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WEEK IN REVIEW WEEK AHEAD EVENTS TO FOLLOW AND NEWS YOU MISSED
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STORIES FROM LAST WEEK SEVEN-YEAR RECOVERY Inching closer to the region’s all-time high of $315,000, the median price for a home in Southern Nevada crept higher in September. According to a report released October 8 by the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors, the median price for an existing home at the end of September was $310,000. The all-time high for the area was recorded in June 2006, just before the Great Recession. Local home prices bottomed out at $112,000 in early 2012. ADVANTAGE, RAIDERS For one day at least, the Raiders won the Khalil Mack trade. Mack, the all-pro defensive star whom the Raiders traded to the Chicago Bears prior to the start of the 2018 NFL season, registered zero sacks and could not stop rookie Josh Jacobs from rolling up 123 yards rushing and two touchdowns as the Raiders beat the Bears 24-21 on October 6 in London. Jacobs was chosen with the 24th pick in this year’s NFL Draft, one of two firstround picks the Bears surrendered in the deal for Mack. The other will be used in next year’s draft. Both teams are now 3-2 on the season.
The Knights are back in action! Reilly Smith (19) scores against San Jose Sharks goalie Martin Jones (31) during both teams’ season opener at T-Mobile Arena on October 2. The Knights beat the Sharks, 4-1. (Wade Vandervort/Staff)
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ELIZABETH WARREN MAKING STOP AT LAS VEGAS’ PRIDE PARADE
Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren will march in the Las Vegas Pride parade October 11. In addition to the announcement, the Warren for President campaign rolled out a “March with Elizabeth at Las Vegas Pride” contest, in which a winner was selected to receive a round-trip flight, one night’s stay in a hotel and the opportunity to march alongside Warren in the parade—rainbow feather boa included. The winner has not yet been announced. “Pride with @ewarren is going to be epic,” tweeted one follower, @SuzyTweet. The parade pre-show begins at 7 p.m. at the corner of Fourth Street and Bridger Avenue in Downtown Las Vegas and is followed by the parade at 8 p.m. —Leslie Ventura
BIG DEFICIT The government ran a budget deficit of just under $1 trillion in the just-closed fiscal year, the Congressional Budget Office said October 7. The $984 billion deficit tally for 2019 came in more than $200 billion more than last year’s, despite very low unemployment and continuing economic growth. The CBO noted that deficits have been growing faster than the size of the economy for four years in a row, ending 2019 at 4.7% of gross domestic product.
Since recreational marijuana was legalized in Nevada in 2016, there’s been a great paradox. It’s legal to buy and possess recreational marijuana, but unless you’re a local resident or friends with one, there’s no place you can legally consume it. Efforts by the City of Las Vegas to greenlight public consumption lounges have been delayed until at least July 2021 by the state Legislature. But there are exceptions. On October 5, The NuWu Cannabis Marketplace made history by opening the first cannabis consumption lounge in Nevada. Located on sovereign land owned by the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe, the nearly 16,000-square-foot marketplace, located just north of the Fremont Street casino corridor, is not beholden to the same restrictions as the rest of the state. Instead, it’s self-regulated through the Las Vegas Paiute Cannabis Authority. As such, there are no Nevada marijuana taxes, no waiting rooms and no reason not to open a consumption lounge. “We decided to move the industry along and be pioneers,” says Benny Tso, a former chairman of the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe and current tribal council member. He lobbied with Tick Segerblom to help start the cannabis industry in Nevada. And now he and his tribe are on the forefront of the next canna-vation. “It’s a safe and secure environment,” Tso says. “Experts administer the dab hit and bong rip; they know what the product is, what it does and how to let consumers consume safely. We’re looking at the safety and well-being of our customers, tribal members and our employees.” With wooden beams, decorative plants and bistro lighting, the Vegas Tasting Room resembles an upscale craft beer bar or brunch spot. The menu includes pre-rolls, bowls, pipes, concentrates and edibles. The prices are equivalent to a drink on the Strip. Pre-rolls are $20; bowls are $10-$12; pipes are $22-$25; concentrates are $12-$14; and edibles are $8-$10. The NuWu Cannabis Beer ($8) is a lager with Pilsner malt. “This just gave the tribe three more generations,” Tso says. “Economically for the tribe, it puts us in the position of becoming fully self-sufficient.” Tso says the tribe entered into the cannabis industry as a way to diversify income streams. Revenues will go toward education, elder care, health and government services for the tribe. “People have asked before if we knew what we were doing because cannabis is such a provocative subject. Yes, we do know what we’re doing. We know the conditions of our tribe and its members, what they struggle with. This is why we’re doing that. We can [now afford] to look at things we weren’t able to before.” —C. Moon Reed
QUEEN LEAR Students at Arbor View High School have taken up the ambitious task of putting on a production of the Shakespearean tragedy “King Lear,” with an added twist: All of the characters will be played by and portrayed as women during the November 13-15 run. The unusual take on the play has allowed female students at Arbor View to play roles not typically offered to women and has fostered an empowering environment for women, the student actors say. The twist on the Under a new state law, Nevadans can now opt out of the online sale of their personal information. play also reverses the way in A law passed during the 2019 legislative session went into effect October 1 and requires website operators to give which King Lear was likely first consumers a “designated request address” to opt out of the sale of certain information. Under Nevada statute, performed in Elizabethan Engpersonal information includes first and last name, physical address, email address, telephone number, Social land. Women were not allowed Security number, “an identifier that allows a specific person to be contacted either physically or online,” or any other to perform in plays in England identification an operator obtains that could be used to personally identify the consumer. until the mid-17th century, so Website operators can provide the opt-out via an e-mail address, a toll-free phone number or a website. teenage boys often played Failing to comply with the law could result in a fine of up to $5,000. —John Sadler female characters until then.
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Is Las Vegas isolated or is it in the middle of everything? That depends how far you’re willing to drive. If your upper limit is about an hour, then you’ll reach little more than Boulder City and Mount Charleston, interesting places in their own right. But if you’re willing to drive for at least four hours, the Desert Southwest opens up to you. ¶ A four-hour (and change) drive gets you to LA or Sedona. Five puts you in Phoenix or San Diego and six delivers you to Salt Lake City. ¶ But what do you do once you get there? Las Vegas Weekly is here to answer that question. We’ve put together this guide to help you get the most out of a quick trip with the least amount of effort. There’s advice about where to stay, what to eat, where to shop and what to do in these neighboring cities. Whether you’re biking on the beach or enjoying a mountain hike, we’ve got your path to fun. Think of this as a quick-start guide to get the inspiration flowing and hit the road. Or just imagine the trip as an armchair traveler. Either way, bon voyage! —C. Moon Reed
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Your first stop from Las Vegas is St. George, and you’ll notice right away that you’ve entered a magical landscape. The rocks are redder and the air crisper (and maybe a smidge cooler than Las Vegas). But it’s just the beginning of the beauty of southern Utah, where the sprawling canyonlands remind you of the vastness of time. From here, you’re knocking on the door of several national and state parks, protected monuments and gloriously primitive BLM land.
The Painted Pony in St. George is a favorite of both locals and visitors, while in Kanab, Sego offers New American cuisine and craft beers in an intimate space. In Springdale, Switchback Grille is just the kind of place where you can get a rib-sticking meal before exploring the 2,000-foot gorge that is Zion National Park.
Stay The Parry Lodge at Kanab has a glamorous history: Movie stars stayed there while filming Westerns during the genre’s heyday. (The doors have nameplates of such stars as John Wayne, Charlton Heston, Barbara Stanwyck and Ava Gardner.) At Bryce Canyon, the Lodge offers comfortable accommodations with nature all around.
Activities Relax and rejuvenate at the Sagestone Spa and Salon in St. George, catch the Bard’s plays at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, or spend time with four-legged loves at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab.
Shopping Quaint outfitters dot the parks’ surrounding towns, offering everything you could possibly need for an outdoor adventure. Check out Zion Rock & Gem in Springdale for jewelry made of rocks that can only be found in the area.
Nature With two national parks—Bryce and Zion— within a couple hours’ drive of one another, and Grand Canyon National Park just a skip away as well, you are literally surrounded by nature. Cedar Breaks National Monument, Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park are other options out of many more. —Genevie Durano
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D i s t a n c e f r o m L a s V e g a s t o s o u t h e r n u t a h : St. George (120 miles, about 2 hours) Zion National Park (160 miles, about 3 hours) Bryce Canyon National Park (260 miles, about 4.5 hours)
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The City of Angels is home to 4 million people, a million more than live in the entire state of Nevada. LA contains worlds of things to do and experience, so it’s a city you can visit over and over again without repeating yourself ... unless you want to, of course.
Food & Drink Pick your cuisine and LA has it, from stellar street food to five-star gourmet. In honor of the newly opened Mama Rabbit bar at Park MGM, we recommend visiting Guelaguetza Oaxacan Restaurant, which is co-owned by Mama Rabbit’s Bricia Lopez. Continuing the Vegas connection, check out Eggslut, which has a location at the Cosmopolitan at Downtown Los Angeles’ historic Grand Central Market. The Market offers lots of food options, so you can sample a little of everything. Also check out, the Historic Farmer’s Market, Bottega Louie, Attari Grill and Guerrilla Tacos.
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Shopping Explore the Arts District Downtown. Bibliophiles must visit the Last Bookstore and Small World Books on Venice Beach. Discoverlosangeles.com recommends the Boyle Heights neighborhood as a shopping spot.
Nature Rent a bike and pedal along the boardwalk in Venice. Hike on a trail in Griffith Park or Runyon Canyon Park. Jog at the Hermosa Valley Greenbelt or around the Lake Hollywood Reservoir. Go paddling at Marina Del Rey. Indoor Rock Climb at the Sender One gym. —C. Moon Reed
Stay Check in at these unique, hip and very LA hotels: Hotel Erwin in Venice Beach; Dream Hollywood and the Garland Hotel in Hollywood; Hotel Figueroa and Ace Hotel downtown.
LACMA’s “Urban Light” sculpture by Chris Burden
Activities For an art fix, visit the Getty Center, LACMA, the Hammer Museum and The Broad. For an “only-in-LA” evening, attend a concert or classic film screening at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. To see the stars, visit Griffith Observatory. For something quirky, visit Watts Towers (currently being restored). Enjoy a concert at the outdoor venue Hollywood Bowl. Ride a roller coaster at the Santa Monica Pier.
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Sedona is a high-desert, nature-filled wonderland for hikers, hippies, outdoor adventurers and lovers of luxury. It’s also a great home base from which to explore fun little Arizona towns and attractions nearby. Perhaps deriving from the location’s astonishing natural beauty, specific areas in and around Sedona—called vortexes (or vortices, if you want to be grammatical about it)—are thought to emit special spiritual energy. A cottage industry of metaphysical practitioners has arisen around this belief. Learn more at sedonaspiritual.com.
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Located in the relatively lush Sonoran Desert, the Valley of the Sun offers a familiar yet novel experience for Las Vegans. There’s shopping, restaurants and pro sports, but the pace is slightly more laid back with a Western chic vibe. A view of Camelback Mountain
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s Elote Cafe’s jicama and orange salad with red chili vinagarette Food & Drink Sample duck carnitas and lamb adobo at the upscale Elote Cafe. For a special experience, try a Vortex Food Tour or an Alcantara Estate Vineyards tasting. Eat some “curious country Italian” at Hideaway House. Enjoy coffee with a view at Pink Java Cafe.
Stay There are so many Airbnbs in Sedona that USA Today wrote an article about housing scarcity for locals. So you’ve got internet options. If you want to go the traditional route, visit Briar Patch Inn, Alma de Sedona Bed & Breakfast Inn or Oak Creek Cabins.
