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SUPERGUIDE Your daily events planner, starring The Weeknd, Deadmau5, Psycho Swim, Goose, Bridesmaids, Sofi Tukker, Hadestown and more. COVER STORY The Aces have been playing beautiful bas ketball in 2022. Will it translate into Las Ve gas’ first major-league sports championship? NOISE Psycho Las Vegas descends upon Resorts World, and we point you to 15 promising festival acts. THE STRIP Bellagio’s Mayfair Sup per Club launches an all-new ofmorefeaturingproduction,moretricks,talentandmoretheunexpected. FOOD & DRINK Buddy V brings new flavors to the Linq, and Xiao Long Dumplings does its namesake justice on Spring Mountain. NIGHTS Once again, Swedish House Mafia has formed like Voltron … except that Voltron never had a Las Vegas Strip residency. 36 18 0834 3842 IN THIS ISSUE 44 SPORTS Ready to make those 2022 NFL win-total bets? We suggest you read what Case Keefer has to say about the subject first. LAS VEGAS ACES Photograph courtesy Juan /NBAPhotosOcampoCOVERTHEON Mayfair Supper Club Resorts(Courtesy/MGMInternational) WANT MORE? Head to lasvegasweekly.com. LAS VEGAS WEEKLY 7 I8.18.22
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SILK SONIC 9 p.m., & 8/19, Dolby Live, ticketmaster.com. HOUSE OF VEGAS PRIDE FESTIVAL Thru 8/21, times & venues vary, pridehouse.com.vegas DEORRO 10:30 Hakkasanp.m.,Nightclub, com.events.taogroup. JOHN BEAR”“POLARGONZALEZ 7:30 p.m., Wiseguys, comedy.com.vegas.wiseguys
LASPSYCHOVEGAS Thru 8/21, times vary, Resorts World, vivapsycho.com. DIPLO 11 XSp.m.,Nightclub, wynnsocial.com. LAS RIVERSACRAMENTOAVIATORSVEGASVS.CATS 7 p.m., thru 8/21, Las Vegas Ballpark, ticketmaster.com.
LOUIS THE CHILD 10 p.m., zoukgrouplv.com.Nightclub,Zouk THE SIT-IN WITH KELLY GRANDCLINTON:FINALE 7 p.m., Nevada Room, rooms.com.vegasnevada BLACK SABBITCH 9:30 Count’sp.m.,Vamp’d, vampdvegas.com. NIKKI CARR With Keith Lyle, 8 & 10 p.m., thru 8/21, Delirious Comedy Club, mentlasvegas.com.epicentertain MASSANE & EMBRZ 10 Commonwealth,p.m., seetickets.us. ATOMIC TESTIMONIALSURVIVORBOMB 6 p.m., National Atomic Museum,Testing museum.org.atomictestingnational VEGAS SCREENCONCERTS:VALLEYSILVERSONGS 8 p.m., the Space, thespacelv.com. SUMMERPOETRYSPOTLIGHTSLAM 7 Tavernap.m., Costera, tavernacostera.com. VAMPA With YDG, 10 p.m., We All Scream, seetickets. us.
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It could be said that one hasn’t fully experienced a Las Vegas dayclub until witnessing waist-deep circle pits in their waters, metalheads whipping soaking long hair as they move. Since 2016, heavy music fest Psycho Las Vegas has delivered the strangely paired mayhem—of lush casino-resort venues and concertgoers who normally wouldn’t be caught dead in them—for its kicko event. It began at the Hard Rock Hotel’s Paradise Pool (home to then-legendary party Rehab), continued at Daylight Beach Club at Mandalay Bay and now moves to Ayu Dayclub at Resorts World, home to Psycho’s sixth Vegas edition. Cleveland speed-metal band Midnight, New Orleans sludge fave Eyehategod and Boston-area stoner/psych outfit Elder top Psycho Swim’s 2022 poster, which also features Bridge City Sinners, Starcrawler, Uniform, Deathchant, Early Moods, Ri ord and DJ Painkiller. But no matter how much ruckus those acts make, and how much impression they leave, the setting will likely go down as Psycho Swim’s strange star once again. Noon, $119, Ayu Dayclub, seetickets.us. –Spencer Patterson AUG.
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GOLDBOOT With Nicky Saturn, Wave MMLZ, 7 p.m., Rockstar Bar, seetickets.us.
CORPORATIONTHIEVERY 8 p.m., Event Lawn at Virgin, etix.com. (AP Photo)
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JORDAN PERRY 7:30 p.m., & 8/20, Wiseguys, wiseguyscomedy.com.vegas.
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JOHN LEGEND 8 p.m., & 8/20, Zappos Theater, ticketmaster.com.
RON WHITE 10 p.m., & 8/20, Mirage Theatre, mirage.mgmresorts.com. MINDCHATTER 9 p.m., Area15 Portal, area15.com.
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NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS With Cory Wong, 8 p.m., Theater at Virgin, axs.com. LIONEL RICHIE 8 p.m., & 8/20, Encore Theater, ticketmaster.com.
FRANKIE MORENO 8 p.m., & 8/20, Kaos, ticketmaster.com. UV VEGAS With Paul Thomas, Jerome Isma-ae, Chris Schweizer, 7 p.m., Citrus Grand Pool Deck, seetickets.us.
SANCHEZPONCHO 7 p.m. (& 8/20, 6 p.m.), Myron’s, thesmithcenter.com.
LUXURY FURNITURE STORE With Evelyn Scythe, Spring Breeding, Head winds, Star of Xenojin, 7 p.m., the Usual Place, theusualplace.vegas.
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DJ SNAKE 10:30 p.m., Zouk Nightclub, zoukgrouplv.com.
FRENCH MONTANA 10 p.m., Drai’s Night club, draisgroup.com.
ARTIFACT FASHION SHOW 7 p.m., StarBase, eventbrite.com
Bridesmaids still lives up to the hype. An uproarious comedy about a quirky maid of honor, her bridesmaids and a series of shenanigans, the Judd Apatow-pro duced film, co-written by Annie Mumulo and Saturday Night Live’s Kristen Wiig, shines as one of the grandest examples of what funny women can do when skeptics get out of their way. (And Mu molo and Wiig would do it again, in 2021’s Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.) The fun comes to the stage with Bridesmaids: The Unauthorized Movie Musical Parody, which debuts at the Orleans on August 18. The 90-minute seendon’tthroughmotionmomentsbringsgigglingcrowdsproductionadults-onlywillkeepguessingandasthecastmemorablefromthepicturetolifesong.Youneedtohave
MARSHMELLO 11 a.m., Encore Beach Club, wynnsocial.com. FISHER 11 a.m., Tao Beach Dayclub, events.taogroup. com.
DADDY YANKEE 8 T-Mobilep.m., Arena, axs.com. 3ICE HOCKEY 1 p.m., Orleans Arena, ticketmaster.com. ZEDD 11 a.m., Ayu Dayclub, zoukgrouplv.com.
The self-proclaimed “indie groovers” have drawn favorable comparisons to Phish and Umphrey’s McGee for their extended improvisation onstage, but Goose has worked hard to distinguish itself. The band’s fourth studio album, Dripfield, sees the rockers setting the scene—and unfurling the rug well before anyone starts dancing on it. The first three tracks—“Borne,” “Hungersite” and “Dripfield”— flow into one another like a triad of melodies. It’s an unrelenting wave, and the fullest way to experience it is when Goose plays live. 7 p.m., $40-$42, Brooklyn Bowl, ticketweb.com. –Amber Sampson SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA 11 p.m., XS Nightclub, wynnsocial.com
MELISSA ETHERIDGE 7:30 Housep.m.,ofBlues, concerts.livenation.com. ILLENIUM 10:30 Hakkasanp.m.,Nightclub, events.taogroup.com. LAS VEGAS LIGHTS VS. REPUBLICSACRAMENTO 7:30 Cashmanp.m.,Field, lasvegaslightsfc.com. TIËSTO 10 Zoukp.m.,Nightclub, zoukgrouplv.com. PHORA 8 p.m., 24 Oxford, ticketmaster.com. GUCCI MANE 10 Drai’sp.m.,Nightclub, draisgroup.com. KOE WETZEL With Bones Owens, Ben Burgess, 7 p.m., Theater at Virgin, axs.com. MALAA 11 a.m., Elia Beach Club, eliabeachlv.com.
CLOSING CELEBRATIONNIGHT With Tony Arias, 7:30 p.m., Nevada Room, rooms.com.vegasnevada LADAMA 8 p.m., Water Street Plaza Amphitheater, cityofhenderson.com. PHANTASMAGORIA Ft. Auzzy Blood, The Sixth 8:30WitchhavenChamber,&more,p.m.,theDiveBar, eventbrite.com.
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GOOSE No jam band is more hotly tipped than this Connecticut quintet right now. Proof? Who else is being tapped by Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig to create a 20-minute cover of his song “2021?”
OVERTONPAIGE 1 p.m., SoulBelly BBQ, John(Courtesy/Robertsoulbellybbq.com.Kley)
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SICKICK With ÉliaGianni,Konstantinanoon,BeachClub, eliabeachlv.com.
