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HAMLET FESTIVAL AT UNLV Believe it or not, Shakespeare was once seen as the Michael Bay of playwrights, a lowbrow action guy who panned for box-office gold, at least in the view of 19th-century French elites. Improving upon a classic, Alexandre Dumas adapted Hamlet for French audiences, and French composer Ambroise Thomas then turned that adaptation into a five-act opera. If you’re imagining the opera to be what banana Laffy Taffy is to real bananas, you wouldn’t be far off. In the nearly 150 years since the opera debuted, it has been the subject of both praise and scathing critiques. UNLV Opera Theater joins the fray with a free five-day Hamlet Festival that offers lectures, recitals and the world premiere of a new English translation of Thomas’ opera by soprano Bonita Bunt. Various venues. –C. Moon Reed
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH AT HOUSE OF BLUES The revered rock musical about aspiring genderqueer performer Hedwig, her unrequited love for rock star Tommy Gnosis and her band the Angry Inch— named after her botched sex change surgery—gets a local production at the intimate Crossroads dining/musical hall. $32. –Mike Prevatt
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Bride of Frankenstein AT NICHOLAS J. HORN THEATRE Two years after staging Dracula, CSN’s dance troupe takes on another horror classic, promising a new backstory for the titular Bride, a “steam-punkish tone” and an original score by Norwegian Thor Ellyk. Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 2 & 7 p.m.; $5-$8. –Spencer Patterson
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Las Vegas Black Film Festival at Suncoast The Las Vegas Black Film Festival has established itself as a strong community event, and this year’s fourth edition showcases several local feature films, including Checkmate, written and directed by hip-hop producer Robert “Tha Vegas Don” Strawder; comedy B-Mo & C-Mo Take on Las Vegas; Lamonte Faison’s From the Inside Looking Out; police corruption documentary What Happened in Vegas; and TransPARENT, from festival founder Michelle Payne-Boykin. There will also be panels, workshops and parties, with an entire day of screenings on Saturday, all focused on movies created by independent black filmmakers. $20-$100 per event, $30-$250 for passes, lasvegasblackfilmfestival.com. –Josh Bell
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LAS VEGAS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FESTIVAL Science got a rare moment in the Las Vegas limelight last Saturday, when hundreds protested on its behalf, just one of many national marches addressing the general dismissal of fact-based research and phenomena by the majority power in our government. The natural way to keep its advocacy and awareness going is to celebrate it and make it more accessible—and fun—for youth. Enter the Las Vegas Science & Technology Festival, now in its seventh year. Held in venues across the Valley over nine days, the STEM-based marathon includes such wide-ranging events as a junior paleontologist adventure, a real-life exhibition involving critters that crawl and slither, a symposium on possible extraterrestrial life, a climate-change debate, a Star Wars-themed science event, an activity that teaches middle and high schoolers how to manage money and debt, two expos and a guided tour of the Shark Reef. And you can do it all for free. scifest.vegas. –Mike Prevatt.
The New York Times describes her prose as “electric.” Sarah Hepola, author of the 2015 memoir Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, will share some of that electricity when she hosts a free lecture and discussion, sponsored by UNLV’s School of Journalism. After years of writing drunk, how do you write now that you’re sober? When you’re in the creative process, you need to be in a state of mind that’s free, liberated and unchecked. One way is to drink yourself to that [state]. So I had to find other ways to feel disinhibited. What I do is I write in bed; I feel really safe in bed. You share potentially embarrassing anecdotes in your book, like falling down drunk and waking up in strangers’ beds. How did you choose what to disclose? Storytelling is about a careful selection of details. My biggest regret is that [the book doesn’t quite stress] how long it took me to quit [drinking]. It took me two years, but years pass in paragraphs. Years of incredible struggle, failure. I was worried about exhausting the reader. Do you have any notable memories of visiting Las Vegas? The first time I was in Las Vegas, I dreamed of being a photographer, but I was too scared to [take pictures]. Finally, I was drunk enough to approach this guy who was smoking in a bar, perfectly backlit by neon. He said, “I’m married, not interested.” I was flattered that he thought I might be [a prostitute]. … Flattered might not be right word. May 3, 4 p.m., free, UNLV’s Greenspun Hall. –C. Moon Reed
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hen Vogue Robinson left California to live near her sister in Las Vegas, she used the move as a catalyst for personal transformation. “I decided to come out of hiding,” Robinson says. “You have to take yourself more seriously as an artist—don’t ask permission, just do it.” Four years later, Robinson is a beloved fixture on the local literary scene and happier than she ever thought possible. The 30-year-old poet (who is a job recruiter by day) uses imagery to reflect upon her family and personal background. She performs regularly around town at poetry slams and open mic nights. She even met her husband and fellow poet A.J. Moyer at an Arts Factory poetry event. He is her favorite local writer. Robinson is an enthusiastic community connector. She’s the executive director of Poetry Promise, a nonprofit organization that supports the literary arts in Clark County and beyond. “I’m basically the poetry hotline,” says Robinson, who fields countless texts from people wanting to know the location of the next poetry slam. This unofficial role as literary conduit will soon be formalized. On June 1, Robinson becomes Clark County’s second-ever Poet Laureate. Seeing her two-year term as a “serving position,” Robinson plans to collaborate with other artforms and to bring poetry to unconventional places. She envisions taking poetry into classrooms along with unemployment offices. She’d like to use it to help improve the mental health and resilience of Southern Nevadans, to connect those who might be disconnected. “I think the arts in Southern Nevada are this huge oasis,” Robinson says. “I look at open mics and poetry slams like different churches. You choose your open mic that feels like home.” Watch Vogue Robinson participate in the Battle Born Grand Slam April 28 at 7 p.m. at PublicUs ($5 donation).
LGBT favorite Hamburger Mary’s plans its Vegas return Remember Hamburger Mary’s? The national LGBT-themed chain restaurant and bar with drag queens and creatively named offerings (i.e. the Bossy Bottom) was a Fruit Loop-adjacent mainstay (at Paradise Road and Harmon Avenue) between 2002 and 2006. Eleven years later, Flair Nightclub owner Lou Placencia has
acquired the franchise license for Las Vegas and, pending county approval, will split his property between the existing dance spot and a new (and bigger) Mary’s, which will boast a kitchen, dining room, performance stage and patio area. It might also potentially benefit from a connection to popular TV show RuPaul’s Drag Race, for which Mary’s is a sponsor. Returning general manager (and Las Vegas Pride executive director) Ernie Yuen is predicting a mid-summer opening. “It’s gonna be quite unique, and like everything else in Vegas: over the top and crazy.” –Mike Prevatt
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SAVE YOUR SKIN! (BEFORE IT GETS SUNNIER) With oppressive Vegas heat just weeks away, it’s time to consider the habit of wearing sunscreen every day—before the triple digits arrive. And because May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada, an oncology group with 15 centers across the southern Valley, is supplying free sunscreen to guests at Wet ’n’ Wild and all Las Vegas 51s home baseball games. CCCN will also provide PENTA Building Group construction workers with free sunscreen packets throughout the summer. It’s all part of CCSN’s effort to reduce skin cancer among Nevadans; according to the American Cancer Society, roughly 600 people will be diagnosed with melanoma in the Silver State this year. –Leslie Ventura
As proposed, the mixed-use property planned for 1215 Las Vegas Boulevard South—currently home to the Thunderbird Boutique Hotel (previously known as the Aruba)—is 15 stories tall on its street-facing side, decreasing by steps to five stories at the other end. In renderings, it looks like a giant wedge—an oddly apt metaphor to residents of the John S. Park Historic District who say the project is being driven into their neighborhood against their wishes. A recent City Council vote has cleared the way for the project, on a section of the Boulevard where two or three stories is the norm. “Something that tall next to a bunch of singlefamily ranch homes, in my personal opinion, is not good planning,” says resident John Delikanakis. And while there’s no guarantee that the proposed Thunderbird Lofts—a joint project of investment firm Capital Foresight and property owner Ilan Gorodezki—will ever be built, Delikanakis is not thrilled it has even gotten this far. Ward 3 councilman Bob Coffin, one of five council members who voted in favor of the project (Ricki Barlow and Lois Tarkanian dissented), says there’s “nothing you could argue in a court of law” that prevents a building of that height from being approved.” He adds that he’s a Park neighborhood resident himself (and he’ll end up living less than 200 feet from the proposed building). But his main point is tough to dispute: Downtown is growing, and its new residents have to live somewhere. “When you find something that works as a compromise, you have to seize it,” Coffin says. “Land values rise, you’ve got a right to build and it’s inevitable that someone’s going to come in with enough money to build something really nice.” Plus, this option is more attractive than others that have been proposed for that stretch of the boulevard, Coffin adds, invoking the Titanic-themed casino Bob Stupak once proposed for the same property. Delikanakis agrees with Coffin on that much, but says there are better places to put needed housing. “Every time a harebrained idea that’s absolutely incompatible with our neighborhood comes up, we have to fight it off with a stick,” he says. “I’m absolutely mystified why everyone is so gung-ho for this project.”
