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Contents 6W as we see it Prince left his

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mark on Vegas, too. We’re gaining theme parks and losing Mermaids. Beauty Bar’s sign controversy, and the Neon Museum’s rhythm.

Paul Zerdin starts Mouthing Off.

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19W A&E Iconic beat poet Michael McClure reads to lions.

20W pop culture Fighting the dark times with Soul Train.

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30W food & drink Vegas needs more legit delis (and we’re getting two). The Foodie Fest is back, and Bumblebee Stew is boss. ONLY online Our guide to Mother’s Day brunches across the Valley; big bites at the biggest California Pizza Kitchen in the world (on the Strip); and a new Downtown salon—all at lasvegasweekly.com.

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> purple reign Downtown’s freshly painted Prince mural, by local artist Krie of JHF Crew.

Farewell, Mermaids Making room for a new casino on Fremont means losing some divey gold Time to say goodbye to some Fremont Street Experience mainstays. The Stevens brothers are furthering their Downtown domination—the owners of the D, Golden Gate and Downtown Las Vegas Events Center have purchased the land adjacent to their recently acquired Las Vegas Club—and that mean veteran FSE destinations La Bayou, Mermaids and Girls of Glitter Gulch will close by June 27 to make way for a new hotel-casino concept. Oh, Mermaids, how will we miss you? Let us count the ways: Deep-fried Twinkies and Oreos Some other Downtown destinations might fill this “foodie” void, but it just won’t feel the same ordering the gluttonous goodies at a joint that doesn’t reek of Mermaids’ signature perfume of grease and cigarettes. Getting lei’d with Mardi Gras beads Those headdressed, Rio Rita-ripoff “showgirls” are so friendly! Let’s be honest, though, it’s even better when they aren’t. Who will we shoot side-eye at now … Hello Kitty?

A town fit for a Prince

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mermaids by steve marcus; prince mural by mikayla whitmore

Four years ago, as the Weekly set about the daunting task of ranking the top headliners in Las Vegas history— Elvis, the Rat Pack, Liberace, Penn & Teller, Siegfried & Roy—I had the strange sensation we might be doing it all wrong. In terms of Vegasness, those acts and others like them deserved the prime spots, for their years of service on the Strip and their undeniable historical legacies. But one name kept tugging on my brain: Prince. He only set up shop here for a few months, turning a venue inside the Rio into Club 3121 from late 2006 through early 2007, but he delivered something singular and strange: a peak-condition performer working without a net, not because he needed the money but simply because. He was Prince, after all, so whatever he felt, he did, and we were lucky to bear witness. I caught him in concert eight times—in arenas, a nightclub, at Coachella, even twice in one night during his final Vegas run—and I’m heartbroken I didn’t double or triple

that number. He was the most captivating performer of his time, and now we’re inexplicably left without him, which especially hurts since he was just 57, and seemed to have years and years of music yet to give. For me, it’s another reminder to see musical heroes while I can. No matter how long it lasts, life’s too short— mine and theirs—for regrets over missed opportunities. That’s why I drive, and even fly, to see favorite performers when possible, and why I push myself to go to shows after long work days when the couch seems so inviting. I could regale you with tales of Prince’s guitar badassery (at his peak he was like a funkier Hendrix), his sheer magnetism (when Prince was in the house, I didn’t even want to blink) and his skills at building bands (Sheila, Maceo, Morris and so many more), but if there’s any justice in the world you already know about all that. I could draft a countdown of my favorite Prince tunes— “Pop Life,” “Little Red Corvette,” “When You Were Mine”—but I’m sure you know them all by heart. So I’ll just say this: I’ve seen more than 1,000 headliners in my life, and no one has been more consistently entertaining than Prince Rogers Nelson. If that doesn’t rank No. 1 overall, I don’t what else could. –Spencer Patterson

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As We See It… > life on mars Apparently, there are butterflies.

We are not amused ... enough The case for theme parks in Las Vegas By Mike Prevatt The spoils are relative for those in search of theme-parky experiences in Southern Nevada. And yet, compared to other attraction-rich tourism capitals in the U.S.—Orlando; SoCal; Pigeon Forge, Tennessee—we still don’t have one, single destination park that could reliably draw tourists on its own. That could change with the pro-

posed Mars World. The indoor, colony-like facility is reportedly in funding stages, and its executive VP and chief designer is space tourism/spacethemed attraction guru John Spencer. If it secures the Strip-adjacent acreage and $2 billion needed to become a reality, guests could be simulating Mars walks in diminished gravity and

Neon rhythm A spontaneous symphony among (and inspired by) historic signs Composer Jennifer Bellor is commanding a small audience under the sun in the Neon Museum’s north gallery, where she’s the artist-in-residence working among the giant and famously historic signs. With a Ph.D. in music composition from Eastman School of Music and a master’s in composition from Syracuse University, she’s reverting to the basics—rhythm and voice—to engage the group in creating music on the spot. “Circus Circus Wet ‘N’ Wild,” she enunciates, clapping out the coordinating eighth notes. The audience claps and enunciates in return. When rhythms and phrases are taught and learned, she sections the audience into thirds and has those groups perform assigned parts simultaneously. It’s a beautifully unrehearsed symphony of enthusiasm, Vegas-related lyrics and assorted rhythms, a fugue of

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staying in a property hotel by 2021. But given Las Vegas’ spotty history with theme parks—RIP, MGM Grand Adventures and the original Wet ‘N’ Wild—its success is hardly surefire. Lance Hart, editor and owner of website Screamscape, which reports, analyzes and compiles international amusement-park and tourist-attrac-

tion news, seems skeptical. If he’s bullish on anything, it’s Las Vegas as a prospective site for a theme park. “Anyone who knows theme parks knows that the true money made isn’t from guests buying admission tickets, but how much they are willing to spend on entertainment, retail and dining,” Hart says. “With that in mind, I think the Vegas demographic has changed to the point where more theme park-style attractions could be a good fit.” Hart sees a particular amusement-park brand having potential in Las Vegas: Ferrari World. The Italian carmaker’s amusement-park endeavors include a largely indoor facility in Abu Dhabi, another forthcoming at PortAventura near Barcelona and a third planned for China—and earlier this month, Bloomberg reported that the company wants a North America version. Hart hasn’t heard that Las Vegas is being considered as a host city, but he believes it should be, mostly because the original Ferrari World, while offering some family attractions, is geared toward adults—much like casinos on the Strip (and Mars World, for that matter). “In my opinion,” he says, “it would see far more success in Vegas than I think it would in Orlando or Southern California.” Even if a significant theme park never materializes, similar experiences and other adventurism could still be on the horizon. With a planned indoor water park at the forthcoming Resorts World, Wynn’s lagoonbased Paradise Park (which will feature water skiing, parasailing, paddle boarding and nightly fireworks) and the Vegas Extreme Park reportedly to be built across from Town Square, perhaps Southern Nevada is already on its way to turning weekend warriors into weeklong warriors.

sorts with a 3-year-old improvising on triangle. Bellor, a visiting lecturer at UNLV, is the fourth artist-in-residence at the Neon Museum to engage others in their disciplines while incorporating the museum itself. Now that she has completed the first task with her guests, she breaks them into groups again and sends them to the signs lining the boneyard for inspiration. With provided drums, maracas, tambourines and other percussive instruments, they create their own works. The result isn’t bad: “Golden Nugget best in town/Gordie Brown our showroom clown/Pretty girls, coldest beer/We’ll be here all year.” After three more presentations, including two instrumentals, Bellor introduces a piece she wrote about nostalgia and cherished moments that is performed by the pianist, clarinetist and percussionist who’d been collaborating in the performances. The song, “Moments Shared, Moments Lost,” is sentimental and jazz-like. With a slow, free-flowing beat on a tubano drum, it echoes the stories of the once-fantastic, worn and retired signs enveloping us. –Kristen Peterson

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REDUX CASSEROLE Recycling organs, anger and maybe actual trash BY STACY J. WILLIS I’m racing down the street trying to run over human organs. There’s a pair of pink lungs on the left, and I swerve to hit them but miss; there’s a beige liver on the right—boom!—100 points! Soon I’ll be using a slingshot to fling human hearts and kidneys across a room into coolers, trying to beat the clock to get more points. It’s an online game called Scalpel Pal, “the fun and interactive way to learn the importance of organ donation,” on GoRecycleYourself.com. April is National Donate Life Month (along with Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Jazz Appreciation Month, Financial Literacy Month, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month and Confederate History Month), and the site is part of a campaign by not-forprofit Donate Life America to attract younger potential donors. I lost a good hour trying to run over a set of eyeballs while avoiding unusable body parts like the random ear or stomach. But I also learned that more than 120,000 Americans are awaiting transplants. I’d wandered onto the site while researching recycling. I’d been to GREENFest, an environmental shindig the day after Earth Day, which has expanded into Earth Week and Earth Month, and I wanted to get an all-in-one recycling bin, because I’m still using those tiny red, white and blue crates. The notion of recycling yourself—your body—came as a bonus, as did the delightfully macabre game (set to carnival music). But it made me think more about marketing tactics in today’s media-saturated world than donating my tired liver. *****

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***** On the upside, there’s still the beauty of absurdity. On the way to GREENFest at Downtown Summerlin, we passed through miles of vibrant green landscaping, little of it indigenous, all of it well-tended. Then we navigated a maze of sky-scraping palms and circled vast parking lots around the LEED-CertifiedSilver complex twice before finding a spot for our carbon-fuel sucker. The festival, meant to raise awareness about environmental sustainability, was awesome. I had my picture taken with someone wearing a Mojave Max Desert Tortoise costume. We got tons of free tchotchkes: a rubber ball that lights up when you bounce it, from NV Energy; plastic sunglasses from the Las Vegas Wash Coordination Committee; a foil-wrapped pack of disposable individual paw-wipes from a pet-rescue organization; wine-can foam koozies for the celebratory GREENFest drinks; mini inflatable plastic beach balls from, I think, a booth supporting recreational marijuana legislation; and fliers galore. Moreover, we sat on the rich green lawn and listened to several bands rock out—amps powered by solar—while barefoot kids danced and kicked around a 3-foot inflatable Earth. One toddler tried to jump on top of it, conquer it, but Earth rolled him off. Between bands, some percussionists held a drum circle. The leader invited the crowd to join in. “You don’t really have to know what you’re doing,” he said. “You just have to come up and open your mind and heart a little.” And so it is. It was a ridiculously lovely day.

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While today’s media-saturated world is technologically uber-fresh, it’s chock-full o’ recycled ideology. And verbiage. It’s astoundingly easy, and now banal, to connect to strangers worldwide on a daily basis. Yet when I compulsively glance at my Facebook feed—Facebook is the site upon which 41 percent of Americans rely for their news links, according to the Reuters Institute—it’s pretty much always filled with old arguments about the same old issues. And I keep digesting them anyway. Perhaps it’s true that there’s nothing new under the sun, that everything old is new again, and that ideologically speaking, recycling is not ultimately a choice but an inevitability.

To wit, I cannot believe the national conversation is once again about whether the LGBTQ community should have civil rights, and if so, when and where they should be curtailed. Somehow, in my misplaced faith or misspent youth, I thought we’d settled that. I thought we, as a nation, had grown, agreed that equality is a virtuous standard. But here it is again, clogging up my news feed—recycled ignorance, the same hackneyed hate and fear all crumpled up, repackaged and sold with a new spin: terror in the toilets. Alarming in another enormous way is what seems like a renewal of racism and xenophobia. Perhaps it’s less a renewal than a resurfacing. Still, I see tragic images from cell-cam and dashboard videos, overt bigotry from presidential candidates and pitiful screeds from online trolls that harken back to a time I had hoped, so naively, here in Confederate History Month, we’d survived and learned from. And disposed of. Recycling in this context does not seem like progress.