GEOFF KEITH Thru 8/28, 8 p.m., LA Comedy Club, bestvegascomedy.com.
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JOHN JOSEPH Thru 8/28, 8:30 & 10:30 p.m., Laugh Factory, ticketmaster.com
CHRISTENSEN:NATALIE SELFDECONSTRUCTEDTHE Thru 9/6, Sahara West Library, lvccld.org. MARISSA & THE HOLLENBACKS 10 p.m., Sand Dollar Downtown, thesanddollarlv.com.
BEAT BREAKER 10:30 p.m., Marquee Nightclub, taogroup.com.events. GRYFFIN 11 a.m., Encore Beach Club, wynnsocial.com. CHARLIE JOHN 11 a.m., Freedom Beat, downtowngrand.com.
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SOFI TUKKER The EDM duo of Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern are at their best on new album Wet Tennis, an electronic pop spectrum featuring guest spots by Chicago house DJ (and fellow Tao Group Las Vegas resident) John Summit, Malian couple Amadou & Mariam, and Halpern’s dad, who performs a sports commentator monologue over the tropical track “Larry Bird.” With 12 tracks at just 35 minutes total running time, Wet Tennis works as a tease for Sofi Tukker’s equally diverse live sets, and you can catch the next one at the rooftop Tao Beach at Venetian, where these dar ing artists have been pacing the party all summer long. 11 a.m., $30, Tao Beach Dayclub, events. taogroup.com. –Brock Radke MONDAYS DARK 8 p.m., the Space, mondaysdark.com.
ALONZO BODDEN With Derek Richards, Zach Martina, & 8/23, 8 p.m., Brad Garrett Comedy Club, bradgarrettcomedy.com.
REESE & ROSCOE COMEDY SHOW 8 p.m., Gatsby’s Supper Club, eventbrite.com.
YING YANG TWINS 10:30 p.m., Jewel Nightclub, events.taogroup.com.
ERIK LEWIN 8 p.m., the Space, thespacelv.com. SPOR 10 p.m., Discopussy, discopussydtlv.com.
DREAMGIRL With Theredsea, Red Dragons, 8 p.m., Rockstar Bar, seetickets.us.
NO ETIQUETTE With As I Am, American Standards, Post NC, Dantes, Destined to Fail, Punker Than Your Mom, 5 p.m., Eagle Aerie Hall, seetickets.us.
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LAS SPACESUGARAVIATORSVEGASVS.LANDCOWBOYS 8/23-8/28, 7 p.m., Las Vegas Ballpark, ticketmaster.com. PARTY FAVOR 10:30 p.m., Omnia Nightclub, taogroup.com.events
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BUTCHER BABIES With Uncured 7 p.m., Backstage Bar & Billiards, seetickets.us.
HADESTOWN Anaïs Mitchell’s retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is a winner. That is to say, Mitchell’s musical has won pretty much all the awards: eight Tonys (including Best Musical), four Drama Desks, a Grammy and several assorted critics and audience trophies. (Conversely, Orpheus and Eurydice lose pretty much everything; the former ends up a shell-shocked, singing disembodied head. Although, the Muses do ultimately give Orpheus the stars surrounding Vega as a constellation prize.) Mitchell recasts Orpheus and Eurydice’s doomed romance as a climate disaster story that, despite its saddening source material, is su used with hope—and through Rachel Chavkin’s direction, it unfolds as one hell of a beautiful night in the theater. August 23-28, times vary, $40-$169, Reynolds Hall, thesmithcenter.com. –Geo Carter (Photo Courtesy/T. Charles Erickson)
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with her atomic past BY AMBER SAMPSON
Author and historian Jeanne Sharp Howerton makes peace
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“We’d actually go back and get into bed after ‘the ash,’” Sharp Howerton recalls. “Then 10 minutes later, it would hit the house.” “The ash” was a hydrogen bomb, set o during the 1950s at the Nevada Test Site, about 100 miles north of Sharp Howerton’s family ranch and 65 miles from northwest Las Vegas. “I remember it shook the house so hard. Our house is 150 years old, it was moved over from a mining camp, and I was so worried; the bed was shaking,” she says. “Then we’d get up an hour or so later to go out and do chores.”
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When did you begin digging into your past? I’ve always been interested in history, even as a little girl. When my dad and I would go riding up in the mountains, I was always asking him, what’s this place? And why is this place named this? I would make little notes to myself about things. It’s like I knew what I wanted to be. My dad kept diaries, so I wanted to keep a diary. I told my family, and my parents bought a little notebook for 25 cents as my Christmas present. I started that in 1957, and I kept it every single day. … Now I’m full-time writing history books, trying to get down the history of the areas where I lived, because probably nobody knows as much about them as I do. The mention of the tests in your diaries feels like just another background detail of your life. Were you ever fearful of them when you were growing up? We didn’t have a big fear of them. We just lived with them. Now looking back, I think, what the heck were you doing to us? How could you just tell us everything was ne? I realize now that it was very unfair to people, but that’s just what they did. Do you feel any resentment for having been subjected to the fallout from those tests? I don’t feel resentment. I don’t feel anger. I just think, what the heck were they doing to us? I’m astonished. But I’m also astonished that life isn’t like I thought it was when I was a little kid. … I even got cancer from the bombs. When I got diagnosed, I just thought, I’m gonna get my $50,000 [through the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act]. It helped. What motivates you to keep uncovering history around the places you grew up? It’s like going on a treasure hunt and trying to ferret out who was there and why they were there. I love being able to nd out more. This one area I’m doing, Silver Canyon, was a mining camp in 1865. In 1868, my great-grandfather brought his family, and they moved up there. He was a blacksmith. ... We went to Silver Canyon a couple of months ago, [and] I’m walking by this one rock house. I thought, well that’s odd. In the middle of this room, there’s a tree stump that’s been sawed o , kind of where they put anvils. I started looking around, and back in the corner, there was an area that looked like it was a kiln to heat up the metal. I thought, I think I found my great grandfather’s blacksmith shop. It’s amazing you were able to put all that together. I like looking at big picture … how these pieces t together. It’s like a puzzle. If you do that, you get a whole di erent view of history. Nothing is in isolation. Everything has context.
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Hundreds of nuclear tests—atmospheric and underground—were conducted at the Nevada Test Site from the 1950s until the early ’90s. Sharp Howerton chronicled her experiences in her diaries, which she later published as 1957: Diary of a Nevada Ranch Girl (Central Nevada Historical Society, $20). Today, the 75-year-old historian, author and former elementary school teacher writes about the places where she grew up. In June, she shared her story at the National Atomic Testing Museum. And she recently sat down with the Weekly to chat about her love for history and why she isn’t resentful of her atomic past.
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ACED The Las Vegas Aces have taken to new coach Becky Hammon’s system perfectly and beautifully ITACEDSTORYCOVER 18 LAS VEGAS WEEKLY 8.18.22 Becky Hammon (Chris Coduto/ Getty Images)
Even when Las Vegas’ WNBA team isn’t playing its best, every Aces’ game is chock full of plays like that. It’s what Hammon has brought to town in her first season at the helm after nine as an assistant with the San Antonio Spurs under legendary NBA coach Gregg Popovich. The 2022 Aces, much like the Spurs for more than a decade, play a beautiful brand of basketball. “I had a very good teacher,” Hammon humbly deflects during a phone interview with the Weekly. “[And] I just think it’s more enjoy able to watch.” The Aces have definitely been a joy to witness this season, much more so than in their first four years in Las Vegas. Though they experienced success under then-coach Bill Laimbeer, reaching at least the conference finals in each of the past three seasons, the action wasn’t as aesthetically satisfying. Laimbeer stuck to his playthrough-the-post roots, despite evidence that the Aces had out grown the approach and had more than enough talent to expand their attack. Hammon is careful not to “Monday morning quarterback” any other coach, but she admits she came in wanting to do things differently after reviewing film from last season. “What I really wanted to do was give them some structure,” Ham mon says. “But I also wanted them to be free to play to their strengths, feel free to make reads and play with each other.”
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The systematic changes sounded promising on paper, but imple menting them remained a risk, especially considering the con densed, 18-day durations of WNBA preseason training camps. Ham mon openly wondered whether she would have enough time to install everything she wanted before the regular season
BY CASE KEEFER Point guard Chelsea Gray sees a slight opening to the basket, but continuing with her drive would likely result in a contested layup. Instead, she passes out to center Iliana Rupert beyond the threepoint line. The ball never touches the ground, and barely settles in Rupert’s hands, before she fires off the next pass to shooting guard Kelsey Plum in the corner along thePlumbaseline.exploits a mismatch, blowing past a defender for an easy layup to give the Aces a fourth-quarter lead in a recent game against the Atlanta Dream. That textbook example of coach Becky Hammon’s pace-and-space offensive style helps the Aces pull away from the Dream for a 97-90 victory on an otherwise sluggish night.