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(May 12) Charlie Hunnam, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Jude Law. Directed by Guy Ritchie. The legend of King Arthur gets a blockbuster-style action makeover.
(June 23) Mark Wahlberg, Isabela Moner, Josh Duhamel. Directed by Michael Bay. The giant robots destroy more property in the fifth movie based on the mega-popular toys.
(May 5) Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista. Directed by James Gunn. The intergalactic Marvel superhero team returns to save the universe from another alien threat.
(June 28) Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Jon Hamm. Directed by Edgar Wright. A getaway driver attempts to go straight after meeting the girl of his dreams.
(June 9) Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis. Directed by Alex Kurtzman. Universal attempts to launch a cinematic universe featuring its classic monster characters with this new take on the undead Egyptian creature.
(August 4) Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor. Directed by Nikolaj Arcel. Stephen King’s epic fantasy series about a gunman in an Old Weststyle alternate world gets a would-be franchise launch.
Those fans could easily turn on a movie that doesn’t live up to their exacting standards.
(June 2) Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen. Directed by Patty Jenkins. The DC cinematic universe expands with this World War I-set origin story for the iconic superhero.
(July 28) Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman. Directed by David Leitch. During the Cold War, a British spy in Berlin tracks down a fellow agent’s killers.
(July 21) Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen. Directed by Luc Besson. A futuristic sci-fi adventure adapted from one of France’s most popular comic-book series.
(July 7) Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Marisa Tomei. Directed by Jon Watts. After his introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Captain America: Civil War, the latest version of SpiderMan gets his own solo adventure.
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(July 14) Woody Harrelson, Andy Serkis, Steve Zahn. Directed by Matt Reeves. Super-intelligent apes and humans engage in full-scale combat in the third movie of the rebooted Planet of the Apes series.
(May 26) Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush. Directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg. Captain Jack Sparrow returns for the fifth installment of Disney’s highseas adventure series.
(May 19) Katherine Waterston, Michael Fassbender, Billy Crudup. Directed by Ridley Scott. Space colonists are attacked by deadly creatures in this sequel to Prometheus and prequel to the prior Alien films.
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(May 12) Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn, Joan Cusack. Directed by Jonathan Levine. A mother and daughter get kidnapped while on vacation in South America.
(July 14) Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter. Directed by Michael Showalter. A comedian and his girlfriend deal with their cultural differences and her sudden illness.
(May 25) Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Alexandra Daddario. Directed by Seth Gordon. The cheesy ’90s TV series about lifeguards becomes a movie that makes fun of its own cheesiness.
(July 21) Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah. Directed by Malcolm D. Lee. Four lifelong friends go wild on a trip to a New Orleans music festival.
(June 30) Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Jason Mantzoukas. Directed by Andrew Jay Cohen. A couple decide to start an illegal casino in their house to pay for their daughter’s college education.
(August 18) Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman. Directed by Patrick Hughes. A bodyguard is hired to protect a former hitman who’s testifying at an international trial.
(June 16) Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Zoë Kravitz. Directed by Lucia Aniello. A group of friends must dispose of a body after accidentally killing a male stripper during a bachelorette party.
(August 18) Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Riley Keough. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. A pair of brothers attempt a heist during a major motorsports race.
(June 16) Voices of Owen Wilson, Armie Hammer, Cristela Alonzo. Directed by Brian Fee. Race car Lightning McQueen must recover from a terrible crash in the third movie in Pixar’s animated series set in a world of anthropomorphic vehicles.
(May 19) Jason Drucker, Charlie Wright, Alicia Silverstone. Directed by David Bowers. The fourth movie based on the kids’ book series features an entirely new cast in a story about a family road trip.
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(July 28) Voices of T.J. Miller, Anna Faris, James Corden. Directed by Tony Leondis. Emojis come to life in this animated movie set in the secret world inside a smart phone.
(August 11) Voices of Will Arnett, Katherine Heigl, Maya Rudolph. Directed by Cal Brunker. Surly squirrel Surly returns to save his park home from destruction. (June 30) Voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker. Directed by Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin. Lovable reformed supervillain Gru returns to take on a washed-up child star bent on world domination.
(June 2) Voices of Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch, Ed Helms. Directed by David Soren. The goofy superhero (and his nemesis Professor Poopypants) comes to life in this animated movie based on the popular series of kids’ books.
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(June 9) Joel Edgerton, Riley Keough, Christopher Abbott. Directed by Trey Edward Shults. An isolated family is threatened by an unnatural outside menace.
(August 11) Miranda Otto, Anthony LaPaglia, Talitha Bateman. Directed by David F. Sandberg. The origin story of the possessed doll from The Conjuring.
(July 14) Joey King, Sherilyn Fenn, Ryan Phillippe. Directed by John R. Leonetti. A teenager discovers an antique box that grants all her wishes, but, y’know, in an evil way.
(June 30) Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bella Thorne, Cameron Monaghan. Directed by Franck Khalfoun. For some reason, families keep moving into the famously haunted house in Amityville.
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(July 21) Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh. Directed by Christopher Nolan. A sweeping epic about the 1940 Allied evacuation of Dunkirk beach during World War II.
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(May 19) Amandla Stenberg, Nick Robinson, Anika Noni Rose. Directed by Stella Meghie. A young woman with a rare disease that keeps her housebound falls in love in this adaptation of a popular young adult novel.
(August 4) John Boyega, Will Poulter, Anthony Mackie. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. An ensemble drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots.
(August 4) Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rob Riggle. Directed by Scott Speer. A young woman with a rare disease that keeps her housebound falls in love in this adaptation of a popular Japanese movie.
(June 16) Demetrius Shipp Jr., Danai Gurira, Kat Graham. Directed by Benny Boom. A biopic about the life of legendary rapper Tupac Shakur.
(July 28) Al Gore. Directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk. The former vice president returns to lecture America about the dangers of climate change and how they can be combated.
