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Contents 6W as we see it Testing the

26W the strip Happy, happy

all-ages appeal of Extreme Thing with ... a beer garden. Local art is on billboards, and Hamilton is headed to the Smith Center stage. Plus, is Google Trekker the raddest thing ever? Pretty much, yeah, it is.

(naughty) birthday to Absinthe.

t-mobile arena by jon estrada, alder & birch by mikayla whitmore

12W Feature | kind of a big deal The T-Mobile Arena is about to open, and we’re thinking about its potential NHL franchise, who’s booked (and who should be), and what we’ll be eating and drinking there.

19W A&E American Idol alum Adam Lambert.

28W fine art Erik Beehn cracks open notions of beauty.

29W print Sally Denton takes on Bechtel.

30W food & drink Steak at the Orleans’ Alder & Birch and tacos at Pinches’ Gramercy spot. ONLY online On the scene at Downtown’s Life Cube burn; A Public Fit’s Sordid Lives; and the latest Confessions of a Showgirl—all at lasvegasweekly.com.

20W screen Hank Williams’ hard life and sweet music. Modern warfare’s anguish. Rush Hour gets a TV spin-off and boy-banders fight zombies in Dead 7.

24W noise The Biebs at MGM. Coheed and Cambria at the Bowl. X Ambassadors at SLS.

Cover illustration by Cameron K. Lewis

AsWeSeeIt N E W S + C U LT U R E + S T Y L E + M O R E

SPILLING OUT

The southeast Valley experiences an independent coffeehouse surge Roughly 10 years ago, you couldn’t keep a coffeehouse not named Starbucks open in the southeast—R.I.P. Rock n’ Java and Canvas Cafe—or pretty much anywhere in town, for that matter. Now, the area has become awash with them. Eastern Avenue alone has four independent java joints that have opened within the past five months (Pour, Coffee Hunter, Globe Cafe and Bad Owl Coffee), along with the Tangerine Cafe & Espresso Bar, which arrived last May. With so many competitors in the Henderson/Silverado Ranch region, it’s a wonder 8-year-old Sunrise Coffee is so packed on a recent Monday afternoon. But (mostly) students fill its tables, tapping their pens to the Public Enemy and Lou Reed tunes pumping lightly from the PA. Co-owner Juanny Romero actually attributes Sunrise’s continued success to the competition, which also includes neighborhood hang Grouchy John’s (which doubled in size last year), the enduring Madhouse Coffee, Paseo Verde Library’s Coffee Press and Coffee House on Water Street. “The more coffee shops that open, the more people appreciate what we do as an integral part of their neighborhood,” Romero says, adding that she and her partner Joshua Walter opened Mothership Coffee Roasters just a mile and a half east last year largely to educate would-be café proprietors and create a coffeehouse culture like that in the Pacific Northwest. Also adopting a rising-tide-lifts-all-boats mantra and drawing inspiration from Seattle and Portland (where she earned her barista certification) is Pour owner Deborah Armstrong. She’s not only engaging the community with events, but attempting to steer people away from Starbucks’ homogeneity of convenience. “We’re bringing more than that,” she says. “It takes skill to generate a great-tasting drink. I think a lot of people appreciate that.” Once you sample one of her iceblended specialties, you’ll never seek out a Frappuccino again. –Mike Prevatt

> CAFFEINE SCENE Mothership Coffee Roasters is among many of the southeast Valley’s relative newcomers.

ALL GROWN UP The long-dry Extreme Thing adds a beer garden

HAMILTON HUGE The Smith Center scores the hot musical—and so can you Hamilton is the biggest musical theater hit the world has ever seen. No, that’s not hyperbole. It sounds crazy on paper—a hip-hop bio-musical about Alexander Hamilton and the founding of America, with colorblind casting placing minorities in the roles of our founding fathers—but the show has torched every medium it has touched. The companion cast album even reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Rap chart. Producers have announced a production in

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Chicago (where the phone system was overwhelmed by tickets callers the day they became available), and a national tour kicking off in spring 2017 in San Francisco. And now the Smith Center—striking while the iron is hot—has announced Hamilton will play there during the 2017-2018 season (but not until 2018), and you can secure a ticket to the show today. If you subscribe to the 2016-2017 season—packages are available now—you’ll be guaranteed a chance for renewal next season, when Hamilton arrives. That’s how huge this show is. It won’t be here until some time in 2018, and you’ll have to subscribe to two seasons of shows to guarantee yourself a seat. And it still seems incredibly worth it. –Jacob Coakley

On April 2, Extreme Thing—Clark County’s allages music and sports festival—returns to Desert Breeze Park after a one-year hiatus, and for the first time since the inaugural 2001 edition, fans of age will be able to knock back cold ones at the long-dry fest. Two fenced-off beer gardens—one near each main stage—will feature restrooms, bleachers and dedicated food trucks. Beer-garden tickets—a $35 add-on to the $20 fest pass or available in a $50 package—are required for access, with beer-garden ticket sales capped at 1,000. “People who started with us [around] 20 years ago have grown up,” says Brian Saliba, the county’s parks and recreation special events supervisor. “They have families now, and they’re still coming out and supporting the event, [so] as the event matures, we need to offer more services to keep those people interested.” –Mark Adams

MOTHERSHIP COFFEE ROASTERS BY STEVE MARCUS

THE BEARD FILE The Runnin’ Rebels’ new head coach, by the numbers

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Age of new UNLV men’s basketball coach Chris Beard. Seasons he spent at previous stop Arkansas-Little Rock.

NCAA Tournament appearances he made with that school, defeating Purdue before losing to Iowa State.

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Beard’s overall coaching record, at two junior colleges, two Division II schools, a semipro team and Arkansas-Little Rock.

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The last time UNLV won an NCAA Tournament game, under then-coach Lon Kruger.

ART ON THE HORIZON A new series places select locals’ works on Vegas billboards The pristine roofline of the La Concha Motel lobby juts into the evening sky, its white parabolic arcs framing the sunset reflected in the windows below. Artist Jennifer Burkart photographed the image of the shell-inspired structure at the Neon Museum in October 2014, and her shot now covers a billboard on I-15 facing south, greeting commuters

and travelers heading into Las Vegas. It’s one of five in the new ArtPop Street Gallery series placing work by Las Vegas artists on available billboards in town as a way to promote the arts. Las Vegas is among seven states featuring the program, launched by ArtPop founder Wendy Hickey of Charlotte, North Carolina, and brought to Southern Nevada by artists and Dale Sprague, a former American Institute of Graphic Arts president. About 40 artists submitted works. In addition to Burkart, the Las Vegans selected are JK Russ, Diane Bush, Melissa McGill and Cheryl Hobbs. They work in different media and subject matter, but all five tap into the area’s character, physical or ephemeral.

Hobbs’ graphic illustration captures the mountain and cacti in reductive forms. Russ’ “Desert City Birdlife Vista” (previously featured at Sin City Gallery) shows Strip wildlife combining the faux and natural with cultural landmarks. Bush’s macro photography elevates the intricacies and color bursts of sculptural collage. And McGill’s multimedia encaustic composition brings together pop elements, illustrations and found imagery in collage assemblages. The works will stay on the billboards for six months, and Sprague says the plan is to continue the project, a partnership between the Las Vegas chapter of the AIGA, Outfront Media, Clear Channel Media and the City of Las Vegas, next year. –Kristen Peterson

EXPLORE FROM YOUR COUCH Google Trekker makes it easy to reach Nevada’s backcountry You’ve been meaning to explore Cathedral Gorge State Park’s slot canyons and conquer Sand Mountain and dip your toes into Pyramid Lake, but haven’t been able to assemble the gear or round up a party or—more than likely—resist your sofa’s siren song. That’s now slightly more excusable thanks to TravelNevada, the state’s tourism authority, which teamed with Google to show off 360-degree tours of more than 22 eye-catching locales via Google Trekker, a backpack version of the van-mounted cameras responsible for Google Street View. Armed with 42-pound, 15-camera packs that snap pictures every two seconds, Sydney Martinez of TravelNevada and friends captured popular and lesser-known off-the-path adventures, from ghost towns to wacky destinations like the International Car Forest of the Last Church to rarities like the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, home to the largest number of the prehistoric marine reptile fossils ever found. “To me, the point of this project was to reveal places that you’d never dream existed in the Silver State,” Martinez writes on TravelNevada.com. “Stunning landscapes were a no-brainer and would successfully rival the perception that Nevada is a barren, desolate place. … We would most certainly be sure to include places like Lake Tahoe and Valley of Fire, but I feel so personally connected to other less-talked about spots that define the spirit of this spectacular state … the unsung heroes that are worth talking about and most certainly worth visiting.” Cases in point: Spencer Hot Springs and Lovelock Cave. Visit them at TravelNevada.com. –Kristy Totten

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AS WE SEE IT… > THE GRAND SCHEME Fried chicken is not allowed in the planetarium, but whatever.

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DISTORTION IN THE FABRIC OF SPACETIME Searching for perspective at the planetarium BY STACY J. WILLIS

After overhearing Fox News for an hour one afternoon in an office waiting room, I wanted reassurance that humankind matters very little in the cosmic scheme of things. We can be splendid creatures, but cable news argues vehemently to the contrary, and listening to back-toback stories of terrorism and political jackassery made me long for evidence of other worlds. I might have accomplished some peace of mind by looking up at countless twinkly stars in the night sky— one of our greatest psycho-spiritual recalibration tools—but locally, we traded that deep, dark, endless night for neon—and I have no beef with that. I’m a fan of Las Vegas’ brilliance. So I decided to take my girlfriend to the planetarium at the College of Southern Nevada. I was so desperate for some cosmic perspective that the irony of seeking the natural universe in an enclosed, dome-shaped theater didn’t outweigh my need to try. We arrived early at the Cheyenne campus, so we checked out some exhibits in the hallway: framed, signed pictures of astronauts, a NASA flight suit, some Nevada rock samples, a small octopus body and a replica T. Rex tooth. After a quick stop in the gift shop, where I bought a plastic egg containing a rubber baby alien, we made our way into the small theater and sat down with a host of others. A matter-of-fact man named Bob welcomed us and told us to sit back

IN BRIEF

and enjoy the show. It felt beautifully old-fashioned. I was earnestly excited by the apparent banality of the first show’s topic: ice. And I was ecstatic about the theme of the second show: black holes, into which I sometimes suspect I misstepped ice ages ago. ***** Here are 10 phrases I wrote down while watching “Black Holes” in the packed planetarium, while the man behind me stealthily tried to eat fried chicken, which cannot be eaten stealthily and which is not allowed in the theater: How a star dies. Seething maelstrom. White dwarf. Core of a collapsed star. Distortion in the fabric of spacetime. So massive it can’t escape its own light. Light bends. An uncontrolled and spectacular death dance. Medieval torture rack. Spaghettification. Upon rereading these notes later, I had no idea how to explain the physics of black holes. It felt as if I had scribbled a drunken political poem,

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***** Even though I still knew my reality, when I stepped out into the parking lot, looked up and saw only two stars, along with bright lights on a red and white circus tent being set up in the park next door, I felt the weight of re-entry. Sometimes, though, it’s not the ambivalent universe but other humans who can deliver us. Bob politely rallied the post-show group over to CSN’s telescopes, which are behind a fence next to a parking lot on the corner of the campus. We were a fairly quiet bunch—families with kids, date-night couples, a well-fed chicken-eater and astronomy students, up here on a Friday night thinking about

AUTO GEMS Wayne Newton soon won’t be the only Las Vegas legend with a collection of his cars on display—the Liberace Foundation’s new experience at the off-Strip Hollywood Cars Museum (5115 Dean Martin Drive) opens to the public April 8. Liberace’s Garage will feature rides from Mr. Showmanship’s stage shows (including his production at the Las Vegas Hilton), and photos and artifacts from the performer’s homes. –Mark Adams

the solar system. While we waited in line to see Jupiter, I fell a little in love with the little crowd, the little planetarium, the little gift shop, our little spot in the grand scheme of things and the efficient man running the show. It was a cool, calm night, and Bob went into a domed observatory through a tiny door he had to hunch to get through. The hut began to whir and the domed top rotated and a window opened so that the telescope could take aim at the sky. People took pictures of the modest observatory, and whispered about massive black holes and waited patiently, and the whole thing felt mystical. After Bob had Jupiter in focus, he invited us in two at a time, scrunched down, anti-spaghettified, macaroni-fied, to take a look. When it was our turn, I ducked into the dark space and looked into the eyepiece, and there it was, 416 million miles away— Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar system, a tiny bright light pointed out by our Friday night science tour guide. I stared at it for a few long, quiet seconds. Its simplicity brought me peace.

