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“Tony Hsieh Speaks,” by Geoff Carter. In his first local interview since last week’s much-publicized Downtown Project layoffs, the Zappos CEO comes to his own defense, hypes Downtown’s future … and admits that mistakes were made. Plus, the Rebels hit the hardwood, Ask a Native and Tweets of the Week.

16 | Breaking Stuf & Making Stuf “The Happy Art of Sadness,” by Greg Blake Miller. A writer’s guide to healthy maladjustment.

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“Ranking the Best,” by Jack Sheehan. As the PGA Tour prepares for its annual stop in Las Vegas, we look back at the most compelling moments from the tournament’s three-decade history. (You just may have heard of the guy at No. 1 …)

24 | COVER

“Life After the Spotlight,” by Cate Weeks. When the curtain closes on a Strip performer’s career, the transition back to the ‘real world’ can be daunting. But since exiting the stage, these six former entertainers have been enjoying unique second acts.

33 | NIGHTLIFE

“Between Two Worlds,” by Kat Boehrer. Porter Robinson takes a break from his live show to revisit his DJ past. Plus, Seven Nights and a Q&A with Hakkasan’s James Algate.

65 | DINING

Al Mancini on Lao Sze Chaun. Plus, Project Dinner Table comes to a close and the Fall Epicurean Calendar.

71 | A&E

“WoodRocket in Your Pocket,” by Jason Scavone. Thrusting into the zeitgeist with Las Vegas’ king of porno parodies. Plus, The Hit List, Tour Buzz and reviews of Lorde and Kygo in concert.

76 | Stage

A Q&A with Late Night host Seth Meyers in advance of his stand-up gig at the Cosmopolitan.

78 | Movies

Gone Girl and our weekly movie capsules.

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The only confident bet these topsy-turvy days is against the Rebels.

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Former UNLV softball star and three-time Olympic gold medalist Lori Harrigan-Mack on landing on The Biggest Loser, channeling her competitive nature and the power of letter-writing.

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DIALOGUE CONTRIBUTOR’S NOTE The Lights Go Out … But Life Goes On ➜ For most entertainers—be they singers,

dancers, comedians, stage actors, aerialists—securing a job on the Las Vegas Strip sits at or near the top of the career checklist. But once that goal is reached, how many of those entertainers actually give more than a passing thought to what life will bring after the showroom inevitably goes dark for the final time? It’s with this question in mind that contributing writer Cate Weeks went in search of former Strip performers who have successfully transitioned into second careers. With the help of Nancy Hardy, who worked as a Vegas showgirl for 25 years, Weeks found six intriguing subjects to profile, from a Treasure Island pirateturned-chiropractor (see Page 25) to an aerialist-turned-coffee shop owner (see Page 26). She also found a very tight-knit community. “It struck me that it’s a subculture that looks out for each other, rather than a cutthroat situation where people step on others to get ahead,” Weeks says. “It’s more of a pay-itforward attitude: Someone who leaves showbiz will re-establish themselves and then give the helping hand to the next person.” Like anyone who pivots into a new line of work, Weeks says the ex-entertainers she interviewed were nervous that a lack of marketable skills would prove to be a roadblock to employment. “I think they were all a little surprised to find that their résumés weren’t ultimately as important as they first thought,” she says. “It might sound clichéd, but what really mattered in making a transition was the character stuff: hard work, discipline, powering through setbacks—the show-must-go-on attitude.” Was there one thing in particular the performers miss about their old lives? “Yeah,” Weeks says. “When they meet new people and the ‘What do you do?’ question comes up, folks aren’t nearly as interested as they used to be.”

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In his frst local interview since last week’s much-publicized Downtown Project layofs, the Zappos CEO comes to his own defense, hypes Downtown’s future … and admits that mistakes were made By Geoff Carter

how to do it. We’ll provide the funding and resources for you.” A lot of other redevelopment projects have these top-down master plans. The reaction to us may be based on the assumption [that we’re doing] what other developers have done in the past, whether here or in other cities. What are the Downtown Project’s goals in that regard? There are places where one industry dominates, and it’s very focused— like Silicon Valley is known for tech. We’re not trying to be that. Our strategy is to invest in entrepreneurs who have a bias to be helpful, and to introduce people to each other. Ultimately, it’s the combination of diversity, density, collisions, connectedness and co-learning. It’s about getting all of that to happen. I’m just thinking out loud, but we’ve probably just done a bad job of communicating that. Internally, too. We’re partners in so many companies, with 300 employees, and I doubt even one of them knows every one of the other 299. It’s information overload.

Why do you think the media has been gunning for the Downtown Project lately? It’s probably a combination of things. Part of it is that Downtown Project is actually several hundred different legal entities and businesses, and it could be a branding mistake that causes confusion. There’s the real estate part of Downtown Project, and then there are the properties that we 100 percent own and operate, like the Gold Spike and Container Park and the Bunkhouse. But then, we have a lot of investments in small businesses (including Turntable Health, Shift and Life Is Beautiful) that we co-own.

And the perception is that it’s just one man, or a small executive elite, running all these properties and businesses day-to-day? Yeah. But our philosophy has been to make several hundred investments of all different types. The vibe at [Natalie Young’s restaurant] Eat is different from the vibe at Gold Spike or Turntable Health or Life Is Beautiful or the Bunkhouse. I don’t think people necessarily realize that these things are associated with Downtown Project. We purposefully want these businesses to be true to their personality and the vision of the entrepreneur: “Here’s the purpose for what you do, but you can fgure out

Did all this bad press affect you personally? The part that bothered me the most was the misleading headlines, the inaccuracies. What’s the most persistent of those inaccuracies? There was one headline that said I was stepping down from Downtown Project. Similar headlines implied that Downtown Project was falling apart, or Downtown itself was falling apart. If you read these articles and trace their sources, they’re all indirectly descended from one or two articles—without actually talking to anyone or doing any of their own reporting. That’s not something that we ever planned for.

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TONY HSIEH IS FEELING KINDA BELEAGUERED.

Last week, the Zappos.com CEO and his $350 million Downtown Project took a beating in the local and national press following the layoffs of some 30 people, many of them on DTP’s corporate-support side. (A few of the harder punches: “Why Zappos’ CEO Couldn’t Save Downtown Las Vegas,” lamented a Washington Post headline, while Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith all but teed one up for the RJ’s Downtown-bashing comments page: “The cult of Tony Hsieh developed a crack this past week, and that’s a good thing.”) The layoffs, while unfortunate, are not uncommon to Las Vegas—even Smith’s employer has laid off more than a few staffers in recent years. But the media and public response to Downtown Project’s layoffs hasn’t been about those 30 staffers who lost their jobs, but about the seeming demise of the company (and, by extension, Downtown itself). There are those who want the Downtown Project to fail, and last week, those naysayers were given an unwitting gift. For what it’s worth, Hsieh says he isn’t worried about the Downtown Project’s future. In an exclusive oneon-one interview with Vegas Seven— the only one he’s afforded the local media—Hsieh says the company’s footing is solid. On the morning we met, he was preparing for the opening of the DTP-owned urban grocery store The Market, just one of several upcoming DTP businesses that Hsieh says will add jobs to the city’s core. But the media reports from the past week—be they accurate or hyperbole or somewhere in between—gnaw at him. (So much so that in the days following the layoffs, he posted two lengthy statements to the Downtown Project’s website in an attempt to refute all the rumors). During our talk October 6, Hsieh tried to get at the source of the upheaval.

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REBELS READY TO SHOWCASE SOME SKILLS Yes, the smell of pigskin is very much in the air, but college basketball season is right around the corner, too. In fact, various Midnight Madness festivities are planned across the country this week, and UNLV is getting in on the hoops holiday with its annual Scarlet & Gray Showcase on October 16 at the Thomas & Mack Center (with a more rational 7 p.m. start time). Details for the event, which once again is free to the public, have yet to be released, but previous years have featured legends games, 3-point competitions, dunk contests and 5-on-5 scrimmages for current Rebels. Using the latter three events as a template, here’s how we’re handicapping this year’s showcase: 3-POINT SHOOTOUT Potential contestants: Cody Doolin, Rashad Vaughn, Dantley Walker. Vaughn is a super talent who will probably lead the Rebels in 3s this season, while Doolin is a steady shooter who has made his share of big shots. But it’s hard to pick against Walker, a prep legend who holds the Nevada high school record for most made 3-pointers. Our pick: Walker.

UNLV forward Dwayne Morgan.

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SLAM DUNK CONTEST Potential contestants: Dwayne Morgan, Kendall Smith, Chris Wood. The Rebels didn’t have a dunk contest last year, so technically Anthony Bennett is still the defending champ. Wood throws down some nice jams in warm-ups, but crowds are typically bearish on big men in these contests. Smith is an explosive guard with a high vertical and an aggressive dunking style, while Morgan is an athletic 6-foot8 specimen known for his finishing ability. Our pick: Morgan. 5-ON-5 INTRASQUAD SCRIMMAGE

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I guess what bothered me the most was the lack of proper context. Zappos has been through this, too; we’ve had good and bad media days there over the past 15 years. Every startup has its challenges, its ups and downs. Regarding the layoffs: Do they mark the end of your corporate recruitment, or do you foresee hiring more people into those roles? Our needs are always changing. At every phase [of DTP’s development] we’ve had different needs, which means different staffng requirements. But I think of Downtown Project as a family with several hundred different entities, and it’s important that people are given the opportunity to stay within that ecosystem. A lot of [the layoffs] that weren’t on the corporate-support side of things—we’re looking for opportunities for them in other places. Generally, we want to keep as many people as possible within our portfolio of investments. And we have some new investments in the works that we’re not ready to announce yet. Have you read David Gould’s open letter, and have you spoken with him? [Gould, the University of Iowa educator who came to DTP to help build its educational pro-

This is the main event, but there’s no way to know how coach Dave Rice is going to divvy up the teams. So let’s hypothetically split them into freshmen vs. veterans. The freshman team of Vaughn, Morgan, Walker, Goodluck Okonoboh, Jordan Cornish and Patrick McCaw is crazy athletic, but the veterans have seasoned guard play with Doolin, Smith and Jelan Kendrick on the perimeter. Throw in Wood and redshirt transfer Ben Carter on the inside, and the vets have the edge—for now. By the end of the season, it could be a different story. – Mike Grimala

grams, resigned his position September 30, the day the layoffs were announced, then sent a scathing letter to Las Vegas Weekly that accused DTP of wallowing in “decadence, greed and missing leadership.”] Stepping back, last week was hard. I got a hundred text messages alone. I have a long list of people to reach out to, and he’s on that list. But each person [I want to talk with] usually takes at least a couple of hours apiece. One question about company culture: Zappos has such a vibrant company culture—people generally love working there. Was the culture of the Downtown Project created to be similar to Zappos? Again, we could have done a better job of communicating. But the culture at Eat is very different from the culture of, say, Bunkhouse. That’s our Downtown; it’s a community of communities that intersect. I’ve been in Las Vegas for more than 10 years now. The amazing thing about this city is that anything is possible. It’s about resilience, and how things happen so much faster here than in other cities. It’s got the infrastructure of a big city, but with a small-town feel. And I think we’ve got all the ingredients here to put Downtown Vegas on the map for the entire world. I just hope we can do it together.

old school? Then you’ll want to be at Sunset Park this weekend for the 21st annual Age of Chivalry Renaissance Festival. There’ll be grog (beer), minstrels, maidens, wenches, kings and queens, those big fat turkey legs, music and lots of food besides those big fat turkey legs. Basically, it’s the best of the Middle Ages, minus the rack. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. today, continues through Sunday. Admission: $8-$13; LVRenFair.com.

SATURDAY, OCT. 11: Here’s something you don’t see every day:

airplane racing. But at speeds of 230 mph only 80 feet off the ground, it’s pretty amazing when it does come around. The Red Bull Air Race World Championship will be at Las Vegas Motor Speedway today and tomorrow for one of only two stops in the U.S. Tickets: $29-$59; RedBullAirRace.com.

SUNDAY, OCT. 12: As the calendar indicates, it’s October. And that means one thing around here: Halloween. Which means all sorts of seasonal goodies, starting with Springs Preserve’s Haunted Harvest. This family-friendly spook show features a hay maze, petting zoo, treat stations and live entertainment. Weekends through October. SpringsPreserve.org. MONDAY, OCT. 13: The Fremont Street

Experience is deep into its OktoberFrightFest, which means three free original shows performed on various nights through Oct. 31. Tonight’s lineup includes “Halloween Hotties,” which is pretty much what it sounds like. VegasExperience.com.

TUESDAY, OCT. 14: Here’s a cool tie-in if we’ve ever seen one: Wicked Plants: The Exhibit, through Jan. 4 at Springs Preserve’s Origen Museum. As you might have surmised, the display is a botanical accompaniment to a certain Broadway show going on at The Smith Center. It features all sorts of carnivorous, poisonous plants. No nibbling. SpringsPreserve.org.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15: Didn’t get enough to eat at the Renaissance Festival? Here’s another chance to sate your inner gourmand: Las Vegas Foodie Fest, today through Sunday at the Linq. We’re talking 50 or so of the nation’s hottest food trucks and vendors, everything from White Castle to Jogasaki Burrito. Come hungry, leave comatose. Admission: $10; LasVegasFoodieFest.com.

