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Contents 6W as we see it The moral outlier known as Asian jokes. Why the Uber sting wasn’t cool. Details emerge for an expanded Further Future, and Vegas braces for the TV debut of its latest Real World.
12W Feature | reverb is back! The Downtown music fest brings Fremont East an ear party, from Ty Segall & The Muggers to Neon Indian and Melvins. Get to know the touring and local acts making this an auspiscious return.
19W A&E On-the-fly musicals mercy music by corlene byrd; pt’s by L.e. Baskow
and live drunk history at the new Downtown Vegas Improv Festival.
20W POP CULTURE Stealthily
cozy at House of Blues.
28W fine art Eyob Mergia fills the Studio at Sahara West.
30W food & drink Images from the Feast of Friends, and our new Native Brew’s local-beer love. ONLY online Sláinte! Our guide to St. Patty’s debauchery; a chat with mix-master Tony Abou-Ganim about T-Mobile Arena’s beverage program; and a roundup of new products from this year’s Nightclub & Bar convention and trade show, at lasvegasweekly.com.
turning youth on to good music.
22W screen Shameless yuks
Cover
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24W noise City Folk, the new
Melvins by Bill Hughes
project from Vegas’ Brian Havens.
Neon Indian by Steve Mitchell/AP
26W the strip Billy Idol gets
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THE ASIAN CURVE ∑ Of all the tasteless jokes spouted by
TWO SIDES TO THE RIDE Something smells rotten about the Uber sting ∑ Once again the taxi establishment set out to smear Uber and Lyft, and once again it failed. During MAGIC, Bell Transportation hired an undercover agent to solicit illegal cash rides from Uber and Lyft drivers parked outside
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the Las Vegas Convention Center, catching two the first night and eight the next. But is this a widespread problem or deceitful spin? Smells like the latter. If drivers referred the investigator to the app (it’s conveniently unknown how many drivers refused cash), he told them he’d lost his phone and wallet but had cash. In that light, the rides seem compassionate, not corrupt. And though it’s true that off-platform rides disqualify riders from coverage by Uber and Lyft’s insurance, and cheat the companies out of their 20- to 25-percent cuts: 1. Drivers
It’s not because they’ve skirted oppression. Though Asian-American plight doesn’t rival that of black Americans, the experience hasn’t been rosy, either. During the mid1800s, Chinese workers faced abhorrent discrimination on the railroads and in San Francisco during the Gold Rush, and only 70 years ago, more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were imprisoned in internment camps during World War II. And while today’s taunts are seemingly benevolent, even complimentary—what’s so bad about being upwardly mobile and good at math, right?—they’re problematic because they perpetuate the stereotype of a high-achieving “model minority,” a myth that offends other minorities, no doubt, but also troubles
are personally insured, and 2. If the apps lost meaningful revenue from underhanded rides, it seems they—not their competitors—would raise the red flag. And besides, the entire appeal of Uber and Lyft is the ability to request rides and pay within the app. People don’t walk around looking to flag them down. So is this a real problem or an issue invented to shift our attention from Las Vegas cabs, who were found by the Taxicab Authority to overcharge customers $47 million annually? I would say no, and yes. –KT
Asian-Americans because it generalizes a diverse group and minimizes their struggles. Asian-Americans are both whiteand blue-collar workers, outgoing and shy, nerdy and not. They’re as socially varied as any other ethnic group, but you’d never know that by Hollywood portrayals of Asian women as sex symbols or subservient wives, and Asian men as wimps or headband-wearing gang villains, all of whom are targeted by jokes. That skewed representation is upsetting for the same reason it’s upsetting that the Academy’s two-year streak of all-white acting nominations don’t reflect the racial makeup of Hollywood as a whole. It’s not accurate, and it’s not okay. –Kristy Totten
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host Chris Rock at the 2016 Academy Awards, the Asian one stung the most. The Internet exploded in commentary when Rock, decidedly tone-deaf in an otherwise self-aware ceremony that addressed the Oscars’ whiteness, trotted three briefcasecarrying Asian children onstage and introduced them as accountants from the firm that tallies Oscar votes. If the unimaginative nerd stereotype didn’t seal the offense, the child-labor jab did: “If anybody’s upset about that joke, just tweet about it on your
phone that was also made by these kids,” Rock said. Admonishment came swiftly on Twitter, where Fresh Off the Boat actress Constance Wu called his comments “reductive and gross, the antithesis of progress,” and pro basketball player Jeremy Lin said he was “tired of it being ‘cool’ and ‘ok’ to bash Asians.” Variety film critic Justin Chang wondered incredulously if “that appalling joke about Asian kids” had actually happened, and the next day, a Washington Post headline asked, “If the Oscars were all about diversity, why the crude Asian joke?” Awards aside, the incident raises a larger question about race relations in America: Why is it more acceptable to make fun of Asians than other minorities?
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FURTHER INTO THE FUTURE
Improvements and additions abound for the progressive festival Jason Swamy, Further Future’s creative director and co-founder. “We knew there were definitely shortcomings we had to address operationally and production-wise— which we have and then some.” In preparation for a doubled attendance this year (see furtherfuture.com for ticket info), Further Future contracted a handful of companies to run most of the major operations, such as camping, shuttle service and stage production. Swamy also listed off improved amenities, increased shade structures, lockers, free chilled water and more sustainability practices. Organizers also hired local food guru Jolene Mannina to assist in not only ramping up and diversifying the food and beverage program, but
GOING BIG
When seven 20-something “strangers” are being followed by a film crew at a nightclub where they engage in dramatic With a St. Patty’s Day debut, behavior, you can guess what you’re witnessing: a future episode of The Real World. If you frequented Downtown the latest Vegas-based Real throughout fall and winter, you might have encountered the World might already have latest cast—and soon you’ll be able to confirm your suspicions, touched your life as the third season of RW taped in Vegas debuts March 17. I bumped into the housemates one night at off-Strip gay nightclub Share (I remember your man bun, Chris Ammon), where I observed the crew performing the usual antics (coed cat-fight in the bathroom, sh*t-talk sesh at the bar) and caught one to-be star stripping to his skivvies. I chalked it up to the staged RW format, but recently learned it could stem from the season’s twist and the series’ new gimmick—Go Big or Go Home—in which castmates are “tasked with a series of challenging group or individual missions,” like performing at a strip club. He didn’t rip off his Tommy Hilfiger undies, though, so I’ll have to wait and see if MTV sent him, um, packing. –Mark Adams
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FURTHER FUTURE BY MIKAYLA WHITMORE; “HOLY CHEESEBURGER” (TOP) COURTESY, (BOTTOM) BY MIKAYLA WHITMORE
Experimental musicians, meals and booze purchased with a wave of a wristband, public discussions about human progress and morning yoga sessions—last May’s Further Future represented a progressive oasis in the Southern Nevada desert. The cerebral music-and-more festival drew 2,000 attendees, whose experience was mostly a smooth one, though hardly flawless, thanks to a few technical difficulties, half-finished displays and other logistical hitches. After that debut at the Moapa River Indian Reservation (which will host again April 29-May 1), organizers pondered improvements and additions. “We had rigorous and external feedback from our attendees and guests,” says
organizing multiple pop-up dinners and chef demonstrations. And there will be more discussions, lectures and presentations, some centered around virtual reality, artificial intelligence and robotics. Among the speakers booked so far: Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google. Furthermore, the live music/ DJ lineup—which Swamy, a longtime event promoter with Robot Heart, personally curates—handily trumps that of last year’s. Artistically relevant acts like Nicolas Jaar, Caribou, Four Tet, Dixon and Oneohtrix Point Never are unlikely McCarran visitors, but Swamy’s industry relationships meant he and the fest were rejected far less than one might imagine. “There were quite a few artists that couldn’t do it because their music isn’t meant for outdoors or they couldn’t play in the heat,” Swamy says. “It wasn’t, ‘Oh, no, not Vegas.’” The Future is looking bright. –Mike Prevatt
Back in 2012, Las Vegas artist Miguel Rodriguez had a solo exhibit at Trifecta Gallery emphasizing his perception of cultural tropes. Among the works in the show was a 4-foot, three-dimensional cheeseburger centered in a metallic gold starburst designed to suggest divinity—a celebration of and cultural commentary on an All-American motif. Known colloquially as “holy cheeseburger,” its official title “I’d Gladly Pay You Tuesday …” referenced Wimpy from Popeye and the idea of owning something not yet paid for, another American tradition. A year later the sculpture landed in the hands of Arts Factory owner Wes Myles, who bought it for his Bar+Bistro next to Trifecta. Hanging in the restaurant, it became a visual staple. But last month the artist learned of the cheeseburger’s surprising makeover. Its religious starburst had been painted over with a swirled rendition of the British flag to fit in with the space’s new tenant, Crown & Anchor’s Downtown Crown. “I’d Gladly Pay You Tuesday …” had lost its meaning, but nothing could be done. Unless a contract says otherwise, artists who sell their works no longer have a voice in what happens to them. There is the prevailing notion that art collectors must be responsible stewards of the work they own, ensuring its preservation and protection. Myles says he still owns the piece and plans to keep it as-is at the Downtown Crown, whose owners allegedly had no idea it was art, changing it to be a decorative piece accentuating the British theme. Rodriguez, disappointed with the swirls (not rhythmic with the shooting linear stripes of the starburst) says he would have been glad to change it for them had he been asked. –Kristen Peterson
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choly-esque things have a way of When Beach Slang dropped finding me. Maybe I search them out its debut album, The Things and enjoy those themes and I pumWe Do to Find People Who mel myself. I like engaging and meetFeel Like Us, last October, the Philly ing people that are a little more brofoursome had already amassed a ken and flawed—there’s something fanbase on the strength of two prior there I relate to. EPs. A few months later, the band has become one of the most talked-about Tell me about the mixtapes you outfits on the indie circuit, drawing make for your fans. We’re getting comparisons to The Replacements and ready to work on the second one. It’s Jawbreaker and bringing emo-punk sort of paying it forward. Rock ’n’ roll to a new generation of melancholy is a really holy thing, and it’s kids. In anticipation of Beach been everything to me. In my Slang’s headlining set at Las Vegas Weekly’s Saturday Neon BEACH SLANG head, I’m still the kid with the posters on my wall. I really Reverb showcase, we spoke to headlines Neon just want to turn people on to frontman James Alex. Reverb’s Las the records that turned me on. Vegas Weekly People have this idea showcase Is the stage a safe place that when we get older, the Saturday, March for you, even though it can stuff that stressed us out 12 (set time: make you anxious? It is. as teenagers goes away— 1 a.m.) at the I really am an introverted, but you’re in your 40s and Bunkhouse, $15. wallflower kind of person, but still singing about social there’s just something about when we anxiety and the depression that play … I remember reading an intercan come with being an awkward view with Freddie Mercury—he was misfit. Where does that come from? super-quiet and kept to himself, and I had a really bumpy childhood. You then when he performed he was like a learn how to live with things, but god. When we play shows, it’s like, this there’s still scratches that are always is where I have a voice. –Leslie Ventura wrestling under the surface. I’ll just eternally feel like the kid picked last, For more of our interview with Alex, or the adult version of that. visit lasvegasweekly.com. It feels like those sort of melan-
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RIYL: Shannon & The Clams, Burger Records’ roster, SWMRS. First Spin: “Girl Riot” (2015 single).
THE AQUADOLLS Home: Southern California. Sound: Poppy psych-surf-rock with a growing penchant for ’80s synth zaps. Ideal for: Teenage riots full of go-go dancers and teeming moshpits.
ASTRONAUTS, ETC. Home: Oakland. Sound: The smoldering intersection of ’70s soul and modern electro-R&B. Ideal for: Snuggling up by the fire with your beloved or trying to
seduce an elusive crush. RIYL: Steely Dan, TV on the Radio, Toro y Moi. First Spin: “Eye to Eye” (from 2015’s Mind Out Wandering). BABES Home: LA. Sound: A loving, soft-glow homage to Wall of Sound-era girl groups. Ideal for: Anchoring a retro, ’50s and ’60s
> RIDE THE WILD HAZE Alex (second from left) and his Beach Slang mates play their first Vegas show Saturday.
A four-night music festival, staged in the venues of Fremont East, returning this weekend for its 11th edition after a three-year hiatus.
The Bunkhouse, Beauty Bar and Backstage Bar & Billiards are the anchors, with additional shows at 11th Street Records (all-ages), Fremont Country Club (18-andover) and Inspire Theater. Oh, and there’s a comedy showcase at the El Cortez.