PROTECT AND SWERVE Deputies in Las Vegas now have motorcycles to enter parks and trails to combat crime, maneuvering more easily through the crowds and landscapes. The electric- and batterypowered vehicles are part of a pilot program that takes on more than 200 miles of trail systems and could someday reach Downtown. For now, the Las Vegas Marshals program aims to protect against theft, underage drinking, shooting, graffiti and other crimes taking place in the open recreational spaces, in Hollywood action-film style. –Kristen Peterson

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GET OUT If Dino’s is a scene unto itself inside, imagine what the longtime Downtown bar will look like when it opens its brand new front patio this weekend. “I’ve always wanted to do it,” owner Kristin Bartolo says. “Our business has increased so much … it’ll allow for people to go outside and have more room for people inside.” Seating will be installed before it opens, while palm trees and misters are forthcoming—as is a window with easy access to the indoor bar and a possible summer movie night. –Mike Prevatt

an abstract epitaph for our times. Still, the film was fascinating, and I was successfully transported millions of miles away, joyously contemplating the ferocious forces of the universe that could stretch us into spaghetti and then make us disappear. And I was duly impressed by the minds who’ve figured out small fragments of the wonder.

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T-Mobile opens on April 6, ushering in the next phase for the Las Vegas Strip

T-Mobile will be the arena to beat, but how will it affect concertgoing around the Strip?

This month, Las Vegas gains its fifth arena. To put that count in perspective, New York City has two and Chicago has three. LA also boasts five, but that’s spread out over almost 100 square miles. Ours reside within 1.3-square miles of one another. It’s a phenomenon that baffles Gary Bongiovanni, president and CEO for concert industry trade magazine Pollstar. But, as he puts it, Las Vegas is unique. And the new T-Mobile Arena has no reason to sweat its competition.

Exuding a coppery gleam in the Las Vegas sunlight, the new T-Mobile Arena is surely the best-looking facility of its kind in Sin City. But what kind of substantive change should we expect it to bring to the worldfamous Strip? Casino developments have slowed. The Boulevard hasn’t seen a new, ground-up resort arrival in more than five years, and the arena’s opening has generated a buzz arguably not felt since the debut of Steve Wynn’s Encore in late 2008—just before the bottom fell out of our casino-based economy. Viewed in conjunction with its companion attraction, the Park, the arena makes it clear that MGM Resorts CEO James Murren has not given up on his quest to bring New Urbanism to the Strip (see CityCenter, 2009). T-Mobile will give

“It’ll be the newest and biggest arena in town,” he says, “and all the biggest acts will want to play there.” The calendar backs that up, with major draws like Guns N’ Roses, Billy Joel, Janet Jackson, Garth Brooks, the Dixie Chicks and George Strait, the latter launching Vegas’ first arena residency there. And it could bait other acts with a limited number of dates into performing in town—maybe even holdouts like Bruce Springsteen and Adele. One thing is certain: T-Mobile’s lure is sure to affect

Murren more control over the supplydemand equation, mainly to stage events that can be seen only at the arena. According to Brian Gordon of Applied Analysis, which crunched the economicimpact numbers for MGM, the $375 million, 20,000-seat arena will send a $600 million infusion into the local construction industry, with 3,500 person-years invested into the project, plus purchases by suppliers and spending by MGM itself. Once the arena is operational, MGM expects $900 million in annual economic impact, largely from incremental increases in tourism, “visitation that would not have come to Vegas otherwise,” Gordon says, and additional spending by visitors once they get here. T-Mobile Arena holds some intrigue for Las Vegans as well. Once it’s up and running, it’s projected to employ 650 Las Vegans, a number that swells to 1,000 when

suppliers and arena franchisees are factored into the mix. T-Mobile is designed and suitable for major-league sporting events in hockey and basketball. The NBA isn’t presently pondering expansion, but Commissioner Adam Silver has called for reconsideration of legalized sports betting—a Vegas-friendly move. The NHL is weighing a Vegas expansion team, however, and MGM is letting local entrepreneur Bill Foley handle that puck. “Foley has proven himself a master of playing the admission game,” writes Sports Illustrated’s Allan Muir. “He’s avoided the mistakes of previous would-be owners … who repeatedly attempted to barge through the front door rather than waiting for someone to open it for him.” Will the city finally get a major-league sports team thanks to T-Mobile’s arrival? UNLV history professor Eugene Moehring

the schedules of MGM Resorts’ other two arenas, MGM Grand Garden and Mandalay Bay Events Center, though Bongiovanni quickly adds that they shouldn’t be left high and dry, either. He offers the example of artists exclusive to concert promoter Live Nation, which might opt for one of the two older venues to avoid the newer one co-owned by competitor AEG Live. (Both companies currently have shows booked at all three arenas.) But he adds an important caveat: “There’s a lower number of seats, so they [can’t get] the more lucrative offer, and artists go where they can make the most money.”

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will believe it when he sees it. “The MGM Grand Garden Arena has 16,800 seats and the [Thomas & Mack Center] 17,000 seats for concerts,” he says. “The T-Mobile Arena has less than 4,000 more, but not great access or parking. Most pro basketball and hockey franchises would no doubt prefer to stay where they are and avoid all the criticism attached to playing in Las Vegas,” he says. Moehring says he does think the arena ratchets up the pressure for an NFL-size stadium, though, a pet cause of Murren’s casino mogul rival Sheldon Adelson. “It is quite possible that Vegas could get the Raiders— if the NFL agrees—a maverick franchise in a Rebel town,” he says. Whether locals’ dreams for a team come true, T-Mobile Arena is here and ready to leave an impact. Let the gamesmanship begin. –David McKee

Higher artist guarantees are typically passed onto the consumer, which unfortunately means Las Vegans should continue to feel the sting of Vegas’ tourist-driven market. “Historically, ticket prices in Las Vegas have been higher than other markets,” Bongiovanni says, subscribing to the theory that vacationers—especially those who gamble—might not bat an eye over $100-$200 tickets. “Money is less a concern in that situation than if you live there paying your bills every month.” In more ways than one, T-Mobile Arena will truly test what the market can bear. –Mike Prevatt

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> DROPPING THE PUCK? With T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas is closer than ever to getting a major-league sports team.

Questions and answers about Vegas’ potential new NHL franchise

Why hockey? Put simply, the NHL seems willing to take a chance on Vegas and prospective billionaire owner Bill Foley believes in us. Other major professional sports leagues and owners have flirted with bringing a team to Las Vegas, but none have seemed as serious. MGM and AEG collaborated to build T-Mobile Arena, bringing online a facility well-equipped to house a hockey team. All past discussions on sports coming to town have purely involved hypotheticals, in terms of where they would play. When will we know if Vegas gets a team? MidJune is the new time to watch. That’s when the NHL is rumored to be announcing expansion plans, concurrent to hosting its postseason awards show at a to-be-determined date and local venue. But some fans are skeptical

they’ll receive confirmation then. Last September’s owners meetings and January’s All-Star Game were previously linked as the targets for an announcement, but passed without significant updates. When would it start playing? Tentatively plan for the puck to drop during the second week of October 2017. That’s traditionally when the NHL season begins, and Las Vegas looks poised to join for the 2017-2018 season. How would hockey sell here? That remains a significant unknown, though a season-ticket drive held last year exceeded expectations. Foley’s team took in 14,000 season-ticket deposits—obliterating a goal of 10,000—and sold out luxury suites. Long-term local support is a concern, especially if the team struggles on the ice as expansion franchises tend to, but there’s little

doubt Las Vegas would be a popular destination for traveling opposing fanbases. How would NHL betting be affected? The league hasn’t commented, but bookmakers don’t foresee any effect, arguing that casinos have the same ultimate interest as the NHL in maintaining the game’s integrity. That being said, don’t expect the team’s games to be lined at MGM properties given the company’s stake in the arena. What should the team be called? Black Knights is the odds-on favorite, since it’s the stated preference of Foley, who graduated from West Point in 1967. (He has also mentioned a potential vote among season-ticket holders.) Among possibilities heard mentioned in various places, my vote would go to the Rat Pack, the Dice on Ice or the Scorpions. –Case Keefer

T-Mobile’s schedule, so far

April 6 The Killers with Wayne Newton & Shamir

April 7

April 8-9

Nicki Minaj with Ariana Grande

Guns N’ Roses with Alice in Chains

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April 22-23

April 30

Harlem Globetrotters

George Strait (more shows in September, December & February)

Billy Joel

May 7

May 14

Boxing: Canelo Álvarez vs. Amir Khan

Janet Jackson

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Prepare for the opposite of sad nachos Goodbye, flat beer and stale chips dipped in Day-Glo cheese; hello, barrel-aged Boulevardiers and imported charcuterie sliced to order. T-Mobile Arena’s food-and-beverage architects plan to “knock your shoes off” (the socks are a given). “When you look at the Food Channel or the Food Network and you see all those beautiful, crazy foods—that’s what we’re doing now for the masses,” says executive chef Garry DeLucia. “All of our food and beverage is basically handcrafted.” That includes the usual suspects, from burgers, boneless wings and hot dogs to pretzels, pizza and nachos. The burgers, for instance, will never be frozen. Pies range from eNVy’s pesto margherita with fresh herbs to wood-fired classics by the Ferraro’s crew behind Pizza Forte. The signature dog is a Shock Top brat with beer-ified onions and mustard on a New England-style roll. And the nachos? A local company’s tortilla chips will be fried onsite and topped with queso blanco, chipotle-braised pork and “a bunch of goodies.” Go ahead, pair them with frozen drinks in souvenir cups, because

this beverage program is spearheaded by mixology giant Tony Abou-Ganim. He and the venue’s exclusive F&B provider Levy Restaurants understand that the vibe can’t be fussy. But like Vegas, T-Mobile Arena appears to be about hitting every spot. So along with elevated standards, expect artisanal ice and lounges devoted to fine tequila and whiskey cocktails, carts for customized poke and banh mi, a barbecue stand smoking meats in-house, a gastropub (DeLucia recommends the slow-roasted prime rib and duck-fat fries), a Goose Island craft bar and a grab-n-go for sushi or salad in a jar. Suites can tap the caviar side of things, whether it’s those prized fish eggs, a secret menu by Shake Shack, a playful dessert cart (think six-layer carrot cake and hand-dipped chocolate liqueur cups) or a one-on-one with Abou-Ganim to personalize the bar. And don’t forget the roving mojito cart and Punch Girls armed with Champagne and crystal. “We want to create that experience that no one’s gonna get anywhere else, not only in this town but in this country,” says DeLucia, whose team aims to make memories of T-Mobile Arena about more than the headliners. “We’re a living food story.” –Erin Ryan

Some splashy gets for the new arena would be …

Bruce Springsteen The Boss inexplicably hasn’t played here since he toured The Rising way back in 2002.

