✌️ DOUBLE ISSUE! | Vintage frenzy | Comic relief | Undead music | Bad tattoos | Dungeon divas
PACE YOURSELF – uh, yeah, file that under "advice Andrew never ever takes." But the Rx applies for this extra-special, double-stuffed issue of The List, which covers two weeks' worth of fun in one juicy, turgid email. From vintage markets to raucous rawk shows to Halloween haunts for kids and adults alike, there are treats for everybody.
Note: I'm getting married this week and then plunging into pure molten honeymooned bliss, so The List is on a nuptial vacay for two weeks. We'll be back to our regular weekly sked on Nov. 13. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
➤ Also: Trawl for treats at a Halloweenified Area 15 at Tricks and Treats Oct. 25 ✦ Bring a goodie bag and movie blanket for Skellington's Spooktacular Oct. 25 at Tivoli Village, plus shop scary deals at Maker Market ✦ The natural gets supernatural at Haunt the Wetlands Oct. 25 ✦ Power up and go on a vendor bender at cosplay fest Anime Night Mart Oct. 27 ✦ Shop for odd odds 'n' ends at Cemetery Pulp's Weird and Nerdy Night Market Oct. 27.▼
Coco Live
The modern classic surges to life with a score by Orquesta Folclórica Nacional de México.
Oct. 25 ✦ UNLV➤ Also: Meet a plant that'll grow on you at Little Shop of Horrors starting Oct. 23 at Summerlin Library ✦ Fun is in the cards at Seth Singer's Tarot Party Oct. 24 at Office of Collecting + Design ✦ You'll be rapt by immersive scares at Night of the Living Arte Oct. 25-26 ✦ Jurassic jump scares abound at Las Vegas Natural History Museum's DinoWeen Oct. 25 ✦ Catch (sound) waves at this romantic lakeside concert with Pasquale Esposito Oct. 26.▼
➤ Also: Of course there's a band named Waitress and they're playing a vaudeville goth pop secret show Oct. 25 ✦ Gloom, glam, and glittery pop mash up with iDKHOW Oct. 26 at House of Blues ✦ DJ Marko of Khruangbin spins at UnCommons' "Sonidos de Todo Bien" Oct. 26 ✦ Man your battle stations for Coheed + Cambria tribute The Neverenders Oct. 26 at The Usual Place ✦ Sisterhood sings loud and proud at VOX Femina Oct. 27 at UNLV ✦ Stay calm and carry on listening to classical chillist Chad Lawson Oct. 29 at Windmill Library.▼
Morricone Youth
The creepy crypto-instrumentalists perform their live score to Night of the Living Dead.
Oct. 28 ✦ Beer Zombies➤ Also: Dion Lunadon puts the rage in garage Oct. 23 at The Usual Place ✦ Vamp it up at late-night dance party K-Pop Hallyuween Oct. 24 at Club Ego ✦ Small-town politics make for big drama in dark comedy The Minutes Oct. 25 at Super Summer Theatre Studios ✦ Burlesque-a-palooza Beautiful Anarchy Oct. 25 at Jackpot Bar & Grill sounds like a hot mess ✦ Meet your acid doom with an injection of Old Blood Oct. 29 at Dive Bar.▼
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🥂 The Dish List
Got a bubbly personality? Pop over to Ada's Food + Wine for Champagne Week through Oct. 26 ✦ Schmear on the laughter at Bagelmania's Backroom Comedy show Oct. 24 ✦ Come for the bread, stay for the beer at 1228 Main's Oktoberfest Oct. 24 ✦ Basilico pairs Caymus wines with Chef Di Caudo's cuisine Oct. 24 ✦ Winnie & Ethel's plates up tricks 'n' treats at its "Haunted Home Means Nevada" Supper Club Oct. 25 ✦ Border Grill's Mexican Food + Wine Festival Oct. 25 showcases the vibrant regional wines of Mexico ✦ The chards and cabs at The Rio's Freemark Abbey Winery tasting Oct. 26 sound godly ✦ Catch a flight of late-night noshables at Sparrow + Wolf's Bar Snacks Oct. 26 ✦ Wag your tail to Wisconsin brats and brews at Big Dog's Dogtoberfest Oct. 26 ✦ The Henderson Booze District's Food Truck Mania Oct. 26 sounds wheely good ✦ Tasteful treats are on the menu at Palate's Brunch & Boos Oct. 27 ✦ Everything's gonna be all white at Garagiste's Blanc de Blanc Anniversary Party Oct. 28 ✦ Your survival is at steak at Lawry's Halloween Whodunit Oct. 30 ✦ Where's the beef? It's at Hard Hat Lounge and Stay Tuned Burger's double birthday bash Nov. 1 ✦ Free snacks and half-price mezcal cocktails are the party favors at Chamana's Café's Block Party Nov. 2 ✦ Taste the small-batch bourbons of Widow Jane Nov. 9 at The Rio's Wine Cellar.
