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Trust Us everything you absolutely, positively must get out and do this week

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KUSO PROJECT AT DONNA BEAM FINE ART GALLERY In Taiwan, the term for silly or campy web memes is kuso. It’s the jumping-off point for KUSO Project, a group show featuring the works of 12 young Taiwanese artists, presented by UNLV’s Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery in conjunction with Hungkuang University and Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture. Here, kuso is interpreted through a variety of mediums— painting, photography, video and more—and its imagery is what you get when you fall asleep dreaming of Reddit: lifejacketgarbed Polars huddled together on a floating chunk of ice, a plasticfaced girl peering into a mirror dimension and other sublime visuals inspired by the Internet hive mind. MondayFriday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; free. –Geoff Carter

MELISSA ETHERIDGE AT FREMONT STREET EXPERIENCE Following the premiere of her cover of the Sam & Dave hit “Hold On, I’m Coming,” from upcoming tribute album Memphis Rock and Soul, the singersongwriter heads to the Experience for a free show as part of the Rock of Vegas concert series. 3rd Street Stage, free. –Leslie Ventura

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CEREMONY AT 11TH STREET RECORDS The NoCal punks— who sounded less like the hardcore outfit of their early years than the band they were named for, Joy Division, on their 2015 LP The L-Shaped Man—hop off a tour with Touché Amoré for a cozy Downtown gig with locals Unfair Fight and Moon Blood. $10-$12. –Spencer Patterson

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HOPPED GOLF AT TOPGOLF Motley Brews (Great Vegas Festival of Beer) is the innovative driver behind Topgolf’s new craft beer experience. Sip and sample more than 20 brews from Joseph James, Ninkasi, Uinta, Alaskan, Abita, Four Peaks, Woodchuck Cider and more at the inaugural event. You’ll be able to take your beer to the pub games or swing inside one of five golf bays. Even if you’re too buzzed to keep track, each golf ball contains hi-tech microchips that’ll record accuracy and distance. Beer and birdies have never paired so perfectly. $30. –Rosalie Spear

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DIIV AT THE BUNKHOUSE Let’s get this out of the way: DIIV is pronounced DIVE, which is less pretension than legal necessity. DIIV was actually DIVE when it was essentially the bedroom act of singer/guitarist Zachary Cole Smith. Then in 2012, he discovered there was already a Belgian electronic/ industrial band named Dive … and a New Jersey rock band named Dive … and maybe he also stumbled upon the Swedish duo Dive, too. So DIVE became DIIV and rose to the indie ranks with its post-punk/ New Wave-inspired debut, Oshin, followed by this year’s Is the Is Are. If you’re familiar with Sirius’ XMU station, you know the alternatively blissful and agitated tracks “How Long Have You Known,” “Dopamine” and “Under the Sun”—which you should sing with Smith if DIIV plays them this Tuesday. With Party Talk, Dark Black, DJ Fish. $15-$20. –Mike Prevatt (Jon Estrada/Staff)

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You released two albums last year. What was the thought behind dropping Thank Your Lucky Stars unexpectedly, and so shortly after Depression Cherry? With technology, it’s hard to have a secret in this world. It’s all sort of chic if you can surprise people. You’ve been a band for more than 10 years. How much has touring changed for you in that time? Our first few tours, there was definitely an innocence being in a van. Bus touring is not glamorous; it’s really intense, actually. Van touring is [some] of the best touring we’ve ever done. We’d have the band we were touring with in the van with us. You’re selling the merch yourself, playing small venues. … On our first tour we were bringing actual organs with us. It’s very difficult to tour with an organ. You have a setlist creator on your website. Do you actually use it? Absolutely, every single show. People vote for the songs and pick the ones they want. It lets us have more of a personal sense and feeling for our audience. We would never just play the same setlist every night. ... I like that people use it. It’s sweet. People care. With Entrance. August 24, 9 p.m., $25, House of Blues. –Leslie Ventura For more of our interview with Legrand, visit lasvegasweekly. com.

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Lance Smith is redoing the vivid public art vandals attempted to white out BY GEOFF CARTER

ou won’t meet a kinder soul than Lance Smith. He’s soft-spoken, smiles easily and is a big-time hugger. Yet earlier this year, someone felt threatened enough by the artist’s work on a public utility box on Maryland Parkway at Flamingo Road—commissioned by Clark County for its ongoing Zap! project—to obliterate it with several coats of beige paint. Smith is setting things right. He’s repainting the boxes, one of which features succulents, the other— presumably the one that provoked the vandalism— depicting a dark-skinned, hooded spiritual figure. Smith intended the figure as a kind of protector of Maryland Parkway, “to watch over the people.” The whitewashing of Smith’s art was part of what amounted to a spree of art vandalism; a Chris Bauder piece was defaced shortly before, and Ugo Rondinone’s “Seven Magic Mountains” was hit by taggers not long after. “Vegas was showin’ its ass that week,” Smith says. But here he is, redoing the work—as he will be for several more weeks, heat permitting. A Clark County employee, Brett Bradley—whose job it is to clean and restore the utility box art when it gets defaced—is hanging out to make sure Smith isn’t harassed. “This is the only event where a box has been completely painted over” in the 10-plus years of the Zap! project, Bradley says. Paired with the August heat, that should have Smith’s blood boiling. But he’s not angry, just sad. “I hope that they learned something,” Smith says. “Bigotry and hatred is not exactly the best way to go about expressing yourself.” Besides that, they failed. That vandalism didn’t obscure character, it revealed it. In its wake, locals rallied to protect Smith’s art. And the restored mural will be even better than the first one. “I’m working on the finesse aspect,” Smith says. “There’s some parts I’m gonna change. This means something else to me now—a little more than it did the first time.”

