Singer, songwriter, American Teen
Khalid
(kuh-leed) FREE July 20–26, 2017
W HA T TO DO
AF T ER DARK By JASON R. LATHAM
THURSDAY 20 HEAR: Remember those lazy weekends spent
laying in the shade with your love listening to Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun? We do. See the queen tonight at Brooklyn Bowl. 8:30 p.m., $60–$119, at The Linq Promenade, brooklynbowl.com EXPERIENCE: Oh yes, it’s ladies night, and the
feeling’s right at the Golden Nugget’s Gold Diggers club. Thirsty Thursdays means a two-hour complimentary vodka bar for ladies and BOGO drinks with a college ID. Cheers! 9 p.m., goldennuggetlv.com DANCE: Get showered in green when Cash
Cash puts on another “Cash Is King” party at Hakkasan Las Vegas inside MGM Grand. 10:30 p.m., $25–$35, hakkasanlv.com
“Twerk Star” Brillz is playing Intrigue Nightclub at Wynn Las Vegas. See him onstage or check out DJ Konflikt in the venue’s Living Room. 10:30 p.m., $20–$30, intriguevegas.com
FRIDAY 21 EXPERIENCE: Did you hear late-night tours are
happening again at the Neon Museum? If you’re going to see these beloved symbols of the past, see them after dark. One-hour tours run every 20 minutes. 10:20–11:40 p.m., $24–$28, 770 Las Vegas Blvd. North, neonmuseum.org HEAR: It’s another one of those weekends
when Las Vegas reels in a ton of big-time music acts. I’d like to see another city try and top this lineup. The Downtown Las Vegas Events Center hosts the I Love the 90s: The Party Continues tour starring TLC, Rob Base, Coolio, Color Me Badd, Biz Markie and C+C Music Factory. Do you really need another reason to go? 8 p.m., tickets start at $21, 200 S. Third St., dlvec.com And over at the Golden Nugget, metal legends Quiet Riot invite you to “Cum On Feel the Noize.” 8 p.m., $21–$108, goldennuggetlv.com On the Strip, GOAT singer Kenny Rogers brings his farewell tour to Park Theater. Get a seat for his The Gambler’s Last Deal tour. 8 p.m., $36–$138, montecarlo.com Next door at T-Mobile Arena, Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Hall and Oates (or Holland Oates, if you’re an It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fan) join forces with Tears for Fears for what could be the greatest concert of all time. 7 p.m., $50–$150, t-mobilearena.com
DANCE: Once your concert wraps, hit the club and dance the night away. Might we suggest seeing Calvin Harris at Omnia Nightclub inside Caesars Palace? The ticket purchase will get you a copy of Harris’ new album, Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1. 10:30 p.m., $35–$55, omnianightclub.com
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And Mr. Worldwide is back at Planet Hollywood as Pitbull resumes his Time of Our Lives residency inside The Axis. 9 p.m., tickets start at $39, planethollywood.com
Or maybe you’re in the mood for Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi, collectively known as Rae Sremmurd. Tonight, the hip-hop duo plays Drai’s Nightclub on the rooftop of The Cromwell. $40–$60, draisnightlife.com You could try and get up close with BeatBreaker at The Venetian’s Tao Nightclub. 10:30 p.m., $18–$23, taolasvegas.com And if you feel like getting wet, join Stafford Brothers for Nightswim at Encore Beach Club. 10:30 p.m., $25–$35, at Encore at Wynn Las Vegas, encorebeachclub.com
SATURDAY 22 EXPERIENCE: Showcase artistic talents in a weedfriendly environment at CannabisTours.com’s Puff, Pass and Paint class. Art supplies are included, but you’ve got to bring your own bud. 7–9 p.m., address revealed after registration, cannabistours.com
Have a game night with the girls at Santa Fe Station’s Ladies Night Bingo event. Ladies drink free! 11 p.m., stationcasinosevents.com HEAR: Fleetwood Mac icons Lindsay Buck-
ingham and Christine McVie are touring in
support of their self-titled new album. Catch the duo at Park Theater. 8 p.m., $41–$235, at Monte Carlo, montecarlo.com You’re in for a huge treat over at The Joint.
