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DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 AT HOUSE OF BLUES We checked in with the dance-punk duo’s drummer/ vocalist, Sebastien Grainger. It’s been five years since DFA 1979 returned from hiatus. How is version 2.0 different? Obviously, social media has changed the way people communicate and interact with art. There was a time when we were just judged on our recordings and the show as it was happening. Now people are experiencing this really two-dimensional, crummy version through YouTube and other sites. I don’t know if you’ve ever attempted to video yourself having sex. You may have had a great time having sex at that moment; then you watch and you’re like, “Oh, man, I’ve got a zit on my ass.” That’s kind of the experience people are having with music. And the things people say on bands’ Facebook pages, they would never say to someone’s face. It’s this bizarro version of themselves they’re presenting online. Let’s say we post our dates: “Hey, we’re so excited to come on tour. We can’t wait to see you.” And then, like, three comments down: “Where’s f*cking Cleveland, you pieces of sh*t?” It’s not nice, you know? With Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Deap Vally, $25. –Annie Zaleski For more of our interview with Grainger, visit lasvegasweekly.com.
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JAM BAND WEEKEND AT BROOKLYN BOWL Even with Phish’s staggering four shows this weekend (see story, Page 58), the party won’t stop for “phans” and groove enthusiasts. Starting the five-night faux-fest are The Disco Biscuits, pioneers of the electronic dance/jam fusion sound and all-too-infrequent Vegas visitors. The quartet returns with a three-night run ($40-$42 per night), comprised of late Friday and Saturday after-Phish shows (11 p.m.) and a prime-time Thursday gig (8:30 p.m.), the latter including underrated live electronic trio The New Deal. On the opposite end of the musical spectrum, Greensky Bluegrass and its drum-less, all-acoustic aesthetic takes over the Brooklyn Bowl stage late Sunday (11 p.m.; $28-$35) and Monday afternoon (2 p.m.; $23-$28), the latter a benefit for Phish’s Waterwheel Foundation. For those still shuffling after Phish’s three-set throwdown, Vermont quartet Twiddle will close out the weekend with a late Halloween night show (11 p.m.; $20-$25). Saturday afternoon features a free exhibition/bazaar offering Phish-inspired art and swag (noon), and Sunday’s Lunch You in the Eye Bowling Tournament (noon; $99 entry fee per team) will test both the faithful’s tenpin skills and endurance. Exhausted yet? –Mike Prevatt
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The Jersey metalcore outfit, famous for live antics and blast beats, dropped final album Dissociation this month and says this tour will be the last. Witness frontman Greg Puciato ravage vocal chords, climb speaker stacks and dive into the pit with reckless abandon one more time. With O’Brother, Cult Leader, Entheos, $20-$22. –Leslie Ventura
It’s Nevada Day weekend, which means Dr. Lonnie Hammargren, neurosurgeon and former lieutenant governor of our state, is holding his 21st-annual open house. Hammargren is a nonpareil collector of Nevada memorabilia, and his house is easily Vegas’ best stealth museum. Noon-4 p.m., $15, 4318 Ridgecrest Drive. –Geoff Carter
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NIGHTMARE ON 11TH STREET AT BUNKHOUSE SALOON Raise your hand if you miss Vegoose. If yours isn’t in the air, you must not have lived here in the mid-2000s, when that music gathering ruled Halloween weekend from Sam Boyd Stadium and the surrounding fields before pulling up stakes after its 2007 edition. This year, the Bunkhouse crew (with assists from Viva and Zappos) will try to fill some of our late-October festival void, hosting a dozen bands—from touring acts like Long Beach garage faves Tijuana Panthers and Oakland soul-rockers Fantastic Negrito to local mainstays Same Sex Mary, No Tides and Shayna Rain—along with a costume contest, carnival games, a photo booth and plates of addictive Awful Tacos. If this beta version goes well, the venue hopes to expand upon the concept for future October fests. Trick or treat? Vote for the latter, with a Hamilton and your presence. $10. –Spencer Patterson
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eterans of Foreign Wars Post 1753 isn’t much to look at. Located at 705 Las Vegas Boulevard North, this abandoned VFW hall is essentially a drab, white stucco box with boarded-up windows and a couple of squares of graffiti-discouraging blue paint slathered unevenly on its façade. It’s an unlikely place to plant another flag, but that’s exactly what Alison Chambers and “Downtown” Steve Franklin hope to do. They’re transforming the hall into an arts incubator where upstart arts organizations can occupy Vegas’ somewhat beleaguered Cultural Corridor for a relative pittance. One such group, improv school Vegas Theatre Hub, is already in. “It could be culinary arts, visual arts, performing arts,” Franklin says. “Anything that’s got a little bit of a creative spin to it.” Those arts groups will have much to work with. The main room, constituting more than half the hall’s nearly 5,000 square feet, is ideal for theater, dance and live music. Flanking the main room is a bar and a kitchen/dining area, where Chambers and Franklin found a few pleasant surprises, including a top-ofthe-line stove hood and two restaurant-grade drains. That nearly compensated for the unpleasant surprises Chambers encountered after she bought the building. Two HVAC units needed replacing; the originals were stripped clean. (The new units have “tweaker-resistant screws,” Franklin says dryly.) And more than once they’ve had to chase trespassers away, though those incidents are lessening: “With the theater-group activity, [trespassers] are less inclined to just hang out in front,” Chambers says. Arts groups interested in checking out the space can contact Chambers at project705lvb@gmail.com. But they’re not taking just anybody. You kinda have to want it. “We’re just going to try to get some cool people in here and do some cool sh*t,” Franklin says.
