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THE SWEETS’ SPOT AT CABARET JAZZ

BAIO AT BUNKHOUSE SALOON

Absinthe’s Green Fairy, sexy chanteuse Melody Sweets, jumps out of her bottle for an evening of music, burlesque, cabaret acts and more at the Smith Center. The Sweets’ Spot brings a mob of seasoned entertainers—including Lon Bronson, Mac King, Kalani Kokonuts, Ms. Redd, Buttercup Delight and Kitschy Koo— all aiming to sate your cravings for tasty, old-school Vegas entertainment. $25-$40. –Geoff Carter

Before Chris Baio became the bassist of Vampire Weekend, he was a DJ. His interest in electronic dance music— and his desire to scratch a creative itch during VW’s downtime—resulted in 2015 album The Names, the focus of his current tour, on which he performs his own take on indie pop with pulsating rhythms and Bryan Ferry flair. $10-$12. –Mike Prevatt

Thursday, 6 P.M.

TRIFEXY: THE UNFOLDING Opening AT TWISTED ARTist GALLERY It’s said that good things come in threes. Take, for example, “exquisite corpse”—a surrealist art process in which a page is folded into three panels and drawn upon by three different artists, none of whom know what the other two are doing. Twisted Artist Gallery at the Arts Factory presents a show of exquisite corpse works created by three local artists with differing styles: Omayra Amador, aka Milk the Bunny, a Keith Haring-inspired street artist with a touch of the playfully psychedelic; Kim Johnson, a surrealist who prides herself on creating art that’s not just visual, but tactile; and photographer/mixed media artist Nancy Good, whose works often incorporate several different mediums at once. Setting aside the audacity of the concept, this meeting of artists—collectively called Trifexy, a name which, like the art itself, invites multiple interpretations—is kind of a big deal. Amador, Johnson and Good have been working together since March—third month of the year!—and on Preview Thursday, we find out if these three artists are a magic number. And they will, too: The Thursday-night opening marks the first time each will see what the other two did with their parts of the trifold. Through October 20, free, 107 E. Charleston Blvd. #160.. –Geoff Carter

Friday, 6 P.M.

BEETLEJUICE GROUP ART SHOW AT BUBBLEGUM GALLERY

Bubblegum’s latest group art show is entirely by the book—that tome being the Handbook for the Recently Deceased. The Downtown Spaces gallery has invited local artists to interpret Tim Burton’s classic 1988 comedy Beetlejuice, and given the enduring creepiness of the source material—and a roster of artists that includes Dan 45, Shan Michael Evans, Derek Hernandez, Sam Kinsey, Chelsea Lothringer, Kennedy McCracken and You Killed Me First—it’s almost a certainty that you’ll return to the land of the living with a charming bit of memento mori tucked under your arm. (And perhaps from there, you’ll go to Huntridge Circle Park, where an outdoor screening of Beetlejuice begins at 7 p.m.) There’ll even be a real, flesh-and-blood Beetlejuice on hand at Bubblegum to keep things legit, so remember, nobody says the B word. 1800 S. Industrial Road #207D. –Geoff Carter

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More than 20,000 candlelit paper lanterns will float like stars in the night, symbolic of inspiring hope, celebrating loved ones and promoting healing. Festivalgoers can eat, drink, enjoy live music and decorate their lanterns before freeing them in unison. Exit 75 off I-15, $69-$129, parking $25, shuttle $39. –Rosalie Spear

If mead, beer and giant turkey legs aren’t incentive enough for you to ride down to the annual Ren fair, just think about the glorious treasure trove of odd finds you’ll miss out on, like alpaca dreadlock extensions and drinking horns. Plus, it’s an excuse to wear a costume before Halloween. $8-$30. –Rosalie Spear

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GAYS ON PARADE

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LGBT events abound in October, including this weekend’s Come Out Vegas roster By Mike Prevatt

as Vegas is going to be really, really gay in October. It’s hard to recall a month loaded with as many events celebrating the LGBT community as the one that begins this weekend. For starters, on October 8, the Gay and Lesbian Center of Southern Nevada holds its 22nd annual Honorarium awards and fundraising night, which lands this year at the Chelsea inside the Cosmopolitan. What makes this edition unique is what follows the affair: a full performance by comedian Margaret Cho, the Center’s Qmmunity Advocate of the Year. (Those just wanting to see Cho’s concert can purchase separate tickets.) The fabulous fun actually begins 24 hours earlier at the kickoff for Come Out Vegas weekend—essentially a two-day version of National Coming Out Day— which will take place Downtown at First Friday (also celebrating its 14th birthday) and include free performances by former Pussycat Dolls lead singer Kaya Jones and current Neon Trees frontman Tyler Glenn, who recently came out as gay and against the Mormon church in which he was raised. On Saturday, the traditional National Coming Out Day street festival will take place on Naples Drive east of Paradise Road inside the Fruit Loop gay nightlife district. A Cyndi Lauper concert at the nearby Joint is also included in Saturday’s schedule. Johnny Bacon, publisher of GayVegas.com (which presents and organizes Come Out Vegas), says the First Friday component was added for community building, partly based on his own personal history. “I see First Friday as the ‘ally’ element in LGBTQIA— sometimes we just need a little help from our friends. When I was a kid, First Friday was one of the only places where I could be under 21, have real fun and feel like I was in a safe, loving and accepting environment.” This National Coming Out Day—officially October 11 but typically commemorated in Vegas on the nearest weekend—likely holds extra resonance for Bacon, who recently came out to his entire family. He’s also proud to have talked every Fruit Loop business into

participating in Saturday’s street festival, which he says hasn’t happened in a very long time. “When everyone works together towards a common goal, that is when the real magic happens in the Loop area.” The next marathon of gayness begins on October 20 with the World Gay Rodeo Finals, taking place through October 23 at South Point. On October 21, Pride weekend begins with the annual nighttime parade down Fourth Street in Downtown. The revelry will continue that night with several LGBT-related concerts, including an official post-parade performance by Charli XCX at Downtown Las Vegas Events

Center, Pet Shop Boys (whose singer, Neil Tennant, is openly gay) at the Chelsea, Against Me! (whose leader, Laura Jane Grace, is transgender) opening for Bad Religion at the Foundry, and former The Voice contestant/occasional Pride performer Melanie Martinez at the Joint. The usual Saturday Pride festival is now the Pride Family Festival, spread over Saturday and Sunday and back at Sunset Park, the host site of several Las Vegas Pride events since 1984. Pride-related parties and events will round out that weekend. And we haven’t even addressed Halloween weekend yet.

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BICYCLE KITCHEN

Downtown’s not-a-bike-shop Crank & Grind is a (free) labor of love BY GEOFF CARTER

Carlos Vivaldo works on a bike at Crank & Grind. (Mikayla Whitmore/Staff)

NO JACKPOT FOR YOU A Seinfeld-themed slot machine debuted last week—with the Soup Nazi in tow—at Global Gaming Expo. We’re compelled to rhetorically ask: Is nothing sacred? Apparently not, because countless film, TV and music institutions currently brand gambling devices. Among them … Lord of the Rings: Not sure which is spinning faster: the machine’s digital reels or author J.R.R. Tolkien inside his grave. Dolly Parton: Fellow pop-slot licensees Kiss, The Beach Boys and Britney Spears would do anything for a buck. But Dolly? Her machine even cues up “Coat of Many Colors,” which you’ll be stitching together yourself after you’ve gambled away the school-clothes budget. Star Wars and Marvel: Alas, now that the anti-gambling House of Mouse owns both, the sci-fi slots’ licenses won’t be renewed for the adult Disneyland. The Godfather: Apparently an offer Paramount Pictures couldn’t refuse. –Mike Prevatt

Exploring the streets of Downtown on a bicycle is a treat. The roads traversing the Arts District and the quiet, Fremont Eastadjacent neighborhood nicknamed “Lawyer’s Row” see relatively little automobile traffic, and many of them have dedicated bike lanes. I’ve biked them many times—sometimes alone, sometimes on pub rides where the cyclists number in the dozens. And on those group cruises, nearly everyone has something in common, no matter what we’re riding: We got our tune-ups at Crank & Grind Cycle Shop. “Some people have called us a bicycle kitchen, a co-op,” says Carlos Vivaldo, one of Crank & Grind’s co-proprietors (with Daniel Pierceall and Hannah Todd). “We’re trying to stay away from being a typical bike shop.” Typical, they certainly are not. It’s not a showroom; the only bikes they sell are reconditioned. They don’t advertise, have minimal web presence (though messaging them at Facebook.com/Crank AndGrindLV is the quickest way to reach them) and, until recently, they didn’t even have a proper storefront; they operated out of the garage of a private home. Now, they have an Arts District storefront, located off an alley. (Their Facebook page tells you how to find it.) And Vivaldo is telling it true: Crank & Grind really is a bicycle kitchen. Pierceall and Vivaldo, who met riding BMX bikes as kids, fix pretty much anything two-wheeled with minimal fuss … and most times, they don’t even charge you for the work. “It’s free labor, though tips are accepted,” Todd says. “Or gifting. We have one customer who bakes stuff for the guys.” The work is top-notch, and fast: “You can drop off a bike [for a tune-up] and have it back in 15 minutes,” Todd says. But there’s more to Crank & Grind than the repair work: They run a bicycle valet at many Downtown events (including First Friday); help customers and friends to find specific bikes via Craigslist; and work with local charities to get bikes to folks in need. In other words, Crank & Grind is a (free) labor of love, intended to get Downtown onto two wheels, a little at a time. And according to Pierceall, it seems to be working: “All the people I’ve met Downtown are like, ‘Let’s do bikes.’”

