🍻 Brew fest | Bookgasm | Death picnic | Fairy ballet | Desert art party | Axe music
I TAKE IT AS vigorous confirmation of my status as would-be/probably-not renaissance man that I'm equally magnetized by beer and books, desert art and fairytale ballet. (But it's also probably an acute case of FOMO crossed with ADD with a little IDK mixed in.) Anyway, my kinda week, and hopefully yours too!
Also, important programming note: The List is going on vacation! (Specifically, a honeymoon.) I'm getting married later this month, so I'll be in the blissy throes of manic matrimonium for a coupla weeks. Here's the plan: Watch your inbox for an especially corpulent double issue Oct. 23, after which I'll be back in action Nov. 13. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
➤ Also: Blossoming literary talents read at the Desert Superbloom release party Oct. 17 at Clark County Library ✦ Catch the heavy metal of sculptor Luis Varela-Rico Oct. 18 at Nuwu Art Gallery ✦ Do antiques make you frantique? Fantastic Vintage Market Oct. 18-20 will drive you bargain-crazy ✦ I bet the seafood is divine at Lobster Fair Oct. 19 at Christ Church Episcopal ✦ Take steps to support a good cause at the Teddy Bear 5k run Oct. 19 at Tivoli Village ✦ Swap 'til you drop at Henderson's big Outdoor Swap Meet Oct. 19 ✦ Vendors will be mohawking wares at the Punk Rock Museum's market Oct. 19-21 ✦ Witches hit the Jackpot Oct. 19 to brew up a Samhain Soirée ✦ The dream of the '90s is alive at this Vintage Flea Market Oct. 19 at Fergusons Downtown.▼
➤ Also: Basket cases are welcome at Death Picnic Oct. 16 at Mountain's Edge Regional Park ✦ Sketch, sip, and howl at Good Wolf's Live Art Night Oct. 18 ✦ Frolicking frights abound for kids at the Fall-O-Ween Fair Oct. 19 at Enterprise Library ✦ Buzz with the artists at the intimate Art + Brew Oct. 19 at the Arts Factory ✦ This collage class by bad-ass artist Diane Bush Oct. 16-19 is a cut above the rest ✦ The Scrambled Eggs art pop-up Oct. 20 is no yolk ✦ Who Knows? Oct. 22 will keep you guessing late into the night at Vegas Theatre Company.▼
➤ Also: This coagulated version of Macbeth Oct. 18 at Boulder City Libary is bloody funny ✦ Indulge your Intrigue Oct. 18-19 and see Vegas City Opera behind the scenes ✦ This screening of Sing Sing Oct. 18 at UNLV sounds arresting ✦ You can't hide your laughter at Don't Tell Comedy Oct. 19 in Henderson ✦ It's a night of cabaret comedy when the inimitable Coco Peru sashays into Myron's Oct. 19 ✦ Silhouette dance troupe Catapult sounds like a shadowy operation Oct. 20 at West Las Vegas Library.▼
Big Sandy & His Fly Rite Boys
If this band were any rootsier, it'd be a tree.
Oct. 18 ✦Sand Dollar Downtown➤ Also: Inhale the sounds of Capricious Airs Oct. 17 at UNLV ✦ Crimson and clover and Tommy James and The Shondells Oct. 18 at Golden Nugget ✦ Does Lizzy Borden Oct. 19 at Vamp'd really need an opening axe? ✦ Grim gothy synthlords Forever Grey sadden up at the Usual Place Oct. 19 ✦ The Young Artists Orchestra revels in Ravel, Bach and Vivaldi Oct. 20 at Windmill Library.▼
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🌭 The Dish List
Do your wurst and get bratty at this Pub 365 Okbtoberfest dinner Oct. 16 ✦ Toast and prost at Crush Pad's Oct. 17 German beer and wine adventure ✦ Be a glutton for gluten at Basilico's National Pasta Day dinner Oct. 17 ✦ The Traeger-smoked meats sound scary good at Boos & BBQ Oct. 19 at Bob Baskin Park ✦ Asian Night Market Oct. 19 at CSN Charleston serves up island flavors and family fun ✦ The folks behind Other Mama serve up Mex brex fusion when Chamana's Café opens Oct. 19 in the same shopping plaza ✦ Won't say it thrice: Beetlejuice Brunch Oct. 20 at Ada's Food + Wine ✦ Murder & Mimosas Oct. 20 at Moonlight Karaoke sounds like a buzzy whodunit ✦ Craft beer and kitties? It's happening fur sure at Pints for Paws Oct. 21 at North 5th Brewing Co. ✦ Ever wanted to taste fear? Plate up Winnie & Ethel's "Haunted Home Means Nevada" Supper Club Oct. 25 ✦ Border Grill's Mexican Food + Wine Festival Oct. 25 showcases the vibrant regional wines of Mexico ✦ Take a stab at a meaty murder-mystery at the Lawry's Halloween Whodunit Oct. 30.
🪅 Arty Hard
My favorite subversive piñata artist Justin Favela does this quasi-performance-art-thing where he throws epic family fiestas at stuffy art museums and other sites to challenge their implicit institutional prescriptions and prerogatives. But they're also just, well, awesome parties. He's throwing one Oct. 20 at Roy Martin Middle School (eastsiiiide!) – complete with lowriders, tacos, tunes, and, of course, piñatas – to celebrate a new public sculpture he's working on.
👖 Taking Back Fun Days
Shoehorned into your Silent Scream skinny jeans? Check. Scissorhands bangs teased and dyed? Check. You're all set for When We Were Young Oct. 19-20 at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds – but, first, be sure to put all that deep emo trivia to use at Emo Bingo Oct. 17 at Fergusons Downtown (particularly if you're a walking Fall Out Boy Wikipedia page). Celebrate (or self-lacerate) afterwards at Ellis Island's Emo Brunch Oct. 18-19.
🎲 On a Role
It's been interesting to watch The Atomic Museum strategically expand its marketing reach in recent years – I'm thinking of specifically of how Atomic has been tapping into the Fallout game fandom with targeted exhibits and events. Now it's joining up with Nevada Humanities to invite gamers to its Oct. 18 game night featuring Loreloop, a tabletop RPG that takes place in a desolate atomic testing site. Better yet, this thinky radioactive sleuthing adventure is homebrewed by game designer Ashley Warren, who's crafted bestselling modules for Dungeons & Dragons.
📱 Swiped Out
Ladies who've landed in one too many awky Tinder-born situationships may find help – and a few hearty laughs – at Figure It Out Oct. 19 at The Composers Room. The free "healing gameshow" conceived by Las Vegas comic KBanks – playtested on her own lovelorn friends, no less – promises to banish romantic fog and press potential mates to, well, figure it out. (Alternately, you can always try to meet someone at The Wake singles mixer Oct. 18 at Cemetery Pulp.)
📚 Mark as Read
If you're hitting the Las Vegas Book Festival Oct. 19 at Fifth Street School, be sure to say hi. Best place to find me is, well, whaddya know, at the panel I'm moderating, "The Human Condition in the Age of Information Overload," 330p in the Downtown Tent. I'll be discussing, uh, a topic broadly resembling that title with Nora Lange and Justin Taylor, whose recent awesome novels are trenchant and sardonically humorous meditations on the numerous crises – political, financial, social, personal – that give modern America its distinct special freedom zebra stripes. If all that sounds infuriatingly vague, just trust that it'll be funny, smart, and informative (but not in an overloady way).
