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AJ Lambert brings Sinatra’s songs to the Space. (Wade Vandervort/Staff)

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AJ LAMBERT AT THE SPACE Unless you count the one song she sang at the Mondays Dark year-end show at the Joint in December, Friday night marks AJ Lambert’s first performance in Las Vegas, which is a big deal considering Lambert is the granddaughter of Frank Sinatra. She’ll be performing his pioneering 1955 concept album In the Wee Small Hours at the Space, and continuing with monthly gigs there throughout 2018, rotating that LP with performances of Ol’ Blue Eyes’ 1958 classic Only the Lonely. Lambert has always been a musician, but she hasn’t always been a singer, so she waited for the right time to tackle the family material. “I had to have a voice to use. To sing stuff like what I’m doing now, especially, it helps to have a little life behind you,” she says. “And I didn’t want to do the typical tribute stuff, even though it would be easier and people would get it quickly, because I don’t feel like I can do those songs in a way that would be honest. It doesn’t make sense to me to sing ‘High Hopes,’ for the person I am and the singer I am and what I’m trying to communicate about him.” $35. –Brock Radke

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Haven’t heard Every Where Is Some Where? Get on it. The sophomore LP from the Illinois-born singer-songwriter—released last April—is necessary listening. Raw, sexy and loaded with intoxicating hooks, it swirls up bluesy rock ’n’ roll, hip-hop and indie-pop. K.Flay has already caught the attention of Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds, who tapped her as the first signee to his Night Street Records label. One listen to “Blood in the Cut” and you’ll know why. $21-$22. –Leslie Ventura

For its 17th edition, the Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival expands from its longtime venue at the Adelson Educational Campus in Summerlin to add the Palms, Suncoast and Eclipse movie theaters. This year’s programming is heavily focused on documentaries, including Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me (January 13, 7 p.m., Century Suncoast 16), a festival favorite documenting the life of the legendary Vegas headliner; short films A Place of Hope and Pista (January 21, 3 p.m., Adelson Educational Campus), both about Holocaust survivors now living in Vegas; and a double feature of Wanderlust: Lesley Hazleton and Heather Booth: Changing the World (January 28, 1 p.m., Eclipse Theaters), whose activist subjects are both scheduled to appear in person. The festival’s only narrative film is acclaimed Hungarian drama 1945 (January 25, 7 p.m., Brenden Palms), a tense story about the aftermath of the Holocaust in one small town. $10 per screening; lvjff.org. –Josh Bell

István Znamenák and Miklós B. Székely in 1945. (Photo by Lenke Szilagyi/Menemsha Films/Courtesy)

RAISIN’ AWARENESS THOUGH NOW A CELEBRATED WORK, A RAISIN IN THE SUN FACED A TOUGH ROAD TO THE STAGE IN 1959; ITS PRODUCERS NEEDED MORE THAN A YEAR TO AMASS THE MONEY TO PRESENT IT.

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The Street Fighter franchise—a video game juggernaut that has resulted in numerous home and arcade games, several animated and comic book series and an unwatchable film that, sadly, contained the great Raúl Juliá’s final screen role—turned 30 last year. The Nerd gives the latest iteration of the franchise, PlayStation 4’s Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, a proper debut with a night of hadouken-sized hijinks including drink specials, a game tournament (with a few PS4s set up for casual play) and most promisingly, a cosplay contest. You can be the M. Bison that Raúl only dreamed of. Free. –Geoff Carter

Many years after his assassination, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s example still looms large. Multiple events honoring his legacy transpire through his holiday weekend. The Dr. Martin Luther King Peace Week Show, to be held Sunday at 3 p.m. at the West Las Vegas Library, will feature MLK-inspired performances by the Trinity Conservatory of Performing Arts school. At 10 a.m. the following morning, the annual MLK Parade marches down Fourth Street between Gass and Ogden avenues. And the Dreamers Fest follows at 2 p.m. at Raw Remedies, where performers and food keep the celebration going through the holiday. Free. –Mike Prevatt

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up, like a raisin in the sun? Langston Hughes asked in his 1951 poem “Harlem.” Playwright Lorraine Hansberry offered an answer with her Tony-winning 1959 play about an impoverished black family striving to achieve the American Dream in a hostile America. “A Raisin in the Sun has vigor as well as veracity and is likely to destroy the complacency of anyone who sees it,” The New York Times wrote. As part of its “Resilience Personified” series, Broadway in the H.O.O.D. presents the classic inside Troesh Studio Theater. $39. –C. Moon Reed

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magine one local venue with the bragging rights to having staged concerts by Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead and Bob Marley and the Wailers. In its glory days—roughly 1968 to 1974—the Ice Palace at the Commercial Center featured not only those aforementioned giants, but Sly and the Family Stone, The Doors, Electric Light Orchestra, Creedence Clearwater Revival and more. Those names adorn tribute artwork at the welcome area of the same venue, now called the Sahara Event Center and exclusively hosting roller hockey leagues and professional wrestling matches. But it’s gearing up to present much more than that—including all-ages, 2,800-capacity concerts on the rink—if managing partner and indie party promoter Ozzie Sanchez has anything to say about it. “Our dream is to put some big bands out there,” he says. “We’ve had promoters offer some pretty big names, but we couldn’t do that because we weren’t ready.” They almost are. Sanchez and fellow managing partners Joseph O’Dell (with whom Sanchez shares two event production companies) and Dan Corsatea (a hockey enthusiast and 12-year lessee of SEC) have spent more than a year upgrading the place, which now includes a brand new supper club/entertainment space upstairs named Electric Avenue. A grand opening is slated for next month. But this isn’t all for concerts, which Sanchez and crew won’t start booking until all the postrenovation tweaks are made. They’re just as eager to host lucrative corporate events during conventions, comedy and karaoke nights at the downstairs lounge, the Vegas Knights Click—a Golden Knights fan club which recently held a gameviewing party at SEC—the usual sporting events and the sort of recurring, themed parties Sanchez has regularly thrown Downtown. But Sanchez is particularly anxious to capitalize on the venue’s legacy to lure people back. “All the buildings are going down, and this is one of the only ones left that had to do with music.”

ONE GIANT STEP FOR COMMUTER KIND? You hail a self-driving Lyft the exact same way you hail a normal one: Push a button and a car picks you up. In this case, it’s a BMW “driven” by Aptiv’s proprietary software and 365-degree sensors (a combo of lasers, cameras, radars, GPS, wireless coms and more). A female voice announces lane changes, while a video screen shows the car moving through

its environment in real time: Cars and pedestrians appear as blue ghosts. (There’s also a human in the driver’s seat, just in case.) Despite Tuesday’s rain, CES’ Lyft-Aptiv demo rides were so popular, people were waiting outside for nearly an hour to try one. Was it worth the wait? Kind of. The tech is already so smooth, the ride didn’t feel different than any other. I had to keep peeking at the front seat to remind myself that, yes, the human’s hands weren’t touching the wheel. –C. Moon Reed

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A CLOUDY FUTURE A new federal threat creates uncertainty for Nevada’s cannabis industry BY C. MOON REED

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The Sahara Events Center once hosted the likes of Led Zeppelin and Bob Marley when it was known as the Ice Palace. (Led Zeppelin & Bob Marley/AP Photo; Sahara Events Center by Christopher DeVargas/Staff/Photo Illustration)

A SMART SIGN OF THINGS TO COME “This sign isn’t just for business. This is made for you,” reads the “digital information boards” that Cambridge, Massachusetts-based start-up Soofa ((soofa.co) has placed around Downtown Las Vegas on a sixmonth trial basis. While the solar-powered signs—located at stops for the free Downtown Loop shuttle—do show advertising, they also provide real-time bus arrival info, and allow any user to upload their own ads, neighborhood bulletins or original art. (Prices for posts range from $40 to $1000 monthly, though at press time it’s in free beta testing.) Hopefully, the City will choose to go all-in with Soofa—its solarpowered, phone-charging park benches look like another smart city must-have. –Geoff Carter