A writer’s guide to healthy maladjustment IF YOU ARE A WRITER, or a person who thinks in sentences—which is to say, if you are a person—you know that a scar long healed is nonetheless a scar, and you fnd yourself occasionally summoning old pain. Why is this? Is life not interesting enough for you? Happiness got you down? Ah, what’s the use of asking why: The creative writer calls upon pain, and pain is always pleased to answer. So the new question arises: If we are bound to interrogate ourselves in this apparently unenjoyable and, let’s face it, unattractive way, how are we to produce something enjoyable and attractive? Does the metabolizing of grief have nontoxic byproducts? Let’s pause to refect on how sadness—once considered a veritable badge of honor among creative types—fell into such disfavor in the past decade. Maybe it was the millennial boomlet in woe-is-me victim memoirs; maybe it was the Oprah confessional; maybe it was that time Oprah unmasked a victimmemoirist as a big fake. Maybe it was the publication of Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class, which defned creativity away from suffering artists and toward clever lawyers and playful Web titans who seemed to be demonstrably not suffering. Maybe it was the rise of Happiness Studies, an effort to scientifcally examine a thing most of us can’t even defne. The latest word is that social interaction makes us happy, that happiness makes us creative, and that our creativity is made solid in this world only through more social interaction. It’s quite easy to look upon the Happy Creative wave and conclude that solitude is the enemy and sadness is the devil. But people are unruly creatures, and for each of us happiness is a byproduct of different combinations of different things in different proportions at different times. Fortunately, we know a few constants: physical activity, meaningful work, love ... To these I would add that happiness is, in part, a byproduct of the artful use of our sadness. So, how does one artfully use one’s sadness? Tough question, and, appropriately enough, it took me some suffering to arrive at anything resembling answers. And those answers may look nothing at all like yours. But in

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this age of sharing, allow me to, as they say, “put this out there”: Master the three aspects of the past. Acknowledge the past-ness of the past (it happened), the presentness of the past (what happened then helped create now) and the past’s empowering future-ness (like a detective with a collared perp, you get to unmask the past, interrogate it and put it to work for you as you solve the next mystery). Pick your spots and engage meaningfully. A gift for solitude and a grasp of sadness are valuable social skills. The person incapable of being alone is hardpressed to understand the value of togetherness; the man who has never struggled with sadness is at

a distinct disadvantage in understanding his fellow man’s blues. When you sing of a sad moment, focus on the moment, not just the sadness. Recognize the specifcity of your story, the objects and the injuries, the loved ones and the damage done, what the weather was like on the best and worst days of your life. Remember the smell of the air, of the food, of her perfume. Remember the autumn yellow of the grass on the Saturday morning when Jimmy DiGiorgio’s slide tackle broke your leg. Remember the whole vast kaleidoscope, and you’ll see the shards of suffering merge into the image of life. Fragments fuse on impact, forming new ideas, new pictures in your head, newly discovered elements on the emotional periodic table. Your dreams grow vivid; your mornings begin earlier. You fnd your way to the keyboard. Tell me now: Do you feel happy? Well, do ya? Greg Blake Miller, Ph.D., is the director of Olympian Creative Coaching & Consulting. For information on writing workshops or individual training, write to GBM@OlympianCreative.com.

No. Even though I once did. I was driving to lunch with my gal and my mom when we spotted a twenty-something woman near the 7-Eleven at Oakey and Las Vegas boulevards. Dressed in a bohemian blouse, denim cutoffs and sandals, with a pricey SLR camera around her neck and carrying a bag of souvenirs and snacks while studying a printed Internet map, she looked everything like a wayward music festival attendee. I lowered the driver’s window and yelled, “Are you lost?” Between sobs (and with a thick European accent) she said, “I’m looking for the Greyhound station.” Her bus was leaving in 15 minutes! After polling my passengers, we all agreed (well, not Mom) to offer her a lift to the station a few minutes away. It was a quick, easy decision; after all, she appeared harmless enough. And, likely, so did we. She hesitated for only a moment before hopping in the backseat (my mother swiftly relocating her purse) and wiping away tears. Her story seemed reasonable: She was visiting friends in California and decided on a bus trip to Vegas (her first) to see a Cirque show. Not only was she lost, but she had misjudged the walking distance to the bus station—easy to do along Las Vegas Boulevard. Moments later, she was thanking us as she hurried into the station. We continued our quest for lunch. No harm, no foul. Later, I discovered Mom was convinced the woman was a hooker running from a pimp. And whenever I run down the bullet points, I’m forced to admit it sounds a little ... Vegasy: Attractive young woman, standing alone on a Strip street corner that actress Mindy Kaling derided as “sketchy” … sporting short-shorts ... carrying no luggage … crying, and desperately trying to get to the bus station … the day after a big boxing weekend … with an Eastern European accent. Duh! So, in Vegas, does one-plus-one equal hooker? Often, I have learned, it does. Still, a query of acquaintances slightly favors the woman’s story, though one hedged his bet: “Either way, you did her a favor.” Perhaps. But, those probably aren’t the kind of favors one should get in the habit of doing here. Next time, I’ll err on the side of my seasoned Vegas profiling skills and call a cab—no matter how harmless things may appear.

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in the back half of the year. After Labor Day, we’re done with all the high-strung anxieties of summer—summer romances, summer songs, catching all the summer movies, trying to maintain a summer beach body if you haven’t embraced the life-affrming freedom of wearing a T-shirt to the pool. But once October hits, the Anticipation Season begins. Not just about the holidays, Anticipation Season starts roughly when the world starts complaining about too much pumpkin-spiced foodstuff and runs through February. Anticipation for the baseball playoffs, for Halloween, for seeing and then feeing from your family at Thanksgiving, for Christmas, for trying to eat twice your body weight in cheese sauce on Super Bowl Sunday. (This is why you need to embrace the life-affrming freedom of wearing a T-shirt to the pool.) It’s the kind of thing that seeps into the atmosphere. And here to play aperitif to the start of the NHL and NBA seasons were the Colorado Avalanche and Los Angeles Clippers. The Clips spent six days of their training camp in Las Vegas, practicing at UNLV’s Mendenhall Center in hopes of getting good

enough to generate an oldfashioned L.A. bandwagon that can attract more celebrity fans than just Frankie Muniz. Off the court, the Basketball Mets—who return October 18 for a preseason game against the Denver Nuggets at the Mandalay Bay Events Center—made the rounds. That included a team dinner at Tao on October 2 that saw Glen “Big Baby” Davis convince the DJ to play his “Big Baby Gon’ Turn It Up,” then he lip-synched for the restaurant. Naturally, Davis went and saw Absinthe the next night. Blake Griffn and several teammates and staff went to Michael Jackson One instead. Take the hint, Cirque: Base a show around the other MJ. That’s right: Space Jam: A Cirque Extravaganza. There’s already a Spin Doctors-Biz Markie tune on that soundtrack, which is way weirder than anything Cirque already does now.

Meanwhile, the defending Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings took on the Avalanche on October 4 for Frozen Fury XVI at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, but ’Lanche captain Gabriel Landeskog was a gadfy during his time here. He was up at Tao nightclub with some teammates at the same time the Clippers were putting on a show in the restaurant. The night before the game, Landeskog had dinner with friends at Lavo. The next night, he gave up a turnover that led to a Kings goal. Someone’s firting with a curfew. Mario Lopez is gearing up for his new life as a tell-all author. To celebrate the release of his book Just Between Us (in which Lopez says Tiger Woods refused to take a photo with Lopez at a charity event and instead shook his hand—certainly the biggest Tiger scandal of our time), he celebrated at XS on October 3. He and wife Courtney Mazza—they both were also celebrating their birthdays—went from dinner at Andrea’s to XS, where they got their own individual cake celebrations. That’s just a smart move on the part of XS boss Jesse Waits: You don’t want to end up in Lopez’s next book as the guy who only brought out one cake for two birthdays.

Great, another 25 years of being asked if I’ve ever seen Twin Peaks.

@MrGeorgeWallace Shout out to cards. Index, greeting, flash, memory, playing. So many kinds of cards. I got yo’ back, cards. #GeorgeWallacesSaluteToCards

@juliussharpe I live in such a hipster neighborhood that I get pissed when there’s a line at the blacksmith.

@DMoonGirl Either my neighbors are having one hell of a rendezvous, or I just felt an earthquake in Vegas.

@kurtbraunohler Wouldn’t recommend Gone Girl for anyone who’s gotten married in the past 7 days.

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The author and Tiger Woods chat on the 18th green after Woods’ first PGA Tour win in 1996.

Ranking the Best

As the PGA Tour prepares for its annual stop in Las Vegas, we look back at the most compelling moments from the tournament’s three-decade history. (You just may have heard of the guy at No. 1 … ) By Jack Sheehan

WITH LAS VEGAS HOSTING A PGA TOUR EVENT

this week for the 32nd consecutive year, I have to shyly admit that I have worked on or near the 18th green during Sunday’s fnal round 30 times. Before you say, “Get a life” or “Try fantasy football,” I must also shyly admit that I’ve never once been paid for the privilege, which includes serving as emcee for many of those 30 years.

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4 Fuzzy Zoeller was the perfect champion when the PGA returned

RYAN MOORE BY ANDREW SEA JAMES

Former UNLV star and 2012 Shriners Open champion Ryan Moore.

3 There are dramatic fnishes, and then there are unbelievable fnishes. Jonathan Byrd’s fnal shot in 2010, struck on the par-3 17th hole at TPC Summerlin, lands into the latter category. As darkness was falling, in a three-man playoff with defending champion Martin Laird and Aussie Cameron Percy, Byrd made a hole-inone to claim the crown. It marked the only time in PGA Tour history that the ultimate shot had occurred in a sudden-death playoff. There is now a plaque on that tee commemorating Byrd’s shot, although the inscription erroneously calls it a “Walk-Off Ace.” Not to be picky, but neither Laird nor Percy had yet to hit their shots, so it wasn’t technically a walk-off. 2 It was an early-morning round in 1991, accompanied by amateurplaying competitors and with less than a dozen people watching, that Chip Beck entered the Twilight Zone. At Sunrise Golf Club, on a course that no longer exists, Beck made 13 birdies and five pars for a miraculous 59. It was the first time that score had ever been posted at a Tour event without using preferred lies. (Al Geiberger shot 59 in the Memphis Classic in 1977, but wet conditions allowed him to improve his lie in the fairways.) For the feat, Beck won $1 million from Hilton Hotels, half of which was given to charities. Oddly, Beck didn’t win the tournament. 1 Without question, the Las Vegas tournament victory that had the loudest reverberations came in 1996, when a 20-year-old named Tiger Woods defeated Davis Love in a playoff. It was Woods’ frst career victory in just his ffth event as a professional, coming less than two months after turning pro. When I asked him in the post-round interview on the 18th green whether he was surprised to win a Tour event so early in his career, he gave me a cold-eyed look and said, “To be perfectly honest with you, I’m surprised it took this long.” Jack Sheehan has written more than 20 books, including several about golf, and is a member of the Las Vegas Golf Hall of Fame.

SHRINERS OPEN GETS THE VEGAS TREATMENT Live golf events have a lot of competition for the attention of Las Vegas sports fans this time of year—baseball’s playoffs are in full swing, the NBA and NHL seasons are starting up, the NFL rules on Sundays and UNLV football owns Saturdays (OK, maybe that last one’s a stretch). So even a full-fledged PGA Tour event with a $6.2 million purse like the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open can use a boost to stand out among the crowded sports calendar. So this year, in addition to adding a ninehole putt-putt course for kids, tournament organizers have decided to go the Vegas route—by adding swimming pools. The Shriners Open, which is October 16-19 at TPC Summerlin—with pre-tournament events and activities October 13-15—will be the first PGA event to feature public pools, with six swimming stations positioned throughout the course, including two as part of the Zappos.com Fan Experience. For the price of a ticket, spectators can lounge in the water while watching the pros try to avoid it. Of course, where there are pools, there are the traditional Vegas accoutrements: private cabanas (manned by Bellagio’s Hyde nightclub), VIP services and, of course, DJs who will spin after each round into the evening. Yes, it may take some time for the normally stodgy PGA Tour to get used to party pools adjacent to bunkers, but if it increases the chances of Brandt Snedeker or Billy Horschel taking an impromptu dip after knocking in the winning putt on Sunday, we’re all for it. For ticket information, visit ShrinersHospitalsOpen.com. – Mike Grimala

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5 Former UNLV golfer Ryan Moore’s one-stroke victory in 2012 had great signifcance to the Las Vegas golf community. Nearly every year since coach Dwaine Knight took over the Rebel program in 1987, at least one UNLV player has been in the feld, many of them on sponsor’s invitations. Appropriately, Moore became the frst of the local bunch to hoist the trophy. After having the second most successful amateur season ever in 2004 (for you golf trivia buffs: Bobby Jones winning the Grand Slam in 1930 stands alone), it was ftting that Moore, a four-time All-American, would claim that honor.

to Las Vegas in 1983 after a sevenyear absence. With his bubbly personality and penchant for enjoying nightlife, Fuzzy was not only a colorful past Masters champion, but he embodied what the tournament sponsors were looking for in what was then called the Las Vegas Panasonic Pro-Celebrity Classic. That event offered the frst milliondollar purse in Tour history, and drew such big names as Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood and PGA Hall of Famer Gary Player.

7 In 1992, John Cook won the frst event (then known as the Las Vegas Invitational) in which TPC Summerlin served as the host course. I had known John for several years, and also his father, Jim, who was the longtime tournament chairman. Upon signing his scorecard, and knowing that I would be interviewing him for the gallery around the 18th green, John asked me to not make a big deal out of the fact that he was the frst-ever winner of a PGA Tour event in which his father was chairman. Minutes later, Jim Cook implored me to be sure and emphasize that very fact. During the interview, I was more tongue-tied than Elmer Fudd on Novocain, alternately watching John giving me eye signals not to go near the subject, and his father doing the opposite.

