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ears ago — 15? 20? — in Telluride, Colo., in an overpriced art gallery aimed at tourists (the kind with money, not the kind like me), I came across a slim book of images by New Mexico artist Holly Roberts. They were delicate, dreamy pieces made, I guessed, by painting or drawing on top of photographs so that carefully selected elements of the photos worked up through what had “Startled Rabbit,” by Holly Roberts been laid over them. I found that back-and-forth between the real and the unreal captivating enough to buy the book, which I still have and still look at. So I’m thrilled to report Roberts is one of the three artists represented in Exploring Photographic Alternatives, on exhibit at UNLV’s Barrick Museum through Jan. 8. The show is all about unusual approaches to photography: Roberts still applies paint and collage to photographs, while Portland artist Darius Kuzmickas shoots “camera obscura” images of motel rooms (camera obscura: “an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen” — thanks, Wikipedia!). If you’re not familiar with local artist Diane Bush, here’s your chance to see her photographic bleachings — photographs, often of political subjects, distorted and abstracted by bleachings, sometimes done at public protests. Separate, but entirely complementary, is another Barrick exhibit, Lost Places of the Mojave: Photographs by Julian Kilker, which will be up through Jan. 22. If Kilker doesn’t explore extreme photographic alternatives, he most assuredly explores alternative places — decayed structures in the desertscape. He angles to not only capture their isolation and mystery, but to suggest their back stories. Two shows, but so many visions of photography. Scott Dickensheets. Tue-Wed, Fri, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Thu, 10 a.m.- 8 p.m., Sat-Sun, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.; Barrick Museum, UNLV, 895-3381, free

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On your toes, dancers! The hordes are coming! Sure, Nevada Ballet Theatre puts on a solid season of dance productions, but this holiday classic is the audience magnet, regularly pulling hundreds of viewers who don’t know the difference between Balanchine and Baryshnikov. But that’s OK, because it’s fun to watch the student dancers and professionals whiz through Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s holiday dreamscape. The regulars will be there — sugar plum fairies, snowflakes, soldiers, dewdrops and flowers. The production will also feature all the members of the professional company and 100 students from the ballet school. It’s the 30th anniversary of NBT’s Nutcracker, so if you haven’t seen it already, make this year your first. Amy Kingsley. Saturday, 2 p.m., 7 p.m., Sunday, 1 p.m., 5 p.m., Tuesday-Friday at 7 p.m., Sat., Dec. 24, 1 p.m., 5 p.m.; Paris Théâtre, 3655 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 946-4567, $38-$131

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Bike Prom Winter Formal Remember when prom was all about sneaking sips of hooch behind the gym (Midwesterners represent!), crotchgrinding to Nelly’s classic “Hot in Herre” and trying desperately to lose your virginity while pretending you’d already done it, like, a billion times? Well that’s exactly what to expect at Totescity’s Bike Prom Winter Formal — but with more bicycles and better music. For some participants, it’s a cycle-/formal-wear adorned, five-mile group bike ride from UNLV up to the arts district (though you can just drive there with no major repercussions), where, at the Artifice finish line, you’ll find a bar decked with prom decor, plenty of booze, and DJ duo Totescity on the ones and twos. No promises they will (or won’t) play “Hot in Herre.” Max Plenke. 10 p.m.; Artifice,1025 First St., 489-6339, free

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TSTMRKT is not a spin-off of MSTRKRFT the band. It’s not even music. Well, not strictly. What is it? The group describes it charmingly: “Test Market is a live performance art piece that incorporates time, space, and media collage. It also happens to be very funny and will possibly make you pee in your pants.” Who doesn’t love performance art? Who doesn’t love to pee their pants? Love both? Join the crew this Thursday for “film loops, broken sounds and cheap theatrics,” about love, atheism and fast food. Like their website says, “bring your mother.” Kristy Totten. 7-8 p.m.; Artifice, 1025 First St., www.testmar kettheater.com, 21+, free

Don’t know how this one’s going to suck. Hip-hop label owner/DJ Dave Paul has made his name in the San Francisco nightlife scene with a party called “The Prince and Michael Experience.” The hook: Paul plays nothing but Prince and Michael Jackson hits, album cuts, remixes and more, separately or mashed together. He even plays tracks from the two artists’ collaborative projects and extended musical family (i.e., Sheila E, Janet Jackson). The party attendees often pick their favorite, sometimes by dressing as or wearing the paper face masks of either Prince or Jackson. And then they dance their asses off. This is one of those parties you stumble upon in another city and think, why don’t they have this back home? Either Paul or Beauty Bar has wondered the same thing, because it’s here this weekend. Don’t stop ’til you get delirious! Mike Prevatt. 9 p.m.; Beauty Bar, 519 Fremont St., www.bombhiphop.com/ PvsM.html, $5

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Two issues ago, staff writer Amy Kingsley compared the welfare mothers protests of 30 years ago — as detailed in the book Storming Caesars Palace — with today’s Occupy movement. A commenter, Mike McD, had some harsh words for the welfare protestor we quoted. This reader responds, with a parting aside to columnist George Knapp, who complained last week about the touchiness of Occupy members:

IF I MAY, let me remind welfare-mothers protester Mike McD that the country in which we live has historically and systematically financially disenfranchized its citizens based upon their gender and the color of their skin. As to the theoretically wealthy, I only hope that emergency and other community services are available to Mr. McD, Kane Churko & TJ Fogarty when or if they need them. By the way, a quick glance at who signs his paycheck might remind George Knapp that he is indeed a mouthpiece of the corporate elite and as such not to be trusted! Reverend Mondo (BY E-MAIL)

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Back to what Occupy could learn from the welfare mothers, to wit: the value of direct action: SIMILAR IDEAS have been brought up. But the self-proclaimed leadership has rejected them and banned some of the individuals. Juan Enrique (FROM FACEBOOK)

WHAT’S CAMBODIAN FOR “THREE CHEERS FOR CHIP”? Last week, columnist Chip Mosher provided satirical answers to questions never

actually asked by Herman Cain, Andre Agassi and others. AS A FAN in Kampot, Cambodia, I can never resist going online for some good ol’ Sodom in Socrates snark! CCSD bears too much resemblance to the Khmer Rouge. Cambodia fan (ON THE WEBSITE)

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On last week’s dispatch from “Dave,” a homeless man on the streets of Las Vegas: LOVED THE ARTICLE. Would like to hear more from “Dave”. Kathy Shepper (FROM FACEBOOK)

On Kristy Totten’s Dec. 1 report on the misunderstood rights of high-school journalists: AS A HUMAN BEING we all Deserve to Have That Right ... Age really is Just A Number ... who ever likes the writing and they Know How To Do, it is a Right To Be Respected From all!!! Rosie Santiago (FROM FACEBOOK)

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• Based on inaccurate information CityLife was given, last week’s Dining piece on the Henderson restaurant Bread & Butter reported that an earlier restaurant project involving Metro Pizza fell through because of a foreclosure. In fact, there was no foreclosure, according to a Metro Pizza spokesman. A bank involved in the financing went under, delaying the project. • The anti-bullying event mentioned in the brief article “Punching up the Message,” from Dec. 1, was an annual event sponsored by Aid for AIDS of Nevada, not by students.

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ILLUSTRATION: AARON MCKINNEY

Is there something in the water? That question applies to more than just the belly-achin’ runners who turned up sick after the recent Las Vegas marathon, during which participants drank fire-hydrant water from trash cans. From the economy to police-involved shootings to the general apocalyptic drift of things, you couldn’t be blamed for wondering if a mutant strain of crazy has seeped into our water supply. Just when you thought it was safe to drink out of a trash can ...

tanley Gibson didn’t fall through the cracks. He was practically pushed, as the troubled veteran scrambled for a foothold that would keep him from slipping into the void. Gibson’s sad story ended Monday when police officers shot him dead outside a northwest apartment complex. Confusion and psychosis drove him to the wrong door. It was the last of many that closed in his face. Gibson suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and ran out of anti-anxiety medication in late November. His doctor at the VA canceled an appointment and wouldn’t refill the prescription. Two weeks later, on Saturday, Gibson went off the deep end. Like a lot of people touched by mental illness, his family turned to police. After he was arrested Saturday for chasing cars, Gibson’s wife, Rhonda, asked that he be detained for a three-day psychiatric evaluation. As the Las Vegas Sun reported in 2009, the Clark County Detention Center is the largest mental health facility in Southern Nevada, serving hundreds of inmates with serious disorders that cause them to commit crimes. The jail houses more psych patients than the Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital. Gibson got out after eight hours, before he could be evaluated or treated. When he came home on Sunday, he had no recollection of going to jail, Rhonda Gibson told the ReviewJournal. That day, he went to UMC twice for treatment, and left both times. His life didn’t have to end outside that apartment complex. He was asking for help, for stability. If the community can’t help someone like Stanley Gibson, then how is it supposed to help thousands of others who suffer from mental illness? Jails and emergency rooms shouldn’t be the only options for people in the throes of a mental health crisis. Gibson needed medication and guidance, not bullets and deadly force. Unfortunately for him, he lived in a community that’s got a bigger supply of law enforcement than resources for the mentally ill. And that is what’s really crazy. DECEMBER 15, 2011 | CITYLIFE

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Why Dean ‘Magic Beans’ Heller should endorse Obama

ean Heller, Nevada’s unelected senator, doesn’t think millionaires should get food stamps. Heller’s uncharacteristic assault on the 1 percent was tucked into the Republican Senate bill, sponsored by Heller, to extend the payroll tax cut, which is scheduled to expire at the end of the month. The cost of extending the tax cut is estimated at $120 billion. Heller figured eliminating food stamps for millionaires would help offset that cost.

Since only people who have incomes less than 130 percent of the poverty line are eligible for food stamps, Heller’s innovative idea would actually save the American treasury perhaps as much as zero dollars. Oh, wait. There was one guy in Michigan who won $2 million in the lottery last spring, and still collected food stamps. As CNN reported recently, that guy is the only known millionaire recipient of food stamps in the United States of America. The maximum

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monthly food stamp payment for a one-perHeller hopes to pay for the tax cut primarson household is $200. So Heller’s plan to ily by slashing the federal workforce. Because eliminate that guy’s food stamps would save what better way to fix the economy than roughly enough money to offset payroll tax throwing thousands more people out of work? cuts for two working Americans. And as every Republican will tell you, the I suggest John Ensign and Brian Sandoval. tax cut must be paid for somehow. If not for them, Heller wouldn’t even be in To which I humbly ask, Why? the Senate. When Republicans clamor for cutting Alas, Heller’s legislation, like its Demotaxes on big business and millionaires, they cratic counterpart, was defeated. Congress don’t demand that the tax cuts be paid for by still has to come up with a plan by the end of spending cuts elsewhere. the month or taxes on most of us will go up On the contrary, Republicans argue, veheby about $1,000 next year. mently, that tax cuts pay for themselves by Harry Reid and his Democratic colleagues stimulating the economy and creating more, originally wanted to cut your payroll taxes even not less, federal revenue. The belief that tax more, and pay for it by taxing millionaires. cuts generate more revenue is the “fundaHeller and virtually every other Senate Repubmental” — to use Gingrich’s favorite word lican voted against giving you a bigger tax cut. — premise underlying the right’s beloved It’s a moving target, but as this was writtrickle-down economic theory. ten, the Democrats still wanted to give you Indeed, that is the sum total of the a bigger tax cut, just not as big as they had economic “plan” offered by Gingrich and originally hoped. And to pay for it, they every other Republican: Cut taxes and the would still tax millionaires, just not as much economy will grow. Tax cuts are magic beans. as they originally hoped. And yet Republicans The latest bill from the claim payroll tax cuts HELLER HOPES TO Democrats also — wait provided to working for it — eliminates food Americans have failed to PAY FOR THE TAX stamps for millionaires. spark economic growth, CUT PRIMARILY While the verdict may and those tax cuts just BY SLASHING still be out on Dean Heller, make the deficit bigger. Harry Reid is not an idiot. Republicans also insist THE FEDERAL He, or maybe more acObama’s economic poliWORKFORCE. curately, his staff, knows cies have failed miserably. full well millionaires don’t Hmm. Remember the get food stamps. You have $787 billion stimulus to wonder if the Democrats stuck that absurd package Republicans hate so much? About millionaire-food-stamp stuff in the bill just a third of it — $243 billion — was tax cuts. A to make fun of Republicans. Like Heller. Or year ago, Obama caved to Republicans and Newt Gingrich. extended the Bush tax cuts ($400 billion Your Republican presidential frontrunover two years), while also extending some ner has also been lollygagging around the of Obama’s tax cuts for small business ($150 country telling people millionaires get food billion) and enacting the payroll tax cut that is stamps. Now, you may suspect that Gingrich, about to expire ($110 billion). a self-proclaimed expert on every conceivAll totaled, Obama has presided over $900 able subject, should know better. And you billion in tax cuts in his first term, according would be pretty much missing the point of to the Center for American Progress analysis. Newton Leroy Gingrich. BTW, during George W. Bush’s first term, Gingrich’s reckless disregard for the truth tax cuts totaled $574 billion in today’s dollars, is inflated by more than enough arrogance according to CAP. and propelled by more than enough pomIf they weren’t blinded by their politiposity to easily overpower any mere fact that cal ambition and obsessed with lying about Newt might have accidentally accrued while the president — if Heller and his fellow waiting to collect his six-figure honorarium Republicans valued intellectual consistency at a policy conference in the beltway. — they wouldn’t attack the president. They’d Anyway,even Heller and Gingrich know you endorse him. can’t get raise the estimated $120 billion cost of HUGH JACKSON blogs at the Las Vegas Gleaner extending the tax cut just by taking away one (www.lasvegasgleaner.com) and contributes to KSNV Michigan lottery winner’s food stamps. Channel 3.

