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SOUL REBELS FEATURING TALIB KWELI AT BROOKLYN BOWL Talib Kweli is a team player of great renown, having been part of two of the most esteemed collaborations in hip-hop history: Reflection Eternal with DJ/ producer Hi-Tek, and Black Star with fellow spitter Mos Def (and support from Hi-Tek). Now, the NYC rapper is touring with New Orleans’ genre-promiscuous Soul Rebels, who boast an even more impressive collaborative résumé. To wit, there’s the slew of emcees who have joined the brassy octet onstage (and vice versa): Nas, Joey Bada$$ and Prodigy, Slick Rick, Big Freedia and Rakim, to name a few. There’ve been collabs with jam bands like The String Cheese Incident. And then there’s the left-field brothers-inarms: Metallica, during 30th anniversary gigs and the Orion Music + More festival; Green Day, which had the hometown boys onstage at a New Orleans arena gig; and both Marilyn Manson—which probably appreciated Soul Rebels’ cover of Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)”—and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis at Summer Sonic Tokyo Festival in 2015. Really, is there anyone (apart from maybe Ted Nugent) who doesn’t want a little Big Easy in their music? $25-$40. –Mike Prevatt
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Megadeth (AND MORE) at the Joint As elder statesmen of heavy metal, Megadeth has the chance to promote other, less-famous hard rockers, so fans excited for the long-running thrash band’s concert at the Joint this week (Megadeth is coming off its most acclaimed album in years, Dystopia, and has a massive back catalog of classic songs) will probably want to get there early for a stacked bill of metal acts. Fellow early thrash pioneers Metal Church have been going strong for just as long as Megadeth, and have also just released an acclaimed new album (reuniting them with classic singer Mike Howe). Suicidal Tendencies also came out of the ’80s California thrash scene, with a sound influenced by punk and funk that served as a precursor to numetal. Swedish metal band Amon Amarth has been around since the ’90s, but just started breaking through in the U.S. in the past few years (its most recent release is a concept album about doomed romance among Vikings). And up-and-coming LA metal band Butcher Babies shows what thrash, nu-metal and a bit of glam influences bring out today. $50-$150. –Josh Bell
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WEEKLY ’S WOMEN OF INTRIGUE PARTY AT INTRIGUE Now that you’ve met our mesmerizing Women of Intrigue (see Page 12), here’s a chance for you and your party crew to mingle with them at Wynn’s Intrigue Nightclub. Admission is free, as are the cocktails, thanks to Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits. RSVP at lasvegasweekly.com/intrigue
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Maybe you’ve seen Hall & Oates before and need extra incentive—or maybe the Philly soul-pop duo just isn’t enough. You’re in luck: Joining them are force-of-nature funk/soul outfit Sharon Jones and the DapKings and festival/collaboration favorite Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue. $45-$125. –Mike Prevatt
Taking a cue from NYC’s burlesque benefit Broadway Bares, various Vegas production actors—from shows like Le Rêve, ShowStoppers and, of course, Chippendales—will show more skin than usual to help raise dough for Aid for AIDS of Nevada and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. $20-$25; tickets at afanlv.org. –Mike Prevatt
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TOWN AND COUNTRY: FROM DEGAS TO PICASSO AT BELLAGIO GALLERY There was a time when cities as we now know them—skyscrapers, taxis, people complaining about gentrification on Facebook— simply didn’t exist. Our lives were irrevocably remade by the Industrial Revolution, and Town and Country, presented by the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art in collaboration with Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, documents those advances nearly to the moment they happened. Original works by Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso, Jean-François Millet, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and many others present our world as it was—caught in the spaces between pastoral and urban life, with the latter beginning to win out. Technological innovations, class issues and sweeping societal changes inspired these great artists to look forward and backward at once—and the resulting works of art had a role in changing the world, too. $14-$16 –Geoff Carter
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The DEA bans kratom— another plant with healing powers BY LESLIE VENTURA
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he tropical plant Mitragyna speciosa, better known as kratom, is a coffeelike plant native to Southeast Asia, heralded for its pain relieving-properties. For thousands of kratom users and supporters, the plant is the difference between a life of agony and a life without. On August 31, the Drug Enforcement Agency issued a notice of intent to schedule and ban kratom and its two main active constituents, mitragynine and 7-Hydroxymitragynine. It will make kratom a Schedule 1 substance under the Controlled Substances Act—the category that includes heroin and LSD. The federal ban, which will go into effect on September 30, will affect those who use (and sell) the herb for medicinal purposes. Its leaves, commonly sold at nutritional stores and smoke shops, are traditionally brewed into tea and used to treat a variety of symptoms, from opiate withdrawal to pain relief, psychological disorders and more. The DEA states that from 2010 to 2015, the Center for Disease Control reported 660 poison control calls in relation to the plant. But local kratom supporters like After nightlife founder Thom Svast argue that statistic means little. Citing a Forbes article, Svast says there were 6,843 poison control center reports of children ingesting detergent pods from January to July 2016 alone. “If that is the DEA’s case, you’d have to ban laundry detergent pods, too,” he says. “Doctors had me on [oxycodone] for a long period of time. I hated that feeling of being controlled by a pharmaceutical drug,” says Svast, who was later recommended kratom for his chronic health issues. He hasn’t touched a pain pill since. “No one in the world deserves years [in jail] for something in the coffee family. This is something that helps people.”
READING IN THE DARK The Vegas Valley Book Festival (vegasvalleybookfestival.org) returns Downtown October 15, with all the literary flourishes that make it popular with Vegas’ constant readers. This year, however, the festival adds free nighttime readings, presented by Nevada Humanities, Black Mountain Institute and the Writer’s Block book shop. Joanne Kyger, Katherine Boo, Geoff Dyer and more will appear at Inspire on October 14 and 15, accompanied by a full bar. “By showcasing the authors in an intimate venue, audiences will get to enjoy all the variety of a book festival in one curated, focused experience,” says Writer’s Block co-owner Scott Seeley. Bookmark this one now. –Geoff Carter
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THE BUS CATCHES UP The RTC announces a smartphone app, bike share and other forward-looking transit service additions BY GEOFF CARTER
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The RTC’s new bike share program will bring 21 stations and 180 bicycles Downtown. (Photograph by Christopher DeVargas/ Photo Illustration by Corlene Byrd)
THE GET BACK WILL END ITS 14-YEAR FIRST FRIDAY RUN NEXT MONTH Only one First Friday tradition actually pre-dates the monthly art walk/festival itself: the Get Back, which became a fixed monthly event in October 2002. However, on October 7—its 14th anniversary of First Friday sweatiness—the boogie bash will lift the needle for good and say peace out, ending its impressive run at its final host bar, Velveteen Rabbit. Countless First
Friday afterparties have come and gone, but the Get Back survived venue changes, fickle crowds and the numerous shifts that fill the Downtown revival timeline, all while booking noteworthy guest turntablists (including one-time Rain resident Z-Trip) and remaining doggedly loyal to its rhythmic and retro soundtrack. Says founder/DJ John Doe: “Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought this little funky soul dance party could have had such a profound effect on the Downtown nightlife scene.”–Mike Prevatt
On that golden day when all of us can look at each other, nod our heads and say, “This is a real city,” it might not be the Raiders who got us there, but the Regional Transportation Commission. In addition to running Las Vegas’ buses, the transit agency spearheads street improvements (its latest, a reconfiguration of Flamingo Road, will be completed next month). And when light rail comes to town, RTC will run those trains on time. Here’s what the agency has done for you lately. The RideRTC App Available for both iPhone and Android, this app allows riders to purchase and display bus fares directly on their devices. A complementary app, Transit App, lists real-time arrival data for your bus, supplied by GPS tracking. It’s not a new technology—transit agencies in LA and Portland already offer online ticket apps—but that’s okay, says RTC General Manager Tina Quigley: “We’re only investing in the stuff that’s tried and true,” she says. “We’re looking for ways to do things more efficiently and cost-effectively.” Bike share Public bike share will launch Downtown with 180 bikes and 21 stations in about a month. You can check out bikes by using the onsite terminal, or with the RideRTC app. At the end of your ride, simply take the bike to any of those stations and leave it there. “We look at bike share as an extension of our transit system,” says RTC’s Senior Director of Engineering & Technology David Swallow, emphasizing its utility for short trips and “first-and-last-mile” transit connections. Wifi on buses Free wifi will be available for riders soon. Side benefit: It’ll make that Transit App realtime arrival data more accurate. And an upcoming service revision will increase frequency, in any case: “25 percent of all of our routes will be operating at 15-minute intervals or less,” Quigley says. Light rail on Maryland Parkway Plans are moving ahead on a light rail line to connect McCarran Airport, UNLV, Midtown, the Las Vegas Medical District and Fremont East. The agency is currently applying for various federal transit grants—as are other cities. Quigley is confident we’ll get the funds. “Our application is very competitive,” she says.
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YOU LOOK LIKE A GIRL Why are we still pushing old gender norms?
