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LISA COLETY on the Railroad Trail near Lake Mead

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Contents 7 mail Debating the tastiness of

46 noise Introducing Rabid

bull’s balls. Respect for Jesse Waits.

Young. Locals unite for 3 Feet for Pete. Sufjan’s sad, beautiful songs.

8 as we see it My, how the Center has grown. Themes are back on the Strip! Pot for pets?

49 the strip It’s a robot

12 weekly Q&A Bird and Hike

50 fine art Under the masks.

wilderness guru Jim Boone.

16 Feature | into the wild Communing with the athletes and stunning places (and sweet gear!) that inspire us to get outside.

26 nights Raising a glass to Conan at the Cromwell. A few lessons from Nightclub & Bar.

exodus from Blue Man Group!

51 stage Las Vegas Little Theatre does Amadeus so, so right.

52 food Testing the fun flavors of Japañeiro, plus a Korean-style Eat the Globe.

56 calendar High on Fire’s

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Matt Pike talks mescaline and Sleep.

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41 A&E Veteran garage-rockers The Sonics speak up.

42 pop culture How to be a classy red-carpet reporter.

43 screen It’s finally time for

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IN SEARCH OF (SHOWGIRL) ZEN Do showgirls like yoga? The burning question is answered at lasvegasweekly. com, where our plucky columnist Maren Wade muses on why one should never get her “om” on.

WATCH THIS In tandem with our annual love letter to the outdoors, we thought about our favorite movies about wild people and places.

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MOST READ STORIES lasvegasweekly.com 1. Remembering beloved Downtown-scene mainstay DJ Aurajin 2. Five interesting things about the new Grand Bazaar Shops 3. Jesse Waits is the lone man standing over No. 1 club XS 4. Is this the best pho in Las Vegas?

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Tax Season Special Enrollment Period Ends April 30 HOW FUNNY The Kevin Hart-Will Ferrell comedy Get Hard is slightly controversial, but our reviewer found it more misguided than offensive.

It was a good laugh ... And that should be enough. –Fan Farron We enjoyed it for what it was. I know the critics are complaining that they were pandering to lowest denominators ... It was the script, not the acting. I wouldn’t buy it, but I’d watch it again.

–Denise Bolaños

UNIQUE DELICACY San Diego’s Searsucker opened at Caesars Palace, and readers were surprised to find bull’s balls as one of the menu specials.

Eww ... not EVEN going to try that. –Lynn Murray Haha! What the hell do you guys think is in the majority of hot dogs? 100 percent beef?

–Jor’El Vaaz At least they’re –Kyle Bass

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blue.

MAN AT THE TOP We profiled XS’ Jesse Waits, and you dished on him and the scene.

Respect to this man. I personally know how hard his work ethic is.

–Donald Carlisle Still can’t see the allure of spending hundreds of dollars on a bottle of booze and listening to someone spin records. To each his/her own.

–Bob Kelly

SUPERHERO DIVERSITY The Q&A with UNLV prof Julia Lee inspired a discussion on race.

The movies are a little behind the comic books, but Marvel has been really good about diversifying their

characters to include more minorities. What she is asking for is actually happening to big characters, it’s just taking place on the page and not on the screen. It would be kind of neat if she included some comic discourse into her lessons because the impact of minorities taking bigger roles has been an emphasis in comics for the last decade.

–Rick Quemado

WISH GRANTED? Ride Genie’s uninspiring debut in Las Vegas continues the local debate about Uber and other ridesharing possibilities.

I don’t understand ... If Uber is classified as a software company then why are they in every city taking fares from people who want rides? Isn’t that a transportation company? And why are they not paying license fees like other transportation companies?

–Yolanda Barragan It’s way less hassle to bid a rental for $20-$30 a day and avoid the corruption. –Raymond Mays F**k Uber, bring Lyft. At least they respect their clients’ privacy.

–Richie Villafuerte

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PHO REAL We fell in love with Pho Sing Sing.

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Their mi sate and homemade original egg rolls are the best! This is a Vietnamese family oriented place.

The food is amazing. When I can’t make it at home I come here.

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Prefer Pho So 1 and Pho Saigon 8. –Ai-Quoc N. Heller Pho Kinh Do is so incredible that I have a hard time walking into another establishment. Their broth is simply heartwarming and superb! –Kristina McCoy

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AsWeSeeIt OPINION + POLITICS + HUMOR + STYLE

FINDING YOUR CENTER Maryland Parkway. Over the past year, the Center reports an 80 percent spike in “Being at the Center, it gives you a sense of community. People [understood] annual group meeting attendance, a doubling in participation in its transgender how I felt; they could relate to how I felt.” and gender non-conforming programs and a 2,000-person increase in youth While his family supported local teen Aaron Moorehead when he came out programming. The Centerpiece arts and culture series is still drawing as transgender, he was still looking for something more—for a community, crowds with documentary screenings and intriguing speakers, and for kindred spirits to talk to about his discoveries about himself. And officials say its latest job fair packed the house. The nonprofit has so in October, Aaron started attending Flux, the Gay and Lesbian also developed new programming to better meet the needs of the Community Center of Southern Nevada’s transgender youth sup“The Center Valley’s LGBTQ community, offering more diversified support port group. “It’s a family there. … It’s nice having a place where groups, starting a course-for-credit partnership with UNLV I can go for that kind of support.” has helped us and launching a new clothing-swap program for transgender The place is bustling on a Thursday, with a group of high understand that clients, called Switch. schoolers poring over homework around a café table, a couple But more than specific services, many who come to the conversing over coffee nearby, almost every complimentary Aaron is not Center are looking for human connection and comfort. Senior computer in the lounge being used and a steady stream of alone.” and Transgender Programs Manager Holly Reese says the orgacustomers queuing up at Bronze Cafe for espresso and vegan nization gets a handful of walk-ins and phone calls each day from treats. This must be the gathering place the Center envisioned—a parents of children who recently came out as LGBTQ, seeking guidvibrant, warm and welcoming space for support and socialization— ance about how to support their loved ones. when making its big move from a modest Commercial Center storefront to “It’s a little challenging, because you have to race there after work and drive Downtown’s renovated Robert L. Forbuss Building. back, but it’s worth it,” Aaron’s father Rich says of bringing his son to Flux. “The The nonprofit cut the rainbow ribbon two years ago this week, and Saturday Center has helped us understand that Aaron is not alone. ... It’s really helped afternoon will commemorate the milestone with a “Homecoming” event showAaron figure out where he fits in the world.” –Mark Adams casing its services and celebrating how they’ve thrived in the new facility on

WRITE ON

Long live the Black Mountain Institute! Thanks to a $20 million gift from the Rogers Foundation—one of the largest in UNLV’s history—the institute should be financially covered for the next 25 to 30 years, BMI executive director Carol Harter says. With the gift, which adds to a previous Rogers Foundation contribution of $10 million, the literary center will expand its master’s degree offerings from poetry and fiction to include creative nonfiction and dramatic writing for screen and stage. Harter says that of the top 50 literary centers, only six offer creative nonfiction. “It means we can move a whole level up,” she says. BMI seeks to promote discourse on current events, offering fellowships, grants and lecture series to that effect, as well as asylum for persecuted writers. Harter hopes BMI will eventually rival the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

“The city isn’t known for its intellectual capacity,” she says. “We’re trying to change that.” –Kristy Totten

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As We See It…

Give your dog a bong?

Pot for pets is no joke

Return of the theme Resorts World will bring splashy style back to the Strip By Kristy Totten After years of building sleek and seemingly themeless hotel-casinos, the Las Vegas Strip is embracing the old school. Resorts World Las Vegas, set to break ground May 5, will feature a Chinese motif, complete with a Great Wall replica, an indoor water park and a live panda exhibit (squee!).

Genting Group’s branding decision is a departure from contemporary casinos of the past decade such as Wynn, Aria and the Cosmopolitan, and is instead a nod to destinationthemed properties of the 1990s like Luxor, Paris and the Venetian. The question is, why now? Billy Bai, professor and associate dean of UNLV’s hotel college, says it’s about keeping the Vegas experience fresh.

“Eighty percent of visitors are repeat business, so we need to provide something new that the repeat visitor has never experienced before,” he says. And that means the tactics are ever-changing, and sometimes even cyclical. Themed casinos gave way to modern designs, and

megaresorts with dining and shopping and entertainment yielded to boutique hotels. Business models have changed, too. “Casinos must strike a balance between gaming and nongaming,” Bai says.

As far as gaming goes, it’s the older, themed casinos that make money. “Excalibur after all these years continues to make boatloads of money even though it’s dismissed by discerning architecture critics,” says Geoff Schumacher, author of Sun, Sin and Suburbia: An Essential History of Modern Las Vegas. The Cosmopolitan, on the other hand, is popular but has failed to turn a profit.

Schumacher says Resorts World’s Chinese theme is not surprising, given the importance of Asian high rollers in Las Vegas. “People flock to things they’re comfortable with,” he says. “[Resorts World isn’t] going to be goofy about it. They’re going to be clever about it and careful not to offend.” And, he adds, “How many people get to see the Great Wall?”

Prepare for Pawn Plaza The Gold & Silver crew is working on a Container Park of its own Every day thousands of tourists walk through the doors of the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, hoping to catch a glimpse of—or maybe strike a deal with—Chumlee or one of the Harrisons of History Channel’s hit reality series Pawn Stars. But

The Twittersphere was quick to show its wit when news broke that a law proposed in the Nevada Legislature would allow medicinal marijuana for animals. Quips rolled out about “cat cannabis” and finding the “Snoop Dogg” in your own dog. That was also the first reaction of Colorado veterinarian Robert Silver when some clients who were also medical marijuana users said they treated their cats, dogs and other pets with their own stash.

“I thought to myself, ‘Ha ha, pot for pets, funny,’” Silver says.

“But more and more patients were coming in and saying marijuana had helped their pet.”

Amanda Reiman, manager of marijuana policy at Drug Policy Alliance, saw the benefits with her cat Monkey, who was diagnosed with intestinal cancer. Reiman administered a cannabis oil, and soon Monkey was eating better and more active.

“A lot of the pharmaceuticals prescribed for pets are human drugs being used off-label,” Reiman says. “Cannabis as a topical treatment for animals goes back to the ancient Greeks.”

Silver, who is on the board of the Veterinary Botanical Medicine Association, says the drug’s effects on animals need to be studied more, but it could be beneficial for a variety of ailments including cancer, arthritis and seizures. Still, the best delivery methods and dosages are open questions. Dogs, for example, are particularly susceptible to the psychoactive chemical in pot and can experience static ataxia, where they zone out and rock back and forth.

“I’m glad this has come up in Nevada,” Silver says. “It’s an idea whose time has come, and I hope this leads to more research, discussion and other states considering similar legislation.” –Tovin Lapan

after they’ve waited in the hours-long line and attempted to peddle their goods, what’s there to do? Unless you’re looking for a bail bond or to get hitched, not much. But that’s set to change, with an adjacent development called Pawn Plaza slated to open this summer. Owner Rick Harrison announced its first three tenants last week: Rick’s Rollin Smoke BBQ & Tavern (an offshoot of Rollin Smoke Barbeque), Poutine Vegas (from Smoke’s Poutinerie of Ontario, Canada) and Rita’s Italian Ice. Similar to the nearby Downtown Container Park, the project will house these businesses and more in a two-story structure made of “cubes” produced

by Xtreme Manufacturing. Pawn Plaza will feature up to 16 retail spaces in its 12,000-square-foot lot, with 6,000 square feet entirely devoted to patio and balcony space. Who’s ready to pawn, poutine, party and repeat? –Mark Adams

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IN BRIEF BOOZE ‘N’ CHUTES Despite community protestations, the Clark County Commission has approved water park Wet ‘N’ Wild’s request for a conditionaluse permit to sell beer and wine ... in a 50-square-foot pen when nearby Faiss Middle School isn’t in session.

Too prohibitive for Las Vegas? A better question: Why not just open a pool filled with Grey Goose for the adults?

–Mike Prevatt

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AN ISLAND ON THE STRIP

Can Fukuburger help rejuvenate the Hawaiian Marketplace?

BY BROCK RADKE Fukuburger quietly opened in the Hawaiian Marketplace retail center on Las Vegas Boulevard last week. That might not seem like a significant development. It’s a place for pedestrians to grab a tasty burger and a cold drink as they roam the Strip, and there are a bunch of those—Fatburger, Shake Shack and Bobby’s Burger Palace are all nearby, between Harmon and Tropicana.

But it is significant, because this strip-mall-on-the-Strip site predates the current, sizzling-hot trend of more and more retail and restaurant development crowding as close to the Boulevard as possible. And it’s a second shot—maybe a more precise, better executed attempt—for a super-local, homegrown business to grow into the tourist market.

After years working in local restaurants, Colin Fukunaga launched his Fukuburger food truck in 2010.

Behind its all-American, Asian-inspired menu of powerfully flavored burgers, fries, spicy hot dogs and late-night specials, the truck built a fast following, appeared on national TV a few times and expanded to Hollywood with a short-lived restaurant partnership with hospitality scion Harry Morton. But a Vegas restaurant was always the objective, preferably one with a full liquor license and late hours to accommodate the young hospitality industry workers that have always been Fuku’s biggest fans.

Fukunaga got something close last year when he teamed with Vegas-based HIG Management for FAME at the Linq Promenade, a food court-style concept that never really took off and recently shuttered. (Fukuburger was the reason most people visited FAME.) But HIG controls the leases for several retail sites at Hawaiian Marketplace, across from Aria, including a small restaurant pad just below a newly opened Chili’s Grill & Bar franchise.

So after a quick buildout, Fukuburger is back in business on the Strip … really on the Strip, this time.

“My clientele are drinkers, so why not have a burger bar here?” Fukunaga says. “If you can’t make it with hundreds of people walking by your spot every minute,

maybe you’ve got issues,” he jokes. He does appear to be in a better position for success, selling booze soon and food to tourists and, hopefully, local workers who want to swing by after their shifts at Strip casinos.

As was the case at FAME, Fukuburger is a short-term tenant, for now, hoping to prove itself and stick around.

Next door, a 6,000-square-foot German beer hall called Rathaus is coming this summer, and a coffee and doughnut shop is planned for a former Tix 4 Tonight outlet, more interesting additions to a center most people don’t realize has been planted on the Strip since 2004.

When the Hawaiian Marketplace originally opened— developed by Brett Torino, who more recently created the nearby Harmon Corner—the pre-recession Strip was still all about building big casinos. The Marketplace was the first free-standing retail pad on the Strip, but using its space for low-budget business like cheap souvenir kiosks and frozen drink bars didn’t make sense back then.

“We have seen renewed interest from strong local and national tenants seeking to capitalize on the property’s incredible location and unprecedented access to foot traffic from the record number of tourists visiting the Las Vegas Strip,” says Jeffrey Schaffer, president of NBP Luxury, LLC, owner of the Hawaiian Marketplace since 2010. Additional upgrades are planned for the 18-acre property, all in accordance with the belief that more and more Vegas visitors are looking for street-side diversions like the ones at the Linq, Bally’s new Grand Bazaar Shops and next year’s Park project on the south Strip.

Fukunaga is all in, too. “There’s a running joke that we’re going to be the saviors of Hawaiian Marketplace,” he says, but he knows it’ll take more than his delicious burgers to make this place a real destination.

“We have to convince tourists they should be eating here, which is hard because they can go to a generic spot right next to us,” he says. “But if we can get a good mix of locals and tourists and fill up our patio space—and it’s a killer space—we’ll be in good shape.”

FRESH FLOWERS Death Valley typically conjures images of sun-bleached cow skulls on a cracked desert floor, but that vision needs an update. Thanks to a strong rainy season, the world-famous destination has exploded with wildflowers, including yellow desert golds and mimulus “monkey flowers,” red Indian paintbrushes, white desert pincushions, purple Mojave asters and others. The blooms should last another couple of weeks. Hurry! –Kristy Totten TRAIL OF SELFIES You have from April 6 until May 29 to snap a seriously awesome selfie in front of any Henderson trail signage if you want to win one of the cool prizes in Bike It or Hike It. There’s no cost to participate; just hit your favorite trailhead—there’s only about a million of ’em—for a pic and tag the City of Henderson with #bikeitorhikeit and you’re eligible to win stuff like a hybrid bicycle, VISA gift cards, movie passes and more. For more info, visit bikehenderson.org.

–Brock Radke

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ENTERTAINMENT Done Right

Weekly Q&A You pretty much have this Valley covered. Is there any hike you haven’t done? All the

Do crowds at these geographic and prehistoric cultural sites concern you? It’s a conun-

places in between. There are an infinite number of places to hike. Every ridge, every canyon, every wash and every mountaintop.

drum that you’ve got to have people that get out and see it so they’ll fall in love with it and be willing to protect it. But on the other hand, huge crowds of people just by their simple presence degrade the area.

What’s your favorite? There

are so many ways to judge your favorite. If your favorite is the place you go back to the most, Goldstrike Hot Springs would probably fit.

But I think the area I like the most is the Sheep Range.

It’s wild and remote, and it’s well-managed, so you don’t have people driving their ATVs all over the desert.

And it’s quiet. It’s the kind of the thing we would hope could happen at Gold Butte.

What is the status of Gold Butte? Gold Butte has been

on the radar for conservation for quite some time.

There are a lot of nice, wideopen spaces out there, but it’s a pretty heavily used area by off-roaders. While most off-roaders are responsible people, there are a few that will go out there and drive wild, run over the bushes and break up the soil crust, run over tortoises and damage rock art sites and other cultural sites.

Modern-day explorer Bird and Hike’s Jim Boone on studying—and championing— Southern Nevada’s wilderness It’s inevitable that searching the Internet for Southern Nevada hikes, geology or birding will land you on Jim Boone’s birdandhike.com. The same can be said for online hunts regarding snakes in Nevada or bristlecone pine on Mount Charleston.

Need to navigate Wilson’s Pimple Loop Trail at Red Rock? Bird and Hike can help with that, too. Boone is ubiquitous. A birder with a Ph.D. in ecology, he’s covered much of the region’s wilderness areas, studied its mammals, vegetation, geology and vistas, then shared his findings online, providing anything from GPS coordinates and access routes to bird species and trail levels of difficulty. Launching the site in 2002 to counter the lack of web-available public information, the former senior scientist who studied the environment for the Yucca Mountain Project comes with a background in biology, rock climbing and park rangering. Most recently, he’s assisted the Conservation Lands Foundation on informative tours to Basin and Range as part of the effort to promote conservation there.

Is it a matter of educating or enforcing? It’s both. Part of

the goal of protecting Gold Butte is to get some small amount of monitoring out there by some land management agency people.

There are vast, open spaces with grand scenery and tall mountains and broad valleys and wild erosional patterns in the rocks and world-class archeological sites with just amazing amounts of rock art. It’s just pristine.

Who are you trying to reach with your website? Those

who have never gone out and have no idea what is out there. The way I write the descriptions is far more detailed than your average hiker might need, but I’m trying to demystify the outdoors for the people who haven’t been there before.

I’m guessing Basin and Range is too distant and remote to be adversely affected by recreation? That’s the same thing

people said about Central Park. When Central Park was developed it was way out in the sticks, and who would ever go out there? It’s that really, really long-range vision. We’ve got to get out in these faraway places and set them up as conservation lands so they don’t just get whittled away over time.

How do visitors respond to Basin and Range? They stand

in the basin, they look this way and see forever into the distance, they turn that way and see forever into the distance and they come away with, ‘Ya know, I never thought a basin could be so beautiful,’ because usually a basin is what you’re driving through to get somewhere else.

You’ve traveled extensively and lived all over the country. Why settle in Southern Nevada? I grew up in Los

Angeles. Our family was lower middle class and so we were comfortable enough, but we never had money for family vacations and things like that, and so our vacations were camping in the desert—weekends at Joshua Tree and AnzaBorrego. The Southwestern deserts are really home to me, and that’s where I feel most comfortable.

Why do this? I want to give back to the environment—to the land that I love and help protect these places. I might not have started had I realized that it would take over my life, but it really brings a sense of giving back and fulfillment. –Kristen Peterson

“We’ve got to get out in these faraway places and set them up as conservation lands so they don’t just get whittled away over time.”

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> true grit About a week after this photo was taken, Alex Johnson completed a first ascent of this V10 boulder, granting her the right to name it—the Swoop.

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Wild things WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS, THE GNARLY ROCKS, MIGHTY RIVERS AND EPIC TRAILS BEGIN PHOTOGRAPH BY MAX MOORE

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Heart of stone

On the world-class rocks in Las Vegas’ backyard, pro climber Alex Johnson is finally home by Erin Ryan

She drinks her coffee with butter. Her Chihuahua runs 8-minute miles. And she can hang her entire body weight on two fingers. Something tells me Alex Johnson would be good at Two Truths and a Lie. At the moment, the 26-year-old professional climber is laughing about drunk marmots while gripping the side of an 18-foot boulder.

“They chewed through the cans!” another climber says as Johnson works the imposing hunk of chalk-tattooed sandstone known as All Nightmare Long. This is the first time she’s ever touched it, but her movements look memorized. In a way they are, considering she started climbing at a Wisconsin gym at age 7, won her first U.S. title at 12 and has since notched five national championships and two Bouldering World Cup golds. She’s still competing at the highest level, taking second at the American Bouldering Series final in February, but Johnson has “honed in on outdoor projects.”

Not just first female ascents, though she’s racking them up. First ascents, period.

“So many other areas have been so tapped out, and I can go exploring here in a canyon and find things that haven’t been climbed, and then I can make them my own, clean them up and make the landings safe. I’ve never done that anywhere else, and it’s cool to be a contributing factor to more rock climbing,” she says, sharing some of what drew her from Boulder, Colorado (Mecca for American climbing) to Las Vegas a year ago. It’s the scope of the developing landscape and the climbing community’s inclusive vibe that make her casually say she might stay forever. “I’ve never felt more at home.”

