🎃 Retro soul | Infinite pumpkin | Clown maze | Turbo grannies | Hella sandwiches | Alien fest | Greek-a-palooza

FALL IS OFFICIALLY here. I know that not from checking the calendar, but because the glare off my car's hood has stopped air-frying my eyebrows. Usher in autumn with this week's List, rich with seasonal food fairs, open-air concerts, and, of course, artisanal hell-clowns harvesting your shrieks of terror. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍

🔥 Hot ticket: Just in time for scary season, the nightmare minds behind Abandon unveil Urban Death Vegas to haunt your waking life starting Oct. 4 at Vegas Theatre Company.

roll with it

Paradice: Thee Sacred Souls headline this fest of fresh funk, psych, retro-rock and smooth soul.

Sept. 27 ✦ DLVEC

➤ Also: Hee-haw meets hip hop? Thursty Rodeo Sept. 25 at Park on Fremont ain't horsin' around ✦ It's playtime as Henderson Symphony Orchestra live-scores Toy Story Sept. 26 at Water Street Plaza ✦ Now hare this: Bugs Bunny at the Symphony Sept. 27 at The Smith Center ✦ Love switchblade cholo electro-goth? Your Prayers Sept. 27 are answered at Swan Dive ✦ Rise and shine for scorching stoner rock from Valley of the Sun Sept. 27 at Dive Bar ✦ Precious indie uplift is the mane attraction with Band of Horses Sept. 27 at Bel-Aire Backyard ✦ The music of the night is served al fresco at The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber Sept. 27 at Centennial Hills Park ✦ Psychobilly shakedown meets a revvin' car rave-up at Area 15's Zombie Rumble Sept. 28 ✦ Fremont Street joints will be lit at the Nevada Cannabis Awards Music Festival Sept. 28 ✦ Opera Las Vegas CEO Cecilia Violetta López sings her story in Mariposa Que Vuela Sept. 28 at Nicholas J. Horn Theatre ✦ Your latest flame in molten metal: High on Fire Sept. 28 at The Usual Place.▼

insane clown possibilities

Halloween Maze: Terrors lurk at every twist and turn in this claustrophobic clutch of crazies.

Opens Sept. 26 ✦ 8490 W. Desert Inn Road

➤ Also: Gorelesque go-go dancers, demon shots, and blood wrestling? It's peak Freak-O-Rama Sept. 24 at Double Down Saloon ✦ Sip ectoplasmic elixirs to calm your tell-tale heart at the Edgar Allen Poe Speakeasy Sept. 25-28 at Notoriety ✦ You can't mask your love for nu-metal cosplay kings Mudvayne Sept. 26 at The Palms ✦ This sounds McFly: '80s Things: Back to the Future 40th Anniversary Bash Sept. 26 at The Composers Room ✦ Trip hard on big-top beats at secret Psychedelic Circus Sept. 27 ✦ Funereal fun is on the slab at The Bonfire's Dark Carnival Sept. 27 ✦ You'll be saucer-eyed at what keynote George Knapp reveals at AlienFest Sept. 27 at Windmill Library.▼

AGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

Golden Girls: The Tribute Show: A draggy celebration of the garrulous grannies of sitcom fame.

Sept. 27 ✦ The Space

➤ Also: Goth girl magic casts a satirical spell in The Craft'd Sept. 25-27 at Majestic Repertory Theatre ✦ Night City titties get uploaded at No Cover: Cyberpunk Sept. 25 at Red Dwarf ✦ A Public Fit's Ironbound Sept. 26-27 at Clark County Library is a steely look at the American Dream ✦ Fundraising festival Weekend at Mom's Sept. 26-28 laughs all the way to the bank ✦ It's a murderous marriage of jealousy and ambition in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler Sept. 26-28 at UNLV ✦ Laugh out loud (but not too loud) at Don't Tell Comedy Sept. 27 in DTLV ✦ Séduction Féroce Sept. 27 at The Lexi is big-top burlesque with bite.▼

Gyro worship

Greek Fest: Have a helluva Hellenic time at this food and culture bash.

Sept. 26-28 ✦ St. John Greek Orthodox Church

➤ Also: Brews, bites, and steep discounts abound at Akin Cooperative's Tea Party Sept. 26 ✦ Dark Sister serves up Zeus juice at Last Friday: Greek Mythology Sept. 26 ✦ You're in for a good tine at Fork in the Desert International Food Festival Sept. 27-28 at Aliante ✦ Link up at Boulder City's superlative sausage party the Würst Festival Sept. 27 ✦ Sip, stroll, swill, stumble, repeat at New Vista Wine Walk Sept. 27 at Downtown Summerlin ✦ See how old-timey sarnies and grinders stack up in Sandwiches of History: Live Sept. 29 at The Beverly Theater.▼

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🥩 Food and Loathing

You grotto check out Tuscan Cove's new weekend brunch menu ✦ The views are rare at James Trees' High Steaks at The Rio, now taking reservations ✦ Barrels of flavor roll at the The Sazerac Legacy Tasting Sept. 27 at The Rio ✦ Swap garnachas, godellos y más at Crush Pad's Spanish Wine Bottle Share Sept. 27 ✦ Joël Robuchon marks 20 years with a sweet 16-course dégustation dinner Oct. 3-6 ✦ Big Dog's Dogtoberfest Oct. 4 boasts brats and tail-wagging ales. – curated by Bob Barnes, who dishes about these and more at FoodandLoathing.Vegas

🍺 The Happiest Hours

Guzzle globally at these happy hours celebrating international cuisine: Toss back $8 pizzas, meatballs discounted vino at Pizza Rock ✦ José Andrés' inventive China Poblano floats $13 salt "air" margaritas and $8.50 quesabirria ✦ Spritz on $12 aperols and wines at Vetri Cucina plus $4 oysters ✦ Grand deals at Petite Boheme, including $5 beers, $8 martinis, and $12 raviole de Dauphine ✦ $10 endlessly entertains at Showbar, including cocktails and fancy shots. – curated by Andrew Morgan, who writes about these and more at Happy Hour Vegas

🗣️ The Junk Drawer

Maybe if I armor myself in these Gear Brands With a Lifetime Warranty I'll be indestructible ✦ Prepare to be perpetually Yelled at By Dumbasses well into the near future ✦ Yes yes please gimme that suh-weet sabbatical ✦ My evolving theory is that purgatory is an endless, infuriating CAPTCHA box.

all the jangles

Iris and the Shade: An indie-folk duo so disarmingly refreshing and winsome I can't even think of something clever to write.

Sept. 27 ✦ The Griffin

keeping it unreal

Elaine Hsieh Chou: An evening with a superbly surrealist storyteller spinning unsettling fictions.

Sept. 26 ✦ The Writer's Block

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