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’ve got electrode pads attached to my neck and shoulders. A very nice woman—always relying on the kindness of strangers!—is pushing buttons on the control device to stimulate my muscles with tiny electric shocks. “Can you feel it? A little more? How about a little more?” My muscles start twitching freakishly. This is supposed to relax me, and I do need relaxing, because I’m feeling wholly out of place at this booth at the Southwest Women’s Expo at Cashman Center. To be fair, I was twitchy before I got here. I am in fact a woman, which seems like it would qualify me for a good time at this gender-specific event. But as a queer PYRAMID OF person, I’ve spent half a lifetime faking BISCUITS my way through hetBY STACY J. WILLIS eronormative bridal showers and those uncomfortable oldschool parties where the menfolk swig beer by the TV football game and the fashionable ladies chat in the kitchen and I awkwardly trot back and forth until, unmoored, I finally just take a seat with the cat on the sofa. Thankfully, it’s 2016 now, and we’re past binary gender roles, right? We’re a gender-fluid woke world, right? I’m thinking about that while I’m getting
an electro-massage at a women’s expo where every third booth is peddling appearance-related products—makeup, Botox, plastic surgery—aimed at achieving conventional feminine beauty standards. I start thinking about Alicia Keys’ recent Twitterverseexploding choice to appear sans makeup. And I consider my partner’s son, who is a talented makeup artist and wears makeup himself. Suddenly my neck muscles start convulsing. “Oops, sorry!” the electromassage demonstrator says as she fiddles with the control buttons. “I went the opposite direction!” It happens. Would that it happened more. ***** Alicia Keys wasn’t the only one to take issue recently with our culture’s stifling gender expectations. In another flap, a mother posted a letter on Facebook to the editors of Girls’ Life magazine, which is touted as the “No. 1
magazine for girls age 10-15” about the messaging on its cover. She compared it to the same month’s Boys’ Life magazine: “Your cover has a lovely young lady with a full face of makeup and you invite your readers to ‘steal her secrets’,” wrote Shoshanna Keats-Jaskoll. “The Boys Life’ cover has in bold letters: EXPLORE YOUR FUTURE surrounded by all kinds of awesome gear for different professions—doctor, explorer, pilot, chemist, engineer, etc., subhead[lined]—HERE’S HOW TO BE WHAT YOU WANT TO BE. Could there possibly be two more divergent messages?” Keats-Jaskoll goes on to break down each cover line and image. It was like 1952. Her post drew a lot of attention. A Minnesota graphic designer even remade the Girls’ Life cover with more empowering messages and tweeted it with the post, “Suck it #GirlsLife#DoBetter.” ***** I didn’t have a bad time at the
women’s expo, although I had to keep dodging the salesperson in the miracle facelift booth who was eyeballing my jowls. There were cool deals on athletic shoes and fun dance demonstrations and good-natured people all around. But as we deal with a political season that reflects our tragic intellectual recession and undying racial prejudices, it’s exhausting to also see the same tired beauty messages dominating our understanding of what it means to be female—and by exclusion, what it means to be male. As sociologists put it eons ago: “Women are taught to think of themselves ornamentally.” Here’s where we should discuss the hyper-sexualized images of girls in pop culture and the largely heteronormative messages in Las Vegas, and debate whether all of this can be empowering if done consciously. But the frustrating redundancy of it—like our fresh wave of vintage xenophobia and retro religious bigotry—just makes me twitch.
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They are the tastemakers, the brand-builders, the culture and industry superheroes of Las Vegas. Some have already made their mark and are moving on to the next evolution; others arrived out of nowhere with something fresh and creative to contribute. Some are always onstage and some are behind the scenes, but there’s one thing all 10 of these women have in common—we need to know more about them. At Intrigue Nightclub on September 22, Las Vegas Weekly and Wynn Las Vegas will honor these 10 remarkable local women for their accomplishments (past and future) in business, art, music, nightlife, style and hospitality. Read on to find out what makes them so intriguing. Photography by Anthony Mair at Intrigue Nightclub. Grooming & Makeup touch-ups by Natasha Chamberlin.
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Lisa Escobar Lisa Escobar’s portfolio is as jaw-dropping as the homes she works on. As principal and lead designer at Lisa Escobar Design, she’s dreamt up awe-inspiring penthouses and luxe bachelor pads, raking in accolades along the way. But before she was winning awards for her stunning transformations, she was a crucial element within Wynn’s nightlife group, helping open La Bete—later known as Tryst and now Intrigue—and working in management. “I got to learn every single aspect of running a nightclub venue inside the Wynn,” Escobar says. “It was the best schooling anyone could ever get as far as running your own business. That’s totally where I attribute my success.” Since then, Escobar has become focused on designing dream homes for Las Vegans. “It’s about what they want and me translating that and executing it in a way they never thought possible,” she says. One of her current projects, which should be completed by the end of the year, is a penthouse at Mandarin Oriental with 360-degree views of the city. The primo spot is her third remodel at Mandarin. “It’s a crazy space with an amazing backdrop. It’s just an amazing building,” she says. Escobar was also one of 19 designers chosen to participate in the inaugural Las Vegas Showcase House fundraiser, a Scotch 80s home-redesign that benefits nonprofit organization the Core Academy and celebrates the history of Las Vegas. “It’s a really great community-based project,” she says. “It’s just going to be awesome.” –Leslie Ventura
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Mallory Dawn A bachelorette party brought Mallory Dawn to Las Vegas, and its friendly community has kept her here. A graduate of Ohio State working in fashion design in New York City, Dawn decided to give Vegas a shot and found a warm, resourceful world ready to nurture her artistic dreams. “I got really lucky. I found great friends and really started developing a life here,” says the artist and creative director for the Juice Standard. She was working at a dayclub and blasting her art across social media (using the adorable handle IceCream&Cupcakes, an homage to her notorious sweet tooth—“I went through a period where I thought I could live on sugar. I had no real food in the fridge”) when painting and creating started to take over. “I started getting offers and commissioned pieces and started slowly building this art career, something I never thought could be a reality when I was younger.” Dawn began in aerosols and now works in all mediums. She has painted large-scale abstracts for homes here and in New York and Laguna Beach and done lots of portrait work. She finished a big job at the corporate offices of the Cosmopolitan and is preparing to travel to Peru and Costa Rica to work on murals. She says she owes much of her success to the welcoming ways of Las Vegas. “It’s so reassuring that this city wants to give art and artists a fair shot, to put care into art careers,” she says. –Brock Radke
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Maile Pacheco It’s a hot day; makeup is melting, hair disheveled. But beGlammed can provide you with styling services on demand, no matter where you are. Maile Pacheco conceptualized her company in 2014 after a friend vented about how frustrating booking the right stylist could be. Pacheco had already been in the beauty and fashion industry for more than 10 years as a makeup artist and artist relations specialist for MAC, working with clients like Shania Twain, Elton John and Celine Dion and performers from Cirque shows and Jubilee! “At the time, I had also just started using Uber,” she says. “I thought, somebody needs to start an Uber for hair and makeup services.” Las Vegas was the first city to be beGlammed, but just two years later, the company has expanded to 23 markets in the U.S. and Canada. “We plan to be everywhere soon. We’re going to take over the world,” Pacheco laughs. Originally from a small town in Hawaii, she enjoys painting and has always been infatuated with Hollywood, though she never expected to combine those passions. “What helped me progress was not being afraid to get my hands dirty,” she says. “I’m able to look at the business from a client and stylist perspective. I’ve been in the trenches.” The most rewarding part about her work, she says, is making others feel more confident. “When they look in the mirror, they have that moment where they look and feel so amazing and beautiful. You can’t put a price tag on that.” –Rosalie Spear
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Christina Amato Talent alone is never enough. And although Christina Amato has talent in spades— a powerful voice and a knack for turning her favorite songs into something personal and different—she knows an artist needs to know how to build a brand. “Since I was very young, I realized the power of social media and how much influence is there, and also how it allows you to be yourself and find people that enjoy your authentic personality,” says the 23-year-old, Vegas-born singer. “I’ve been using live-streaming, Periscope and Instagram to brand myself not only as a singer, but blend together fashion and travel and style into one thing.” Amato has music in her blood. Her musician dad, Tommy Amato, came to Vegas in ’68 and worked in all the big showrooms with all the big singers, including Bobby Darin. It was easy for Christina to learn how this entertainment city worked, and she began singing regularly at 19 with Zowie Bowie. She quickly put together her own band and grabbed a weekly gig at Blue Martini, and has more recently performed at the Sayers Club. Amato operates with the patience of a seasoned performer, onstage and off. “In the next three to five years I’d like to have an album out, but I’d also love to be writing for myself and others,” she says. “And I want to take social to the next level, build something more like a lifestyle movement than just someone who sings.” –Brock Radke
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Tyra Bell-Holland “Making a genuine human connection is so important,” Tyra Bell-Holland says. “That’s what we have to do in hospitality. We may have three seconds, 30 seconds, three days. You never know.” As the founder of Ava Rose Agency, an “instigation and partnership” marketing firm that counts among its diverse clientele companies like the One Group and Cirrus Aviation, Bell-Holland has made human connection into an art. A client’s needs—advertising, brand positioning, etc.— reveal themselves naturally in the process, and she takes them all on. But first: the handshake. “I’m not going to bring someone to the table that isn’t qualified, isn’t in it for the right reasons,” she says. “Somebody who could help you, regardless of whether I personally benefit.” For example, Bell-Holland introduced two clients, Hell’s Kitchen winner Scott Commings and Kitchen Table partner and chef Antonio Nunez; now, they’re collaborating on a project for Lake Las Vegas. If not for Ava Rose, that dream team might not have formed. A UNLV alumna with deep roots in the resort corridor—she held executive concierge roles at the Venetian and the Cosmopolitan—Bell-Holland is constantly thinking in terms of improving Vegas’ quality of hospitality. She has even founded a second company, RESORTciergeMD, which brings medical “house calls” to Vegas hotel rooms. But the heart of that strategy will always be based in what she practiced as a concierge—taking the time to meet and understand someone. “It’s because of those relationships that I am where I am today,” she says, “and I don’t take that for granted.” –Geoff Carter
