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THE YAWPERS AT BACKSTAGE BAR & BILLIARDS

Help the Boyd School of Law’s Organization of Women Law Students raise money for cash-strapped nonprofit Shade Tree while catching performances by Blair Dewane and Chani Leavitt, The Wayside, Heidi Guinn, Paige Overton and more. Partial proceeds from the evening’s exclusive cocktail will benefit the shelter, and donations will also be accepted. –Leslie Ventura

This Denver trio’s justreleased concept album, Boy in a Well, tells the tale of a French child abandoned during World War I … but you don’t need to sort that out to shake your body to The Yawpers’ howling psychobilly. With The All-Togethers, Cletus and Mexican Sweat. $10-$12. –Spencer Patterson

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GENDERFEST AT THE GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA A black transgender woman is shot and killed by St. Louis police. Another trans woman is murdered outside a nightclub in, of all places, San Francisco. A small business owner in Illinois mocks trans people with signs posted in his front window. A transgender male corrections officer is denied the right to use the men’s restroom in Iowa. A trans man is forced to expose his prosthetic penis to a police officer to prove he hasn’t shoplifted from a New Jersey store. Reports of rising homelessness among—and calls to suicide hotlines by—trans youth abound. And trans servicepeople are set to be banned from serving in the U.S. Armed Forces under an order from President Trump. These summer headlines—among many others— underscore the need for Genderfest, a three-day forum and convention aimed at giving trans and gender diverse folks—along with its allies in the community—information, guidance and support largely through discussions. Workshop topics include trans youth and parenting (most occurring on Thursday), trans fertility and family planning, medical/ health and legal concerns, romance and family and religion. There will also be conversations regarding trans history and safety (the latter led by Metro) and three keynote speeches. Chatter at Genderfest won’t be limited to podiums and panelists, though, as networking and social opportunities cap each day, like Saturday’s Trans Prom—a celebratory end to one of the most important events on the local LGBT calendar. Free, for schedule information visit thecenterlv.org/genderfest. –Mike Prevatt

Yule brings Santa and more to Grant Hall. (Steve Marcus/Staff)

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Yule OPENING RECEPTION AT UNLV’s GRANT HALL GALLERY “It isn’t about Christmas.” That’s what artists and UNLV MFA candidates Jennifer Henry and Christopher Jones want you to know their new collaborative art show, Yule. “It’s about all the signs we recognize without looking … our obligatory relationship with the ephemerality of seasonal festivity and what we’re supposed to do with all this stuff when it’s over,” the artist statement explains. Even though the show doesn’t focus on “the most wonderful time of the year,” Henry says the visual arc “relies heavily on iconoclastic Christmas regalia,” with a performance using an inflatable Santa and lots of wrapping paper. Will you still get that holly jolly feeling in the middle of September, or will it just reveal the absurdity of our treasured capitalist traditions? “It’s a bold abstraction of the ideas of mass celebration,” Henry says, “and what happens when you remove those things from that time of year.” Exhibit up through September 20, free. –Leslie Ventura

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Trust Us E V E R Y T H I N G Y O U A B S O L U T E LY, P O S I T I V E LY MUST GET OUT AND DO THIS WEEK

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Begin the evening with an open-air screening of the terrific 1979 coming-of-age comedy Breaking Away—then hop on your bike for a group ride through the streets of the Arts District and Fremont East. You could hardly ask for more perfect double feature. Free, facebook.com/blinkingman. –Geoff Carter The Yawpers (Demi Demitro/Courtesy)

In his just-released collection, Don’t Call Us Dead, award-winning Minnesota poet Danez Smith examines both the anxiety and beauty of being non-white and queer in America today—a noteworthy, relevant choice to kick off BMI’s Emerging Writers Series. Free, Beverly Rogers Literature & Law Building, Room 101. RSVP at bit.ly/2w186S1. –Mike Prevatt (Photo by Daniel Schaefer/Courtesy)

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Communal Silent Savasana yoga has become Las Vegas’ unlikeliest craze BY C. MOON REED

year and a half ago, Laura Davidson was in a bad place. Her partner had cheated on her, and after moving out of his house, she was “pretty much homeless and broken.” Vowing not to fall into an abyss, she attended Silent Savasana. “I went there to be alone in a crowd, but everybody would say hi,” Davidson says. She fell in love with the warm, happy vibe of the free yoga experience, created by Las Vegans Kyle Markman and Dray Gardner. “In a city that’s supposed to be a sin, it’s a great outlet for everybody I know.” For Davidson, and hundreds of others like her, Silent Savasana is a social occasion. She arrives an hour early to socialize, then stays after for drinks at the casinos where the events are held. “It’s like a club that everybody can get in to,” she says. Spun off the technology that enabled the “silent disco” trend, Silent Savasana uses wireless headphones to transmit music and instruction to yogis. Gardner, the yoga instructor, leads the session, while a DJ spins music to match the moment. Through the intimacy of headphones, Gardner whispers words of wisdom into the ears of participants, like “love yourself enough to struggle.” Gardner’s focus on the mental aspects of yoga has obviously struck a chord with locals. In two years, the events have grown from about 20 participants per class to nearly 800, Markman says. “Most people look at yoga as a workout, so I try to focus on the work-in,” Gardner says. “We have to learn to love ourselves, learn to come to peace with the pains of our past.” September 14 at Green Valley Ranch, September 21 at Red Rock Casino, September 30 at Westgate & October 5 at Zappos; free (bring your own mat and water).

VEGAS EXTREME PARK GETS THE GO-AHEAD FROM CLARK COUNTY You know the drill: A developer announces an ambitious, drool-worthy attraction for Las Vegas—and then nothing happens. (Ahem, Mars World.) But it looks like something’s happening with the extreme/ water sports park proposed back in 2013. On September 6, the Clark County Commission approved a land use permit for the Vegas Extreme Park LLC project on a 130-acre

parcel of land at the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sunset Road (where the All-American Sports Park and TaylorMade golf course currently reside). Amenities will include a 15-story hotel/casino; lakes for cable wakeboarding, surf and whitewater rafting; indoor biking and skydiving; towers for rock climbing and bungee jumping; and ziplines. –Mike Prevatt

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DEFERRALS IN DANGER While DACA hangs in the balance, here’s what you can do BY LESLIE VENTURA

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Guests participate in a Silent Savasana session at Red Rock Resort. (Mikayla Whitmore/Staff)

THE WEEK IN WEED: HENDERSON JOINS THE PARTY

After sitting out the first few months of legal recreational cannabis in Nevada, Henderson will soon permit recreational sales, after the city council voted to lift a moratorium by a 3-2 margin. Five dispensaries in that city are now eligible to apply for recreational licenses and are expected to launch recreational sales sometime between October and December. “The citizens approved it, and we need to recognize that,” said Councilman Dan Shaw, who joined Debra March and Gerri Schroder on the yay side. John Marz, who voted nay along with Dan Stewart, said, “The jury’s still not out yet” on the effects of legalization. Also this week, correspondence from the state’s Legislative Counsel Bureau to state senator Tick Segerblom suggested the way could soon be cleared for commercial recreational marijuana lounges to open—provided city councils and county commissions approve the licensing. For more on both developments, visit lasvegassun.com. –LVW