FREAKMONT EAST A new Halloween parade rises in Downtown’s entertainment district Last year was the first since 2009 in which Las Vegas didn’t have a Halloween parade, Flying Pan Productions having taken 2015 off after a festive but increasingly expensive five-year run. This year, Paul Casey Productions will have a go at

its own Downtown march, this time taking place not on Fourth Street but Fremont East—and not on Halloween, but October 29. A rep from PCP says the route will start 7 p.m. at Maryland Parkway, end at 7th Street and be limited to 500 participants (zombie- or Ghostbusters-themed vehicles, or groups of five or more) who register beforehand. The procession will cap off a weekend of Halloween-themed events by PCP; for more info, visit sincityhalloween. com. –Mike Prevatt

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Lance Smith repaints his Zap! artwork on a Maryland Parkway utility box. (Yasmina Chavez/Staff)

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SCRIPT FLIPPED Troy Heard and Majestic Repertory want to create a theater hub in the Arts District BY GEOFF CARTER

THREE LINGERING QUESTIONS ABOUT AIR MONKEY Last week, a monkey was spotted in the cabin of a Frontier Airlines flight from Columbus, Ohio, to Las Vegas. Which had us wondering … 1. Why was it on a plane? It was a passenger’s emotional support animal. Individual airlines determine whether to allow ESAs (most do). 2. What is an emotional support animal? An assistive aid prescribed by a doctor for a patient’s mental health. “Just the presence of [an ESA] helps lower somebody’s anxiety level,” says Stephanie Gerken, founder of local nonprofit Michael’s Angel Paws. 3. What animals can’t fly? “All types of service animals are allowed in the cabin”—including miniature horses and, yes, monkeys— Frontier spokesman Richard Oliver says, though he notes exceptions do exist, such as rats, beavers, reptiles and insects. –Leslie Ventura

“Often, I hear people say Las Vegas is the Wild West, and it really is,” Troy Heard says. “There are no hard and fast rules on how to do anything here, other than to do it consistently and to do it with quality.” Heard has been doing just that as producing director of Onyx Theatre. In recent years he’s staged productions ranging from original works (Jonestown) to pop culture pastiche (Reservoir Dolls). He planned a 2016-17 season much in that vein—a “villains”-themed season that included the Tony-award nominated play Hand to God (about a demonic hand puppet) and Carrie: The Musical. Then, Heard says, Onyx owner Randy Lange unexpectedly changed direction, and like many an actor before him, Heard improvised. The result is Majestic Repertory Theatre, a new company comprised of the board of directors Heard assembled for Onyx, with himself as executive and artistic director. The company’s first pop-up show, Little Shop of Horrors, opens October 6 at Alios Gallery in the Arts District—the neighborhood, Heard says, Majestic hopes to make a permanent home, where “artists can come work and grow together, and we can engage the community in a dialogue.” Alongside this “getting-on-our-feet season,” Majestic’s next few steps are securing nonprofit status for the company, finding a permanent space and a “massive” round of fundraising. The rest of its premiere season, which also features The Bad Seed and Heard’s own Anton Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard of the Living Dead, will also be staged in Arts District venues, and Heard sounds especially excited for Little Shop, an “environmental” production created with stage lighting experts Todd+Bryan. “You’ll actually be in Mushnik’s flower shop,” Heard says. Mostly, Heard is wound up about the sheer possibilities a new Las Vegas theater company can offer. To Heard, this is the west at its wildest. “There are so many equity actors that came [to Vegas] whose shows closed. You can get them in a show, engage the right writers, create something new and then take it elsewhere,” Heard says. “It’s what you should do as an artist—to reflect the community in which you’re standing.”

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Fifteen-year-old Malik Smith floats to the rim during a pickup game at Doolittle Community Center. (L.E. Baskow/Staff)

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ucker Park hosts the idolized players like Lionel Hollins, who went best pickup basketball on to play and coach in the NBA. Other nogames in Manhattan. table Doolittle alumni who reached the pros In LA, it’s all about include Greg Anthony, Marcus Banks and C.J. Venice Beach. And in Watson. Philly, the top ballers “This was the place to be,” says Williams, call the court at Clark who parlayed his floor-sweeping duties into Park home. a job at the center and is now the City of Las They play without coaches, uniforms or refVegas’ community program manager. erees on these ultra-physical proving grounds, The Doolittle faithful still speak of the time where legends are born, guys known mostly by a small-framed New York kid showed up at the nicknames, like Harlem’s Herman “Helicopter” center and folks began lining up to see him Knowings, Philly’s “Black Jesus” (Earl Monroe), play. That kid was playground legend Lloyd and Dr. J, back when Julius Erving was coming “Swee’ Pea” Daniels, and he dominated that up in the New York City area. day. Here in Las Vegas folks speak of Williams and Thompson—who both DOOLITTLE “Spiderman” Burns and “Sudden” work for the city—can easily rattle COMMUNITY Sam Smith. Many consider Sudden off players who have been kings of CENTER Sam this town’s purest shooter ever, this court. Danny Lyles. Billy Banks. 1950 J St., 702-229-6374. and nobody soared above the rim for a Donnie Love. Doug Stewart. Lots of Adult open dunk like Spiderman. Throughout the UNLV Rebels played at Doolittle in gym Monday1970s they dominated the courts at the the offseason, Friday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., $2 Doolittle Community Center at Lake including Freddie Banks, Larry Mofday/$5 month; Mead Boulevard and J Street. fett and Eldridge Hudson. youth open As on the most notable courts What about Troy Brown? “The son gym (ages 12-18) Mondaynationwide, the games at Doolittle or the dad?” Thompson asks. Friday, 2-5 are famous for their intensity. If you Troy Brown Jr. is a star at Centenp.m., free. plan to take your shot, you’d best come nial High, projected to make it to the ready. “Doolittle is one of those places NBA soon, and his dad was a star at where you can’t wear your heart on Chaparral High. They both played at your sleeve, because it will get knocked off on Doolittle. The Seattle SuperSonics and Team the first play,” says Ricki Barlow, who grew up USA have trained there, and President Obama nearby and now represents the area as Ward 5 has packed the gym multiple times on the councilman. “It hasn’t changed. You can ask campaign trail. any coach in the Valley. If you want to test your Watson, an NBA player since 2007, cut players’ skill, you have to step on the floor and his teeth at Doolittle. Before leading Bishop play at Doolittle. It’s the rite of passage.” Gorman to the state championship or the University of Tennessee into the NCAA Tournament, Watson had to prove himself in the neighborhood. Everyone’s equal when you step onto this court. “If you were playing basketball, this is where you wanted to play,” says Watson, a guard with the Orlando Magic. “You earned your toughness. You earned your grit. If you Doolittle, which celebrated its 50th anthought you were good, this is the place you niversary last year, is about more than basketproved it.” ball for the residents of West Las Vegas. It’s For Watson, Doolittle remains a special home to a senior center, a pool, meeting rooms place. He hosts a camp there each summer, and more. telling attendees stories about long afternoons Elgin Williams and Phil Thompson, both on its outdoor courts. Nobody played for a in their early 50s, tell stories of walking to scholarship or a paycheck. At Doolittle, it has Doolittle each day back in elementary school. always been about pride and the love of the They’d stay until after the center closed, game. snacking on leftover hot dogs and popcorn as “This is where the true competition is,” Wilpayment for sweeping the court’s floor. They liams says. “Always will be.”

