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THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY AT ART SQUARE THEATRE And in this corner: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity! This witty powerbomb of a play smashes into Art Square Theater, slamming a Pulitzer Prize-caliber script with the choreographed violence and over-the-top spectacle of pro wrestling.

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Fingers crossed that his first local show in four years resembles the former. $49-$129.

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The Park turns into something close to a real park this weekend when MGM Resorts partners with Spokane Hoopfest to bring this 3-on-3 basketball tourney to the plaza at T-Mobile Arena. Registration is over, but your game is off anyway; cheering and talking trash are free.

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‘FAMILY FRIENDLY LAS VEGAS IN THE ’90S’ LECTURE AT NEON MUSEUM Remember the theme park behind MGM Grand? The boat ride inside the Luxor? The pirate show at Treasure Island? Or when the New York-New York coaster was called Manhattan Express (and didn’t use your head as a punching bag)? They’re all bygone attractions that represented the kid-friendly era of the Strip, a phenomenon local professors and historians will discuss during the next Times of the Sign lecture. $5-10, registration required (702-387-6366).

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PROPHETS OF RAGE AT MANDALAY BAY EVENTS CENTER Zack de la Rocha might not be raging against the machine this election season, but his politically minded bandmates can’t stay quiet. Rage instrumentalists Tom Morello (guitar), Tim Commerford (bass) and Brad Wilk (drums) are touring as Prophets of Rage, with two other famous frontmen sharing the mic: Public Enemy’s Chuck D and Cypress Hill’s B-Real (P.E. turntablist DJ Lord is also onboard). The rappers’ inclusion means Friday’s Vegas show will be sprinkled with hip-hop hits like “Fight the Power” and “Insane in the Brain” (Prophets of Rage took its name from a cut off 1988 Public Enemy LP It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back), but the focus should stay mostly on Rage Against the Machine’s catalog. Frustrated by American politics in 2016? Get to Mandalay Bay and rage. With Awolnation, Wakrat, $20-$70. –Spencer Patterson

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We spoke to Vegas rapper Lil Lavedy (real name: Alice Villa), who performs October 14 at the Bunkhouse.

Were you born and raised in Vegas? I was seven when I moved here. I spent up until early adulthood here, and [then] I was like, I’m not ready for responsibilities yet, and I dirty-kidded it up for two years. I’ve lived in Seattle, Colorado and Nashville and been through 24 states hitchhiking and riding trains. Sometime last year, through going sober and being tired of that culture, I was just like, I’m done.

You grew up in the punk scene.

What got you into hip-hop? We all wanted to drink 40s behind 7-11 as teenagers, right? I was actually obsessed with hip-hop for a really long time, sitting next to my little AM/FM radio with a tape deck, recording songs that I liked.

I only found punk rock because that was the place that accepted me for being as weird as I was.

Have you had any challenges being an out trans artist in the hiphop community? You just show up and spit bars, and they don’t give a f*ck. It’s honestly been way more accepting than punk.

Hip-hop’s just like, okay, you’re here, you’re queer, whatever. Hiphop is about challenging people and ideas. Punk has absolutes.

Hip-hop is still a dream. –Leslie Ventura With B. Dolan, Wheelchair Sports Camp, Hassan, 9 p.m., $8-$10.

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ver wondered how Las Vegans in the early 1900s traveled, washed their clothes, bought their groceries or spent their Friday nights? You’ll soon get to experience life as they lived it, at forthcoming Springs Preserve addition Boomtown 1905. The interactive streetscape aims to “transport our guests back to the era of Las Vegas as a burgeoning railroad town,” according to a brief statement provided by the Preserve.

Plans on its website further reveal Boomtown to become an immersive, hands-on, life-size exhibit that presents and contextualizes the stories of Las Vegas’ beginnings and its citizenry; explains the importance of water to both the city and the steampowered trains that once chugged through the Valley; and fully preserves four former Downtown railroad cottages built in 1910.

Across the cottages—with at least one serving as a furnished, walk-through exhibit—will sit four replica businesses: the Lincoln Hotel, the Las Vegas Mercantile store, the Arizona Club bar and the First State Bank, the only one patrons won’t be able to enter. The outdoor Majestic Theatre—built to host screenings and presentations—will sit in the middle of the aforementioned buildings. And at the end of the faux-dirt road will lie a likeness of the original 1906 train station, where a “trackless” train will deliver guests and simulate the post-turn of the century railroad experience.

A Springs Preserve rep says that while construction on the buildings is finished, work on refurbishing the cottages and interactive/interpretative exhibits continues. Boomtown 1905 is slated to open in February. Additionally, the Springs Preserve website reveals another attraction due in 2017: the Waterworks Museum, an interactive exploration of how water is treated, distributed, used and conserved in Southern Nevada. Springs Preserve is owned and run by the Las Vegas Valley Water District.

A 48-foot-long snake slithers Into Town If you thought the title character in Anaconda was far-fetched, consider the newest exhibit slithering into the Las Vegas Natural History Museum on October 15. Titanoboa: Monster Snake, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Florida Museum of Natural History, will feature a realistic replica of the 60 millionyear-old, 48-foot-long, 1.5-ton snake and two

vertebrae casts. Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever unearthed, was discovered by a team of scientists working in an open-pit coal mine in Colombia. The reproduction of the snake is based on fossilized vertebrae and skull fragments found there. The mighty Titanoboa will remain in Las Vegas until January 8, after which it will wriggle its way to its next den, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. –Rosalie Spear

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WANTED: GREEN ACRES The City of Las Vegas builds a network of parks in our urban core, a little at a time

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FIGHT MONSTERS IN YOUR ’HOOD WITH ‘REAL FANTASY’ Pokémon Go might be fading, but another GPS game could soon be on the rise. Real Fantasy, created by local developer Chris Hood, combines aspects of PC gaming and console RPGs with mobile device technology. That means your nearest 7-11 doubles as a tavern designated for recruiting allies. The game features thousands of monsters (from minotaurs to zombies), magical and physical weapons and unique characters, some based on real-life people. “There are times in the game when you’ll encounter monsters in your immediate area,” Hood says in the Kickstarter video. “You know it’s gonna be a fight to the death.” The app is free, available for iPhone and Android.

–Rosalie Spear

I’m lucky. My neighborhood surrounds Huntridge Circle Park, one of Downtown’s few green spaces. While Huntridge Circle has its challenges (these days it’s something of an unsanctioned homeless encampment, though the city keeps the park neatly maintained), I nonetheless enjoy seeing outdoor movies there and walking its meditation labyrinth. Truthfully, I’m happy to have a park nearby, full stop. Much of the city core is without park space, because early Las Vegas was built without it.

“There was never any central planning,” says Bob Coffin, councilman for the City of Las Vegas’ Ward 3. “It was all residential, and it was ‘use every square yard for housing’—from 1905 with the first subdivision and all the additions to that first subdivision. Then all of a sudden, gee, there were no parks except for Huntridge Park in the ’40s, and then a couple on the outskirts.”

Since then, the city has tried to grab back land for park use wherever it could, and to make the most of every recovered space. Its most recent project, Mayfair Place Park—located on 16th Street, one block north of Charleston Boulevard— packs a lot of goodies onto its modestly sized (approximately six-tenths of an acre) rectangular parcel: playground equipment, a basketball halfcourt, picnic tables and more.