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MUSIC MATTERS

DJ DOUGLAS GIBBS HONORS HIS CRAFT AND FORGES A MEANINGFUL CONNECTION WITH HIS AUDIENCE BY MIKE PREVATT

t’s a relatively chill Saturday night at Downtown Cocktail Room, of which DJ Douglas Gibbs is keenly aware. A large crowd has recently left, undoubtedly for the next Fremont East bar, so he attempts to stir the remaining patrons with Marshall Jefferson’s iconic Chicago house track, “Move Your Body.” Bodies don’t move so much as sip cocktails and converse, and when they do that, “I take my foot off the pedal,” he says. After a couple of subtle underground grooves, he transitions into The Sunchasers’ “Dance for Me,” which features a sample of Mary J. Blige’s per-co-lat-in’ hit “Family Affair,” followed by the familiar keyboard melody and jazzy chords of … Steely Dan. Not what you’d probably expect to hear during a house set, but the casual nods and foot swivels outside the booth—and the natural way it fits the general vibe—suggest it wasn’t a flippant song choice. It reflects Gibbs’ mantra, one he’ll repeat four times during two different chats. “Music matters,” he says. “That’s my whole thing.”

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DJ GIBBS AROUND THE CLOCK Catch him October 8 at the For the Love of House Music Picnic at Mountain Crest Park, later that night at Downtown Cocktail Room and then early in the morning at Soul State at Artifice.

Dj Douglas Gibbs takes Downtown Cocktail Room on a soulful journey. (Yasmina Chavez/Staff)

That DJ intuition explains why Gibbs has held the Saturday-night residency at DCR for almost 10 years, and why he’s enjoyed a 40-year career behind the decks. He got his start in public spaces like Brooklyn’s legendary Prospect Park, where “we’d take power from the streetlights,” he says. He has since played clubs, bars, restaurants, cocktail lounges and celebrity parties during stints in New York, LA and here in Las Vegas, where he’s found creative ways to introduce both mainstream revelers to house music and discerning dance-music enthusiasts to the rhythmic and contextual flexibility of pop music, always with a sophisticated verve. A Doug Gibbs DJ set can be a musicology class, a sociocultural representation of late 20th century/early 21st century America and, depending on the party, the soundtrack to your life. Gibbs was an open-format DJ before DJs identified as open format, though his version possesses more depth, versatility—and, frankly, soul— than theirs. No matter the night’s theme or the dancefloor’s fluidity, he can execute the soundtrack, always keeping an eye on the crowd—even leaving the DJ booth between song transitions to gauge crowd engagement and energy levels. “I believe if you look hard enough and are attuned to the [room], there aren’t that many things that are off-limits,” Gibbs says. “You can [play a certain song] in that moment, on that night, with that crowd. You’re not just dropping it anywhere. Sometimes I don’t choose the music—it chooses me.” Or it’s mutual. Like when he snuck The Divinyls’ “I Touch Myself” into one of his many hip-hop/dance sets while serving as a resident at Ghostbar. A visiting manager from the Palms’ larger dance spot, Rain, testily questioned Gibbs why he would drop an old pop novelty during peak hour. All Gibbs had to do was point at the women in the crowd gleefully singing along. Part of it was that he read the room. Its energy didn’t call for a big radio hit or dancefloor banger. It called for something nostalgic and sexy. * * * * * Gibbs came of age as a DJ during the heyday of late’70s/early-’80s NYC clubland: Roseland, Studio 54 and the Paradise Garage, where he watched Larry Levan select his jams according to the vibe and the floor, not the charts or crowd expectations. Levan would think nothing of playing upbeat jazz, salsa or old-school soul during his house and disco sets, and the dancefloor— and those running the club—trusted his instincts. Gibbs’ stint at Ghostbar would not be the only place he was micro-managed. He helped open The Beatles Revolution Lounge at the Mirage in 2007—where he fielded requests and demands from not only the club, but Cirque du Soleil and those in charge of The Beatles’ music—and once held court at the former Mix Lounge at Mandalay Bay, where he was expected to play the

evocative, intimate space like a Top 40 nightclub, even during nights specifically branded for international house music. “It’s business, I get that,” he says. “But … that artistic love of music and expressing yourself and introducing people to new musicians—challenging them a little bit, screwing it up a little bit but coming back and having it work—for me, it’s who I am. I can’t not do that. So I have to create my own thing. And I’ve done my own parties.” In 2004, while still DJing for Nine Group, he and current Tao Group resident Jason Lema launched Midnight Snack, a house-centric soiree that incorporated dining, the work of local artists and sometimes fashion shows by Valley boutiques. Gibbs has taken the concept to various restaurants under various names over the years; it’s clearly his passion. “I basically wanted to create something [I’d] hang out in,” he says. But it’s more than a hangout. It’s where he manifests his appreciation for art, creativity and curation. It’s also where he met entrepreneur Michael Cornthwaite in 2006, which led to Gibbs’ Saturday residency at DCR. There, his hard-earned artistic freedom allows him to keep things fresh, as does booking—and even playing alongside—guest DJs. During the aforementioned Saturday night at DCR, young local DJ GMBT switched off throughout the night with Gibbs, who spoke to his guest selector like an equal but still gave him useful feedback. What predominantly sustains Gibbs’ enthusiasm for his DCR residency—and DJing in general—is the hunt for new sounds: YouTube, online DJ sets, digital record stores like Traxsource and movies and TV. He gushes over Daughter’s “Medicine,” which he recently heard during an episode of Person of Interest. “Oh my god, I lost my sh*t,” he says. “I found it, downloaded it and played it like seven times.” A moment of discovery, followed by revelation and rapture. He loves it when that happens for him, and he loves it even more when he can make it happen for you. “It’s a frequency,” he says. “There are few things as great than looking at [someone] when a song is on and you get that turn [toward you]. It’s like you just tapped them on the shoulder and found something inside of them in that moment.” Five years ago, Gibbs wound down an already quiet night with “32 Flavors” by folk singer Ani DiFranco. He says he played it for himself, but also unwittingly for a woman in the back room who recognized the song, ran to the DJ booth and expressed her disbelief and elation that she was hearing a DJ play DiFranco in Las Vegas. It’s why people like her return to DCR on Saturday nights, whether they live here or not. They remember how Gibbs soundtracked their night and connected with them. He sums such exchanges up with another phrase he also uses often: “It’s very much a dance.”

