📺 Crank therapy | Naked goths | Silent orchestra | Winter weed-lympics | Roast war | Mystic cat | Worst wrestling
AS A RADICAL ACT of pre-emptive self-care, I've decided to take it easy on the new year's resolutions this year. I'm thinking that if I manage to get the Christmas lights down by the end of March, then, zibbity-boom, I've notched my personal growth goals for 2025. What I'm not going easy on is obsessively curating the coolest events in Vegas. We're kicking off the new year with a glitter-bomb cornucopia of rambunctious talk-show satire, nästy metal girlz, live ragtime cinema sounds, and so much more. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
Dr. Phil Live
Comic Adam Ray cosplays the iconic crank talk-show therapist.
Jan. 11 ✦ Virgin Hotels Las Vegas➤ Also: It's a royal bash as Harry Shahoian says Happy Birthday, Elvis Jan. 8 at The Composers Room ✦ Steal away to a screening of "hardcore dirtbag action heist flick" Den of Thieves 2 with wisecracking podders Jan. 9 at Maya Cinemas ✦ Keep the laughs to yourself at the year's first installment of Don't Tell Comedy Jan. 11 ✦ Pridestyle Pro Wrestling goes from bad to Wor$t Case Scenario Jan. 11 at Swan Dive ✦ Nuke up some old-school Van Halen with The Atomic Punks Jan. 11 at Vamp'd Rock Bar & Grill ✦ Egos will be slammed, skewered, and charred at Roastlemania Jan. 11 at Wiseguys Arts District ✦ Where there's smoke, there's roast when blue-collar comic Vinnie Favorito goes Unfiltered Jan. 11-12 at Notoriety.▼
Little Miss Nasty
The frothy, gothy burlesque coven returns to conjure more metal mayhem.
Jan. 11 ✦ Area 15➤ Also: Don't take these delicious drag performers at Face Value Jan. 8 at Hammered Harry's ✦ Take bodacious beauties for a spin at roulette striptease show A Night of Burlesque Jan. 9 at Vegas Theatre Company ✦ "Transfemme monster" Vera Blossom shows you How to Fuck Like a Girl Jan. 10 at The Writer's Block ✦ Neo-acid techno will get its Clawz in you Jan. 11 at Discopussy ✦ Steel yourself for an earful of loud at Metal Masters Jan. 11 at House of Blues ✦ Drink in the double-D visions at Pints & Pasties Jan. 11 at The Punk Rock Museum ✦ Rock goddesses rage with Babes Against the Machine Jan. 11 at The Usual Place.▼
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Silent films spring to sonic life as this period troupe plays along.
Jan. 10 ✦ Clark County Library➤ Also: Classical music meets cosmic visuals at Mozart and the Universe Jan. 10 at CSN Planetarium ✦ Warm up to some classical Coldplay or Vivaldi by candlelight Jan. 10 at The Industrial ✦ Plucky duo Acoustic Eidolon Jan. 11 at Rainbow Library will tug your heartstrings ✦ Keep your gin up at this 1920s Cosplay Party Jan. 11 at Millennium Fandom Bar ✦ Meat up with live tunes at the Las Vegas Blues Society Jam Jan. 11 at SoulBelly BBQ ✦ It's a palette of chill minimalist electropop when Phantogram makes a Running Through Colors splash Jan. 15 at Brooklyn Bowl.▼
➤ Also: Last call for ice-capades at Rock Rink through Jan. 20 at Downtown Summerlin ✦ Take a hit of Ol' Blue Eyes at Vintage Glam Jan. 8 at The Lexi ✦ Jam musicians get frisky at Playful Pastime Jan. 8 at The Usual Place ✦ Late-night Vegas vamps it up at The Composers Showcase Jan. 8 at Myron's ✦ The trippy journey of Flow Jan. 10-16 at The Beverly Theater sounds purr-fect ✦ En-snare the whole family at World Beat Drum Circle Jan. 11 at Summerlin Library.▼
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🍲 The Dish List
Wok this way: The long-shuttered China Mama on Spring Mountain and Jones reopens Jan. 8 ✦ Whip up your own gin-ger elixir at F The Bar's gin cocktail workshop Jan. 10 at Fergusons Downtown ✦ Uncork and savor Italian flavors at Eataly's Tour of Friuli-Venezia Giulia Jan. 10 ✦ Feast on steak and smooth sounds to support jazz education at Dinner and a Show Jan. 15 at Vic's Las Vegas ✦ Say "cheese" to Dry January at Crush Pad's cheese and NA beverage pairing Jan. 17 ✦ Toast seven years of sipping at Vegas Valley Winery's throwback anniversary bash Jan. 18 ✦ Hop into Scotch at The Rio's Macallan tasting Jan. 18 ✦ Something's definitely fishy at the Sons of Norway 25th Annual Lutefisk Dinner Jan. 18 in Boulder City ✦ Don't sleep on this Nightmare on Elm Street tea class Jan. 19 at Halloween Emporium and Haunted Tea Room.
🦥 Rec Room
Crushed a backlog of spots I've been meaning to visit; here's a fresh plate of what I hella recommend: Delilah supper club in The Wynn is sumptuous and sleek, a visual mosh of Regency rigor and maximalist jazz den. Foodwise, their chicken tenders (!) ended my lifelong bemused indifference toward the food form ✦ Ha ha, the highly convivial Crush Pad wine bar does a running black-glass blind taste challenge – guess the grape and country, get it for free. (We guessed Sangiovese/Italy on a Petite Verdot/Argentina lol.) ✦ Did some time-travel hiking at the nicely appointed Ice Age Fossils State Park. Back in the day – like, 40k years back in the day – it was a gluey swamp crawling with giant sloths, saber-toothed tigers, mammoths, and OG cameloids. Coolest of all, you can hike through the two-mile Big Dig trench, where paleontologists were unearthing all kinda megabeast fossils in the '60s ✦ Totally feeling the urban louche vibe of graffiti-streaked Petite Bohème, but I'm really feeling their roster of potent, precision-tuned cocktails.
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🧊 Icy Reception
I'd typically only wish a January exile to central-east Nevada on my worst enemies but, hey, things switch up when you can ride on a ... fireworks-belching steam train? Hell yeah! That's just one highlight of Ely's Fire and Ice Winter Festival Jan. 17-19, a frosty community orgy of bonfires, bowling, and bike races – not to mention live bands and ice sculpture contests – now in its 22nd year. The clutch of after-parties downtown are a great excuse to check out Ely's eye-popping collection of civic murals, too.
📆 Say You Want a Resolution
I think it was tedious self-improver and ye olde American kite bro Benjamin Franklin who said, "New year, new you!" but don't quote me on that. If you've made some resolutions for 2025 in the standard spirit of grim, cheerless determination, here's a few ways to keep 'em fun. Looking to get outdoors more? Ease into it at Birding in the Park Jan. 10 at Springs Preserve ✦ Getting more active? People are positively paddle-mad over the recently opened Chicken N Pickle ✦ Looking to scratch the artsy urge and make new friends outside the bar scene? Meet creative souls at this life drawing workshop Jan. 9 at Slonina ARTSpace, Jan. 9 at Canvas & Cocktails at Container Park, or at this paint-pouring party Jan. 11 at Arttherapy Café.
