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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMY DAY According to NASA, the Las Vegas Strip is the brightest spot on Earth— not the best place to enjoy the night sky. But if you’re willing to drive 45 minutes, a world of stars opens up to the casual stargazer. Prior to International Astronomy Day (May 11), we spoke with Greg McKay of the Las Vegas Astronomical Society. His group will host a free event at Skye Canyon—Skye & Stars, May 11, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 7-10 p.m.—where amateur astronomers will point their telescopes toward the wonders of the universe.
WEEK IN REVIEW WEEK AHEAD EV E N T S T O F O L L OW A N D N EWS YO U M I SS E D
What are some noteworthy night sights? If you’ve never seen the moon through a telescope, you’ll be blown away. People take it for granted because it’s easy to see, but if you see it in a telescope, you get a lot of oohs and ahhs. Astronomy is not just a nighttime hobby. We have solar astronomers, too. ... We’ll be there in daytime doing solar observing. You can see sunspots [and] solar flares. Any tips for curious would-be astronomers? My biggest tip is don’t rush out and buy a telescope. Come to our events, talk to us, see what you’re interested in looking at. A telescope for beginners only costs $200. It’s not a super-expensive hobby [to get into]. Come to our [free] star parties and our monthly meetings at the CSN Planetarium. We try to make it easy on the pocketbook for people to come out and experience the night sky. What is the appeal of the skies? It’s the unknown. You look up and you see a little bright star, point a telescope at it and figure out what it is. The thing that hooked me was seeing Saturn through a telescope when I was 11. It’s a beautiful object. I look at the moon constantly. Every time I see it, I see something I never noticed. Do you recommend astronomy phone apps? They’re great [because] they get people interested. They’re fairly accurate, so they can identify stars and planets. They’re also kind of bad in that they mess up your night vision. If you’re in the city, you see something and want to know what it is, it’s great for that. If you go out to a dark sky site, it can ruin the feeling of just enjoying the stars above you. —C. Moon Reed
Former Vice President Joe Biden arrives for a campaign stop at the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades Local 159 in Henderson on May 7. Biden, visiting Nevada for the first time since announcing his candidacy, said he would raise the minimum wage and roll back President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, which critics charge have largely benefited the wealthy instead of working people. (Steve Marcus/Staff)
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STORIES FROM LAST WEEK VIRTUAL CAUCUSES? The Nevada Democratic Party, hoping to expand accessibility to its first-in-the-West presidential caucuses next February, has sent proposed changes to the Democratic National Committee that would allow registered voters in the party to participate via virtual online caucuses. Party officials are still working on many of the details of the proposal, including what such virtual caucuses would ultimately look like—think phone calls, online access, apps—and the security measures that will need to be taken. NO TRIPLE CROWN, NO POINT The owner of Maximum Security, the thoroughbred who was initially thought to have won this year’s Kentucky Derby, said May 6 that he would not be entered into the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown. “Really, there are a lot of other Grade 1 races the rest of the year for 3-year-olds,” Gary West told the Associated Press. “So we’ll let him gather himself and point to one of the other races. I don’t know which one that will be, but it will definitely not be the Preakness.” Maximum Security became the first Derby winner to be disqualified for interference. DNA DETERMINES 1972 KILLER Police said May 6 that DNA evidence has been used to identify the killer of an Indiana State University student in 1972. Terre Haute police chief Shawn Keen said that a DNA sample from a son of Jeffrey Lynn Hand was used to connect him to the killing of 19-year-old Pamela Milam. Milam’s body was found in the trunk of her car on September 1, 1972. She had been bound and gagged. An autopsy determined she died of strangulation. Hand died in 1978 in a shoot-out with police during an attempted abduction in the Indianapolis area. NORTH KOREAN MISSILE TEST North Korea appears to have tested a new short-range missile—and President Donald Trump’s resolve to keep it from doing more of the same in the future. The test May 4 was quickly played down by Trump and his top advisers, who noted it was not the kind of long-range missile leader Kim Jong Un has refrained from launching since 2017. Kim personally supervised the test of what experts believe was a short-range ballistic missile first displayed by North Korea at a military parade early last year.
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Meghan Markle, the American actress-turned-Duchess of Sussex after marrying Prince Harry, gave birth to the couple’s first child May 6, a baby boy weighing 7 pounds, 3 ounces. Harry said their son was a little bit overdue and that had given the royal couple more time to contemplate names, deciding on Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. The infant is seventh in line to the British throne and is the eighth great-grandchild of 93-year-old Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.
STATIC HOME PRICES SIGNAL A STABILIZING LAS VEGAS MARKET The calendar has turned, but the Southern Nevada housing market hasn’t. According to a report released May 8 by the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors, the median price for an existing single-family home sold through its Multiple Listing Service was $300,000 during April. The number represents no change from March, but it’s a nearly 4 percent year-over-year increase from the median price in Southern Nevada in April 2018. For February, the median price came in at about $296,200. The median price for a local condominium sold in April was $170,000, up about 2 percent from March and up almost 10 percent from April 2018, according to the report. Janet Carpenter, the association’s president and a longtime area Realtor, said April marks the first month since the same month in 2012 that an annual percentage increase has been as low as 3.8 percent. “This shows how the local housing market is stabilizing this year,” Carpenter said. “With gradually appreciating prices, there are more homes on the market and slower sales.” —Bryan Horwath
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THE STATUS OF MARIJUANA LOUNGES, BANKING AND LEGISLATION BY JOHN SADLER | WEEKLY STAFF
evada is coming up on two years of legalized marijuana. ¶ While a few of the issues that have surfaced under legalization were taken up by the state Legislature this session, most of the bills have failed to meet deadlines and were left up to other governing bodies or committees. ¶ From driving under the influence to taxation to where people can smoke cannabis, here’s a breakdown of where things stand.
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Driving Aden Ocampo-Gomez, a public information officer with Metro Police, said specific statistics on the cause of DUI arrests are not kept. The department does issue annual reports, however, which include overall DUI arrests. While 2018 statistics are not yet available, the number of arrests for driving under the influence did not increase substantially between 2016 and 2017—a time period that contains the first six months of marijuana legalization in the state. The number increased by 184—from 3,056 in 2016 to 3,240 in 2017. Again, this number is made
up of all arrests, not just pot-related arrests. Drivers may have two nanograms of marijuana per milliliter of blood or five nanograms of marijuana metabolite [a metabolite is what’s left of the drug after your body begins to break it down] per milliliter of blood while they drive. THC remains in your blood for a while after smoking. After one hit, smokers may have up to 100 nanograms per milliliter, which declines to single digits fairly soon. Levels of about 1-2 nanograms per milliliter may stay in the blood for up to 8 hours. Senate Bill 346, sponsored by state Sen. Dallas Harris, D-Las Vegas, would have allowed holders of
a valid registry card to drive with 100 nanograms of marijuana and its metabolite in their bloodstream. It’s been amended, however, to something entirely different: authorizing the Legislature to collect demographic data of marijuana-based business owners to determine if there are any disparities or unlawful discrimination in the business. In a study recently done in Michigan, which legalized marijuana late last year, a state committee found that setting a number for blood content could be problematic—scientific evidence indicates that increased use of cannabis creates a higher tolerance, meaning the more you consume over time, the more it takes to cause impairment.
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What about the banking issue? Because of federal regulations around marijuana—hint: It’s still illegal—banks are loath to take in money from marijuana-based industries, as federal law means they could conceivably be charged with money laundering. This means the whole business is conducted in cash, which raised numerous concerns about the safety of the business. More cash means a higher chance of burglaries, the thought goes. The state’s banking fix has died, leaving the issue up to the federal government.
On the state level, SB437, proposed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, would have created “marijuana limited charter banks and credit unions,” essentially banks with limited abilities that would allow marijuana-based businesses to pay taxes and business expenses with something other than cash. In a past Q&A with the Las Vegas Sun, Chris Giunchigliani, a member of the advisory committee for a Cannabis Compliance Board, said the state would not be able to enter the banking fight because of federal regulations. “We could not find a way after our hearing for the state to actually get into the banking issue, whether it was a credit union or our own state bank,” she said then. “None of that is allowed.” On a federal level, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., has co-sponsored legislation that would allow marijuana businesses in legal states to bank without fear of money laundering accusation. The issue has been backed by the Nevada delegation, including sole Republican Rep. Mark Amodei.
Where can I smoke? The issue of exactly where people can consume marijuana cropped up almost immediately after the plant’s legalization. As of now, private property is the only place consumption is allowed— hotel rooms and public street consumption are out. Which raises a question many have been trying to answer: In a state that relies on tourist dollars like no other, where can the tourists consume marijuana? Consumption lounges popped back up this session, but the bill died on the first legislative deadline. Assembly Bill 409, proposed by Assemblyman William McCurdy, D-Las Vegas, would have allowed county commissions to create a licensing process to create consumption lounges in their jurisdictions. These lounges would have had to be 1,000 feet away from any schools, could not have been based in airports and would not be allowed to let anyone under 21 inside. Alcohol would not have been allowed at these establishments either. The state officially recommends not mixing the substances. For now, on a state level, the waiting game has commenced and Clark County punted the issue to the state back in February.
LAS VEGAS ORDINANCE ON WEED LOUNGES COULD OVERSTEP AUTHORITY BY MIRANDA WILLSON Las Vegas’ decision to move forward with marijuana lounges could come into conflict with yetto-be-determined state regulation, said Chris Giunchigliani, a former Clark County commissioner who is on Gov. Steve Sisolak’s advisory panel for marijuana regulations. She questioned whether local ordinances on consumption lounges in Las Vegas or anywhere else could lead to inconsistent regulation of an industry that remains illegal at the federal level. “The whole thing is, when you’re dealing with a federally not-sanctioned issue, you don’t want to call negative attention to it and put the businesses at risk by moving too fast and not having consistent regulation across the state,” she said. City officials voted April 30 that lounges are needed to give visitors a place to legally smoke or ingest the substance, which became legal for recreational sales in Nevada two years ago. The city council approved the lounges on a 4-1 vote. Sisolak’s cannabis advisory panel is in the process of determining rules to regulate the new industry, including the formation of a Cannabis Control Board. The board would be tasked with determining when and where consumption lounges would be allowed, if at all. It could differ significantly from Las Vegas’ ordinance. “My question still as a city resident is, I don’t know where [the council’s] authority comes from,” Giunchigliani said. “None of the other jurisdictions have moved forward because they need consumption law to occur.” The Clark County Commission, for example, weighed crafting an ordinance around marijuana lounges but voted to wait for guidance from the state in February. Nonetheless, County Commissioner Tick Segerblom—an advocate of legal marijuana businesses in Nevada—said he supports allowing consumption lounges in Las Vegas, with or without state legislation. He added that the county commission might revisit a consumption lounge ordinance of its own for unincorporated Clark County if things move too slowly at the state level.