A photo of Beauty Bar’s sidewalk chalkboard made the rounds on April 14. It read, “I like my beer like I like my violence: domestic,” and community members levied hundreds of complaints on social media. It sparked so much controversy that touring band Shannon and the Clams moved its May 11 show to Backstage Bar & Billiards. Since Darin Feinstein and Corey Harrison bought Beauty Bar in June 2014, several incidents have riled the scene. Not long after they took over, Feinstein was in the news for allegedly harassing a female customer. After he filed a defamation lawsuit against her, then dropped it once they settled, misgivings about the bar seemed to subside—until it promoted, then quickly canceled, a party called “Welfare Wednesdays.” When reached for comment about this latest backlash, Marlene Richter, executive director of the Shade Tree shelter for women and children who are victims of domestic abuse, said there’s an upside. “The dialogue that came out of it is what I think the positive beginning is. ... We have to say this is not okay. Domestic violence is not okay. Being comical about it is not okay. Clearly it wasn’t okay for the bar either, because as soon as the manager saw it the manager took it down.” Beauty Bar apologized on Facebook, stating that the employee who wrote the message was suspended, and that “Beauty Bar has been a longtime supporter of local and national anti-domestic violence charities and in no way supported this message.” Richter said the bar contacted Shade Tree about holding a benefit following the blunder, but the shelter said the timing wasn’t right. “The owner of the bar has been, without fanfare, supporting the shelter for years. [Feinstein] provides money; he brought his artists in and painted the courtyards … [he] has brought in his own staff to volunteer.” And while the sandwich-board “joke” was tasteless and offensive, Richter hopes it continues a greater conversation. “The response from our community is, I think, a really good sign that they’re not going to be bystanders.” –Leslie Ventura

From angry sorority sisters to Angry Birds, feast on this season’s cinematic buffet BY JOSH BELL

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (May 6) Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson. Directed by Joe Russo and Anthony Russo. Captain America leads the charge against government control of superheroes, which pits him against his fellow Avenger Iron Man. Thumbs up: Pretty much every Marvel movie superhero is in this! Thumbs down: At some point, the sheer number of characters brings diminishing returns.

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (May 27) Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Oscar Isaac. Directed by Bryan Singer. The mutant superheroes must defeat ancient supervillain Apocalypse (Isaac). Thumbs up: Singer did a great job of bringing the X-Men together with Days of Future Past. Thumbs down: It’s going to be hard to top that film’s epic scope.

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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS (June 3) Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Stephen Amell. Directed by Dave Green. The Turtles return to face the evil Shredder, plus new villains Bebop, Rocksteady and Krang. Thumbs up: The sequel to 2014’s TMNT reboot brings back more fan-favorite characters from the ’80s cartoon series. Thumbs down: Those characters are some of the franchise’s most annoying elements.

WARCRAFT (June 10) Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster. Directed by Duncan Jones. This fantasy epic about a war between humans and orcs is based on the incredibly popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft. Thumbs up: Literally millions of people already love these characters and this world. Thumbs down: That kind of pressure is hard to live up to.

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (June 24) Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth, Bill Pullman. Directed by Roland Emmerich. The aliens who were defeated in 1996’s Independence Day return to take over Earth and wipe out humanity. Thumbs up: Nearly the entire original cast (minus Will Smith) is back for another action-filled popcorn movie. Thumbs down: After 20 years, did we really need a follow-up?

THE LEGEND OF TARZAN (July 1) Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Christoph Waltz. Directed by David Yates. Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle warrior gets an effects-heavy action update. Thumbs up: With so many advances in special effects, Tarzan’s animal allies look pretty amazing. Thumbs down: A unique character with decades of history could become another generic action hero.

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STAR TREK BEYOND (July 22) Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Idris Elba. Directed by Justin Lin. The third movie in the rebooted Star Trek series pits the crew of the Enterprise against an unfamiliar and dangerous alien enemy. Thumbs up: Co-star and renowned geek Simon Pegg co-wrote the script, and Elba should make for a fantastic alien villain. Thumbs down: This series still doesn’t quite get the core appeal of Star Trek, downplaying the cerebral in favor of loud action.

JASON BOURNE (July 29) Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Tommy Lee Jones. Directed by Paul Greengrass. Unstoppable badass Jason Bourne returns to kick more people in the face, while questioning the meaning of his existence. Thumbs up: After the disappointing The Bourne Legacy, it’s great to see Damon and Greengrass return to the super-spy series. Thumbs down: Bourne had a nice sendoff with 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, so it’s kind of a shame to drag him out of retirement.

SUICIDE SQUAD (August 5) Margot Robbie, Will Smith, Jared Leto, Joel Kinnaman. Directed by David Ayer. A team of degenerate supervillains is recruited by the government to go after an even bigger villain: the Joker (Leto). Thumbs up: The latest DC superhero movie looks like a livelier change of pace from the leaden Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Thumbs down: DC has yet to figure out how to make its superhero movies actually fun to watch. APRIL 28-MAY 4, 2016 LASVEGASWEEKLY.COM

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The Angry Birds Movie (May 20) Voices of Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride. Directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly. The angry birds from the insidious mobile game are now the stars of an animated movie. Thumbs up: It’s probably less annoying than watching someone play the game. Thumbs down: But maybe not by much.

Alice Through the Looking Glass (May 27) Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter. Directed by James Bobin. In this sequel to the 2010 live-action Alice in Wonderland, Alice returns to Underland on a quest to save the Mad Hatter. Thumbs up: Bobin directed the amusing 2011 Muppets movie, and might have a lighter touch than pervious Alice director Tim Burton. Thumbs down: Making Depp’s grating Mad Hatter into an even more important character is a terrible idea.

Finding Dory (June 17) Voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Hayden Rolence. Directed by Andrew Stanton. The undersea characters from Pixar’s Finding Nemo return, to help amnesiac fish Dory reunite with her family. Thumbs up: Finding Nemo was one of Pixar’s best movies, and this sequel comes from original writer-director Stanton. Thumbs down: Pixar has had an uneven track record in the past few years, including some unimpressive sequels.

Now You See Me 2 (June 10) Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Daniel Radcliffe. Directed by Jon M. Chu. The bank-robbing magicians return to pull off an even bigger heist. Thumbs up: The combo of stage magic and bank robbery was an original, unique idea. Thumbs down: Why is this movie not called Now You Don’t?

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Ben-Hur (August 19) Jack Huston, Nazanin Boniadi, Morgan Freeman. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov. A new adaptation of the 1880 novel about a Jewish man in ancient Rome changed by his encounters with Jesus Christ, previously made into a 1959 epic starring Charlton Heston. Thumbs up: There’s nothing wrong with bringing a classic story to a new generation. Thumbs down: It will be hard to top what is often considered one of the greatest movies of all time.

Mechanic: Resurrection (August 26) Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones. Directed by Dennis Gansel. Statham returns as assassin Arthur Bishop, who’s pulled back into his old life when an enemy kidnaps his girlfriend. Thumbs up: Nobody does stoic brutality like Jason Statham. Thumbs down: Does anybody even remember the first Mechanic?

The BFG (July 1) Ruby Barnhill, Mark Rylance, Rebecca Hall. Directed by Steven Spielberg. The classic children’s novel by Roald Dahl, about a big friendly giant and the young girl he befriends, gets a bigscreen adaptation. Thumbs up: Spielberg has made some alltime great family films, and Dahl’s book has been beloved for decades. Thumbs down: The live-action, CGIenhanced version of the BFG looks more creepy than friendly.

The Secret Life of Pets (July 8) Voices of Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart. Directed by Chris Renaud. An animated look at what pets are up to while their owners are away. Thumbs up: Louis C.K. as a neurotic dog? Kevin Hart as a fluffy bunny? Sounds hilarious. Thumbs down: Sounds like it has one joke.

Ice Age: Collision Course (July 22) Voices of Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo. Directed by Mike Thurmeier. The fifth movie in the animated prehistoric series finds the main characters facing extinction as a meteor hurtles toward Earth. Thumbs up: The Ice Age movies have grossed nearly $3 billion worldwide and are the second highest-grossing animated franchise of all time (behind Shrek). Thumbs down: People have terrible taste.

Money Monster (May 13) George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell. Directed by Jodie Foster. A disgruntled investor takes a cable-TV financial-advice personality hostage live on the air. Thumbs up: It looks both suspenseful and timely. Thumbs down: It could be really heavy-handed in its social commentary.

Me Before You (June 3) Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Jenna Coleman. Directed by Thea Sharrock. A young woman falls in love with the wealthy, paralyzed man she’s hired to look after. Thumbs up: Even the trailer is a nonstop tearjerker. Thumbs down: Even the trailer is a nonstop tearjerker.

Nine Lives (August 5) Kevin Spacey, Robbie Amell, Jennifer Garner. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. A self-centered business tycoon (Spacey) is magically trapped in the body of his family’s cat, Mr. Fuzzypants. Thumbs up: Kevin Spacey … is … a … cat? Thumbs down: This cannot be a real movie.

Pete’s Dragon (August 12) Oakes Fegley, Bryce Dallas Howard, Oona Laurence. Directed by David Lowery. This remake of the 1977 Disney family movie tells the story of a young boy who befriends a dragon. Thumbs up: Indie filmmaker Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) is a bold choice to direct a family-friendly fantasy. Thumbs down: Disney is not known for giving eccentric directors lots of leeway.

Kubo and the Two Strings (August 19) Voices of Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey. Directed by Travis Knight. In ancient Japan, a young boy finds himself in the middle of a battle between gods and monsters. Thumbs up: Stop-motion animation studio Laika has created some lovely movies, including Coraline and ParaNorman. Thumbs down: This one comes from a first-time director who may not have as strong a creative vision.

Free State of Jones (June 24) Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Keri Russell. Directed by Gary Ross. The true Civil War story of Mississippian Newton Knight, who fought against the Confederacy with fellow farmers and former slaves. Thumbs up: It combines a serious historical account with action. Thumbs down: The action might end up overtaking the history.

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Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (May 20) Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron. Directed by Nicholas Stoller. Suburban couple Mac and Kelly enlist the help of their former frat-boy neighbor to take down the obnoxious sorority that’s moved in next door. Thumbs up: Rogen and Efron have an amusing mismatchedbuddy chemistry. Thumbs down: This is literally the same plot as the first movie, with a sorority swapped in for the fraternity. The Nice Guys (May 20) Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe, Matt Bomer. Directed by Shane Black. A pair of bumbling private detectives in 1970s LA inadvertently uncover a conspiracy. Thumbs up: The period detail and witty banter seem impeccably crafted. Thumbs down: The ’70s pastiche could end up overly cutesy. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (June 3) Andy Samberg, Imogen Poots, Tim Meadows. Directed by Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. A parody of pompous musical documentaries, starring Samberg as a former boy-bander. Thumbs up: The first movie from The Lonely Island (Samberg, Schaffer and Taccone) looks like it captures their goofy, pop-culturesavvy charm. Thumbs down: That charm has never had to carry more than a sketch or a music video. Central Intelligence (June 17) Kevin Hart, Dwayne Johnson, Amy Ryan. Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. A CIA agent (Johnson) recruits his former high-school classmate (Hart), a timid accountant, for a secret mission. Thumbs up: Hart and Johnson have strong comedic chemistry. Thumbs down: Hart has done the buddy-comedy thing before with mostly underwhelming results. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (July 8) Zac Efron, Adam DeVine, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza. Directed by Jake Szymanski. Obnoxious brothers try to find respectable

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dates for their sister’s wedding, only to end up with a pair of equally obnoxious friends. Thumbs up: This is a prime cast for a raunchy comedy. Thumbs down: The last raunchy comedy Efron and Plaza starred in was Dirty Grandpa. Ghostbusters (July 15) Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones. Directed by Paul Feig. A remake of the 1984 sci-fi comedy about a team of misfits fighting the supernatural in New York City. Thumbs up: Wiig, McCarthy and Feig all teamed up for the hilarious Bridesmaids, and Feig and McCarthy have made two solid action-comedies (The Heat and Spy) together. Thumbs down: It would be great to see this talented cast in an original movie rather than yet another nostalgia-baiting remake. Bad Moms (July 29) Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn. Directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Three stressed-out moms let off steam. Thumbs up: It’ll be fun to see these actresses cut loose. Thumbs down: There better be more to it than hearing seemingly proper mothers using swear words. Sausage Party (August 12) Voices of Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill. Directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon. A vulgar animated movie that’s definitely not for kids, starring Rogen as the voice of a sausage attempting to escape being eaten. Thumbs up: This is really weird! Thumbs down: This is really dumb! War Dogs (August 19) Miles Teller, Jonah Hill, Ana de Armas. Directed by Todd Phillips. Teller and Hill play two 20-something dudes who score a $300 million government arms contract, in this comedy based on a true story. Thumbs up: It could be a clever social satire about American imperialism and gun-craziness. Thumbs down: It comes from the director of Old School and The Hangover movies, not known as clever satires.

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Love & Friendship (May 13 limited) Director Whit Stillman’s films (which include Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco) have always seemed like hyper-literate throwbacks, so it’s no surprise to see him adapting Jane Austen, whose work his characters have discussed in detail. Disco stars Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny reunite in this delicious take on Austen’s little-read novella Lady Susan, about a scheming widow and the various people she skillfully manipulates.