The future of nearly 13,000 Nevadans is uncertain following President Donald Trump’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Children Arrivals (DACA) program. The Obama-era protections ensured nearly 800,000 immigrants—all under the age of 31 and with no criminal record—would be safe from deportation. The program will be phased out in March, leaving Congress six months to pass replacement legislation, after which many previously protected Nevadans would be candidates for deportation. “There is a lot of bipartisan support right now, so I think there’s definitely reason to be hopeful,” says Laura Barrera, a legal fellow with Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps. “But given other things we’ve seen this administration do and the anti-immigrant agenda, there’s really no way to know what’s going to happen.” People whose DACA status expires between now and March 5 have until October 5 to renew their forms, which will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis according to the Department of Homeland Security website. Once renewed, benefits are still valid for two years from the issue date. UNLV’s Boyd School of Law’s Immigration Law Society will host an informational session about DACA on Saturday, September 16, and the school is currently foregoing service fees for those who need assistance; however, the DACA renewal fee is $495 and cannot be waived. For many, that renewal fee is too costly. “That’s like a rent payment for some people,” says Laura Martin, the Associate Director at Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN). The nonprofit is currently taking donations to assist DACA beneficiaries with their renewal fees, but the best thing to do is to help families directly, Martin says. “If you know a Dreamer that will have a hard time paying [the fees], just give them the money.” Meanwhile, it will be increasingly important that constituents call their legislators over the next six months and make their voices heard, Barrera says. “DACA was about letting people live and work and support themselves, but that’s not their only value. These are people’s friends and neighbors. We should be hopeful about the possibility of legislation passing, but everyone needs to keep pushing their legislators to do something about it.”

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DEFORESTED Las Vegas won’t get Amazon’s second corporate headquarters— and that’s not a tragedy mazon is auditioning cities to host its second headquarters. “HQ2” will be equal in size to the online retailer’s current headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union (SLU) neighborhood, encompassing 8.1 million square feet and employing up to 50,000 people. Amazon’s list of requirements for HQ2 includes 100 acres of development-ready land that “foster[s] a sense of place” and is “pedestrianfriendly.” It needs to be in a city of 1 million-plus, be located no more than 45 minutes from an international airport, have access to mass transit and must be able to draw from “a highly educated labor pool.” As you might expect, Las Vegas answered Amazon’s request for proposals (through the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, EXTENDED who filed it on the RESIDENCY city’s behalf). North BY GEOFF Las Vegas threw its CARTER hand in as well. Before we get too excited, let’s acknowledge that Amazon won’t choose Vegas or NLV. The reasons why we’re not a viable contender are easy to understand, and I don’t want to dwell on them just now. Rather, I want to tell you about Seattle. I started work at The Seattle Times in 2002, when it was one of the few major employers located in South Lake Union. The neighborhood was half-asleep back then, moss-covered and populated by tweakers and prostitutes. (I kinda loved it.) But the city had begun to reclaim

South Lake Union with the idea of shaping it into a biotech hub. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen invested heavily in new office and residential space, and a streetcar line was built to connect the neighborhood to downtown proper. The biotech business never quite materialized in full, but Amazon did. The company found the key that Allen and the city had left and let themselves into South Lake Union, taking over all the available office space and building more. Not long after I left the Seattle Times, its owners sold the paper’s then 80-year-old headquarters to a condo developer, and that was that. The next time I met a friend at a restaurant in the neighborhood, I waded through a sea of Amazon badges, and an acquaintance who worked for the company, unaware that we were in a public establishment, asked me how I’d gotten in the door. The Amazon clubhouse was open. Seattle’s love/hate relationship with

Amazon has always been there, but lately the volume has been turned up. Amazon’s growth has sent housing prices ridiculously skyward (though some of that can be attributed to the city’s zoning codes, which make it costly and difficult to build high-rises) and has almost completely swamped the city’s once-idiosyncratic character. Longtime—in some cases, lifetime—residents of the city now tell me they want out. Amazon pushed Seattle too far, too fast—and that’s why the company is looking to place its HQ2 in another city. Amazon’s executives probably don’t relish the idea of commuting by air, but Seattle forced their hand. Las Vegas wouldn’t balk at a giant local employer doubling in size. It would simply raze a neighborhood or two and leave the key under the mat. But we’re not ready for Amazon. In making a guess where Amazon would land, The New York Times eliminated Vegas in the

first round: “Areas where job growth is strong.” Ouch. But even if Resorts World were hiring right now, we wouldn’t have cleared obstacle two: a large tech labor pool. The other obstacles—our lack of mass transit and “pedestrian-friendly” neighborhoods, and an overburdened airport—are purely superfluous. We’re just not there. We need to have this discussion now, however, because the eventual arrival of an Amazon-sized, non-gaming employer is inevitable. The state wants it; the county wants it; the cities want it. The question is, will we get ahead of the invasion? Will we fortify our schools, our infrastructure, our labor pool, our transit and our Valley’s innate character? Because I know this: A Las Vegas working at the top of its ability could not only take on these heavily-moneyed outsiders, but get a pile of cash out of them while making them feel like they belong here. Vegas’ clubhouse denies no one.

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MEET THREE LOCAL ARTISTS USING INSTAGRAM AS AN ONLINE ARTS DISTRICT BY GEOFF CARTER

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ontana Black didn’t understand Instagram at first. “[Creative business coach] RaShelle Roberts recommended it to me,” she says. “She suggested that I start posting my work there, saying what a great platform it is for artists to post their work. And she said that collectors and curators are actually looking for new artists on Instagram.” So Black began posting her art to her Instagram feed. Black isn’t exactly a new Vegas artist; she has done dozens of local gallery shows since 1990. But she approached her Instagram feed (@montanatblack) with the earnest enthusiasm of a new artist, posting a steady flood of her playful, exquisitely rendered pencil-and-gouache studies of animals, origami cranes and assorted Americana. Before long, a new fan commissioned her to do a pet portrait, so that part of the experiment paid off. But more significantly, Black began to enjoy browsing Instagram herself, using it to find “artists to be inspired by,” she says. “And I’ve

found several.” She’s not alone. Amongst the YOLO selfies, food photos and vacation shots, artists are beginning to find an Instagram foothold. It’s not an ideal platform for displaying art—crucial details are lost at phone size, and the service flatly rejects vertical works— but it is an easy gallery to browse, one that never closes. And it has inspired artists like Sean C. Jones, an illustrator who teaches middle school by day, to create much more work to meet demand. In fact, Jones is posting a new drawing to his Instagram feed (@seancjonesart) every single day. “At first, I was determined to do a drawing a day just for a year … and once I hit the year mark, I’d take a couple days off,” he jokes. Jones’ work varies from hyper-detailed pencil drawings to broad-lined, colorful 1950s comic book style illustrations, and he covers a wonderfully eccentric range of topics— everything from horror movies to local landmarks to Disneyland.

