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NOV. 24-30, 2011 » VOL. 19, NO. 9

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7 SOCRATES IN SODOM Double standards for an

elite few, as seen through the lens of Huck Finn

10 THE WEEK 10 Domestic violence often goes unreported when the victims are LGBT

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Love 2 Dance Onstage, dancers are perfect. They’re radiant and toned in all the right places. They’re light-footed, beautiful and carefree. Off stage, though, they’re human, just as prone to missteps and tribulations as the rest of us. Skeptical? Check out Love 2 Dance, the fourth and last showing of the year, in which professional dancers from the likes of Lion King, Phantom, O and others bare their souls through dance, using the craft to portray personal highs and lows. Video interviews with the dancers will set the stage for each piece, and styles will range from modern to ballroom and ballet. In a neat romantic detail,the show was created and choreographed by husband-wife team Michael Kessler and Melinda Jackson.The pair will re-enact how they met in 1987 in a New York City ballet class,and their subsequent world tour.Here’s to being human.Kristy Totten.3 p.m.; South Point,9777 Las Vegas Blvd.South,797-8055, www.AmericanDance.biz ,$25-$50.

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WE THINK

“Make it rain, lobbyists, make it rain!”

News for gnats and other creatures with short attention spans 187-125: Combined score of the

UNLV Rebels vs. their Sunday and Thursday opponents, Morgan State and Canisius

What’s a Canisius: Exactly. (An-

swer: a small private college in Buffalo, N.Y.)

2012: Incoming UNLV freshmen subject to new freshman curriculum, to help them adjust to college life, says UNLV Professor Carl Reiber Plan includes: A “First Year Experi-

ence” class, a “Second Year Experience” and a “Culminating Experience”

Um, that sounds like: A happy ending, yes

We’ll need to see some evidence:

“We are an intellectually based society now.” — Reiber

One: References to Hitler in comment thread under Vegas Inc. story about high-speed train

LV must attract talented people:

Incredibly surprising conclusion of new study of city’s economy by UNLV professor and grad student

Another surprising conclusion:

Turn UNLV into strong research university (because we need more studies)

Also: More honorary consuls! (To Also: Push for online gaming Overlooked suggestion: Legal-

ize culminating experiences in Clark County Sources: Sun, Review-Journal, Vegas Inc.

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ILLUSTRATION: JASON CROSBY

encourage foreign visitation)

Just as we were ramping up our good cheer for the holidays, a couple of recent news stories rebooted our cynicism. One was a legislative follow-up about a proposed law that would’ve forced lobbyists to disclose money they spend wooing politicians all the time. (Now they only have to declare what they spend when the biennial Legislature is in session.) Surprise, that bill died. Naturally, lawmakers and lobbyists affected wide-eyed disbelief that anyone would think something untoward might occur. We’re friends, too, they say, we go to dinner now and then — must we declare every little thing? That the obvious answer, YES! — because it would be nice for the rest of us to have a little faith in government — has clearly eluded some of them. Meanwhile, officials are thinking about killing the state ethics commission. Sheesh. We could use some good cheer right now — in fact, make ours a double.

COLUMN

SOCRATES in SODOM BY CHIP MOSHER

Huck Finn, LVA and the double standard

he Las Vegas Academy is, according composed by Stephen Sondheim, perhaps to some, our prima donna school that some semblance of Twain’s satire might have receives special treatment for its talremained intact. In the Academy’s version, ented students — to demonstrate how though performed by an energetic cast, there progressive the Klark Klannish School District was more Shania than Mark Twain on display. can be. Since it recruits kids from every school Consequently, few dissenting voices have zone in the valley, its critics often cite the brain been heard regarding this production. What drain imposed on less fortunate schools struga lovely event: Audiences were treated to gling to meet the standards of the national America’s ongoing favorite word, plus a education reform movement. Simply put, it’s a rollicking, if racially violent, story with lots case of the district playing favorites at the price of syrupy music. Standing ovations and of leaving others behind, subtly corporatizing pleasantries all around, courtesy of the Klark some schools while ghettoizing others. Klannish School District. Nowhere has this been more evident All very strange. Why? Because, in 2005, than with the Academy’s recent theatrical a black social studies teacher at Canyon production of Big River, a musical based on Springs High School, Ron Turner, was basiMark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry cally run out of town, like a vagabond Twain Finn. A book banned frequently in America character, for trying to put on a similar play for its “coarseness,” Twain’s original tale for Black History Month. His crime? Turnuses the word “nigger” more than 200 er’s original script — a real history lesson times, often confusing the — employed the N-word book-banning crowd when about a dozen times and had SIX YEARS AGO, it comes to understanda violent scene involving ing Twain’s satire. In the the Ku Klux Klan. In other TEACHER RON Academy’s contemporary words, a serious rendition TURNER WAS musical version, the N-word of Twain’s themes, without BASICALLY RUN reportedly appeared about the tunes. OUT OF TOWN 15 times. And in a lengthy Canyon Springs students Review-Journal article, this were so engaged in this FOR TRYING production was promoted project that, when refused TO PUT ON A on the fact it would proudly permission to perform it SIMILAR PLAY. and realistically portray the and when Turner’s job was N-word. threatened for promoting “I have trouble with the a play with the N-word, word, but (the play) wouldn’t be dramatically 100-150 kids reportedly protested loudly but accurate (without it), and would take away peacefully at the school. from the power of the times,” the Academy’s But eventually, as these things go, the white director, John Morris, reportedly said. turmoil quieted down. Teacher Turner was Yet Morris seems to have missed something removed from his school. He soon disapimportant. What renders Big River totally peared from town. The status quo returned inaccurate from Twain’s original intent is neito the Klark Klannish School District. And, ther the usage nor censorship of the N-word, six years later, kids at our elite arts academy but rather the silly, sentimental music accomhave been allowed to put on a banal musical panying the script, written by late goofball with the prolific use of the N-word? Hmmm. musician Roger Miller. Had the lyrics been CHIP MOSHER is a simple classroom teacher.

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KNAPPSTER BY GEORGE KNAPP

Obligatory Thanksgiving column!

t’s right there in the Columnist’s Code of Conduct. When Thanksgiving rolls around, the columnist is obliged — by law — to write something about all the things for which he is thankful. Rainbows, puppies, peace on Earth, the kind of stuff a Miss America contestant might include in her application essay. The only acceptable alternative is to write something about Turkeys of the Year — people who deserve a good thumping. Well, I’m not going to write a column about things for which I am thankful. And I’m not going to make a list of Turkeys of the Year.

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This column is going to be about leftovers. Get it? Thanksgiving. Leftovers. This offers the same benefits as the other item-driven columns in that I can string together a whole bunch of unrelated tidbits without the trouble of tying it together in some coherent way. For instance, this issue of CityLife will hit the streets one day before the Review-Journal trots out one of its traditional Thanksgiving editorials. Usually, I have to wait until the week after the R-J Turkey Day blast is printed, but not this time. In a way, this is almost like making a prediction, although one does not need a crystal ball to know what the newspa-

per will carry as its central holiday message. have creeped me out more this past year than The main one they have used for the past 20 the stuff now swirling around TV producer years or so is a variation on the theme of how Dana Gentry.Dana used to work with us at lucky and fortunate Native Americans are to KLAS Channel 8 but departed along with Jon live in white America. Oh, yes, life on the resRalston some time ago.Now she hangs her ervation is oh, so good. It always struck me as hat at KSNV Channel 3.Back when she was at the reportorial equivalent of adding insult to Channel 8,she started an investigation of some injury, or an excessive touchdown celebration, truly shady-sounding business dealings by a for a rich white newspaper to preach to Indian man named Jeff Guinn,son of a very popular tribes about how Europeans came, saw and Nevada governor.Ms.Gentry is as tough as conquered. They also raped, ravaged, pillaged, they come,and when she gets on the trail of a infected, cheated and stole. bad guy,she never lets up. Maybe if the Indians had won, they I don’t know enough about Jeff Guinn to would write their own editorials about how say whether he is a bad guy, but I know that thankful they are that the white invaders someone tried to hire private detectives to spy all died and that Native Tribes still control on Dana Gentry, to follow her around and see the continent from sea to shining sea. But I what she does, whom she meets, where she really doubt they would be so crass as to brag goes. I am pretty sure someone was watchbecause Red Men still run the place. Not on ing outside her house for awhile and saw Thanksgiving, of all holidays. That would something that they think is a no-no. It’s really be a low-class thing to do. nothing criminal, mind you, but the hired spy That said, let me say that I am thanklurking in the bushes outside Dana’s home ful — damn, didn’t mean to do that — that figures that he caught Dana in a violation of newspapers like the R-J are still around. I am journalistic ethics. The spy is dead wrong, but one of the shrinking number of people who it was just sleazy enough for a lawyer to take still likes to hold an actual newspaper in my to court and then ask a judge to force Dana to hands, sit around in the sun prove that these unfounded and read it from cover to suspicions are not true. PEOPLE WHO GET cover. Whether I agree with Are you following that? A the R-J’s editorial stance journalist pursuing a hardALL OF THEIR — and for the most part I do hitting story gets spied NEWS FROM FOX not — I am happy to spend upon by a hired gun, and is SCARE ME. a few bucks to help keep the then expected to open up R-J in business and hope her personal life to prove that others do the same. she did not violate ethical (Besides, it comes with the Las Vegas Sun in standards, a violation for which there is not a the middle.) So many people take advantage shred of actual proof? of reading the newspaper online, as if all of Every journalist in this state should be those columns and news stories and features screaming bloody murder at this eruption of fall off the newspaper tree or something. slime on the part of whomever hired the spy Without the actual newspaper staff to write and whomever authorized such a pathetic all the material that appears online, readers witch hunt within the framework of a public would get their information from, who, blogcourthouse. This was outrageous from the gers? It would not be quite the same. start and it can’t be tolerated. Maybe other It also strikes me as important to pay atjournalists need to now follow Dana’s lead tention to viewpoints other than the ones and help nail down the bigger story: What we already hold dear. I disagree with the R-J kind of dirtbag would authorize that kind of pretty much every day, but I read the paper surreptitious crap? because it is vital to understand the other side Hey wait, I’m out of space. I still have a of issues and debates. People who get all of leftover about the taping of Oscar Goodman’s their news from Fox, for instance, scare me. new TV show, as told by those who were inIt’s like they’ve been hypnotized, and they are side the “courtroom.” not all that interested in hearing views other Maybe I will save it for my “Christmas than what they are told by Hannity or O’Reilly, Presents” column. or the Holiest of Holies, the Rush Man. This is GEORGE KNAPP is a Peabody Award-winning simply not healthy, even if Rush happened to investigative reporter for KLAS Channel 8. Reach him at be right, which doesn’t happen very often. gknapp@klastv.com. On the subject of journalism,few things

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NOVEMBER 24, 2011 | CITYLIFE

THE WEEK

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A vigil for slain Garage bartender Phil Wells was held outside the bar on the night of his death.

Unfair ﬁght When gay, lesbian and transgender relationships turn violent, victims may feel they have nowhere to turn BY AMY KINGSLEY

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Phil Wells was no poster boy for domestic violence. The outgoing bartender had a Facebook page and a gaggle of friends. He wasn’t bruised, withdrawn, skittish. And his sexuality and gender — gay and male — didn’t fit the profile at all.

the other, until it comes to blows. Of course, that’s not how it always ends. Control takes many forms. Some partners restrict social interaction. Others get cheap, holding out on the money. And gay relationships have their own, unique kids of control. A vicious partner can threaten to out someone, or cut off contact with nonbiological children, thanks to imperfect adoption laws. A But when his ex-boyfriend, Tracy Kauffman, allegedly gunned partner’s HIV status can be used as a weapon of control. him down Nov. 14 at the bar where he worked, Wells became an A person who isn’t out at work or to family is not only more vulunfortunate statistic and an object lesson in false assumptions. nerable to those kinds of threats, but also less likely to report the Gay men, women and transsexuals experience domestic violence abuse. The victim may not want to reveal their sexual orientation to about as often as straight people do. Only you might not know it police or authorities, or even to someone trying to help them. That’s until someone gets killed. one of the biggest obstacles that keeps gay, lesbian and “People always ask me if gay people have it easier transgender victims from seeking help. And many vicin relationships,” said Candice Nichols, executive “MEN THINK tims may feel they will not be taken seriously. director of the Gay and Lesbian Community Center “I’ve heard the stories,” Nichols said. “I’ve heard of THAT MEN of Southern Nevada.“Well, no. It’s a relationship, and officers laughing at two men on a domestic violence CANNOT BE therein lies the issue. We have the same difficulties as call.” VICTIMS.” straight relationships.” The gay community isn’t exempt from some of The statistics support her point. About one-third the stereotypes that prevent people from coming JANE HEENAN forward. of people in LGBT relationships experience some kind of domestic violence. That’s about the same as “They see this as a heterosexual problem. There is a the rate among straight people. subtle or not-so-subtle denial that this can’t happen And that’s not the only similarity. The same dynamic plays out to us,” said Jane Heenan, a licensed therapist and community serin all violent relationships — gay or straight. One partner seeks to vices director of Equality Nevada. “Men think that men cannot be control and dominate, and slowly escalates his or her power over victims, and that is a very difficult barrier to overcome. The same

thing happens with women. They feel that women cannot be perpetrators.” All of this is complicated by the fact that victims in same-sex relationships are more likely to fight back, Nichols said. That can make it legitimately difficult for police to determine who is the primary aggressor. “In my own personal experience, I have arrested men and women for domestic violence,” said Officer Laura Meltzer, a spokeswoman for Metro. “In cases of a gay or lesbian couple, sometimes you have both as a suspect. Sometimes they are both subject to arrest.” Gay, lesbian and transgender victims might not feel welcome in places that provide services for battered women. In Southern Nevada, agencies such as Shade Tree, Safe Nest and Safe House will help anyone who walks through the door or calls a hot line, but they cater primarily to women and children, and may not seem like an option for a gay man or transgender victim. Lisa Lynn Chapman, a public-information specialist for Safe Nest, said the agency offers the same services for men and women, including providing safe housing for people in danger. Victims who want to call and make a safety plan or explore their legal options can do it anonymously, without disclosing their gender,sexuality or the gender of their partner. “People in same-gender relationships are some of the least likely to report domestic violence,” Chapman said. “There is a pressure not to look bad in the mainstream community, and some of them are not willing to come forward and out themselves.” Heenan and several partners from other organizations are working on an effort to make service providers such as Safe Nest, the Rape Crisis Center and Safe House more accessible to gays, lesbians and transgender people. Even though they offer services, their volunteers and employees may say things or make assumptions that make LGBT people feel unwelcome, she said. “These organizations are not LGBT inclusive, and it’s wrong that they’re not,” Heenan said. “It doesn’t mean that they’re doing bad work, but now is the time for change.” Friends of Wells held vigils to honor him. The bartender moved to Las Vegas from Knoxville more than a year ago, and he might have thought he left any bad stuff behind. But if the allegations against Kauffman are true, something evil followed him across the country. Although Kauffman probably caught Wells by surprise, it might not have been the first time he’d shown an interest in hurting his ex-boyfriend. That’s just not the way these things usually work. “By the time violence escalates in a domestic relationship to someone getting hit, there have been creeping incursions of violence,” Heenan said. “Domestic violence is always a problem that escalates.”

A little bit nuclear

Some Nevada Republicans push a controversial compromise on Yucca BY DENNIS MYERS

IN AUGUST, Nevada Assemblyman Pat Hickey co-authored an essay that ran in the Unification Church newspaper in the nation’s capital, the Washington Times. The essay called for Nevada’s Yucca Mountain to become a dump for highlevel nuclear wastes. Hickey is a Republican, one of several elected officials who have been edging closer to all-out support of storing high level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. For years, the state kept a relatively unified front of opposition to allowing the lethal waste into the state. The ascendancy of U.S. Sen. Harry Reid has virtually halted progress on the project, and that gives Republicans more freedom to talk about previously unthinkable possibilities without actually subjecting the state to risk. This is happening at the same time that GOP presidential candidates Ron Paul, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney have endorsed Nevada’s opposition to the dump. In the U.S. Senate race in 2010, Republicans Danny Tarkanian, Sue Lowden and Sharron Angle all took vaguely pro-waste dump positions and all their candidacies failed. Some campaign consultants, while granting that many, many other

factors were involved, thought that was a warning that deserved some attention, but it was little noticed. SomenewRepublicanstanceson Yucca are nuanced, often involving reprocessing of waste. U.S. Rep. Joe Heck and his newly elected colleague Mark Amodei — whose district includes the mountain — are both taking this route. During his successful campaign to unseat Democrat Dina Titus in 2010, Heck talked about reprocessing. In July, he filed an amendment that sought to divert funding for the Yucca Mountain project to nuclear waste reprocessing. It did not specify that any reprocessing be done at Yucca, but some nuclear experts consider that the implication of the amendment. Heck’s approach, if used at Yucca Mountain, would not change much. If reprocessing was done at Yucca, the same waste the state is trying to keep out would just be brought to Nevada for reprocessing — and likely would produce still more waste. (Heck’s amendment was ruled out of order.) Recently, John Oceguera, Heck’s likely opponent in next year’s election, issued a statement that read in part,“I want to send a clear message to Joe Heck: Nevadans cannot afford dangerous radioactive waste in their back yards.” In an interview with the Sun edito-

THE WASTE THAT WOULD GO TO YUCCA WOULD BE THE SAME WASTE THE STATE IS TRYING TO KEEP OUT. rial board in August, Amodei supported Heck’s approach, but stopped short of calling for reprocessing at Yucca. “Why can’t we do the R and D [research and development] for reprocessing here?” Amodei asked. “Why can’t we do a best practices center here? Why can’t we do nuclear safety here? I think there are opportunities to make that something other than a nuclear landfill.” Amodei also argues that Nevada cannot decline the waste dump and then turn around and seek other, less hazardous projects for the state.