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TURMERIC FLAVORS OF INDIA
EXOTIC ADDITION LIVELY TURMERIC BRINGS INDIAN CUISINE TO FREMONT BY JIM BEGLEY ast year, Turmeric Flavors of India arose in a rather unlikely location in the City Center parking lot—not that CityCenter, but rather the City Center Motel across from Downtown Container Park. With its arrival, Downtowners and tourists can now partake in Indian cuisine along the Fremont East corridor. This type of cuisine might not be at the forefront of your mind when hitting Downtown, but Turmeric is worth the visit. Start with chili paneer ($10), where wok-fried paneer cheese cubes are topped with a flavorful chili sauce laced with garlic. The wok time is well-spent, as the otherwise soft cheese firms up while hinting of smoke beneath the sharp sauce. Those concerned with spice levels shouldn’t be—this dish is more flavorful than hot; in fact, even dishes ordered spicy here tend to be pretty tame. That general lack of heat doesn’t hurt a complex and robust chicken tikka masala ($18); you’ll want to sop up every last bit of the fiery orange sauce. Turmeric’s butter chicken ($18) is creamy and flavorful but nowhere near as impactful as its brethren. No matter which curry you choose, don’t pass on paneer-stuffed naan ($5), the ideal vehicle for soaking up any of the dishes. Probably the most intriguing part of the menu is dedicated to South Indian specialties. Among them is the dosa ($13), a comically large rice-andbean crepe stuffed with spicy mashed potatoes. It’s an uncommon dish on local Indian menus, and it’s accompanied here by sambhar (lentil stew) and a unique coconut chutney. Wash it down with a crisp Flying Horse Royal Lager from an off-menu, secret Indian beer stash and you’ve got yourself an authentic evening. After dark, the vibe at Turmeric becomes a bit more unique, with dance music emanating from the rooftop Kama Nightclub while passersby linger in front of Container Park’s flame-spewing praying mantis. These are the makings of a scene. Do yourself a favor and sit in the open-air front bar area, where an older gentleman in a USMC T-shirt, powered by his own bottle of hooch, danced during our meal. Dinner and a show—what more could you want?
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This weekend, MonteLago Village hosts ing a leisurely afternoon strolling around with the aptly named MonteLago Village the family as live jazz from the UNLV Jazz StudBeerfest at Lake Las Vegas on the far ies program wafts in the background from the outskirts of Henderson. On Saturday lake stage. Who doesn’t need more quality from 2 to 7 p.m., 30 breweries—inMONTELAGO family time? cluding local favorites Hop Nuts and There will be a couple of special sidebars VILLAGE Boulder Dam—will pour their brews during the afternoon. Show up early from BEERFEST alongside more obscure ones like Three 1 to 2 p.m. and you’ll have the opportunity April 29, 2-7 Monkeys from Madera, California, and p.m., $35-$45, to take in the Brewers Live show, which feamlvbf.com. Arizona’s OHSO Brewery. In total, about tures participating brewers talking about 100 different beers will be available for their craft and maybe life in general. And a little day-drinking action. at 2:30, the Auld Dubliner will tap a special But this isn’t your typical beer festival. Evfirkin of cask-conditioned Hop Nuts Hopathon erything takes place outside on the cobblestone IPA endowed with cashmere hops. So drink early paths, so you can get your drink on while spendand drink often! –Jim Begley
Wynn’s Costa di Mare remains a truly unique dining experience, so much so that a typical evening there tends to stand out more than special tasting menu experiences at other fine dining restaurants. The Forbes four-star spot doesn’t need to go out of its way to impress. But it will, of course. The latest addition to the offerings is the Las Vegas version of executive chef Mark LoRusso’s James Beard House menu, available very night and showcasing dishes prepared recently at the famed New York City culinary mecca. The eight-course tasting ($195 per person with optional wine pairings for $110) includes hardto-find Italian seafood specialties such as a crudo trio of cuttlefish, prawns and Sicilian amberjack; butter-poached langoustine with spring peas; grilled octopus with crispy potatoes and olive oil-poached fennel; and Mediterranean turbot with leeks and Osetra caviar. The starter dish, sea urchin mousse with olive oil and chives, sets the tone with unparalleled richness, freshness and simplicity. This is one of the Strip’s purest eating experiences, distilled to its essential greatness. –Brock Radke
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ince Kygo’s first-ever exclusive two-year residency with Wynn Nightlife was announced in early March, the Strip has been anxiously awaiting this, his debut at XS to soft-open the season of Nightswim. Of course, the way the residency was announced had a little something to do with it—the Norwegian musician was joined by performers from Wynn’s Le Rêve production for a dramatic video above the show’s 1.1 million gallon pool, with the classically trained pianist playing a medley of his songs as rain, fire and snow pelted the synchronized swimmers below.
But it’s the rapid rise of the artist that makes the occasion special. Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll became the first artist to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify in 2015, and his first album, Cloud Nine, debuted atop both the iTunes Dance Albums and Nielsen Soundscan’s Electronic Albums charts. After scoring another hit with a remix of The Weeknd and Daft Punk’s “Starboy” in the fall, Kygo kicked off 2017 with the release of catchy popcrossover single “It Ain’t Me” with Selena Gomez. He debuted two more new tracks, “Never Let You Go” and “Kids in Love,” during a surprise performance at Ultra, then announced a
summer residency at Ibiza’s super-hip Ushuaïa Beach Hotel, starting in July. Until then, Kygo will rule the Strip with frequent performances throughout May and June at XS and Encore Beach Club. Kygo at Nightswim soft opening at XS at Encore, April 30.
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t has changed the way we think of Wynn Nightlife. It has hosted sizzling celebs Alessandra Ambrosio, Kate Hudson, Charlotte McKinney, Conor McGregor, Emily Ratajkowski, Gigi Hadid and many more, most of which we can’t confirm because they spent their evening in the exclusive Living Room. And it has pushed the musical boundaries of the Vegas club scene by mixing the property’s all-star roster of resident DJs with live performances from cutting-edge pop and dance artists.
Intrigue has done all that in its first year, and it’s time to celebrate. This weekend’s anniversary party features David Guetta and DJ Politik on April 27, RL Grime on April 28 and Diplo headlining the main event on Saturday, April 29. “Intrigue has evolved to become one of the city’s premier clubs where you can see the world’s top DJs in a more intimate setting,” says Pauly Freedman, senior executive director of nightlife at Wynn Las Vegas. “The first anniversary is special as it gives us a chance to reflect on and celebrate
all that we’ve accomplished and then dream on what’s next.” This weekend is sure to add to the already stocked supply of memorable Intrigue moments, plus plenty of opportunities to toast to the future.
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fter making her first splash at Paris Fashion Week last season, Rihanna returned last month with a fall showing for her sporty-sexy Fenty Puma line, which truly created a scene. Held in the National Library of France with models catwalking down long communal study tables, the show offered up Rihanna’s third collection with a collegiate-couture vibe as stylish celebs like Cara Delevingne and Future looked on. Floor-length plaid puffer coats, color contrasting jerseys, classic tracksuits, varsity lettering and all things preppy get reshuffled and sexed up with these new offerings, made more for catching looks in the streets than breaking a sweat in the gym or on the field. A blown-out cable-knit sweater evolved into a flirty off-the-shoulder dress. The standard stiletto boots from Fenty collections of the past received a more functional twist for fall with the creation of the thighhigh Wellington, perhaps the hottest rain boot we’ve ever seen. Such provocative footwear was seamlessly paired with short skirts or shorts and oversized outerwear on top—it was a one-time entry in the coolest school in the universe, a mischievous play on the stereotypical labels of youth. Rihanna said she’s never been as in love with a collection as she is with this one, and she’s not alone. Just as she’s done with her recent music—2016 album Anti, to be specific—she’s proving herself to be uncompromising, and unlike any other in the fashion realm as well.
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t’s time for a toast: For the Love of Cocktails’ Grand Gala will celebrate its fourth year on the Las Vegas Strip on May 19 at Delano Las Vegas. The annual three-day event hosted by Back Bar USA, Tony Abou-Ganim and the United States Bartenders Guild will once again thrill attendees with next-level craft cocktail and mixology experiences, but the gala is the main attraction, kicking off with a happy
hour reception at the stylish Franklin bar before moving upstairs to Skyfall Lounge. Exquisite bites from Alain Ducasse’s Rivea will complement more creative cocktails, live entertainment and more. “Mixology has found its niche in Las Vegas,” said Bar Back USA founder and CEO Tim Haughinberry. “We developed For the Love of Cocktails to bring together some of the most passionate cocktail enthusiasts from
T O P across the country, and we feel the event has done an excellent job in highlighting and supporting talented mixologists.” See—and taste—for yourself. Tickets are available now at fortheloveofcocktails.com.
