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City of momentum Every weekend feels like a huge holiday weekend in Las Vegas these days. The last one was a monster—even with Memorial Day a month away and generally terrible weather, we had three largerthan-life concert events on one Saturday night (Billy Joel, Rihanna, Elton John) piled on top of an edgy music festival (Further Future), an annual food-culture blowout (Vegas Uncork’d) and the debut of a major nightlife venue (Intrigue). And yet, all the Vegas buzz is about what could happen in the future, never marveling at our supercharged now. It hit me last Thursday night as I sped through the Spaghetti Bowl on my way to an Uncork’d/Intrigue doubleheader: silver-and-black billboards shouting “Viva Las Raiders!” Almost exactly a year ago in this exact space, Las Vegas Weekly examined the present, in the fresh wake of Mayweather-Pacquiao and barreling ahead to Rock in Rio, EDC and NASCAR Weekend, recognizing that Vegas has so much going on we don’t really need a pro sports team. Any NFL team—let alone a storied franchise with a rabid fanbase in the 702—seemed an impossi-
> SILVER AND BLACK STATE? The NFL in Vegas seemed an impossibility months ago.
bility just a few months ago. Forget about the seemingly inevitable NHL expansion team that will play in our beautiful new T-Mobile Arena. Can the Las Vegas Raiders really be happening? Despite team owner Mark Davis talking like a man on a mission and massive local support from Strip bosses Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn, a lot still has to happen to make our domedstadium pro football dreams come true: public financing approved by the legislature, a three-fourths vote by NFL owners, blah blah, yadda yadda. But, “there’s been a sea change in the NFL’s attitude … how that plays out with us is interesting,” Wynn told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Flanked by soccer star David Beckham at a press conference last week, Davis said he would make the NFL an “offer they can’t refuse,” and that moving the Raiders to Vegas would be a “lifetime commitment.” In this pursuit, Las Vegas has nothing to lose. The entire Valley thrives when the Strip is in full bloom, and our post-recession petals have started to spread out. Welcome to spring in the desert. –Brock Radke
A New classic Baobab Stage digs into vintage cinema Fade in: Las Vegas. Yes, things move so fast here in the entertainment capital of the world that sometimes we forget about all the great entertainment of the past. That’s where the Las Vegas Classic Film Series comes in. Many have tried to open some type of vintage movie house, but it took the combined efforts of our plucky heroes to actually make it happen. It’s a story made for the silver screen: A Senegalese woman, Wassa Coulibaly, moves to Sin City to be a dancer for Cirque du Soleil. She takes over the Baobob Stage at Town Square and begins shaking things up. On a recent trip to Switzerland, in a small theater, lightning strikes. “The movies they played were just so raw,” Coulibaly says. “It inspired me.” Enter Bosnian refugee Ozren Cvjetic, who also happens to be a filmmaker. He’s lived in New York and throughout Europe and has this idea to create the Classic Film Series. “Only Paris, London, Berlin, New York and LA are going to have this level of programming,” he promises. That means two movies a day, ranging from A Star Is Born and The General to The Wizard of Oz. For now, admission is $5 as the films are all available via public domain, but Coulibaly is hoping to add copywrited titles, especially those by her favorite filmmaker Federico Fellini. She also wants to bring in programming from film festivals around the world. Cvjetic has even grander ambitions, hoping to “build a film archive collecting everything that was ever filmed in the Southwest, from casinos to Navajo reservations from Santa Fe.” Opening night saw a large crowd turn out for Charade, a 1963 thriller starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant. This is a worthwhile cultural venture, and with continued community support there’s no reason these two dreamers can’t have their own Hollywood ending. –Jason Harris
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WHEN MOMS FLY Massages, flowers, chocolates and mimosas. There’s nothing wrong with these Mother’s Day staples. But did you skydive? If your mom is a thrill-seeker (or even if she’s not and you just want to switch up this year’s celebration … a lot), head to Vegas Indoor Skydiving. On May 8 only, every mom flies for free with the purchase of one single-flight ticket at regular price. That’s right—if you expect Mom to jump out of an imaginary airplane, you better believe you’re going, too. Watch the woman who gave you life free-fall in a vertical wind tunnel with foam-padded walls and a trampoline floor. And keep in mind that the tunnel produces enough wind for tricks and aerial stunts, if you dare. At flight’s end, your mom will be rewarded with a Cupcakery cupcake. And to put your own little cherry on top, bust out a personalized bobblehead of her clad in skydiving gear, available for $50 on Groupon. Now that’s love. –Rosalie Spear
ON THE HOUSE If you donated to Save the Huntridge, you could save on drinks at a new Downtown spot Remember that 2013 Save the Huntridge Indiegogo campaign? Contributors are now welcome to an unofficial perk, thanks to forthcoming Arts District tavern/antique store ReBAR. Owner Derek Stonebarger— who contributed money and loaned his Huntridge.com URL—came up with the idea of gifting fellow donors while devising his own Indiegogo for ReBAR ($10,000 for finishing touches). He heard numerous complaints about crowdfunding after the Huntridge effort officially stalled in 2015, and figured out a way to promote his new business, incentivize participation and “bring the community back together and reward the people who donated.” Save the Huntridge contributors are encouraged to visit ReBAR (slated to open at 1225 S. Main Street in early June) before December 31, log into their Indiegogo accounts and show a
While Gordon Ramsay is no stranger to Las Vegas (the dude has three eponymous restaurants on the Strip), Vegas-based cooks have remained outsiders to his reality competition show MasterChef—until now. When Season 7 of the popular Fox program debuts June 1, six of the 40 home chefs vying for the MasterChef title—and the cookbook deal and $250,000 prize—will be local. “I didn’t feel like I was a stranger in the competition. I felt like Vegas had a little alliance going in,” says D’Andre Balaoing, a bartender at Downtown’s Huntridge Tavern. “Nobody from Vegas had ever made the top 100 or the top 40. This is the first time you’ll see Vegas people on the show.” The UNLV alum joined fellow locals David Williams (a professional poker player), Shaun O’Neale (a DJ), James Woods (a truck driver), Shawn Norris (a restaurant manager) and Will Staten (a karate instructor) in the MasterChef kitchen. Will Vegas rise to the top and steal that final white apron? Six out of 40 seems like good odds, but we’ll have to wait and see. Until then, consider saddling up to a barstool at the Huntridge—Balaoing says he’s trying to organize MasterChef viewing parties at the beloved dive. –Mark Adams For more of our interview with Balaoing, visit lasvegasweekly.com.
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tab, which includes incentives such as special-event invites, T-shirts and cocktails. Stonebarger raised more than the $10,000 goal in the first five days, so there’s little chance he’ll pass the buck for crowdfunding woes to the bar down the street. –Mike Prevatt
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he difference between dedication and obsession is a question of the frivolity (and sometimes legality) of one’s object of desire. Conor McGregor, the Irish UFC whirlwind, claims he’s at the top of the fight game because he’s obsessed, not talented. He’s wrong. McGregor has a natural abundance of fast-twitch muscle fiber and a psychotic disregard for being punched in the face. He married that talent to diligent practice and assiduous focus to hone his skills until he stormed the mixed martial arts mountain. He’s dedicated. In Nintendo Quest, the feature documentary by local filmmaker Rob McCallum, the star and subject Jay Bartlett is obsessed. He might have had to make serious personal sacrifices, just like McGregor. He may have even undergone a personal transformation at the end of his journey, just like McGregor. But instead of pushing his body and soul to the limits of endurance in order to conquer an entire sport, Bartlett turned to collecting all 678 officially licensed Nintendo Entertainment System games. Anyone can be dedicated if they have a reasonable work ethic and specific goals. It takes a special kind of head-wiring to be obsessed. McCallum is playing Spock’s 3D chess while y’all are playing space checkers. He’s carving out a niche for himself by channeling his obsessions into an auteur’s dedication, making documentaries about obsessive people zealously committing to their obsessions. Which raises the obvious question: Where does Animotion fit in all this? (Nowhere, actually. But try to pretend like that song isn’t stuck in your head right now.) Nintendo Quest follows Bartlett on a series of road trips from his London, Ontario, home as he tries to collect all of the old carts, from your garden-variety Duck Hunt to the ultra-rare Stadium Events, copies of which have been known to snag a, frankly, ridiculous $77,000 on eBay. No video game should ever outkick a used Maserati, up to and including the actual carts featured on The Wizard. Presiding over the whole affair is McCallum, part affable ’90s MTV VJ, part geek Virgil through this tour of a home console’s afterlife. He came to the city as a volunteer for CineVegas. He met his wife working for the festival, emigrated from Ontario to Houston after they were married, then relocated here four years ago. That’s when he began to renew his focus on documentaries. Nintendo Quest started as a challenge to his childhood pal. Could Bartlett cash in on his professed lifelong desire and collect all those games in a 30-day time frame without using the Internet? “[Bartlett] said, ‘You can’t follow me around going into stores, because [those videos] are all over YouTube. Pick-up videos, they call them,’” McCallum says. “What would be the ultimate pick-up video that would have stakes? Because a lot of documentaries don’t have stakes. I just dared him. I said, ‘You’ve always wanted to complete an NES collection. As
your friend of more than 30 years I’m sick of hearing about how you don’t have one yet.’” And so, like a Zelda T-shirt-wearing Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, McCallum and Bartlett hit the road. Days were spent raiding second-hand stores, flea markets and private collections. Nights were spent holed up in hotels with beer and Super Mario Bros. 3. Bartlett remembered how, as kids, the two of them would put all their action figures in a pile. Together, they’d build an elaborate overarching narrative for all of them. (Well, maybe not the GoBots. No one was happy with the GoBots.) But given the recent Paramount-Hasbro deal to create a shared cinematic universe between G.I. Joe, M.A.S.K., Micronauts, Visionaries and ROM Spaceknight, it seems now less like childhood whimsy than future-studio-exec
proving grounds. “He always loved to tell stories,” Bartlett says. When he came face to face with the sausage-making of McCallum’s storytelling, Bartlett was initially gun-shy. Then he remembered just who his friend is. “He started asking me questions about my family stuff, and I said, ‘Why are we talking about that? What does that have to do with Nintendo games?’ Of course now I see it’s really a story about me and my journey.” McCallum entered the film in a few festivals and caught the interest of distributors. It spawned a 12-city tour of the doc, which was filmed as the Nintendo Quest Power Tour, and sold to a New Zealand TV station. It’s available now on Amazon Prime, Hulu, iTunes and Vimeo. There’s a Nintendo Quest NES game in the works. Bartlett says some fans came up to him on the tour shaking. That’s quality obsession right there, to get so amped up about a guy who’s on film collecting the thing you like. The near-religious fervor that geek culture inspires makes it an easy fit as a muse. “Fandom is something I love, and it’s something you can easily see and understand the passion for,” McCallum says. “[A 2017] project will take a look at the world of fandom and go to the next level with it. Why do people like it so much? Is that what allows it to exist? Is it a symbiosis between the creators and the fans?” In the more immediate future, McCallum is working on Box Art, exploring the art and artists of video games from the earliest Activision classics up through today’s big-ticket games. He’s also doing Power of Grayskull, about He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, his own personal obsession. Plus there’s one about the all-girl nu-metal act Kittie, but the next project that drops from McCallum’s Pyre Productions is certainly his most personal. McCallum’s mother, Terri Lee Parker, went missing on October 27, 1990. No one, not McCallum, nor anyone in his family, had heard from her in the 25 years since. So he and his Mountie brother Chris went looking in Missing Mom, debuting May 7—just before Mother’s Day. McCallum admits right off the rip that there’s a very good chance they were chasing a trail that would lead them to find their mother had died. He had to do it anyway. “It was like white-water rafting,” he says. “You’re on this journey and you can’t slow down. You don’t know if the rocks are going to push you one way or the other. I’m very lucky to have what I think is an awesome life, but I don’t prescribe my love for making docs being connected to my missing mom, or the other way around, in which I need to showcase my worth, to prove that she made a mistake abandoning me. I love telling stories that are grounded in real-life events that seem impossible on the outset.” Real-life events, like that time Dolph Lundgren beat up Frank Langella. McCallum won’t confirm if he has Lundgren lined up for Power of Grayskull, which is too bad, because it could have cleared up our own lifelong obsession: figuring out how the Russian boxer who killed Apollo Creed ever wound up on Eternia.