The Conjuring 2 (June 10) Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Frances O’Connor. Directed by James Wan. Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on another haunted family home, this time in England. Thumbs up: The first Conjuring had some seriously scary moments. Thumbs down: It’s hard to replicate the same level of surprise and terror. The Shallows (June 24) Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Sedona Legge. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. A surfer finds herself stranded on a small island while a deadly shark circles around her. Thumbs up: Sharks are inherently terrifying. Thumbs down: Thanks to tons of terrible shark movies, sharks onscreen are not nearly as terrifying as they once were.

The Purge: Election Year (July 1) Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mykelti Williamson. Directed by James DeMonaco. It’s time once again for the annual Purge, the one day in dystopian future America when all crime is legal. Thumbs up: This third movie expands the series’ scope again, focusing on a presidential candidate campaigning to eliminate the Purge. Thumbs down: Are The Purge movies really the place to look for political commentary?

Lights Out (July 22) Teresa Palmer, Maria Bello, Billy Burke. Directed by David F. Sandberg. A supernatural creature stalks people from the shadows. Thumbs up: It’s based on a creepy 2013 short film that went viral online. Thumbs down: A short film that lasts less than three minutes maybe isn’t the most solid basis for a feature-length movie.

The Lobster (May 13 limited) There won’t likely be a stranger movie this year than Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos’ English-language debut (he previously made the superb black comedy Dogtooth), which imagines a world in which single people must find a suitable mate within 45 days or be permanently transformed into an animal of their choice. Colin Farrell stars as the title character—potentially— while Rachel Weisz plays a mysterious woman with an agenda of her own. Tickled (June 17 limited) Sundance attendees who saw this documentary about underground tickling endurance competitions (what now?) claim that it takes multiple hairpin turns that have to be seen to be believed. What begins as an exploration of a sexual fetish community reportedly turns into something much more disturbing, while also being wildly entertaining. Sounds unmissable.

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Now that the new nightclub is finally here, let’s take stock of what we know about the replacement for Tryst at Wynn Las Vegas. First, it’s definitely going to be different. Although that’s a claim every new nightclub always makes, rest assured Intrigue will pull it off, bolstered by the impeccable Wynn design standard and the stated programming goal to move away from DJ-centered entertainment. Secondly, it’ll be all about service, with the goal of making everyone a VIP—and utilizing the full power of Wynn Resorts, the rare hotel-casino company that runs its own nightclubs. “It’s about attention to detail, about giving the experience and service only we can,” says co-executive director Pauly Freedman. “We have our own nightlife concierge on property, so we can go five steps further than just booking your table. Do you need transportation? Do you

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need a plane to come to town? Have you booked your rooms and dinner reservations? Is there something special we can do for you in our restaurants or clubs or something else off-property? Do you want to race cars? We are a one-stop shop for our customers.” As we’ll all discover starting tonight, there will be plenty of big and small touches that will set Intrigue apart, from a fire and water feature outside to a refined tableside mixology experience. But it’s really all about intimacy, about crafting just the right nightlife experience for each patron, and it comes down to that all-important service relationship. “That’s what’s missing in nightlife today,” Freedman says. “Intrigue, being smaller and more intimate, gives us the opportunity to get back to that, not just giving that VIP experience but the follow-up. It’s back to basics.” –Brock Radke

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erhaps it’s because Robyn Rihanna Fenty has ostensibly taken over the world—record sales exceeding 200 million, accolades ranging from Grammy Awards to Time’s list of the 100 Most Influential People to a fashion icon lifetime achievement award—that many expected her latest musical output, Anti, to be some sort of career-defining masterwork. But those following more closely know that ever since Rihanna branched beyond dance-pop with 2007’s record-breaking Good Girl Gone Bad, the Barbadian beauty has established herself as a supremely confident artist who pursues only her own path. Eighth studio album Anti is the soundtrack of a world RiRi has created for herself. Noticeably absent are the huge dance anthems that made her a household name. In their place are addictive, edgy gems like “Consideration”—where Rihanna declares, “I got to do things my own way, darling”— bonus track teaser “Sex With

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Me” and undeniable dancehallflavored smash “Work,” a track that proves Rihanna can make a monster club hit on whatever terms she prefers. Always sexy and soulful, she brings a new diversity of sounds with her latest work, all of which will be on display when the Anti World Tour rolls into Las Vegas this weekend. Expect a memorable performance. Rihanna at Mandalay Bay Events Center, April 29 & 30. –Brock Radke

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egas really knows how to stretch out a weekend. In the spirit of procrastinating a return to real life for as long as possible, Wet Republic—the high-energy dayclub at MGM Grand—recently launched a new industry-oriented pool party called Endless Sundays, kicked off by Australian DJ duo Nervo. Hitmakers The Chainsmokers take over for the next installment, and future parties will be soundtracked by the likes of

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Afrojack, Martin Garrix and others. So how do you make it feel like the party will go on forever? Champagne is the easy answer. Equally accommodating for locals and Vegas visitors looking to cap their weekend in a big way, Endless Sundays offers endless bubbles from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in addition to special “Champagne spray” packages and Sunday-only cocktails like the Moët Afternoon Ice and the Belvedere Citrus Spritz.

Already considered one of the top pool clubs in Las Vegas, Wet Republic is upping the ante with Endless Sundays. The Vegas weekend isn’t over until you say it’s over. Endless Sundays with The Chainsmokers at Wet Republic at MGM Grand, May 1.

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n Vegas, DJ Five is a household name. Born Jerid Choensookasem, Five started spinning hip-hop as a teenager in the ’90s, laying down jams anywhere he could. “Underground parties, b-boy park jams”—you name it. Now, as part of the SKAM family that includes the likes of Lil Jon, Vice, Samantha Ronson and Amber Rose, Five can be found on the decks at Vegas’ most-electrifying clubs, from Hyde and Light to Tao and Omnia. When he isn’t DJing, Five is fully immersed in everything Las Vegas. He’s a partner in Downtown ramen joint Itsy Bitsy, and he says there’s talk of

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investing in a coffee shop. On a typical day Five and his crew might hit up Eat for breakfast or Makers & Finders for coffee. “Once or twice a week we meet up, me and a few of my buddies, and we ride bikes Downtown. Sometimes we go to UNLV and come back. It’s good exercise, it’s fun, and you see parts of the city you never get to see.” Then there’s spots like Institution 18b, an independent streetwear shop owned by pal Wil Eddins in the heart of the Arts District, where Five and his friends can chill before a night on the town.

I t For dinner, Five hits up the popular westside haunt Other Mama and always orders the French toast with caviar. “But I tell [chef] Dan [Krohmer] to add uni,” he says. You can do that when you’re buddies with the chef. “Everything’s good there. It’s a local gem.” His best night ever? Five could end up hitting up the bars along Fremont East, stopping by Velveteen Rabbit on Main Street or “anywhere in the Cosmo,” he says. Basically, where Five goes, the party follows. –Leslie Ventura

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hen legendary restaurateur Danny Meyer decided to expand his brilliant burger empire to the West and finally start doing business in Las Vegas, he made a simple, crucial decision—he didn’t want to put Shake Shack in a casino. The result is a new standard in fast-casual dining for the Strip, a deliciously hip instant favorite that welcomes Vegas visitors to the Park and the new T-Mobile Arena—which has another Shake Shack outlet inside.

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A great Vegas casino bar should be a gateway, where the customizing of fun begins. The heart of the Mirage is ready for you. Center Bar at Mirage, 702-791-7111; daily 10 a.m.-5 a.m.

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The Orange County, California, native came to Las Vegas almost a decade ago, and for the past five years he’s called LAX home. “I’ve never had a job where everybody I work with, we’re all very close,” he says. “If somebody’s having a baby, everybody’s at the baby shower—birthdays, everything. Throughout the years I’ve never had such a great staff.” Gomez’s first passion is punk rock—he’s got a tribute to Alkaline Trio inked on his forearm— but he’s also obsessed with everything Disney. It stems from years of hanging out at Disneyland as a kid. “I used to live five minutes away, and my dad, he’d be like, ‘I’m going to be working, so just

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Eight of the Logo TV show’s gorgeous glamazons take center stage at the Pearl Friday night, and they won’t solely be lip-syncing. We’re especially excited for vocal performances from Adore Delano and Courtney Act … and to see what ridiculousness Alaska Thunderf*ck has dreamed up. April 29, 8 p.m., $40-$299. kabuki lion MGM Resorts follows its eye-popping kabuki show on the Bellagio’s lake with an original play created for MGM Grand’s David Copperfield Theater, weaving new-media art with Ichikawa Somegoro’s take on a mythical lion. May 3-6, 8 p.m.; May 7, 7 & 10 p.m.; $60-$207. LAS VEGAS CLASSIC FILM THEATER

Baobab Stage at Town Square ambitiously begins delving into classic, foreign and independent films. The new series kicks off with an opening-night reception, followed by the 1963 Cary Grant/Audrey Hepburn caper movie Charade. Peep other May titles at baobabstage.com. May 1, 6 p.m., $5.

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go SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FESTIVAL Who says science is languishing in Las Vegas? A crowd of more than 35,000 participated in 2015’s marathon of educational, interactive and Vegas-specific events, and this year’s nine-day slate (all free, by the way) looks even more enticing. Example: May the Science Be With You merges space exploration with Star Wars. Be there, we will. April 29-May 7, free, scifest.vegas. INDIAN FOOD & CULTURAL FESTIVAL

Go beyond samosas and tikka masala and sample next-level dishes like chaat papri, bhelpuri and chole puri—available from more than a dozen participating local restaurants—while taking in native performances and shopping for traditional goods at the 13th edition of this annual favorite. April 30, 11 a.m.9:30 p.m., $5, Clark County Government Center Amphitheater.

He’s a founding father of the Beat Generation who rolled with Jack MICHAEL Kerouac and Allen MCCLURE Ginsberg. He has Poetry Reading: called Jim Morrison April 30, 7 p.m., and Ray Manzarek free, Winchester his friends, and he’s Cultural an animal lover Center. Writer’s known to read Workshop: May poetry to lions and 1, 2 p.m., free, kangaroos. He’s Clark County Michael McClure, an Library, 1401 E. 83-year-old icon of Flamingo Road. the written word. Experience the emotion of his work at an April 30 poetry reading (Of Indigo and Saffron and Ghost Tantras) and a May 1 writer’s workshop. McClure is off to New York afterward, so howl with the master of beast language and soulful words while he’s here. What will you workshop? Secrets in the creation of inspiring and imaginative poetry. I’ve written this workshop especially for Las Vegas, thinking that it will be larger than what I’m used to doing, which is usually 15 to 30 people. I’ll use a lot of techniques from Kerouac, Charles Olson and Ginsberg to put something together in a completely creative way. You’ve written so much poetry. How do you do it? You get up every morning and wait for the muse. If you sit long enough, she’ll be there. Early, early in the morning is good for me. Are your newer books written in a new style? My style is changing all the time. It’s good for me to help me figure out what’s going on with myself and what’s going on with others. “A mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.” [Walt Whitman] A poem is like a mouse. A poem can do a great deal, particularly to help you discover your inspiration. –Rosalie Spear For more of our interview with McClure, visit lasvegasweekly.com.

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Manson. Jonestown. The Son of Sam. And yet, it’s comforting to know the world has always been screwed. American Psycho. Several weeks ago, I deleted Facebook from my phone in attempt to limit exposure to all the mood-altering Hillary vs. Bernie fights in my feed. Within hours, I’d read 100 pages of this dark and deeply funny novel. Patrick Bateman’s philosophy—brutally murder those who annoy you—packs more vicarious thrill than ever. The Girlfriend Experience. This slick, spare, très trashy Starz series is about a law intern who becomes a high-price escort overnight. Yes, all those under-the-table transactions and all the sleeping around lead to high drama and spiritual malaise. But watching a very sexy human give a middle finger to civic duty is not without appeal.