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pider-Man squirms and contorts his way out of the Joker’s grip, flipping onto his back like his agile, superhuman arachnid namesake. The next instant, Spidey launches into the air, delivering a swift kick to his opponent’s face. It’s going down at the LVL Up Expo, an annual anime and video game convention that takes place each spring at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Starting last year, the event began incorporating wrestling into its offerings, in partnership with the local promotion company Versus Pro Wrestling. If Las Vegas seems like a natural fit for independent professional wrestling, that’s because it is. It’s high-octane fun—adrenaline-laced action and entertaining story lines, each match telling the tale of a villain and a hero, respectively known as the heel and the face. Think Hulk Hogan and Randy “Macho Man” Savage, pile drivers and backbreakers—but on a much smaller scale. A one-off megaevent like All Elite Wrestling’s Double or Nothing bash (coming to town on May 25) can sell out MGM Grand Garden Arena in a matter of minutes. But independent local wrestling? That’s something else entirely; it’s loaded with grassroots charm and has been steadily growing its Vegas fan base. “Vegas has really become a hot spot for pro wrestling,” says popular local wrestler Brett Hyde, better known by his ring name, Damian Drake. “People want to be entertained, but they can’t always go to the movies or Cirque du Soleil. Wrestling is just another entertainment [option here] if you don’t want to go the casino.”
Mondo Deniro and Mondo Rox leg drop onto Dusk during a Versus Pro Wrestling match at the LVL Up Expo. (Wade Vandervort/Staff)
Vegas-based promotion and training school Future Stars of Wrestling— run by Joe DeFalco, who could be considered the Vince McMahon of Vegas wrestling in terms of influence—will celebrate its 10-year anniversary in June. Sinn Bodhi’s Lucha Libre Las Vegas has seen its audiences grow since launching in 2017. Big Valley Wrestling is a family-friendly promotion, and Versus Pro Wrestling, run by Vegas record producer Kane Churko, frequently finds itself faced with a good problem: crowds that hit their capacity. “This year has gone exceptionally well for us, even better than we thought,” Churko says. “Having the scene grow so much, I think a lot of people wondered if there was space for everyone, if it would squeeze some people out or hurt someone’s bottom line. I think it’s actually the opposite. The pie is getting bigger.” When Churko isn’t booking wrestling matches, he’s running the Hideout Recording Studio with his father, Kevin Churko, working with heavy-rock acts such as Ozzy Osbourne, Five Finger Death Punch and Papa Roach. Kane Churko explains that the two industries are more similar than you might imagine. “For me it’s like putting on a multiband show—all the wrestlers are kind of like their own little band, and the ring is the stage.” Churko got into wrestling a few years ago after his friend—and now VPW partner—Wes Logan brought him to a match. “I’d never seen actual wrestling in the flesh,” says Churko, who watched WWF (now WWE) as a kid but hadn’t viewed wrestling of any kind in years. Churko’s passion was reignited. “I loved it, especially compared to watching it on TV. It was a whole differ-
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ent experience, much more punk rock. I relate it to music a lot. It’s in your face, people are falling in your lap, and you’re getting the elements on you.” Before launching his own promotion company, Churko started training to become a manager at the Future Stars of Wrestling school—also known as the Snake Pit—a route that many amateurs take. There, he learned the ropes under Bodhi, a former WWE star and head coach at FSW. What does a pro wrestling manager do? “Lie, cheat and steal,” Churko laughs. In the ring, the lines between real life and fantasy are blurred, and that’s half the fun. “It was scary. Really fun, but at the same time, it was a very immediate reality of, this is hard; it’s not painless,” Churko—resembling White Stripes-era Jack White in his fire-engine red pants, black tee and slicked-back hair—says at the LVL Up Expo. “Seeing how hard everyone really works, you almost don’t take that into account when you watch the show. Then you go behind the scenes and you realize these guys are training several days a week, several hours a day, doing everything from intense cardio to working on their look and their bodies.” Inside the expo, fans dressed in their cosplay best have gathered on the convention floor to watch two robots fight to their battery lives’ end. Churko explains that Versus differentiates itself from other wrestling companies in town by focusing on video game culture, and, “for lack of a better word,” he says, nerd culture. Video games and anime focus on fandom and gripping narrative arcs, so wrestling is a perfect fit. “We incorporate a little bit of extra comedy, [so] it’s very familyfriendly,” Churko says. “It provides a sense of overall fun and lightness.” You can’t talk Las Vegas pro wrestling without nodding to GLOW, the Netflix series based on the real 1986 professional wrestling promotion, the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. The TV show takes place in LA, but in real life, the matches were held here, at the now-shuttered Riviera. Many of the wrestlers were professional dancers and showgirls recruited from local casinos, and according to reports, this summer’s third season will find the gals hitting the road for Vegas, paying homage to GLOW’s historic ties to the city. GLOW might have paved the way for women to get involved in wrestling, but it was reportedly plagued with sexism and other issues. The late ’90s apparently weren’t much better for female wrestlers.
Wrestlers perform during a Versus Pro Wrestling match at the LVL Up Expo. (Wade Vandervort/Staff)
Mazzerati and Delilah Doom perform inside the Future Stars of Wrestling ring. (Krystal Ramirez/Special to the Weekly)
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After a quick grapple, one of them flings himself off the ropes but doesn’t land his move. “Fifty squats!” Bodhi exclaims. The action stops as everyone in the room obeys his command. “Three, four, five, six …” The students beginning counting, their legs buckling. One wrestler’s face contorts as he struggles in pain. “Relax,” Bodhi tells him calmly. A few minutes later, someone else makes a mistake. The punishment? Fifty more, as Bodhi watches, smiling. “I want to train these guys and girls to think with emotion and to think in storytelling,” Bodhi says. “As a coach, I don’t want to be mama bear or papa bear—I want to be just right.” Bodhi takes an unusual approach to coaching. A disciple of Jake “The Snake” Roberts, he incorporates much of the WWE Hall of Famer’s in-the-ring psychology. And he’s tough where it counts. “The old-school way was, they would train you till you broke. They just wanted to see if they could weed you out. No crying in baseball, no refunds in wrestling,” Bodhi explains over coffee at the Jokers Wild casino. “I’m not Mother Teresa by any means, but I enjoy invoking a lot of positive emotions. It’s an emotional roller coaster, and it’s our job to take you on that.” Bodhi still wrestles, mainly on the Lucha Libre circuit, and he also runs Freakshow Wrestling, a promotion that incorporates circus and carny acts into one unforgettably wild show. In the ring, Bodhi cuts a menacing figure, dressing like a killer clown. But up close he’s warm and friendly—and full of wisdom and aphorisms, which he shares liberally. He says things like, “Butterflies, they’re high-octane. If left unchecked, they’ll burn you up. But if you harness those butterflies, they make awesome fuel.” He’s like a modern-day Mr. Miyagi, and it’s little wonder students and wrestling fans adore him.
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stars,” DeFalco says. “But [professional wrestlers] Eli Drake, Brian Cage, they all started with us in 2009, 2010.” Fast-forward to 2019 and they’re big names in the wrestling world. “I look at FSW as guys that are super, but you just don’t know who they are yet because they haven’t had their break,” DeFalco says. Shane Strickland? He’s signed to WWE. Kevin “Killer” Kross? He’s signed to Impact Wrestling. And both pros got their start at FSW. Chris Bey, Damian Drake and Mazzerati are some of FSW’s most popular wrestlers right now, and any one of them could break big soon. Considering wrestling is a young person’s activity—most participants burn out as they age—there’s a lot of room for turnover. And that means FSW will always have new faces looking to ride the next wave.
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HOW DO THEY DECIDE WHERE TO PUT CROSSING GUARDS? All City Management Services partners with the local municipalities, not the school district, to determine where to place crossing guards, and engineers scout the schools’ parameters to see where they may be needed. Crossing guards are only assigned to elementary schools. In some instances, middle schools are close enough to an elementary school that a crossing guard can help both student populations, said Dan Kulin, a public information officer for Clark County.
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ome local thoroughfares— with their wide, multiple lanes and high speed limits— are designed for drivers to navigate through the vastness of the rolling desert. But that means they can be a hazard for pedestrians. In Nevada, 353 pedestrians died and 720 were seriously injured from 2012 to 2016, according to a report by Zero Fatalities, Drive Safe Nevada. The elderly and the young are most at-risk, said Erin Breen, director of UNLV’s Vulnerable Road Users Project. “Children don’t have the body mass to absorb the impact and the elderly are fragile,” Breen continued. That makes crossing guards especially important for helping students in the Clark County School District get safely to and from their schools. In the morning before classes start, and late in the afternoon, 60-year-old Lola Winbush leads students of Gene Ward Elementary School from one side of the street to the other. For eight years, five days a week during the school year, she stands vigilant on the corner of East
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WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A CROSSING GUARD All crossing guards in the Las Vegas Valley, 675 to 700 at a given time, are employed through All City Management Services (ACMS), the largest provider of school crossing guards nationally. The company took over duties locally from Metro Police more than a decade ago and has contracts with four Valley municipalities. Crossing guards with ACMS must pass a physical exam, a background check by the Department of Homeland Security and undergo extensive training with a supervisor before they can work locally, said Paul Kmetz, regional manager for ACMS. Pay ranges from $9.25 to $9.75 per hour, depending on the municipality, and guards are paid 2.5 to 3 hours per shift. For safety and legal reasons, each crossing guard is required to have a milliondollar insurance policy. In the instance that tragedy strikes, it ensures that municipalities and ACMS have the funds to pay victims, Kmetz continued. There are volunteers who
act as crossing guards, but their duties are limited to school parking lots. While efforts are regularly discussed to improve pedestrian safety on a larger scale and include crosswalks, lights, bike lanes and narrower traffic lanes, crossing guards, such as Winbush, ensure the safety of Las Vegas schoolchildren. “I take pride in being at work every day,” Winbush said. “My kids see me every day. If I take time off, they say ‘Miss, where were you?’ That fills my heart that they care that I’m here.”
