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What’s better than catching one sinister, Sabbath-worshipping, femalefronted doom act under a full moon (or damn near it) Downtown? Catching three: Portland’s Disenchanter, Houston’s Doomstress and reliably skullcrushing Vegas favorite Demon Lung. Best of all: You get all three for free. –Spencer Patterson
The profane renegade vegan cooking crew and cookbook collective Thug Kitchen lands Downtown at our own vegan stronghold, chef Donald Lemperle’s VegeNation, for a two-day extravaganza of creative cookery, recipe gathering and general avoidance of processed anything. 616 E. Carson Ave., 11 a.m.-9 p.m. –Brock Radke
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LAS VEGAS BAROQUE FESTIVAL AT UNLV “Baroque” music may seem impossibly fancy today, but the term began as an insult. Derived from a Portuguese word for “irregularly shaped pearl,” it was like the 17th century version of kitsch. It denoted an overly ornate style. Think Liberace’s bathtub, and you get why Baroque is actually a great fit for Las Vegas. Created by flutist and UNLV music professor Jennifer Grim, the six-day Las Vegas Baroque Festival will celebrate this dynamic, emotional and complex period of music that lasted from 16001750. Events feature faculty, students and guests performing a variety of Baroque music, including chorale masterworks and chamber concerts. The festivities begin with a 7:30 p.m. April 18 lecture by UNLV musicologist Jonathan Rhodes Lee titled “What is ‘Baroque’ about Baroque?” The talk includes a harpsichord demonstration. Additional highlights include the Archetti Baroque String Orchestra (7:30 p.m. April 21) and awardwinning organist Craig Cramer (4 p.m. April 23). Attendees can join in the fun with a Baroque Play-Along and Dance Party (1 p.m. and 2 p.m. April 23). Lasvegasbaroquefestival. com. –C. Moon Reed
The Sunset Park version of Holi, the springtime Indian “festival of love,” is set for Saturday. (Photograph courtesy)
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Expecting another poolside stroll and sip? Wrong! The Spring Wine Walk is a laidback journey among the Red Rock’s restaurant patios— Yardhouse, Hearthstone, Libre, Salute, T-Bones, Onyx Bar (which is nice but not really a patio) plus the Sandbar Pool. If you’re like us, you’ll probably get stuck at the cozy T-Bones patio with a warm red, but the program will feature everything from rosé to bubbles from various wineries. $50-$60, sclv. com/entertainment. –Brock Radke
Just how popular is the annual weekender? Its dates are set all the way to 2025. And if that’s not an indication of how far one needs to plan ahead to attend what’s considered the largest rockabilly and pre-1960s car gatherings in the world, this year’s primary festival passes are already sold out. To those who aren’t resourceful with scoring tickets: See ya later, alligator. But to those who are, your options overfloweth. There’s over 75 love music acts, including legends Wanda Jackson, Brenda Lee and Freddy Cannon, and more contemporary groups like the Reverend Horton Heat and Los Straitjackets. There are tiki pool parties and swimsuit competitions. There’s a pinup contest, fashion show and tattoo lounge. And there’s burlesque bingo. But if you’ve been shut out of all of that: Tickets remain for the car show, a must for anyone wanting to make the scene. $35-$50 for car show, vivalasvegas.net. –Mike Prevatt
An American In Paris runs April 12-16 at Reynolds Hall. (Courtesy)
BRENDA LEE RULED THE ’60S. SHE SCORED 47 POP, COUNTRY AND ROCKABILLY CHART HITS DURING THE DECADE. THOSE ARE ELVIS NUMBERS, EVEN IF ALL YOU KNOW IS “I’M SORRY,” AND “ROCKIN’ AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE.”
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You may not know who Rodney Bingenheimer is, but you’ve likely felt his influence. In his heyday, the LA-based tastemaker and DJ helped to break dozens of punk and new wave bands, and there’s no one better to host a screening of the 2003 George Hickenlooper documentary of his life than X singer Exene Cervenka, who’s one of the first people to appear in the film. She’ll tell stories about Bingenheimer, about the peerless music scene they were both a part of … and, presumably, about her own amazing career. 21 and over, free, doubledownsaloon.com. –Geoff Carter
If you’ve ever been to a color run, you may have wondered where the idea of throwing powdered dye on people originated. The answer is the Indian spring celebration Holi, also known as the festival of love. Observed throughout India on the last full moon of the Hindi lunar calendar, the fest not only marks the changing of the seasons, it symbolizes letting go of the past and forgiving others. And there’s no running involved. It’s a celebration of humanity, not to mention one of the most ‘grammable events of the year. 2601 E. Sunset Road, $6, festivalofcolorsusa.com. –Leslie Ventura
American composer George Gershwin translated the kinetic feeling of Jazz-age Paris into music with a 1928 orchestral piece titled An American in Paris. His success spawned a grand artistic tradition that takes us to the latest installment of the Smith Center’s Broadway Las Vegas series.¶ Just like the classic 1951 film starring Gene Kelly, the Tony award-winning stage version features dance, romance and classic Gershwin brothers’ songs “The Man I Love,” “They Can’t Take That Away from Me” and “I Got Rhythm.” Who could ask for anything more? Times vary, $29-$127, 702-749-2000. –C. Moon Reed
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iving Downtown is great. I wouldn’t trade it. The neighborhoods are ever changing, camaraderie is strong and we all feel a palpable sense of belonging to something great. I imagine we’d feel it even more strongly if there were more decent produce and healthy food markets down here. Where do you shop for produce? Sprouts, maybe? The closest one to my home near Maryland Parkway and Charleston Boulevard is nearly six miles away. Whole Foods? Nine miles away. And Trader Joe’s—good ol’ non-bougie TJ’s—recently announced its plans to close its Decatur Boulevard store (about four miles away) and move it to a new location at Ann Road and U.S. 95, making my next-closest location Buffalo Drive and Summerlin Parkway—nine miles. I do have options. There’s a Smith’s and an Albertsons, each about a mile away. But the Smith’s, for example, has an underwhelming produce selection and a natural foods aisle that’s half the size of that of a Smith’s I recently visited in Green Valley. (Meanwhile, a sizable amount of retail space is devoted to liter bottles of soda and plastic toy novelties, neither of which I consume.) There’s the Market on Fremont, which is nice but small, and a few Mexican supermarkets (most notably Cardenas and Mariana’s), which I love but aren’t well-stocked in low-sodium prepared foods, which are a necessity for my health and convenience. So I’m wondering why traditionally urban grocery chains—like Trader Joe’s—are going out of their way to avoid the middle of our city. Downtown isn’t a ghost town; high-density housing is proliferating here. And we Downtowners eat well enough to support healthy restaurants like VegeNation, Bronze Café and Rainbow’s End. When will Vegas’ city core get the natural and organic markets that its suburbs can afford to take for granted?
Giving a Lyft to the homeless In just two years’ time, homeless outreach group Caridad has built a formidable team of community partners to better help the destitute turn their lives around— including Lyft. The ride-sharing company has recently signed on to transport homeless but disability benefit-receiving Caridad clients to their medical and support-
service appointments. It’s part of an effort to further disentangle the web of social aid on behalf of the poor, while highlighting their specific needs and circumstances to the general public. Caridad director Merideth Spriggs said in a statement that “it gives our clients a chance to better their lives with respect, and we’re excited to see how many people this partnership will touch.” –Mike Prevatt
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avoiD PayinG foR PaRkinG at mGm PRoPeRties Until June 2016, free valet and self-parking was available throughout the Strip. Now, it has joined the ranks of indoor smoking, $2 shrimp cocktails and other perks once ubiquitous in Las Vegas. To make matters worse, MGM Resorts just raised its rates, only four months after it started charging locals to park. ¶Selfparking at all MGM Resorts remains free for guests who stay one hour or less, with fees across 12 properties ranging from $5-$7 for 1-2 hours, $8-$12 for 2-4 hours, and $10-$15 for 4-24 hours. ¶Of course, we must come up with a #lifehack for bypassing paid parking. Customers with Pearl, Gold, Platinum or Noir M life rewards cards receive free parking at MGM properties, but if you’re not a gambler, the membership allows you to sign up for its Mastercard, the use of which allows the upgrade to Pearl status—and free parking. –Leslie Ventura
You’d think a state as boozy as Nevada would allow unfettered production of beer. It won’t as long as the status quo has anything to say about it. Las Vegas Assemblywoman Irene Bustamante Adams recently introduced bill AB 431 during the current legislative session in Carson City. While it raised production caps from 15,000 barrels to 20,000, it came with a retail cap (of 2,000 barrels) that doesn’t currently exist. It also limited the amount of brewpubs a local brewer could own to two—despite another bill (SB 130) raising the production caps to 45,000 barrels with zero stipulations. AB 431’s strategy is clear when one considers its co-author—Alfredo Alonso, a lobbyist for the state’s alcohol distributors which control liquor sales for taxation purposes—and that, as reported by the Reno Gazette-Journal, Adams accepted thousands in campaign money from those distributors. “There’s no cap on beer being brought into the state, but the state enforces a production cap within it,” says Wyndee Forrest, co-owner of CraftHaus Brewery in Henderson. “We pay Nevada taxes and help build this community. Why should we choose to injure our own state’s economy?” Though AB 431’s amendments have since raised the cap to 40,000 barrels, it comes with a 5,000-barrel retail cap, one reason why Forrest finds the bill problematic. She’s pushing for SB 130 to emerge as the bill of record despite the industry pressure for AB 431. Nick Fischella, co-owner of Downtown’s Banger Brewing, is generally optimistic about AB 431—as is the Nevada Craft Brewers Association (of which Forrest is a board member)—but he’s also mystified that limits exist in the first place. “It’s hard for me to understand how someone can cap your business to grow. You should be able to grow it as much as you want.” While craft beer has soared both financially and culturally, Nevada’s scene is still nascent. Beer conglomerates like Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors are the market’s Goliath. But Forrest believes Southern Nevada breweries have a David-like edge. “We can respond and move quicker than the big beer companies,” she says. “The biggest advantage we have over the macrobrewers is our people. We have faces and stories and passion. That’s what we share with our community on a daily basis. That’s where [the macrobrewers] will never win.”
