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Your daily events planner, starring Jeff Goldblum, Bia, Judas Priest, Carl Cox, Mountain West basketball and more.
THE STRIP Melody Sweets is back on a Vegas stage … performing with a star of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?!
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You’ve never heard Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson quite like this before.
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Hundreds of staffers are leaving the Clark County School District. Why, and can anything slow the flood?
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Indian flavors at Marigold and Colombian treats at Pasabocas.
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SPORTS How is Jack Eichel fitting in with his new team? For starters, he scored a game-winning goal with time winding down in the Golden Knights’ victory over Ottawa. Danny Webster breaks down Eichel’s sudden impact.
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Thru 3/12, times vary, Thomas & Mack Center, unlvtickets.com.
8 p.m., thru 3/13, the Theater at Virgin, axs.com.
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THE DARKNESS With The Dead Deads, 7:30 p.m., House of Blues, live nation.com. LEANNE MORGAN 8 p.m., Encore Theater, ticket master.com. SLANDER 10 p.m., Zouk Nightclub, zouk grouplv.com.
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WAC MEN’S & WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT Thru 3/12, times vary, Orleans Arena, ticket master.com.
PAUL ANKA 7:30 p.m., Reynolds Hall, the smithcenter.com.
THE SPAZMATICS 9 p.m., 24 Oxford, etix.com. BRAD GARRETT With Ryan Bellville, Matt McClowry, 8 p.m., Thru 3/13, Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club, mgmgrand. mgmresorts.com.
BIG WEST MEN’S & WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT Thru 3/12, times vary, Dollar Loan Center, axs.com. ALLAN HAVEY With Leo Flowers, Lynne Koplitz, Michael Yo, thru 3/13, 7 & 9:30 p.m., Comedy Cellar, ticket master.com.
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It takes chutzpah to name your stoner-rock band Stöner, but Brant Bjork and Nick Oliveri don’t need anyone’s permission. The two musicians spent the late ’80s and early ’90s jointly helping reshape the subgenre with SoCal desert bands Katzenjammer and Kyuss, and they’ve stayed true to the heavy riff ever since, participating in projects like Queens of the Stone Age, Fu Manchu, Mondo Generator, Desert Sessions and Vista Chino. In 2020, Bjork and Oliveri formed Stöner, rounded out by Ryan Gut, drummer for Bjork’s touring group, and last June, the trio released a studio album titled, yep, Stoners Rule. Catch tracks off that release, and maybe even the odd Kyuss throwback, if setlist.fm is to be believed, at SoulBelly BBQ Downtown. With Wizzerd, Kilfeather, 8 p.m., $15-$20. –Spencer Patterson
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FISHER 10:30 p.m., Hakkasan Nightclub, events. taogroup.com.
UNLV OPERA THEATER: HAYDN & MOZART 3/10-3/11, 7:30 p.m., 3/12, 2 p.m., Judy Bayley Theatre, unlv.edu.
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JIM JEFFERIES 10 p.m., & 3/12, Mirage Theatre, mirage.mgm resorts.com.
BRAD PAISLEY 8 p.m., & 3/12, Encore Theater, ticketmaster. com.
RICK ROSS 10 p.m., Drai’s Nightclub, draisgroup.com.
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JEFF GOLDBLUM & THE MILDRED SNITZER ORCHESTRA Did you know that Jeff Goldblum, star of The Fly and Thor: Ragnarok and host of a Disney+ show that bears his name, has his own jazz orchestra? You can be forgiven if you weren’t previously aware of Goldblum’s love of jazz piano, or his ensemble the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, because he’s actually kind of new to the party. Despite playing piano for most of his life, he didn’t cut his debut album until 2018, and he hasn’t performed in Vegas … that is, until now. (“Life, ah, finds a way.”) The MSO has a finger-popping big band sound that’s tailor-made for the Vegas stage, and with a vocal assist from beloved local chanteuse Melody Sweets and a winning venue in Virgin’s 24 Oxford, Goldblum is set to make an unforgettable local debut. You go, fly guy. 7:30 & 10 p.m., $49-$149, 24 Oxford, etix.com. –Geoff Carter
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The only thing we really know about Amystika is that Las Vegas isn’t making shows like this anymore. Criss Angel and Franco Dragone have been developing the mysterious production—a prequel to Angel’s Mindfreak show in the same Planet Hollywood space—with their collective imagination steering the ship, ambitiously aiming for the impossible and strategizing about how to present an immersive spectacle audiences have never seen before. They added expensive new technology to the room and expanded the cast long before the opening of previews on March 11; a proper opening is coming early next month. There are many secrets waiting to be revealed, including whether Angel will star in a second show five nights a week after the demanding presentation of Mindfreak. With groundbreaking special effects enveloping the audience and different disciplines that go far beyond the realm of magic, Amystika promises to be a theatrical phenomenon only Angel and Dragone could deliver. Through March 31, Friday-Sunday, 10 p.m., , $69-$139, Criss Angel Theater, ticket master.com. –Brock Radke
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Say what you want about reality TV shows, but they’ve provided a launch pad for several rap stars’ careers. Before Cardi B ever established a “Bardi Gang” fanbase, she was a cast member on VH1’s Love & Hip-Hop. Similarly, Boston rapper Bia appeared on Oxygen’s Sisterhood of Hip-Hop, a show following female emcees trying to make it in a male-saturated industry. The artist stayed on her grind, eventually catching the attention of Pharrell Williams, who signed her to his label in 2014. Armed with steely bars and an unapologetic flow, Bia doesn’t miss with her singles. The boisterous “Whole Lotta Money” belongs inside Jewel Nightclub, along with a whole lotta people singing along to it. March 12, $30-$50, 10:30 p.m., Jewel Nightclub, events.taogroup.com. –Amber Sampson
W.I.T.C.H. From the Acts We Never Expected to Stop in Vegas file comes this Zambian rock (aka Zamrock—really, that’s a thing) band, whose name is an acronym for We Intend to Cause Havoc. So why is that havoc headed our way? W.I.T.C.H.—and specifically surviving frontman Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda—is the subject of a recent documentary that has resulted in some unexpected rediscovery and expanded U.S. touring for a groovy garage outfit that released most of its music back in the ’70s. In a review of the film, The New York Times calls Chanda “incredibly winning, especially when he takes the stage.” Strangely, he’ll be doing just that at Backstage Bar & Billiards. With Night Beats, Breanna Barbara, Viaje Nahual, 9 p.m., $18-$20, eventbrite.com. –Spencer Patterson
ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE & FESTIVAL 10 a.m., Water Street Plaza, cityof henderson.com.
BIG LEAGUE WEEKEND Thru 3/13, 1:05 p.m., Las Vegas Ballpark, ticket master.com.
ILLENIUM 10:30 p.m., Omnia, events. taogroup.com.
G-EAZY With Tay James, 10 p.m., Zouk Nightclub, zouk grouplv.com.
BRUCE DICKINSON 6:30 p.m., House of Blues, livenation.com.
THE CHAINSMOKERS 10:30 p.m., XS Nightclub, wynnsocial.com.
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VOICES OF WOMEN: RUTH BADER GINSBERG & THE SUPREME 5 3 p.m., Summerlin Library, lvccld. org. SLAUGHTER With Kix, 8 p.m., Cannery, ticket master.com. HOLY GRAIL 6 p.m., Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, seetickets.us.
MARSHMELLO 11 a.m., Encore Beach Club, wynnsocial.com. BRANDON LEAKE 3 p.m., the Writer’s Block, thewriters block.com. LIL JON 11 a.m., Wet Republic, events. taogroup.com. WE’RE ALL MAD HERE Ft. CloZee & more, 9 p.m., Area15, area15.com.
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JUDAS PRIEST J-NICE Noon, Daylight Beach Club, tixr.com. MEDUZA Noon, Encore Beach Club, wynnsocial.com. RYAN ERWIN 7 p.m., Wiseguys, vegas.wiseguys comedy.com. DJ FRANZEN 10 a.m., Drai’s Beachclub, draisgroup.com.