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Zee Zandi Music aficionado and nightlife stalwart Zarnaz “Zee” Zandi has been in the game since she opened a coffee bar next to the Metz back in the ’90s. That club, which later became the revered Utopia, is also where the UNLV alum fell in love with house music. Since then, Zandi (whose Instagram handle is QueenOfHouseZ) has worn many hats in the industry, from her first booking gig at Risque at Paris to director of nightlife at Wynn and director of electronic music at Angel Management Group (now Hakkasan Group). “Everyone had kind of given up on it,” Zandi says of house music, pre-EDM boom. But she always knew she was on the cusp of something great. Today, Zandi is celebrating the one-year anniversary of heading up her own business with co-founder Lauren Linck. Together they run Silent Partner Entertainment Group, a Vegas-based booking management agency with most of its clients in California. “At this point of my life, I needed a job that was flexible, to be there for my son,” Zandi says. “It was time to take a risk and do something on my own. A year later, we’re still here.” Silent Partner’s main focus might be outside the Vegas market, but the duo still curates events here in the Valley. Recently, Zandi wrapped working with Light for Claude VonStroke’s Dirtybird afterparty over Labor Day Weekend. “We still have our hands in the cookie jar in Vegas,” Zandi says. “This is the reason why I am where I am in my career— because of Las Vegas.” –Leslie Ventura
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Katie O’Neill The idea of Las Vegas means something different to Katie O’Neill. It’s home. Her grandfather is Jack Binion, businessman and son of legendary casino magnate Benny Binion, so it’s safe to say growing up in Las Vegas was extra Vegas-y for O’Neill, who went to the University of Pennsylvania to study art history and worked in the New York City gallery world before returning to the desert in 2009. “Now when I go into the older casinos Downtown and hear the sounds of the slots and that cigarette-y carpet smell, it’s like someone else smelling warm chocolate chip cookies,” she says. “I love Vegas, and I love that unique childhood I had. I really embraced it, which lead me to where I am now.” O’Neill is the board chair of the developing Modern art museum set for Symphony Park, certainly one of the most exciting and anticipated cultural projects in the city’s history. After a period of re-establishing the project’s objectives—and raising more than $2 million for the museum—the board has partnered with the City of Las Vegas and is working hard to determine which Downtown parcel will be the perfect geographical fit for the city’s new art museum. “We understand Vegas is unique, and what we’ll offer needs to represent who we are, this crazy, bright, new, 24-hour city,” she says. “People think of the Louvre or the Met, these old established museums with big artwork everyone recognizes, but this is going to be something very different. It will be very familiar and comfortable to walk into, with elements for art collectors and students and for someone who has never been to an art museum before.” –Brock Radke
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Jodi Myers Things move fast in Las Vegas, but the city’s hospitality and nightlife industries are still known to be boys’ clubs. Jodi Myers is one of a growing group to have shattered that stereotype. As vice president of customer development for MGM Resorts, Myers draws on her extensive background—she was with Light Group for a dozen years and president of the company for four—to cultivate customers in a unique way. “What was so compelling to me here is the ability to work across so many luxury properties, taking advantage of all our venues and attractions,” she says. “We have so much to offer. Younger customers want the whole Vegas experience, not just gaming, and you give me any night of the week and I can put it together.” Not everyone can send a client to a wild pool party at Wet Republic and the new T-Mobile Arena to see a huge headliner in the same day. “There’s so much energy here, so much going on. My calendar is crazy,” she says. “Vegas really welcomes creativity and new ideas, and it’s amazing to be part of that.” Myers started her hospitality career in bartending and cocktailing, so she’s seen the Strip change as rapidly as her star has risen in the industry. “It’s easy to get tied up in your current position having a good time and making good money,” she says. “Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take five steps forward. I still love going out and being social, and if you can do that plus get out of bed in the morning and be productive, you’re going to be successful.” –Brock Radke
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Lisa Pittman & Mikalah Gordon Lisa Pittman is a DJ best known for her current residency at Marquee, creating the annual Shedonism party and as a favorite of the Vegas LGBTQ community. And Mikalah Gordon is a singer, comedian and allaround entertainer most famous for her teenage turn as a fierce competitor on American Idol Season 4. Pittman and Gordon met while performing at the same venue, the Sayers Club, a couple of years ago. “She was so cute, and such a dope DJ,” Gordon says. “I was a fan first. She’s such a star. She tried to play hard to get, too. She didn’t know who I was.” Pittman, a Las Vegan for the past 10 years, is currently focused on creating a different kind of weekly party more inclusive for youth in Las Vegas, working on mixtapes and organizing a national tour. She’s also working on making music with Gordon, a born-and-raised native, “because she’s a singer and I’m a DJ, and there’s no better combination, right? We’re busy independently as well as together. Maybe we’ll hit the Pride circuit next year.” Coming off a busy year that saw her return to sing on Idol’s reunion show, Gordon now sings four nights a week at Rose. Rabbit. Lie. at the Cosmopolitan. After stepping into stand-up comedy two years ago, she’s also writing for sitcoms and other LA-based projects and unleashing her web series, Mikapedia. “I’ve always wanted to create my own show here in Vegas that includes comedy and singing,” she says. “Everything I want to do, I can do in Vegas. LA is great, super-creative, but when you want to do your own thing, Vegas is where you have to be.” –Brock Radke
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going in, and they give you invaluable feedback. In our company, everybody—regardless of department or job title—has an opinion and is allowed to be vocal about it. You should always listen to your customers and your staff; only a fool wouldn’t.” Another big part of Brooks’ job: listening to the world-famous artists who call Hakkasan clubs their home in Las Vegas. He has been working with Armin van Buuren and Tiësto for a decade. “I’ve known Calvin Harris probably eight years now, and I was just telling him how it’s weird [seeing] one of your friends become so big and so famous,” Brooks says. “But he doesn’t act like he’s famous. He’s just a normal guy. It’s been weird for me seeing him get bigger and bigger, but there’s no weirdness with him.” –Brock Radke
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club DJ is one thing. A radio DJ is another. And serving as the DJ for a music festival like iHeartRadio is a different animal altogether. “For me it’s such a huge look,” says Prostyle, who’s held the gig since the festival launched in Las Vegas five years ago. “It’s such a unique show to be part of. All the biggest artists in every genre are going to be performing. I do a lot of big events, but it’s always something specific—a hip-hop concert or a Top 40 event or an EDM festival. This one touches everybody, and they are bringing out the legends like only iHeart could do.” Indeed, the performers for this year’s fest—September 23 and 24 at T-Mobile Arena—include U2, Britney Spears, Sting, Ariana Grande, Usher and Pitbull. Prostyle, a SKAM Artist DJ who will also touch down at Daylight and Tao Beach this weekend, hosts one of the most popular shows on Power 105.1 in New York City, and he’s excited to be back
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hen Luxor nightclub LAX launched its Throwback Thursdays promotion earlier this year with a spotlight on old-school hip-hop and R&B, one artist seemed like a perfect pick to perform and host the gig—and he lives right here in Las Vegas. This week, it happens.
Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and producer Al B. Sure! might be known best for his late-’80s hit “Nite and Day,” but he’s been based in Las Vegas for almost eight years and has been hosting his Secret Garden radio show on local institution KCEP 88.1-FM for several years. The music he plays fits
right in with the Throwback Thursdays vibe. “I wanted to make sure it’s kept alive since I’m from that era and genre. It’s the soundtrack to my generation,” Sure says. “I feel like, who better than to represent it than Al B. Sure? I’m the biggest fan of the music, and I was there when it was being made.” When Sure’s not formulating his next radio show or traveling around the country to perform with artists like Keith Sweat, SWV, Teddy Riley and Dru Hill, you can find him making the rounds at local favorites like Kona Grill, DW Bistro and La Casa Cigar Lounge at Tivoli Village. “It’s a really nice environment to get a few
of the fellas, go listen to live music, take in the beautiful surroundings and get into a cigar once in a while,” he says. “They have a Brazilian night and Cuban music and a little R&B ... I like the eclectic mix. And right now, I love to be the spectator, because traditionally, I’m the one on display.” Throwback Thursday with Al B. Sure! at LAX at Luxor, September 22. –Brock Radke
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hink of Blend: The DJ Institute as a one-stop shop for electronic music producers. “I consider myself a jack of all trades,” says owner and founder Andrew Benna, who heads up a team well-versed in everything from DJing to producing to repairing turntables. Benna, a hip-hop and electronic guru, has been DJing for 25 years, starting in San Francisco before moving to Vegas. Today he’s a resident DJ for Heart Bar at Planet Hollywood and 3535 at the Linq. But his “heart and soul,” he says, is at Blend. “I couldn’t do it by myself, he says. “We have a bunch of people that wear different hats and do
different things.” The school offers beginner, intermediate and advanced courses, all series of six one-hour lessons. “Just like guitar or piano, if you don’t practice you’re not going to excel.” Blend also sells new and used gear and can assist with repairs, production and marketing. “I’ve got a guy that concentrates on [buying and selling] vinyl,” Benna says. The shop focuses on rare and old school hip-hop, but has a little bit of everything. “There’s a lot of hip-hop parents who want their kids to learn how to DJ,” he says, but Benna can turn anyone into
a turntable hero—from doctors to insurance agents and senior citizens. “I just had a 72-year-old student two days ago,” he says, later adding, “We really try to focus on serving the DJ community. That’s our main purpose.” Blend: The DJ Institute, 5165 S. Fort Apache Road #175, 702-550-4492. –Leslie Ventura
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a delicately balanced take on Nobu’s signature spicy-creamy shrimp dish. Keep the richness but lighten up with salmon belly crudo, dressed in electric flavors of avocado, jalapeño and Meyer lemon-soy vinaigrette. The star of the Edge’s offerings: prime beef from Harris Ranch in California, Snake River Farms in Idaho and Miyachiku in Fukuoaka, Japan. Highly recommended are the 8-ounce Wagyu ribeye cap and the 10-ounce Manhattan sirloin, perfectly marbled with fat and flavor, accompanied by truffled mac and cheese with veal demi-glace and roasted mushrooms with aged sherry vinegar and boursin cheese.