Since they moved into a place near the road to Red Rock Canyon, Johnson and her climbing partner and manager Kati Hetrick have been checking off boulder problems and longer routes in the worldclass playground. With Johnson’s tiny pup Fritz sprinting along, they haul their crash pads into the wilds looking for classics and anything untested that has the right balance of beauty, difficulty and fun.

The Swoop was one of those, a richly striated boulder knifing to the sky with a “really, really, really scary landing.” Johnson thinks that’s the reason no one tried it. She spent days cleaning the holds and perfecting the sequence of moves to the crux, which she describes in a video about the project as “a committing jump.” You have to see it to know what she means, but picture a fully extended leap anchored by the fingertips of one hand and landing on an edge sloping in gravity’s favor. When she finally nails it and gets to the top in the video, she pounds the rock like a stoked kid.

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> climb on At a Mount Charleston crag called the Hood, Alex Johnson does an expert route called Short Dog.

photographs by david beaver

> monkey business Kati Hetrick takes on a classic at Kraft Boulders, the V7 Monkey Bar Traverse.

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“ It’s a technical, physical and mental sport. Very equal parts. But if your head’s not there, you’re not gonna do it.”

The Swoop is one of two climbs she’s put up in Red Rock, the other a 30-foot highball she named Critically Acclaimed.

Keep in mind that there are no ropes in bouldering. Just the pads and a bag of chalk. Hetrick says, “There’s a point where you just can’t fall.”

They met at a competition four years ago, when Johnson was getting back into the formal side of the sport after burning out and Hetrick was breaking in. She says she got Johnson into training, convincing her to give up the Taco Bell and the “off-the-couch” model. “She went from getting sixth at nationals to competing in the World Cup four months later and beating all the Americans and getting fourth in the world,” says Hetrick, adding that her work with and connections through Johnson were the foundations of RedPoint, her business consulting for big outdoor brands and managing athletes.

Johnson, who climbs full-time thanks to sponsors like the North Face, Evolv and Nicros Climbing, says she can only train like that maybe twice a year, that it’s all her body can handle.

“And your brain,” adds Hetrick.

“It’s a technical, physical and mental sport. Very equal parts. … You could be completely fit and ready and know the technique, but if your head’s not there, you’re not gonna do it.”

Johnson’s head is clearly there on All Nightmare Long as she pulls herself up by fractions of fingertips. She dispatches the V6 easily. Boulder grades go from V0 to V16, and she’s one of the only women to consistently climb V12.

Given her talent, I ask why she chose to focus on bouldering instead of the big-wall stuff that can make headlines, and careers. She reframes it rhetorically: If you’re in Yosemite for El Capitan’s 3,000-foot glory, why would you climb a little nugget that broke off?

“Bouldering singles out difficulty. It takes the difficulty that could be all of El Cap, and you can compact it into like four moves. So it’s basically the four single hardest moves you can physically do,” she says. It’s about power, body control and finesse, not to mention the aesthetics of the moves, the line and the rock itself.

Boulders are inspiring problems to be solved, and Johnson says some climbers will “sit under” one for years. “You have to have an obsessive personality.”

Overcoming that kind of challenge feels amazing—until comment feeds blow up with arguments over its grade.

Johnson experienced that after achieving the first female ascent of a local V12 called Lethal Design in 2012.

“Since then a handful of girls and women have done it, and there have been murmurs of ‘soft’ and ‘downgrade,’” she wrote on her blog last July, getting into the nuances of individual strengths and styles making climbs easier or harder in ways that defy consensus grades. While she sees the need for standards, Johnson urged downgrade bandwagoners to keep in mind that as sports grow, athletes get stronger and boundaries get crushed. And to think hard about how important it is to nitpick a number. “Because to someone, that line could be the hardest thing

they’ve ever done, and they could have worked their ass off for it.”

Kynan Waggoner has always known Johnson to speak her mind. Joining her on the boulders in Red Rock’s Oak Creek Canyon area, he recalls her technique as a teenager competing indoors. The CEO of USA Climbing used to set routes for competitions, and he says she was a natural.

Becoming a professional takes more than ability, and Waggoner says that Johnson and other young climbers accomplished a lot without support—something his organization is trying to change. “Climbing, even though the numbers are growing astronomically, is still a very young sport,” he says. “It’s happening in the middle of nowhere. No one sees what’s going on.

And in order to be here you gotta love what you’re doing.”

The love comes through in the encouragements these climbers yell when faces are strained and muscles pumped by tough moves—and in the celebratory beers. It’s in Johnson’s constant bounding away to scout every rock. And it’s definitely in the satisfaction she feels about going for V14 as a woman, even though she has yet to conquer one.

“The season that she tried was the first year everybody started to consider, just fathom, that it was possible,” Hetrick says. “And months later, three girls did it, like back to back to back.”

Johnson says it was awesome just to crack the glass. She seems passionate about advancing the sport and her place in it, and sincere in thinking Las Vegas might be the perfect line.

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Happy hour at the oasis MILLER LITE. PORK NACHOS. SWAMP COOLERS. AND MILES AND MILES OF ARIZONA DESERT IT’S 1 IN THE AFTERNOON and I’m drinking a Miller Lite in the middle of nowhere, the northern reaches of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, miles down a dirt road from any signs of civilization.

Did I mention I’m at a bar?

That’s the allure of the Nellie E Saloon. Affectionately called the “Desert Bar,” the watering hole’s remote location and off-the-grid quirks (no air conditioning, limited refrigeration and a cash-only policy) have been attracting desert nomads since the bar opened in 1983.

Situated on an old mining camp, what started as a three-sided outpost slinging cans of brewskis to dirt bikers has morphed into a makeshift townsite. The saloon now stands two

stories tall, complete with two indoor bars, two grills, covered patio areas and two stages for live bands. Owner Ken Coughlin’s abode, an open-air church and the destination’s “cooling towers” (utilizing swamp-cooler technology minus electricity) complete the camp-ish complex, which undergoes some kind of expansion project each year.

If Nellie E is anything, it’s a testament to “If you build it, they will come.” On a recent Saturday after-

noon the bar was packed to the brim, with around 200 people throwing back beers, chowing on burgers and pulled-pork nachos and two-stepping to the live country crooning in the background.

The seasonal bar is only open from October through April, (those cooling towers wouldn’t help much during Arizona’s brutal summers), but you still have this month to take advantage of the nearby oddity.

And while Nellie E itself is defi-

> UTAH’S STATE ROUTE 14

The road to everywhere

CRAGGY FORESTS, CARVED ROCKS AND A RAINBOW OF SQUIRRELS ALONG UTAH’S SCENIC ROUTE 14

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IF YOU LOVE RED ROCK and Mount Charleston and Lake Mead and Black Mountain, then you’ll love Utah’s State Route 14.

Features from Las Vegas’ best outdoor destinations converge on this 41-mile stretch of scenic highway, boasting craggy forest, a natural sandstone amphitheater, a lake, a waterfall and a striking lava field that blankets the floor of a birch grove. Best of all, it’s only two and a half hours from Vegas, and the area can be surveyed in as little as a day.

To get to State Route 14, head north on Interstate 15 and exit on Main Street in Cedar City. Turn right, and follow the road to the UT-14 East intersection. Make another right, and

nitely something to see, the journey can be the real adventure. While most opt to take their sedans and trucks on the easy-riding dirt road in, many choose to off-road on a path that begins behind the River Island gas station in Parker, Arizona. The trek through the saguaro- and pricklypear-dotted Buckskin Mountains takes approximately three hours, and it’ll make that Miller Lite (or Solo cup of Franzia!) taste even better.

–Mark Adams

> CEDAR BREAKS

you’re on your way.

The gray desert landscape quickly rises into low mountains in reds and tans dotted with vibrant plant life.

Soon after, the scenery narrows into a rounded, tree-topped limestone canyon and then flattens to a forest floor.

Pine trees spring up as you enter the Dixie National Forest.

Cedar Canyon Campground is the first campsite on the route driving east, and has stunning red-rock views of an eroded cliff face, but the $15 sites can be noisy because they’re close to the road.

About halfway to Duck Creek, the highway’s end point, is Route 148, which leads to Cedar Breaks National Monument. Cedar Breaks’

most memorable trait is its red-andwhite striated geologic “amphitheater,” which is half a mile deep and beautifully carved by the elements. At 10,000 feet above sea level, the park, open May through October, is considered a sub-alpine forest, with ancient bristlecone pines and wildflower fields during spring.

Continuing east, you’ll find Navajo Lake, open in June and home to three $12 campgrounds, fishing, boating and a handful of hiking trails for all ability levels. One of the easiest, Cascade Falls, is a scenic walk on the south-facing side of a red mountain to a waterfall. The water feature is small, but the hike is still well worth it for the sweeping valley views.

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Heaven that’s hell

FOR LOCAL EXTREME RUNNERS, A RIM-TO-RIM TREK THROUGH THE GRAND CANYON IS A HIGH THAT’S WORTH THE STRUGGLE by Sarah Feldberg

> NAVAJO LAKE

Beyond the lake are lava fields created by ancient volcanic activity. Mammoth Cave, a quartermile-long lava tube, is located near Mammoth Creek Road and is safe to explore, but just driving past presents a breathtaking view of white birch trees and jagged black rocks. Finally, the highway ends at Duck Creek, a small town with campsites, cabins and various recreational rentals.

If you’re lucky, you’ll spot deer, porcupine, pikas, marmots and several kinds of squirrels. (Several kinds of squirrels!) Though it’s possible to cover the sights in a day, you’ll want to stay longer to experience them. –Kristy Totten

LISA COLETY HAS READ the warnings.

She knows the dangers: temperature swings, unpredictable weather, the possibility of twisting an ankle, taking a fall or simply stepping off a ledge to almost certain death.

“Everything you look at when you talk about going North to South says do not attempt to do this in one day,” the veteran trail runner (and Weekly covergirl) says. “And we know that, but this is what we do.”

“This” is the Grand Canyon’s legendary rimto-rim trek, a leg-pummeling, mentally punishing trip from one side of the giant gash in the Earth to the other, covering about 24 miles and more than 10,000 feet of elevation change.

Hiking it over multiple days is a challenge, but Colety and her friend Zoe Albright prefer to run the canyon—usually finishing in 8-10 hours.

Though the National Park Service discourages traversing the canyon as a day trip, runners and hikers have been tackling the route for decades, and in recent years it has grown enormously popular. The Park Service estimates that 400-600 people now attempt rim-to-rim (or rim-to-river-to-rim) treks on weekend days during peak season. Last August it rolled out a new permitting program to limit inner-canyon day hikes.

Some of those who lace up for the adventure compete for FKT (Fastest Known Time) or run

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makeshift ultramarathons on this brutal desert course. The current rim-to-rim record belongs to Arizonan Rob Krar, who made the journey in 2 hours, 51 minutes and 28 seconds on May 25, 2012. About a year later Jason “Ras” Vaughan ran the only known sextuple rim to rim, navigating the canyon six times over an incomprehensible 68 hours and 10 minutes.

For most, however, a single trek across the Big Ditch proves daunting enough. Colety and Albright have completed the journey four times since 2008. For that first attempt, Albright says they made a pact: “You make sure I get out, I’ll make sure you get out.”

Not everyone does. About 250 people are rescued from the Grand Canyon every year, and there’s an entire book dedicated to those who didn’t make it out alive. The canyon has a way of pushing people to their limits, and Albright says it’s different every time. “That’s part of the allure of it—the unknown.”

The women start their journey on the North Rim before dawn, descending on narrow switchbacks in the morning chill and the glow of headlamps. When the sun finally rises, “you see where you’ve been hiking,” Colety explains. “The sun just shines on these canyons. Sometimes there are waterfalls and there’s green … It’s just very spiritual. It’s breathtaking.”

But the canyon can also be cruel. Temperatures at the bottom often surpass 100 degrees, and the terrain is harsh, jutting skyward for the final miles when runners are at their most exhausted. “When you’re out on the trail,” Albright says, “you just keep going.” The only way out is up.

Colety had tears in her eyes when she finished the climb on that first trip seven years ago.

“You look at the other side of the canyon—we were there this morning—and it’s so far away. So far away.”

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> RIVER TAME (OR IS IT?) Don’t underestimate the power of the Colorado.

One dance with the Colorado

FOUR PADDLERS TAKE ON OUR STUNNING (AND A LITTLE BIT MERCILESS) WATERWAY by Kristen Peterson RED COBRA CAREENS her

kayak into the bow of my boat with no warning. A missile gone rogue with its last breath, moving independently in the midday sun.

She’d been zigzagging the Colorado like this for most of the journey, blaming it on her rudderless vessel. But then, we all found our excuses for whatever hindered our novice paddling.

I squint into the distance, hoping to spot Stretch, but she’s long gone, leaving the three of us to pick up the pace. Any slower and the search party will come. We have until 4 p.m., they said. But it’d taken us the day to kayak two miles up-river, so dawdling of any sort is out of the question, as is Hoover Dam. Access is restricted now, and any fantasy of nearing it was doused when one of our crew considered abandoning ship before we’d even left the Willow Beach harbor. Her technique, much like Red Cobra’s, proved interesting, both of them errantly ramming into the docks at launch (and one, who shall remain nameless, later tangling with a shrub).

Unable to paddle free, they stuck like insects on flypaper. It was Keystone Cops in slow-mo.

Tomorrow would be the first day of spring, and we were its eager welcoming committee. No destination other than “up-river.”

Boulders towered on either side in hues of brown, a statuesque desert passage as pronounced and dreamy as any brochure could promise. Volcanoes created this canyon, and 15 million years later the four of us paddle through with beer and candy at $45 per rented

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kayak. Some of us barreling against the current. Others debating whether they’re actually moving. Ducky says she’s self-identifying as a weakling.

There are many ways to get up and down this stretch of the river, but navigating solo in a kayak creates an intense and complicated love affair, with a current that seems merciless at moments but promises to return you to your destination should your arms give out. We understand its demands. It has California to nourish, and we’ve already taken plenty. It makes national headlines for this reason, yet here it is close up, clear, seemingly pristine, bountiful and forgiving, oblivious to the political controversy taking place in boardrooms across the country.

At the shore beneath the historic river gauger’s house site, we come across others, explorers on a guided tour with fancier kayaks and a sense of ease in their eyes. They’re cordial and informative, having just hiked up to the historic site. “Harry’s House,” they call it. And what a view he had.

We find remnants of a former home— steps, hardware, broken window glass, rusty nails and a concrete foundation. We examine the glass shards melted by the summer heat and read the provided text. Daily he would measure the water’s volume, rate of flow and silt content in the 1920s and ’30s. The Dam does that now.

Journeying on, the cliffs and desert brush signal our speed. Beaches provide respite. The Emerald Cave is indeed emerald. We paddle out of it and back down the river with a grace we didn’t have going up. Red Cobra zigzags, and the sky seems eternal.

Bag-o-gourmet A TASTY TOUR OF CAMPSITE SNACKAGE

REHYDRATED FOOD MIGHT NOT sound appetizing, but when you’re out in the wild, hot meals are a welcome upgrade from sad sandwiches. We tried a handful of brands and flavors (available at your local REI), and found some so delectable we might even make them at home.

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Haleakala yoga mat Leave it to Urban Outfitters’ new fitness-themed branch, Without Walls, to carry an arsenal of trendy camping tchotchkes and yoga accessories. We can totally get behind aligning our chakras with a giant purple galaxy mat.

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If the veggies were a tad less mushy, it could almost pass for restaurant curry, from fish sauce to ginger to kaffir lime leaf.

∑ Mountain House scrambled

eggs with ham, $6 The spongey texture and un-flavor smack more of fake meat than real egg, though hunks of salty ham and bitter green pepper add some depth.

Wrapped in a tortilla with salsa, we wouldn’t kick this out of bed.

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Pantry beef pho, $9 Pho in the wild?

You betcha! It might have milder broth, stiffer noodles and strange little cubes of meat, but crystallized lime, powdered sriracha and cilantro flakes make it taste fresh when it really shouldn’t.

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∑ AlpineAire bananas foster, $4.93

Kinda like breakfast, in a good way. The fruit retains a nice chew, somewhere between fresh and dried. And the silky bath of butter and brown sugar makes you not give a damn what else is in the bag. –Kristy Totten and Erin Ryan

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> BLUE STEEL Italian DJs Merk & Kremont match their clothes, hair and expressions.

Deal with it.

IN HONOR OF DJ AURAJIN DJ

Aurajin, who passed away suddenly on March 23, touched so many lives in our community that his peers and promoter pals have established not one, but three different events for the celebration of his life. The first: A benefit at Backstage Bar & Billiards for Aurajin’s family in the wake of his medical and funeral bills, featuring a long list of local DJs like Rex Dart and Tino BadBeat and performers like Jay Dubbler and Jefferson Montoya (April 2, doors at 7:30 p.m., $5 donation). The second, located at Velveteen Rabbit and also a benefit, sees the First Friday party the Get Back dedicate its April edition to its longtime resident DJ, with another extensive lineup of locals including John Doe, Danny Boy, DJ Shoe, Presto One and more (April 3, 10 p.m., $5 donation). And the final throwdown happens the next night in the Griffin’s back room—a former Aurajin stomping ground—as Johnny Rox spins one of his Dance Under Influence indie sets in honor of his friend (April 4, 10:30 p.m., free).

KENNY CHESNEY PRE-PARTY AT REHAB Need a pre-show hoedown ahead of catching Kenny Chesney at the Joint—or just seeking a country-flavored pool party? Hit the Rehab pool, where anyone can catch both country/dance DJ Dee Jay Silver and singer Uncle Kracker perform. Those holding tickets to one of the two Chesney shows this weekend— and members of his fan club—gain admission to the Hard Rock Hotel pool for free. April 3 & 4, doors at 11 a.m., $20+ men, $10+ women, free for concert ticketholders & No Shoes Nation members.

out the hoppy happening. Mmm … beer. April 3, 6 p.m.

(VIP), 7 p.m. (GA), $50 VIP, $35 GA. EASTER WEEKEND PARTY AT SHARE Gay men don’t let general Christian hostility toward the LGBT community stop them from having an Easter-themed party.

And the one they’re throwing at Share includes go-go dancers dressed in underwear leaving very little to the imagination, national DJ Robbie Rob and—of course— a prize-filled egg hunt. April 4, doors at 10 p.m., free.

VEGAS BEER & MUSIC FESTIVAL AT FOXTAIL POOL CLUB Rock Star Beer Productions puts on its annual

MERK & KREMONT AT DRAI’S BEACH CLUB Also

beer bash benefiting UNLV’s Beverage Management Club Friday evening at the SLS dayclub/lounge.

Sample over 50 beers from local and Southern California breweries and take in tunes courtesy of pop-rockers Falling Doves and “one-man dance party” Dan Fester. A Romantic Rock bikini fashion show and an after-party at sister venue Life round

known as Federico Merk and Giordano Kremont from Milan, the Italian beatmeisters embarked on their North America Adventures tour late last month and land Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas, where the Drai’s residents will deliver their bouncy, driving EDM beats to the Cromwell rooftop oasis. April 5, doors at 11 a.m., $30+ men, $20+ women.

CLUB HOPPING Nightlife News & Notes Another festival (of sorts) is happening in Vegas in the form of Exodus, May 14-18. But with Memorial Day Weekend so close, why another party marathon?

Blame Canada—specifically, Canada’s long weekend celebrating Victoria Day, a national holiday and the unofficial start of the Canadian summer. Exodus attendees will have one all-access pass to attend Calvin Harris at Wet Republic, Armin van Buuren at Omnia, Tiësto at Hakkasan, Avicii and Tommy Trash at XS, and more. Visit ExodusLV.com for more info. –Deanna Rilling Chris Brown will make his debut as a Drai’s Nightclub resident performer

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NATIONAL BEER DAY While we at the Weekly tend to celebrate beer all year long, Tuesday is the official day to show your love for suds. But where to go?

Main Street Station’s Triple 7 microbrewery is often overlooked but produces some solid selections. Start there, and continue your crawl down the street to Bier Garten, then to new brewery Hop Nuts. Or, head east down Fremont and you’ll be just a hop, skip and jump from Banger Brewing. April 7, hours of operation vary.

CHUCKIE AT OMNIA There’s no denying the Dirty Dutch icon’s love for our city. After all, he helped craft the Vegas version of the LMFAO hit “I’m in Miami Bitch,” followed by “What Happens in Vegas.” So it’s fitting he should perform for Omnia’s new industry night, which is more or less an extension of the beloved locals party held on the same night, back when Pure occupied the same Caesars real estate. April 7, doors at 10 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women, locals free.

on May 2, smack in the middle of the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight weekend (during which 50 Cent will also play the venue). He’s only the second official live-performance resident—electro-funk duo Chromeo was the first—though a handful of singers and rappers (like The Weeknd and J. Cole) have been regularly performing on the rooftop nightclub’s makeshift stage.

In pool news: Rehab’s grand-opening weekend will include its new (gulp) resident DJ Paris Hilton (April 25) and performer Flo Rida (April 26). Pauly D and Flux Pavilion are additional new exclusives to the Hard Rock Hotel pool, which is also adding Wednesday and Friday parties. Alesso—who has been performing at both Light and Marquee—will kick off Daylight’s 2015 season on April 18. Caesars’ more relaxing Venus begins its own year of opera-

tion on April 10. Encore Beach Club will kickstart its Thursday night swim party on April 30 with Martin Solveig.

Drai’s own evening swim soiree, Yacht Club, returns three days later, with talent TBA. And Foxtail Pool Club will experiment with 18-and-up nighttime pool events starting with an April 16 Ravealation party featuring Borgore and Ghastly.

Disco-llaneous: In an interesting tweak, Life’s industry party on March 29 also served as a pizza party, courtesy of neighboring pie spot 800 Degrees.

And on April 9, Share launches a weekly lesbian-friendly promo called Star Studded, complete with $10 liquor bust.

