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Following her Billboard Music Awards performance of Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me Babe” and the controversial dismissal of her lawsuit against her former producer, Dr. Luke, Kesha Rose Sebert is back with a vengeance. Don’t miss the pop star’s longawaited return this week when she performs two intimate, late-night club sets. $32-$57. –Leslie Ventura
The new sequel Independence Day: Resurgence was not screened in advance for critics, so we can’t speak to its quality (look for our review online Friday), but the 1996 original has been a consistent crowd-pleaser for 20 years. Now you can catch it back on the big screen and then immediately compare it to the follow-up. $15-$20. –Josh Bell
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MIDSUMMER SMÖRGÅSBORD AT IKEA We Las Vegans acknowledge the longest day of the year by muttering about how much longer the sun gets to fry us. But the Swedish celebrate the day they call Midsommar less cynically, with dancing around the maypole, singing traditional songs and an enormous feast. Las Vegas’ new IKEA store will commemorate the holiday with its own version of an all-you-can-eat buffet. That means two seatings (6 and 7 p.m.) inside its restaurant with traditional Swedish fare such as salmon (served raw, poached or smoked), various varieties of herring, Prinskorv sausage links, Swedish cheeses and, of course, meatballs sitting in a pool of delicious gravy. $3-$17. –Mike Prevatt
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Cage the Elephant at the Joint On the Kentucky outfit’s latest LP Tell Me I’m Pretty, rock ’n’ roll chameleons Cage the Elephant take on the legendary Marc Bolan, channeling the T. Rex frontman on “That’s Right” to an almost eerie degree. The record finds Cage taking on a sound that’s fuzzier, darker and rooted in psyched-out garage— a particularly fitting sound for this tour bill, which also includes Alaskan rock outfit Portugal. The Man (whose upcoming summer release Gloomin + Doomin will mark its first LP in three years) and rising Chicago garage rockers Twin Peaks. The latter made waves with their sophomore LP Wild Onion in 2014, but new full-length gem Down in Heaven makes Twin Peaks a necessity in your summer rotation. Check out their live KEXP performance for a taste—and plan accordingly so as to not miss their jangly, melodic gold. $38-$150. –Leslie Ventura
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The setlists for the tour are heavy on Brooks’ best-known hits, including “Friends in Low Places,” “Papa Loved Mama” and “The Thunder Rolls,” performed with Brooks’ full, arena-ready backing band. He’s also been playing covers from artists like Billy Joel and Bob Seger during an acoustic portion of the show that recalls his Wynn residency. Perhaps most importantly, he’s performing only one or two songs off his forgettable 2014 comeback album Man Against Machine.
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THE DREAM, REALIZED The NHL’s arrival in Las Vegas is something worth celebrating BY SPENCER PATTERSON as Vegas has grown in so many ways during the 18 years since I moved here—in population, in physical sprawl, as a food city, as a music town. But for some of us, a massive hole has remained, one finally set to be filled in the months to come. When the National Hockey League drops the puck on its 2017-2018 season next fall, Las Vegas will become a major-league city in the most literal sense. An obstacle once considered immovable will have been obliterated, and if things go well, franchises in more of the bigfour pro sports leagues seem likely to follow. Preeminent stats man Nate Silver doesn’t seem to think it will go well. In a piece on his FiveThirtyEight.com blog written in April 2015 and reposted last week when word of the NHL’s impending expansion got out, Silver questioned whether Las Vegas has what it takes to support a squad. Doubting hockey’s prospects of succeeding in the desert isn’t preposterous— the Coyotes have struggled to draw, on and off, since moving from Winnipeg to Phoenix in 1996. But a key element of Silver’s analysis rings hollow, and speaks to his apparent unfamiliarity with our Valley. “[Las Vegas] has had several professional
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SOLIDARITY ON THE STRIP Though attendance estimates vary from 1,500 to 6,000, a giant throng nonetheless walked from the Fashion Show mall to the Cosmopolitan Monday evening in solidarity for those affected by the June 12 mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Let that sink in: Thousands descending onto the Strip not for a spectacle, but for their fellow human beings—certainly significant for a so-called apathetic population, and likely the largest gay-related march or demonstration in the state’s history, according to Dennis McBride, director and curator of photography at Nevada State Museum and local LGBT historian. “The crowd was not all gay and Latino—it was everybody,” he says. “Everyone feels a connection [to the Orlando shooting] in some way. It has a deeper resonance than similar events.” –Mike Prevatt For more on the We Stand With Orlando march, visit lasvegasweekly.com.