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BY MIKE PREVATT PHOTOGRAPHs BY JON ESTRADA

onnie Rose sits in Aid for AIDS of Nevada executive director Antioco Carrillo’s office. She’s wearing an olive-colored T-shirt that says, “Use your voice. Tell everyone HIV still exists.” It’s not the only item in her wardrobe that takes a stand. Rose produces a black tee from a bag seconds later that reads: “No shame about being HIV+.” “I think I’ll wear this to Black & White,” she says. “Go for it,” Carrillo responds, sitting nearby with a smile. Rose’s choice of party wear might seem peculiar, given the chic and flamboyant ensembles for which AFAN’s summertime gala and fundraiser is known. But Rose is an outspoken HIV/ AIDS advocate. She’s also an active AFAN client, and in the past, she’s gone to Black & White as a volunteer.

This year, she’s an invitee, and she’ll be celebrating the party’s 30th edition alongside fellow clients, performing and attending public figures and AFAN supporters and donors. As Black & White continues to evolve—it began in 1986 as an intimate birthday party—so will Rose’s participation at the affair. Instead of assisting the organization that has given her a new lease on life, she’ll be reveling in its successes— especially since she’s one of them. “AFAN gives life to people, keeping them alive and healthy,” AFAN director of events Garrett Pattiani says. “But what about experiences for that life?” ***** For many of AFAN’s 1,100 active clients, attending a swanky party is low on their priority list. AFAN is not only an advocacy group for those who have

HIV/AIDS advocate/writer Connie Rose is an active AFAN client.

HIV/AIDS, it’s also a support organization for those affected by it. Emergency funds for housing and utility bills are among the most requested client services, Carrillo says. They are made possible in part from money raised at Black & White. But they aren’t just handouts, as Rose can attest. Before she fled Indiana with her daughter more than three years ago, Rose owned her own home. After she arrived in Las Vegas—in poor health and on disability due to carbon monoxide poisoning—Rose checked into a Budget Suites. Rent and bills would leave her and her daughter with $18 for the month. Needing help, she looked up AIDS service organizations in the area and found one, AFAN, which quickly helped her with housing and legal aid, pointed her to where she could get food and medicine and even

paid for her transportation costs (another crucial service for AFAN clients). Over time, she became less reliant on assistance and better equipped to focus on other aspects of her life. “The hope right now is that if someone is [HIV] positive, nothing will change—only that you’ll adapt to having HIV and that you’ll be accessing medical care,” Carrillo says. “We want you to work and be as independent as you have always been, and you’ll live your life at its full potential. That is essentially what we want to be able to do.” Fast-forward to today, and Rose now writes professionally for ticketing websites, as a freelancer for HIV/AIDS magazines and for her blog, livingpos. com, as part of her advocacy efforts. “When I say [AFAN] helped me to where I could stay here, they provided us with resources I needed to where I

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John Miles is involved with several different local HIV/AIDS support groups. Sidebar: Melody Sweets (Absinthe), left, and Mark Shunock (Mondays Dark).

could get on my feet and find the stability where I could begin to thrive,” Rose says. “Once I founded and developed my website, it allowed me to write for [AIDS magazine] A&U and be on TV three times. I’m a writer, and there’s no words for how much AFAN has helped me.” ***** The circumstances bringing John Miles to AFAN differ radically from those of Rose. After spending five years in a Chicago VA hospital after being hit by a car, Miles contracted HIV from a blood transfusion in 2004. Determined to get healthy and in search of somewhere warmer, he moved to Las Vegas. After some initial struggles, Miles was referred to AFAN, which saved him from homelessness and the clutches of the payday loan industry. That wasn’t his only breakthrough.

“We’ve got a person that used to belong to AFAN, Jim Foley,” Miles says. “I call him my hero. He is awesome. I was in heavy, dark place. He made that dark place crack open, one sliver at a time, until it was wide open. I said, ‘Whoa! Really—I can be me again?’ It was the words he said, and I was alive again.” Now, the only client service Miles requests is a bus pass. It’s how he gets to various clinics and health facilities. It’s his link to the local HIV/AIDS community, with which he interacts through several support groups. And it’s how he attends the meetings of the Ryan White Planning Council, which (along with the Health Resources and Services Administration) helps allocate federal funds for those living with HIV/AIDS but lack sufficient health care, and which he has advised for the past four years as a representative of

the public. Like Rose, Miles has found a greater purpose in life aligning with and advocating for the HIV/AIDS community. And like Rose, Miles finds himself within a unique constituency of those living with HIV—they’re both heterosexual. Though stereotypes labeling HIV/AIDS as a gay disease persist, those who are straight and positive still deal with ridicule. Miles combats this by being out— and engaging with fellow HIV positive heterosexuals who aren’t. “It’s the stigma—a different stigma,” he says. “I try to put it out there that, ‘Hey, I’ve got it.’” He even wears a bracelet that reveals his status. It might as well say “No shame about being HIV+,” too.

30TH ANNIVERSARY BLACK & WHITE PARTY August 20, 8 p.m., $50. Aria, afanlv.org.