6 Tongue-tied could also describe the scene in 1995, when third-year pro Jim Furyk won here, his frst career Tour victory. After asking the perfunctory questions about his strategy over the fnal nine holes, I said, “Jim, I know your father, Mike, has been your only teacher through the years, and I’m sure he’s watching back in Pittsburgh. What would you like to say to him?” Instantly, Jim’s lower lip started to vibrate like a hummingbird’s wings, and big, salty tears rolled down his cheeks. His reaction caught me off guard, but when I tried to bail him out of the Barbara Walters moment, I found my own throat chalk dry. So we both just stood there looking stupid until I fnally barked out something profound, like “Great win!” Furyk went on to win in Las Vegas twice more, in 1998 and ’99, and lost a sudden-death playoff in 2005. He’s won almost as much loot in Las Vegas as the runner-up in the World Series of Poker.

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Rather, I do it because having the world’s best golfers here each year is a cool alternative for our community, and the tournament has raised millions of dollars for local charities. (Plus, with all the crimes and misdemeanors I commit during the other 51 weeks of the year, it’s my hope that this one “giving back” week will partially erase some of those sins.) Over the past 30 years, hundreds of memorable moments have occurred on and around the various courses that have hosted the tournament (which, incidentally, has had more name changes than the artist formerly and currently known as Prince and Snoop Dogg/Lion combined). With this year’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open taking place October 16-19 at TPC Summerlin, I look back at my seven favorite moments from one of the longestrunning professional sporting events in Southern Nevada history:

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Sean McClenahan Attorney

WHAT’S YOUR BIGGEST FASHION FAUX PAS? I don’t have

any … but when I see a guy with a big, fat wallet in his back pocket, it drives me mad. Why do you need a wallet that big? And why does it need to be protruding out of your pants? IF YOU COULD GO SHOPPING WITH ANYONE, LIVING OR DEAD, WHO WOULD IT BE AND WHY?

to take more risks with patterns and different things. I used to be very bland. Now, I’m starting to experiment. This happened in the last year or so—when I left the world of working in a law firm and started working for myself. – Jessi C. Acuña

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HOW HAS YOUR STYLE EVOLVED OVER THE YEARS? I’m trying

“My style is very classic. I don’t like anything too trendy,” says McClenahan, who is wearing: Paul Smith suit; custom shirt; To Boot New York shoes; Duchamp tie; Cartier watch.

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For a man, I would say [designer and film director] Tom Ford, because he is the epitome of amazing when it comes to fashion. And for a woman: Jacqueline Kennedy. She was just simply gorgeous.

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S P O T L I G H T WHEN THE CURTAIN CLOSES ON A STRIP PERFORMER’S CAREER ( A N D I T I N EV I TA B LY D O E S ) , T H E T R A N S I T I O N BAC K TO T H E ‘ R EA L WO R L D ’ CAN BE DAUNTING. BUT SINCE EXITING THE STAGE, THESE SIX FORMER ENTERTAINERS HAVE BEEN ENJOYING UNIQUE SECOND ACTS.

By C A T E W E E K S

Jason Jaeger T HEN From 1983-2002, Jaeger worked as a stuntman, Tournament of Kings jouster at Excalibur and Treasure Island pirate. His photo as captain of the TI’s ship is still on a billboard on the fourth foor of the McCarran International Airport parking garage.

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➜ Back in the early 1980s, there were essentially two career paths for Las Vegas natives: construction and hospitality. So when the opportunity to be a stuntman presented itself, Jaegar jumped at it, even though he knew the grueling career wouldn’t last. He had vague plans to study communication or law at UNLV until a car accident on his way to Excalibur in 1991 jolted his body. “With all the adrenaline in me, I felt fine right after—I even finished my shows that night,” he says. “But the next morning I couldn’t move.” A doctor prescribed painkillers; a physical therapist taught him exercises he already knew how to do as an athletic performer. “A chiropractor helped the most,” he says. “But I was also frustrated that these [disciplines] weren’t all working together. They weren’t integrated.” Now board-certified in chiropractic biophysics, Jaegar lectures all over the world, and his practice is a medical chiropractic and physical therapy facility used by Cirque du Soleil. He also treats swashbucklers, acrobats and dancers from other Las Vegas shows. “I had an unusual path, but my entertainment career really gave me an edge in building my practice,” he says. “Some doctors flatout suck at bedside manner, but I’m confident and comfortable in just about any setting—whether it’s lecturing in front of several hundred people or just being in front of one person. When you step onstage, it’s all about putting yourself aside and being totally there for the audience. It’s the same when you walk into the exam room.”

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NOW Chiropractor and administrative director of Aliante Integrated Physical Medicine.

Holley Steeley T HEN Steeley was an aerialist for Le Rêve, Phantom-The Las Vegas Spectacular and Storm from 1999-2013. NOW Owner of Holley’s Cuppa coffee shop in the Mountain’s Edge community.

➜ Since bringing home her first paycheck at age 16, Steeley had always socked away a good portion of her earnings for a rainy day. So after being turned down over and over for a small business loan—Would you loan money to an aerialist with little off-stage experience and no business degree?—Steeley decided it was time to make her own rain. She pulled out her savings and racked up credit-card debt to open the specialty coffee shop she had long wanted to launch. “I probably did everything you’re not supposed to do, but I had to,” Steeley says. “Whatever I did for a second career, it had to be something I was passionate about. Entertainers are lucky, because we get paid to do something we truly love. I couldn’t face giving that up.” Sinking her money into a risky business venture was a surprisingly easy decision. Steeley says she had spent five years researching the industry at coffee conventions and traveling to South American farms to learn how coffee beans were harvested. Further proof of her dedication: She tested roasting techniques and even got a part-time job as a barista while still performing until midnight at Le Rêve. “I was tired all the time, but I had to know that I’d love this business before I took that final leap off-stage.” She loves it so much that she’s developing a second Cuppa location at the Gramercy off Russell Road and Interstate 215. “I still don’t have a finance degree, but now I’ve got a lot of success under my belt. I’m pretty sure loan officers look at me more seriously now.” Indeed, they do: Just last week Steeley secured a Small Business Administration loan. “I’m still giggling,” she says. “This is a big deal!”

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NOW Co-owners of Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel and Ron DeCar’s Event Center.

When a chapel on Las Vegas Boulevard North was vacated in 1999, Richards sketched out an ad for the business on a Tropicana napkin and soon made the wedding business his fulltime job. The couple boasts that Viva Las Vegas is the only gay-owned and operated chapel on the Strip. “If I’d had any sort of real business experience at the time,” DeCar says, “I never would have done this. But I’m

the kind of guy who jumps into a bucket of nails and comes out with a tree house.” Richards oversees the business end of things, making sure the shows can go on, while DeCar handles the creative side of the themed weddings. Recently, they expanded with an event center to host dinner theater, cabaret nights, quinceñeras and fundraisers. Over the years, they’ve plucked their best employees from the ranks of fellow

former Strip performers. “Dancers, singers, backstage people, we’re a different breed,” DeCar says. “We juggle. We value being onstage on time always. When we’re having one of those crazy days—like on 11/11/11 when we did 230 weddings—we want someone who’s thinking like a performer, who’s ready for the next set and won’t let their stress show.”

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THEN From 1985-99, DeCar was a lead singer in Folies Bergère as well as for Las Vegas headliners Debbie Reynolds, Jim Nabors and the McGuire sisters. Richards was an ice skater and dancer in the Las Vegas Hilton’s City Lights, the Stardust’s Lido de Paris and Folies Bergère from 1990-94.

➜ For DeCar and Richards, the wedding business is still show business. DeCar began singing in wedding chapels as a side job to his Folies Bergère gig. One day, a wedding coordinator asked if he’d do a celebrity impersonation for a couple, and DeCar has been wearing an Elvis jumpsuit— as well as costumes depicting Tom Jones, Alice Cooper and Dracula, among many others—ever since.

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Ron DeCar and Jamie Richards

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The cast of characters at Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel, including co-owners Ron DeCar as Elvis and, next to him, Jamie Richards.

Caroline Lauzon THEN A former diver for the Canadian national team, Lauzon joined Cirque du Soleil in 2003, frst with O, and then Iris (in Hollywood), Zarkana and Kà. NOW Marketing and event coordinator for Water Beauties, a production company for synchronized swimmers and aquatic models. She still performs with Kà.

➜ Lauzon had expected to finish her acrobatic career with Cirque’s Iris production, but that show abruptly ended after just 18 months. “I realized that the expiration date for the job might be a lot sooner than I wanted,” Lauzon says. “Shows can be canceled. You can just not fit the profile anymore.” Lauzon was thrilled when another Cirque job opened

back in Las Vegas, but she also knew it was time to start preparing for her final curtain call. She’d always been the unofficial planner for the birthdays, showers and going-away parties for her immediate Cirque family, but knew she’d need to build her professional skills. A Google search led to her enrolling in the International School of Hospitality, to gain

marketing and event-management skills. In June, another former Cirque performer offered Lauzon a position with Water Beauties, where she recently organized a “splash mob” at Wynn’s Azure pool to promote a bathing suit boutique at the resort. “I was so nervous going in for the interview. I was 31 and had never had a real in-

terview,” she says. “I was so afraid I’d flub the ‘What makes you qualified for this?’ [question]. After a few minutes of talking, I realized that I really wanted this job—that I could be as passionate about it as I was about performing. “All of a sudden I felt grown-up.”

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Michael Rennie THEN Rennie segued from ballroom dancing (he was the 1976 U.S. amateur champion in Latin Dancing) into a professional career through the 1980s as a Lido de Paris dancer and as King Arthur in the Tournament of Kings at Excalibur. NOW Production director for Imagination Costume and owner of Knotty and Ice, a designer necktie company.

➜ Rennie didn’t leave rhinestones behind once he stepped off the stage. As his dancing career naturally waned, he moved backstage with the costumers, eventually becoming the guy who takes care of all the production details that go into translating a designer’s sketch into the costumes worn up and down the Strip, at Disney properties and in shows across the country. Then in 2011, he used Swarovski crystals to bling-out a tie for Rick Moore, then a director for Van Cleef & Arpels, who wanted to stand out at his corporate party. One of the company’s New York managers joked that the tie was “so Vegas,” but its president, a Frenchman, asked where he could get one, too. With Moore as a partner, Rennie was able to place the ties in a boutique at the Venetian, and Knotty and Ice turned a profit in the first month. Now they’re sold in two local boutiques: Wynn’s Bags Belts & Baubles and the Cosmopolitan’s Stitched. “My clientele is generally men, 40 and older, successful and confident. They want something that sets them apart at a fundraiser with 500 other men in tuxedos.” Rennie also does a lot of custom work for wedding parties. “My professional life has been seamless, with one thing overlapping the other,” Rennie says. “Every transition has flowed into the next thing.” Much like his ballroom moves.

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NIGHTLIFE

Porter Robinson takes a break from his new live show to revisit his rowdy DJ past By Kat Boehrer

Between Two Worlds

PORTER ROBINSON, the artist who once released drop-heavy tracks, such as “Easy” with Mat Zo and “100% in the Bitch,” has a new album and new outlook. That album, Worlds, is supported by a meticulously planned live show series, Worlds Tour, which will take Robinson across the country and soon—you guessed it—around the world. Despite being on the road, Robinson is making time to bring his now rare, oldschool DJ sets back to Marquee on October 25.

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Robinson saves his old-school rowdy side for gigs at Marquee.

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NIGHTLIFE Was it diffcult to change people’s perception of you and alter their expectations of what a live Porter Robinson performance will be like? People who had their ears to the ground and Internet heads who pay attention and listen to my music all got the memo. They know what to expect. It’s a gradual process, and I’ve seen so many people come to [the live show] in rave gear, or people who were skepti-

“WHEN I’M NOT MAKING MUSIC, I LISTEN TO IT CONSTANTLY AND REALLY PURPOSEFULLY—I WON’T LET MYSELF MOVE UNTIL I LISTEN TO EVERY SINGLE NEW THING.” cal and they are now like, “Oh, he’s right. This is something really different.” Many people who aren’t familiar with my new music have defnitely praised the show for being something unique to them. But you’re still into the nightclub vibe? It’s really fun. As much as I love doing the live show, DJing is like playing video games or something just really unbelievably fun. That doesn’t mean I want it to be my sole outlet for expression, but it’s really cool to come back to Marquee and to just, you know, get a little bit drunk and play some bangers.

[Laughs.] I don’t hate that at all. Where are some of your favorite places to play? Tokyo is my favorite place in the world. I’ve been infuenced and inspired by Japanese culture for about a decade now. I started making music because of Japanese electronic music when I was 12, so I love playing in Japan. I [also] love Australia. I could list a billion cities. Cities like … Las Vegas? I sincerely believe that Las Vegas is a place that I could live. I’ve been to a lot of cities, and Las Vegas is a really livable place. It’s actually pretty nice, I

mean, outside the Strip. I just love Las Vegas, and I totally did not expect that. Are you going to stay away from the EDM festival scene, or do you plan to go back to the main stages at Electric Daisy Carnival, Ultra and the like? Last year I didn’t do EDC and I didn’t do Ultra. I skipped both of them intentionally because I was preparing this record and live show, and I didn’t want to send mixed signals. I don’t rule out going back to them in the future. Those festivals have live stages sometimes as well, so that’s an option. What is it about DJing that you still like so much? It’s fun to collect music. When I’m not making music, I listen to it constantly and really purposefully—I won’t let myself move on until I listen to every single new thing that’s in my Soundcloud feed. That leaves me with this cool kind of extensive library of music that’s fun to DJ. I really love the reaction. It’s like somebody handed you the auxiliary cable, and you get to show a carful of people a song that everybody loves. That’s what DJing is to me.