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besides this new joint and his Guy’s Vegas Kitchen o I’m sitting with this guy I know, in & Bar at the Linq—to spend more time in Las Vegas. a Mexican restaurant in Las Vegas, You might not be used to hearing Fieri talk about talking a little about food but more anything other than over-the-top food, big delicious about life. I’m nibbling on a machaca plates with occasionally goofy names like the Trash burger and sipping on a jalapeño margarita; he’s Can Nachos or Lava Rock Shrimp Tacos I’m seritalking about his kid’s first year in college. ously considering ordering next. You may expect his “He’s my best friend,” he says of his oldest son, every other sentence to contain a catchphrase like, Hunter. “I’m just so proud of the way he behaves. “This is out of bounds!” or “Shut the front door!” or I mean, we still have our ups and downs, and we “We’re riding the bus to Flavortown!” They don’t didn’t have the greatest first semester. We passed. Photograph by pop up, but we definitely talk about this food and “We spent the summer before he came to school Anthony Mair this drink. together in Europe. We did seven countries, 14 citWith the burger, dubbed El Hombre, “you get ies in 30 days. We went from Greece through Italy, the rich, you get the crunch, you get the cream and you get through Switzerland, through Germany, through France to the spice. You’ve got two different types of meats going on. London, then down to Spain. We did it because all his life, I’ve And if you’re gonna have a Mexican-American experience of told him I was going to take him to where food started, and a burger, it better have beans and fresh-made pico de gallo.” It see what it’s like to be in the hills of Greece milking a sheep also has a melty cheese sauce and a layer of spicy pepper jack, in the heat, and to realize that little bit of milk we got is going shaved jalapeños, guacamole and whatever burro sauce turns to make cheese and feed our family. I’m not kidding—it was a out to be. It’s pretty great, but I like the signature caliente marlife-changing experience for him and for me.” garita even better. Okay, so I don’t really know this guy, but I feel like I’ve “I do not like 90 percent of margaritas. Too sweet,” Fieri known him for years, and so do you. I’m sitting with Guy Fieri says. “The foundation of most margaritas is a premixed, in his Mexican restaurant in Vegas, El Burro Borracho at the processed, pasteurized snow-cone liquid. We make our own Rio, and the trip he’s talking about was captured on camera as sweet-and-sour from scratch, our own simple syrup, and Guy and Hunter’s European Vacation, one of Fieri’s many Food fresh-squeezed lime juice. I don’t believe in taking a superNetwork shows. ultra premium tequila and drowning it in something where Hunter has followed in his famous father’s footsteps by you’re never gonna taste the añejo. Use a really good tequila, studying at UNLV, which gives Fieri a third good reason—
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> MAN MEETS BURGER Fieri puts the finishing touches on El Hombre at El Burro Borracho.
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multiple installments up to five days a week. Like a consensus favorite film, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives seems to find its way to our TV screens and stay there, sticky-sweet viewing that can inspire impulsive taco runs or chicken-wing chases. “I had just won Food Network Star, and this production company came along with an idea for the show, this pitch, and the network said, Okay, let’s use the new guy,” Fieri says. “Of course, no one wants to take their super-exciting new show idea and get stuck with the new guy.” But Fieri’s easy style won out, proving the perfect fit for the format from day one. “When the producer yelled, ‘Cut!’ he asked, ‘What was that in there? You didn’t ask the questions in the kitchen the way I told you to.’ But I can’t do it in a formal way. I’m a chef, I own restaurants, and there’s a behavior in the kitchen you have to have. And he said, ‘Can you do it like that every time?’ Now we all laugh about it, how bummed they were about getting the new guy.” The fact that everyone’s welcome at this party (not to mention Fieri’s enormous audience) makes him a natural fit for the Vegas Strip, the center of celebrity cuisine—so much so that he was almost late to the party when he partnered with Caesars Entertainment to open a bar and restaurant at the Linq two years ago. It’s one of the busiest restaurants on the Strip—often turning out 2,000 covers a
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muddle a little jalapeño and cilantro, which keeps it from being one-note, then lime and sweet. Done.” This is the Guy Fieri we all know, the guy who has anchored 24 seasons of Food Network’s most popular show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, with his colorful, casual, ever-enthusiastic style over the past nine years. The bleached-blonde spikes and goatee, the big smile and the big bites of anything and everything at roadhouse restaurants across the country—the show is infinitely enjoyable, and you have to give Fieri the lion’s share of credit. “He’s boisterous, a party animal, and has a good time with food, teaching people to enjoy the entire process and not be threatened by cooking it,” says Robin Leach, who was Food Network’s first on-air hire and its spokesman when the network launched in 1993. “I knew immediately he would become a major star. He is a blue-collar star chef. It’s all about the relatability quotient, and he has it in spades.” After winning the second season of The Next Food Network Star in 2006, Fieri, who had been operating his own Italian restaurants in Northern California, debuted his first TV show, Guy’s Big Bite. More would follow, including Guy’s Grocery Games and the food-less family game show Minute to Win It on NBC, along with several cookbooks, a line of salsas and sauces, and more restaurants. But it was “Triple D” that made him a household name, the show that airs new episodes on Fridays and
day—and hasn’t slowed down. “We’re still waiting for that to happen,” jokes executive chef Tony Leitera, a Vegas native who was working in Indiana when Caesars and Fieri lured him back to open the Linq. “It’s more like we keep growing and expanding every month. I keep thinking it’s going to taper off but it doesn’t.” By all accounts, Fieri is the character on TV, the guy who’s incredibly excited to check out whatever’s cooking. Leitera was struck by how quickly their friendship formed, and after spending time with the star chef in the past couple of years, I can relate. “He digs pretty deep when he’s talking to you, especially if you’re somebody who’s going to represent what he does,” Leitera says. “He’s larger than life, but he brings the people around him in close and makes you feel like you matter. And he’s as involved in this food as I am, as involved as any chef I’ve worked with.” Fieri’s natural inclination to chop it up with his restaurant brothers whenever he’s in town—or with anyone he’s working with, in any city—can complicate his already complicated schedule. “I always wish for more time at home, or at the restaurants, or on the shows,” he says. “We get out on the road doing Triple D and come across a momand-pop joint and just make a great connection, really feel it, and the same goes at my restaurants. I love Las Vegas and getting to hang with this team on the line, sharing their experiences, and the next thing I know, I’ve already chewed up the three days I’ve got in town.” He might only be in Vegas for a few days at a time, but Fieri is making many more visits these days, checking in with his son—“I love that UNLV is a big-little school, that you can still have access and support as a student”—and both restaurants. It’s a safe bet he’ll be doing more business here soon. “I have a steakhouse concept in Atlantic City that just crushes it, and we have multiple conversations [with Caesars] on a regular basis about bringing it to Las Vegas,” Fieri says. “It’s kind of old-school, and Vegas has great steakhouses, but I think there’s room for different styles. “And having two [in Vegas] is just ... come on! It’s incredible. When I was here [in school] it was all about going to the buffet. I only got to go to Caesars when my parents were in town. Doing this now, it’s like playing in the Super Bowl every week. If they come up with another spot for me, I’m jumping at the chance.” LVW
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Alesso does Encore Beach Club during the day, then the icy-cool Frenchman behind current smash “Middle” takes over.