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Since Moonbeam, Ayu Dayclub’s all-night beachy bash, is inspired by the exotic marathon parties that define the scene in Ibiza, we can think of no better DJ to open this season’s series at Resorts World than Carl Cox, the charming maestro who famously set the standard with a 15-year residency at the landmark Spanish superclub Space. The 59-year-old Brit is an essential piece of dance music culture, which has clearly come a long way in Las Vegas since 2009, when Coxy told the Weekly, “There’s a lot of people who have no clue who I am” when he plays here. There’s much more international flavor on the Strip these days, thanks to refined venues like Ayu, and the Moonbeam crowd should be chanting his name this time. 6 p.m., $30-$50, Ayu Dayclub, zoukgrouplv.com. –Brock Radke
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CRAFT FESTIVAL 10 a.m., Tivoli Village, eventbrite.com.
It’s not enough to say that Birmingham, England’s Judas Priest has made metal history over the course of 50 years as a band. Rather, Priest is metal history, or at the very least a large part of its backbone. It’s not just the songs—“Living After Midnight,” “Breaking the Law” and “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’,” among others—though they’re as metal as they get. And it’s not the look—the leather and spikes—that supplied the glam-metal explosion with a sartorial blueprint. It’s the whole package, from pyro to boots, as outrageous as it all might appear even now. And the fact that these guys aren’t yet in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is, frankly, baffling. Queensrÿche, an influential metal outfit in its own regard, rounds out a night that should be as enlightening as it is deafening. 8 p.m., $51-$201. Zappos Theater, ticketmaster.com. –Geoff Carter
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PAULY SHORE: STICK WITH THE DANCING! 7:30 p.m., Wiseguys, vegas.wiseguys comedy.com.
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MATT LUCIO 9 p.m., Emporium, emporium arcadebar.com.
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GARY CANNON With Dennis Blair, Leonard Ouzts, Marsha Warfield, Michael Yo, thru 3/16, 9:30 p.m., Comedy Cellar, ticketmaster. com.
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DJ SHIFT 10:30 p.m., Jewel Nightclub, events. taogroup.com.
JON LOVITZ Thru 3/16, 7 p.m., Laugh Factory, ticket master.com.
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PARTY FAVOR 10:30 p.m., Omnia Nightclub, events. taogroup.com.
BRET ERNST & 3/16, 10 p.m., L.A. Comedy Club, tickets. thestrat.com.
THE WIDDLER & PUSHLOOP With Einstyles, 10 p.m., Discopussy, ticket fairy.com.
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The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 crime epic, stands as one of the greatest mob tales ever told. The story of the Corleone dynasty, layered with corruption and impenetrable loyalty, drastically echoes the reality of some of the best-known and most-feared mob families. For instance, Marlon Brando’s character Don Vito Corleone was inspired by the crime boss Frank Costello, and, to make his portrayal as authentic as possible, Brando even developed Costello’s signature rasp after hearing him testify to the Kefauver Committee on TV. In honor of the film’s 50th anniversary, the Mob Museum will host a commemorative discussion with actor John Martino (who played Paulie Gatto, of “take the cannoli” demise fame) to share just how deep the mob ties went with the film went. 7 p.m., $50, the mobmuseum.org. –Amber Sampson
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SILK SONIC 9 p.m., Dolby Live, ticket master.com.
KATY PERRY: PLAY & 3/11-3/12, 8 p.m., Resorts World Theatre, axs.com.
FERGIE 10:30 p.m., EBC at Night, wynnsocial.com.
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COCODRILLS 10:30 p.m., Library at Marquee Nightclub, events.taogroup. com.
PAUL BYROM 7 p.m., Myron’s, thesmithcenter. com.
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Patrick “Pulsar” Trout inside SoulBelly BBQ (Christopher DeVargas/Staff)
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he Bunkhouse Saloon closed in March 2020, just as the pandemic began, and there are no signs it will reopen anytime soon, if ever. Beauty Bar shuttered permanently a year before that. And though Backstage Bar & Billiards (and the adjacent Fremont Country Club), the Dive Bar and the Double Down Saloon remain open, a music scene this size needs additional off-Strip, non-casino rooms to truly thrive. Fortunately, Las Vegas can draw on experience gained through its long history battling through venue closures with fortitude and creativity. When one space ends, others usually begin, and when permanent spots don’t cut it, makeshift ones pop up, from generator shows in the desert and cave shows in the mountains to gigs in homes, storage units, warehouses and beyond. Keeping the concert calendar from drying up these days are independent promoters, like Patrick “Pulsar” Trout, the 36-year-old behind Pulsar Presents; Ruben Rodriguez; and the folks who run Bad Moon Booking, Blackpath Booking, Nevermore Productions and Vegas Rock Revolution—locals who frequently take financial risks bringing acts to town. The Weekly caught up with Trout, who has been booking bands in Las Vegas for more than 15 years, to discuss the pandemic’s effects on showgoing, the new wave of venues and more.
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media for the last decade … and I’ve noticed that digital marketing does not have anywhere close to the reach it used to. I’ve been trying to do a lot more in the way of physical promo—posters, flyers, things like that—to get back to that hands-on approach, because I think that goes further with people now.
Post-pandemic shutdown, you’ve been doing shows at some places that are pretty new to the music game. What has that been like? The first several months back, a lot of it was just figuring out the lay of the land, as far as what venues were open and what they wanted. The main thing for me was trying to get a better understanding of what the audience’s needs and expectations are now. Because trying to get someone to come to a show now is not anywhere close to trying to get someone to come to a show in 2019. It’s an entirely different ask.
moon period wore off, people really need a reason to go out. I don’t think it’s enough to just put a few bands onstage anymore, even if it’s good bands. There has to be some sort of a draw or some sort of, I don’t like using the term gimmick, but themed events seem to do well now. Making things more of an overall party than just a show. I also think a big part of it is that people are limited in terms of what they can spend, and people are really having to make much tougher decisions about how to spend their free time. People got used to just doing things at home.
How so? Last summer, when things started to reopen, there was a demand to go out, regardless of what it was. And once that honey-
What can you do to get more people out? Most production and entertainment companies have been living and dying by social
Take us on a tour of the newer spots where you’ve been booking lately. SoulBelly BBQ. The owner, Bruce [Kalman], has a great vision for the place, and the food’s fantastic. The sound is excellent, so dialed-in. In the past, a small venue having great sound was kind of a rarity in this market, and that’s a big factor when I’m dealing with booking agents for national acts. It’s been a lot of fun, the bands have been really receptive to it, and I think having more venues in that Arts District area is great. Taverna Costera is another cool, new spot. It’s really intimate—it only holds maybe 100, 125. The stage is on the roof, so it’s a very interesting setup. And it’s nice to have a room where, if you’re a band that’s new to the market or you’re a local band coming up, you can play in front of 50 people and not have it feel like a cave. I’ve done a few things at the Usual Place, which is a great room. It’s got a big dressing-room area with a shower, which is something a lot of smaller venues don’t have. From a promoter perspective, that can be a difference-maker when you’re negotiating. Carlos [Sanchez], the owner, is putting the time and
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effort into making it everything that it can be, bringing in a bigger stage, a bigger sound system. And the room is scalable—you can do a 400-person show in there, but you can also scale it down to half-capacity and not have it look awkward. How do you think the Swan Dive, which is being constructed in the Arts District, will add to that mix once it opens? The No. 1 gripe I get from agents is, “I’ve got this act that’ll sell out any 500-600-cap room I put them in, but I don’t wanna put them in House of Blues, because the room will be half-empty, and I don’t want to stick them in a 300-cap room where they’re gonna be unhappy with the production and they’ll have 300 people mad they couldn’t get into the show.” And for years I’ve kinda had to throw my hands up. Having a place like Swan Dive, especially Downtown in the Arts District, that can take on those kinds of shows, is gonna make a huge difference in terms of the viability of the market. Those acts that draw 500 to 700 are the acts that will draw 2,000 to 3,000 in a few years, but we end up not getting them at all a lot of time, because they don’t see Vegas as a market where they can build themselves up. They see at as a market that you come to after you’ve already won. And it takes a while to develop acts. The first time I booked Code Orange, maybe 50 people came, and then a year later the show sold out at 200 paid, and now they’re one of the biggest metal acts in the world. But that was over the course of nine years in the market. I think, in a lot of cases, it really comes down to the independent promoters being willing to build those relationships and take that time. If you’re a publicly traded corporation, you’re not really in a position to do that. For more of this interview, visit lasvegasweekly.com.
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Are you seeing mostly familiar faces, or is it largely a different audience out there these days? I’m seeing a lot of familiar faces, but I’m also seeing a lot of new ones, which is really encouraging. Over the course of the pandemic, a lot of people left Vegas, but a lot of people came to Vegas, too. New people who, for the first several months or year they were here, couldn’t go out even if they wanted to, can finally see what there is to offer here.
