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8 as we see it Downtown gets an artsy icon and a taste of an old (new) favorite. How social media commentary mangles truth.
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45 the strip Celine’s back! 46 fine art Mirrors, mirrors on the library wall ...
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14 Feature | stage magic An homage to live music in Vegas, from the fests to the epic shows to the legendary recordings.
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A NEW AFTER-SCHOOL JOB School-age kids already flip your burgers, sign you up for newspaper subscriptions and lifeguard at local pools. But what about leading a historical tour at a museum? That’s exactly what some young Las Vegans will do beginning next week at the Neon Museum, as the organization furthers its ties with the community through its Junior Interpreter program. Find more info at lasvegasweekly.com.
DOCUMENTARY DISASTER? The documentary film Meru tells the tale of mountain climbers who take on the razorthin Shark’s Fin at Meru Peak in the Himalayas. Is the story one of triumph or tragedy? Find our film review, only online.
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UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez came up short in his first college game, but establishing winning habits takes time.
[Sanchez] is a good addition, but he will probably need at least a season or two before seeing any major results. I hope he can hang on that long. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. –Kai Kane
DANCE FEVER We thought Super Cr3w was robbed in the recent season of America’s Best Dance Crew.
Robbed is a strong word. For me they deserved their third place, and Kinjaz first place. But hey, let’s move on. –Aswin Aswin, you’re an idiot. Kinjaz and Super Cr3w definitely deserve to be the top two. Quest Crew were boring, doing the same tired routines and tricks. They messed up constantly, weren’t clean, and frankly, not innovative. –Joeysph
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PRESERVING VEGAS A petition to save the Riviera shines a light on the downside of a constantly evolving Vegas Strip.
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Going to a gun show as a first step to getting familiar with a gun is like getting into the driver’s seat of a car for the first time and taking off. I get this story is meant to be a light look at a serious topic, but it really does a disservice to the public in not educating them on proper gun safety and the importance of training. This article will only contribute to the irresponsible use of guns on our streets. –Harleyman
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Build big-time football stadium, hire proven D-1 head coach and pay him. That is the winning formula. The losing formula is: Throw away money on horrible Sam Boyd Stadium, worthless uniforms and indoor practice nonsense. UNLV always does everything in the wrong order. –RebelRobert
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I cut my salary in half when I shifted from my full-time corporate PR job to teach full-time at UNLV. In order to do what I love, I negotiated a part-time arrangement with the corporate job. Now I work 60-80 hours a week. It’s killer at times and I wish UNLV valued my work enough to pay a living wage, but I’m there for the next generation of my industry. –Nancy Brown Syzdek I also have a master’s degree and worked for years as a server. Taking a slightly different view on this issue of education, I would simply ask: Why is it so important to go to college? So many people would be better off financially, socially and productively getting a different form of education. –Gonzo
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Downtown does the Jig Las Vegas gears up for a Burning Man icon Its festival cred is likely cooler than yours: The Big Rig Jig has schlepped to Burning Man and Coachella and Banksy’s purposefully bleak art installation-cum-temporary “bemusement” park, Dismaland. Next, the 50-foot-tall, 25-ton sculpture will settle on Fremont Street, in the Downtown Project-owned Fergusons Motel lot. Like the Container Park’s fiery praying mantis, the Big Rig Jig is another coup for Downtown Project founder (and Burning Man devotee) Tony Hsieh and his plan to imbue the city’s center with the Northern Nevada festival’s artwork and ideas. “The Big Rig Jig will be making its appearance in Downtown Vegas later this year,” Hsieh says. “In the meantime, curious festival-goers may stumble upon a Banksy installation during the upcoming Life Is Beautiful Festival.” The Jig, created by LA artist Mike Ross, was built from two tanker trucks for Burning Man 2007. With one truck bent and balanced atop another, the massive sculpture appears graceful, harkening acrobats or figure skaters with its fluid form. And you can explore inside of it. “The work serves both as a sculpture and an architectural space,” Ross’ website says. “Visitors may enter the lower truck, climb through the tankers and emerge through a portal at the top. The rear axles of the upper tanker serve as a viewing platform, 42 feet in the air.” No word on whether the public will be allowed to take that tour, but as one Las Vegan commented on Downtown Project’s Facebook page: “I’m going. That’s all [there is] to it.” –Kristy Totten
Ask Insomniac Electric Daisy Carnival producer Insomniac participated in another “Ask Me Anything” chat on Reddit September 2, inviting fans to join the online discussion about sober raving and overall safety. Director of Health and Safety Maren Steiner and Consciousness Group Volunteer Manager Patt Ochoa represented, answering questions on topics ranging from the absence of groups like DanceSafe (insurance policies prevent its presence—go figure) to the negative stigma surrounding rave culture (they encourage fans to “speak up” and get involved in their local governments to change mind-sets). And while it was an “Ask Me Anything” chat, a few questions went unanswered. Steiner and Ochoa remained silent on inquiries about the presence of police dogs at the festival gates and the price of bottled water (one participant specifically called out Coachella’s mandate that vendors sell the stuff for only $2, while one bottle will set you back around $7 at EDC), and didn’t give a specific answer about whether they would consider taking their festivals 21+ (Hard recently announced its Day of the Dead fest would require participants to be of legal drinking age). Instead, Steiner urged fans to—you guessed it—get involved in their local governments. Whatever wasn’t addressed, and regardless of personal opinions of rave culture, it’s nice to see Insomniac opening up such an important dialogue. –Mark Adams
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> WHEELS UP Will we get to climb inside the Big Rig Jig?
South migration The Sayers Club takes another cue from the former Bunkhouse with a new local music night
Good vibes (and omens) A First Friday peek at the new Crown & Anchor The Arts Factory’s patio was back in full swing during First Friday. Sort of. It was a preview/test run of Crown & Anchor, set to open its third local pub in the complex sometime in October. Though the restaurant and inte-
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rior bar remained closed, the outdoor attachment buzzed as tapped beers flowed from a center bar and a handful of C&A appetizers passed hands. Contented patrons gathered on lawn furniture, absent among them the fire dancers who once claimed the space during the monthly street fair. But the showing was perhaps a good omen for the future Arts District anchor. With food options still lacking near Charleston Boulevard and Main Street, the dog-friendly Las Vegas staple will
likely be welcomed by its artsy neighbors, offering a fun place to shout at soccer games on TV and explore traditional fare, like Cornish pasties, Scotch eggs and fish and chips touted as “the best in town.” And because Vegas has a bottomless thirst for booze, the manybeered bar (30 draughts at any given time) won’t be shunned, either. Still, one detail matters above all to cult Crown & Anchor fans: Will this location serve Stilton and cabbage soup? –Kristy Totten
Of all the potential venues that might’ve picked up where the nowshuttered Bunkhouse left off, few would have guessed little ol’ Sayers Club at SLS. Originally intended to be a trendy live music go-to like its sister club in LA, it soon settled on open-format DJs and a house band playing covers. “We were banging our heads against the wall because the Bunkhouse [programming] was everything I wanted to bring to Sayers,” SLS Regional Director of Marketing, Nightlife and Entertainment Kozmoe Alonzo says. And then he did just that with the Bunkhouse Series after the Downtown venue closed. But what about all those local bands who lost a reliable stage on which to perform? Well, the Sayers Club is now hosting them along with KXTE 107.5-FM and its Vegas-centric “X-Effect” show. The station books acts like The Dirty Panties, Avalon Landing and Shallow Like Me for both the Sunday radio program and the new Wednesday show at the venue, which offers free admission for locals and drink specials—think beer and whiskey, not the usual open bar with sponsored vodka—to sweeten the deal. Alonzo essentially retooled the live concept he implemented while working at Revolution Lounge seven years ago, while the strategized partnerships with outside players—as with the Bunkhouse Series—help maximize both venue profitability and fan affordability, appealing to both the tough-to-lure locals and his bosses. “It’s a hard line to walk, but now we know where we fit into the marketplace,” Alonzo says. “We’re not a south Strip property, we’re close to Downtown.” Thanks to opportunity, strategic programming and location, the Sayers Club may have finally found its niche— as exactly what it was always meant to be. –Mike Prevatt September 10–16, 2015 LasVegasWeekly.com 9
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How social media turns historic moments into comical junk (and can also bring surprising sanity) By Smith Galtney Kim Davis has invaded my dreams. Anytime I closed my eyes during the long weekend, there she was, lurking in the near distance. She wasn’t a monster. She didn’t scratch at my window or rattle the foundation of my home and marriage. She was just … there. And all she did was stare at me, with eyes that never blinked and her mouth locked in an eternal smirk. I tried to make her laugh, perhaps win her over with my charm, but Davis was a statue. Not unlike McKayla Maroney, the Olympic gymnast turned Internet sensation, she was cold and stony and forever unimpressed. So it goes when a headline becomes a meme-fueled obsession. The tale of Kim Davis is a simple one: A county clerk in Kentucky with strong faith and a complicated past goes to jail for not issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. But thanks to social media, naturally, the whole thing bloated into an unavoidable junk opera, with the marriage-equality camp shaming the fundamentalists, and the fundamentalists shaming the Supreme Court, and extreme liberals shaming everyone for not giving a trigger warning before using the word “shame.” Some real-life, civil-rights history went down last week. You just had to fish it out of a steady stream of pious JPEGs and fat jokes. It all began in early July, when David Ermold and David Moore, who’ve been together for 17 years, posted a video of Davis denying their request for a license. Not only was it 15 minutes long, but also I’d grown skeptical of YouTube clips with a mission. (Remember the one of the guy getting “gay-bashed,” only the “homophobic attacker” turned out to be gay, too, and the incident was actually a catfight?) I watched as much as I could, and seethed, but my anger was quickly displaced once Trump’s campaign picked up steam and Cecil the Lion got killed. (Not to imply the two are related. Or are they?) Then on August 26, a meme appeared in my Facebook feed featuring a still from the video and this text: “KIM DAVIS WONT LET HIM GET MARRIED. KIM DAVIS HAS BEEN MARRIED FOUR TIMES.” With that, the
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“hypocrite” ammo was locked and loaded, and soon the shite was flying in all directions. If anyone commented in favor of “religious freedom,” the basic response was, “Kim Davis is a two-faced whore who had two children out of wedlock.” One friend even compared her zealotry to Osama Bin Laden. (Meriting an immediate “unfollow.”) Amid cries of how gay marriage spells “the end of days” and hopes that Davis will “rot in hell,” I received a push notification from The New York Times that started: “Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty …” I thought, That’s a little harsh, no? Then I saw it was about Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, not Kim Davis. I went to bed feeling like a horrible person. I did feel some joy when a cousin from Lexington posted, “If I were a Rowan County clerk refusing to issue marriage licenses, I’d at least get a decent haircut knowing the cameras are rolling.” The outpouring of “she should do her job” sentiment it stirred was a gentle, obvious reminder that most people in Kentucky are not like Kim Davis. But then came the comments about her weight (“obviously she doesn’t have a problem with gluttony”) and style (“You wanna talk abomination? A long-sleeved shirt under a sundress”). Once again, Facebook felt like that first, classy glass of wine that somehow turned into a three-bottle bender. Thankfully, there is one unspoiled diamond in the social-media rough, and it is Sitnexto Kim Davis (@nexttokimdavis). The fictional Twitter account imagines the work life of the woman seated near Davis in all those press photos, and it is a fine piece of Internet theater. Tweets range from the silly (“Hey, @andersoncooper—we’re out of f*cking creamer. Your guys got some in the truck?”) to the sublime (“#KimDavis—Did God order you not to refill the Xerox tray, too?”). And the first tweet once the news broke that Davis was off to jail? “Come on down to the Rowan County Clerk’s Office and I’ll marry a f*cking chair to a tiger.” Whenever I hear Mike Huckabee preach about “the criminalization of Christianity,” I will take a deep breath and revisit this Twitter gem, instead of posting a cheap joke about his dad jeans.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority is promoting fall watering restrictions with another set of humorous commercials, only instead of the groin-kick to a water waster by an elderly lady, the agency went for the seductiveness of conservation, insisting: “There’s nothing sexier.” But rather than six-pack abs and perfect hair, SNWA goes for a middleaged man with a comb-over, clad in shorts, socks and sandals and a robe opened to expose his hairy beer belly. In spite of these “flaws” he’s completely lusted after by stroller-pushing Summerlin moms hot for his watersaving prowess (much like the sister commercial’s too-tan granny ogled by garbage men for hers). While it likely won’t offend sensitive viewers in the way that groin kick/“Don’t make us ask you again” did, SNWA might have been more convincing had it gone with a Carl’s Jr. approach (ridiculously sexy woman) to reach the apathetic type through the kind of ridiculously ignoble manipulation that effective advertising is known for. If people truly thought saving water was cool and sexy, we’d be lawn-minimal and have covers on our backyard pools, sensitive to the drought and the idea that we shouldn’t be wasteful. But maybe it’s the mantra rippling from the Strip: responsibility is something that happens elsewhere, never in Vegas. Americans love abundance. Frugality is too depressing in a moreis-more mind-set. That we’ve reduced water use in the midst of wild growth—a decrease of 32 billion gallons during an addition of more than 500,000 residents— shows that something’s working, but we still have that community pride problem. Maybe we need sexy to sell that, too. Imagine the billboards. –Kristen Peterson
Weekly Q&A The song that resonates with me the most on The Epic might be “Malcolm’s Theme.” What about Malcolm X inspired you to craft an entire song about him?
I’m from South Central LA. My parents were great, college-educated, supportive, but there was pressure for an African-American boy to go down a certain path. There’s an image impressed upon us, and we find ourselves going down the wrong road. What brought me out of that was a cousin who gave me an Art Blakey/ Lee Morgan mixtape. That got me into music. At the same time ... these guys came to school and taught kids about our history and first thing they did was give me The Autobiography of Malcolm X. That was a really powerful revelation for me. With “Malcolm’s Theme,” it’s like, if I could share that revelation with someone. And it’s also so pertinent right now to [the racial unrest] going on in the world.
> Epic Sounds Washington’s 2015 album has opened new ears to jazz.
The sax man cometh Whether playing with Kendrick Lamar or his aunt’s dance company, jazz phenom Kamasi Washington is having a huge 2015 the dancers, and they are improvising with the band—we’re It’s not every day that a jazz artist is the force improvising off each other. It’s a different experience behind one of the year’s most talked-about improvising with someone moving to what you’re doing albums. And it’s even more unlikely that the same than [ just] playing. It adds an extra dimension to the crejazz artist would include our city in his tour itinerary. But ative process. even the most attention-deficient music fan would have a hard time ignoring the ambition and compositional excellence of Kamasi Washington’s lauded When you attended UCLA, were you also gigging The Epic, released earlier this year by experimen- Lula around LA? I was touring with Snoop [Dogg] then! tal electronic/jazz producer/DJ Flying Lotus’ Washington I was missing two to three weeks out of every label, Brainfeeder. As if crafting that three-hour Dance quarter; once I missed five weeks. This was before opus wasn’t enough, the tenor saxophonist also Theatre everyone had laptops. I remember having a paper assisted on rapper Kendrick Lamar’s acclaimed with Kamasi due—I was in a hotel that didn’t have one of those To Pimp a Butterfly. Washington business centers. [It] had a TV and a Nintendo Washington’s on-the-fly collaboration with the & Marcus 64 controller. To send the email I had to use the Lula Washington Dance Theatre this week will L. Miller controller and the letters on the screen—click click happen at our own Smith Center and nowhere September A, click click T—which is how I had to write the else—a cultural coup for Las Vegas. Washington 16, 7:30 p.m., whole three-page paper. I told the professor how I spoke about what we can expect at that perfor- $19-$85. wrote it, and she gave an automatic A! mance, and how he musically came of age, during Smith Center’s a recent phone call. During that time, you were mentored by trumpeter Reynolds Hall, 702-749-2000. Is this new work you’ll be doing with your aunt’s dance company? I’ve played with her all my life, but her
company has never danced to my music before. We’ll do a couple of songs as a band. People always look at jazz or instrumental music as being [inaccessible] but I think it’ll be cool. I love interacting, and we’ll be improvising with
Gerald Wilson, whose big-band orchestra you eventually joined. Did that influence the expansiveness of The Epic? Absolutely. It influenced me indi-
rectly and directly. So often in big bands the band is completely [committed] to the arrangement, but his felt more like a combo. The solos and what was gonna happen was up in the air.
You were signed by Flying Lotus’ label, Brainfeeder, which also is home to Thundercat. Are the deep roots of the Brainfeeder artists the reason why you guys collaborate with each other so much and so easily? The Brainfeeder scene is a
part of a larger scene going on in LA for years, all those guys from Gaslamp Killer to Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, definitely Thundercat—I grew up with him; he was an infant when I met him! (laughs)—so the roots go deeper than even before Brainfeeder. Funny part is, we had Thundercat and his brother Ronald Bruner Jr. and Cameron Graves in Young Jazz Giants, the first band we had. The first gig we had was the [1999] John Coltrane Music Competition, and we won it. Thundercat was 12, I was 14 or 15, so was Cameron. So Ravi Coltrane gave the award to us, and he had Steve Ellison [Flying Lotus] with him! How much did hip-hop play a part in your childhood? Before my cousin gave me
that [Blakey/Morgan] tape, I was more into hip-hop than jazz. It’s always been a part of the culture I’m from. Musically, I didn’t start diving deeply into hip-hop until I got the Snoop gig. [Snoop’s band] had a super-detailed way on how you should play something. It wasn’t particularly difficult music—they were just particular. It was a very complicated way of playing music. When I started playing with Snoop and that detailed way of playing music, a whole new world opened up to me. –Mike Prevatt For more of our interview with Washington, visit lasvegasweekly.com.
“When I started playing with Snoop Dogg ... a whole new world opened up to me.”
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The riddle of Floyd With his “last fight” set for Saturday, Mayweather’s legacy seems more complicated than ever By Case Keefer
One of Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s first mentions of Andre Berto as his potential final opponent brought chuckles. The small group of assembled media outside the MGM Grand Garden Arena following a Mayweather Promotions card in March figured he was joking. Berto was a middling fighter who’d lost three of his last six bouts. “When Pacquiao chose the last guy before me,” Mayweather raised his voice, “did you guys say anything?” Even if the intended point about rival Manny Pacquiao not bearing the same scrutiny when he fought Chris Algieri in November 2014 were justified—it’s not, as Pacquiao was widely criticized for the squash match—it wouldn’t work based on Mayweather’s long-stated standards. He spent most of the past decade railing against the idea that he had any equal in boxing’s current generation, declaring himself “TBE,” the best ever, and mocking Pacquiao in particular. After easily disposing of Pacquiao via unanimous decision four months ago in a fight that was every bit as decisive as it was monotonous, Mayweather (48-0) stood unaccompanied on boxing’s summit. His defense-first style has never drawn rave reviews, as fans tend to prefer more action, but he’s a master at his craft. Even those who argue he doesn’t belong among the sport’s all-time greats must concede he belongs in any discussion on fighters most adept at not getting hit. Mayweather blends seamless footwork with whiplash speed to evade opponents and counter their often-helpless advances. The 38-year-old could have fulfilled the final leg of his six-fight Showtime contract by challenging anyone from the pack of fighters climbing just below him. Instead, Mayweather gave the journeyman Berto (30-3), whose best career wins are against the likes of Josesito Lopez and Luis Collazo, the assignment for what he says will be his final fight Saturday night at MGM. It’s a curious decision for a fighter who always claimed doggedness in meeting the best possible competition, but not at all out of character. Mayweather has run rife with contradictions throughout his career, where the only thing that seems to match his brilliance inside the ring is his foolishness outside of it.
***** Aside from perhaps Pacquiao, the one person who will be most linked to Mayweather’s legacy is his father and trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. Mayweather Jr.’s introduction to a large part of the country came during the 1996 Olympics,
where the young boxer tried to petition thenPresident Bill Clinton to pardon his father from a five-year jail sentence on charges of drug trafficking. Mayweather Jr. ultimately took the bronze medal in Atlanta without his father’s guidance, but got his reunion a couple years later before winning his first world title. It didn’t last. A dispute in 2001 ended with Mayweather Jr. reportedly evicting Mayweather Sr. from the house where he was living and repossessing his vehicle. The two waged uncomfortably public wars for more than a decade, including in 2011 when HBO cameras caught Mayweather Jr. having to be restrained while lambasting Mayweather Sr. as a poor trainer. It wasn’t until 2013, after Mayweather Jr.’s own jail sentence when he pled guilty to battery-domestic violence charges, that they fully reconciled. Mayweather Jr. now takes back years of words about his father. “The world can say anything as long as he knows that I love him and I went out there and when I fought, I didn’t do it just for myself. I did it for the both of us,” he said earlier this year.
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Mayweather went from star to superstar eight years ago when he fought Oscar De La Hoya in what was the best-selling pay-per-view of all time (until the Pacquiao bout). The transformation occurred largely due to a Mayweather stroke of genius: becoming the ultimate villain. In addition to flaunting his wealth like never before, he antagonized De La Hoya, then boxing’s biggest star. Mayweather stole some of his opponent’s training gear, cursed him out during stare-downs and even brought a chicken he named Oscar De La Hoya to a press conference. “There can’t be two good guys,” Mayweather famously said on HBO’s 24/7. “There’s got to be a bad guy, so f*ck it.” The move brought great reward, paving the way for Mayweather to emerge as the richest athlete in the world after he defeated De La Hoya by split decision. But now he disowns the persona. He became increasingly frustrated whenever someone referred to his bout against Pacquiao as “good vs. evil” and swore he had matured beyond what enabled the event such financial success in the first place.