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ell before it transformed into the comfortably modern BLT, the steakhouse restaurant space at Bally’s was known just as much for hosting Sunday’s legendary Sterling Brunch as for providing a classic Vegas gourmet-room experience. Now things have changed. Brunch hasn’t gone anywhere—in fact, it’s more indulgent than ever and definitely worth a return visit if it’s been a while—but the evening experience is now utterly unmissable, too. BLT Steak’s warm environs, spotless service and drool-inducing menu have elevated the destination. Start with seafood: a selection of East and West Coast oysters, a classic shrimp cocktail, and a fresh take on tuna tartare with creamy avocado and soy-lime dressing. Move on to an up-
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t’s the newest daylife venue on the Las Vegas Strip. The Aquatic Club at the Palazzo offers a sophisticated yet energetic alternative experience, cool and crisp in white, navy and aqua with red and green accents in a palate reminiscent of country club nostalgia. The vibe is sporty and a bit vintage, the snacks are created by Wolfgang Puck and the sounds run the gamut from world hip-hop to tranquil electronica. But let’s start with a cocktail, shall we? The Aquatic Club offers carefully crafted libations unlike the quickie well drinks and frozen sweet things you’ll find at most dayclubs. But there’s no lack of
fun—check out the Tee Time for proof, a hollowed watermelon filled with a beautifully refreshing blend of Absolut Lime, Pok Pok Ginger drinking vinegar, fresh watermelon and lime juices and mint. This one goes down all too easy. The same can be said for the funky, flavorful Santa Clara—Plantation Pineapple rum with banana liqueur, lime and Brazilian guava puree. These cocktails are as tropical and lovely as you want for poolside sipping, but fresh ingredients and creative combinations make all the difference. Favorites and classics like the Moscow Mule, the Rum Punch and the Citrine—that one is a twist on the Paloma, with Patron and grapefruit
syrup—are all available as single drinks, 60-ounce pitchers and even larger party tubs to satiate your entire cabana. The most memorable creation might be the Forty Love—slightly sweet Passoa passion fruit liqueur with just-squeezed orange and lime juices and a healthy splash of Moët Ice Rosé. But don’t take our word for it. Test the waters for yourself and find a new favorite. The Aquatic Club at the Palazzo, 702-767-3724; Friday-Sunday 11 a.m.-6 p.m. –Brock Radke
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t should come as no surprise that the Impossible Burger, reputedly the most meat-like plant burger ever created, made its Las Vegas debut at Andrea’s at Encore. After all, Wynn Resorts has long set the standard for vegan and vegetarian excellence on the Strip, and star chef Tal Ronnen, whom Steve Wynn brought to his Vegas resorts seen years ago to amp up the culinary creativity, has been a day-one board member at Impossible Foods. The ambitious company has been rolling out the Impossible Burger carefully, creating some serious demand by linking up with game-changing chefs like Momofuku founder David Chang. “But only if we can convince meat eaters like me that a craveable, delicious burger can help change the world,” says COO/
CFO David Lee. “This is the first time serving in Las Vegas, which we consider to be the ultimate destination. We’re not going to be around every corner, so bringing the Impossible Burger to a city where 40 million people visit every year is our way of getting in front of a broader audience.” At Andrea’s, chef Joe Elevado is serving the “ground beef” product—wheat, coconut oil, potatoes and other all-natural ingredients including the secret “beefy” weapon, heme—three ways: sizzling sliders with kalbi sauce, Thai-style rice cups and mapo tofu with meatballs. But enough with the details … how does it taste? It’s delicious, easily eclipsing your standard veggie burger in flavor, texture and overall appeal, especially
with Elevado at the controls. The sliders, topped with kimchi pickles and kochujang aioli, are some of the most addictive mini-sandwiches you’ll taste, meaty or not. There’s just enough savory, fatty feel and taste to fool some eaters into believing it’s beef, but more importantly, it achieves its goal. The Impossible Burger is not for vegetarians, it’s for the rest of us carnivores. It’s supposed to be burger enough to pull us away from beef, at least some of the time, and it is. –Brock Radke
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concept has shifted over time and moved from Downtown to Chinatown, it’s still one of the most anticipated dining developments in the city. “The concept has evolved for the better as I’ve learned and grown, and it’s really coming to fruition in the right way,” says the chef, who has spent time on the Strip at Bouchon, CatHouse and Comme Ça, to name a few. “I believe our food fits better here, and we’ll be able to cook a little more freely.” With longtime collaborators John Anthony (general manager) and Justin Kingsley Hall (chef de cuisine) in the mix, Sparrow + Wolf promises to be one of the most interesting new restaurants in Las Vegas. “We’re just setting out to cook good food for the community,” Howard says. “If you’ve been to the original Blue Ribbon Brasserie in New York City, that’s the stylistic standpoint, being that industry late-night hot spot, the place to go after work. That’s what we want to cater to. We are made for the neighborhood, and we’re not focused on anything but great food and hospitality.” –Brock Radke
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TAO 4/27 DJ Five. 4/28 Devin Lucien. 4/29 Vice. 5/4 DJ Mustard. 5/5 DJ Five. 5/6 Eric DLux. 5/11 DJ Five. 5/12 Justin Credible. 5/13 Eric DLux. Venetian, Thu-Sat, 702-388-8588.
XS 4/28 The Chainsmokers. 4/29 David Guetta. 4/30 Kygo. 5/5 David Guetta. 5/6 Alesso. 5/7 The Chainsmokers. 5/8 Kygo. 5/12 The Chainsmokers. 5/13 David Guetta. 5/14 Laidback Luke. 5/15 RL Grime. Encore, FriMon, 702-770-0097.
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DREAM FEST American Dreams, an arts and culture festival presented by Black Mountain Institute and The Believer magazine, drew talents from the worlds of literature (Dave Eggers, Miranda July) music (Tift Merritt, pictured, and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James) and both combined (Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein). Read our full account at lasvegasweekly.com. (Photograph by Adam Shane/Special to Weekly)
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Canyon Blaster is classic, but it’s been eclipsed by this beast. You’ll dive 90 feet at 90 degrees, tip on outside-banking turns and hang like a bat on two protracted loops.
A terrifying teeter-totter. Slide back and forth over the edge of the 866-foottall observation deck as the titling track threatens to spill you onto Las Vegas Boulevard.
The initial dark, 60-foot-tall tunnel is a cakewalk compared to the eventual drop into a giant fiberglass wave, a drenching parabola loaded with airtime.
Age has made Primm’s mile-plus-long steel monster a rougher ride, threatening to buck you off—and that’s its appeal (along with that faithchecking, 225-foot drop).