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PEDESTRIAN DANGERS BY THE NUMBERS
■ 1 of 10 pedestrians hit will die in a vehicle crash of 20 mph
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The Clark County School District, UNLV’s Vulnerable Road Users Project and local municipalities partner on the Safe Routes to School program, an international initiative that encourages children to walk and bike on their daily commute to school. The program teaches students how to walk or ride to school safely through education, encouragement, enforcement of laws and more. The program is federally funded, and the district and its partners help parents find safe routes to school. To find a route for your child, or learn more, visit clarkcountynv.gov/publicworks/services/Pages/ SafeRoutetoSchool.aspx
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BROOKLYN BOWL FRED ARMISEN The erstwhile Saturday Night Live cast member, denizen of Portlandia and former Trenchmouth and Blue Man Group drummer presents the self-explanatory showcase “Comedy for Musicians but Everyone Is Welcome.” His co-star, Mary Lynn Rajskub, is a comedy stalwart you’ve seen in seemingly every movie and TV show you can name. 7:30 p.m., $30-$55. –Geoff Carter
SAT, MAY 11 smith center’s Reynolds Hall
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Conductor Donato Cabrera and company close out Las Vegas Philharmonic’s 20th year with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, which has the dual distinction of being the first choral symphony (featuring four vocal soloists and a chorus in the final movement) and the composer’s last. 7:30 p.m., $30-$109. –Genevie Durano
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Part of the town’s Historic Preservation Day Celebration, the Boulder City bash returns for its eighth installment this weekend, and it’s gearing up to be the biggest one yet. Every second Saturday in May, the Dillinger restaurant shuts down a few blocks of Arizona Street in the quaint Downtown area for an all-ages gathering complete with music, food trucks, vendors and more. “You can say we’ve honed in the art of block partying,” says event organizer Tsvetelina Stefanova. The prestigious beer drinking competition will be back, along with new competitions like Best Dog on the Block and Best Dad Noise. This year’s version will also feature live music from LA rapper Biz’ DirtyHarvard, Boulder City favorites the Junkyard Dogs, Sandy Nelson and Same Sex Mary and more, with Burger Records co-founder Lee Burger spinning vinyl between sets. The block party also serves as a fundraiser for the Shane Patton Foundation, which provides scholarships to local high school students. And it all kicks off with a parade led by Boulder City High School’s marching band. 3 p.m.2 a.m., free. –Leslie Ventura
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Kevin Ford, Trevor Dahl and Matthew Russell leveled up when they released “Be the One” with Kaskade on Spinning Records back in April. Now you can conquer the weekend when the electronic trio takes over the Palms’ epic new dayclub. 11 a.m., $20-$25. –Leslie Ventura
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Celebrate Las Vegas’ Wild West past by watching this classic event, which has been passing through the Fourth Street parade route since 1934. Enjoy floats, marching bands and horses at the throwback community gathering. 10 a.m., free. –C. Moon Reed
SAT, MAY 11 WINDMILL LIBRARY LIBERACE LIVES! How do you celebrate the 100th birthday of a late Las Vegas legend known as Mr. Showmanship? Two pianos! Musicians Philip Fortenberry and Spencer Baker honor Liberace with this dueling performance. 3 p.m., free. –C. Moon Reed
MON, MAY 13 BUNKHOUSE SALOON TOPS The Montreal indie foursome’s new video finds vocalist Jane Penny exploring Berlin to hazy 2017 cut “Topless.” You just have to find your way to 11th Street. With Video Age, No Tides. 9 p.m., $12-$15. –Spencer Patterson
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KASKADE May 10-11, $25-$40. KAOS, 702-953-7665.
ike most of us, Kaskade was initially blown away by the size of the Palms’ KAOS night and dayclub, but he got to see the plans ahead of time. There’s also that whole thing of him being one of the most famous DJs in the world and flying everywhere to perform at the biggest clubs and festivals in existence. “I think everyone is blown away. There’s nothing of this magnitude in Vegas or even in our country that I’m aware of,” he says. “You hear these stories of megaclubs, but I don’t think there’s anything as mega as KAOS.” Kaskade is nothing less than a Vegas club institution. He has played every major venue that has ever existed on or off the Strip, so it makes perfect sense that the Palms signed him as one of KAOS’ first resident artists. “Working with the team at the Palms was the big draw for me, bringing in new, fresh and innovative ideas,” says the 48-year-old DJ, producer and co-creator of the Sun Soaked Festival. “These guys are part of the reason clubs are so big [in Las Vegas], and they’re really pushing themselves to try new and interesting things in this space and redefine what a megaclub is and what a live music venue can be in Las Vegas.” Programming various genres and different styles of performers attracted Kaskade to KAOS. He’s back this weekend at the nightclub Friday and the dayclub Saturday, and last Sunday he collaborated onstage with pop electronic duo Breathe Carolina. Talking on the phone from Bali while getting a little extra downtime after playing at Marquee in Singapore, he says he’s planning more unique shows at his new Vegas home in the future. Ten years ago, Kaskade was asked
to help create a new Vegas nightlife experience at Encore, leading to a groundbreaking residency at Encore Beach Club. Since then, he has been a fixture at the hottest venues in the new global clubbing capital. “I think I’m kind of like everyone’s lucky rabbit foot,” he says of his sustained success here. “I was there when people were saying this would never work, one of very few people saying, no, electronic music can work. It’s funny to think now, but the entire industry and most of my friends and colleagues were laughing it off because it was such a European concept, and now a decade later, people have kind of forgotten about Ibiza. I mean, a residency there is obviously still important, but Vegas is insanely important.” Kaskade will be spending much of his summer at KAOS, where several artists he recommended (like Gorgon City and Cheat Codes) have joined him on the roster. But he’s also focusing on Sun Soaked, the third-year oceanfront fest in Long Beach, California, that doubled in size over its first two events. He has partnered with Live Nation to oversee its growth to two days this year, July 13 and 14. “I could only do it quietly for so long, and two years was that limit,” he says. “One of the problems I had growing it from 12,000 to 30,000 people was making sure the overall experience was everything it needed to be, so [Live Nation] will help me regulate it and make it the best fan experience possible. “I’ve played various festivals and events on the beach around the world, and it’s always been a special place for me. It’s two things I love coming together, and this year we’re taking it to two days and making it the best weekend on the beach ever.”
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t’s Las Vegas’ longest-running gay pool party, and this Gay Men’s Club of Las Vegas are just a few of the LGBTQ week Temptation Sundays celebrates its 10-year angroups that hold meetings and conferences at the Luxor, niversary at the Luxor. The party drew nearly 14,000 he says. The property also supports the local LGBTQ guests over the course of its 2018 season, and 2019 community through Las Vegas Pride, the Human Rights appears poised to be even bigger. Hosted by J.Son of Campaign and more. Nakedboynews.com, Temptation Sundays kicks off May This season will see the return of DJ Mattmon, along 12 and runs through September 1. with special guests throughout the summer, go-go boy eye “Temptation Sundays has become an iconic candy, unicorn pool floaties, weekly drink specials Temptation and more. A sizzling 10-year anniversary celebrastaple of gay culture in the city because its incluSundays sive, relaxed atmosphere creates a safe place for tion will take place July 28, commemorating a 1 p.m., people to spend time, regardless of their age, race decade of fun in the sun. “The positive energy our $15-$25. Luxor, 702-262-4000. or how they identify,” says Tim Evans, marketing guests, whether locals or visitors, bring every week director for Luxor. “Our 10-year relationship with is palpable and is really what makes our event so J.Son, Temptation Sundays’ host and promoter, successful,” Evans says. has only served to foster that environment, and the Luxor Temptation Sundays run from 1 to 7 p.m. all summer. staff who regularly work the event treat our guests with a Hotel guests, locals, military and emergency service level of respect they’ve come to expect and appreciate.” members with valid ID receive discounted admission, Since launching Temptation Sundays in 2010, Evans and cabanas are also available for purchase. Temptees says, the Luxor has established its reputation in Las Vegas can sign up for the guest list and receive free entry before as one of the most LGBTQ-friendly properties in the city. 2 p.m. by visiting VegasGayPoolParty.com, Luxor.com/ Las Vegas Pride, the Las Vegas Prime Timers and the Big LGBT or Facebook.com/LuxorLGBT.
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QUEEN FOR A DAY WARM YOUR MOTHER’S HEART WITH A FANTASTIC MAY 12 BRUNCH BY LESLIE VENTURA he carried you for nine months, yet there’s only one day to devoted to her every May. This year, we’re taking the guesswork out of your planning, so you can treat Mom with just a simple reservation. Joe Vicari’s Andiamo Italian Steakhouse at the D (702-388-2400) will host a prix-fixe brunch complete with bottomless mimosas. Andiamo serves up luxe breakfast staples like salmon Benedict and indulgent cinnamon-apple-stuffed French toast, along with wild mushroom-stuffed chicken breast, short-rib hash, shrimp cocktail, smoked salmon avocado toast and a selection of Danishes and other pastries. For $45, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better deal in town. Scott Conant’s Masso Osteria at Red Rock Casino (702-797-7097) also rolls out its seasonal brunch menu on Mother’s Day, with selections like lemon ricotta pancakes ($15), kale Parmesan salad ($15), oysters on the half shell ($15 for six or $28 for a dozen) and lots more—plus bottomless bloodies, Bellinis or mimosas for $25 more per person. Top of the World Restaurant (702-380-7777) inside the newly rebranded Strat (formerly the Stratosphere) hosts its Mother’s Day brunch in its famous 360-degree rotating dining room on the 106th floor. For $68 ($38 for kids 10 and under), guests can enjoy a vast array of breakfast and lunch items, including grilled salmon, lemon ricotta and raspberry crepes, pancake soufflé and crab cake Benedicts. The SLS’ acclaimed Mediterranean restaurant, Cleo (702-761-7612), will offer a brunch buffet accompanied by live jazz music from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for $55 a person ($10 for kids ages 3-10). The meal includes bottomless Champagne, mimosas and Bloody Marys, chilled shellfish, a carving station and more. And led by executive chef Gina Marinelli, Town Square’s La Strega (702-722-2099), is running a farm-to-table brunch promotion with creative dishes like Eggs in Purgatory in Calabrian pomodoro sauce ($16) and Panettone French Toast ($16).
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For a more Continental way to celebrate Mother’s Day, partake in afternoon tea, a ritual dating back centuries to pre-Brexit Britain. There are several places offering afternoon tea in town, and all of them recommend at least a 24-hour reservation (those finger sandwiches are a work of art and cannot be rushed). Set aside a couple of hours to fully enjoy this ceremony, which harkens back to a time of analog pleasures and parlor conversations. Mom will be pleased as punch. The Waldorf Astoria The Tea Lounge, located on the 23rd floor, offers an unparalleled view of the Strip in all its daytime glory. Scones come out warm and waiting for a dollop of Devonshire clotted cream, lemon curd or homemade jams, and with 22 loose leaf teas on the menu—from black to green and herbals— you’ll have a luxurious afternoon of catching up ahead of you. Daily, noon, 2 & 4 p.m., $48, 702-590-8888.
The Four Seasons Afternoon tea at the Veranda restaurant is a low-key affair before the happy hour crowd rolls in. Tea sandwiches, scones and pastries are served in the traditional three-tier stand, so you can work your way up from the bottom, from savory to sweet. Seven kinds of teas are on offer, including the Silver Leaf, a delicate white tea that pairs well with everything. Monday-Friday, 3-4 p.m., $35, 702-632-5121.