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The shame of the BLM

orty years ago this week, the American people spoke with one voice on an issue that clearly touched the heart of the nation. The Wild Horse and Burro Act was signed into law, over the objections of the powerful cattle industry. Congress was flooded with more letters and telegrams about wild mustangs than for any other issue save the Vietnam War. They insisted that wild horses must be preserved on public lands. That demand became law. But it is doubtful horse lovers are popping champagne corks to celebrate. The law, or what’s left of it, is a hollow farce, a piss-poor replica of what we thought we were getting, about as authentic as a gift-shop Jackalope. The timing of the anniversary oozes irony. Forty years later, teams of mercenary horse hunters prowl Nevada’s public lands. They are paid a bounty, about $350 per captured animal. The two principal contractors that do this work have raked in tens of millions from their friends in the Bureau of Land Management. And I do mean friends. Some of those awarded fat contracts formerly worked for the Department of the Interior. Right now, in an area of Northern Nevada known as the Calico complex, wild horses are running in terror across some of the roughest terrain in the West. Calico was the site of the bloodiest mustang roundup in history. Two years ago, I was there for part of it. BLM ignored all warnings about conducting a huge roundup in the middle of winter. The contractors used helicopters to frighten the mustangs, running them for miles across snow-covered ground, their hooves smashing onto sharp volcanic rocks. Dozens died on the spot. Some pregnant mares aborted their young. Others died in holding pens. A few literally ran their feet off — their hooves were worn to bloody stumps, so they collapsed and died. I have lost count of all the promises the BLM has made in the 25 years I have covered wild horses. But the pace of broken promises has accelerated in the past few years, since

former Nevada BLM director Bob Abbey ascended to the job as national director. Every few months, it seems, Mr. Abbey issues a news release in which he swears that the program is turning a corner, that it will be more open, that he welcomes new ideas, even public-private partnerships, and on and on. But as soon as the microphones are off, it’s business as usual — more roundups, more horses stuck in pens on private ranches owned by BLM-connected pals. That is where they stay for the rest of their miserable lives. BLM has done its best to keep the public far from the roundups, though they make a show of bringing in media crews for tightly controlled observation sessions. There’s a good reason. The roundups are a bloody business, and there is no getting around it. Hundreds of horses have been run to death, or died of thirst or stress, or suffered injuries during the traumatic helicopter assaults. Advocates have captured video snippets of chopper pilots who smack into individual mustangs from the air. I’ve seen the BLM’s hired guns kick burros in the head, just to get their attention. This week, on the same day Abbey promised to ask his contractors to be more careful about the mayhem they inflict on horses, a mustang advocate recorded video of a BLM contractor repeatedly jamming a cattle prod into a band of scared burros. A few feet away, one of the government’s observers watched but didn’t say a damned thing. My friend Jerry Reynoldson, who has probably done more to help wild horses than anyone, stopped short of predicting that there won’t be any left in 40 years, but he describes the future as “dismal.” “They promise this,they promise that,they offer partnerships,say they want new ideas, but it is always the same.Round up the horses and stick them in holding pens,” Reynoldson says.“In 2005,they paid $500,000 for a study about how to increase horse adoptions,then ignored it.They stack the deck with friends of

the cattle industry every time there is a review, BLM has omitted the effects of long-term and their allies always say whatever is needed.” livestock grazing from its evaluations of range As with everything in American life these conditions. days, might makes right. The beef industry A planned study by the National Acadwants the horses gone from public ranges, emies of Science won’t help. The panel is and BLM is happy to comply. “BLM knows already stacked with members whose ties they can just wear people to the cattle industry are down,” Reynoldson says. easily documented. NAS THE WILD HORSE will be out with a report “Few people can stay on top PROTECTION of this, can stay angry all that supports whatever the time. People have other LAW IS A HOLLOW BLM’s policy of the moissues. ... BLM knows that ment is, and that will be FARCE. all but the most dedicated that. Those who hoped advocates will wear down that Obama would be eventually.” more sympathetic than his BLM plays a lot of games with numbers. rootin’-tootin’ predecessor have been greatly There might be 25,000 horses still in the wild. disappointed. As with so many other issues, Maybe. According to the 40-year-old law, Obama has been completely absent. the herds are supposed to be preserved on the Will we still have wild horses on public same lands they roamed when the law went lands 40 years from now? Guess we should into effect, but more than 22 million acres ask the cattle barons. Because in today’s of mustang country are now mustang-free. America, might makes right. All hail the Instead, the public land is used to support “free market.” privately owned cattle. There are 50 times as GEORGE KNAPP is a Peabody Award-winning many cattle as horses on the range, yet it’s the investigative reporter for KLAS Channel 8. Reach him at horses that are deemed a threat to the land. gknapp@klastv.com

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THE WEEK

What a drag it is getting towed

It can be difficult to get satisfaction after your car has been illegally hauled away BY KRISTY TOTTEN

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n July 23, 2007, Cheryl Gearhart started the morning the way she always did, at 5:15 a.m., by walking her dog. She put the rescued pup on a leash and walked out the door when she noticed her car — a brand-new Mazda 3 hatchback — was missing. It had been parked outside her house in the Tapestry neighborhood of northwest Las Vegas just hours before, in a spot between her driveway and a red zone, where she was careful not to block the fire hydrant. She called Metro to report the vehicle stolen. “They said, ‘Oh, Quality Towing has it,’” Gearhart recalls. “I said, ‘This is a city of Las Vegas street. Did I get a ticket?’ They said no.” She called the towing yard, but it was closed. When it opened, she says, Quality Towing claimed the property-management company,Terra West,had authorized the tow, but refused to tell her who had called, and refused to return her car. Throughout the day, Gearhart called and e-mailed Kristin Remhoff, the property manager at the time, demanding to know who had requested the tow, and who would pay to return the car. Terra West denied requesting a tow, but insisted that the street was private and the towing was legal. “The HOA was of no help,” Gearhart says.“There were calls back and forth.The towing company hung up on me.” So she called her city councilman. Shortly after, the towing company called her, apologized for the unwarranted towing, and returned the car at no charge. “I didn’t get the car back until 8 o’clock that night, and it was only because Steve Ross’ office had called,” Gearhart says. But the problems weren’t over. Her car had been towed in gear, with the emergency brake on, and the electronic locks and door frames were damaged by a Slim-Jim. She took the car to People’s Cheryl Gearhart a

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THE WEEK TOWING Mazda, where she spent four hours and $227 having it assessed, and, she says, discovered that the damage had voided her warranty. In mid-August, Gearhart hired a lawyer, seeking $25,000 to cover the damage to her car, as well as depreciation, warranty and lawyer fees. Quality countered with $10,000. Gearhart would not accept. She had already paid $2,200 in legal fees, and the remainder wasn’t going to cover the decreased value of the vehicle. Arbitration continued, which she lost for not being able to prove where she was parked. But Gearhart was not deterred. “I was right. Why would I back down?” she said. But eventually she did back down, when her lawyer, Peter Chasey, dropped her case in early 2009 before mediation. Gearhart’s contract job at UNLV had not been renewed and she couldn’t afford another lawyer. In June 2009, she accepted a check for $1,868, to cover repairs to her car, and tried to move on.

arol Petty, a former member of the Tapestry HOA board, says police have to request towing from public streets. After Gearhart’s incident, Silver State Towing replaced Quality as the neighborhood’s authorized towing company — but the two share the same parent company, United. “It’s a different entity, it’s not a different owner,” Petty says.“They still do the same thing.” Petty sympathizes with Gearhart, and says the company’s practices were often questionable. “They would come through every so often and would sweep the whole neighborhood and take eight, 10, 12 cars,” Petty said. “They would let people get lax and would come through and make their money.” On one occasion, she says, the company towed a serviceman who was parked in an empty court. The HOA paid for half of his towing costs and advised him to park on dirt lots. Another time, a man had his car towed from a shared driveway as he was unloading groceries from his trunk. (Quality Towing did not respond to requests for comment.) “If there would have been a full HOA, it would have been different,” Petty says of Gearhart’s case. “But it’s Terra West and they do what they want.”

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vehicle or provide oral or written notice to the owner or operator of the vehicle at least 48 hours before the association may direct the removal of the vehicle,” says Elisabeth Daniels of the Nevada Department of Business CHERYL G EA R H A & Industry, which RT oversees the HOA Petty, who moved out ombudsman’s office. of the neighborhood earlier this year, Under this law, says Terra West was rarely responsive to Gearhart should have received notice, which residents.Even as a board member,to get an is usually written by the towing company. e-mail response, she would have to CC 10 or 12 In her search for justice, Gearhart never of her neighbors.(Terra West did not respond to turned to the Nevada Transportation Authorphone calls and e-mails regarding this story.No ity, but she should have — and still can.“There one was CC’d.) is no bright-line standard for the timeliness of tow complaints,” said NTA lawyer Jim Day. simple roundabout in state law creates Another case of “ghost authorization” a headache for victims like Gearhart. recently turned up in the news, and the NTA When a car is towed illegally, it’s difficult to was able to correct the problem ... mostly. pin down the blame. According to Nevada law, the state Real n May 6 of this year, Tow Guys took 47 Estate Division can order property managevehicles from a privately owned dirt lot ment companies or HOAs to pay towing fees during First Friday, collecting about $14,300 in if they have authorized a wrongful towing. revenue for the cars at $305 a pop. In Gearhart’s case, Terra West denied makThose towed said they had parked there ing the call. before without problems, and had never seen The towing company, on the other hand, “no parking” signs. can only get into trouble if the tow was unThe Nevada Transportation Authority, authorized. Not surprisingly, Quality Towing which oversees towing in the state, deterclaimed to have an OK from the HOA. mined the company would have to repay Because both parties claim innocence, the towees for lack of signs, failure to notify law burden then falls on the resident to prove fault. enforcement and other offenses. But half a It becomes a game of hide the ball, with each year after the incident, Neil Gilfillan says he organization pointing fingers at the other. has still not been paid. While HOAs can cancel agreements with On Sept. 15, the NTA approved a settletowing companies if problems arise, the law ment by the Nevada attorney general and does not require them to do so. Instead, corTow Guys, agreeing that Tow Guys would rectional measures are left to the Nevada not admit wrongdoing, but would refund Transportation Authority to enforce. each owner $305, so long as he or she filed a Although she did not know it at the time, claim within a 30-day window. Gilfillan and Gearhart’s strongest defense was Nevada a 14 others filed their claims on Sept. 20, but Revised Statute 487.038, a law that says cars said Tow Guys denied payment, saying the in violation of an HOA’s parking rules must window opened Sept. 27, and his claim arreceive 48-hour notice before being towed rived too early. — a required courtesy Gearhart says she did On Nov. 30, an NTA hearing was held to not receive. determine whether Tow Guys was justiExceptions are made when a car is in danfied in denying the earlybirds payment, but gerous condition, is blocking an entrance the meeting was canceled when Tow Guys or is parked in a fire lane or handicap zone, agreed to pay up by Wednesday, Dec. 14. but otherwise, “the association must post On Monday, an employee of Tow Guys written notice in a conspicuous place on the said the entire First Friday group had been

“I WAS R IGHT. W HY WOULD I BACK DOWN? ”

refunded. The man would not give his name but said he had spoken to a Review-Journal reporter, which leads CityLife to believe he is general manager Clark Whitney. “None of them deserved it, but they all got their money,” he said, insisting that the towing was legal, and there were signs present, but someone had torn them down. According to the Tow Guy, a man who purported to be the lot’s manager came to the towing company’s physical address and asked the company to remove the vehicles. Without questioning his authority, the company towed the cars. An NTA investigation revealed that the property owner was a woman in Chicago, who did not authorize the towing and had no relationship with the company,but the“manager” was never contacted. Asked who the faux manager is, the Tow Guy would only say, “it’s all in the investigation.” He said he contacted the supposed manager after the incident, but the man said he wanted nothing to do with it.Furthermore, Tow Guy said, authorization from owners is not required by law. So, in his mind, approval by a manager was enough. “We tow from apartments,” he said. “The owners don’t know; we’re authorized by managers.” The man from Tow Guys denied wrongdoing, but says they decided to refund the First Friday group to avoid other fines. “The biggest problem we had was the printer, who printed our invoices, left off the phone number,” he said, making the towing company, which is located on North Nellis, difficult to contact. A May 27 Review-Journal article, however, reported that says the company was cited for 324 counts of violating 18 towing regulations, including failure to notify law enforcement, improper authorization of property owners, and others that carried a fine of up to $10,000 each. Instead, the NTA gave the company a written warning. On Wednesday, Dec. 14 (after our deadline), the NTA was to hold a follow-up hearing to determine if the remaining 14 plaintiffs have not been paid. If not, the NTA could start the process to revoke Tow Guys’ license, says Day. Gilfillan checked in at 9 p.m. Tuesday night. “Still no checks today for anyone,” he wrote. “NTA Hearing to close them down is at 10 a.m. tomorrow and I’ll be there with a few things to say.”

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JOHN FREDERICKS

ANIMAL LOVER, FORMER WEATHERMAN

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INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY AMY KINGSLEY

John Fredericks used to be a well-known morning weatherman on KSNV Channel 3. Now he’s like a lot of Las Vegans, unemployed and riding out the economy in a foreclosed home. He’s back after an ill-fated move to Missoula, Mont., where he and his dog, L.J., lived in a donated trailer without water or electricity after weeks of homelessness. He’s back and sober, and hoping to find some sun in the upcoming forecast.

