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Want to enter a video game tournament, but can’t roll with the current crop of first-person shooters/jumpers? Classic Game Night pits you against three classic Nintendo games: Mario Kart 64, Bomberman 64 and Mario Party 64. It has a $125 prize pool, and even includes a free drink. $15. –Geoff Carter
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Incorporating politics, pop culture and personal experience, Parker’s new poetry collection, titled There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, vies for that categorization. She’ll read as part of Black Mountain Institute’s Emerging Writers Series. Rogers Literature & Law Building, Room 101, free. –C. Moon Reed
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OSCAR screenings The 89th-annual Academy Awards air February 26 at 5:30 p.m. on ABC, hosted by Las Vegas’ own Jimmy Kimmel, and the days leading up to the awards offer plenty of chances to catch up on nominated films at local theaters. Regal Cinemas at Green Valley Ranch and Red Rock and Century Theaters at South Point are each offering $35 packages of tickets to see all nine of this year’s Best Picture nominees (Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, La La Land, Lion, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight) at various times through Sunday. At South Point, that $35 also gets you access to programs of this year’s nominated animated and live-action short films (including the new Pixar short “Piper,” plus live-action films from France, Switzerland, Denmark, Hungary and Spain). Or if you’d like to see the shorts programs by themselves, they’re playing February 24-26 at Century’s South Point and Suncoast locations, Friday-Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m., for $10 per program. And finally, the Oscar-nominated documentary feature Fire at Sea, which never played in Las Vegas theaters, will be shown at the College of Southern Nevada’s Charleston campus (Building B, #102) for free February 24 at 6 p.m. The screening of the documentary, filmed on the Italian island of Lampedusa during the 2015 refugee crisis in Europe, will be followed by a Q&A with CSN Italian professor Barbara Bird and Italian film liaison Marta Soligo. –Josh Bell
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Mardi Gras Vegas We’re not New Orleans, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do Mardi Gras right. A plethora of celebratory events kick off with the Historic Fifth Street School’s festival on February 24 (7:30-9 p.m., $10-$15), featuring Jeffery Broussard & The Creole Cowboys, whose style combines rhythm & blues, zydeco and Creole music. On the official Fat Tuesday (February 28), head out to Boulder Dam Brewing Co. (6-10 p.m., no cover). The pub will have nine beers from Louisiana’s Abita Brewing on tap, including Mardi Gras Bock and Andygator. Or, if you fancy Downtown’s vibe, ReBAR will host Mini Mardi Gras on February 28, complete with free beads and beer for participants. Make your own cardboard-box mini-float (there are prizes for the best and worst), then travel with their parade and New Orleans-style live band for a festive bar crawl (7 p.m., free). –Rosalie Spear
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Known for bringing the Valley rich, diverse and daylong outdoor cultural programming, Henderson Events Plaza will host a considerable slate of African-American gospel singers (headlined by Felicia Coleman Evans) and dance troupes to celebrate Black History Month. 200 Water St., free. –Mike Prevatt
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ater this year, construction work looks to ramp up at the long-gestating Resorts World casino-hotel and begin for Wynn’s aquatic Paradise Park. Those mammoth projects have two things in common: their audaciousness and their location at the northern end of the Strip, the revitalization of which has been projected for years. What other endeavors might benefit the area? Naturally, we have ideas of our own.
Build the casinos already. We’ve lived with stuckin-limbo projects like Resorts World and Alon for so long, they now seem abstract, but there’s no reason they shouldn’t be built right now. The recession’s over, and the new administration likes gaming. It feels like the developers are waiting for something else to happen. What, exactly? –Geoff Carter The next Vegas icon. The South Strip has been in the spotlight long enough. It’s time to recruit the next Betty Willis—which is to say, a local, female graphic designer—to create this generation’s “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign. –C. Moon Reed Nostalgic makeover. With regards to MGM Resorts’ attempt to modernize Circus Circus, it should slam on the brakes and throw that effort in reverse. Brighten the exterior, refresh the midway, (better) promote the Steakhouse and, most importantly, restore the original and iconic Horse-Around Bar. In short, make Circus Circus old and cool again. –Mike Prevatt Cars and trains. We dream of a county-owned public parking garage that offers free (or super-low-cost) parking to locals and tourists, along with utopian light rail that will one day offer the North Strip easy access to Downtown and the airport. –CMR Finish Fontainebleau. Rope in the LVCVA to provide the political will to help to get it done, since a large portion of that entity’s property now abuts it. –GC Las Vegas Festival Grounds needs festivals. With Rock in Rio and ACM Party for a Cause not returning to the 33-acre lot, MGM must find new events for it, or outsource its bookings (ahem, Insomniac). –MP
Confessions of a streaming cheater In a free-advertising coup, Netflix has released a study revealing that 46 percent of couples have “cheated” on one another by surreptitiously watching that next episode alone. Guilty as charged. According to Netflix—which got its stats from a survey and not, thank God, by creeping on your smart TV—66 percent of cheaters can’t stop watching because “the shows are so good.” I like Stranger Things as much as the next overly nostalgic millennial, but my boyfriend would
never buy that alibi. When he wakes up in the middle of the night to find me still watching and in desperate need of a “When the Fun Stops” brochure, we know the problem is more insidious than great television. I blame my so-called “cheating” on that thief of tomorrow’s productivity, the autoplay function that begins a new series episode quicker than you can stop it. It’s an abominable form of corporate hypnotism. What’s your excuse? –C. Moon Reed
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CLOSING CURTAIN
Why UNLV’s next staging of The Vagina Monologues will be its last BY ROSALIE SPEAR
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The Strip’s north end is primed for more changes. (Photo Illustration by Ian Racoma/Staff)
BURY THE HATCHET AT THIS AX-THROWING VENUE Remember that time you played darts at Crown & Anchor, turned to your buddy and drunkenly said, “This would be much more awesome with axes.” Little did you know that ax-chucking is not only a thing outside of lumberjack circles, it has spread to Las Vegas, because Las Vegas. Axe Monkeys, located just southeast of McCarran Airport, offers 23 fence-partitioned lanes ($20-$40 per person, per one- or two-hour sessions) and lessons/practice for those 7 and up interested in heaving hatchets at targets. Could there possibly be a downside? Unlike most leisure attractions in Las Vegas, this one forbids alcohol consumption and open-toe shoes. For more info, visit axemonkeys.com. –Mike Prevatt
Since its conception in the 1990s, Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues—an episodic play that uses the vagina as a symbol of female empowerment—has played a pivotal role in the feminist movement. It has also long-figured into UNLV’s programming for V-Day, a national movement and benefit event aimed at stopping violence against women. So why is this UNLV’s last V-Day featuring the Monologues? Producer/director Carmella Gadsen—who has been involved with the UNLV production for a combined six years—and a growing number of progressive feminists criticize the theatrical work for focusing on females who are Caucasian and cisgender (when your physical sex matches your gender identity) and not being trans-inclusive. “A lot of people associate having a vagina with being a woman, but not all women have vaginas,” Gadsen says. She also states that the play’s community interest has dwindled over the years, most likely due to feminism’s growing intersectionality. The special final performance she and Jean Nidetch Women’s Center Director Cristina Hernandez have created—to be held February 25, at 4 and 7 p.m. in UNLV’s Student Union theater ($5-$8)—features some fun script modifications; a silent fundraising auction for UNLV CARE Survivor Fund, Trans Sistas of Color Project of Detroit and V-Day; and a reception with the cast. In the future, Gadsen says, UNLV will shift focus to One Billion Rising, an international solidarity revolution against the exploitation of women. But she does not discount the play’s intrinsic value to the feminist movement. “I don’t think there’s anything like this production,” she says. “It raises a critical consciousness in the community.”
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Cirque rallies to relay One Night for One Drop’s urgent, pro-Earth message
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n acrobat flies through the air, body glistening under blue lights, abs like they were chiseled from stone. He swings through the theater wearing nothing but a bushel of leaves at his waistline, each whimsical movement like that of a graceful, beautiful god. The house lights come on as he finishes a memorable test run, flanked on
both sides by bungee performers. To the untrained eye, it might look perfect, but this production’s crew has three weeks left to polish everything—acrobats, dancers and actors fine-tuning every scene until it’s all impeccable. That’s the Cirque du Soleil standard. ¶ This is a rehearsal for One Night for One Drop, Cirque’s annual charity event that raises money for
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communities in need while celebrating the talented performers that keep the heart of Las Vegas beating strong.
Last year, One Night for One Drop featured Grammy-nominated singer Leona Lewis and raised $6.5 million. This year, it takes place March 3 at New York-New York’s Zumanity Theatre. One Drop, begun by Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté, is an international nonprofit working to improve living conditions and bring clean water to developing areas around the world through sustainable initiatives. Since 2013, One Night for One Drop has paired with MGM Resorts International and a team of Cirque volunteers to bring a completely original, star-studded show to a Vegas audience for one night only. The show lasts just a few hours, and the entire event comes together through the performers’ love of their craft. Written and directed by Cirque power couple and Zumanity performers Nicky and Laetitia Dewhurst, the production is a true family effort. (Laetitia’s brother Perry Ray also plays the zany, steampunk-looking Timekeeper.) “Their concept was something really fresh and new,” director of creation Krista Monson says. “Nicky is a master at writing comedic material, he’s been at Cirque for years, and Laetitia is very strong designwise and choreographically.” This year’s show will also feature appearances by William Shatner, LMFAO’s Redfoo and 13-year-old Grace VanderWaal of America’s Got Talent, plus Canadian trio The Tenors, who’ll wrap their charming vocals around the evening’s spectacular circus stunts. “There are so many people giving so much of their time in training rooms with their bare feet, putting their kids in daycare so they can train and getting out [of work] early to come here,” Monson says. “They all work elsewhere. They have to live and support themselves. This is all
over and above, which is pretty amazing, One Drop estimates it educated roughly because we want to create a show that has 25,000 people about water issues in Honthe same levels of excellence as any other duras, a country where more than half of Cirque show, but we have to do it in a very the population lives in poverty. In that concise timeline.” time, the organization reports that it The theme of this year’s show, conprovided 8,100 people with access to an ceived by the Dewhursts, could be improved water source and 2,400 people described as vintage circus meets Ghost of with access to a latrine, while nearly Christmas Past. It will explore the notions 100 children learned about water issues of time and the environment, symbolized through One Drop’s artistic training centhrough a relationship between an angry ter for youth in the city of Langue. circus ringmaster and his assistant, and Ray says he supports the show’s overbased on a quote from President Obama’s riding message. “I’m passionate about the 2014 speech at the United Nations Climate change in the environment,” he says. “We Change Conference: “We are the first have everything, and we forget that. It’s generation to feel the impact of climate important to remind ourselves that there change and the last generation are people less fortunate [and] ONE NIGHT that can do something about without clean water.” FOR ONE DROP it.” Those words guide the show, Between 2011 and 2015, One March 3, 7:30 which reminds us we have little Drop also installed water purificap.m., Zumanity Theatre at New time left to right our wrongs. tion units in 100 villages in Odisha, York-New York. The Old Ringmaster’s attitude India, while hosting artistic and Tickets starting toward his assistant represents theatrical workshops there for at $100, onenight.one humanity’s treatment of Mother youths. One Drop is currently prodrop.org. Earth. Given the opportunity to viding access to safe drinking watravel back in time to a bygone ter for 250,000 people in Sheohar, circus, the Old Ringmaster meets India, and also has ongoing efforts his younger self and starts to recognize the in Guatemala and Burkina Faso. mistakes he has made. “This event is about the heart,” “I’m kind of used to doing different Monson says. “I hope [the audience] will things,” says comedian and performer be able to laugh and smile and also walk Jimmy Slonina (Mystere, Zarkana, away with a resonating message about Kooza), who plays the Old Ringleader. our power to see the world.” “Nicky and Laetitia have been really open Back in rehearsal, sequins fall and to suggestions. They had a really solid sweat pours on the Zumanity stage as the bare-bones script, and then I came in with team puts finishing touches on its scenes. Shannan Calcutt and her husband Darren With just a few weeks to go, this band of [Pitura] to work on the comedy portion performers is motivated to get everything of it. The five of us all sat down and said, right. But it’s not just the adrenaline rush ‘Okay, now let’s fill it in,’ kind-of on our of fast-approaching deadlines or a love feet on the stage in the moment. I’m not of artistic expression that gets them here necessarily used to working like that, but on days off. They’re here because they I feel super lucky to be part of such a colbelieve in the act of giving. If philanthropy laboration.” granted people powers, these women and Over seven years culminating in 2015, men could save the day.