Rí Rá The Irish pub inside the Shoppes at Mandalay Bay offers two different tea experiences, the Dunbrody and the MacNean. Mismatched china adds to the charm as guests nosh on an assortment of finger sandwiches such as goat cheese and smoked salmon. Tea selections include traditional green, black and herbal teas, as well an assortment of florals. Daily, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., $24-$35, 702632-7771. –Genevie Durano
There’s a magical allure to a good hotel lobby bar. The thrill of possibly rubbing elbows with a local luminary, the clinking of crystal cocktail glasses and those plush armchairs you can sink right into. If walls could talk, these would certainly have great stories to tell. Mandalay Bay’s new Hazel Coffee & Cocktails might not have the years behind it like the classic bars after which it’s modeled, but it’s an elegant gem of a meeting space, where time slows down and the smallest luxuries can be appreciated. Hazel operates as a coffee and espresso bar from 5 a.m. to 3 p.m., then changes over to a cocktail bar for the evening set. Starbucks might do in a pinch, but those who take their morning or afternoon coffee ritual seriously will find lots to love here. It’s the touches like a chalkboard menu, combined with the illuminated bar and old-fashioned lighting, marble hexagon flooring, brass and gold finishes and Mandalay Bay’s beautiful crown molding that makes Hazel feel like it’s a bar from an entirely different era. Traditional cocktails like the Cosmopolitan and Manhattan ($16) are offered in both classic and modern versions. For early risers, Hazel is steeper than an average coffee shop ($5-$6 lattes and $8$13 breakfast sandwiches), and the pesto turkey sandwich ($13) resembles Starbucks’ mozzarella tomato panini for double the price. But if you’re looking for an elevated coffee or cocktail experience, consider Hazel as your next spot to indulge. –Leslie Ventura
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PAST AND PRESENCE VEGAS NATIVE JENNY LEWIS BRINGS HER EMOTIVE NEW MUSIC TO HOUSE OF BLUES BY ANNIE ZALESKI hen working on a creative project, artists tend to have a light bulb moment. For Jenny Lewis, the breakthrough song that cemented the direction of her fourth solo album, On the Line, was “Dogwood,” a haunting piano ballad about someone mired in a crushing argument. She also cites the torch song “Heads Gonna Roll,” a woozy, string-plucked number ripe with the knowledge that adventures have consequences. “The feeling is ‘Dogwood,’ but the story is ‘Heads Gonna Roll,’ and that’s why I put [the latter song] first,” she
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clarifies during a recent chat with the Weekly. “Because it’s like, ‘All right, this is where we’re at.’” On the Line is very much an album about trying to achieve emotional equilibrium. It boasts songs driven by sophisticated rock ’n’ roll instrumentation—plush organ, keening electric guitar and bass, tasteful percussion—that unfold with languid precision. Naturally, as Lewis plays these newer cuts live, she’s gleaning insights into her own evolution as a performer. “There are a lot of ballads, and there are a lot of tempos that really
take their time,” she says. “I find it easier to rock, because you’re creating all this energy and sound. But it’s very mature to be able to groove and take your time and not rush through it. I’m really trying to be present in the moment and let the songs be what they are. “Which some nights I’m like, ‘Oh, God, I wish this was f*cking faster,’” she continues. “And then I have so many songs, you know—a hundred songs or whatever to chose from. So every night I’m like, ‘How do I make this rock ’n’ roll fit with the past as well?’”
During the first round of touring, this has translated to a night skewing toward On the Line, with a few select Rilo Kiley chestnuts sprinkled in. “What if I did, like, a full emo concert?” Lewis laughs. “You know, I could go back to when I was 20. But I don’t always want to do that. Not that I don’t appreciate the younger artist version of yourself. You know? That’s you. That’s your writerly voice. That’s the process. But some nights I’m like, ‘Ooh, that’s a little embarrassing.’” Lewis was born in Las Vegas— her parents performed together in a
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band called Love’s Way, and her mother famously performed in a lounge at the old Sands while pregnant with Lewis—but left the city when she was very young. Recently, however, she has been more reflective about the connection between her past and present selves, mainly because she’s frequently discussed how the dissolution of her long-term relationship and the death of her mother influenced her latest album. Has this period of introspection given her new insights into her Vegas ties? “More will be revealed—which I think is the lesson in general,” she
says. “Vegas represents where I come from, and showbiz to a certain degree. And creativity, music that leads to love, and children. “When my father was passing, he was in this state, you know; you go to this place in between worlds,” she continues. “And he was right there in Las Vegas, on Las Vegas Boulevard— like, telling us. He was back in the ’70s in Las Vegas. And it was one of the most beautiful things I had ever experienced. It’s this mythical, beautiful place for me.”
death—reportedly from heart disease—last June, there was no end in sight for the group. The drummer had already laid down his tracks for Hellyeah’s next record, which the band later finished. “333,” the first single from that album, which is set for a June release, features one of the band’s most pulverizing performances to date. In a statement, Gray revealed that Paul had come up with the idea for the song. While he was known for being a “badass, slamming, smashing drummer,” Gray points out that he was so much more. “He understood production and composition, and he was very much a contributor to the writing process.” Hellyeah: A Celebration of the Life of Vinnie Paul will bring the group back together onstage at House of Blues for one night only, the band’s first performance since Paul’s death. It is expected that they will be joined by a number of guests to help pay tribute to the life and legacy of the legendary drummer.
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hen the members of Hellyeah first came together in 2006, it marked the culmination of more than half a decade of conversations between guitarist Tom Maxwell, then with Nothingface, and Mudvayne vocalist Chad Gray. As the idea finally began to take shape, they still needed a drummer and thought of Vinnie Paul as one possibility. The former Pantera member, still mourning the tragic 2004 loss of his brother, guitarist Dimebag Darrell, wasn’t sure he wanted to continue playing music, but, convinced by Maxwell and Gray, he ultimately decided to give it a shot. The intensity of the sludgy, chunky metal sound Hellyeah put down on album, starting appropriately enough with “Hellyeah,” the lead track on 2007’s self-titled 2007 debut—further galvanized by the power of Paul behind the kit—was proof positive that the team-up had been a smart one. In the years that have followed, Hellyeah has placed five straight albums inside the Billboard 200’s top 20, adding another significant chapter to Paul’s legacy. At the time of the Las Vegas resident’s unexpected
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BY ANNIE ZALESKI After a pause to headline both weekends of Coachella—where she jammed with four-fifths of ’N Sync and coaxed Justin Bieber onstage to perform his hit “Sorry”—Ariana Grande is back in her sweet spot: headlining the Sweetener World Tour. Here are five reasons why you should consider springing for a ticket to the pop megastar’s show at T-Mobile Arena.
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She’s at the top of her game. The pop star has always been prolific; in just six years, she has released five studio albums and been part of an impressive number of high-profile collaborations. Grande is in a particularly awe-inspiring groove right now, however. In the past year, she has released two full-lengths, 2018’s Sweetener and February’s Thank U, Next, both of which boast cohesive visions and little-to-no filler. Better still, both albums have pushed pop music forward by drawing on past golden ages—’80s R&B, ’90s hip-hop, ’00s electro—and giving them modern polish. Her creative confidence is off the charts, which helps make for a compelling live show.
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The setlist is geared toward new fans, but doesn’t forget die-hard Arianators. Unsurprisingly, the Sweetener World Tour setlist is dominated by newer songs, from Sweetener and Thank U, Next, plus Grande’s equally excellent 2016 album, Dangerous Woman. Yet she also nods to her nascent pop days with a highprofile medley of older material: the hip-hop throwbacks “Right There” and “Break Your Heart Right Back,” and the sparkling, ’80s pop nod “You’ll Never Know.” The back-catalog tunes fit in seamlessly with the flow of the concert—and highlight the consistency of her output.
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The show’s not about gimmicks. By nature, arena shows must be larger than life and contain massive multimedia bells and whistles to keep rafter-dwellers’ attention. But although Grande’s stage setup has some familiar accoutrements—an extended catwalk that encircles the audience, a smaller stage within the crowd, gigantic video projections and multiple costume changes—the music is always prioritized above gimmickry, which is refreshing.
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The concert amplifies her strengths. The big-venue spectacle never overshadows the real stars of the show: Grande’s songs and voice. Her music is never consumed by the larger space; in fact, hearing her songs in such a massive venue illustrates their airtight arrangements and hooks. From the show’s start (surging a cappella opener “Raindrops (An Angel Cried)”) to its finish (a massive sing-along to the hit “Thank U, Next”), her vocals dip and soar with powerful performance gravitas and subtle dynamics.
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The show is just plain fun. Many big-venue acts are so focused on running a tight ship and crafting a perfect show, they forget that concerts should be joyful communal experiences. Grande, however, is having a blast onstage. She and her dancers groove and skip around the stage and catwalk—singing together as if they were at a party blasting tunes, and amplifying the passion and emotion behind the music.
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materials (cardboard, crayons, rubber) and craft figure ideograms reminiscent of Keith Haring. techniques (papier-mâché, piñata medium) feel Ranging in height from 2 to 9 feet, the yellow naïve but are actually learned. Messages about the cardboard “caution” signage offers an alternative unseen laborers who built Las Vegas—and keep it Yellow Brick Road of labor. running—infuse the gallery wonderland. Similarly impressive, Gomez’s “At the Casino (the Among the highlights is Favela’s “Unlives they left behind for the work they do)” aaaac titled (Muppet Pile),” featuring eight is a 40-foot-long tour de force of figurative Justin Favela painting. Presented in a nonlinear narJim Henson creations, from Slimey to Snuffleupagus, in a belly-up heap. Renrative, various figures—Gomez’s parents and Ramiro dered life-size in piñata medium, their Gomez: Sorry and Favela’s mom (painted at home) and perky colors and adorable faces seem at anonymous casino workers (painted on for the Mess Through August odds with their compromised positions. the job)—alternate with weirdly poignant 3; MondayPerhaps they’ve been discarded off-set unpainted cardboard surfaces and a Friday, 9 a.m.or lost their footing, despite “Caution: figurative cutout. The result is a delicate, 5 p.m.; Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Wet floor” signs warning that work is mesmerizing composition symbolically Marjorie Barrick underway. Big Bird’s legs splay, his head recalling unseen labor through emotional Museum of Art, resting on a trash can, his pals lumped portraits and “empty” space. 702-895-3381. over and under him in a Pop Art swan By using the artists’ biographies to song of lost innocence familiar to imhumanize unseen labor, Sorry for the migrant children who learned English via Sesame Mess skirts both identity politics and victimizaStreet. In keeping with the exhibition’s tight, tion narratives. Favela and Gomez’s artwork formal coherence, the pyramidal puppet pile is provides insight into Las Vegas, and by extenechoed by other shapes—the towering silhouette sion, our culture. Once again, the Barrick has of the Luxor Hotel Resort, for example, and the mounted an innovative exhibition that makes our 21 “caution” signs with their triangular fallingcity proud.
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Scenes from the city What inspires Biscuit Street Preacher’s “ferocious” urban scenes? By Geoff Carter can best describe myself as a Neo-Expressionist painter, [but] philosophically I am human.” So reads the Facebook bio of painter Biscuit Street Preacher (born Robby Martin, though everyone just calls him Biscuit), whose “ferocious urban paintings”—enormous, vibrant and kinetic interpretations of city life that seem to grow and change even as you consider them—could only be the product of a searching human imagination, one under the influence of the most colorful city in the world. You can see two of Biscuit’s paintings displayed at the newly-renovated BLVD & Main Taphouse at the Strat—one that actually bends around a corner, the other an epic 64 feet long. Recently, Biscuit took a moment to talk about what inspired those works, and the scenes yet to come.