So when you went to Missoula, did you have a plan? I fell in love with the place first through A River Runs Through It. It’s so beautiful there. It’s truly God’s country. L.J. and I got there the 3rd of August, and I was in a U-Haul truck, and I had it for a total of five days. So we were sleeping in the back of a U-Haul parked behind a Taco Bell. After I turned the U-Haul in, then we had no place to go. We got a ride back down to the courthouse, and pretty much camped out on the courthouse lawn for two weeks. How did that feel to someone who was a high-profile figure in Las Vegas? Well, it’s very humbling. It taught me that I didn’t appreciate what I had. The only things that matter are your health and your family. In my case, my family is L.J. Eventually we were kicked out of the courthouse lawn. I finally found a spot up behind the Safeway. But I had to set my cell phone clock to 3:55 a.m. because the sprinklers came on at 4. There were a couple of times where we got soaked by sprinklers. When I wasn’t job-hunting, I was spending my day sitting out on the patio in front of the Safeway, and that’s where I ended up using their bathroom facilities to clean up and shave and shampoo and sponge bath the best I could. And I finally got hired by a woman who runs an animal food bank. I was cleaning out cat kennels every morning, and then I was assisting with the rest of the shelter, and we had over 150 cats there, and you talk about humbling, you’ve never been so humbled as when you’re cleaning out litter boxes for 150 cats every morning. Was the trip to Missoula a good trip for you? At the time, when you’re laying out on the lawn of a courthouse and eating out of a homeless shelter, you can’t imagine things being any worse. But looking back on it now, I know that as time goes by, I’m really going to respect the fact that I did it. The only thing I have regrets about is leaving my home and leaving Jordan. The home, because when I got back, it had been completely gutted by squatters. How long have you been back in Las Vegas? It’s been about six and a half weeks. For the first four, I had no water or power. And I had the police come to my door three different times because there were reports there was a squatter living in my home. About two and a half weeks ago, a long-time friend of mine that I’ve known ever since I moved here, knocked on my door and he said, “Give me your bills, and I’m going to go pay them today.” So far the bank hasn’t contacted me, and as long as I have a place to stay, there’s no point in me leaving. At the end of the day, broadcasting or no broadcasting, Las Vegas is my home. I’ve been here since 1996, my dog Jordan, his memorial is out at the pet cemetery and I told him I’d never leave him. What about those harassing phone calls that went public. What are your prospects now? A lot of people are just assuming I’m going to go back into broadcasting. The chances of that here are slim to none, and slim’s leaving the building. What saddens me more than any thing else is that it took less than five minutes to destroy — or seriously and permanently damage — the 12 years I had before. The regrettable and despicable voice mail messages that I left in an alcoholic blackout. And I finally came to grips with the fact that if I was sober, that never would have happened. So I have nobody to blame but myself. All of my family members were dead by the time they were 53. My big sister died of a heroin overdose. And my other sister called me on her 53rd birthday to tell me she’d finally broken the family 52 curse, and she was dead a month later. And she drank herself to death. Things really started going sideways for me when Jordan died in August of 2007. I’m what they call a blackout alcoholic. Once that first drink hits my lips, that’s it. There are only two possible outcomes, and one is to pass out, and the other is to black out. The blackout is sort of like a fugue state, you’re functioning, but you just don’t know what you’re doing. That’s what happened when I left those voice mails. How long have you been sober? Well,I had a slip when I first got back into town.I’m working on a little over five weeks.I would look for any excuse to drink. And I hate to say it, but I still do. But I’m not a happy drunk. I’m not a mean drunk, but I’m a sad drunk. I’ve destroyed so many relationships I can’t even count. I didn’t always do stupid things when I was drinking, but whenever I did something stupid I was drunk. Nobody’s going to hire me if they think that I’m drinking. If somebody takes a chance on me, I’d be glad to do random or even daily drug and alcohol tests. I think there is a chance that some local radio or television station may give me a chance. I think the majority of people would say, “Good for you. He was down, you gave him a chance, let’s see what happens.” a

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THE WEEK

The western way Why do rural counties have higher rates of suicide? BY AMY KINGSLEY

Hock block How would pawn shops fit in where they’re not now allowed? YOU CAN GET MARRIED by Elvis, renew your vows with a vampire, get matching tattoos at Precious Slut and book a room at the Aruba Hotel — but you can’t pawn an engagement ring or buy a piece of used jewelry. That may change if the Las Vegas City Council lifts the ban on pawn shops on Las Vegas Boulevard below Charleston. If pawn brokers did move in, they’d join a colorful parade of small businesses. With the exception of a few Chinese and barbecue joints, here’s a rundown of this eclectic noman’s land between downtown and the Strip: 12 2 1 2 1 6 1 10 2 3 4 4 2 2 1 1 3 1 1 2 1

motels youth hostels phallic monument to the ego of Bob Stupak pay phones hooker tattoo shops bail bond business wedding chapels Cuban restaurants sex shops vacant buildings vacant lots casinos pharmacies (one Tiffany’s Café) bar (Dino’s) liquor store souvenir shops abandoned strip club active strip club confused tourists frantically consulting a map of the Strip dreadful stench near White Cross Drugs (rancid fryer grease? Vomit? Death?)

AMY KINGSLEY

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Being alone is bad for your health. It’s one of the reasons suicide rates are so high in rural counties. In 2010, the suicide rate for Clark County was 18.5 and Washoe County was 21.5. All the other counties combined had a rate of 22.5 (suicides per 100,000 people). The suicide rate for the state of Nevada dropped from 20.2 to 19.5, an improvement in a year that didn’t see a lot of them. But it’s still almost twice the national average, and puts us smack in the middle of the “Suicide Belt” that runs through Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and New Mexico. Think of it as an emotional Tornado Alley that takes hundreds of lives every year and leaves psychological wreckage in its wake. There’s a meteorological explanation for Tornado Alley, but suicide experts are only beginning to understand why suicide rates are so high in the sparsely populated West. “The experts aren’t really sure, and they’re making some assumptions,” said Linda Flatt of the Nevada Office of Suicide Prevention. “It probably is related to the isolation and the poor access

I’m with the brand On the scene at the opening of the Lynyrd Skynyrd restaurant

to mental health services. The two biggest risk factors for suicide are mood disorders and substance abuse.” Both are treatable conditions, Flatt said, but in rural Nevada, treatment centers may be a four- or five-hour drive away. Budget cuts have closed some rural clinics, making it even more difficult to seek treatment. Then there are the cultural factors. Residents of the rural West tend to subscribe to the frontier mentality that frowns upon seeking help, Flatt said. They also keep guns, which are the most effecTHINK OF IT AS tive tools for taking life, and the AN EMOTIONAL method most commonly used by TORNADO men who commit suicide. Social isolation can lead to deALLEY. pression and suicidal thoughts. That may be one of the contributing factors for Nevada’s high rates of suicide. Even the cities have flimsy social institutions, but the rural counties have it even worse. Neighbors may live miles away,and community events may be scarce. “Connectedness is a protective factor for suicide,” Flatt said. In Nevada, at least, the high rates of rural suicide may also be related to a statistical quirk. Because suicide rates are measured per 100,000 residents, a single suicide in a very small county can create a rate that’s artificially high. It’s one of the reasons the Nevada State Health Division combines all rural counties. But Flatt said the official rate is an accurate reflection of a regional problem. “When you look at a visual representation of suicide trends, the Intermountain West is where everything lands.”

t last, Vegas finally has a beer-and-BBQ joint staffed by busty young babes. About time! Between Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar, PBR Rockbar, Gilley’s and the Las Vegas Country Saloon, we were in danger of alienating the good ol’ boys who keep our economy firing, especially at this rodeo-ing time of year. Thankfully, DriveThis! Entertainment, the company behind Luxor’s Tacos & Tequila, Mirage’s Rhumbar and the Forum Shops’ Casa Fuente, identified this alarming shortage of boobies and brisket just in time, licensing the Lynyrd Skyrnyd name for a down-homey new eatery at the Excalibur. Lynyrd Skynyrd BBQ & Beer is pure Amurrican: The meat is red, the beer is cold, the waitresses’ ass cheeks peek demurely from their expertly frayed Daisy Dukes, and the walls are paneled with weathered old boards from an actual barn. It’s the dining equivalent of the log-cabin pedigree so prized by politicians. Last week’s grand opening was choked

with the usual suspects: freeloading journalists, washed-up celebs (was that Jose Canseco?), fish-lipped party girls and an army of society cougars decked out in the finest Hee-Haw wear Nordstrom has to offer. Just like Jesus intended, the men took advantage of circulating trays of pork sliders, while the Botoxed bulimics swooped in on the rustic Mason jars full of booze. ThenLynyrdSkynyrdtookthestage,more or less. Only one original member still plays with the band; most died in a plane crash in 1977. At what point do you just admit you’re a tribute band? Totally moot, because at this point Skynyrd is more of a brand than a band,anyway.And the brand came through, serving up the rusty classics beloved by bikers, bullriders and bimbos who are one beer away from starring in a Girls Gone Wild DVD: “Gimme Three Steps,” “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Free Bird.” From the beaming, boozy faces, I’d say Lynyrd Skynyrd BBQ & Beer will be a runaway success. Tourists are tired of pretentious foodie joints with all-caps names like FIX, STACK and BRAND. This is a recession, and Joe Sixpack has spoken: Less glitz, more tits ’n’ grits! SARAH JANE WOODALL

A woman in the front of the room asks what the goal of meditation is. “To ‘just be,’ ” a woman in the back answers. “Actually,” Vimala gently corrects her, “it’s to not be.”

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Bhikkhuni Vimala at the Sahara West Library

On the mat

‘Doing nothing’ can be good for your health BY KRISTY TOTTEN

IN A SMALL YOGA STUDIO in the Arts Factory, 15 or so people sit in the dark. Some lean on walls, others sit cross-legged on blankets, spines perked up straight. It is silent, except for one voice. Attheheadoftheroom,intheglowofasmall lamp, a Buddhist nun from Wisconsin leads the meditation,a practice of“loving kindness.” BhikkhuniVimala(pronouncedbee-coonie wee-mala) has a shaved head and wears maroon robes. She sits upright on a low, wooden bench atop a yoga mat. Her voice is gentle. Focus on your breath, she directs. Scan your body.Relax.If you’re feeling pain,readjust,but also notice how the discomfort passes. Everything is temporary. Pain, sorrow, anger. Love yourself, she says. It’s the key to loving others. We’ve all heard it before: You can’t care for someone else until you’ve cared for yourself. But how long do most of us contemplate that? On this occasion, it will be 30 minutes. After sending love to oneself, Vimala urges the class to share it with others — to a loved one, an enemy, the people in the room, the people in the world.

Music blasts from the Bar + Bistro, steps away from Blue Sky Yoga Studio. A motorcycle speeds past the window on Charleston Boulevard. Students rustle. It’s a challenge to keep focused on the breath. Distractions are good, the nun says. Distractions are an opportunity to strengthen the meditation practice. When the mind wanders, don’t resist, she says. Acknowledge the thought then return to the breath. Even monks and nuns get distracted,Vimala says. If they did not, there would be nothing to practice. Meditation would not be necessary. The session ends with a moment of silence. “Namaste,” Bhikkhuni Vimala says, and bows. The class bows back. Next, still sitting in the dark, an informal dharma talk begins.There are lots of questions. “My face tingles, should I embrace that?” (No.) “Is meditating supposed to be an altered state of consciousness?” (No.) “So I’m not supposed to levitate?” Everyone laughs.

editation can mean different things to different people. It can be spiritual or religious, or a nonsectarian practice in relaxation and insight. For Greg Pergament, president of Lotus in the Desert, it’s about awareness and recovery. In addition to Lotus’ Sunday meetings at the Sahara West Library, Greg practices daily, and conducts a class called “Desert Dharma” for recovering addicts, which combines Buddhist teachings with the 12 steps often used by addiction-recovery groups. Pergament is in his 23rd year of sobriety, and recognized the synchronicity of the two practices,particularlyrelatingtothe11thstep,which refers to“a God as we understood Him.” It’s a step nonbelievers often get hung up on, Pergament says, which is where Buddhism clicks. “You can have a god and still practice Buddhism, and if you don’t have a god, it still works,” he said. Every Monday night, Pergament meets his donation-based Desert Dharma class at Lohan Spiritual and Cultural Center in Chinatown to practice Vipassana meditation, like Bhikkhuni Vimala’s session,and have dharma talks. The class draws overeaters, drug users, alcoholics, sex addicts, shopoholics and others who want to curb habitual behaviors. Meditation, and its ongoing practice, helps suppress compulsions, he says. “We know in our souls that craving leads to suffering,” Pergament says. “What can you do in each moment, each day, to live without suffering?” It’s a question with an ever-changing answer.

hen Jacquie Bundren was a young girl, she would walk to town, four miles from her family’s farm. On one occasion, returning home with her older cousin on a cold day, she wanted to give up. “Let’s see who can get to the tree,” said her older cousin, encouraging her to keep on. Bundren agreed, and the two began walking. Her cousin beat her there, and Bundren couldn’t understand why. “Jacquie, look at your path,” her cousin said, pointing at the tracks in the snow.