Third Eye Blind, which rocked last year’s Life
Is Beautiful Music & Art Festival, is performing its first album front-to-back during their 20th-anniversary Summer Gods Tour. It should be amazing. 7:30 p.m., $40–$201, inside Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, hardrockhotel.com Do you miss the aughts? So do we, occasionally. Relive them during the Good Charlotte concert at Fremont Street Experience. 9 p.m., fremontstreetexperience.com DANCE: Embassy Nightclub celebrates Global Saturdays with some of the hottest international music that you should have in your playlist. Midnight, 3355 Procyon St., embassylv.com
Over at Hakkasan Las Vegas, the Summer of Tiësto rolls on, with an assist from Dzeko and OB One in the Ling Ling Club. 10:30 p.m., $20–$30, inside MGM Grand, hakkasanlv.com And it’s not often we get to see Major Lazer come together as one in the club. Tonight, Diplo, Jillionaire and Walshy Fire are playing XS Nightclub. 10 p.m., $30–$50, inside Encore at Wynn Las Vegas, xslasvegas.com
SUNDAY 23 HEAR: Sam’s Town Live hosts Cubatonazo, featur-
ing Dayran y El Happy, Osmani Garcia, Chacal, Yakarta, Taiger, Yulien Oviedo, El Chappy and more. 8 p.m., $50, inside Sam’s Town Gambling Hall and Hotel, samstownlv.com And rapper RJ brings his Mr. L.A. Tour to Backstage Bar & Billiards. Sad Boy Loko and Fresko are along for the ride. 8 p.m., $20–$25, 601 Fremont St., backstagebarlv.com
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DANCE: The Chainsmokers are headlining
Nightswim at XS Nightclub tonight, so grab your board shorts and bikinis. Every purchase of two or more tickets gets you a digital copy of the duo’s Memories … Do Not Open album. 10 p.m., $50– $100, at Encore at Wynn Las Vegas, xslasvegas.com
And Party Favor is lighting up Hakkasan Las Vegas. 10:30 p.m., $20–$30, inside MGM Grand, hakkasanlv.com
MONDAY 24 TASTE: Planet Hollywood’s Cabo Wabo Cantina
has a menu of specials to help you celebrate National Tequila Day. You can get 50 percent off select tequila shots, $13 CW Margaritas and the Margarita Verde for $14. If you can’t make it tonight, the promotion runs through July 28. Inside Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino, cabowabo.com SLS Las Vegas is offering a National Tequila Day Cocktail Passport redeemable for tequila drinks at Monkey Bar, Katsuya and Umami Burger, Beer Garden & Sports Book. You can purchase one at any of those restaurants and go to town. 5 p.m., $25, slslasvegas.com And if you’re up late, Crazy Horse III is offering BOGO Casa Noble Crystal Tequila shots for $19 or a full bottle for $450. Please drink responsibly, and don’t be that person at the strip club. crazyhorse3.com
EVERYBODY’S FREE TO PLAY BY THE POOL Ladies and gentleman of the Las Vegas pool scene, in the words of the great Baz Luhrmann, “wear sunscreen.”