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Shawn Porter is quietly, intensely ready for the biggest fight of his career By Jason Scavone
ustin Bieber walked up the aisles of MGM Grand Garden Arena last June trying to get to his ringside seats. Security, oblivious to Bieber’s blasé attitude and stupid Robert Mitchum-Night of the Hunter hat, wouldn’t let him until someone in his entourage played the don’t-you-know-who-this-is card. Finally, he was allowed to set up shop next to Floyd Mayweather. Since Mayweather started making the Grand Garden his home office, the intimate arena had eclipsed any worldwide stage for boxing save Madison Square Garden. On this particular night, Shawn Porter, then a 27-yearold former welterweight champion, was in the ring against Adrien Broner, a fighter who, despite proclaiming himself Mayweather’s “little brother,” was just months away from firing up a contrived beef with big bro as a way to juice his own career. Normally a 140-pound fighter, Broner used his star power to force Porter to come down to 145 instead of fighting at his natural 147 pounds. It wasn’t enough. Live on NBC for all the world to see, Porter, a native of Akron, Ohio, who now claims Las Vegas as his home, smothered and pummeled Broner for the better part of 12 rounds. It was, until this week, Porter’s biggest fight, bigger even than when he won the IBF title in 2013, one of four
straps in boxing’s fractured, convoluted sanctioning system. But now it’s prelude, as Porter prepares to take on the unbeaten and brick-fisted WBA champion Keith Thurman June 25 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center at 6 p.m. on CBS. It’s the first prime-time fight on the network since Muhammad Ali fought Leon Spinks in 1978. They might mention that once or twice during the broadcast. There are other fights that command attention in 2016. Tyson Fury has a rematch with heavyweight automaton Wladimir Klitschko in July. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, now boxing’s biggest star following Mayweather’s and Manny Pacquiao’s retirements, could fight Kazakhstani superbeast Gennady Golovkin before the year is out. But Porter-Thurman marks the biggest pairing of evenly matched young stars in boxing’s premier welterweight division. Fans still dream about Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Durán, Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns beating each other up and down the 147-, 154and 160-pound divisions. That was 30 years ago. Since then, boxing has seen more easy paydays for middling performances than Nic Cage’s agent. Everyone is dying for consistent, real action, and Porter-Thurman might be the tip of the spear in a stocked division that could actually deliver on its promise.
***** “I don’t speak to hear myself talk. I believe the intelligence I’m giving to you is worth something, it’s expensive,” Porter’s father and trainer, Kenny, admonishes his son, who’s waiting to work on his defense with a sparring partner. It’s the start of a sermon that will go on for minutes. Shawn nods in deference and impatience to the sage in track pants. Watching a professional athlete work out is, for anyone resembling a normal human being, a humiliating proposition. It makes you acutely aware of every night you blew off the gym to hammer Netflix on the couch. Fighters have to be in better shape than most pro athletes, and Porter’s workouts are aggressive even by those standards. He starts his training days with a morning routine at UNLV—the Rebels’ volunteer assistant track coach Larry Wade is part of Porter’s team—before an afternoon workout at the Porter Hy-Performance gym on Sahara and Paradise. A few minutes into the sparring session, Kenny sees something he doesn’t like. He tells Shawn to catch left hooks and roll with them so he can counterpunch, instead of backing away and taking himself out of the game. Wordlessly, Shawn begins to glide around his foe, finding the edge of the harmonious sphere where he can twist and dive away, still finding a platform to return fire. Sealed into a glass chamber that simulates altitude training conditions, he runs through continuous 45-second cycles of heavy-bag jabs, running in place, power shots, jumping jacks and push-ups. Then he does
it all over again. There’s no air conditioning in the gym, just flimsy shades over the windows. It’s the kind of choking, early-June heat that makes you want to lie very still on the floor until, oh, November. Then he sprints on an elliptical and completes a circuit involving battle ropes, high stepping over cones and long-jumping across a course marked into the floor. It’s six angry Russians away from being the Ivan Drago montage in Rocky IV. Kenny asks if Shawn’s legs feel okay and he gives a curt nod. Maybe they do, maybe they don’t. It’s not a given he’d tell his father the truth if they did. The soundtrack is all classic soul. The Whispers. The Dazz Band. Stevie Wonder. “Jab, jab, jab. I need more speed,” Kenny pounds out his commands. Porter connects with the rhythm, hands materializing in front of his face to catch the shots. He’s hitting cruising speed. It would be easy to mistake Kenny for the fighter. He’s 46, only 18 years Shawn’s senior, but he looks like he’s in his early 30s. When he talks to Shawn in the ring, it’s all steel and confrontation. Shawn Porter isn’t his father. He’s phlegmatic. At the press conference before the Broner fight, Broner talked so much sh*t about Porter’s relationship with his dad that even Mayweather told him to cool it—the Emperor telling Darth Vader to knock it off already with all the Force choking. Porter stared straight ahead the whole time, bored as a tollbooth worker. After the fight was over, Shawn thanked Broner; Kenny shoved him.
