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OFFICIALS SAY 82% OF STATE’S ICU BEDS ARE FULL In Idaho, the fourthleast vaccinated state in the nation, hospitals have been overrun with COVID-19 patients and are running out of space to care for the sick and dying. Doctors and nurses are being forced to make difficult decisions about who will get life-saving care. In Mississippi, a state health official said intensive care bed availability was “effectively zero.” While Nevada hasn’t yet reached the breaking point, 82% of the state’s roughly 700 intensive care beds were full as of September 10, according to the Nevada Hospital Association. COVID patients make up about half of those in intensive care. In Clark County, 216 of 450 intensive care beds are occupied by COVID patients, according to NV Health Response. Clark County saw its lowest number of COVID-related ICU patients, 37, on June 14. By August 4, the number was up to 265. The peak was January 11, with 364 COVID patients in intensive care. Health officials continue to stress the need for people to get vaccinated. Of Nevadans eligible for the shot, 63% had received at least one dose of vaccine, health officials said September 9. At University Medical Center, 95% of the COVID patients hospitalized during the most recent surge have not been vaccinated, officials said. “Community members should rest assured that UMC has the necessary resources, staffing and bed capacity to handle any future influx of patients, just as we have throughout the entire COVID-19 pandemic,” hospital officials said. –Hillary Davis
DEBATE CONTINUES OVER BOOSTER SHOT ROLLOUT UNLV RANKED AMONG MOST DIVERSE COLLEGE CAMPUSES
Gary Clark Jr. plays for a full house September 11 at the grand opening of the Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. The 4,500-capacity venue, formerly known as the Joint, features remodeled luxury suites, multiple VIP areas, a state-of-the-art sound system, video technology and more. For a report from the show, visit lasvegasweekly.com. (Erik Kabik for AEG Presents Las Vegas).
MANDATE GETS MIXED REVIEWS FROM SOUTHERN NEVADA BUSINESSES A major Las Vegas labor union commended President Joe Biden’s order for employee COVID vaccinations, while a business advocacy group questioned the mandate. Biden announced September 9 that employers with 100 or more workers must require them to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or subjected to weekly testing. “The Culinary Union will remain vigilant to ensure workers are protected at work, are actively negotiating with gaming companies to have agreements which reflect those goals, and we continue to urge hospitality employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine as they are safe, proven and effective,” said Geoconda Argüello-Kline, secretary of Culinary Union Local 226. Cara Clarke, vice president of communications for the Vegas Chamber, said most Nevada businesses have fewer than 100 employees, and large businesses in the gaming and tourism sector have already adopted similar policies. “However, the Vegas Chamber is concerned with the federal government mandating such a policy through presidential executive order without debate through either the legislative or regulatory processes,” a chamber statement said. –Casey Harrison
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UNLV is one of the most diverse college campuses in the country, according to the latest annual Best Colleges rankings by U.S. News & World Report. UNLV tied for first in “campus ethnic diversity” for undergraduates, alongside Stanford, the University of Hawaii at Hilo and the University of San Francisco, according to rankings released September 13. UNLV has consistently ranked in the top five among colleges where students are most likely to encounter other students from racial or ethnic groups different from their own. The university ranked second last year, fourth in 2019-2020 and No. 1 in 2018-2019 and 2017-2018. “At UNLV, our incredible student diversity is one of our biggest assets, as it brings multiple perspectives to classroom and policy discussions, research labs, co-curricular activities and community conversations,” UNLV President Keith Whitfield said in a statement. –Hillary Davis
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America installed its first openly transgender bishop September 11 in a service held in San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral. The Rev. Megan Rohrer will lead one of 65 synods, overseeing nearly 200 congregations.
The average person doesn’t need a COVID-19 booster yet, an international group of scientists— including two top U.S. regulators—wrote September 12 in a scientific journal. The experts reviewed studies of the vaccines’ performance and concluded the shots are working well despite the extra-contagious delta variant, especially against severe disease. “Even in populations with fairly high vaccination rates, the unvaccinated are still the major drivers of transmission” at this stage of the pandemic, they concluded. The opinion piece, published in The Lancet, illustrates the intense scientific debate about who needs booster doses and when, a decision the U.S. and other countries are grappling with. In the U.S., the White House has begun planning for boosters later this month, if both the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agree. Advisers to the FDA will weigh evidence about an extra Pfizer shot Friday at a key public meeting. -Associated Press
2 VACCINE BACKTRACK Britain’s health secretary said September 12 that authorities have decided not to require vaccine passports for entry into nightclubs and other crowded events in England, reversing course amid opposition from some members of Parliament.
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The Weekly Q&A: Video game scorer Frank Klepacki Cover story: Prepping you for Downtown’s Life Is Beautiful fest Nights: Resorts World’s Zouk Nightclub opens its doors Noise: The iHeartRadio festival makes use of Area15’s space Food & Drink: Beer Zombie’s Valley expansion continues Sports: Learning about Las Vegas’ “other” new football team Vegas Inc: The Big Boy brand thrives in the desert
WEEK IN REVIEW WEEK AHEAD News you should know about
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit a cross made of steel from the north tower of the Word Trade Center, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The Bidens stopped by on September 11 after visiting the nearby Flight 93 National Memorial to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Evan Vucci/ Associated Press)
112 CANDLES Lawrence Brooks, a Louisiana man who is the oldest living World War II veteran in the United States, marked his 112th birthday September 12 with a drive-by party at his New Orleans home hosted by the National World War II Museum, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported. Drafted in 1940, he was a private in the Army’s mostly Black 91st Engineer Battalion, a unit that was stationed in New Guinea and the Philippines and built infrastructure such as bridges, roads and airstrips.
3 BRITNEY ENGAGED Britney Spears announced her engagement to boyfriend Sam Asghari on September 12, displaying a diamond ring engraved with the word “lioness.” Days earlier, her father filed to end the court conservatorship that has controlled Spears’ life and money for 13 years.
4 BIG MOVE Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hot spots, unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap, a World Bank report published September 13 found.
5 BACK IN THEATERS The Walt Disney Co. on September 10 announced that all of its remaining films this year will open exclusively in theaters. That includes Eternals (November 5), The Last Duel (October 15), Ron’s Gone Wrong (October 22), West Side Story (December 10) and The King’s Man (December 22).
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YOU SHOOT, HE SCORES Video game composer and touring musician Frank Klepacki on his mission to fill the world with sound
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rank Klepacki is, in a word, prolific. What that means in this context is that this pre-interview bio will be—in video game parlance—a speedrun. A professional musician since age 11, Klepacki has worn a lot of hats over the years: composer, drummer, producer, sound designer, touring musician. He created the score for the massive Command & Conquer franchise—a legit blockbuster, with more than 30 million units sold—and provided music for
games based on the Blade Runner, Dune and Star Wars franchises. (That last one took him to Skywalker Ranch for recording and mixing, a dream come true for a huge Star Wars fan.) Klepacki has played with a number of local bands, including Home Cookin’ and The Bitters, and toured with several veteran rockers, such as Blue Öyster Cult’s Buck Dharma and The Tubes’ Fee Waybill. He makes lots of records—two of them last year alone—under his own name and with collaborators such as Grammy-nominated cellist Tina Guo.