Also, nearby Baker Park is being upgraded: The trampled grass of its playfield is being replaced with a new kind of synthetic turf that stands up to frequent use and resists the sun’s heat. And a new, roughly two-acre park on the Las Vegas Wash, at Washington Avenue and Lamb Boulevard, is deep in planning; it will likely feature a soccer field, even though it’s “barely long enough” to fit one, Coffin says.

It might sound substantial, but if you look at the urban core from the air, there are hardly any parks, with little public land to accommodate new ones.

That’s what the City of Las Vegas is up against— and Coffin says it has only just started getting creative. The future will see residential-sized “pocket parks,” and even park-styled greenbelts lining city streets. “I wish we could put parks on rooftops,” he says. “We’re scratching our heads for space to try to do these things.”

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he good news is that, if all goes to plan, a fine art museum will eventually open Downtown. According to two board members of the provisionally named Art Museum at Symphony Park—board chair Katie O’Neill and executive committee member Michele C. Quinn—the project is moving forward on a tentative six-year timeline; a recent drive intended to raise $1 million in seed capital ended up raising $2 million, and the City of Las Vegas has promised $1 million in matching funds and a pad of land adjacent to the Smith Center, the exact location of which has not been determined. O’Neill and Quinn anticipate that the AMSP will be 100,000 square feet in size and architecturally striking. ¶ The not-so-good news is that Vegas’ residents are leery of cultural projects that cost them money. Dozens of “not my tax money” complaints popped up regarding Ugo Rondinone’s land-art piece “Seven Magic Mountains,” which didn’t cost Vegas taxpayers a dime. (Perhaps we can increase public support of a museum by calling it an “art stadium.” Feel free to hashtag that one.)

More to the point, locals don’t quite seem to get why we need an art museum. That’s job one for O’Neill and Quinn. It’s not about building a museum, at least not yet; it’s about building up the idea of a museum. Yes, money needs to be raised—at least $85 million is needed—but additionally, partnerships must be forged with businesses and organizations, and a fine art museum culture has to be created almost from scratch.

“We’re introducing an art museum to people who’ve maybe never even walked in the doors of an art museum before,” O’Neill says. “We get to open a museum from the ground up, and we can make it a museum that really speaks to our community.”

“Once the doors are opened, I don’t think we’re going to have that many obstacles,” Quinn says. “I think this community is starving for this sort of engagement.”

“There’s going to be heavy programming, spaces for people to hang out, dining options, retail, lounges, educational facilities,” O’Neill says. “Really, I think the biggest challenge we have is the history of bringing an art museum to Las Vegas.”

It’s not an insignificant challenge. Even though Vegas has had comparable art centers in the past— Las Vegas Art Museum, the Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art and the Guggenheim/Hermitage at the Venetian, among others—the physical and cultural scale of AMSP is like nothing we’ve seen outside of a casino. And the fact that Guggenheim couldn’t make a go of things here—friggin’ Guggenheim!—only fuels the naysayers.

O’Neill and Quinn are ready to put out those fires. “If you have questions, if you want to criticize, ask the questions,” O’Neill says. “We want to answer, and we will be the first to tell you when we’re not there yet.”

Meaning: It’s not time to talk about the art, which hasn’t yet been collected; the balance of that $85 million, which hasn’t been raised; or the building itself, which can’t be designed until they know where it’ll be built.

“We’re not going out telling people, ‘We’re building an art museum,’” O’Neill says. “What we’re saying is, ‘We are creating the best possible platform for an art museum to succeed in Las Vegas.’”

This steady but deliberated approach is how AMSP’s potential sister museum, the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, came to occupy a 70,000-square-

foot, Will Bruder-designed building after some 72 years of operating in spaces that weren’t originally built for it. (O’Neill and Quinn plan to bring one of NMA’s recent shows, the Nevada-centric Tilting the Basin, to Las Vegas in January; the venue is yet to be announced.) NMA director of communications Amanda Horn says Vegas’ work is pretty clear-cut.

“When you’re doing a capital campaign for your funding, it’s rather aggressive; you have to hit the ground running every day to get people on board. And you [need to] make it about the community, too,” Horn says. “To be done right and be done well, it’s something that has to be … an organic endeavor. It’s a little bit like comparing apples to oranges to compare Reno to Vegas, but not entirely.

It was this long, slow building up over decades to continue to push the vision, and to continue to grow as this community grew.”

That said, Reno doesn’t have the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art; it doesn’t have Jeff Koons art on its casino floor, as Wynn resorts do; it doesn’t have a James Turrell installation hidden away on the third floor of a Louis Vuitton store (the must-see Akhob, at Crystals). That raises another often-asked question: Why hasn’t local gaming, which seems to have strong interest in fine art, simply opened a stand-alone museum themselves?

“They can’t open a museum without the team behind it running it properly,” Quinn says. “It goes back to viability, [and] I think we now have that. It’s not meant to be a philanthropic money pit. It’s meant to, with the benefit of donations, be self-sustaining.”

As for the why of the Art Museum of Symphony Park, it really is about more than bragging rights, or making Vegas into “a real city.” Our need of a fine art museum, O’Neill says, was demonstrated to her once again on a recent weekend, a few miles south of town at Ugo Rondinone’s seven towers of colorful boulders.

“I was out there with my girls for about a little over an hour,” she says. “I think over a hundred people came and went within that hour. I saw people engaged—so many kids, so many families. Everyone was stacking up rocks, taking pictures. That’s what it is. I’m really grateful that ‘Seven Magic Mountains’ is here for my family.” Just imagine how she’ll feel about our #artstadium.

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atakaw. “That’s Tagalog for one who eats a lot,” my friend Karin says playfully, referring to me, or maybe both of us. My stomach rumbles as I Google the word on my phone. The best translation match? Gluttonous. Gobbler. Gourmand. They’re all great descriptors. If there’s one person up for eating her way through the city with me it’s Karin, and our friendship has always been inextricably tied to food. On this particular evening, her mom, Arlene, is cooking for us, a gathering that emerged from a simple question: Where should we go for Filipino food in Vegas? “Honestly, I haven’t eaten a lot of it,” Karin confesses. The cuisine is traditionally meatheavy, and since her family went vegetarian years ago, Filipino food became less common in her household. But tonight, mother and daughter are going all-out, and I’m the lucky guest.

October is Filipino American History Month, but living in a city as diverse as Las Vegas, we should celebrate communities of color all year round. In 2010, Nevada became home to the fastest-growing Filipino population in the U.S., and two years later, Filipinos became the largest Asian group in Nevada.

One might assume, then, Filipino food would be as heralded here as other Asian cuisines— Thai, Japanese, Chinese … Yet it remains largely underexposed in Las Vegas, despite its strong presence.

“I’m from Texas, and we don’t have any Filipino restaurants out there,” says Joy Lavado, shift manager at Fiesta Filipina restaurant in Henderson. “When I first moved here, I was like, Oh, my God, there’s a lot of Filipino restaurants out here.” Indeed, from Fiesta Filipina to Tina’s Filipino Cuisine, Joy’s Restaurant to Goldilocks Bakeshop & Restaurant, there are quality Filipino restaurants in every part of town, spots that deserve attention. So why haven’t they gotten much?

In May, NBC Asian America launched a video series called Voices. In one segment, titled “Lunch Box Moment,” Asian Americans delved

Tina’s Filipino Cuisine Tina’s offers just about everything you could request, from sinigang (a sour, tamarind-based soup) to lechon kawali (deep-fried pork belly) to fried bangus (milkfish) with a side of vinegar for dipping. Don’t miss the melon juice or ginger tea, either.

