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It’s a growing problem, with more resources now devoted to fighting it. Are we doing the right things?

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[BANG YOUR HEAD] SATURDAY, NOV. 19

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t’s common for a rock en Español band to be as influenced by American bands as ones from Mexico and Latin America. But you’d be hard pressed to find one that’s chiefly inspired by British rock — specifically Britpop, the U.K. equivalent to America’s grunge explosion. Mexican band Zoé didn’t obsess over Nirvana and Pearl Jam, or even American college rock acts that rose to prominence in the 1990s.They looked to Manchester, England, and became enamored

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with bands like The Stone Roses and The Charlatans, whose psychedelic touches were adapted in Zoé’s own sound. In fact, when it came time to record its second album, 2003’s excellent Rocanlover, it employed producer Phil Vinall, who had worked on albums with Pulp and Elastica, both massively popular English bands. As a result, Zoé stood out among its alternative rock countrymen, sometimes even singing in English. This year, Zoé has become the biggest rock

band in its homeland, thanks to its 2011 MTV Unplugged/Música de Fondo album, which topped the Mexican charts for eight weeks. And its cult status grows in America, thanks to relentless touring. After the momentum established from landing a main-stage Coachella slot last year, it spent six weeks this summer in the States, and has returned for a stretch of fall dates with Enrique Bunbury. To be fair, artists like Zoé might have a diminished presence without the groundwork laid by Bunbury, who came up in the 1990s and became a pivotal figure in Spanish-language rock. And once he cemented his reputation for that, he then established himself for having a mutable sound, experimenting with genres seemingly at whim. Both he and Zoé collaborated on the latter’s 2010 song, “Nada,” which planted the seed for this American jaunt — one that, for fans of either act and rock en Español, is not to be missed. Mike Prevatt. 8 p.m.; House of Blues, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 632-7600, $42.50-$57.

It’s tough to bang your head while playing the violin. You’ve got to balance the instrument on your shoulder, and the bow could poke you in the eye or ear. Classical musician Rachel Barton Pine doesn’t actually head-bang while playing the violin. But she is outspoken about her love of metal, and has become something of an ambassador between the classical and rock music communities. The violinist will perform with the Las Vegas Philharmonic for one night only. (She’ll also visit area schools to talk about the similarities between classical music and heavy metal.) Pine isn’t just a musical curiosity, she’s also a prodigy and master violinist. She can shred as well as any thrash guitarist. Amy Kingsley. 8 p.m.; Artemus W. Ham Hall, UNLV, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, 895-2787, $34-$78.

Once upon a time, there were two brothers named Beardo and Mustachio. Mustachio was polite and dapper, while Beardo was scraggly and inexplicably popular. Beardo built his reputation on the chins of dubious fellas, like bikers, hillbillies and Santa Claus, while Mustachio held onto his well-groomed morals, but somehow sank to the ranks of molestors and Strong Men. Mustachio didn’t understand what he was doing wrong, until two gents, Zappos and the Silverton, found the defeated old soul and threw a party to lift his spirits. With his newfound self-esteem, Mustachio realized, I should do this every year! Twist ’em up, grease ’em up, plaster your ’stache with gel or glue or whatever you use (don’t tell us) and head down to the second-annual Mustachio Bashio mustache party. The facial-hair elite can compete for cash and the title of “Mr. Stash 2011,” while those with suckier soup-strainers will have other ways to show off: beer pong, karaoke, a mashed potato-eating contest and $1 beers with purchase of a T-shirt. Shirt sales benefit the Movember Foundation for Prostate Cancer. Come on, support the underdog. Kristy Totten. 6 p.m.; Silverton Casino Hotel, Veil Pavilion, 3333 Blue Diamond Road, 21+, free.

ALMANOVA AlmaNova is the kind of music your Northern Californian brother-in-law with the graying ponytail listens to while he’s stomping grapes to make his own wine. Bosnian guitarist/ composer Almer Immovic and American flautist Jessica Pierce play finger board/key-burning riffs that would send lesser musicians into early and painful bouts of tendonitis (perfect tempo for jumping on fruit), but with the romantic sophistication of being unpercussive and solely based on wind and string instruments (because making wine is classy). It’s the kind of music you’d probably hear between breaks during State of Nevada on KNPR.And you should hear it this weekend at the Winchester Cultural center, because AlmaNova might make some of the most interesting, complicated and flat-out beautiful music we’ve ever heard come out of a guitar/flute duo. You don’t even need a graying ponytail to get in. Max Plenke. 7 p.m.; Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 455-7340, $10-$12.

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To look at art history is to sometimes wonder if art hadn’t been devised mainly to examine, exalt — and sometimes exploit — the feminine body. (Well, that and depict biblical stuff.) That venerable aesthetic also drives this exhibit of drawings by Gia Ray and sculpture by Scott Sandoval. Ray fills her images of zaftig bodies, and their backgrounds, with an almost tactile density of swirls and curlicues,quickened here and there by zaps of bright red. Allow us to quote the press release: “sexually provocative while retaining the innocence she desires in all her creations.” (Too few press releases say that.) Sandoval’s curvy metal pieces approach the theme from the opposite direction — the feminine embodied in cool metal. Hey, Sin City Gallery Director Laura Henkel, what unites these two very different artists? “Although Gia and Scott’s artistic styles are so different,” she told us, “they complement each other due to the attention to detail in the complexity of their work.” Scott Dickensheets. Sin City Gallery, in the Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd., www.sincitygallery.com, free. a

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WE THINK News sushi: Tidbits of current events, served raw $18 million: Cost of Splash Mountain, a

water park at Fort Apache and Warm Springs, projected to open Memorial Day 2012

25 acres: Size of Splash Mountain 20: Number of slides and other features 5,000: Projected visitors per day Even Wednesdays?: Good question “We’re 20 minutes from everywhere in the valley”: Splash Mountain developer 33 minutes: To Splash Mountain from our house, according to Google Maps

41 minutes: If we inexplicably use Blue Diamond Road

$280,000: Maximum payment for pro-

posed state transportation ombudsman, who would “answer questions from road contractors,” according to Sun

$255,944: Salary of LVCVA boss Rossi Ralenkotter

$10,000: Raise for Ralenkotter proposed by LVCVA board That’s good money: But not quite ombudsman good

$650 million: Cost of Las Vegas Monorail 35: That decline as measured in Splash Mountains (approximately)

2,187: In ombudsmen (approximately) $44 million: Monorail’s debt after proposed bankruptcy plan

$38 million: Monorail’s projected deficit in 2019, according to its own estimates, as reported in Vegas Inc.

“I’m not sure if this plan is not just kicking the can down the road”: Bankruptcy Judge Bruce Markell

Sources: Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas ReviewJournal, Vegas Inc.

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“Expect delays through 2012. Please ﬁnd alternate route.” Judging by all the Reid people signing on to Ruben Kihuen’s campaign for the congressional seat in District 1, primary challenger Dina Titus is getting no love from King Harry. His withheld imprimatur will deprive Titus of the Reid Machine’s legendary fundraising and ground-game mojo. Some reward for a long-time Democratic stalwart.

COLUMN

DAMNED PUNDIT

BY HUGH JACKSON

Cain for president. Please.

erman Cain has been harassing didn’t want that “word to go out” because women. that is not what the program was about. No, this isn’t about the allegaBut conspiracy-minded anti-abortion extions of sexual harassment while tremists have eagerly taken Sanger’s statement Cain was president of the National Restauout of context.And Cain drank the Kool-Aid. rant Association in the 1990s. This is about The Washington Post, PolitiFact and othCain’s more recent and ongoing attempts to ers took Cain up on his invitation to check deprive women — particularly low-income his history, and declared Cain’s “genocide” women — of cancer screenings, prenatal assertions patently false. PolitiFact, for care, HIV testing, contraception and safe instance, “found no evidence that Sanger abortion procedures at Planned Parenthood advocated — privately or publicly — for facilities in Nevada and around the nation. anything even resembling the ‘genocide’ And Cain is slandering of blacks, or that she one woman in particular,a thought blacks are genetiCONFRONTED woman whose contribucally inferior. tion to the health and well“Every academic PolitiWITH THE being of Americans vastly Fact consulted said that TRUTH, CAIN JUST outstrips any that the pizza Cain’s claim is wrong.” PRETENDS IT ISN’T whosit will ever claim. Yet asked about his “It’s not Planned Parremarks on CBS’s Face THERE. enthood, no, it’s planned the Nation a couple weeks genocide,” Cain told a ago, Cain doubled down right-wing website last and proceeded to tell the spring. same lies about Sanger. “Here’s why I support de-funding Planned No one should be surprised. Whenever Parenthood, because you don’t hear a lot of Cain is confronted with the truth, he just people talking about this,” Cain continued. pretends it isn’t there. “When Margaret Sanger — check my history During last month’s presidential debate in — started Planned Parenthood, the objective Las Vegas, all the other Republican canwas to put these centers in primarily black didates blasted Cain’s puerile 9-9-9 plan becommunities so they could help kill black cause it would more than double the amount babies before they came into the world.” of sales taxes paid by Nevadans. Did Cain Regular readers of this column (both of defend his signature policy prescription by you!) will not be surprised to learn that a illustrating why all the other candidates on Republican got his history wrong. the stage — not to mention every indepenLaunching a program to extend health serdent budgetary and economic analysis that vices to black communities in the poor rural has ever been done on 9-9-9 — were wrong? South in the 1930s, Planned Parenthood Oh, there was some blather about fruit, founder Margaret Sanger asked black clergy specifically apples and oranges. But Cain’s to help the program earn the trust of people defense consisted primarily of refusing to in those communities. Support from black acknowledge the fact that had been placed clergy would be important, Sanger wrote in before him. “That simply is not true,” Cain a private letter, because “we do not want the proclaimed (invoking what would ultimately word to go out that we want to exterminate emerge as his unofficial campaign slogan), or the Negro population.” Obviously, Sanger “You’re absolutely wrong,” and “No, no, no,

no,” and “No, that’s an apple.” But he never provided evidence indicating that the criticisms leveled against 9-9-9 were untrue. Cain seems to believe that if you deny reality hard enough, it will just go away. Like Newt Gingrich,Cain has no intention of winning the Republican nomination,let alone actually getting elected president (both men are no doubt mortified at the prospect,which is perhaps the one area where they agree with a majority of Americans).Cain is using the presidential campaign to sell some books and build his brand.After all,Fox News is always hiring. Herman Cain doesn’t know China has nuclear weapons? Who cares? Cain certainly doesn’t. He’s just another carnival barker. And yet in at least one respect, there is no difference between Cain and the “serious” leaders of today’s Republican Party: They share a disdain for facts. For instance, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, second only to Mitch McConnell in the Republican Senate leadership and presumably a “serious” Republican politician, claimed on the Senate floor that abortions account for more than 90 percent of Planned Parenthood services. The actual

number is a bit less than 3 percent. Kyl’s office later sought cover behind the rhetorical hyperbole defense, saying the senator’s falsehood “was not intended as a factual statement.” Cain accounts for his falsehoods a bit differently: He just refuses to acknowledge that there are such things as facts. Democrats enter the 2012 campaign with their backs against the wall and customarily bereft of a readily identifiable agenda. The best possible Democratic scenario would find Republicans nominating a joke presidential candidate whose defeat is so overwhelming and humiliating that it not only ruins the chances of dozens or even hundreds of GOP candidates up and down the ballot, but cripples the Republican Party for a generation. Here, then, is a personal plea to Nevada Republican voters who will get their own chance tohaveasay,howeverinsignificant,intheGOP nomination process at the Nevada caucuses in February. Caucus for Herman Cain. Please. HUGH JACKSON blogs at The Las Vegas Gleaner, www.lasvegasgleaner.com, and contributes to KSNV Channel 3.