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A DJ, a karaoke champ and a cover band walk into a bar … and if any of them plan to perform, the bar had better be licensed. Local venues featuring music— live or recorded—were reminded of that last week, when Adrenaline Sports Bar and Grill in northwest Las Vegas got served with a lawsuit for allegedly failing to pay licensing fees to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
“Whenever music is performed publicly, there’s an obligation to make sure the songwriter is being compensated properly,” says Jackson Wagener, vice president of business and legal affairs for the not-for-profit ASCAP. “When a bar is playing good music, it brings in more customers. It’s only fair that they compensate the people writing the music.” Wagener says Adrenaline, which opened in 2014 and fre-
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“Love” your selfie at the Palazzo. (Christopher DeVargas/Staff)
quently hosts touring and local music acts, was contacted more than 40 times about licensing fees totaling $2,800 per year. “That’s $8 per day, which we think is more than fair,” he says. ASCAP’s fee formula figures in three factors, according to Wagener: a venue’s capacity, its use and frequency of music and whether it charges a cover. “There are more than 10 million copyrighted works in ASCAP,”
Wagener says. “Once a venue pays the fee, they can play as many of them as often as they want.” More than 1,000 Las Vegasarea business hold ASCAP licenses, most of them restaurants and nightclubs. Wagener says ASCAP is now in settlement talks with Adrenaline. “I’m hopeful we’ll have this resolved quickly.” –Spencer Patterson
The unlikeliest Vegas trend in 2016, besides poke bowls and making your own flip flops, might just be public art. This year has seen the rise of Ugo Rondinone’s “Seven Magic Mountains” just south of the Valley, Marco Cochrane’s “Bliss Dance” at MGM Resorts’ Park space and “Big Rig Jig” on Fremont Street. Recent additions include Wayne Littlejohn’s 26-foot-tall “Dream Machine” at the forthcoming Siegfried & Roy Park, Nathan Sawaya’s Lego-based “Park People” at the Park and Laura Kimpton’s word sculpture “Love” at Palazzo. With those works splashed all over our network feeds, it raises an issue: Is the proliferation of public art more of a social phenomenon than a cultural one? It’s not enough to appreciate the aesthetic of a work— the onlooker is now compelled to capture and share the moment. Which begs another question: Is a work’s selfie appeal a major factor for deciding its exhibition? “In a way, the general public becomes curator when they decide who to share their self-image with,” says Ed Fuentes, writer for Paint This Desert arts blog and MFA student, who just opened his street-art show Bunko, the Lost Archives at UNLV’s Grant Hall. He even takes it a step further: “It’s not a matter of taking a [selfie], but wanting to be part of the art.” Sure enough, a Google search reveals countless images of couples atop the original “Love” sculpture at last year’s Burning Man. And MGM’s news release on “Park People” spells out the desire for user interaction, the nine figures “allowing guests to … take selfies with their new Lego friends.” Fuentes’ Bunko touches on how social media is required for street art to thrive and endure, and the artist sees the parallels to public art installations. If the whole practice smacks of shameless marketing, not only is it working, Las Vegas has a history of visual virality. “It’s no different if you’re taking a photo with a Cadillac outside the Welcome to [Fabulous] Las Vegas sign,” Fuentes says. Alisha Kerlin, interim director at the Barrick Museum, adds that “Seven Magic Mountains” was at the top of an outing wish list for some visiting artist friends from New York City, and when they went, they encountered a giant crowd. “I thought it was surprising and exciting that so many people—yes, some wielding selfie sticks—[of] all ages and from all over the world were seeking out and experiencing a new kind of spectacle and art in Las Vegas.”
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Birth of a dragon How the unique Lucky Dragon casino and hotel came to be
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hen developer Andrew Fonfa started working on Allure Las Vegas—at 41 stories, the tallest residential building in the Valley, located on Sahara Avenue just west of Las Vegas Boulevard—his original plans called for two towers. But once Allure started moving units, he realized he wouldn’t be able to sell the second tower. It was early 2008 when Allure opened, and the recession made it tough to close on sales. Fonfa had to come up with another plan to fill the building. “We realized we were going to need cash buyers,” he says from an Allure’s residence that has been converted to an office space, an amazing Vegas view sparkling through the windows behind the him. “We went to LA incidental and San Francisco tourist and Vancouver and by brock radke San Jose and put ads in all the Chinese newspapers in those communities. And we were very pleased with what came back, which was over 100 units sold to Chinese buyers.” The proverbial light bulb clicked on: Fonfa decided to build a casino and hotel instead. The concept of the Lucky Dragon was born, and it already had an audience. The boutique 200-room hotel and 27,500-squarefoot casino is set for a grand opening on December 3, though it’ll likely soft-open sometime toward the end of November. The first thing you notice when touring the construction site is that the Lucky Dragon is actually attached
Behind the scenes at the Lucky Dragon, set for grand opening on December 3. (Mona Shield Payne/Special to the Sun)
to the Allure tower, meaning there are more than a thousand residents who can walk over to the new casino every day to eat in its restaurants or possibly play a little. “That gives us some critical mass on the site,” Fonfa explains. “It’s as if we have a 630-unit hotel.” The Lucky Dragon is small by Strip standards. It won’t have a nightclub or a huge resort-style swimming pool. It will have authentic Asian restaurants and an intimate casino experience similar to what’s found in Macao. As evidenced by the billboards along Spring Mountain Road, the Lucky Dragon is primarily going after Asian business, tourists from China and California and locals from the large Filipino, Korean, Japanese and Hawaiian communities. “Most people aren’t sure exactly what type of property we are, and what we are is a locals casino just like Gold Coast and Red Rock and Palace Station,” Fonfa says. “We rely on [car] traffic, not foot traffic. No one is walking up and down to Gold Coast or Palace Station. That’s who we are, and I do expect that as [nearby Genting Group project] Resorts World moves forward—and hopefully it will—that’s when we’ll see foot traffic. We think the north Strip will probably become
the new Chinese area of Las Vegas.” Fonfa believes in the Asian-driven future of the area so much, he’s planning to continue to develop around Lucky Dragon. The next phase could include more residential, a cultural center, retail and movie theaters. The development will be aided by his Las Vegas Economic Impact Regional Center using EB-5 funding, an stimulus program launched in 1990 that encourages foreigners to invest in U.S. business in exchange for green card eligibility. But for now, the focus is on Lucky Dragon, essentially the first locals casino on the Strip ... well, pretty much on the Strip. The restaurant menus will be Chinese first, before English, and everyone working in the front of the house will speak an Asian dialect. It might be the most specifically focused casino project in the history of Las Vegas. “We know our identity. We’re not competing with Wynn or Venetian or MGM. Local casinos are our competition, and I think we’ve hit a nerve,” Fonfa says. “Everybody now is interested in the Chinese or Asian customer, and we think they’re going to prefer our casino to all the other ones.”
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It takes some daredevil chutzpah to throw a knife into the air. It takes skill to catch it. Chef Brandon Yenglin has both. A teppan master at the recently opened Benihana at the Fashion Show mall on the Strip, Yenglin has been snagging flying shrimp and building dramatic onion volcanoes for wide-eyed customers going on 13 years. When he started, Yenglin was just shy of 18 and determined to learn the tricks of the trade. Not every aspiring chef has the same dedication. For the less committed, Benihana’s “Be the Chef” package teaches guests how to make the restaurant’s signature fried rice, shrimp and steak while learning some of those iconic, theatrical chef tricks in as little as an hour. I volunteered to get behind the hibachi grill for a one-on-one lesson with Yenglin. It starts with a fire engine-red chef’s hat and a brown, sturdy leather belt with a holster for my tools. I glance down at my feet. Heels. I overlooked the part about wearing flat, nonslip shoes. Looking at the two knives secured at my hip, I’m not sure who should be more scared, me or the chef.
