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EDC ANNOUNCES LINEUP FOR 25TH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL It was more than 15 months ago, on February 21, 2020, when Electric Daisy Carnival revealed the lineup of artists set to perform at Insomniac’s flagship dance music festival in Las Vegas. After dealing with the challenges of the pandemic and postponing the threeday event several times, EDC will finally return to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway October 22-24, and Insomniac unveiled the 2021 lineup June 7 via social media. More than 200 artists will perform across eight different stages this fall as EDC celebrates 10 years in Las Vegas and 25 years as one of the most successful festival brands in the world. Highlights include the debut of the KineticZen stage at KineticField, which will host performances by Kygo and a collaboration with Slander and Said the Sky. Superstar acts Zedd and Zhu will play the CosmicMeadow stage. The NeonGarden will offer house and techno sounds from the likes of Black Coffee and Charlotte de Witte complemented by live art installations, and Australian drum and bass outfit Pendulum will reunite for the first live performance of its new Trinity concept at the BassPod stage. Other big names familiar to Las Vegas clubgoers and dance music fans taking to EDC stages this year include Tiësto, Alesso, The Chainsmokers, Deadmau5, DJ Snake, Diplo and The Martinez Brothers. Passes are sold out, but there’s a waitlist available at insomniac tickets.com/shows/4/ edc-las-vegas-2021. –Brock Radke
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THEY SAID IT n “Like the Swiss Army knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment. Good for both home and battle.” –U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego, writing June 4 in a ruling that struck down California’s 32-year-old ban on assault weapons
Las Vegas Raiders President Marc Badain sits by a map of parking lots during a June 3 news conference outside Allegiant Stadium. (Steve Marcus/Staff)
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n “Hope does not exist by itself, it must be coupled with relationships and trust, it must be coupled with tangible outcomes in terms of what we do as leaders to convince people that there is a reason to be hopeful about their future and the future of their children.” –Vice President Kamala Harris during a June 7 meeting with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei
There will be 65,000 football fans at Allegiant Stadium for a Raiders game in a few months. Before that, the nearly $2 billion venue will host a pair of concerts that are expected to draw capacity crowds. The challenge for which team and local officials have long planned: getting people to and from the stadium, and doing n “Partisan voting legislation so in an efficient manner. will destroy the already weakThe Raiders revealed their strategy June 3, which includes ening binds of our democracy, and for that reason, I plans for a third of the fans walking to the facility from Strip will vote against the For the properties, others taking Regional Transportation CommisPeople Act. Furthermore, I sion buses and still more getting parking spots at or near the will not vote to weaken or stadium. That said, the plans are fluid, team officials stressed. eliminate the filibuster.” “We’ll learn from every event,” Raiders President Mark Ba–Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., dain said. “There will be feedback from fans, and we’ll learn writing in the Charleston from that. We’ll try to address every concern that we can.” Gazette-Mail About 22,000 fans indicated in surveys that they expect to park in garages along the resort corridor before walking across the Hacienda Avenue bridge over Interstate 15. That way of accessing the stadium is encouraged, officials said. Badain said more than 35,000 parking spots will be available within a 1-mile walk of the stadium. Ride-share drop-off lots will be designated at areas to the east, south and northwest of the stadium. The nearby Russell Road bridge over I-15 will not be closed to traffic during Raiders game days. At least 6,500 parking spots in lots near the stadium will be designated for those who wish to tailgate before games. Those spots will range in price from $40 to $100, with an average price of $75. –Bryan Horwath
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Fresh off a wholesale resort renovation totaling more than $100 million and back to full capacity operations, the Strat is now focusing on one of the most important and exciting ways to attract visitors—live entertainment. First up, SPI Entertainment CEO Adam Steck said, will be renovations to the Strat Theater to enhance sound and lighting and back-ofhouse amenities for incoming performers, along with the addition of some modern technology like LED screens on the walls. But he’s determined to keep the room’s classic Vegas vibes. Discussions have started with the producers of MJ Live to determine whether it will continue there beyond 2021. Either way, expect several different kinds of shows to land at the theater in the coming months. Beyond the theater, Strat general manager Stephen Thayer confirmed the announcement of the closure of Celestia, the circus-style production that opened in May 2019 in a tent constructed just outside the northern portion of the Strat. Current plans call for the tent to be removed soon. –Brock Radke
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. outclassed YouTube personality Logan Paul but didn't knock him out during an eight-round boxing exhibition June 6 in Miami. The bout was not scored, so no winner was declared. “He’s better than I thought he was,” Mayweather said afterward.
Facebook announced June 4 that former President Donald Trump’s accounts will be suspended for two years, freezing his presence on the social network until early 2023 following a finding that Trump stoked violence ahead of the deadly January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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The Weekly Q&A: Celebrity Page host Jaymes Vaughan Cover story: Why does Hollywood love messing with Vegas? The Strip: A surge in creativity appears imminent Art: The Bellagio spotlights the sweet science's visual side Food & Drink: Tasty Thai and a new Downtown watering hole
WEEK IN REVIEW WEEK AHEAD N EWS YO U S H O U L D K N OW A B O U T
Sports: Zooming in on a busy—and inclusive— rodeo weekend Vegas Inc: Attempting to reach unbanked Nevadans
STRONG START Reigning MVP A’ja Wilson is averaging 18.6 points and 8 rebounds a game, and Liz Cambage 15.4 points and 8.2 rebounds, leading the Las Vegas Aces to a 7-3 start to the season. Five players are averaging double-digit scoring, and Chelsea Gray leads the team with 6.8 assists per game and 17 steals this season. The team has won seven of its past nine games, with the only two losses coming against first-place Connecticut. The Aces’ next game takes place June 13 against the Dallas Wings.
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Gymnast Simone Biles captured her seventh U.S. title June 6, as the 24-year-old continues her push to become the first woman to win back-to-back Olympic all-around gold medals in more than 50 years.
A spokesperson for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said the couple welcomed second child Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor on June 4. Her first name is a nod to Her Majesty The Queen's nickname. Her middle name is in honor of her grandmother and Harry’s mother. The baby is eighth in line to the British throne.
