My goal is to first get this implemented all over CCSD and then kind of turn Vegas into a model, if it works, and look at the impacts that these interventions have contributed to. And then hopefully take that to other school districts, to other legal nonprofits in other states and other entities that interact with LGBT youth, and replicate it. –Mark Adams For more of our interview with Tashman, visit lasvegasweekly.com.

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The singer-songwriter, DJ and scene architect makes another musical leap

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deranged Santa walks up to the camera in the middle of the desert, pulls a tomahawk out of his bag and lights it on fire. The crazed man in red throws the ax at his target, a stuffed teddy bear with a picture of Killers frontman Brandon Flowers taped to its head. It’s a bull’s-eye. ¶ That’s the opening scene of “Dirt Sledding,” The Killers’ upcoming Christmas music video and annual charitable contribution to the (RED) Campaign. And the dirty, loony Santa (also our cover model) is none other than longtime scene stakeholder Ryan Pardey. The 36-year-old musician—and new Bunkhouse Saloon entertainment director—has played the role of ol’ Saint Nick three times before, two of the videos thematically related to “Dirt Sledding.” “The general idea for the first two is I’ve been chasing around The Killers, haunting them in their dreams,” Pardey says. His connection to The Killers goes back to 2002, when he was booking shows at Cafe Espresso Roma. Then a 21-year-old college student, Pardey helped bolster a local scene inside the University District shop, making a name for himself along the way. “Brandon and Dave [Keuning] came and played open-mic nights,” he recalls; they even performed demos of “Mr. Brightside” and “Under the Gun” there. And when The Killers signed with Island/Def Jam in ’04, they tapped Pardey to be tour manager. With his large, scruffy-red beard and dirty old sailor’s hat, the Vegas-born artist and all-around free spirit took on the character known as “The Captain,” a mythic man whose job was to grill the band in a web video series called Questions With the Captain. Clips

began with Pardey riding his bike and strolling local streets, pipe in mouth and fishing pole in hand. In one, Pardey sits outside Battle Born Studios with Flowers, quizzing him on Nevada. Capital? State animal? Where in Las Vegas did Michael Jordan get married? Those videos helped build The Killers’ fanbase, the Victims, into one of the largest fan groups for a modern rock act. “The band went from being nothing to being the biggest band in the world,” says Pardey, adding that he was with The Killers for close to 300 shows. At the end of the tour the label hired another manager, but the band took Pardey back on the road, this time as a merchandiser. “The band was doing the Big Day Out festival [in Australia], and the promoter took us out on a yacht … it was beautiful and

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amazing and they were serving us lobster and we were jumping in the ocean,” Pardey says of a vivid day on tour. But luxe life was losing its appeal. “I felt like I had seen everything at that point.” Pardey eventually quit and returned to Las Vegas, setting out to make a record under his own band name, Halloween Town. * * * * * In addition to having no job during a crippling global recession, Pardey came home to find his father, Rod—a professional poker player with two World Series of Poker bracelets—having financial troubles. “The life of a poker player,” Pardey laments. “We lost the house we grew up in, and I was homeless. I was also probably not making great decisions. I probably had way

too much confidence. I thought, I’m going to make the greatest record ever, and I’m going to be fine and I’m going to do what I want, because I always have.” Now it was the life of a passionate, struggling musician—writing songs, living on friends’ floors and in cheap hotels, taking odd jobs (including kayak guiding in Alaska one summer) to make ends meet. “I was making a record and playing shows, but I was struggling personally in terrible ways. My family all went from living here to not living here. I probably had a drug problem,” Pardey says. “It wasn’t until I met [my girlfriend] Adriana that I absolved that.” It was 180 degrees from where he’d been just a year prior, living the life and touring with an international arena act. Still, he didn’t regret his decision to let it go. “I

> POKER FACE Ryan Pardey at home.

photograph by bryan hainer

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was over the nomadic life, and I was looking to find some normal ground at that point. … It’s difficult living in the shadow of someone else’s dream when you want to go down your own path.”

> MODERN MINSTREL Pardey is the principal member of Halloween Town.

* * * * * Before he was The Captain, Pardey had established himself as the guy to know, working with that storied Maryland Parkway café and throwing debaucherous dance parties at dive bars. He says he had no clue what he was doing when he took over Cafe Roma. The venue had been booking nationally touring acts like Bright Eyes, Q and Not U, The Weakerthans, Dashboard Confessional and Apples in Stereo, and with the help of promoters like Jennifer Ianni and Tommie Gonzalez, the coffee bar transformed into one of Vegas’ only indie rock venues. “There was no Beauty Bar at this point,” and Downtown nightlife was quiet. “I was at Champagnes Cafe with my friend Ben Coy—most of the world knows him as Rex Dart. My other friend was turning 21 and wanted to have a birthday party there, so we thought, ‘Let’s DJ.’” Pardey hadn’t DJ’d before, but like most things leading to that point, he winged it. The party was an immediate hit in Vegas’ indie scene. From that bash grew the Bargain DJ Collective, a group of alternative DJs that still exists today, helmed by Rex Dart at the Double Down. After Bargain’s stint at Champagnes in 2001, Pardey landed at Fruit Loop bar Sasha’s (which became Tramps) for a dance night called Trash. Pardey still refers to those 18-andover days as the biggest thing he’s ever orchestrated. “This is right around the time The Strokes are coming out, The Raveonettes, The Rapture, so I’d mix that in with my ’80s set of dance, new-wave stuff,” he remembers. Among his sets were bands like The Cure, The Smiths, Kraftwerk, early R.E.M., The Sea and Cake and David Bowie. “Every week there were girls dancing all over the place. People would go there and dance their asses off.” And Pardey was still running Cafe Roma. Sort of. “I was a kid with ambition and no fear. I’m surprised I didn’t get in trouble for breaking all sorts of laws. We were more just squatters,” he says of his management skills. “I didn’t know about books, I didn’t know about nothin’. I got a lot of mileage out of that place, [but] it became obvious that we were out of our league.” The night before Thanksgiving in ’03, the café was robbed, and Pardey gave up on the already-

sinking ship to focus on DJing. The shop shuttered for good, marking the end of one of Vegas’ most unique music venues. Pardey continued with Trash at Tramps, but “like all good things,” that event also came to an end. A loss for the local scene, it fortunately played into the beginning of Pardey’s wild ride with The Killers. * * * * * In 2010, after Pardey stopped touring with The Killers, he began working with the Royal Resort, and did that for the next two years. In 2011, he also finally released Halloween Town’s debut album, Zafra Ct., named for the street on which he grew up. Co-produced by local musician Mike Stratton (formerly of 12 Volt Sex) and Louis XIV frontman Jason Hill, Zafra Ct. also featured musical contributions from The Killers’ Mark Stoermer and Keuning and Louis XIV’s Brian Karscig, with album artwork by “Dirt Sledding” director Matthew

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Gray Gubler (Criminal Minds). The album twists and turns through bleak realities of life and love, damaged yet encased in bright, sweet moments of hope. But even with all-star collaborators behind it, Zafra Ct. fell under the radar. “Nobody bought it. Nobody cared,” Pardey says. “It was weird. It was a songwriter’s record. It was a good record. I’m proud of it.” Years after its release, Pardey’s soaring indie-pop gems are still as warm and honest as the desert itself. There’s something resonant in the thought that Pardey, who has reinvented himself again and again, is now entertainment director for a Downtown venue that’s shape-shifted more than any other. The third incarnation of the Bunkhouse looks markedly different from its smoky, punk-fueled roots, but since Pardey’s start at Cafe Roma, Downtown has changed drastically, too. This bar embodies the scene’s resilience. When asked if re-establishing it will be an uphill battle, he’s blunt.

“I 100 percent know this,” he says. But under the operation of former Artifice manager Jillian Tedrow, the Bunkhouse is turning away from owner Downtown Project’s first model, trying to weave a little of the original saloon’s flavor into a state-of-the-art space. Sure, the appealing “seediness” has been buffed out, but if there’s one guy who can rally Downtown support, it’s Pardey. His goal is creating a community—with game nights and drink specials and TV screens for Rebel basketball. Where gaming drove the old Bunkhouse’s success, Pardey says this model will need to rely on bigger things, from corporate events to his bread-andbutter: indie dance nights. The schedule won’t be in fullswing until March, Pardey says, adding that he hopes for a “grace period” with patrons as the crew figures out what sticks. Of course, his plan for himself extends beyond the saloon doors. “I’m hoping there’s more to come and this is just the beginning of another chapter. I want to be an actor. I still like playing music. I don’t want to be in a bar the rest of my life,” Pardey says. But his calling for now is to help the Bunkhouse flourish. “Am I going to be successful? I don’t know. I’m going to try. I’m going to do my best.” photograph by bryan hainer

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A spicy salsa of the season’s perfect presents

Red Flannel Buck Jr. For that “ski-lodge charm” with none of the guilt, because this buck head is made with recyclable materials at Cardboard Safari’s digs in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. More exotic? Try a giraffe noggin named Juliette. $40, fab.com.

Gelt bow tie Handmade with silk right here in the USA, Beau Ties’ polka-dotted number looks right for a New Year’s Eve bash, or brunch, or no occasion at all. In fact, throw a party for it. $45, beautiesltd.com.

LuxFire Apex fire pit Why light a fire in a boxy pit when you can blast off into the Space Age? Hand-formed in the USA, Apex runs on propane, so spare the trees and heat up your holiday nights—and your aesthetic cred. $1,879, woodlanddirect.com.

Nailed It bracelet A carpenter’s spike becomes a coveted adornment when forged of precious metal and twisted around a wrist. Choose from silver ($59) or 18-karat gold plate ($69), and browse goth-y chokers galore at illuminatishop.com.

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1960s Louis Vuitton Monogram Speedy 25 A vintage handbag is like a classic car: Its allure intensifies with the sweet patina of age. Find this couture specimen at Downtown salvage palace Exile, with a dramatic fur attachment made in-house. $450, 1235 S. Main St., 702-823-3957, exileboutique.com.

Mini indoor garden Because everything is cuter (and easier to care for) when miniature, these desk plots of locally grown succulents or cacti ($29.99-$64.99) bring a dash of green indoors. Gaia Flowers, 6 E. Charleston Blvd., 702-997-0222, gaiaflowers.com/shop.

Ray-Ban Wayfarer Folding Classic Fusing fashion and function, Ray-Ban puts a modern twist on the timeless Wayfarer silhouette with these collapsible lenses. Portable, practical, stylish—what’s not to love? $150, ray-ban.com.