FRIDAY 21
If Flosstradamus could offer only one tip for the future from the stage at Encore Beach Club, sunscreen would be it. 11 a.m., $20–$30, at Encore at Wynn Las Vegas, encorebeachclub.com The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proven by DJ D-Miles, who would want you to protect your skin if you’re going topless at Bare Pool Lounge. 11 a.m., $10–$20, at The Mirage, barepoollv.com Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth while dancing to Jerzy at Mandalay Bay’s Daylight Beach Club. 11 a.m., $20–$30, daylightvegas.com Oh, never mind, you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you will look back at photos of yourself in the crowd for Sak Noel at Drai’s Beach Club and recall, in a way you can’t grasp now, how much possibility lay before you, and how fabulous you really looked. 11 a.m., $20–$30, at The Cromwell, draisbeachclub.com
SATURDAY 22
Dash Berlin. 10:30 p.m., $18–$32, inside The Cos-
Don’t worry about the future. Or worry. But either way, see Borgore perform at the Hard Rock’s Rehab Beach Club. 11 a.m., $20–$40, rehablv.com
Or feel the love at Jewel Nightclub’s locals party, Flawless Mondays, featuring Faed. 10:30 p.m., $20–$30 (locals free), Aria Resort & Casino, jewelnightclub.com
Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll divorce at 40. Maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken at the DJs from Mars concert at the GO Pool. 9 a.m., $15, at Flamingo Las Vegas, gopoolvegas.com
DANCE: Head over to Marquee Nightclub to see
mopolitan, marqueelasvegas.com
TUESDAY 25 TASTE: Enjoy $5 beer, wine and shot specials at the weekly Party at the Park between New York-New York and Monte Carlo. Participating restaurants include Beerhaus, California Pizza Kitchen, Bruxie and Sake Rok. 5–9 p.m., theparkvegas.com DANCE: Cool off at Swim Night at Drai’s Beach Club. 10 p.m., $20–$30, at The Cromwell, draisnightlife.com
And “Low to the Floor” artist Burns takes a turn behind the decks at Omnia Nightclub. 10:30 p.m., $20–$40, omnianightclub.com
WEDNESDAY 26 DANCE: Have yourself a midweek dance party with DJ Spider at Light nightclub. You’ve earned it. 10:30 p.m., $26–$38, inside Mandalay Bay, thelightvegas.com 7
Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or of what other people think of it while you’re waving to Scott Disick at Aria Resort & Casino’s Liquid Pool Lounge. 11 a.m., $10–$20, liquidpoollv.com Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in front of the DJ booth while Kaskade plays MGM Grand’s Wet Republic. 11 a.m., $20–$30, wetrepublic.com
SUNDAY 23
Catch French electronic DJ/producer Watermät at The Cosmopolitan’s Marquee Dayclub. 11 a.m., $23–$33, marqueelasvegas.com Or see Machine Gun Kelly, maybe best known for his “Bad Things” collab track with Camila Cabello, at Rehab Beach Club. 11 a.m., $20–$40, rehablv.com Accept certain inalienable truths. Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. And Dillon Francis will delight at Encore Beach Club. 11 a.m., $20–$30, encorebeachclub.com Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you’re 40, it will look 85, and that’s not the look you want if you’re going to the Sundazed Pool Party at The Artisan Boutique Hotel. Noon, artisanhotel.com Be careful whose advice you buy. Be patient with those who supply it. But trust me on the sunscreen. –J.R.L.