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That makes Shawn Porter an outlier in boxing. Even fighters who seem like the down-to-earth ones among a notoriously squirrely bunch are rarely so gracious. Spirituality plays its part. Porter regularly goes to Remnant Ministries church, where former UNLV and NFL great Randall Cunningham is the pastor.
***** Come June 25, either Porter or Thurman is going to be the new king of the division Mayweather ruled for so long. Thurman’s nickname, “One Time,” is a nod to his certified knockout power. He has dropped 22 of 26 foes. But for someone on the cusp of ascending the throne, Porter is so sanguine it hurts.
“I don’t know if at this point I’m looking at this fight like most people are,” he said. “There’s actually someone who repeats to me on a daily basis how pivotal this fight is.” This seems both crazy and classic. It’s like those guys who rode chariots behind Roman generals whispering memento mori, reminders of mortality.
“There have been plenty of opportunities for me to reflect on this fight and see myself getting the belt and actually smile. Someone will see me like, ‘Why are you smiling?’ And I’m like, ‘Man, I’m just thinking.’ Those are the kinds of moments you want to make real.” Twelve rounds from now, we’ll find out.
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Lenz from Rockford, Illinois; choreographer Michele Lynch from New York City and set designer Andy Walmsley from Blackpool, sometimes called the Las Vegas of England. A worldly bunch, with one shared characteristic: They’re puttin’ on a show set in the state we visited. Idaho! The Comedy Musical is an odd sort of project with an odd sort of history—it was actually conceived in Las Vegas and will premiere at the Smith Center’s Reynolds Hall. Previews run July 6-8, opening night is July 9 and the show concludes July 17.
At the time of this pilgrimage, the original draft of the Idaho! script had been completed, the songs finished. The characters had yet to be cast, but their personality traits and names—Ida Dunham, Whip Masters, Mavis White Eagle—had been established. Somewhere in the general conversation about its path to fruition, I asked a question: “Have any of you ever been to Idaho?” I’m originally from Pocatello, the railroad town in the southeastern region of the state, home to Idaho State University. Comically, it turned out that nobody developing Idaho! had been to Idaho. Ever. So when we touched down in Boise for a three-day sprint through the state, there was palpable excitement about this fact-finding tour. As we walked through the airport, Sheffield, who penned most of the zingers in the show and is responsible for the “Men on Film” skits from In Living Color, stopped at a gift shop. He had spotted a large basket full of little Idaho Potato stuffed dolls. He plucked one of the figures and gave it a squeeze. And in his Neil Armstrong-landing moment announced, “The only reason we are here is because I couldn’t think of anything to rhyme with Wyoming.”