On January 4, Attorney General Jeff Sessions killed the nation’s by removing the loose, Obama-era advisories on marijuana policy. His move created way more questions than answers, but here’s what we know so far. You (most likely) won’t find your favorite shop shuttered. The feds can’t make the local authorities enforce their laws, and the chances of the FBI suddenly taking down dispensaries seems incredibly low at the moment, but as long as marijuana remains classified as a Schedule I drug, nothing is guaranteed. Business as usual—sort of. Dispensaries and grow houses have momentum on their side, so expect them to keep on keeping on. Sessions’ “return to the rule of law” creates extreme uncertainty, however, which is bad for business. Until we get clarity, expect a cooling effect on innovation and investment. Consumption lounges are in jeopardy. Consumption lounges were a practical shoo-in for the City of Las Vegas, but now all bets are off. “The memo caught a lot of people off-guard,” Assistant City Attorney Bryan Scott says. In the next few weeks, his department will brief the City Council, which will then decide how to proceed. A Texas prosecutor is Nevada’s wild card. Right before Sessions’ cannabis coup, he appointed Dallas’ Dayle Elieson to be Nevada’s interim United States Attorney. This carpetbagger will decide how and when to interpret the law, and nobody knows what she’ll do (at press time, she had not responded to the Weekly’s inquiries). “Will the U.S. attorney decide to prosecute people? Will she give them time to get out of the industry, or will she start enforcing it right away? We’re waiting to see how it plays out,” Scott says. “People in the industry will monitor what she does and figure out where they stand.” What you can do. State Senator Tick Segerblom suggests contacting Sessions, President Trump and Senator Dean Heller with comments. “If Heller would stand up and say, ‘This is unacceptable’ to Sessions, they’d have to back down, because Sessions needs his vote,” Segerblom says. In the meantime, he offers another piece of advice: “I’m telling everybody to go down and buy as much [cannabis] as you can buy, because tomorrow it may not be there.”

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THE STRIP OR NOT? Debating the Stratosphere’s location is like attempting to define Vegas as Vegas belongs to everybody. That might sound a little hokey but it’s the truth. Perception defines this place, or at least makes up the biggest chunk of the Vegas identity. And everyone gets to create their own impressions of this place, locals and visitors alike. That’s the truth, but that doesn’t stop some of us—people who have lived here for a long time, or people who play a tangible role in shaping those perceptions—from trying to create actual definitions for this place. For example, consider a couple of guys who both moved to Las Vegas with their families as young kids and have lived here for decades. Both attended Garside Junior High School. Both have spent a lot of time in off-Strip casinos and video-poker bars. But one has built and operated businesses that have contributed to the greater Vegas perception, while the other guy has only talked about and writTHE ten about this place. INCIDENTAL The other guy is me. TOURIST The first guy is Blake BY BROCK RADKE Sartini, chairman and CEO of Golden Entertainment, the company behind the largest tavern group in the state (PT’s Pubs and its associated bar brands) and which now owns the Stratosphere. When Golden acquired the Strat and other American Casino & Entertainment properties last year, Sartini noted how excited he was to finally get a casino on the Strip. That grabbed my attention. I recently argued with someone about the Stratosphere and how its location on

The Stratosphere Tower looms large in tourist perception of Vegas. (Photo Illustration)

Las Vegas Boulevard north of Sahara Avenue is not on the Strip, according to the widely held definition of Las Vegas Strip boundaries, as created by me. I’ve been writing about this place for nearly 20 years, and I walk around and eat food on Las Vegas Boulevard all the time, therefore I am best-suited to determine the exact geographic delineation of one of the most famous destinations in the world. That last part is crap. The Strip includes whatever you think it includes. And as discussed in a Review-Journal article last month, Sartini has come to the completely logical conclusion that most people consider the Stratosphere to be on the Strip, even though it’s within City of Las Vegas limits and not part of unincorporated Clark County like the other resorts on the Boulevard. That article also has a county spokesman doing what I’ve been doing all these years: defining something that doesn’t

want or need demarcation, asserting that a casino must be within Clark County boundaries to be “on the Las Vegas Strip.” This, too, is crap. The Stratosphere is in a central neighborhood sometimes referred to as Naked City, which we can all agree is an awesome place name. The mythology behind the name says that cocktail waitresses and dancers who lived in this area in the ’50s and ’60s would regularly sunbathe nude at their apartment building pools—a very Vegas legend, indeed. The neighborhood has changed quite a bit over the years, but in modern times it has always been referenced as the area that separates the Strip (county) from Downtown (city). Municipal officials have a long tradition of taking ownership of the resort corridor when it suits their needs. The Mayors Goodman are inextricably tied to Vegas tourism, even though the Strip is outside their jurisdiction. Clark

County awards entertainers and dignitaries keys to the Strip because it doesn’t have keys to the city, even though the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign is planted securely on its land. I’ve always (pretentiously) maintained that the Strip starts at Sahara and ends at Russell, but if you constructed a new casino on the Boulevard south of Mandalay Bay, it would most certainly be “on the Strip.” The Stratosphere, less than a block from Sahara, is one of the most recognizable structures in the history of Las Vegas—not the city of Las Vegas, the entire destination. The one we promote to the world. The one that’s bigger and more important than just the Strip, yet still relies on visual iconography—and those Vegas perceptions—to pull people like the Death Star tractor beam from all over the world. And besides, all those little Vegas skyline stock images incorporate the Stratosphere. There’s no debate.

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BY C. MOON REED | PHOTOGRAPH BY JON ESTRADA oah Cicero is just your regular working stiff with a cult following. The 37-year-old poet/ novelist/philosopher has written eight books, with editions published in Turkey, Kurdish Iraq, Chile, Argentina and Spain. His first work of fiction, The Human War (2003), was made into a film awarded Best Screenplay at the Beloit International Film Festival. Cicero moved to Las Vegas from the small town of Vienna, Ohio, several years ago after stints working in South Korea and at the Grand Canyon. He has two new books out: Blood-Soaked Buddha/ Hard Earth Pascal integrates Buddhism and Existentialism into a philosophy for the everyman; the poetry collection Nature Documentary asks the reader to view humans the same way we view nature documentaries. Cicero will read at the Writer’s Block on February 17. You have a new novel coming out next year called Give It to the Grand Canyon. What’s it all about? I’ve lived at the Grand Canyon twice and been there many, many times. I want to create one of those books [that’s sold in] the Grand Canyon souvenir shop. It’s been one of my bucket list goals. How has living in Las Vegas influenced your writing? I’m from a sleazy, one-redlight town. Compared to my Ohio life, people are more positive here, more responsive to literary things. It’s completely changed what I write about. When I lived in Ohio, I wrote about drug addicts, strippers, people with terrible parents. Drug addicts and strippers can be found in Vegas, too. That’s not part of my life here. I grew up in one of the poorest counties in the U.S. The streets were full of empty houses with basements that were swamps. I don’t have any of that here. I’ve been able to live in a bubble here.

for class, everyone thought I was really funny and liked it. It was the first time in my life where I did something and people liked it. What’s it like being an underground literary star? People will come to town—usually publishers, writers and fans—and they’ll Facebook me. “I’m here with my mom, will you hang out with me for, like, four hours?” Okay, I don’t even know you, but I’ll go with you and see what happens. I’ll show them the town: bring them Downtown and then to Valley of Fire. I’ve done it about 20 times. I don’t really require people to feel impressed with me all the time. I only like it in small increments. I like this bubble. I like to go to Starbucks and be a person. When people see you as more than a person, they act a certain way. Those expectations stress me out. I want to make them happy; it overstimulates me.

What is the appeal of nature, and how does it help your writing? When you’re in a city, you’re surrounded by things people made that signify class; it keeps your mind busy. Nature, the emptiness of it, lets your mind empty out. Around the third hour of hiking, my brain settles down, and I realize that all the thoughts I was having all week weren’t that important.