Fried chicken at M&M is love. (Mikayla Whitmore/Staff)
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By Brock Radke ver some 20 years of trying to eat at every restaurant in the Las Vegas Valley, discovering and sharing many magnificent meals in these pages and countless conversations, there are only a few experiences I’ve kept for my own. I haven’t written or talked about them because they belong to me, the emotional eater, not the hopefully helpful food-writer guy. They are just part of my regular life. Breakfast at M&M Soul Food Cafe tops that short list. My plate is catfish and eggs, and I have a routine. First, I order the scrambled eggs with cheese, because at what other restaurant do you order scrambled eggs and the server always asks if you want cheese? Then, before the food comes, I’ll unscrew the cap on the bottle of hot sauce, because I’m going to need more than a few drops at a time to balance the salty, crunchy cornmeal coating on my catfish. And when it does arrive, I start with the biscuit, smearing on butter and grape jelly and eating half before I even think about forking that fish. The M&M on West Charleston feels like home to me, but when I eat at the newer restaurant on Las Vegas Boulevard for the first time—it opened two years ago—it feels the same way. The staff’s smiles are sincere. My fellow diners are always laughing, sometimes singing. This is the rare restaurant that plays my music; on this visit, it’s Dru Hill, Ne-Yo, Whitney Houston, Jhene Aiko, Sade. Where else can I have fried catfish for breakfast with a side of Sade? “We put you in the comfort zone,” M&M owner Tim Gee says. “After this, you just want to relax, kick back, do nothing. You might want to go back home and go to sleep.” For the record, he thinks I should order breakfast with grits instead of potatoes. Next time, maybe. “We want you to come
down and feel at home, that’s what we try to push more than anything. It’s the way the girls speak to you when you come in. I tell them, treat ’em like they’re your cousins. Come on in, mama’s cooking some food.” This is my Vegas soul food experience, but not mine alone. M&M has been one of my city’s most popular restaurants for 15 years now, even if foodwriter guys like me haven’t written or talked about it much. These restaurants exist to make you feel like you’re eating home cooking, at home, with the people you know and love. It’s sorta the opposite of the way we typically think of dining out, which is more unfamiliar and formal. And yet this type of restaurant might be the most powerful, the most emotional and the most satisfying. his week brings the conclusion of the 14th season of Top Chef, still one of the most popular TV cooking competitions. Though the finale was filmed in Guadalajara, the bulk of the season was shot in one of America’s hottest food cities: Charleston, South Carolina. The contestants there received an education on American Southern cuisine and its history while cooking for prominent regional chefs like Sean Brock, Robert Stehling, John Currence and BJ Dennis. In one January episode, the challenge was to create a dish paying homage to Edna Lewis,
a task that prompted many viewers and some contestants to ask, “Who’s that?” Though not a household name, the Virginia-born Lewis is known as the Julia Child of the South and remains a prominent influence on modern Southern cooking, through her work in restaurants and as the author of several books on the topic (which received a healthy sales bump after Top Chef). She was an ambassador of this cuisine, often referred to as soul food or Southern food, originally created and cooked by African slaves. Lewis died in 2006 at age 89. “She was one of my favorite chefs of all time,” says Cory Harwell, who grew up in Georgia and Florida and now lives in Las Vegas. No one was better at reinterpreting classic comfort food dishes for modern diners than Harwell’s partner, the late chef Kerry Simon. Their Downtown restaurant, Carson Kitchen, is a prime example of how Southern cooking permeates every kind of restaurant today. “One of our most significant dishes is the fried chicken skins,” Harwell says. “The origin is me getting my hand slapped when I was 6 or 7, sneaking into the kitchen when my grandmother was frying chicken to rip the skin off the breast and eat it by itself. I grew up with a grandmother who had a Folgers can of bacon fat on the stovetop at all times. There was nothing cooked in that woman’s house that didn’t have bacon grease. It was the spoonful of love, she called it. Otherwise, those green beans weren’t done.” Despite his background, Harwell says he couldn’t embrace his own Southern roots until later in his hospitality career. “I was a little lost, because I ran away from the South as soon as I could. I thought I had to make pretty food and restaurants that were colorful and gorgeous, and I wasn’t putting the soul and character and
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opinion on the plate. It was Kerry [who] said, ‘Make me something you grew up with,’ and it was fried chicken and mashed potatoes, the most down-to-earth-meal, and he absolutely loved it. It changed the way I perceived what I needed to do food-wise.” or a young city still blooming in the desert, Las Vegas has some deep soul-food roots. M&M, an LA staple for more than 40 years, opened at Jones and Harmon in 2002 before moving to its Charleston and Valley View location. “[With] this food and these restaurants, there’s more demand than supply,” Gee says. “You can’t find people to cook like this much anymore. We just want to keep it alive. ... It’s part of my culture, and I promised the founders of M&M, who came from Mississippi, that I would make this the biggest of the big in this industry.” At the new restaurant, just steps from the Las Vegas Strip, M&M serves up its beloved fried chicken, shrimp and grits, collard greens, blackeyed peas, my catfish and even chitterlings—or pig’s small intestines, a rare presence in any restaurant—to people from all over the world. Out in the northwest, a former Burger King has been converted into an updated version of a Vegas soul food institution. Elbert Hicks opened Hicks Bar-B-Q in 1968 on Jackson Avenue in West Las Vegas. The restaurant became known as H&H and moved locations over the years, including to a Martin Luther King Boulevard spot that served as headquarters for black community leaders until it burned down in 2003. H&H returned, however, and expanded further in 2012, when local business partners Toni Terrell and Rochelle Schoener opened a franchise— now the only H&H location—on North Rancho Drive, dubbed H&H Plus 2. The friendly, former fast-food spot is still serving the favorites: barbecue, fried okra, mac and cheese, candied yams and more. Given its similar Southern roots and widespread popularity, barbecue is a natural partner for soul food, and you can sample both at TC’s Rib Crib, a 12-year-old local joint that has stood at Durango and Twain for the past six years. Sharon and Irving Harrell opened the Crib with Sharon’s father—he’s TC, from Louisiana. The Crib’s original chefs are still the ones preparing its food: ribs, catfish, chicken and waffles, greens, yams, Kool-Aid. Yes, Kool-Aid.
The happiest people are at M&M Soul Food Cafe, including owner Tim Gee (below). (Mikayla Whitmore/Staff)
“We were one of the first restaurants to serve Kool-Aid, and people buy it by the gallon,” Sharon says. “I always think to myself, can’t you just make it yourself? But people say it doesn’t taste the same at home.” In addition to its tough-to-find offerings—like beef ribs and deep-fried baby back pork ribs— the TC’s crew prides itself on making everything from scratch. Most great soul food restaurants do, which might explain why there aren’t many more of these establishments around Las Vegas. It’s costly and time-consuming producing food that diners expect to be relatively inexpensive. “Everything is homemade. We’re peeling yams and potatoes, making our own coleslaw dressing, picking greens. When you make collards you have to take off the stems, so they’re nice and tender, not bitter,” Sharon says. “Over the years, our purveyors tried to get us on premade stuff, to save on labor. Why not get your yams out of a can? No, no, no. We can’t do that. It’s important to us.” Another challenge: meeting our expectations for traditional Southern fare while tweaking recipes to distinguish your food from the competition. At Gritz Cafe, a 9-year-old stalwart on Stella Lake Street near the corner of Martin Luther King and West Lake Mead, the top-seller is chicken and waffles, but the chicken is extra crispy from a fry in soybean oil, and the seasoning is specially designed to play up the sweet/savory contrast in the dish. “You could just put syrup on the chicken, and it will still taste really good,” says owner Trina Jiles, a former fire inspector and native Las Vegan whose parents came from Delhi, Louisiana. Of course, you can’t eat at her res-
taurant without sampling the grits, which are cooked slow, “like you’re supposed to,” she says. “It took a lot to get the consistency we have, going back again and again to make sure the grits are perfect every single time.” She likes hers served with shrimp, bell peppers, onions and mushrooms. Jiles’ kitchen has been experimenting with nontraditional items to keep things fresh, like frying grits with cheese and jalapeños and serving them in some sort of bar form, but the foundation of Gritz’s food will always its family recipes. “The mac and cheese is my mom’s, and the collard greens with turkey instead of pork is mom’s, too. The chicken, my brother came up with that recipe,” she says. “Everything I really enjoyed eating and appreciated as a kid is on there ... except the homemade potato salad. I haven’t added that—yet.” et’s be clear: The across-the-board influence of soul food is a good thing. You don’t have to go to Ella Em’s way out north on Craig and Revere to find it, but you should, and you should order oxtails or gravy-smothered pork chops. You don’t need to go down south to Soul Food Cafe on Rainbow and Warm Springs to get your fill, but you will, to check out the fried snapper, gumbo and turkey wings. One of my favorite soul holes-in-the-wall, Sunny’s, doesn’t even consider itself soul food. Owner Anthony Binna used to have two locations connected to convenience stores but now operates a standalone at Lamb and Washington, having adjusted his menu to include Philly cheesesteaks and more seafood. “When you say soul food, people have expectations of side orders like collard greens,
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Pork chops and all the fixins at Ella Em’s. (Mikayla Whitmore/Staff)
beans and rice or macaroni and cheese,” he says. “We’re dipping into that category a little bit, but not enough to be considered that way. The fish is picking up a lot, and it’s considered Southern, because we fry it in corn meal.” One of the all-time great Vegas fried chickens comes from a fine dining steakhouse at Venetian, just a few doors down from Yardbird, a refined Southern kitchen that came to the Strip from Florida and serves excellent chicken, buttermilk biscuits and smoked brisket. But I’m talking about Emeril Lagasse’s Delmonico, where young chickens are marinated
in Louisiana hot sauce and buttermilk, dredged in flour and fried juicy and crisp, then served with a corn waffle, sweet and spicy Creole tomato glaze and a warm black-eyed pea salad. “I love it,” chef Ronnie Rainwater says. “We put it on the lunch menu a few years ago, and it’s become really popular. My chefs and I eat it once a week.” Rainwater grew up in LA with parents from Alabama and spent some time working in Atlanta before coming to Vegas to work for Lagasse, whose cuisine might be the closest thing to soul food on the Strip. Rainwater says the spirit of
Southern food and hospitality runs parallel to that of Las Vegas, and he should know—he’s been at Delmonico for nearly 18 years now. “I think about my grandmother cooking two or three meals a day every day, and that’s something we don’t do anymore. Everything is much quicker,” he says. “Food is a very powerful thing that brings people together, whether it’s families at the holidays or the business travelers we deal with every day. If I make them feel comfortable with the food and the service and the smiles, that’s when they’re going to come back all three days they’re in town.”
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MAKJ sort of started at the top, and now he’s back. The California-bred DJ (real name: Mackenzie Johnson) launched his first club residency in 2010—at Wynn’s Tryst Nightclub. “I was the only person at Tryst playing electronic music, but I was playing a lot of hip-hop, too,” he says. “They’re family to me. They put me on at Tryst, and that led to opening some shows for Avicii at XS, and some Surrender shows. But I didn’t realize until later how high-quality everyone is at Wynn, because that’s all I knew. It’s just the best hotel ever. I didn’t know how good I had it until I left.” He played Wynn venues for more than three years before dabbling at other clubs on the Strip and logging some time touring around the world. Now, MAKJ returns to Wynn for 2017, for consecutive Saturdays at Intrigue (the former Tryst space) and at Encore Beach Club. “When I started in Vegas, I didn’t know what I was getting myself into, but it teaches you [that] it’s not about what I want to listen to; it’s what the client wants,” he says. “I learned to DJ for the crowd. And that’s why I’m back at Wynn,
because the industry is going more that way, not DJs playing boring sets. People go to Vegas to have a good time, a very wide crowd.” MAKJ, who just traveled for gigs in Australia and Thailand, is looking forward to the diverse crowds Wynn venues are known to attract, and that’s a better fit for his style. “I really don’t see making a lot of changes in my sets whether I’m in New York or Miami or Vegas,” he says. Known for his amped-up remixes—he has recently reworked Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” and Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles”— MAKJ says this year will be “the year of content.” He’s planning to unleash several singles in the coming months. “These days, you put something out and people forget it in a week,” he says. “The key is to create something that’s good that people will remember.” MAKJ at Intrigue, February 25. –Brock Radke
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“I loved growing up here, because my family was connected to a lot of people in the casino business, and as a kid I got to see some of the greatest acts in the history of entertainment,” he says. “My first date ever, I took a girl to see Elvis Presley—young, thin Elvis at the old International, now the Westgate—and we were in the front row, touching the stage. My dad drove us, because I was only 12, and during ‘Love Me Tender,’ Elvis got down on one knee, put his scarf around my date and kissed her. It was the best date ever.” Despite his early love of Vegas life, Frey went to school at USC and worked in TV and film for almost a decade before returning to the desert. When he did, he quickly found a niche in the booming cigar scene of the mid ’90s and revolutionized the way Vegas smokes. “No one was doing cigars right in the casinos, and if any town was great for cigars, this was it.” His endeavors evolved from a handful of small shops along the Strip to include a booming cigar commerce platform, high-end lounges like the game-changing Casa Fuente at the Forum Shops, and restaurants and
bars like T&T at Luxor and Rhumbar at the Mirage. His latest project is an update of his local Cigarbox shop, a relaxing lounge and bar launched three months ago just off the Strip with an expansive humidor and a primo selection of aged spirits. It’s the perfect retreat for Frey, and he’s already got plenty of regulars. He’s hoping to create more of these experiences, including the possible overseas expansion of the recently opened Montecristo Cigar Bar at Caesars Palace. “What I always loved about smoking in a social setting like this is how cigars are a great equalizer when it comes to social status,” he says. “If you go to New York, you have lounges and stores on Madison Avenue where you might find a CEO of a Fortune 500 company sitting next to a truck driver on his break. They’re going to have something in common through cigars. They may not talk to each other ever again, but for that hour they’re sitting there, smoking and talking, and it’s a great thing to see. That’s why I love this business so much.” –Brock Radke
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low end of trap music. “People still love it,” he says of his chosen genre. Another telltale sign is the season. Summer is coming, and something is going to pop up soon, he says, right before pool season, to take over the clubs and the charts. It could be “Run Up,” the new Major Lazer track featuring Nicki Minaj and Partynextdoor. “Being a Major Lazer fan, I like almost everything they do,” Que says. “But this song has the fun, island vibe. It’ll get girls moving, thanks to Diplo introducing the world to the twerk, and we have a verse from Nicki.