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KNAPPSTER BY GEORGE KNAPP

A victory for the horse killers

een dying for a thick, juicy horse burger but can’t find a meat market that sells the good stuff anymore? Did killjoy animal lovers thwart your plan to send a holiday gift box filled with flash-frozen tenderloins de Flicka to your Uncle Pierre in Bruges? Are herds of dadgum wild mustangs running through your neighborhood again, dropping horse pucky all over your croquet course? Well, don’t you fret, Tex. Sharpen up the old meat hook and fire up the barbecue because horse slaughter is on its way back. Like people in most other civilized nations,

Americans — as a rule — do not eat horses. We don’t eat dogs or house cats, either, though some folks do in other parts of the world. We generally regard horses, dogs and cats as pets, friends and partners, not as four-legged Sloppy Joes. For the time being, dogs and cats are safe, most likely because there isn’t enough meat on their bones to offer much profit potential. But horses? In 2007, horse lovers and animal-welfare groups convinced Congress that the slaughter of horses for human consumption is despicable, barbaric, not something

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Americans should support. Congress pro-slaughter folks is that since the 2007 voted to cut off funding for all horse-meat ban, European countries have raised their slaughter plants, which effectively closed standards for horse meat. Most American down those few remaining in the U.S. But horses are so riddled with chemicals and ever since, Big Agriculture has been plotcontaminants that the meat could only be ting a return to the glory days of sending sold abroad if someone looks the other way. tens of thousands of horses to be butchMost of it will likely not pass health inspecered, then shipped to Belgium or Japan for tions. That won’t matter a bit to the bloodsale in markets or restaurants. thirsty folks with dollar signs in their eyes, A few rabid ranchers have been out in but it should matter to the rest of us. front on this issue, telling Congress that we are really missing out on some big money NAMES AND FACES by allowing American horses to be shipped Anyone who watched the trial of Dr. to Canada and Mexico to be slaughtered Conrad Murray, the doctor recently instead of carving them up right here at convicted in the death of singer Michael home. The same folks who have pushed to Jackson, might have seen a familiar Las reopen the slaughterhouses are the loudest Vegas face in the courtroom. Local PR guy voices in support of clearing public lands Mark Fierro, a former TV news reporter of wild horses, which, presumably, are nice who created a niche for himself here by and lean and would be great in a stroganoff. helping attorneys involved in high-profile They put some money together, hired a select cases, was present for every day of the trial. group of pro-meat lobbyists (such as former He was hired by the law firm that repreTexas Congressman Charlie Stenholm), then sented Murray and thus served as a liaison let nature take its course. We all know how to the national media working the story. In things work in Washington. typical Fierro fashion, he’s has been going The Government Accounting Office to the wall to defend his client, telling me conducted a supposand other reporters the edly impartial study, one jury never heard some of HORSE-MEAT that appears to mirror the most crucial evidence, the propaganda written and that the judge in the PLANTS WILL BE by slaughter proponents, BACK IN BUSINESS case screwed the pooch. and that’s all the cover It appears that Fierro now VERY SOON. Congress needed. As of has a business relationthis week, a conference ship with Murray, though committee focusing on it is unclear what sort of a massive appropriations bill containing media opportunities will be open to the doc budgets for Agriculture, Justice, Commerce, if he gets thrown in the slammer for an exHUD and other biggies very quietly removed tended period. ... Here’s the big question for the ban on funding for horse-meat inspecMurray: Will he be stripped of his Nevada tors. One minute it was there. The next it was medical license? Ordinarily, you’d think gone. Poof. that’s an easy question to answer, given What it means is that unless the full the nature of the crimes for which he was Congress discusses the issue before passing convicted. Oh, but this is Nevada, after all. the larger appropriations bill, then horseIf a doctor knows the right people, chances meat plants will be back in business very are pretty slim the med board would strip soon. “The roadblock has been removed,” him of his license. Anything short of slicing crowed Wyoming representative and up a patient, frying his liver on a griddle and rancher Sue Wallis, the most vocal of the serving kabobs in the OR is fine with our pro-slaughter crowd. medical watchdogs. If you doubt that, ask Anyone who feels strongly about cutting about the medical license of the local doc up horses (including wild mustangs) for food who has been taking placentas from a local needs to have their voices heard now. It seems hospital and using them in medical procedoubtful that any of Nevada’s congressional dures that sound like witch-doctor stuff. folks are major supporters of horse slaughter, He’s still operating here. but chances are that what happened in the GEORGE KNAPP is a Peabody Award-winning conference committee is not a high priority. investigative reporter for KLAS channel 8. Reach him at An angry public could help change that. gknapp@klastv.com. One issue not given consideration by the

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Anti-bullying laws are all the rage — but do they go too far? BY AMY KINGSLEY

tudents circled a bonfire Tuesday night outside Bar + Bistro, on Charleston Boulevard. They weren’t singing “Kumbuya,” but it wouldn’t have been out of place. Instead, the slogan for the evening was “It gets better,” a rallying cry for anti-bullying campaigns. This was a rally in support of that cause. Bullying became a hot topic almost two years ago, after several high-profile suicides, including 15-year-old Phoebe Prince of Massachusetts, who died in January 2010 after months of bullying, and 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer, an openly gay high school student in Buffalo, N.Y., who endured years of homophobic slurs. Although bullying affects all kinds of students, the anti-bullying cause has been embraced most enthusiastically by gay and lesbian leaders who argue that gay and lesbian teens are bullied more than their peers. Campaigns to end bullying have had a lot of success. Nevada is one of several states that have passed laws against bullying, which is a misdemeanor in the Silver State, and a felony on the third offense. Still, one group that has supported equal rights for gays and lesbians in the past says anti-bullying legislation goes too far. The ACLU of Nevada recently supported legal pro-

tectionsfortransgendercitizens,andhasalong history of supporting gay and lesbian causes. But the organization testified against anti-bullying laws. The state already has laws against harassment, stalking, intimidation, kidnapping, assault and battery, said Dane Claussen, executive director of the ACLU of Nevada. “What is there about bullying that is not already against the law and doesn’t infringe on students’ First Amendment rights?” he asked. Minors have First Amendment rights, even though schools can limit them in some cases. But what, Claussen asked, does that mean in practice? That gay students can use the phrase “gay boy,” but straight students can’t? Nevada law made bullying a crime in 2009. In 2011, the Legislature passed a law that requires schools to investigate and report bullying incidents. The Clark County School District supported the law, even though other districts did not. The bill forces school districts to have an anti-bullying coordinator, and all schools to have an anti-bullying specialist and a school safety team. Of course, none of these requirements came with funding, but they do make schools liable for bullying by students. Bullying is a common problem. Researchers estimate that between one-third and onehalf of all middle and high school students are

OCCUPY … BIG OIL?

GET THIS You’re not gonna believe what we heard this week

Occupy Las Vegas has pitched tents outside a Sinclair gas station next to UNLV. The owners face foreclosure on an outstanding $40,000 loan from Bank of Nevada, according to the Review-Journal. The protesters say they are trying to save a small business. Unfortunately, a lot of people associate gas stations with, well, gas companies, including an irate caller to the CityLife offices who complained that Occupy Las Vegas had taken up with Big Oil. In truth, gas stations are small businesses that make only a few pennies off of each gallon of gas. But if Occupy Las Vegas wants to generate public sympathy, it might want to occupy an embattled day care or natural food store. By drawing attention to a struggling gas station, they draw attention to high gas prices — which is another thing that hurts the 99 percent. AMY KINGSLEY

bullied. If those figures are accurate, then tolerant of mean behavior. school administrators will be spending a lot of “It’s getting a lot better,” she said. “There time investigating cases. It may also translate are a lot more things for anti-bullying.” into higher case loads in local courts, which A.J. O’Reilly, a teacher at Southeast Career will have to prosecute the alleged bullies. Technical Academy, said his school benefit“You could have administrators spendted by having a strong Gay-Straight Alliance. ing almost all their time investigating these It provided a safe place for students who were cases,” Claussen said. experiencing bullying, and created student Mel Goodwin, youth and volunteer servicbody leaders to campaign against it. As for the es director for the Gay and Lesbian Communew law, he said he hasn’t really felt its affects. nity Center of Southern Nevada, welcomes “The fact that the law exists is a step in the the new law because it forces schools to take right direction,” he said. “Now we just have bullying seriously. Teachto figure out how to impleers already bar language “WHAT IS ment it. We have the law in that’s offensive to minority place, now it just needs to THERE ABOUT students, she said, and they be used.” BULLYING THAT should do the same with Claussen stressed that he homophobic slurs. IS NOT ALREADY and the ACLU are against “If a student says a racial bullying. But they would like AGAINST THE slur in school, that’s adschool districts and comLAW?” dressed immediately with munities to find ways to deal disciplinary action,” GoodDANE CLAUSSEN with it that don’t burden win said. “Why aren’t we administrators and the legal ACLU system and don’t infringe taking anti-GLBT language just as seriously?” on free speech. The way to The crowd at Bar + Bistro prevent bullying is not by clearlygotthemessage.Katie silencing the bullies, but by Eklund, a senior at Centennial High School, giving all the other kids a bigger voice. said she’s seen bullying at her school, when “One of the things we see that’s working is an upperclassman knocked books out of the students taking ownership of bullying issues hands of a freshman. She stopped to help the themselves,” Claussen said. “Students are student, who told her he’d been picked on by working on peer pressure and making bullyolder students. Administrators at her school ing much less acceptable and calling students have aggressively educated the students on it when they see it.” about the perils of bullying, and even held a It sounds a lot like what people say is hapsummit to address cyber-bullying. pening at Centennial and Southeast Career It worked. Students went on Facebook to Technical Academy. If it hasn’t happened at apologize for bullying, she said. Overall, the other high schools,the new law may just bully student body has become kinder and less them into doing the right thing.

IT’S A SMALL WORLD, AFTER ALL

BURN, BABY, BURN

Burners beware: You’ll have to get lucky if you want to go to Burning Man in 2012. After the festival sold out this year for the first time in history, organizers are testing out lottery-based ticket sales to avoid crashing computer servers as burners rush to buy online tickets, and to protect the event’s communal vibe, the Associated Press reported Monday. Last year, 54,000 burners — 4,000 more than were allowed under the BLM permit — flocked to the Black Rock Desert, the festival ground 110 miles north of Reno. Burning Man is seeking a permit for up to 75,000 people by 2016, but until its maximum capacity increases, they’ll hold multiple lottery rounds from the end of this year through early summer. Ticket prices and procedures will be released in the next two weeks. Cross your fingers and hope to burn. KRISTY TOTTEN

You’ve heard by now Le Thai is the cool new restaurant on East Fremont (if not, see Page 26), and you’ve heard Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s doctor, has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter — but have you heard there’s a link between the two? Some snooping around on the Secretary of State’s website reveals that Le Thai, LLC is registered to Las Vegas lawyer Puoy Premsrirut, who has represented Conrad for ﬁnancial matters in the past. (But not in his Jacko trial.) Weird, right? KRISTY TOTTEN a

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THE WEEK street. The two sidewalks on the south look like the aftermath of a volcanic eruption. I’m no traffic planner, but that could be one of the reasons this intersection has had 21 collisions between cars and pedestrians in the last year, according to the Sun. The sorry state of these sidewalks would force anyone in a wheelchair onto the street. And these are not streets you want to be walking on,especially after dark.It’s one of the busiest streets in the area — 10 lanes for each street, three straight and two for left turns. The sidewalks get a lot of action, too. The pedestrians on this Monday afternoon dutifully punch the signal buttons and wait for the walk signs. With this kind of traffic, you’ve got to follow the rules. Watching all these cars and walkers, it’s amazing there aren’t more collisions. AMY KINGSLEY

PHOTO: MAUREEN ADAMO

Walk on the wild side Looking at traffic from a pedestrian’s point of view

Following the recent string of auto-pedestrian accidents, several of them deadly, CityLife went out to sample life in the crosswalks. Choosing from a list of dangerous intersections compiled this year by the Las Vegas Sun, we settled on these three: CHARLESTON AND RAINBOW From a perch at the northwest corner, the intersection of Charleston and Rainbow looks like a fight scene from a Roman cattle market. There is no lion and there are no gladiators, but there is a sense of predators hunting prey: Cars lurch and roar, while pedestrians dodge and scurry to survive. The intersection is busy — this is plain to see, with or without an official report. Each minute, hundreds of cars rush through green lights and yellow lights and,

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not infrequently, red. The boulevards are heavily traveled bus routes, and riders regularly spill out onto the streets, finding safety in numbers. Solo walkers, often elderly or destitute and weighed down by grocery bags, teeter from curb to curb. Within a 20-minute window on a weekday morning, a sedan nearly clips a woman with the right of way; two vehicles avoid collision by inches; and not one driver stops completely before turning right on red. One walker, privy to the oblivion that rules these

roads, holds out his hand as he crosses Rainbow. Halt. I decide to try my own luck. I step into the ring, heading east on Charleston. The sound and density of parallel traffic is intimidating, but I make it. My next two crossings don’t go as well. Just as I reach the southeast corner, an impatient Audi driver stops within feet of me, as a favor. He looks at me like somehow I’m the jerk in this equation. Ditto when I approach the southwest corner — a time-poor Porsche zooms around me while I’m still in the street, leaving maybe 14 inches between us. If I were on a bicycle, coming so close would be illegal, but I’m merely a pedestrian, barely seen and definitely unheard. KRISTY TOTTEN

SAHARA AND DECATUR If you’re trying to walk the intersection of Sahara Avenue and Decatur Boulevard, you might want to put on your off-road shoes. All four sidewalks are torn up. Orange cones block the sidewalks on the north side of the

TROPICANA AND EASTERN All quiet here. Bad for this blurb, but excellent news for the tall, lithe woman in heeled boots slowly clicking across Trop on this busy weekdaymorning.Nonearmisses.Noscreeching tires.No shouts.Not this time,anyway. The potential for trouble is there, as always. One moment Tropicana seems jaywalkably empty, like you could just zip across to the bus stop near Denny’s without going all the way to the crosswalk ... and then there’s a sudden flash flood of cars roiling eastward down Trop. Just like that. Some of those drivers want to turn right on Eastern, but there are two guys sauntering — ambling? meandering? whichever term best communicates their deliberate lack of getting out of the damn way — through the crosswalk. Eight, 10 cars stop and wait. Saunter ... Wait ... You’ve seen it: Very often,the driver in front, feeling righteous in his impatience, will gun it before the slowpoke reaches the sidewalk, whooshing within a few feet — the driver offering a brief reminder of the simple math of these things: ton of steel + miles per hour + human flesh = don’t be so goddamn blasé,asshole. Not this morning, though. Everyone’s cool. No near misses. No screeching tires. No shouts. I don’t know if it’s because the recent spate of pedestrian rundowns has made drivers more cautious, or if they just don’t want to risk gumming up their workday with accident-related paperwork. I suppose it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that it’s quiet here. SCOTT DICKENSHEETS