We figured someone would ask, so we went down and measured—it took us just nine minutes (and 951 steps) to get from the Bunkhouse at one end to Beauty Bar at the other.
Touring and Vegas-based bands, playing rock, pop, folk, electronic and hip-hop, mainly—most of it with a leftof-center bent. Think indie, before the major labels glommed onto the word.
$50 gets you into everything, all four nights, with most individual shows priced at $15.
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music playlist or the in-store soundtrack of a vintage clothing store. RIYL: Blondie, The Raveonettes, Phil Spector’s production style. First Spin: “ATMO” (from 2014’s Babes EP). COLE BARNSON Home: LA. (Bonus: He graduated from UNLV.) Sound: An ’80s alt-rock mixtape filled with psych-rock, British pop and swooning new wave. Ideal for: Pairing with a John Hughes teen movie marathon. RIYL: Dream Syndicate, Echo & The Bunnymen,
Cold War Kids. First Spin: Toy Bombs’ “Life Is Good” (from 2015’s Toy Bombs EP). BEACH SLANG Home: Philadelphia. Sound: Frayed-at-thecuffs indie rock buoyed by bar-band jangle and scuffed catharsis. Ideal for: Feeling better about your post-quarter-life crisis and reminiscing about ’90s DIY punk house shows. RIYL: The Replacements, Jawbreaker, early Goo Goo Dolls. First Spin: “Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas” (2015’s The Things We
Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us). BIG BUSINESS Home: LA. Sound: A bellowing sonic sludge somewhere between metal, punk and stonerrock Ideal for: Playing at loud volumes to tick off your neighbors. RIYL: Mastodon, Melvins, Baroness. First Spin: “No Vowels” (from 2013’s Battlefields Forever). BLEACHED Home: LA. Sound: California-kissed surfpunk, power-pop and
new wave. Ideal for: Carefree bedroom dance parties or pogoing with your pals at a concert. RIYL: The GoGo’s, Redd Kross, The Muffs. First Spin: “Keep on Keepin’ On” (from 2016’s Welcome the Worms).
tion. Ideal for: Reminding people that not all indie-pop is twee or slight. RIYL: Tegan and Sara, Lily and Madeleine, That Dog. First Spin: “Do You Feel It?” (from 2014’s Committed to the Crime EP).
CHAOS CHAOS Home: Brooklyn via Seattle. Sound: Bubbly indie-pop with whimsical electronic produc-
EL TEN ELEVEN Home: LA. Sound: Mathy instrumentals driven by dual-neck guitar jams, electronic
flourishes and intricate live looping. Ideal for: Getting your dance party on and letting off steam after a tough week at work. RIYL: Pinback, +/-, Minus the Bear. First Spin: “My Only Swerving” (from 2005’s El Ten Eleven). FAILURE MACHINE Home: Reno. Sound: Barnstorming, horn-peppered garage-soul that feels unearthed from a 1965 time capsule. Ideal for: Dressing to the nines and working up a (dignified) sweat Read on for more bands >>
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∑ September 2008: Reverb’s first foray barely resembled future incarnations. “We only had like 30 bands, compared to more than 100 the next time, and we did it like a pub crawl,” co-founder James Woodbridge recalls. “Each night the show started at one venue, then the crowd moved to the next spot.” Acts included Mere Mortals, Dusty Rhodes & The River Band and Denmark’s Turboweekend. –Spencer Patterson
> HEAVEN The Walkmen’s 2010 set remains Neon Reverb’s high watermark.
∑ September 19, 2009: The third
nessed fights at shows, but seeing one involving a show promoter was a first. Along with triumphant performances by ascendant psych-pop/garage acts Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall, it made for a most memorable night. –MP
∑ March 12, 2010: Those 10-act, tworoom bills at the old Aruba were festivals in and of themselves. This one— known as the Rumble—found locals like Mother McKenzie, Hungry Cloud
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on a Friday night. RIYL: Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound, Sam Cooke. First Spin: “Beautiful Scene” (from 2016’s Boy). SAGE FRANCIS Home: Providence, Rhode Island. Sound: Socially conscious hiphop with an emphasis on poetic, literary lyrics and genre-agnostic production. Ideal for: Anyone unafraid of mind-expanding truth bombs and provoking grooves. RIYL: Atmo-
∑ September 15, 2012: Backed by fuzz-rockers Jeff the Brotherhood, a reliably uninhibited Skooners showing and a pristine A Crowd of Small Adventures’ album-release set (for its excellent A Decade in X-Rays). –MP
Finnish band Sinaii, Moonface’s Spencer Krug belted his heart out at Beauty Bar throughout a set focused on that year’s Heartbreaking Bravery LP, all the while pounding a tambourine against his chest. –LV
sic, no-quit Rumble at the Aruba saw local mainstays Black Camaricans, The Lazystars and Twin Brother share stages with noisy Californians Abe Vigoda, Crocodiles and The Soft Pack. Also, a new discovery: Orange County sextet The Steelwells. –SP
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∑ March 21, 2013: Punk label Slovenly
∑ September 19, 2010: Best Reverb
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∑ March 22, 2013: Neon Reverb got Pure Bathing Culture—still one of my favorite festival finds—long before the dreamy Portland band got satelliteradio airplay. –LV
and The Mad Caps complementing invigorating sets from barroom barrelers Henry Clay People and postpunkers Twin Tigers. –MP
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night ever? It certainly had the biggestever headliner: The Walkmen, who augmented their passionate gusto that evening. They had to, following lively
sphere, Public Enemy, Buck 65. First Spin: “Got Up This Morning” (from 2007’s Human the Death Dance). GEMS Home: Washington, D.C. Sound: Ethereal shoegaze and daydreaming dreampop with its head in the clouds. Ideal for: Communing with your inner goth. RIYL: Purity Ring, Cocteau Twins, Beach House. First Spin:
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“Pegasus” (from 2013’s Medusa EP). COLLEEN GREEN Home: LA. Sound: Fuzzedout, empowering indie rock with a decidedly feminist (and ’90s) bent. Ideal for: Assuaging your nostalgia for MTV’s 120 Minutes. RIYL: Speedy Ortiz, Liz Phair, Veruca Salt. First Spin: “I Want to Grow Up” (from 2015’s I Want to Grow Up).
lining Dodos would deliver at the Bunkhouse—and they did—but I didn’t expect to be wowed by two relative unknowns: sublime folk-pop band The Lighthouse and The Whaler and Britrock enthusiasts Lemon Sun. –MP its closest “Coachella moment,” or surprise performance: a feel-good Beauty Bar set by Big Talk—the local rock outfit fronted by Killers drum-
HAUNTED SUMMER Home: LA. Sound: Ghostly, shimmering shoegaze and gothic nightmare-pop. Ideal for: Late-night conspiring and Ouija board exploring with your coven. RIYL: Beach House, Gems, Rilo Kiley. First Spin: “Dawn of the Red” (from 2016 Spirit Guides). JAMES SUPERCAVE Home: LA. Sound: Spiky indie rock with a fine coating of guitar fuzz and psych-pop warping. Ideal for: Overhead music at
Records held a wild Bunkhouse showcase featuring Los Vigilantes and Las Ardillas from Puerto Rico and Acid Baby Jesus from Athens, Greece. It was loud and raw and ended abruptly due to a brawl. –LV
a hip, independent coffeehouse. RIYL: Future Islands, MGMT, Alt-J. First Spin: “The Right Thing” (from 2016’s Better Strange). LA SERA Home: LA. Sound: Burnt-sugar twang-rock with a penchant for Smiths-y guitar jangle. Ideal for: A languid, stoned picnic on a warm summer afternoon. RIYL: The Smiths, the
C86 compilation, Lone Justice. First Spin: “High Notes” (from 2016’s Music for Listening to Music To). LEOPOLD AND HIS FICTION Home: Austin. Sound: Old-fashioned, hot-rodding bluesgarage with a not-sosecret love of screaming proto-heavy metal. Ideal for: Cataloging your collection of 78s or pre-gaming for an
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edition’s visiting performers were regularly outdone by Vegas’ rising indie scene, so I extended an already late night for electro rawkers Afghan Raiders’ ridiculously packed Beauty Bar slot. Sweaty, frenetic, Daft Punkinspired bedlam ensued—and my opinion of the duo changed just like that. –Mike Prevatt
∑ March 24, 2012: The fest staged an all-ages show headlined by dancepop duo Yacht in an alley temporarily dubbed the Junkyard. The turnout wasn’t great, and the set got cut short by a curfew, but organizers earned an A for extra effort. –Leslie Ventura ∑ September 11, 2012: I have wit-
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and getting f*cked up and getting laid. Four years seems like a long And that was an interesting backdrop time between album releasand great fodder to base the album on. es. But that’s how long Alan Palomo, the chief member and lone The melodies on this album are songwriter of Neon Indian, took to really strong. Did they generally tour 2011’s Era Extraña, delve back into come to you quickly? Typically, the DJing and retool his primary band’s songs that come up as the most palelectro-pop sound—which he partly atable, like “Polish Girl,” happened did by fusing the aesthetic of his more in one day, and [single] “Annie” was dance-based musical project, VEGA. no exception. But there was The resulting album, a surplus of material I was VEGA INTL Night School, is editing. Before, it was like, a genre- and mind-bending NEON INDIAN work, Palomo’s diligence headlines Friday, “I wrote 11 songs, I’ve got a record.” This time, since I paying off not just in its freeMarch 11 (set wanted it to be more of a colspirited, montage-like pretime: midnight) lage record, I made as much sentation, but its razor-sharp at Fremont content as possible. Much songwriting. Palomo recently Country Club, like making a film, it [came spoke to us about process. $15, 18-and-over. together] in the editing room. … It was like, “I hate this The “night school” pordemo but I love that bridge, so let’s tion of VEGA INTL Night School put it on another song.” refers to your experiences—and observing those of others—after Have the live shows become the dark. Which revelations and life dance parties a rhythmic album lessons resonated most? The idea of like VEGA INTL would seem to life lessons might be too on the nose promise? I feel like there’s a lot more for the metaphor of Night School— dancing than there ever was. … It’s although it is a truth that you can’t a bigger, busier record, with more write a song to make someone fall in hands on deck, and the live show love with you. Basically, Brooklyn is reflects that. –Mike Prevatt becoming the city of the transplant. People are moving here now right out For more of our interview with of college and haven’t learned to conPalomo, visit lasvegasweekly.com. duct themselves … [They’re] going out
End of Prohibition party. RIYL: Early White Stripes, the heavy side of Led Zeppelin, the wild-andwoolly era of The Stooges. First Spin: “Ain’t No Surprise” (from 2009’s Ain’t No Surprise). MELVINS Home: LA. Sound: Proto-grunge infected with stinging metal riffage, a King Kong-caliber low end and punk’s antago-
nistic spirit. Ideal for: Schooling yourself on where Kurt Cobain and other grunge bands learned their tricks. RIYL: Clutch, Tad, Boris. First Spin: “The War on Wisdom” (from 2012’s Scion A/V Presents: The Bulls & The Bees) MOVING UNITS Home: LA. Sound: Keyboard-smeared
dance-punk driven by unstoppable grooves. Ideal for: Recapturing the halcyon days of the mid-’00s post-punk revival. RIYL: Franz Ferdinand, !!!, The Rapture. First Spin: “Between Us & Them” (from 2004’s Dangerous Dreams). MY BODY SINGS ELECTRIC Home: Denver. Sound: Effervescent indie-rock with an emo-punk edge that’s peppy, not cloying. Ideal for: Letting your hair down and dancing like nobody’s
watching. RIYL: Prehiatus Fall Out Boy, early Panic! At the Disco, Walk the Moon. First Spin: “Keep It Simple, Stupid” (from 2014’s Part 1: The Night Ends). THE MYNABIRDS Home: LA. Sound: Regal, well-constructed indie-pop grounded in electro programming. Ideal for: Anyone who
digs Lana Del Rey’s vibe but not her execution. RIYL: Bat for Lashes, Wye Oak, Goldfrapp. First Spin: “Wildire” (from 2015’s Lovers Know). NEON INDIAN Home: Brooklyn via Austin. Sound: Next-level synth-pop enamored with sultry disco, phase-shifted house and quick-cut samples. Ideal for:
Saturday nights full of bad decisions and overindulgences. RIYL: Early Daft Punk, Simian Mobile Disco, Pet Shop Boys. First Spin: “Slumlord” (from 2015’s VEGA INTL Night School). OPEN MIKE EAGLE Home: LA via Chicago. Sound: Kaleidoscopic, DIY hip-hop with equal parts humor and social commentary. Ideal for: Those looking for a textbook example of how a talented emcee operates. RIYL: Anderson .Paak, Busdriver, Wait, there’s more? Yep >>
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Rising from the wake of hardcore outfit Caravels, this quartet utilizes lo-fi pop hooks and grungy effect pedals in the tastiest way possible.