He’s the audio director for Vegas-based game studio Petroglyph, and he occasionally tours with pioneering funk act the Family Stone, featuring Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Jerry Martini. But that’s simply what Klepacki does. What he is, at his core, is a restless, passionate creator and sonic experimenter driven by one animating principle. “I just make the music that I personally want to hear,” he says, “because I don’t feel there’s enough of it.”
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Frank Klepacki (Matthew Lotter/Courtesy)
I visited you in the studio years ago, when you were scoring the first Command & Conquer game; you were having the time of your life. Is it still as much fun? Yeah! I’m always looking for what gives me fulfillment. Sometimes I’m just filling a task, and other times I really get into it. I just try to always just be in the moment and figure out, What is this, what does this need and what is the best way for me to get it there. When you do creative work this long, you have to keep your ears and your
mind open, otherwise you just get stagnant. Speaking of stagnation, how did you handle the COVID lockdown? Well, [Petroglyph] closed, and we were all working remotely. I have my own [home] studio, so I was still able to do what I needed to do. But I was having conflicting feelings, because what was once my man cave was now my office, and it was the last place I wanted to be at the end of the day. I have an old song off my first
album called “Virus,” and I thought how fitting would it be to re-record it and do a fun video of it, with me playing every instrument and wearing different masks. That led to me going through my back catalog and revising and remixing some of my older tracks, re-performing them with live drums, live guitar, live bass and live keys on everything and very little programming. It was a fun project to do, and it helped me get through the year.
up some momentum after the Fertittas took it over. I knew their audio director, who dug what I was doing on my solo albums, and he was like, “Some of this stuff might really fit what we’re doing in UFC, if you want to consider a licensing deal.” Subsequently, every album I released after that, I always offered a copy of it to them. Sure enough, they kept using different songs, and my stuff has been part of their regular programming since the mid-2000s.
That’s one of the albums you made last year. How about the other? It’s an all-metal album, Coded Number. It sounds like old-school metal influences—a combination of older Metallica, Anthrax, King’s X, Armored Saint, maybe even a little Pantera. And I was able to involve different guests on it, a lot of guitar shredders, and a couple of guest vocalists as well. I got Doug Pinnick from King’s X to actually sing one of my songs, which is pretty awesome. A friend of mine here in Vegas, Austin LeDuc— he was the vocalist for [Vegas bands] Phatter Than Albert and Clockwise—sings on one of the tracks. I have Nita Strauss playing lead guitar, and Christian Brady, lead guitarist for Hellyeah, plays on one of the tracks. … I met some of these people at the NAMM [National Association of Music Merchants] convention they have every year at Anaheim. It’s like going to a convention at Guitar Center.
That must be an out-of-body experience, flipping on the TV and hearing your own music. Oh, man, it was even cooler in person. I got to go to a few of the events where they used my music for the fighter walkouts. It was blasting on the PA, and the crowd was hyped. It was fun to experience it that way.
The UFC uses some of your compositions on its pay-perview broadcasts. How’d that come about? Back when I first started releasing solo albums, the UFC was just starting to pick
You’ve done so much fun and cool stuff, and you’re not slowing down. Above all things, what motivates you? It’s really the subject matter of the project. I try to embrace it and immerse myself in that and then figure out, you know, what kind of decisions I should make. And it’s the people that I work with, too. Through the years, I’ve found that no matter what the situation is—whether I’m doing a game, playing in a band or working on a production—if the people you’re working with are cool, are all on the same page and are part of that same energy, that really gets me through those projects and gigs. It makes you enjoy the experience that much more. I’ve come to value that, perhaps a lot more now than I used to.
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Preparing you for comeback cultural gathering Life Is Beautiful
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fter a lost 2020, the Life Is Beautiful music and art festival returns to Downtown Las Vegas September 17-19. Since its 2013 debut, the outdoor gathering has made a transformative impact not just on the city’s core— whose streets become pedestrian thoroughfares of sight and sound—but on the entire Valley. LIB has become a local tradition, a point of demarcation; it marks the beginning of Vegas’ fall arts season, arguably the best time of the year to be outside. It allows us to gather together to enjoy live music; to discover new-to-us talents; to sample local restaurants; to run into friends we haven’t seen; to admire new street art; and to take a relaxed breath after a long, hot summer. Culturally and seasonally-speaking, Life Is Beautiful is a reset button. The 2021 list of musical headliners is a winning assortment of LIB first-timers and returning favorites. The culinary options include an “Omakase Cantina” curated by Secret Burger/Vegas Test Kitchen creator Jolene Mannina. Brooklyn’s House of Yes returns to curate variety performances, parades and more. The street art, the live comedy, the Market in the Alley—it’s all here. And after two years of waiting, we’re more than ready to enjoy it. –Geoff Carter
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL September 17-19, Downtown Las Vegas, official ticket exchange at lifeisbeautiful.lyte.com.
(Sunday, 11:15 p.m., Downtown Stage) Some artists are so in demand, they have to play two festivals in the same Vegas weekend. Billie Eilish, the pop music wunderkind, heads up both Life Is Beautiful and the iHeartRadio Music Festival, for reasons obvious to the music-loving world. She defied genres when she released 2019 debut When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Inspired by nightmares and lucid dreams, the album tripped up and down the scale of electro-pop, hip-hop and somber, beautiful balladry. At age 18, Eilish became the first woman and the youngest musician to win Grammys for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist in a single night. That January 2020 evening affirmed what fans already knew: We were listening to one of the most influential artists of this generation. In July, Eilish released her second album, Happier Than Ever, symbolically shedding some of that “Bad Guy” skin in favor of jazz-infused arrangements and hushed, spoken-word masterpieces like “Not My Responsibility,” which directly addresses the people all too obsessed with the 19-year-old’s body and what she chooses to do with it. Eilish’s work was, and remains, rife with mature themes, but Happier Than Ever feels more sophisticated. It brings the pop star to new heights, and with brother and music producer Finneas at her side, the young icon appears unstoppable.
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(Friday, 11:30 p.m., Bacardi Stage) The Houston native hits LIB as one of the hottest female rappers in the game, making Time’s Most Influential People of 2020 list and becoming the first female hip-hop performer to win the Grammys’ Best New Artist award since Lauryn Hill in 1999. Megan’s acclaimed 2019 mixtape, Fever, established her place in the rap world as a confident, lyrical genius with relentless sex appeal and a knack for making certified freak anthems. The rapper flexed her influence on pop culture with that year’s “Hot Girl Summer,” the viral hit and catchphrase heard ’round the world. A year later, she did it again by contributing vocals to Cardi B’s “WAP,” a sexually liberating track that even sparked conversation from U.S. representatives. Megan’s entire brand speaks volumes, and she’s been using it for good. In 2020, the 26-year-old musician launched a college scholarship fund for women of color, while revealing that she’s studying health care administration at Texas Southern University with plans to open assisted-living facilities in Houston. Hot Girl Meg is a rapper for the people. One minute she’s freestyling on her Instagram story, the next she’s tweeting about The Vampire Diaries. Her festival set seems sure to be just as unpredictable.