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For those who aren’t familiar, what is the difference between your Marquee sets and your Worlds tour? There’s a pretty big difference. Right now, I’m doing a live show on tour where I’m only playing original music and I’m not DJing. I’m singing my own songs, playing keyboards and doing live instrumentations. I’m doing lots of long, soft ambient moments. My shows at Marquee are a totally different thing. That’s where I do my most energetic, throwback thing. If you want to see my old DJ sets, the thing that I used to do, Marquee is the place to do it. I know a lot of my fans like to come out and they have nostalgia for that old-style type of show.

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Camille Cannon

SUN 12 We’ve reached the pool season pivot point. Wet Republic throws a fnal splashdown with Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano (at MGM Grand, 11 a.m., WetRepublic.com) before the duo spins later at Hakkasan. (In MGM Grand, 10 p.m., HakkasanLV.com.) Meanwhile, the plastic dome returns to Marquee Dayclub! The climate-controlled covering will be flled with sounds from Markus Schulz, Cash Cash, Kennedy Jones and Lema. (At the Cosmopolitan, 11 a.m., MarqueeLasVegas. com.) Like your house music deep and techy? French trio Apollonia makes their debut at Life’s Underground Sundays. (In SLS, 10:30 p.m., SLSLasVegas.com.) No longer Mr. Mariah Carey and rumored to be involved with Amber Rose, Nick Cannon steps out to handle DJ duties at Drai’s. (In the Cromwell, 10 p.m., DraisNightlife.com.)

Grandmaster Flash.

Unicorns lapping up a waterfall. Fairies who deliver In-N-Out. These are a couple of things we’d describe as being “Majestic as Fak.” It’s also what Skrillex protégé and rising drum-and-bass rattler Kill the Noise has entitled his tour. The show stops at House of Blues with support from Ape Drums and Milo + Otis. (In Mandalay Bay, 9 p.m., HouseofBlues.com.)

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FRI 10 Fool’s Gold artist and 2012 Red Bull Thre3style Champion Four Color Zack spins at Tao. If you’ve been craving scratches, funky beats and

breaks, now’s the time to get your fll. (In the Venetian, 10 p.m., TaoLasVegas.com.) Scott Disick hosts 1 Oak. Why should you go? Because if we’ve learned anything from nine seasons of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, it’s that Lord Disick’s appearance will probably air on TV. He’ll likely say something ridiculous on the mic, maybe spill a drink or two. And if you’re there, you get to see it before the millions of Americans who’ll watch from home. #SpoilerAlert. (In The Mirage, 10:30 p.m., 1OakLasVegas.com.)

SAT 11 After rocking the ninth annual Wine Amplifed Festival with

his band Blink-182, drummer Travis Barker hosts at Hyde. Here’s hoping he hops behind the kit for a song or two. (In Bellagio, 10 p.m., Bellagio.com.) Droves of well-meaning but technologically challenged grandmothers have been tagging themselves as Grandmaster Flash on Facebook. (You can see a collection at GrampaAndGrandmasterFlash.Tumblr.com.) Flash, who was inducted into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, is a pioneer of turntabilism and a master of DJ techniques perfected on vinyl. His set at Body English should be required course work for anyone tempted to “push play,” and promises to be a bangin’ dance party for all. (In Hard Rock Hotel, 10:30 p.m., HardRockHotel.com.)

Kill the Noise.

TUE 14 Regularly held at Money Plays on West Flamingo Avenue, Vegas on the Mic temporarily moves Downtown to the Bunkhouse Saloon. The open-mic night is an opportunity to drink $3 draft beers and wow the crowd with your talent. Oh, and enjoy the new Bunkhouse backyard. (124 S. 11th St., 8 p.m., BunkhouseDowntown.com.)

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The weather’s just right for a football viewing party on a patio. Head to Rhumbar on Mondays, Thursdays and Sundays for $25 buckets of Coors Light or a $12 Liquid Pigskin cocktail combining Blue Moon beer and Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum, served alongside pork rinds. (In The Mirage, RhumbarLV.com.)

Australia native Will Sparks recently passed 250,000 fans on Facebook. As a thank you, he released a remix of Maroon 5’s “Maps” on Soundcloud. Better than a card, right? Check him out at Surrender, ‘like’ him if you like him, and maybe he’ll drop more gratitude soon. (In Encore, 10:30 p.m., SurrenderNightclub.com.)

Apollonia.

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Can you elaborate on your role? Since opening, the majority of my day-today work is selecting the talent, booking the talent, contracting the talent and listening to their requests. My main focus after we schedule the year is creating a production for each performance. We get with the artists and their management teams to create compelling production pieces, so that whether [guests] come to us on a Thursday, Friday of Saturday night, [they] will have unique experiences. What sets Hakkasan’s bookings apart from the rest? When Hakkasan opened, it was very much about selling a dream. Even before Hakkasan came on the market, only a couple of clubs were doing very well. We sold talent the dream of what we were trying to achieve. We created the most expensive nightclub ever built—and with fve levels—a real all-encompassing experience, where patrons could go for dinner and then listen to two or three different music styles throughout the evening. Attention to detail and our background in electronic music started to turn people’s heads. Once we confrmed Tiësto and Calvin Harris, everybody else took note and understood that we’re very serious about what we’re trying to do and deliver. How have you managed to capture so many A-list names? It became easier for us [after booking Tiësto and Harris]. Because we weren’t selling the dream anymore, we were selling reality. That’s really what puts us in good stead going into what will be our third year in [April] 2015.

James Algate handles top Hakkasan talent from booking to riders, and their secrets are safe with him By David Morris

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AT ITS CORE, JAMES ALGATE’S job is curating the Hakkasan DJ lineup and making sure all of the artists’ needs are met. Once those basics are covered, the Hakkasan Group vice president of music and his team follow through on all aspects of the night’s production, ensuring that Hakkasan’s shows will

stand out from the fold. Whereas the DJs’ performances begin and end the same night, Algate’s involvement is more of a long game. We caught up with him to fnd out how the former GlobalGathering music festival CEO stays sharp as Hakkasan heads into the second half of its second year.

Explain your process for developing a production with an individual artist. We sit down and discuss with each of our artists what they’re trying to achieve for their night. Some very much want to have a performance-based show, with aerialists or dance troupes with choreographed performances. Then we have others who are really not looking for that. They want more lights, lasers, cryo, CO2 and the more traditional club production. They must show up with a host of personal requests. They’re all individuals, and they all have different requests. The biggest thing for us is we want our talent to be happy, so we’re willing to listen to anything that they want to send our way. Whether or not we agree to it is another thing. The fact that we’re entering into longterm agreements with these people [obviously implies] that they’re very happy with us and we create a good partnerships. Any out-of-the-ordinary requests? I’ve been asked this question a hundred times, and the answer is always: “I couldn’t possibly share any.”

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On that note, how do you keep the programming fresh? We continually tweak it—literally on a weekby-week basis. We’re never happy. There’s always something that we learn from the previous weekend, be it from a customer, a member of our staff, a DJ. There’s always something we’re trying to improve. From a production standpoint, if you look at the club now, the show you get has far increased from when we frst opened.

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Oct. 11 John Cha spins Oct. 12 G-Squared spins Oct. 13 Magnum Mondays with DJ M!ke Attack

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If you’ve spent any time in a Vegas nightclub, you might have seen Resqwater’s distinctive blue bottles. It’s ubiquitous in nightlife and daylife destinations, such as Drai’s’ rooftop club, which also keeps a complimentary stock around for staff. So how did this antihangover drink suddenly appear on the nightstands of nearly 2,200 (and counting) hotel rooms on the Strip and in the hands of celebrity influencers? Resqwater’s quick ascent is attributable to the power of social media. But an innovative marketing strategy is only as effective as the product it’s selling. “Resqwater is bottled in Yorba Linda, California,” says Troy Michels, cofounder and CEO, who hails from companies such as K2, Universal Studios Orlando, Aspen/ Snowmass and Target. Partners include cofounder Tom Knutsen, a Southern Wine & Spirits veteran, and the brand’s nightlife face, clothing designer Tal Cooperman. “It’s pretty unique, actually. It’s filled aseptically, which means the liquid is heated quickly, then cooled down and filled in the bottle. Filling aseptically helps protect our ingredients.” And those ingredients are natural and organic. Each UVprotected bottle of Resqwater contains organic prickly pear extract, organic cane sugar, B vitamins, Nacetyl L-cysteine and milk thistle to purportedly metabolize acetaldehyde, the compound that makes you feel “lousy” after imbibing. It’s also gluten free, and certified kosher—“what to drink, when you drink,” Michels says. Rather than using more traditional marketing schemes to get bottles in hands, the team focuses on social media by connecting with consumers individually. “Those who celebrate us, we’re gonna celebrate them, whether that means a simple reply on Twitter or a retweet, screenshot or a repost,” Michels says. Follow @Resqwater on Instagram to see who the little blue bottle celebrates next. – Kat Boehrer

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Restaurant reviews, news and, yes, you can be a judge at this year’s World Food Championships

The Palms’ much-hyped Chinese spot delivers, despite being a work in progress By Al Mancini

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would be featured for the late-night crowd. Yet on my recent visits, the offerings didn’t even come close to what I was expecting. The main menu had 112 items (not 250). There were fewer than 30 dim sum offerings (not 60), only available before 4 p.m. (They’ve since cut them off at 3:30.) And those latenight hot pots? Not happening. When asked about the scaled-down menu, a representative told me that given the complexity of each dish, and to ensure quality, they will gradually add new items to both the regular and dim sum menus. Furthermore, she expects the hot pots to appear in the coming weeks. A gradual menu rollout isn’t unprecedented in the restaurant world. But

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WAS CHICAGO’S SO-CALLED Mayor of Chinatown, Tony Hu, a bit too ambitious when he set his sights on Las Vegas? Or is it unfair to expect a restaurant to be implementing its full menu two weeks after its offcial opening? In the weeks leading up to Lao Sze Chuan’s September 12 debut, Hu and the Palms’ media machines were making bold promises. His would be “the frst Chinese restaurant in a casino offering authentic Sze Chuan cuisine,” with food that surpasses what you’ll fnd in Las Vegas’ prolifc Chinatown. Moreover, his reps promised a menu with more than 250 items, far larger than one might expect in a casino. There’d be 60 made-to-order dim sum items, and an assortment of hot pots

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Absolutely perfect: Sze Chuan smoked tea duck.

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The Lao Sze Chuan dining room.

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MO’ MONEY The grand prize has doubled

chicken, so perhaps they brought me the wrong dish—a distinct possibility, since my waiter volunteered that the servers had just mixed up another table’s order.) The Mandarin pork dumplings are almost identical to the steamed pot stickers available in most Chinese restaurants, except for the refreshingly bitter bite of minced raw garlic. The fried rice is most notable for its gentle sweetness instead of the heavy soy taste most people are used to. And while there’s really nothing original about the smoked tea duck, the subtlety of its smoky favor is absolutely perfect. One dish that’s in no way subtle is the one Hu created specifcally for Las Vegas: Sze Chuan peppercorn fsh. Heavily breaded and fried, and served without sauce, it’s the large dose of peppercorns that gives it a serious kick. Bite into a nugget that’s barely sprinkled with them, and you’ll feel a playful tingling on your tongue. Bite into one with a heavy dose, and your mouth will practically go numb!

My favorite dish, however, are the stir-fried fat rice noodles, a.k.a. chow fun. A Chinese staple, the version here has so many levels of favor you’ll spend the entire meal trying to name all the spices on your palate. On the fip side, skip the scallion pancakes—thick, soggy and tasteless, presented without any dipping sauce. Like the menu, service here is still a work in progress. But each staff member I’ve encountered has been enthusiastic about the restaurant and its direction. Because of that, I’m excited to return in a few months—if for no other reason than to try the other half of the menu.

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The Palms, 702-990-8888. Open for lunch and dinner, 10 a.m.–midnight Sun.–Thu., 10 a.m.–2 a.m. Fri.–Sat. Dinner for two, $30–$65.

New breweries are popping up Downtown (Hop

Nuts) and in Henderson (Bad Beat, Crafthaus, Vegas Brewing Co.), but the West Valley is about to get in on the action. Following three years of development, Old School Brewing Co. (OldSchoolBrewing. com) is preparing for an early November opening at what used to be Graziano’s Pizza on 8410 W. Desert Inn Road. ¶ The man behind the mash here is Jim Wilson. The former Barleys head brewer

started homebrewing in the mid ’80s, but he wasn’t always a fan of suds. Wilson worked as a mechanic with the 1985 Porsche race car team that was sponsored by Portland Brewing Co. “That was the first time I tasted good beer, ” Wilson says. And it changed his outlook on brewing for the better. ¶ Shortly after, Wilson had the

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opportunity to apprentice under master brewer Michael Mankoschewski of Ganter Brewery in Freiburg, Germany, where his knowl-

YOUR LASAGNA COULD BE WORTH THOUSANDS New categories have been add-

ed, with pasta and seafood joining barbecue, bacon, chili, sandwiches, desserts, burgers and recipes in the preliminary competitions, with a $10,000 first prize for each winner. This year’s recipe competition will focus on cheese. YOU CAN SIT IN JUDGMENT All you have

to do is apply at WorldFoodChampionships. com/Judges-Register and take a short training session in WFC’s proprietary EAT (Execution/ Appearance/Taste) judging method. You can also sign up for the special on-site EAT Judging Class ($95), where you’ll get a deep download, and taste test chef-prepared bites during the class. No previous experience is necessary, but on the application you will be asked to share your culinary résumé, so make sure you tell them about your passion for food. YOU DON’T HAVE TO JUST WATCH OTHER PEOPLE EAT Although trained

volunteers will judge the actual competition entries, there will be numerous grazing and ticketed events, such as Friday’s Bourbon BBQ & Banjos ($25) and Saturday’s Chili Throwdown ($25).