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Amid all the chaos, some suggested escapes BY SMITH GALTNEY On the afternoon of April 21, Vice posted a picture of Prince. The lone text beneath: “F*ck.” Its headline: “Dear 2016, F*ck You.” There was nothing more to say. There’s been Bowie and Merle Haggard and George Martin, Harper Lee and Alan Rickman and Zaha Hadid. There’s been Trump and Bernie Bros, North Carolina and Mississippi and God-knows-what ready to blow at this summer’s conventions. If that’s not depressing enough, guess what? The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is melting way faster than predicted. And it’s not

even May, folks! We’re going to need some timeouts—lots and lots of time-outs—in order to keep our heads straight this year. I suggest the following for solace, escapism and reassurance … Dazed and Confused and Everybody Wants Some!! Set in 1976 and ’80, respectively, Richard Linklater’s twin love letters to simpler times aren’t your typical, dewy-eyed nostalgia trips—yesterday often feels just as boring as today—but they’re still tons of fun. Catch Everybody in the theater, then cozy up at home

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CNN’s The Seventies. They weren’t completely fabulous! This eight-part recap of the decade when “Americans began to expect the worst” recently landed on Netflix, and gosh, it’s gloomy. Vietnam. Watergate. Televised terrorism.

Sturgill Simpson’s A Sailor’s Guide to Earth and the Hamilton cast recording. I hate Simpson’s cover of Nirvana’s “In Bloom” (his rendition of When in Rome’s “The Promise” is imminently preferable), and Hamilton is so good it’s kind of exhausting. Yet both are proof that great things are happening right now. One day, believe it or not, even 2016 will be viewed as a golden age by someone.

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Prince tribute mixes. Less than a week after his death, people stopped being polite again. Instead of engaging in a dumbass “Hendrix was better” thread, search for the many talented DJs who’ve posted musical thank-yous. (I won’t tell you where they are, for fear of the Prince police making them disappear.) Tune out all crusty talk about The Beatles and Stones and blah blah blah, and be proud of your ’80s heritage. You grew up to Prince!

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When Valentine’s Day was released in aaccc 2010, critics joked that MOTHER’S director Garry Marshall DAY Jennifer was setting up a whole Aniston, Kate franchise of holidayHudson, Jason themed ensemble Sudeikis. romantic comedies. Directed by But with the release of Garry Marshall. Mother’s Day, MarRated PG-13. shall’s third holidayOpens Friday themed ensemble citywide. romantic comedy, it becomes clear that the joke’s on us. Even though 2011’s New Year’s Eve was a box-office disappointment, Marshall has persevered, working with new writers and a new studio on the somewhat scaled-back Mother’s Day. Instead of a dozen or so stories set around the central holiday, Mother’s Day features only four, with characters played by Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Jason Sudeikis, Britt Robertson, Julia Roberts and others. Given more room, the individual stories only strain under their flimsy premises, and the actors all put forth the minimum possible effort. The jokes are beyond stale (Sudeikis’ single dad is embarrassed to buy his daughter tampons!), the dialogue is full of repetitive exposition, the plot mechanics are clumsy, and the aesthetic is somewhere around the level of a Disney Channel sitcom. Like its predecessors, Mother’s Day is the movie equivalent of a bargain-bin greeting card, expressing only the most superficial, generic sentiments. To joke about future installments at this point would only be courting disaster. –Josh Bell

Satan, Frankenstein’s monster aabcc and members of the undead have all HOUDINI been enlisted to solve crimes on TV AND DOYLE procedurals, so why not recruit magician Harry Houdini and Sherlock Holmes Mondays, creator Arthur Conan Doyle as well? That’s the premise of the rather silly Houdini 9 p.m., Fox. and Doyle, an international co-production featuring the pair aiding Scotland Yard in 1901 London. Houdini and Doyle were real-life friends who had a fallingout over their conflicting views on the supernatural, and the series has them assisting in crimes with apparent otherworldly elements (Houdini is the skeptic, and Doyle is the believer). Although actors Michael Weston and Stephen Mangan are entertaining as the bickering title characters, the plotting barely rises above Scooby-Doo levels, with simplistic mysteries that don’t need two legendary geniuses to solve them. The superficial Victorian-era trappings do little to bring the time period to life, but the show also doesn’t take itself seriously as a historical drama. It’s a forgettable time-filler that doesn’t aspire to anything more. –Josh Bell

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been about the weird combination At its core, the plot of Green of culture clash and camaraderie Room is pretty basic: A group of between the left and right wings innocent people witness an act of of underground hard rock, and it violence they weren’t supposed to would have been fascinating. see, and they have to escape from But it’s really about what hapthe criminals who don’t want to pens after the band’s set, leave loose ends. What when they come across a makes Green Room a great aaaac dead body backstage and are movie is the way writerGREEN no longer allowed to leave director Jeremy Saulnier ROOM the venue. Led by the quietadds specific details to Anton Yelchin, ly menacing Darcy (Patrick that basic scenario withAlia Shawkat, Stewart, using his typically out ever letting up on the Patrick regal manner for evil), the narrative momentum. Stewart. neo-Nazis are determined There are no distractions, Directed to snuff out these inconvenothing that doesn’t conby Jeremy nient interlopers, but Ain’t tribute directly to the Saulnier. Rated Rights bassist Pat (Anton near-constant peril the R. Opens Yelchin) leads his fellow main characters are in, Friday in select musicians (plus another but the movie never feels theaters. hapless witness, played by like a generic cat-andImogen Poots) in a surprismouse thriller. ingly effective counter-siege. It helps that the antagonistic Green Room doesn’t have the factions are drawn from subculemotional resonance of Saulnier’s tures that are so readily identifibrilliant 2014 revenge thriller Blue able: If Green Room were a directRuin, but it has the same matter-ofto-VOD cheapie, it would probfact brutality, an unflinching look ably be called Punks vs. Neo-Nazis, at the devastating consequences and Saulnier does a great job of violence applied by people who sketching both ultra-indie punk don’t really know what they’re band The Ain’t Rights (so punk doing. Once the events are set that they don’t even have a social into motion, no one on either side media presence) and the scuzzy can really stop them, and every rural white power lodge where edit, camera movement and line they find themselves playing a gig of dialogue in the movie propels it after an earlier show has fizzled toward its inevitable bloody end. out. This movie could have just

A&E | screen | Short takes Special screenings Cinemark Classic Series Sun, 2 p.m.; Wed, 2 & 7 p.m., $7-$10. 5/1, 5/4, A Star Is Born (1954). Century/Cinemark theaters. Las Vegas Black Film Festival 4/28-5/1, feature and short films, workshops, parties, awards, various times, passes $30$500. Century Suncoast, lasvegasblackfilm festival.com. Las Vegas Classic Film Theater Classic, indie and arthouse films, times vary, $5 per screening. Baobab Stage, 6587 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-369-6649, baobabstage.com. The Metropolitan Opera HD Live 4/30, Strauss’ Elektra live, 9:55 a.m., $17-$25. 5/4, Strauss’ Elektra encore, 6:30 p.m., $16-$23. Theaters: COL, ORL, SF, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. Movie Night Thu, sundown, free. 4/28, Inside Out. 5/5, Tangled. Downtown Container Park, 707 Fremont St., downtowncontainerpark.com. Saturday Movie Matinee 4/30, 1 p.m., free. Spring Valley Library, 4280 S. Jones Blvd., 702-507-3821. Sci Fi Center Mon, Cinemondays, 8 p.m., free. 5/1, Game of Thrones viewing party, 6 p.m., free. 5077 Arville St., 855-501-4335, thescificenter.com. Spring Flicks 4/29-4/30, showcase of UNLV student films, 7 p.m., free. UNLV CBC-A 106, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway. Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou Tue, 1 p.m., free. 5/3, The Pirate (1948). Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.

New this week A Beautiful Planet (Not reviewed) Directed by Toni Myers. 46 minutes. Rated G. IMAX documentary featuring images of Earth captured from the International Space Station, narrated by Jennifer Lawrence. Red Rock. Finding Mr. Right 2 (Not reviewed) Tang Wei, Wu Xiubo, Zhihong Liu. Directed by Xue Xiaolu. 132 minutes. Not rated. In Mandarin with English subtitles. After falling in love in Seattle, a couple of Chinese expatriates rekindle their romance while traveling the world. Town Square. Green Room aaaac Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat, Patrick Stewart. Directed by Jeremy Saulnier. 94 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 24. Boulder Station, Red Rock, Suncoast, Town Square, Texas Sation. Keanu aabcc Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Method Man. Directed by Peter Atencio. 98 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 22. Theaters citywide. Mother’s Day aaccc Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Jason Sudeikis. Directed by Garry Marshall. 118 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 22. Theaters citywide. Papa: Hemingway in Cuba (Not reviewed) Giovanni Ribisi, Minka Kelly, Adrian Sparks. Directed by Bob Yari. 109 minutes. Rated R. A journalist travels to Havana in 1959 to meet his idol, Ernest Hemingway. Green Valley Ranch, Sam’s Town, Texas Station, Village Square. Ratchet & Clank (Not reviewed) Voices of James Arnold Taylor, David Kaye, Jim Ward. Directed by Kevin Munroe. 94 minutes. Rated PG. This animated movie based on the popular video-game series tells the story of the first meeting between alien mechanic Ratchet

and robot Clank. Theaters citywide. Term Life (Not reviewed) Vince Vaughn, Hailee Steinfeld, Bill Paxton. Directed by Peter Billingsley. 93 minutes. Rated R. A man on the run from criminals tries to stay alive long enough for his life insurance policy to activate. Town Square.

Now playing Barbershop: The Next Cut (Not reviewed) Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Regina Hall. Directed by Malcolm D. Lee. 112 minutes. Rated PG-13. The crew at Calvin’s Barbershop come together to help revitalize their neighborhood. 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. The Boss aaccc Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Bell, Peter Dinklage. Directed by Ben Falcone. 99 minutes. Rated R. A disgraced business mogul (McCarthy) has to team up with her former assistant (Bell). McCarthy nearly exhausts herself carrying the movie on her own. There are a handful of funny moments, but they’re few and far between in a movie that never quite figures out what kind of joke it’s trying to make. –JB Theaters citywide. City of Gold aaacc Directed by Laura Gabbert. 96 minutes. Rated R. Gabbert’s documentary about renowned food critic Jonathan Gold is so ridiculously complimentary that it gets a bit tiresome, but in between the slavering interviews about Gold’s genius, the movie paints a vivid and entertaining picture of LA’s cultural diversity as represented in the small ethnic restaurants that Gold discovers and publicizes. –JB Village Square. Compadres (Not reviewed) Omar Chaparro, Joey Morgan, Erick Elias. Directed by Enrique Begne. 101 minutes. Not rated. A former cop and a hacker plot revenge on a crime lord. Boulder Station, Orleans, Palms, Suncoast, Town Square, Texas Station. Criminal aaccc Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Gal Gadot. Directed by Ariel Vromen. 113 minutes. Rated R. Thanks to an experimental (and nonsensical) procedure, the memories of a dead CIA agent are implanted into the mind of murderous psychopath Jericho Stewart (Costner). After a fairly tense opening, the movie gets bogged down in an incoherent terrorism plot, along with absurdly sappy scenes of Jericho discovering human emotions. –JB Theaters citywide. Deadpool aaacc Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein. Directed by Tim Miller. 108 minutes. Rated R. The long-in-the-works movie starring sarcastic, ultraviolent Marvel Comics anti-hero Deadpool (Reynolds) is vulgar, gory and self-aware. In between his dirty jokes and self-referential insults, Deadpool participates in a fairly familiar superhero origin story. Only about half the jokes land, but the enthusiasm of the production makes up for the rest. –JB Red Rock, Sunset Station, Sam’s Town, Village Square. Elvis & Nixon aabcc Michael Shannon, Alex Pettyfer, Kevin Spacey. Directed by Liza Johnson. 86 minutes. Rated R. This mildly amusing comedy struggles to fill in the necessary gaps around the barebones facts of the 1970 meeting between Elvis Presley (Shannon) and Richard Nixon (Spacey).

The comedic mismatch between the two is more entertaining than the movie’s efforts at emotional moments between Elvis and his longtime pal Jerry Schilling (Pettyfer). –JB Colonnade, Village Square. Everybody Wants Some!! aaaac Blake Jenner, Glen Powell, Ryan Guzman. Directed by Richard Linklater. 117 minutes. Rated R. Linklater’s “spiritual sequel” to his 1993 classic Dazed and Confused (featuring none of the same characters or actors) is set in the summer of 1980, and observes, with rich humor and keen insight, the testosterone-fueled rivalries, competitions and hazing among a college baseball team in Texas. –MD Boulder Station, Green Valley Ranch, Suncoast. A Hologram for the King (Not reviewed) Tom Hanks, Sarita Choudhury, Alexander Black. Directed by Tom Tykwer. 97 minutes. Rated R. A failed American businessman travels to Saudi Arabia in search of new opportunities. Aliante, Colonnade, Orleans, South Point, Village Square. The Huntsman: Winter’s War aaccc Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Chastain, Emily Blunt. Directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan. 114 minutes. Rated PG-13. The Snow White-free sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman adds a second evil queen (Blunt) and a warrior love interest (Chastain) for the huntsman (Hemsworth), but never comes up with an interesting story. Much of Winter’s War looks garish and plastic, with its style ripped off from other, more popular fantasy franchises. –JB Theaters citywide.