By day you work as a paralegal. How do you balance writing and working? I worked [part-time] at Sprouts for two and a half years, and ended up writing three books during that time period. [Now] I just budget my time. I don’t expect to get giant awards, because I’m only spending five to eight hours [a week] writing. It allows me to have fun while I’m doing it. If you tinker for five hours a week for the entire year, you’ll end up with cool things.

You didn’t have the typical writer’s upbringing. How did you get into writing? There were no books in the house. [My parents] didn’t read to me when I was little. When I was 13 or 14, I started to like to read—books about ghosts. My dad would drive me to the library; he was very confused by the whole scenario. I was a troubled child; everyone was always angry at me. Every time I had to write something

Would you ever go in for writing a best seller? Those aren’t my people; that’s not who I write books for. If you grew up in the town of Vienna, surrounded by white guys standing there with camo coats and big guts, ’80s haircuts, if you saw them, you’d think, “Noah is really famous in comparison to what he grew up with. He’s made it in a thousand ways.” But maybe the point is that I’m really happy about everything.

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ike a lot of musicians, Nkosinathi Maphumulo dreams of a big Vegas show. In it, he’s playing his music—“house music with a lot of soul, color and texture”—along with a 24-piece orchestra, a massive concert that transcends the perceptions of electronic dance music here or anywhere else. But Maphumulo, better known as Black Coffee, has played this show before. It’s not just a dream. He did it a few years ago at Moses Mabhida Stadium in his native Durban, South Africa, one of the high points of a career that has seen the 41-year-old DJ and producer emerge as one of the most prominent musical voices in his country. Another big highlight came last week when Wynn Nightlife announced that Black Coffee has joined its resident roster for 2018 and will perform four or more shows at XS, Intrigue and Encore Beach Club this year. He’s hoping the new partnership will grow into other new opportunities, maybe even that dream show with an orchestra in Las Vegas.

“It is one of the most exciting things to happen to me as far as my career is concerned,” he says. “I think almost every DJ today would love to end up getting a residency like this, with this kind of exposure in that part of the world. And it’s so exciting because I very much consider myself to be in a different space musically. I’ve always seen my music as the type that will never be mainstream.” That’s the most exciting part. Black Coffee’s music—and the music played by a couple of his fellow new Wynn residents, Jamie Jones and Solomun— could be described as house or techno, but whatever you call it, you have to acknowledge that it’s quite different from the mainstream EDM and hip-hop sounds that dominate today’s Las Vegas clubscape. This trio of artists is far better known in Ibiza, where dance music remains house-centric, constructed around repetitive beats and deep-groove basslines influenced by funk, disco, soul and jazz. It’s not a new sound for Vegas clubs, but major casino venues haven’t committed to it this way in recent years.

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“We’re always trying to be at the forefront of this industry,” says Alex Cordova, Wynn Nightlife’s executive vice president and managing partner. “We’ve noticed in the past few years that there’s a scene not represented in Las Vegas that is represented elsewhere in this country and around the world, and we need to explore these options and tap into this demographic that’s been alienated for quite some time. We don’t have just one sound, we have multiple sounds, and this roster shows that diversity.” Of course, there are plenty of dancemusic superstars on Wynn’s list, returning big names like Diplo, David Guetta, The Chainsmokers and Kygo, and rising artists new to Wynn like Galantis and Jauz. Bringing these “tech-house” DJs isn’t just an experiment; it’s intended to kick-start a musical movement here. “Other operators have produced events with some of these artists in the past, but I think the opportunity we are providing is not just trying this out as a one-off but embracing them as true residents,” Cordova says. “The first has to be the bravest and take the lumps

and learn the lessons, but hopefully all of our industry will embrace this sound and capitalize on it.” Halloween provided a test drive for Wynn Nightlife, when Jones—the Welsh producer and festival-playing DJ known for his warm, melodic sound—brought his Paradise party from Ibiza to XS. Cordova says that event brought 4,000 partiers to the club on a Tuesday night. More influenced by R&B, funk, soul and hip-hop, Solomun, born in Bosnia and raised in Hamburg, brings a different sonic vibe. He has held residencies at standout Ibiza venues like Pacha, Destino and Ushuaia. Black Coffee reached a new level of exposure in the U.S. music market in 2017 when hip-hop megastar Drake sampled his song “Superman” for a track called “Get It Together” on Drake’s More Life album, a record that has been streamed more than 1 billion times. But while Drake surely exposed new listeners to Black Coffee, the DJ isn’t expecting the rapper’s audience to show up at his Vegas club gigs. “It’s totally different,” he says. “If Drake fans come, that could be cool as well, to get them to understand there’s more beyond ‘Superman.’ But the people who understand what we are doing with Wynn are the people who come to gigs I do in LA or New York. The guys at Wynn are trying to pioneer a certain sound by bringing us in. They don’t want us to change; they want to change the audience or the audience’s taste in music.” It’s a very ambitious endeavor, especially on the Las Vegas Strip, where chart-topping artists are the main draw whether it’s in a club, at a concert or for a concert inside a club. But Wynn and Encore have a not-so-secret weapon in gradually turning the musical tides. The luxurious twin resorts already draw the international clientele familiar with this kind of music and the Ibiza/ European dance club experience. “We have those customers and access to that demographic, so we are in a better

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position to be successful,” Cordova says. “But the ultimate goal is not to harbor artists like these only at Wynn but to introduce them to Las Vegas. Hopefully they will come more frequently.” Trends come and go, but the flavor on the dancefloors at XS, Encore Beach Club and Intrigue has long been varied and inclusive, so much so that new musical discoveries are made by the DJs as much as the audience. In explaining his return this year to Wynn Nightlife, Dutch superstar Afrojack said spending time at XS has been instrumental in keeping him on top of trends and sparking creativity, and Big Boi—one half of legendary Southern hip-hop duo OutKast—created the deliciously clubby “Chocolate” for latest album Boomiverse based on his experiences as a Wynn resident last year. “That’s that real Las Vegas sound right there,” Big Boi said. “That song was definitely influenced by that residency. Being a DJ there helped me get the pulse of what people dig and what they want to dance to and sing to.” Black Coffee made his first-ever visit to Vegas in early December, to lock down his deal, but he’s well-aware of the type of musical education that goes back and forth between the artist and the audience at clubs and festivals and concerts, and he’s looking forward to learning and teaching at Wynn. “Growing as a DJ is constantly trying to learn to keep the sound on a certain level, but at that same time learning how to blend and appeal to a wider audience,” he says. “There’s so much that comes with it. You can’t escape it.” LWV

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His second studio album—Beach House 3, released in October—has already yielded standout singles “Love U Better” with Lil Wayne and The-Dream and “So Am I” with Damian Marley and Skrillex. In the works for 2018 is a team-up project with Jeremih rumored to include guests spots from Brown and PartyNextDoor. He’s used to being surrounded by stars, so Ty should feel right at home among the Drai’s resident roster. Ty Dolla $ign at Drai’s at the Cromwell, January 14.