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Two ex-Holding Onto Sound’ers filled the void with this angrier, faster punk trio.
Missing Kid Meets Cougar? Catch Brett Bolton, half of that duo, run his own projection-mapping, computer-rapping, whiz-kid extravaganza.
If anyone can get a crowd pumped, it’s Rasar Amani and his funky, sharp-dressed, jazzy hip-hop crew.
Backstage Bar & Billiards My Body Sings Electric, 7 p.m. Pet Tigers, 8 p.m. The Mynabirds, 9 p.m. Partybaby, 10 p.m. James Supercave, 11 p.m. Beauty Bar Wizdumb, 7 p.m. Ulysses Diaz, 8 p.m. Snap Murphy, 8:30 p.m. Late for Dinner, 9 p.m. Wheelchair Sports Camp, 10 p.m. Trade Voorhees, 11 p.m. Ekoh, 11:30 p.m. Phil A & Hassan, midnight. Sage Francis, 12:30 a.m. Bunkhouse Saloon Hungry Cloud, 7:30 p.m. Colleen Green, 8 p.m. The Big Friendly Corporation, 9 p.m. Black Camaro, 10 p.m. The Dirty Hooks, 11 p.m. Bleached, midnight. The Mapes, 1 a.m. El Cortez Comedy Reverb ft. Ian Karmel, Andrew Michaan, Jason Harris, Steven Roberts, 8 p.m. Fiesta Room. 11th Street Records Boytoy, 7 p.m. Rudy de Anda, 8 p.m. Janelane, 9 p.m. Friendly Males, 10 p.m. Free, all-ages. Fremont Country Club Totescity, 7 p.m. Kitze + The CPUs, 9 p.m. Chaos Chaos, 10 p.m. Gems, 11 p.m. Neon Indian, midnight. $15-$20, 18+.
SATURDAY, MARCH 12 Frontman John Coulter and his bandmates harness their love for ’90s indie rock, the driving force behind their new self-titled EP. –Leslie Ventura
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PARTYBABY Home: LA. Sound: Loud, sloppy indie rock with punk’s conventionflouting attitude. Ideal for: Low-grade juvenile delinquency. RIYL: Cloud Nothings, Fidlar, Pixies. First Spin: “Your Old Man” (2015 single). CHUCK RAGAN Home: Northern California. Sound: Gruff but deeply felt punk-folk
burnished by fiddle. Ideal for: Growing out your beard, throwing on a flannel and enjoying a Scotch. RIYL: Frank Turner, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Cory Branan. First Spin: “Something May Catch Fire” (from 2013’s Till Midnight). SADGIRL Home: LA. Sound: The collision of no-fi garage,
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surf-punk and indie rock. Ideal for: Comedown music at 3 a.m. when the party’s just about over. RIYL: Ty Segall, Wavves, Jay Reatard. First spin: “Lie Awake” (from 2015’s Sadgirl Vol. One EP).
fuzz-glam. Ideal for: Embracing the chaos inherent in everyday life. RIYL: T. Rex, White Fence, Thee Oh Sees. First Spin: “Breakfast Eggs” (from 2016’s Emotional Mugger).
TY SEGALL & THE MUGGERS Home: LA. Sound: Fractured lo-fi garagerock that veers into psych-pop and
SEGO Home: Mapleton, Utah. Sound: Funky, swerving electrocuted hip-hop and synth-rock. Ideal for: Perfecting your
SUNDAY, MARCH 13 Backstage Bar & Billiards No Red Alice, 7 p.m. The All-Togethers, 7:30 p.m. Paige Overton, 8:30 p.m. Dusty Sunshine, 9 p.m. Jeff Mix & The Songhearts, 10 p.m. Chuck Ragan, 11 p.m. Beauty Bar Kerfoot & Dau, 7 p.m. Sego, 8 p.m. Glass Pools, 9 p.m. Astronauts, Etc., 10 p.m. El Ten Eleven, 11 p.m. Bunkhouse Saloon The American Weather, 7 p.m. Special K, 8 p.m. Headwinds, 9 p.m. Dark Black, 10 p.m. Same Sex Mary, 11 p.m. Ty Segall & The Muggers, midnight. Inspire Theater Astronomar, Teklife vs. Juke Bounce Works vs. Ftwork LV, The Rabbit Hole LV, King, Behind City Lights, Brock G B2B w/Taek 1, 8 p.m. 702-750-0017. Individual shows $15 unless noted.
technique for the Robot. RIYL: Beck, LCD Soundsystem, Robert DeLong. First Spin: “Micky Macali” (from 2015’s Long Long Way From the Fringe). TIJUANA PANTHERS Home: Long Beach. Sound: Surf-garage ideal for a B-movie soundtrack. Ideal for: A beach-party scene in a Frankie Avalon/Annette
Funicello film. RIYL: Los Straitjackets, Man or Astro-Man?, Guantanamo Baywatch. First Spin: “Redheaded Girl” (from 2010’s Max Baker). WHEELCHAIR SPORTS CAMP Home: Denver. Sound: Sample-happy, live-band hip-hop steeped in jazz, funk and soul. Ideal for: Old-school ’heads who’ve become disillusioned with the genre. RIYL: A Tribe Called Quest, KRS-One, flipping the bird to convention. First Spin: “Dance Off” (2014 single).
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Flying Lotus. First Spin: “Celebrity Reduction Prayer” (from 2015’s Persona).
Backstage Bar & Billiards All Night Visitors, 8 p.m. Failure Machine, 9 p.m. On the Other Hand, 10 p.m. Cameron
Calloway, 11 p.m. The Lique, midnight. Open Mike Eagle, 1 a.m. Beauty Bar Juan Caro, 7 p.m. The Quitters, 8 p.m. Sadgirl, 9 p.m. The Astaires, 10 p.m. Haunted Summer, 11 p.m. Tijuana Panthers, midnight. Bunkhouse Saloon DJ Fish, 7 p.m. Good Grief, 8 p.m. The Pluralses, 9 p.m. Fredward, 10 p.m. Leopold and His Fiction, 11 p.m. Mercy Music, midnight. Beach Slang, 1 a.m. 11th Street Records Hektor Rawkerz, 5 p.m. Echo Stains, 6 p.m. The Musket Vine, 7 p.m. No Tides, 8 p.m. Close to Modern, 9 p.m. Moving Units, 10 p.m. $15-$20, all-ages. Fremont Country Club Jacob Savage 7 p.m. Narrowed, 8 p.m. China, 9 p.m. God’s America, 10 p.m. Illicitor, 11 p.m. Big Business, midnight. Melvins, 1 a.m. $15-$20, 18+.
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A handful of Vegas dayclubs flew out of the gates opening the first weekend in March, but the pool-party scene truly heats up this weekend. The granddaddy of them all, Rehab, ramps up with its Spring Breakthemed kickoff, March 11 through April 10 at the Hard Rock Hotel.
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While Disclosure embraces that different beat, different drummer identity in Wild Life—the series has previously featured Sasha, Eats Everything and Justin Martin—don’t assume this week’s edition will be any less of a party. On top of Troxler’s set, Light also welcomes Canadian electro/techno DJ and producer Tiga on the heels of his new album, No Fantasy Required, and, as always, a headlining, crowd-stirring DJ set by Disclosure themselves. Wild Life with Disclosure, Seth Troxler, Tiga, Moon Boots and Brett Rubin at Light at Mandalay Bay, March 12. –Leslie Ventura
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t’s hard to believe Omnia has already been around for a year—it’s celebrating its first anniversary March 11 with a set from Calvin Harris. And yet in some ways, because it has established such a dominant presence in the Las Vegas landscape, it almost feels like Omnia has always been around. The 75,000-square-foot megaclub created by Hakkasan Group at Caesars Palace made an incredible initial impact and never looked back. “We’re coming up to our millionth guest and our first anniversary, and we had such a tremendous first year,” says Sal Wise, the club’s director of marketing. “I think 2016 is where it cements itself in the long lineage of megaclubs that have stood the test of time in this city.”
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The normally chic and ultra-modern lounge was repurposed that night as a neon Wild Wild West, soaked in black light as orange and green stallions and horseshoe decorations hung from the ceiling. All around me, droves of girls in midriff-baring plaid shirts, cowboy hats and Daisy Dukes danced on tables, shimmying and shaking to DJ Stellar’s blaring beats. There was no telling what kind of craziness might ensue, and that’s exactly why XIV has become Hyde’s signature event.
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It’s the kind of party that isn’t for the faint of heart, and it’s as far from your average Netflix-and-chill Sunday as possible. From St. Patrick’s Day bashes to neon fiestas and Candyland-themed parties, XIV pulls out all the stops. And while it’s only a winter and fall occasion in Las Vegas— Hyde Los Angeles kicks off its summer sessions in May— it’ll give you something to look forward to once you’re ready to retire that swimsuit, and when you’re wanting to keep the party rocking all week long. –Leslie Ventura
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the osso buco D’Agnello (braised lamb shank with vegetable stew) and the 12-ounce pounded veal chop parmigiana around your table. Allegro can translate to “cheerful” or “lively,” but it can also mean “merry” or “tipsy.” One late-night (or early-morning) feast here and you’ll understand every aspect of the word. Allegro at Wynn, 702-770-2040; Monday-Friday 5 p.m.6 a.m.; Saturday & Sunday 11 a.m.3 p.m. & 4 p.m.-6 a.m. –Brock Radke
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D RA I ’S 3/10 Justin Credible. 3/11 50 Cent & Jeremih. 3/12 Chris Brown. 3/13 Fabolous. 3/18 Big Sean. 3/19 Trey Songz. 3/20 G-Eazy. 3/24 Esco. 3/26 Chris Brown. 3/27 Yazz. 3/31 Esco. Cromwell, 702-777-3800.
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3/10 Benny Black. 3/11-3/12 DJs Exodus & Mark Stylz. 3/12 GBDC Season Finale with Kirill Was Here, Betches, DJ Exodus. 3/13 DJ b-Radical. 3/14-3/15 DJ Seany Mac. 3/16 DJ Presto One. 3/17 DJ Mark Stylz. 3/18-3/19 DJs Exodus & Mark Stylz. 3/20 DJ Mark Stylz. 3/21-3/22 DJ Seany Mac. 3/23 DJ Presto One. 3/24 Benny Black. 3/25-3/26 DJs Exodus & Mark Stylz. 3/27-3/29 DJ Seany Mac. 3/30 DJ Presto One. 3/31 Benny Black. Palms, 702-942-6832.
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3/10 DJ Seany Mac. 3/11 DJs Sam I Am & Mark Mac. 3/12 DJs Sam I Am & Greg Lopez. 3/14 DJ Sam I Am. 3/15 Kay the Riot. 3/16 DJ Sincere. 3/17 DJ Seany Mac. 3/18 DJs Sam I Am & Mark Mac. 3/19 DJs Sam I Am & Greg Lopez. 3/21 DJ Sam I Am. 3/22 Kay the Riot. 3/23 DJ Sincere. 3/24 Seany Mac. 3/25 DJs Sam I Am & Mark Mac. 3/26 DJs Sam I Am & Greg Lopez. 3/28 DJ Sam I Am. 3/29 Kay the Riot. 3/30 DJ Sincere. 3/31 DJ Seany Mac. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7631.
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M A R Q U E E H A K KASA N 3/10 The Chainsmokers. 3/11 Dada Life. 3/12 Ingrosso. 3/13 Steve Aoki. 3/17 Calvin Harris. 3/18 Lil Jon. 3/19 Tiësto. 3/20 Showtek. 3/24 Lil Jon. 3/25 The Chainsmokers. 3/26 DVBBS. 3/27 Fergie DJ. 3/31 GTA. MGM Grand, 702-891-3838.