“If you fund it at zero, then you’re put in the position of going back and saying in these economic times of budgeting, ‘Oh, by the way, now that we asked you to zero it out, we’d like you to fund other stuff.’ I just think it’s a heavier lift,” he said. That assertion is sharply disputed by Democrats and some Republicans, who say the state should not be forced to endanger its populace to qualify for safer federal projects. Neither Heck or Amodei volunteers an explanation for how all this would be paid for — reprocessing is extremely expensive. Moreover, both finesse the fact that the result would be the same: The waste that would go to Yucca Mountain would be the same waste the state is trying to keep out. “It really is the very same high-level nuclear waste!” Pacific Northwest nuclear activist Gerry Pollet said in an e-mail message to the Reno News & Review in 2010,when Tarkanian,Lowden and Angle were promoting alternatives for Yucca. “Thereprocessingproposalistoreprocess the fuel rods from reactors, melting them down to extract Pu [plutonium] and U [uranium], rather than simply burying the fuel rods in a deep geologic repository.” In addition, it’s not like reprocessing gets rid of the waste problem. In fact, some scientists say reprocessing produces more waste than existed before the reprocessing — which would increase, not reduce, the pressure for using Nevada as a dump. “The interest in reprocessing is partly based on false claims by the reprocessing industry that the technology simplifies the nuclear waste disposal problem by reducing the hazard and volume of waste,” according to a Union of Concerned Scientists Report.“Forinstance,theFrenchcompany Areva, which reprocesses French spent nuclear fuel, claims that reprocessing ‘reduces the volume of waste by a factor of at least four.’ This statement is contradicted by recent data from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which show that reprocessing greatly increases the total volume of radioactive waste, compared to direct disposal of spent fuel.” Finally, reprocessing would require a change in federal law and in national nuclear policy that has existed for 34 » CONTINUED ON P12 a

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years. President Carter banned reprocessing of commercial reactor spent nuclear fuel on April 7, 1977, because of nuclear proliferation and terrorism concerns. Heck or Amodei have not proposed legislation to change that.

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before a federal judge ruled it unconstitutional. Can you guess which one is not an FDA image?

Not so green

Are pot farms on public land harming the environment? BY HEIDI KYSER

At least one lineage of pot-smokers is portrayed as tree-hugging, live-and-let-live types. For them, the marijuana growing and distribution industry may need to develop a “certified eco-friendly” label, because these days, chances are pretty good their pot is wreaking havoc on the environment. The problem has come about with the emergence of large-scale outdoor growing operations — often on public lands — that disrupt natural ecosystems. As law enforcement begins cracking down on these operations locally, environmentalists are wondering what’s being done to save the animals and habitat destroyed by the invasive species that pot has become. POT IN THE DESERT? The mountainside marijuana-growing business has been thriving in Nevada, financially speaking, for several years. In 2010 there were five raids on “significant marijuana grows” on public lands, processed by or with the assistance of the Department of Public Safety’s Investigation Division. They reaped 18,552 plants with an estimated street value of $39.8 million. Those were in Humboldt, Lincoln and Washoe counties, but the problem has made its way south to Clark County, too. In August, a multi-agency law-enforcement team raided an outdoor growing operation in the Deer Creek area of Mount Charleston, in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area. Agents cut down, bundled and hauled off more than 4,000 plants, according to published reports. In September, a raid near Carpenter Canyon, also in

the Spring Mountains, reportedly netted more than 1,000 plants. At the time, law-enforcement officials told the press they believed they’d hit only the tip of the iceberg, and expected to clear out a half-dozen or more similar sites in the area. Resources on outdoor marijuana cultivation say it requires good dirt and plenty of water, so the high desert may not seem like an ideal location. Areas like the Spring Mountains, however, offer both water and fertile soil — along with another key characteristic: cover. At GreenMansPage.com, the authors describe the ability to hide plants among native flora as “an art and a skill”: “The cover should be both tall enough to keep people from spotting it and thick enough to discourage them from wandering too close to it. The best foliage to accomplish this is a large patch of big sticker bushes. If that’s not available, look for foliage that grows to a height of six to eight feet by the fall and is far enough away from where someone might stray.” CUTTING A HOLE IN THE ECOSYSTEM The trouble is, an ideal pot-growing location doesn’t actually exist in the Spring Mountains. The landscape has to be altered in order to create one. Water, flora and fauna are displaced or even killed to make way for the cash crop. Kristy Kalkowski, spokeswoman for the U.S. Forest Service, which led the recent raids in the Spring Mountains, says the biggest environmental concern arising from outdoor marijuana growing in Southern Nevada is its impact on the water supply. Growers siphon water from natural sources and install miles of tubing to pipe it to pot fields, altering the natural chemistry and physical flow of the water. “They dam up creeks and streams, which can damage fisheries downstream,” Kalkowski says. It can also severely impact species, like spring snails, and vegetation that are associated with the spring flow, added Rob Mrowka, an ecologist with the Center for Biological Diversity, who visited several marijuana grow sites in his previous job with the U.S. Forest Service. “These species are often associated with one spring or a set of springs with very specific conditions. So if you start screwing around with that spring, that’s pretty much a death sentence for PHOTO: ISTOCKPHOTO / THINKSTOCK

BETTING ON THE COME Hickey and his co-author, Ty Cobb, came closer to a flat statement of support for using Yucca Mountain as a dump for nuclear waste. They noted that the Obama administration has changed the plan to make Yucca a dump for thousands of years. Instead, the time frame has changed to 100 to 120 years. With that change, Hickey and Cobb wrote,the nation should simply use Yucca as a dump and count on science and technology coming up with a better solution in the next century. “The supposition now is that a scientific breakthrough will be found in that time frame that would enable us to neutralize the nuclear waste,” they wrote. “We agree that interim storage is the proper choice, and we concur that science will certainly lead to a solution for waste disposal in a relatively short period of time. The only question is why not store the material at Yucca for this short period and provide some economic compensation for the state of Nevada?” Critics of the Yucca dump note that its supporters often tout reprocessing as a panacea and frequently point to France’s reprocessing program as an ideal. But they say that the French program is troubled — Germany pulled out of it a decade ago, and France itself is trying to build a Yucca Mountain-style dump, which suggests that reprocessing would do nothing to shield Nevada from becoming a dump site. “Nuclear power has some information that has mythology to it,” Nuclear Regulatory Commission chair Gregory Jaczko said in 2010.“One of the best developed myths out there is that Francehassolved thewaste problem.France has not solved the waste problem.” One Nevada Republican not joining the pro-dump group is U.S. Sen. Dean Heller. This week Heller issued a statement reinforcing his opposition: “Yucca Mountain is a threat to public safety. No amount of reassurance from the federal government will convince me or the residents of Nevada otherwise.” He introduced an amendment to block new funding to open the dump. This story appeared in the Nov. 17 issue of the Reno News & Review.

QUIZ: The Federal Drug Administration had nine gnarly images ready to slap on cigarette packs

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those species,” Mrowka says. Another concern is the removal of native vegetation, done to prepare fields for pot plants. Growers cut down anything growing naturally, and use herbicides to kill remaining roots so it doesn’t come back. The herbicides can make their way into sources that feed drinking water supplies downhill, and even after the pot is gone, the natural vegetation may never return, Kalkowski says. Sgt. Erik Lloyd of Metro’s narcotics section supervised police squads that raided Mount Charleston grow sites and witnessed many of these problems firsthand. Lloyd said the local growers manipulated the land to hide gardens, and littered. “They make trails to move within and out of the grow. They have lots of trash, because they live up there for months on end. They don’t hike out, so they hurl it into a pile, put it in a tent or bury it. They don’t trek it out. All their trash is there.” People also hunt,cook and go to the bathroom around campsites, contributing to further degradation of native flora and fauna. Again, Mrowka points out, this could mean the elimination of rare species: “In the Spring Mountains, there are number of plants that are only found there. If these [marijuana] gardens were to overlap such biodiversity hot spots, it could have a very negative impact on the long-term survival of those species.” Why should anyone care about the death of a rare snail or nonpsychoactive weed? Apart from the disruption of the ecosystem, there’s a big-picture risk for humans, according to Mrowka. Those species being harmed or eliminated could have great, as-yet-undiscovered value. He gives the example of the yew tree, native to the northwestern United States. Once considered a proliferative nuisance, the tree was found to contain taxol, a mitotic inhibitor used in cancer chemotherapy. So, have marijuana growers in the Spring Mountains fouled Lake Mead runoff or hacked down potentially cancer-curing vegetation? We don’t know, and that’s a problem, Mrowka says. Kalkowski says an effort is under way to increase cooperation among local, state and federal partners to address illegal marijuana growing. Asked what that effort entailed, Kalkowski declined to comment specifically, as did representatives of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area and Metro. “We’re responsible for protecting and sustaining public water sheds, native vegetation, wildlife and fisheries and their habitat, soil productivity and many other ecosystem functions,” Kalkowski says. “We take this seriously. It’s a great loss when it occurs.”

A heartwarming (and stomachstretching) Thanksgiving-ish tale BY SARAH JANE WOODALL

WITH THANKSGIVING AROUND THE CORNER, I figured it was time to stretch my stomach in preparation for the day of national gluttony, a day when seconds are un-American. It’s all about thirds. Fortunately, the local chapter of the Sons of Italy were holding a spaghetti-eating contest at the South Point. What better way to prepare for the holiday? Besides, there was $1,000 up for grabs. As you surely know, competitive eating has become a popular form of sideshow entertainment, and a sign of the times: People are rewarded outrageous money for helping us consume our dangerous overabundance of hot dogs and chicken wings. I’ve dabbled in it myself, once beating my brother-inlaw in an ice-cream contest, eating 3.5 pounds in about 10 minutes at a Ben & Jerry’s. This gave me the courage to enter the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dogeating contest qualifier at New York-New York in 2008. I ate 8.5 hot dogs in 10 minutes, placing sixth out of 12 contestants — who were all men, much bigger than I am. Not too shabby! With the example of Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas to guide me, I figured I might actually become a winning eater one day. She is also petite (98

I THINK I JUST SIGNED A WAIVER REQUIRING ME TO EAT MY OWN VOMIT. pounds) but still manages eat-feats like 40 hot dogs in 10 minutes, for which she won a cool $10,000. I had two orders of business before the contest: First, I needed an empty stomach. Unfortunately, I’d joined a friend for an ill-advised, late-nite sushi binge the night before — so I’d be competing at a disadvantage. I briefly considered the use of performance-enhancing drugs ... but at the last minute put down my Zig-Zags. I would do this on my own. Second, I needed a badass outfit and name — all great competitive eaters have funny nicknames, like “The Black Widow” or “The Tsunami” (as they call the legendary Takeru Kobayashi). I settled on an all-silver ensemble, dubbing myself “The Silver Slurper.” Yes! Sitting in the South Point showroom before the contest, looking over the rules, I was frankly alarmed: “I think I just signed a waiver requiring me to eat my own vomit,” I muttered, eyeballing the various grounds for disqualification. The man behind me told his wife, “I’m

either gonna win ... or I’m gonna die.” Yikes! Once Round 1 began, I relaxed — the competition appeared weak. Amateurs! But then I spotted The Locust: 67-year-old local pro eater and wizened juggernaut Rich LeFevre, his lovely wife Carlene cheering him on to an eventual 8 pounds of spaghetti. But that was nothing compared to an unassuming newcomer at the other end of the stage — a Bill Gates look-alike named Tom, who came out of nowhere to defeat the Locust and put away an astonishing 11 pounds, 6 ounces of pasta. All I could hope for was to come in first among women — there were only three or four chicks in the contest, so I figured I was golden. But in Round 2, I was gobsmacked when a tiny little thing named Stephanie Torres put away 10.5 pounds of spaghetti. Come to find out, she’s a budding pro, too. Damn. Realizing I was doomed, I decided not to push it. So when they called me up to compete in Round 3, I only ate till I was comfortably full: 3 pounds, 4 ounces. Pathetic, considering the world record is 13.5 pounds. A few days later I tried to redeem myself downtown, at the new Heart Attack Grill. This time I’m going ballsout, I told myself — nothing but the Quadruple Bypass Burger will do. (The Grill also serves Singles, Doubles and Triples ... to pussies.) While I waited for my burger, I sipped a delicious vanilla butter-fat shake. Probably not the best idea to suck down 2,000 calories before attempting to eat a 2-pound, four-patty, 8,000-calorie burger coated in Velveeta and fried in pure lard. Unsurprisingly, I was vanquished again, eating about half (that’s 4,000 calories, if you’re counting along). But even that was no easy feat. Mike the bartender calls it the Hydra burger: Like the many-headed beast of Greek mythology, which grew two new heads for every one Hercules cut off,the Quadruple Bypass just seemed to get bigger the more I ate. So I failed at the spaghetti contest, and I failed at the Heart Attack Grill. But I’m going home for Thanksgiving, and Mom — I want you to know, I am ready. a

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WHEN IT’S NOT FIRST FRIDAY There’s more to our culture than one monthly bash BY GIGI GENERAUX

Editor’s note: With its long history and resurgence under new,Zappos-related ownership,First Friday stands as the city’s flagship cultural event. But it shouldn’t get all of the attention; there are many days in a month — plenty of opportunity for other cultural happenings. Here are 11 of them:

TUESDAYS

secret, but a lot of people still don’t know about Preview Thursday, how it’s an opportunity to place early dibs on work you want to buy, scope out artworks before their prices are posted and commiserate with like-minded redevelopment folks without the crazy bustle of the now-ubiquitous raver kitties, rockabilly cholos, Jesus freaks and all the other zanies who come out to play on First Friday. Preview Thursday is the First Thursday of the month starting at 6 p.m. Various galleries and venues in the 18b. Ongoing. Vegas Jelly: Vegas Jelly is yet another Thursday event, only this one’s twice-monthly. Like similar events in the Austin and San Francisco tech communities,Vegas Jelly is an opportunity for coding geeks to congregate at The Beat to work on startup projects on their laptops and drink coffee together — hopefully without spilling coffee on said laptops. Apparently, bowling and beer just wasn’t cutting it, and these people decided instead to code. There are breakout sessions upstairs where designers practice pitching their Internet startups to potential investors. Possibly sometimes real investors come, but we couldn’t tell who was a plant — they were all so alike in their flat-front khakis. Second and fourth Thursday of every month. 7 p.m.-midnight. Ongoing. Go to http://wiki.workatjelly.com and click on“Las Vegas.” Vegas Wonderground: Jeff McBride’s Vegas Wonderground is legitimately full of wonderment.

sculptor. All this, plus naked painted bodies, canvas artists and tarot card readers lurking in the eaves. In December, Wonderground will celebrate its two-year anniversary. Since the four-hour period presents an opportunity for young magicians to showcase new work, it’s no surprise that audience observers have included such luminaries as Siegfried, Lance Burton and The Amazing Johnathan. Wait. Magic shows? A burlesque contortionist? Local celebrities? Ragtime music? It all feels very Toulouse-Lautrec. Third Thursday of the month. Ongoing. http://vegaswonderground.com. RAW Vegas: Have you heard of RAW? It’s a national monthly art showcase with performances and art for sale, hosted at a restaurant. In Las Vegas, that place has so far been Tommy Rocker’s, but event organizers may change the venue in the 2012 season to accommodate the event’s increasing size, so stay tuned. The night lasts about two hours and contains a combination performance and ad hoc gallery walk. After a few months, artists compete for the best of their city’s RAW, and then the best nationally. It’s loud, colorful,competitive and lots of fun.Ten dollars at the door,but bring extra cash, because you’ll want to buy something and not every artist takes cards. Fourth Thursday of the month, starting in February 2012 and running to October, with a semifinals showcase in November 2012.www.rawartists.org/ lasvegas.

WordPress Las Vegas: Has your blogging reached a roadblog? Do you confuse “WordPress” and “WordPerfect”? WordPress Las Vegas is an opportunity for seasoned professionals and FRIDAYS newbies alike to discuss WordPress blogging at all levels, from Neon Lit: Started by the inimitable Kathryn Kruse of the beginning to advanced.The event starts with a 10-15 minute preUNLV Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing,Neon sentation on a specific topic or element of WordPress blogging Lit marks the first consistent attempt of the students of that development. Then the room breaks out into “problem-solving program to convene on a monthly basis to read their writgroups,” in which users who need help with their blogs can get it ing to the public. Readings include fiction, poetry and works from users who have help to offer. It’s a little like The Godfather, in progress. The event takes place on the Fourth Friday of every but without the messy horse and threats of imminent doom. month — that’s the fourth Friday, everybody — inside the TriIn fact, you can network there. Need a designer for your next fecta Gallery at The Arts Factory. Doors at 6, readings at 7. Ask project? Done! Need help with a festering coding issue? Done! for autographs from authors when it’s over and they will love you Past topics have included top-10 plug-ins, seto the end of their days. http://neonlit.org. curity and designing custom themes. Upcoming topics include: “Branding,” “Social Media InteSATURDAYS POSSIBLY SOMETIMES REAL INVESTORS COME gration”and“SEOBestPractices.” (Doyouknow Scarlet: This dance event is billed as “Las [TO VEGAS JELLY], BUT WE COULDN’T TELL WHO what“SEO”means?Wehadtoask.Buttheytold Vegas’ Deepest Red Goth Night.” Really, need us nicely,which is why you should go,too.) we say more? We’ll just throw out some words WAS A PLANT — THEY WERE ALL SO ALIKE IN On Dec.17,WPLV will host its annual Wordwhich circle, bat-like, ominously, around this THEIR FLAT-FRONT KHAKIS. Camp, a day-long conference at UNLV about enticingly dark bar party hosted at Artifice bar WordPress blogging, which, if that doesn’t in the 18b: Indie. Goth. Cool lighting. Ministry. sound like a barnburner, is made even more Closed curtains. Industrial. Death rock. Psyexciting by the fact that it only costs $20. Twenty dollars for Hosted in the spirit of a professional performance laborachedelic Furs.Dark ’80s.Did you catch their drift? What did you whole-day access to the finest experts in the Vegas blogging tory, Wonderground is a monthly variety/magic show held at see? “Let your freak flag fly,” was what they told us. We think community. WPLV is held in /usr/lib — a new tech library with Olive Mediterranean Grill & Hookah Bar in Green Valley. A that means that black eyeliner is mandatory, but bat-wings are an annoyingly clever name—in the Emergency Arts building. 3,000-square-foot space, the lounge is a destination location optional. Every first Saturday starting in January. No cover. Check November and December times in advance, then look for tourists and locals alike. From the outside, it looks like a Design Drip: This bills itself as “a monthly casual meeting for it on the third Tuesday of every month starting in January. 7strip-mall shoebox. Inside, there are enough couches to make where all creatives are welcome,” during which time event or10 p.m. Ongoing. http://2011.vegas.wordcamp.org. it feel like a real harem. ganizers will feature “creative presentations from varying disThe show comprises two parts: from 8-10 p.m., there’s an ciplines” and “business-related talks” and attendees will have THURSDAYs “upfront magic” showcase, and from 10-midnight, the spectime to network. We don’t really get how this is different from Preview Thursday: Did you know that you can go to First tator discovers additional performances by dancers, internaVegas Jelly except that there’s more art involved, and it might Friday when it’s not Friday? It may not be the city’s best-kept tional grand slam poets, and, yes ... the occasional balloon be less code-y. Design Drip will meet every Second Saturday

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Aryka Tranter and Natasha Braxton model makeup by Raven Rex Franco at the RAW semiﬁnals showcase.