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Mayweather contemplated leaving boxing after beating De La Hoya, but didn’t ultimately go through The biggest bout over the first half of Mayweather’s with it until a year later. He announced that instead pro career came in October 2001, when he met fellow of seeking a rematch, he would “permanently retire.” undefeated champion Diego Corrales. That permanence lasted a little more than a With Corrales facing a prison term on a domesyear before Mayweather returned to tic abuse charge involving his wife, face Juan Manuel Márquez. “We know Mayweather dedicated the fight to “all that wasn’t nothing but a vacation,” the battered women in the world.” He MAYWEATHER Mayweather laughed in a press conferknocked out Corrales, but in a sickening VS. BERTO ence promoting the Berto fight. And irony, pled guilty to a charge of assault September 12, therein lies the problem: How can fans on the mother of his oldest daughter 3 p.m., $150believe a fighter who mocks the trustless than a year later. $1,500, worthiness of his own words? It was the first of many accusations MGM Grand Going into Saturday night’s fight, of violence against women Mayweather Garden Arena, it’s best to assume that Mayweather is would face, including a 2010 battery 702-531-3826; embarking on another vacation, and to charge against the mother of his three pay-per-view, continue speculation that he’ll come other children that landed him a 90-day 5 p.m., $65-$75. back and attempt to reach 50-0 next jail sentence. He got out a month early year at the new MGM/AEG arena. His on good behavior. perfect record—and the attention he’s Last year, he described the charges brought to boxing, with a record 4.4 million payas “just hearsay and allegations” to CNN despite per-views sold for the Pacquiao showdown alone— evidence including hospital records and a chilling entitles him to legendary status. But many are eyewitness statement from his then 10-year-old going to remember Mayweather as far less than son. Mayweather has been so impeccable as a that fresh off of the fallout from the Pacquiao fight, boxer that most criticisms of his career in the ring and going into a bout he should be able to win with should soon vanish—but not the history of domesone hand. tic violence. His criminality appears to be the one This is no way to go out for one of the greatest thing rightfully sticking with him as tightly as his talents in boxing history. The only thing a fight beloved undefeated record. with Berto achieves is complicating the already ***** complex legacy of the era’s best fighter.
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> REIGN O’ER ME Roger Daltrey and The Who played the entirety of Quadrophenia (and then some) at the Joint in 2013.
From the Valley’s expanding festival scene to the best local gigs ever, we delve deep into the live experience
SHOW & TELL
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THE WHO BY ERIK KABIK
> Built to Last The Grateful Dead’s ’90s Vegas stadium shows remain legendary.
Vegas music notables gush about their all-time
favorite shows Think about the best shows you’ve ever seen, the nights the bands took it someplace special, when primo performance met superb sound, and your wish-list songs rained upon you. We asked a group of local music movers and fans to do just that, with a couple tricky caveats. First, they could pick just one, one Vegas concert to rule them all. Or, to be more exact, one act—all-day festivals had to be whittled down to a single great set. And second, our respondents were restricted from choosing shows they had some working attachment to; if they played it, booked it or promoted it, no-go. Here’s what we got back … Guns N’ Roses, January 25, 1992, Thomas & Mack Center. At that time the Thomas
& Mack was something of a holy place due to the massive popularity of the UNLV basketball team. They opened with “Welcome to the Jungle,” then went straight into “Mr. Brownstone.” Axl changed wardrobes every other song and had a swagger I’ve never quite seen from any other rock star. It was a spectacle for me as a 12-year-old boy that’s burned into my memory. –Ryan Pardey, musician (Halloween Town)/DJ The Cure, May 27, 2000, the Joint. If there’s one Vegas live set I could revisit, The Cure’s headswimming, epic (read: three encores) concert at the old Joint would beat out shows that I reviewed more favorably. Robert Smith and company—all clearly in great spirits—leveled the room despite some sound issues, and the 27-song setlist featured my favorite classics and six of nine tracks from its underappreciated Bloodflowers album. –Mike Prevatt, Las Vegas Weekly senior editor
Peccadilloes, August 9, 2007, Double Down Saloon. They had so much energy, and
the music was honest and pure without pretense. Sandy Moreno, standing on a milk crate, and just spewing vitriol. She made me angry at stuff I didn’t even understand yet. Hell, I left that show wanting to turn over a police car and stop paying my taxes. Because of that one show I started following other Vegas bands and discovered so much great music. –Allan Carter, SquidHat Records label head Of Montreal, February 13, 2007, Art Bar.
Downtown was just starting to become a live music area again, and Art Bar was an awesome divey place behind Dino’s that occasionally held shows. [Promoter] Brandy Vinyl managed to get Of Montreal to play there, and it was epic! 1970s gay porn was projected behind the band, and [frontman] Kevin Barnes went the full monty live onstage for four or five songs. It was crazy. –James Woodbridge, Neon Reverb Festival co-founder Sonny Fortune, date unknown, Blue Note Jazz Club. A weeklong residency [the saxo-
phonist] did in July 2002. Easily one of the greatest weeks in my life! I got to interview him on KUNV, then see him live for four nights! I miss the Blue Note! We need more jazz in Vegas! –George Lyons, radio host (KUNV’s The Lyons Den) Gov’t Mule, April 23, 2004, the Joint. My favorite Las Vegas concert experience was an accident. I had some tickets to see Little Feat and some band I’d never heard of. We got there about a half-hour after the show started, thinking we’d be right on time for the headliner. We were correct, but wrong about who
grateful dead 1993 at sam boyd Stadium by Darrin Bush/las vegas news bureau
was headlining. We stayed for Gov’t Mule and were completely blown away by their incredible musicianship. –Ginger Bruner, musician (Killian’s Angels) Moonface, September 15, 2012, Beauty Bar. Spencer Krug sang his heart out, beating
his chest with a tambourine so vigorously I’m surprised the instrument didn’t break in two. That album, Heartbreaking Bravery, will go down as one of my favorite records of all time; and hearing it live with backing band Sinai made each song so tangible. Also, I brought my mom. –Leslie Ventura, Las Vegas Weekly calendar editor Marilyn Manson, February 23, 2013, House of Blues. I’ve never seen such a well-produced
show where every set had something new to it, a costume change or a new prop. He was 100 percent committed to whatever he has doing, and to the drama of his music. It was really inspiring to me as a performer to see him step up visually onstage. –CoCo Jenkins, musician (Rhyme N Rhythm) Prince, May 29 or 30, 2004, Mandalay Bay Events Center. 1. It’s Prince! 2. You got the
new CD with your ticket purchase. 3. His band was second to none for that tour. 4. I’ve seen him 20-plus times, and this was the longest. 5. To hear a band with a pocket like theirs, with a frontman like him, with songs that make you get up and give your date a lap dance in the middle of the show is a decent way to spend an evening! –Shawn Eiferman, musician Neutral Milk Hotel, April 9, 1998, the Lab. They played at a house party at Patrick and Eastern. At that point, they were mythical, but September 10–16, 2015 LasVegasWeekly.com 15
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> Surprise Detour Neil Young made memories at the Joint in 2003.
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to find out that one of their singers was a girl. I was mesmerized and inspired. Each song was an experience; their dynamics kept you completely at their mercy. –Tsvetelina Stefanova, musician (Same Sex Mary) Grateful Dead, July 26, 1994, Sam Boyd Stadium. The Grateful Dead runs in Las Vegas
between 1991 and 1995 are legendary. The city totally transformed, as Deadheads took over for a few days. The Dead always brought a great opening act for the Vegas shows, and in 1994 Traffic, one of my favorite bands, opened up. The Dead played favorites like “Eyes of the World,” “Terrapin Station” and “Saint of Circumstance.” There was nothing like a Grateful Dead concert ... in Las Vegas. –Erik Kabik, photographer Nine Inch Nails, October 16, 1994, Thomas & Mack Center. I scored a ticket in the parking lot.
In 1994 a pit was a pit, and the white shirt I wore into the show was black when I left. Reznor had the crowd energized. –Jerry Misko, artist Roger Daltrey, October 9, 1994, Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts. Four-fifths
of the then-current Who, a 30-piece orchestra, a magnificent Quadrophenia set and John Entwistle’s birthday combined for an unforgettable night. Between the short notice and Sunday-night booking, only about 2,500 turned out to see a most fulfilling show. –Dennis Mitchell, Breakfast With The Beatles host/Las Vegas Weekly contributor Garth Brooks, August 14, 1998, Thomas & Mack Center. I waited in line at Ticketmaster for
four hours, and lucked into great seats when they added a second show. It was a rock concert with a country superstar. An awesome production. –Laura Herlovich, publicist it was really happening. It wasn’t like you saw a band and you could say, “I saw so-and-so before they got huge.” You were like, Holy sh*t, Neutral Milk Hotel is playing three feet from my face—in a house where people you knew lived. –Donald Hickey, radio DJ (KUNV’s Neon Reverb) Catherine Wheel, date unknown, the Huntridge. It was 1993, I think. They wrecked my
brain. They had this incredible washy sound and lasers. LASERS! I was in high school at the time, but I still listen to those first two records and think of that night. Magic. –Ronnie Vannucci, musician (The Killers/Big Talk) Maceo Parker, October 28, 2006, House of Blues. Missed Tom Petty headlining Vegoose
because of work. Bummed. Thought I was going to miss this show, too, but Daylight Saving Time messed up the band and saved me. Arrived at 2 a.m. just as the show started, and an hour in Prince jumped onstage and joined the band. Music euphoria commenced. –Craig Nyman, Life Is Beautiful Festival booker The Who, February 8, 2013, the Joint. They played the whole Quadrophenia album and then some. Pete’s suspended power chords still hit you like an ice pick in the forehead, and Roger’s voice was as powerful as ever. During “Love, Reign O’er Me” I had tears in my eyes realizing how much The Who had affected me as a kid. These ol’ kids are still all right. –Elvis Lederer, musician (Unique Massive/Uberschall/Cirque du Soleil)
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Ted Leo vs. F*cked Up, October 1, 2010, the Pearl. Competition breeds excellence, even if it’s
on the friendly side. Matador Records proved that when they pit Canadian hardcore band F*cked Up against Washington, D.C., indie punks Ted Leo and the Pharmacists for a Matador at 21 fest show where the real winners were the fans. –Steven Matview, PunksinVegas.com webmaster Jane’s Addiction, November 21, 2014, Brooklyn Bowl. The 25th anniversary of Nothing’s
Shocking, and I happened to win tickets to that show, which included a private green room performance with me and about nine other people. It was really cool to see childhood heroes playing just a few feet in front of me. I also remember thinking, “Man, I’m taller than all of them.” –Jason Aragon, musician (The Clydesdale/Same Sex Mary) Neil Young & Crazy Horse, July 26, 2003, the Joint. We arrived expecting Greendale (he’d played
the new album every night that tour, except during a truncated Bonnaroo fest set), but when he opened with a hair-raising “Love to Burn,” I began to wonder. By the time Young and his sizzling Horse cohorts ripped through “Sedan Delivery” and “Cowgirl in the Sand,” I knew: Vegas had received the gift of a lifetime, an anything-goes night with a locked-in legend. I dream about it still. –Spencer Patterson, Las Vegas Weekly editor
BBR, July 15, 2015, Vinyl. If you haven’t seen Alice: A Steampunk Concert Fantasy yet, you’ve been missing the coolest, avant-garde production to ever hit Vegas. This is what every Cirque show aspires to be—a full-blown production along the lines of a classic rock opera, The insanely talented 10-piece band is the driving heart of the show, blowing you away with incredible rearrangements of such classics as “Paint It Black,” “Diamond Dogs” and “Ring of Fire.” Add to that a stunning cast of gorgeous singers and dancers, and you get true 21st century Vegas entertainment as it should be. –Lon Bronson, bandleader/musician (Lon Bronson All-Star Band)
Compiled by Corlene Byrd, Spencer Patterson, Mike Prevatt and Leslie Ventura.
> Total Exposure Things got wild when Of Montreal played Art Bar in 2007.
Welcome the Plague Year, July 22, 2004, Balcony Lights. Welcome to the Plague Year
featured members of some of my favorite screamo bands—You and I and Neil Perry. I was blown away Neil Young sun file; of montreal by aaron thompson
LAS VEGAS WEEKLY MUSIC ISSUE SHOWCASE featuring Moksha, Bee Master, Cameron Calloway. September 12, 7-10 p.m., free. Hard Rock Live, RSVP at lasvegasweekly.com/musicissue.
RECIPE FOR EUPHORIA FOR VETERAN VEGAS IMPROV BAND MOKSHA, LIVE GREATNESS IS NO ACCIDENT
At the moment, the four men of Moksha are on the home stretch of album No. 3, a project pegged for a late fall or winter release and slated to include sax and horns from a collection of heavy hitters: Skerik, Peter Apfelbaum, Jennifer Hartswick, Jeff Cressman and Eddie Rich. “It sounds fantastic so far, very open and natural, and we’re really proud of it,” drummer Pat Gray says. ¶ Since launching eight years ago, however, Moksha’s bread and butter has always been its live show—earning the funky jam quartet a reputation for delivering unique, gripping performances. We sat down with Gray and delved into process, to learn how the freewheeling group stays so deeply in its groove.
Make plans—and be ready to change them. “Our sets are always different, and we always have at least one new song for each show. We usually have the songs laid out in order, and then we have a big list of alternate songs, because depending how the set’s going—the energy and vibe of the crowd—the next [planned] song may not work. If we’re in a big dance groove and everyone’s having a great time, someone might call an audible to keep it funky. We’re nimble enough to be able to make those quick left turns to keep the party going.” Create a plotline. “Each song has a story—a beginning, a middle and an end—but the collection of songs in a set has to make sense as well. It doesn’t always have to be the same: We can start big and end big, or start quiet and do a big ramp-up to the end, or end quiet. We just followed Big Sam’s Funky Nation, a hard-hitting dance-funk band, and we obviously couldn’t start soft, because we would get totally dwarfed. We had to match the intensity and then drive that intensity where we wanted it.” Be your own critic. “We record most of our shows, and then we listen back in real time, without fast-forwarding, so we know exactly what the audience was experiencing. For some of our early shows, there’d be like a minute between songs while everyone was adjusting, so we worked on making those transition times shorter.”
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Move past mistakes. “Improvisational music is art that exists in time; it’s not like a painting that exists forever. Once that moment is over, you have to let it go, because if you make a mistake and it gets in your head, it’s just gonna compound.” Think beyond the genre box. “With our covers, it’s totally anything-goes. One time we did the theme from Fraggle Rock. We get serious sometimes, get in these long, extended things, so it’s nice to have some levity in the set as well. James Brown was the theme at the For the Funk of It Festival last month, so we pulled out “Make It Funky,” and then we did a play on the old Eddie Murphy impression on Saturday Night Live about the hot tub. We did a Soul Train thing during that—we asked the audience to split and make an aisleway, and had a dance-off.” Read the crowd. “We’ve learned that certain areas of the country like different things. In the Denver area people want that dance vibe, whereas a lot of our Pacific Northwest fans like the really out stuff, so we give ourselves more permission to go super out when we’re there.” Read your bandmates. “Being together as a group for so long, you get to know each other really well musically. It’s a million split-second decisions occurring the entire set, and when you’re flying by the seat of your pants, sometimes you can fail. But once you get out on the ledge, that’s really where it’s fun. Playing the same songs, the same way gets boring real fast.” –Spencer Patterson SEPTEMBER 10–16, 2015 LASVEGASWEEKLY.COM 17
Fest Crest Vegas now boasts an abundance of music festivals. But have we hit the ceiling? B y M i k e P r e vat t A single weekend marked the beginning of the Las Vegas music festival boom: June 24-26, 2011. Before then, multi-act and multi-day music events in Southern Nevada were sporadic stops for touring festivals (Warped Tour, even Lollapalooza in ’94), financially challenged (Neon Reverb), poorly planned (Pastel Project), short-lived (48 Hours Festival), outside the Valley (Area 51 Soundtest), and largely either radio promotions (Our Big Concert, Junefest) or niche affairs (Extreme Thing, Punk Rock Bowling, Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend, Las Vegas Jazz Festival, Reggae in the Desert). Our last significant, mainstream-nudging fest, Vegoose, started 72,000 fans strong in 2005 but ended in 2007 after drawing only 46,000. But on that non-holiday June weekend four years ago, Electric Daisy Carnival began its massively successful run. Defecting from LA after a controversial 2010 edition and welcomed with open arms by then-Mayor Oscar Goodman and Clark County, EDC drew 230,000 to Las Vegas Motor Speedway over three days, eclipsing any of its previous years and, well, most music festivals that year. Last June, EDC’s attendance hit 400,000, making it the biggest festival weekend in the country. Two years later, a new Downtown musical experience, Life Is Beautiful, emerged, which included the Fremont East Entertainment District in its footprint. And this May, two significant festivals launched: the musically experimental, Burning Man-inspired Further Future, and the first American installment of Rock in Rio, spanning two weekends and christening the MGM Resorts Festival Grounds. That we have dedicated festival grounds— on the Strip, no less—says something about the evolution of the live music experience in Las Vegas. It means other festivals will emerge, like the ACM Party for a Cause, a country music smorgasboard taking place in early April. It’s actually one of two twangpop fests hosted by MGM—the Route 91 Harvest Fest takes over further down the Boulevard at the MGM Resorts Village next month—that are part of a growing national trend of country music weekenders.
In general, festivals have become a major part of the American concert business, and the overall music industry. Trade publication Pollstar published its Global Festival Calendar with more than 1,200 events in 70 countries. And according to wonderingsound. com, 847 of them took place on this continent last year. “On any given weekend through the year, there are festivals taking place across North America,” says Nick L., founder/content manager of festivalsnobs.com. We have Southern California’s Coachella to thank. After a vibrant touring festival business flamed out in the late 1990s, and a few months after Woodstock ’99 literally went up in flames, promoter Goldenvoice tested the waters for a European-style music weekend that favored artistry over radio-friendly acts. Fast forward 16 years later to this past April, and Coachella remained at the top of the all-time highestgrossing festival list, with a record-breaking $84 million haul over two weekends. Some events withhold their grosses, so finding a definitive dollar amount representing the American music festival box office is like finding a face-value EDC pass the day before it begins. But it’s a significant take. According to Forbes, the top five festivals combined to make $183 million just on ticket sales in 2014. It was only a matter of time before Las Vegas capitalized on the festival surge. As the so-called entertainment capital of the world, we’re already a unique music market. Vegas has more arenas than any city in the U.S. and a fairly large population, Pollstar President and Editor in Chief Gary Bongiovanni points out. “In terms of the size of the city, if a tour is only playing 30 cities, Vegas is probably on that list.” Throw in more than 41 million annual tourists, a formidable hospitality infrastructure, a central location in the Southwest and a relentlessly sunny climate, and it begs the question: Has Las Vegas become a festival destination? Sort of, says local talent buyer Patrick “Pulsar” Trout. “There are really two music scenes in this town: There’s the tourist music scene (EDM, radio rock) and there’s the local music scene (indie rock, punk, metal, etc.). I think what we have seen in the last few years is festivals coming into town to take advantage of the tourist market,
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> Rock in Rio
edc by alex perez for insomniac; rock in rio by fred morledge
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Junefest
(1993-2002; 2009-present) This daylong fest filled
the soccer fields near Sam Boyd Stadium with classicrock bands and fans during its first incarnation, then returned as a smaller, still retro-focused event after a lengthy hiatus.
> EDC
> Vegoose
gogol bordello at Vegoose by aaron Thompson
which is certainly a good thing.” Factors like tourism and infrastructure—or even talent lineup—don’t necessarily make Las Vegas (or any other city) a good festival town, according to Bongiovanni. He argues it’s the festival sites and the atmosphere produced. “EDC is a perfect example where the environment is what counts, and not so much the DJs. [Insomniac] lights the grounds up and creates sub-environments.” Bongiovanni adds that the verdict is still out on the venues for Rock in Rio and Life Is Beautiful. For the former, it was not only the first American Rock in Rio, but the first time the MGM Resorts Festival Grounds were used. For LIB, he cites its “urban nature” as a significant aspect of its potential appeal. Much excitement followed the initial announcements of those two festivals, but they haven’t done gangbusters business. Though Rock in Rio drew 172,000 over four days (spread over two weekends), daily attendance never approached the venue’s 80,000 capacity. Life Is Beautiful has yet to eclipse the 30,000 daily-attendance mark despite headliners like Kanye West, Foo Fighters and The Killers, and rumors of soft sales this year are spurring speculation that it will be three-anddone, à la Vegoose. The popular counterpoint to soft ticket sales is that Coachella didn’t break even until its fourth edition. “In general, most major fests lose money in first, second, even third years,” Bongiovanni says. “They either go away or turn the corner and become established.” That Rock in Rio wasn’t a success out of the box is a detail he says isn’t relevant. What is, and also a popular topic: the festival bubble bursting. The national market has been saturated for some time; Vegoose organizers cited the festival glut as a primary reason for its demise. Other potential threats to the business: festival consolidation by mega-promoters; headliner fatigue and lineup similarity; radius clauses preventing participating acts from playing the area for months around the event; rising performer fees; and, for Nevada in particular, fallout from the Live Entertainment Tax expansion passed by the legislature earlier this year. But the future could look bright for Las Vegas events with the right strategies, especially if they target locals. Though Trout wonders if more locally geared festivals are financially viable—we’ll see how
Viva Las Vegas
Punk Rock Bowling
Area 51 Soundtest
largest rockabilly gathering in the world—boasting some 20,000 attendees a year— this springtime throwback now features six stages and 60-plus music acts, plus burlesque and a vintage car show.
as a punk-rock industry gathering centered on the lanes has become a full-fledged music fest in its own right, moving to its current home Downtown in 2011.
visation-friendly acts like STS9, Tea Leaf Green, Dark Star Orchestra and Particle came together for this four-time Las Vegas Jam Band Society bash in the desert.