In 1986, Darryl Thomas and Trip Oldfield decided to throw a dinner party celebrating the former’s birthday at their Henderson apartment, but in lieu of gifts, attendees would bring canned food for those impoverished from their fight with HIV/ AIDS. It was dubbed the Generic Black & White Party, inspired by the characterless and colorless labels of store-brand canned food back then. Thirty years later, Thomas and Oldfield will be honored with 12 other longtime AFAN supporters with the “Right to Wear Red” at the not-so-generic Black & White Party, its name now more reflective of the exclusive black-and-white—but hardly black-tie—dress code. The affair, more of stand-andsocialize shindig than a sit-andwatch fundraiser, returns to the Strip this Saturday. It will feature noshables from 10 different Aria eateries (including Sage, Bardot Brasserie and Carbone), top-shelf adult beverages, performances from shows like Baz and Human Nature, celebrity appearances and a silent auction. Mark Shunock (Mondays Dark) and Jim McCoy (aka Auntie Norma Layman) host the event, and all proceeds benefit the HIV/AIDS community AFAN serves in Southern Nevada. Despite the noteworthy legacy and evolution of Black & White, one might wish for the day when we no longer need it. But should a cure for HIV/AIDS emerge, there will be an even greater reason for festivity. “One day, I want this to be a party of celebration of the disease no longer being here,” says AFAN’s Garrett Pattiani. “I always hope the Black & White party goes on.” –Mike Prevatt

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NEIGHBORHOOD UPGRADE EATT BRINGS HEALTH-CONSCIOUS CUISINE TO DAYTIME DINERS BY DEBBIE LEE t’s hard to believe that Eatt, a new lunch spot on the west side of town, was once home to a Firehouse Subs (and before that, a barbecue joint). With an emphasis on clean food for health-conscious diners, the space has been completely exorcised of its former ghosts. Gone are the industrial smoker and hot sauce bar; in their place are modern furnishings and (artificial but nonetheless bright and trendy) succulent plant arrangements. More importantly, the food is a welcome addition to the dining scene. Yuri Szarzewski and Vincent Pellerin (chef and pastry chef, respectively) both bring Michelin-rated experience EATT from France and apply it to casual, 7865 W. Sahara affordable lunchtime fare. A simple Ave., 702chicken breast ($13) is transformed 608-5233. into an artful composition with TuesdaySaturday, geometric shapes of pea puree, 10:30 a.m.whole baby carrots and peas. The 6 p.m.; Sunpriciest entree, an 8-ounce Black day, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Angus ribeye ($23) is cooked to the guest’s preference (my medium was spot-on) and accompanied by ratatouille. Layers of zucchini, peppers and eggplant are reimagined as pretty pinwheels—a small but thoughtful twist that doesn’t go unnoticed. It’s all made pretty quickly, but those with short lunch breaks can opt for something easier, like a salmon club sandwich or chicken wrap (both $9.) Vegan and gluten-free options abound on the menu, so some dessert selections feel like misfits. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t sample them. There’s a small but diverse mix of impeccable classic French pastries (Paris Brest praline pastry, $6.50), exotic sweets (yuzu cheesecake, $6.50) and Viennoiserie (seasonal Danish, $3.50). Even a healthy bowl of fruit is elevated into something pretty—an order of fresh pineapple ($4.50) is diced to resemble tartare and served with pineapple chips. Given its location, Eatt almost seems too ambitious for local tastes. But it’s undoubtedly an upgrade on chain sub sandwiches, and I’d encourage anyone in the area to support the restaurant’s efforts to bring good food to the ’hood.

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Eatt’s salmon club sandwich won’t weigh you down at lunchtime. (Mikayla Whitmore/Staff)

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The duck wings a l’orange are a Bardot staple. (Mikayla Whitmore/Staff)

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It’s easy to overdo it at Bardot Brasserie. Chef Josh Smith and his team provide so many delicious options, ordering too much is more probability than possibility. The Aria hot spot’s first tasting menu, a mood-capturing meal known as Summer in Provence ($65 plus $35 for beverage pairings, available through September), treats diners to a four-course excursion through one of France’s culinary capitals. “The real idea here was just to lighten up a heavy, rich, French menu for summer and offer it in this neat little package,” Smith says. Provence is heavily influenced by Mediterranean cuisine, so it also features tastes of Italy, Spain and Greece. “Lots of herbs, lots of citrus, lots of vegetables.” Smith says. “It matches the season.” Each course delivers multiple options. For starters, choose between summer melon or tuna tartare niçoise. The melon, sourced nearby from Weiser Farms, is a real standout, the sweetness of the fruit offset by domestic Bayonne ham. Fromage blanc mousse is mixed with fig compote, and it’s so creamy and light it could just as easily be an extravagant breakfast course. Course two means a choice between duck wings a l’orange and a modern take on Parisian gnocchi au

pistou. The wings, a Bardot staple, have a smoky quality from their time on the wood fire plancha, and are slathered in an addictive blood-orange glaze. The gnocchi, potato-less, are made instead with semolina flour. Goat cheese, cherry tomatoes, summer vegetables and pine nuts add different tastes and textures to each bite. Throw a dart at the main-course options—you’ll get something special wherever it lands. Smith’s take on sole meunière is light and completely gluten free, with the roulades of the fish topped with crumbs made from the accompanying sunchokes. Coquilles St. Jacques features stunningly sweet scallops courtesy of Viking Village out of Barnegate Light, New Jersey. The accompanying black trumpet mushrooms, potato fondant and Bloomsdale spinach would comprise a worthy vegetarian dish on their own. Lamb rack frites hit the spot for those wanting a meatier main, and the chickpea frites are a fun and thoughtful riff on the normal potato version. Dessert offers the crunchy and sweet strawberry pavlova or a fun bing cherry clafoutis. The latter, somewhere between pudding and cake, is flat-out delicious, the pistachio ice cream topping seeping into every bite. –Jason Harris

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service and going above and beyond for every guest. He’s about to have an even bigger venture on his hands. “Herringbone is expanding,” Pacheco says. “We’re fortunate to be expanding to Hawaii and Cabo in 2017, and we’re really excited to see what the new look is going to be.” Here in Las Vegas, you can’t find an experience quite like Herringbone’s exquisite brunchready patio. “We have such a neat restaurant venue. It’s the only venue within Aria that has this beautiful patio,” he says. “When the weather is just right, you completely forget where you’re at.” –Leslie Ventura

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But with his debut album 13—just released August 13—the dynamic yet modest DJ is out to prove his genrespanning versatility. We spoke to Borgeous about his sonic repertoire days before the album dropped. What has it been like to finally unleash 13? It’s been close to nine months working on this, so to finally have it come to light and see everything about to come out, it’s exciting.