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Let’s talk influences. Well, back in the day it was Basquiat; that’s pretty obvious in my earlier work. But these days there’s two local artists that really have been influencing me, because of their sheer passion and their ideals and dreaming big. Sush Machida—I love how big he goes. And the other is Aaron Sheppard. I like what he’s doing right now; he’s really just exploring himself, finding the root of his art. How big of a role has Las Vegas played in the evolution of your style? Gigantic. It’s a city for dreamers, you know. Anything you can dream up is possible here. That idea was concreted when [my wife Mary and I] moved to Washington and Idaho for a while. You know, nice people, great little towns … but not a lot of big dreams, not a lot of gigantic aspirations. We ran back to Las Vegas because I like being around big dreamers, and my goodness, there’s no city like this on Earth. It’s one of the most colorful places you can find,
but it has influences from the deepest, darkest depths of mankind; some of the most beautiful things you will ever see. I attribute a lot of my creative identity and artwork to Las Vegas. I’m grateful to be here. Where do you go in town to get inspired? I’m in love with Main Street right now. Between Main Street and the Arts District, it’s finally happening. I like just walking up and down Main Street these days especially at night, with the lights hanging across the street; you get a whole different feel. What does the local arts scene need that it doesn’t have? I think Las Vegas is right on track. Like I said, I’m very excited about the Arts District and how it has grown. … Before, I shipped a lot of my paintings to Los Angeles, and I still do. But I’m getting more and more attention here.
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ENCORE BEACH CLUB Nightswim: Afrojack 5/9. Alesso 5/10. Nightswim: SayMyName 5/10. David Guetta 5/11. Nightswim: Nora En Pure 5/11. Galantis 5/12. Encore, 702-770-7300.
STAR OF THE DESERT ARENA Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds 5/25. Primm, 702-386-7867.
Foundation Room Seany Mac 5/9. DJ Konflikt 5/10. DJ D-Miles 5/11. DJ Presto One 5/12. DJ Sam I Am 5/13. Kay the Riot 5/14. DJ Sincere 5/15. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7631.
STARBOARD TACK Green Milk From the Planet Orange, Artless Candor, Farangs 5/13. 2601 Atlantic St., 702-684-5769. Stoney’s Rockin’ Country Sundance Head 5/10. Stephanie Quayle 5/17. Yankton 5/24. Kimberly Dunn 5/31. Town Square, 702-435-2855. SUNCOAST SHOWROOM CSN Express (CSN tribute) 5/11. Rockin’ the Paradise (Styx tribute) 5/25. 800-745-3000. SUNSET STATION OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATER Chris Janson 5/21. 800-745-3000. T-Mobile Arena Ariana Grande, Normani, Social House 5/11. Florence + The Machine, Christina & The Queens 5/17. 702-692-1600.
Mandalay Bay BEACH Juanes 5/26. 702-632-7777.
TopGolF Through the Roots 5/26. 4627 Koval Lane, 702-933-8458.
Mandalay Bay Events Center New Kids on the Block, Salt-N-Pepa, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, Naughty by Nature 5/25. 702-632-7777.
VEIL PAVILION The Guess Who 5/11. Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers, Ryan Hamilton & The Harlequin Ghosts 5/14. Silverton, 702-263-7777.
MGM Grand Garden Arena Carrie Underwood, Maddie & Tae, Runaway June 5/11. B2K, Mario, Pretty Ricky, Lloyd, Bobby V., Chingy, Ying Yang Twins 5/26. 702-531-3826.
Venetian Theatre Steely Dan 5/10-5/11. Kelly Clarkson 5/24. Anita Baker 5/31-6/1. 702-414-9000.
NINJA KARAOKE Blu & Exile, Choosey, Dag Savage, Pistol McFly 5/10. 1009 S. Main St., 702-487-6213. Orleans Showroom Bill Ray Cyrus 5/9-5/12. Air Supply 5/24-5/26. 702-365-7111. Park Theater Janet Jackson 5/17-5/18, 5/215/22, 5/25-5/26. Lady Gaga (Enigma) 5/30. Park MGM, 844-600-7275. Pearl CONCERT THEATER Lady Antebellum 5/10-5/11, 5/15, 5/17-5/18. Palms, 702-944-3200. THE Railhead Zeppelin USA (Zeppelin tribute) 5/11. Nick Schnebelen 5/16. Surfin’ (Beach Boys tribute) 5/25. Boulder Station, 702-432-7777. ReBar Pistol ShoeBox, Stanley Ave 5/10. 1225 S. Main St., 702-349-2283. Rocks Lounge Erotic City (Prince tribute) 5/25. Red Rock Resort, 702-797-7777. SAM’S TOWN LIVE Arnel Pineda 5/24. 702-456-7777.
Vinyl Leilani Wolfgramm 5/9. Silversage, Almost Normal, The Perks 5/10. Chelsea Grin, Slaughter to Prevail, Traitors, Bodysnatcher, Distinguisher 5/17. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5000. WESTGATE INTERNATIONAl THEATER Barry Manilow 5/9-5/11, 5/23-5/25. Femmes of Rock 5/11. Regine Velasquez Alcasid, Ogie Alcasid 5/18. 800-222-5361. ZAPPOS THEATER Pitbull 5/10-5/11, 5/15, 5/175/18, 5/22, 5/24-5/25. Christina Aguilera 5/31-6/1. Planet Hollywood, 702-777-6737. ZIA RECORD EXCHANGE Cromm Fallon (DJ set) 5/17. 1216 S. Rainbow Blvd., 702-233-4942.
clubs APEX SOCIAL CLUB Stonerokk 5/10. DJ Ever 5/11. DJ G-Squared 5/12. Palms, 702-944-5980. THE BARBERSHOP Cory Edward Brown 5/9. The 442’s 5/10. Dennis Quad & The Sharks 5/11. Cosmopolitan, 702-698-7000.
Chateau Bayati & Casanova 5/9. Paradice 5/10. Bayati 5/11. Paris, 702-776-7770.
Garrett, Debi Gutierrez, Jeff Arcuri 5/9-5/10. Debi Gutierrez, Jeff Arcuri, Matt Markman 5/9-5/12. Kevin Bozeman, Dave Burleigh, Brad Sherwood 5/13-5/14, 5/17. Brad Garrett, Kevin Bozeman, Dave Burleigh 5/15-5/16, 5/18-5/19. MGM Grand, 866-740-7711.
DAYLIGHT DJ Neva 5/9. Kid Conrad 5/10. Morgan Page 5/11. DJ Que 5/12. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-4700.
Brooklyn Bowl Fred Armisen, Mary Lynn Rajskub 5/11. Linq Promenade, 702-862-2695.
Drai’s BEACHCLUB Saint Clair 5/10. DJ Pauly D 5/11. Maria Romano 5/12. Cromwell, 702-777-3800.
The Chelsea Tom Segura 5/18. Cosmopolitan, 702-698-6797.
Drai’s Nelly 5/9. Fabolous 5/10. Big Sean 5/11. DJ Franzen 5/12. Cromwell, 702-777-3800.
COMEDY CELLAR Leo Flowers, Eddie Ifft, Louis Katz, Emma Willmann, Mark Cohen 5/9-5/12. Des Bishop, Jackie Fabulous, Matteo Lane, Mark Shiff, Mark Cohen 5/13-5/19. Butch Bradley, Traci Skene, K-Von, Rich Vos 5/20-5/21. Rio, 702-777-2782.
GO POOL Jenna Palmer & Exodus 5/9. DJ Supa James 5/10. Nina Sky 5/11. Koko & Bayati 5/12. Greg Lopez & JD Live 5/14. Flamingo, 702-697-2888. Hyde DJ Spydatek 5/9. DJ C-L.A. 5/10. DJ Karma 5/11. DJ Ceo 5/12. DJ Shift 5/14. Bellagio, 702-693-8700. Intrigue Elephante 5/10. Lost Kings 5/11. RL Grime 5/15. Wynn, 702-770-7300. JEMAA THE NOMAD POOL PARTY DJ Crykit 5/10. The Knocks 5/11 Kayper 5/12. Park MGM, 702-730-6784. KAOS Jauz & Southside 5/9. Dayclub: Vice 5/10. Kaskade 5/10. Dayclub: Kaskade 5/11. Eric Prydz 5/11. Dayclub: Cheat Codes 5/12. Slushii 5/12. Palms, 702-739-5267. Light DJ E-Rock 5/10. London on da Track 5/11. Saint Jhn 5/15. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-4700.
Encore Theater Jim Gaffigan 5/18. Wynn, 702-770-6696. JIMMY KIMMEL’S COMEDY CLUB Andrew Santino 5/9-5/12. Fahim Anwar 5/16-5/19. Linq Promenade, 702-777-2782. JOKESTERS COMEDY CLUB Derek Richards, Rick D’Elia 5/9. Rick D’Elia, PJ Molloy 5/10-5/11. Derek Richards, Rick D’Elia 5/12. Don Barnhart, Penny Wiggins 5/13-5/19. The D, 702-388-2111. L.A. COMEDY CLUB Greg Wilson, Kara Kimbrough 5/9-5/12. Rocky Dale Davis, Jozalyn Sharp 5/13-5/19. The Strat, 702-380-7711. LAUGH FACTORY Ismo, Jesus Trejo, Jay Mandyam 5/9-5/12. Bruce Bruce Thru 7/6. Greg Morton, Carl Labove, Manny Oliveira 5/13-5/19. Tropicana, 702-739-2411. Orleans Showroom Whitney Cummings 5/18. 702-365-7111. SAND DOLLAR LOUNGE Comedy 5/13, 5/20, 5/27. Spring Mountain Road, 702-485-5401.
Marquee DAYCLUB Tritonal 5/10. Chuckie 5/11. Cray 5/12. Cosmopolitan, 702-333-9000.
THE SAYERS CLUB Eddie Griffin 5/13-5/15. Mo’Nique 5/16-5/18. Luenell Sun thru 7/28. SLS, 702-761-7617.
Marquee Matoma 5/10. W&W 5/11. Vice 5/13. Cosmopolitan, 702-333-9000.
SUNCOAST SHOWROOM Sommore 5/18. John Norris, Chris Monty 6/21-6/22. 800-745-3000.
ON THE RECORD DJ Zo 5/10. DJ Skribble 5/11. Justin Credible 5/15. Park MGM, 702-730-7777.
Terry Fator TheatrE Daniel Tosh 5/10-5/11. Jay Leno 5/17. Tim Allen 5/18. Mirage, 702-792-7777.
TAO BEACH DJ Al 5/9. DJ Bliss 5/10. MikeAttack 5/11. Charlie Darker 5/12. Venetian, 702-388-8588. TAO DJ Five 5/9. DJ Wellman 5/10. Eric DLux 5/11. Venetian, 702-388-8588. XS The Chainsmokers 5/10. Alesso 5/11. Nightswim: Dillon Francis 5/12. Encore, 702-770-7300.
Performing Arts & Culture ArtificE Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School 5/16. 1025 S. 1st St. #A, 702-489-6339.
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THE CHANDELIER BAR Christina Tosi book signing 5/11. Cosmopolitan, 702-698-6797.
ACCESS SHOWROOM Sommore 5/17. Aliante Casino, 702-692-7777.
Charleston Heights Arts Center StorySlam: White Lies 5/18. 800 Brush St., 702-229-2787.
ART SQUARE THEATER Bleach Improv 5/17. 1025 S. 1st St., 702-383-3133.
Clark County Library Las Vegas Classical Guitar Ensemble 5/12. 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.