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ellowtail pastrami. How can you not order that dish? The firm texture and clean ocean taste of the Japanese amberjack receives innovative treatment and presentation at Morimoto Las Vegas, starting with a light smoke at your table before getting dolled up with the all-purpose spice blend togarashi, delicate créme fraiche, grapeseed oil and candied olive. It’s unlike any pastrami you’ve ever encountered, a whimsical treat and the perfect opening dish at celebrated Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto’s long-awaited Las Vegas restaurant at MGM Grand.
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The chef’s style is to operate without any rules, and that’s the best way to eat here, too. Toro tuna tartare is buttery and rich with sturgeon caviar and nori paste. Raw oysters are topped with foie gras, sea urchin and teriyaki for the ultimate single bite of pleasure. The playful Duck Duck Goose plays with ingredients with wild creativity, presenting duck meatball soup and duck confit fried rice with gooseberry compote. Laksa noodle soup is a symphony of flavors, pork tonkotsu broth mixed with coconut milk, red curry pork, sesame and egg noodles. Morimoto is also its chef’s first restaurant anywhere featuring a teppanyaki option. This is one dining destination that requires multiple visits for maximum satisfaction—and rule-breaking. Morimoto at MGM Grand, 702-8913001; Sunday-Thursday 5-10 p.m., Friday & Saturday 5-10:30 p.m.
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Cozy up to the bar and start with 40 draft taps that include a handful of locals (like Hop Nuts’ Harry Porter and Able Baker’s Atomic Duck IPA) or try touring brews like Victory Brewing’s potent and satisfying Golden Monkey tripel or Klosterbrauerei Andechs’ Andechser Doppelbock Dunkel. Pub 365 further breaks it down into an assortment of staff favorites (like Rogue’s Sriracha Hot Stout), Belgians, browns and ambers, porters and stouts, sours, ciders, wheats, pale ales, IPAs and more. Flip a few more pages and you’ll find the really good stuff: a “unicorn” list of hard-to-find beers. These “majestic, rare and hunted” suds include a sizable selection from the Bruery, Deschutes, Dogfish Head (including 2011, 2012 and 2014 versions of the 120 Minute IPA), Evil Twin and more.
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Grove in LA, too.) But the least-known wonderful thing about the Vegas location is a new, secret, prix-fixe steak menu available only at Morels’ handsome bar. Executive chef J.L. Carrera selects a different cut and side dishes each week to go along with a baby iceberg salad and of macaron ice cream sandwiches for dessert. A recent week offered a 28-day dry-aged, grass-fed New York sirloin served with whipped potatoes and Brussels sprouts. The three-course feast costs $58, a steal of a deal even be-
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2/25 DJ Hollywood. SLS, Fri-Sat, 702-7617621. GHOST BAR Palms, nightly, 702-942-6832. HAK KASAN 2/23 BRKLYN. 2/24 Fergie DJ. 2/25 Lil Jon. 2/26 Borgeous. 3/2 GTA. 3/3 BRKLYN. 3/4 Tiësto. 3/5 Fergie DJ. 3/9 Jauz. 3/10 Hardwell. 3/11 GTA. 3/12 Nghtmre. MGM Grand, Wed-Sun, 702-891-3838. HYDE
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2/23 Ross One. 2/24 Fat Joe. 2/25 T.I. 2/26 DJ Franzen. 3/2 DJ Esco. 3/5 DJ Franzen. 3/9 DJ Esco. 3/12 DJ Franzen. Cromwell, Tue, ThuSun, 702-777-3800.
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2/23 Flosstradamus. 2/24 Alan Walker. 2/25 MAKJ. 3/2 Robin Schulz. 3/3 Cedric Gervais. 3/4 Stafford Brothers. 3/9 RL Grime. 3/10 Sultan & Shepard. 3/11 Dillon Francis. Wynn, Thu-Sat, 702-770-7300. JEW EL 2/24 DJ Irie. 2/25 Jeff Retro. 2/27 LA Leakers. 3/3 FAED. 3/4 WeAreTreo. 3/6 Justin Credible. 3/10 LA Leakers. 3/11 Cash Cash. Aria, Mon, Thu-Sat, 702-590-8000. L AX 2/23 Mystikal. 2/24 Eric Forbes. 2/25 DJ Steve1der. Luxor, Thu-Sat, 702-262-4529.
2/24 Yellow Claw. 2/25 Slushii. 3/1 Brillz. 3/3 Slander. 3/4 Yellow Claw. 3/8 Dillon Francis. 3/10 Ookay. 3/11 Flosstradamus. Encore, Wed, Fri-Sat, 702-770-7300. TAO 2/23 DJ Five. 2/24 Justin Credible. 2/25 Eric DLux. 3/2 DJ Five. 3/3 Politik. 3/4 Ruckus. 3/9 Justin Credible. 3/10 M!KEATTACK. 3/11 Eric DLux. Venetian, Thu-Sat, 702-388-8588. XS 2/24 Chuckie. 2/25 Dillon Francis. 2/27 RL Grime. 3/3 The Chainsmokers. 3/4 David Guetta. 3/6 Lost Kings. 3/10 The Chainsmokers. 3/11 David Guetta. Encore, Fri-Mon, 702-770-0097.
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2/25 Appetite 4 Destruction. 3/3-3/4 Social Distortion. 3/8-3/25 Billy Idol. 3/16 Jason Isbell. 3/19 UFO & Saxon. 3/23 Worship Tour. 3/30 Ozomatli & Squirrel Nut Zippers. 3/31 Locash. 4/6 Mockstrocity Tour. 4/7 Badfish. 4/9 The Damned. 4/14 NF. 4/15 Tiger Army. 4/21 Jimmy Eat World. 4/22 Biz Markie. 4/23 New Found Glory. 5/3-5/13 Billy Idol. 5/7 Leela James & Daley. 5/17-5/28 Santana. 5/25 Marsha Ambrosius & Eric Benét. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. T HE
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It doesn’t matter if you’re a star or a tourist; everybody celebrates their 21st birthday in Las Vegas. On February 17, it was Sasha Pieterse’s turn, when the Pretty Little Liars actress partied the night away with friends at Marquee, complete with cake and sounds from Ruckus. ... Wynn Nightlife resident act Yellow Claw (Jim Aasgier and Nizzle) is set to release its second album, Los Amsterdam, April 7 on Diplo’s Mad Decent label. DJ Snake, Juicy J, Little Debbie, Rochelle, Yade Lauren and others have guest spots. Catch Yellow Claw at Surrender February 24 and March 4. ... We told you unexpected entertainment would continue at Caesars Palace lounge Cleopatra’s Barge, and we were right. After Blues Traveler wraps its limited engagement with shows February 23 and March 1 and 2, pop-punkers Plain White T’s take over with acoustic sets March 30 and 31. ... Celeb chef Lorena Garcia joined the Venetian and Palazzo “wall of fame” on February 15, when her banner was hoisted alongside those of Wolfgang Puck, Thomas Keller, Mario Batali, Emeril Lagasse and others. Garcia is the chief culinary mind behind Chica, set to open at Venetian soon.
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ARTHUR BROWN WARPS VINYL The last time The Crazy World of Arthur Brown played Las Vegas was during last August’s Psycho Las Vegas fest at the Hard Rock Hotel. The flamboyant 74-year-old showman returned to HRH on February 16, and his set at Vinyl didn’t skimp on the psycho. Performing in facepaint and a variety of costumes, the “God of Hellfire” virtually cooked our senses. Read our review at lasvegasweekly.com. (Photograph by Yasmina Chavez/Staff)
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT PLACES TO BUY THRIFTY, SECONDHAND CLOTHING 1. BUFFALO EXCHANGE
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This cozy Downtown store offers some outrageous and vintage finds. I’ve seen velvet suits and leopard rompers. 1520 S. Main St., 702-873-1406.
An organized store with a vast selection of size- and color-coded clothing. 4655 E. Flamingo Road, 702547-0320; 3750 W. Craig Road, 702-649-8191.
Hunt for one-of-a-kind items at this nonprofit shop and support local charity organizations in the process. 4310 E. Tropicana Ave., 702-277-3752.
Score on couture attire with sales like “Sensational Sundays.” 10300 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-586-1100; 10624 S. Eastern Ave., 702-5861101. –Rosalie Spear
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HISTORY IN MOTION WHEN WE RISE TELLS THE STORY OF THE GAY-RIGHTS MOVEMENT BY JOSH BELL he ABC miniseries When We Rise sets out an ambitious agenda for itself, to chronicle nearly 40 years of the gay-rights movement in eight hours (minus commercials), while sticking to broadcast-TV standards. Created by screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk, J. Edgar), Rise focuses on three main characters, all living in San Francisco, as avatars for the entire movement, from its earliest stirrings following the Stonewall uprising to the Supreme Court battle over gay marriage. The real-life trio (who were all consultants on the series) are played by two sets of actors, dividing the series evenly, which turns out to be one of the show’s biggest weaknesses. The most prominent is Cleve Jones (played as a young man by Austin P. McKenzie and as an older man by Guy Pearce), a high-profile activist whose memoir provides part of the show’s source material. He’s joined by Roma Guy (Emily Skeggs/Mary-Louise Parker) and Ken Jones
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Crowds gather to fight for their rights in When We Rise. (ABC/Courtesy)
TAKE THIS SHOW—PLEASE
entire story, turning a lean, efficient revenge thriller into a tedious, uninspired procedural. Taken is ostensibly a prequel, following Bryan TAKEN MAKES A FAILED (Clive Standen, a poor substitute for Neeson) TRANSITION TO TV at a younger age, but it’s also set in the present In 2008’s Taken, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) day, so its connection to the movies is pretty told the audience everything they needed to thin. After witnessing his sister’s murder, Bryan know about his background in a simple, gets recruited into a cliched secret government now-iconic line about his “very organization and sent on generic missions to particular set of skills.” stop terrorists and various criminals. ABCCC The development of those The show turns lone-wolf Bryan into TAKEN skills prior to the events of one member of an ensemble, but his Mondays, 10 the film (in which Bryan fellow agents are barely distinguishable p.m., NBC. Premieres tracked down the men from each other, even as they end up with February 27. responsible for abducting their own pointless subplots. For a show his daughter) wasn’t called Taken, there’s also a shockingly important, either in Taken low amount of taking, as Bryan’s missions or in its two (increasingly poor) have little to do with his passion for rescuing sequels. Now that Taken has helpless young women. Change the main become a TV series, character’s name and this could have been any though, Bryan’s forgettable network action series, with nothing background is the distinctive in its concept or execution. –Josh Bell
It used to be that film fans would have to wait months or sometimes years to see the most talked-about movies at each year’s Sundance Film Festival. In the past couple of years, however, streaming services Netflix and Amazon Prime have been grabbing up movies at impressive rates, and the Grand Jury Prize winner at this year’s Sundance—oddball thriller I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore—will be available to Netflix subscribers this week, less than a month after the festival’s end. Written and directed by Macon Blair, a character actor who has worked closely with director Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room), Home has a bit of Saulnier’s flair for extreme violence committed by average people, with sickening consequences. The movie stars Melanie Lynskey as a timid nursing aide who decides to take justice into her own (untrained) hands when her house gets robbed. She teams with her weirdo neighbor (Elijah Wood) to track down the perpetrators, in an odyssey that’s equal parts horrifying and hilarious. The balance of comedy, violence and philosophical meditations gets away from Blair a bit toward the end, with a messy climax that eventually loses its way. But it’s a promising debut with gorgeous, warm cinematography and a great performance from Lynskey, and now anyone who wondered about the Sundance hype can judge it for themselves. –Josh Bell
AAABC I DON’T FEEL AT HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE Melanie Lynskey, Elijah Wood, Devon Graye. Directed by Macon Blair. Not rated. Available February 24 on Netflix.