5. Zoomline at Fremont Street Experience Scale the 11-story tower and live out your Superman fantasy as you blur past the Fremont Street Experience riffraff. –Mike Prevatt
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MY FAVORITE MOVIE Forty years later, Saturday Night Fever remains misunderstood his year marks the 40th anniversary of Saturday Night Fever. To celebrate, Paramount is reissuing the film on blu-ray, complete with a crisp 4K restoration and a new director’s cut. Once again, it’s packaged in the usual iconography—the checkerboard dancefloor, a silhouette of that famous white suit with its finger pointed heavenward—which is to be expected, I guess. But disco is only a fraction of what I love about Saturday Night Fever, my favorite movie of all time. I’ve been to several public screenings of SNF over the years. There’s always that noticeable contingent that arrives in nutty disco shirts and feather boas and rainbow afro wigs, expecting some Grease-style sing-along. And a half hour into the movie, the wigs and boas are tossed aside as everyone remembers this is not a pleasant story. Its characters are bitter, abusive, homophobic, misogynistic. Its backdrop is ’70s-era Brooklyn, a place of limited prospects and scant hope. It’s easy to forget that underneath all those glimmering strings and bouncy basslines, the Bee Gees are pleading again and again, “I’m goin’ nowhere, somebody help me.” One of the great New York dramas of the period— up there with the likes of Mean Streets and Dog Day Afternoon—Saturday Night Fever will forever be
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ill-served by the phenomenon it unleashed. In response makes Tony glow: “Now that I’m the words of Anthony Bourdain, who paid his the disgrace to the family, maybe you’re not dues in ’70s NYC, it was “a decent film about a sh*t anymore.” hopeless, pig-ignorant loser who fills his empty The one who helps Tony believe this is night by dancing (badly) at a local disco,” and it Stephanie Mangano, a fellow Brooklynite was “criminally misread by millions of people who works in a fancy, celebrity-filled office who made its well-portrayed but pathetic in Manhattan. Stephanie is my favorite protagonist into a hero.” If the world is fond of move character ever. She’s a stuck-up Cultural looking back at the ’70s as a time of inspired namedropper who can’t shake her Bay Ridge attachment accent and only knows Laurence Olivier as abandon, Bourdain remembers how it really by smith was: “Every douchebag in America who bought “the guy who does all those Polaroid comgaltney a white suit and some heavily adulterated mercials.” She also loves tea with lemon. “All cocaine was suddenly empowered to show you the women executives in my office, they all his back fat and chest hair.” drink tea with lemon,” she insists. “And you So, yeah, Tony Manero is a racist homophobe who notice that I do, too.” It’s all an act, of course. She’s treats women horribly, but thanks entirely to John just as scared as Tony, and through mutual support, Travolta’s Oscar-nominated performance, he seems they both move on. less like an asshole and more like a prisoner of his It’s the scenes between Tony and Stephanie that environment. In one telling scene, his friends harass make Saturday Night Fever so great. The music a gay couple while walking through town, yet Tony and the dancing are first-rate fabulous, of course keeps his head low and doesn’t participate. Film (Bourdain is out of his mind if he thinks Travolta theorists use this as proof that Tony is a closet case, dances “badly”), but who hasn’t felt caged in their and he is indeed trapped—by life. At one point, he neighborhood? Who hasn’t daydreamed of crossing tells his older brother, a priest who has just turned that bridge and becoming someone else, something in his collar, “I always felt like I was the sh*t of the better? Peel away all that polyester, and Saturday family, and you was, like, perfect.” His brother’s Night Fever feels as timeless as Gatsby.
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Less than meets the eye Sleight ’s tricks are no treat
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Bo (Jacob Latimore) works as a street magician, performing card tricks and other illusions for random passersby, whose amazement prompts them to throw a few bucks into his hat. Sadly, Sleight itself isn’t nearly so skilled at misdirection. The first baitand-switch reveals that this isn’t so much a movie about a street magician as it is the umpteenth story of a low-level drug dealer trying to escape the business. Both of Bo’s parents are dead, leaving him to care for his adorable younger sister, Tina (Storm Reid); street magic doesn’t bring in remotely enough cash, so he’s forced to moonlight in the employ of Angelo (Dulé Hill), an LA crime boss who turns out to be much more ruthless and vicious than he first appears. Director J.D. Dillard brings nothing particularly fresh to this hackneyed material, staging violent confrontations (including a scene in which Bo is forced to chop off a rival kingpin’s hand with a meat cleaver) that feel unerringly phony. Still, there is at least the anticipation that Bo’s gift for sleight-of-hand will somehow rescue him at a crucial moment. Even this is a cheat, though, as it’s revealed that Bo achieves one of his most impressive tricks via an impossible technological method, akin to Tony Stark’s transformation into Iron Man (minus the suit). Essentially, Sleight is yet another superhero origin story. Just what we needed. –Mike D’Angelo
aaccc Sleight Jacob Latimore, Dulé Hill, Storm Reid. Directed by J.D. Dillard. Rated R. Opens Friday in select theaters.
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Dear White People cleverly satirizes tough subjects
ustin Simien’s 2014 film Dear White People was White People shifts its point-of-view character from a bit episodic and scattered in its depiction of episode to episode, giving each of the major players race relations on an upscale university campus, time to shine and saving the show from feeling like a so turning it into a TV series makes both really long movie broken up into 10 parts. The openstructural and narrative sense. Netflix’s 10-episode ended format gives Simien and his collaborators the Dear White People series, created and chance to flesh out some supporting characters aaabc who were a bit one-dimensional in the movie, produced by Simien, picks up more or less Dear white and the more serious moments have room to where the movie left off, although it features people a mostly new cast and discards or modifies a breathe as well. Season 1 few key elements. What remains is Simien’s It’s still sometimes jarring when the available April deft balance of satire and seriousness in occasionally broad humor transitions into the 28 on Netflix. exploring the tensions between and among heavier political themes, but Simien is mostly students of various ethnic backgrounds at good at balancing the two, using the humor the fictional Winchester University. (which is more clever than laugh-out-loud funny) Logan Browning ably steps in for Tessa Thompson to strengthen the social commentary and to show as main character Samantha White, a biracial how even the most righteous characters have flaws campus firebrand who hosts the radio show that and make mistakes. The show has a point to make, gives the series its name but also dates a sort of but part of that point is simply to depict the lives doofy sensitive white guy. In a refreshing move for of people who are too often relegated to the popthe era of serialized, binge-friendly television, Dear culture background. –Josh Bell
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GODS, WHAT A BORE AMERICAN GODS TAKES THE FUN OUT OF NEIL GAIMAN’S FANTASY CLASSIC BY JOSH BELL nyone who has read Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel American Gods will know that Starz’s TV-series adaptation is about a brewing conflict between old gods (those from ancient pantheons) and new (representations of concepts like media and technology) in the theological melting pot of the United States. But it takes an excruciatingly long time for the show to reveal anything close to that much, and even when the supernatural elements are more overt, they’re portrayed with such solemnity that they lack most of the wit and liveliness of Gaiman’s prose. That somber, oppressive tone extends to the performances and the writing, too, but the worst thing about American Gods is its absurdly slow pace; reportedly the eight-episode first season will only cover the first third of Gaiman’s novel. Even individual scenes are drawn-out and tedious, as creators Bryan Fuller (Hannibal) and Michael Green belabor every character interaction and slight narrative advancement. Star Ricky Whittle (The 100) is aggressively bland as Shadow Moon, the ostensibly regular guy who gets drawn into the world of gods and monsters when he’s recruited by the mysterious Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane) after being released from prison. Although Shadow is meant to be a sympathetic, relatable observer to the chaos around him, Whittle is upstaged by every other member of the cast, and McShane so thoroughly dominates their scenes together that Whittle might as well not even be onscreen. The supporting actors who show up as fellow gods, including Orlando Jones, Gillian Anderson, Peter Stormare, Pablo Schreiber, Cloris Leachman and others, bring a bit of spark to their characters, but many of them appear only in disjointed interludes or preludes that appear to have little bearing on the main story. And while the heavily stylized sex and violence can look beautiful, it’s often just as grim and ponderous as the dialogue and pacing. Only late in the fourth episode does the story begin to coalesce, but by that point it’s likely that anyone who wasn’t a fan to begin with will have long since tuned out.
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Peter Stormare as one of the American Gods. (Starz/Courtesy)
AACCC AMERICAN GODS Logan Browning drops knowledge in Dear White People. (Netflix/Courtesy)
Sundays, 9 p.m., Starz. Premieres April 30.