Bundren’s path zigzagged back and forth, while her cousin’s went directly from Point A to Point B. “If you want something, you have to head straight for it.” It’s a lesson she’s held on to, and one Buddhism helps her achieve. Bundren has been practicing Buddhism since the late ’80s. She meditates each morning in a temple in her walk-in closet, and also joins the Lotus in the Desert group every week. Groups, she says, provide support. Still, she says, the religious aspect is not required to practice meditation in any setting. “Even if you do it at a very superficial level, you don’t have to proclaim to be Buddhist to reap the benefits,” she says.For Bundren,those benefits include a shift in demeanor, from being more accepting of others’ viewpoints to consciously choosing words and actions. She notes the “10-10-10” rule: How important is something going to be in 10 minutes, 10 months, 10 years? “My anger is directed better,” Bundren says. “I pick and choose what’s really important.”

editation has a physical aspect as well, says Leanne Earnest, a doctor of psychology who has been practicing meditation for 15 years. Studies by Jon Kabat Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center show that “mindfulness-based stress-reduction programs” can help with chronic disorders. After eight weeks of MBSR practice, researchers note that people feel better. “Researchers have also found improvements in both physical and psychological functioning, which include better immune functioning and an improved ability to manage pain and stress,” Earnest says. “Meditators have been found to have improved flexibility of thought, an improved ability to entertain multiple points of view and see the larger picture. Emotional problems with depression and anxiety were much improved. “And of course the long-term meditators report a general sense of awareness and freedom in their lives, that is freedom from automaticity and the mindless habitual cycles we sometimes find ourselves in. I think it just keeps getting better.” Find Blue Lotus Insight Meditation Group, which features speakers like Bhikkhuni Vimala, and Lotus in the Desert at www.meetup.com. The next Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction class runs Feb. 9-March 29 at Stillpoint Center for Spiritual Development. Call 243-4040. a

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music from an honest place when you know it goes to a bigger audience. But it can be harder to get into that mind-set. How did the characteristics and process of the songwriting evolve? Some of the songs I made started with just music, or chords, or a riff. “The Way We Were Before” was me and a laptop and a MIDI controller. Those instruments were replaced,but ...it was just a melody I had. As other songs came, I applied lyrics. Other songs were based on lyrics first, but [“The Way”] wasn’t. I wasn’t sure I wanted to put it on the record. As time went on, I’d experiment with lyrics and stories.[With] a couple of those songs,I had three versions that were totally different. They were [me asking myself], how can I sing this? I never sang, and I’m still not comfortable with my voice. I don’t even know what range to sing. That evolved over an year or year and a half, too. Were you apprehensive at any point about singing lead? Yeah. Originally I would think I could make instrumental songs I’d MARK STOERMER put online, or instrumentals that would maybe work for The Killers to start an idea. Or if I wrote lyrics, I could put together a side project band where I find another singer or sing part of the time,like if I was the Pete Townsend of the project.The more I went on, there was nothing like that, there was no one it would have worked with. There wasn’t any obvious way to do it than the way I did it. But I wasn’t sure where it was going at first, and it was a struggle to get the vocals to a place where I was comfortable having other people hearing it.I would also experiment with different keys. I wasn’t sure how to deliver the melody. You haven’t charged anyone for the album yet. What was behind that decision? It’s accepting the way things are today. That’s how a lot of people get music these days, and I’d rather people hear it than not hear it.More people might hear it because I did that. But for iTunes, I’m not looking to make big money off it. It’s a small project and I funded it myself. The iTunes [release] is to get people to hear it because there’s an audience still that checks iTunes and doesn’t know free downloading, or it gets recommended to people from something else,and I’ve heard from people that said they’d like to pay for it. Did you have any desire at any time to check in with a label and see if there was any interest? Through [The Killers’] contract, Island [Re-

“I WASN’T SURE WHERE IT WAS GOING AT FIRST.”

COURTESY

Mark Stoermer didn’t plan to be the third Killer to release a solo album. But experimentation eventually birthed the selfreleased Another Life BY MIKE PREVATT

THE KILLERS’ HIATUS has now seen three solo projects come from its members. Singer Brandon Flowers took the lead with last fall’s Flamingo. Drummer Ronnie Vannucci’s Big Talk followed with a self-titled album this summer. And bassist Mark Stoermer released his own music last month: a 10track album called Another Life. It may be the least premeditated of the three. It has no label or promotional campaign, and it’s free. (It may be available for purchase on iTunes in January.) It emerges two years after initial germination because it was an exercise more than it was a project. “I kind of was just playing around and experiment-

ing and writing songs,” he says during a phone chat. “I wasn’t even sure where I was going with it ... or if I wanted to sing songs, because I’d never sung before or written lyrics two years ago when this all started. And as the ideas developed, I wanted to see it through.” Another Life reveals a wide variety of influences and textures, from the Dylan-like strummer “Everyone Loves the Girl” to the synth-dominant “The Way We Were Before,” which could have been a contender for the new Killers album. What about the songs on the album made you think, I can share these? I think I’m not embarrassed by them. I’m too close to the songs to have a real perspective. I didn’t set out to release them right away … but then I was like, whoever wants to hear them can. Do you feel that these songs were made naturally, without much of the self-consciousness and pressure that I imagine comes with making a Killers album, as a result? I think there’s a little of that. They definitely came from an honest place — not to say you can’t make

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cords] had to OK it. They’re not putting out many new releases or signing new artists. The major labels are not in the best place right now, as many people know. I think it was to my benefit that it’s a self-release. I can promote it myself and online, and I have full control of how it comes together. I don’t think [a major label] could have done much, and maybe it would have hurt more than helped. Do you have any desire to get a band together and perform these songs? I think about it, but at the moment, because [The Killers] are in the studio and writing, I’m too busy for that at the moment.The other thing: The album’s short, and I don’t know that every song can be played live. I’d need more material. Has your work here influenced what you’re now doing with The Killers? Is Another Life a new personal musical foundation for you? It could be ... since I put it out, I thought the best thing is I have this new avenue that, no matter how big or small this is,I have an audience that can hear me, and I can put out a song whenever I want. It wasn’t planned that way, but it’s nice to know I have that avenue now,even as it’s not even comparable to the audience The Killers have. But I would want that [to be a] different thing anyway. Are you still writing songs for the next Killers record, or has the recording process begun? It’s been going back and forth. There are songs done and songs that are being worked on, and we’re planning to write more. So, a 2012 release? I think that’s most likely. We’re hoping it comes out in the summer, but it’s done when it’s done. Can you say what has struck you as most exciting or promising about the work the band has done so far? There’s stuff that’s promising. I think that … what we’re doing right now makes me think if we do it right, it’ll be a record that’s the best of what we do. It’s going to have a little of Sam’s Town, a little of Hot Fuss and a little of Day & Age, but still be moving forward. I think everyone’s on the right page that they want to make the defining record. We’re at that point in our career where we need to make our best record. Every record you make, you want it to be your best. But I think at our age — as a band and as people — we should be at our peak. We need to make a record to reflect that, and in concept, everyone’s on the same page and hopefully, we’ll be able to do that.

Betting on Black Las Vegas gains a major independent label, thanks to OutKast collaborator Sleepy Brown and his 13 Black imprint BY MAX PLENKE

“I

think I’m gonna go on a hot date to the Muppet movie,” Sleepy Brown says shortly after my recorder switches off, to no one in particular. The Dungeon Family/ Organized Noize founder has been speaking this candidly all afternoon, from his homebody lifestyle as a new Summerlinian to the beginnings of his new, Vegas-HQ’d record label, 13 Black, and the role it’s going to play in the Las Vegas music scene. It’s almost opposite the high-profile vibe his vice president, John “Ducky” Slaughter, conveys as he plays interim publicist, running through the Cliffs Notes of Brown’s accomplishments. When Brown walked into the lounge at the Royal, he greeted everyone with a big smile, his Isaac Hayes-ian voice sounding like a pitchless version of the voice you’ve heard on the radio, provided you listened to the radio when Outkast’s “I Like the Way You Move” came out (he sang the chorus). Behind the pop-up studio the videographer’s created,Brown’s manager and label COO Meko Rebo sits quietly, looking like what you’d expect a Russian war tank to look like if that tank were a square-jawed white guy wearing leather shoes. The Sin City move seems unusual given Brown’s history. Dungeon

Family — the Atlanta-bred crew to which Brown belongs and the umbrella collective above OutKast, Goodie Mob, producer powerhouse OrganizedNoize(whichis13Black’snewpresident,RicoWade,Brown and Ray Murray) and most of their breakaway solo efforts, including OutKast’s Big Boi and Cee-Lo Green — gets credited for creating the Southern hip-hop sound. It would make sense for 13 Black’s office to be in another southern location. Like Jacksonville. Or New Orleans. Brown had other ideas. “I’m in Vegas because I want to give Vegas an outlet, like LaFace did for Atlanta,” he says. “When they came, everything changed. That’s what I wanna do: have the new Motown, where you develop artists instead of just look for a single.” To be fair, Brown initially tried to open the label (also being referred to as Dungeon West) in L.A. while he was out there for six years. But after a shortage of investors, Brown’s manager and Vegas-local Rebo talked him into moving four “WE’LL DO ROCK. I’LL hours northeast. It beGO COUNTRY. I WANT came Brown’s goal to be TO BE EVERYTHING.” to 13 Black what Berry Gordy was to Motown, SLEEPY BROWN giving artists a chance instead of the one-hitand-quit philosophy of modern labels. “I’m bringing an old format to the new era,” he says.“These days, if you don’t have that first single jump off, you’re dropped within the week. I like the gimmick thing, but I want to find truly talented musicians.” Through Rebo, Brown picked up Slaughter, the former KUNV station programmer-turned-record label gamut-runner as part of his executive team. “It’s a dream come true to be with a label run by artists,” Slaughter says. “Artists have the opportunity to work with astounding producers and get input from major recording artists transforming so many styles of music right now — and it being one of the first independent major labels based in Las Vegas is exciting.” Another surprise: 13 Black won’t be a hip-hop headquarters, or Dungeon Family’s satellite playground. Brown’s already locked in a rock band from L.A. (The Black Nails), local gangster rap group Pirana Gang and singer/actress Liana Mendoza. “We’re going everywhere,” he says. “We’ll do rock. I’ll go country. I want to be everything.” Everything includes an outlet for his own vanity projects — like the long-awaited third album, Sex, Drugs & Soul. Shortly after the interview comes to a close, Brown’s team clicks away on smart phones, trying to find someone with keys to the Royal’s neighboring, multimillion-dollar recording studio/ property to be used for all 13 Black’s intents and purposes. Royal owner Adam Mizzi was more than happy to offer the outlet. “The Royal House is about independent spirit, and that, of course, includes independent music and artists,” he writes. From the parking garage roof of the new building, the Pride Rock of 13 Black, Brown’s team horses around through a photo shoot, trading digs and goofing off like high school kids. They don’t look like a team opening a label at the beginning of January. But Brown knows how quickly these things can fall apart if you don’t hit the ground running. He knows what his label heroes have done to be successful. And he knows 13 Black can handle it.“I wanna come out here and give talented artists the chance to develop their skills,” he says. “That’s all it is: Come in and conquer.”

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omewhere along the way, Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) just gave up. But how did she wind up here, living in a high-rise apartment in Minneapolis, waking up seemingly every morning in a hungover stupor to an unwritten page of drippy fiction for high school kids? Over the course of Young Adult’s brisk hour-and-a-half, we learn all about Mavis, and we learn a little more about writer Diablo Cody, too. Mostly, though, we learn to appreciate Charlize Theron’s surprisingly immutable sense of dark comedy. This film allows her to take the sort of risks with comedy she already has with heavy-hitting drama. Mavis is more than a subpar writer with an alcohol problem (because how cliché is that?). She’s damaged goods, perpetually looking over her shoulder for her misspent potential to sneak back into her life. Rather than address her downward spiral head on, she chooses another path. When her ex-boyfriend’s wife sends a

mass e-mail announcing the birth of their daughter, Mavis heads home to show Buddy (Patrick Wilson) what he’s been missing out on all these years. Her strategy, in essence, is to steal a happily married man from his wife and infant child. On her first night in mythical Mercury, Minn., Mavis runs into another old classmate at a bar. At first, she doesn’t remember Matt (Patton Oswalt), but then it dawns on her that, as a senior, Matt was bludgeoned within an inch of his life by the school jocks because everyone thought he was gay. Fun times. A few drinks into a night full of them, Mavis begins to see a kindred spirit in Matt, perhaps because they are both defined, at least internally, by what happened in high school. Their rather unconventional relationship becomes the heart of Young Adult, albeit a cold one. We do learn why Mavis can’t seem to let go of the past, specifically her past with Buddy, but in a cutting, well-written comedy, it’s the worsthandled bit of business. After the success of Juno, Diablo Cody became a popular punchline for her esoteric style and slacker characters. But reteamed with Juno director Jason Reitman, she delivers potent comedy with none of Juno’s artificial aftertaste. That’s not to say this is the better film, just that you don’t have to personally know Diablo Cody to get some of the language being thrown around. The big takeaway, though, is Charlize Theron. She has, over and over again, demonstrated she doesn’t mind being ugly onscreen. She’ll add weight, pile on prosthetics and portray almost irredeemable people because it’s more interesting.Mavis Gary is just a bitchwhen we meet her,and no amount of looking like Charlize Theron could change that. Even after Cody plays her hand, we still don’t like Mavis. We may understand her better,but she’s still a wreck of her own making.Unlike Matt,she hasn’t been able to accept where she is the way she can where she was. But to her credit, Theron is in on all the jokes,including the ones at her own character’s expense. YOUNG ADULT Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, directed by Jason Reitman, rated R, 94 mins a

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N O W P L AY I N G tertaining. (MP: 11.24.11) MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (R, 99 mins) The camera

loves Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in nearly every scene here, which details the filming of Laurence Olivier’s The Prince and the Showgirl in 1956, as remembered by youthful third assistant director Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne). She demonstrates complete immersion in Monroe’s physicality, most effectively when she greets the public and instantly turns on “Marilyn.” Award nominations, coming up. (MK: 11.24.11) Green Valley Ranch, Village Square PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (R, 84 mins) Two sisters befriend a dark spirit in their home, in the horror franchise’s prequel. Texas Station, Tropicana PUSS IN BOOTS (PG, 90 mins) Before his life with

Shrek, the flamboyant Puss (Antonio Banderas) was framed for a crime by that ne’er-do-well Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifiankis). RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13, 110 mins) After a scientist Will Rodman (James Franco) fails at curing his father (John Lithgow) of Alzheimer’s disease, he becomes the keeper of a chimp that’s been exposed to experimental drugs and is dangerously intelligent. Surprisingly inspired by 1972’s Conquest of the Planet of the Apes — but don’t expect another sequel. (MK: 08.04.11) Tropicana TOWER HEIST (PG-13, 104 mins) After losing everything to billionaire Arthur Shaw’s (Alan Alda) financial scheme, Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller) and his crew plan revenge. With Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck and Matthew Broderick. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN — PART

BUCK ROGERS (NR, 71 mins) Feature-length com-

pilation of the 1939 serial starring Buster Crabbe as the man who wakes up in the future. Sunday, 2p. The Sci-Fi Center, 900 E. Karen Ave., Suite D-202, 792-4335, www.thescificenter.com. $2.50.