Yenglin introduces himself to an imaginary crowd in front of our table, says the customary Japanese greeting, konnichiwa, takes a bow and instructs me to do the same. Next, he sets up the sauces—mustard for steak and chicken, and ginger for seafood and veggies. You know the drill. “It was intense,” Yenglin says of his journey to hibachi chef. “Especially being how young I was … you have to think about your food, your show, your comedy. Then, you’ve gotta have fun with it.” That’s a lot of pressure for someone who can barely cook eggs, but Yenglin believes in me. We coat the grill with safflower oil—a Benihana staple—and begin cooking onions and carrots for the fried rice. Spinning the egg on the flat side of his spatula like a Harlem Globetrotter, Yenglin quickly turns the spatula on its side, cracking the egg in half. “I do things a little different,” he says. “You’ve got to be yourself. If I’m not having fun, the customer’s not having fun.” He makes “train tracks” out of zucchini strips, a “train” with a steaming onion and, of course, the legendary volcano, built from thick rings of onion spouting flame fueled by generous
squirts of cooking oil. A gig where you’re paid to play with your food? It’s every kid’s dream. A New York strip with colossal shrimp is the main course. We put the steak to the hot grill, fat side down, to coat the surface. The trick to sealing in the flavor: extremely high heat. “The hotter, the better it is. It traps the juice inside.” Normally, after a session like this, the chefin-training would return the following day with unsuspecting family and friends, duck out to put on the uniform and return ready to impress (or terrify) loved ones with these new skills. That’s not my style. There’s no one in this world who deserves the pain of watching me try to juggle eggs and catch shrimp tails in my shirt pocket. Not all of us can be as sharp as a Benihana chef. After my behind-the-scenes look, I’m pretty sure most can’t. And yet, we’ve all wondered how those teppan masters land that perfect spatula flip every time. It takes months of training to make sure the experience stays fun, safe and delicious. Did I become a hibachi expert overnight? Not a chance. But I did get to keep my hat and apron, and that’s a good start.
On fire and flippin’ out at Benihana. (Spencer Burton/Special to Weekly)
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Haunted houses and month-long fests like Bonnie Screams, Fright Dome and HallOVeen at the Magical Forest are local Halloween classics, but if you’re looking for something new, we’ve got you covered.
RiffTrax Live: Carnival of Souls Watch Mystery Science Theater 3000 personalities Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett riff live from Nashville’s Belcourt Theatre as the 1962 midnight-movie Carnival of Souls plays, the film’s first big-screen showing since a recent full-color restoration. October 27, 8 p.m. & October 31, 7:30 p.m., $11$13, select theaters.
Monster Movie Marathon Catch free showings of your favorite family-friendly Halloween movies, including Frankenweenie, Paranorman, Mars Attacks! and Beetlejuice at Veil Pavilion. October 28, 10 a.m.-10:30 p.m., free, Silverton.
BY SARAH FELDBERG n September, a Facebook account for Garbo The-clown posted an ominous threat to the social network, warning students at Chaparral High School to “run. We coming for yall.” In October, a white-faced, red-nosed profile for “Jerry Springers” published a schedule of local high schools slated for something undoubtedly sinister, and at Leavitt Middle School in northwest Las Vegas on October 6, a stampede of panicked students began when someone yelled “clowns” in a busy quad. Since the first August reports of creepy clowns walking the streets of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and trying to draw children into the forests of Greenville County, South Carolina, rumors of masked criminals and machete-wielding Bozos have spread across the U.S. Schools have been locked down. Police departments have fielded a barrage of phone calls. Target has stopped selling clown masks, according to the LA Times; and an International Business Times map tracking clown-related incidents has pinpoints in Canada, the U.K. and Australia. Even Stephen King—the titan of horror behind creepy fictional clown Pennywise—has gotten involved, putting a call out on Twitter to “cool the clown hysteria.” Just in time for Halloween, it appears we’ve reached peak coulrophobia. But while the irrational fear of clowns might be making headlines right now, it’s far from a new phenomenon. UNLV professor and psychology department chair Dr. Christopher Kearney says our discomfort with the face-painted characters actually has roots in something far older than Internet hoaxes and far simpler than bygone villains
KHOURY’S ANNUAL HALLOWEEN PARTY The craft-beer stronghold serves up local specialty brews straight from real pumpkins. Costumes are highly encouraged, so don’t be the only beer geek not decked out. October 28, 6-10 p.m., free, Khoury’s Fine Wine & Spirits.
ZOMBIE PROM Don those tattered tuxes and moth-bitten gowns, but leave behind the bitter highschool memories; use them instead to fuel your newly acquired, insatiable appetite for flesh. Hosted by the Fabulous Sin City Roller Girls. October 28, 10 p.m., $10, Sayers Club.
like John Wayne Gacy, who worked as Pogo the Clown and killed 33 young men and boys during the 1970s. “Part of the evolutionary process is humans evolved, so that if you saw a human face that’s probably a good thing,” Kearney says. “We generally are predisposed to fear things that involve a covering of the face.” With clowns, Kearney explains, it’s not the exaggerated features or false emotions that cause that involuntary chill up our spines. It’s the masking of a human face behind a heavy layer of rubber or paint. Throw on just the Bozo nose or goofy wig, he adds, and you don’t evoke the same reaction. A few years ago, friends of mine threw a Halloween party in Henderson. Beer and costumes, co-workers and acquaintances. At some point in the evening, a guest arrived dressed as Jack from Jack in the Box, complete with oversized ping-pong ball head and empty cartoon grin. We marveled at the outfit, but Jack just stood there, silent and smiling. We pondered who might be inside the costume, but Jack said nothing. And slowly, as two minutes turned to five and then 10, a trickle of fear seeped into our questions, curiosity escalating to concern and even anger. It wasn’t the head itself that scared us, but the question of who might be lurking inside it, whose face we’d find behind the mask. When Jack finally took off his head, he was indeed someone we’d invited. But for a few minutes that night, Jack from Jack in the Box—hawker of brunch burgers and bacon cheddar potato wedges—was the creepiest clown I’d ever seen.
ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR Theatrical group Frankie’s Favorite Obsession will perform the cult classic live as the 1975 film plays on screen, twice in one night. A musical preshow, costume contest and plenty of drag, props and shenanigans will accompany the performances. October 29, 8 p.m. & midnight, $10, Tropicana Cinemas.
FETISH & FANTASY HALLOWEEN BALL For the past 21 years, this massive gathering has lived up to its reputation as one of the most risqué and outrageous Halloween parties in the country. Open your mind and succumb to your dark desires, if only for one night. October 29, 10:30 p.m., $50-$250, the Joint. –Rosalie Spear
BARKISTA Is your dog a coffee fiend, too? Grab a green apron (you can order a kids-sized one from Amazon) and some iron-on Tshirt transfers. Print a Starbucks logo using the transfer paper and iron the logo onto the apron. (The costume isn’t complete without this “Starbarks” latte plush toy, also available on Amazon).
OLYMPIC SWIMMER Find a pair of old swimming goggles and attach them to your dog’s head. Next, find an old medal (surely you have one in the garage somewhere) and drape it around your dog’s neck. Michael Phelps ain’t got nothing on your prize-winning pup.
