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JULY 7-13, 2011 » VOL. 18, NO. 41
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8 SOCRATES IN SODOM So much for reaching 9 KNAPPSTER Will the Supremes derail Nevada’s
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10 THE WEEK 10 The downtown divide 12 Fire on the mountain? 13 Want to buy a date? This guy can help.
16 A&E 18 FEAR & LOUNGING A new generation of musicians loves the blues
26 BOOKS David Mamet, crazed by the excesses of liberalism, writes a shitty book
29 DINING Great Japanese dining off the Strip
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54 ON THE SCENE Pancake breakfast for pancake art
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s people who write about entertainers in Las Vegas, we’ve become guarded and probably a little jaded when we see pretty faces on press releases. So when we saw the video for Graffiti6’s popular single, “Annie You Save Me,” and singer Jamie Scott’s likeness to a British Nick Lachey, we let loose a heavy exhale
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reserved for touring cover bands and Black Eyed Peas remixes. But contrary to our jump-the-gun disdain, and probably thanks in no small part to JayZ/Kanye West/Kylie Minogue producer and other half TommyD, Graffiti6 had us doing the office-chair shuffle, and we’re curious to see if their combination of catchy melodies, soaring vocals and pretty faces is the code to crack Book & Stage’s often awkward performance setup. Like most music that comes out of the UK, Graffiti6 pulls influence from American neosoul, driven by Scott’s pained, Adam Levine-y crooning and the lo-fi sound of an organ — and
that’s just in the bare-bones recordings. With a live band, Graffiti6 employs sharp, dancey, Moby-esque live drums that turn every song into the soundtrack for a driving scene: Digestible, emotional, but ultimately fun and catchy. It’s probably why you’ve heard them on anything from Grey’s Anatomy to VH1’s Football Wives. We haven’t seen the latter, but we’re sure whatever episode the Graffiti6 song was on, it probably had a car chase. Max Plenke, mplenke@lvcitylife.com. Graffiti6, 10 p.m. and midnight; Book & Stage, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 698-7000, free
Inspired by a childhood fascination — or rather, as described in her artist’s statement, a deep and dreamy identification — with bridal Barbies and Kens, Maria Alvino has grown up to photograph the city’s quickie wedding chapels. These are places that, in the gleefully subversive way of Las Vegas, toy with the romantic iconography of one of our most cherished ceremonies. Which makes weddings a fertile topic for an artist with a larger idea: “In a time when the legality and definition of marriage is fiercely debated, and defined by a strict moral code, an unrestrained approach to carrying out that ceremony has become the norm in Las Vegas.” See you at the drive-thru. Scott Dickensheets, sdickensheets@lvcitylif e.com. Gamma Gamma gallery, inside Emergency Arts, 520 Fremont St., www.gammagamm agallery.com, free
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Norm MacDonald is at his best when he’s not being himself. He channels Burt Reynolds’ cocky, gum-chewing smirk better than the Bandit himself, and effortlessly switches off his charisma to portray an expressionless Bob Dole, everso-seriously announcing his presidential running mate, a No. 2 pencil named Dixon Ticonderoga. Norm MacDonald as Norm MacDonald, however, is pretty funny, too. He’s cool and collected, slowly delivering punch lines with a sly grin. An Internet favorite is the never-ending moth joke — YouTube it. The comedian got his start as a writer on Roseanne, which led to a spot on the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1993. Since then, he’s been doing stand-up and honing his jokester ways by appearing in movies and TV, and lending his voice to Family Guy and The Fairly Odd Parents. Go to the show, and cross your fingers for an impersonation. Kristy Totten, ktotten@lvcitylife.com. 8 p.m.; The Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., www.orleanscasino.com or 365-7075, $24.95
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Hear What’s in the Heart It’s not uncommon for stars on the Strip to flesh out a side project and stage it off the Strip. Now Anthony Crivello from Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular will do the same this week with his original play, Hear What’s in the Heart – A Shoemaker’s Tale, co-written by fellow actor Steve Scionti. The story centers on the funeral and gathering for Sconti’s grandfather, and the actor takes on no less than 14 roles to embody all the reflection of the day’s events. If you were impressed by Chazz Palminteri’s one-man show, A Bronx Tale, you may appreciate Sconti’s theatrical feat here. Mike Prevatt, mprevatt@lvcitylife.com. Friday, July 7, 2 p.m. (open dress rehearsal); Saturday, July 8, 7 p.m.; Sunday, July 9, 3 p.m.; West Las Vegas Library, 951 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 507-3989, free
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FEEDBACK A BRACE OF QUICK COMMENTS FROM READERS A few issues ago, Cornel Bonca meditated at length on the band Airborne Toxic Event. What a brilliant piece of journalism. The Airborne Toxic Event are one of the most hardworking, genuine groups on the gig scene at the moment on both sides of the Atlantic pond. Their concerts are a must-see. Jim (FROM THE WEBSITE) In our June 16 issue, the funny and perceptive writer Alissa Nutting detailed a trip she made to the desert near Area 51: Alissa Nutting, I really, no, I mean REALLY enjoyed your story about your trip up to Area 51. I think us locals ought to mix it up a bit, change the numbers every six months or so and REALLY confuse those out-of-state conspiracists! It was a great story! You’re good! They should give you a raise, yes, even in THIS economy! Rian (BY E-MAIL) In our June 23 issue, Al Mancini wrote about Baja Bar & Grill, a taco joint next to UNLV I love that place. The burritos are cheap, use quality ingredients, and the service is excellent. There’s a real beach shack vibe that you just can’t beat in this city. Their salsas and hot sauce selection isn’t too shabby, either. Jan Oller (FROM FACEBOOK)
IS THE BLM SLYLY UNDERMINING THE BIG PIPELINE?
Last week, George Knapp devoted his column to a BLM report that, he says, helps undermine the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s pipeline project. Among other things, he quoted the Center for Biological Diversity: I love the Knappster, but I oppose The Center
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for Biological Diversity because they are full supporters and believers in: BANANA: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything And they never respect property rights, whether it is private or government property. Thomas (FROM THE WEBSITE)
BORDERS BOYCOTT UPDATE
George, why don’t you set the example and stop watering that big lawn of yours! Nick Bryne (FROM THE WEBSITE) This is an excellent overview These are the books and magazines that CityLife editor Scott of the SNWA “water grab.” Dickensheets has bought in bookstores other than Borders ... I’ve estimated, based since he began boycotting the chain after it dropped CL. on the projected effects to springs and wetlands, that the proposed SNWA project would cause never happen at any club in Las Vegas. Thank population decline or extinction to approxiyou, Swedish House Mafia! Troy Waggoner mately 20 wetland-dependent species listed (FROM THE WEBSITE) as threatened or endangered, 42 spring snail species recently petitioned for listing by the Center for Biological Diversity, and 157 wetTHE DOWNTOWN FIREFLY IS land-dependent species listed in the Nevada GONE. WILL YOU MISS IT? Natural Heritage Database. ... The project is a foreseeable train wreck. Perhaps we could We posed that question to our Facebook spend money more wisely. readers. Some responses: Jim Deacon (FROM THE WEBSITE) Dennis Horn Never heard of it til now, and I’ve been here my whole life. So no. Amey Esparza Bummer. .. I loved the OH YES, WE DID DISS food but always thought they needed to SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA improve the decor of that location. Blogging from the event, our Electric Daisy Jeremy Juarez I went there once. There Carnival coverage team didn’t have much nice was nobody else there, and the food quality to say about the popular dance-music trio. A was way less than the one on Paradise. I miss couple of readers disagreed: when it was Centerstage. Clay Heximer I miss the Steakhouse. I have seen SHM before, and yes, while their Renee Marie Gardner Yes, because set was somewhat predictable, it was one of I never got to go ... BUT The Firefly on the best I have seen them play, and the crowd Ft.Apache is amazing! The food (ALL OF IT) obviously had a great time. was PERFECT, and tons of eye candy! great Rosarita combo. Oh, and the sangria is a must!!! (FROM THE WEBSITE) Dina Crowe Yes! Jan Oller No ... I think it’s really overrated. I felt that Swedish House Mafia was 100 perI think it’s popular because it’s cheap ... and cent the best part of Sunday Night at EDC. offers a sociable environment, but I don’t My friend & I managed to work our way to be think it’s the quality of the food ... I think this in the middle of the HUGE mass of people. is why it can survive as a locals spot, but reEveryone just singing together & being in ally can’t survive in a tourist area. It couldn’t unity gave me a euphoric feeling that could secure itself a viable niche ...
THE RIGHT’S WILLFULLY WRONG NARRATIVE Last week, columnist Hugh Jackson noted the ways in which many conservatives warp history. GOOD HIT! Not much more to say Hugh, other than that. What a treasured piece to read and ponder on, as we begin this devo July 4 holiday. Keep the Faith. FrankinPhilly (FROM THE WEBSITE)
TOO MANY MEALS ON TOO MANY WHEELS?
Last week, dining critic Al Mancini pondered the phenomenon of gourmet food trucks, and wondered if we’re reaching a saturation point. I don’t think there are too many food trucks. The real problem is that the quality of the food just isn’t all that. The prices are too high considering you’re eating off of a paper container in a parking lot... and chasing the trucks down c...an be a hassle. Having to chase a truck down on line and then having drive to an empty lot to eat from a food truck sort of beats the point of food trucks...They’re supposed to be a convenience. Vegas isn’t a pedestrian friendly city so food trucks will have a hard time setting up shop. If they end up in semi temporary locations in front of clubs or bars, I don’t think they’ll fair much better in the long run, unless they rotate their locations. At first, people thought they were a novelty, now that it’s wearing out, gimmicks just aren’t enough to overcome the inconvenience, high prices, and low quality fare. Jan Oller (FROM FACEBOOK)
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new regime takes hold in Las Vegas this week as Carolyn Goodman assumes the office of mayor. Make that newish regime. One suspects that Goodman doesn’t embody a fresh approach to political leadership as much as new packaging on the same old Goodman brand. In his 12 years in office, Oscar Goodman did a lot of good for Las Vegas. More than any other official at the state or local level, Goodman acted as cheerleader for a city that’s constantly reinventing itself, attracting attention and, most importantly, new business here. But Oscar also neglected parts of our city. For years, as he was talking up the downtown core, he was simultaneously ignoring many surrounding neighborhoods, which deprived them of millions in much-needed redevelopment money that was funneled to other parts of town. America’s happiest mayor also spent a lot of time and effort trying to convince locals and outside investors of the need for a sports and entertainment arena — the kind of project many researchers have found brings little tangible economic benefit. And then there’s the new city hall, which while necessary, comes with a hefty, $185 million price tag — an expense that could have been postponed, the Zappo’s relocation notwithstanding — until Vegas had fully emerged from recession. Political prognostication is always risky, but if her public statements are any indication, Carolyn Goodman promises to continue many of Oscar’s policies, the good, the bad and the shortsighted. Still, people can change, and it’s our fervent hope Carolyn will learn from the mistakes of her predecessor and chart the type of course that’s more inclusive of the city’s tens of thousands of economically marginalized citizens. We like that Carolyn seems to be less of a loudmouth than Oscar, but we also worry that, as some have said, she’ll cleave too closely to the counsel of her hubby — a move that could ensure large swaths of the city remain untouched by the green shoots of economic recovery that could hold so much promise for everyone here.
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SOCRATES in SODOM
BY CHIP MOSHER
Dreaming of Icarus
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n the vast, whirling cosmic chaos, it’s just a speck of dust and water, this spinning globe teeming with that oddity of all oddities in the universe — life. “And crawling on the planet’s face, some insects called the human race,” recites the narrator in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I am one of those insects, crawling. Doing my thing, making my way and not at a brisk clip, either. Philosopher Immanuel Kant once asked: “What can I know? What ought I do? What may I hope?” Such questions are the constant crossroads at which we find ourselves. Each of us is the divining rod pointing the direction in which to head — for our own small lives and, ultimately, for the human race. With the upcoming end of America’s space shuttle program, news media have reported on the precipitous decline, if not death, of NASA as we know it. And I weep for the direction of the human race. Why? After 40 years and 135 missions, this program has been a bargain at $200 billion, about $1.5 billion per flight. By comparison, the Iraqi war, when everything is tallied, will have had a price tag near $3 trillion, not to mention the recession’s approximate $1 trillion bailout price. Our nation’s priorities have tragically run aground. According to a recent article in the ReviewJournal: “Until private companies get piloted spacecraft flying — (in) an estimated three to 10 years — NASA will have to stick with the pricey Russian Soyuz to get U.S. astronauts to and from the space station.” In other words, American space exploration will slow to a crawl, until corporate profiteers basically take over.
Critics of the shuttle say it has failed its original goal to create cheaper access to outer space. But given the amoral corporate mindset, can we not expect, in the name of space travel, the same greedy behavior that led to the latest collapse of our economy? In their bold 1952 novel The Space Merchants, authors Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth extrapolate the bleakest of futures once corporations replace governments as the main political force in all Earthly matters, including space travel. However, Stanley Kubrick, in 2001: A Space Odyssey, fashions a deceptively more appealing vision with a centipede-looking craft floating effortlessly and serenely toward Jupiter. It’s a sad scene to watch, though, because, compared to the expanse of interstellar space, Jupiter is right next door. And the human race probably will never get even that far. Yet our descendants might. According to Ray Kurzweil’s book The Age of Spiritual Machines, technology is the next stage of evolution. Those computers we have invented, and pampered, soon will become the self-evolving, dominant (artificial) life form on Earth — capable of traveling off-planet without all the biological baggage of humans. Mankind’s best bet for space adventure might be to tag along with our new masters as their pets. Perhaps the future is happening right under our noses while our questionable priorities are focused elsewhere. With seven billion people vying for living space on this tiny speck of dust, what can any of us know? What ought we do? What may we hope?
AMERICAN SPACE EXPLORATION WILL SLOWTOACRAWL, UNTIL CORPORATE PROFITEERS TAKE OVER.
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CHIP MOSHER is a simple classroom teacher.
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KNAPPSTER BY GEORGE KNAPP
A big decision about small labels
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he largest award ever handed down by a Nevada jury is in trouble.I’m talking about the $500 million in damages awarded by a jury in May 2010 to a man who says he contracted hepatitis in one of Dr.Depak Desai’s colonoscopy factories. The defendants that were slapped with the record-setting award — two pharmaceutical companies — are already appealing what would certainly seem to be some odd and egregious rulings by the trial judge. But now their appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court could be bolstered by a new ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court. Basically, the high court ruled a few days ago generic drug companies can’t be sued under state law for failing to provide adequate warning labels about potential side effects of drugs. It doesn’t sound like it, but this 5-4 decision could actually be a good thing for regular people. If you followed the case of Henry Chanin versus the drug companies Teva and Baxter,you might remember that the presiding judge issued ruling after ruling that favored the plaintiff,and some of the decisions seemed highly unusual to local attorneys, though they were hardly unexpected.See, the judge in that case,Jesse Walsh,has a soft spot in her heart for Chanin’s lawyer,Robert Eglet.Eglet’s firm and his friends pretty much bankrolled Walsh’s last campaign,and local attorneys were already predicting that Judge Walsh would be very,um,kind to the plaintiff’s side once the trial got rolling.And boy,was she. For instance, among the many basic pieces of info not allowed to be heard by the jurors dealt with Food and Drug Administration warning labels on generic drugs. Smoothtalking Eglet convinced the jury that the warning labels on the drugs sold by Teva and Baxter were inadequate. Teva tried to inform
the jury the warnings had been approved by the FDA, and that Teva was prohibited by law from changing them. But Judge Walsh ruled the jury would not be allowed to hear evidence or testimony about the FDA and its warnings, even though at one point the jury specifically asked to see that very information. Fast forward to last week. The Supreme Court ruled that generic drug companies cannot be held liable for using written warnings the federal government requires them to use. State statutes that permit lawsuits about drug warnings are in direct conflict with federal law, so in such cases, the feds prevail. Exactly how this will affect the appeal of the Teva case is not yet known. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling does not specifically mention Chanin but does directly address the fact state courts cannot issue rulings like the one that was handed down in the Chanin case. Yes, if the Nevada ruling stands, it is a huge windfall for Chanin and his lawyers, but Teva is now more confident than ever that the amount will be chopped way down or the ruling tossed out altogether. But what hasn’t been told is that if the original jury award was upheld on appeal, then the $500 million would come not from the pockets of insurance companies but instead from the wallets of their premiumpaying customers. Law-abiding Nevadans who had nothing to do with Desai or colonoscopies or Teva would see their insurance rates jump just to cover the costs of that amazing, hand-crafted jury verdict.
tion, but she’s gotta be whistling “Everything’s Coming Up Roses.” This gal can do no wrong at Las Vegas City Hall. Two weeks ago, I wrote in this space about how fortunate the failed City Council candidate was to be able to return to her job as a liaison to Councilwoman Lois Tarkanian, whose campaign she had worked on prior to first being hired by the city. After my column two weeks ago, a miffed Ms. Tarkanian had the city public information officer call me up and set me straight. Adriana is not working for her as a liaison after all, they told me, even though the city’s own records showed that she was, in fact, hired back for that position. The PIO told me at first that Adriana had landed a job at Parks and Recreation. When I asked for details, the city changed the story and said she had been hired by the city clerk’s office to work on “records retention.” As it turns out, she will be paid $52,000 a year in salary and another $20,000 or so in benefits, more than nearly any rookie clerk, even though Adriana has zero experience working as a clerk or in records retention. Here’s why I think this is worth writing about — again. The city of Las Vegas is hurting financially. A year ago, facing a deficit of more than $70 million, the city announced it
would have to lay off 171 employees and eliminate 44 other vacant positions. Employee unions were asked to take voluntary pay cuts — and did. The city has been in a virtual hiring freeze ever since ... but none of this counts when Adriana Martinez needs a comfy place to land after her failed run for office. A spokesperson for the city told me the opening in the clerks office was never posted publicly,“nor is it required to be.” Officially, the city says council members mentioned weeks ago the clerk could use some help, so they gave the job to Ms. Martinez, even though there are surely many well-qualified jobless employees who would leap at position. I don’t know what hold Ms. Martinez has on her colleagues at the city, or what powers of persuasion she possesses that make her so very valuable down at City Hall. But I do know that for the first time, she will have a job where she has to report to an office and work a regular schedule behind a desk. And we will see how that goes. My guess is there are a few experienced clerks working at the city who are not going to be happy about the new hire, especially when they learn what salary she will be earning. GEORGE KNAPP is a Peabody Award-winning investigative reporter for KLAS Channel 8. He can be reached at gknapp@klastv.com
NEVADANS WHO HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH COLONOSCOPIES COULD END UP PAYING THE BILL.
E V E RY T H I N G ’ S C O M I N G U P R O S E S I don’t know if Adriana Martinez has many Ethel Merman records in her music collec-
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True downtown or the harbinger of gentrification?
the people who live here.” Some long-time residents aren’t as happy about changes to downtown. And some definitely feel shut out. Bernie Looram, a resident of Park Avenue Apartments, said he has been
removed from free events on East Fremont. The 60-year-old from Southern California used to work at rock clubs in Los Angeles. “They want young people,” he said.“I think they’re prejudiced against older people.”
