🕺 Disco wormhole | Alley picnic | Big plant sale | San Gennaro | Harvest party | New comedy
HOPE YOU'VE RECOVERED from last year's epic funnel cake hangover, because festival season is here again, a lustrous blur of food booths, carnival rides, and vaguely edifying cultural import. Whether you're a fan of Italian feasts, rural fairs, or urban picnics, this tent accommodates every taste. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
San Gennaro Feast
Honor the patron saint of spaghetti served in a pizza dough cone (yes, it's a thing) at this five-day funfest.
September 18-22 ✦ M Resort➤ Also: Broncos and barbecue bust out at the Pahrump Fall Festival Sept. 19-22 ✦ It's a stein of the times as Oktoberfest kicks off Sept. 21 at Ellis Island and the Ahern Hotel ✦ Let the kids get snappy at Brick Fest Live Sept. 21-22 at the World Market Center ✦ Do the rite thing at this Sept. 21 autumnal equinox celebration at Unitarian Universalist ✦ Indulge your inner children of the corn at Gilcrease Orchard's Fall Harvest starting Sept. 24. ▼
Fall Plant Sale
Looking for the perfect cleistocactus hyalacanthus? (Can relate.) It's here.
September 21 ✦ Springs Preserve➤ Also: Slather on the moonglow and soundwaves at this yoga session Sept. 18 at Exploration Peak Park ✦ These folks know witch is the best way to celebrate the Fall Equinox Sept. 20 ✦ Break a sweat when La Muchacha schools you on Colombian rhythm Sept. 20 at Winchester Dondero Cultural Center ✦ Trail heads can help clean up trailheads at McCullough Hills Sept. 21 ✦ Pickleball matches, 5k runs, and high tea support at-risk youth during Inspire Weekend Sept. 21-23. ▼
Picnic in the Alley
This feast celebrates women with good taste — that is, luminaries and rising stars in the hospitality scene.
September 21 ✦ 1326 S. Main Street➤ Also: It's a swine tasting at Tequila & Tomahawks Sept. 19 at Del Frisco's ✦ Wine down for a good cause at Downtown Summerlin's New Vista Wine Walk Sept. 21 ✦ Brunch with a side of strange 'n' sexy at The Freakiest Brunch on Earth Sept. 21 at The Lexi ✦ Dry-curious? Sample mocktails and NA bevvies at Soberly Social Sept. 22 at Taverna Costera ▼
The Cher Show
It required 50,000 sequins, 30,000 fringes, and three lab-grown Cher clones to capture the icon's star power.
September 18-22 ✦ The Smith Center➤ Also: Stacey Stardust leads a showcase of jugglers, twirlers, and jigglers at her Sept. 19 Secret Circus at Jackpot Bar & Grill ✦ Last call for comical homicide at A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder Sept. 19-22 at Spring Mountain Ranch ✦ Violins of Hope will tug your heartstrings with the music of resilience Sept. 20-22 ✦ The irrepressibly twitchy Greg Hahn opens Wiseguys' newest spot at The Westgate Sept. 20-21 ✦ Your Trapper Keeper is a time travel portal taking you back to '80s Things Sept. 21 at The Composers Room ✦ A special kid sleuths a canine mystery in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Sept. 20-29 at the Charleston Heights Arts Center ✦ Get a sampler of the latest sounds of contemporary classical at NEXTET's season opener Sept. 23 at UNLV's Doc Rando Recital Hall.▼
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🍿 The Dish List
Things go sour in the best way at The Silver Stamp's Lambiek Fabriek No Brett No Glory Tour Sept. 18 ✦ Cabs and chiantis flow at this Sept. 18 Uggiano wine dinner at Bistecca ✦ Get a taste of the Gavi region at Wineaux's La Scolca wine-around Sept. 19 ✦ If you missed the pandemic sourdough 'splosion, you'll loaf this Sept. 20 bread workshop at Herbally Grounded ✦ Things get dark when Ethel M offers free chocolate at its Summerlin opening Sept. 20-21 ✦ This Sept. 21 Humane Society wine tasting is for the dogs ✦ Uncork Napa Valley nectar at this Sept. 21 pairing dinner at The Palm ✦ Stoney's kicks off Oktoberfest Sept. 21 with Western flair and Wiesnbier ✦ Grab yr pardner for cocktails and harrowing cowboy tales at Winnie & Ethel's Old West Supper Club Sept. 27 ✦ Mabel's Bar & Q celebrates touchdowns and tailgates at this bottomless (as in mimosas) game day brunch Sept. 29 ✦ The new Craft Creamery in the Arts District has ... a speakeasy? I'm told that asking for "the scoop of the day" gets you walk-in entry.
⚰️ Grave Expectations
Want to enhance your Halloween season with some historic depth? (Six feet of it, to be exact.) The Nevada Preservation Foundation recently announced a new season of Tombstone Tales walking tours of Woodlawn Cemetery starting Oct. 5. (Click the "buy tickets" link to open the booking menu.) Also, neato, didn't know the foundation also has an app for self-guided walking tours around town.
🤪 Salty, Mixed, Nuts
I know it's a Tuesday night, I tell people. I know it's late. I know you'll be groggy the next day – but your eyes will also be madly gleaming with an arcane sparkle of private delight knowing you witnessed one of Vegas' most wonderfully unhinged late-night variety shows. Who Knows returns Sept. 24 to Vegas Theatre Company.
💐 Floral Fixation
Signs of fall: Halloweened yards, zippy autumnal air, high-glycemic pumpkin spice lattes, decorative gourds, and the Bellagio Conservatory goes full-on harvest bonkers with their new seasonal display. Don't forget you can also bivouac 'n' brunch in their luxe Garden Table gazebo, too.
🎶 Song in your heart? Get your vox off here:
Andrew Kiraly
📸 Merry Cringemas
Awkward family photos are a holiday tradition, and The Space is leaning into the cringe by turning their multipurpose room into a Holly Jolly photo studio through Nov. 23, welcoming families, friends, and fur babies for pro snap sessions. Better yet, it benefits The Space's Mondays Dark charity show series.
📌 The Junk Drawer
Enter to win tickets to Piecing It Together Podcast's Oct. 3 screening + pod of Joker: Folie a Deux ✦ Snag tix early for the Sept. 29 installment of Jazz at the Bird Viewing Preserve, because they go fast. Two bands, 50 gallons of wine, and thousands of migratory waterfowl ✦ Namaste meets nahhhsty beats at Trap Yoga Sept. 22 ✦ This sounds precioussss: Celebrate Bilbo and Frodo's birthdays at Hobbit Day Sept. 22 at Sahara West Library.