TRUMPY CAT Buy a cheap blonde wig from a Halloween store (the more orange, the better). Cut holes in the wig for the cat’s ears. Clip a red tie onto your cat’s collar and boom. Trust me, this one’s gonna be huge. SPAGHETTI AND MEATBALLS Buy a cheap puppy shirt, some Styrofoam balls and a spool of beige yarn or rope. Hot-glue the yarn all over the T-shirt, draping it so that it begins to look likes a bowl of pasta— the messier the better. Last, spray-paint the Styrofoam balls brown to look like meatballs. Bone-a-petit!
RAVER Is your pet all about the PLUR? Buy a tutu, cut up some colorful socks for leg warmers and attach a blinking bike light to its collar. Bonus points if your dog is named Molly. –Leslie Ventura
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resh off their very first nationwide summer tour as FAED, DJ Five and Eric DLux are ready to maximize their musical momentum. The SKAM Artist DJs and Sin City nightclub favorites—Five lives in Las Vegas full-time while DLux splits his time between Vegas and LA—are among the most ubiquitous names on the Strip, seemingly setting the party on fire every night in one club or another. They’ve been teaming up as FAED (“fade”) for two years now, expanding their individual brands while doubling the fun and energy in their combined sets. “We both have our own personalities, but when we get together it works itself out,” Five says. “Whatever we bring, they expect it twice over,” DLux adds. Their individual sound-styles have been in high demand for years, but things have picked up even more lately. “There’s a lot of movement back to hip-hop in the past year and a half,” Five says. “The present-day [version] of open format contains EDM and trap and hip-hop and Top
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he says on “I Love Kanye” from the The Life of Pablo, his latest and perhaps most complex album, which Pitchfork described as “the sound of a celebrated megalomaniac settling for his place in history.” The accompanying Saint Pablo tour— running neck and neck with Drake’s Summer Sixteen adventure for the title of 2016’s biggest hip-hop tour— has received critical acclaim for its stylistic, minimalist production and West’s willingness to blend popular hits from past records with the highly textured tracks from Pablo.
“I’m not crazy, I’m brave,” he claimed from his floating stage during the first of back-to-back nights this week in Oakland’s Oracle Arena. Perhaps he has to be both to continue being Kanye. Kanye West at T-Mobile Arena, October 29. –Brock Radke
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ozmoe Alonzo’s Vegas story has an unlikely beginning. “I originally moved here to open a wedding chapel with my mom,” Alonzo says inside Hyde at Bellagio, one of the properties he oversees as regional director of marketing and nightlife for SBE Las Vegas. “I didn’t go to school for this. I went to school for AsianAmerican studies, and I just kind of fell into it.” After booking bachelor and bachelorette parties for the wedding chapel, Alonzo landed his first nightlife gig as promotions manager for the thennewly opened Tao at Venetian. “Somewhere along the line, I was like ‘Hey, I can turn this into a business,’ and I really got serious about it.” From Tao, Alonzo moved to the Revolution Lounge at Mirage, leading the Beatles-themed concept as marketing director. He played different roles with Rok, Haze, the Hard Rock Hotel and the Light Group before
settling into his current role at SBE, where he’s in charge of the branding, programming, marketing and advertising for multiple lounges and restaurants. Alonzo’s plate is always full. “I have a really strong team,” he says. “They help with everything … It’s an intense job, it’s a 24-hour town and there’s always something to do.” That’s especially true at Hyde, the stylish boutique lounge that prides itself on trendsetting fun and customer service. Whether you’re watching The Rolling Stones from a skybox at Hyde Lounge at T-Mobile Arena or you’re decked out in costume at one of Hyde Bellagio’s XIV Sessions parties, “it all comes down to exemplary service and really taking care of the customer,” Alonzo says. “The focus of the party is the people.” –Leslie Ventura
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party, when local influencers enjoy the intimate environs and cozy ambiance. Entry through “hidden bookcase” doors sets the tone for a special experience, and the white stitched liquor lockers that line the walls—a clean design element inspired by Louis Vuitton trunks—make visitors feel fashionable. The musical tone is decidedly different from Intrigue’s main room, too; the Living Room DJ selects the soundtrack from a carefully curated collection of 1,000 vinyl records behind the booth. Vintage grooves abound, contrasting the scene in the main room, which is visible through
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breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner menus, including spicy, crispy, fried chicken with a sweet cornbread pancake; Huevos Benedicto—pork carnitas with poached eggs and green chile Hollandaise sauce; the Pig in the Garden pizza with pepperoni, ham, bacon, herb-roasted mushrooms and asadero cheese; and shrimp and grits, a Tom’s signature full of Cajun spice and creamy cheddar polenta. With its flavor-packed renditions of familiar comfort-food favorites, it’s no surprise Tom’s Urban (which
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10/29 GBDC Day of the Killer Costumes. Palms, nightly, 702-942-6832. HAK KASAN 10/27 Jauz. 10/28 The Chainsmokers. 10/29 Tiësto. 10/30 Calvin Harris. 11/3 Lil Jon. 11/4 DVBBS. 11/5 Steve Aoki. 11/6 Fergie DJ. 11/10 Tiësto. 11/11 Above & Beyond. 11/12 Tiësto. 11/13 Rev Run & Ruckus. MGM Grand, WedSun, 702-891-3838.
CH ATEAU 10/28 Bayati. 10/29 Asa Akira, Joanna Angel & DJ Dre Dae. 11/2 Too $hort. Paris, Wed, FriSat, 702-776-7770.
HYDE 10/28 DJ Ikon. 10/30 XIV Vegas Sessions. Bellagio, nightly, 702-693-8700.
DRAI’ S 10/28 Fetty Wap. 10/29 Future. 10/30 50 Cent. 10/31 T.I. 11/3 Ross One. 11/4 Nelly & Jermaine Dupri. 11/5 Nelly & Kelly Rowland. 11/6 LA Leakers. 11/11 Rae Sremmurd. 11/13 DJ Franzen. Cromwell, Tue, Thu-Sun, 702-7773800. EM BASSY 10/28 Chacal. 11/4 Latino All Stars. 11/11 Los 4. 3355 Procyon St, Thu-Sun, 702-609-6666. FO U NDATIO N
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IN T RIGUE 10/27 Ookay. 10/28 Jerzy. 10/29 Duke Dumont. 11/3 Walshy Fire. 11/4 Konflikt. 11/5 Pacquiao-Vargas Top Rank Afterparty. 11/10 Stafford Brothers. 11/11 DJ Gusto. 11/12 Dillon Francis. Wynn, Thu-Sat, 702-770-7300. JEW EL 10/28 Steve Aoki. 10/29 Puff Daddy. 10/31 Steve Aoki. 11/4 Ruckus. 11/5 The Chainsmokers. 11/7 Savi. 11/11 Justin Credible. 11/12 Lil Jon. Aria, Mon, Thu-Sat, 702-5908000. L AX 10/27 Kid ’n Play. 10/28 Eric Forbes. 10/29 Scott Storch. 11/2 Aybsent Mynded. 11/3 DJ R.O.B. 11/4 Eric Forbes. 11/5 DJ J-Nice. 11/10 DJ R.O.B. 11/11 Aybsent Mynded. 11/12 Scooter. Luxor, Thu-Sat, 702-262-4529.
