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🧨 Kaboom bang pow | Spongy musical | Plant comedy? | Weenie girlz | Quonset bar bash | Secret shows | Boy band brunch
HAPPY EXPLOSION FREEDOM party weekend! Putting aside any ambivalent fugue states we all might be vibrating in re: who owns "patriotism" and what it even means anymore 🤷, this week's List unifies us under the inclusive banner of fireworks and beer. A fan of quieter pleasures? We&
A unified theory of Showgirls
SHOWGIRLS IS BAD. This is close to a universally accepted truth. Much has written about how and why Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 stripper saga is bad. Some say it’s quite simply astoundingly bad; some argue its badness is an isotope of exotic camp worthy of cult-movie status; others make
✦Weekender✦ Bubble race | Toxic meat party | Crazy butts | Health con | Play date | Sultry soul | 'Zine party ✂️
FROM FRANTIC FOAM athletics to adult play dates to a party involving something called "gorelesque," here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 👯♀️ Friday June 27 * This one kinda requires a pre-emptive micro-explainer: Las Vegas has a weird fixation with the Crazy Girls butt
⛰️ 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
✦Weekender✦ Snake blues | Art bus | Pride rave | Star party | Make music | Deluded stasis | Traffic beauty🚦
FROM ROOFTOP wellness festivals to hush-hush comedy to bring-your-own-drum music jams, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 🍣 Friday June 20 * Last call for cheap charitable eats as Restaurant Week winds down today. If you're utterly cowed into option paralysis by the cornucopia
🧙♀️ Witch rock | Yoga social | '60s swingers | Mac 'n' cheese bash | Garlic fest?! | Juneteenth | Card wizards
SOME PEOPLE CALL it summer solstice, I call it that part of the year when the a/c hysterically heaves nonstop and my energy bill leaps into the wtf? mid-triple digits. Hot or not, this week sports hella chill treasures, from bendy yoga socials to mac 'n' cheese
🗝️ Vintage fest | Friday 13th | Cosmic disco | Pure rock | Acting weird | Drum symphony | Unlucky charms
YOU'RE IN LUCK this week of Friday the 13th – no hockey mask required. We've got an especially killer lineup of fun things to do, from retro shopfests to galactic dance parties to, geez, like 17 burlesque bashes with every thematic kink you can imagine. Cheers! – Andrew
✦Weekender✦ Disco market | Angry songbird | Dogs + foam | Ska'd for life | Rock 'n' troll | Tiki punx | Wormcore 🐛
FROM GLITTER-BOMBED night markets to sashaying hash browns to a "sploinky" dance party, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 🏁 Friday June 6 * Working Friday? Here's a nice nooner sneak-off: Lunch at Little Avalon (try the Spanish Bowl), stock up on
🧌 Freak theater | 243 dinners | Goblin metal | Wine + art | Hair stories | Movie tunes | Summer evil
KNOW WHAT'S WEIRD? This entire week! We've got fringe theater festivals, hair-raising stories (literally), and art shows that'll make your crotch cringe. All of which makes the singing goblin seem completely normal. Run that freak flag up the pole – you're in good
✦Weekender✦ Revenge music | Glue cult | Ogre party | Guitar expo | Pinball tourney | Martini yoga | French disco 🕺
FROM OGRE-BASED techno parties to volcanically emo opera to live-action art auctions, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 💎 Friday May 30 * I'm listing this out of curiosity, intrigue, and as a Dude Who Wears Beaded Bracelets™: The Whole Bead Show, which promises
👩🎤 Super musicals | Daytime rave | Funksplosion | Huuuge organ | Beer school | Gun rock | Fringe acts
THIS WEEK'S LIST is literally music to your ears. But don't worry, we've got your other sensorial inputs covered, too. Between big-hearted park musicals, explosive cabaret funk shows, and a guy wrestling awe-inspiring songs from a ginormous pipe organ, you'll be cranking
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✦Weekender✦ Death coffee | Not-sorry art | Glow hike | Hip hop stories | Goth day | Yacht brunch | Nurse comedy 💉
FROM SWAMP BLUES at a movie theater to adventurous photo walks to super spring carnivals, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 Note: Apologies for the glitch that made Wednesday's List text extra teensy on phones. We've fixed it! ☠️ Friday May
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🥃 Magic cocktails | Sunday shopfest | Punkageddon | Tipsy opera | Cringe emo flick | Freebies! | Dog yoga