Activities Take a spa day at one of the area’s luxury spas. Take a Jeep tour or ride the Sedona trolley. It’s a mere 40-minute drive to the adorable mountainside ghost town of Jerome, where you can shop, visit a saloon and get those Instagram likes. Other cool nearby towns include Prescott and Flagstaff.
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Shopping Visit Tlaquepaque Arts & Shopping Village, Mystical Bazaar, Sedona Main Street and Hillside Sedona.
Nature Even if you’re a skeptic, visit one of the vortexes for breathtaking views. Visitsedona. com says the best four are Airport Mesa, Cathedral Rock, Bell Rock and Boynton Canyon. Go for a hike at Devil’s Bridge and snap a photo at Red Rock Crossing. —C. Moon Reed
Stay Food & Drink Take an afternoon stroll down Tempe’s Mill Avenue near Arizona State University and pop into any of the nearby restaurants. With a giant shaded patio, Casey Moore’s Oyster House near ASU is a favorite of professors and students alike. Four Peaks Brewing also has a great patio and great brews. For some dive bar authenticity, grab a drink at Palo Verde lounge in Tempe. There are too many great Mexican restaurants in the Phoenix area to list here, but you can’t go wrong with Frank and Lupes in Old Town Scottsdale.
Thanks to its yearround sun and mild winter weather, Arizona has long hosted visiting “snowbirds” from the Midwest. That means our neighbor to the south has a robust hotel and tourist infrastructure. There are tons of options, but we recommend: Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale for MidMod cool; the historic Arizona Biltmore, which was designed by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright; and for luxury, the Phoenician.
Activities The Heard Museum, whose award-winning exhibits promote Native American art, is a must-see. The 140-acre Desert Botanical Garden shows off more than 4,000 cactus species.
Visit from late February to late March to take in some baseball spring training. Arizona’s Cactus League hosts 15 major league teams, including the Dodgers, Giants, Padres, Diamondbacks, Cubs, White Sox, Athletics, Rockies, Angels, Rangers and Brewers.
Shopping Explore the small shops in Old Town Scottsdale for some distinctive Western souvenirs. Uptown Plaza in central Phoenix is a shopping spot for unique gifts. Phoenix’s Melrose District is the place to go for vintage finds.
Nature Hike Camelback Mountain, a natural oasis in the middle of town. Papago Park is also worth a visit. —C. Moon Reed
D i s t a n c e f r o m L a s V e g a s t o P h o e n i x : 300 miles, just under a 5-hour drive via U.S. 93
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a little more than five hours’ drive from our dry desert climate is an ocean paradise where the fish tacos are plentiful and the temperature year-round rarely goes above 75 degrees. San Diego offers something for every lifestyle, but for outdoorsy types, it’s an endless playground of sun and surf, where coastal living is at its best.
FOOD & DRINK: We now have our own Crack Shack, celebrity chef Richard Blais’ beloved chicken joint, while Barrio Logan’s ¡SALUD! has an outpost at Palace Station. But it’s hard to overstate the flavors that make up San Diego’s culinary palate, including well-regarded spots Dija Mara, Campfire, Galaxy Taco and Sushi Tadokoro.
SHOPPING: STAY: The Gaslamp district is lined with restaurants, bars and clubs, and staying here, with its myriad boutique hotels such as The Bristol or the historic Gaslamp Plaza Suites, will give you a feel for all the excitement of an urban center. If you’re looking for accommodations with a seaside view, check out Inn by The Sea at La Jolla or Hotel del Coronado.
ACTIVITIES: The San Diego Zoo is a can’t-miss attraction, but that’s not the only thing to explore in the 1,200-acre Balboa Park, which houses more than 16 museums and a host of recreational attractions. If you’re feeling creative, you can build sculptural masterpiece at San Diego Sand Castles, or pack a picnic and watch hang gliders at Gliderpark.
OB Farmers Market in Ocean Beach is a good spot for fresh produce, while Bazaar Del Mundo in Old Town features colorful gifs from around the world.
NATURE: With 70 miles of coastline, take your pick of beaches—Coronado Beach, Pacific Beach, Mission Beach, Ocean Beach to name a few—each with a different vibe. —Genevie Durano
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Food & Drink There are many cultural influences that make up Salt Lake’s culinary scene, from Mexican joints to Southerninspired fare. HSL is a perennial favorite for romantic dining, while Current Fish & Oyster is the place for contemporary seafood in an industrial-chic setting. Ruth’s Diner has been serving up down-home goodness since 1930, and if you’re craving something sweet, the bakers at Gourmandise specialize in traditional European treats.
Grand America Hotel was built for the 2002 Olympics and features 24 stories of luxe elegance. For a room with a side of history, the Peery Hotel, built in 1910, preserves turn-of-the-century Early Prairie architecture and classical revival style.
Activities The Olympic spirit lives on at the Utah Olympic Park, which offers year-round activities including bobsledding, ski jumping, extreme tubing, rock climbing and ziplining. Temple Square, a 10-acre complex in the heart of SLC, is its most popular attraction. Take in a tour or catch a Mormon Tabernacle Choir performance.
Shopping Shop at the charming Gardner Mill with its vintage houses and buildings, or check out the hip 9th and 9th, an eclectic community of stores and restaurants.
Nature Don’t miss the otherworldy landscape of the Bonneville Salt Flats, or get up close and personal with stalactites and stalagmites at Timpanogos Cave. For the grandest view of Salt Lake, summit Grandeur Peak, a 6.5-mile round-trip hike that’ll take you 8,300 feet up. —Genevie Durano
Wasatch Mountains in Utah
Nestled at the foothills of the great Wasatch mountain range, Salt Lake City is a powder lover’s paradise, with famed ski resorts Snowbird, Alta, Solitude Mountain Resort and Brighton Ski Resort nearby. But outdoor life here is a year-round affair, with so many hiking trails you’ll never have to travel the same path twice. Temple Square t
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Supplying water to millions of people in Southern Nevada is no simple task. It requires continuous reinvestment and many knowledgeable engineers, operators and skilled laborers to keep it flowing efficiently. “We have initiated a rather large investment in our infrastructure renewal program to ensure that our ongoing proactive management activities continue to keep our water system as reliable as it is,” said Bronson Mack of Las Vegas Valley Water District. “As it stands today, Southern Nevada benefits from a young water system, and we intended to keep it that way by continually investing in efficient maintenance and water system operations.” Here is a look at the Valley’s water system today and the current initiatives.
HOW THE WATER SYSTEM WORKS Lake Mead supplies 90% of the Valley’s water. The water is pumped out of the lake and sent to one of two treatment plants. These treatment plants, SNWA’s Alfred Merritt Smith and River Mountains, supply up to 900 million gallons of drinking water per day. From there, the water travels to one of 54 pumping stations, capable of moving more than 1.2 million gallons per minute. These pumping stations cumulatively have 90,000 horsepower and feed 79 reservoir basins and tanks that store nearly one billion gallons of water. These reservoirs are connected to 6,500 miles of pipeline that distribute water to more than 1.5 million people in Southern Nevada. To insulate against water service interruptions caused by power outages, water is gravity-fed to homes and businesses. The Valley’s water system is large, covering more than 300 square miles and about 2,000 feet of elevation changes. The expanse and elevation creates engineering challenges and requires the Water District to operate 23 pressure zones to move water to higher elevations. “Additionally, there are more than 120,000 valves within the water distribution system that allow areas of the system to be isolated for repairs that must be maintained in good working condition,” Mack said.
UPCOMING IMPROVEMENTS TO THE SYSTEM
WORKING WITH OTHER AGENCIES “Coordination with the City of Las Vegas and Clark County Public Works allows the Water District to coordinate work so it can be done simultaneously with other projects. One example is the coordination currently taking place for infrastructure upgrades along Las Vegas Boulevard, which will include $19 million in replacing aging pipelines in the resort corridor,” Mack said.
The Water District is investing $600 million as part of its 10-year capital improvements plan, based on recommendations from a Citizens Advisory Committee. The plan includes the following projects:
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recent infrastructure investments “The Water District’s proactive repair, replacement and infrastructure management activities minimize the potential for severe main breaks, making Southern Nevada’s water infrastructure among the most reliable in the nation,” Mack said. As a result of proactive infrastructure management, the Water District responded to about 65 emergency water main breaks in 2018, less than an eighth of the national average. “Many of the leaks are found using advanced leak detection, allowing the repairs to be made before they become an emergency,” Mack said. In general, proactive maintenance is much less expensive than emergency repairs.
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More than $10 million in pipeline upgrades and replacements at Paradise Road, Elvis Presley Boulevard and Charleston Boulevard, as well as replacing more than five miles of pipelines and fire hydrants in central and eastern Las Vegas neighborhoods. More than $2 million in replacing meter vaults in public sidewalks, keeping the sidewalks safe for pedestrians. Nearly 2,000 backflow prevention assemblies were installed in 2018 throughout the Valley to protect the water system and the quality of our drinking water. Backflow prevention ensures that water flowing into a building or irrigation system does not flow back into the drinking water system. In the same year, more than 2,000 service lines connecting homes and businesses to the water system last year were replaced to ensure that small leaks in neighborhoods are addressed quickly.
WHEREVER YOU ARE IN VEGAS, YOUR WATER SYSTEM IS TOO. You invest a lot to have one of the most advanced water systems in the country, and that enables the Las Vegas Valley Water District to deliver water 24 hours a day across 300 square miles of the valley. A water system capable of storing up to 1 billion gallons of water and pumping over 1 million gallons per minute through 6,500 miles of pipes. We are committed to Southern Nevada and keeping safe and reliable water a part of it. Your investment. Your water. Use it responsibly.