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(Saturday, 9:20 p.m., Downtown Stage) As with Eilish, this isn’t Haim’s first Life Is Beautiful, but the sibling pop-rock trio is good at making every performance feel like the first time. It’s been a while since we’ve seen Danielle, Alana and Este in action, but the festival should serve as a great opportunity to experience their body of work, which continues to grow. The pandemic prevented the sisters from touring behind last year’s Women in Music Pt. III, but critics adored it. The sisters dug deep on that junior LP, staring down depression in “I Know Alone” and channeling Joni Mitchell on “Man From the Magazine.” It’s music that deserves to be heard, especially from a giant stage.
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(Sunday, 7:50 p.m., Downtown Stage) The Dallas-raised empress of experimental art rock subverted genre norms with 2007 debut Marry Me, and the world has been spoiled ever since. St. Vincent serves as a moniker for 38-year-old Annie Clark, whose musical prowess and quirkybut-electric stage presence carries forth the spirit of icons like Prince and David Bowie. Clark’s eclectic discography now spans seven studio albums, each standing comfortably on its own, driving the narrative forward and raising the bar for style and sound. The rock star also looks the part onstage, evoking different archetypes with her outfits, from the latex and leotards of her Masseduction days to sleazy, New York ’70s glam for latest release Daddy’s Home. St. Vincent’s show promises something special, if not a little weird. In a September interview with NME, she told the publication, “I want people to be like, ‘What the hell just happened to me?’ If people walk away going, ‘Oh, that was a nice show,’ then I’ve failed.”
BRITTANY HOWARD
(Friday, 6 p.m., Downtown Stage) It takes guts to switch directions, especially when the path you’re on has produced four Grammys, an invitation to the White House and a performance with Prince. But in 2018, Alabama Shakes lead singer and guitarist Brittany Howard put that bluesrock outfit on indefinite hold to pursue a solo career. The Alabama-based belter told NPR it’s a dream she has entertained since she was 11 years old. Howard’s 2019 release, Jaime, emerged from that dream. And if listeners thought the singer pushed musical boundaries before, this soulful record proves she has learned how to bend them to her will. There’s no skipping this monumental set, or any of the others mentioned above, unless you’re cool with a serious case of FOMO.
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What’s the COVID protocol? We’ve come a long way since 2020, when live music was put on indefinite pause. The show goes on, thanks to some basic safety rules. Guests must either be fully vaccinated (final dose no later than September 3) or have proof of a negative COVID test within 72 hours of the event. To prove COVID status, guests can use the Clear app on their phone or show their CDC vaccination card (a photo or copy will be accepted). For more, visit lifeisbeautiful. com/health-safety.
What does a positive test result mean? It means you’re not going to LIB this year, but your tickets can roll over to 2022 for free if you email tickets@lifeisbeautiful.com. What about masks? Neither LIB nor the state of Nevada requires mask wearing, because the event is outdoors. But you should consider it, especially in crowded areas.
Where to park? The Park & Ride shuttle service to World Market Center is sold out. If you didn’t score a spot, you’ll have to get a little creative. Aim to ride share or find a spot at a Downtown casino or city parking garage. If you arrive early enough, street parking just outside the footprint might also be available, as long as you don’t mind walking a ways.
Sir Chloe’s Dana Foote talks festivals, making music with friends and smashing cars BY AMBER SAMPSON
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In 2017, Dana Foote rounded up her brother and best mates to put on a rock show to serve as her senior thesis at Bennington College in Vermont. A passing grade and the wildly successful Brooklyn-based indie rock outfit Sir Chloe soon followed. On the band’s grungy debut album, last year’s Party Favors, Foote’s songwriting favors the lyrical intricacies of influences like Mitski, while her beguiling, guttural vocals play nice with reverb-soaked guitars. We caught up with the lead singer in preparation for Sir Chloe’s Life Is Beautiful set (Saturday, 4:45 p.m., Bacardi Stage). You just played Lollapalooza, and now you’re gearing up to play Life Is Beautiful. What do you enjoy about festivals? Lollapalooza was the first festival I had ever been to, at all. It was also the first festival that we played. And I think the timing is really special. Everyone’s so excited to be able to see live music again and be able to be together. There’s a real sense of community. A festival’s like its own little city. You’re all there for one common interest, which is seeing live music, and it really is magic in a lot of ways. You also created some magic recently with Sam Austins on the catchy summer track “Joy for Youth.” How
What does this year’s footprint look like? LIB was originally created, in part, as a celebration of life and culture in Downtown Las Vegas, and its distinctive urban location still anchors the fest. This year’s footprint covers 18 city blocks, from Mesquite to Carson avenues and 7th to 11th streets. Enter at Fremont and 7th or Fremont and 11th. Are tickets still available? The event is sold out, but you can buy (or sell) tickets at LIB’s official ticket exchange, lifeisbeautiful.lyte.com.
did that come together? Sam and I met in LA at a photo shoot. We were partnered up, and we just really connected. … A couple weeks later, he reached out to me and asked if I would like to write a verse on this song that he was working on, and he sent me “Joy for Youth.” … It’s always fun to be able to work with friends, so it was really exciting to be able to get that opportunity with someone I liked so much. I listened to it a couple times, and then I recorded a verse and a little bit on the outro. Then I went out to film the music video in Detroit, which is his hometown. Did you enjoy destroying that car in the video? It was so much fun. I’ve actually always wanted to smash a car window, so I was glad that I was able to do that. And they gave me a black baseball bat, which matched my outfit. The car is actually his first car that he had. They found an exact replica of his old car for all of us to smash as kind of an homage to growing up. You’ve kept your band pretty tight with old college mates and your brother. Does that closeness make writing easier? Yeah, we’ve kept it pretty close to home. It’s always so fun to work with friends and have that comfort in creativity. We all know each other and are comfortable with each other. There’s a lot of vulnerability in all of it. … And [being able to bring] half-finished songs, or songs that you’re not sure about, to people who you know you can trust makes such a huge difference. Find more of this interview at lasvegasweekly.com.