BONKERZ COMEDY CLUB Tobe Hixx 5/9. Susan Saiger, Jennifer Valley 5/16. Rampart Casino, 702-507-5900. Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club Brad
Clark County WETLANDS PARK Nathan Harper: Archaeology of the Wetlands Park 5/16. Nature Center Auditorium, 7050 Wetlands Park Lane, 702 455-7522.
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Galleries & Museums ALPHA VOYAGE GALLERY Larry Caveney Introspection 5/10-6/8. 3105 W. Tompkins Ave., 888-831-4844. Barrick Museum of Art (East & West Galleries) Justin Favela & Ramiro Gomez: Sorry for the Mess Thru 8/3. UNLV, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-895-3381. CORE CONTEMPORARY Leon Syfrit & Holly Lay: Blow-Out/Flow’r-Out Thru 5/31. 900 E. Karen Ave. #D222, 702-805-1166. Left of Center ART GALLERY Transitions: An Exhibition of Women Artists and Writers Thru 6/1. 2207 W. Gowan Road, 702-647-7378. Nevada Humanities Program Gallery Personal Space: Stereoscopic Nevada Thru 5/29. 1017 S. 1st St. #190, nevadahumanities.org. Sahara West Library Christopher Brandstetter: Detroit: Art in Decay Thru 5/26. 9600 W. Sahara Ave., 702-507-3630. SIN CITY Gallery 12 Inches of Sin 5/11-5/12. 900 Karen Ave., 12ofsin.com. West Charleston Library James & Christine Kim: Korean Brush Painting Thru 5/14. 6301 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-507-3940. Whitney Library Dale Cox: Paintings 5/97/9. 5175 E. Tropicana Ave., 702-507-4010. Windmill Library David Roberts: Beyond the Stairs Thru 5/12. Schmitt and Johnsen: Frozen in Flux 5/14-7/14. 7060 W. Windmill Lane, 702-507-6030.
West Las Vegas LIBRARY Fiesta del Mariachi 5/11. 951 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-229-2787.
VEGAS UNCORK’D 5/9-5/12. Various venues, vegasuncorked.com.
The Writer’s Block Poetry Promise reading series: Jericho Brown 5/17. 519 S. 6th St., 702-550-6399.
LOCAL THEATER Las Vegas Little Theatre (Mainstage) A Doll’s House, Part 2 Thru 5/19. (Black Box) Figments Thru 5/12. 3920 Schiff Drive, 702362-7996. NEVADA CONSERVATORY THEATER Legally Blonde Thru 5/12. Black Box Theater, 702-895-2787.
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Windmill Library Philip Fortenberry and Spencer Baker: Liberace Lives! 5/11. Korean Storytime & Craft 5/16. 7060 W. Windmill Lane, 702-507-6019.
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West Las Vegas ARTS CENTER Poets’ Corner 5/17. 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-507-3989.
Whitney Library James Norman: Pizza Poetry 5/10. 5175 E. Tropicana Ave., 702-507-4010.
Trick Riding • Giveaways Food & Drinks • Fashion
(Theater) Evening 5/15. Ninja Karaoke, 1007 S. Main St.
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SPORTS LAS VEGAS AVIATORS Salt Lake 5/9-5/10. Tacoma 5/11-5/14. Las Vegas Ballpark, 702386-7200. LAS VEGAS LIGHTS Colorado Springs 5/11. Cashman Field, 702-728-4625. UNLV SOFTBALL New Mexico 5/10-5/11. Eller Media Stadium, 702-739-3267. U.S. Finals Cheer and Dance 5/11-5/12. South Point Arena, 702-696-7111.
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How will the Vegas Golden Knights’ resolve William Karlsson’s
situation this off season?
Contract By Justin Emerson
W
illiam Karlsson sighs when asked the ques-
tions they held a year ago. Those resulted in a one-year deal
tion he’s grown accustomed to getting—and
worth $5.25 million. This time, it’s anyone’s guess. ¶ The
tired of answering. Any updates on a long-
issue last year was trying to determine the value of a player
term contract with the Golden Knights? ¶ “It’s nice to
who rose from relative obscurity to superstardom—in
have a long-term [contract], just to not have to deal with
the form of 43 goals and 78 points in Karlsson’s inaugural
these kinds of questions after every year,” the Vegas center
season with the Knights. Now, it’s figuring out the value of a
jokes. “This is where I want to be. Ever since I got here, I’ve
player who followed it up with a 24-goal, 56-point season—
been very happy, both on and off the ice.” ¶ Like many
still respectable but, in Karlsson’s words, “a little bit of a
jokes, this one is based in truth. Karlsson wants a long-
disappointment.” ¶ The negotiations will result in one of
term deal. And Vegas General Manager George McPhee has
five things. In decreasing order of likelihood, Karlsson will
repeatedly said he wants him here. Yet, Karlsson and the
1) sign a long-term deal, 2) sign a one-year deal, 3) hold out,
Golden Knights are headed for the same contract negotia-
4) get traded or 5) receive an offer sheet.
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QUESTION Trade
Offer sheet This is the least likely option, but worth examining in case it happens. Another team can offer Karlsson a contract, known as an offer sheet, which he can sign. The Golden Knights would then have seven days to match that contract. If they decline, Karlsson joins whichever team gave him the offer sheet, and the Golden Knights receive compensatory draft picks from his new team, depending on the value of his new contract. It’s a good idea in theory, giving rights to players before they hit true free agency. And a player like Karlsson, who has elite potential but is having trouble coming to terms with Vegas, seems like a prime target for an offer sheet. But don’t count on it happening. Ryan O’Reilly was the last NHL player to sign an offer sheet, and that happened in 2013. The last player to change teams was Dustin Penner way back in 2007, which suggests that if Karlsson winds up playing for a different organization next year, it will happen some other way.
If it’s clear there’s no deal to be made, the Golden Knights could decide to put Karlsson on the trade block, which would surely pique the interest of just about every team in the league. It’s rare for a center who’s proficient at both ends of the ice to become available. What might the Golden Knights receive in return? That’s unclear. A team trading for Karlsson would still have to work out a contract with him, so it would negotiate with Vegas on the assumption it was acquiring his rights for one season. Another high-scoring center, Matt Duchene, fetched the Avalanche first-, second- and third-round picks plus three prospects in 2017 when he was traded to Ottawa, but the Senators were acquiring almost two full seasons of Duchene. This year, when Duchene got traded again— this time to Columbus—Ottawa received a first-round pick, a conditional first and two prospects in exchange for half a season of Duchene. The acquiring team would have the same issue Vegas does in terms of figuring out how to value Karlsson, not only when it comes to sorting out the new contract but also in how much to send Vegas for the opportunity to try.
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HOLDOUT There’s no real deadline for Karlsson and Vegas to come to terms during the offseason, aside from the start of camp. If the contract dispute lasts beyond summer, Karlsson could miss preseason or even regular-season games. The two sides must put pen to paper by an established date—last year it was December 2—in order to be eligible for him to play here during the 2019-20 season. Teammate Shea Theodore held out last year, missing five preseason games before agreeing to his seven-year deal as a restricted free agent. Missing regular-season games isn’t a foreign concept either; Toronto’s William Nylander missed 27 this past season before signing on deadline day. So, yes, it’s possible the contract disputes with Karlsson could last into the fall.
ONE-YEAR DEAL This was last year’s compromise, a bandage that delays the issue without solving it. The team retains Karlsson’s rights for one more year before he becomes eligible for unrestricted free agency next July. At that point, a one-year deal would be highly unlikely, since Karlsson could negotiate with other teams, one of which would likely jump at signing him long-term. A one-year deal this offseason would be a “better than nothing” approach. On one hand, it would signal that Karlsson and the team couldn’t work out a way to keep him in Vegas for the long haul, clouding the 2019-20 season with the worry that it will be his last as a Golden Knight. On the other, it would allow Karlsson to come into camp with a contract and play the season, knowing the two sides could still hammer out an extension during the season.
LONG-TERM DEAL This is the option both sides have said they prefer. If they decide this is the way to go, deciding on the number of years would come next. Typically, players have fought for the security of eight years, as Mark Stone did when he received that term after Vegas acquired him in March. Expect Karlsson to want the same. He’ll be 27 in January, so this is his time to cash in big. It’s unlikely he can sign a bridge deal and make as much money on his next contract. The Golden Knights will likely push for a shorter deal, maybe in the three-to-five-year range. It allows the team to see whether he’s more like the 43-goal scorer of their inaugural season or the 24-goal scorer of last season, and mitigate the risk of signing a player who could decline on the other side of age 30. All told, a long-term deal remains the likeliest option. Karlsson seems happy in Las Vegas, and the Golden Knights would prefer to have him centering one of their top lines for years to come. The question is how both sides will get there, and what other path they’ll take if they don’t.