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Guard Jackie Young sits third in the league at 43.1% while Plum is fourth at 42%. Plum threatened for the WNBA scoring title this regular season be fore finishing second in the league at 20.2 points per game. Like Wil son, Plum has expanded her game under Hammon, going from the league’s Sixth Woman of the Year winner off the bench last season to an MVP candidate this year. In the first possession of the win over the Dream, Plum and Wilson ran a pick-and-pop beyond the arc that ended with the latter swish ing a 3-point shot. It was another picturesque play, the type the WNBA hasn’t always been known forPerhapsproducing.unfairly, many have knocked the league for being a step behind the level of play in the NBA, especially after the Spurs helped modernize the game through nonstop passing and, in Hammon’s words, “always making the right play.” The Aces might have helped perpetuate that negative WNBA stereotype in previous years, but now, they’re disproving it. It’s impossible to watch this year’s Aces as a basketball fan and not be impressed by their style. It’s thrilling, and it just might deliver them to a championship. “I don’t think you’re ever satis fied,” Hammon says. “There are always things you can improve on, things you can do better. But I do think our girls are learning their spots a little … in the sense that they know where their shots are going to come. They’re figur ing it out.” (Best-of-three series) Game 2 August 20, 6 p.m., Michelob Ultra Arena. Tickets: $10-$100, aces.wnba.com/tickets. TV: ESPN. Game 3 (if nec) August 23, time TBD, Phoenix’s Footprint Arena About the Mercury Phoenix defeated Las Vegas in five games to advance to the WNBA Finals last year, but this year’s Mercury team has undergone major roster upheaval. They’ve played the entire season without center Brittney Griner, who’s been wrongful ly detained in Russia, according to the U.S. State Department, and has been sentenced to a nine-year prison sen tence. Phoenix’s other two stars have recently been away from the team, too. Leading scorer Skylar Diggins-Smith left the Mercury with two games left in the regular season for personal reasons and will not return in the playoffs. And guard Diana Taurasi, who has been sitting out with a quad strain, will be re-evaluat ed to see if she can play in the postseason.
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three-point shots. Under Ham mon this year, she has attempted 85—and made a highly respect able 41 of them. Only two teammates have posted a higher mark than Wilson’s 37.3% three-point percentage.
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A’ja Wilson collapsed beneath the basket at Michelob Ultra Arena with tears owing, ingraining an image in the minds of Las Vegas Aces’ fans and players at the end of last season. The nal buzzer had just sounded on the decisive Game 5 of the WNBA’s semi nals on October 8, and the Phoenix Mercury had eliminated the Aces 87-84. One year after winning the MVP and making the WNBA Finals, Wilson was so inconsolable, teammates had to help her up and into the locker room. Wilson has since called it the most painful loss of her career. It hurt more, she says, than being swept by the Seattle Storm for the championship in 2020. “It was just a bad taste in my mouth,” the Aces’ star tells the Weekly. “I was present in the moment, but it wasn’t Wilsonenough.”stewedover the loss for the rest of the year before moving on in January and setting her sights on overcoming it this season. She might have her best chance yet to bring a title to Las Vegas this year, with the Aces entering the postseason as the No. 1 overall seed. Wilson concedes she’s not totally over feeling like she came up short in past years, but that’s a natural sensation for the face of a franchise as successful as the Aces. The team has made the postseason in four straight seasons—they last missed the playo s in Wilson’s rookie year—and each of the past three runs has provided a lesson.“[The loss to Phoenix] was very hard for me, but I geared it in my o season to make sure my teammates don’t feel the way I felt on that court,” Wilson says. “I wanted to make sure I could be there and show myself, so my teammates don’t have to feel like I did after Game 5.” There’s still work to be done, but the Aces are on target to complete a ve-year process with the trophy they crave.The building blocks were in place from the start. Las Vegas nished 1420 after relocating here—and renaming themselves from the San Antonio Stars—with a tandem of Kelsey Plum and Dearica Hamby laying a winning foundation. The pillar of the team’s new core arrived months earlier, when the Aces selected the then-21-year-old Wilson out of the University of South Carolina with the No. 1 pick of the 2018 WNBA Draft. Wilson couldn’t quite push the Aces into the playo s, but she swept all 39 votes to win the Rookie of the Year award after averaging nearly 21 points and eight rebounds on 46% shooting, while blocking 1.6 shots per night.
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“It felt like we didn’t give it enough,” Wilson says. “There were so many things we could’ve corrected in our situation that we didn’t capitalize on, and it didn’t sit right with me.”
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The Aces tasted playo experience for the rst time in 2019 o a 21-13 regular season, winning a one-game conference semi nal over the Chicago Sky before falling to the eventual champion Washington Mystics. Las Vegas took a big step in 2020, nishing 18-4 in a season contested in a COVID-19 bubble in Bradenton, Florida, and reaching the nals before getting stomped by Seattle. Then last year, with a star-studded team featuring Wilson, Plum, Hamby, Jackie Young, Chelsea Gray and Liz Cambage, the Aces nished 24-8, posting the second-best record in the league.ButCOVID still impacted Las Vegas a great deal. Cambage never regained her form after twice contracting the virus and was severely outmatched by Brittney Griner in the Phoenix series. Las Vegas didn’t have the one-two punch to outduel Griner and guard DianaWilsonTaurasi.stillblames herself, particularly for an 87-60 Game 3 loss in Phoenix. She shot 2-for-14 from the eld in the blowout defeat, nishing with just eight points to go with six rebounds.
“This year, I wanted to make sure that I was present at all costs, both sides of the basketball, so they know they can trust me,” Wilson says. eight points to go with six rebounds. enough,” Wilson says. “There were so careerLookingtitle.back, were moments throughout last season where she wasn’t as locked in as she should have been. That hasn’t been the they can trust me,” Wilson says. A’ja Wilson A’ja Wilson (Barry Gossage/ NBAE
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“[Now, we have a] very clear, stated objective within the pick-and-roll, within post defense, schematically, personnel-wise, very clear role de nition. They go out there and they do it or they don’t, but I can at least hold themAfteraccountable.”thelosstoPhoenix, Wilson refused to watch basketball for a while. She didn’t watch the Mercury ultimately fall to the Chicago Sky in the WNBA Finals, when longtime star Candace Parker claimed her second Looking back, Wilson says there were moments throughout last season where she wasn’t as locked in as she should have been. That hasn’t been the case in 2022. She’s favored to win the MVP award, but what she really wants is for the Aces to get it done as a team.
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The Aces moved on from Laimbeer after the season and tapped Becky Hammon to be the nal piece to the championship puzzle. Regarded as one of the best ever to play in the WNBA—last year, she was named to the league’s anniversary team celebrating its all-time top 25 players— Hammon spent nine seasons learning from the winningest coach in NBA history, Gregg Popovich, as an assistant coach with the San Antonio Spurs. From afar, Hammon considered potential ways to improve the Aces, particularly an improved defense. Popovich’s o enses were always elite during the Spurs’ run of ve NBA titles, but above all, his teams prided themselves on their defensive prowess. That’s what Hammon wanted to instill rst and “Defensively,foremost.[weput]some rules in place, where it’s very clear where the accountability line is,” Hammon says. “I think when players get confused, and when it’s hard to hold people accountable, there’s gray area. You’re not really sure what you’re doing.
This postseason, Chelsea Gray will shoot to continue being the Aces’ do-everything player
Experience plays a big part in Gray’s in tellectual approach. She has appeared in 29 postseason contests, including a run to the title with the Los Angeles Sparks in 2016. She has been through just about every do-ordie, elimination-game pressure situation. It’s almost impossible to surprise her. “I definitely think experience helps with that,” Gray says. “The way I think about the game now is different than how I thought of the game in 2016 or 2017. I consume the game a lot, watching a lot of film, watching other teams and players, so my IQ is always developing. So when you see different mo ments, you have something to fall back on. If you study enough, you get good grades.”
Gray’s most prominent role is as the team’s offensive maestro. Her mix of flashy behind-the-back passes and steady execu tion has unlocked Hammon’s offense; the Aces are No. 1 in the league in points (90.4 per game) while committing the fewest turnovers (11.1 per game). After coaching her for a season, Hammon says she has complete faith in Gray’s ability to read the court and make the right deci sion as the action is unfolding. “She’s one of my more cerebral players,” Hammon says. “She always understands what we’re doing, what we’re trying to ac complish. [She] really takes a lot of own ership on offense with playcalling. The de fense is always going to give you something. It’s just about making the right read.”
In other words, Gray is prepared for anything. And in order to win a champion ship, that’s exactly what the Aces will need from her.