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Jewelers to design custom engagement rings for the couple (now available to the public as “Our Ring by Jaymes & Jonathan” at Kay.com). Additionally, Vaughan and Bennett chose Unico Resort in Riviera Maya because it celebrates LGBT romance (“not to mention that the resort is gorgeous,” Vaughan says). And the pair recently made news as the first gay couple on the cover of mainstream wedding magazine The Knot. ¶ Las Vegas Weekly spoke with the 2012 Amazing Race competitor about
his favorite Vegas activities, maintaining that Chippendales body and his big new travel project, Outbound.
How did it feel to be the first gay couple on the cover of The Knot? I always think about what it would have meant for me or us when we were younger and going through all of our struggles and feeling like you wouldn’t find love. You didn’t fit in. There wasn’t a space for you. To see two guys in love on the cover of this magazine would have done so much for me. I’m thrilled that we get to be a part of history, and I can’t wait to see who’s next. During the pandemic, you and Jonathan launched Outbound, a “boutique bucket list adventure” tour company geared toward the LGBT community. Outbound’s first planned trips include cruises around European pride festivals, the Greek Isles and more. What led you into the travel industry? We missed traveling so much during the pandemic. We were sitting here making our bucket list of destinations, and as we’re Googling these destinations, we’re realizing so many other people are calling these their bucket list destinations, as well. Why not bring other people from our LGBTQ+ community and start checking off our bucket lists together?
Are you and Jonathan actually going to be on these cruises? We’ll be on every single one of them, girl. You think we’re gonna make a bucket list adventure company and not go on every adventure and tick off our bucket list, too? How has the pandemic changed you? I’ll be honest with you, after the pandemic, a lot of the celebrity stuff just seems so silly. ... I’m gonna still do the red carpet and all that stuff and enjoy it. But as far as where you put the bulk of your energy—maybe I don’t need to care what relationship J.Lo is in right now when I could be doing something to make things better for my community instead? … That’s why, as someone who loves travel so much, it’s super high priority for me now to create a travel space for our community to feel
safe and celebrated. The pandemic really switched my gears. Between Jonathan’s work in Hollywood and your second home in Palm Springs, how much time do you get to spend at home in Las Vegas? It’s funny, because I did the whole LA thing, and Vegas is home to me. No matter where you go, Vegas has that small-town feel. Regardless of what industry you’re in, people always have your back— whether it was me performing on the Strip or doing real estate or flipping properties or this travel company. People that stay in Vegas are a certain kind of person, and we all just click. … When Jonathan said yes, I was like, “You realize it means you live in Vegas with me now, because Vegas is home.” He was like, “Oh, my God, I love Vegas. You kidding me?”
What was it like growing up in Chesterfield County, Virginia, a place you describe as “where Virginia starts to get hillbilly—the gas stations start serving fried chicken.” There were so many days where I could not get out of bed because I was hurting. There was so much hate hurled at me, from kids assuming I was gay, from parents assuming I was gay and the church I grew up in saying awful things about gay people. … So [my childhood] definitely affected me a ton. That’s why, for us, it’s all about being as loud and proud as we can, because I don’t know who still needs that. Yes, we’ve evolved. Hopefully, we’re in a much better place for the younger generation, [but] there’s still so much work to be done and there’s so many people that need that encouragement and need that hope.
“After the pandemic, a lot of the celebrity stuff just seems so silly [when] I could be doing something to make things better for my community instead.”
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WE’VE HAD ENOUGH BY GEOFF CARTER as Vegas was still relatively young when Hollywood decided to destroy it. In the 1957 Bert I. Gordon movie The Amazing Colossal Man, a soldier, mutated by atomic fallout into a 60-foot giant, stumbles into our tourist corridor and trashes it. Initially curious—he leers at a bathing woman through a hotel window, lifts the crown off the roof of the Royal Nevada and snatches up the Silver Slipper’s giant, high-heeled namesake—he eventually turns violent, smashing the Sands’ sign and cleaving Vegas Vic in two. Bored with demolition, he stomps off to the Hoover Dam, where some well-meaning friends jab him with an antidote in a hypodermic needle the size of a surfboard, and an errant bazooka shot sends him tumbling into the Colorado River. You really needn’t watch The Amazing Colossal Man yourself; it’s not as fun as it sounds. (All the great B-movie stuff—including the Vegas sequence— comes late in the picture. If you must, watch the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version, available on YouTube.) But the movie is a watershed: it began a 64-year tradition of genre movies and television shows destroying Las Vegas for kicks, continuing through this summer’s Zack Snyder-directed thriller Army of the Dead. The cause of our downfall is usually nuclear holocaust, natural disaster or zombie apocalypse … and sometimes, when we’re lucky, the occasional giant.