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VENETIAN THEATRE MICHAEL MCDONALD Maybe you know Michael McDonald from the Doobie Brothers. Or from his vocals on Thundercat’s “Show You the Way” and Grizzly Bear’s “While You Wait for the Others.” Or from The 40-Year-Old Virgin—you know the scene. In any case, he’s coming to the Strip, and you oughta “Mo B There.” 8 p.m., $36-$64. –Geoff Carter
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CASHMAN FIELD LAS VEGAS LIGHTS VS. RENO It’s the local soccer squad’s final regular-season home game, and it’s also fan appreciation night, during which one lucky attendee will win a Chevy Silverado just for showing up. Even better: The Lights are jockeying for the final United Soccer League playoff spot, meaning a victory could extend the season. 7:30 p.m. $15-$75. –Ray Brewer
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SAT OCT 12 REYNOLDS HALL AT SMITH CENTER VERY VEGAS SHOWCASE A musical mashup of epic proportions is headed to the Smith Center, where the Las Vegas Philharmonic and the Composers Showcase of Las Vegas will join together for Very Vegas Showcase. The idea began over breakfast, when Donato Cabrera, the Phil’s musical director, and Keith Thompson, founder and host of the monthly Composers Showcase at Cabaret Jazz, began chatting about a collaboration. “We put our heads together to figure out the best way to incorporate it into a broader idea,” Thompson says. “It’s all about music that is iconic for Vegas, or came from Vegas, or makes you think of Vegas. We’re trying to let people know that there’s a lot of creativity here. The original music being generated from the creators here is phenomenal and plentiful.” Crossover appeal will abound—the Phil’s patrons will get an evening of contemporary originals, along with music from the Rat Pack era, and the Showcase’s audience will be treated to a full orchestra. “To [play] on the big stage at Reynolds Hall with the Philharmonic is a dream come true,” Thompson says. 7:30 p.m., $30-$110. –Genevie Durano
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After the trance trio’s breakup in 2018, a June statement alerted fans that Jeffrey Sutorius would henceforth carry the torch as Dash Berlin’s sole member. Don’t miss the Dutch DJ when he’s back at Marquee. 10:30 p.m., $20-$30. –Leslie Ventura
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The Brooklyn dream-pop revivalists just released third album Deceiver, which sounds a lot like a lost Slowdive record, in a pretty OK way. They’ll bring its songs to life at this Desert Daze warmup show. With Indigo Kidd, Storefront Church. 9 p.m., $15-$20. –Spencer Patterson
Explore UNLV’s artistic offerings, including Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya’s Connective Tissue, Krystal Ramirez’s Battery Diamond and Block 17’s celebration of the AfricanAmerican experience in Las Vegas, plus theater, film, music and more. 5 p.m., free. –Leslie Ventura
It’s an evening of dining, imbibing and entertainment, with Zowie Bowie, the Paul Lowden Quartet with Christy Molasky and other local acts turning up for a good cause: the JDRF Nevada Chapter, which funds Type 1 diabetes research. 5:30 p.m., $75-$250. –Genevie Durano
SAT, OCT 12 WOODLAWN CEMETERY TOMBSTONE TALES WALKING TOUR Hear stories of Vegas’ past in an unusual way: Nevada Preservation Foundation is leading historical walking tours of the city’s oldest cemetery. 4:30 p.m., $15-$25. Continues October 19, 25 & 31. –C. Moon Reed
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become friends and collaborators over the years. “[I] feel like I am a part of something special [every time I play],” Moudaber says. She’s also working on new music with Jones right now. “We have an EP in the making, so it’s only natural to join Paradise,” she says. “Musically, we fit together. He’s just a great human being to be around.” Moudaber got her start during the 1990s, throwing underground parties and DJing in Beirut. While her stages—and her audiences— have grown larger, she says not much else has changed from those early days. “I did it years ago, and it’s still happening today,” she says. Sunday standouts include Guy Gerber’s Rumors event at Encore Beach Club featuring Golden Globe-nominated actor (and DJ) Idris Elba, and the Animale party with Berlin-based producers Carmine Conte & Matteo Milleri—aka Tale of Us—at XS. No matter how you plan your weekend, Moudaber says it’s all about the feeling you get when the music hits. “I want people to feel a moment of escape from the craziness of today’s world. This is what the dancefloor is for, and what my music is made to do.” A LB SE RI
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Cruz 10/11. Shortkutz 10/12. Nova 10/16. Wed, Fri-Sat, Mirage, 702693-8300.
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DJ P-Jay 10/11. DJ ShadowRed 10/12. Wed-Sat, Paris, 702-7767777.
CircoLoco with The Martinez Brothers, Bedouin & Nic Fanciulli 10/11. Nightswim: ZHU 10/11. Elrow with Pete Tong, Fisher, Claptone & Bastian Bux 10/12. Nightswim: Diplo 10/12. Rumors with Guy Gerber, Idris Elba, Lauren Lane & Ariel Vroman 10/13. EBC at Night: Diplo 10/16. Wed, Fri-Sun, Encore, 702-770-7300.
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Can’t wait for KAOS to reopen on Halloween? Hit Greene St. Kitchen for dinner (try the butter-poached king crab with caviar), head up to Mr. Coco for a bespoke cocktail and then venture to Apex to take in some Strip views that never get old. Thu-Sun, Palms, 702-953-7665.
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DJ G-Squared 10/11. DJ Que 10/12. Thu-Mon, Mirage, 702-791-7442.
What would you say to another Jersey Shore spinoff show based in Las Vegas featuring friends Paul Delvecchio and Vinny Guadagnino giving their friends a lesson on how to Vegas? Would you say, “Yeah buddy?” Pauly D returns to Drai’s Beachclub on October 12, and his summer residency there will no serve as inspiration for MTV’s upcoming DJ Pauly D and Vinny’s Vegas Pool Party. Also: Maria Romano 10/11. Luke Shay 10/13. Fri-Sun, Cromwell, 702-777-3800. DRAI’S NIGHTCLUB
DJ Esco 10/10. Trey Songz 10/11. Big Sean 10/12. DJ Franzen 10/13. Thu-Sun, Cromwell, 702-777-3800.
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DJ Seany Mac 10/10. DJ Excel 10/11. DJ Earwaxxx 10/12. DJ Sam I Am 10/14. Kay the Riot 10/15. Nightly, Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7631. GO POOL
Jenna Palmer 10/10. DJ Supa James 10/11. Eric Forbes 10/12. Koko & Bayati 10/13. Daily, Flamingo, 702-697-2888.
Buza 10/10. Phoreyz 10/11. Modern Machines 10/12. Nova 10/13. WedSun, Aria, 702-590-9979. MARQUEE DAYCLUB
Chris Lake 10/11. Vice 10/12. Lema 10/13. Daily, Cosmopolitan, 702333-9000. MARQUEE NIGHTCLUB
Dash Berlin 10/11. San Holo 10/12. Vice 10/14. Mon, Fri-Sat, Cosmopolitan, 702-333-9000. OMNIA
Omnia Thursdays 10/10. Calvin Harris 10/11. Nghtmre 10/12. Desolation Sundays 10/13. Borgeous 10/15. Tue, Thu-Sun, Caesars Palace, 702-785-6200. ON THE RECORD
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Industry Wednesdays is absolutely stacked this week at OTR: DJ ZO in the main room and G-Squared in the Living Room. Plus, you’ll also get to listen to the L.A.S. Vegas Local Artist Series featuring performances from Ben Harris, Hassan and Miles Arnell on October 16. Also: Phoreyz 10/11. DJ Mighty Mi 10/12. Wed, Fri-Sat, Park MGM, 702-730-6773.
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O.T. Genasis 10/11. Tyga 10/12. Lil Jon 10/14. Mon, Fri-Sat, Aria, 702590-8000.
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Black Coffee 10/11. Paradise with Jamie Jones, Hot Since 82 & Nicole Moudaber 10/12. Animale with Tale Of Us, Guy Laliberté, Isaiah Martin, Ariel Vromen & Sahar Z 10/13. Friday-Sunday, Encore, 702-770-7300.
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Lil Jon 10/10. Porter Robinson 10/11. Steve Aoki 10/12. FAED 10/13. Thu-Sun, MGM Grand, 702891-3838. INFLUENCE
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rom his childhood in New York City to his role as the corporate executive chef of Tao Group, Marc Marrone was destined to be a man of many worlds. After eight years at Tao, the 33-year-old chef left his nightclub post to open a quick-serve bao bun kiosk, Graffiti Bao, inside T-Mobile Arena. But Graffiti Bao was always a brick-and-mortar vision, and last month, Marrone opened the doors to his permanent spot in the southwest Valley, marking his official debut as a Vegas restaurateur. Marrone’s travels to Shanghai and Singapore for Tao Group reframed his approach to Asian food in America. Graffiti Bao is his interpretation of that experience, combined with his memories of eating various cuisines as a kid in New York. The interior bounces with colorful artwork, neon signage and grassy, outdoor textures—a nod to his many travels. When Marrone opened Lavo in Singapore, he made sure to spend a lot of time in the hawker centers, along with the open-air markets in Vietnam. “It was cool to see families putting out some of the best food I’ve ever had,” Marrone says. “It showed me you don’t need to have a big fancy restaurant. I was trying to come up with something more approachable and fun.” Marrone has a few other projects in mind, like the modern ristorante Italian Graffiti, slated for a 2020 opening. But for now, he definitely has buns on the brain. His baos ($3 per or $7 for three) include the harmoniously savory and sweet barbecue pork—a scrumptious, steamed pocket full of meaty morsels—along with the spicy Szechuan beef and the Americanized Royale With Cheese, the latter a Pulp Fiction-inspired play on the Quarter Pounder. The menu also includes an assortment of dim sum staples like rice rolls ($6 for two), dumplings ($4 for three) and scallion pancakes ($6). There are also bigger plates available, such as spicy kung pao chicken ($11), crab fried rice ($12) and Singaporestyle ramen ($13) served with a giant potatowrapped prawn. No matter what you choose, there’s a story behind each plate just waiting to be shared.
GRAFFITI BAO 7355 S. Buffalo Drive #1, 702-323-6033. Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.
Graffiti Bao offers an eclectic array of Asian dishes. (Christopher DeVargas/Staff)
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St. Mark’s Square at the Venetian’s Grand latte, Apulian extra virgin olive oil and oregano. For a Canal Shoppes has added another piece to brinier option, try the apulia ($19): Mozzarella, onion, its pie: Sixth + Mill Ristorante, Pizzeria escarole, anchovies, olives and burrata offer a balance and Bar, an LA favorite from Chef Angelo Auriana of of saltiness and creaminess. On the white side, the the Factory Kitchen (located at the same property). pat—with fior di latte, potatoes, pancetta, Pecorino and Here it’s Neapolitan-style—an homage to chives—can serve double duty. Add an egg with SIXTH + MILL a runny yolk and it turns into a breakfast pie. the chef’s roots. (His father was born in Grand Canal Avellino, in southern Italy.) Pizza connoisThere are lots of bites worth sharing, inShoppes, 702414-1227. Daily, cluding brussels sprouts ($12) and u’vroccolo seurs consider it to be the ultimate expres11 a.m.-11 p.m. sion of the dish—the crust is slightly crispy ($11), breaded cauliflower served with Paron the outside (even charred) and soft and migiano sauce. The meatballs ($23) should tender on the inside with a bit of chewiness, also be considered for the table. The pasta the perfect vehicle for toppings. is everything you’d expect from the chef of Factory Sixth + Mill offers red and white varieties. The Kitchen, while the meat, poultry and seafood selecmargherita ($17) should satisfy purists, who’ll find tions are carefully thought-out counterpoints to the that its crust stands up to the tomato sauce, fior di pizza. –Genevie Durano
Bok Bok Mediterranean, a fast-casual restaurant with a handful of locations in town, features recipes passed down through generations in owner Silva Chamanian’s family. The menu ranges from sandwiches to platters to salads, with plenty of sides to create your own meze, including hummus, grape leaves and mutabbal—an eggplant, tahini and garlic dip that should be slathered on everything. For proteins, there’s shawarma and kebobs (beef and chicken), along with a made-to-order falafel. Bok Bok also does rotisserie chicken exceptionally well. The free-range bird can be seen turning in the oven as it browns to perfection. Served with toom—a Lebanese dip made of emulsified garlic with a bit of lemon and oil—it’s the perfect foil to the rice and fattoush, chopped salad with watercress, green onion, tomato, cucumber, bell pepper, pita chips and house dressing. Everything on the menu is made from scratch daily in each location. Notably, Bok Bok offers a $21 family meal—a whole chicken with two large sides, pita, pickles and toom. Order it through the end of the October, and Bok Bok will throw in an extra whole chicken. That’s a deal worth clucking about. –Genevie Durano
BOK BOK MEDITERRANEAN Multiple locations, bokbokchicken.com.
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Common Kings are coming back to town. (Courtesy/Photo Illustration)
California reggae faves Common Kings continue to build their Vegas following By Annie Zaleski ver the past few years, reggae band Common Kings has become a familiar presence in Las Vegas. If you ask the Orange County-based group to explain that popularity, members cite the city’s unofficial “ninth island” status—owing to its robust, reggae-loving Hawaiian population—and also mention Vegas’ proximity to California, which makes it easy for Golden State reggae fans to travel here for shows. Of course, Common Kings didn’t grow that Vegas audience overnight. In fact, bassist Ivan “Uncle Lui” Kirimaua can pinpoint a specific moment when the group knew it had made it in this town: a midweek gig at Brooklyn Bowl that exceeded the band’s expectations. “We didn’t know how we were going to do,” he says. “We didn’t have that much lead promotion into it, and it’s a huge venue. Our ticket sales were only like 200 a couple days before the show, but it ended up [drawing] 1,600 people. It was crazy.”