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What can you bring? Small bags, purses and empty hydration packs are fine. Backpacks must be made of clear material. Backpacks with hydration bladders aren’t permitted. It’s fine to fill bags with personal items such as hand sanitizer, refillable water bottles, sunscreen and cigarettes, but you can’t bring big items like laptop computers, coolers, tents or lawn furniture. Nor can you bring drones, pets, flags, musical instruments, inflatable toys or totems. –C. Moon Reed
ford., “The Color of Nothing” We spent much of the past year stuck in our own heads. This dreamy piece of downtempo indietronica, ford.—born Luc Bradford—invites us to go back there once more. (Sunday, 4 p.m., Fremont Stage)
THE WEEKLY PLAYLIST: LIB PSYCH-UP SONGS Bia, “Whole Lotta Money” This is the feeling-yourself song you listen to before a night out, before making an entrance, courtesy of rapper, model and ex Sisterhood of Hip Hop reality TV star Bia. (Friday, 4:30 p.m., Downtown Stage)
Cannons, “Fire for You” This 2019 track broke the internet when it debuted in Netflix’s teen comedy Never Have I Ever, and rightfully so—Cannons’ dreamy, electro-funk melodies dance all over it in the best, and most bingeable, way. (Friday, 3 p.m., Downtown Stage)
Chiiild, “Pirouette” The Canadian soul artist Chiiild establishes a cozy vibe and builds it over time. We’re curling up with this one for a late-summer drive. (Saturday, 3:30 p.m., Bacardi Stage)
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Papichuloteej, “Boyfriend” A genre-bending bop about being led on? Yes, please. Las Vegas’ Papichuloteej blends alternative R&B and pop in this catchy tune, and the feeling is anything but unrequited. (Sunday, 3 p.m., Huntridge Stage)
Tame Impala, “Breathe Deeper” Who needs guided meditation when they have this groovy Kevin Parker number to take them on a 6-minute adventure, replete with bouncy piano chords, funky basslines and a Daft Punk-esque outro you’ll hear long after it’s over? (Friday, 11:25 p.m., Downtown Stage)
White Reaper, “The Stack” This pump-your-fist rock track is equal bits Cheap Trick, Sweet and a bitchin’ van customized with a painting of a lady riding a dragon. (Saturday, 6:50 p.m., Huntridge Stage)
Jamila Woods, “Giovanni” The soul singer also shines on her slowed-down summer cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car,” but to experience Woods’ own poetic lyrics and smooth flow, head back to this jazzy 2019 cut. (Sunday, 7:05 p.m., Huntridge Stage)
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San Holo (Friday, 11:20 p.m. Fremont Stage) A good DJ gets you on your feet. A great one gets you in your feelings. Dutch DJ, composer and producer San Holo’s body of work transcends faceless electronic dance music and explores the many languages of love over ethereal soundscapes, guitars and trap beats. The result is an experience any music fan will enjoy as they stumble upon his set.
There’s beauty in starting over for indie-pop trio Shaed BY AMBER SAMPSON
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here’s killing your darlings and then there’s killing a whole album. But that’s exactly what multiplatinum indie pop trio Shaed (pronounced “Shade”) did last year after lead singer Chelsea Lee realized the music she and the band had been writing didn’t feel quite right. “We were doing all these writing sessions in between our shows, and I think that it just became this mish-mosh of songs that didn’t really speak to us anymore,” Lee tells the Weekly. “When the pandemic started, we had this opportunity to start fresh … It actually was a really kind of an empowering moment for us.” Up to that point, the Washington, D.C.-based band had a 2018 breakout hit on its hands with “Trampoline,” a glossy piece of whistling pop art that Apple picked up for a widespread commercial and R&B star Zayn remixed. But instead of chasing the hype train, Shaed set out to create something more tangible. “We really wanted to write an album that encapsulated everything that we were feeling,” Lee says. “We wanted to be real about where we were mentally, emotionally and physically.” In 2021, the band released High Dive, a pop record anchored by themes of empowerment, acceptance and self care. “We were struggling so much, and we knew everyone around us was struggling as well,” Lee says. “We just wanted to show everyone that we were going through the same things.” Tracks like “Part Time Psycho” shares the band’s battle with depression and anxiety, while the LGBTQ+ hit “Colorful” explores the beauty of finally coming to terms with who you are and being loved because of it. Shaed has used these songs to also take a stance in the community. The band recently partnered with mental health organization Teen Line and will donate portions of the album’s proceeds to support it. Meanwhile, it has also created the Colorful Campaign, an LGBTQ+ initiative to benefit charities in the D.C. area. “We just wanted to help in any way that we could,” Lee says. Shaed plays Life Is Beautiful’s Downtown Stage Sunday at 6:15 p.m.
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Willow Smith (Friday, 8:40 p.m., Bacardi Stage) At age 20, Smith has already been making music for half her life. But with her fourth LP, July’s Lately, I Feel Everything, she has officially arrived. The pop-punk record introduces a raw compilation of Smith’s innermost musings over frenetic guitars and Travis Barker’s signature drum work, while deep cuts like “Lipstick” demonstrate her ability to sing with a beautiful kind of abandon. Don’t miss the rising star’s LIB debut.
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Checking on the food, comedy, art and more BY C. MOON REED Life Is Beautiful has never just been a music festival. The event offers an array of experiences for a well-rounded weekend, including … WATCH Laugh it up—and get inspired—with the Kicker Comedy and More lineup. Author and inspirational figure Deepak Chopra was recently added to the top of the bill, joining a mix of comics including Sarah Cooper, activists such as Gabriella Wright, podcasters like Jackie Schimmel of The Bitch Bible and even RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8 winner Bob the Drag Queen.
TASTE Food is no afterthought at LIB; it’s one of the key experiences. More than 50 restaurants offer a seemingly
Glass Animals (Friday, 9:20 p.m., Downtown Stage) This British indie-pop outfit makes music so textured, you could almost touch it. Lead singer Dave Bayley’s production know-how and vocal range vivifies latest album Dreamland until it’s a woozy, walking animal of eclectic sound. Polished tracks like “Heat Waves” shine from every angle. And you won’t be able to resist the earworm that is “Tangerine,” so why fight it? Just enjoy the show.
Emotional Oranges (Sunday, 5:25 p.m., Bacardi Stage) The LA-based duo creates the kind of tunes that make you want to drive down the sunny California coast, touch some grass and take your ex back. The pair focus on their craft, never sharing their real names and often performing in a colored, smoky haze on stage. We can handle a little mystery when the ’90s-inspired R&B grooves are this good (think: Lauryn Hill and Sade). Catch a vibe with this one.
6lack (Sunday, 8 p.m., Bacardi Stage) Three-time platinum hit “Prblms” put this Atlanta-based rapper and R&B artist on the map back in 2016. Since then, he’s worked with Normani, J. Cole, Khalid and other prolific names in the music industry. 6lack (pronounced“black”) puts breakups and loveless declarations at the forefront of his music, most recently in his single with Lil Tjay “Calling My Phone.” It’s relatable, it’s raw and it’s exactly what you’ll be singing along to come Sunday.