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BY TOVIN LAPAN ope was short lived for Raiders fans in 2004. In the third game of the year, with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers visiting Oakland Coliseum, Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon was leveled by Derrick Brooks in the first quarter. He walked off the field, but was out for the game. Later, it would be revealed he broke a vertebrae and his career was effectively over. As Gannon left the field and backup Kerry Collins jogged in, the stadium collectively sighed as if to say, “There goes another season.” It was my first Raiders game in person, and, given the common stereotypes of the fans, I half expected a riot to break out. A fan a row in front of me slumped his shoulders: “Well, sh*t!” he spat. Then he sparked a joint and passed it around. After three straight playoff seasons from 20002002, the Raiders were now in year two of what would become a string of 13 consecutive seasons where they failed to post a winning record. Yet one of the most famous fan groups in the world, Raider Nation, continued to fill the Black Hole and the rest of the Coliseum during the lean years. The wellknown passion, and copious amounts of black face paint, never waned. Finally, in 2016 the team showed promise, with a cast of young, talented players led by quarterback Derek Carr and linebacker Khalil Mack, finishing the year 12-4. Just in time to announce a move to Las Vegas.
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• • • • • That $750 million from Nevada state coffers buys a shiny, new domed stadium, and entry into the ultra-exclusive club known as the National Football League — all things that boosters of the move cheered when the decision was finalized on March 27. It also buys Las Vegas membership into Raider Nation—and all of the perceptions, good and bad, that go along with the diehard, black-and-silver-clad fanbase. Not everyone in the Vegas Valley was pleased that the NFL team that chose Las Vegas as its new sugar daddy was the Raiders, linked for decades to gangs, violence and all-around bad behavior. Like the fans watching Rich Gannon gingerly walk off the Coliseum field that day in 2004, Las Vegas is now waiting to see what happens next. Dating back to the team’s time in Los Angeles from 1982-’94, when rap group N.W.A. soared to stardom while wearing Raider gear and the logo
became increasingly affiliated with gangs, the fanbase has been labeled as miscreants. When the move to Las Vegas was announced, the comments sections of news stories were littered with “derelicts,” “thugs,” “criminals” and other epithets for Raiders fans. The parody website SportsPickle ran the headline: “California Parole Board rules Raiders fans may not cross state lines to go to games in Las Vegas.” Would every Raiders home game be a rerun of the 2007 NBA All-Star weekend, which was marked by a crime spike and roughly 300 arrests? The persistent prejudice toward Raiders fans is nothing new to Rob Rivera, president of the Black Hole fan association out of Oakland. Asked how he’s doing a week after the move became official, he grumbles, “Surviving.” He and his fellow Raiders faithful are still navigating their reaction and feelings about the team’s relocation. “It’s very unfortunate that the decision was made to leave such a loyal fanbase that is passionate and one of a kind,” he said. “This fanbase saw them through some difficult times, and the team is going to lose its soul. I’m sure there are good Raiders fans in Vegas, but I’m also sure the culture in Oakland can’t be duplicated.” Rivera acknowledged the long-held ruffian reputation of Raiders fans, but argued that it’s more myth than reality. “Unfortunately, over the years the Raider Nation has gotten an extremely bad rap,” he said. “There was a time almost 20 years ago when they first returned to the Oakland Coliseum that it was a rough place. But over the years that has subsided, and a lot of the Raider Nation are made up of really good people. Obviously there is a bad element to every fanbase, from San Francisco to Arizona to Philadelphia. Every fanbase has its issues with unruly fans.”
t times, it seems the Raiders franchise embraced, even celebrated, the bad guy image. Al Davis, the team’s famous owner who died in 2011, cultivated a renegade image. Davis introduced the silver and black color scheme to the team, openly defied league conventions at every turn and sued the NFL on multiple occasions. Between the 2006-2016
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NFL seasons, the Oakland Raiders led the league in penalties three times and were ranked in the top five in five other years. “History will dictate what my legacy is,” Davis once said. “[You] do it your way, don’t let the culture tell you what to do. That’s being a Raider.” While Al Davis was suing the league, moving the team multiple times and otherwise perpetuating the dissident nature of his franchise, he was also one of football’s most progressive owners. In the ’60s, Davis refused to let his team play in cities where black and white players couldn’t stay in the same hotels, and he was the first NFL owner to hire an African American head coach and a female chief executive. “What strikes people is that the Raider fan demographic is more brown and black skin, a more minority following than any other fanbase, and I think that scares people,” Rivera said. “You know what else scares people? When you have a number of big, burly, heavy-set fans with beards and goatees that are passionate. That can be taken the wrong way.” What do the actual numbers say? Last year the Washington Post looked at arrests made during NFL games within the stadiums and in the surrounding neighborhoods. The results are, in a word, mixed. While Raiders fans are often seen as the baddest in the lot, it was the Chargers, then of sunny San Diego where everyone is tan and pleasant, who led the league in arrests per game at an average of 24.6. They were followed by two teams who share a stadium, the Giants (22.5) and Jets (21.5), with the Raiders coming in fourth (17.8) and Steelers (16.8) in fifth. The 49ers, across the bay, were also in the top half of the league with an average 11.4 arrests per game. Certainly, there are plenty of news reports of Raiders fans acting violently, but the same can be said about other teams’ fans. In 2015 a man was shot and killed outside a Dallas Cowboys game at AT&T Stadium. In 2014 a man at the 49ers home field, Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, was beaten so badly he now suffers from seizures. The year before that, a 30-year-old man was attacked in the parking lot of Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium and beaten to death. The Washington Post data did find some evidence that trouble may follow Raiders fans. Arrests at stadiums hosting Raiders away games rise by an average of 70 percent, the highest in the league for road teams. Still, a visit from the Steelers, Eagles or 49ers also tends to boost the number of arrests.
Richard Cervera, 48, has been a Raiders fan since he was nine years old. He grew up in Los Angeles where his uncle took him to his first Raiders game. When the team returned to Oakland in 1995, Cervera was hurt but kept on rooting. “With Raiders fans there is no second team,” he said. “You only have one team.” Now, 22 years later, Cervera is one of the organizers of the Las Vegas Raider Nation fan group and has the good fortune of his lifelong team moving to him. At first he was against the transfer and the team leaving behind the loyal fans in Oakland. Now with the deal done, he can’t contain his excitement. “I get goosebumps just talking about it,” he said. “It’s like my family is moving to be close to me. I feel like it’s a family reunion.” His wife and four children are Raiders fans, and he travels to two or three games every season. He says he has never felt unsafe at a Raiders game, and the fans are largely misunderstood. “I don’t think the reputation is deserved, and it is definitely outdated at this point,” Cervera said. “Any gang will have an affiliation with some team, or wear some clothing. Gangs in Dallas wear Cowboys stuff. I think because of the time when it happened, with rap blowing up and N.W.A. wearing all this Raider gear, it became really high profile. So people made that affiliation. But if it had been some rap group from some other city, wearing some other team’s gear, everyone would say that team’s fans are all gang members.”
Indeed, some of the Raider Nation image was built on timing, chance and opportunity. In 1980, the LA Rams moved from the Los Angeles Coliseum to Anaheim. In Ice Cube’s film on the convergence of N.W.A. and the Raiders, 30 for 30: Straight Outta LA, he says they went “as far as they could from any black fans.” Los Angeles was ready for a new team, something to support. The color scheme and pirate aesthetic didn’t hurt, either. “Purple and gold,” says N.W.A.’s MC Ren in Straight Outta LA, “I don’t think that would have looked good on us.” • • • • • The Black Hole’s Rob Rivera is still coping with the loss of his team, but he hopes that the city lucky enough to get the Raiders doesn’t buy into the negative stereotypes. “The Black Hole fan organization is made up of a wide range of folks,” he said. “We have average Joes that work in warehouses to executives at Chevron. We have professionals, famous musicians and explayers. There are lawyers, doctors … We have every age group and industry covered. No fanbase should be painted with a broad brush, and Raider Nation is no different.” It was more than 20 years ago when the Raiders came to represent gang culture and violence, and that image seems more obsolete with each passing year. Now, presumably, Raider Nation will include more dealers, valets, showgirls and cocktail waitresses. The next chapter of the franchise will be written in Southern Nevada, and it’s up to us how it will read.