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In its first 10 years, the Smith Center has woven itself into the cultural fabric of this community
sense of pride along with how people have adopted and nurtured the Smith Center, is how our team has taken such great care of the facility.” The immaculate building in Downtown’s Symphony Park looks just as great as it did on opening night. Exactly 10 years later, it will host another epic performance, which will be filmed for a future PBS special, when the legendary Paul Anka takes the stage at Reynolds Hall as part of his Anka Sings Sinatra tour. Even for an iconic pop artist who has been headlining in Las Vegas since the 1950s and touring the globe performing in various venues for decades, the Smith Center stands out as a special place he always looks forward to visiting. “It’s one of the best theaters in the world,” Anka says. “For me and the people I know there who have been there for years, it’s a wonderful asset, and it’s a big part of living that other life in Las Vegas that most people outside of the town have no idea exists. “Technically, esthetically, acoustically, it’s fantastic for us, and such an easy place to be,” Anka continues. “But for those [locals] who don’t go to the Strip, it’s an amazing thing to have. I’ve been in and out of town forever, and I’ll play the Strip, and I’m talking about a new residency, but I’ll never stop playing the Smith Center.” * * * * * Ten years is a long time in Las Vegas. Some will surely feel surprised the Smith Center has been around for
only a decade; to many in this community, it’s a bedrock institution that seems to have existed far longer. The idea behind the facility—and the genesis of the nonprofit organization that operates it—stretch back to the early 1990s, when a group of community leaders, including current Chairman of the Board Don Snyder and Vice Chairman Dr. Keith Boman, started the discussion to establish what it would take to create a world-class performing arts center in the entertainment capital of the world, which had been the largest community in North America without one. “Back then, this group was talking about the next steps, an academic medical center and pro sports teams, and this was the third part of that trifecta,” says Martin, who originally came from New York City to manage the Liberace Foundation and got involved with Smith Center efforts in the late ’90s. “I volunteered to help this group understand what a performing arts center was and what it would bring to the community, how it would make this a better place to live.” The effort found substantial support from gaming industry executives, who’d struggled at times to attract top national business talent to Las Vegas. The city’s flashy reputation didn’t leave a lot of space for a balance of cultural experiences. That same reputation fueled some
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resistance to facility’s early development. “There was lots of pushback early on,” Martin says. “If it’s the entertainment capital, why did we need another showroom? Those were their terms. We had to make the case that we weren’t building another showroom but a theater and performance space to celebrate arts and culture and entertainment from around the world, and it was hard early on.” But as this quirky desert city has time and again, Las Vegas found a way to get it done. The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation chipped in first with $50 million, then the Las Vegas City Council granted a 5.5-acre plot for the center, along with infrastructure and environmental assistance. The project team scored a major win by lobbying the state and Clark County to approve a new car rental tax to help fund the facility in 2005, and the Reynolds Foundation followed up with one of the largest arts donations in U.S. history—$100 million—in 2008. The Smith Center was also instrumental in re-energizing Downtown Las Vegas at a pivotal time. Opening less than a month after the Mob Museum on Third Street near City Hall, the new cultural hub became the anchor of Symphony Park—where the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health arrived in 2010—and the Smith Center enabled the Discovery Children’s Museum to move in next door and expand its offerings in 2013. “If you go really far back, there were two groups of people saying they wanted to build a performing arts center in Las Vegas, and one group thought they should build a beautiful temple to the arts in Summerlin,” Martin says. “This group believed it needed to be in the heart of Downtown, where it would be easily accessible to everybody in the Valley. “It was [former Las Vegas] Mayor Jan Jones who realized the importance of this being part of the city’s infrastructure, and then ironically
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the head of [Summerlin developer] the Howard Hughes Corporation … who weighed in and said he thought the best place … would be Downtown Las Vegas.” * * * * * The past decade has seen the Smith Center accomplish its ambitious goals of bringing arts events that wouldn’t otherwise be presented to local audiences and lifting up its resident companies—the Las Vegas Philharmonic symphony orchestra and the Nevada Ballet Theatre—by providing a first-class theater headquarters in Reynolds Hall. It has hosted countless performances in its smaller venues, Myron’s (formerly known as Cabaret Jazz) and the Troesh Studio Theater, while bringing in top Broadway productions on a regular basis. The recently announced 2022-2023 Broadway
Series might be the biggest yet, featuring Hamilton, Hadestown, Annie, Jagged Little Pill, Mean Girls, Moulin Rouge and Disney’s Frozen. The Smith Center has produced its own original musical Idaho!, launched the national tours of hit productions like Kinky Boots and An Officer and a Gentleman and presented hundreds of concert performances from favorite Las Vegas musicians and big-name touring stars. But its impact on the community over its first decade is equally defined by its educational programming, which takes place on and offstage. Housed in the Elaine Wynn Studio for Arts Education in the Boman Pavilion, the Education and Outreach Department has been engineering arts experiences for students, educators and other community members even longer than the Smith Center has been open. Vice President of Education and
“It’s a beautiful building, but the heart and soul is the commitment this community has made.”
Outreach Candy Schneider, a Nevadan since she was 6 months old who worked for the Clark County School District for 33 years, joined the Smith Center team in the fall of 2006. “It was a dream, and then it came into reality,” she says, recalling the opening of the facility. “What an opportunity and a jewel it is for our community. And the education component has always been critical, because if we were indeed building this for the future of our community, we needed to speak directly to the future of our community. So starting programming prior to even breaking ground was really important.” * * * * * When it was a foundation and not yet a place with a name, the Smith Center began hosting performances in borrowed spaces and visiting local classrooms as an affiliate of the South-
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“People are so happy to come back to the Smith Center, as if they knew they missed it but didn’t know how much.” –President and CEO Myron Martin “We’re always on edge and on alert for things like that,” Martin says. “Travel isn’t as easy as it used to be, and we had the occasion where someone intended to fly here for a concert and a flight was canceled. We’re not back to normal, for sure, but the level of enthusiasm from our audiences has been extraordinary. People are so happy to come back to the Smith Center, as if they knew they missed it but didn’t know how much.” Though the pandemic has been an unfortunately part of the Smith Center’s first decade, it might have also bolstered the sense of community pride that sparked its creation in the first place— and fueled its unquestionable success. Going without it for a year and a half has allowed this community to reflect on its true impact. “I have heard people say, when they’ve come back, that it feels like the Smith Center has been open forever,” Martin says, “because they don’t remember a time when they weren’t coming here.”
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ern Nevada Wolf Trap program. Initial outreach evolved into expanded programming in schools and taking visiting and resident artists to perform for student groups, artist residencies in classrooms, outreach to museums and community organizations like Child Haven and St. Jude’s Ranch and student trips to the Smith Center for matinee performances along with master classes held on site. It only takes one exposure to inspire forever, that first time a student visits and experiences an artistic performance. “It was the vision of our leadership and board to have that understanding and make this idea an important component of this organization,” Schneider says. “It’s a beautiful building, but a building is not an organization. The heart and soul is the commitment this community has made to ensure everyone has the opportunity to experience arts in this way.” Educational programming had grown each year until the pandemic arrived, and while the Smith Center reopened for performances in September after a long struggle during the shutdown, Schneider’s department is patiently waiting to relaunch. “Once everybody is comfortable and restrictions have been eased to our comfort level, we want to get to the level of programming we were doing, and bring some new programs on down the line,” she says. Virtual educational experiences launched during COVID will continue in some form, too. The state mask mandate lifted in February, but the Smith Center’s guest-facing staff remains masked during performances. Guests are no longer required to show proof of vaccination to see a show, but things aren’t yet back to normal. A touring Broadway production of My Fair Lady had to cancel several performances in Orange County because of positive test results among the cast and crew weeks before the show hit the Smith Center in January.