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endless array of cuisines and dietary options. Think of this as your chance to sample the best restaurants and emerging flavors in town, from spots like Dragon Grille, Cornish Pasty Co., Eataly, Pancho’s Kitchen, This Mama’s House and more. This year, LIB also offers an expanded list of culinary experiences. In the Cookout, Main St. Provisions’ chef Justin Kingsley Hall leads a “live-fire cooking experience” with a rotating limited daily menu. Cocktail School returns with fun seminars and different types of booze. Secret Burger’s Jolene Mannina curates the “Omakase Cantina,” which features star chefs such as La Strega’s Gina Marinelli and a VIP dinner. And for those who prefer their food plant-based, head to the Farm Stand, which features a vegan culinary adventure curated by Vegans, Baby’s Diana Edelman. For more, visit lifeisbeautiful.com/ experiences.
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SEE The visual art at LIB (a collaboration with Just Kids) always leaves a lasting impression, thanks largely to its mural program. This year’s muralists include a mix of international and Nevada talent, including Spain’s Antonyo Marest, South Africa’s Keye Tama, Argentina’s Spidertag and Las Vegans such as Amy Sol, Mary Felker and Pretty Done. Immersive art and installations will also dot the festival grounds. The Bacardi Art Motel returns, and Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart will bring a “delivery truck” to LIB. Select’s Astro Alley provides a light and sound show. Artists Laurie Shapiro, Mila May and Nichals Barrome also provides wonders for the eye. We predict that Canada’s Big Heart will be the top selfie spot of 2021.
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Modest Mouse (Saturday, 7:35 p.m., Downtown Stage) Where past LIB lineups sprinkled in throwbacks like Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Jane’s Addiction and Duran Duran, the 2021 edition is almost entirely about the present. That makes Modest Mouse, which began releasing indie-rock favorites in the mid’90s, elder statesmen on this year’s bill (along with Green Day). That doesn’t mean frontman Isaac Brock and his mates will only be playing oldies, however. The guys have a solid new album, June’s The Golden Casket, in hand, and have been giving it a workout on tour for the past few weeks. And don’t worry, longtime fans: warhorses like “Doin’ the Cockroach,” “Tiny Cities Made of Ashes” and “Cowboy Dan” remain solidly in the rotation. –Spencer Patterson
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NEW ARENA SHOWS Tickets to a couple of big concerts go on sale Friday, September 17: Dua Lipa (March 25, T-Mobile Arena) and J Balvin (August 23, Michelob Ultra Arena).
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HIDDEN CINEMA ROOFTOP GARDEN DEBUTS Cult classics under the twinkling stars? Count us in. Hidden Cinema Rooftop Garden debuts Downtown on September 17 with a showing of Kingpin. (The coming weeks will include The Beach, Speed and uber-romantic date movie The Exorcist.) Rooftop seating holds up to 150 people, and the experience features a 30-foot-wide movie screen. Alcohol, snacks and three kinds of seating are purchasable, from cozy picnic blankets to full-on love-seat beanbags. All proceeds from Hidden Cinema also go toward helping the homeless population Downtown and certain showings even accept hygiene kit donations. September 17, 7 p.m., $12.50+, 321 S. Casino Center Blvd., hidden-cinema.com. –Amber Sampson
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LEAGUES CUP FINAL AT ALLEGIANT STADIUM Just because the Raiders and Rebels have moved in for their first full football seasons with fans doesn’t mean other events won’t tumble into the stadium. After the inaugural Leagues Cup final in 2019 at Sam Boyd Stadium and last year’s forced break, this year’s interleague event between Major League Soccer and Liga MX features four top clubs—Tigres, Pumas, Santos and Léon. September 22, 7 p.m., $29-$69, leagues cup.com. –Brock Radke
MEET AND GREET
SHAVO ODADJIAN AT CULTIVATE The System of a Down bassist will be on hand to chat with fans and debut products from his 22Red cannabis line, including greenhouse-grown Sunkissed flower and new concentrates. Also on tap: food trucks (burgers! ice cream!) and raffle drawings for cool prizes. September 18, 4-6 p.m., free entry, 3615 Spring Mountain Road. –Spencer Patterson
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THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS The trailer for the franchise’s fourth installment—and first since 2003—is out, and though we’re not sure what’s happening, we’re intrigued, to say the least (and that Neo/ Trinity moment!). Start counting down to December 22. youtu.be/9ix 7TUGVYIo
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MAJOR LAZER AT XS It’s time once again to play How Long Will Summer Last in Las Vegas. The Autumnal Equinox is September 22, but three days earlier, Major Lazer will perform at the XS Nightswim party at Wynn, which could ostensibly extend the season; It’s kind of a Groundhog Day situation. As Lazerism dictates, the goal is to unite everyone through music and celebration, and we might need another month or so to knock that out. September 19, 10:30 p.m., $55-$85, 702-7707300. –Brock Radke
Hosting and producing the HBO Max summer smash FBoy Island gave comedian and podcaster Nikki Glaser the opportunity to expand in a new medium, but more importantly, it confirmed her love of reality TV dating shows. And now you can catch all her quips onstage as part of the Mirage’s Aces of Comedy series. “I’ve never been so trusted to be me and not have someone tell me what to do … so I felt really comfortable developing a new style of hosting a show in which I make fun of the genre and the tropes and how ridiculous it all is while also being very sincerely invested in the relationships that develop,” she tells the Weekly. “I love watching people fall in love, and I believe that it’s real. And I have a deep respect for the people willing to go on a show like that. There’s an inherent bravery in putting yourself out there that much.” September 17, 10 p.m., $30-$140, 702-791-7111. –Brock Radke
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ODDITIES & CURIOSITIES EXPO AT WORLD MARKET CENTER You don’t have to wait until Halloween to enjoy the strange and unusual. Head to this uncanny expo, featuring indie artists and vendors who specialize in weird spooky items. In addition to clothing and jewelry, expect all sorts of macabre masterpieces and creepy crafts. Things get even odder from there, with funeral collectibles, preserved specimens and even skulls and bones. All are sustainably sourced. The truly daring can also sign up for the Jackalope Taxidermy Class ($210). September 18, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., $10-$15, 435 S. Grand Central Parkway, odditiesand curiositiesexpo.com. –C. Moon Reed
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Get ready for the innovative style of Zouk Nightclub
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ith all the big music events rolling into town for the weekend, plus a full slate of celebrations for the always-epic Mexican Independence Day, you might have missed the quiet September 17 opening of Zouk Nightclub at Resorts World. Well, Tiësto is playing, so it won’t be that quiet. After an exclusive sneak-peek tour, we’re ready to sign off on the new venue’s claim as the most technologically advanced nightclub in Las Vegas. But more importantly, its arrival completes Zouk Group’s energetic nightlife district at the southeastern end of Resorts World, which includes Ayu Dayclub, Fuhu restaurant and lounge and RedTail sports bar. Zouk Group Vice President Ronn Nicolli says the goal was to create scalable experiences and achieve maximum versatility in the 26,000-square-foot club’s three distinct spaces. Before you make your way into the main room of Zouk, you’ll probably meet up with your crew and grab a drink at the circular Capital Bar, and you might start the party in the more intimate Empire space, which was broken in as a backstage ex-
ZOUK NIGHTCLUB Opens September 17. ThursdaySaturday, 10 p.m.-4 a.m. Resorts World, 702-802-6460.