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By Brock Radke hese are the last days of February, and we’re about a month away from the International Pizza Expo, the biggest pizza show in the world. In 2016 it drew nearly 500 companies and 7,000 attendees to the Las Vegas Convention Center, and this year, there will be some serious hometown participants in the expo’s International Pizza Challenge competition. At Metro Pizza’s northwest location on Sky Pointe Drive, Chris Decker is getting ready to compete, making and remaking a Sicilian-style pie he calls the Americano. “The dough is a five-day fermentation, a very lengthy process,” explains Metro co-owner John Arena as Decker, his protégé, dishes it up. “It’s a very lengthy process. And he’s using Bianco DiNapoli tomatoes, which [James Beard Award winner] Chris Bianco developed for his pizzeria [in Phoenix].” You can tell the Americano is different and special before you bite it. When I pick up my square slice, it’s not as heavy as you would expect a crispy-edged, thick-crust pie to be. The first bite is fantastic, crunchy but tender inside, light and airy, and full of flavor—far from the flatness found in your average neighborhood pizzeria’s dough. “At the end of the day, it’s just a cheese pizza,” says Decker. About a month from now, we’ll see.
Durnell, who owned an ice cream shop in Santa Claus, Indiana, and wanted to add pizza to his menu. He went looking for a trade organization to research and when he couldn’t find one, he started his own, along with Pizza Today magazine. A tiny version of today’s convention soon followed. When he contacted Metro Pizza for a story in the magazine, Arena and Facchini hopped on a plane to see what they could learn from the founding president of the National Association for Pizzeria Operators. “We flew to Louisville, Kentucky, and had to drive across the border to Santa Claus, which
▲▲▲▲ ost Las Vegans only think of Metro Pizza as a neighborhood family favorite, but Arena and his cousin Sam Facchini—who’ve been in business locally since 1980—have an immense industry reputation. They’ve been instrumental in the development of Pizza Expo, which began in 1985. “It was fledgling but it was the first of its kind and the industry needed it,” says Facchini. “It really helped people that do what we do because we didn’t have a place to look for best practices, improvements, common solutions. It took a while.” The expo was created by businessman Gerry
is world-renowned as the place Tony Spilotro’s life ended in a cornfield,” says Facchini. When they finally got to visit Durnell’s “pizzeria,” they found the ice cream store, complete with frozen pizza shells in the freezer and a toaster oven at the ready. “But the magic of this guy was his vision, he saw the tremendous need,” Arena says. And the expo eventually blossomed into the largest show of its kind and one of the most respected F&B conventions in the country. Durnell, who died in 2011, sold the expo and magazine for millions in 2000 and California-based Emerald Expositions acquired them two years ago.
t’s Tuesday afternoon, March 28, and I’ve made my first entrance into Pizza Expo, and it is not disappointing. It’s massive, stretching the length of the convention center’s north hall. Tons of business-to-business events take this space over week after week, but this one is full of delicious pizza ... and workshops, seminars, keynote speeches, panel discussions, demonstrations and so many products: tomatoes, sauces, cheeses and doughs, of course, but also signs and promotional items, refrigerators and freezers, pasta, ovens, mixers, flours, cash handling systems, breads, chicken wings, alcohol and so much more. I investigate the 24/7 Pizza Box, a new pizza vending machine that can be customized for any pizza brand. I sample Cali’flour, which is flour for pizza dough made of cauliflower. I marvel at a six-foot-tall cardboard pizza box and the Stanislaus Food Products booth, which is not so much a booth as a pop-up restaurant and exists at the annual expo not to generate new sales but exclusively to take care of its customers that visit Vegas every March. “The only year I didn’t come since 2004 was 2006, when we opened our pizzeria,” says Jonathan Goldsmith of Chicago’s maybe legendary Spacca Napoli. “In the beginning, you’re just looking wideeyed, going to seminars, walking the show, then you really start to understand it and start making contacts here and profiting from those relationships. Now I do some judging but I sort of do nothing.” Like a lot of these respected pizza makers, Goldsmith is pals with Arena. They have a tradition of meeting for an early breakfast at the Peppermill before Goldsmith leaves town. American pizza makers, especially New Yorkers, have a tradition of being more competitive than collaborative. “John is truly fostering the community and I try to do that as well,” Goldsmith says. “When other people would open, I used to have my angst about it and I’d immediately get in my car and go get a pizza to-go and eat it on the fire hydrant or in my car and decide if I had something to worry about. But the bottom line is you only have to compete with yourself.”
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Metro Pizza’s Chris Decker competes in the International Pizza Challenge’s pan pizza division. (Steve Marcus/Staff)
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The Americano, third-place winner. (Steve Marcus/Staff)
erhaps ironically, it was Metro Pizza—the true collaborators—that helped develop the competitive aspect of the expo. After that Indiana meeting in 1986, Facchini helped the show’s organizers build the first version of the World Pizza Games—featuring spinning, throwing dough and other fun, skill-centered contests—based on Metro’s employee competitions. “We had this training program where employees would learn all the different positions and then we’d have contests for them to compete against each other: highest toss, biggest stretch, all these things,” says Arena. Throwing dough is fun but the more culinary-focused International Pizza Challenge has taken over these days, where judges separate the wheat from the chaff in multiple divisions of pizza-making: traditional, Neopolitan and even gluten-free. But today is March 29, the first day of the pan pizza competition, and Chris Decker is making the Americano. I find him right before he starts cooking and he’s not nervous but he will be once it starts. The competition is held in a sort of mini-stadium with overhead cameras, like on Iron Chef. “You know me, I’m
a behind-the-scenes guy,” says the humble but dedicated Decker, another New Yorker making pizza in Vegas. He typed up all the info and ingredients detailing his pizza so he wouldn’t have to talk to the judges very much. Decker pulls his competition pie out of the oven at 11:15 a.m., steaming and tall. I want to bite it. He shows it to the judges—one of them asks about the ricotta on top—and then takes it back to slice it up. Once the judges have their samples in front of them, he moves down the line grating romano, a finishing touch. Arena is floating around, kind of like a proud dad. Michael LaMarca of Master Pizza in New Jersey and a member of the U.S. Pizza Team is the master of ceremonies for the competition, and he informs everyone samples of the Americano will be available. They’re gone before I can grab one, but that’s okay. LaMarca gets a bite and later, quietly, raves about it. Arena reports to the bread seminar he’s leading. Decker makes the rounds on the expo floor, checking in on industry friends and exploring new products. I eat pizza with Alfredo sauce, peas and potatoes, taste different flavors of ranch dressing and take down a couple miniature Vienna Beef hot dogs.
t’s a sad day, the last day of Pizza Expo, and we Vegas people are waiting for the competition results. Decker isn’t feeling great about his chances; his oven was supposed to be 550 degrees but turned out to be only 500. He switched to a hotter oven quickly but it might not have worked. He wasn’t the only pizza maker repping the 702. Naked City Pizza Shop and Downtown’s new Evel Pie both competed in the gluten-free division. It’s after 3 p.m. when we finally get the results. The expo is supposed to be over and there are forklifts and other big machines waiting impatiently to tear it all down. But probably a thousand attendees are gathered in the rear stadium area to find out that Luciano Carciotto from Pizzeria 7+ in Sicily has won Pizza Maker of the Year. Evel Pie’s Vincent Rotolo grabs second in gluten-free. And Decker places third in pan. He’s surprised and also seems relieved. Arena is beaming. “Maybe I will come back next year,” Decker says. “Imagine if I talk next time.”
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Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May, Juan Atkins and Derrick Carter. Farina’s sonic innovations also have him credited with crafting the first ambient house record, the classic “Mood.” And his Mushroom Jazz series of mixtapes is the stuff of dance music legend; Farina’s signature style projects a continuous, subtle vibe that keeps fans locked into a downtempo groove on the dancefloor. Expect him to pull a ton of underground-jackin’ goodies from his crate and bring Las Vegas a much-needed night of proper house music on the Strip.
While it’s unlikely Brooklyn Bowl would be down with one of Farina’s preferred eight-hour sets on Friday night, expect him to intrigue and entice you into begging for more when the last beat drops. Mark Farina with DJ Sneak at Brooklyn Bowl at the Linq Promenade, April 14. –Deanna Rilling
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Between the tropical lagoon-style Go Pool’s new Wednesday industry nights and its coming summer Night Jams concert series, there’s a lot of momentum outdoors at the Flamingo. But that’s not all there is to offer. “Center Cut Steakhouse is definitely a hidden gem,” Gilbert says. “You can find some really great product, like the Wagyu beef you find at top steakhouses, but you would never think a small steakhouse in the Flamingo would have it. It just works for our clientele, who are valuedriven but still want an amazing product.” As Gilbert knows well, it’s all about creating experiences. And at Flamingo, it’s about making those experiences as easy, fun and welcoming as they possibly can be. “Who you are doesn’t matter, we just want you to come have fun with us,” he says. –Brock Radke
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he two DJs that make up Canadian electronic duo Sultan & Shepard depend on their varied musical interests— and the point at which those creative perspectives converge—to drive their own sound. And they learn a lot about themselves and what things sound like when they play in Las Vegas. “We just released a song called ‘Damn’ that has a slower tempo. It still has a house beat to it but it’s more of a pop record,” says Shepard. “One thing I realize especially when we play in Vegas is how electronic music has really merged with pop in a good way. The Vegas audience, as much as they want
to hear club music, they want to hear things they know, too. It’s all about the song, and now you have club records coming out that are very diverse, lots of different styles.” The audience is okay with that, and so are Sultan & Shepard, who resume their Wynn Nightlife residency at Intrigue Friday night. Of course, we have to ask them each about the current track they’re obsessed with. For Sultan, it’s the Vintage Culture and Slow Motion remix of “Drinkee” by Sofi Tukker, “a real dope record with kind of an indiedance vibe to it.”