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BY MIKE GRIMALA At some point during the WNBA playoffs, the Las Vegas Aces will surely find them selves in trouble. It’s not a doom and gloom prediction, just an inevitability. The Aces might have romped through the regular season with the league’s best record in Becky Hammon’s first year as head coach, finishing 24-10 and securing the top seed in the eight-team postseason, but adversity will find them eventually. It happens to the best of squads, and it’s going to happen to Las Vegas. And when it does, the Aces will turn to Chelsea Gray to set things right. On a team loaded with All-Star talent at every position, Gray has helped take Las Vegas to a new level in 2022 by filling in the cracks. Whatever the Aces need on any given night, the eighth-year point guard deliversKelseyit.Plum and A’ja Wilson both rank among the top-five scorers in the league, but on nights when points are hard to come by, Gray is more than capable of looking for her own shot. She has chipped in 20 points or more on six occasions this season. Hammon has installed a smooth, ball-movement system that has Las Vegas ranked first in offensive efficiency. But when things occasionally bog down, Gray can whip passes all over the court and step up as the team’s foremost playmaker. She leads the Aces with a career-high 6.1 assists perDefensivegame. lapses can become contagious for any team, but when opponents start to generate too many open looks, Gray can buckle down and disrupt the flow. She has recorded multiple steals in 15 games this season and paces Las Vegas with an average of 1.6 per game. It’s that ability to adapt and hone her focus to the situation that makes Gray such a crucial contributor as the Aces prepare to chase their first championship. It’s not something that can be planned ahead of time. Gray relies on her canny feel for each game to figure out how she can best help deliver the team to victory. “A game will kind of reveal itself,” Gray tells the Weekly. “I can’t say that I go into a game being like, ‘I’m going to get this for the team.’ It’s just really what the team needs at that time.”
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Reno attorney Joey Gilbert, who lost to Clark County Sheri Joe Lombardo in the Republican gubernatorial primary on June 14, also lost his lawsuit challenging the election results and claiming it was Judgestolen.James Wilson dismissed the lawsuit August 10 in Carson City’s 1st Judicial Court, saying Gilbert could not demonstrate sufficient evidence to “raise reasonable doubt as to the outcome of the election,” according to a copy of the Campaignruling. spokesperson Paul White said Gilbert was disappointed with the judge “disregarding” the evidence that was presented and would continue to pursue other legal options. Gilbert claimed he won by more than 50,000 votes, and the election results were just “mathematically and geometrically impossible,” according to his lawsuit. –Sta CCSD Superintendent Jesus Jara speaks about Centegix. (Wade Vandervort/Sta file)
The Centegix CrisisAlert badges will allow staffers to summon police and trigger campuswide audio and visual announcements of a lockdown with a few clicks of a button. The system has two modes, triggered by pressing the button in different patterns: an emergency where police and lockdown are needed, like a shooting, and a scenario where only a building administrator is requested, such as a playground injury or fistfight. –Hillary Davis
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The Clark County School District has agreed to spend up to $8.2 million on an incident alert system districtwide after testing the devices in a few schools over the summer. The CCSD School Board approved a two-year contract, with five single-year options to extend, with Centegix, the maker of the wearable badge-style panicThebuttons.contract breaks out to $5.36 million for the first year and $2.8 million total for years two through, potentially, seven. According to a one-page bid award recommendation, the Centegix system will be used by “all schools and departments” throughout the district. The badges are part of a broader investment in school safety after several high-profile acts of campus violence that gripped CCSD last year, including the beating and sexual assault of an Eldorado High School teacher in her classroom after school.
The city of Las Vegas has announced free parking in the Arts District during lunchtime, available on a “trial basis.” The free parking period lasts Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at metered on-street spots south of Charleston and north of Oakey, between Commerce and Third. “The program is designed to provide free parking during typical lunch hours, but if one wants to stay longer than 1 p.m., the Flowbird app allows additional time to be purchased on the meter remotely,” the city said in a statement. “To use Flowbird, just remember your license plate number and the name of the street where you parked.” –Shannon Miller DOWNTOWN
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Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver DJ Turner (19) outruns Minnesota Vikings cornerback Akayleb Evans (21) to the end zone after catching a pass at Allegiant Stadium in the third quarter of the Raiders’ 26-20 win. Turner caught three passes for 58 yards and returned a punt 26 yards. (Steve Marcus/Staff) 11 Las Vegas ranked as the 11th most ozonepolluted city in the U.S. in this year’s State of the Air report. The report’s top five ozone-polluted cities were: LA; Bakersfield, California; Visalia, California; Fresno, California; and Phoenix. Las Vegas ranked 12th in 2021.
The number of conventional mortgage applications in July in Nevada was down more than 34% from the same month in 2021, according to a report from the Mortgage Bankers Association.Andthenumber of refi nanced mortgage applications last month was down more than double—about 84%—from JulyThe2021.reason: Increases in interest rates and the high cost of homes, experts say. “We went from all-time record-high applications to a 22-year low, which is a brutal swing,” said Jonathan Gedde, CEO of SimpliFi Mortgage and chairman of the Nevada Mort gage Lenders Association. Nationally, the trend is simi lar, as mortgage applications in July were down 18% from the same month in 2021, accord ing to the bankers association report.Because of inflation and various economic headwinds coming out of the economic upheaval of 2020, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate multiple times this year. The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage—the most popular type of loan— was 5.22% for the week beginning August 11, according to Freddie Mac, also known as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.Ratesstarted to creep up in January as the Fed has made attempts to curb consumer in flation, which is near a 40-year high in the United States. A year ago, Freddie Mac’s 30-year rate sat at under 3%, and before this year, the last time the 30-year rate touched 5% was more than a decade ago. –Bryan Horwath
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Thediseases.Foodand Drug Administration also authorized emergency use of the full dose in children younger than 18. Two doses are necessary for long-lasting protection, according to health agencies.
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O cials have said using lower doses will multiply currently available doses to about 2 million, still below what’s needed for the 3.2 million Americans identi ed as being at “highest risk.” Since July, the U.S. has ordered 5 million full doses of monkeypox vaccine; however, reports say those likely will not arrive until 2023.
Antioco Carrillo, executive director of Aid for AIDS of Nevada, says he’s concerned about vaccine availability, as many of his clients fall within the “at risk” category and are immunocompromised, and therefore more at risk of serious illness. His primary concern, he says, is the public’s reaction to o cial reports that men or nonbinary people who have sex with men are considered to be “high risk” due to the fact that they have accounted for the majority of cases in According2022.to o cial guidance, those who have been in contact with someone known to have or suspected of having monkeypox, those who have traveled to countries where the disease is spreading, or those in a “social network that is experiencing monkeypox activity” are all at higher risk of infection. O cials have also identi ed people who don’t know the health or travel history of their dating or sexual partners, as being at higher risk of infection. “Men who have sex with men who meet partners through an
I t has been two weeks since the White House withhealthmonkeypoxdeclaredapublicemergency,casessurgingin several states including California, Florida and New York. At press time, the Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) had reported 100 documented cases in the region since the state’s rst case in mid-June, at least one of which is a student in the Clark County School District. In a statement, CCSD said it was working with the health district to conduct contact tracing and noti cations, and was following o cial guidelines for sanitizing. People with weakened immune systems, eczema or children 8 and younger are more at risk of serious illness or death from the viral disease, which typically causes u-like symptoms followed by a rash. In an August 4 press conference, Dr. Cortland Loh , chief medical o cer with the health district, acknowledged that even though children have accounted for very few monkeypox cases in the U.S. thus far, they could be at risk of exposure, especially if a member of their household becomes infected. “But the risks there are very minimal,” he added. Still, a vaccine shortage could make it more di cult to stop the spread of a painful and potentially scarring disease. The federal government is allocating vaccines “to meet the needs of at-risk individuals and prioritizing jurisdictions that have been hardest hit by the outbreak,” Loh said, adding that Nevada must follow this system, request doses from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and wait in line, like the other states. Reacting to growing concerns about vaccine availability, U.S. health o cials recently authorized using one- fth of the usual dosage for adults, citing a study from the National Institutes of Health that found that the smaller dose produced an immune response only a few percentage points below that of the full dose. The strategy has been used in other countries for vaccinating against yellow fever, polio and other
“The Health District has updated its monkeypox administration protocols to implement the new guidance from the FDA at its vaccine clinics,” the health district tells the Weekly. “It is anticipated that the new protocol will assist with providing monkeypox vaccine to more at-risk individuals.”
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Dr. Cortland Lohff Antioco Carrillo (Shutterstock/Photo Illustration); headshots (Courtesy) online website, an app or social event (e.g., bar or party),” could be at higher risk,” the SNHD’s website notes. It also notes that “the risk of monkeypox in the United States is believed to be low. Monkeypox does not spread easily between people.”
ty’saboutsaysmostessentialtocommunitiesEngagingofgay,bisexualandothermenwhohavesexwithmenraiseawarenessistoprotectthoseatrisk.”Furthermore,Carrillohe’slessconcernedthecommuni-abilitytopreventmonkeypox.“I’mmoreconcernedabouthowpeoplearegoingtoseethecommunity,”hesays.Thesamewaydisinfor-mationaboutCOVID-19andscapegoatingofChineseandotherAsian people led to increased violence toward Asian Americans, monkeypox could lead to an uptick in violence toward the LGBTQ community, Carrillo warn “Many in the gay community were the rst ones to get the vaccine for COVID. They were the rst ones to sign up for clinical trials for COVID. We were the rst ones to be involved,” Carrillo says. “Because we know what happens if you let that go and ignore it. ... You get to be, as a group, dehumanized. … then the risk for discrimination, for death, for violence … is there.”
