✦Weekender✦ Paddy parade | Vibra master | Guitar wizards | Roast battle | Chaos pit | Swap meet | Sports jokes 🏀
FROM FOOD TRUCK frenzies to horny funk jams to St. Paddy power parties, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
🍔 Friday March 14
- Instead of being clogged with Teslas, tonight the quaint master-planned streets of Tivoli will be crammed with food trucks offering everything from buldogi dogs to shawarma to something called sushito? Also ambient threats lurk about a segment dubbed "Food Truck Bingo." 5p, Tivoli Village
- "Girly pop" is the theme of tonight's Neon Lit reading, so expect plenty of pomp, sass, glitter, and femme ferocity, featuring The Writer's Block's very own bookslinger Charlie Joy as special guest. 7p, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
- I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually play a vibraphone live, so jazzman Chuck Redd's show sounds compelling from a purely cultural anthropology standpoint alone. He brings his dual-threat talents (both drumsticks and mallets) to Vic's intimate stage after conquering pretty much every notable jazz venue from Birdland to the White House. Note Saturday show, too. 7p, Vic's Las Vegas
- Renaissance funnymen don't get much renaissance-ier than comedian Ian Fidance, who manages to tuck jokes into everything from puppet programs ("Crank Yankers") to kid's cooking shows (Michelle Obama's "Waffles + Mochi") to poetry books (Eating Salad Drunk: Haikus for the Burnout Age by Comedy Greats). Lucky for us, he's also hella funny on stage. Note Saturday shows, too. 7p and 930, Wiseguys Town Square
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Beg to differ: Viva la difference! (Imagine that spelled correctly in French.) Looking to mix up your routine this weekend, dab a toe or three outside your comfort zone? Shakespeare Monologue Jam March 15 lets your inner thespian tackle iambic pentameter with fellow Bard enthusiasts in a "fun, loving, supportive, group environment" at Windmill Library ✦ Tarot Simplified March 15 cuts through mystical mumbo-woo-ha to reveal what those cryptic cards are really saying at UUCLV ✦ Archery Specialty Shoot March 15 challenges you to split arrows (or at least hit in the vague vicinity of the target) with Sherwood Forest swagger at Whitney Mesa Nature Preserve.▼
- Based on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, The Three Feathers is a modernized, kid-friendly chamber opera that promises all the magical elements you'd expect from classic European folklore, minus the problematic gender roles, plus 50 percent more heroine energy. 730p, UNLV
- Performer, promoter, and fire-breathing punk goddess Masuimi Max passed away last year, but her brainchild Vegas Chaos lives on. The annual burlesque-fortified fest of mohawks and mayhem may have a more somber tone this year, but it'll be as loud as ever – a fitting tribute to Max's brash spirit. 8p, Double Down Saloon
- Artist, gallerist, and all-around impresario Robin Slonina recently opened Max Damian's photography show Florialism at Slonina ARTSpace, and now you can meet the artist amid a clubbier vibe at this installment of Canvas & Cocktails, where live art and libations merge. Sounds like they'll have some of Max's large-scale snaps of aerial dancers on hand for ogling as well. 8p, Gipsy Las Vegas
- Whoa, nice, wow, classic/longtime/OG/super-legit funky af horn ensemble Home Cookin' surfaces for what's sure to be a face-melter. Trust me, this is the kind of band you'll see once and be evangelizing about for decades. 10p, Sand Dollar Lounge
🍀 Hella more weekend here, which may contain level 300 clown deities and needle-teeth leprechauns:
🤡 Clown god | Coffee rave | Crystal fest | Moon watch | Music wormhole | Leprechaun Rex | Synth romance
The coolest things to do in Las Vegas this week, ever.