Live Burlesque in Boomer’s Bar

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inside The Beat, 9 a.m-noon. Ongoing. Las Vegas Game Day: Steve Pitcher and Doug Daulton — the organizers behind NeonCon, a four-day geekdom bacchanalia of gaming, concerts and creative culture that aspires to become the South by Southwest of the tech world — bring you Las Vegas Game Day,the tentacled arm of the NeonCon empire, but capable of exerting +5 damage points, or even +10! From 10 a.m.-10 p.m.inside /usr/lib,the oddly named tech cavern in the Emergency Arts building downtown, the community is invited to play “the next generation of family board games,” including such well-known frivolities as: Settlers of Catan,Dominion and Carcassone, which is both a board game and a region in France. Las Vegas Game Day is free and open to the public. This isn’t “pimply-faced nerd boys in their basement playing games,” they told us. Oh no. This is “a mainstreaming of the hobby.” Indeed. Every second Saturday. Ongoing. www.vegasgamers.org. Live Burlesque in Las Vegas: Screw all those tech events; we wanna see some tits. Cha Cha Velour has long hosted Live Burlesque in Las Vegas inside the Boom Boom Room at Boomer’s Bar, but the event has formalized to occur consistently, each and every month. Let us repeat ourselves: For $10 advance, $15 door, on the last Saturday of each month, you, too, can watch women take off their tops in the most theatrical of ways. Striptease was always more titillating than stripped off, anyway, and these ladies know well how to perform their routines. October brought you Halloween Strip Show. No-

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Sin City Roller Girl “The Force” races against the clock.

vember promises Thanks for the Tassels. But New Year’s Eve is sure to be a blast, with Happy Nude Year on the last Saturday in December — which happens to be Dec. 31. See www.liveburl esqueinlasvegas.com. Sin City Rollergirls: Finally and most important, are the one, the only, Sin City Rollergirls. Flat-track derby racing never looked so good,but these ladies are real athletes,not just campy performers, and you can bet that nothing is staged. The falls are real falls, the blood real blood, the sweat and tears — well, you get the idea. In the off-season, SCRG hosts “fun mixed scrimmages.” Dec. 17 presents a double-header: Naughty

versus Nice, plus Tacky Christmas Sweaters versus Obnoxious Holiday Socks.Those are the names of teams,people.Then,it’s back to the basics in January with the official start of the season and such well-known team names as “The Hoover Damned.” These gals know comedy. Monthly on varying Saturdays inside the Grand Ballroom at the Riviera. Ten dollars in advance, $15 at the door. Free for children under 10 and EMTs — but that part’s no joke. See www.sincityrollergirls.com. Was 11 enough for you? Who said Las Vegas was a “cultural wasteland,” again? That person needs a night out, and there are plenty of places to take him. a

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MUSIC

Occupy in silence Know what might better unify Occupy Las Vegas? A soundtrack. BY MAX PLENKE

So when we visit the Occupy Las Vegas camp and see little more than tambourines and a laptop plugged into a pair of desktop speakers, it hints at why the movement doesn’t have much clout beyond the small patch of parking lot next to the Double Down Saloon. It could be the unusually meek approach to civil disobedience. Or it could be that their entertainment coordinators still have “-teen” at the ends “WE’RE TRYING TO FOLLOW THE of their ages. Or, and this may be closest to the truth, it’s that COPS’ RULES. the camp’s organization looks similar to a herd of cats being AT THIS CAMP shepherded by slightly pushier WE’RE NOT but equally unauthoritative cats. TRYING TO GET On a recent Saturday afterSHUT DOWN OR noon, the camp is supposed to have a concert by singer-songPISS ANYONE writer William Neal. At least, OFF.” that’s what 18-year-old entertainment coordinator Kadee Schlosser scheduled. Instead, there’s a meeting. One Schlosser had no idea was happening. Neal is there, guitar in hand, eager to play at his 3 o’clock start time. But it doesn’t happen. The show’s cast to the wayside, not a priority for those hosting the meeting. Instead, Neal’s left to meander around the camp, playing his songs for whomever

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During coverage of any Occupy camp, we often see legions of unshowered musicians, like the amplified drum machinists of Oakland, or the marching drummer circles of Portland, gathering massive groups to shout their protest songs. It’s one of the unifying, ruckus-causing, spirit-raising elements that can keep a group of 99-percenter strangers following the same path.

William Neal playing his guitar at the Occupy Camp

Gentleman’s club Share is the third nightspot aiming to give gays the strip club experience

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didn’t leave their tents. This isn’t the first time something like that had happened. “I sat around for about two hours after my call time while the general assembly debated ridiculous things like the definition of Zionism to be used in their discussions,” says Neal, regarding the first time he played at the Occupy camp. “People started shouting at each other … we got a megaphone and said ‘Hey everybody, shut up and listen to some music for a moment.’” At that show, there were supposed to be multiple bands from multiple genres. But when the police toldSchlosserandherfellowcoordinator/boyfriend Jared Medina that they couldn’t have amplification, everyone but Neal bailed. “We’re trying to follow the cops’ rules,” Medina says. “At this camp we’re not trying to get shut down or piss anyone off.” That doesn’t mean there’s no support. Neal estimates that around 150 people sat on the camp’s asphalt and watched him play. But the problem isn’t interest. It’s numbers. If the turnout Neal reported was accurate, then it was a fluke. Occupy Las Vegas doesn’t have the same droves of protesters you see on the Tumblr accounts of the larger movements.It looks more like a last frontier squatter village, a few tents in a circle at the edge of a vast parking lot, like a peaceful version of a camp in The Road Warrior. We reported earlier this month about the ideal-discriminating nature of the camp’s de facto governors and how, while it keeps the camp peaceful and uninfiltrated, it also cuts the head count needed for a successful movement. As shown at the camp on Saturday, that filtration also filtered out potential contributions to the soundtrack of the occupation. That doesn’t mean the artistic side of Occupy Las Vegas is doomed. But if they want to be noticed by more than those who actively seek out liberation, they have to actively track them down. Amir Rikkah, a spoken-word artist active in the arts community, who spent a few days a week at the camp, believes the Occupy community could be more proactive about seeking local artists to play. But that communication isn’t happening. “They’ve only got so many people,” he says. “You don’t have things popping off in Oakland, shutting down a port with 100,000 people, if you don’t have everyone involved. Just throw it up on your Facebook: ‘Who wants to play?’ You’ve gotta bring that vibe out there.” For now, Schlosser’s doing what she can. She’s working out another time for Neal to come play. But if last time is any indication, communication is key. The cats need to stop herding themselves. Because without a sense of direction, whether macro-level or artistically specific, the camp will never be more than tambourines and a laptop plugged into desktop speakers.

DEVELOPING A SUCCESSFUL GAY EQUIVALENT of a gentleman’s club has proved elusive. In 2007, Hot Rods attempted to become the first all-nude men’s club in Las Vegas, but closed only months later, mostly due to a poor location and the inability to sell booze. Last year, Secret looked to offset a strippers’ lounge with a nightclub element, hoping to attract clubbers who might also be game for a lap dance. But a promising kickoff never sustained the momentum needed to build that coveted gay following, and Secret shuttered as well. Share, which soft-opened Nov. 18, is hoping the third time’s the charm. Like Secret, Share — the 12,000-square-foot complex formerly known as Minxx Gentleman’s Club, located in the indus-

trial area just east of The Orleans — is a nightclub/strip club hybrid, though the two elements are separated by floors. Downstairs, it’s your typical dance spot, with some VIP tables, two bars and a stage surrounding a large, open dance floor. Upstairs, a circular layout accommodates VIPs and those looking for more intimate encounters with the go-go staff. An upstairs entrance offers anonymous access. (Future additions will include a gaming room.) So, why might Share work where its predecessors have failed? For one, its owners — The Vista Group, which owns the building — can afford to develop the club thanks to capital generated by its other real estate and gaming ventures. Second, it has retained the promotional and marketing services of Eduardo Cordova, who has a history of promoting successful gay-themed parties on- and off-Strip. Third, one of its managing partners is Gino LoPinto, longtime local nightlife guru who in the mid-1990s helped start Club Utopia, the first true nightclub on Las Vegas Boulevard, and, more recently, Crazy Horse III, also a hybrid-style nightlife/strip club complex, among several other projects. LoPinto was initially solicited for a conventional gentleman’s club, but had no interest in launching another. Instead, his interest was piqued by Vista CFO Michael Crisp’s proposal to launch an upscale gay one instead. LoPinto thought Las Vegas had evolved enough for the concept to finally thrive, and after getting up to speed with the local gay nightlife industry, he signed on. Veteran nightlifers might be surprised to see LoPinto oversee a nightclub staffed with nearly naked men, given his experience with topless joints and house music establishments. But he’s employed similar performers before, especially for his less-traditional ventures. “I’ve always been inclusive in my projects,” he says.“I hired gay men and drag queens at Utopia.” Until the club officially opens New Year’s weekend, Share will operate Friday and Saturday only. After that, it will expand to include Thursday and possibly a Sunday afternoon T-dance — another gay institution long overdue for a metropolis like Las Vegas. MIKE PREVATT Friday-Saturday, 10 p.m.; 4636 Wynn Road, www.sharenightclub.com, $10 for locals (free before midnight with social media RSVP).

IMAGINE A RECORD DEAL

t’s been a long time coming. At least, that’s what it says all over the Facebook pages of Imagine Dragons and its members. The 3-year-old modern rock band, which recently relocated from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, announced last week that it has officially signed a co-deal with Interscope Records and KidInACorner, working closely with Grammy-pulling producer Alex “da Kid” Grant (Nicki Minaj, Eminem, T.I.). While frontman Dan Reynolds agrees with his friends and fans that this deal has been a long time coming, he also says a long time is what a band needs to ensure its success and survival. “I think a lot of bands probably sign too prematurely, and if you don’t have your foundation built, a lot of those bands either get dropped or overbooked,” he says. “If you build your foundation and then you sign, that’s the best thing to do.”

And that’s exactly what Imagine Dragons has been doing, building up a solid fan base in Vegas and beyond, through independently produced EPs. That, Reynolds says, is one of the most exciting changes coming up in the next year: The first Imagine Dragons full-length album. “We wanted to wait until we felt the band had matured enough and we understood our sound before we did the album,” he says. “We feel like we’re at that point now, and we have the budget behind us to do that, and to be able to work with amazing producers like Alex,[who] in my eyes is one of the best producers in the entire world right now.” Interscope is owned by Universal Music, whose labels past and present have also signed The Killers, one-time Vegas band Big Bad Zero, and former Las Vegans The Crystal Method and NeYo. MAX PLENKE a

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100 mins) Arthur (voice by James McAvoy) rushes to deliver gifts to a young girl his father, Santa Claus, forgot on his Christmas Eve route. Opens wide THE DESCENDANTS (R, 115 mins) Matt (George Clooney) copes with a comatose wife and the ensuing complications by nurturing his daughters. By Alexander Payne (Sideways, Almost Schmidt). Village Square HUGO (PG, 127 mins) See review, this issue. Opens wide. INTO THE ABYSS (PG-13, 97 mins) Documentarian Werner Herzog visits Death Row in Texas, full of questions about killing for both the murderers and the criminal justice system. Suncoast LIKE CRAZY (PG13, 89 mins) Seereview, this issue. Rave Town Square MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (R, 99 mins) Seere-

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A lack of climbing trees leaves Hugo with no alternative.

Martin Scorsese incorporates the history and preservation of cinema into a fantastical — and powerful — family film about a train station BY COLIN BOYD

The undeparted

on’t laugh, but the family-oriented Hugo is probably among the most personal films Martin Scorsese has ever made. Yes, despite a host of movies that take place on the streets where he grew up, a fantastical 3-D picture about a train station in Paris may be as close to Scorsese’s heart as anything he’s directed. It isn’t borne out immediately, but when the filmmaker’s real connection to this story reveals itself, Hugo becomes poetic and powerful. Based on the book The Adventures of Hugo Cabret,Hugo unfolds in a universe that almost exists,but not quite.Paris,for everything it has to offer,really was not the city in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! or Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie. But those romanticized versions of the City of Lights are echoed here in rich, beautiful 3-D, making a faux Paris even more dreamlike than usual. There, young Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) works in a train depot, keeping all the clocks moving in perfect synchronicity. Among the many shopkeepers in residence is a distinguished-looking toy salesman name Georges (Ben Kingsley), from whom Hugo pilfers the occasional gear or spring. Hugo is not a thief so much as he’s a tinkerer, and Georges has the steadiest stream of supplies. Much to Georges’ chagrin, Hugo makes fast friends

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with his goddaughter, Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz from Kick-Ass), and together the children find the missing parts to a broken automaton that is something of a family heirloom for Hugo. The self-operating machine reveals a big secret: Isabelle’s godfather is not just a grumpy shopkeeper; he is Georges Méliès,perhaps the first landmark filmmaker in the world. You’ve seen the ancient image of a rocket hitting the man in the moon in the eye countless times — that’s Georges Méliès, who really did sell toys in a train station in Paris after his career hit the skids. There are about 150 Méliès films that survive today, but sadly, more than 200 have been lost forever. When Scorsese finally gets where he’s going with Hugo, it becomes something much more than a holiday family flick. It represents everything Martin Scorsese is about. Like Hugo, Scorsese was a lonely kid who fell in love with the magic of movies. And the joy and amazement the 70-year-old director still receives from watching these old Georges Méliès kinescopes gives the second half of this movie a genuine heartbeat. Here is a man possibly on the Mount Rushmore of directors dumbstruck by the work of another filmmaker. The narrative of Hugo stops cold and film-appreciation class begins. There are also overt points Scorsese makes about film preservation. Not coincidentally, he founded The Film Foundation in 1990 to fight for that very cause. According to its website, the foundation has helped save more than 500 movies from the ravages of time.Seeing his reverence for Méliès in full bloom and his passion for preservation sneaking its way into this story presented this way indicates just how much the subject means to Scorsese. As good as Shutter Island might have been, it felt a little like Scorsese-for-hire. Who could blame him at this point? What else did he need to say? He needed to say, and does with astounding depth and clarity, that the magic of movies never leaves us unless we let it. And it sure as hell hasn’t left him. HUGO Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Chloë Grace Moretz, directed by Martin Scorsese, rated PG, 126 mins.

Puppet masters

MOST FILM FRANCHISE revivals deserve the groans they typically elicit. But not The Muppets. Director James Bobin (The Flight of the Conchords, Da Ali G Show) and screenwriters Nicholas Stoller and Jason Segel (who both worked on Forgetting Sarah Marshall) took great care to honor the legacy of the late Jim Henson’s famous television/movie puppets while still devising a concept fresh enough to warrant their reappearance in 2011. That might’ve been enough, but the filmmakers’ collective comic smarts — as well as their obvious love for the characters — makes The Muppets more than just an update. It’s energetic, enthusiastic and consistently entertaining — just like the last truly worthwhile celluloid reboot: 2009’s Star Trek. Stoller and Segel daringly invent an entirely new puppet to anchor the adventure ahead: Walter, the Muppets’ biggest — and perhaps only — fan. A trip to Los Angeles with “brother” Gary (Segel) and his girlfriend Mary (Amy Adams, Enchanted) reveals the plushy performers’ studio and theater have fallen in disrepair due to neglect. Furthermore, nefarious oil baron Tex Richman (Chris Cooper, Adaptation) plans to purchase and demolish the complex. So Walter and his human companions manage to track down a retired Kermit the Frog and talk him into a huge revival show to raise the $10 million it will take to outbid Richman. This involves the four rounding up the rest of the gang — Fozzie, Gonzo, Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem band, and, of course, Miss Piggy — on a road trip not too unlike that of 1979’s The Muppet Movie. It’s not just the preservation of their history at stake — they must prevent Richman from owning the Muppet trademark and employing cheaper replacements. Along the way are the appropriately hokey musical numbers, the surprise cameos, the slapstick humor that wins over the kids and the meta jokes that draw in the knowing adults. But none of these things thwart the film’s narrative thrust: a buildup to the big show, structured just like The Muppet Show, its stars not missing a step. How have these modern-day vaudevillians won us over again? Just listen to the words of their anthem “The Rainbow Connection” — reprised here to tearjerking effect — for the answer: It’s probably magic. MIKE PREVATT

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dana) grows up to be an assassin after witnessing her parents’ murder as a young girl. Tropicana CONTAGION (PG-13, 105 mins) Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) fights a nagging cough in an

airport bar during the film’s opening scene. Within a weekend, there are several deaths; within a week, tens of thousands are infected. The subtle twist in Steven Soderbergh’s version of a global outbreak is technological: It’s not just the virus that spreads like wildfire. Contagion isn’t exactly entertaining, but it’s masterfully assembled — and a little scary. (CB: 09.08.11) Tropicana COURAGEOUS (PG-13) This religious film follows four police officers who live to protect and serve. When the men are needed by their children, will they be able to take on the challenge of fatherhood while growing as men of God? Suncoast DOLPHIN TALE (PG, 113 mins) A true story about a dolphin named Winter who loses her tail in a crab a

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N O W P L AY I N G trap. But when rescued, she benefits from care that could also help countless other people. FOOTLOOSE (PG-13 113 mins) This remake — about Oklahoma high-school students who fought to overturn an anti-dancing law — was more timely in the 1980s, and cast with professional dancers instead of actors. It’s acceptable and inoffensive, rising to a pretty low bar. (CB: 10.13.11) Suncoast HAPPY FEET 2 (PG, 99 mins) Little emperor penguin, Erik (voiced by Ava Acres), can’t dance (like his father) or fly (like the cool, new penguin in town), but that won’t stop him from trying to save his fellow webbed-feet when their environment is threatened. THE HELP (PG-13, 137 mins) Skeeter (Emma Stone), Aibileen (Viola Davis) and Minny (Octavia Spencer) form a daring friendship in Mississippi during the 1960s. The Help gives off a scent of Spielbergian sisterhood sappiness from a mile away. But new director Tate Taylor gives it the right touch. And the cast gels as an ensemble brings the film to life without letting its themes overshadow its characters. (MK: 08.11.11) Tropicana IDES OF MARCH (R, 101 mins) A governor (George Clooney, who also directs) is a populist presidential candidate guided by Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and a press spokesman (Ryan Gosling), who makes that one small compromise that threatens his career and the campaign. This political thriller has slight overtones of classic Shakespearean plays and references to many political headlines, causing the storyline to blur at times. MK (10.07.11) Suncoast IMMORTALS (R, 110 mins) King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) and his army search for the invincible bow