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We generally don’t ask why Vegas is destroyed in these movies, if we end up seeing many of them at all. (There will be several mentioned in this piece that I’d never even heard of before I began looking for them.) We tend to focus on errors of geography, like when 2007’s Resident Evil: Extinction omits the Excalibur from its version of the Strip, or continuity, like the climactic chase of 2016’s Jason Bourne, which jumps nearly 2 miles—from Bally’s to the Riviera—in less than a second. But things are different now. In the past 20 years, our Valley has endured several potentially apocalyptic real events, from the economic ruin of the 2008 recession to the horrific mass shooting of October 1, 2017. Hollywood might not consider the psychological cost of “wrecking” Las Vegas again and again, but we ought to. In all fairness, Hollywood is equally game to wreck New York City (Watchmen, Deep Impact), Washington, D.C., (Independence Day, Superman II) and even itself (Volcano, San Andreas). But the tone of these destructive scenes is more somber, more reverent. The destruction of Washington, D.C., is an easy stand-in for the fall of democra-
cy, while the destruction of New York City embodies the decline of America’s cultural and economic strength. (LA disaster movies feel like wish fulfillment for the people who live and work there— no more sprawl, traffic or wildfires, just rolling hills and newly vacant oceanfront property). By comparison, the destruction of Las Vegas is oftentimes mean-spirited or played for laughs—as if we had it coming. The easiest assumption is that, for whatever reason, the entertainment industry doesn’t like Vegas much, despite using the city for its industry conventions and harebrained celebrity dining concepts. (Google “Steven Spielberg’s Dive.” I’ll wait.) Perhaps our city disgusts them as it did Terry Gilliam, who shot 1998’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas here: “Vegas just may be the perfect reflection of America at this stage in its history. It’s turning into Disneyland, and everybody’s becoming these mindless infants who wander around and don’t do anything,” he said in a May 1998 interview with the Las Vegas Sun, going on to denigrate the look of the Strip (it has the “overriding sadness of desperation”) and the people who frequent it
(its women are “bloated, inverted pear shapes”; its men “little pinheads” who “walk like there’s something stuck up their ass”). Perhaps unnecessarily, Gilliam concluded the interview by saying “Anyone stuck in Las Vegas needs all the help they can get.” And there it is: To filmmakers like Gilliam, Las Vegas is American laziness, promiscuousness and idiocy writ large. It’s like we’re the first victim in a horror
movie—the drunk, horny idiot who unwittingly strays into a comically gruesome death. Half the time, the rest of the community doesn’t even realize or believe that person is gone; things won’t begin to get real until someone “upstanding” is diced, incinerated or eaten. In 1996’s Mars Attacks!, 1997’s Con Air and the 2006 CBS limited series Category 6: Day of Destruction, Las Vegas continues to gamble, drink and screw
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even as it’s ripped apart. Contrasted against the numbing, horrific events of 10/1—and our community’s immense, focused humanitarian response to it—the giggling half-wit stereotypes of Category 6 aren’t just insulting, but provably wrong. That isn’t to say that I don’t occasionally enjoy watching this town destroyed in some goofy way. We’ve been vaporized, zombified, Sharknado’d. And like all persistent trends in popular art, if you look at this let’s-destroy-Vegas thing long enough and in the right way, it’ll explain why it keeps happening over and over again.
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The Amazing Colossal Man belonged a streak of 1950s B-movie giants, both human (1958’s Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, a superior film to Colossal in every way) and insect (the giant irradiated ants of 1954’s Them!). And while Colossal is the only one explicitly set in Nevada, they all belong to the same public anxiety: From 1951 to 1962, atomic bombs were being detonated into the atmosphere at the Nevada Test Site, only 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. And Vegas’ casinos took full advantage of the spectacle, hosting watch parties and serving atomic bombthemed cocktails. People watching the blasts, either in person or on television, must have idly wondered: Just what is this gonna do to me? Nearly 60 years on, the cultural fall-
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out of the Nevada Test Site lingers. One of the city’s oldest continually operating bars is Downtown’s Atomic Liquors. (Martin Scorsese snuck it into 1995’s Casino.) One of Vegas’ most often-reprinted classic images is “Miss Atomic Bomb,” a 1957 Don English photo of Copa Room showgirl Lee Merlin set against a billowing mushroom cloud; The Killers took the name for a 2012 single. And even as recently as 2017’s Blade Runner 2049, Las Vegas has been depicted on film as patient zero of a nuclear holocaust. Some movies hit you over the head with it. Roger Zelazny’s Damnation Alley (1977)—a crappy but watchable sci-fi road movie starring George Peppard, Jan-Michael Vincent and the coolest recreational vehicle you’ve ever seen—depicts post-apocalyptic Vegas as half-buried in sand, with Circus Circus as its only intact property. Vincent’s character tosses off a dismissive eulogy: “It always looked better at night. By day, it looked like Barstow with high-rises.” Resident Evil: Extinction draws from the same playbook, with one of its zombie battles set on the half-buried towers and bridges of the Venetian. Notable is Gareth Edwards’ 2014 reimagining of Godzilla, the biggest and best of the atomic-age radiation monsters. In a brief but spectacular sequence, an immense, spider-legged “MUTO” (“Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism”) escapes from a vault in Yucca Mountain and stampedes through Vegas, destroying the Strip in an almost desultory manner
“ANYONE STUCK IN LAS VEGAS NEEDS ALL THE HELP THEY CAN GET.” -Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas director Terry Gilliam
as it passes through. If there’s a more potent metaphor for the dangers of storing nuclear waste at the Yucca facility, I’ve yet to see it. And then there’s The Stand, the 1978 Stephen King novel serialized for television in 1994 and again in 2020. King’s sprawling end-of-theworld story could hardly be more disdainful of Vegas: After a deadly plague, it becomes a community of criminals, bottom-feeders and scumbags, lorded over by a man who’s heavily implied to be the devil. And in both the book and its adaptations (spoilers!), Vegas is destroyed by a leaky atomic bomb wheeled into town by a savant called the Trashcan Man. Its radioactive outgassing pools above the city in a shape a character calls “the hand of God.” Strangely, the post-atomic Las Vegas featured in Denis Villenueve’s splendid Blade Runner 2049 still has its appeal, even in death. The Strip’s structures are intact, and in Blade Runner’s alternate universe, the streetscape has grown to epic proportion. (The Luxor is pictured as having another pyramid structure built on top of it.) The only thing that looks off is the sky, which is burnt orange and strangely appetizing. And Harrison Ford’s retired replicant hunter Deckard, living in a palatial former casino, even manages to deliver the Vegas eulogy Damnation Alley couldn’t bring itself to give, the one it deserves: “The whole town was something, one time. Forget your troubles, see a show. Gamble a little.”