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The funny thing is, in a way, he’s doing it for the kids. “I started this because, for 20 years I’ve had my students make a daily drawing in class,” he says. “Monday through Friday, when they come in, I have the daily drawing written on the board— something like “Pizza Queen” or “The Magical World of Mr. Banana.” And while I’m taking roll and reading emails, they’re working on their daily drawing. … It’s the physical act of it. I don’t know why we consider drawing to be such a huge mental process. It’s more like a dancer stretching out before they do a show.” Drawing every day—and posting those drawings to Instagram—keeps Jones’ creative mind limber, while he waits for his turn on Vegas’ increasingly crowded gallery walls. (“I just gave up when Blackbird closed. And trying to get into the other galleries … there’s either a very long wait, or they want to charge you for the walls.”) But for Jska Priebe (@jskapriebe), Instagram

is something else: a container that catches the overspill of her enthusiasm. Whenever something gets Jska fired up—whether it’s text treatments or Twin Peaks: The Return—she makes it into art and posts it. “I’m really inspired by realism, but it takes a long time,” she says. “When I’m inspired I knock out an illustration, because it doesn’t take months to paint.” Priebe’s quick works look anything but. Her Twin Peaks series blends the show’s bizarre dialogue (“My log has a message for you”) into portraits of the characters who spoke it. Figuratively speaking, they’re wearing their hearts on their sleeves. And it’s something we might not have seen while the show was still airing, had Priebe waited to put these on a gallery wall. In fact, she used to run a gallery—the now-defunct Spectral, at Downtown Spaces—but she’s enjoying the freedom that Instagram affords. “Conveniently, people are into looking at art on their phones,” she says, laughing.

Montana Black (@montanatblack) Sean C. Jones (@seancjonesart) Jska Priebe (@jskapriebe)

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Las Vegas sounds a lot like the current Latin pop music craze By Brock Radke ight now my life is Versace and Vegas, and I’m not complaining,” Ricky Martin tells me. When he says Versace, he means his co-starring turn in the Ryan Murphy-helmed The Assassination of Gianni Versace, an installment of FX miniseries American Crime Story coming early next year. Édgar Ramirez plays Versace, Penélope Cruz portrays his sister Donatella and Martin plays his partner, Antonio D’Amico—his biggest acting gig yet. When he says Vegas, the Puerto Rican star is talking about his fiery production show All In, which just began its third run at the Park Theater on the Strip this week, perfectly timed for Mexican Independence Day and all the Latin tourists who’ll be partying in Vegas all weekend long. “The second time I was definitely more relaxed,” Martin says. “The critics were amazing, and that keeps your feet on the ground. But I think it’s very classy, and very complete in the sense that if you know my music, you will be pleased, and if you don’t, the production is so rich and the quality of the people I’m sharing the stage with is so high, it will feel good. At this point I feel at home, and it’s great.” Ricky Martin 2017 has been pretty great, but I want to talk about Ricky Martin 1999, when his self-titled U.S. breakthrough album and “Livin’ la Vida Loca” placed him at the front of the so-called Latin pop music explosion and made him an international star for the second time (he did it with Menudo as a teenager). I want him to tell me about that explosion—and the one starting to happen now. “Listen, man, if the slogan ‘Latin explosion’ is going to create some kind of curiosity for people who are not familiar with the culture, I say bring it on. I don’t have a problem with that,” he says. “I remember when I had the Time magazine cover and they wrote, ‘Latin goes pop’—back then I was like, come on, we’ve always had pop in Latin America. We’ve always been that. But if you need a hook, why not?”

It’s the hook from “Despacito”—the recent monster smash by another Puerto Rican artist, Luis Fonsi—that’s fueling the current Latin pop surge, one complemented not by English-adopting veterans like Martin, Enrique Iglesias and Christina Aguilera, but Spanish-performing up-and-comers such as J Balvin (“Mi Gente”), Maluma (“Felices Los 4”), Nicky Jam (“El Amante”) and Wisin (“Escápate Conmigo”), all ready to capitalize now that the language barrier has been broken. Their reggaeton-influenced, largely tropical sound refreshes an American pop scene that has been dominated for years by hip-hop and EDM-driven pop songs. Today’s building Latin pop movement is also being driven not by constant radio and MTV airplay, as it was in 1999 and 2000, but by smartphones and streaming. Spotify’s first Latin playlist, Baila Reggaeton, became the service’s second-most popular playlist globally within two years of its launch in 2013. Billboard reports that 25 percent of Pandora users in the United States identify as Latino—a population represented by nearly 60 million people in the U.S. alone—and access to the newest music has never been more widespread, so it’s no surprise that America is increasingly embracing this sound. “Despacito,” which also features post-millennium Puerto Rican breakout Daddy Yankee, topped Billboard’s Songs of the Summer chart. It sat at No. 1 on the Hot 100 for a record-tying 16 weeks; it’s the first Spanish-language No. 1 since novelty hit “Macarena” in 1996; and it’s the most streamed song of all time. An alternative version featuring Justin Bieber boosted its success in the States, but the original has more than 3 billion views on YouTube. Martin says he’s been reliving la vida loca watching Fonsi—also an established singer before his crossover hit—take the music world by storm. “I am enjoying this moment in music as much as he is. I’m very happy for what he’s going through at the moment, and the door is open for him to keep creating amazing music [that will bring] longevity in the Anglo world. He’s already known everywhere in the Latin world. This is his time.”

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Ricky Martin’s Las Vegas residency was recently profiled with a VH1 special. (Niño Muñoz/Courtesy)

Zaher Fakih has created a Vegas Latin music hub at Embassy Nightclub. (Wade Vandervort/Special to Weekly)

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onsi knows it, partially because he grew up watching Menudo, and because he watched Martin’s ascent. “Ricky is one of the biggest Latin artists in the world and the one I respect the most for what he’s done musically,” Fonsi says. “It’s a privilege and honor to be part of that fraternity of artists who have been able to sort of cross over.” “Despacito” made Fonsi a household name this summer in America, but he’s most proud of the natural way in which the song struck. “It’s not really crossing over, it’s just celebrating what we’ve always done in the same language and same way we’ve done it,” he says. “The fact that everything has happened in a very organic way has been the success of it. Daddy Yankee jumped in and kicked it up a notch. Justin Bieber heard the song in Colombia and jumped in and added another layer. We never really planned it to be this way, it’s just been so powerful that people want to be a part of it. And the crossover is not just to the United States audience, but in other countries where the culture is dramatically different, like Russia, Japan, China and India. It never ceases to surprise me. I think, how were we able to do this? I’m trying to figure it out so I can do it again.” Latin pop songs like “Desapacito,” “Mi Gente” and others are easily found in Las Vegas, clearly a pop music mecca where most major concerts roll down the Strip and the biggest hits get spun and performed in the hottest clubs every weekend, sometimes by the artists who made them. And it’s not just the new blood. Joining Martin among the current crop of superstar headlining Strip residents are Carlos Santana at the House of Blues and Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull with separate shows at the Axis. “And also on the Strip, you’ve got Bruno Mars, who’s half Puerto Rican, so you’ve got it from all angles,” Pitbull says. “To me the most important thing is that music is the universal language, but Latin culture and its music are infused with everything—European, African vibes, a little bit of everything. That’s where the hooks are right now, that’s the sound that’s been out so many years but is starting to take over. Especially with the access everyone has on the Internet, I feel there are no boundaries.” Las Vegas concerts from Latin performers are evolving the way country concerts did. The latter were once restricted to rodeo season on the Strip; they reached far beyond that years ago, and the MGM Resorts-anchored, three-day Route 91 Harvest festival has become an annual fall powerhouse. Some casino showrooms have consistently booked Mexican or Latin musicians for the coming holiday weekend, but traditionally everything has been built around a big fight, usually with a Mexican boxer competing. There’s a huge fight on Saturday—Saul “Canelo” Alvarez against Gennady Golovkin at T-Mobile Arena—complemented by Latin performers taking over practically every major live music venue in the tourist corridor (see sidebar).