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No surprises here: DJ Mag released its annual Top 100 DJs list this week, and the top 10 are all Las Vegas residents. Following No. 1 Martin Garrix are Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Hardwell, Armin van Buuren, Tiësto, David Guetta, Steve Aoki, Oliver Heldens, Skrillex and Afrojack. Other Vegas names ranking in the top half of the list include W&W, Calvin Harris, AxwellˆIngrosso, Dash Berlin, The Chainsmokers, Alesso, R3HAB, DJ Snake, Diplo, Marshmello, Steve Angello and Zedd. ... The Palms’ Moon Nightclub space comes back to life—zombie style?—for Halloween Weekend. Our Nightlife presents Heaven & Hell at Moon on October 29 with Mike Fusion, DJ Twisted and more. Find info at lasvegashalloween.com. ... The Stafford Brothers have a new home. The Australian DJ duo bounces from Light, site of the highly successful Welcome to Las-Stralia residency, to Wynn, where the brothers debut at Intrigue November 10 and perform at Surrender December 2. ... Champagne has always been a huge part of the Mr Chow experience, and now the Caesars Palace location of the iconic restaurant offers bubbles by the glass (Moët Chandon Rose, Moët Chandon Imperial and Krug Grande Cuvée at $15 to $35) during its new Social Hour from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday through Thursday. ... In town to perform for his residency at Drai’s, scorching hot rapper G-Eazy found time to drop in on pal Britney Spears at the Axis to help perform “Make Me” during this week’s run of Britney: Piece of Me. Another sighting: Hometown boy Ne-Yo celebrated his birthday this week at Hyde Bellagio during an Industry night party fueled by DJ D-Miles.
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Carrot Top Shines Through All work and no play makes Scott a dull boy, they say. The comic re-enacted this classic moment from The Shining— along with other scary film scenes— in a photo essay for the Weekly’s sister publication, Las Vegas Magazine. Peep them all online at lasvegasmagazine.com, beginning October 30 … if you dare. (Christopher DeVargas/Staff)
Arts & entertainment Halloween-themed drinks 1. The Devil in Mexico at Velveteen Rabbit
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This sacrilegious treat combines mezcal and Bénédictine with honey meringue and hellfire bitters. It’s topped with an inverted cross. $11, 1218 S. Main St., 702-685-9645.
2. Who You Gonna Call? at Downtown Cocktail Room A ghoulish libation of scotch and ghost chili pepper bitters, available at three “torment” levels. $10, 111 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-880-3696.
3. The Resurrection at Cabo Wabo Cantina
4. Hannibal’s Revenge at Oak & Ivy
5. Rosemary’s Baby at Strip House
Enjoy this mix of pecan whiskey, amaretto, vanilla vodka and cream soda through November 1. $12, Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood, 702-385-2226.
Chianti falernum, cognac and peach liquor are topped with candied fava beans in this fruity drink. $12, Downtown Container Park, 707 Fremont St., oakandivy.com.
Try out this sparkling wine cocktail mixed with strawberry-balsamic vinegar and rhubarb bitters. $16, Strip House, Planet Hollywood, 702737-5200. –Rosalie Spear
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BOO! FIVE GREAT HORROR MOVIES TO STREAM ON NETFLIX
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Netflix’s horror selection is full of bargainbasement obscurities that the service can license cheaply, alongside a handful of worthwhile entries. Here are a few worth watching over Halloween week.
THE BABADOOK (2014) A sinister children’s-book character comes to terrifying life in this haunting story about the horrors of parenthood, featuring one of the most memorably creepy sing-song catch phrases of all time.
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HELLRAISER (1987) Forget all the terrible straight-to-video sequels; Clive Barker’s original is a nasty, kinky exploration of the intersection between sadomasochism and the occult, introducing iconic horror villain Pinhead in the process.
DEATH BY HISTORY LESSONS ROBERT LANGDON RETURNS IN FORGETTABLE THRILLER INFERNO
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genious home-invasion thriller from rising horror filmmaking star Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Ouija: Origin of Evil) features a deaf-mute woman fending off a sadistic killer at her remote home in the woods.
hen Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) was recall the past two days. With the help of a remarkintroduced in 2006’s The Da Vinci Code, he ably (perhaps suspiciously?) resourceful doctor, was an unassuming professor of symbology Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones), Langdon attempts using his knowledge of ancient to piece together his involvement in art and artifacts to solve the murder of the hunt for a bioengineered virus AACCC one museum curator. Three movies in, created by a fanatical billionaire (Ben he’s now racing to save the entire world, Foster). This involves a lot of the same INFERNO using that same knowledge to track a running and hiding in historical monTom Hanks, deadly pathogen that could kill half the uments and museums as in the past Felicity Jones, people on the planet. Despite the absurdly two movies, but little of the sometimes Ben Foster. Directed by raised stakes, though, Inferno never fun geekery those stories afforded. Ron Howard. feels particularly urgent, and everyone Inferno is a mostly plodding thriller Rated PG-13. involved, including Hanks and returning without a compelling villain (Foster’s Opens Friday citywide. series director Ron Howard, seems to be evil tech mogul shows up primarily in just going through the motions. Even the flashbacks and recorded messages) educational asides (this time mostly about and or even a compelling protagonist Dante) turn out to have very little to do with the (Langdon has not gotten any more interesting actual threat, which isn’t connected to any secret over the course of three movies). The plot twists order or religious sect. are both far-fetched and perfunctory, the perforBased on the fourth of Dan Brown’s Langdon mances are bland and the frenetic shooting style is novels, Inferno brings Langdon back to Italy, ill-suited for the generally staid Howard. Langdon where he wakes up disoriented in a Florence hosseems pretty content to pore over ancient texts; pital, suffering from a head injury and unable to maybe the movies should finally leave him alone.
MONSTERS (2010) Although it’s not a traditional horror movie, this low-budget favorite uses horror concepts (two characters traveling through a no man’s land populated by dangerous aliens) to explore dynamics of class, race and gender, with a slow-building dread in the background.