New street style and “verge culture” at Institution 18b

Artificial bird adoption Put a bird on it, or in it, or wherever else you please, when you adopt a fake feathered friend from Downtown literary stronghold the Writer’s Block. Purchase ($8-$13) includes an adoption certificate and “autobirdography” stating likes, dislikes and personality traits. Pick your new pal in-store. 1020 Fremont St., 702550-6399, thewritersblock.org.

Grown-up coloring book Adults are turning to the childhood pastime as a way to relieve stress and recharge—and publishing companies have taken notice, printing books with sophisticated themes and intricate patterns to get lost in. Why Dapper Animals? Because that suited-up fox is too cute for words. $9.99, Michael’s, multiple locations, michaels.com.

Squatty Potty Slim Oh, Squatty Potty. Your handsomeness belies your life-changing functions: To reverse the obstructionist damage long inflicted by toilet design at war with physiological science. To render effortless and succinct an otherwise prolonged exercise in bowel relief. And to finally and mercifully grant a nation of strainers the most restorative of contentments. Give the gift that truly keeps on giving—full elimination.. $60, squattypotty.com.

It’s about authenticity, and style, and something new for Las Vegas. That’s what drives Institution 18b, a days-old “verge culture lab” pioneered by Valley native Wil Eddins, former head menswear buyer for Bostonbased retailer karmaloop.com. “Verge culture is basically the cutting edge,” says Mark Gatdula, marketer for the new destination in the Arts District. Shrewdly curated streetwear— featuring brands such as Alpha Industries, Clear Weather and Trinomic—anchors the operation, but equally important to its identity is culture, from design workshops and tech launches to art and music shows. “Vegas doesn’t have fashion, music, culture industries,” Eddins says. “I wanted to move back and create some of that.” 918 S. Main St., 702-476-5704, institution18b. com. –Kristy Totten

Batman hooded towel What if every time your kid took a bath she turned into the Caped Crusader? Unhinged Artisan Boutique in Art Square makes it possible, so let her romp, soar and save the day without ever leaving the bathroom (and feel free to throw the towel on over jeans when you’re in the hero mood). $35, 1025 S. First St. #155, 702-586-7967, unhingedlv.com.

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Monthly Spice Box Each box contains three smallbatch blends, from shichimi togarashi’s heady mix of ginger, sesame, orange peel and chili pepper to the garlicky French take on Indian curry known as vadouvan. And they come with recipes from award-winning chefs. So just add food, and be one. $6/month, rawspicebar.com.

AeroBull speaker There are wireless speakers, and there’s Jarre Technologies’ rad kitsch with an amp, a subwoofer and 120 watts pumping out whatever music you love. And you can pet him! $2,000, Sunset Case in the Grand Bazaar Shops, 702-960-0201, sunsetcase.com.

Box of Awesome Bespoke Post’s monthly club celebrates men with great taste. We’re digging the Trimmed (grooming necessities like mustache scissors, a pocket comb and beard balm) and Copper boxes (Moscow Mule must-haves like copper mugs, an ice mallet and ginger syrup). It has never been so easy to be so damn GQ. $45/month, bespokepost.com.

Bananabunker Designed to safeguard the notoriously sensitive fruit from those come-from-nowhere bruises and squishes, the bunker may draw some snickers from co-workers, but they can’t ruin the promise of a banana that’s both travel-friendly and blemish-free. $6.99, bananabunker.com.

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Olloclip 4-in-1 Lens Take your not-sohumble #nofilter brag to the next level with this lightweight, clip-on iPhone attachment’s professional-style fisheye, wide-angle, macro 10x and 15x lenses, which work with both the phone’s front- and rear-facing cameras and all photo/video applications. Your selfies will be so on fleek. $79.99, olloclip.com.

Mothership coffee Turn your habit into a gesture of goodwill when you buy organic, fair-trade Cafe Femenino beans cultivated by women from Rwanda, Guatemala and Peru. Snag 12 ounces for $12.95. 2708 N. Green Valley Parkway, 702-456-1869, mothershipcoffee.com.

Jackery Pop charger Day 3 of Electric Daisy Carnival, no sleep and no room at the charging station? No problem, because you have a pocket-sized battery savior with super-fast charging and dual output ports (for that cutie dressed like a glowing pineapple). $19.99, jackery.com.

Spanish sweet olives A Downtown Summerlin outpost of Oil & Vinegar is in the works for 2016, so tease your palate with green hojiblancas from Granada caramelized and then stuffed with succulent figs. Who needs an entrée? $7.95, oilvinegar.com.

Indo Pro Sunburst balance board Want a workout that gives you a firm butt and legs of steel while strengthening your core in the comfort of your living room? This is it, baby. Maintain your balance on this, then take on the world. $259.95, indoboard.com.

Born of rechargeable battery company RPE, Energie Cycles wants to sweeten your ride Next time you’re at a farmers’ market, Michael Trono might block your path with a shiny bike ready for a test ride. With a chuckle, the sales manager for Colt pommel trainer There’s a reason why watching pommel horse champions is so addictive. It’s cool as hell. And gymnastics are a great way to build your physical strength, power and determination. The Colt trainer lets you start out smaller and safer. $440 and up, gymsupply.com.

Energie Cycles says he’s won customers that way, because until you hop on an electric bike you just can’t imagine how it feels to go 20 mph without peddling. Built in Las Vegas, the Energie brand includes road, mountain and chainless folding models, and the sleek frames feature RPE’s high-performance lithium batteries, Bafang motors, Shimano gearing, forks from SR Suntour, Tektro brakes and LCD displays that track speed, distance and battery life. You can even retrofit your trusty old bicycle. Trono insists electric bikes don’t take the fun or sweat out of riding. He’s known them to help Anthem commuters brave the hills, and act as a bridge back to cycling for those who are out of shape or dealing with debilitating issues. Plus, he says e-biking is the future. “It’s the solution to turning off your combus-

Foodie Dice No. 1 Don’t know what to make for dinner? Let fate decide with a roll of the Foodie Dice. With five primary dice (cooking method, protein, grains/carb, herbs, bonus ingredients) and four veggie-themed ones for each season, the tumbler set offers over 186,000 meal combinations. Take that, Martha Stewart! $38, foodiedice.com.

Chef’s knife necklace Whether birch wood or silver, this super-cool trinket from the Kitschenette Collection will give you that edge you want in your jewelry. Celebrate your favorite horror film, or wear your culinary skills with pride. $28, vincausa.com.

tion engine pushing around a two-ton block of metal in order to move your 150 pounds down the road!” $1,000-$2,000, 6585 Arville St. #A, 702-749-5952, energiecycles.com. –Erin Ryan

Clara Rockmore’s Lost Theremin Album Perfect for anyone who believes they’ve heard everything. The noted theremin virtuoso rocks out to Dvořák, Bach, Chopin, Gershwin and more. $8.99 MP3; $17.70 CD, amazon.com.

Theremini It’s been a while since the theremin’s heyday, which, aside from some sci-fi movies, avant-garde bands and the mad skillz of Clara Rockmore, never really happened. But playing what sounds like an eerie electronic violin/radio-frequency tuner without any physical contact is great for anyone intimidated by chord structures. $319, moogmusic.com.

DIY Ukulele Kit The body is assembled, so just attach a few pieces and it’s decoratin’ time! And if she’s not just arm candy, this soprano instrument is ready to broadcast all the vintage Bryan Adams you can muster. $46, urbanoutfitters.com.

Snake Eyes Yard Dice There had to be dice. But these are no furry abominations. They’re solid wood, and they come in an all-natural jutefiber bag with directions for four dice games. Now, if you can just plant flowers in a craps-table formation … $49.99, yarddice.com. Evolution Showgirl shirt Spreadshirt has other Vegas-y options to end the lineup, from a mushroom cloud celebrating our atomic legacy to a naughty twerker in full bend-over mode. But the showgirl is the ultimate. $13.99-$18.99, spreadshirt.com. Beer jelly The image of fun in Vegas is inextricable from the image of some ridiculous drink you carry around like a newborn baby. For a lot of locals, though, it’s about one great beer. So spread that Vermont-made IPA or pumpkin ale on some toast and roll the bender and the hangover breakfast into one. $7-$9, potlickerkitchen.com. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ceramic pipe There’s nothing cooler than Fear and Loathing-era Hunter S. Thompson—except maybe smoking a pipe shaped like him. We think the good doctor would approve. $40, WOOFterrapipe on etsy.com. Las Vegas map art No tacky Photoshop job or Google Maps enlargement here. This minimalist, mosaic-like map of our tourist corridor ought to delight any Vegas enthusiast on Santa’s “nice” list. $9.99 (4x6)-$97.59 (24x36), MapsAsArt on etsy.com.

How a Hope for Hearts necklace impacts orphans a world away

Pull-tab ornament With its 5by20 initiative, Coca-Cola aims to empower 5 million women entrepreneurs around the world by 2020, so it bought their inventive wares made of recyclables. Pull-tab angels crafted by Guatemalan artisans belong in our trees (and hearts). $3.50-$10, coca-colastore.com/5by20.

Rite Lite menorah Low-voltage yet dazzling, this Hanukkah necessity is so sleek you won’t want to put it away after the “eight crazy nights” Adam Sandler sings about. And if you break a bulb, just yell out “Mazel tov!” and grab a spare. $40, fab.com.

Magic of Christmas bubble wand Cinnamon leaf and organic clove soak into a soothing bath with sweet orange oil and a flurry of soft almond bubbles. It’s reusable, and perfumes you and the room. $9.95, Lush at Downtown Summerlin, 702-869-1118, lushusa.com.

Tickets to ’Twas the Knight Ever notice how much Merlin looks like Santa? Especially with the maidens ribbon-dancing, fake snow falling, carolers singing and you drinking stout eggnog. Through December 28; tickets start at $68.23, Tournament of Kings at Excalibur, 702-597-7600, excalibur.com.

Cristen Jacobsen met a seamstress in Uganda, a 19-year-old graduate of a school supported by Jacobsen’s Las Vegas-based charity Hope for Hearts. With a sewing machine and a patch of earth the school helped her acquire, she made enough to rent a one-room shack for herself and four younger siblings who’d been living in a slum. More than shelter or even food, the young woman said the most important thing was sending her siblings to school so they’d have the same chance to change their fates. “This one year at our school impacted five lives that drastically,” Jacobsen says. “It’s like one drop of water in the bucket, but eventually that bucket is gonna be filled up.” One drop might be the $4.30 per week it costs to house, feed and educate each of nearly 400 Ugandan kids under Hope for Hearts’ umbrella, or it might be the $15 you pay for a paper kamubulago necklace made by one of their teachers—100 percent of which benefits the students. “Think of it as gratitude economic exchange.” Available at Sin City Yoga in the Arts Factory or hope4hearts.org. –Erin Ryan

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NIGHTS

> dutch ‘tornado’ Firebeatz brings the bangers to Marquee Monday night.