“This is a Vegas story,” says Live Nation Las Vegas President Kurt Melien, booker of many of those shows. “There’s always been a big fight, but as the number of tourists continues to grow, there’s been an organic growth in the music. We started this probably 10 years ago with [second generation Mexican singer] Alejandro Fernández. He was doing it almost every year, and we just kept adding shows. This will be the biggest weekend of that period.” Fernández, Marc Anthony, Enrique Iglesias, Maná— many of this weekend’s acts could be described as legacy performers. But the genre’s young guns have already played Vegas this year: Fonsi kicked off the U.S. leg of his tour at the Palms last week; Maluma sold out the Cosmopolitan in March; Prince Royce played the Hard Rock Hotel in July; and J Balvin took over Mandalay Bay’s Beach in May. “There’s an incredible demand for this in Vegas,” Melien says. “At some point you’re not even sure if people are coming for the music or if people are just

here and they’re excited. But we know the demographic is more diversified and younger, and a bigger piece of the audience is local. We’re seeing this music fits the Vegas personality.” Other on-the-verge Latin artists like Bad Bunny and Karol G have found a home in Las Vegas at Embassy Nightclub, the Chinatown-adjacent hot spot where global sounds dominate the programming. “We’ve brought artists here in the past two years that would book stadiums in other countries, or acts that would normally come to town as a bundled group and fill up an arena,” says Embassy’s creator and operator, Zaher Fakih. “But we bring them in monthly or even weekly. You can see that the Strip is realizing this corner of the music world can actually bring money to the casinos.” Embassy’s methods have been adopted by Drai’s After Hours nightclub at the Cromwell, which recently transformed its house music room into the Reggaeton Room several nights every week (with

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Embassy’s assistance). “There are so many different types of music under that label—salsa, merengue, cumbia, bachata ... it’s really the pop and reggaeton getting the attention,” Fakih says. “But we have [succeeded] by mixing it up [with] live bands, old-school [mainstream pop] nights that include Latin genres, Cuban artists, tropical beats, Mexican regional nights. It’s a strong and beautiful clientele.” I knew how strong that audience could be, but when I saw Ricky Martin’s show at Park Theater, I was stunned by the rush of energy when he started singing his Spanish hits. The crowd went wild when he opened with “Livin’ la Vida Loca,” but it absolutely erupted for “Lola, Lola” and “Vente Pa’ Ca.” “It really doesn’t matter what language,” Martin says. “At the end of the day, it’s those drums and those sounds. No matter where you’re from, you react. Something magical is happening.”

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In addition to Strip residents Jennifer Lopez (September 15 & 16, Axis at Planet Hollywood), Ricky Martin (September 15 & 16, Park Theater at Monte Carlo) and Santana (September 15-17, House of Blues at Mandalay Bay), Las Vegas is crammed with Latin music stars for Día de la Independencia. The Cosmopolitan has Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona (September 15) and multiple Grammy winner Pepe Aguilar (September 16) at the Chelsea. Marc Anthony brings his Full Circle tour to the Mandalay Bay Events Center (September 16) the night after a show from Mexican composer, producer and singer Marco Antonio Solís. Panamanian actor and pop singer Miguel Bosé brings his unique style to the Pearl at the Palms (September 15) while Mexican balladeer Emmanuel’s The Hits tour lands at Wynn’s Encore Theater (September 15-16). Vegas fave Alejandro Fernández takes over T-Mobile Arena (September 15) and crossover star Enrique Iglesias plays the Colosseum (September 15-16), with the Caesars venue also hosting Latin pop-legend team-up Gloria Trevi and Alejandra Guzmán (September 14 & 17). And wildly popular Mexican rock outfit Maná takes the MGM Grand Garden Arena stage (September 15).

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still honoring his pop past. The dance anthem “Se Que Te Duele” finds him joining forces with Colombian group Morat, while lead single “Quiero Que Vuelvas” finds the 46-year-old singer’s silky voice in more familiar form on an upbeat, guitar-heavy ballad. Those are just two of the hits and song styles Fernández could incorporate into his annual Vegas mega-show Friday night, where he typically divides the concert evenly between traditional and contemporary material. To say his fans appreciate both sides would be an understatement. Alejandro Fernández at T-Mobile Arena, September 15.

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happen like this, but it’s fascinating and awesome. People just link up because they’re all fans, and that’s cool. Do you think it has to do with the style of music or the Dirtybird DJs’ willingness to get out from behind the booth and interact with fans? It even goes to our [Dirtybird Campout] festival where we play all the games with the fans and we are out on the dancefloor. I think it comes from the artists. It’s not just the music. I think it’s just the way we are. If people meet you on the dancefloor, should they call you Claude or Barclay? [Laughing] It depends on if they’re at a Claude or Barclay show! I answer to both.

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he champ is back. Mike Tyson recently debuted a new version of his one-man stage show, Undisputed Truth: Round 2, at Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club, sharing new stories from his life beyond the ring. Iron Mike has kept busy with his new podcast, Bite the Mic, and the continuing cartoon saga Mike Tyson Mysteries, but he revealed new projects when we caught up with him recently. What was it like getting back on the stage? It felt good, a little different telling these stories. It’s all new, so I was just happy that it turned out all right for the first time. It’s completely different, and we’re still tweaking it since it’s so new, trying to get it perfected. How do you like performing at the comedy club versus other larger venues where you’ve done Undisputed Truth?

I feel real comfortable being up there. Normally it’s big stadiums and big stages, so it’s awesome that this is so intimate. On the big stage I’m running around a lot across the stage, wearing me out. How did you choose which stories to include? There are ones that you might not think are interesting until you hear it. It’s a bunch of funny stuff in this show, more humor. I talk about the fight I was supposed to promote with Chris Brown and Soulja Boy, and they thought that was pretty funny. Have you ever thought about promoting real boxing? Not my style. Boxing’s in the past. Do you think the Mayweather-McGregor fight was good for the sport? It

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outhside Chicago hiphop artist Sir the Baptist grew up playing piano and drums and singing in his father’s church choir, then graduated to writing commercial jingles as a teenager, which probably pushed him toward his next pursuit, advertising. As director of digital marketing for the Leo Burnett Agency, Sir worked on major brand campaigns and alongside music industry figures like producer Rodney Jerkins, until at age 26 he decided to get out of the business and into music full-time. He briefly supported the later career by driving for Lyft. “Raise Hell,” his first single, was nominated as Impact Track of the Year at the 2016 BET Awards, bolstered by its appearance on the soundtrack for Birth of a Nation. Sir played Bonnaroo, Sasquatch, Voodoo Fest and Lollapalooza last year and performed “Raise Hell” on Late Night With Seth Meyers.

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He signed with Atlantic Records last spring and in May released debut album Saint or Sinner, hailed as a blend of gospel and hip-hop with inflections of doo-wop, jazz, reggae and soul. His savvy approach to brand-building and his ability to blend disparate influences might make Sir the Baptist the quintessential artist to represent the spirit of the Emerge Music + Impact Conference, at which he’ll perform in Las Vegas in November. Sir seemed destined for big musical things from the beginning, and Emerge will see him take his next big steps.