“It’s all college students,” said Marshall Fuller, an apartment manager. Fuller said his residents don’t really benefit from changes to downtown. In fact, they have one major complaint: Loud music from the Beauty Bar that keeps the residents up all night. “Who ever heard of a bar that set their bands up in an alleyway?” he asked. “They should be playing in the bar.” The Facebook battalion challenging downtown gentrification (almost all are associated with a group called Vegas’ Little Black Book) has bigger issues with the influx of musicians and artists.They objected to a fundraiser to support the arts in downtown Las Vegas. Why not hold a fundraiser for poor kids who live in weekly motels, they ask? What about a fundraiser for the elderly and the disabled in the neighborhood? Downtown is still one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city, especially since the condo high rises are still pretty empty. Are the artists really the neediest people in downtown Las Vegas? This gentrification isn’t displacing lowincome downtown residents. Fuller said the improvements haven’t changed the cost of living downtown, and a quick scan of apartments for lease show several available at bargain prices. The same can’t be said for retail spaces. Curt Anderson, co-owner of A Cut Above the Rest barber shop, said the business, which has been on Carson Avenue for 10 years, has seen its rent go up in recent years. This debate was probably inevitable, and, indeed, has gone on in various forms for years. (Remember the old arguments about whetherFirstFridayshouldbeastreetfairfor everyone or an art walk for serious patrons?) Downtown Las Vegas has prospered during the recession, thanks to the efforts of entrepreneurs and the redevelopment agency. But the businesses that moved in didn’t move into a vacuum.They moved into a neighborhood with people and businesses, no matter how downat-the-heels.Andsomeofthosepeoplehaven’t
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o one told William Joiner about the class warfare in his backyard. The heavyset African-American walks home on East Fremont with the help of a cane. He glances back at the lights of the entertainment district, and contemplates the changes in his neighborhood. “Change is always good,” he said.“When I got here,it was terrible.Below Sixth Street was like purgatory.” Joiner is not your typical East Fremont regular. The area, with its recent influx of upscale bars and hipster clientele, stands recently accused of catering to yuppie outsiders. And not just any yuppies — Summerlin yuppies. New development is not just killing the soul of downtown Las Vegas, critics say, it’s also alienating the original residents. Unless those residents are Joiner. “Sure,it’s white yuppies with money,” he says with a shrug. “But that’s OK. The only people who have a problem with it are the dope dealers on the corner.” Actually, a few other people do have a problem with it. A heated Internet debate recently erupted on the subject. One instigatoraccusedgalleryownersanddowntown artists of acting as pawns for big developers who want to transform the area into Boca Park central. Gentrification, he said, is alive and well in the center of the city. Dustin Wax, a board member at Blackbird Studios and registrar at the Marjorie Barrick Museum, leapt to the defense of his artist friends. Sure, they moved into the Arts District because of the cheap rent, but they’re struggling, too, and couldn’t afford increased rent any more than the low-income residents. “Therewasamomentwhenthecitywoke up and said, there’s an arts district, and there are people who want to build condos,let’s have synergy between the two,” Wax said. “But that moment has passed. Now I think there’s a lot more common ground between the artists and
WORKING STIFFS
been happy with the changes. Now, instead of ter and a dive bar for locals. You can get lunch dismissing it as a crime-infested blight on the at the hot dog wagon or have a nice, sit-down nose of the city, detractors can call it a publicly meal at the Chart House.You have opera on the financed playground for the privileged. one hand and street bands on the other.” To be sure, there are tensions between Downtown Las Vegas isn’t even just neon downtown and some of the surrounding signs and entertainment venues. One of neighborhoods. Those came to a head when Dorgan’s favorite new projects is an office the city closed F Street in 2008, choking building behind Fitzgerald’s. It’s easy to miss, off access between the new-and-improved but once you see it, it’s easy to see its Mad business district and the historic Westside, Men-esque appeal. The sleek office tower is one of the poorest communities in the valley. also LEED Gold certified. But those tensions haven’t been focused on Of course, if progressive architecture, mass the artists and bar owners in downtown Las transit improvements and an explosion of loVegas — until now. cally owned businesses can’t convince the deRobert Dorgan, former ditractors, then perhaps nothrector of UNLV’s Downtown ing will. And maybe it doesn’t DesignCenter,wassurprised matter. After all, most of the to hear that someone had new downtowners are pretty called the area gentrified. excited about their ’hood. “Have they been down “There is a new generation here?” he asked. of pride about downtown,” After all, downtown is still said Harry Ray, an architect a pretty gritty, affordable who also taught at UNLV. place. In fact, even with the “It hasn’t always been that infusion of businesses, prices way. There are people who WILLIAM JOINER move here specifically to be have come down, especially at the Ogden, a former condo downtown. It’s such a pasdevelopment that opened sionate concern.” its units to renters this year. But if the argument about Gentrification doesn’t happen until the Crate the state of downtown Las Vegas ruffled a few and Barrels elbow out the mom-and-pops. feathers, it might also open some doors. Wax No, it’s the lack of gentrification that led began to look into to a few of the development to one of the biggest deals in recent downissues while he defended downtown. town history. “What I think is productive is for people to “Tony Hsieh [Zappos CEO] wouldn’t be come down here,” Wax said. “If there’s a way coming down here if it were gentrified,” Dorto reach out to poor people and get together gan said.“He sees a deal. He can rent an entire with the artists. Everyone I know is involved floor of the Ogden. There are still deals to be in the community. Clearly, people come here had down here.” from all over town for First Friday. Maybe we A scale model of downtown Las Vegas sits in need to develop that into an ongoing patrona small studio next to Dorgan’s office. It takes age of this community.” up nearly half the space.All the existing buildPeople like Joiner who’ve lived downtown ings are in wood, and proposed developments for years may not like all the changes. Joiner are represented by crude foam blocks. Dorgan enjoys Insert Coins and the Beat. But he’s got has taken all the permitted buildings from a problem with the Ogden, formerly known as the last six years or so — projects scattered Streamline Towers. up and down the redevelopment corridor “They built that big-ass building and — and placed them all inside the original Clark they’ve got about five people living in that Townsite, the nucleus of modern Las Vegas. sonofabitch,” he said. If the competing visions of downtown Las Buteventhat’schanging.TerriDegan,asecuVegas were to work out their differences over rity guard at the Ogden, said the complex origithis mock-up, they might find a lot more comnally had about eight residents. Now it’s about mon ground than they think. There’s more half-full.Ofcourse,moreresidentsmeansmore open space in downtown Las Vegas than it work for her. In the old days, she used to have to seems, more flexibility and pages to be written. shoo vagrants off the property. These days, it’s “Downtown is not a one-trick pony,” Dorgan more important to keep the Summerlin yuppies said.“You can have a boutique conference cenfrom parking in the garage.
“WHEN I GOT HERE, IT WAS TERRIBLE. BELOW SIXTH STREET WAS LIKE PURGATORY.”
Ever since we stumbled across Gigolos on Showtime, we haven’t missed a jaw-dropping, bare-assed episode of the reality show that follows five actual Las Vegas male escorts (and their female clients) from the often-awkward first encounter to later in the evening when, invariably, things get raunchy. So far, neither Metro nor the Clark County district attorney has probed (forgive us) whether the men and their boss, Garren James of the Cowboys4Angels agency, are violating anti-prostitution laws. If busted, James and his stallions could face prostitution charges, which carry penalties of up to $1,000 and six months in jail for each offense. James wouldn’t give us an interview without the OK of his producers, but in April he told TV Guide why he thinks cops have left him alone — so far. “We are a companion service and clients pay a rate per hour. First thing you’re gonna do is collect the money from the client, and then from there, whatever happens between you two is two consenting adults. It’s illegal for you to take any money after that for any sort of sexual services or whatever.” We’ll see how long James can balance on that legal tightrope. In May, a woman who appeared on the show told The Daily Beast that producers hired her to act as a client: “They found me through a website. They wanted to know what skills I had. Then they created a scenario where I would need an escort, and they hired me.” JASON WHITED
COMMUNITY COLLAGE
As part of an exhibit about Las Vegas, the Barrick Museum urged patrons to scribble their ideas about community onto large sheets of paper. Some excerpts: The neighborhood shout out: “215 and Sunset!” The faux-Zen koan pone: “In anything is the essence of what it is not.” The heartfelt social critique: “I have lived in Vegas for 12 years but have never felt part of a ‘community.’ ” The too-rushed-to-think-of-something-fresh observation:“Casinosareloundandobnoxious.” The cri de coeur: “WE MUST CHANGE THIS!” SCOTT DICKENSHEETS For more on the accompanying exhibit, see Page 28.
JOHN 3:16 COOK IS BACK
Last we heard of John 3:16 Cook and Magickal Marissa, the eccentric preacher-husband/ wiccan-wife team, the Review-Journal reported he had run off to Oklahoma and left her penniless. The couple, known around town for being zany homeless advocates, recently phoned us to say Cook is back ... and never wanted to leave. One minute he was smoking something funny in a Las Vegas hotel room with his daughter, the next he was tied to a bed in the Midwest, he says. Cook says he was abducted and held against his will for nine months by his daughter in a scheme to collect his pension checks. No word on why she sent him home. KRISTY TOTTEN
ROSS RECALL IN TROUBLE?
Despite their quick start, critics of Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Ross could have hit a snag in their effort to recall him. This week, questions surfaced about whether their Committee to Recall Steve Ross was even legal. City clerks said they have no record of the group filing committee paperwork, but a spokeswoman for Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller said the group did, in fact, file the necessary documents with the state in May. Despite questions of legality, matters of practicality could hamper recall efforts. Rumors from Ross’ Ward 6 are rife with tales of anti-Ross campaigners being unable to collect the more than 1,000 signatures they’ll need by mid-August to force a recall, and organizers of the antiRoss efforts have been mysteriously unavailable to return multiple phone calls. Ross has drawn the ire of some Ward 6 residents since February 2009, when several filed a complaint alleging he violated ethics rules by voting for the construction of a new city hall. (He was affiliated with a trade council that was seeking a deal with the city hall’s then-developer.) Some Ward 6’ers also say Ross hasn’t done enough to preserve jobs in his ward. JASON WHITED
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Voice in the wilderness
peaks encircling Mount Charleston from a distance. The dense, compacted, drought-dried forest stretches in every direction. It’s an incongruous setting for all this talk of doom. Pausing near a stand of pines, Abella, in jeans and work boots and breathing in morning air thick with the smell of sap
butterflies, are beautiful, almost primeval in their density and serenity. But that density is the problem, Abella says. Where you might see natural beauty, he sees potential disaster. A century of what he calls “failed” land-management policies by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service have resulted, he says, in forests that have been artificially protected from wildfires. For much of the 20th century, federal officials were quick to mobilize small armies of firefighters any time a blaze sparked up. Usually, those fire-battling troops have been deployed across the American West, particularly during the summer and fall fire
and wildflowers, is oddly calm as he describes potential monster wildfires raking across Southern Nevada. But the safety briefing continues, uninterrupted by a family of chipmunks with more important business: A few yards away, the diminutive pack darts across the two-lane road toward a state campsite, perhaps drawn by the smell of morning coffee and breakfast meat. The forests on Mount Charleston, home to thousands of animal species from deer to rare
seasons. And that large-scale mobilization is the problem, he says. Abella says smaller fires are nature’s way of clearing out dead or excessive foliage, but Uncle Sam put a stop to that more than a century ago. Back in the late 1800s, federal officials began to view wildfires as harmful to forests. Without so much as a squeak of protest from a then still-powerful timber industry that harvested on public lands, fire suppression “became the U.S. land-manage-
UNLV researcher says the West’s next big fire could strike Mount Charleston BY JASON WHITED » JWHITED@LVCITYLIFE.COM
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t 7,000 feet up, the slopes of Mount Charleston look nothing like one of the biggest fire hazards in the American West. Blanketed in thick-bark Ponderosa pine, hardy squirrel-tail grass and the ubiquitous, draping purple flowers of the lupin plant, the peak, which presides over the Spring Mountains, is more bucolic refuge than clear danger. Catch fire? It’s barely warm up here. Although it’s mid-morning on a July day, the temperature up here has hardly risen above 70 degrees. You want a fire hazard? Head back down to the valley. With two hours until noon, Las Vegas is already broiling under 95-degreeheat. Talk about a fire starter … Yet professor SCOTT ABELLA Scott Abella is worried. For several years now, Abella and a team of fellow researchers and graduate students have combed this area, sampling the mountain soil and the wood of those Ponderosas while monitoring the overall density of the forests. What the woods tell them is potentially alarming. “It could happen, the risk of fire is real,” says Abella, UNLV associate research professor in environmental and public affairs. “Because of the tree density, this entire area is highly susceptible to the types of wildfires we’re currently seeing in Arizona and New Mexico. Just look at the [undergrowth].” He pokes a toe at the plush carpet of pine needles, twigs and small plants underfoot. “Look around. Everything you see on the ground is basically kindling … all it would take is one campfire, one cigarette, one lightning strike, and we’re potentially talking about a large-scale disaster.” Abella looks at the smaller
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ment paradigm,” Abella says. That’s why modern wildfires,when they do ignite, blaze out of control, he says. If humans continue to suppress natural cycles of fire and recovery, all they’ll do is build up the number of trees that can serve as fuel for today’s monster blazes, such as the one that’s raged across New Mexico and threatened the Los Alamos National Lab. Fast forward to 2011, and the Ponderosas and (higher up the mountain) bristlecone pines that cover the Spring Mountains are out of control — a tinder-box traffic jam that moves at a rate measured in centuries, not years. It took a long time of managing (some say neglecting) these forests here for them to grow so dangerously thick. Even just a few yards into some spots in the forest, trees seem to battle each other for breathing room. Some trees that don’t get enough light and water die and remain on the mountain — perfect fuel for a fire. “A key point is the types of fires we’re having today should not be happening in these types of forests,” Abella says. “Historically, the Ponderosa pine forests in the West burned regularly, every two to 20 years or so, which thinned out the trees and the fuels … not anymore.” In fact, state and federal wildlife officials are beginning to heed the alarm. In the past several years, state forestry crews and U.S Forest Service contractors have begun to thin some of the woods on Kyle Canyon Road as it leads up to the mountain. And officials at the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, who didn’t return CityLife’s calls for comment, have met with Abella and some of his more promising student researchers to discuss future options for the kind of mass-scale tree thinning that, Abella says, will be Mount Charleston’s only salvation. “Imagine losing this place to a large fire,” Abella says. “Think of the value residents here put on Mount Charleston. The people who live up here, the people who recreate here, tourists … if this goes away it’ll take centuries to regrow.” It’s not as if the danger of wildfire will lessen as the years go on, Abella says. With ever more trees and more potential fuel covering the mountains here and with climate change bringing more heat and drought to the state, it’s really only a matter of time, he says. “We can do something about it now, although it would take decades to thin the forests properly. But something must be done.”
the door with a person who usually wouldn’t give them the time of day. Which sounds kind of humiliating, if you think about it.But the 100,000 or so users who already signed up evidently don’t think so. There are two kinds of people on the What’s Your Price website: attractive and generous. Generous daters make offers to attractive daters, who chose whether or not to accept them. “It’s just an opportunity for people who want to meet the women who are more attractive than the ones they usually date,” Wade said. Although the website clearly states that the agreements do not include sex, it’s easy to see how someone might confuse it with prostitution. After all, Wade uses the same language as the escorts who pitch their products on the Strip — promising “company” and “dates” in exchange for money. But those euphemisms aren’t Wade’s problem. If you ask him, he’ll say he’s cutting through the bullshit of dating. If one party has a lot of attractiveness to offer, the other should be able to put his financial cards on the table without feeling like a jerk. It’s not romantic, but that doesn’t mean Wade doesn’t believe in true love. He thinks that relationships that start as a financial arrangement between a couple parties can blossom into something deeper. Last time I talked to Wade, he was married to a woman he met through another of his web ventures. That website, Seeking Arrangement, matched sugar daddies or mamas with sugar babies. In exchange for money, sugar babies would accompany their benefactors on dates. Like What’s Your Price, that website never explicitly made sex part of the deal, although one suspects many arrangements probably included it. Wade said his arrangement blossomed into real love. But like a lot of marriages, it fell apart. Wade says his website injects honesty into the courtship game, allowing partners to know what they’re dealing with, financially speaking. After all, most relationships do have a financial element. “All relationships involve money in one or multiple ways,” Wade said. “What’s wrong with being brutally honest about it?”
But finances aren’t the foundation of most conventional relationships, even if they do play a role. Wade disagrees, at least when it comes to relationships that are just getting started. “Men buy the Mercedes-Benz to get the attention of women,” he said. “It is the primary thing in the beginning when you do not know someone well.” Scroll through the attractive users’ ads on What’s Your Price, and you’ll find plenty of cleavage. In fact, the website kind of looks like an electronic version of the escort magazines you find near the Strip. But Wade blames the media for comparing the site to a escort service. “They love a controversy,” he said. He has had to set a few of the users straight, though. Sometimes the men do expect sex at the end of the date and refuse to pay the attractive person for their time and effort. If the attractive user feels burned, she can submit bad feedback about her date. The generous users have their complaints, too. Sometimes, they shell out their money for the date, and never hear back from the lady in question. To them, Wade suggests using the date as more than a get-to-know-you session. Instead, they should treat it like a lesson, a kind of internship in dating out of your league. Ask the women what interests them, and what makes a good impression. Then, the next time you pay for a date, put those lessons into practice. Wade, who found it difficult to approach women before he started his website, says buying dates is no worse than using pick-up strategies. “In those classes, they teach men to put women down and treat them disrespectfully,” he said. “Here we just want to them to be compensated for their time.” Most of the men who use his site are professionals who don’t have a lot of time to pick up women or do a lot of online dating. It’s too difficult to make an impression on attractive women on a conventional site without resorting to monetary offers, Wade said. His site takes care of that. Wade says he’s been seeing someone for the past six months, so he doesn’t use his website for his own dating purposes.
USERS ARE PAYING TO DATE SOMEONE WHO USUALLY WOULDN’T GIVE THEM A CHANCE.
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What’s Your Price founder Brandon Wade believes paid arrangements can blossom into romance.
Brandon Wade’s dating websites push the boundary between courtship and compensation BY AMY KINGSLEY » AKINGSLEY@LVCITYLIFE.COM
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f you crossed eBay with Match.com, you might come up with something Brandon Wade already invented. The Las Vegas resident and Internet entrepreneur specializes in websites that offer romantic relationships — or opportunities — in exchange for cold, hard cash.