perience during J Balvin’s recent Neon party at Ayu. “We can operate each room independently, and there is connectivity throughout the entire space,” Nicolli says. “Empire and Capital both exist in Singapore and the Genting Highlands property [in Malaysia]. Over there, they’ll have an EDM DJ in Zouk and do open format or hip-hop in Empire and close the wall between them. Eventually, we’ll look to do that at some point and examine the ability to do events at Empire, Zouk and Ayu at the same time, creating our own little festival journey.” Once Vegas is back up to full speed with conventions and more private events, those shifting walls could allow Zouk to operate seven days a week. But let’s focus on the task at hand. Once clubgoers get their first glimpse of the Zouk main room, some shock waves are sure to be felt across the Vegas landscape. It’s a big box of a room with serious cinematic qualities. “Visibility was important to us so the support structure is on the outside of the box,” Nicolli says. “There are pillars, nothing to obstruct you from seeing the entertainment, no one to block you from the point of attention that night, whether it’s a live performance, a DJ or a hosted act.” Vegas club crowds are used to looking up at something fantastic, but there’s never been a ceiling like this one before. Twenty-four huge LED squares will broadcast custom content every night. They can move as a unit or individually, and each of them can be lowered down to 12 feet and turned at different angles. At the center of this interactive ceiling is the mothership, a lighting rig that slides on a track from the front to the back of the room and can hover over the DJ like a spaceship beaming Tiësto aboard for an intergalactic adventure. Tables closer to the stage will be priced accordingly—and there are five of them onstage—but this is one club without any bad seats. With a capacity between 2,300 and 2,600, it feels big and small at the same time. Nicolli describes it as a “boutique megaclub.” This weekend marks the first of many warmups for Zouk. Once November arrives and the 5,000-seat Theater at Resorts World opens, the newest property on the Strip will achieve its full entertainment capabilities.
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The arts and entertainment hot spot hosts iHeart’s Daytime Stage
There are two huge music festivals happening in Las Vegas over the same weekend. This isn’t the first time. And even while it’s working its way through changing pandemic circumstances, Vegas routinely hosts several of the biggest acts on the planet on a regular basis, often on the same night. That’s just the way it is now. You probably don’t need any reminders that the entertainment capital of the world is still exact-
ly that, but they keep on coming anyway. Here’s this week’s edition: Olivia Rodrigo is performing at Area15 on Saturday, September 18. The breakthrough, 18-year-old pop star’s Sour became the first debut album featuring two Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits this year (“Driver’s License” and “Good 4 U”). Rodrigo is a natural fit for a slot at this weekend’s iHeartRadio Music Festival, but even though she’s already a household name, she’s playing the event’s Daytime
Stage—traditionally a showcase for rising stars—along with Saweetie, The Kid Laroi, All Time Low, Yungblud and others. That the Daytime Stage is setting up this year at the quirky, experience-based Area15 is a testament to the off-Strip venue’s impact on the local art and entertainment landscape in its first year. “Area15 was always meant to be a venue for different types of entertainment—music, theater, other live performances,” Howard Weiss, Area15’s
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director of sales and entertainment strategy, said when the venue launched an acclaimed international DJ series over the summer. “What we’ve built here is a blank canvas to create anything. One night it could be a music festival; the next day it could be an art show.” Area15’s art installations have garnered the biggest buzz overall, but this year’s music events—including outdoor shows at the A-Lot—have demonstrated the sprawling venue’s versatility and engaged a younger,
local audience. A lot of that same crowd will likely turn out to sing along to Rodrigo’s hits this weekend, not to mention The Kid Laroi’s breakout smash “Stay,” a collaboration with Justin Bieber. Amazingly, Area15 is hosting events from both of the weekend’s fests. Electronic duo Gorgon City makes a tour stop at the A-Lot on September 16 in an official Life Is Beautiful kickoff show before the festival’s focus moves home to Downtown Las Vegas.
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September 17 & 18, 7:30 p.m., $87+, T-Mobile Arena; September 18, 11 a.m., $82, Area15; iheart.com/ music-festival.
My teenage niece was understandably excited about the opportunity to go to Las Vegas concerts and shows again in 2021. Since I sorta do that for my job, I was fired up, too. I imagined taking her to big headliner residency shows on the Strip, or better yet, cool concerts from up-and-comers I don’t even know about at the House of Blues or Brooklyn Bowl, music the kid could teach me about. So what’s the one band she wanted to see live and in person more than any other? Weezer. Yeah, I couldn’t believe it either. Not Billie Eilish or Olivia Rodrigo or Dua Lipa, all of whom are also on the iHeartRadio festival bill this week. She wanted to rock out with the same nerds her dad and I listened to in high school and college. Really makes you feel old. Her dad ended up taking her to see the questionably coiffed Rivers Cuomo and company, plus Green Day and Fallout Boy, at Petco Park in San Diego a few weeks back, so I guess I’m off the hook for Friday’s first night of iHeart at T-Mobile Arena, when Weezer will join Cheap Trick, Darius Rucker, J. Cole, Nelly, Florida Georgia Line, Walker Hayes, Finneas and the aforementioned Dua Lipa (she’s the iHeart artist I’d really like to see live). Saturday’s second night stars Eilish, Coldplay, Journey, Khalid, Sam Hunt and Lil Baby. The iHeart lineup had at least one significant change recently: Maroon 5 dropped out, and Hayes—the country singer who played a free show at the Fremont Street Experience on September 10—jumped into the mix. For Las Vegans or visitors who aren’t my niece, iHeart can be a great way to preview concert tours coming to Vegas soon, from artists such as Cole (at MGM Grand on October 16) and Journey (at Virgin and Caesars Palace in December). The two nights of music at T-Mobile also offer the only way to see artists who have postponed tours or don’t have scheduled dates, like Florida Georgia Line and Coldplay. –Brock Radke
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ART Mixed media artist Gabe Barcia-Colombo prepares for his Neon Museum residency
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rtist Gabe Barcia-Colombo preserves his friends in glass jars. Their vibrant and brightly illuminated personas will live forever in video form in “Animalia Chordata,” a video sculpture exemplary of the art Barcia-Colombo will display at the Neon Museum next year as its 2021 Artist in Residence. The mixed media artist and associate professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts specializes in video sculpture, a medium first inspired by the rise of early social media platforms. He has studied filmmaking at the University of Southern California and also has an interest in how technology can immortalize memories, he explains. “I’m just someone who’s sort of obsessed with memorialization and memory, capturing memories, so growing up at a time where we also have these devices that can capture memories and replay them, it just hits for me,” Barcia-Colombo says. “There’s a narrative element to my work that is somewhere between a sculpture and a film.” Now in its sixth year, the Neon Museum’s artist-in-residence program welcomes artists to the Las Vegas area for approximately eight weeks, during which time they’re housed and given a
studio space inside the Juhl Downtown. They also receive a $2,500 stipend, an $800 travel allowance and up to $3,000 in other materials. The program is funded by the Nevada Arts Council and the Cosmopolitan. Barcia-Colombo’s residency begins in December and ends in February 2022. Like previous artists in residence, Barcia-Colombo will use the museum’s collection—which includes the Neon Boneyard and more than 200 unrestored signs— as a touchstone for his own exhibit. Jo Russ, programs manager at the museum, was involved in Barcia-Colombo’s selection process, during which a jury panel chose him among 100 applicants. Russ said that because the only prompt is to create an exhibit based on the Neon Museum’s collection, each of the artists in residence has created something individualistic. “The adults really have worked in quite different ways,” she says. “[Gabe] working in the digital way is a new area for our residences.” Though specifics for his artwork were undetermined at press time, Barcia-Colombo says he feels compelled to explore Sin City’s saintly figures through Mexican nicho boxes. He says those items have sparked his interest because his mother’s fam-
ily is from Chihuahua, Mexico. “They’re like diagrams that have figures in them, and I was looking at doing some research on them and realizing … a lot of the work that I create kind of has the same form,” he says. “I’m really thinking about updating these and creating neon nicho boxes.” Barcia-Colombo says using his experience as a teacher will also be essential to his residence. He’ll aim to oversee hands-on community workshops about video mapping or augmented reality, two aspects prominent in his artwork. Typically, artists in residence at the museum carry out workshops and conduct artist talks and studio open houses. “I work with a lot of artists that are, I wouldn’t say classical, but people that … never really worked with digital techniques or technologies, and that’s really fun,” he says. Aaron Berger, executive director of the Neon Museum, says he’s looking forward to the public engaging with Barcia-Colombo’s work. “When we talk about this workshopping or public engagement opportunity, [by] being able to show the work and let the conversation begin, I think it will take its own life at that point and run forward,” Berger said. “It’ll be exciting.”