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program and a sexy, dark interior with classic touches of marble and wood, plus an unforgettable menu packed with authentic flavors. From its grilled prawns and crispy roasted duck to its fried pork belly with nam prik noom, it became an instant addition to our evergrowing list of Chinatown favorites. A mile from the Strip and a few doors down from Vegas’ newest Polynesianthemed bar, Golden Tiki, Chada Street is an ideal spot for impressing friends or family before a big night out. Start with a half dozen fresh oysters— sweet, briny mollusks topped with chili paste and fried shallots—before moving to Chada Street’s other succulent dishes,
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nother season, another column about a dead person. So it goes in this dreadful year. Edward Albee, the threetime Pulitzer-winning playwright whose most famous work, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is (pardon the Internet-ese) the greatest play EVER, died last Friday. Unlike Bowie and Prince, Albee lived a full life to the age of 88. But like any true icon, we’ll never see the likes of him again. A maker of “sick plays for sick people,” to paraphrase one of Woolf’s more infamous reviews, Albee didn’t care to win your heart so much as watch you squirm. In addition to Woolf, an acidic domestic drama once surmised as “three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep,” Albee wrote more than 30 plays, Cultural attachment the better of which trade in broken relaby smith galtney tionships, toxic family units and cosmic levels of disillusion, often conjured through copious consumption of alcohol. Whether pairing the troubled relationship of a retired couple to that of two anthropomorphized lizards (Seascape) or showing a husband coming out to his wife and son after falling in love with a farm animal (The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?), Albee preferred his audience shaken and stirred. “If you left one of his plays feeling good about yourself,” wrote Ben Brantley in last Saturday’s New
Edward Albee in 2008 in New York. (Mary Altaffer/AP)
York Times, “then it would seem that Mr. Albee hadn’t done his job.” My introduction to Albee was typical: Mike Nichols’ 1966 film adaptation of Woolf, which starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as married alcoholics who verbally abuse a young couple they’ve invited for after-party cocktails. The movie is endlessly quotable (“I dance like the wind!”), and only a grump could miss the humor in lines like, “We take our tears, and we put ’em in the icebox, in the goddamn ice trays, until they’re all frozen, and then … we put them … in our … drinks.” But for a generation of ’70s kids who grew up with booze-happy, divorce-bound parents, George & Martha’s pickled mind games hit a bit too close to home (even closer for me, as my mother bore more than a passing resemblance to Taylor), making a brilliant movie feel almost lethally bleak. Woolf is a different experience onstage, where its miserable themes are cut by the sheer thrill of watching great actors get in the ring and knock each other out. In 2005, I saw
a Broadway revival starring Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin (along with David Harbour, pre-Stranger Things yet already sexy as hell). I immediately returned in 2012 for the Steppenwolf Theatre production, starring Tracy Letts and Amy Morton. Much more so than with the movie, I was all too aware of the astonishing amounts of liquor poured, the endless lighting of cigarettes and how the entire pitiful train wreck was happening in one night. I went home feeling bulldozed, exhausted yet elated, which is all I ever want from art. For all the Tonys and Pultizers he received, Albee remained firmly skeptical of critical acceptance. “Perhaps there are better plays to their audience,” he once said, “but they are not better plays for their audience. And since the critic fashions the audience taste, whether he intends to or not, he succeeds each season in merely lowering it.” So go forth and make things that are big and messy, weird and ambitious, extreme and polarizing. Keep Edward Albee alive.
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WESTERN UNION Remake The Magnificent Seven falls short of its Inspiration By Mike D’Angelo
ven if you’ve never seen the original 1960 version of The Magnificent Seven—or its inspiration, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954)—you probably have a general idea what goes down. Seven badass dudes band together to save a small, peaceful town from a sadistic villain, each one demonstrating his own specialized variant of combat-related magnificence. It’s such a durable, almost foolproof scenario that not even a director as reliably ham-handed as Antoine Fuqua (Southpaw, Olympus Has Fallen, Shooter) can completely screw it up, though this fitfully exciting remake is unlikely to spawn three mediocre sequels, as its predecessor did. If nothing else, the new version—set in post-Civil War America, rather than Mexico—reflects the country’s multicultural shift over the past halfcentury. Of the original seven, only Yul Brynner, with partly Eurasian ancestry, wasn’t glaringly white, whereas the 2016 crew includes an AfricanAmerican (Denzel Washington), a Korean (Byung-
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hun Lee), a Mexican (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) and a risk their lives.) Pratt has the most fun, getting to Native American (Martin Sensmeier). Chris Pratt, kill bad guys with elaborate card tricks; D’Onofrio Ethan Hawke and Vincent D’Onofrio round out gives the weirdest performance, speaking in a the bunch, who’ve been hired by a grieving widow high-pitched rasp and behaving like a cross between (Haley Bennett) to protect the town of Grizzly Adams and the Unabomber. Lee, aabcc Rose Creek from a murderous industrialist Garcia-Rulfo and Sensmeier, meanwhile, THE MAGNIFICENT barely make a collective impression, sugnamed Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard, sneering SEVEN up a storm). With Bogue and his men due gesting that Hollywood, for all its laudable Denzel Washington, to return to Rose Creek shortly, there’s preefforts in the direction of diversity, still Chris Pratt, Ethan cious little time for this ragtag assembly to has a long way to go. Hawke. Directed get used to each other’s company, much less by Antoine Fuqua. In the end, what’s most sorely missRated PG-13. Opens teach a village of frightened farmers how to ing here is a sense of grand adventure. Friday citywide. defend themselves. Elmer Bernstein’s score provided that in That’s basically it as far as story goes, the 1960 version, and composers James which means it’s mostly up to the cast to enHorner (who died last year while working tertain us. Washington is his usual commanding self on this project) and Simon Franglen pay homage to as bounty hunter Sam Chisolm, though the decision Bernstein’s staccato earworm of a main theme, craftto give his character a personal score to settle with ing variations that clearly suggest it without actually Bogue undermines the somewhat altruistic theme duplicating it. When the real thing plays over the that powered both the original and Seven Samurai. closing credits, however, it’s the most rousing mo(Yes, they’re being paid, but not remotely enough to ment in the entire two-plus hours.
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MAC IS BACK THE NEW MACGYVER RECAPTURES THE ORIGINAL’S HOKEY ACTION CBS has put a lot of effort into rebooting cheesy ’80s action series MacGyver, which starred Richard Dean Anderson as an absurdly resourceful secret agent known for improvising weapons and other devices out of common household items like paper clips and duct tape. The original MacGyver,, which ran for seven seasons on ABC, was a guilty pleasure at best, and the new version maintains those low standards. Developed by Peter M. Lenkov, who helped turn a reboot of the similarly disposable Hawaii Five-0 into a hit for CBS, MacGyver stars Lucas Till as the title character, part of a team of ultra-secret government agents keeping the U.S. safe from
your standard terrorists and assorted bad guys. After the original pilot was scrapped and the cast was retooled, the show has ended up as more of an ensemble piece, with George Eads, Sandrine Holt and Tristin Mays as fellow members of MacGyver’s team. The new show replicates the breezy, hokey tone of the original, with a bit more violence and sex appeal, and should fit in well with CBS’ low-ambition crime dramas. Till’s overly explanatory voiceover and the onscreen text identifying the components that MacGyver uses for his various contraptions recall the style MacGyver of USA’s MacGyver-infl uenced Burn Notice, but the new MacGyver lacks that show’s creativity and wit. It’s clumsy and forgettable, and it’ll probably end up lasting seven seasons without anybody really noticing. –Josh Bell
AABCC MACGYVER Fridays, 8 p.m., CBS.
For an animated family movie, Storks raises a surprising number of disturbing biological questions. In the movie’s world, storks actually do deliver babies, literally flying them from an isolated mountain and depositing them on the doorsteps of their parents. But people also make babies in the traditional way, which is why the storks have in recent years given up on the whole baby-delivery thing and instead become the main shipping agents for an Amazon-like corporate conglomerate. Go-getter stork Junior (voiced by Andy Samberg) is about to be promoted to the top position in the shipping warehouse, but first he has to deal with Tulip (Katie Crown), a human teenager who’s been living with the storks ever since her delivery info was lost as a baby. Tulip inadvertently allows the creation of a new baby, and she and Junior must deliver it before the big boss finds out. Storks gets points for the sheer weirdness of its setup, but writer and codirector Nicholas Stoller (veteran of adult comedies like Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Neighbors) mostly glosses over it in favor of kid-friendly animal antics (including an incredibly annoying pigeon villain). There are some vague lessons about family and togetherness, but the plot is too incoherent to make any of them stick. All of the weird, unsettling edges get smoothed out into something cute and bland. –Josh Bell
AABCC STORKS Voices of Andy Samberg, Katie Crown, Anton Starkman. Directed by Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland. Rated PG. Opens Friday citywide.