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heffield’s mirth notwithstanding, this musical’s blueprint has been carefully and thoughtfully conceived, its origins dating back more than a decade, and its vision ambitious. The show is produced and financed by the Smith Center, and if these Idaho dreams are realized, the version staged at Reynolds Hall might well end up playing Broadway. “Not only am I super-excited about
Idaho!, I am super-excited about were tested during a reading IDAHO! The the Smith Center and Las Vegas at UNLV’s Paul Harris TheComedy becoming a place where shows ater in 2005. The following Musical get to be fully showcased in a way July 6-17, April, such songs as “The times vary, that might well lead to a BroadBoys Are Never Put Out,” $19-$89. way run,” Martin says. Still, the were sampled during the Smith big words for the show’s potential Center, 702Composers Showcase at Suede 749-2000. viability as a Broadway producrestaurant. An early variation tion are “might” and “dreams.” of the show was performed at First, the Smith Center show the New York Musical Theatre won’t be the fully realized version of Festival, where Idaho! won the Best of the production. It runs the length of a Fest Audience Prize. proper musical with 29 songs (includWith Thompson working in Las ing reprises), but the scaled-back Vegas and Sheffield in LA, the creative scenery designed isn’t what you’d see partners continued to build a plot and in New York. The charm of the show a set of songs. In the early stages, the has been its simple, straightforward sense among the two writers was to comedic appeal. keep the content lighthearted and ap“I don’t want to get too far ahead, peal to a family audience. “Then Book because there is no guarantee of [a of Mormon hit, and we were thinking, Broadway run] happening,” Martin maybe we can make it a little more says, “but I am excited about how great risqué,” Thompson says. it will be for our audiences to see this Thus, the show is often described production while it’s still being formed, as mature, bawdy but not vulgar. The while it’s still in clay.” central plot is a romantic yarn between For many years, Idaho! was not Cassie Purdy, “a mail-order bride from even clay—it was a powder-and-water Ohio,” (one of the states most often project being formed in public through mistaken for Idaho, with Iowa being stripped-down performances dating to the other) and the very rich and equally the mid-2000s. The co-masterminds smarmy Jed Strunk, “a real toad gagger were Sheffield and Thompson, who met who’s got the personality of a festered while Sheffield was running a theater wart and enough money to buy every company in Biloxi. They’d swapped last spud in town,” according to the ofideas about a musical based on Rodgers ficial plot synopsis. & Hammerstein productions like OklaWhen Cassie (Jessica Fontana) homa!, as if in the hands of Mel Brooks, arrives in Idaho, she falls for the handwith Sheffield saying, “We researched some Whip Masters (Nathaniel Hackthe location not at all. Part of the joke mann), setting off a series of events that was that for two musical-theater people, leads to three couples finding love in Idaho and Oklahoma are completely the most unlikely places. interchangeable, because they’re west The show’s script, and song lyrics, of New Jersey and we didn’t know anyfeel as if they’d be best accompanied by thing about either one.” the comedic droning of a sad trombone The first numbers from the musical or a crisp rim shot. From “Screw Up
Your Courage”: “Life can be such a ball if you just grow a pair.” And from “Heck, It’s a Helluva Day”: “All the sheep are takin’ cover just in case all the gals are too quick!” Sheffield says the setting, around 1900, was chosen to match that in Oklahoma!. “This is a time when it’s a little bit lawless,” Sheffield says. “This is not about Idaho as much as it is about the culture of musical theater. Idaho!, to me, is an American story, set in that time. “Rodgers & Hammerstein had never been to Oklahoma. They probably got a key to the state after it became a hit, but I don’t think they knew anything about it in advance.”
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he team’s trip through the state included tours of Idaho City, the State Capitol in Boise and the Idaho Potato Museum in Blackfoot. The education led to the whittling of a scene involving a twister (not common in Idaho) and the addition of “Pocatello Fellow,” which is sure to hit home. During a tour of the Tiede family farm, which was founded in 1908, Lenz had pulled a tiny, baby potato from the thousands of spuds rolling off the ranch’s conveyor belts. He handed it to Sheffield and said, “Take this to Nina,” referring to Sheffield’s wife, the person who encouraged him to continue work on Idaho!. A couple of weeks ago, Sheffield sent a photo of the plant, which is thriving and has grown little sprouts. As Lenz said in a group email with those who visited the state, “Heartwarming! That growth is a good omen, methinks!” It’s also a reminder that you should never, ever sell Idaho short. The musical is just opening, but the state is a winner.