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Small-but-mighty Beer Zombies brings new flavor to Downtown Summerlin
Beer and pizza at Beer Zombies (Christopher DeVargas/Staff)
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FOOD & DRINK BY BROCK RADKE It looks like a cool but tiny taproom to most people, but for those of us who live close enough to frequent Downtown Summerlin a little too frequently, Beer Zombies is a revelation. This mall is fantastic, and so is this neighborhood, but there are some things it still didn’t have, like a fantastic beer bar with chill vibes and righteous grub—and maybe most importantly, a suburban spot for a late drink on weekends. The team that made this welcoming new venue happen is anchored by former Cosmopolitan bartender Chris Jacobs, founder of the Beer Zombies brand and recent recipient of the Craft Beer Marketing Awards Industry People of the Year honors. BZ started as a craft beer lifestyle brand Instagram page and quickly grew to include bottle shops and beer festivals. A local brewery is now under construction. Jacobs partnered with SkinnyFats for Beer Zombies’ first bottle shop and taproom location, and did so again for the Downtown Summerlin spot, located a few doors down from the fast-casual eatery. And while the always rotating brews on the 16 taps are the star of the show here, the food menu was created by chef Marc Marrone, whose Graffiti Hospitality also recently partnered up with the SkinnyFats crew. Everything you can eat is designed to complement an afternoon of beer sampling, and the more time you spend at the bar, the more free samples of various, flavorful bottles and cans might come your way. Soak up all those suds with hearty pan pizza square slices ($7 for 6 inches or $13 for 12-inch rectangles) topped with cup-and-char pepperoni, pickled peppers, fennel sausage or other favorites. This is essentially the same pie Marrone serves through his Gemma Gemma’s pizza operation out of the southwestern Graffiti Bao kitchen, with a three-day fermentation process imparting rich flavor into each Sicilian-style bite. For $40 you can get 27 inches of pizza bliss with four different sets of toppings paired with four different beers. The toasted Prime Rib dip ($13) is certainly worth your time and energy, too, or if you want to stick to the snacks, pretzel bites with hazy beer cheese for dipping ($12), crispy baked chicken wings ($14) or roasted cauliflower ($12) with Nashville hot spices and parsley pesto are fast favorites. The food and drink offerings at Downtown Summerlin continue to evolve, and Beer Zombies is a clear hit.
BEER ZOMBIES Downtown Summerlin, 2010 Festival Plaza Drive #140, 780-0297. Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 11 a.m.-1 a.m.
Vegas Martini Burger and Cap’n Crunch Shake at Victory Burger (Wade Vandervort/Staff)
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restaurant family that brought Detroit’s American Coney Island to sister property the D, Victory is actually the next Vegas gourmet burger spot masquerading as a modern casino sportsbook eatery. The half-pound patties are made with a blend of never-frozen beef short rib and brisket, and the standard Victory Burger ($16.50) is topped with a thick slice of cheddar, bacon and special sauce, plus tomato, lettuce, onion and pickles. Equally delicious but more VICTORY creative toppings can be found BURGER on the Martini ($15) with a Circa, 702creamy olive mixture; the 726-5505. As sports continue to take SundayLoco ($15) with roasted corn Thursday, over the Vegas consciousness, and peppers, jalapeños, avoca10 a.m.now seems like the right time do and queso; and the Fondue 11 p.m.; to revisit the very sporty CirFriday & ($15), slathered with more of Saturday, ca and check out the goods at that cheese sauce plus red pep10 a.m.-3 a.m. a restaurant we missed when pers and roasted artichokes. it opened last year. Victory These are perfect burgBurger & Wings Co. is basicalers, with the only possible ly built around watching sports, an drawback being a soft and tasty airy space with plenty of screens of potato bun that might not be big its own, perched above the casino’s enough to hold them together. Don’t mega-sportsbook and connected to worry, you’ll eat it before it falls all the action. apart. Overindulge with a shake It serves nachos, wings, milkblended with Cap’n Crunch (yes, shakes and excellent onion rings with Crunch Berries) and strawber($12 as an appetizer or $6.50 as a ry sauce ($8), and you might be too side), but it’s not some run-of-thedeliciously distracted to watch the mill sports bar. Created by the same game. –Brock Radke
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The incoming Vegas Knight Hawks of the Indoor Football League are owned by a group that also owns multiple professional hockey teams, so it should be no surprise that they went to Canada to find their head coach. ¶ Mike Davis has found plenty of success in the Canadian Football League, but he’s also a seasoned veteran of the IFL who has waited for the head-coaching opportunity he just landed with Henderson’s newest sports franchise. ¶ There’s a lot of work to be done before Davis leads his team onto the field at Dollar Loan Center for the first time in April 2022, so we sat down and talked to him about it.