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ROSY OUTLOOK At age 90, Jerry Lewis stars in his first feature film in two decades By Jason Scavone
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ou walk into Jerry Lewis’ house and your knees buckle under the weight of it all. The talent, the history, the sustained assault on radio, television, stage and film for the better part of 70 years—it all presses on you the way a cathedral slumps onto you. It makes you want to genuflect. But instead of stained glass there’s the Norman Rockwell artwork used to make the Cinderfella poster. It’s all a little surreal. Especially with a timid little Chihuahua, Lola, peeking up from under the coffee table. There are four more somewhere in “I’m 90. Jesus Christ, every time I say it the house. The bishop plays favorites. I think I’m going to faint.” Lewis leans on an elegant, silverComedy genius and nine decades headed cane when he walks into the pair well. Mel Brooks just celebrated room. He has a little help, but he his 90th. Don Rickles crossed the doesn’t look unsteady. Those graythreshold in May, Shecky Greene the green eyes can freeze you in month before. Shelley Berman MAX ROSE place, but he’ll stick a quick is 91, Carl Reiner 94. Some Jerry Lewis, line between your ribs and give more than others, but most of Kerry Bishé, Kevin Pollak. you a little half-smile while you them still work. Lewis is the one Directed by bust up. That’s the mic drop. still taking star turns. Daniel Noah. At one point the conversaThe latest is Max Rose, a little Not rated. Opens Friday tion turns to The Colgate indie from writer/director Danat Regal Comedy Hour, the NBC variiel Noah who wrote the part for Village Square. ety show that ran from 1950Lewis and lured the legend to 1955, on which Lewis and his first feature since 1995. It’s partner Dean Martin were a melancholy flick that dwells part of the regular hosting rotation. equally on loss, regret and the pain of That show is the best representation watching an elderly relative slip away. of the duo’s work you can still get There’s a momentary break in the griefon DVD—loose, wild, fast and gutstorm two-thirds of the way through punchingly funny. It hummed with the film, though, where Lewis’ titular preternatural energy. Rose puts on jazz records with fellow “I was 20,” Lewis wails to the room. nursing home patients (including one
“It was a piece of cake,” Lewis, left, says of making Max Rose. “All I had to do was bring the body and the memory.” (Courtesy)
played by soon-to-be-nonagenarian comic genius Mort Sahl) and the actor breaks out the old pantomime. Suddenly, you’re falling backwards to 1960 and ’61, to Cinderfella and The Errand Boy’s ballet-precise pantomimes of Count Basie, and it all clicks. “We talked about it before he put it down,” Lewis said. “I told him the way we should go with it, and that’s the way we did it. He wrote the script with me in mind, and that’s very easy to see. When that happens, you’ve got to bring your own juice. It was a piece of cake making the film. All I had to do was bring the body and the memory. It was very, very easy for me. Everything I did before that was tough. There’s nothing tougher than physical comedy in the world. When you become a physical comic, you’d better practice, and you’d better know what you’re doing.” Those old bits, he said, would take
eight to 10 weeks to nail down. When they were done they were so perfect it hurts. Watch his hands during the Errand Boy scene. Lewis might have idolized Charlie Chaplin, but he had all the body control of the Little Tramp, with the hands of a magician. If Lewis didn’t grow up onstage, he might have made a great pitcher. Physical comedy, though, isn’t really in the cards anymore. That doesn’t mean he’s setting the career aside. He’s working on three scripts, he says, that are in various stages of rewrite. He won’t say what they’re about, but he’s adamant he doesn’t miss doing the physical stuff. “I’ve done it for 58 years,” he says. “It’s nice to get the hell away from it for a while.” He’s 90. It makes all the sense in the world, but it induces more melancholy than anything that could happen in another movie.
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New this week The Age of Shadows (Not reviewed) Song Kang-ho, Gong Yoo, Han Ji-min. Directed by Kim Jee-woon. 139 minutes. Not rated. In Korean with English subtitles. In the 1920s, Korean resistance fighters work to overthrow the Japanese occupation. Village Square. Barcelona: A Love Untold (Not reviewed) Kathryn Bernardo, Daniel Padilla, Aiko Melendez. Directed by Olivia Lamasan. 100 minutes. Not rated. In Filipino with English subtitles. Two young Filipino expatriates fall in love in Barcelona. Orleans, Village Square. The Hollars aaccc John Krasinski, Margo Martindale, Richard Jenkins, Sharlto Copley. Directed by John Krasinski. 88 minutes. Rated PG-13. Krasinski’s second feature as a director is a painfully generic indie drama about an affable but slightly lost 30-something (Krasinski) who returns to his hometown for a family emergency. The overqualified cast (including Jenkins, Martindale and Anna Kendrick) can’t overcome the cutesy, predictable writing or Krasinski’s uninspired, pedestrian direction. –JB Village Square. The Magnificent Seven aabcc Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke. Directed by Antoine Fuqua. 132 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 62. Theaters citywide. Max Rose aabcc Jerry Lewis, Kerry Bishé, Kevin Pollak. Directed by Daniel Noah. 83 minutes. Not rated. In his first starring role in 20-plus years, Lewis plays a retired
musician dealing with the death of his wife and a potentially major secret from their marriage. The story is slight and the production is threadbare, with the only real interest coming from Lewis’ return to the big screen. –JB Village Square. Storks aabcc Voices of Andy Samberg, Katie Crown, Anton Starkman. Directed by Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland. 89 minutes. Rated PG. See review Page 63. Theaters citywide.
Now playing Blair Witch aabcc James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid. Directed by Adam Wingard. 89 minutes. Rated R. Seventeen years after The Blair Witch Project galvanized and frustrated audiences, along comes a sequel that’s really more of a remake, supplying the traditional frights and jolts that the original deliberately withheld. It’ll appeal to those who hated the 1999 film, but annoy those who prefer horror that’s left to the imagination. –MD Theaters citywide. Bridget Jones’s Baby aabcc Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey. Directed by Sharon Maguire. 122 minutes. Rated R. The third Bridget Jones movie finds the romcom icon (Zellweger) unsure of who’s fathered her unborn child: American tech mogul Jack (Dempsey) or onetime love Mark (Firth). Baby takes Bridget in a few new directions, but it’s still mostly redundant, dragging the predictable story over two full hours. –JB Theaters citywide. Don’t Breathe aaccc Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Stephen Lang. Directed by Fede Alvarez. 88 minutes. Rated R. Teens break into an isolated house, only to be confronted by the owner, a blind veteran who’s more dangerous than he appears. At first, Don’t Breathe is admirably gritty and visceral, but it’s ruined by increasingly gross and unbelievable twists. What started as an intense, gripping thriller becomes a ridiculous cartoon. –JB Theaters citywide. Hell or High Water aaaac Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges. Directed by David Mackenzie. 102 minutes. Rated R. A craggy Texas Ranger (Bridges) tracks two small-time bank-robber brothers (Pine, Foster) across Texas in this consistently entertaining movie, which mines new humor, depth and eloquence from a very
old genre. The script is full of flavorful dialogue, and the plotting is air-tight, methodically revealing more details about the brothers’ plan. –JB Theaters citywide.
dry at times, but it’s often gripping in its account of Bauer’s determination in the face of national indifference and his colleagues’ obstruction. –JB Village Square.
Jason Bourne aaacc Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander, Tommy Lee Jones. Directed by Paul Greengrass. 123 minutes. Rated PG-13. Damon and Greengrass return to their signature super-spy character after nine years away, but they haven’t quite brought the same creative inspiration with them. Greengrass delivers several excellent action sequences, but the script fails to come up with a compelling reason to bring Bourne out of his well-earned retirement. –JB Theaters citywide.
Pete’s Dragon aabcc Oakes Fegley, Bryce Dallas Howard, Karl Urban. Directed by David Lowery. 102 minutes. Rated PG. This Disney remake is pleasant and entirely forgettable, with a bland hero (young orphan Pete, played by Oakes Fegley) and his bland CGI dragon sidekick (named Elliot) befriending some bland adults in a bland small town and overcoming a villain who’s barely even villainous. –JB Theaters citywide.
Kubo and the Two Strings aaaac Voices of Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey. Directed by Travis Knight. 101 minutes. Rated PG. Directed by Laika CEO Knight, the stop-motion animation studio’s latest wonder draws from Japanese folklore in its tale of the title character and his quest through a mystical realm. It’s a simple story, but the filmmakers give it nuance and resonance in the small character moments and the rich visual detail. –JB Theaters citywide. Mechanic: Resurrection abccc Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Sam Hazeldine. Directed by Dennis Gansel. 99 minutes. Rated R. No one asked for a sequel to 2011’s The Mechanic, and this generic action movie does nothing to justify its existence. Statham delivers his typical punching and kicking as an assassin lured back into the game, but the plot is moronic and convoluted, the effects are cheap-looking, and the characters are less than one-dimensional. –JB Theaters citywide. Mr. Church (Not reviewed) Eddie Murphy, Britt Robertson, Xavier Samuel. Directed by Bruce Beresford. 104 minutes. Rated PG-13. A young woman forms a lifelong friendship with her family’s cook. Palms. The People vs. Fritz Bauer aaacc Burghart Klaussner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Lilith Stangenberg. Directed by Lars Kraume. 105 minutes. Rated R. In German with English subtitles. This straightforward, procedure-oriented drama about the German government official who helped facilitate the capture of high-ranking Nazi Adolf Eichmann in the late 1950s can be a bit
Snowden aabcc Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Rhys Ifans. Directed by Oliver Stone. 134 minutes. Rated R. Edward Snowden (Gordon-Levitt) took enormous risks to expose U.S. government domestic spying programs, but Stone plays it pretty safe with his biopic. Mostly lacking in Stone’s flashy filmmaking style, Snowden is a straightforward retelling of its title character’s time as a government analyst and contractor, and his subsequent disillusionment and whistle-blowing. –JB Theaters citywide. Suicide Squad aabcc Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman. Directed by David Ayer. 130 minutes. Rated PG-13. This super-villain team-up features a slightly more streamlined narrative than previous DC movies. But it’s still overstuffed, an ensemble piece with nearly a dozen main characters, telling origin stories for half of them, bringing them together into a new team and facing them off against two different antagonists, both underwhelming. –JB Theaters citywide. Sully aabcc Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney. Directed by Clint Eastwood. 96 minutes. Rated PG-13. When pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Hanks) landed a passenger jet on the Hudson River following dual engine failure, saving everyone on board, the incident lasted just 208 seconds. Stretching that into 96 minutes proves difficult for this true-life drama, which adds in narrative filler to build a few heart-stopping minutes into feature length. –JB Theaters citywide. JB Josh Bell; MD Mike D’Angelo For complete movie listings, visit lasvegasweekly.com/movie-listings.