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Jing is just one aspect of Enferno’s musicianship. The D.C. native and Tao Las Vegas resident exploded onto the scene when he went on tour with Madonna throughout 2008 and 2009, which led to lots of DJ gigs in major cities across the country. But he’s also a classically trained pianist known to work live performance into his sets and produce music for other artists and events, including Rihanna’s 2010 Loud tour and Shakira’s upcoming El Dorado tour. After a travel-heavy 2017, Enferno’s new prioritized project is Mix Major, a music production education program for kids that he has developed in recent years. It

will materialize as a brick-and-mortar school at home in Virginia in 2018. “I just love making music, and with Mix Major I get to share that,” he says. “Teaching is really close to my heart, especially with kids at a young age, because creativity is just inherent with them and I see it in my own kids.” Enferno’s DJ sets stand out in part because of his customized rig, allowing him to break into actual live performance at will. Some songs work better for his “live remixing,” and that’s why he’s a fan of Camila Cabello’s hit “Havana,” featuring Young Thug. “I flipped it into this thing that’s kind

of trappy and sped up, and it works to go live because of the song’s acoustic elements and its 808 subs and snares,” he says. “It’s a great fit, but it’s also a song I actually like. Sometimes you’re playing music for the crowd, but it’s not a song you’ll listen to yourself. This song is really refreshing because of those Latin chord progressions and piano and catchy vocals and jazzy flavor. Music tastes are a constant cycle. If you hear a lot of 60- to 75-beat-per-minute hip-hop all the time, or 128-beat-per-minute EDM, something like this becomes really refreshing, a real pop track.” –Brock Radke

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wines with a three-course dinner prepared by Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill executive chef Spencer Rudow. Diners don’t just get to enjoy the menu, which will consist of a roasted baby beet and goat cheese salad, an herb-roasted pork chop with Yukon potato purée and mustard sauce and chocolate molten cake for dessert. They’ll also get to vote on which somm’s choices were better suited. It’s a win-win—one of the most popular restaurants in Summerlin gets to

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His Craftsteak at MGM Grand is a longstanding example of that creativity. Now in its 15th year, the steakhouse impresses from beginning to end. The beautiful room, with its dark wood accents, soft lighting, brick columns and metallic elements, gives you a glimpse at the experience you’re about to have. You might be tempted to head straight to the steaks and skip a salad, but trust us, the warm frisée is worth your time. The salad, which features smoked bacon, is drenched in an over-easy farm egg; we dare you to leave any on your plate. Whether you opt for an 18-ounce ribeye or a 14-ounce skirt steak, you can’t go wrong with any of the cuts chosen under the watchful eye of executive chef Michael Chapman; every steak is cooked

to achieve maximum juiciness and flavor, and it’s all pre-sliced to make serving a breeze. We recommend you try the 24-hour beef short rib, which, despite its title, actually takes two days to make. It’s so tender you won’t need a knife, and thanks to the marinating process, the flavor profile is endless. If you’d rather indulge in seafood, make sure to try the diver sea scallops with shaved fennel in a citrus sauce that makes every bite pop. Desserts prepared in-house are another huge standout. Try the cinnamon monkey bread, brioche smothered with pecan toffee sauce and served with vanilla bean ice cream, or the fluffy, rich chocolate cake made of Oreo cookies. Colicchio has created something to be proud of in Craftsteak; find out for yourself why. Craftsteak at MGM Grand, 702891-7318; Sunday-Thursday 5-10 p.m., Friday & Saturday 5-10:30 p.m. –Ken Miller

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Despite the swanky vibe of Rosina, the menu stands out for its approachability. Here, you’ll find a list of shaken, stirred and bubbly classic cocktails, from the Tom Collins with gin, fresh lemon and club soda, to the Whiskey Sour with Bourbon, fresh lemon, bitters and egg white. Or perhaps you’ll start with a tiki-bar favorite, the Mai Tai, made with two rums, fresh lime, orgeat and nutmeg and served in a stone skull mug, before venturing off into uncharted waters. A pro tip from Ross: Ask your bartender for fresh seasonal fruit to be muddled into nearly any drink for a special twist.

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“If you peel back the layers and look at what it’s like to be part of this culture and part of the team that makes things happen, it is equally edgy and fun, and that’s because we’re given the flexibility to do things with our own style,” explains Director of Talent Acquisition Lori Calderon. “When you get up in the morning and put your feet on the floor and go to work, the last thing you want to feel is dread. Here we are always thinking about how to make it interesting and exciting, and we give a lot of feedback and collect a lot of input in order to take action.” Calderon has been at Cosmo for two and a half years, having made the move to reunite with CEO Bill McBeath; she previously worked with him with MGM Resorts International, where she was employed for 20 years. The veteran of the Vegas people biz has a great appreciation for the special aspects of the Cosmopolitan consumer brand, and she and her

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The Post staffers await a court ruling. (20th Century Fox/Courtesy)

The Post rousingly celebrates journalistic ethics By Josh Bell nly Steven Spielberg could snag Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep for a movie hastily put into production to capitalize on current events (despite being set in 1971), and The Post proves that their combined talents can produce riveting, polished cinema in half the time most Hollywood filmmakers need to churn out something less than half as good. And while it’s not hard to find the contemporary parallels in The Post, Spielberg and screenwriters Liz Hannah and Josh Singer mostly restrain themselves from making blunt commentary on current events. Instead, they present a procedural look inside The Washington Post’s decision to publish the classified government documents known as the Pentagon Papers, after a court order had halted The New York Times from doing the same. The Times’ involvement is more well-known, but Spielberg, Hannah and Singer use the Post’s perspective to tell an underdog story of sorts, as the paper is in the midst of a difficult transition, attempting to heighten its national

profile and also preparing for a public stock offering. So while the story of how the paper acquired, While movies like Spotlight or the classic All the interpreted and ultimately published articles on President’s Men (also about the Post’s reporting on the Pentagon Papers is gripping and suspenseful, government secrets in the 1970s) focus on dogged Kay’s journey is the movie’s heart, and Streep, reporters, The Post gives most of its screen time giving a performance devoid of the silly voices to their bosses, the people burdened with and tics that have dominated too many aaabc of her recent roles, digs deeply into Kay’s making the decisions that may bankrupt a THE POST company or land its employees in jail. conflicted emotions, as she summons Meryl Streep, Hanks plays the more traditional her inner resolve but also mourns the Tom Hanks, gatekeeper character, executive editor Ben friendships and financial security she Bob Odenkirk. Bradlee, a born newspaperman whose first may lose by defying the wealthy and powDirected by Steven Spielberg. erful people with whom she’s associated and only instinct is to publish the Papers, Rated PG-13. a series of damning reports on the unwinfor her entire life. Opens Friday nability of the Vietnam War, despite the Spielberg is a superb craftsman, and citywide. court order against the Times doing so. But he expertly builds suspense from reportthe more intriguing figure is Post president ers furiously typing, even earning most and publisher Kay Graham (Streep), a woman in an of the movie’s cheesy moments of triumph. Like overwhelmingly male world, who was thrust into the Bridge of Spies, another fact-based Spielberg film position of leading the company after her husband’s about good people doing the right thing, The Post death, and struggles to be taken seriously by almost molds real life into a crowd-pleasing story withall of the men who work with or for her. out sacrificing the underlying honesty.

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Sci-fail There’s no power flowing through Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams By Geoff Carter cience fiction has been so damn good recently, we’ve nearly forgotten it can be done badly. Consider: For every groan-worthy Syfy original or childish Luc Besson space opera, there’s been an Ex Machina, an Arrival, a Sense8, a rebooted Westworld. These aren’t great future stories; they’re great stories that happen to take place in an alternate future. It’s an important distinction. That’s why it’s so upsetting that Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, a British/American sci-fi anthology series based on the short stories of its namesake, plays like the oldschool, pimply-faced nerd sci-fi I used to read in Omni. I’d hoped we’d outgrown this stilted dialogue and ham-fisted moralizing, but everything old is new again. To be fair, one of the episodes I watched for this review was decent. “The Commuter” benefits from having Timothy Spall as its bedrock; his performance as railway employee Ed Jacobson, a man with a chance to undo some of his life choices, is classic Twilight Zone stuff. There’s a depth to Spall’s line readings that indicates Spall actually did the reading, for all the good it did. (It’s been a while since I’ve read Dick, but it’s obvious that these adaptations are only superficially based on his writings.) It’s downhill from there. “Kill All Others,” directed by Mudbound’s Dee Rees,

screen Geraldine Chaplin in Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams. (Amazon/Courtesy)

is heavy-handed sociopolitical satire that The shame of it is that there’s a correct isn’t particularly incisive or funny. (It will, way to adapt Dick’s work that doesn’t blunt however, make you reconsider your wearable his strengths (the guy could write the hell fitness device, if only for a moment.) And out of an authoritarian regime) or magnify “Real Life,” a shaggy-dog time travel story his weaknesses (he and nearly all of his that wastes Terrence Howard and contemporaries were grossly sexist). Anna Paquin in underwritten roles, The time you spend watching Electric aaccc is practically a sci-fi Mad Lib: Dreams could be spent watching Philip K. Dick’s virtual reality, flying cars, a dead Denis Villenueve’s Blade Runner Electric Dreams wife that needs avenging. Paquin’s 2049, the second film based on Dick’s Season 1 available January 12 character, in particular, is pure nerd Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? on Amazon Prime. candy, a scripting fail that the script Villeneuve, like Ridley Scott before tries to ameliorate by having her him, knew how to sneak up on this address it: “I’m a lesbian supercop stuff. He tiptoed through the clichés, from the future! I actually have a flying car! the minefield of unexploded nerd bombs, and Isn’t that what they used to call ‘science found the human story buried there. He climbed fiction’?” Yes, sadly, it is. into the flying car and just soared.