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How do you anticipate your fans and the dance-music audience will react to it? There’s definitely a lot more different things than what people have probably heard from me, so they might be thrown off. At the end of the day, I wanted something you can put on in the car and listen to the whole way through. Your traditional banger EDM songs can be pretty aggressive, because they’re made for playing for 80,000 people. This sound and direction was geared toward something you can play driving to the beach, just throw it on and vibe.

There are plenty of guests on the album, too. Yeah. Me and Lil Jon have been talking about working on a song for the longest time, so that one (“Savage”) was easy. TyDi is a friend, and we finally did something together here (“Wanna Lose You”). And TyDi knew Dia Frampton so that’s how that one (“Over the Edge”) got hooked up. Dia has such an amazing voice and is so talented. It was really just people I wanted to work with, and I’ve done that my whole career. I don’t like to be pigeonholed into one specific genre. Music is all about what you’re going through and how you feel. The genre you’ve been placed in— electronic dance music—is so broad and constantly changing. Right. The dance genre has evolved so much lately, with artists like Calvin Harris and The Chainsmokers and Diplo and Skrillex collaborating with so many huge artists [from other genres]. I think it only helps the scene grow. Borgeous at Hakkasan at MGM Grand, August 21. –Brock Radke

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“Rehab is legendary. If you come to Las Vegas, you have to hit up Rehab,” Pauly told Las Vegas Magazine this summer. He plays his last gig of the season there this weekend. “You can see the energy and feel it when you’re out there. I get such good feedback from the crowds at Rehab, more than anywhere else around the world—that’s why I love DJing here. It’s gonna be the party of their life.” A Las Vegas resident for almost four years now, Pauly is constantly bouncing between coasts to

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ynn Las Vegas’ fine dining reputation is so stellar, it can be difficult to choose which restaurant to experience. An even tougher (but equally fantastic) problem is missing out on an incredible culinary experience that might not get its share of the spotlight. The wildly diverse Japanese restaurant Mizumi is a great example of a quiet treasure that requires discovery. Innovative chef Devin Hashimoto leads this kitchen’s virtuoso performance of a culinary symphony that includes pristine sushi and sashimi, a lively teppanyaki room and a roba-

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find [Las Vegas’] other word-ofmouth places,” D-Miles says. He just happens to be a resident at some Vegas day and night spots that could also be characterized as word-of-mouth faves: Hyde Bellagio, where he spins during Infamous Wednesdays; and Bare Pool Lounge at Mirage, where he sets up for the weekly industry party on Mondays. You can also catch him regularly at 1 OAK at Mirage, Foundation Room at Mandalay Bay and this weekend at the Palms’ day-bash Ditch Fridays. “This is my first time at Ditch Fridays, and I’m excited because I’ve partied there a bunch of times but never actually played,” he says. DJ D-Miles at Ditch Fridays at Palms Pool, August 19; at Infamous Wednesdays at Hyde Bellagio, August 24. –Brock Radke

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How might the Absinthe experience change once the show moves into its new digs?

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PRETTY DAZE Indie rocker Kurt Vile made his firstever Las Vegas headlining set memorable, as those who made it down to Brooklyn Bowl on a Monday night can attest. Find our show report at lasvegasweekly.com. (Erik Kabik/MediaPunch/Courtesy)

ON THE WEB Ladybug Mecca talks Digable Planets rebirth and Prince. Reviews of films Kubo and the Two Strings and Our Little Sister. Plus, a well-timed book about race and an interplanetary new video game. All at lasvegasweekly.com.

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TAKE IT TO THE BANK Hell or High Water provides some of the best movie thrills of the year BY JOSH BELL ossibly the best scene in the terrific crime drama Hell or High Water involves two of the characters sitting in a restaurant attempting to order a meal. As they track bank-robbing brothers Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner Howard (Ben Foster) across Texas, Texas Rangers Marcus Hamilton (Jeff Bridges) and Alberto Parker (Gil Birmingham) stake out a small-town bank where they think the robbers might strike next. They head to a restaurant across the street, where the cantankerous waitress asks, “What don’t you want?,” because the only relevant question is which side dish they’ll decline to have with their steak. That kind of wry, counterintuitive approach defines this consistently entertaining movie, which mines new humor, depth and eloquence from a very old genre. Essentially a Western set in the present day, Hell or High Water takes place in the dusty, half-dying towns and empty stretches of road in West Texas, where Toby and Tanner rob small

amounts of money from a regional chain of banks of the two brothers. Bridges is wonderfully craggy not so they can get rich, but so they can pay off debts and cranky as the about-to-retire Hamilton, who that various bureaucratic institutions have forced just can’t let this confounding case go. Hamilton them to take on. The script from Sicario writer gets two very different final confrontations with Taylor Sheridan is full of flavorful dialogue the brothers, one a violent, action-filled like that restaurant exchange, and his plotaaaac shootout that recalls the end of Kirk Dougting is air-tight, methodically revealing more las classic Lonely Are the Brave, the other a HELL OR details about the Howard brothers’ plan, as HIGH WATER tense conversation filled with resentful yet Hamilton tracks them with a mix of admirarespectful subtext. Chris Pine, Ben Foster, tion and incredulity. Both of those scenes demonstrate the Jeff Bridges. Director David Mackenzie (Starred Up) mastery the filmmakers and cast have over Directed by digs deeply into the world of struggling, David Macken- these characters and this story, which prozie. Rated R. worn-out businesses and working-class ceeds inexorably yet surprisingly to its melOpens Friday people barely making ends meet. Every sign ancholy but strangely hopeful ending. In a in select and storefront contributes to the movie’s bleak landscape where the system is stacked theaters. sense of sweaty desperation, with characagainst everyone, a pair of outlaw brothers ters holding onto every little advantage they and a weary lawman do what they can to can find. Mackenzie gets great performances from bring a little sanity to their hardscrabble existence. his cast, too, with Pine both utilizing and underWatching their small struggles and even smaller mining his natural pretty-boy charisma, and Fostriumphs makes for one of the most enjoyable and ter adding soul to the more volatile and dangerous satisfying moviegoing experiences of the year.