Cancer rising

Despite medical advances, cancer prevails. Should we blame holes in the ozone layer? Chemicals? BY BILL O’DRISCOLL

Less Death, More Cancer My doctor’s language, inevitably, recalled Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. Writing in the years when America first went whole-hog for synthetic chemicals, Carson warned that we were subjecting humanity and nature to a vast, uncontrolled experiment. In 1964, Carson herself died of cancer. And in a decade that saw rising cancer rates and death tolls, fear of the malady metastasized. On Dec. 23, 1971, President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act, pledging to make the

early 1900s was less authoritative, cancer sentence. (I had a sister who died of neuroregistries suggest incidence also rose steeply blastoma, in 1971, at age 5.) Today, most child for most of the past century; by one estimate, cancer victims survive, and death rates keep it rose 85 percent between 1950 and 2001 dropping. But incidence keeps rising — by alone. about 0.6 percent annually over the past 20 Meanwhile, between 2003 and 2007, the years, mostly driven by leukemia. An estiincidence of liver cancer rose for men, mated 7 million American kids under age along with thyroid cancer among 10 are now living with cancer. women. Melanoma climbed for both Nor is there any easy explanaHEALTH tion for dramatic rises in cancers genders; so did non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia and cancers of the that strike primarily young adults, kidney and pancreas. like testicular cancer. While cancer The news isn’t all bad: Incidence of incidence is dropping in people over two major types of cancer, colorectal and cerage 65, probably because of smoking’s vical, have dropped steeply in recent decades, long decline, it’s rising in people under 50 ... largely because of improved screening. And despite smoking’s long decline. cancer now kills less surely. Death rates for the Our Chemical Romance Cancer itself is complicated; it’s really more than 100 diseases, affecting numerous parts of the body and presenting a wide range of medical challenges. But broadly, cancer happens when cells in our body grow out of control. Human bodies make cancer cells constantly, and as far as we know, they always have. (Clinical descriptions of cancer seemingly date to ancient Egypt.) Usually, our bodies kill them off. When such cells do thrive, the causes of the disease are sometimes readily identifiable: Lung cancer is largely attributable to smoking; a small number of cancers are caused by viruses (with liver cancer, for instance, linked to hepatitis B and C). Diet and sedentary lifestyles have been implicated in some cancer. Genetics play a role, though likely much less than most people think. Meanwhile, ever since surgeon Percival Pott observed in 18th-century London that chimney sweeps were prone to cancers of the scrotum, we’ve also known that many most common forms — lung, breast, colorecenvironmental pollutants are carcinogens. tal, prostate — have fallen in the past 20 years. Asbestos (still used in automobile brake Even so, 570,000 Americans die of cancer pads) is one. So is benzene, a common polannually — and the overall cancer death rate is lutant in automobile and factory exhaust. only about 6 percent lower than it was in 1950. Likewise formaldehyde, found in consumer Our boat is still leaking; we’re just bailing faster. products, including some wooden furniture This trend of “less death” and “more canand recently designated a “known human cer” is starkest among children. Forty years ago, a child with cancer faced a virtual death » CONTINUED ON P14 ISTOCKPHOTO / THINKSTOCK

The Experimental Generation In June 2010, a dermatologist cut a weird growth from my left wrist. The growth was wart-sized, grape-purple and stippled black. It was sensitive to the touch and bled when scratched. Two weeks later, the doctor told me the tumor was malignant — melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. The doctor also told me this: You’re part of an experimental generation. She meant that in the past 30 years, she’d seen an alarming rise in skin cancer, and not just among older people. (I was 45.) Despite the advent of sunscreen and the fact that people don’t go outside as much as they used to, she’d even been seeing more moles — possible precursors to melanoma — on children. One or more risk factors for melanoma, she reasoned, must have changed. My doctor’s guess: the human-caused depletion of atmospheric ozone, which allows more ultraviolet light — a leading melanoma risk factor — to reach our skins. But other variables have also changed in recent decades, including the chemicals we’re exposed to through air, water and food. How much might exposure to these be increasing the risk for melanoma and other forms of cancer? Mostly, the answer is: We really don’t know. And that’s the experiment, in which we’ve become the test subjects — without our knowledge or consent.

“conquest of cancer a national crusade.” In the next several weeks, you’ll likely see 40th-anniversary reports and pronouncements on how this epic initiative — inevitably dubbed the “War on Cancer” — is going. Most will gauge progress toward keeping cancer patients alive, or toward the “cancer cure” that Nixon sought. You’ll likely hear disappointment that cancer remains uncured, countered with hopeful tidings of new gene-based therapies. But here’s a fact you probably won’t hear much: You’re actually more likely to get cancer than when the War on Cancer began. In announcing his “conquest,” Nixon noted cancer struck one in four Americans. Four decades later — and after hundreds of billions

of dollars in research, radiation and chemotherapy — the figure has risen to about two in five. Nearly half of all men, and more than a third of all women, will get cancer. That’s about 1.6 million new diagnoses each year. And for most major types of cancer, according to National Cancer Institute statistics, incidence remains higher than it was in the early ’70s. While record-keeping in the

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THE WEEK CANCER

CONT. FROM P13

carcinogen.” Industrial workers still often bear the brunt of the most severe exposures. The threat is also elevated for inhabitants of areas like Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley,” a stretch of the Mississippi River known for massive toxic releases from the petrochemical industry, and for exceptionally high cancer rates among its mostly poor, mostly black residents. Yet the increase in cancer rates isn’t confined to specific regions or occupations. Increasingly, researchers are interrogating the environment as a cause of cancer — and suggesting that cleaning up the environment may help prevent it. After all, the past century’s rise in cancer has been paralleled by the rise in synthetic chemicals and other pollutants in everyday life. In the years following World War II, plastics took over for wood, metal and glass. And from 1950 through 1975, pesticide production — Rachel Carson’s key concern in Silent Spring — grew sevenfold, to 1.4 billion

pounds a year. In 2008, according to an EPA inventory, there were some 84,000 synthetic chemicals on the market. (There are surely more today.) Most are made from coal, oil or natural gas. But only a handful of these substances have ever been tested for health effects. We’re in

THE WAR ON CANCER FEELS LIKE THE WAR ON DRUGS: A HUGELY EXPENSIVE EFFORT TO FIX A PROBLEM WHOSE CAUSES WE’RE IGNORING.

contact with many of them on a daily basis. They’re in diesel soot and they’re in shampoo. They reach us through the packaging that contains our food, the pesticides on

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apples and the flame-retardant fabric woven into children’s car seats. Some of these chemicals accumulate in our bodies. Others are shed into the environment, where they may persist for decades. A growing array of studies, for example, link cancers including breast, prostate, leukemia and multiple myeloma to pesticide exposure. I was personally intrigued that a 2007 study from Italy tied melanoma to household pesticide use. Perhaps the most surprising survey was Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now. The April 2010 report was issued by the President’s Cancer Panel, chaired by two appointees of President George W. Bush. The widely publicized report cited “a growing body of evidence linking environmental exposures to cancer.”

only keepsakes so far are a couple of scars (including one for the lymphectomy). I’m glad for that, and glad that there are ways to help people sicker than me. But I’m less interested in the War on Cancer everyone will be talking about. It feels like the War on Terror, or the War on Drugs: a hugely expensive effort to fix a problem whose causes we’re ignoring. What I want to know is, why are we getting sick? Why has melanoma incidence tripled since the 1970s? Why is thyroid cancer rising even faster? Why are men younger than me increasingly getting tumors in their testes? Why are babies getting more cancer? And in a country where you can’t swing a surgically excised lymph node without hitting someone’s Race for the Cure, why does no one ever hold a Race for the Cause?

Wrong War, Wrong Race Cancer patients, understandably, care less about why there’s cancer than how to treat theirs. And as cancer victims go, I’m lucky; I quickly learned that mine hadn’t spread. My

This article was adapted from a four-part series by Bill O’Driscoll, now running in the Pittsburgh City Paper. For the rest of this important series, go to www.pittsburghcityp aper.ws.

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MUSIC

Amateur hour A silly contest begs the question: Can anyone — including a music writer — DJ? BY MIKE PREVATT

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PHOTO: BILL HUGHES

“I

want you to enter my con— Goldfrapp, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Peaches — test.” with some similar but lesser-celebrated acts In my 15 years of journal— Digitalism, Scissor Sisters, an album cut by ism, I’ve never heard that new electro-rap act Das Racist. Once I arrive request. I’ve been asked to at a satisfactory succession of eight tracks, I judge contests, all of which test the set at work to be extra sure. At this I’ve turned down because I detest music compoint, I have to pause to remind myself that petitions. But I’ve never been asked to be the I’m not DJing, I’m playing my fucking iPod. judged. Which is fine — I don’t play anything. On Oct. 4, said iPod and I enter Artifice. A “Excuse me?” I ask. young woman is already playing, mostly old Brandy repeats her request. She has begun garage rock, and I already assume she’s the a themed night at Artifice, an urban lounge in winner. Andrew — the only other music writer the Arts District, called “So You Think You I recognized — goes on next and showcases Can DJ?” It allows amateurs behind the DJ songs more electronic, techno and dub-flabooth and reveals who among the contestants vored than I expected. Still, I knew how it comes closest to actual DJing. would go down as soon as he turned on his “Well, I don’t think I can DJ because I know iPod, and sure enough, the night’s MC, Rex I can’t,” I say. Dart (also a DJ), sounds the horn and pulls the “Yes you can,” she counters with an plug before his half-hour is up. Obama-like intonation. “Anyone can make My turn. Boy, do I feel like an asshole standup a half-hour playlist and plug in their laping behind a DJ booth watching my iPod play top or iPod.” in front of a bar about 30 full. For a second, I think she’s This is not DJing. Then I do “I REMIND having her way with me (and the thing club cynics accuse MYSELF THAT anyone else gullible enough) DJs of doing when they use to make a statement about a laptop to entertain people: I’M NOT DJING, the much-debated craft of text and check Facebook. But I’M PLAYING MY DJing. I say something about I don’t know what to do with IPOD. cheating. She responds by myself; I’m unable to redismissing the technical ally play with the mixer,other talents one might need to participate, and than needlessly tweak the highs and lows. And stressing the art of building a set of songs that it’s not like people are approaching me tonight. might entertain a bar full of people. I offer two Or dancing. Or looking up from their beers or more excuses before she adds that I’m being breaking their conversations. solicited mostly because she wants all the I spend the rest of the night talking to real music writers to play the next party. DJs (who may have also been the judges) Don’t want to be left out of that one. Might about proper equipment, because after 30 be fun. OK, I’m in. minutes of faking it, I want to try this for real Days later, I spend about four hours devis— and especially because I end up winning ing a playlist. I know who’s going on before the night. Wait, what? The set where no one me, so I counter-program against that person: danced or looked up from their beers or broke Andrew Kiraly, former CityLife managing editheir conversations was the best? tor, whom I know to be a connoisseur of disI mean: Fuck yeah, I won! sonant, arrhythmic and esoteric music. I want Which means I have to return the next a set that bar patrons would be relieved to hear Tuesday, for the “guilty pleasures” edition after whatever I thought Andrew would play. of SYTYCDJ. But when I do, the contestants So I mix some downtown-friendly artists preceding me play nothing but new wave and

A winning setlist by the author.

classic alternative. On what planet are The Smiths, The Pixies and Talking Heads guilty pleasures? Whatever. I have faith in my new 30-minute set, and when it’s my turn, I crank my selections: “New York Groove” by Ace Frehley,“Burning Up” by Madonna, and, to end it, “I Want Your Sex” by George Michael. I don’t win — one of the college-rock jocks, with the DJ name AFS (who appears to be a real laptop DJ), takes the night. But I stick around, and continue being mentored by the pros in the room. We discuss Serato versus Traktor, CDs versus digital files, Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” versus the same song by Revolting Cocks. Since I won that first night, I have to return again for the semifinals on the 25th. And given that AFS will be THINK playing that night, too, I counterprogram with some danceable, more modern indie rock: Spoon, The Hives, Black Keys, even DFA 1979. I even sneak in a relative obscurity — The Fratellis’ “Flathead” — which another DJ, Outtamind, correctly identifies and says he himself almost used. Whoa. He, AFS and I advance to the finals, which take place three nights later. But I blow it. Unlike the previous three sets, I wait until the day of the contest to make my playlist, without a test play-through. I mix in everything from Beck and The Rapture to the new one by M83 and a Smiths song (clearly joining my competitors rather than beating them). Again,

I had counterprogrammed, knowing Outtamind would precede me with a classic ska set, which I imagined mostly falling on deaf ears at trendy Artifice. In the end, the patrons might be nonplussed, but the judges dig his uniquely themed set (and his skankin’ outfit, actually looking the part of a DJ). He nails first place. AFS, who wisely plays the Daft Punk card, gets third. My stint as an iPod jockey is over. I accepted Brandy’s offer mostly for a laugh. But while participating in her promotion, I thought a lot about what I was doing. As a seasoned mixtape maker, I developed an appreciation for crafting blocks of music programming. And I got an even bigger rise out of taking that sort of work public. It made sense: My day job involves recommending music. But my temporary YOU night job allowed me to actually play it. What’s more, I considered the seemingly genuine encouragement I got from the professional DJs to experiment with the real thing. Initially, I figured they were humoring me.But even at my most self-effacing, I felt good hearing that I knew how to choose music for the room, if only for a half-hour. What about something longer, they asked me. Maybe with live beatmatching, via software and mixers, if I so dared. As fake as it was, “So You Think You Can DJ?” made me think … maybe I could. Maybe the new question is: Does Las Vegas need another DJ? To be continued.