H Y D E 3/11 DJ Skratchy. 3/12 Konflikt. 3/15 DJ Karma. 3/16 DJ D-Miles. 3/18 Konflikt. 3/19 Joe Jonas. 3/22 DJ Five. 3/23 DJ D-Miles. 3/25 Joe Maz. 3/26 Travis Barker. 3/29 DJ Ikon. 3/30 DJ D-Miles. Bellagio, 702-693-8700.
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O M N I A 3/11 Calvin Harris. 3/12 Chuckie. 3/15 Nervo. 3/18 Calvin Harris. 3/19 Steve Angello. 3/22 Afrojack. 3/25 Afrojack. 3/26 Showtek. 3/29 Nervo. Caesars Palace, 702-785-6200.
S U R R E N D E R 3/11 Yellow Claw. 3/12 Big Boi. 3/16 Marshmello. 3/18 Marshmello. 3/19 Dillon Francis. 3/23 Skrillex. 3/25 Dillon Francis. 3/26 Flosstradamus. 3/30 DJ Snake. Encore, 702-770-7300.
XS 3/11 Alesso. 3/12 David Guetta. 3/13 Justin Credible. 3/14 Slander. 3/18 Martin Solveig. 3/19 Alesso. 3/20 Eric DLux. 3/21 Diplo. 3/25 David Guetta. 3/26 Zedd. 3/27 DJ Five. 3/28 RL Grime. Encore, 702-770-0097.
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There’s nothing like a Vegas birthday, but we don’t all get to do it this big. Rotterdam-born electronic music producer Oliver Heldens celebrated his 21st birthday about a month late during his Omnia DJ set on March 1. Put your pictures here! Share your most Vegas moments. Bring us behind your scenes. Capture the night with #IndustryWeekly.
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medical devices to combat female “hysteria,” this Tony-nominated comedy by Sarah Ruhl touches on marriage, intimacy—and electricity. March 10-12, 17-19, 8 p.m.; March 13 & 20, 2 p.m.; $21-$24; 18+; Las Vegas Little Theatre.
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cheyenne jackson The singer-songwriter/Broadway actor performs works from new album I’m Blue, Skies and his one-man show, Music of the Mad Men Era. March 11, 7 p.m.; March 12, 6 & 9 p.m.; $39-$65; Smith Center’s Cabaret Jazz.
BRAVE THE SHAVE Bald is beautiful. Lose those locks (and raise some cash) for young cancer patients at Khoury’s, RíRá, Nine Fine Irishmen and the Henderson Events Plaza. March 12, times vary, stbaldricks.org.
SEE BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL The touring fest expands to two days in Las Vegas this year, showcasing short films about action sports, including mountain climbing, kayaking, surfing and skiing. Even if you don’t do these sports, you’ll get stoked. March 10-11, 7 p.m., free, Clark County Library. IN THE NEXT ROOM, OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY Set when vibrators doubled as
GARY CLARK JR. On tour to support last year’s The Story of Sonny Boy Slim—the titular character portrayed by Clark himself in the 2007 film Honeydripper—the Austin guitar prodigy continues to update and blend rock, roots and urban music. With The Shelters, March 12, 9 p.m., $30-$50, Brooklyn Bowl. kid cudi After an impressive first few shows, the Foundry is diversifying and ramping up the schedule. Kid Cudi—who seems to be doing as much movies and TV (he just finished a co-hosting gig on Comedy Bang! Bang!) as music lately—brings his hiphop-meets-alt-rock vibe to SLS Sunday night. March 13, 7 p.m., $50.
Las Vegas samples the national improv scene this weekend with the inaugural Downtown Vegas Improv Festival, featuring acts from Austin, LA, Chicago, Toronto and Downtown beyond. “We wanted to Vegas find some really unique Improv acts,” says producer Festival Maxim Lardent. “We March 11 & 12, have a troupe that shows at 7:30 performs an improvised & 9:30 p.m., comic book. We have $10 show/$30 a version of live drunk fest. Inspire history, improvised Theater, plays and musicals—and downtown our headliner, Jetzo, is vegasimprov something I guarantee fest.com. you haven’t seen before, a father-son duo from a small fishing village in Japan.” In total, 14 troupes will perform in four shows this weekend, Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. inside Inspire Theater. Improv is different each show, and that’s especially true with the fest, as not all troupes will be performing in each show. Smaller troupes will be mixed up with larger troupes like History Under the Influence, which has seven members ... and one drunk guy. But don’t discount the smaller troupes: “We chose Rollin’ in Riches from Santa Monica because it’s just the two of them, but they have the energy of six,” Lardent says. There will also be local troupes performing and classes on Saturday for people who want to try improv—but the variety of artists means audience members can see people performing together for the first time, and maybe never again. “We have some really great teams that are going to be performing, and we hope that this helps put Las Vegas on the map as an improv destination,” Lardent says. “Not just for performers to come here, but in the minds of audience members.” –Jacob Coakley
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You can lead the kids to good music, but can you make them drink? BY SMITH GALTNEY One of my nephews is 14, and for the past two years, he’s visited me for a whole week all by himself. Every time he comes, I get carried away and think, “It is time I help this young lad feel the magic of Prince and Bowie!” And by the end of the trip, he’s played me lots of EDM and fallen asleep during “Space Oddity” and nicely asked if we can stop watching Purple Rain so he can go back to How I Met Your Mother and New Girl. Obviously, I’m gunning for cool uncle/musical sensei status too eagerly. My love of records came from my oldest sister, who played me Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Earth Wind & Fire and Chic and Steely Dan and Off the Wall. (I shudder to think how I’d be had she preferred the Osmonds to the Jacksons.) So when my other sister started having babies, I was poised to return the favor. But my niece quickly became a Disney scholar with Broadway taste, and my oldest nephew and I were too busy trying to beat each other at ping-pong. Their little brother, this 14-year-old, represents my last chance. And there’s definitely a chance. This is a kid who, at the age of 7, spent a whole afternoon staring out the window and singing along to Emmylou Harris. When his mother told me about that, I knew he was “one of us,” but if there’s anything I’ve learned in the past two years, it’s that I have to keep that excitement inside. I can’t run up to him and shout, “You’ve got to hear this! It was one of my favorites in high school and you’re gonna love it!” I tried that with the first (and, I assumed, kid-friendly) They Might Be Giants album, which put him to sleep even faster than “Space Oddity.” Along with keeping my mouth shut, patience is key. The chance of an immediate spiritual experience is slim, but sometimes it clicks in on the second or third play. It happened with a synth-y disco tune called “Mopedbart” by Hubbabubbaklubb, a dance group from Norway. I played it for him on the way to see Jurassic World, and again on the way home, and we haven’t stopped listening to it since.
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(It helps that it’s got a good beat, a catchy “da-dada” refrain, and a singer who keeps saying “fart,” the Norwegian word for “speed.”) Naturally, I get the best results when I’m not even trying. My partner and I were cooking dinner one night, so I put on 1st Wave, the alt-’80s channel on Sirius XM, just to have some music playing. And guess who’s suddenly dancing his butt off to Duran Duran’s “Girls on Film” and The Cure’s “Why Can’t I Be You?” Talk about your proud-uncle moment. I have managed to score one direct hit. Knowing
his love of “Wish You Were Here” (taught him how to play guitar) and “Free Bird” (shut up, Smith, the boy needs his moment), I played him Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain,” one of the greatest guitar solos ever. The moment Eddie Hazel’s first lick flew, my nephew took a sharp breath and said, “Wow,” the way any normal human should. The next morning, he asked, “Can I put some music on the vinyl?” And when he went to the turntable and dropped the needle on “Maggot Brain” all by himself, I knew my work was done.
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Thanks to the rising popularity of releasing entire TV seasons at once, far too many series now resemble long, drawn-out movies, without any sense of episodic storytelling. Netflix dramedy Flaked is one of the worst offenders, taking eight half-hour episodes to tell a meandering, listless story that could easily be told in half the time (or less) in a feature film. Co-created by Will Arnett and Mark Chappell (who also wrote all eight episodes), Flaked stars Arnett as Chip, a supposedly charming slacker in Venice, California, who spends his time bicycling around town, leading Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and being pursued by a seemingly unlimited parade of young, attractive women. One of those women, a waitress aaccc named London FLAKED (Ruth Kearney), Season 1 availkicks off the show’s able March 11 minimal plot, as Chip on Netflix. and his best friend Dennis (David Sullivan) passive-aggressively compete for her affections (while pretending not to). Arnett is good at playing self-absorbed narcissists (as he’s done on fellow Netflix shows Arrested Development and BoJack Horseman), but his conception of Chip is way off, especially when the entitled, inconsiderate character is meant to be sympathetic. Flaked offers up weak jokes and even weaker drama, as later episodes pile on contrived, overwrought plot twists. A feature film version could have tightened up the storytelling—or at least ended sooner. –Josh Bell
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When Cloverfield was released in 2008, it debuted under a cloud of secrecy masterminded by producer J.J. Abrams in a style that he’s often relied on, for projects like Lost, Fringe, Super 8 and Star Trek Into Darkness. For many, seeing Cloverfield was mainly about discovering what the heck the movie even was. But watching the movie again, years removed from its promotional campaign, proves that quality was a higher priority for the filmmakers than marketing. Director Matt Reeves and screenwriter Drew Goddard use the now-tired found-footage format in a clever, effective and consistent way, and they don’t skimp on the action or special effects. This is a monster movie with plenty of encounters with the monster, plus some indelible images (seeing the head of the Statue of Liberty hurtle down a Manhattan street is still chilling) and a capable cast, featuring future stars Lizzy Caplan and T.J. Miller. This week’s equally secretive spinoff 10 Cloverfield Lane has a lot to live up to. –Josh Bell
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Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema 3/13, Spartacus, 12:55 pm, $16-$18. Theaters: COL, SF, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents. com.
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The Phoenix Incident 3/10, UFO documentary, 7:30 pm, $15. Theaters: COL, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.
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Psycho-Pass: The Movie 3/15-3/16, feature film based on anime series, 7 pm, $7.50-$10.75. Theaters: ORL, SF, ST. Info: funimationfilms.com. Saturday Movie Matinee 3/12, Black Mass, 2 pm, free. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400. Sci Fi Center Mon, Cinemondays, 8 pm, free. 3/12, Spider Baby, The Rocky Horror Picture Show with live shadow cast, 8 pm, $10. 5077 Arville St., 855501-4335, thescificenter.com. Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou Tue, 1 pm, free. 3/15, Mister Roberts. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.
New this week 10 Cloverfield Lane (Not reviewed) Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, John Gallagher Jr. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg. 105 minutes. Rated PG-13. A woman is held captive by a survivalist following a serious accident. Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS The Brothers Grimsby aaacc Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Penelope Cruz. Directed by Louis Leterrier. 83 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 22. Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DTS, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS The Perfect Match (Not reviewed) Terrence J, Cassie Ventura, Paula Patton. Directed by Bille Woodruff. 91 minutes. Rated R. A womanizer starts a casual fling and then realizes he wants something more. Theaters: AL, DTS, RP, SP, ST, TS, TX The Young Messiah (Not reviewed) Adam Greaves-Neal, Sean Bean, David Bradley. Directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. 111 minutes. Rated PG-13. Exploring the early life of Jesus Christ, starting at age 7. Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, FH, ORL, PAL, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS
Now playing The Boy and the Beast aabcc Voices of Luci Christian, Eric Vale, John Swasey. Directed by Mamoru Hosoda. 119 minutes. Rated PG-13. This Japanese animated movie awkwardly combines a coming-of-age story with a fantasy adventure, as a young boy travels to an alternate dimension and becomes the apprentice to a beastly martial-arts master. The first half is entertaining, but the second half loses its focus as the boy grows up and returns to the real world. –JB Theaters: SC, TS Deadpool aaacc Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein. Directed by Tim Miller. 108 minutes. Rated R. The long-in-the-works
> End of the World John Gallagher Jr., Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman face the apocalypse in 10 Cloverfield Lane.