Hot Spots 3LAU AT HAKKASAN Thanksgiving is for family.

Spend some time with Vegas’ own Justin Blau as he makes his Hakkasan debut after the holiday, with support from Jeff Retro. November 27, 10:30 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. BATTLE TRACK AT SURRENDER It’s house vs. hip-hop at Surrender as Esto Vega and Mighty Mi take 45-minute turns spinning their distinctive styles from midnight until 3 a.m. Friday night. November 27, 10:30 p.m., $35+ men, $25+ women. OOKAY AT DRAI’S Versatile San Diego-based producer Ookay—recent release: the reggae-infused

“The Boot” on Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak—is making the Vegas rounds, having played XS last month and now dropping in at Drai’s. November 28, 10:30 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women.

FIREBEATZ AT MARQUEE Big-room DJ duo Tim Smulders and Jurre van Doeselaar just dropped “Tornado,” a noisy, whirling banger perfect for whipping Marquee Mondays into a bouncing dance frenzy. November 30, 10 p.m., $32+ men, $23+ women.

MANUFACTURED SUPERSTARS AT XS Did you know Bradley Roulier and Shawn Sabo helped found Beatport? Did you know their debut fulllength Party All The Time comes out next week? No? Just wanna party all the time? Okay. November 28, 10:30 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women.

AC SLATER AT BEAUTY BAR U.K. garage-influenced bass boss AC Slater brings his Take the Night tour to Nickel F*cking Beer Night, with help from Deaf From Above and P Snugs. December 1, 9 p.m., $10.

DJ JAMI AT FOXTAIL The Blueprint Sound influence continues to grow at Foxtail as Nocturnal Sound Krew leader DJ Jami brings everything from hip-hop and soul to bounce and trap into the mix. November 29, 10:30 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women.

HALO VARGA AT TACOS & BEER Prepare yourself for a Techno Taco Tuesday to remember when San Diego’s Halo Varga headlines with Spacebyrdz, Bad Beat, Lance Le Rok, Eder More and more. December 1, 9 p.m., no cover.

Buy now, party in 2016 Chart a course for NYE clubbing today December is upon us. So if you’re planning to stake out a spot at one of the Strip’s megaclubs to ring in the new year, don’t delay. Prices have already jumped up a bit, and they’re only going to get higher from here. For those who would go big on December 31, we salute you with this quick update of announced headliners and door charges. –Brock Radke

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SCOTT DISICK AT 1 OAK $75 men, $50 women.

TIËSTO AT HAKKASAN $175 men, $125 women.

DJ SHIFT AT THE BANK $100 men/women.

J. COLE AT LIGHT $70 men, $40 women.

NICKI MINAJ & MEEK MILL AT DRAI’S $150 men/women.

CALVIN HARRIS AT OMNIA $250 men, $125 women.

DIPLO AT SURRENDER $82 men, $55 women. SNOOP DOGG AT TAO $101 men, $51 women. ALESSO AT XS $100 men, $50 women.

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Let’s get vivid

> EASY BEING GREEN Or you can get blue, orange, purple, whatever at Life in Color.

Wear white and escape reality at Life in Color

Who says you shouldn’t wear white after Labor Day? Don your most sacrificial attire and prepare to have it destroyed in the most fun way possible as Life in Color, dubbed “the world’s largest paint party,” is back. You’ll be covered in color and drenched in sound, dancing to headliner Zeds Dead along with David Solano, Kennedy Jones and more. We got the 101 on LIC from cofounder Patryk Tracz. How did the idea for LIC come about? Nine years ago in college there was a fraternity/sorority hosting a paint event at one of the socials. They would park in a room Life in and just throw paint Color with at each other. When Zeds Dead, we saw that we said, David Solano, “Wow, this could turn Kennedy Jones. into a huge concert.” We were always November inspired by [Dutch 28, 8 p.m., entertainment com- 18+, $45-$60. pany] ID&T. They Cashman did a show called Center, life Sensation in Europe incolor.com. with a cool, huge production and everybody dressed in white. We’re like, “What if we did an event where everybody comes dressed in white and they throw paint at each other and it could grow into something big?” So we did one in Miami at a club with 800 people, and we sold out. The energy of the show was just amazing, and it kept growing. How many Life in Color events have there been? We do about 100 a

year, international and domestic, for the past three years. We’ve been doing this for nine years now. Miami [is still] our flagship event. It’s a festival and we do about 25,000 people. It got nominated last year at the [International Dance Music Awards]. Do you worry the EDM festival bubble is bursting, and there may be too many events? There’s definitely a lot of EDM concerts now,

but I think we stand out from all the other ones—obviously with the paint factor—and we’re always trying to innovate our company any way we can. It’s always a concern because the artist prices keep going up because there’s so many different places they can choose from, but … I’ve gone to other EDM shows and we’ve done other shows other than paint parties, and the energy’s just different. What I always say [about] Life in

Color is there’s no VIP, everybody’s equal, everybody’s one … Whether you’re a shy person or not, come to the show and when they start throwing paint at each other it breaks that barrier to just escape reality, just to be free. What are some tips for first-timers? Be prepared to have a great time. Probably put your phone in a Ziploc bag. You will get paint on you. And wear white! –Deanna Rilling

Secret party Daylife takes a wild turn at Crush Fridays Party Brunch With summer pool parties sadly stuck in the rearview, it was only a matter of time before Vegas venues started getting creative to fill the daylife void. But this party is beyond unexpected—a bottle-popping, tabledancing, Snickers-pancake-loaded shindig that starts at 2 p.m. on Fridays. At a typically subdued, stylish restaurant in the heart of MGM Grand’s casino. What? Michael and Jenna Morton’s Crush launched its party brunch on Halloween weekend, armed with female DJs, bottle service starting at $375, great food and a lot more energy than anyone was expecting. It’s reminiscent of Saturday’s Champagne brunch at Lavo, but that place is a club, and Crush is decidedly not. Still, once you make your way into the restaurant’s back room, browse the menu of cocktails and sangrias all available by the pitcher, and take in the sexy sights and sounds, you’ll forget it’s a Friday afternoon. Fortify with chef Billy DeMarco’s indulgent short rib hash ($18) or bananas Foster French toast ($16) and be ready for blast-off; the party really gets going a couple hours in. It’s a little odd to see dancing bachelorettes, confetti blasts and LED-lit bottle presentations in a space where we’re used to sipping wine and noshing on wood-fired pizzas, but guess what? It’s fun. Welcome to the weekend, compliments of Crush. –Brock Radke

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Oingo Boingo // June 14, 1993 // Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts By Dennis Mitchell Oingo Boingo’s 1995 retirement as a band came as a shock and disappointment to many fans who didn’t know bandleader Danny Elfman had been suffering from severe hearing loss. He still pledges never to return to the stage to front a rock band, all of which might help explain Boingo’s uneven touring history. The concert listing resource setlist.fm suggests the group played fewer than 100 concerts during its entire 16-year existence, often at theme parks and midsize venues around Southern California. So Las Vegas fans had to consider themselves lucky when the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts was the setting for two shows, the first of which was on June 14, 1993. I had enjoyed seeing Oingo Boingo live a decade earlier by driving down to see the second US Festival near San Bernardino, California. I can still picture the dust cloud from all the dancing that day. Driven partly by the fact that Las Vegas’ only commercial “alternative” radio station (KEDG) was still on the air, the opulent theater behind the Aladdin filled up with eager smiling faces ready to see what Elfman and his troupe had up their sleeves. The band featured a small horn section but went with a decidedly guitar-driven sound for this outing. As easy as it was to focus on Elfman, this was a band comprised of exactly all the right parts. Guitarist/conductor Steve Bartek carried a lot of weight, while drummer Johnny Vatos made it difficult not to jump

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out into the aisle to dance. They were so very tight, so rhythm-intense and fun that nothing seemed out of place, and the energy level never waned. Boingo opened with future single “Insanity,” followed by the appropriate “War Again.” The rest of the set featured all the hits we had been enjoying for years on the radio and a grand rendition of The Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus” as a bonus. The country-tinged “We Close Our Eyes” changed the pace at just the right time, a little over halfway through. There was virtually no banter with the crowd between songs, giving the presentation a frantic-butcontrolled Ramones-like pace. The aisles of the lower section really did become mini-dancefloors for a few moments, with fans getting in their best ska moves before security would try to usher them back to their seats. But by the time the band launched into “Dead Man’s Party” at the end of the night, all attempts at controlling the frenzy had gone by the wayside and it looked like the band was enjoying it even more than we were. Oingo Boingo also included Las Vegas on their swan-song tour of 1995, 10 days before their Halloween grand finale at Universal City. A few weeks ago on the 20th anniversary of that farewell show, Bartek joined Elfman onstage by for a special rendition of “Dead Man’s Party” at an orchestral “Nightmare Before Christmas” concert at the Hollywood Bowl.

For your older brother: Gen X’ers are buzzing about the new collectible soundtrack for Transformers the Movie—as in the 1986 animated cult classic, not the 2007 live-action turd—whose gatefold actually “transforms.” Can’t find it? How about the orange-vinyl soundtrack to High Fidelity? For your BFF: Another RSD exclusive to quickly snap up: Halo I-IV, which compiles the first three singles and Pretty Hate Machine from Nine Inch Nails. For your parents: Enliven their dinner parties with the three-LP Jazz at Massey Hall, featuring the classic teaming of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Max Roach and Bud Powell. For yourself: You know you won’t resist, not with a live album by Deerhoof, a J Dilla-produced 7-inch by The Pharcyde or a pink-vinyl edition of Garbage’s remastered debut. Or how about raising your cred with The Sonics’ Fifty, featuring the first two albums and rarities from the pioneering band? Hey, you rose with the sun—treat yo self. –Mike Prevatt

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A&E | comedy

> Mic Drop Adams often yells to the crowd without amplification.