Wade recently launched What’s Your Price, where beautiful people and paying clients broker for dates on the open market. Is it prostitution? Wade says no. Paying members aren’t paying for sex, they’re not even paying for a good dating experience. Instead, they’re paying for the opportunity to get their foot in
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A LOT of MONEY A few thoughts on what that really means BY H. LEE BARNES
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aturday, and I’m seated in Mimi’s at Fort Apache and Charleston, my twiceweekly breakfast outing. The family packs haven’t yet swarmed the place, but they’ve been stretching their muscles, readying to load themselves in their Mercedes SUV, Mom, Dad, daughter, two sons. They’ll meet Grandpa and Grandma and two of Grandma’s friends, friends she met at a luncheon in Sun City long before the family moved west, friends she joins up with twice a week at the Rampart Casino, where they slip bills into slots on slot machines and play credits, an amusement that erases, for a time, every worldly worry. For now, only a scattering of mostly men sit, sipping coffee and eating, many of them alone. I feel fine being among them, since their average age is diseased. I feel fine mostly because I’m rarely ever the youngest man in a room. One of the two old guys seated in the booth facing mine gets up for the third time and, cell phone pressed to his ear, scrambles for the front entrance. Dressed in tight-fitting, all-white tennis garb that belongs on someone much younger, he paces the walkway outside the windows, handling some earth-shaking business deal. Behind me two old guys — late seventies, I figure — talk about a real-estate deal that’ll make them “a lot of money.” I’m not sure what constitutes “a lot of money,” perhaps more than Grandma and her friends dump in slot machines in a week, or perhaps in a year, or perhaps a decade. What I know is that there were times in my life when five dollars in my pocket translated into “a lot of money.” Fresh out of high school and enrolled in college, I went to work for Sun Publishing Company in El Paso, Texas. We pumped out a weekly shopper, advertising handouts, a small newspaper for Las Cruces, N.M., El Correo, a newspaper that highlighted the social lives of the well-to-do in Juarez, Mexico, and a variety of custom print jobs. I was a cameraman, stripper (no, not of the Chippendale’s variety) and a plate-maker. I was paid minimum wage and, in theory, time-and-a-half for overtime. The management, however, used a magic pencil to strip away at our overtime while assuring that each Friday, the night we pushed out the weekly shopper and El Correo, we would work a full 11 or 12 hours. They “compensated” us by sending the print crew home early on weekdays or having them come in two hours later during the rest of the work week. We worked holidays without being paid double time. Fred Hervey, former mayor of El Paso, owner of Sun Publishing and founder of Circle-K convenience stores,
felt the wage-an-hour law violated his right as an employer to decide who was compensated for what work. For reasons that will become obvious, I’ll insert here that I was the only Anglo (whitey, honky) who worked nights and with the press crew, five of whom were MexicanAmerican and one of whom was AfricanAmerican. No talk of union or any kind of organization ever circulate among us. We did the work, night in, night out. The press was a four-tower Vanguard offset, a clamorous beast, and when running at capacity, it reeled in the huge reams of paper from their spools at such a clip that the pressmen had to shut it down every 20 minutes to reload the spools. On Thursdays and Fridays, after I finished developing the last of the plates, I joined the crew to help jog, bindle and stack papers. The pressmen, Carlos Gonzales and Ernesto Sanchez, whom we called Nesto, were charged with making the print runs efficient, having the least amount of paper waste and ink loss. They spent their night keeping the finicky press running, swinging to and fro as they scrabbled in and out of the four towers, loading ink trays, trouble-shooting paper jams and folds or oiling gears and bearings. One particularly busy Friday Nesto was scraping ink into one of the trays. As loud as the press was, no one heard his first scream. I was jogging papers and happened to look up. I hollered to Cha Cha, who was closest to the red emergency-stop button. I pointed to it and he responded. The press came to a halt. We ran to Nesto’s aid and wrapped the wounded arm in a towel and made a tourniquet with strips from a cleaning cloth. His shirt cuff had been caught in the gears. The machinery had pulled his forearm in and crushed it below the elbow. Because I was least needed to finish the press runs, I was chosen to drive
him to the emergency room,and the rest of the crew continued with the jobs.The next evening when I arrived at work,Henry Ostuse, a retired army colonel and recently hired manager, called me in his office and dressed me down for not punching out on the time clock. He docked me the entire day’s pay. Three weeks later Nesto was again scrabbling about on the press. He had a family and rent and he was behind on his car payment. Carlos and his wife had been feeding Nesto’s children. All of us understood that we were powerless to confront management. The men in the crew, except for Cha Cha, had families to support. All of them lived in El Secundo Barrio at what certainly was the poverty level or below. Still, they took pride in their work and their ability to bring home a check every two weeks. I was less inclined to tolerate being cheated out of wages I’d earned.I went to the Wage an Hour Office and filed a complaint. By the time the audit was completed, the company had to write out checks to the entire crew, some of them receiving more than $500 in overtime wages, which in El Paso in 1963 constituted “a lot of money.” No one ever knew that I was the one who reported the violations. Nor did I reveal it even on the day I walked off the job. So I sit, now I suppose as a college professor, a professional, part of the privileged class, eating breakfast as yuppie
rancheros and waited for my inevitable draft notice. Today is also end-of-the-month bill day. I drive home to the house I’ve lived in for nine years. It’s in a middle-class neighborhood near Alta and Cimarron. I bought the house as a place to live and as a secure investment, not with any notion of turning a fast dollar or anything more than a nominal return should I ever sell it. I’ve made it my home not by merely paying the mortgage,but by building with my own hands the courtyard in front and remodeling the kitchen. I laid all of the tile and laminate flooring in the house and all of the slate on the patio and walkway out back. My neighbor Art installed overhead fans as I passed him nuts and bolts or screws.I dug deep holes in the dirt,pried out huge rocks, and planted six trees and dozens of bushes and cactus and flowers. In short, I made it home by putting myself in it. Now vacated houses occupy my neighborhood, three on the street where I live. Discarded bottles and Styrofoam cups and straws and wrappers from Mickey D’s litter the curbside, and for the second time some punk scrawled graffiti on a neighbor’s wall across the street. After paying my mortgage for nine years, along with varying amounts of additional principal, I would lose tens of thousands on the house if I sold it. As I fill out the check to pay my mortgage, I think of the hunger I endured as a college student in El Paso, how those days in large part shaped me into the man who made this house a home, how that man wants to appreciate what he has, which isn’t a lot. I’ve never made “a lot of money” or accumulated a lot of anything, and I never thought life had cheated me that way, but when I see the empty houses, the trash left by people who aren’t invested in any of this, the graffiti on my neighbor’s block wall, and then measure all I’ve put into my house, I wonder if I haven’t been cheated.And who is it who made “a lot of money”? And I’m not alone in wondering.
I’ve never accumulated a lot of anything, and I never thought life had cheated me. families spill into the foyer at Mimi’s and form a blockade by the door. As I sign off on my debit card, I think of the times in El Paso when I didn’t have enough money to buy a breakfast and tore up two slices of bread into a bowl and poured sugar and milk on top. That would be my lunch as well. And often my dinner. My money went to tuition, rent, a car payment and gas to get to and from classes and work. When I could no longer afford tuition and dropped out of college, I had what seemed “a lot of money,” and I ate tortillas and tamales and chile verde and huevos
H. Lee Barnes is the author of the novel The Lucky, the nonfiction book Dummy Up and Deal and other works.
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Jelli’s rock and pop radio stations allow online users to control the playlist BY MAX PLENKE » MPLENKE@LVCITYLIFE.COM
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dictive cartoon characters — or if it stays on the air, adding anything from radio-saturaters like Foo Fighters to former radio-queens like Alanis Morisette to the commute of whoever decided to tune in on his drive home. No, it’s not some really boring video game. It’s musical social networking, and the folks at Jelli think it’s the new revolution of radio. “Jelli is really about a community shaping the playlist,” says Sarah Bacon, director
of product. “We’re not “[Play wait] can vary,” Bacon says. “I’ve Pandora where it’s a taiseen users come in and throw up a rocket and lored, individual experieveryone wants to hear it. It depends on how ence. It’s about joining in many people are online. But it’s driven by the and talking about music. community and by how they vote. It can be A lot of people come immediate or it can take a while.” on Jelli to discover new But at least you don’t have to wait through music and hear what the commercials yet (Jelli claims it’s playing community’s into. You 10,000 songs non-stop). And eventually, one could say ‘Why not just of your songs gets on the air. T-Bone the robot fire up the iPod and hear DJ announces your user name in that Simplewhat I want?’ You can. Text robot voice (ours is hueylewisandtheBut Jelli’s about the comnudes), and Green Day’s Dookie finally gets munity and the game its due diligence. There’s an odd sense of acexperience.” complishment and godliness that comes with With dance music convincing a chat room of people that what ruling Las Vegas this they really want to hear at that particular year, and immediately time is “Welcome to Paradise” for your own following Electric Daisy selfish reasons — for us, it was to relive our Carnival, having The school-bus-riding days without Tommy the Vibe sent to 99.7 FM Jerk throwing our lunch box out the window. (and only during the On the rock station we heard Foo Fighters’ twilight hours) and being “Learn to Fly,” Radiohead’s “Creep” and The replaced by a rock station Smashing Pumpkins’ “Bullet with Butterfly — a decision Bacon said Wings” in one sitting. The former was rewas encouraged by the quested by a user named Ali_Cat, who’s been station’s owners, based on Jelli for a year and on the Vegas stations on signal strength and since the June 30 format change. She’s voted the market — still doesn’t over 26,000 times. “I love it and I’m sooo make a lot of sense. [sic] happy they have Jelli in Vegas,” she says. However, over the “[I like] the Rocking and the Sucking and weekend we reluctantly hear[ing] my name on the radio.” took a break from our The Las Vegas stations are a new endeavor own musical proclivifor Jelli. The little 2009 start-up usually takes ties and played around over a station for a few hours a night in other on 96.7 KYLI-FM, Jelli’s cities (Philly, Atlanta, Portland and MinTop 40 station, and rock-based KXLI-FM neapolis are a few). But here, 94.5 and 96.7 94.5. And the process of requesting songs offer Jelli-time all day. “For us it was a great was actually pretty cool. It felt a like a crooked opportunity to bring Jelli and the concept political campaign. After picking a song, you of user-controlled radio to a great city like can do a regular vote to get it on the air. But like Vegas where there’s so much going on with getting someone into office, entertainment in general,” the songs that get voted for Bacon says. “But it also let the honest way never see the us improve the platform and light of FM. Most use a rocket bring Jelli to the stations 24/ — of which you only get a few 7 and take it over completely a day — to give it extra votes, and let users totally control the equivalent of stuffing what plays on the radio for ALI_CAT (USERNAME) those two stations.” the ballot box. When you do that, you have to contend Jelli isn’t the station for with the rest of the songs you if you just want to hear that got rocketed up. At that point, you have one song and get on with it. For immediacy to put yourself in the hands of the community, (or independent music), go elsewhere. But soliciting for song votes and appealing to their for a radio station, Jelli’s got a cool idea, and interests — and hoping they“Rocks”instead of there’s plenty of room for it to get cooler. “We “Sucks” your choice. Even if you aren’t a dick by no means will have the perfect playlist for about it, someone might still hate your song everyone,” Bacon says. “But what we really and decide to bomb you, which knocks your want is for users to fill out the request form song back to zero votes, and you have to start and have other users bump them up and we’ll all over again. It’s like when a mayoral candibe adding songs based on what’s coming in date gets caught in a sex scandal: Your song’s from listeners. In the perfect world, we’d probably not going to make it. want everything to be driven by users.”
“[I LIKE] THE ROCKING AND THE SUCKING.”
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If there’s one thing Lil B does well, it’s marketing. The former member of The Pack rode a string of ridiculously titled songs (“Wonton Soup,” “Look Like Jesus”) and bizarre viral videos to prominence in the hip-hop blogosphere. The Based God made even bigger waves when he got on the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s radar after announcing the title of this album. But for all the marketing, the music must
stand out — and stand on its own. The subject matteronI’mGayisundeniablyheavy,aserious departure from the Lil B many fans came to love online. The opening salvo,“Trapped In Prison,” offers a perspective on poverty and wealth. Later, Gerard McMann’s “Cry Little Sister” is channeledon“UnchainMe,” acelebratorytrack aimed at those who said he wouldn’t make it. The social commentary continues throughout the album on tracks like “Gon Be Okay” and “I Hate Myself.” In short, the album borders on inspirational and depression. I’m Gay is severely handicapped by Lil B’s uneven delivery. That issue aside, the pioneer of the Based lifestyle displays an unbelievable stream of consciousness, positivity and desire to make the world a better place seldom seen in hip-hop. ANTHONY SPRINGER, JR.
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duo is clearly big on bro-nomie, and not just because their second album’s title tweaks that of the Rudd-Segel film. I Love You, Dude is full of brawny, fist-in-air riffs and tweaks — they still sound like the Deutschland cousins of Paris’s Ed Banger crew, the unit that gave us Justice. Jabbering, growling 303 riffs power the stomping “Miami Showdown,” which comes complete with a stop-the-turntable slowdown, and the fizzy synthesizer overlay on “2 Hearts” gives a modern neon sheen to a track whose basic rhythm owes more than a little to Michael Sembello’s Flashdance soundtrack hit, “Maniac.” That ’80s-manqué feel pervades Dude: it’s very well produced, every surface seeming to have been made from a gleaming mold, but the material often seems tired. On 2007’s Idealism, Moelle and Tüfekçi hooked one song, “Home Zone,” withtheboast,“Iamthebiggestpartyever,” but I Love You, Dude settles down a little bit — and as with most things that follow raucous parties, it’s kind of a snooze. MICHAELANGELO MATOS
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MUSIC FEAR & LOUNGING
The new old wave
Shiny Boots of Leather: Trevor Locash, left, Tyler Huddleston, and Dino Hatzis
Local musicians embracing blues and traditional rock ’n’ roll swim against the Synth City current BY MAX PLENKE
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s I type this, Ke$ha’s “We Are Who We Are” hurls itself from a coffee shop’s speakers, smearing electric bubblegum pop on the walls and inevitably making toes tap and fingers rap againstthesidesoficedcoffeecups.Nexttothe door, ads for DJs and other extension-cord gladiators scream for attention. And they get it. Because Las Vegas eats that shit up. With the recent success of the first Sin City Electric Daisy Carnival and the macro-level explosion of all things womp womp womp, it goes to show Las Vegas is becoming an EDM city, and that influences what’s been going on in local music, too. It can be great: Sometimes you need some 808 with your synthesizing. But there’s a tipping point, where our neon levee cracks and leaves our modest scene in a soggy mess of Ableton remixes. However, as of recently there’s been a push for organic, heartfelt music in a traditional sense, consciously being more lyrical than dancey and subconsciously repairing the levee. Call it a MacBook prophylactic. “With all the Electric Daisy Carnival stuff, even when you go out, there’s so many bands in the indie music scene trying to appeal to the mainstream scene and trying to do this dance stuff,” says Zach Peickert of Zach Ryan and The Rouge. “There’s a real lack of honesty in the record industry and I think it’s bleeding into indie music and I think people get a sense of that. The Autotune, the quantizing, it’s getting out of hand.” The interesting part is which people get a sense of what Peickert describes as a lack of honesty and how recently bands — and pop culture — started pushing toward a return to roots, and how it seems to be happening on a national level. Traditionalists like The Black Keys, Fleet Foxes, The Dead Weather and Mumford and Sons stormed the top 10 in recent years. There’s even a degree of full-circle return that can be, in part,
thanks to TV shows. The Sopranos and The Wire popularized the use of traditional Southern-influenced music. Sons of Anarchy and True Blood continue the trend, both opening with music that sounds like an earful of gravel. And New Wave-friendly downtown Las Vegas now includes more national throwback acts; recent visiting bands Lucero, The Stone Foxes and The Postelles move away from the use of
keyboards and electric organs and touch on music from eras before any of the members were sparkles in their fathers’ eyes. You’ll hear nostalgic R&B and soul in the work of The Postelles, southern rock in the music of The Stone Foxes. And now, it seems younger local musicians are finally interested in why Howling Wolf asked the Smokestack Lightening why it doesn’t hear him cryin’. The Mad Caps are a staple of
“The Autotune, the quantizing, it’s getting out of hand.” zach peickert
NEWS AND NOTES Divebar announced its impending closure July 5, management citing “some business and circumstances that got out of control.” The eastside live music joint opened in August, 2005. ... Godless heathens and any other open-minded music fans should head to the Bunkhouse on July 8 for the first annual benefit show for the UNLV Rebel Secular Student Society, which aims to bring noteworthy atheists and other secular figures to speak in Las Vegas. Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller) and his No God Band will headline, with support from Rusty Maples, Van Nuys (playing its first show in over two years) and Three Chord Radio. Tickets are $10 at the door and $8 before. For more info, visit www.rebelsss.org. ... The post-holiday/postEDC visitor DJ roundup is predictably smaller this week: Alix Alvarez, Halo (July 8, Vanguard Lounge), Exodus (July 8, Rain), EDX (July 8, Marquee Dayclub), The EC Twins (July 8, Marquee Nightclub), Morgan Page (July 9, Rain), BT, EDX (Marquee Nightclub), Mix Master Mike with drummer Travis Barker (July 9, Nikki Beach), Nervo (July 10, XS), Darude (July 10, Tao Beach), LA Riots (July 12, XS), Kaskade (July 10, Encore Beach Club). SEND YOUR TIPS to mprevatt@lvcitylife.com
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the downtown scene. Coastwest Unrest and Rusty Maples may join them soon. The Clydesdale has peppered its sound with old-style rhythm and blues for nearly a decade. These acts enjoy a cross-generational audience unlike that of longtime blues purists such as Scott Rhiner and John Earl, and that multi-genre veterans like The Nines and The Fremonts have only recently seen north of the Double Down. Maybe this recent local wave finds the freedom that comes with lo-fi. Walker Rose of Walker Rose and The Pines’ music gets him compared to Tom Waits and Devandra Banhart, a combination of the drudge and the struggle of blues. His “The Price of Time” sounds like walking down a muddy road in cement shoes: really dirty, pained and demands attention. This isn’t party music. “Blues is almost a way of life as much as it is a genre because blues can be anything,” Rose says. “It’s cool if I can open people up to that and show them they can make good music too and they don’t have to push buttons on a beat machine. It’s cool to make people dance and move, but it’s just not the same as when you see someone intertwined with their guitar or their piano, creating something in front of you. It’s a projection of your happiness or anger or jealousy or sadness, put into that and put out there for people to receive.” Tyler Huddleston of Shiny Boots of Leather — who play the return of The Rumble free monthly music showcase with Zach Ryan and the Rouge July 9 at Beauty Bar — says the music he makes isn’t an attempt to fight against the city’s electronic leanings, but he can’t help but write blues music. Shiny Boots, who’ve only been together for just over a year, experience the difficulty of playing music for themselves in a place where entertainment and spectacle usually sit shotgun. Right now, Huddleston says a typical Shiny Boots crowd is only around 20 people. But it doesn’t stop them. Co-writer Dino Hatzis tries to remain optimistic. “There’s a movement going on with good bands,” he says. “Hopefully something will blow up ... I don’t want to sound douchey and say ‘Oh it’s Vegas, what do you expect?’ It’s just that not much is going on that’s artful.” “Maybe we can make it that way though,” Huddleston says. “Instead of just saying there’s no art here, maybe we can bring art here.” It’s a tall order, altering the infrastructure of something unnaturally. You can’t just force a city to start loving mid- and early-20th century music, no matter how much water it carries, however subtly. But maybe it doesn’t have to be forced. With blues and folk playing a larger part on a national scale, it could just be next in line. Like anywhere with a musical reputation, there’s always going to be welcome resistance, steadily pushing forward like the 12-bar blues it’s built on.We wouldn’t be surprised if this coffee shop’s playlist soon matches that of a biker bar. And we’d eat that shit up.
WARPED: WHERE GEEZERDOM STARTS AT 21
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ike most of the 20-somethings sauntering around me, I hadn’t been to a Warped Tour since before I started taking driver’s ed. Skinny kids in skinny pants and swoopy haircuts ran around the Plaza’s downtown parking lot, necks sunburned like Nebraskan corn huskers, eye makeup smeared from sweat and Super Soakers. I immediately felt old — a sensation I almost never experience, since I’ve never seen this many high school kids in one place. Something about being there felt creepy.