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Not an intelligible word is spoken in The Red Turtle, one of the five films up for Best Animated Feature at this year’s Academy Awards. Initially, the film’s unnamed protagonist—a man who looks to be maybe 30 or so—has nobody to talk to, having washed ashore on a deserted island. His efforts to return to civilization on a bamboo raft are repeatedly foiled by an enormous sea turtle, which mysteriously turns into a young woman after the man kills it in a fit of anger. The man will live the rest of his life on the island with this turtle woman, even fathering a child with her, but conversation is not part of the family routine. This no-dialogue gimmick has the merit of focusing one’s attention on director Michael Dudok de Wit’s spare animation style, with its rich palette of daytime blues (ocean, sky) giving way to nighttime sepia. There’s not much else on offer, unfortunately, as the film’s skeletal, ostensibly fablelike narrative (scripted by Dudok de Wit with Pascale Ferran) employs its bizarre premise to remarkably banal ends. A tsunami toward the end of the movie provides fleeting excitement, but even at only 80 minutes, The Red Turtle feels much too small for its shell. –Mike D’Angelo
aabcc THE RED TURTLE Directed by Michael Dudok de Wit. Rated PG. Opens Friday at Century Suncoast.
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Get Out taps into socially relevant fear family for the first time. The first half-hour focuses on the casual racism, as Rose’s seems half of the comedy duo Key and Peele, ingly well-meaning family (parents played Jordan Peele is known for humor that by Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener, deals directly with issues of race and brother played by Caleb Landry class, and he channels that Jones) exhibit insensitive but not social commentary into Get Out, overtly racist behavior. his impressive feature debut as a aaabc But even as Chris brushes off the writer-director. Although it features GET OUT kind of treatment he experiences all a substantial amount of humor, Get too often, clearly something more Out isn’t primarily a comedy, and its Daniel Kaluuya, Alsinister than racial obliviousness is dark, sometimes gruesome horrors lison Williams, afoot. Peele doesn’t handle the transimark a significant departure for Bradley Whittion into outright horror entirely Peele’s work. It’s also a mostly sucford. Directed by Jordan smoothly, and the explanation for the cessful departure, and if Get Out is Peele. Rated R. family’s true motives is a bit confusthe launch of Peele’s career as a horOpens Friday ing. But the setting is undeniably ror filmmaker, he’s off to a good start. citywide. creepy, and Peele plays up the tenTaking its cue from classic socially sions between Chris’ desire to fit in conscious horror movies like Roseand his growing feeling that something is serimary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives, Get Out ously wrong. The movie never lectures the audifollows Brooklyn-based photographer Chris ence, but like many of the best horror movies, it (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend Rose (Girls’ provides a grotesque exaggeration to highlight Allison Williams) to Rose’s childhood home in very real social problems, and manages to proa secluded, wealthy, nearly all-white suburb, duce some genuine scares along the way. where Chris, who’s black, is meeting Rose’s
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New this week Collide (Not reviewed) Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones, Anthony Hopkins. Directed by Eran Creevy. 99 minutes. Rated PG-13. An American in Germany gets in over his head when he agrees to work for a drug dealer. Theaters citywide. Get Out aaabc Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford. Directed by Jordan Peele. 103 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 58. Theaters citywide. I Am Not Your Negro aaabc Directed by Raoul Peck. 93 minutes. Rated PG-13. This Oscar-nominated documentary takes text from writer James Baldwin (mainly an unfinished 1979 manuscript) as narration for an essay-style examination of race relations in America. Although Baldwin was writing decades ago, his words resonate strongly in the present day, and director Peck matches them up with some powerful imagery. –JB Green Valley Ranch, Suncoast. Rangoon (Not reviewed) Saif Ali Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Kangana Ranaut. Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. 177 minutes. Not rated. In Hindi with English subtitles. During World War II, a woman is torn between her two lovers. Village Square. The Red Turtle aabcc Directed by Michael Dudok de Wit. 80 minutes. Rated PG. See review Page 58. Suncoast. Rock Dog (Not reviewed) Voices of Luke Wilson, Eddie Izzard, J.K. Simmons. Directed by Ash Brannon. 80 minutes. Rated PG. A dog pursues his dream of becoming a rock star. Theaters citywide. You’re Killing Me Susana aaccc Gael García Bernal, Verónica Echegui, Ashley Hinshaw. Directed by Roberto Sneider. 100 min-
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utes. Not rated. A Mexican writer (Echegui) leaves her cheating, controlling boyfriend (Bernal) to attend a workshop in the U.S., and he follows her. It’s meant to be a romantic comedy, but the relationship is so toxic and the characters so unlikable that it’s hard to find anything charming or romantic or funny about their inevitable reunion. –JB Boulder Station.
Now playing A Cure for Wellness aaabc Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth. Directed by Gore Verbinski. 146 minutes. Rated R. A young, ambitious investment banker (DeHaan) travels to a remote Swiss resort to retrieve his company’s CEO, only to find himself unable to leave. The plot isn’t entirely coherent, but the movie’s lush, carefully composed visual style and slowly building dread make for an enveloping, continually unsettling experience. –JB Theaters citywide. Elle aaabc Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny. Directed by Paul Verhoeven. 130 minutes. Rated R. In French with English subtitles. The head of a video-game company takes matters into her own hands after being assaulted and raped in Verhoeven’s fascinating, provocative thriller. Huppert is fantastic as a woman empowered by dark experiences, and the movie is graphic and intense without being exploitative (although it eventually runs itself into a narrative dead end). –JB Village Square. Fifty Shades Darker aaccc Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Marcia Gay Harden. Directed by James Foley. 115 minutes. Rated R. The second movie based on E.L. James’ series of erotic novels immediately reunites billionaire sadist Christian Grey and naive college grad Anastasia Steele. The relative lack of conflict between the main characters is just one of the reasons that Darker ends up as possibly the most boring movie ever made about kinky sex. –JB Theaters citywide. Fist Fight acccc Ice Cube, Charlie Day, Jillian Bell. Directed by Richie Keen. 91 minutes. Rated R. There’s almost nothing to like about this comedy starring Cube as an angry history teacher who challenges Day’s nervous English teacher to a fight after a misunderstanding gets the former fired. It’s dreadful, with unpleasant characters, moronic jokes, a paper-thin plot and a disingenuous message that pretends to excuse the repetitive vulgarity. –JB Theaters citywide. The Great Wall aaccc Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal. Directed by Zhang Yimou. 103 minutes. Rated PG-13. This American-Chinese co-production is carefully composed to provide an equally inoffensive balance for both markets, ending up with the worst of both worlds. Damon sports a terrible, constantly varying accent as an 11th-century European trader who comes to China and ends up in a fight against crappy CGI monsters. –JB Theaters citywide. Hidden Figures aaccc Taraji P. Henson, Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer. Directed by Theodore Melfi. 127 minutes. Rated PG. The story of three real-life black women who overcame prejudice while working at NASA in the early days of the space program is told with cheesy, crowd-pleasing moments that often simplify and diminish the struggles that the real people endured. Eventually its account of actual triumph over adversity becomes chintzy and dis-
Felicity Jones and Nicholas Hoult go on the run in Collide. (Open Road Films/Courtesy)
ingenuous. –JB Theaters citywide. John Wick: Chapter 2 aaacc Keanu Reeves, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ruby Rose. Directed by Chad Stahelski. 122 minutes. Rated R. Reeves returns as the weary, unstoppable assassin who just wants to retire in peace, this time drawn back into action by an Italian mob boss. The story lacks the laser focus of the original, and the increased emphasis on franchise-building is a distraction, but Stahelski still knows how to stage stunning action sequences. –JB Theaters citywide. La La Land aaabc Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend. Directed by Damien Chazelle. 128 minutes. Rated PG-13. Stone and Gosling are so terrific together, as an aspiring actress and a jazz pianist struggling to realize their respective dreams in cutthroat Los Angeles, that one can sort of forgive this being a throwback musical in which neither lead is a first-rate singer or dancer. –MD Theaters citywide. The Lego Batman Movie aaabc Voices of Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Zach Galifianakis. Directed by Chris McKay. 104 minutes. Rated PG. This animated spinoff of The Lego Movie, starring Arnett’s vain, arrogant version of Batman, retains much of its predecessor’s charm, packing in nonstop visual and verbal jokes while telling a simple, fun story with some solid lessons for the family audience. –JB Theaters citywide. Lion aaacc Sunny Pawar, Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman. Directed by Garth Davis. 118 minutes. Rated PG-13. Based on a true story, Lion stars Patel as a young man who was raised in Australia (Kidman plays his mom) after getting hopelessly lost at age 5, but who uses Google Earth in an effort to locate the tiny village in India where he was born. Sluggish at the start, moving by the end. –MD Theaters citywide. Moonlight aaabc Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, Trevante Rhodes. Directed by Barry Jenkins. 110 minutes. Rated R. Divided into three segments, Moonlight follows the introverted, gay Chiron as a kid, a teenager and a young man, coming to terms with his identity growing up in one of Miami’s poorest AfricanAmerican neighborhoods. It’s rooted in real
details, and each segment (even the slow-moving final third) achieves its own grace. –JB Suncoast. Paterson aaaac Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Barry Shabaka Henley. Directed by Jim Jarmusch. 118 minutes. Rated R. Jarmusch’s latest structural gem observes a week in the life of Paterson (Driver), a professional bus driver and amateur poet from Paterson, New Jersey. Virtually plotless and deliberately repetitive, the film is a lovely portrait of the inspiration that artists take from daily life. –MD Suncoast. Rings abccc Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki. Directed by F. Javier Gutiérrez. 102 minutes. Rated PG-13. In this long-delayed third Ring movie, a bland teenager (Lutz) and a college professor (Galecki) encounter the cursed videotape and go in search of soggy ghost girl Samara’s horrific history. Apart from a standalone opening sequence set on an airplane, the film just traffics in the usual clichéd jump scares. –MD Theaters citywide. Split aaabc James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Betty Buckley. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. 117 minutes. Rated PG-13. Shyamalan’s tense thriller keeps up the suspense for its entire running time, telling the story of three teen girls abducted by a man with 23 personalities. It’s another step on Shyamalan’s comeback, telling a sometimes familiar horror story with confidence and a surprising amount of depth. –JB Theaters citywide. Toni Erdmann aaaab Sandra Hüller, Peter Simonischek, Michael Wittenborn. Directed by Maren Ade. 162 minutes. Rated R. In German with English subtitles. An Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, this nearly three-hour German comedy—yes, really!—concerns a prankster dad who creates a ludicrous alter ego in an attempt to cheer up his high-strung, workaholic adult daughter. Its transcendent mix of hilarity and poignancy will be hard to replicate, though Hollywood intends to try. –MD Village Square. JB Josh Bell; MD Mike D’Angelo For complete movie listings, visit lasvegasweekly.com/movie-listings.