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colorful town just plain looks good on a movie screen. Yes, Vegas is an island you can’t escape on foot, but any island would work in that regard—and zombies swarming through Oahu just don’t have as much to play with. In its giddy opening minutes, Army of the Dead gives us undead showgirls and a bright, sunny resort corridor overrun with ghouls. Would the sequence be half as much fun set in downtown Chicago? Another annoying aspect of these “Vegas vs.” movies is that most of them—Mars Attacks! being the primary exception—weren’t filmed here at all. Army of the Dead’s casino scenes were shot in Atlantic City, a proper diss: Not only is Hollywood wrecking Las Vegas, they’re not even coming to Vegas to do it! If filmmakers want to beat up this town, they should do it to our face (even if New Mexico does offer a better film tax incentive to outside productions than we do—35% to our 15%). That’s just common courtesy. That brings us back to Terry Gilliam, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Gilliam did a lot of shooting here—at Binion’s, Red Rock Canyon and the Riviera, among other spots—
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Like our first cinematic nemesis, Las Vegas is a giant, an outsized personality. Our main thoroughfare is wall-to-wall landmarks, many of them appropriated from other cities. It’s only natural that some filmmakers should wonder how Vegas might fare in a street brawl against other giants in our weight class, such as alien invasion (Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks!), catastrophic climate change (Roland Emmerich’s 2012) and, um, sharknadoes (2016’s Sharknado: The 4th Awakens). These are the films that, despite ourselves, are kind of a hoot to watch. I cackled with delight the first time I saw Burton’s Martian invaders wrecking the Strip (though it still makes me sad to see them take out the Landmark, the real-life implosion of which was adapted to the film). The prisoner plane crash of Con Air and the Strip car chase of Jason Bourne are good, dumb fun—so much so that I wish they belonged to better movies. The giant toddler of Randal Kleiser’s Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992) hoists the Hard Rock Cafe’s Les Paul guitar sign off its mounts and “plays” it—who wouldn’t? And then there’s the zombies. There are numerous thematic reasons to set the zombie action of Army of the Dead, Resident Evil: Extinction and Colin Minihan’s It Stains the Sands Red (2016 ) in Las Vegas, but all of those fall short of the fact that this wild,
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and those on-location scenes shine in a movie whose closing minutes are literally staged in knee-deep filth. Gilliam didn’t like Vegas, but at least he recognized it could be photogenic; his CGI-aided depiction of a 1971 Fremont Street is nearly gorgeous. That might be why Fear and Loathing’s bit of up-close-and-personal Vegas destruction hits harder than most. Late in the film, Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) and Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro) grab a cup of coffee at a North Las Vegas diner. Gonzo leers at the proprietor (Ellen Barkin), eventually slipping her a harassing note. When she asks them to leave, Gonzo calmly pulls a knife, stabs the counter a few times, cuts the cord on the diner’s phone and takes a pie from the display case, shoving a handful of bills into the proprietor’s cleavage to pay for it. “She was still in the grip of paralysis when we left,” Duke intones. Las Vegas is, at its heart, a sort of factory town. Outsiders fail to understand that we don’t live the Vegas they experience in weekend-sized chunks; we just keep it running for them, mopping up their spills after they check out and go home. Though we’d probably be properly terrified of a 60-foot-tall man or a thousands-strong zombie parade, we’re a lot more frightened of a drunk with a knife or an unhinged sharpshooter with a hotel room full of automatic weapons. That isn’t an invitation to Hollywood to refine its Vegas-destroying technique—just a gentle suggestion that, maybe, we’d like our city to be recast as something other than a victim; as the hero, perhaps, or even the romantic lead. We’ve earned it.
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THE ANNETTE PLAYLIST Leos Carax’s crazy-looking musical film Annette makes its U.S. debut in August, but the soundtrack playlist, loaded with songs by Sparks, is on Spotify now. It’s also a good primer for Edgar Wright’s upcoming The Sparks Brothers doc. spoti.fi/3v2Ym3b
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LOKI It’s impossible to predict exactly what we’ll get from Marvel’s Loki, now streaming on Disney+. Will its namesake trickster god (Tom Hiddleston) redeem himself, or double down on the shady stuff that’s worked for him so far? What do Mobius (Owen Wilson) and the mysterious Time Variance Authority really want from him? Which other Marvel Cinematic Universe stars will make internet-breaking cameos? And isn’t Loki, you know, dead? Only one thing seems certain: The studio that delivered back-to-back winners with WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is probably dropping another one. Disney+. –Geoff Carter
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DIPLO AT ENCORE BEACH CLUB Some of our long-absent superstar headlining DJs made their big Strip comeback last weekend, but it’s not really pool club season in Las Vegas until Diplo spins at EBC. The producer and longtime Wynn Nightlife resident has kept busy lately, collaborating on some trippy clogs with the Crocs brand, wrapping up his Diplo & Friends radio show and joining festival lineups. His first Vegas gig in more than a year will be cause for celebration. June 13, 11 a.m., $75$200, encorebeachclub.com.
ADULT PROM AT THE CENTER Your high school prom might have sucked, but here’s another chance to enjoy a magical evening, thanks to the LGBTQIA+ Center of Southern Nevada’s inaugural Adult Prom. Themed “Dancing Under the Stars—An Enchanted Garden Party,” the event will take place in the Center’s lovely gardens. Dress up or down, whatever makes you feel your most authentic self. Expect music, food, dancing and entertainment. All are welcome, as long as you’re 21 or over. (For younger partygoers, the Center will host a Youth Prom on June 12.) June 11, 7 p.m., $10 suggested donation, 401 S. Maryland Parkway, tinyurl.com/ thecenterdance. –C. Moon Reed
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BO BURNHAM: INSIDE Like most of us, the comic spent much of the past year locked up inside his home. Unlike most of us, however, he made a terrific lockdown comedy special, loaded with catchy synth-pop tunes, sock puppets and other ways to put a creative harness on depression. Netflix.
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‘160 SQF,’ DIASPORA & MAKING FACES AT LAS VEGAS CITY HALL Las Vegas City Hall is currently hosting three—count ’em, three—must-see art exhibitions. The Gig Depio-curated Diaspora, in the Chamber Gallery, features works by Sapira Cheuk, Ailene Pasco, Laurens Tan and more. The colorful denizens of Holly Lay’s Making Faces peer out of the Windows on First all day and night. And Nima Abkenar’s “160 SQF, the 211 Project” has a scale appropriate to the Grand Gallery: It’s an entire 160 square-foot living space fashioned from cardboard, a literal box apartment. Monday-Thursday, 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m., free. –Geoff Carter
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VIRGIN LAS VEGAS GRAND OPENING WITH CHRISTINA AGUILERA The resort opened on March 25, but now that all of its varied and refined pieces are ready for action, it’s time for a proper celebration. Las Vegas will be able to experience Élia Beach Club, Todd English’s Olives restaurant and the sports bar and night spot Money, Baby! this weekend, all culminating in the first concert event in the former Joint space, starring Christina Aguilera, Flo Rida and Mix Master Mike. Expect an appearance by Virgin brand founder Richard Branson, too. June 10, 8 p.m., $49-$149, virginhotelslv.com.