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CHORD CHANGES Sloan’s Jay Ferguson talks fan dedication and ‘moderate success’ By Annie Zaleski anadian power-pop outfit Sloan is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its top-selling album, 1996’s One Chord to Another, by issuing a new boxed-set version and playing the original record in full on tour. We caught up with guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Jay Ferguson ahead of the Sloan’s first-ever show in Las Vegas.
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When you ranked Sloan’s records for Noisey last year, you had One Chord to Another at No. 1. Why does it stand out for you? I really like the songs. Also, it’s a little bit special because it’s the first Sloan album that we put out on our own record label, Murderecords here in Canada—our previous two records were on Geffen out of the United States—and it really kick-started the modern-day Sloan, in that we grabbed all the reins of marketing decisions and promotion. That made it really rewarding.
One Chord came out on an indie label here in record. It’s in such a low range for me that I dread the U.S., a year after it came out in Canada, and when I see it coming up on the setlist. I remember it being hard to find at the time. I remember hearing back in the mid-’90s that there Sloan turns 25 this year. To what do you atwere Sloan fans in Cleveland or Detroit who would tribute your longevity? Moderate success! That’s drive across the border to buy it. The idea of that what will keep your band together. Not bottoming happening now is so ludicrous, because all out, and not being so successful and rich you have to do is turn on your computer and SLOAN that you become obnoxious and you don’t September 24, Google it. 10 p.m., $10. The need to work or something. Splitting the Sayers Club, money four ways will also help keep your As you’ve been playing the album live in 702-761-7618. band together, because you’re all in the same order, have you gleaned any new insights boat. Everybody in our band sings and writes about it? There are a number of songs and contributes. [Otherwise] one person, a that we keep in our regular setlist—“The Good in la Sting in The Police, is going to be so much more Everyone,” “Everything You’ve Done Wrong” and wealthy than the others, because he wrote all the hit “The Lines You Amend”—and “G Turns to D” shows songs. That’s going to breed dissension after a while up from time to time, but the interesting thing is in your band. playing them in the context of the record. The other For more of our interview with Ferguson, visit thing that I’ve learned is that I really don’t like lasvegasweekly.com. singing “Junior Panthers,” the fourth song on the
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U2, “Until the End of the World” (1991) This pulverizing Achtung Baby cut sounds as fresh as the day it came out, and its lyrics, sadly, feel even more relevant 25 years later. Sia, “Chandelier (Plastic Plates remix)” (2014) This pulsating refresh of the Aussie’s smash is iHeartperfect dance-pop that keeps Sia’s soaring, raspy soprano front and center. Sting, “All This Time” (1991) This tribute to his deceased father is nonetheless upbeat and melodically rich—and the best single Sting has written outside The Police. Drake ft. Rihanna, “Too Good” (2016) The couple— and their low-key Views duet—are #goals inspiring, Will Bad Girl Ri Ri make an appearance Friday? Cross your fingers. Jay Ferguson (second from left) and Sloan play Vegas for the first time on September 24. (Photograph by Catherine Stockhausen/Courtesy)
THAt’s Life The fourth-annual LIS fest focuses on the Vegas scene As mainstream pop acts take over Las Vegas from Downtown to the Strip this weekend, the DIY crew behind Life Is Sh*t will stage its unique counterculture celebration for the fourth-straight year. “It’s really something for the rest of us to do … [those who] aren’t interested in mainstream pop culture,” says promoter Tsvetelina Stefanova of Bad Moon Booking. “It’s more about locals.” Headliners for the September 23 Dive Bar gathering include lo-fi LA garage rockers SadGirl, Denver’s comedic future-synth duo Total Ghost and one-time Vegas punks Dangerboner—the latter bringing festival founder Jack Evan Johnson back to town (he’ll also perform solo). The locals-heavy
roster also includes punk stalwarts The Quitters, garage-rock transplants Indigo Kidd and indie-pop outfit The Prettiest, plus once-Vegas-based singersongwriter Chandelle. The fest will also feature two new interactive art components: a Life Is Sh*t coloring book and zine—with poetry and artwork by 19 local artists—and an “outhouse” open-mic stage, where attendees can play five-minute sets … while seated on a toilet. Proceeds will go to Girls Rock Vegas, a summer camp and after-school program focused on achieving positive self-image through music. “I want people to know [Life Is Sh*t] is a positive thing,” Stefanova says. “Some people don’t really get the sense of humor, [but] it’s not meant to harbor any bad vibes. It’s grown, and I think it’s going to keep growing.” –Leslie Ventura
Life Is Sh*t September 23, 4 p.m., $5-$10 donation. Dive Bar, 702-586-3483.
Zedd, “Clarity” (2012) When the EDM nostalgia comps come, every one will include this Grammywinning Euro-dance banger—and you’ll still sing along to Foxes’ refrain. Ariana Grande, “Love Me Harder” (2014) Forget Victorious. The one-time teen actress is a full-fledged pop star, whose voice can hold its own with The Weeknd’s on this earworm. Tears for Fears, “The Working Hour” (1985) A sax solo becomes a propulsive number built on chiming chords and an abstract indictment of capitalism. Britney Spears, “Make Me” (2016) The pop princess teamed with rapper G-Eazy for the first single off Glory—and it’s got just the right amount of breathy sex appeal.
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FEAR AND LOATHING IN TOYKO Previewing the next wave of big games at Japan’s annual expo By Todd Hailstone okyo Game Show is the largest video game convention in Japan and one of the biggest in the world, and I was fortunate enough to be in Japan’s capital when it took place. The show floor was packed for the 20th edition, which drew a record attendance of 271,224. The convention burst with spectacle—music and trailers all around, with booth girls and game cosplayers inviting attendees to line up to try games and pose for photos. Here’s a rundown of my most notable demo experiences from the show.
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Yakuza 6 (U.S. release TBD) With its star-studded Japanese cast and a story that feels like the series’ strongest yet— plus a highly detailed world, impressive graphics, exciting combat and a plethora of side content—this is shaping up as one of the best releases of the year. Final Fantasy XV (November 29) The next entry in this series seems like a mashup of its many missteps: a single controllable character, a cast of interchangeable Japanese goth bros, boring combat, uninspiring art design and laughably overdesigned hair animation. I played a 10-minute demo and got bored in five. Persona 5 (February 2017) This series is huge in Japan, and I can see why after my painfully short TGS demo: a huge cast of characters with distinct looks and abilities, engaging combat and incredible art and music. This might be the Persona installment that finally breaks out in the U.S. I’m looking forward to it more than any other role-playing game.
Nioh (February 2017) People have been comparing Nioh to the Dark Souls series since its first playable demo. The incredibly difficult, almost punishing combat and dark art style do feel strikingly similar, but its Japanese setting and more direct story set it apart from its inspiration. I stood in line twice to truly experience the deep combat and wide range of weapons and stances. I was also just having a hell of a good time playing—a good sign for the full game to come. Resident Evil 7 VR (January 24, 2017) The PlayStation VR line was excruciatingly long—I waited three hours—and we were unable to choose a game upon reaching the front. Expecting an anime concert experience or an on-rails shooter, I was elated when the Sony rep escorted me to RE 7 (titled Biohazard 7 in Japan). As I sat down she warned that the game can be extremely scary, encouraging me to take off my headset if I felt overwhelmed. She wasn’t exaggerating. At one point in the relatively short demo I actually screamed, surrounded by people on the busy convention floor. In most horror games, looking away allows you a short reprieve as you build up the courage to turn back to the screen. But trapped in my VR headset, there was no escape from the creeping despair, short fits of panic and perfectly timed jump scares— I was trapped in this frightening world. When I buy the game, I might opt for the non-VR version, for the sake of my wallet and my psyche. For an expanded overview of the show and more demo impressions, head to lasvegasweekly.com.