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BEN-HUR FAILS TO JUSTIFY REMAKING A CLASSIC FILM

Ben Foster (left) and Chris Pine contemplate the injustice of existence. (CBS Films/Courtesy)

GUN BROS OBNOXIOUS DUDES BECOME ARMS DEALERS IN WAR DOGS Director and co-writer Todd Phillips, best known for the Hangover movies, hedges his bets a little on the true-life drama War Dogs by throwing in Caesars Palace and Bradley Cooper. But it turns out he doesn’t really need to worry; as much as it resembles other recent movies (especially Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain and Adam McKay’s The Big Short), War Dogs stands pretty well on its own, deploying just enough comedy to entice the audience while treating the true story it’s based on with appropriate seriousness. That’s the story of unlikely arms dealers Efraim Diveroli

(Jonah Hill, doing an amped-up version of his Wolf of Wall Street performance) and David Packouz (Miles Teller), childhood friends who leveraged low-level military contracts into a massive deal that found them in way over their heads. Based on a Rolling Stone article (and subsequent book) by Guy Lawson, War Dogs has fun with Efraim and David’s early misadventures in arms dealing, but gets a bit lost (as its characters do) when things start to escalate. The plot could have used a little tightening, but it comes together effectively again in the end, as the central duo’s plans collapse around them. Phillips knows when to make fun of his characters, and when to lose the ironic distance for something real. He’s no Scorsese yet, but he understands how to imitate the best. –Josh Bell

AAACC WAR DOGS Miles Teller, Jonah Hill, Ana de Armas. Directed by Todd Phillips. Rated R. Opens Friday citywide.

The chariot race in 1959’s Ben-Hur is justifiably one of the most famous stunts in the history of cinema, still astounding to watch nearly six decades after it was first created. Although William Wyler’s Oscar-winning film was neither the first nor the last adaptation of Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, it’s by far the most well-known, often placed on lists of the best films of all time. So taking on BenHur again is an enormous challenge, one that director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) isn’t able to meet. He tips his hand by teasing the iconic race at the beginning of the movie, before flashing back to the early bond between Jewish nobleman Judah Ben-Hur (Boardwalk Empire’s Jack Huston) and his adopted Roman brother Messala (Toby Kebbell) in Jerusalem in the first century A.D. Bekmambetov and screenwriters John Ridley and Keith R. Clarke amp up the violence and focus on the revenge story, as Messala betrays Judah and sends him off to a life as a Roman galley slave. Huston is dull as Judah, and the expensive production doesn’t have the grandeur and magnificence of Wyler’s film. Both its running time (about two hours, compared to the 1959 film’s nearly four) and its overt religious message have been cut way back, leaving a truncated, plodding drama with minimal excitement and nothing worthwhile to say. –Josh Bell

AACCC BEN-HUR Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Nazanin Boniadi. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov. Rated PG-13. Opens Friday citywide.

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GOOD KARMA Boy George talks Culture Club’s comeback and idolizing Bowie

On Culture Club: “Having had quite long breaks from working with Culture Club, I’m able to come back and really appreciate the magic of what we are as a combination. If you’re a band that’s had to kind of live in nostalgia, doing these tours can be purgatory. But for us, because we’ve had such a distance from it, it feels fresh and exciting and fun.” On Bowie: “I met David a few times. We had dinner together once in 2005, and also I went to a lot of his shows. I saw him play with Nine Inch Nails, and we hung out backstage. He remembered me from being a fan when I was a teenager. I was always a fan, even though I kind of got to know him a little bit. My heart was always pounding. I never really got over being a fan. I was always like, ‘Oh my God,’ you know?” On pop music today: “I think there’s a lot of performers out there, but not that many artists. It feels a bit like the ’50s again, when you’ve got these teams of songwriters writing songs for everyone. For some reason, a lot of pop music is written by Swedish people at the moment. There’s a generic flavor in the air. No one’s really pushing the envelope.” –Annie Zaleski For more of our interview with Boy George, visit lasvegasweekly.com.

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THE MAN BEHIND THE MASk Checking in with Slipknot frontman (and sometime Vegas resident) Corey Taylor

time here in Vegas. Do your neighbors here know who you are? I live far out enough where I really only have a handful of neighbors, and a couple of them know. Their kids are by Jason Bracelin really big fans, so I’ve signed some stuff for them, he first time Slipknot played Vegas it cost the and in trade they’ve let our kids ride their horses. band a record deal. At a music-conference When you come here on tour do you become the showcase gig at the old Gameworks on the unofficial tour guide for the rest of the band? Some of Strip in the late ’90s, the Iowan metthem. Especially with Stone Sour, we hang out a SLIPKNOT allers spooked their way out of a major-label lot. We’ll go do dinner at different places or I’ll with Marilyn contract. “We were supposed to be signed to cook. I’ll have the guys over and make a lasagna Manson. August 21, one record label, but then they came and saw the size of your dinner table, and send everyone 7:30 p.m., $30us play, and they dropped our deal in a heartback to their hotel rooms feeling like sh*t. $65. T-Mobile beat,” chuckles singer Corey Taylor, who also You’re on the road with Marilyn Manson. Arena, 702692-1600. fronts hard rockers Stone Sour. “We scared How well did you know him before the tour? the absolute sh*t out of those people, man.” We go back to Ozzfest 2001, the first [time] You’re pretty much an honorary Las Vegwe really toured with him. It was really cool to an at this point, right? Yeah, I’ve been living here watch him and Sabbath every night. To me, he’s still eight years. It’s kind of cool. I’ve got family here. I’ve a really powerful artist. He’s not afraid to say what he got a lot of great friends here. feels, not afraid to react. He’s a bit of a crazy person, How do you divide up your year? Half in Iowa, half obviously. Great artists encourage each other; they out here? Most of the time I’m on the road. I still have a feed off of each other and they push each other. It’s place in Iowa. I try to spend half my time out there with helping each other get to point where you just put on my wife and family, and then we spend the rest of the one hell of a show. We’ve always had that with him.