MICHELLE WILLIAMS makes a great Marilyn Monroe, save for one issue not entirely in her control. The camera loves her in nearly every scene of My Week with Marilyn — stick around for the end credits — which details the filming of Laurence Olivier’s The Prince and the Showgirl in 1956 as remembered by youthful third assistant director Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne). The problem is Kenneth Branagh, as Olivier, the production’s male lead and director, isn’t quite convincing as he constantly praises her screen presence during the actual filming of Showgirl’s scenes. They never quite do anything except demonstrate Monroe’s lack of acting ability, and enable Zoë Wanamaker to provide welcome comic relief as Monroe’s acting instructor, Paula Strasberg. Branagh mostly blows his cork over Monroe’s devotion to Method acting, which is OK since Redmayne (The Other Boleyn Girl, Savage Grace) balances that with his longing love pangs and other more involuntary demonstrations of devotion. Director Simon Curtis, making his jump from theater for his debut film,kicks things off at a snappy pace,demonstrating recent Oxford graduate Clark’s pluck as he doggedly infiltrates the film business until he gets hired. Resilience leads to his gig on Olivier’s film, which will soon be graced with the presence of Monroe, as well as Strasberg and Monroe’s new husband, writer Arthur Miller. Olivier would like to give his career a boost with the help of Monroe’s rising stardom, while Monroe would like to get credibility by appearing with Olivier. Neither quite gets what they’re seeking, and Monroe begins to have problems as Clark rises to the occasion and has a skinny dipping session most men of the time would have killed for. By that time, Williams has demonstrated complete immersion in Monroe’s physicality, most effectively when she greets the public and instantly turns on “Marilyn.” Award nominations, coming up. MATT KELEMEN

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that will assist him in overthrowing the Gods on Mount Olympus. But Theseus (Henry Cavill) vows to avenge his mother’s death caused by the evil king, leading to a battle of epic proportions. IN TIME (PG-13 109 mins) A futuristic Robin Hood-type tale where time is money, literally. Will Sallas (Timberlake) tries to tip the unfair scales of wealth more towards the working class and out of the hands of the fat cats. The metaphor is a little heavy-handed, but the metaphor is, pardon the pun, timely. (CB: 10.27.11) J. EDGAR (R, 137 mins ) About the FBI mastermind’s rise to power, his Electra complex and his greatest fears. In the hands of Clint Eastwood and with the appalling casting of Leonardo DiCaprio as Hoover, the mission fails. A far more linear narrative might’ve saved the film. (MK: 11.10.11) JACK AND JILL (PG, 93 mins) Jack (Adam Sandler) hates Thanksgiving because that’s when his twin sister Jill (also Sandler) comes to visit. This time her stay is extended to appease Al Pacino (playing himself), who has gained feelings for her. KILLER ELITE (R, 105 mins) Based on a true story,

an ex-special ops agent (Jason Statham) and his mentor (Robert De Niro) are involved in a worldwide hunt for the leader of a secret military society (Clive Owen). Tropicana MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (R, 120 mins) Fragile and paranoid Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) ditches a cult for good old-fashioned family life, but has trouble distinguishing dream from reality, empowerment from mental enslavement. There have been few narratives that have fallen as frustratingly flat as writer/director Sean Durkin’s story, and the “you decide how it ends” ending cheats the audience. (MK: 11.10.11) Suncoast MONEYBALL (PG-13, 133 mins) Based on a true story, Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), uses an unorthodox statistical approach to forming a baseball team for the Oakland A’s 2002 season. Moneyball doesn’t use the typical rah-rah sports narrative. But Beane is a fantastically well-written role, giving Pitt one of the best opportunities to show what he can do. (CB: 09.22.11) PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (R, 84 mins) Two sisters befriend a dark spirit in their home, in the horror franchise’s prequel. PUSS IN BOOTS (PG, 90 mins) Before his life with Shrek, the flamboyant Puss (Antonio Banderas) was framed for a crime by that ne’er-do-well Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifiankis). REAL STEEL (PG-13 127 mins) Charlie (Hugh Jackman) used to be a boxer, but the new sport of robot fighting has taken him out of the ring. Once his son joins him in an effort to make a true contender, Charlie might just have a spot in the boxing world again. RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13, 110 mins) After a scientist Will Rodman (James Franco) fails at curing his father (John Lithgow) of Alzheimer’s disease, he becomes the keeper of a chimp that’s been exposed to experimental drugs and is dangerously intelligent. Surprisingly inspired by 1972’s Conquest of the Planet of the Apes — but don’t expect another sequel. (MK: 08.04.11) Tropicana THE RUM DIARY (R 120 mins) Even though Johnny Depp is able to play a young journalist named Paul Kemp with an appetite for hard liquor and married women, the story comes from Hunter S. Thompson’s first book, back when he hadn’t become the Gonzo personality as most remember him. Director Bruce Robinson focuses more on Kemp’s boozing instead of his transition from a newbie to a slightly experienced journalist, one reason why there just isn’t much of a story. (MK: 10.27.11) Suncoast SARAH’S KEY (PG-13, 111 mins) A journalist (Kristen Scott Thomas) sets out on a journey of self-discovery when she uncovers a story of a Jewish family forced out of their home, a home she now calls her own. THE SKIN I LIVE IN (R, 117 mins) A brilliant creepster of a plastic surgeon (Antonio Banderas) invents indestructible fake skin and tries it out on a tortured hottie (Elena Amaya). The plot points may not be too surprising, but the novelty and sensitivity with which director/writer Pedro Almodovar presents

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them pull the viewer in like a tractor beam and don’t let go. (MK: 11.10.11) Village Square THE SMURFS (PG, 100 mins) Fleeing from an evil wizard’s clutches, the Smurfs fall out of the magical world and into New York’s Central Park. Tropicana TOWER HEIST (PG-13, 104 mins) After losing everything to billionaire Arthur Shaw’s (Alan Alda) financial scheme, Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller) and his

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move back to England until a new visa can be issued. The distance proves challenging fortheyoungcouple,butultimately,itisn’t the miles but another kind of distance that puts the relationship on shaky ground. Director Drake Doremus captures a true essence of what it’s like to be young and desperately strung out on somebody. Anton Yelchin has been around for a decade or so, and he’s popping up in mainstream fare like Star Trek and Fright Night these days. Felicity Jones is a winsome British import who makes Jacob’s transatlantic quest somewhat justifiable if not completely logical. Together, they share a definite chemistry, one it’s hard for actors to fake — the kind that hits immediately and is still there even when the couple is at each other’s throats. Both of them do excellent work here. Like Crazy is a love song to when love consumes you and maybe even more to when it spits you back out. COLIN BOYD

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Fourth time lucky Oft-postponed comedy Listen finally gets to be heard BY DAVID MCKEE

than written, and the rock-geek banter is funny and well-observed. Surratt rarely overstates what he can convey by indirection, such as the politically correct obnoxiousness of a white liberal lecturing a black woman on why she should like rap. A Charlie Brown-like authorial surrogate, Ben doesn’t evolve much over the course of Listen. By the end, one has largely written him offasaself-involvedjerk.Late-breakingdevelopments that should be a major epiphany are

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t seemed as though Dave Surratt’s Listen might be the greatest play never produced. Thrice it was scheduled by Insurgo Theater Movement. Thrice it went into cold storage. RagTag Entertainment and Onyx Theatre have defrosted Listen and audiences will finally get a chance to judge it themselves. When so much local theater smugly aims as low as possible, it feels ungrateful to fault Listen for being overambitious. The sheer prolixity of Surratt’s imagination has impelled him to cram three plays into one. There’s the earnest medical drama, the High Fidelity-style romantic Erik Amblad, left, Breon Jenay and Thom Chrastka in a scene from the comedy about music RagTag Entertainment production of Listen at the Onyx Theatre nerds (Jack Black, your next vehicle has arrived!) plus an autoperfunctory and arrive so tardily they feel like biographical overlay. The central character is “get me out of here” contrivances by a playhyper-judgmental and gets likened to a critic wright who feels the two-hour mark drawing — which Surratt formerly was. Ben (Thomas nigh. Some characters figure heavily in the first Chrastka) can talk music till the cows come act, then practically vanish after intermission home but can’t feel it. (Tucker, Griffin) and vice versa (Holly). Ben is faulted for misplaced commitment Doublingasdirector,Surratt’sstagingisfairly both in his work at a cancer ward, where two-dimensional although he gets exceptional he performs music therapy, and in his perwork from most of his actors. Chrastka is thorsonal relationships. His boss, Dr. Griffin (Erik oughly convincing as someone who’s stuck in Amblad), believes Ben is too focused on his his own head, unable to hear a booty call no patients. But for best friend Tucker (Drew matter how deafening. McCallum has never Yonemori) and potential romantic interest been more passionate or incisive and Yonemori Lisa (Candace McCallum), Ben’s propensity is bracingly real. He’s a ninja comedian: You to analyze rather than simply be in the monever sense the zingers until they convulse you ment is a constant buzzkill. Bridging Listen’s by surprise.In a role overburdened with quirks, twin spheres of medicine and music is Holly Jenay’s heartbreaking directness emphasizes (Breon Jenay), an outpatient whose musical Holly’s underlying humanity.Too young for Dr. tastes jibe with Ben’s but whose potential Griffin, Amblad overcompensates with exagmortality makes him keep her at a distance. gerated fuddy-duddy mannerisms that disrupt One might groan at the schematic charthe prevailing naturalism. His performance is acterizations and obvious yin/yang setups symptomatic of the identity crises that suggest of Listen were Surratt’s dialogue not so tartly Listen might benefit from rewrite therapy. believable, sometimes painfully so. It almost LISTEN Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m. (through Nov. 26), always sounds spontaneously uttered rather Onyx Theatre, 953 E. Sahara Ave. #16, 732-7225, $10.

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BEING HERSELF

Talking with writer Claire Vaye Watkins Excerpts from an interview with Claire Vaye Watkins, a Pahrump-raised writer and author of the forthcoming collection Battleborn. The full talk can be found on our City Blog, www.lvcitylife.com.

Critic’s darling Colson Whitehead brings depth to zombie genre BY GEOFF SCHUMACHER

y any measure, Colson Whitehead is a serious novelist. Author of, among other books, John Henry Days and Sag Harbor, he’s one of a relatively small number of youngish writers — he’s 42 — who have earned the respect of their elders. But unlike many of them, Whitehead can’t resist the temptations of modern culture. The Harvard grad and MacArthur Fellow is an avid tweeter,with almost 100,000 followers,and he hosts YouTube videos to promote his books. So it comes as little surprise that his latest novel is about the zombie apocalypse. Following in the footsteps of contemporary Michael Chabon, who has dabbled in an array of literary niches, Whitehead is, with Zone One, attempting to bring literary weight to the zombie genre. For the most part, he succeeds. Fans of Whitehead’s work marvel at his fluid prose,his artful turns of phrase,his ability to dissect and give meaning to the absurdities of pop culture. These skills are on full display in Zone One, alongside the inevitable machine-gunning of the living dead hordes who relentlessly menace the survivors. Whitehead’s setting is New York City, and his main character, Mark Spitz (a nickname), is hired by the emergent postapocalyptic government to help clear the city of its few remaining “skels,” short for skeletons. The government, based in Buffalo, has a grand plan to wall up Manhattan, clear out all the zombies, and then resettle survivors there. As Whitehead’s protagonist goes about his job of searching tall buildings to exterminate “stragglers,” he is entranced and humored by the once-great city: “New York City in death was very much like New York City in life. It is still hard to get a cab, for example. The main difference was that there were fewer people. It was easier to walk down the street. No grim herds of outof-towners shuffled about, no amateur fascist up the street machinated to steal the next cab. There were no lines at the mammoth organic-

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food stores, once you reached checkout after stepping over the spilled rice and shattered jarsofbloodytomatosauceand environmentally conscious package of whatnot thrown to the floor during the brief phase of looting. The hottest restaurants always had a prime table waiting, even if they hadn’t updated the specials since the winnowing of the human race got under way. You could sit where you wanted to in the movie theaters, if you could suffer sitting in the dark, where monsters occasionally shifted their thighs.” Abiding by the genre’s unwritten code of conduct, Whitehead never utters the word “zombie” in the novel. Instead, he has a blast piling up synonyms for the plague-ravaged beings, highlighted by “necrotic multitudes,” and descriptions of the onset of apocalypse, most commonly known to his characters as “Last Night.” Everybody has a story to tell about what happened to them. “The stories were the same, whether Last Night enveloped them on Long Island or in Lancaster or Louisville. The close calls, the blind foraging, the accretion of loss. Half starved on the roof of the local real estate office, crouching so they wouldn’t be seen from the street and have the ravenous clot around the only exit. Contorted in a stainless-steel restaurant cabinet and waiting for morning to break, when it was time to split for the next evanescent refuge. Listening, ever listening for footsteps. The insomniac’s brutal scenario had become the encompassing reality across the planet. There were hours when every last person on Earth thought they were the last person on Earth,and it was precisely this thought of final, irrevocable isolation that united them all.” Clearing out New York for the resurgence of the human race sounds like a great idea, but, of course, complications ensue. Whitehead’s characters are, by and large, not particularly hopeful about the future, and most of them,

understandably, suffer from “P.A.S.D.”: postapocalyptic stress disorder. “Everyone he saw walked around with a psychological limp, with a collapsed shoulder here or a disobedient, half-shut eyelid there, and that current favorite, the all-over crumpling, as if the soul were imploding or the mind sucking the extremities into itself. ... Anyone with perfect posture was faking it, overcompensating for entrenched trauma.” Whitehead’s achievement with Zone One is blending the gory fun of the zombie genre (think Woody Harrelson in Zombieland) with the disturbing realities of what such a grim future might really look and feel like (think Cormac McCarthy’s The Road). His take on the zombie apocalypse transcends the genre’s horror flicks by urging us not only to cheer the bloody street battles but to ponder how we would cope, what we would feel, where we would go in a battered, shrunken world where hope is a dirty word rather than a campaign mantra. Whitehead comes up a little short, I think, only in his highbrow insistence on limiting the scope of his narrative. This is such thoughtprovoking stuff that I left wanting more — a lot more. Whitehead could have widened his lens, explored the zombie apocalypse from many more perspectives, and easily kept our interest for another hundred pages. But he held to the modernist principles of minimalism and restraint. It’s an understandable impulse, effective and proper much of the time, but unfortunate in this case. ZONE ONE Colson Whitehead; Doubleday; 259 pages

All of the stories in Battleborn are set in Nevada. I’m most acceptable when I’m myself. Kurt Vonnegut said that people seemed to like his writing best when he sounded like a guy from Indiana, which he was. I think the reason Battleborn found a publisher that’s so enthusiastic … [is] because there’s something honest about it, you know? … They were like, “I’ve never seen something about Virginia City, Nev. What is that? And now, you’ve shown me, and that’s a cool experience.” I have a piece that takes part mostly in Vegas.It’s about two girls.They live in …a made-up town called Nye that looks a lot like Pahrump.And they work at a pizza parlor,and one gets dumped by her boyfriend,and so to cheer her up, they go on this trip to Vegas,and they go to the Strip like I used to do with my friends.And some really bad stuff happens to them,because they think they understand what Las Vegas is about, and what being a woman in the context of Las Vegas is about,and they think they’re up for it.And then,they kind of learn that they’re really not. I’m working on a novel right now that I am almost too superstitious to tell you about because I don’t know if it will ever happen. But it’s about the Mojave Desert and the water crisis. … I actually conceived of the book by thinking, “Oh, this is an absolute worst-case scenario for the water crisis.” As bad as it could get for the Southwest. But … I’ve since been interviewing a bunch of professors of geology and geography and hydrology, and they’ve told me, “Actually, your scenario is not as bad as it could get.” No, it doesn’t have a title yet. It has a very stupid working title that I can’t tell you. GIGI GENERAUX

DINING

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Angry Dog, Teriyaki Dog, Buckeye Dog

Buldogis Gourmet Hot Dogs is the Burger Bar of wieners, but in a simpler setting BY AL MANCINI

Franks ’n’ frills

t’s been nearly a decade since Hubert Keller launched a hamburger revolution by opening Burger Bar in Mandalay Bay. In the years since, gourmet burger joints have sprung up around the country, with chefs topping hamburger patties with everything from lobster tail and foie gras to truffles and cranberry sauce. Yet the hamburger’s culinary cousin, the hot dog, has generally been left out of that movement. Chef Boyzie Milner, however, is looking to change that. Milner is the owner and executive chef of Buldogis Gourmet Hot Dogs on Fort Apache Road, next door to the Chicago Brewing Company. A former executive chef at The Fremont casino, who has also worked at casinos in

Reno, Mesquite and Laughlin, Milner says when he decided to venture out on his own, he wanted “some type of different fast-food operation.” He chose hot dogs because “they’re a lot easier to deal with [than burgers].” The name Buldogis is an amalgamation of the Korean word “bul,” which means fire or grilled, and the English phrase “doggie,” or hot dog. It’s also a twist on the Korean word bulgogi, or “fire meat,” a method of cooking meat over an open flame. Milner’s wife is Korean, and Korean cooking is well-represented in the restaurant’s menu. While you can build your own hot dog from scratch at Buldogis,there are 14 house specialty combinations ($4.95 each). Those are separated into two sections:“fusion”and“classic.”

They all start with a 100 percent beef frank the menu claims is 80 percent lower in fat than “most premium beef hot dogs.” You can also substitute a turkey or veggie dog. But you still probably won’t want to visit the place if you’re on a diet, thanks to toppings that include pork belly bacon, chili, fried eggs, pastrami, cheese and seven varieties of mayonnaise. (There are also equally delicious low-fat options among the 29 toppings, such as house-made kimchi, onions, jalapeno, sauerkraut and various ketchups and mustards.) Unlike the many gourmet burger places in this town, Buldogis doesn’t peddle its peasant food in a luxury setting. It’s pretty much what you’d expect from a hot dog place. The dining area is small and simple, with Milner and his staff preparing the dogs behind a counter just a few feet from the tables. There’s no real waitstaff,otherthanasingleserverbehindthe register who takes your order. But they deliver your food to your table when it’s ready. Wanting to sample as much as possible, my wife and I ordered far more food than two people could possibly consume. From the fusion section we sampled an Angry Dog and a Teriyaki Dog. The former came topped with spicy pork, Asian slaw, diced jalapeños and

fiery mayo. Yet it wasn’t overly spicy. In fact, if you’re a fan of super-hot food, you might want to ask for extra jalapeños. Our teriyaki dog came with sweet teriyaki beef, roasted peppers and sesame seeds, and was extremely reminiscent of a pepper steak. FromtheclassicsectionwewentwithaWest Coast Dog, buried in pico de gallo, caramelized onions, cheddar cheese and avocado mayo. While it was packed with flavor, the fact that there was no second meat competing with the hot dog made it a much more traditional offering. I felt the same way about the turkey corn dog ($1.95). But I think using the milder turkey dog in that one is a mistake. The sharper kick of a beef frank would provide a better contrast to the delicious, slightly sweet batter. (My wife thinks turkey works just fine.) Buldogis offers four types of fries, including a sweet potato variety topped with spicy pork, kimchi,a blend of five cheeses,fried egg,green onions and jalapeño ($4.95). We went with something just a bit less exotic: traditional fries piled high with pork belly bacon, cheddar and garlic mayo ($4.75). Much like our Angry Dog, they were surprisingly mild. And while the hot dog itself was enough to overcome that fact on the Angry Dog,the potatoes didn’t.The dish was too bland for my taste. Buldogis offers a small selection of desserts, so we ordered bread pudding to take home for a late-night snack. What we got was pretty tasty, but more reminiscent of a miniature bundt cake than pudding. I should also note Buldogis has a large spe-

YOU PROBABLY WON’T WANT TO VISIT THE PLACE IF YOU’RE ON A DIET, THANKS TO TOPPINGS LIKE PORK BELLY BACON, CHILI, FRIED EGGS, PASTRAMI, CHEESE AND SEVEN VARIETIES OF MAYONNAISE. cials wall that has at least as many offerings as the printed menu. The majority are rice bowls featuring the same toppings offered on the dogs. I haven’t tried them, but they provide a nice option if you want to work through all of the delicious toppings without having to eat hot dogs every day! BULDOGIS GOURMET HOT DOGS 2291 Fort Apache Road, 570-7560. Read more about the Las Vegas dining scene on Al Mancini’s blog, www.almancini.net. a

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JAPANESE

Las Vegas Hilton, 3000 Paradise Road, 732-5821. Japanese tabletop cooking at its finest. The chefs deliver great, steaming hot food, as well as an entertaining show. KAIZEN 10271 Eastern Ave., Suite 109, 492-0216; 4480 Paradise Road, Suite 900, 641-7772. Putting a fusion spin on sushi, Kaizen’s choices range from the traditional to the bizarre. Their barbecued rib roll may be one of a kind, which is probably a good thing. OSAKA 4205 W. Sahara Ave., 10920 S. Eastern, 616-3788. Well-trained, award-winning chefs and seafood not available elsewhere in town: This Japanese restaurant is the place to go if you want a civilized meal. RA SUSHI Fashion Show Mall, 3200 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Suite 1132, 696-0008. Ra is a great place to eat sushi and have a few drinks — and well worth a trip to the mall. SEN OF JAPAN 8480 W. Desert Inn Road, 8717781. This off-Strip Japanese fusion restaurant offers delicious food at far less than you’d pay in a casino. The menu features sushi, tempura, kushi yai skewered meat and both hot and cold fusion dishes. Can’t decide what to order? Try one of their two “omakase” tasting menus, reasonably priced at $50 or $80 per person.