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Vic’s; an AC by Marriott upscale business hotel, located just steps from World Market Center’s recently-opened convention hall; and an all-new resort property being conceived by Circa owner Derek Stevens. (Several other projects once slated for Symphony Park, including a fine art museum and a Charlie Palmer-designed property, are no longer in the neighborhood plans.) Of recent note, two luxury apartment blocks, Aspen Heights Partners’ Parc Haven and Southern Land Company’s Auric, have opened in the past year. And the developers of those blocks, Aspen Heights Partners and Southern Land Company, respectively, innately understood the assignment: They’re contributing a vital component to what is functionally a second
Vegas Downtown. “I was born and raised here in Las Vegas— come from a large, three-generation family. So I’ve known about Symphony Park for quite a while,” says Patrick Brennan, development manager for Aspen Heights. “Growing up here, finishing my masters’ here at UNLV and watching Downtown continue to grow and expand, I really knew that Symphony Park was very special place and had a lot of potential.” Alex Woodin, Director of Acquisitions for Southern Land, tells a different story with a similar conclusion. “Our owner, Tim Downey, has traveled to Las Vegas several times with his wife and really became kind of enamored with the city. And he started to notice a lack of quality housing for Downtown residents,” Downey says. “The more Tim and other executives at Southern Land saw what the City was trying to do in the
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ture to the southwest of Discovery Children’s Museum, will be the first such show-night destination, promises Porchlight Hospitality President and multigenerational Las Vegan Chris Lowden. Porchlight is well-primed on the entertainment front—Lowden produces the Newport Beach Jazz Party with his brother Paul, and is president of popular Town Square nightspot Stoney’s Rockin’ Country—and the company intends for Vic’s to bring some old-school Vegas dining appeal to this new neighborhood. “Back in the day, we used to go to a place called DiMartino’s, on Maryland Parkway and Karen. What a fantastic place. We had really great memories of it. Loved their sauce,” Lowden says. “So, I called up [former owner] Mark DiMartino and I said, ‘Hey, man, I’m looking for a good chef.’ And he said, ‘Well, I’m not really doing anything right now.’ So, basically, you’ve got another old Vegas family creating the menu and overseeing the facility. We’ve already tasted some pastas and flat- breads, and they’re just phenomenal.” Picture this: You go to the Smith Center to see a Broadway hit, after-
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area … it just made sense that this was going to be a great location, with a ton of potential to kind of create an urban oasis.” Brennan and Woodin’s proclamations might not make sense if you haven’t been to Symphony Park lately, but when you’re standing on City Parkway, with Park Haven and Auric towering on either side of you, the “urban oasis” comes into focus almost immediately. Auric’s stylish Art Deco elements speak directly to the Smith Center next door. Looking at the performing arts center from Auric’s breezeway, you could swear both projects were built at the same time. And Parc Haven’s industrial-chic design and colorful balconies are in conversation both with Tim Bavington’s “Pipe Dream” sculpture and the freight trains that still roll by. Both apartment properties boast deluxe resident amenities, from private work spaces to resident lounges to resort-quality pool areas. Parc Haven offers both bike and dog-wash rooms; Auric has a roof deck and 24-hour concierge service. But what might matter most to Valley residents is the retail and restaurant spaces at the southern end of the properties, facing the Smith. They’re ripe to become restaurants and bars that serve not only neighborhood residents, but also Myron’s and Reynolds Hall patrons looking to extend their night on the town. Vic’s, the restaurant and jazz bar slated to occupy a 6,200 square-foot space on the bottom floor of the city parking garage struc-
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wards adjourning to Vic’s for a late bite and a set by a local jazz combo—perhaps meeting a friend from the nearby apartments, who works in the medical offices planned for the land immediately adjacent to the Ruvo. After that, you take a leisurely walk through Symphony Park, perhaps stopping to gawk upwards at the 22-story tower planned for Auric’s next phase, visiting another one of the neighborhood’s night spots or heading directly for one of the elevated pedestrian walkways over the railroad tracks that connect Symphony Park with the rest of Downtown. In other words, a visit to Symphony Park will feel like a proper night in a big city, one where you leave your car behind and explore. Kind of fitting that it took a former railroad yard to get Downtown Las Vegas on the right track.
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BELIEVER FEST BECOMES WAVE IN Wave In, the Black Mountain Institute-hosted art, literature and music festival formerly known as Believer Fest, returns to the Las Vegas Valley May 5-7 with an eclectic lineup and, for the first time, free programming aimed at children. Among those scheduled to appear are bestselling author of Hunger, Roxane Gay, and Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, whose award-winning book The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir is being developed by HBO. Tickets for Wave In go on sale March 21 at bmifestival.org. -Geoff Carter
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Rocked but steady Wrestling ruled the night at UFC 272. One of the mixed martial arts promotion’s most contentious rivalries ended March 5 at T-Mobile Arena with Colby Covington (above left) using his wrestling background to control former teammate Jorge Masvidal over 25 minutes. The judges award Covington a unanimous-decision victory (50-45, 50-44, 49-46) after he overwhelmed his opponent with takedowns and clinches. “My wrestling wasn’t good
today,” a dejected Masvidal said in his post-fight interview in the octagon. “I was flat.” Rafael dos Anjos and Bryce Mitchell used the same strategy as Covington to cruise to unanimous-decision wins in the other two bouts atop the card. Masvidal got taken down in every round except the second, which is the lone frame one judge awarded him. His only other bright spot came in the fourth round when he briefly staggered Covington with a pair of right hooks.
Covington and Masvidal didn’t so much as look at each other as they were introduced in the octagon before the fight. Security remained afterwards to separate them, as Covington taunted his old friend and continued to trash talk. “I just took care of Miami’s street trash,” Covington said in his brief post-fight comments while draped in an American flag. “Now it’s time to take on Louisiana swamp trash. Where you at, Dustin Poirier?” –Case Keefer
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Feel Good Fridays benefit injured athletes Five mountain athletes who have suffered life-altering injuries will hit the slopes at Mount Charleston on March 11. One of them, Shelby Estocado, will be returning to the spot where she sustained a spinal cord injury while snowboarding two years ago, rendering her unable to use her legs. The 25-year-old Las Vegas native, who has since completed Crossfit competitions and is training for the 2026 Winter Paralympics, says she is a “much better skier” now than she was during her visit to Lee Canyon a year ago. She and four colleagues from the High Fives Foundation hope to inspire others with life-altering injuries that it’s possible to continue pursuing their dreams. “We all have life-altering events ... that involve pain and suffering. I don’t think any of us can escape it. It comes in so many different shapes and forms for every one of us,” Estocado says. “What is most important is how I chose to deal with it … I am still Shelby, I am still an athlete and I have my eyes set on the next Winter Paralympics in 2026 alpine skiing.” Lee Canyon’s Feel Good Fridays series takes place every Friday in March, when daily lift tickets cost just $25 and 20% of their sales benefit the High Fives Foundation. Lift tickets are available at leecanyonlv.com. –Shannon Miller
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Legislation introduced March 3 by Reps. Dina Titus, D-Nevada, and Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pennsylvania, would increase the threshold for IRS reporting of slot jackpots from the current $1,200 to $5,000, and would provide a mechanism for future increases based on inflation. The limit has not been changed since 1977.