(1998-present) Billed as the
(1999-present) What began
(2001-2004) Eclectic, impro-
the expanded Wine Amplified fares during its ninth edition October 9 and 10—he makes the case that Rock in Rio suffered by not advertising or offering ticket discounts specifically to locals. Bongiovanni also emphasizes the need for residential patronage. “The local population has to support the festival. It may be the out of towners that put it over the top, but without locals’ support, it falls apart.” Niche festivals might also be more of a sure thing. This weekend brings us the second Big Blues Bender, focused on the underserved blues market with acts like Buddy Guy and Walter Trout. Reggae in the Desert has thrived since its 2002 debut. Punk Rock Bowling has increased in size every year since its 1999 inception and 2011 relocation Downtown. And events like Further Future are trending nationally. “Boutique or ‘transformational’ festivals are certainly catching on,” Nick L. says. “They’re typically not near as demanding as some of the major festivals, and offer unique aspects such as speakers, yoga or soul building.” And Bongiovanni isn’t the only one stressing the importance of a standout setting, especially when it comes to Life Is Beautiful. “I’ve never really explored Downtown Las Vegas in previous trips, so the concept of taking over city streets to host the festival sounded pretty exciting,” says Nick L., who included LIB among his many festival excursions last year. “The experience was certainly unlike any music festival I’d previously attended. The way organizers encompassed Downtown streets and businesses into their festival was fascinating—not to mention the gorgeous street-art murals on the sides of buildings.” And then there’s the no-brainer of producing singular events one can only experience in Las Vegas. Though LA’s EDC has thrived here, programming the initially jam-friendly Vegoose more like Coachella clearly hurt its chances of surviving. Vegas needs unique events—especially given the uniqueness of Vegas itself. “I think the biggest mistake made is people assuming that if something works in LA, Austin or Nashville, it will work here,” Trout says. “A festival isn’t going to succeed here by being a carbon copy of another one. Vegas has succeeded because it’s different from any other experience you can have in this country. We need to keep that in mind when we’re looking at festivals, too.”
Extreme Thing
(2001-2014) Punk and metal acts (and eventually dubstep DJs) provided the tunes for this springtime rager, complemented by BMX, skateboarding and wrestling demonstrations.
Did you know … Nick Cave has played Las Vegas?
GZA headlined the Blue Note Jazz Club? The Wu-Tanger
> Nirvana
At Lollapalooza ’94, as part of a Sam Boyd Stadium lineup tour stop that also included the Beastie Boys, The Smashing Pumpkins, A Tribe Called Quest, The Breeders, The Flaming Lips and Boredoms.
stopped by in late 2002, as the ill-fated Strip venue embraced new programming to stay in business. The Black Keys played the Cooler Lounge? In 2002, just
Brian Wilson brought Smile to Boulder Station?
five months after their first-ever gig, the lo-fi alt-blues duo played the former Decatur Boulevard dive.
In its entirety, with a 19-piece band, at the Railhead in 2004.
Aphex Twin played the old Joint?
Radiohead has performed in Las Vegas—twice?
> The New York Dolls at Jillian’s
> Nick Cave > Led Zeppelin
The New York Dolls played the Las Vegas Sport Center and Jillian’s? The
scrappy punk/glam act performed rather awkwardly at both modestly attended gigs in 2008.
> Radiohead
Led Zeppelin played Las Vegas?
Nirvana played Las Vegas? Opening for
At the old Ice Palace in the Commercial Center on Sahara, which also hosted The Doors, the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival and others in the town’s nascent rock era.
Sonic Youth, in August 1990, at Calamity Jayne’s on Boulder Highway. Reportedly, Kurt Cobain and his mates were booed viciously. –Spencer Patterson and Mike Prevatt
(MORE) Vegas Festivals THROUGH THE YEARS Vegoose
Neon Reverb
Matador at 21
Electric Daisy Carnival
by which all Vegas fests are judged, musically speaking, brought Tom Petty, Iggy & The Stooges, Arcade Fire, Trey Anastasio, M.I.A and lots more to Sam Boyd and its fields, before going out in a blaze of Daft Punk/Rage Against the Machine co-headlining glory.
multi-venue smorgasboard for locals, by locals, paired indie heavyweights like The Walkmen with Vegas favorites like A Crowd of Small Adventures. Neon Reverb’s 10 editions highlighted the Downtown renaissance before funding struggles brought it to a close.
label’s Vegas-on-a-lark anniversary bash delivered a ’90s indie-lover’s dream bill to the Palms, with Pavement, Guided By Voices, Belle & Sebastian and Superchunk among the many bands making rare Vegas appearances.
(2011-present) Exiled from LA, Insomniac’s flagship event has grown to become the country’s most-attended music festival (400,000 bodies per weekend), thanks to an eagerly accommodating city, the enormity of the Speedway and the EDM boom.
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Opening for Tears for Fears in 1993 at the Aladdin—where a furious Thom Yorke reportedly kicked out half the stage lights— and again in 1995 at the old Joint, during a problem-plagued tour with Soul Asylum. No wonder the Brits haven’t been back.
According to one online anecdote, the British electronic/IDM maestro (with Sneaker Pimps opening) played for 20 minutes in 1997 before he was given the hook.
THE MUSIC ISSUE
> Ex-Factor Ms. Lauryn Hill returns to Brooklyn Bowl September 18.
2015
The neverseens Some notable, active acts that have yet to play Vegas*
Tom Waits Frank Ocean Sufjan Stevens
CONCERT CALENDaR
How many more will you see before the year’s up?
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September Big Blues Bender (September 10-13, the Plaza); The Growlers (September 11-12, Vinyl); Enrique Iglesias (September 13-14, the Colosseum); Placido Domingo (September 15, the Colosseum); Alejandro Fernández (September 15, Mandalay Bay Events Center); Mark Knopfler (September 16, the Colosseum); Ms. Lauryn Hill (September 18, Brooklyn Bowl); iHeartRadio Festival (September 18-19, MGM Grand Garden Arena); Mew with The Dodos (September 19, the Sayers Club); Charli XCX (September 20, Rehab); Unearth (September 22, LVCS); The Lemonheads (September 23, the Sayers Club); Spoon (September 24, Foxtail Pool); Swervedriver (September 24, Backstage Bar & Billiards); Las Vegas Jazz Festival (September 25-27, Henderson Pavilion); Life Is Beautiful Festival (September 25-27, Downtown); Oliver Dragojevic (September 26, the Pearl); Shannon and the Clams (September 27, Beauty Bar). October Murs (October 1, Backstage Bar & Billiards); Flogging Molly (October 2, Boulevard Pool); Slaughter (October 2, Downtown Las Vegas Event Center); Route 91 Harvest Festival (October 2-4, MGM Resorts Village); The Word (October 6, Brooklyn Bowl); The Mynabirds (October 7, the Sayers Club); Conflict (October 8, Backstage Bar & Billiards) Sham 69 (October 9, Dive Bar); Janet Jackson (October 9-10, Planet Hollywood); My Morning Jacket (October 9-10, Brooklyn Bowl); Wine Amplified Festival (October 9-10, MGM Resorts Village); Garbage (October 10, Boulevard Pool); Neil Young (October 11, the Chelsea); Father John Misty with Mikal Cronin (October 15, Boulevard Pool);
Judas Priest with Mastodon (October 17, the Pearl); Doomtree
The National Flying Lotus Billy Bragg Godspeed You! Black Emperor
(October 18, the Sayers Club); The Sword (October 21, Vinyl);
Philip Glass
Failure (October 22, Fremont Country Club); Madonna (October
Grizzly Bear
24, MGM Grand); Sepultura (October 25, LVCS); Deftones
Cloud Nothings
(October 27, Brooklyn Bowl); John Prine, Kris Kristofferson (October 30, the Pearl); Wale (October 30, Chateau); Trey
Portishead
Anastasio Band (October 30-31, Brooklyn Bowl); Ghost (October
Patti Smith
31, House of Blues); Wanda Jackson (October 31, Backstage Bar & Billiards); Together Pangea (October 31, the Griffin). November Travis Barker (November 3, Hyde); Deerhoof (November 5, the Sayers Club); The Dandy Warhols (November 6, Brooklyn Bowl); Viva Ska Vegas (November 7, Vinyl); Ride
Death Grips The Field Jason Isbell Swans
(November 10, House of Blues); Lagwagon (November 11, Fremont
Randy Newman
Country Club); Peaches (November 11, Brooklyn Bowl); Yo La
Fleet Foxes
Tengo (November 11, the Sayers Club); Mac Miller (November 17, Brooklyn Bowl); Polyphonic Spree (November 18, the Sayers
Squarepusher
Club); Public Image Ltd (November 25, Brooklyn Bowl).
Iceage
December Trace Adkins (December 5, Golden Nugget);
My Bloody Valentine
Andrea Bocelli (December 5, MGM Grand); Merle Haggard
PJ Harvey
(December 7-8, Golden Nugget); Alabama (December 10-11,
John Zorn
Golden Nugget); Puscifer (December 12, the Pearl); Craig Morgan (December 12, MGM Grand); Mötley Crüe (December 27, MGM Grand); Maroon 5 (December 30-31, Mandalay Bay).
*Of course, we might have missed a show somewhere along the way. If so, tweet evidence to @lasvegasweekly.
iHeartRadio
Life Is Beautiful
Further Future
Rock in Rio
blage of the biggest names in popular music—Lady Gaga, Jay Z, Swedish House Mafia, Kenny Chesney, Coldplay and many more—performing minisets, perhaps most famous for a 2012 Green Day meltdown during the band’s last Las Vegas performance.
Downtown street fest focuses on music—headliners have included Kanye West, The Killers, OutKast and Foo Fighters—but has also kept things interesting with a slate of food, art and speaker offerings.
popular Burning Man mobile sound camp created a commercial, semi-exclusive alternative featuring a progressive speaker series, alternative health programming and a no-joke slate of experimental musicians and DJs.
ally beloved festival made its Stateside debut last May with mainstream titans like Metallica, John Legend and Taylor Swift, all performing at MGM’s new, expansive Festival Grounds. Attendance was modest, but organizers remain bullish about a 2017 follow-up.
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NIGHTS
> READY FOR A FIGHT Nas will perform on the eve of the Mayweather/Berto match.
HOT SPOTS DILLON FRANCIS AND GRANDTHEFT AT ENCORE BEACH CLUB AT NIGHT Still sizzling from the
release of his moombahton EP This Mixtape Is Fire, Francis teams with fellow Wynner Grandtheft for a high-powered installation of EBC at Night. September 10, 10 p.m., $35+ men, $25+ women. NAZANIN MANDI AT HYDE Not all model-hosts who turn up for Vegas club gigs performed Mozart’s Requiem at Carnegie Hall at age 15 or can sing in five different languages. Strange that most people know exotic Californian Nazanin Mandi as Miguel’s girlfriend. September 11, 10:30 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. NAS AT DRAI’S It’s fight weekend. Influential MC Nasir Jones is becoming a Vegas regular, and Drai’s is becoming hip-hop’s home on the Strip. This show was pretty much inevitable. September 11, 10:30 p.m., $50+ men, $30+ women. DAN BILZERIAN AT 1 OAK Professional poker player, stuntman, girls-and-guns Instagram playboy, potential 2016 presidential candidate ... who is Dan Bilzerian, really? Maybe find out when he hosts at Mirage’s 1 OAK Saturday night. September 12, 10:30 p.m., $40+ men, $30+ women. PUFF DADDY AT MARQUEE Rap feuds today are all about vodka. Are you down with 50 Cent and Effen or are you one of Puff’s Ciroc Boys? If you’re on the latter team, your fight afterparty is set at Marquee. September 12, 10 p.m., $50+ men, $30+ women.
12M Followers on Dan Bilzerian’s Instagram.
DJ DRAMA AT CHATEAU He was TI’s DJ. He’s a
mixtape master, maybe best known for his work on Lil Wayne’s game-changing Dedication series. And after blowing up the Strip for Labor Day Weekend, Drama is definitely not missing fight weekend. ShadowRed supports his Chateau gig. September 12, 10:30 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women. GEORGE ACOSTA AT LIQUID The Miami Takeover begins on Friday at Liquid with DJ Konflikt and model-hosts Jenna Jenovich and Jayde Nicole and ends with Cuban-born dance-music veteran George
Acosta on Sunday. September 13, 11 a.m., $40+ men, $20+ women. TEMPTATION SUNDAYS PRIDE KICKOFF PARTY AT LUXOR POOL It’s never too early to celebrate
Las Vegas Pride. Opening parties rage Saturday night, but get up and get out to the pool for this official kickoff with guest DJ Casey Alva and host J.Son from Naked Boy News. September 13, 1 p.m., $20 general, $10 locals/hotel guests. THIRD ANNUAL WHITE ATTIRE AFFAIR AT STK
Hamptons style returns to the Strip as the hip
Cosmo steakhouse throws its regular summerclosing shindig featuring a white carpet walk, a Pernod Ricard-sponsored open bar, bites like baked clams and lobster dumplings and a visit from Bravo reality star Gretchen Rossi. September 14, 9:30 p.m., no cover, RSVP at 702-698-7990. WET AT NIGHT WITH STEVE ANGELLO AT WET REPUBLIC It’s the time of year when pool club
mega-parties start to go away, but don’t get sad. Get to MGM Grand and rage away its weekly Wet at Night industry parties with Steve Angello. September 16, 10:30 p.m., $30+ men, $20+ women.
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Chris Brown (at Drai’s)
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WHO UNWORE IT BETTER?
NIGHTS
Vegas is the mission
Nicole Moudaber closes Sundown’s summer fun By Deanna Rilling
Vegas, take note. One of the most respected and legit tastemakers on the scene is about to put you “In the Mood” when she takes over at Daylight on Sunday. Techno and house titan Nicole Moudaber will grace our ears during Sundown’s closing party, so don’t miss the event your cool underground friends will be raving about on Facebook. You’ve played Vegas before, but artists like you are usually relegated to afterhours. What’s your impression of playing the city? It is actually one of my missions: Vegas. I insisted on getting Vegas, and by chance, because I’m in the States touring at that time, they jumped on the occasion; I was available and it worked. But since the beginning, yes, I’ve played EDC many times, and I’ve played Drai’s Afterhours, which I really enjoyed. I did it with Dubfire. So that was a really good crowd, but as a challenge for me, I just want to convert these people and teach them what it is. Are you going in with any sort of plan for your set during Sundown? I don’t know what to expect at Sundown, but I’m used to sunsets in Ibiza and all over Europe. But we never really do a countdown for that, so that’s going to be interesting. SUNDOWN Other than that, I’m obviously WITH NICOLE not going to bang it out with MOUDABER my techno kind of vibe, but I’m AT DAYLIGHT going to play nice and house-y, September 13, make it a bit more approachable, noon, $30+ men, never compromising with the $20+ women. cred and the coolness. Speaking of the music, you’ve got a new EP with vocalist Skin called Breed out September 18. What was it like teaming up with her? Skin from Skunk Anansie, they are a massive iconic rock band in Europe. For her to agree to work with me was pretty amazing; it’s an honor working with an established songwriter icon like that. The marriage between rock and techno was very challenging. It took me a while to nail it, because working with vocals on house and techno is not easy, and you don’t want to sound cheesy. … And what’s the point in doing vocals if I’m only going to take a sentence or two? I might as well get on the mic and do them myself. I’ve sang on some of my records, saying a sentence or two and tweaking them and making them work like that, but what’s the point? So I’m really proud of this project; it’s different!
> NOT TO DRESS CODE Daylight doormen: Nicole Moudaber will not be wearing a bikini.