movie starring sarcastic, ultraviolent Marvel Comics anti-hero Deadpool (Reynolds) is vulgar, gory and selfaware. In between his dirty jokes and self-referential insults, Deadpool participates in a fairly familiar superhero origin story. Only about half the jokes land, but the enthusiasm of the production makes up for the rest. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Eddie the Eagle aaccc Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Jo Hartley. Directed by Dexter Fletcher. 105 minutes. Rated PG-13. The creators of this heavily fictionalized biopic have molded the underdog sports story of unlikely Olympic ski jumper Michael “Eddie” Edwards (Egerton) into a sappy, contrived, self-consciously wacky family comedy. It’s phonier and more manipulative than the prefab backstory video packages that air during the actual Olympics. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CH, COL, DTS, FH, ORL, PAL, SC, SF Gods of Egypt abccc Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites, Gerard Butler. Directed by Alex Proyas. 127 minutes. Rated PG-13. The gods in Gods of Egypt might as well be superheroes or cyborgs for all their connection to actual mythology, and the movie itself is a cacophony of garish special effects and loud, blustery action. It’s a simple quest story that gets muddled with various side missions and a thoroughly confusing climax. –JB Theaters: AL, CH, DI, FH, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Kung Fu Panda 3 aaacc Voices of Jack Black, Bryan Cranston, J.K. Simmons. Directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni. 95 minutes. Rated PG. This time around, kung fu panda Po (Black) must master the traditional Chinese concept of ch’i in order to take down a mystically powered bad guy. At this point, there’s really nothing new to discover in a KFP movie, but it’s still nice to see old friends every so often. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CH, COL, DI, ORL, RP, SC, SF, SS, TS, TX London Has Fallen abccc Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman. Directed by Babak Najafi. 99 minutes. Rated PG-13. As the lone badass protecting the president from a massive terrorist attack, Butler isn’t funny enough to handle the screenplay’s lame quips, and isn’t relatable in any other way. Otherwise, there’s bad CGI explosions and Oscar-nominated actors with barely any dialogue, as well as Freeman as the vice president. –JMA Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DI, DTS, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SF, SHO,
SP, SS, TS, TX The Mermaid (Not reviewed) Deng Chao, Show Luo, Lin Yun. Directed by Stephen Chow. 94 minutes. Rated R. In Mandarin with English subtitles. A businessman incurs the wrath of mermaids when he disrupts their habitat. Theaters: TS The Other Side of the Door (Not reviewed) Sarah Wayne Callies, Jeremy Sisto, Logan Creran. Directed by Johannes Roberts. 96 minutes. Rated R. Attempting to contact her dead son, a woman inadvertently summons an evil spirit. Theaters: COL, ORL, PAL, SF, SP, SS, TS, TX The Revenant aaacc Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson. Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. 156 minutes. Rated R. DiCaprio makes his bid for Oscar glory as Hugh Glass, a real-life fur trapper and frontier guide who trekked 200 miles across unforgiving terrain when he was left for dead after being mauled by a bear. As a survival tale, it’s gripping entertainment; as a revenge saga, it’s largely empty. –MD Theaters: BS, GVR, ORL, SC, SF, SP Son of Saul aaabc Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn. Directed by László Nemes. 107 minutes. Rated R. In Hungarian, Yiddish and German with English subtitles. Hungarian filmmaker Nemes manages to make the horrors of the Holocaust immediate and visceral again with this haunting Oscar-nominated drama about a Jew forced to aid the Nazis at Auschwitz. Nemes uses a narrow visual focus to place the audience alongside his main character, experiencing the same disorientation and panic. –JB Theaters: SC 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: FH, GVR, ORL, SC, SP, ST Star Wars: The Force Awakens aaabc Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver. Directed by J.J. Abrams. 135 minutes. Rated PG-13. The long-awaited seventh movie in the space-opera series is a carefully crafted brand extension with a familiar story and
some appealing new characters. Everything about it seems calculated to entertain the widest audience possible, and for the most part, it succeeds. –JB Theaters: BS, GVR, SC, TS Triple 9 aaacc Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck, Anthony Mackie. Directed by John Hillcoat. 115 minutes. Rated R. This thriller begins with an exciting, superbly crafted heist sequence, setting up expectations that the rest of the movie mostly fails to meet. There are a lot of shifting alliances and double-crosses among the movie’s cops and criminals, but following the opening sequence, mild interest is the best the movie can manage. –JB Theaters: DI, ORL, PAL, RP, SHO, SP, ST, TS, VS Whiskey Tango Foxtrot aaabc Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman. Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. 105 minutes. Rated R. Fey finds a perfect middle ground between sarcasm and vulnerability as war correspondent Kim Baker, reporting from Afghanistan in the early ’00s. WTF isn’t a political movie, and it smartly balances its wider concerns with Kim’s personal journey, which never comes across as phony or selfimportant. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DTS, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX The Witch aaaac Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie. Directed by Robert Eggers. 90 minutes. Rated R. Set in 1630, Eggers’ Sundance sensation turns the 17th century itself into a place of horror, using archaic dialogue lifted verbatim from historical documents. The film terrifies not with hackneyed jump scares, but with a dark vision of a world so divorced from our own that it might as well be another planet. –MD Theaters: ORL, PAL, ST, TS, VS Zootopia aaabc Voices of Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba. Directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore. 108 minutes. Rated PG. Disney’s latest animated feature is a winning, gorgeously animated story about anthropomorphic animals living in relative harmony in a bustling metropolis. The team-up between a police officer rabbit and a small-time criminal fox provides a thoroughly engaging mystery with some satisfying twists and turns. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS JMA Jeffrey M. Anderson; JB Josh Bell; MD Mike D’Angelo For complete movie listings, visit lasvegasweekly.com/movie-listings.
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Brian Havens is back in town, fronting the rootsy City Folk By Leslie Ventura In the summer of 2012, musician Brian “Buss” Havens packed his bags for Utah, leaving behind his long-standing indie-rock band, The Lazystars, to start anew. “I had a girlfriend of two years, I had a band of five years, I had these things that were, on the surface, pretty cool. But inside I was just sort of melting away,” Havens explains candidly. “It felt like there were some things I needed to explore for myself.” The drummer joined his brother in Boulder, Utah, signing on as a breakfast cook in one of the town’s two restaurants. “I’d never really fried an egg,” Havens laughs. “It all made sense though. In order to let something go, you have to sort of take on a really big challenge in order to keep yourself focused.” Exchanging the fast pace of Vegas for the quiet of Utah, Havens started
with a sound reminiscent of Edward working on new material, amassing Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. And a collection of songs that didn’t see to their credit, the band powered much light beyond the occasional through the set, even though it lost open mic—until now. a guitarist to “different ambitions” Having moved back to Vegas in days before the festival. With Trevor 2015, Havens rekindled some artisLee Johnson filling in, the tic relationships and formed band soldiered through a some new ones, ultimately twangy, effervescent set, the marking the start of his new City Folk musicians meshing so well band, City Folk. At their most with Mizz recent gig, at last month’s Absurd. March it’s doubtful anyone was the wiser. Southwest Tea Fest, Havens 11, 9 p.m., free. The group felt confident looked comfortable playing Artifice, face enough to recently submit the guitar (the former Lazystars book.com/ track “Two Years Ago Since drummer also held down the busshavens. Yesterday” to the 2016 NPR drum seat for The Killers in Music Tiny Desk Contest, their early days). Comprising and the overall goal is to keep grindHavens (guitar/vocals), Caleb Asher ing, eventually hitting the studio and (bass), Milu Angelique (drums), taking City Folk on the road. “I’m Monica Sterling (keys), Reanna such a sucker for getting work done,” Marie (vocals) and Tony DiVincenzo Havens says with a smile. “Sometimes (harmonica), City Folk specializes you just love what you do.” in folky roots-rock and Americana,
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‘Practically naked’ Billy Idol brings wardrobe expectations and an unbridled energy to his House of Blues residency By John katsilometes Even during a phone conversation, you feel Billy Idol is pumping that leather-clad right fist. More, more, more. He’s not to be stopped, the 60-yearold rock star who unleashed a string of hits in the early and mid-1980s that still stand today. Idol effectively name-checks a few of those classics later in the conversation to promote his upcoming House of Blues residency. He sweeps onto the Strip this week with his production, titled Billy Idol: Forever, and it’s reportedly doing brisk sales. He’s back in May, and this week even more shows were added for August, September and October. Some highlights of our chat:
Steve Stevens, too. You have to have great people around you. They get up there with you and make you want to give your all. Steve is that way. I have to give my all when he is onstage with me.
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Early on, did you ever expect to be playing at this stage of your life? Not at all. There was never that type of expectation, that you would be playing after almost 40 years. Everything we have done has been so much in the moment, whether you’re talking about 1982 or 1985 or 1990 or whenever. The fact that we are here all these years later and the songs still resonate with the fans is fantastic to me.
A lot of performers make their money specifically off the technology that produces that sonic range, right? Yeah, basically it’s
The venue you’re playing, House of Blues, does have a kind of underground feel to it, at least for a lot of shows there. Have you found that quality there? Very much so. There isn’t a bad seat in the house, and the fact that there is an intimacy—I love that. I think everybody feels like they’re getting their own personal show, and that’s what you should get in Vegas (laughs), right? You want to feel like you are in your room, naked! This could be a really groundbreaking production. (Laughs) You will be practically naked. I promise.
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What are you listening to now? I listen to a lot of older music, of course. A lot of classic rock, classic reggae. But I also like something like Kendrick Lamar. I can find things in the modern idiom that I kind of like, and I can see what kind of fun they are having today with the sonic range of recorded music today.
boom-boom-boop, boom-boom-boop electronically, and you can perform a whole song over the top of that. The sonic range is so wild. It’s wild what’s going on, and really interesting, but it’s great, too, that we still have a place in the firmament of things. We’re celebrating what we’ve done, in a way, and that’s why we’re playing this Vegas revue.
How can you ensure that someone like yourself is able to properly share the attention and the spotlight with Steve, because he really is a dominant performer? Again, in punk rock it isn’t all about you. It’s much more about you with the other people onstage, about the audience and everyone being together somehow. The fantastic thing about having Steve Stevens as a foil up there is, he can take over if I am even for a second lagging for a little bit. He is always right there, and can take the audience. I saw you in 1982 in Chico, And if he’s feeling like that, I California, at Acker can take the audience. That’s Gymnasium at Chico State why the show moves the way it University. The next time BILLY IDOL: does. That’s an exciting thing. I saw you was in 2010 at FOREVER It gives you a great deal of freethe Pearl at the Palms, March 16-26, dom, and it’s not all on me. 28 years later, and you’d May 4-14, lost none of your energy. August 31What are the songs you How have you been able to September really love to play, regardkeep up your exuberance 10 & October less of their popularity, even throughout your career? 12-22; Wedthose that might not have I think it has a lot to do with nesday, Friday been released as singles? It’s the music, and the intent & Saturday; 7 behind the music. Coming p.m.; $80-$150. always fantastic to play things from punk rock, there is House of Blues, like “Rebel Yell,” or “White Wedding” or “Blue Highway.” a belief that the energy in 702-732-7600. They are just fun songs to play. the music has always got to “Eyes Without a Face,” “Flesh for be fresh and alive. It can never be Fantasy.” … A lot of them are the ones done just by painting by the numthat have really lasted the test of time. bers. No going through the motions There seems to be an inherent fresh... But you’re talking about the White ness built into them. I don’t know if Wedding Tour first, and then 2010—I I’m just being biased or prejudiced can’t even imagine that gap in time. (laughs), but I feel they are particularly fresh songs, still. You still have the great guitarist,
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With content that’s largely traditional and sacred, Eyob Mergia paints his homeland By Dawn-Michelle Baude
The 72 paintings in Eyob Mergia’s The Philosophy of Form and Color are inseparable from the artist’s biography. Mergia grew up in the Ethiopian highlands, studying classical art at the Addis Ababa University School of Fine Arts under instructors trained in the former USSR during the Cold War. After moving to the U.S. in 1997, he briefly continued his art studies in South Dakota, where he encountered Cubism and other modernist tendencies. The educational influences—one toward realism, the other toward abstraction—are tempered by a third: traditional art of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Several works in The Philosophy of Form and Color are overtly religious. The 14-by10-foot painting “Ark of the Covenant” (2007) is assembled from small canvases in the aaccc shape of the ark, a sacred THE object said to have been PHILOSOPHY brought from Jerusalem to OF FORM Axum, where it remains AND COLOR in the possession of Through April the Ethiopian church. 2; MondayMergia’s painting renders Thursday, 10 the ark in an expressionist a.m.-8 p.m.; style emphasizing its reliFriday-Sunday, gious mystery. In anoth10 a.m.-6 p.m. er large work, the mural The Studio at drawing “Genesis” (2011), Sahara West he depicts in charcoal the Library, 702transformation of noth507-6222. ingness into the phenomenal world. Circular forms, standard in Ethiopian religious art, bob from the initial moment of creation through the birth of mankind. Some are faces; some suggest atoms or planets; some turn into eyes; at least one is a womb. Mergia’s preference for traditional content reflects the aesthetic values of Ethiopian reli-
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gious art whose character has altered little over the course of two millennia. His realism, too—whether it’s an expressionist market scene or portrait of a young girl—maintains a traditional, early 20th-century character. The preferred palette, in the colors and hues of his homeland, reads as the historical oranges, blacks and browns of the modernist era. That said, Mergia has several abstract works, such as the canvases assembled in “The Philosophy of Form and Color” (2016)—its circles veering more toward Basquiat than saints—that seem more upto-date. Similarly, “The Spoils of War” (2016), with its abstracted figures and geometric forms, is fresh
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Local cuisine from beyond It’s a Tuesday night, and you’re hunting for a feast in a most unlikely location—near the airport, set way back from Sunset Road, in a corner of a very dark, lonely industrial park. But there’s a fire going, right there in the parking lot, and lamb hanging over that fire. It smells great. Inside, there’s a small gourmet-foods shop with a sizable kitchen, and the kitchen is full of some of this city’s greatest culinary artists. The feast will
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take place shortly in the connected warehouse space, where massive tables are set, a band plays classic rock and two artists are live-painting a mural. There are several event dinners in Las Vegas every week, but this one is special, odd and assembled with a greater purpose. The Feast of Friends, hosted by Artisanal Foods on March 1, sold out its 40-some seats in a matter of days, even though no one who bought a $125 ticket
knew what they’d be eating. They knew the participating chefs—Nicole Brisson, Brian Howard, Geno Bernardo, Jamaal Taherzadeh, Desyree Alberganti and host Johnny Church—and trusted their talent and creativity. That’s why it sold out, and that’s why this feast was created. Because Vegas can do these things. Because we have talent and creativity, and the big-name restaurants on Las Vegas Boulevard represent only the surface of the scene. And it’s time to do some serious scratching. –Brock Radke For more on the Feast of Friends, visit lasvegasweekly.com.