CHICAGO PRESENTS AN EVENING OF HOLIDAY MUSIC AND GREATEST HITS (NR) Adult contem-

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED : Alvin and Simon could only hide from the Southern Nevada Health District inspectors for so long. (Opens wide Dec. 21) 1 (PG-13, 117 mins) Newlyweds Bella and Edward make a baby, but the troublesome little vamperson threatens Bella’s health and peeves the wolves and the vampire coven before it’s even born. A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (R, 90 mins) After years of growing apart, stoners Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) get together for the holidays in New York. Texas Station, Boulder Station THE WAY (NR 115 mins) An American doctor travels to France to recover the remains of his son. He then decides to finish the journey his son started: to The Camino de Santiago, as a way of honoring him. Suncoast, Tropicana

SPECIAL SCREENINGS THE WAY (PG-13) 12:45, 3:50, 7:10, 9:55 IN TIME (PG-13) 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:30, 10:05 THE THING (R) 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (R) 12:30, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:10 ABDUCTION (PG-13) 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 DOLPHIN TALE (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13) 10:00

1984 (R, 113 mins) Big Brother hits the big screen,

in George Orwell’s haunting classic about a totalitarian regime and the one man (John Hurt) willing to thwart it. Monday, 8p. The Sci-Fi Center, 900 E. Karen Ave., Suite D-202, 792-4335, www.thescificenter.com. Free.

porary fave Chicago plays from new album, Chicago XXXIII, as well as old hits. Includes interviews. Thursday, 7p. See www.fathomevents.com for ticket and location info. $10.50-$12.50. DR. WHO NIGHT (NR) Episodes from the BBC television show, chronicling the adventures of the eccentric time-traveling alien and his friends. Friday, 8p. The Sci-Fi Center, 900 E. Karen Ave., Suite D202, 792-4335, www.thescificenter.com. $5 FRAU IM MOND (BY ROCKET TO THE MOON) (NR, 156 mins) Scientist sends a crew by rocket to the moon so they can mine gold, but the crew becomes too competitive. Directed by Fritz Lang. Tuesday, 7:30p. The Sci-Fi Center, 900 E. Karen Ave., Suite D-202, 792-4335, www.thescificenter.com. $4 HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK (NR, 91 mins) Malcontents get invited to suburban party, then take it over in ghastly fashion. Saturday, 8p. The Sci-Fi Center, 900 E. Karen Ave., Suite D-202, 792-4335, www.thescificenter.com. $5 IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (NR, 129 mins) George Bailey (James Stewart) meets the angel (Henry Travers) that just may save him from killing himself on Christmas Eve. No, really, it’s uplifting. Tuesday, 1p. Clark County Library. 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 507-3400. Free. THE MET: LIVE IN HD: THE MAGIC FLUTE (NR, 255 mins) Julie Taymor directs a young cast for this Mozart classic. Wednesday, 6:30p. See www.fathomevents.com for ticket and location info. $16-$24. MONDAY MOVIES (NR) Comedy features presented on a big screen. Monday, 9p. Freakin’ Frog, 4700 S. Maryland Parkway. 597-9702.

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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Now Showing in our DFX Theatre. THE GREATEST MIRACLE 3D (NR) 11:00 1:00 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo opens on Tuesday, December 20th at 7pm. Tix on sale online and at our box office. 3:00 5:00 7:15 9:30 NEW YEAR'S EVE (PG–13) 12:00 2:35 5:20 8:00 10:35 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE -- GHOST THE SITTER (R) 12:30 3:00 5:30 7:45 10:15 12:30 PROTOCOL(PG–13) 10:00 1:00 4:00 7:00 10:00 12:40 ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (PG) 12:15 2:45 5:15 7:30 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG–13) DBox Motion Seating 10:30 1:15 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN 4:10 7:00 9:45 12:40 PART 1 (PG–13) 11:30 2:05 4:45 7:30 10:15 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF HAPPY FEET TWO(PG) 11:45 2:05 4:20 6:45 9:15 SHADOWS (PG–13) 11:00 11:30 1:50 2:15 4:35 5:05 JACK AND JILL (PG) 10:00 7:30 8:00 10:15 10:45 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: IMMORTALS (R) 11:30 2:00 4:30 7:00 9:30 CHIPWRECKED (G) 10:15 10:45 11:15 12:25 12:50 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (R) 1:25 2:35 3:00 3:35 4:40 5:10 5:40 6:45 7:20 8:00 9:00 Advance Tickets Available 9:40 10:05 11:55

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STAGE

BOOKS

Martian chronicle

POPULAR FICTION CORNER!

Onyx Theatre’s holiday satire is the worst play you’ll ever enjoy

the scenery, break character and get bombarded by little rubber tomatoes — supplied to audience members beforehand — as their BY GENERAL CONSENT, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians reward. The sets, wallpapered in Christmas gift-wrap, look more is one of the most awful movies ever made. The 1964 cheapie like Plan Nine from Outer Space, but the movie’s giant robot is is as ridiculous as its premise sounds, pure cinematic torture. impressively re-created and the sound effects are perfect. However, its primitive visuals, misguided solemnity, mawkishPlaying two insufferably cheery tykes, Ben Tucker (an enness and emetic theme song place this uniquely ergy pill on legs) and the ever-delightful Nicole weird opus in an abyss of filmic Hell so deep Unger fling themselves into their roles with WITH A COUPLE that parody is beyond reach. unflagging seriousness of purpose that interOF STRONG By design, Off-Strip Productions’ midnight mittently elevates Martians to High Camp. DRINKS UNDER pageant Santa Claus vs. the Martians is not Gabriel Gentile’s Santa is virtually buried in only as wretched as the flick that inspired it, makeup and costume, but his expressive voice YOUR BELT, it’s sometimes even worse. However, stage and shifty eyes convey a wily old elf. Glenn IT’S BIZARRE Martians has one quality notably absent from Heath (Kimar) channels the original’s bizarre CHRISTMAS FUN. gravitas and Matthew Antonizick (Voldar) plays the movie: It’s actually enjoyable. Were it not for some cheesy — but inoffensive — sex gags, villainy to the hilt. you could even take the kids. In the right frame Otherwise, Martians is so bad it’s good. And of mind, and preferably with a couple of strong drinks under your if that’s not your cup of eggnog, just say it’s past your bedtime. belt, it’s bizarre Christmas fun. SANTA CLAUS VS. THE MARTIANS Friday-Saturday, midnight, through Dec. Director/writer/co-designer John Tomasello went thoroughly 23; Onyx Theatre, 953 E. Sahara Ave., #16, 732-7225, $10. awry with his previous foray to Mars: a Halloween adaptation of Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadcast, reduced to an unprofessional and witless Evil Dead: The Musical ripoff. Here, instead of dragging a great radio drama into the gutter, Tomasello elevates an agonizing motion picture into something amusing. Tomasello clearly loves the ’64 picture and reproduces it with surprising faithfulness (although interpolations from more famous sci-fi pictures get the biggest laughs). If his pacing is drowsy, his staging maladroit and Martians collapses into chaos periodically … well, it strangely works for the show, not against it. The actors, who range from the superb to the rs the Martians Santa Claus Conque A blast from 1964: totally incompetent, forget their lines, bump into BY DAVID MCKEE

Should I buy Zero Day by David Baldacci? How popular is it? As of this writing, it’s No. 11 on the New York Times’ combined print and e-book fiction list. Gist me: An Army officer and his family have been slaughtered in a small town in the coal country of West Virginia. Army investigator John Puller is sent — in an odd and plot-foretellingly way, without the usual backup — to sort it out. Perhaps not surprisingly, deception abounds: Almost nothing, and few of the people, are what they appear to be. Also, there are drug-dealing bikers, an arrogant rich man and his bored, unloved wife, a head-strong lady cop. The hero: Puller is the Army’s best criminal investigator — That sounds: I know — suspiciously like it’s drafting on the popularity of the TV hit NCIS ... Anyway: Puller is the Army’s best criminal investigator, distinguished in Iraq combat but haunted by it, a large loner, comfortable with violence and confident in his ability to handle whomever he’s facing, regardless of the apparent odds. That sounds: I know — suspiciously like Jack Reacher, the large, violent, confident former Army investigator created by writer Lee Child. Anyway: The book exhibits Baldacci’s virtues: ample violence and a plot (involving murder,possible terrorists, a nuclear bomb) that moves fast enough to distract you from the thinness of the characters; he does a credible job evoking the omniscient griminess of a coal-mining town, and takes you through the social strata that exist in small towns. But it also suffers from his shortcomings. The writing can be stiff, and the clichés arrive like a dog that answers the door covered in blood — which actually happens here. And ...: And, if you’ve read even a few thrillers, there comes a moment halfway through the book, when Puller makes a call, sets up an appointment, and suddenly you just know what’s going to happen next, and who the villain is — the formal mechanics of this kind of plot utterly give it away. And yet it takes Puller — the Army’s best criminal investigator — another hundred pages of red herrings to figure it out, as you sit there and say, Dude, the bad guy is ... So, should I buy it? Probably not. Watch NCIS instead. It’s free. SCOTT DICKENSHEETS a

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ART

The Chicken Lady cometh

An appreciation of a great outsider artist in our midst BY QUENTIN BUFOGLE

coyote howls at a full moon dominating the starless desert sky. Beneath, a range of silver-lit mountains hunker like golems. At their base, two silhouetted figures, stark as hieroglyphs, engage in what resembles a ritual dance. There’s the lone totem of a cactus; the colors areorangeandblue.Thesceneisprimal.Tribal. Conceived in the mind and eye of my friend, artist Eduardo Ramirez-Marin. Titled “Under a Nevada Moon,” it now hangs in the Nevada Governor’s Mansion; it was commissioned for Gov. Brian Sandoval, who (word has it) was blown away by it. A bit of irony not lost on a jaded, dyed-in-the-wool cynic such as myself. My friend and Gov. Sandoval have little in common other than a love of this painting and their Latino roots. Sandoval, a Republican, holds the highest office in the state. A former attorney, assemblyman, gaming commissioner, attorney general and district court judge. Eddie, an Obama Democrat and Culinary Union member, spent more than 25 years slaving over deep fryers and grills in Strip kitchens. Then came the layoff in ’09. Unable to find another gig in a place where an unemployed Realtor has become the state mascot, he turned his attention to his lifelong passion: art. His first attempts were crude. Rudimentary. Working on paper in marker, pen and ink and watercolor. One of his earliest efforts, “The Chicken Lady,” hangs in my kitchen: a childlike bit of whimsy depicting a Dr. Moreau-like chicken/woman, replete with huge Man Ray lips and checkerboard teeth; a squiggle of Gerber Baby hair decorates her

“Tea Party in Searchlight,” by Eduardo Ramirez-Marin

EDUARDO RAMIREZ-MARIN IS TRULY MASTER OF HIS OWN DOMAIN. forehead. No matter how sleep-deprived my morning or how bitter last night’s reheated coffee, it always makes me smile. Making the leap to oil on canvas, Eddie began hanging his work in his mother’s eastside beauty salon. Never imagining his art could

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be a source of income, he was dumbfounded when the clientele began bidding on his canvases. Commissions followed: stylized, Modigliani-esque portraits, and large abstracts to fill the dearth of affordable art for all those barren living-room walls. His following

grew on Facebook, his work drawing admirers and friend requests from fellow artists. Next stop, First Friday and the downtown art scene. Like a bumpkin Van Gogh arriving in 1880’s Paris, Eddie was encouraged to find a community of artists whose work not only impressed and inspired, but welcomed him: artists like Matthew Couper and Mitchell Todd. In the summer of 2010, a downtown gallery presented a one-man show of Eddie’s work. It included 20 canvases, among them such favorites as “Beer & Eggs,” a colorful Fauvist

meditation on early-morning drinking (Matisse with a hangover);“Dinner for Two,” a pair of cannibals prepare to serve up their missionary “dinner guest” who grins gleefully at the viewer from a large metal pot; and, of course, “Tea Party in Searchlight,” commemorating Sarah Palin’s appearance at the big 2010 Tea Party rally near Harry Reid’s hometown. A “Mad Hatter” Palin flashing a Cheshire Cat smile hosts a desert tea party. A canister of nuclear waste sits atop a pedestal, while a headless Venus de Milo shades herself with a beach umbrella, a doleful Statue of Liberty looking on. Above, we see what appears to be the ghost of an atomic halo blossoming in the Martian-red sky. The humor is sly, the symbolism at times cryptic. And yet it works ... My cell phone rings ... “Yeah, Eddie?” “What up, bro’?” “Just tryin’ to finish this piece so I can hit the sheets. Gotta do that 9-5 thing tomorrow.” “How’s it comin’?” “Pretty good, I think. Just need a closing paragraph.” “Cool. Anyway, lady who works for a gallery in Texas friended me on Facebook. Looks like I might be doin’ another show.” “Nice. So how’s it feel being a starving artist?” “Like I’m on top of the world.” “Better a starving eagle, than a well-fed pigeon?” “Hell, yeah!” I don’t know how far Eddie’s star will rise, if “The Chicken Lady” will ever grace the Louvre, her come-hither smile beguiling French art students as they chain-smoke Turkish cigarettes and read Sartre. Doesn’t matter. He’s already won. Many years ago, a favorite middle-school teacher wrote the following in my graduation album: “Let your talents rule your life — but never let life rule your talents.” Eduardo Ramirez-Marin is truly master of his own domain ... Done. I down the last of my cold coffee. Switch off the New Age music channel I’ve been listening to on the plasma. Before I kill the lights and stumble off to bed, one last look: Goodnight, Chicken Lady, goodnight.