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In addition to Layla’s treatment menu, the salon offers complimentary yoga classes every month, there’s a speed-dating event coming up in November and customers can join a salon book club that meets every three months. “A social salon is your everything salon,” Libson says. “It’s a lifestyle.” The Zimbabwe-born hair stylist got her first pair of scissors a decade ago, but it was her role as the assistant manager at Downtown’s Globe Salon that got her interested in running her own business. “Those two years I spent with James [Reza] and Staci [Linklater], they really carved the way for how I was going to go about my career,” Libson says. Since then, she’s become a Paul Mitchell national educator, and she’s built Layla (also her middle name) from the ground up. Libson still gets behind the chair three times a week, but she’s now focused on running the business and teaching her team the latest cutting-edge techniques. “When I get excited about hair, it’s education,” Libson says. “I love all the trends, I love the ombre, I love the unicorn hair. But my favorite part about it is being able to see it, learn it—then teach it and share it.” Layla: A Social Salon, 7865 W. Sahara Ave., 702336-6886. –Leslie Ventura

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Things get serious in round two, where rich chicken croquetas, deepfried salted cod with honey aioli, and the spicy potato-covered favorite patatas bravas await. Pro tip: Go for the mini pepito de Iberico, a Spanishstyle slider that features the legendary Iberico pig in two ways: a juicy mini patty and crisp bacon. It’s a few small, sumptuous bites you’ll never forget. Hopefully you’ve saved room for the final course, which ranges from garlicky gambas al ajillo to grilled Catalan pork sausage to salmon with pisto Manchego to grilled hanger steak with escabeche.

No matter their size, these dishes explode with big flavors, exactly what you’d expect at a José Andrés restaurant. And since you’ve just taken advantage of one of the best lunch deals on the Strip, maybe you’ll come back for dinner. Jaleo at the Cosmopolitan, 702-698-7950; lunch daily noon-4 p.m. –Brock Radke

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Less of a secret are the fresh, original craft cocktails that splash brightness all over the Mandarin Bar experience. The Golden Leaf, aka Mandarin Martini, muddles oranges with fresh pineapple and lime juices, Hendricks gin, Aperol and simple syrup. The Golden Knights, a tribute to Las Vegas’ new NHL team playing nearby at T-Mobile Arena, is made with Toki Suntory whiskey, Sip Smith gin, Yellow Chartreuse and ginger syrup. But without question the drink to get right now is the Southern Punch, with toasted pecan-infused whiskey, white rum, mandarin, lime, passion fruit and basil syrup. Fifty percent of the

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hen you watch a spectacle like O at Bellagio, you’re not going to catch every detail. There’s simply too much going on. No one knows that better than the show’s artistic director, Ria Martens.

she is; that’s the only way to create all those wows. “To me it’s all about the growth of the artist, the team being together and moving in one direction,” she says. “I need to push and be engaged and give that fire to everybody, because you’ll see it onstage.”

“I’ve been here now for eight months, and I watch the whole show a few times a week,” she says. “There are still so many times when I just think, wow. It’s amazing that almost 20 years ago they thought of these transitions and the lighting and the water, and it’s all just so beautiful. What I like to do with the artists when I can is rotate them out so they can see, because it’s so different for them to be in there and then [step out] and be able to see it all. They’re so proud. And that’s what you need.”

Born in Belgium, Martens has been with Cirque du Soleil for 20 years and in Las Vegas since 2004. She began her career in the arts under legendary jazz dance educator Lynn Simonson and spent many years trekking the world as a teacher herself. She first began working for Cirque on its touring production Alegría, which kept her traveling for seven more years.

It’s Martens’ job to keep O’s artists and crew just as driven and passionate as

By the time she landed in Las Vegas, she was ready to “put away the suitcase” and dig into a permanent resident production. She has moved around, from Mystère to Zumanity to helping create

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Criss Angel: Believe, then back to Zumanity for a refresh and finally, this year, to O. The varying content and collaboration keeps things new, and working with so many different people from different parts of the world is probably her favorite element of the job. “It’s a challenge to stay fresh and not go on automatic, but part of my job is to make sure that doesn’t happen. You have to change little things so everyone pays attention and keeps learning. There are so many amazing [artists], and without them I would get bored. It’s really fun.” –Brock Radke

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9/14 Lil Yachty. 9/15 Catfish & The Bottlemen. 9/16 Bob Saget. 9/20 The Magpie Salute. 9/23 Danzig. 9/24 Metal Alliance Tour. 9/28 Motionless in White. 9/29 Make America Rock Again. 9/30 Andrew W.K. 10/1 The Green. 10/4 Chronixx. 10/5 Post Malone. 10/6 Jon Bellion. 10/12 Father John Misty. 10/13 The Church. 10/20 Run the Jewels. 10/21 In This Moment. 10/25 Azealia Banks. 10/26 Flying Lotus. 10/27-10/28 Trey Anastasio Band. 11/1 Capturing Pablo. 11/5 I Prevail. 11/10 Common Kings. 11/11 The Front Bottoms. 11/16-11/18 Emerge Music + Impact Conference. 11/22 Periphery & Animals as Leaders. 11/30 Wax Tailor. 12/3 Shaggy. 12/7 Chris Robinson Brotherhood. 12/14 The Drums. 12/16 Descendents. Linq Promenade, 702-862-2695.

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9/21 Banda Los Recoditos. 9/29 Sublime with Rome & The Offspring. 10/21 Odesza. 200 S. Third St., 800-745-3000.

9/15 Marco Antonio Solis. 9/16 Marc Anthony. 10/14 Janet Jackson. 10/22 Arcade Fire. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7777.

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9/15-9/16 Joe Weider’s Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend. 10/20 Andre Rieu. 10/21 Old School Party Jam. 10/27 Harlem Globetrotters. 11/23-11/24 Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational. 11/25 PJ Masks Live. Orleans, 702-365-7469.

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Pole Position Chris Rock once said fathers have but one job: keeping their daughters off the pole. The comedian might feel differently if he caught the display of human flexibility—female and male—that defined last week’s Las Vegas Pole Expo at the Hard Rock Hotel … or he might not. Regardless, we were there with a camera, and you can catch up on all the body-twisting action with our photo gallery at lasvegasweekly.com. (Photographs by Mikayla Whitmore/Staff)

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The Haus’ 14th-annual Oktoberfest runs September 15-October 31 with live music, celeb keg tappers and the same Oktoberfestbier served in Munich. 4510 Paradise Road, 702-853-2337.

An September 13 bash— bringing together special German and U.S. brews and bites like schnitzel and weisswurst—kicks off Oktoberfest at this beer lovers’ hub. Tuscany, 702-944-5084.

On September 17, Sam Adams presents an Oktoberfest party with local band Oompoporama, a stein-hoisting battle, authentic eats and lots of beer. Linq Promenade, 702-862-2695.

