🤡 Summer beer | Clown murder | God chorus | Hyper ska | Naked dance | Goth prom | Early Halloween
THOUGH THE TEMPERATURES IN Southern Nevada rise and fall with each newly freakish week of Anthropocene climate collapse, one thing remains constant: Clowns. Also beer. Which is another way of saying that the secret to the stubborn durability of Vegas culture is our weather-tested resourcefulness and resolve. The heat is on, but we're still cooking. Go do cool things. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
🔥 Hot ticket: The one where an iconic sitcom gets the simulation treatment in Vegas: The Friends Experience opens July 23.
Clown Bar: This hard-nosed, red-nosed noir about a clownland murder is no laughing matter. (Okay, it is.)
➤ Also: Hoods pop in the 18b 'hood at Cars in the Arts July 16 ✦ It's a midweek ha-ha-holiday with The B Word Comedy Hour July 16 at Fat Cat ✦ Last weekend to squeeze in The SpongeBob Musical July 16-19 at Spring Mountain Ranch ✦ Collagist Anthony Bondi pieces together a Vegas upbringing at Flamingo Wash July 17 at The Writer's Block ✦ Jiggling jesters mix silly with sexy at Clownin' Around After Dark July 17 at Hola Habibi ✦ News you shouldn't snooze: The Pajama Game continues July 18-20 at Las Vegas Little Theatre ✦ Dark royalty reigns at Goth Prom July 18 at The Usual Place ✦ Hotrods & Harlots July 19 at Dive Bar may cause femme-fueled fender benders ✦ Bring your tightest friends to the Latex & Lace Kink Ball July 19 at The Lexi ✦ You can't shrug off the laughs at Improv Shmimprov July 19 at Mom's Basement Theatre ✦ Auntie Norma melts normies with guest Natalie Blaze at Heat Wave July 20 at The Phoenix ✦ It's no trick: the treats come early at variety show 100 Days to Halloween July 22 at Commonwealth.▼
Silver State Summer Brewfest: The best way to break in the freshly renovated Tuscany? Mega beer paaaarty!
➤ Also: Sip suds and stroke your SO at Beer & Brush Paint Your Partner Night July 17 at HUDL ✦ Dive into cool family fun at Henderson's Summer Pool Party July 18 ✦ It's bumper to bumper balls of steel at the IFPA Pinball Tournament July 18 at Area 15 ✦ You'll slide, squirt, and squeal at Soaked July 19 adults-only water fight at Pioneer Park ✦ Give your shopping list a glow-up at Neon Night Market July 19 at Electric Playhouse ✦ Smooth jazz and stately sips pair up at Serente Jazz & Wine Escape July 19 at Mission Control ✦ Of curse you'll find spooky steals at Retro Hex Market July 19 at The Gather House ✦ Elaborately styled itasha cars rev up the cosplay at Anime Night Mart July 19 at Area 15.▼
Choral Masterworks: Get God-beam goosebumps as this Cambridge choir rips on richly polyphonic Renaissance works.
➤ Also: Top Vegas poets bring the heat at Spotlight Poetry's Summer Slam July 17 at Taverna Costera ✦ Whether you claim Hufflepuff or Slytherin, the dance floor casts a seductive spell at Sorcery & Soundwaves July 18 at Area 15 ✦ Local artists create from castoffs and discards in Villa dei Misteri July 18 at Couch in the Desert ✦ Zoom into crystal-clear wonder at Microscopic Beauty July 19 at Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum ✦ AAPI writers navigate themes of race and place in Our Dangerous Horizons July 19 at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art ✦ Pull up with fam for some dayside PLUR at Family Rave July 20 at Area 15 ✦ Downtowners who pray together slay ill-advised noise ordinances together at Protect DTLV Prayer Night July 21 at SPCKRFT.▼
Streetlight Manifesto: New Jersey's tirelessly twitchy hornpunx are ska'd for life.
➤ Also: Spring Valley Kickback goes retro emo at Summerlin Sounds July 16 ✦ Country goes dark 'n' desperado with No Que No and Texas Prison Rodeo July 17 at The Usual Place ✦ Hare's a good time: Bad Bunny Night July 17 at Oddfellows ✦ Local talent from Maejoy to Saucey Downs bring All the Feels July 17 to Taverna Costera ✦ The cemetery psychobilly of Nekromantix July 18 is to die for at House of Blues ✦ Savagely cynical hip hop artist Open Mike Eagle July 19 nests at Swan Dive ✦ Wrap yourself in some post-punk Psychedelic Furs July 19 at House of Blues ✦ You may ask yourself about Talking Heads tribute Start Making Sense July 20 at Brooklyn Bowl.▼
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🍣 The Dish List
Get wound up on sugar with $2 Old Skool Rolls July 16 at Cinnaholic ✦ Thump and roll at Sushi & Bass July 17 at Sushi Loca ✦ It's a flood of suds at Able Baker's Tap Takeover July 18 at Boulder Dam Brewing Co. ✦ Tiramisù is a piece of cake at this Hands On class July 18 at Eataly ✦ Or get fishy-fingered at Roll With Us July 18 at F the Bar ✦ The kitchen is kid's stuff at Made You Cook July 19 at Fergusons Downtown ✦ Undercover wine lovers will appreciate the double dose of Secret Sips of Sommeliers July 19 at Crush Pad.
🌱 Growth Potential
Need a good buzz with no side effects? Catch a natural high at these upcoming holistic and wellness happenings: Get down to business with uplifting entrepreneurs at the Holistic Chamber of Commerce mixer July 17 at Paymon's ✦ Motion is the lotion at Moving Meditation: Tai Chi, Qi Gong, and Yoga Nidra Foundations July 19 at the Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum ✦ Give your body and mind a fresh start at the Detoxing & Cleansing Class July 19 at Herbally Grounded ✦ Bang your head and flash some downward devil horns at Heavy Metal Yoga July 19 at Windmill Library ✦ Too tee'd up for that? Caddy up for Sunday Yoga July 20 at Topgolf ✦ Shake off that old skin in reptilian renewal ceremony Rhythms of Remembrance : Rise of the Serpent July 20 ✦ Stretch to the beat of your own earbuds at Silent Headphone Yoga July 27 at Fergusons Downtown. – Curated by Niki Sligar
😍 For our premium members: An ice cream social for sybarites, a wine-fueled ballet party, and how to achieve total mosquito dominance ... ▼
🍦 Fresh Finds
Dairy desserts get a dose of extra decadence at the Tipsy Ice Cream Social July 24 at Delilah ✦ Rum runners and the cocktail-curious will enjoy this spirited Tiki Workshop July 24 at The Punk Rock Museum ✦ More curves ahead: Popular striptease cabaret show The Jiggle Room July 25 returns to Cheapshot ✦ Nutcracker in July July 26 is an NBT wine fundraiser with a pointe at Crush Pad.
🗞️ The Junk Drawer
If you're tired of the lurching moral inertia of The New York Times and why that's bad for Biden, peep this list of 13 independent, worker-owned media outlets to support ✦ I learned to type, play video games, and badly program BASIC on the Commodore 64 and, wow, now it's coming back?! ✦ I, too, love and hate all the Things Gay Talese Loves/Hates ✦ Vegas didn't used to be a mosquito city; now that it's buggin' out, here's the only way to fight the little bloodsuckers.
Tease: Old-school burlesque that celebrates every body.
The Get Down: Virgin's Shag Room is transformed into a funkified '70s listening lounge.
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