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The Big Friendly Corporation’s long-awaited Carry On, Carrion is a remarkable album about grief and love
Magic and loss By Mike Prevatt
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magine the most hellish time of your life. Chances are it’s got nothing on the tribulations recently experienced by local indie-pop act The Big Friendly Corporation. “It’s been a fun five years,” bassist Jeff Ford says with dry sarcasm, as only someone who has survived it can. The quintet dealt with illness, job loss, a miscarriage, band member departures and deaths in its families—most notably, the passing of musician and BFC collaborator Tommy Marth, brother to vocalist/keyboardist Melissa Marth and vocalist/guitarist Ryan Marth. The unfolding of that tumult can be heard on BFC’s long-awaited fifth studio album, Carry On, Carrion, a tremendous, 24-song work documenting Tommy’s final year—he took his life almost exactly five years ago—and how his family and friends dealt with the subsequent revelations and grief. The title is meant to reflect both a rallying cry for those who continued on and the whimsy for which the band is known, the latter reference attempting to balance out the album’s sustained heaviness. Its five, themed
transition pieces spell out the band’s bereavement. “I wanted us to create this series of stories about loss,” Ryan says. A couple of numbers might not appear to address themes pertaining to Tommy’s suicide—Ford’s “Static” is unrelated, though pertinent to the narrative—but everything else does, if sometimes obliquely and/or with vocal recordings the band purposely obfuscated so as not to risk the stark lyricism overpowering the music (often gorgeously rounded out by guest choruses and instrumentalists, including the Marths’ vocalist mother Diane Eddington and guitarist father Thomas Marth Sr.). “Bring You Down” and “Foolish Girl” are stinging rebukes of an ex-fiancé who enabled Tommy’s off-and-on drug addiction. “Laugh at Your Own Joke” is about Robin Williams, but the suicide link keeps Tommy’s spirit close by. Then there’s the Abbey Road-like, album-closing medley on Side 4 that climaxes with the melodically sharp but brutally honest “The Best Is Yet to Come/ We Lost You,” where the siblings unload on their deceased brother for selfish choices. While drummer Brandon Johnson initially objected to its graphic
depiction of the suicide, Melissa saw that both the catharsis and its honesty were necessary to the narrative: “Ryan was like, ‘NO! I’m f*cking pissed! It’s disgusting that this happened, what Tommy did to us. Our family is broken! It has to be what it was. I don’t care how uncomfortable it makes people. We cannot sugarcoat this.’ I was like, all right.” Corralling the ambitious, two-and-a-half-year project was Melissa’s husband, Andrew Karasa, who recorded and mixed the record while his band The Clydesdale was on hiatus—which also led to him to join BFC. You can see him play with the band during this Saturday’s two-set album release show at the Bunkhouse, which will also offer a table sour “beermosa” Karasa convinced Henderson brewery Crafthaus to make just for the occasion—one that, despite the emotional music, won’t be another funeral, but a celebration of life, one Tommy himself could appreciate. “I think he would be very happy with [the album],” Melissa says. To which Ford adds: “He would play on it!” Cue band laughter—some much needed and wellearned laughter.
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‘NORTHTOWN’ STAR SHAMIR STRIPS DOWN TO REALITY THE BIG FRIENDLY CORPORATION with Blair & Chani, The Steady Extras. April 29, 9 p.m., $5. Bunkhouse Saloon, 702-854-1414.
The Big Friendly Corporation brings its sprawling new double-album to the Bunkhouse on April 29. (Mikayla Whitmore/Staff)
NIGHT VISIONS GETTING TO KNOW LAS VEGAS BAND ALL-NIGHT VISITORS BY IAN CARAMANZANA Lineup: Vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Walker Rose, drummer James Norman, guitarist/keyboardist Seth Smith and a horn section that consists of Stephen White (trumpet) and Justin Kones (trombone). Rose says the skeleton for the band formed in 2004 as The Pines, and, after relocating to places as far as Seattle and San Antonio, circled back to Las Vegas as All-Night Visitors. Sound: The entire spectrum of indie rock, from the soft, Leonard Cohen-esque “Poor Thing” to the feedback-heavy “Long Gone.” Spin: “Animal Mind.” The first track from the band’s latest EP, People, Places, Things, fuses groovy analog keys a là The Doors with classic Americana before launching into a glorious slow jam. Think of
it as a three-minute primer on the band. Influences: “We’re equally inspired by literature and music,” Rose says. “We’re inspired by writers such as Henry Miller and the Beats to oldies such as Brian Wilson and James Brown.” Film: The band has ties with production company Critical Focus, which crafted visuals for “Poor Thing.” In the video, a scantily clad woman takes us through the rooms of the long-dormant Fergusons Motel on Fremont Street, and it’s packed with a cast of characters. That relationship will continue in the band’s forthcoming video for “Animal Mind.” On the docket: Lots of new music. “[The songs on] People, Places, Things are high-energy cuts from the sessions we tracked for the LP. This time, we went as experimental, challenging and ambitious as we could, almost to the point of recklessness.” Future plans: Expect the second All-Night Visitors LP in 2018, and a live set at Artisan’s May the 4th Star Wars party. facebook.com/AllNightVisitors
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Last week Shamir Bailey bared his soul to Out magazine. He admitted that he’d been dropped by his label; that the throwback disco vibe of his acclaimed 2015 debut LP, Ratchet, was only an experiment, and it wasn’t a sound he cared to be locked into; and that his recorded-ina-weekend, Mac DeMarcoinspired lo-fi sophomore LP Hope, released for free via Soundcloud, is the result of his desire to “make something real.” Judged on those merits, Hope is a victory; it kept the North Las Vegas native from quitting the music business. As to its musical merit, well, you tell me. Personally, I like these sloppy and honestly-expressed songs—all of them muddysounding, and a couple of them literally unfinished— and some real gems, like the post-punk-y “Tom Kelly” and “One More Time Won’t Kill You,” emerge on repeated listen. That said, I could also understand fans of Ratchet and 2014 EP Northtown showing up for more of Shamir’s spacey, countertenor-sweetened boogie and being disappointed by Hope’s bed of amplifier buzz. You’ll know right away: If you’re still onboard halfway through the albumopening title track, with its angry guitar sheen and plaintive vocal (“I hope, I hope, I hope for me and you again”), you’ll like the next nine songs, too. If not, he’s promised two more albums soon. That’s three more Shamir records than we might have gotten otherwise. –Geoff Carter
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the latest pinch-me moment for Price since the release of 2016’s Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, an acclaimed record that established her as a fiercely confessional voice indebted to—but not beholden to— vintage country. Among other recent career highlights: dueting with Emmylou Harris on “Two More Bottles of Wine” and singing “Me and Bobby McGee” with Kris Kristofferson. “For me, those are the moments that I have lived for,” Price says. “I’m not in the business to rack up awards or accolades. It’s nice to be able to meet some of my heroes. It’s been quite a year.” Still, she considers Midwest Farmer’s Daughter—an album that “went further than I ever expected it to”—a stepping stone to an enduring career. In fact, Price recently recorded her next LP, and it’s already in the mastering
Price plays Brooklyn Bowl on Friday. (Courtesy)
and artwork phase. “I am looking even folk, gospel and blues. I try forward to now being able to keep not to limit myself, genre-wise.” putting out records,” she says. “I’m On a topical level, Price’s new really itching to have a high output songs also explore broad ideas inand really have a prolific career.” fluenced by “the state of the world, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter set and just being able to go out and a solid future precedent because of see America right now,” she says. its diversity. Although the string“I’m gone from home a lot, and bowed “Hands of Time” all my dreams are coming MARGO PRICE true, it’s amazing, but I do feels like a soapy ’70s Opening for country ballad, “Tennessee miss my son very much.” Jamey JohnSong” is cosmic Americana son with Brent Later in the conversation, Cobb. April 28, and “Four Years of Chancshe reiterates why today’s 7:30 p.m., $45. es” is straight-up boogieBrooklyn Bowl, political climate warrants 702-862-2695. outspokenness. soul. When asked about new inspirations creeping “There’s a lot of things into her music, Price cites to talk about right now,” Texas legend Doug Sahm. she says. “While a lot of times peo“I really admire that he was able ple don’t want to hear musicians to take so many different types talk about politics—or celebrities of music and have them come in general—I think we all have through in what he was doing, but a voice. And that’s the beautiful yet still remain rooted,” she says. thing about America: We’re all al“Obviously, I’ve got a lot of love lowed to use that voice in whatever for soul music and rock ’n’ roll and way we want.”
