✦Weekender✦ Burger blast | Pumkpin patch | Existential shark | Scary birds | Funny weather | Zombie maze | Big bluegrass 🪕
FROM CRACKIN' LOBSTER festivals to Russian spaghetti-rock to horror icon face-offs, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
🎃 Friday October 17
- You know me: I'll list any event if it involves even a remote chance to hang out with mysterious, laconic carnies whose cryptic ways hide mind-melting occult truths. Triple your chances of a life-changing encounter at any of the carnie-rich contact sites of the Halloween Town Pumpkin Patch. Multiple locations
- Ooh, I like that Las Vegas Little Theatre is sinking its concentric chainsaw teeth into more experimental fare with The Shark Is Broken, which takes us behind the scenes of Jaws with a faulty mechanical shark and a whole lotta existential angst among its three actors with nothing but oceanic time on their hands. (Through Sunday) 7p, Las Vegas Little Theatre
- Monique Marvez is a "tough Miami Catholic" and veteran comic who has that rare something that only comes with decades of standup experience – a natural, rolling, good-natured ease that melts the whole framework of "comedy set" and makes you feel like you're in privileged presence of a charismatic and stupendously funny friend. (Through Saturday) 7p and 930p, Wiseguys
- If you've never had a burger from Stay Tuned, Hard Hat's 3rd Anniversary will supply the proper inaugural festive frippery for getting this meat into your mouth. As the best things in life often are, they're moist, dense, compact, and aggressively flavorful. Also catch our homegrown, hypnotically taut emocore icons Mercy Music on the outdoor stage. 8p, Hard Hat Lounge
Also Friday ➤
The Bauhaus Vegas Grand Opening boasts Chicago house biggies Felix Da Housecat and Gene Farris ✦ Third Street is an undead maze anyway, but also an Undead Maze ✦ Need a weekend musical face-melting? Dave Perrico at Myron's has the brass for it ✦ At Swan Dive's Emo Karaoke your black-hearted wails are backed by a live band.
👉 ICYMI, here's a sack of smarty book talks, tipsy wine jokes, truckstop diner comedy, and Shakespearean ballet:
Andrew Kiraly
🦞 Saturday October 18
- From the street, Christ Church Episcopal looks like an unassuming stucco-and-tile parish. In the courtyard, though, the faithful will be participating in the dark annual rite of worshipping their all-flavorful crustacean arthropod god, consuming his ever-replenishing flesh in a ritual called Lobster Fair. 9a, Christ Church Episcopal
- It's not often that you hear phrase "technically jaw-dropping" uttered in the vicinity of bluegrass music, but that's the critical consensus on Santa Cruz's, yes, actually technically jaw-dropping but also at the same time achingly poignant headliner AJ Lee and Blue Summit, one of the many plucky talents on tap at Henderson Bluegrass. 3p, Water Street Plaza
- White-out conditions are taking over DTLV during Diner en Blanc, a fancy-schmancy affair where you don your brightest and finest duds and hope they don't serve as a gigantic napkin. 330p, Foreign Exchange Lounge
- Now that all the theme-obsessed poseurs and amateurs have packed up their lager-soaked steins and lederhosen, it's time for Las Vegas' real Oktoberfest OGs to do their wurst. 4p, German-American Social Club
Also Saturday ➤
Older means bolder at the monthly Fantastic Vintage Market, the juicy center of the Fantastic Swap Meet candy shell ✦ Tastes more fancy-schmancy? Consider the Makers Hive Market at The District ✦ Get in the shop-local spirit at kid-friendly Boo Bash at Fergusons Downtown ✦ It's a smoothie of frosted hair and JNCO jeans, with a ByeByeBye Mai Tai as your base juice: Boy Band Remix at The Composers Room.
⛅ Sunday October 19
- Nate Tannenbaum is a civic treasure. The longtime weathercaster with the indefatigably sunny disposition has been prognosticating for more than three decades in Las Vegas – not to mention hosting community events, supporting good causes, and encouraging youth. At The Nate Show, he'll reflect on his life, career, and (fun fact) maybe play the national anthem on his flute. 3p, West Charleston Library
- You should actually be kinda-sorta scared at Scary-oke, because the talent sidling up to the mic won't be chardonnay-soaked suburbo-moms who consider hysterical "Queer Eye" fandom a form of deep allyship. Instead, the seasoned members of the Las Vegas Men's Chorus will be belting out hits – for a good cause, no less. 6p, Gipsy
- Ah, time for your monthly tribal scream therapy at all-bangers, no-bigots wrestle-fest PrideStyle: Heartbreak Season. 5p, Swan Dive
Also Sunday ➤
Candy Scat at Ice Age Fossils State Park is exactly what I was afraid it was ✦ "Chamber Music All Up In Ya Face" was taken so Las Vegas Sinfonietta is calling it "Up Close and Personal" at Clark County Library ✦ Make mincemeat of your afternoon at this murderous matinee: Freddy vs. Jason at The Beverly Theater.
🙏 Have the raddest weekend. Thanks for your support! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