NEW NIGHTMARE (1994) Even if you haven’t seen every movie in the Nightmare on Elm Street series, Wes Craven’s meta-take on Freddy Krueger is a clever deconstruction of the genre that doubles as a genuinely scary franchise reboot. –Josh Bell
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Reality doesn’t bite PlayStation’s new VR system brings virtual home By Todd Hailstone irtual reality’s in a strange place. What once sounded like science fiction is here, in our actual lifetime, but even with quality VR headsets on the market—like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift—the masses haven’t latched on. Without a large catalog of quality games, perhaps it seems more like an expensive novelty than the evolution of gaming. Sony’s PlayStation VR is out to change that. PSVR launched this month with a $499 bundle that includes a camera, two move controllers and the PlayStation VR Worlds game, which saved me almost $100. I’d love to tell you it was smooth sailing from the start, but the first day felt like a nightmare. The cabling is out of control—six separate cables reaching for the TV, wall outlet and headset like some giant electronic squid. And the cords are painfully short, so tucking them away or following floorboards isn’t possible. Families planning to add the system to a living room will need to get creative or factor in 20 minutes
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of setup and teardown every time they play. Once I tried some games, it all felt worth it, though. I plunged through every Worlds experience in a single evening, and they were all incredible. I felt real fear during a near-miss with a shark on a diving expedition and had a full-on adrenaline rush during an exhilarating heist in the streets of London. Even a first-person Pong rip-off was better than expected. At times I found the experiences so immersive, I’d reach out with my actual hand to touch objects in the virtual world, only to feel slightly disappointed (and a bit foolish) upon realizing they weren’t actually real. I felt nauseous once during a sci-fi adventure, but on the whole had a fantastic time. With its affordable bundle, immersive play and fast-growing game catalog, Playstation VR seems poised to explode the virtual reality market. For reviews of two PSVR games, visit lasvegasweekly.com.
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PHISH TALES THINKING BACK ON THE JAM MASTERS’ MOST MEMORABLE VEGAS NIGHTS BY SPENCER PATTERSON Phish began life in 1983 and didn’t play Las Vegas for another 13 years, but the Vermont improv-rock quartet quickly made up for lost time in Sin City. Beginning with the band’s first visit in late 1996, many of its stops here have been notable—if not downright legendary—points along a 33-year concert chronology filled with guest collaborations, surprise song breakouts and other unexpected elements. Even when Phish went a full decade without coming to town, from 2004 to ’14, it returned in style, delivering another of its famous Halloween “costume” sets, for which the foursome covers a full album typically not its own. To prepare for this weekend’s longest-ever Vegas run—four shows, Friday through Halloween Monday—here’s a look back at five of Phish’s most famous, and in some cases infamous, Vegas performances.
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A musically sizzling start to Phish’s Vegas career turned full-on manic when the encore arrived and Primus’ Les Claypool and Larry LaLonde appeared to join in on “Harpua,” country novelties “Wildwood Weed” and “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” PHISH (the latter with vocals by The October 28-31, Yodeling Cowgirls), “Suspicious 7:30 p.m., $65. Minds”—featuring four Elvis MGM Grand impersonators on the mic—and Garden Arena, “Suzy Greenberg”/“Susie Q.” 702-891-7777. Preserved for posterity on the 2007 CD/DVD release Vegas 96.
After taking on The Beatles’ White Album, The Who’s Quadrophenia and Talking Heads’ Remain in Light from ’94 through ’96, Phish channeled The Velvet Underground’s 1970 outsider classic, Loaded, for its first Vegas Halloween. The night was packed with epic highlights—from the funky “Sneakin’ Sally Thru the Alley” in Set 1 through epic V.U. cuts like “Rock & Roll” and “New Age” in Set 2 to a 31-minute “Wolfman’s Brother” in Set 3—though, truth be told, the previous night’s T&M gig might have been even better. The entire 31st show, plus a chunk from the 30th, were released as the four-disc Live Phish Volume 16 in 2002.
A rock-forward night got far rockier with the Set 2 appearance of one Kid Rock, who took over on lead vocals for a succession of insipid covers: “Walk This Way,” “Rapper’s Delight,” “You Shook Me All Night Long” and “We’re an American Band” to cap the show. (Jambands. com would later rate Kid the all-time worst guest in Phish concert history.) At the following night’s T&M show (later released as the band’s first full concert DVD, Live in Vegas), Phish told the audience—and the world—that it would go on extended hiatus at tour’s end.
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Hometown hard rock Chatting with Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Zoltan Bathory By Josh Bell ard-rock band Five Finger Death Punch might have started out in LA, but its members have subsequently made Las Vegas their home base, and FFDP has become one of the biggest acts in rock.
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Poll longtime fans about the low point in Phish history and many are sure to respond “Vegas ’04.” The band limped into town for three shows short an important weapon, longtime lighting designer Chris Kuroda, and looked— and sounded—uninspired. A stab at Jay Z’s “Girls, Girls, Girls” stood out for its novelty, but this night and the next two are remembered for all the wrong reasons. Later that year, Phish staged the rain-impaired Coventry festival in Vermont and called it quits until 2009.
A decade-long Vegas drought had fans worried Phish might never return to the scene of its ’04 crime. When Messrs Anastasio, McConnell, Gordon and Fishman finally found their way back, they did so with a Strip-sized splash, choosing for their Halloween album Disney’s 1964 sound-effects record, Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House, and doing it surprisingly compelling justice. Two solid nights followed, setting the stage for the band’s third Halloween-inVegas production this Monday.
world, in different places, and I was always looking for the town that’s my pace, the town that never sleeps. I really thought, it’s going to be New York, and it wasn’t. Los Angeles is really not that town that is open all night. I just liked Las Vegas. There is something always moving. There is this 24-hour feel of this city. And I can have sushi at 5 a.m.?”
On creating an arena-ready spectacle: “Concertgoers want to see something spectacular. These days, when the music industry’s not On his work with as strong as it used local charity the to be, a lot of bands Home Deployment opt to take away those Project: “It’s basically FIVE FINGER elements, because an organization that DEATH PUNCH touring became very local combat veterans with Shinedown, expensive. But I think started, trying to get Sixx: A.M., As it’s a mistake. You do the homeless veterans Lions. October 28, 6 p.m., $46-$66. have to bring the visuoff the streets, trying T-Mobile Arena, al. I’m looking out of to get them jobs and 702-692-1600. the window from my places to live. We bus right now, and I do food drives and see, like, 10 buses and water drives. It’s so about 12 trucks full of gear. This important to me, and I think it is a massive stage, a massive should be important to everyone show, the way rock music was in America. It’s insane to me meant to be played.” that you can mention veterans and homelessness in the same On what inspired him to move sentence.” –Josh Bell to Vegas: “I was the first one [in the band] to move to Vegas, For more of our interview with around 2008. I lived around the Bathory, visit lasvegasweekly.com.