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Overnight success PT’s picked the perfect time to join the local brewing scene
By Brock Radke Our newest local brewery is the furthest possible thing from every other local brewery. It has a name everybody already knows, and it had about 50 local bars clamoring for its craft creations before it brewed a drop. PT’s Brewing Company, which opened in February at the former Tenaya Creek in northwest Las Vegas, is truly one of a kind. Brewmaster Dave Otto— PT’S who’s been doing it longer than BREWING anybody, starting at the city’s COMPANY first microbrewery Holy Cow! 3101 N. 20 years ago before it turned Tenaya Way, into Big Dog’s—is turning out 725-333six new signature brews here, 7151. 24/7. all of which will eventually be served at the various venues of PT’s Entertainment Group, the largest gaming tavern operator in Southern Nevada. “My goal is to max this place out and maybe force the issue of building another building,” Otto says. PT’s has a built-in distribution chain any brewpub would kill for, and that immediately makes this new endeavor one of the strongest operations in the Valley’s burgeoning beer scene. But more importantly, how’s the beer? And what’s the experience like at the brewery itself? If you think of PT’s as just the neighborhood video-poker bar serving icy 25-ounce mugs of light beer, the Tenaya Creek location will surprise you. It’s one of the rare local brewpubs with a real kitchen, and while those classic wings and sliders are avail-
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able, you’ll skip them for giant Bavarian pretzels with beer cheese dip and the hearty “pork ’n beans,” a pile of perfect braised pork shoulder with crispy onions over a country bean stew. “Every part of this menu is made in-house, it will change with the seasons and it is completely different from our tavern menus,” says Corporate Vice President of Food and Beverage Joe Romano. The first batch of brews shows impressive range. The lighter end is the Horizon Ale, a refreshing cream ale, with the heavier end represented by the bold Boulder Stout, nitro-poured to bring out notes of coffee and cocoa, and the Hualapai IPA, an aggressive but maltbalanced hopfest. In the middle is an Irish Red with
pleasant caramel flavors, brewed specifically for PTEG’s Sean Patrick’s Irish pubs. You can taste them all as an $8 flight, or get a pint of your fave for $5-$6. And that’s not even considering happy hour. “Vegas is so far ahead in so many ways, but as far as craft beer, we’re hitting it late,” Romano says, summing up the consensus opinion on the upstart local landscape. “The big thing for us, getting into it at this point, is that we have Dave Otto, the best brewer in the state. We went after the best because we want to give our customers, at [any location], every reason to say, ‘Let’s try this.’” If you’re into local beer, you really have no reason not to.
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Julien Asseo, Restaurant Guy Savoy You’ve been cooking at Restaurant Guy Savoy for four years and recently grabbed the executive chef spot. Congrats! It’s very exciting, and a lot of hard work and dedication that’s paying off. I started here as a sous chef and worked all the stations of the restaurant, and finally became chef de cuisine a little over a year ago. It’s been a really good ride so far.
Guy Savoy? I’m not trying to reinvent the cuisine, of course. That’s the last thing I want to do. My goal is to keep the name, the spirit, the flavor of Guy Savoy, while adapting it to the [demands] of Las Vegas and also getting a little of my style in there. I’m not trying to be a superhero and change a recipe that’s been working for more than 30 years, but in the next few months there will be some new dishes.
It’s one of the top restaurants in the country. Of course you worked for this, but does it seem unreal? It does, a little. It happened very fast, too. But everybody has been very supportive, and I’ve been getting some good feedback, especially from our guests, which at the end of the day is what you do this for. I’m just excited to have Guy Savoy come in April, the man himself, to let me know if I’m doing the job up to his standard and living up to the name. It’s definitely like a dream.
You’re one of the very rare chefs who has worked for both Guy Savoy and Joël Robuchon in Las Vegas. I was there for two years, and yes, there’s not a lot. When I was there I was working with some great chefs who are now holding high positions at the best restaurants in the city, so it’s nice to see that evolution, that we’re doing the work we love at the highest level possible. I’ve found myself in a place where I love working and I love the philosophy here and the vision. If you want to grow, you have to find a place where you feel at home. –Brock Radke
What is your approach to taking control and incorporating your style while staying true to
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Bieber 3/25, 8 pm, $46-$116. 702891-7777. Orleans (Showroom) Creedence Clearwater Revisited 3/19-3/20, 8 pm, $65-$87. (Bourbon Street Cabaret Lounge) In-A-Fect 3/10-3/12, 9 pm. NiteKings 3/16, 4 pm. Jukebox Heroes 3/17-3/19, 9 pm. All Bourbon Street shows free unless noted. (Brendan’s Irish Pub) Machine Gun Kelly’s 3/113/12. Killian’s Angels 3/17-3/19. All Brendan’s Pub shows at 9 pm, free unless noted. 702-284-7777. The Palazzo (Emeril Lagasse’s Table 10) Sound House 3/11. Holes & Hearts 3/12, 3/19. Reagan Capaci 3/18. All Table 10 shows at 7 pm, free. 702607-7777. Palms (Lounge) David Perrico & Pop Strings Orchestra 3/12, 3/26, 11 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702-9427777. Paris (Napoleon’s Lounge) Cook E. Jarr Mon, 6-8 pm, free. 702-946-7000. The Pearl Il Volo 3/25, 8 pm, $40-$95. Palms, 702-942-7777. Planet Hollywood (The Axis) Pitbull 3/12, 3/16, 3/18-3/19, 9 pm, $39-$169. 702-777-2782. The Sayers Club Ashley Red 3/12. Avalon Landing 3/18. Matt Morgan 3/19. All shows 10 pm, free. SLS, 702761-7618. Stoney’s Rockin’ Country Brodie Stewart 3/11. Lucy Angel 3/18. Shows 10 pm, free unless noted. 6611 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-435-2855. Vinyl The English Beat 3/11, 9 pm, $24-$49. Silverstein, Being As An Ocean, Emarosa, Coldrain, Rarity 3/13, 6:30 pm, $17-$35. Nonpoint 3/18, 9 pm, $20-$35. Pryosteria: The Def Leppard Tribute 3/19, 10 pm, free. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5000.
DOWNTOWN Artifice Vegas Jazz Tue, 7 pm, $15. Thursday Request Live First Thu, 10 pm, free. 1025 S. 1st St., Ste. 100., 702489-6339.
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6 pm, $38-$41. 425 Fremont St., 702382-3531. Neon Reverb 3/10-3/13, times & venues vary, $15-$50. Downtown Las Vegas, neonreverb.com. OMD Theater 3 By Design, The 10 Cent Cigars, EMI, Dahteste Wolf 3/12, 8 pm, $10. Come and Rest, Royale 3/16, 8 pm, $10. City Never Sleeps 3/17, 8 pm, $10. Motion Theatre 3/22, 8 pm, $10. Blood Purge, Brace4Impact, Cielo Impuro 3/25, 9 pm, $10. Skyburial, Crown Magnetar 3/27, 7 pm, $10. Jackdevil, Gomorrah, Hemorage 4/5, 9:30 pm, $10. A Night of Metal in Vegas ft. Sugar Bone, Hanover Fiist, Throttlegod, Meade Ave, Geneva Conflict, Late Night Savior, Dethrone the Sovereign 4/9, 6 pm, $10. Saul, MAL, EMI 4/16, 8 pm, $10. Myconith 4/23, 8 pm, $10. Condition Critical, Game Over, Madrost, EMI 4/24, 7 pm, $12. Dreddmaster, Phalloplasty, Spiritual Shepherd, Committal 4/27, 8 pm, $10. Ritual, Voices of Ruin 4/30, 8 pm, $10. The Classic Crime 5/6, 6 pm, $17-$40. 953 E. Sahara Ave., Suite B-30, 702-742-4171. The Smith Center (Cabaret Jazz) Cheyenne Jackson 3/11, 7 pm; 3/12, 6 & 9 pm, $39-$65. Lon Bronson Band 3/19, 8 pm, $15-$35. Frankie Moreno 3/22, 3/29, 8 pm, $25-$35. Tony DeSare 3/25-3/26, 7 pm, $39$49. Serpentine Fire: Earth, Wind & Fire Tribute 3/31, 8 pm, $20-$35. Tizer ft. Karen Briggs 4/1-4/2, 7 pm, $39-$59. (Reynolds Hall) Engelbert Humperdinck 3/19, 7:30 pm, $29$85. Yanni 3/21, 7:30 pm, $29-$99. Kristin Chenoweth 3/25, 7:30 pm, $29-$115. Alan Parsons 3/26, 8 pm, $35-$75. Gershwin: Music of the Jazz Age 4/2, 7:30 pm; 4/3, 2 pm, $26-$96. Chick Corea & Bela Fleck 4/23, 7:30 pm, $29-$59. The Beach Boys 4/30, 7:30 pm, $29-$89. Mariachi Sol de Mexico 5/6, 7:30 pm, $26-$65. (Troesh Studio Theater) Las Vegas Philharmonic Spotlight Series 4/26, 7:30 pm, $168. 361 Symphony Park Ave., 702-749-2000. Vanguard Lounge The Classics with Mr. and Mrs. R 3/14, 10 pm, free. 516 Fremont St., 702-868-7800.