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‘MASS EXODUS’ Local educators sound off as hundreds of CCSD staffers resign BY SHANNON MILLER
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Evan Scherr fell in love with teaching back when he began substituting for the Clark County School District in the early 2000s. His first gig as a licensed substitute, for a fourth-grade class at Frias Elementary School, made him feel like he was making a difference, he says. “I just fell in love with the kids,” he recalls. “It was amazing to talk to the kids and make school a more engaging environment.” Now teaching computer science at Orr Middle School, Scherr has decided to exit the school district. He says the job just isn’t what it used to be. “I was just joking with my teaching friends, ‘Do you remember when this was fun?’ The job is just unsustainable,” Scherr says. “It’s not like what it used to be when I started 18 years ago. With the way the district is run and the general lack of caring, empathy and consideration for teachers and their families, I’ve just reached a point where I feel like I’ll do better mentally, physically and spiritually by just leaving the district and doing my own thing.” (Shutterstock/Photo Illustration)
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It’s not just teachers who have been stressed during the pandemic, of course. Students have suffered mentally and emotionally, too. D’Silva, who has noticed increased drug use, difficulty socializing and other signs of trauma in students, says he’s been breaking up serious fights between students on a weekly basis. “It’s demanding,” he says. “And a lot of teachers say, ‘I can make better money and actually be more respected in another line of work.’” Considering Nevada ranked 48th in the nation in education in U.S. News’ 2021 report, behavioral issues and other pandemic-related complications are especially unwelcome for teachers trying
to get students’ test scores up to standard. As part of a potential solution, the district has touted both its Paraprofessionals Pathway Program—which allows CCSD support staff to gain student teaching experience while working toward licensing in early childhood education, special education or elementary education—and its Teaching and Training Career and Technical Education (CTE) Program, a way for high school students to begin the path to becoming a teacher while earning their diploma. At press time, 104 CCSD candidates were enrolled in the Paraprofessional Pathway Program and 4,000 high school students enrolled in the CTE program, according to the district. A CCSD representative says solving teacher retention takes time, and that the licensing programs are gradual solutions to chronic staffing issues. “It’s not a quick fix,” says Steven Flak, director of CCSD school and department recruitment. “It’s not something where
we can go out there and recruit 1,300 teachers right now. There’s not a pool of 1,300 teachers waiting for us. But it’s going to be a long-term solution where we whittle away at it and continue to do the right things to become that employer of choice.” Although many districts across the country are experiencing difficulties fully staffing their schools, teachers and other members of the local community say several other factors are at play when it comes to the sheer volume of teachers leaving, and the rate at which they are. According to Data Insight Partners, from August to January, 970 licensed staffers have said they are leaving— 67% more than in average years. Of those who are leaving, 55 cited dissatisfaction with the district, five times more than in an average year. “It’s difficult to fill teaching positions, because the pipeline has been shrinking,” says Nathan Trenholm, a former CCSD employee
Jerania Mancilla, a special education assistant teacher taking part in CCSD’s Paraprofessionals Pathway Program, helps third-grader Johnny Cano Rivera with a school assignment at Ronnow Elementary School. (Wade Vandervort/Staff)
who co-founded Data Insight Partners. “The one thing that we don’t see happening nationally now is the mass exodus of teachers, which is happening in Clark County.” Scherr calls CCSD’s Paraprofessional program “phenomenal,” but points out that it doesn’t address the root causes behind the teaches departing. More than increasing the sheer number of staff, teachers say, improving work environment, pay and benefits—and having accountable and effective leadership and a supportive community—are essential in retaining staffers. “High school students are seeing how unhappy, how stressed out, how tired their teachers are,” Scherr says. “Do you really think the ones who decide to go on to higher education are saying ‘Man, I want to do that.’” As for what’s next for Scherr, he plans to continue fighting for improvements for CCSD teachers and students. “When you have wonderful educators leaving before they hit full pension, that’s a sign that it’s unsustainable,” he says. “And the community suffers from losing those teachers.” Alexis Salt, who teaches at a pre-K-12 school in Indian Springs and has been teaching in the district for 16 years, says CCSD leadership needs to change its approach when it comes to decision-making, and to take teachers more seriously. “When we tell you our testing schedule is borderline abusive, they need to listen to us,” she says. “When we tell you that standardized programs are not reaching the kids that are sitting in front of us, they need to listen. There needs to be a real change in the philosophy of leadership, that this is not a top-down endeavor. This is a team. And the closer you are to the children, the more important your job is.”
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And Scherr is hardly alone. He’s among hundreds who have opted to leave CCSD during the current school year. According to research analytics company Data Insight Partners, nearly 1,000 of an approximate 18,000 licensed staffers have left the school district since August 2021. On March 3, between licensed staffers and support personnel, there were more than 1,900 vacancies listed on CCSD’s jobs website (ccsd.net/ employees/prospective). Even one teacher or support staffer leaving can have a significant effect on remaining staffers’ ability to do their jobs, they say. Rancho High School history teacher Reuben D’Silva says when six teachers quit at the start of the school year, it added to the already-full plates of the teachers who stayed. He says he’s substituting an average of three times weekly and taking on more students and more tasks, including proctoring standardized tests. “We’re having teachers quit every day [in the district],” D’Silva says. “The No. 1 thing is probably just the stress of the job. So much is put upon us—it seems impossible.”
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e’s been very visible on Las Vegas’ vast megaclub scene in recent months, but that doesn’t mean folks get the same sounds over and over from Party Favor. Quite the opposite, actually. The DJ and producer born Dylan Ragland collaborated with indie dance singer and songwriter K.Flay for his first single of 2022, “Superhuman,” a catchy but hard-todefine track with a bouncy, buzzy beat. It’s a prominent next step for a musician who has always strayed from formulaic EDM. “I have felt like I was not always aligned with the more Euro-centric version of dance music that was very prevalent early on,” the native New Yorker says. “I love that music, but my music lends itself more to an American audience with a little more hip-hop influence and other styles rather than straight house.” “Superhuman” has obvious altrock and punk undertones, probably why K.Flay’s inimitable voice is a perfect fit. “I’ve been wanting to work with her for a while. She’s so insanely talented,” Ragland says. “She wrote this demo on guitar and sent it over, and I was driving home from a session when I heard it and was just floored. I pulled the car over to the side of the road.” The next track from his coming-soon album, a collabo with Marc E. Bassy called “I See You,” just dropped on March 4. Party Favor has been practically
ubiquitous on the Las Vegas Strip since nightclubs came back big last year, spinning at Hakkasan or Omnia seemingly every week. He’s had a residency here since 2018 and says he considers Vegas a second home, “a wonderful place, because it’s this destination for people to get away from what they’re going through,” he says. “The crowds have been very positive and had a great energy in response to the music.” After his next Omnia gig, he’ll be back at another familiar hot spot, Wet Republic at MGM Grand, on March 20 and April 10. Pool season is here, and last year’s merger of Tao Group and Hakkasan Group could find him playing some different venues this summer. “It sounds like that might be a thing,” he teases. But the focus is the album, and showcasing the different musical directions he’s been exploring during the downtime every DJ had to endure. For Ragland, the pandemic was partially a reminder to be conscious about maintaining a healthy state of mind. “In our world, the majority of our income is from traveling nonstop and playing all the time, and it’s not sustainable,” he says. “A lot of us were forced into chilling out for a second, and I kind of re-evaluated who do I want to be as an artist and a person, and what do I want to represent. It was a bad thing in so many ways, but it was also kind of a big blessing for me.”
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as Vegas singer and burlesque artist Melody Sweets sounds terrified to take the stage with Jeff Goldblum, and not because she hasn’t performed live in Las Vegas in more than two years. “When I was a kid I used to have nightmares about him from [the 1986 film] The Fly. That ruined me for years,” she says. “I can still see him peeling his body parts off.” In all seriousness, though, Sweets says she’s over the moon to be returning to the Vegas stage for a pair of March 11 shows at Virgin’s intimate 24 Oxford, during which she’ll perform alongside the iconic actor and sometimes jazz pianist. She says Goldblum’s team sought her out, which was a surprise to her, and that she has been rehearsing songs from his latest album, along with standards by the likes of Nina Simone and Rosemary Clooney. “I’ve been doing all my Jeff Goldblum,” she says, “including watching his show
on Disney+ where he’s ... traveling around introducing you to all these cool things and his point of view on them. It’s weird and interesting.” Sweets, who first came to Las Vegas from New York to originate the role of the Green Fairy in Absinthe, says she has had other chances to return to live performance during the pandemic but opted to wait. Eschewing her former scenester status, she has kept secluded to keep some members of her family safe, while waiting for a special spark to pull her back out. “I’ve been asked to do a few things and turned them down because I haven’t felt the passion for those projects, she says, “and I feel like I need to be passionate in order to put it on a stage, because the audience wants to see that passion. “I’m so ready to be back onstage, and this has kind of pushed me to get back on the horse.” The horse she’s referring to is actually
Melody Sweets (Courtesy Robert John Kley)
a show, one that had been in development for quite some time and was preparing for a possible launch at Cleopatra’s Barge at Caesars Palace pre-COVID. The pandemic dusted her plans twice over when Caesars closed that legendary lounge venue, also dashing Sweets’ dreams of “sharing a venue with my husband, Wayne Newton,” she giggles. “One of the [reasons] I hopped on this opportunity [with Goldblum] is that I get to be back onstage with a beautiful band,” she says. “There’s definitely live music in my [show], and of course some burlesque, although I had to promise I’d keep my clothes on for these shows, or at least most of them.” With the success of sexy, smaller-scale Strip productions like Absinthe and interesting new entertainment venues popping up all over town as the city tries to put the pandemic in the rearview mirror, Sweets sounds optimistic that the next version of her show will find the right home and audience. “I would most definitely like to be on the Strip, but Downtown has some really great stuff happening right now and ... I wouldn’t be opposed to that,” she says. “This [gig] is definitely pulling me out of the pandemic shadows and has given me a lot of inspiration and motivation to go into high gear. And I’m just looking forward to having fun and to see my friends in the audience again, and make new friends in the audience and finally connect with people again.”