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playing abstract and themed images. Shawn Sullivan, partner and studio leader at the Rockwell Group, said his team wanted to weave first-of-its-kind technology and unique production pieces into the architecture, and that results in Jewel’s centerpiece, a central dome ceiling pulsating with visuals via more than 1,400 square feet of LED ribbons. Partiers on the dancefloor will be hypnotized, but eyes will also be drawn to the five exclusive, themed VIP skyboxes, each utilizing custom furnishings and finishings. You’ve never seen anything like these signature spaces in any other club in Las Vegas.
Another surprise: The mezzaninelevel drink rail directly in front of the DJ booth/stage might be the best spot in the house to take in all the action, and it’ll be reserved for GA, not tables. Even a few weeks before the opening, it’s clear guests will be the center of attention, and that’s the whole idea. With a capacity of just under 2,000 and the sleek, sexy rotunda design of the mezzanine level, Jewel puts everyone within reach of the performance, the party, and what’s sure to be an unparalleled experience. –Brock Radke
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hen Selena Gomez dropped Revival toward the end of 2015, no one could have predicted the album’s breakout power. Nominated for Top Female Artist and Top Social Media Artist in this year’s Billboard Music Awards, Gomez has projected a sexy, fun—and sometimes vengeful—image that proved exactly what she needed to launch her next chapter as a strong, independent artist. The rising pop star spoke with us by email about Revival, life’s battle wounds and her excitement as she readies to kick off her world tour Friday, followed by her first-ever Las Vegas nightclub appearance at Light.
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You just wrapped up some acting gigs, too. What’s it like taking on such different roles? As an actor, that’s what you wish for. I’ve been incredibly lucky to have been able to take on very diverse roles the last several years. After the tour I am looking forward to getting back on a set. You’ve said Revival was a way to tell your side of your life story. Has it helped in the way you thought it would? I think Revival is just the start. The conversation has definitely turned, and I feel more inspired than ever right now. I have actually been working on new music. It’s always a good thing to push yourself and be challenged. I think as humans that’s the only way we grow. I am happy for the “scars” I have and wouldn’t change them for anything. I feel like I truly have just begun my journey. What has been the most rewarding part of 2016 so far? The most rewarding part definitely has to be putting the Revival Tour together. I just can’t wait to get it on the road and see everyone! Selena Gomez at Mandalay Bay Events Center and hosting the official afterparty at Light at Mandalay Bay, May 6. –Leslie Ventura
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It was just another Dinner on the Strip, standard operating procedure for a Vegas Uncork’d event—especially during last weekend’s 10th anniversary of the Bon Appétit-driven food fest. But the best part was what most attendees didn’t even realize: Stormy weather prevented the dinner from being held in front of the Venetian’s canals on a specially designed apparatus that would have literally suspended us over the Strip while we feasted on chef Olivier Dubreuil’s cumin chicken tagine and chef Kim Canteenwalla’s peerless porchetta. And yet no member of the Venetian’s crew missed a beat, and no one left unsatisfied. The show must go on, and it must be fabulous. It’s just the Vegas way. –Brock Radke
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at The LINQ Hotel & Casino The Pool at The LINQ, free to both locals and non-hotel guests ages 21 and up, has many amenities to choose from. The cabanas are equipped with overhead misting systems, chaise lounges, plasma TVs, built-in speakers, refrigerators and complimentary sliced fruit and veggie dishes—not to mention your own cabana host and server. Other amenities include poolside daybed rentals. A center bar seats more than two dozen guests, and you can order everything from beers on tap to frozen and signature cocktails. There’s also the REQ Room, an indoor, air-conditioned hangout with pool tables and games. And get ready for some serious fun all weekend long—O’Sheas Takeover on Fridays features beer pong, Irish-themed entertainment and a visit from the bar’s mascot, Lucky the Leprechaun; get your island vibe on at the tropical house music-themed Tropical Saturdays; and enjoy buy-one-get-one Champagne specials during Champagne Sundays.
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at Flamingo Paradise can be found at the GO Pool. The watery adults-only playground is situated among the property’s 15 acres of tropical topography. Towering palms trees set the scene for the outdoor party pool, accessible through a separate entrance off the main pool area. Once you’re through the doors, feast your eyes on two adjoining pools with a cascading waterfall and grotto in the middle. Around the water’s edge are daybeds, curtained opium beds and lounge chairs. Lining the perimeter are 38 luxurious VIP cabanas. And daily DJs guarantee a party atmosphere all week long.
FlowRider & PH Pools at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino Can you really hang 10 in the desert? Absolutely! The first of its kind in Las Vegas, the FlowRider adds excitement to the pool season. Whether you’re a professional or newbie, surf the machine-made waves bodyboard-style, or stand up on one of the flowboards. Or enjoy the rooftop Pools with two separate pool decks and more than two dozen cabanas and daybeds lining the water’s perimeter. Two bars, DJ performances and bikini contests keep the fun flowing all summer long.
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great experience.” This week marks the first anniversary of one of Omnia’s most beloved experiences, the Tuesday night Wild at Heart industry party. As a bornand-raised Vegas native whose father was once F&B director at the Sahara, Trillo—who cut his teeth in hospitality at the locals’ favorite Italian eatery Nora’s as a teenager—feels a special connection to the most local night of the week at Omnia. “Tuesday was also industry night at Pure. Everybody knew Pure Tuesdays,” he says. “It’s really neat to look across and recognize so many faces from
different restaurants, nightclubs and hotels in Heart on Tuesdays. And the anniversary is really exciting because we’re having all these people out that support us every week, the locals who know if you’re going out on a Tuesday night, you’re going to Omnia. Our Tuesdays in Heart get sold out faster than the big room. It doesn’t matter how big the DJ is over there, it’s always jumping in here.” Wild at Heart One-Year Anniversary with DJ Five and Eric DLux at Heart of Omnia at Caesars Palace, May 10. –Brock Radke
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5/6 Selena Gomez. 5/7 J. Cole. 5/11 Eric DLux. 5/13 Stafford Brothers. 5/14 Metro Boomin. 5/18 Baauer’s Studio B. 5/20 Laidback Luke. 5/21 Metro Boomin. 5/25 DJ Mustard. 5/27 Stafford Brothers. 5/28 Disclosure’s Wild Life. 5/29 J. Cole. Mandalay Bay, Wed, Fri-Sat, 702-632-4700.
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5/6 Calvin Harris. 5/7 Nicky Romero. 5/10 Oliver Heldens. 5/13 Calvin Harris. 5/14 Nervo. 5/17 Nervo. 5/20 Calvin Harris. 5/21 Martin Garrix. 5/24 Afrojack. 5/27 Calvin Harris. 5/28 Martin Garrix. 5/29 Afrojack. 5/31 Burns. Caesars Palace, Tue, Thu-Sun, 702-785-6200.
5/6 DJ Jami. 5/7 O.T. Genasis. 5/13 DJ Ikon. 5/14 Busta Rhymes. 5/20 DJ Jami. 5/21 DJ Hollywood. 5/27 Young Thug & DJ Wellman. 5/28 Flo Rida & Borgore. SLS, Fri-Sat, 702761-7621.
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Opens May 19. 5/19 Jamie Foxx. 5/21 The Chainsmokers. 5/23 Lil Jon. 5/27 Lil Jon. 5/28 Steve Aoki. 5/30 The Chainsmokers. Aria, 702-590-8000.
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Market, continuing May 10 with a how-to and tasting focused on Spanish favorites like gazpacho and pan con tomate with Jaleo’s Luis Montesinos. 6:30 p.m.
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ous album, the recent We Can Do Anything fits so perfectly into the Femmes’ decades-long discography, you’ll clamor for both new songs and classics like “Kiss Off.” With Happiness. May 5, 8:30 p.m., $35-$60, Brooklyn Bowl. shannon and the clams If The Runaways and
The Cramps had a lovechild and turned it over to Phil Spector, it might sound like this retro-indie trio, led by eternal teenager and singer/bassist Shannon Shaw. With No Tides. May 11, 7:30 p.m., $12-$15, Backstage Bar & Billiards.
go free comic book day Comic book stores across town will participate in the annual celebration, with free comics from mainstream and indie publishers, cosplayers, signings, sales, giveaways, local artists and more. May 7, freecomicbookday.com. COSMOPOLITAN CHEF SERIES Catch Cosmo’s culinary talent doing free demos all month at Town Square’s Whole Foods
framing the west Artist Rachel Stiff uses the Mojave Desert’s sculptural forms to create dynamic abstract paintings and drawings, where the processes of memory and art-making are related. Artist reception May 6, 5:30-7:30 p.m.; exhibit through June 24; Winchester Cultural Center. girls night Out: the musical Head to this tell-itlike-it-is musical-comedy packed with female-centric hits like “Lady Marmalade” and “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” And to those with Y chromosomes: You might still find yourselves singing along and dancing in the aisles. May 6-8; June 10-12, 7:30 p.m., $18-$28. South Point.