Arcade Fire The indie act-turnedfestival headliner is due back after skipping Vegas in 2014.

Radiohead Could there be any bigger get than the ultra-coveted, and traditionally Vegas-shy, English rock band?

Tom Petty It’s been almost 10 years since this reliable venue-filler played his last Vegas set, at the second Vegoose.

Taylor Swift The pop star’s only non-festival Vegas performance happened seven years ago, before she’d crossed beyond the country crowd.

Adele The Billboard Top 200 mainstay has played exactly one Vegas gig, five years ago.

Pearl Jam The alt-rock giants celebrated their 10th anniversary with an epic MGM Grand show in 2000, but have now gone a decade since their last appearance here. Dave Matthews Band For all their logged miles and past Vegas successes, these touring kings haven’t visited since ’09. Eminem It would be a major coup to land this reluctant performer, last here in ’05. U2 No Vegas shows since ’09. And we promise, if you’re not a fan your phone won’t force you to go anyway.

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that if you get a hot dog in a golden wrapper, it’s free? Or that the upper concourse is home to Neon Alley’s glowsticks and Electric Lemonade? Get more details about the new venue’s charms at lasvegasweekly.com.

Red Hot Chili Peppers The formerly frequent Vegas visitors have been here just once since 2005, for a tough-ticket Cosmo New Year’s Eve gig in 2012. Coldplay The British alt-pop band has limited recent visits to brief iHeartRadio Festival sets. The Cure/Depeche Mode Demand always far outweighs supply for both bands’ local theater shows. Daft Punk An electronic music act that could definitely fill T-Mobile … should the robot duo ever tour again. –Spencer Patterson and Mike Prevatt

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here are dozens of worldfamous chefs operating restaurants on the Las Vegas Strip, yet it’s easy to understand which ones are real pioneers. Hubert Keller is the epitome of the word “visionary,” having remade the restaurant rules for decades in Vegas, San Francisco and beyond.

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When “California cuisine” had taken hold in San Francisco in the ’80s, Keller’s Fleur de Lys distinguished itself with a healthy dose of innovation blended into a classic French approach. Seemingly small moves like writing the menu in English, putting female servers in the dining room—believe it or not, it wasn’t happening much back then—and installing vegetarian menus turned out to be game-changers. In Las Vegas, he was the first to put a DJ booth in a restaurant at what is now Fleur at Mandalay Bay, and more famously, Keller started the gourmet burger trend on the Strip with the excellent and fun Burger Bar. It’s no wonder that when he recently returned to Top Chef, chef-testants couldn’t wait

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to express respect and admiration. “It’s the same respect I had and still have for my mentors, the people who were on top of the game in their time,” he says. Keller, who is currently filming new episodes of his PBS show Secrets of a Chef in Las Vegas and around the world, says innovation and inspiration comes with knowledge and experience. “Instead of spending time trying to figure out what comes next— which is where people very often are failing because they end up copying something that just pops up—try to step back. Be yourself. And figure out with your guests and employees what you can do better. Where is that trigger that will lead you to something new? That is when you become the leader.” For more with Hubert Keller, visit lasvegasweekly.com/ industry. –Brock Radke

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Tiësto is just one of the stars of Hakkasan’s third-anniversary celebration, April 7-10.

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hen the game-changing Las Vegas nightclub Hakkasan celebrates its third anniversary with a massive weekend blowout next week, it’ll be more than just another big party.

“We’ve operated for three years very successfully predominantly booking electronic music since opening,” says James Algate, vice president of entertainment. “We now want to open our doors to some pioneering performers we haven’t had in the past. There’s a significant number of other nightclubs programming similarly, and we want to try something different in the year to come.”

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The word Algate prefers is “diversifying.” Expect to see a new mix of celebrity hosts—like Kim Kardashian West, anchoring the anniversary party on April 8 with DJ Ruckus—along with some live performances sprinkled throughout Hakkasan’s rotating cast of all-star DJs. “We have done live performance, but it’s been more impromptu,” Algate says. “One night Swizz Beatz was in the club enjoying himself with friends and ended up jumping on top of the DJ booth and performing for 45 minutes. The same night, Kate Upton was in the club and basically became a dancer for the night.”

Hakkasan isn’t completely shifting its strategy, just adding new elements to the mix, with an eye on the different audiences that visit Vegas for conventions or events. “It’s about creating entertainment. There’s never a better show than when you’re singing along to the music, whether it’s a set from Calvin Harris or a performance by someone like Jason Derulo. We want to entertain.” Hakkasan’s 3rd Anniversary Weekend at MGM Grand, April 7-10. –Brock Radke

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ike everybody else, I started crushing on Tinashe after a few listens to her ubiquitous, 2014 party hit “2 On.” Silky yet self-assured, she had that Control-era Janet Jackson thing going, vulnerability blended with youthful confidence. She showed sexy, stylish range on other tracks from debut Aquarius, from the bounce of “Feels Like Vegas” to the haunting ballad “Pretend.” This crush intensified when the singer/songwriter nailed “The Pleasure

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Principle” portion of the Janet dance tribute at last year’s BET Awards. Clearly we were dealing with a totalpackage talent. But the 23-year-old Tinashe has shown from the beginning that while she can do pop R&B as well as anyone in the current musical landscape, her sound steers more toward the alternative, an evolution certain to be displayed on her upcoming second studio album, Joyride. She can match vocals and dance moves with Chris Brown in “Player” and then unleash the slinky, trippy “Party

Favors,” demolishing anyone’s expectations of what her music is supposed to sound like. Keep listening. It’s hard to follow along and not develop a crush. Tinashe at House of Blues at Mandalay Bay, March 31. –Brock Radke

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just want to make good music. That doesn’t require you knowing who I am,” reads Marshmello’s Facebook biography. And yet, every EDM and future-bass fan has his or her own theory about the identify of the man behind the marshmallow helmet. It’s a valid topic for debate, considering the anonymous DJ rose to cluband festival-headlining fame seemingly overnight, continuing to take over music blogs and airwaves with his intoxicating, starry beats. It started with his remix of the

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Skrillex, Diplo and Justin Bieber collabo “Where Are ü Now” and exploded from there, fueled by endorsements and tweets from the juggernaut DJs themselves. And with intensely energetic sets, like his Ultra Music Festival performance earlier this month, he’s constantly gaining new converts to his band of loyal followers, the Mellogang. No matter who he is (many believe he’s Chris Comstock, also known as Dotcom), everyone seems to agree that his music transcends his identity. As he continues to release lucid,

original grooves like “Home” and “Invincible” and remix jams like Adele’s “Hello” or Duke Dumont’s “Need U (100%)”—the latter with electronic conspirator Jauz)—the DJ’s anonymity fuels his creative sweet spot. It’s a distinct flavor, and it comes through on every one of his gooey, decadent tracks. Marshmello at XS at Encore, April 4. –Leslie Ventura

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S C r e e N “I f Tumblr had a store, this would be it.” That’s how Fruition co-founder Samantha Jo Alonso describes her streetstyle boutique that opened in the University District a decade ago.

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to buy product because they can buy it all online,” Alonso says. “They have access to absolutely everything.” Fruition’s business model has had to evolve to keep in line with its mission: to create an experience that would inspire Las Vegans to live their dreams. Images of streetstyle influencers, bloggers, musicians and colorful textures hang from every garment in the minimalist space, giving shoppers a real-life link to the inspiration behind the clothing. “It connects what [customers are] used to now,” Alonso says, mentioning Instagram and Tumblr feeds as retail destinations. Fruition can give customers a similar feeling of doubletapping or liking items on a screen. The staff enhances the interaction

with each garment, from Balenciaga sweatshirts and vintage Def Leppard tees to camouflage Yeezy Season 1 jackets and recontextualized Levi’s. “For us, it’s always been about relationships and being able to celebrate individuality. We want fashion to be cool and accessible, loving and friendly, encouraging and all of the above,” Alonso says. “That’s just who we are as people.” Fruition, 4139 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-796-4139; Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-7 p.m. –Leslie Ventura

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f you’re going to a concert in a cool little rock club in the big city, you might spill out into the streets after, ears ringing and eyes blurry, to grab a slice or a hot dog. If you’re going to a concert at a cool rock club in Las Vegas, there’s a good chance it’s at the Hard Rock Hotel, and you don’t have to walk down the street for that slice or dog. Pizza Forte, a fantastic morsel in Hard Rock’s casino, comes from the legendary local family behind

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Ferraro’s, the iconic Italian eatery across the street. Classic New Yorkstyle pies by the slice and perfect franks make up the menu—nononsense, made-from-scratch grub, as satisfying as it gets. Don’t be afraid to share an order of pork and beef meatballs with your after-show crew, and be sure to try the Snappy Griller, a white sausage made with pork and veal, ready to be loaded with your favorite toppings from the condiment bar.

Once you’ve discovered Forte, you’ll probably precede your next Hard Rock show with a return visit. Why not go twice in one night? It’s that good. Pizza Forte at Hard Rock Hotel, 702-483-4900; Sunday-Thursday 10 a.m.-1 a.m., Friday & Saturday 10 a.m.-3 a.m. –Brock Radke

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lbert Mack has a truly unique perspective on what Las Vegas is and what it can be. As the grandson of Jerry Mack— the pioneering financier and developer who helped create the city’s modern metropolitan landscape—Albert Mack has an acute understanding of the Vegas experience. “He was always instilling in me that the building process has a long way to go, and that our generation will be the ones that will help mold what this city will become,” Mack says. “That’s what brought me back to Las Vegas, the opportunity that so many people have to shape this city into something even more incredible.” After working in real estate development and in management at Wynn Las Vegas, Mack has created his own hospitality company and its first concept will open this week—Sake Rok, an interactive restaurant and lounge on the brand-new Park entertainment district adjacent to T-Mobile Arena on the Strip.

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Before they tore the roof off LAX for a House Party pajama jam-themed edition of Throwback Thursdays, Kid ’n Play dropped by our GMG offices for a little hip-hop history lesson. Read the Las Vegas Weekly interview with Kid ’n Play at lasvegasweekly.com.

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Idol worship Adam Lambert aims for a new High on tour What’s the production like for this tour, and what are you looking to convey with it? The show is a three-part journey. The beginning explores more angsty, dramatic, darker themes. The middle of the show is very vocally driven: It’s me without any bells or whistles, just me at a microphone. That’s very much heartfelt, sensitive-side stuff. And then at the end, we party. We light it up and we hit the dancefloor, all together. It really sums up the three parts of my personality, I think. > Better to burn out The decorated Life Cube will go up in flames for a second time on Saturday.