MOHAWKS AND VIKING helmets and vampire fangs and trick playing cards – this week's a mosh pit of simmering subcultures that reflect the breadth of wide, weird Vegas. Not finding your tribe? Oh, you'll have plenty of company besides, whether it's at some open-air Shakespeare
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✦Weekender✦ Yay crime | Alien wreck | Plant bingo | Sunflower chill | Hella Legos | Loud stoners | Vintage bikes 🏍️
FROM Y2K ROCK revivals to palate-piquing wine flights to spooky alien crash-landings, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 🎸 Friday May 16 * So last week I had dinner at the surprisingly good Mexican restaurant Alebrijes in – stay with me here – Neonopolis. (Try the grasshoppers, seriously;
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🥃 500 tequilas | Wild dance | Cosmic rock | Bingo slam | Drunk vampires | Night swim | Lego science
THERE'S SOMETHING IN the air. It could be a bank of EDC molly fog peppering the Vegas air, or it could be spring officially snapping into place. Whatever it is, it's giving a certain je ne sais whatevz backspin to this week's happenings, from
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✦Weekender✦ Starry jazz | Wurst time | Midnight mimes | Implosion rock | Furry fun | Graffiti sesh | Tequila street 🌵
FROM OPEN-AIR jazz lawn parties to dog gymnasium raves to 3D floral brunches, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 🥨 Friday May 9 * The improbably quaint and also just-plain-improbable German-American Social club – an island of volksy Euroquirk on Lake Mead Boulevard – is hosting its two-day
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🥳 Huge parade | Hillbilly Hamlet | Hendo artfest | Foodie park | Night clowns | Beethoven drama | Dog rave
WITH A WATERLOGGED weekend behind us, I'm plunging into this week with full faith and credit afforded to good weather karma. Perfect timing, too: We've got grand downtown parades, south valley art festivals, park foodie blowouts, and so much more in the pipeline. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly
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✦Weekender✦ Wine walk | Cinco jams | Mohawk omelet | Derby Day | Mystery train | Gem fest | Bird nerd 🦉
FROM LOCOMOTIVE MURDER mysteries to comic book giveaways to fabulous Cinco fiestas, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 🚂 Friday May 2 * This Mother's Day, shoot your mom. The ever-expansively eclectically programmed Library District is offering multiple appointment slots for free fancy-schmancy glam
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👽 Galactic striptease | UNLVino | Ticket promo! | Aloha fest | Puppy metal | Vampire ball | Theater rave
THERE'S MORE THAN one way to catch a buzz – and this is the week to catch 'em all. Whether your pleasure center's piqued from a nice pinot, a kicky convo about Vegas history, or some sultry, spectral rock 'n' roll, we've
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✦Weekender✦ Vintage records | Monster surf | Jazz jam | Cat pageant?! | Shed funk | Opera flicks | Food truck fair 🚚
FROM PRETZEL-GORGING keg-tappings to groovin' patio parties to spooky surf sounds, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 🎞️ Friday April 25 * I confess to feeling a certain odd kinship toward the malty Bavarian brew maibok in that I, too, was once described as "
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🍝 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
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✦Weekender✦ Speakeasy party | Puppet wars | Biker pig | Grateful drag | Pot circus | Shop-pocalypse | Bunny brunch 🐣
FROM SECRET BASEMENT jazz parties to dog park bunny hops to grassy reggae festivals, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 🎭 Friday April 18 * The noxious miasma of despair, the pangs of regret and anger, the simmering, seething rage ... yeah, scrolling the news has never
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🌯 Foodie fest | Weed fair | Aloha sounds | Chalk party | Emo wrestling | Elf ballet | Antique beers
YOU DON'T HAVE to be a Wrestlemania fan to appreciate the vibe shift it brings to town. Doesn't everything seem edged with a little extra this week? The concerts louder? The comedy funnier? The food festivals foodier? If Vegas is a living cartoon, this week the