Fredward makes a splash. (Spencer Burton/Special to Weekly)

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Veteran Vegas foursome Fredward makes its album debut count By Leslie Ventura harles Bronson was already taken, Chuck Norris was too cliché and Clint Eastwood “talks to chairs.” That’s how the guys arrived at the band name Fredward, coined after the actor Fred Ward, back in 2010. The punk rock four-piece has been writing songs and playing shows ever since, but it wasn’t until this month that the group finally had “something to show for it,” drummer Mike Fish says. Over the past half-decade, brothers Beau (vocals/guitar) and Artie (bass) Dobney, Ham Jenkins (guitar) and Fish have all gone through their individual battles, they say, which is why the release of You’re Only Here Because You Have to Be (available at fredward.bandcamp. com) feels especially rewarding. “No

matter how bad my personal life was, which at times was very low, Fredward was always there,” Jenkins says. The album is a culmination of songs written over the band’s lifespan, propelled by Beau Dobney’s acid-tongued lyricism and intense vocal delivery. “It was kind of pulled from where I was at in my life,” Dobney says. “It was the way I was feeling, and I just kind of ran with it.” The 12-song collection of gritty poppunk was recorded mostly at Vegas View Recording Studios with the help of Dave Holdredge. From the aggressive opening line of “Right Fix”—where the album gets its name—to the darting drums and thick guitar licks on the piss-and-vinegar-fueled “Currency,” You’re Only Here plays like a concise, fiery debut. T:9.375”

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And thanks to this move, which even the Gazillionaire called “a deal I couldn’t pass up,” Absinthe is about to grow and evolve in ways that he, and Mollison, can’t yet predict. “[The new space] will accentuate the comedy to an even greater extent,” Mollison says. “When we built the structure at Caesars, we were very concerned about how cavernous it was. It really is just a large commercial tent.” In the former Nocturne space—which will be completely separated from Rose. Rabbit. Lie. and probably renamed—Spiegelworld has an opportunity to create an Absinthe space that’s completely unique to the tone of the show, with its own décor and staging configurations. And while the Cosmopolitan space isn’t as conducive to aerial acts as the tent, Mollison is confident his team can pull off some surprises: “We’ve done Absinthe in really, really small spaces in the past,” he says, musing aloud about the new room’s high-wire possibilities. Mollison is effusive in his praise of Caesars Entertainment—“They’ll always be part of the Absinthe family”— but is thrilled to be returning to the Cosmopolitan, where “being off-brand is the whole character.” He’s looking forward to continuing the show’s hot streak of accolades and packed houses there: “There’s not too many one-star reviews on Yelp,” he says, chuckling. One last thing: Mollison says that Vegas Nocturne’s Brooklyn run isn’t close to the last we’ll see of the show. He intends to bring Nocturne back home, once he finds the right room for it. “It’s a great Las Vegas story,” he says. “I hope to see it back in Las Vegas soon.” Might we suggest a recently vacated space at Caesars Palace?

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$120. Culture Club 8/21, 8 pm, $64-$165. Palms, 702-942-7777. Planet Hollywood (Axis) Britney Spears 8/19-

THe Strip & Nearby Brooklyn Bowl The Fixx 8/18, 7 pm, $28-$40. Digable Planets, Camp Lo 8/19, 7 pm, $25$30. Silversun Pickups, A Silent Film, Kiev

8/20, 8/24, 9 pm, $57-$259. 702-777-2782. SLS (Sayers Club) Stoked! 8/19. Holychild, Dream Machines 8/20, $15. SLS, 702-761-7617. T-Mobile Arena Gwen Stefani, Eve 8/19, 7

8/20, 9 pm, $31-$46. Eric Paslay, Jill & Julia

pm, $40-$150. Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Of

8/25, 7 pm, $20-$35. Linq, 702-862-2695.

Mice and Men 8/21, 7:30 pm, $30-$65. 702-

Caesars Palace (Colosseum) Rod Stewart 8/20-

692-1600.

8/21, 7:30 pm, $49-$250. Mariah Carey 8/24, 8 pm, $55-$250. 702-731-7333. The Cosmopolitan (Chelsea) Lynyrd Skynyrd, Peter Frampton 8/19, 8 pm, $50. 702-698-7000. Double Down Saloon It’s OK! 8/18. The Psyatics, The Pluralses, Swamp Pussy, Tito Mojito & the New Conquerors 8/19. Disvein, 40 Oz. Folklore, Radio Silence, The Lucky

Downtown 11th Street Records Ceremony, Unfair Fight, Moon Blood 8/20, 7 pm, $10-$12. 1023 Fremont St., 702-527-7990. Artifice Lenixx 8/23, 8:30 pm, free. 1025 S. 1st St., 702-489-6339. Backstage Bar & Billiards Blade Runner,

Loser Show 8/20. Downtown Brown, Pinky

OB1, Swissman, Black Lab, Kain & Chuck

Doodle Poodle 8/21. Shows 10 pm, free. 640

B, Razorsavvy 8/18, 9 pm, free. The Red

Paradise Road, 702-791-5775.

Jumpsuit Apparatus, Bravo Delta, Shallow

Hard Rock Hotel (Vinyl) Edwin McCain 8/19,

Like Me, Reckless Reckless 8/19, 8 pm, $15-

9 pm, $35-$49. Be Like Max, Alaska, The

$17. God Module, Dismantled, Voicecoil, Vein

CG’s, Hard Pipe Hitters, Narrowed, Drinking

Machine, Lennon Midnight 8/20, 9 pm, $10.

Water, Anti Vision, MTBA 8/21, 5 pm, $5-$10. 702-693-5000. House of Blues Gabba Gabba Heys 8/20, 8

601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Beauty Bar Pears, Direct Hit!, Rayner, Hard Pipe Hitters 8/18, 8 pm, $10. Demi Vie, We Are

pm, $13. Luis Enrique 8/21, 7:30 pm, $40-$50.

