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🕺 Flamenco disco | Murder she LOLed | Dirt race | Juggalo fight | Mimosa strippers | Mexican ballet | Crazy quartet

Andrew Kiraly

05 Mar 2025 — 8 min read

Red scare: Ruby Rocket isn't your average private investigator – she's a hilariously drunk detective who weaves together clues when she isn't weaving between bars. Blending noir tale-spinning, old-school slapstick, and multimedia backdrops, Ruby Rocket: Private Eye March 7 at Mom's Basement Theatre promises a seamy, silly whodunit that's a crime to miss.

DO NOT ADJUST your screen. All those trippy hues you're seeing are gushing outta this week's slate of colorful happenings, from vibrant Mexican ballet to florid Hawaiian markets to blooming rooftop musical festivals. Taste the rainbow indeed. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍

🔥 Hot ticket! We've got grape expectations for this one: Tickets to UNLVino May 2 – toasting 50 years! – are now on sale.

Ballet Folklórico De México

Mexico City's acclaimed troupe dances through history in vibrant hues.

March 11 ✦ The Smith Center

➤ Also: Bloom Fest March 5 turns Taverna Costera's roof into a garden of music, poetry, and vendors ✦ The Shed Open Jam March 7 at the Fat Cat doubles as emcee and jam-master Anu Sun's birthday bash ✦ Get your grito on as bandas battle at Mariachi Extravaganza March 8 at UNLV ✦ Holoholo Market March 8 brings island vibes to Fergusons Downtown ✦ Candlelight: Hans Zimmer March 7 gives his epic movie scores the candle-lit quartet treatment at The Industrial ✦ Palaver Strings' "Songbook" March 9 blends South African heritage with classical strings at Summerlin Library ✦ Women Composers in Concert March 8 celebrates International Women's Day with original works at UNLV ✦ Balkan Bar and Grill March 9 dishes up a menu of authentic sounds ✦ Boy oh oy: Purim Parade March 9 brings costume revelry and food trucks to Tivoli Village ✦ ABT Studio Company March 11 showcases ballet's rising stars taking a leap at UNLV.▼

Fry Street Quartet

"Visionary," "scorching," "OMG super-duper-crazy technical," say critics.

March 6 ✦ UNLV

➤ Also: Opera on Tap March 6 brings arias to the bar at The Space ✦ First Friday March 7 turns the Indie Stage into a desert rock oasis ✦ Vegas City Opera's Circus of Song March 7 celebrates women who talk to the animals at Summerlin Library ✦ Nocturnal Ambitions Festival March 7 packs 17 bands and an after-party into 12 hours at Hola Habibi ✦ Paco Versailles March 8 brings "Dancemenco" (flamenco + disco) to Swan Dive ✦ Psychedelic funk punks Victims Family March 11 headlines The Dive Bar's punk extravaganza with local faves The Bitters and Fat Dukes of Fuck.▼

Fit Fest

Run for your life (in a good way) at this spring wellness fling.

March 8 ✦ Skye Canyon

➤ Also: Juggalo Championship March 6 combines face paint, pro wrestling, and rap in one unholy matrimony at Fremont Country Club ✦ RISE to the Future March 6 showcases elementary schoolers doing sci-fi films and stylish fashion at Moonlight Karaoke ✦ Free Skate March 7 lets you glide where the Silver Knights battle at America First Center ✦ Big League Weekend Bash March 8 brings Stomper the elephant and speed pitch challenges to Downtown Summerlin.▼

Steel Magnolias

Beauty is more than skin deep in this heartwarmer about female friendship.

March 7-9 ✦ Las Vegas Little Theatre

➤ Also: Phil Kotler and Friends March 5 turns audience suggestions into long-form improv magic at The Composers Room ✦ Off The Rails March 5 brings Kill Tony alum Todd Royce's free weekly comedy to Sand Dollar ✦ Bang Bang You're Dead March 6-16 tackles school violence with raw teenage intensity at Vegas Theatre Company ✦ Catch Mickey 17 March 8 and dissect this capitalist comedy of errors with Piecing It Together Podcast at Downtown Cinemas ✦ Who-fore art thou? Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors March 8 brings mistaken-identity mayhem to Silver Springs Recreation Center ✦ Savour March 9 pairs bubbly mimosas with burlesque at Jackpot Bar & Grill ✦ Mavericks March 5-9 delivers the flirty, filthy Vegas variety show the Strip is too scared to host at The Plaza.▼

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🍝 The Dish List

Delilah pairs Screaming Eagle's cult-status wines with a multi-course dream team dinner March 8 ✦ Murder & Mimosas March 9 turns brunch into a whodunit where your eggs Benedict comes with a side of suspicion ✦ Two James Beard nominees join forces for Latin American flavors at Garagiste March 10 ✦ Basilico marks a fantastico two years with a special menu March 12-16 ✦ National Popcorn Lovers Day March 13 celebrates our favorite movie snack with trivia and plenty of kernel knowledge ✦ Pizzaiolo for a Day March 13 lets you knead, toss, and top alongside Naples-born Chef Enzo Febbraro at Allegro ✦ Beer & Brush March 13 combines craft brews with crafty leprechauns at HUDL Brewing.