“When I met Stan I was like this little kid in awe of every single word as he’s going, ‘Yeah, when I created Spider-Man …’ Wake me up, please!” Michael Valentine says, as breathless as any fan would be about meeting the Godfather of comics. But his encounter with Stan Lee wasn’t just a handshake at a convention. The former president of Marvel and creator of icons from Iron Man to the X-Men is a cornerstone of Valentine’s documentary, COMIX: Beyond the Comic Book Pages, along with peers Frank Miller (Sin City), Neal Adams (Batman), Mark Waid (Superman), Todd McFarlane (Spawn), Mike Richardson (Dark Horse Comics) and Marc Silvestri (Image Comics). About a dozen years in the making, the film was pieced together from nearly 350 hours of footage and more than 200 images from the pages that inspired Valentine as a kid and as an adult superfan. Given the dominance of comic book characters in pop culture right now, he thinks the timing was COMIX: right to finally unleash his BEYOND exploration of “the whole THE COMIC phenomenon,” from the masterminds to production BOOK to fan culture. And it’s not all PAGES May superheroes. “There’s horror 7, 7 p.m., $5. comics, there’s fun comics, Sci Fi Center, there’s sexy comics, there’s 5077 Arville hand-painted art—there are St., 855-5014335. so many different styles now,” says Valentine, adding that indie artists are part of the discovery factor of the film, which is an IndieFEST and Los Angeles Independent Film Festival award winner (and is watchable online and on-demand). He made it himself, with a personal loan and the grit to just keep tapping on doors until they opened. And on Free Comic Book Day, the Sci Fi Center is screening COMIX and raffling off everything from artwork to action figures. Valentine will be on hand for a Q&A (and is working on getting one of the famous names in the credits to Skype in). He hopes fans turn up in costume and make it memorable. “I think the film is best when it’s experienced with other people who love what you love.” –Erin Ryan
tracy morgan The 30 Rock actor and stand-up comedian’s weekend gigs mark both his debut with Mirage’s Aces of Comedy series and his first Vegas appearance since the horrific 2014 auto collision that put him in a coma for two weeks. But don’t call it a comeback; he’s been uproarious for years—and remains so. May 6 & 7, 10 p.m., $54-$87.
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Marvel overload
> hero on the lam Captain America takes matters into his own hands.
The crowded slate of movies and TV series on tap for the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Luke Cage (September 30) The next Marvel Netflix series features the superstrong, invulnerable crime-fighter played by Mike Colter. Doctor Strange (November 4) This film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the supernatural hero, alongside Tilda Swinton as his mysterious mentor. Iron Fist (TBD 2017) Marvel’s fourth Netflix series stars Finn Jones as the mystically powered martial-arts master. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (May 5, 2017) The misfit intergalactic heroes return, as does writer-director James Gunn and his love for classic pop and rock tunes. film
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Captain America and Iron Man face off in the overstuffed Civil War By Josh Bell His name might be in the title, but Captain America: Civil War is only nominally a Captain America movie. Really, it’s the latest chapter in the ongoing Marvel mega-saga, with a dozen different super-powered heroes crowding the narrative. Following up on last year’s Avengers: Age of Ultron as much as (or more than) 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Civil War sets up a battle between factions of heroes led by Captain America (Chris Evans) and his fellow Avenger Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), who disagree on whether the Avengers should submit to government oversight. The core dispute between Captain America and Iron Man is thematically rich, and the filmmakers (directing brothers Anthony and Joe Russo and screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, all returning from The Winter Soldier) handle the concept of heroes battling each other over the right way to help humanity much more effectively than the recent Batman v Superman. At the same time, the thematic concerns of Marvel movies tend to be fairly superficial, and the best thing about Civil War is not the way that it explores competing moral philosophies, but the way that it throws together a bunch of badass superheroes and has them pummel each other.
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Midway through the film, as Captain America has gone rogue aaacc in order to clear the name of his CAPTAIN buddy, brainwashed super-soldier AMERICA: Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), the CIVIL WAR two main heroes gather up their Chris Evans, respective allies and engage in an Robert epic showdown in an empty airDowney port that’s one of the best action Jr., Scarlett sequences in any Marvel movie. Johansson, The filmmakers clearly understand Sebastian Stan. the unique strengths and weaknessDirected by es of the various heroes, and they Anthony Russo depict them smartly and distinctly and Joe Russo. over the course of the fight. Rated PG-13. The movie sort of peters out Opens Friday from there, especially as it focuscitywide. es increasingly on the villainous Zemo (Daniel Brühl), a shadowy figure who turns out to be possibly the least interesting bad guy in a series of movies that has major trouble coming up with worthwhile antagonists. As with Age of Ultron, Civil War is full of setup for future Marvel movies, although at least in the case of new additions Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) and Spider-Man (Tom Holland), both poised for their own solo adventures in the next couple of years, that setup promises something entertaining down the road. As the movie reveals more about the true origins of the rift between Captain America and Iron Man, though, its deeper themes lose some of their significance. Civil War hinges on tearing the coalition of Marvel superheroes apart, but it’s hard to feel the impact of that schism when the movie’s real purpose is building up what comes next.
Spider-Man: Homecoming (July 7, 2017) Thanks to a collaboration with Sony, Marvel’s most famous superhero (now played by Tom Holland) comes to the MCU. Thor: Ragnarok (November 3, 2017) Thor’s third solo movie features the god of thunder facing off against the Norse goddess of death, played by Cate Blanchett. Black Panther (February 16, 2018) After his introduction in Civil War, the Wakandan ruler and superhero (Chadwick Boseman) will star in a solo movie. Avengers: Infinity War (Part I & Part II) (May 4, 2018 and May 3, 2019) This two-part Avengers blowout promises appearances from at least 67 different Marvel characters. Ant-Man and the Wasp (July 6, 2018) Evangeline Lilly’s Wasp gets co-headlining credit alongside Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man in this sequel. Plus: Feature film Captain Marvel (March 8, 2019) and TV series Cloak and Dagger (airing on Freeform in 2017), with no cast announced yet; team-up series The Defenders, featuring all of Marvel’s Netflix heroes; a Punisher spinoff, also on Netflix; TV pilots Damage Control and Marvel’s Most Wanted, which might get picked up to series at ABC. –Josh Bell
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Sing Street gets by on enthusiasm and catchy tunes By Mike D’Angelo
band exists in his imagination. Any movie about young people He speedily rectifies this, draftin Ireland forming a band exists ing several other misfits to play in the mighty shadow of 1991’s cover versions of songs by the likes The Commitments, the most joyof Duran Duran and The Cure. ous paean to musical appropriaConor’s older brother, Brendan tion ever made. If anybody could (Jack Reynor), however, largely skirt that problem, insists that the band write though, it’s John Carney, aaabc its own tunes. a former rock musiSING Oddly, it’s Brendan—a cian (his band was The STREET relatively minor characFrames) who turned to Ferdia Walshter—who provides Sing filmmaking and specialPeelo, Lucy Street with its most powizes in music-related stoBoynton, erful moments; the film is ries (Once, Begin Again). Aidan Gillen. ostensibly a romance, but Sing Street, Carney’s latDirected by sneaks in a more affecting est effort, tells the semiJohn Carney. story of a young man who autobiographical tale of Rated PG-13. knows he’s squandered his his teenage adventures Opens Friday potential and doesn’t want at Dublin’s Synge Street at Century to see his brother make school, and while its charSuncoast. the same mistake. (Reynor, acters aren’t as memorawho’s in the running to ble as The Commitments’ play the young Han Solo, is treJimmy Rabbitte and company, it mendous in the role.) The songs manages to tap into a similar vein are pretty great, too, though (arguof sheer pop enthusiasm, shifted ably too great, given that they’re to a wildly different musical genre. supposed to have been written Not that Conor (Ferdia Walshby kids), and Carney has a lot of Peelo), the film’s protagonist, fun tracking the way that Conor has any particular plan in mind and his mates continually modify at the outset. Having just transtheir look in response to various ferred to Synge Street, he spots New Wave fashion trends of the a beautiful girl named Raphina mid-’80s. Sing Street isn’t likely to (Lucy Boynton) on the street and spawn two hit soundtrack albums attempts to get her phone number and a tour, as The Commitments by suggesting she star in the music did, but it does provide a little bit video for his band. She tentatively of soul, however plastic. agrees, little realizing that Conor’s
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New this week 24 (Not reviewed) Suriya, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Nithya Menen. Directed by Vikram Kumar. 164 minutes. Not rated. In Tamil with English subtitles. A scientist battles with his evil twin for control of a time machine. Village Square. Captain America: Civil War aaacc Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson. Directed by Joe Russo and Anthony Russo. 147 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 20. Theaters citywide. Just the 3 of Us (Not reviewed) John Lloyd Cruz, Jennylyn Mercado, Richard Yap. Directed by Cathy GarciaMolina. Not rated. In Filipino with English subtitles. Two strangers forced to live together end up falling in love. Orleans, Village Square. Phantom of the Theatre aaccc Ruby Lin, Tony Yo-Ning Yang, Simon Yam. Directed by Wai Man Yip. 103 minutes. Not rated. In Mandarin with English subtitles. This 1930s-set Chinese drama, about a movie shoot that takes place in a supposedly haunted theater, starts out as supernatural horror before shifting gears into histrionic melodrama. The scares are minimal, the special effects are shoddy, and the plot twists are ludicrous and unconvincing. –JB Town Square. Sing Street aaabc Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Aidan Gillen. Directed by John Carney. 106 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 22. Suncoast.
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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. 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, Colonnade, Suncoast. Green Room aaaac Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat, Patrick Stewart. Directed by Jeremy Saulnier. 94 minutes. Rated R. Punk musicians have to fight off neo-Nazis after inadvertently witnessing a crime in this tense, unrelenting thriller. There are no distractions, nothing that doesn’t contribute directly to the near-constant peril, but the movie never feels generic. Every edit, camera movement and line of dialogue propels the movie toward its inevitable bloody end. –JB Boulder Station, Red Rock, Suncoast, Town Square, Texas Station. 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. Keanu aabcc Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Method Man. Directed by Peter Atencio. 98 minutes. Rated R. The first movie outing for sketchcomedy duo Key and Peele finds them joining a street gang in order to recover a stolen kitten. Alas, there are only so many laughs to be wrung from the spectacle of two nerds desperately, clumsily trying to be gangsta, and Keanu has little else to offer. –MD Theaters citywide. Mother’s Day aaccc Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Jason Sudeikis. Directed by Garry Marshall. 118 minutes. Rated PG-13. Instead of a dozen or so stories set around the central holiday, Marshall’s third holiday-themed ensemble romantic comedy features just four. Given more room, the individual stories only strain under their flimsy premises. The jokes are beyond stale, the dialogue is full of repetitive exposition, and the plot mechanics are clumsy. –JB Theaters citywide. 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. Boulder Station. JB Josh Bell; MD Mike D’Angelo For complete movie listings, visit lasvegasweekly.com/movie-listings.