CAN DJ?

Introduction: Coiled Snakes

PHOTO: STEPHANIE GONZALES

Who? A new heavy-rock trio built on the backs of former Curl Up and Die/ Vulcans guitarist Matt Fuchs, former Curl Up and Die/Poison the Well bassist Geoff Bergman and former Taken/Name Taken drummer Juan Pereda. Oh, so it’s the new Curl Up and Die. No,and Fuchs wants to make sure no one thinks that.“This is what scares me about it,” Fuchs says.“There are the real fans who were cool and into the artsier side of [Curl Up and Die], and then there arethesuper-metal dudeswho are justgoingtoshit allover thenewband.Iknow the riffs are similar because I wrote them, but I don’t want people to think it’ll be another thrash [band].” So, if not thrash, what does it sound like? Desolate, distorted guitar. Slow, crawling drums. Lonesome, non-screaming vocals. Tight, digestible songs. The only thing that won’t change is Fuchs desire to be heavy. “I have a pet peeve with metal bands that layer part after part and it’s crazy and technical and doesn’t fit together,” he says. “I like a solid song you can sing along to.Like a [Black] Sabbath song.” The best examples, “Painful Hands” and Fuchs’ favorite, “Held Tongues,” are streaming on www.coileds nakes.bandcamp.com. When is the first show? Nothing planned yet. Bergman’s a sound guy for the band Daughtry and goes on tour for weeks at a time, so they don’t Matt Fuchs of practice together often. Coiled Snakes But Fuchs and Pereda write parts together, then send them to Bergman on the road, so he can work out his own parts and be ready. “When he comes home we have like a week solid for jamming loud,” Fuchs says. “That’s when songs are dropped or kept. It’s when we play them loud to see how cool they sound.” MAX PLENKE

Deadmau5, seemingly the last major DJ headliner to not secure an exclusive residency in Las Vegas, has finally done just that. For 2012, the Canadian born Joel Zimmerman will man the booths at Wynn/Encore nightlife spots XS and Encore Beach Club throughout the year, beginning on Jan. 2. If that’s too long a wait for you Mau5heads, he’ll give you a taste of what’s to come this Saturday, Nov. 19 at XS. … Share, a new gay nightclub, soft-opens Nov. 18 with another Canadian DJ, Pierre Fitch. It’s located on 4636 Wynn Road, the old spot for Minxxx Gentleman’s Club. A grand opening is slated for New Year’s weekend, when fellow nightclub newbies 1 Oak (Mirage), Hyde (Bellagio) and RPM (the former Club Nikki, at Tropicana) also make their big splashes.

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Wolfgang Gartner

High rez Wolfgang Gartner lands his first-ever DJ residency in between chart-topping singles and his debut album BY MIKE PREVATT

Once L.A. electro-house producer/DJ Wolfgang Gartner started making waves at local clubs and music festivals, a Vegas residency seemed inevitable — to everyone but him. “I never did a residency before,” he says. “As a DJ, playing somewhere like that on a regular basis is challenging, especially to find new material constantly.” With a just-released debut artist album, Weekend in America — which includes four hip-hop collaborations — this seemed as good a time as any to challenge himself. We caught him at Surrender last month, then spoke to him a few weeks later. CityLife: You look intensely focused on the mixer console while DJing. Are you enjoying yourself or is the time just whizzing by? Wolfgang Gartner: I am very focused. But it switches between that and the moment when I can take my hands off, look up and interact with [the clubbers]. It does go by very fast. For me, I wish I could sit back and see outside myself, but I’ll never fully experience what my sets are like because I have to be very conscious of everything happening. Nothing can go wrong. I’m responsible for the party. Househeads can be a little particular about hip-hop creeping into the clubs and the music. Did it make you wonder how your longtime fans or your club audience might react to hearing Will.I.Am and Eve on Weekend in America? Yeah, because of exactly that. They’re sort of anti-hip-hop, they don’t like rap for some reason, and that represents part of my fan base. But I’m not

making music for them. When I play out, I’m not playing for me, I have to be more selfless. I won’t play all my vocal stuff at my shows, because I know that can freak some people out. As far as the production goes, though, I’m doing it for me. Was there any science to getting eight No. 1 tracks on [online dance music store] Beatport? After the first few, did you crack the formula? I think after the first two, probably, I realized what sold on there, and what it took to make Top 10 or even No. 1, and I definitely took that into account. And then somewhere toward the end of that run, I sort of intentionally went to the opposite direction. I still know how to make a No. 1 on Beatport ... but that’s gimmicky. To me, the stuff that succeeds on there nowadays, I dunno. I don’t want to limit myself to that anymore. Friday, Nov. 18, 10 p.m.; XS, 3131 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 7700097, $20-$30. a

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guin, Erik (voiced by Ava Acres), can’t dance (like his father) or fly (like the cool, new penguin in town), but that won’t stop him from trying to save his fellow webbed-feet when their environment is threatened. Opens wide.

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN — PART 1 (PG-13, 117 mins) Newlyweds Bella and Edward

make a baby, but the troublesome little vamperson threatens Bella’s health and peeves the wolves and the vampire coven before it’s even born. Opens wide.

NOW PLAYING 50/50 (R, 99 mins) More of a comedy than a dramedy, this Jonathan Levine cancer film doesn’t hit you over the head with the preciousness of most movies on the topic. It has some mesmerizing sequences, and the understated, naturally likable acting of Joseph Gordon-Levitt. (MK: 09.29.11) Village Square ABDUCTION (PG-13, 106 mins) After finding his baby picture on a missing persons website, Nathan (Taylor Lautner) is on a mission to find out the truth of his life while being chased down by trained assassins. Sam’s Town COLOMBIANA (PG-13, 107 mins) Cataleya (Zoe Saldana) grows up to be an assassin after witnessing her parents’ murder as a young girl. COURAGEOUS (PG-13) This religious film follows four police officers who live to protect and serve. When the men are needed by their children, will they be able to take on the challenge of fatherhood while growing as men of God? Suncoast, Boulder Station COWBOYS AND ALIENS (PG-13, 118 mins) In a town tormented by Colonel Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford), a stranger (Daniel Craig) appears and becomes the only hope against an alien invasion. DOLPHIN TALE (PG, 113 mins) A true story about a dolphin named Winter who loses her tail in a crab trap. But when rescued, she benefits from care that could also help countless other people. Colonnade DRIVE (R, 100 mins) An existential, relatively quiet man named Driver (Ryan Gosling) proves to be an avenging angel and the man to hire for a score. But with Ron Perlman and Albert Brooks on board as murderous mobsters, things are bound to get seriously complicated. A neo-noir masterpiece that elevates director Nicolas Winding Refr from rising visionary filmmaker to auteur. And Gosling is king. (MK: 09.15.11) FOOTLOOSE (PG-13 113 mins) This remake — about

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HAPPY FEET 2 : The “Happy Birds” app just doesn’t have thde same appeal. (Opens wide.)

Oklahoma high-school students who fought to overturn an anti-dancing law — was more timely in the 1980s, and cast with professional dancers instead of actors. It’s acceptable and inoffensive, rising to a pretty low bar. (CB: 10.13.11) Colonnade, Suncoast THE HELP (PG-13, 137 mins) Skeeter (Emma Stone), Aibileen (Viola Davis) and Minny (Octavia Spencer) form a daring friendship in Mississippi during the 1960s. The Help gives off a scent of Spielbergian sisterhood sappiness from a mile away. But new director Tate Taylor gives it the right touch. And the cast gels as an ensemble brings the film to life without letting its themes overshadow its characters. (MK: 08.11.11) Village Square IDES OF MARCH (R, 101 mins) A governor (George Clooney, who also directs) is a populist presidential candidate guided by Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and a press spokesman (Ryan Gosling), who makes that one small compromise that threatens his career and the campaign. This political thriller has slight overtones of classic Shakespearean plays and references to many political headlines, causing the storyline to blur at times. MK (10.07.11) Suncoast, Colonnade IMMORTALS (R, 110 mins) King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) and his army search for the invincible bow that will assist him in overthrowing the Gods on Mount Olympus. But Theseus (Henry Cavill) vows to avenge his mother’s death caused by the evil king, leading to a battle of epic proportions. IN TIME (PG-13 109 mins) A futuristic Robin Hood-type tale where time is money, literally. Will Sallas (Timberlake) tries to tip the unfair scales of wealth more towards the working class and out of the hands of the fat cats. The metaphor is a little heavy-handed, but the metaphor is, pardon the pun, timely. (CB: 10.27.11) J. EDGAR (R, 137 mins ) About the FBI mastermind’s rise to power, his Electra complex and his greatest fears. In the hands of Clint Eastwood and with the appalling casting of Leonardo DiCaprio as Hoover, the mission fails. A far more linear narrative might’ve saved the film. (MK: 11.10.11) JACK AND JILL (PG, 93 mins) Jack (Adam Sandler)

hates Thanksgiving because that’s when his twin sister Jill (also Sandler) comes to visit. This time her stay is extended to appease Al Pacino (playing himself), who has gained feelings for her. JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG, 101 mins) After years of being off the grid in some remote Asian location for secret-agent training, the world is in need of Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson). Village Square MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (R, 120 mins) Fragile and paranoid Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) ditches a cult for good old-fashioned family life, but has trouble distinguishing dream from reality, empowerment from mental enslavement. There have been few narratives that have fallen as frustratingly flat as writer/director Sean Durkin’s story, and the “you decide how it ends” ending cheats the audience. (MK: 11.10.11) Suncoast, Colonnade MONEYBALL (PG-13, 133 mins) Based on a true story, Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), uses an unorthodox statistical approach to forming a baseball team for the Oakland A’s 2002 season. Moneyball doesn’t use the typical rah-rah sports narrative. But Beane is a fantastically well-written role, giving Pitt one of the best opportunities to show what he can do. (CB: 09.22.11) A MOTHER’S STORY (NR) After spending seven years in America, Medy (Pokwang) has come home to her husband and children in the Philippines. With no money and a young daughter in need of costly medical procedures, Medy has to put together her now broken family. Village Square PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (R, 84 mins) Two sisters befriend a dark spirit in their home, in the horror franchise’s prequel. PUSS IN BOOTS (PG, 90 mins) Before his life with Shrek, the flamboyant Puss (Antonio Banderas) was framed for a crime by that ne’er-do-well Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifiankis). REAL STEEL (PG-13 127 mins) Charlie (Hugh Jackman) used to be a boxer, but the new sport of robot fighting has taken him out of the ring. Once his son joins him in an effort to make a true contender, Charlie might just have a spot in the boxing world again. RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13,

110 mins) After a scientist Will Rodman (James Franco) fails at curing his father (John Lithgow) of Alzheimer’s disease, he becomes the keeper of a chimp that’s been exposed to experimental drugs and is dangerously intelligent. Surprisingly inspired by 1972’s Conquest of the Planet of the Apes — but don’t expect another sequel. (MK: 08.04.11) THE RUM DIARY (R 120 mins) Even though Johnny Depp is able to play a young journalist named Paul Kemp with an appetite for hard liquor and married women, the story comes from Hunter S. Thompson’s first book, back when he hadn’t become the Gonzo personality as most remember him. Director Bruce Robinson focuses more on Kemp’s boozing instead of his transition from a newbie to a slightly experienced journalist, one reason why there just isn’t much of a story. (MK: 10.27.11) Suncoast SARAH’S KEY (PG-13, 111 mins) A journalist (Kristen Scott Thomas) sets out on a journey of self-discovery when she uncovers a story of a Jewish family forced out of their home, a home she now calls her own. Village Square THE SKIN I LIVE IN (R, 117 mins) A brilliant creepster of a plastic surgeon (Antonio Banderas) invents indestructible fake skin and tries it out on a tortured hottie (Elena Amaya). The plot points may not be too surprising, but the novelty and sensitivity with which director/writer Pedro Almodovar presents them pull the viewer in like a tractor beam and don’t let go. (MK: 11.10.11) Village Square THE SMURFS (PG, 100 mins) Fleeing from an evil wizard’s clutches, the Smurfs fall out of the magical world and into New York’s Central Park. TAKE SHELTER (R, 120 mins) Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) is slowly loosing grip on reality as his hallucinations slowly drive him crazy. Anyone who has seen Revolutionary Road knows Shannon can play the part of an insane person well, but the slow, confusing storyline keeps this film from being the masterpiece it could be. (MK: 11:03:11) Suncoast TOWER HEIS (PG-13, 104 mins) After losing everything to billionaire Arthur Shaw’s (Alan Alda) financial scheme, Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller) and his crew plan revenge. With Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck and Matthew Broderick. A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (R, 90 mins) After years of growing apart, stoners Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) get together for the holidays in New York. THE WAY (NR 115 mins) An American doctor travels to France to recover the remains of his son. He then decides to finish the journey his son started: to The Camino de Santiago, as a way of honoring him. Colonnade, Suncoast