I got caught in a group of young girls when I stopped to watch screamo band I Set My Friends on Fire — and irrationally looked around to make sure no one thought I was “with” any of them. I envied the 30- and 40-year-olds shamelessly dancing and singing along to 3OH!3 with their kids. I’m not that secure. I took solace in watching The Aggrolites and Big D and the Kids Table — bands that could babysit Attack! Attack! and Black Veil Brides. MAX PLENKE, mplenke@lvcitylife.com
ADULTS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS I took out a notepad and talked to people with facial hair (a surprisingly good rule of thumb that afternoon) and other discernible adults about why they were there. What brings you out to Warped alone? “I don’t know any of the bands out here, that’s why I like to come out: Get acclimated to the up-and-coming bands … I’ve liked 3Oh!3.” Jeff Olson, 41 Who’ve you liked out here so far? “My daughter got me into Attack! Attack! … Instrumentally it’s really good.” What’s the last show you went to without your daughter? “Metallica, eight years ago.” Tori McCormack, 38 (lying)
What brings you out? “I’m taking my kid. And I wanted to see The Aggrolites, so I asked my son if he wanted to go.” Do you feel old? “Nah, it’s about the music. Jimmy Cliff is 60 something and he still gets down.” Chris Logan, 50 What brings you out? “My daughter’s 19 and likes music. I like the screamer bands and shit.” Pat O’Neil, 38 (not lying) Why are you carrying drumsticks? “I was supposed to sit in with Scarlet Drive, but I can’t find them. I was just talking to them and they left.” Rick Passel, 56
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Forrest Gustavo
A Better Life focuses on the story behind the stereotypes of L.A.’s invisible population BY MATT KELEMEN » AE@LVCITYLIFE.COM
Immigrants’ song
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etting to the U.S.A.by any means necessary, in hopes of giving the next generation a chance at the mythical American Dream, is a practice as old as the country itself. Undocumented Mexican workers have been subject to stereotyping during hard economic times since the Depression, but today every time a crime is committed on an Arizona border ranch, an entire population pays for it in the media. Veteran television and film producer Paul Junger Witt — whose resume dates back to The Partridge Family but enjoyed his greatest critical network success with Soap — says he first started thinking of a story told from the point of view of Southern California’s “invisible population” 25 years ago. It was only in recent years he was able to bring a story to the screen that eventually became A Better Life. The basic plot is lifted from Italian neorealist classic The Bicycle Thief, with screenwriter Eric Eason adding street cred to the characters
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and dialogue. The result, under the direction of Chris Weitz (About a Boy, Twilight: New Moon) is a contemporary naturalist drama that suffers from slow pacing at times, but succeeds at humanizing the immigration situation. Most of the weight for making that happen falls on the shoulders of Demian Bichir as Carlos Galindo, a single father raising his at-risk teenage son Luis (José Julián) in L.A. A star in Mexico but mainly known in the States for his recurring role as crime boss Esteban Reyes on Showtime’s Weeds, Bishir communicates much through his soulful eyes. His entire existence revolves around working as a day laborer so Luis can have opportunities unavailable in Mexico. American-born Luis, tempted but resistant to gang life, is openly contemptuous of Carlos, even as Carlos takes a huge gamble and gives in to pressure from his “boss” Blasco (Joaquin Coslo), who wants to sell him a pickup truck. The truck comes with a clientele for gardening jobs, but it also makes Carlos more visible
to the authorities. The story is telegraphed by the time Blasco brings up the truck. Of course something will go horribly wrong. Carlos is taking a huge chance borrowing money from his sister Anita (Delores Heredia) and avoiding detection by police patrol cars. However, his plight is very real. The filmmakers took great pains to imbue the story with authenticity via the chosen locations and conventional (but often gorgeous) camera work. The actors breathe life into the story, though. There’s nothing clichéd about Bichir’s performance, and the complicated relationship between Carlos and Luis is handled with nuance. A trip to a rodeo, where Carlos happily recognizes a song Luis’ loved as a boy, is somewhat of a turning point for their relationship and the film itself. Despite the riveting pathos generated by Carlos’ plight, Witt and company (including actress Jamie Gertz on the production team) make 98 minutes feel like more than two hours. How the narrative will conclude becomes a guessing game, but although there isn’t likely to be a sequel, the film doesn’t really “end.” It completes a cycle, with a finale that is both bittersweet and hopeful. A Better Life could have been a better film stylistically, but it couldn’t have gotten across its message any more effectively. A BETTER LIFE Demian Bichir, José Julián, Delores Heredia, directed by Chris Weitz, rated PG-13, 98 mins
ANY BEHIND-THE-SCENES glimpse of the New York Times is worth checking out, even if it sometimes seems like an advertisement and often feels completely controlled by the NYT’s powers-thatbe. Mostly centered on the Times’ Media Desk, Page One: Inside the New York Times is a snapshot of the Gray Lady as she weathers the social-media revolution, Wikileaks, Vice magazine, the iPad and reporting on the downfall of Tribune Media. All the while filmmakers Andrew Rossi and Kate Novack (Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven) build their case: The Times is relevant because they do it right, and most of their detractors have giant holes in their anti-Times diatribes. Media reporter David Carr is the star of the show, literally showing the holes that would be in content aggregation website Newser.com if it didn’t recycle Times content. Carr is an acerbic, Fbomb dropping attack dog the Times sets on Vice’s editorial board when cofounder Shane Smith accuses the paper of covering surfing instead of cannibalism in Liberia. “Just ’cause you put on a fuckin’ safari helmet and looked at some poop doesn’t give you the right to insult us,” says Carr, halting the interview to inform Smith of how thoroughly the Times covered genocide in Liberia before Vice visited. “Continue.” Carr aims a few more zingers,and figures who define themselves at least in part by reacting to an echo-chamber-fed perception of the Times get their comeuppance,but there is also a clear argument for why dedicated,experienced reporters are needed to collect facts and ethical editors are needed to lead,as opposed to dilettantes and wannabe players who wake up one day and decide to try this media stuff.Whether it’s an authentic,fly-onthe-wall doc or chance to present a case for subscribing to www.nytimes.com is something best left up to …ah,fuck it.It’s both. MATT KELEMEN
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Walker) partners with ex-con Dom (Vin Diesel) to assemble racers and take down a corporate business man on the streets of Brazil. Sam’s Town, Tropicana THE GREEN LANTERN (PG, 105 mins)Rings,spandexand thefight againstevil areblendedtogetherin theGreen Lantern’s(RyanReynolds)heroicadventure. THE HANGOVER PART II (R, 102 mins) You know it’s a bad sign for any sequel when the line of dialogue that kicks off the story is, “I can’t believe this is happening again.” And so it is, almost down to the smallest detail. The Wolfpack, as they came to be known through the first movie, wakes up in a seedy Bangkok hotel room with no memory of the night before. Not so much a sequel as an alternate version of its predecessor, The Hangover Part II may go down as the year’s most disappointing movie that should have its shit together. (MK: 05.26.11) KUNG FU PANDA 2 (PG, 91 mins) All that’s standing between evil and China is a kung fu warrior panda with Jack Black’s voice. LARRY CROWNE (PG-13, 99 mins) A socially awkward, recently fired retail-store company man (Tom Hanks) is transformed into the nearly cool, overgrown kid on campus. It’s as if Hollywood royalty Hanks and Julia Roberts, up for anything except playing unlikable, threw together this inherently slight romantic comedy as a stop-gap, a filler between bigger, more potent projects. (PB: 06.30.11) MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG-13, 100 mins) Gil (Owen Wilson) and fiancee Inez (Rachel McAdams) discover the art scene of Paris while struggling with notions of “what-if” in this charming but meaningless romantic comedy. (KC: 06.09.11) MONTE CARLO (PG, 109 mins) Small-town girls Grace (Selena Gomez), Emma (Katie Cassidy) and Meg (Leighton Meester) seek a summer escape in Paris, but the real fun begins when Grace is mistaken for a British heiress. MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS (PG, 95 mins) Successful dude (Jim Carrey) inherits penguins, whom he accommodates in his big-city apartment, much to the detriment to the rest of his life.
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG-13, 137 mins) Johnny Depp’s Capt. Jack
Sparrow returns or a fourth film, pitted against the most famous pirate of them all, Blackbeard (Ian McShane). The premise is good and all the actors ... should be. But there’s no life to any of it. RANGO (PG, 107 mins) Dali-esque dream sequences, existential conversations and uncanny photorealism make this darkly comic, western-themed animated flick gleefully bizarre, as Rango the heroic chameleon (voiced by Johnny Depp) must find the town’s dwindling water supply. (CB: 03.03.11) Tropicana RIO (PG, 96 mins) Blu, (voiced by Jesse Eisenberg) a domesticated Macaw goes to Rio de Janiero, finding Jewel (voiced by Anne Hathaway) a free bird, when they’re kidnapped and he must learn to fly to escape the smugglers. Village Square, Tropicana SOUL SURFER (PG, 105 mins) Inspired by 13-yearold Bethany Hamilton, shark attack victim, left armless, who triumphed to win a surfing competition two years later, AnnaSophia Robb gives a strong performance, for a family film that imparts a significant message. (CB: 4.07.11) Tropicana SUPER 8 (PG-13, 112 mins) Youth filming a zombie movie in 1979 Ohio encounter a horrifying chain of incidents. A well-written work of science fiction and not some dumb action movie. (CB: 06.09.11) THOR (PG-13, 114 mins) Thor, God of thunder (Chris Hemsworth), is banished to Earth for inciting a war — and becomes their ultimate, ab-rippling hero. Tropicana THE TREE OF LIFE (PG-13, 138 mins) Jack (Sean Penn) reminisces about a difficult relationship with his father (Brad Pitt) and tragic family events, in one of the greatest examples of lyrical and impressionistic filmmaking. It’s the fruit of director Terrence Malick’s decades of pondering existence and humanity’s place in the universe. Let the Oscar race begin. (MK:06.16.11) Village Square TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG-13, 157 mins) Once again, the Autobots and Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) take on the Deceptions, this time in an action-fueled space race.
Dirty work
X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG-13, 132minutes)This
HORRIBLE BOSSES has all the earmarks of a scenario dreamed up by someone who had no idea where to take the story once the angle was established, but just enough chutzpah to get the screenplay to a coterie of producers good at cranking out hackneyed comedies that debut in and quickly leave the top five. Someone had the budget to bring Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey and a barely used Colin Farrell to the table, but couldn’t supply them with direction or decent dialogue. Charlie Day of FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fares best among his co-stars, but his histrionic Dale can’t carry the film. Dale has the least emasculating boss among a trio of friends that includes Nick (Bateman, playing another variation of Michael Bluth from Arrested Development) and Kurt (Jason Sudeikis, still picking up the roles Ed Helms turns down). Dale is a dental assistant to evil psycho bitch Dr. Julia Harris (Aniston), who is determined to get in his pants despite his impending marriage. Nick works for total fucking asshole Dave Harkin (Spacey, falling far short of his Swimming With Sharks propensity for epitomizing maliciousness), who specializes in mind-fuck games. Kurt is happy as the No. 1 protégé of Jack Pelitt (Donald Sutherland), but Pelitt’s obnoxious, coke-snorting son Bobby (Farrell) steps up after Dad has a heart attack, and steps down on Kurt’s future. There’s only one way to handle this for anyone who’s seen Strangers on a Train. Or Throw Momma From the Train, both of which are referenced by our three stooges. Once the decision is made, boredom sets in. Outside of a coked-up Dale playing “Sing Along with the Ting Tings,” there are few laughs for the duration of the film. If the idea of Sudeikis sticking a toothbrush in his ass is your idea of humor, don’t miss this. MATT KELEMEN
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television show, chronicling the adventures of the eccentric time-traveling alien and his friends. A portion of the “Key of Time” season will be shown. Friday, July 8, 8p. The Sci-Fi Center, 900 E. Karen Ave., Suite D-202, 792-4335, www.thescificenter.com. $5 GISELE (NR) A ballet about love’s ups and downs,
presented from Russia and, for the first time, in 3D. Tuesday, July 12, 12p and 7:30p. For ticket info and locations, visit www.fathomevents.com. I.M. CARAVAGGIO (NR, 92 min) The dual life of 17th century Italian artist Ian Milano, as he struggles through his talents and psychopathy. By local filmmaker Derek Stonebarger. Saturday, July 9, 7p. Theatre 7, 1406 S. Third St., 568-9663. For information, visit www.theatre7lv.com. $7 KUNG-FU DOUBLE FEATURE (NR) Includes Sweet Ninja Brown and Crippled Masters. Friday, July 8, 2p and 7p. Theatre 7, 1406 S. Third St., 568-9663. For information, visit www.theatre7lv.com. $7 LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT (NR, 190 mins) Tonio (Juan Diego Florez) tried to win over a tomboy (Natalie Dessay), in Donizetti’s comedic opera. An encore presentation. Wednesday, July 13, 6:30p. For ticket
PRIEST (PG-13) 12:30, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10 THOR (PG-13) 11:30, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 BRIDESMAIDS (R) 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 FAST FIVE (PG-13) 12:45, 3:45, 7:20, 10:15 RIO (G) 11:40, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 SOUL SURFER (PG) 2:25, 7:30, 10:05 RANGO (PG) 11:55, 4:55 Information for July 8th through July 14th
Tickets on sale now for our HARRY POTTER MARATHON! MONTE CARLO(PG) 9:30 12:00 2:30 5:00 7:35 10:05 All 8 films, over 2 days: July 13th & 14th CARS 2 (G) 10:30 1:15 4:00 6:45 9:20 ZOOKEEPER (PG) 11:00 12:00 1:45 2:30 4:30 5:15 CARS 2 3D (G) 11:00 1:45 4:30 7:15 9:50 7:00 7:45 9:30 10:15 11:59
BAD TEACHER(R) 10:00 12:15 2:30 5:00 7:30 9:45
HORRIBLE BOSSES (R) 9:30 10:30 12:00 1:00 2:45 11:59 3:30 5:10 5:45 7:20 8:10 9:45 10:30 11:59 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG–13) 9:00 12:15 3:30 7:00 10:30 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG–13) 9:30 10:00 12:45 1:15 4:00 4:30 7:30 7:45 11:00 11:30 11:59
LARRY CROWNE (PG–13) 10:00 12:30 3:00 5:30 7:45 10:00
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BOOKS
REVIEW the version that conflates liberals, socialists and communists into a single category and then blames everything that’s wrong with the country on it. Some conservatives have been having a jolly time watching liberal reviewers go haywire over this book, given that Mamet’s a former fellow traveler who only recently converted to conservatism, but I can tell you there’s nothing to be jolly about, because Mamet does nothing but drag the already debased national political discourse further into a partisan shithole. There’s nothing egregious about the conservative principles Mamet begins with. Borrowing explicitly from conservative theorists including Friedrich Hayek and Thomas Sowell, and implicitly from Edmund Burke, Jefferson and Thoreau, Mamet is basically saying that the governmentthatgovernsbest governs least. Fine. “The first and most important task of law in a democracy,” he says, “is not to right individual wrongs, but to ensure that no one suffers because of the state.” The state — i.e., guv’ment — is the problem, and the Free Market is the solution. Again, arguable, but fine. There’s a long tradition of such thinking, as there is of liberal thinking that says government is there to right wrongs (like slavery, entrenched inequality, etc.), and well-meaning people can, heatedly but respectfully, disagree. The problem with Mamet’s book is that he doesn’t think liberals deserve a respectful hearing,repeatedly characterizingthemasidiots,dupes,deluded fantasists. He’s so condescending that he guarantees that he must know nobody outside the choir he’s preaching to will listen to him. He’s a brilliant guy, a master rhetorician in his plays — why would he want to alienate the people whom he thinks are creating all the country’s problems in the first place? The only answer I can come up with is that Mamet doesn’t really care about the country’s problems: He just needs to expel his anger. It’s about the pen as handgun. Point it and fire it. He’s made a career of exploiting that emotion, and probably writes about it better than any current writer outside Philip Roth. But, lord, outside a dramatic context where he has the intuition and experience to focus and humanize the anger, the man just sprays
bullets wildly. I’m guessing it’s a personal catharsis after decades in which he hung out in liberal environments — Broadway theater, Hollywood, liberal arts departments in the universities — and just got fed up with political correctness, the left’s hesitations about supporting Israel (evidently a big factor here) and liberal do-goodism. But if he needed to blow off steam, there are less embarrassing ways to do it than to write this book. Here are some of the things Mamet declares in The Secret Knowledge: global warming is a hoax perpetrated by the left. Liberals want Americans to stop breeding, and to “stop” (as opposed to, say, reducing) the production and consumption of goods because of their effects on the environment. Liberals hate Sarah Palin because “she is a Worker” (“a commercial fisherman”), and liberals despise people who work. A liberal arts education is a “waste of money and time.” (“It is not the purpose of the university to allow or to help students ‘find themselves,’ but to fit them to take a place in and contribute to their society.” Whatever happened to Socrates’ “Know thyself”?). The reason American jobs have been lost overseas is American corporate tax rates imposed by a venal government (the global “free market” pitting American workers against Indonesian or Chinese workers evidently has nothing to do with it). One can go on and on with this stuff. Mamet doesn’t even bother to defend most of it. He just lays it down as self-evident and moves on. David Mamet is very pissed off, but rage is a terrible place from which to do political analysis. It blinds him, and makes him look at things in ham-fisted, good vs. evil terms. He even says it himself: “The bifurcation of Humanity (as opposed to acts) into two identifiable camps, Evil and Good, is, essentially, a childish act; the notion that one may gain merit from this division, and that this merit makes one the superior of the unenlightened, is the act of an adolescent.” It’s a measure of Mamet’s blindness that he doesn’t see that this, more than anything, applies to himself.
MAMET DRAGS THE NATIONAL POLITICAL DISCOURSE FURTHER INTO APARTISAN SHITHOLE.
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Mamet embarrasses himself with his sloppy anti-liberal screed BY CORNEL BONCA » AE@LVCITYLIFE.COM
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Glen Ross, Wag the Dog). It’s an incredibly bad and baffling book—raging, bloviating, rambling, almost willfully inaccurate in its targeting of what’s ailing the culture. Mamet’s bulls-eye is liberalism, but it’s that paranoid-cartoon liberalism that you get if you follow talk radio (Mamet high-fives Glenn Beck and others in his acknowledgements),
THE SECRET KNOWLEDGE David Mamet, Sentinel, 241 pages
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Ansel (Joe Hammond), left, makes his escape as Chris (Alex Olson) holds a gun to the head of Joe (T.J. Larsen) in the CSN Department of Fine Arts production of Killer Joe.
CSN’s Killer Joe can’t live up to its own hype BY DAVID MCKEE » AE@LVCITYLIFE.COM
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verybody in Tracy’s stories gets naked or dead,” playwright Tracy Letts’ mother says of her Pulitzer Prize-winning son. CSN’s production of Killer Joe makes half good on Mom’s promise. “Smoking, drug abuse, gunfire, sexual abuse of poultryandotherbadthingsaregonnahappen,” warns director Shawn Hackler’s program note and, indeed, unspeakable atrocities are visited upon a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Killer Joe, written in 1991, was Letts’ maiden voyage, long preceding his more famous Bug, and Tony Award- and Pulitzer-adorned August: Osage County. But it doesn’t betray inexperience and has become a repertory staple. Killer Joe’s bacterial slice of American life is popular overseas, too, including a Moscow staging earlier this year.
Letts’ lowlife protagonists are the Smiths, a pot-smoking quartet of Texas plebians. As unremarkable as their name suggests, their brains are befogged by too much drugs and TV. Chris (Alex Olson) is a small-time drug dealer — as close to aspiration as this family gets. Deeply in debt, he suggests to his pliant father, Ansel (Joe Hammond), that they kill Ansel’s ex-wife Adele for her insurance policy. It’s rumored to be worth $50,000 and made out to Chris’ simple-minded sister, Dottie (Jamie Carvelli). Interestingly, neither she nor Chris feels the slightest compunction about bumping off their mama. Enter Killer Koe (T.J. Larsen), a Dallas cop whomoonlightsasanexpensivehitman.Murder, Chris reasons, “isn’t the sort of thing you can cut corners on.” Since the Smiths haven’t two nickels between them, Joe suggests that Chris, Ansel and Sharla, Ansel’s much
younger wife (Mary Foresta),whore Dottie out to him as a “retainer.” After some pro forma indignation, they quickly agree. A lamb to the slaughter, Dottie is initially repulsed by Joe’s oily advances but eventually succumbs. Joe’s nonstop sexual appetite is the closest — if perverse — thing Dottie has known to “love.” Once Joe is sufficiently sated to do his bloody deed, the ongoing cascade of betrayals accelerates into an eventual bloodbath. Letts wrote Killer Joe as “revenge” for two frustrating years he spent in Dallas. Twenty years later, its satire is scarily prescient. Maybe the Smiths can’t see Russia from their trailer park, but they’re precisely the kind of incurious, manipulable, Bible Belt denizens who are currently held up as America’s moral compass. You’d find them at a Tea Party rally … if they had the ambition to get off their couches. Hackler’s staging is one of those frustrating evenings where the ingredients look fissionable but no chain reaction ensues. It’s not easy to pinpoint What Went Wrong. Letts writes vivid characters and his dramatic arc is solidly crafted. But once you subtract the shock effects of profanity, drug use and (not in this production, mind you) full-frontal nudity, a lack of dramatic incident is exposed.
Combine this with Hackler’s determinedly low-key direction and Killer Joe seems to snooze periodically. Las Vegas Little Theatre’s 2010productionofBugmayhaveleanedtoward hysteria but one’s attention never strayed. Whenever momentum threatens to develop, Hackler stops the action for giant projections of vintage TV commercials that depict Yankee consumerism at its most psychotic. Joe’s creepy, semi-offstage seduction of Dottie is a truly electric scene, mostly through the power of suggestion. But the actors are upstaged by artsy, pointless, projected imagery from videographer Gregg Gerrietts. All these Captain Video antics seem like the production’s real purpose and darned if Letts’ play keeps getting underfoot. The uncredited set is meant for a proscenium stage, not the semi-surround BackStage Theatre. Incongruously deep and spacious for a trailer home, it lacks the claustrophobia Killer Joe needs. It also exposes pulled punches in Sean Critchfield’s fight choreography. All the actors are deeply in character except Olson, who substitutes shouting and manufactured “intensity” for identification. Only in a bizarrely affecting monologue about a rabbit cage does he connect, although one sympathizes with his attempt to jolt the proceedings along. As the pussy-whipped patriarch, Hammond is a mountain of cowardice, cringing from Foresta’s Walmart-brand Lady Macbeth, who exudes “white trash” right down to her toe rings. The overused “banality of evil” expression reacquires meaning in Larsen’s portrayal of the title role, a charmless, unimaginative but well-mannered merchant of death for whom sex is business and killing is like sex. Larsen reveals Joe’s menace incrementally, always behind a veneer of smarmy Southern courtesy. Never has the act of smoking a cigarette been more unnerving. Carvelli makes Dottie’s blank mix of simpleton and schemer readily believable. However, her second-act attachment to Joe lacks urgency, so the sanguinary conclusion seems arbitrary and flippant. Killer Joe marks Joe Hammond’s swan song as producer of CSN’s theater series. Even this flawed finale is in keeping with a risk-taking tenure. Hammond leaves successor Douglas H. Baker with a very tough act to follow.