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Fashion victim The lat est American Crime Story takes on The Assassination of Gianni Versace By Josh Bell

Martin (left) and Ramirez as D’Amico and Versace in happier times. (FX/Courtesy)

Despite its title, The Assassination of Gianni Versace is not really about Gianni Versace. The second installment in executive producer Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story anthology series (after 2016’s highly popular and acclaimed The People v. O.J. Simpson), Assassination is really the story of Andrew Cunanan (Glee’s Darren Criss), a serial killer who murdered four other people before making Versace (Édgar Ramirez) his final victim in July 1997. The first episode begins with Versace’s murder, and the rest of the season mostly works backward, tracking Cunanan as he targets his previous victims, while spending significantly less time on Versace’s professional and personal life. The show’s big-name stars are Penélope Cruz as Versace’s sister Donatella and Ricky Martin as his longtime partner Antonio D’Amico, but Criss dominates every episode, and the entire middle stretch of the season features virtually no appearances from Versace or his associates. Even when those characters do appear, the writers struggle to connect storylines about Versace’s business and relationships with Cunanan’s days as a hustler preying on older, wealthy gay men. The backtracking narrative structure also finds the episodes frequently going in circles, as characters will describe a situation in detail that then plays out in exactly the same detail an episode later. A manipulative sociopath and compulsive liar, Cunanan is a tough protagonist to invest in for nine episodes, and while Criss makes him suitably unsettling, the show too often skews more toward the sleazy excesses of a ’90s erotic thriller than the methodical refinement of something like The Talented Mr. Ripley. The previous season used the Simpson case to explore issues of race in America, albeit in a loud, hectoring manner, and Murphy and his collaborators try to tie Assassination’s disparate plot threads together by focusing on the difficulties of gay life in the ’90s. But the connections are thin, and some of the detours stray too far from what makes the story worth telling. The Simpson story is a sprawling saga that encompasses far more than its central crime; Assassination never manages to turn Versace’s murder into the same kind of miniseries-worthy epic.

aabcc THE ASSASINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY Wednesdays, 10 p.m., FX. Premieres January 17.

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Manson makes up his postponed Vegas shows this weekend. (Courtesy Photo)

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DARK TIMES have made it to the disc. The latter song was completed mere days before the musician discovered his dad “was sicker than I thought” and ended up flying to visit him in the same Canton, Ohio, hospital in which Manson himself was born. “I didn’t know I was saying goodbye to him at that point,” he shared. “I got to By Annie Zaleski say, ‘Hey, Dad,’ kissed him, held his hand, and I hen we originally dialed up Marilyn Manson got to appreciate life in a different way, because to preview his Las Vegas shows, it was nearly he went to get a test and died 30 minutes later— 11 p.m. the day after Labor Day 2017. He was and then was brought back to life. And the next in the TV room of his LA home, staring at a morning, I had to be the one who decided to take picture of one of his “biggest idols,” Salvador Dalí, him off life support.” and contemplating going to get a giant back tattoo. The mood on the phone was understandably News of his 10th studio album hadn’t been made somber at this point as Manson continued, “His public yet; we were talking about the record with the sister—my aunt—was in the room with him. I didn’t stipulation of a strict information embargo. want to see him die twice, because once was hard Like the best-laid plans, however, things went enough. My aunt told me I was doing the right thing. haywire. One week before the release of Heaven I didn’t want to be selfish and keep him around if he Upside Down—a fine album encompassing twitchdidn’t want to be there. I think he waited for me to ing electro, gothic grooves, corrosive industrial rock come see him to say goodbye. I never got to play him and cinematic blues—Manson broke my album, and I’m so proud of it. It has so his leg after a stage prop fell on him much of his influence of me growing up in MARILYN during a show in New York City, forcit. In certain strange ways, I hear it.” MANSON ing him to postpone a run of concerts Then, somewhat unexpectedly, Manwith including his two Las Vegas dates (now son’s sense of humor re-emerged. “My Amazonica. back on for January 11 and 12). aunt said he wouldn’t hold her hand when January 11-12, 8 p.m., $65. A few weeks after that, original Marihe finally died, because he had his hand on House of lyn Manson guitarist Daisy Berkowitz his dick. My dad would definitely want me Blues, 702died of colon cancer—and then, two to tell you that story, because he went out 632-7600. days later, Manson fired bassist Twiggy like a pimp.” Ramirez in the wake of rape accusations Impish anecdote aside, it was clear levied by an ex-girlfriend. In early November, Manthat, two months removed from his dad’s passson himself courted controversy when he pointed a ing, Manson was still affected by the experifake gun at the audience during a show in the hours ence—even though he had the perspective to see after the Sutherland Springs, Texas, church masexactly how Heaven Upside Down related to his sacre. recent trauma. Back in late summer, however, the charming “My dad made me promise that I would not fall raconteur held court on the phone for a freewheelto pieces and never to be a failure,” he said. “I’ve ing 30 minutes. The rambling conversation was had points in my life where I’ve not been as great sprinkled with deadpan humor (“I don’t like to as I thought I should be. So I’ve made an effort to be gamble, except with my life and my health”) and a as great as I can be, and I feel that this record has few moments of, “Is he messing with us?” But the certainty to it. I don’t think he had to hear it. I know rocker touched on everything from past Vegas visits that he knew it when I told him about it. (he did acid here, which he calls “a bad choice, bad “I would send him lyrics that I wrote, and he life decision”) to why Heaven Upside Down’s delayed would tell me that they were great. He wasn’t telling release date—it was originally due in early 2017— me how his health [was] and things like that. I think was for the best: The lyrics for “Revelation #12,” he was hiding it from me, because he didn’t want me the title track and “the most important piece of the to be distracted. He was being a stubborn father. I record,” the eight-minute “Saturnalia,” wouldn’t probably would do the same thing, I suppose.”

