🍺 Lawn beer | Puppet slam | Aerial circus | Hella hippies | Freebies! | Monkey ska | Mental art
WHATEVER YOUR TRIBE, there's a gathering for you in this week's List. Beer lover? Deadhead? A maniac for music? A niche fetishist for foul-mouthed puppets? Yessity yes yes! It's a rainbow coalition of subcultures up in here. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
🔥 Hot ticket! Glow forth with a fresh mindset at the Water Lantern Festival April 6 at Craig Ranch Park.
➤ Also: Rock and Roller Derby #6 March 21 slams beer, beats, and babes on wheels at The Dive Bar ✦ Rock & Roll Burlesque March 22 unleashes the Mobscene Bombshells' aerial striptease with live rock at The Composers Room ✦ The Las Vegas Men's Chorus does diva worship at The Ladies We Love March 23 at UNLV ✦ Mostly Bach March 23 delivers classical ear candy at Clark County Library ✦ Float Like a Buffalo March 23 brings Denver's groove machine to downtown's Sand Dollar ✦ NEXTET March 24 presents lively chamber music that's more exquisite corpse than decomposing composer at Doc Rando Hall.▼
➤ Also: There'll be a pole lotta acrobatics and more at Taste March 19 at Paymon's ✦ Wonderground March 20 spellbinds with sleight-of-hand spectaculars at Area 15 ✦ Viva La King March 20 celebrates masculine queerness with drag king energy at Red Dwarf ✦ Down To Business March 21 turns corporate culture into improv comedy gold at Mom's Basement Theatre ✦ Make a stanza for women at Mujer, Música, y Poesía March 21 at Winchester Dondero Cultural Center ✦ Awesome aerialists and acrobats fly high at the World Circus Arts Championships March 21-22 at Cornerstone Park ✦ The Sin Sity Sisters 20th Anniversary March 22 marks two decades of divine drag sisters with crimson couture and catered nibbles at The Usual Place.▼
➤ Also: Night Market March 19 transforms Rainbow Library into a shopper's paradise with local handcrafted treasures ✦ Blind Boxed 360 March 21 turns Swan Dive into a collectibles rave where mystery boxes meet bass drops ✦ Wetlands Art Day March 22 lets your inner Monet bloom with plein air painting and watercolor workshops ✦ Delilah's Dead March 22 serves Grateful Dead tribute jams with a side of smoky BBQ at SoulBelly ✦ Sate your inner locavore when Farmers Market March 23 brings artisanal produce and sustainable goods to Area 15 ✦ Sneaker Sunday March 23 celebrates two years of footwear flexing at Heat Exchange ✦ Playful Pastime March 25 jams soulful sounds with live painting and gamified musical shenanigans at The Composers Room.▼
Art U OK?
Check your head at this art fest focused on mental health.
March 22 ✦ Historic Fifth Street School➤ Also: Something Old as Something New March 20 excavates Vegas history through David Lampel's artistic archaeology at Pearson Gallery ✦ Canvas and Cocktails March 20 turns Container Park into an open-air studio ✦ Jive Yoga March 22 bends bodies with poses followed by pints at Jive Turkey ✦ After Hours March 22 keeps the creative juices flowing until 2 a.m. at ThirtyThree Gallery ✦ Transfiguraciones book release party March 23 celebrates literary drag with performances that leap from page to stage at Swan Dive.▼
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🥂 The Dish List
Spring Wine Tasting March 20 lets sommelier Emily Baddock guide your palate through a quintet of natural wines at Akin Cooperative ✦ Icons of Napa & Sonoma March 20 pairs Quintessa, Faust, and Flowers' finest vintages with Del Frisco's culinary creations ✦ Classic vs. Curious March 22 pits old-school vintners against rule-breaking mavericks at Crush Pad ✦ Barmania March 23 shakes up a cocktail competition while raising money for St. Baldrick's at Herbs & Rye ✦ A Taste of Mindanao March 24 serves up Halal-certified southern Filipino flavors with a side of cultural storytelling at Winnie & Ethel's ✦ Slice Out Hunger's Pizza Tailgate March 24 tosses pies for a cause at Pizza Rock ✦ Tacos and Tamales Festival March 28-30 fills Desert Breeze with masa masterpieces and lucha libre theatrics ✦ Bar Snacks March 29 turns Sparrow + Wolf into a late-night dim sum playground ✦ R&B and Ribs March 30 drops soulful beats and saucy BBQ at Fergusons Downtown.
🪴 Growth Potential
Wanna make room for improvement? Expand your horizons at these wellness events: As I Am March 21 strips away your social masks with affirmations, poetry, and complimentary tea at The Gather House ✦ Get sage advice on how to Build Your Own Smudge Bundle March 22-23 at Krystal Kartel ✦ Psychedelic Breath Work March 24 promises mind-expanding oxygen techniques while suspended in anti-gravity hammocks at Shine Alternative Fitness ✦ New Moon Sound Bath March 28 immerses your chakras in lunar-powered vibrations that'll have your stress molecules running for cover at The Zen Place ✦ Mystic Fair March 29 summons tarot readers, spell bags, and belly dancers for a new moon metaphysical playground at Windmill Library. – curated by Niki Sligar
🆓 Free to Be
Suh-weet freedom rings at these upcoming events that are complimentary, gratis, no charge, on the house: Free Skate March 19 lets you glide on Silver Knights' territory with 199 of your closest friends at America First Center ✦ Living with Wildlife March 20 turns bird-brained neighbors into educational fodder at Centennial Hills Library ✦ Circus of Song March 21 celebrates women zoologists with animal melodiesat West Charleston Library ✦ Creative Performances Theater Workshop March 22 help you develop thespian chops worthy of standing ovations at Spring Valley Library ✦ Women's DJ Afternoon March 22 demystifies turntables for the ladies who've always wanted to drop beats at East Las Vegas Library ✦ Spring Fair March 23 raffles, crafts, and feeds your family's weekend at Spring Valley Library ✦ Red Night March 25 slashes capitalist alienation with queer monster aesthetics at the Marjorie Barrick Museum. – curated by Ginger Meurer
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👂 Fresh Finds
The Van Gogh Shogh March 27 turns clowning, painting, and art auctions into an existential crisis with solo performer Donna Oblongata at Cornish Pasty Co. ✦ DJ Koco & Cut Chemist March 27 bring rare Japanese turntablism talent alongside scissor-handed beat maestros at The Usual Place ✦ Death of A Unicorn March 29 transforms post-screening chatter into podcast fodder with Piecing It Together at Downtown Cinemas ✦ High Tea In The Sky April 5 elevates your pinky-raising game with boozy brews and million-dollar views at Circa's Legacy Club ✦ Clark County Fair & Rodeo April 9-13 bucks into Logandale with 600 pro riders trying not to become gritty dirtmeat.
📞 The Junk Drawer
Ah, today's muckily enshittified world wide web make me long for the days of dial-up modems, slow-chunking pages, and websites you'd update with a phone call? ✦ Because I'm a paranoid freak, I've been driving without the ever-present sonic wallpaper of Spotify lately and, yeah, now I get that my entire life doesn't need a soundtrack ✦ It's nice to know that if 'Murica reverts to a hunter-gatherer society, it won't be as violent as you might expect ✦ Daily outrage stoking your activist impulse but you don't know where to start? This handy 'zine is a flowchart for practical action.
Universal Language
A surreal comedy that transcends space, time, and Winnipeg.
March 21-24 ✦ The Beverly Theater
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