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ART NOTES Art and meaning at the Barrick, art and silence at the county “THAT’S A VAGINA! What’s the world coming to? That’s art?!” Actually, that’s artist Sue Kay Lee, putting herself into the headspace of a viewer baffled by “Didn’t I See You at Champagne’s,” her contribution to the 89XXXhibition show, about to close at UNLV’s Barrick Museum. And it’s not a vagina, it’s 16 vaginas, drawn onto little wood discs and interspersed with 16 small pairs of hand-sewn pants, each jutting with a penile protuberance. Behind her, with perfect comic timing, a very elderly couple totters into the gallery and heads for the natural history displays — precisely the kind of proper folk one imagines being puzzled/appalled by the piece. You get the small joke there, don’t you: the girl parts drawn on wood,the male parts composed of soft, yielding fabric. There’s more: Lee hops up from a gallery bench, where she’s been talking about her piece, grabs one of the tiny penises and pokes it back into the pants. That leaves a visible slit. “You tuck them in and you have little vaginas,” she says, and faster than you can say the social construction of gender roles you have a flash of insight and a good laugh. Just don’t mistake the joke for the point. “It’s something I enjoy,” she says, “but not what I would say is its meaning.” As for what she would say is its meaning, that’s harder. It’s probably not a fair question. Yes, it’s “about” gender, sexuality and social presentation, about clothing and how
the way it both conceals and A piece from reveals often has nearly as Justtin Favela’s much to say about our gender COUNTYCENTER as biology does. Those are issues she’d like people to think about more carefully. But “Didn’t I See You at Champagne’s” is not an essay, the clear expression of a thesis statement — as art it accumulates meaning in more elusive, allusive ways, from viewers slowly teasing out strands of meaning. “Artists can really handicap themselves if they think about it too much,” she says. Lee, a Las Vegan who studied art at UNR before returning to town five years ago, says she’s trying to be less conceptual these days, to “make things that don’t require my mouth or an artist’s statement” in order for a viewer to connect. Yet the degree to which this piece reone of the most buzzed-about, Facebooksists easy reading is one reason it immediately linked shows of the last few months. In it, he stands out in the exhibit and is worth seeing in parodies some of the high-profile artworks the few days you have left. plopped around CityCenter. Instead of Claes A note about the title: Champagne’s is a Oldenburg’s giant typewriter eraser, Favela Vegas fixture, but the juxtaposition of that created a giant delete key; instead of Maya beloved bar with artistic genitalia is more ranLin’s silver topo-sculpture of the Colorado dom than anything: “Themed shows are funRiver, he offers a foil-wrapped branch from ny,” Lee says. Sometimes, you can just submit the Las Vegas Wash (slyly placed, like Lin’s the work you’re doing anyway, but throw the piece at CityCenter, in front of a glaring winjurors a thematic bone. Since 89XXXhibition dow, making it harder to examine). Instead of is about Vegas,“I thought I’d title it something a curvy Henry Moore sculpture, a deliberately that pertains to the environment.” crude cardboard construction approximating the same shape. CITYCENTER MUM: Justin Favela’s exhibEven if it is art about other art, or more acit COUNTYCENTER, now showing in the curately, art about the curatorial choices of Clark County Government Center, has been a large casino company, it’s still moderately
funny, buzzed-about stuff. Hey, Justin, what did CityCenter have to say about it? “No CityCenter representatives have contacted me yet,” Favela e-mails. He was, frankly, hoping for a more serious response. A word of appreciation, maybe, or a stern note of reproval — something. “Any kind of acknowledgment from them about the show would be nice.” Instead, silence. “To be honest, I don’t think they care too much, even though I am making a serious statement. The show is up through the beginning of August, so it’s not over yet! I do want to hear what they think about it.” Well, we were hoping for a better response, too. MGM boss Jim Murren: The ball’s in your court. SCOTT DICKENSHEETS
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“I’m going to buy a print of that and hang it in my room. I really heart skulls.”
“Don’t hate on little boobies!”
“Hey guys, wanna touch the pancakes?”
“It’s very avantgarde, like all that weird stuff.”
“Germany has a really great art scene.” “The sparkly chick just said hi to me.”
“I was walking by and I saw this guy in a gold Speedo, so I had to stop for an interview.” (Reporter from The Foxy Roxy Show)
DINING
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An authentic, quality Japanese restaurant — the Raku-like Kyara — opens away from the usual Asian dining hub BY AL MANCINI» ALMANCINI@COX.NET
Beyond Chinatown
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he Japanese dining options in this city have come a long way in a very short time. When I moved to town in 2001, it was nearly impossible to find decent sushi anywhere other than super-pricey casino restaurants. And so-called Japanese dining in the ’burbs was limited to a few decent teppanyaki joints. Today,of course,the quality of sushi has increased dramatically. More importantly, Raku has brought robata to Chinatown, while the neighboring Monta has introduced Las Vegans to top-notch ramen. And Ichiza rounds out the holy trinity of Chinatown’s Japanese restaurant scene. Even better, authentic Japanese restaurants are finally starting to expand outside of the Spring Mountain Road area. Kyara Japanese Tapas, on Jones Boulevard, just a stone’s throw from I-215, was recommended to me by the man in charge of the kitchens in Vintner Grill, Agave and the Roadrunner Saloons, Matt Silverman. He described it as being very similar to Raku, but “more down to earth.” With an endorsement like that, I had to try the place. While I cringe at the term “Japanese tapas,” the bastardization of the Spanish term has become so widespread I’m tired of fighting it. But for the record, what Kyara offers is a wide vari-
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Chef Miguel prepares skewers cooked over charcoal in the kitchen at Kyara.
ety of small plates. The menu is divided into 10 main sections: zensai (appetizers), salad, hashi yasume (side dishes), age (deep fried), mushi (steamed), ni (simmered stews), itami (stir fry), kushi (skewers), shime (rice and noodles) and desserts. All of those categories and their Japanese names can be a little frightening at first. And with all of the staff and most of the customers beingJapanese,non-Asiansmaybetemptedto walk away. But that would be a huge mistake. Everything on the menu has a simple American translation. And despite a slight language barrier, the staff is friendly and helpful. Portion sizes are sometimes small. But so are the prices. The most expensive items on the menu is a steak stir-fry, priced at $9.50. But the skewers of vegetables, fish and meat cooked over a robata grill are almost all priced between $1.50 and $2.50. So, as with Spanish tapas, you can sample lots of dishes without spending a fortune. Among the many items I’ve tried, my favorite was probably the seared mackerel with yuzu ponzu sauce ($5.80). It was a pretty large portion of fish, delicately seasoned to complement, but not overpower, its natural oily flavor. Chicken stir-fry with
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garlic ponzu ($5.80) is another large, tasty dish. But don’t expect vegetables or other typical stir-fry accompaniments. You can’t go wrong with the skewers. Whether you order them with salt seasoning or teriyaki sauce, the rich flavor of the charcoal permeates both meats and veggies. One of the more interesting dishes on the menu is same nankotsu, or shark’s soft bone. As a rule, I refuse to eat shark’s-fin cartilage because it’s probably the most evil food in the world — cruelly harvested, ridiculously wasteful and environmentally devastating. But when I raised my complaint to one of Kyara’s employees, he assured me that while the dish is, in fact, cartilage, it doesn’t come from the shark’s fin. Furthermore, he explained, unlike Chinese fisherman, who cut the fin from live sharks and throw the rest back to drown, the Japanese consume the entire shark — which is exactly why they came up with this dish. So while shark may still be on the endangered list, same nankotsu really isn’t any more horrific than some other non-sustainable products I indulge in on rare occasions. Perhaps that’s
a rationalization, but it was sufficient for me to give in to my professional curiosity and try the dish. And it’s pretty good, although it’s definitely not for everyone. The cartilage, which tastes almost pickled, has a unique, crunchy texture. I’ve yet to have a dish at Kyara I’ve disliked. But a few have been mildly disappointing. The deep-fried shiso pepper and havarti cheese wrapped in halibut ($7), for example, was surprisingly bland. And my potato salad with blue cheese ($4.50) also lacked the kick I expected. But while I wouldn’t order either of them again, I finished both. Kyara’s dining room is simultaneously quaint and cool. Depending on your mood, you can sit at the sushi-style bar or in a quiet secluded dining area. Either way, it’s a great place to hang out.That,combined with food you almost never see outside of Chinatown, may explain why it’s quickly developing a reputation as one of the coolest late-night spots in the southwest. KYARA JAPANESE TAPAS 6555 S. Jones Blvd., 569-4405. Read more about the Las Vegas dining scene on Al Mancini’s blog, AlMancini.net.
375 N. Stephanie St., 538-7360. The owners have done a great job of converting a retrothemed diner in a chrome buiding into a Japanese restaurant. The sushi here is fresh, well-prepared and affordable, and the staff is friendly and helpful. ISLAND SUSHI 9400S. Eastern Ave.,221-1600.Located in thespacethat usedto housethepopularsushi restaurant Koto, quality sushi isstillthemaindraw,but thenewownershaveadded a Hawaiianflair.Theyoffer a nice all-you-can-eatspecial for $24.95. KAIZEN 10271 Eastern Ave., Suite 109, 492-0216; 4480 Paradise Road, Suite 900, 641-7772. Putting a fusion spin on sushi, Kaizen’s choices range from the traditional to the bizarre. Their barbecued rib roll may be one of a kind, which is probably a good thing. OSAKA 4205 W. Sahara Ave., 10920 S. Eastern, 616-3788. Well-trained, award-winning chefs and seafood not available elsewhere in town: This Japanese restaurant is the place to go if you want a civilized meal. SEN OF JAPAN 8480 W. Desert Inn Road, 8717781. This off-Strip Japanese fusion restaurant offers delicious food at far less than you’d pay in a casino. The menu features sushi, tempura, kushi yai skewered meat and both hot and cold fusion dishes. Can’t decide what to order? Try one of their two “omakase” tasting menus, reasonably priced at $50 or $80 per person. SWISH 5115 W. Spring Mountain Road, Suite 121, 522-9345. Swish offers shabu shabu, in which customers cook their own meat, seafood and vegetables in a pot of broth, and sukiyaki, where the same foods are cooked in a flat pan with sauce. Both are easy for newcomers to enjoy, and the restaurant’s staff is more than willing to lend first-timers a hand.
5300 W. Spring Mountain Road, 876-3838. Better-than-average Chinese food and great service in an elegant setting. The restaurant’s east wall is made up entirely of plate-glass windows, providing a wonderful view of the Strip’s parade of lights. CHINA MAMA 3420 S. Jones Blvd., 873-1977. This unassuming little Chinatown restaurant offers one of the most diverse selections of Chinese food in Las Vegas. Their soup dumplings have become legendary and should be a staple of any visit. But don’t stop there. The menu is massive and worth exploring — and thankfully written in English. Dine family style with a large group and you can easily get out of the place for between $10 and $15 a person. LITTLE BUDDHA Palms, 4321 W. Flamingo Road, 942-7778. The local version of the famous Buddha Bar in Paris serves French, Japanese and Chinese fusion cuisine in luscious surroundings. LONG LIFE VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 4130 S. Sandhill Road, 436-4488. The name of this Chinese restaurant is a little deceiving. It’s actually pescetarian — meaning they serve seafood as well as vegetarian cuisine. Nonetheless, it has plenty to offer true vegetarians, including imitation versions of beef, pork and chicken in traditional preparations such as sweet-and-sour, moo shu and kung pao. For those who don’t want their tofu disguised as animal flesh, there are plenty of straight-up tofu dishes as well. Your carnivore friends can always enjoy the authentic seafood offerings. SAM WOO BARBECUE 4215 Spring Mountain Road, 368-7628. Chinese-style barbecue that ranges from rather odd to wonderful. YUNNAN GARDEN 3934 Schiff Drive, 869-8885. Among the best of Chinatown’s hidden gems, Yunnan Garden offers some of the town’s most authentic Chinese cuisines. There are 156 dishes listed on the menu. Some, like kung pao chicken, salt and pepper shrimp, chicken in garlic sauce and countless rice and noodle dishes, are pretty basic. If you’re a bit more adventurous, try the pork intestine, frog or kidney in spicy Szechuan sauce, one of the five eel dishes, scrambled eggs with bitter melon, or tofu with 1,000-year-old egg (an egg that’s been preserved in clay, ash, salt and lime until its white turns gelatinous and its yolk turns green).
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3827 E. Sunset Road, 8983358. A little more expensive than most other Chinese restaurants, but the food lives up to the prices. BEIJING NOODLE NO. 9 Caesars Palace, 3570 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 731-7604. Chinatown is no longer the only place in town for great noodles and dumplings. Caesars Palace’s bright, modern restaurant, modeled after Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Stadium, feels a little like the interior of a giant fishbowl. Fresh noodles are tossed daily and offered in a variety of preparations. There’s also a small but interesting dim sum selection that makes this a great place for beginners to experiment with traditional dumplings. CAFÉ NOODLE 4355W.Spring MountainRoad,2203399.An elaboratebar andextensivemenu,including someof thoseadventurousdishesmanyAmericans run screaming from, makethisasolidChinese option. AMLEE GOURMET
Our own Al Mancini has launched a new online series on his website. Dining Invasion unites unlikely pairs of renowned chefs and food experts — like caviar guru Brett Ottolenghi (right, above) — and local personalities — such as punk rocker/tattoo artist Dirk Vermin (left, above) — for discussions on fine dining. Check it out at www.almancini.net.
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4023-4029 Spring Mountain Road, 220-3613. There are 190 traditional Vietnamese dishes on the menu, most of which are less than $10. Don’t be intimidated by the gargantuan menu; any Pho is a good bet. Open 24 hours. PHO SO I 4745 Spring Mountain Road, 252-3934. Everything on this Vietnamese menu comes highly recommended. Specialties are beef noodle soups, spring rolls and beef salad. Try beer with your meal; there is also a wine best savored as a dessert.
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4355 Spring Mountain Road, 383-3392. This tasty establishment departs from traditional Korean barbeque in that your server cooks the meat for you at the table instead of allowing you to do it yourself.
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Thisrestaurant splits its menu between Korean cuisine andsushi.Attimes theformer can be a bitunapproachable ifyou aren’t ableto communicate with your server inKorean. The latter,on the otherhand,is exactlythe type of crazy specialtyrolls Americans love –veryoften boasting non-Japanese touches like cream cheese and deep-frying.Overall,thefood is good.But ifyou’relookingfor traditionalnigirioraserverfluentin English you’redestinedto disappointment.
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953 E. Sahara Ave., 731-6542. One of the longest-lived and most popular Thai restaurants in town. Watch out for the hot stuff, though. Even “medium” is blazingly spicy. LOTUS OF SIAM 953 E. Sahara Ave., 735-3033. The emphasis is on stellar Thai cusine rather than the décor. Monstrous menu, reservations recommended. MARNEE THAI 5600 W. Spring Mountain Road, 873-4831. Damn good Thai food, reasonably priced. PANNA THAI 6015 S. Fort Apache Road, Suite 100, 823-2345. Great food at reasonable prices, offered as takeout or in a nicely decorated, casually modern dining room. Like most Thai cuisine, the dishes can be a little spicy — even when you ask for them on the mild side. But once you make it through the heat you’ll discover delicious takes on plenty of traditional recipes. KOMOL
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3400 S. Jones Blvd., 220-4488. A quirky little restaurant that feels like a small catering hall and serves primarily as a dance hall for Filipino expatriates. Some of the fare may be a bit exotic, but there’s something for everyone.
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4080 Paradise Road, 734-0094. The city’s oldest Indian restaurant and also the most expensive. Vegetarian and meat-eater dishes. GAYLORD INDIA RESTAURANT Rio, 3700 W. Flamingo Road, 777-2277. A high-end Indian restaurant with a great atmosphere, good service and excellent food — the combination of which justifies the somewhat higher price tag. The menu offers a huge selection of vegetarian options. MINT INDIAN BISTRO (Formerly Himalayan Cuisine) 730 E. Flamingo Road, 894-9334. This modest restaurant offers food native to India, Nepal and Tibet. You’ll find familiar dishes like vindaloo and tikka masala, as well as more exotic offerings like a broth made of jwanu seeds or a yogurt-and-herb marinated version of tandoori called kawab. SAMOSA FACTORY 4604 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 6, 258-9196. A large menu that includes more than 20 large, perfectly spiced entrees, including vegan and vegetarian options. GANDHI INDIA’S CUISINE
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CHINA POBLANO The Cosmopolitan, 3708 Las
Vegas Boulevard South, 877-551-7772. While his tapas place Jaleo gets more attention, in many ways
superstar chef José Andrés’ unique spin on Mexican and Chinese food is even more exciting. Andrés is a force of nature, and a bit of a mad genius. So you can be sure his tacos and noodles will offer some amazing twists. But despite the incredible creativity, he’s still managed to keep China Poblano one of The Cosmopolitan’s most affordable dining options. SENSI Bellagio, 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 693-7223. Martin Heierling’s restaurant boasts both innovative cooking and a stunning décor. The experimental and sometimes challenging menu incorporates Asian, Italian, grilled and raw elements in a way that will thrill more adventurous diners, but might frustrate the more traditional.
2800 W. Sahara Ave., 367-1913. Sandwiches, salads, quiches and desserts, all fresh and tasty. One of the best outdoor dining places in the city. A top power-lunch spot, with routine celebrity sightings. CROWN & ANCHOR 1350 E. Tropicana Ave., 7398676; 4755 Spring Mountain Road, 876-4733. Great British fare served by English-accented servers amid a nautical décor.
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1501 W. Sahara Ave., 2144000. The restaurant in this hipster hangout offers primarily Italian choices served in a dining room that’s just as cool as the rest of the building. It may cost a bit more than similar food elsewhere, but the atmosphere is worth it. THE BEAT COFFEEHOUSE Emergency Arts, 520 Fremont St., 686-3164. Downtown once again has an independent coffeehouse, with a small menu that includes sandwiches, salads and pastries to complement the java offerings. BLACK MOUNTAIN GRILL 11021 S. Eastern Ave., 990-0990. A sporting lodge in the desert, complete with dead animals on the wall and a relaxing Japanese-style décor. Worth visiting if you are in the southeast area. BLT BURGER Mirage, 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 792-7888. Yet another entry into the upscale hamburger world, BLT Burger is the brainchild of celebrated chef Laurent Tourondel. The menu isn’t as varied or as high-end as some of its competitors’, but it offers innovative, quality hamburgers in a casual-but-classy environment. And their spiked milkshakes aren’t to be missed. Unfortunately, they got off to a rough start in the service department, but that may improve with time. BOSTON PIZZA 1507 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 3852595. One of the city’s best old-time pizza joints. Don’t order extra cheese unless you really mean it. BRAND STEAKHOUSE Monte Carlo, 3770 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 730-6700. Light Group’s venture into the steakhouse world is a hip, multi-level dining room set up for people-watching. The menu is modern, fun and comfortable, with a focus on steak, of course. Aspiring competitive eaters should try the 120-ounce porterhouse, which is intended to serve six, but is free if a single diner can consume the entire thing. Those with more modest appetites can choose from wide variety of other cuts. BURGER BAR Mandalay Bay, 3930 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Suite 121A, 632-9364. Diners create their own burger. Start with a patty — Angus, Kobe, turkey, lamb, salmon, chicken or veggie — pick from eight cheeses, 12 kinds of vegetables and maybe pickled green tomatoes or a lobster tail. The choices tempt even the sanest patron to shell out for a oncein-a-lifetime burger. CHICAGO HOT DOGS 1078 N. Rancho Drive, 6473647. This is as close as you’re gonna get to a real Chicago hot dog joint. ARTISAN FINE DINING
SEDONA 9580 W. Flamingo Road,
320-4700. Beautiful, modern décor and an eclectic menu. You’ll find Asian, Italian, French and even Swiss influences in the cooking, but nothing terribly exotic. When the weather’s nice, enjoy outdoor dining on the patio. Venetian, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 414-3737. Straight-ahead and gimmick-free elegance, with excellent service. DU-PAR’S RESTAURANT AND BAKERY The Golden Gate Casino, 1 Fremont St., 366-9378. The opening of this Southern California institution in The Golden Gate Casino caused much rejoicing among L.A. expatriates and diner fanatics. And if you fit into one of those categories, you’ll probably love the place. The pancakes here are legendary, as are the pies. But at the end of the day, it’s still just diner food. Nonetheless, it’s one of the most popular spots downtown to satisfy the late-night munchies after an evening drinking on East Fremont Street.