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into the social and political context of food— specifically how they were teased by their peers for eating culturally specific foods in school.

“My hunger for my family’s food was overpowered by my desire to fit in, so I minimized Chinese food’s role in my life and learned to make pasta instead,” author Ruth Tam echoes in a Washington Post article. “Little did I know that Americans would come to embrace the dishes and cooking styles that once mortified me …

In some cases, this shift has been heartening.

But in too many others, the trend has reduced staples of our culture to fleeting fetishes.”

As I delved into the cuisine of the Philippines, it was necessary to address the culture behind it. After all, food without context is food without its community.

In Psychology Today, University of Alaska Anchorage associate professor E.J.R. David notes that Filipino slaves on Spanish ships landed in modern-day California in the 16th century, becoming the first documented Asians to settle in the United States. The Philippines is the only Asian country to have been colonized by the U.S., and the Philippine-American War at the turn of the 20th century “seems to

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Leave room for the turon with ube ice cream. Masarap! (That’s tagalog for delicious.) 3399 S. Jones Blvd., 702-538-7588.

Fiesta Filipina With three locations, satisfying your crispy pata fix is super convenient at this family-owned stop.

Must-tries include barbecue pork and chicken skewers, beef caldereta (short-rib stew in tomato sauce) and halo-halo for dessert. 2980 St. Rose Parkway #120, 702-4761122; 3310 S. Jones Blvd., 702-252-0664; 8565 W. Warm Springs Road, 702-776-7733.

be unacknowledged, hidden and forgotten.” It goes far beyond food.

Like music and art, cuisine can be a connective force that reveals deep traditions and bonds within communities. “It makes you not homesick, or it reminds you of being home,” Lavado says of her ties to Filipino food. “I haven’t been back there in a long time. I was born there, and now I have two kids here. It’s something that I can introduce to my kids.

They were born here. When they grow up, even if they don’t go to the Philippines, it’s something they can [remember]—I’ve had Filipino food, I’m Filipino.”

Inside Fiesta Filipina, I order a smorgasbord: lumpia, pancit, crispy pata and more.

The pancit, a popular rice noodle dish, is light but full of vegetables and chunks of pork, and the pata, deep-fried pork hock, is like carnitas on steroids, with skin so rich and delicious it’s almost sinful. The lumpia, the Filipino version of eggrolls, are explosively crunchy and savory.

For dessert, it’s halo-halo, a multi-textured dish made from a variety of sweets—colorful ice creams, jellies and fruits—and leche flan, similar to Mexican flan, but creamier.

Joy’s Restaurant This homey Filipino buffet offers a little bit of everything for just $6.99 (but be forewarned, it’s cash only).

Stock up on the usuals: crispy pata, BBQ sticks, lumpia, pancit and arroz caldo, a porridge cooked with chicken, ginger and spices.

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Goldilocks Bakeshop & Restaurant This chain has some of the best pastries and cakes in town. Craving an ube-filled ensaymada (sweet bread topped with grated cheese) or hopia (flaky, sweet pastry)? This is your place. Snag some traditional dinner rolls— pandesal—on your way out. (Note: It’s temporarily closed for remodeling.) 2797 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-368-2253.

–Leslie Ventura

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arin’s parents were born in the Philippines, but when her great grandfather, Pablo Quindo, was recruited by the military to clean up Guam after World War II, he was granted citizenship. “He ended up living [in Guam] and bringing his whole family there,” Arlene says. “That’s how we all ended up in Guam.” More than 250,000 Filipino-Americans are veterans of World War II. Arlene tells me the story of her grandfather while sautéing chicken for adobo, a Filipino standby made with garlic, vinegar and soy sauce.

It smells heavenly. “We were raised by my grandparents,” Arlene says, the meat sizzling in the pan. On another burner, she adds shrimp, vegetables and noodles to a wok for pancit. “They [taught us] you do things for yourself … by [age] 9, [we had] to know how to cook rice.

You’re not Filipino if you don’t have rice.”

When the pancit is finished, Karin and I slice up eggs as garnish and set the table. The noodle dish is “almost like making a turkey [in the States],” Arlene says. “You have to know how to do it.”

We dip lumpia in banana sauce, a tomato ketchup flavored with fruit. I ask Arlene what she misses most about life in the Philippines and Guam. “Every weekend it would be a party at the beach,” she says, then revisits my question a few moments later. “You know what I also miss the most? Family.”

After dinner, Karin’s mom brews a pot of tea and suggests we make paper cranes, a tradition in their artistic household. Karin and her mom cut the orange tea-bag wrappers into small squares and Karin guides me through the process. A bowl overflowing with a colorful mound of paper birds sits in a glass cabinet. “Keeping your hands busy keeps your mind busy,” Arlene explains. She’s right. For more than an hour we sit, chatting and folding delicate paper into different shapes.

Before I know it, it’s 10:30 p.m. Arlene packs up two containers of food, the cranes sitting gracefully on top as a keepsake from our evening.

Talking for hours over adobo and learning about my friend’s family brought us closer than any of our fancy restaurant outings ever could.

Obviously, a delicious dinner isn’t the only path to understanding a culture, but I’m certain about this: The foods we eat and the reasons we eat them have a significance that extends far beyond the table.

Pancit, as prepared by Fiesta Filipina. (Jon Estrada/Special to Weekly)

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TRÉS BIEN! ROSALLIE BRINGS THE SOUTH OF FRANCE TO SPRING VALLEY

BY DEBBIE LEE proper croissant can be judged by its negative space. Tear into the tail end of any crescent-shaped carb (not all of them deserve to be called croissants) and look inside: You’ll either find a dense blob of dough (très mal), or a delicate construction of flaky layers that have lifted to create a pocket of air (magnifique!).

Rosallie gets it right. Owner Jonathan Pluvinet, a native of France, ICYMI spent six years at the reigns of his parents’ café before giving it new life on foreign soil. It’s hard to find fault with any of the buttery pastries on display. Alongside the standard croissant ($2.10), there’s perfect pains au chocolate, sugar-crusted palmiers and almond croissants to go with your morning coffee.

A menu of light bites is also available. The country plate ($12.90)—composed of sliced prosciutto, saucisson, Brie, mellow and nutty Comte cheese, a sliver of rich walnut tarte and a side ROSALLIE of French bread—is ideal for nibLE FRENCH bling with a friend at lunch. From CAFE a limited selection of sandwiches, 6090 S. Rainbow the Ouest ($12.90), made with duck Blvd., confit and homemade onion jam, 702-998makes for a filling option you’d 4121. Daily, 7 a.m.– never find at the corner deli or sub 6 p.m. shop. Unfortunately, on my visit the house-made breads were pale with a dense crumb, falling behind the superior pastries.

Other typically French options include a baconstudded quiche Lorraine ($8.90) and chèvre salad ($8.90) served with warm goat cheese that oozes from a flaky blanket of pastry.

Pluvinet does his best to Francofy an otherwise dull commercial space. Upholstered chairs, cast iron tables and French tunes are a sincere attempt to transport you from its strip mall environs. It’s also family-friendly: A corner with children’s books is a quaint spot to sit with the tots while you introduce them to their first almond macaron ($12 per dozen).

As a lunch spot, Rosallie draws a fair number of neighbors, but for patisserie connoisseurs in any part of town, it’s worth at least one trip to get your butter-and-flour fix.