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imply put, Deafheaven’s music is an anomaly. Call it black metal. Call it shoegaze. Call it post-rock. Over the course of three albums and two EPs, the San Francisco band has truly created a sound of its own. To gear you up for the February 26 gig at the Bunkhouse with This Will Destroy You and Emma Ruth Rundle, we handpicked four of Deafheaven’s best cuts. “Daedalus” (Demo) Talk about making a statement. Deafheaven’s demo, released in June 2010, not only introduced the world to a new sound, it’s the band’s sole release exclusively featuring principal members George Clarke (vocals) and Kerry McCoy (guitars). “Daedalus”—like the Greek god of craft and artistry for whom it’s named—is a masterfully crafted blend of pummeling blast beats and guitar tremolos that climax in a driving march, not
unlike the heaviest moments from Explosions in the Sky or Mogwai. The song doesn’t quite explore the extensive melodic soundscapes that have become the band’s bread and butter, but it does provide an inkling of what’s to come. “Unrequited” (Roads to Judah) This prime cut from Deafheaven’s 2011 debut LP marks its tread into shoegaze territory. It also places the spotlight on the band’s now-recognizable aesthetic mix: tuneful phrasing; brash, black metal-inspired cadences and cinematic buildups. “Unrequited” begins as an ethereal, reverb-soaked number that transitions into rambunctiousness, like an airplane preparing to take off. Deafheaven often closes its sets with this song. “Dream House” (Sunbather) The opener from Deafheaven’s 2013 breakout album is rife with cascading guitar leads and
skittering snare snaps—all delivered with gusto. McCoy’s intricate riffing during the second half of this nine-minute epic sounds like it was culled from some of Johnny Marr’s most charming cuts. “Dreamhouse” is a triumphant masterpiece that, combined with the band’s deal with indie label Deathwish Inc., gave the world a panoramic view of Deafheaven’s sublime, expansive sound. “Brought to the Water” (New Bermuda) Two years after winning over music critics and becoming darlings of the heavy-music scene, Deafheaven returned with its darkest, most aggressive body of work yet. “Brought to the Water” finds the band exploring the thrash-metal genre, with galloping, palm-muted guitars, ferocious double bass and minor-chord progressions … but only for so long. Of course, the band gracefully transitions into a soft, Cranberries-like jam session before reaching a melodic climax.
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Ryan Adams loves to tout his influences, releasing albums that emulate everything from heavy metal to Taylor Swift, but whatever he does, he generally still ends up sounding like Ryan Adams. The prolific singersongwriter has cited ’80s album rock as the main inspiration for Prisoner, and it’s easy to hear echoes of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty in the songs (Adams even brought in classic-rock superproducer Don Was for guidance). Those are solid touchstones for Adams, who’s best as a meat-and-potatoes roots rocker, and Prisoner is his most accessible and radio-friendly album of originals since 2007’s Easy Tiger. The album’s other main inspiration is Adams’ divorce from singer/ actress Mandy Moore, so aside from opening rocker “Do You Still Love Me,” the songs are melancholy and downbeat, with jangly, reverb-heavy guitars channeling glum New Wave rockers. The hooks are catchy and the production is tight, though, and Adams makes a little time to go back to country for the excellent, Gram Parsons-esque “To Be Without You.” Through all the various styles, he’s still making Ryan Adams music, which remains his greatest strength. –Josh Bell
Dirty Projectors crafts elaborate indie rock informed by chamber music-based pastiches and digital demolitions. The Brooklyn group’s new self-titled effort is also about a breakdown: leader David Longstreth’s split with former bandmate Amber Coffman. Accordingly, the record’s lyrics are full of regret, blame, sorrow, vindictiveness, nostalgic fondness and, finally, acceptance. The turmoil gets messy. On ’80s R&B slow jam homage “Little Bubble,” Longstreth croons mournfully, “We had our own little bubble for a while,” but he ends the last verse by saying, “I want to be dead.” Although the music feels ambitious—“Keep Your Name” features an array of manipulated voices, and the dizzying “Death Spiral” contains quick-cut piano trills—the record feels a bit thin, with Coffman’s counterpoint vocals sorely missed. It’s most evident on spongy reggae-pop trifle “Cool Your Heart,” co-written by Solange and featuring ex-Danity Kane member D∆WN. Her vocals overlap with Longstreth’s to add the kind of intellectual and sonic complexity Dirty Projectors doesn’t deliver consistently enough. –Annie Zaleski
It’s strikingly odd to see a Future album release without a single song from the Atlanta rapper dominating the airwaves. His eponymously titled fifth studio album also arrives without a single guest appearance—which means Future Hendrix is tasked with carrying a 17-track album on his own. In some ways, he succeeds with his brand of trap music, Autotuning his way through the braggadocios “Rent Money” and the airy flutes of “Mask Off.” But if you’ve heard one Future project, you’ve heard them all, and much of the album traverses the usual drug-influenced subject matter. He’s a bit more focused here; his boasts feel formidable on the speaker-bursting “Poppin Tags,” his introspection welcome on “When I Was Broke.” At 17 songs, the album does suffer from bloat. “Good Dope,” “Massage in My Room” and “Flip” could easily have been left off, considering the repetitiveness of their content. Future will need to push his brand someplace new next time out, before Future becomes a thing of the past. –Andreas Hale
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard plans to release five studio albums this year. Five. That means if you don’t like Flying Microtonal Banana—the Australians’ first new record since Nonagon Infinity, released 10 long months ago—you’ve got more music coming soon, probably by the time you finish this sentence. But you might not need it, because Banana is pretty tasty. Perched between Nonagon’s driving prog and the genteel hippiedom of 2015’s Paper Mâché Dream Balloon, Banana employs microtonal tuning—“intervals smaller than a semitone, which are also called ‘microintervals,’” k thx Wikipedia—to deliver a nine-song set of bright, enjoyable psychedelia. Album opener “Rattlesnake” keeps things simple—a rhythm that chugs along like a gas engine, lyrics that largely consist of the title repeated over and over—and yet it wouldn’t sound out of place on the Deep Purple records that probably inspired it. Other album highlights, including the swaying “Nuclear Fusion” and the frontier melodrama “Billabong Valley,” also evoke liquid light backdrops, blotter acid and Nehru jackets, and though Banana doesn’t quite move beyond those tentpoles, it’s still a hell of a trip. –Geoff Carter
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EWANE CHECK Wondering where Rusty Maples has been lately? The Vegas-scene mainstays last played a show—a benefit for the Oakland warehouse fire victims—back in December, and haven’t been heard from since. We caught up with frontman Blair Dewane, who says he foresees no specific time when the band might get back onstage—“We’re not doing anything,” he says—though he stopped short of classifying Rusty as officially broken up. For now, Dewane is focused on his dance-rock project, The Slept-Ins, which dates back to a few-years-old studio collaboration with local producers John Kiehlbauch and Luke Freeman. Dewane is putting together a band, whose first live show is scheduled for March 5 at Downtown hair saloon Raw Remedies. Meanwhile, Blair’s brother, Rusty guitarist Ian Dewane, has relocated to LA’s Los Feliz neighborhood, where he lives with Swedish producer Daniel Ledinsky. The two are collaborating with major names (we’re sworn to secrecy, but trust us, you know ’em). Ian Dewane is also working on solo material, which he describes as a “melancholy, electro/synthy thing.” And the Dewanes mentioned a duo project— tentatively titled Jersey Dad—intended to write and sell Top 40 music. As for the Rusty’s future, Ian Dewane sees his current gig as a step toward a possible return. “I feel like it’s a ticket into the business and
to becoming financially stable. It’s only going to help Rusty Maples.” –Jason Harris SOLO ECHO Just three months after Echo Stains released first full-length Prom, frontman Jordan Collins has parted ways with the synthy Vegas group. “I’m just not passionate about it anymore and want to focus on other skills and creating more personal art for me and others,” Collins, who handled vocals and keyboards, announced on Instagram. In an interview with the Weekly, Collins has elaborated. “Making that album kinda killed me,” Collins says. “I was just not feeling it anymore.” Although the split seemed abrupt for a band that opened for Health in October and was featured by U.K. magazine tmrw in December, both Collins and Echo Stains (which has indicated it intends to continue on without him, but declined to comment for this story) expressed love for one another on social media. Collins is now concentrating on newer endeavor WNTRBRK, which he says will travel a more experimental, electronic path, apparent from moody, justreleased track “untitled (water).” Collins describes the project as basically “throwing up” his emotions. “In a sense, I was releasing what I was feeling without any sense of control,” Collins says. WNTRBRK is also a means for Collins to learn all aspects of musical creation—from composition to instrumentation.
Next up: an EP Collins plans to construct like a diary and pair with videos. “[Music] is necessary for me to live,” he says. –Norma Jean Ortega RUNNING MAN If there’s one guy that understands the ethos of the punk scene, it’s Las Vegan Bobby Franks. A ’90s hardcore kid at heart, Franks spent his young-adulthood scouring record stores for rare vinyl, going to shows and playing in the nowdefunct Of Faith and Fire. Now, Franks wants to keep that scene moving forward with his own label, Running in Place Records, set to launch this summer. “It’s going to be small DIY stuff, focusing on younger punk bands that exist regardless of coverage or spaces to play in town, because that’s the scene that I come from,” Franks says. “There’s a lot of younger punk or hardcore bands in town that thrive in their own way—that spirit of pick up and play. There’s a lot of good sh*t coming around town.” Franks, 36, has lined up Vegas acts Brett Vee, Dark Black, Moon Blood and Oversight for his first wave of 7-inch releases, with plans to press 500 copies of each. The goal: to shine a wider light on the Vegas punk scene. “I’m more interested in a band’s story and what they represent over how many records they sell,” he says. “There’s nobody representing that in town, and I’m in a spot in my life where I can do that.” –Leslie Ventura
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of them were taken before they were ready, and they don’t r. Burton? Tim Burton? Hi, just give me a minute, understand they’re dead. They think they’re just sick and I promise. Think “Honest Abe meets Beetlejuice.” don’t want to let go. Only the ghosts aren’t trying to get Abe Lincoln But we open at a big White House ball, food, candies, out of the White House, because he’s already gone dancing, Marine Band—only Willie’s upstairs dying of tyout. He’s at their cemetery, because he’s just buried his phoid fever. And later everyone has imperfect memories of boy, Willie, and besides being all torn up about it, he’s got the evening, and they blame Lincoln for partying while his the Civil War on his back, and he’s not sure what son’s sick, living it up while the country’s at war— AAAAB this is the tough part, because it’s all fragments to do about it. LINCOLN IN It’s all in this great new book, Lincoln in the Barof documents in the book, interspersed with the THE BARDO do—the Bardo, it’s this Tibetan between-life-andcemetery scenes. But the cemetery scenes read like By George the-beyond state, like Purgatory, sort of. Anyway, dialogue, just in florid, 19th-century diction. Saunders, $28. it’s by George Saunders—can we get him onboard? So, Lincoln’s at the cemetery. The ghosts are Short story writer, Tenth of December a couple of excited, because they think it means something for years back; this is his first novel. them. And they can actually inhabit Lincoln, read Anyway, these ghosts in the cemetery, Mr. Burton, you’ll his thoughts. Then there are these thousands of tiny demon be all over them: middle-aged guy who died before he can creatures who try to entwine Willie with vines to keep him consummate his marriage, so he’s naked with a big, uh, for themselves and the other ghosts try to stop them—are appendage—surely you can work that out; also a young, you seeing this? Parts of it are hilarious, but some of it is gay guy who slit his wrists and now has countless eyes and wistful and, well, deep. About how we trap ourselves in our arms; and this preacher who can’t figure out why he’s not in regrets. Then there’s a Buddhist element, about accepting heaven. They have unresolved issues, lives unfinished. Even sorrow, and resolving to act for greater good. Seriously, Mr. slaves, struggling to process life’s pain and indignity. All Burton, it’s all so you.
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FRESH START Downtown gallery Priscilla Fowler Fine Art marks a new chapter for its creator By Leslie Ventura lowing salmon roe, viscous amoebas and gelatinous cells undergoing mitosis. Whatever imagery comes to mind when looking at Priscilla Fowler’s paintings, nature is one thread tying them together. Fowler attributes her awareness of the organic world to having lived all over the country, examining different shapes and structures. “I think that’s where it comes from,” she says. “Just paying attention.” After spending 10 years in Denver, Fowler moved to Las Vegas and opened Priscilla Fowler Fine Art at Art Square in the summer of 2016. February 2 marked the gallery’s grand opening. Showcasing local artists like Lolita Develay, Allison Streater, Roseanne Giacomini, Jeanne Voltura and 3 Baaad Sheep, Priscilla Fowler Fine Art already seems to be forging deep connections within the Las Vegas art scene. It’s also home to some of Fowler’s own work.
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Using ink, water and acrylic paint, Fowler to school to earn her bachelor of fine arts degree at creates ethereal, biomorphic paintings and sculpIndiana University of Pennsylvania. tures. An exploration into happy “accidents,” her Living in the small, mountainous town of Westart often plays with the forms that emerge cliffe, Colorado (population 568), Fowler naturally through the process of painting signed up for a two-week class at Anderson Priscilla and drying. Most begin with hand-cut piecRanch Arts Center, five hours from her Fowler es of mylar—a polyester film—and are then home. It turned out to be a pivotal point in Fine Art assembled into abstract, nature-inspired her life. “I thought, I’m really too old to stay Thursday-Saturday, Noondesigns. Like cumulus clouds, each work here for another 50 years; I’ve got to get out 6 p.m. & by becomes something else in the viewer’s of here and get my life moving forward,” appointment. imagination. By layering and arranging she says. “So I did.” 1025 S. 1st St. #155, 719-371the hand-painted pieces, Fowler creates 3D Fowler opened a studio in Denver and im5640. bas-relief clusters (see: “Nest”), aquatic mersed herself in the co-op and gallery scene, mylar jellyfish chandeliers and other kaleishowing at Pirate Contemporary Art, Mai doscopic galaxies of color. Wyn Fine Art and Fort Collins Lincoln Center. Looking at her art, you probably wouldn’t guess With her most recent space in Las Vegas, Fowler is she spent most of her life behind a monitor. “I was focused not just on making her own work, but on highfrom a family that couldn’t afford to send me to lighting local and national contemporary artists. The art school right away, so I got a job in the computer gallery’s next shows will feature the work by William business,” she says. Fowler was 55 when she returned H. Thielen in March and Rosanne Giacomini in May.