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SETTING A NEW STANDARD NEIGHBORHOOD DINING GETS AMBITIOUS AT STANDARD & POUR BY JIM BEGLEY t the top of Eastern Avenue, chefs Cory Harwell and John Courtney have opened the final hallmark of Kerry Simon’s legacy with Standard & Pour, and the restaurant couldn’t serve as a better finale to Simon’s illustrious career. Its menu of elevated comfort food invokes that for which the chef was best known. Take for instance the simple salt and pepper fries ($8) delivered with a trio of house-made dipping sauces: creamy basil mayo, robust smoked ketchup and a heat-forward horseradish mustard. Enhanced with hints of sugar and citrus, these fries would be a worthy complement to the original Iron Chef Burger that originally thrust Simon into the national culinary consciousness. S&P’s mini burgers ($12) evoke that treasure in bite-size format, simply adorned with fontina cheese, a crisscut potato chip and tomato relish. Elsewhere on the menu there’s a STANDARD delightfully gooey mac and cheese ($12) armed with two lesser-utilized & POUR 11261 S. cheeses, fontina and havarti, and Eastern finished with a port wine sauce and Ave. #200, date and bleu cheese jam ($12) that 702-6295523. Daily, might improve on the infamous 4-10 p.m. original at sister restaurant Carson Kitchen. Spicy shrimp ($16) arrive swimming in a red curry, with sambal and coconut milk delivering a hot/cool contrast. A trio of kimchi tacos ($16) swaddle sweetened Korean kalbi flank steak and an Asian pear slaw in scallion pancakes substituting for tortillas, though none of the flavors dominate enough to warrant a second helping. A must try: the venison tartare ($18), an engrossing, edgy dish worth seeking out. Cherry mostarda and powdered white chocolate provide contrasts to the surprisingly mild raw meat. Don’t be afraid, just dive right in. One can only hope Henderson diners embrace this restaurant while adventurous gourmands from around the Valley make the trip to help S&P survive and thrive. If the failure of the epically progressive David Clawson Restaurant in this area is any indication, S&P has its work cut out. Simon’s legacy deserves our support.
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AVIÓN HIGHBALL The Taro Snow Box with strawberries at Very Berry. (Mikayla Whitmore/Staff)
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This upscale highball recipe is an intricate blend of refreshing and unexpected flavors. Anchored by a smooth, premium silver tequila, the cocktail comes alive with the help of the semi-spicy ginger liqueur and crisp grapefruit soda. It’s elegant, classic and drinkable, just as any great highball should be.
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Live Music THe Strip & Nearby Brooklyn Bowl The Disco Biscuits, The New Deal 10/27, 8:30 pm; 10/28-10/29, 11 pm, $40-$180. Greensky Bluegrass 10/30, 11 pm; 10/31, 2 pm, $23-$50. Twiddle 10/31, 11 pm, $20-$25. Kaleo, Bishop Briggs, The Wind + The Wave 11/1, 7 pm, $27-$40. Linq, 702-862-2695. Caesars Palace (Colosseum) Elton John 10/28-10/30, 7:30 pm, $55$500. Celine Dion 11/1-11/2, 7:30 pm, $55-$500. 702-731-7333. Cosmopolitan (Chelsea) Gavin DeGraw, Andy Grammer 10/29, 8 pm, $28-$68. Brand New, Front Bottoms, Modern Baseball 11/1, 7 pm, $27-$52. 702-698-7000. Double Down Voice of Addiction, Dr. Zombie, Agent 86, Stagnetti’s Cock, Sonolith 10/28. Super Zeroes, Swamp Gospel, Nina Coyote & Chico Tornado, 390, Vietrahm 10/29. Uberschall, Kerry Pastine & The Crime Scene, The Bitters 10/30. Dr. Phobic & the PhobicTones, The Bargain DJ Collective 10/31. Frank & Deans’ Weenie Roast 11/2. Shows 10 pm, free. 640 Paradise Road, 702-791-5775. House of Blues Death From Above 1979, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Deap Vally 10/27, 8 pm, $25. BoomBox 10/29, midnight, $20. Carlos Santana 11/2, 7 pm, $90-$350. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. MGM Grand (Garden Arena) Phish 10/28-10/31, 7:30 pm, $65. 702891-7777. SLS (The Foundry) Alejandra Guzmán 11/5, 9 pm, $43. (Sayers Club) Adelitas Way, Conflict of Interest 10/29, 9 pm, $15-$20. 702-761-7617. Stoney’s Rockin’ Country Heidi Newfield & Keith Burns 10/28, 10 pm, $5-$10. Town Square, 702-435-2855. T-Mobile Arena Five Finger Death Punch, Shinedown, Sixx:A.M., As Lions 10/28, 6:30 pm, $45-$65. Kanye West 10/29, 8 pm, $39$175. 702-692-1600. Topgolf The Original Wailers 10/28, 8 pm, $20-$35. Orgone 10/29, 11:30 pm, free. Reed Mathis and Electric Beethoven 10/30, 11:30 pm, free. 4627 Koval Lane, 702-933-8458.
Downtown 11th Street Records Mark Stoermer 10/29, 4 pm, free. 1023 Fremont St., 702-527-7990. Artifice Boiis, Amy Guess 10/27, 5:30 pm, $4-$10. Minihorse, Hidden Levels, Sunrise Manor 10/28, 10 pm, free. 1025 S. 1st St., 702-489-6339. Backstage Bar & Billiards Kurt Travis, Amarionette, Lemix J Buckley, Twin Cities 10/27, 8 pm, $10. Madamfilth, Bruno Browning, MT/MZ, Primemover & more 10/28, 9 pm, $5. Bow Wow Wow, Close to Modern 10/29, 8 pm, $10-$15. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Beauty Bar Dillinger Escape Plan, O’Brother, Cult Leader, Entheos 10/29, 8 pm, $18-$22. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. Bunkhouse Saloon Prayers, Von Kin, DJ Hektor Rawkerz 10/27, 9 pm, $15-$20. Rusty Maples, Mark Stoermer and the Howndz, We Are Pancakes, Failure Machine 10/28, 8 pm, $8-$10. Tijuana Panthers, Surf Curse, The Buttertones, No Tides, Same Sex Mary & more 10/29, 9 pm, $10. The Appleseed Cast, Glass Pools, Sloanwalkers, DJ Jacob Savage 10/31, 9 pm, $10-$12. 124 S. 11th St., 702-854-1414. Golden Nugget (Gordie Brown Showroom) Loverboy 10/28, 8 pm, $86-$141. 866-946-5336. Hard Hat Lounge Par, Indigo Kidd 10/28, 9 pm, free. The Cove, Joni’s Agenda 10/29, 9 pm, free. 1675 Industrial Road, 702-384-8987. LVCS Napalm Death, The Ocean, North, Last Rites, Life’s Torment, Kapital Punishment 10/31, 8 pm, $15-$17. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-3531. Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) Johnny Mathis 10/29, 7:30 pm, $29$175. A Cinematic Celebration ft. Las Vegas Academy’s Band, Choir and Orchesta, The Boston Brass 11/2, 7 pm, $10-$100. (Cabaret Jazz) Lainie Kazan 10/28-10/29, 7 pm, $39-$65. Everlita Rivera-David, Relly Coloma 10/30, 4 pm, $39-$59. Frankie Moreno 11/1, 8 pm, $30-$42. The Composers Showcase of Las Vegas 11/2, 10:30 pm, $20-$25. 702-749-2000.