Oktoberfest at the Park doesn’t start until the 28th (through October 1), but the brats and endless suds at its beer hall are a yearround thing. The Park, 702-692-2337

Food specials like the “foie grat” bratwurst and Oktoberfestinspired beers take over Libertine September 16-October 3. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7558. –Brock Radke

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A mother of a movie Darren Aronofsky’s bold Mother! is one of 2017’s best films By Mike D’Angelo

ven by the manic standards of Darren Aronofsky—director of such exercises in escalating insanity as Pi, Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan—the emphatically titled Mother! constitutes one hell of a freakout. Set entirely in a rustic house seemingly located in the middle of nowhere, the film stars Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem as a pointedly unnamed married couple who, at first, are perfectly content in each other’s company. He’s a poet who’s been suffering from writer’s block; she’s focusing most of her energy on renovating the house, which had previously burned to the ground. A knock on the door disturbs their cozy cocoon, though the poet seems unusually eager to welcome this stranger (Ed Harris), inviting him to stay the night. Soon, the couple is also hosting the stranger’s wife (Michelle Pfeiffer, giving her juiciest performance in years) and their two adult sons (Domhnall and Brian Gleeson). Strange noises

are heard, and bizarre visions appear. The woman Really, it doesn’t much matter which theory watches, aghast, as this family of interlopers you favor, as the movie’s main attraction is its casually takes over the house, treating her with deranged chutzpah. What initially appears to be insolence bordering on contempt. No sooner does a vaguely creepy chamber drama gradually builds she manage to get them out than she and builds and builds until it achieves a discovers that she’s pregnant. And that’s level of frenetic chaos that almost beggars aaaab when things really get weird … belief—all without ever leaving the house. Mother! Aronofsky isn’t striving for subtlety Aronofsky keeps the camera close and tight Jennifer here—Mother! is pure metaphor, and on Lawrence, who gives a performance Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris. unlike anything she’s ever done before; any viewer with some basic biblical Directed by knowledge will tumble to what’s going she’s not playing a human being so much Darren Aronofsky. on before the film is half over. For all as an idea (literally, in one interpretation), Rated R. Opens Friday citywide. its blatant allusions to the Pentateuch, and delivers expressionistic embodiments though, this stark, crazed morality play is of beatitude, then consternation, then fury. remarkably open to interpretation. The Viewers who go into Mother! expecting a ordeal suffered by Lawrence’s character mirrors traditional, psychologically plausible narrative will the story of creation, but it can also credibly be wind up feeling cheated, even trolled, as it slowly read as a lecture on the dangers of climate change, metamorphoses into an unrepentant art film. The or as an exposé of the hassles involved in dating a adventurous, however, will ride this demented celebrity, or (most profitably) as a treatise on the whirlwind with whoops of glee. It’s as boldly cannibalistic, egocentric nature of artistic creation. unhinged as any studio film in recent memory.

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Crime of the century American Vandal smartly sends up the truecrime genre

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New spy, old tricks American Assassin relies on outdated thrills

ner movies) as a poor man’s Jack Bauer. A lone wolf who doesn’t play by the rules, Rapp is more interested in getting revenge for the death of his fiancée during a terrorist attack than he is in solving geopolitical conflicts. The late Vince Flynn wrote 13 novels about His mentor/commander Stan Hurley (Michael superspy Mitch Rapp, building a dedicated fan Keaton, on autopilot) tries to keep him in line, following that helped bring Rapp to but of course it’s Rapp’s brutal (and toaaccc tally illegal) tactics that actually save the the big screen with the origin story American American Assassin. But whatever drew day. The plot about a rogue agent (Taylor Assassin fans to Rapp doesn’t seem to have Kitsch) stealing a nuclear bomb is generic Dylan O’Brien, made the transition to the movies, as and climaxes with a clichéd ticking clock, Michael Keaton, Sanaa Lathan. Assassin is a generic, outdated action and O’Brien, even all muscled up, still Directed by thriller with clunky dialogue, oneexudes too much of a petulant-teen vibe. Michael Cuesta. dimensional characters and mediocre It’s hard to Rated R. Opens Friday citywide. action. Flynn worked as a consultant imagine on 24, and Assassin director Michael this verCuesta helmed multiple episodes of sion of Rapp Homeland, and the movie comes across like a having the same endurknockoff of those two espionage series, with ing appeal as his prose Rapp (played by Dylan O’Brien of the Maze Runcounterpart. –Josh Bell

Produced by comedy website Funny or Die, the Netflix series American Vandal initially seems like it would have just enough material for one of that site’s short videos: It’s a parody of true-crime documentary series, in which a high school student launches a serious effort to clear the name of a classmate expelled from school for vandalism. “Who drew the dicks?” is the show’s faux-haunting tagline, and it’s funny to see the tactics of popular Netflix shows like Making a Murderer and The Keepers applied to such an absurd, low-stakes crime. But is it funny enough to sustain an eight-episode series? The answer, surprisingly, is mostly yes, and that’s a testament to the cleverness and skill of creators Tony Yacenda (who directs all eight episodes) and Dan Perrault, along with their talented cast of largely unknown young actors, who wholeheartedly commit to the ridiculous premise. This is a show that devotes a good 15 minutes to a painstaking forensic investigation of whether one teenager gave another teenager a hand job at summer camp. Yacenda and Perrault create such an unexpectedly engrossing mystery that the eventual muddled resolution is a bit underwhelming, and sometimes the jokes get lost in the intricate details. Over the course of eight episodes, the show develops an impressive range of believable teenage characters, and as silly as the story can be, it’s the grounded reality of the show’s world that makes it funny. –Josh Bell

aaacc AMERICAN VANDAL Season 1 available September 15 on Netflix.

From left: Ryan Patrick, Brian Medeiros, Adrian Patrick and Tony Carboney of Otherwise. (Hristo Shindov/Courtesy)

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OTHERWISE with Gemini Syndrome, Honor Amongst Thieves. September 15, 7 p.m., $20-$35. Vinyl, 702693-5000.

BROTHERS IN ROCK VEGAS SIBLING HARD ROCKERS OTHERWISE RETURN WITH A NEW ALBUM AND A HOMETOWN SHOW BY JOSH BELL

ADRIAN ON THE VIBE OF THE NEW ALBUM:

rothers Adrian Patrick (vocals) and Ryan Patrick (guitars) have been the core of Las Vegas hard rock band Otherwise for more than a decade now. Along with new bandmates Tony Carboney (bass) and Brian Medeiros (drums), the Patricks are getting ready to release Otherwise’s third Century Media Records album, Sleeping Lions, on September 22. In advance of the record’s release, they’ll headline a hometown show at Vinyl on September 15.

For a long time, my brother and I, with the past records, with signing a deal and winning all those band battles, we wanted to prove all the haters wrong, shove it in their face. But now on this album, so many things have changed in life—I’m a father now—and we’ve changed our own mind-set, and we want to prove all those people, like the city of Las Vegas, who’ve believed in us from day one—we want to prove all you guys right.

RYAN ON THE BAND’S NEW LINEUP: Now at this point, where we’re a nationally known band at the brink of international success, these guys came in and surely have created a synergy for my brother and I that is going to take us to that international platform. There’s not so much ego. We have guys who want to be musicians and artists more so than rock stars, and there’s a big difference, as we’ve learned from working with a lot of different so-called “artists” from Las Vegas.

RYAN ON CO-WRITING ”SLEEPING LIONS” WITH KORN’S JONATHAN DAVIS: That was just kind of like a blessing from the cosmos. It kind of came out of left field. We were writing the record, and we get a call from management, saying, “Hey, you guys are going to need to take a day off from the studio.” We’re like, why? It’s like a Wednesday. We’re in the flow; we need to keep rolling. They’re like, “Yeah, Jonathan Davis of Korn wants to do a co-write. So take the day off, go to Bakersfield and write with him.”

ADRIAN ON CROWDFUNDING PLATFORM PLEDGEMUSIC: Really, PledgeMusic is what kept us going throughout 2016. We were doing our From the Roots acoustic residency at Sunset Station, and without that crowdfunding platform, it would have been difficult for us to keep the lights on without touring. The cool thing about it is that the artists have complete control of what they can offer to the fans. When you see how the fans react, it’s incredibly reassuring, because they’re literally our lifeblood.