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According to the CDC, “Monkeypox can spread to anyone through close, personal, often skin-to-skin contact,” including contact with a rash, soiled linens, respiratory and body uids from an infected person. Settings in which skin-to-skin contact could occur include congregate living situations like nursing homes and correctional facilities, day cares, beauty salons, massage businesses and certain sports and tness environments. In other words, monkeypox doesn’t only spread through casual dating and kink parties, as some messaging might have suggested. “If it’s skin-to-skin contact ... if it’s about hugging and kissing and having sex, I mean, who doesn’t do that?” Carrillo asks. “Is that exclusive to the gay community?”Aninfected person will start to see symptoms within three weeks of exposure to the virus, and can remain contagious from the time symptoms present until skin lesions have completely healed, typically in 2-4 weeks, according to the CDC. Scientists still are researching whether the virus can be spread asymptomatically, and how often it is spread through respiratory secretions or other body uids.
“We’re really looking at the kind of direct, intimate contact advocatingriskclothed,whereon.amounttheylikepartiesinmightsituationsmedia.toldindividuals,”betweenLohmembersofthe“Perhapsinwheretheybeengagingsex,ormaybeatoreventsthat,wherehavelimitedofclothingSoinsituationspeopleareIthinktheisvery,verylow.”CarrillohasbeeninLasVegas for people living with HIV since 1994, when there was much discrimination and separate treatment of gay and bisexual men in the wake of the HIV pandemic, he says. He sees many parallels between the HIV and COVID-19 pandemics— and now, with monkeypox. Having learned from those experiences, he says, the gay community tends to be “assertive” with their health care and public health awareness. Carrillo points out that the disproportionate monkeypox diagnoses in the LGBTQ community early in the current outbreak could possibly be attributed to the LGBTQ community’s proactive attitude toward health care, and greater likelihood to see a doctor if there’s potential for infection.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledges that potential, advising that “Anyone can get monkeypox … Focusing on cases among gay and bisexual men may inadvertently stigmatize this population and create a false sense of safety among those who are not gay and bisexual men.”
“One reason we are currently hearing more reports of cases of monkeypox in communities of men who have sex with men may be because of positive health seeking behavior in this population group,” the World Health Organization’s website notes. “Monkeypox rashes can resemble some sexually transmitted diseases, including herpes and syphilis, which may partly explain why these cases are being picked up at sexual health clinics. As we learn more, we may identify more cases in the broader community.
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ike zombies descending upon the Strip, Psycho Las Vegas continues its unstoppable tourist-corridor takeover this weekend. After three years at the Hard Rock Hotel (2016-2018) and two at Mandalay Bay (2019 and 2021, with a pandemic pause between), the music festival moves to Resorts World, the shiny casino-resort that opened in June 2021. The three-day gathering (four if you count the Psycho Swim kickoff event; see Page 8) will make use of six different Resorts World venues—including the main-stage Event Center, the outdoor Ayu Dayclub and the third-floor Rose Ballroom—and will again focus on metal at the top of its bill. Norwegian black metal band Emperor (Friday), veteran thrash metal outfit Suicidal Tendencies (Saturday) and iconic Danish metal act Mercyful Fate (Sunday) are set to headline, and they’ll be joined by additional metal faves like Mayhem, High on Fire and Nuclear Assault. But beyond the biggest names lurk an assortment of other sounds, heavy and otherwise, including rappers, singer-songwriters, shoegazers and electronic experimenters. Here are 15 acts of all types to catch if you can.
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GZA & Inspectah Deck (Friday, 8:55 p.m., Ayu Dayclub) From his 2002 set at Blue Note jazz club to 2021’s Psycho perfor mance of classic album Liquid Swords, legendary rapper Gary Grice (aka The Ge nius, aka GZA) has been delivering memo rable Las Vegas sets for years, and having underrated Wu-Tang cohort Deck by his side should help this one stick out, too. Of related note: GZA will put on a chess clinic Sunday at noon at Psycho’s Famous Foods stage, setting him up as a possible guest when fellow Clansmen Method Man and Raekwon team for an 11:45 p.m. set at Ayu Dayclub later that night.
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Blood Incantation (Saturday, 4:05 p.m., Rose Ballroom) Psycho has more com monly booked legacy death metal acts, but with this four-piece from Denver, the festival has pivoted to the kings of the current moment. Never afraid to push the genre’s boundaries, Blood Incantation traded out its usual prog epics for a po larizing foray into ambient music on latest release Timewave Zero Ulver (Saturday, 5:30 p.m., Event Center) One of the toughest Psycho acts to nail down musically (and one of the rarest to catch on U.S. soil), this Norwegian group has tried on everything from atmospheric black metal to poppy synthwave during its 30-year existence. A recent setlist points to a focus on post-2016 efforts, so begin your prep session there.
Soft Kill (Friday, 9:45 p.m., Rose Ball room) With a deluge of fog and multi colored spotlights creating silhouettes of their bodies, this Portland-based postpunk trio staged one of the most mem orable productions during Psycho 2019. And following the release of 2020’s Dead Kids R.I.P. City, the best record of its ca reer, Soft Kill now has the songs to match.
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Marissa Nadler (Friday, 2:40 p.m., Rose Ballroom) “Bessie, Did You Make It?”— the haunting leadoff cut from last Oc tober’s The Path of the Clouds—should draw you straight to the vocalist’s Psycho set. Her music, which has been arriving in waves for almost 20 years, has been labeled country-goth, cham ber-folk and slowcore, but whatever it’s called, it sounds gorgeous to us. (Photo Courtesy/Nick Fancher) King Woman (Friday, 5:30 p.m., Rose Ballroom) Prolific frontwoman Kristina Esfandiari has dabbled in several genres, but she might be best at King Woman’s brand of crushing-yet-soulful doom metal. The songs off 2021 sophomore release Celestial Blues are her most primal, sounding like they were written to be performed live.
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LASPSYCHOVEGAS August vivapsycho.com.Resorts$349/fest.$139/day,19-21,World, Liturgy (Saturday, 6:55 p.m., Rose Ballroom) Auteur Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s music is more than highly experimen tal black metal; it’s also a vehicle for an entire philosophy in which she has delved through manifestos and a series of online lectures. She considers Liturgy perfor mances “sacred rituals,” and they look as powerful as they sound.
Warpaint (Saturday, 8:30 p.m., Event Center) Psycho might be mainly about rattling rib cages, but the 2019 festival’s Beach House performance proved that some calm can balance all that storm nicely. Enter LA’s Warpaint, the female foursome that burst onto the indie scene with 2010 single “Undertow” and has been delivering dreamy alt-rock anthems ever since, most recently on May LP Radiate Like This Amenra (Sunday, 2 p.m., Event Center) These Belgium-based Neurosis acolytes put on all-encompassing performances, with haunting visuals that pair perfect ly with their loud, punishing sonics and vocalist Colin H. van Eeckhout’s masterful stage presence.
William Basinski (Sunday, 8:20 p.m., Rose Ballroom) Best remembered for The Disintegration Loops, an ear ly-2000s album series made from decaying tape-loop recordings, this Houston, Texas, native has continued to release thought-provoking music that could be alternately categorized as ambient, drone, minimal and experi mental. It’ll be interesting to see what he brings to his Psycho performance.
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Paradise Lost (Sunday, 6:30 p.m., Event Center) It’s a rare treat to see the inventors of the death-doom style live, especially in the U.S. Despite having stayed together continuously for 34 years—and having released 16 full-length albums—the legends from Halifax, England, rarely cross the At lantic and haven’t done so since 2018.
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Drain (Sunday, 6:55 p.m., Rose Ballroom) Fun and hardcore don’t always mix, but smiling and playing joyfully has helped push these Santa Clara, Californians to the top of their genre the past couple years. Drain sometimes brings pool floats and noodles to match the board shorts members wear while performing what might best be described as apocalyptic beach thrash.
At the Gates (Saturday, 11:45 p.m., Ayu Dayclub) This veteran Gothenburg, Sweden, act, formed in 1990, is hands down the most influential, if not creative, melodic death metal band of all-time. At the Gates’ inclusion on a Psycho lineup feels long overdue—and the planned full-album performance of 1995’s Slaughter of the Soul prove well worth the wait, with (Photo Courtesy/ Ester Segarra) Liars (Sunday, 7:30 p.m., Ayu Dayclub) Under leader Angus Andrew’s super vision, Liars have shape-shifted across the musical map—fidgety dance-punk, nihilistic noise-rock, moody electro-pop and beyond. But through it all, Angus’ artistic approach has stayed constant, and his charismatic stage presence has remained undeniable.
Spiritworld (Sunday, 6:45 p.m., Redtail) Led by Stu Folsom, Vegas’ hometown heroes have toured the world during the past year since signing with Century Media Records—but thanks to COVID-caused cancellations, Spiritworld still hasn’t played here in its current form. From a local per spective, this set of Western-themed metal might be the weekend’s longest-awaited.
