FREE March 16–22, 2017
W HAT TO DO
AF T ER DARK FRIDAY 17 Clockwise from top: Death Cab for Cutie, Norma Jean, Techno Taco Tuesdays
TASTE: It’s St. Patrick’s Day, and there’s a good
chance you don’t know why you’re celebrating, but you’ll be wearing green and drinking too much all the same. Do just that at Big Dog’s Draft House, where there’ll be live music, corned beef and cabbage and, of course, beer and Jameson specials. 10 a.m.–midnight, 4543 N. Rancho Dr., bigdogsbrews.com
SATURDAY 18
HEAR: After playing the Life Is Beautiful Festival
THURSDAY 16 HEAR: Spend a little more time on your eyeliner and
find those old band shirts from Hot Topic because Emo Nite is coming to Vinyl. 9 p.m., $10–$15, inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, hardrockhotel.com
DANCE: Escape with Calvin Harris and his protégé Generik, who take over the DJ booth at Hakkasan. 10:30 p.m., $40–$75, inside MGM Grand, hakkasanlv.com
in 2015, Ben Gibbard and the rest of Death Cab for Cutie return to Las Vegas to bring the band’s melodic indie sound to The Chelsea. Don’t forget tissues. 7 p.m., $25–$35, inside The Cosmopolitan, cosmopolitanlasvegas.com
DANCE: Rising hip-hop artist Anderson .Paak, who was nominated for best new artist and best urban contemporary album at last month’s Grammy awards, wants you to “Come Down” and experience The Good Life Fridays at Jewel. 10:30 p.m., $20–$30, inside Aria, jewelnightclub.com EXPERIENCE: Saturday Night Live alums Jon Lovitz and
Dana Carvey are Reunited and hoping to make you laugh at The Foundry. 8:30 p.m., $49–$89, inside SLS Las Vegas, foundrylv.com
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HEAR: Backstreet Boys are back—alright! You can’t remember your social security number, but you still know every word to “Quit Playing Games With My Heart.” Prove it at their Larger Than Life residency at The AXIS Theater. 9 p.m., $79–$299, inside Planet Hollywood, caesars.com DANCE: A hip-hop battle royale, Blessed: Kanye vs. Drake vs. Future will showcase videos and music by the rappers at Brooklyn Bowl. 8 p.m., $10, at The Linq Promenade, brooklynbowl.com
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE BY WE ARE THE RHOADS; TECHNO TACO TUESDAYS BY EDER MORE/MNTRA
By Kimberly De La Cruz
SUNDAY 19 EXPERIENCE: For something off the beaten path, grab
some friends and head out to Spring Mountain State Park for the Joshua Tree Night Hike to see the blooming cacti flowers under the moonlight. 6 p.m., $7 per vehicle, 6375 Highway 159, Blue Diamond, parks.nv.gov
HEAR: Smash magazine presents a little millennial
high school nostalgia via metalcore band Norma Jean at Backstage Bar & Billiards. He Is Legend, Capsize and Comrades open. 8 p.m., $18–$20, 601 Fremont St., backstagebarlv.com
DANCE: Catch some moon rays during Marquee’s Drenched After Dark splash bash, where house beatmeister Deorro is manning the booth. 10:30 p.m., $23–$32, inside The Cosmopolitan, marqueelasvegas.com
MONDAY 20 DANCE: Mysterious masked DJ/producer Marshmello is climbing the charts with his recent release, “Alone.” Give it a listen before experiencing his brand of trap-heavy EDM live at XS. 10 p.m., $20–$30, inside Encore, xslasvegas.com
TUESDAY 21 DANCE: Nothing says “Tuesday Night in Vegas” like dancing to techno with a stomach full of tacos. Probably. Techno Taco Tuesday makes it happen at Tacos & Beer. 9 p.m., 3900 Paradise Rd., mntra.vegas
WEDNESDAY 22 DANCE: Beat slinger Skrillex will be “Working for It” at Surrender tonight. 10:30 p.m., $25–$35, inside Encore, surrendernightclub.com EXPERIENCE: Calling all horrible people! Why confine those offensive Cards Against Humanity combos to your home when you can share them publicly at Teams Against Humanity at Bad Beat Brewing? 7 p.m., 7380 Eastgate Rd., Suite 110, Henderson, badbeatbrewing.com HEAR: Billy fucking Idol is bringing his Forever residency back to the House of Blues. It’s a nice day for … an ’80s throwback. 7 p.m., $40, inside Mandalay Bay, houseofblues.com 7
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HOME MEANS NEVADA Tilting the Basin is a solid showing of contemporary art made in the Silver State By Kristen Peterson Photography Krystal Ramirez