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LAS VEGAS’ FIRST MAJOR SPORTS FRANCHISE WON’T BE SOME OTHER CITY’S HAND-ME-DOWN BY SPENCER PATTERSON

I was a teenager when the Cardinals moved from St. Louis to my thenhometown of Phoenix, and I still can’t fully embrace them as my NFL team today. The Diamondbacks, on the other hand, are my single favorite professional sports franchise, despite playing their first game a few months after I’d moved to Las Vegas. The difference is simple: I’ve been with the D-Backs since the start. I cheered the announcement of their creation, watched as they unveiled their name and colors and counted the days until the expansion draft that would define their early fortunes. Such is the excitement of expansion. The Cardinals, meanwhile, arrived in town with a quarterback, receivers and even a kicker intact. They had a record book and a playoff history. Even their name felt secondhand, or more accurately third-hand, since they’d brought it from Chicago to St. Louis and then to the Arizona desert. I attended the Diamondbacks’ first regularseason game, even getting to walk onto the field beforehand, to feel the grass with my fingers and grasp the true weight of the moment in my mind. Everything about the hours that followed felt new—first pitch, hit and homer. It’s been 18 years, and it’s still the most significant sports memory of my life. One year from now, Las Vegans will have the same opportunity. When the 2017-2018 National Hockey League season opens, we’ll

have our own stake in it, and not because some other franchise left its town behind. The NHL recognized the potential of having an outpost here, and did what so many said would never happen—launch major-league sports in our Valley. You can get a sneak preview of the ice this weekend, when T-Mobile Arena, the new club’s eventual home, hosts Vegas’ traditional Frozen Fury weekend of preseason games—the LA Kings against the Dallas Stars on October 7 and the Colorado Avalanche on October 8—and a college tilt between UNLV and ASU on October 9. And then, starting October 12, the NHL gets going for real, giving you 1,230 regular-season chances to learn about the teams, players, rules and lore—not to mention the ensuing Stanley Cup playoffs, which hockey fans will tell you makes their sport the best one around. How competitive will Las Vegas’ team be at the start? Tough to know for sure, but don’t load up on Champagne unless you have a good wine fridge handy. Expansion doesn’t often equate to quick success, but I, for one, can wait for the winning. Because when it does come—as when the Diamondbacks won the 2001 championship—it’ll be a feeling like no other.

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NHL PLAYERS YOU SHOULD BUY TICKETS TO SEE BY CASE KEEFER

PATRICK KANE Chicago Blackhawks After winning his first Hart Memorial Trophy— awarded to the NHL’s MVP—for a season that saw him lead the league in scoring, Kane could be considered the best player in the world. At age 27, he’s already led his team to three Stanley Cup titles.

SIDNEY CROSBY Pittsburgh Penguins Crosby has long been widely considered the NHL’s top player, and he hasn’t done much to lose that claim. “Sid the Kid” won the Conn Smythe Trophy—given to the NHL’s most valuable player in the playoffs—last year, when he hoisted his second Stanley Cup trophy.

ALEXANDER OVECHKIN Washington Capitals A Stanley Cup is the only thing missing from one of the top careers in NHL history. The 31-year-old Ovechkin has netted at least 50 goals in seven seasons, including the past three, to trail only Wayne Gretzky and Mike Bossy who did so nine times.

P.K. SUBBAN Nashville Predators Nothing creates more excitement and conversation than a blockbuster trade, and one took place this offseason, when the Montreal Canadiens unexpectedly shipped the beloved Subban—one of the league’s best defensemen—to Nashville.

JONATHAN QUICK Los Angeles Kings No NHL goalie is more impenetrable than Quick when he’s at his best. The 30-year-old led the Kings to championships in 2012 and ’14 and will be a regular challenge as a Pacific division opponent for the local expansion team.

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Connor McDavid Edmonton Oilers Las Vegas will also have to regularly deal with the man Gretzky has called, “the best player to come into the league in the last 30 years.” The 19-yearold McDavid is a super prospect who tallied 48 points in 45 games during his rookie season.

Auston Matthews Toronto Maple Leafs Picked first overall in this year’s NHL Entry Draft, this 19-year-old Arizona native is the new great hope in hockey-crazed Toronto. McDavid and Matthews could end up as the next generation’s version of Crosby and Ovechkin, two transcendent talents set to star for years to come.

Jason Zucker Minnesota Wild An offensive force and the first Las Vegas native to reach the NHL, though many could follow if youth hockey gets the surge expected from having a local professional team in town.

JaromÍr JÁgr Florida Panthers The 44-year-old veteran, the third-leading scorer in NHL history, signed a one-year deal to return this season, but he had 66 points to help the Panthers reach the playoffs, so there’s no reason to believe Jagr couldn’t play a 24th season in 2017.

Cody McLeod Colorado Avalanche Everyone loves a hockey fight, and no one throws more punches than the Avalanche’s enforcer. McLeod has gotten into 31 fights over the past two seasons.

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Adam Hendren has some simple advice for hockey newbies. “I think the biggest problem in hockey is people try to watch the puck, and it’s not about that,” he says. “It’s about watching the play develop and watching the players away from the puck.” Hendred would know. For nearly 20 years, he’s officiated hundreds of games at the youth, adult and minor-league levels. Today, the native Las Vegan serves as president of the Las Vegas Hockey Officials Association, which means if you’ve watched or played in an ice hockey game here, his group has been there to blow the whistle. Hendren schooled us on some basics—USA hockey rule back in hand—to prepare us for Vegas’ entry into the NHL. –Spencer Patterson

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“Using the stick to impede the progress of another player.”

“Running or jumping into an opponent, or taking more than two fast strides before checking an opponent.”

TRIPPING

HIGH-STICKING

HOLDING

“Sending the puck down the ice untouched before you cross the center line.” (Note: Doing so while shorthanded is not an infraction.)

“Using the stick in a violent manner— with both hands on the stick—on an opponent’s body.”

“Intentionally tripping your opponent with your stick or any part of your body.”

“Checking a player before he receives the puck, setting a screen or pick or impeding the movements of a goaltender in his goal crease.”

“Carrying your stick above your shoulders and making contact above your opponents’ shoulders.”

OFFSIDE

“The puck must enter the zone before any other players do. You must either carry it in or shoot it in before any other player crosses the blue line.”

CHARGING

“Using your free hand to impede the progress of another player.”

It took less than three years after Wayne Gretzky’s trade to the Los Angeles Kings before I bought my first stick and unsteadily lapped around an ice rink. The Great One unquestionably influenced how Southern California opened up to hockey, and surely Bill Foley and the NHL hope something similar will happen to local youth now that Vegas finally has a major pro team to champion. But what’s here for them in this desert town? Currently, there are two ice rinks—Las Vegas Ice Center on the west side and Sobe Ice Arena at Fiesta Rancho casino in North Las Vegas—that accommodate Vegas’ lone youth hockey league, the Nevada Storm. Las Vegas Ice Center offers Learn to Skate and Learn to Play Hockey 123 programs (which begin October 10 and 11, respectively). From there, prospective players can join the Storm’s house league, then competitive travel teams, followed by the Las Vegas Storm junior team (whose season starts with games October 6-8). Gabe Gauthier, hockey director for the Storm, says buzz is building with the NHL team coming and more people discovering the Ice Center rink. Also, “kids are wearing their Storm apparel at school, and other kids are asking questions.” He adds that interest hasn’t quite warranted an expansion of the youth league yet, but “once the [NHL] team gets going and starts practicing, you’ll see it more. It’s a little tough at the moment, especially with rink still being built.” He’s referring to the NHL team’s forthcoming two-rink practice facility, slated to open next summer at Downtown Summerlin—and expected to sell a lot more sticks and skating passes to kids.

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t seems as if Sia Furler has moved audiences, be it through television or computer screens, from the very beginning of her career. Unbelievably, though, most of us would still have difficulty picking out the charttopping singer in a crowd. The oft-veiled vocalist’s latest video, for her single “The Greatest,” continues to shake viewers to the core, first pulling us in with her intoxicating vocals, then captivating with the striking emotional power of dance. The six-minute video, featuring 14-year-old dancer Maddie Ziegler, is a sorrowful tribute to the Pulse nightclub shooting

in Orlando. As Ziegler dances with 48 other children—49 dancers for 49 victims—it’s obvious Sia’s artistry goes beyond pop boundaries. That the Australian singer and songwriter has managed to funnel her creativity into the mainstream without most of us having ever seen her face is a testament to her sound and vision. Not only has she crafted dancefloor-ready jams like “Cheap Thrills” and belted sweeping ballads like “Chandelier,” she has co-written for stars like Beyoncé and Rihanna. This Friday, Las Vegas will witness the artist, and Ziegler, on Sia’s first arena

tour, with the sizzling Miguel as the opener. Given the resonating effects of her videos and the intensity of her live shows—Sia’s 2016 Coachella performance has been praised as one of the best shows in the festival’s history—her Mandalay Bay stop will likely be one of the most memorable Vegas concert experiences of the year. Sia with Miguel & AlunaGeorge at Mandalay Bay Events Center, October 7. –Leslie Ventura.

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rom his stint as the singer of Tampa band From First to Last to an appearance alongside the Joker in the video for a Suicide Squad soundtrack collab with Rick Ross, Sonny Moore has taken some wild career turns.

Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Sorry.”