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INGREDIENTS 2 oz. Hanson of Sonoma Ginger-Flavored Organic Vodka Pepito Shack does its namesake proud.

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arren Peace is one of the few true pioneers of sound in Las Vegas, a DJ who has truly left an impact and helped shape musical trends in nightclubs and beyond.

He first made a dent in the scene playing some of the first hip-hop club events on the Strip at venues like Luxor’s Ra. After that, an unlikely but significant career development found Peace playing ’80s tracks at the former Polly Esthers nightclub at the Stratosphere. “Doing that for six months really got me on my game, because it taught me how to hold the crowd even better,” he says.

Peace then teamed with Dave Fogg to work on a local house-music radio mix show called Vibrate, which led the duo to construct what came to be known as the “XS format” when the Encore megaclub opened in 2008. “We took what we were doing on the radio and put it in the club at the right time,” he says, explaining the mashup of Euro-flavored dance music with different tempos, hip-hop and more. “That is something that is really dope to hear in music now, the way those genre walls are being broken down.”

Today, Peace is focused more on private gigs and festivals, along with expanding his DJ record pool business DirectMusicService.com—used by every Vegas

DJ you can think of. He executiveproduced the recent documentary film As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM, and he keeps busy being a dad, too.

“It’s funny, because I was pigeonholed as the hip-hop dude, and I’m kind of pigeonholed as a house DJ now,” he says. “At this point in my career I’m looking at a bigger stage.”

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ustin Blau, better known as rising-star DJ 3LAU, has spent half his life in Las Vegas, graduating from the Meadows School before pursuing his passion as an EDM producer. When he isn’t traveling the world on his current 3LAU Haus tour, he’s back in Vegas, performing at Hakkasan Group venues or working on new music. We caught up with him before his next gig at Jewel to talk Bon Jovi, Ariana Grande and his upcoming EP. What separates your residency in Las Vegas from other shows you play all over the world? I actually change my Vegas set pretty frequently to test different concepts. Vegas is a transient market, so you have people from all over the world coming in who listen to all different styles of music. It’s a lot more of a challenge playing Vegas than playing anywhere else, but it’s also a really fun challenge. I’ll play straightup Bon Jovi, which is not something I usually do on tour, but it’s fun for me, because I get to experiment with combining new dance music with stuff that everyone’s familiar with.

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I’m not home nearly enough, and I think that’s why next year I’m going to take a lot more time to focus on my residency and making music at home, because I’ve been all over the world for the past five years.

You recently remixed Ariana Grande’s “Into You,” but you broke onto the scene doing mashups. I still do make mashups, but when I hear a vocal that I really like, like the Ariana vocal, I get really inspired to make a remix. Whatever I’m inspired by in the moment, that’s what I focus on. 3LAU at Jewel at Aria, October 14. –Leslie Ventura For the complete interview, visit lasvegasweekly.com/industry.

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wenty-year-old singer/ songwriter Alessia Cara has been in Vegas a lot lately: Before she took her rightful place among other hitmakers at the iHeartRadio festival, she opened for Coldplay at T-Mobile Arena. Now, the voice behind pop-R&B gems “Here” and “Wild Things” and current single “Scars to Your Beautiful” returns to the Strip to play the warm, intimate SLS concert hall the Foundry.

“I just did Radio City, too, and that was the biggest crowd I’ve ever played. It was incredible,” Cara says from a tour stop in Detroit. “But I like to do more intimate shows just as much as the big ones. The fans get equally excited at both.”

Cara has made many fast fans since her debut album, Know-ItAll, came out last fall. It’s easy to connect with her velvety voice and a smooth, confident delivery suggestive of a performer twice her age. “It’s been pleasantly sur-

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“I just didn’t expect people to take my opinions and views and feelings and connect as much as they have.”

Cara’s style feels simultaneously fresh and familiar, and those subtle throwback tones could be coming from a highly influential artist she adores—Amy Winehouse. “She really shaped my inspiration of who I want to be as an artist,” Cara says.

“She didn’t have crazy-amazing lyrics or technical strategy, she was just so raw and clever and herself. I just want to sing from the heart and make lyrics that mean something.

That’s all that matters, and she did that so well.” Alessia Cara at the Foundry at SLS, October 15.

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edona was once a suburban restaurant hot spot. When Golden Entertainment took over its space early this year, initial plans would have replaced it with the popular Sierra Gold tavern brand. But plans changed.

“We’ve opened four or five brands underneath our PT’s umbrella, and we decided we wanted to test ourselves to find that next niche product,” says Blake Sartini II, Golden’s senior vice president of distributed gaming.

“We’re trying to get outside the confines of the gaming [bar] ... When we got this location, it made sense to put this vision of SG Bar into play.”

Located on West Flamingo Road near the Beltway and opened in September, SG Bar could be described as an elevated gaming tavern, armed with a fresh, comfortable design focused on food and beverages. There are 24 beers on tap—including some produced at Golden’s new PT’s Brewing Company— an expansive food menu that goes far beyond bar favorites, one-of-a-kind artwork and patio and private spaces for corporate events and parties. “I think it’s a much more upbeat experience, and you can feel it when you walk in,” Sartini says.

Golden Entertainment, which operates more than 50 taverns in Nevada,

continues its rapid growth, having converted to a publicly traded company last year and taking on operations of casinos and properties in Maryland and Montana. SG Bar could become a bigger piece of the company’s overall picture. “Can we take this [concept] to Denver or Portland and survive there?

That’s something we’ve always been interested in,” Sartini says. “This could be the vehicle to test those waters.”

SG Bar at 9580 W. Flamingo Road, 702-320-4700; 24/7. –Brock Radke

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ports and food are an ideal combination, and on the Las Vegas Strip, there’s perhaps no place better to optimize this combo than at Lagasse’s Stadium, tucked away beneath the lobby of the Palazzo. Stadium-style seating gives excellent viewing angles of the wall of big screens. Between the quality of the viewing experience and the quality of the food, you might not leave for the entire three-week run of March Madness.

Chef Scott Pajak, a Chopped champion, just introduced new items to the Stadium menu. The truffle shrimp and crab pasta is as luxurious as it sounds, with plump sautéed shrimp atop linguini with lump crab meat, all tossed in a truffle-herb butter.

Lobster grilled cheese isn’t far behind on the decadence scale.

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Emeril’s buttermilk fried chicken takes the routine chicken and waffle plate and reignites it with perfectly fried fowl paired with a flavorful jalapeño-cornbread waffle and equally assertive vanilla honey butter and Crystal hot sauce syrup.

Chef Pajak sums up the Lagasse Stadium experience like this: “There’s no other place like it.

Restaurant. Sports book. Man cave. Game day is great, and you get Chef Emeril’s food. You can’t beat it.” Lagasse’s Stadium at Palazzo, 702-607-2665; daily 11 a.m.-10 p.m. –Jason Harris

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hen it comes to mixology, the bartenders at Oak & Ivy don’t mess around. The cuttingedge cocktail bar at Downtown Container Park has a vintage vibe, shelves stocked with hard-to-find liquors and a careful craft process headed by lead bartender Chris Gutierrez.

The Whiskey Smash is the signature cocktail, pleasing those who think they can’t drink whiskey and those who love whiskey the most. It’s updated seasonally with different fruit, and the fall menu’s Smash features Buffalo Trace, fresh lemonade and muddled raspberries, garnished with a sprig of soft sage.