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evada’s landscape, generous with open skies, beautiful isolation and distant vistas, is famously unforgiving in its limited resources. At night, sunsets emit color and light rivaled only by the electric corridors of its two famous cities. Scale is everything. We see so far away here. We are so far away here. It’s within this uniquely physical and peculiar psychological realm that JoAnne Northrup of the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno and Las Vegas–based art adviser Michele C. Quinn reached out to artists living in the state’s northern and southern regions, announcing studio visits in aim of examining contemporary art being created here. The result would be an unprecedented exhibit uniting artists navigating Nevada’s urban and rural landscapes. Tilting the Basin: Contemporary Art of Nevada opened in August 2016, featuring 34 artists—17 from Southern Nevada and 17 from Northern Nevada. The broad survey of style, media and technique at the Nevada Museum of Art was designed to showcase significant works created in a vast and somewhat isolated area that lives “on the periphery of mainstream culture,” allowing for “radical experimentation,” according to an exhibit statement. It was a splash—a robust show with a powerful voice for art in the Silver State. Wellcurated and bonded together by the growing relationship between the state’s northern and southern art communities—one with a major art museum, another trying to establish one— its rich commentary, whether direct or not, speaks to Nevada’s topography, public lands, cultures and communities. This week, Tilting makes its Las Vegas debut in a partnership between the northern museum and the in-the-works Art Museum at Symphony Park, giving Southern Nevadans an opportunity to experience the aesthetic and intellect poured into in starkly minimalist and tidy works and complex sculptures made from a lavish garden of divergent material. Textiles, photography and works on paper, glass and wood meet a large installation speaking to the idea of Las Vegas’ urban landscapes shifting and changing in hyperspeed, compared to the millennia it took for the area’s natural geography to form. Rachel Stiff’s abstract landscapes present the bizarre and beautiful melding of the real
and surreal, the subtle and sublime. She pours (literally) the strata of sky in solid colors, horizontal and fluid, above massive, millionsof-years-old rock formations in a mixing of media that, much like Nevada, is both solid and dreamlike. Resounding color, light and form, mixed with harsh terrain, live in Las Vegas artist Sean Slattery’s abstract desert scenes built on themes of popular culture, which meet with reinterpretations of narrative landscapes created by Northern Nevada’s Jeffrey Erickson. In all white, Katie Lewis’ hands-on process of paper punching reflects the topography of Northern Nevada. Then there is the sheer intrigue of Renoarea artist Galen Brown’s work built over broad stretches of time using found material, which contrasts in style with Las Vegas– based Mark Brandvik’s hand-cut, life-size enamel white Volkswagen Westfalia camper reduced to its unmistakable form. As with Las Vegan David Ryan’s minimal abstract works of unabashed color play, Brandvik’s perfection is seductive. The exhibit, designed to bridge the divide between north and south, presents one whole that can’t help but tap into identity. Matthew Couper tackles water shortage, consumption and greed in “Mother’s Milk Aquifer” with a large-scale Spanish colonial style painting made contemporary. Wendy Kveck’s portraits of women and excess through rich strokes and cake-frosting-style meet JK Russ’ otherworldly collages. Brent Sommerhauser’s large bell mouth made out of wooden floor tiles talks with Vegas Seven photographer Krystal Ramirez’s sculptural paper works that build off her internal dialogues about identity. Las Vegas’ Sush Machida, who is known for his use of color in Japanese Edo–inspired Pop Art works, switches it up with hyperrealist lumber: two-by-fours that feature neon graffiti in fluid lines, with the same orderliness and precision of his goldfish paintings seen throughout the community. Tilting the Basin is a strong show that stands on its own (“Would it hold up at Basel?” was a consideration when looking at works), but the exhibit resonates personally with those who live in Nevada. 7
Tilting the Basin: Contemporary Art of Nevada March 17–May 14, Wednesday– Thursday & Saturday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; Fridays, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., 920 S. Commerce Street, 702-201-4253. Opposite page: Tilting the Basin exhibit in Reno; a work by Shawn Hummel; This page, clockwise from top: works by Krystal Ramirez; Sean Slattery; JW Caldwell Ma rch 16 -22, 2017 vegasseven.com
[ CLUB TOUR ]
1 OAK By KAT BOEHRER Photography TOMO
Your Tour Guide: Alyse Stasio As a VIP hostess server at 1 OAK, Alyse Stasio gets deep into the action all night, every night. The Boston native has lived in Las Vegas for about 10 years and has been working at the desert iteration of 1 OAK since its beginning five years ago. “I was one of the openers,” Stasio says. And the multicity franchise (with locations in New York and Los Angeles) has got it down when it comes to bringing the party. The Strip location, nestled inside The Mirage, started with a bang and hasn’t lost momentum. Stasio recalls the venue’s storied history, filled with celebrity guests, flowing bubbly and relationships that last a lifetime. “You never know what your night is going to be,” she says.