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If opening night—when more than 4,000 fans turned out for the show dubbed All the Hits—was any indication, there should be an announcement soon extending Lionel Richie’s Planet Hollywood residency into 2017 and beyond. The 66-year-old R&B legend has been so successful over the decades, he actually left a couple of chart-climbers out of a set that covered his near-50-year career. What stood out most: 1. Richie is a hit-making maaaaac chine. 2. He’s fully embracing being a LIONEL Las Vegas showman. RICHIE April The Commodores years were 27, the Axis well-represented with “Easy,” comat Planet plete with Caribbean breakdown, Hollywood. early in the show. But it was a monster medley of the group’s other work that took the energy to the next level during the second half. As retro videos—with song titles in retro fonts—played on the large LED panels behind the stage, Richie and his five-piece backing band tore through “Fancy Dancer,” “Sweet Love,” “Lady (You Bring Me Up)” and “Just to Be Close to You.” It was a thought-out set piece that had the audience longing for bell-bottoms and afros. Another memorable bit found Richie storytelling about the stages of love—breaking up, seeing your ex with someone new and meeting someone else yourself—and each story ended with the funny yet truthful exclamation, “You run home. You grab your album, your CD, your 8-track, and you call on ... Lionel Richie.” In sequence he played “Lady,” “Oh No” and “Stuck on You” to represent those feelings. The night crossed its emotional threshold when Richie reflected on his relationship with Prince, explaining that they shared a love and competitive spirit. He got choked up recalling how Prince told him he thought “Say You Say Me” was “badass.” Memories are what this show is about. It’s a victory lap for Richie, and well-deserved. –Jason Harris
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Have we finally reached Drake fatigue? For the past five years, Aubrey Graham has had a stranglehold on the rap game, making the world stop with the release of each album. His approach felt different; instead of going after tough-guy club bangers, his albums were superchilled, sensitive and introspective. ¶ Views builds on that blueprint, but it feels like we’ve heard Drake Views aaacc this album before, and at 20 tracks deep, Drake has chosen excess over quality curation. He still makes good music, but watching him repeat the same tricks ceases to amaze after a while. ¶ Case in point: “Grammys” with Future, which is interchangeable with anything on their What a Time to be Alive mixtape. Or the multiple times he samples ’90s R&B—Ray J on “Redemption,” Mary J. Blige on “Weston Road Flows.” It was innovative when he did it with Aaliyah some years ago, but hardly shocking this time around. ¶ Views does have its moments. “Still Here,” “Pop Style” and “Hype” will be the go-to club cuts, and previously released infectious grooves “Controlla” and “One Dance” will be this year’s “Hotline Bling.” “Too Good” with Rihanna is another easy win. So Drake clearly knows what buttons to press and notes to hit to please his adoring audience. Unfortunately he sounds a bit too afraid to step outside his comfort zone. –Mike Pizzo
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Dancing while the sun’s up
> The look of the Future The local debut of Leftfield; below, Further revelers.
DJs kept the party going ’round the clock at Further
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Perseverance in the desert Bad weather can’t derail the progressing—and progressive— Further Future fest by mike prevatt In the real future, less will go wrong—at least in theory. That thought might’ve gone through Daniel Lopatin’s head during his experimental electronic act Oneohtrix Point Never’s early Sunday-morning live performance at Further Future, when part of his setup failed him. He nearly gave up before rallying with an hourlong fever dream of awesomeness, full of glitchy throttle and dystopian lullabyes. Further Future’s second edition, held almost an hour northeast of Las Vegas on the Moapa River Reservation, wasn’t just afflicted by imperfections both preventable and otherwise—it was literally a stormy affair, thanks to rain, wind and hail on Saturday. But hindrances were basically met with shrugs from the unfailingly enthusiastic attendees—a reported 5,000 of them, or 3,000 more than last year—who came from just about everywhere to enjoy a consistently stimulating festival with diversions galore (including talks, a ramped-up food and beverage program and health/wellness activities), and ambiance that fostered engagement. The music program, by far Further Future’s greatest strength, was a carefully chosen (by Brooklyn promoter and Burning Man mobile soundsystem Robot Heart) slate of non-commercial, progressive and live electronic music acts and DJs, with a handful of rock-tinged, reggae and hip-hop acts that could keep the rhythm. Las Vegans were particularly spoiled, given that many of the artists on the lineup rarely, if ever come this way. The Southern Nevada debuts of the de facto headliners—indie favorite Caribou early Saturday and pioneering electronic group Leftfield late that night—were absolute stunners that eventually drew near-capacity crowds to the Mothership main stage, the former tightly and exuberantly churning out transcendent electro-pop
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jams that never meandered, and the latter pounding out techno-influenced soundscapes and bangers that demonstrated the full potential of live electronic music. Two DJ performances supported those headliners, and were nearly or equally as substantial and engrossing. Nicolas Jaar finally graced the region with one of his worldly and expertly crafted DJ sets, maturely colored by traditional jazz, Caribbean and gospel sounds. Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden delivered an adventurous set of his own that also drew from the global fringes of house, but with less roots music and more synth passages that mutated at any given second. Other notable DJ moments included Joeski’s setending drop of Prince’s “I Wanna Be Your Lover,” which resulted in an explosion of flailing limbs and shrieks, and the impromptu afternoon dance-party triggered by the beachy, breezy house of Pedro Aguiar, who was only playing warm-up to the Future of Music panel before suddenly compelling 100 or so folks to run across the grounds and storm the Booba Cosmica stage. Letdowns were hard to ignore, including unexplained no-shows by advertised participants Scott Hansen (of Tycho), director Darren Aronofsky and DJ/Enter.Sake founder Richie Hawtin; poor communication with attendees, especially during storm evacuations; too few trash cans; and sound bleed that ironically hindered the areas designated for zen time. Nonetheless, Further Future 002 handily improved upon its predecessor. And the one thing that looped through my zen-less mind throughout the entire event: This is happening here. Despite being 50 minutes away, only Las Vegas can claim Further Future—another notch on its festival belt, and another hole in the cultural-wasteland argument.
You needed to clone yourself or pull an all-nighter (or an all-weekender) to catch all the nonstop music options at Further Future. Even with impressive stamina and strategic napping skills—including that one guy who brought his sleeping bag to the Robot Heart stage— managing to squeeze in every awesome set was a challenge. The post-hailstorm chill in the air Saturday morning was almost forgotten once your blood got pumping to the beats. Helping that along—and waking up the crowd—was techno favorite Dixon, who went on much later than planned. He began in the smaller Void Village tent, then, after everyone ran to the Robot Heart stage/bus, finished with a joyous sing-along to Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence.” The party continued back at Void Village where, despite ominous late-morning skies, Las Vegas’ own Spacebyrdz packed them in early. While many ended up lounging on mattresses throughout the space, their toes still tapped along, especially to the duo’s Prince tribute. Lee Burridge properly ushered in Sunday morning atop the bus—as he has done before at Burning Man—with many costumed revelers climbing the giant metal heart above the booth. Frank & Tony followed by grooving into the day, the warm vibes of their set complementing those of the cloud-free sky. While many attendees appeared to leave that afternoon, those who stuck around were treated during Jane Fitz’s time behind the Void Village decks. Blessed with a sandstorm-free slot, she busted out an all-vinyl set with resounding perfection—and an impeccable punctuation to the depth of talent and skill that Further Future offered. –Deanna Rilling
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A&E | Noise > Infinite Power God’s America’s goes full-length.
LO C A L S C E N E
Under the surface
New Vegas spins you won’t hear in the grocery store By Jason Bracelin God’s America, Merge With the Infinite As a genre, powerviolence tends to spell its motives out in all caps: This is music meant to approximate the brevity and catharsis of a righteous temper tantrum, the kind you can’t indulge in without having to later post bail. What distinguishes God’s America is pacing and groove. On the corrosive yet catchy, feedback-bleeding Merge the duo blasts forth with enough velocity to induce skin-chafing wind burn, but they do so with a sense of craft and purpose. This is brutality refined. godsamericalv.tumblr.com
Fat Dukes of F*ck, Virgin Maker EP Remember the near-traumatic delirium of the Butthole Surfers’ mid-’80s canon? Well, these dudes embrace that spirit of unhinged, tongue-in-cheek experimentalism to the extent that they could be named honorary Locust Abortion Technicians. This EP, which contains tunes from their upcoming new album along with some B-sides, is an awesomely bizarre bazaar of carnival-barker vocals, meaty thrash riffs, guest spots from greats like The Jesus Lizard’s David Yow and the Melvins’ Dale Crover and more penis references than can be found in the entire Andrew Dice Clay oeuvre. Can’t wait for the full-length, though it does seem a little counterintuitive to be looking forward to a nightmare, doesn’t it? facebook.com/thefdof
Fa-Cock-Ta, U Tuchus 4 Granted Embracing and subverting Jewish stereotypes in the same bagelcraving breath, comedy rap trio Fa-Cock-Ta comes with 50 shades of oy vey here. Jewish Dave, MC Ethel and DJ Avi D.O.G. return to spin tales of labia menorahs, pesky sinus issues and fighting for their right to consume carbs (“Bread! Bread! Without you I’d be dead/And I don’t care what Moses said”). No fan of Hebrew sexual innuendo spat out over outsize synth lines and burbling “Bubstep” beats should take this bunch “4 Granted” any longer. facebook.com/facockta Phalloplasty, Necrophagic Funeral Ritual (Redux) Death metal’s blood-and-guts appeal frequently gets compared to that of a horror film, but the downtuned depravity that the one-man Phalloplasty favors is more akin to the kind of back-room snuff film that can lead to arrest warrants. This much crisper-sounding rerecording of Phalloplasty’s 2011 debut is like a Criterion Collection edition of Human Centipede: a deluxe version of perversion. Yeah, the gurgled vox and jackhammer slam rhythms are an acquired taste—kind of like a shot of stomach bile—but c’mon, your next karaoke outing isn’t complete without a group sing-along of “Tenderizing Fetal Flesh.” gore houseproductions.bandcamp.com
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Funny, with a point
David Cross promises to make some people laugh By Jason Bracelin
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David Cross is tired of your sniveling. “The pussification of people is annoying,” the actor/ comedian sighs. And so on his first stand-up tour in six years, Making American Great Again!, Cross is here to knee your preciousness square in the babymaker.
feel no obligation to any of that stuff except to be funny and have a point. I don’t do anything for mere shock value. There’s a point behind it. If everyone’s not laughing, ever, then I’m not doing my job. But if there are 30 people who aren’t laughing, but 1,800 who are, then I’m doing my job.
