🎹 Piano ninja | Hotbox laughs | Four play | Stripper grads | Fuzzy soul nerds | Wine yoga | YOLO tales
IF YOU'RE SEEING double, do not adjust your screen. That's just this week's List – twice as nice with twin talents of every stripe, from comic caper-makers to dulcet duos. Cheers x 2! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
📝 Programming note for premium members: I'll be at the Arts and Culture Summit Aug. 21, so the ✦Weekender✦ is taking a break this week!
The Classics with Class: Duo Philip Fortenberry and Elisa Fiorillo hit all the right notes in this slow-burn cabaret show.
➤ Also: The Australian Pink Floyd Show Aug. 20 wishes you were here at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas ✦ Glow get yourself some Candlelight: Coldplay and Imagine Dragons Aug. 21-22 at The Industrial ✦ Put some funk in that trunk at Anu Sun's The Shed Open Jam Aug. 22 at Fat Cat ✦ No prohibitions on dancing to bluegrass jammers Ramsey's Bootleggers Aug. 23 at the West Charleston Library ✦ Depeche Mode fans' prayers are answered at Devotional Aug. 23 at Backstage Bar & Billiards ✦ The Man in the Mirror Aug. 24 tributes Michael Jackson in gloving fashion at the Westgate ✦ Musicology Duets Aug. 24 is a sonic two-fer at Fergusons Downtown.▼
The Comedy of Errors: Double – no, quadruple – your laughter in this Shakespearean farce of befuddled four-play.
➤ Also: Shanna Christmas letters in laughs at B Word Comedy Hour Aug. 20 at Fat Cat ✦ It's a sinful spin cycle at Trombo's Wheel of Fuckery Aug. 20 at the Double Down Saloon ✦ You can't refuse the jokes at The Laugh or Trash Show Aug. 22 at Quincey's Cigar Lounge ✦ The wit hits the fan at Nights at the Algonquin Round Table Aug. 22-23 at Las Vegas Little Theatre ✦ Giggle on the DL at Don't Tell Comedy Aug. 23 downtown ✦ Tangled YOLO yarns get spun at StorySLAM: No "Ragrets" Aug. 23 at Charleston Heights Arts Center ✦ Jonny Ravenscroft Aug. 26 at Cornish Pasty Co. serves comedy with the carbs ✦ Music school dropout Jessie "Jetski" Johnson Aug. 21 hits funny notes at Wiseguys Town Square.▼
Summer Striptease Showcase: Michelle L'amour hosts a bump 'n' grind graduation ceremony.
➤ Also: It's the end of the world as we know it (and you feel fine) at The Apocalypse Aug. 21 at Badlands ✦ The vixenish and vivacious Vegas Dolls Aug. 21 at La Jolla Nightclub aren't toying around ✦ It's a shapely shakedown of bulbous beauties at The Jiggle Room Aug. 22 at Cheapshot ✦ The Shoe Fetish Fashion Show Aug. 22 should keep sole-searchers on their toes at Area 15 ✦ Cemetery Pulp puts on a circus maximus for the buy-curious at Big Top Night Shop Aug. 23 ✦ Kitty's Rave Aug. 23 offers a purrfect night of pulsing beats at Area 15 ✦ They're having major fits at The Fashion Show*Offs Aug. 23 at Gipsy ✦ The Bonfire heats up with devilish dancers at Haus of Sin Aug. 23.▼
Men I Trust: Lush shoegaze soul music for introverts.
➤ Also: Don't be shallow: Dive into the deep end of house music at Night Swim Aug. 22 at the Rouge Room ✦ Slither into those skinny jeans for Not Another Emo Night Aug. 22 at Swan Dive ✦ Get an earful of truth in advertising with Tinnitus Aug. 23 at Dive Bar ✦ Hard-rock tribute The Bones Aug. 23 bend familiar pop songs 'til they break at The Tuscany ✦ Dance forever at hard rave Eternal Underground Aug. 23 at Ninja Karaoke ✦ Worship viscera-quaking wubs at Church of Bass Aug. 23 at Atomic Golf ✦ Make a concrete plan for tunes, vendors, and more at The Block Party Aug. 23 at Taverna Costera ✦ Soul child Scorpio Aug. 23 stings softly with smooth R&B plus poets Niko Mendoza and Mercedez Davis at Winchester Dondero Cultural Center ✦ "Daddy, why are mom's pupils black?" She's at Family Rave Aug. 24 at Area 15.▼
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🍹 The Dish List
Your Rx is still good for the $4.90 burger-versary at The Dispensary Aug. 20 and 22 ✦ Carve time out for The Golden Tiki's 10th birthday Aug. 20 with shrunken heads and sonic supplements ✦ I love this sentence: Maggiano's holds a Prisoner Wine Dinner Aug. 22 ✦ Get fruit-loopy on eight vino creations at the Summer Sangria Party Aug. 22 at Boulder Dam Brewing Co. ✦ Melon fans be ballin' at the Fallon Cantaloupe Festival Aug. 22-24 ✦ They mead business: Deadwood Meadery Aug. 23 toasts three years ✦ California dreamin' comes by the bottle at An Evening with Duckhorn & Sonoma-Cutrer Aug. 23 at the Rio ✦ Summer isn't just for sipping sauvs and chards; fall in love at The Red Affair Aug. 23 at Wineaux.
🤯 Do You Mind?
Apocalyptic news cycle got your head in a sadness spiral? It's by design; doomscrolling is intended to deaden yr heart and soul. Consider instead these diversions that connect and inspire. 👇
- Get handsy: Drink + Collage Zine Night Aug. 24 at Mission Control and ¡Tejido! Communal Workshop Aug. 24 at Spring Valley Library.
- Convene with creatives: Curiosity Lab Aug. 20 at Vegas Theatre Company, Cocktails & Creatives Aug. 21 at Taverna Costera, and A MAD Night Out at Main Arts District Gallery.
- Settle the score: Y2K Lotería Night Aug. 22 at Tacotarian and Plant Bingo Aug. 22 at The Beverly Theater
- Flame out: There's still time to find your tribe at Burning Man Aug. 24-Sept. 1.
😍 For our premium members: Most addictive movie trivia game ever, country with a queer twist, and how to make a wristwatch from scratch ... ▼
🍿 The Junk Drawer
Okay, this nifty li'l movie-quiz site Sub/Title is pretty addictive ✦ It seems as important as ever to remember the difference between answers and learning ✦ This guy makes watches from scratch in his basement ✦ An interesting argument that any type of housing creates affordable housing.
Paisley Fields: This sly and wry country strummer is indeed queer as folk.
Eddington: Won't you be my #$@! neighbor?
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