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Noise becomes art at the new 5th Wall Gallery THE ART OF NOISE Static and squeaks, things usually avoided in music, are written into the musical score by sound installation artist and composer Daniel Steffey. The Nov. 11 grand opening of 5th Wall Gallery, in Emergency Arts, featured a live performance by Steffey and Bay Area violinist Christina Stanley for the sound installation Sonic Trichromacy. Eyes closed, Stanley rubbed and plucked the strings, producing sounds from delicate hums to aggressive rising chords. Steffey tweaked a synthesizer, producing vibrations and static, creating syncopated rhythms like the blades of helicopters — thrumming punctuated by piercing stringed notes. Together, it was like a duet between video arcade and classical concert hall. In the gallery, a series of recording devices, from a mini-tape cassette player to an old-school reel-to-reel tape deck, produce a droning, cacophonous symphony, each unit contributing to the score. Such objects as a tear-gas canister, a cassette tape and a punch card have been painted in a muddy mixture of red, green and blue, playing off the concept of digitally rendered color and trichromacy — the normal ability to see colors. Translating mundane objects by assigning musical values to the colors painted on them connects the installation with the Dadaist and anti-bourgeois, nonconformist sentiments found in early sound poetry and performance. Works like a broken record titled “Free Speech” fur-

ther the Dadaist concerns, and where words fall short, the exhibit conveys with pure sound the angst surrounding current social and economic struggles. JENESSA KENWAY 5th Wall Gallery, in Emergency Arts, 520 Fremont St., 300-6268, through Dec. 11. DECAY BY DESIGN Small glowing blue, red and yellow jars line a shelf like tiny aquariums filled with the nonsentient life of gently rusting clumps of nails. Artist David Sanchez Burr’s new exhibit at Architect Studio, Maintenance & Decay, explores experimental architectural design and the possible benefits of decay. “Maintenance is a big part of design” Burr says. “It’s 1 percent creation and 99 percent maintenance. This exhibit explores the idea that natural processes such as gravitational decay, rust ... and neglect can be used as elements of design. To do that we have to anticipate the forces of nature.” Stacked marshmallow slabs of white plaster transition from smooth geometry to lumpy squares, demonstrating the formation of interior dwellings by erosion. A foreboding yet meditative hum emanates from a small monitor displaying a structure of wooden screens gradually vibrating to pieces. A soft plaster panel on the wall clustered with small thatches of wood and nails offers a timebased painting in which the forms and marks will ever-so-slowly succumb to gravity. JENESSA KENWAY

guy?’” he says. An organic gallery space was born. Works like “Flora, Roman Goddess of Flowers,” selling CHEW WITH YOUR MOUTH for $350, represent Bisesti’s SHUT, EYES OPEN more traditional pieces, with Nestled on Sahara near the lighting and motifs vaguely Village Square, Rainbow’s End reminiscent of Frida Kahlo. Natural Foods market and café Others have the hard lines and represents a small oasis of shadows one expects to find healthy dining, retail and Wi-Fi Tom Bisesti’s “Horsing” in a Dalí painting. “Horsing,” in the midst of an unlikely urban which recently sold for $250, business park. Now, the market features the animal evoked in a plans to distinguish itself further by hosting dark, mythical cubism. the work of local artists every month. Bisesti sold eight of 22 paintings on openThe first, Tom Bisesti, is a painter known ing night in October — quite a feat for a day for his powerfully romantic murals. He’s also that not only wasn’t First Friday, but was in been working in acrylics for 26 years. His fact Las Vegas’ traditionally very busy Satcanvas works appear strikingly vivid against urday before Halloween. That kind of instant the café’s long, brightly colored partitions. popularity, despite an unlikely venue and The gallery is the brainchild of Ali Burns, a opening date, portends that the space might cook at the restaurant who also holds a degree indeed thrive as an art spot amid a dining fromTheArtInstituteofPortland.Bisestisaw area. GIGI GENERAUX her redecorating the walls as he was lunching Rainbow’s End, 1100 E. Sahara Ave., Suite one day. “I asked, ‘Would you ever consider 101, 737-1338, through November. hanging an artist’s work, and can I be the first

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But The Marriage Plot tries to bring him back, with mixed results BY CORNEL BONCA

David Foster Wallace has left the building

he Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides, is a good novel that you wish were a lot better. It’s several books in one: It’s a romantic triangle novel that you can really sink into, in which a beautiful, privileged and idealistic college girl named Madeleine Hanna bounces between Mitch Grammaticus,an earnest,adoring,safe guy whom she likes to put in the “friend” category,and the brilliant,exciting,out-of-con-

trol guy, Leonard Bankhead, whom she feels compelled to “save.” It’s also a college novel, set at Brown University in the early 1980s, when feminism and deconstruction were all the rage, and students were freaking out trying to get their minds around hip French ideas without looking like pretentious idiots. It’s a religious pilgrimage novel that tries to honestly dramatize the search for an abiding Christian faith. Finally, it’s an homage to the late, great novelist David Foster Wallace, a

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Two treats for fans of literate, quirky essays about odd aspects of American life. Pulphead: Essays, a paperback original by John Jeremiah Sullivan (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 384 pages), has emerged as the it nonfiction book of the fall. A writer for GQ and The New York Times Magazine, Sullivan writes unclassifiable pieces — mixing comedy, pop-historical authority and a deep personal involvement — about such utterly unconnected topics as Christian rock, Axl Rose, refugees

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generational compatriot of Eugenides who killed himself in 2008. Eugenides’ previous novels, The Virgin Suicides — the innovative debut about a small community’s fascination with five teenage sisters who kill themselves — and the Pulitzer-Prize winning Middlesex — the generation-spanning novel of Greek immigrants whose central character is a hermaphrodite — certainly qualify him to write a book of this scope and ambition. And the book’s long introductory set piece crackles with charm, warmth and gentle irony as we watch Madeleine drag herself through her graduation day — breakfast with the yuppie parents, an unwelcome encounter with the whining Mitch — only hours after getting very drunk and having sort-of-sex with a guy she only fooled around with to get over a break-up with Leonard. Eugenides has the ’80s university atmosphere down pat (the Annie Lennox hairstyles, the PC attitudinizing, the theoryladen conversations) and makes it easy to like and identify with Madeleine, who comes off as an ’80s version of Franny Glass, J.D. Salinger’s sweetly confused seeker from Franny & Zooey. The book gets even better when we’re introduced to Leonard, the incandescently bright manic-depressive who effortlessly woos Madeleine with his confidence and wit before falling victim to a depressive episode that lands him in a psychiatric ward. Madeleine, flattered into thinking that Leonard fell into a depression because of his breakup with her, is eager to save him, and moves in with him in the months following graduation. Her decision depresses the hell out of Mitch, who’s been pining for her since freshman year, and sends him careening out on a trip that takes him to France, Greece and finally India, where he ends up working for Mother Teresa. Eugenides works valiantly to help us understand Mitch’s motives, which partly stem from trying to quell his unrequited love for Madeleine and partly from the emergence of a genuine religious sensibility that is a universe away from the cynicisms

from The Real World and Hurrican Katrina. These pieces are smart but not at all academic, and they’re ridiculously entertaining. If you associate essay with the drudgery of assigned topics in school, this is the book that will change your mind. Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative, by Lawrence Weschler (Counterpoint, 272 pages), certainly sounds academic — that “adventures in the narrative” bit comes off a bit professorial. But while it’s adamantly about ideas, Weschler always addresses them through good stories. The title piece,“Uncan-

of deconstruction. We get what Eugenides is trying to do here, but much of Mitch’s trip feels like travelogue, dutifully realistic but superficial descriptions of Athens or Calcutta. And the climax of his trip, in which he helps bathe a man with a sickening tumor on his scrotum, is confusing: Mitch hightails out of Calcutta immediately after the experience, and though he’s “proud” of his work with Mother Teresa, he obviously can’t adhere to her biblical dictum that we see all human bodies as “the body of Christ.” Spliced between the narrative of Mitch’s religious pilgrimage is the story of Madeleine and Leonard, whose relationship is more and more given to dealing with Leonard’s manic depression. Which is a bummer, because Leonard is clearly based on David Foster Wallace — not just details like his tobacco-chewing and bandana-wearing, which to insiders are iconically Wallacian, but his decision, late in life, to get off his mind-and-emotionnumbing anti-depressant medications so he could more fully engage the world. We see Leonard during manic and depressive episodes, we see him in psychiatric wards, we see him grappling with a crippling and self-lacerating consciousness, we see him suicidal, we see him unable to love. The problem is that Wallace has dramatized all this so brilliantly in his own fiction (see stories like “Good Old Neon,” or “Octet,” or much of Infinite Jest) that Eugenides’ attempt to “do” Wallace feels painfully second-rate, even clichéd. Much of the Leonard portions of the novel just make you want to go back to Wallace’s work. “To start with, look at all the books,” is The Marriage Plot’s first line,and though it’s a referencetoMadeleine’scollectionofbelovednovels ofloveandmarriage,italsotipsusoffthatthisis abookabouttheinfluenceofbooksonourlives. And though Eugenides’ novel is often smart and vibrant, it makes us long for other books —Franny&Zooey,InfiniteJest,PrideandPrejudice,Portrait of a Lady — to read in its place. THE MARRIAGE PLOT Jeffrey Eugenides; Farrar, Strauss and Giroux; 406 pages

ny Valley,” is about animators tackling the almost insurmountable difficulties of creating a human face. Another is about an artist who can’t stop fiddling with a painting — even after it’s been sold. Life is more diverse, complex and fascinating than reality TV gives it credit for; here are works by two writers who venture into that teeming mass of material and come back with terrific stories. SCOTT DICKENSHEETS

DINING English’s is the third restaurant to occupy its secondfloor space in Town Square. It was once a fine-dining seafood restaurant called Louis’s, featuring the excellent Carlos Guia in the kitchen. That was followed by the experimental but often mediocre tapas restaurant Caña. And now we have English’s. The restaurant describes itself as “more than just a

“IT’S NOT A PLACE I’D ENVISION ORDERING BANGERS AND MASH.

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Steak and ale pie waits to be served while Robert Chevara salts some crisps.

Town Square’s new gastropub somehow makes British food even blander than its reputation would suggest BY AL MANCINI

Quintessentially boring There are few things in life worse than boring, generic versions of ethnic cuisine.Yet some chefs feel the need to violate other cooking cultures by stripping their food of all of its national identity and presenting bland,tasteless versions. Presumably, they want to entice customers to try something that sounds exotic, but doesn’t offer the slightest challenge to the palate. That seems to be the modus operandi of English’s Quintessentially British restaurant in Town Square,where the chef waters down the food of British gastropubs to the point where it’s virtually devoid of any taste whatsoever,

and is only notable for being overcooked. I know British food has a reputation for being bland — and some of it can be. But the chefs here play into that stereotype like no place else I’ve ever dined.

gastropub.” That’s right in one respect: Neither the food nor the atmosphere remind me of any authentic British pub in which I’ve eaten. The décor features brown-and-beige color scheme, modern light fixtures, floor-toceiling windows and second-story outdoor patio seating. It’s modern and comfortable — but not a place I’d envision ordering bangers and mash. The menu does, however, offer that dish. It’s also peppered with plenty of other English culinary keywords, like marie-rose (ketchup and mayonnaise sauce), sarny (sandwich), chips (fries) and “toad in the hole” (sausages in Yorkshire pudding batter). And there’s a pretty nice beer list. But seeing all of those things alongside items like pasta Bolognese and fish & chip “sliders” left me wondering about their authenticity. I tried to start my meal with an appetizer sampler that included shrimp and avocado cocktail, chicken liver pate, an English cheese plate and smoked salmon crostini. Unfortunately, my waitress heard me incorrectly when I ordered it, and never delivered it. So my only taste of the appetizer menu was my wife’s carrot and coriander soup ($4.50). It was a bland bowl of orange mush

with the consistency of baby food, topped with a few cilantro leaves. We tried a few spoonfuls each before deciding to stick with the much tastier complimentary bread with honey mustard, pickled onions and gherkins. Unfortunately, our entrées didn’t offer much more than the soup when it came to flavor. I ordered something from the specials menu known as a “pie flight” ($14.95). It comprised three of the four options from the menu’s “Pies and Pasties” section, each paired with a different 3-ounce beer or cider. But while the beers were good, the pies were almost completely lacking in taste. The chicken and mushroom version was the worst offender. I’ve honestly had canned creamy chicken soups with more taste. But the cottage pie, made with ground beef, tomatoes and mashed potatoes, was almost as bad. Only the steak pie, made with alebraised beef, had any hint of real flavor. But as with the other two, the meat was ridiculously dry. My wife’s mussel entrée wasn’t much better. English’s offers two preparations ($18.95 each), and she opted for the “seaside” version made with garlic, tomatoes and onions rather than the “topped” variety prepared with wine, onions, garlic and cream. Sadly, the bivalves were overcooked and tough. And they were served with a “dipping lid” of flaky phyllo dough that fell to pieces if you tried to dip it into the juice — which I suppose was just as well since the seasoning itself was fairly tasteless. While the food was generally bad, our service was pretty good. Sure, the waitress misunderstood my appetizer order. But in all fairness, I could have mentioned it when she delivered my wife’s soup without the sampler. I mistakenly assumed she was separating the meal into three courses, so the misunderstanding went both ways. She was kind enough to buy us a drink to make up for it. And throughout the night, she cheerfully answered numerous questions we posed about the menu, and gladly went into the kitchen for clarification if she wasn’t sure. Unfortunately, a friendly and attentive waitress can’t make up for a meal devoid of flavor. ENGLISH’S QUINTESSENTIALLY BRITISH Town Square, 6599 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 478-8080. Read more about the Las Vegas dining scene on Al Mancini’s blog, www.almancini.net.