By ZONEIL MAHARAJ Photography KACIE TOMITA
Khalid vs. Khaled At 19, R&B singer Khalid makes the music you
might expect of someone his age. His stellar debut, American Teen, is very much what the title suggests: a journal of teenage life in 2017. On his chart-topping “Location,” he pleads for a GPS pin drop, singing “I don’t want to fall in love off of subtweets.” On “Young, Dumb & Broke,” he sings with the frankness of a high school senior with a full-ride college scholarship: “What’s fun about commitment, when we have our life to live?” What sets the Texas teen’s music apart from his contemporaries is presentation. While modern R&B favors trapped-out beats and druggy sex fantasies, Khalid’s music has a timeless glow that’s part shimmery pop and part soulful self-awareness. He’s a voice of the youth, but not exclusively for the youth. Even if you were 19 years ago, Khalid’s matter-of-fact ruminations will make you feel nostalgic for that summer of 19__, fitting in just as perfectly on a John Hughes soundtrack as they do in today’s clubs. That might be why he’s so swiftly risen to the top, snagging collaborations with artists like Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne and Calvin Harris—and why his July 22 show at Brooklyn Bowl sold out in a matter of days. Yet, despite the teen’s success, people still aren’t sure how to pronounce his name. That might be due to the ubiquity of DJ Khaled, a beloved, oft-parodied social-media celebrity who makes damn well certain everyone knows his name by shouting it on every one of his songs. In fact, in an April interview with New York’s Power 105.1 FM, Khalid (pronounced kuh-leed) said he gets called kha-led at least five times a day. “It’s something I’ve been called all my life on accident. I guess I just accepted it. When I was younger I would try to correct people, but I’m like, they’ll find out on their own,” he told host Angie Martinez. “If I keep working the way that I’m working now, there will be a separation and people will be like, ‘That is Khalid.’” Pronunciation aside, there are quite a few differences between the two media darlings. Here are the distinguishing factors.
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ONE’S A SINGER, THE OTHER’S A BELOVED SOCIAL-MEDIA CELEBRITY
Khalid
Khaled
Is:
Singer-songwriter.
We’re not entirely sure what he does, aside from coming up with catchphrases, getting a bunch of rappers together for his albums and Snapchatting more than a 41-year-old should.
Best known for:
“Location,” which peaked at 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. It later got blessed with a remix featuring verses from Lil Wayne and Kehlani.
“I’m On One,” a 2011 cut that features Drake, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne and was produced by Drizzy’s Toronto team. Khaled’s only contribution is shouting “DJ Khaled” on the song.
Social-media luck:
Got a big break when Kylie Jenner sang along to “Location” on Snapchat.
Once got stranded at night on his Jet Ski, documenting it on Snapchat. “Please never try to drive” Jet Skis at night, he tweeted.
Musical family:
Khalid’s mother was a singer. “It was almost like she had to let go of her dream ... to take care of me, and now she’s living her dream vicariously through me,” he told radio host Angie Martinez.
His 4-month-old son Asadh executive-produced his recent album, Grateful. He told Jimmy Kimmel that Asadh’s reactions to songs indicated how good they were. “Believe it or not, the poops and the throw-ups are super blessings. Those are actually the real good ones,” he said.
Looks like:
A teddy bear with a high-top afro.
A husky version of Vegas Seven digital director Zoneil Maharaj.
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or the uninitiated, Venice Beach, California, can be easily mistaken for a grungy hippie commune. Let’s not blame the squares for this misconception, though— they probably missed the canals and just about everything else off the boardwalk that makes this beach town so, um, super rad. That description is especially true for the city’s Abbot Kinney Boulevard, thanks to its resident artists and surfers perusing the road’s niche boutiques and flavorful restaurants. But nowhere is the GQ magazine–designated “coolest block in America” best encapsulated than in its bar scene—and The Otheroom is its pinnacle. Boasting dim lighting, Shazam-worthy tunes and an ambiance suited for a low-key celeb set, Otheroom debuted its hip, understated touch in Las Vegas during a grand opening weekend from July 13 to 16. Located in The Forum Shops at Caesars adjacent to Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Snow Crab, the 