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From his stage injury to the death of his father, Marilyn Manson has endured a tough stretch recently

DELTA FORCE Ten years ago, a rockabilly project launched in a Las Vegas garage with no real intentions besides “boozing and having a good time.” At least that’s how guitarist Andrew Himmler explains The Delta Bombers’ humble origins. “We’re still that,” he says, “but we’ve also experienced a bit of life.” That journey is palpable on the band’s fourth LP, Pressure and Time. The rock, country, blues and swamp-gospel hybrid takes listeners through themes of love both gained and lost, the death of friends and family and some of life’s pressures and pleasures. “It’s your prototypical rock ’n’ roll album in the sense that these themes are touched on all the time, but it’s unique in that we experienced it all together, and we wrote about it together,” Himmler says. Recorded live to tape at LA’s Wild Records Studio, Pressure and Time marks 10 years of The Delta Bombers, who’ll celebrate its release January 13 at the Bunkhouse before hitting the road for U.S. dates in February and a short European tour in May. HOOKING UP Vegas blues-rock trio The Dirty Hooks have been selected as tour support for Stone Temple Pilots’ upcoming West Coast tour. The run kicks off March 2 at the Canyon in Santa Clarita and runs through March 17, with a local show scheduled for March 9 at House of Blues. ALSO Vegas metalcore band We Gave It Hell will officially release debut LP Labyrinth (out now on Spotify) at Hard Rock Live on Saturday, January 13. –Leslie Ventura

Morgan returns to town on January 12. (Casey Curry/AP)

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Solid footing Tracy Morgan talks recovery, new TV show and keeping his antenna up By Jason Harris What do you think of the state of comedy right now, with performers tiptoeing around certain issues? I just know that PC has no place in comedy. I think people have lost their sense of humor. I’m not going to get into that. If it’s good then the comedy ecosystem will take care of it; if it’s not good then the comedy ecosystem will take care of it. Did your accident change the way you go about comedy? No. It was an accident. It happened. My funny ain’t change. Did it take you some time to feel comfortable onstage again? If you have a bad accident, once you take a bump on the head like that, yeah, it’s gonna take time to get your timing back, your comedy instincts back. But I got my footing back. I’m good. Do you think Vegas is different from other comedy markets? No. People laugh the same in Vegas as they do in New York or New Jersey. They’re human beings. Funny is funny. I’m not a rookie. I ain’t a beginner. I got a star on the Walk of Hollywood. I’ve been doing this stuff for 27 years.

Tell me about your new TBS show, The Last O.G. empty-handed. More love. More knowledge. More There’s nothing like it on TV. It’s not a black show. wisdom. More understanding. All of that. I put that It’s a human show. It’s about second chances. It’s into my act. about redemption. And it’s the truth. No matter who How much of what you do onstage now is workyou are, you can relate or identify with it. Me and ing it out in the moment versus written material? Jordan Peele sat down and came up with it. We hope Like 40 or 50 percent. Up until the time they say, everyone likes it. “Please welcome to the stage Tracy Morgan,” TRACY Are there things you miss about SNL? I I’m keeping my eyes and ears open. I’m keepMORGAN miss it all. It was home. It was daddy’s house. ing my antennas up. Anything could happen. January 12, But then you gotta leave daddy’s house. You I could trip getting up onto the stage. That’s 9 p.m., $50can’t stay there. funny. I’d be able to talk about that for 20 $110. The Joint, 702Will we ever see some of your more minutes. 693-5222. famous SNL characters like Brian Fellow What other projects are you working on? I or Astronaut Jones in other forms? No. I won’t talk about things in the future, because got so much more in me. I did it already, why with my luck I might get hit by an Amazon would I want to mess with that? For you? That’s selftruck this time. I don’t know. I gotta lean back and ish of you. Don’t want you to see more? I got so much just take one day at a time, brother. I’m living each more to offer, man. day now. We gotta slow down and take it one day at a Has your persona changed as you’ve aged? time now. Of course. I’m 49. You go through things. I got hit by a damn truck. I lost my friend [comic James For more of our interview with Morgan, visit McNair]. I went through hell, but I didn’t come back lasvegasweekly.com.

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LA’s Goddamn Comedy Jam brings a benefit show to Vegas also be some cool special guests coming by as well. On staying sober in Vegas: “The first time I LA’s Goddamn Comedy Jam straddles went there, I cracked immediately. Like, I had the intersection of stand-up and rock ecstasy within a half-hour. The second time, I was ’n’ roll. Comics all perform a set plus a so dialed into sobriety that it wasn’t even a song, backed by a live band. Creator and GODDAMN question. I don’t think Vegas is a real trighost Josh Adam Meyers (Netflix’s F Is ger for me now. I look at people who are COMEDY for Family) will welcome the Amazing way too hammered and think, ‘That just Johnathan, Steve Byrne, Pete Giovine JAM January 16, doesn’t look like fun.’” and Joel Ozborn to the Jam January 16 at 8:30 p.m., On his strip-club DJ past: “I know a Backstage Bar & Billiards, with proceeds $10. Backlot of people who work at the Spearmint benefitting victims of the October 1 shootstage Bar & Billiards, Rhino. I judge myself against them. I used ing. We spoke with Meyers. 702-382to be a wedding and bar mitzvah DJ, so if On future Vegas possibilities: “The 2227. I go to a wedding or bar mitzvah, I kind plan is to hopefully start doing a monthly of study what they’re doing: ‘Ooh, you’re in Las Vegas. When Steve [Byrne] started bringing the Electric Slide out that early?’ naming comedians like the Amazing It’s the same thing as being a comic: ‘I wouldn’t Johnathan, I told him, ‘Please God, make this haphave opened with that bit.’ pen!’ He’s one of the first comedians I really knew I’m not competitive, but I do think I was the by name when I was a kid. I remember him drinkgreatest strip-club DJ who ever lived. I was defiing the Windex. I don’t know what song he’s doing, nitely the funniest.” but I’m insanely excited to have him. There will

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these Eggs Benedict dishes might change your life By Leslie VEntura If there’s one breakfast dish I could order for the rest of my life, it’s Eggs Benedict. Classic and comforting, it’s the perfect combination of simple ingredients: poached eggs, Canadian bacon and creamy Hollandaise piled atop a buttered, toasty English muffin. While the origins of this traditional NYC breakfast are muddled (the stories all lead back to guys named Benedict), there are new and outrageous takes on the standard emerging all the time. When the classic version won’t do, consider one of these spots for a second-wave Benny that’s sure to make your list of morning must-haves.

Spago Benedict

SERVED’S Corned Beef Bread Pudding Benedict

Wolfgang Puck can make anything feel fancy, and his approach to Eggs Benedict is no different. The maestro switches up the game with a duo of crispy three-bite latkes instead of the standard openfaced English muffin, then tops ’em with smoked salmon, poached eggs and a creamy white wine-based Meyer lemon béarnaise. The result is the best of two smoky, salty worlds, with a delicate crunch from the golden-brown potato pancake base. Hurry into Spago to enjoy it—the iconic restaurant will close January 27 before moving over to Bellagio this summer. Forum Shops, 702-369-6300.

This Henderson brunch spot offers eight(!) different variations of the Benedict, and the CBBP stands out as the most indulgent, over-thetop, must-order dish on the list. Two dense and crispy cubes of slightly sweet but oh-so-savory marbled rye “bread pudding” serve as the plate’s foundation, topped with tangy house-made corned beef, potatoes, poached eggs, Hollandaise and green onions. One warning: This baby is huge. Split an order with a friend, or prepare to take half to go. 1770 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, 702-263-0136.

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Speedee and satisfying The convenience-store chain has become a surprising craft-beer mecca By Jim Begley

But as the local beer scene has matured, so have Speedee Mart’s offerings. A dozen locations feature solid selections, heavily focused on locals like Big Dog’s Jameson barrel-aged Man’s Best Friend, alongside out-of-state rarities like Founders’ Canadian Breakfast Stout. Last year, Orluske added growler fill stations at a quintet of stores—which he says are now “killing it”—rotating in kegs of Pizza Port’s Bacon & Eggs coffee porter, Bad Beat’s lactose-tinged Milky Way New England-style IPA and Lovelady’s peanut butter-laced Paleo Porter, among others. Orluske acknowledges hitting a gas station for a great brew might seem a little strange. “There are a lot of negatives to [convenience] stores as far as perception,” he says. “Just watch an episode of Cops. Something’s going to go down at the convenience store.” But at Speedee Marts, what’s going down is amazing beer. “Selling energy drinks and water is a lot better for the bottom line, but it’s not nearly as fun.”

Served’s CBBP can feed a family. (Wade Vandervort/Staff)

Hexx Benedict Hexx at Paris Las Vegas might be best known for its chocolate and desserts, but replacing the Eggs Benedict’s English muffin with an inch-thick slice of buttery au gratin potatoes deserves an award, stat. Order a croissant on the side to soak up those perfectly poached, golden-as-the-sun egg yolks and an otherworldly Hollandaise, rich and seasoned with a hint of Tabasco. Add asparagus spears and a thick ring of juicy, salty Canadian bacon, and you’ve got a truly transcendent breakfast. The best part? They serve brunch till 4 p.m. on weekdays and 2 p.m. on weekends, so you can sleep in and still eat like a king or queen. Paris Las Vegas, 702-331-5100.