After you check that one out, dig into Shepard’s pick, fellow Wynn resident David Guetta’s remix of Fat Joe banger “All The Way Up.” “You put that record on and everyone just goes off,” Shepard says. “We did a cool mashup with that remix that’s been a staple of our sets for the last couple months.” Sultan & Shepard at Intrigue at Wynn, April 14. –Brock Radke
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Known together as the hip-hoporiented act Deux, the sisters had been DJing for a few years when they signed with SKAM Artists last year. Constant touring has helped build their abilities and confidence— Vegas, Miami and Denver are among their favorite cities to visit and play—and now they are making plans to build a full-fledged musical brand. “For most of the past year we’ve been locked in an apartment working on production, really learning how to make a track from start to finish,” Jaimee says. “When we put something out, we want to be able to say 100 percent this is our stuff, no other person is making these sounds. We know we’re an easy target.”
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exemplary food to its guests. That is why we recognized this international franchise opportunity as being an ideal partnership,” said Grimaldi’s Pizzeria CEO Joseph Ciolli in a statement. “Not only will we be able to treat new UAE customers to a truly uncompromised, coal-fired New York pizza experience, but also benefit from the reassurance that comes from working with Tablez, far and away the UAE’s finest food and beverage group.”
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21 years and getting really creative and I’ve found myself getting back there and working with those [Banger] guys. They really have a passion for what they do and that’s one of the main reasons we chose to work with them.” New offerings include the Blue Diamond golden blonde ale; the high-ABV Honey Blonde; the High Hops IPA with plenty of citrus; and the rich, malty Bombshell brown. The new Buzz! Buzz! coffee-infused stout may remind local enthusiasts of Banger’s popular Morning Joe coffee kolsch. “We ask our customers for a lot of feedback, what you like and don’t like about
the new beers, but it’s been great to go from having four or five to this really great portfolio of nine or 10 beers,” Veltri says. Barley’s showed off its new stuff at the recent Great Vegas Festival of Beer. Expect to see a revamped food menu, too, and a renewed focus on its valueoriented growler and keg program. Barley’s at 4500 E. Sunset Road, 702-4582739; Monday-Thursday 8 a.m.-10 p.m., Friday 8 a.m.-11 p.m., Saturday 7 a.m.-11 p.m., Sunday 7 a.m.-10 p.m. –Brock Radke
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asparagus and crisp celery. But then there are the other garnishes. A beef slider with caramelized onions and Thousand Island on brioche. A crispy, meaty chicken wing coated in English’s signature hot sauce. A plump, chilled shrimp, clearly missing his brothers from that other kind of cocktail. And a little whimsy tacked on, a corn dog pup. Mission accomplished. All About Mary is that perfect meal before the morning after, an ideal way to close out a wild Vegas night.
It might just be your best last bad decision, and it’s a great one. Todd English P.U.B. at the Shops at Crystals, 702-489-8080; Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-11 p.m., Friday 11 a.m.-midnight, Saturday 9:30 a.m.-midnight, Sunday 9:30 a.m.-11 p.m.
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4/14 DJ Que. 4/15 DJ Wellman. 4/16 DJ Karma. 4/21 DJ Que. 4/22 DJ Stretch. 4/23 DJ Karma. 4/28 DJ Que. 4/29 Mike K. 4/30 DJ Karma. Bellagio, Thu-Sun, 702-693-8300.
CH ATEAU 4/14 DJ Darkerdaze. 4/15 T3d Morri5. 4/19 Brett Bodley. 4/21-4/22 Backstreet Boys Afterparty. 4/26 DJ Shadowred. 4/29 DJ Poun. Paris, Wed, Fri-Sat, 702-776-7770.
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HYDE 4/14 DJ Karma. 4/15 J. Espinosa. 4/18 Joe Maz. 4/19 DJ D-Miles. 4/21 DJ D-Miles. 4/22 DJ Five. 4/25 DJ Ikon. 4/26 DJ D-Miles. 4/28 Konflikt. 4/29 DJ Hollywood. Bellagio, nightly, 702-693-8700.
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TAO 4/13 DJ Five. 4/14 Jerzy. 4/15 Justin Credible. 4/20 DJ Five. 4/21 Enferno. 4/22 Eric DLux. 4/27 DJ Five. 4/28 Devin Lucien. 4/29 Vice. Venetian, Thu-Sat, 702-388-8588.
XS 4/14 Marshmello. 4/15 David Guetta. 4/21 The Chainsmokers. 4/22 David Guetta. 4/24 RL Grime. 4/28 The Chainsmokers. 4/29 David Guetta. 4/30 Kygo. Encore, Fri-Mon, 702-7700097.
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4/14 Savi. 4/15 Bingo Players. 4/16 DJ Franzen. 4/21 Valentino Khan. 4/22 Zeds Dead. 4/23 Esco. 4/28 4B. 4/30 Savi. Cromwell, Fri-Sun, 702-777-3800. BEACH
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4/15 Toots & the Maytals. 4/19 Phantogram. 4/20 Kehlani. 4/21 Tove Lo. 4/23 Orgone x Monophonics. 4/28 Jamey Johnson. 4/29 Spawnbreezie. 5/5 Z-Trip. 5/13 Blue October. 5/19 Roots of Creation. 5/20 Testament. 5/25 Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals. 5/27 Pink Talking Fish. 6/1 Trey Songz. 6/3 Modest Mouse. 6/8 Somo. 6/14 Phoenix. 6/21 The Revolution. 6/24 The Black Seeds. 6/25 Streetlight Manifesto. 7/7 Bruce Hornsby. Linq Promenade, 702-862-2695. TH E
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4/14 NF. 4/15 Tiger Army. 4/19 Tech N9ne. 4/21 Jimmy Eat World. 4/22 Biz Markie. 4/23 New Found Glory. 5/3-5/13 Billy Idol. 5/4 Steel Panther. 5/7 Leela James & Daley. 5/11 Steel Panther. 5/17-5/28 Santana. 5/18 Enanitos Verdes. 5/25 Marsha Ambrosius & Eric Benét. 6/9 Brian Setzer. 7/7-79 B-52s. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600.
DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS EVENTS CENTER 4/21-4/22 Las Rageous. 5/26-5/29 Punk Rock Bowling. 6/3 3 Doors Down. 6/17 Art of Rap Festival. 7/8 Deftones & Rise Against. 7/15 Goo Goo Dolls. 7/21 I Love the ’90s Tour.
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TAKING THE FANS IN HAND Wondering if Green Day is still relevant? Last week at the MGM Grand, some 16,000 fans made the band’s point for them. All that Billie Joe Armstrong and his compatriots had to do was tear it up, and over the course of two-plus hours and more than two dozen songs, the pop-punk band did just that. Read our full review at lasvegasweekly. com. (Photograph by L.E. Baskow/Staff)
Arts & entertainment Bars for hopping in the Arts District
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This friendly neighborhood LGBT bar offers a staggering variety of drink specials, from BOGOs to beer busts. 1402 S. 3rd St., 702-385-9298.
Part neighborhood bar, part vintage shop and altogether awesome, ReBAR stands apart from every other watering hole in this town. 1225 S. Main St., 702-349-2283.
There’s always something good happening at this hip baroque lounge, from funky DJ nights to delicious craft cocktails. 1218 S. Main St., 702-6859642.
Partial to beer? There are dozens of taps to choose from here—not to mention tasty, ribsticking meat pastries. 10 E. Charleston Blvd., 702-862-4538.