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Elevado was tasked with opening the very first Las Vegas version of Nobu in 1999, sent from New York City to bring the legendary Japanese restaurant to the Hard Rock Hotel just off the Strip. “I thought I’d be here for a year,” he says. “Now it’s 17 years later, and I kinda like Vegas. It’s relaxed. New York is a lot of fun, but I don’t know if I’d do a restaurant there now. Too crazy.” Back then, Las Vegas didn’t have anything like the number of fine dining palaces that decorate the Strip today. Elevado recalls one standout meal at the late chef Jean-Louis Palladin’s restaurant at the Rio. “It’s insane how much things have changed,” says the chef, who stayed at Hard Rock’s Nobu until 2006 before moving on to another Asian restaurant with a serious scene, Social House at Treasure Island. “It was a cult favorite,” he says of Social House. “That was a different era, too, but we used to get so many Strip entertainers coming in. It was just a cool restaurant.”
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restaurant headquartered between Surrender Nightclub, Encore Beach Club and the casino’s new Encore Players Club. “I came into the project a little late so it was stressful, but it was one of the smoothest openings I’ve ever done. The network and support this hotel gives you, it’s really like nothing else.” Even for someone with such a precise level of experience, Elevado knew there would be pressure to deliver an unparalleled experience at Andrea’s. But he was, and is, the man for the job. “I knew the menu had to have a balance of fun, shareable items with more luxurious things, and it always has to stay true to the cuisines I’m representing,” he says. Indeed, Andrea’s menu stretches from sushi to seared foie gras, Thai tom kha gai soup to ramen sliders, prime steaks to Filipino pork belly sisig. “I have noticed today that our guests who may be [going to the clubs] are more into food, more open to trying different things,” Elevado says. “And just being in this restaurant, I can see why people love to come here. When this place is really humming on a Friday or Saturday night, tables full of shellfish platters and big magnums coming out, it’s just a lot of fun.” Andrea’s at Encore, 702-770-5340; Sunday-Thursday 6-10:30 p.m., Friday & Saturday 6-11:30 p.m. –Brock Radke
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“Red Lights” and “Wasted,” along with 2015’s “Secrets”—became the foundation for the newest Viva Vision show broadcast on the world’s largest video screen, the canopy covering the Fremont Street Experience in Downtown Vegas. Tiësto popped into the 3rd Street Stage to mark the debut of the show, now playing nightly, before a weekend that saw him play at Wet Republic and then close out the 20th anniversary edition of Electric Daisy Carnival. Easily one of the world’s most celebrated DJs, Tiësto is clearly one of
Vegas’ favorites as well. He’s back at his Strip headquarters, Hakkasan and Wet Republic at MGM Grand, this week, but really, through his music, he’s everywhere, all the time. Tiësto at Hakkasan at MGM Grand, June 23 & 25; at Wet Republic at MGM Grand, June 26.
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It was one of the most talked-about moments during all of EDC, yet somehow Tiësto managed to steal the limelight a second time on Sunday, pranking the audience by pretending to be the man behind Marshmello. “Show your range and be dynamic,” Circle Talent Agency manager Steve Gordon (and manager of Marshmello himself) had said at EDMbiz just a few days prior, stressing the importance of not just the music, but the brand and the stage show. Having witnessed it firsthand during Tiësto’s set, it’s the winning combination that turns DJs into saints and EDC into the Garden of Eden. –Leslie Ventura
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and reveres its dual cuisines, so much so that after you eat here, you’ll realize it doesn’t get any better than these tacos and these dumplings. But which ones? The Yucatan-style pit-barbecue pork cochinita tacos, in freshly made tortillas, are a standout, savory and rich. For a wonderfully roasted meat in another tidy package, the “stuck on you” lamb potstickers are a landmark bite, a juicy, meaty filling inside a chewy dumpling with crispy lace adding additional, addictive texture.
These dishes are only the beginning of your China Poblano experience, which ranges from noodles and soups to ceviche and fries topped with mole. Dinner here is pure global fun. China Poblano at the Cosmopolitan, 702698-7900; daily 11:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m. –Brock Radke
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6/24 Calvin Harris. 6/25 Martin Garrix. 6/28 Fergie DJ. 7/1 Calvin Harris. 7/2 Armin van Buuren. 7/5 Burns. 7/8 Steve Angello. 7/9 Afrojack. Caesars Palace, Tue, Thu-Sun, 702785-6200.