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f the Magic Mike Live Las Vegas red carpet is the sun, then I’m orbiting somewhere around Jupiter. Celebrities, like Channing Tatum and his wife Jenna, flash in and out of view. Tops of heads and patches of clothing tantalize the gathered fans, setting off a flurry of cell phones. From where I stand, it’s not even clear who’s posing for the wall of photographers. They are a black-clad fortress of professional indifference encircled by a moat of barriers. Meanwhile, on this side of the velvet rope, it’s a full-on carnival. Opening night. Vegas VIPs are partying alongside tourists in that unique, oncea-season mix where everybody is on their A-game. There’s so much “whooo-hooo’ing” I get flashbacks to the capuchin monkey exhibit at the San Diego Zoo. A trio of women stand front and center, stretching their phones over the stanchions to get the best shot. Klaryssa, Zerlina and Yvette have driven all the way from El Centro, California, to see Magic Mike Live. Klaryssa, 27, shows me a photo of her group posing with Tatum on the Hard Rock Hotel casino floor. “We ran into him at brunch,” she exclaims. “See, I’m holding a to-go bag!”
The girls stand their ground while my friend a seven-ring circus of acrobatic singing, dancing, Sarah and I head toward the showroom. Like a grogrinding men. I’ve spent many a night at Body cery store candy aisle, ticket holders must first pass English, but the atmosphere was never this fun. through the Pleasure Bar. The menu invites me to “The safe word is ‘unicorn,’” proclaims the “get drunk on pleasure.” I order a whiskey-Coke. show host as male dancers give lap dances and “These are pleasure cocktails,” the bartender fake dollars flutter down. “That’s real. Don’t be demures, then adds, “we have a cocktail to afraid to use it.” It’s the first time I’d ever MAGIC MIKE spice things up with your lover.” heard “consent” discussed in a strip show. LIVE Las “Can you drink these cocktails?” I ask. The “plot” is (very) loosely inspired by the Vegas “No, but let me show you what we do have.” films, but don’t expect a man’s story. This WednesdayThe bartender produces a selection of vibrashow is all about women and how to empower Sunday, 7:30 & 10 p.m., them to please themselves. Finally, I thought, tors on a mirrored platter. I become hyper$44-$128. aware of Sarah, an upright Midwesterner a feminist, multicultural male revue. This Hard Rock who’s never even seen Chippendales. On the show was designed for all the millennial Hotel, 800745-3000. car ride over, she’d wondered, “What’s the “snowflakes.” Like me ... and Sarah, who worst that can happen?” Now she’s being finds it to be smarter and better than exlectured on vibrating butt plugs. pected. … And Klaryssa, Zerlina and Yvette, The usher takes our tickets. I stop him and ask, who are first in line for the 10 p.m. show. “Can you buy drinks in there?” “Do you feel like you need to change your pant“Of course,” he answers, looking at me funny. ies before going to the afterparty,” Klaryssa asks, “This is Las Vegas!” as we pass her on the way out. We descend into a reincarnated version of the I’m charmed by the endless joy and daring of tourbasement nightclub Body English. Now it’s a theists. They keep the bills paid. To play along, I say, “I ater-in-the-round, which offers countless points hope you brought an extra pair in your purse.” of contact between audience and performers. It’s “It’s okay. I’m not wearing any panties.”
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and pings that interrupt our days, but at times it feels oree Shafrir, senior culture writer at Buzzfeed, more like a catalog than a central tenet of the story. has written a novel of manners for the Shafrir’s work drips with relevant irony referencing digital age. Startup could be called Pride the cultural, racial and sexual politics of companies and Prejudice and Tech Bros; Shafrir turns that bloom and die like wildflowers. She writes that a sharp eye on the culture of techy startups these CEOs “donated money to charities started by and their unspoken moral codes. Startup follows two their friends [who] taught underprivileged kids how couples—Dan, a late-30s editor of a tech website, and to code but voted against raising taxes to make those his wife Sabrina, who runs the social media for kids’ schools better,” and one character tries a mindfulness app; and Mack, the CEO of the AAACC to bring awareness about identity to the tech app, and Isabel, who is Sabrina’s supervisor. industry by using technology to co-opt a differSTARTUP Socialization and work are entwined hopelessly ent identity. This isn’t bold, defiant satire, but By Doree in what seems like an accurate portrayal of the the kind that highlights the thousand natural Shafrir, $26. many startups that have cropped up on each shocks of human interaction. coast. Employees work in open spaces, and Shafrir understands that “people just [want] work blends into evenings out, drinks after work and to feel special. They [want] to feel like you [see] them,” group pole-dancing classes. Shafrir underscores the which is our social media addiction in a nutshell. Her cultural differences between generations, highlighting characters get themselves into the most trouble when how a single decade means the difference between Dan they chase this desire to be seen outside the bounds of and Sabrina’s experience on the cusp of technology, their own marriages, good sense and basic workplace and that of those younger, who have grown up with the norms that are no longer givens. “I wish someone had certainty of the Internet. told me that hooking up with the founder of your comStartup mostly works, when it’s not being cumberpany was a bad idea,” one character laments. Shafrir some listing each technological interruption in its makes it clear that such social entanglements are part characters’ lives. Shafrir integrates the daily dings of learning on the job.
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THe Strip & Nearby Brooklyn Bowl Jamey Johnson, Margo Price, Brent Cobb 4/28, 7:30 pm, $35. Spawnbreezie, Gonzo, Lady Reiko 4/29, 7 pm, $17. Linq, 702-862-2695. Cosmopolitan (Chelsea) Severina 4/29, 8 pm, $47-$100. 702-698-7000. Double Down Saloon Anti-Social, The Has Beens, The Civilians, Slack Bastards, Chairbreaker 4/27. Guttersnipe Rebellion, Wolfhounds, Black Crosses, Stagnetti’s Cock 4/28. 2 Ply Government, Geezus Cryst & Free Beer, The Schitz, Raised on TV, Crinoline 4/29. Uberschall 4/30, midnight. Franks & Deans’ Weenie Roast, Rex Dart 5/3. Shows 10 pm, free unless noted. 640 Paradise Road, 702-791-5775. Hard Rock Hotel (The Joint) Journey 5/3, 8 pm, $60-$300. 702-693-5000. House of Blues DayDay, The Black Tapes & more 4/27, 7 pm, free. Boom Box Group Unity Showcase 4/28, 6 pm, $33. Billy Idol 5/3, 8 pm, $80-$150. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. Monte Carlo (Park Theater) Brett Eldredge, Tyler Farr 4/28, 8 pm, $60-$100. Cher 5/3, 8 pm, $55-$436. 844-600-7275. Orleans (Showroom) Peabo Bryson 4/28, 8 pm; 4/29, 9 pm, $40-$70. 702-284-7777. Planet Hollywood (Axis) Backstreet Boys 4/28, 9 pm, $59-$259. Britney Spears 5/3, 9 pm, $69-$500. 702-777-2782. Stoney’s Rockin’ Country The Cadillac Three 4/28, 9 pm, $10-$90. Town Square, 702-435-2855. Tropicana Wynonna and the Big Noise 4/28, 8 pm, $44-$76. 702-739-2222. Venetian (Opaline Theatre) Steely Dan 4/284/29, 8 pm, $63-$206. 702-414-9000.