Chase strong drinks with intoxicating shots of entertainment: karaoke, goth dance nights, cheeky drawing classes and more. 1025 1st St. #100, 702-489-6339. –Geoff Carter
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The car crashes go on in The Fate of the Furious By Josh Bell omehow, we live in a world in which there are eight Fast and Furious movies (with two more on the way), and those of us who’ve never seen the appeal of those movies must come to terms with that. For fans who get excited at every new absurd escalation of car-based action, The Fate of the Furious will probably prove satisfactory. But the bigger and more popular these movies get, the more each installment strains to top the previous one, cramming in more characters and more outlandish set pieces. This time around, the car-racing outlaws take on a nuclear submarine rising out of a frozen bay, and it somehow manages to be underwhelming. Not only has the action drifted further away from anything resembling reality, but the continuity is also hopelessly convoluted, to the point that making sense of the character relationships and the team’s past missions requires a Ph.D. in Fastandfuriousology. Longtime writer Chris Morgan (who’s scripted all but the first two mov-
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AFTERMATH IS FLAT SCHWARZENEGGER Schwarzeneg+ Arnold ger’s post-politics
Dwayne Johnson confronts his Fate. (Universal Pictures/Courtesy)
CHILD PRODIGY CHRIS EVANS FIGHTS FOR A CUTE MATH GENIUS IN GIFTED Chris Evans isn’t playing Captain America in Gifted, but his character is such an upstanding straight arrow that he might give Captain America a little competition. Evans’ Frank Adler is a hunky, muscular boat mechanic who’s also a former university-level philosophy professor and an involved parent to his niece, Mary (Mckenna Grace), whom he’s raised since Mary’s mother (Frank’s sister) committed suicide when Mary was a baby. He’s beloved by his neighbors and sensitive to the needs of his would-be girlfriend (Jenny Slate), who also happens to be Mary’s teacher. But when Mary’s school discovers that she’s a certified math genius at seven years old, Frank
must face off against his rich, snooty mother (Lindsay Duncan), who wants to take Mary away from her earthy, working-class existence and cloister her in a world of tutors and classrooms and No Fun Allowed. Will Captain America be able to defeat this latest evil menace and save the little girl? Of course he will, and nothing in Gifted ever puts that in doubt. Evans is handsome and charming, Grace is precocious (sometimes annoyingly so) and cute, and the courtroom scenes are full of earnest grandstanding. Years ago, director Marc Webb upended clichés with the unconventional rom-com (500) Days of Summer. Here, his pedestrian direction and bland visual style just affirm the predictable and obvious. The hero triumphs, but the victory is hollow. –Josh Bell
career choices have been more interesting than the movies that result from them, and that’s the case again with Aftermath, a monotonous, dour drama starring Schwarzenegger as a grieving father. Based loosely on a real-life event, the movie depicts two characters on a slow, plodding collision course following a terrible mid-air accident, in which an error by an airtraffic controller causes two planes to collide, taking the lives of everyone onboard both flights. Schwarzenegger’s salt-of-the-earth Ukrainian immigrant Roman is consumed with grief over the death of his wife and daughter, while air-traffic controller Jacob (Scoot McNairy) is equally consumed with guilt over the innocent mistake that led to the tragedy. Both characters spend much of the movie moodily staring into the distance, and director Elliott Lester weighs them down with an oppressively gray color palette and a somber, droning score. As in his 2015 effort at serious acting, the equally mopey zombie drama Maggie, Schwarzenegger is subdued and taciturn, but he doesn’t have the talent to pull off this kind of understated, internalized role. McNairy is more expressive, but neither character comes across as more than a pawn that the filmmakers are moving painstakingly into position. Deviating from the true story, the ending is hokey and overly convenient, undermining any potential moral complexity. Maybe Schwarzenegger’s next movie will be as fascinating as his decision to star in it. –Josh Bell
AABCC AABCC GIFTED Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan. Directed by Marc Webb. Rated PG-13. Now playing citywide.
AFTERMATH Arnold Schwarzenegger, Scoot McNairy, Maggie Grace. Directed by Elliott Lester. Rated R. Now available on VOD.
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Local bot makes good Baron Vaughn hails Earth from the relaunched Mystery Science Theater 3000 By Geoff Carter omedian/actor Baron Vaughn is busy, but not so busy that we can’t shoot him into space for our amusement. The erstwhile local—he grew up here, even attended Las Vegas Academy—is promoting a new standup album (Blaxistential Crisis), a Fusion TV documentary (Fatherless) and much more. But today, we’re talking about his moonshot: Vaughn provides the voice of wisecracking robot Tom Servo on Netflix’s Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return reboot. Here’s Baron Vaughn, speaking live from orbit. Did you watch MST3K as a kid? Yes, indeed. I stumbled upon it one day and at first I thought it was just a bad movie … Then I saw the [theater] seats at the bottom of the screen and I was like, “Hmm, what’s going on?” And I could hear what the characters in the seats were saying as clearly as the dialogue in the movie, and I started listening in. It was so weird and so funny that I just kept watching. Then I would go to school and try to find who else was aware of this show … basically, who
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else was gonna be my friend. I found some friends that I still have to this day. How nerdy were you, from a scale of one to mint-in-box action figures? I’d say I’m a six, because keeping up with all the stuff is pretty dang expensive. You can’t constantly be shelling out money for the new comics, new toys and new card role-playing games. And I’m a theater nerd, which is the nerd that most nerds really dislike. So I would be, like, “And also August Wilson, and Shakespeare.” And they’d say, “Get outta here. We’re talking about Wolverine; how dare you?” Speaking as a longtime fan, are you satisfied with the new show? People are gonna be really happy. I think it’s as good as the old show, though a lot of people will disagree with me because I’m not Kevin, which the internet continues to tell me every day. Speaking of: Did you have any conversations
with original Tom Servo voice actors Kevin Murphy and J. Elvis Weinstein? I did. Both of them have been very encouraging, saying, “Make it your own. Everyone’s gonna say that you’re not me, and that’s exactly why you shouldn’t worry about trying to be like one of us.” I’m not the last Servo. I hope that the show continues to go on and that there will be other Servos after me. And that people will debate about it, like they do Star Trek captains. Kevin Murphy was Servo for 185 episodes. Do you have that much riffing in you? As long as the world keeps spinning, I’ll keep riffing. Check out Josh Bell’s review of MST3K’s new season at lasvegasweekly.com.
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: THE RETURN Season 1 available April 14 on Netflix.
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hit the books Television’s current “Golden Age” is fueled by stellar novels or as long as I’ve been reading novels, I tend to think revamping the series, it’s now reinvented the miniseries— the same thing after reading a good one: “It’d make novels driven by characters, not quests, are benefitting from a great movie.” But something funny happened last extensive adaptations that weren’t possible before. Surely a month. While rereading John Irving’s The World company like Focus Features could’ve paired down Olive KitAccording to Garp, my all-time favorite, I recalled the 1982 teridge’s modest 270 pages into above-average catnip for Osfilm starring Robin Williams, which —although fine in its car voters. But laying them out over four expertly paced twoown way—ditched about two-thirds of Irving’s story. After hour episodes resulted in some of the most perfect television reacquainting myself with all those unfortunately abandoned I’ve ever seen. Big Little Lies would’ve likely been reduced to characters and subplots, I was convinced Garp would make a mere chick flick with an “edge” had HBO not gave it room one fantastic television series. to breathe, working up to the most sweat-inducing Just about everything I’m excited about these days finale since the first season of Homeland. involves a novel becoming good TV: Next week, Hulu Back in 1997, Stephen King turned The Shining will debut a new adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s into a miniseries for ABC. It was his attempt to right super-timely The Handmaid’s Tale. Moonlight director the many wrongs of Stanley Kubrick’s brazenly unBarry Jenkins is set to repurpose Colson Whitehead’s faithful adaptation. In a similar vein, Hulu’s retellPulitzer Prize-winning The Underground Railroad for ing of The Handmaid’s Tale, starring Elizabeth Moss Amazon. AMC has The Son, based on Philipp Meyer’s (!!!), hopes to do better justice to Atwood’s novel acclaimed epic. And god bless HBO. With Big Little than the sterile 1990 movies. Ryan Murphy just anCultural Lies and The Leftovers and Olive Kitteridge, plus newly nounced a new series called Pose, an ‘80s-era drama attachment that sounds like a riff on Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of greenlit projects like Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects, by smith they’re doing even more than Oprah to keep lucky the Vanities, yet another great book that inspired a galtney authors flush with recognition and options checks. very disappointing movie. Perhaps my daydream of This is nothing new, of course. Television has been a new Garp isn’t so farfetched. mining novels for material at least as far back as Peyton Place At the dawn of 2016, the editor of the popular Elena Ferranin the mid-’60s. But thorough, faithful adaptations have long te books, Sandro Ferri, suggested HBO’s novelistic approach leaned toward epic fare. From Roots to Lonesome Dove and to popular TV paved the way for Ferrante’s success. “When Games of Thrones, if it didn’t involve a historical odyssey or you are talking about the reason for the moment,” he told the hobbits or the Eternal Battle for Something or Other, chances New York Daily News, “you have to notice the big successes of are (a) TV didn’t want much to do with it or (b) Hollywood the TV series — people want to look at or read big stories that would hack the story to bits trying to cram it all inside a twoinvolve lives.” Now HBO is turning Ferrante’s My Brilliant hour movie mold. Friend into eight-episode series, filmed in Italian with EngNow that television is in yet another golden age—after lish subtitles. With backscratching like this, we all win.
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Empire of the Sun, Bon Iver, Avalanches, and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are among the Coachella-to-Vegas crowd. (Photo Illustration by Corlene Byrd/Staff)
Meet the 2017 Coachella acts headed to Las Vegas
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hen Coachella grew to two weekends five years ago, more of its acts booked local gigs—a natural way to kill time between their two appearances at the world’s most popular music event. They made some extra scratch, and Las Vegas music fans saw more acts—many that might’ve never come our way. Sadly, Coachella overlap shows have decreased in the last couple years. Blame skyward booking fees—even the smallest-font acts cost thousands of dollars—a lack of club-sized venues and an increasingly play-it-safe concert market, among other things. That said, more than a few worthy Coachella acts are coming our way. Bon Iver For those who weren’t at Justin Vernon’s Las Vegas debut at the Joint almost exactly five years ago: Don’t underestimate the revered indie act’s live dynamism and bewitching capabilities. Those expecting reverb-soaked campfire balladry will get full-bodied arrangements, myriad projections of catharsis—and a wide variety of sounds, given last year’s evolutionary 22, A Million. With Velvet Negroni. April 13, 8 p.m., $41, The Joint.