Better known as EDM wunderkind Skrillex, the LA native has won eight Grammy awards—most by any electronic dance music artist—including Best Dance Recording for “Where Are Ü Now,” the 2015 smash hit produced with Jack Ü cohort Diplo, featuring Justin Bieber. Skrillex also co-produced four of the Biebs’ other tracks on 2015 album Purpose, including

“I never want to make music that everyone understands,” Skrillex told Billboard in June as he was collaborating with another pop titan, Bruno Mars. “Every time I get in the studio with somebody else and collaborate, that’s when I always have revelations and learn about stuff.”

That’s not all Skrillex has been up to lately. This year, he played Coachella, opened Guns N’ Roses’ Houston reunion show and dropped the short film Still in the Cage with Dutch DJ Wiwek.

If you missed Skrillex’s last set of the

summer at Encore Beach Club last month, the DJ returns to Vegas this month for his XS residency. Skrillex knows how to get the party going. And for those who think DJs just press play, Skrillex has some words. “I kind of like the misconceptions,” he told Billboard. “It makes me feel younger when people still think that you press one button and a whole song happens.” Skrillex at XS, October 8, 22 & 29. –Leslie Ventura

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s summer fades away, so does the electric, rowdy phenomenon known as Vegas daylife ... not. The wild and woolly Ghostbar Dayclub (GBDC) returns for its sixth season on October 22, one of the most outrageous afternoon parties ever to hit Las Vegas. GBDC takes over the Palms’ 55th-floor nightclub each Saturday, mixing spontaneous confetti explosions, costumed club squads, go-go dancers and junk-food takeovers with beloved panoramic views of the Vegas Valley from atop the Ivory Tower. Clubbers dressed in costume receive free ad-

mission, as do local ladies. Favorite features returning this year include bottomless mimosas, brownbagged forties and the Flabongo (a flamingo-shaped beer bong). New additions to the GBDC party include a full-sized, hot pink claw arcade game, for which you’ll receive a token to play with the purchase of a Bud Light beer tube or a 32-ounce souvenir yard. If your claw game is tight, you could win a stay in the Palms’ Hardwood Suite. Party themes this season will range from Halloween’s “Day of the Killer Costumers” contest to November’s

National Doughnut Day and December’s ugly sweater contest and gift giveaway. Mark Stylz, Exodus, Daisy Dukes, Dee Jay Silver and many more will rock the GBDC party. If you’re ready to get crazy in the afternoon, you know where to be. GBDC at the Palms, 702-942-6832. –Brock Radke

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as Vegas poker has changed. The game’s boom era of high stakes and high rollers is in the rearview mirror, and poker rooms on and off the Strip have diminished. But if anyone can help recapture—and even improve upon— the game’s glory days, it’s Steve Wynn. The original Wynn poker room relocated to its sister property Encore at the end of May, and its reincarnation brings a breath of fresh air to a scene in need of exactly that. With 28 tables across 8,600 square

feet, the modern space features its own sports-betting window (with 37 hi-def TVs to keep track of that parlay bet you made between hands), USB ports at each table and in-room restrooms. Tableside food service comes courtesy of Jardin and Wazuzu restaurants—options that far surpass the sandwiches available in most poker rooms. It’s also in a prime location, steps from Encore Beach Club and Surrender. One could easily transition from a rowdy afternoon at the pool or a night

of bottle service to a lively high-stakes session. And those who want more than a few hours of recreation can check out Wynn’s classic tournament series and test their skills against some of the best players in the game. Wynn Poker Room at Encore, 702-770-7654; 24/7. –Debbie Lee

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f you’ve been to the World Series, the Super Bowl or the Kentucky Derby—or here in Las Vegas, attended an event at the new T-Mobile Arena or the recent NASCAR Truck Series race at the Speedway—you’ve probably seen a Bar Pod, solid yet mobile structures that can be customized and carted around the country. But you might not know how the Bar Pod came to be, and you certainly don’t know where it’s going, which is everywhere. Bay Area native Michael Manion, a veteran of global nightlife and music festivals, came up with the idea of the Bar Pod when he saw the success

of frozen-drink kiosks in Las Vegas. “The original ones we built from scratch looked like shipping containers,” he says. “Now we are pushing the limits with multiple models. The one we just set up for NASCAR is 50-feet long; both sides open up, and the rooftop patio holds 300 people.” What was a beverage kiosk has quickly become a real mobile venue, and Manion’s business has boomed since he moved his entire operation to Vegas. The company’s growth has necessitated a name change—to Mobile Brands—because Manion is ready to take Bar Pods beyond concessions. “We are going into other markets,

from augmented virtual reality experiences to product launches,” he says. His company doesn’t just build the pods; he’ll manage their operations, and transport and store them. “Every major corporation wants to get in front of people who attend these events, and we’re a turnkey solution. We take your brand mobile.” –Brock Radke

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hen Herringbone uses the term “ocean to table,” it’s serious. The coastal-cuisine hot spot at Aria has quickly become known as one of Las Vegas’ best places to eat oysters, and it doesn’t matter if you’re there for brunch, lunch or dinner—these briny treats are always fresh and ready, served with classic and innovative accoutrements including mignonette, lemon, Tabasco and kimchi. There’s always fresh variation, too—a mix of the saltier, larger-shelled East Coast types and the smaller, sweeter West Coast options. Whether you’re dedicated to Kumamotos or Blue Points, Herringbone has you covered. That’s especially true on Mondays, when they’re all $3 each on the Hooked on Mondays menu, which also includes a “build your own bucket” option from the Salt & Brine por-

tion of Herringbone’s dinner menu, featuring dishes like shrimp cocktail, tuna poke, Maine lobster and Alaskan king crab. Part of Aria’s Flawless Mondays experience (which extends to Jewel and Alibi downstairs), Hooked on Mondays also offers select halfpriced bottles of Champagne, the perfect match for a few dozen icy oysters. Herringbone at Aria, 877-230-2742; Sunday-Thursday 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m., Friday & Saturday, 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m.

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delighted with the new pumpkin spice and vanilla face and body package, a lush combination that ushers in the season with a relaxing vanilla desert stone massage and facial. Using Tahitian vanilla body butter and warm desert stones, the 50-minute massage eases muscle soreness and tension for a rejuvenating state of zen. Next, a 50-minute pumpkin spice facial uses natural pumpkin enzymes to exfoliate the skin, and a rich, soothing organic mask leaves the skin soft and radiant. Your skincare specialist will tailor the treatment to your needs, with attention to whatever specific care your skin requires.

As if that werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough, the Spa at the Linq offers calming amenities like a sauna and hot tub, and boasts the only Himalayan salt cave on the Strip, which can help alleviate skin and respiratory ailments as well as inflammation. With discounts available to locals, a seasonal trip to the Spa at the Linq could easily become your new fall ritual. The Spa at the Linq, 702-7943242. â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Leslie Ventura

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THE KILLERS SEE THE LIGHTS In 2006, The Killers named their sophomore album for a Boulder Highway hotel-casino. Last weekend, the band celebrated the decennial of the smash Sam’s Town at the only place that made sense: Sam’s Town Live. It was two nights of shiny curtains, rarely heard album tracks and unabashed hometown pride—and you can read all about it at lasvegasweekly.com. (Rob Loud/Courtesy)

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atching the new season of Transparent, I can’t help easier to overlook their faults and annoying personal habits. thinking of that famous quote from Nick Hornby’s But spend a long weekend in their constant company, and novel High Fidelity. “What came first, the music suddenly you’re like, “Why the hell is Elizabeth from The or the misery?” asks Rob Fleming, a beleaguered Americans constantly pulling her hair to one side and over vinyl obsessive and record-store owner. “Did I listen to pop her shoulder? Make her stop!” Had Sex in the City surfaced music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable in the Era of Binge, there’s no chance in hell I could because I listened to pop music?” Transparent is yet have tolerated Carrie’s bad voiceovers and entitled another television show that features a profoundly behavior for more than half a season. depressed and largely unpleasant cast of characters, In the case of Transparent, it’s not so much “I and while TV itself has yet to dampen my spirit— hate these people” as “I hate what these people I’ve grown bizarrely content in my early middle are doing to each other.” The Pfefferman family age—I do often question why I invite so many miseris, as a recent Vulture recap put it, “pretty much able people into my house. the worst.” I keep waiting for one of them to do Ever since the Seinfeld gang made it hip to be selfthe right thing. Perhaps not split during a family absorbed and a certain HBO crime family turned member’s talent show, or when a parent is in Cultural moral ambiguity into a prime-time standard, televithe hospital. But there they are, waiting for the attachment sion has slowly been engulfed by unlikability. Back most inappropriate moment to say things like, by smith galtney in the golden late-’90s/early-’00s, it was a rush to see “I think I cheated,” and crawling into bed with the full-blooded antiheroes of The Sopranos and The a sibling when that sibling is still in flagrante Wire charge the small screen. Now that’s too often delicto with last night’s lover. just another hook. Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner pitched At the front of this codependent clan is Maura, the Difficult People as “Will & Grace if the characters weren’t former patriarch transitioning into the Pfeffermans’ new likable,” and Amy Poehler and Hulu shout, “YAS!” Thing is, mother. A typical show would portray Maura as a trans both Will and Grace had already devolved into despicable person with a heart of gold, saintly and sympathetic. But humans before that series ended, and funny as Difficult Maura feels like a genuinely groundbreaking creation: People can be, one can only binge up to three episodes at a an upper-middle-class snob who wants to be a woman yet time before needing to step out for some fresh air and hucan’t shake all that privileged male entitlement in her man decency. DNA. She’s an asshole, basically, and to Transparent’s Bingeing doesn’t help, of course. If you’re only spending credit, she’s an asshole with whom you actually want to 30 minutes to an hour with someone in a given week, it’s spend another 30 minutes.