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Run to the hills. Bruce Dickinson is coming. (Courtesy)
Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson has performed in Las Vegas many times over the years, but not like he will on March 12. That’s the night the 63-year-old metal icon will bring his spoken-word tour to the House of Blues. The show will consist of two parts, a “humorous and often satirical look” at his wide-ranging experiences—which include earning his pilot’s license, surviving throat cancer, writing books and becoming a motivational speaker—and a Q&A, during which audience members are urged to ask anything on their mind. The Weekly conducted its own Q&A with Dickinson ahead of that performance. Here’s what he had to say. You originally went on a spoken-word tour to promote the release of your memoir, 2017’s What Does This Button Do? What made you want to revisit the format? I did a tour the year before COVID hit, and one of the last shows I did was in Dublin. I was kind of nervous about that one, because if ever there’s a town where people know about telling stories, it’s the Irish and Dublin. But I did it and the promoter was like, “Sh*t, that was great. You know what, I do spoken word shows for festivals, like 10,000 people listening to spoken word. Do you want to be a special guest on the bill?” I was like, “OK, I’m getting all the smoke signals that this could work.” It absolutely scared the life out of Iron Maiden management, of course. They were like, “Oh my God, we
then they’re laughing about the damn thing at the end. Not because it’s funny, but because you put them in the situation and they say, “This is ridiculous. How could this be happening to me?” I try to bring them into a dark place and then say it wasn’t so dark and it’s got the happy ending.
MAIDEN VOYAGE Metal icon Bruce Dickinson brings his spoken-word tour to Vegas for the first time BY CASE KEEFER have no control.” And also, “He might make a fool of himself.” I was like, “That’s kind of the whole point. That’s why you stand up there. You make a fool out of yourself, but in a good way.” Now they’re all happy and relaxed about it, and we’re getting great reviews. And, unbelievably, I’m selling a load of T-shirts. I’m like, “You’re buying a T-shirt at a spoken word show, huh?” So it’s great.
Have you ever regretted saying nothing’s off-limits for the fan Q&A portion of the show? No, because it’s nothing off-limits in terms of what people can write and ask as questions, not whether that question makes it into the show. If someone asks something really off, it will be, “I can’t. We’re not going to go there.” I look for questions or
statements that are unwittingly funny or mildly amusing. But I also get questions from people that are like, “I’m a cancer survivor and worried about treatment or have a friend going through treatment.” You have to deal with that sensitively, but you can lift people up and make them laugh at the same time. I do a chunk about cancer where everyone starts gasping at the C-word, but
What are your best memories of playing Las Vegas over the years? The last time I went to Vegas, I have a friend who owns a helicopter. I think he’s got a lot more money than I have. Well actually, no, because he owns a helicopter, he probably has a lot less money than I have. But he said, “I’d love to come see the show. Why don’t you come and we can fly the helicopter together?” I was like, that’s cool, so we flew low-level through the desert and dropped the helicopter in. I’m really looking forward to Vegas again. I’m going to go buy a load of boots. Last time I was in Vegas, I think I got three or four pairs of hiking boots—semi-military style boots from a military survivalist shop in North Las Vegas where they sell all this stuff—and they are the best. You can buy useful things there, like a parachute. I think I got some of my stage gear for the Book of Souls tour there. I went up there and said, “That’s a cool-looking suit.” He said, “Yeah, that’s a chemical warfare suit,” and I said, “Yeah, I could really use one of those.” For more of this interview, visit lasvegasweekly.com.
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as Vegas Sinfonietta had been planning to celebrate Mozart in its next performance, originally set to coincide with the composer’s birthday in January before it was postponed due to COVID. And then, after it was rescheduled for March 13, something far more significant happened, artistic director Taras Krysa explains. “It is important, for me personally, to acknowledge the events that are happening in Ukraine right now,” says Krysa, who is Ukrainian, as is his wife, Nataliya Karachentseva, a violinist in the group. “I want to bring awareness to Ukrainian music and Ukrainian composers.” So in addition to Mozart, the Sinfonietta’s upcoming concert will include a piece by Ukrainian composer Maxim Berezovsky, who lived from 1745 to 1777. “The power of music speaks directly to your mind and to your heart and your soul without language and without picture,” Krysa says. “That’s the magic of it.” A sinfonietta is a small symphony orchestra, a perfect fit for
Las Vegas Sinfonietta (Courtesy/Gabriella Benavidez)
LAS VEGAS SINFONIETTA Next performance March 13, 3 p.m., $28. Clark County Library Main Theater, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, lvccld.org.
the Vegas version’s approximately 30-member group, which includes musicians ranging from full-time professionals to UNLV students. A few members include cellist Svetlana Garitselov, choir director for All Saints Russian Orthodox Church; oboist Richard Kravchak, Dean of the School of Arts and Letters at CSN; and Jason Bonham, principal viola player for the Las Vegas Philharmonic. Krysa also serves as director of orchestras at UNLV. “I really like him as a conductor,” Garitselov says. “He works on every detail … and I think because we are all passionate musicians, the result is going to be amazing,” The group came together during the pandemic, which made performing difficult, to say the least. Josh Herrington, then-director of music for New Song Lutheran Church in Henderson, offered Krysa a chance to partake in a streaming concert series the church was producing. “At first it was kind of
whoever wanted to perform,” says Herrington, who plays piano with the Sinfonietta. “From there it started to grow. We’re still kind of in an evolution phase—getting bigger and bigger.” The Sinfonietta’s March 13 concert at Clark County Library will feature Mozart’s final three symphonies—39, 40 and 41— composed in 1788, three years before his death. The orchestra has another performance, featuring music by Shostakovich and contemporary composer John Adams, lined up for April 24 in the same room. Krysa predicts the Sinfonietta’s repertoire and musicians will help set it apart as it gains momentum. “My focus is to highlight local talent,” he says. “I’m trying to be as inclusive as possible—because we have a big family of musicians in this town—and highlight the repertoire that is not performed here. The third component is to bring it to as many possible audiences.”
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Chicken tandoori, a vegetarian appetizer platter and eggplant curry at Marigold (Christopher DeVargas/ Staff)
New mom and pop spot Marigold tackles all your favorite dishes BY BROCK RADKE
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here doesn’t appear to be a runaway favorite Indian restaurant in the Las Vegas Valley. The foodies with whom I speak cannot come to a culinary consensus; like me, they get it from their nearest neighborhood spot when a craving strikes. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it seems to me that Indian food is generally spectacular and therefore deserving of more attention and exploration. So please go try a new Indian restaurant you’ve never heard of and report back. It will be fun, promise. Here, I’ll go first. Marigold Fine Indian Cuisine opened last fall in the already wildly diverse food intersection of Flamingo and Decatur; there’s ramen, Chinese, Ethiopian and a vegan food store within steps of this place.
A small group of family and friends that had been working together at other local Indian restaurants, most notably Taj Palace in the Henderson area, struck out on their own here, aiming to please with a vast menu of different flavors made slightly more accessible to the American palate. Basically, that means your favorite dish is probably available at Marigold, be it juicy, brightred tandoori chicken ($14) or the creamy tomato-based classic chicken tikka masala ($15). You can thumb through protein sections (chicken, lamb, goat,
seafood and veggie), and the incredible breads we all love are here, too. Keep your naan simple with butter or garlic, or try the sweet kabuli ($6) with almonds, raisins, cashews and cherries, or the savory keema ($7) with minced lamb and cilantro. I adore the onion kulcha ($5), an extra-soft flatbread with roasted red onions, cilantro and other herbs. Other appetizer options include pakora chickpea fritters ($8), various samosa options and chicken- or vegetable-stuffed momo dumplings ($8-$9).