Club hopping
Insomniac has announced 2016 dates for Electric Daisy Carnival: June 17-19 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Tickets go on sale super-early, September Nightlife News & Notes 21 at noon, in order to avoid the Live Entertainment Tax that goes into effect on October 1. First-tier three-day admission starts at $335. ¶ Avicii has postponed his remaining 2015 dates at Wynn and Encore nightclubs to promote his sophomore album Stories, due on October 2. Filling in for his September dates at Encore Beach Club and XS will be Dillon Francis, Zedd, Diplo and Skrillex. ¶ The Cosmopolitan has confirmed that Andy Masi’s new company Clique Hospitality will create Clique, an “avant-garde lounge concept,” set to take the place of the resort’s casino-level Book & Stage lounge this winter. Clique will be designed by Alessandro Munge, featuring “dark wood, comfortable couches and posh finishing touches.” ¶ Hard Hat Lounge has launched a monthly first Saturday hip-hop night, Rap Is Fun, hosted by Omino Jakku. The LDW debut featured Phil A, Hassan, Helms, Jerry Shinefeld, Thelonious Gawd, DJ Tramlife and others. Check out the next chapter on October 3. –Brock Radke
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1 OAK
Closed
Doors at 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women
ARTISAN
Lounge open 24 hours
DJ Kid Conrad
DJ Karma
Midnight; $10, no cover for women, locals; lounge open 24 hours
DJ Que
Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
CHATEAU
Closed
With ShadowRed; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
DJ Reaction
DRAI’S NIGHTCLUB
EMBASSY NIGHTCLUB
FOXTAIL NIGHTCLUB
Afterhours
Dan Bilzerian
Hosting, with DJ E-Rock; doors at 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women
Artisan Afterhours Artisan Afterhours
THE BANK
DRAI’S AFTERHOURS
SATURDAY
Afterhours
Midnight; $10, no cover for women, locals
DJ Five
Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
DJ Drama
With ShadowRed; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Afterhours
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Closed
Closed
Closed
Closed
Lounge open 24 hours
Lounge open 24 hours
Lounge open 24 hours
Closed
Closed
Closed
Closed
Closed
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
Yacht Club with D-Wayne
Closed
Closed
Closed
Closed
Closed
Closed
Closed
Social Sundays
Midnight; no cover; lounge open 24 hours
DJ Irie
With DJ Que; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Afterhours
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
Doors at 1 am; $30+ men, $20+ women, industry locals w/ID free
Mike Hawkins
Nas
Trey Songz
Sundrai’s with Fabolous
Viva! Latin Thursdays
Doors at 10 pm; $10 men, no cover for women
Closed
Benny Black
GHOSTBAR
Doors at 8 pm; $20 men, $10 women
HAKKASAN
With DJ Shift; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Dada Life
Live; doors at 10:30 pm; $50+ men, $30+ women
Live; doors at 10:30 pm; $60+ men, $40+ women
Live, with DJ Franzen; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Rosa d’Oro Fridays With Banda Zacatena, DJ Paco, DJ Lee; doors at 10 pm; $10 men, no cover for women
Global Saturdays with Mr. Bob
Runway Dayclub
Doors at 10 pm; $10 men, no cover for women; Latin Afterhours at 3 am
Danny Avila
Plain White T’s
Greystone Sundays
Doors at 10:30 pm; $33+ men, $22+ women
Exodus and Mark Stylz
Doors at 8 pm; $25 men, $20 women
The Chainsmokers With DJ Dash; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Live; doors at 7 pm; $22+ men/women
Exodus and Mark Stylz
Doors at 8 pm; $25 men, $20 women
Tiësto
With Dzeko & Torres, Ruckus; doors at 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women
Dre Dae
Wale
Live, with Koko & Bayati; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Doors at 1 am; $30 men, $20 women, industry locals w/ID free
Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
SPONSORED BY: Staritsky & Levitsky Vodka
Doors at 3 pm; $10 men, no cover for women; free mimosas for ladies 3-5 pm
Doors at 10:30 pm; $33+ men, $22+ women
DJ b-Radical
Doors at 8 pm; $20 men, $10 women
Afterhours
Closed
Seany Mac
Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Seany Mac
With ShadowRed; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women, free for locals
Afterhours
Presto One
Doors at 8 pm; $20 men, $10 women
Doors at 8 pm; $20 men, $10 women
Doors at 8 pm; $20 men, $10 women
Closed
Closed
Closed
Phoreyz
At Ling Ling Club; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
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HYDE
Doors at 5 pm
Hosting; 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women; doors at 5 pm
LAX
Throwback Thursdays with Aybsent Mynded
Nazanin Mandi
Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Aybsent Mynded & Charlie Darker Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Sultan & Shepard
SATURDAY
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
EBC at Night with Dillon Francis
Martin Solveig
TAO
Worship Thursdays with Jerzy
Doors at 10 pm; $20+ men, $10+ women
Konflikt
TRYST
Doors at 10:30 pm; $30 men, $20 women
XS
Closed
Busta Rhymes
Live, with DJ Five, doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
DJ Turbulence
Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
David Guetta
Doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Closed
Making the Cut with Aybsent Mynded
Imagine with Chuckie
$1 vodka for women, 9 pm, $5; 2-for-1 beer pong, $22, 11 am-9 pm; doors at 8 am
Doors at 10:30 pm; $35+ men, $25+ women
Doors at 5 pm
Steve Angello
With Ansolo, Justin Credible; doors at 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women
With Grandtheft; doors at 10 pm; $35+ men, $25+ women
Doors at 5 pm
Closed
Doors at 10 pm
SURRENDER
Doors at 5 pm
Hosting, doors at 10 pm; $50+ men, $30+ women
With Burns, Mr. Mauricio; doors at 10:30 pm; $100+ men, $50+ women
Ladies Night
Doors at 5 pm
Closed
With We Are Treo; doors at 10 pm; $40+ men, $20+ women
PBR ROCK BAR
WEDNESDAY
Closed
Alesso
Closed
Calvin Harris
TUESDAY
Closed
MARQUEE
Vice
MONDAY
Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Closed
Doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
SUNDAY
DJ Skratchy
10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women; doors at 5 pm
LIGHT
OMNIA
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Doors at 10 pm; $40+ men, $20+ women
Puff Daddy
Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
#Social Sundays
Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Baauer
Closed
Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
With Lema; doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Closed
Closed
Closed
With DJ Crooked; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Tritonal
Showtek
Beer Pong Tournament
Closed
Karaoke Night
$20 open bar 9 pm-1 am with social media follow; doors at 8 am
9 p.m.; $25 open bar until 2 a.m.; doors at 8 am
2-for-1 beer pong, $22, 11 am-9 pm; 100 oz. beer tower, $35; doors at 8 am
Closed
Closed
Closed
Doors at 10:30 pm; $45+ men, $35+ women
Closed
Closed
Closed
Closed
Doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Closed
Closed
Closed
Closed
Diplo
Sunday Nightswim with David Guetta
Closed
Closed
Lil Jon
DJ set; doors at 10:30 pm; $40+ men, $30+ women
Snoopadelic Cabaret with Snoop Dogg
10 pm; 2-for-1 beer pong, $22, 11 am-9 pm; doors at 8 am
RL Grime
Live; doors at 10 pm; $40+ men, $20+ women
DJ Crooked
Doors at 10 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Doors at 9:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
Lil Jon
DJ set; doors at 10:30 pm; $30+ men, $20+ women
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BARE
Doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women
Doors at 11 am; $40+ men, $10+ women
DAYLIGHT
Closed
Doors at 11 am; $30+ men, $20+ women
DRAI’S BEACH CLUB
Doors at 11 am; $30+ men, $20+ women, locals free
Drai’s Beach
Mike Hawkins
EBC at Night
ENCORE BEACH with Dillon Francis With Grandtheft; doors CLUB at 10 pm; $35+ men, $25+ women
FOXTAIL POOL CLUB
LIQUID
MARQUEE DAYCLUB
PALMS POOL & DAYCLUB
TAO BEACH
WET REPUBLIC
Closed
DJ Stellar
Doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women
Captn20
Doors at 8 am; $10+, industry and local women free
DJ C-La
SATURDAY DJ Knick Knack
With Arizona’s Finest hosting; doors at 11 am; $40+ men, $10+ women
Alesso
Doors at 11 am; $30+ men, $20+ women
Dannic
Doors at 11 am; $40+ men, $30+ women
Doors at 11 am; $50+ men, $30+ women
Zedd
David Guetta
Doors at 11 am; $40+ men, $30+ women
Stafford Brothers and Bynon Doors at 10:30 am; $30+ men, $20+ women
DJ Konflikt
With Jayde Nicole, Jenna Jenovich hosting; doors at 11 am; $40+ men, $20+ women
M!KEATTACK
Doors at 11 am
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With I Am Sam; doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women
Ditch Fridays with Nick Cannon DJ set, with Supa James and Mark Styles; noon; $20+ men, $10+ women
Javier Alba
Doors at 10 am; $75+ men, $40+ women
Doors at 10:30 am; $33+ men, $22+ women
GTA
Doors at 11 am; $40+ men, $20+ women
Vice
Doors at 11 am; $30+ men, $20+ women
Benny Black and Exodus
Doors at 8 am; $10+, local women free
DJ C-La
Doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women
Doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women
Doors at 11 am; $30+ men, $20+ women
Doors at 11 am
Doors at 11 am
With Burns; doors at 11 am; $100+ men, $50+ women
Calvin Harris
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women
Doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women
Doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women; locals free
Doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women; locals free
Sundown with Nicole Moudaber
Closed
Closed
Closed
Doors at noon, $30+ men, $20+ women
Feenixpawl
Doors at 11 am; $30+ men, $20+ women
Diplo
Doors at 11 am; $60+ men, $30+ women
EC Twins and Rebecca & Fiona
Doors at 10:30 am; $30+ men, $20+ women
George Acosta
Doors at 11 am; $40+ men, $20+ women
Drai’s Beach
Drai’s Beach
Drai’s Beach
Doors at 11 am; $30+ men, $20+ women, locals free
Doors at 11 am; $30+ men, $20+ women, locals free
Doors at 11 am; $30+ men, $20+ women, locals free
Closed
Closed
Closed
Closed
Closed
Closed
Way Back Wednesdays
Closed
Closed
With Eddie McDonald; doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women
Doors at 11 am
Doors at 11 am
Doors at 11 am
Doors at 8 am; $10+, industry and local women free
Doors at 8 am; $10+, industry and local women free
Doors at 11 am
Doors at 11 am
Doors at 11 am
Doors at 11 am
Closed
Havana Brown
With Brklyn, Lema; doors at 11 am; $20+ men, $10+ women
Doors at 8 am; $10+, industry and local women free
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> Party Time! (Clockwise) Moksha, Bee Master and Cameron Calloway await— plus free drinks!—Saturday night at Hard Rock Live.
Bridging the musical gap
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Stuff you’ll want to know about Hear las vegas weekly MUSIC ISSUE SHOWCASE Join us as we celebrate live music with help from three of Las Vegas’ preeminent performing units: funky jammasters Moksha (see Page 17), indie rockers Bee Master and the soulful Cameron Calloway, with full backing band. Two more good reasons to hit Hard Rock Live Saturday night? It’s free, and Cocktail City will provide complimentary drinks. September 12, 7-10 p.m., Hard Rock Cafe (Strip), RSVP at lasvegasweekly.com/musicissue. BIG BLUES BENDER The late B.B. King played his final Vegas performance at the festival’s debut last year. The 2015 edition will feature another influential guitar legend, Buddy Guy, the rebounding Walter Trout (who nearly died before getting a liver transplant last year) and many other notable blues acts. September 10-13, prices & times vary, the Plaza, bigbluesbender.com.
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SEE showgirls: the musical Nothing beats a stage parody of a campy movie flop based on Las Vegas showgirls. The hilarious “All Singing! All Lapdancing!” risqué musical opens this week. This is why we love Onyx Theatre. September 10-October 3, Thursday-Saturday, $25.
GO HRAG VARTANIAN The co-founder and editor-in-chief of the online art news site Hyperallergic will speak as part of UNLV’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series. September 10, 7 p.m., free, UNLV’s Marjorie Barrick Museum. UNLV Football vs. UCLA This home opener loomed as a massive blowout in the preseason before the Rebels hung tough against a solid Northern Illinois team in an eight-point, week-one loss. Now? UCLA was only favored by 29 points at press time. September 12, 7:30 p.m., $24-$69, Sam Boyd Stadium.
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After spending two decades composing his first symphony (in the shadow of his formidable predecessor), Johannes Brahms wrote his second symphony in only one summer while vacationing in an Austrian lakeside town, creating a well-received musical portrait of the pastoral. For its season opener, the Las Vegas Philharmonic, under the direction of Donato Cabrera, pairs the bucolic piece and its rich melodies with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, a fullbodied, lush and energetic concerto featuring pianist Andrew Tyson. In keeping with his dedication to BEETHOVEN contemporary music, & BRAHMS Cabrera opens the Las Vegas concert with Dan Philharmonic Visconti’s “Breakdown,” season an energetic work that opener, saw its world premier in September 12, May with the California 7:30 p.m., $26Symphony, for which $96. Smith Visconti is the Young Center’s American Composer in Reynolds Residence and Cabrera Hall, 702-749is music director. It’s 2000. an evening of bold sounds leading into a season of symphonies by Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, Mozart and Tchaikovsky, each program also featuring works by living composers—Nathan Tanouye (a world premier by the principal trombonist commissioned by the Phil) Mason Bates, Philip Glass and D.J. Sparr. The blend of the proven with the new is part of Cabrera’s commitment to keeping the discipline alive and fresh, as he told the Las Vegas Weekly in a previous interview: “[Orchestral] music is the only art form that has become truly stuck with art that was written hundreds of years ago. Very little of it is new. In order for it to survive, there needs to be an interest especially by musicians to promote and perform music by living composers. Maybe there is another Mozart out there just waiting to be performed, but we will never know unless we do it.” –Kristen Peterson
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A&E | screen FILM
> happy family Nana and Pop-Pop lurk, with smiles.
A solid ride Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley steer Learning to Drive
FILM
Worth the trip
M. Night Shyamalan makes a promising comeback with The Visit By Josh Bell could be something more sinister. Following the failures of would-be franchise-starters Shyamalan follows familiar found-footage storytelling The Last Airbender and After Earth, writer-director M. beats by starting out with mundane character moments Night Shyamalan has scaled way back for his new movie, before adding in occasional jolts of the unexplained and the surprisingly entertaining horror-comedy The Visit. culminating in a full-on horrific climax (complete with Not content to simply jostle a camera around while his shaky cam). But his character moments are much stronactors run and scream, Shyamalan brings impressive skill ger than those in the average found-footage to the disreputable found-footage genre. He movie, and he manages to tell an unexpectsets up teenage main character Becca (Olivia edly rich and layered story about two teenagers DeJonge) as a budding filmmaker prone to aaabc struggling to deal with their parents’ divorce. dropping terms like “mise-en-scène,” so that he THE VISIT Shyamalan isn’t known for his sense of humor, has a good reason to employ artful framing and Olivia DeJonge, but the jokes in The Visit are mostly wellcinematic elements like time-lapse, dissolves Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, placed, serving to undercut some of the foundand non-diegetic music. footage clichés and to prime the audience for Becca and her younger brother Tyler (Ed Peter McRobbie. the eventual horrors. Oxenbould) are sent to spend a week with their Directed by M. Not all the humor (especially a few grossgrandparents, who’ve reached out after years of Night Shyamalan. out moments) works, and Shyamalan somebeing estranged from Becca and Tyler’s mom Rated PG-13. times pushes too hard on the emotion. The (Kathryn Hahn). Apprehensive about staying Opens Friday. inevitable twist isn’t hard to figure out, but with relatives they’ve never met but eager to it’s also a satisfying way to increase the tension in the give their mom a chance to take a vacation with her final act. The Visit isn’t going to become an acclaimed new boyfriend, Becca and Tyler head to an isolated farm classic like The Sixth Sense, but it’s easily Shyamalan’s to get to know Nana (Deanna Dunagan) and Pop-Pop best movie since Signs, and an indication that beneath (Peter McRobbie). Of course, things are not exactly what the hubris and self-importance, he’s still a smart and they seem, and soon the kids notice peculiar behavior talented filmmaker. that could just be typical senior-citizen forgetfulness, or
Learning to Drive is one of those “adult contemporary” movies that viewers of a certain age see and then sigh that they just don’t make them like that anymore. Thankfully, Spanishborn filmmaker Isabel Coixet (My Life Without Me, Elegy) is a humanist with patience enough to sneak past the trappings of a marketing package, at least a little. She gives her two characters a bit of roundness, and a small puff of life, even if their narrative journey is ultimately a little too pat. Patricia Clarkson plays Wendy, a New York book critic whose husband—the only licensed driver in the house—leaves her. She gets the news in the back of a cab driven by Darwan (Ben Kingsley), a Sikh on the verge of an arranged aaacc marriage. When LEARNING Darwan kindly TO DRIVE Patricia Clarkson, returns a package Wendy left in the Ben Kingsley, back, she notices Grace Gummer. that he also gives Directed by driving lessons. Isabel Coixet. Clarkson is at Rated R. Opens her best, handling Friday. breakdowns and freak-outs, and Kingsley does another masterful Indian accent (although from a different region than Gandhi). The focus sometimes drifts away, showing Wendy talking to ghosts of her past, or underlining some anti-Middle Eastern social discrimination, but many scenes land just right. It’s no Cadillac, but it’s as cute as a VW Bug. –Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Based, apparently, on the concept that anything from the ’80s is inherently hilarious, animated comedy Moonbeam City comes off like a cross between Miami Vice and Jem and the Holograms, with a visual style that suggests a Trapper Keeper from 1986 exploded on the screen. Characters have names like Dazzle Novak and Pizzaz Miller and spout absurd-sounding hard-boiled detective dialogue as they patrol the streets of the titular city, a futuristic metropolis as it might have been imagined by hyperactive 13-year-olds 30 years ago. Moonbeam City certainly nails the aesthetics of cheapo ’80s cartoons and the cadence of bad cop dramas, but its jokes are weak and repetitive, coasting on their delivery by a voice cast full of celebrities (Rob Lowe, Elizabeth Banks, Will Forte, Kate Mara). Creator Scott Gairdner got his start making YouTube videos, and Moonbeam City’s one-note humor holds up about as long as one of those three-minute sketches. –Josh Bell
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A&E | screen
> ride on Jones’ Wilkin Brattle leads his compatriots into battle.
in a rather silly mystical element, embodied in an Eastern European witch played by Katey Sagal with a ludicrous accent. Sagal’s Annora helps Wilkin with prophecies and visions as he attempts The Bastard Executioner takes a violent trip into the past By Josh Bell to avenge his fellow revolutionaries from within the enemy’s camp, but the presence of angels and magic spells undermines the show’s supposed histo leave his blood-soaked past behind, Executioner There’s plenty of macho posturing and brutal torical accuracy. wallows in violence and gore, to the point that violence in The Bastard Executioner, the new series The political machinations, led by True Blood’s multiple characters who seem to be central to the from Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter, and it all Stephen Moyer as a devious chamberlain, are more story end up killed by the end of the first episode. serves to build up an outlaw brotherhood in some interesting, especially when they delve into The violence is sometimes so cartoonishly ways similar to Anarchy’s motorcycle gang. But the complex dynamic between the English over the top that it feels like it belongs in Executioner is set in a very different world, 14thruling class and the Welsh peasants. But a Monty Python movie, and rather than aabcc century Wales, and it deals directly with political emphasizing the danger and uncertainty THE BASTARD Sutter seems more interested in severed and social history, or at least it tries to. of the time period, it comes off as gro- EXECUTIONER limbs and mysterious pronouncements Set in the aftermath of a failed rebellion against (he also gives himself the role of Annora’s tesque and showy. Still, if you want to see Tuesdays, the English, Executioner focuses on the remains disfigured, hooded companion, prone to a teenage girl get her nose cut off, this is 10 p.m., FX. of those rebel forces, in particular pious warrior delivering cryptic dialogue), at least so far. the show for it. Wilkin Brattle (Lee Jones). Through a convoluted It doesn’t help that Jones makes for a bland protagoSutter’s attention to historical detail sets set of circumstances that take up nearly the entire nist, and Wilkin’s agonizing over carrying out his Executioner apart from typical dark, cynical contwo-hour pilot, Wilkin ends up posing as the executioner’s duties isn’t particularly interesting. temporary cable dramas, and for that matter from title character, a torturer and executioner in the Sons of Anarchy built up a complex cast of strange a fantasy show like Game of Thrones, to which employ of the same English barony that he’s been characters over time, and Executioner may eventuExecutioner has been somewhat unfairly comfighting against. ally get there—if it doesn’t kill everyone off first. pared. It’s disappointing, then, that Sutter throws While Wilkin might be a sensitive guy looking TV
History written in blood
TV
Will Ferrell loves his oddball projects, from regional beer commercials to a straight-faced Lifetime movie to a Spanish-language aaccc film to a Broadway show about George W. Bush. His latest is the self- FERRELL indulgent HBO documentary Ferrell Takes the Field, chronicling TAKES HBO’s Ferrell Takes the Field the day in March 2014 when Ferrell played 10 different positions for THE FIELD feels like a dull victory lap 10 different Major League Baseball teams during spring training in September Arizona. ¶ The stunt raised $1 million for Cancer for College, a charity founded by one of Ferrell’s college buddies, 12, 10 p.m., so it’s hard to criticize either Ferrell’s or MLB’s participation. But that doesn’t mean anybody needs to watch a HBO. 50-minute back-patting promotional video about it, with no more substantive content than its own 90-second trailer. ¶ The joke, of course, is that Ferrell is an out-of-shape 47-year-old buffoon not fit to play professional baseball, and that’s pretty much the only joke the show has. Since it’s set up to promote Major League teams and Ferrell’s charity efforts, the show can’t take any serious satirical jabs, so instead Ferrell makes a few blandly humorous comments, and the rest of the running time is filled with some slick game-play footage and lots of high fives. Everybody involved had a good time and did some good in the process. Let’s just leave it at that. –Josh Bell
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A&E | noise A L B U M | R& B
Still changing Prince continues shapeshifting on album No. 35
> FAST AND FURIOUS Drake burned up the Boulevard Pool for 40 minutes.
C O N C E RT
Drizzy spells
Drake captivates his wildly diverse Cosmo crowd When launching into the anthemic “Started From Drake boldly opened his Sunday-night set with a the Bottom,” he hinted toward his nightly take, changpowerful one-two combo, “Trophies” and “We Made It,” ing the last lyric of the first verse to boast, “Now I’m two tracks he released only on Soundcloud, no album out in Vegas, got a million for a show.” It was around or iTunes catalog to call home. It was a testament to this time that a trend in his performance began to the 28-year-old rapper’s golden touch—virtually every emerge, with Drake leaving what he referred song he releases is a massive hit, despite cirto as “all that romantic sh*t” off the stage. cumventing traditional distribution channels. There was no “Hold On, We’re Going Home” That could also be said for his show-stealing aaaac to be found on this night. guest appearances on Big Sean’s “Blessings” DRAKE Speaking of going home, Drake wished us and ILoveMakonnen’s “Tuesday,” from which September safe travels all too soon, ending the show after he performed one verse each. The other artists 6, Boulevard 40 minutes with no encore, as fans began askweren’t there to help, but no one seemed to care. Pool. ing “Wait, he’s done?!” But not before closing Performing in conjunction with comedian with “Energy,” in which he boasts that he’s Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat Weekend, Drake played “got a lot of enemies.” He used the song to segue into to a packed house at Cosmopolitan’s Boulevard Pool. Meek Mill diss track “Back to Back,” punctuating his Before a diverse crowd made up of dudebros, strippers, set with a drop-the-mic moment. He left on a high hip-hop heads and girls wearing Team Drake tees, note, but finished before we could cheekily ask why Drizzy graced the stage wearing all black everything, he didn’t perform “Over.” –Mike Pizzo rocking an unapologetic, post-Meek Mill victory beard.
I heard Prince’s “Sexy MF” for the first time at Olympic Gardens when I was 15, and I distinctly remember thinking, This is Prince? as he adopted a jazzier sound, perhaps to appeal to the Blue Note-sampled beats popular in hip-hop at the time. Adaptation has been Prince’s M.O. for many years, as he has keenly altered his sound many times to appeal to modern production styles. Yet the sound is always very Prince, as we hear again on his 35th album, HitNRun Phase One, which finds him sharing the spotlight with producer Joshua A.M. Welton, who also helped out on last year’s Art Official Age. Prince opens the album with “Million $ Show,” a track built from classic guitar licks and his trademark up-tempo, syncopated drums, with vocalist Judith Hill center stage. On both “Shut This Down” and “Ain’t About to Stop,” Prince sings over modern hip-hop production and Rita Ora backs him up on the latter. Later, on “FALLINLOVE2NITE” and “Mr. Nelson,” Prince borrows EDM synths and four-on-the-floor rhythms, yet makes the sound his own. Despite being pretty good at keeping up with musical trends, Prince is at his best here when tapping into his own seemingly unlimited genius, as on “HARDROCKLOVER” and “This Could B Us,” which are less about adaptation and more about him just being himself. –Mike Pizzo
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ALBUM | Indie Rock
In the years following the release of Beirut’s 2011 LP, The Rip Tide, frontman Zach Condon got hospitalized for exhaustion, got divorced and then got engaged to be married again. Yet the chamber-rock band’s fourth studio album, No No No, shows little sign of that overt emotional tumult. More surprising, the record possesses few of the ornate, carnival-esque gypsy-rock flourishes that made the band an indie darling. Songs are more straightforward, nodding to vintage soul-funk (the Belle & Sebastian-ish “Perth”) and graceful waltzes (“So Allowed”), while their arrangements are muted and streamlined. Only jaunty piano (the percussion-heavy “Gibraltar”), beehive strings (“As Needed”), burbling organ (“Pacheco”) and cascading harmonies (“Fener”) add color; in fact, the band’s trademark horns appear on just a handful of songs, a disappointment considering their mournful, mariachi-esque presence on “At Once” helps the song emerge as a standout. An even bigger disappointment? At nine songs and under 30 minutes, No No No ends when it feels like it’s just getting started. Still, Condon’s meticulous, resonant voice and the album’s lyrics—which convey hesitant optimism and flashes of profundity that feel like impressionistic postcards scribbled from far-off places—ensure the record doesn’t feel generic or pedestrian. It’s a rare case of emotional addition by (musical) subtraction. –Annie Zaleski
An unfamiliar Beirut journey
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A&E | NOISE
Five thoughts: The Psychedelic Furs and The Church
> EVening View Boyd and Incubus wrap up a two-night Joint visit.