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A NATION DIVIDED The Birth of a Nation depicts an ugly chapter in American history By Josh Bell

s the writer, director, producer and star of The Birth of a Nation, Nate Parker has complete command over his vision for the film about Nat Turner’s 1831 Virginia slave rebellion. It’s a shame, then, that Parker’s not a better filmmaker, because he’s telling an important historical story exactly the way he wants to, and reaching a wide audience with it. The winner of both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Birth is often powerful but just as often clumsy and heavy-handed, with nowhere near the artistry or grace of a movie like 12 Years a Slave. In its depiction of Turner’s life, it follows a predictable biopic formula, with lazy movie short-

hand (a character coughs blood into a handkerchief in one scene and is dead in the next), onedimensional supporting characters and rushed montages indicating the passage of time. Parker’s depiction of the brutality of slavery is so intense that it borders on cartoonish, and almost all the supporting performances are extremely broad. But Parker’s own lead performance as Nat is layered and often surprising, as is Armie Hammer’s performance as plantation owner Samuel Turner, whose relationship with Nat is far more complex than the perfunctory dynamic between Nat and his wife Cherry (Aja Naomi King). Nat and Samuel grow up together, and Samuel’s parents take Nat in and teach him

to read, first exposing him to the Bible. Years later, Nat is preaching the word of God to his fellow slaves, and Samuel treats him with as much respect and compassion as is possible between a master and a slave. At the same time, Samuel isn’t immune to financial pressures or the prevailing attitudes of his era, and he doesn’t hesitate to exploit Nat’s oratory skills for his own monetary gain, sending Nat off to preach at other plantations whose harsh owners want to pacify their slave populations. Parker conveys Nat’s gradual religious awakening with dignity and ferocity, and the movie’s portrayal of faith is provocative, as Nat goes from preaching obedience to fomenting violent

Nat Turner (Nate Parker) leads his fellow slaves in a bloody rebellion. (Fox Searchlight/Courtesy)

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LIGHT RAIL The Girl on a Train tells a fairly straightforward story By Josh Bell or all its misdirecDid Rachel do something tions and obfuscations, to Megan during a drunken at heart The Girl on blackout on the night Megan the Train is a pretty disappeared? The answer to conventional mystery with that question turns out to be a pretty conventional (and less interesting than it first apeventually fairly predictable) pears, and the fractured timeoutcome. Based on the bestsellline obscures mostly mundane ing novel by Paula Hawkins, secrets. But what Train lacks in Train has been marketed as innovative thrills, it makes up a sort of spiritual successor for in engrossing, well-drawn to Gone Girl, David Fincher’s characters, with Blunt and twisty thriller based on Gillian Bennett playing Rachel and Flynn’s novel. But while Megan as vulnerable, aaacc Gone Girl offered up difficult women whose THE GIRL ON a dark, nasty and psyflaws make them easy THE TRAIN chologically troubling for others to dismiss, Emily Blunt, take on the crime genre, Haley Bennett, even when they are Justin TherTrain is much more in obvious pain. As a oux. Directed straightforward, with story of women being by Tate Taylor. the kind of story that manipulated by arRated R. Opens Friday citywide. rogant men, Train has could easily fit into a Lifetime movie. surprising resonance, At first it’s not quite but it’s not quite clear why recently divorced enough to carry the movie. alcoholic Rachel (Emily Blunt) The direction from Tate is fixated on the seemingly perTaylor (The Help) has a flat, fect life of Megan (Haley BenTV-movie quality, although nett), a woman she glimpses his reliance on close-ups every day during her train (particularly of Blunt and Bencommute from the suburbs nett) helps sell the characters’ into Manhattan, but the movie sense of being trapped in their gradually reveals the conneccircumstances. It also makes tions among Rachel, Megan, the story feel a bit limited, and Rachel’s ex-husband Tom (Jusonce it’s clear who’s ultimately tin Theroux) and Tom’s new responsible for the central wife Anna (Rebecca Ferguson). crime, the movie loses all Those connections are tested momentum. The characters are when Megan goes missing, and vibrant enough to keep followeveryone in her life becomes a ing, but their ordeal lacks the suspect in her disappearance. same fascination.

rebellion, all inspired by his connection to God. As a writer and director, though, Parker doesn’t seem to trust himself as an actor, and he adds in belabored dream sequences, childhood flashbacks and awkward symbolism to overemphasize Nat’s disillusionment and rage. Likewise, the supporting characters serve little function other than to suffer and/or perpetrate injustices that fuel Nat’s hunger for rebellion. Once that rebellion comes, Parker presents it with visceral force, and the lack of subtlety in the filmmaking highlights just how ugly the conflict becomes. Parker bludgeons the audience the way his main character has been bludgeoned all his life.

aaacc THE BIRTH OF A NATION Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King. Directed by Nate Parker. Rated R. Opens Friday citywide.

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MARRIED LIFE Divorce slowly pulls an insufferable couple apart By Josh Bell BO’s latest dramedy about the emotional problems of well-off narcissists, Divorce pits two self-absorbed, petty people against each other in a battle that neither of them deserves to win. Created by Catastrophe’s Sharon Horgan, Divorce stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church as Frances and Robert, a suburban New York couple with a nice house, two teenage kids, two fledgling businesses and plenty of money to waste on destroying each other in court. What starts out as a semi-amicable split between Robert and Frances ponder the future of their relationship. (HBO/Courtesy) two people whose passion for each other has cooled slowly turns acrimonious, although not nearly enough to qualify as an over-the-top The War of the clueless, selfish friend Diane, whose own drunken in the past. Every time they reminisce about their Roses-style black comedy. confrontation with her husband (Tracy Letts) former life together, it rings false. Divorce doesn’t really qualify as much of anyprompts Frances to first broach the topic of divorce Without any genuine emotion, Divorce gets by thing—it’s too superficial to be emotionwith Robert. on the occasional funny line or offbeat character; aaccc ally affecting, too dour to be funny, too Given how slowly the divorce itself Jemaine Clement is amusing as a buffoonish colDIVORCE slow to be engaging. As Frances and progresses, the show also struggles to find lege professor, and Dean Winters shows promise Sundays, 10 Robert’s uncoupling proceeds at a crawl, interesting subplots to fill time, and Frances as a ruthless lawyer. There just isn’t enough to set p.m., HBO. it’s hard to have much investment in and Robert’s respective efforts to pursue their Divorce apart from other premium cable semitheir small victories and defeats at each new careers (she wants to open an art gallery; comedies about whiny, upper-middle-class suburother’s expenses, or the impact on their two barely he plans to get rich with a ridiculous family fun banites, from Togetherness to Happyish to Hung. present teenage children (a daughter and a son). center) are complete narrative dead ends. Parker It’s obvious from the first moments that Frances Although the show’s tone is generally lethargic and and Church are both solid actors, but there’s never and Robert need to just pull the plug on their mardownbeat, the supporting characters can be irritat- any sense that Frances and Robert ever had any riage; the audience isn’t likely to hold out nearly as ingly shrill, especially Molly Shannon as Frances’ love or passion for each other, even at some point long as they will.