Gutierrez likes to emphasize the texture of Oak & Ivy’s drinks; he and the staff have a passion for utilizing top ingredients and developing a story behind each cocktail. “Intention is an ingredient,” he says, noting that each drink makes you feel a certain way.

Another new fall cocktail is Mrs. Lovett’s Pies, its name referencing a character from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Gutierrez considered using pumpkin but switched it up to combine butternut squash puree with house-made pecan syrup, Absolut vanilla, Luxardo amaretto and cinnamon, garnished with thyme and lemon zest. The result: a smooth blend, drink

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“We make drinks every day that we’ve never made before,” Gutierrez says.

“We want to create concepts that will become modern classics.” Oak & Ivy at Downtown Container Park, 702-945-6717; Monday-Thursday 3-11 p.m., Friday 1 p.m.-1 a.m., Saturday 11 a.m.-1 a.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

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The newest venue to emerge on the scene is Freedom Beat, a restaurant

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10/21 Tony Martinez. 10/22 DJ Karma. 10/25 DJ Crooked. 10/28 DJ Ikon. 10/30 XIV Vegas Sessions. Bellagio, nightly, 702-693-8700.

10/14 Calvin Harris. 10/15 Fergie DJ. 10/18 Steve Aoki. 10/21 Calvin Harris. 10/22 Steve Angello. 10/25 Burns. 10/28 Calvin Harris.

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MAKING BEATS AND CONVERSATION No one would have faulted Sia (far left) if she’d just played her hits at Mandalay Bay Events Center last week; after all, she’s got a bunch. But the indie darling-turned-pop star took the opportunity to engage us in an artful conversation on the human condition. (And she had time to sing “Alive” and “Bird Set Free,” too.)

Read our review at lasvegasweekly.com.

(Christopher DeVargas/ Staff)

Great Vegas movies to watch again (or for the first time)

The Weekly 5

1. Thor at the Bus Stop (2009) The

2. Liars, Fires and Bears (2012) Megli

3. Behind the Candelabra (2013)

first feature from brothers Jerry and Mike Thompson is a low-key delight, highlighting their talents at creating quirky characters and putting them in funny, unexpected situations.

Micek and Lundon Boyd are affecting as outsiders (a hardscrabble foster kid, and an aimless adult) who bond while on the run in this engaging comedy-drama.

Steven Soderbergh’s biopic about Liberace (Michael Douglas) focuses on his tortured relationship with Scott Thorson (Matt Damon), revealing complex personal dynamics.

4. The Trust (2016) Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood star as corrupt Vegas cops attempting a heist in this offbeat thriller, featuring one of Cage’s most endearingly oddball performances and an often striking visual style.

5. Electrick Children (2012) Writer-director Rebecca Thomas showcases Downtown and the suburbs in a magical-realist story about a teen who flees to Vegas from her fundamentalist religious community. –Josh Bell

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GUNS AND NUMBERS Ben Affleck expertly handles both in the idiotic thriller The Accountant

By Josh Bell he title character of The Accountant (played by Ben Affleck) investigates financial inconsistencies for dangerous clients including drug cartels, the mob and terrorist organizations, but none of those people show up in the movie about him. Instead, the main client Affleck’s Christian Wolff takes on in The Accountant is an electronics company with an embezzlement problem, which it has brought him in to solve as an entirely legal outside consultant.

Eventually, Christian finds himself in the line of fire anyway, but there’s a lot of scrawling numbers on white boards and having terse discussions with executives before he gets there.

Luckily for Christian, his combat skills are nearly as advanced as his accounting skills, thanks to his childhood as the autistic son of a military commander. The Accountant takes what could be charitably described as a misguided and outdated perspective on autism, portraying Christian as a single-minded genius (both with numbers and with firearms) as a

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result of his condition. He has trouble connecting superhuman as they need at any given moment, and with people, but he forms a bond with fellow accounthe gauzy flashbacks to his childhood are especially tant Dana (Anna Kendrick), who first uncovered potone-deaf and annoying. tential improprieties at the electronics company and Those flashbacks also feature Christian interactthus ends up marked for elimination along ing with his younger brother, the source of aaccc one of the idiotic twists the movie throws in with Christian. Both a determined hit man THE (Jon Bernthal) and a pair of federal agents toward the end (it’s never a good sign when ACCOUNTANT (J.K. Simmons, Cynthia Addai-Robinson) nearly the entire theater is laughing at a Ben Affleck, are on Christian’s trail as he tries to protect movie’s big reveal). Instead of making auAnna Kendrick, Jon Bernthal.

Dana and figure out who’s targeting him. tism one element of Christian’s personality Directed by Once the lengthy setup is out of the way, and backstory, the filmmakers turn it into Gavin O’Connor. director Gavin O’Connor (Warrior, Jane the source of practically every plot developRated R. Opens Friday citywide.

Got a Gun) stages some decent action ment, as gimmicky as a sleeper agent’s sequences, and Affleck has gotten good at brainwashing or a superhero’s lab accident. playing grim, violent intensity. But the It’s not even in service of an interesting action is surrounded by increasingly far-fetched story, as the movie’s villains are bland corporate and clumsily delivered exposition; at one point executives trying to enhance their bottom line, Simmons spends what feels like 10 minutes laying and ultimately matter very little in the resolution. out much of Christian’s back story in voiceover. The Christian packs up neatly and moves on, maybe to autism angle gives O’Connor and screenwriter Bill work for some clients who would actually make for Dubuque license to make Christian as conveniently an exciting, fast-paced thriller.

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TEENAGE WASTELAND American Honey finds sympathy for dirtbags The credits for American Honey feature only a list of names, with no breakdown of individual roles for cast or crew. That’s a reflection of the way British writer-director Andrea Arnold crafted the movie, recruiting mostly non-professional actors, improvising many of the scenes and shooting in chronological order while the entire cast and crew traveled across the U.S. The result is meandering and shapeless, but it has a bracing authenticity that’s tough to dismiss completely.

Still, with a running time of nearly three hours, the movie is often a chore to watch, especially as Arnold focuses on the volatile relationship between Star (newcomer Sasha Lane) and Jake (Shia

LaBeouf at his grodiest), two members of a “mag crew,” a group of young people selling questionable magazine subscriptions door to door. Star fixates on Jake and the mag crew as a way to escape her dead-end town and abusive home life, but Jake isn’t much better, and their tedious cycle of fighting and screwing drags on interminably.

Outside of that central relationship, though, Arnold captures a striking look at American life on the margins, with some beautiful cinematography and a casual, lived-in vibe among the supporting characters. A documentary about mag crews, a real phenomenon, could have encapsulated Arnold’s vision of American poverty more concisely. –Josh Bell

Christopher Guest’s Mascots is a bit like a reunion album by a classic rock band: It’s familiar enough to be welcome and comforting, but often feels like a pale imitation of what the people involved created during their heyday. Writer-director Guest, co-writer/star Eugene Levy and a team of talented actors produced three beloved and very funny semi-improvised mockumentary features (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind) during a short period starting in 1996, and since then Guest has struggled to recapture the same acclaim and success.

Mascots returns Guest to the mockumentary feature format, along with many of his repertory players (including Parker Posey, Ed Begley Jr., Jane Lynch, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard and others), although Levy is notably absent, both as writer and actor. Mascots most closely resembles Best in Show, as absurdly dedicated practitioners of an obscure pursuit (performing as sports mascots) gather for an annual competition.