(September 8, Brooklyn Bowl)
Open arms and open ears
Incubus presents a chance to catch a favorite band—on the road and back again By Mark Adams Next time Incubus plays Red Rocks, we’re going. That was the pact—to see our favorite band at Colorado’s iconic concert venue—and I’d agreed to it. I had always enjoyed the band’s music, familiar mostly with their many radio hits, and I got hooked after hearing 2009’s Monuments and Melodies compilation, specifically its B-sides and rarities (including a killer acoustic version of “A Certain Shade of Green”). This was now my favorite band. Subsequent concerts at the Joint confirmed they were also my favorite live band, and so my friends and I made our pact. I began dreaming of hearing the SoCal five-piece’s laid-back melodies (“Are You In?”) and thrashing synergy (“Megalomaniac”) bouncing off Red Rocks’ towering natural formations. When frontman Brandon Boyd and crew announced they’d be making a stop in Morrison with tour co-headliners Deftones, my pals and I jumped online to secure our seats for the August 24 show. And after a 90-minute plane ride and a serious hike up the venue’s hundreds of stairs (be prepared to take breaks if you’re not in the 26.2 club), we were there. Over the audience hung a giant marijuana cloud, visible in the vibrant light show projected onto the massive slabs of sandstone. I expected
nothing less from a concert in Colorado. The acoustics lived up to the legend. But despite the on-point sound, impeccably rehearsed performances (something that comes from playing 20-plus years together) and mesmerizing visuals, I have to say: Last weekend’s Incubus show right here in Vegas at the Joint melted my face off even more. Playing two nights at the Joint (I caught Sunday’s), the band got to explore deeper into its discography, going beyond radio smashes and tracks off this year’s Trust Fall (Side A) EP. Every number gelled, as Mike Einziger shredded on guitar, DJ Chris Kilmore tore it up on his turntables and Boyd went uncannily from howling shrieks to flawless falsettos. Both my shows deserved an encore, but the band only returned for more at the Joint (I heard a sound curfew prevented it at Red Rocks), capping the Vegas engagement with an inspired performance of “Warning” off 2001’s critical and commercial success Morning View. Still, the two shows shared one aspect that turned both into such awesome experiences: the true fandom among everyone there, as Incubus drew audience-wide sing-alongs for nearly every cut performed. To borrow a line from “Are You In?,” it’s “so much better when everyone is in.”
INCUBUS BY Wayne Posner/Kabik Photo Group; The psychedelic furs by Edison Graff/kabik photo group
I have a theory about first wave bands and why it’s now a golden age to see them in concert as they get closer to the end: They’ve been out of the mainstream for so long, their livelihoods depend so much on touring, so they’ve become live monsters. The Psychedelic Furs are no exception; Tuesday at Brooklyn Bowl they delivered a tight 80-minute set, full of vigor and joy. Choose your hit. “Heaven” came out of the gates rapturously. “Love My Way” took things to another level with excellent keyboard work from Amanda Kramer. “Heartbreak Beat” lived up to its lyrics. And it feels like love. “Pretty in Pink” was a worthy main-set closer. If only Molly Ringwald would have walked onstage unsure of herself, not realizing just how pretty she is. Isn’t she? Speaking of movies, if lead singer Richard Butler wasn’t a real person, he’d clearly be a Gary Oldman creation. Besides their physical resemblance, Butler phrases things in such a unique way—somehow managing to emphasize two syllables at once. He’s as riveting and quirky as his actor counterpart. The Church contributed a solid opening set. “Metropolis” is as catchy now as when it originated. And “Under the Milky Way” drew an obligatory sea of phones, recording the forever-great song en masse. The Church also ended its performance in the strangest way I can ever remember. Playing “Miami” felt anti-climatic until the literal breakdown at the end. As The Church jammed, drummer Tim Powles continued pounding the skins … as they were removed from the stage. The tune kept going, and Powles kept playing what little kit he had left. –Jason Harris > psychedelic furs
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A&E | comedy
Working the crowd
Comedian Russell Peters veers away from written material at the Pearl
> Them’s the breaks Peters went from would-be b-boy to stand-up comic.
By Jason Harris
photograph by denise truscello
father tried to convince him of the merits Let’s go back in time. It’s 2004, and of becoming an airport baggage handler, but Russell Peters’ performance on the Canadian Peters was set on being a professional breaktelevision show Comedy Now! is uploaded dancer. His father responded, “You can dance to YouTube, you know, before everyone was on your breaks, 15 minutes at a time.” doing that. Different segments caught on in In a way, Peters, now 44, is like a relaxed different places with different groups of peoDon Rickles—a Mr. Warmth minus the ferocple, and the Indian-Canadian Peters became ity. Rickles’ crowd work is performed with the first viral comedian, in the same way such zeal, it makes even the lulls feel like Dane Cook became the first social media highs. In Peters’ case, with about an comedian. hour of crowd work, there are bound It was Peters’ written jokes that to be dips in the laugh meter. If we’re made him an international sensajudging by audience response, even tion in so many countries beyond aaacc if the chuckles were consistent, they America, standing in stark contrast to RUSSELL were rarely huge. In fact, the bighis more improvised set at the Pearl PETERS gest response came from an act out on September 6. Peters is as natural- September of a written joke, in which Peters ly comfortable onstage as any comic 6, the Pearl. described the Russian language I’ve seen, and the bulk of his 80-minas sounding like people talking in ute performance was built around a reverse. This, no doubt, reminded many of humongous Q&A session with the audience. his more insightful barbs about different ethHe asked the questions, they gave the answers nicities over the years. and he riffed on whatever they said. As he continues to evolve, maybe Peters Peters did use the crowd work to segue will head farther down this road. Or maybe into certain pre-planned material. After talkit’s merely a detour as he searches out his ing to a 13-year-old kid about the youngster’s next groove. Either way, it’s sure to wind up dream, Peters mentioned that his parents on YouTube. didn’t have high hopes for him. His strict
A&E | the strip
> ICON STATUS Dion has earned her place as a legend of the stage.
T H E K AT S R E P O RT
Celine, the queen
A Colosseum return reinforces Dion’s spot among Las Vegas’ performing legends
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By John Katsilometes Many years ago, in May 2002 to be exact, Celine Dion was part of a lineup of female superstars in a VHI Divas Las Vegas show at MGM Grand Garden Arena, taking the stage alongside Cher, Mary J. Blige, the Dixie Chicks, Shakira, Stevie Nicks, Whitney Houston, Anastacia and Cyndi Lauper. Ellen DeGeneres, her star rising, was the host that night. It was a moment caught in time, and the Celine of that night was not the Celine of today, still several months away from her opening at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, still under construction in preparation for its March 2003 unveiling. In a pairing with Anastacia, Celine covered “You Shook Me (All Night Long)” by AC/DC. Later, Cher donned a black wig and leather jacket to evoke Elvis and “Heartbreak Hotel,” performing a nearly spot-on impression of the King. As I wrote that night, Cher then fired a grin and thumbs-up sign at Celine, who closed with Elvis’ “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” Looking back on that event, it’s clear now who among any lineup of performers can rightfully stand with Elvis in Vegas. It is Celine, and she summons the image of the King in a very convincing fashion during her updated show at the Colosseum. Instead of wearing an Elvis suit and wig and swiveling through, say, “Hound Dog,” Celine summons the King in hologram form. He’s dressed in the familiar white, Western-fashioned suit, singing from his 1968 come-
back special aired on NBC, several months before he would headline at the International in Vegas. The surreal and effective image of Elvis and the real-life Celine swap lines on “If I Can Dream,” and the moment makes you understand why Celine belongs on the highest plane of Strip legends. She seems confident that she can deliver, not only in her performance but also in stature. Earlier in the show she sings with another legend who long made Vegas his playground, Frank Sinatra, for “All the Way,” and that moment, too, feels right. A lesser performer would be accused of trying to coattail the performances of longlost legends to boost a stage show. Not so with Celine. This consistently hot-selling and roundly applauded residency at the Colosseum is stronger than ever. More than 13 years have passed, and Celine is closing in on 1,000 shows. She has battled mightily, impressively and publicly through her husband René Angélil’s throat cancer and ongoing treatment. As she made clear in interviews before her return to the stage on August 27, Angélil is not improving, has been fed through a tube for two years and has told his wife that he wishes to die in her arms. This version of Celine’s show is as personally rooted as any production you’ll witness on the Strip. Six video screens hang over the stage as Celine recites her journey to Las Vegas, using footage of her kids (14-yearold R-C and the couple’s 4-year-old twins, Nelson and Eddy). Celine once
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formed early in the show) and “My employed dozens of Cirque-styled Heart Will Go On” (at the end, just dancers scrambling across a tilted before the show-closing “Somewhere stage to convey her message. But not Over the Rainbow”). Twice today, as she is always at the during her show her voice center, even with the video wavered, during the cover boost and the presence of an CELINE DION of Roberta Flack’s “The entire orchestra. Tuesday-Sunday, First Time Ever I Saw Your Celine carries the perfor7:30 p.m., Face” and Eric Carmen’s mance, even amid personal $55-$500. “All By Myself.” trauma that took her offstage The Colosseum, As Celine sang through for more than a year. 877-427-7243. those songs you could hear Her return, then, has sniffling in the audience, and been something of a legendeven feel yourself welling up a bit. But ary effort. There’s no genre or music she soldiered on and delivered anothstyling outside her mind-blowing er show for the ages, because that’s range. Queen’s “The Show Must what legends do. Divas, they come Go On,” Tina Turner’s “River Deep, and go. But over time, Celine Dion Mountain High” and Prince’s “Kiss” has remained, and she has earned her and “Purple Rain” are intertwined spot at the top. with her own “Power of Love” (per-
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A&E | fine art
> REFLECTIONS Ehlis’ exhibition raises the Modernist question, who is the viewer?
What are you looking at?
In this house of mirrors, whimsy gives way to examining reflectivity By Dawn-Michelle Baude
pop-culture newsprint cones—hang bright acrylic It’s sly, her art. Yeah, sure—the pretty colors paintings mirroring each other on facing walls. At suggest whimsy, but Jacqueline Ehlis’ Breathe Onto the rear, a dazzling large-format gouache series The Mirror is not about whimsy. Okay, maybe it’s combines soft and hard-edge abstraction in a rising a little bit about childhood and fun and vintage wave of impact. neon and fabulous Las Vegas and lolEhlis is very conscious of how her lipops and even Dave Hickey, but stopworks mirror each other and themselves ping there misses the point. Something aaaac in the polished floor, and how they cast deeper is going on in these sculptures, BREATHE ONTO color beyond their borders into the galwall works and mixed-media paint- THE MIRROR lery. To enhance this effect, the paintings ings inside the Studio at Sahara West Through November are mounted flush onto a steel frame in a Library. Something serious, something 8; Monday-Thurskind of canvas/steel layer cake. The polthose dandy-candy hues seem at first to day, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday-Sunday, 10 ished surface of the metal reflects color conceal but in fact accentuate. and adds a sculptural dimension. Viewed Consider, for example, how carefully a.m.-6 p.m. The from their sides, the paintings become Ehlis welcomes viewers into a happy Studio at Sahara bas reliefs. Look more closely. Bingo: you house of mirrors. Two vivid works liter- West Library, see yourself in the steel, looking. ally scale the facade on either side of 702-507-3630. Throughout the exhibition, surfaces the entrance: “Laughy Taffy” is a kind of appear solid (or blank) until the “mirroring” kicks cosmic ladder in macaron colors, while “Starting in. The looking glass is everywhere—as concept, Long Before That,” with its nebula and outposts, structural principle, material, even as content. In resembles a cosmic-formation climbing wall, comthe “A Space Without Time” series, eight paintplete with vinyl mirror stickers and florescent pink ings sport laser engravings of buxom, Old Master and green light projection. On the other side of a nudes admiring their images in mirrors. But that’s bank of wacky sculptures—raku ceramic hubs with
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impossible: Since each woman’s face is clearly reflected in the mirror, the model has to be looking in the mirror at the painter (or viewer). Here, as elsewhere, the question of who is looking at what takes on resonance. Ehlis calls her candyland into question in various ways—placing censorious black stripes near the Old Master figures, running a graphic slash off the picture plane in the “This Thy Mirror” series, emphasizing the rising “wave” line in “Eyes Wide Open.” Despite the cheerful colors and preference for geometry, control sometimes seems to be slipping. Finally, these works are about the phenomenal world in which the viewer’s subjectivity is the ultimate house of mirrors.
A&E | HISTORY > SHOWGIRL HISTORY The French Connection explores EuropeanVegas fabulousness.
Beautiful bloodline
A historical look at the feather-decked icon of the Vegas showgirl By Kristen Peterson
Sketches of elegant costume and theIt probably never seemed possible atrical designs in The French Connection that bustling and historic 19th-century nod to the artistry and creativity that Paris would collide with a small gamthe early shows demanded. bling city in the American Southwest. While the original Folies-Bergère, But in 1959, nine decades after the which opened in May 1869 (named still-running Folies-Bergère opened in after the nearby Rue Bergère), and France’s capital, Les Folies Bergere Lido de Paris, which opened in 1946, opened at Las Vegas’ Tropicana, folare still in operation, the Stardust’s lowing the arrival of Lido de Paris a Lido de Paris production closed in year earlier at the Stardust, further 1991, followed by Les Folies Bergere cementing the French-inspired showafter nearly five decades girl into a Vegas icon. at the Tropicana. But the Like their European entire Folies wardrobe colcounterparts, these large- THE FRENCH lection has been donated to scale spectacles with CONNECTION the Nevada State Museum, musical numbers, grand Through October 1; secured by Karan Feder, staircases, towering head- Monday-Thursday, the museum’s guest curapieces and other feathered 7:30 a.m.-midnight; tor of costumes and texand sequined ornamen- Friday, 7:30 a.m.-7 tiles who was also instrutation paraded the gor- p.m.; Saturday, 9 mental in the arrival of the geous women onstage. The a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, wardrobe bibles from the remarkable entertainment 11 a.m.-midnight, 1981 launch of Jubilee! pipeline between Paris and free. UNLV’s Lied Given the number of Vegas brought in Madame Library, 702-895costumes, oral histories Bluebell’s Bluebell Girls and 2255. and piles of rich artifacts shuttled dancers between that still exist at a time when highthe cities, thanks in part to Bluebell’s tech athletic entertainment now connection to producer and choreogradominates the Strip, we can only pher Donn Arden. hope for a monumental showgirl In French Connection: ‘Lido de exhibit painting a broad picture of Paris’ and ‘Folies Bergere’ in Las the heyday. The French Connection, Vegas, at UNLV’s Lied Library, phowhich was curated by Special tographs, costumes, original sketchCollections librarian Karla Irwin and es and menus—mostly culled from includes pieces imported from the the vast archive in UNLV’s Special Paris productions as well as elements Collections—join with costume created here, is a tasty sampling of pieces provided by the Nevada State what that could be like. Museum to celebrate the era.
Design nerds, rejoice!
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A small exhibit with a big message about mid-century Las Vegas
In From Bauhaus to Our House, Tom Wolfe’s 1981 caustic attack on modern architecture, the author takes shots at Walter Gropius’ think tank of anti-bourgeois designers while lamenting the worker-housing phenomenon that led to the unsavory “compounds” of 19th-century architecture. ¶ But his social critique, no matter how hilarious, drowns out the undeniable coolness and elegance defining plenty of functional postwar structures, particularly those in Las Vegas, where mid-century neighborhoods counter the predictable stucco blanketing the rest of the Valley. ¶ In the exhibit From Tract House to Bauhaus: The Modern House in MidCentury Las Vegas, UNLV Special Collections curator Peter Michel offers that glimpse into Las Vegas mid-mod housing sought after by members of the young creative class—Downtowners, hipsters, academics and design nerds devoted to the swank homes of Las Vegas past. ¶ Michel illustrates this fabulous era through original advertisements, housing brochures and architecture designs from UNLV while highlighting the influence of California architects (William Krisel and Dan Palmer, who were hired by Irwin Molasky to design the Paradise Palms homes in the 1960s— the first “planned community” on the outskirts of town surrounding the Stardust golf course). The picture is broadened by connecting these homes with the influence of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the International Style. The free-flowing spaces of the ranch homes feature indoor/outdoor living and, with a Vegas twist, ample room for entertaining à la ’60s-era cocktail parties. ¶ Intermingled are brochures from the Farnsworth collection, color photos of mid-century homes from the Mancuso Casino Collection (Maggie Mancuso was location manager for the film Casino), excerpts from the West Charleston Neighborhoods oral history project and James McDaniel’s designs for UNLV buildings. ¶ Though a small exhibit showcased in the cabinets of Special Collections, Tract House to Bauhaus highlights the authenticity, design and intellect in a city often denied that recognition. –Kristen Peterson
FROM TRACT HOUSE TO BAUHAUS Through December 31; Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Special Collections inside UNLV’S Lied Library, 702-895-2234. September 10–16, 2015 LasVegasWeekly.com 47
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A&E | stage
> TROLLIN’ Tinfoil is anxiety-inducing.
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Dramatic tension
TSTMRKT’s “pitch-black comedy” is an unnerving triumph By Jacob Coakley
dramatics, he presents a vile charTinfoil Haberdashery, a new acter genuinely and affectingly. play by Ernest Hemmings, takes on The fact that you end up rootthe vitriol, intolerance and grandiing for him, even feeling sorry for osity that are the lingua franca of him, is a testament both to the our current era—whether online, structure of Hemmings’ play and broadcast or even in person. It delivMcClenahan’s acting, reaching a ers an anxiety-provoking drama very real point of desperate fear. that straddles the line between horCullum also delivers great work as ror and revenge fantasy. Kyle. His dry, acerbic delivery is The play centers around the perfect foil for McClenahan’s Chuck (Brandon McClenahan), an blustery Chuck, and his quiet online troll who loves to argue for tenacity allows the character to gun rights and armed insurreckeep going even as he is heaped tion, who’s roommates with Kyle with abuse. (Shane Cullum). When the police Under Hemmings’ direction, call and ask Chuck to come down the action quickly to the station to answer ramps up from slacksome questions about er badinage to hearthis involvement in the aaaac pounding stress. His murder of two cops at TINFOIL staging creates tension a CiCi’s Pizza (based on HABERDASHERY around the misdireclast year’s actual Vegas September 10-12, 8 tions and double-binds tragedy), his paranoia p.m., $15. Las Vegas of the play, and as he goes through the roof— Little Theatre, coerces his characvalidated by the appear- tstmrkt.com. ters into painful situaance of the threatening tions, the audience follows along, Phillips (Joel Wayman). trapped as well. Wayman is a perfectly perThis is a twisty play. Things are snickety snoop, a poster boy for well confused by the end of it—and the bureaucratic banality of evil. you’re not sure exactly where your His mind games and physical sympathies lie, or even where they violence toward Chuck and Kyle should lie. Hemmings’ final mesare genuinely upsetting. Wayman sage gets delivered with conviction, manages the hairpin turns of the but what has just happened undercharacter with aplomb, charm mines its effectiveness. As an audiand menace. That he might not ence member you’re left unsure of be what he seems is a given, but— where to stand—unable to enjoy without revealing too much—you some revenge, unable to reconcile may end up rooting for him more yourself with abhorrent behavior. than you think. You’re left in another double-bind, As Chuck, McClenahan has setjust like the characters in the play, tled into himself nicely. Without and just as unnerved. relying on signifiers or overblown
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A&E | sports
Viewing parties
> Packing ’em in Green Bay fans flock to Jackson’s; (below right) Crab Corner is a Ravens hub; and (below left) Born and Raised draws Rebel fans and more.
10 suggested spots for your 2015 football fun By Jesse Granger Blue Ox Tavern (5825 W. Sahara Ave., 702-8712536) Touting itself as a “home away from home” for displaced Minnesotans, this bar houses Vikings fans—and one of the most expansive Midwestern food menus in the Valley. Favorites include the Minnesota Viking roast beef sandwich, the 10,000 Lakes fish and chips and three varieties of quarter-pound hot dogs: chili cheese, peppers and onions, and bacon-wrapped. Drink specials include $12 buckets of Miller High Life and PBR, and $5 Purple People Eater shooters made from Chambord, vodka and sour mix. Born and Raised (7260 S. Cimarron Road; 702685-0258) Best known for televising UNLV basketball, this southwest Valley spot is also a great place to watch Rebel football and the NFL. B&R boasts 32 flat-screens, 20 beers on tap and 15 types of sliders, and features $3 shot specials, $3 Coors Lights and $18 100-ounce Coors Light towers during live NFL games. There also are specials for each prime-time game, from $5 Fireball shots (Thursdays) to $6 Bloody Marys (Sundays). A second location recently opened at 10050 S. Eastern Ave. Crab Corner (4161 S. Eastern Ave., 702-4894646) Crab Corner serves every type of crab imaginable, from Baltimore’s famous hard-shell blue to Alaska King, plus crab cakes and crab soup. It’s also the official home of the Baltimore Ravens in Las Vegas. The owner often passes out free crabs when the Ravens score a touchdown, and the restaurant serves $1 oyster specials every Sunday.