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NEW COLORS SHINING THROUGH CYNDI LAUPER GETS COUNTRY COOL WITH HER LATEST PROJECT

BY ANNIE ZALESKI arlier this year, pop chameleon Cyndi Lauper released Detour, a collection of country and rockabilly standards indebted to the greats—Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Brenda Lee and Wanda Jackson, to name a few—with guests including Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss and Jewel. In a phone interview, Lauper explained why her country curveballs worked so well.

On how she found her footing with Detour’s musicians: “[We recorded the song] ‘The End of the World,’ where I wanted them to use the Prophet [keyboard] sound. I thought it was a transparent sound that would eat up a lot of room on the track, but had that round sound, like in ‘Time After Time.’ So if I made a round sound

with my voice, I’d stay connected to that organ as been down that road before. I was in a rockabilly we moved through the song together. All of a sudband, Blue Angel. So I just started to connect den it wasn’t just, ‘Let’s cut these songs and go.’ with the [musicians]. I heard little things the It was good. We realized, ‘That’s the bar, nothing drummer was doing. So I do what I do: call and below that.’ If we did a song and it sucked response.” and never came to life, we let it go. It had CYNDI to have a real magic to it, and the magic On “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s SweetLAUPER came from the connection. A connection with Operator heart”: Jewel did the yodel. They told me EMZ. Octoto each other and the singer, and that’s Peter Gabriel learned how to yodel in three ber 8, 7 p.m., what made this thing come alive. And lessons, but it’s not [easy]. Yodeling is kind $43-$179. The Joint, 702I think it came out good. It’s a happy of like scatting—you don’t just learn your 693-5222. record. It makes people happy.” syllables and everything just like that. … I saw an interview with Jewel, and she was On her rockabilly roots: “We did ‘Funtalking about how her father taught her to nel of Love,’ and that turned out to be really yodel when she was a little kid, and all of a sudden easy-peasy for me, because I wanted it to be kind it hit me: ‘It’s gotta be Jewel.’ Because it’s unexof rockabilly. When I was singing it, I realized I’d pected. She’s brilliant at it, and it’s kind of funny

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Venetian sojourn The Moody Blues’ John Lodge talks Vegas and ‘Future’ plans Does playing five shows in one venue change the dynamic of your show? When we’re on the road, the show is divided into two parts with an intermission. When you’re in Vegas, it’s a 90-minute show straight through, so hopefully we can take the audience [on a journey], and hopefully they’ll experience it like listening to an album. … To me, it’s important that what you’ve got on a record actually comes over onstage. You may change the dynamic of it a little bit, you may put more energy into it … [but] you’re trying to get that same emotion over. You’re trying to get that adrenaline, the shiver on the back spine.

Next year marks the 50th anniversary of Days of Future Passed. Do you have plans to mark that? We’re going to revisit some of the songs—well, all of the songs—next year. … What’s really good about being in Vegas for two weeks is it means we’re all together, which gives us a great opportunity to put into place what we’re going to do. It’s really important to get it exactly right.

Cyndi Lauper takes a country detour to the Joint on Saturday. (Photograph by Chapman Baehler/Courtesy)

[in the song] when you say, ‘Take it, Jewel,’ ’cause it’s out of nowhere.” On how Detour’s songs fit with the rest of her catalog in concert: “My surprise was, when I put the setlist together, how well everything went together. I fooled around with ‘She Bop’ a little, because I figured, ‘What the hell. You’re gonna get a little bent out of shape about a song about that because I changed it a little?’ (laughs)” On her dream future collaboration: “I’m a big fan of Dolly Parton. Watching her play all those instruments with her long nails, I’m always thinking, ‘Oh, my God, no.’ Because I play everything like a gorilla.”

“They told me Peter Gabriel learned how to yodel in Three lessons.”

What’s your favorite memory of working on that album? I think my favorite memory is the playback. We took huge speakers out of the control room and put them in the studio and invited all of our friends, wives, girlfriends and record company people. We sat there in the dark, and then Tony Clarke, our producer, pressed the play button. It was the first time any of us had actually heard the whole picture of what Days of Future Passed was … At the end of playback it was quiet. It was as though people had no idea—even us—what we had actually created. So we played it again (laughs). And then everybody just stood up and applauded. –Matt Wardlaw For more of our interview with Lodge, visit lasvegasweekly.com.

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LESS THAN SUPER A popular football-betting contest produces surprising results By Case Keefer The world’s most prestigious sports-betting contest has already produced what felt like the world’s most embarrassing losing streak this NFL season. Before the Denver Broncos blew out the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 277, as 3-point favorites on Sunday, 16 straight consensus picks in the Westgate Las Vegas Superbook’s Supercontest had lost. The odds against 16 straight sides losing (or winning, for that matter) are more than 65,000-to-1. It seems even more unlikely in the Supercontest, which is to sports betting what the World Series of Poker is to card playing. A mixture of top professional bettors and recreational players pony up a $1,500 entry fee to enter the competition each year, then make five plays apiece against the spread each week, with hopes of posting the best overall record to win a first-place prize of $906,675 this season. Picks are due weekly at 11 a.m. on Saturday, and the Westgate reveals five most popular sides—reported as “consensus plays”—on its website shortly afterwards. Those picks have fared exceptionally well in the past. From 2010 to 2012, they went a combined 135-105-15, a wildly profitable 56 percent against the spread. But with such plays sitting at 4-16 through four weeks this season, it’s going to be difficult for them to touch .500. The downslide began with Week 1’s afternoon games,

when the New York Giants defeated the Dallas Cowboys, 20-19, but failed to beat the 1.5-point spread. None of the next 15 losses were that close, and many of them were particularly egregious. The most popular overall pick: Pittsburgh laying 3.5 points at Philadelphia, with 663 contestants backing the Steelers. The Eagles won, 34-3, the second-largest blowout in any game thus far. Although a 16-game losing streak is extreme and unlikely to repeat, it’s hardly surprising the consensus picks are less reliable than they once were. For its first two decades, Supercontest participants were almost entirely high rollers who gambled on sports for a living. When the consensus picks began circulating in 2010, there were still just 345 entrants in the competition. But in the past few years, social media and coverage from mainstream sources like ESPN has exposed the Supercontest to a wider demographic. This year it attracted a record 1,854 bettors, meaning hobbyists now far outnumber professionals. This makes the consensus picks more a reflection of which teams the public at large is backing than elite sports bettors’ choices. Going against majority opinion has been a longtime, popular sports-betting strategy, and if this season’s Supercontest struggles have taught us anything, it’s that the contrarian approach can still work.

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PURPLE NEON FOOD CIRCUS HOME IS WHERE THE 10-EGG OMELET IS (AT THE PEPPERMILL) ake a cool, New Jersey-ish mega-diner, add some purple neon glitz, marry it with an alluring strip club lounge and bring in a team of longtime employees who love what they’re doing and you have old-school Las Vegas that can’t be replicated. Welcome to the Peppermill, a 24-hour, three-ring circus filled with a continuously changing cast of characters. There’s food, too— breakfast, lunch and dinner, any time of day or night. We pull up as the early sun is shining, and the front of the store is being sprayed down to keep it clean; it reminds me of early mornings in New York City, except that we’re surrounded by the SLS, Circus Circus MOONEN and the remains of Fountainebleau. LIGHTING Greeted with smiles, we opt first BY RICK MOONEN for the Fireside Lounge, to prime the pump. Maurice, the bartender, has been working there for 12 years; most other bartenders have been there 20-plus. The Peppermill has sat on the Strip since 1972, a communal spot for all creatures of the jungle. Maurice gets right on two Bloody Marys as we marvel at the old music videos playing on screens throughout the lounge. You quickly forget what time of day it is outside. The Bloody is large and slightly sweet, so I ask for some horseradish, and it’s whisked away to be remade the way I want. Love that. We descend to the fire pit surrounded by red banquettes, our neigh-

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SUTTON’S SOUTHSIDE bors feeling so comfortable, shoes are doffed as conversations are shared. Then, off to the dining room. The kitchen is exposed for all to see, and the cooks are cranking out all kinds of comfort food as the expediter works from a spinning turnstile dupe holder—haven’t seen one of those in a long time. The female waitstaff is dressed in car-hop outfits: white blouse, suspenders and pink, blue or red skirt—their choice. The shiny pantyhose are a nice touch, too. Our server, Angela, has been working here 31 years! Before we place our orders, we’re offered a free photo by the in-house photographer. Why not? Steak and eggs is a formidable platter, with crisp hash browns and a reasonable minute-steak thing. I get Joe’s San Francisco Special—hash browns topped with a giant mound of hamburger, egg, spinach and Velveeta. If you’re in search of a gooey mass of steamy stoner food that never seems to get smaller no matter how much you eat, this is your dish. I really like it, but can’t finish. My friend orders the Maserati omelet—10 eggs, Italian gravy, lots of herbal overtones and plenty of olive oil to keep it super shiny (and assure a speedy travel through your system). The Fruit Fantasia waffle is just funny, a mountain of whipped cream that reminds me of an old Herb Albert album cover. It all makes you feel like a kid again, except that you’re sipping on Irish coffee. There are reasons the employees here never want to leave. It’s family, it’s very Vegas, it’s the real deal and it’s a hangout that performs a real function—a warm, welcome, comfortable place to take it all in. When he’s not dining at classic Vegas restaurants, Rick Moonen is chef and owner at RM Seafood and Rx Boiler Room at the Shoppes at Mandalay Place.

