🤣 Improv madness | Art auction | Runner party | Tiki dad | Corporate clowns | Trivia laughs | Killer barber
WHERE THERE'S A whim, there's a way – especially this week, stuffed with spontaneous happenings, from audience-driven improv to live-paint art auctions to trivia nights with a freewheeling theatrical bent. We are not making this up. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
Whose Live Anyway?
Bring your zingiest, zaniest suggestions to this freewheeling improv bash.
Feb. 22 ✦ UNLV➤ Also: Black voices soar at Spotlight Showcase's poetic power hour Feb. 20 at Clark County Library ✦ Catholic Guilt's Lonely Losers Club Feb. 21 proves misery loves comedy at Mom's Basement Theatre ✦ Opera Las Vegas gives Rossini the TMZ treatment in this Hollywood-ized The Barber of Seville Feb. 21-23 at Nicholas J. Horn Theatre ✦ Positively Arts gets totally tubular with this righteous '80s Prom Feb. 21 at Notoriety ✦ Life is a Cabaret (and Berlin is burning) at Majestic Rep through February ✦ Crack a whodunit for charity at Mystery at the Museum Feb. 22 ✦ The Queen's Cartoonists Feb. 25-26 turn animation classics into a jazz-hands circus at local libraries.▼
➤ Also: Wet on Wet Feb. 21 splashes fresh paint perspectives at Couch in the Desert ✦ The Neon Museum lifts Cirque's curtain with illuminating backstage tales through February ✦ People of Color Feb. 20 paints Black life in full spectrum at City Hall ✦ Molly Schulman turns personal scribbles into public art in Anec-notes Feb. 20 at Windmill Library ✦ The Mother's Roots Feb. 21 goes deep to explore Afrodiasporic visions Feb. 21 at Clark County Rotunda ✦ Black history blooms at Analog Dope's Roses celebration Feb. 22 ✦ Level up your iPhone snap game Feb. 22 at East Las Vegas Library ✦ Deborah Fox shares graphic novel secrets Feb. 22 at Nevada State Museum.▼
Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Fan Fest
Celebrate daring feets with games, food, music, and more.
Feb. 22 ✦ DLVEC➤ Also: Zonya de Laguardia's Cha Cha Cha Feb. 21 triple-steps back to The Composers Room ✦ Market in the Alley Feb. 22 goes Green (Valley) at The District ✦ The Historic Westside spreads big block party Love on Jackson Feb. 22 ✦ The Mystic's Gateway Feb. 22 pairs horse whispering with chakra clearing at Gladius Ranch ✦ Silent Yoga Feb. 22 lets your om do the talking at Fergusons Downtown ✦ Stair masters climb for air at Scale the Strat Feb. 23.▼
Workplace Team Building Event
Three clowns take on corporate absurdity with inhuman resources.
Feb. 20 ✦ Vegas Theatre Company➤ Also: Pubquiz Cabaret Feb. 19 pairs trivia with charity hijinks at Cornish Pasty Co. ✦ The Outburst Feb. 19 unleashes storytelling shenanigans at SST Studios ✦ Experience primate fear with Piecing It Together as horror goes apeshit in The Monkey Feb. 21 at Downtown Cinemas ✦ Vegas City Opera conjures Black Girl Magic Feb. 21-23 at local libraries ✦ The Jiggle Room Feb. 21 features curvy movers and shakers at Cheapshot ✦ Nerds Never Die Feb. 21 mixes imps and improv at Vegas Theatre Company ✦ Explore a mystery of history in The Three Murders of Helen J. Stewart Feb. 22 ✦ Lifestyle Laughter Feb. 22 gets frisky with the funny at Notoriety ✦ Psychobilly punks Koffin Kats dig up trouble Feb. 23 at The Usual Place.▼
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🍖 The Dish List
You'll dig it when Miner Family wines pair up with Bistecca's gourmet bites Feb. 19 ✦ They're throwing a sweet little book launch for Hot Date Feb. 19 at Palate ✦ Women with taste will enjoy Ladies Night Out spicing up Palate Feb. 20 ✦ Pleased to meatless: America's top vegan BBQ joint brings Southern comfort to Voodoo Brewing Feb. 22 ✦ Toast and tribute tiki godfather Don the Beachcomber Feb. 22 at The Golden Tiki ✦ Boulder Dam Brewing Co. taps into their 18th year Feb. 22 with beer and bands ✦ Pickled eggs, Yukon Pizza, and special brews ring in The Silver Stamp's fourth anniversary Feb. 22 ✦ Sweet, savory, and spicy blend by the Mindanao mouthful at the Sulu popup dinner Feb. 25 at Palate ✦ Beer Zombies' Chris Jacobs gets his undead head shrunk at Golden Tiki Feb. 26 ✦ Akin Cooperative pairs suds with spuds at Beer & Chips Feb. 27 ✦ The future looks bright (and beery) as Neon Desert Brewing pours anniversary suds March 1 ✦ Wing Wars March 2 turns Hofbrauhaus into pure poultry pugilism.