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DYER’S CHICAGO STYLE GOURMET POPCORN 4075 S. Durango Drive, Suite 105A; 629-
2676. Stephanie and Carlton Dyer serve up only one thing at this small westside storefront: Chicagostyle gourmet popcorn. But they offer an incredible variety, all made fresh daily by Carlton. If you have a sweet tooth, try one of their chocolate or caramel varieties. Cheese lovers can choose either white or sharp cheddar. And the really adventurous will want to try the cinnamon or jalapeño versions. THE EGG AND I 4533 W. Sahara Ave., 364-9686. Down-home atmosphere makes this breakfast spot a nice alternative to the national chains. HASH HOUSE A GO GO 6800 W. Sahara Ave., 804-
4646; 3535 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 254-4646. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, Hash House A Go Go promises “twisted farm food,” which means their chef puts a classy spin on down-home favorites. Their real trademark, however, is monstrous portions. HOME FRIES 4480 S. Paradise Road, 566-0766. Located in the strip mall across the street from the Hard Rock, this 24-hour restaurant offers fairly basic diner cuisine with a few small twists thrown in for fun. Breakfast, which dominates the menu, is served around the clock, making it a perfect stop for peanut butter-topped pancakes after a late night at The Joint. The dining room hasn’t been renovated since its days as a Korean barbecue restaurant, so the red-and-black booths and metallic exhaust fans may seem a little out of sync with the down-home food on the menu. LUV IT FROZEN CUSTARD 505 E. Oakey Blvd., 384-6452. A lone remnant of a once common creature: the independent ice cream store. It makes its own delicious custard. MAPLE TREE COUNTRYSIDE KITCHEN 6000 W. Spring Mountain Road, 362-5151. In keeping with New England’s sugarhouse restaurant tradition, the syrup is authentic and fresh. A large, country-style breakfast selection is available all day, with lunchtime choices available as well. Closes at 2 p.m. every day, closed Mondays. MICHAEL MINA’S Bellagio, 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 693-8199. Quaint, elegant (and pricey) fish house with origins in San Francisco. Fresh gourmet seafood and lavish desserts are coupled with an excellent wine list and an attentive wait staff. MICHAEL’S South Point, 9777 Las Vegas Blvd., 796-7111. This intimate, elegant restaurant offers steak, seafood and veal, and boasts some of the highest prices in town. In exchange, you get touches like tableside cooking and Dom Perignon poured over your complimentary sorbet. MR. LUCKY’S Hard Rock Hotel, 4455 Paradise Road, 693-5592. Awesome diner. Quick, cheap, tasty, friendly and hip. The way Vegas could’ve been. OCEAN 1 BAR & GRILLE Miracle Mile Shops, Planet Hollywood Resort, 3667 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Suite 620, 696-9080. Ocean 1 offers some strange and original creations that range from excellent to awful. But with three-for-one drinks and more than a dozen offerings priced below $8, it’s worth the effort needed to find the good ones. OMELET HOUSE Various locations. Longtime favorite breakfast spot featuring 38 varieties of six-egg omelets. Closes at 3 p.m. ORIGINAL PANCAKE HOUSE Various locations. An excellent choice for breakfast. You haven’t lived until you’ve ordered an oven-baked German pancake. PEPPERMILL INN 2985 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 735-7635. An absolute Vegas treasure. This ’70sera coffee shop will keep you fed and happy until Dan Tanna returns. Huge portions. PLANET DAILIES Planet Hollywood, 3667 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 732-1222. This 24-hour restaurant bills itself as the ultimate coffee shop. The room is a large, open space that continues the casino’s over-the-top, hip, modern décor. The selling point here is three separate massive menus that offer something for any appetite. REDWOOD BAR & GRILL California Hotel-Casino, a
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CONT. FROM P31 12 E. Ogden Ave., 385-1222. Traditional American, special-occasion dining in a wonderful room. R.M. SEAFOOD Mandalay Place, 3930 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 632-9300. This fine seafood restaurant can boast a celebrity chef who actually works there and a wide variety of excellent, if pricey, dishes. Friendly service completes the experience. ROSEMARY’S RESTAURANT 8125 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 110, 869-2251. One of this city’s best off-Strip fine-dining restaurants, open for lunch on weekdays and dinner nightly. If you want to splurge, their tasting menu offers five delicious courses at a fraction of casino prices. Ask for the beer pairing, which matches a microbrew with each course. SAMMY’S WOODFIRED PIZZA Various locations. This fast-expanding chain serves weird-but-excellent pizzas and salads. SLIDIN’ THRU Various locations, www.slidinthru.com. The urban mobile food truck trend has finally come to Las Vegas. The first entrant, Slidin’ Thru, offers a wide variety of delicious, inexpensive sliders. Once you taste the seasoning on the kalbi rib version, you’ll understand why techsavvy fans from all walks of life rabidly follow the location of this truck via Facebook and Twitter to chase down chef/owner Ricardo Guerrero’s sandwiches. SHUCK’S OYSTER BAR 9338 W. Flamingo Road, 255-4890; 7155 N. Durango Drive, 651-6227. In addition to the basic raw bar staples, Shuck’s offers a full menu of seafood, sandwiches, pasta, Southwestern dishes and the feel of a beachtown seafood joint. SMITH & WOLLENSKY 3767 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 862-4100. This stand-alone Strip steakhouse is part of the New York chain. Simple and expensive steaks are served snootily, but it’s a good place to impress certain kinds of people. STACK Mirage, 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 7927800. Sister restaurant to Fix at the Bellagio, offering a similar look and menu. Chef Brian Massie is at his best when putting a grown-up spin on childhood comfort foods with dishes like bacon and brie tater tots and Kobe chili cheese dogs. Dinner even includes a free pass to the Jet nightclub. THE STEAK HOUSE Circus Circus, 2880 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 794-3767. This hidden gem offers classic steakhouse décor, huge slabs of meat and great service for a few bucks less than you’d pay at comparable places around town. No wonder it’s developed a loyal following among locals and tourists alike. T-BONES CHOPHOUSE & LOUNGE Red Rock Casino, 1011 W. Charleston Blvd., 797-7595. This highend steakhouse is as beautifully designed as the rest of the resort and boasts some of the finest steaks in town. All beef is aged for 42 days in a combination wet- and dry-aging process, and signature cuts include the bone-in filet mignon. Among the side dishes, don’t miss the tater tots with white truffles. TINOCO’S KITCHEN Las Vegas Club Hotel & Casino, 18 E. Fremont St., 385-1664. An eclectic menu at reasonable prices. You’ll find plenty of delicious Italian pastas, such as lobster ravioli. Other highlights include chicken satay and a filet mignon with foie
gras in a port reduction. Crystals at CityCenter, 3720 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 489-8080. With a name like Todd English, creating a takeoff on the traditional English pub is a no-brainer. A lesser chef might have phoned in a generic concept and let the pints and fish and chips speak for themselves. But English has created something original that caters to a diverse audience. The bar area — complete with darts, beer pong tables and speed-drinking challenges — seems geared to former frat boys suffering from post-college withdrawal, but the restaurant is considerably more refined, taking traditional pub fair to loftier heights. Sure there are pot pies and Welsh rarebit, but you’ll also find a raw bar, swordfish enchiladas and bison burgers topped with Maytag blue cheese. TODD’S UNIQUE DINING 4350 E. Sunset Road, 259-8633. As good as any gourmet restaurant on the Strip at notably lower prices, but it’s the service that helps distinguish the place as a great neighborhood restaurant. Unique, casual fine dining. TRIPLE 7 BREWPUB Main Street Station, 200 N. Main St., 387-1896. One of the better brewpubs in town. Great beer and good food. TRIPLE GEORGE GRILL 201 N. Third St., 384-2761. Patterned after a classic seafood and steakhouse, it offers a large selection of steak, chops and seafood as well as many more casual choices. There’s even a piano lounge where you can enjoy an after-dinner drink. VINTNER GRILL 10100 W. Charleston Blvd., 2145590. Contemporary American cuisine with Mediterranean influences in an atmosphere the owners describe as “everyday opulence.” Dine indoors or outside in the winding patio area, which features private cabana tables and trees strung with stainedglass lanterns. VOODOO STEAK Rio, 3700 W. Flamingo Road, 777-7777. The great view and spooky décor haven’t changed since Honorio Mencinas took over the kitchen perched high atop the Rio, but the menu has. The focal point is steak, both wet-aged and inhouse dry-aged varieties. There are plenty of other bayou-tinged options if beef isn’t your thing. The food is good, but the prices are high and the service can be spotty. ZOOZACRACKERS Wynn, 3131 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 770-3365. This deli features massive sandwiches made with only top-quality ingredients. It’s a bit pricey, but Steve Wynn isn’t known to be a bargain hunter.
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10820 W. Charleston Blvd., 214-3500. If you’re looking for simple, authentic basics, look elsewhere. But if dishes like blue corn crab cakes with chipotle-grilled shrimp or potato and portabella mushrooms make your mouth water, Agave has plenty to offer. LOS ANTOJOS 2520 S. Eastern Ave., 457-3505. This tiny, family-run strip mall establishment offers the most authentic Mexican cuisine in town. It AGAVE COMIDA Y TEQUILA
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doesn’t matter what you’re looking for; they probably have it. Matriarch Carmen Ruiz cooks up countless varieties of soups, huaraches, tlacoyos, quesadillas, tortas, sopes, tacos, enchiladas, chilaquiles, flautas, gorditas, tostadas, steaks and burritos. The menu is so huge it would take a year to eat your way through it. But it would be one tasty year. MUNDO World Market Center, 495 Grand Central Parkway, 270-4400. Fans who miss the Mexican avant-garde cuisine chef Robert Solano used to cook up at his southwest restaurant La Madonna will be happy to know he’s found a new home in the World Market Center. Mundo offers similar food in an equally similar modern atmosphere. Despite the World Market Center’s outdated reputation of being off-limits to the general public, Mundo’s doors are open to everyone for both lunch and dinner. FILE: TODD LUSSIER
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MERKATO 855 E. Twain Ave., 796-
1231. A favorite of expatriate taxi drivers. You may encounter a bit of a language barrier, but, if you’re adventurous, you’ll be rewarded with incredible food at a very affordable price. Make sure to ask about the traditional Ethiopian coffee.
4480 S. Paradise Road, Suite 1250, 434-0031. The vibe is part surfer hangout, part sports bar and part biker bar, so it doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. The menu combines basic American bar food with Mexican, and a daily happy hour makes it worth a visit. SABOR 594 N. Stephanie St., 473-5377. A new Mexican restaurant with a twist has moved into the space near Sunset Station once occupied by the popular El Jefe’s. San Francisco-trained chef Scott Sousa owned a restaurant in Mexico’s Oaxaca region for several years, where he learned to incorporate local influences into his cooking. The result is something he calls “California cuisine fused with Oaxacan Mexican flavors.” And, for the most part, the two styles blend together beautifully. SILVITA’S MEXICAN GRILL 1236 Western Ave.,2946100.Asmall, casual establishment,Silvita’scombination of friendlyservice, hugeportions,lowpricesand good food makesit a perfect placeto grablunch. SONIO’S CAFE AND ROTISSERIE 3900 W. Charleston Blvd., 307-2177. This simple rotisserie joint offers a surprisingly varied menu, including a large selection of Mexican food. But it’s the basic chicken and delicious side dishes that will keep you coming PARADISE CANTINA
back. Priced just a few bucks more than most fast food meals, it’s a thousand times better. VIVA MERCADO’S 3553 S. Rainbow Blvd., 8718826. This popular westside Mexican place recently reopened in a new, much larger location. The menu is a massive tome packed with both familiar and original Mexican delicacies. But before you begin wading through it, spend some time pondering the 10 types of salsas to accompany your chips.
CAJUN
4810 Spring Mountain Road, 891-8889. Not for anyone who doesn’t want to get dirty. But if tearing into crabs (blue or Dungeness), shrimp, oysters and crawfish by hand is your idea of heaven, this is the place for you. Seafood is prepared in four tasty seasonings and delivered in a plastic bag, accompanied by rolls of paper towels. Not fine dining, but delicious. HOUSE OF BLUES Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 632-7607. One of the funkiest restaurants in the city, featuring walls covered with mindblowing folk sculptures and artifacts. The cuisine is Delta-inspired contemporary and Sunday’s Gospel Brunch is a great way to get your jambalaya and Jesus in one sitting. LOLA’S 241 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 101, 2275652. The food at this Cajun restaurant in the Holsum Lofts can be hit-or-miss at times. (Their jambalaya still needs some work.) But, when chef Lola Pokorny is on her game, her food can’t be beat. Her grilled oysters, brushed with lemon butter and Parmesan, are the best in town. And her unique crawpuppy appetizers are downright addictive. But it’s the weekly crawfish boil, held Fridays, that’s become a downtown institution. LUCILLE’S SMOKEHOUSE BARBECUE The District, Green Valley Ranch, 2245 Village Walk Drive, 257RIBS. You can smell the meat smoking throughout the area, which might explain why there’s nearly always a wait for a table. For fans of slow-smoked barbecue, however, it’s worth the wait — and the slow service. HOT ’N’ JUICY CRAWFISH
CUBAN
2055 E. Tropicana Ave., Suite 11, 795-7070. Buoyant atmosphere with deliciously prepared traditional Cuban cuisine. Serves wine and beer. Try the Cuban-style fruit shakes called batidos. FLORIDA CAFÉ Howard Johnson’s, 1401 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 385-3013. Real Cuban fare, seafood specialties and mild, mellow Latin American flavors. RINCON CRIOLLO 1145 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 3881906. Cuban mom-and-pop diner serving honest, simple food at reasonable prices. CUBA CAFÉ
BRAZILIAN
Mirage, 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 791-7337. This Brazilian dining spot offers an all-you-can-eat parade of grilled delights. Meat lovers will salivate over skewers loaded with sirloin steak, teriyaki chicken, Portuguese sausages and much more. YOLIE’S BRAZILIAN STEAKHOUSE 3900 Paradise Road, 794-0700. Great house specials, including
SAMBA GRILL
the Famous Grill, an extravaganza featuring excellent meats.
ARGENTINIAN
5300 Spring Mountain Road, 257-3331. Authentic Argentinean cuisine with Italian, Spanish, German and Portuguese influences.
RINCON DE BUENOS AIRES
ETHIOPIAN
4647 Paradise Road, 650-3395. Right on the edge of the gay/alternative district sandwiched between the Hard Rock and McCarran International Airport, you’ll find this cozy little Ethiopian restaurant, complete with a patio and white picket fence. The menu has all the basics fans of Ethiopian food would expect, plus a few surprises. There are half a dozen vegetarian options and, for meat eaters, there are more than a dozen choices, including stews and chopped mounds of beef, lamb, chicken and fish. Everything is served over the traditional teff bread injera, and nothing on the menu is priced above $10. MESKEREM 252 Convention Center Drive, Suite 8B, 732-4250. Adventurous diners should look up this hidden gem. The staff is extremely friendly and accepting of neophytes to Ethiopian cuisine.
COTTAGE CAFE
FRENCH
Monte Carlo, 3770 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 798-7151. Andre’s is what people think of when somebody says, “Take me to the nicest place in town.” Expect to spend a good part of your evening savoring some of the best food and wine in Vegas. DRAI’S Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall, 3595 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 737-0555. One of the more sophisticated and comfortable rooms in the city, with an old Hollywood flavor. The lounge alone is worth a visit — couches and overstuffed chairs surround a fireplace that crackles in a wall of bookshelves. L’ATELIER DE JOEL ROBUCHON MGM Grand, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 891-7358. Located adjacent to Joel Robuchon at The Mansion, L’Atelier provides a chance to sample the cuisine of French legend Joel Robuchon in a more casual atmosphere, with a slightly lower price tag. Most of the seats are at the bar, where you can watch the team of chefs prepare each dish to perfection. The nine-course “discovery menu” runs $160 a head, but small a la carte indulgences are available in the $30 to $50 range. LE PAMPLEMOUSSE 400 E. Sahara Ave., 7332066. A Las Vegas institution for more than 30 years, located in a converted house on East Sahara. The food is French and the service is old-school — waiters recite the day’s menu from memory. Yet it’s less expensive and intimidating than most French restaurants on the Strip. RESTAURANT GUY SAVOY Caesars Palace, 3570 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 731-7731. Tailored to the “money is no object” crowd, a bowl of soup will set you back $68, while the 10-course prestige menu runs $290 per person without wine. But you get what you pay for, and French master Guy Savoy’s sublime cuisine is perfectly prepared. With hip,
ANDRE’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE
modern décor, presided over by a young friendly staff, it’s not as intimidating as you might expect – until the check arrives.
SPANISH
BARCELONA TAPAS & BAR 10690 Southern High-
lands Parkway, 483-5764. The good news for tapas purists is, unlike a lot of restaurants that toss around that term, the owners of Barcelona stick mainly to Spanish-inspired dishes. The bad news is they put an American spin on a lot of them. You can’t blame them; they’re just giving the people of Southern Highlands what they want. And the food is generally pretty good, with large portions that justify what at first may seem like slightly high prices. JULIAN SERRANO Aria, 3730 Las Vegas Blvd., 590-8520. Gourmet chef Julian Serrano, best known for his award-wining Bellagio restaurant Picasso, takes a more casual approach in his eponymous CityCenter tapas restaurant. The varied small plates include soups and salads, vegetarian dishes, meat and poultry, seafood, ceviches and their Peruvian cousins tiraditos, cheese and charcuterie. There are also some amazing larger portions of paella and a hodgepodge of modern concoctions referred to as “new tapas.” If you really want to splurge, however, try the pata negra, Iberico’s famed black ham.