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to $100,000 for the professional or home chef who progresses through preliminary categories to win at the Final Table, where they will be judged by a panel of culinary experts and celebrities.

edge and passion for beer grew. But Old School is going to focus on much more than German-style brews with four standard taps— Hippocrates IPA, Bus Stout, Pale Ale 101 and a hefeweizen—plus four to six seasonals to satisfy Wilson’s creativity and his guests’ diverse palates. “It’s just like cooking at home: You don’t want to have the same thing every meal,” he says. ¶ Along with tours, Wilson and partners Greg Kourik and Ed Utiger will fill growlers and serve “twisted comfort food,” such as a cornmeal tempura-fried bratwurst corn dog. The 190-seat dining room is separate from the bar area, which has five gaming machines. “I really want to keep it a family environment, Wilson says.” So expect rotating sodas, too. “There’s so much flavor to be had.” – Jessie O’Brien

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Food writers (and those who want to be) will have the chance to improve their craft with a new “Food, Fight, Write” bloggers conference ($349, FoodFightWrite.com) that will run concurrently with the World Food Championships. AT LAST, BOOZE GETS ITS DUE At the blogger conference, PourTaste.com’s Jon Yeager and BiteAndBooze.com’s Jay Ducote will demo cocktails for aspiring beverage writers, and Yeager will also present Shaken and Stirred: A Guide to Creating and Discovering the Perfect Cocktail. Single-session tickets are available for $25 (FoodFightWrite.com). NEW LAYOUT SAVES SHOE LEATHER

The event’s footprint has shifted slightly to take advantage of the new Downtown Events Center, adjacent to The D. Cooking categories that had previously been exiled on Fremont East will now be right in the middle of all the action, so barbecue fans will be able to visit the hardworking pit masters all night long. – Chris Chamberlain

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as the guy who relayed the original promises in an article previewing Lao Sze Chuan, I feel a duty to tell you they aren’t all here ... yet. Now for the good news: Lao Sze Chuan still has a pretty large menu of very good food. Moreover, the portions are huge and the prices are reasonable. The food I’ve sampled has generally reminded me of a slightly more upscale version of what you’ll fnd in a good Chinatown restaurant in any major city. This is not overly fancy cuisine, despite the gorgeous dining room that once housed Little Buddha. Tony’s Chicken, for example, reminded me of a mildly spicy General Tso’s chicken with a lighter sauce and a slight fruity sweetness. (The restaurant also offers General Tso’s

DON YER STRETCHY PANTS— HERE COMES THE WORLD FOOD CHAMPIONSHIPS The third annual World Food Championships will return to the Fremont Street Experience, November 12-18. Building on past success— including a six-episode recap of last year’s competition that ran on the new FYI cable network—organizers are raising the stakes for this year’s competitors and attendees. Tickets are on sale now at WorldFoodChampionships. com; here are seven reasons to pick up yours.

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Mandarin-style dumplings ($6), Sze Chuan smoked tea duck ($16), Sze Chuan peppercorn fish ($16) and stir-fried flat rice noodle ($12).

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The Last Supper Afer 29 events and $110,000 donated to charity, Gina Gavan concludes Project Dinner Table with one fnal meal

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By Al Mancini

ON OCTOBER 11, 175 guests will sit at a single table at the Marjorie Barrick Museum at UNLV to share a meal. The multicourse dinner by chefs from Caesars Palace will never be replicated. And the $190 price tag will help fund two of our top community causes: Safe Nest and Blind Center of Nevada. The ingredients will be, to whatever extent possible, locally sourced. It will be one of those events that reminds us that Las Vegas is more than just neon and glitz— we’re a family. And sadly, it will also be a farewell to a dinner series that has been making that point through 29 meals over the past four and a half years. Gina Gavan conceived Project Dinner Table’s communal meals in 2009 to introduce locals to what’s now come to be known as the locavore movement: eating things produced in your own community. When she had trouble fnd-

ing chefs using locally sourced foods, Gavan sought help from former B&B Ristorante, Carnevino and Otto executive pastry chef Doug Taylor, who also ran Mario Batali’s farmers market. “Being a girl from Indiana, local food was something I grew up on,” says Gavan, who makes her living as a marketing strategies and ideation consultant. “It was always important. So I started that journey of ‘How can I educate myself better?’ Those conversations that were happening in 2009 were [between] such a small group of infuencers.” So on April 24, 2010, she hosted the frst Project Dinner Table in the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Orchard. Looking back, she describes that frst meal as guerilla style. “Roy [Ellamar of Sensi] was the frst chef. And at that dinner we didn’t even have

a generator. There was a grill and a lot of heart. The food was outstanding—it was so unexpected for people. It was all word-of-mouth, a magical experience.” At the time, Gavan had no idea that the concept would have such a long run. “It could have been one and done,” she offers sincerely. “It could have really sucked—people wouldn’t have gotten it. But they did. Chef Roy and I embarked on a journey that neither one of us would have imagined at the time.” “Sometimes things aren’t meant to last forever,” Gavan says. “I started this as a community project, not a business. And it’s had a beautiful life. But instead of running it into the ground, where it becomes less than its intentions, I think it’s time to bless it and celebrate it and realize that we accomplished everything that we set out to do.” It’s not diffcult to celebrate those

accomplishments. Each Project Dinner Table event has been unique, with a changing lineup of chefs, partners and al fresco locations. Over the years, such familiar faces as chefs Rick Moonen, Kim Canteenwalla and Michael Napolitano of Renaissance Catering have manned the food-truck kitchen. Featured local businesses have included Quail Hollow Farm, Bon Breads, Bar 10 Beef, Colorado River Coffee Roasters and Sandy Valley Farms. In all, Gavan says, $110,000 has been donated to the event’s local charitable benefciaries. As she closes the door on this project, Gavan is excited about how far the culinary world has come in the past fve years. “Where we are today, everything is about farm-to-table,” she notes. “It’s about local. It’s about fresh. It’s about getting outside the four walls. It’s experiential, cultural. How do you combine all those things together? Those weren’t any of the conversations when I started this, which is exactly why I started it.” While the dinner series will soon be over, Gavan promises Project Dinner Table’s community-minded and locavore ideals will live on. “I’ve got fve years of amazing photography, stories and menus. My vision is to create a New York Times best-selling community coffee-table book.” When that happens, you’d better have some tasty, locally sourced snacks to put on your coffee table next to it.

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Scenes from Project Dinner Tables past, including Oct. 15, 2011, at Cashman Field (bottom left) with chef Rick Moonen, a particular Gina Gavan (above) favorite.

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Essential Eats & Drinks: Your Fall Epicurean Calendar

OCT 11

Sonoma County’s award-winning winery Ferrari-Carano has been a leading producer of world-class, nationally acclaimed wines since 1985. Taste them alongside a six-course tasting menu by chef Francisco Hernandez at an intimate tasting in the private dining room at the Charcoal Room. $85, 6 p.m., in Palace Station, 702-221-6678, PalaceStation.SCLV.com. White truffe season is upon us, and no one does it like Restaurant Guy Savoy’s lavish six-course prix-fxe menu: scallops two ways, pumpkin soup, risotto and roasted guinea hen— all featuring white truffes—followed by two desserts. $420 per person, items also available a la carte, in Caesars Palace, 702-731-7110, CaesarsPalace.com. OCT 9-12

Check out Las Vegas’ newest dining and shopping destination at the Downtown Summerlin Street Festival on Festival Plaza Drive. Activities include opening ceremonies, a light show, DJs, kids activities, fashion shows and makeovers. For a complete list of events, visit DowntownSummerlin. com/PDFs/DTSFestivalGuide.pdf.

After nearly fve delicious, charitable and locally sourced years, the Project Dinner Table communal supper series concludes with one fnal event at the Marjorie Barrick Museum at UNLV with chefs from Caesars Palace and charity partners Safe Nest and the Blind Center of Nevada. For more about the event, see Page 68. $175, 5:15 p.m. social hour, dinner at 6:15 p.m., ProjectDinnerTable.com.

OCT 17

Students assist in setup, operations and logistics at the Epicurean Charitable Foundation’s 13th annual M.E.N.U.S. (Mentoring & Educating Nevada’s Upcoming Students), a poolside dinearound. (Previous participants have included Gordon Ramsay Burgr, KGB by chef Kerry Simon, DW Bistro and Tao Asian Bistro.) Proceeds help fund scholarships for Clark County high school students seeking hospitality careers. Ticket includes admission to a Zac Brown Band concert. $600, at MGM Grand, 702-932-5098, ECFLV.org. OCT 18

Take it outside for Double Helix Wine & Whiskey Lounge’s inaugural Tacos + Granos. Chef Doug Vega will be grilling $2 Shortie Tacos on the patio, and the Whiskey of the Month—Rittenhouse Straight Rye—is half off. Noon-5 p.m., at Town Square, 702-735-9463, Townsquare.DoubleHelixWine.com.

OCT 15-19

Las Vegas Foodie Fest returns, showcasing more than 50 of the nation’s best food trucks, plus beer, wine and liquor tastings, as well as carnival rides, eating contests and a beer garden. Tickets start at $8, 4-midnight Oct. 1517; noon-midnight Oct 18; noon-10 p.m. Oct 19, at the Linq, LasVegasFoodieFest.com. OCT 16

Chopped judge/chef Scott Conant’s DOCG Enoteca gets in on the fall beer agenda with a Tap That Cask Party, featuring “real ale,” beer that fnishes its maturation and carbonation process in the barrel—and the party won’t stop

OCT 25

It’s OAKtoberfest at Aces & Ales Tenaya, with more than a dozen oak-aged brews and specialty foods starting at noon, Ghostbuster Trivia and a Halloween costume party at 8 p.m. with prizes and cash giveaways. 2801 N. Tenaya Way, 702-638-2337, AcesAndAles.com. OCT 31

Wear a costume if you like—mad scientist and monster-inspired suggested—but do come thirsty to chef Rick Moonen’s Ricky Horror Halloween Bash at Rx Boiler Room. The eerie evening will feature contests, prizes, specialty cocktails by lead barman Eric Smith and themed menu items. 8 p.m., in the Shoppes at Mandalay Place, 702-6329900 for reservations, RxBoilerRoom.com. This is your last chance to enjoy the October bar and lounge menu at Wolfgang Puck Pizzeria & Cucina. Throughout the month of October, enjoy bites inspired from the Lazio Region of Central Italy, all for less than $8 each, with Lazio wines for $10 and under. Available daily, open till close, through Oct. 31, at the bar and lounge, in the Shops at Crystals, 702-2381000, TheShopsAtCrystals.com.

OCT 13

This month’s Farm Table Dinner at Honey Salt welcomes One Hope Wines, presenting a three-course meal that features caramelized squash with burratta and braised beef cheeks. Plus, during October, 50 percent of proceeds from all One Hope sales will be donated to breast cancer research. $45 dinner, $25 wine pairing, 6:30 p.m., 702-445-6100, 1031 S. Rampart Blvd., HoneySalt.com.

a six-course wine-pairing dinner hosted by export manager Clovis Taittinger and Mandalay Bay wine director Harley Carbery. Executive chef Vincent Pouessel and executive pastry chef Megan Bringas’ menu includes Mozambican langoustines, roasted veal tenderloin and braised cheeks and preserved lemon St. Honoré with Taittinger Nocturne. $225, 6:30 p.m., 702-632-7401 for reservations, CharliePalmer.com.

OCT 20

This is it, the fnal day of Hearthstone Kitchen & Cellar’s #EscapeToSonoma social media contest awarding a twonight trip for two to Sonoma’s Jordan Vineyard & Winery in Healdsburg, California. Visit HearthstoneLV.com for rules on how to enter. OCT 22

The original Aces & Ales location hosts a tapping of rare specialty brews by Beachwood BBQ Brewing head brewer Julian Shrago, including System of a Stout Imperial Armenian Coffee Stout and Mocha Machine Imperial Coffee Chocolate Porter. Bring your 2014 Strong Beer glass for $4 flls. 5 p.m., 3740 S. Nellis Blvd., 702-436-7600, AcesAndAles.com. OCT 23

Champagne Taittinger takes on the cuisine of Charlie Palmer’s Aureole for

NOV 5

Cantina Laredo’s quarterly tequila dinner pairs a four-course menu by executive chef Damon Workman with Avion Tequila. Avion representatives will guide guests through the agave selection process and techniques of proper tequila production. $50, 7-9 p.m., in Tivoli Village, 702-202-4511 for reservations, CantinaLaredo.com. NOV 22

Drink Local all night long at the Aces & Ales Tenaya location, where all the taps will be taken over by Nevada breweries. 5 p.m., 2801 N. Tenaya Way, 702-638-2337, AcesAndAles.com. – Xania Woodman For more beer events, visit VegasSeven.com/Fall-Beer-Calendar. For even more fall and winter epicurean events, visit VegasSeven.com/Fall-Epicurean-Calendar.

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OCT 10-11

Sixty wineries, 20 bands and eight immersive experiences await thousands of wine and music lovers at the twoday wine and music wonderland that is Rock ’n’ Roll Wine’s ninth annual Wine Amplifed Festival, this year presented at the MGM Resort Village across from Luxor. Tickets start at $69, 4 p.m.-midnight, WineAmplifed.com.

till the keg (by Henderson’s Bad Beat Brewing) runs dry. Paired fnger foods will be served family style. $50, 6:30 p.m., in the Cosmopolitan, 702-698-7920, CosmopolitanLasVegas.com.