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Brawling beauty: So, does *gestures at everything* have you down? What you clearly need is merciless art that slams your face into the turnbuckle. So check out Vs: Wrestling Art March 6, a new group exhibit at the Sahara West Library. Before you dismiss this as some gimmicky kayfabe hypeshizz, peep its list of artists, among them Robert Beckmann, Matt Cooper, Krystal Ramirez, JK Russ — no fakes, so you're going down for the count. At least you're still alive, unlike the subjects of Vacancy, also opening March 6, featuring David Cooper's affecting drawings of dead Las Vegas motels at the Charleston Heights Arts Center. They're wistful yet melancholy, inhospitable hospitality centers haunted by a nostalgia for, well, us. Elsewhere: With "DEI" under assault everywhere — looking at you, library district — there's no better time to absorb the message of People of Color, showing in City Hall: that Black history is American history. Curated by Brent Holmes, artists include Ashanti McGee, Joseph Watson, and Vogue Robinson. No fakes here, either. – Scott Dickensheets

🚗 Fury Roads

The legendarily grit-billowing, rattle-trapping, piston-flinging Mint 400 road race is happening March 7-8 in Primm. If you want a taste of all that monster energy minus the clotty lungfuls of PM10, check out the Mint 400 Off-Road Festival March 6 on Fremont Street, featuring 10 blocks of food, merch, and a whole lotta mechanical monsters on knobby-ass wheels. If all the moto madness makes you feel a bit giddy and gonzo, that's just a bit of free-floating lit inspo: 1971's Mint 400 was the wild seed of Hunter S. Thompson's frenetic New Journalism classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

💗 Growth Potential

Zen up, chill out, and peer inward at these upcoming wellness events: Love Embassy Sunday Gatherings March 9 offers spiritual awakening with a side of sound healing at UNLV ✦ Sketch & Scribe March 9 lets nature be your muse on a First Creek Trail adventure at Red Rock ✦ Featuring The List's very own Niki Sligar and Vegas rock legend Paul Summers Jr., 528 Hz Psychedelic Breathwork March 9 vibrates your spirit molecules at frequencies that might recharge your DNA ✦ Harmony in Bloom dates in March at Gilcrease Orchard blossom with chair yoga, seated meditation, and potted perks ✦ Anti-Gravity Sound Bath March 10 elevates your relaxation to hammock-floating heights at Shine Alternative Fitness ✦ Breathe & Be March 15 helps young minds find their inner zen at Bottega Exchange ✦ A Green Tea Affair March 17 steeps generosity and cucumber sandwiches for a perfect charitable brew. – curated by Niki Sligar

🌎 The Free World

Is there such thing as too much freedom? Our wheelbarrow runneth over with even more community events that'll cost you nothing, naught, zippo, goose egg, diddly-squat: The Women Who Saved History March 6 sees Su Kim Chung sharing her archival adventures at Paseo Verde Library ✦ The Dean's Picks lecture March 7 brings MGM's entertainment mastermind Daniel Bernbach to spill showbiz secrets at the Barrick Museum ✦ Walk with a Doc March 8 lets you stroll through colon health topics with UNLV's gut expert at Angel Park ✦ The Youth Maker Fair March 12 turns mini-humans into master creators at West Charleston Library ✦ Pitch-A-Friend March 13 transforms your bestie into PowerPoint dating data at 18bin ✦ The St. Patrick's Festival March 14-16 brings Celtic carnival chaos to Water Street Plaza ✦ Night Market March 19 transforms Rainbow Library into a shopper's paradise with crafty vendors and live tunes. – curated by Ginger Meurer

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🐰 Fresh Finds

The Spring Fair March 23 springs into action with raffle-ready fun and book bargains at Spring Valley Library ✦ Amp'd Up Art Festival March 29 cranks the creative volume to eleven at Craig Ranch Park ✦ Pineapple Fest March 29 serves up a juicy slice of local music and art at Lorenzi Park ✦ Magic Is Friendship April 3 blends Broadway sparkle with pop pizzazz at Vegas Theatre Company ✦ Water Lantern Festival April 6 lets your hopes and dreams set sail in a sea of glowing wishes at Craig Ranch Park.▼

🥱 The Junk Drawer

I need to stop struggling against insomnia and just admit that it's probably because well of course I'm the next Kafka ✦ Wut, huh, wait, stop the vibe train, I was just getting used to indie sleaze and now everyone's into boom boom? ✦ I will shill to the hilt for Lenovo computers anytime, anywhere, and now, rad, they're tapping solar power for a new model ✦ To my rad wife, who just finished Mrs. Dalloway and was stultified by its semicolon-studded, stream-of-consciousness text wall: Your next read awaits! ✦ If, like me, you're given to publicly wishing ill will toward our saggy mango diaper daddy-in-chief, here's your handy mantra for the next four (?) years: "I don't want to talk to you. I want to talk to a lawyer."