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ooking for a good craft brew in Las Vegas? You’re probably headed to your local Lee’s or Khoury’s. Or a nearby Speedee Mart. Wait, what? Yeah, you read that right. Unless you’ve delved deep into the local craft scene, you’re probably unaware that Speedee Marts across the Valley—yeah, the gas station convenience stores—are go-to destinations for sought-out brews, thanks to VP of Store Operations Paul Orluske. Orluske started in the business early in his youth, working summers for his Pop Warner coach’s beer wholesaler long before he could legally drink. That dalliance led to a lifetime of beer, working for SoCal distributors and landing in San Diego as the craft beer scene was beginning to develop. After relocating to Vegas in 1999 to help his father-in-law open his second Speedee Mart, Orluske began putting craft beers on the shelves. “And I watched it sit,” he says. “We couldn’t move it.”

“Ebb and Flow,” part of Celestial Abstractions. (Sun File)

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LIFE BEYOND Reality feels fluid in Benjamin Schmitt’s Celestial Abstractions By Dawn-Michelle Baude t a time when contemporary art is suspicious of cosmic grandeur, Benjamin Schmitt’s exhibition, Celestial Abstractions, promises a lot. References to the heavens, let alone the divine, are hard to pull off in our aggressively cynical age. And yet, there’s something “celestial” and otherworldly in the 13 paintings on display at Priscilla Fowler Fine Art. Deploying organic forms in an ambiguous, flattened perspective, Celestial Abstractions pings both Asian traditions and midcentury psychedelic art. At their best, Schmitt’s paintings allude to the enigmatic building blocks of life. “Ebb and Flow” (2017), a 9-by-3-foot triptych, steals the show. The fluid organic patterns spreading from one square canvas to the next recall Hokusai’s sea foam in the iconic print, “The Great Wave off Kanagawa.” Like traditional Asian artists, Schmitt eschews light and shadow, as well as linear perspective, composing his art-

work with contrasting lines in a flattened picture portrays the biologic activity caught in a raindrop plane. The fluid subject matter seems to be abor beneath a telescopic eye—wormy, blobby and stracted from a liquidy source, perhaps a photobursting with activity. Like other Schmitt works, graph of oil slicking a rain puddle or the the hardedge forms in “Colony” suggest promiscuous antics transpiring in a petri aaacc movement thorough shape and contrast, dish. Because there’s no fixed viewpoint, almost to the point that they’re ready to Benjamin the eye flits from one hardedge shape to crawl. Schmitt: the next, as if encountering a panoramic Pieces such as “Moth Etc” (2016) and Celestial view without a central landmark. “Blue Ribbons” (2016) are less convincAbstractions Another successful work, “Pink Floe” ing—due, in part, to a lack of functional Through January 27; Wednes- negative space. In these paintings, the (2016), exhibits a similar flattened day-Saturday, perspective and restricted blue/white/ white ground doesn’t read as negative, so noon-6 p.m. red palette, but the delicate, amorphous it doesn’t recede into the picture plane. Priscilla Fowler Fine Art 1025 S. The result is a kind of visual incongruity subject matter is scaled up. The fleshy Main St. #155, pink and red figure, apparently a detail that deprives the composition of dimen719-371-5640. of a cropped form, vividly contrasts with sion. Coupled with simplified, often symthe icy-blue ground, almost as if it were metrical shapes, these works seem largely an infrared zoom of frigid Nordic waterways decorative; in another case, overwrought. That or an amoeba in heat. With its rounded picture said, Celestial Abstractions well repays a visit, plane, “Colonies” (2016) takes a slightly differparticularly for those otherworldly paintings jigent tack: The small format painting seemingly gling with life.

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LA shoegazers Cold Showers hit the Bunkhouse on January 17. (Courtesy)

ARTIFICE Cosplay Prom ’80s Edition 1/12, 7 pm, $7-$20. Soul State: Rachel Torro 1/13, 10 pm. Burlesque Roulette 1/14, 8 pm, $10. The Downtown Jam 1/15, 9 pm, free. Karaoke 1/17, 10 pm, free. 1025 S. 1st St., #A, 702-489-6339. BACKSTAGE BAR & BILLIARDS All Hail the Yeti, Bipolar 1/12, 8 pm, $8-$10. Goddamn Comedy Jam 1/16, 8:30 pm, $10. Mustard Plug, Buck-O-Nine, Tiki Bandits, Light ’em Up 1/19, 8 pm, $15. 601 E. Fremont St., 702382-2227. BEAUTY BAR White Wizzard, Novareign 1/12, 8 pm, $10. Born Rivals, Worth Taking, Build Them to Break 1/17, 8 pm, free. Queens of Noise, Flight of Ryan 1/18, 8 pm, free. Unwritten Law, Runaway Kids, Silent X, Mercy Music 1/19, 8 pm, $18. Haunted Summer, Future Vinyls, Teddi & The Northern Lights 1/20, 8 pm, free. Esham, Donnie Menace, Late for Dinner 1/22, 9 pm, $10. KRS-One 1/25, 8 pm, $18. Mary Lambert, Mal Blum 1/26, 8 pm, $15. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. BUNKHOUSE SALOON The Delta Bombers, Will and the Hi-Rollers, Pope Paul & The Illegals, Cherry Rat 1/13, 9 pm, $12-$15. Karaoke 1/15, 9 pm, free. Cold Showers, Second Still, Von Kin, DJ Fish 1/17, 9 pm, $8-$10. Dreams Never Die, Arty Basqiyah, Mac Nealy, Chop808 1/18, 8 pm, $5-$7. The Union Drifters, Matt Morgan, Elko 1/19, 9 pm, free. Rock the Revolution 1/20, 9 pm, $5-$10. Karaoke 1/22, 9 pm, free. Honky Tonk Heavyweights 1/24, 9 pm, $5. Ceschi Ramos, Factor Chandelier, Sammus, DJ Kev P, Brother Mister, Gregory Michael Davis 1/25, 8 pm, $10-$12. Grace Mitchell, Hawaii, The Dirty Hooks 1/26, 9 pm, $15. Las Vaudeville 1/27, 8 pm, $10. Karaoke 1/29, 9 pm, free. Nick Thune, Brendon Walsh, Sam Tallent 1/30, 9 pm, $18. 124 S. 11th St., 702-854-1414. COUNT’S VAMP’D Fates Warning, Kill Ritual, Tyrants at Night 1/11, 8:30 pm, $15-$20. Janet Gardner, Stoked 1/12, 9 pm, $5. Mojo Risin (Doors tribute), Stoney Curtis Band 1/13, 9:30 pm, free. John Zito Electric Jam 1/17, 9:30 pm, free. 750 W. Sahara Ave., 702-220-8849. THE DILLINGER Michael Louis Austin 1/12, 8:30 pm. The Unwieldies 1/13, 8:30 pm. All shows 8:30 pm, free, all-ages unless noted. 1224 Arizona St., Boulder City, 702-293-4001. THE DISPENSARY LOUNGE Elijah Rock 1/12, 10 pm. Amanda King 1/13, 10 pm. Shows free unless noted. 2451 E. Tropicana Ave., 702458-6343.

EAGLE AERIE HALL Mastiv, Anti-Trust, NE Last Words, Splitsecond, FSTR SPRNT, Daughter Lily, MTMA 1/13, 5 pm, $10. 310 W. Pacific Ave., 702-568-8927

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GILLEY’S SALOON Scott Alexander Band 1/11 9 pm; 1/12-1/13, 10 pm. Western Fusion 1/17-1/18, 9 pm. Shows $10-$20. Treasure Island, 702894-7722.