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Common Kings’ popularity beyond Las Vegas says he gleaned some frontman tricks from Timis also climbing, particularly after the group’s berlake: “It’s not every day you get to go on tour 2017 full-length debut, Lost in Paradise, received with the best in the industry,” he says. “As a lead a Grammy nomination for Best Reggae Album. It man, being able to watch him—just his stage preswas humbling experience for the band—“We did ence—is a huge thing. And he’s so good at it. He not take that one lightly at all,” Kirimaua says. “We makes it look really effortless.” know a lot of great artists in our genre Common Kings’ momentum conthat have not yet been nominated”— tinues to snowball, with new music COMMON KINGS with Landon McNamara, on the horizon coming off a summer and had the bassist reflecting on what Eli Mac, Big Body Cisco, it means to be furthering reggae’s tour with longtime idols Sublime With Westafa. October 13, rich legacy. “We wouldn’t be here if it Rome, a sonic match that “was basical7 p.m., $30-$45. Brookwasn’t for Jamaican reggae, if it wasn’t lyn Bowl, 702-862-2695. ly like touring with longtime homies,” for Bob [Marley], Toots & The Maytals Maliga says. The respect was mutual: and all the greats,” he says. “For us Sublime With Rome invited Common to contribute in our way, our style, has definitely Kings guitarist Taumata “Mata” Grey to perform meant a lot.” the classic “What I Got,” while Maliga guested on Kirimaua adds that Common Kings have also a personal Sublime favorite, “Garden Grove.” “It soaked up lessons in stage setup and sound mixing was really cool to be able to jump on with them and from previous tourmates, which have included build that relationship onstage,” Maliga says. “It’s Matishayu, Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars. just a different energy. The song we did was about Vocalist Sasualei “Jr King” Maliga, meanwhile, the place I grew up in, so it was special.”
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TIM BURTON: LOST VEGAS October 15-February 15, 2020. Monday-Wednesday, 9 a.m.-10 p.m.; ThursdaySunday, 9 a.m.-11 p.m.; $30. Neon Museum, 702-387-6366.
BY GEOFF CARTER
TIM BURTON’S NEON MUSEUM EXHIBIT OFFERS A RARE, FIRST-PERSON ENTRY INTO AN IMAGINARY WORLD. ARE YOU IN?
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early every fact about Tim Burton is an are you serious? Take his schooling, for an example: He attended the California Institute of the Arts, where his classmates included Pixar Animation Studios founder John Lasseter and The Incredibles director Brad Bird. (In a February 2011 interview with Vanity Fair, Burton fondly remembered his CalArts class as “geeks and weirdos.”) Or his first job: grinding out terrifyingly gothic conceptual art for pre-Renaissance Disney films such as The Black Cauldron and Tron, none of which was used in the final films. (Another CalArts classmate, Beauty and the Beast co-director Gary Trousdale, told Vanity Fair: “[Disney] didn’t know what the hell to do with Tim. They were scared of him.”) One feels similarly incredulous looking at his filmography. Over the course of his first working decade—beginning with 1985’s Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure—Burton built, Frankenstein-like, one spooky unicorn after the next: He redefined black comedy (Beetlejuice), blockbuster action (Batman) and even teen romance(Edward Scissorhands). More importantly, he created an instantly recognizable visual aesthetic, which he is constantly expanding and revising; in essence, he created a “cinematic universe” years before such a thing became Hollywood’s preferred way of operating. If the two-headed sandworms of Beetlejuice, the ghoulish denizens of The Nightmare Before Christmas’ Halloween Town and the gum-chewing, dead-eyed bombshell assassin of Mars Attacks! don’t live under the same roof, at least they went to school together. In fact, Burton has so many strange and unusual creatures running through his head—the product of an introverted childhood informed
by the examples of Vincent Price, Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl—that they began to spill out of his movies and into other mediums. In 1997, Burton published an illustrated book of poetry and stories called The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories; several years later, its characters appeared in stores as “Tim Burton’s Tragic Toys for Girls and Boys.” Tough though it may be to imagine children playing with Roy the Toxic Boy or The Pin Cushion Queen, those kids are out there now, grown up—and they’re probably the audience for Burton’s museum shows, which began at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2009. MoMA’s Tim Burton exhibition was an ambitious effort to present “the full range of [Burton’s] creative work, tracing the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work in film.” It featured paintings, photography, storyboards, puppets, sculptures, video and more, much of it never before seen. It gave context to Burton’s body of film work, making their threads of connection more manifestly clear. The show proved to be one of MoMA’s most popular, drawing some 800,000 visitors. From there, refined versions of the show traveled to LA, Paris, Seoul, Prague, São Paulo and Hong Kong, inspiring thousands more to view Burton’s ever-expanding menagerie. Lost Vegas: Tim Burton @ The Neon Museum, Burton’s first stateside museum show in a decade, was seemingly prophesied in 1996’s Mars Attacks!, which featured an extended sequence in YESCO’s Neon Boneyard. In a way, Burton was instrumental in creating our Neon Museum; before that, the Boneyard was known only to savvy locals and a few fashion photographers. In giving the Boneyard a starring role, he added it to his universe—some of whose fantastical creatures will be present at the show, interacting with our history in ways no one can predict. Even the Brilliant! light show will have “a Tim Burton twist.” In other words, Tim Burton isn’t merely visiting Las Vegas. He’s welcoming the city back into his world of geeks and weirdos. It feels right. Tim Burton sculptures (Courtesy) Neon Museum photos (Sun File) (Photo Illustration)
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Gwen Stefani in her Just a Girl show at Zappos Theater (Todd Stefani & Robb Dipple/Courtesy) Inset: Cory FitzGerald and Melissa Garcia of Silent House Productions (Courtesy)
Rock steady Chatting with Gwen Stefani’s Silent House Productions collaborators By Brock Radke ou might think you know what you’re going “She was definitely the key player from start to finto get when you buy a ticket to see a headlinish, at those 7 a.m. meetings and at every single reing residency show on the Las Vegas Strip hearsal, giving input and really driving the creative from a pop superstar like Lady Gaga, Bruno for the show,” says Melissa Garcia of LA-based Silent Mars, Janet Jackson or Mariah Carey. House Productions and one of the show’s creative It’s the responsibility of the artist and the creative directors. “You can see those personal aspects are designers and directors to give you something else, such an integral part of the show.” to show you some surprises and to present Indeed, Just a Girl is something of GWEN STEFANI: your favorite music in a fresh new way. a career retrospective, with hits from JUST A GIRL When Gwen Stefani launched her Stefani’s days in No Doubt and her solo October 11-30, Vegas show, Just a Girl, on June 27, 2018, singing career; constant splashes of fun days vary, 9 p.m., $40-$250. at Planet Hollywood’s Zappos Theater, it fashion that showcase her pop culture Zappos Theater, was really big. She opened with “Holimpact; and video content that allows her 702-785-5882. laback Girl” and entered atop a grand to tell her own evolution story as an artist. staircase that called back to over-the-top “Every artist is a little different, and Vegas production shows stacked with every team has a way of wanting to do showgirls from bygone eras. Her dancers perthings with their history and iconography and style,” formed with giant bananas. says Cory FitzGerald, creative director, designer It’s just one of many vibrant visuals and elaborate and partner at Silent House. “Gwen had a specific sets that make up Just a Girl, and Stefani’s hands-on idea how she wanted to tell her story about her life approach to her residency show made all the differand changing over the years. From there it was very ence in its creation, according to her collaborators. much a conversation about the arrangement of mu-
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sic and grouping songs together to illustrate those parts of her life she wanted to focus on, and stringing those parts together to make a biography of sorts through music, her style and her looks. That got us where we wanted to go.” Silent House has also worked on Cher’s residency at Park Theater and several concert events and tours that have touched down in Las Vegas in recent years. FitzGerald is hard at work on Shania Twain’s upcoming residency at Zappos Theater while also consulting on The Chainsmokers’ tour. It seems to be a universal truth for artists, producers and directors that putting on a show in Las Vegas these days allows extra space for creativity, and they’re taking advantage of it. There’s no doubt that Stefani’s show is loaded with Vegas-style flourishes. “Vegas is unique. If you go there amped up knowing you’re going to see Gwen Stefani, you’re not going to be disappointed,” FitzGerald says. “But more importantly, it’s an environment that’s comfortable for her to tell the story she wants to tell, and you feel it the minute you walk in.”
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as Pride approaches, Drag performer Salem night speaks out on the importance of being your true self By Leslie Ventura
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alem Night got into drag before she was even able to perform legally. Six weeks shy of her 21st birthday, Night auditioned at Hamburger Mary’s, a legendary gay-themed restaurant that was preparing to reopen after a 12-year hiatus. “I didn’t disclose I was underage until the night before,” Night says. She was hired anyway. (Hamburger Mary’s is only 21 and over in the evenings.) After her birthday, Night began working at local gay bars like Freezone, Badlands and Charlie’s before landing a gig at the biggest gay nightclub in Vegas, Piranha. “Immediately, [the manager] made me the host of Friday and Saturday,” even though she had never hosted a show before. “I was like, me? All I do is twirl,” she laughs. “I was gagged.” These days, Night is a resident queen at Piranha and a self-proclaimed vogue diva who recently
performed at New York City’s DragCon in September. The Weekly recently caught up with her to talk about gender identity, representation and the importance of self-expression. On the importance of expressing yourself: “It’s been kind of a recurring topic of mine [when I] talk with other people. I do identify as genderqueer. I identify as gender nonconforming, trans-femme. I feel like Vegas is just having a hard time swallowing this pill, and I don’t get why. We have all kinds of freaks of nature on and off the Strip and on Fremont—people expressing themselves in all different kinds of ways. I think it’s ever so more important in this town for us to find people who are expressing themselves as vividly as possible.” On being gender-nonconforming: “A nonconforming
person says, ‘I don’t care what you tell me I have to be. I don’t care what the rules are. I’m going to be me. I’m going to live my best life.’ And I think that’s what the beauty in it is. I don’t get why people don’t see that. We want you to look past what’s between our legs, or how long our hair is or how full our lips are. We’re artists. We can cook. We can sing. We can dance. There’s so many other things to us. … We’re all yearning for those special connections. It’s like, ‘Hey, there’s a human here, and this human has feelings.’” On supporting LGBT spaces: “It’s important to make sure we are not erased. We can create our own spaces and fund our own stuff. There once was a Black Wall Street, and it burned to the f*cking ground because somebody lit it on fire. It’s important to invest in your own. My money is
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SCENE Take pride Mark your calendar for these October events hile the official Las Vegas Pride Parade takes place October 11 in Downtown Las Vegas (lasvegaspride. org), Pride has joined forces with the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center for this year’s Pride Festival, October 11-12 (5 p.m., $15-$20). The festival is open to all ages until 8 p.m., when the celebration turns into the 18-andover Pride After Dark event each evening at 8 p.m. The weekend includes performances by Kiesza, Vassy and Cazwell, plus appearances by RuPaul’s Drag Race stars Manila Luzon and Bob the Drag Queen. The festival also features numerous vendors, food and beverage options, pop-up drag shows and more. Velveteen Rabbit hosts Gay for House! on October 11 (9 p.m., free) featuring DJs A.C. Esme, Brock G., Erin Black Irish and DJ JayDean, while Lesbians Love Travel will bring the Ultimate Lesbian Pride Pool Party to the Plaza on October 13 (1 p.m., $35$50). Skate party Down & Derby hosts Las Vegas Pride Festival’s
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only going to go to queer people and black people and people who are marginalized. If I see a pride flag hanging on one of these buildings, I’m going to go there first before I go to any others. Representation and visibility is super-important. You have to be visible; it’s the only way we’re going to make change.” On what she’s thinking when she’s performing: “Usually when I’m onstage, it’s, ‘Oh, sh*t, I just forgot that lyric. Oh, my God, I hope I don’t fall— You got this, bitch, turn it.’”
queer here always involves drinking, and I kind of want to get out of that. It would be awesome to have more Pride events Downtown. The show I performed at in New York during DragCon was called Black Girl Magic, and [my friend and I] really want to do something like that. The black gay community here is very small, so we wanted an event for people of color. I just want a space where people are accepted and can express themselves and their art. I really want to host a brunch [Downtown]. I just want to put my queerness everywhere.”