🧘 Growth Potential
Unwind, destress, recharge, and power up at these local wellness happenings. Yoga Nidra brings conscious napping to Queendom Cultivation Feb. 22 ✦ Wellness takes wing for every body at Jive Turkey Yoga Feb. 22 ✦ The Healing Hippie and Deeply Rooted awaken your inner goddess with playful painting, mirror play, and a tea bar Feb. 23 at a secret spot ✦ Give your heart chakra an artful rinse at Terry Mahoney's Sound Bath Feb. 23 at Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum ✦ Bring it in and hug it out as Hola Habibi holds space at the Community Grief Circle Feb. 24 ✦ Ecstatic Dance Feb. 25 turns The Doyle into a sacred sweaty sanctuary overflowing with kinetic energy. – curated by Niki Sligar
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🚗 Toying With You
No lie – and probs a commentary on my frozen state of emotional maturity – but even as a purported adult person I still get droolingly transfixed in the toy aisle when I stand before a wall of intricately gleaming Hot Wheels, even if they're probably wafting Chinese microplastics right into my brain stem. Tiny carheads are in luck this weekend when the 2025 Diecast Super Convention hits Ahern Feb. 20-23. It promises not just micro-rides from Hot Wheels and Matchbox, but also hyper-detailed collectibles from ascendant brands such as Greenlight and Nvrland. If diecast cars aren't exactly your plaything, hit the one-day 2025 Las Vegas Toy Show Feb. 23.
🪘 Fresh Finds
The Live Arts Collective movingly explores humanity's current condition in Re-Birth Feb. 27-28 at West Las Vegas Library ✦ Korabo Taiko March 1 brings percussive thunder to Centennial Hills Park ✦ After hibernation, the 1230 Clowns wake up in their makeup March 2 at Vegas Theatre Company ✦ StorySLAM March 15 gets under your skin with tattoo tales at Charleston Heights Arts Center ✦ Blush Burlesk pops tops with plenty of shimmy and shake starting March 17 at Champagne's.
🧼 The Junk Drawer
I have to remind myself 17,213 times a day that corporations are definitively sociopathic entities that don't have souls or consciences, but, hey, props to soap king Dr. Bronner for making mad suds over the dilution of B Corp standards ✦ Mesmerized by the ghostly, poignant visions of blind painter Bianca Raffaella ✦ Hm, travel-wise, looks like I'll be sticking to scenic-route road trips for a while ✦ Okay, sure, this is commodifying dissent, whatevz, but for a good cause. Plus I love books and hate Nazis aka you-know-who ✦ Here's a loose-knit, firecracker-string YouTube hot take-alysis that feels worth the effort: Trying hard is cool again. Enough aura, enough bare minimum, and more maximum maxed-out maximality!
Cocktails & True Tales
Get shaken and stirred with fellow Vegas history hounds.
Feb. 21 ✦ The Composers Room
Thanks again for supporting The List. See you out and about! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