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extreme thing After a year hiatus, the mosh fest resumes with more than 30 acts, including post-hardcore faves Saosin, pop-punkers Bayside, and locals like The CGs, Be Like Max and Ekoh. April 2, doors at 11 a.m., $20-$50, Desert Breeze Park.

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LIFE CUBE project burn Artists of all pedigrees have been decorating—and filling with their declarations and wishes—the 24-foot-tall Life Cube at Downtown’s Llama Lot. But on Saturday, they’ll watch it burn in a performance-filled fire ceremony. April 2, starts at 2 p.m., free. LIBBY SAUTER: Off Route Setting speed records on El Cap or providing medical care for kids in war-torn countries, this badass climber/highliner (and Vegas native) has stories to tell. She’ll share a personal slideshow while the crowd enjoys New Belgium brews and a raffle of goodies, with proceeds benefitting the local climbing community. March 31, 7-10 p.m., $10, Origin Climbing & Fitness, 7585 Commercial Way #J.

santigold Continuing on her shining, genre-blurring trajectory, the singer/producer’s new album 99¢ is bound to turn the Foundry into one big reggae-meets-synth-pop dance party. With Leikeli47. April 2, 8 p.m., $25. STAR TREK: THE ULTIMATE VOYAGE No, they haven’t resurrected the simulator from the defunct Star Trek: the Experience attraction. A live symphony will play compositions from the sci-fi institution’s various films and TV series, with video clips running in tandem with music. April 4, 7:30 p.m., $50, Orleans Arena.

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world comes to life onstage as part of the Onyx Theatre’s Afterhours series. Think: an NC-17 Where the Sidewalk Ends—all murder and smiles in this hilariously menacing drama. April 1-16, times vary, $15.

Latest album The Original High sounds like a showcase for your vocals, like a singer-songwriter record dressed up with modern, contemporary-pop production. How did that evolve? ADAM It was a more focused LAMBERT process. With my first album, we put it togeth- April 1, 7:30 p.m., er so quickly on the $35. The heels of American Idol. The second album was Foundry, a very long process, 702-761but it was not focused. 7617. It was much more of an experiment. With this album, I got to spend two months solid in Stockholm with nothing else going on except working on music. There was a lot of time in the studio, trial and error, and really getting things right. It was finely crafted. How has the touring you’ve done with Queen impacted you? I’m so lucky, so honored to be getting to sing lead vocals for one of the greatest rock bands of all time. As a singer, Freddie Mercury was unmatched, and an incredible songwriter. And on a personal level, being around at that time, he had to keep certain things private. I like that I get to be out and proud while celebrating his music and his life. –Annie Zaleski For more of our interview with Lambert, visit lasvegasweekly.com.

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> BRIGHT SPOTS Olsen and Hiddleston commit to their roles as the Williamses.

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I Saw the Light turns Hank Williams into a generic jerk By Mike D’Angelo cheatin’ heart). It’s Audrey who pushes Hank to audition Eyebrows were raised when it was announced that for the Grand Ole Opry, in the hope of joining him onstage, British actor Tom Hiddleston would be playing legendand the film dutifully charts the singer’s gradual rise to the ary country musician Hank Williams—as indubitably top of the country charts. At every opportunity, though, American an icon as there is. As it turns out, Hiddleston’s Hank Williams the singer-songwriter is shoved aside in performance is one of the few pleasures offered by I Saw favor of another peek at Hank Williams the phithe Light, a dull biopic with too much interest landering, drunken, pill-popping jerk. Since that in its subject’s boozing and womanizing and guy resembles every other musician in the history virtually no interest in his singular talent. This aaccc of music (or at least in the history of movies about sort of Behind the Music superficiality is com- I SAW THE musicians), it’s hard to care much about him. monplace, but writer-director Marc Abraham LIGHT Tom Both Hiddleston and Olsen commit whole(Flash of Genius) somehow manages to make a Hiddleston, figure as inherently appealing as Williams even Elizabeth Olsen, heartedly to the couple’s codependent dynamic, and they occasionally make I Saw the Light more of a tiresome cliché than usual for the Cherry Jones. watchable in spite of itself. And when the band genre. Only when the man’s music is playing Directed by plays Williams’ hits (live, not lip-synced), their does the movie briefly sputter to life. Marc Abraham. joy is infectious, providing a welcome reminder While Abraham makes a few feints toward Rated R. Opens of why we remember the man more than half structural artiness, I Saw the Light mostly sticks Friday at Regal a century after he died even though he only to a breezy chronological survey of Williams’ Village Square. released two albums during his lifetime. It’s not too-short life. (He died of heart failure at 29, because his ordinary human frailties were uniquely comat the height of his fame.) The film’s primary focus is pelling, yet that’s what Abraham seems to believe with all Williams’ tempestuous relationship with his first wife, his heart. When it comes to rote biopics like this, the title Audrey (Elizabeth Olsen), a mediocre singer whose proof one of Williams’ songs sums up the attitude of many: fessional ambition is a constant source of friction—though “You’re Gonna Change (Or I’m Gonna Leave).” not as constant as Hank’s wandering eye (or, you know, his

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Military thriller Eye in the Sky aims to be a complex examination of the moral consequences of drone warfare, but its stakes are so lopsided that it might as well be examining the moral consequences of puppy-kicking. It opens on a cute little girl playing with a hula hoop in the backyard of her Nairobi home, and the next hour or so teases putting that sweet, innocent child in the crosshairs of a joint BritishAmerican military operation targeting a terrorist cell. It’s the cheapest kind of suspense, and it only gets more manipulative and heavy-handed as the movie goes on, with a globe-spanning set of military operatives squabbling aaccc over the fate of EYE IN THE SKY this adorable Helen Mirren, moppet. Aaron Paul, Alan At first, Eye is Rickman. Directed a sort of engagby Gavin Hood. ing military Rated R. Opens procedural, Friday citywide. showing the coordinated efforts of a range of professionals, including a British intelligence officer (Helen Mirren), an American drone pilot (Aaron Paul), a British military liaison (the late Alan Rickman, in his final onscreen role) and a Kenyan undercover agent (Captain Phillips’ Barkhad Abdi), among others. But writer Guy Hibbert and director Gavin Hood never flesh out these characters, and the generally strong performances (especially Mirren’s) only carry them so far. The fascinating details of military protocol are pushed aside in favor of increasingly laughable scenarios that continually place the hapless child in harm’s way, like some sort of Looney Tunes character. It’s hard to imagine a movie making the audience root for the bombing of a little girl, but Eye in the Sky sure comes close. –Josh Bell

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Rush Hour gets lost in translation from film to TV Foo has a background as a The Rush Hour movies were stuntman (he even worked with hugely successful thanks to the talJackie Chan), and Hires is ents of stars Jackie Chan and a stand-up comedian, but Chris Tucker—audiences showed up to see a martial- aaccc neither one has the screen presence of his film predearts master and a charismatic RUSH cessor. From a plot standcomedian, not for the forget- HOUR table mystery storylines. So Thursdays, point, Rush Hour is unremarkable, with Lee convea weekly police-procedural 10 p.m., niently placed on indefinite version of the franchise, CBS. assignment to the LAPD so starring largely unknown he and Carter can take on actors, sort of misses the new cases each week. Although point. CBS’ Rush Hour TV series, developed by comedy veterans Bill which comes nearly a decade after Lawrence and Blake McCormick Rush Hour 3, follows the same basic (Cougar Town), Rush Hour isn’t setup as the original movie, with particularly funny, and there’s taciturn Hong Kong detective Yan nothing exciting about its familiar Lee (Jon Foo) dispatched to LA to crime-drama structure. Without investigate an international crime. unique star power to carry it, it’s There he teams up with motorjust another dull procedural on a mouthed LAPD detective James network already filled with them. Carter (Justin Hires), and the two –Josh Bell form an unlikely partnership.

When boy-banders and Zombies collide Members of the Backstreet Boys, ’N Sync, 98 Degrees and O-Town star in Syfy’s post-apocalyptic zombie DEAD 7 Western Dead 7, from the schlock April 1, specialists at the Asylum (Sharknado). 8 p.m., Syfy. It even includes a new boy-band supergroup theme song. The movie’s top three boy-banders: 1. Joey Fatone. With his ridiculous facial hair, Nick Nolte-style rasp and ever-present flask, ’N Sync’s Fatone is a hoot as perpetually soused gunslinger Whiskey Joe, easily the highlight of the mostly terrible movie. 2. A.J. McLean. Inexplicably dressed like a mime (white face makeup, white gloves, bowler hat), Backstreet Boy McLean really gets into the sadistic insanity of Johnny Vermillion, right-hand man to main villain Apocalypta (played by Mad TV’s Debra Wilson). 3. Nick Carter. The Backstreet Boy’s performance as an enigmatic badass isn’t particularly convincing, but as the mastermind behind the project (cowriter, executive producer, head of the Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign), he’s clearly a marketing genius for combining ’90s pop-music nostalgia with the current zombie mania. –Josh Bell

A&E | screen | Short Takes Special screenings Art & Architecture in Cinema 3/31, Leonardo Da Vinci: The Genius in Milan, 7 p.m., $13-$15. Various theaters, fathomevents.com. Cinemark Classic Series Sun, 2 p.m.; Wed, 2 & 7 p.m., $5. 4/3, 4/6, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey double feature. Cinemark theaters. The Metropolitan Opera HD Live 4/2, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly live, 9:55 am, $17-$25. 4/6, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly encore, 6:30 p.m., $16-$23. Various theaters, fathomevents.com. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 4/2, augmented by live cast and audience participation, 10 p.m., $9. Regency Tropicana Cinemas, rhpsvegas.com. Sci Fi Center Mon, Cinemondays, 8 p.m., free. 4/2, Dead Friend, Macabre, 8 p.m., $5. 5077 Arville St., 855-501-4335, thescificenter.com. Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou Tue, 1 p.m., free. 4/5, Hard, Fast and Beautiful. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.

New this week Eye in the Sky aaccc Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman. Directed by Gavin Hood. 102 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 20. Theaters citywide. God’s Not Dead 2 (Not reviewed) Melissa Joan Hart, Jesse Metcalfe, David A.R. White. Directed by Harold Cronk. 121 minutes. Rated PG. A high school teacher attracts controversy after discussing Jesus in her classroom. Theaters citywide. I Saw the Light aaccc Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen, Cherry Jones. Directed by Marc Abraham. 123 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 20. Regal Village Square. Ki & Ka (Not reviewed) Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Swaroop Sampat. Directed by R. Balki. 126 minutes. Not rated. In Hindi with English subtitles. A young married couple defies accepted gender roles in Indian culture. Regal Village Square. Marguerite (Not reviewed) Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau. Directed by Xavier Giannoli. 129 minutes. Rated R. In French with English subtitles. In 1920s Paris, a wealthy woman decides to become an opera star despite having no musical talent whatsoever. Regal Village Square. Meet the Blacks (Not reviewed) Mike Epps, Gary Owen, Zulay Henao. Directed by Deon Taylor. 90 minutes. Rated R. A parody of The Purge movies, with an African-American family targeted after moving to the suburbs. Theaters citywide.