OCT 9

Capitalize those Cs as A. Hardy U.S.A. offers a Cognac tasting and fvecourse Champagne dinner at Sage hosted by property mixologist Craig Schoettler and Hardy Cognac House CEO Benedicte Hardy. Sample a celebrated collection of Cognac—including a rare blend of small lots collected after World War I—and enjoy a menu by executive chef Richard Camarota with Champagne pairings chosen by Aria wine director, Kim Wood. Highlights include pork terrine, foie-gras custard brûleé, chestnut soup Maison Rouge, Kobe skirt steak Diane and dark chocolate panna cotta. $500, 6 p.m., in Aria, 702-693-8400 for reservations, Aria.com.

OCT 10

Communities In Schools of Nevada presents its fourth annual Harvest for Hope, with live dance, magic and comedy performances, as well as food from 10 Cosmopolitan spots, including Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar & Grill, Estiatorio Milos, Rose. Rabbit. Lie., Comme Ça, Jaleo, China Poblano and Scarpetta. All proceeds beneft CIS, the local affliate of the nation’s leading dropout-prevention program. $350 adults, $100 children, 5-9 p.m., Cashman Center, CISNevada.org/Harvest-2014.

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Thrusting into the zeitgeist with Las Vegas’ king of porno parodies By Jason Scavone

Avenue Q summed it up neatly: “The Internet is for porn.” Far be it from us to question the wisdom of singing puppets. The Internet, as it can remind you at every imaginable turn, really is for porn. And while that’s true, WoodRocket is an evolutionary step. Long gone are those halcyon days of dial-up, where if you plugged in your modem at noon to download a racy picture, by dinnertime you’d have most of a neck and half of a shoulder. We’re beyond that era where the frst grainy, 640k video you pursued was a barely watchable clip of the Pam Anderson sex tape. The Internet is for porn, but WoodRocket is porn of the Internet. On @Midnight, host Chris Hardwick correctly pointed out that the Internet has but one true god: Nicolas Cage. So when Myers dressed a couple of models in Raising Arizona and Peggy Sue Got Married fnery, the Internet, understandably, lost its collective mind. The photo set went viral in July like Ebola in a sewage plant.

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Director Lee Roy Myers in the WoodRocket studio.

Myers, 37, is the director of dozens of porn parodies, from SpongeKnob SquareNuts to Game of Bones to 30 Rock: A XXX Parody. (OK, fne. They don’t all get the dick-joke naming convention. It’s as upsetting to us as it is to you.) He’s also the architect of a website that functions as a barelyfunhouse-mirror version of directors like Kevin Smith, who turned his early career subtext into text with 2008’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno. In all those Smith movies (just like in Judd Apatow’s catalog), there’s a central heart and humor reaching toward raunch. With Myers— who, like Smith, is a bearded, baggy-shorted pop-culture obsessive—the raunch might be front and center, but it’s reaching one hand across the divide to its mainstream sex comedy cousins.

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KRIS SLATER IS HAVING A HARD

time with his lines. It’s supposed to be an easy shoot, maybe three pages of material, but he keeps crouching between takes, trying to catch his breath and keep his lunch down. Two banged-up racks of fuorescents bounce jagged light off his just-dyed hair in the Industrial Road studio of WoodRocket.com. They’re shooting the last scene for Bob’s Boners, a dirty Bob’s Burgers parody, and Slater is playing Jimmy Pesto Jr. He can’t quite hit the accent, and that isn’t helping. Director Lee Roy Myers reads Slater’s lines back to him, reminding him to come into the scene before he starts to speak, and to stay open to the camera. Myers does a pretty good version of the show’s retainer-lisped Jimmy Jr. Before the shoot started, he mentioned offhand that Bob’s was his favorite show on television. He had to add this scene because the porno was missing something, character-wise. Which is not, exactly, what you expect a skin-fick director to be especially concerned about. The shoot winds up taking three hours, but if Myers ever gets annoyed, he doesn’t show it. When he talks, he sounds sort of like comedian David Cross and he oozes Canadian politesse. During breaks, he makes sure the handful of people on set are comfortable, reminding them there’s a craft service table set up in WoodRocket’s tiny kitchen. After it’s over, Slater sprints out of the room to vomit. Loudly. That stomach bug was no joke. Multiple takes of a dancing scene probably didn’t help, but Myers was trying to nail down verisimilitude in Slater’s Jimmy Jr. boogie. Does that make him the Stanley Kubrick of porn directors? “I’m bearded. That’s about as close as we get,” Myers deadpans. Then he brightens. “And I did The Shining [parody], so yeah, sure, why not?”

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Through the porn-eye lens: Nicolas Cage simulacra, 30 Rock and Bob’s Burgers (Kris Slater, below).

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Growing up on a steady diet of Russ Meyer movies and unhinged Troma Entertainment left Myers with a taste for grimy exploitation fare. It wasn’t even a short step—it was more of a lean—into exploring the less-clothed corners of cinema. “I always thought low-budget flmmaking equaled you must have nudity. I wanted to be a low-budget flmmaker, therefore I was going to at least do soft-core type things with violence and gore,” he says. “My folks always made me swear not to become a drug dealer and not to do porn. The two things that would ruin my life. So, I never dealt drugs. One out of two’s not bad.” Myers’ earliest firtations with porn came when he was a poor flm student in Canada. Naked News was a big deal on-

line. He wanted to move the ball by creating a nudie soap opera, The Young and the Topless. (Those parody instincts run deep.) But it didn’t catch on, and there were bills to pay. One of the ways he paid them was shooting adult material. After a stint working as a porn buyer for a pay-per-view company, Myers moved into the directing ranks in 2008 with distributor New Sensations, where he helmed The Offce: A XXX Parody. In 2011, Myers struck out on his own as a director for hire. Shortly after that, he and a business partner started cooking the plan for WoodRocket. It launched in 2012, but soon the cost of doing business in L.A. would prove prohibitive for an advertising-supported website that gives away the product. So in May 2013, Myers moved the operation to Las Vegas, where he can play in relative freedom. Those experiments include traditional porn and the parodies, but they also leave room for odd bits such as “Ask a Porn Star,” “Topless Girls Reading Books” and “James Deen Loves Food”—wherein the popular porn actor does things like rank ketchup or take an utterly demoralized dive into the world’s ugliest cake. It’s borderline subversive. Game of Bones might lure ’em in with a promise of hot Khaleesi action, but once a viewer is there, they might get anything from sexy Adventure Time cosplay (“We’ve been told we ruin a lot of childhoods,” notes Myers’ production manager, who goes by “Seth’s Beard.”) to political commentary (with boobs). “It’s all something that grown adults can appreciate. I saw it with our friend Justin Donaldson who’s a director at Funny or Die. [Donaldson directed a WoodRocket]

sketch called ‘How to Get Contraception at Hobby Lobby,’” Myers says. “Funny or Die came to our sets a few times. They did these mock interviews. It was this tour of a [Golden Girls] parody shoot. Automatically when you see a porn person naked, wigged like Bea Arthur, it’s already weird.” ***** Before the shoot, Slater, unsolicited, goes off on how much he likes working with Myers, how he’s patient in a way that other directors aren’t always. When you’re trying to coax porn actors into nailing down comedic timing and character mannerisms, it would be understandable to get frustrated in a time-is-money movie set environment. Myers says he’s only lost his cool on-set twice. “It’s a type of respect that often only comes from other directors who were performers,” says frequent Myers collaborator Deen. “Most directors in his position don’t empathize with the performer as much as he does. He wants everyone to be happy and comfortable and to enjoy themselves. ... But a lot of people who are just directors care more about how their movie looks than how people feel.” Myers doesn’t brim with Jack Horner/Jackie Treehorn swagger. His wife, Honey, is on set for the Bob’s Boners shoot to operate the equipment—a hand-held digital SLR camera for video and an iPhone for sound. Myers says they met on Myspace after he was in flm school, and he got her approval before going full time into porn. She helps him with post-production. It’s momand-pop porn at its fnest, so when he talks about his pragmatic, blue-collar outlook on flmmaking, it makes sense.

“The talk when you’re on a porn set usually is about other porn sets. It’s ‘This guy, he was shooting a POV scene and he was resting the camera on my face. I could barely stay hard, what an asshole.’ I don’t want to be remembered like that. I want to be the guy who made doing extra work for a porno a little easier,” he says. “If they can’t get an erection because I scream at them, or if they can’t remember the dialogue because they’re stressed out or angry, that’s my fault. The thing is, I want to go home like everybody else. It’s a fun job, but it’s a job.” ***** Then again, not everyone’s job gets the attention of big players in the entertainment industry. When his 30 Rock came out in 2009, even New York magazine paid attention. (“It’s actually disturbing how true to the show this thing is.” A compliment, we guess?) So did 30 Rock, the non-porno version. The show does an episode where Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) gets Liz Lemon’s (Tina Fey) life rights. So he makes a porno parody of Lemon’s life. If you’re keeping score at home, that’s a show that’s a parody of Saturday Night Live doing a parody of someone else’s porn parody about the parody show. Which we’re pretty sure is the inspiration for Inception. While 30 Rock was doing the episode, though, the show reached out to Myers. “We got a call from NBC casting. They wanted to audition our stars from our porn parody, so we flmed their audition. I guess they weren’t good enough at playing themselves,” he says. “Part of me, like most people, is always going to be part starfucker. ... I immerse myself in pop culture to do WoodRocket stuff. To be recognized by the people that I immerse myself in, it’s meta and it’s surreal, but it’s really like ‘Oh, somebody who does something real for a living that I’m mocking thinks it’s funny. It blows me away sometimes.’”

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Then Myers did it again in September. The Internet’s favorite goofy uncle, “Weird Al” Yankovic, dominated screens in a wave of mass nostalgia for ’80s MTV and churning demand for grammarfocused “Blurred Lines” parodies. Myers was ahead of the curve and released another photo set, this one with models dressed in costumes from Yankovic’s 1989 cult fick UHF. The safe-for-work versions of those pics were everywhere from A.V. Club to Salon to RollingStone.com. It was the perfect looking-glass moment of parodying a parodist. By adding boobs. “We go online every day. We spend hours and hours, not just spying and trolling, we’re there to participate. I’m a Redditor. My wife is on constantly. I’ve done two or three [Ask Me Anythings]. I love when something weird comes out,” Myers says. “I remember when YouTube became popular. I remember looking at viral videos going, ‘Holy shit, this is amazing. This is everything I want. This is for a short-attention span audience.’ It’s pop culture and comedy. It’s a milkshake of society’s best and worst. It’s the craziest thing in the world, and we try to capture all of it.”

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Kygo’s Cool Tropical Sounds Circled the Linq Brooklyn Bowl and the High Roller, Oct. 3 The Linq received a surge of tropical energy when Norway’s Kygo performed two sets. The 23-year-old producer first played an exclusive 30-minute DJ set on one of the High Roller’s pods to a handful of fans. Kygo provided a glimpse of what was to come later that night at Brooklyn Bowl, playing his popular remix of Ed Sheeran and Passenger’s “No Diggity”/“Thrift Shop” mashup alongside songs by Notorious B.I.G. and Mayer Hawthorne. Fans in the pod were ecstatic—clapping along to the music and even challenging each other to dance-offs as the DJ’s set peaked along with the ride. Later at Brooklyn Bowl, the DJ spun for roughly 90 minutes as part of his Endless Summer tour—expanding on the lush, tropical sounds previewed earlier. Though songs seemed a little drawn-out at times, the DJ’s visuals entertained fans via a large LCD screen. A modest crowd sang and danced along to Kygo’s

Weeknd and Ellie Goulding as his cool vibes circled the venue. ★★★✩✩ – Ian Caramanzana

LITERARY LICKS Dum Dum Girls make smart noise pop. Their latest album, Too True, boasts sly references to 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud (“Rimbaud Eyes”) and Charles Baudelaire (“Evil Blooms”). Dum Dum Girls play the Cosmopolitan’s Boulevard Pool on Oct. 9 ($15).

HISTORY LESSON If you missed the History of the Eagles concert last February, you get a second chance when Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit return to the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Oct. 11 ($85-$255) for an evening of unforgettable Eagles classics.

ON SALE NOW Alice Cooper has welcomed fans to his nightmare for more than 40 years, and shows no signs of letting up. When Cooper plays the Pearl on Nov. 26 ($60-$100), fans can expect a mix of spectacle and classics: “No More Mr. Nice Guy,” “I’m Eighteen” and “School’s Out.”

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diverse library of remixes from artists such as Marvin Gaye, Dolly Parton, The

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HIT LIST TARGETING THIS WEEK'S MOST-WANTED EVENTS

By Camille Cannon

screaming fans and even a cover of Kanye West’s “Flashing Lights.” Beyond the captivating production and eye candy, however, was an impressive performance that exhibited the New Zealand singer’s talent. Lorde performed the bulk of 2013’s Pure Heroine with zeal. Two supporting musicians—a drummer and a keyboardist—brought extra life to songs such as “Buzzcut Season” and “Tennis Courts.” The Grammy Award winner’s smoky vocals lie somewhere between a soft coo and an ominous growl, and her 14-song set covered the spectrum. Lorde performed her most popular hits (“Royals” and “Team”) near the end to an audience who, at times, sang louder than the singer. ★★★★✩ – Ian Caramanzana

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AN ICON ONSTAGE Don Rickles made his Las Vegas debut in 1959 at a lounge show in the Sahara. Now 88, his zingers still sizzle like a steak served at midnight. But you don’t have to stay up that late to see him. “Mr. Warmth” performs at 8 p.m. Oct. 11-12 at the Orleans Showroom. Go before his appearances become more rare. OrleansCasino.com.