And Omnia will experiment with house/ techno music and afterhours programming by having DJ Guy Gerber perform a 3 a.m. outdoor-terrace set on April 25 for its grand opening weekend. –Mike Prevatt

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NIGHTS > CAPTION HEAD >Caption DRINKING goesFUN here Giada’s Flash and Destroyer caption goes here are full of bright caption goesflavor here and cinematic whimsy. caption goes here

TURNING WATER INTO BEER Takeaways from three Nightclub & Bar industry sessions

CRAWLING THE CROMWELL Bound, Giada and Interlude justify hanging out at this renovated boutique property

BY BROCK RADKE The Cromwell is a very precise place. If you’re not gambling or staying at the hotel, or not visiting one of Victor Drai’s clubs or Giada De Laurentiis’ restaurant, it might seem as if the boutique center-Strip property has nothing to offer you. But just because it’s smaller than most doesn’t mean there are no surprises, and just because it’s a remade casino (I’m looking at you, SLS) doesn’t mean there aren’t comfortable hangout spots.

Consider the Cromwell one big cocktail crawl, a cool and stylish place to leisurely sample top-notch drinks and do a little Vegas people-watching while you’re at it. It all starts at Bound, the lobby bar fashioned by global bartending icon Salvatore Calabrese. If you’ve got a taste for classic cocktails crafted with respect to tradition and a little innovation on top, this swanky, compact bar is for you.

Start with the maestro’s signature sips, from Calabrese’s perfect Breakfast Martini ($16)—Bombay Sapphire, Cointreau, fresh lemon, orange marmalade—to Robert De Niro’s alleged fave, the Godfrey ($16), a supersmooth mixture of Rémy Martin VSOP cognac, Grand Marnier, créme de mure, lemon and blackberry.

There are no misses on this drink menu, provided you find the flavors you like best. There are classics like the Vieux Carré, stuff you’ve never heard of like the Journalist Cocktail, and whimsy in the form of espresso cocktails. (Never Say Goodnight has Red Bull-flavored espresso, a frightening concept.) And Bound can get lively, too; on my most recent trip, a cheerful blonde requested “Billie Jean” from the dandy cello/violin duo doing funny takes on much more recent pop songs, then forced a much younger, tank-topped spring-breaker to dance with her. Oh, Vegas.

Bound also offers a menu of choice snacks from Giada, but it’s better to head up to the Food Network superstar’s own spot; there are more great libations you won’t want to miss upstairs, like the round and lovely Flash ($15), with Jameson Black Barrel and Amaro Braulio, and the fruity, spicy Barbarella ($15) with Tanqueray, orangespiced ginger beer and basil foam. You might have

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30 Reasons Why Bars Fail While BarMagic’s Tobin Ellis touched on a number of potential reasons venues won’t succeed—from long restroom lines (no, really) to high rent and bartenders ignoring portion control—a lot of his presentation focused on maximizing efficiency. He also stressed the importance of hiring staff members with strong work ethics over those with good looks: “I don’t know why in 2015 we’re still hiring models. … If you think hiring a hot bartender is going to make you more money, 1985 called, and it wants you back.”

30 New & Emerging Beverage Alcohol Segments A lot of booze is on the rise; don’t you want to be ahead of the trends? Flavored vodka’s popularity has waned in recent years, according to Beverage World Editor-in-Chief Jeff Cioletti, while flavored whiskeys (especially honey-flavored varieties) are quickly growing in popularity. Other emerging hooch discussed included rye, mezcal and bitters, without which, Cioletti says, modern mixology “wouldn’t exist.”

noticed the drinks are mostly named after films produced

by Giada’s legendary granddad, Dino De Laurentiis, and once you realize that, it’s impossible not to order the Destroyer ($18), the Conan-inspired concoction of Clase Azul Reposado and lots of fresh tangerine.

Giada is still a tough table, but the bar stretches farther around the room than you think. Sitting here, or in the lounge, affords you anything off the restaurant menu and great views of one of the hottest dining rooms on the Strip—and the Strip itself.

Wrap up your evening of imbibery with whatever you want at Interlude, Cromwell’s quintessential casino bar.

There’s a short bar with TV screens on one side, but relax in the lounge on the opposite side beneath red-fringed lamps, with leather-wrapped servers at your disposal.

Interlude’s cocktail menu, heavy on Champagne and sweetness, doesn’t quite measure up to the other two, but it doesn’t have to. A great crawl always closes with your favorite drink, and Interlude is ready to make exactly that, so skip the goofy-fun Julio’s Hooch Juice ($17) in favor of the simple, Negroni-esque, bourbon-for-gin Boulevardier ($15), or maybe as dessert, the Velvet Rosa ($16). It blends dry rum with peach purée, cranberry and a splash of Moët. Sounds like a nice closer, right?

Enhance Your Menu With Food & Beer Pairings Pairing beer with food is great, but Anheuser-Busch brewmaster George Reisch also shared a number of uses for beer in the kitchen—some that surprised this beer geek, like replacing water with beer when boiling pasta or steaming vegetables. “For one week turn your water off in your kitchen, and it’ll change your life,” Reisch advised.

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VENUE

THURSDAY

1 OAK

Closed

ALIBI

DJs, 10 pm; lounge open 24 hours

ARTIFICE

Doors at 5 pm

DJs Hektor Rawkerz, Xavier Rawkerz, Misfit; 10 pm; free; doors at 5 pm.

FRIDAY

ARTISAN

Porn actresses host; 10 pm; free; lounge open 24 hours

Pornstaraoke

DJs Justin Hoffman, Eddie McDonald, Frank Richards, others; 10 pm; $10; women, locals free; open 24 hours

Blackout Fridays

THE BANK

BEAUTY BAR

Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Volcanic Pinnacles Pure Stag, Kanuk; doors at 9 pm; free

Latin Ladies Night

BLUE MARTINI

BODY ENGLISH

Live music, 9 pm; halfprice happy hour, 4-8 pm; $10 men, women free after 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

Throwback Thursday

Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

DJ Earwaxxx

SATURDAY DJ E-Rock

DJs Karma, Kid Conrad, Shift; doors at 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women

Doors at 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women

DJ Eddie McDonald

DJ Eddie McDonald

10 pm; lounge open 24 hours

Clash

DJ Kid Conrad

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Sound

#FollowMe Fridays Vivian Kindle, Jenna Jenovich host; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Black Milk

Rhyme N Rhythm, Mr. EBranes, Hassan; doors at 9 pm; $12

Friday Night Live

Live music, 9 pm; DJ Jace 1; happy hour, 4-8 pm; $10 men, $5 women after 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

Dee Jay Silver

Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

DJ Sean Cee

BOND

10 pm, free; doors at 10 am

10 pm, free; doors at 10 am

CHATEAU

Closed

DJ Shadow Red; doors at 10:30 pm, $30+ men, $20+ women, local women free

DJ Kiddo Money

10 pm; lounge open 24 hours

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

Closed

Closed

Lounge open 24 hours

Lounge open 24 hours

Lounge open 24 hours

Lounge open 24 hours

Doors at 5 pm

Doors at 5 pm

Doors at 5 pm

Double D Karaoke

Lounge open 24 hours

Lounge open 24 hours

Closed

Closed

Sapient

Nickel Beer Night

1OAK Rewind

Ginuwine live; DJ Turbulence; doors at 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women, locals free

Scarlet

DJs Grenadier, Style, Morpheus Blak; 10 pm; free; doors at 5 pm.

DJ Joey Mazzola

DJs Brett Rubin, Justin Key; 10 pm; $10, women and locals free; lounge open 24 hours

DJ Turbulence

Social Sunday

DJ s Double J, Justin Key, Joey Mazzola, others; midnight; free; open 24 hours

DJ FAED (Five & Eric D-Lux); doors at 9 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Future Sound City

Church: Easter Sinday

EDM Saturdays

DJs, 10 pm; live music, 9 pm; happy hour, 4-8 pm; $10 men, $5 women after 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

Dee Jay Silver

Doors at 10:30 pm, $30+ men, $20+ women

DJ Sean Cee

10 pm, free; doors at 10 am

10 pm, free; doors at 5 pm

Energy Reset

Satin, Ray Uptown, others; doors at 9 pm; free

Sunday Sessions

Charlie Madness, Snap Murphy, others; doors at 9 pm; free

Lit

Copywrite and friends; DJs Biz:E, Beast Fremont; doors at 9 pm; $10

DJ 360, MC Ray, 10 pm; health & beauty showcase, 8 pm; $10, $5 local men, women free; open 24 hours

Closed

Twinsmith

DTCV; doors at 9 pm; cover

Ladies Night Out

DJ ROB & The Star One All Stars Band live, 6 pm; happy hour 4-8 pm, doors at 4 pm

DJs Exile, Tommy Lin; half-off drinks for industry; happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm

$4 Blue Moons; happy hour w/half-price drinks, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm

Half-off drinks for women; live music, 9 pm; happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

DJ CryKit

DJ Technicolor

DJ John Cha

DJ Atom E

10 pm, free; doors at 10 am

10 pm, free; doors at 10 am

10 pm, free; doors at 10 am

10 pm, free; doors at 10 am

Closed

Closed

Closed

Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women, locals free

DJ ShadowRed

Doors at 10:30 pm, $30+ men, $20+ women, local women free

Closed

Industry Sunday

Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

DJ De La O; doors at 9 pm; free

WEDNESDAY

DJ Dre Dae

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VENUE

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

Downtown Cocktail Room

DJ Lenny Alfonzo, others; 9 pm; happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

Downtown Soul

Friday Night Social

Saturday Night Vibe

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Afterhours

Doors at 1 am; $30 men, $20 women, industry locals w/ID free

DJ Shift

SUNDAY

Closed DJ Carlos Sanchez, 10 pm; DJ Douglas Gibbs, 10pm; Listings are accurate as of press time. For more info, contact venues directly. happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors doors at 7pm; free at 4 pm; free

Afterhours

Doors at midnight; $30 men, $20 women

Sidney Sampson

Afterhours

Doors at midnight; $30 men, $20 women

3LAU

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Cymatic Sessions

Unfiltered Soul

Happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

DJs Vixen, Laguerre; 10 pm; happy hour, 4-8 pm; doors at 4 pm; free

Closed

Doors at 1 am; $30 men, $20 women, industry locals w/ID free

Doors at 1 am; $30 men, $20 women, industry locals w/ID free

Afterhours

Afterhours

Doors at 1 am; $30 men, $20 women, industry locals w/ID free

DJs Rob Alahn, Doug Wilcox; 9 pm; happy hour, 4-8; doors at 4 pm; free

Afterhours

Sundrai’s

Doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

DJ Franzen; doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Closed

Closed

Closed

Two-hour Bottomless Bubbles, 5-7 pm and 7-9 pm, $36; live music, 7-10 pm; doors at 5 pm

Two-hour Bottomless Bubbles, 5-7 pm and 7-9 pm, $36; live music, 7-10 pm; doors at 5 pm

Two-hour Bottomless Bubbles, 5-7 pm and 7-9 pm, $36; live music, 7-10 pm; doors at 5 pm

Two-hour Bottomless Bubbles, 5-7 pm and 7-9 pm, $36; doors at 5 pm

Two-hour Bottomless Bubbles, 5-7 pm and 7-9 pm, $36; doors at 5 pm

Two-hour Bottomless Bubbles, 5-7 pm and 7-9 pm, $36; doors at 5 pm

Two-hour Bottomless Bubbles, 5-7 pm and 7-9 pm, $36; doors at 5 pm

FOUNDATION ROOM

DJ Soxxi

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Bubbles For Beauties

DJ Casanova

DJ Kay theRiot

DJ SINcere

GHOSTBAR

Doors at 8 pm; $20 men, $10 women, locals free before midnight

FIZZ

10 pm; free

DJs Sam I Am, Marc Mac; 6 pm; free

DJ Benny Black

Ladies Night

GILLEY’S

Austin Law live, 9 pm; $1 drafts/wells for women, 7-10 pm; doors at 11 am

DJ Ruckus

HAKKASAN

Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

HYDE

Doors at 5 pm

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Future Funk

LAS VEGAS BULL

$1 drinks for women; $30 all-you-can Jack Daniels boots, $20 all-you-can PBR boots; doors at 7 pm; $10

Doors at 8 pm

Ladies’ Night

DJ Exodus

DJ Mark Stylz; doors at 8 pm; $25 men, $20 women

Austin Law

live, 10 pm; drink specials, 7-10 pm; doors at 11 am; $10-$20 after 10 pm

Calvin Harris

DJ Burns; doors at 10:30 pm; $100+ men, $50+ women

Tim Henri

DJs Greg Lopez, Sam I Am; free Champagne/vodka for women; 10 pm; $30

Jay Cutler

hosts; DJs Mark Stylz, Exodus; doors at 8 pm; $20-$25

Austin Law

live, 10 pm; drink specials, 7-10 pm; doors at 11 am; $10-$20 after 10 pm

W&W

DJs Fergie, OB-One; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

10 pm, $30+ men, $20+ women; doors at 5 pm, free

Game Over Fridays

Saturday Night Live

18 and over

Drink specials for 21+; dance lessons; doors at 7 pm; $10, $15 for 18-20

10 pm; $30

10 pm; $30, locals free

DJ b-Radical

DJ Seany Mac

Doors at 8 pm; $20 men, $10 women

Bikini Bull Riding

Ryan Whyte, Cali Tucker live; $200 prize; 2-for-1 drink specials, 7-10 pm; doors at 11 am

Doors at 8 pm; $20 men, $10 women

Locals Night

Line dance lessons, 7 pm; drink specials; doors at 11 am

Fergie

Doors at 8 pm; $10, $5 locals

10 pm; $30

DJ Seany Mac

Doors at 8 pm; $20 men, $10 women

DanSing Karaoke

10 pm; $30

DJ Presto One

Doors at 8 pm; $20 men, $10 women

DanSing Karaoke

8 pm; line dance lessons, 7 pm; drink specials; doors at 11 am

8 pm; line dance lessons, 7 pm; 2-for-1 drink specials, 7-10 pm; beer pong; doors at 11 am

Closed

Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Closed

Closed

Doors at 5 pm

Doors at 5 pm

DJ Five; 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women; doors at 5 pm, free

Doors at 5 pm

Doors at 8 pm; free

Closed

Closed

Doors at 8 pm; free

Closed

Closed

Closed

Doors at 5 pm

DJ Dijital

10 pm, $30+ men, $20+ women; doors at 5 pm, free

Doors at 8 pm; $10, $5 locals

DJ Eric Forbes

Lost Angels

Locals Stampede

Dance lessons; $2 well drinks, drafts for locals; doors at 7 pm; $10, $5 for locals w/ ID

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THURSDAY Doors at 10:30 pm; free open bar for women until midnight; $30 men, $20 women

DJ Dezie

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FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Doors at 10:30 pm; free open bar for women until midnight; $30 men, $20 women

Doors at 10:30 pm; free open bar for women until midnight; $30 men, $20 women

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

DJ Dezie

Woman Crush Wednesday

Panorama Saturdays

LEVEL 107

11 pm; doors at 4 pm

LIFE

Closed

Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

LIGHT

Closed

Doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

MANDARIN BAR

Doors at 5 pm

9 pm; free; doors at 4:30 pm

MARQUEE

Closed

DJ Frank Rempe; doors at 10 pm; $40+ men, $20+ women

OMNIA

Omnia Thursdays

DJs Fergie, Fred Matters; doors at 10 pm; $50+ men, $30+ women

DJs Mark Eteson, Sid Vicious; doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Ladies Night

2-for-1 beer pong, $22, 11 am-9 pm; 100 oz. beer tower, $35; doors at 8 am

2-for-1 beer pong, $22, 11 am-9 pm; 100 oz. beer tower, $35; doors at 8 am

DJs, 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

Stafford Bros.

GTA

Live music

Dash Berlin

PBR ROCK BAR

Doors at 10 pm

$1 vodka for women, 9 pm, $5; 2-for-1 beer pong, $22, 11 am-9 pm; doors at 8 am

Drag Queen Bingo

PIRANHA

REVOLUTION LOUNGE

7-10 pm; hot body contest; $8 drinks w/text (“GAY” to 83361), 10 pm, free; open 24 hours

Get Back Thursdays

DJ G-Minor; doors at 10 pm; $20 men, women free

Nicky Romero

F*ck It Friday

India Ferrah, Des’ree St. James, midnight; DJ Vago; 10 pm, free; open 24 hours

Flashback Fridays

DJ Relaps; doors at 10 pm; $20, women free

DJ Dezie; $5 Absolut drinks, 1-4 am; 11 pm; 15% off bottles; doors at 4 pm

Steve Angello

Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Morgan Page

Doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Live music

9 pm; free; doors at 4:30 pm

DJ Vice

Doors at 10 pm; $40+ men, $20+ women

Nervo

Selfie Saturday

India Ferrah’s Goddess Show, midnight; DJs Vago, Virus; 2-for-1 drinks, noon-8 pm; free; open 24 hours

Doors at 10 pm; $20 men, women free

Scenic Sundays

Sky High Mondays DJ Girl 6; 2-4-1 drinks for locals, $5 Skyy drinks, 1-4 am; 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

11 pm; doors at 4 pm

DJ Dezie; 2-4-1 drinks for women; 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

DJ Gusto; doors at 10:30 pm; $25+, free for locals before midnight

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Closed

Doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women

Live jazz

Doors at 5 pm

Doors at 5 pm

Doors at 5 pm

DJ Lema; doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women, locals free

Closed

Closed

Closed

DJ Crooked; doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women, locals free

DJ Kittie; 11 pm; doors at 4 pm

#IndustryLife

6 pm; free; doors at 5 pm

DJ A-Trak

Carnage

Closed

Omnia Sundays Doors at 10 pm

#Social Sundays

$20 open bar 9 pm-1 am w/ social media follow; doors at 8 am

El Deseo

DJs Virus, Vago; $5 mystery drinks; 10 pm; drink specials, 5-9 pm; free; open 24 hours

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Keeping their edge

The Sonics earn a second act, by never getting ‘good’ We caught up with guitarist Larry Parypa.

The Sonics have a pretty unusual musical history … Name one band that recorded their next album 50 years after the last one (laughs).

Let’s walk through this a little: In 2004, your version of “Have Love Will Travel” was rediscovered in an advertising campaign and reignited interest in the band, correct? Yeah, it was Land Rover.

That shocked us, and it got a lot things started. … We had to relearn all of our songs and pretty VIVA LAS VEGAS much relearn our April 2-5, times & instruments. prices vary (The

but new muscles, the keys and drums pushing one another over the ledge of what would’ve otherwise been a good rap song.” Where do we line up? With Rhyme N Rhythm, Mr. Ebranes, Hassan, Cash Colligan. April 3, 9 p.m., $12, Beauty Bar.

Sonics play April Why do you think 4 at 7 p.m. & your sound is still so April 5 at 9:30 appealing so many p.m.). Orleans, decades later? We vivalasvegas.net. sound pretty much now like we did back then, because we didn’t get good. A lot of musicians and guitar players were conscientious and played their guitar all the time and learned scales. We never did. We just hammered stuff, because we weren’t that good technically. If we had still been playing in bands, we might have actually gotten good at our instruments, and that would have been dangerous because we might not sound like we did in the ’60s. We didn’t get good.

sister spit: next generation If you need more effyeah feminism in your life, head down to Sister Spit, a formerly all-female open-mic series co-founded by San Francisco creatives Michelle Tea and Sini Anderson. The new generation tour features emerging queer and queer-influenced artists, including men.

April 4, 7-9 p.m., free, The Writer’s Block.

Who are the fans at your shows now? We thought we were gonna look out onto a sea of bald heads and gray hair, and that hasn’t been the case. I think the average age would have to be 30. They seem to know our songs, you see them lip-syncing it from the stage.

That was another surprise. –Chris Bitonti

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HANNIBAL BURESS His two-minute Bill Cosby joke last fall went viral and the rest is history, but comedian/actor/writer Buress is too funny to be a footnote.

For proof, check out last year’s Live From Chicago special. April 4, 8 p.m., $40-$50, House of Blues.

Filipino dishes like lumpia (spring rolls) or kare-kare (oxtail stew), plus a reggae block party, talent contest and more. Mabuhay! Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, April 3-4, 11 a.m.-midnight & April 5, 11 a.m.-10 p.m., $10-$15, pinoypridelv. com.

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JAY CUTLER DESERT CLASSIC Get your tanning oil ready! The four-time Mr. Olympia champion and Las Vegan brings his bodybuilding and physique competition to the Valley, showcasing the world’s hardest bods. April 4, finals at 6:30 p.m., $43-$48, Pearl.

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Red carpet recall

Interacting with celebs is rarely as glamorous as it looks on TV

By Smith Galtney

We are living in an age of Red Carpet Revolt. So read the headline of a recent article in The New York Times, about the growing number of female celebrities who are fed up with the Glam Cams and Mani Cams and Fashion Police. As The Guardian recently put it, “This is a strange pocket of the Western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.” But the red carpet is a minimizing, borderline-dehumanizing experience for everyone involved. It’s the highprofile equivalent of that awful work party you have to attend. Nobody really wants to be there. Except maybe publicists. And Kim Kardashian.

Between 2008 and 2009 I worked as a red-carpet reporter, covering premieres and opening nights and other promotional gobbledygook. When I tell anyone this, a common response is, “Wow, that must’ve been cool!” Yes, technically the act of meeting and talking with noteworthy people about their work should be incredibly cool. But as with anything job-related, lots of unfortunate factors come into play that make it completely suck.

When people think of the red carpet, they usually think of the Oscars, where an entire city block is paved in crimson. In reality, most red carpets cover maybe 10 feet of sidewalk. On one side is a marketing backdrop, slapped up against the front of some restaurant. On the other is the press, about 15 reporters plus their respective cameramen, all tied back with velvet rope, all pretending—very badly—to keep out of each other’s way. The goal is simple: Get a soundbyte from anyone who passes by. But since the majority of guests arrive in the same 20-minute stretch, there’s lots of pushing and shoving and yelling over who gets time with whom, before whomever turns and vanishes for good.