John Gallagher Jr. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg. 105 minutes. Rated PG-13. Despite the title, this isn’t a sequel to 2008’s Cloverfield, but it’s a thriller with similar themes. Winstead and Goodman are both strong as two people hiding in a bunker after what appears to be the apocalypse. Director Trachtenberg keeps the tension high, filming mostly in a handful of cramped spaces. –JB Theaters citywide. Allegiant abccc Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels. Directed by Robert Schwentke. 121 minutes. Rated PG-13. The third installment in the dystopian sci-fi Divergent series, based on Veronica Roth’s YA novels, throws in a ton of new convoluted plot elements to justify continuing the story, but it never succeeds. Woodley remains a solid actor, but she’s defeated by the incoherent script and the surprisingly terrible special effects. –JB Theaters citywide. Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice aaccc Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Jesse Eisenberg. Directed by Zack Snyder. 151 minutes. Rated PG-13. Starting with its ridiculous title, this superhero epic is bursting with overwrought self-importance, crammed with so many characters and incidents that it ends up horribly disjointed. All the empty bluster obscures how little actually happens in the power struggle among heroes Batman (Affleck) and Superman (Cavill) and villain Lex Luthor (Eisenberg). –JB Theaters citywide. Hello, My Name Is Doris aaacc Sally Field, Max Greenfield, Tyne Daly. Directed by Michael Showalter. 94 minutes. Rated R. Although the scenario of a lonely older woman (Field) awkwardly crushing on her much younger co-worker (Greenfield) could be played for cruel laughs, the filmmakers don’t mock Doris even when she’s thoroughly embarrassing herself. The movie ends up part cringe comedy, part melancholy meditation on aging. –JB Theaters citywide. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 aaccc Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Elena Kampouris. Directed by Kirk Jones. 94 minutes. Rated PG-13. Fourteen years after the original surprise hit, Toula (Vardalos) and her overbearing, stereotypical GreekAmerican family return for more cheesy, predictable sitcom-level hijinks. What once had a certain unique perspective has become just another tired brand extension with no reason to exist other than to exploit its audience’s nostalgia and goodwill. –JB Theaters citywide. 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 Regal Colonnade, Santa Fe, Texas Station, Village Square; Century South Point, Sam’s Town.

A Weekend With the Family (Not reviewed) Marques Houston, Karrueche Tran, Wendy Raquel Robinson. Directed by Chris Stokes. 82 minutes. Not rated. A couple from different backgrounds deal with culture clashes when their families meet. AMC Town Square.

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 citywide.

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Oopiri (Not reviewed) Nagarjuna Akkineni, Karthi, Tammanah. Directed by Vamsi Paidipally. 158 minutes. Not rated. In Telugu with English subtitles. A wealthy quadriplegic hires an ex-con to be his caretaker. Regal Village Square.

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album’s title track, Bieber stopped to talk but was outmatched by the bellowing crowd. “You can chant my name, or you can listen to what I have to say,” Bieber said, sounding frustrated. “I’m trying to speak from the heart.” Considering he recently canceled meet-and-greets for the rest of his tour, the episode didn’t come as a surprise. “Sometimes it’s hard to do the right thing/ Justin Bieber’s wild ride rolls through When the pressure’s coming down like lightning/ the MGM Grand By Leslie Ventura It’s like they want me to be perfect/But they don’t even know that I’m hurting,” he sang durDespite the frequent shocking behavior that has ing “I’ll Show You,” while performing inside an threatened to overshadow Justin Bieber’s music, illuminated cage—blatant symbolism as the packed Canada’s No. 1 rabble-rouser continues to persearena stared on. But for the rest of the show, the vere, and latest album Purpose is proof. Shrouded 22-year-old brought swagger and charm to every in poppy, tropical-house tones and electronics, the number, especially R&B-soaked tracks like “No record not only repositioned the Biebs in Sense,” as he popped and locked across the pop world, it provided context for his the stage. His vocals were strong and aaacc turbulent ride—one shrouded by flashpowerful on “Love Yourself”—which feaJUSTIN bulbs and headlines since being discovtured only the singer, his acoustic guitar BIEBER ered on YouTube when he was just 12. and a couch. And he performed a new, March 25, Friday night’s concert at MGM Grand unreleased track, “Insecurities,” where MGM Grand Garden Arena continued that reinvenhe experimented with his bright falsetto. Garden Arena. tion. He owned the spotlight unapoloFrom the intergalactic-themed backgetically and on his on terms—wearing a drops and intricate stage design to the Marilyn Manson T-shirt for half the show giant trampoline that hung from the ceiland, at one point, playing a drum solo—although he ing—and the actual water that poured down during could have stood in silence for an hour and still had his “Sorry” encore—Bieber and his larger-than-life the bleachers shaking with shrieking fans. Toward production took the arena for a ride almost as wild the end of the set, just before the aforementioned as his own career.

Sorry, not sorry

Ithaca, New York, foursome X Ambassadors claim to be influenced by bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers but sound much closer to Bastille or even Maroon 5. Calling it indie rock is using the term too loosely. This is perhaps the modern version of yacht rock, perfect for dudes who wear blazers to concerts and teenagers permitted only to see shows with their parents. So maybe something was missing in the blood and guts category. Nobody’s going to confuse this for gritty rock. But singer Sam Harris’ commitment to his music is impressive nonetheless. He promised the crowd a “great show” before launching into opener “Loveless” and did everything to keep it his oath. Harris played everything from saxophone to bass to acoustic and electric guitar. At least I think he did. There were clearly sounds being looped in by X Ambassadors’ keyboardist, Harris’ brother Casey. Also, the mic was so low on the sax, we barely heard it, which is unfortunate, as it was supposed to be a big moment. The high point: the main set’s three closing numbers. “Gorgeous” featured a fun ’80s-style outro reminiscent of something St. Lucia might put out. “Jungle,” the band’s hardest cut, was a welcome jolt to the system. And megahit “Renegades” was the climax for which audience had clearly hoped. The encore featured Imagine Dragons’ frontman Dan Reynolds performing “Fear,” a song his band gave the Amabassadors. Harris extolled Reynolds for discovering XA and putting them on the map. I thought back to earlier in the week, when The Killers’ Brandon Flowers guested with New Order. Interesting symmetry, and symbolic of the differences between Las Vegas’ two biggest bands. –Jason Harris

Coheed and Cambria expressed a desire to eradicate limitations in announcing last year’s The Color Before the Sun, the band’s first album aaaac outside the Amory Wars concept it spent nearly two decades crafting. And COHEED the New York prog-rockers’ Friday tour stop at Brooklyn Bowl demonstrated AND a similar approach to the live show. ¶ The group broke unwritten rules right CAMBRIA March 25, away, as frontman Claudio Sanchez and guitarist Travis Stever opened the Coheed and Cambria Brooklyn set with acoustic ballad “Ghost.” Any sense of the choice being a misfire leaves its concert dissolved when bassist Zach Cooper and drummer Josh Eppard emerged and Bowl. immediately launched into “In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3.” Juxtaposed conventions behind with the calming start, the eight-minute sonic journey took on new power. Fans dressed as Amory Wars characters in the front were bombarded by others climbing onto their shoulders to sing along, and they all appeared to treasure every second. The energy stayed electric as Coheed touched on all the high points from its discography, from “Everything Evil” off debut The Second Stage Turbine Blade to “Here to Mars” from The Color, before closing with metal epic “Welcome Home.” ¶ Direct supporters Glassjaw—another group birthed during the early-2000s post-hardcore scene—are also experiencing a revival, judging from Friday’s set. In lieu of straight rehashes of cuts off 2002’s highly regarded Worship and Tribute, guitarist Justin Beck added new textures like a dreamy extended outro on “Ape Dos Mil.” Vocalist Daryl Palumbo’s abrasive, screaming fits seemed too much for some of the crowd, which by contrast felt united for the headliners. Even non-fans could have appreciated a band as effectively basking in their freedom as Coheed. –Case Keefer C O N C E RT

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WEEZER Weezer (The White Album) aaabc It opens with waves lapping ashore and ends with the same, beachconjuring bookends on an album where guitars announce themselves like the coming tide and oblivious women are the sand in Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo’s swimming trunks. “Don’t you worry,” he instructs on opener “California Kids,” because a) He’s got the whole worrying thing down for you and b) The band’s 10th record is meant to reassure with a familiar, mid-’90s scruffiness. Producer Jake Sinclair seems to have taken the same approach with these dudes that Rick Rubin has with Black Sabbath and Metallica: encourage them to reimmerse in the artistic inclinations of the past to reinvigorate the present. For Cuomo, this means a renewed lust for pointy-headed poetry with heart as piñata. On “L.A. Girlz,” he channels both Lewis Carroll and Dante’s The Divine Comedy over squealing guitars. Day-Glo synth sparkle on “King of the World,” and temptation and Burt Bacharach loom large on “Do You Wanna Get High?” “Keep on doing what you do,” Cuomo sings on the latter, leading by example with each word. –Jason Bracelin

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Bob Mould Patch the Sky aaaac Bob Mould has been on a musical tear the past few years: Both 2012’s Silver Age and 2014’s Beauty & Ruin found the punk/alt-rock icon writing some of the most incisive, aggressive music of his career. That hot streak continues on Patch the Sky, which, like his last two records, overflows with melodic, guitar-heavy songs bolstered by the locked-in rhythm section of bassist Jason Narducy and drummer Jon Wurster. Highlights include the sub-two-minute hardcore blast “Hands Are Tied,” the chugging bar-band boogie of “Daddy’s Favorite” and the throttling punkpop gem “The End of Things,” although Patch the Sky’s lyrics are perhaps even more crushing, as the ruminations on crumbling love and heartshredding loss hold nothing back. Still, even nods to Mould’s back catalog feel refreshed and modern: “Pray for Rain” conjures Sugar’s bubblegumgrunge, while “Voices In My Head” resembles the stormy, acousticelectric vibe of the solo album Workbook. Once again, Mould stares down his fears and sorrow—and emerges triumphant. –Annie Zaleski

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For those still dismissing the oeuvre of Explosions in the Sky as mere variations of the same instrumental post-rock song: This album completely unravels your already frayed argument. True, the famously loud/soft Texas act has cruised (and even ascended) with a certain degree of consistency and tradition, toeing into experimental waters sporadically over the course of five studio albums. By comparison, the aptly titled The Wilderness turns hard left, further opening EITS’ sound and varying its time signatures while expanding its sonic palette (the numerous looping synths, the dominance of precise piano notes over the usual guitar riffage). The structural shifts feel considered but intuitive, particularly on the masterful “Tangle Formations” and generally in how each song reliably unfurls. EITS’ aesthetic loyalty lies exactly where it should: in the tone and narrative, the transportive nature of the former still offering tenderhearted salve and the explorations of the latter a testament to the band’s commitment to dynamic, bracing and forward-thinking rock. –Mike Prevatt