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CHINESE

3909 W. Sahara Ave., 873-6977. Our top pick for late-night Chinese food. YUNNAN GARDEN 3934 Schiff Drive, 869-8885. Among the best of Chinatown’s hidden gems, Yunnan Garden offers some of the town’s most authentic Chinese cuisines. There are 156 dishes listed on the menu. Some, like kung pao chicken, salt and pepper shrimp, chicken in garlic sauce and countless rice and noodle dishes, are pretty basic. If you’re a bit more adventurous, try the pork intestine, frog or kidney in spicy Szechuan sauce, one of the five eel dishes, scrambled eggs with bitter melon, or tofu with 1,000-year-old egg (an egg that’s been preserved in clay, ash, salt and lime until its white turns gelatinous and its yolk turns green). DIAMOND CHINA

VIETNAMESE

3400 S. Jones Blvd., Suite 2A, 418-1931. Forget the pho. You won’t find it on the menu at this hole-in-the-wall Vietnamese restaurant. They specialize in something different: broken rice platters known as com tam. They come topped with a large variety of meats, sausages and rice patties, all at unbelievably reasonable prices. (Even the most massive feast is less than $9.) If broken rice isn’t your thing, you can also substitute vermicelli.

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to try the cinnamon or jalapeño versions. 4533 W. Sahara Ave., 364-9686. Down-home atmosphere makes this breakfast spot a nice alternative to the national chains. HASH HOUSE A GO GO 6800 W. Sahara Ave., 8044646; 3535 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 254-4646. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, Hash House A Go Go promises “twisted farm food,” which means their chef puts a classy spin on down-home favorites. Their real trademark, however, is monstrous portions. LAWRY’S THE PRIME RIB 4043 Howard Hughes Parkway, 893-2223. They may have the simplest menu in the world of sit-down restaurants, but they’re good at what they do: prime rib. MICHAEL MINA’S Bellagio, 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 693-8199. Quaint, elegant (and pricey) fish house with origins in San Francisco. Fresh gourmet seafood and lavish desserts are coupled with an excellent wine list and an attentive wait staff. ORIGINAL PANCAKE HOUSE Various locations. An excellent choice for breakfast. You haven’t lived until you’ve ordered an oven-baked German pancake. SEDONA 9580 W. Flamingo Road, 320-4700. Beautiful, modern décor and an eclectic menu. You’ll find Asian, Italian, French and even Swiss influences in the cooking, but nothing terribly exotic. When the weather’s nice, enjoy outdoor dining on the patio. TINOCO’S KITCHEN Las Vegas Club Hotel & Casino, 18 E. Fremont St., 385-1664. An eclectic menu at reasonable prices. You’ll find plenty of delicious Italian pastas, such as lobster ravioli. Other highlights include chicken satay and a filet mignon with foie gras in a port reduction. TRIPLE GEORGE GRILL 201 N. Third St., 384-2761. Patterned after a classic seafood and steakhouse, it offers a large selection of steak, chops and seafood as well as many more casual choices. There’s even a piano lounge where you can enjoy an after-dinner drink. THE EGG AND I

KOMOL

KOREAN

4355 Spring Mountain Road, 383-3392. This tasty establishment departs from traditional Korean barbeque in that your server cooks the meat for you at the table instead of allowing you to do it yourself.

KOREAN GARDEN BARBEQUE HOUSE

THAI

953 E. Sahara Ave., 731-6542. One of the longest-lived and most popular Thai restaurants in town. Watch out for the hot stuff, though. Even “medium” is blazingly spicy. LOTUS OF SIAM 953 E. Sahara Ave., 735-3033. The emphasis is on stellar Thai cusine rather than the décor. Monstrous menu, reservations recommended. MARNEE THAI 5600 W. Spring Mountain Road, 873-4831. Damn good Thai food, reasonably priced. KOMOL

FILIPINO

3400 S. Jones Blvd., 220-4488. A quirky little restaurant that feels like a small catering hall and serves primarily as a dance hall for Filipino expatriates. Some of the fare may be a bit exotic, but there’s something for everyone.

CAFE MODA

INDIAN

4080ParadiseRoad, 734-0094.Thecity’soldest Indian restaurant and also themostexpensive.Vegetarianandmeat-eaterdishes. ORIGIN INDIA 4480 Paradise Road, 734-6342. Raises the entire city’s expectations for an Indian restaurant while only minimally raising the price. SAMOSA FACTORY 4604 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 6, GANDHI INDIA’S CUISINE

258-9196. A large menu that includes more than 20 large, perfectly spiced entrees, including vegan and vegetarian options.

AMERICAN

Bally’s, 3645 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 964-4111. One of the finer dining experiences of its kind in Las Vegas — fabulous food and tons of it. CROWN & ANCHOR 1350 E. Tropicana Ave., 7398676; 4755 Spring Mountain Road, 876-4733. Great British fare served by English-accented servers amid a nautical décor. DELMONICO STEAKHOUSE Venetian, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 414-3737. Straight-ahead and gimmick-free elegance, with excellent service. DU-PAR’S RESTAURANT AND BAKERY The Golden Gate Casino, 1 Fremont St., 366-9378. The opening of this Southern California institution in The Golden Gate Casino caused much rejoicing among L.A. expatriates and diner fanatics. And if you fit into one of those categories, you’ll probably love the place. The pancakes here are legendary, as are the pies. But at the end of the day, it’s still just diner food. Nonetheless, it’s one of the most popular spots downtown to satisfy the late-night munchies after an evening drinking on East Fremont Street.

BALLY’S STERLING BRUNCH

DYER’S CHICAGO STYLE GOURMET POPCORN 4075 S. Durango Drive, Suite 105A; 629-

2676. Stephanie and Carlton Dyer serve up only one thing at this small westside storefront: Chicagostyle gourmet popcorn. But they offer an incredible variety, all made fresh daily by Carlton. If you have a sweet tooth, try one of their chocolate or caramel varieties. Cheese lovers can choose either white or sharp cheddar. And the really adventurous will want

MEXICAN

2520 S. Eastern Ave., 457-3505. This tiny, family-run strip mall establishment offers the most authentic Mexican cuisine in town. It doesn’t matter what you’re looking for; they probably have it. Matriarch Carmen Ruiz cooks up countless varieties of soups, huaraches, tlacoyos, quesadillas, tortas, sopes, tacos, enchiladas, chilaquiles, flautas, gorditas, tostadas, steaks and burritos. The menu is so huge it would take a year to eat your way through it. But it would be one tasty year. SONIO’S CAFE AND ROTISSERIE 3900 W. Charleston Blvd., 307-2177. This simple rotisserie joint offers a surprisingly varied menu, including a large selection of Mexican food. But it’s the basic chicken and delicious side dishes that will keep you coming back. Priced just a few bucks more than most fast food meals, it’s a thousand times better. LOS ANTOJOS

CAJUN

4810 Spring Mountain Road, 891-8889. Not for anyone who doesn’t want to get dirty. But if tearing into crabs (blue or Dungeness), shrimp, oysters and crawfish by hand is your idea of heaven, this is the place for you. Seafood is prepared in four tasty seasonings and delivered in a plastic bag, accompanied by rolls of paper towels. Not fine dining, but delicious. M&M SOUL FOOD CAFE 3923 W. Charleston Blvd., 453-7685. This is the place to eat if you’re in the mood for some excellent-tasting meatloaf, collard greens and mashed potatoes — and the most delicious banana pudding in Vegas. MEMPHIS CHAMPIONSHIP BARBECUE Various locations. Wonderfully realized, upscale barbecue joint.

HOT ’N’ JUICY CRAWFISH

CUBAN

2055 E. Tropicana Ave., Suite 11, 795-7070. Buoyant atmosphere with deliciously prepared traditional Cuban cuisine. Serves wine and beer. Try the Cuban-style fruit shakes called batidos.

CUBA CAFÉ

BRAZILIAN

3900 Paradise Road, 794-0700. Great house specials, including the Famous Grill, an extravaganza featuring excellent meats.

YOLIE’S BRAZILIAN STEAKHOUSE

PERUVIAN

845 S. Rainbow Blvd., 731-0826. If you don’t know how much fun Peruvians have, this place will be a revelation. Semi-exotic food that’s beautifully presented.

INKA CHICKEN

ARGENTINIAN

5300 Spring Mountain Road, 257-3331. Authentic Argentinean cuisine with Italian, Spanish, German and Portuguese influences.

RINCON DE BUENOS AIRES

hidden gem. The staff is extremely friendly and accepting of neophytes to Ethiopian cuisine.

FRENCH

Caesars Palace, 3570 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 731-7731. Tailored to the “money is no object” crowd, a bowl of soup will set you back $68, while the 10-course prestige menu runs $290 per person without wine. But you get what you pay for, and French master Guy Savoy’s sublime cuisine is perfectly prepared. With hip, modern décor, presided over by a young friendly staff, it’s not as intimidating as you might expect – until the check arrives.

RESTAURANT GUY SAVOY

GERMAN

SPANISH

The Plaza, 1 Main St., 380-1352 (temporarily closed); 3900 Paradise Road, 369-3971; 9560 W. Sahara Ave., 834-3814. This upscale bar offers a wide variety of tapas items, but a limited selection of entrees. What it lacks in authenticity it makes up for in taste.

FIREFLY

CAFÉ HEIDELBERG 610 E. Sahara Ave., 731-5310.

One of the only real German eateries in town. It offers all of the traditional dishes, plus good beer and a complete deli and store.

IRISH

J.C. WOOLOUGHAN JW Marriott, 221 N. Rampart

ITALIAN

4041 Audrie St., 732-1424. Old World-style Italian restaurant with an incredible memorabilia collection reflecting the Vegas of yore. Try the massive mound of scampi with linguine. MAC SHACK 8680 W. Warm Springs Road, 4632433. Las Vegans already know Marcello Mauro from local favorites Nora’s Cuisine and Nora’s Wine Bar. At the Mac Shack, however, he serves up quality, extremely affordable pastas in a super-casual environment. There’s an incredible assortment of macaroni available, and most dishes aren’t priced more than a typical fast-food meal. Sure, they offer counter service and the place is usually crawling with families with young children, but it’s a fresh, delicious and more nutritious alternative to the socalled value meals the fast-food chains offer.

BATTISTA’S HOLE IN THE WALL

ETHIOPIAN

4647 Paradise Road, 650-3395. Right on the edge of the gay/alternative district sandwiched between the Hard Rock and McCarran International Airport, you’ll find this cozy little Ethiopian restaurant, complete with a patio and white picket fence. The menu has all the basics fans of Ethiopian food would expect, plus a few surprises. There are half a dozen vegetarian options and, for meat eaters, there are more than a dozen choices, including stews and chopped mounds of beef, lamb, chicken and fish. Everything is served over the traditional teff bread injera, and nothing on the menu is priced above $10. MERKATO 855 E. Twain Ave., 796-1231. A favorite of expatriate taxi drivers. You may encounter a bit of a language barrier, but, if you’re adventurous, you’ll be rewarded with incredible food at a very affordable price. Make sure to ask about the traditional Ethiopian coffee. MESKEREM 252 Convention Center Drive, Suite 8B, 732-4250. Adventurous diners should look up this

ner. Both menus offer traditional dishes like hummus, baba ganoush, Kalamata olives and rice dolmades. Lunchtime also features a large selection of gyros and sandwiches, while dinner is heartier fare. Whenever you go, make sure you try their incredible version of the chicken, lemon and rice soup avgolemono . At dinner time, don’t miss the braised lamb shank. GYRO TIME 5239 W. Charleston Blvd., 878-6393; 7660 W. Cheyenne Ave., 658-9729. Adding a little variety to the fast food world with Greek dishes rather than burgers and tacos. The menu features gyros, souvlaki and falafel, as well as side dishes of spinach or cheese pies. Good enough for those times when you’re probably going to eat fast food anyway.

COTTAGE CAFE

Blvd., 869-7777. Even though the hotel that houses it has changed hands several times, this finest of real Irish pubs is still doing it right. SEAN PATRICK’S 8255 W. Flamingo Road, 2279793. A wonderful mix of Irish pub and family restaurant.

RUSSIAN

RED SQUARE Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd.

South, 632-7407. Classically upscale Russian food served in an almost-Gothic space especially designed to encourage the consumption of vodka.

BULGARIAN

MAGURA 1305 Vegas Valley Drive, 693-6699. Of-

fering Bulgarian cuisine in a dining room with Bulgarian artwork and crafts hanging on the walls and European music videos playing on a large-screen TV, Magura immediately makes you feel as if you’re in Eastern Europe rather than on the east side of Las Vegas. The cuisine relies heavily on grilled and dried meats, yogurt, eggs and various types of cheese. Unadventurous members of your party can order pizza from an adjoining restaurant.

MIDDLE EASTERN

9890 S. Maryland Parkway, Suites 16-17, 450-1030. This Lebanese Green Valley hot spot brings in belly dancers and DJs to perform for packed houses every Friday and Saturday night, and has an attached hookah bar. But the star attraction is the Middle Eastern food. Expect all the basics, including falafel, kabobs and shawarma, as well as several varieties of manaish, Lebanese pizza. PAYMON’S MEDITERANNEAN CAFE 4147 S. MarylandParkway, 731-6030;8380 W.Sahara Ave.,8040293. Abustling caféoffering tastesfromacrossthe Mediterraneanandahappeninglunchspot.The exotic hookah loungeisattached tothe restaurant. ALMAZA

MAC SHACK

2222 E. Tropicana Ave., 739-6400. Classic Northern Italian food and a pleasant outdoor dining area. Elegant appetizers and affordable prices.

STRINGS ITALIAN CAFÉ

GREEK

4001 S. Decatur Blvd., 222-0666. Very probably the city’s best Greek restaurant, the reasonably priced Fat Greek is open for lunch and din-

THE FAT GREEK

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CRAWL

Raising a glass to the old casino before it closes for good BY AMY KINGSLEY

The sun sets on the Western

woman lurches across the stage, drink in one hand, microphone in the other, sputtering the words to “Leaving on a Jet Plane” between bleating tributes to a dead friend. “I shouldn’t have left,” she cries. “I’m so sorry I didn’t stay!” Her friends cheer her on as she forgets the song completely. “You can do it!” they say. She collapses slowly as the song winds down, and her companions help her off the stage. Just a typical moment from Saturday night karaoke at the Western. You won’t hear campy versions of Lady Gaga or cheesy send-ups of Duran Duran.

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Western karaoke is pure pathos, a variety show of nostalgia and desperation. The host kicked things off with a monotone rendition of Kid Rock’s “All Summer Long” before handing the mic over to a couple of older ladies with a hankering for Glenn Miller. The Western caters to the kind of people who think the Fremont Street Experience is too swanky. It’s seedy Las Vegas at its lowdown sleaziest. Tonight its patrons are celebrating birthdays. Others might be here for a wake. More than a few are probably commemorating recent releases from prison. But most are just happy for the cheap drinks and the few bucks in their pockets. That’s the main appeal of the Western

PHOTOS: MAUREEN ADAMO

Beer and a shot: the Western custom cocktail

Hotel & Casino, which ceased being a hotel Leave it to the Western to make a middlebefore my husband and I stumbled inside class person feel like a supermodel member of more than two years ago. The hotel wings the 1 percent. But you don’t go to the Western are dark and foreboding. The entrance to this for the ego boost. You go for the cheap drinks. place glows on its isolated corner of Fremont The bartenders stay busy pouring plastic Street — with signs in red, orange and yellow, pitchers of cheap beer and passing out shots. the same colors as hell fire. Straight liquor and draft beer are the house The Western’s main selling point is its specialties. You can get drunk at this place one-dollar drinks. Coors is one dollar, as are for five bucks, $10 if you’re a raging alcoholic any number of shots. Tonight, you can get a with a calcified liver. Corona and a shot of Cuervo for $3, if you’re But there are other reasons to like this feeling fancy. I’m not drinking tonight beplace. It’s the utter antithesis of every gaudy cause I’ve got a wicked cold Strip casino. Instead of and I’m not as tough as the stain-proof carpet with dizIT’S SEEDY LAS guy with the oxygen tank zying patterns, the Western VEGAS AT ITS nursing a beer at the dollar has hard wood. It has body LOW-DOWN craps table. odor instead of cloying aroBut my drinking friend is matherapy. Its ventilation SLEAZIEST. definitely feeling fancy, and system consists of menthol looking pretty fancy — at smoke and open doors. least for this place. He and his girlfriend, who When the Western closes on Jan. 16, its is also quite stylish, attract a tractor beam of patrons will march down to Binions or the unwanted attention from a bunch of patrons Gold Spike, where they will have to pay $2 in casino jackets. One of them, Byron, quickly for drinks, and get to know a whole new set introduces himself. of bartenders and bouncers. Some of them “Youlookkindasmart,” hesaystomyfriend, might be the people you see panhandling before hitting him up for money. Cash isn’t the outside. They wouldn’t have had to do that only thing he’s looking for. “You’re kinda fine. at the Western, where, as Byron says, “The Do you have a man?” he asks another member drinks are in-ex-pensive!” of the group a few minutes later.