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LIVE MUSIC 3740 S. Nellis Blvd., 436-7600. Thu: Blues with John Zito Band, 11p, free. Every 3rd Sat: Blues with John Zito Band, 10p ALIANTE STATION 7300 Aliante Parkway, 6927777, www.aliantecasinohotel.com. ETA Lounge: Thu: Johnny Douglas, 8p. Fri: Rick Durante, 8p. Elliot Szabo, 12a. Sat: Acoustic Soul, 7p. Wed: Live music, 8p. MRKT Sea & Land: Fri-Sat: Dave Ritz, 7p. ARIA 3730 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 359-7111, www.arialasvegas.com. Bar Moderno: Sun-Wed: Live music, 7p-12a. Thu-Sat: 3p-12a. ARTIFICE 1025 S. First St., 489-6339 or www.artificebar.com. Open Thu-Wed, 5p-1a. BAR+BISTRO COURTYARD Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd, 202-6060, www.barbistroaf.com. BEAUTY BAR 517 Fremont St., 598-1965, www.thebeautybar.com. Thu-Sat: Local and touring bands, 9p, free unless noted. 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.com. Live music nightly. Tue-Thu: Gus Mancuso, 6:30p. Second and fourth Wed: Jerry Lopez and friends, 10p. Fri-Sat: Live music, 9:30p. Mon: Open mic with Kelly Clinton, 9p. All shows free. BOULDER DAM BREWING CO. 453 Nevada Highway, Boulder City. 243-2739, www.boulderdambre wing.com. Thu-Sat: Live music. BOULDER STATION 4111 Boulder Highway, 4327777, www.boulderstation.com. Kixx Bar: Thu, Sat: Van De Guzman, 7p. The Railhead: Thu: Swing with Jerry Tiffe, 2p. First and third Thu: Boulder Blues series, 8p, $5. Fri: La Nueva Live Mix, 10p, men $5. Sat: Yellow Brick Road, 10p, free. Sun: Latin night, Noche Nortena featuring El Moreno Carrillo Y Su Banda Tierra Sagrada, 9p, $5 ladies, $10 men. BUNKHOUSE SALOON 124 S. 11th St., 384-4536. www.bunkhouselv.com. Thu-Sat: Local and touring bands, 9p, free unless noted. Wed: Wednesday Night Hype hip hop show, 9p. Tue: Blues jam with ACES & ALES

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Rivers hosts JamCast, 10:30p. All shows free. 4000 W. Flamingo Road, 367-7111, www.goldcoastcasino.com. Lounge: Tue-Thu: Gold Coast Classics, 2p. Fri: Variety Caval Code, 2p. TueSun: Live music, 7:30p-1:30a. Fri: Live music, 9-2: 30a. Sat: Latin. $10. GOLD MINE TAVERN 23 S. Water St., Henderson, 478-8289, www.thegoldminetavern.com. ThuSat: Live music, 9p, free. GORDON BIERSCH BREWING COMPANY 3987 Paradise Road, 312-5247, www.gordonbiersch.com. Sun: Jazz Brunch, 12p-3p. GREEN VALLEY RANCH RESORT 2300 Paseo Verde Parkway, 617-7777, www.greenvalleyranchr esort.com. Lobby Bar: Fri: Jeremy Cornwell 8:30p. Sat: Ryan Calhoun, 8:30p. Hank’s Steakhouse: Thu: Kelly Christian on guitar, 6:30p. Tue, Fri-Sat: Peter Love, 6:30p. Wed: Guitarist and singer Dave Ritz performs Top 40 hits from 6:30p. Ovation Lounge: Thu: Rotating acts, 8p, free. Third Thu: The Guilty Pleasures, 8p. Fri: Yellow Brick Road, 10p. 2nd, 4th Fri: Strung Out acoustic sessions, 6p. Sun: Zowie Bowie The Vegas Show, 6p, $10. Pond: 1st, 3rd Sat: Reggae with Michael Black, 6p. 2nd, 4th Sat: Reggae with HaleAmanO, 6p. Quinn’s Irish Pub: Thu, Sat: Darby O’Gill and The Little People, 9p. Fri: ’Nuff Said classic rock, 10p. THE GRIFFIN 511 Fremont St., 382-0577. Wed: Live music, 10p. HALF SHELL 30 E. Horizon Ridge Parkway, 5589191, www.halfshellseafoodandgaming.com. HALF SHELL 10430 S. Eastern Ave., 632-2983. HARD ROCK CAFE 3771 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 650-8590, www.hardrock.com. HARD ROCK HOTEL 4455 Paradise Road, 6935000, www.hardrockhotel.com. HAVANA CIGAR BAR 3900 Paradise Road, Suite H, 892-9419. Thu-Sat, Wed: Live music with Killer B and Cheese, 8p, free. HENNESSEY’S TAVERN 425 Fremont St., Suite 110, 382-4421, www.hennesseyslasvegas.com. Fri: Live music, 9p-2a. 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. 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: GOLD COAST

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

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

Lipz and Bunkhouse blues band, 10p. 3103 N. Rancho Drive, 6454139. Wed-Sat: Live music, 9p. Sun: Live music, 6p. Cover varies. CHOICES PUB AND SHOWROOM 6720 W. Cheyenne Ave., 547-3747, www.choicespub.com. FriSat: Live music, 9p, free. Tue: The Chicago Blues Busters, 8p, free. Wed: The GP Entertainer Tribute Artists Show, 8p, $5. CLUB 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,

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

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

698-7000. Book and Stage: Touring and local acts, 10p and midnight, free. COUNT’S VAMP’D 6750W.Sahara Ave.,220-8849, www.vampdvegas.com.Thu:Localmusic,10p.Fri-Sat: Livemusic, 10p.Wed:John ZitoBand,9p,free. DADDY MAC’S 2920 N. Green Valley Parkway, 2720913. DON’T TELL MAMA 517 Fremont St., 207-0788. Cabaret-style piano bar. DOUBLE DOWN SALOON 4640 Paradise Road, 7915775. Tue: Unique Massive, 11:59p. E-STRING BAR AND GRILL 2031 E. Sunset Road, 437-8764, www.estringlive.com. Sat: Real Old School Jazz, 2p, $10. Mon: Jazz, 7:30p, $10. Tue: The Ryan Whyte Maloney Band, 8:30p, $10. Wed: Blues night, 8:30p. FREAKIN’ FROG 4700 Maryland Parkway, 5979702, www.freakinmusic.com. Thu: Singers and songwriters, 9:30p. Sat: Live music, 9:30p. Tue: Freakin’ Jazz Jam, 9:30p. Skip Martin and Niles

Lounge pianist Howie Gold, 6:30p-9:30p. 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. KAHUNAVILLE TI, 3300 Las Vegas Blvd South, 894-7390. www.kahunaville.com. Thu, Wed: Live music with Coverplay. Fri-Sat: Live music with The Atomic Milkshake. 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. Thu: Local and loud, 10p, free. Fri-Sat: Live music, 10p, free. Sun: The Funtastics: King Vs. Cash, 50s rockabilly band, 9pm, free. Mon: Surf City with The Swank Bastards, 8p, free. Tue: Hip Hop Roots hosted by HighDro and Jay R Beatbox, 10p, free. Wed: Jamboree hosted by The Vagabonds, 8p, free. M RESORT M Pool Live, 12300 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 797-1000, www.theMresort.com. Sat: Live music, 8p, free. MANDALAY BAY 3950 Las Vegas Boulevard South, 632-9394, www.mandalaybay.com. The Lounge: Fri-Sat: Live music, 6p. Mizuya Lounge: Live music and dancing nightly, 11p. Orchid Lounge: Fri-Sat: Live music and dancing, 10p. MANDARIN ORIENTAL Mandarin Bar, 3752 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 590-8888. Thu: Chandler Judkins Quartet, 7p. Fri: The Definitive Trio, 10p. Sat: “Trio Caribe,” 10p. Wed: Brian Czach Jazz Trio, 7p. MARGARITAVILLE 3555 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 733-3302. 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 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: ITALIAN AMERICAN SOCIAL CLUB

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 4080 Paradise Road, Ste. 8, 307-1731. MUGSHOTS EATERY & CASINO 1120 N. Boulder Highway, 566-6577, www.mugshotscasino.com. Wed-Sat: Michael Fuller’s Roadshow: Karaoke and live music, 9p. Sun: Jam Session hosted by The SouthBound band, 8p. Tue: RockJam with 3 Blind Mice, 10p. MURPHY’S LAW TAVERN 1590 E. Flamingo Road, 697-0529, www.murphyslawtavern.com. Fri-Sat: Live music, 7p, free. 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: Thu-Fri, Sun: San Fernando Band, 9p. Tue: Crush, 9p. Wed: Sounds of Detroit, with The Nite Kings, 4p. All shows free. PALACE STATION 2411 W. Sahara Ave., 367-2411. Jack’s Irish Pub: Thu: Wild Celts, 7p. Fri: Darby O’Gill and the Little People, 9p. Sat: Finnegan’s Wake with the rock o’ the Irish from 9p. Showroom: Sat: Sante Fe and the Fat City Horns, 12a. Tue: Jerry Tiffe, 2p. PALMS LOUNGE 4321 W. Flamingo Road, 9427777, www.palms.com. Sun: Franky Perez, 10p, free. Mon: Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns, 10:30p, $7. Tue: Frankie Moreno with guests, 10p, $7. 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. PETRA 440 S. Rampart Blvd. Thu: Sarah Frances Johnston, jazz/standards, 7p. 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 11011 W.CharlestonBlvd., 7977777,www.redrocklasvegas.com.Onyx Bar:Tue-Thu: Toto Zara,7p.Fri-Sat:Toto Zara, 9p, free.Rocks Lounge:Thu: Acoustic jam, 8p.Fri:ZowieBowie, 10p. Sat: Partyon theRocksconcertseries, 9p, $30.Franky Perez,10p. Sun:Jazz with TheSteven LeeGroup featuring RoccoBarbato,7p.Mon:Dian Diaz, 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-Sat: Ri Ra Live, 11:30p. THE RIVIERA 2901 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 7345110, www.rivierahotel.com. Queen Victoria Pub: Sun: Acoustic Open Jam, 8p. Tue: Jamaica Me

Crazy with Bonafide, 8p, free for locals. ROCK ‘N ROLL WINE TASTING ROOM & SOUND BAR M Resort 12300 Las Vegas Blvd. South,

www.rocknrollwine.com. Fri: Live music, 5p and 9: 30p. ROYAL RESORT HOTEL 99 Convention Center Drive, 563-2795. Thu-Sat: Boardwalk Nites! 50sMotown, 9p. Adult $19.95, kids $5. Sun: Sunday Sermon, open mic hosted by Bryan Todd and Ryan Pardey, 9p. Mon: Rocket 8p. 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 72W.Horizon RidgeParkway,5581838.Wed:Open mic, 6:30p.Sat:Livemusic,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. 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. SPRINGS PRESERVE 333 Valley View Blvd., 8227700, www.springspreserve.org.

STADIUM SALOON 6016 S. Boulder Highway, 433-

8550. Sat: Swivelhead, 8p. 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: Betsy Holm, 6p. Sat: Kelly Christian, 5: 00p. South Padre Lounge: Thu: La Nueva 103.5 Live Mix with Jesus Chuy Espiricueta, Latin night, 9p, ladies $5 after 11p, men $10. Fri: Latin with Hermanos Padillas, 9p, ladies $5, men $10. Sat: Escencia Colombiana, 10p, $5-$10. THUNDERBIRD LOUNGE Aruba Hotel, 1215 LasVegasBlvd.South, 383-3100,www.arubalasvegas.com. Fri-Sat:Livemusic,7p,free.Fri:ArubaSwings,7p, free. Swingdancinglessons,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. YAYO TACO 4632 S. Maryland Parkway, 262-0201, www.facebook.com/yayo.taco. Live music nightly. Mon: Cumbia and dancing, DJ Que Curado, 5p-11p. STARBRIGHT THEATRE

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bands, 10p.

Tue: Jazz, 7p. Fri: Music and comedy monthly, 8p. First Sat: Music and poetry. Second Sat: Acoustic in association with Pet Rescue Project, 12p.