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Cash bail reform draws bipartisan support in Nevada By Miranda Willson | Weekly staff
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wo days before Christmas of 2013, Wiz Rouzard was at a stoplight when he noticed a homeless man begging for food on the side of the road. Feeling sympathy for the man, Rouzard stopped and rolled down his window. ¶ Cars behind him started honking, so the Las Vegas resident pulled into a Walgreens parking lot to give the individual food he happened to have with him. Then, a police car appeared. ¶ A Metro officer stepped out of the car and informed Rouzard that it is illegal to feed a homeless person from a vehicle in the street. Rouzard hadn’t broken the law, since he had pulled over first, but the officer determined that the police department had a warrant for Rouzard’s arrest because of a $50 traffic ticket Rouzard had failed to pay nearly a year earlier. ¶ Rouzard was arrested for the first time in his life for the unpaid parking ticket that he thought had been resolved months before. His bail for the $50 ticket totaled $2,000. ¶ He didn’t have the money to bail himself out of jail, but he was able to get someone to bail him out the next day. ¶ “I had to literally call a friend, who had to go to a bail bondsman, and I had to pay the bondsman [a $250 fee],” Rouzard said. “Then I had to appear in court the next day. And [the charge] was squashed.” Rouzard is now campaigning with Americans for Prosperity, a Koch brothers-funded conservative political advocacy group, for decreasing the incidence of cash bail in Nevada. AFP is part of a broad coalition of groups backing Assembly Bill 325, which would overhaul the bail system in the state by asking judges to use cash bail as a last resort, rather than “the default,” said Assemblyman Ozzie Fumo, D-Las Vegas, the bill’s sponsor. The intention of bail money is to ensure that someone who is accused of a crime will show up to court for a hearing. In Nevada, a standardized bail schedule is applied based on the crime for which someone is arrested; for example, the standard bail for graffiti is $1,500. Defendants are expected to pay the
bail, and then they get their money back after their court hearing. If they can’t pay, they often remain in jail until their hearing. Fumo, a practicing attorney, says the cash bail system here leads to thousands of Nevadans being held in jail for days, weeks or months before they’ve been convicted of a crime, solely because they can’t afford their bail. Supporters of AB325, such as pastor Raymond Giddens Sr. of Unity Baptist Church in Las Vegas, say that when poor or indigent people can’t pay their bail and are kept in jail indefinitely, it can turn their lives upside down. “People lose their jobs over parking tickets,” Giddens said. “Some people have lost their homes even. They’re not able to pay their mortgage or their rent and they’re out on the streets. Unless
you have a family to stand with you in times like that, it’s rough.” In addition, supporters of pretrial reform say the current system comes at a hefty cost to taxpayers—Clark County spends $150 a day per inmate in its detention centers, Metro reports —and results in overcrowded jails. “It’s a fallacy to say we need to keep them in there because they’ll flee. It’s a fraud,” Fumo said. “And it’s costing hardworking Nevadans millions of dollars a year.” Under Fumo’s reform bill, anyone arrested for a crime who is able to pay their bail would be permitted to post it and get out of jail. Those unable to pay, however, would have to see a judge within 48 hours of their arrest to limit pre-conviction jail time. At their own discretion, the judge
could then determine the best way to ensure the defendant’s court appearance without using cash bail, such as putting the defendant on house arrest or ordering them to go to counseling sessions. These measures would cost taxpayers less and would be less disruptive to the defendant’s life than sitting in jail, Fumo said. “My bill says to the judges, ‘Look at cash last,’ ” he said. In addition to AFP, supporters of AB325 include the ACLU of Nevada, the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada and faith organizers in Clark County, among others. For Holly Welborn, policy director of the ACLU of Nevada, the bipartisan support for cash bail reform reflects the “grave injustices” of the current system, both from the perspective of
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defendants and of taxpayers financing overflowing detention centers. Welborn added that the ACLU and other groups support the bill because it would establish standards statewide for how courts deal with individuals awaiting trial, reducing the use of standardized bail schedules that are inconsistent across jurisdictions. “One of the main things that bail reform, at least the type we’re looking for, [would bring] is some kind of uniformity across those systems,” Welborn said. Finally, supporters see cash bail reform as a necessary way to reduce incarceration rates overall. Under the current cash bail system, defendants who are unable to pay their bail are more likely to plead guilty simply because it will get them out of jail, which can lead to harsher convictions. “Defendants will tell their attorneys, ‘Just get me out of here,’ ” Fumo said. Cash bail reform in Nevada isn’t without its skeptics. District attorneys from Clark County, Carson City and Henderson expressed opposition to AB325 at a hearing in March, saying it would strip judges of their ability to use bail to ensure the appearance of a defendant in court and could jeopardize public safety. At the March 21 hearing, Henderson Senior Assistant City Attorney Marc Schifalacqua offered a scenario in which under the current bill, it would be more difficult for a judge to force an individual arrested for stalking someone to remain in jail while awaiting trial. “Under this bill, this would take away a judge’s discretion to even tell or order a defendant that has done those things ... to not go to [the alleged victim’s] place of employment, to not go to her home, to not go to her children’s school,” Schifalacqua said. The City of Henderson declined to share the City Attorney Office’s stance on the bill, and the Clark County district attorney did not re-
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spond to requests for comment. Other critics of AB325 include bail bondsmen, who lend money to defendants who can’t pay their bail and charge a fee for these services. Bail bondsman Daryl Byron DeShaw of Dad’s Bail Bonds argued that bail can be a more affordable option than house arrest for some defendants, and that bail is the best way to ensure that people show up for court. “Do we need bail reform? Absolutely,” DeShaw said. “But we should start with the standard bail schedule. That should be the same anywhere in the state.” Although the Nevada Sheriffs’ and Chiefs’ Association and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department initially opposed aspects of AB325, including a proposed ban on shackling defendants during court appearances, both organizations have reversed their stances after some provisions were modified. “We’ve worked with Assemblyman Fumo, and I believe those aspects of the bill are going to be removed,” said Chuck Callaway, a lobbyist for Metro. “We’re not going to take a position on the bail part of it.” In the meantime, Assemblywoman Dina Neal, D-North Las Vegas, has introduced Assembly Bill 125, which would prohibit courts from relying exclusively on standardized bail schedules when determining bail. Fumo hopes that lawmakers, as well as those involved in the criminal justice system, will come up with a solution that works for everyone, perhaps combining AB325 with AB125. Rouzard emphasized that Nevada should follow in the footsteps of some other states, such as California and New Jersey, that have already overhauled their cash bail system. “We want to be smart on crime and soft on taxpayers,” he said. “This isn’t a Democrat or Republican issue. It’s truly an American issue that needs to be resolved now.”
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hen Dr. Irene Voo began practicing in Las Vegas in 2005 as an ophthalmologist, she was with Retina Consultants of Nevada, working out of a different office
almost every day. A decade into her career, Voo decided to lease a space to hang her own hat. She soon discovered, however, that her needs as a retina specialist could be better met by owning her office space rather than leasing. In 2017, Voo opened a custom-built, 5,500-square-foot medical office condominium on Cimarron Road just south of the 215 Beltway. “This is my dream office,” Voo said. “I had a 20-year plan for my practice, and I don’t plan on moving again. I think it’s crucial for any small private business to look into [owning] because of the pressures of private equity entering the market more heavily. There’s a lot of pressure to turn a profit.” While owning office space isn’t something that all small-practice medical professionals are in a position to do, the idea is becoming more popular in the Las Vegas Valley. Dan Palmeri, director of Cushman & Wakefield’s office properties division, said single-practice medical professionals were almost exclusively leasing space just five years ago. Today, he thinks that majority is down to about 80 percent. Part of that change, he said, is because of new rules put in place by the Financial Accounting Standards Board that offer more of an advantage to own. “Because of these changes, it essentially doesn’t matter anymore whether you lease or own when it comes to reporting on a balance sheet,” Palmeri said. “Looking at some other factors, the cost of financing is pretty cheap now, and it’s making sense for people to lock in costs rather than waiting to see if their rent will go up, which it almost certainly always will.”
Justin Witt, an associate partner and medical office specialist with CBRE Group in Las Vegas, echoed Palmeri’s sentiments. “We are seeing an uptick in people wanting to own versus lease,” Witt said. “The cost of tenant improvements have been increasing ever since the recession, and tenants, especially medical office tenants, are having to [pay] out of pocket maybe $40 per foot. For improvements to a 10,000-square-foot space, that’s a lot of money.” As Witt points out, the tenant wouldn’t necessarily see any benefit from the improvements once the lease period is over. Owning a property allows for the appreciation of the space over time, which puts individuals such as Voo in a much better position down the road. Owning also allows for control over the space, something that
was important to Voo. “The office space I was in when I first opened a practice met my initial needs, but I wasn’t able to expand to meet the practice’s growth,” Voo said. “I wanted to stay in one location, and I wanted to be here for a long time so patients would know where I am. I also wanted to design a floor plan that would be as efficient as possible so as to cut down on wait times.” Voo’s space was built by Nigro Construction, which specializes in retail, hospitality and medical office projects. The company, said president Mike Nigro, is involved in several similar projects, including some in which they’re building and selling off medical office condominium spaces. “With medical, doctors are spending a considerable amount of money inside their space,” Nigro said. “The trend now is to purchase a building or a portion of a building, and there’s incredible financing out there for these types of projects.” Most notably, Nigro said, medical professionals are able to get Small Business Administration loans for a building and tenant improvements with as little as a 10 percent down payment. Nigro Construction, which also has a development arm, is behind a 94,000-square-foot commercial development at Green Valley Parkway and Horizon Ridge Parkway in Henderson. In early April, a Henderson doctor closed a deal for a 2,500-square-foot medical office condo at the property for almost $544,000. “As a contractor, we work with the doctors and we help them get their SBA financing so they can purchase portions of a building,” Nigro said. “We then construct it. I’ve probably noticed this being a trend just in the past two or three years. Up until then, there weren’t a lot of office condo projects available, but there’s several of them now.”
Ophthalmologist Dr. Irene Voo in her southwest Las Vegas clinic. (Wade Vandervort/Staff)
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VegasInc Notes Donald Contursi, founder and president of Lip Smacking Foodie Tours, and Debby Jacobs Felker, vice president of sales for Destinations by Design, were named to Connect Corporate magazine’s 2019 list of “40 Under 40.” The honor highlights professionals in the events industry. A student mock trial team from Advanced Technologies Academy won the state high school Mock Trial Competition and will represent Nevada in the National Mock Trial Competition scheduled for May 16-19 in Athens, Georgia. The team is coached by Court of Appeals Judge Jerome Tao, COA Civil Staff Attorney Amy Yonesawa, and attorneys John Shook, Julie Shook and Dennis Kennedy. Renee Coffman, Farhan Naqvi and Cory Frey joined the board of the Cure 4 The Kids Foundation. Coffman is president and cofounder of Roseman University of Health Sciences. Naqvi is the founder and managing partner of Naqvi Injury Law. Frey is president of Frey Insurance and Benefits. Louis Napolitano is education and development manager at Nevada Donor Network. Tami Hance-Lehr is CEO of Communities In Schools of Nevada. Mark Musser is director of investment sales at Northcap Commercial. Mark Fletcher is vice president of finance and accounting at Burke Construction Group. Ballard Spahr, Caesars Entertainment, the Cosmopolitan, Dickinson Wright and MGM Resorts International each achieved a perfect score of 100 and the designation of Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality on the 2019 Corporate Equality Index. CEI is a national benchmarking survey