Empire of the Sun and The Avalanches Pure entertainment, densely packed. Synthpop dance group Empire of the Sun has a stage show that’s best described as Alejandro Jodorowsky sandwiched between slices of Cirque. And pastiche-pop masterminds The Avalanches took everything magical about the summer days of your childhood and condensed it all into their sublime 2016 album Wildflower. With Rick Steele, April 15, 8 p.m., $40-$50, The Chelsea. Toots & the Maytals Look at the roots of ska and reggae and you’ll find Frederick “Toots” Hibbert there, continuing to nurture good things. The band has been performing for half a century, but you wouldn’t know it from their performance. When they play “Pressure Drop” or “Funky Kingston,” the history melts away, leaving only the immaculate groove. With Leba and Joint Committee, April 15, 8 p.m., $31-$51, Brooklyn Bowl. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and Pond To call what King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard do “psychedelic rock” is underselling it a bit. What the Melbourne group does is take the essence of psyche-
delia—the long, hypnotic instrumental passages, the lyrical abstraction—and distill it with everything from surf to Krautrock. The resulting sound can rightly be called “mind-expanding.” Supporting act Pond, a kind of funhouse mirror version of Tame Impala, shares the bill. With ORB, April 18, 8 p.m., $15-$20, Hard Rock Hotel’s JBL Soundstage. Tove Lo and Sofi Tukker An outspoken advocate of sex positivity and female sexuality, Lo—also known as Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson—made waves in 2014 with her breakout single “Habits (Stay High).” Catch her in Vegas before she drops Lady Wood (Phase 2) this fall. Opening: Grammy-nominated duo and fellow Coachella participant Sofi Tukker. April 21, 7:30 p.m., $28-$55, Brooklyn Bowl. Tacocat These Seattle pop-punks—cleverly named after everyone’s favorite palindrome— combine jangly rock ‘n’ roll riffs with a healthy dose of cultural malaise (hear: “Men Explain Things to Me”), crafting a poppy, sardonic brand of punk rock that rips through every fuzz-tinged chord. With The Negative Nancys, The Van Der Rohe, April 26, 8 p.m., $10, Beauty Bar.
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but this time, Brian was like, nope, redo it. We just got it until we were In the last year, Kevin Kilfeather satisfied. I’m really happy with the has released seven albums—four as overall product.” his solo project K. Kilfeather, and The guys—A.J. Gerst (bass), three with his smoldering wrecking Shane Apsey (drums), Jon Gamball of a rock band Strange Misboa (guitar/backup vocals) and tress. “Art never ends until you let Kilfeather (guitar and vocals)—deit,” Kilfeather says about buted their music video that growing body of Strange for “Mystery Channel” on work, and he and his April 8, a heavy, Motörband show no signs of Mistress head-esque track that barslowing down. Instead, Divisions rels through its 3:13-minthe Vegas-based fourpiece is only adding to album release ute runtime faster than the bus in Speed. that collection. With The QuitDivisions drops April 14 Written over the last ters, Dogyear, with a show at Backyear and recorded in Lawn Mower stage Bar & Billiards, and the last six months by Death Riders. despite Strange Mistress’ local sound engineer April 14, 9 p.m., perfectionist approach, and Black Camaro Backstage Bar the no-frills album holds guitarist/vocalist Brian & Billiards, $7. plenty of spontaneous Garth, the idea behind magic. “The last song, Divisions was to capture ‘Wrath,’ was a song I something authentic, recorded on my phone with an Kilfeather says. acoustic guitar two days before “We used all real stuff, no drum we recorded [in the studio],” triggers, no fake amps, no fake Kilfeather says. “I believe in that. sounds. Everything you hear is 100 I believe in natural music and dopercent real. A lot of the time, we’ll ing what comes to mind.” spend time trying to tune vocals,
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Father John Misty gives great interviews and looks kinda sexy in a moustache. Father John Misty is either a genuine douchebag, or Josh Tillman is just playing a douchebag named Father John Misty, and no matter what the reality, I’m intrigued. I just wish Father John Misty’s albums were half as interesting as himself. ¶ Pure Comedy, the third FJM opus, sure is an admirable piece of work. Clocking in at 75 minutes, it begins with the lines “the comedy of man starts like this/our brains are too big for our mother’s hips” and proceeds to philosophically roast life on “this godless rock that refuses to die.” Technology is our doom (“Total Entertainment Forever”), climate-induced apocalypse our only hope (“Things That Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution”), and do we really need another white guy “who takes himself so goddamn seriously”? So sings Misty on “Leaving LA,” a “ten-verse chorusless diatribe” (his words, not mine) that paints a hazy image of fake Angelenos and one childhood trauma triggered by Fleetwood Mac. It goes on for 13 minutes.¶ It’s impressive how an album so full of big ideas, mounted on an orchestral scale by such an outsized personality, can be still be so boring. Read the Pitchfork interview instead. –Smith Galtney
Guided By Voices
August by Cake aaaac Last year, Robert Pollard proved he required no additional voices to craft a quality Guided By Voices album, writing and playing every note of Please Be Honest himself. On follow-up August by Cake, he swings the pendulum to the opposite end, inviting his latest bandmates to contribute not only guitars and drums, but also songs; nine of the double-record’s 32 tracks were written (and in most cases sung) by people not named Pollard. ¶That “outside” input fits in quite coherently, and in some cases—guitarist Doug Gillard’s Wire-y “Deflect/ Project,” drummer Kevin March’s swirling “Overloaded” and bassist Mark Shue’s punkish “Sudden Fiction,” for example—brings new hues to GBV’s indie-rock rainbow. Better still, with a fully invested set of musicians behind him, Pollard’s material feels tougher and, well, band-ier than it has since 2011 Boston Spaceships behemoth Let It Beard. As he closes in on 60, Pollard’s songwriting and voice are elastic as ever, and he piles up a tower of varied new GBV favorites—the majestic “We Liken the Sun,” irresistible earworm “Dr. Feelgood Falls Off the Ocean” and heavy-bordering-on-doom chant-along “Circus Day Holdout,” to name just three—sure to sound even more forceful when delivered onstage. –Spencer Patterson
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Tony Bennett (left) and Don Rickles at the Riviera in 1971. (Courtesy Las Vegas News Bureau)
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Farewell, Mr. Warmth Paying tribute to Don Rickles in a way he would have wanted By Jason Scavone esus, Don. If you didn’t want to play your Smith Center show, you could’ve canceled. You had the check in hand (and we know how much that means to your people). All you had to do was show up and do the same act you’ve been doing for 60 years. We know Downtown wasn’t like playing the Casbar, but was it that bad? At least think about rescheduling. Either way you’re playing to a room full of dummies who couldn’t get tickets to Celine. (Is he laughing? Take a look.) This is the roughest one since Robert Goulet. Maybe Buddy Hackett. Okay, it’s at least the hardest since the lady who designed the “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign went down. It gives us something to talk about until Wayne Newton drops, anyway. The fact that you could still see a titan of golden age Las Vegas still performing speaks volumes about Don Rickles’ career. Mainly, that he must’ve racked up a hell of a bill with Dino’s bookie in the ’60s. That was the best part of a Rickles show, though. He was a time machine. Far and away the best show in town, and he did them twice a year like clockwork. He might’ve moved a little slower, and the showrooms were a little shabbier and the crowds less
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freewheeling than they were in the heyday (of course they were—by 2010, the average age of the crowd was dead) but Rickles on stage was still a virtuoso when he climbed into that tux and marched into war. He came out on stage to “La Virgen de la Macarena,” (not the one with the dance, you dummy) because he said he always felt like a matador going out on stage. Someone was getting gored before the night was through, but it wasn’t going to be Rickles. He would do his shtick, flipping through the ethnic Rolodex in the crowd, spreading it around to the Irish, the blacks, the Jews, the Italians, the Mexicans. If you were too slow to get the joke, he spelled it out on Hello Dummy!, recorded at the Sahara in 1968: “My humor, ladies and gentlemen, is directed in a way to laugh at ourselves. If you accept it in that spirit, I am deeply grateful. If there be doubt, I hope you’ll see us another night. ... (Every) performer big or small needs an audience. I am no rabbi, priest or reverend, you know this. I stand here and speak of all faiths, creeds and colors. And why not? Really, why not? Because in my experience in the Navy, when things were rough, nobody bothered or cared to ask. Color, church or synagogue, who cared? Frightened to death, we stood together on the bow of the ship and said please,
and that is the truth, please, when our time is up, we will all be on one team, so why do we need bigotry and nonsense? Let’s enjoy while Almighty God gives us time.” When he was done cutting through the crowd like a mohel through your nephew, Rickles closed with a song, backed by a full orchestra. A song. An honest-to-Christ, old-showbiz moment. Highbrow sophistication as window dressing for a winking, gutter worldview. The song was “I’m a Nice Guy,” of course. Can you imagine Carrot Top closing with a song? He’d get the tape recorder stuck in his throat. When Rickles closed the Lewis roast, he said something that can easily be turned back on him now. “Really, Jerry, you are a kind man. … God has blessed you with a great gift and you have a delightful family. It has been my pleasure in our meetings from time to time. And from over a tough, competitive business, this guy always has a smile and his hand out to be warm and kind. That is a blessing. Your talent, we know about. Continued success, and may the man upstairs continue to watch over you and yours.” But for God’s sake, Jerry, keep drinking your Ensure. It wouldn’t be fair to Don if you keeled over right now.