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Las Vegas could be on the verge of an artistic revolution
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ike every performer in town where the vacuum would suck you, who has been called back to because more and more bad news action, Petra Massey sounds kept happening and more friends overjoyed to return to her and family were affected. It was this stage in Atomic Saloon Show. “I felt global thing, and yet these beautiful like a bottle being uncorked,” the positives happened as well, where British-born comedian says of people really came together.” reopening May 5. “The rush The local performing arts I got after 13 months of not community absolutely did doing any shows or any kind that, supporting each other of performance really hit me. in meaningful ways big and It was amazing.” small. There were benefit The hit Spiegelworld show at events being livestreamed the Grand Canal Shoppes at Veand virtual connections pronetian originally launched just moting self-care and home a few months before the panexercise routines. Less visible THE demic shut down the Strip, and was a forced but obvious INCIDENTAL many of its cast and crew were undercurrent of individual TOURIST new to Las Vegas. Massey, on creativity and artistic exploBY BROCK RADKE her second tour of Vegas duty ration. (her comedy troupe SpymonAs the entertainers of Las key served in the opening cast Vegas continued to stay home of Cirque du Soleil’s Zumanity and away from the live stage, in 2003), began volunteering at her scratching out a way to keep moving son’s school and ended up becoming forward, new takes on old ideas buban outreach facilitator and games bled up. Concepts simmered. Firstteacher for five months, “just for my time discussions and collaborations sanity and to help them out,” she says. were sparked. New work began. “It was such shaky ground. You Massey says the landscape has didn’t know where you could walk or changed quite a bit since her first ar-
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rival 18 years ago. On the Strip, Zumanity was laying the groundwork for the edgier Spiegelworld-style shows of today, prepping Las Vegas audiences for a different kind of fun. And the creative community has grown, spread out and diversified since then, too. “I suppose all sorts of shows kind of paved the way very slowly for that step to happen,” she says. “Another show that [like Zumanity] is not on anymore but also trailblazing was The Miss Behave Gameshow [at Bally’s]—very cultish and so great—and I hope it might come back again. What happens with shows like this— and like Hot Trash, which is from another performer from Spiegelworld, Grace Lusk—is they are bringing a whole different kind of artist to Vegas. It’s opening up something very interesting from people who have a different creative bent, sort of producer-creators. “In that way, Vegas is growing in an interesting and quite re-
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THE STRIP markable way, and I’m very excited to be here right now.” Lusk, now performing in Absinthe at Caesars Palace, launched the Vaudeville-inspired peepshow Hot Trash with Troy Heard at his Majestic Repertory Theatre Downtown last month and extended it through June after a strong response. Similarly, a trio of tight-knit creatives from the cast and crew of Zumanity assembled the charming cabaret Apéro Show, now playing at Town Square’s Baobab Stage. Strip performers have always dabbled here and there, popping up to sing a song at a local lounge or working on more significant side projects, striving to do something other than what they do five nights a week. But the unprecedented downtime over the past year accelerated what feels like a budding movement, putting motion behind ideas and turning side projects into the main gig. “We had to put the brakes on everything, but creativity never stops,” says Cheryl Daro, an actor, director and producer. “Instead of performing someone else’s work, all of a sudden you have this space to create your own. And I think there’s going to an explosion in Las Vegas from this community, because all of these artists are going to be able to put these ideas into play.” Daro has performed in shows on the Strip and in theatrical productions in New York and LA, but she might be best known here as the behind-the-scenes, binding force of Mondays Dark, hosted by her husband Mark Shunock, and their versatile off-Strip entertainment venue, the Space. (Disclosure: I’m a volunteer board member of the Mondays Dark nonprofit organization.) When they landed in Las Vegas
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more than eight years ago—around the time the Smith Center opened and helped catapult the cultural arts scene—Daro says it was easy to recognize how many talented performers and artists were here and connected, but there weren’t enough venues and organizations to support independent efforts. “What I noticed was a disconnect in terms of people who could produce the content and venues that could handle a show. Specifically with theater, there was no access. You were doing community theater, something non-union or you were on the Strip,” she says. “I think now there’s a different mentality on the producer side, where you’re seeing smaller companies can offer equity contracts for things like that, and it’s building a middle ground from the community level up to the Strip.” More local artists and producers cultivating new works will create the need for those venues, and vice versa. The Vegas Room, a true listening space that offers guests dinner and a show and artists a place to create and perform their own material, opened during the pandemic in the Commercial Center. Daro will sing and tell stories there on June 24 and 25. The gears of this fascinating creative machine started turning long before the pandemic, but the pause forced those individual parts to consider themselves in a different way, and maybe more importantly, to envision a more efficient and beautiful path for collaborating with others. “I’m hoping to see locals take notice of the artists that are here and the way they’re getting together, but also, on a national level, I hope that we get recognized for our community and not just for being performers in shows [on the Strip],” Daro says. “We are a very unique group of people, and there’s a really deep heart for the arts here. I’m hoping we get to see some really exciting pieces come out of this time, things that are really unique to this city.”
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D Vegas rapper DougieTheDon reconnects with his father through song
ougieTheDon’s debut solo record, This One’s on You, begins with a voicemail from his father. “Doug Jr., this is your dad,” the deep and pleasant voice bellows. “I haven’t heard from you, hope all is well.” Lately, Doug Sr. mentions, he and his son have been distant. They’ve had their differences, but he believes things will one day realign. “Just called to say ‘I love you.’ Hope to hear from you soon,” the dad says before the sounds of piano keys take over. “I’ve been making music since I was 13,” says the son, 33-yearold Douglas Sorro, who grew up performing in a hip-hop group but eventually got into basketball and stopped rapping. Later, he switched gears again to become a father himself. It wasn’t until COVID-19 hit that he found the time to reignite his childhood passion—and to connect with his father through song. “Things just started happening out of nowhere,” Sorro says. The rapper and singer attributes his newfound success to the camaraderie he has found in Las Vegas since relocating here from LA in 2009. Though Sorro didn’t get involved in the music scene right away, he found kinship in the community. It’s partly why the importance of his family is a theme of This One’s on You. “I’m a little bit older. I can’t sit here and talk about stuff I don’t live [through]. I don’t talk about guns and killing people, I talk about my actual life and I have fun with it,” Sorro says. “Everything I put on there is the truth, and whether it embarrasses me or not, I want to be transparent.