Winning humor

Observational comic Orny Adams warms up a new room

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By Jason Harris Seinfeld, Adams is a tight writer, wringing Sometimes it’s not just about how funny you punchlines out of the mundane. On a converare, but what you’re able to do to get the audience sation with the cable company, in which he in the mood to laugh. What tools does one have tried to get his bill lowered and the woman in his belt when things don’t go peachy from the asked for the last four digits of his social secujump? On Saturday night at Red Rock Resort, rity number: “I’m calling to lower my bill. If Massachusetts’ Orny Adams used a variety of anybody calls to lower my bill, lower it! Put skills to take a cold audience and get it hot. that in the notes. If anybody calls to lower the It starts with the room. This was only the bill, lower it.” second comedy show at the Rocks Lounge, Unlike Seinfeld, Adams has a manic energy which is experimenting with a monthly night. about him. He paces the stage, using It was clear things weren’t going to be different postures and poses for his bits. easy when opener Carla Rea, one of Las aaacc Most effectively, he often moves away Vegas’ most consistently funny comics, ORNY from the microphone yelling certain had to scratch and claw her way to laughs ADAMS points to the crowd with an anger similar from the half-full room. November to Lewis Black’s. Adams built momentum Adams’ start was similar, but things 21, Rocks winning the crowd piece by piece, as tilted when a cell phone went off. Instead Lounge. evidenced by the response to his closer of crushing the guilty party, Adams used about low testosterone: “Low T is the it to get into a joke, “Remember when we greatest thing that happens to men. Every bad thought call waiting was rude? It doesn’t even decision I ever made was on high T. Nothing bother us anymore. Sometimes I don’t even tell bothers low-T man. I’m driving. Someone flips people when I’m clicking over. They’re on a roll. me off in traffic. Low-T guy just keeps going. I just sneak it in. I come back, they’re still going. I go out on a date. I don’t think she likes me. They didn’t even know I was gone.” Great, I’ll get eight hours of sleep tonight.” This type of observational humor made If Rocks Lounge continues to bring in comeAdams a natural costar for Jerry Seinfeld in dians this capable, the room could really thrive. the 2002 documentary film Comedian. Like

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> THREE OUT OF 10 (From left) James Caselton, Rockie Brown, Alfonso Bernal.

Rockie’s Road

A new release and kickoff party mark a crucial moment for The Rockie Brown Band By John Katsilometes

That dedication shows onstage, where Brown (a Vegas native) has fine-tuned her act at such haunts as the Sand Dollar Lounge and T Spot at Tuscany Suites. Her three-piece still plays at the 23rd-level bar at Mandarin Oriental each Saturday. These songs have punch, always. Those who have tracked Brown since she started performing with a simple rhythm section in 2011 have picked three or four songs from her current setlist and new album that could be radio hits—if radio hits remain a goal of rising bands today. “Meet Me on the Dance Floor” is one in particular that hooks Brown’s audiences, and on this night is one of many highlights. “Just Friends” and “Brand New Day” are others that could fall in line on Mix 94.1-FM. Monday’s show is further boosted by appearances by trumpet great David Perrico, and a visit from the man who always brings the party, Chris Phillips of Zowie Bowie. The horn section and backing dancers Jessenia Paz (who, along with

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Her voice trails off, and it’s so obviGonzales and Tubb, back Matt Goss at ous that The Rockie Brown Band is a Caesars Palace) and Angela Jadyn (a collective where every member has friend of Brown’s since the two were equal say in the band’s decisions. children) move in symmetry, and “We have a 10-piece band, and we’re Brown simply inhabits every song. By all 10-percent holders of the band,” the end, the crowd seems ready for Brown says. “We’ve talked about it, another set—and they get one, from and we want to get a tenacious manthe Funk Jam, another band favored ager onboard to see where it goes. by late-night Vegas music fans. We have a very unique path. It’s not a Afterward I catch Brown backnormal rock-band path.” stage. She’s holding the trappings of a Certainly that’s true. Normal rock successful debut party: a setlist, a botbands play regular shows tle of water, her smartphone, and have, maybe, an idea of a note listing the people to The Next Big Thing. But not thank from the stage and a THE ROCKIE Brown, who seems unfetdozen yellow roses. BROWN BAND tered by it all. “I haven’t What’s next, Rockie? Not Performs even been writing recently, an easy question. This band is Saturdays because I’ve been planning so organic in its structure that at Mandarin this event,” she says. “It’s it doesn’t have the hint of a Oriental. New been an incredible amount of blueprint for how to become album available work. It’s like I’m planning a rich and famous. “I have no at cdbaby.com. wedding. Look, I’ve got flowidea. Everything was leaders and everything.” ing up to this,” Brown says. With that, Rockie Brown makes “You know, I’ve kind of been exploring her way back to the dancefloor. There something in Europe, and I’ll see what are fans to thank, and, somewhere out kind of music options are over there. there, a future to chart. That’s kind of in the works …”

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The latenight shows, high in volume and often heavy in smoke, have led to this: a latenight show on the Strip, a venue brimming with groovers and Rockie Brown’s 10-piece band sending waves of rock through the room. The Rockie Brown Band is trumpeting—for real, with its blazing horn section—the release of its debut CD. The title is A Brand New Day, and on this brand-new night the band is powering through a 90-minute set at Hard Rock Live. The event draws a couple hundred fans who made the trek to Hard Rock Cafe for a show starting at 9:30 on a Monday night. These friends, family members and supporters include Brown’s mother, Judy, who might have missed a gig over the past four years but I can’t recall when that would have been. They are in a party mode, and Brown delivers with a tight, choreographed set filled with original cuts from the new album. “Let’s get goin’, sugahs!” is how Brown addresses the audience. “You ready to dance or what!?” The Brown sound is never easy to pinpoint, which has become a trait of many top Vegas live acts. The Rockie Brown Band hearkens to a more robust version of Earth Wind & Fire, at times. You feel some Fifth Dimension, early Chicago, with Brown rekindling the voice of Amy Winehouse or Lauryn Hill. Brown’s artistic collaborator is guitarist James Caselton. Filling out the current lineup are Tony Carboney (guitar/keys), Alfonso “Cito” Bernal (bass), Nick Kittle (drums), Michael Gonzalez (keyboard), Eddie Rich (tenor and baritone saxophone/ flute), Rob Stone (alto and tenor saxophone), Isaac Tubb (trumpet/ flugelhorn) and Kevin Mullinax (trombone). Impressively, the band members, to a person, do not consider the group a mere side gig—though they all have music interests outside The Rockie Brown Band. Commonly, the musicians say performing and recording with Brown is their primary artistic passion.

A&E | fine art

A Signature work

> BODIES AND SPACE Nicole Langille describes her work as an imperfect perfect.

Luis Varela-Rico’s public sculpture will represent Las Vegas’ native culture

‘Form and thought’

Foreign Bodies draws the viewer into the artist’s process and sense of physicality By Kristen Peterson What stands out significantly in Foreign Bodies, a new show at Satellite Contemporary featuring work by co-owner Nicole Langille, is the presence and process of the artist. Her imprint on the personal fabrication of works using residual materials from her studio is as strong as the aftermath of a semi-performative piece in which the artist stood on a stepladder and blew graphite onto a portion of the wall, leaving behind the prop, marks from the dust and a slender and shiny pile along the floor. Langille’s art is physical. As someone who oscilIn “with/without,” two rectangle shapes visually akin lates between drawing, painting, sculpture and perforto one another hang side-by-side as two bodies, sepamance, her sculptural works might resemble drawings, rated. A small piece installed at six feet, six inches is a and her drawings have sculptural depth. In Foreign memorial to a friend who committed suicide in Bodies, the three-dimensional works can end September and stood at that height. Material is at their individual borders or continue into the negative space of the white wall. Relying FOREIGN BODIES everything here. That—and by association, process—has on the wall to be complete, the works— Through December one of which is stapled directly to it—are 11; Thursday-Sunday, always maintained a privileged position in her work, Langille says. Since her undergradudelicate, even when conceptually forceful. 6-8 p.m. Satellite ate days in the sculpture program at Boston Gravity and weight play into the exhibit, and Contemporary University, she’s been motivated by physicality, a the acknowledgment of Robert Morris and inside Emergency tangible expression of presence and of the body. Eva Hesse is conscious. Arts, 520 Fremont Her work comes out of mistakes and errors in Strips of latex on muslin are knotted into a Street, satellitecon the studio, leading to new ideas—a process that net and tacked to the wall, a piece engineered temporary.com. opens a mercurial nature in her work. to sag into itself. A dense “ribbon of latex,” Demonstrating entropy, failure, lack and delicacy, created by pouring paint onto bubble wrap, hangs with her work falls into what she describes as an imperfect heft from a horizontally placed cardboard tube susperfect, the aesthetic of wabi-sabi. Or, as she sums up in pended from thin muslin cords, with entropy playing a an artist statement: “They conspicuously circumscribe role. Her work, Langille says, has always been about the a lack or void while being complete, circling a center of idea of the body, “this concept of the physicality of body form and thought.” in space and moving through space.”

A proposed 17-by-17-foot minimalist sculpture representing native culture has been approved for the Arts District’s Main Street signature project, giving a high-profile nod to the area’s Paiute Tribe. Designed by Las Vegas artist Luis Varela-Rico, who desired to see a sculpture in the area that wouldn’t fall into the same Vegas themes or recurring Downtown motifs, the piece titled “Radial Symmetry” was approved by the Arts Commission after Varela-Rico and two other artists/groups presented proposals for the $246,000 art project that folds into the $40 million Main Street Improvement Project. Varela-Rico, who has exhibited his large-scale steel works at Brett Wesley Gallery and the Clark County Government Center, as well as outside Arts District businesses (his metal origami sculptures were hung guerrilla-style), says he wanted to create a work representing the past and present of Las Vegas’ native culture in a contemporary light. The pieces continue his process of forming works from sheet metal aligned and spaced to create a three-dimensional body. His “Organic Study No. 1” at the Government Center was an 8-by-4-foot hanging sculpture of an outstretched hand, formed by rows of individually suspended metal sheets. Referencing two Paiute baskets, “Radial Symmetry” will have the two large rounded forms leaning on each other and—pending a contract with the city—will stand at Garces Avenue where Main and Commerce intersect. The work is slated to be installed in December 2016. Las Vegas Paiute Tribe member and contemporary artist Fawn Douglas says she’s honored that an artist would pay homage to the original inhabitants of Las Vegas. “So often we are forgotten. [He] created a work that represents inspiration and hope, serving as a symbol not only for Native peoples’ leaning on each other for support, but for all of us as a community to support each other.” –Kristen Peterson

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A&E | stage

> CHAIR FORCE An unnamed woman struggles to balance drone piloting and home life.