EVERYWHERE ELSE Adrenaline Sports Bar and Grill Smile Empty Soul 3/26, 8 pm, $8-$10. Word in Edgewise, Freeze Warning 4/2, 9 pm, free. 3103 N. Rancho Drive, 702645-4139. Aliante Casino + Hotel + Spa (Access Showroom) Jonathan Butler 3/19, 8 pm, $33-$63. (All-Star Friday Nights) StarOne All-Stars 3/11. Tyriq, Jamestown 3/18. All-Star Friday Nights shows start at 9 pm, $10. 7300 N. Aliante Parkway, North Las Vegas, 702-692-7777. Boomers Reggae Night with ABM 3/12, 10:30 pm, $5. Da MaddHouze Indie Tour ft. Telli Prego, 1Lady, Hugo Monster, Champlu, DJ Loc 3/14, 10 pm, $5. 3200 Sirius Ave., 702-368-1863. Boulder Dam Brewing Wes Williams Band 3/11. Out of the Desert 3/12. Damian Gunn 3/18. All shows 8 pm, free unless noted. 453 Nevada Way, Boulder City, 702-243-2739. CasaBlanca Resort & Casino High Voltage: AC/DC Tribute 3/12, 10 pm, free. Bee Gees Gold 3/19, 8:30 pm, $15-$35. 897 W. Mesquite Blvd, Mesquite, mesquitegaming.com. Count’s Vamp’d Sin City Sinners 3/10,
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Brooklyn Bowl Beck 3/10, 9 pm, $75$125. Catfish John, Flux 3/11, 9 pm, free. Gary Clark Jr., The Shelters 3/12, 9 pm, $30-$50. August Burns Red, Between the Buried and Me, The Faceless, Good Tiger 3/16, 6:30 pm, $25-$45. Mosh Ben Ari 3/17, 9 pm, $40-$45. The String Cheese Incident 3/18-3/20, 9 pm, $60. Alice: A Steampunk Concert Fantasy 3/23, 10 pm, $15-$30. Coheed and Cambria, Glassjaw, I the Mighty, Silver Snakes 3/25, 8 pm, $27-$50. Underoath 3/26, 7:30 pm, $25-$29. Emo Night Brooklyn 3/26, 5/25, 11:30 pm, $8-$10. Greensky Bluegrass 3/31, 8 pm, $22-$25. Bunny Wailer 4/9, 8 pm, $25. Floerty 4/11, 8 pm, $30-$60. M83, Yacht 4/16, 8 pm, $35-$40. The Green, Protoje 4/17, 8:30 pm, $19-$30. CHVRCHES, Wolf Alice 4/21, 9 pm, $25-$60. The Front Bottoms 4/23, 8 pm, $17-$20. Foals 4/24, 8 pm, $22-$25. Chris Robinson Brotherhood 4/25, 8 pm, $20-$40. Linq, 702-862-2695. The Barrymore Kaylie Foster, Andrew Silva 3/12, 6-9 pm, free. Nieve Malandra Thu, 6-9 pm, free. 99 Convention Center Drive, 702407-5303. The Colosseum Celine Dion 3/11-3/12, 7:30 pm, $55-$500. Flatley: Lord of the Dance 3/17, 7:30 pm, $50-$125. Rod Stewart 3/19-3/20, 7:30 pm, $49$250. Caesars Palace, 702-731-7333. The Cosmopolitan (Clique) Jeremy Cornwell 3/10. Clique shows 9 pm, free unless noted. 702-698-7000. Double Barrel Roadhouse (DB Live!) Rowdy McCarran 3/11. Nicole Kerns 3/12, 3/18, 3/19. All shows at 11 pm, free unless noted. Monte Carlo, 702222-7735. Double Down Atomic Fish 3/10, 9 pm. Thee Swank Bastards, Stereo Assault 3/11. The Dirty Panties, The
Kingdoms, Joni’s Agenda, Super Zeroes, Eric “Travis” Wilson 3/12. Uberschall 3/27, midnight. The Rocketz, Jackass, The Hangmen, Blag D, Bubba Zanetti, LVMP, Pleasure Burn, The Returners 4/15. Bargain DJ Collective Mon, 10 pm. Unique Massive Tue, midnight. The Juju Man Wed, midnight. Shows at 10 pm, free unless noted. 640 Paradise Road, 702-791-5775. The Foundry What So Not, Hunter Siegel, Venessa Michaels 3/11, 8 pm, $25-$30. Kid Cudi 3/13, 8 pm, $50. SLS, foundrylv.com. Gilley’s Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band 3/10, 9 pm; 3/11-3/12, 10 pm. Country Nation 3/17, 9 pm; 3/18-3/19, 10 pm. Shows $10-$20 after 10 pm unless noted. Treasure Island, 702-894-7722. Harrah’s (Showroom) The Righteous Brothers Starting 3/23, Wed-Fri, 6 pm; Sat, 7:30 pm, $39-$125. 702-777-2782. House of Blues Biz Markie, 80s Station, Empire Records 3/11, 8 pm, $15-$20. Billy Idol: Forever 3/16, 3/18-3/19, 3/23, 3/25-3/26, 7 pm, $90$150. Original Santana Band 3/21, 8 pm, $30. The Dickies, D.I. 3/30, 8 pm, $13. Tinashe 3/31, 7 pm, $25-$45. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. The Joint Slayer, Testament, Carcass 3/26, 8 pm, $40-$125. Common Kings, Tribal Seeds, Rebel SoulJahz 4/8, 6 pm, $45. Hard Rock Hotel, 702693-5222. Mandalay Bay (Events Center) Ellie Goulding 4/9, 7:30 pm, $36-$55. Pentatonix 4/23, 8 pm, $35-$85. Rihanna, Travis Scott 4/29-4/30, 7:30 pm, $36-$160. (Beach Concert Series) Cole Swindell 4/9, 9 pm, $43. (Rí Rá) The Crooked Jacks 3/10, 3/13, 3/15, 8:45 pm. The Black Donnellys 3/11-3/12, 3/25-3/26, 9 pm; 3/20, 3/22-3/24, 3/27, 3/29-3/31, 8:45 pm. John Windsor 3/14, 3/21, 3/28, 8:45 pm. Rí Rá shows free unless noted. 702-632-7777. MGM Grand (Garden Arena) Justin
Backstage Bar & Billiards Redfoo, Snap Murphy, Ulysses, Jackie G, Charlie Madness, Anglo Sax 3/15, 8 pm, $15-$20. Iya Terra, ST1, Greg Joseph Project, Los Ataskados, Gnashing 3/16, 7 pm, $10. Red Fang, Golden Void 4/7, 7 pm, $14-$16. Unwritten Law, Fenix TX, Guilty By Association, Rayner, Leatherbound Crooks 4/13, 8 pm, $13-$16. Violent J, Nova Rockafeller 4/23, 7 pm, $15-$20. Sticky Fingers, Bootleg Rascal 5/20, 8 pm, $12-$15. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Beauty Bar The Other, The B Movie Monsters, Dead at Midnite, Orwell’s Nightmare, Scarlet Harlot 3/16, 8 pm, free. Calyx & Teebee, Delta Heavy, Mefjus, Madam Filth 3/22, 9 pm, $10. The Two Tens 3/23, 8 pm, free. LA Witch, Dirty Ghosts, Candy Warpop 3/25, 9 pm, $5. Swami John Reis, The Blind Shake 4/7, 8 pm, $10-$12. The Rocket Summer 5/6, 8 pm, $12-$15. A Wilhelm Scream, Heartsounds, Hard Pipe Hitters, Illicitor 5/9, 8 pm, $12$15. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. Bunkhouse Saloon Yuck 3/22, 9 pm, $10-$12. LA Luz, Stonefield, No Tides 3/23, $10. Assuming We Survive, Amarionette, Ambush Americana 3/26, 9 pm, $5. Mark Huff, Bryan McPherson 3/31, 8 pm, $5. Moksha 4/1, 8 pm, $10. Guantanamo Baywatch, The Gooch Palms 4/2, 9 pm, $10. Geographer, The Crookes, Glass Pools 4/5, 8 pm, $8-$10. Sheer Mag 4/20, 9 pm, $10-$12. 124 S. 11th St., 702-854-1414. Fremont Street Experience Live music nightly. Shows free unless noted. Downtown Las Vegas, vegasexperience.com. Golden Nugget (Gordie Brown Showroom) America 3/11, $32-$217. Eddie Money 3/18, $32-$108. Pam Tillis, Lorrie Morgan 3/25, $32-$119. Little Texas 4/1, $21-$108. Grand Funk Railroad 4/8, $32-$141. Richard Marx 4/15, $21-$108. Taylor Dane 4/22, $21-$141. Atlanta Rhythm Section 4/29, $21-$108. All shows 8 pm. 129 E. Fremont St., 866-946-5336. Griffin The Blind Pets, No Tides 3/30, 10 pm, free. Live music Wed, 10 pm, free. 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577. Hard Hat Lounge Super Zeroes, Kreepmyme 3/11, 9 pm. Gloom Bloom, Echo Stains, Kurumpaw 3/12, 9 pm. Earthbound Collective 3/13, 7 pm. O Wildly, Cherrys 3/20, 8 pm. Suffer Along, Vestra 3/22, 8 pm, $5. Plague Doctor 3/25, 9 pm. Sandbox Bullies 3/26, 10 pm, $8. Jinxy Bear 3/27, 8 pm. Fake Foo and Friends, Stagecoach 4/1, 10 pm. The Funk Jam Wed, 10:30 pm. Florescent Flames Second Sat, 9 pm. Foundation Factory Fourth Sat, 8 pm. Shows free unless noted. 1675 Industrial Road, 702-384-8987. LVCS Dead Kennedys, The Freeze, Sector-7G, Sheiks of Neptune, Last Rites, Radio Silence 3/12, 8 pm, $15-$18. The Dwarves, The Queers, Since We Were Kids, The Thrill Killers, IDFI, Dogs of Society, The Perverts, Jerk 3/19, 8 pm, $12-$15. The Aggrolites, Brewfish, Days After Hail 3/26, 8 pm, $10-$12. Seedless, Tatanka, White Glove Service 4/2, 8 pm, $10-$13. Prong, Nebula X, My Own Nation 4/23, 8 pm, $12-$15. Luca Turilli Rhapsody, Primal Fear, Sicocis, Pillars of Creation, Levitron 5/13, 8 pm, $12-$15. Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko, Rittz, Mayday, Stevie Stone, Ces Cru, Donnie Menace, Ekoh 5/19,
Calendar 10 pm. Count’s 77 3/11, 9:30 pm. Dilana, Lady Chameleon 3/12, 10 pm. John Zito Electric Jam 3/16, 3/30, 9 pm. Hooligans 3/17, 9 pm. Kid Cocky, The Great Pumpkin 3/18, 9:30 pm. Damage Inc., DC4 3/19, 10 pm. UFO, TailGun 3/23, 8 pm, $20-$25. Kill Ritual, Archer 3/24, 9:30 pm. Cash’d Out, Rat City Rukkus Pre-Party 3/25, 9 pm. Smashing Alice, Gypsy Road 3/26, 9:30 pm. Faster Pussycat, The Bones 4/9, 9:30 pm, $10. Shows free unless noted. 6750 W. Sahara, 702-220-8849. Dispensary Lounge Gary Fowler 3/11, 10 pm. UNLV Latin Jazz 3/16, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. 2451 E. Tropicana, 702458-6343. Dive Bar Koffin Kats, The Scoundrels, Dead at Midnite, A Burden on Society 3/13, 9 pm, $12-$15. Culture Abuse, Strange Wilds, Unfair Fight 3/14, 8 pm, $10. Adara Rae and The Homewreckers, Black Rhino, Midnight Clover, Kat Kalling 3/18, 9 pm, $7. Crackerman, Nebula X 3/19, 10 pm. Stump Tail Dolly, The All-Togethers, El Banjo 3/23, 9 pm. Battalion of Saints 3/24, 8 pm, $10. Annex, 40 Oz Folklore, Radio Silence, Chick Habit 3/25, 9 pm, $5. Bonecrusher, Riot Gun, Revolt, FSP, Time Crashers 3/26, 9 pm, $5. Black Tusk, The Well, Spiritual Sheperd, Impaled Witch 3/27, 8 pm, $10-$12. 4110 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-586-3483. Elixir Tim Mendoza 3/11. Shaun South 3/12, 3/26. Phil Stendek 3/19. Stefnrock 3/25. Music from 8-11 pm, free unless noted. 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, elixirlounge.net. Fiesta Rancho (Cabo Lounge) Cool Change 3/11-3/12, 8:30 pm, free. 702-631-7000. Green Valley Ranch (Grand Events Center) Ted Virgil’s Tribute to John Denver 3/12, 8 pm, $19. 702-367-2470. Hilton Lake Las Vegas (Firenze Lounge) Reuel 3/12, 3/19, 6-9 pm, free. Ryan Bueter and The Killer Dueling Pianos 3/18, 6:45 pm, free. 1610 Lake Las Vegas Parkway, lakelasvegas.hilton.com. M Resort (M Pavillion) Hotel California 3/12, 7 pm, $26-$36. 12300 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 800745-3000. Pioneer Saloon Seth Turner 3/12, 11 am. Rick Bell 3/12, 5 pm. Girl Haggard 3/13, noon. Big Willies 3/16, 5 pm. Shows free unless noted. 310 W. Spring St., Goodsprings, 702-874-9362. Primm Valley Resort & Casino The Commodores 3/19, 8 pm, $18-$63. The Four Tops 4/16, 8 pm, $7-$30. Rodney Carrington 4/29, 9 pm, $15-$44. 31900 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Primm, 702-386-7867. Red Rock (Rocks Lounge) The Dirty 3/11, 8 pm, free. In Its Entirety: David Bowie 3/18, 7:30 pm, $19. Franky Prez 4/29-4/30, 11 pm, free. (Onyx) Rick Duarte Fri, 9 pm. Tony Venniro Duo Sat, 9 pm. (T-Bones) Mahi Crabbe Mon, Tue, 5 pm. Cali Tucker Wed, Thu, 5 pm. Steven Raper Fri, Sat, 6 pm. Shows free unless noted. 11011 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-797-7777. Sam’s Town Drew Baker Trio 3/13, 8 pm, free. Daemine 3/18, 8:30 pm, free. Police Unity Tour ft. Rock Candy 3/19, 8 pm, $10$15. Shows free unless noted. 5111 Boulder Highway, 702-284-7777. Silverton (Veil Pavilion) Moonwalker: A Tribute to Michael Jackson 3/11, 8 pm, $25. 3333 Blue Diamond Road, 702-263-7777. South Point Herman’s Hermits 3/11-3/13, 7:30 pm, $41-$50. 702-797-8005. Starbright Theatre Whitney Phoenix: “Love a Piano” 3/13, 3 pm, $20. 2215 Thomas Ryan Blvd., 702-240-1301. Suncoast (Showroom) Ambrosia 3/12-3/13, 7:30 pm, $27-$49. 9090 Alta Drive, 702636-7075. Sunset Station (Club Madrid) Mark D. Sanders 3/10, 8 pm, $5-$10. Zeppelin USA 3/18, 8 pm, $22. 1301 W. Sunset Road, 702547-7777.