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Being homeless, ending up in jail, visiting his dad in the hospital following Doug Sr.’s open heart surgery are all topics on the record, and “those are all things that really happened,” he says. “I was tired/I was lonely/I was broken inside/But instead of begging for change/I was begging to die,” Dougie raps on “Owe It All to You.” “Me and my father, we’re extremely stubborn,” Sorro says. “We don’t agree on a lot of things … but my dad usually is the one who will always reach out and apologize.” That’s where the voicemail comes in. “My dad’s not getting younger, and tomorrow’s not promised, so I wanted to make sure he could see something while he was still standing, and show how much I appreciate everything he did for me and my brother.” Originally, This One’s on You sounded entirely different. He says the cover photo—of baby Dougie cradled in his father’s arms—is just about the only thing remaining from that earlier version. “I was letting my father listen to the original album and he liked it, but as I was playing it, I was like, ‘This album doesn’t match my dad in any way.’ So I got rid of those songs and I [re-] made the album within two weeks,” Sorro says. The final track, “Dad,” brings the LP full circle, beginning with a dial tone and a message to Sorro’s father. “What would I do without you, Pops?/Truth be told/I don’t know if I’m’a grow old/But if the Lord take me here today/Just know I’m a part of your soul,” Sorro raps over a melancholy beat, while his daughter echoes, “Grandpa, I love you.” “He’s one of my biggest supporters,” Sorro says. “It’s wild, because he always critiques something. … But when he heard this, he had no complaints.”
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TOP: Fight posters from the Top Rank Collection BOTTOM: A detail view “People Like Us” by Jeffrey Gibson
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Bellagio brings the greats together for boxingthemed exhibit Leather Throwers BY C. MOON REED PHOTOGRAPHS BY YASMINA CHAVEZ
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t might seem like the roughand-tumble world of boxing is a million miles away from the more rarefied world of fine art. But the classic Vegas sport is actually a muse for some of the world’s best artists and most avid collectors. Put aside the stereotypes associated with art or boxing, and the artistic allure of the ring is undeniable: Boxing features high-stakes drama, human anatomy, competition, celebrity, beauty, grace and, yes, violence. What more could an artist seek? Perhaps a tie to Las Vegas? Done. The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art’s new exhibit, Leather Throwers: Celebrating the World of Boxing Through Art, combines world-class, boxing-themed art with ephemera from Las Vegas’ (and Nevada’s) boxing history. Tarissa Tiberti, show curator and executive director of MGM Resorts Art & Culture, says Leather Throwers should appeal to sports and art fans alike. “There’s opportunities for people who love boxing to walk away seeing some incredible artworks honoring boxing,” Tiberti says. Meanwhile, art enthusiasts will come away from the show with a new appreciation for “how important boxing was
with Las Vegas art consultant Heather Harmon. “Even when we were looking at the program, it wasn’t so much about key fights. It was: How [does] the design of the programs and the promotional posters feed into the rest of the art, of the whole idea of boxing?” The search included a field trip to famed boxing promotion company Top Rank. Harmon scoured the gym for favorite boxing posters, while Tiberti handpicked art to Las Vegas and how Las Vegas from Top Rank’s offices. elevated the sport.” Tiberti spotted a Louis VuitThe featured artists read like ton trunk custom-designed by a championship fight card: Andy Karl Lagerfeld to carry a boxing Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, bag and boxing accessories. She Annie Leibovitz, Diane Arbus, also selected a black-and-white Damien Hirst, Claes Oldenburg, drawing by Neiman, “Boxing at Ed Ruscha, LeRoy Neiman, Irthe Ritz (Black Tie Boxing).” The ving Penn and more. drawing depicts a “blurry vision Portraits of Muhamof a boxing match” in a mad Ali figure promVegas ballroom with an inently in the show. eye-catching chandeLEATHER The GOAT is depicted lier. The piece stands THROWERS: in various forms and in contrast to the more CELEBRATING styles by Hirst, Leibotypical photo-realistic THE WORLD vitz, Warhol, Vik Muniz depictions of boxers OF BOXING and Douglas Gordon. throwing a punch. “It’s Not quite a portrait, a really beautiful apTHROUGH ART Through Neil Leifer’s famous proach to the ringside August 22; photo-from-above of the view,” Tiberti says. Thursday-Monday, 1966 fight between Ali The show’s title, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; and Cleveland Williams Leather Throwers, $8-$16. Bellagio Gallery of Fine offers a stunning birdscomes from a 1998 Art, 702-693eye view. acrylic-on-paper piece 7871. Among Leather of the same name by Throwers’ standouts are California artist Rusthree punching bags cha. The typographic that have been transformed by piece displays the first names of artist Jeffrey Gibson. Adorned with boxers, who are more often known beads, blankets, paint, studs, fringe and more, they’re elevated from mere workout equipment pieces into sacred totems. In the other corner, a sleek two-toned punching bag by Oldenburg looks like a teardrop or a fine vase. Boxing ephemera, such as fight posters, add a real-life counterweight to the fine art. The artifacts anchor the show in the very real world of Las Vegas. This is no accident. “We really wanted to … focus on Las Vegas,” says Tiberti, who collaborated on the show
RIGHT “Sugar Ray Robinson” by Jean-Michel Basquiat
by their last names. “It’s giving them their identity back [via] their first names,” Tiberti says. “It’s a beautiful piece, and it’s really perfect because the idea of leather throwers—that title is so great.” Having grown up in Las Vegas, Tiberti says she’s always had boxing hovering nearby. Her dad would often attend matches, and she, too, has watched the sport up close. “It’s incredible to see just the thrill and the feeling of it,” Tiberti says, though she admits she’s uncomfortable with the idea of two people hurting each other. Of course, that moral complexity makes for fertile ground for an artistic imagination. The idea for Leather Throwers emerged organically while Tiberti was gathering art for the Bellagio’s previous show, Always More: Collecting in Las Vegas, which ran this past winter. As Tiberti viewed the art held privately in local collections, she says she was blown away by the treasure trove of boxing art. Indeed, she explains, Leather Throwers only exists thanks to the generosity of elite collectors, whose names should be familiar to Las Vegans: Teresa and Lorenzo Fertitta; Ralph DeLuca; Michelle and Lawrence Epstein; Gary Simmons; and Anne and Dana White.