LORDE BY WAYNE POSNER

MERCY MUSIC There can be few better feelings in life than being 14 years old and having someone give you free rein to smash the hell out of a house. Like, maybe self-powered human flight would come close. Maybe. In the new video for Mercy Music’s “Undone” (filmed by WENDOH Media partner Shoot to Kill), an adolescent blond kid teaches homeowners a lesson in having their newspaper stop delivery when they’re on vacation, as the telltale sign of an abandoned residence lures him in to unleash his inner Visigoth, get blasted on Barefoot wine and

ETERNAL LOATHING Ever heard the phrase “hell is other people?” It stems from Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential play No Exit, wherein three characters are damned to an afterlife with only each other. Bring some friends you can stand for a couple of hours and see it staged at Art Square Theatre on select dates through Oct. 26. CockroachTheatre.com.

play with either A) his reminiscing future-self or B) a Jacob Marleyesque ghost warning the kid on the perils of vandalism, depending on

how you read it. It all gets served up on a bed of Weezer-esque jangle pop at VegasSeven.com/Videography. – Jason Scavone

SEX AND SIN CITY Do you ever wonder how the “sexual allure of Las Vegas” might be affecting you? Stacy Rink has. She explores the relationship between the city’s deeply ingrained sexual imagery and local lifestyles in Kinky, a mixed-media art exhibit at Blackbird Studios through Oct. 31. BlackbirdStudiosLV.com.

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Lorde’s performance had all the makings of a teen-pop concert: bright LCD screens, multiple outfits, bubbles, confetti,

The Joint at the Hard Rock, Sept. 30

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Lorde’s Flashy Show Isn’t Without Style and Substance

DO YOU REMEMBER? Nevada Conservatory Theatre presents Nevada, Oct. 10-19 at Judy Bayley Theatre. Described as a “memory play,” the plot surrounds a man, his best friend and girlfriend lamenting the end of their time together. Kind of like 500 Days of Summer, with more central characters and less of the Smiths. UNLV.edu/NCT.

Another Late Night

CALI ORGIES, PORTLAND BODIES, RECKLESS ROCKERS

Seth Meyers steps away from his Late Night desk to hone his stand-up By Jason Scavone

SETH MEYERS has gotten to the “Viking raid” portion of his run as host of Late Night: He’s 100 episodes in, and there’s a new crew helming the Weekend Update desk on Saturday Night Live. The boats are burned behind him, and there’s nowhere to go but forward. In this case, “forward” means “to the Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan,” where the heir to David Letterman’s, Conan O’Brien’s and Jimmy Fallon’s throne still fnds time to do stand-up, despite a rigorous nightly schedule in New York and work on his Hulu animated series The Awesomes.

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Now that you’re seven months in, how are you feeling about Late Night? Happy. The nicest luxury of doing a late-night show is you get to do it every night, unlike SNL where you spend a whole week and you only get to release the pressure of performing that one time. If it doesn’t go the way you wanted, you sort of obsess about it because you don’t get to perform again for another seven days. Here you get to keep churning out so many shows [that] you get better a lot faster. You have a lot more opportunities to try things and not feel as though it’s going to change the outcome of the world if you have a SETH bad show.

Johnny Carson famously spent a lot of time doing stand-up in Vegas, and Leno still does lots of weekends here. Yet Letterman and O’Brien never have. How important is it for someone with a late-night show to keep sharp doing stand-up? For me, it’s important right now because I really enjoy doing it. It brings me joy. But at the same time, who knows? I’ve been married a year. We’ll have kids eventually. Maybe it’ll feel less exciting to go out for the weekend. MEYERS Or maybe it’ll feel 7 p.m., Oct. 11 at the Chelsea great. It’s not somein the Cosmopolitan, How does writing thing that I would $45-$75, 698-7000, for Late Night say [for certain] CosmopolitanLasVegas.com. differ from I’m going to do writing for SNL? forever. It made a The biggest differlot of sense durence is at SNL, certainly as the head ing SNL, because ultimately you only writer, you have to keep your eye on work 22 weeks there. Here you’re every single part of the show. Here working a lot more weeks, but you the biggest thing I realized is I have have weekends off. to be sharp and on-camera an hour every day. At SNL you’re on-camera What do you think about the new 15 minutes a week. You didn’t even Weekend Update desk? have to shave until 5 p.m. on SatI’m really happy and excited for urday. We just did our 100th [Late those guys. Colin [Jost] is someone Night] show, which was my ffth year I’ve been writing with for years. He’s at SNL. In a weird way I feel like the one of the smartest guys I know. comfort level I have after about six [Michael] Che is such a talent. I was months at this job is about the same really excited to watch [the season amount of real estate I covered in premiere]. I’m jealous when people the frst fve years at SNL. get to start a new thing like that. It

made me long for the days of working, fguring it all out. Che was just on your show talking about how you had to ask him, “You know you got the job, right?” before he knew he was hired for SNL. What was your hiring experience like? I went all the way back to L.A., and two days later they few me back to New York to meet with Lorne [Michaels]. One of the things Lorne asked me was, “Do you think you could live in New York?” I remember thinking at the time, “Does anyone blow it at this stage? Do you get this far in the audition process and say, ‘No I don’t think I can handle it. Are we defnitely going to shoot it here?’” As a die-hard Red Sox fan, was it tough to watch Fenway fans fawn over Derek Jeter in his last game? It wasn’t that hard. He’s such a good guy. When he hosted SNL my frst year, I didn’t want to like him. I just remember every single person in New York has a story they want to tell Derek Jeter. The story about when they saw him do something. It’s never interesting to him. But what I really liked about him was he took the time to listen to every person. He’s a guy who deserved all the accolades he got this year. As somebody who actively rooted against him, I will miss him.

L.A. death-pop band Orgy seduces LVCS at 8 p.m. October 11. Danceable and dark, this spooky gang of synth-slammers specialize in groove-busting yet melancholy tunes such as “Wide Awake and Dead,” released in June. Orgy’s last album, Punk Statik Paranoia, is 10 years old and is said to have lost them more than a few fans because of the addition of scream-vocals. But now, at least to my underground ears, the band, despite its edgy name, sounds as appealing and radio-friendly as ever. I’m eager to see them put it all together onstage. Also on the bill: EMDF, Lovesick Radio, Gorilla Head, Black Masses, Badpitt & Adam Crow and Mad About Me. Portland, Oregon, sludge-metal two-piece The Body breaks into Cheyenne Saloon at 9 p.m. October 14. They sound like a hundred-car pile-up on the I-15 bursting into flames with the force of a nuclear strike. “Sarin, How the Gods Kill” is nightmare-inducing, with its caterwaul screaming and hypnotic dirgebass loop. There have been sensational Internet stories confirming these guys sold their collection of firearms to move from Rhode Island to Oregon. I can’t wait to have my eardrums brutalized by the heaviest band this side of the Colorado River. Also on the bill: Providence-based primitive black-metal band Sandworm and local groups China and Spiritual Shepherd. The Pretty Reckless crash into Vinyl at the Hard Rock at 8 p.m. October 15. The hard-rock band, led by recovering Hollywood actress Taylor Momsen (Gossip Girl), delivered a second album earlier this year called Going to Hell that I’ve yet to stop spinning. The title track’s hammering guitar riffs and confessional lyrics of damnable behavior is the best thing I’ve heard on commercial radio in years. Melodic and heavier than a ton of bricks, The Pretty Reckless are serious musicians and almost worth mentioning in the same breath as Led Zeppelin, Heart and Nirvana. Of all this year’s Vinyl shows, I’ve most anticipated Momsen & Co. Your band releasing new music? Email Jarret_Keene@Yahoo.com.

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THE PLATEFUL DEAD Murder-mystery dinner show still an oddball entrée

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I ATE CHICKEN NEXT TO A MURDERER.

But I didn’t swallow the red herrings. Dining and sleuthing have been cooked into a strange entertainment quiche for 15 years, so with Marriage Can Be Murder at The D celebrating that milestone, I dropped in to see if it’s still palatable. (Was it coincidental that I wound up seated next to the dude revealed to be the killer as the cheesecake arrived? Or that my name popped up in a comedy bit, compelling my brief participation? Let’s just say producers knew I was coming.) Rather than overdo the food metaphors by calling it cheesy, we’ll settle for kitschy: a night of corny shtick and passable grub, allowing dollar-savvy tourists to combine dinner and entertainment options at a mildly amusing stew for the senses and the stomach. Unfolding almost entirely in the audience, the interactive Marriage—which in the current iteration has little to do with marriage (the plotlines change fve times a year)—stars Jayne Post (also the writer) as the platinum blond “ditz” who kibitzes with the crowd, tells us that diners (actors) will be suddenly dying around us, and gives us roleplay assignments (as pallbearers, nurses. etc.). Expect the occasional fake gunshot and hint of stage blood, but not enough to make you spit out your mouthful of potatoes. After the initial murder is staged, her primary responsibility becomes needling the rotund cop in dork-shorts (Ralph Ohlsen) who’s investigating what becomes a series of murders—“victims” are shot, stabbed and poisoned—that provide the excuse to “interview” witnesses, extracting more shtick.

Rim-shot touches include audio-visual cues—as a middle-age black man is quizzed, we hear the Sanford and Son theme, and my own name appeared on a video monitor in the guise of giving the show a positive review on Yelp. Scripted comedy runs along the lines of … Cop: “Why are all these people wearing nametags?” Blonde: “It’s an Alzheimer’s convention. They make new friends every day.” Cop: “Lady, are you taking a picture of my crotch?” Blonde: “That’s a violation of the penal code.” Blonde: “I worked at an orange juice factory, but I couldn’t concentrate so they canned me.” Dumb-funny and giggle-cute. Improvised comedy with an audience depends largely on the latter. At my show, it ranged from genuinely funny (a wife, asked the secret to her decadeslong marriage to her husband, seated with her, answers: “blowjobs”) to genuinely dull (me, displaying zero improv skills, proving why I have a job where I can take time to carefully craft sentences, thoughts and ideas—even then, all you get is … this). We’re also given cards on which we’re asked to keep track of clues, encouraged to be suspicious of fellow diners, and, fnally, to fnger the culprit. You don’t need to be a Law & Order rerun junkie to unravel it. FYI: You don’t have to choose the chicken. Beef and pasta are also on the menu. Good red herrings? Try a deli. Got an entertainment tip? Email Steve.Bornfeld@VegasSeven.com.

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FEINTED LOVE

Affleck and Pike portray the “perfect” modern couple.

Gone Girl ofers a dark, thrilling take on marriage By Michael Phillips Tribune Media Services

DAVID FINCHER’S FILM version of the Gillian Flynn best-seller Gone Girl is a stealthy, snakelike achievement. It’s everything the book was and more—more, certainly, in its sinister, brackish atmosphere dominated by mustard-yellow fuorescence, designed to make you squint, recoil and then lean in a little closer. So often in Fincher’s movies, and especially in this one, actors are placed in shadows surrounded by low-wattage light sources. It’s all deliberate. Fincher addresses moral rot through direct means so that characters’ guilty consciences and hidden agendas are made manifest. This is a prime date movie for couples harboring at least one good-size secret or several years of serious resentments. So much works well here, from the spectacularly right casting to the eerie musical score. The story implications are what they are, but we’re talking about high-grade pulp fction here, crafty and unsettling. A brilliantly edited opening-credits sequence fashes quick, nervous images of the recession-hobbled Missouri town where the story unfolds. The flm’s primary narrator is Nick Dunne (Ben Affeck, never more subtle or effective), a laid-off Manhattan magazine

writer. To look after his aging parents Nick has returned to North Carthage, Missouri, with his wife, also a writer. She is Amy (Rosamund Pike), who served as the inspiration for her parents’ Amazing Amy storybooks. Nearly two years into their new life, their marriage has hit rough road, with not much money left. In Nick, back in New York City, Amy found her Midwestern dream hunk. He saw a golden girl out of his league. That’s all in the fashbacks; the present-day action of Gone Girl begins when Amy disappears from the home leased with her trust-fund. The narrative options are pretty simple, considering how many complications Flynn concocts. Either Amy was abducted, or Nick somehow faked the disappearance and killed her, or... well, let’s stick to the evidence. We frst hear from Amy by way of voice-over, as Pike reads diary entries from happier days. Soon the entries grow more foreboding. The local police detective

assigned to the missing-person case, Rhonda Boney (Kim Dickens), speculates on Nick’s guilt, and that look in his eyes that says: Something’s wrong. Dickens is right on the money, a savvy voice of intelligence and reason. She’s also a strong counter-argument to the line that Gone Girl has one particular vision or version of female behavior to offer. Carrie Coon is terrifc as Nick’s twin, Margo, the sounding board and Greek chorine who gets most of the choice wisecracks as she navigates the aftermath of Amy’s disappearance. Tyler Perry plays Nick’s hotshot legal defender, Tanner Bolt, and like Affeck he’s never been more relaxed and truthful on screen—which sounds weird, in a crime story built upon lie after lie. Amy, portrayed as an immaculate series of enigmas by Pike, represents the false fronts afficting modern marriages. Here’s a structural faw of the movie: In the book, Flynn kept the twin-track points of view even, so that

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SHORT REVIEWS

Annabelle (R) ★★★✩✩

The devil-doll lark Annabelle exists to make its host movie, last year’s excellent The Conjuring, look even better by comparison. As prequels go, it’s not bad, even if it does look like cheap digital crud. There’s also premise fatigue, leading to low-level audience exasperation. How many shocks must this bright young California couple (played by Annabelle Wallis and Ward Horton) endure before they realize the doll on the shelf is the source of their problems? The thing reeks of Satan.