ADRIAN ON FELLOW VEGAS BAND IMAGINE DRAGONS: It’s wild, because that year before we signed our deal, we were doing dual headlining shows with Imagine Dragons. We were like the two big unsigned bands in Vegas. Obviously those guys went on to stratospheric success. The thing that kind of took the sting out of that a little bit for us is that those guys are really cool, and they’re really good.

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‘Bulls’ on parade Together Pangea frontman William Keegan talks new album and underground Vegas By Leslie Ventura t’s rare that a rising, touring indie band gets an outpouring of support from Las Vegans, but when Together Pangea played its first show here on Halloween night 2015, the Griffin reached capacity hours before the LA four-piece was set to go on. Now, the group is back on the road supporting its fourth full-length, Bulls and Roosters, and stops at the Bunkhouse on September 16. The Weekly caught up with vocalist/guitarist William Keegan, now 32, to talk about the new record and getting older—but not necessarily more mature. Your new album marks a bit of a sonic departure from 2014’s Badillac. Did the band do anything particularly different to achieve the new sound? It was a lot more minimal. We went in and recorded almost everything live. This album is a lot closer to how it would sound when we play it live. There’s a lot less distortion—cleaner guitars and stuff. It’s in general just kind of a chiller album, less angry. Lyrically what kind of themes does Bulls and Roosters explore? There’s sort of a recurring theme of getting older, which makes sense—we’re all doing that all the

time. It’s a focus on getting older without necessarily maturing. I guess we’ve chilled out a little, but we’re still sort of immature. “Peach Mirror” has some lyrics about feeling a little bit more freedom when I was younger and getting a little bit more cautious about things as I get older. I think maybe the album sounds more cautious in general. When Together Pangea first played Las Vegas you sold out the Griffin for Halloween. Did you expect that kind of turnout? Not really. We didn’t know what to expect. At the Griffin you play on the floor with the crowd, and I always like that—you just kind of wade into people. We were stoked that people came out. I hadn’t spent much time in Vegas, and I didn’t know there was a lot of underground art stuff there. The last time we played there we went out afterwards and started getting to know the art-centric part of the city. I’d like to do that again.

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ou might not recognize a ton of names on the inaugural Emerge Music + Impact Conference lineup—and that’s by design; this festival’s about new discoveries and rising stars—but serious music fans will know the names Henry Rollins and Britt Daniel. On Tuesday, the punk-rock icon and the Spoon frontman joined the growing list of confirmed participants for Emerge, the three-day gathering set to take over stages on and near the Las Vegas Strip November 16-18. Rollins—the 56-year-old former vocalist for SoCal punk outfit Black Flag, leader of the Rollins Band and outspoken columnist for LA Weekly—has signed on as a speaker, fitting given his extensive experience as a touring spokenword artist. “All of us are really geeked out about [Rollins],” Emerge talent buyer Mike Henry says. “He’s was at the forefront of a musical movement, and to this day he’s interested in all kinds of stuff from all over the globe. It just feels right that he’s gonna be here. He’ll speak and host one of our

bigger shows.” Daniel, 46, is serving as an Emerge curator, joining the likes of The Killers, Imagine Dragons, Kaskade and ex-My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way in that lineup-selecting capacity. “I think Britt is one of the greatest working songwriters in rock music,” Henry says. “And over the years Spoon has stayed relevant and right on point with what’s happening in indie rock and pop music.” Emerge also unveiled 50 additional music acts, bringing its total to 80, with the final 20 set to be revealed next month. Among the new additions are Baltimore indie rockers Lower Dens, Louisville power-pop band White Reaper, 18-year-old Portland singer-songwriter Grace Mitchell, Detroit electronic/pop artist Quinn XCII, LA punk outfit The Regrettes and LA-based hip-hop MC Open Mike Eagle. The latest batch joins previously confirmed names like K.Flay, Beach Slang, Mondo Cozmo and L.A. Witch. “It’s all about discovery—the event will be about discovery for people attending, and I’ve

also been discovering,” Henry says. “Last night I was making a new Emerge Spotify playlist, and there are so many great songs in there from so many different genres.” The new music additions also include four Las Vegas acts: rapper Ekoh, singer-songwriter Brittany Rose, post-punk foursome Dark Black and soul singer Sabriel. Already announced from the host city: The Lique and Mercy Music. “There are so many great bands in this town, and I would love to be able to include all of them, but for this particular event we were looking for something intangible,” Henry says. “We see each of these artists as ready to take the next step.” Along with Rollins, the latest batch of Emerge speakers includes Radiolab producer Simon Adler, author Rick Smolan, slam poets Anis Mojgani and Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, fatherdaughter beatboxing duo Nicole Paris and Ed Cage and Clark County poet laureate Vogue Robinson. For a complete list of participating acts and curators, visit emergelv.com.

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Huckabees, there are entire new generations of women ou’ve always played strong, independent women. that know you now. I’ve been here all the time, so I’m not Which of your characters have you related to aware of that gap so much, but I’m always thrilled when the most? You know, I feel like somehow they’re 20-year-olds come up to me and say, “My mother and I love all some part of me. I don’t know any other way Grace and Frankie so much.” When I did Admission with to play them or to do them or to be them or to think Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, all they could talk about was The about them. … I’ve been in show business a long Incredible Shrinking Woman and 9 to 5, and all they LILY time, and they just call upon me to come up with wanted to know was, how did you shoot Shrinking TOMLIN what I’ve experienced or what I know. Or maybe Woman? I was so dumbfounded, because I feel like September I haven’t experienced it firsthand, but I’ve talked I’m their contemporary—but I’m not. 16, 2 p.m., to plenty of people who have. I just am keyed into What else can we expect from your show $29-$85. Reynolds women’s experiences. After all, I am a woman. in Las Vegas? It’s a little stand-up, it’s a little Hall, 702When you look at your work on Grace and storytelling. I like to think of it as a roller coaster 749-2000. Frankie, what are you most proud of? I like the ride—you don’t know when the next drop is comway Jane [Fonda] and I work together. We’re old, ing. I like to be able to switch and go anywhere, old friends. I have great affection for her, and everylike film cuts, even though it’s on the stage … body seems to respond to the chemistry we have. That’s always attracted me to that kind of live perforYour characters have resonated with generations of mance. You can take the audience anywhere if you can people. My mom and my aunts grew up on Ernestine fulfill it and make them believe it. and Edith Ann from Laugh-In. One time I was doing I read that one time when you were in Las Vegas, your The Tonight Show, and I’m walking down the hall and partner, Jane, got punched by a little girl. Oh, she did! one of the greatest signers of all time, Ella Fitzgerald, In fact, I told that to Paul Weitz, who directed Grandma, comes out of the dressing room and sees me and screams and he put it into the film. for her cousin, “Get out here! It’s Ernestine!” It was just really surreal. For more of our interview with Tomlin, With Grace and Frankie and Grandma and I Heart visit lasvegasweekly.com.