DINING

The South rises again Hidden gem Gritz Café makes a splash with its often delicious soul food.

BY AL MANCINI

As a general rule, I don’t like to review a restaurant based solely on takeout food. For one thing, it doesn’t give me the chance to get the full restaurant experience. And on top of that, not all cuisine holds up well in a Styrofoam container during a 15 to 20 minute car ride. This week, however I was forced to take the subject of my review to go — not because I didn’t have the time or desire to sit down for a meal, but because of the restaurant’s popularity. sible. And for the most part, everything held up pretty well in transport. The most satisfying dish of the morning was probably the chicken-fried steak. While the beef itself was pretty thin, the real flavor came from the thick spiced breading. It was delicious, and made even better by the generous portion of peppery white gravy. I also loved the plump, extra spicy hot links, which popped as I bit into them. And the fried potatoes Chicken and waffles sit beside an order were nicely flavored by peppers of grits, egg and sausage inside the and onions. kitchen at Gritz Café. I was a little torn in my opinion of Gritz’s fried catfish. On one hand, the gritty breading was wonderfully its cornmeal cousin, polenta. But I was excited spiced — some of the best I’ve ever had on catabout trying the house’s signature dish. fish.But the pieces of fish were a bit on the thin The grits come with a choice of six topside. Of course, catfish is a thin fish. But when pings: crumbled bacon, American or cheddar eating it fried, I prefer for chefs to utilize the cheese,sautéed mushrooms,grilled onions or fattest pieces they can find. jalapeños. The first is free, and additional seOur eggs, one order each of scrambled and lections are 75 cents each. I opted to keep my over easy, were good but unremarkable. And a choice simple, asking for cheddar cheese. But side of macaroni and cheese was disappointingly bland. All of this, of course, begs the question of I WITNESSED 40 how well Gritz Café prepares the dish after CUSTOMERS, OFTEN which it’s named.As a northerner,I don’t have any strong feelings about this southern staple. LINED UP TO THE DOOR. In fact, I’ve always been much more partial to

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The Gritz Café is a small soul food restaurant located downtown on Stella Lake Drive, across the street from the F.B.I. building. It’s open seven days a week for breakfast and lunch, from 7 a.m.to 3 p.m..And it only seats about 20 people. On the Saturday afternoon I visited, all of the tables were taken, and there were several people on line in front of me waiting to place their orders at the counter. So when I reached the server, I decided not to gamble on whether a table would open up by the time my food was ready, and just placed a large to-go order. Over the 15 to 20 minutes I waited for my food to be prepared, however, I had plenty of time to observe the atmosphere. The place remained packed. I probably witnessed at least 40 customers, often lined up to the door waiting to order — always a good sign. The staff seemed to know many of them by name, and quite a few knew each other. And I was the only Caucasian in the room the entire time — a good indicator of an ethnic restaurant’s authenticity. The menu is fairly extensive. There are eight breakfast platters ($7.95-$11.95), served all day, that couple main courses such as sausages, bacon, pork chops and steaks with two eggs, a choice of grits or potatoes and bread. During lunch hours they offer eight sandwiches, as well as baskets of chicken, catfish, shrimp or wings served with French fries. Since I wasn’t going to be eating in house, I decided to order as many items as pos-

when I opened them up and sampled them, I didn’t detect the slightest hint of cheese. So either the chef forgot to add it, or he should have used it more generously. Because what I ended up with was a completely boring bowl of thick corn mush. Despite my disappointment in the grits,my overall impression of Gritz was positive. It’s a hidden gem that I almost hesitate to recommend — but only because I’m hoping to have an easier time scoring a table when I return, which I’m certain I’ll do quite often. GRITZ CAFÉ 1911 Stella Lake Drive, 255-4748. Read more about the Las Vegas dining scene on Al Mancini’s blog, www.almancini.net. a

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MUSIC CALENDAR

LISTINGS [DEC. 15 TO 21] E-STRING BAR & GRILL

Tom Hall Boss Be Bop Jazz Septet (2p, cover) GOLD MINE TAVERN

Daze Gone By (8p, free) HOUSE OF BLUES

As I Lay Dying, Of Mice & Men, Wind of Plague, others (5p, $25-$28) SPRINGS PRESERVE

Holiday Spectacular (5p, $5-$8) SUNCOAST SHOWROOM

Clint Holmes (7:30p, $15.95) MEATHEADS

Publin Draught (10p, free) OVATION @ GREEN VALLEY RANCH RESORT

Otherwise (9p, free) VAMP’D

Zito 77, Burn Unit, (9p, free) YAYO TACO

Permanent Failure, RAD, Unemployed (12a, free) PARTICLE: Dec. 15 at Hard Rock Cafe

FRIDAY

Recommended. Send event information to: Mike Prevatt at listings@lvcitylife.com.

DEC. 16

THE BIKINI BAR

Trailer Park Trash (9p, free)

SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5 P.M. ON THE THURSDAY PRIOR TO PUBLICATION, AND EVENTS MUST BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. PLEASE INCLUDE NAME, PHONE NUMBER AND ADDRESS OF THE EVENT. EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO LAST-MINUTE CHANGES. PLEASE CALL CONTACT NUMBERS TO CONFIRM DETAILS.

BOOK & STAGE @ THE COSMPOLITAN

Jerell Perry (10:30p, free) BOOMERS

Dismantled, Arkham Chamber, Carved Souls (9p, $5)

THURSDAY

DEC. 15

BOULDER DAM BREWING CO.

3d6 (8p, cover)

Georgia Anne Mudrow, Phil A, Whatfour, others (10p, cover)

Silverado (8p, free)

CHEYENNE SALOON

BUNKHOUSE

HARD ROCK CAFE

Particle (8p, $15-$20)

CHEYENNE SALOON

Utopian Riot, The Darkest Day, Dreamwire (9p, $5)

LVCS

Watcha, N-Type, MC Crazy, others (10p, $15)

DOUBLE DOWN SALOON

Edwin van Cleef (10p, free)

The Bloody Villains, Methlabs, Sweater Kitty (10p, free)

VAMP’D

GOLD MINE TAVERN

THE ROYAL HOUSE

Ravishing Rebecca’s Heavy Metal Slay Bells, Bluff Control, Blackbird Sky (8p, free)

Life Down Here, Trapkey (8p, free) HARD ROCK CAFE

MP&CO, Red Abbey, Midnight Drop (7p, $10-$12)

THE VENETIAN SHOWROOM

Michelle Branch (8p, $20)

HOUSE OF BLUES

Jingle Bowl Tour: Kottonmouth Kings, Good Greens, Ekoh (7p, $27-$31)

YAYO TACO

Ramming Speed (9:30p, free)

MEATHEADS

The Remedies (10p, free)

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OVATION @ GREEN VALLEY RANCH RESORT

Atomic Punks (11p, free) VAMP’D

Black Xmas, Pride and the Vanities (9p, free) YAYO TACO

Chug a Luv, Remedies (12a, free)

SATURDAY

DEC. 17

ARTEMUS W. HAM CONCERT HALL @ UNLV

Las Vegas Philharmonic: Pops II- A Holiday Celebration (8p, $38-$78) BOOK & STAGE @ THE COSMOPOLITAN

Jerell Perry (10:30p, free)

SUNDAY

DEC. 18

FOUR SEASONS CHURCH

Barry and Batya Segal (11a, free) SPRINGS PRESERVE

Holiday Spectacular (5p, $5-$8) SUNCOAST SHOWROOM

Clint Holmes (7:30p, $15.95)

MONDAY

DEC. 19

SPRINGS PRESERVE

Holiday Spectacular (5p, $5-$8)

TUESDAY

DEC. 20 BOOMERS

Castle (9p, cover) SPRINGS PRESERVE

BOOMERS

Holiday Spectacular (5p, $5-$8)

BOULDER DAM BREWING CO.

Holding Onto Sound, Hail the Sun (12a, free)

Ode School (6p, cover) Lucky Cheats (8p, free) BUNKHOUSE

Vegas Rocks Night: The Fact Remains, Robot Nixon, Necronauts (10p, cover) CHEYENNE SALOON

Guttermouth (8p, $15) DOUBLE DOWN SALOON

The Gashers, Dime Runner, Caustic Cause, others (10p, free)

YAYO TACO

WEDNESDAY

DEC. 21

BOOK & STAGE @ THE COSMOPOLITAN

Hank & Cupcakes (10p, free) SPRINGS PRESERVE

Holiday Spectacular (5p, $5-$8)

LIVE MUSIC

3740 S. Nellis Blvd., 436-7600. Thu: Blues with John Zito Band, 11p, free. Every 3rd Sat: Blues with John Zito Band, 10p ARTIFICE 1025 S. First St., 489-6339 or www.artificebar.com. Open Thu-Wed, 5p-1a. BAR+BISTRO COURTYARD Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd, 202-6060, www.barbistroaf.com. BEAUTY BAR 517 Fremont St., 598-1965, www.thebeautybar.com. Thu-Sat: Local and touring bands, 9p, free unless noted. BIKINI BAR 3355 Spring Mountain Road, 4855401. Tue: Rockin’ Blues and Classic rock with The Blues Storm Nation, 9p, free. BLACK DOOR BAR AND GRILL 4640 Paradise Road, 369-9279. Wed: Live music. BLUE MARTINI Town Square, 6593 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 948-6438, www.bluemartinilounge.com. Open daily. BOOMERS BAR 3200 Sirius Ave., 368-1863, www.myspace.com/boomerslv. Fri-Sat: Live music, 10p, $5 unless noted. Mon: Open blues jam session with host band Four Until Late, 9p, free. BOOTLEGGER BISTRO 7700 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 736-4939, www.bootleggerlasvegas.com. Live music nightly. Tue-Thu: Gus Mancuso, 6:30p. Second and fourth Wed: Jerry Lopez and friends, 10p. Fri-Sat: Live music, 9:30p. Mon: Open mic with Kelly Clinton, 9p. All shows free. BOULDER DAM BREWING CO. 453 Nevada Highway, Boulder City. 243-2739, www.boulderdambre wing.com. Thu-Sat: Live music. BOULDER STATION 4111 Boulder Highway, 4327777, www.boulderstation.com. Kixx Bar: Thu, Sat: Van De Guzman, 7p. The Railhead: Thu: Swing with Jerry Tiffe, 2p. First and third Thu: Boulder Blues series, 8p, $5. Fri: La Nueva Live Mix, 10p, men $5. Sat: Yellow Brick Road, 10p, free. Sun: Latin night, Noche Nortena featuring El Moreno Carrillo Y Su Banda Tierra Sagrada, 9p, $5 ladies, $10 men. BUNKHOUSE SALOON 124 S. 11th St., 384-4536. www.bunkhouselv.com. Thu-Sat: Local and touring bands, 9p, free unless noted. Wed: Wednesday Night Hype hip hop show, 9p. Tue: Blues jam with Lipz and Bunkhouse blues band, 10p. CHEYENNE SALOON 3103 N. Rancho Drive, 6454139. Wed-Sat: Live music, 9p. Sun: Live music, 6p. Cover varies. CHOICES PUB AND SHOWROOM 6720 W. Cheyenne Ave., 547-3747, www.choicespub.com. Fri-Sat: Live music, 9p, free. Tue: The Chicago Blues Busters, 8p, free. Wed: The GP Entertainer Tribute Artists Show, 8p, $5. CLUB ARUBA Aruba Hotel, 1215 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 383-3100, www.arubalasvegas.com. CLUB AZUL 115 7th Street, 672-0222, www.wopoent.com. THE COSMOPOLITAN 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 698-7000. Book and Stage: Touring and local acts, 10p and midnight, free. COUNT’S VAMP’D 6750 W. Sahara Ave., 2208849, www.vampdvegas.com. Thu: Local music, 10p. Fri-Sat: Live music, 10p. Wed: John Zito Band, 9p, free.