During the most recent Bush Does the audience’s political administrations, your comedy temperament vary much from functioned as a sort of politiregion to region? Not really. I cal pressure valve for plenty of would say that in some of the shows people. Then, your last release, I’ve done in smaller places, Bigger and Blackerer, had especially the South, there a little bit more of a peris a greater appreciation for sonal dimension. Where DAVID what I’m doing. The reaction are you nowadays in terms CROSS is palpable. And some of the of balancing the personal May 7, 8 less-great shows have been and the topical? I think it’s p.m., $30in major cities. I think proba pretty even balance. I’ve $125. The ably the worst show I had in never considered myself a Joint, 702terms of people being upset political comedian—I’m a 693-5222. and yelling and heckling was comedian who brings up in Northampton, Massachusetts, political or topical subject matwhich is a very, very liberal town. ter. On this tour, the evening has I find a lot of those people to be shaped up to be what I’d say it the most intolerant, insufferable, usually is, which is about a third humorless people around. anecdotal stuff, a third political, religious-type stuff and then a You haven’t played Vegas in third of just stupid, silly jokes. over a decade. Is that reflective of the market itself? It’s You’d think someone buying obviously very casino-driven in a ticket to see you would know terms of comedy venues. That’s what to expect at this point, but exactly what it is. I did a show do some people still get offended a couple weeks ago at Foxwoods at your shows? Yep, at almost every Casino, and it wasn’t awful, but it one. I’ve done 50-some odd shows wasn’t great—a lot of people get at this point, at 95 percent of them, comps or whatever. My stuff isn’t I’d say, I have people walk out. across-the-board, generic, familyfriendly. But Las Vegas is a city, and In other creative mediums, a cosmopolitan one, so it should be like film or music, pandering a little different than being isolated to the audience is generally in a massive complex in the middle considered a negative. But in of the woods in Connecticut. comedy, it’s almost expected. I
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The power of purple
Prince’s death has shaken up Vegas tribute artist Jason Tenner’s world By John Katsilometes
When Jason Tenner awoke on April 21, he was shocked to learn his life and career had changed abruptly, maybe forever. That was the day Prince was found dead in an elevator at his Paisley Park estate in Minnesota. As the frontman for one of Las Vegas’ favorite tribute acts, Purple Reign, Tenner was swiftly the focal point of dozens of phone messages and texts as the news of Prince’s death spread across the world. He was my first call out that day, and when we spoke he said, “I don’t know what to do, or what to say right now. I am stunned.” That night, Tenner performed at the Westgate Cabaret, at 9 p.m. as scheduled. The 240-seat room was packed. At midnight, he returned to the stage, opening the walls on the side of the theater and playing a twoat the former Shimmer Cabaret in hour Prince jam session in street October 2014. clothes. Again, the room was full, In an interview on my radio show, with fans spilling to the casino floor. The Kats Report on KUNV 91.5-FM, By April 23, Tenner’s show a week after Prince’s death, Tenner had moved into the big room, the was still trying to absorb International Theater, the sudden shock to his where Elvis, Liberace, career. “It’s been stressWayne Newton and Barry PURPLE ful. Emotional,” he said. Manilow had headlined. REIGN “I didn’t eat for about two “During [Thursday Wednesdaydays. I didn’t sleep for afternoon] I already had a Saturday, more than three hours all few conversations with the 9 p.m., $20week after hearing it. To hotel and the people at [the $89. Westgate look at the impact of his show’s production comLas Vegas, music and to be receiving pany] Red Mercury, Carlos 702-732-5111. all the messages in text, in Reynoso, about moving my email inbox, on Twitter, into the theater,” Tenner has been really emotional.” said, mentioning the head of the Red Prior to the death of the man the Mercury production operation. “He show was honoring, Purple Reign got to work with the powers that had been running at a consistent be at the hotel to make sure it hapclip with few alterations. The show pened. It moved pretty quickly.” borrowed mostly from the artist’s About 900 fans turned out that Purple Rain period, particularly segnight, and Purple Reign has been ments of that film. Events forced staged in that theater ever since. Tenner and the band to get back Tenner, who began his career as in the garage, as it were, to finea Prince tribute artist with a gig tune what was being delivered at the at the since-closed Tom & Jerry’s Cabaret each night. on Maryland Parkway in 1997, has “We have gone back and watched bounced around the Valley, from the videos and have been studying the Beach on Convention Center the look and tightening the sound Drive, 3121 Jazz Cuisine at the Rio and the choreography, so we can put (the auxiliary nightspot to Club 3121 forth the absolute best of what we when Prince headlined at the hotel), do,” Tenner said. “We’re looking at House of Blues, the Pub at Monte wardrobe, everything, and overhaulCarlo, assorted Station Casinos vening the show.” ues, Hooters, Sin City Theater at The show has since been expandPlanet Hollywood, the D and, finaled from 70 minutes to 90, with the ly, Westgate. Purple Reign opened
> U GOT THE LOOK Tenner’s version of Prince is a Vegas institution.
cut-in moment with Morris Day & The Time resurrected to full length. Tenner himself had performed as Day, but actor/singer Drew James has returned to the role (supported by Kendrick Harmon’s spot-on performance as sidekick Jerome Benton). The show continues with an appearance by Vanity, as performed by “Brina C.,” Sabrina Coleman. Tenner did meet Prince on a couple of occasions, speaking to him once, at a gig in 1998 and also a late-night party at 3121, and calls those occasions “a strange moment, a private meeting.” “I felt like, at the time, meeting an alien, or some otherworldly being, and he projected that,” Tenner said. “So, I mean, at this point I was very lucky to have talked to this person … I was very blessed to have met him.” Twenty years on, Purple Reign has been performing for about half as long as the career of Prince himself. There’s certainly a renaissance happening, and who knows? Prince might become one of these long-running tribute figures in the same strata as Elvis, Cher, Madonna, Michael Jackson and others who have survived generations in Legends in Concert-styled shows. “Everyone wants Prince at their party, at their casino, at their venue,” Tenner said. “We’ve been getting calls from arenas and things of that nature … But I am here to make sure his music, and his legacy, lives on in the right way.”
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> long look The more you contemplate Kelly’s (clockwise from here) “Red,” “Sunflower II” and “Color Panels,” the more you’ll see.
The color of form
Ellsworth Kelly’s masterful abstraction vibrates the eyes and mind By Dawn-Michelle Baude
Viewer looks at “Red” at the Ellsworth Kelly show at the Barrick Museum. Viewer considers the 48-by-37-inch print of an angular, sixsided form. Old neurons from geometry class rattle. Neither the sides nor shape in a way that no one else had the angles are consistent, so it’s ... an ever seen before, or will see again. irregular polygon. Indeed, it’s red like Created in 2001, “Red” is one of the title says, and positioned on white more than 20 lithographs in the exhipaper. But it’s not really white—or at bition organized and guest-curated by least not eggshell white or whippedMichele C. Quinn. The most cream white. It’s more of a recent print, “Color Panels,” chalk white. And the red, aaaac dates to 2011. Kelly, who come to think of it, is which ELLSWORTH died last year, was 88 years red? Tomato? Venetian? KELLY old when he made it. A kind Crimson? Or maybe it’s the Through May of chromatic xylophone or purest, most essential red 14; Mondayrainbow light-switch, “Color that can be made. Friday, 9 a.m.Panels” is as strong and vigViewer’s retina is stimu5 p.m.; Saturorous as other Kelly works lated, along with the solar day, noonmade throughout the past plexus. Pulsing, in fact. 5 p.m. Barrick six decades. Most artists Something is vibrating right Museum, can’t sustain that caliber of out of Kelly’s picture plane 702-895-3381. prolonged activity. But Kelly and into the brain. Like doesn’t waver. other major abstract paintKnown for geometric abstraction, ers who came of age in the middle of his work involves a purifying process. the 20th century, Kelly doesn’t use Kelly looked, say, at the angles where color and shape to make an image; two sidewalks intersect, or the silhoucolor and shape are the image. But ette of a water tower against the sky. He unlike his contemporary, Josef Albers, kept the lines and shapes, and removed Kelly wasn’t systematically investigatall the texture and contouring. Then he ing the rules of optics—he was followadded fully saturated, monochromatic ing his heart. Or gut. Or intuition. He color, creating forms purged of extranesaw relationships between color and
ous detail, perfected in rapt clarity. But the show also includes four portraits, five botanic drawings and an extraordinary daffodil that’s part tuba, part E.T. The artist’s expressive draftsmanship exhibits the loose and carefree—but utterly precise—lines of a master. While the show begs the question of what recent Kelly shows of painting and sculpture at LACMA, MoMA and the Guggenheim revealed,
Ellsworth Kelly at the Barrick is firstrate, and accompanied by a Saturday 1 p.m. screening of Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments, a documentary providing insight into both art and man. Although the show is small, it takes time to really see. The longer the viewer contemplates the works, the more they offer. Toward that end, the irregular polygon “Red” could be an idealized Platonic form. Or an open book.