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The Jungle Book aabcc Neel Sethi, voices of Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley. Directed by Jon Favreau. 105 minutes. Rated PG. The latest Disney live-action remake of an animated classic is a fairly faithful retelling of its source material, about a young boy raised in the jungle. The tone is an awkward mix of savage jungle naturalism and cuddly animal antics, and there’s a sort of prefab blandness to the amazing photo-realistic CGI. –JB Theaters citywide. Midnight Special aaabc Michael Shannon, Jaeden Lieberher, Joel Edgerton. Directed by Jeff Nichols. 112 minutes. Rated PG-13. The first half of Special, starring Shannon as a man trying to protect his mysteriously powered son, is like a Hollywood sci-fi thriller with the exposition taken out. Eventually, writer-director Nichols fills in enough details to make for a satisfying climax, while leaving things vague enough not to undermine the earlier ambiguity. –JB Suncoast. Miles Ahead aabcc Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor, Emayatzy Corinealdi. Directed by Don Cheadle. 100 minutes. Rated R. Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic focuses on a time late in Davis’ career when the jazz legend was effectively retired from music. Cheadle and his co-writer build an entire invented narrative around the basic facts, a silly distraction that doesn’t provide any insight about Davis as a musician or a cultural icon. –JB Suncoast, Town Square. Purple Rain (Not reviewed) Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day. Directed by Albert Magnoli. 111 minutes. Rated R. Re-release of the 1984 drama starring Prince as a troubled musician. Theaters citywide. 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. JB Josh Bell; MD Mike D’Angelo For complete movie listings, visit lasvegasweekly.com/movie-listings.

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A rare sighting Leftfield’s Neil Barnes, on the U.K. electronicists’ desert plans With so many festival options in the States, what wooed you to Further Future? The slant of it, with all the talks going on and the artistic side of it. I thought it seemed like really quite an exciting thing to be a part of.

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10 acts to catch at this weekend’s Further Future festival By Mike Prevatt Oneohtrix Point Never If Daniel Lopatin is the Philip K. Dick of the synthesizer set, his recent Garden of Delete album is his Blade Runner: a noir-ish, industrial dystopia that compels its central figure to ruminate on his humanity. He’s arguably the fest’s furthest futurist. Early Sunday, 1-2:30 a.m., Booba Cosmica. Caribou Live music abounds at Further Future, and few acts will sound or look as live as this electronic psych quartet. Its otherworldly moods demand lots of hardware, but conventional instrumentation give it some flesh and bone—and plenty of groove. Early Saturday, 12:30-2:30 a.m., Mothership. Dixon Given the renowned drive and dimension of this German house and techno producer/DJ’s aesthetic, it’s no wonder he’s playing a six-hour sunrise set below the iconic neon heart. Saturday, 4:30-10:30 a.m., Robot Heart. Spacebyrdz Alex Clark and Oscar Molina will be serving up techno and house beats for breakfast. Need another reason to power through the morning? They’re locals. Saturday, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Void Village.

Four Tet Kieran Hebden’s genre-spanning remixes (see: Radiohead, Sia, Jamie xx) and originals take a less-travelled, roundabout way to a song’s emotional center. Friday, 10:45 p.m.-12:15 a.m., Mothership. Low Leaf A live, soulful, sunrise alternative, the Filipino-American singer/multi-instrumentalist fuses numerous genres into a blend all her own. Sunday, 5-6:30 a.m., Booba Cosmica. Andy Stott The acclaimed dub/techno producer usually projects a darkened, slo-mo view of the dancefloor. But expect cooing, airy, tinkling cuts from his new Too Many Voices album to complement the starry ambience outside. Early Sunday, 2:30-4 a.m., Booba Cosmica. Kid Koala The Canadian producer/DJ continues to push turntablism and hip-hop forward. Saturday, 3:30-5 p.m., Mothership. Still Corners This folky, ethereal London duo will prepare you for both sunset and the festival’s close. Sunday, 5:45-6:45 p.m., Mothership.

Who will be joining you onstage? The normal Leftfield gang, which consists of vocalists and three of us onstage all the time—a drummer, another keyboard player and myself. [The set will be an] experimental journey into the world of Leftfield. Will this gig span the full catalog? Generally speaking, you get a smattering of the new album and mainly [1999’s] Rhythm and Stealth with a couple tracks from [1995’s] Leftism. You get a bit of old Leftfield and a bit of new Leftfield. DJs can just show up with a laptop or USB. What’s it like preparing for a full live show? There’s an enormous amount of preparation. We meet up two or three days beforehand, getting all the kit and equipment out in a rehearsal studio and making sure it all works. The three of us onstage all the time have different parts, all of which involve computers and hardware, controllers, mixing desks, all of these types of things manipulating the sound in all these different types of ways. … There’s tons of things that can go wrong, and there’s always something that goes wrong, but that’s just part of the experience. –Deanna Rilling For more of our interview with Barnes, visit lasvegasweekly.com.

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Five thoughts: Chvrches (April 21, Brooklyn Bowl) Chvrches has soared in popularity since the Scottish trio’s previous Las Vegas performance, in 2014. At Brooklyn Bowl Thursday night, lead singer Lauren Mayberry proudly pointed out that the band more than doubled ticket sales since last time at the venue. “At least this time we sold enough tickets so people aren’t allowed to bowl in the background,” she joked. The show started off hot, with the one-two punch of “Never Ending Circles” off current album Every Open Eye followed by “We Sink” off 2013 debut LP The Bones of What You Believe—showing off the full pop power of the indie-dance outfit’s synth-driven approach.

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at Beauty Bar and 2013 gig at House of Blues, this one actually had a substantial throng to witness it. For Sunday’s 1,000-strong concert, there was actually a crowd dense enough to catch singer/ guitarist Yannis Philippakis when he dove into the crowd (on multiple occasions, with his guitar). Visiting and winning over mid-market cities, then Foals strengthens its Vegas legend returning to draw a crowd bigger than the last— with another strong showing this is what a British band must do to successfully develop a fanbase in the States. It doesn’t hurt that Foals just nabbed its first Nothing says dull like a heavy-rotation band No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Radio chart with on alternative/modern-rock radio. Foals, howev“Mountain at My Gates.” If the big cheers weler, is an exception—and, as evidenced Sunday at coming that tune—along with previous hit singles Brooklyn Bowl, a force to be reckoned with. “Inhaler” and buoyant pop-rocker “My Number”— The British alt-rock quintet seems to employ a suggested the audience was more poputhree-pronged strategy for levelling its audilated by fair-weather fans than diehards, ence: 1. Unleash thick-riffed Led Zeppelin it was gratifying to hear even louder roars and T. Rex urges, often recontextualized aaaac after lesser-known tracks like “Snake within the band’s math-y compositional FOALS Oil” and “Red Socks Pugie.” Philippakis structure (see vampy, roaring “Inhaler”); April 24, praised the crowd more than once, even 2. Take a beat, channel inner Brian Eno Brooklyn acknowledging its audible embrace of and guide listeners through more cerebral Bowl. opening band Kiev, which might not have and nuanced explorations (gorgeous headexhibited the same melodic strengths swimmers “Spanish Sahara” and “A Knife in as the headliner, but nonetheless demonstrated the Ocean”); and 3. Seamlessly merge the two aescraftsmanship and—especially during the spirthetics, tweak passages, intensify climaxes, stretch ited “Loot Recovered”—purpose in its rhythmic, endings and ultimately blow both minds and the genre-impartial explorations. We should be hearvenue roof (“Providence,” “Two Steps, Twice”). ing bands like these more often on the airwaves. Each local Foals appearance has been a cherry –Mike Prevatt bomb of a show, but unlike its 2008 Vegas debut

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Making remarkable Lemonade As she proved with 2013’s self-titled album, dropped without warning as an iTunes exclusive, Beyoncé has both mastered and reinvented the album-release rollout. Over the weekend, she once again turned the music industry on its ear with new 12-song set Lemonade, unveiled in an hour-long HBO special, and then made available immediately afterward on Tidal. (It’s now also on iTunes.) The singer and hubby Jay Z are the focus of the bold, high-concept album, which lyrically finds her traversing the various stages of a marriage in trouble. Beyoncé can essentially do whatever she likes at this point in her career, evident from the arty musical

Mayberry has become a more dynamic performer as she’s gained experience. Her voice has always been something special, but now she engages the crowd on a more personal level. She spoke about attending Britney Spears’ show the night before, and of her band’s newfound desire to have “dryhumping, oiled-up dancers hanging from the ceiling dressed as bats” incorporated into Chvrches’ show. Momentum halted when Martin Doherty took over lead vocals on back-to-back numbers, “High Enough to Carry You Over” and “Under the Tide”— during which he seemed to dance to a far more upbeat song than the one he was singing. Even though Mayberry retook the mic again on hit single “Recover,” the show never fully regained its steam. In a head-scratching case of blown opportunity, Chvrches opted not to dig out its cover of Prince’s “I Would Die 4 U”—frequently performed throughout 2013—as a way to pay tribute on the day of his death. If ever there was a time to play it, this was it. The moment could have been transformative for a crowd in mourning, but the band never even mentioned his name. –Jason Harris

direction on this record. You won’t really find a crossover pop single aaaab like “Crazy in Love” or “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” this time BEYONCÉ around. Instead, she flexes her creative muscles—and her millionLemonade dollar pipes—zigzagging through genres without losing force or focus. There’s the country twang of “Daddy Lessons;” the rock-tinged “Don’t Hurt Yourself,” sampling Led Zeppelin and featuring Jack White; and the minimal “Hold Up,” which finds Diplo lacing her with sparse harps. The Weeknd-aided “6 Inch” breathes new life into an overused Isaac Hayes “Walk on By” sample. The Kendrick Lamar-guested/Just Blaze-produced “Freedom” meshes powerful gospel crooning, church organs and sampled ’60s psychedelia. By the time previously released club banger “Formation” hits, it almost feels like a tacked-on bonus track. It all adds up to a bold, honest, personal and sonically beautiful record that doesn’t pander to Beyoncé’s pop audience. We can only imagine what she has in mind for the upcoming tour. –Mike Pizzo