MUSIC CALENDAR

LISTINGS [ N O V. 2 4 T O 3 0 ] ORLEANS

Kris Kristofferson (8p, $36.30$60.50) THEATER OF PERFORMING ARTS @ PLANET HOLLYWOOD

Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Too Short (9p, $39) VAMP’D

Stephen Pearcy, Dirty Pairadice (9p, $10-$15) VEIL PAVILION @ THE SILVERTON

Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses (7p, $30-$40) YAYO TACO

Black Mambas (12a, free)

SUNDAY

NOV. 27 BEAUTY BAR

Sunday Skoolin’: Sab The Artist, One Be Lo, Ra the Rugged Man (9p,cover) BOOMERS

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON: Nov. 25-26 at The Orleans Recommended. Send event information to: Mike Prevatt at listings@lvcitylife.com. SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5 P.M. ON THE THURSDAY PRIOR TO PUBLICATION, AND EVENTS MUST BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. PLEASE INCLUDE NAME, PHONE NUMBER AND ADDRESS OF THE EVENT. EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO LAST-MINUTE CHANGES. PLEASE CALL CONTACT NUMBERS TO CONFIRM DETAILS.

THURSDAY

NOV. 24

BOOK & STAGE @ THE COSMOPOLITAN

Terraplane Sun (10p, free)

DOUBLE DOWN SALOON

The Nines (10p, free)

FRIDAY

NOV. 25

THE BIKINI BAR

Trailer Park Trash (9p, free) BOOK & STAGE @ THE COSMOPOLITAN

DOUBLE DOWN SALOON

Thee Swank Bastards, Shotguns N Gasoline, Black Mambas (10p, free)

MANDALAY BAY RESORT

BUFFALO BILL’S @ STAR OF THE DESERT ARENA

Magnuson (8p, free)

David Foster & Friends (8p, $55.50$134.25)

Morrissey, Kristeen Young (8p, $66) COLOSSEUM @ CAESARS PALACE

Sting (8p, $75-$200)

BUNKHOUSE

Black Mambas, Bloodhounds (10p, cover)

MGM GRAND GARDEN ARENA

Janet Jackson (9p, $75-$195)

The Outsiders, The Fremonts, Jesse Owens (9p, free) 2011 Billboard K-Pop Masters (7p, $75-$300) ORLEANS

Kris Kristofferson (8p, $36.30$60.50) VAMP’D

Blackbox 13, Heavy Honey, Tarah Grace & The Magnetics (9p, free) VEIL PAVILION @ THE SILVERTON

YAYO TACO

THE CHELSEA @ THE COSMOPOLITAN

Frankie Valli (8p, $45.95-$67.95)

MEATHEADS

BOOMERS

Melt-Banana, 400 Blows, Life’s Torment, others (9p, cover)

BOOK & STAGE @ THE COSMOPOLITAN

Goapele (10:30p, free)

BB King (7p, $45-$65)

BUNKHOUSE

SlyCat & Friends (9p, $5)

GOLD MINE TAVERN

Goapele (10:30p, free)

The Arkham Chamber (10p, free)

THE BIKINI BAR

Stolace, Amarionette, Sixes and Sevens (8p, free)

SATURDAY

NOV. 26 BEAUTY BAR

Say What!?: Feel, Most Thieves, Cinemetric, others (9p, free)

COLOSSEUM @ CAESARS PALACE DOUBLE DOWN SALOON

The Vermin, The Fat Dukes of Fuck, The Mapes, others (10p, free) E-STRING GRILL & POKER

Semi, Big Band, Alex Jackson (7p, cover) GOLD MINE TAVERN

Holes and Hearts, Dinner Music for the Gods, Jupiter Crash (8p, free) HARD ROCK CAFE

Delta Nove (9p, $12) MANDALAY BAY RESORT

Vincente Fernandez (9p, $61.80$207.75) MEATHEADS

Touch People, Rat on a String, The Viz’n (9p, free) MGM GRAND GARDEN ARENA

2011 Billboard K-Pop Masters (7p, $75-$300)

Sacrificial Slaughter, Crucify the Enslaved, Gutsaw, others (9p, $7) COLOSSEUM @ CAESARS PALACE

Janet Jackson (9p, $75-$195) HARD ROCK CAFE

The Bled (6p, $10-$12)

MONDAY

NOV. 28

BEAUTY BAR

Bob Log III (8p, $5)

TUESDAY

NOV. 29

ARTEMUS W. HAM CONCERT HALL @ UNLV

Jazz Ensemble III, Jazz Guitar Ensemble (7:30p, $8-$10) LVCS

Hip-Hop Roots: Z-Man (10p, free)

WEDNESDAY

NOV. 30

ARTEMUS W. HAM CONCERT HALL @ UNLV

Jazz Ensemble II, Contemporary Jazz Ensemble (7:30p, $8-$10) THE BIKINI BAR

SoReal (9p, cover) HARD ROCK CAFE

Digital Tape Machine (8p, $12)

HOUSE OF BLUES

Jennifer Batten (6p, $10)

LIVE MUSIC 3740 S. Nellis Blvd., 436-7600. Thu: Blues with John Zito Band, 11p, free. Every 3rd Sat: Blues with John Zito Band, 10p ALIANTE STATION 7300 Aliante Parkway, 692-7777, www.aliantecasinohotel.com. ETA Lounge: Thu: Johnny Douglas, 8p. Fri: Rick Durante, 8p. Elliot Szabo, 12a. Sat: Acoustic Soul, 7p. Wed: Live music, 8p. MRKT Sea & Land: FriSat: Dave Ritz, 7p. ARIA 3730 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 359-7111, www.arialasvegas.com. Bar Moderno: SunWed: Live music, 7p-12a. Thu-Sat: 3p-12a. ARTIFICE 1025 S. First St., 489-6339 or www.artificebar.com. Open Thu-Wed, 5p-1a. BAR+BISTRO COURTYARD Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd, 202-6060, www.barbistroaf.com. BEAUTY BAR 517 Fremont St., 598-1965, www.thebeautybar.com. Thu-Sat: Local and touring bands, 9p, free unless noted. BELLAGIO 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 2425465, www.bellagio.com. Baccarat Bar: Live music nightly, 4p-1a. Bar Moderno: Sun-Wed, 7p. Thu-Sat: 3p. Fontana Lounge: Live music nightly with a view of the lake and fountains, 6p-1a. Closes June 5. Perossian Bar: Live music nightly, 10a-1a. BIKINI BAR 3355 Spring Mountain Road, 4855401. Tue: Rockin’ Blues and Classic rock with The Blues Storm Nation, 9p, free.

ACES & ALES

THE BILL HUFSEY SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PERFORMING ARTS 4061 Silvestri Lane, 525-

6944. Sat: monthly open mic, 7p, free. 4640 Paradise Road, 369-9279. Wed: Live music. BLUE MARTINI Town Square, 6593 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 948-6438, www.bluemartinilo unge.com. Thu: Nova jazz, 7p; Mundo Vacio 11p. Fri- Sat: Live music, 8p. Mon: Gibson artist showcase and jam night, 8p. Tue: I’m With the Band-Pop Star karaoke with Venus Rising featuring Blue’s Got Talent, 10p. Wed: Ladies Night with special guest, 8p. BOOMERS BAR 3200 Sirius Ave., 368-1863, www.myspace.com/boomerslv. Fri-Sat: Live music, 10p, $5 unless noted. Mon: Open blues jam session with host band Four Until Late, 9p, free. BOOTLEGGER BISTRO 7700 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 736-4939, www.bootleggerlasvegas.c om. Live music nightly. Tue-Thu: Gus Mancuso, 6:30p. Second and fourth Wed: Jerry Lopez and friends, 10p. Fri-Sat: Live music, 9:30p. Mon: Open mic with Kelly Clinton, 9p. All shows free. BOULDER DAM BREWING CO. 453 Nevada Highway, Boulder City. 243-2739, www.boulde rdambrewing.com. Thu-Sat: Live music. BOULDER STATION 4111 Boulder Highway, 4327777, www.boulderstation.com. Kixx Bar: Thu, Sat: Van De Guzman, 7p. The Railhead: Thu:

BLACK DOOR BAR AND GRILL

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LIVE MUSIC Swing with Jerry Tiffe, 2p. First and third Thu: Boulder Blues series, 8p, $5. Fri: La Nueva Live Mix, 10p, men $5. Sat: Yellow Brick Road, 10p, free. Sun: Latin night, Noche Nortena featuring El Moreno Carrillo Y Su Banda Tierra Sagrada, 9p, $5 ladies, $10 men. BRASS LOUNGE 425 Fremont St., 382-3531, ww w.hennesseyslasvegas.com. Thu: Cigar social, live R&B with Pitty Pat Guidry Band, 8p, free. Fri: Party Monster, body art, live music and DJ Lady Fingers, 9p, $5. Mon: Acoustic happy hour, 6p. Tue: Local song writers showcase, 8p, free. Wed: Ladies Night Wine Down, live acoustic with Bud Mickel, 8p, free. BUNKHOUSE SALOON 124 S. 11th St., 384-4536. www.bunkhouselv.com. Thu-Sat: Local and touring bands, 9p, free unless noted. Wed: Wednesday Night Hype hip hop show, 9p. Tue: Blues jam with Lipz and Bunkhouse blues band, 10p. THE CANNERY 2121 E. Craig Road, 507-5700, www.cannerycasino.com. Pinups Bar: Tue-Thu, Sun: Luggnutt, 8p. Fri-Sat: Luggnutt and Patrick Puffer, 10:30p. CHEYENNE SALOON 3103 N. Rancho Drive, 6454139. Wed-Sat: Live music, 9p. Sun: Live music, 6p. Cover varies. CHOICES PUB AND SHOWROOM 6720 W. Cheyenne Ave., 547-3747, www.choicespub.com. FriSat: Live music, 9p, free. Tue: The Chicago Blues Busters, 8p, free. Wed: The GP Entertainer Tribute Artists Show, 8p, $5. CLUB ARUBA Aruba Hotel, 1215 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 383-3100, www.arubalasvegas.com. CLUB AZUL 115 7th Street, 672-0222, www.wopoent.com. Fri: Kinky Reggae Fridaze. Reggae Dancehall party. DJs Vip, Styla Don and Gil. $10, $5 ladies. Free before 12:30a. CLUB FORTUNE CASINO 725 S. Racetrack Road, 566-5555, www.clubfortunecasino.com. Sat: Live music, 8-12a. Sun: Whiskey Revival classic country, 5-9p. THE COSMOPOLITAN 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 698-7000. Book and Stage: Touring and local acts, 10p and midnight, free. COUNT’S VAMP’D 6750 W.SaharaAve.,220-8849, www.vampdvegas.com.Thu:Localmusic,10p.Fri-Sat: Livemusic, 10p.Wed: John ZitoBand,9p,free. DADDY MAC’S 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, 2720913. DECATUR LIQUOR 546 S. Decatur Blvd., 8702522. Sat: Live karaoke, 9p, free. DEL FRISCO’S 3925 Paradise Road, 796-0063. Thu-Sat, Tue-Wed: Tyrone Bowers popular piano music, 6p. Sun-Mon: Lawrence Kubica 6p-closing. DON’T TELL MAMA 517 Fremont St., 207-0788. Cabaret-style piano bar. DOUBLE DOWN SALOON 4640 Paradise Road, 7915775. Tue: Unique Massive, 11:59p. DOWNTOWN VINTAGE GUITARS 1105 3rd St, 3869572. EASTSIDE CANNERY Marilyn’s Lounge, 5255 Boulder Highway, 856-5300, www.eastsidecannery.com. Tue: The Fab, 8p (all month long). Thu, Sun: Patton Letha, 7p. Fri-Sat: Patton Letha, 8p. Wed: Block Party, 7p. E-STRING BAR AND GRILL 2031 E. Sunset Road,

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437-8764, www.estringlive.com. Sat: Real Old School Jazz, 2p, $10. Mon: Jazz, 7:30p, $10. Tue: The Ryan Whyte Maloney Band, 8:30p, $10. Wed: Blues night, 8:30p. FIESTA HENDERSON 777 W. Lake Mead Parkway, 558-7000, www.fiestahendersonlasvegas.com. Cerveza Cantina: Fri: Jarr performs lounge music and Top 40 hits, 9p. FIESTA RANCHO 2400 N. Rancho Drive, 6317000, www.fiestarancholasvegas.com. Blue Agave: Fri: Kelly Christian, 6p. Sat: Jarr, 6p. Cabo Lounge: Fri: Noches Sabrosas featuring Volume 1 performs a wide variety of music from cha-cha, ranchera and salsa to pop, disco and funk, 9p. Sat: Old School Dance Party, 9p. Club Tequila: 380-seat venue. Noches Fabrosas, Fri: Flirty Fridays, 10p, ladies $5, men $10, $15 after 11p. Sat: El Moreno Carrillo Y Su Banda Tierra Sagrada, 10p, $10. FORTE TAPAS BAR & BISTRO 4180 S. Rainbow Blvd., 220-3876, www.barforte.com. Fri: The NA1ROB1 Trio, 8:30p. FREAKIN’ FROG 4700 Maryland Parkway, 5979702, www.freakinmusic.com. Thu: Singers and songwriters, 9:30p. Sat: Live music, 9:30p. Tue: Freakin’ Jazz Jam, 9:30p. Skip Martin and Niles Rivers hosts JamCast, 10:30p. All shows free. GOLD COAST 4000 W. Flamingo Road, 367-7111, www.goldcoastcasino.com. Lounge: Tue-Thu: Gold Coast Classics, 2p. Fri: Variety Caval Code, 2p. TueSun: Live music, 7:30p-1:30a. Fri: Live music, 9-2: 30a. Sat: Latin. $10. GOLD MINE TAVERN 23 S. Water St., Henderson, 478-8289, www.thegoldminetavern.com. ThuSat: Live music, 9p, free.

Sat: Ryan Calhoun, 8:30p. Hank’s Steakhouse: Thu: Kelly Christian on guitar, 6:30p. Tue, Fri-Sat: Peter Love, 6:30p. Wed: Guitarist and singer Dave Ritz performs Top 40 hits from 6:30p. Ovation Lounge: Thu: Rotating acts, 8p, free. Third Thu: The Guilty Pleasures, 8p. Fri: Yellow Brick Road, 10p. 2nd, 4th Fri: Strung Out acoustic sessions, 6p. Sun: Zowie Bowie The Vegas Show, 6p, $10. Pond: 1st, 3rd Sat: Reggae with Michael Black, 6p. 2nd, 4th Sat: Reggae with HaleAmanO, 6p. Quinn’s Irish Pub: Thu, Sat: Darby O’Gill and The Little People, 9p. Fri: ’Nuff Said classic rock, 10p. THE GRIFFIN 511 Fremont St., 382-0577. Wed: Live music, 10p. HARD ROCK CAFE 3771 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 650-8590, www.hardrock.com. HAVANA CIGAR BAR 3900 Paradise Road, Suite H, 892-9419. Thu-Sat, Wed: Live music with Killer B and Cheese, 8p, free. HENNESSEY’S TAVERN 425 Fremont St., Suite 110, 382-4421, www.hennesseyslasvegas.com. Fri: Live music, 9p-2a. HOUSE OF BLUES Mandalay Bay 3950 Las Vegas Boulevard South, 632-7600, www.hob.com/ lasvegas. Courtyard: Thu: Acoustic Strip, acoustic showcase hosted by Michael Soli, 8p, free, all ages. Fri-Sat: Live blues, 9p, free. Sat: Azul Latin night, 11p, 21+, free. Sun: Gospel Brunch and music, 10a1p. Adults, $37; kids, $17. Motown, Rhythm and Blues: Ronnie Rose Band, 8p, free, all ages. Mon: Live blues, 8p, free. Tue: Alternative Tuesdays, rotating bands, all ages, 8p, free. Wed: Nothin’ But The Blues, all ages, 8p, free. Crossroads: Thu: Kalleton, music by AJ El Kallejero, 10p, free. Sun: Hana Hou Sundaze, live Island Reggae bands, 10p, $5.

RYAN BINGHAM: Nov. 26 at The Silverton

129 E. Fremont St., (800) 8465336, www.goldennugget.com. Rush Lounge: Fri: Sax Man Brown, 6:30p. Fri-Sat: Frankie Moreno Band, 11p-2a, free. Mon-Tue: Sax Man Brown, 8:30p. GORDON BIERSCH BREWING COMPANY 3987 Paradise Road, 312-5247, www.gordonbiersch.com. Sun: Jazz Brunch, 12p-3p. GREEN VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 1798 Wigwam Parkway, 454-8484. GREEN VALLEY RANCH RESORT 2300 Paseo Verde Parkway, 617-7777, www.greenvalleyranchr esort.com. Lobby Bar: Fri: Jeremy Cornwell 8:30p.

GOLDEN NUGGET

425 Fremont St., 382-3531, www.lvsaloon.net. Thu: Local and loud, 10p, free. Fri-Sat: Live music, 10p, free. Sun: The Funtastics: King Vs. Cash, 50s rockabilly band, 9pm, free. Mon: Surf City with The Swank Bastards, 8p, free. Tue: Hip Hop Roots hosted by HighDro and Jay R Beatbox, 10p, free. Wed: Jamboree hosted by The Vagabonds, 8p, free. MANDARIN ORIENTAL Mandarin Bar, 3752 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 590-8888. Thu: Chandler Judkins Quartet, 7p. Fri: The Definitive Trio, 10p. Sat: “Trio Caribe,” 10p. Wed: Brian Czach Jazz Trio, 7p.