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Swedish House Mafia is drawn back to Las Vegas for a Wynn residency
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It looked like it was going to happen in 2019. When Wynn Nightlife began to unveil its roster of resident DJs early that year, two of the first names revealed were Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso—two-thirds of the EDM supergroup Swedish House Mafia, which had reunited a year earlier to play Ultra Miami and launch its Save the World tour. It seemed like only a matter of time before Axel “Axwell” Hedfors would complete the circle with his own Wynn residency, and there was heavy hint ing on social media. While we waited, Angello and Ingrosso teamed for duo sets at XS Nightclub as part of the Strip megaclub’s yearlong 10th-anniversary celebration.Thepandemic paused Swedish House Mafia’s extended comeback plans and hopes for a full Vegas reunion, but the group soldiered ahead, signing with Republic Records and making plans to release studio album Paradise Again. They told their story in a Billboard cov er feature in July 2021, then captivated longtime fans and made some new ones this year while teaming with The Week nd to fill Kanye West’s vacated Coach ella headlining slot in April, the same week SHM’s album dropped. Now the trio is literally coming to Paradise, signing up for a two-year Las Vegas Strip residency at Wynn that be gins on August 20 at XS. The next date is September 3, the night after SHM’s tour lands at T-Mobile Arena. “They’re all powerhouses in their own right, so having them together is obvi ously something any nightclub operator would always love to have,” says Ryan Jones, assistant vice president at Wynn Nightlife.Individually, each artist has had great success with gigs at various Vegas clubs, including those at Wynn. But bringing all three together feels bigger. “I think there’s just a nostalgic feel ing to Swedish House Mafia. They had so many hits and made so much great music for a long period of time,” Jones says. “And the second part is just avail ability. They haven’t played together in a nightclub [in a long time], and it’s not something that’s ever happened here in XS—whichVegas.”also just announced a September 17 performance by Calvin Harris, his first appearance there in more than a decade—will be adding special production elements to each SHM show “to make sure the band is highlighted as much as possible,” Jones says. Further heightening anticipation for the opening residency show is the fact that The Weeknd, who collaborated on Paradise Again anthem “Moth to a Flame,” will bring his After Hours Til Dawn Tour to Allegiant Stadium the very same night. Might we see a resur rection of that Coachella performance onstage at XS? “They have a great relationship,” Jones says. “Is there a possibility of something happening that weekend? There’s a possibility of something like that any weekend at XS and Encore Beach Club. People pop up all the time. If he wants to come over, he’s more than welcome.”
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This isn’t the first time the nearly three-year-old dining and nightlife venue has shaken things up. In October 2021, the club hosted the sexy cabaret show Lío Ibiza for a two-week production. “We get bored easily,” says show director Kim Willecke, a co-founder of No Ceilings Entertainment with Jauch and Phil Shaw. “To keep the show the same way for a long period of time, I don’t think that’s what we want to do. … We also want our customers to come back and do the show again.”
The evolution continues at Bellagio’s glamorous Mayfair Supper Club B
Through all the changes and updates, the essence of what makes Mayfair so special remains. The evening’s entertainment still progresses through eras, from Harlem jazz dens to Broadway-ti er stage productions to ’70s disco dance parties. The classic covers of modern tunes— including a feisty, country edition of “Daddy Lessons” from Beyoncé’s Lemonade—still electrify the senses. And the drinks are still strong enough to make you question how many it’ll take to get you into the intermission conga line (spoiler: not many). Mayfair opened right before one of the darkest times in our city’s history. But Willecke says the learning curve has only helped make the show better, and fuel a simple but important passion—“to keep evolving this baby.”
ellagio’s Mayfair Supper Club is a masterstroke of mise en scène Everything in the room essentially competes for the eye. That aerialist hanging from the high ceiling. That impish trio of dancers, swathed and swaying in feathers and pearls. That alluring chanteuse onstage, her style as modish and striking as her polished tone. It’s all very cosmopolitan and chic, grandeur to the greatest degree. As Mayfair swings into its third year, it’s raising the bar with an all-new production, featuring more tricks, more talent and more of the unexpected.“Withthis refresh, this is really like Mayfair 2.0,” show director Dennis Jauch says. “As we’re com ing out of COVID times, we’re now bringing the show back full steam.” Mayfair 2.0 consists of an almost entirely new cast, led by remark able singing duo Mae Montgomery (Claire Soulier) and Fred Lowell (Jason Martinez). Both characters are based on classic Hollywood greats, Mae West and Fred Astaire. They share a palpable chemistry onstage, thanks in part to a witty new script written by New York playwright Adam North. Mayfair’s dance numbers (which happen often and sometimes at your booth) were also central to the supper club’s refresh. The team auditioned more than 350 inter national dancers in Europe and hand-picked a new ensemble for the production. “We had three choreographers come in,” Jauch says. “We had Dean Lee coming in from London, who was Janet Jackson’s choreographer. He’s a mastermind, and he choreo graphed six new pieces for us. We have Keo Motsepe from Dancing With the Stars, who came in and did a new Latin medley for us. “The third choreographer is Shannon Mather [of So You Think You Can Dance], a fantastic con temporary choreographer.”
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Willecke says the creative team is eager to try new things in a post-COVID atmosphere. You’ll see more entertainers sidling up to tables and more dancers playing with diners offstage. “We wanted to bring the show back into the audience,” he says. “It’s not a traditional show that’s just going to live up on the stage. It’s really surrounding the audience.”
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F ood Network celebrity baker Buddy Valastro has established a pattern on the Las Vegas Strip, building his business in off-the-beaten-path casino nooks. It all started with the Buddy V’s restaurant and Carlo’s Bakery outlet at the Grand Canal Shoppes, sandwiched between the Venetian and Palazzo resorts, and it has continued over the past couple of years with new venues at Harrah’s and the Linq. The latest arrival is the most hid den spot yet, but find it you must. The Boss Café is a tiny treasure trove of deliciously unique pizza, fo caccia sandwiches, salads, desserts andIt’smore.located next to a new Dunkin’ Donuts at the very back of the Linq casino, if you’re coming from Las Vegas Boulevard or the bustling Linq Promenade. It’s also accessible from the Monorail station and a new walkway connecting to the Caesars Forum convention center. If that sounds confusing, try to stay focused on what you’re going to choose with your first course, creamy mozzarella made fresh daily ($9) with bright ba sil pesto, roasted or pickled peppers, tomato-olive relish or served simply with aged balsamic vinegar and basil. That wonderful cheese is also a key component of the café’s sandwiches, including the fantastic Jersey-style roast beef ($14). Herb-crusted, slowcooked beef mingles with “the mutz,” and sweet and spicy peppers on a garlic butter-toasted focaccia with au jus for dipping. You can build your own sandwich or stick with signature creations like the Jersey Boy Italian grinder with all the meats, the Hobo ken Havana—a twist on a classic Cu ban with rosemary ham and smoked pancetta—or the chicken Milanese with a breaded cutlet, arugula and lemon-tomato aioli (all $14). These are quality ingredients and big flavors that are a bit unexpected at this small, super-casual casino eatery. But if you’ve dined at Buddy V’s or grabbed a slice at PizzaCake at Harrah’s, you know this food is noThejoke.Boss Café’s pizza style of choice is a square slice billed as “bak ery pizza,” so you don’t confuse it with the East Coast “grandma slice” you might be familiar with at other local joints. Topped with everything from thick-cut pepperoni to chicken parm ($8-$10), these slices are crisp on the bottom with a good chew, the kind of pizza you’d expect generations of bakery workers to come up with for a satisfying snack. Of course, Valastro’s signature desserts await at the checkout counter, including massive slabs of cake and the delicate “lobster tail” cream-filled pastry. This is the first time we’ve experienced a chocolate-dipped peanut butter cannoli, and it’s every bit as fabulous as you think it is.
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THE BOSS CAFÉ The Linq, 775-490-2870. Sunday-Thursday, 7 a.m.-5 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 7 a.m.-midnight. From the top, the Boss Café basil pesto mozz, Jersey roast beef focaccia sandwich and chicken parm pizza square (Courtesy)
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Buddy Valastro’s new spot serves sensational lunch and more BY BROCK RADKE
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Xiao long bao—Shanghai-style steamed soup dumplings—are a thing in Las Vegas, which is sort of fascinating, because they’re not necessarily a big deal in other great American food cities. Thanks to brilliant local restaurants like Chi na Mama and Shanghai Taste and Strip spots like Din Tai Fung and Mott 32, our community has devel oped an affinity for these ultra-sa vory, soup-filled bites, now available at loads of different Chinese and AsianNamingrestaurants.anentire Vegas restau rant after these pork-filled pillows of juicy joy seems like a great idea. Xiao Long Dumplings did exactly that when opening last summer in a former dim sum emporium in Chi natown, and it has been a popular spot ever since. That’s because the house special soup dumplings ($10) deliver on those expectations; they’re large and plump, and they demand to be devoured. This energetic restaurant also stuffs them with creative flavors like cheese, wasabi, crab, shrimp and even chicken soup ($9-$11). Yet some of the non-dumpling dishes might be even better, like the chewy scallion pancake wrapped around garlic beef ($10), a made-for-sum mer rendition of classic dan dan noodles ($10), and hearty braised pork belly ($14) decorated with soy andWithvinegar.solid vegetable side dishes, stir-fried rice and noodle offerings and even chocolate banana xiao long bao for dessert ($9), any appetite is well taken care of at ... what’s the name of this place again? Brock Radke
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The movement of star players across the league in the o season has evened out the landscape and bunched teams together in terms of overall strength, perhaps more than ever before. It has arguably left many of the most popular and successful teams overvalued, and many of the worst and often-overlooked sides undervalued. After searching for the best odds in town, here are six regular-season win total bets—three overs and three unders—that illustrate the trend.