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ou can judge barbecue however you wish, but I do it by brisket and ribs. They’re my favorite meats among the standards (which also include pulled pork, chicken and sausage), but they’re also the most challenging to perfect. Literally anyone can slow-cook a nice pork butt into fall-apart tenderness ready to be slathered with sauce. Ribs are much less forgiving, and bad-ass brisket requires scientific knowledge, a degree in smoke-ology. And if I’m only eating brisket and ribs, I’m going to Sin City Smokers. You can get both in a combo with one side ($16) and put them to the test, but you’ll find the ribs are rich and smoky, not too soft and in no need of extra flavor by sauce, and the brisket is just fatty enough, moist and tender with a thin layer of savory bark. You can get these or other delicious meats in various forms, ranging from $7 to $16: as a sandwich or two flour tortilla tacos, on top of a salad or Bad Ass Fries, stuffed into a quesadilla, or by the pound to share or take home. I’d recommend brisket fries ($11), a mountain of shoestrings, baked beans, cheese, corn salsa, sweet barbecue sauce and sriracha ranch dressing. Sin City Smokers, which has been racking up competition trophies for more than 10 years but just opened its first restaurant in Green Valley in January, is the creation of longtime Vegas hospitality pro Steve Overlay, formerly the pitmaster at Memphis Championship BBQ. His expertise is evident in the details, including sides ($2) that are as flavorful and interesting as the meaty mains. The five-cheese “smack-a-roni,” jalapeño-tinged potato salad and creamy coleslaw are particularly perfect accompaniments. There are signature sandwiches that jump off the menu, like the Whole Hog ($10) teaming pork, ham and bacon, and the Porkstar ($8.99), forcing that mac and smoky chopped pork into a grilled cheese. Daily specials are also tempting, like Louisiana-style red beans and rice ($8) on Monday, barbecue tamales ($7) covered in pork, cheese and Fritos on Tuesday, and Big Daddy Mac ($9) topped with fried jalapeños and burnt ends on Thursday. Let’s just go every day.

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Rainbow tile and sausage sandwiches The charming Zenaida’s Cafe brings back the days of the diner

The Monte Cristo sandwich is a throwhearty food in the mornings and afternoons, like back, a cheesy, sweet and savory structure baked-daily cinnamon rolls with fresh berries you could once find on every casino coffee ($6), country biscuits and sausage gravy ($9) and a shop menu. It’s much less present these recent steak and eggs special featuring tri-tip days, which is why I’ll usually order it when Zenaida’s medallions, crispy hash browns and Swedish Cafe I see it—even at Zenaida’s Cafe, where gravy ($15). 3430 E. it’s called the Sausage Monte Christo Lunch is just as satisfying, from nacho fries Tropicana Ave., 702($10) and bares zero resemblance to the ($9) to a mighty BLT with avocado on a toasted 476-3117. sandwich I recall. This one is a breakfast Italian roll ($10). Even the lighter stuff is big Wednesbeast that will keep you full all day—a soft day-Sunday, and bold, like a cilantro ranch cobb salad with 8 a.m.baguette with a fried egg, jalapeño jack tons of chicken and slab bacon ($12) or a qui3 p.m. cheese, fried spicy house-made chicken noa burger on naan bread with vegan cheese sausage, a thick slab of ham and zesty aioli. and greens tossed in lime vinaigrette ($11). Zenaida’s Cafe is a throwback, with Zenaida’s food has character to spare, and its own unique style. This eastside diner with a that’s what you want from your neighborhood diner. rainbow-tiled floor, art-for-sale on the walls and The old-school charm comes compliments of the a funky jazz soundtrack is dishing up some truly house. –Brock Radke

The always-interesting food journey of Jolene Mannina continues. The steakhouse server-turnedfood trucker-turned-kickass event planner has been spending all her time helping build Urban Seed, the revolutionary urban farming project that could turn our crazy desert into a sustainable food leader. But she still loves to throw a party. Mannina has revived the Back of House Brawl, the rowdy and ridiculously fun afterhours chef battle that began six years ago at Tommy Rocker’s Bar & Grill and evolved into Late Nite Chef Fight, which ran for two seasons on the FYI network. But the new brawls are not made for TV. “It’s just a straight-up community event,” she says. “But we’ll live-stream it.” The first of six events takes place Saturday at Sparrow + Wolf, pitting Momofuku’s Shaun King against China Poblano’s Ricardo Heredia in a battle of Cosmopolitan chefs. As in the good old days, there’ll be food trucks serving at 10 p.m. until the competition starts around 1 a.m. October’s event moves to Urban Seed, November’s will be at the Sand Dollar Lounge and the brawl will pick up again in March, April and May. “It’s just fun,” Mannina says. “I’m still very engaged with chefs through Urban Seed, and it just makes sense. What’s really cool this time around is there are so many local chefs participating, where before it was all Strip chefs.” Naked City Pizza’s Chris Palmeri, Carson Kitchen’s John Courtney, Goodwich’s Josh Clark and Evel Pie’s Vincent Rotolo are all set to duke it out. “It’s fun to intertwine the different communities. And people were asking for it.” Give the people what they want. –Brock Radke

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Transylvania mania Super Summer Theatre’s Young Frankenstein positively electrifies BY C. Moon Reed young American escapes his dark family legacy only to be swept back into the fold— we’ve all been there. But for most of us, the family business doesn’t involve reanimating corpses or terrifying Transylvanian villagers. Welcome to Young Frankenstein, Super Summer Theatre’s 2017 season-ender. It’ll pump you up for Halloween with campy comedy, strong performances and perhaps a few scares. When the 2007 musical debuted on Broadway, chief New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley gave a party pooper of a review, likening the show to “an overblown burlesque revue, right down to its giggly smuttiness.” Okay, wait—in what world is being “bawdy, bouncy and colorful” a bad thing? Perhaps in dreary New York, but it seems perfect for local sensibilities! Brantley warns readers that the show “does not provide $450 worth of pleasure” (ticket prices reflected the production’s $16 million budget.) Likely so. But Young Frankenstein sure does provide $15 worth of pleasure. Hell, round it up to $20, to include

chair rental and a trip to the concession stand ... still, Korin does double duty as Inspector Kemp and the totally worth it. In terms of a pleasure-to-price ratio, lonely, blind Hermit. this may be the best deal in town. Young FrankenThe three female leads are a triple threat; they can stein is one of the few plays that actually works better sing, dance and act with aplomb. Alison Leigh plays with a smaller budget—expensive sets and costumes the buxom blonde Inga (that hayride scene!). Anita don’t add much to the storyline or the silliness. Bean plays the stern housekeeper Frau Blucher. And The original 1974 film, by Mel Brooks and the late Amanda Kraft gives a showstopping performance as Gene Wilder, spoofed Old Hollywood Dr. Frankenstein’s party-loving fiance (her AAAAC horror films. The funny thing about song “Please Don’t Touch Me” was one of Young this type of comedy is that it actually the night’s most memorable moments. Frankenstein requires the most skill. Actors need Finally, a note to the venerable folks at Through September timing, precision and agility to pull off Super Summer Theatre. Everybody under23, Thursdaythe gags. Anything less will elicit groans. Saturday, 7 p.m., $15. stands outdoor venues are weather-depenSpring Mountain And this cast excels all the way down to dent and monsoon season is unpredictable. Ranch State Park, the ensemble, which offers tight dancing But now that the Internet exists, there’s 702-579-7529. (cheers to dance captain Monica Johns). no reason for theatergoers to be driving Adam Dunson is stellar as reluctant through windy mountain roads in the rain mad scientist Dr. Frederick Frankenstein. The Las only to be turned away at the door because there’s no Vegas Academy alumnus toes the line between chanother way to know if the show is cancelled. If you’re neling Wilder (the film’s Frankenstein) and creating rained out, don’t wait to alert social media or update the role anew. Anthony Barnaby shines as Igor, the that outgoing voice message. Fortunately, this show demented assistant with a wondering hump. Greg was worth an extra trip.

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