Guest has fun with the portrayal of people who take their roles as mascots very, very seriously, although the humor is gentler and softer than in his earlier films.

Newcomers including Zach Woods and Sarah Baker match well with the returning cast, and even if most of the jokes elicit mild chuckles rather than hearty laughs, the whole thing is probably worth seeing just to hear Chris O’Dowd say “mascotery” in his Irish brogue. –Josh Bell

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Åkerfeldt (center) and Opeth, having blown the roof off another building. (Photo courtesy)

FOR OPETH FRONTMAN MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT, EXPERIENCE BREEDS SUCCESS

BY ANNIE ZALESKI few weeks after the release of 12th studio record Sorceress—proggy Swedish metal outfit Opeth’s first release on its own imprint, Moderbolaget—vocalist/guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt checked in to talk about the band’s approach to recording, being hungover in Vegas and more.

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On culling a setlist from a 12-album catalog: We like to cover as many records as possible, but if we were to play one song from each record, the show would be, I don’t know, two-and-a-half hours.

We’ve got three new songs, and then we’re playing some—by Opeth standards—classic songs and a few obscure ones, too, for the diehard fans … clocking in just below two hours, which is a decentlength set, I think.

On Tom Dalgety, who returned to co-produce latest album Sorceress: He’s a young guy with old knowledge. He’s into microphone techniques, as opposed to just using digital stuff and modern

equipment. And he’s very quick, which resulted in us recording the record in not even 12 days. We had a great time recording, and we even had some extra time to go down to the pub and drink lots of beer.

roster, and we kind of like that. Some people collect bands on labels—I’ve done that myself—and they expect a certain sound to come from a certain label. We kind of undermine that perception by setting up our own imprint, I think.

On working together: We’re a unit when we’re touring—it’s like the five of us against the world— On Vegas: We’ve played there a couple of times, and it feels like we maintain that when we’re and the shows have been good. I don’t reOPETH in the studio. Everybody’s present when the member anything from it other than being with other guys are recording, and everybody pitchhungover. [Guitarist] Fredrik [Åkesson] is The Sword. es in with their opinions. It’s really important October 18, 7 a bit of a gambler, so I sit next to him and p.m., $35-$50. drink beer and watch him play the slots. I for us to make it into a collective thing.

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On new Opeth imprint Moderbolaget: limit of X amount of dollars! (Laughs.) But We started doing it for us, but we could I just hang out with him and watch him play sign up other bands, and we could use the and drink beer. So we end up being drunk, imprint for solo records or for side projects. You because he will lose all of his money and then he’s also detach yourself from any record label that going to win it all back, so we’ll be there for hours. you’re on. I wouldn’t have a problem with just And then the next day, we play the show. having it say Nuclear Blast on there, but it kind of gives us our own little world. We’re not going to be For more of our interview with Åkerfeldt, visit lumped together with the rest of the bands on the lasvegasweekly.com.

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[2012’s] Nocturne, which lasted a while never going to be able to shake the October 19, for us, I was casually working on mu’80s-revival tag, but I can at least play 9 p.m., $15. sic, but for the most part I just wanted around with what that means and what Bunkhouse to escape from it. I was ready to not I’m referencing. There’s definitely a lot Saloon, 702think about music in the way that I had more inspiration now from music in the 982-1764. been for a little while. Once I did start ’70s, and less genre-specific stuff, too. working on new music, I didn’t necessarily mean to spend that long on it. I The album art looks like a still-life was just living life and sort of being surprised painting. Are you an art buff? To a certain exat how much time passed. tent. I think the best thing you can do as an artist or musician is to broaden the scope of what There seem to be more ’70s pop references you’re interested in. It’s all interconnected. I on the album than on previous projects. think there’s a very still-life quality to the album Did recording in Stockholm [Sweden] have cover, and that was definitely intentional. It’s anything to do with that? I’ve always been meant to pull from surrealist art and surrealist drawn to a lot of Scandinavian pop. I feel like album design. –Leslie Ventura

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ELASTIC ART Town and CountRy brings a wide range of classic work to Bellagio

by Dawn-Michelle Baude he Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art’s newest exhibition, Town and Country: From Degas to Picasso, is worth a visit for two reasons. First, some of the works, like André Derain’s small canvas, “Landscape in Southern France” (circa 1907-27)— with its sexy, Cezanne-inspired picture plane—are jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Second, little-known pieces, like Vincent Van Gogh’s somber oil painting “Weaver” (1884), shed light on the artists’ better-known works. A study of a woman dwarfed by an overwhelming loom, “Weaver” wouldn’t likely be hanging on the Bellagio wall if Van Gogh hadn’t gone on to produce the bright, energetic Expressionist paintings for which he is universally recognized.

Curated by Claire Whitner of the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, and organized by BGFA Executive Director Tarissa Tiberti, Town and Country was culled from a traveling exhibit almost twice its size. Drawn from holdings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the 47 paintings, prints, drawings and photographs in the Bellagio curation link the country/town theme to a host of related binaries: urban/rural, wealthy/poor, debauched/pure, work/leisure and on and on. Just about any piece of art with a tree or architecture, peasant or person-ofmeans, produced between 1850 and 1930 might have been included.

The pliable theme lends itself to an extensive range of name-brand artists—mostly French, but also American, Spanish and German—

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“Visit to a Museum” (circa (1925); and Robert Earle 1879-90), a painting deHenri’s intriguing small-forpicting two women—possibly the mat Impressionist paintings, “Café artist Mary Cassatt and her sister— Bleu, St. Cloud” and “Café by Night themselves looking, like the viewer, with Japanese Lanterns” (circa at paintings. The women are 1895-99), with their now-you-seeserious and absorbed, one of them them, now-you-don’t blobs. portraying an almost irreverent Town and Country isn’t short on confidence, chin lifted, nose in the interesting works. Yet, overall the air. The trademark contour lines exhibition has a lingering, catch-all Degas deploys in his nudes convincquality due to its elastic art-duringingly render the women’s clothed the-industrial-revolution theme. A bodies, including the suggestion of tighter curatorial focus geared to a the cleft between a pair of buttocks. small exhibition space would have More mischievous, perhaps, is the made a strong show even stronger.

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By Geoff Carter e Las Vegans employ a great many adjectives What hasn’t changed is that a number of promito describe our city, but “literary” is rarely nent authors are coming to Las Vegas to read and among them. Between our hectic service jobs answer questions. This year’s lineup includes and—let’s face facts, here—our criminally celebrated novelist and essayist Geoff Dyer; bestunderfunded K-12 schools, it’s easy selling children’s literature author Megan to imagine that most of us simply don’t read McDonald; MacArthur Genius Award recipiVegas books unless there’s a boy wizard somehow Valley Book ent Katherine Boo; Pulitzer Prize-winners involved. Thankfully, the Vegas Valley Book Stacy Schiff, Adam Johnson and Alexandra Festival Festival proves otherwise. Now in its 15th Berzon; young adult authors Don Calame, October 14, 7 p.m., the year, the VVBF returns on October 14 and Eliot Schrefer and Adam Silvera; and Beat Writer’s Block; 15—and this time, festival co-chair Danielle Generation poet Joanne Kyger.

October 15, 10 Milam says, you’ll only need to find one parkThe author events are supplemented by a.m.-7:30 p.m., Historic Fifth ing spot. the VVBF’s excellent family programming.