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BUFFALO BILLS under 11.5 wins at +125 (i.e. risking $100 to win $125) (STN Sports) Why it’s an uncomfortable bet to make: The Bills are the consensus Super Bowl favorite and might be the one team in the NFL without a discernible weakness. Why it’s a valuable bet to make: Everyone remembers the way the Bills played in last year’s postseason, decimating the rival Patriots 47-17 and then taking the lead on the road against the Chiefs with 13 seconds remaining before ultimately falling 42-36 in overtime. But folks are conveniently forgetting a midseason swoon that saw the Bills lose 9-6 to the NFL-worst Jaguars and get blown out 41-15 at home against the Colts two weeks later. Bu alo was an extremely high-variance team week-to-week, and that was against one of the NFL’s weakest schedules. This year, the Bills instead face one of the NFL’s toughest schedules.
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These six NFL win totals aren’t the easiest bets to stomach, but they might be the best values on the board
CINCINNATI BENGALS under 9.5 wins at +110 (Caesars/William Hill) Why it’s an uncomfortable bet to make: Cincinnati might be considered the coolest team in the league, with a young pair of stars in quarterback Joe Burrow and wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase, who led the franchise to its rst Super Bowl berth in 33 years last season. Why it’s a valuable bet to make: Sure, the Bengals caught re in the AFC playo s last year, but they didn’t do in a sustainable way. They won the three games to reach the Super Bowl by a total of 13 points after bene ting from a +5 turnover margin. They also pro ted greatly from a swath of injuries and COVID-19 absences to the division rival Ravens and Browns. Burrow and Chase are electric, but there are still questions about coach Zac Taylor, who routinely makes decisions that adversely a ect his team’s in-game win probability and was on the hot seat as recently as midseason last year.
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A n old gambling truism indicates that some of the hardest bets to make are the best bets to make. Rarely has that felt truer than going into the upcoming NFL season.
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LOS ANGELES RAMS under 10.5 wins at even money (STN Sports) Why it’s an uncomfortable bet to make: The Rams won the Super Bowl and brought almost everyone back in an attempt to repeat. Why it’s a valuable bet to make: Los Angeles’ roster is extremely top heavy for the second straight year. It worked out last season, when the Rams were one of the least-injured teams in the league. That’s highly unlikely to happen again, especially considering the Rams have one of the NFL’s oldest rosters. The red ags are already rising, with the Rams con rming reports that quarterback Matthew Sta ord is dealing with an elbow injury in his throwing arm. Sta ord is one of several players the Rams can’t a ord to lose for any signi cant portion of time. They don’t have the depth of their competitors at the top of the NFL.
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HOUSTON TEXANS over 4.5 wins at even money (STN Sports) Why it’s an uncomfortable bet to make: The Texans are widely considered the worst team in the league coming o back-to-back four-win seasons in which they elded a team that lacked NFL-caliber talent in some position groups. Why it’s a valuable bet to make: They don’t lack NFL talent in any position group anymore after being relatively aggressive signing veterans in free agency and using nine picks in the NFL Draft, including ve in the rst three rounds. Without much fanfare, quarterback Davis Mills got much better as his rookie season went on and could make a second-year leap. Lovie Smith was far from an inspiring choice as the Texans’ new coach, but the well-traveled veteran won’t be as overmatched as last year’s rst-timer, David Culley. The AFC South once again looks like the weakest division in football, leaving the Texans with a more-than-manageable schedule.
DETROIT LIONS over 6.5 wins at -120 (i.e. risking $120 to win $100) (BetMGM) Why it’s an uncomfortable bet to make: The Lions have been one of the worst, if not the single worst, franchise in the NFL and have gone under their win total most seasons dating back 31 years, to when they last won a playo game. Why it’s a valuable bet to make: It’s di cult to get excited about mediocre quarterback Jared Go , but Detroit quietly has young, high-level talent all over the rest of its roster, including rookie No. 2 overall pick edge rusher Aidan Hutchinson. The Lions were much better than their 3-13-1 record a year ago, when they lost a handful of games in ba ing ways in the nal seconds. Coach Dan Campbell is a target for much ridicule because of his ery demeanor, but he’s not the dumb jock many paint him as. He actually made quite smart in-game decisions, giving the Lions an edge that should pay o in his second year.
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NEW ORLEANS SAINTS over 8.5 wins at even money (BetMGM) Why it’s an uncomfortable bet to make: The Saints’ o ense has kept the team a oat for 15 years, but the architect and the driving force of that attack—coach Sean Payton and quarterback Drew Brees, respectively—have now walked away in successive seasons. Why it’s a valuable bet to make: The defense is loaded with game-changing players like edge rusher Cameron Jordan and safety Tyrann Mathieu, and looks ready to establish itself as the identity of the team under new, defensive-minded coach Dennis Allen. The o ense should be formidable, too: Quarterback Jameis Winston was playing at a high level before tearing his ACL early last season. New Orleans should also bene t from the return of star receiver Michael Thomas, who missed all of last season, when the Saints were the second-most injured team in the league behind the Ravens.
“The way the pandemic shut down Southern Nevada for a time, it was very out of the norm,” Seastrand said. “I remember when I rode my bicycle down the Strip in 2020. There wasn’t anybody there. Can anyone pre-figure out how to get through something like that? I don’t think so, but you can be versatile enough to respond. That’s the real trick, and there are many examples of businesses in the Valley that have done that.” Seastrand said demand for the company’s services and containers is high.Western Elite plans to build more 15-yard dumpsters, which are slightly bigger than what might be found at an apartment complex trash collec tion area or out of the back door of a business. Scott Seastrand (left), vice president of Western Elite, with Travis Seward, maintenance director (Christopher DeVargas/Staff)
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W hen WesternbeganinflationchainsupplyandissuestohinderElite’s ability to get dumpsters, the waste collection and recycling company took matters into its own hands. It started to make its own. The Las Vegas company has a dedicated team of seven full-time employees exclusively making about five 40-yard-long mega-dumpsters eachIt’sweek.justone story of how an area company has had to pivot in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, which led to global supply chain backups for everything from computer chips to steel. The organization specializes in construction site and demolition waste collection, and also collects food waste for multiple resort proper ties on the Strip. “We were ordering our containers, and the length of time it was taking to get them kept going up,” said Scott Seastrand, vice president. “It went from six weeks to 14 weeks, then to 18 weeks. It was getting hard for us to have product security for our cus tomers. We didn’t want to run out of equipment.”Notonlywere there significant order backups for new dumpsters, but they also doubled in price from what the company had been paying before theSeastrand,pandemic.who has been with the company for 20 years, said last year, Western Elite leadership started looking for ways to make it easier to get dumpsters. Travis Seward, the company’s maintenance director, took matters into his own hands. “I’ve been with the company for six years, and we had talked about building 40-yard dumpsters in the past,” Seward said. “It was kind of a goal. We just said, ‘Let’s we if we can buildWesternthese.’”Elite employees already worked to repair holes and various other imperfections on existing containers, so it wasn’t a giant leap to build them from scratch. Seward said he and a small crew of employees started work on constructing new dumpsters in March 2021. The first container was finished about a year ago. Since January, about 80 of the containers have been put into service, Seward said. The containers are constructed at a Western Elite manufacturing facility in an industrial area on the north side of the Las Vegas Valley. In addition to welders assembling various metal sheets together, the process also includes a special computerized ma chine called a plasma table that can be used to precisely cut pieces of steel. “The plasma table cost a lot, but it really helped to quicken the process,” Seward said. A 40-yard dumpster, which can hold 13 tons of material, can be rented for seven days for about $500. An ad ditional week would run $75, accord ing to the Western Elite website. Seastrand said it’s possible that Western Elite could eventually scale the operation and market the containers, but the focus now is on creating supply for the company’s own“Theneeds.key element in why we wanted to do this was to be able to control our ability to service our customer,” Seastrand said. “We also thought we could save some money, and we are saving money. Plus, we’ve created jobs, and all that money we were kicking off to other states, we’re now keeping the money here in Southern Nevada.”Thecompany has its own landfill about an hour’s drive from North Las Vegas. It also has a pig farm, which is where some of the food waste it collects from the Strip ends up.