MERCATO DELLA PESCHERIA KEEPS AN ITALIAN FOCUS ON SEAFOOD

Vegas is all about culinary diversity these days, but the Venetian/Palazzo complex literally has a dozen Italian restaurants. And it works, especially when you realize how many conventioneers want to hang out on a faux patio in the faux St. Mark’s Square noshing on pizza and pasta. ¶ The newest offering, Miami’s Mercato Della Pescheria, sits in the space long occupied by Wolfgang Puck’s Postrio. Skip the patio and grab a table in the dining room; that’s the best place to experience this familiar yet worthwhile Italian cuisine. Antipasti, wood-fired pizzas, classic pasta favorites and steaks dot the menu, but Mercato Della Pescheria is a seafood restaurant, and the kitchen does it well. Start with cold-smoked Scottish salmon over fennel salad ($14), smoky roasted octopus ($16) or a crisp, lemon vinaigrette-coated seafood salad ($16) of cuttlefish, clams, octopus, shrimp and mussels. Spaghetti alla vongole ($25) or frutti di mare ($28) might leap off the menu for pasta fanatics, but my simple angel hair laced with crab, Calabrian chili, butter, lemon and breadcrumbs ($25) really hit the spot. ¶ A rotating grilled seafood platter is a feast for the whole table, or pick your own favorite fish from a nice entrée selection including branzino ($35) and grilled Hawaiian prawns with sundried tomato salad ($30). If you’re really hungry, the Sardinian fisherman stew ($38) is a saffron-based broth brimming with those two sea treasures plus mussels, clams and little pasta beads known as fregula—hearty stuff. –Brock Radke

INGREDIENTS 2 oz. Popcorn Sutton Small Batch Whiskey 1/2 oz. Marie Brizard Crème de Banana Liqueur 1/2 oz. lemon juice 1/2 oz. Wilks & Wilson Millicent’s Lime Mint Simple syrup 2 oz. Teavana Cacao Mint Black Tea Fresh banana slices Sprig of mint for garnish

METHOD Shake the first four ingredients with ice and strain over crushed ice into a julep cup. Top with cold brewed tea* and garnish with banana slices and mint. (*To make cold brew tea, combine 1 teaspoon of loose-leaf tea per 6-8 ounces water. Let steep for 8-12 hours and then strain.)

Don’t let the number of ingredients in this cocktail discourage you; it’s worth the effort. The whiskey is an 88-proof white whiskey unlike anything you’ve tasted. The rest of this cocktail breaks the rules, too. The combination of whiskey, banana, lemon, mint and cacao tea might sound a little out there, but you’re just going to have to trust us on this one.

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 Thrice, La Dispute, Nothing, Nowhere 10/7, 7 pm, $25-$35. Devin Townsend Project, Between the Buried and Me, Fallujah 10/8, 7 pm, $25. Chief Keef 10/11, 8 pm, $20. Big Sam’s Funky Nation 10/12, 7 pm, $12-$15. Linq, 702-862-2695. Caesars Palace (Colosseum) Celine Dion 10/710/8, 7:30 pm, $55-$500. Elton John 10/12, 10/14-10/15, 7:30 pm, $55-$500. 702-731-7333. Cosmopolitan (Chelsea) Bob Dylan 10/13, 8 pm, $49-$129. 702-698-7000. Double Down 40 Oz. Folklore, Moovalya, Dusty Santamaria, Typical Hairless Ape 10/7. The Dark Hearts, Lonely Stars, Rogue Agent, The Fabulous Miss Wendy 10/8. Shows 10 pm, free. 640 Paradise Road, 702-791-5775. Hard Rock Hotel (The Joint) Cyndi Lauper, Operator Emz 10/8, 7 pm, $43-$179. (Vinyl) New Kingston, Sensamotion 10/12, 8 pm, $12-$20. 702-693-5000. Hard Rock Live Eptic, Must Die!, Skism, Trampa 10/8, 8 pm, $30-$35. Hard Rock Cafe (Strip), 702-733-7625. House of Blues Heart 10/6-10/8, 8 pm, $55-$130. Steve Vai 10/9, 8 pm, $35-$80. Billy Idol: Forever 10/12, 10/14-10/15, 7 pm, $90-$150. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. Mandalay Bay (Events Center) Sia, Miguel, AlunaGeorge 10/7, 7 pm, $35-$150. 702-632-7777. Palms (Pearl) ZZ Top, Kenny Wayne Shepherd 10/7, 8 pm, $86-$188. 702-944-3200. Planet Hollywood (Axis) Lionel Richie 10/8-10/9, 10/12, 8 pm, $57-$190. 702-777-2782. SLS (The Foundry) Jessie James Decker 10/8, 8 pm, $25. (Sayers Club) The Sisterhood 10/8. 702-761-7617. Venetian The Moody Blues 10/7-10/8, 10/12, 10/14-10/15, 8 pm, $60-$250. 702-414-9000.

Downtown Artifice Soul State w/Tony Largo, Douglas Gibbs, Kung Pow, GMBT 10/8, 10 pm, $5. 1025 S. 1st St., #100, 702-489-6339. Backstage Bar & Billiards Strangelove 10/8, 8 pm, $10-$15. Filth, Cirka: Sik, Bury the Rod, Reign, Purge 10/13, 8 pm, $10. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Beauty Bar MDC, Wartorn, Hard Pipe Hitters, Last Rites 10/10, 8 pm, $10. The Decline, MakeWar, Rayner, War Called Home 10/13, 8

pm, $10. Rebuilder, Ramona 10/15, 8 pm, free. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. Bunkhouse Saloon Mike Xavier, Camden West, DJ Duwop Rose 10/6, 7 pm, $10. Macro-Fi Night ft. Kella Bo Bella 10/7, 8 pm, $10. Act of Defiance, Hatchet, Honor Amongst Thieves 10/11, 8 pm, $8-$10. Baio, Hidden Levels 10/12, 8 pm, $10-$12. 124 S. 11th St., 702-854-1414. Golden Nugget (Gordie Brown Showroom) The Guess Who 10/7, 8 pm, $86-$162. 866-946-5336. LVCS Steve Grimmett’s Grim Reaper 10/6, 8 pm, $13-$15. Twiztid, Mac Lethal, Zodiac Mprint, Lex the Hex Master & more 10/7, 8 pm, $25$28. Clika One, Kid Frost, Brown Boy, B-OND, Rey Falaniko & more 10/8, 8 pm, $25-$28. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-3531. Plaza (Beer Garden) The Acid Sisters, Serpentfoot, The Astaires, DJ Jacob Savage 10/8, 8 pm, free. 702-386-2110. Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) Symphonic Spectacular 10/8, 7:30 pm; 10/9, 2 pm, $30$109. (Cabaret Jazz) Freddy Cole Quartet 10/7-10/8, 7 pm, $37-$59. Frank Laspina 10/9, 2 pm, $25. Annie Moses Band 10/12, 6 & 8:30 pm, $49-$59. 702-749-2000.