It’s imperative that you get everyone. While you might think a certain celebrity is less-than-essential,

your boss might see the Getty photos from the event and bark, “You didn’t get Rue McClanahan?!”

(Remember, this was 2008.) This can make one act strangely. I’m not a violent person, but once, when an innocent bystander landed between me and Colin Hanks, I seized this stranger by the back of his collar, threw him aside and shouted, “Get the f*ck outta here!” I’d suddenly become Joe Pesci from Goodfellas, and all because of … Colin Hanks?

I can’t say I treated Jane Fonda any better. At the end of a long night, I was the last of a few gazillion goons who approached her. “I’m cold,” she told me, looking feeble and helpless. “I need food and a drink and my family.” In the rational world, I wouldn’t ignore that plea from a 71-year-old woman, but in this moment, I had one choice: Stick a microphone in her face and squawk, “Tell me why you’re here tonight!”

To Fonda’s credit, she brightened up on cue and answered flawlessly, a professional who knew her job wasn’t finished. The worst celebrities think your questions are dumb and maintain an air of “I’m an

actor, not a PR automaton” superiority. Look, I’d rather be talking about Chekhov and the Strasberg Method, too, but since neither has anything to do with why we’re here tonight, please play along and tell me about your character in Mince Meat VI? (Fortunately, I only encountered this type once, and though I won’t get into specifics, I will say his name rhymes with Faurence Lishburne.)

There were some good nights. If there was actual elbow room and everyone played by the rules, I’d go home thinking, “Wow, my job is cool!” I’m still convinced Susan Sarandon was undressing me with her eyes. Patrick Wilson is even more gorgeous from two feet away. And Kristin Scott Thomas is the most elegant creature on the planet. If only I’d had the balls to tell her there was an eyelash on her cheek before my cameraman stepped in, mid-interview, and picked it off, exposing me as a grinning, bootlicking phony. I’ll always be grateful to have been in her company, but it would be nice to watch The English Patient and not feel like I’d failed completely as a human being.

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> Family affair Diesel, Johnson and Walker team up to battle Statham.

Terminal propriety Effie Gray turns a historical scandal into a stuffy bore

FILM

Fast and furious family

Furious 7 combines machismo and heartfelt bonding By Jeffrey M. Anderson the team unlimited cars to blow up, if they will stop The latest in a series of movies with ridiculous, fragShaw and also rescue a valuable hacker named Ramsey mented titles, Furious 7 has a few new things going for it, (Nathalie Emmanuel). including a new director, James Wan, the horror master The simplistic writing comes in blocky chunks, as behind Saw, Insidious and The Conjuring. And though the team—Dom (Vin Diesel), Brian (Walker), Letty the director of the previous four films in the Fast and (Michelle Rodriguez), Roman (Tyrese Gibson) and Tej Furious series, Justin Lin, did some good things on 2011’s (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges)—accepts a chalFast Five, Wan definitely approaches the seventh lenge, pulls it off with maximum razzle-dazzle movie with fresh eyes. and destruction, talks a little and gets a new The terrific opening sequence shows Deckard aaacc challenge. Jordana Brewster’s Mia gets to stay Shaw (Jason Statham) visiting his brother Owen, FURIOUS 7 at home with the kid, and Dwayne Johnson’s the defeated villain of Fast & Furious 6, in the Vin Diesel, Hobbs is in the hospital with a broken arm and hospital. As Shaw leaves, the camera lingers on Paul Walker, two out-of-focus nurses, cowering in the corner. Jason Statham. leg (though he still gets the best lines). A second villain (Djimon Hounsou) turns up, and so do He goes further, and we see his trail of destruc- Directed by lots of girls in bikinis. tion, smashed furniture, strewn bodies, fires, etc. James Wan. Happily, the usual machismo and pissing conIt’s a doozy of an opening that sets up a great bad Rated PG-13. tests that made up the bulk of the movies thus guy. If a movie is only as good as its villain, what Opens Friday. far are mostly gone, replaced by sentimental could go wrong? “family” bonding. But nothing can stop the movie from Shaw begins going after our beloved team, and one raging on far too long—137 minutes—and running out of of them—not Paul Walker’s Brian—is killed. (Walker gas early. There’s a fantastic 90-minute movie in here finished shooting most of his scenes before his death in somewhere, but even in its current form, this behemoth November 2013, and his younger brother Cody stepped is all set to cheerfully turn off the brains, and empty the in to provide body shots. Digital magic did the rest.) A wallets, of millions of fans. mysterious secret agent (Kurt Russell) appears and offers

Like watching paint dry on an exquisite masterpiece, Effie Gray is a tasteful, restrained and mind-numbingly boring take on the relationship between 19th-century British author John Ruskin and the title character, who endured a loveless and sexless marriage to Ruskin before leaving him for painter John Everett Millais. As played by Dakota Fanning, Effie is meek and prone to bouts of melancholy, but optimistic when she marries the older Ruskin (Greg Wise), a longtime family friend. But the seemingly kind Ruskin soon turns cold and distant, refusing even to touch his new wife. Neglect turns to cruelty, especially after Effie (who clearly just wants to get effed) makes a connection with Millais aaccc (Tom Sturridge), EFFIE GRAY Ruskin’s protégé.

Dakota Fanning, Although the Greg Wise, love triangle Tom Sturridge. provoked a masDirected by sive scandal in Richard Laxton. its day, Effie Gray Rated PG-13. is so averse to Opens Friday. salaciousness that it ends up dramatically inert. Effie and Millais’ affair never progresses beyond the light clasping of hands, and the characters behave with such decorum that the movie is completely lacking in passion. Emma Thompson (who also wrote the screenplay) brings the only hint of liveliness as a feisty noblewoman who helps Effie, but her role is too small to rouse the movie from its torpor. Handsomely shot in Scotland, London and Venice, Effie Gray often looks as lovely as one of the paintings Ruskin so admires, but it has no artistic fire. Effie went on to have a full life after leaving Ruskin, but the movie ends before any of that, finishing its slow, tedious journey on one final dreary note. –Josh Bell

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> mad memories The stars of Mad Men prepare to say goodbye.

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A great campaign

Five episodes to get you in the mood for Mad Men’s final run By Ken Miller “The Wheel” (Season 1, Episode 13) A perfect season finale finds Don Draper stressed, professionally and emotionally.

Nevertheless, he puts together a pitch for the Kodak Carousel that not only kills (Harry Crane actually leaves the room in tears) but also cements Don’s reputation as a man to be respected and feared. This remains his signature moment.

“My Old Kentucky Home” (Season 3, Episode 3) This entire episode is pure gold: Roger Sterling in horrifying blackface, a tense standoff between Betty Draper’s father and daughter over a stolen $5 bill, Betty meeting her future second husband, Don meeting Conrad Hilton, Joan Harris singing while playing the accordion. It also features one of the series’ best lines: “I’m Peggy Olsen, and I want to smoke some marijuana.”

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formance of “Zou Bisou Bisou” while throwing her husband a well-intentioned but ultimately disastrous surprise birthday party.

Fans hum that tune in their heads to this day.

“Signal 30” (Season 5, Episode 5) One of the few episodes devoted largely to Pete, the show’s most frustrating character. We learn how absolutely miserable he is, watch him crash and burn trying to flirt with a younger woman and get his ass royally kicked by Lane in an office fistfight. Given how much the spoiled, entitled Pete polarizes viewers, this should have been a satisfying hour of television, but it was actually intensely sad.

“Waterloo” (Season 7, Episode 7) The ultra-eccentric Bert Cooper gets a fitting sendoff, passing away on the day of the 1969 moon landing, only to appear to Don as an apparition performing a song-and-dance version of “The Best Things in Life are Free.”

A choked-up Don, who’s managed to salvage his career for the umpteenth time, looks uncertainly into his future … and the show’s.

MAD MEN Sundays, 10 p.m., AMC. Premieres April 5.

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> gracious host Corden (center) leads guests Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell in a pointless game.

Full of surprises Wild Tales is an inconsistent but mostly compelling anthology

TV

Late-night snooze

New host James Corden makes an underwhelming debut on The Late Late Show

By Josh Bell Corden isn’t a comedian, so his monologue is generalUnlike the recent debuts of new hosts for The Tonight ly brief and focused on one or two mediocre jokes. Unlike Show and Late Night, James Corden’s takeover of The Ferguson, Corden has a resident band, but so far he’s Late Late Show from Craig Ferguson hasn’t been accommade poor use of bandleader Reggie Watts, an eccentric panied by a lot of fanfare. A British actor and writer musical comedian who’s transitioned from IFC’s bizarre probably best known in the U.S. for his role in Into the talk-show pastiche Comedy Bang! Bang! to the kind of Woods, Corden is bland and eager to please, and his versubstance-free chat-fest that show mocks. sion of The Late Late Show embodies those same qualiCorden’s main departure from late-night forties. While Ferguson, also a foreigner observing mula is to bring all of his guests on at once, but American pop culture, embraced a personal conhe’s not a skilled enough interviewer to get two nection with his guests and his audience, Corden aabcc or three unrelated celebrities to make interestis more of an ingratiating showman, happy to THE LATE ing or entertaining connections. At least when play his role as a cog in the Hollywood machine. LATE SHOW That, of course, is what talk shows are really WITH JAMES the guests have something in common (like Get Hard co-stars Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart), it about, and Jimmy Fallon has found great suc- CORDEN makes some sense to have them on together, but cess on the new version of The Tonight Show by Weeknights, functioning as an exuberant celebrity sycophant. 12:30 a.m., CBS. mostly the guests just end up sitting awkwardly while someone next to them tells a story, and Corden takes some cues from Fallon by incorpothen Corden tries in vain to relate it to something rating each night’s guests into some sort of preanother guest has done. planned bit, but aside from the first night’s breakneck tour Corden is inoffensive and upbeat, so it’s hard to hate through the career of guest Tom Hanks, none of those bits him, but it’s hard to imagine him building a dedicated so far has had the goofy viral potential of Fallon’s most following, either. Unlike Ferguson, who made his little popular segments. The show’s other elements are more corner of late night into something unique, Corden is just traditional, and they fall short when compared to what marking time until viewers fall asleep.

Ferguson was doing with the show previously.

Darkly comic anthology film Wild Tales makes for an unlikely Oscar nominee (it lost this year’s award for Best Foreign Language Film to Ida), but the Academy deserves credit for bringing Argentinean writer-director Damián Szifrón’s film to a wider audience. A more sophisticated, less gory version of movies like the V/H/S series, Wild Tales features six segments that start with mundane events before building to violence, betrayal and (sometimes) death.

Although Wild Tales is the work of aaabc a single filmmaker, WILD TALES it’s as inconsistent Ricardo Darín, as most anthology Oscar Martínez, films, with a couple Leonardo of segments that Sbaraglia, Érica end in disappointRivas. Directed ing anticlimaxes.

by Damián The best segments Szifrón. Rated are the first and last, R. Opens Friday. which are the shortest and longest, respectively. The opener is a simple, Twilight Zone-style gag about the passengers on a plane realizing they have something very unfortunate in common, while the closer is a lengthy, slowburn look at a wedding that descends into chaos and anger.

Those two stories demonstrate Szifrón’s versatility: He can deliver a stylish, nasty punchline, but he can also construct well-rounded characters whose despicable actions come from understandable places. Even in the segments whose storytelling stalls, Szifrón’s visual style is fluid and dynamic, with precise framing that accentuates a joke or a thrill, or sometimes both at once.

The deft mix of tones keeps Wild Tales fresh and surprising, and whenever a story seems to be losing momentum, the movie switches gears and presents something new. –Josh Bell

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Return of the buzz Bee Movie Take 2, enter the Bee Master

> Young and restless Eric Rickey and Megan Wingerter debut a new project.

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Sneak preview

Familiar faces assemble as new project Rabid Young prepares to go public By jason harris These are some of the indie scene’s finest, I’m in a warehouse on an industrial but this music fits more in a synth-pop space. stretch of Russell Road. Through a maze These are songs you could conceivably hear of music studios, I end up in a back on X107.5 or even Mix 94.1—“Pieces,” with its room, swathed in blue light. There, Rabid catchy keyboard loops; “Not Enough,” with Young, one of Las Vegas’ most anticiits sing-along vocals. pated new bands, is playing a preview Rabid Young will likely get compared to set for the Kickstarter backers who made The Killers, and that’s fair, especially on the their self-titled EP financially feasible. dreamy, synthy “Intro/The Miner.” But I hear It’s right out of a movie.

RABID YOUNG similarities to other crossover bands. Early Most of the players in the live lineup are EP out April 7, Gaslight Anthem. The emotionally tinged familiar: lead singer/keyboardist/guitarrabidyoung.com.

Airborne Toxic Event. And accessible ’90s ist Eric Rickey from Most Thieves; bassFirst show April 17, alt-rockers New Radicals. ist Jackson Wilcox, the frontman from Bunkhouse Saloon.

It’s a surprisingly tight set, considering A Crowd of Small Adventures; ACOSA it’s Rabid Young’s very first performance violinist Megan Wingerter, exclusively (“It was nice working out the kinks in front playing keys here; drummer Matt Long, of friends,” Wilcox says.) The group will debut in who plays with psych-rock icon Roky Erickson; and public on April 17 at the Bunkhouse, and according to another from the Erickson band, Eli Southard on guitar.

Rickey, who writes most of the music and lyrics, plans On the group’s self-titled, five-song debut EP, due out to do some “strategic touring this summer, including April 7, Bobby Lee Parker and Alex Stopa handle guitar overseas.” and percussion duties, respectively.

Five years ago, local indie-rock outfit Bee Movie the Band opened for touring headliner Geographer in what would be up the former’s last-ever show. Since then, singer/guitarist Brian Cantrell has taken on new roles in different projects—he taught us how to play guitar as the disco dynamo Steve on Kid Meets Cougar’s Sierra Papa Tango EP, and he recently joined Same Sex Mary, lending his gigantic, fuzzy riffs to that bluesy garage-rock band.

Last week, Cantrell brought new passion to his old flame. Now performing as Bee Master, Bee Movie veterans Brett Bolton (drums), Mike Montoya (bass) and Cantrell, plus Mercy Music’s Brendan Scholz (guitar), took to the Bunkhouse stage with fists full of new material (an album preview is available at beemaster. bandcamp.com).

While the music scene was certainly different half a decade ago (for one, the Bunkhouse resembled the inside of a giant ashtray), Wednesday’s show was a testament to Vegas’ onward-and-upward nature; the crowd filled with familiar faces and a communal sense of nostalgia.

And Bee Master delivered the right amount of wreckage. With Cantrell’s and Sholz’s sharp, blazing guitars and wildly spontaneous solos, Bee Master tore through its set with hints of posthardcore, punk and mathy rock. “We are insects trapped in amber/We are roaches on our backs/Our tiny limbs/ They can’t grasp time,” Cantrell sings on the Slaughterhouse-Five-influenced “Cryogenics.” That song, along with other never-released tracks recorded in the Bee Movie days, will be released on an upcoming album this spring, Bolton says.

At the end of the set, Cantrell took a moment to thank his friends for coming—a blip of intimacy to end an otherwise thunderous show. It almost felt like the old days—or perhaps, proof that new incarnations can be even better. –Leslie Ventura

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3 bands, 3 bucks, 1 cause Pete Makowski is gone but not forgotten. The Las Vegas cyclist and all-around athlete lost his life in 2013 when he was hit by a truck while riding, but his spirit lives on in the form of organized rides and fundraisers to promote bike safety. On First Friday, Makowski’s friends and fellow cyclists will host a benefit show at the Bunkhouse featuring Rusty Maples, Mercy Music and Illicitor. ¶ In Nevada it’s the law for drivers to

pass riders with a buffer zone of at least three feet, but 3 Feet for Pete asks cyclists to follow a few more rules: Know the law and obey it, be a defensive rider and seek safe routes with bike lanes or adequate shoulders. Admission, fittingly, is $3. –Kristy Totten

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A&E | NOISE > HAVE A CIGAR The Rev deserved a spotlight Sunday night.

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Five thoughts: Trampled by Turtles (March 30, Brooklyn Bowl) Overheard in the crowd: “I didn’t know this many people knew who Trampled by Turtles were.” Neither did I. The Monday-night turnout— around a couple hundred—feels more than respectable for the Minnesota bluegrass outfit’s first headlining show in Las Vegas.

I nearly tripped over a leashed pug while getting a beer. I planned on seeing Turtles and even an Elephant (see: opener Elephant Revival), but I didn’t expect a small dog.

I enjoy TBT most when they’re at their fastest. The barnstorming sextet strum, pluck, slap, pick and bow strings as hands and fingers blur. They also have the vocal chops and melodies to slow it down for a ballad or two, but when you can burn like that, why would you want to?

I have a theory that long-haired, manic fiddler Ryan Young was a metal head who accidentally picked up a violin instead one day and never looked back. He shreds sweeping solos up and down the neck with ease (I swear I even saw him double tap once). I’d love to hear what he’d do with some high gain.

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A strong showing for TBT, overall. While there may have been one too many mellow songs for my liking, I believe there’s a saying about slow and steady winning the race. Either way I’m glad all these people know who Trampled by Turtles are, so hopefully they’ll come back soon. –Chris Bitonti

An undersized crowd turns out for The Reverend Peyton’s Vegas return By Jason Harris Josh Peyton is a must-see guitarist. He dis“I just want to make music and friends/ played finger-picking fury on “Front Porch Everywhere that I go/I just want to make music aaacc Trained, and gave a history lesson on a threeand friends/Been that way since I was 12 years The string cigar-box guitar during “Easy Come Easy old.” –The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Reverend Go.” (The venue did him and the small crowd a from new album So Delicious Peyton’s disservice by not using a spotlight.) Drummer On its last visit to Las Vegas, in which it filled Big Damn Ben “Bird Dog” Bussell creates different sounds Vinyl, The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band Band March with everything from traditional drums to a made plenty of friends with its music. Most of 29, Beauty Bar. bucket. And “Washboard” Breezy Peyton is a them didn’t return for Sunday night’s show in gloved wonder, adding an entirely new dimenthe Beauty Bar backyard, however, strange since sion playing her namesake instrument in creative ways. both The Rev and support act Leopold and His Fiction are It could be a while before many of us set foot in Indiana proven Vegas draws. Even so, that didn’t stop the threeagain, which means the next time this great Hoosier State piece from rural Indiana from putting on a quality show. export hits Vegas, music lovers should seize the opportuniTheir high-energy, backwoodsy, moonshine-ready music ty to support and make friends with The Reverend Peyton’s represented their roots, nestled somewhere between oldBig Damn Band again. –Jason Harris school country and lightning-fast bluegrass.

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When drummer Bill Berry left R.E.M., the band’s first album without him, 1998’s Up, felt unsteady and weighed down by the change. Death Cab for Cutie’s Kintsugi feels similarly burdened by the absence of an anchor bandmate, producer/multiinstrumentalist Chris Walla, who quit last year. Tempos range from plodding to midtempo, while sprawling songs like “Little Wanderer” and “Ingénue” lack crispness. Moreover, Kintsugi’s music, which encompasses chiming Brit-pop, feathery acoustic indie-folk and homages to ’80s synthpop, mostly sounds dour and dragged down by melancholy, from the keyboard-swirled “Black Sun” to the elegiac “You’ve Haunted Me All My Life.”

(Exceptions include the piano-driven “Binary Sea,” an allegorical condemnation of society’s document-everything mentality, and the upbeat “Good Help (Is So Hard to Find).”) What’s odd is that Walla was actually involved with Kintsugi’s creation, meaning the record wasn’t a reaction to his exit. Perhaps the stilted results hint that the band was bracing for it instead. –Annie Zaleski

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A fresh coat of paint The Blue Man Group dumps its Showbot pal for a more streamlined approach By John Katsilometes tied together,” Dahlen says. “It’s like A Blue Man does not readily pulling a thread, and when you start warm to a woman, especially if the to unravel one scene, everything woman is a robot. This has been the around it unravels. So it was no small big blue reveal over the past two task to make these changes.” and a half years in the Blue Man The result is not quite an overhaul Group production at Monte Carlo. of a show that has run for 15 years in Unleashed to a great hullabaloo in Las Vegas. Producers have replaced 2012 was a silvery, busty, dreadShowbot and her robotic counterlocked entity known as Showbot. She parts with an existing piece in which wheeled onstage, in an interloping the Blue Men play a PVC-pipe instrusort of way, and was met with bluement fitted around their hued grimaces from the bodies. Also returned to show’s three muted co-stars. the production is the visu“It was an interesting pheBLUE MAN ally dazzling “Brain Drum” nomenon,” says Blue Man GROUP segment, which invokes Group Creative Director Thursdaya description of how the Michael Dahlen. “There was Saturday, human eye is able to dissomething about that charMonday & cern colors. Rods and cones acter, and the robots in gen- Tuesday, 7 are displayed brightly eral, that we weren’t entirely & 9:30 p.m.; across the LED screen as happy with. It had to do with Sunday, 7 p.m.; the Blue Men thunder on the energy and the arc of the $75-$150. their PVC suits. show, how the energy ebbed Monte Carlo, Many updates from the and confused the audience.”

800-258-3626. show’s 2012 modification Showbot seemed to conare still in place, including fuse the Blue Men, too. “It the use of the “GiPad” smartphone seemed like it was going to work beteffect. The three Blue Men attempt ter than it did, but we sort of imposed to enter passcodes to activate the Showbot on the Blue Men,” Dahlen devices. One presses a series of numsays. “There was not a lot for them bers that sounds like the synthesizer to do when she showed up. They just riff from “Funkytown.” Another tries kind of looked at her, and we learned entering a series of random numthat even though it was a crazy, fun bers, only to be told by a disembodied character, that what makes the Blue voice, “That’s weak. You are weak.”