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Duo Vector’s Misha “10-Pack” Furmanczyk, a man who must be stopped. Jenkins’ post-monologue announcement: “Wait. That’s not pee.” The moment where Gaz halts the sock-puppet show, and not a moment too soon. From Penny Pibbets, regarding that act: “It was like Explaining the lure of the 5-year-old they were connected by a strand of spaghetti, like the dogs from Lady and the Tramp!” phenomenon at Caesars Palace The mix of saliva and pink lipstick that stains Pibbets’ By John Katsilometes face after every performance. The blithe dance performed by the boys from Atlantis There was a time, almost five years ago at Caesars as Jenkins tries to wave them from the stage. Palace’s Roman Plaza, when the question about Absinthe The smashed rose pulled from Ivan Chekhov-Jones’ was not about the show’s quality, but its home. As shorts, presented to Ivana Chekhov-Jones, then tossed to Absinthe became a sturdy prospect on the Strip, its aging a flinching audience member. tent was almost falling apart. More from Gaz, after the “What Would You Do for Like the show it housed, the original Spiegeltent was Some Free Alcohol?” segment: “The Republicans only built for a six-month run. By the fall of 2011, that hate this, because the black guy won again!” tent was cratering for October winds and rain that Yet more from Gaz: “Nothing says ‘I hate gays’ caved in the top and knocked out electricity. What ABSINTHE like a Western leather jacket and cowboy boots!” would that mean to a show growing in popularity? WednesdayWhen Ivana Chekhov-Jones slams her head A new, reinforced tent at a cost of more than $2 mil- Sunday, 8 into the wooden pillar as she leaves the stage. lion. And a new commitment from Caesars Palace to & 10 p.m.; $99-$139. The oversized absinthe glass used in Sweets’ its raunchy mix of cabaret, circus and comedy. “Up All Night” number, and that entire act, in fact. Absinthe charges along, rife with changes since Spiegeltent The table-top tapping of twin hoofers Sean & John. it opened on April 1, 2011. It celebrates its anni- at Caesars The odd sexual tension between sibling skaters versary with a March 31 performance and after- Palace, 800Emily and Billy England. party at Omnia Nightclub. The show has been a 745-3000. The moment Emily sheds her nun costume personal favorite since it opened. What I’ve loved for that act. about Absinthe over those five years: The entire Frat Pack high-wire team. To paraphrase Gazillionaire’s announcement, “If you are offended Bill Murray in Stripes: “I wanna party with you guys.” by words like f*ck or sh*t, you’re probably in the wrong From Frat Packer Almas Meirmanov: “I’m not Chinese!” f*cking show.” From Gaz: “Not a word of English.” The downbeat that leads to Melody Sweets’ opening Gaz’s onstage undressing of Fat Frank: “You’re a circus number, “Slice of Heaven,” the song that sets the groove. performer, for Christ’s sake. Do a sit-up once in a while.” Sweets’ question of the chair tower stacked by Maxim Fat Frank’s green, bedazzled G-string. Popazov: “What’s a girl to do with all that wood?” The dissimilar height but unfailing precision of Cadence Joy Jenkins’ quick quiz: “How many Germans does it Alexia and Linde Hartman of the aerial act Duo Fevrier. take to fix a light bulb? Nine!” The incident at the end of the Chekhov-Jones’ silk Gaz’s warning, “You guys in the front row are in what act, when Ivana’s foot pulled down Ivan’s shorts for some we call the ‘cock seats.” … You’re going to have a lotta free-willie action. This was an accident, the dozen or so crotch in your faces tonight.” times it happened. Gazillionaire swears to that, and in How Alexa can hold Ming with no support during their Absinthe, you have to believe it. aerial act, knowing that these two are married in real life.

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Former Las Vegan Erik Beehn’s MCQ Fine Art Advisory show takes a leap—into achievement, surely— but also into the beguiling gap between images and how we read them. Look at his flowery show: Blossoms! Springtime! So darn pretty! Well … sort of. This art raises deeper questions of how we see in a world deluged by or very white—a consequence, in part, of the iterative digital photos, awash in visual data and inundated by emulsifying process. For example, in the dark 57-inch by pixelated versions of reality. 43-inch “Access and Excess,” the pot seems on the verge At the exhibition’s source is an unassuming photoof manifesting from obscurity, almost as if its molecules graph of a 1930 reproduction of a flowerpot—an image of were struggling to materialize in a field of spacetime an image, and the first step in an iterative process. Beehn floral potential. At the opposite end of the photographed and printed the flowerpot, disspectrum is the “Photo Back #1.” In this monosolving ink with emulsifiers to draw into the chromatic 28-inch by 22-inch work, a white image. Then he rephotographed, reprinted, aaaab field metamorphosizes the flowerpot into a and re-emulsified—up to 26 times. Often he Erik Beehn Philip Guston-esque composition, the blosadded paint and/or graphite, photograph- Through May 20; soms forming creamy, jellyfish dollops as their ing the print and beginning again. In the 18 Monday-Friday, tentacles release from a spectral launch pad. works on display, ink, paint and/or graphite 9 a.m.–5 p.m. MCQ Beehn’s talent shines where and how he meld, while the flowerpot mutates, expands, Fine Art Advisory, reveals and conceals the image through eracontracts, solidifies, alternately shirking and 620 S. 7th St., 702-366-9339. sure techniques; in his third-generation master embracing its flowery identity. printer’s eye for image and layout; and in the Perhaps the most “floral” manifestation in tension he obtains between figure and ground. Residual the exhibition is the cheerfully disarming wallpaper images of the flowerpot emerge from and fade into the that pings both quaint hotel rooms and the Nevada background in individual pieces, while works hung on Test Site. Jaunty blossoms cover two walls, their heavy wallpaper claim “figure” to the papered “ground.” heads resembling mushroom clouds. One patterned wall By basing his art on a vintage stock photo, Beehn chalfeatures the large, atmospheric “68007970,” in which lenges the automatic ways we judge images: Flowerpots billowing blobs of bleached flowers froth from the pot, are traditionally disdained as “women’s art,” 17th-cenwhile on the other hang eight smaller, powerfully undertury Dutch still lifes notwithstanding. Flowerpots are stated works covered in graphite, a few labile or phallic kitschy images bereft of power, banalized at Kmart and leaves floating suggestively out of the void. Wal-Mart, ready for hanging. Perhaps Beehn’s greatest Despite his bouquet of crisp colors, Beehn exhibachievement is that he allows us to see them anew. its a preference for polarized values—either very black

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tion and energy. Along the way it conveniently shuttled executives in and out of the federal government and its secuLas Vegan Sally Denton digs into rity organs. George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger cooled their heels in Bechtel’s Bechtel’s shadowy past San Francisco office between the Nixon BY CHUCK TWARDY and Reagan Administrations. One of the book’s most troubling conclusions is that In The Profiteers, Sally Denton reminds readWeinberger got a federal judge to life-seners that Hoover Dam was not, as many believe, a tence Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, because New Deal project. Its namesake and a Republican Pollard uncovered Bechtel’s involvement Congress approved it at the behest of well-heeled in a chemical complex to be built in Westerners to secure water, power and the future Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. from the Colorado River. The dam also enriched Starting with its early partits lead contractor, the W.A. Bechtel Co., nership with John Alex McCone, whose descendent entities have masaaaac THE who would become CIA directered the art of the massive government PROFITEERS: tor, Bechtel pioneered the “costcontract, from the American West to the BECHTEL AND plus” contract, which guarantees Mideast, from Los Alamos to Libya, from THE MEN WHO a profit. But while relying almost Boston to the Balkans and beyond. BUILT THE entirely on government contracts, Denton, Director of Literary Nonfiction WORLD By Sally Bechtel executives have consisat UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute, wrote Denton, $30. tently championed conservative, The Profiteers with the support of a Kluge/ laissez-faire politics. As Denton Black Mountain Institute fellowship. She observes in the preface, “The company has long documented the shadowy relations of wealth tenet of free enterprise obfuscates the fact and politics, notably in The Money and the Power, the of its dependence on government.” That Las Vegas history written with husband Roger Morris. the West’s spirit of individualism and innovaIn The Profiteers, she tells the story of the familytion set the tone for American successes at home owned and publicity-averse Bechtel, from the early and abroad appears to underpin the Bechtel story. projects of Warren “Dad” Bechtel to the huge solar In fact, its philosophy is not “get government off complex that opened in 2014 in the Ivanpah Valley. our backs” but “just give us all the money and Generations of Bechtel sons and associates don’t ask questions.” managed to position the corporation on the It turns out that the libertarian ideal the West supedge of what the world needed in transporta-

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The Orleans cleans up nice with new Alder & Birch By Debbie Lee Step into Alder & Birch and you might not believe you’re at the Orleans. The modern steakhouse, which opened in February, is an unexpectedly polished respite in a largely locals casino. Start with the interior. There’s a sophisticated dining room outfitted in hardwood, private booths lit with chandeliers, and a cozy lounge area with fireplace views. The latter is an ideal spot for first dates and pre-gaming with friends. Sink into a Chesterfield sofa while sipping on a signature Alder

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($41) was cooked exactly to order (mid-rare always, please) and did a fine job of satisfying my inner caveman—despite my refusal to pay a $2 surcharge for sauce. You’re better off saving the calories for sides, anyway. The classics (baked potatoes, creamed corn) are supplemented with more “foodie-friendly” options like fried quinoa and roasted bone marrow with huckleberry jam. My only quibble is the noticeable absence of a burger. It’s an option I expect from & Birch maple Manhattan ($10)—the candiedany restaurant that celebrates bovine flesh, and one I bacon garnish is predictable and trendy, but it’s also hope to see and devour on a return visit. an undeniable match for the smoked Knob Creek in Adhering to a personal philosophy that one has your glass. An even better option is to visit not properly dined at a steakhouse if she still during social hour (4 to 6 p.m. daily) for a has room for sweets, I’m unfortunately unable menu of small bites ($8-$12), craft beers ALDER to comment on dessert. The menu appears to ($7) and specialty cocktails ($10). be a smart mix of classic (crème brulee) and & BIRCH Those in search of a proper steak dinner Orleans, creative (boozy ice cream float made with will find a menu that’s approachable, well- 702-365double bock), however. executed and fairly priced. A recent meal 7111. At the end of the day, one could compare began with a crock of French onion soup SundayAlder & Birch to T-Bones (Red Rock) or Twin ($7), made a touch sweet with cider and Thursday, Creeks (Silverton): a date-friendly destination finished with a proper cap of oozy, cheese- 5-10 p.m.; for when your pockets have a little extra padcovered bread, followed by a chilled plate Friday & ding and you don’t want to be on the Strip. As of thinly sliced beef carpaccio. A simple Saturday, for the fate of the Prime Rib Loft, the Orleans’ shower of capers and arugula makes it a 5-11 p.m. older, second-floor steakhouse, loyal patrons light alternative to the dressing-smothered need not worry—the property is hedging its tartares that currently dominate menus. bets by having both restaurants co-exist. It’s a conSteaks fall into one of two categories: prime or servative but sensible play that should attract new house dry-aged. A 14-ounce prime New York Strip guests without alienating the old.