Drink Up “I always recommend Champagne—that’s my drink of choice,” Stasio says. In true Las Vegas nightclub fashion, a variety of presentations accompany the delivery of this most decadent libation. Servers and bussers pull out all the bells and whistles—or dragon-themed props and flags, that is—to bring attention to the high rollers and big spenders. During one presentation, a prop car that supports a server and bottle is hoisted into the air by the staff and transported across the club. “The car is my favorite,” she says. “It just works really well with our venue, the way it’s set up, because it’s open. So when [we] do that car presentation, the entire club can see it. People go crazy.”
Snap That The venue provides an atmosphere and ambiance worth snapping for social media. Stasio highlights the features that often pop up on the feeds, including the giant 1 OAK sign above the DJ booth and the iconic “Ended up at 1 OAK” neon, which also lives in the New York and L.A. locations.
Another point of interest is the collection of pillows found lining the booths. “Every time a celebrity comes in, we get a pillow with their name on it,” Stasio explains. “We do that for our big spenders, as well. People will walk around the booths and look at the different names of celebrities that have been in, and they want to take pictures with their pillows.”
The Roster The Las Vegas club turned five years old on March 15, with a performance from hip-hop heavyweight 2 Chainz. According to Stasio, the midweek parties at 1 OAK are pretty much always on and poppin’. “We have amazing local and industry support, so Wednesday is always a super fun party,” says Stasio. In March alone, 1 OAK hosts Lil Jon and O.T.
Genasis, among a variety of DJ mix masters like DJ Gusto and DJ Crooked. Another frequent 1 OAK personality is Scott Disick, who makes stops at the club to host wild nights of partying and debauchery. “He’ll come in and get warmed up and he’ll get on the mic and just say crazy things. It’s very entertaining,” Stasio says.
Ended Up at 1 OAK “We kinda coined the term, ‘You never know who will end up at 1 OAK.’ We made that up because we’ve had so many celebrities come in,” Stasio says. But 1 OAK isn’t just a hangout for the famous. It’s also a good place to meet cool people. “I’ve seen customers at different tables who didn’t know each other become friends. [They] plan trips together to come back to 1 OAK.” 7
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In Case You Missed It
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE NEON REVERB MUSIC FESTIVAL James Woodbridge, co-founder of local indie-music festival Neon Reverb, was happy with March 9–12’s outcome, saying there were “ fantastic, high-energy shows, new music discoveries ... and a great turnout from enthusiastic crowds.” Friday’s bill at Backstage Bar & Billiards brought a lively performance by garage band Night Beats and a solid set by sassy British band Temples. Meanwhile, Beauty Bar held it down for the hip-hop sect with a showcase of some of the city’s sharpest spitters and a captivating presentation by Denver’s Wheelchair Sports Camp. L.A. beat scene veterans Mndsgn and Peanut Butter Wolf kept b-boys’ heads spinning long into the night. The Bunkhouse Saloon’s Saturday show saw a strong set by local act Same Sex Mary, who dressed as Simpsons characters, plus a pure performance by Le Butcherettes that inspired a rare realdeal connection with the crowd. On Sunday, The Bunkhouse featured LVL UP’s guitar-heavy sounds and the feedback of the Acid Sisters. And while the Soul Clap closing party at Oddfellows started off a little slow, NEON REVERB PHOTOS BY KRYSTAL RAMIREZ
the dance floor soon filled with people getting down to the soulful sounds spun by New York City DJ Jonathan Toubin. The dance contest brought out moves good and bad, and even those without hopes of taking home the $100 prize had a righteous time. 7
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