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COSTUME PARTY In its fourth year, the Amazing Las Vegas Comic-Con moved from the South Point to the Las Vegas Convention Center for three days of panels, activities, creator appearances and colorful costumes (including this action-ready green Power Ranger). Even Nicolas Cage showed up to make some purchases. The convention also boasted a strong presence from the local comics community, and at lasvegasweekly.com Josh Bell rounds up five local highlights, including retailer Maximum Comics, cosplayer Vegas PG, publishers Kymera Press and Horde Media and artist Ashleigh Popplewell. (Christopher DeVargas/Staff)
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ON THE WEB Two of this week’s big movies screened too late for our print deadline, so you’ll find our reviews of Independence Day: Resurgence and Free State of Jones at lasvegasweekly.com. Plus, a Vinyl gig from hip-hop legends Pete Rock & CL Smooth and a new travel read about … traveling.
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Luke Wilson’s Bill gets his blood pressure checked. Very rock ’n’ roll. (Showtime/Courtesy)
ager for a mid-career arena-rock act called the Staton-House Band, which Crowe has compared in interviews to The Black Keys and Pearl Jam. The By Josh Bell band itself isn’t the focus of the show, though; its hat was once the greatest strength members show up only briefly, and only to provide of writer-director Cameron Crowe’s storylines for the main characters, who are all part movies—his naked, heart-on-sleeve of the support crew. The talented main cast also insincerity—has become his greatcludes Imogen Poots, Carla Gugino and Keiaaccc est weakness, and Crowe’s new sha Castle-Hughes, along with comedian ROADIES Showtime series Roadies is a painfully, Ron White as an irritatingly grizzled road Sundays, hopelessly out-of-touch paean to his veteran who’s emblematic of the show’s 10 p.m., Showtime. favorite subject, the Purity of Rock ’n’ misguided idea of authenticity. Roll. The height of Crowe’s movie career Instead of sounding passionate and has been his 2000 masterpiece Almost honest, the characters on Roadies sound Famous, a deeply affecting and heartfelt tribute like they’re reading promotional copy for the artto Crowe’s days as a teenage reporter for Rolling ists who appear as guest stars (ranging from The Stone in the 1970s, equal parts exuberance and Head and the Heart to Lindsey Buckingham). melancholy. Roadies attempts to recapture that The third episode features Rainn Wilson as an feeling with a story set in the present day, and over-the-top caricature of a megalomaniacal it stumbles immediately, with music references music critic, who dares attack the artistic genius that feel disingenuous and characters who serve of the Staton-House Band. At one time, Crowe primarily as mouthpieces for Crowe’s outdated was one of those writers; now he comes off as desense of musical integrity. fensive and self-important as the egotistical rock Luke Wilson plays Bill Hanson, the tour manstars he once wrote about.
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Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives) is a master of mood, sensation and garish color. (He’s colorblind, so his palette is all primary, no pastels.) He’s not exactly deft with narrative, though, and The Neon Demon, his latest movie, constructs its eye-catching images not so much around a story or character as around a blunt message, to gradually diminishing returns. The very first shot lays everything out, showing teenage protagonist Jesse (Elle Fanning) reclining on a couch as blood drips from her neck. This turns out to be just a provocative photo shoot—Jesse is an aspiring model, newly arrived in LA hoping to make it big—but The Neon Demon never stops linking female beauty and violence. As Jesse quickly becomes the town’s new It Girl, her friends (played by Jena Malone and Bella Heathcote, among others) become increasingly insecure about their own desirability, until they literally want a piece of her. The movie’s inevitable descent into Grand Guignol horror would pack more of a wallop were it not so blatantly dedicated to underlining society’s oppressive female beauty standards, to the exclusion of anything else of interest. It’s a worthy, progressive thesis, but subtext elevated to text makes for tedious viewing, even when it’s gorgeous as this. –Mike D’Angelo
aabcc THE NEON DEMON Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, Bella Heathcote. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Rated R. Opens Friday in select theaters.