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Micah Waltz, Andiron Steak & Sea You just became executive chef at Andiron in November. How’d you get here? I opened the restaurant [last year] as executive sous, and I was executive sous at Made L.V. And before that? I came to Vegas to open Sensi at Bellagio, which was like school all over again working with some East Coast guys and a German [chef ], then from there went to Le Cirque and worked with David Werly. After those more refined plates, I found I wanted to go back to production a little more, a steakhouse, so I worked at Prime a little and then opened Jean Georges Steakhouse as sous chef under Rob Moore. That gave me a great perspective and the right tools to come here and run a successful restaurant. How do you know it’s time for a change? I always try to tell myself and tell my cooks the same thing—as soon as you’re done learning, you need to bounce. When you’re uncomfortable in the kitchen, that’s a good thing. How is restaurant competition different in Summerlin from the Strip? In Summerlin, you have a lot of customers that will be the first ones to take that pen and use it as a knife to cut through on Yelp. You better have your game tight. You definitely have a target on your back here a little more, but as long as you’re keeping consistency where it needs to be, that’s when those things like Yelp stars are going to come through. You just gotta stand by what you do and stand by your ingredients. You have plenty of competition in Downtown Summerlin. We have Wolfgang Puck right here. We’re going for people who are going to Shake Shack. But we’re trying to be this place people come back to weekly rather than treating us as the place for special occasions. We’ve worked on the menu. We’re not serving a lesser quality steak, just finding

Welcome to taco beach Stepping inside the Pinches Tacos location at the still-developing, ghost town-ish Gramercy residential and retail complex feels like the first day of summer vacation. Picture a vibrant beach-front lot stocked with a colorful beer-andmargarita bar and a taco truck churning out everything from al pastor to fried fish tortas to crema- and chile-slathered ears of grilled corn. Order your food, take that first sip of your beverage and you’ll have to force yourself to remember you’re in the middle of the desert. Beach or no, the vibes are right at Pinches, the SoCal transplant that opened its first Vegas restaurant in the Downtown

some different options like a new Wagyu tri-tip. Our $29 steak is a 12-ounce dry-aged prime ribeye and I’ll put that against anybody’s in town. And we’re adapting. We’re doing We Love Locals Tuesdays with $1 oysters and $5 martinis, and if you want to talk about brunch ... This is probably the best room

for brunch you’ve ever seen. We have a DJ playing low-tempo, kinda ’80s stuff, so you’re listening to Nu Shooz’s “I Can’t Wait” while you’re eating porchetta eggs Benedict. You can play Jenga on top of your Bloody Mary glass stacking shrimp, bacon, shrimp, bacon. It’s ridiculous. –Brock Radke

Container Park more than two years ago. PINCHES The Gramercy spot of- TACOS fers the same authenGramercy, 9205 tic Mexican menu in a W. Russell Road bigger, better, super#190, 702-818chill space perfect for 4208. Mondayweekend brunching. Thursday, 9 a.m.Served Saturday and 11 p.m.; Friday & Sunday until 1 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m.the desayunos menu 1 p.m.; Sunday, lets you mix chila9 a.m.-10 p.m. quiles ($10), huevos rancheros ($9.95) and breakfast burritos ($7.50) with your Pinches favorites. And $2 Taco Tuesdays are only the beginning of the deliciously discounted fun here; happy hour runs 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday—and all night Sunday and Monday— featuring $4 draft beers and well drinks. Pretty beachy. –Brock Radke

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LIVE MUSIC THE STRIP & NEARBY ACM Party for a Cause Festival ft. Carrie Underwood, Dierks Bentley, Kenny Chesney & more 4/1, 3 pmmidnight; 4/2, noon-midnight; 4/3, noon-9 pm, $75-$349. Las Vegas Festival Grounds, 2594 Las Vegas Blvd. S., acmcountry.com. Brooklyn Bowl Greensky Bluegrass, Shook Twins 3/31, 8 pm, $22-$25. Bunny Wailer 4/9, 8 pm, $25-$45. Floetry 4/11, 8 pm, $30-$60. Highly Suspect 4/14, 9 pm, $15-$17. The John Kadlecik Band 4/15, 9 pm, $10. M83, Yacht 4/16, 8 pm, $35-$40. The Green, Protoje 4/17, 8:30 pm, $19-$30. Linq, 702-862-2695. The Colosseum Rod Stewart 4/1-4/2, 4/5, 7:30 pm, $49-$250. Elton John 4/16, 4/17, 6:30 pm, $55-$500. Caesars Palace, 702-731-7333. The Cosmopolitan (Clique) Jared Berry 3/31. Clique shows 9 pm, free unless noted. 702-698-7000. Double Barrel Roadhouse (DB Live!) Kane Brown 4/1, $19. Shows at 11 pm, free unless noted. Monte Carlo, 702222-7735. Double Down Dark Water Rebellion, Derek McLean Trio, Back Porch Blvd. 3/31. The Dirty Panties, The Quitters, Amsterdam, Unfair Fight 4/1. Crying 4 Kafka 4/2. Ivana Blaize’s Pussyrama 4/3, 9 pm. Frank & Deans’ Weenie Roast 4/6. Dark Water Rebellion, Back Porch Blvd., Derek McLean Trio 4/7. Child Endangerment, Firewater Folklore, Death Cat, Toranavox, Apathetix, Moon Boots 4/8. Periscope, White Fuzzy Bloodbath, The Unit, The Fresh Brunettes 4/9. Shows at 10 pm, free unless noted. 640 Paradise

Road, 702-791-5775. The Foundry Adam Lambert, Alex Newell 4/1, 7:30 pm, $35. Santigold, Leikeli47 4/2, 8 pm, $25. SLS, 702761-7617. Hard Rock Live Erick Hutchinson 4/2, 7:30 pm, $20. Hard Rock Cafe (Strip), 702-733-7625. House of Blues Tinashe 3/31, 7 pm, $25-$45. Music Forward Foundation’s “Bringing Down the House” 4/7, 7 pm, free. Fooz Fighters, Smells Like Nirvana 4/8, 7 pm, $15. AOMG 4/13, 7 pm, $75-$95. Nekromantix 4/14, 7:30 pm, $15-$20. (Crossroads) Chris Mulkey N’ Deluxe 4/1-4/2, 9 pm, free. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. The Joint Common Kings, Tribal Seeds, Rebel SoulJahz 4/8, 6 pm, $45. Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, Yngqie Malmsteen, Nuno Bettencourt, Tosin Abasi 4/9, 8 pm, $40-$175. Volbeat, Black Stone Cherry, Monster Truck 4/14, 8 pm, $40-$125. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5222. Mandalay Bay (Events Center) Ellie Goulding 4/9, 7:30 pm, $36-$55. (Beach) Cole Swindell 4/9, 9 pm, $43. 702-632-7777. Mirage Boyz II Men 4/1-4/3, 7:30 pm, $44-$163. 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-791-7111. Orleans (Bourbon Street Cabaret Lounge) HNLV 3/31-4/2, 9 pm. NiteKings 4/6, 4 pm. WolfCreek 4/74/9, 9 pm. Bourbon Street shows free unless noted. (Brendan’s Irish Pub) Killian’s Angels 4/1-4/2. Finnegan’s Wake 4/8-4/9. Brendan’s Pub shows at 9 pm, free. 702-284-7777. Palms (Lounge) Garage Boys 3/31, 10 pm. Brent Muscat & Friends 4/2, 10 pm. Sin City Sinners 4/7, 10 pm. The Hal Savar Band 4/8, 10 pm. David Perrico & Pop Strings Orchestra 4/9, 11 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702-

942-7777. The Pearl Holy Holy 4/23, 8 pm, $28$55. Palms, 702-942-7777. Planet Hollywood (The Axis) Britney Spears 4/6, 4/8-4/9, 4/13, 9 pm, $57$259. 702-777-2782. Rí Rá The Black Donnellys 3/31, 4/3, 4/5-4/7, 4/10, 8:45 pm; 4/1-4/2, 4/9, 9 pm. John Windsor 4/4, 4/11, 8:45 pm. Free unless noted. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7771. The Sand Dollar Lounge Ronnie Foster Trio 3/31, 4/7. Rick Berthod Blues 4/2. The Chris Tofield Band 4/8. The Lucky Cheats 4/9. Shows at 10 pm, free unless noted. 3355 Spring Mountain Road, 702-485-5401. Stoney’s Rockin’ Country Lanco 3/31. Chris Lane 4/1. Shows 10 pm, $10. 6611 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-435-2855. T-Mobile Arena The Killers, Wayne Newton, Shamir 4/6, 8 pm, $35$90. Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande 4/7, 9 pm, $25-$65. Guns N’ Roses, Alice in Chains 4/8-4/9, 9:30 pm, $80-$350. 3780 Las Vegas Blvd. S., t-mobilearena.com. Venetian (Venetian Theatre) Kenny G 4/1, 8 pm, $50-$125. 702-414-9000. Vinyl Bag Raiders, Plastic Plates 4/2, 9 pm, $15-$35. Dead Winter Carpenters 4/6, 9 pm, free. Otep, Lacey Sturm, September Mourning, Doll Skin 4/8, 7:30 pm, $17-$29. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5000.

DOWNTOWN Backstage Bar & Billiards Pyro Surfers 4/1, 8 pm, $5. Red Fang, Golden Void 4/7, 7 pm, $14-$16. Kyle Gass Band, Strange Mistress 4/8, 8 pm, $11-$15. Unwritten Law, Fenix TX, Guilty by Association, Rayner, Leatherbound Crooks 4/13, 8 pm, $13-$16. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Beauty Bar Swami John Reis, The

Blind Shake 4/7, 8 pm, $10-$12. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. Bunkhouse Saloon Mark Huff, Bryan McPherson, Jackson Wilcox 3/31, 8 pm, $5. Moksha, Lady Reiko 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. Halloween Town, Black Camaro, Romance Fantasy, When We Escape 4/8, 8 pm, $8. 124 S. 11th St., 702-854-1414. Fremont Street Experience Live music nightly. Shows free unless noted. Fremont St., vegasexperience.com. Golden Nugget (Gordie Brown Showroom) Little Texas 4/1, $21-$108. Grand Funk Railroad 4/8, $32-$141. All shows 8 pm. 866-946-5336. Hard Hat Lounge Fake Foo and Friends, Stagecoach 4/1, 10 pm. Culture Abuse, Dark Black, Blast Flashes 4/2, 9 pm. Why N Eye 4/3, 8 pm. Lawn Mower Death Riders 4/8, 9 pm. The Breakfast Club, We Are Pancakes, American Weather, Stagecoach 4/9, 9 pm. Earthbound Collective 4/10, 7 pm. Shows free unless noted. 1675 Industrial Road, 702-384-8987. LVCS Slaine, Bobby Boulder, Snap Murphy, Madopelli Music, Radical Methodz, Gold Gang Ent. 3/31, 9 pm, $10. Seedless, Tatanka, White Glove Service 4/2, 8 pm, $10-$13. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-3531. The Smith Center (Cabaret Jazz) 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) Gershwin: Music of the Jazz Age 4/2, 7:30 pm; 4/3, 2 pm, $26-$96. 361 Symphony Park Ave., 702-749-2000.