3,200-square-foot lounge and patio is a long way from its original 300-square-foot outpost in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, which opened nearly 30 years ago. NYC locations in the West Village and Tribeca followed, with the Venice space arriving more than a decade ago. On deck at the Strip location is Otheroom’s notable wine list (featuring a Bordeaux Grand Cru by the glass) and a strong selection of spirits, including its Japanese whisky experience—Hibiki and Ichiro’s, to name a few— and Macallan, owner Meddy Sahebi’s go-to. Though the NYC and L.A. bars heavily focus on wine and craft beers, this location also emphasizes a cocktail menu. A good starting point is the Deer In Headlights: Glenfiddich 15, Benedictine, lemon, lavender honey and the cocktail-elusive Lustau PX Sherry. There’s even alcohol–infused soft serve. According to Sahebi, Las Vegas’ Otheroom is the first place in the nation to have a Frostbite machine, which makes the boozy frozen treats that are primed to give the frosé trend a run for its money. “We are going for the wow factor,” Sahebi says. Expect it to be a novelty for the tourists who are likely to find their way to the Strip-side patio. Inside, Otheroom boasts industrial finishes and a rotating collection of for-sale art (works by Las Vegas-based Sam Hon are up first), making the atmosphere ideal for the pre-dinner and club crowd, as well as those looking for a latenight hangout. And with bar bites (including an off-menu item or two), free valet parking at The Forum Shops’ south entrance and not a TV in sight, the vibe is right. 7
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A trendy Los Angeles and New York City bar sets up shop on the Strip
Pictured: The Otheroom’s Grow a Pear cocktail, made with Akashi white oak Japanese whisky, Avua Amburana cachaça, St. George Spiced Pear liqueur and Carpano Antica vermouth. The Otheroom Daily, 11 a.m.–close, inside The Forum Shops at Caesars, theotheroomlv.com
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PUBLIC CONSUMPTION A FEW SIPS FROM THE BEVERAGE PROGRAM AT ROBERT IRVINE’S PUBLIC HOUSE By BOB BARNES
LAST MAY, celebrity chef Robert Irvine drew attention to his announcement of plans for a dining concept at the Tropicana when he rappelled 22 stories down the side of the resort. Now, a year later, the Food Network TV star and host of the syndicated talk show The Robert Irvine Show opens his first Las Vegas restaurant, Robert Irvine’s Public House, on July 27. The 275-seat space, situated on the northern side of Tropicana’s casino floor, offers a varied beverage program. As the eatery’s motto is “There is no greater happiness than a full pint and a full plate,” it should come as no surprise that beer is a star, with 32 taps and 30 cans and bottles offered. The selection includes brews that are not the usual suspects on the Strip, such as Prairie BOMB Imperial Stout, Evil Twin Old Fashioned Lemonade IPA, Unibroue La Fin du Monde and Mikkeller Beer Geek Dessert. Local beers are not left out, with the likes of Able Baker Brewing IPA and Chris Kael Impale’d Ale, as well as Tenaya Creek 702 Pale Ale, Hauling Oats Oatmeal Stout and Bonanza Brown Ale. More than a dozen signature cocktails are available, and as Patrón is Irvine’s spirit of choice, you’ll likely be enjoying El Karma— Patrón Reposado, Mixwell Mojave Grapefruit Soda, lime wedges, grapefruit peel and chili aleppo salt. The restaurant also has a namesake cocktail, the P.H.T. (Public House Tonic), a concoction with Plymouth Gin, Fever Tree Elderflower Tonic, a cucumber strip, lemon and lime wheels and fresh mint. Irvine emphasizes that all of the libations are made with fresh fruit and vegetables. Several cocktails use beet or carrot vodka from Boardroom Spirits—“a line of vodkas, gin, Scotch and bourbon—and we’ll be using all of them,” he says. Irvine is a partner in the company. Oenophiles have options of red, white and sparkling, with an emphasis on California and Pacific Northwest wineries, along with selections from Italy, New Zealand and France. Brand highlights include Eroica Riesling, Whispering Angel Rosé, Argyle Pinot Noir, Stags’ Leap Artemis Cabernet and Mt. Beautiful Sauvignon Blanc. “We have something for everyone and a lot of drinks you won’t find anywhere else,” Irvine says. “I want people to get out of their comfort zones and try something different. And you’ll be able to enjoy a good drink and a good meal and not have to spend your mortgage.” 7
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Robert Irvine’s Public House 11 a.m.–10 p.m. daily Inside Tropicana Las Vegas Beer, glasses of wine and cocktails $7–$22 troplv.com