Everywhere Else Boulder Dam Brewing Stolen Gold 10/7. Out of the Desert 10/8. Whiskey Kiss 10/14. Lisa Mac 10/21. Shows 8 pm, free. 453 Nevada Way, Boulder City, 702-243-2739. Count’s Vamp’d Enuff Z’Nuff, Leaving Springfield 10/6, 9:30 pm, free. Conflict of Interest, Wretched Sky, Desire the Fire, Dinner Music for the Gods 10/7, 9 pm, $5. High Voltage, Sweet Home Alabama 10/8, 9:30 pm, free. Sin City Sinners All-Stars 10/13, 10 pm, free. 6750 W. Sahara Ave., 702-220-8849. Dispensary Lounge Naomi Mauro 10/7. Michelle Johnson 10/8. Shows 10 pm, free. 2451 E. Tropicana, 702-458-6343. Dive Bar Lethal Injection, Guilty by Association, El Nada, Battered Midgets 10/7, 9 pm, $5. Smashing Alice, Driven 10/8, 9 pm, free. One Way System, Total Chaos, Infested, Extremity, Brutal Resistance 10/9, 9 pm, $10-$12. The Svetlanas, New Cold War, The Scoundrels 10/13, 9 pm, $10. 4110 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-586-3483. Golden Tiki The New Waves, Kevin Incroyable, The Straight Razor Syndicate, Professor Rex Dart 10/7, 9 pm, free. Will the High Roller, DJ Maybeline, Professor Rex Dart 10/8, 9 pm, free. 3939 Spring Mountain Road, 702-222-3196. Henderson Pavilion Rock to Walk Music Festival ft. Brumby, Rusty Maples, Kiara Brown, New Masses 10/8, 6 pm, $10-$30. LOS 5, After Romeo, Siahna 10/14, 6 pm, $15-$20. 200 S. Green Valley Parkway, 702-267-4849. Primm Valley Resort & Casino The Cult 10/8, 8 pm, $25-$55. 702-386-7867. Silverton (Veil Pavilion) Jack Mack and the Heart Attack Horns 10/7, 8 pm, $12. 702-263-7777. South Point (Showroom) Herman’s Hermits w/ Peter Noone 10/7-10/9, 7:30 pm, $50. 702-796-7111. Suncoast (Showroom) Jay White: Neil Diamond 1976 10/8, 8:30 pm, $22-$45. 702-636-7075.

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Cosmopolitan (Chelsea) Martin Lawrence 10/7, 8 pm, $45-$125. Margaret Cho 10/8, 9:30 pm, $35$75. 702-698-7000. Mirage Nick Swardson 10/7, 10 pm, $54-$65. Tim Allen 10/8, 10 pm, $65-$87. 702-792-7777. Orleans (Showroom) Frank Caliendo 10/7-10/8, 8 pm, $38-$60. 702-284-7777. Tommy Rocker’s Cozy’s Comedy Corner 10/7, 8 pm, free. 4275 Dean Martin Drive, 702-261-6688. Treasure Island Ralphie May 10/7, 9 pm, $40$65. 702-894-7111.

Performing Arts

Cockroach Theatre The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity 10/13-10/15, 8 pm; 10/16, 2 pm, $16$20. Art Square Theater, 1025 S. 1st St., #110, 702-818-3422. CSN Performing Arts Center (Nicholas J. Horn Theatre) CSN Music Scholarship Concert 10/11, 7:30 pm, $15. 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., 702-651-5483. Majestic Repertory Little Shop of Horrors 10/610/8, 8 pm; 10/9, 5 pm, $23. Alios, 1217 S. Main St., 702-478-9636. The Sci Fi Center Bucket of Blood 10/7, 10/14, 10 pm, $10. 5077 Arville St., 855-501-4335. Smith Center (Cabaret Jazz) The Sweets’ Spot 10/11, 10 pm, $25-$40. 702-749-2000. Theatre in the Valley Broadway Bound 10/7-10/8, 8 pm; 10/9, 2 pm, $12-$15. 10 W. Pacific Ave., 702-558-7275. UNLV (Artemus W. Ham Hall) UNLV Wind Orchestra: Niagara Falls 10/6, 7 pm, $10. Las Vegas Youth Orchestras: Fall Concert 10/13, 6:30 pm, $11-$16. (Judy Bayley Theatre) UNLV Latin Jazz Ensemble w/Arnold Jay Smith 10/9, 2 pm, $8-$10. (Paul Harris Theatre) NCT’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 10/6-10/8, 7:30 pm; 10/9, 2 pm, $10. 702-895-3332.

Special Events

Age of Chivalry Renaissance Festival 10/7-10/8, 10 am-10 pm; 10/9, 10 am-5 pm, $13-$30. Sunset Park, 2601 E. Sunset Road, lvrenfair.com. Andrew W.K.: The Power of Partying 10/13, 8 pm, $10-$12. Bunkhouse Saloon, 124 S. 11th St., 702-982-1764. Beer Park Rooftop Beer Festival 10/8, 5:30-9 pm, $70-$80. Chateau Nightclub at Paris, beerparkfestival.com. Cool Comedy-Hot Cuisine 10/13, 6:30 pm, $500. Brooklyn Bowl, srfcchc.org. Dogtoberfest 10/6, 6:30-9 pm, $35. The Hydrant Club, 109 N. 9th St., eventbrite.com. Edible Education Dinner 10/8, 6:30-9 pm, $150. Panevino Ristorante, 246 Via Antonio Ave., 702-300-7399. First Friday 10/7, 6-11 pm, free. Downtown Las Vegas, ffflv.org. Freakling Bros.: The Trilogy of Terror Thru 10/31, select nights, 7 pm-midnight, $14-$35. Grand Canyon Shopping Center, 4245 S. Grand Canyon Drive, freaklingbros.com. Fright Dome Thru 10/31, select nights, 7 pm-mid-

night, $37-$100. Circus Circus, frightdome.com. Get Outdoors Nevada Day 10/15, 9 am-2 pm, free. Lorenzi Park, 3343 W. Washington Ave., getoutdoorsnevada.org. Great American Foodie Fest 10/6-10/7, 5-11 pm; 10/8, noon-11 pm; 10/9, noon-10 pm, $8-$50. Sunset Station, greatamericanfoodiefest.com. The Great Garage & Antique Sale 10/8, 6:30 am-2 pm, free-$5. Silverton, 702-263-7777. Pawn Plaza’s 1st Anniversary 10/8, 4 pm, free. Pawn Plaza, 725 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-385-7912. Rise Lantern Festival 10/7-10/8, 4 pm, $69-$129. Moapa River Indian Reservation, Valley of Fire Highway and I-15, risefestival.com. Run for Shelter 10/8, 7:30 am, $25-$35. Cornerstone Park, 1600 Wigwam Parkway, 702-451-4203. Star Wars Reads Day 10/8, 11 am-7 pm, free. BooksOrBooks, 3460 E. Sunset Road, Suite R, 702-522-7697. Summerlin Festival of Arts 10/8-10/9, 10 am-5 pm, free. The Lawn at Downtown Summerlin, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive, downtownsummerlin.com. The Writer’s Block The Bourbon Book Club: The Orphan Master’s Son 10/6, 6-7:30 pm, free. Diane Cameron: Never Leave Your Dead: A True Story of War Trauma, Murder and Madness 10/8, 7-8:30 pm, free. Heather Skyler: Vegas Girls 10/13, 7 pm, free. 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock.org. Zombie Walk Live music from The Legendary Boilermakers, Incarnate, Water Landing, Joni’s Agenda 10/15, 7 pm, $5. Boulder Dam Brewing Company, 453 Nevada Way, 702-243-2739.

Sports

Frozen Fury 18 Los Angeles Kings vs. Dallas Stars 10/7. Los Angeles Kings vs. Colorado Avalanche 10/8. 7 pm, $39-$150. T-Mobile Arena, 702-692-1600. UNLV Hockey vs. ASU 10/9, noon, $25-$35. T-Mobile Arena, 702-692-1600.

Galleries

AFA Gallery Tim Cantor: Sweet Favour & Fiend Thru 10/31. Fashion Show, 3200 Las Vegas Blvd. S. #2280, 702-785-0061. Arts Factory 107 E. Charleston Blvd, 702-3833133. Galleries include: Jana’s RedRoom Mandy Joy: Revenge of the Dead Artist Reception 10/7, 6 pm. #135, 702-454-3709. Wonderland Gallery Dia de los Muertos 10/610/28. #110, 702-686-4010. Clay Arts Vegas (Artist Workshop) Robert LaWarre III 10/8-10/9. 1511 S. Main St., 702-375-4147. CSN 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., 702-651-4146. Galleries include: Artspace Gallery Page by Page: Artist Books and Drawings by Karen Baldner Thru 11/19. Fine Arts Gallery Christopher Troutman: Drawing and Narrative 10/7-11/19. Left of Center In Pursuit of Sanity 10/11-1/7/2017. 2207 W. Gowan Road, 702-647-7378. Spring Valley Library Fernando Reyes: Hit List Thru 11/20. 4280 S. Jones Blvd., 702-507-3820. Venetian Art Installation: Laura Kimpton’s LOVE 702-414-1000.

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