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DON’T TELL MAMA 517 Fremont St., 207-0788. Cabaret-style piano bar. DOUBLE DOWN SALOON 4640 Paradise Road, 7915775. Tue: Unique Massive, 11:59p. DOWNTOWN VINTAGE GUITARS 1105 3rd St, 3869572. E-STRING BAR AND GRILL 2031 E. Sunset Road, 437-8764, www.estringlive.com. Sat: Real Old School Jazz, 2p, $10. Mon: Jazz, 7:30p, $10. Tue: The Ryan Whyte Maloney Band, 8:30p, $10. Wed: Blues night, 8:30p. FREAKIN’ FROG 4700 Maryland Parkway, 5979702, www.freakinmusic.com. Thu: Singers and songwriters, 9:30p. Sat: Live music, 9:30p. Tue: Freakin’ Jazz Jam, 9:30p. Skip Martin and Niles Rivers hosts JamCast, 10:30p. All shows free. GOLD COAST 4000 W. Flamingo Road, 367-7111, www.goldcoastcasino.com. Lounge: Thu, Tue-Wed: Gold Coast Classics, 2p. Thu-Sun, Tue-Wed: live music, 7:30p-1:30a, free. Fri: Variety Caval Code, 2p. Live music, 9-2:30a. Sat: Latin, $10. GOLD MINE TAVERN 23 S. Water St., Henderson, 478-8289, www.thegoldminetavern.com. Thu-Sat: Live music, 9p, free. GREEN VALLEY RANCH RESORT 2300 Paseo Verde Parkway, 617-7777, www.greenvalleyranchres ort.com. Lobby Bar: Fri: Jeremy Cornwell 8:30p. Sat: Ryan Calhoun, 8:30p. Hank’s Steakhouse: Thu: Kelly Christian on guitar, 6:30p. Tue, Fri-Sat: Peter Love, 6:30p. Wed: Guitarist and singer Dave Ritz performs Top 40 hits from 6:30p. Ovation Lounge: Thu: Rotating acts, 8p, free. Third Thu: The Guilty Pleasures, 8p. Fri: Yellow Brick Road, 10p. 2nd, 4th Fri: Strung

Out acoustic sessions, 6p. Sun: Zowie Bowie The Vegas Show, 6p, $10. THE GRIFFIN 511 Fremont St., 382-0577. Wed: Live music, 10p. HARD ROCK CAFE 3771 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 650-8590, www.hardrock.com. HENNESSEY’S TAVERN 425 Fremont St., Suite 110, 382-4421, www.hennesseyslasvegas.com. Fri: Live music, 9p-2a. HOUSE OF BLUES Mandalay Bay 3950 Las Vegas Boulevard South, 632-7600, www.hob.com/ lasvegas. Courtyard: Thu: Acoustic Strip, acoustic showcase hosted by Michael Soli, 8p, free, all ages. Fri-Sat: Live blues, 9p, free. Sat: Azul Latin night, 11p, 21+, free. Sun: Gospel Brunch and music, 10a-1p. Adults, $37; kids, $17. LINDO MICHOACAN 10082 W. Flamingo Road, 8389990, www.lindomichoacan.com. Thu, Sat-Sun, TueWed: Pianist, 6p. Fri: Mariachi Nuevo, 6:30p. LVCS 425 Fremont St., 382-3531, www.lvsaloon.net. Thu: Local and loud, 10p, free. Fri-Sat: Live music, 10p, free. Sun: The Funtastics: King Vs. Cash, 50s rockabilly band, 9pm, free. Mon: Surf City with The Swank Bastards, 8p, free. Tue: Hip Hop Roots hosted by HighDro and Jay R Beatbox, 10p, free. Wed: Jamboree hosted by The Vagabonds, 8p, free. MANDARIN ORIENTAL Mandarin Bar, 3752 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 590-8888. Thu: Chandler Judkins Quartet, 7p. Fri: The Definitive Trio, 10p. Sat: “Trio Caribe,” 10p. Wed: Brian Czach Jazz Trio, 7p. Synergy, 11p. MCMULLAN’S IRISH PUB 4650 W. Tropicana Ave., 247-7000, www.mcmullansirishpub.com. Fri: Live

2411 W. Sahara Ave., 367-2411. Jack’s Irish Pub: Thu: Wild Celts, 7p. Fri: Darby O’Gill and the Little People, 9p. Sat: Finnegan’s Wake with the rock o’ the Irish from 9p. Showroom: Sat: Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns, 12a. Tue: Jerry Tiffe, 2p. PALMS LOUNGE 4321 W. Flamingo Road, 9427777, www.palms.com. Sun: Franky Perez, 10p, free. Mon: Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns, 10:30p, $7. PETRA 440 S. Rampart Blvd. Thu: Sarah Frances Johnston, jazz/standards, 7p. RED ROCK CASINO 11011 W. Charleston Blvd., 7977777, www.redrocklasvegas.com. Onyx Bar: Tue-Thu: Toto Zara, 7p. Fri-Sat: Toto Zara, 9p, free. Rocks Lounge: Thu: Acoustic jam, 8p. Fri: Zowie Bowie, 10p. Sat: Party on the Rocks concert series, 9p, $30. Franky Perez, 10p. Sun: Jazz with The Steven Lee Group featuring Rocco Barbato, 7p. Mon: Dian Diaz, 8p. RÍ RÁ Mandalay Place 3930 Las Vegas Blvd South, 632-7771, www.rira.com/rira/las_vegas.html. Live music nightly, 8:30p. Fri-Sat: Ri Ra Live, 11:30p. THE RIVIERA 2901 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 7345110, www.rivierahotel.com. Queen Victoria Pub: Sun: Acoustic Open Jam, 8p. Tue: Jamaica Me Crazy with Bonafide, 8p, free for locals. ROYAL HOUSE 99 Convention Center Drive, 5632795. Thu: Speakeasy Nights with Michael Spadoni and live jazz artists, 6:30p. Sun: Sunday Sermon, open mic hosted by Bryan Todd and Ryan Pardey, 9p. Mon: Soundcheck Monday with live bands, 9p. STRATOSPHERE 2000 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 380-7777. Fri-Sat, Wed: Frankie Moreno and his 10piece band, 8p, $19.99-$29.99. SUNSET STATION 1301 W. Sunset Road, 547-7777, PALACE STATION

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

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

Rio, 3700 W.FlamingoRoad, 733-8229.Thu: top 40, hip-hop, dance. $20-$30.Fri: “LadiesNight,” hip-hop, R&B, 10:30p,$20. Sat: “Sinful Saturday,” withDJDre Dae, Hip HopandR&B,10: 30p.$30.Wed:Latin Libido Night, 10:30p.$15-$20. DOWNTOWN COCKTAIL ROOM 111 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 880-3696, www.downtownlv.net. DJs spin house, lounge, downtempo, house, funk and classics, Thu-Sun, Tue, 10p. Thu: “LoDown Thursdays” with Lenny Alfonzo. Fri: “Friday Night Social” with Carlos Sanchez. Sat: “Saturday Night Vibe” with Douglas Gibbs. Wed: DJ Rob Alahn. DRAI’S Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall, 3595 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 737-0555, www.drais.net. Thu-Mon. After hours party spot, 1a-dawn. Thu: “After Life” DJ battles and resident Jack Lafleur. Fri: DJ Hoffman, Chris Garcia. Sat: “High-end Saturdays” with DJs Chris Aurelius, Chris Garcia; house. Sun: “Sunday Sheer CROWN NIGHTCLUB

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

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

Energy” with Chris Garcia. DUE FORNI 3555 Town Center Drive, 586-6500 or www.dueforni.com. Thu: “Music and Wine” with DJ Douglas Gibbs and guest DJs spinning Latin, lounge, world beat, and A. Leo Echazabal on sax, 9p, free. FOUNDATION ROOM Mandalay Bay, 632-7631. Sun: “Maison de Burlesque” dance show with live jazz, 11p. Mon: “Godspeed” featuring DJs Guy and L1, 11p. Wed: ‘The News,” featuring new underground DJs every week, 10p. FREEZONE 610 E. Naples Road, 794-2310, www.freezonelv.com. Open daily. THE GALLERY Planet Hollywood, 3500 South Las Vegas Blvd., 818-3700 and www.gallerylv.com. Wed-Sat, 10p. Cover varies. Wed: “Gallery Wednesdays” industry party; locals free. GHOSTBAR Palms, 4321 W. Flamingo Road, 9389999, www.n9negroup.com. Thu-Wed, 9p. Fri: DJ Tino Sanchez, 9p. DJ Five, 12a. Sat: DJ OB-ONE,

9p. DJ Tino Sanchez, 12a. Sun: “Ghostbar Sundays” house night, 10p. Mon: DJ Ikon, 10p. Tue: DJ OBONE, 9p. DJ Five, 12a. Wed: “Snitch Wednesdays” with DJ 88, 10p. DJ Tino Sanchez, 12:30a. GOODTIMES 1775 E. Tropicana Ave., 736-9494. Open daily. THE GRIFFIN 511 Fremont St., 382-0577. Mon-Sat, 5p-4a. Sun, 9p-4a. Fri: DJ Rex Dart, 10p. Sat: DJ Aurajin, 10p. HAZE Aria, 3730 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 6938300. Thu-Sat, 10:30p-4a. Thu: Industry night, hip-hop, mash-up, top 40. Fri-Sat: hip-hop, mashup, top 40. INSERT COINS 512 Fremont St., 477-2525 and www.insertcoinslv.com. Thu, Mon-Wed, 4p-4a. Fri, 4p-6a. Sat, 12p-6a. Sun, 12p-4a. Free (except for special events). DJs nightly. Mon: “I Heart Down-

town,” electronic music, 10p. KRAVE Planet Hollywood Resort, 3667 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 836-0830, www.kravelasvegas.com. Alternate lifestyle nightclub. Thu: “TEMPTation THURSTdaze” with DJ Javier Alba, 11p. Fri: “Flesh,” with VJ Alpyne in the main room. “sKizoFrenia” in the lounge with DJ RustRyu and friends. Sat: “Candy Bar” girls’ party in the Lounge. Main room: DJ Morningstar and friends. Sun: SINdaze, 11p. Mon: “Meat Market.” Wed: “WTF? Wednesdays” with DJ Earwaxxx, 11p. LAS VEGAS ROCK N ROLL CANTINA 3190 W. Sahara Ave., 368-3010. Sat: “Alchemy,” goth/industrial with DJ Grenadier, 10p, free. MANDARIN BAR Mandarin Oriental,3752 LasVegas Blvd.South, 590-8888.Thu, Sun-Wed, 5p-1a.Fri-Sat, 5p-2a.Thu:Lady dK, 7p.Fri-Sat:DJDDouble,10p. MARQUEE NIGHTCLUB AND DAYCLUB The Cosmo-

politan, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 333-9000. Nightclub: Thu-Fri, Mon, 10p; Sat, 9:30p. Fri-Sat: house/trance. Mon: industry night, open format. Dayclub: Daily, 10a-6p, opens April 9. MOON/PLAYBOY CLUB Palms, 942-7777. Moon: Thu-Sun, Tue, 11p. 2nd Sat: “Awesome Party” with DJ Clinton Sparks. Tue: “Bang!” and locals-oriented Satellite Bar with DJs. Playboy Club: Thu-Wed, 9p. PURE Caesars Palace, 3570 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 212-8806. Open Thu-Sat, Tue, 10p. Thu: DJ Hope. Fri: DJ Casanova, DJ Slip, Joey Mazzola. Sat: DJ Slip, Joey Mazzola, DJ Hope. Tue: “Pure Tuesdays” with DJ CyberKid, DJ Slip and Joey Mazzola. RAIN Palms, 4321 W. Flamingo Road, 940-RAIN, www.n9negroup.com. Fri-Sat. “Perfecto” trance/ house party with Paul Oakenfold and friends. REVOLVER Santa Fe Station, 4949 N. Rancho

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L E O (JULY 23-AUG. 22)

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

Jim Moran (1908-1999) called himself a publicist, but I regard him as a pioneer performance artist. At various times in his colorful career, he led a bull through a china shop in New York City, changed horses in midstream in Nevada’s Truckee River, and looked for a needle in a haystack until he found it. You might want to draw inspiration from his work in the coming weeks, Aries. You will not only have a knack for mutating cliches and scrambling conventional wisdom. In doing so, you could also pull off feats that might seem improbable.

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

One possible way to tap into the current cosmic opportunities would be to seek out storegasms — the ecstatic feelings released while exercising one’s buyological urges in consumer temples crammed with an obscene abundance of colorful material goods. But I advise you against doing that. It wouldn’t be a very creative solution to the epic yearnings that are welling up in your downbelow-and-deep-inside parts. Instead, I offer a potentially far more satisfying recommendation: Routinely maneuver yourself into positions where your primal self will be filled up with sublime wonder, mysterious beauty, and smart love.

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

I’m not an either-or type of person. I don’t think there are just two sides of every story and you have to align yourself with one or the other. That’s one reason why, as an America voter, I reject the idea I must either sympathize with the goals of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. It’s also why I’m bored by the trumped-up squabble between the atheists and the fundamentalist Christians, and the predictable arguments between dogmatic cynics and fanatical optimists. I urge you to try my approach in the coming weeks, Gemini. Find a third way between any two sides that tend to divide the world into Us against Them.

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

No one actually looks like the retouched images of the seemingly perfect people in sexy ads. It’s impossible to be that flawless, with no wrinkles, blemishes and scars. Acknowledging this fact, the iconic supermodel Cindy Crawford once said, “I wish I looked like Cindy Crawford.” Our unconscious inclination to compare ourselves to such unrealistic ideals is the source of a lot of mischief in our lives. Your assignment in the coming week, Cancerian, is to divest yourself, as much as possible, of all standards of perfection that alienate you from yourself or cause you to feel shame about who you really are. (More fodder to motivate you: tinyurl.com/SoftKill.)