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Crown and Anchor (1350 E. Tropicana Ave., 702-739-8676; 4755 Spring Mountain Road, 702876-4733). These British pubs are best known for English football—or as we Yanks call it, soccer—but they serve up plenty of American football, too. The Trop location is a Redskins bar, while the Spring Mountain Road location is dedicated to the Seahawks, so both spots fill with NFL fans on Sundays, drinking $2 PBRs and grubbing on classic British pub food. C&A, in the process of opening a Downtown branch (see Page 9), also offers $1 off all domestic and import beers from 3-6 p.m. Jackson’s Bar and Grill (6020 W. Flamingo Road, 702-362-2116) Las Vegas’ official Green Bay Packers home transports to the frozen tundra— minus the snow—each Sunday. Enjoy cheese curds, poutine and cheese bratwurst, then wash it all down with an ice-cold glass of Lombardi Punch. Or sit with former all-American linebacker Dan Currie and hear stories from of his Packer days. Oh, and the beer is cheap: PBR is just $2.50 for a pint, $8 for a pitcher and $11 for two pitchers. Lagasse’s Stadium (At Palazzo 702-607-2665) Football fan paradise, Las Vegas Strip-style. We’re talking 100-plus flat-screens, a gigantic projection screen, six rows of stadium seating and chef Emeril Lagasse’s tailgating-inspired menu (see: stadium cheese nachos). Food specials are available during Monday Night Football, and bucket specials run from $30 (domestic) to $35 (premium). Even better,
Lagasse’s has its own sports book, so you can wager without leaving the table.
with fries and $8.99 foot-long chili-cheese dogs.
Moon Doggies (3240 Arville St., 702-368-4180) Looking for a relaxed spot with a Northeastern feel and don’t mind drinking from a red Solo cup? Buffalo Bills bar Moon Doggies has you covered. Drink specials include buckets of Coors Light, 22-ounce Labatt Blues and towers of Coors Light, Labatt Blue or Blue Moon. Grub-wise, it’s tough to beat Naked City Pizza, located inside the bar and offering Guy Fieri-approved pies, hot and cold sandwiches, fries, salads and more.
A Slice of Chicago (2990 St. Rose Parkway, 702-567-0663) This Chicago Bears hub/pizza shop features a don’t-miss, Midwest-focused menu. The Monster of the Midway Breakfast goes on special during football season, and don’t miss the Skyscraper Fries—covered in Italian beef, hot sweet peppers, garlic and mozzarella—or the Chicagostyle pies. The bar offers $2 draft specials and a $4 Pacifico beer and Sauza tequila shot combo during games, and there’s a dining area where children are welcome, with six TVs beyond the four in the bar.
PT’s Pub (Locations Valleywide, pteglv.com) At the 46 Las Vegas-area PT’s, food specials kick off before Sunday kickoff—50 percent off for breakfast from 6-10 a.m. everyday—and will feature the Sunday NFL Ticket. Food and drink specials also run 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays during football season, and 5-10 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays. The usual happy hour deals—half-off pizza and drinks from 5-7 p.m on weekdays—stay in effect, and football specials include $3 Bloody Marys, $5 25-ounce Coors Light mugs, $4.99 cheeseburgers
Twin Peaks (3717 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-7958946; 9510 S. Eastern Ave., 702-564-1280) With its famous 29-degree draft beer, classic lodge look and cutoff-shirt-clad waitresses, Twin Peaks has mastered the art of the man cave. The food is as masculine as the atmosphere—house favorites include pulled pork nachos and savory venison chili. One wall of the bar is wrapped in high-def TVs, while the other is fitted with a full-size rock-climbing wall. There are draft specials during games and $3 “girlsized” beers in 10-ounce cups, of course. September 10–16, 2015 LasVegasWeekly.com 49
FOOD & Drink
> COMFORT FOOD Simple + delicious = simply delicious.
Bold burgers and then some Café 6 takes a breezy space in an even more casual direction By Brock Radke
When the folks at Palms Place took over the bright, airy, poolside restaurant space formerly home to Simon in March, they wisely decided not to make big changes. In fact, it’s hard to find any major design changes. There’s the ghost of a sushi bar along one wall, never a good fit for the room but now completely purposeless; the closest thing you’ll get to sushi at Café 6 is a burger with crab on it. (More on that later). But this sixth-floor restaurant away from any casino craziness always felt uniquely relaxing, and its lazy charms are intact. All the change is on the menu. Open for lunch and dinner, Café 6 is burger-centric, an easy match for the environment and probably more accessible and convenient than ever. Among the appetizers, salads, sandwiches, sliders, sides and a couple of simple entrées, nothing checks in over the $20 mark. The bottled beer list is seasonally inspired, still registering quite a few brisk ciders, sours and saisons that pair nicely with fried fare like the
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inspired turkey burger ($13.95) uses apple-cranberexceptional salty crunchy pickles ($6.95) or butry marmalade. The Short Rib Sloppy Joe ($15.95) termilk chicken tenders ($10.95). Note to the appcontains an Angus beef patty and a pile of tender happy: Café 6’s fried goodies all come with extenshortrib, plus an onion ring. Similarly, the impressive dipping sauce options, from sriracha mayo to sive Smoke Out ($17.95) pairs burger with barbecue Tabasco ranch, and that’s always a positive. brisket on a pretzel bun. With all these crazy How ’bout those burgers? Well, you can options, I recommend going the most crazy. build your own from an impressive list of The Land & Sea ($19.95) stacks crab dynameats, cheeses and toppings, or you can go CAFÉ 6 mite, red onion, fennel, radish, kale, havarti the mini-route with an order of three slid- Palms and tomato tartar sauce on a fluffy Hawaiian ers. If you go small, get the mix-and-match Place, 702bun, and somehow—I honestly don’t know option ($14.95) and be sure to include the 944-3292. how—it all works. The sweet, briny blast of Burn Your Face Off chicken slider in your Daily, 11 the crab mixture against the beef with the trio. It’s a perfectly crispy, juicy bite with a.m.-2 p.m. slightly bitter kale is one of the oddest burger provolone, coleslaw and a seriously kicking & 5-10 p.m. bites you’ll experience, and it’s pretty great. habanero hot sauce on a sweet bun. The fullThere are plenty of other sandwich sized version ($14.95) uses a grilled chicken options, substantial salads and indulgent shakes breast instead of the crispy stuff and adds pickled to round out this simple, fun menu, plus Nutella jalapeños and a roasted poblano pepper. donuts, banana splits and other desserts. Café 6 Even when dining at a creative burger joint like may not be true destination dining, but it defithis one, I tend to lean toward more simple strucnitely satisfies. tures. Café 6 burgers don’t care. The Thanksgiving-
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AN ITALIAN WINE PRIMER Ferraro’s helps guide the way through these surging varieties BY E.C. GLADSTONE There’s no debate that French varieties dominate the tastes of wine lovers across the U.S.—Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc. But Italian varieties have taken over in terms of imports, according to the Italian Wine & Food Institute. This could be mostly due to the boom in popularity of Moscato and Prosecco with millennials, but judging by the sellout crowd for a recent Taste & Learn event at local institution Ferraro’s, Italy—which has such a long wine-making tradition it was known as Oenotria (“the land of vines”) by ancient Greeks—might be having its moment. “I can only speak for my restaurant,” says owner Gino Ferraro, “but we know we’ve come a long way. A lot of people don’t even look at the wine list, they just say ‘Gino, send me something you think goes well.’ They trust us.” Giovanni Nencini certainly does. As managing director of importer Lux Wines, Nencini appeared at the August 22 event on behalf of the Allegrini label, pouring wines from Veneto, the largest wine-making region of Italy. “It’s family establishments like this around the world that have made Italian wine what it is,” Nencini says. That might sound like flattery, but an owner like Ferraro—who keeps a 16,000-bottle cellar of 1,200 labels, 85 percent Italian— buys wine as much with his heart as his head. “When I like a wine personally, I buy a lot,” Ferraro says. “And I don’t think there’s anybody that buys more Piemonte than me.” Italy can intimidate. The country lays claim to more than 70 percent of the world’s grape varieties, thousands including regional variations. And three of the most popular wines have tongue-trippingly similar names: Barolo, Barbera, Barbaresco. So before getting in too deep, for the uninitiated, we asked Ferraro for his five essential Italian wines. Barolo From Piemonte, made from Nebbiolo grapes, and per D.O.C.G. regulations aged at least three years; typically offering aromas of violet and notes of plum, black cherry, truffle and chocolate. “The king of wines, and tends to age for decades on great vintages.” Pairs with white truffle risotto, hard cheeses and roasted meats. Barbaresco Also Nebbiolo from Piemonte (though grown at higher altitudes); aged at least two years but com-
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pared to Barolo, more restrained; elegant, perfumey on the nose, spicy yet feminine. Pair with veal, game, turkey. Brunello di Montalcino Made from a strain of Sangiovese grape in Tuscany; aged at least four years and defined by rich, deep-colored structure and power. Pair with red meat, rabbit or wild boar, mushrooms, aged pecorino or parmigiano reggiano. Aglianico “The Barolo of the south,” Ferraro says; made in Campania and Basilicata from the grape of the same name, to different effects but with big, earthy, chocolatey, lightly fruity, high-acid qualities; built to age. “Incredible for steak and hearty sauces.” Nerello Mascalese An underdog variety grown on the slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily, with notes of cherries, berries, plum, smoke and chocolate; more acidic than tannic. Like a brighter, crisper Nebbiolo. Pairs with grilled fish, eggplant, aged goat cheese and pasta alla Norma. Of course, those are all reds. For white wine, Ferraro goes primarily to Friuli and Alto Adige. Neither was offered during the tasting with Nencini, who poured Vermentino, Valpolicella and Corvina based wines, but they are likely to be at the next event with Banfi Wines on September 26. “We’ve done all the important wines of Italy [at these tastings],” Ferraro says. “We don’t make money on them. We just want to educate people.”
A DELICIOUS SHOW FROM THE NOODLE MAN Here’s the first tip: Sit at the bar at The Noodle Man. Get an up-close look at the three-station setup and watch this brigade make delicious magic. ¶ On the left side, you’ll see the giant skillets and castiron pans that look like they date back ages. This is where the assorted pancakes are prepared. The most popular choice is probably the Mongolian beef version, but I opt for the vegetable pancake ($5). The oily and crisp dough is stuffed with egg, leek, dry tofu and sweet potato vermicelli. The pickled carrots and daikon served on the side are so unique, you’ll keep going back for more trying to figure out what exactly the chefs did to conjure that taste. ¶ The middle station houses industrial-size woks and stock pots. This is where the base of your amazing handmade noodle soup ($8) is made. Tip No. 2: Remember the number B3, because that’s the listing for Shanxi knife-sliced noodle soup. Beef brisket, sweet potato vermicelli, black fungus, pickled cabbage, green onion and cilantro comingle to create something so much greater than each of the already delicious parts. ¶ Over to the right, you’ll see the chef in charge of making noodles. How cool is that? Maybe he’ll be working on the long thin noodles that go into the hot and spicy soup. Ground THE NOODLE MAN pork, peanuts, bean sprouts, preserved vegetable, spinach and chopped green onion round out 6870 S. Rainbow Blvd. this dish. ¶ It’s fun to watch your food being made. There’s something Zen about it. It’s even #101, 702-823-3333. more fun to eat this stuff. Tip No. 3: Not everything has to be Zen. –Jason Harris Daily, 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.
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INGREDIENTS 2 oz. Tres Agaves Blanco Tequila 1 oz. Funkin White Peach Purée 2 oz. Tres Agaves Margarita Mix Lime peel (garnish)
METHOD Combine ingredients in a blender with 1 cup of ice. Blend until smooth and then pour into a 10-ounce stemmed glass. Garnish with lime peel and serve.
This drink is as good as it gets: fruity, sweet, blended with ice and filled with tequila. The peach purée works to cut some of the tartness of the margarita mix without overpowering it, and combined with the clean, smooth flavor of a blanco tequila, makes this cocktail a well-rounded, satisfying, sweet and sour treat.
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 Cinema in the Circle 9/11, Freaky Friday (1976), 6:30 pm, free. Huntridge Circle Park, 1251 S. Maryland Parkway. Classic Movies at the Pavilion Fri, 8 pm, $6.50-$8.50. 9/11, Grease. Henderson Pavilion, 200 S. Green Valley Parkway, Henderson, 702-2674849. Dive-In Movies Mon, 7 pm, $5, hotel guests free. 9/14, Kung Fu Panda, Kung Fu Panda 2. Cosmopolitan Boulevard Pool, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-698-7000. Doctor Who 9/15-9/16, 3D Doctor Who eighth-season episodes “Dark Water” and “Death in Heaven” plus ninth-season preview, 7:30 pm, $16-$18. Theaters: CAN, ORL, SF, SP, ST, TS, VS. Info: fathomevents. com. Japanese Anime Afternoon 9/12, anime shows, cosplay encouraged, 3 pm, free. West Las Vegas Library, 951 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702507-3980. Midnight Brewvies Mon, movie plus popcorn, midnight, free. Elixir, 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, Henderson, 702-272-0000. Nerdist Presents The Hive 9/14, horror movie The Hive plus extra features, 7:30 pm, $10.50-$12.50. Theaters: ORL, SF, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com. Outdoor Picture Show Sat, dusk, free. 9/12, Wreck-It Ralph. The District at Green Valley Ranch, 2225 Village Walk Drive, Henderson, 702564-8595. Saturday Movie Matinee 9/12, Chappie, 2 pm, free. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702507-3400. Sci Fi Center Mon, Cinemondays, 8 pm, free. 9/12, Psycho, The Rocky Horror Picture Show with live shadow cast, 8 pm, $9. 5077 Arville St., 855-501-4335, thescificenter.com. Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou Tue, 1 pm, free. 9/15, Hands Across the Table. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.
New this week 90 Minutes in Heaven (Not reviewed) Kate Bosworth, Hayden Christensen, Hudson Meek. Directed by Michael Polish. 121 minutes. Rated PG-13. After a serious car accident, a man awakens claiming to have seen heaven. Theaters: BS, CAN, SC, SF, TS
Jimmy’s Hall aaacc Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Jim Norton. Directed by Ken Loach. 109 minutes. Rated PG-13. Based on the life of Irish activist Jimmy Gralton (Ward), Jimmy’s Hall is a bit predictable and heavyhanded. But director Loach uses its somewhat broad conflict to tell a story about the bitter divide among the Irish people in the 1930s, and the actors bring nuance to their sometimes thinly drawn characters. –JB Theaters: VS
The Perfect Guy (Not reviewed) Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy, Morris Chestnut. Directed by David M. Rosenthal. 100 minutes. Rated PG-13. Leah (Lathan) discovers that her charming new boyfriend (Ealy) has a dark, dangerous side. Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, SHO, RP, SF, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS
Jurassic World aabcc Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins. Directed by Colin Trevorrow. 124 minutes. Rated PG-13. The fourth movie in the series about genetically engineered dinosaurs returns to the theme-park setting, with a new deadly dino wreaking havoc on the fully operational park. Two decades after the groundbreaking original, this sequel arrives as just another overstuffed, CGI-filled blockbuster about people running and yelling. –JB Theaters: AL, CH, COL, DI, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SS, TX
The Visit aaabc Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. 94 minutes. Rated PG-13. See review Page 40. Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX
Now playing American Ultra aabcc Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Topher Grace. Directed by Nima Nourizadeh. 96 minutes. Rated R. Small-town stoner Mike (Eisenberg) discovers that he’s the product of a secret CIA program that turned him into an ultimate weapon, and now assassins are after him and his girlfriend (Stewart). As Mike maims and kills more thugs in increasingly brutal ways, the low-key stoner comedy becomes an ugly, cynical bloodbath. –JB Theaters: AL, COL, DTS, FH, PAL, RP, ST, TS, VS Amy aaabc Directed by Asif Kapadia. 128 minutes. Rated R. The triumphant but sadly abbreviated life of singer Amy Winehouse (“Rehab”) is told via copious archival footage in this expertly assembled documentary, directed by Asif Kapadia (Senna). The footage of her performances and songwriting craft, as showcased here, makes a strong case for her legacy. –MD Theaters: TC Ant-Man aaabc Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly. Directed by Peyton Reed. 117 minutes. Rated PG-13. Semi-reformed thief Scott Lang (Rudd) is recruited by scientist Hank Pym (Douglas) to steal a version of a size-changing suit from a greedy technocrat. Ant-Man plays things relatively safe, but it’s still a different sort of Marvel superhero movie, a looser, funnier and lower-stakes story than Marvel’s typical world-ending spectacles. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, FH, PAL, RP, SS, TX
Learning to Drive aaacc Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley, Grace Gummer. Directed by Isabel Coixet. 90 minutes. Rated R. See review Page 40. Theaters: DTS, GVR, VS
Avengers: Age of Ultron aaabc Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth. Directed by Joss Whedon. 141 minutes. Rated PG-13. The Marvel superheroes (including Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and more) team up for their latest adventure, taking on evil robot Ultron. Writer-director Whedon manages to include an impressive amount of character development and clever dialogue, although eventually the action set pieces and cluttered plot steamroll over the drama. –JB Theaters: TC
Meru aaacc Directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. 87 minutes. Rated R.
Cartel Land aaabc Directed by Matthew Heineman. 98 minutes. Rated R. Heineman’s docu-
Ex With Benefits (Not reviewed) Coleen Garcia, Derek Ramsay, Meg Imperial. Directed by Gino M. Santos. 102 minutes. Not rated. In Filipino with English subtitles. A woman continues seeing her ex-boyfriend even after they break up. Theaters: ORL, VS
stand out. –JB Theaters: TC
This documentary about three mountain climbers attempting to be the first to reach a dangerous Himalayan summit offers some amazing visuals but gets bogged down in a slow middle section. It doesn’t add anything new to the extreme-sports subgenre, but for audiences fascinated by mountain climbing, Meru is worth watching on a big screen. Theaters: VS
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> not so perfect Michael Ealy faces trouble in The Perfect Guy.
mentary focuses on two very different vigilante groups fighting drug cartels on either side of the Mexican border. Heineman gets astonishingly close to heated gun battles, and he uses careful editing to show how both groups are ultimately almost as ruthless and menacing as the criminals they are up against. –JB Theaters: VS
Trank’s rebooted Fantastic Four stacks the deck in the wrong direction, spending far too much time getting things going and caring very little about these particular superheroes. This the fourth feature-film version in this franchise, counting a 1994 lowbudget mishap, and it just seems as if it’s doomed. –JMA Theaters: ST, TX
The Diary of a Teenage Girl aaaac Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgard, Kristen Wiig. Directed by Marielle Heller. 102 minutes. Rated R. Set in San Francisco in 1976, Diary is a funny, sad and ultimately triumphant comingof-age story about 15-year-old Minnie Goetze (Powley, in a star-making performance), never apologizing for or downplaying its main character’s sexual desire. Writer-director Heller tells Minnie’s story with style and wit, using animated interludes to illustrate Minnie’s inner thoughts. –JB Theaters: SC
The Gift aaacc Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton. Directed by Joel Edgerton. 108 minutes. Rated R. Married couple Simon (Bateman) and Robyn (Hall) run into Gordo (Edgerton), a creepy loner from Simon’s past who appears way too eager to befriend the couple. Writer-director Edgerton subverts expectations with his stylish, elegant thriller, although he eventually succumbs to a cheap, sensationalistic twist ending. –JB Theaters: COL, DI, FH, ORL, PAL, SF, SS, ST, TX, VS
Dope aaabc Shameik Moore, Kiersey Clemons, Tony Revolori. Directed by Rick Famuyiwa. 105 minutes. Rated R. Geeky inner-city teenager Malcolm (Moore) has to fend off dangerous characters when he ends up with a backpack full of drugs meant for someone else. Writer-director Famuyiwa mixes winning comedic moments with serious, life-or-death situations, often at the same time, like a cross between Adventures in Babysitting and Boyz N the Hood. –JB Theaters: COL The End of the Tour aabcc Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg, Anna Chlumsky. Directed by James Ponsoldt. 106 minutes. Rated R. Segel does a surprisingly credible job as the late, famed writer David Foster Wallace in this adaptation of David Lipsky’s memoir, which is basically a transcript of a five-day conversation. (Eisenberg plays Lipsky.) The movie has no good reason to exist, however, and is a pale shadow of Wallace’s work. –MD Theaters: SC Fantastic Four AABCC Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell. Directed by Josh Trank. 100 minutes. Rated PG-13.