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closing bash at the GoldSpike on October 16 at 10 p.m. (free, sk8party.com). Vegas Urban Pride kicks off October 18 and runs through October 20. Events include an Exotic Carnival Night hosted by the City of Doms (October 18, Hard Rock Live) and the Vegas Urban Pride block party (October 20, Oyo Hotel). Tickets cost $35-$100 and are available at vegasurbanpride.com. From October 31 through November 4, more than 30 DJs will descend upon the Mojave desert for the We Are All One Festival, which producers are calling a “mystical adventure” aiming to raise awareness and aid for “our intersex, non-binary and trans brothers and sisters.” The four-day event will also feature art, yoga, workshops and more, with camping available ($69-$111, weareallone.vegas). And the Pasta Shop Ristorante in Henderson (2525 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway) will also donate $1 to the Gay and Lesbian Center of Southern Nevada for every rainbow pasta sold during October. –Leslie Ventura
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calendar LIVE music 172 Brick + Mortar, Dentist 10/17. Chanté Moore 10/18-10/19. Anthony David 10/25. Ultimate Ozzy (Ozzy Osbourne tribute) 10/26. Rio, 702-513-3356.
Folk singer-songwriter Judy Collins plays Santa Fe Station on October 12. (Chris Pizzello/AP)
AMERICAN LEGION POST 8 Skeletal Remains, Plague Years, World Tension, Casket Raider 10/16. Varials, Chamber, Dying Wish, Words From Aztecs, Hands of Doubt 10/23. 733 N. Veterans Memorial Drive, 702-382-8533. Backstage Bar & Billiards Assuming We Survive, We Were Sharks, Callshot, Sierra, Tvlrs 10/17. Filter, Silver Snakes 10/19. Peelander-Z, Decaying Tigers, Vetivs, Chainsaw Fight 10/22. Messer Chups 10/24. Night Club, Mother Mercury 10/25. Enforcer, Warbringer, Tyrants by Night, DiM 10/26. Heart Bones, The Pink Slips 10/27. 601 Fremont St., 702-382-2227. THE BARBERSHOP Pete Love 10/10. TMV 10/11. The 442s 10/12. The Swoops 10/13. Cosmopolitan, 702-698-7434. THE BOXX Twisted Insane 10/17. Voice of Addiction, BLVD Bullies, H.M.D., Intoxicated Rejects 10/19. Kung Fu Vampire 10/22. Her Name Echoes 10/25. 1000 N. Nellis Blvd., 702-824-5281. Brooklyn Bowl Khalid, Mabel 10/11. Dropkick Murphys, Hatebreed, Russ Rankin 10/12. Common Kings, Landon McNamara, Eli Mac, Big Body Cisco, DJ Westafa 10/13. Gus Dapperton, Spencer, Brandt Orange 10/18. The Music of Tom Petty for Kids 10/19. Linq Promenade, 702-862-2695. Bunkhouse Saloon DIIV, Indigo Kidd 10/10. Drama, Prosecco, Claire George 10/11. Push th’ Little Daisies (Ween tribute) 10/12. Mothership, Love Gang, Haxa 10/13. Glow 10/16. The Japanese House 10/17. Ho99o9, Dana Dentata, N8NOFACE, World Tension, Blvc Svnd 10/18. The Rocket Summer 10/19. Girlpool 10/21. Summer Cannibals 10/22. Bellsaint, Kaylie Foster 10/23. The Rhyolite Sound, Elijah Ocean, Rob Leines Band 10/24. Black Lips, Blue Rose Rounders 10/25. Mr. Carmack, They, Andre Power, Mike Xavier 10/26. TsuShiMaMiRe 10/29. Mike Watt & The Missingmen, Strange Mistress 10/30. Wovenhand, The Unwieldies, The Midnight Disease 10/31. 124 S. 11th St., 702-982-1764. The Chelsea The Neighbourhood, Jane Holiday, Claud 10/11. Lizzo, Ari Lennox, DJ Sophia 10/25. Thom Yorke 10/26. Cosmopolitan, 702-698-6797. Chrome Showroom Judy Collins 10/12. Santa Fe Station, 702-658-4900. CLEOPATRA’S BARGE Dionne Warwick 10/1010/13, 10/17-10/20, 10/24-10/27, 10/31. Wayne Newton 10/14-10/16, 10/21-10/23, 10/28-10/30. Caesars Palace, 866-227-5938. THE CLUB Chase & The Pursuit 10/11. En Vogue 10/12. Exposé, Shannon, Sweet Sensation 10/19. Next Movement 10/25. Great White, Slaughter 10/27. Cannery, 702-507-5700. CLUB MADRID Uptown Funk (Bruno Mars tribute) 10/26. Sunset Station, 702-547-7777. The Colosseum Journey 10/11-10/12, 10/16, 10/18-10/19, 10/23, 10/25-10/26. Joe Bonamassa 10/27. Caesars Palace, 866-227-5938. Count’s VAMP’D Outta the Black, Kil Jaden, Ranchero, Cure the Curse 10/10. Smashing Alice, Alligator Blood, Alura 10/11. Kiss Night (tribute) 10/12. Sheclipse (Journey tribute) 10/16. Bravo
Delta, Taking Dawn, Age of Truth, Call of the Wild 10/17. Ghost LV (Ghost tribute), Fist Full of Steel (Rage Against the Machine) 10/18. B.Y.O.B. (System of a Down tribute), Digital Bath (Deftones tribute) 10/19. Paradise Kitty (Guns N’ Roses tribute), Jason Walker & The Majestic 12 10/25. Thigh Voltage (AC/DC tribute), Lovedrive (Scorpions tribute) 10/26. 750 W. Sahara Ave., 702-220-8849. THE Dillinger Misha & The Muse 10/11. Wayne David Band 10/12. 1224 Arizona St., Boulder City, 702-293-4001. THE Dispensary Lounge Chris Clermont 10/11. Lisa Gay 10/12. Ronnie Rose 10/13. Sextets of the ’60s 10/16. 2451 E. Tropicana Ave., 702-458-6343. THE DISTRICT AT GREEN VALLEY RANCH Jonny Hazard 10/11. 2225 Village Walk Drive, 702-564-8595. Dive Bar DRI, Intent, World Tension, AntiVision 10/10. 3LH, Los Shadows, Von Kin, The Hideaway 10/11. Cro-Mags, Dead 77 10/17. U.S. Bombs, Sector 7G, False Cause, Lean 13, 3 Rounds 10/18. Havok, Ringworm, Mobile Deathcamp 10/22. Michale Graves, Dead at Midnite, Proyecto Makabro 10/27. 4110 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-586-3483. DONNY & MARIE SHOWROOM Paula Abdul 10/22, 10/24-10/26. Flamingo, 702-733-3111. DOUBLE DOWN SALOON TV Party Tonight w/ VJ Atomic, Wolfhounds 10/10. Shubees, The Paradoks, Off the Wall, The Flying Brains, Rundown Kreeps, The Odd Advantage 10/11. The Hell Toupees, Fuse, The Robot Uprising, All a Blur, V.O.C. 10/12. Bargain DJ Collective 10/14. Unique Massive 10/15. GoldTop Bob & The Goldtoppers 10/16. 4640 Paradise Road, 702-791-5775.
DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS EVENTS CENTER Las Rageous ft. Bring Me the Horizon, Rob Zombie, The Used & more 10/18-10/19. 200 S. 3rd St., 800-745-3000. EVEL PIE One High-Five, Decaying Tigers, Tony Taylor & The Novababies 10/13. The Atom Age, The Holy Smokes 10/17. Barstool Preachers, Vicious Cycles, Mercy Music 10/22. Mephiskapheles, Franks & Deans, Scotty Dub & The Jellyfish 10/23. Off With Their Heads, Slingshot Dakota, Rayner 10/24. Grade 2, Wolfhounds, Intoxicated Rejects 10/27. 508 Fremont St., 702-840-6460. Fremont Country Club Knocked Loose, Stick to Your Guns, Rotting Out, Candy, SeeYouSpaceCowboy 10/12. Gwar, Sacred Reich, Toxic Holocaust, Against the Grain 10/26. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-6601. Fremont STREET EXPERIENCE Puddle of Mudd, Saliva, Trapt, Saving Abel, Tantric 10/19. vegasexperience.com. Gilley’s Saloon Mickey Utley 10/10-10/12. Chase & The Pursuit 10/16, 10/30. Scotty Alexander 10/17-10/19. Yankton 10/23-10/24. Rob Staley Band 10/25-10/26. Dez Hoston 10/31. Treasure Island, 702-894-7722. GOLD MINE TAVERN Daxed and Confused 10/11. Cletus & Mexican Sweat (Tom Petty tribute) 10/12. Randy William American Acoustic 10/16. 23 S. Water St., 702-478-8289. Golden Nugget Showroom Steelheart 10/11. Tommy James & The Shondells 10/18. Sweet 10/25. 866-946-5336. GRAND EVENTS CENTER Todrick Hall 10/18. Atlantic Crossing (Rod Stewart tribute) 10/19. Clint
Holmes 10/25. Green Valley Ranch, 702-617-7777. HARD ROCK HOTEL POOL Tribal Seeds, New Kingston, Tropidelic 10/12. Highly Suspect, SloThrust 10/23. 702-693-5000. Hard Rock Live Mayday, 1 Ton 10/10. Rata Blanca 10/13. 3771 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-733-7625. HARDWAY 8 Joey Hines, Adam Patterson & The Heavy Hearts 10/11. 46 S. Water St., 702-410-5124. House of Blues Gasolina Party 10/10. UFO, Armored Saint 10/11. Led Zepagain (Zeppelin tribute) 10/12. Beatles vs. Stones (tribute) 10/15. Sum 41, The Amity Affliction, The Plot in You 10/16. DSB (Journey tribute) 10/17. Hobo Johnson & The Lovemakers, Mom Jeans, The Philharmonik, Nate Curry 10/18. Clairo, Beabadoobee, Hello Yello 10/19. Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy, At the Gates, Grand Magus 10/23. Face to Face, Lagwagon, Destroy Boys 10/24. Christian Nodal 10/25. Yelawolf 10/26. The Story So Far, The Frights, Hunny, Just Friends 10/27. Gente de Zona 10/28. Santana 10/30. Children of the Korn (Korn tribute) 10/31. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. M PAVILION Motor City Nights (Motown tribute) 10/19. M Resort, 702-797-1000. MGM Grand Garden Arena Jonas Brothers, Bebe Rexha, Jordan McGraw 10/18. Jimmy Buffett & The Coral Reefer Band 10/19. Twenty One Pilots, MisterWives 10/30. 702-531-3826. NINJA KARAOKE Nacho Picasso & The Doppelgangaz, Vessel 10/12. 1009 S. Main St., 702-487-6213. NOMAD RESTAURANT Brian Newman 10/1710/20, 10/24-10/26, 10/31-11/3, 11/6-11/9. 12/2812/30. Park MGM, 702-730-6785.
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Pearl CONCERT THEATER Billy Idol 10/1110/12. J Balvin, Eladio Carrion, Lyanno 10/19. Marilyn Manson 10/31. Palms, 702-944-3200.
Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club Erik Griffin, Jack Coen, Rick D’Elia Thru 10/13. Ralph Harris, Gerry Bednob, Gary Cannon 10/14-10/19. Michael Somerville, Andy Pitz, Gooch 10/21-10/27. MGM Grand, 866-740-7711.
THE Railhead Jason Ricci 10/17. OC/DC (AC/DC tribute) 10/26. Boulder Station, 702-432-7777.
The Chelsea Schitt’s Creek: Up Close & Personal 10/19. Cosmopolitan, 702-698-6797.
Rocks Lounge Moving Pictures (Rush tribute) 10/26. Red Rock Resort, 702-797-7777. Sand Dollar Lounge The Alpine Camp 10/10. Billy Ray Charles, Chris Tofield 10/11. Jimmy Powers & The Hang Dynasty 10/12. Scott Pemberton 10/13. Open Jam 10/14. Prescott Blues Band 10/15. Dusty Green Bones Band 10/16. The Higgs 10/17. The Who Invasion (Who tribute) 10/18. Chris Tofield 10/19. Dan Fester 10/20. Open Jam 10/21. Combo Plate 10/22. David Scott Cooper 10/23. 3355 Spring Mountain Road, 702-485-5401. SANDBAR Chase Rice 10/25. Red Rock Resort, 702-797-7777.
COMEDY CELLAR Carl LaBove, Clayton Thomas, Lynne Koplitz, Quinn Dahle, Mark Cohen Thru 10/13. Wil Sylvince, Cipha Sounds, Paris Sashay, Dennis Blair, Mark Cohen 10/14-10/20. Noah Gardenswartz, Kathleen Dunbar, Leo Flowers, Chris Turner, Mark Cohen 10/21-10/27. Rio, 702-777-2782. The COMEDY WORKS Tom Green 10/10-10/12. Warren B Hall 10/17-10/19. Plaza, 702-386-2110. JIMMY KIMMEL’S COMEDY CLUB Vicki Barbolak Tue thru 11/12. Luenell Sun thru 1/5. Tone Bell 10/10-10/13. Nick Thune 10/1710/20. Linq Promenade, 702-777-2782.
South Point Showroom Frankie Moreno 10/10, 10/24. Rocky & The Rollers 10/11-10/13. Donny Edwards 10/25-10/27. 702-696-7111.
JOKESTERS COMEDY CLUB Steven Briggs, John Clark, Ron Coleman, Guy Fessenden Thru 10/13. Derek Richards, Oscar Ovies, Ron Coleman 10/14-10/17. Oscar Ovies, Don Barnhart 10/18-10/27. The D, 702-388-2111.
SPRING MOUNTAIN VISITOR GATEWAY Viva Las VeGrass bluegrass festival 10/1110/13. 2525 Kyle Canyon Road, Mount Charleston, vivalasvegrass.org.
L.A. COMEDY CLUB Erik Rivera Thru 10/13. Kabir Singh 10/14-10/20. Landry 10/21-10/27. Strat, 702-380-7711.
STAR OF THE DESERT ARENA Clint Black 10/12. Ramon Ayala 10/19. Primm, 702-386-7867. STARBOARD TACK POW!, Spring Breeding, The Acid Sisters 10/12. 2601 Atlantic St., 702-684-5769. Stoney’s Rockin’ Country Jackson Michelson 10/11. Jagertown 10/18. Carly Pearce, Ryan Griffin 10/19. Alyssa Micaela 10/25. Town Square, 702-435-2855. SUNCOAST SHOWROOM The Vogues 10/19. Steve McCoy (Tom Jones tribute) 10/26. 800-745-3000. Terry Fator TheatRE Boyz II Men 10/2510/27. Mirage, 702-792-7777. T-Mobile Arena Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bad Company 10/18. Phil Collins 10/19. 702-692-1600. TopGolF One Drop 10/11. Bret Bollinger & The Bad Habits, Tunnel Vision 10/18. 4627 Koval Lane, 702-933-8458. Venetian Theatre Michael McDonald 10/11-10/12. Willie Nelson & Family 10/18-10/19, 10/22-10/23, 10/25-10/26. 702-414-9000. Vinyl B. Rose, Kaylie Foster, Leeves 10/10. Surf Curse, Dirt Buyer, iexperiencedlove 10/17. Emo Night Tour 10/18. The Devil Wears Prada, Norma Jean, Gideon 10/24. Subhumans 10/25. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5000. WATER STREET PIZZERIA Full Throttle Blues Band 10/12. 139 S Water St., 702-463-1511. WESTGATE INTERNATIONAl THEATER Barry Manilow 10/10-10/12, 10/17-10/19. 800-222-5361. ZAPPOS THEATER Gwen Stefani 10/11-10/12, 10/16, 10/18-10/19, 10/23, 10/25-10/26, 10/30. Planet Hollywood, 702-777-6737.
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LAUGH FACTORY Amir-K, Michael Lenoci, Kim Evey Thru 10/13. Earthquake Thu-Sat thru 11/23. Harry Basil, Rocky Dale Davis, Kristi McHugh 10/14-10/15. Dennis Blair, Rocky Dale Davis, Kristi McHugh 10/16. Jackie Fabulous 10/17-10/20. Adam Hunter, Jack Assadourian Jr., Chad Zumock 10/2110/27. Tropicana, 702-739-2411.
Open Audition Gilley Girl Model Cocktail Server Wednesday, October 16, 2019 2:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m. Gilleyʼs Saloon and BBQ inside Treasure Island 3300 S. Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, Nevada Please note, this is a uniform position. Gilley Girl auditions are required to wear low-rise shorts, bikini top, boots, and show hair and makeup done. Minimum age of 21years. Apply online before you get here at www.treasureisland.com/openaudition
Orleans Showroom Frank Caliendo 10/19. 702-365-7111. The Pearl Cody Ko & Noel Miller 10/20. Palms, 702-944-3200. SAND DOLLAR LOUNGE Comedy 10/10, 10/21. Spring Mountain Road, 702-485-5401. The Space ComedySportz 10/12, 10/19. Fear and LOLing 10/11, 11/22. 3460 Cavaretta Court, 702-903-1070. THE SPARE ROOM Johnny Beehner, Chad Zumock, Krista Kay Thru 10/13. Jimmy Della Valle, Joby Saad, Steven Pearl 10/16-10/20. Derek Richards, Oscar Ovies, Willie Macc 10/23-10/27. Downtown Grand, 702-719-5100.
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Terry Fator TheatrE Bill Maher 10/1110/12. Daniel Tosh 10/18-10/19. Ron White 10/25-10/26. Mirage, 702-792-7777. TICKLE ME COMEDY CLUB Thai Rivera, Carlos Anthony Thru 10/12. Lance Montalto, Tommy Tallarino 10/15-10/26. Eclipse Theaters, 702-816-4300.
Performing Arts & Culture Charleston Heights Arts Center Philadanco! 10/12. 800 Brush St., 702-229-2787. Clark County Library Frank DeCaro’s Drag: Combing Through the Big Wigs of
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calendar Show Business 10/13. Journey Through Jazz 10/15. Tango Lovers: “I Am Tango” 10/16. Las Vegas Writes 10/17. Armenian Dance School of Las Vegas Recital 10/19. 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.
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East Las Vegas Library Ballet Folklorico Sol Huasteco: Sol Mexicano 10/12. 2851 E. Bonanza Road, 702-507-3500
UNLV (Artemus W. Ham Hall) Las Vegas Youth Orchestras: Fall Concert 10/10. In Orchestra 4: Daphnis and Chloe 10/18-10/19. (Judy Bayley Theatre) Eric Darius 10/19. UNLV Jazz Ensemble 1 with Greg Bissonette 10/22. (Beam Music Center) Beo String Quartet 10/10. 702-895-2787.
Historic FiftH STREET SCHOOL Las Vegas Book Festival 10/19. 401 S. 4th St., 702-229-6469.
West Charleston Library A Movie Tour of Italy 10/12. 3045 Walnut Drive, 702-507-3940.
THE Mob Museum W.R. Wilkerson III: The Original Vision for the Flamingo 10/15. Neil Gordon: Chicago Outfit Boss Tony Accardo 10/19. 300 Stewart Ave., themobmuseum.org.
Winchester Dondero Cultural Center Radost Ukranian Folk Dance Group 10/13. 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 702-455-7340.
Mystère Theatre A Choreographer’s Showcase 10/12-10/13. Treasure Island, 702-894-7722. Neon Museum Tim Burton book signing 10/14. 770 Las Vegas Blvd. N., 702-387-6366. THE Smith Center (Reynolds Hall) Las Vegas Philharmonic: A Very Vegas Showcase 10/12. Jackie Evancho 10/13. Serenades of Life: Nathan Adelson Hospice Benefit 10/19. Nickelodeon’s Double Dare Live! 10/20. Nevada Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake 10/24-10/27. (Cabaret Jazz) Acoustic Alchemy 10/10-10/11. Liz Callaway and Ann Hampton Callaway 10/12. Jimmy Hopper Band: Tribute to Billy Joel 10/17. Alice Smith 10/1810/19. Michelle Johnson: Carole King’s Tapestry Unraveled 10/20. Michael Grimm 10/22. Opera Las Vegas 10/24. Sinatra with Matt Dusk 10/2510/26. Las Vegas Pops w/Spectrum and Radiance 10/27. Frankie Moreno 10/29. 702-749-2000. The Space Evil Dead: The Musical Thru 10/27. Mondays Dark 10/21. Play 10/22. 3460
Windmill Library Mystic Fair 10/11. Thirty Years a Doll Man 10/12. Tessah: Ego Solo Piano Recital 10/13. The Nik Naks 10/19. UNLV Jazz Combo Concert Series 10/21. 7060 W. Windmill Lane, 702-507-6019. WOODLAWN CEMETERY Tombstone Tales Walking Tour 10/12. 1500 Las Vegas Blvd. N., nevadepreservation.org. The Writer’s Block A Century of Yale Younger Poets 10/22. 519 S. 6th St., 702-550-6399.
LOCAL THEATER Las Vegas Little Theatre (Mainstage) Six Degrees of Separation 10/18-11/3. (Black Box) The Woman in Black Thru 10/20. 3920 Schiff Drive, 702-362-7996. Majestic Repertory Theatre Horrorwood Video 10/18-11/3. 1217 S. Main St., 702-478-9636.
NEVADA CONSERVATORY THEATRE (Judy Bayley Theatre) Fun Home Thru 10/13. UNLV, 702-895-2787. POOR RICHARD’S PLAYERS Lizzie 10/1810/31. The Playhouse, 528 S. Decatur Blvd., theplayhouselv.com. A Public Fit August: Osage County 10/25-11/3. 100 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-735-2114. Signature Productions West Side Story 10/16-11/16. Summerlin Library, 1771 Inner Circle Drive, 702-507-3860. Super Summer Theatre Death Is a Drag 10/1711/3. 4340 S. Valley View Dr. #208, 702-579-7529. VEGAS THEATRE COMPANY The Thanksgiving Play Thru 10/27. Art Square Theatre, 1025 S. 1st St., #110, 725-222-9661.
Galleries & Museums Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art Yasuaki Onishi: Permeating Landscape Thru 10/27. 702-693-7871. CSN (Fine Arts Gallery) Liz Ensz: Contemporary Stratigraphy Thru 10/19. (Artspace Gallery) Virginia Derryberry Thru 10/26. 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., 702-651-4146. Donna Beam Fine Art Block 17 10/11-12/7. UNLV, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-895-3893.