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The Marigold menu is too vast to summarize fully, but you should know that nothing costs more than 20 bucks; the most expensive dish is a tandoori platter of chicken, fish and shrimp, plus chicken tikka and kabob ($20), which is a steal. Maybe get your one fave and try a couple new things, like goat mango curry ($18) if you’re feeling adventurous, or mushroom and green pea curry ($13) if you’re not. Meat is fine, but I like to veg out when eating Indian. One go-to is saag paneer ($14), spinach and cheese in a subtle
curry sauce, and Marigold has plenty of other vegan options worth sampling. Bhindi masala ($13) takes humble, under-appreciated okra, puts some delicious char on it and mixes it with onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, ginger, garlic and plenty of spices. Roasted eggplants are peeled and pureed, fried potatoes are dusted in cumin seeds and black lentils and red beans are simmered forever in spicy gravy. There’s a lot happening in this kitchen, so many different flavor combinations coming to life.
n When was the last time you fell in love with a pastry? It just happened to me, and it was perfect. It was a sunny afternoon, I needed a coffee and there it was right in front of me: Pasabocas. I’ve never been to a Colombian bakery, so I asked for a rundown on the different breads and sweet treats in the case. A perfectly friendly person told me her favorite was pan con brevas y arequipe ($3), a fluffy and sweet bread filled with fresh dates and a thick, dulce de leche-style caramel. It was like a dessert sandwich, love at first bite … and second, when I put the leftover half in the toaster oven at home the next day. The irresistible buñuelos ($1) and doughnut-shaped roscón guayaba ($2) filled with guava paste also qualify as pastry-case standouts, among more familiar sweet stuff like chocolate croissants ($2.50) and a rich version of a French mille-feuille ($4). For a more savory flavor, there’s pan con queso ($4), delightful with espresso ($2.50) or maybe an iced macchiato ($4). An offshoot of the Chicago transplant Brasa Roja restaurant around the corner at Commercial Center, Pasabocas is just a few months old, a warm and cozy spot for my afternoon snack or a light breakfast or brunch hang. There’s coffee, great food, board games and friendly vibes galore. What more could you want? –Brock Radke
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The Golden Knights’ new star gives us a glimpse of his capabilities in his first few games with Vegas
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ime ticks down, and overtime approaches. And then, with the Golden Knights on a power play and just seconds remaining, a blocked puck finds its way to Jack Eichel in the left circle. There’s no time to find a better play, only to do what he does best—shoot.
Jack Eichel (AP Photo/Photo Illustration)
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Since returning to the ice after nearly a year away, the 25-year-old Eichel has shown flashes of the ability that made him the No. 2 overall draft pick in 2015 and a three-time all-star in Buffalo. It’s already evident why Vegas was willing to part with forwards Alex Tuch and Peyton Krebs, along with two draft picks, to land the former Sabres captain. It’s been the biggest trade of the NHL season and one that will be endlessly re-evaluated, especially when Eichel returns to Buffalo to play at KeyBank Center as a visitor for the first time March 10.
The haul seemed steep to acquire Eichel at the time. The Golden Knights had to allow Eichel to get artificial disk replacement surgery—a procedure never before done on an NHL player—and, at least publicly, Vegas wasn’t guaranteeing he’d play this season. The Golden Knights were 4-4-1 at press time since Eichel debuted, and he has started looking comfortable in a new system with new teammates. The play leading to his first goal in a Vegas uniform, on February 20 against San Jose, gave fans their first taste of his offensive creativity. After gathering up a loose puck, Eichel kept the puck on his stick for 12 seconds as he went one full rotation around the offensive zone. The Sharks’ attention stayed focused on him, allowing Chandler Stephenson to get free in front of the net. Stephenson received a pass from Eichel, circled around and returned the puck to his new teammate, who trickled it past San Jose goalie James Reimer. “I think he’s getting more comfortable every time he plays a game, both the physical component, but also with our systems and our expectations there and the work he needs to do away from the puck in order to fit in with what we’re trying to do here,” DeBoer said during an off-day press conference. The work without the puck has jumped out most. Eichel’s forecheck was a strength in Buffalo, but chasing players in the offensive zone and creating turnovers has become a dangerous element for him in Vegas. Late in the third period February 26 against Colorado, Eichel lost a puck battle to Cale Makar, one of the best defensemen in the NHL. But Eichel stayed with the play to then force a turnover and create a scoring chance. His shot is another thing of
beauty, as it’s one of the quickest in the league. Eichel snaps the puck off his stick with pinpoint precision and velocity to make it difficult on opposing goalies. He already rivals Pacioretty for the best shot on the team. “For guys who are trying to create chemistry, everyone’s different,” Pacioretty said. “He’s more of a [Nikita] Kucherov-type shooter, where he slings it from behind his body. I’m more of a snapshot shooter, where I push down on it. The puck comes off different.” It’s taken a lot of work for Eichel to perfect the shot, but he’s never shied away from long hours. He’s quickly become the obligatory first-to-arrive, last-to-leave player when it comes to Golden Knights’ practices. His commitment to accuracy drills has particularly stood out. He often purposely hits the crossbar with 10 pucks in a row to help stay sharp. That diligence hasn’t gone unnoticed. “I talked to him about trying to get him off the ice,” DeBoer said. “He wants to get out there and work.” This is the first time Eichel has been on a playoff-caliber NHL team, and he wants to make the most of it. He’s been candid about how much he wants to prove himself and show he’s up for a new challenge. Eichel might not be playing at his peak yet, but there’s been more than enough evidence to show he’s on the right path to get there. “Prior to the injury and last season, I was starting to establish myself where I wanted to be,” Eichel said. “Obviously I’ve been kind of derailed a bit with injuries, but just want to get back to where my game was and get to the next level.”
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Displaying the patented wrist shot that made him one of the NHL’s most feared scorers, Eichel targets the top left corner and beats Ottawa goalie Anton Forsberg with just five seconds on the clock. The newest Golden Knight is then mobbed by his teammates in celebration of his biggest moment with the team thus far, securing a 2-1 Vegas victory and a critical two points in the suddenly tight Pacific Division standings. “That’s what you miss, just making a difference and trying to help the team win,” Eichel, who made his Vegas debut February 16 after undergoing neck surgery, said after the win against Ottawa. “As a competitor, you miss competing and having moments like that.” At press time, Eichel had played nine games with the Golden Knights, tallying three goals and six points. His game-winning shot against the Senators provided a glimpse of what he can bring to the Golden Knights going forward. “There’s a handful of guys that can corral the puck, get it off that quickly and stick it in the back of the net in that spot in the world, and he’s one of them,” coach Pete DeBoer said after the game. “That’s exactly why you go get him.”
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n a recent Mercedes-Benz commercial, a glossy car reflects a city’s bright lights, its driver gazing out the window at the streets rushing by. But the car wasn’t shot in a city, nor did the video’s producers step foot in an outdoor setting. The commercial was instead filmed in Vū Technologies’ studio in Tampa, Florida, a deception made possible by towering LED screens that create hyper-realistic locations for video producers and filmmakers. Its latest location is Las Vegas, where the virtual production studio is reshaping local filmmaking, its founders said. Vū Technologies will open its local 40,000 square-foot space April 22 and showcase two variations of LED screen studios. These new resources will elevate filmmaking and commercials as well as unfasten new avenues for conferences, said CEO Tim Moore. “Vegas is an incredible entertainment market, but it’s also a great destination for a studio,” he said. “There’s a lot of entertainment already here that could utilize this space.” Moore founded Vū in Tampa in 2020, when he said he saw an opportunity for alternate filmmaking during the COVID-19 pandemic. Production during the pandemic became defined by new rules to limit the spread of the disease, including social distancing, increased testing and limits on travel to on-site filming. The LED screens instead bring the location to filmmakers, and once
video production is complete, viewers will not be able to tell which shots are filmed before the LED screens and which are not, Moore said. Vū opened another studio in Nashville, Tennessee, in February 2021, and its Las Vegas location will be the first of its kind to settle in locally. Moore said he plans on expanding Vū in the coming year to 10 novel locations. The technique of using LED screens in filmmaking is uncommon but not unusual. Filmmakers for Disney+ show The Mandalorian re-created lush settings on vivid LED screens for
about 50% of its first season. They said this format was preferable to the industry-standard green screen because of the eponymous character’s refective armor. If the show used a green screen, the post-production editing to eliminate the armor’s shine and fill in the background would have taken far longer compared with shooting on the LED screens, which Moore said require little to no post-production editing. Each space varies in size and price, with the smaller option—an LED dome, where the company’s robot “cameramen” enter an immersive,
Vu Technologies CEO Tim Moore (Wade Vandervort/Staff)
360-degree space to film—starting at $30,000 per day. The 140-by19-foot screen, the studio’s largest option, goes for $65,000 per day, and to reserve both comes in at about $100,000, Moore said. Vice President Jason Soto, who will oversee the Las Vegas location, said there will be about 32 to 35 staff members on site, with separate crew per production that rents out the facility. Soto said he thinks the LED screens and Vū’s studio can also be essential for technology conferences like CES, which takes place annually in Las Vegas, as well as teleconferences, exploded onto the massive screens. “We wholeheartedly think that we barely uncovered what can be done,” Soto said. “We’re creative guys, and we’ve got a lot of great ideas. But to us, the best idea takes place when one of the clients comes in and goes, ‘What if we could do this?’ ” Vū also plans to collaborate with UNLV’s Office of Economic Development, providing paid internships for students as well as full-time jobs for recent graduates. Jamie Schwartz, director of Industry and Business Engagement at UNLV, said the jobs— which would teach students how to use and monitor the LED screen technology—will be promoted this summer, aiming to start the coming fall semester. Schwartz said these opportunities would appeal to students in the College of Fine Arts, as well as those studying computer science. When fine arts students, specifically ones who study filmmaking, graduate, they typically move to LA or Burbank, California, for work, Schwartz said. The partnership with Vū, she said, will ideally keep more fine arts workers local. “There is, overall, in that industry a shortage of workers, even in Los Angeles,” she said. “We see this as a really exciting avenue for students coming out the university as well as the entertainment district in Las Vegas.”