Hitman: Agent 47 (Not reviewed) Rupert Friend, Zachary Quinto, Hannah Ware. Directed by Aleksander Bach. 96 minutes. Rated R. A genetically engineered assassin targets the corporation that created him. Theaters: AL, BS, COL, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SF, SHO, SS, TS, TX Inside Out aaabc Voices of Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind. Directed by Pete Docter. 94 minutes. Rated PG. Pixar’s latest animated feature takes place almost entirely inside the brain of an 11-yearold girl, focusing on the five core emotions—Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust and Anger—who control her behavior. It’s a funny movie with a remarkably wise message, but parents of pre-teen kids be warned: It will wreck you. –MD Theaters: BS, CAN, COL, DI, RP, TS, TX Insidious: Chapter 3 aaccc Stefanie Scott, Lin Shaye, Dermot Mulroney. Directed by Leigh Whannell. 97 minutes. Rated PG-13. This horror prequel features none of the main characters of the previous Insidious movies, instead focusing on an earlier case handled by psychic Elise Rainier (Shaye). It’s an underwhelming, standard-issue ghost story, relying mostly on jump scares, without the sense of dread that made the original movie
The Love Affair (Not reviewed) Dawn Zulueta, Richard Gomez, Bea Alonzo. Directed by Nuel Naval. 125 minutes. Not rated. In Filipino with English subtitles. A lawyer strikes out on her own professionally with help from a new man in her life. Theaters: ORL Mad Max: Fury Road aaabc Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult. Directed by George Miller. 120 minutes. Rated R. Taciturn drifter Max Rockatansky (Hardy, replacing Mel Gibson) returns for the first time in 30 years, on another post-apocalyptic adventure. The thin plot is an excuse for director Miller to stage bravura car chases and action sequences, which should be more than enough to satisfy fans. –JB Theaters: AL, PAL, SS The Man From U.N.C.L.E. aabcc Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander. Directed by Guy Ritchie. 116 minutes. Rated PG-13. Based on the 1960s TV series of the same name (and set in that time period), U.N.C.L.E. features Cavill and Hammer as American and Soviet secret agents, respectively, forced to team up against a poorly defined threat. Director Ritchie throws buckets of style onto the screen but fails to generate an interesting plot. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CH, FH, GVR, RP, SC, SF, SS, TX Max abccc Josh Wiggins, Thomas Haden Church, Lauren Graham. Directed by Boaz Yakin. 111 minutes. Rated PG. This shamelessly manipulative family drama follows sullen teenager Justin (Wiggins) as he learns important life lessons while taking care of the military dog left behind by his late brother. The heavy-handed message is matched by the terrible dialogue, one-dimensional characters and sloppy third-act attempt at generating suspense. –JB Theaters: TC Minions aabcc Voices of Pierre Coffin, Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm. Directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda. 91 minutes. Rated PG. In the two animated Despicable Me movies, the little yellow pill-shaped creatures were reliable sources of pratfalls, pranks and puns, but given the task of carrying their own 90-minute feature, they quickly wear out their welcome. It’s just a series of silly set pieces barely held together by a halfformed plot. –JB
A&E | Short Takes Theaters: AL, COL, DI, SF, ST, TS, TX, VS
> Max is back Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road, returning this week in IMAX.
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation aaabc Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. 131 minutes. Rated PG-13. The fifth movie in the action series finds Cruise’s secret agent Ethan Hunt once again on the run after being disavowed by the very government he works for. While not the strongest in the remarkably consistent series, it’s still entertaining and exciting, an example of the best in blockbuster filmmaking. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SF, SHO, SS, TX
Ted 2 aaacc Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried, voice of Seth MacFarlane. Directed by Seth MacFarlane. 115 minutes. Rated R. MacFarlane’s foul-mouthed teddy bear is back, struggling to overturn a legal decision that he’s not a person, with the help of thunder buddy Wahlberg and a bong-toting civil-rights attorney (Seyfried). Like the original, it’s very hit-and-miss, joke-wise, but the relaxed chemistry between the actors gives the gags an appealing context. –MD Theaters: TC
Mistress America aaaab Greta Gerwig, Lola Kirke, Matthew Shear. Directed by Noah Baumbach. 84 minutes. Rated R. Flighty and exuberantly friendly New Yorker Brooke (Gerwig) befriends her stepsister-to-be, college freshman Tracy (Kirke), and the two form a dysfunctional bond. Mistress America is a bubbly comedy filled with sharp, hilarious, quotable lines, but it also carries an undercurrent of sadness that makes it poignant and affecting. –JB Theaters: BS, DTS, GVR, SC Mr. Holmes aaacc Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker. Directed by Bill Condon. 104 minutes. Rated PG. McKellen plays the retired 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes, who tools around his rural estate tending to the bees in his apiary and fighting against his failing memory. The tone is more contemplative than suspenseful, and the resolutions to the various mysteries rely on sentiment over deductive reasoning. –JB Theaters: SC No Escape abccc Owen Wilson, Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan. Directed by John Erick Dowdle. 103 minutes. Rated R. Wilson and Bell are miscast in serious roles as an American married couple who’ve just moved with their two young daughters to an unnamed country in Southeast Asia, hours before an armed coup begins. The action that follows is mostly laughable when it isn’t tedious or insulting. –JB Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SF, SHO, SS, TX Paper Towns aabcc Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne, Austin Abrams. Directed by Jake Schreier. 109 minutes. Rated PG-13. Shy, bland teenager Quentin (Wolff) has his life shaken up by textbook manic pixie dream girl Margo (Delevingne). He enlists his friends to help go after her when she leaves town, but that journey isn’t particularly interesting, and the supporting characters along for the ride are as one-dimensional as Margo herself. –JB Theaters: COL, TC Phantom (Not reviewed) Saif Ali Khan, Katrina Kaif, Rajesh Tailang. Directed by Kabir Khan. 148 minutes. Not rated. In Hindi with English subtitles. An Indian government agent travels the globe to stop a planned terrorist attack. Theaters: VS Pixels aaccc Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Josh Gad. Directed by Chris Columbus. 105 minutes. Rated PG-13. When aliens invade Earth with replicas of ’80s video-game characters, the president (James) calls on loser Sam (Sandler) and his fellow video-game nerds to save the day. Based on a 2010 short, Pixels is mostly genial and family-friendly, but also plodding and frequently boring, with
standard-issue, but the time is definitely right for a cathartic portrait of the group that sang “F*ck Tha Police.” –MD Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SF, SHO, SS, TX
Terminator Genisys aabcc Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney. Directed by Alan Taylor. 126 minutes. Rated PG-13. The fifth movie in the series about the battle between humans and machines for control of the future rewrites events of the first, but fails when it comes to creating its own story. With a convoluted plot that’s full of holes, Genisys often feels like a glorified piece of fan fiction. –JB Theaters: TC listless performances and a moronic plot. –JB Theaters: CH, COL, DI, ORL, SF, ST, TX, VS Ricki and the Flash aabcc Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Mamie Gummer. Directed by Jonathan Demme. 101 minutes. Rated PG-13. The title character (Streep) is a onetime suburban wife and mother who ditched her family to follow her rock ’n’ roll dreams in LA. Those dreams never came true, and now she’s attempting to reconnect with her grown kids in this awkwardly paced story, with weak comedy and weaker drama. –JB Theaters: BS, COL, FH, SC San Andreas aaccc Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario. Directed by Brad Peyton. 114 minutes. Rated PG-13. Johnson plays a fire department rescue pilot who attempts to save his wife and daughter when a series of massive earthquakes strike California in this moronic, mushy, painfully predictable disaster movie. Its wholesale devastation of California is an impressive feat of special effects, but the destruction eventually becomes repetitive. –JB Theaters: TC Shaun the Sheep Movie (Not reviewed) Voices of Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Omid Djalili. Directed by Mark Burton and Richard Starzak. 85 minutes. Rated PG. Shaun the sheep must find his way home to his farm from the big city. Theaters: AL, COL, VS Sinister 2 (Not reviewed) James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon, Robert Daniel Sloan, Dartanian Sloan. Directed by Ciarán Foy. 97 minutes. Rated R. A single mother and her two sons move into a haunted house. Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS Southpaw aabcc Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, Oona Laurence. Directed by Antoine Fuqua. 123 minutes. Rated R. Former boxing champion Billy Hope (Gyllenhaal) attempts to mount a comeback in this contrived melodrama. The direction and the performances end up pounding the audience as hard as Billy in his early fights, and there isn’t much relief
in his eventual drawn-out triumph. –JB Theaters: DTS, GVR, ORL, SHO, SS, TX, VS The Stanford Prison Experiment (Not reviewed) Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan. Directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez. 122 minutes. Rated R. Drama based on the true story of a psychological experiment enlisting college students as prisoners and guards in a mock penitentiary. Theaters: TC
Trainwreck aabcc Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson. Directed by Judd Apatow. 125 minutes. Rated R. Comedy Central star Schumer wrote the latest film directed by Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, This Is 40), and also plays the lead, a commitment-phobic journalist who falls for a surgeon (Hader) she’s profiling. It’s a perfectly ordinary rom-com that merely swaps the genre’s standard gender clichés. –MD Theaters: DTS, GVR, SC
Un Gallo Con Muchos Huevos (Not reviewed) Voices of Bruno Bichir, Carlos Espejel, Angélica Vale. Directed by Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste. 99 minutes. Rated PG-13. In Spanish with English subtitles. A young, timid rooster must stand up to an evil rancher who threatens his family. Theaters: BS, CAN, ORL, SC, SF, TX Vacation aaccc Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Skyler Gisondo. Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein. 99 minutes. Rated R. This franchise sequel/reboot recycles the plot of the 1983 original, replacing previous patriarch Clark (Chevy Chase) with his son Rusty (Helms), taking his family on a cross-country road trip. Relying heavily on nasty gross-out humor, it’s a series of belabored, poorly executed jokes, a sad re-creation of a once-beloved comedy franchise. –JB Theaters: AL, COL, DTS, ORL, TX, VS A Walk in the Woods aabcc Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson. Directed by Ken Kwapis. 104 minutes. Rated R. Redford and Nolte attempt to hike the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail in this adaptation of Bill Bryson’s bestselling 1998 memoir. Bryson was only 44 at the time, however, whereas Redford is 79 (and Nolte 74); consequently, the movie version has a distinct grumpy-old-men vibe. –MD Theaters: AL, BS, CH, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, SC, SF War Room (Not reviewed) Priscilla Shirer, T.C. Stallings, Karen Abercrombie. Directed by Alex Kendrick. 120 minutes. Rated PG. A couple turns to prayer to save their troubled marriage. Theaters: AL, FH, SF, ST, TS, TX, VS Welcome Back (Not reviewed) Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Paresh Rawal. Directed by Anees Bazmee. 152 minutes. Not rated. In Hindi with English subtitles. A man falls in love with a beautiful woman, unaware that her brothers are powerful criminals. Theaters: VS
Straight Outta Compton aaacc O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell. Directed by F. Gary Gray. 146 minutes. Rated R. Seminal ’80s hip-hop group N.W.A. gets the musical-biopic treatment, with Ice Cube played by his dead-ringer son (though it’s Mitchell, as Eazy-E, who’s the potential breakout star). It’s fairly
The Transporter Refueled (Not reviewed) Ed Skrein, Loan Chabanol, Ray Stevenson. Directed by Camille Delamarre. 96 minutes. Rated PG-13. Former mercenary and current special-ops driver Frank Martin faces off against a group of criminals out for revenge. Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, DI, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, SF, SHO, SS, TX, VS
Theaters
Summerlin 2070 Park Center Drive, 702-221-2283
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
(SP) Century South Point 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-260-4061
(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
JMA Jeffrey M. Anderson; JB Josh Bell; MD Mike D’Angelo
(SC) Century Suncoast 9090 Alta Drive, 702-869-1880
(GVL) Galaxy Green Valley Luxury+ 4500 E. Sunset Road, Henderson, 702442-0244 (ORL) Century Orleans 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., 702-889-1220 (RP) AMC Rainbow Promenade 2321 N. Rainbow Blvd., 888-262-4386 (RR) Regal Red Rock 11011 W. Charleston Blvd., 702-221-2283
(DI) Las Vegas Drive-In 4150 W. Carey Ave., North Las Vegas, 702-646-3565
(ST) Century Sam’s Town 5111 Boulder Highway, 702-547-1732
(DTS) Regal Downtown
(SF) Century Santa Fe Station
(SS) Regal Sunset Station 1301-A W. Sunset Road, Henderson, 702-221-2283 (TX) Regal Texas Station 2101 Texas Star Lane, North Las Vegas, 702-221-2283 (TS) AMC Town Square 6587 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-362-7283 (TC) Regency Tropicana Cinemas 3330 E. Tropicana Ave., 702-438-3456 (VS) Regal Village Square 9400 W. Sahara Ave., 702-221-2283
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SEXY ATHLETICISM Former showgirl Leigh Ann Reilly is returning to Vegas with Pole Show LA, a variety production highlighting the art and sexiness of pole dancing. And she’s prepared to shatter your preconceptions about what that means. “It’s a new form of entertainment that no one is seeing,” Reilly says. “It’s really like the athleticism and drama of Cirque du Soleil combined with the beauty and glamour of a Victoria’s Secret runway show. What more could Vegas want?” ¶ The show melds all styles of pole dancing—exotic, lyrical and powerful—and features some of the most famous pole dancers in the world. “This is the sexiest show I’ve ever done,” Reilly adds. “The fun thing about it is that we can push the boundaries without getting naked—but the show is sexier than a lot of topless shows in Vegas.” She’s looking to change the silhouette of pole dancing with fabulous costumes and a finale not to be missed. “We are POLE SHOW LA Septemgoing to have some surprises and we are going to create a little bit of a ber 11, 8:30 p.m., $20-$250. mess,” Reilly says. “You’ll just have to come see what it is.” –Jacob Coakley The Joint, 702-693-5222.
LIVE MUSIC T H E ST R I P & N E A R BY Brooklyn Bowl Banda El Recodo 9/12, 8 pm $55-$66. Turquoise Jeep 9/16, 8 pm, $15-$18. Ms. Lauryn Hill 9/18, 9 pm, $55-$115. Lettuce, Vibe Street 9/23, 9 pm, $20. Mike Love 10/2, 9 pm, $10-$15. Nashville Unplugged 10/3, 9:30 pm, $25-$50. Hiatus Kaiyote 10/5, 9 pm, $20-$35. The Word, Amy Helm & The Handsome Strangers 10/6, 8 pm, $20-$30. Dark Star Orchestra 10/8, 8 pm, $25-$28. My Morning Jacket, Strand of Oaks 10/9-10/10, 9 pm, $50. Blues Traveler, Matt Jaffe 10/22, 8 pm, $28-$33. Pepper, Ballyhoo! 10/24, 8:30 pm, $25-$27. Deftones 10/27, 8 pm, $27$42. Rusted Root, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Moksha 10/29, 8 pm, $27-$32. Trey Anastasio Band 10/30-10/31, 9 pm, $43-$50. Linq, 702-862-2695. The Colosseum Celine Dion 9/11-9/12, 9/29-9/30, 10/2-10/3, 10/6-10/7, 10/910/10, $55-$250, 7:30 pm. Enrique Iglesias 9/13-9/14, 9 pm, $40-$300. Plácido Domingo, Eugene Kohn, Ana Maria Martinez 9/15, 8 pm, $80-
$500. Mark Knopfler 9/16, 7:30 pm, $81-$131. Elton John 10/13-10/14, 10/16, 6:30 pm, $55-$500. Caesars Palace, 702-731-7333. The Cosmopolitan (Boulevard Pool) Damian Marley, Stephen Marley, Morgan Heritage, Tarrus Riley 9/24, 8 pm, $43. Asian Moon Festival ft. Edison Chen, Love Cubic 9/26, 9 pm, $68. Flogging Molly, Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss 10/2, 8 pm, $40. Counting Crows, Citizen Cope 10/3, 7:30 pm, $55. Garbage, Torres 10/10, 8 pm, $40. Father John Misty, Mikal Cronin 10/15, 8 pm, $23. The Neighborhood, Bad Suns, Hunny 10/30, 8 pm, $25. (Chelsea) Neil Young & Promise of the Real 10/11, 6:30 pm, $65. 702-698-7000. Double Down TV Party Tonight, Atomic Fish 9/10, 9 pm. Candy Warpop, It’s Casual, System Rejex, Radio Silence, Monogrim 9/11, 8 pm. The Lazy Stalkers, The Chuckwagon Experience, Nathan Payne & The Wild Bores 9/12. Bargain DJ Collective Mon. Unique Massive Tue, midnight. The Juju Man Wed, midnight. Shows 10 pm, free unless noted. 640 Paradise Road, 702-7915775.
Flamingo Olivia Newton-John Thru 9/12, 10/27-10/31, 7:30 pm, $69-$139. Donny & Marie 9/29-10/3, 10/6-10/10, 10/14-10/17, 10/20-10/24, 7:30 pm, $105-$237. 702-733-3333. Gilley’s Easy 8’s Band 9/10, 9/11-9/12, 10 pm. Austin Law 9/17, 9 pm; 9/189/19, 10 pm. Brian Lynn Jones Band 9/25-9/26 10 pm; 9/24, 9 pm. Shows $10-$20 after 10 pm unless noted. Treasure Island, 702-894-7722. Hard Rock Hotel Pool Blue October 9/18, 9:30 pm, $30. Live, Elvis Monroe 10/2, 9 pm, $35. 702-6935000. Hard Rock Live Las Vegas Weekly Music Issue Showcase ft. Moksha, Bee Master, Cameron Calloway 9/12, 7 pm, free. Tremonti, Trivium 10/11, 6:30 pm, $25. Skinny Puppy, Youth Code 10/30, 8 pm, $29. Hard Rock Cafe (Strip), 702-733-7625. House of Blues Hollywood Undead 9/12, 6 pm, $26-$30. El Tri 9/13, $35$38 Carlos Santana 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. Hair Nation 9/24, 7 pm, $12. Hemlock 10/2, 6 pm, $10-$13. The Tragically Hip 10/3, 7:30 pm, $43-$55. Halestorm 10/17, $30. Seether 10/20, 6:30 pm,
$33-$43. Korn 10/23, 7:30 pm, $50. The Adicts 10/30, $17-$20, 6:30 pm. Ghost 10/31, $25. . (Crossroads) Looped Sun, Thu, 9-11 pm, free. Nothing but the Blues Mon-Wed, 8-11 pm, free. Rockstar Karaoke Fri, 9 pmmidnight, free. Get Up and Dance Sat, 9 pm-midnight, free. Gospel Brunch Sun, 10 am, 1 pm, $60. Mandalay Bay, 702-632-7600. The Joint Joan Jett and the Blackhearts 9/18, 8 pm, $40-$150. Five Finger Death Punch, Papa Roach, In This Moment, From Ashes to New 9/19, 6:15 pm, $50-$125. Safe in Sound Festival ft. Bro Safari, Datsik, Zomboy 10/1, 8 pm, $36-$46. Scorpions, Queensrÿche 10/7, 8 pm, $60-$250. UB40, Ali Campbell, Astro, Mickey Virtue 10/16, $40-$55. Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin, Nothing More 10/22, 7 pm, $40-$175. J Balvin, Becky G 10/24, 8 pm, $60$200. Rick Springfield, Loverboy, Avalon Landing 10/25, 8 pm, $40$175. Hard Rock Hotel, 702-693-5222. Mandalay Bay (Events Center) Luis Miguel 9/12, 10 pm, $69-$299. Juan Gabriel 9/13, $69-$229. Marc Anthony, Carlos Vives 9/14, 8 pm, $76-$301. Alejandro Fernández 9/15, 9 pm, $65-$225. BIGBANG 10/2, 8 pm, $75-$239. (Mandalay Beach) The Australian Pink Floyd Show, Led Zeppelin 2 9/4, 9 pm, $40. O.A.R. 9/18, 9 pm, $36. Lost ’80s Live ft. ABC, Wang Chung, Naked Eyes and more. 9/26, $35. 702-632-7777. MGM (Grand Garden Arena) iHeartRadio Festival ft. Kanye West, Sam Smith and more 9/18-9/19, 7:15 pm, $161-$528. Madonna 10/24, 8 pm, $43-$383. 702-891-7777. Orleans The Temptations 9/19-9/20, 8 pm, $40. Frank Caliendo 9/259/26, 8 pm, $35. (Cabaret Lounge) NiteKings 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 4 pm, free. WolfCreek 9/10-9/12, 9 pm, free. Jukebox Heroes 9/17-9/19. 9 pm, free. Chyna 9/24-9/26, 9 pm, free. (Brendan’s Irish Pub) ‘60s Sensation 9/4-9/5, 9 pm, free. 702-365-7075. The Pearl Alejandra Guzman 9/12, 8 pm, $33+. Oliver Dragojevic w/ UNLV Symphony Orchestra 9/26, 8 pm, $69+. Gregg Allman 10/9, 8 pm, $39. Judas Priest, Mastodon 10/17, 8 pm, $73+. Palms, 702-942-7777. Planet Hollywood Britney Spears 10/14, 10/16-10/17, 10/21, 10/23-10/24, 10/28, $60-$195. La Arrolladora 9/13, 9 pm, $59-$175. Ricky Martin 9/15, 8 pm, $50-$160. Janet Jackson 10/10, 8 pm, $68-$198. 702-234-7469. Rí Rá The American Diddle Idols 9/17, 9 pm, free entry. Mandalay Place, 702-632-7771. Route 91 Harvest Festival ft. Florida Georgia Line, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw and more. 10/2-10/4, $199. MGM Resorts Village, rt91harvest. com. Sayers Club Shallow Like Me 9/16, 10 pm, $10 (locals free). Mew, The Dodos 9/19, 9 pm, $12. Saul Williams 9/21, 8 pm, $20-$25. Legendary Shack Shakers 9/21. Lovesick Radio 9/30, 10 pm, $10 (locals free). The Mynabirds 10/7, 9 pm, $10-$12. Almost Normal 10/14, 10 pm, $10 (locals free). Doomtree, Astronautalis 10/18. Crash Kit 10/21, 10 pm, $10 (locals free). The Dirty Panties 10/28, 10 pm, $10 (locals free). Buckin Fridays Fri, 10 pm, $10. SLS, 702-761-7618. Tuscany Danny Lozada Sun & Thu 10 pm, free. Kenny Davidsen Celebrity
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D OW N TOW N Artifice Jazz Tue, 7:30 pm, $15. Thursday Request Live First Thu, 10 pm, free. 1025 S. 1st St., Ste. 100., 702-489-6339. Backstage Bar & Billiards Rock en Espanol ft. Deadskinsells, E.M.D.F., Carved Souls, Hocico 9/10, $15. Big Daddy & Delta Bombers 9/11, 8 pm, free. Ronnie Radke, Dan Arnold (DJ set) 9/12, 9 pm, $5. Blue Collar Bastards, Dio Rising, Midlife Crisis 9/13, 7 pm. Nations, Amarionette, Distinguisher, Words From Aztecs, First Class Trash 9/19, 8 pm, $7-$10. Murs, Red Pill, King Fantastic 10/1, 8 pm, $15-$18. Marty Friedman 10/2, 8 pm, $20-$25. Conflict, Total Chaos, Hard Pipe Hitters, Brutal Resistance, D.I. 10/8, 7 pm, $20. My Life WIth the Thrill Kill Kult, Candy Warpop, EMDF, Midnight Feature 10/9, 8 pm, $15-$20. Wanda Jackson, Delta Bombers, The Yawpers, DJ Lucky La Rue, Catman Eddy Bear & The Cubs 10/31, 8 pm, $20. 601 E. Fremont St., 702-382-2227. Beauty Bar Burning Palms, Headwinds, Monogrim 9/10, 9 pm, free. Kid Cadaver, Moonboots 9/11, 9 pm, free. Black Pussy, Ape Machine 9/17, 9 pm. Holes and Hearts, Misty Day Band 9/18, 9 pm. Everlast 9/19, 9 pm. Lord of Metal, Wrvth 9/24, 9 pm, free. Shannon & The Clams, Cool Ghouls 9/27, 9 pm. Crizzly 9/29, 9 pm, $10. Joey Cape, Walt Hamburger, Laura Mardon 10/13, 9 pm, $10. 517 Fremont St., 702-598-3757. Downtown Container Park Jessica Manalo 9/11, 7 pm. A Slight Return 9/11, 9 pm. Daniel Park 9/12, 7 pm; 9/18, 9 pm. The Fab 9/12, 9 pm. Tyler Ward 9/18, 10 pm. Cameron Calloway 9/19, 7 pm. Avalon Landing 9/19, 9 pm. Life is Beautlful Emerging Artists Showcase 9/259/27, 8 pm. 707 Fremont St, downtowncontainerpark.com. Downtown Las Vegas Events Center Daughtry 10/17, $35. All Time Low, Sleeping with Sirens, One OK Rock, Neck Deep 10/24, 6 pm. Rise Against, Killswitch Engage, Letlive 11/21, 8 pm, $40-$80. 200 S. 3rd Street, dlvec. com.