LVCS

4650 W. Tropicana Ave., 247-7000, www.mcmullansirishpub.com. Fri: Live music, 9p. Sat: John Windsor, 8p. Sun: Irish McSessions, 6:30p. Wed: Darby O’Gill and The Little People, 10p. MEATHEADS 1121 S. Decatur Blvd., Suite 120, 8704440, www.myspace.com/meatheadsbar. Fri-Sat: Live music 10p. MOTOR CITY CAFE 4080 Paradise Road, Ste. 8, 307-1731. ORLEANS HOTEL AND CASINO 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., 365-7111. Brendan’s Irish Pub: Wed: Sixties Mania, 8p. Thu: Killian’s Angels, 8p. FriSat: Killian’s Angels, 9p. Bourbon Street Cabaret Lounge: Thu-Fri, Sun: San Fernando Band, 9p. Tue: Crush, 9p. Wed: Sounds of Detroit, with The Nite Kings, 4p. All shows free. PALACE STATION 2411 W. Sahara Ave., 367-2411. Jack’s Irish Pub: Thu: Wild Celts, 7p. Fri: Darby O’Gill and the Little People, 9p. Sat: Finnegan’s Wake with the rock o’ the Irish from 9p. Showroom: Sat: Sante Fe and the Fat City Horns, 12a. Tue: Jerry Tiffe, 2p. PALMS LOUNGE 4321 W. Flamingo Road, 9427777, www.palms.com. Sun: Franky Perez, 10p, free. Mon: Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns, 10:30p, $7. Tue: Frankie Moreno with guests, 10p, $7. PETRA 440 S. Rampart Blvd. Sat: Sarah Frances Johnston, jazz/standards, 7p. MCMULLAN’S IRISH PUB

ROCK ‘N ROLL WINE TASTING ROOM & SOUND BAR M Resort 12300 Las Vegas Blvd. South,

www.rocknrollwine.com. Fri: Live music, 5p and 9: 30p. ROYAL RESORT HOTEL 99 Convention Center Drive, 563-2795. Thu-Sat: Boardwalk Nites! 50sMotown, 9p. Adult $19.95, kids $5. Sun: Sunday Sermon, open mic hosted by Bryan Todd and Ryan Pardey, 9p. Mon: Rocket 8p. SOUTH POINT CASINO 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 796-7111. Grandview Lounge: Thu-Fri: Wes Winters, 5p, free. Showroom: Thu: Dennis Bono, 2p, free. The Ronnie Ross Dance Band, 7: 30p, $5. Fri: The Guilty Pleasures, 10:30p, $5. Sat: Spazmatics, 10p, $5. Mon: Vegas Super Band, 8: 30p, $5. Wed: Deja Vu, 6p, $5. SUNSET STATION 1301 W. Sunset Road, 547-7777, www.sunsetstation.com. Club Madrid: 500-seat showroom. Fri: Sin City Sinners, 9p. Sat: Nawgahyde, 9p. Rosalita’s Cantina: Fri-Sat: Shawn Eiferman, acoustic power duo, 6p. TEXAS STATION 2101 Texas Star Lane, 631-1000, www.texasstation.com. A-Bar: Thu: Justin Mather, 5:30p. Fri-Sat: Darrin Michaels, jazz, 7p. Sun: Darrin Michaels, 5:30p. Martini Ranch: Wed: Sideshow 5:30p. Fri: Betsy Holm, 6p. Sat: Kelly Christian, 5: 00p. South Padre Lounge: Thu: La Nueva 103.5 Live Mix with Jesus Chuy Espiricueta, Latin night, 9p, ladies $5 after 11p, men $10. Fri: Latin with Hermanos Padillas, 9p, ladies $5, men $10. Sat: Escencia Colombiana, 10p, $5-$10. THUNDERBIRD LOUNGE Aruba Hotel, 1215 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 383-3100, www.arubalasvegas.com. Fri-Sat: Live music, 7p, free. Fri: Aruba Swings, 7p, free. Swing dancing lessons, 6p-7p, free. TOMMY ROCKER’S 4275 Dean Martin Drive, 2616688, www.tommyrocker.com. Fri-Sat: Rock-N-Roll Sing Along, 9:30p. Tue: Open Jam with John Zito.

4632 S. Maryland Parkway, 262-0201, www.facebook.com/yayo.taco. Live music nightly. Mon: Cumbia and dancing, DJ Que Curado, 5p-11p. Tue: Jazz, 7p. Fri: Music and comedy monthly, 8p. First Sat: Music and poetry. Second Sat: Acoustic in association with Pet Rescue Project, 12p.

YAYO TACO

DJS/NIGHTCLUBS 4633 Paradise Road, 7910100, www.piranhavegas.com. Thu-Wed, opening times vary. Thu: “Thrust Thursdays,” DJs. Fri-Sat: DJs. Sun: “El Deseo,” Latin country and dance music. Tue: “La Noche Latin” Latin dance music. Every 1st Friday: “Glomo,” DJs. ARTISAN HOTEL 1501 W. Sahara Ave., 214-4000. Thu, Wed: saxophonist Martin Mancuso, 5:30p. Fri: “Shake and Pop” with DJ Mike Attack, Justin Baule and others. Sat: afterhours with residents DJ Mike Attack, Steller and others, spinning electro, house/ progressive, techno, tech, 2a. ARTIFICE 1025 S. First St., 489-6339 or www.artificebar.com. Open Thu-Wed, 5p-1a. Fri: “Free Flow Fridays” with Gables and Doodle, 10p. Sun: “Black and White,” with Doug De Nada and Rex Dart, 9p. Tue: “So You Think You Can DJ?” 10p. AZUL TEQUILA NIGHTCLUB 111 N. 7th St., 4766498. Fri: Kinky Reggae Fridaze, 10p, $5-$10. THE BANK Bellagio, 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 693-8300. Thu: DJ Eddie McDonald; house, hiphop, soul. Fri-Sat: DJ David Christian; mash-up, house. Sun: “Industry Sundays” with DJ Karma; hip-hop, mash-up, house. 10:30p-4a. THE BEATLES REVOLUTION LOUNGE Mirage, 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 692-8383. www.th ebeatlesrevolutionlounge.com. Thu: “Throwback Thursdays,” with DJ Earwaxxx. Fri: “Chick!,” DJ G Minor. Sat: “Celebrity Saturdays” with DJ Trenz; hip-hop, R&B, top 40. Sun: “Closet Sundays” gayfriendly dance party. Mon: “Le Maison,” Cirque du Soleil cast after-party with DJs Shane Thomas and Sarah Fab, mashups to start, house to close. Wed: “Rocket,” Industry night with DJ Spair. BEAUTY BAR 517 Fremont St., 598-1965, www.thebeautybar.com. Nightly; most events 10p. Mon: Monday Night Karaoke. Thu: Ladies night, unless noted. 1st Fridays: “The Get Back” funky soul dance party with DJ John Doe and special guests. 4th Saturdays: “Say What?!” featuring DJs and bands, 10p. BLUE MARTINI Town Square, 6593 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 948-6438. Thu: “Noches Azul Latin Thursdays,” 10p. Fri: “Undisputed Grooves” house/ electronic party with DJ Damien Jay, 11p. Sat: “Ultimate Saturdays,” 11p. Mon: “Manic Mondaze,” 8p12a; “Industry Night,” 12a. Tue: “Top 40 Tuesday,” 9p. Wed: “True Blue Ladies,” 11p. BOND The Cosmopolitan, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 698-7000. DJs nightly. CATHOUSE LOUNGERIE Luxor, 262-4228, www.cathouselv.com. Blue Room: “Madame Mondays” house party with resident DJ Ikon. Red Room: Hip-hop with DJ Kram. Mon., Sat., DJ Ikon. Wed: “Vanity” with DJ Relapse, 10:30p. Thu: “Stiletto” with DJ AL3, electro, house, mash-up, 10p. Locals free. Fri: “Lush Fridays” with DJ Audiomoe, hip-

days” industry party; locals free. Palms, 4321 W. Flamingo Road, 9389999, www.n9negroup.com. Thu-Wed, 9p. Fri: DJ Tino Sanchez, 9p. DJ Five, 12a. Sat: DJ OBONE, 9p. DJ Tino Sanchez, 12a. Sun: “Ghostbar Sundays” house night, 10p. Mon: DJ Ikon, 10p. Tue: DJ OB-ONE, 9p. DJ Five, 12a. Wed: “Snitch Wednesdays” with DJ 88, 10p. DJ Tino Sanchez, 12:30a. GOODTIMES 1775 E. Tropicana Ave., 7369494. Open daily. Thu: “Sinabar,” hip-hop, dance, pop, 10p. Fri: “Vaquero Fridays,” Latin., 10p. Sat: “Noches Calientes,” Latin, 10p. Sun: “Fuego Latino,” Latin, 10p. THE GRIFFIN 511 Fremont St., 382-0577. Mon-Sat, 5p-4a. Sun, 9p-4a. Fri: DJ Rex Dart, 10p. Sat: DJ Aurajin, 10p. HAZE Aria, 3730 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 693-8300. Thu-Sat, 10:30p-4a. Thu: Industry night, hip-hop, mash-up, top 40. Fri-Sat: dance, hip-hop, mash-up, top 40. KRAVE PlanetHollywoodResort,3667LasVegas Blvd.South, 836-0830,www.kravelasvegas.com. Alternatelifestylenightclub.Thu:“TEMPTation THURSTdaze”withDJJavierAlba,11p.Fri:“Flesh,” withVJ Alpyneinthemainroom. “sKizoFrenia”inthe loungewithDJRustRyuandfriends.Sat:“CandyBar” girls’partyintheLounge.Mainroom: DJMorningstar andfriends.Sun:SINdaze,11p.Mon:“MeatMarket.” Wed:“WTF?Wednesdays”withDJ Earwaxxx, 11p. LAVO Palazzo, 3325 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 7911818. Open Fri-Wed. Sun: DJ Vice. Tue: DJ Five, industry night. Wed: “Old School Wednesdays” with guests. LAX Luxor,3900Las VegasBlvd.South,262-4LAX. Fri-Sat,Wed.Fri:DJHope. Sat:DJCasanova.Wed:IndustrynightwithDJCasanova;hip-hop,house. MANDARIN BAR Mandarin Oriental, 3752 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 590-8888. Thu, Sun-Wed, 5p-1a. FriSat, 5p-2a. Thu: Lady dK, 7p. Fri-Sat: DJ DDouble, 10p. MARQUEE NIGHTCLUB AND DAYCLUB The Cosmopolitan, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 333-9000. Nightclub: Thu-Fri, Mon, 10p; Sat, 9:30p. Fri-Sat: house/trance. Mon: industry night, open format. Dayclub: Daily, 10a-6p, opens April 9. MOON/PLAYBOY CLUB Palms, 942-7777. Moon: Thu-Sun, Tue, 11p. 2nd Sat: “Awesome Party” with DJ Clinton Sparks. Tue: “Bang!” and locals-oriented Satellite Bar with DJs. Playboy Club: Thu-Wed, 9p. POSH NIGHTCLUB 3525 W. Russell Road, 6731700. Fri-Sat: DJs, midnight-dawn. PURE Caesars Palace, 3570 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 212-8806. Open Thu-Sat, Tue, 10p. Thu: DJ Hope. Fri: DJ Casanova, DJ Slip, Joey Mazzola. Sat: DJ Slip, Joey Mazzola, DJ Hope. Tue: “Pure Tuesdays” with DJ CyberKid, DJ Slip and Joey Mazzola. RAIN Palms, 4321 W. Flamingo Road, 940-RAIN, www.n9negroup.com. Fri-Sat. “Perfecto” trance/ house party with Paul Oakenfold and friends. ROK VEGAS New York-New York, 3790 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 800-689-1797. Thu-Sun, Wed, 10p5a. Thu: ‘80s, new wave, hip-hop with guest DJs. Fri: “Patio Nights with DJ SmashBox; house. Sat: ‘80s, new wave with DJ X.L.T. Sun: “Rok Vegas.” Wed: “The Show,” house, rock, hip-hop. SAVILLE ROW Luxor, 3900 Las Vegas Blvd. South,

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DELTA NOVE: Nov. 26 at Hard Rock Cafe

MUSICVENUES The Aruba 1215 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 383-3100 Beauty Bar 517 Fremont St., 598-1965 Book & Stage The Cosmopolitan, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 698-7000 Boomers 3200 N. Sirius Ave., 3681863 Boulder Dam Brewing Co. 453 Nevada Hwy, Boulder City, Nev., 979-3976 The Box Office 1129 S. Casino Center Blvd., 388-1515 The Bunkhouse Saloon 124 S. 11th St., 384-4536 Charleston Heights Arts Center 800 S. Brush St., 229-1012

Cheyenne Saloon 3103N.RanchoDrive,6454139 Crown Theater Rio, 3700 W. Flamingo Road, 733-8229 Double Down Saloon 4640 Paradise Road, 791-5775 Freakin’ Frog 4700 Maryland Parkway, 597-9702 Griffin 511 Fremont St., 382-0577 Hard Rock Cafe 3771 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 650-8590 House of Blues Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 6327600 The Joint Hard Rock Hotel, 4455 Paradise Road, 693-5066

hop, old-school, top 40, house. The Cosmopolitan, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 698-7000. DJs daily. . CHATEAU Paris, 3655 Las Vegas Blvd. South. 7767770 or www.ChateauNightclubLV.com. Open FriSun, Tue, 10p. Tue: Industry night. $20-$30; local ladies free. CROWN NIGHTCLUB Rio, 3700 W. Flamingo Road, 733-8229. Thu: top 40, hip-hop, dance. $20-$30. Fri: “Ladies Night,” hip-hop, R&B, 10:30p, $20. Sat: “Sinful Saturday,” with DJ Dre Dae, Hip Hop and R&B, 10:30p. $30. Wed: Latin Libido Night, 10: 30p. $15-$20. DOWNTOWN COCKTAIL ROOM 111 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 880-3696, www.downtownlv.net. DJs spin house, lounge, downtempo, house, funk and classics, Thu-Sun, Tue, 10p. Thu: “LoDown Thursdays” with Lenny Alfonzo. Fri: “Friday Night Social” with Carlos Sanchez. Sat: “Saturday Night Vibe” with Douglas Gibbs. Wed: DJ Rob Alahn. THE CHANDELIER

Las Vegas Country Saloon 425FremontSt.,382-3531 Las Vegas Hilton 3000 Paradise Road, 7325755 Mandalay Bay Events Center 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 632-7580 MGM Grand Garden Arena 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 891-7777 Orleans Arena 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., 284-7777 The Pearl The Palms, 4321 W. Flamingo Road, 944-3200 Planet Hollywood Theatre for the Performing Arts 3667 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 785-5055

The Railhead Boulder Station, 4111 Boulder Highway, 432-7777 Star of the Desert Arena Primm Valley Resorts, 31900 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 386-7867 Vamp’d 6750 W. Sahara Ave., 2208849 Winchester Cultural Center 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 455-7340 Yayo Taco 4632 S. Maryland Parkway, 262-0201 Zia Record Exchange, East 4225 S. Eastern Ave., 735-4942, all ages Zia Record Exchange, West 4503 W. Sahara Ave., 233-4942, all ages

Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall, 3595 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 737-0555, www.drais.net. Thu-Mon. After hours party spot, 1a-dawn. Thu: “After Life” DJ battles and resident Jack Lafleur. Fri: DJ Hoffman, Chris Garcia. Sat: “High-end Saturdays” with DJs Chris Aurelius, Chris Garcia; house. Sun: “Sunday Sheer Energy” with Chris Garcia. DUE FORNI 3555 Town Center Drive, 586-6500 or www.dueforni.com. Thu: “Music and Wine” with DJ Douglas Gibbs and guest DJs spinning Latin, lounge, world beat, and A. Leo Echazabal on sax, 9p, free. FREEZONE 610 E. Naples Road, 794-2310, www.freezonelv.com. Thu: “Boyz Night,” 8p. “Naked Frat Party,” 9:30p. Fri: Martini social, 5p-9p. Queens of Las Vegas drag show, 10p. Sat: Queens of Las Vegas drag show, 10p. Tue: “Ladies Night” with wet T-shirt contest, 8p. Wed: “Gone Wild With Talent.” THE GALLERY Planet Hollywood, 3500 South Las Vegas Blvd., 818-3700 and www.gallerylv.com. Wed-Sat, 10p. Cover varies. Wed: “Gallery WednesDRAI’S

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DJS/NIGHTCLUBS 222-1500. Private, public events; open daily. Wed: “The Cut” underground party. STONEY’S ROCKIN’ COUNTRY 9151 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Ste. 300, 435-2855. Open daily. STUDIO 54 MGM Grand, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 891-7254, www.studio54lv.com. Thu-Sat, Tue-Wed, 10p. Thu-Fri, Wed: open format with DJs Eric Forbes, Ricco. Sat: “Electric Dreams” with DJ Loczi, mash-up, house, electro. Tue: open format with DJ Scene. SURRENDER Encore, 3130 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 770-7300 or www.surrendernightclub.com. Open Fri-Sat, Wed, 10:30p. Fri: “Aoki’s House” with Steve Aoki. Wed: “Surrender Your Wednesdays” industry night. Every 4th Wed: Lil Jon. $30-$40. TABÚ MGM Grand, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 891-7183. Fri-Mon, 10p. Fri: open format with DJ Eric Forbes. Sat: open format with DJ Jose 2 Hype. Sun: “Confession” industry night. Mon: “X-Level Mondays” industry night with DJ Ania and guests. TAO Venetian, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 3888588. Nightclub: Thu-Sat, 10p-5a. Lounge, daily, 5p-close. Thu: “Worship” with DJ Five. Fri: DJ Reach. Sat: DJ Vice. TRYST Wynn, 3131 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 800591-6423. Open Thu-Sun, 10p. Thu-Fri: DJ Big Dee. Sat: DJ Pizzo. V BAR Venetian, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 4143200. Thu: “Case of the Classicks” with VJ Andrew B, 10p Fri: VJ Jace One, 10p. Sat: “Spin City” local talent with VJ Andrew B, 10p. Sun: “Evolucion” Latin night with DJ Lian. Wed: “Fusia Night” with DJ Chino and friends, 10p. VANGUARD LOUNGE 516 Fremont St., 868-7800. Open Thu-Sat, Mon-Wed. Thu: K(Squared), Kid Funk and Kid Conrad, 10p. Every 3rd Thu: “Soulkitchen” house party with Edgar Reyes and guests. Fri: DJ McKenzie, DJ 88, 8p. Sat: DJ Soxxi, 10p. Wed: DJ Pookie, 10p. VANITY Hard Rock Hotel, 4455 Paradise Road, 693-5555. Thu-Sun, 10p. VOODOO LOUNGE Rio, 3700 W. Flamingo Road, 777-6875. Thu: “Voodoo Rising” industry night with DJs Whoman, L1, Michael Toast. Fri: DJs Inferno, L1; hip-hop, house, rock. Sat: “Carnal Carnival” with DJ Jeff G; house, rock, top 40. Sun: “Solid Gold” with DJs Tino, Albert Gruve; ‘70s-’90s mash-up. Mon: DJ Whoman. Tue: “Tuesday Night Live”; alternative. Wed: “Soled Out” old-school hip-hop with DJs Big D and Mr. Levon James. XS Encore, 3131 Las Vegas Boulevard. South, 7705350. Fri-Mon, 10p. Fri: DJ Pizzo. Sat, Mon: DJ Create. Sun: “Night Swim” poolside party with DJ Warren Peace.