Barney Oldfield (1878-1946) was a pioneer car racer who was the first ever to run a 100-mileper-hour lap at the Indianapolis 500. He was a much better driver while setting speed records and beating other cars on racetracks than he was at moseying through regular street traffic. Why? He said he couldn’t think clearly if he was traveling at less than 100 miles per hour. I suspect you may temporarily have a similar quirk, Leo — not in the way you drive but rather in the way you live and work and play. To achieve maximum lucidity, you may have to be moving pretty fast.

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

Back in August 2010, there was an 11-day traffic snarl on a Chinese highway. At one point the stuck vehicles stretched for 60 miles and inched along at the rate of a mile per day. In that light, your current jam isn’t so bad. It may be true that your progress has been glacial lately, but at least you’ve had a bed to sleep in and a bathroom to use, which is more than can be said for the stranded Chinese motorists and truck drivers. Plus I’m predicting that your own personal jam is going to disperse sometime in the next few days. Be prepped and ready to rumble on.

L I B R A (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)

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

The Amazon is the second longest river in the world, and has such a voluminous flow that it comprises 20 percent of all river water in the world. And yet there is not a single bridge that crosses it. I love that fact. It comforts and inspires me to know that humans have not conquered this natural wonder. Which leads me to my advice for you this week, Sagittarius. Please consider keeping the wild part of you wild. It’s certainly not at all crucial for you to civilize it.

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

Emotion is the resource we treasure when we’re young, says poet Naomi Shihab Nye, but eventually what we thrive on even more is energy. “Energy is everything,” she says, “not emotion.” And where does energy come from? Often, from juxtaposition, says Nye. “Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy; rubbing one image against another.” That’s what she loves about being a poet. Her specialty is to conjure magic through juxtaposition. “Our brains are desperate for that kind of energy,” she concludes. I mention this, Capricorn, because the coming weeks will be prime time for you to drum up the vigor and vitality that come from mixing and melding and merging, particularly in unexpected or uncommon ways.

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

Studies show that if you’re sharing a meal with one other person, you’re likely to eat up to 35 percent more food than if you’re dining alone. If you sit down at the table with four companions, you’ll probably devour 75 percent extra, and if you’re with a party of eight, your consumption may double. As I contemplate your horoscope, these facts give me pause. While I do suspect you will benefit from socializing more intensely and prolifically, I also think it’ll be important to raise your commitment to your own physical health. Can you figure out a way to do both, please?

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

“Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul,” said psychologist Carl Jung, “human beings would rot away in their greatest passion, idleness.” To that edgy observation I would add this corollary: One of the greatest and most secret forms of idleness comes from being endlessly busy at unimportant tasks. If you are way too wrapped up in doing a thousand little things that have nothing to do with your life’s primary mission, you are, in my opinion, profoundly idle. All the above is prelude for the climactic advice of this week’s horoscope, which goes as follows: Give everything you have to stimulate the leaping and twinkling of your soul.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

Here’s a joke from Woody Allen’s movie Annie Hall: “Two elderly women are in a Catskills Mountain resort and one of them says: ‘Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.’ The other one says, ‘Yeah, I know — and such small portions.’” Is it possible you’re acting like the second woman, Libra? Are you being influenced to find fault with something that you actually kind of like? Are you ignoring your own preferences simply because you think it might help you to be close to those whose preferences are different? I urge you not to do that in the coming week. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, it’s very important that you know how you feel and stay true to your feelings.

S C O R P I O (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)

The Los Angeles school district dramatically downgraded the role homework plays in the life of its students. Beginning this fall, the assignments kids do after school account for only 10 percent of their final grade. As far as you’re concerned, Scorpio, that’s not a good trend to follow. In fact, I think you should go in the opposite direction. During the enhanced learning phase you’re now entering, your homework will be more important than ever. In order to take full advantage of the rich educational opportunities that will be flowing your way, you should do lots of research, think hard about what it all means, and in general be very well-prepared. The period between late 2011 and early 2012 is homework time for you.

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50 Wilberforce University’s affiliated denom. 52 Back-to-school mo. 54 ___ Khan 55 Time-sensitive demand on a dirty car? 59 “Here We Go Again” singer Demi 60 Dust cloth 61 Bring in 63 It’s hardly four-part harmony 64 100% 65 Length times width 66 Takes the helm 67 Sault ___ Marie, Mich. 68 Word used in telling time

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3 2

6 4

7 6

6 9

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S TANDARD S UDOKU

To solve the Sudoku, each row, column and 3x3 box must contain each of the numbers 1 to 9 once and only once.

6 4 7 9 2 3 1 5 8

9 2 3 5 1 8 4 6 7

8 1 5 7 4 6 3 2 9

7 3 1 2 5 9 8 4 6

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since I found out exactly what they did — it turns out we are both far more GGG than the other ever knew. But sometimes we’re in bed, and I’ll flash on something she wrote and the vivid mental images her letter cooked up in my head, and it sears me. Dealing with that pain out of the bedroom has been hard enough. It’s devastating that it’s now with me in the bedroom as well. How can I deal with this? Salve It, Please 1. LTRS ARE ONLY POSSIBLE ifwe’rewillingtake“yes” forananswer.Hesaysyeshelovesyou,andyouwillyourself tobelievehim;hesaysyeshe’shavingsexwithyoubecause he’sattractedtoyou,andyouwillyourselftobelievehim;he sayshestrayedandissorryandswearshewon’tdoitagain… andyouwillyourselftobelievehim.Andwhilethepassageof timemakesmonstersofusall,SIP,itcanstrengthenasexual connectionevenassexitselfbecomeslessimportantwhen weighedagainsteverythingelseyourLTRisorshouldbeabout. Inthewordsofsinger-songwriterTimMinchin:“Loveismade morepowerfulbytheongoingdramaofsharedexperienceand synergyandsymbioticempathy,orsomethinglikethat.” 2. Angry cheated partner: “You did what with that person? I would’ve done that with you! And I have kinks and fantasies, too, you know!” Contrite cheating partner: “I was afraid to ask you to do that! I was afraid you would hate me — wait, you have kinks and fantasies? What are they?” Conversations like that one are why affairs — if the relationship survives the betrayal — sometimes kick-start a couple’s sex life. With all the kink-and-whatever-else cards on the table, the couple starts going at it like they have nothing to lose — because in that moment when breaking up is on the table, they actually don’t have anything to lose. As for those troubling mental images: The passage of time is your body’s enemy on the physical-perfection front — and his, too — but it’s your best friend on the searing-mental-images front, SIP. The more time you two spend doing, enjoying and perfecting X, Y and Z sex acts, the more X, Y and Z becomes about you two and your connection. As you take ownership over X, Y and Z, and over each other again, the mental images will come to you less often, they’ll be less vivid, and gradually they’ll cease. Give it time.

IF YOUR GIRLFRIEND’S EX-HUSBAND had manipulated or bullied her into vaginal intercourse — if he had repeatedly and brutally raped her vaginally during their terrible, awful, no good, very bad marriage — would you feel guilty about an interest in consensual, vanilla, missionary, penis-in-vagina intercourse? No. You would hopefully have reacted in a similarly compassionate manner, LACA, after learning about her sexual history. You would have been willing to stick to oral, mutual masturbation, and whatever else your new girlfriend was comfortable exploring and capable of enjoying. And you would have looked forward to the day when she felt ready to enjoy sensuous, consensual and mutually pleasurable vaginal intercourse again. And if that day never arrived, well, then perhaps you would have been willing to forgo vaginal intercourse for the rest of your life to be with her. But you wouldn’t be sitting there feeling like some sort of monster for being aroused by — and for having enjoyed — consensual, vanilla, missionary, penis-in-vagina intercourse with other women. Yourwillingnesstodropyourharmlesskinkisevidenceyour prioritiesareinorder,LACA,yourheartisintherightplace,your cowboyhatiswhite,etc.Anytimeyoustartfeelingbadabout yourkink,justremindyourselfthatconsensualkinkisn’tabuse forthesamereasonconsensualvaginalintercourseisn’trape:Becauseit’sconsensual. Dan Savage’s sex-advice column appears in more Youcanlovethiswoman,LACA,andmake than 70 newspapers in thisrelativelysmallsacrificeforthiswoman the United States, Canada (spankingain’tvaginal),withouthavingto and Europe. Write him at shameyourselforretroactivelydefineallyour mail@savagelove.net pastspankingexperiencesasabusive.

MY BOYFRIEND OF FIVE YEARS had a one-night stand with a much younger woman. In some ways, it’s a good thing — we’re having conversations we should have had a long time ago, he’s seeing a therapist to deal with his issues (his idea, not mine), and somehow I know more than ever that I want to be with him (I’ve always been the one in every relationship with one foot out the door). Two questions: 1.IrecentlyhittheagewhereI’vestartedtoworryaboutlookingolder,andit’sbeendevastatingtoknowthatnotonlydidhe cheatonme,butthathedidsowithamuchyoungerwoman.He assuresmehe’sattractedtome,buthowcanIbelievethatnow? 2. The younger woman sent me — and other people in our lives — an explicit, lengthy e-mail detailing everything they did. (I hate to paint this as “bitchez be crazy,” but sometimes bitchez be crazy.) It’s not how I found out, but it certainly hasn’t helped. Ironically, our sex life has only gotten better

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“MOMMY, MOMMY!” with faces hidden in the a little girl, no older than background — or back3, engaged her mother. grounds hidden within the “Watch!” faces, one could argue. She pitched a parachuted Dalí had broken the rules soldier figurine into the air. at school, but he could folWhen he fell, she dashed to low surrealist guidelines. collect him. The political tones were “What’s his name, honindisputable. Ageism, reey?” asked her mother. ligion, racism. Arab Moors “Hymen!” the little girl often appeared in his work. beamed. He thought they had got“Hymen?” ten a particularly bad deal “Yes.” in Spain. “Why is that?” Later, he would visit the “Because he goes high! United States and work Watch!” with Walt Disney, and lend Oh — Highman. The his services to Alka-Seltzer mother chuckled and and airlines, chocolatiers eavesdroppers exhaled. and hosiery and perfume “That’s the speaker,” the companies. (The art world mother said, pointing to shunned him for being so Judith Overcash, a docent commercial,Overcash said.) from the Dalí museum in Then, in 1945, the atomic St. Petersburg, Fla., on bomb was invented, and hand at the Atomic Testing Museum this evening to discuss Salvador Dalí and the Dalí’s art changed forever.An inventory of his mid- and post-’40s work — even just atom bomb. “When the talk begins, you’ll have to sit down. No more playing.” the titles — reveal Dalí’s connection to the Atomic Age. The girl launched Highman a few more times and took a seat. In “Melancholy, Atomic, Uranic Idyll” (1945), war planes drop bombs while The talk began. flying in faceless blue silhouettes. Atomic clouds blossom into the shapes of Everyone knows Dalí by his mustache, his eccentric style of dress, his penchant trees and human heads in “The Three Sphinxes of Bikini” (1945). And upon for long-legged elephants and melting clocks. Lesser known is his close inspection, “Portrait of My Dead Brother” is made up of love of cauliflower and baseball, that he predicted the moon landcherries, which Dalí used to represent atoms and other molecuTHERE WAS A ing and was named after a dead brother — a boy who died as an lar structures. infant. The good Salvador, his parents would tell him. Of the 54 years Dalí worked as a painter, he would only work as POINT WHEN At age 7, he could paint an impressive landscape scene. At 9, he a true surrealist for 10. After a while, he dropped his anger toward COLLECTORS moved into the experimental, portraying himself without a nose the church. While his paintings were still strange, the message because he had a cold: Beyond the bed where he sat, a stippled COULDN’T GIVE was different. sailboat floats at sea, and a birdcage hangs in the corner. As a The atomic bomb and Dalí’s subsequent readings on physics SALVADOR teenager, Picasso and Rembrandt influences crept into his reperbrought the artist to God, Overcash said. He embraced the church DALÍ’S WORK toire, and by early adulthood he had found his signature style. and explored its connection to science.“Nuclear Cross” and “AsAWAY. “Dalí was a surrealist because he was invited to be,” Overcash sumpta Corpuscularia Lapislazulina” show this. told the audience, a distinguished group of about 30. Perhaps more surprising than Dalí’s belief in God (and that he After being booted from art school for his pompous attitude, Dali was led to didn’t use drugs to achieve his acid-trip artwork) is the fact that there was a point Paris by artist Joan Miró. There, poet and movement founder André Breton told when collectors couldn’t give his work away. him he could become a surrealist under two conditions: He would hate the govA. Reynolds and Eleanor Morse of Ohio wanted to leave their collection to a muernments of Europe, and he would hate the Catholic church. What had they done seum,but no one would take them.Their 92 paintings,lithographs,jewelry and hoduring WWI? Not enough. lograms could not find a home, until the Dalí Museum was created to protect them. In his first foray into surrealism, he would paint his father, who never listened, In a way, Dalí’s life mirrors Highman’s trajectory. Dalí rocketed to stardom in without ears. He would paint his nursemaid, Lucia, hollow and propped up by a the surrealist movement, fell slowly, and landed in a cold place, unappreciated. branch, a sign he no longer needed her. He painted “Slave Market with the DisapBut decades later, judging by the 200,000 visitors the museum gets each year, it’s pearing Bust of Voltaire,” and “Old Age, Adolescence and Infancy,” two scenes safe to say the spirit of Dalí flies again.

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