Everywhere Else Adrenaline Sports Bar and Grill Electric Dynamite, DJ Snow 10/29, 8 pm, free. diM, Cirka:Sik, Walking Corpse Syndrome, Driven 10/30, 8 pm, $5. 3103 N. Rancho Drive, 702-645-4139. Boulder Dam Brewing Digisaurus 10/28. Mick Rhodes, Hard Eight 10/29. Shows 8 pm, free. 453 Nevada Way, Boulder City, 702-243-2739. Count’s Vamp’d Todd Kerns and the Anti-Stars 10/27, 9 pm, $5. Dope, Motograter, Flaw, First Class Trash 10/28, 9 pm, $17-$20. Count’s 77, Children of the Grave 10/29, 9:30 pm, free. Last in Line, Tailgun 10/30, 9 pm, $15-$20. 6750 W. Sahara Ave., 702-220-8849. Dive Bar Bob Wayne, Three Bad Jacks, The Rhyolite Sound, Whiskey Breath 10/28, 8 pm, $5-$10. The Vegascendents, Mock Sparrer, Pop Rox 10/29, 9 pm, free-$5. Michale Graves, TV Tragedy, The Thrill
Vegas foursome Rusty Maples will celebrate the release of new album Detach October 28 at the Bunkhouse. (Fred Morledge/Courtesy)
Killers 10/30, 8 pm. 4110 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-586-3483. Eagle Aerie Hall Michael Barr, Shiloh, Ne Last Words & more 10/28, 5 pm, $11-$13. The Color Morale, Out Came the Wolves, Sunlifter, A Fight at Daybreak 11/2, 5 pm, $15. 310 W. Pacific Ave., 702-568-8927. The Golden Tiki Deadbolt 10/28, 9 pm, $5. Daniel Ash (DJ set) 10/29, 9 pm, $5. Jello Biafra (DJ set) 10/31, 10 pm, free. 3939 Spring Mountain Road, 702-222-3196. OMD Chemical Burn, Perpetual Dementia, Kirra 10/29, 8 pm, $10. 953 E. Sahara Ave., #B-30, 702-742-4171. Red Rock Resort (Rocks Lounge) Michael Lington 10/29, 8 pm, $35. 702-797-7777. South Point (Grandview Lounge) Drew Lynch & Friends 10/30, 7:30 pm, $20. 702-796-7111.
Comedy
Orleans (Showroom) Dennis Miller 10/28-10/29, 8 pm, $60-$87. 702-284-7777. South Point (Showroom) Joey Diaz 10/28-10/29, 7:30 pm, $14-$23. 702-796-7111. Starbright Theatre Jeneane Marie, Marianne Phoenix 10/30, 2 pm, $20. 2215 Thomas Ryan Blvd., 702-240-1301.
Performing Arts Cockroach Theatre The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity 10/27, 8 pm; 10/29-10/30, 2 pm, $16-$20. Art Square Theater, 1025 S. 1st St., #110, 702-818-3422. CSN Performing Arts Center (Backstage Theatre) Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom 10/27, 10/29, 7 pm; 10/30, 2 pm, $10-$12. 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., 702-651-5483. Las Vegas Little Theatre (Mainstage) The Nance 10/27-10/29, 8 pm; 10/29-10/30, 2 pm, $21-$24. 3920 Schiff Drive, 702-362-7996. Majestic Repertory Little Shop of Horrors 10/27-10/29, 10/31-11/1, 8 pm; 10/30, 5 pm, $25. Alios, 1217 S. Main St., 702-478-9636. Planet Hollywood (Showroom) America’s Got Talent Live 10/2710/30, 7:30 pm, $55-$185. 702-777-2782. A Public Fit When the Rain Stops Falling 10/28-10/29, 8 pm; 10/2910/30, 2 pm, $20-$25. 100 S. Maryland Parkway, apublicfit.org. Theatre in the Valley The Spider or the Fly? 10/28-10/29, 8 pm; 10/30, 2 pm, $12-$15. 10 W. Pacific Ave., 702-558-7275. UNLV (Black Box Theatre) Macbeth 10/27-10/29, 7:30 pm; 10/30, 2 pm, $17. (Artemus W. Ham Hall) UNLV Choral Ensembles: New Beginnings 10/27, 7:30 pm, $8-$10. (Rando-Grillot Recital Hall) UNLV Chamber Music Series: Boston Brass 11/1, 7:30 pm, $27-$30. 702-895-3332.
Special Events
Deepak Chopra: The Future of Wellbeing 10/28, 7:30 pm, $35-$175. Smith Center, 702-749-2000. Dia de los Muertos Celebration 11/1, 5-9 pm, free. The Park, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-693-7275. Dogtoberfest 10/29, 3-9 pm, free-$60. Big Dog’s Draft House, 4543 N. Rancho Drive, 702-645-1404. Fireworks over Pahrump 10/28-10/29, 6-11 pm, free-$5. Pahrump Fireworks Launch Site, visitpahrump.com. Lunch You in the Eye Bowling Tournament 10/30, noon, $99 per team. Brooklyn Bowl, 702-862-2695. The PhanArt Poster and Pin Exhibition 10/29, 1-6 pm, free. Brooklyn Bowl, 702-862-2695. Save the Ta-Tas 10/27, 8-11 pm, free. Beauty Bar, 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. SEMA Ignited 11/4, 3-10 pm, free-$20. Gold Lot (across from Las Vegas Convention Center), 3150 Paradise Road, semaignited.com. Sin City Halloween Party & Parade 10/28, 10 pm; 10/29, 7 pm, free. Downtown Las Vegas, sincityhalloween.com. Writer’s Block Miriam Melton-Villanueva: The Aztecs at Independence 10/28, 7-8:30 pm, free. 1020 Fremont St., 702-550-6399.
Sports
NHRA Toyota Nationals 10/27-10/30, 7:30 am-7 pm, $19-$148. Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 702-644-4444. Professional Bull Riders BlueDEF Tour Finals 10/29-11/1, 7 pm, $25$125. South Point Arena, 702-797-8005. Professional Bull Riders World Finals ft. George Thorogood & the Destroyers, Colt Ford, Rick Springfield, Dustin Lynch, Steven Tyler, Kyle Park 11/2-11/4, 6:15 pm; 11/5, 7:15 pm; 11/6, 12:45 pm, $39$1,096. T-Mobile Arena, 702-692-1600. Shriner’s Hospitals for Children Open 10/31-11/6, 6 am-5 pm, $35-$999. TPC Summerlin, 1700 Village Center Circle, shrinershospitalsopen.com. World Fighting Championship 10/29, 6 pm, $25-$50. Eastside Cannery, 702-856-5300.
Galleries
Bubblegum Gallery Jack Skellington Paint & Chill 10/27, 6 pm, $30. Decorate Your Own Sugar Skull Set 11/2, 6 pm, $10. Downtown Spaces, 1800 S. Industrial Road #207D, 702-806-0930. Wonderland Gallery Dia de los Muertos Thru 10/28. Glynn Galloway, Das Frank 11/3-11/25. Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd. #110, 702-686-4010.
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