DJS/NIGHTCLUBS 4633 Paradise Road, 7910100, www.piranhavegas.com. Thu-Wed, opening times vary. Thu: “Thrust Thursdays,” DJs. Fri-Sat: DJs. Sun: “El Deseo,” Latin country and dance music. Tue: “La Noche Latin” Latin dance music. Every 1st Friday: “Glomo,” DJs. ARTISAN HOTEL 1501 W. Sahara Ave., 214-4000. Thu, Wed: saxophonist Martin Mancuso, 5:30p. Fri: “Shake and Pop” with DJ Mike Attack, Justin Baule and others. Sat: afterhours with residents DJ Mike Attack, Steller and others, spinning electro, house/ progressive, techno, tech, 2a. ARTIFICE 1025 S. First St., 489-6339 or www.artificebar.com. Open Thu-Wed, 5p-1a. Fri: “Free Flow Fridays” with Gables and Doodle, 10p. Sun: “Black and White,” with Doug De Nada and Rex Dart, 9p. Tue: “So You Think You Can DJ?” 10p. THE BANK Bellagio, 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 693-8300. Thu: DJ Eddie McDonald; house, hiphop, soul. Fri-Sat: DJ David Christian; mash-up, house. Sun: “Industry Sundays” with DJ Karma; hip-hop, mash-up, house. 10:30p-4a. THE BEATLES REVOLUTION LOUNGE Mirage, 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 692-8383. www.th ebeatlesrevolutionlounge.com. Thu: “Throwback Thursdays,” with DJ Earwaxxx. Fri: “Chick!,” DJ G

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Town Square, 6593 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 948-6438. Thu: “Noches Azul Latin Thursdays,” 10p. Fri: “Undisputed Grooves” house/ electronic party with DJ Damien Jay, 11p. Sat: “Ultimate Saturdays,” 11p. Mon: “Manic Mondaze,” 8p12a; “Industry Night,” 12a. Tue: “Top 40 Tuesday,” 9p. Wed: “True Blue Ladies,” 11p. CATHOUSE LOUNGERIE Luxor, 262-4228, www.cathouselv.com. Blue Room: “Madame Mondays” house party with resident DJ Ikon. Red Room: Hip-hop with DJ Kram. Mon., Sat., DJ Ikon. Wed: “Vanity” with DJ Relapse, 10:30p. Thu: “Stiletto” with DJ AL3, electro, house, mash-up, 10p. Locals free. Fri: “Lush Fridays” with DJ Audiomoe, hiphop, old-school, top 40, house. THE CHANDELIER The Cosmopolitan, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 698-7000. DJs daily. . CHATEAU Paris, 3655 Las Vegas Blvd. South. 7767770 or www.ChateauNightclubLV.com. Open FriSun, Tue, 10p. Tue: Industry night. $20-$30; local ladies free. CROWN NIGHTCLUB Rio, 3700 W. Flamingo Road, 733-8229. Thu: top 40, hip-hop, dance. $20-$30. Fri: “Ladies Night,” hip-hop, R&B, 10:30p, $20. Sat: “Sinful Saturday,” with DJ Dre Dae, Hip Hop and R&B, 10:30p. $30. Wed: Latin Libido Night, 10: 30p. $15-$20. DOWNTOWN COCKTAIL ROOM 111 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 880-3696, www.downtownlv.net. DJs spin house, lounge, downtempo, house, funk and classics, Thu-Sun, Tue, 10p. Thu: “LoDown Thursdays” with Lenny Alfonzo. Fri: “Friday Night Social” with Carlos Sanchez. Sat: “Saturday Night Vibe” with Douglas Gibbs. Wed: DJ Rob Alahn. BLUE MARTINI

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Minor. Sat: “Celebrity Saturdays” with DJ Trenz; hip-hop, R&B, top 40. Sun: “Closet Sundays” gayfriendly dance party. Mon: “Le Maison,” Cirque du Soleil cast after-party with DJs Shane Thomas and Sarah Fab, mashups to start, house to close. Wed: “Rocket,” Industry night with DJ Spair. BEAUTY BAR 517 Fremont St., 598-1965, www.thebeautybar.com. Nightly; most events 10p. Mon: Monday Night Karaoke. Thu: Ladies night, unless noted. 1st Fridays: “The Get Back” funky soul dance party with DJ John Doe and special guests. 4th Saturdays: “Say What?!” featuring DJs and

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Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall, 3595 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 737-0555, www.drais.net. Thu-Mon. After hours party spot, 1a-dawn. Thu: “After Life” DJ battles and resident Jack Lafleur. Fri: DJ Hoffman, Chris Garcia. Sat: “High-end Saturdays” with DJs Chris Aurelius, Chris Garcia; house. Sun: “Sunday Sheer Energy” with Chris Garcia. DUE FORNI 3555 Town Center Drive, 586-6500 or www.dueforni.com. Thu: “Music and Wine” with DJ Douglas Gibbs and guest DJs spinning Latin, lounge, world beat, and A. Leo Echazabal on sax, 9p, free. THE GALLERY Planet Hollywood, 3500 South Las DRAI’S

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ryspinship-hop,funk,soul,reggaeandhouse,11pm. 9151 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Ste. 300, 435-2855. Open daily. STUDIO 54 MGM Grand, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 891-7254, www.studio54lv.com. Thu-Sat, Tue-Wed, 10p. Thu-Fri, Wed: open format with DJs Eric Forbes, Ricco. Sat: “Electric Dreams” with DJ Loczi, mash-up, house, electro. Tue: open format with DJ Scene. SURRENDER Encore, 3130 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 770-7300 or www.surrendernightclub.com. Open Fri-Sat, Wed, 10:30p. Fri: “Aoki’s House” with Steve Aoki. Wed: “Surrender Your Wednesdays” industry night. Every 4th Wed: Lil Jon. $30-$40. TABÚ MGM Grand, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 891-7183. Fri-Mon, 10p. Fri: open format with DJ Eric Forbes. Sat: open format with DJ Jose 2 Hype. Sun: “Confession” industry night. Mon: “X-Level Mondays” industry night with DJ Ania and guests. TAO Venetian, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 3888588. Nightclub: Thu-Sat, 10p-5a. Lounge, daily, 5p-close. Thu: “Worship” with DJ Five. Fri: DJ Reach. Sat: DJ Vice. TAO BEACH Venetian, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 388-8588. Open daily, 10a-6p. Sun: Beatport Sundays with guest and resident DJs. TRYST Wynn, 3131 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 800591-6423. Open Thu-Sun, 10p. Thu-Fri: DJ Big Dee. Sat: DJ Pizzo. VANGUARD LOUNGE 516 Fremont St., 868-7800. Open Thu-Sat, Mon-Wed. Thu: K(Squared), Kid Funk and Kid Conrad, 10p. Every 3rd Thu: “Soulkitchen” house party with Edgar Reyes and guests. Fri: DJ McKenzie, DJ 88, 8p. Sat: DJ Soxxi, 10p. Wed: DJ Pookie, 10p. VANITY Hard Rock Hotel, 4455 Paradise Road, 693-5555. Thu-Sun, 10p. VOODOO LOUNGE Rio, 3700 W. Flamingo Road, 777-6875. Thu: “Voodoo Rising” industry night with DJs Whoman, L1, Michael Toast. Fri: DJs Inferno, L1; hip-hop, house, rock. Sat: “Carnal Carnival” with DJ Jeff G; house, rock, top 40. Sun: “Solid Gold” with DJs Tino, Albert Gruve; ‘70s-’90s mash-up. Mon: DJ Whoman. Tue: “Tuesday Night Live”; alternative. Wed: “Soled Out” old-school hip-hop with DJs Big D and Mr. Levon James. XS Encore, 3131 Las Vegas Boulevard. South, 7705350. Fri-Mon, 10p. Fri: DJ Pizzo. Sat, Mon: DJ Create. Sun: “Night Swim” poolside party with DJ Warren Peace. STONEY’S ROCKIN’ COUNTRY

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www.theatre7lv.com. The Will Edwards Show, Wed, 7p, $10. UNLV 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, 895-2787, www.pac.unlv.edu. Miss Julie, Thu-Sat, 8p, Nov. 17-19, $13.50-$15.

375 E. Harmon Ave. Just Serendipity Improv, Fridays and Saturdays. 7p, $30 AMERICAN HERITAGE ACADEMY 6126 S. Sandhill Road, 949-5614. Las Vegas Improvisation Players, Fri., Nov. 18, 7 p.m., $10 BIG AL’S COMEDY CLUB Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave. 365-7075. Thu-Sat, 7:30p, Fri-Sat, 9: 30p. Open mic, Sun, 9p, free. Brian McKim and Traci Skene, Thu-Sat, 7:30p, Sat, 9:30p, through Nov. 26, $15.99. BIKINI BAR, 3355 Spring Mtn Rd, 485-5401, www.bikinibarlv.com. CUI: Comics Under the Influence: Here We Cum... Again, Thu, 9p, free. BRAD GARRETT’S COMEDY CLUB Tropicana, 3801 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 739-2417. Sun-Sat. 8p. Fri. & Sat. 10p. CHOICES PUB 6720 W. Cheyenne Ave., 547-3747. First, Third Fri: The Future Icons of Comedy hosted by Louie Muhammad, 8p, $5. 3rd Thu: The G Spot female comedy show, 8p, $5. COZY’S COMEDY CORNER Buzz BBQ, 9640 W. Tropicana Ave., 489-2800. Fri: 8p, $5. 7121 Craig Road, 294-2899. Sat: 7:30p, $5. CROWN NIGHTCLUB Rio, 3700 W. Flamingo Road, 252-7777. Sat: Crown Comedy Jam, 9p, $39.50$79.50. Thu, Sun-Wed: Exxtreme Comedy Show, Wheels Parise, 9p, $39.50. Comedy in the King’s Room, Thu-Sat, 7:30p, Wheels Parise, Thu, Nov. 10, $39.50. FOUNDATION ROOM Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd., 632-7600. Laughter Hours Comedy, Sun, 8p, $10. HARMON THEATER Planet Hollywood Resort, 3663 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 836-0836, www.harmontheater.com. The Amazing Johnathan, Thu-Sat, Tue-Wed, 9p, $59.95-$69.95. Naughty Boys Hypnosis Show, Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed, 9p, $47.97-$67.97. Singing impressionist Larry G. Jones, Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed, 7p, $45-$69. Hypnosis Unleashed, Fri-Wed, 9p, $45.94. THE IMPROV Harrah’s, 3475 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 369-5223. Mac King Comedy Magic Show, ALEXIS PARK

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362-7996, www.lvlt.org. TheManWhoCameforDinner, Fri-Sat, 8p, Sun 2p, through Nov.20,$21-$24. ONYX THEATRE The Rack, 953 E. Sahara Ave., Suite 16, 732-7225, www.onyxtheatre.com. Listen, Fri-Sat, Nov. 18-19, 8 p.m., $10; The Balloon Master Show, Fri., Nov. 18, 9:30 p.m., $10; Improv Vegas S.E.T., every Mon., 7:30 p.m., $10. THE SCI-FI CENTER 900 E. Karen Ave., Suite D202, 792-4335, www.thescificenter.com. Repo: The Genetic Opera! with the Sinfull Sergens, every third Fri, 11:30p, $10.

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ART 755E.FlamingoRoad, 794-5151,www.atomictestingmuseum.org.Mon-Sat, 10a-5p;Sun,12-5p. BuildingAtomicVegas,ongoing. $12,$9seniors 65+,localsand studentswithID. AVANT SPACE Sunrise Coffee, 3130 E. Sunset Rd. Ste. A, 433-3304. Thu-Fri, 5:30a-8p, Sat, 7a-8p, Sun, 7a-5p. Mon-Fri, 5:30a-8p. Permanent exhibit, by Mike & Dasha Biggs. BELLAGIO GALLERY OF FINE ART 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 693-7871. A Sense of Place: Landscapes from Monet to Hockney, through January, 2012. Sun-Tue, Thu, 10a-6p. Wed, Fri-Sat, 10a-7p. $15, discounts for NV residents, seniors, students and military, free for children 12 and younger. Every Wednesday is locals night, $8 discount with I.D. BIG SPRINGS GALLERY Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd., 822-7700, www.springspreserve.org. Daily, 10a-6p. Trophy Hunter Exhibit, sculptures by Bryan Christiansen, through Jan 22. CENTERPIECE GALLERY Crystal Place at CityCenter, 3720 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 739-3314, www.centerpiecelv.com. Thu-Wed, 10a-6p. Women, by David Levinthal; artist reception Nov. 17, 6p. CHARLESTON HEIGHTS ART CENTER 800 S. Brush St., 229-1012. Thu-Fri, Wed, 12:30p-9p, Sat, 10a-7p. What Continues the Dream: Contemporary Arts and Crafts from the Powwow Tradition. WedFri, 12:30p-9p, Sat, 10a-7p, through Dec. 21, free. DONNA BEAM FINE ARTS GALLERY UNLV’s Alta Ham Fine Arts Building, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, 895-3893, www.donnabeamgallery.unlv.edu. ATOMIC TESTING MUSEUM

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ART Mon-Fri, 9a-5p; Sat, 10a-2p. EAST LAS VEGAS COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER 250 N. Eastern Ave., 229-6844. Occupied

Space, two- and three-dimensional works by local artists and pieces from the commission’s permanent collection. Mon, 9a-6p; Tue-Fri, 9a-9p; Sat, 10a-6p. EROTIC HERITAGE MUSEUM 3275 Industrial Road, 369-6442, www.eroticheritagemuseumlasvegas.c om. Thu, Sun, Tue-Wed, 11a-4p, Sat-Sun, noon-10p. $15, $10 for students, military, seniors and locals. LAS VEGAS NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM 900 Las Vegas Blvd. North, 384-3466, www.lvnhm.org. Daily, 9a-4p. $10; $8 seniors, students and military; $5 children ages 3-11. LIED DISCOVERY CHILDREN’S MUSEUM 833 Las

Vegas Blvd. North, 382-KIDS. Thu-Fri, 9a-4p; Sat, 10a-5p; Sun, 12p-5p; Tue-Wed, 9a-4p. $8.50 adults; $7.50 children. Children under 1 free. THE LOST CITY MUSEUM 721 S. Moapa Valley Blvd., Overton, 397-2193. Thu-Sun, 8:30a-4:30. $5 adults; $3 seniors, 17 and under, and members enter free. Ancient Inscriptions, paintings by Joyce and Brian Spavin, through Oct 30. LUXOR 3900 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 800-5577428, www.bodiestickets.com. Bodies … The Exhibition. $31, $29 seniors, $23 for children 12 and under, $28 for locals and hotel guests. Daily, 10a-9p. Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition. Daily, 10a10p, $20-$27. MARJORIE BARRICK MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY UNLV,4505S. MarylandParkway, 895-3381,

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Sat, 10a-2p. UrbisOctaptych, by LincolnMaynard. Henderson Branch 303 S. Water St. (BW2 Building) 521-8958. NEVADA STATE MUSEUM Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd., 486-5205. Fri-Mon, 10a-6p. Free with $9.95 Nevada resident admission to Springs Preserve. Unexpected Nevada, photographs by Cameron Grant. POP UP ART HOUSE 730 W. Sunset Road, www.the popuparthouse.com. Thu-Sat, Tue-Wed, 11a-2p and by appointment. NEVADA STATE COLLEGE LIBRARY

WEST LAS VEGAS ARTS CENTER COMMUNITY GALLERY 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 229-4800.