Andrew Kiraly
🐕 Saturday March 15
- Junk up yr trunk at the sporadic but deservedly legendary big-ass Outdoor Swap Meet in Hendo. 7a, Downtown Recreation Center
- Only for sportive mischief's sake would I advise you to paint a full-on big-scale pimp portrait of Fido Von Fidelis at this Pet Paint party. (Note: bring a photo, not the furry one itself.) 12p, Art Therapy Café
- This is your last weekend to catch that cool parking-lot Circo Caballero that's been blowin' up the parking lot at Fantastic for the past three weeks. Extra vibes courtesy of the fact that it's also the retirement run for the beloved Tuty Fruty, Prince of Clowns, after which he ectoplasmically transcends into the loonily grinning coulrosphere. 4p and 7p, Fantastic Indoor Swap Meet
- Sabor Chefs is turning Vegas Valley Winery into a Latin-Caribbean flavor lab courtesy of Chef "Gino" Davila, a Brooklyn-born, Puerto Rican-rooted culinary maestro whose menu will zigzag from Southern comfort classics to Latin street food. Event description also teases mysterious "SHENANIGANS" possibly afoot. 4p, Vegas Valley Winery
- The St. Paddy's $40-all-you-can-drinker at Sham-Rock The Park features some of the chewier brews to sink yr liver into, including bottomless servings of the formidable Guinness Foreign Extra Stout. Roxy Gunn promises a plangently optimistic-sounding "high energy rock and roll party band." 6p, Downtown Container Park
▼ Saturday cont'd
- There'll be nothing but net laughter at Match Mardness by ComedySportz, an eight-team comedy elimination battle fueled by rapid-fire improv and lots of audience suggestion-shouting. 7p, Mom's Basement Theatre
- At a bar or a party, tattoo stories can be a source of jaw-grinding, suicidal tedium. At a StorySLAM featuring polished tale-spinners, they can be a source of delight, humor, and insight into the human condition. In this edition, dubbed Inked, local storytellers go beneath the surface of their body art. 7p, Charleston Heights Arts Center
- You don't have to be a hardcore axe aficionado to appreciate the fascinatingly intricate four-guitar attack of the UK's Mēla Guitar Quartet. Praised for their uncanny brilliance, the chamber group will scoop generously from their latest album, Overtures & Dances, an explosively rich yet subtle "orchestra in miniature" sonic exploration of what can be achieved when four guitars meet sustained and seasoned collective virtuosity. 730p, UNLV
- Strong rum drinks and blues-drenched roots rock? Check. Best quaintly maritime flyer ever for a Shanda and The Howlers show? Check. 9p, The Golden Tiki
- The WWE of witty putdowns returns to the Arts District with Roastlemania 5, where comedians' fragile egos get suplexed left and right by high-flying roasts, burns, and insults. 930p, Wiseguys Arts District
☕ Sunday March 15
- Need to burn off all that green beer from yr Saturday St. Paddy's leprechaunalia? Torch off those carbs for a good cause at Get Lucky Zumba, where you're encouraged to bring at least three non-perishable food items for Three Square. 1p, Downtown Container Park
- The reliably bustling environs of Makers & Finders is gonna be zipping with caffeinated dance energy this afternoon at Robusta, a daytime coffee party dosed with DJs spinning house music and baristas banging out buzzy brews. 3p, Makers & Finders
- To be sure, mystery dinner theatre is an acquired taste, but the brains behind I Only Have Eyes For You must have a killer formula in place – this marks the annual steak-and-stabbing whodunit affair's 19th year. 6p, Lawry's The Prime Rib
- I spent like two hours on Spotify last week dredging around in the "Fans also like" wormhole, trying to find a contemporary metal band a la old-school Iron Maiden I could listen to while getting humiliated in online blitz chess. Found it in the striking and excellent Haunt – hailing from right next door in, whut, Fresno? – who serve up original, chuggidy-chuggidy, hair-flinging metal in the OG vein of Maiden, Ozzy, Def Leppard, and Thin Lizzy. Perfect opportunity to get vitalizing metal lightning in your veins in a small venue. 8p, The Griffin
- Miss Uchawi is putting all drag shows, magic acts, chanteuses, and hypno-comedians on notice to step up their game: She effortlessly blends all four into her one-woman show, "An Evening with Miss Uchawi: Drag, Magic, Music & Nonsense." If the sleight of hand doesn't awe you, her glammy costuming certainly will. 10p, The Composers Room
🙏 Hope you have the raddest weekend. Thanks for your support! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
