🍝 Italy fest | Pirate riot | Funky wine | Free trees | Rockabilly rave | Vinyl market | Design confab
WE'RE OFFICIALLY HERE. We're at that quivering quantum point of peak festival season where there's a fest (or feast) for every taste and persuasion. If it exists, it's in festivalogical form this week – whether you're into swashbuckling with pirates, flinging your pompadour to rockabilly rave-ups, or launching your lawn chair to float away on Caribbean grooves. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
🔥 Hot ticket! Here's music to your ears: Season subscriptions to The Smith Center's 2025-2026 Broadway season are now on sale.
➤ Also: The pasta is prologue to the carb carnival that is the San Gennaro Feast April 23-27 at The M Resort ✦ Safety is no joke at the laughter-spiked Punchlines With Purpose April 24 at Classic Jewel ✦ Craving barbecue, brews, and bangin' reggae? You're barking up the right tree at Big Dog's Peace, Love & Hoppiness Festival April 26 ✦ From calypso to Cuban, celebrate island sounds and flavors at the Caribbean Heritage Festival April 26 at Lorenzi Park ✦ The deals are out of this world at The Las Vegas Exchange Farmers Market April 27 at Area 15.▼
➤ Also: Strings sing amid LED glow as pop hits glimmer to life at Candlelight: Coldplay & Imagine Dragons April 24 at The Industrial ✦ Club life gets apocalyptically hot at the deliciously dark As the World Burns April 24 at Oddfellows ✦ Roll the dice and take the curves at all-Aries No Cover burlesque April 24 at Red Dwarf ✦ Old soul and new grooves rock it steady when the McCharmlys and The Escapers perform April 25 at The Usual Place ✦ It's a spin cycle of classic threads and throwback tunes at Vintage & Vinyl Market April 26 on 3rd Street ✦ Gogo dancers and ghostly surf-rock bands make waves at Beau Monde April 26 at Swan Dive ✦ Techno beats go bump in the night at throwback rave Oddyssey Noir April 26 at Area 15 ✦ Common Kings and other island music royalty round out the Holo Holo Music Festival April 26-27 at DLVEC ✦ Banda baddies Tiranos Del Norte and Banda Maguey bring the party to Fiesta En El Parque April 27 at Craig Ranch Park.▼
➤ Also: Sip & Smoke April 24 combines stogie sophistication with snappy Latin jazz at The Mob Museum ✦ Bottle Share April 26 turns strangers into drinking buddies through communal cork-popping at Crush Pad ✦ This Orin Swift Tasting April 26 pours bold, boundary-pushing wines at The Rio's Wine Cellar ✦ Tea Party April 27 transforms traditional high tea into high-proof elegance with scones, macarons, and merlot at The Wine Garden ✦ Stretch your horizons with yoga, art, sound baths, and local artisans at Glow Together Market April 27 at Fergusons Downtown.▼
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April 24-27 ✦ Downtown Las Vegas➤ Also: Sunny stanzas shine amid the grass as youths versify at Poetry in the Park April 24 at Silver Springs Amphitheatre ✦ Screen reel local talent at the Indie Vegas Film Festival April 24-27 at The Cannery ✦ UNLV Dance talent comes together at Convergence April 25-26 ✦ Power, consent, and sexual politics broil under the big top at salaciously satirical Waiting for Barnum April 26-27 at Super Summer Theatre Studios ✦ Blind your kids with science at the Las Vegas Science & Technology Festival April 25-May 3 ✦ Dive into delirious dungeon misadventures with comic (and cosmic) fantasy author Matt Dinniman April 27 at The Beverly Theater.▼
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Big Dogs and Bites of Europe team up for a transcontinental beer dinner collab April 23 ✦ National Pretzel Day and Maibock Keg Tapping April 25 pits local celebrities in doughy combat for charity cash and strong beer privileges at Hofbräuhaus ✦ Food Truck Mania April 26 turns Henderson's Booze District into a wandering wonderland of craft libations and mobile munchies ✦ National Prime Rib Day April 27 celebrates beef's most majestic cut with slow-roasted perfection and boozy bargains at Vic's Las Vegas ✦ Las Vegas African Restaurant Week May 1-11 brings the continent's culinary treasures to the desert with special menus and diaspora delights ✦ UNLVino May 2 uncorks its 50th anniversary with scholarly sips that transform tuition into tradition at Thomas & Mack Center.
🌳 Branch Managers
While the Southern Nevada Water Authority's quasi-despotic zeal for conservation is arguably misguiding Vegas into a becoming a melty microplastic turf-lined hell oven, one thing we can all agree on: Trees are rad. Leaf it to these events to help you add a little extra green to your Arbor Day: Learn the art of growing your own (food) from seedy specialists at Earth Day Market April 26 at Cactus Joe's ✦ There are trunks' worth of wisdom in the words of the experts at Arbor Day April 25 at the Extension Botanic Gardens ✦ Get down to earth with tree-planting and bounce-housing at this Arbor Day Celebration April 26 at Children's Memorial Park ✦ Henderson residents can get a shady deal with a free tree during Pittman Arbor Day April 26 at Wells Park ✦ Plant your feet at any Star Nursery on April 25 for a free drought-tolerant bottle tree with purchase.
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