Cornelio Jimena II: Code Blue Thru 10/20. 25 E. Shelbourne Ave., 702-507-3760. Neon Museum Tim Burton: Lost Vegas 10/152/15. 770 Las Vegas Blvd. N., 702-387-6366. Priscilla Fowler Fine Art David Baird: A Survey Thru 10/26. 1300 S. Main St. #110, 719-371-5640. SAHARA WEST LIBRARY Hans Van de Bovenkamp: Through the Eyes Of Thru 12/7. Reception 10/10. 9600 W. Sahara Ave., 702-507-3630. Summerlin Library Las Vegas News Bureau & Neon Museum: Then & Now: The Boneyard Thru 10/15. Inner Circle Drive, 702-507-3860. Waterhole Kingdom El Cavo: Sign of the Times Thru 10/19. 920 South Commerce St., info@waterholekingdom.com
FOOD & DRINK Best Dam Wine Walk 10/12. Boulder City, bit.ly/2LKTcFx. Cork & Soul 10/11. Tivoli Village, bit.ly/2OfYISm. Lebanese American Festival 10/11-10/13. St. Sharbel Catholic Church, 10325 Rancho Destino Road, bit.ly/2VdGDFP. SocktoberfesT 10/12, Davy’s, 1221 S. Main St., bit.ly/2VcJsXF. taste of downtown 10/10. Plaza, bit.ly/2In4jm5.
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SPORTS LAS VEGAS LIGHTS Reno 10/12. Cashman Field, 702-728-4625. LAS VEGAS TENNIS OPEN 10/14-10/20. UNLV’s Fertitta Tennis Complex, lasvegastennisopen.com. MONSTER JAM ALL-STAR CHALLENGE 10/1110/12. Sam Boyd Stadium, 702-739-3267. UNLV MEN’S SOCCER Seattle 10/11. San Jose State 10/13. Peter Johann Memorial Field, 702-739-3267. UNLV WOMEN’S SOCCER Air Force 10/11. Colorado College 10/13. Peter Johann Memorial Field, 702-739-3267. UNLV WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL Utah State 10/10. Boise State 10/12. Cox Pavilion, 702-739-3267. VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS Calgary 10/12. Nashville 10/15. Ottawa 10/17. Colorado 10/25. Anaheim 10/27. Montreal 10/31. T-Mobile Arena, 702-692-1600.
SPECIAL EVENTS Age of Chivalry Renaissance Festival 10/11-10/13. Sunset Park, lvrenfair.com. Dallas stoner-metal trio Mothership lands at the Bunkhouse on October 13. (Andree Brown/Courtesy)
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Two fights, one night Professional Fighters League brings its unique format (and big prizes) to Mandalay Bay By Case Keefer hris Curtis relocated to Las Vegas in January and immediately began training more intensely than he had at any other point in his 10-year professional mixed martial arts career. Twice a week, the 32-year-old Cincinnati native engages in double sparring sessions, scheduling a practice fight in the late morning/early afternoon before taking a couple of hours off and doing it all over again. “A lot of people are like, ‘Oh, you’re doing too much,’ ” Curtis says. Overtraining is a common problem among fighters, but Curtis has grown accustomed to explaining why he doesn’t believe he’s falling into that trap. There’s a purpose for preparing this way—it’s simulating what he’ll need to do October 11 at Mandalay Bay Events Center in the welterweight tournament of the 2019 Professional Fighters League playoffs. MMA was founded on fighters competing multiple times in the same night in a single-elimination tournament, and for the first time, that sort of endurance test is coming to Las Vegas. The PFL will stage six tournaments this month—two per card on October 11, 17 and 31—that will air on ESPN2 and ESPN+. The four men’s brackets—lightweight, welterweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight—all include eight
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participants and require them to fight twice in the same night to reach the finals. The championship matches will take place New Year’s Eve at Madison Square Garden in New York City, with each winner earning $1 million. “I love the idea of it,” Curtis says. “It’s an experience that can separate a lot of people. Anyone can do it once, but you have to be mentally strong to do it once, sit down and think, ‘OK, I’ve got to do it again.’ ” The Nevada State Athletic Commission approved the format because it’s structured not to be much different than a typical championship or main event bout. Fighters will not be asked to compete in more than five rounds on a single night. Quarterfinal matches last two rounds, with the semifinals increasing to three rounds. In the case of a draw on the scorecards after two rounds, judges are asked to identify which fighter they thought won overall. The setup heavily incentivizes first-round finishes in the quarterfinals. Fellow local fighter and former UFC veteran Vinny Magalhães can speak to the advantage of a quick finish in the PFL. He earned a submission victory in under two minutes in last year’s quarterfinals, then felt fresh enough to come back out and do it again in the semifinals.
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Although Magalhães went on to lose in the championship two months later, the 35-year-old is back in the light heavyweight field, where he will face Rashid Yusupov in the first round on October 31. “I’ve been through it, so it gives me a certain advantage. But the opponents have changed, it’s different and I’m older, so there are other advantages [for them],” Magalhães says. “But I know how to go through two fights in one night, and some of these guys don’t. They’ve never been through it in general. For me, I’ve been in [grappling] competitions where I have four, five, six different opponents in a night. To have two fights in a night is not much different than those events.” Magalhães says the seasonal format of PFL has rejuvenated his career. The PFL holds a regular season from May to August in which rostered fighters compete twice and earn points in the standings for wins and how quickly they were achieved. Those standings turn into tournament seedings. Magalhães rode the No. 1 seed to his second-place finish last year, which earned him $200,000 in addition to his base pay for the five fights between the regular season and postseason. “Last year, I didn’t make the million and I still made more in the six-month season than I had in the previous four years of fighting,” he says. “PFL is the greatest thing to have happened to me, and I think more guys are going to start realizing how big this can be.” Magalhães enters the light heavyweight tournament as the No. 3-seeded fighter this year. Curtis just cracked into the welterweight bracket at No. 7, meaning he faces a tough matchup with No. 2 seed Magomed Magomedkerimov, who defeated him by unanimous decision in the regular season. Because this is Curtis’ first time fighting more than once in a night, he sought advice from Magalhães and top lightweight seed Lance Palmer. “Universally they just said, ‘Don’t get hurt in the first fight and take it from there,’ ” Curtis said. “I’ve got to win the first fight and be smart while I do it. I don’t predict it’s going to be very hard on me, because I’m a very durable human. It’s been one of my blessings since childhood. I don’t usually get hurt in fights.” Event doctors must clear fighters for competition after the first bout, and then there’s usually about two hours until the next fight begins. Magalhães came out of his quarterfinal win last year so unscathed, he just relaxed before his return to the cage and went through his normal warm-up routine. Still, he knows there’s no guarantee it will go as smoothly this year. Magalhães and Curtis agree that flexibility will be key, leaving them unable to plan exactly how they’ll approach the downtime between fights. It might make the whole event more stressful, but for what’s at stake, it’s worth it. “A million bucks is a life-changing opportunity,” Curtis says. “So I told myself if I’m going to do this, I’ve got to make some sacrifices and make some changes. I’ve never fought for a million bucks, so in order to do something I’ve never done, I’ve got to train in a way I’ve never done, so Las Vegas, the mecca of MMA in the U.S.—I had to come out here.” (Ryan Loco/Courtesy/Photo Illustration)
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Boosting your financial well-being is a worthwhile goal, regardless of income level, tax bracket or savings. According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, financial wellbeing “describes a condition wherein a person can fully meet current and ongoing financial obligations, can feel secure in their financial future and is able to make choices that allow them to enjoy life.” While strengthening your finances may feel intimidating, committing to small, day-to-day changes and using smart money management techniques can make all the difference. Here are some steps you can take to improve your financial future.
learn about your finances The more you know and understand your finances, the easier it is to manage them properly. Learn how to reduce debt, improve your credit and plan for retirement. Educate yourself about account options, the best credit cards for your lifestyle, tax strategies and how to keep your money safe. Whether you want to improve overall financial literacy or find answers to specific questions, there are lots of resources there for your benefit. Many local financial institutions provide in-depth financial counseling services. “We encourage our members to take advantage of free financial counseling, educational programs, savings strategies, as well as other products and services, to develop and maintain financial health,” Cypers said.
monitor your accounts Pay close attention to your accounts. Online and mobile banking apps make it simple, allowing for daily income and expenditure tracking. Most of these services allow you to sign up for alerts prompted by different account activities, such as when your balance is low, if you’ve reached a credit limit, when a loan payment is due and more. It is also a great way to check for fraudulent activity and suspicious spending.
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Save, save, save A general rule of thumb is to save at least 10% of your annual income. Set a reasonable savings goal and build that into your monthly budget. If 10% is too much, aim for 4% to 6% instead—whatever you can manage. Small, incremental savings add up, so don’t feel discouraged if you’re unable to save as much as you’d like to right away. Be mindful of your goals before making unnecessary purchases.
establish a budget Creating and adhering to a budget is essential to improving finances. “A reasonable, well-planned budget is a guidepost that can inform other financial decisions going forward,” said Nicole Cypers, Vice President of Public Relations at America First Credit Union. “You’ll see how much you have to spend, what you can set aside, identify possible pitfalls and make projections.” When you set up a budget, it’s important to be thorough and practical. Start by compiling your expenses. Go through your bills and statements from the past 12 months for an accurate spending picture, particularly costs that aren’t fixed, such as utilities and groceries. Break down these figures into monthly, quarterly and annual amounts. From there, tally all of your expenses for the year and divide by 12 for your baseline monthly budget. It’s also smart to add 10% to 15% each month for unexpected expenses. Be realistic about how much you need to live within your means. There are also tools available to help. “We offer Money Manager, a free online program for linking accounts, tracking spending and gaining intelligent budget advice, among other features,” Cypers said. Online applications automate the process and make it easier to develop a budget that fits your needs.
know your credit score Be familiar and proactive with your credit report. It influences your ability to get loans, interest rates, loan terms and whether you’ll even secure financing in the first place. Look up your FICO score every few months and work toward improving your score if you have negative marks, such as late payments or high balances on revolving accounts.
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Secret talks EXPLORING THE ANIMAL KINGDOM’S UNIQUE WAYS OF COMMUNICATING
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Coyote tobacco, also simply known as wild tobacco, is a plant birthed by fire. Successful germination often relies on soil burned from a lightning strike. Some seeds can lay dormant for more than a century, so the plant has had to evolve to outsmart danger. Like many plants, coyote tobacco is an excellent communicator. According to studies reported by the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, at night, the tobacco emits a tantalizing scent from its flower to attract tobacco hawk moths, which then come and pollinate said flower and lay eggs on the leaves. When the eggs hatch, the caterpillars begin to eat the plant’s leaves, a move that doesn’t play in the tobacco’s survival favor. As a defense, the plant emits a compound through its leaves to attract predatory insects to eat the moth’s eggs and caterpillars.
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anguage is defined as “audible, articulate, meaningful sound as produced by the action of the vocal organs.” This makes sense, given that the Latin root of the word, lingua, means “tongue.” But what of those creatures that lack a tongue, much less the ability to vocalize? ¶ Of course, even the dictionary definition expands language to include pretty much any way organisms communicate. Efforts to grow, thrive and reproduce all depend on the ability to interact with the environment around you and all the beings therein. Many plants and animals have their own means of communication beyond what we consider speech.
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Networks in the Nevada desert Communication in the desert extends beyond the desolate sound of a tumbleweed skipping across the dust. Plant and animal species alike have developed systems to survive in some of the world’s harshest conditions.
DESERT TORTOISE The largest tortoise in the United States is also called the gopher tortoise because it spends a lot of time in underground burrows. Male tortoises are equipped with a set of scent glands on their chins, which signal females that they are sexually mature and ready to boogie. The more dominant the male, the larger the gland and, therefore, the larger the supply of testosterone. Desert tortoises also communicate using grunts, touch and movement. Another way a male displays his desire to mate is by intensely staring at a female with his neck fully extended and head bobbing. If she’s not into him, he’ll pursue her and ram into her like a bumper car until she acquiesces.