Flight of fancy

Mindy Woodhead masterfully loses her grip in Cockroach’s Grounded By Jacob Coakley

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mentary to her monologue, and In this day and age, Las Vegas she delivers a nervy, uncanny peris known for a few things: casinos, formance of a person unmoored, craziness and Creech. The drone increasingly lost to themselves capital of the world lives just a few and others, yet searching for a miles north, and as America’s nevway back with the same intensity er-ending war on terror continues, with which she took to the skies. so do the drone attacks. She slowly drowns in inexplicable Cockroach Theatre’s Grounded, emotion, not knowing how to find a one-woman show written by her way out—and clinging desperGeorge Brant and playing at Art ately to the lodestones she finds. Square, examines the psychologiThe production itself is a cal toll of constant surveillance fairly straightforward morality and at-a-distance warfare through play, shot through with the story of an unnamed splashes of imagistic “Woman.” A former poetry, and Cockroach’s fighter pilot, now mem- aaaac version finds that poetber of the “U.S. Chair Grounded ry on the technical side Force,” she struggles in December 3, of things as well. Oldher new role as a drone 5, 10-12, 8 p.m.; fashioned scenic elepilot and attempts to December 6 ments are utilized, along create some separation & 13, 2 p.m.; with high-tech video between her combat life $16-$20. Art and looping audio, plus and her home life—now Square Theatre, an evocative, saturated too uncomfortably close. cockroach lighting design. Though Mindy Woodhead theatre.com. it becomes a little too plays “Woman” with all busy, I don’t begrudge any lightthe swagger and emotional liming designer for not wanting to iters commonly found in fighter be penned in by the gray world pilots. She searches for her identithat takes over the main characty now that she’s no longer a pilot ter. This is as an accomplished in the big blue, the only place she production on all levels, guided truly feels alive. Woodhead doesn’t in well by director Andrew Paul. track you through this emotionIn the end, as Woodhead lets her al journey exactly—because her hair down and goes full gorgon, character doesn’t have the ability she affixes us all with a judgmento cope with it exactly—but all of tal stare—and the fevered, accusit is riveting. The intense physicaling look on her face is enough to ity of her performance speaks a turn you to stone. vocabulary separate but comple-

A&E | scene

> new headquarters The LA Renegades’ gamer residency could help Downtown Grand become a true eSports destination.

Legends of the Game

Downtown Grand takes the first step toward becoming an eSports destination By Jason Harris

Here was the bulk of my knowledge about video-game tournaments before Saturday: 1. If you were in a Tecmo Bowl tournament you weren’t allowed to play as the Raiders, because Bo Jackson was unstoppable. 2. The character Jimmy Woods was likely somewhere on the autism spectrum but was able to express his genius by dominating Super Mario Bros. 3 in the film The Wizard. I learned a lot about the world of eSports at the Downtown Grand this past weekend, when the hotel hosted the official viewing party for Intel Extreme Masters, a major event featuring the world’s best players of the games Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and League of Legends. I spent a portion of my time watching a CS:GO matchup between the Brazilian

team Luminosity and the European team NaVi. Frank Villarreal, one of the owners of the Enemy (NME) eSports team and still in his early 20s, was my guide, explaining the action as it happened. CS:GO is a first-person shooter game in which you stalk your opponents through different settings. The first team to win 16 rounds wins the match, but teams switch sides after 15 rounds—like halftime—because the first position is advantageous. While all involved at the Grand admitted they were hoping for a larger crowd on Saturday, the weekend was only a signal of things to come, according to chairman Seth Schorr. “It’s our desire at the Downtown Grand to become the premiere video game and eSports destination, which

is really something that doesn’t exist today—a 365-days-a-year destination for video-game enthusiasts.” That’s why eSports team the LA Renegades currently has a residency at the Grand, complete with a private practice room. Schorr’s plans also include teaming up with Turner Broadcasting’s new eSports league and a concept to remake one of the property’s restaurants into an eSports bar and lounge. Whether or not those elements can capture the crowd addicted to watching people play video games on sites like twitch.tv remains to be seen. But one thing is for sure: If Jimmy Woods was playing as Bo Jackson, there’d be no doubt as to the identity of the best CS:GO player in the world.

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Pancho’s es su casa Cozy Californian Mexican food lands at Downtown Summerlin By Brock Radke mentary salsa has an unexpected kick and serves as Downtown Summerlin has grown into a a nice complement to appetizer dishes like cuminvery well-balanced casual dining destinaladen albondigas soup ($7.95), crispy taquitos doration. There’s a great American steakhouse dos ($12.95) filled with shredded beef or chicken, or (Andiron) and a solid Brazilian one (Fogo de Chão). a unique take on queso fundido ($14.95) laced with There are neighborhood favorites with new locacream cheese, artichoke hearts and jalations like Grape Street and Sushi Loca and peños. Little differences go a long way; popular familiars like Shake Shack, Red also consider a salad of mixed greens Robin, Capriotti’s and Five Guys. It’s still PANCHO’S with sautéed shrimp, mango, jicama, a mall, but one with a Wolfgang Puck Bar Downtown roasted pumpkin seeds and cotija cheese & Grill and a Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken. Summerlin, in a citrus-honey vinaigrette. And now it isn’t missing a Mexican 702-982-0111. All the Mexican-American foods restaurant. Pancho’s, a Manhattan Beach, Monday-Thursday, you’re used to are here, from quesadilCalifornia, institution since 1945, has 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; las and tostadas to enchiladas and tacos. opened in the southwest corner of the Friday & Saturday, And feel free to combo-plate it up— sprawling complex, near the Trader Joe’s. 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m.; Pancho’s combinacion especial ($16.95) It doesn’t look like much from outside, but Sunday, 10 a.m.assembles a beef taco, cheese enchiinside it’s a kinda-kitschy, quite lovely and 9:30 p.m. lada and chile relleno. A wide range large hacienda with an expansive cantina, of tacos is available, from corn tortillas filled a second-story dining space, Tiffany-style chanwith lobster ($20.95) to Tijuana-style al pastor deliers, stained glass, fountains and lots of plants ($14.95). Shrimp diabla puffy tacos ($18.95) use and flowers. Pancho’s is likely the family-friendliest fried flour tortillas. There’s even a burrito/cheesrestaurant at this mall. esteak hybrid. Why not? Don’t take that to mean the food is bland or Pancho’s efficient kitchen shines most when you caters to the lowest common denominator. Prices order one of its specialty entrées. There’s chicken are generally a few dollars more than your neighin traditional mole Poblano or mole verde, and borhood beans-and-rice combo-plate fave, but porthen there’s the oddly wonderful chicken Pipian tions and flavors reflect the upgrade. The compli-

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($16.95), a pumpkin-based sauce with a multitude of balanced spices resembling an Indian curry. Tinga Poblana ($17.95) offers slow-roasted pork with chiles, tomatoes and herbs, and Pancho’s stellar take on birria ($17.95)—beef, not the traditional goat—is tender and rich from a deep, long simmer with guajillo chiles. For dessert, deep-fried ice cream ($6.95) reminds me of childhood meals in West Coast Mexican restaurants like El Torito, with its crispy cornflake coating, cinnamon-caramel sauce and whipped cream. If you have fond recollections of such an experience, Pancho’s is exactly that place. Welcome back.

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> PERFECT PAIRING Pick up a sweet or savory hand pie with your coffee.

BITE NOW: HAND PIES AT MOTHERSHIP ROASTERS

You’ve probably heard about the excellent coffee options at Mothership Roasters, sister shop to Valley favorite Sunrise Coffee. What you might not be aware of are the assorted baked goodies you can get to accompany your beverage. Two of the more intriguing options are variations on traMOTHERSHIP ditional hand pies, made fresh ROASTERS every morning and usually sold 2708 N. Green out by afternoon. Valley Parkway, There’s both a sweet and a 702-456-1869. savory option, each $4. My favor- Tuesdayite is the former, recently featuring a filling of little chunks of butternut squash, sage, fennel, rosemary and Saturday, 8 a.m.red onion. It’s a hearty dish that packs a lot of flavor. The filling will delight vegetarians, and meat eaters 6 p.m.; Sunday should be satisfied, too, by the bulk and the chew. The sprinkling of salt on top accentuates everything. & Monday, On my visit, the sweet hand pie was plum compote with brown sugar. It’s neither too sweet nor too tart. 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Are you looking for lunch or dessert, or both? ¶ As the weather changes, so will the pies, based on whatever ingredients are in season. For now, these are two comfort items perfect for fall. –Jason Harris

PHOTOGRAPHS BY STEVE MARCUS

1 oz. Botran Reserva Rum 1 oz. Luxardo Amaretto 1 oz. espresso shot Coffee bean and Fresh Origins Micro Orchid (garnish)

METHOD Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, and shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled 7-ounce cocktail coupe glass. Garnish with a coffee bean and a Micro Orchid from Fresh Origins.

The new and improved espresso? Yes. A potential new favorite digestif? Absolutely. The ideal late-afternoon, early-evening pick-me-up? By all means. This drink might just be perfect. Firing on all cylinders, it’s simple but flavorful, rich but palatable, exciting but familiar. El Siglo is Spanish for the century, as in, the drink of the century. It’s really that good.

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

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A&E | Short Takes > guerrilla warfare Rebels prepare for battle in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2.

Special screenings The Metropolitan Opera HD Live 12/2, Berg’s Lulu encore, 6:30 pm, $16$23. 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. RiffTrax Live 12/3, Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny with comedic commentary, 8 pm, $10.50-$12.50. Theaters: COL, ORL, SF, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. Roman Holiday 11/29, 12/1, 12/2, film plus introduction from Turner Classic Movies, 2 & 7 pm, $5-$12.50. Theaters: COL, ORL, SF, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. Sci Fi Center Sun, Doctor Who Night, 6 pm, free. Mon, Cinemondays, 8 pm, free. 5077 Arville St., 855-501-4335, thescificenter. com. Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou Tue, 1 pm, free. 12/1, Christmas in Connecticut (1945). Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702507-3400. The Winter’s Tale 11/30, broadcast of London stage production starring Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench, 7:30 pm, $13-$15. Theaters: COL, SF, SP, VS. Info: fathomevents. com.