💎 Real Stoners Only
If you're anything like me and you've been stuck in an unbearably anxious vibratory fugue loop over the impending election and you need some wholesome, mind-rebooting diversion, consider the Viva Las Vegas Rocks show Nov. 1-3 at Santa Fe Station. Rockheads (just made that up, not an actual thing) will be hawking gems, minerals, fossils, jewelry and more.
⚓ Bunch of Pricks
The Las Vegas Tattoo Festival Nov. 8-10 at World Market Center looks worth poking into – and not just because it's essentially a one-stop pop-up shop for any ink style you can imagine. They're also holding competitions on all three days – including a Worst Tattoo Contest.
🥁 Alamo Mo' Mo' Mo'
Even if you've never heard of The Alamo Rehearsal Studios, chances are you've heard it. Countless local bands and musicians have developed their chops and honed their sound at Kirk Moll's hive of practice spaces clustered in the building famously reminiscent of The Alamo and/or Taco Bell. The Alamo celebrates 30 years of keeping Las Vegas loud with an Oct. 24 bash at Backstage Bar & Billiards. Waaay back in the day, I wrote a story where I just wandered from studio to studio, chatting with random bands, sampling the buffet of diverse sounds. 10/10, would risk squalling tinnitus again.
📚 Viva Voluminous Vegas
Hands down, the best panel at the Las Vegas Book Festival was "The Tortured History of Books About Las Vegas," a witty and supremely info-dense survey of key fiction and nonfiction written about Las Vegas, featuring The List's very own word-herder Scott Dickensheets as a panelist. Even more info-densely, the panelists helpfully compiled an exhaustive bibliography of noteworthy Vegas books. Looks like my reading is covered for the next 79 years.
🎨 Sounds Sketchy
Here's what's (hopefully not) shaking Nov. 10 at the West Charleston Library: the reception for "Unshakeable: Etch A Sketch Art Around the World, 1986-2024," featuring 15 of the world's most prolific (and patient) Etch A Sketch artists in "the largest and most comprehensive collection of preserved Etch A Sketch artwork to date." ✦ Glimpse Nevada's new national monument through an artist's eyes at the reception for Alina Lindquist's "Love Letters to Avi Kwa Ame" Oct. 26 at ASAP ✦ The paint runs red at Vegas Made's horror-themed art auction Oct. 27 at Atomic Golf ✦ Artists looking for practical inspiration will enjoy the dual talk by illustrator Amy Sol and sculptor Ross Takahashi Oct. 29 at the Historic Fifth Street School; they'll discuss and ins and outs of life as working artists.
🛍️ Freebies, Dealios, Swaps 'n' Markets
Get free entry to the Springs Preserve on Nevada Day Oct. 25, including the Nevada State Museum ✦ Use code LVLOCAL to get $5 off of TSTMRKT's Nov. 15 show at Cheapshot, promising their "most absurd content to date" ✦ Use code LISTLV for $5 off Scream'd at Majestic Repertory Theatre ✦ Use code SPOOKY to get two tickets for $30 to Beautiful Anarchy Burlesque Oct. 25 ✦ I wager there'll be hella swingin' deals and stylish scores at the yes-actually-award-winning Paradise Palms Neighborhood Yard Sale Nov. 2 ✦ (Re)start your engines for the Vegas Car and Bike Swap Nov. 3 for hard-to-find hot rod and motorcycle parts.
