🧨 Kaboom bang pow | Spongy musical | Plant comedy? | Weenie girlz | Quonset bar bash | Secret shows | Boy band brunch
HAPPY EXPLOSION FREEDOM party weekend! Putting aside any ambivalent fugue states we all might be vibrating in re: who owns "patriotism" and what it even means anymore 🤷, this week's List unifies us under the inclusive banner of fireworks and beer. A fan of quieter pleasures? We&
A unified theory of Showgirls
SHOWGIRLS IS BAD. This is close to a universally accepted truth. Much has written about how and why Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 stripper saga is bad. Some say it’s quite simply astoundingly bad; some argue its badness is an isotope of exotic camp worthy of cult-movie status; others make
✦Weekender✦ Bubble race | Toxic meat party | Crazy butts | Health con | Play date | Sultry soul | 'Zine party ✂️
FROM FRANTIC FOAM athletics to adult play dates to a party involving something called "gorelesque," here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 👯♀️ Friday June 27 * This one kinda requires a pre-emptive micro-explainer: Las Vegas has a weird fixation with the Crazy Girls butt
⛰️ Mountain fest | Foam rave | Romeo who? | Spicy jazz | Killer girlbot | Yacht monster | Night clowns
SUMMER IS AN INDOOR sport in Las Vegas, and that's perfectly fine with me – I'm looong over having to prove my dubious toughness by leaving the house before, like, 7 p.m. Lucky for us, most of the hot picks in this week's List
✦Weekender✦ Snake blues | Art bus | Pride rave | Star party | Make music | Deluded stasis | Traffic beauty🚦
FROM ROOFTOP wellness festivals to hush-hush comedy to bring-your-own-drum music jams, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 🍣 Friday June 20 * Last call for cheap charitable eats as Restaurant Week winds down today. If you're utterly cowed into option paralysis by the cornucopia
🧙♀️ Witch rock | Yoga social | '60s swingers | Mac 'n' cheese bash | Garlic fest?! | Juneteenth | Card wizards
SOME PEOPLE CALL it summer solstice, I call it that part of the year when the a/c hysterically heaves nonstop and my energy bill leaps into the wtf? mid-triple digits. Hot or not, this week sports hella chill treasures, from bendy yoga socials to mac 'n' cheese
🗝️ Vintage fest | Friday 13th | Cosmic disco | Pure rock | Acting weird | Drum symphony | Unlucky charms
YOU'RE IN LUCK this week of Friday the 13th – no hockey mask required. We've got an especially killer lineup of fun things to do, from retro shopfests to galactic dance parties to, geez, like 17 burlesque bashes with every thematic kink you can imagine. Cheers! – Andrew
✦Weekender✦ Disco market | Angry songbird | Dogs + foam | Ska'd for life | Rock 'n' troll | Tiki punx | Wormcore 🐛
FROM GLITTER-BOMBED night markets to sashaying hash browns to a "sploinky" dance party, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 🏁 Friday June 6 * Working Friday? Here's a nice nooner sneak-off: Lunch at Little Avalon (try the Spanish Bowl), stock up on
🧌 Freak theater | 243 dinners | Goblin metal | Wine + art | Hair stories | Movie tunes | Summer evil
KNOW WHAT'S WEIRD? This entire week! We've got fringe theater festivals, hair-raising stories (literally), and art shows that'll make your crotch cringe. All of which makes the singing goblin seem completely normal. Run that freak flag up the pole – you're in good
✦Weekender✦ Revenge music | Glue cult | Ogre party | Guitar expo | Pinball tourney | Martini yoga | French disco 🕺
FROM OGRE-BASED techno parties to volcanically emo opera to live-action art auctions, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 💎 Friday May 30 * I'm listing this out of curiosity, intrigue, and as a Dude Who Wears Beaded Bracelets™: The Whole Bead Show, which promises
👩🎤 Super musicals | Daytime rave | Funksplosion | Huuuge organ | Beer school | Gun rock | Fringe acts
THIS WEEK'S LIST is literally music to your ears. But don't worry, we've got your other sensorial inputs covered, too. Between big-hearted park musicals, explosive cabaret funk shows, and a guy wrestling awe-inspiring songs from a ginormous pipe organ, you'll be cranking