New this week Brooklyn aaabc Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen,

Domhnall Gleeson. Directed by John Crowley. 111 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 42. Theaters: AL, BS, COL, DTS, ORL, SC, SF, SP, TS Creed aaabc Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson. Directed by Ryan Coogler. 132 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 41. Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DTS, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX The Good Dinosaur aaacc Voices of Raymond Ochoa, Jack Bright, Frances McDormand. Directed by Peter Sohn. 100 minutes. Rated PG. See review Page 41. Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Trumbo aaacc Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Michael Stuhlbarg. Directed by Jay Roach. 124 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 42. Theaters: COL, ORL, RR, ST, TS, VS Victor Frankenstein aabcc James McAvoy, Daniel Radcliffe, Jessica Brown Findlay. Directed by Paul McGuigan. 109 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 42. Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, 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

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of the characters amount to a grimy, bearded look of concern and a single tossed-off trait. –MD Theaters: FH, GVR, PAL, ST, TS, TX, 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 Bridge of Spies aaabc Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan. Directed by Steven Spielberg. 135 minutes. Rated PG-13. In his fourth film for Spielberg, Hanks plays a lawyer who’s strong-armed into defending an accused Soviet spy (Rylance). Based on actual events, the film unfolds with superb old-school efficiency, and achieves something very difficult: It makes rooting for integrity fun. –MD Theaters: GVR, SC Burnt aabcc Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl. Directed by John Wells. 100 minutes. Rated R. Adam (Cooper) is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict starting over as the executive chef of an upscale London restaurant, but the movie never conveys any kind of anguish over addiction or recovery. Instead it breezes through a predictable plot about a selfabsorbed jerk becoming slightly less self-absorbed. –JB Theaters: VS By the Sea aaccc Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie Pitt, Mélanie Laurent. Directed by Angelina Jolie

Pitt. 132 minutes. Rated R. Jolie and Pitt play an unhappily married couple on vacation in a seaside French town. Although both are beautiful people with impeccable fashion sense, their life is full of ennui. This languid drama influenced by European art movies of the 1960s and ’70s is a deeply felt personal statement with very little to say. –JB Theaters: SC 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: ST 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 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: CH, COL 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: COL, ORL The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 aaacc Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth. Directed by Francis Lawrence. 137 minutes. Rated PG-13. The second part of Mockingjay wraps up the entire four-movie Hunger Games series (based on Suzanne Collins’ dystopian sci-fi novels) in a mostly satisfying way. Although it’s overlong and sometimes oppressively bleak, the movie features some creative action set pieces and surprisingly complex themes about the costs of warfare. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX 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

A&E | Short Takes of life. –JMA Theaters: COL

Theaters

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, TX

(AL) Regal Aliante 7300 Aliante Parkway, North Las Vegas, 702-221-2283 (BS) Regal Boulder Station 4111 Boulder Highway, 702-221-2283 (PAL) Brenden Theatres at the Palms 4321 W. Flamingo Road, 702-5074849 (CAN) Galaxy Cannery 2121 E. Craig Road, North Las Vegas, 702-639-9779

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, CH, COL, FH, PAL, SF, SP, SS, ST, TX, VS

(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

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 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: GVR, PAL, SF, SP, 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: TC, TX Minions aabcc Voices of Pierre Coffin, Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm. Directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda. 91 minutes. Rated PG. In the two animated Despicable Me movies, the little yellow pill-shaped creatures were reliable sources of pratfalls, pranks and puns, but given the task of carrying their own 90-minute feature, they quickly wear out their welcome. It’s just a series of silly set pieces barely held together by a halfformed plot. –JB Theaters: TC The Night Before aabcc Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anthony Mackie. Directed by Jonathan Levine. 101 minutes. Rated R. This Naughty Christmas Comedy lacks the surprise of the very similar A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, and is too limited by its simplistic character arcs. But the actors complement one another well, and their bond gives the movie a dose of good cheer. –JMA Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX Pan aaccc Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund. Directed by Joe Wright. 111 minutes. Rated PG. This Peter Pan

(DTS) Regal Downtown Summerlin 2070 Park Center Drive, 702-221-2283 > holiday cheer Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Mackie in The Night Before.

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: 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 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, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SP, SS, TS, TX 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 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: VS Room aaacc Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen. Directed by Lenny Abrahamson. 118 minutes. Rated R. Emma Donoghue’s acclaimed 2010 novel, about a woman (Larson) and her young son (Tremblay) who’ve spent years held prisoner in a small garden shed, needed a singular directorial vision to work as a film, and it didn’t get it. Still, Larson is terrific, and the scenario’s inherent pathos is off the charts. –MD 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, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX 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: ST 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, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Spotlight aaaac Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams. Directed by Tom McCarthy. 128 minutes. Rated R. Director and co-writer McCarthy’s drama about the Boston Globe reporting on the Catholic Church molestation scandal applies the same meticulous attention to detail as the Globe writers did in their reporting. The stars manage to turn sitting and listening into riveting drama, and the acting is powerful in how subdued it is. –JB Theaters: COL, GVL, DTS, SF, SP, ST, TS, VS 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: VS 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 War Room (Not reviewed) Priscilla Shirer, T.C. Stallings, Karen Abercrombie. Directed by Alex Kendrick. 120 minutes. Rated PG. A couple turns to prayer to save their troubled marriage. Theaters: TC JMA Jeffrey M. Anderson; JB Josh Bell; MD Mike D’Angelo

(FH) Regal Fiesta Henderson 777 W. Lake Mead Parkway, Henderson, 702-221-2283 (GVR) Regal Green Valley Ranch 2300 Paseo Verde Parkway, Henderson, 702-221-2283 (GVL) Galaxy Green Valley Luxury+ 4500 E. Sunset Road, Henderson, 702-442-0244 (ORL) Century Orleans 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., 702-8891220 (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 (SF) Century Santa Fe Station 4949 N. Rancho Drive, 702-655-8178 (SHO) United Artists Showcase 3769 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-221-2283 (SP) Century South Point 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-260-4061 (SC) Century Suncoast 9090 Alta Drive, 702-869-1880 (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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Calendar LISTINGS YOU CAN PLAN YOUR LIFE BY!

> MUSICAL FEAST (Clockwise) Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Nelson and All-4-One are all in town this weekend.

BRACE YOURSELF There are days in Las Vegas where there is simply too much awesome to absorb, and November 27 is one of those days. The Joint’s West Coast Feast (8 p.m., $45-$125) nods to the roots of West Coast hip-hop, with DJ Quik, Tha Dog Pound and Collie Buddz sharing a bill with ’90s melodic-rap thrillers Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. Hearing about the show in a staff meeting, I didn’t hesitate, belting the “bone, bone, bone” intro to megahit “Crossroads.” Born in the ’60s or the ’90s, everyone in the room flashed to Bizzy Bone, Wish Bone, Layzie Bone, Krayzie Bone and Flesh-N-Bone doing their thuggish, ruggish thing. ¶ Celebrating 20 years and anniversary album Twenty+, LA-based R&B smoothies All-4-One are at the Suncoast November 27 and 28 (7:30 p.m., $18-$44). Known best for indestructible ballad “I Swear,” their current sound has pop shimmer and the vocal richness that has always been signature. ¶ And the final flourish comes November 27 to 29 at the South Point, where the twin blond brothers of Nelson perform a spirited tribute to their father, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Ricky Nelson (7:30 p.m., $25-$35). They may have chopped off their mermaid-worthy locks (and ditched the pirouetting bikini girl), but watching Nelson’s nostalgic-cheese-laden old videos makes me long for the heyday of all these bands, when the world just seemed sweeter. –Erin Ryan

LIVE MUSIC T H E ST R I P & N E A R BY Brooklyn Bowl 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. Linq, 702-862-2695. The Colosseum Celine Dion 12/3012/31, 1/2, 1/6, 1/9-1/10, 1/12-1/13, 1/161/17, 2/23-2/24, 2/26-2/27, 3/1-3/2, 3/4-3/5, 3/8-3/9, 3/11-3/12, 5/17-5/18, 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, 4/22-

4/23, 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 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, 702-7915775. Flamingo Olivia Newton-John Thru 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 12/31, 1/1-1/2, 10 pm; 10/21, 9:30 pm. Chad Freeman and Redline 12/3, 10 pm. Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band 12/4-12/6, 10 pm. Locash, Rainey Qualley 12/712/12, 11 pm. Shows $10-$20 after 10 pm unless noted. Treasure Island, 702-894-7722. Hard Rock Live 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 DSB 12/3, 7 pm, $15. Urban Skies A Tribute to Keith Urban 12/4, 8 pm, $12-$15. The Garth Guy: A Tribute to Garth Brooks 12/5, 8 pm, $12-$15. Parkway Drive 12/6, 4:30 pm,

$25. Kamelot, DragonForce 12/7, 7 pm, $22-$25. Eli Young Band 12/10, 8 pm, $21-$30. Sexxy the Show ft. Jennifer Romas 12/11, 7 pm, $20$25. Ramon Ayala ft. Ramon Ayala Jr. 12/12, 8 pm, $35-$60. Falling in Reverse, Atreyu, From Ashes to New, Assuming We Survive 12/19, 5 pm, $23-$26. Noisia 1/1, 10 pm, $15-$20. 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, 5/135/14, $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 pmmidnight, free. Gospel Brunch Sun, 10 am, 1 pm, $60. Mandalay Bay, 702632-7600. The Joint 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 12/11-12/12, 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 2/173/5, 8 pm, $40. Twenty One Pilots 7/15, 7 pm, $43. Hard Rock Hotel, 702693-5222. Mandalay Bay (Events Center) 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) Dead & Company ft. Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, John Mayer, Bob Weir & more 11/27-11/28, 7:30 pm, $46-$91. Andrea Bocelli 12/5, 8 pm, $78-$403. Mötley Crüe, Alice Cooper 12/27, 7 pm, $25-$150. Demi Lovato, Nick Jonas 8/13, 7 pm, $28-$92. 702-8917777. Orleans (Arena) Love Affair Concert ft. Midnight Star, The Emotions, Heatwave, Debra & Ronnie Laws, Jody Watley, Malo, GQ, The Jets, Evelyn King 2/13, 7:30 pm, $30-$79. (Bourbon Street Cabaret) Rowdy McCarran 12/3-12/5, 12/10-12/12, 2 pm, free. Scotty Alexander 12/3-12/5, 12/10-12/12, 9:30 pm, free. Siana King 12/6, 2 pm, free. (Showroom) Josh Turner 12/4-12/5, 8 pm, $55. Charlie Daniels Band 12/11-12/12, 7 pm, $30$55. 702-365-7075. 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 12/27-12/28, 12/30-12/31, 9 pm, $57$180. 702-777-2782. Rí Rá The Black Donnellys John Windsor 11/30 8:45 pm. The American Diddle Idols 11/26, 11/29, 8:45 pm, 11/27-11/28, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. Mandalay Place, 702632-7771. Rockhouse Rockhouse Live Mon, 9 pm, free. Venetian, 702-731-9683. The Sayers Club Plain White T’s 12/31, midnight, $50. Buckin Fridays Fri, 10 pm, $10. SLS, 702-761-7618.

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Stoney’s Rockin’ Country The Cains 11/27. Dancing lessons 7:30 pm. Town Square, 702-435-2855. 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 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. 702-4149000. Vinyl 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. Hard Rock Hotel, 702693-5000. Wynn (Eastside Lounge) Michael Monge Wed & Thu, 9 pm, $10. 702770-7000.