Men so interesting is just watching The universal understanding of cellthem behave.” phone technology, a far-off concept as So in the latest upgrade to the a stage effect when the show arrived show, Showbot has been dumped, here in 2000, is a cornerstone of the along with an accompanying piece new show. The art of texting is shown featuring a pair of assembly-line to comedic effect, full of the slang and robots working on a Mini Cooper. emoji icons now familiar to anyone at “The whole thing just felt disjointed a Blue Man Group show. and clunky, but the elements were

“The icon-texting was deliberately written as teenagers texting,” says Dahlen, who joined the Blue Man company as a cast member in New York 20 years ago. “There is a very particular language being used in text, and when you have three characters who are silent, that type of communication is very effective.”

The production’s core acts are still winners. The use of PVC pipe in percussive instruments is singularly appealing, so much so that the show has released a series of CDs (which sound a lot like the soundtrack to a John Landis-directed chase scene).

The scene in which one Blue Man tosses 30 marshmallows across the stage into the awaiting mouth of another Blue Man remains an impressive bit of physical comedy.

Another enduring moment is the show’s lengthiest, and also dates to its origins in Las Vegas. An audience member is brought onstage for a din-

ner party with the Blue Men, at which the entrée is a serving of Twinkies.

The scene runs 15 minutes, an eternity for a Vegas stage show, but holds together as the audience member attempts to interact with the muted Blue Men. The scene deteriorates into a vaudevillian farce, as the vests worn by everyone onstage begin spewing gooey Twinkie glop.

It’s evident throughout, even with the messy conclusion, that the Blue Men are courting the person onstage— who is always a woman. Why does the human woman work, where the robot woman did not? That’s a reality best explained by a person who was once a Blue Man himself.

“The art is that they’re doing this.

They are finding her, because they are interested in finding the right person,” Dahlen says. “The person is reticent and nervous, but the Blue Men are in control. They have initiated the action, and that’s why it works.”

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Nancy Good’s digital composites explore what’s under the surface bY Kristen Peterson Selfieism has done wonders for presenting one’s ideal image to the world with marketing precision—carefully composed and fully edited. It’s that whole persona thing that Jung used to talk about. In The Unmasking, artist Nancy Good presents a different sort of selfie, layered thick with psychology, reviving mask metaphors in literal works designed to address healing and compassion.

On display at R. Cline Arts, her work hauls persona to the forefront. The jarring portraits remind that there’s a beneath-the-surface in a world geared to be all surface.

The digital composites begin with Good’s own nude selfies (taken with an infrared camera in natural light) on which she creates masks using images of her own paintings and photography encasing all but her eyes. The series looks at “how we mask and unmask,” THE UNMASKING Good says, and the way outward personas Through May 18, hide those things we are afraid or ashamed call for hours. R. Cline of. Additionally they hint at the way we may Arts, 8 E. Charleston be contained by all-consuming thoughts or Blvd., 702-577-8627. subconscious wounds.

Artist reception May Good brings to the work her own back14, 6:30 p.m. ground of childhood sexual abuse, adult rape and family mental illness, the type of stuff that launches secrets, lies and other behaviors. It reaches out to others who might be struggling with their own wounds. In presenting the works behind reflective glass, there’s no way for viewers to engage without catching a glimpse of themselves. No mouths on these portraits. The symbolism does all the talking.

Adorned and protected, the subjects are seductive and eerie, trapped by their masks. Only in “The Prickly Nature of My Own Dichotomy” is there a sense of breakaway: two sets of heads, masked with Joshua Trees and sky but still part of the greater universe, “broken and whole.”

‘Clashing juxtapositions’ Transient Landscapes puts peculiarly diverse points of view in the Vegas context

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interrupted narratives,” Dickensheets If life’s crux is indeed constant says. “It mirrors my experience of Las change, then Las Vegas has a front-row Vegas. Stand on any corner of the Strip seat, a clear view of the accelerated beginnings, middles and ends and more and what you experience isn’t a tidy thematic unity, but rather the bombast than a dinner conversation’s worth of of competing visions.” material to dissect. So naturally, the Transient Landscapes subject plays out in art places works by Linda exhibits from time to time.

TRANSIENT Altwerwitz, Brent Holmes, But when it comes to art LANDSCAPES Marshall Scheuttle, Justin that addresses transience Through May 29; Favela and Robert Beckin a “specifically Vegas Monday-Thursday, mann under one roof, mixed context,” writer (and for1-5 p.m. Nevada in with Abigail Goldman, mer Weekly editor) Scott Humanities Erin Stellmon, JW Caldwell, Dickensheets says he hasn’t Program Gallery, Gary Mar, Jared Africa, DK seen what he considers 1017 S. 1st St. #190, Sole and pieces from the an overwhelming amount.

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Thus when Bobbie Ann Opening reception/ Not designed to be a Howell of Nevada Humanicurator’s talk thorough analysis of tranties asked him to curate an April 2, 6-9 p.m. sience but rather a coming art exhibit, he zeroed in. together on a shared topic In Transient Land(one as fascinating as it scapes, Dickensheets can be harmful), the show opens up brings together a diverse mix of artfor an anything-goes conversation. ists creating the very by-product of transience in this town: visual melange, Much like Las Vegas, a city that creates potential for what Dickensheets calls essentially, a strange medley discuss“strange recombinations, new ideas ing a strange medley. and new cultural opportunities.”

“I love a good hodgepodge, clashing –Kristen Peterson juxtapositions, disjunctive associations,

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Even in the midst of costume changes that take him from old man to young and back again, Heath remains there, flawlessly directing our attention to aspects of the events he narrates. Heath’s superb schemer is counterbalanced perfectly by Michael Blair’s Mozart, a precocious and silly innocent the audience can both feel annoyed by and pity.

The entire cast must have had excellent direction from Walter Niejadlik in order to strike this balance. Throwing around lines in three languages, they do AMADEUS a service to great production of Amadeus Through April 12; material. does eminent justice to Thursday-Saturday, But in a play about the script with won8 p.m.; Sunday, music and musiderful acting, directing, 2 p.m.; $12-$24. Las cians, great acting sound and lighting.

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30-plus years), it’s Happily, here, the excellent sound impossible not to remember the is only bested by the artistry of narrator. The tale is told retrothe lighting—light that at times spectively from the position of successfully serves as a kind of the now-old Antonio Salieri. shorthand for moonlight and Salieri recognizes Mozart’s madness. All these elements play genius almost immediately and, together to create a harmony, with in a fit of jealousy, swears to his just one discordant note: costumpersonal God to do everything he ing (springing for short pants is can to defeat him, from driving always preferable to pinning long him into poverty to attempting ones, for instance). These kinds to sleep with his wife. The whole of problems are foreseeable for a play hinges on Salieri’s character, period piece on a budget, though. and Glenn Heath gives an astonAnd this minor distraction should ishing performance in the role, be overlooked in a production that made more impressive by the fact brings to life the men behind some that, in the theatrical presentaof the most enduring and beautiful tion, the envious composer never music in our history. leaves the stage.

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There’s a reason Peter Shaffer’s 1984 film version of his drama Amadeus won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It, like the play on which it’s based, is an epic story of genius, jealousy and revenge. At its best, the play uses vivid characterization and dialogue to bring to life historical figures most of us think of as static. The fact that the hugely famous Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the work’s main subject doesn’t hurt, either.

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Innovations on a classic A former Nobu chef creates his own cuisine at Japañeiro By Jim Begley Unlike most of its brethren in the category of new and interesting local Japanese restaurants, Japañeiro isn’t tucked away in some modest corner of our Chinatown. Instead, it’s hidden in a southwest strip mall near Warm Springs and Rainbow, not a place you’re likely to just happen upon. But when you do seek it out, as you should, you’ll likely be greeted by Kevin Chong, the affable proprietor and executive chef.

Chong is a product of Nobu Las Vegas, and his experience in Chef Matsuhisa’s empire is evident in dishes like the black cod lettuce wraps ($6). Chong’s rendition, a Mini Me version of the Nobu classic, doesn’t disappoint.

It’s a buttery bite garnished with crispy phyllo for texture and makes for a fine introduction to Chong’s menu.

Begin with beef gyoza ($5), which are shaped

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aged beast of a tomahawk ($72) among its spesquare-ish, rather than in the typical crescent cials, but if you’re looking for something more moon. Don’t let that dissuade you from trysubdued, go with the beef toban yaki ($15). ing the intensely-flavored treats, essentially Arriving tableside in sizzling fashion atop a meatballs masquerading as Asian fare. They’re super-heated ceramic plate with enoki more successful than the refreshing yet mushrooms and broccolini, the beef caruneventful tacos ($4 each) or the rather Japañeiro amelizes in a sweet, brandy and soy marpedestrian kushiyaki ($4-$6).

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Korean fare abound at this small-plates spot.

The jajangmyeon ($7-$8) features egg-white noodles covered in black bean sauce and bits of pork shoulder and root veggies. What elevates this childhood dish is the sous vide egg nestled on top that calls to be part of the luscious crew. Bring it on home with three bulgogi tacos ($9), nuggets of grilled beef tenderloin housed in a fried spring roll cup and dotted with diced pear marinated in raspberry wine, adding acidity and a whimsical touch. And be sure to slather these street-food-inspired favorites with a trio of sauces: lime, curry mustard and sweet date. 6350 W. Charleston Blvd. #120, 702-489-4995.

Ma Dang Locate this Commercial Center stalwart by its blue facade and “garden” signage, referring to the verdant courtyards in traditional Korean dwellings. Feast on mandu ($10.99), dumplings loaded with mung bean noodles, pork and cabbage, arriving gilded from an oil plunge and accompanied by a piquant soy sauce for dipping.

MANNA BY CHRISTOPHER DEVARGAS

3/4 oz. Campari

Keep the momentum going with yangnyeom dak ($19.99), a platter of chicken wings and drumsticks submerged in a light batter, twice-fried to achieve a juicy interior and crackly outside, and finally doused in sesame seeds and a spicy-sweet glaze laced with gochujang red chili paste.

Add a couple glasses of soju and you’ll swear off Buffalo wings forever. 953 E. Sahara Ave. #E28, 702-369-4123.

Manna Don’t let the food-court atmosphere invoke

visions of stale, questionable food. For something that screams healthy but still includes a fried egg, choose dolsot bibimbap ($8.95).

Colorful vegetables, rice and beef receive a crispy layer from a stone bowl, something like the beloved remnants on a corndog stick. Want protein with a nice char? Go for the spicy squid ($9.95) or the LA-style beef short ribs ($11.95), thin strips cut across the bone flavored with ginger, garlic and soy sauce. 6475 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-870-0150.

Woonam Jung Lee’s Korean BBQ Feel like grilling pork belly at 2 in the morning? Grab a seat and get the special ($39.99) that includes a ménage à trois of meats, soybean paste stew, steamed egg and a salad. When the sun is out, opt for lunch specials like bulgogi ($12.99) and purported energy-booster ginseng chicken soup ($14.99).

Complimentary goodies known as banchan flood the table, stuff like bean sprouts, fish cakes with jalapeño and the ubiquitous pickled cabbage kimchi. 6820 Spring Mountain Road #110, 702-388-0488.

1 oz. fresh-squeezed lime juice 1 oz. strawberry syrup 1-2 oz. lemon-lime soda

METHOD Combine all ingredients in shaker with ice. Cover and shake thoroughly. Pour through strainer into a tall 12-ounce glass over ice.

Garnish with sliced strawberry and ground pink peppercorn.

By the end of the night, tequila has a way of making even the best of us blush, and this drink is no exception.

The spirit is softened and supported by the slightly sweet strawberry flavor and the mild lemon tang, while the peppercorn adds a welcome kick.

Cocktail created by Francesco Lafranconi, Executive Director of Mixology and Spirits Education at Southern Wine & Spirits.

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A&E | Short Takes Special screenings

> calm before the terror Maika Monroe remains blissfully oblivious in It Follows.

Awake: The Life of Yogananda 4/3, documentary screening, 7 pm, $10.

Inspire Theater, 107 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-489-9110.

Beyond the Mask 4/8, faith-based action-adventure film, 7:30 pm, $12.50. Theaters: COL. Info: beyondthemaskmovie.com.

Beyond the World of Interstellar 4/7, feature film Interstellar plus behind-the-scenes footage, 7 pm, $15.

Theaters: VS. Info: fathomevents.com.

Boozy Movie Wednesdays Wed, 8 pm, free with cocktail purchase, 21+. 4/8, Reservoir Dogs. Inspire Theater, 107 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702489-9110.

Cinemark Classic Series Sun, Wed, 2 & 7 pm, $7-$10. 4/5, 4/8, The Passion of the Christ. Theaters: ORL, ST, SF, SP, SC Erotic Movie Night Fri, 7 pm, free. Erotic Heritage Museum, 3275 Industrial Road, 702-794-4000.

Four Blood Moons 4/9, film based on book by Pastor John Hagee, 7:30 pm, $10.50-$12.50.

Theaters: ORL, SF, SP, ST. Info: fathomevents.com.

Midnight Brewvies Mon, movie plus popcorn, midnight, free. Elixir, 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, Henderson, 702-272-0000.

Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS

Nfinity Champions League 2 4/2, 4/4, broadcast of cheerleading championship, Thu 7 pm, Sat 12:55 pm, $10.50-$12.50. Theaters: COL, ORL, SF, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.

Wild Tales aaabc Ricardo Darín, Oscar Martínez, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Érica Rivas.

Directed by Damián Szifrón. 122 minutes. Rated R. In Spanish with English subtitles. See review Page 43.

Theaters: SC

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 4/4, augmented by live cast and audience participation, 10 pm, $9.

Theaters: TC. Info: rhpsvegas.com.

Now playing

Sci Fi Center Mon, Cinemondays, 8 pm, free. 4/4, Predator, Predator 2, Predators, 7 pm, $7. 5077 Arville St., 702-792-4335, thescificenter.com.

Stratford Festival HD 4/8, broadcast of King John from Canada’s Stratford Festival, 7 pm, $16$18. Theaters: COL, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.

Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou Tue, 1 pm, free. 4/7, Hell’s Angels (1930).

Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.

New this week Detective Byomkesh Bakshy (Not reviewed) Sushant Singh Rajput, Anand Tiwari, Swastika Mukherjee. Directed by Dibakar Banerjee. 135 minutes. Not rated. In Hindi with English subtitles. In 1940s Calcutta, a Bengali private detective tracks an evil genius.

Theaters: VS

’71 aaabc Jack O’Connell, Paul Anderson, Richard Dormer. Directed by Yann Demange.

99 minutes. Rated R. British soldier Gary Hook (O’Connell) gets separated from his unit in 1971 Belfast. Without a detailed familiarity with the factions involved with the Irish Troubles, some parts of ’71 may be hard to follow. But the filmmakers succeed at making those distinctions less important than the visceral danger that Hook is in. –JB Theaters: COL, VS A La Mala (Not reviewed) Aislinn Derbez, Mauricio Ochmann, Papile Aurora. Directed by Pedro Pablo Ibarra. 106 minutes. Rated PG-13.

In Spanish with English subtitles. A woman whose job is to flirt with men to test their fidelity falls for her latest target.

Theaters: ST, TC

Effie Gray aaccc Dakota Fanning, Greg Wise, Tom Sturridge. Directed by Richard Laxton.

108 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 44.

Theaters: COL, VS

American Sniper aaccc Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Luke Grimes. Directed by Clint Eastwood.

132 minutes. Rated R. Cooper’s performance is the strongest element of this biopic about Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle. It’s a simplistic, pandering tribute to the American military, aimed at an audience that prizes patriotism over drama and isn’t interested in complexity when telling the stories of so-called American heroes. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, COL, ORL, SC

Furious 7 aaacc Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez. Directed by James Wan. 137 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 43.

Big Hero 6 aabcc Voices of Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, T.J. Miller. Directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams. 108 minutes. Rated PG. Based loosely on an obscure Marvel comic

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book, this Disney animated adventure features a bright, friendly world and some exciting action sequences, plus a very entertaining character in cuddly robot Baymax. But its superhero-team origin story is bland and familiar, with Scooby-Doo-level plotting and underdeveloped characters. –JB Theaters: TC Chappie AACCC Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Ninja, Yolandi Visser. Directed by Neill Blomkamp. 120 minutes. Rated R. Writer-director Blomkamp (District 9) proves to be a one-hit wonder with his third feature, about a future police robot given artificial intelligence.

Chappie is inconsistent, overreaching and often preachy, the second movie in a row in which Blomkamp demonstrates visual flair but fails at both social commentary and basic storytelling. –JB Theaters: BS, CH, COL, PAL, RR, SC, TX Cinderella aabcc Lily James, Richard Madden, Cate Blanchett. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. 105 minutes. Rated PG. Branagh’s live-action remake of the 1950 Disney animated classic about a downtrodden girl who falls in love with a prince is a straightforward retelling of the fairy tale, without any twists or stylistic innovations. It’s a lavish production, but it’s also dramatically inert, led by a pair of good-looking but forgettable actors. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX Do You Believe? (Not reviewed) Ted McGinley, Mira Sorvino, Andrea Logan White. Directed by Jonathan M. Gunn. 115 minutes. Rated PG-13. A pastor goes on a journey to renew his faith.

Theaters: BS, COL, SC, SP, TS, TX The Duff AAACC Mae Whitman, Robbie Amell, Bella Thorne. Directed by Ari Sandel. 101 minutes. Rated PG-13. It may be based on an idiotic catch phrase (the “designated ugly fat friend”), but The Duff is a fairly clever and heartfelt teen comedy about an awkward nerd (Whitman)

who enlists her jock neighbor (Amell) to give her a makeover and, of course, falls in love in the process. –JB Theaters: BS Fifty Shades of Grey acccc Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eloise Mumford. Directed by Sam TaylorJohnson. 125 minutes. Rated R. Existing in a tepid middle ground apt to disappoint both hardcore fans of E.L. James’ bestselling novel and newbies expecting something scandalous, Fifty Shades of Grey flounders thanks to its leads’ lack of chemistry, inert direction and limp faux-salacious sex scenes. –NS Theaters: BS, GVR, SHO Focus aaabc Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Adrian Martinez. Directed by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra. 104 minutes. Rated R. Smith and Robbie have fantastic chemistry as a pair of con artists in this glossy, uneven drama. The movie’s first half is playful and sly, but the second half is less successful, building up the suspense and then pulling back the curtain a few too many times. –JB Theaters: GVR, ORL, RR, SP, ST, TS, VS Get Hard aaccc Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, Alison Brie.

Directed by Etan Cohen. 100 minutes.

Rated R. A buffoonish finance executive (Ferrell) hires a man he believes to be an ex-con (Hart) to help him prepare for prison after he’s falsely convicted of fraud. For all its ill-advised humor about race and sexuality, Get Hard is less offensive than inconsistent and misguided. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, DTS, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS The Gunman aabcc Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba.

Directed by Pierre Morel. 115 minutes.

Rated R. An impressively beefed-up (and frequently shirtless, lest those muscles go unnoticed) Penn attempts to follow Liam Neeson’s footsteps as a middle-aged badass in this globetrotting action flick, directed by Taken’s Pierre Morel. Penn seems uncomfortable, though, and he’s stuck in a film that’s as generic as its title. –MD

Theaters: AL, BS, COL, DTS, FH, ORL, PAL, SC, SF, SHO, SP, TS Home aabcc Voices of Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin. Directed by Tim Johnson. 94 minutes. Rated PG. After the cute, clueless alien Boov invade and take over Earth, human tween Tip (Rihanna) teams up with misfit alien Oh (Parsons) to save the planet. It’s a familiar mismatched-friends story, tolerable enough for children who like funnycolored aliens but forgettable enough that parents should be able to easily ignore it. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS The Imitation Game aaacc Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode. Directed

by Morten Tyldum. 114 minutes. Rated PG-13. Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the English mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the Nazis’ Enigma code. While that material is quite exciting, however, the film’s attempts at a character study, treating Turing as someone on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum, are less successful. –MD Theaters: TC, VS Insurgent aabcc Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet. Directed by Robert Schwentke. 119 minutes. Rated PG-13.

The sequel to Divergent bypasses the exposition about its dystopian future, but it remains just as nonsensical. There are more exciting action sequences and better special effects, but the characters are still flat, and the plotting is still an incoherent mess. –JB Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS It Follows aaaac Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto. Directed by David Robert Mitchell. 100 minutes. Rated R. Mitchell, who made the sweet teen romance The Myth of the American Sleepover, returns with a terrific, discomfitingly creepy horror film about

A&E | Short Takes a malevolent force that’s always walking in a straight line toward its victim (Monroe), no matter where on the planet she goes. –MD Theaters: AL, BS, COL, FH, ORL, PAL, RR, SC, SF, SHO, TS, TX Jupiter Ascending aabcc Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Eddie Redmayne. Directed by Andy and Lana Wachowski. 125 minutes. Rated PG-13.

This convoluted sci-fi epic from The Matrix filmmakers the Wachowskis boils down to another story of a Chosen One who saves the world and falls in love. The Wachowskis remain impressive stylists, and if Jupiter were as accomplished in its plotting and character development as in its visuals, it would be brilliant. –JB Theaters: SC, TC Kingsman: The Secret Service aabcc Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson. Directed by Matthew Vaughn.

129 minutes. Rated R. A street tough known as Eggsy (Egerton) is recruited to join super-secret private spy organization Kingsman in this loose adaptation of the comic book by Mark Millar (Kick-Ass). Meant as a self-aware parody of James Bond-style superspies, Kingsman lacks the wit and style of the best Bond adventures. –JB Theaters: AL, COL, DTS, FH, ORL, SF, SP, ST, TS, VS The Lazarus Effect AACCC Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass, Sarah Bolger. Directed by David Gelb. 83 minutes. Rated PG-13. A talented cast is wasted in this moronic horror movie about medical researchers attempting to bring people back from the dead.