Downtown Backstage Bar & Billiards BiPolar, AntiTrust, Mastiv, Levitron 4/28, 8 pm, $7. Royal Thunder, Strange Mistress, Future Vinyls, Girls and Wolves 5/2, 8 pm, $10-$12. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Beauty Bar Thank You Scientist, Journey 2 Rapture, Found in Fiction 4/27, 8 pm, $12. Wrekmeister Harmonies, New Language, The Fat Dukes of F*ck, Commonear 4/28, 8 pm, $8. Svetlanas, New Cold War, Unfair Fight, Time Crashers 4/29, 8 pm, free. L.A. Witch, The Acid Sisters, Indigo Kidd 5/1, 8 pm, $8. Devil to Pay, Spiritual Shepherd, Plague Doctor 5/2, 9 pm, $5. Avec Sans, Rabid Young, Almost Normal, Silversage 5/3, 8 pm, $8. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. Bunkhouse Saloon The Big Friendly Corporation, Blair and Chani, The Steady Extras 4/29, 9 pm, $5. Jacob Metcalf 5/2, 9 pm, $5-$8. 124 S. 11th St., 702-854-1414. Golden Nugget (Showroom) Jay and the Americans 4/28, 8 pm, $21-$119. 866-946-5336. Mickie Finnz Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts 4/29, 9 pm, free. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-4204. Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) Chita Rivera w/ Seth Rivera 4/30, 3 pm, $24-$99. (Cabaret Jazz) David Perrico 4/28, 8 pm, $20-$40. Lizz Wright 4/29, 7 pm, $39-$65. Erich Bergen 4/30, 1:30 pm; 5/1, 7 pm; $49-$65. Frankie Moreno 5/2, 8 pm, $30-$42. Composers Showcase 5/3, 10:30 pm, $20-$25. 702-749-2000.
Everywhere Else Adrenaline Sports Bar & Grill Dead Horse Trauma, My Own Nation, Killing Giants 4/28, 8 pm, $8. Boondox, Blaze, Donnie Menace, Windy City Music, Madopelli Music, NE Last
Words, Mistah Jamie B 5/3, 8 pm, $12. 3103 N. Rancho Drive, 702-645-4139. Boulder Station (Railhead) David Nail 4/28, 8 pm, $26-$49. 702-432-7777. Cannery Village People, Sister Sledge, The Trammps 4/29, 8 pm, $35-$55. 2121 E. Craig Road, 702-507-5700. Count’s Vamp’d Jetboy, Sin City Rejects 4/27, 10 pm, free. Richie Jotzen, John Zito Band 4/28, 9 pm, $15-$20. Puppet, Desire the Fire 4/29, 9:30 pm, free. 6750 W. Sahara Ave., 702-220-8849. Eagle Aerie Hall Traitors, Distinguisher, Words From Aztecs, Beaten Path, Desolation, Asylum of Ashes, Looks Like Medusa 5/3, 5 pm, $13. 310 W. Pacific Ave., 702-568-8927. M Resort Rock Into Spring ft. Buckcherry, Art of Anarchy, Sick Puppies & more 4/28-4/30, 3 pm-midnight, $40-$320. 800-745-3000. Primm Valley Resort (Star of the Desert Arena) Gerardo Ortiz 4/29, 8 pm, $35-$75. 702-386-7867. Sand Dollar Lounge Goldtop Bob 4/27. Charlie Tuna & The Full Moon Band 4/28. The Moanin’ Blacksnakes 4/29. Shows 10 pm, free. 3355 Spring Mountain Road, 702-485-5401. Silverton (Veil Pavilion) Little Texas 4/27, 8 pm, $10. 702-263-7777. The Space Las Vegas Suite ft. Nathan Tanouye and the Las Vegas Jazz Connection 4/30, 2 pm, $20-$40. 3460 Cavaretta Court, 702-903-1070.
Comedy
Mirage (Terry Fator Theatre) George Lopez 4/28-4/29, 10 pm, $65-$87. 702-792-7777. South Point (Showroom) Norm Macdonald 4/28-4/30, 7:30 pm, $40-$50. 702-796-7111.
Sports
Las Vegas 51s Baseball Albuquerque 4/27-5/1. Tacoma 5/2-5/5. Games 7:05 pm (Sundays & holidays, noon). Cashman Field, 702-386-7200.
Performing Arts
Alios Majestic Repertory: White Rabbit, Red Rabbit 4/27, 8 pm, free. 1217 S. Main St., 702-478-9636. CSN Performing Arts Center (Nicholas J. Horn Theatre) CSN Dance: The Bride of Frankenstein 4/28, 7 pm; 4/29, 2 & 7 pm; $5-$8. (Backstage Theatre) A Public Fit: The Realistic Joneses Thru 5/7, days & times vary, $20-$25. 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., 702-651-5483. House of Blues (Crossroads) Hedwig & The Angry Inch 4/27-4/29, 10 pm, $32. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. Las Vegas Little Theatre (Black Box) Beyond the Glass 4/28-5/14, Thu-Sat, 8 pm; Sun, 2 pm; $10-$15. 3920 Schiff Drive, 702-362-7996. Summerlin Library & Performing Arts Center Signature Productions: Fiddler on the Roof Thru 4/29, days & times vary, $20-$30. 1771 Inner Circle Drive, 702-507-3860. Theatre in the Valley Art of Murder Thru 5/7, Fri-Sat, 8 pm; Sun, 2 pm. 10 W. Pacific Ave., 702-558-7275. UNLV (Judy Bayley Theatre) Nevada Conservatory Theatre/Rainbow Company Youth Theatre: Peter Pan 4/28-5/14, days & times vary, $10-$33. (Dance Studio One) UNLV Dance: Expressive Views 4/28-4/30, 2:30 pm, $10-$18. (Various venues) UNLV Opera: Hamlet Festival 5/1-5/6, times vary, free. 702-895-3332.
Special Events
5K Race for Hope and Fun Walk Hosted by Grant A. Gift Autism Foundation 4/29 7 am, $10-$35. Town Square. American Cornhole League National 6 Tournament 4/28, 6 pm; 4/29-4/30, 11 am; free. Linq Hotel. An Afternoon With Poet Lee Mallory 4/29, 3-5 pm, free. Barnes & Noble, 567 N. Stephanie St.
Author/essayist Sarah Hepola 5/3, 4 pm, free. UNLV’s Greenspun Hall. Bicycle Prom 4/28, 9 pm, free. Group ride leaves from Atomic Liquors. Blues & Brews Festival 4/27, 4-8 pm, $35-$75. Springs Preserve. Cadillac Through the Years 4/30, 11 am-5 pm, free. Town Square. Día del Niño Art, music & more. 4/29, noon5 pm, $6. Springs Preserve. Freakshow Wrestling 4/29, 8 pm, $20. Fremont Country Club, 601 E. Fremont St. Graceland: Velveteen Rabbit’s 4-Year Anniversary Party Burlesque performances, food & more. 4/29, 8 pm, free. 1218 S. Main St. Las Vegas Black Film Festival 4/27-4/30, times & prices vary. Suncoast, lasvegas blackfilmfestival.com. Las Vegas Highland Games 4/29-4/30, 9 am-6 pm, $10-$15. Floyd Lamb Park, lasvegascelticsociety.org. Las Vegas Science & Technology Festival 4/285/6, times, prices & locations vary. scifest.vegas. MonteLago Village Beerfest 4/29, 2-7 pm, $35$45. Lake Las Vegas, mlvbf.com. Nevada Preservation Foundation’s Home + History Weekend 4/28-4/30, times & locations vary, $15-$60, nevadapreservation.org. Touch-a-Truck 4/29, 9 am-2 pm, free. Orleans Arena. People’s Climate March 4/29, 10 am-1 pm, free. UNLV’s Donald C. Moyer Amphitheater, between the Student Union and bookstore Vegas Uncork’d Culinary & wine events 4/27-4/30, times, prices & venues vary, vegasuncorked.com. Wine & Brews at the District 4/29, 5-8 pm, $25. shopthedistrictgvr.com. Writer’s Block Genre Blook Club: Science Fiction 4/27, 6 pm. Dana Green reading & conversation 4/29, 7 pm. 1020 Fremont St., 702-550-6399.
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