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ELECTRIC BOOGALOO BY LESLIE VENTURA ireworks burst overhead on Sunday night, the booming, rainbow-tinted sparks serving as the festival’s quintessential finale—20 years under the electric sky. Festivalgoers would continue dancing until sunrise, but that display, nearly 10 minutes of explosive desert decadence, stood out as a defining moment from the weekend. Nowhere in Las Vegas—not even on New Year’s Eve—can you witness a fireworks show as exquisite. And that goes for just about everything else at Electric Daisy Carnival. From the music—straight-
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up house, techno, drum ’n’ bass, dubstep, big room and more—and the larger-than-life productions at every stage, to the sheer face-melting volume and magnitude of the Speedway’s neon sprawl (plus, a few truckloads of adrenaline-junkie-approved carnival rides), there’s nothing comparable. After 20 years of tweaking and perfecting (thank you, water refill stations!) most aspects of Insomniac’s latest Vegas undertaking went off without a hitch, apart from the expected traffic and parking woes, long entry lines, some shuttle snafus and one pyrotechnic fire that shut down the BassPod stage early Sunday morning. As for
whether or not the 20-year anniversary meant a bigger and better festival, my answer, simply, is: How could it? EDC is so consistently over-thetop, so epic in its proportions, that the festival will always be the biggest and brightest star in the desert, whether or not it’s celebrating an anniversary. If things continue the way they have, EDC will have many happy birthdays. With more than 130,000 festivalgoers attending each night and zero fatalities reported (the first time in three years), the future for Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas looks brighter than ever.
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SANDWICH SUPREMACY THE GOODWICH EXPANDS— ITS SPACE AND ITS MENU BY BROCK RADKE he Goodwich was the best lunch I almost never had. I craved its carefully crafted sandwiches on a daily basis, but its original Downtown location in a small, streetside kiosk was less than convenient. Now, it’s all grown up, operating out of a cozy space on Soho Lofts’ ground floor, and I’m considering a Weekly satellite office Downtown so I can eat lunch at Goodwich on a daily basis. And breakfast, too; the expanded menu includes egg sandwiches like the Classic ($6) with ham, bacon or sausage plus American cheese, or the Fun Guy ($8) with mushrooms and green chile aioli, both with beautifully baked eggs served with perfect toast and various hash-style components. 3 Lil Birds ($10) offers turkey, duck, chicken and root veggies with salsa verde, and the Hot Potato ($7) THE drenches crispy herbed spuds with GOODWICH New Mexican red chile sauce. 900 Las The lunch and dinner menu also Vegas Blvd. S. #120, 702- goes beyond sandwiches, with fresh, flavorful salads and fun sides. But 910-8681. Mondayyou’re here for what the Goodwich Friday, 7 a.m.-10 p.m.; does better than anybody. Favorites from the sandwich shack are back, Saturday & Sunday, 8 including the corned beef Reuben-ish a.m.-10 p.m. ($10), the smoked cream cheeseaugmented patty melt ($8) and the rotating Pig o’ the Week selection. New revelations include the BLTG ($8.50), house-made bacon, tomato, greens, aioli and cheddar-bacon grits; the Sea Smoke ($9.50), with a griddled “patty” of smoked fish, onion jam and creamy remoulade; and the Iowa pork tribute Hawkeye ($8.50). Going veggie at the Goodwich can also be rewarding, especially since sandwich selections rotate based on quality seasonal ingredients. The falafel on the falafel sandwich ($8) is made with peas and layered with a smoothed-out version of hummus, cucumbers and kale slaw. Later this summer, we’ll all be ordering tomato sandwiches with house-made aioli, smoked sea salt and nothing else, save for the thick slabs of rye the Goodwich magically transforms into toasty brilliance. Sandwiches are the easiest lunch, but great ones are harder to get than we’d like. With the Goodwich’s new home, Las Vegas now has a sandwich central.
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INGREDIENTS 1 1/2 oz. BarSol Pisco Selecto Acholado Mexipanese is known for burritos, but consider the salads, too. (Mikayla Whitmore/Staff)
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Performing Arts Onyx Theatre A Few Good Men 6/24-6/25, 8 pm; 6/26, 5 pm, $20. 953 E. Sahara Ave., 702-732-7225. Summerlin Library & Performing Arts Center I Know I Came in Here for Something 6/25, 2 pm, $15-$20. 1771 Inner Circle Drive, 702-507-3860. Theatre in the Valley Shooting Stars 6/24-6/25, 8 pm; 6/26, 2 pm, $10-$15. 10 W. Pacific Ave.
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