Street School; “We’ve consolidated in Downtown this Vegas PBS will host a meet-and-greet with free. Vegas year,” she says, meaning that the events that its popular children’s characters. Storyteller valleybook festival.org. formerly took place in the UNLV area have Doug Mishler will wander the festival grounds all been moved to Downtown’s Historic Fifth in character as Theodore Roosevelt, in celStreet School. What’s more, a “really cool ebration of the 100th birthday of the National after-dark event,” produced in conjunction with Parks Service. And Mister G, a Latin Grammy awardWriter’s Block Book Shop, will take over Inspire on winner for Best Children’s Album, will perform.

Saturday night—one that features more adult themes It’s all in keeping with the VVBF’s ongoing, volunand, hallelujah, adult beverages. If this year’s VVBF teer-led effort to serve our community of constant looks like it’s evolved, that’s because it has. “We readers. As it turns out, Vegas has lots. “We have [now] know what works and what doesn’t,” Milam discovered all kinds of new audiences in the course of says. “And we’re building on what works.” our 15 years,” Milam says.

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Live Music THe Strip & Nearby Brooklyn Bowl Yellowcard, Like Torches, Dryjacket 10/14, 7 pm, $27-$37. Emo Night Brooklyn 10/14, 11:30 pm, $8-$10. Clutch, Zakk Sabbath, Kyng 10/15, 7 pm, $29-$39. Schoolboy Q, Joey Bada$$ 10/16, 7 pm, $43-$160. Ja Rule, Ashanti 10/17, 7:30 pm, $38-$65. Opeth, The Sword 10/18, 8 pm, $35.

Russ 10/19, 8 pm, $20-$60. Linq, 702-862-2695.

Caesars Palace (Colosseum) Elton John 10/1410/15, 10/19, 7:30 pm, $55-$500. 702-731-7333.

Cosmopolitan (The Chelsea) Bob Dylan 10/13, 8 pm, $49-$129. (Boulevard Pool) The 1975 10/19, 8 pm, $35. 702-698-7000.

Double Down The Mapes, Atomic Fish 10/13, 9 pm. Valkyrie Missile 10/14. Lambs to Lions, Child Endangerment, Kill the Bullfighter, Quietude 10/15. Gold Top Bob & The Goldtoppers 10/19. Shows 10 pm, free. 640 Paradise Road, 702-791-5775.

Hard Rock Hotel (Vinyl) The Foreign Exchange 10/15, 8 pm, $23-$45. The Amity Affliction, Being as an Ocean, Hundredth, Trophy Eyes, Deadships 10/18, 6 pm, $19-$35. 702-693-5000.

Hard Rock Live Coscullela 10/15, 9:30 pm, free.

Hard Rock Cafe (Strip), 702-733-7625.

House of Blues Billy Idol: Forever 10/14-10/15, 10/19, 7 pm, $90-$150. Yandel, Alexis y Fido, De la Ghetto, DJ Lobo, Gardiel 10/16, 7 pm, $41-$87. Parkway Drive, We Came as Romans, Counterparts 10/20, 5 pm, $25. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600.

Mandalay Bay (Events Center) Prophets of Rage, Awolnation, Wakrat 10/14, 7 pm, $20-$70.

702-632-7777.

MGM Grand (Garden Arena) Jimmy Buffet & The Coral Reefer Band 10/15, 8 pm, $40-$212.

702-891-7777.

Orleans (Showroom) Under the Streetlamp 10/15-10/16, 8 pm, $33-$54. 702-284-7777.

SLS (The Foundry) Alessia Cara, Ruth B, Nathan Sykes 10/15, 6:30 pm, $39. (Sayers Club) The Sisterhood 10/14, 10 pm, free. 702-761-7617.

T-Mobile Arena The Rolling Stones 10/19, 10/22, 8 pm, $75-$750. 702-692-1600.

Topgolf The Congress 10/14, 8 pm, free. Katastro 10/15, 8 pm, free. 4627 Koval Lane, 702-933-8458.

Venetian (Theatre) The Moody Blues 10/14-10/15, 8 pm, $60-$160. 702-414-9000.

Downtown Backstage Bar & Billiards Filth, Cirka: Sik, Bury the Rod, Reign, Purge 10/13, 8 pm, $10. Freeze

Warning 10/14, 8 pm, $5. The Yawpers, The 4onthefloor, Alex and His Meal Ticket 10/18, 8 pm, $8-$10. 601 Fremont St., 702-382-2227.

Beauty Bar 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 B. Dolan, Wheelchair Sports Camp, Hassan, Lil Lavedy 10/14, 10 pm, $8-$10.

Ra Ra Riot, Rabid Young 10/15, 9 pm, $15-$18.

Wild Nothing, Dark Black, Party Talk, DJ Fish 10/19, 9 pm, $15. 124 S. 11th St., 702-854-1414.

Downtown Las Vegas Events Center Sublime with Rome, The Expendables, One Pin Short 10/14, 8 pm, $36-$138. 200 S. 3rd St., 800-745-3000.

Golden Nugget (Gordie Brown Showroom) Foghat 10/14, 8 pm, $64-$108. 866-946-5336.

Griffin Death Valley Girls, The Acid Sisters 10/13, 10 pm, free. 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577.

Hard Hat Lounge The Veldt, Shayna Rain 10/20, 9 pm, $5. 1675 Industrial Road, 702-384-8987.

LVCS Mayday, Web Three, Joseph Rose, The Jones & more 10/14, 9 pm, $12-$15. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-3531.

Plaza (Beer Garden) Same Sex Mary, Glass Pools, The Prettiest, DJ Fish 10/15, 8 pm, free. 702-386-2110.

Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) Ian Anderson 10/14, 8 pm, $35-$95. Harlem Quartet with Aldo Lopez-Gavilan 10/14-10/15, 7 pm, $49$59. Straight No Chaser 10/15, 8 pm, $44-$75.

(Troesh Studio Theater) (Cabaret Jazz) Megan Hilty, Seth Rudetsky 10/15, 7 pm; 10/16, 2 pm, $49-$89. Jack Jones, Christian Jacob, Kendall Kay, Chris Colangelo 10/17-10/18, 7 pm, $39-$59.

702-749-2000.

Everywhere Else Adrenaline Sports Bar and Grill Pure Joy, Almost Normal, Pet Tigers, Lakoda 10/15, 8 pm, $5. 3103 N. Rancho Drive, 702-645-4139.

Aliante Casino + Hotel + Spa (Access Showroom) Brian Culbertson 10/14-10/15, 8 pm, $50-$90.

Roman Street 10/16, 2 pm, $26-$36. 702-692-7777.

Boulder Dam Brewing Whiskey Kiss 10/14, 8 pm, free. 453 Nevada Way, Boulder City, 702-243-2739.

Count’s Vamp’d Sin City Sinners All-Stars 10/13, 10 pm, free. Stephen Pearcy Band, Chaotic Resemblance, Leona X 10/14, 8 pm, $15-$20.

Ozzmania, Diamonds & Rust 10/15, 9:30 pm, free. 6750 W. Sahara Ave., 702-220-8849.

Dispensary Lounge Toscha Comeaux 10/14.

JoBelle Yonely 10/15. Joe Darro 10/19, 8 pm. Shows 10 pm, free. 2451 E. Tropicana, 702-458-6343.

