🎋 Beer bash | Japan fest | Butterfly attack | Brain train | Robot concert | Adult prom | Creepy cumbia
THINK BIG THIS week – because we're shoveling up an outsized portion of springy goodness in the form of fat festivals of every type, from street food to craft beer to big ideas. Whether you're looking to fill your stomach or your brain, we've got all your organs covered. (Except maybe the spleen.) Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
Great Vegas Festival of Beer
Sip suds and meet buds at the city's biggest annual brew bash.
April 5 ✦ DLVEC➤ Also: First Friday April 4 fills the Arts District with visual treats and indie beats ✦ Dope Energy Invite April 4 brings Tiny Desk energy to vinyl and books at Analog Dope ✦ Art in the Park April 5 beautifies Bruce Trent Park with creative expressions and family attractions ✦ Adult Prom April 5 lets you recreate awkward teen memories but with legal alcohol at The Beverly Theater ✦ Mexica New Year April 5 celebrates indigenous culture with dance, comedy and vendors at Winchester Dondero Cultural Center ✦ Kizuna Japanese Spring Festival April 5 blossoms with cultural performances from taiko drumming to pole dancing at Sammy Davis Jr. Festival Plaza.▼
TEDxLasVegas
Get illuminated at this thinkfest for bright ideas.
April 4-5 ✦ Keep Memory Alive Event Center➤ Also: Magic Is Friendship April 3 is a musical spectacle that'll have you hugging your Broadway-lovin' bestie at Vegas Theatre Company ✦ Spotlight Poetry April 3 kicks off National Poetry Month with verses and vibes at Taverna Costera ✦ Expanse April 4 reimagines desert vastness through two artists' eyes at Fraiche Arts ✦ Symposium on Policing Commercial Sex Work April 4 tackles laws, lust, and liberty at UNLV ✦ Ask a Birder April 4 lets you flock with feathered friends and expert ornithologists at Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve ✦ Hands Off! April 5 rallies against oligarchs at New York New York ✦ Customer Appreciation Celebration Week starting April 7 throws a party for bibliophiles with games, prizes, and 60 years of library lovin' at Clark County Library branches.▼
Kraftwerk
Our robot overlords before robot overlords were an actual terrifying prospect.
April 4 ✦ Wynn Las Vegas➤ Also: The Wiz April 2-6 eases on down to Reynolds Hall with soul, funk, and Beyoncé's choreographer giving Dorothy new moves ✦ BoyWithUke April 4 brings his masked musical mysteries and TikTok fame to Virgin Hotels ✦ Beethoven and Shakespeare April 4 marries the Bard's star-crossed lovers with Ludwig's string quartet at Whitney Library ✦ Boy Band Brunch April 5 serves up '90s nostalgia with pancakes named after NSYNC lyrics at The Composers Room ✦ Kiara Sasso April 6 weaves sensual rhythms from Broadway, Disney, and Brazilian beats at Maxan Jazz ✦ The Omnitet Ensemble April 7 improvises star-streaked cosmic soundscapes at Fat Cat.▼
Butterfly Habitat
Bug out at this fluttery seasonal family favorite.
Opens April 5 ✦ Springs Preserve➤ Also: Camp Out at AMP April 4-5 turns Craig Ranch into a sleepover wilderness with movies under the stars ✦ Spring Forward Family Music Festival April 5 jams with kid-friendly beats at Water Street Plaza ✦ National Sibling Day Festival April 5 celebrates brotherly and sisterly bonds with treats and games at Tivoli Village ✦ Touch-A-Truck April 5 lets kids climb aboard 70+ massive machines with a special horn-free hour for sensitive ears at Downtown Summerlin ✦ Water Lantern Festival April 6 floats your worries away on tiny illuminated boats at Craig Ranch Park.▼
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🍇 The Dish List
Zen Alley's grand opening April 5-6 blooms into Wineaux with vodka martinis, caviar donuts, and floral pop-ups for spiritual sipping ✦ The Winglore Spirits Launch Party April 5 lets fighter pilot founders fly high on bourbon and whiskey "MACHtails" at Atomic Liquors ✦ Cakebread Cellars Tasting April 5 pours premium family vintages that'll have your taste buds rising to the occasion at Rio's Wine Cellar ✦ The $10 Experience April 6 promises cheap eats and carnival fun at Sunset Park ✦ DW Bistro's Brunch Finale April 6 serves up its last eggs-traordinary hurrah after 15 years of beating the restaurant odds ✦ Mezcal Motel April 6 checks you into La Mona Rosa for a smoky spirit staycation with live beats and Mexican eats.
🦁 Growth Potential
It's getting better all the time at these local wellness, fitness, and goodness happenings: Yoga with the Lions April 5 roars into downward dog while apex predators judge your form at Lion Habitat Ranch ✦ Alchemy April 6 transmutes breath and soundscapes into transcendence at a mysteriously undisclosed location ✦ The Etho Launch Party April 6 plunges you into cold water therapy and hot saunas at Fergusons Downtown ✦ UNLV Powwow for the Planet April 12-13 celebrates Indigenous traditions with dancing, drumming and environmental consciousness at Cox Pavilion ✦ 2nd Sundays April 13 seeds cultural wellness through meditation, sound healing and Afro Cardio movement at Africa Love ✦ The Holistic Chamber of Commerce Business Mixer April 17 networks on a higher plane over Mediterranean bites at Paymon's.
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🛍️ Fresh Finds
Kayfabe April 17 body-slams puppetry into the wrestling ring for a meta-fictional showdown at Vegas Theatre Company ✦ Barter Beer + Mall April 18 opens with a swapportunity to turn your trash into someone else's treasure on Wyoming Avenue ✦ Yoga & Yeehaw April 19 stretches your hamstrings and your country music tolerance at Horse Trailer Hideout ✦ Fake New World Festival April 19 fills the void of cancelled metal festivals with tribute bands at The Bonfire ✦ Love Lake Mead Days April 19-26 recruits volunteers to clean up America's thirstiest reservoir with free park entry as your payment.
📱 The Junk Drawer
Don't try to romance me – I'm busy scrolling r/IllegallySmolCats between rounds of Call of Duty ✦ Killing your phone internet also makes your brain more fertile but you can also try a DIY dumb-down ✦ If sometimes you feel like your job owns you, at least you don't have to own your job ✦ Just remember to smell the roses while you still have an unground nose ✦ Plenty more reasons every day to move to Switzerland – now you can add their new passport to the list.
References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot
Shimmering with magic, dreams, and fantasy. (In Barstow, of all places.)
Opens April 4 ✦ Charleston Heights Arts Center
High Tea in the Sky
April 5 ✦ CircaThanks again for supporting The List. Got culturally savvy friends in your circle? Forward this email and share the love! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