D OW N TOW N Artifice Vegas Jazz Tue, 7 pm, $15. Thursday Request Live First Thu, 10 pm, free. 1025 S. 1st St., Ste. 100., 702-489-6339. Backstage Bar & Billiards The Soft Moon, Close to Modern, DJ Fish, Dark Black 1/27, 8 pm, $10-$12. Mustard Plug, Dan Potthast, The Retrolites, Light Em Up, Dj Jr. Ska Boss 1/29, 8 pm, $11-$13. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Beauty Bar 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 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 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. Fremont Country Club Jingle Bell Ball and Silent Auction 12/6, 6 pm, free. Finch, Souvenirs, Casey Bolles 12/13, 8 pm, $18-$22. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-6601. Fremont Street Experience Downtown Hoedown and Nascar Fanfest ft. Montgomery Gentry, Chris Janson, JT Hodges, Chase Bryant, Jackson Michelson, Tracy Lawrence 12/2, 4:30 pm. (Main Street Stage) Ashley Red 11/26, 10 pm. Spandex Nation 11/27-11/29, 10 pm. 80s Station 11/30, 10 pm. (1st Street Stage) Yellow Brick Road 11/26, 8 pm. Tony Marques 11/2711/28, 8 pm. Alter Ego 12/1, 7 pm; 11/22, 7 pm. Tyler James as Elvis 11/29-11/30, 8 pm. VooDoo Cowboys 12/3, 8 pm. Siana King 12/1, 8 pm. HaleAmano 11/25, 8 pm. (3rd Street Stage) Tony Marques 11/26, 11/28, 7

Calendar pm; 11/30, 7 pm. 80s Station 11/27-11/28, 11 pm. Alter Ego 11/27-11/28, 8 pm; 11/29, 10 pm. Monroy 11/26, 12/1, 10 pm. Shows free unless noted. Downtown Las Vegas, vegasexperience.com. Golden Nugget 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 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 Sexton Blake 11/27, 10 pm. Jared Berry Trio 11/28, 9 pm. JV Allstars 11/2911/30, 9 pm. The Leeroy Jenkins Incident 12/1-12/2, 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) Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band 11/27, 7 pm; 11/28, 6 pm; 11/29, 8:30 pm; $47-$69. Clint Holmes 12/3-12/5 8:30 pm; 12/6 2 pm; $37-$46. 361 Symphony Park Ave., 702-749-2000.

The ’Burbs Cannery Cannery Patrick Puffer Thru 11/28, Wed-Thu, 8:30 pm, free. Patrick Puffer, Clifton James Thru 11/28, Fri-Sat, 7 pm, free. Brett Rigby 12/2-12/19, Wed-Thu, 8:30 pm, free. Brett Rigby, Toto Zara 12/2-12/19, Fri-Sat, 7 pm, free. Luggnutt 12/23-1/2, WedThu, 8:30 pm, free. Luggnutt, Clifton James 12/23-1/2, Fri-Sat, 7 pm, free. 2121 E. Craig Road, 702-507-5700. Elixir Tim Mendoza 11/27. Shaun South 11/28. Music from 8-11 pm, free unless noted. 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, elixirlounge.net. Green Valley Ranch (Grand Events Center) Ronnie Milsap 2/20, 8 pm, $20-$50. (Hanks) Dave Ritz Tue, Thu, 6 pm; Sat, 7 pm. Rick Duarte Wed, 6 pm. Nick Mattera Fri, 6 pm; Sat, 7 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702367-2470. M Resort (M Pavillion) Martin Nievera 12/12, 7 pm, $32-$46. Shows free/drink minimum. M Resort, 800-745-3000. Rampart Casino (Addison’s Lounge) Wes Winters Tue, 6 pm. Mark O’Toole Wed, 6 pm. Shows free unless noted. JW Marriott, 221 N. Rampart Blvd., 702-507-5900. Red Rock (Rocks Lounge) Zowie Bowie Fri, 10 pm. The Dirty Sat, 11 pm, $10. (Onyx) Jared Berry Fri & Sat, 9 pm. The Dirty Sat. 11 pm, $10. (T-Bones) Dave Ritz Wed, 6 pm; Fri, 7 pm. Rick Duarte Thu, 6 pm; Sat, 7 pm. Shows free unless noted. 11011 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-797-7777. Santa Fe Station (Revolver) Bro Country Thu, 8 pm. (4949 Lounge) Jared Berry Thu, 7 pm, free. 4949 N Rancho Drive, 702-658-4900. Sienna Italian Authentic Trattoria Vegas Good Fellas Thu, 7:30 pm. Red Velvet Fri & Sat, 8:30 pm. 9500 Sahara Ave., 702-3603358. South Point Ricky Nelson Remembered ft. Matthew and Gunnar Nelson 11/27-11/29, 7:30 pm, $25. Tony Orlando Christmas Show

12/17-12/20, 7:30 pm, $45. Frankie Avalon 1/15-1/17, 7:30 pm, $45. The McCartney Years 1/29-1/31, 7:30 pm, $25. Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns Mon, 10:30 pm, $5-$10. Dennis Bono Show Thu, 2 pm, free. Wes Winters Fri & Sat, 6 pm, free. Spazmatics Sat, 10:30 pm, $5. 702-797-8005. Suncoast All-4-One 11/27-11/28, 7:30 pm, $18-$44. Trick Pony 12/5, 7:30 pm, $22-$44. The Texas Tenors 12/11-12/13, 7:30 pm, $33$55. Merry Christmas Darling: Carpenter’s Christmas 12/19-12/20, 7:30 pm, $33-$44. The Fab Four 12/26-12/27, 7:30 pm, $33-$55. 9090 Alta Drive, 702-636-7075. Sunset Station (Club Madrid) Yellow Brick Road Fri, 9:30 pm. Zowie Bowie Sat, 10 pm. (Gaudi Bar) Ryan Whyte Maloney, Cali Tucker Fri, Sat, 7 pm. Willplay Sat, 7 pm. (Rosalita’s) Tony Venniro Fri, 7 pm. Peter Love Sat, 7 pm. (Sunset Amphitheater) 1301 W. Sunset Road, 702-547-7777. Texas Station (A-Bar) Darrin Michaels Fri & Sat, 7 pm. (South Padre) VooDoo Band Fri, 9 pm. Yellow Brick Road Sat, 9 pm. 702-6311000.

E v e ry w h e r e E l s e Arizona Charlie’s Boulder (Palace Grand Lounge) Live music Fri & Sat, 9 pm, free. 4575 Boulder Highway, 888-236-9066. Arizona Charlie’s (Naughty Ladies Saloon) Jerry Tiffe Fri, 4 pm. 740 S. Decatur Blvd., 702-258-5200. Boomers Live music Wed, 10 pm, $5-$10. 3200 Sirius Ave., 702-368-1863. Boulder Dam Brewing Thu, 7 pm; Fri & Sat, 8 pm. Shows free unless noted. 453 Nevada Way, Boulder City, 702-243-2739. Boulder Station (Railhead) Carl Palmer 12/4, 8 pm, $8 pm. (Kixx Bar) Reflection Fri & Sat, 8 pm. 702-432-7777. Count’s Vamp’d Sin City Sinners, Doll Skin 11/27, 9:30 pm, free. LA Guns, Chaotic Resemblance 11/28, 9:30 pm, $10-$15. Faster Pussycat 12/5, 9 pm, $10. Adelita’s Way, Bravo Delta, Stoked 12/11, 8:30 pm, $12-$17. Gary Hoey 12/20, 8:30 pm, $18-$22. 6750 W. Sahara, 702-220-8849. Dispensary Lounge Uli Geissendoerfer Trio Fri & Sat, 10 pm. 2451 E. Tropicana, 702-4586343. Dive Bar Midnight Clover, Hyperions Horizon, Adara Rae, The Homewreckers, Sue Falls 11/27, 9 pm. Peligro 11/28, 9 pm, $6. Mr. Scary Chase Grijalva 11/28, 10 pm. Duane Pere’s Gunfight, Sense We Were Kids, Spotted Dick, Jerk 12/4, 9 pm, $10$12. 4110 S. Maryland Parkway., 702-5863483. Eastside Cannery (Marilyn’s Lounge) Claudine Castro Band Mon, 10 pm. Phoenix Wed, 9 pm. Spazmatics Sun, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702-507-5700. Fiesta Rancho (Club Tequila) Sherry Gordy: Take the Stage Thu, 7 pm, $5-$10. (Cabo Lounge) Shows free unless noted. 702-6317000. German American Social Club Vintage Classic Jazz Night Tue, 7 pm, $4. 1110 E. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-649-8503. Milo’s Cellar Live Music Thu, 8 pm, free. 538 Nevada Hwy., 702-293-9540. Ron DeCar’s Event Center 1201 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-453-8451. Sam’s Town Los NiteKings Sun, 7 pm, free. Shows free unless noted. 5111 Boulder Hwy., 702-284-7777.

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Michelle Singleton 12/15-12/20. Tue-Sun, 8:30 pm; Fri & Sat, 10 pm; $30-$45. 702-3695000. MGM Grand (Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club) Eddie Ifft, Kathleen Dunbar, Marc Patrick thru 11/29. Steve McGrew, Sam Fedele, Drew Thomas. 11/30-12/6. Brad Garrett, Cowboy Bill Martin, QUinn Paterson 12/7-12/13. Jay Black, Mitchell Walters, Jodi Miller 12/1412/20. Dark Christmas Day. Nightly, 8 pm, $43-$87. 702-891-7777. Mirage Ray Romano 12/4-12/5, 12/11-12/12, 10 pm, $60. 702-792-7777. Planet Hollywood (Las Vegas Live Comedy Club) Edwin San Juan Nightly, 9 pm, $56-$67, V Theater. (PH Showroom) Jeff Dunham Wed-Sun, 7 pm; Sat-Sun, 4 pm, $72.. (Sin City Theatre) Failure is an Option Nightly, dark Tue-Wed, 5:30 pm, $60. 702234-7469. Sin City Comedy & Burlesque Show Nightly, 8:30 pm, $38-$49. 702-7772782. Quad Jeff Civilico Sat-Mon, Wed-Thu, 4 pm, $39-$50. 888-777-7664. Red Rock (Rocks Lounge) Hal Sparks 1/23, 8 pm, $25-$35. Justin Willman 2/20, 8 pm, $25-$35. 702-797-7777. Rio Eddie Griffin Mon-Thu, 7 pm, $73-$136. 702-777-2782. The Sayers Club (Bonkerz Comedy Club) Thu-Sat 8 pm, $10. SLS, 702-761-7000. South Point Dat Phan 12/26, 7:30 pm, $15. Charlie Murphy 1/8-1/10, 7:30 pm, $30. 702797-8005. Tropicana (The Laugh Factory) Nightly, 8:30 & 10:30 pm, $35-$55. 702-739-2222. Treasure Island Billy Gardell 11/27, 9 pm, $44$72. 702-894-7111.. Venetian Whitney Cummings 11/28, 9:30 pm; 1/2, 8 pm, $50-$118. Lisa Lampanelli 12/26, 8 pm, $50-$118. 702-414-9000.