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The journey is the destination with barrick’s ‘process’ By Dawn-Michelle Baude
loaded with prismatic color the paint seems here would we be without the Barwet. The tensions between restraint and rick Museum? Its latest hit, Process, freedom, intellect and emotion, are part of brings 10 artists—a mid-career Monzon’s appeal. So is a nagging sense that group with a keen sense of artistic the paintings depict something. City street? purpose—from Mark Moore Fine Art gallery Topological map? Embedded in Monzon’s based in Orange County to UNLV. Curated emotional, but precise, brushwork is a lush by former Mark Moore gallery director Matlandscape of suggestion. thew Gardocki and hung by Barrick interim Chris Duncan’s art-making process veers director Alisha Kerlin and DK Sole, the show in a different direction. For these largefeatures 65 works of painting, photography, format works, Duncan places fabric in the mixed media and sculpture that speak to sun, letting light and time do their work. current art world trends. It’s not just what you Months later, he obtains a bleached surface in do: it’s also about how you do it. which a printed image hovers on the aaaab verge of intelligibility. After stretchAlthough artists have always been PROCESS interested in how to make art— ing the fabric, Duncan applies UNLV Marjorie ancient Egyptian painters recording Barrick Museum glowing patches of cadmium using step-by-step frescoes, Renaissance Old Master’s glazing techniques. of Art, through May 13. sculptor Benvenuto Cellini revealing It’s difficult to say whether these that urine is key to casting bronze— rectangular red forms are emergtraces of process usually disappear ing or receding from the bleached in finished works. Not at the Barrick. Bleachground, but there’s no uncertainly about their ing, masking, smashing, layering, cutting visual wallop. Their geometry splays across up and recycling elements of their art, the the fabric like emphatic hieroglyphics for the Process artists invite viewers to contemplate digital age. the relationship between the finished work Process is of the moment because our and how it was made. digital world is increasingly intangible. Kim Lester Monzon’s small-format paintings Rugg’s dismembered U.S. postage stamps, are a standout. He begins by coating linen Meghan Smythe’s shmushed ceramic heads, with gesso, sanding it smooth as skin. Then and Ryan Wallace’s accreted canvases bear he lightly grids the surface, creating a visual witness to the physical act of art making. In netting or vintage TV test pattern. The strict doing so, these works offer subtle critique graphic regularity of the background vividly of the exponential algorithms usurping our contrasts with the loose surface layer, a cisearch history, our jobs, and increasingly, our pher of gestural strokes made by brushes so lives. The Process is, in fact, not to be missed.
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“Red Beam” by Chris Duncan. (Photograph by R. Marsh Starks/Courtesy UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art)
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HAWAIIAN TRANSPLANT PAINA CAFE MIGHT BOWL YOU OVER BY LESLIE VENTURA aw chunks of fresh fish marinated and seasoned to perfection, the dish known as poke is one of the most popular foods you can feast on in Hawaii. While its origins are debated—Hawaiians have been eating diced fish in similar incarnations for centuries— the word poke, many argue, didn’t actually occur until the 1960s or ’70s. The poke bowl has a history of its own. Paina Cafe co-owner Derek Uyehara claims to have been the first restaurateur to coin the term. Since he launched the Poke Bowl in Honolulu in 2008 (he later changed the name to Paina Cafe), poke bowls have become increasingly popular across the U.S., morphing into gentrified versions of their former selves and popping up in the trendiest food cities from New York to LA ... and now, Las Vegas. Situated in the Koreatown Plaza, our Paina Cafe is the only location on the mainland. The restaurant opened in 2016 with slightly more limited offerings than its three Honolulu locales, hard to believe considering how many options you actually have. Choose from nine poke or beef bowls or assemble your own from an assortment of marinated fish flavors: spicy tuna, shoyu (soy sauce) ahi, Hawaiianstyle ahi or tako, wasabi masago ahi, shoyu ginger salmon or kim chee tako. There’s even a tofu option for vegetarians. The Hawaiian ($9.95) comes with tender and juicy kalua (pit-roasted) pig, lomi salmon (an onion, tomato and fish salad) and your choice of poke—try the refreshing Hawaiian-style ahi—served on a mound of white or brown rice. A healthy dose of Kilauea Fire hot sauce makes this bowl the ultimate trifecta of salty, spicy and sweet, while the poke crunch bowl ($9.95-$11.25), served with Paina’s special “teri” glaze, shredded nori and crispy tempura flakes, is a textural adventure waiting to happen. A trip to Paina isn’t complete without a slice of the purple ube-and-flan Paina roll and a chantilly coco puff filled with silky chocolate crème. Consider them a delightful contrast to the tangy bowl of fish you just devoured, two desserts worth every heaven-sent bite.
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NIKKA’S IKEBANA Who knew meatless tacos could be so great? (Mikayla Whitmore/Staff)
INGREDIENTS 2 oz. Nikka Coffey Grain Whisky Freshly brewed espresso shot (served in a dropper) Dried black fig slice for garnish
VEGAN-MEX MASHUP PANCHO’S VEGAN TACOS FILLS A VOID—WITH DELICIOUSNESS
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While Las Vegas vegan cuisine has come end—or vegetable options like cactus (nopales) or a long way in recent years, it is only now mushrooms (hongos). The al pastor might not be finding its true voice around town. Vegsliced off a rotating spit, but it’s delicious and the eNation caters to Downtowners. Veggie House is a spice blend is true to its roots. Cactus can often mainstay in Chinatown. Vegeway gives vegsound more interesting than it tastes, but PANCHO’S ans a burger experience. But there hasn’t this version is full of flavor. VEGAN TACOS been a real option on the east side since Huaraches ($7.99) are a savory treat 4865 S. Pecos the closure of the excellent Long Life Vege featuring a fried masa base topped with Road #5, 702-898-9001. onions, cilantro, lettuce, sour cream, cheese Restaurant years ago. Monday-ThursUntil now. Since Pancho’s opened a few and a protein and salsa of choice. For those day, 10 a.m.-8 months ago in a small store front on Trop looking to go big, look no further than the p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 10 and Pecos, the fully vegan Mexican menu Cuban torta ($9.99). This behemoth of a a.m.- 9 p.m.; has been a hit with all types of eaters. Not sandwich is filled with meatless versions Sunday, 10 to be confused with the other Pancho’s in of turkey, ham, bacon and hot dog, along a.m.-6 p.m. Downtown Summerlin, this one is owned by with tofu, mayo, lettuce, tomato, onions, Sacbe Meling, a 20-year vegan. The kitchen cheese and the component that brings it all is run by his mother, whom he helped convert to together, pickled jalapeños. veganism four years ago. On Sundays, Pancho’s has great vegan Mexican The soft taco special ($6.99) is a great way to get sweet bread ($1.62) which always sells out. But don’t acclimated to this cuisine. Choose between meat worry, no matter when you go, there will be many substitutes—asada, al pastor, chorizo or chikdelicious options to choose from. –Jason Harris
METHOD Pour whisky over a 2-inch ice block in an Old Fashioned glass. Serve with espresso shot in a dropper and garnish with a dried black fig slice. Drop three drops of espresso over the spirit before drinking.
This cocktail was created as a tribute to Japanese minimalism. Nikka Coffey Grain Whisky is a single-grain, Japanese corn whisky that is produced using a continuous Coffey still, which is a specific distilling technique. Somewhat reminiscent of a fine bourbon, this whisky has rich toffee and vanilla flavors with sweet, fruity notes throughout. This buttery smooth, simple whisky is easy to sip on its own—and the addition of the espresso shot helps to further elevate the spirit’s impressive flavor profile.
Cocktail created by Francesco Lafranconi, Executive Director of Mixology and Spirits Education at Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits.
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Holi Festival of Colors 4/15, 11 am, $6. Sunset Park, 2601 E. Sunset Rd, festivalofcolorsusa. com. Insane Inflatable 5K 4/15, 8:30 am, $65-$100. Craig Ranch Regional Park Amphitheater 628 W. Craig Road, 702-633-2418. Jay Cutler Desert Classic 4/15, 6 pm, $30-$100. The Joint, 702-693-5000. Las Vegas Baroque Festival 4/18-4/23, times and pricing vary. UNLV, lasvegasbaroquefestival.com. Spring Wine Walk 4/15, 5 pm, $50-$60. Red Rock Resort, 11011 W Charleston Blvd, 702797-7777. Mopars & Muscle Cars at the Strip 4/21-4/22, times vary, $25-$70. Cannery, matslv.com. Musicians for VETS Fundraiser & Car Show 4/15, 4 pm, $10-$50. Adrenaline Sports Bar & Grill, 3103 N. Rancho Drive, 702-645-4139. Pirate Fest 4/21-4/23, noon-10 pm, $10-$30. Craig Ranch Regional Park. 628 West Craig Road, piratefestlv.com. Thug Kitchen Popup 4/15-4/16, 11 am, free entry. VegeNation, 616 E. Carson, Ste. 120, 702-366-8515. Writer’s Block The Bourbon Book Club: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion 4/13, 6 pm. Events free unless noted. 1020 Fremont St., 702-550-6399.