STAGE THEATER

8125 W. Sahara Ave., 7426109, www.colabo.biz. Avenue Q, Sat, 8p, Wed, 7p, Nov. 17-26, $25. INSURGO THEATER The Plaza, 1 Main St., 883FAMILY MUSIC CENTER

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5500. Motherfuppets, Fri., 12:30a, $15 1404 S. Third St., 787-2481 or www.neonvenus.com. Fri, Improv Playground, 9p-11p. All are welcome, no experience necessary. Contact Leslie at 310-980-8972. $5 (first time free). Last Sat: Feed the Monkey sketch comedy, 11p, $10. ONYX THEATRE The Rack, 953 E. Sahara Ave., Suite 16, 732-7225, www.onyxtheatre.com. Improv Vegas S.E.T., every Mon., 7:30 p.m., $10. Listen, Nov. 25-26, 8p, $10. NEON VENUS ART THEATRE

SUMMERLIN LIBRARY & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 1771 Inner Circle Drive, 878-7529. A Signa-

ture Christmas, Nov. 30-Dec. 3, 7:30p, $20-$25

COMEDY

375 E. Harmon Ave. Just Serendipity Improv, Fridays and Saturdays. 7p, $30 BIG AL’S COMEDY CLUB Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave. 365-7075. Thu-Sat, 7:30p, Fri-Sat, 9: 30p. Open mic, Sun, 9p, free. Brian McKim and Traci Skene, Thu-Sat, 7:30p, Sat, 9:30p, through Nov. 26, $15.99. BIKINI BAR, 3355 Spring Mtn Rd, 485-5401, www.bikinibarlv.com. CUI: Comics Under the Influence: Here We Cum... Again, Thu, 9p, free. BRAD GARRETT’S COMEDY CLUB Tropicana, 3801 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 739-2417. Sun-Sat. 8p. Fri. & Sat. 10p. CHOICES PUB 6720 W. Cheyenne Ave., 547-3747. First, Third Fri: The Future Icons of Comedy hosted by Louie Muhammad, 8p, $5. 3rd Thu: The G Spot female comedy show, 8p, $5. CLUB TEQUILA Fiesta Rancho, 2400 N. Rancho Drive, 631-7000. Wed: Rancho Comedy Jam, 8p, $5-$10. COZY’S COMEDY CORNER Buzz BBQ, 9640 W. Tropicana Ave., 489-2800. Fri: 8p, $5. 7121 Craig Road, 294-2899. Sat: 7:30p, $5. CROWN NIGHTCLUB Rio, 3700 W. Flamingo Road, 252-7777. Sat: Crown Comedy Jam, 9p, $39.50$79.50. Thu, Sun-Wed: Exxtreme Comedy Show, Wheels Parise, 9p, $39.50. Comedy in the King’s Room, Thu-Sat, 7:30p, Wheels Parise, Thu, Nov. 10, $39.50. ETA LOUNGE Aliante Station, 7300 Aliante Parkway, 7300 Aliante Parkway, 692-7777. The High Rollers Comedy Club, Tue, 8p, free. FOUNDATION ROOM Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd., 632-7600. Laughter Hours Comedy, Sun, 8p, $10. HARMON THEATER Planet Hollywood Resort, 3663 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 836-0836, www.harmontheater.com. The Amazing Johnathan, Thu-Sat, Tue-Wed, 9p, $59.95-$69.95. Naughty Boys Hypnosis Show, Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed, 9p, $47.97-$67.97. Singing impressionist Larry G. Jones, Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed, 7p, $45-$69. Hypnosis Unleashed, Fri-Wed, 9p, $45.94. THE IMPROV Harrah’s, 3475 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 369-5223. Mac King Comedy Magic Show, Thu-Sun, Tue-Wed, 1p, 3p, $29.95. Defending the Caveman, daily, 7p, Sun-Mon, 3p, $39.95-$64.95. Improv, Tue-Sun, 8:30p, 10:30p, $29.05-$44.95. The Stagebenders, Gary Cannon, Jap Montapare, thru Nov. 27; Dennis Blair, Avi Liberman, Gary ALEXIS PARK

Brightwell, thru Dec. 4. Canyon Room, Four Queens, 202 Fremont St., 385-4011. Thu-Sun, Tue-Wed, 9p, $24.70. LOUIE ANDERSON THEATER Palace Station, 2411 W. Sahara Ave., 495-4248. Louie LOL, Tue-Sat, 8: 30p, $49.95-$99.95. Bonkerz Comedy All Stars, Fri, 8:30p, $34.95. MEATHEADS BAR 1121 S. Decatur Blvd., Suite 120, 870-4440. Mange Comedy open mic comedy hosted by Tawdri Hipburn, Tue, 9p-11p. MIRAGE 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 792-7777. Jim Gaffigan, Nov 25-26, 8:30p, $59.99-$69.99 NEON VENUS ART THEATER 1404 Third St., 787-2481. Improv Challenge, Sat, 8p, $10 ONYX THEATRE The Rack, 953 E. Sahara Ave., Suite 16, 732-7225, www.onyxtheatre.com. Mon: S.E.T. Improv, 8p, $10. THE PALMS LOUNGE 4321 W. Flamingo Road, 9443200. Thu-Fri: Playboy Comedy, Thu, 10p; Fri, 10p; Sat: 8p, 10p. THE RIVIERA COMEDY CLUB The Riviera, 2901 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 734-5110. Nightly, 9p, $29.99$34.99. ROYAL HOTEL 99 Convention Center Drive, 7844712. Rock ‘n’ Roll Comedy Show, Fri-Sat, 9p, $30.95-$49.13. Comedy Live, with Michael Wheels Parise, Thu, Sun-Wed, 9p, $39. SOUTH POINT SHOWROOM 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 896-6323. Kathleen Madigan, Nov. 25-27, 7:30p, $15-$25. THEATRE7 1406 S. 3rd St., 568-9663 and www.theatre7lv.com. The Will Edwards Show, every 2nd, 4th Wed, 7p, $10. TREASURE ISLAND 3300 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 693-7722. Bill Cosby, Nov 25, 8p, $59-$79.

Crystal Place at CityCenter, 3720 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 739-3314, www.centerpiecelv.com. Thu-Wed, 10a-6p. Women, by David Levinthal. CHARLESTON HEIGHTS ART CENTER 800 S. Brush St., 229-1012. Thu-Fri, Wed, 12:30p-9p, Sat, 10a-7p. What Continues the Dream: Contemporary Arts and Crafts from the Powwow Tradition. WedFri, 12:30p-9p, Sat, 10a-7p, through Dec. 21, free. COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., 651-4205, sites.csn.edu/artgallery. Mon-Fri, 9a-4p; Sat, 10a-2p. Free. DONNA BEAM FINE ARTS GALLERY UNLV’s Alta Ham Fine Arts Building, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, 895-3893, www.donnabeamgallery.unlv.edu. Mon-Fri, 9a-5p; Sat, 10a-2p. EROTIC HERITAGE MUSEUM 3275 Industrial Road, 369-6442, www.eroticheritagemuseumlasvegas .com. Thu, Sun, Tue-Wed, 11a-4p, Sat-Sun, noon10p. $15, $10 for students, military, seniors and locals. LIED DISCOVERY CHILDREN’S MUSEUM 833 Las Vegas Blvd. North, 382-KIDS. Thu-Fri, 9a-4p; Sat, 10a-5p; Sun, 12p-5p; Tue-Wed, 9a-4p. $8.50 adults; $7.50 children. Children under 1 free. THE LOST CITY MUSEUM 721 S. Moapa Valley Blvd., Overton, 397-2193. Thu-Sun, 8:30a-4:30. $5 adults; $3 seniors, 17 and under, and members enter free. Ancient Inscriptions, paintings by Joyce and Brian Spavin, through Oct 30. LUXOR 3900 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 800-5577428, www.bodiestickets.com. Bodies … The Exhibition. $31, $29 seniors, $23 for children 12 and under, $28 for locals and hotel guests. Daily, 10a-9p. Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition. Daily, 10a10p, $20-$27.

ART

3381, www.barrickmuseum.unlv.edu. Mon-Fri, 8a-4:45p; Sat, 10a-2p. Urbis Octaptych, by Lincoln Maynard. NEVADA STATE MUSEUM Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd., 486-5205. Fri-Mon, 10a-6p. Free with $9.95 Nevada resident admission to Springs Preserve. Unexpected Nevada, photographs by Cameron Grant. POP UP ART HOUSE 730 W. Sunset Road, www.the popuparthouse.com. Thu-Sat, Tue-Wed, 11a-2p and by appointment. WINCHESTER CULTURAL CENTER GALLERY 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 455-7340. Thu-Fri, 10a-8p; Sat, 9a-6p; Tue-Wed, 10a-8p.

L.A. COMEDY CLUB

ART INSTITUTE OF LAS VEGAS 2350 Corporate

Circle, 369-9944. Bugs and Neon: The Drawings of Brian Swanson, artist’s reception Thu, 6:30p, through Nov. 30 for more info visit http://www.bria nswansonstudio.com ATOMIC TESTING MUSEUM 755 E. Flamingo Road, 794-5151, www.atomictestingmuseum.org. MonSat, 10a-5p; Sun, 12-5p. Building Atomic Vegas, ongoing. $12, $9 seniors 65+, locals and students with ID. AVANT SPACE Sunrise Coffee, 3130 E. Sunset Rd. Ste. A, 433-3304. Thu-Fri, 5:30a-8p, Sat, 7a-8p, Sun, 7a-5p. Mon-Fri, 5:30a-8p. Permanent exhibit, by Mike & Dasha Biggs. BELLAGIO GALLERY OF FINE ART 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 693-7871. A Sense of Place: Landscapes from Monet to Hockney, through January, 2012. Sun-Tue, Thu, 10a-6p. Wed, Fri-Sat, 10a-7p. $15, discounts for NV residents, seniors, students and military, free for children 12 and younger. Every Wednesday is locals night, $8 discount with I.D. BIG SPRINGS GALLERY Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd., 822-7700, www.springspreserve.org. Daily, 10a-6p. Trophy Hunter Exhibit, sculptures by Bryan Christiansen, through Jan 22.

CENTERPIECE GALLERY

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A R I E S (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)

“Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing,” said rocket scientist Werner von Braun. I think it’s an excellent time for you to plunge into that kind of basic research, Aries. You’re overdue to wander around frontiers you didn’t even realize you needed to investigate. You’re ready to soak up insights from outside the boundaries of your understanding. In fact, I think it’s your sacred duty to expose yourself to raw truths and unexpected vistas that have been beyond your imagination’s power to envision.

TA U R U S (APRIL 20-MAY 20)

In Woody Allen’s film Midnight in Paris, the Ernest Hemingway character says, “All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well enough.” Given the state of your current astrological omens, Taurus, that is an excellent piece of advice. I suspect you are going to be asked to call on previously untapped reserves of courage in the coming weeks — not because you’ll have to face physical danger but rather because you will have a chance to get to the bottom of mysteries that can only be explored if you have more courage than you’ve had up until now. And the single best way to summon the valor you’ll need is to love like a god or goddess loves.

G E M I N I (MAY 21-JUNE 20)

“When I see your face, the stones start spinning!” wrote the poet Rumi, as translated by Coleman Barks. “Water turns pearly. Fire dies down and doesn’t destroy. In your presence I don’t want what I thought I wanted.” I think you need to be in the presence of a face like that, Gemini. You’ve got to get your fixations scrambled by an arresting vision of soulful authenticity. You need your colors transposed and your fire and water reconfigured. Most of all, it’s crucial that you get nudged into transforming your ideas about what you really want. So go find that healingly disruptive prod, please. It’s not necessarily the face of a gorgeous icon. It could be the face of a whisperer in the darkness or of a humble hero who’s skilled in the art of surrender. Do you know where to look?

C A N C E R (JUNE 21-JULY 22)

“All my life I have longed to be loved by a woman who was melancholy, thin, and an actress,” wrote 19th-century French author Stendhal in his diary.“Now I have been, and I am not happy.” I myself had a similar experience — craving a particular type of women who, when she finally showed up in the flesh, disappointed me. But it turned out to be a liberating experience. Relieved of my delusory fantasy, I was able to draw more

L E O (JULY 23-AUG. 22)

If you traveled 300 million years back in time, you might freak out in abject fear as you encountered dragonflies as big as eagles and cockroaches the size of dogs. But since you’re quite safe from those monsters here in the present, there’s no need to worry yourself sick about them. Similarly, if you managed to locate a time machine and return to an earlier phase of your current life, you’d come upon certain events that upset you and derailed you way back then. And yet the odds are very high that you’re not going to find a time machine. So maybe you could agree to relinquish all the anxiety you’re still carrying from those experiences that can no longer upset and derail you. Now would be an excellent moment to do so.

V I R G O (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)

To prepare for her role in the film The Help, actress Jessica Chastain forced herself to gain 15 pounds. It was tough, because she normally follows a very healthy diet. The strategy that worked best was to ingest a lot of calorie-heavy, estrogen-rich ice cream made from soybeans. To be in alignment with current cosmic rhythms, it would make sense for you to fatten yourself up, too, Virgo — metaphorically speaking, that is. I think you’d benefit from having more ballast, more gravitas. You need to be sure you’re wellanchored and not easy to push around. It’s nearly time to take an unshakable stand for what you care about most.

faced with a comparable choice in the coming week — whether to go with a pricey original or a cheaper but good facsimile, I suggest you take the latter. For your current purposes, you just need what works, not what gives you prestige or bragging rights.

S A G I T TA R I U S (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)

“It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything,” said Sagittarian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. “I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.” I urge you to consider trying that approach yourself, Sagittarius. Instead of worrying about how to launch your rebirth, maybe you should just dive into the middle of the new life you want for yourself. Avoid stewing interminably in the frustrating mysteries of the primal chaos so you can leap into the fun in full swing.

C A P R I C O R N (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)

The Golden Gate Bridge spans the place where San Francisco Bay meets the Pacific Ocean. It wasn’t easy to build. The water below is deep, wind-swept, beset with swirling currents, and on occasion shrouded with blinding fog. Recognizing its magnificence, the American Society of Civil Engineers calls the bridge one of the modern Wonders of the World. Strange to think, then, that the bridge was constructed between 1933 and 1937, during the height of the Great Depression. I suggest you make it your symbol of power

for the coming weeks, Capricorn. Formulate a plan to begin working toward a triumph in the least successful part of your life.

A Q U A R I U S (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)

It’s an excellent time for you to get an entourage — or if you already have one, to expand it. For that matter, it’s a perfect moment for you to recruit more soldiers to help you carry out your plot to overthrow the status quo. Or to round up more allies for your plans to change the course of local history. Or to gather more accomplices as you seek to boldly go where you have never gone before. So beef up your support system. Boost the likelihood that your conspiracy will succeed.

P I S C E S (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)

If you expand your concept of what you’re capable of, you will receive a specific offer to move up a notch. If you perform your duties with intensified care and grace, you will be given new responsibilities that catalyze your sleeping potential. The universe doesn’t always act with so much karmic precision, with such sleek, efficient fairness, but that’s how it’s working in your vicinity right now. Here’s one more example of how reasonable the fates are behaving: If you resolve to compete against no one but yourself, you will be shown new secrets about how to express your idiosyncratic genius.

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ONTHESCENE

School bus or bust BY KRISTY TOTTEN

PHOTOS: KRISTY TOTTEN

I HAVE $500 IN MY PURSE. I rarely carry this much cash plate this for a while. Did the company forget a hyphen, as in — I rarely carry cash at all — but today is a special day. Today I “Thomas-built buses,” or is it a simple declaration of what the am buying a school bus. man did? I don’t know, but if Thomas built my bus, correcting I know $500 doesn’t sound like much, but you never know. this ambiguity will be first on my list. You hear of people swooping up high-mileage Camrys and Minutes later, I arrive at the auction lot. Guys in cowboy beat-up cop cars for a few bills. I could get lucky. I could find hats and construction boots trudge in. Bikers in bandannas an outdated hauler in my price range. And when I do, I’m goand leather jackets speed off on their just-bought motoring to lacquer it in psychedelia and drive it to Burning Man or cycles. I’m probably the only lone woman here, and definitely something. It’s a half-assed but promising idea. I’ll nail down the only bidder with a strictly impractical agenda. All around the details later. me, bargain hunters rummage dutifully, When I tell my friends about the plan, they IT’S A HALFchecking off boxes on their inventory sheets. don’t share my enthusiasm. Women sit around in folding chairs, doing ASSED BUT “What are you doing Saturday?” they ask. things like needlepoint. I won’t see a smile the PROMISING “Going to the government auction.” whole time I’m here. IDEA. I’LL NAIL “Why?” The amount of stuff on the lot is incredible. “I’m buying a school bus.” There are chaotic heaps of waiting-room furDOWN THE At this, they raise their eyebrows and smirk niture and extinct X-ray machines, mattresses DETAILS LATER. and a floor shiner that looks like R2-D2 in a patronizingly. I don’t let it faze me. I wake up early and head down to the TNT roller coaster car. It’s a random assortment of auction yard. It’s inconveniently located 30 minutes from my shit (“stuff” is really too euphemistic in some cases) and, on house, on an afterthought of an intersection that is Flamingo top of that, items are grouped haphazardly. If you’re interested and Stephanie. The area is all unmarked buildings and forin a funky office sofa from the ’80s, you’d better be ready to saken tract homes. There’s really no reason you should know take home a duffle bag full of vacuum tubes, too. A fax machine the place. you’re looking for? Great! They’ll throw in the lampshade free. On the way there, I tail a school bus for a few miles on the I watch for a while as an auctioneer rattles through bags of 95. “It’s an omen,” I think. “I’m definitely getting a bus today.” jewelry and digital cameras before hopping off stage and leadI admire the aging beauty and notice the brand. The insignia ing the herd through the piles. One guy gets a computer for says “Thomas Built Buses” — written in all caps. I contem$50. Another scores a palette of them for $800. The auctioneer

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admonishes low-ball bidders. “If I start bidding at $100, don’t waste my time by offering $25,” he says. I wonder what keeps people from stealing because there are lots of loose items and no obvious security measures, but I get distracted before I can figure it out. My attention turns to the vehicles. That’s why I’m here, after all. A slowly moving crowd follows an auction truck as it creeps down a row of utility vehicles. A road sign-like marker lets people know what car is on the block, and a twangy auctioneer speaks in tongues through mounted bullhorns. A few thousand dollars for a burnt-down fire engine, less for a water truck that seems to be in working order. I look around for the school buses. Nothing. I weave through retired cruisers and county pickups. Still nothing. They were listed on the website. They’ll pull them up any minute, I tell myself. I wait. And wait. And wait. After a while, it becomes clear there are no buses. Either I missed my chance, or they were bought via “buy it now” on the website. There could be another reason, but I can’t ask because the auctioneers don’t stop to breathe, much less take questions. Deflated, I head back toward my car. As I leave the lot, I hear the vehicle auctioneer — the quicker and cheerier of the two — congratulate a buyer over the loudspeaker. “I’m glad you’re excited,” he says. “I’m excited for you!” His optimism stings. I’m not excited; I’m bummed. I didn’t get my fucking bus.

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