Once they do, something evil comes back, too, stalking the characters through underlit, sparse sets in predictable fashion. –JB Theaters: CH, RR, ST, TX McFarland, USA aabcc Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Carlos Pratts. Directed by Niki Caro. 128 minutes. Rated PG. Costner’s weary, livedin performance as a high-school coach is the best thing about this predictable underdog sports drama, based on the true story of a cross-country team from the impoverished, primarily Latino central California town of McFarland that achieved surprising success in the late 1980s. –JB Theaters: CH, COL, ORL, ST, VS Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb aaccc Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Dan Stevens. Directed by Shawn Levy.

98 minutes. Rated PG. Made from the “kids-won’t-care-how-badly-weslapped-this-thing-together” school of filmmaking, the third movie in the Night at the Museum series brings the usual cast to London to save their magic tablet. The movie brings up ideas and lets them drop, clumsy cutting ruins most of the jokes, and visual effects are plentiful and lifeless. –JMA Theaters: TC

Serra. 114 minutes. Rated R. Neeson plays an aging hitman on the run with his estranged son (Kinnaman), dodging gangsters and cops, over the course of one long night. Director Collet-Serra concocts some sludgy, thrown-together action scenes, but he has an appreciation for actors, and the scenes between old-time wiseguys Neeson and Harris have a touching shorthand. –JMA Theaters: BS, CH, DTS, GVR, ORL, PAL, SC, SF, SP, TS

> unlikely friends An alien and a young girl team up in Home.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel aabcc Dev Patel, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench. Directed by John Madden.

122 minutes. Rated PG. Nearly all of the characters return for the continuing story of a ramshackle retirement home for British pensioners in India. The storylines are mostly half-hearted, centered on the romantic couplings that blossomed in the previous movie. The talented actors make the experience pleasant enough, even if it drags on for too long. –JB Theaters: BS, DTS, FH, GVR, ORL, SC Selma aaabc David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Carmen Ejogo. Directed by Ava DuVernay. 127 minutes. Rated PG-13. Selma is a sometimes powerful, sometimes stilted look at the 1965 march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Oyelowo) from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama to rally for voting rights for African-Americans. The filmmakers create a sense of real life being lived, rather than just facts and figures being dramatized. –JB Theaters: TC Seventh Son (Not reviewed) Ben Barnes, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore. Directed by Sergey Bodrov. 102 minutes. Rated PG-13. A young man becomes the apprentice to a powerful warrior and must fight an evil witch.

Theaters: TC Still Alice aaacc Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart. Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. 101 minutes.

Rated PG-13. Moore fully deserves the acclaim she’s received as a linguistics professor who’s diagnosed with earlyonset Alzheimer’s disease. The movie itself isn’t up to her high standard, though, gradually deteriorating—much like its heroine—from an astringent drama to a more generic disease-ofthe-week movie. –MD Theaters: VS The Wedding Ringer AACCC Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley CuocoSweeting. Directed by Jeremy Garelick.

101 minutes. Rated R. This contrived bromance involves a lonely rich guy (Gad) hiring a professional best man (Hart) to stand in at his wedding. Hart is likable, but the story never builds on its ridiculous premise, stumbling through unfunny set pieces and vulgar humor, without any worthwhile payoff. –JB Theaters: TC

Paddington aaabc Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Nicole Kidman, voice of Ben Whishaw.

Directed by Paul King. 95 minutes. Rated PG. Somehow the new Paddington movie seems modern while at the same time holding firmly to its quaint, lovely ideals. The movie includes a few big slapstick moments, but they arise naturally out of the character’s unfamiliarity with the civilized world. Ben Whishaw voices the CGI bear. –JMA Theaters: SC, TC

What We Do in the Shadows aaacc Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh. Directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi. 86 minutes. Not rated. Clement and Waititi (Flight of the Conchords) bring a familiar understated, deadpan humor to the story of three vampires who live together in a rundown house in Wellington, New Zealand. Even when the laughs get less frequent, they continue through to the end, with plenty of quotable lines. –JB Theaters: VS

Run All Night aaacc Liam Neeson, Joel Kinnaman, Ed Harris. Directed by Jaume Collet-

JMA Jeffrey M. Anderson; JB Josh Bell; MD Mike D’Angelo; NS Nick Schager

Theaters

Summerlin 2070 Park Center Drive, 702-221-2283

(SF) Century Santa Fe Station 4949 N. Rancho Drive, 702-655-8178

(AL) Regal Aliante 7300 Aliante Parkway, North Las Vegas, 702-221-2283

(FH) Regal Fiesta Henderson 777 W. Lake Mead Parkway, Henderson, 702-221-2283

(SHO) United Artists Showcase 3769 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-221-2283

(BS) Regal Boulder Station 4111 Boulder Highway, 702-221-2283

(GVR) Regal Green Valley Ranch 2300 Paseo Verde Parkway, Henderson, 702-221-2283

(PAL) Brenden Theatres at the Palms 4321 W. Flamingo Road, 702-507-4849 (CAN) Galaxy Cannery 2121 E. Craig Road, North Las Vegas, 702-639-9779 (CH) Cinedome Henderson 851 S. Boulder Highway, Henderson, 702-566-1570 (COL) Regal Colonnade 8880 S. Eastern Ave., 702-221-2283 (DI) Las Vegas Drive-In 4150 W. Carey Ave., North Las Vegas, 702-646-3565 (DTS) Regal Downtown

(SP) Century South Point 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-260-4061 (SC) Century Suncoast 9090 Alta Drive, 702-869-1880

(GVL) Galaxy Green Valley Luxury+ 4500 E. Sunset Road, Henderson, 702442-0244

(SS) Regal Sunset Station 1301-A W. Sunset Road, Henderson, 702-221-2283

(ORL) Century Orleans 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., 702-889-1220

(TX) Regal Texas Station 2101 Texas Star Lane, North Las Vegas, 702-221-2283

(RP) AMC Rainbow Promenade 2321 N. Rainbow Blvd., 888-262-4386

(TS) AMC Town Square 6587 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-362-7283

(RR) Regal Red Rock 11011 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-221-2283

(TC) Regency Tropicana Cinemas 3330 E. Tropicana Ave., 702-438-3456

(ST) Century Sam’s Town 5111 Boulder Highway, 702-547-1732

(VS) Regal Village Square 9400 W. Sahara Ave., 702-221-2283

For complete movie times, visit lasvegasweekly.com/movies/listings.

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Calendar LISTINGS YOU CAN PLAN YOUR LIFE BY!

LIVE MUSIC T H E ST R I P & N E A R BY Brooklyn Bowl JMilky Chance, James Hersey 4/9, 9 pm, $18-$22. Clean Bandit, Meg Mac 4/10, 9 pm, $22-$25.

Ghostface Killah, Raekwon 4/13, $25.

Brand New, Circa Survive 4/17, 8 pm, $37-$41. Alabama Shakes, Allah-Las 4/18, 9 pm, $41-$44. Sturgill Simpson, The Lone Bellow 4/23, 8 pm, $22$24. Andy Frasco and the U.N. 4/24, $8. Zappa Plays Zappa 4/25, 9 pm, $39-$72. Morgan Heritage, Jemere Morgan 4/27, 8 pm, $13-$17. OK Go 4/28, 9 pm, $22-$28. Umphrey’s McGee 5/1, 7 pm; 5/2, 8:30 pm, $30$99. The Expendables 5/14, $15. Little Dragon 5/19. Shakey Graves, Barr Brothers 5/21, 8 pm, $17. Xavier Rudd & The United Nations 5/26, 8 pm, $19$22. Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters 5/28, $77. Jenny Lewis 5/30, 8 pm, $28-$33. Yelawolf 6/12, $15. Between the Buried and Me 7/18, $20. Linq, 702-862-2695.

The Colosseum Rod Stewart Elton John 4/3-4/4, 4/6-4/7, 4/10-4/11, 4/13-4/14, 6:30 pm, $55-$500. Reba, Brooks & Dunn 6/24, 6/26-6/27, 7/1, 7/3, 7/4, 12/2, 12/4, 12/6, 12/9, $60$205. Aretha Franklin 8/14, 8 pm, $55-$160. The Who 9/19, 10:30 pm, $96-$501. Caesars Palace, 702-7317333.

The Cosmopolitan (Chelsea) Hozier 4/9, 9 pm, $30+. Brian Wilson, Rodriguez 7/10, 7 pm, $50.

(Boulevard Pool) Ratatat, Sylvan Esso 4/8, 9 pm, $28. St. Vincent 4/10, 9 pm, $25. RAC, St. Lucia 4/11, 9 pm, $20. Marina and the Diamonds, Kiesza 4/13, 9 pm, $25. Lykke Li, Ryn Weaver 4/14, 9 pm, $20. Interpol 4/15, 9 pm, $25. Stromae 4/16, 9 pm, $25.

X107.5’s Our Big Concert ft. Cage the Elephant, Dirty Heads, New Politics, Big Date, Joywave 5/28, 6 pm, $40.

Barenaked Ladies, Violent Femmes, Colin Hay 7/18, 8 pm, $50. Slightly Stoopid 4/14, 9 pm, $35. 702-6987000.

Dive Bar One Eyed Doll, Irie, Someday Broken 4/25, 9 pm, $8-$10. 4110 S. Maryland Pkwy., 702-586-3483.

Double Down Bargain DJ Collective Mon. Unique Massive Tue, midnight.

The Juju Man Wed, midnight. Punk Rock Bingo first Wed of the month.

Blooze Brothers Third Sun of the month. Shows 10 pm, free unless noted. 640 Paradise Rd., 702-7915775.

Flamingo Olivia Newton-John 5/265/30, 6/2-6/6, 6/9-6/13, 7/7-7/11, 7/14-7/18, 7/21-7/25, 8/4-8/8, 8/11-8/15, 8/18-8/22, 9/1-9/5, 9/8-9/12, 7:30 pm, $69-$139. 702-733-3333.

Gilley’s Austin Law 4/2, 9 pm; 4/3-4/4, 10 pm; 6/11, 9 pm; 6/12-6/13, 10 pm.

Ryan Whyte Maloney, Cali Tucker Mon, 4/6-4/20, 9 pm. Kenny Allen Band 4/9, 9 pm; 4/10-4/11, 10 pm; 6/4, 9 pm; 6/5-6/6, 10 pm. Easy 8’s Band 4/23, 9 pm; 4/24-4/25, 10 pm. Scotty Alexander Band 5/14, 9 pm; 5/15-5/16, 10 pm; 6/25, 9 pm; 6/26-6/27, 10 pm.

Chancey Williams Band 5/21, 9 pm; 5/22-5/24, 10 pm. Chad Freeman Band 5/28, 9 pm; 5/29-5/30, 10 pm.

Brian Lynn Jones Band 6/18, 9 pm; 6/19-6/20, 10 pm. Shows $10-$20 after 10 pm. Treasure Island, 702894-7722.

Hard Rock Hotel Courtney Love 5/15,

9 pm, $35+. Kottonmouth Kings 6/19, 9 pm, $25+. Rusted Root 6/26, 9 pm, $30+. Nelson 7/10, 9 pm, $30+.

South of Graceland 7/17, 9 pm, $30+.

Puddle of Mudd 7/31, 9 pm, $25+.

Tribal Seeds 8/21, 9 pm, $25. Blue October 9/18, 9 pm, $30+. Live 10/2, 9 pm, $35+.

Hard Rock Live Kimbra, MikkyEkko 4/18, 8 pm, $20-$25. Metro Station, SayWeCanFly, 7 Minutes in Heaven, The Runaway Lives 4/27, 5 pm, $14$17. Hard Rock Cafe (Strip), 3771 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-733-7625.

House of Blues Bad Religion, OFF! 4/13-4/14, 7 pm, $30-$32. Falling in Reverse 4/25, 5:30 pm, $22-$25.

Nightwish 4/30, 7 pm, $43-$78.

Mastodon 5/1, 8 pm, $30-$32. R. Kelly, Lil’ Kim 5/3, 8 pm, $150+. Walk the Moon 5/9, 6:30 pm, $22-$25.

Juicy J 5/19, 8 pm, $28-$40. Carlos Santana 5/20, 5/22-5/24, 5/27, 5/295/31, 9/16, 9/18-9/20, 9/23, 9/25-9/27, 11/4, 11/6-11/8, 11/11, 11/13-11/15, $90$350, 8 pm. Ministry 6/10, 8 pm, $40$90. Steel Panther 6/13, 6/20, 6/27, 9 pm, $22. Dizzy Wright 7/4, 6 pm, $25-$30. Kelly Clarkson, Pentatonix 8/15, 7:30 pm, $40-$125. Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers 9/5, 8 pm, $29$44. The Tragically Hip 10/3, 7:30 pm, $43-$55. Rhyme N Rhythm Mon, 9 pm, free. Live swing music Tue, 9 pm, free. Blues Wed, 8 pm, free. Phil Stendek Thu, 8 pm, free. Singles Sat, 9 pm, free. Gospel Brunch Sun, 10 am & 1 pm, $27-$50. PJ Barth Trio Sun, 8 pm, free. Mandalay Bay, 702632-7600.

The Joint Sixx: A.M., Apocalyptica 4/10, 8 pm, $35. Kenny Chesney 4/3-4/4. Alt-J, Jungle 4/13, 8 pm, $40. Three Days Grace, Pop Evil, Brave Black Sea 4/17, 8 pm, $29+.

Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo 4/18, 8 pm, $40+. Journey 4/29, 5/1-5/2, 5/6, 5/8-5/9, 5/13, 5/15-5/16, 8 pm, $60$250. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Rusty Maples 5/22, 9 pm, $35+. Gipsy Kings 5/28, 8 pm, $40+.

Whitesnake 6/4, 8 pm, $35. Third Eye Blind, Dashboard Confessional 7/11, 8 pm, $40+. Juanes, Ximena Sariñana 7/30, 7:30 pm, $60+. Brit Floyd 7/31, 9 pm, $35+. Peter Frampton, Cheap Trick 8/22, 8 pm, $50+. Scorpions, Queensrÿche 10/7, 8 pm, $60+.

UB40 10/16, $40-$55. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5222.

Mandalay Bay (Events Center) New Kids on the Block 5/1, 7 pm, $40-$125.

Neil Diamond 5/17, 8 pm, $60-$175.

Nickelback 7/3, 8 pm, $25-$105. 5 Seconds of Summer 7/17, 7:30 pm, $50-$100. Fall Out Boy, Wiz Khalifa 8/7, 7 pm, $25-$70. (Mandalay Beach) 311 7/3-7/4, $55-$95. Sublime with Rome 5/22, $50. The Script 5/30, $45.

Lee Brice 6/5, $45. Chris Young 6/7, $45. Switchfoot, Drew Holdcomb & The Neighbors, Colony House 7/10, $34. Pepper, Iration 7/17, $35+. Ziggy Marley 7/31, $43. Lost ‘80s Live ft.

ABC, Wang Chung, Naked Eyes, A Flock of Seagulls and more. 9/26, $35. 702-632-7777.

MGM (Grand Garden Arena) Fleetwood Mac 4/11, 8 pm, $50-$200.

Iggy Azalea, Nick Jonas, Tinashe 4/25, $40-$70. Bette Midler 5/22, 8 pm, $95-$310. Madonna 10/24, 8 pm, $43-$383. 702-891-7777.

Orleans NiteKings Wed, 4 pm. Rick Duarte Fri, 9 pm. Acoustic Den Sat, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., 702-365-7075.

Palace Station (Jack’s) Peter Love Trio

> FIRE STARTER Pike (left) and his bandmates bring the heavy to Triple B on Sunday.

THREE QUESTIONS WITH HIGH ON FIRE FRONTMAN MATT PIKE Your drummer has said those wanting a taste of the next album should “take some mescaline [and] listen to Side B of [Black] Sabbath’s Master of Reality backwards on 78 rpm.” Accurate?

Yeah, it’s pretty f*cking awesome, man. I really like what we did on this one. But I didn’t need mescaline when I was writing a bunch of it (laughs).

Aside from pot I was like 99 percent sober, and it really turned out awesome.

three of us are really good at making a big wall of sound, and I’ve just never really needed another guitar player. I just do my thing, and I have the best rhythm section ever to back me up. You get a little more room to explore, and you make more money at the end of the day (laughs).

What’s the current state of Sleep?

You guys have been doing some reunion shows here and there.

For more of our interview with Pike, visit lasvegasweekly.com.

Sleep and High on Fire are both trios, which isn’t the standard for metal bands. What do you like about being a three-piece? The

We just hang out and jam and try to keep the fans of that band with something to look forward to. How big that band is is an anomaly. It’s just like,

HIGH ON FIRE With Saviours, Demon Lung. April 5, 8 p.m., $15-$20. Backstage Bar & Billiards, 702-382-2227.

Fri, 9 pm. Willplay Sat, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702-547-5300.

Palazzo (Palazzo Theatre) Frank: The Man. The Music. ft. Bob Anderson Tue-Thu, Sat, 8 pm; Fri 9 pm, $72.

(Laguna Champagne Bar) Jimmy Hopper Thu-Sun, 9:30 pm, free.

3355 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 702-4144300.

Palms (The Lounge) Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns Mon, 10:30 pm, $10.

702-944-3200.

The Pearl Steely Dan 4/11, 8 pm, $94+.

Joe Bonamassa 5/1-5/2, 8 pm, $89$130. The Moody Blues 5/3, 8 pm, $63-$133. Tedeschi Trucks Band,

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Doyle Bramhall II 6/9, 6:30 pm, $63+.

Alice in Chains 7/18, 8 pm, $53+.

Jackson Browne 8/21, 8 pm, $63+.

Alejandra Guzman 9/12, 8 pm, $33+.

Palms, 702-942-7777.

Piero’s Pia Zadora Fri & Sat, 9 pm, two-drink minimum. 355 Convention Center Dr., 702-369-2305.

Planet Hollywood Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga 4/10-4/11, 8:30 pm, $69$250. Britney Spears 4/15, 4/17-4/18, 4/22, 4/24-4/25, 4/29, 5/1-5/2, 5/6, 5/85/9, 5/13, 5/15-5/16, 5/20, 8/5, 8/7-8/8, 8/12, 8/14-8/15, 8/18-8/19, 8/21-8/22, 8/26, 8/28-8/29, 9/2, 9/4-9/5, 9/9.

$60-$195. Weird Al Yankovic 5/125/16, 8 pm, $59-$89. Na Ying 5/23, $28-$228. J. Cole, YG, Jeremih, Bas, Cozz and Omen 7/18, 8 pm, $41-$200.

La Arrolladora 9/13, 9 pm, $59-$175.

Ricky Martin 9/15, 8 pm, $50-$160.

702-234-7469.

Rock in Rio Festival Ft. Taylor Swift, Metallica, Linkin Park, No Doubt, The Deftones, John Legend 5/8-5/9, 5/15-5/16, $298-$498. Rockinrio.com.

Route 91 Harvest Festival ft. Florida Georgia Line, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw and more. 10/2-10/4, times vary, $199. MGM Resorts Village, rt91harvest.com.

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wow, we really lucked out that that many people, while we were missing from the Earth, picked it up. I know everybody wants to talk about a new album, but when it comes it’s just gonna show up one day.

We’re just trying to play great shows right now. –Chris Bitonti

Calendar Stratosphere David Perrico and Pop Evolution First & third Tue, 10:30 pm, $20.

800-998-6937.

Tuscany Danny Lozada Sun & Thu 10 pm, free. Kenny Davidsen Celebrity Piano Bar Fri, 10 pm, free. Live music Sat, 10 pm., free.

255 E. Flamingo Rd., 702-893-8933.

Venetian The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Godesses ft. Las Vegas Philharmonic 6/10, 8 pm, $66-$176. 3355 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 702-287-5922.

Vinyl Ed Kowalczyk 4/2, 9:30 pm, $40. Nekromantix 4/4, 9 pm, $20+.

Mushroomhead, The Family Ruin, Doyle 4/5, 7:30 pm, $23. Nonpoint, 36 Crazyfists, Scare Don’t Fear 4/10, 8 pm, $20. Deap Vally 4/15, 9 pm, $12+. The Dan Band 4/17, 9:30 pm, $25. Secondhand Serenade, Ryan Cabrera, Nick Thomas, Wind in Sails, Runaway Saints 4/24, 6:30 pm, $18+. Dr. John Cooper Clarke 4/30, 8 pm, $20. Alice: A Steampunk Concert Fantasy 5/20, 6/17, 7/15, 11 pm, $10+. Saxon 5/27, 8:30 pm, $22. Todd Rundgren 5/30, 8 pm, $30+.

Amaranthe, Santa Cruz, I Prevail 5/31, 8 pm, $22+. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5000.

Wynn (Eastside Lounge) Michael Monge WedThu, 9 pm, $10. 3131 S Las Vegas Blvd.

D ow n tow n Artifice Vegas Blues Dance Tue, 7 pm, free.

Thursday Request Live Thu, 10 pm, free.

1025 S. 1st St., Ste. 100., 702-489-6339.

Art Bar Ryan Whyte Maloney Thu, 6 pm. Live music Fri-Sat, 6 pm. Downtown Grand, 206 N. 3rd St., 702-719-5100.

Backstage Bar & Billiards Fundraiser for DJ Aurajin 4/2, 8 pm. Rat City Rukkus, The Yawpers, Yosemite Slam, Eddy Bear & The Cubs 4/3, 8 pm, free. Revolution Mother, Surrounded By Thieves, Sounds of Threat, The Quitters 4/4, 8 pm, $5. High on Fire, Savious, Demon Lung 4/5, 8 pm, $15-$20.

Contortion, Rule of Thumb, Last Words, Within the Cochlea 4/10, 8 pm, $5-$7.

Buck-O-Nine, Kemuri, Dan Patthast, Light Em Up 4/17, 8 pm, $11-$13. Helmet 4/30, 8 pm, $18-$21. Felipe Esparza 5/1, 8 pm, $25$40. Anaal Nathrakh, Incite, Secrets of the Sky 5/13, 8 pm, $12-$15. Agent Orange, In the Whale, Happy Campers, Assorted Jellybeans 5/30, 8 pm, $12-$15. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227.

Bar & Bistro Out of the Desert Bluegrass Band Sun, noon, free. Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd., 702-202-6060.