Dive Bar The Svetlanas, New Cold War, The Scoundrels 10/13, 9 pm, $10. In Theaters Friday, Fear of Static 10/14, 9 pm, $5. Leather Duchess 10/15, 8 pm. The Goddamn Gallows, Gallows Bound, Time Crashers 10/16, 9 pm. Mikey Classic, Fishgutzzz, Jake Orvis Solo Trio 10/17, 9 pm.

Paralys, Drown a Deity, Ark, Social Amnesia 10/19, 8 pm, $5. 4110 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-586-3483.

Eagle Aerie Hall Vanna, Capsize, To the Wind, A Friend a Foe, Words From Aztecs 10/14, 6 pm, $15. 310 W. Pacific Ave., 702-568-8927.

Eastside Cannery The Whispers 10/15, 8 pm, $18$38. 702-856-5300.

Henderson Pavilion LOS 5, After Romeo, Siahna 10/14, 6 pm, $15-$20. 200 S. Green Valley Parkway, 702-267-4849.

OMD Trauma, Taipan, War Imposed, Black Vulture Conspiracy, Obsidian 10/15, 7 pm, $6-$10.

953 E. Sahara Ave., #B-30, 702-742-4171.

Primm Valley Resort Los Tigres del Norte 10/15, 9 pm, $30-$70. 702-386-7867.

Sand Dollar Lounge The Blues Society Full Moon Party 10/14. The Moanin’ Blacksnakes 10/15. Jimmy Macintosh 10/18. The Blooze Brothers 10/19. Shows 10 pm, free. 3355 Spring Mountain Road, 702-485-5401.

South Point (Showroom) Tower of Power 10/1410/16, 7:30 pm, $55. 702-796-7111.

Suncoast (Showroom) Jon Secada 10/14-10/15, 8:30 pm, $33-$44. 702-636-7075.

Comedy

Hard Rock Hotel (Vinyl) Michael Rapaport 10/14, 8 pm, $35-$49. (Pool) Hate Bean, Tiger Box 10/14, 9 pm, $20-$25. 702-693-5000.

Mirage (Terry Fator Theatre) Wayne Brady 10/15, 10 pm, $44-$65. 702-792-7777.

Red Rock Resort (Rocks Lounge) Rita Rudner 10/14-10/15, 8 pm, $49. 702-797-7777.

Sam’s Town (Sam’s Town Live) Willie Barcena 10/14, 8 pm, $38-$51. 702-284-7777.

Santa Fe Station (Chrome Showroom) Allan Stephan 10/19, 7 pm, free. 702-658-4900.

Performing Arts

Cockroach Theatre The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity 10/13-10/15, 10/19-10/20, 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) Informal Dance Concert 10/18, 1 pm, free. 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., 702-651-5483.

Majestic Repertory Little Shop of Horrors 10/1310/15, 10/20-10/22, 8 pm; 10/16, 5 pm, $25. Alios, 1217 S. Main St., 702-478-9636.

Sci Fi Center Bucket of Blood 10/14, 10 pm, $10.

5077 Arville St., 855-501-4335.

UNLV (Artemus W. Ham Hall) Las Vegas Youth Orchestras: Fall Concert 10/13, 6:30 pm, $11-$16.

(Black Box Theatre) Macbeth 10/14-10/15, 7:30 pm; 10/16, 2 pm, $17. (Rando-Grillot Recital Hall) Allegro Guitar Series: Ana Vidovic 10/15, 8 pm, $45. (Judy Bayley Theatre) SampleDance 10/15, 2 pm, $10-$75. 702-895-3332.

Special Events

An Evening with Al Pacino 10/15, 7 pm, $72-$394.

Opaline Theatre at Venetian, 702-414-9000.

Andrew W.K.: The Power of Partying 10/13, 8 pm, $10-$12. Bunkhouse Saloon, 124 S. 11th St., 702-982-1764.

Barrett-Jackson’s Las Vegas Auction 10/13-10/15, 8 am-7 pm, $10-$65. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600 Boca Park ArtWalk 10/15-10/16, 10 am-5 pm, free.

Boca Park Fashion Village, vegasartwalk.com.

Bukowski Poetry Workshop by Lee Mallory 10/17, 6 pm, free. Clark County Library, 1401 E.

Flamingo Road, 702-507-3458.

Cider and Beer Harvest Festival 10/15, 6-9 pm, $25-$30. Container Park, 702-359-9982.

Crafts & Cocktails 10/15, 6-10 pm, $40-$85.

Boulevard Pool, Cosmopolitan, 702-698-7000.

Haunted Harvest 10/14-10/30, Fri-Sun, 5-9 pm, $8.

Springs Preserve, 702-822-7700.

MonteLago Village Beerfest 10/15, 2-7 pm, $35$60. MonteLago Village at Lake Las Vegas, 15 Costa di Lago, mlvbf.com.

One Drop: Walk for Water 10/15, 8 am, $10-$20.

Smith Center, onedrop.org.

Sunday Suppers by Chef Mayra Otoño Romántico 10/16, 4-7 pm, $50-$70. Tivoli Village, 440 S. Rampart Blvd., sundaysuppers.splashthat.com.

Vegas Valley Book Festival 10/15, 11 am-5:30 pm, free. Historic Fifth Street School, 401 S. 4th St., vegasvalleybookfestival.org.

Vegas Valley Book Festival After Dark ft.

Katherine Boo, Geoff Dyer, Adam Johnson 10/15, 5:30-8:30, free. Inspire Theatre, 107 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-750-0017.

Writer’s Block Heather Skyler: Vegas Girls 10/13, 7 pm, free. Poetry After Dark ft. Joanne Kyger, Erica Vital-Lazare, Claudia Keelan, Hanna Andrews 10/14, 7 pm, free. Events free. 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock.org.

Zombie Walk Live music from The Legendary Boilermakers, Water Landing, Joni’s Agenda 10/15, 7 pm, $5. Boulder Dam Brewing Company, 453 Nevada Way, 702-243-2739.

Sports

EllisMania 13: Jason Takes Vegas 10/15, 8 pm, $30$60. The Joint, Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5000.

Hoopfest 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament 10/1410/16, times vary, $160-$200. Toshiba Plaza at T-Mobile Arena, 702-692-1600.

Los Angeles Lakers vs. Sacramento Kings 10/13, 7:30 pm, $25-$550. vs. Golden State Warriors 10/15, 7 pm, $25-$550. T-Mobile Arena, 702-692-1600.

Monster Energy Cup 10/15, 6 pm, $50-$70. Sam Boyd Stadium, 702-739-3267.

Red Bull Air Race World Championship 10/15-10/16, 10 am, $13-$49. Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 702-644-4444.

Galleries

Bubblegum Gallery Moon Catcher Paint & Chill Night 10/13, 6 pm, $30. Day of the Dead Moon Painting Class 10/14, 7 pm, $30. Downtown Spaces, 1800 S. Industrial Road #207D, 702806-0930.

CSN 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., 702-651-4146.

Artspace Gallery Page by Page: Artist Books and Drawings by Karen Baldner Thru 11/19.

Fine Arts Gallery Christopher Troutman: Drawing and Narrative Thru 11/19.

Historic Fifth Street School (Mayor’s Gallery) Photographer QT Luong: Treasured Lands Thru 11/22. 401 S. 4th St., 702-229-3515.

Las Vegas City Hall (Grand Gallery) Justin Favela: PATRIMONIO Thru 12/15. (Chamber Gallery) Native American Visions Thru 12/1.

495 S. Main St., 702-229-1012.

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