THe Strip & Nearby Brooklyn Bowl Grace Mitchell, Candy Warpop, We Are Pancakes 4/13, 7 pm, free. Mark Farina, DJ Sneak 4/14, 8 pm, $25-$40. Toots & The Maytals, Leba, Joint Committee 4/15, 8 pm, $31-$51. Phantogram, Lido 4/19, 7:30 pm, $30-$50. Cosmopolitan (Chelsea) Bastille, Mondo Cozmo 4/14, 7 pm, $25-$40. Empire of the Sun, The Avalanches, Rick Steele 4/15, 8 pm, $20-$60. 702-698-7000. Double Down TV Party Tonight w/Atomic Fish & Exene Cervenka 4/13, 9 pm. Wolfhounds, The Danger Field, Unit F, Thee Swank Bastards 4/14. Campfire Cassettes, The Scoundrels 4/16. Gold Top Bob & The Goldtoppers 4/19. Shows 10 pm, free unless noted. 640 Paradise Road, 702-791-5775. Hard Rock Hotel (The Joint) Bon Iver, Velvet Negroni 4/13, 8 pm, $41-$126. (Vinyl) Raiding the Rock Vault 4/15, 4/19, 4/22-4/23, 8:30 pm, $39-$109. High Voltage (AC/DC tribute) 4/14, 9 pm. (Pool) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Pond, ORB 4/18, 8 pm, $15-$20. 702693-5000. Hard Rock Live Frank & Deans 4/13-4/14, 9 pm, free. Bear Grillz, Midnight Tyrannosaurus, P0gman, Wolli 4/15, 8:30 pm, $20-$50. AB the Thief, Bailo 4/21, 8 pm, $15. 702-733-7625. House of Blues NF 4/14, 7 pm, $22. Tiger Army, TSOL, Gamblers Mark 4/15, 6:30 pm, $30. Tech N9ne 4/19, 7 pm, $35. Jimmy Eat World, Beach Slang 4/21, 8:30 pm, $28-$61. Mandalay Bay (Beach) Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill, Flatbush Zombies, Berner 4/21, 8:30 pm, $46-$114. 702-632-7777. Monte Carlo (Park Theater) Ricky Martin 4/144/15, 8 pm, $82-$229. Hans Zimmer 4/21, 7:30 pm, $55-$610. 844-600-7275. Orleans (Arena) Back the Badge benefit ft. Rodney Atkins 4/20, 7:30 pm, $25. 702-2847777. Planet Hollywood (Axis) Backstreet Boys 4/144/15, 4/19, 4/21-4/22, $59-$259. 702-777-2782. SLS (The Foundry) Peter White 4/15, 8 pm, $40$70. 702-761-7617. Stoney’s Rockin’ Country Tony Jackson 4/14, 9 pm, $5-$10. Town Square, 702-435-2855. T-Mobile Arena John Mayer 4/22, 7:30 pm, $56-$179. 702-692-1600. Topgolf Jelly Bread 4/15, 8 pm, free. 4627 Koval Lane, 702-933-8458. Tropicana Kool & The Gang 4/15, 7 pm, $49$99. 702-739-2222. Venetian (Opaline Theatre) Steely Dan 4/144/15, 4/19, 4/21-4/22, 8 pm, $63-$206. 702414-9000.
Downtown Backstage Bar & Billiards Strange for Hire, Bloodshot Bill, Porcelain, Shannon Brooke, Claire Seville 4/13, 8 pm, $10-$15. Strange Mistress, The Quitters, Dogyear, Lawn Mown Death Riders 4/14, 8 pm, $7. Erotic City (Prince tribute), Brent Muscat, Anthony Serrano 4/15, 8 pm, $12-$15. Hell or Highwater, Bravo Delta, Honor Amongst Thieves 4/18, 8 pm, $10-$12. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Beauty Bar Demon Lung, Doomstress, Disenchanter 4/13, 8 pm, free. Sadistik, Nacho Picasso, Rafael Vigilantics, Upgrade, Vessel 4/14, 9 pm, $12. Agent Orange, Sheiks of Neptune, The Civilians, The Psyatics 4/15, 8 pm, $13. Thee Swank Bastards, Melanie
Sports
The Jay Cutler Desert Classic hits the Hard Rock April 15. (AP Photo/Eric Jamison)
and the Midnite Marauders, Yosemite Slam, The Bitters 4/19, 8 pm, free. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. Bunkhouse Saloon Rayner, Problem Daughter, End of Pipe, Light ’em Up 4/14, 8 pm, $10. Blur v. Oasis 4/15, 8 pm, free. 124 S. 11th St., 702-854-1414. Downtown Las Vegas Events Center Las Rageous ft. Godsmack, Avenged Sevenfold, Anthrax, Mastodon & more 4/21-4/22, $129$499. 200 S. 3rd St., 800-745-3000. Golden Nugget (Showroom) The Association 4/14, $21-$108. The Romantics 4/21, $21-$108. Shows 8 pm. 866-946-5336. Smith Center (Cabaret Jazz) Steve Marche: Torme Touchstones 4/14-4/15, 7 pm, $35-$55. Lon Bronson Band: The Music of Chicago 4/20, 8 pm, $15-$35. 702-749-2000.
Comedy
Aliante Casino (Access Showroom) Carlos Mencia 4/14-4/15, 8 pm. 702-692-7777. Boomers Side Splitting Sundays Sun, 9 pm, free. 3200 Sirius Ave., 702-368-1863. The D Laughternoon Starring Adam London Daily, 4 pm, $20-$25. 702-388-2111. Double Barrel Roadhouse (Bonkerz Comedy Club) Shows 7 pm. Monte Carlo, 702-2227735. Harrah’s (Main Showroom) Mac King Tue-Sat, 1 pm; 3 pm, $33. (The Improv) Tue-Sun, 8:30 pm; Fri & Sat, 10 pm; $30-$45. 702-369-5000. Luxor Carrot Top Wed-Mon, 8 pm, $50-$60. 702-262-4900. MGM Grand (Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club) Shows 8 pm, $65-$87. 702-891-1111. Mirage (Terry Fator Theatre) Gabriel Iglesias
4/14-4/15, 10 pm, $65-$76. Ray Romano, David Spade 4/21-4/22, 10 pm, $87-$120. 702792-7777. Rio Eddie Griffin Mon-Thu, 7 pm, $73-$136. 702777-2782. Rockhouse (Bonkerz Comedy Club) Shows 8 pm, $20. Venetian, 702-731-9683. The Space Louie Anderson After Show 4/22, 10:30 pm, $20. 3460 Cavaretta Court, 702903-1070. Tropicana (The Laugh Factory) Rich Little SatSun, Tue-Thu, 7 pm, $40-$60. 702-739-2222.
Performing Arts Art Square Theatre Cockroach Theatre/ Nevada Conservatory Theatre: Disgraced 4/21-4/23, 8 pm, $12-$20. 1025 S. 1st St., #110, 702-818-3422. CSN Performing Arts Center A Public Fit: The Realistic Joneses 4/21-5/7, days & times vary, $20-$25. 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., 702-6515483. Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) An American in Paris Through 4/16, times vary, $29-$127. 702749-2000. The Space Alice Ripley 4/14-4/15, 8 pm, $30$65. 3460 Cavaretta Court, 702-903-1070. Summerlin Library & Performing Arts Center Signature Productions: Fiddler on the Roof Through 4/29, days & times vary, $20-$30. 1771 Inner Circle Drive, 702-507-3860.
Special Events
Clark County Fair & Rodeo Through 4/16, 10 am, $10-$12. Logandale, NV, ccfair.com, 1-888876-3247.
King of the Cage 4/15, 6 pm, $30-$75. Cannery, 2121 E. Craig Road, 702-507-5700. Las Vegas 51s Baseball Fresno Through 4/14. Sacramento 4/15-4/17. Games 7:05 pm (except Sundays & holidays, noon pm). Cashman Field, 702-386-7200. Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend Through 4/13-4/16, times vary, $35-$140. Orleans, 702284-7777.
Galleries
Barrick Museum of Art (Main Gallery) Process Through 5/13. (Teaching Gallery) Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here Thru 5/13. (Braunstein Gallery) Masking Thru 5/13. MonFri, 9 am–5 pm; Thu, 9 am-8 pm; Sat, noon-5 pm. UNLV, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, 702895-3381. Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art I Am the Greatest: Muhammad Ali Through 9/30. Daily, 10 am-8 pm, $16-$18. 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702693-7871. Clark County Government Center Rotunda Maureen Halligan Thru 5/5. Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm. 500 Grand Central Parkway, 702-4557030. The Corner Gallery David Beck-Brown: The Unknown Artist, History Erased Thru 4/28, free. #220, Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd., 702-501-9219. CSN Fine Arts Gallery Robot Army: Light Play Thru 4/29. Mon-Fri, 9 am-6 pm; Sat, 10 am-4 pm, free. 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., 702-6514146. Donna Beam Fine Art Annual Juried Student Exhibition Through 4/22. Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm. UNLV, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, 702895-3893. Las Vegas City Hall (Grand Gallery) The Neon Teapot Prize: A Juried Ceramic Teapot Exhibit Through 6/8. Mon-Fri, 7 am-5:30 pm. 495 S. Main St., 702-229-1012. Left of Center Dennis Martinez: Frame of Reference Through 6/30. Artist reception 4/21, 6-8 pm. Tue-Fri, noon-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-3 pm; free. 2207 W. Gowan Road, 702-647-7378.