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YOU GOT SERVED HENDERSON’S NEW BREAKFAST-LUNCH SPOT DOES IT ALL AND THEN SOME BY BROCK RADKE hef-driven concepts keep popping up in and around Henderson, a promising development for a one-time bedroom community still creating its dining identity. The latest is Served, an ambitious breakfast and lunch spot from Matt Meyer, a Southern California transplant who has already taken a few swings in this neighborhood. He opened the former Matteo’s Gourmet Cafe three years ago, and more recently has been catering around Vegas and SoCal. At Served, Meyer goes above and beyond, tossing Asian and Latin flavors into the mix of a massive menu. This might be the first restaurant in history to serve Korean galbi tacos, Salvadoran pupusas, Peruvian lomo saltado and a classic, juicy cheeseburger. It’s impressive that all of the diverse dishes we’ve tried have been successful. If I told you to drive to the suburbs for $18 eggs benny, you’d scoff. But it’s a beautifully battered tempura soft-shell crab benny with perfectly poached eggs, well-seasoned potatoes and miso hollandaise, a monster of a plate. French toast ($16) is actually baked and griddled bread pudding with berries and bourbon glaze. Even a simple side of bacon ($4) equals several slabs of brown sugar and black pepper-coated deliciousness. Decent Filipino breakfast plates are also available ($12)—longanisa sausage or tocino bacon with eggs, garlic fried rice and pickled papaya. Lunch finds a varied feast, with sandwiches like the pork belly banh mi ($13); burgers like the “Wellington” ($20) with mushrooms, potato strings, Swiss cheese and foie gras butter; and tacos of crispy fish, shrimp, pork belly and more. There’s a Korean barbecue plate ($16), an island-style dish of crispy chicken wings with rice and macaroni salad ($11) and a red panang curry with Scottish salmon ($19). If the options overwhelm you, consider starting your Served expedition with the fusion-y Asian BLAT ($14)—Texas toast layered with pork belly, arugula tossed in light miso vinaigrette, tomato and avocado, a rich and texturally sublime sandwich. Served joins recent Henderson-area additions like Craft Kitchen, Standard & Pour and Kitchen Table as inventive spots that deserve our attention.
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You’ve seen signs all over the Valley, but what is a pupuseria? It’s a restaurant that specializes in the pupusa, a traditional dish from El Salvador and Honduras. Some think of it as a sibling of the taco, but a pupusa is its own splendid creation, a piping-hot, pillowy disc of masa dough filled with salty and chewy cheese, plus meat or vegetables of your choice, then topped with a thin tomato sauce (salsa roja) and a lightly fermented cabbage slaw called curtido. Pupuserias have been popping up all over in recent years, and at $2 or less per, you can get a filling meal for a few bucks. If you haven’t tried them yet—or suddenly have a serious craving—here are four spots to hit. OLUCUILTA This little restaurant stands up to its popular next-door neighbor, Tacos El Gordo, with the equally addictive pupusas revuelta, filled with refried beans, smoky chicharrón and cheese. But don’t confuse this chicharrón with the crispy pork skin version; in Central America, chicharrón refers to shredded pork fried in fat, then minced into a paste with tomatoes. Another must-try: pupusa queso con loroco,
with cheese prepared with a mild flower bud from the loroco plant of Central America. 1756 E. Charleston Blvd., 702-383-6909. ESMERALDA’S CAFE This favorite serves up savory pupusas, tamales and soups (caldos), alongside Mexican fare like tortas and enchiladas. Try the pupusas de camaron (shrimp) or the traditional revuelta with a side of platanos and refried beans. 1000 E. Charleston Blvd. #101, 702-388-1404. LAS PUPUSAS A popular and friendly shop with six locations around the Valley, Las Pupusas serves great pollo con queso (chicken) and calabaza y queso (zucchini) pupusas. Order a basket of hot, just-fried tortilla chips with salsa as an appetizer, and you’ll have enough food for lunch and dinner. laspupusasrestaurant.com. RINCON CATRACHO If you went to UNLV, you should have visited this pupusa haven at Pioneer Plaza. Not only is Rincon one of the best for Honduranand Salvadoran-style pupusas, it serves an authentic Central American breakfast with scrambled eggs, refried beans, tortillas, avocado and plantains. 4110 S. Maryland Parkway #31, 702-699-9579.
Combine the first three ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a tall glass over ice. Top with Fever-Tree Ginger Beer, stir and serve.
A good tequila might inspire devilish behavior on occasion, but this cocktail is as heavenly as they come. Casamigos Blanco is crisp, buttery smooth and dangerously drinkable. When combined with Lejay Crème de Cassis—a rich, black currant liqueur—tart lime juice and a spicy ginger beer, it’s delectable and exquisitely complex. Whether you’re a sinner or a saint, El Diablo will leave you wanting more.
Cocktail created by Francesco Lafranconi, Executive Director of Mixology and Spirits Education at Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits.
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Live Music THe Strip & Nearby Brooklyn Bowl Dude Ranch and the Girl at the Rock Show 2/24, 8 pm, $10-$328. Circa Survive, MewithoutYou, Turnover 2/25, 6:30 pm, $23-$30. Emo Night ft. Anthony Green of Circa Survive, Jeff P 2/25, 11:30 pm, $8-$10. Travelin’ McCourys, Jeff Austin Band 2/27, 7 pm, $25-$30. Railroad Earth, Tom Hamilton’s American Babies 2/28, 7 pm, $20-$25. Adelitas Way, Letters From the Fire, The Black Moods, Conflict of Interest 3/2, 6 pm, $15-$20. Nirvana Mania 3/3, 8:30 pm, free. Gov’t Mule, The Record Company 3/4, 8 pm, $33-$35. William Singe, Alex Aiono 3/5, 7:30 pm, $25-$125. Tchami, Mercer 3/9, 7 pm, $22. Petty or Not 3/10, 7 pm, free. Portugal. The Man, HDBeenDope 3/11, 8 pm, $25-$459. Tribal Seeds, Raging Fyah 3/12, 7:30 pm, $33-$50. Umphrey’s McGee, Spafford 3/17, 6:30 pm, $33-$50. Blessed: Kanye vs. Drake vs. Future 3/18, 8 pm, $10-$20. Donavon Frankenreiter, Grant-Lee Phillips 3/23, 8 pm, $20-$22. 40 Oz. to Freedom 3/26, 6 pm, $12-$15. Robert Randolph and the Family Band 3/28, 6 pm, $20-$38. Linq, 702-862-2695. Caesars Palace (Colosseum) Reba, Brooks & Dunn 2/24-2/25, 3/1, 3/3-3/4, 7:30 pm, $60-$205. Rod Stewart 3/15, 3/17-3/18, 3/21-3/22, 3/31-4/1, 7:30 pm, $49-$250. (Cleopatra’s Barge) Blues Traveler 2/23, 3/1-3/2, 3/8-3/9, 9:30 pm, $79$199. Plain White T’s 3/30-3/31, 9:30 pm, $69$149. 702-731-7333. Cosmopolitan (Chelsea) Dierks Bentley 3/3-3/4, 7 pm, $49-$109. Flogging Molly 3/16, 9 pm, $40. Death Cab for Cutie 3/17, 8 pm, $25-$55. Maluma 3/24, 8 pm, $47-$100. 702-698-7000. Double Down The Negative Nancys, Harriers of Discord, Stereo Assault, Agent 86, Boyfriend Material 2/24. Billy & The Kids, Candy Warpop, Giantology, Name the Band 2/25. Uberschall 2/26, midnight. Franks & Deans’ Weenie Roast w/DJ Atomic, Shanda & The Howlers, Melanie & The Midnite Mauraders 3/1. Dark Water Rebellion, The Fabulous Miss Wendy, Anson Krekeler 3/3. The Bitters, Eric “Travis” Wilson, Strange Mistress, Dirty City 3 3/4. Johnny Zig & The Highlighters 3/5, 9 pm; 3/8, 10 pm. TV Party Tonight ft. Atomic Fish, The Sleights 3/9, 9 pm. The Psyatics, Breaker Breaker, Prepare to Stop, Wild Ride 3/10. Shows 10 pm, free unless noted. 640 Paradise Road, 702-791-5775. Hard Rock Hotel (The Joint) Better Than Ezra, Jeremy Cornwell 2/25, 7 pm, $45-$150. Martin Nievera 3/25, 8 pm, $37-$51. (Vinyl) Almost Normal, Avalon Landing, Gregory Michael Davis 2/25, 8 pm, $5-$15. St. Baldrick’s Fundraiser w/Sin City Sinners 3/2, 5 pm, free. Isaiah Rashad, Lance Skiiwalker, Jay IDK 3/3, 9 pm, $15-$39. Ekoh, Donnie Menace, Luck Factor Zero, Austin Cain 3/5, 8 pm, $8-$20. Masters of Puppets 3/10, 10 pm, $10-$20. Emo Nite Las Vegas 3/16, 9 pm, $10-$15. Almost Awake, Eddie Jayy, Incarnate, A Real King, Louder Than Words, Jesse Pino & The Vital Signs 3/17, 6:30 pm, $10-$20. We the Kings, Cute Is What We Aim For, Plaid Brixx, Astro Lasso 3/21, 7 pm, $25-$45. Otep, The Convalescence, The World Over, First Class Trash 3/23, 8 pm, $17-$29. Biffy Clyro, O’ Brother 3/24, 8 pm, $25-$39. 702-693-5000. Hard Rock Live Datsik, Crizzly, Virtual Riot 2/23, 8 pm, $25-$30. Radio Active 2/24, 9 pm, free. Rich the Kid, Sik Vik, Fuegogamo 2/25, 8 pm, $18-$23. Hard Rock Cafe (Strip), 702-733-7625. House of Blues The Set List Series: Queen 2/24, 7 pm, $10. Appetite 4 Destruction 2/25, 7 pm, $15. Social Distortion 3/3-3/4, 8:30 pm, $37. Billy Idol 3/8, 3/10-3/11, 3/15, 3/17-3/18, 3/22, 3/24-3/25, 8 pm, $80-$150. Jason Isbell 3/16, 8 pm, $35-
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$55. UFO, Saxon, Jared James Nichols 3/19, 8 pm, $25. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. Mandalay Bay (Events Center) Panic! At the Disco, MisterWives 3/24, 7 pm, $40-$60. 702-632-7777. MGM Grand (Garden Arena) Blake Shelton, RaeLynn, Sundance Head 3/4, 7:30 pm, $50$90. Charlie Wilson, Fantasia, Johnny Gill, Solero 3/10, 7 pm, $50-$130. 702-891-1111. Monte Carlo (Park Theater) Cher 2/24-2/25, 5/3, 5/55/6, 5/10, 5/12-5/13, 5/17, 5/19-5/20, 8 pm, $55-$436. Bruno Mars 3/11-3/12, 9/2-9/3, 9 pm, $91-$459. Il Volo 3/25, 8 pm, $50-$850. 844-600-7275. Orleans (Showroom) Engelbert Humperdinck 2/25-2/26, 8 pm, $55-$75. Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band 3/10-3/11, 8 pm, $30-$55. Neil Sedaka 3/17-3/18, 8 pm, $70-$90. 702-284-7777. Palms (The Pearl) George Thorogood & The Destroyers 3/11, 8 pm, $29-$84. Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo 3/24, 8 pm, $34-$104. Chris Stapleton, Maren Morris 3/30, 8 pm, $56-$131. 702-944-3200. Planet Hollywood (Axis) Jennifer Lopez 2/242/25, 9 pm, $79-$416. Backstreet Boys 3/1, 3/33/4, 3/8, 9 pm, $59-$259. 702-777-2782. Stoney’s Rockin’ Country Jessa Taylor 2/24, 9 pm, $5-$10. American Young 3/3, 9 pm, $5-$10. Keith Anderson 3/10, 9 pm, $25. Town Square, 702-435-2855. T-Mobile Arena Bon Jovi 2/25, 7:30 pm, $20$553. 702-692-1600. Topgolf The Motet 3/22, 8 pm, free. Davy Knowles 3/23, 8 pm, free. Dumpstaphunk 3/24, 7 pm, free. 4627 Koval Lane, 702-933-8458. Venetian (Venetian Theatre) Diana Ross 2/242/25, 8 pm, $61-$226. 702-414-9000. Westgate (Westgate Cabaret) Cameo Thu-Sun, 7 pm, $69-$99. 702-732-5111. Wynn (Encore Theater) John Fogerty 3/3-3/4, 3/8, 3/10-3/11, 5/19-5/20, 5/24, 5/27-5/28, 8 pm, $60$250. 702-770-7000.