🎸 Fresh Finds
The Nov. 13 Hillbilly Casino show at The Usual Place sounds like a real twang bang ✦ The ongoing Oscar's Dinner Series at The Plaza seems to be a gangbusters success; snag tix now for the next installment Nov. 20 ✦ Sole-ful parody The Devil Wears Payless struts its stuff Nov. 21 at Majestic Repertory Theatre ✦ Whut, sludgepummel growlers Nest Nov. 8 at Dive Bar sports DNA from grindcore legends Pig Destroyer? Hold my bacon! ✦ This Ice Warriors wine-tasting Nov. 23 to benefit youth hockey isn't pucking around ✦ Tenaya Creek brews up a 25-year anniversary celebration Nov. 16.
🧹 The Junk Drawer
If I ever need to brush up on, um, everything I learned in life up 'til now, I'll be sure to hit up A Syllabus for Generalists ✦ I'm surprised but also not surprised to learn that, whoa, Kurt Vonnegut created a military strategy board game, now for sale ✦ My long-standing reservations about the militant aesthetics of power-walking makes me happy to read that aimless, bumbly strolling is actually better for you ✦ Any Nevada artists out there doing just-a-little-extra landscapes like these?
➤ Also: Say "high" to All Hallow's Eve at this canna-canny Halloween Party Oct. 30 at the Hard Rock Cafe ✦ Things go bump in the basement at The Mob Museum's Undergound Halloween Party Oct. 31 ✦ Trapeze? Please! Big top tricks triumph at the International Circus Festival Nov. 1-10 ✦ Get a glow-up at Sunset Park's Water Lantern Festival Nov. 2 ✦ Pickitup pickitup al fre-ska at Viva Ska Vegas Nov. 2 ✦ Lines will be crossed at Core Contemporary's Poetry Arcade Nov. 2-3.▼
Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival
A heroic dose of cosplay, comics, crafts, and more.
Nov. 2 ✦ Clark County Library➤ Also: Get booked at Enterprise Library's Indie Author Day Nov. 2 ✦ Horsin' around is encouraged at the Helldorado Days Rodeo Nov. 8-9 at The Plaza ✦ Meet famous stars at Astronomy at the Museum Nov. 9 ✦ Paint the (down)town at the East Fremont Festival of Arts Nov. 9.▼
Abandon
The season's beatings continue as this sacrilicious shocker returns.
Oct. 24-Nov. 3 ✦ Vegas Theatre Company➤ Also: Peep show meets creepshow at Double Down's Freak-O-Rama Oct. 30 ✦ Get literally ghosted at paranormal thriller A Skeptic and a Bruja Oct. 31-Nov. 10 at UNLV ✦ If Fremont Street isn't already scary enough, gear up for its Halloween Bash Oct. 31 ✦ Hot ghouls will make you shiver at Fat Cat's Sinful Burlesque Oct. 31 ✦ Island voices shine at Hawai'i Talk Story Nov. 2 at The Beverly Theater ✦ These fiery storytellers promise an Outburst Nov. 6 at Super Summer Theatre Studios.▼
➤ Also: It's crunch time at Viva Taco Fest Nov. 1-3 at Craig Ranch Park ✦ Feel the rhythms of true tribal funk with Pamyua Inuit Soul Band Nov. 1 at Windmill Library ✦ This sounds grave: Día de Muertos at Davis Funeral Home Nov. 2 ✦ Some bodies in hot water at TecopaFest Nov. 2 ✦ Celebrate native culture and community at Henderson's Indigenous American Heritage Celebration Nov. 10.▼
Thanks again for subscribing to and supporting The List. See you out and about! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