ITALIAN
4041 Audrie St., 732-1424. Old World-style Italian restaurant with an incredible memorabilia collection reflecting the Vegas of yore. Try the massive mound of scampi with linguine. BOOTLEGGER BISTRO 7700 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 736-4939. This restaurant is one of the last remnants of the city’s Lounge Era. It features live entertainment and a menu filled with Italian specialties. A great weekend dining spot. BUCA DI BEPPO 412 E. Flamingo Road, 866-2867; 7690 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 363-6524. This chain of retro Italian joints made its big expansion move just in time for The Sopranos mania. Traditional pasta and meat dishes, huge portions and reasonable prices. CAPO’S ITALIAN CUISINE 5795 W. Tropicana Ave., 436-2276; 5675 W. Sahara Ave., 364-2276. Walking into Capo’s is like walking into an illegal speakeasy, complete with a sliding panel so the bouncer can check you out before unlocking the secret door. Once inside, enjoy great Italian food and entertainment in a dining room that’s a tribute to organized crime through the ages. CARLUCCIO’S TIVOLI GARDENS 1775 E. Tropicana Ave., Suite 29, 795-3236. Good, basic Italian cuisine; nothing exceptional, but reasonably priced. However, you don’t dine here for the food. You dine here for the gloriously ostentatious chandeliers and the absurd fountains — simply because you know Liberace installed them. CHICAGO JOE’S 820 S. Fourth St., 382-5637. Joe’s has been serving Italian food based on family recipes for more than 20 years. For folks who enjoy a good meal in a relaxed atmosphere. GIUSEPPE’S BAR AND GRILL 6065 S. Durango BATTISTA’S HOLE IN THE WALL
Road, 896-7616. Although it looks like little more than a video poker bar from the outside, Giuseppi’s offers a large selection of great Italian food. House specialties include meat lasagna, lighter-than-air gnocchi, and what CityLife’s restaurant critic considers the best pizza in Las Vegas. LUCIO RISTORANTE 8615 W. Sahara Road, 2332859. Offers a large risotto selection and live music on the weekends. Owner Lucio Picozzi can often be found waiting tables and chatting with customers. MAC SHACK 8680 W. Warm Springs Road, 4632433. Las Vegans already know Marcello Mauro from local favorites Nora’s Cuisine and Nora’s Wine Bar. At the Mac Shack, however, he serves up quality, extremely affordable pastas in a super-casual environment. There’s an incredible assortment of macaroni available, and most dishes aren’t priced more than a typical fast-food meal. Sure, they offer counter service and the place is usually crawling with families with young children, but it’s a fresh, delicious and more nutritious alternative to the socalled value meals the fast-food chains offer. NORA’S CUISINE 6020 W. Flamingo Road, 8738990. Originally a sub and pizza joint, Nora’s has expanded into a full-service, upscale dining room serving traditional Southern Italian and Sicilian dishes you won’t find many other places. OFF THE STRIP 10670 Southern Highlands Parkway, 202-2448; 9837 W. Tropicana Ave., 8763080. This reasonably priced Southern Highlands institution is the epitome of a great neighborhood restaurant. It’s nice enough to feel like a night out, but comfortable enough to throw back a few beers and watch a game at the bar. The primarily Italian food is simple and familiar, but the menu offers variety, and the chef puts his own signature on the dishes. The owner and staff seem to know most of their customers by name. STRATTA Wynn, 3131 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 2483463. Michelin two-star chef Alessandro Stratta — best-known for Wynn Las Vegas’s palace of French cuisine Alex — tries his hand at more casual, affordable Italian fare. The food is a lot more adventurous than you’d find in most Italian restaurants, adding gourmet touches to familiar dishes, but even simple dishes like meatballs are outstanding. For foodies on a budget, it offers a great chance to sample the fare of one of Las Vegas’s finest chefs without taking out a second mortgage. VALENTINO Venetian, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 414-3000. Piero Selvaggio’s award-winning room serves great contemporary Italian dishes. ZEFFIRINO RISTORANTE Venetian, 3377 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 414-3500. Chef Paolo Belloni has created a restaurant lauded by the New York Times as serving better food than you’d find in Venice.
GREEK
4001 S. Decatur Blvd., 222-0666. Very probably the city’s best Greek restaurant, the reasonably priced Fat Greek is open for lunch and dinner. Both menus offer traditional dishes like hummus, baba ganoush, Kalamata olives and rice dolmades. Lunchtime also features a large selection of gyros and sandwiches, while dinner is heartier fare. Whenever you go, make sure you try their incredible version of the chicken, lemon and rice soup
THE FAT GREEK
avgolemono . At dinner time, don’t miss the braised lamb shank. GYRO TIME 5239 W. Charleston Blvd., 878-6393; 7660 W. Cheyenne Ave., 658-9729. Adding a little variety to the fast food world with Greek dishes rather than burgers and tacos. The menu features gyros, souvlaki and falafel, as well as side dishes of spinach or cheese pies. Good enough for those times when you’re probably going to eat fast food anyway. MY BUDDY’S 3650 S. Jones Blvd., Suite 4, 2218701. This small Greek deli offers assorted subs alongside Mediterranean-style fast food like falafel, gyros and hummus.
GERMAN
CAFÉ HEIDELBERG 610 E. Sahara Ave., 731-5310.
One of the only real German eateries in town. It offers all of the traditional dishes, plus good beer and a complete deli and store.
IRISH
J.C. WOOLOUGHAN JW Marriott, 221 N. Rampart
Blvd., 869-7777. Even though the hotel that houses it has changed hands several times, this finest of real Irish pubs is still doing it right. SEAN PATRICK’S 8255 W. Flamingo Road, 2279793. A wonderful mix of Irish pub and family restaurant.
RUSSIAN
RED SQUARE Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd.
South, 632-7407. Classically upscale Russian food served in an almost-Gothic space especially designed to encourage the consumption of vodka.
BULGARIAN
MAGURA 1305 Vegas Valley Drive, 693-6699. Of-
fering Bulgarian cuisine in a dining room with Bulgarian artwork and crafts hanging on the walls and European music videos playing on a large-screen TV, Magura immediately makes you feel as if you’re in Eastern Europe rather than on the east side of Las Vegas. The cuisine relies heavily on grilled and dried meats, yogurt, eggs and various types of cheese. Unadventurous members of your party can order pizza from an adjoining restaurant.
MIDDLE EASTERN
9890 S. Maryland Parkway, Suites 16-17, 450-1030. This Lebanese Green Valley hot spot brings in belly dancers and DJs to perform for packed houses every Friday and Saturday night, and has an attached hookah bar. But the star attraction is the Middle Eastern food. Expect all the basics, including falafel, kabobs and shawarma, as well as several varieties of manaish, Lebanese pizza. You’ll also find an impressive selection of beer and wine. PAYMON’S MEDITERANNEAN CAFE 4147 S. Maryland Parkway, 731-6030; 8380 W. Sahara Ave., 804-0293. A bustling café offering tastes from across the Mediterranean and a happening lunch spot. The exotic hookah lounge is attached to the restaurant. ALMAZA
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LIVE MUSIC 3740 S. Nellis Blvd., 436-7600. Thu: Blues with John Zito Band, 11p, free. ALIANTE STATION 7300 AlianteParkway,6927777,www.aliantecasinohotel.com.ETA Lounge: Thu:JohnnyDouglas,8p.Fri:RickDurante,8p. ElliotSzabo,12a. Sat:AcousticSoul,7p.Wed:Live music,8p.MRKTSea&Land:Fri-Sat:DaveRitz,7p. BAR+BISTRO COURTYARD Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd, 202-6060, www.barbistroaf.com. First Thu: Guitar Noir at Preview Thursday, 7p. 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. BLUE MARTINI Town Square, 6593 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 948-6438, www.bluemartinilounge. com. Thu: Nova jazz, 7p; Mundo Vacio 11p. Fri- Sat: Live music, 8p. Mon: Gibson artist showcase and jam night, 8p. Tue: I’m With the Band-Pop Star karaoke with Venus Rising featuring Blue’s Got Talent, 10p. Wed: Ladies Night with special guest, 8p. BOOMERS BAR 3200 Sirius Ave., 368-1863, www.myspace.com/boomerslv. Fri-Sat: Live music, 10p, $5 unless noted. Mon: Open blues jam session with host band Four Until Late, 9p, free. BOOTLEGGER BISTRO 7700 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 736-4939, www.bootleggerlasvegas.co m. 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.boulderdamb rewing.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, 7p, $5. Fri: La Nueva Live Mix, 10p, men $5. Sat: Yellow Brick Road, 10p, free. Sun: Latin night, Noche Nortena featuring El Moreno Carrillo Y Su Banda Tierra Sagrada, 9p, $5 ladies, $10 men. BRASS LOUNGE 425 Fremont St., 382-3531, www.hennesseyslasvegas.com. Thu: Cigar social, live R&B with Pitty Pat Guidry Band, 8p, free. Fri: Party Monster, body art, live music and DJ Lady Fingers, 9p, $5. Mon: Acoustic happy hour, 6p. Tue: Local song writers showcase, 8p, free. Wed: Ladies Night Wine Down, live acoustic with Bud Mickel, 8p, free. BUNKHOUSE SALOON 124 S. 11th St., 384-4536. www.bunkhouselv.com. Thu-Sat: Local and tour-
ACES & ALES
NERVOUS WRECKORDS: July 10-12 at Book and Stage
THURSDAY
JULY 7
DOUBLE DOWN SALOON
JERRY’S NUGGET
MEATHEADS
Unearth, Turbid North, In Shadows Embrace, others (6p, $15)
BEAUTY BAR
Reggae Night: Pulsar (9p, cover)
Stephanie Anderson (10p, cover)
BOOK AND STAGE @ COSMOPOLITAN
THE LOUNGE @ PALMS
Mateo (midnight, free)
The Soft Pack (10p, free)
MANDALAY BEACH
DOUBLE DOWN SALOON
Godsmack (9p, $53.55)
Six Gun Romeo (10p, free)
PIN UPS BAR @ CANNERY
EASTSIDE CANNERY
Bella Donna-Tribute to Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac (8p, $5)
In-A-Fect (7p, cover) HOUSE OF BLUES
A Tribute to Van Halen, Poison’ous (7:30p, $9.71-$15)
THE RAILHEAD @ BOULDER STATION
Dave Koz (8p, $29-$59) RED ROCK RESORT
Puddle of Mudd, Otherwise (9p, $30)
FRIDAY
JULY 8
SOUTH POINT
Frankie Avalon (7:30p, $45-$55)
BEAUTY BAR
Red Eye Radio (9p, free)
SATURDAY
BIKINI BAR
JULY 9
Brother Burnz (9p, cover) BOOK AND STAGE @ COSMOPOLITAN
BEAUTY BAR
Sly Kat (9p, cover)
The Soft Pack (10p, free) BOOMERS
Natas Lived, Tezra, Pencil Lead Syringe, others (9p, cover) BOULDER DAM BREWING CO.
BOOK AND STAGE @ COSMOPOLITAN
The Soft Pack (10p, free) BOULDER DAM BREWING CO.
Just Three Guys (9p, free)
Shaun Evans (9p, free)
BUNKHOUSE
DOUBLE DOWN SALOON
Freakstar, The Pubes, Tinglerz, others (10p, free) EASTSIDE CANNERY
RSSS Benefit: Penn Jillette + The No God Band, Rusty Maples, Van Nuys, others (9p, $8-$10)
The Seriouslys, Demoni, Dead Engines, others (10p, free) The Reagan Years, Geezus Cryst, Free Beer, others (9p, cover) EASTSIDE CANNERY
In-A-Fect (9:30p, cover) PIN UPS BAR @ CANNERY
Bella Donna- Tribute to Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac (8p, $5) SOUTH POINT
Frankie Avalon (7:30p, $45-$55) SUNCOAST
John Ford Coley (7:30p, $17.50-$44.00) THE VILLAGE @ LAKE LAS VEGAS
Tommy Thompson (7p, free) YAYO TACO
My Iron Lung, Darasuum (12a, cover)
SUNDAY
JULY 10 BEAUTY BAR
The Rumble: Luke Rathborne, Zach Ryan and The Rouge, Shiny Boots of Leather (9p, cover) BOOK AND STAGE @ COSMOPOLITAN
The Nervous Wreckords (10p, free) EASTSIDE CANNERY
In-A-Fect (7p, cover) SOUTH POINT
Frankie Avalon (7:30p, $45-$55)
In-A-Fect (9:30p, cover)
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John Ford Coley (7:30p, $17.50-$44.00)
MONDAY
JULY 11 BOOK AND STAGE @ COSMOPOLITAN
The Nervous Wreckords (10p, free) CROWN THEATER @ RIO
Kip Winger, Sin City Sinners (10:30p, $22.50)
TUESDAY
JULY 12 BOOK AND STAGE @ COSMOPOLITAN
The Nervous Wreckords (10p, free) YAYO TACO
Severed Faith, Shadow of Creation, Enslaved, others (8p, cover)
WEDNESDAY
JULY 13
BOOK AND STAGE @ COSMOPOLITAN
Graffiti6 (10p, free) HOUSE OF BLUES
Amarionette, Impurity of Mriya, Blessed By A Burden (5:15p, $12) MEATHEADS
Predatorial, Xeno’s Paradox, Internal Damnation, others (8p, cover)
ing bands, 9p, free unless noted. Wed: Wednesday Night Hype hip hop show, 9p. Tue: Blues jam with Lipz and Bunkhouse blues band, 10p. CANYON CLUB 202 Fremont St., 387-5175, www.fourqueens.com. 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. Thu: The Slick Willie Orchestra, 8p. Fri-Sat: Live music, 9p. Tue: The Chicago Blues Busters, 8p. Wed: The GP Entertainer Tribute Artists Show, 8p, $5. All shows free. CHUBBY’S 1704 E. Flamingo Road, 458-5774. Wed: Crossbox, 7:30p. CIRCUS CIRCUS 2880 Las Vegas Blvd. South, (800) 634-3450. Rock & Rita’s: Live music, daily CJ’S COUNTRY SALOON 6145 W. Sahara Ave., 8346829. Tue-Sat: Dueling pianos. Sun-Mon: Flair Bartenders. CLUB ARUBA Aruba Hotel, 1215 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 383-3100, www.arubalasvegas.com. CLUB AZUL 115 7th Street, 672-0222, www.wopoent.com. Fri: Kinky Reggae Fridaze. Reggae Dancehall party. DJs Vip, Styla Don and Gil. $10, $5 ladies. Free before 12:30a. CLUB FORTUNE CASINO 725 S. Racetrack Road, 566-5555, www.clubfortunecasino.com. Sat: Live music, 8-12a. Sun: Whiskey Revival classic country, 5-9p. THE COPA ROOM The Bootlegger, 7700 Las Vegas Blvd. South. 616-9340. 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. Sun: Rock ‘n’ Roll Bike Night with John Zito Band, 6p, free. DADDY MAC’S 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, 2720913. Tue: Y.A Poet live with Red Eye Tribe, 18+, 8p. DECATUR LIQUOR 546 S. Decatur Blvd., 8702522. Sat: Live karaoke, 9p, free. DEL FRISCO’S 3925 Paradise Road, 796-0063. Thu-Sat, Tue-Wed: Tyrone Bowers popular piano music, 6p. Sun-Mon: Lawrence Kubica 6p-closing. DIVEBAR 3035 E. Tropicana Ave., 435-7526. www.vegasdivebar.com. Tue: Sin City Sinners (Brent
Muscat, Rob Cournoyer, Todd Kerns) and special guests, 10p. Live local and touring bands weekly. DON’T TELL MAMA 517 Fremont St., 207-0788. Cabaret-style piano bar. DOUBLE DOWN SALOON 4640 Paradise Road, 7915775. DOWNTOWN VINTAGE GUITARS 1105 3rd St, 3869572. EASTSIDE CANNERY Marilyn’s Lounge,
567-7905. Cervesa Bar: Fri: City Folks Blues, 6p. 2400 N. Rancho Drive, 6317000, www.fiestarancholasvegas.com. Blue Agave: Fri: Kelly Christian, 6p. Sat: Jarr, 6p. Cabo Lounge: Fri: Noches Sabrosas featuring Volume 1 performs a wide variety of music from cha-cha, ranchera and salsa to pop, disco and funk, 9p. Sat: Old School Dance Party, 9p. Club Tequila: 380-seat venue. Noches Fabrosas, Fri: Flirty Fridays, 10p, ladies $5,
FIESTA RANCHO
GODSMACK: July 8 at Mandalay Bay Beach
5255 Boulder Highway, 856-5300, www.eastsidecannery.com. Tue: The Fab, 8p (all month long). Thu, Sun: Patton Letha, 7p. Fri-Sat: Patton Letha, 8p. Wed: Block Party, 7p. E-STRING BAR AND GRILL 2031 E. Sunset Road, 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. EXCALIBUR 3850 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 5977600. Dick’s Last Resort: Thu-Mon: Live music, 8p. The Lounge: Live music daily, 7p. Octane Lounge: Thu,Sun: Live music, 8p. Fri-Sat: Live music, 9:30p. FIESTA HENDERSON 777 W. Lake Mead Parkway, 558-7000, www.fiestahendersonlasvegas.com. Cerveza Cantina: Fri: Jarr performs lounge music and Top 40 hits, 9p. FIESTA HENDERSON 777 West Lake Mead Parkway,
men $10, $15 after 11p. Sat: El Moreno Carrillo Y Su Banda Tierra Sagrada, 10p, $10. FORTE TAPAS BAR & BISTRO 4180 S. Rainbow Blvd., 220-3876, www.barforte.com. Fri: The NA1ROB1 Trio, 8:30p. FREAKIN’ FROG 4700 Maryland Parkway, 5979702, www.freakinmusic.com. Thu: Singer and songwriters, 9:30p. Fri: Funk ‘n’ Roll jam with Daze Work, 9:30p. Sat: Live music, 9:30p. Tue: Freakin’ Jazz Jam, 9:30p. Skip Martin and Niles Rivers hosts JamCast, 10:30p. Wed: Jazz pianist Vernell Brown Jr., 9p. All shows free. GOLD COAST 4000 W. Flamingo Road, 367-7111,
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CONT. FROM P35 HENNESSEY’S TAVERN 425 Fremont St., Suite 110, 382-4421, www.hennesseyslasvegas.com. Fri: Live music, 9p-2a. HIGH SPIRIT LOUNGE 2396 S. Lamb Blvd, 4529851. Fri-Sat: Darrell Cain and the Desert Riders, 9p, free. Sun: Jam Night, 6p, free. HOFBRAUHAUS 4150 Paradise Road, 853-2337, www.hofbrauhauslasvegas.com. Sat: Mc Johann, 1p-5p; Sun: 12p-4p. Fri-Sat: 6p-12a; Sun-Thu: German band, 5p-11p. HOGS AND HEIFERS SALOON 201 N. 3rd St., 6761457, www.hogsandheifers.com. Last Sun: Blues, Brew and BBQ. HOUSE OF BLUES Mandalay Bay 3950 Las Vegas Boulevard South, 632-7600, www.hob.com/ lasvegas. Courtyard: Thu: Acoustic Strip, acoustic showcase hosted by Michael Soli, 8p, free, all ages. Fri-Sat: Live blues, 9p, free. Sat: Azul Latin night, 11p, 21+, free. Sun: Gospel Brunch and music, 10a1p. Adults, $37; kids, $17. Motown, Rhythm and Blues: Ronnie Rose Band, 8p, free, all ages. Mon: Live blues, 8p, free. Tue: Alternative Tuesdays, rotating bands, all ages, 8p, free. Wed: Nothin’ But The Blues, all ages, 8p, free. Crossroads: Thu: Kalleton, music by AJ El Kallejero, 10p, free. Sun: Hana Hou Sundaze, live Island Reggae bands, 10p, $5. HYPNOTIC BILLIARDS LOUNGE 5752 S. Fort Apache, 480-2155. ICHABOD’S LOUNGE 3300 E. Flamingo Road, Ste. 15, 451-2323. www.ichabodslounge.com. Wed-Sat: Lounge pianist Howie Gold, 6:30p-9:30p. ITALIAN AMERICAN SOCIAL CLUB 2333 E. Sahara, 457-3866. Thu: Throwback Thursdays. Swanky Supper Club Experience, 6p, $10. JC WOOLOUGHAN’S IRISH PUB Rampart Casino, 221 N. Rampart Blvd., 869-7725. www.rampartcasino.com JERRY’S NUGGET 1821 Las Vegas Blvd. North, 399-3000, www.jerrysnugget.com/entertainment. Royal Street Theater: Fri: Motown Fridays, 10p, $5. Sat: Caliente Latin nights, 10p, free. JESSE JAMES ROCK HOUSE 4660 Boulder Highway, 451-4006. KAHUNAVILLE TI, 3300 Las Vegas Blvd South, 8947390. www.kahunaville.com. Thu-Sat: Live band karaoke and performances by Rock the Mic, 10:30p. LA HAVANA CIGAR BAR MonteLago Village Lake Las Vegas Resort, 25 Via Brianza, Ste. 100, 8712828. Sat: Jazz and blues, 8p-12a. Sun: Jazz and blues, 3p-5p. LINDO MICHOACAN 10082 W. Flamingo Road, 8389990, www.lindomichoacan.com. Thu, Sat-Sun, Tue-Wed: Pianist, 6p. Fri: Mariachi Nuevo, 6:30p. LUCIO RISTORANTE 5900 W. Flamingo, 2071008, www.lucioristorante.com. Thu-Sat, Wed: Jazz and classic swing, 6p. LVCS 425 Fremont St., 382-3531, www.lvsaloon.net. Recommended. Send event information to: Mike Prevatt at listings@lvcitylife.com. SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5 P.M. ON THE THURSDAY PRIOR TO PUBLICATION, AND EVENTS MUST BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. PLEASE INCLUDE NAME, PHONE NUMBER AND ADDRESS OF THE EVENT. EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO LAST-MINUTE CHANGES. PLEASE CALL CONTACT NUMBERS TO CONFIRM DETAILS.