Beauty Bar Prawn, Frameworks 4/2. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757.

The Bunkhouse AMFS 4/2. Rusty Maples, Mercy Music, Illicitor 4/3. Home Cookin’ 4/4. Boyfrndz, Future Death, Firewater Folklore, Narrowed 4/6. Battleborn Poetry Slam 4/9. Panda Bear 4/10, 9 pm, $20.

Dengue Fever 4/11, 9 pm, $10-$12. The Downtown Fiction 4/12. Benjamin Booker, Small Wigs 4/16. Psychostick 4/19, 8 pm, $10-$12. Built to Spill, Braided Waves 4/20. Whirr, Wildmoth, Alaska 4/22.

Moving Units 4/23. We Are Scientists 4/26.

Crocodiles 5/21, $10. Torche, Melt Banana 6/26, $20. 124 S. 11th St., bunkhousedowntown.com.

Clark County Government Amphitheater Jazz in the Park ft. Selina Albright, Jackiem Joyner, Steve Oliver 5/9. Elan Trotman 5/16. Marc Antoine 5/23. Spyro Gyra 5/30. Brubeck Brothers 6/6. 7 p.m., free. 500 S. Grand Central Parkway, 702455-8200..

Downtown Container Park Jelly Bread 4/3, 5 pm. Beau Hodges Band 4/3, 9 pm. Josh Royce 4/4, 5 pm. Empire Records 4/4, 9 pm. Jill and Julia 4/10, 5 pm. The Chris Heers Band 4/10, 9 pm. Phillip Stendek 4/11, 6 pm. The Fab 4/11, 9 pm. 707 Fremont St, downtowncontainerpark.com.

Downtown Las Vegas Events Center Sammy Hagar & The Circle 4/11, 7 pm, $64+. 200 S. 3rd St., dlvec.com.

Fremont Country Club First Class Trash, Audiovibe, Quantum 4/17, 8 pm, $16-$20.

Streetlight Manifesto 5/21, 8 pm, $21-$26.

601 Fremont St., 702-382-6601.

Fremont Street Experience Downtown Las Vegas, vegasexperience.com.

Golden Nugget Tracy Lawrence 4/3, 8 pm, $32-$109. Morris Day & The Time 4/10, 8 pm, $32-$109. The Sing Off 4/17, 8 pm, $29-

$109. The Oak Ridge Boys 4/24, $54-$109.

Earl Thomas Conley 5/1, 8 pm, $21-$76.

Aries Spears 5/8, 8 pm, 10:30 pm, $21-$43.

Christpher Cross 5/15, 8 pm, $32-$109.

Blood, Sweat & Tears 5/22, 8 pm, $32-$109.

Night Ranger 5/29, 8 pm, $32-$76. 129 Fremont St., 702-385-7111.

Griffin Live music Wed, 10 pm, free. 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577.

Hard Hat Lounge SINdicate 4/3, 9 pm.

Fished Out 4/9, 9 pm, free. Boom Box Brothers 4/10, 9 pm. Conclave 4/11, 9 pm.

1675 Industrial Rd., 702-384-8987.

LVCS Nekromantix, The Legendary Boiler Makers, The Tiki Bandits, Dead at Midnite, Franks & Deans 4/3, 8 pm, $15-$18. Death By Stereo, Rule of Thumb, Winter Will Follow, Since We Were Kids, Someday Broken 4/4, 8 pm, $10-$13. Incite, Better Left Unsaid, Slaves and Blades 4/14, 8 pm, $7-$9. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-3531.

The Smith Center Garrison Keillor 4/16, 7:30 pm, $29+. Ramsey Lewis Trio 4/174/18, 7 pm, $45+. Bruce Hornsby 4/18, 7:30 pm, $32+. The Piano Guys 5/11, 7:30 pm, $24+. Duncan Sheik 4/24-4/25, 7 pm, $39+.

Spectrum and Radiance 5/8-5/9, 7 pm; 5/10, 3 pm, $37+. David Perrico 5/13, 10 pm. Lisa Hilton 5/15-5/16, 7 pm, $37. James Tormé 5/29-5/30, 7 pm, $37. Clint Holmes First Fri & Sat, 8:30 pm; first Sun, 2 pm; $35-$45. 361 Symphony Park Ave., 702-749-2000.

The ’Burbs Cannery Bobby Kimball and Kenny Cetera 4/4, 8 pm, $20. Four Tops 4/18, 8 pm, $20+.

DND Project, Fri-Sat, 7 pm, free, Tue-Thu, Sun, 8 pm. 2121 E Craig Rd., 702-507-5700.

Distill Summerlin Shaun South 4/4. Nick Mattera 4/11. Michael Anthony 4/18. Justin Mather 4/25. All shows free & begin at 8 p.m.

10820 W. Charleston Blvd., distillbar.com, 702-534-1400.

Eagle Aerie Hall Out With the Old, Leota, Tonight We Fight, Courvge, Almost Awake, Smile Asterisk, Year One 4/3, 5:20 pm, $11-$13. Destruction of a King, Keepsake, Words From Aztecs, On Letting Go, Oscillation, Providence, Among Sheep 4/18, 5:20 pm, $11-$14. Europa, New and Improved, Pool Party, Smarter Than Robots, Our Name Our Story, Venture, Twenty 81, Punchable Face 4/25, 5:20 pm, $11-$13. 310 W. Pacific Ave., 702-645-4139.

Elixir Stefnrock 4/10, 5/16, 5/29. Marty Feick 4/3, 4/24, 5/8. Shaun South 4/4, 4/25, 5/9.

Scott Starr 4/11. Phil Spector 4/17. Nick Mattera 4/18, 5/2, 5/23, 5/30. All shows at 8 p.m., free. 2920 N. Green Valley Pkwy., 702-272-0000.

Fiesta Henderson (Cerveza Lounge) Josh LaCount Wed, 8 pm. (Coco Lounge) Shows 9 pm, free. 702-558-7000.

Fiesta Rancho (Club Tequila) Take the Stage Thu, 7 pm. (Cabo Lounge) Shows free unless noted. 702-631-7000.

Green Valley Ranch (Grand Events Center) All-Star Guitar Pull ft. Montgomery Gentry, Josh Turner, Jana Kramer, Austin Webb, A Thousand Horses, Mo Pitney 4/2, 7 pm, $29-$59. (Drop Bar) Jared Berry Thu, 7 pm.

Rick Duarte Fri, 6 pm. Tony Venniro Sat, 6 pm. Ryan Whyte Maloney, Cali Tucker Sun, 9 pm. (Hanks) Dave Ritz Tue, Thu, 6 pm; Sat, 7 pm. Nick Mattera Fri, 6 pm. Jeremy James Sat, 7 pm. Rick Duarte Wed, 6 pm.

(Lobby Bar) Shai Peri, Christina L Thu, 8 pm.

Christina L Fri, 8 pm. Cayce Andrew Sat, 8 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702-367-2470.

M Resort (M Pavillion) Hotel California 5/23, 7 pm, $20-$30. Elvis, The Aloha Concert Tribute 8/8, 7 pm, $30-$42. Shows free with drink purchase. M Resort, 800-745-3000.

Rampart Casino (Grand Ballroom) (Addison’s Lounge) Wes Winters Tue, 6 pm. Mark O’Toole Wed, 6 pm. All shows free unless noted. (J.C.’s Irish Sports Pub) All shows free unless noted. (Round Bar) All shows free unless noted. JW Marriott. 221 N. Rampart Blvd., 702-507-5900.

Red Rock (Rocks Lounge) Frankie Moreno 4/11, 7 pm, $19-$39. Zowie Bowie Fri, 10 pm.

The Dirty Sat, 11 pm, $10. David Perrico Pop Strings Orchestra Sat, 11 pm, free. (Onyx) Willplay Fri, 8 pm. Tim Catching Sat, 9 pm.

The Dirty Sat. 11 pm, $10. (T-Bones) Dave Ritz Wed, 6 pm; Fri, 7 pm. Rick Duarte Thu, 6 pm; Sat, 7 pm. Shows free unless noted. 11011 W.

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CALENDAR Charleston Blvd., 702-797-7777.

Santa Fe Station (Chrome Showroom) Blues and Bayou Brunch ft. Michael Grimm 4/26, 11 am, $35. Magic of Motown Sat, 10 pm. (Revolver) Bro Country Thu, 8 pm. 4949 N Rancho Dr., 702-658-4900.

Sienna Italian Authentic Trattoria Vegas Good Fellas Thu, 7:30 pm. Red Velvet Fri-Sat, 8:30 pm. 9500 Sahara Ave., 702-360-3358.

South Point Crystal Gayle 4/24-4/26.

Kingston Trio 5/1-5/3, 7:30pm. Winter Dance Party 5/8-5/10, 7:30 pm.

Deana Martin and Big Band Swing 5/29-5/31, 7:30 pm. Dennis Bono Show Thu, 2 pm, free. Wes Winters Fri-Sat, 6 pm, free. Spazmatics Sat, 10:30 pm, $5. 702-797-8005.

Suncoast Four Freshman 4/4-4/5, 7:30 pm, $16+. Elvis My Way 4/10-4/11, 7:30 pm, $16+. 9090 Alta Dr., 702636-7075.

Sunset Station (Club Madrid) David Tolliver 3/27, 8 pm, $10. Billy Dean & The Steel Horses Band 6/20, 7 pm, $25. Barry Black Fri, 9:30 pm. Zowie Bowie Sat, 10 pm. (Gaudi Bar) Ryan Whyte Maloney, Cali Tucker Sat, 7 pm. Willplay Sat, 7 pm. (Rosalita’s) Tony Venniro Fri, 7 pm. Peter Love Sat, 7 pm. (Sunset Amphitheater) Junefest ft. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Berlin, The Romantics, John Waite 6/6, 5 pm, $29-$59. Shows free unless noted. 1301 W. Sunset Rd., 702-547-7777.

Texas Station (A-Bar) Darrin Michaels Fri-Sat, 7 pm. (South Padre) Crossfire Fri, 9 pm. Yellow Brick Road Sat, 9 pm. 702-631-1000.

E V E RY W H E R E E L S E Arizona Charlie’s Boulder (Palace Grand Lounge) High Rise 4/3-4/4, 9 pm. Echo Valley Road 4/10-4/11. In-AFect 4/17-4/18. Front Page 4/24-4/25.

4575 Boulder Highway, 888-2369066.

Arizona Charlie’s Decatur (Naughty Ladies Saloon) San Fernando Band 4/3-4/4, 9 pm. In-A-Fect 4/10-4/11, 9 pm. Randy Anderson Band 4/17-4/18.

Lil’ Elmo and the Cosmos 4/24-4/25.

Jerry Tiffe Fri, 4 pm. 740 S. Decatur Blvd., 702-258-5200.

Boomers Live music Wed, 10 pm, $5-$10. Hip Hop Roots Fri, 10 pm, $5.

3200 Sirius Ave., 702-368-1863.

Boulder Dam Brewing The AllTogethers 4/3. Satisfi 4/4. American Voodoo 4/10. The Saturday Giant 4/11. Justin Mather 4/16. Rick Berthod Band 4/17. Out of the Desert 4/18. Holes and Hearts 4/25.

Scott Helmer 4/30. All shows free unless noted, Fri-Sat, 8 pm; Wed-Thu, 7 pm. 453 Nevada Way, Boulder City, 702-243-2739.

Boulder Station (Railhead) Bee Gees Gold Fri, 10 pm, $5. El Moreno Carrillo Sun, 11 pm, $5-$10. (Kixx Bar) Joey Vitale Fri, 8 pm. Reflection Sat, 8 pm. 702-432-7777.

Count’s Vamp’d Cash’d Out 4/4, 10 pm, free. John Zito Electric Jam Wed, 9 pm, free. 9:30 pm, free. 6750 W. Sahara, 702-220-8849.

The Dillinger Marty Feick Thu, 7 pm.

Stefnrock First & third Sat, 8:30 pm, free. 1224 Arizona St., 702-293-4001.

Dispensary Lounge Uli Geissendoerfer Trio Fri-Sat, 10 pm.

2451 E. Tropicana, 702-458-6343.

Eastside Cannery (Eastside Events Center) Jay & The Americans, The Vogues 4/11, 8 pm, $11+. (Marilyn’s Lounge) Claudine Castro Band Mon, 10 pm. Phoenix Wed, 9 pm.

Spazmatics Sun, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702-507-5700.

Italian American Club 2333 E. Sahara Ave., 702-457-3866, iac.com.

Milo’s Cellar Live Music Thur, 8 pm,

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free. 538 Nevada Hwy., 702-293-9540.

Ron DeCar’s Event Center Jimmy Wilkins’ New Life Orchestra 4/4.

Michael Ray Tyler Big Band 4/11.

Bruce Harper Big Band 4/18. Jim Fitzgerald and His Gold Coast Big Band 4/25. Jazz Conversations Big Band Series Sat, 1 pm, $15. Swingin’ Sundays Sun, 5 pm, $10. 1201 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-384-0771.

Sam’s Town NiteKings Sun, 7 pm, free.

Shows free unless noted. 5111 Boulder Hwy., 702-284-7777.

Star of the Desert Arena Banda Machos 4/11, 8 pm. Foreigner 4/25, 8 pm, $11-$66. Merle Haggard 5/2, 8 pm. The Commodores 5/23, 8 pm.

Buffalo Bill’s Resort & Casino, 31900 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Primm, 800-386-7867.

COMEDY Louie Anderson Wed-Sat, 7 pm, $60$102. Plaza, 702-386-2110.

Roseanne Barr 4/11, 9:30 pm; 6/6, 7:30 pm, $50-$118. Venetian, 866-6417469.

Big Al’s Comedy Club Wed-Sun, 8 pm, $20. Gold Coast, 702-251-3574.

Bonkerz Comedy Club Downtown Grand Fri-Sat, 8:30 pm, free (with two-drink purchase). 206 N. 3rd St., 702-719-5100.

Bonkerz Comedy Club JW Marriott Shows 7 pm, $15. 221 N. Rampart Blvd., 702-507-5900.

Bonkerz Comedy Club Primm Fri, 8 pm & 10:15 pm; Sat, 10:15 pm; $10.

Primm Valley Resort , 31900 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 800-386-7867.

Bonkerz Comedy Club Silver Sevens Fri-Sat, 10:30 pm; $10. Silver Sevens Hotel & Casino, 4100 Paradise, 702733-7000.

Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club All shows at 8 pm, $65-$87. MGM Grand, 891-7777.

Wayne Brady 4/17, 10 pm, $40+.

Mirage, 702-792-7777.

Jim Breuer 4/13-4/14, 7:30 pm, $35.

South Point, southpointcasino.com.

Hannibal Buress 4/4, 8 pm, $40-$54.

House of Blues, houseofblues.com.

Bill Burr 6/26-6/27, 10 pm, $70+.

Mirage, 702-792-7777.

Carrot Top Wed-Mon, 8 pm, $50-$60.

Luxor, 702-262-4900.

Jeff Civilico Sat-Mon, Wed-Thu, 4 pm, $39-$50. Quad, 888-777-7664.

Andrew Dice Clay 4/9, 4/11-4/12, 4/16, 4/18-4/19, 4/23, 4/25-4/26. All shows at 9 p.m., $59+. Vinyl, hardrockhotel. com.

Comedy After Dark Wed-Sun, 10 pm, $40-$60. LVH, 702-732-5755.

Whitney Cummings 5/22-5/23, 9:30 pm, $74-$118. Venetian, 866-641-7469.

Jeff Dunham Wed-Sun, 7 pm; Sat-Sun, 4 pm, $72. Planet Hollywood, 702531-4320.

Vinnie Favorito Nightly, 8 pm, $55$100. Flamingo, 702-733-3333.

Fortune Feimster, Cameron Esposito 4/25, 8 pm, $40-$96. Venetian, 866641-7469.

Craig Ferguson 5/23, 8 pm, $25+.

Cosmopolitan, 702-698-7000.

Billy Gardell 4/10, 9 pm, $44-$77.

Treasure Island, treasureisland.com.

Eddie Griffin Mon-Wed, 7 pm, $90$182. Rio, 702-777-7776.

Kathy Griffin 4/3, 10 pm, $60+. Mirage, 702-792-7777.

Kevin Hart 5/24, 8 pm, $49-$129.

Mandalay Bay Events Center, 702632-7777.

HydroComics Unleashed Wed, 9 pm, free. Lucie’s Lounge, 3955 Charleston Blvd., 702-776-6417.

The Improv James Stephens III, Joe Dosch Thru 4/5. Charles Fleischer, Chase Durousseau 4/7-4/12. John Melendez, Ronnie Schell, Jessica

Michelle Singleton 4/14-4/19. Max Alexander, Tracey MacDonald 4/214/26. Tue-Sun, 8:30 & 10 pm, $30-$45.

Harrah’s, 702-369-5000.

Gabriel Iglesias 4/3-4/4, 5/23-5/24, 10 pm, $60+. Mirage, 702-792-7777.

Eddie Izzard 6/12-6/13, 8 pm, $53+.

Pearl, 702-942-7777.

Jim Jefferies 10/3, 8 pm, $45. The Joint, axs.com.

The Joe Show Thu-Sat, 8 pm, $30.

Tuscany, 255 E. Flamingo Rd., 702629-0715.

Jokes With Friends Thu, 10 pm, free.

Nacho Daddy, 9925 S. Eastern Ave., 702-462-5000.

L.A. Comedy Club Tue-Sun, 9:30 pm, $39-$62. Ballys, 702-777-2782.

Lisa Lampanelli 4/4, 8 pm; 6/13, 9:30 pm, $50-$119. Venetian, 866-6417469.

The Laugh Factory Shows at 8:30 & 10:30 pm. $29-$45. Tropicana, 702739-2222.

Laughternoon Adam London Daily, 4 pm, $20-$25. The D, 702-388-2111.

Jay Leno 5/15, 6/13, 7/4, 9/18, 11/20-11/21, 10 pm; 9/19, 9 pm, $60-$80. Mirage, 702-792-7777.

M Resort Comedy Night Fri, 9 pm, free with drink purchase. M Resort, 702-797-1000.

The Mac King Comedy Magic Show Tue-Sat, 1 & 3 pm, $33. Harrah’s, 702369-5000.

Kathleen Madigan 6/12, 10 pm, $30+.

Mirage, 702-792-7777.

Dennis Miller 4/17-4/18, 8 pm, $55+.

Orleans Arena, 702-284-7777.

Party Improv Comedy Thu-Sun, 7 pm, $25, 2 drink minimum. Planet Hollywood, 702-531-4320.

Russell Peters 9/6, 8 pm, $49+. Pearl, 702-942-7777.

Puppetry of the Penis 4/14-4/19, 4/214/26, 4/28-5/3, 5/5-5/9, 8 pm, $45-$49.

Erotic Heritage Museum, 3275 S. Industrial Rd., eroticheritagemuseumlasvegas.com.

Ray Romano & David Spade 4/10-4/11, 10 pm, $80+. Mirage, 702-792-7777.

Red Skelton Tribute Sat-Tue, 2 pm; $35-$40. Westin Las Vegas, 160 E. Flamingo Rd., 702-245-2393.

Don Rickles 4/25-4/26, 8 pm, $80+.

Orleans Arena, 702-284-7777.

Riviera Comedy Jackson Perdue, Robert Duchaine Thru 4/5, 8:30 pm, $30. Mon-Sun, 8:30 pm, $30. 40 is Not the New 20 Mon-Sat, 10 pm, $40. Riviera, 855-468-6748.

Sapphire Comedy Hour Fri-Sat, 8 pm, $20. Sapphire Gentlemen’s Club, 3025 Industrial Rd., 702-796-6000.

Amy Schumer 4/24, 8 pm, $45.

Cosmopolitan, 702-698-7000.

S.E.T. Improv Comedy Mon, 8 pm, $10.

Onyx Theatre, 953 E. Sahara Ave., 702-732-7225.

Shaq’s All-Star Comedy Jam ft. Aida Rodriguez, Billy Sorrells, Kelly Walker. Aliante, 7300 Aliante Pkwy., 702-692-7777.

Side Splitting Sundays Sun, 10 pm, free. Boomers, 3200 Sirius Ave., 702368-1863.

Sin City Comedy & Burlesque Show 8:30 pm, $38-$49. Planet Hollywood, 702-777-7776.

PERFORMING ARTS 50 Shades! The Parody Tue, 7:30 pm & 9:30 pm, Wed-Sun, 7:30 pm, $69+.

Bally’s, 50shadesvegas.com, 702777-2782.

Annie 5/26-5/31, 7:30 pm; 5/30-5/31, 2 pm, $34+. Smith Center, 702-7492000.

Brave 4/2, 8 pm, $22+. Smith Center, 702-749-2000.

The Breasts of Tiresias 5/16, 5/225/23, 7 pm; 5/24, 2 pm, $10-$15.

Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Dr., 702-455-7030.

The Food Chain Thru 4/4, 7 pm, $20$25. Onyx, 953 E. Sahara Ave., Ste. #16, onyxtheatre.com.

Hal Prince’s Broadway: An Evening in Word and Song 5/14, 7:30 pm, $24+. Smith Center, 702-749-2000.

Ivy & Bean the Musical 4/15, 6 pm, $13+. Smith Center, 702-749-2000.

Jeff McBride’s Wonderground Variety show. Third Thu of the month; 8, 9 & 10 pm; $10. Olive Mediterranean Restaurant Lounge, 3850 E. Sunset Rd., 702-451-8805 .

Marvel Universe Live 4/23-4/26, times vary, $20+. Thomas & Mack, marveluniverselive.com.

Nevada Ballet Theatre: Giselle 5/9, 7:30 pm; 5/10, 2 pm, $29+. Smith Center, 702-749-2000.

Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella 4/28-5/3, 7:30 pm, 5/2-5/3, 2 pm, $39+.

Smith Center, 702-749-2000.