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tion planned for Zerdin’s show. As he says, “If I want to have a puppet flying around the room, I am not looked at as if it is impossible.” The most pressing issue for Zerdin is not whether AGT winner Paul Zerdin brings he can deliver an effective, if somewhat adult-themed (suggested for ages 14-and-over) performance. He was a his puppets to Planet Hollywood fan favorite in the three performances of America’s Got By John Katsilometes Talent finalists—co-headlining with Piff and Lynch—in the PH room in October. Rather, it’s how many ventriloPaul Zerdin talks of the “vent community” and “vent quists can the Strip absorb? culture,” and reveals that ventriloquism is at once uniAcross the Strip, of course, is Terry Fator, the 2007 versal but to be enjoyed uniquely. “Everyone loves venAGT champion and lord of the Terry Fator Theater at triloquism, and everyone loves puppets,” says the Strip’s the Mirage. (Another AGT titlist, magician Mat Franco, newest ventriloquial artist, explaining the popularity of headlines at the Linq.) And the comparison and possible puppetry, then later notes, “In the vent community, you competition between Zerdin and Fator bears examinadon’t have much to do with other vents. If you’re in a tion as Zerdin sets up a show in the same genre and in comedy club, you don’t have two vents together in the similar scope to Fator’s. same lineup. You might have other specialty acts, like a “I absolutely feel there is room for everyone,” Zerdin magician or a juggler, but never two vents.” says. “I know Terry, we’re friends—I was just in email This information is all pertinent as Zerdin’s Mouthing with him this morning—and we agree that we can both Off production moves into Planet Hollywood Showroom. succeed here.” As a point of reference, veteran vent star This is a “cheeky” British showcase, in which the venJeff Dunham did solid business last year in triloquist enlivens such puppets as a little the Planet Hollywood. smart-ass named Sam; the character simply PAUL ZERDIN: As a way of proving he can break from known as Baby; and a requisite figure for MOUTHING OFF what is commonly accepted, Zerdin actuprofessional ventriloquists, an old-man figTuesday-Sunday, ally worked with Fator during the Results ure named Albert. 7 p.m., $51-$106. Night of AGT. Fator turned up with Elvis Zerdin is well-known in his native England Planet Hollywood, impersonator Maynard Tompkins as Zerdin for his many appearances at the Royal Variety 800-745-3000. worked with Sam. Performance, where the Queen Mum appreciZerdin’s director, Jim Millan, adds, “We ated his contemporary “new twist” on a clashave seen Cirque succeed with multiple shows, and I sic form of entertainment. He became famous in the U.S. think that when people come to Las Vegas, if they have for his winning run on America’s Got Talent, ascending to seen Terry perform they will come to the city with the title by topping, among others, Piff the Magic Dragon an open mind. Somebody who really enjoyed Terry a (a headliner himself at Bugsy’s Cabaret at Flamingo Las few years ago will want to see this show.” Puppet Up— Vegas) and the stuttering comic Drew Lynch. Uncensored!, which is helmed by Jim Henson’s son Brian “I thought Drew would win,” Zerdin says during a and opens in late June at the Venetian, is another producmedia lunch at P.F. Chang’s at Planet Hollywood. Zerdin tion that can spark interest in the general art of puppetry. would seem a more natural fit for the U.K. version of the “This could be a case of a high tide raising all the Got Talent franchise, Britain’s Got Talent, but the first boats,” Millan says. “You can have more than one type of prize of that show is … an appearance on Royal Variety ventriloquism show.” Performance. “I thought, What’s the point?” Zerdin said. Zerdin can set himself apart with some guerilla mar“I was already well-known ’round England, and not at keting, moving outside the theater for video clips of him all in the States, so I thought I could at least reach a new throwing his voice while walking next to startled tourists. audience over here.” And he’s certainly aware of the expectations of an AGT With his championship on AGT, Zerdin claimed a $1 champ operating on the Strip. Showroom success is not a million prize and a headline show in Vegas. He moves guarantee, regardless of TV pedigree. (Example: 2010 AGT into the PH Showroom on April 30, toggling times with champ Michael Grimm has settled back to the same types Frankie Moreno’s Under the Influence show. of venues he booked before he appeared on the show.) The theater that opened with Stomp and was home “When you win, you have to work harder,” Zerdin to Peepshow has been cut to about 760 seats, curtained says. “The pressure is on, and that’s great. You have to off at the balcony and lower half of the room to create a raise your game.” smaller, proper theater. But there’s true big-scale produc-

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asylum patient who embroidered Rainwaters flow like rivers at all over her straight jacket. Not street corners, and drivers speed free, but free. Determined. cautiously through the wetness. The Butner’s collaboration with tranquil rhythm plays like a lullaby Nathan on The Reading Room into Nest Studio + Multisensory helped mold the environment. Projects in Downtown Spaces on Fabrics define the space. Soft pilIndustrial Boulevard. Inside sit artlows and braided cotton ists Kathleen Dillon Nathan poufs in neutral colors line and Diane Butner, old the floor along a studiofriends whose installation THE length window covered The Reading Room is calm- READING with muslin, into which ing to the extent that even ROOM they cut a traditional winon a day as audible as this, Hours vary. dow. Trompe l’eoil drawings it keeps the outside world Nest Studio, Downtown of a bookshelf and a large at a distance. potted plant loom on other Muslin covers the walls, Spaces, 1800 walls. Objects, including a taut drapes hanging ceiling Industrial collection of faded, early to floor. The cuckoo bird Road #200b. 19th-century books printed emerges when it wants and in German, a magnifying glass and the sky unloads a gray that seeps a nest atop a wooden tripod from into the room. “We call it more of a that era, are placed about. studio and installation,” Nathan says Bruce Isaacson, Clark County’s of the multidiscipline space that was poet laureate, was the first to read a gallery when she shared it with a there, followed by writer Chris previous partner. “It’s more experiCipollini. On this morning, Nest ential. We want to work on themes had hosted women and children based on the five senses.” from the Shade Tree shelter, where An established photographer, Butner volunteers—an art field Nathan has been in and out of trip that had the women working the gallery scene throughout her on creative writing projects while career and is one of the founders their children drew pictures and of Las Vegas’ Contemporary Arts picnicked in an open room. Center (then Collective). Her work Occasionally, Nathan creates connects still images to “create a portraits in the informal setting. sense of expanded time,” including Sitters end up reading to her, a series of photographs she took including artist James Stanford, looking out of the same window who read for hours. Butner says at different moments in a cabin in the hope is for Angela Brommel to upstate New York. present the art of the story next, Butner, an artist and designusing aroma to invoke memory. er with a background in sculpThis is what they envisioned ture (a BFA from UNLV), worked when they teamed up for Nest: for more than a decade in retail no specific agenda, just letting window-display and is now crethe space foster creativity in mulative director for Destinations by tiple disciplines. “We believe that Design. Her dadaist collages in The with art you can lose yourself and Reading Room ring with emotional find yourself at the same time,” depth in abstract narratives. One Nathan says. nods to Agnes Richter, the insane

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> a sign of things to come Deli trailblazer Gary Canter.

Return of the deli

Pastrami lovers, rejoice! Canter’s is coming back—with two Vegas locations By Brock Radke Ask any serious Vegas eater what kind of restaurant our city is missing most, and they’ll likely give you four simple, drool-inducing letters. D-E-L-I. We have very few true delicatessens sprinkled around our Valley, which isn’t that surprising considering classic Jewish deli cuisine, though beloved in most major American cities, hails from a bygone era. There aren’t new deli concepts popping up, at least not ones as good as Katz’s in New York City, Manny’s in Chicago or Langer’s in LA. Las Vegas has plenty of people from those cities, but we don’t have much of that food. Fortunately, Canter’s is coming to Vegas—again. Canter’s opened in 1924 in Jersey City, New Jersey, and relocated to LA in 1931; the Canter’s Deli at 419 North Fairfax Avenue is an American icon. Known for freshly baked breads and tender pastrami and corned beef, Canter’s became hugely popular

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with celebrities, pro athletes and presidents—regular people love it, too—and opened a Vegas outpost at Treasure Island in 2003. For a short time, it also operated a small sandwich counter at Mandalay Bay. When the TI deal expired and the restaurant closed in late 2012, sandwich scion Gary Canter started looking for another Vegas location. Partnering with Celebrity Brands and its director of operations John Thacker, he found two. Canter’s will open a full-service, 3,600-square-foot, 24-hour restaurant at the Linq Promenade, right under the High Roller wheel, this summer, and then in the fall, a second and larger restaurant in the second-phase expansion of Tivoli Village. “This is like a dream come true,” says Gary Canter. (After missing that pastrami for years, I have to agree.) He’s ready to re-create the old-school goodness here all over again. “My grandparents taught me from a very early age, and this is just what I always

knew how to do. I love the business, the energy and the passion for doing it the right way. It’s a time-honored tradition, really. I just do it how they taught me.” Thacker, who’s spent decades working for Las Vegas Sands and at Strip resorts like Luxor and Mandalay Bay, knows Vegas and understands its acute deli needs. “We were looking for the right location and the right partnership, and Caesars is going to be a great partner,” he says. “Being at the base of what has replaced the Stratosphere as the most iconic piece of what’s going on, and in a storefront that’s almost how we’d envision it if we did it ourselves, is going to be a great model for us. Plus, we believe there’s a strong need for kosher-style delis really executed well.” The Linq Promenade is also adding In-N-Out Burger and Gordon Ramsay’s Fish & Chips this year, along with Virgil’s Real Barbecue. That’s exciting, but how many Strip spots can say Mad Men has filmed in their dining room? Or that Mick Jagger and Wayne Gretzky are regulars? Or that President Obama has ordered extra corned beef sandwiches to go? “What can I say?” Canter exclaims. “Good food gets you into places.”

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> STUFFED Filling selections at Great American Foodie Fest.

TOMMY’S MARGARITA

BEYOND STREET FOOD

and vendors and even out-of-market restaurants on Travel Channel and Food Network and thought how awesome it would be if we could put together a festival out of all those foods in one local destination,” says Noel Casamiro, president and managing partner of GAFF LLC. Growing and diversifying with the You may know the Foodie Fest as the event that first brought White Castle to Vegas, serving up the Great American Foodie Fest famous sliders to hungry festival eaters before the restaurant chain opened up shop on the Strip. Casamiro The twice-a-year Great American Foodie Fest, a and his partners learned from that experience and locally founded and produced event formerly known as expanded their operations in another way, acting as an the Las Vegas Foodie Fest, is back for its spring run this incubator for independent restaurants and food weekend, bringing carnival rides, a beer garden, trucks to test-market their concepts in new citeating competitions and more fun to align with ies with the potential of collaborating to open the dozens of food trucks and cross-country ven- GREAT a brick-and-mortar location. That’s how Las dors that make this long weekend super-tasty. As AMERICAN FOODIE FEST Vegas got Island Time Floats, the pineapple and big as it seems, it’s actually bigger. Dole Whip dessert shop with locations at Bally’s Created in 2012, the Great American Foodie April 28-May 1, Fest has already expanded into other cities. It’ll Sunset Station, Grand Bazaar Shops and at the Las Vegas South Premium Outlets. The collabo also resulted in return for second events in both Arizona and greatamerican San Diego, and debut next year in Seattle and foodiefest.com. the Chinatown-area Fukuburger restaurant, and the Foodie Fest team is currently working on Portland, Oregon. another local Fuku spot—and on bringing California’s Everywhere it goes, the idea is the same: Bringing fanpopular Jogasaki Sushi Burrito to Las Vegas in a permatastic foods you can’t get in your city, to your city. “We’re nent way. –Brock Radke foodies ourselves. We watch TV and see the food trucks

INGREDIENTS 2 oz. Sauza Hornitos Reposado 100% Puro de Agave Tequila 1 oz. fresh lime juice 3/4 oz. agave nectar* *To make at home, dilute 2 parts agave syrup with 1 part water

METHOD

BITE NOW: BUMBLEBEE STEW AT J. GUMBO’S I like the concept of J. Gumbo’s. Creating fast yet fulfilling versions of Cajun favorites and making them J. GUMBO’S more accessible for everybody is smart. It seems to 3565 S. have struck a nerve with diners throughout the U.S.; the Rainbow chain has outposts everywhere from Florida to WisconBlvd., 702sin—and now Las Vegas. 269-5446. A graphic cutout of a thermometer lets diners Daily, 10:30 know how high on the heat scale they can expect each a.m.-10 p.m. entrée. And while one’s eyes might light up as the thermometer gets hotter, the most delectable dish I tried was about as mild as possible. Bumblebee Stew—my current favorite name of any dish anywhere—is J. Gumbo’s riff on maque choux, a Creole and Native American mashup. Sweet corn, stewed tomatoes and onions are given ample cooking time with a sweet sauce, creating a burst of flavors with some unifying tastes throughout. Corn permeates every bite, and a finishing touch of black beans adds balance for when things might get just a hint too sweet. It’s both gluten-free and vegan, so those with dietary restrictions needn’t worry here. As an entrée, it runs $9.99, but for another dollar patrons can add a second dish to the giant bowl in which it’s served. The stew mixes well with another mild option, the tasty drunken chicken. The tender meat benefits from a beer braise and a thick sauce that goes perfectly over rice. Drunken Bumblebee—sounds yummy, doesn’t it? –Jason Harris

GREAT AMERICAN FOODIE FEST BY L.E. BASKOW (LEFT) AND STEVE MARCUS (RIGHT); J. GUMBO’S BY STEVE MARCUS

Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass, or serve with a single, large piece of ice.

This margarita was created nearly 20 years ago by Julio Bermejo, owner of Tommy’s Mexican Restaurant in San Francisco and world-renowned tequila expert and ambassador. At Tommy’s, the drink is prepared in a blender cup instead of a shaker, but the drink is never served frozen. Although the traditional Tommy’s Margarita doesn’t call for a salted rim, the addition of Aleppo chile salt by the Liquid Chef, Inc. and zested lime peel (pictured) creates a spicybright aroma and an intriguing taste experience.

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> SIBLING BOND The Band Perry— brothers Neil and Reid and sister Kimberly—plays the Chelsea on April 29.