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Isak Dinesen defined “true piety” as “loving one’s destiny unconditionally.” That’s a worthy goal for you to aspire to in the coming weeks. Summon your deepest reserves of ingenuity and imagination to adore your life just as it is. You won’t compare it negatively to anyone else’s fate, and you won’t wish it were different from what it actually is. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As author Mary Ruefle points out, “In the beginning, William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn’t even speak.” To change from a wordless, uncoordinated sprout to a potent, influential maestro, Shakespeare had to be the beneficiary of mysterious powers. You will have access to comparable mojo the next four weeks. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): No one lives an ideal life, and we can learn from everyone. These quotes by Kanye West are in rapt alignment with your astrological omens. 1. “I’m in pursuit of awesomeness; excellence is the bare minimum.” 2. “You’re not perfect, but you’re not your mistakes.” 3. “I’m not comfortable with comfort. I’m only comfortable when I’m in a place where I’m constantly learning and growing.” 4. “Everything I’m not makes me everything I am.” CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction,” wrote philosopher Saint Teresa of Avila. Real ecstasy might arise from a visceral sense of the presence of God, or the rapture that emerges as you make love with a person you care for. You will have an extra rich potential for the real kinds of rhapsodic delight and enchantment. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Jennifer Lawrence portrayed a rugged, fierce, resourceful champion in The Hunger Games. In real life, however, “I have the street smarts and survival skills of a poodle,” she has confessed. The coming months will be a favorable time to cultivate the qualities of a rugged, fierce, resourceful champion. Now would be an excellent time to launch your efforts. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There come times when we must face the fact that a specific situation in our lives isn’t working well and needs to be adjusted, fixed or transformed. For the sake of your mental and spiritual health, risk a struggle to improve things. Novelist John Fowles said, “I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.”
2020 KING FEATURES SYNDICATE ACROSS 1 Guy in the Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus” 7 Brand of bottled water 13 Holy places 20 Yacht basin 21 Old Missouri natives 22 Arranged, as a page for printing 23 2001 Josh Hartnett war film 25 Not macho 26 “— little!” (“Have some fun!”) 27 Vegas action 28 Darkens in the sun 30 Hammer, e.g. 31 Yalie 32 1971 Malcolm McDowell crime film 37 They’re fed after parking 40 “Energy healing” technique 41 Artist Neiman and Jim Croce’s Brown 42 1973 Charlton Heston thriller 46 Beginner, in gaming lingo 47 Use sandpaper on, informally 48 Ed. supporter 50 Brain wave tests, in brief 54 — -Ball (carnival game) 57 Lubbock-to-Laredo dir. 58 1986 Isabella Rossellini neo-noir film 61 WWW page 64 Musical inaptitude 67 Having arrived tardily 68 Choose (to)
69 1984 Gene Wilder romantic comedy 72 “— said before ...” 73 The Lion in Winter actor 75 Dawned 76 Certain English student 78 1984 Prince musical film 80 Psychic “gift” 82 Table scraps 83 Graf — (German warship) 84 Potent compound in marijuana: Abbr. 85 Sequence of episodes on the tube 89 Test of speed 92 1986 Molly Ringwald Cinderella story 96 6x9-inch book 99 Attach with cord, e.g. 101 Actor Patrick 102 1992 Wesley Snipes sports film 107 ABA mem. 108 Sol-do linkup 109 Meat spread 110 “Starpeace” singer Yoko 111 — voce (quietly) 113 Smart speaker from Amazon 115 Photos not in shades of gray ... or what eight answers in this puzzle are? 120 Precisely, with “on” 121 Retaliate 122 Czar called “the Great” 123 More impertinent 124 Actor Dick Van — 125 Evaluate
DOWN 1 Tokens 2 Telescope pioneer 3 Newton topic 4 Rats’ relatives 5 Crooner Paul 6 “Prob’ly not” 7 Carpentry rod 8 Invite out for 9 Hardly happy 10 Of yore 11 Unfamiliar 12 Fails to be satisfactory 13 Skulked 14 Sci-fi role for Harrison Ford 15 Cup edge 16 Muckraker who took on Standard Oil 17 “That’s all wrong!” 18 Funeral speech 19 Fashion trends 24 Jackson 5 hit 29 Meyers of Dutch 32 Comes — surprise 33 Tribe of Canada 34 Piercing 35 Come in first 36 Vintage auto 38 Someone — problem 39 Sleep stage 43 “I fail — the humor” 44 Some sporty autos 45 Orating skill 46 No, in Selkirk 48 Least ornate 49 Zig or zag 51 Major Taiwanese carrier 52 Implies 53 Pub mugs 54 Nosy sorts 55 Sustained 56 Automaker Bugatti
58 Part of N.B. 59 Lead-in to Cong or Minh 60 Lead-in to skeleton 62 “— cost you!” 63 You, quaintly 65 “Sign me up!” 66 Rapper Lil — X 70 Infant’s cry 71 Reimburse 74 Surgeries 77 Like sexist jokes 79 Road map abbr. 81 Tennis unit 85 1982 film and arcade game 86 Steam hole 87 Ninny 88 Bump — log 90 Road map abbr. 91 Write music 92 Pod veggie 93 Like Charlie Brown’s kite, inevitably 94 Seine users, e.g. 95 Result of a verylow-carb diet 96 Hooting baby birds 97 Latin dance 98 Gives 10% 99 Blast creator 100 Polar topper 103 Diner patron 104 1995-2011 Yankee Posada 105 Release, as from a corral 106 “Excusez- —!” 111 Holy Mlles. 112 Excuses 114 “— have to?” 116 Female gametes 117 Allow to 118 Ottawa loc. 119 1040 pro
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A blogger named MysteryOfWhat expressed appreciation for her errors and wrong turns. “I love all my mistakes!” she exclaimed. “I had fun!” Honor your fumbles and miscues and feel grateful for them, but there’s no need to shout out, “I love all my mistakes! I had fun!” What do you think? SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Poet Norman MacCaig wrote, “Ask me, go on, ask me to do something impossible, something freakishly useless, something unimaginable and inimitable like making a finger break into blossom or walking for half an hour in 20 minutes or remembering tomorrow.” To encourage such a development, you could do the same for your beloved allies: nudge them to stretch their limits, expand their consciousness and experiment on the frontier. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Look at your body not as a source of physical attraction but as a shrine,” wrote teacher Sobonfu Somé. Your body is a gorgeous, radiant expression of your life energy, worthy of inspiring the appreciation of others. But you should also treat it as a sacred sanctuary deserving of your reverence. Provide it with all the tender care it needs and warrants. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time,” writes author Barbara Kingsolver. The subtly potent events unfolding for you in the coming weeks will not go unnoticed. Be alert for seemingly small but crucial developments—and give them all the focus and intelligence they deserve. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Sometimes, the most crucial preparation for a new learning phase is to initiate a surge of unlearning. You will embark on a series of extravagant educational experiences in a couple of weeks. And the best way to ensure you take maximum advantage of the available lessons is by dumping useless knowledge and irrelevant information and numbing habits. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Singer-songwriter Jill Scott was frying a burger at her boyfriend’s house when she sensed a new song forming in her imagination. Abandoning the stove, she ran into the next room to grab pen and paper. Soon she had transcribed the beginning of a melody and lyrics. In the meantime, though, the kitchen caught on fire. Luckily, she doused it. Later Jill testified, “His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it for a song.” You should respond robustly whenever inspiration arrives.
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