Performing Arts Christ Church Episcopal Advent-Christmas Recital 12/6, 4 pm, $15. Adam J. Brakel 1/8, 7:30 pm, $15. Hans Uwe Hielscher 2/5, 7:30 pm, $15. David Dorway 4/29, 7:30 pm, $15. 2000 S. Maryland Parkway, sncago.org. Italian American Club 2333 E. Sahara Ave., 702-457-3866. Las Vegas Philharmonic Cabrera Celebrates Sibelius 11/21, 7:30 pm, $26-$96. The Snowman 12/5/12-6, 2 pm; 12/5, 7:30 pm; $26-$96; 12/6, 2 pm, $46-$96. Cabrera Conducts Rachmaninoff 1/9, 7:30 pm, 1/10, 2 pm, $26-$96. Pink Martini 2/6, 7:30 pm, $100-$250. Spotlight Series 2/16, 4/26, 5/3, 7:30 pm, $168. Smith Center, 702-749-2000. Nevada Ballet Theatre 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 11/27-11/28, 8 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 thru 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. (Cabaret Jazz) Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill 2/12-2/14, 8 pm; 2/13-2/14, 3 pm, $34. 702-749-2000. UNLV (Rando-Grillot Recital Hall) Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society: Mozart & Bach 11/29, 3 pm, $15-$20. (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 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, 702-455-7340.

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., 702455-8402. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. National Finals Rodeo Pink Party ft. Josh Thompson 12/7, 10 pm, free. Westgate, 3000 Paradise Rd., 702-732-5111. Opportunity Village’s Great Santa Run 12/5, 10 am, $45 adults, $30 children. Downtown Las Vegas, lasvegassantarun. org. 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. Switch: Trans* Clothing Swap Thu, 5 pm, free. Gay & Lesbian Community Center, 702733-9800. 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. Toys for Tots ft. David Perrico 12/18, 7 pm, $20. Orleans, orleanscasino.com. Windmill Music Club Highway 61 Revisited 12/20, 4 pm, free. Windmill Library, 7060 W Windmill Lane, 702-507-6030.

Sports Cinch Boyd Gaming Chute-Out 12/10-12/12, 2 pm, $50-$110. Orleans, 702-284-7777. Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational 11/26-11/27, noon, $47-$157. Orleans, 702284-7777. National Finals Rodeo 12/3-12/12, 6:45 pm, $58-$232. Thomas & Mack, unlvtickets.com. Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl 12/19, 12:30 pm, $24-$110. Sam Boyd Stadium, unlvtickets.com. UFC: Fight Night ft. Paige VanZant vs. Joanne Calderwood 12/10, $75-$225. Ultimate Fighter Finale 22 12/11, 3:30 pm, $75-$350. Cosmopolitan, cosmopolitanlasvegas.com. UFC 194 12/12, 3:30 pm, $603$1,253. UFC 195 1/2, 3:30 pm, $104-$804, MGM Grand Garden Arena, ticketmaster. com Ultimate Fighter: Team McGregor vs. Team Faber Finale ft. Frankie Edgar vs. Chad Mendes 12/11, $150-$350. UNLV Football San Diego State 11/21, 7:30 pm, $17-$53. Sam Boyd Stadium, unlvtickets.com. WFG Continental Cup of Curling 1/14-1/17, $22. Orleans Arena, orleansarena.com. World Series of Team Roping 12/5-12/8, 9:30 am, price TBA. Orleans, 702-284-7777.

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free will astrology

By Rob Brezsny

ARIES

LEO

SAGITTARIUS

March 21-April 19

July 23-Aug. 22

Nov. 22-Dec. 21

“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange,” wrote novelist Carson McCullers. “As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.” I’m guessing that these days you’re feeling that kind of homesickness, Aries. The people and places that usually comfort you don’t have their customary power. The experiences you typically seek out to strengthen your stability just aren’t having that effect. The proper response is to go in quest of exotic and experimental stimuli. They can provide the grounding you need. They will steady your nerves and bolster your courage.

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted,” wrote Leo author Aldous Huxley. That’s the bad news. The good news is that in the coming weeks you are less likely to take things for granted than you have been in a long time. Happily, it’s not because your familiar pleasures and sources of stability are in jeopardy. Rather, it’s because you have become more deeply connected to the core of your life energy. You have a vivid appreciation of what sustains you. Your assignment: Be alert for the eternal as it wells up out of the mundane.

From the dawn of civilization until 1995, humans cataloged about 900 comets in our solar system. But since then, we have expanded that tally by over 3,000. Most of the recent discoveries have been made not by professional astronomers, but by laypeople, including two 13-year-olds. They have used the Internet to access images from the SOHO satellite placed in orbit by NASA and the European Space Agency. After analyzing the astrological omens, I expect you Sagittarians to enjoy a similar run of amateur success. So trust your rookie instincts. Feed your innocent curiosity. Ride your raw enthusiasm.

TAURUS

VIRGO

CAPRICORN

April 20-May 20

Aug. 23-Sept. 22

Dec. 22-Jan. 19

The Pekingese is a breed of dog that has been around for over 2,000 years. In ancient China, it was beloved by Buddhist monks and emperors’ families. Here’s the legend of its origin: A tiny marmoset and huge lion fell in love with each other, but the contrast in their sizes made union impossible. Then the gods intervened, using magic to make them the same size. Out of the creatures’ consummated passion, the first Pekingese was born. I think this myth can serve as inspiration for you, Taurus. Amazingly, you may soon find a way to blend and even synergize two elements that are ostensibly quite different. Who knows? You may even get some divine help.

In their quest to collect nectar, honeybees are attuned to the importance of proper timing. Even if flowering plants are abundant, the quality and quantity of the nectar that’s available vary with the weather, season and hour of the day. For example, dandelions may offer their peak blessings at 9 a.m., cornflowers in late morning, and clover in midafternoon. I urge you to be equally sensitive to the sources where you can obtain nourishment, Virgo. Arrange your schedule so you consistently seek to gather what you need at the right time and place.

Whether or not you are a student, you will soon be given a final exam. It may not happen in a classroom or require you to write responses to questions. The exam will more likely be administered by life in the course of your daily challenges. The material you’ll be tested on will mostly include the lessons you have been studying since your last birthday. But there will also be at least one subject you’ve been wrestling with since early in your life—maybe even a riddle from before you were born. Since you have free will, you can refuse to take the exam. But I hope you won’t. The more enthusiastic you are about accepting its challenge, the more likely it is that you’ll do well.

GEMINI

LIBRA

AQUARIUS

May 21-June 20

Sept. 23-Oct. 22

Jan. 20-Feb. 18

Author Virginia Woolf wrote this message to a dear ally: “I sincerely hope I’ll never fathom you. You’re mystical, serene, intriguing; you enclose such charm within you. The luster of your presence bewitches me ... the whole thing is splendid and voluptuous and absurd.” I hope you will have good reason to whisper sweet things like that in the coming weeks, Gemini. You’re in the Season of Togetherness, which is a favorable time to seek and cultivate interesting kinds of intimacy. If there is no one to whom you can sincerely deliver a memo like Woolf’s, search for such a person.

Are you willing to dedicate yourself fully to a game whose rules are constantly mutating? Are you resourceful enough to keep playing at a high level even if some of the other players don’t have as much integrity and commitment as you? Do you have confidence in your ability to detect and adjust to ever-shifting alliances? Will the game still engage your interest if you discover that the rewards are different from what you thought they were? If you can answer yes to these questions, by all means jump all the way into the complicated fun!

For $70,000 per night, you can rent the entire country of Liechtenstein for your big party. The price includes the right to rename the streets while you’re there. You can also create a temporary currency with a likeness of you on the bills, have a giant rendition of your favorite image carved into the snow on a mountainside, and preside over a festive medievalstyle parade. Given your current astrological omens, I suggest you consider the possibility. If that’s too extravagant, I hope you will at least gather your legion of best friends for the Blowout Bash of the Decade. It’s time, in my opinion, to explore the mysteries of vivid and vigorous conviviality.

CANCER

SCORPIO

PISCES

June 21-July 22

Oct. 23-Nov. 21

Feb. 19-March 20

Some people are so attached to wearing a favorite ring on one of their fingers that they never take it off. They love the beauty and endearment it evokes. In rare cases, years go by and their ring finger grows thicker. Discomfort sets in. And they can’t remove their precious jewelry with the lubrication provided by a little olive oil or soap and water. They need the assistance of a jeweler who uses a small saw and a protective sheath to cut away the ring. I suspect this may be an apt metaphor for a certain situation in your life. Is it? Do you wonder if you should free yourself from a pretty or sentimental constriction that you have outgrown? If so, get help.

I suspect your body has been unusually healthy and vigorous lately. Is that true? If so, figure out why. Have you been taking better care of yourself? Have there been lucky accidents or serendipitous innovations on which you’ve been capitalizing? Make these new trends a permanent part of your routine. Now I’ll make a similar observation about your psychological well-being. It also seems to have been extra-strong recently. Why? Has your attitude improved in such a way as to generate more positive emotions? Have there been fluky breakthroughs that unleashed unexpected surges of hope and good cheer? Make these new trends a permanent part of your routine.

Are you available to benefit from a thunderbolt healing? Would you consider wading into a maelstrom if you knew it was a breakthrough in disguise? Do you have enough faith to harvest an epiphany that begins as an uproar? Weirdly lucky phenomena like these are on tap if you have the courage to ask for overdue transformations. Your blind spots and sore places are being targeted by life’s fierce tenderness. All you have to do is say, “Yes, I’m ready.”

NoVEMber 26–December 2, 2015 LasVegasWeekly.com

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RYAN PARDEY COVER SHOOT | GREENSPUN MEDIA GROUP STUDIO | NOVEMBER 12, 2015 Flashback to the first 10 years of my life, December to be exact. My parents dressed up my sister and me to get our photo taken with Mr. Claus at the mall. Like the hordes of other children waiting to sit in a stranger’s lap and ask for an abundance of gifts, I always played the part. Fear and joy overloaded my system until I got the free mini candy cane and bolted, dodging crazed grandmas bickering over knit socks. My reaction was similar when I walked into the studio and saw Ryan Pardey in a psycho Santa suit. But I didn’t have to sit on his lap, and after, I bought a whole pack of candy canes to enjoy while looking back through the years of photos my family made me take. –Mikayla Whitmore

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