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Jazz Series Fri. All shows 10 pm, free. SLS, 702-761-7618. Stoney’s Rockin’ Country Drake White 5/6. Shows 10 pm, $10. 6611 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-435-2855. T-Mobile Arena Billy Joel 4/30, 8 pm, $100-$225. 3780 Las Vegas Blvd. S., t-mobilearena.com. Tuscany International Jazz Day Celebration ft. Windy Karigianes 4/30, 7:30 pm, free. 255 E. Flamingo Road, 702-893-8933. Vinyl Turnpike Troubadours, Jason Boland, The Stragglers 4/30, 9 pm, $20-$45. The Slackers, Viernes 13, Be Like Max, Show Me Island 5/5, 8 pm, $15-$29. Survive This!, Silversage, RKDN, Almost Awake, A Poison Alibi 5/6, 6 pm, $10. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5000.

DOWNTOWN Artifice God-Des and She, Kella Bo Bella, Felix 5/14, 9 pm, $15-$20. Vegas Jazz Tue, 7 pm, $15. Thursday Request Live First Thu, 10 pm, free. 1025 S. 1st St., #100, 702-489-6339. Backstage Bar & Billiards Strangelove: Depeche Mode Tribute 4/30, 8 pm, $10-$15. JMSN 5/6, 8 pm, $10-$15. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Beauty Bar Danny Wood of New Kids on the Block 4/30, 8 pm, $25. Church: Sunday Bass Worship 5/1, 9 pm, free. Kronology, Consouls, Blacklab, AR7 5/3, 9 pm, $10. The Rocket Summer, Almost Normal, Walk Off Hits 5/6, 8 pm, $12-$15. A Wilhelm Scream, Heartsounds, Hard Pipe Hitters, Illicitor 5/9, 8 pm, $12-$15. Shannon & The Clams 5/11, 8 pm, $12. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. Bunkhouse Saloon Bee Master, Black Camaro, Blair Dewayne, The Unwieldies 4/28, 8 pm, $5. Breakbot 5/25, 9 pm, $15-$20. 124 S. 11th St., 702-854-1414.

Clark County Government Amphitheater (Jazz in the Park Series) Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Outside In Jazz Trio, Bishop Gorman Jazz Ensemble 5/7, 5 pm, free. 500 S. Grand Central Parkway, 702-455-8200. Downtown Container Park Sonia Seelinger, Cameron Calloway 4/29. Rein Garcia 4/30. School of Rock 5/7, 5 pm. Shows at 7 pm, free unless noted. 707 Fremont St, downtowncontainerpark.com. Fremont Street Experience Live music nightly. Fremont St., vegasexperience.com. Golden Nugget (Gordie Brown Showroom) Atlanta Rhythm Section 4/29, $21-$108. The Spinners 5/6, $21$108. All shows 8 pm. 866-946-5336. Hard Hat Lounge Brian Michael Conway, Snoopy Green 4/29, 9 pm. AlleyCat Zak 5/1, 8 pm. Grim Reefer, Suffer Bomb Damage, Harmonik Trip 5/7, 8 pm. Shows free unless noted. 1675 Industrial Road, 702-384-8987. Hennessey’s Tavern Darby O’Gill & The Little People 4/28, 9 pm. The Diddley Idols 4/29, 10 pm. Shows free unless noted. 425 Fremont St. #110, 702-382-4421. LVCS Sol Tribe, Dubbest, New Age Tribe, Twisted Relatives 4/30, 9 pm, free. Fear Factory, DiM, Pillars of Creation, Nebula X, Soilwork 5/4, 8 pm, $20-$23. Ill Nino, Bipolar, Journey 2 Rapture, Cirka:Sik 5/6, 8 pm, $15-$17. 425 Fremont St., 702382-3531. Mickie Finnz Walk Off Hits 4/29, 9 pm. Brittney & The Drifters 4/30, 10 pm. JV All-Stars 5/1-5/2, 9 pm. The Leeroy Jenkins Incident 5/3-5/4, 9 pm. Live mariachi 5/5, 4 pm. The Sequel 5/6, 10 pm. Shows free unless noted. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-4204. The Smith Center (Cabaret Jazz) Erich Bergen 4/29, 7 pm; 4/30, 3 pm & 7

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pm, $39-$65. Makana & Paula Fuga 5/6-5/7, 7 pm, $35-$55. (Reynolds Hall) The Beach Boys 4/30, 7:30 pm, $29$89. Mariachi Sol de Mexico 5/6, 7:30 pm, $26-$65. (Troesh Studio Theater) Las Vegas Philharmonic Spotlight Series 5/3, 7:30 pm, $168. 361 Symphony Park Ave., 702-749-2000.

EVERYWHERE ELSE Adrenaline Sports Bar and Grill Bricks: Pink Floyd Tribute 4/30, 9 pm, $10. 3103 N. Rancho Drive, 702-645-4139. Aliante Casino + Hotel + Spa (Access Showroom) Eli Young Band 5/7, 8 pm, $50-$90. 702-692-7777. Boomers deFrance 5/2, 9 pm, free. Live music Wed, 10 pm, $5-$10. Caribbean Saturday Night with ABM 2nd Sat, 10:30 pm, $5. 3200 Sirius Ave., 702-368-1863. Boulder Dam Brewing Jenna Hall 4/29. Lisa Mac 4/30. West Coast Travelers 5/6. All shows 8 pm, free unless noted. 453 Nevada Way, 702-243-2739. Boulder Station (The Railhead) Curtis Salgado 5/5, 7 pm, $5. 702-432-7777. Count’s Vamp’d Black Mongoose 4/29, 10 pm, free. Kip Winger Solo Acoustic, The Moby Dicks 4/30, 9 pm, $10. Resurrection Kings 5/5, 9 pm, $5. Tinnitus! 5/6, 10 pm, free. Adelitas Way 5/7, 8:30 pm, $15-$20. 6750 W. Sahara, 702-220-8849. Dispensary Lounge Windy Karigianes 4/29. JoBelle Yonely 4/30. Lisa Nobumoto 5/6. Naomi Mauro 5/7. Shows at 10 pm, free unless noted. 2451 E. Tropicana, 702-458-6343. Dive Bar The Freeze 4/30, 9 pm, $10. Atom Age 5/4, 9 pm, $6. Western Settings, Rayner, Lambs to Lions 5/5, 9 pm, $10. The Black Dahlia Murder, Fallujah, Disentomb 5/6, 8 pm, $17$20. 4110 S. Maryland Parkway, 702586-3483. Eagle Aerie Hall Hit the Lights,

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Brooklyn Bowl The Set List Volume II: Performing Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black 4/28, 11 pm, $15-$30. Smashing Alice 4/29, 9 pm, free. Sin City Sinners All Stars 4/30, 9 pm, free. Violent Femmes 5/5, 8:30 pm, $35$60. Umphrey’s McGee: UMBOWL VII 5/6, 7 pm, $110. Umphrey’s McGee 5/7, 9 pm, $35-$40. Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience 5/12, 8:30 pm, $37-$75. SoMo, Quinn XCII 5/13, 8 pm, $20-$69. Linq, 702-862-2695. The Colosseum Elton John 4/29-4/30, 7:30 pm, $55-$500. Reba, Brooks & Dunn 5/3, 5/6-5/7, $60-$205. Caesars Palace, 702-731-7333. The Cosmopolitan (Chelsea) The Band Perry 4/29, 8 pm, $35-$75. The Cure, The Twilight Sad 5/19, 8 pm, $50$125. (Boulevard Pool) X107.5’s Our Big Concert ft. Panic! At the Disco, Atlas Genius, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Borns, Andrew Watt 5/12, $43, 6 pm. 702-698-7000. Double Down Flames of Durga 4/30. Bargain DJ Collective Mon, 10 pm. Unique Massive Tue, midnight. Shows at 10 pm, free unless noted. 640 Paradise Road, 702-791-5775. The Foundry Todd Rundgren 5/7, 7:30 pm, $28. SLS, 702-761-7617. Gilley’s Scotty Alexander Band 4/28, 9 pm; 4/29-4/30, 10 pm. Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band 5/5, 9 pm; 5/6-5/7, 10 pm. Shows $10-$20 after 10 pm. Treasure Island, 702-894-7722. Hard Rock Live Wavey: Red Light District 4/29, 10 pm, $10-$15. Empire Records 4/30, 9 pm, free. Hard Rock Cafe (Strip), 702-733-7625. House of Blues Totally 80s Live Tour

ft. Missing Persons, Bow Wow Wow 4/28, 7 pm, $15. La Ley 4/29, 7 pm, $25$45. Ultimate Stones, Daze Gone By 4/30, 7 pm, $15. Danny Wood of New Kids on the Block 4/30, 8 pm, $25. Billy Idol: Forever 5/4, 5/6-5/7, 7 pm, $90-$150. (Crossroads) Last Vision 5/5, 8 pm, free. Double Vision, Karma 5/6, 6:30 pm, free. Ron Kingston, Double Vision 5/7, 6:30 pm, free. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. The Joint Eric Church 4/30-5/1, 8 pm, $85-$300. Hard Rock Hotel, 702693-5222. Mandalay Bay (Events Center) Rihanna, Travis Scott 4/29-4/30, 7:30 pm, $36-$160. Selena Gomez, DNCE 5/6, 7:30 pm, $43-$116. 702-632-7777. MGM Grand (Garden Arena) Daddy Yankee, Don Omar 5/6, 8:30 pm, $44$159. 702-891-7777. Mirage Boyz II Men 4/29-4/30, 5/1, 7:30 pm, $44-$163. 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-791-7111. Orleans (Showroom) Belinda Carlisle 4/30-5/1, 8 pm, $44-$65. The Temptations 5/7-5/8, 8 pm, $44-$65. 702-284-7777. Palms (Lounge) Stoney Curtis 4/28, 10 pm. Paul Charles 4/29, 7-10 pm. Rockie Brown & The Fellas 4/29, 10 pm. Brent Muscat & Friends 4/30, 10 pm. Latin Vida 5/5, 5/7, 10 pm. Jefferson Montoya 5/6, 7-10 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702-942-7777. The Pearl Jennifer Nettles 5/7, 8 pm, $46-$83. Palms, 702-942-7777. Planet Hollywood (The Axis) Lionel Richie 4/27, 4/30-5/1, 5/4, 8 pm, $57$190. 702-777-2782. The Sand Dollar Lounge Derek James Gang 4/28. The Slight Return 4/29. The Moanin’ Blacksnakes 4/30. Shows at 10 pm, free unless noted. 3355 Spring Mountain Road, 702485-5401. The Sayers Club Paper Tigers 4/30. White Label Thursdays Thu. Sayers

Calendar Seaway, Boston Manor, Can’t Swim 5/2, 6 pm, $15. 310 W. Pacific Ave., 702568-8927. Elixir Yvonne Silva 4/29. Michael Anthony 4/30. Nick Mattera 5/6. Phil Stendek 5/7. Music from 8-11 pm, free unless noted. 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, elixirlounge.net. The Golden Tiki The Do-Its 4/29, 9 pm. 3939 Spring Mountain Road, 702222-3196. Laughlin Event Center Miranda Lambert, Courtney Cole 5/6, 8 pm, $85-$350. 500 E. Bruce Woodbury Drive, 702-298-2453. Moapa River Indian Reservation Further Future ft. Caribou, Leftfield, Four Tet & more 4/29-5/1, $250-$400. Valley of Fire Highway and I-15, furtherfuture.com. Mountain’s Edge Exploration Park Country in the Park ft. Joe Nichols, Brett Young, Thrillbilly Deluxe 5/7, 2-8 pm, free. 9700 S. Buffalo Drive, mountainsedge.com. OMD Theater Ritual, Voices of Ruin 4/30, 8 pm, $10. The Classic Crime 5/6, 6 pm, $17-$40. Deathblow, Desire the Fire 5/7, 8 pm, $10. 953 E. Sahara Ave., #B-30, 702-742-4171. Pioneer Saloon Seth Turner 4/30, 11 am. The All-Togethers 4/30, 5 pm. Bill Tracy 5/1, noon. Jeffrey Michaels 5/7, 11 am. Bud Mickle 5/7, 5 pm. Shows free unless noted. 310 W. Spring St., Goodsprings, 702-874-9362. Primm Valley Resort & Casino Rodney Carrington 4/29, 9 pm, $15-$44. 31900 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Primm, 702386-7867. Red Rock Resort (Rocks Lounge) Grey Street 4/29, 8 pm, free. Naked Elephant 4/29-4/30, 11 pm, free. 11011 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-797-7777. Santa Fe Station (Chrome Showroom) Old Dominion 5/6, 8 pm, $20-$40. 4949 N Rancho Drive, 702-658-4900. Starbright Theatre A Sound Bouquet 4/30, 7 pm; 5/1, 2 pm, $10. Everything’s Coming Up Broadway 5/7, 7 pm; 5/8, 2 pm, $10. 2215 Thomas Ryan Blvd., 702-240-1301. Sunset Station (Club Madrid) Space Oddity: A Tribute to David Bowie 4/30, 8 pm, $17. 1301 W. Sunset Road, 702-547-7777.