Comedy Aliante Casino + Hotel + Spa (Access Showroom) He Said! She Said! Comedy Tour 3/26, 8 pm, $26-$36. Tony Rock 4/9, 8 pm, $16-$31. 7300 N. Aliante Parkway, North Las Vegas, 702-692-7777. Boomers Comedy’s Best Kept Secret 3/29, 8 pm, $15. Side Splitting Sundays Sun, 9 pm, free. 3200 Sirius Ave., 702-368-1863.
Caesars Palace (The Colosseum) Jerry Seinfeld 4/8-4/9, 7:30 pm, $83-$165. 702731-7333. Downtown Vegas Improv Festival 3/11-3/12, 7:30 pm & 9:30 pm, $10-$30. Inspire Theatre, 107 Las Vegas Blvd. S., downtownvegasimprovfest.com. Harrah’s (The Improv) Charles Fleischer, Chase DuRousseau 3/10-3/13. John Henton, Dylan Mandlsohn, Martin Foster 3/15-3/20. Tue-Sun, 8:30 pm; Fri & Sat, 10 pm; $30-$45. 702-369-5000. Jokesters Comedy Club Rob Sherwood, Tyler Linkin 3/10-3/13. Joe Wiley, Traci Skene 3/14-3/20. All shows 9:30 pm, $38-$53 unless noted. Bally’s, jokesterscomedy.com. Make Me Laugh Semifinals 3/29, 8 pm, $12. Boomer’s, 3200 W. Sirius Ave. Finals 3/30, 8 pm, $12. Hard Hat Lounge, 1675 S. Industrial Road, laughusa.org. MGM Grand (Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club) Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth Thru 6/26, Thu-Sun, 10 pm, $55-$260. 702-891-7777. Mirage Bill Maher 3/12, 10 pm; 3/13, 8 pm, $65$87. Gabriel Iglesias 3/18-3/19, 10 pm. Daniel Tosh 3/25, 4/8, 10 pm; 3/26, 4/9, 7:30 pm, $65-$105. Nick Swardson 4/2, 10 pm, $55. 702-792-7777. Rampart Casino (Bonkerz Comedy Club) Kathleen Dunbar 3/10, 7 pm. Lance Montalto 3/17, 7 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702-507-5900. South Point Roseanne Barr 3/17-3/19, 7:30 pm, $46-$55. 702-797-8005. Tropicana (The Laugh Factory) Don Gavin, Erik Myers 3/10-3/13. Kev Orkain 3/14-3/20. All shows at 8:30 pm & 10:30 pm unless listed, $35-$55. 702-739-2222. Treasure Island Jo Koy 3/18, 9 pm, $44-$76. Wanda Sykes 4/15, 9 pm, $60-$80. 702894-7111. Venetian Adir Miller 4/5, 9 pm, $40. 702414-9000.
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AIDS Walk 4/17, 8 am, free. Town Square, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. S., afanlv.org. Aladdin’s March Magic 3/19, 5-7 pm, $5. Neon Museum, 770 Las Vegas Blvd. N., neonmuseum.org/happenings. An Evening with Sophia Loren 3/26, 8 pm, $70 and up. The Venetian, 702-414-9000. Banff Mountain Film Festival 3/10-3/11, 7 pm, free. Clark County Library, Main Theater, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3459. Best in Show 4/10, 1 pm, $5-$12. Orleans Arena, orleansarena.com. Bluegrass Festival 4/9, 10:30 am, free. Durango Hills Park, 3501 N. Durango Drive, 702-229-4653. Boulder City Beerfest 3/26, 1-7 pm, $30-$60. Wilbur Square Park, 200 Park St., bouldercitybeerfestival.com. Brave the Shave for Kids with Cancer 3/12: 10 am-9 pm at Nine Fine Irishmen, 702-740-6463. Noon-4 pm ft. Alex Goude and Jeff Civillico at Rí Rá Irish Pub, 702632-7771. At Khoury’s Fine Wine & Spirits, 702-435-9463. 3/17: With Sin City Sinners at Vinyl, 702-6935541, stbaldricks.org. CBRE Cares Catch the Leprechaun Run 3/19, 6:30 am, $15-$35. Sunset Park, 2601 E. Sunset Road, active.com. Easter Bunny and Spring Festival 3/12, noon3 pm, free. Downtown Summerlin, Festival Plaza Drive, downtownsummerlin.com. Great Garage Sale and Antique Show 3/12, 6 am-1 pm, $0-$5. Silverton, Veil Pavilion, 3333 Blue Diamond Road, silvertoncasino.com. Jay Cutler Desert Classic 3/26, 6:30 pm, $38$42. Pearl Concert Theater, 702-944-3200. Motley Brew’s Great Vegas Festival of Beer 4/9, 3 pm, $30-$80. Fremont East, greatvegasbeer.com. Neon Lit 3/18, 7 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock.org. Nevada’s Big Give 3/10, midnight-11:59 pm, donations of $10 and up, online only. NVBigGive.org. Run Away with Cirque du Soleil 3/12, 7 am-noon, $27-$37. Springs Preserve, 702822-7700. The Shade Tree Hero Walk 3/19, 8:30 am, $35. Downtown Las Vegas, 9th and Fremont St., theshadetree.org. St. Patrick’s Day Festival 3/17-3/19, Rí Rá Irish Pub, 702-632-7771. St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival 3/11, 5-10 pm; 3/12, 10 am-10 pm; 3/13, noon-9 pm, free. Water Street District, cityofhenderson.com. TEDxUNLV 2016: Living in the Extreme! 4/8, 8:30 am, $100. UNLV Black Box Theatre, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-895-2787. Tunnel Jam Indoor Skydiving Competition 3/10, 5-7 pm, free with food donation. Vegas Indoor Skydiving, 200 Convention Center Drive, 702-731-4768. Walk for Wishes 3/12, 7 am, $0-$30. Town Square, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. S., snv.wish.org. Wizard World Comic Con 3/18, 3-8 pm; 3/19, 10 am-7 pm; 3/20, 10 am-4 pm, $35-$75. Las Vegas Convention Center, 3150 Paradise Road, wizardworld.com. The Writer’s Block Sally Denton: The Profiteers 3/11, 7-8 pm. Maggie Mitchell: Pretty Is 3/17, 7-8 pm. J. Aaron Sanders: Speakers of the Dead 3/19, 7-8:30 pm. Events free unless noted. 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock.org.
Sports Big League Weekend: New York Mets vs. Chicago Cubs 3/31, 5 pm; 4/1, 1 pm, $40-$70. Cashman Field, 850 Las Vegas Blvd. N., ticketmaster.com. DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals 4/1-4/2, 10 am; 4/3, 9 am, $0-$399. Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 7000 N. Las Vegas Blvd., 800644-4444. Henderson Games 4/1-4/30, times and locations vary, $15. cityofhenderson.com. Hoops & Hops 3/17-3/19, 7:30 am-9 pm, $65$375. Chelsea at Cosmopolitan, cosmopolitanlasvegas.com. Knockout Night at the D 3/12, 6 pm, $20-$65. Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, 200 S. 3rd St., 800-745-3000. Mayhem in Mesquite VIII 3/12, 7 pm, $25$50. CasaBlanca Resort & Casino, 950 W. Mesquite Blvd., 877-438-2929. Mint 400 3/10-3/13, times vary, $15-$25. Downtown Las Vegas, Primm and Jean, themint400.com. Monster Jam World Finals 3/17, 5:30 pm; 3/183/19, 7 pm, $80-$180. Sam Boyd Stadium, unlvtickets.com. Mountain West Championships 3/10-3/11, noon; 3/12, 3 pm, $180-$220. Thomas & Mack Center, unlvtickets.com. PAC 12 Basketball Tournament 3/10-3/12, times vary, $34-$137. MGM Grand, 702-891-1111. Real MMA 3/25, 7 pm, $25-$75. Sam’s Town, 5111 Boulder Highway, samstownlv.com. Silver Dollar Circuit Quarter Horse Show 3/14-3/16, 3/19-3/20, 8 am; 3/17, 9 am; 3/18, 8:30 am, free. South Point, 702-796-7111. Stallion Stakes 3/27-4/2, 8 am, free. South Point, 702-796-7111. UFC 197 4/23, 4 pm, $104-$804. MGM Grand, 702-891-1111. Western Athletic Conference Basketball Tournament 3/10, 2 pm; 3/11, noon; 3/12, 1 pm, $97-$247. Orleans Arena, orleansarena.com.
Galleries Arts Factory 107 E. Charleston Blvd, 702-3833133. Galleries include: Wonderland Gallery Steve Anthony: “Split: An Exploration of Duality” Thru 3/25. TueSun, noon-4 pm. Suite 110, 702-686-4010. Charleston Heights Arts Center Elizabeth Blau, Rossitza Todorova, Orlando Montenegro Cruz:“Force of Nature” Thru 4/20. Wed-Fri, 12:30-9 pm; Sat, 9 am-6 pm. 800 S. Brush St., 702-229-6383. Clark County Government Center Rotunda Chris Bauder: The Gathering 3/14-5/6. MonFri, 8 am-5 pm. 500 Grand Central Parkway, 702-455-7030. CSN Artspace Gallery Roscoe Wilson “Front Yard Zoo: Controlling Nature” Thru 3/19, Mon-Fri, 8 am-10:30 pm; Sat, 8 am-5 pm, free. 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., 702-651-4146. CSN Fine Arts Gallery Jill Parisi “Wallflowers” Thru 3/19, Mon-Fri, 9 am-4 pm; Sat, 10 am-2 pm, free. 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., 702-651-4146. Domsky Glass Ed Gregory: Adult Children Thru 3/28. By appointment. 2758 Highland Drive, 702-616-2830. Foley Federal Building “Sinatra’s Centennial” Thru 3/22. 333 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-388-6041. Las Vegas City Hall (Grand Gallery) “Menagerie” Thru 3/31. (Chamber Gallery) “The Midcentury Las Vegas Stage” Thru 4/21. Mon-Fri, 7 am-5:30 pm. 495 S. Main St., 702-229-1012. Left of Center Seeking Justice Through Art Thru 4/9. Dishing it Out 2016 Starts 3/12. Tue-Fri, noon-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-3 pm. 2207 W. Gowan Road, 702-647-7378. UNLV Barrick Museum Ellsworth Kelly Thru 5/14. Mon-Fri, 9 am–5 pm; Thu, 9 am-8 pm; Sat, noon-5 pm. 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-895-3381. West Las Vegas Arts Center John Trimble: “The Hues of Souls” Thru 3/19. 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-229-4800. Winchester Cultural Center Art Gallery Brent Holmes: “Ignominious Refuse” Thru 3/11, Tue-Fri, 10 am-8 pm; Sat, 9 am-6 pm. 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 702-455-7340 Windmill Library “Sinatra’s Centennial” Thru 3/15. 7060 W. Windmill Lane, 702-270-2110.
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