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(Left to right) Golden Cup, beef boat noodle soup and Fairy Tale yellowtail carpaccio at Lamoon
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hen summertime arrives in Las Vegas, all I want is Thai food. It’s such a versatile cuisine, with infinite bright and powerful flavor possibilities in even the lightest dishes. And there’s something invigorating about eating intensely spicy food when it’s hot outside. Among my all-time favorite local eateries for such activity were the Chada Thai & Wine and Chada Street restaurants, both formerly fixed in the Chinatown area. The families behind those spots went on to open the Patio Desserts & Drinks on Decatur and Lamaii on Spring Mountain, and then last March, Bon Atcharawan and Bia Hawang opened Lamoon farther west on Spring Mountain in a former Dairy Queen building. Atcharawan is the manager, and Hawang, his wife, is chef and owner. Together, they’ve distinguished Lamoon from other endeavors by adding some sushi and other Japanese dishes to the menu. But there’s no fusion here, just variety. Lamoon also has its
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own, more casual feel, as perfect for a leisurely lunch, afternoon coffee and dessert as for a freewheeling late dinner with friends where tons of different dishes are piled on the table and passed around. These recipes are Hawang’s, so get ready for something different. An early signature specialty is the beef boat noodle soup ($12), a bold and spicy bowl stocked with different cuts of beef, rice noodles, bean sprouts, green onions, cilantro and pork rinds. The soup can traditionally contain beef or pork blood, along with fermented bean curd that would add obvious richness and sour notes, but Lamoon’s version is ultra-savory while still
balanced, a gravy-like broth that brings heat and herbal qualities. You’re going to want to push those crispy chicharrones under the surface to soak up all that deliciousness, then get a chunk of tender stewed beef in the same great spoonful. Perhaps a big hot bowl of soup—also available with pork ($10) instead of beef—isn’t your chosen lunch on a triple-digit day. No problem. Lamoon’s green papaya “pok pok” salad ($9) is one of the best versions around, crispy shredded papaya with tiny, juicy tomatoes and snappy long beans in a brilliantly spicy lime sauce, topped with three grilled shrimp. Or cool off without the kick with sushi dishes like yellowtail carpaccio ($13); the Roar roll ($10) with
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tuna, yellowtail, salmon, scallop and shrimp; or sweet shrimp topped with ikura ($12). Shareable snacks include house-made chicken or pork meatballs on skewers ($5), honey-yuzu or spicy tom yum chicken wings ($7), and the must-try Golden Cup ($9) with fresh salmon marinated in a special house blend of Thai spices, herbs and yuzu. Tiger steak ($22), sizzling ribeye served with truffle fries, salad and a potent dipping sauce, is listed as an entrée but could be another winner for the table. Unique twists are added to traditional dishes across the board, like lychee and tomato in the
roasted duck curry, and tamarind sauce and crab meat in the pad Thai. Lighter soup options include lemongrass with shrimp and young coconut ($11) and a vegan broth with soft tofu and mixed veggies ($7). And the coconut pancake dessert known as khanom krok ($6) is a fun finish, six pieces made to order with assorted playful toppings. For a restaurant that opened when everything was shutting down and had to inch its way through 2020, Lamoon feels and tastes like a fully developed destination with its own style. The couple behind it had been working on it for a long time, and they have more ideas to roll out. Stay tuned.
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Rodeo returns to Las Vegas with two organizations teaming up for a three-day weekend
COWBOY CAMARADERIE RODEO WEEKEND SCHEDULE
Friday, June 11: PBR Las Vegas Invitational Night 1, 6:45 p.m. Saturday, June 12: PBR Las Vegas Invitational Night 2, 5:45 p.m. Sunday, June 13: BPIR Showdown in Las Vegas, 12:45 p.m. All events at MGM Grand Garden Arena. Only mobile tickets permitted, $15-$440, axs.com.