These gregarious ground squirrels are no stranger to complexity—prairie dog underground lairs are massive networks of tunnels and dens, essentially an underground critter city. They have a similarly complex language, the extent of which one scientist finds astonishing. Professor Con Slobodchikoff of Northern Arizona University told Radiolab that not only do prairie dogs have calls for danger, they include descriptions of said danger. It’s not just “human!” its “human with a green shirt!”
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Nodding off The day gecko of Madagascar is a big fan of honeydew straight from the source, but we’re not talking melons. Instead, the sticky substance in question is the secretion of the leafhopper insect. When the gecko wants a tasty treat, it approaches a leafhopper and nods its head. In response, the leafhopper wiggles its abdomen and then fires a ball of honeydew into the waiting lizard’s mouth.
Dance Pants Bees of all stripes perform dances to let other bees know important information, such as where to find a good patch of pollen. Once a scout returns from a research mission, it dances directions while other bees watch, sniff and taste nectar or pollen as a sample and signpost. The waggle dance, as it’s called, indicates both distance and direction, depending on the size of its dance floor and angle of the dance.
Light Show Cuttlefish are masters of the quick-change. According to the journal Nature, the cephalopod camouflages itself by contracting the muscles around tiny, colored skin cells called chromatophores. The cells essentially act as pixels, flashing changing colors and patterns to better reflect the cuttlefish’s surroundings or its mood.
Species around the world Anything but dumbos Understood to be among the most intelligent animals in the world, elephants live in complex societies with sophisticated methods of communication that go beyond merely trumpeting. Elephants correspond across great distances using infrasound, a deep rumbling below 20 hertz that humans can’t hear. Additionally, the pachyderms use other methods of communication such as posturing, ear displays and touching with their trunks.
Scat Chat White rhinoceroses use piles of dung, called middens, as their personal Twitter feed. A herd of rhinos (also called a crash) will defecate in the same place, making it easy to pick up any olfactory clues. Up to 65 feet across, the middens communicate whose territory it is, who is ready to mate, who has parasites and so on.
Source: National Geographic; Radiolab; BBC; Wired; San Diego Zoo; Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology; Nature (International Journal of Science)
Good Vibrations The African demon mole rat hates bad neighbors just as much as you do. These rodents are solitary creatures and aren’t too pleased if another burrows too closely. So it does what anyone would do in this situation—slam its head against the roof of its tunnel. This form of seismic, or vibrational, communication comes at a slow pace when trying to intimidate predators and a fast pace when warning other demon mole rats.
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Tim Faust, author of Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next, speaks during a book tour at SEIU offices on September 19. (Steve Marcus/Staff)
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What is single-payer health care? Single-payer health care is a term for a government-run system of health care financing. It has been commonly referred to during the 2020 presidential cycle as “Medicare for All.” The plan for single-payer, at least as multiple politicians have proposed it, would leave doctors in the private market. Health insurance would be taken over by the government, similar to Canada. Doctors would not be employed by the government as they are in the United Kingdom’s model. Most plans for single-payer also include vision and dental care. Of the 19 remaining Democratic candidates, Sens. Bernie Sanders, who wrote a bill to implement single-payer, and Elizabeth Warren support transferring all insurance responsibilities to the government. Faust said people who may be wary of change should remember that the current insurance model changes constantly on an individual level—for example, when changing jobs. “I can’t think of a more volatile structure in America right now than how contemporary health care works,” he said.
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What is a public option? A public option would allow people to choose to take part in a public health care system. Essentially, instead of signing up for Blue Cross Blue Shield, they could sign up for Medicare. A public option is more popular among 2020 candidates than outright single-payer health care. Narrowing down exactly what a public option would look like is more difficult, as Democratic candidates have outlined different proposals. For example, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg rolled out a “Medicare for All Who Want It” proposal that would allow Americans to buy into a public health care plan, which he argues will force private insurance to be competitive and “create a natural glide-path” to “Medicare for All.” The plan of Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., would immediately allow people to buy into Medicare while developing a 10-year phase-in system that would automatically insure newborns and the uninsured, and let those on other federal programs phase in. However, this plan would allow private insurance plans to operate within the Medicare system with “stricter consumer protection standards.” Faust is dismissive of a public option, and reiterated the need for a single-payer system. Anything less than that, he says, will leave cracks large enough for people to fall through. “To demand [a] public option is to put private profit above actually building a meaningful and effective health care model,” he said.
support—69% of Republicans strongly oppose a single government health care plan, while 51% of Democrats strongly favor it and 26% of Democrats somewhat favor it. Language and framing of the health care plan matter in determining favoritism as well. The terms “universal health coverage,” “Medicare for All” and “national health plan” have more positive reactions, while the terms “single-payer health insurance system” and “socialized medicine” have more negative reactions.
How much will it cost? Single-payer isn’t cheap, but the cost will essentially come from a reshuffling of where people spend their money rather than new costs. Sanders’ 2016 campaign estimated that over 10 years, Medicare for All would cost $13.8 trillion, a number that outside think tanks and studies have not backed up. For example, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan think tank, has estimated Sanders’ proposal would cost $28 trillion over a decade, while the Urban Institute think tank estimated it would cost $32 trillion over that period.
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According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Americans paid $3.5 trillion on health care services in 2017. If rates stayed there, that would be $35 trillion over a decade. “Cost keeps skyrocketing, and nothing can bring it down,” Faust said. “Single-payer can. If we don’t, we’re going to be spending just south of $5 trillion in a decade. It’s not bad to spend money on health care, it’s bad to spend it on that much waste.” However, under a single-payer system, out-of-pocket costs would be eliminated. According to Kaiser Family Foundation polling, most respondents did not understand that under a single-payer proposal, taxes would increase but costs at the point of service would be eliminated. Essentially, Americans would pay more in taxes for the ability to pay nothing at the doctor’s office. Physicians for a National Health Program—a singlepayer advocacy group—said the program would be paid by a 7% payroll tax and a 2% income tax on individuals. “The payroll tax would replace all other employer expenses for employees’ health care, which would be eliminated,” their statement reads. “The income tax would take the place of all current insurance premiums, co-pays, deductibles and other out-of-pocket payments.”
Isn’t this essentially ‘Obamacare’? No. While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—President Barack Obama’s signature legislation—increased the amount of insured Americans, it stopped short of guaranteeing health care for everyone. Instead, it allowed states to expand their Medicaid coverage and offered tax credits on some insurance plans. It also banned insurance providers from turning people down for pre-existing conditions. After the ACA was enacted, the uninsured population dropped, but the Kaiser Family Foundation reports that, as of 2017, 27.4 million people remained uninsured.
Is single-payer popular? The popularity of single-payer can be tricky to determine, but the numbers are generally promising for proponents. The most recent polling from the Kaiser Family Foundation showed that 53% of respondents supported a single-payer program. Party affiliation, though, is a significant factor in determining
Members of the Democratic Socialists of America listen to Tim Faust speak about health care at a meeting in September. (Steve Marcus/Staff)
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Cut and Taste aims to take over Las Vegas’ catering scene
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lex Barnett, co-owner of local caterer Cut and Taste, has a clear vision for the company. “We want to be known as the best caterer in Las Vegas,” he said. “We want to have our niche doing large-volume events— five, 10, 15,000 people—and just have those events be memorable for people.” Whether or not it’s the best catering service in the Valley might be up for debate, but there’s no debating the company’s recent rise. Founded eight years ago, Cut and Taste, which has about a dozen full-time employees, is the brainchild of Adam Pusateri and Las Vegas native Jeremy Jordan. Barnett, Pusateri and Jordan, all age 31, went to school together at the Culinary Institute of America in New York, graduating in 2008. “Jeremy and Adam were roommates,” said Barnett, who also has a bachelor’s degree in hospitality management from UNLV. “I was just a guy who would hang out.” After culinary school, Jordan, who also has an undergraduate degree from UNLV, returned to Southern Nevada to pursue his catering aspirations. Pusateri moved here in 2011. Both can recall the company’s early days, when they also had to work full-time jobs on the Strip to make ends meet. Pusateri ran the overnight kitchen at the Aria; Jordan was a manager at Mandalay Bay. “I think those first two years, when it was Jeremy and Adam, were the biggest grind,” Barnett said. Cut and Taste started to become a full-time commitment in 2014 when it secured a contract at World Market Center and also began working events at the Keep Memory Alive Event Center in Downtown. It
also had company offices at the center. “Once we got World Market Center, we started to realize that a lot of our business was going to come to us,” Jordan said. “Running a catering company is different in Las Vegas than it is anywhere else,” Barnett added. “There’s so much need for catering here, there’s not a big need for advertising. There are a lot of caterers here, but we’d say there’s probably three to five that really have it together, that we consider our competition.”
In Las Vegas, Jordan said, you get points for style, along with quality of your product. That’s why their offerings include chef demonstrations, a meat and cheese wall (a spin-off of the meat and cheese board), and bread hanging stations—imagine pretzels dangling from a copper frame like sausages might in an old meat shop. “It seems like everyone who wants to throw a party here wants to do the coolest, most different thing,” Jordan said. “We’re always creating and coming up with food stations and linking up with local builders to design these displays.” With their business growing, and with a recent change in ownership at World Market Center, Cut and Taste bought an 8,600-square-foot industrial building just south of McCarran International Airport on East Pama Lane for $1.3 million earlier this year. Improvements and specifications for the building, which include a second-floor office space buildout, are expected to be done later this month. The work can’t be done soon enough, Barnett said, because October is one of the busiest months of the year on the Las Vegas catering calendar. Being busy, though, isn’t anything new. In January, Cut and Taste was responsible for nearly 250 events— anything from boxed lunch service for a dozen people to something for a few thousand people—during a seven-day period, Barnett said. “We were just figuring it out as we went,” Barnett said. “We went from a company whose largest event was probably around 2,000 people to doing an event for 17,000 Cisco Systems employees. Things are going really well.”
Jeremy Jordan, left, and Alex Barnett stand in Cut and Taste’s catering facility, which is under construction. (Wade Vandervort/Staff)
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VegasInc Notes Commercial Alliance Las Vegas honored local commercial real estate industry leader Christopher McGarey in McGarey September as its CALV member of the year. McGarey’s “hard work and dedication contributed to CALV’s growth in membership and continued strong connections with CALV’s affiliate commercial real estate partners,” CALV President Cathy Jones said. McGarey, the group’s president in 2018, holds the Certified Commercial Investment Member designation and is a Certified Property Manager.
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Henderson Libraries will host VIBE 2019, a technology-driven networking event from 2-4 p.m. October 18 at the Paseo Verde Library, 280 S. Green Valley Parkway. Local innovators Aptiv, Quertle, Praxis Aerospace Concepts and Haddington Dynamics will give presentations about the technology used at their company and the skills needed to work in these fields. “We all know how difficult it is to keep up with how fast these industries move,” said Marcie Smedley, executive director of Henderson Libraries. “If you are looking to work in one of these fields, you should be aware of the preferred skills these companies need.” The
Unmarked graves at Woodlawn Cemetery received marked headstones October 6 through the Indigent Burial Program. More than $50,000 has been raised by Jewish Nevada for the programs, which help cover the $350 cost of each headstone. “No one leaves this earth without a name. Every one of us matters,” said Marla Letizia, Jewish Nevada Board chairwoman. The headstones were painted by children from religious schools throughout Southern Nevada. Jewish Nevada said donations ranged from $18 to $1,800. Ryan Calahan has been selected for the Building Design+ Construction 2019 “40 Under 40.” Calahan is a Calahan principal with FEA Consulting Engineers, which the publication noted was the seventh-largest hotel engineering firm in the country for the second straight year. Calahan was
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