that reports on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The Broken Yolk Cafe is open at 6805 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Attorneys Tracy Gallegos of Fox Rothschild and Melissa Waite of Dickinson Wright are listed in the National Law Journal’s list of Cannabis Law Trailblazers. CrossFit Las Vegas is open in Juhl at 353 E. Bonneville Ave., Suite 187. The Vanderpump Cocktail Garden is open at Caesars Palace. Valley Hospital’s acute inpatient rehabilitation unit has been recognized as one of the top 10% of inpatient rehabilitation facilities in the United States. It is one of 868 facilities to be ranked in the IRF database of Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation in 2018. Jerrie Merritt, senior vice president and community development manager for Bank of Nevada, joined Accion’s board of directors. Accion is a nonprofit lending organization that operates in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas. Elena Ledoux and Nargiza Mukhutdinova, owners of Superb Maids, were named the 2019 Small Business Person(s) of the Year for Nevada. Superb Maids will compete with winners from all other states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, for the national award. Other 2019 Nevada Small Business award Winners include: n Minority Owned Business of the Year: Boss Omiragwa Oroke, owner/manager, BB Mechanical, Las Vegas n Woman Owned Business of the Year: Nikki Steven, CEO/founder/
owner, Ideal Foods, Las Vegas n Family Owned Business of the Year: Carol Ann and James Butler, owners, GCA Environmental, Las Vegas n Microenterprise Business of the Year: Denette Braud, owner, Braud’s Funnel Cake Café, Las Vegas n Young Entrepreneur of the Year: Jaime Jill Ebnother, CEO, Celebrity Sox, Henderson n Veteran Owned Business of the Year: Matthew Moore, founder/ president, Blackford LLC, Las Vegas n Legacy Award: Karla Kent, president, Kent’s Supply, Fallon n Rural Owned Business of the Year: Kevin Lindseth and Stacy Kixmiller, owners, Pure Ground Ingredients, Minden n Entrepreneurial Spirit Award (Rural Award): Michelle Beecher, lending associate, Rural Nevada Development Corp., Ely n Entrepreneurial Spirit Award (Team Award): Nevada Procurement Technical Assistance Center, Joan Rueben, director, Las Vegas n Entrepreneurial Spirit Award (Urban Award): René Colen, Southern Nevada SCORE Mentor, Las Vegas n 8(a) Graduate of the Year: Debra Ann Banko, CEO, Link Technologies, Las Vegas The award selections are based on a variety of criteria, including staying power, growth in number of employees, increase in sales, financial reports, innovative products or services, response to adversity, evidence of contributions to community-oriented projects and small business advocacy. The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors released its 2018 Transaction Awards. On the lists of the Top 10 Office Sale Transactions and Top 10 Office Investment Transactions are Patrick Marsh, Patti Dillon and Taber Thill of Colliers International; and Cathy Jones of Sun Commercial Real Estate. On the list of Top 10 Industrial Investment Transactions of 2018 are Kevin Higgins of CBRE, Bo Mills and Mark Detmer
of JLL; and Daniel Doherty, Susan Borst and Paul Sweetland of Colliers International. Those lists are ranked by dollar volume. On the list of Top 50 Office Transactions of 2018 are Jones, Dillion, Thill, Marsh and Michael Tabeek of Newmark Knight Frank. On the list of the Top 50 Industrial Transactions are Mills, Detmer, Garrett Toft of CBRE, Higgins, Doherty, Borst and Sweetland. Those lists are ranked by square feet. Continental Realty Advisors, a Denver-based multifamily investment firm, acquired the Onyx, a 63-unit apartment complex at 5150 Duke Ellington Way. CRA purchased the Onyx from Copulos Group in March for $14 million. Cure 4 The Kids Foundation and the Western Veterinary Conference are among the Top 50 Best Nonprofits to work for, according to the NonProfit Times. Galaxy Theatres’ Luxury+ Boulevard is open at the Boulevard Mall. The movie theater features the largest screen in Las Vegas at four stories tall by seven stories wide. Mike Poirier is general manager of Solotech. The College of Nursing at Roseman University of Health Sciences offers a master of science in nursing/family nurse practitioner. It is an online program that prepares students to sit for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse certification exam required for licensure. Kevin Booth of WestCor Companies is vice chairman of the Construction Financial Management Association. For the 20th consecutive year, the Clark County School District Music Education Program has been honored with a Best Communities for Music Education designation from the National Association of Music Merchants. The Las Vegas Institute for Robotic Surgery at MountainView Hospital acquired the innovative single-port robotic surgery system, making it MountainView’s
sixth surgical robotic system. The system performs minimally invasive ear, nose and throat procedures, as well as urologic surgical procedures, including prostate and kidney cancer. The system is designed to enable surgeons deep and narrow access into body tissue, and enter the body through a small, single incision. Alicia Fernandez-Campfield is senior vice president of customer service operations, Edmund Ng is senior vice president of customer acquisition marketing, and Shalonda Webb-Hills is vice president of operations support at Credit One Bank. A combined event paired the LV Techie Awards with the nonprofit National Center for Women & Information Technology Aspiration Awards, honoring girls and young women in middle school and high school who aspire to careers in computing and technology. Along with honoring influential women in the field, the LV Techie Awards also honored men and corporations devoted to spurring diversity. Top accolades went to Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging Center Chief Information Officer Angeline Cosca, named Techie of the Year, and SkyWire, named Workplace of the Year. Other LV Techie Awards went to: n Kera Dorsey, regional programs manager at Tech Impact, who received the Catalyst Award for enabling, encouraging and mentoring women in the industry. n Pokin Yeung, founder and CEO at Absolute Games, who received the Innovator Award for enabling, encouraging and mentoring women. n Savithri Panchapakesan, IT architect (Innovation and Emerging Technologies) at Caesars Entertainment, who received the Cutting Edge Techie Award for leadership n Matthew Bissell, director of information security GRC at Aristocrat, who received the Champion Award for being a mentor to and enabling the success and growth of women in the technology and computing fields.
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horoscopes week of May 9 by rob brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the next three weeks, try at least three of the following experiments: 1. See unusual sights in familiar situations, 2. Seek out new music that calms you and excites you, 3. Get an inspiring statue or image of a favorite deity or hero, 4. Ask for a message from the person you will be three years from now and 5. Go in quest of a cathartic release that purges frustration and rouses holy passion. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): According to science writer Sarah Zielinski in Smithsonian magazine, fireflies produce the most efficient light on planet Earth. Nearly 100 percent of the energy produced by the chemical reaction inside the insect’s body is emitted as a brilliant glow. Regard the firefly as your spirit creature in the coming weeks. You, too, will be a dynamic and proficient generator of luminosity. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here’s a message from author Susan J. Elliott: “This is not your week to run the Universe. Next week is not looking so good either.” Since you won’t have to worry about trying to manage and fine-tune the Universe, you can focus all your efforts on your own self-care. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to do just that. CANCER (June 21-July 22): The next three weeks will be an excellent time to serve as your own visionary prophet and dynamic fortune-teller. The predictions and conjectures you make about your future destiny will have an 85 percent likelihood of being accurate. Give your imagination permission to engage in fun fantasies about what’s ahead for you. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo poet Stanley Kunitz told his students, “You must be very careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.” There’s something unruly and unpredictable about every creative idea or fresh perspective that rises up in us. Do you remember when you first felt the urge to look for a new job or move to a new city or search for a new kind of relationship? Wildness was there at the inception. And you needed to stay in touch with the wildness to follow through with practical action. Reconnect with the wild origins of the important changes you’re nurturing. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Have no complaints about the measures you’ve taken recently to push past unnecessary limits and to break outworn taboos. Keep going! You’ll be better off without those decaying constraints. Soon you’ll begin using all the energy you have liberated and the spaciousness you have made available.
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ACROSS 1 Muscat dweller 6 Imitate Daffy Duck 10 Chest muscles, informally 14 Coalition 18 Billiards shot 19 Not duped by 20 Folk legend Guthrie 21 Not-yet-final software 22 Involving three parties 24 One of the Clue suspects 27 1971 Stanley ‘ Kubrick film 29 “Shop — you drop!” 30 Sully 31 Middling 32 Old Italian painter 36 Singer Rawls 37 Honcho 41 Gruesome 44 Louvre, e.g. 46 False names 50 Explorer — de León 51 Shakers or Quakers 52 Most malicious 53 Tiny fraction of a joule 54 Heroine in Nintendo’s Mario games 59 State boldly 60 Lisa of pop 62 More than friendly 63 Rock 66 Dictator Idi 68 Have control over 70 Hawaii’s Mauna — 71 Lindsay of “Mean Girls” 72 Come to
73 New York City is said to be one 75 “Beetle Bailey,” e.g. 77 Stuck — rut 78 Attain 79 “Quit it!” 80 Home pest 81 Mexican folk musician 86 WWII-era British gun 88 Collins of rock and pop 90 Fluorescent green Crayola color 92 Period 93 Slaved away 97 Some Korean cars 98 The Antilles, e.g. 100 Tangle up 101 Some shiny plastics 104 Private college in the Bay State 106 Chew like a rodent 107 Ending for acetyl 108 Legendary hero of Athens 110 Regatta gear 114 “In case it’s true ...” 116 Hotel phone abbr. 117 It may follow “Use by” on a label 124 Of no value 128 Irvine locale 129 Swamp grass 130 Prefix with present 131 Contends 132 Singer Bonnie 133 Concocted 134 “Auld — Syne” 135 Apropos of 136 Lauder of perfume DOWN 1 Nona- minus one
2 Painter Chagall 3 Edible pomegranate part 4 Court plea, in brief 5 Desktops since 1998 6 Bygone theater chain 7 Like some hotel dining 8 Antares, e.g. 9 Tyler’s successor 10 Infant food 11 Transgress 12 Attire 13 Capital of Bulgaria 14 Small pellets of shot 15 Not including 16 Peter of “Masada” 17 Len of stage and screen 23 Ref’s ring decision 25 Krypton, e.g. 26 See 24-Across 28 See 27-Across 33 “Speechless” airer 34 Set up, for short 35 Actress Susan 37 Scot’s cap 38 Bullring shout 39 Zadora of “Hairspray” 40 See 37-Across 42 Resembling a gorilla 43 Crowns for nobles 45 Spring (from) 47 Fourth prime 48 Suffix of languages 49 Sipping aid 51 Transgress 55 Fab Four drummer 56 Actress Hayek 57 Impassive 58 See 54-Across
61 “Against the Wind” singer 63 Gunky stuff 64 Pitch-related 65 United Airlines hub 67 Houdini’s skill 69 Looker-on 74 See 73-Across 75 Tots’ beds 76 Dark Chinese tea 82 Gunky 83 Slanted 84 Uninvited partygoer 85 That fellow’s 87 “Thy Neighbor’s Wife” author Gay 89 Solo of “Solo” 91 See 90-Across 94 Flew on foot 95 Period 96 Glistening grass stuff 99 Mu — chicken 101 Blood carrier 102 Give knowledge 103 Lipton rival 104 Respiratory woe 105 One slaving away 109 Laud 111 Spring (from) 112 U.K. mil. branch 113 Grocery, e.g. 115 Due, as money 118 96, in old Rome 119 Ache 120 Nest eggs for srs. 121 Doing the job 122 Evening, in adspeak 123 See 117-Across 125 Praiseful poem 126 “Raggedy” plaything 127 See 124-Across
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Dreamt of a past that frees its prisoners.” So wrote Meena Alexander in her poem “Question Time.” Have that experience in the coming weeks. Be released from the karma of your history so that you no longer have to repeat old patterns or feel weighed down by what happened to you. Escape the pull of memories that tend to drag you back toward things that can’t be changed and don’t matter any more. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Desire is a profoundly upsetting force,” writes author Elspeth Probyn. “It may totally rearrange what we think we want. Desire skews plans and sets forth unthought-of possibilities.” Desire can also be a profoundly healing and rejuvenating force. You are now on the cusp of desire’s two overlapping powers. What happens next could be upsetting or healing, disorienting or rejuvenating. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): So much of what we learn about love is taught by people who were too narcissistic or wounded to be able to love very well; and by people who didn’t have many listening skills and therefore didn’t know enough about us to love us for who we really are; and by people who love themselves poorly and so of course find it hard to love anyone else. Identify the people who have loved you well and the people who might love you well in the future—and then vow to learn all you can from them. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Fantasy novelist Laini Taylor creates imaginary worlds and in describing her writing process, she says, “Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs and fascinating religions.” Adopt her strategies for your own use in the coming weeks. Be alert for gleaming goodies and tricky delicacies and alluring treats. Use them to create new experiences that thrill your imagination. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I was always asking for the specific thing that wasn’t mine,” wrote poet Joanne Kyger. “I wanted a haven that wasn’t my own.” If there is any part of you that resonates with that defeatist perspective, now is an excellent time to begin outgrowing or transforming it. You’ll have the potency you need to retrain yourself: so that you will more and more ask for specific things that can potentially be yours; so that you will more and more want a haven that can be your own. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You aren’t likely to get what you truly need and deserve in the coming days unless you engage in some polite, diplomatic nagging. So see what you can do to employ nagging as a graceful, even charming art. For best results, infuse it with humor and playfulness.
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