Steve Solomon’s Cannoli, Latkes and Guilt: The Therapy Continues 4/295/2, 7 pm; 5/2-5/3, 3 pm, $35+. Smith Center, 702-749-2000.

Voice of Rudy: The Journey to the Movie 4/25, 7 pm, $34+. Smith Center, 702-749-2000.

SPECIAL EVENTS AFAN AIDS Walk 4/19, 8:30 am, free, $25 donation encouraged. Town Square, afanlv.org.

An Executive Chef’s Culinary Classroom With Executive Chef Edmond Wong. 4/30, 5/26, 6/30, 7/23, 8/27, 9/29, 10/13, 11/10, 7 pm, $135.

Bellagio, 866-406-7117.

Animal Foundation’s Best in Show 4/26, 1 pm, $8-$25. Orleans Arena, animalfoundation.com.

Bubble-Licious 4/16, 7 pm, $125-$150.

Venetian, unlvino.com.

Clark County Fair & Rodeo 4/8-4/12, 4 pm. Clark County Fairgrounds, 1301 West Whipple Ave., Logandale, ccfair.com.

Dowtown Podcast Thu, 9 pm, free.

Scullery, 150 Las Vegas Blvd., 702910-2396.

Las Vegas Car Stars: Back to the Future 5/14-5/16, times vary, free.

Fremont Street, lasvegascarstars. com.

Monday’s Dark with Mark Shunock 4/20, 5/18, 6/15, 7/20, 8/17, 9/21, 10/19, 11/16, 9:30 pm, $20+. Vinyl, hardrockhotel.com.

Motley Brew’s Great Vegas Festival of Beer 4/11, 3 pm, $30-$75. Fremont East, Downtown Las Vegas, greatvegasbeer.com.

Pirate Fest 4/10-4/12, times vary, $8-$30. Lorenzi Park, 3343 W Washington Ave., piratefestlv.com.

Pinoy Pride Celebration ft. Rebel Souljahz, One Magical Night. 4/3-4/5.

Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, 200 S. 3rd St., dlvec.com.

Sake Fever 4/17, 7 pm, $100-$125. Red Rock, 11011 W Charleston Blvd., unlvino.com.

Switch: Trans* Clothing Swap Thu, 5 pm, free. Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada, 401 S. Maryland Pkwy, 702-733-9800.

UNLVino Grand Tasting 4/18, 7 pm, $125-$150. Paris, 3655 S Las Vegas Blvd., unlvino.com.

Vegas Beer & Music Festival 4/3, 7 pm, $45. Foxtail Pool Club, SLS, vegasbeerandmusicfestival.com.

Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend Car show, burlesque, fashion show, bowling & music by Dion, The Sonics, The Chop Tops and more. 4/2-4/5, times vary, $30-$140. Orleans, vivalasvegas.net.

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Wizard World Las Vegas Comic Con 4/24-4/26, times vary, $35-$75.

Las Vegas Convention Center, 3150 Paradise Rd., wizardworld.com.

SPORTS Arenacross Championships 5/1, 8 pm, $40. South Point Arena, southpointarena.com.

Arenacross 5/3, 8 am, $20. South Point Arena, southpointarena.com.

Bad Intentions Boxing 4/11, 7 pm, $35+. Westgate, westgatevegas.com.

Geico Endurocross 5/1, 8 pm, $38+.

Orleans, orleansarena.com.

Jay Cutler Desert Classic 4/4, times vary, $30-$78. The Pearl, ticketmaster. com.

Joe Weider’s Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend 9/17-9/19, 7 pm, $72+. Orleans, orleansarena. com.

Lion Fight 22 Kem Sitsongpeenong vs. Jo Nattawut 5/22, 5 pm, $45+.

Sunset Station, sclv.com.

FEI World Cup 4/15-4/19, times vary, $30-$1,500. Thomas & Mack, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, unlvtckets.com.

Takahiro Ao vs. Ray Beltran, Mikael Zewski vs. Konstantin Ponomarev 5/1, 5 pm, $50-$100. Cosmopolitan, 702-698-7000.

Wacky World of Sports 5/2, 8 am, $100 per team. Sunset Park, clarkcountynv.gov.

GALLERIES Amanda Harris Gallery of Contemporary Art Thu-Fri, 5-8 pm, and by appointment. 900 S. Las Vegas Blvd., 702-769-6036.

Arts Factory 107 E. Charleston Blvd, 702-383-3133. Galleries include: Joseph Watson Collection Wed-Fri, 1-6 pm; Sat, noon-3 pm; Sun, 11 am-2 pm. Suite 115, 858-733-2135. Sin City Gallery Wed-Sat, 1-7 pm; Sun, 11 am-2 pm. Suite 100, 702-608-2461. Suite 135, 702-366-7001, trifectagallery. com.

Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art Daily, 10 am-8 pm, $11-$16. 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-693-7871.

Blackbird Studios Fri-Sun, noon-7 pm.

1551 S. Commerce St., 702-782-0319.

Brett Wesley Gallery Wed-Sat, 1-7 pm.

1025 S. First St. #150, 702-433-4433.

Clark County Government Center Rotunda Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm. 500 Grand Central Parkway, 702-4557030.

Clay Arts Vegas Mon-Sat, 9 am-9 pm; Sun, 11:30 am-6:30 pm. 1511 S. Main St., 702-375-4147.

Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery MonFri, 9 am-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-2 pm. At UNLV, 702-895-3893.

Downtown Spaces 1800 Industrial Rd., dtspaces.com. Wasteland Gallery Thu, 6 pm-9pm; Fri & Sat, 6 pm-11pm, Sun-Wed by appointment.

Emergency Arts 520 Fremont St., 702-686-3164.

Gainsburg Studio & Gallery Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm. 1533 West Oakey Blvd, 702-249-3200.

Left of Center Gallery Tue-Fri, noon-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-3 pm. 2207 W. Gowan Rd., 702-647-7378.

Michelle C. Quinn Fine Art Advisory 620 S. 7th St., 702-366-9339.

P3Studio Lucky Debellevue: Collaboration/Exchange Thru 4/12.

Wed-Sun, 6-11 pm. Cosmopolitan.

West Las Vegas Arts Center Wed-Sat, 9 am-7 pm. 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-229-4800.

Winchester Cultural Center Art Gallery Tue-Fri, 10 am-8 pm; Sat, 9 am-6 pm. 3130 S. McLeod Dr., 702455-7340.

CALENDAR | FIRST FRIDAY ART EXHIBITS

CASINO CENTER City of the World Gallery Faerie Paper Art by Kathleen Mosko. 1229 Casino Center Blvd., 702-523-5306.

Cornerstone Art Gallery 201 E. Colorado St., 702-238-5894.

Photo Bang Bang 224 E. Imperial Ave., 702-527-2264.

MAIN STREET Clay Arts Vegas Ethereal/Whimsey

by Rebecca Lowery. 1511 S. Main St., 702-375-4147.

THE ARTS FACTORY 107 E. Charleston Blvd., 383-3133.

Galleries include: 17 Moons Art Studio Ste. 240., 702-245-7725.

303 North Studio Ste. 115.

A. Stein Visual Arts Ste. 220.

Blue Sky Yoga Ste. 145, 702-592-1396.

Eden Pastor Gallery Ste. 215.

Happy Panda Toys Ste. 120B 702-516-3432.

HellPop! Ste. 105B. Hillary Salon Ste. 250, 702-525-1053.

Hiptazmic Studio Ste. 105C., 702-516-9563.

Jana’s RedRoom Ste. 160, 702-454-3709.

Joseph Watson Collection Ste. 115. 858-733-2135.

Obgarts Creative Main lobby.

PeaceNArt Studio Ste. 230.

R Space Studio Ste. 125.

Sin City Gallery Incognito: The Artist That Everyone Knows and Doesn’t by Cass Fuller.

Ste. 100, 702-952-9656.

Studio West Photography Ste. 250, 702-383-3133.

NEARBY Blackbird Studios Way Out ft. Shelbi Schroeder, Lisa Rock, Camilla Quinn, Rebecca Pugh. 1551 S. Commerce St., 702-782-0319.

Gainsburg Studio 1533 W. Oakey Blvd., 702-249-3200.

Globe Salon 900 Las Vegas Blvd., 702-938-4247.

DOWNTOWN SPACES 1800 Industrial Rd. Galleries include: Skin City Body Painting 702-431-7546.

SolSis Gallery The Prelude ft. Justin Lepper, Alexander P. Huerta, Alexander Sky, Eddie Canumay, Izaac Baron Zevalking V. Ste. 130 H, 702-557-2225.

Spectral Gallery Ste. 104 D. Urizen Gallery Ste. 206 B. Ortego’s Juniper Gallery Ste. 206 A. Wasteland Gallery Panem Et Circenses Section I: Love Is a Product of Habit

by Brent Holmes. 702-475-9161.

CONTAINER PARK 707 Fremont St., 702-637-4244.

Galleries include: Lead in the Window

RAW POWER In 2009 photographer Jay Scott began photographing the Glenwood Power Plant in Yonkers, New York, an industrial brick behemoth built on the Hudson River in the early 1900s that was shut down in the 1960s and left abandoned.

Designed by the same architects who worked on Grand Central Station, its vast interior included a Cathedral-like turbine room made of steel and brick and lined with industrial windows, a grandeur that decades URBAN DECAY Through April 29; of decay has not diminished. ¶ Tuesday-Sunday, Scott, now a Las Vegas resident, 1-4 p.m. The Funk made six visits to Glenwood over House, 702-678two years, staying, he says, from morning until sunset. The ventures 6278. Receptions April 2, 5-8 p.m. & resulted in images of the symApril 3, 5-9 p.m. metrical precision and textured deterioration of the turbine room illuminated with golden hues from natural light, along with the interplay between the sprawling plant’s stairwells, pipes and catwalks and its corrosion and graffiti. ¶ “The way the light came through the giant windows let me see how the years have shaped and scarred this place,” Scott says. “It’s as if, over a hundred years later, there is more vibrancy now than when it was an industrial giant.” A collection of these images will be displayed through April at the Funk House.

Printed on metal, they are a rich and thoughtful nod to beautiful decay. –Kristen Peterson

Ste. 2250, 702-907-2787.

Lil’ Art Bodega Ste. 2230, 702-712-1708.

EMERGENCY ARTS 520 Fremont St., 686-3164.

Galleries include: 6 Gallery Ste. 156 Burlesque Hall of Fame Ste. 120.

Envisage Imagination Factory Ste. 209 Hidden Hippies Ste. 180.

Our Las Vegas Ste. 222 Rhizome Gallery Ste. 162, 702-907-7526.

Satellite Contemporary 973-964-3050.

Stone Fox Salon Ste. 207, 702-779-4542.

Sommersault Letterpress Ste. 188.

Tag, You’re It Ste. 166.

ART SQUARE 1017-1025 First St., 702-481-7972.

Galleries include: Art Square Theatre Ste. 110.

Brett Wesley Gallery Ste. 150, 702-433-4433.

Freddie Ramon Ste. 170.

Las Vegas Camera Club Ste. 185 Modern Studios Ltd. Ste. 195.

Nevada Humanities Ste. 190.

Ryan Williams Fine Art Gallery Ste. 135, 321-258-9032.

Josephine Skaught Salon Ste. 165, 702-431-8071.

Unhinged Ste. 155.

AFTERPARTIES

SHOPPING

Artifice 1025 S. First St. Atomic Liquors 917 Fremont St., 702-982-3000.

Beauty Bar 517 Fremont St., 702-598-1965.

Dino’s Lounge 1516 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-382-3894.

Don’t Tell Mama 517 Fremont St., 702-207-0788.

Downtown Cocktail Room 111 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-880-3696.

Frankie’s Tiki Room 1712 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-385-3110.

The Griffin 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577.

Hard Hat Lounge 1675 Industrial Rd., 702-384-8987.

Hogs & Heifers 201 N. Third St., 702-676-1457.

Hop Nuts Brewing 1120 S. Main St., Ste. 150, 702-816-5371.

Insert Coin(s) 512 Fremont St., 702-477-2525.

Inspire 512 Fremont St., 702-477-2525.

Mob Bar 201 N. Third St., 702-259-9700.

Oak & Ivy Container Park, oakandivy.com.

Vanguard Lounge 516 Fremont St., 702-868-7800.

Velveteen Rabbit 1218 S. Main St., 702-685-9645.

Amberjoy’s Vintage Closet 1225 Main St., 702-825-2020.

American Vagabond Container Park, 702-816-8200.

Art Box Container Park, Ste. 230, 702-789-7115.

Beloved Relics 1800 Industrial Rd., Ste. 200 C. Buffalo Exchange 1209 S. Main St., 702-791-3960.

Coterie 515 E. Fremont St., 702-3502939.

Gaia 4 E. Charleston Blvd., 702-9970222.

Jessica Galindo Couture & Fine Art Container Park, Ste. 2080, 702-538-0632.

Not Just Antiques 1422 Western Ave., 702-384-4922.

One Man’s Trash 2960 Westwood Dr., Ste. 22, 702-778-7988.

Patina Decor 1300 S. Main St., 702-776-6222.

Retro Vegas 1131 S. Main St., 702-384-2700.

Widow Den Boutique The Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd, Ste 120A.

RESTAURANTS & CAFÉS Bar+Bistro Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd., Ste. 155, 702-2026060.

The Beat Coffeehouse Emergency Arts, 520 Fremont St., 702-686-3164.

Big Ern’s BBQ Container Park, 702-834-7845.

Bin 702 Container Park, 702-826-2702.

Bocho Sushi 124 S. 6th St., 702-750-0707.

Carson Kitchen 124 S. 6th St., 702-473-9523.

Casa Don Juan 1204 S. Main St., 702-384-8070.

Cheffini’s Hot Dogs Container Park, Ste. 1050, 702-527-7599.

La Comida 100 Sixth St., 702-463-9900.

Le Thai 523 Fremont St., 702-778-0888.

Lola’s: A Louisiana Kitchen 241 W. Charleston Blvd., Ste. 101, 2702-27-5652.

Mingo Kitchen and Lounge Art Square, 1017 First St., Ste. 180., 702-685-0328.

The Perch Container Park, 702-854-1418.

Pinches Tacos Container Park, Ste. 5, 702-910-3100.

Pizza Rock 201 N. Third St., 702-385-0838.

Radio City Pizza 508 E. Fremont St., 702-982-5055.

Triple George Grill 201 N. 3rd St., 702-384-2761.

FIRST FRIDAY INFO All activities run from 5-11 p.m. There is no charge for this month’s First Friday. A KidZone, street artists, live painters, food trucks and bands will be set up throughout the festival footprint. Attendees can access the themed ArtWalk on Casino Center Boulevard from Colorado Avenue to Charleston. First Friday Poetry is held at Colorado Avenue between Third St. and Casino Center. Paid parking is available at the Ambassador (Llama) Lot on Fremont Street and at Symphony Park, with shuttle service from Promenade Place and Clark. Shuttle service also stops at El Cortez, Container Park, and the Arts District Hub (Colorado and Main). For more information visit firstfridaylasvegas.com.

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HOROSCOPE

free will astrology

By Rob Brezsny

ARIES

LEO

SAGITTARIUS

March 21-April 19

July 23-Aug. 22

Nov. 22-Dec. 21

“Choconiverous” is an English slang word that’s defined as having the tendency, when eating a chocolate Easter Bunny, to bite the head off first. I recommend that you adopt this direct approach in everything you do in the coming weeks. Don’t get bogged down with preliminaries. Don’t get sidetracked by minor details, trivial distractions or peripheral concerns.

It’s your duty to swoop straight into the center of the action. Be clear about what you want and unapologetic about getting it.

Some people believe unquestioningly in the truth and power of astrology.

Others believe all astrology is nonsense, that everyone who uses it is deluded or stupid.

I say both of these groups are wrong. Both have a simplistic, uninformed perspective. Some astrology is nonsense and some is a potent psychological tool.

Some is based on superstition and some is rooted in a robust mythopoetic understanding of archetypes. I encourage you to employ a similar appreciation for paradox as you evaluate a certain influence that is making a big splash in your life. In one sense, this influence is like snake oil, and you should be skeptical. But in another sense it’s good medicine that can truly heal.

The English writer William Wordsworth wrote hundreds of poems, including the famous “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” which is also known as “Daffodils.” The poem sprung from him after a walk with his sister around Lake Ullswater in the English Lake District. There they were delighted to find a long, thick belt of daffodils growing close to the water. In his poem, Wordsworth praises the “ten thousand” flowers that were “Continuous as the stars that shine/And twinkle on the milky way.”

If you are ever going to have your own version of a daffodil explosion that inspires a burst of creativity, Sagittarius, it will happen in the coming weeks.

TAURUS

VIRGO

CAPRICORN

April 20-May 20

Aug. 23-Sept. 22

Dec. 22-Jan. 19

The American snack cake known as a Twinkie contains 68 percent air.

Among its 37 other mostly worthless ingredients are sugar, water, cornstarch, the emulsifier polysorbate 60, the filler sodium stearoyl lactylate and food coloring. You can’t get a lot of nutritious value by eating it. Now let’s consider the fruit known as the watermelon. It’s 91 percent water and six percent sugar. And yet it also contains a good amount of Vitamin C, lycopene, and antioxidants, all of which are healthy for you. So if you are going to eat a whole lot of nothing, watermelon is a far better nothing than a Twinkie. Let that serve as an apt metaphor for you in the coming week.

According to the Biblical stories, Peter was Christ’s closest disciple, but acted like a traitor when trouble came. After Christ was arrested, in the hours before the trial, Peter denied knowing his cherished teacher three different times. His fear trumped his love, leading him to violate his sacred commitment.

Is there anything remotely comparable to that scenario developing in your own sphere, Virgo? If you recognize any tendencies in yourself to shrink from your devotion or violate your highest principles, I urge you to root them out. Be brave. Stay strong and true in your duty to a person or place or cause that you love.

Your subconscious desires and your conscious desires seem to be at odds.

What you say you want is not in precise alignment with what your deep self wants.

That’s why I’m worried that “Don’t! Stop!” might be close to morphing into “Don’t stop!”—or vice versa.

It’s all pretty confusing. Who’s in charge here?

Your false self or your true self? Your wounded, conditioned, habit-bound personality or your wise, eternal, ever-growing soul? I’d say it’s a good time to retreat into your sanctuary and get back in touch with your primal purpose.

GEMINI

LIBRA

AQUARIUS

May 21-June 20

Sept. 23-Oct. 22

Jan. 20-Feb. 18

You may be as close as you have ever gotten to finding the long-lost Holy Grail—or Captain Kidd’s pirate treasure, for that matter, or Marie Antoinette’s jewels, or Tinker Bell’s magical fairy dust, or the smoking-gun evidence that Shakespeare’s plays were written by Francis Bacon. At the very least, I suspect you are ever-so-near to your personal equivalent of those precious goods. Is there anything you can do to increase your chances of actually getting it? Here’s one tip: Visualize in detail how acquiring the prize would inspire you to become even more generous and magnanimous than you already are.

Marketing experts say consumers need persistent prodding before they will open their minds to possibilities that are outside their entrenched habits. The average person has to be exposed to a new product at least eight times before it fully registers on his or her awareness. Remember this rule of thumb as you seek attention and support for your brainstorms.

Make use of the art of repetition. Not just any old boring, tedious kind of repetition, though. You’ve got to be as sincere and fresh about presenting your goodies the eighth time as you were the first.

Sometimes you’re cool, but other times you’re hot. You veer from acting aloof and distracted to being friendly and attentive. You careen from bouts of laziness to bursts of disciplined efficiency. It seems that you’re always either building bridges or burning them, and on occasion you are building and burning them at the same time. In short, Aquarius, you are a master of vacillation and a slippery lover of the in-between. When you’re not completely off-target and out of touch, you’ve got a knack for wild-guessing the future and seeing through the false appearances that everyone else regards as the gospel truth. I, for one, am thoroughly entertained!

CANCER

SCORPIO

PISCES

June 21-July 22

Oct. 23-Nov. 21

Feb. 19-March 20

People are paying attention to you in new ways. That’s what you wanted, right? You’ve been emanating subliminal signals that convey messages like “Gaze into my eternal eyes” and “Bask in the cozy glow of my crafty empathy.” So now what? Here’s one possibility: Go to the next level. Show the evenmore-interesting beauty that you’re hiding below the surface. You may not think you’re ready to offer the gifts you have been “saving for later.” But you always think that. I dare you to reveal more of your deep secret power.

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In Cole Porter’s song “I Get a Kick Out of You,” he testifies that he gets no kick from Champagne. In fact, “Mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all,” he sings. The same is true about cocaine. “I’m sure that if I took even one sniff that would bore me terrifically, too,” Porter declares. With this as your nudge, Scorpio, and in accordance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to identify the titillations that no longer provide you with the pleasurable jolt they once did. Acknowledge the joys that have grown stale and the adventures whose rewards have waned. It’s time for you to go in search of a new array of provocative fun and games.

How can you ripen the initiatives you have set in motion in recent weeks? Of the good new trends you have launched, which can you now install as permanent enhancements in your daily rhythm? Is there anything you might do to cash in on the quantum leaps that have occurred, maybe even figure out a way to make money from them? It’s time for you to shift from being lyrically dreamy to fiercely practical. You’re ready to convert lucky breaks into enduring opportunities.

Follow your own path to wellness.

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The BackStory

COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE AIRPOWER HISTORY TOUR | HENDERSON EXECUTIVE AIRPORT | MARCH 25, 2015 | 12:58 P.M. This is the world’s last flying Boeing B-29 Superfortress, “Fifi,” brought to Henderson as part of the Commemorative Air Force’s AirPower History Tour.

This model of aircraft is known as the launching pad for the first supersonic experimental jet, and more notoriously as the atomic bomber of WWII. Fifi, however, is more like a movie star, having played both of those famous planes and others in a variety of Hollywood films. The smell of gunmetal and history ooze out of its every rivet and 141-foot wingspan. More than 70 years after its birth, it’s still an impressive and imposing machine to behold. –Adam Shane