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NATHAN HILL’S THE NIX FLIRTS WITH MADE-FOR-TV CHARACTERIZATION Warner Bros. television, with Streep starring and Abrams ometimes in the course of Nathan Hill’s The Nix, you sense perhaps directing. you’re reading a film script, only in past tense (mostly) and None of this is to say that the novel is a weak series script— without camera angles. That’s because Hill’s sharp dialogue just that it’s easy to see how it lends itself to adaptation into sculpts characters—and to some extent situations and what will likely be a less nuanced series. Hill’s cinematic settings—while the narration often set-dresses, prescribing what narration has the offhand flair and attention to ironic detail should be scattered around a room more than describing what’s in it. you find in Kurt Vonnegut or George Saunders, the bemused The book also has a colorfully populated, episodic narrative gaze on cruelties like subdivisions named for the animals and line that shifts among a near-present of 2011, when a failed-novlandscapes they destroy, and on the crudeness of life lived in elist English professor’s long-lost mother becomes a cross-media modern media’s banal blare. And Hill can be at times both meme after hurling gravel at a populist politician; the 1980s comic and poignant, with a feel for how psyches either funcchildhood of Samuel, who cries a lot, in hurricane-force levels; tion or collapse in each mode. Some of that is bound to flatten AAABC and his mother’s haunting 1950s childhood. Faye is another relion the screen, along with some of the novel’s more troubling THE NIX able staple, particularly from those times, the girl who married her By Nathan Hill, $28. scenes, involving a friend of incipient novelist Samuel. sweetheart and then discovered that suburban life with a frozenChoose Your Own Adventure is the title of a series Samuel foods executive was soul-sapping. And no less so with a chronically enjoyed as a child. But when he tries it as a writer, it compliweepy child: “He was so stupidly fragile. He was like the skin of a grape … cates his life’s adventure, and it makes him recognize both the finality of She did not like to see her own failures reflected back at her so clearly.” choices and the almost inevitable selfishness that the past’s torments can If Hill’s characters seem a little made-for-TV, it will not be surprising create in even the most self-aware. to learn that Meryl Streep and J.J. Abrams are co-producing The Nix for Find more by Chuck Twardy at chucktwardy.com.
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PURPLE REIGN Minnesota’s against-the-spread run has been semi-historic—and largely ignored By Case Keefer
he Minnesota Vikings picked up a momentous victory Sunday night, opening U.S. Bank Stadium with a 17-14 victory over hated rival Green Bay. In Las Vegas sports books, the win bordered on the historic, where the Vikings are on the best against-the-spread run we’ve seen in a decade. Minnesota has now covered in 16 of its past 19 games (including one in the playoffs) dating back to the start of the 2015 season, when its 14-3 record versus the number was the most profitable by a team since the 2004 San Diego Chargers. One more successful cover—Minnesota’s a 7-point underdog at Carolina in Week 3—and the Vikings will match the ’07 Patriots and ’11 49ers with an eightgame winning streak against the spread. Those types of stretches typically become things of legend to bettors, and horror to bookmakers. But the Vikings’ reign atop the betting world hasn’t been either. Gamblers haven’t hitched their bankrolls to Minnesota in the way they did to their spread-smashing predecessors. Eighty-four percent of the tickets printed by William Hill US (which operates a majority of Nevada’s sports books) on last week’s Sunday Night Football game were on the Packers minus-1.5 over the Vikings. Even in Week 1, Minnesota drew only 52 percent of the bets as 2.5-point favorites ahead of a 25-16 victory at Tennessee. The figures weren’t much different game by game last year when the Vikings snapped
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average margin of victory last year was less than four. And in two games this year, the Vikings have only outgained their opponents by a combined six yards. Those subdued statistics have kept professional bettors from backing them in bulk, and makes Minnesota’s 2-0 start seem like an anomaly, though the Vikings overcame similar negative indicators last season, too. Some of the NFL coaches with the best against-the-spread results—Harbaugh and New England’s Bill Belichick included—have covered at a rate statistics can’t fully explain. There’s nearly a big enough sample size now to merit adding Minnesota coach Mike Zimmer to the list. He has his work cut out for him going forward, with Peterson—out with a torn meniscus—joining No. 1 quarterback Teddy Bridgewater on the team’s injury list. Still, if the past year has taught gamblers anything, it’s that there’s no value in betting against the Vikings.
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NEW TACO ON THE BLOCK CASA DEL MATADOR JOINS THE CROWDED DOWNTOWN SUMMERLIN BY BROCK RADKE here are tons of places to eat at Downtown Summerlin, but it’s a mall, and the majority are understandably generic. Most of the standout restaurants can be found at the northern end, a path charted by Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill, Shake Shack, Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken and Andiron Steak & Sea. New to that area is another Mexican restaurant, Casa Del Matador. The latest DTSum spot is bookended by the Red Rock Resort’s Mexican offering, Libre, and Pancho’s, located close to Sahara on the southern end of the massive mall. All three offer similar cuisine and prices, so I have to wonder, before even walking into Casa Del Matador: Is it necessary here? But this is not a big chain CASA DEL operation. Upstart Seattle resMATADOR taurateurs Nathan Opper and Downtown Zak Melang created the scratch Summerlin, 702-228-2766. kitchen Mexican concept and Mondayexpanded around Washington Wednesday, 11 State, and to Boise and Denver. a.m.-midnight; Thursday & The Summerlin location offers Friday, 11 a.m.-1 brunch and stays open a bit a.m.; Saturday, later than most restaurants 10 a.m.-1 a.m.; Sunday, 10 around here, and it’s big on a.m.-midnight. tequila and cocktails. Meats and sauces. Those are the factors that determine which local MexicanAmerican restaurants are great, and Matador’s are of high quality. The table salsa is fresh and slightly spicy. The smooth, rich sauce on the enchiladas Poblanos ($12.50-$14.50), made from roasted chilies, garlic and cream, will force you to finish every bite. The house-made pork chorizo ($12.50 for a two-taco plate) is bold and savory. The braised beef and shredded chicken are tender and delicious, and you can try those meats and more with the five-streettaco sampler platter ($12). Matador’s casual environment is sure to make it a happy hour destination for the Summerlin set, which will love nicely done appetizers like baconwrapped, goat cheese-stuffed jalapeños ($11) and black bean queso dip spiked with habanero and tomatillo ($6). I can’t say which of the three proximate Mexican spots will come out on top, but I know I’ll come back to this one often.
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INGREDIENTS 2 oz. Garrison Brother’s Texas Straight Bourbon /2 oz. Luxardo Apricot Liqueur
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Tiki is hot. Maybe it’s nostalgia, or the timeless idea of a boozy, tropical escape. Whatever the reason, the resurgence of tiki bars serving fruity rum drinks across the country is becoming a major trend. One of its fueling factors is the growing popularity of spiced rum. Brands like Sailor Jerry, Cruzan, Kraken and Chairman’s Reserve have transcended simple mixwith-Coke status and risen to prominence in mixology. “The national popularity of tiki bars has helped spiced rum go from beachside party drink on vacation to the cocktail world,” says Ashley Marsh, San Diego-based brand ambassador for Sailor Jerry. “Every cool bar has a great spiced rum cocktail now. Spiced rum is coming up as one of the cool kids.” The spiced rum flavor profile—brown sugar, cloves, citrus, allspice, and cinnamon that might invoke visions of baked goods—is better armed for creative cocktailing than white rum, and the spirit’s flavors are getting tweaked and twisted. Old New Orleans Cajun Spice rum gets savory and kicked-up with cayenne pepper.
Marsh, who travels all over the West between Hawaii and Colorado, says Las Vegas is a national leader in setting such booze trends. “Vegas has always been one of the top markets for [Sailor Jerry], and not even so much on the Strip but off-Strip and Downtown and [in] other cool bars like Herbs & Rye. Vegas has always been the benchmark when you’re talking about originality,” she says. “I’m bringing up Vegas constantly with tiki bars, telling people if you want to do a tiki menu you should go to Vegas and check out Frankie’s [Tiki Room].” Beyond tiki, Vegas’ superior mixology scene can be educational for anyone looking to amp up their spicedrum cocktail game. “There [is still] a resurgence in classic cocktails, and we see a lot of bars doing a spiced-rum Old Fashioned now,” Marsh says. “A lot of bars in Vegas are doing Sailor Jerry Negronis, and there are only a few cities in the U.S. that have grabbed on to that. Rum is so sweet and the Negroni is so bitter, people don’t think to do it. But I just had two of best Negronis in my life at Atomic Liquors, with barrel-aged Sailor Jerry, and it was really interesting.” –Brock Radke
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METHOD Place the lemon peel in an old fashionedstyle glass and muddle with bitters. In a mixing glass filled with ice, add the bourbon and apricot liqueur, then strain right away in the old fashioned glass. Garnish and serve over an ice sphere.
This sophisticated take on the classic Old Fashioned will impress cocktail purists, bourbon lovers and experimental mixologists. Garrison Brother’s flagship bourbon is as smooth a whiskey as they come, with rich flavors that unfold for a buttery, caramelizedsugar finish. When met with sweet apricot liqueur and the bitterness from the muddled lemon peel and aromatic bitters, it’s a truly complex drink.
Cocktail created by Francesco Lafranconi, Executive Director at Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits.
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Live Music THe Strip & Nearby Brooklyn Bowl Somewhere Thru Time 9/23, 8 pm, free. 40 Oz. to Freedom 9/24, 10 pm, $12$15. The Soul Rebels Sound System ft. Talib Kweli 9/28, 7 pm, $25-$40. Linq, 702-862-2695. Caesars Palace (Colosseum) Celine Dion 9/239/24, 9/27-9/28, 7:30 pm, $55-$500. 702-731-7333. Double Down Saloon Daggers, Ohio Knife 9/22. Matt Danger, Alex Kirk Amen 9/23, 8 pm. Kid You’re No Fighter, The Negative Nancys 9/23, 10 pm. Trap Girl, Pieces of Policies, New Cold War, Sector 7-G, Thrill Killerz 9/24. Uberschall 9/25, midnight. Shows 10 pm, free unless noted. 640 Paradise Road, 702-791-5775. Hard Rock Hotel (The Joint) Megadeth, Amon Amarth, Suicidal Tendencies, Metal Church, Butcher Babies 9/22, 5 pm, $50-$150. Disturbed, Adelitas Way 9/23, 8:30 pm, $45-$150. (Vinyl) Sin City Sinners All-Stars 9/23-9/24, 9 pm, free. Arson City 9/23, 11 pm, free. 702-693-5000. House of Blues Molotov 9/22, 7 pm, $35. Carlos Santana 9/23-9/25, 7 pm, $90-$350. Fortunate Son 9/28, 8 pm, $13. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. MGM Grand (Garden Arena) Hall & Oates, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue 9/23, 7 pm, $45-$125. 702-891-7777. Palms (Lounge) Frank Sidoris’ Royal Electric 9/22, 10 pm. Pop Strings Orchestra 9/24, 11 pm. Shows free. 702-942-7777. Planet Hollywood (Axis) Lionel Richie 9/24-9/25, 9/28, 8 pm, $57-$190. 702-777-2782. SLS (The Foundry) Garbage, Cigarettes After Sex 9/22, 8 pm, $45. (Sayers Club) Falling Doves, Cantua, Silversage 9/23. Sloan 9/24, $10. SLS, 702-761-7617. T-Mobile Arena iHeartRadio Music Festival ft. U2, Drake, Sia & more 9/23-9/24, 7:15 pm, $150$750. 702-692-1600. Topgolf Blues Traveler, Silversage 9/22, 8 pm, $35-$50. 4627 Koval Lane, 702-933-8458. Venetian (Venetian Theatre) John Fogerty 9/239/24, 9/28, 8 pm, $60-$800. 702-414-9000.