Pancakes, Black Rhino 8/19, 9 pm, free. Bare,

Beach House 8/24, 9 pm, $25. Mandalay Bay,

Blanco, Byra Tanks, Gambino, Gardner 8/23,

702-632-7600. Mandalay Bay (Beach) Rebelution 8/18, 7:30 pm, $28. Huey Lewis and the News 8/19, 9 pm, $50. 702-632-7777. Orleans (Showroom) Bass Transit 8/20-8/21, 8 pm, $22-$44. 702-284-7777. The Pearl Jackson Browne 8/20, 8 pm, $70-

9 pm, $10. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. Bunkhouse Saloon DIIV 8/23, 9 pm, $15-$20. 124 S. 11th St., 702-854-1414. Fremont Country Club GoldBoot, Ekoh, Almost Awake, Avalon Landing 8/19, 7:30 pm, free. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-6601. Fremont Street Experience Melissa Etheridge

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Performing Arts Super Summer Theatre Bring It On: The Musical 8/18-8/20, 8/24-8/27, 8 pm, $16. Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, 702-594-7529. Velveteen Rabbit The Cat’s Meow 8/21,7 pm, $25-$30. 1218 S. Main St., 702-685-9645. Winchester Cultural Center Annie 8/18-8/21, times vary, $7. 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 702-455-7340.

Special Events AFAN Black & White Party 8/20, 7 pm, $50-$125. Aria, afanlv.org. AFAN Herringbone Brunch 8/21, 11 am, $100. Aria, herringboneAFAN.eventbrite.com. Bridal Spectacular: Veils & Vino 8/19, 6-10 pm; Silversun Pickups hit Brooklyn Bowl on August 20. (Claire Marie Vogel/Courtesy)

8/20, 11 am-4 pm, free. Cashman Center, 850 Las Vegas Blvd. N., bridalspectacular.com. Burlesque Swap & Shop 8/20, noon-3 pm, free. Hard Hat Lounge, 1675 Industrial Road, 702-384-8987.

8/20, 9 pm, free. Vegasexperience.com. Golden Nugget (Gordie Brown Showroom) Paul Revere’s Raiders w/Mitch Ryder 8/19, 8 pm, $86-$141. 866-946-5336. The Griffin Indigo Kidd, Special-K 8/24, 10 pm, free. 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577. LVCS The Saints of Las Vegas, Tailgun, Nebula

Woodford 8/24. Shows 10 pm, free. 2451 E. Tropicana, 702-458-6343. Dive Bar Three Bad Jacks 8/18, 10 pm. Mighty Mystic, The Hard Roots Movement 8/19, 8 pm, $10. 4110 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-586-3483. The Golden Tiki The Bradipos 4 8/18, 9 pm, free. Franks & Deans, Senor Amor, Professor Rex

Drift Downtown Art and Music Showcase 8/24, 7 pm, free. Golden Nugget, 702-385-7111. El Sueño de Esperanza 8/19-8/21, times vary, $1,000. Venetian, 702-414-9000. Hopped Golf 8/19, 7 pm, $30. Topgolf, 4627 Koval Lane, 702-933-8458. Reefer Madness & Cocaine Fiends Double

X, Crackerman, Bong, Mr. Mystery 8/20, 8 pm,

Dart 8/19-8/20, 10 pm. 3939 Spring Mountain

Feature 8/19-8/20, 8 pm, $10. Onyx Theatre,

$10. David Allan Coe, Rattlekings, The Beau

Road, 702-222-3196.

702-732-7225.

Hodges Band 8/21, 8 pm, $22-$25. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-3531. The Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) Dave Koz and David Sanborn: Side by Side 8/19, 7:30 pm, $29-

OMD Odium Totus 8/21, 7 pm, $10. Bower, PCMKER 8/24, 8 pm, $10. 953 E. Sahara Ave., 702-742-4171. The Sand Dollar Lounge Carlos Silva & the

Silent Savasana 8/18, 7 pm, free. Red Rock Resort, 11011 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-797-7777. Superhero Summer Send-off 8/20-8/21, 10 am6 pm, free. Springs Preserve, 702-822-7700.

$99. “Amandla...Power to Us!” 8/20, 7 pm, free.

Scatterbrains 8/18, 9 pm. DT & the Soul Joos

Taco Tattuesday 8/23, 6 pm, $50. Studio 21

(Cabaret Jazz) Dave Damiani & Renee Olstead

8/19. The Moanin’ Blacksnakes 8/20. Jocelyn

Tattoo Gallery, 6020 W. Flamingo Road,

8/18, 7 pm, $25-$45. Chadwick Johnson 8/20, 6

& Chris Arndt 8/23, 11 pm. The Funk Jam 8/24.

studio21tattoo.com.

& 8:30 pm, $25-$35. Frankie Moreno 8/23, 8 pm,

Jack Connor Soul Town 8/25. Shows 10 pm,

$30-$40. 8 pm, $20-$35. 361 Symphony Park

free unless noted. 3355 Spring Mountain Road,

Ave., 702-749-2000. Velveteen Rabbit Brother Mister, Kool DJ Dielekt, Brittany Rose 8/20, 9 pm, $5. 1218 S. Main St., 702-685-9645.

702-485-5401. Silverton (Veil Pavilion) Pablo Cruise 8/20, 8 pm, $20. 3333 Blue Diamond Road, 702-263-7777. South Point (Showroom) Tony Orlando 8/198/21, 7:30 pm, $41-$50. 702-796-7111.

Everywhere Else Boomers Puff Puff Beer, No Tides, Bounty

Suncoast (Showroom) Lena Prima 8/20, 8:30 pm, $18-$33. 9090 Alta Drive, 702-636-7075.

Boulder Dam Brewing Wes Williams Band 8/18. West Coast Travelers 8/19. Out of the Desert 8/20. Shows 8 pm, free. 453 Nevada Way, Boulder City, 702-243-2739.

Comedy Hard Rock Hotel (Vinyl) Colin Kane 8/20, 7:30 & 10 pm, $20-$35. 702-693-5000. MGM Grand (Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club) Brad

Count’s Vamp’d Franky Perez, Christian Brady,

Garrett, Jay Black, Steve Hofstetter Thru 8/21.

Corky Gainsford, Mike Elersic 8/19, 10:30 pm,

Andrew Norelli, KT Tatara 8/22-8/28. Shows 8

free. Carmine and Vinny Appice 8/20, 9:30

pm, $65-$87. 702-891-7777.

pm, $10. 6750 W. Sahara Ave., 702-220-8849. Dispensary Lounge Skip Martin 8/19. Colin

Pool Championships Thru 8/20, times vary, free. Westgate Resort, poolplayers.com.

Mirage Ron White 8/19-8/20, 10 pm, $65-$89. Chris D’Elia 8/26, 10 pm, $44-$54. 702-792-7777.

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