Downtown 11th Street Records The Soft White Sixties, Dogyear, The Prettiest, Jesse Pino 3/10, 7 pm, $10. 1023 Fremont St., 702-527-7990. Artifice 80s Retro Revival w/DJ Hektor Rawkerz, DJ Allen 2/25, 9 pm, free. 1025 S. 1st St. #A, 702-489-6339.
Backstage Bar & Billiards Archgoat, Valkyrja, Hellfire Deathcult, Opticleft 2/27, 8 pm, $18$20. BiPolar, A Poison Alibi, First Class Trash, Words from Aztecs, Demon Scissors 3/3, 8 pm, free. Sapient, Snap Murphy, The Halve Two, Ulysses, Indica, Mc Lyfe & Notiz Yong, DJ Mixxwell 3/5, 9 pm, $10. Punky Meadows 3/8, 8 pm, $20. The Drums, Jay Som, Hidden Levels, Glass Pools, DJ Hektor Rawkerz 3/9, 7:30 pm, $15. Temples, Night Beats, Deap Valley, Froth, JJUUJJUU, DJ Jacob Savage 3/10, 8 pm, $15. Cesar Lopez El Vampiro 3/11, 8 pm, $10-$15. Parokya Ni Edgar 3/15, 8 pm, $50-$80. Norma Jean, He Is Legend, Capsize, Comrades 3/19, 8 pm, $18-$20. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Beauty Bar The Bombpops, Western Settings, Caskitt 2/24, 8 pm, free. TV Heads, Illicitor, Rayner, Blast Flashes 2/25, 8 pm, free. Mobley, Cash Colligan, Cameron Dettman 2/27, 8 pm, free. Big Jesus, Twin Cities 3/1, 8 pm, $10. Darkest Hour, Ringworm, Rotten Sound, Rivers of Nihil 3/2, 8 pm, $18-$20. Turkuaz, DJ DeLa-O 3/3, 8 pm, $10. 3/3, 8 pm, $10. Garrett Dale, No Red Alice, Paige Overton, Girls and Wolves 3/4, 8 pm, free. Survival Guide, Lungs & Limbs, Pet Tigers, Kat Kalling 3/5, 8 pm, free. Shades, Ivy Lab, Lion Eyes, Plain James, 2Buds 3/7, 9 pm, $12. Peanut Butter Wolf, MNDSGN, Wheelchair Sports Camp, Hassan Hamilton, Late for Dinner, Lil Lavedy, Wizdumb 3/10, 8 pm, $15. 2Mex, LuckyIAm, Pawz One 3/16, 8 pm, $8. DJ Twiggy Ramirez, Little Miss Nasty 3/17, 8 pm, $15. Astoria, Black Rhino, Drown a Deity, Journey 2 Rapture, Opticleft, The Devil’s Warning, The Sage 3/18, 8 pm, $10. Goya, Aneurysm, Spiritual Shepherd 3/19, 8 pm, free. Splashh, The Paranoyds, Dear Boy 3/22, 8 pm, $8. Zepparella, Dinner Music for the Gods 3/23, 8 pm, $12. The Meat Puppets, Stonefield, The Modern Era 3/24, 8 pm, $15-$18. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. Bunkhouse Saloon Nevada NOW Fundraiser ft. Glass Pools, Hassan, Phil A, Hungry Cloud, Thee Swank Bastards, Le Dominiki 2/23, 8 pm, $5. Hawthorne Heights 2/24, 9 pm, $15-$20. Bricks, DJ Ladyfingers, DJ Wip 2/25, 9 pm, $5-$8. Deafheaven, This Will Destroy You, Emma Ruth Rundle 2/26, 8:30 pm, $15-$20.
Meatbodies, The Astaires, Headwinds, Omar the Kid 3/2, 9 pm, $10-$12. The Darts, Electric Children, Acid Sisters 3/3, 8 pm, $5-$8. The Scorched, Dark Water Rebellion, Jane N’ the Jungle, Mr. Mystery, The Scoundrels 3/4, 9 pm, $5-$8. SG Lewis, The Rabbit Hole 3/9, 9 pm, $15. Chicano Batman, Black Camaro, Bash & Pop, Mercy Music, SadGirl, The Shacks, Death Valley Girls, Death Hymn Number 9 3/10, 8 pm, $15. Le Butcherettes, Same Sex Mary, Residual Kid, The American Weather, DJ Fish, The Big Friendly Corporation, Prism Tats, Sego, Richard Grewar 3/11, 8 pm, $15. LVL UP, Dark Black, The Velveteins, Indigo Kidd, The Acid Sisters, Palm, We Are Pancakes, Kurumpaw 3/12, 7 pm, $15. Moving Units, Soft Kill, Viktor Fiction, Soviet, DJ Hektor Rawkerz 3/17, 10 pm, $10-$12. Goggs 3/18, 10 pm, $15. James Hunnicutt, Stoned Evergreen Travelers 3/21, 9 pm, $5. 124 S. 11th St., 702-854-1414. Downtown Grand (Freedom Beat) The Beatles Abbey Road Live ft. The Fab 3/18, 9 pm, free. 206 N. 3rd St., 702-953-4343. Fremont Street Experience (3rd Street Stage) Night Ranger, Survivor 3/11, 8 pm, free. Fremont St., vegasexperience.com. Golden Nugget (Grand Event Center) (Gordie Brown Showroom) Jefferson Starship 2/24, $21$119. Frankie Moreno 3/2, $28-$60. BJ Thomas 3/3, $21-$119. The Marshall Tucker Band 3/10, $32-$108. Eddie Money 3/17, $43-$162. Shows 8 pm. 866-946-5336. Griffin Twin Cities, Wait and Shackle 3/1, 10 pm, free. 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577. Hard Hat Lounge VerBS, Hassan, Panamaniac, Gene Blackmen, Charlie Madness, Vic Smith, Syntax Vernac, Major Dynamic 3/3, 9 pm, $3. Par, Sunrise Manor 3/4, 9 pm, free. 1675 Industrial Road, 702-384-8987. InsideStyle Warehouse Raw Femme ft. Candy Warpop, Moon Blood, Halsey Harkins, The Regrettes, Ponytrap, Sunrise Manor, Jessica Manalo, Brittany Rose, Kaylie Foster, School of Rock Las Vegas, DJ CryKit 3/11, 1 pm, $15. 1119 S. Main St., 702-399-1100. Oddfellows DJ Jonathan Toubin 3/12, 10 pm, $10. 150 Las Vegas Blvd. N. #190, 702-336-3235. Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) Cabrera Conducts the Music of John Williams: Star Wars and Beyond 3/4, 7:30 pm; 3/5, 2 pm, $30-$109. (Cabaret Jazz) Mary Wilson 2/24-2/25, 7 pm, $35-$59. The Composer’s Showcase of Las Vegas 3/1, 10:30 pm, $20-$25. Marilyn Maye 3/3-3/4, 7 pm, $39-$59. Frankie Moreno 3/6, 3/21, 8 pm, $30-$42. Jarrod Spector, Kelli Barrett 3/10-3/11, 7 pm, $39-$59. 702-749-2000. Velveteen Rabbit Jeff Mix and the Songhearts, Part Time Criminals, Jack Evan Johnson, The All-Togethers 3/11, 9 pm, $10. 1218 S. Main St., 702-685-9645.
Everywhere Else Adrenaline Sports Bar & Grill Zombiewood, IDFSA, Opticon 2/24, 9 pm, $8-$10. Somewhere Thru Time, Tailgun 2/25, 8 pm, $5. Mayday, NE Last Words, Donnie Menace, RKB, Sicc 3/12, 8 pm, $6-$8. Psyclon Nine, The Vile Augury, Lennon Midnight, Dark Altar 3/18, 9 pm, $10$15. 3103 N. Rancho Drive, 702-645-4139. Aliante Casino (Access Showroom) Lou Gramm 3/11, 8 pm, $50-$70. (All-Star Friday Nights) Sons of Soul 2/24. Rhythm Nation 3/3, 3/31. Next Movement 3/10. Tresure 3/17. Sons of Soul 3/24. All-Star Friday Nights shows 9 pm, $10. 702692-7777. Boulder Dam Brewing The Bruskers 2/23. SE South 2/24. Full Flight 2/25. Shows 7 pm, free. 453 Nevada Way, Boulder City, 702-243-2739. Boulevard Mall (MVIG Cultural Arts Center) David de Alba’s Tribute to Judy Garland 3/12, 3:30 pm, $20. 3528 S. Maryland Parkway, 702339-0948.
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Cannery 10,000 Maniacs 3/18, 8 pm, $35-$40. 2121 E. Craig Road, 702-507-5700. Count’s Vamp’d The Moby Dicks 2/23, 10:30 pm, free. Sin City Sinner All-Stars, Lady Chameleon 2/24, 10 pm, free. Bulletboys, Brazen 2/25, 9 pm, $10. Smashing Alice, Outta the Black 3/3, 9:30 pm, free. John 5 & The Creatures, EMDF, Desire the Fire 3/18, 9 pm, $18-$22. 6750 W. Sahara Ave., 702-220-8849. Dispensary Lounge Toscha Comeaux 2/24. Naomi Mauro 2/25. Jobelle Yonely 3/3. Jenny Sotolongo 3/4. Shows 10 pm, free. 2451 E. Tropicana Ave., 702-458-6343. Dive Bar Exmortus, Thrown into Excile, Sicosis, Asylum of Ashes, Pillars of Creation 2/23, 8 pm, $6-$8. D.I., Rocket to Russia, Anti-Vision, False Cause 2/24, 9 pm, $12. Luicidal, Since We Were Kids, Sector 7-G, Uncle Angry 2/25, 9 pm, $6. Starving Wolves, OC45, The Vampirates, Child Endangerment 3/1, 9 pm. Cattle Decapitation, GoatWh*re, Allegaeon, Asylum of Ashes 3/7, 8 pm, $17-$20. Vendetta F*cking Metal, PROFE-CIA, Lethal Injection, Pain Compliance, Cordyceps 3/8, 9 pm, $10. Midnight Clover, Hopes Edge, Mariah Baldwin, Adara Rae & The Homewreckers, The Blunts 3/11, 8 pm, $5. 4110 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-586-3483. The Golden Tiki Name the Band 2/24, 9 pm, free. 3939 Spring Mountain Road, 702-222-3196. Green Valley Ranch (Grand Events Center) Bee Gees Gold 2/24, 8 pm, $19. Mark O’Toole 3/11, 8 pm, $19. 702-367-2470. Henderson Pavilion The Rock & Worship Roadshow ft. Steven Curtis Chapman,
Francesca Battitistelli, Rend Collective & more 3/11, 6:30 pm, $10-$95. 200 S. Green Valley Parkway, 702-267-4849. Jack’s Place STEFnROCK 2/26, 1 pm. The Heers Turner Overdrive Project 2/28, 3/7, 3/14, 3/21, 3/28. Michael DeGreve 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29. Girl Haggard 3/12. Shows 6 pm, free. 544 Nevada Way, Boulder City, 702-293-2200. Laughlin Event Center Alan Jackson 2/25, 8 pm, $40-$300. 500 E. Bruce Woodbury Drive, 702298-2453. Primm Valley Resort Creedence Clearwater Revisited 2/25, 8 pm, $25-$55. Foreigner 3/11, 8 pm, $35-$65. Conjunto Primavera 3/25, 8 pm, $20-$50. 702-386-7867. Red Rock Resort (Rocks Lounge) Fleetwood Mac Tribute 2/25, 4 & 6 pm, $19. (Sandbar) OneRepublic, Gavin DeGraw, Andy Grammer 3/17, 6 pm, $47. (Ballroom) All-Star Guitar Pull ft. Darius Rucker, The Band Perry, Jon Pardi, Lauren Alaina, Chris Stapleton 3/30, 7 pm, $29$100. 702-797-7777. Sand Dollar Lounge Goldtop Bob 2/23. Howlin’ King Crawdad 2/24. The Strip Kings 2/25. Billy Ray Charles 2/28. Stoked! 3/1. A Slight Return 3/2. The Moanin’ Blacksnakes 3/4. Mike Zito 3/13-3/14. Shows 10 pm, free. 3355 Spring Mountain Road, 702-485-5401. Silverton (Veil Pavilion) Friday Night Live 2/24, 7 pm, $10. Walter Trout 2/25, 8 pm, $12. Bobby Brown 3/3, 8 pm, $39-$54. Yacht Rock Revue 3/10, 8 pm, $20. 702-263-7777. South Point (Showroom) Michael Cavanaugh: The Music of Billy Joel 2/24-2/26, 7:30 pm, $35-
$45. Tower of Power 3/3-3/5, 7:30 pm, $55-$65. Neil Diamond Tribute ft. Rob Garrett 3/10-3/12, 7:30 pm, $25-$35. Hermans Hermits 3/17-3/19, 7:30 pm, $45-$55. 702-796-7111. The Space Icarus the Owl, Oranges, Reckless Reckless 3/11, 6 pm, $10-$12. 3460 Cavaretta Court, 702-903-1070. Suncoast (Showroom) Bass Transit 3/11-3/12, 8:30 pm, $20-$40. The Everly Brothers Experience 3/18-3/19, 8:30 pm, $16-$40. 702-636-7075.