Downtown Artifice Vegas Muertos Heist y Teotitlanti, DJ Joseph 9/22, 11 pm, free. 1025 S. 1st St., #100, 702-489-6339. Backstage Bar & Billiards Guttermouth, Flatfoot 56, The Civilians, Jerk, Bogtroggers Union 9/22, 8 pm, $15-$18. The Crookes, Zipper Club 9/24, 8 pm, free. Brother Ali, Dem Atlas, Snap Murphy, Ekoh, Last Word 9/25, 8 pm, $15-$20. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Beauty Bar The Spill Canvas, Almost Normal, Jesse Pino, The Vital Signs 9/23, 8 pm, $15-$18. CunninLynguists, Sadistik, Psalm One, Sam Roberts 9/27, 9 pm, $10-$15. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. Bunkhouse Saloon Who Rides the Tiger 9/22, 9 pm, free. Sun Foot, Sam Coomes 9/23, 6 pm, $10. The Dirty Hooks 9/23, 8 pm, $10. Home Cookin’, We Are Pancakes 9/24, 9 pm, $10. Gina Gleason, Chillist, Mike Dropz, Pery XOI, DJ Popnfre$h, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs 9/28, 9 pm, $5-$8. 124 S. 11th St., 702-854-1414. Golden Nugget (Gordie Brown Showroom) Johnny Rivers 9/23, 8 pm, $97-$141. 866-9465336. The Griffin Ancient River, The Van der Rohe 9/28, 10 pm, free. 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577. Hard Hat Lounge Ghouls Night Out ft. DJ Hallows 9/23, 11 pm, free. Implements of Hell, Opioid Dysphoria 9/25, 9 pm, free. 1675 Industrial Road, 702-384-8987. Life Is Beautiful Festival ft. Mumford & Sons,
Alt-rock foursome Garbage lands at the Foundry on September 22. (Courtesy)
J. Cole, Major Lazer & more. 9/23-9/25, 2 p.m.1 a.m., $285-$655/weekend, $125-$295/day. Downtown, lifeisbeautiful.com. LVCS Audiotopsy, Mr. Mystery, NE Last Words, Cirka: Sik 9/22, 8 pm, $10-$12. Tech N9Ne, Krizz Kaliko, JL, Starrz, Donnie Menace, Luck Factor Zero, NE Last Words, Doms Gauge, Bobby Boulder 9/24, 7 pm, $40-$42. Kataklysm, Sicocis, Mynas 9/26, 8 pm, $10-$13. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-3531. The Smith Center (Troesh Studio Theater) Las Vegas Philharmonic Spotlight Series 9/22, 7:30 pm, $70-$195. (Cabaret Jazz) Lucky Peterson 9/23-9/24, 7 pm, $39-$59. Serpentine Fire 9/27, 8 pm, $22-$35. Melancholics 9/28, 7 pm, $20$30. 361 Symphony Park Ave., 702-749-2000.
Everywhere Else Boulder Dam Brewing Co. Rick Berthod Band 9/23. Jack Evan Johnson Trio 9/24. Shows 8 pm, free. 453 Nevada Way, 702-243-2739. Dive Bar Goatwhore, The Blood Royale, In the Flesh 9/22, 9 pm, $10-$12. Life Is Sh*t Festival ft. SadGirl, Total Ghost, Dangerboner & more 9/23-9/24, 4:20 pm, $5-$10 donation. Lord Dying, Black Fast, Child Bite, Demon Lung 9/24, 9 pm, $10-$12. Gringo Star, Hidden Levels, Indigo Kidd 9/27, 9 pm, $5. 4110 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-586-3483. Henderson Pavilion Casting Crowns 9/25, 6:30 pm, $25-$75. 200 S. Green Valley Parkway, 702267-4849. Police Memorial Park The Jozef Bobula Trio, The Sharps 9/24, 6:30 pm, free. 3250 Metro Academy Way, 702-229-3514. Silverton (Veil Pavilion) Billy Ocean 9/23, 8 pm, $29-$59. 702-263-7777. South Point (Showroom) The Lettermen 9/239/25, 7:30 pm, $25-$35. 702-796-7111. Suncoast (Showroom) Journey Unauthorized 9/24, 8:30 pm, $15. 702-636-7075. Sunset Station (Club Madrid) Ottmar Liebert 9/24, 8 pm, $22-$42, 702-547-7777.
Comedy
Mirage Ray Romano, David Spade 9/23-9/24, 10 pm, $87-$120. 702-792-7777. Orleans (Showroom) Dana Carvey 9/23-9/24, 8 pm, $60-$87. 702-284-7777.
Performing Arts
Baobab Stage Theatre Toscha Comeaux 9/24, 7:30 pm, $15-$20. Town Square, 702-369-6649. Las Vegas Little Theatre Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean 9/22-9/25, times vary. 3920 Schiff Drive, 702-362-7996. Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) Beautiful: The Carole King Musical 9/22-9/24, 9/25, 9/27-10/2, 7:30 pm; 9/24-9/25, 2 pm, $29-$132. 702-749-2000. Super Summer Theatre The Mystery of Edwin Drood 9/22-9/24, 7:30 pm, $16. Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, 702-594-7529. Summerlin Library & Performing Arts Center Into the Woods 9/23-9/24, 7 pm; 9/24, 1 pm, $15. 1771 Inner Circle Drive, 702-507-3860. Theatre in the Valley Broadway Bound 9/23-9/24, 9/30-10/1, 8 pm; 9/25, 2 pm, $12-$15. 10 W. Pacific Ave., 702-558-7275. UNLV (Artemus W. Ham Hall) Halau Hula Ka No’eau 9/24, 2 & 7:30 pm, $25-$35. UNLV Symphony Orchestra: Nielsen and Dvorak 9/28, 7 pm, $8-$10. 702-895-3332.
Special Events
Decadence: Food & Music Event 9/24, 11 am-2 pm, free. Cadence Central Park, 1170 E. Sunset Road, 702-990-2550. Down & Derby 9/23-9/25, 11 pm, free. Gold Spike, sk8party.com. Hemophilia Walk & 5K 9/24, 7:30 am, free. Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs, hemophilia.org/walk. Las Vegas Numismatic Society Coin & Currency Show 9/23-9/24, 10 am-6 pm; 9/25, 10 am-3 pm, free. Westgate, 888-330-5188. NamasDAY 9/24, 10:30-11:30 am & 2-4 pm, free$35. Life Time Athletic clubs in Summerlin &
Green Valley, 702-228-2611 & 702-802-7300. National Comic Book Day at Marvel’s Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. exhibition 9/25, 10 am-10 pm, $24$34 ($10 off with comic book donation). Treasure Island, stationattraction.com. Saturday Night Punk’s Cinema ft. Repo Man, Suburbia, Sid and Nancy 9/24, 7 pm, free. Bunkhouse Saloon, 124 S. 11th St., 702-854-1414. Secret Walls Championship Battle 9/22, 10 pm, free. Gold Spike, secretwallslv.com. Solo Strips 9/26, 11 pm, $20-$25. Caesars Palace, afanlv.org. St. Jude Walk/Run to End Childhood Cancer 9/24, 7 am, $10-$20. Aventura Park at Inspirada, 2525 Via Firenze, stjude.org/walkrun. Super Run Classic Car Show 9/23-9/25, 10 am, free. Henderson Events Plaza, 200 S. Water St., superrun.com.
Sports
Andalusian World Cup 9/22-9/24, times vary, free. South Point Equestrian Center, 702-796-7111. CFMA Putt-a-Thon 9/28, 2 pm, $45-$60. Angel Park Golf Club, 100 S. Rampart Blvd., 702-493-1066. Future Stars of Wrestling 9/24, 7 pm, $15-$25. Silverton, 702-263-7777. UNLV Football Idaho 9/24, 6 pm, $9-$25. Sam Boyd Stadium, 702-739-3267.
Galleries
AFA Gallery Tim Cantor: Sweet Favour & Fiend Thru 10/31, artist Reception 10/1, 6-9 pm. Fashion Show, 702-785-0061. Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art Town and Country: From Degas to Picasso 9/23-2/20/2017, $14-$16. 702-693-7871. Clark County Government Center Rotunda Robin Stark Thru 11/10. Artist Reception 9/23, 6 pm. 500 Grand Central Parkway, 702-455-7030. Spring Valley Library Fernando Reyes: Hit List Thru 11/20. 4280 S. Jones Blvd., 702-507-3820.
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