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FROM SWAMP BLUES at a movie theater to adventurous photo walks to super spring carnivals, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
Note: Apologies for the glitch that made Wednesday's List text extra teensy on phones. We've fixed it!
☠️ Friday May 23
- If, like me, you've woken up with a dire, fiendish hankering to strafe your pancreas with a Scizzorhandz hazelnut dark mocha latte with chocolate drizzle, you can get it at the newly soft-opened Horror Vibes Coffee. 8a, Horror Vibes Coffee
- Punk Rock Bowling is unleashing its monkey-booted mayhem on the valley, and The Punk Rock Museum is skimming up many of the louche luminaries in town for guided tours, DJ sets, and special appearances, starting today with a DJ set by, wow, Greg Norton of Hüsker Dü. 330p, The Punk Rock Museum
- Catching the work of UNLV art students usually entails negotiating the university's arcane and forbidding parking regime and banging elbows with fellow art-gawkers in the cramped Grant Hall gallery. Not this time! This grad showcase reception, somewhat portentously titled "The Edge of Becoming: Art Without Apology," will stoke its aesthetic provocations from the much more spacious and hangout-friendly Composers Room aka The Last Great Hope of Commercial Center. 6p, The Composers Room
- Cool free show on that breezeway balcony-thingie called Segue: Electric Church is a Hammond organ-powered foursome blasting out high-wattage swamp-thing blues. Given that some of these guys are from the reliably mind-shattering funk battery Soul Juice, I can pre-emptively vouch for the awesomeness of their musical DNA. 8p, The Beverly Theater
Also Friday ➤
Hamilton's powdered-wig players take musical lessons off the stage and into the library at Hip Hop Storytime at Whitney Library ✦ Do some sonic-supplemented shopping at Makers & Music at Tivoli Village ✦ Catch blipcore punx Decaying Tigers plus others at Swan Dive's Black Sheep Booking Local Showcase ✦ Dry-clean that sackcloth and break out your wide-gauge raven noir lipstick for a dark and delicious World Goth Day at Oddfellows.
🏜️ Saturday May 24
- If you've lost count of the outrages and indignities whipping out from the cyclonic MAGA bullshit tornado occupying Washington, same. But one thing on the Project 2025 agenda of particular relevance to Nevada is its lust to sell off public lands to rapacious energy developers. One of their targets is right in our backyard – Avi Kwa Ame. Learn about our most recent national monument – and how to protect it – at this sure-to-be-info-packed talk by Kim Garrison Means of Mystery Ranch. 10a, Mojave Bloom Nursery
- "Making friends in Las Vegas iS sO hArD!!!!" [Whap!] Here's a preem way to meet fellow artsy-minded folks: Hit up this DTLV Photo Walk for a session of exploratory social snapping. 6p, The Process Studio
- Rich solitude, desert silence, the beautiful ache of lonesome vistas: Uh, this hike has none of that. The Electric Desert Canyons Hike invites recreational nature-trompers to kit up with face paint, glow sticks, kandi, and other rave flair for a lively excursion in the northwest valley. 730p, Ice Age National Monument
- Zingy, sinuous, amped-up Bollywood tunes run through a bass-drunk DJ = Bolly House. Plus also I will never not love hookah, the OG drag queen of vapes. 10p, Old Skool Hookah Lounge and Bar
Also Saturday ➤
Catch some laughter on the down-low at Don't Tell Comedy on Fremont East ✦ Higher Ground at West Las Vegas Library is a dance collab raising the profile of young talent ✦ The Center serves up a veritable rainbow of family fun at its Spring Carnival ✦ Feels and furries mash at the intricately scheduled Emo vs. Anime at Swan Dive.
🚢 Sunday May 25
- To answer your question: Yes, the spiritual dimension of yoga is, in fact, vastly improved with trippy wall-to-wall visuals and a Celestial Flow rebrand. 9a, Illuminarium
- An expansively lazy, beery, boozy brunch soundtracked with a punishingly hypnotic four-hour set from yacht rockers The Guilty Pleasures sounds actually kinda heavenlyish. 11a, Ellis Island
- Downtown Container Park already gives perpetual lazy-Sunday vibes all on its own, but HAAPIROOTS will zhuzh the ambience all day long with a celebration of Asian American and Pacific Island culture, cuisine, and crafts. 2p, Downtown Container Park
- Remember, tomorrow's Memorial Day, so raise that plastic bottle of Bud Light high and stick around for the 17-minute freestyle encore of "Smooth Criminal" as Alien Ant Farm and Jet rock FSE for free. You can sleep in tomorrow! 8p, Fremont Street
Also Sunday ➤
Street couture shop The Hause Collective marks three years with a parking-lot party ✦ Indie brews and artisanal goods head for the hills at Craft Brew Arts & Crafts Festival on Mt. Charleston ✦ Servehzah taps a Sunday Funday with the famously indefatigable DJ Revo.
🙏 Hope you have the raddest weekend. Thanks for your support! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