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12-5p, and by appointment. Affect/Effect, works by Scott Carter, through Nov. 19. EMERGENCY ARTS 520 Fremont St., 686-3164. Mon-Thu, 7a-7p, Fri, 7a-10p, Sat, 9a-10p, Sun, 9a3p. Several artist nooks, small shops, other creative spaces. KLEVEN CONTEMPORARY Emergency Arts, 520 E. Fremont Street, 501-9093. Tue-Fri, 7a-7p; Sat. 1p-4p. LEFT OF CENTER ART GALLERY 2207 W. Gowan Road, 647-7378, www.leftofcenterart.org. Tue-Fri, 12p-5p; Sat, 10a-2p. Free. POP2 CULTURAL ARTS CENTER Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd., Suite 240. ROTUNDA GALLERY 500 S. Grand Central Parkway, 455-7340. Book Festival Invitational, works by various artists, Mon-Fri, 8a-5p, through Dec. 2, for more info visit http://www.clarkcountynv.gov/bookfestival S2 ART GROUP 1 E. Charleston Blvd., 868-7880, www.s2art.com. Lithography presses weighing up to 12 tons each are on permanent display. SIN CITY GALLERY Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd., Suite 100. www.sincitygallery.com. Voluptuous, by Gia Ray, through Nov. 26. SOUTHERN NEVADA MUSEUM OF FINE ART Neonopolis, 450 Fremont St., Ste. 280, 382-2926, www.snmfa.com. Thu-Sat; Wed, 12p-5p, $3. Many Roads, works by Lincoln Maynard, through Nov 19, Wed-Sat, 12p-5p, $3, children under 12 free. Forms Environmental, by Marlene Tseng Yu, through May 7. SNMFA Emporium: Suite 250. Features modern/ contemporary art. SPACE 8 E. Charleston Blvd., 366-1603. Polaroid Minutes, by photographer Nick Leonard, Thu-Fri. TRIFECTA GALLERY 107 E. Charleston Blvd., Suite 135, 366-7001, www.trifectagallery.com. Keep on the Sunnyside, works by Anthony Freda.

Tenaya Way, 656-8250. Every Sat: Open mic poetry with Barbara Sindelir, 6:30p-8p. THE BEAT COFFEEHOUSE 520 Fremont St., 3006268. Mon: Human Experience poetry night, 7p-9p (live DJ 9p-12a). BOOK BOUTIQUE 19 W. Pacific Ave., Henderson, 697-0001. Third Thu: Special events and refreshments, 5p-8:30p. Tue-Fri, 9:30a-2:30p; Sat, 9: 30-4:30p. COFFEE BEAN & TEA LEAF 4550S.MarylandParkway, 944-5029. Tue:“WordUp”openmicpoetry, 7p. MICHAEL’S USED BOOKS 3430 E. Tropicana Ave., Ste. 9, 434-1699. www.myspace.com/ michaelsusedbooks. Second Tue: Literature Club discussion group, 7p. MOXIE JAVA CAFE 4370 W. Cheyenne Ave., 6488051. Sat: Open mic with Sharon Ludlam of WorldFolk, 6p. SUNRISE COFFEE CO. 3130 E. Sunset Road, Ste. A, 433-3304. Wed: Seldom Seen Poets, 7p. WEST LAS VEGAS ARTS CENTER 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 229-4800. Third Fri: “The Poet’s Corner,” hosted by Keith Brantley, 7:30p, free.

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY BY ROB BREZSNY

L E O (JULY 23-AUG. 22)

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

If you go into a major art museum that displays Europe’s great oil paintings, you’ll find virtually every masterpiece is surrounded by an ornate wooden frame, often painted gold. Why? To me, the enclosure is distracting and unnecessary. Why can’t I just enjoy the arresting composition on the naked canvas, unburdened by the overwrought excess? I urge you to take my approach in the coming weeks, Aries. Push and even fight to get the goodies exactly as they are, free of all the irrelevant filler, extraneous buffers and pretentious puffery.

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

“Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle,” said the 13th-century poet Rumi. More prosaically put: Evaluate people according to the nobility and integrity of the desires they’re obsessed with. Do you want to hang around with someone whose primary focus is to make too much money or please her parents or build a shrine to his own ego? Or would you prefer to be in a sphere of influence created by a person who longs to make a useful product or help alleviate suffering or make interesting works of art? It’s an excellent time to ponder these issues, Taurus — and then take action to ensure you’re surrounded by moths that favor beautiful candles.

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

In Santa Cruz there used to be a nightclub that featured live rock bands on a big stage but enforced a strict policy forbidding its patrons from dancing. The one time I went there, the music was loud and infectious, and I naturally felt the urge to move in vigorous rhythm. Moments after I launched into my groove, a bouncer accosted me and forced me to stop. I think this situation has certain resemblances to the one you’re in now, Gemini. Some natural response mechanism in you is being unduly inhibited; some organic inclination is being unreasonably restrained or dampened. Why should you continue to accept this?

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

During the time a blue crab is growing to maturity, it is very skilled at transforming itself. It sheds its exoskeleton an average of once every 18 days for an entire year. You’re in a phase with some similarities to that period of rapid ripening, Cancerian. Your commitment to change doesn’t have to be quite as heroic, but it should be pretty vigorous. Could you manage, say, two moltings over the course of the next 30 days? If done in a spirit of adventure, it will be liberating, not oppressively demanding.

“Progress isn’t made by early risers,” wrote author Robert Heinlein. “It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” That’s exactly the kind of progress you are in an excellent position to stir up in the coming weeks. You don’t have to match the stress levels of the Type A people who might seem to have an advantage over you, and you won’t help yourself at all by worrying or trying too hard. The single best thing you can do to supercharge your creativity is to think of yourself as a “happy-go-lucky” person while you go around dreaming up ways to have more fun.

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

“Our elders know you don’t find the answer by asking thousands of questions,” says an essay on the website of the environmentalist group The Last Tree (thelasttree.net). “The wise way is to ask the right question in the beginning.” I recommend this approach for you in the coming weeks, Virgo. Given the sparkly mysteriousness that now confronts you, I know you may be tempted to simultaneously try a lot of different routes to greater clarity. But the more effective strategy in the long run is to cultivate silence and stillness as you wait expectantly for the intuition that will reveal the simple, direct path.

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

Seminal psychologist Carl Jung wasn’t afraid of applying his scholarly analytical skills to the phenomena of pop culture. Late in life, he even wrote a thoughtful book on UFOs called Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies. To be as thorough and careful as he could possibly be about such an elusive subject, he wrote an afterword to his main argument, to which he added an epilogue, which in turn was followed by a concluding supplement. I hope you are as scrupulous in wrapping up loose ends in the coming week, Sagittarius, especially when you’re dealing with enigmas and riddles. As you seek resolution and completion, go well beyond the bare minimum.

According to my old philosophy professor Norman O. Brown, “Our real choice is between holy and unholy madness: open your eyes and look around you — madness is in the saddle anyhow.” Let’s take this hypothesis as our starting point, Aquarius. I propose that in the coming weeks you make an effort to get more accustomed to and comfortable with the understanding that the entire world is in the throes of utter lunacy. Once you are at peace with that, I hope you will commit yourself to the sacred kind of lunacy — the kind that bestows wild blessings and perpetrates unreasonable beauty and cultivates the healing power of outlandish pleasure.

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It won’t be enough to simply maintain your current levels of strength, clarity and intelligence in the coming weeks. To stay healthy, to keep up with the rapidly evolving trends swirling in and around you, you will have to actively push to get stronger, clearer and smarter. No pressure, right? Don’t worry, the universe will be conspiring to help you accomplish it all. To trigger the boost you’ll need, imagine you have a reservoir of blue liquid lightning in the place between your heart and gut. Picture yourself drawing judiciously from that high-octane fuel as you need it, bringing it first to your heart and then to your brain.

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

In a review of James Gleick’s book The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, The Week magazine reported that “the world now produces more information in 48 hours than it did throughout all human history to 2003.” From that dizzying factoid, we can infer that you are more inundated with data than were all of your ancestors put together. And the surge will probably intensify in the coming weeks. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll be asked to absorb and integrate a voluminous amount of interesting stuff. Don’t be hard on yourself if you sometimes need to slow down to digest what you’ve been taking in.

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

In his poem “Ode to the Present,” Pablo Neruda tells us how to slip free and clear into the luxuriously potent opportunity of the present moment. The here-and-now is so ripe and willing, he says, so malleable. “Take a saw to its delicious wooden perfume,” he continues, and then “build a staircase. Yes, a staircase. Climb into the present, step by step, press your feet onto the resinous wood of this moment, going up, going up, not very high ... Don’t go all the way to heaven. Reach for apples, not the clouds.” Such good advice for you, Scorpio! It’s a perfect time to learn more about the magic of the present moment as you free yourself from “the unrepairable past.” (Read the poem at bit.ly/NerudaOde.)

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011 | CITYLIFE

ONTHESCENE

A need for normal BY MIKE PREVATT

PHOTO: BILL HUGHES

Patrons pay tribute to Garage bartender Phil Wells.

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I HAVEN’T BEEN that weirded out to enter a gay bar since the very first time I did so. Back then, I was just shy and didn’t look at anything except my Ketel cranberry and the two straight friends who accompanied me. But tonight, as I sheepishly walked into The Garage, I wanted to look everywhere. Would the bartenders wear expressions of grief? Would the patrons be muttering to themselves about what had happened? Would there any evidence of a distressed bar that had endured the unthinkable just 40 hours earlier? I was so self-conscious about not appearing to be a lookie-loo, my questions quickly vanished. I didn’t even stick to my normal routine: Walk up to the bar, order the large mug of Newcastle and find an empty booth. No, I cut straight to a booth, my curiosities be damned. My friend got our beers — she went with Blue Moon, which is gross — and only then did I feel comfortable enough to survey of the bar’s atmosphere. And aside from the maudlin break-up song by Adele coming out of the jukebox, it felt like a regular weeknight at The Garage. People were talking among themselves or to the bartenders; staff was as vigilant for empty glasses and full ashtrays as it usually is; and the few loners focused on the video-poker machines. The gay community needed this normalcy,and more importantly,so did The Garage.The first instinct you might have when hearing of violence (or the threat of it) at or near a gay establishmentistostayaway,forhomophobesmayhavestartedtotargetthatlocation.However,itshould be the opposite, for the sake of the bar, ourselves and our livelihoods. I knew soon after hearing what happened that I’d be returning to The Garage quickly. But it wasn’t BARS SERVE AS OUR SECONDARY NEIGHBORHOODS. just to check out the scene as a newspaper writer. I felt compelled to support a SOME OF US KNOW OUR bar I frequent, a bar that hasn’t even BARTENDERS BETTER THAN WE been open a year. Tonight was my first chance,the first KNOW THE PEOPLE LIVING ON night the eastside gay bar — just blocks EITHER SIDE OF OUR HOMES. away from UNLV — had been open since the Nov. 14 shooting of bartender Phil Wells. Early that morning, Wells, working the graveyard shift, was greeted by Tracy Kauffman, allegedly his ex-boyfriend when the two lived in Knoxville, Tennessee. Reports say Kauffman shot Wells 20 or so times; he fled and was later arrested at McCarran International Airport, charged with murder with a deadly weapon and burglary with a deadly weapon. A candlelight vigil was held later that night outside the bar. About 200 people, mostly men, gathered to sing and share memories about Wells. The tearful group sang Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” and took turns telling stories about how Wells had touched their lives. Those present remarked about his kindness, warmth and genuine concern for friends and customers. “He really cared about his regulars,” said Javier Torres, who frequents The Garage. He added that Wells would often buy drinks for his loyal customers, and always looked out for their well-being, holding their keys and calling cabs for them when necessary. Several others echoed Torres’ testimony. For those who don’t spend much time in bars,such a tribute for a everyman tapster might verge on sentimental hyperbole. But the context is unique. The gay community is intertwined with nightlife, for its bars are pretty much all it has by way of safe meeting places. They serve as our secondary neighborhoods. Some of us know our bartenders better than we know the people living on either side of our homes. I personally did not have that sort of relationship with Wells,who had only served me once,the night before his murder.But many other Garage regulars did.He did his professional duty by serving their spirits — and surpassed that duty by raising them, too. Additional reporting by Kristy Totten

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