EVERYWHERE ELSE Adrenaline Sports Bar and Grill Word in Edgewise, Freeze Warning 4/2, 9 pm, free. 3103 N. Rancho Drive, 702645-4139. Aliante Casino + Hotel + Spa (Access Showroom) The Sax Pack 4/2, 8 pm, $33-$63. (All-Star Friday Nights) Chocolate Harmony 4/1. StarOne All-Stars 4/8. All-Star Friday Nights shows start at 9 pm, $10. 702-6927777. Boulder Dam Brewing Ron Greene 4/1. Richard Strater 4/2. Whitherward 4/8. Jesse RS 4/9. All shows 8 pm, free. 453 Nevada Way, Boulder City, 702-243-2739. Boulder Station (The Railhead) A Thousand Horses 4/9, 8 pm, $15-$28. 702-432-7777. Count’s Vamp’d Faster Pussycat, The Bones 4/9, 9:30 pm, $10. 6750 W. Sahara, 702-220-8849. Dive Bar Prince, Leather Lungs, Radio Silence, Alan Six 4/1, 10 pm, $5. Michale Graves 4/2, 10 pm. The Grand Luciferian March ft. Archgoat, Valkyrja, In the Flesh 4/3, 8 pm, $20. Nekrogoblikon, Swamp Pussy, Firewater Folklore, Hard Pipe Hitters 4/5, 8 pm, $15. Smashing Alice 4/9, 9 pm. 4110 S. Maryland Parkway, 702586-3483. Elixir Nick Mattera 4/1. Phil Stendek 4/2. Tim Mendoza 4/8. Yvonne Silva 4/9. Music from 8-11 pm, free. 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, elixirlounge.net. Extreme Thing ft. Escape the Fate, Saosin, Mayday Parade & more 4/2, 11 am-10 pm, $20-$50. Desert Breeze Park, 8275 Spring Mountain Road, extremething.com.

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Green Valley Ranch (Grand Events Center) All-Star Guitar Pull ft. Hunter Hayes, Justin Moore, Charles Kelley, Kip Moore, Kelsea Ballerini 3/31, 7 pm, $33-$104. 702-367-2470. Hoover Dam Lodge Reylee 4/9, 5/27, 7 pm, free. 18000 Highway 93, Boulder City, 702-293-5000. Luminosity Wellness Center Leo Starwind Benefit Concert 4/1, 6:308:30 pm, $10. 2400 N. Tenaya Way, savingwildhorsesnevada.com. OMD Theater 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. 953 E. Sahara Ave., #B-30, 702-742-4171. Sam’s Town The Manhattans 4/2, 8 pm, $27-$43. 702-284-7777. South Point Tony Orlando 4/1-4/3, 7:30 pm, $41-$50. 702-797-8005. Starbright Theatre The NiteKings 4/3, 2 pm, $18. 2215 Thomas Ryan Blvd., 702-240-1301. Sunset Station (Club Madrid) Nashville Unplugged with Kim Williams 3/31, 8 pm, $5-$10. Nashville Unplugged ft. Jeremy McComb 4/1, 8 pm, $5-$10. 1301 W. Sunset Road, 702-547-7777.

COMEDY Aliante Casino + Hotel + Spa (Access Showroom) Tony Rock 4/9, 8 pm, $16-$31. 702-692-7777. Caesars Palace (The Colosseum) Jerry Seinfeld 4/8-4/9, 7:30 pm, $83-$165. 702-731-7333. Jokesters Comedy Club Paul Scally, Ryan Cole 3/31-4/3. All shows 9:30 pm, $38-$53 unless noted. Bally’s, jokesterscomedy.com. Mirage Nick Swardson 4/2, 10 pm, $55. Daniel Tosh 4/8, 10 pm; 4/9, 7:30 pm, $65-$105. 702-792-7777. Orleans (Showroom) Dana Carvey 4/14/2, 8 pm, $60-$87. Don Rickles 4/94/10, 8 pm, $76-$109. 702-284-7777. Rampart Casino (Bonkerz Comedy Club) Marc Patrick 3/31. Mike Krasner 4/7. Shows 7 pm, free unless noted. 702-507-5900. Starbright Theatre Cary Long’s Comedy Act 4/2, 7 pm, $15. 2215 Thomas Ryan Blvd., 702-240-1301. Tropicana (The Laugh Factory) Jackson Perdue, Jeff Altman, Roger Behr 3/31-4/3. Don Friesen, Jeff Wayne, Edi Gibson 4/4-4/10. All shows at 8:30 pm & 10:30 pm unless listed, $35-$55. 702739-2222. Treasure Island Wanda Sykes 4/15, 9 pm, $60-$80. 702-894-7111. Venetian Adir Miller 4/5, 9 pm, $40. 702-414-9000.

PERFORMING ARTS InsideStyle TSTMRKT presents DVDA Part II 4/8, 8 pm, $7-$37. 1117 S. Main St., tstmrkt.com. Italian American Club Carole King 4/10, 4 pm, $20. 2333 E. Sahara Ave., 702-457-3866. Onyx Theatre An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein 4/1-4/2, 4/8-4/9, 10:30 pm, $15. Heathers the Musical 4/7-4/9, 8 pm, $25. 953 E. Sahara Ave., 702-732-7225. Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) Disney’s Beauty and the Beast 4/8, 4/12-4/15, 7:30 pm; 4/9-4/10, 4/16-4/17, 2 pm,

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Calendar $24-$135. (Cabaret Jazz) Conversations with Norm 4/3, 2 pm, $25. 702-749-2000. South Point (Showroom) Girls Night: The Musical 4/8-4/10, 7:30 pm, $18-$28. southpointcasino.com. Theatre in the Valley 2 Across 4/8-4/9, 8 pm; 4/10, 2 pm, $10-$15. 10 W. Pacific Ave., theatreinthevalley.org. UNLV (Rando-Grillot Recital Hall) Jens Korndorfer 4/8, 7:30 pm, free. (Artemus W. Ham Hall) CCSD Middle School Advanced Choir Festival 3/31, all day, free. The Lightning Thief 4/1, 10 am, $9-$14. Soul of Klezmer 4/2, 8 pm, $20-$70. (Paul Harris Theatre) Staged reading of “Bright Side” 4/9, 8 pm; 4/10, 1 pm, $10. 702-895-3332. West Las Vegas Arts Center An Afternoon of Jazz ft. Yusef Sudah 4/2, 2-4 pm, free. 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-229-4800. Winchester Cultural Center Winchester Star Catchers Ballet Recital 4/2, 2 pm, $5. Ballet Folklorico Izel 4/9, 6 pm, $10-$12. Viva el Mariachi 4/10, 2 pm, $10-$12. 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 702-455-7340.

Special Events Best in Show 4/10, 1 pm, $5-$12. Orleans Arena, orleansarena.com. Blacklight Slide 4/9, 4 pm, $20-$50. Sam Boyd Stadium, 7000 E. Russell Road, blacklightslide.com. Bluegrass Festival 4/9, 10:30 am, free. Durango Hills Park, 3501 N. Durango Drive, 702-229-4653. Celebrando Festival 4/9, 4-10 pm, $5-$25. Cannery, 2121 E. Craig Road, hispanicfestlv.com. Clark County Fair and Rodeo 4/6, 2-11 pm; 4/7, 10 am-11 pm; 4/8-4/9, 10 am-midnight; 4/10, 10 am-9 pm, $8-$28. 1301 W. Whipple Ave., Logandale, ccfair.com. First Friday 4/1, 6-11 pm, free. Downtown Las Vegas, ffflv.org. FIRST Stronghold Robotics Competition 4/1-4/2, 8 am, free. Las Vegas Convention Center, South Hall, 3150 Paradise Road, firstnevada.org. Foam Wonderland 4/9, 8 pm, $35-$40. Cox Pavilion, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, rvltnevents.com/foam. Food Truck Fridays 4/1, 4/8, 11 am-2 pm, free. Huntridge Shopping Center, 1120 E. Charleston Blvd. Glass Craft & Bead Expo 4/1-4/2, 9 am-6 pm; 4/3, 10 am-3 pm, $13-$15. South Point, glasscraftexpo.com. Insane Inflatable 5K 4/9, 8:30 am, $60-$100. Craig Ranch Regional Park, 628 W. Craig Road, insaneinflatable5k.com. Jewish Community Center Sports Banquet w/Jay Fielder of the Miami Dolphins 4/7, 6 pm, $180. Hardwood Suite, Palms, jccsn.org. Jewish Women’s Spirituality Retreat 4/3, 9 am, $45. Three Square, 4190 N. Pecos Road, jccsn.org. Motley Brew’s Great Vegas Festival of Beer 4/9, 3 pm, $30-$80. Fremont East, greatvegasbeer.com. Olate Dogs 4/9, 4 pm, $25-$59. Vinyl, 702693-5000. Oscar Goodman Dinner Series 3/31, 6:30 pm, $150. Oscar’s Steakhouse, 1 S. Main St., 702386-7227. Pirate Fest 4/8, noon; 4/9-4/10, 10 am, $10$30. Lorenzi Park, 3333 W. Washington Ave., PirateFestLV.com. Riding 4 Autism 4/2, noon-8 pm, free. In front of Smith’s, 9750 S. Maryland Parkway, 702812-4875. Rock the Troops Poker Run 4/2, 9 am-5 pm, $25. Red Rock Harley Davidson, 2260 S. Rainbow Blvd., rockthetroopslv.com. RT Booklovers Convention 4/12, 1:30 pm; 4/13-4/15, 7 am; 4/16, 10:30 am; 4/17, 10 am, $20-$489. Rio, rtconvention.com. Sachamama’s “Volviendo a mis Raíces” 4/2, 10 am-5 pm, free. Downtown Las Vegas, volviendoamisraices.org. Spring Plant Sale 4/2, 8 am-1 pm, free. Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd., springspreserve.org. StanceWars 4/2, 5-10 pm, $15-$50. Boulder Station, stancewars.com. Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage 4/4, 7:30 pm, $50. Orleans Arena, orleansarena.com. Summerlin ArtWalk 4/9-4/10, 10 am-5 pm, free. Mountain Shadows Community Center,

9107 Del Webb Blvd., vegasartwalk.com. Summerlin Half Marathon 4/10, 7 am, $80$90. Downtown Summerlin, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive, downtownsummerlin.com. TEDxUNLV 2016: Living in the Extreme! 4/8, 8:30 am, $100. UNLV Black Box Theatre, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-895-2787. University Forum Lecture: The Place of Pornography in Everyday Life 4/6, 7:30-8:30 pm, free. UNLV, Marjorie Barrick Museum, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, 702895-0837. UNLVino Bubble-Licious 4/14, 7-10 pm, $100$125. Venetian. Sake Fever 4/15, 7-10 pm, $75-$100. Red Rock Resort Pool. UNLVino’s Grand Tasting 4/16, 7-10 pm, $100-$125. Paris Las Vegas, unlvtickets.com. VegFest 4/9, 11 am-4 pm, free. Clark County Amphitheater, 500 S. Grand Central Parkway, vegasvegfest.com. WaterWerks 4/3, 10 am, $0-$55. Boulder Station, waterwerksnw.com. The Writer’s Block Timber Hawkeye: Faithfully Religionless 4/2, 5-6:30 pm. An Evening of Poetry with Nicelle Davis, Eryn Green, Andrew S. Nicholson 4/9, 7-8 pm. Events free unless noted. 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock.org. Yiddish Las Vegas Festival 4/8-4/9, 7:30 pm; 4/10, 10 am-6:30 pm, $10-$250. Temple Sinai, 9001 Hillpointe Road, templesinailv.org.

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Sports Aloha Spirit Championships 4/9-4/10, 9 am, $20-$35. South Point, 702-796-7111. 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 & locations vary, $15. cityofhenderson.com. NWA Vendetta Pro Wrestling Casino Royale 4/10-4/11, 6 pm, free. Gold Coast, Arizona Ballroom, 4000 W. Flamingo Road, 702600-7552. Stallion Stakes 3/31-4/2, 8 am, free. South Point, 702-796-7111.

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