✦Weekender✦ Bounce party | Goth O Ween | Beer garden | Light bites | Coffee club | Aki fest | Ghost hangout 👻
FROM BOUNCE HOUSE adult raves to jack o' lantern jokes to a garden of beery delights, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
🏳️🌈 Friday October 10
- Funny story about Filipino alt-rock powerhouse Mayonnaise – they're named after the Smashing Pumpkins song, which is actually an explicit template for Mayonnaise's signature moody, meditative, heart-firmly-on-sleeve rock. Beyond the sonic menu, of course, the Pinoy Festival offers cuisine, cultural dances and exhibits, and a finale parade. (Through Sunday) 4p, Gold Coast
- Everyone loves a parade – and the bigger and gayer that parade is, the better. The Pride Night Parade fills the bill with a rainbow-roaring DTLV street jam celebrating the LGBTQ+ community complete with drink booths, food trucks, vendors, and exhibitors. Cool bonus for ruralites: the Pride Shuttle can collect you from Pahrump or Mesquite. 6p, 4th Street and Bridger Avenue
- Goth O Ween Fest, you had me at "costumes encouraged," but the sadboy sonic ether of Male Tears, sinister darkwave of Vick Vapors, and retrofuturist tech noir of headliner Glass Spells certainly seals the deal. 7p, Swan Dive
- You know that the octave-laddering lads and ladies of Vegas City Opera are gonna scrape the ceiling with their most horrific high notes in Scream Queens: Opera in the Scary Movies. It's not just Viking-hat fare; they'll belt out selections from Squid Game, "Stranger Things," Resident Evil, Rosemary’s Baby, and more. (Through Saturday) 730p, Charleston Heights Arts Center
Also Friday ➤
Colors of Mexico at Fashion Show Mall is sporting a Día de Muertos makeover that looks pretty legit ✦ Lol isn't Meadows Mall already haunted enough without Las Vegas Haunts? ✦ Indie gets medieval at Ren Circus at Hola Habibi ✦ Drawn to this: Celebrated Mexican cartoonist José Trinidad Camacho teaches How to Make Humor in Violent Times at East Las Vegas Library ✦ The laughter is lethal at Wiseguys' Roastlemania Presents: Halloween HaHa-Havoc.
👉 ICYMI, here's a sack of dipsomaniac damsels, open-air art walks, violin philosophers, beer garden galas:
Andrew Kiraly
⛪ Saturday October 11
- Day clubs used to mean flopping around all schwasted on bubbly and molly in a tepid, murky pool of sketchy bro excretions – but Coffee & Chill is offering a new kind of pool party high: Craft caffeine brews, ice baths, and wellness activities. 945a, Encore Beach Club
- Sin City boomed after World War II – but so did Las Vegas' sacred side. In fact, the postwar era produced some of our city's most architecturally striking houses of worship. Take a walk through these stylish civic faith spaces during Docomomo National Tour Day Out: Las Vegas Sacred Spaces. (Also double-dog dare you to raise your hand and ask the tour docent this controversial question.) 10a, 1000 E. St. Louis Ave.
- The best reason to read a banned book: Every time you do, it sends a debilitating frisson of impotent fascist outrage through the brittle spine of a Mom of Liberty. If we all read in unison at Free To Read, Free To Be the Dream, we can make their heads explode! 2p, Clark County Library
- Blooming with 40 unlimited drafts on tap and four sunny hours to enjoy them, New Vista’s Brews Best Beer Garden just might inspire you to soil yourself. 2p, Town Square
- Normal? [Drake no] Paranormal? [Drake yes] Get yr goosebumps on with Jay Wasley of "Ghost Adventures" and other celebs of the supernatural subculture at Goodscreams, featuring panels, tours, and special guests. 5p, Pioneer Saloon
Also Saturday ➤
The Plaza's Carousel Bar is actually pretty rad and Silent Disco makes it radder ✦ Wait, there was a Lenny Pearce Toddler Techno Tour Part 1? ✦ You'll flip out when you learn what they've got planned at the Acrolove Festival at World Market Center ✦ Take your panoramic pick of food fairs, from the Lebanese American Festival to the Asian Lantern Festival.
☕ Sunday October 12
- Want to turn your yard into a whimsical, Disney-worthy idyll delightfully aflutter with bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds? The leaf-loving luminaries they've got on tap at the Fall Native Plant Sale will feng your garden's shui with advice and recommendations. 10a, Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve
- Promising an evening of "sirens, scholars, and slammers," the very aptly named Soirée Eclectic variety show raises the roof (and money) for the Third Street arts incubator. 5p, Vegas Theatre Company
Also Sunday ➤
Ballot ballads inspire on the last night of Suffs at The Smith Center ✦ Put in a witching hour or two at the heathen hilarity of The Craft'd at Majestic Repertory Theatre ✦ The Underpants at UNLV will have you saying oh my garb!
🙏 Have the raddest weekend. Thanks for your support! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