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Caribe,” 10p. Wed: Brian Czach Jazz Trio, 7p. 3555 LasVegasBlvd.South,7333302.Mon-Thu: Synergy, 10p.Fri-Sat:Synergy,11p. MCFADDEN’S Rio Hotel, 3700 W. Flamingo Road, 270-6200, www.mcfaddensvegas.com. Every other Fri: Live music, 10p. Sun: Patrick Genovese, 10p. Tue: Live karaoke, 10p. MCMULLAN’S IRISH PUB 4650 W. Tropicana Ave., 247-7000, www.mcmullansirishpub.com. Fri: Live music, 9p. Sat: John Windsor, 8p. Sun: Irish McSessions, 6:30p. Wed: Darby O’Gill and The Little People, 10p. MEATHEADS 1121 S. Decatur Blvd., Suite 120, 8704440, www.myspace.com/meatheadsbar. Fri-Sat: Live music 10p. MIRAGE HOTEL 3401 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 7927615. Bare Pool: Live music. B.B. King’s Blues: Live MARGARITAVILLE
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The Box Office 1129 S. Casino Center Blvd., 388-1515 The Bunkhouse Saloon 124 S. 11th St., 384-4536 Charleston Heights Arts Center 800 S. Brush St., 229-1012 Cheyenne Saloon 3103N.RanchoDrive, 645-4139 Crown Theater Rio, 3700 W. Flamingo Road, 733-8229 Divebar 3035 E. Tropicana Ave., 435-7526 Double Down Saloon 4640 Paradise Road, 791-5775
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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., 220-8849 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
music nightly. Rhumbar: Mon: Pink Sugar Live Music Jam, 9:30p. Tue: Jazz Under the Stars, 9p. MONEY PLAYS 4755 W. Flamingo Road, 3681828, www.myspace.com/moneyplayslv. Thu: Open mic acoustic jam with Anne Donohue, 9:30p. Sat: Live music, 10p. MONTE CARLO 3770 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 7307423. The Pub: Dueling pianos, daily. MOTOR CITY CAFE 4080ParadiseRoad,Ste.8,3071731.Thu:GoldTopBobandtheGoldtoppers,10p. MUGSHOTS EATERY & CASINO 1120N.Boulder Highway,566-6577, www.mugshotscasino.com. Wed-Sat:MichaelFuller’sRoadshow: Karaokeandlive music,9p.Sun:JamSessionhostedby TheSouthBoundband,8p.Tue: RockJamwith3BlindMice,10p. MURPHY’S LAW TAVERN 1590 E. Flamingo Road, 697-0529, www.murphyslawtavern.com. Fri-Sat: Live music, 7p, free. Nacho Daddy 9925 S. Eastern Ave., 462-5000. Thu: Rockin’ Pianoman, 6p. NEON VENUS ART THEATRE 1404 S. Third St., 787-2481, www.neonvenus.com. First Fri: Live music, 7p-11p. Free. O’SHEA’S 3555 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 697-2711, ext. 2710, www.harrahs.com. Live music nightly, 9: 30p, free. ORLEANS HOTEL AND CASINO 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., 365-7111. Brendan’s Irish Pub: Wed: Sixties Mania, 8p. Thu: Killian’s Angels, 8p. FriSat: Killian’s Angels, 9p. Bourbon Street Cabaret Lounge: Wed-Fri, Sun: San Fernando Band, 9p. Tue: Crush, 9p. All shows free. PALACE STATION 2411 W. Sahara Ave., 367-2411. Jack’s Irish Pub: Thu: Wild Celts, 7p. Fri: Darby O’Gill and the Little People, 9p. Sat: Finnegan’s Wake with the rock o’ the Irish from 9p. Showroom: Sat: Sante Fe and the Fat City Horns, 12a. Tue: Jerry Tiffe, 2p. PALMS LOUNGE 4321 W. Flamingo Road, 9427777, www.palms.com. Kashino: Thu, midnight; Wed, 10p, free. Sun: Franky Perez, 10p, free. Mon: Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns, 10:30p, $7. PETE’S DUELING PIANO BAR 6551 Las Vegas Blvd. South #152, 220-7383, www.petesduelingpianob ar.com. Thu-Sat, Tue-Wed: Live dueling pianos, 8p. Fri-Sat: $6. RAMPART CASINO 221 N. Rampart Blvd., 8697725. www.rampartcasino.com. Addison’s Lounge: Fri-Sat: Live music, 8p. Round Bar: Fri-Sat: Jamariah, 6:30p. Fri-Sat: LaMarca, 11p. Wed-Thu: Jamariah, 7p. RED ROCK CASINO 11011W. CharlestonBlvd., 7977777,www.redrocklasvegas.com.OnyxBar: Tue-Thu: Toto Zara,7p. Fri-Sat:TotoZara,9p,free. Rocks Lounge:Thu: Acousticjam,8p. Fri:ZowieBowie,10p. Sat: PartyontheRocksconcert series, 9p,$30. Franky Perez,10p.Sun:JazzwithTheSteven LeeGroup featuringRoccoBarbato,7p.Mon:DianDiaz,8p. RIO Crown Night Club, 3700 W. Flamingo Road, 7338229. Sat: Sinful Saturday, special guest appearances and performances, 10:30p, $30. Mon: Rock concert series, big act names. For free limited tickets visit www.vegashotspots.com, $25 thereafter. RÍ RÁ Mandalay Place 3930 Las Vegas Blvd South, 632-7771, www.rira.com/rira/las_vegas.html. Live music nightly, 8:30p. Fri: The Street, 11:30p. Sat: The Jones’, 11:30p.
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. ROADRUNNER SALOON 9820 W. Flamingo Road, 243-5329, www.roadrunnerlasvegas.com. Fri: Live music, 9p. ROADRUNNER SALOON 2430 E. Pebble Road, 948-8282 Fri-Sat, 9p. THE RIVIERA
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www.rocknrollwine.com. Fri: Live music, 5p and 9: 30p. ROYAL RESORT HOTEL 99 Convention Center Drive, 563-2795. Thu-Sat: Boardwalk Nites! 50sMotown, 9p. Adult $19.95, kids $5. Sun: Sunday Sermon, open mic hosted by Bryan Todd and Ryan Pardey, 9p. R2K STUDIO 1201 S. Commerce St., 207-0725. Art of Music: First Fridays, 6p. SAM’S TOWN 5111 Boulder Highway, 454-8020, www.samstownlv.com, Roxy’s Lounge: Tue: The NiteKings, 8p. Wed: In A Fect, 8p. Thu: Jimmy Limo, 3p, In a Fect, 8p. Fri: Live classic rock tribute bands, 9p. Sat: Live music, 5:30-3a. All shows free. Sam’s Town Live: Thu: Variety Toast of the Town, 2p, free for BConnected Members. Mon: Lunes Caliente with Vol. 1, 9p, $10, includes one free draft beer. SANTA FE STATION 4949 N. Rancho Drive, 6584900, www.santafestationlasvegas.com. 4949 Lounge: Fri: Paul Campanella, 5:30p. Sat: Rick Durante, 5p. Chrome Showroom: First Thu: The Guilty Pleasures, 7p. Fri: South of Graceland, 8p. Sat: Sin City Sinners, 9p. SAXBYS COFFEE 72 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, 558-1838. Wed: Open mic, 6:30p. Sat: Live music, 6:30p. SHIFTY’S 3805 W. Sahara Ave., 871-4952. Thu: Blues You Can Use, 7p. Fri: Live Karate Karaoke, 10p. Sat: Live music, 9p. Sun: Barbecue and entertainment, 12p. Mon: Live karaoke with Bobby Jones, 8p. Tue: Motown and Jazz, 9p. Wed: Live karaoke, 9p. SILVERTON CASINO Sway Pool & Lounge, 3333 Blue Diamond Road, 263-7777, www.silvertoncasino.com. Bands, Bikinis and Burgers Poolside concert series. SOUTH POINT CASINO 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 796-7111. Grandview Lounge: Thu-Fri: Wes Winters, 5p, free. Showroom: Thu: Dennis
Bono, 2p, free. The Ronnie Ross Dance Band, 7: 30p, $5. Fri: The Guilty Pleasures, 10:30p, $5. Sat: Spazmatics, 10p, $5. Mon: Vegas Super Band, 8: 30p, $5. Wed: Deja Vu, 6p, $5. SMOKIN’ HOT ACES 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 541-8700. SPRINGS PRESERVE 333 Valley View Blvd., 8227700, www.springspreserve.org. STADIUM SALOON 6016 S. Boulder Highway, 4338550. Sat: Swivelhead, 8p. STARBRIGHT THEATRE 2225 Thomas W. Ryan Blvd., 369-9709, www.suncity-summerlin.com/ starbrighttheatre.htm. SUNCOAST HOTEL 9090 Alta Drive, 636-7075, www.suncoastcasino.com. Lounge: Wed: Yellow Brick Road, 9p, free. Sat: Vegas Super Band, 10:30p, free. Showroom: Thu: Hit Parade featuring entertainers from the strip, 2p, free for BConnected members. SUNSET STATION 1301 W. Sunset Road, 547-7777, www.sunsetstation.com. Club Madrid: 500-seat showroom. Fri: Sin City Sinners, 9p. Sat: Nawgahyde, 9p. Rosalita’s Cantina: Fri-Sat: Shawn Eiferman, acoustic power duo, 6p. TEXAS STATION 2101 Texas Star Lane, 631-1000, www.texasstation.com. A-Bar: Thu: Justin Mather, 5:30p. Fri-Sat: Darrin Michaels, jazz, 7p. Sun: Darrin Michaels, 5:30p. Martini Ranch: Wed: Sideshow 5:30p. Fri: Justin Mathers, 7p. Sat: Kelly Christian, 5:30p. South Padre Lounge: Thu: La Nueva 103.5 Live Mix with Jesus Chuy Espiricueta, Latin night, 9p, ladies $5 after 11p, men $10. Fri: Latin with Hermanos Padillas, 9p, ladies $5, men $10. Sat: Escencia Colombiana, 10p, $5-$10. THUNDERBIRD LOUNGE Aruba Hotel, 1215 LasVegas Blvd.South, 383-3100, www.arubalasvegas.com. Fri-Sat:Livemusic, 7p, free.Fri:ArubaSwings, 7p, free. Swing dancing lessons, 6p-7p, free. TOMMY ROCKER’S 4275 Dean Martin Drive, 2616688, www.tommyrocker.com. Fri-Sat: Rock-N-Roll Sing Along, 9:30p. Tue: Open Jam with John Zito. TOMMY ROCKER’S SOUTHSIDE GRILL 10050 S. Eastern Ave., 933-6333. Sun: Open Mic with Tommy Rocker, 9p. TROPICANA 3801 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 7392222, www.troplv.com. Ambhar Lounge: Thu-Sat: Miami Duo, 8p. Miami Seven, 9:30p, free. TURK’S BAR AND LOUNGE 1483 E. Flamingo Road, 610-4723. Tue: Open Mic Night, 8p, free.
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It’s my observation that women find it easier than men to tune into their natural rhythms. The menstrual cycle helps cultivate that ability. We men experience less dramatic physical shifts, and that seems to give us license to override messages from our bodies for the sake of ambition, laziness, or convenience. Having acknowledged that, I must say that I know men who are highly sensitive and responsive to somatic cues, and women who aren’t. Whatever gender you are, I believe that in the coming weeks it’s crucial for you to be acutely aware of what’s going on inside your beloved flesh-and-blood vehicle. This is one time when you need to be intimately aligned with its needs.
him your patron saint for the second half of 2011, Taurus. My sense is that the seed of some great accomplishment is already germinating within you. It may take a while to be fully born, but I suggest we consecrate its bright future now.
G E M I N I (MAY 21-JUNE 20)
I’ve got no problem with the real world. I spend a lot of time there, enjoy its chewy riddles and take it quite seriously. But I also consider myself a militant lobbyist for all the Other Worlds — the domain of everything that’s invisible to the naked eye and irrelevant to the schemes of the rational ego. These alternate realities consist of the unconscious, the dream time, the spiritual sphere, the intelligence of nature and the realm of the ancestors. In my astrological opinion, you’re due for a major upgrade in your relationship with these dimensions in the next 12 months. Now would be a good time to get started.
TA U R U S (APRIL 20-MAY 20)
One of the greatest kings of the ancient Persian Sassanid Empire was Shapur II (309-379). Shortly after his father died, he was made king while still in his mother’s womb. Since he could not yet wear his crown, officials set it upon his mother’s pregnant belly. He ruled from then until the day he died, 70 years later. I’m naming
C A N C E R (JUNE 21-JULY 22)
While listening to the sound collage radio program “Over the Edge” on KPFA, I learned that a new primary color has been detected. Quite different from red, yellow, or blue, it has its own distinct hue that’s impossible to describe. You
really have to see it to appreciate its essence. The discoverer of this marvel is Dr. Wohan Squant, who has named the color “squant.” (Full details here: bit.ly/Squant.) I wish I could predict you’re about to create or find something equally revolutionary, Cancerian, but I can’t go quite that far. Nevertheless, you’ve entered a phase when you have the power to tinker with and even transform fundamental laws of your universe. So who knows? Maybe you’re on the verge of a shift almost as revolutionary as the discovery of squant.
L E O (JULY 23-AUG. 22)
Are you feeling the sting of disappointment, railing at life for reneging on one of its promises to you? Are you in the throes of unleashing a great accusation, suffering the twisty ache that comes from having your pet theories disproved? Maybe you should consider the possibility that you are simply getting an opportunity to correct a misunderstanding — that life isn’t being mean to you and you’re not being punished. I’d like to propose that you are, in fact, in the first phase of your healing. Listen to Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore: “We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
V I R G O (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)
“The more one dwells on oneself,” says psychoanalyst Adam Phillips in his book Going Sane, “the more one is likely to suffer.” He thinks people need encouragement to avoid excessive introspection. “My project as a psychoanalyst,” he writes, “is to free them to not have to think about their lives so much.” While I feel he overstates the case, I do suspect his message would be good for you to heed in the coming weeks. For maximum success and robust mental health, take a generous portion of your attention off yourself and focus it on living your life with compassion, curiosity and concern for others.
L I B R A (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)
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“One must choose in life between boredom and suffering,” proclaimed author Madame de Stael (1766-1817). I beg to differ with her, however. As evidence, I present the course of your life during the next few weeks. After analyzing the astrological omens, I expect you will consistently steer a middle course between boredom and suffering, being able to enjoy some interesting departures from the routine that don’t hurt a bit. There may even be pain-free excursions into high adventure mixed in, along with a fascinating riddle that taxes your imagination in rather pleasurable ways.
S C O R P I O (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)
I accompanied a friend and his family to a small fairgound where a local school was having a fundraiser. There were rides and games for younger kids. Right away we came to a challenging activity that involved climbing a ladder made out of rubber and coated with some slippery substance. One girl, about seven years old, was having a
moment of rowdy bliss as she tried to ascend.“It’s impossible — but fun!” she cried out to her mom. Your assignment in the coming week is to find an adventure like that: one that’s impossible but fun.
S A G I T TA R I U S (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)
“It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape,” wrote Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. “It is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony; if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.” With this quote, I’m alerting you to the fact that a new truth is now floating into your world, Sagittarius. It’ll be misty and sparkly, yet somehow also decisive and lucid. It will comfort you and yours, but also be a bit shocking. It will be sharply tonic, like good, strong medicine that has a pungent yet oddly delicious flavor you’ve never tasted before.
C A P R I C O R N (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)
If there were a useful website with the domain name AmIAGoodPersonOrNot.com, I would advise you to go check it out. Thesameistrueiftherewerewebsiteslike AmIAuthenticOrNot.com,AmIYummyOrNot.com, AmIEnlightenedOrNot.com,orAmIAGorgeousGe niusOrNot.com.What I’m trying to tell you, Capricorn, is that this would be an excellent time for you to find out more about yourself from objective sources — or any other kind of sources, for that matter. Solicit feedback, my beautiful darling. Ask for updates on how you’re doing.
A Q U A R I U S (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)
Ninety-six percent of all adults say they would change something about their appearance if they could. That statistic is one factor that leads philosopher Jonathan Zap to make this observation: “Suffering associated with body image has reached such epidemic proportions in our culture that it must be counted as one of the greatest spiritual plagues ever to be visited upon mankind.” That’s the bad news, Aquarius. The good news is that the coming months will be an excellent time for learning to be at more peace with how you look. I invite you to formulate a three-point plan that will help you come to a perspective in which you will love your body exactly the way it is.
P I S C E S (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)
On her website Reuniting.info, Marnia Robinson reported on a discovery she made that may be useful to you. Wandering around a county fair, she went to a reptile exhibit where she encountered an animal trainer who had an alligator resting serenely on his lap. She asked him why the creature was so well-behaved. “I pet it daily,” he said. “If I didn’t, it would quickly be wild again, and wouldn’t allow this.” Apply that lesson in your own life, Pisces. Bestow regular tenderness and loving touch to the feral, untamed, primitive influences in your life — including any that may reside within you.
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“I see Jesus!” squealed a patron, weeks-old black Chihuahua in one hand, coffee in the other, as she peered into a 36-inch, three-dimensional fabric pancake, mounted on the wall. “It looks like a dog bed,” said another. “How fun!” On June 30, the art crowd was up early for the opening of Todd + Bryan’s Pancake Bed (and Breakfast), a soft-sculpture exhibit and morning meal at Trifecta Gallery. Around the show space, people were all smiles and nods. Visitors couldn’t help but laugh at first sight of the oversized pancake furniture. Early birds wearing white gloves weaved around teetering stacks of sculptural hot cakes, squeezing their memory-foam filling and petting their fur and sequined sidings. Others hovered around the buffet, helping themselves to actual pancakes, fruit, sausage, coffee and orange juice — breakfast as promised, catered by the Arts Factory’s Bar + Bistro.Two small children,dwarfed by the large sculptures,sat on the floor, pecking at plates of food while gazing wide-eyed at the surreal scene. Artists Bryan MCarthy and Todd VonBastiaans buzzed around in matching blue pinstriped pajamas, posing for photos and accepting congrats between conversations. “We’re big fans of design, and we wanted to come up with an art piece/furniture piece/functional piece,” VonBastiaans said of the 28-pancake collection, each piece of which retails for $500 to $1,200. “Pancakes were easy.” Pliable pancake furniture appealed to the artists for their fun and functional qualities. Stacked, the art could be a chair, foot rest, table, a centerpiece at a breakfast restaurant ... anything really, including a bed for a spoiled pooch. Add flair with faux fur, stripes, plaids and mirrored sequins, and “you can build a totem pole of yourself with the pancakes,” VonBastiaans said. For their homegrown quality, VonBastianns calls the cakes organic; from start to finish, the cakes were conceived and assembled in local ZIP codes 89102 and 89104, with the exception of the high-quality photo-to-fabric printing, which was done in L.A. Twenty-eight pancakes were selected from Blueberry Hill, photographed upstairs in the Arts Factory, stuffed with filling from Galaxy Foam, accented with fabric from Hetty’s and sewn together by an upholsterer on Western Avenue. The artists sampled pancakes from other beloved local joints, but Blueherry Hill’s flapjacks possessed the most camera-ready nooks and crannies. The duo considered Dupars, Hash House A Go Go and Jerry’s Nugget. “We love Jerry’s Nugget, by the way. They have the best bakery, and they make a watermelon cake for the summer that’s like a Jello cream cake that’s amaaaazing. It looks like slices of watermelon. It’s really, really good.” Do we sense a sequel?
Top: Early risers enjoy a pancake breakfast, some of which were edible. Middle left: The details make pancakes more delicious. Middle right: Todd VonBastiaans. Bottom left: Pancakes with a side of fur. Bottom right: Kids eat free. Just like everyone else.
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