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Aliante Casino (Access Showroom) Lil Duval 3/25, 8 pm, $26-$36. 702-692-7777. Caesars Palace (The Colosseum) Jeff Dunham 3/8, 7:30 pm, $50-$80. 702-731-7333. Hard Rock Hotel (Vinyl) Colin Kane 3/4, 7:30 & 10 pm, $20-$35. 702-693-5000. Harrah’s (Main Showroom) Ralphie May 3/2-3/4, 3/9-3/11, 3/16-3/18, 3/30-4/1, 10 pm, $35-$99. 702369-5000. Mirage (Terry Fator Theatre) Ray Romano, David Spade 2/24-2/25, 10 pm, $87-$120. Jay Leno 3/3, 10 pm, $65-$87. Tim Allen 3/4, 10 pm, $65-$87. Bill Maher 3/10-3/11, 10 pm, $65-$87. Daniel Tosh 3/17, 10 pm; 3/18, 7:30 pm, $65-$105. Nick Swardson 3/25, 10 pm, $54-$65. 702-792-7777. Orleans (Showroom) Gary Owen 3/3-3/4, 8 pm, $40-$60. 702-284-7777. Rampart Casino (Bonkerz Comedy Club) Preacher Lawson 2/23, 7 pm, free. 702-507-5900. Treasure Island Jo Koy 3/3, 9 pm, $44-$72. Bill Engvall 3/10, 9 pm, $52-$82. 702-894-7111.
Performing Arts Baobab Stage Theatre Vaudeville Madness 2/24, 9 pm, $20-$25. The Spoken Jazz Experience 2/25, 7:30 pm, $30-$45. Town Square, 702-369-6649. CSN Performing Arts Center (BackStage Theatre) We’re Here for You: The Community College Musical 3/1-3/4, 7 pm; 3/5, 2 pm, $10-$12. 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., 702-651-5483. Las Vegas Little Theatre (Mainstage) It’s Only a Play 3/3-3/4, 8 pm; 3/5, 2 pm, $21-$24. 3920 Schiff Drive, 702-362-7996. Majestic Repertory The Two ***** of Verona 2/232/25, 8 pm; 2/26, 5 pm, $15. Keri the Fairy’s Very Own Show! 3/4, 10 am & noon, $15. 1217 S. Main St., 702-478-9636. A Public Fit Theatre Company The Beauty Queen of Leenane 2/23-2/25, 3/2-3/3, 8 pm; 3/4, 2 & 8 pm; 2/26, 3/5, 2 pm; $20-$25. 100 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-735-2114. Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) NBT’s Swan Lake 2/25, 7:30 pm; 2/26, 2 pm, $29-$139. Cummins and Scoullar’s The Little Prince, The Play 3/1, 6:30 pm, $15-$30. 5th Anniversary Concert 3/7, 7:30 pm, $29-$129. Shen Yun 2017 3/10, 7:30 pm; 3/11, 2 & 7:30 pm; 3/12, 1 pm, $70-$200. (Cabaret Jazz) The Stage Biographies of Sam Cooke & Sammy Davis, Jr. ft. Dru Young 2/26, 2 pm, $25. 702-749-2000. Summerlin Library & Performing Arts Center Broadway Bound’s All Shook Up 2/24, 2/27, 3/2-3/3, 7 pm; 2/25, 3/4, 1 & 7 pm; 2/26, 3/5, 1 pm, $15. M&M American Dance Theatre’s The Leprecohen’s Not St. Patrick’s Day Show 3/17,
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7:30 pm, $22-$50. 1771 Inner Circle Drive, 702-507-3860. Theatre in the Valley Doubles 3/3-3/4, 3/103/11, 3/17-3/18, 8 pm; 3/5, 3/12, 3/19, 2 pm, $12$15. 10 W. Pacific Ave., 702-558-7275. UNLV (Artemus W. Ham Hall) UNLV Wind Orchestra: A Morton Gould Spectacular 2/23, 7 pm, $10. Sons of Serendip 3/11, 8 pm, $20-$55. (Black Box Theatre) NCT’s Metamorphoses 2/23-2/24, 3/2-3/4, 7:30 pm; 2/25-2/26, 2 & 7:30 pm, 3/5, 2 pm, $28$33. (Judy Bayley Theatre) UNLV Dance: Movement & Tides 3/3, 7:30 pm; 3/4, 2:30 & 7:30 pm, $10-$18. UNLV Opera Theatre & UNLV Symphony Orchestra: A Midsummer Night’s Dream 3/16-3/17, 7:30 pm; 3/18, 2 pm, $15-$25. (Philip J. Cohen Theater) The Vagina Monologues 2/27, 7 pm, $8. 702-895-3332. Winchester Cultural Center Eugene Onegin 2/24-2/25, 7 pm; 2/26, 2 pm, $15. Tango Passion! 3/3/-3/4, 7 pm; 3/5, 2 pm, $15. Pianist Gretchen Hull 3/12, 2 pm, $10-$12. 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 702-455-7340.
Special Events
An Evening of Hope Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation dinner benefit 3/3, 6:30 pm, $75-$150. World Market Center (16th floor), 475 S. Grand Central Parkway, 702-737-1919. Artisan Craft Festival: Spring Fling 3/4-3/5, 9 am-4 pm, free. Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd., artisancraftfestival.com. Bark in the Park 3/4, 10 am-2 pm, free. Cornerstone Park, 1600 Wigwam Parkway, 702-267-5707. Beat Poetry Workshop Series w/Clark County Poet Laureate Bruce Isaacson 2/27, 6 pm, free. Paseo Verde Library, 280 S. Green Valley Parkway, 702-492-7252. Brews N ‘Ques Festival 3/4, 2-6 pm, $30-$55 (under 21, free). Henderson Events Plaza, 200 S. Water St., eventbrite.com. Burlesque at the Boom Boom Room 2/25, 9 pm, $18-$25. Boomer’s Bar, 3200 W. Sirius Ave., boomboomroomburlesque.com. The Color Run 2/25, 8 am, $40. Downtown Las Vegas, 945 Fremont St., thecolorrun.com. First Friday 3/3, 6-11 pm, free. Downtown Las Vegas, ffflv.org. Global Charity Foundation Mardi Gras Gala 2/25, 5:30 pm, $125. TPC Summerlin, 1700 Village Center Circle, 785-608-7129. Gown Town HELP of Southern Nevada benefit 2/25, 10 am-1 pm, free. Galleria at Sunset, lower level next to Hollister, 1300 W. Sunset Ave., helpsonv.org. Heart & Soul Festival 2/25, 10 am-3 pm, free. Henderson Events Plaza, 200 S. Water St., 702-267-5707. Las Vegas Polar Plunge Special Olympics Nevada fundraiser 2/25, 10 am, spectators free; participants must raise $100+. Sunset Station, ipolarplungenv.com. Las Vegas Whiskey & Fine Spirits Festival 3/4, 6-9 pm, $50-$80. Topgolf at MGM Grand, 702-933-8458. Libations with Links Charity Dinner 2/28, 6:30 pm, $125. Bratalian by Carla Pellegrino, 10740 S. Eastern Ave. #155, 702-836-3710. Mardi Gras ft. Jeffery Broussard & The Creole Cowboys 2/24, 7:30-9 pm, $10-$15. Historic Fifth Street School, 401 S. 4th St., 702-229-2787. Mardi Gras/Abita Tap Takeover 2/28, 6 pm, free. Boulder Dam Brewing, 453 Nevada Way, Boulder City, 702-243-2739. Mardi Gras Vegas 2/25, noon-4 pm, $6. Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd., 702-822-7700. One Night for One Drop 3/3, 5:30 pm, $225$1,500. New York-New York, Zumanity Theatre, onedrop.org/onenight.
Petrus Four-Course Beer Dinner 3/3, 6 pm, $65. Rx Boiler Room at Mandalay Bay, 702632-7200. Rover Run 5K 3/4, 9 am, $35-$40. Cornerstone Park, 1600 Wigwam Parkway, 702-267-5707. Royal Crawl 3/2, 7 pm, $20. Downtown Las Vegas, bit.ly/royalcrawl. Scale the Strat 2017 2/26, 7 am, $60-$75+. Stratosphere Tower, ScaleTheStrat.com. Southwest Tea Fest 2/25-2/26, 10 am-5 pm, $30-$50. Lucky Dragon, 300 W. Sahara Ave., swteafest.com. Variety Salutes Hollywood Oscar Viewing Party & Fundraiser 2/26, 4 pm, $25-$200. Brenden Theaters at Palms, VarietySN.org. Walk with the Heart of a Child Children’s Heart Foundation fundraiser 2/25, 7 am, $15-$25. Fashion Show, 3200 Las Vegas Blvd. S., chfn.org/walk. Writer’s Block Genre Book Club: The Sparrow 2/23, 6 pm. Neon Lit 2/24, 7 pm. Events free. 1020 Fremont St., 702-550-6399.
Sports
Lake Las Vegas Collegiate Invitational Rowing Regatta 3/4-3/5, times vary, free. Lake Las Vegas, llvrc.org. Mint 400 3/2-3/5, times vary, $25-$450. Locations vary, themint400.com. Mountain West Championships 3/6-3/11, times vary, $20-$180. Thomas & Mack Center, 702-895-3761. PAC-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament 3/83/9, noon & 6 pm; 3/10, 6 pm; 3/11, 8 pm, $225-$535. T-Mobile Arena, 702-692-1600. Tuff-N-Uff Downtown Showdown 3/10, 7 pm, $10-$50. Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, 200 S. 3rd St., 800-745-3000. UFC 209 Woodley vs. Thompson 3/4, 3:30 pm, $80-$605. T-Mobile Arena, 702-692-1600. UNLV Men’s Basketball Nevada, Reno 2/25, 3 pm, $20-$140. Utah State 3/1, 8 pm, $15-$130. Thomas & Mack Center, 702-739-3267. UNLV Women’s Basketball Fresno State 3/3, 6 pm. Games $5. Cox Pavilion, 702-739-3267. USA Sevens Rugby Tournament 3/3-3/4, 8 am; 3/5, 11 am, $16-$1,111. Sam Boyd Stadium, 7000 E. Russell Road, 702-739-3267. West Coast Conference Basketball Championships 3/2-3/7, times vary, $173$223. Orleans Arena, 800-745-3000.
Galleries
Arts Factory 107 E. Charleston Blvd., 702383-3133. The Corner Gallery What Lies Beneath March. #220, 702-501-9219. Obsidian Fine Art Steve Anthony, Mandy Joy w/live music by Kiara Brown 3/3, 6-10 pm, free. #240, 702-540-9331. Wonderland Gallery (Gallery 1) Mel Balatbat: Ikonic Arts; Lisa Herr, Suzy Arner, Kat Tatz 3/2-3/29. (Gallery 2) Gear Duran & Heather Hermann, Kat Tatz, Lynne Adamson Adrian, Karen Waiksnis DiSorbo, Debora Tsakalos 3/2-3/29. #110 & #160, 702686-4010. Bubblegum Gallery Nightmare Before Christmas Group Art Show 3/3, 6 pm, free. Downtown Spaces, 1800 S. Industrial Word, #207D, 702-806-0930. Las Vegas Natural History Museum Andrew Feiler dual collection: Naturally Nevada; The Wild World Thru 3/31. Daily, 9 am-4 pm, $5-$10. 900 Las Vegas Blvd. N., 702-384-3466. UNLV Metcalf Art Gallery Inquiry: The Art of Scientific Discovery Thru 3/31. Reception 2/24, 5-7 pm. Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm, free. Richard Tam Alumni Center, 702-895-2079.
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