⛰️ Mountain fest | Foam rave | Romeo who? | Spicy jazz | Killer girlbot | Yacht monster | Night clowns
SUMMER IS AN INDOOR sport in Las Vegas, and that's perfectly fine with me – I'm looong over having to prove my dubious toughness by leaving the house before, like, 7 p.m. Lucky for us, most of the hot picks in this week's List take place within stumbling distance of a life-sustaining a/c vent. Other happenings are equally cool, boasting chill mountain vistas and, yes, temp-stabilizing foam explosions. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
Elvis Costello: The barroom balladeer with a heart of punk performs.
➤ Also: Everybody's working for the final weekend at Vamp'd to see Loverboy June 27 ✦ Vegas is on target for breezy sunset-drive pop uplift with The Strike June 27 at Area 15 ✦ Orchestrate a night of musical hits when composer Jason Robert Brown June 27 sets the score at Myron's ✦ Kitty Pine hosts a night of island vibes at The Unusual Reggae Show June 28 at The Usual Place ✦ Assemble your Broadway besties for ensembles at I Love Musicals! June 28 at The Composers Room ✦ Pour up a serving of sultry, freeform funk-soul with Kikimora June 28 at Voodoo Brewing Co. ✦ From sunny SoCal, The Familiar Faces June 29 scorch up the Sand Dollar Lounge with psychedelic throwback chops.▼
& Juliet: Wherefore art she? Living a bad-ass second act after Romeo.
➤ Also: Toast the curtain call of Fallout Fringe Fest June 25 at Davy's Locker ✦ Night time is the right time for ballistic slapstick with 1230 Clowns June 27 at Vegas Theatre Company ✦ Next-gen dancers make dynamic moves at Ballet Today and Tomorrow June 27 at Summerlin Library ✦ Feast on bittersweet family drama at The Cold Buffet June 27-28 at Clark County Library ✦ Buckets of bloody fun splash the dance floor at Horror Prom June 28 at Millennium Fandom Bar ✦ The catwalk is a conveyor belt of infinite styles at Endless Summer Fashion Show June 28 at Audio Bar ✦ Catch the sonic spirit in stereo at Rock n Roll Church June 29 at The Composers Room ✦ Downtown Summerlin becomes a vroom town as the F1: The Movie merch trailer rolls up through July 11.▼
Foam Wonderland: It's a giant bubble bath with DJs. (Dr. Fresch, above, will scrub your back.)
➤ Also: Power up for 8-bit beats and eclectic electro at Synthwave Night June 25 at The Griffin ✦ Film pros screen the reboot of ferocious femmebot M3GAN 2.0 June 26 at Downtown Cinemas ✦ The Cabaret Review June 26 dashes from belly dancing to ballet grace to ballroom moves at Taverna Costera ✦ Fall for the Casiocore of Crystal Castles at Not In Love June 27 at Oddfellows ✦ A sea monster of smooth rock surfaces when Yachtzilla June 27 takes the Downtown Grand ✦ Get under the parking garage for a peep beneath the hood of the Vegas Classic Car Festival June 27-28 at Ahern Hotel ✦ 702 Market pumps up the Fantastic parking lot with a splash zone at Summer Fest June 28 ✦ Check out women DJs dropping beats and knowledge at rave + networker Electric Tracks & Stacks June 28 at East Las Vegas Library ✦ Live-painting artists brush up an Asian persuasion at Japanese June June 28 at Area 15 ✦ Feel the burn as techno terrors Lords of Acid plus Little Miss Nasty June 29 heat up Area 15.▼
DjangoVegas!: Paulus Schäfer and other nimble-fingered hot-club heavies jazz up downtown.
➤ Also: Double your aural pleasure with flute-and-guitar combo Folias Duo June 27-29 at local libraries ✦ Nuwu Art Gallery + Community Center marks five years with Mawnuhk, games, and food June 27 ✦ Fall in rhythm with your family at World Beat Drum Circle June 28 at Summerlin Library ✦ Help a community garden continue to flourish at the Obodo Fundraising Festival June 29 ✦ The Las Vegas Men's Chorus makes it personal in Broadway Our Way June 29 at UNLV ✦ Vegas City Opera covers a rainbow of voices in The Pride Icons Show June 29 at Summerlin Library.▼
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⚾ The Dish List
Triple George swings for the fences at the Chef Takeover June 25 at Las Vegas Ballpark ✦ Orange you going for a taste of la dolce vita at the Granriviera mimosa launch June 26 at Eataly? ✦ Atomic Liquors is a ground zero for a nuclear 73rd Birthday Party June 27 ✦ DJs, discounts, and deep pours are on tap at Eataly's Summer Festa June 27 ✦ Vino and vinyasa blend at For the Love's Stretch, Sip, and Shop June 27 ✦ Communal cabernets and public pinots pour at Crush Pad's Bottle Share June 28 ✦ Brunch with a side order of oontsa at the DJ-fortified Beats N Eggs June 28 at Audio Bar ✦ Nacho Daddy hosts a cheesy and crispy girls' night out at Señorita Saturday June 28 ✦ Stir up your own Downtown Breeze with Telson Tequila at F the Bar's Cocktail Class June 28 ✦ Find out what the buzz is about at the Café Con Leche Puro Coffee Brunch June 28 at La Mona Rosa.
🍹 So That Happened
Vegas has happy hours hopping around the the clock, but this one is historic, literally: Cocktails & True Tales June 27 at The Composers Room. At this installment of the oral history mixer put on by the Nevada Preservation Foundation, longtime Las Vegans will dish on what it was like to grow up here – recalling fond memories, defunct hot spots, brushes with celebrity, and life before maddeningly ubiquitous construction cones. Got some recollections you wanna riff on? The night ends with an open mic memory-sharing sesh.
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