Calendar “BLINDINGLY BEAUTIFUL AND METICULOUSLY ASSEMBLED.” Griffin Together Pangea, White Reaper, Leather Lungs, DJ Fish 10/31, 9 pm, free. Live music Wed, 10 pm, free. 511 Fremont St., 702-382-0577. Hard Hat Lounge The Funk Jam Wed, 10:30 pm, free. Florescent Flames Second Sat, 9 pm, free. Foundation Factory Fourth Sat, 8 pm, free. 1675 Industrial Road, 702-3848987. Life is Beautiful Music and Art Festival ft. Stevie Wonder, Imagine Dragons, Kendrick Lamar and more. 9/25-9/27, 2 pm, $255. Downtown Las Vegas, lifeisbeautiful.com. LVCS Krisiun, Origin Aeon, Alterbeast, Soreption, Ingested 9/17, 8 pm, $17-$20. Sadistik, Sapient, Ceschi, Early Adopted, Graves 10/4, 9 pm, $7-$10. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-3531. Mickie Finnz Live music daily, 4-7 pm, free. 425 Fremont St., 702-382-4204. The Smith Center Clint Holmes 9/11-9/12, 8:30 pm; 9/13, 2 pm, $37-$46. Paul Anka 9/18, 7:30 pm, $29-$149. 361 Symphony Park Ave., 702-749-2000.
The ’Burbs Cannery Toto Zara Thru 9/12, Wed & Thu, 8:30 pm, free. End of Summer Bash 9/12, 4 pm, free. Tal Pearsall 9/16-9/26, Wed & Thu, 8:30 pm, free. The Beachboys 9/19, 8 pm, $33. Luggnutt 9/30-10/17, Wed & Thu, 8:30 pm, free. 2121 E. Craig Road, 702-507-5700. Green Valley Ranch (Hanks) Dave Ritz Tue, Thu, 6 pm; Sat, 7 pm. Rick Duarte Wed, 6 pm. Nick Mattera Fri, 6 pm; Sat, 7 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702-367-2470. M Resort (M Pavillion) Martin Nievera 12/12, 7 pm, $32-$46. Shows free with drink purchase. M Resort, 800-745-3000. Rampart Casino (Addison’s Lounge) Wes Winters Tue, 6 pm. Mark O’Toole Wed, 6 pm. Shows free unless noted. JW Marriott, 221 N. Rampart Blvd., 702-507-5900. Red Rock (Rocks Lounge) Chicago IX 9/11, 7:30 pm, $15. Fleetwood Nicks 10/9, 7:30 pm, $15. Zowie Bowie Fri, 10 pm. The Dirty Sat, 11 pm, $10. David Perrico Pop Strings Orchestra Sat, 11 pm, free. (Onyx) Jared Berry Fri & 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. Charleston Blvd., 702-797-7777. Santa Fe Station (Revolver) Bro Country Thu, 8 pm. (4949 Lounge) Jared Berry Thu, 7 pm, free. 4949 N Rancho Drive, 702-658-4900. Sienna Italian Authentic Trattoria Vegas Good Fellas Thu, 7:30 pm. Red Velvet Fri & Sat, 8:30 pm. 9500 Sahara Ave., 702-3603358. Silverton (Veil Pavilion) Rock Fantasy 9/12, 8 pm, $25. The Fabulous Thunderbirds ft. Kim Wilson 10/10, 8 pm, $29. 3333 Blue Diamond Road, 702-263-7777. South Point Stayin’ Alive 9/11-9/13, 7:30 pm, $25-$35. Joey Diaz 9/18-9/20, 7:30 pm, $15-$25. Frankie Avalon 9/25-9/27, 7:30 pm, $45-$55. Winter Dance Party 10/2-10/4, 7:30 pm, $20+. Tower of Power 10/16-10/18, 7:30 pm, $45-$55. Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers 10/23-10/25, 7:30 pm, $45-$55. The Lettermen 10/30-11/1, 7:30 pm, $25$35. Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns Mon, 10:30 p.m., $5-$10. Dennis Bono Show Thu, 2 pm, free. Wes Winters Fri & Sat, 6 pm, free. Spazmatics Sat, 10:30 pm, $5. 702-7978005. Suncoast Sonny Turner 9/19, 7:30 pm, $16. 9090 Alta Drive, 702-636-7075. Sunset Station (Club Madrid) Yellow Brick Road Fri, 9:30 pm. Zowie Bowie Sat, 10 pm. (Gaudi Bar) Ryan Whyte Maloney, Cali Tucker Fri, Sat, 7 pm. Willplay Sat, 7 pm. (Rosalita’s) Tony Venniro Fri, 7 pm. Peter Love Sat, 7 pm. (Sunset Amphitheater) George Thorogood & The Destroyers 9/19, 8 pm, $24-$60. (Cabo) Vegas Voice Afternoon Affair 5/20, 1:30 pm. Shows free unless noted. 1301 W. Sunset Road, 702-5477777. Texas Station (A-Bar) Darrin Michaels Fri & Sat, 7 pm. (South Padre) VooDoo Band Fri, 9 pm. Yellow Brick Road Sat, 9 pm. 702-6311000.
E v e ry w h e r e E l s e Arizona Charlie’s Boulder (Palace Grand
Lounge) Live music Fri & Sat, 9 pm, free. 4575 Boulder Highway, 888-236-9066. Arizona Charlie’s Decatur (Naughty Ladies Saloon) Jerry Tiffe Fri, 4 pm. 740 S. Decatur Blvd., 702-258-5200. Boomers Live music Wed, 10 pm, $5-$10. 3200 Sirius Ave., 702-368-1863. Boulder Dam Brewing Johnny Azari 9/11. Out of the Desert 9/12. Marty Feick 9/18. Sissy Brown 9/19. Sean Mullaney 9/25. Scorched 9/26. Thu, 7 pm; Fri & Sat, 8 pm. Shows free unless noted. 453 Nevada Way, Boulder City, 702-243-2739. Boulder Station (Kixx Bar) Reflection Fri & Sat, 8 pm. 702-432-7777. Count’s Vamp’d Burn Unit 9/10, 9 pm, free. Kid Cocky, Sweet Home Alabama 9/11, 9:30 pm, free. Smashing Alice, Wicked Garden, Late NIght Vice 9/12, 9 pm, free. John Zito Electric Jam 9/16, 9 pm, free. Super Troup, Brazen 9/17, 9:30 pm. Sin City Sinners w/ Eddie Ojeda 9/18, 10 pm, free. Tinnitus, Not Nirvana 9/19, 10 pm, free. John Zito Electric Jam 9/23, 9 pm, free. Reservoir Dogs 9/24, 9:30 pm, free. Count’s 77, The Bones 9/25, 9:30 pm, free. Lynch Mob 9/26, 9 pm, $15. John Zito Electric Jam 9/30, 9 pm, free. Trixter, Cyanide 10/2, 9 pm, $10. Smashing Alice, Bong 10/3, 10 pm, free. Britny Fox, Kill Ritual 10/8, 9 pm, $10. Stephen Pearcy 10/10, 9 pm, $18-$23. Act of Defiance, Allegaeon 10/22, 8 pm, $8-$12. House of Zombie, The Solid Suns, One Ton Project 10/23, 9 pm, free. Pretty Boy Floyd 10/24, 9 pm, $10. Loudness, Cyanide 10/30, 9 pm, $12-$17. John Zito Electric Jam Wed, 9 pm, free. 9:30 pm, free. 6750 W. Sahara, 702-220-8849. Dispensary Lounge Uli Geissendoerfer Trio Fri & Sat, 10 pm. 2451 E. Tropicana, 702-4586343. Dive Bar The Goddamn Gallows, The Scoundrels, The Sawyer Family, Eliza Battle 10/17, 9 pm, $8-$10. D.R.I. 10/28, $20$22. One Eyed Doll 10/30, 9 pm, $10-$12. 4110 S. Maryland Parkway., 702-586-3483. Eastside Cannery (Marilyn’s Lounge) Claudine Castro Band Mon, 10 pm. Phoenix Wed, 9 pm. Spazmatics Sun, 9 pm. Shows free unless noted. 702-507-5700. Fiesta Rancho (Club Tequila) Sherry Gordy: Take the Stage Thu, 7 pm, $5-$10. 702-6317000. German American Social Club Vintage Classic Jazz Night Tue, 7 pm, $4. 1110 E. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-649-8503. Milo’s Cellar Live Music Thu, 8 pm, free. 538 Nevada Hwy., 702-293-9540.
Comedy Boomers Side Splitting Sundays Sun, 9 pm, free. 3200 Sirius Ave., 702-368-1863. Caesars Palace (The Colosseum) Jerry Seinfeld 9/18-9/19, 7:30 pm, $83-$165. 702731-7333. The D Laughternoon Starring Adam London Daily, 4 pm, $20-$25. 702-388-2111.. Hard Rock Hotel (The Joint) Jim Jefferies 10/3, 8 pm, $45. (Vinyl) Andrew Dice Clay 9/25-9/27, 9 pm, $59-$103. Kevin Smith 10/2, 10 pm, $40-$45. Hollywood Babble-On with Kevin Smith & Ralph Garman 10/3, 7:30 pm, $40-$45. Jay & Silent Bob Get Old with Kevin Smith & Jason Mewes 10/3, 10 pm, $40-$45. 702-693-5000. Harrah’s (Main Showrom) Mac King Tue-Sat, 1 & 3 pm, $33. (The Improv) Tue-Sun, 8:30 pm; Fri & Sat, 10 pm; $30-$45. 702-3695000. Luxor Carrot Top Wed-Mon, 8 pm, $50-$60. 702-262-4900. MGM Grand (Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club) Nightly, 8 pm, $43-$87. 702-891-7777. Mirage Jay Leno 9/18, 11/20-11/21, 10 pm; 9/19, 9 pm, $60-$80. Gabriel Iglesias 9/11, 10 pm; 9/12, 10:30 pm; 9/13, 8 pm, $66-$77. Nick Swardson 10/9, 10 pm, $55-$66. Ray Romano 10/2-10/3, 10 pm, $55-$77. 10/2310/24, 12/4-12/5, 12/11-12/12, 10 pm, $60. Daniel Tosh 9/25, 10/16, 11/13, 10 pm; 8/29, 9/26, 10/17, 11/14, 7:30 pm. 702-792-7777. Onyx Theatre The Get 9/18, 9/25, 10 pm, $10. 953 E. Sahara Ave., 702-732-7225. Orleans (Showroom) Frank Caliendo 9/259/26, 8 pm, $35. Don Rickles 10/17-10/18, 8 pm, $88-$110. 702-284-7777. Palms (The Pearl) Bill Maher 10/24, 8 pm, $49-
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Theatre, 3920 Schiff Drive, 702-362-7996. The Book of Mormon 9/22-9/27, 9/29-9/30, 10/1-10/4, 10/6-10/11, 10/13-10/18, 7:30 pm, 9/26-9/27, 10/3-10/4, 10/10-10/11, 10/17-10/18, 2 pm, $36-$160. Smith Center, 702-749-2000. A Choreographer’s Showcase 10/11, 10/18, 1 pm, $25-$45. Smith Center, 702-749-2000. Don’t Quit Your Day Job Sat thru 9/26, 10 pm, $10. Onyx Theatre, 953 E. Sahara Ave., 702-732-7225. Dirk Arthur Wild Magic Mon-Sat, 4 pm, $50$90. Westgate Las Vegas, 3000 Paradise Road, 800-222-5361. Elf the Musical 11/24-11/29, $29-$129. Smith Center, 702-749-2000. Full House: The Very Special Episodes Fri, 11 pm, $15. Onyx Theatre, 702-732-7225. The Get Thru 9/25, Fri, 10 pm, $10. Onyx Theatre, 953 E. Sahara Ave., 702-732-7225. Jeff McBride’s Wonderground Variety show. Third Thu; 8, 9 & 10 pm; $10. Olive Mediterranean Restaurant Lounge, 3850 E. Sunset Road, 702-451-8805. Las Vegas Philharmonic: Beethoven & Brahms 9/12, 7:30 pm, $26-$96; opening night cocktail reception, 9:30 pm, $50. Passport to the World 10/24, 7:30 pm, $26$96. Smith Center, 702-749-2000. Ragtime 10/27-11/1, $30-$130. Smith Center, 702-749-2000. Showgirls the Musical 9/10-10/3, Thu-Sat, 8 pm; 9/20, 5 pm, $25. Onyx Theatre, 953 E. Sahara Ave., onyxtheatre.com.
The Art of Naked Yoga Tue, Thu, 7 pm; Sat, 6 pm; $20. Harry Mohney’s Erotic Heritage Museum, 3275 Industrial Road, eroticheritagemuseumlasvegas.com. An Executive Chef’s Culinary Classroom With Executive Chef Edmond Wong. 9/29, 10/13, 11/10, 7 pm, $135. Bellagio, 866-4067117. Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction 9/249/26, 8 am, $10-$55. Mandalay Bay Events Center, 702-632-7777. Bill O’Riley and Dennis Miller: Don’t Be a Pinhead 12/5, 7:30 pm, $86-$501. The Colosseum, Caesars Palace, 702-731-7333. CLIF Bar CrossVegas 9/16, $55. Desert Breeze Soccer Complex, W. Desert Inn Road, crossvegas.com. Disney Live! Three Classic Fairy Tales 10/2-10/4, times vary, $22-$72. Orleans, 702-284-7777. Downtown Podcast Thu, 9 pm, free. Inspire Theater, 107 Las Vegas Blvd. S., downtownpodcast.tv. Fetish & Fantasy Halloween Ball 10/31, 10 pm, $50-$100. The Joint, 702-693-5222. Harvest Festival 9/11-9/13, 10 a.m., $4-$9. Cashman Center, harvestfestival.com. Las Vegas Burlesque Festival 10/8-10/10, 8 pm, $50-$150. Gold Coast, 702-367-7111. Lebanese Festival 10/9-10/11, times vary, $3. St. Sharbel Catholic Church, 10325 Rancho Destino Road, 702-616-6902. M.E.N.U.S. presented by Epicurean Charitable Foundation 10/9, $500. The Beach at Mandalay Bay, 702-932-5098. Monday’s Dark with Mark Shunock 9/21, 10/19, 11/16, 9:30 pm, $20-$30. Vinyl, 702693-5000. Jessica Lee Richardson Book Signing 10/24, 7 pm, free. The Writer’s Block, 1020 Fremont St., 702-550-6399. Pole Expo Thru 9/13, times vary, $185. Hard Rock Hotel, poleexpo.com. The Joy of Sake 9/19, 7 pm, $75-$125. Caesars Palace, joyofsake.com. Sevens Live Music, comedy & spoken arts. Tue, 7 pm, one-drink minimum. Silver Sevens, 4100 Paradise, 702-733-7000. Sip & Savor 9/16, 6 pm, $175. Spago at Forum Shops, 702-369-6300. Switch: Trans* Clothing Swap Thu, 5 pm, free. Gay & Lesbian Community Center, 702733-9800. Vegas Gone Yoga Festival 9/19-9/20, 8 am-4 pm, $89-$169. Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd., vegasgoneyoga.com. Vegas Valley Book Festival 10/15-10/17, times vary, free. Historic Fifth Street School, 401 S. Fourth St., vegasvalleybookfestival.org. Windmill Music Club Last Sun, 4 pm, free. Windmill Library, 7060 W. Windmill Ln., 702-507-6030.
Sports Boxing: Mayweather vs. Berto 9/12, 3 pm, $150-$1,500. MGM Grand Garden Arena, 702-891-7777. Frozen Fury XVII: LA Kings vs. Colorado Avalanche 10/3, 7 pm, $53-$255. MGM Grand Garden Arena, 702-891-7777. Joe Weider’s Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend 9/17-9/19, 7 pm, $72+. Orleans Arena, 702-284-7777. Las Vegas 51’s Frenso 9/11, 7 pm.; 9/12-9/13, noon. $11-$25. Cashman Field, milb.com. Los Angeles Lakers vs. Sacramento Kings 10/13, 7 pm, $25-$500. MGM Grand Garden Arena, 702-891-7777. MetroPCS Friday Night Knockout Óscar Valdez vs Chris Avalos, Jesse Hart vs Aaron Pruor Jr. 9/11, 4 pm, $20-$100. Cosmopolitan, 800-745-3000. Monster Energy Cup 10/17, 6 pm, $56-$76. Sam Boyd Stadium, unlvtickets.com. Mylan World Team Tennis Smash Hits 10/12, 7 pm, $45-$125. The Colosseum, Caesars Palace, 702-731-7333. PBR World Finals 10/21-10/24, 6 pm; 10/25, 1 pm, $30-$170. Thomas & Mack Center, unlvtickets.com. UNLV Football UCLA 9/12, 7:30 pm, $24-$69; Idaho St. 9/26, 6 pm, $7-$22; Sam Boyd Stadium, unlvtickets.com. World Wrestling Championships Thru 9/12, 10 am, prices vary. Orleans Arena, 702-284-7777.
Galleries Amanda Harris Gallery of Contemporary Art By appointment. 900 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-769-6036. Arts Factory 107 E. Charleston Blvd, 702-3833133. 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, 702366-7001, trifectagallery.com. Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art Picasso: Creatures and Creativity Thru 1/10. Daily, 10 am-8 pm, $11-$16. 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-693-7871. Blackbird Studios By appointment. 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 500 Grand Central Parkway, 702-455-7030. Clay Arts Vegas Mon-Sat, 9 am-9 pm; Sun, 11:30 am-6:30 pm. 1511 S. Main St., 702-375-4147. Downtown Spaces 1800 Industrial Road, dtspaces.com. Galleries include: Candy Wolves Studio 702-600-3011. Skin City Body Painting 702-431-7546. Solsis Gallery 702-557-2225. Spectral Gallery Sat, noon-10 pm & by appointment. Urizen Gallery First Fri, 6-10 pm. Wasteland Gallery Mon-Fri, 10 am-2 pm. 702-475-9161. Emergency Arts 520 Fremont St. Galleries include: Satellite Contemporary 973-964-3050. Rhizome Gallery 702-907-7526. Gainsburg Studio & Gallery Mon-Sat, 10am5pm. 1533 West Oakey Blvd, 702-249-3200. Left of Center Tue-Fri, noon-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-3 pm. 2207 W. Gowan Road, 702-647-7378. Michelle C. Quinn Fine Art By appointment. 620 S. 7th St., 702-366-9339. P3Studio Brent Sommerhauser Thru 9/13. Wed-Sun, 6-11 pm. Cosmopolitan. UNLV Barrick Museum Recent Aquisitions Thru 10/10. Mon-Fri, 9 am–5 pm; Thu, 9 am-8 pm; Sat, noon-5 pm. 4505 S Maryland Parkway., 702-895-3381 Donna Beam Fine Art Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm; Sat, 10 am-2 pm. 702-895-3893. Lied Library The French Connection Thru 10/31. Mon-Thu, 7:30 am-midnight; Fri, 7:30 am-7 pm; Sat, 9 am-6 pm; Sun, 11 am-midnight. West Las Vegas Arts Center Wed-Sat, 9 am-7 pm. 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-2294800. Winchester Cultural Center Art Gallery Tue-Fri, 10 am-8 pm; Sat, 9 am-6 pm. 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 702-455-7340.
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