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FOOD & Drink > bites of beauty Chris Santos is bringing tomato tartare, Thai-style shrimp and Niçoise-style tuna to the Cosmopolitan’s third floor.
An early taste of Beauty & Essex
Meet the first of a new wave of restaurants coming to the Cosmopolitan By Brock Radke Beauty & Essex Las Vegas has been a long time coming. The original New York City restaurant opened in December 2010, the same time the Cosmopolitan debuted on the Strip. Tao Group, which also operates Marquee nightclub at the Cosmo, has been in discussions with the hip hotel about bringing B&E to the property for practically as long as they’ve both been around. And now it’s happening. Beauty & Essex opens mid-May on Cosmo’s third floor, in the space formerly occupied by Comme Ça. “I love this hotel. I love the vibe, I love gam-
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bling here, I love the layout,” says chef/owner Chris Santos, who has partnered with Tao Group on the project. “I always thought Beauty & Essex would be perfect for this hotel long before we were pursuing it, so this is pretty cool.” You know what else is cool? Santos’ food. The B&E Vegas menu is designed for large, party-ready groups who like to pass plates around the table. Santos, known for his TV stint as a judge on Chopped but more significantly for leading a restaurant revolution on New York’s Lower East Side, cooks what he likes
to eat. “The most important things when it comes to my food are that it’s whimsical, it’s something our guests haven’t experienced before, and also how we maintain high quality with the volume we do.” After an exclusive early tasting of several dishes, it’s clear that fun is the flavor. While sipping the Emerald Gimlet with its fresh kiss of basil, I sampled the tomato tartare, a fabulously meatless bite topped with a quail egg and mounted on a parmesan crostini. (There’s a more classic, hand-cut steak tartare, too, on a mustard and chive sticky rice cake.) Our Beauty & Essex has several dishes exclusive to Las Vegas, including the Caesar, the Greek and the “Lobster Roll” from the “Jewels on Toast” portion of the menu, along with a fantastic spin on Niçoisestyle tuna, smoked, pepper-crusted and seared fish with a sweet pea aioli and waxbean, olive and tomato
salad. Santos has also added a few favorites from his other restaurant, the Stanton Social, including chicken arepas and French onion soup dumplings, plus a handful of traditional-sized entrées like a burger, steaks and pastas such as the addictive spaghettini swimming in parsley pesto with lemon, parmigiano and sunny-side-up egg. Save room for a few spoonfuls of the Black Bottom Butterscotch Pot de Créme. Trust me. The Vegas-loving, fast-rising chef Santos and his food seem like ideal fits at the Cosmopolitan, which made a splash on the Strip with its original group of restaurants and will add Momofuku, Zuma and Eggslut after Beauty & Essex. “Now we are moving that needle again,” Santos said. “There’ll be buzz here because of us and buzz here because of David Chang and [others]. It’s great for the hotel and great for us.”
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EXPRESS LANE FROM PERU
RUN FOR THE ROSES
Pollo Inka brings craveable South American flavors to the scene
Peruvian cuisine is not nearly as prevalent in the Valley as some of its Latin American brethren. Mexican restaurants are practically ubiquitous; Salvadorean joints are becoming more commonplace; there are a number of Brazilian churrascarias; and Viva Las Arepas has cemented Venezuelan food in our lexicon. But Peruvian flavors have remained in the shadows despite being diverse and accessible. Sure, small Peruvian restaurants can be found, but they’ve always been isolated niche destinations. This cuisine has generally stayed near the bottom of the local pecking order even while it has appeared on numerous lists as the next breakthrough ethnic cuisine. If you’ve spent time in the South Bay area of SoCal, you might be familiar with El Pollo Inka, a momand-pop Peruvian chain with about a half-dozen locations. Las Vegas’ new Pollo Inka Express is a fast-food version from the same family, with a condensed selection of offerings. So while you might not be able to get aji de gallina or papa a la huancaína, you can still get a meal representative of the South American country. First and foremost, Inka serves the famous pollo a la brasa. As soon as you enter the converted Taco Bell space, you’re bowled over by the aroma from the open rotisserie near
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POLLO INKA EXPRESS BY STEVE MARCUS
> HEAVEN ON BREAD The Inka sandwich.
fried dishes ($7.75-$8.75) including the rear of the kitchen. Skewered saltados (stir fry), chaufas (Peruvian chickens spend their day rotating fried rice) and tallarines (stir-fried on spits, and the result is crisp and noodles). The lomo saltado is popujuicy, seasoned with cumin, paprika lar, mixing beef with vegeand smoke. You can order tables and French fries (yes, the finely flavored fowl in POLLO French fries!), and the tallaa variety of manners (quarINKA rines would be at home anyter, half, or whole bird with EXPRESS where on Spring Mountain. two sides starting at $6.99)— 2440 S. But if you want to go more from there just dip the crispy Maryland compact, Inka offers a pan chicken into the addictive, Parkway, con lomo ($7.25) beef sandcreamy aji sauce built on 702-522wich topped with shoestring mild Peruvian pepper. 7871. Daily, fries, and its version of chickI highly suggest choos10:30 a.m.en salad in the Inka sanding the buttery cilantro rice 10:30 p.m. wich ($4.50). I prefer the foras a side—it’s good enough mer, but both sandwich rolls to order on its own—while surprise with freshness. the sweet charred platanos are The staff is fluent in Spanish and worth an additional dollar. Other English, and the service is levels choices include yuca, steamed vegabove what you would expect from etables and brown rice. And the a typical fast-food joint. Pollo Inka complimentary cilantro soup, which Express may not be a harbinger of accompanies most orders, is strewn a South American culinary revoluwith pulled chicken and rice. tion, but it’s doing a lot to bring Other aspects of Peruvian cuisine delicious Peruvian food to the local are highlighted here. Chinese influmasses. –Jim Begley ences appear in a selection of wok-
Say sayonara to Bar Masa. The Japanese restaurant that opened with Aria in December 2009 by chef Masa Takayama (and its teppan inner sanctum known as Tetsu) will close July 31 with the conclusion of Takayama’s management agreement. Expect a new concept to be announced by MGM Resorts soon. Late last week, Made L.V., the tasty tavern at Tivoli Village created by restaurateurs Elizabeth Blau and Kim Canteenwalla, began transitioning into the second location of PKWY Tavern, the beer-centric neighborhood hot spot created by Fine Entertainment Management. The original PKWY is on West Flamingo Road beyond the Beltway. Chef Carla Pellegrino is back in town, and as expected, there are new things happening at her Bratalian Neopolitan Restaurant on Eastern Avenue. Bratalian will start serving a full cocktail menu as well as a new breakfast menu this month, and a new happy-hour menu will also be available daily from 5-6 p.m. Strip House at Planet Hollywood has launched a new Dock-to-Dish sustainable seafood program in partnership with Honolulu Fish Company, allowing diners to experience carefully caught and prepared fish that was swimming in the ocean off Oahu no more than 16 hours prior, including exotics like monchong, ono, kajiki and opah. –Brock Radke
INGREDIENTS 2 oz. Wild Turkey 101 proof /2 oz. Amaro Nonino
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2 Dashes of Fee Brothers Peach Bitters /2 oz. mint syrup
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5 sprigs of mint (to muddle, extra for garnish) powered sugar for garnish (optional)
METHOD Place the mint in a julep cup or Old Fashioned glass. Muddle gently without disrupting the leaves. Fill up with crushed ice and add liquors and bitters. Stir well and serve with more crushed ice.
The traditional Mint Julep has been the official drink of the Kentucky Derby since the early years of the race. This recipe isn’t the same one that’s sipped at Churchill Downs during Derby weekend, but it’s a variation on the classic that could just be as everlasting as the original.
Cocktail created by Francesco Lafranconi, Executive Director of Mixology and Spirits Education at Southern Wine & Spirits.
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Calendar LISTINGS YOU CAN PLAN YOUR LIFE BY! 5/11, 9 pm. Toscha Comeaux 5/13. Shows at 10 pm, free unless noted. 2451 E. Tropicana, 702-458-6343. Dive Bar Western Settings, Rayner, Lambs to Lions 5/5, 9 pm, $10. The Black Dahlia Murder, Fallujah, Disentomb 5/6, 8 pm, $17-$20. That Captain 5/7, 9 pm. The Scoundrels, New Cold War 5/8, 9 pm, free. 4110 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-586-3483. 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 The Classic Crime 5/6, 6 pm, $17-$40. Deathblow, Desire the Fire 5/7, 8 pm, $10. Team Talent Pound Performance 5/10, 8 pm, $10. 953 E. Sahara Ave., #B-30, 702-742-4171. The Sand Dollar Lounge Bill Leary Ill Quartet 5/5. Chris Tofield 5/6. The Moanin’ Blacksnakes 5/7. Dan Beaudoin 5/8. Nobumoto 5/10. Cole Black 5/11. Southern Stu 5/12. Shows at 10 pm, free unless noted. 3355 Spring Mountain Road, 702-485-5401. Santa Fe Station (Chrome Showroom) Old Dominion 5/6, 8 pm, $20-$40. 4949 N Rancho Drive, 702-658-4900. Starbright Theatre Everything’s Coming Up Broadway 5/7, 7 pm; 5/8, 2 pm, $10. 2215 Thomas Ryan Blvd., 702-240-1301.
> REGGAETON CHAMP Puerto Rican vocalist Daddy Yankee plays MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 6.