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the hiring of Karen Kelly as director of marketing and business development. She has more than 25 years of experience in construction and marketing, and is the founder and principal of Marketing Concepts, which she will continue to operate. Bank of Nevada hired Michael Pizzi as managing director of commercial banking. Pizzi has served customers in the banking industry for more than 25 Theyears. WileyMarkGroup welcomed Buck Hujabre as president of its commercial division. He experiencedecadesbringsof to the position, and specializes in commercial real estate investment and sales. Hujabre will also continue to serve as team leader for Keller Williams Realty ImagineSouthwestCommunications has promoted Bobby Long, who joined the team in the summer of 2020, to account director. His role is to act as the liaison between clients and the teams at Imagine Communications, leading clients through marketing e orts, including projects with the public relations and design and development Thedepartments. Nevada AssociationBankers announced its newly of2022-23electedboarddirectors. Ken Mundt, senior commercialpresidentviceof and industrial lending manager at Bank of Nevada, was installed as chairman. He accepted the gavel from Craig Kirkland, senior vice president of retail banking at Nevada State Bank, who served as 2021-22 chairman. Mundt has more than 26 years of experience in the Nevada banking industry. In addition, 2022-2023 NBA o cers include: BJ North, chair-elect, Plumas Bank; Joyce Smith, vice chair, Bank of Nevada; H. Scott Johnson, treasurer, Valley Bank of Nevada; David Navarro secretary, Enterprise Bank & Trust In addition to the executive o cers, directors are: Brian Cook, Charles Schwab Trust Company; Ivan Ferraz, Wells Fargo Bank; Spencer Hafen, Nevada Bank & Trust; Al Welch, Bank of America The ofAssociationNationalRealtorsrecently named four forvicechairasersRealtorsNevadalead-toservecommitteeandchairs2023.They include Linda Rheinberger, who served as NVR president in 2010 and as a regional vice president in 2015. She was selected as chairwoman for the association’s meeting and conference
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PISCES 19-March(Feb.20): Sometimes, you may feel you’re under the influ ence of a debilitating spell or hindered by a murky curse. But you have the power to escape from spells. Even if you have never studied the occult or read a witch’s gri moire, you possess a natural facility for the natural magic that disperses curses. From the depths of your psyche, you can summon the spiritual force necessary to cleanse the gunk and free yourself.
PREMIER CROSSWORD HOROSCOPES“POSTPRANDIAL” BY FRANK LONGO WEEK OF AUGUST 18 BY ROB BREZSNY 2020 KING FEATURES SYNDICATE ACROSS 1 Male cats 5 Unto the Sons author Gay 11 Perp’s place 15 Overwhelm, as with humor 19 Getting the task done 20 Region next to Catalonia 21 Minnesota ex-governor Carlson 22 Something to belt out 23 “Save As,” “Print” or “Select All” 25 Name as a source 26 Liturgical act 27 “Alas, it wasn’t to be” 28 Africa’s Amin 29 Destitute 30 Sponsorship 31 Small telescope 34 Diner classic 37 Ancient Celtic priest 39 Join together in a labor group 40 Message on a protective book cover 45 Breastbone 49 Holds fast (to) 50 Makes sure the task gets done 54 Kong or Koko 55 6/6/1944 56 Extracts via udders 58 Small gift for shindig guests 61 Purported psychic skill 62 — job on (messed up) 63 They propel paramecia 65 Actress Dunne 66 Spot in a hotel to book a room 70 Happen next 73 South African grassland 74 — -edged pages 75 Positive vote 78 Certain fruit bar 81 Sheriff’s aides 83 U S. fort holding gold 84 Scarfed down 85 More restless 87 Miserly sort 89 Stationery store product 92 Ping-Pong 94 Sweet snacks on sticks 98 Cry to an attack dog 99 Source of music to accompany silent films 103 Big name in concert pianos 108 Drizzles or sprinkles 109 Dog botherer 110 Cereal grain 112 Guileless 113 Verdi opera heroine 114 Fish’s structurerespiratory 115 Where the starts of eight answers in this puzzle might appear 118 Street — (rep in the city) 119 War god 120 Senator Sanders 121 Low- — diet 122 Model Banks 123 Heredity unit 124 See 95-Down 125 Kett of old comics DOWN 1 Burial sites 2 Barely ahead 3 Like many toothpastes 4 Attacked like a bee 5 Confucian “way” 6 Upper limb 7 Antifungal brand 8 “Good grief!” 9 Part of SST 10 Put a stop to 11 British actor Derek 12 Melodic passage 13 While shippedbeing 14 Filmdom’s Spike or Ang 15 Person scattering seeds, say 16 Brother of Nintendo’s Mario 17 Shenanigan 18 “Good grief!” 24 More chilly 29 Play on words 30 Wood-dressing tool 32 Twin of Apollo 33 Diminish 35 Engine oil, for short 36 — -gritty 38 Twilight time 40 Precious green stone 41 Tosses in 42 British fellow 43 Lock unlocker 44 Alters in size, as a photo 46 Church area with pews 47 Resting atop 48 Nothing more than 51 Cut and dried soup veggie 52 “Dynamite” singer Cruz 53 Chimps’ cousins 57 Future pupae 59 Clenched hand 60 Genesis boat 62 Low grades 64 “— be a shame if ...” 66 Really regret 67 Wang of dress design 68 Examine minutely 69 Person voted in to a seat 70 Cheese from Holland 71 Statistics expert Silver 72 Goblet part 75 Auth. unknown 76 Bear or Berra 77 Past partners 79 Seismic occurrence 80 Being harshly criticized 82 Balls 83 — -Tiki 86 “— deal!” 88 Actress Leah 90 Quebecois’ national anthem 91 Butter bits 93 Takes heed 95 With allergythedreaded124-Across,timeofyearformanysufferers 96 Last words of a threat 97 Links org. 99 Land parcel 100 Fur-covered 101 Duck variety 102 Charge-free 104 Twin Peaks actor Jack 105 Be the champion of 106 Ward off 107 — Buena Island 111 Gillette razor 114 Choke 115 Crunchable muscles 116 — de Janeiro 117 Lion locale 50 LVW PUZZLE & HOROSCOPES 8.18.22
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In his poem “The Pupil,” Donald Justice speaks of how he spent “a whole week practicing for that moment on the threshold.” Do the same. The goal is to be as prepared as you can be for the upcoming rite of transition—without, of course, being neurotically over-prepared. As you get ready, have as much fun as possible.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky wrote, “All my life, I’ve been going around waiting for something—as if I were waiting in a railway station. And I’ve always felt as if the living I’ve done so far hasn’t actually been real life but a long wait for it—a long wait for something real.” If you’ve been standing by and biding time, now is an excellent chance to begin inhabiting your full, rich destiny.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Poet Sherko Bekas wrote, “Each joy I wear, its sleeves are either too short or too long, too loose or too tight on me. And each sorrow I wear fits as if it were made for me wherever I am.” In the next three weeks, you will have zero sorrows to wear like a garment. And there will be at least three joys that fit just right.
3. Do the unexpected until it becomes expected. Then try a new experiment.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You will experience record-breaking levels of being seen and appreciated for who you are. For best results, do this: 1. Inform your deep psyche that you have no attachment to being misunderstood. 2. Tell your deep psyche that you would very much like to be well understood.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Romance isn’t a relentlessly sweet, sentimental romp through paradise. Appreciate the sometimes shadowy and labyrinthine convolutions, yes, but don’t make them more important than beauty and joy and love. Invoke the symbol of a pomegranate. It represents fertility and rebirth out of the darkness.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Unless we are creators, we are not fully alive,” wrote author Madeleine L’Engle. She was referring to everyone, not just people in the arts. The urge to transform what already exists can be expressed in how we work, parent and every other activity. You are now entering a phase when this initiatory energy will be especially available, needed and valuable.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Tips on how to get the most out of the coming weeks: 1. Create a big, spacious realization by weaving together several small hunches. 2. Keep a little angel on your right shoulder and a little devil on your left shoulder. Listen to them argue but don’t get attached to anything they say.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Be fluid and flexible while still being rooted and sturdy. Be soft and sensitive even as you are also firm and resolute. Be mostly modest and adaptable, but become assertive and outspoken as necessary. Be cautious about inviting and seeking out challenges, but be bold and brash when a golden challenge arrives.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “One is always at home in one’s past,” wrote author Vladimir Nabokov. Rebel against that theory. Question your past, be curious about it, re-evaluate it. Then be motivated to change how your history lives in you. Reconfigure your life story, develop a revised relationship with its plot twists and evolution. Enchanting healings will materialize if you do.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I’ve swung from ancient vines in the caves of Jamai ca,” exults Hoodoo priestess Luisah Teish. “I’ve danced with delight around totem poles and pressed foreheads with Maori warriors. I’ve joked with the pale fox in the crossroads, then wrestled with the jaguar and won.” What exhil arating adventures will you give yourself? What expansive encounters will you learn from? What travels outside of your comfort zone will you dare?
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