BAOBAB STAGE THEATRE Dance Circle Gathering 1/11, 9 pm, $15. Town Square, 702369-6649.

WEST LAS VEGAS LIBRARY Peace Week 2018: Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1/14, 3-5 pm, free. 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702229-4800.

CLARK COUNTY LIBRARY James D. Gish: So in Love 1/13, 2 pm, free. Nik at Nite 1/16, 7 pm, free. UNLV Jazz Honors Combo 1/17, 7 pm, free. 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.

WINCHESTER CULTURAL CENTER Marlene Coker & The Las Vegas Hot Cole Orchestra 1/13, 7 pm, $11-$13. 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 702455-7340.

THE MOB MUSEUM Digital Swindlers: Organized Crime Infects the Internet courtroom conversation 1/11, 7 pm, $25. Daily, 9 am-9 pm. 300 Stewart Ave., themobmuseum. org.

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THE GOLDEN TIKI The New Waves, Prof. Rex Dart 1/13, 9 pm. 3939 Spring Mountain Road, 702-222-3196.

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DIVE BAR Demun Jones, Donnie Menace, NE Last Words, JoJo Blast 1/12, 9 pm, $8-$10. 4110 S. Maryland Parkway, 702586-3483. DOUBLE DOWN SALOON TV Party Tonight w/ Atomic Fish 1/11, 9 pm. Super Zeroes, Dead Money 1/12. Thee Swank Bastards 1/13. Prof. Rex Dart & The Bargain DJ Collective 1/15. Unique Massive 1/16, midnight. Goldtop Bob & The Goldtoppers 1/17. Shows 10 pm, free unless noted. 4640 Paradise Road, 702-791-5775.

THE GRIFFIN Dead Country Gentlemen, Kid You’re No Fighter 1/17, 10 pm, free. 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577. HARD HAT LOUNGE Single Brass Faction 1/6, 10 pm. 1675 Industrial Road, 702384-8987. RAW REMEDIES Dreamers Festival 1/16, noon-6 pm. 203 E. Colorado Ave., 702-900-3620.

THE SMITH CENTER (Reynolds Hall) Las Vegas Philharmonic: Musicians’ Choice 1/13, 7:30 pm, $30-$109. (Cabaret Jazz) Ms. Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton 1/12, 7 pm; 1/13, 6 & 9 pm; $39$65. (Troesh Studio Theater) Broadway in the H.O.O.D.: A Raisin in the Sun 1/12, 7 pm; 1/13, 2 & 7 pm; 1/14, 3 pm; $39. 702-749-2000.

WEST CHARLESTON LIBRARY Acoustic Eidolon 1/14, 3 pm, free. 6301 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-507-3940.

COCKROACH THEATRE The Wolves 2/12/18, days & times vary, $15-$25. Art Square Theatre, 1025 S. 1st St., #110, 725-222-9661. LAS VEGAS LITTLE THEATRE (Mainstage) Company 1/19-2/4, days & times vary, $21-$24. (Black Box) Time Stands Still 2/2-2/18, days & times vary, 14-$15. 3920 Schiff Drive, 702362-7996.

SAND DOLLAR LOUNGE Ol’ Fashion Depot 1/11. The Rayford Bros. 1/12. Hunter & The Dirty Jacks 1/13. Jocelyn & Chris Arndt 1/14. Matt Bradford 1/16. Jimmy Powers & The Hang Dynasty 1/17. Shows 10 pm, free unless noted. 3355 Spring Mountain Road, 702-4855401.

THE SPACE AJ Lambert 1/12, 10 pm, $35. Glasses 1/16, 9 pm, $10. 460 Cavaretta Court, 702-903-1070.

MAJESTIC REPERTORY THEATRE Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1/11-1/28, Thu-Sat, 8 pm; Sun, 5 pm;, $25. 1217 S. Main St., 702-478-9636.

SUMMERLIN LIBRARY Sacred Singing Bowls for Relaxation and Clarity 1/13, 2 pm, free. 1771 Inner Circle Drive, 702-507-3860.

NEVADA CONSERVATORY THEATER Fences 2/9-2/18, days & times vary, $28-$33. UNLV’s Judy Bayley Theatre, 702-895-2787.

STONEY’S ROCKIN’ COUNTRY Tim Montana, Kelsie May 1/12, 9 pm, $5-$20. Town Square, 702-435-2855.

UNLV (Artemus W. Ham Hall) Essentially Ellington Festival 1/18-1/19, 7 pm, $8-$10 per day. 702-895-2787.

SUPER SUMMER THEATRE A Baby Boomers’ Toast to Broadway 1/12-1/21, Fri-Sat, 7 pm; Sun, 2 pm; $25. 4340 S. Valley View #210, 702-579-7529.

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GALLERIES & MUSEUMS BARRICK MUSEUM OF ART (East Gallery) Preservation Thru 1/20. (West Gallery) Liminal Thru 1/20. (Baepler Xeric Garden) Katarina Jerinic: Astronomy of the Asphalt Ecliptic Thru 1/20. Mon-Wed, Fri 9 am–5 pm; Thu, 9 am-8 pm; Sat, noon-5 pm. UNLV, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-895-3381. BELLAGIO GALLERY OF FINE ART Samurai: Armor From the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection Thru 4/29. Daily, 10 am-8 pm, $16-$18. 702-693-7871. CHARLESTON HEIGHTS ARTS CENTER GALLERY Jeana Eve Klein: Past Perfect Thru 1/20. Reception 1/12, 6 pm, free. WedFri 12:30-9 pm, Sat 9 am-6 pm, free. 800 Brush St., 702-229-2787. CLARK COUNTY GOVERNMENT CENTER ROTUNDA GALLERY Holly Rae Vaughn: Collide Thru 1/19. Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm. 500 Grand Central Parkway, 702-455-7030. CLARK COUNTY MUSEUM Over Here: Clark County and World War I Thru 1/28. Daily, 9 am-4:30 pm, $1-$2. 1830 S. Boulder Highway, 702-455-7995.

The Bellagio’s Samurai exhibit runs through April. (Brad Flowers/Courtesy)

CSN (Fine Arts Gallery) Margaret Noble: Resonating Objects Thru 1/20. Mon-Fri, 9 am-6 pm; Sat, 10 am-4 pm. (Artspace Gallery) Marianic Parra: In Dreamy Solitude Thru 1/27. Mon-Fri, 8 am-10:30 pm; Sat 8 am-5 pm. 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., 702-651-4146.

Schmitt: Celestial Abstractions Thru 1/27. Wed-Sat, noon-6 pm. 1025 S. 1st St. #155, 719-371-5640.

DONNA BEAM FINE ART A Wail and a Clang Thru 1/20. Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm; Sat 10 am-2 pm. UNLV, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, 702895-3893.

RISE JW Caldwell: Cognitive Dissonance Thru 1/30. Holsum Lofts, 241 W. Charleston Blvd. #130, 510-936-4052.

LEFT OF CENTER Harold Bradford: A Thin Line 1/16-3/17. Tue-Fri, noon-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-3 pm; free. 2207 W. Gowan Road, 702647-7378. NEVADA HUMANITIES PROGRAM GALLERY Mojave: Transcendent Desert Thru 1/25. Mon-Fri, 1-5 pm, free. 1017 S. 1st St. #190, nevadahumanities.org. PRISCILLA FOWLER FINE ART Benjamin

WHITNEY LIBRARY Eric Vozzola: Low Res Thru 1/16. Ronda Churchill: 96 Hours 1/183/18. Reception 1/18, 5 pm, free. Mon-Thu, 10 am-8 pm; Fri-Sun, 10 am-6 pm. 5175 E. Tropicana Ave., 702-507-4010. WINDMILL LIBRARY Nevada Arts Council: Basin and Range Thru 1/22. Mon-Thu, 10 am-8 pm; Fri-Sun, 10 am-6 pm. 7060 W. Windmill Lane, 702-507-6030.

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