LIVE MUSIC THE STRIP & NEARBY
The Pearl Jennifer Nettles 5/7, 8 pm, $46-$83. Palms, 702-942-7777. Planet Hollywood (Axis) Lionel Richie 5/7-5/8, 5/11, 8 pm, $57-$190. 702-777-2782. Vinyl The Slackers, Viernes 13, Be Like Max, Show Me Island 5/5, 8 pm, $15-$29. Survive This!, Silversage, Almost Awake, A Poison Alibi, Avalon Landing 5/6, 6 pm, $10. Memphis May Fire, We Came as Romans, Miss May I, For Today 5/10, 7 pm, $20-$35. Sin City Sinners All Stars 5/13-5/14, 11 pm, free. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5000.
DOWNTOWN Artifice Chicks With Sticks 5/13, 9 pm, $5. God-Des and She, Kella Bo Bella, Felix 5/14, 9 pm, $15-$20. 1025 S. 1st St., #100, 702-489-6339. Backstage Bar & Billiards Drinking Water, Muertos Heist, Quinto Rayo, DJ Joseph 5/5, 8 pm, free. JMSN, Jamaar, Todd Zack Jr., Jeri Forth, Rik the Ruger, Knotch 5/6, 8 pm, $10-$15. Shannon & The Clams, No Tides 5/11, 7:30 pm, $12-$15. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Beauty Bar 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. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. Bunkhouse Saloon Cinco de Mayo Selena Party 5/5, 9 pm, free. Cameron Calloway, Paper Tigers, On the Other Hand 5/12, 9 pm, $10. Holding Onto Sound, The Skooners, One Pin Short, Outside Looking In, Late for Dinner, Hassan, Scott Quering 5/13, 7 pm, $10. 124 S. 11th St., 702-854-1414. Clark County Government Amphitheater 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 School of Rock 5/7, 5 pm, free. 707 Fremont St, downtowncontainerpark.com. Hard Hat Lounge Grim Reefer, Suffer Bomb Damage, Harmonik Trip 5/7, 8 pm. Earthbound Collective 5/8, 7 pm. 1675 Industrial Road, 702-384-8987. LVCS Ill Nino, Bipolar, Journey 2 Rapture, Cirka:Sik 5/6, 8 pm, $15-$17. Scum & Insane Poetry as M.M.M.F.D. 5/9, 9 pm, $10-$12. Luca Turilli Rhapsody, Primal Fear, Sicocis, Pillars of Creation, Levitron 5/13, 8 pm, $12$15. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-3531. The Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) Mariachi Sol de Mexico 5/6, 7:30 pm, $26-$65. (Cabaret Jazz) Makana & Paula Fuga 5/6-5/7, 7 pm, $35-$55. Soul Men ft. Spectrum 5/8, 3 pm & 7 pm, $37-$40. Monty Alexander, Clint Holmes 5/13-5/14, 7 pm, $39$59. 361 Symphony Park Ave., 702-749-2000.
EVERYWHERE ELSE Adrenaline Sports Bar and Grill Home Cookin’ and the Community Rhythm & Blues Brass Ensemble 5/7, 8 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. Ark Industries American Standards, Coma Prevail, Drown a Deity, Ark 5/11, 6 pm, $5. 3109 Holly Hill Ave.. Boulder Station (The Railhead) Curtis Salgado 5/5, 7 pm, $5. 702-432-7777. Count’s Vamp’d Resurrection Kings 5/5, 9 pm, $5. Tinnitus! 5/6, 10 pm, free. Adelitas Way 5/7, 8:30 pm, $15-$20. Sin City Sinners AllStars ft. Dizzy Reed 5/12, 10 pm, free. Wednesday 13, The Relapse Symphony, American Monster 5/13, 9 pm, $10-$13. 6750 W. Sahara, 702220-8849. Dispensary Lounge Lisa Nobumoto 5/6. Naomi Mauro 5/7. Pepe Jimenez
Hard Rock Hotel (The Joint) David Cross 5/7, 8 pm, $30-$125. 702-693-5000. Mirage Tracy Morgan 5/6-5/7, 10 pm, $55-$87. Jay Leno 5/13, 10 pm, $66$87. Tim Allen 5/14, 10 pm, $65-$87. 702-792-7777. Tropicana (The Laugh Factory) Gerry Bednob, Juan Canopii, Sam Kwasman 5/5-5/8. All shows at 8:30 pm & 10:30 pm unless listed, $35-$55. 702-739-2222. Vinyl Ian Bagg 5/13, 8 pm, $25-$45. 4455 Paradise Road, 702-693-5000.
PERFORMING ARTS Baobab Stage Theatre Afro Sexy 5/5, 8 pm, $20. Burlesque: The Darling Buds of May 5/13, 9 pm, $20-$25. 6587 Las Vegas Blvd. S., baobabstage.com. Cockroach Theatre Bright Side 5/125/14, 8 pm, $16-$20. Art Square Theater, 1025 S. 1st St., #110, 702-818-3422. CSN Performing Arts Center (Backstage Theatre) Steel Drum Concert 5/10, 7:30 pm, $5-$8. Percussion Ensemble Concert 5/11, 7:30 pm, $5-$8. (Nicholas J. Horn Theatre) CSN Spring Choral Concert 5/5, 7:30 pm, $5-$8. 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., 702-651-5483. Las Vegas Little Theatre (Mainstage) Tuna Does Vegas 5/7-5/9, 5/14-5/16, 8 pm; 5/10, 5/14, 2 pm, $20-$25. (Black Box) History 101 5/5-5/7, 8 pm; 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 5/5-5/6, 8 pm; 5/7, 7 pm & 10 pm, $60$153. 702-891-7777. Onyx Theatre Titus Andronicus Jr. 5/125/14, 8 pm, $20. 953 E. Sahara Ave., 702-732-7225. Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) Romeo & Juliet 5/14, 7:30 pm; 5/15, 2 pm, $29-$139. (Cabaret Jazz) Capathia
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SPECIALEVENTS Art Festival of Henderson 5/7-5/8, 9 am-4 pm, free. Henderson Events Plaza, 200 S. Water St., 702-267-4050. ArtLive 5/12, 5:30-8:30 pm, $35-$150. Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., artlivelv.com. First Friday 5/6, 6-11 pm, free. Downtown Las Vegas, ffflv.org. Helldorado Parade 5/14, 10 am, free. Downtown Las Vegas, Fourth St., elkshelldorado.com. Las Vegas Car Stars 5/12, 6 pm; 5/13, 1:30 pm; 5/14, 10 am, free. Fremont Street Experience, lasvegascarstars.com. Las Vegas Numismatic Society Coin, Currency & Collectible Show 5/135/14, 10 am-6 pm; 5/15, $10 am-3 pm, free. Westgate, 3000 Paradise Road, 888-330-5188. Live Violin Sound Healings 5/7, 4:30 pm, $15. The Enchanted Forest Reiki Center, 2280 S. Jones Blvd., enchanted forestreiki.com. Ohana Festival 5/7, 10 am-4 pm, $5. Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd., springspreserve.org. San Gennaro Feast 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. 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. Winefest 5/13-5/14, times and individual venues vary, $35-$89. Golden Nugget, 866-946-5336.
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, t-mobilearena.com. Epicurean Charitable Foundation’s Las Vegas Golf Classic 5/9, 7:15 am, $250. Red Rock Country Club’s Mountain Course, 2250 Red Springs Drive, 702-932-5098. Las Vegas 51s El Paso 5/10-5/13, 7 pm, $11-$16. Cashman Field, 702-943-7200. Las Vegas City FC vs Miami United 5/14, 5 pm, $27-$38. Sam Boyd Stadium, 7000 E. Russell Road, unlvtickets.com. Monster Energy Supercross Finals 5/7, 6:30 pm, $55-$95. Sam Boyd Stadium, unlvtickets.com. Golf Fest 5/6-5/7, 9 am-6 pm, $10. TaylorMade Golf Experience, 6730 Las Vegas Blvd. S., golffestshow.com. West Coast Regional Finals Rodeo 5/6-5/7, 7 pm, $5-$10. South Point, 702-796-7111.
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Brooklyn Bowl Violent Femmes, Happiness 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 Reba, Brooks & Dunn 5/6-5/7, 5/10, 5/13-5/14, $60-$205. Caesars Palace, 702-731-7333. The Cosmopolitan (Chelsea) 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. CBS Radio’s SPF ft. Iggy Azalea, Alessia Cara, Lukas Graham, Fifth Harmony, Kygo, Mike Posner 5/15, 7 pm, $49. 702-698-7000. Double Down Saloon Super Zeroes, Sex Room, The Montell Jordans 5/6. Water Landing, Strange Mistress, 3D6, RENJ 5/7. Gold Top Bob & The Goldtoppers 5/11. Shows at 10 pm, free. 640 Paradise Road, 702-791-5775. The Foundry Todd Rundgren 5/7, 7:30 pm, $28. The Cult 5/19, 7 pm, $35. SLS, 702-761-7617. House of Blues Billy Idol: Forever 5/65/7, 5/11, 5/13-5/14, 7 pm, $90-$150. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. The Joint Scorpions, Queensrÿche 5/13-5/14, 5/18, 5/20-5/21, 8 pm, $50$150. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5222. Mandalay Bay (Events Center) 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. Orleans (Showroom) The Temptations 5/7-5/8, 8 pm, $44-$65. Night Ranger 5/14-5/15, 8 pm, $38-$60. 702-284-7777.
COMEDY
Jenkins 5/9-5/10, 7 pm, $39-$59. 702-749-2000. South Point (Showroom) Girls Night: The Musical 5/6-5/8, 7:30 pm, $18$28. 702-796-7111. Super Summer Theatre Hooray for Hollywood 5/13-5/14, 7:30 pm, $11. 6375 NV-159, 702-594-7529. UNLV (Judy Bayley Theatre) Kiss Me, Kate 5/5-5/7, 8 pm; 5/7-5/8, 2 pm, $28-$33. 702-895-3332. Winchester Cultural Center Offenbach’s La Perichole 5/6-5/7, 5/13-5/14, 7 pm; 5/8, 5/15, 2 pm, $15. 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 702-455-7340.
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