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Many of Valeria Howard-Cunningham’s favorite moments over more than three decades spent around Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo, the all-Black circuit her late husband founded in 1977, have involved demonstrations introducing the sport and the organization’s history to children. Howard-Cunningham, now BPIR’s CEO, always positions herself at the front of the arena before the start of the “Rodeo for Kids’ Sake” sessions, so she can witness newcomers’ reactions. And she has become used to hearing one takeaway repeatedly over the years. “I’ve heard so many of them say, ‘Oh, my God, we’ve never seen this before on television. There actually are Black cowboys and cowgirls,’ ” Howard-Cunningham says. There might be fewer of those shocked first impressions after a historic rodeo weekend scheduled for June 11-13 in Las Vegas. As part of its new partnership with Professional Bull Riders, BPIR will make its network television debut Sunday afternoon on CBS as a capper to a three-day extravaganza at MGM Grand Garden Arena. PBR stages its annual Las Vegas invitational on the first two nights before ceding the stage to BPIR’s “Showdown in Vegas: Challenge of the Champions.” “They’ve been doing great things in supporting Black cowboys and the sport of rodeo, and we thought we were in position to help them take what they’ve been doing to a new level,” PBR CEO Sean Gleason says. “If you look back at the history of cowboys, it was the first true melting pot of American society. It was white settlers moving to the West, Black free men moving to the West and all them learning the craft and trade of the true cowboy out to the railheads, and learning from the Hispanic vaqueros. … We’re truly a sport of diversity. and I think embracing that, as we have all along, and expanding it is only going to help the entire sport grow.” It’s a historic return to Las Vegas, which has traditionally hosted two PBR events per year—including November’s World Finals—but went all of 2020 without any amid the pandemic. The World Finals left Las Vegas for the first time in its 26-year history, decamping to AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, after it couldn’t get approval for fan attendance here. Some feared the event, which creates millions of dollars in economic impact and drew nearly 75,000 fans over its three days in 2019, would leave Las Vegas forever, but Gleason said PBR remained committed to the area. “I made it perfectly clear to [Las Vegas officials] that we would be back there the minute we could,” Gleason said. “We took a chance that things would
be open in early June, and here we are going into the event with 100% capacity.” The PBR Invitational will feel like even more of a “homecoming,” according to Gleason, with the move to MGM, which hosted the PBR World Finals from 1994 to 1998 before it moved to the Thomas & Mack Center for 20 years. BPIR’s history in Las Vegas is less extensive. Howard-Cunningham said the organization visited once in the early 2000s and had a successful event but soon found itself “priced out” and unwanted. Unfortunately, she says, that’s been a common theme for BPIR through the years. “The reason BPIR was created was because the Black cowboys and cowgirls were excluded from other rodeo circuits and not embraced, so it’s always been the vision to teach and educate the community about the history,” Howard-Cunningham says. “We want to elevate Black cowboys and cowgirls to the same level as everyone else.” PBR is often regarded as one of the country’s fastest-growing sports franchises, but Gleason is still pushing for more expansion, explaining that it could come from underrepresented demographics in rodeo. In addition to the BPIR partnership, PBR unveiled the new Women’s Rodeo World Championship last year. The league also recently opened the PBR Sport Performance Center in Pueblo, Colorado—similar to the UFC’s local institute to train fighters—to help prospective athletes. “We’ve got a very diverse batch of bullriders,” Gleason says. “We’ve got competitors from multiple countries, multiple backgrounds who compete. Bullriding and the sport of rodeo are really the great equalizer in terms of competition. The bulls don’t care where you came from, what race you are or what your economic outcome is. They’ll treat you the same regardless. It’s a great sport for athletes from all walks of life.” That’s a message similar to the one Howard-Cunningham has preached repeatedly since taking over BPIR’s operations. She wasn’t initially sure she would keep running the rodeo after her husband, Lu Vason, died in 2015, but she says she felt motivated and obligated after so many fans reached out to her. To bring BPIR to its biggest stage six years later with the help of PBR is something she feels like “doing backflips over. I’ll be honest, I didn’t know the parameters of the impact after his passing, but I’d go out to a rodeo and people would be sharing, pleading, crying, just saying, ‘You’ve got to keep doing this,’ ’’ Howard-Cunningham says. “It meant something, and I couldn’t take that away from this community.”
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BY BRYAN HORWATH t can be easier to swindle those in the unbanked population within the Latino community in Las Vegas. “People can be ripped off,” said Peter Guzman, president and CEO of Latin Chamber of Commerce Nevada. “It’s really to their detriment. When people hire lawyers or work with Realtors, a lot of times they’ll pay in cash, and there are often problems with that.” A person can be without a checking or savings account for any number of reasons, though often it’s because of a lack of trust in financial institutions and systems, or the belief that past financial mistakes would likely freeze them out of the banking system. In Nevada in 2019, the last year for which statistics were available, an estimated 6.3% of households were considered unbanked, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Nationwide, about 7 million people are considered unbanked, according to the FDIC. As many as half are members of non-white minority communities. Phyllis Gurgevich, president and CEO of the Nevada Bankers Association, said Nevada’s “underbanked” percentage—households where bank accounts could be present, but people use financial products outside the traditional banking system, perhaps a check-cashing service, for transactions— could be as high as 25%. That would be several percentage points higher than the national average, Gurgevich said, and might be because the state has so many casinos that cash paychecks. “Using transactional services outside the banking system can be inconvenient and far more expensive for people,” Gurgevich said. “One of the first steps to financial stability is becoming banked and using it for transactions.” Along with possible distrust and past financial dustups, Gurgevich said some shy away from attempting to get a bank account because they think they aren’t wealthy enough for one. Often, she said, a person’s financial past won’t de-
ter them from being allowed to open a bank account. “There are accounts out there where the minimum balance to open an account is $25,” Gurgevich said. “There are accounts now where overdraft is structurally not possible. The banks have worked hard to create what they consider safe and affordable accounts.” A nationwide network of banks and financial institutions in 2015 came together to form an initiative called Bank On, which aims to make bank accounts accessible and provide education about banking resources. Bank accounts certified for the Bank On program must offer “low or no monthly or operating balance requirements, low or no monthly fees, no possibility for overdrafts, and free access to branch and telephone banking,” according to the initiative. Beginning in 2019, bank branches in Nevada began offering these types of Bank On accounts, including those controlled by Bank of America, U.S. Bank,
Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase. A Wells Fargo spokesman said the company last month announced its own initiative to get into the banking system. Along with Black and Hispanic communities, Wells Fargo identified Native American communities as among those it would like to see have more participation in the banking system. In a statement, Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf said the broadly defined initiative is designed to “work with a broad and diverse group of stakeholders on a sustained multiyear effort to accelerate financial inclusion in the U.S.” Part of the effort will revolve around the bank offering no-fee ATM transactions for those who hold accounts with “Black-owned minority depository institutions.” Wells Fargo will also work to help unbanked individuals learn more about mobile banking options, which have become very popular in recent years. In the Latino community, the barriers to the banking system can be different than in some other minority communities, Guzman said. Some people who came to the U.S. from countries where banking institutions can be untrustworthy might think a bank is out to game them. “Newer immigrants can come from countries where the banking system is very shady,” Guzman said. “They may also have an immigration worry in the family—somebody who is undocumented—so they could have fear about filling out paperwork.” Guzman said he believes banks can do a better job of being “more inviting.” “I think banks could have diversity in their branches and in their commercials,” Guzman said. “I think the banks could do a better job of putting forth people who look like people in these communities. That could be a real plus.”
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