Comedy Champagne’s Cafe Urban Culture Open Mic Sun, 9 pm, free. Open Mic Comedy with Skratch Tue, 11 pm, free. 3557 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-737-1699. Double Barrel Roadhouse (Bonkerz Comedy Club) Bobby Mayne Stauts 4/28, 7 pm, free. Monte Carlo, 702222-7735. The Joint David Cross 5/7, 8 pm, $30$125. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5000. Mirage Ron White 4/29-4/30, 10 pm,

$66. Tracy Morgan 5/6-5/7, 10 pm, $55. Terry Fator Mon-Thu, 7:30 pm, $65$163. 702-792-7777. Palms (The Pearl) Chris Tucker 5/28, 8 pm, $46-$92. 702-942-7777. Rampart Casino (Bonkerz Comedy Club) Buffet Jackson 4/28, 7 pm, free. 702-507-5900. Rockin’ Dead Zombie Apocalypse Bar Laffter Hours Comedy Cocktail Party Sat, 9 pm, free. 700 E. Naples Drive, 702-444-4004. South Point (Showroom) Jay Mohr 4/294/30, 7:30 pm, $28-$37. 702-796-7111. Tropicana (The Laugh Factory) Bill Dawes, Shayma Tash, Mark Serritella 4/28-5/1. Gerry Bednob, Juan Canopii, Sam Kwasman 5/2-5/8. All shows at 8:30 pm & 10:30 pm unless listed, $35$55. 702-739-2222.

Performing Arts Baobab Stage Theatre Midnight Cabared 4/30, midnight, $20. Afro Sexy 5/5, 8 pm, $20. 6587 Las Vegas Blvd. S., baobabstage.com. Charleston Heights Arts Center Bridge to Terabithia 4/29-4/30, 7 pm; 4/30-5/1, 2 pm, $5. 800 S. Brush St., 702-2296383. Christ Church Episcopal David Dorway 4/29, 7:30 pm, $15. 2000 S. Maryland Parkway, sncago.org. CSN Performing Arts Center (Backstage Theatre) The Jazz Singers and Jazz Combos Concert 5/1, 2 pm, $5-$8. (Nicholas J. Horn Theatre) CSN Spring Dance Concert 4/29, 7 pm; 4/30, 2 pm, $8-$10. CSN Orchestra 5/2, 7:30 pm, $5-$8. CSN Concert and Big Band 5/3, 7:30 pm, $5-$8. Mariachi Band Performance 5/4, 6:30 pm, $5-$8. CSN Spring Choral Concert 5/5, 7:30 pm, $5-$8. 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., 702-651-5483. Fern Adair Conservatory Eric Bogosian’s Talk Radio 4/29-4/30, 8 pm; 5/1, 2 pm, $20. 3265 E. Patrick Lane, poorrichardsplayers.com. Las Vegas Little Theatre (Mainstage) Tuna Does Vegas 5/7-5/9, 8 pm; 5/10, 2 pm, $20-$25. (Black Box) History 101 4/28-4/30, 5/5-5/7, 8 pm; 5/1, 5/8, 2 pm, $15. 3920 Schiff Drive, LVLT.org. MGM Grand (David Copperfield Theater) Kabuki Lion Shi-Shi-O: The Adventures of the Mythical Lion 5/35/6, 8 pm; 5/7, 7 pm & 10 pm, $60-$153. 702-891-7777. Onyx Theatre Heathers the Musical 4/28-4/30, 8 pm, $25. 953 E. Sahara Ave., 702-732-7225. South Point (Showroom) Gotta Dance 5/1, 7:30 pm, $23-$32. Girls Night: The Musical 5/6-5/8, 7:30 pm, $18-$28. 702-796-7111. Summerlin Library & Performing Arts Center My Fair Lady 4/28-4/30, 7:30

pm, $20-$30. 1771 Inner Circle Drive, 702-507-3860. Theatre in the Valley 2 Across 4/29-4/30, 8 pm; 5/1, 2 pm, $10-$15. 10 W. Pacific Ave., theatre inthevalley.org. UNLV (Artemus W. Ham Hall) Masterworks Concert Bruckner & Merstein 4/30, 7:30 pm, $8-$10. (Judy Bayley Theatre) Kiss Me, Kate 4/30-5/1, 5/7-5/8, 2 pm; 4/30, 5/5-5/7, 8 pm, $28-$33. (Dance Studio One) Trajectories 4/28-4/30, 7:30 pm; 4/295/1, 2:30 pm, $10-$18. 702-895-3332. Winchester Cultural Center Offenbach’s La Perichole 5/6-5/7, 7 pm; 5/8, 2 pm, $15. 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 702-455-7340.

Special Events Art Festival of Henderson 5/7-5/8, 9 am-4 pm, free. Henderson Events Plaza, 200 S. Water St., 702-2674050. Artists Unleashed 4/30, 10 am-4 pm, free. Bruce Trent Park, 8851 Vegas Drive, cityoftheworldlasvegas.org. An Evening with poet Michael McClure 4/30, 7 pm, free. Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 McLeod Drive, 702-455-7340. Bark in the Park 5/5, 10 am-2 pm, free. Cornerstone Park, 1600 Wigwam Parkway, cityofhenderson.com. Beau-T* Spa Day 5/7, 1-4 pm, free. The Center, 401 S. Maryland Parkway, 702802-5430. Desert Gray Matters 5K Walk/Run 5/1, 7:30 am, $30-$40. Sunset Park, 2601 E. Sunset Road, WalkToEndBrainTumors. org/nv. Dinah Vegas 4/28-5/1, times & venues vary, $110-$600. Dinahshoreweekend. com. First Friday 5/6, 6-11 pm, free. Downtown Las Vegas, ffflv.org. Great American Foodie Fest 4/284/29, 5-11 pm; 4/30, noon-11 pm; 5/1, noon-10 pm, $8-$10. Sunset Station, 1301 W. Sunset Road, greatamericanfoodiefest.com. Haute Dog Adoption Event 5/6, 5-7 pm, free. Haute Doggery, LINQ, hautedoggerylv.com. Helldorado Days Art Show and Auction 4/28-4/30, noon-5 pm, free. Art auction & Reception 5/1, 2-5 pm, free. Las Vegas Elks Lodge, 4100 W. Charleston Blvd., elkshelldorado.com. Indian Food & Cultural Festival 4/30, 11 am-9:30 pm, $0-$5. Clark County Amphitheater, 500 S. Grand Central Parkway, lasvegasmela.com. Jazz and Wine Tasting on the Patio ft. The Shapiro Project 4/29, 7-10 pm, $15-$25. Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 McLeod Drive, 702-455-7340. Live Violin Sound Healings 5/7, 4:30 pm,

$15. The Enchanted Forest Reiki Center, 2280 S. Jones Blvd., enchantedforestreiki.com. Ohana Festival 5/7, 10 am-4 pm, $5. Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd., springspreserve.org. Picnic by Design: Parasols in the Park 4/30, 4:30 pm, $125-$1,500. Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., thecenterlv.org/picnic. RuPaul’s Drag Race: Battle of the Seasons 4/29, 8 pm. Pearl Concert Theater, 702-944-3200. San Gennaro Feast 5/4-5/5, 4-11 pm; 5/6, 4-midnight; 5/7, noon-midnight; 5/8, noon-11 pm, $10. Craig Ranch Regional Park, 628 W. Craig Road, sangennarofeast.com. Science and Technology Festival 4/29-5/7, times & locations vary, free. SciFest.Vegas. Skye Canyon 5K & 8K 5/14, 8 am, $25$50. Skye Canyon Park, 10119 W. Skye Canyon Park Drive, desertskyadventures.com. Smokin’ Hot Mesquite Days 5/5-5/8, times vary, $18. Oasis Special Events Parking Lot, 897 W. Mesquite Blvd., 702-346-8732. Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5/7, 6 am, $10-$40. Fremont Street Experience, komennevada.org. Vegas Uncork’d 4/28-5/1, times & locations vary, $90-$1000. Vegasuncorked.com. WildLand Fire Awareness Trail Half Marathon & 5K 5/1, 8 am, $40. Spring Mountain Visitors Gateway, 2525 Kyle Canyon Road, desertskyadventures.com. Winefest 5/13-5/14, times and individual venues vary, $35-$89. Golden Nugget, 866-946-5336. Wine Spectator’s Grand Tour 4/30, 7-10 pm, $395. Mirage, grandtour.winespectator.com. The Writer’s Block Laura Carroll, Adam Kealoha Causey: 100 Things to Do in Las Vegas Before You Die 4/28, 7 pm. Neon Lit 4/29, 7 pm. Local Author Showcase 4/30, 5 pm. Events free unless noted. 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock.org. Writer’s Workshop with poet Michael McClure 5/1, 2 pm, free. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702507-3400.

Sports AMSOIL Arenacross 5/6, 8 pm; 5/8, noon, $19-$29. Orleans, orleansarena.com. Canelo vs. Khan 5/7, 3 pm, $150-$1500. T-Mobile Arena, 3780 Las Vegas Blvd. S., t-mobilearena.com. Las Vegas 51s Tacoma 4/28-4/30, 7 pm; 5/1, noon. El Paso 5/10-5/13, 7 pm. Cashman Field, 702-943-7200. Monster Energy Supercross Finals

5/7, 6:30 pm, $55-$95. Sam Boyd Stadium, unlvtickets.com. Open Wrestling Championship 4/28-4/30, 9 am, $7-$32. South Point, 702-796-7111. Steve Garvey & Pete Rose “Talk Baseball Rivalries Past and Present” 4/30, 7 pm, $22-$33. Suncoast Showroom, 9090 Alta Drive, 702284-7777. Golf Fest 5/6-5/7, 9 am-6 pm, $10. TaylorMade Golf Experience, 6730 Las Vegas Blvd. S., golffestshow.com. Tuff-N-Uff: The Future Stars of MMA 4/29, 7 pm, $14-$39. Cox Pavilion, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, unlvtickets.com. UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs Garbrandt 5/29, 4 pm, $54-$179. Mandalay Bay Events Center, 702632-7777. Ultimate Gambler Golf Tour 4/29, 2 pm, $200-$800. Spanish Trails Country Club, 5050 Spanish Trail Lane, ultimategambler.com/golf.

Galleries Arts Factory 107 E. Charleston Blvd, 702-383-3133. Galleries include: SaVx Gallery Steve Anthony, Victor Xiu, Angelica Salazar Daily, 5-9 pm. #240, 702-540-9331. Wonderland Gallery Mannie Rubio Thru 4/29. Stacy Rink: A Vague Sense of Unease 5/5-5/27. Tue-Sun, noon-4 pm. #110, 702-686-4010. Clay Arts Vegas Sweet and Slippery Slope: The Art of Sex and Sexuality May. Mon-Sat, 9 am-9 pm; Sun, 11:30 am-6:30 pm. 1511 S. Main St., 702-3754147. CSN Artspace Gallery Illustrating the Written Word: A Collaborative Intersection of Art and Language 4/29-6/11. Mon-Fri, 8 am-10:30 pm; Sat, 8 am-5 pm, free. 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., 702-651-4146. Erotic Heritage Museum (Main Gallery) Samantha Fortenberry: “Suds and Smiles Collection” Thru 4/30. (LGBTIQ Gallery) Yolanda Reyes: “The Filthy Happiness” Thru 7/31. Daily, 11 am-10 pm, $10-$18. 3275 Sammy Davis Jr. Drive, 702-794-4000. Historic Fifth Street School (Mayor’s Gallery) Las Vegas Artists Guild Spring Exhibit Thru 5/21. 401 S. 4th St., 702-229-3515. Las Vegas City Hall (Grand Gallery) “Clay Arts Vegas: Vegas to a Local” Thru 6/2. (Chamber Gallery) “A Mother and Daughter Remember” Thru 7/7. Mon-Fri, 7 am-5:30 pm. 495 S. Main St., 702-229-1012. Winchester Cultural Center Gallery Rachel Stiff: “High Noon” 5/3-6/24. Artist Reception 5/6, 5:30-7:30 pm. Tue-Fri, 10 am-8 pm; Sat, 9 am-6 pm. 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 702-455-7340.

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