Meet the coach of Las Vegas’ new Indoor Football League team How did you end up coaching an Indoor Football League team in Vegas? How did those conversations go? I was in the CFL, and my old owner told me there was some guys looking around and inquiring about what I was doing, if I would come back and help start a team, because we had pretty good success [with the IFL’s Nebraska Danger]. For me, it starts with ownership. [Ownership partner] Chuck Brennan had reached out to me via text asking me if I had some time, and an hour later, I was on a phone call with him, and it kind of just snowballed. They made it very clear that I was the guy they wanted, and I was excited to learn more about it and take the opportunity.
Before you took this job, what had your experience been in Las Vegas, and what are your thoughts on the Henderson area now that you’re living here? We’ve vacationed here once or twice a year, every year prior to getting up to Canada, and I have some friends here and know some trainers here. The football world is a small, small community. I didn’t know much about Henderson. Obviously, when you visit Vegas normally, you come to the Strip, but my wife and I now have a place in Henderson, and it’s fantastic. It’s a small-but-big city. Everybody’s fantastic. Everything you need is right here.
How do you feel about fitting in as part of another new team in a city that seems to be getting new teams every year? It’s exciting, because there are tons of options. I’ve been in St. Louis before when it was just the Cardinals and the Rams, and then the Rams left, and it was just the St. Louis Cardinals. This way, you’re not handcuffed. There’s something for every flavor, or for whatever tickles your fancy, so to speak. Obviously, we’re more of an intimate setting for families and kids, and it’s right up in your face. I haven’t gotten a chance to get to a Raiders game yet, but obviously, the facility is fantastic. But it’s huge. It’s not the intimate setting you’re going to see with the Knight Hawks.
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What challenges exist with building a brand new club? The challenges will be getting the right guys. For me, it’s character first, because it is Las Vegas. Everybody just hears, “Oh, I’m going to Las Vegas.” Well, we’re actually 8 miles off the Strip. We’re in Henderson, and it’s a small family-oriented town. So, for me, having the right guys come into the community and immerse themselves in the community is key No. 1 for me. The second challenge is, everybody has a head start on you. The 2021 season is finishing up right now, and all the teams get to keep their 30-man roster, where we’re starting from scratch and looking for 40 fresh faces to be able to compete for a roster spot and challenge guys who have seasons under their belts on other teams.
How would you describe the IFL to somebody who doesn’t know much about the league? First thing I will tell you is, it’s entertainment first. Football is football, no matter how you look at it. It’s just a small, intimate setting, where you can literally get to know your local guy from UNLV that played here. In the NFL, it might be, “I saw him, and I really wanted his autograph, but I never got a chance to meet him after the game.” Well, here, you’re going to be able to meet that guy, whether it’s UNLV, UCLA, USC, Washington, Nevada or whatever. This team will be made up of a lot of guys who played all over the West Coast, all over the U.S. and have now made Vegas and Henderson their home.
Lastly, what are your expectations for that first year? People want to see a winner right away. How realistic is that? I always tell people that an expansion team’s never made the playoffs. So, if we can make the playoffs year one, that would be a huge success. Obviously, I have my own personal goals that I’ll keep to myself, but be competitive and win, that would be success for us. Something we can build off of. Right now, year one, we’re laying the foundation, and showing people what this team will be about as far as character and toughness and community, and things of that nature.
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Big Boy Restaurant adds touch of nostalgia to rural Southern Nevada community
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BY BRYAN HORWATH kip and Karen Sandberg make the drive from Las Vegas to their home in Pahrump about once a month. On the drive, they always seem to stop at the same place to eat: Big Boy Restaurant in Indian Springs. The famed chain restaurant from California opened last year in Indian Springs, a community of nearly 900 that sits about 50 miles northwest of the Strip. “When we saw this was going in, we made a point to check it out,” Karen Sandberg said. “The people are always friendly, and they make good food, so we keep coming back.” The Big Boy is part of a larger Terrible Herbst rest stop and casino complex, which can’t be missed during a trip through town. Owners Tim and Troy Herbst have fond memories of eating at Bob’s Big Boy restaurants in California while growing up, a company spokeswoman said. The national chain no longer uses “Bob’s” in the name. Along with the Indian Springs restaurant, they plan to open two others in Arizona and a Big Boy tavern concept—likely next year—within the Skye Canyon development in the northwest part of the Las Vegas Valley. Gaining acceptance in a new community isn’t always easy, but the Big Boy in Indian Springs seems to have carved a niche in this tiny military town, which is home to Creech Air Force Base. “This is a safe and quiet community,” restaurant general manager Jennifer Hickman said. “Everybody kind of knows everybody. People know your kids, so they’ll call or text you if they notice anything that isn’t right. People let you know what’s going on.” Hickman, originally from Las Vegas, moved to Indian Springs 13 years ago, largely because of the appeal of raising her family in a small town. One of her sons, Tristan, even works for her as a host at the restaurant. Over the years, Hickman has held many jobs in hospitality, working at different restaurants around or on the Strip. She had been the manager of a trailer
park in Indian Springs when she got word of the plans for the Big Boy. She says she plans to stay at the restaurant, known for its large statues of a little boy dressed in checkered overalls holding a plate with a cheeseburger, for a long time. “One of the fun things about Big Boy is that it seems like every customer who comes in has a Big Boy story,” Hickman said. “There are people who come strictly because it brings back good memories.” That’s true for Skip Sandberg, who grew up in a small town in North Dakota. He remembers making the trek to Bismarck, North Dakota, on weekends to eat at the Big Boy there over 50 years ago. The Big Boy brand was started in 1936, when Bob
Wian opened what would become the first Big Boy hamburger stand in Glendale, California. The concept would go on to be popular on the West Coast and, later, in other parts of the country. It had a presence in Las Vegas until several years ago. In different parts of the country, the Big Boy character is found in Frisch’s Restaurants, which is part of a franchising agreement. That’s how Maj. Michael Koroscil and Staff Sgt. Killian Richardson, both originally from Ohio, know about their favorite hamburger, the Big Boy. The airmen stopped in on a recent Friday afternoon to grab a couple of Big Boys to go. “There aren’t a ton of options for us on base,” Richardson said. “When we come here, it’s also nice because we know the food comes from a really clean environment. For us, this feels like Frisch’s. This feels like home.” The pair said it’s become a popular place for military members. That much is evidenced by the Air Force badges on display behind the register at the restaurant’s entry. Waitress Paula “PJ” Espolt, a longtime restaurant industry worker, said she’s been told that’s how members of the Air Force offer their stamp of approval to other airmen and airwomen about a particular eatery. Espolt grew up in Southern California, so she said she remembers the Big Boy brand there. She moved to the Las Vegas area about six years ago and makes the drive to Indian Springs five days a week for the opening shift. “My sister worked at one back when the girls all wore the little hats and dresses,” Espolt said. “I was a little girl when my sister worked there, so Big Boy was a very cool place for me back then.”
Lead busser Anthony Melgoza (left) and general manager Jennifer Hickman at Big Boy in Indian Springs, Nevada (Wade Vandervort/Staff)
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