Men, Women & Children (R) ★★✩✩✩

Based on Chad Kultgen’s debut novel, this film depicts modern-day America as the land of scarily unlimited digital opportunity. Father Don (Adam Sandler) spends untold hours in thrall to online porn, not unlike his own teenage son (Travis Tope). Mother Helen (Rosemarie DeWitt) assumes a new identity online and meets her secret lover (Dennis Haysbert) for trysts. Don, meantime, is doling out money to call girls. And so the movie goes. A lot of the acting’s good, though.

Tracks (PG-13) ★★★★✩

This new film is based on the 1980 travel memoir by Robyn Davidson, a free spirit who spent nearly a year crossing 1,700 miles of Australian desert with four camels and a dog. Director John Curran’s gorgeous film starring Mia Wasikowska betrays hardly a trace of Hollywood machinery. Wasikowska is wonderful here, unaffected and affecting. Curran is keen on unlocking the natural rhythm of a story about a young woman testing herself against her memories, her loneliness, her ability to disappear for a while.

Amy gave her version of events to the same degree we heard from Nick. The movie tips things in favor of Nick. It also leaks information about the story’s frst major revelation earlier than Flynn did in the novel. As in the novel, the movie threatens to buckle around the three-quarter mark, when a key character transforms into a straw psycho. It’s up to Fincher to take us home, and to justify the two-and-a-half-hour running time. That he does. His mastery draws out something strange or discordant in each new scene. And the big moments carry genuine impact. Like the novel, the flm will frustrate a certain percentage of customers who’d prefer the story to go a different direction. There is no moral to Gone Girl. This is a black comedy about true love, as some people defne it, and Fincher turned out to be the right cinematic conduit. Gone Girl (R) ★★★★✩

By Tribune Media Services

The Boxtrolls (PG) ★★✩✩✩

Oregon-based Laika animation house’s latest feature is based on Alan Snow’s 2005 book Here Be Monsters! The Boxtrolls remains relentlessly busy up through its final credits, and it’s clever in a nattering way. But it’s virtually charmless. A human boy named Eggs (voiced by Isaac Hempstead Wright) has been raised by the marginalized Boxtrolls, who live in an underground lair full of fantastical inventions. Eggs teams up with the mayor’s daughter, Winnie (Elle Fanning), to prove the Boxtrolls’ right to peaceable coexistence with the human element.

The Equalizer (R) ★★✩✩✩

The Maze Runner (PG-13) ★★★✩✩

The Guest (R) ★★★✩✩

Tusk (R) ★★✩✩✩

This Is Where I Leave You (R) ★★★✩✩

The Drop (R) ★★★✩✩

Denzel Washington plays Robert McCall, a trained killer with a CIA-ish past who now exists undercover. Chloë Grace Moretz is the prostitute who frequents McCall’s favorite diner. A Russian sleazeball with underworld connections beats the Moretz character half to death, and McCall retaliates, five Russian thugs dead. The rest concerns the Russian sleazeball higher up the sleazeball ladder brought in to take care of McCall. At its best, Antoine Fuqua’s film shows interest in something more than the next neck-snapping flourish.

A crafty genre pastiche until it stalls, director Adam Wingard’s The Guest introduces its title character after he knocks on the door of a New Mexico family that lost their older son in the Iraq War. The Guest plays an interesting guessing game with the audience. David (Stevens) is a steely dreamboat, and everyone in the grieving family uses him for different reasons. Wingard’s facility with violent action is uneven. But he certainly knows his recent film history, as proved by the film’s retro synth-y musical score by Stephen Moore.

Discovering his wife (Abigail Spencer) in bed with his radio shock-jock boss (Dax Shepard), Jason Bateman’s Judd goes into a tailspin, just in time for another crisis. Dad dies. Mom (Jane Fonda) has asked all the siblings to sit shiva for a week. Adam Driver plays the younger gadabout brother who brings his older, wiser girlfriend (Connie Britton) home with him. Nothing special in terms of material, but the actors sit back, relax and enjoy the interaction. The movie’s OK. But with this cast, OK is disappointing.

The Maze Runner—from the first in James Dashner’s trilogy—makes the “dyslit” clichés smell daisy-fresh. At the outset, Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) is sent up an elevator, his memory wiped nearly clean. The heart of this film is the action, and director Wes Ball seamlessly blends computer-generated spiders with the actors. The script may be a tad too long, but it’s treated well, creating a plausible, textured atmosphere of dread. Are audiences weary of dyslit screen adaptations? The Maze Runner, already a success in overseas markets, suggests otherwise.

Civilians and critics loved Tusk in Toronto, where it played a sidebar of the international film festival. And it’s fun to have writerdirector Kevin Smith, of Clerks and Dogma, whose filmmaking star has fallen while his podcasting prowess has risen, once again at the center of a debate. Opposite Haley Joel Osment, Justin Long plays the co-host of a successful L.A. podcast who travels to Winnipeg to prank-interview an Internet star, only to arrive in time for his funeral. I didn’t draw much enjoyment from Tusk, though Johnny Depp’s turn has its charms.

Even a terrible actor could win friends and influence moviegoers in the role of Bob, a sweetie-pie Brooklyn bartender who saves a puppy from a garbage can in the opening of The Drop, expanded by screenwriter Dennis Lehane from his own short story. For the record, Tom Hardy is an excellent actor. In The Drop, Hardy, brandishing an outer-borough dialect and mumble, is surrounded by terrific support in Belgian director Michael R. Roskam’s uneven but pungent English-language debut. The clichés in The Drop have a fighting chance of holding your attention.

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PREDICTING THE UNPREDICTABLE There appear to be no sure things during this madcap football season. Well, except for betting against UNLV. THAT LOUD SMACK YOU JUST HEARD WAS

the hand of Vitouous, the Gambling God of Vengeance, slapping me back into reality. Just one week after boasting about a 6-1 effort to wrap up September, I kicked off October by giving it all back with a 1-6 stink bomb. Sure, with a fortuitous bounce here and there—I just missed with the Bears, Rutgers and Tennessee—I could’ve produced a winning week. But near-hits don’t put bread on the table. Moreover, basking in the glory of the downfall of Tom Brady and the New England Patriots (as I did in this space last week), only to watch Brady and the Patriots carve up the undefeated Bengals 43-17, doesn’t do anything for the ol’ credibility. (Neither does recommending a wager on Geno Smith and the Jets on the road.) Then again, as bad as I was, if you were to rank the biggest disappointments from the opening weekend of October, I might not even crack the Top 10. On the college gridiron alone, fve of the top-eight teams from last week’s Associated Press poll—No. 2 Oregon, No. 3 Alabama, No. 4 Oklahoma, No. 6 Texas A&M and No. 8 UCLA—all lost. Furthermore, No. 14 Stanford fell as a short favorite at No. 9 Notre Dame; No. 15 LSU got blown out; No. 16 USC lost to Arizona State on a fnal-play Hail Mary; No. 17 Wisconsin was upset at Northwestern; and No. 18 and unbeaten BYU got blitzed by Utah State 35-20 (as a 21-point home favorite!). Seriously, this college football season hasn’t just been crazy. It hasn’t even been batshit crazy. It’s been Ben Affeck’s wife in Gone Girl crazy! Get a load at this week’s AP poll: TCU (which knocked off Oklahoma) rocketed from No. 25 to No. 9; Arizona (which stunned Oregon) went from unranked to No. 10; Oklahoma fell seven spots to No. 11; Texas A&M slipped from No. 6 to No. 14; UCLA from No. 8 to No. 18; Stanford from No. 14 to No. 25; and LSU, USC, Wisconsin and BYU from ranked to “others receiving votes.” The best example that the college football world has been turned on its head? Ole Miss and Mississippi are tied at No. 3 in the rankings. Read that again. Then remember we’re approaching mid-October! The NFL has been equally confounding. Entering Week 6, no fewer than 18 teams are either

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LUCKY SEVEN

Fresno State -10 at UNLV Auburn -3 at Mississippi State UCLA +2.5 vs. Oregon USC -2.5 at Arizona Bears-Falcons OVER 53.5 Bills +3 vs. Patriots Seahawks -8 vs. Cowboys

3-2, 2-3 or 2-2—that’s more than 55 percent of the league. So what’s a handicapper to do to keep his bankroll above water while dog-paddling through this chaos? Answer: Unfortunately, kick the hometown team while it’s down. Do you realize UNLV’s only victory through six games is a 13-12 home triumph over Division I-A A Northern Colorado? Do you realize the Rebels have only covered the spread once—and that was only if you bet on them late (they went off as an 18-point ’dog in a 34-17 loss at San Diego State). And do you realize that all fve of their losses were by double digits—with an average margin of defeat of 26.4 points? Now UNLV is a 10-point home underdog against Fresno State, which is riding a three-game winning streak (both straight-up and against the spread). After allowing 52, 59 and 55 points in their frst three games, the Bulldogs have surrendered just 16, 24 and 13 in their last three. Meanwhile, the Rebels—who once again will take the feld without their most explosive player (wideout Devante Davis) or a competent quarterback—have scored more than 17 points just once … and given up fewer than 33 just once (to Northern Colorado). Hey, try to see the glass as half full, Rebels fans: At least it isn’t homecoming week … oops! Last Week: 1-6 (0-4 NFL; 1-2 college; 0-1 Best Bet). Season Record: 19-16 (9-10 NFL; 10-6 college; 2-3 Best Bets). Matt Jacob appears at 10 a.m. Fridays on Pregame.com’s First Preview on ESPN Radio 1100-AM and 98.9-FM.

How did this opportunity come about? I love watching the show. I was one of those people who would sit on the couch and eat while I watched. One of my teammates from the Olympics called me and asked if I wanted to do it. She had the opportunity but she had lost 30 pounds, so she didn’t have enough weight to lose to qualify to be on the show. So she had handed me over to one of the casting people, and I flled out the application. I didn’t have time to wrap my brain around it and talk to my husband. We had to make our decision within 24 hours, and then it happened so fast. I came to L.A. and was on the show. When I got to the ranch [where the show’s contestants have to stay], I don’t even think I had realized what I had done.

October 9–15, 2014

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You’ve attributed your weight gain to a poor diet, several miscarriages and depression. Overcoming excuses is something you hear a lot on the show. What’s been your biggest excuse? It’s been a number of things. Every time I got pregnant it was, “I can’t really exercise” because I was so afraid of miscarrying. I didn’t know if it was something that I was doing. So after I would have the miscarriage, then I would be depressed. I would just have that “I don’t care” feeling. But then once I got out of my depression, I was feeling a little bit better [and then] I would just always use the excuses of “my work schedule is too busy; I have my son to take to school and homework to do.” I would always just come up with something that would put myself last and everybody else frst.

Lori Harrigan-Mack The former UNLV sofball star and three-time Olympic gold medalist on landing on The Biggest Loser, channeling her competitive nature and the power of letter-writing By Jessi C. Acuña

As of Episode 4, which aired October 2, you’re down 25 pounds from the 301 at your frst weighin. Could you have lost the weight without going on the show? When this opportunity came up, I wasn’t sure what I was going to do, but I believe it was part of God’s plan for me. When I got here, I started questioning, “Did I have to come here and expose myself like this, or could I have done it at home.” Of course, I completely believe that anybody can do this at home. However, in the emotional state I was in—this is something that I truly needed. And I am so humbled and grateful to the show, because it’s saved my life.

Ultimately this is a competition against yourself, but whether you stay on the show is partly determined by how your cast mates perform. Has the competitive athlete in you come out during this process? Absolutely. One thing that’s driven me to be here the most is knowing that I have the support from my husband and my son. They want me to fght and want me to be here. When I think about going home, I look around at the other contestants and I start getting on myself saying, “You can compete with these people. Why are you not competing and getting in the game?” That’s defnitely been a huge thing, so I teeter back and forth from “I’m homesick, and I miss my family,” to “You can beat these people. Why are you not fghting?” Then my competitiveness comes out, and I go to the gym. My athletic side has defnitely kicked in. After the show has wrapped, will you try for kids again? My husband wrote me a letter that brought me to tears. He said, “I hope you love me enough when we are together again that we can talk about having children, because I would love to have a little girl–whether it’s having or adopting a girl—and have her be just like you.” Of course, I would love to have more children. I’m 44, so I don’t know how realistic that is for me. One, it’s a fnancial thing as far as if we tried in vitro or anything else, but even adopting is a fnancial thing. How have you changed since beginning your journey on the show? I defnitely have a more positive outlook about dealing with life and stress. I know my relationship with God has gotten stronger. When you come to the ranch and you have no electronics or no TV, it forces you to fgure out who you are and what you really want or what kind of outlook you want to have. It’s changed not only me as person, but it has really strengthened my marriage. My husband and I have dealt with so much pain from every single miscarriage, I think God has pulled us apart to heal us separately. Letter-writing is defnitely a lost art, and my husband’s letters have been beautiful and have motivated me to the point where I feel like our marriage is in a completely different place. I feel like I am coming back a completely different person [with] a new heart and positive outlook. I’m ready to go home and fgure out how I’m going to implement my healthy life back into my old one. How has her employer, Mandarin Oriental, supported Harrigan’s effort? Read the full interview at VegasSeven.com/Harrigan.

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SEVEN QUESTIONS

What’s been the biggest challenge of The Biggest Loser so far? Peeling back layers of emotions that I hid for a long time and didn’t really deal with. I can’t say the physical part is easy, but dealing with the emotions that got me overweight in the frst place is the hardest thing I’ve done.

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