✦Weekender✦ Pagan chili | Horror dog | Grave tour | Mr. Rogers lives | Demon clowns | Free meat | Psychic fair 🔮
FROM PIZZA-POWERED punk parties to fortune-telling psychic fairs to hockey-fan hangouts, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
🍕 Friday October 3
- Punks, pizza, amiable chaos, and loud and chaotic but also amiable DJs spinning loud/chaotic/amiable/pizza-party-appropriate punk tunes converge on the funky little DTLV house/beer spot Voodoo Brewing Co. for Anarchy After Dark. 5p, Voodoo Brewing Co.
- Fifteen years or so ago, I had a sort of paralyzing proto-midlife crisis wherein I momentarily became obsessed with the idea of becoming really, really good at pinball and over the course of like a psychically intense and frenzied month tried to learn all these goofily intricate tilt and flipper techniques – so obsessed, in fact, that I started. To hate. Pinball. Got out of that phase and now I'm in a place in life where, who knows, I might hit one of these IPFA Pinball Tournament events in a non-neurotic headspace. Thanks for asking! 6p, Area 15
- Armenian classical music is a folk-inflected subgenre of classical music — it's brisk, bold, and often brashly cinematic – and acclaimed pianists Mikael Ayrapetyan and Yulia Ayrapetyan are the perfect guides for a tour through this rich sonic vein of the Secrets of Armenia. 630p, UNLV
- Did you know Tivoli Village is [dramatic pause] built on an old cemetery? And that when the traveling carnival alights there every year, the clowns succumb to [dramatic pause] spectral possessions that send them into a [dramatic pause] murderous rage-frenzy? So says the bone-chilling promotional copy of [dramatic pause] 31 Screams. 7p, Tivoli Village
Also Friday ➤
Tbh way back in the day I used to love Prong – their chugging, nasty, spiteful, guttural riffs put them somewhere defiantly unique on the punk/metal/thrash spectrum – and, hm, rad, they're at the Tuscany ✦ Steve Martin touched these Underpants at UNLV so they're guaranteed to be funny ✦ I don't always root for the humans in horror films, but I will always root for a Good Boy.
👉 ICYMI, here's a sack of demonic puppets, EminempersonatorsTM, classic cars, and sexy-evil bat boys:
Andrew Kiraly
🎃 Saturday October 4
- Yes, we're living in an era where goodwill, kindness, and compassion a la Mr. Rogers are rabidly subversive so technically speaking Be My Neighbor Day is punk af. 10a, Downtown Summerlin
- There are 1,294 Halloween pumpkin patches in Southern Nevada, but I bet none of them have the gleamy, highly branded psychotronic verve of Harvest Hollow. Okay, there are also craft stations and wholesome outdoor games. 1p, Area 15
- This one's a heathen two-fer: Ponder your fortune at the tarot-flippin' hands of prognosticating pros at the Autumn Psychic Fair and then book up on the latest wiccan wisdom at the Pagan Book Fair and Chili Cook Off. 1p, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Las Vegas
- Jeezus, now those mysterious hypertrophic Mad Max centaur-people with the mystical ranch in Centennial Hills are basically riding around while engulged in flames in the aptly named Nightmare in the Arena! 6p, 5636 Donald Road
Also Saturday ➤
Gingerbread Craft Fair takes place at a church (boo, hiss, it burns, etc.) but is rife with homemade goodies and tchotchkes (hurray) ✦ Pedal-philes should creep up on Biketoberfest at Craig Ranch Park ✦ Swoon into a Wilford Brimley sugar spiral as Cinnaholic celebrates BOGO National Cinnamon Roll Day.
🏒 Sunday October 5
- The VGK Fan Fest is also my annual reminder that I need to make time to watch Vegas Golden Knights hockey because every time I do I feel a cleansing surge of benignly tribalistic team spirit that restores a few molecules of my ever-shaky faith in humanity. 11a, Downtown Summerlin
- John Mull has been quietly been purveying choice proteins off North Rancho for a minute, and today he's putting on a full meat circus aka Customer Appreciation Day complete with hot rods, live bands, and sauce-slathered bounce houses. 12p, John Mull's Road Kill Grill
- Spoken-word impresario Khoree the Poet has popped slam productions into venues valleywide, and now he's taking you to the cleaners at Lyrical Laundry. Winner gets bathed in 50 smackers. 7p, Moonlight Karaoke Lounge
Also Sunday ➤
Hm, Majestic is so dedicated to the purity of the grim, claustrophobic vibes of Empanada Loca you actually enter through the back of the theater ✦ Come one, come all to Songs in the Key of Sex at The Composers Room ✦ I'd pay forty bucks to hear Billy Stritch zap and zing the ivories at Myron's ✦ Poink up those liberty spikes for Free Locals Day at The Punk Rock Museum.
🙏 Have the raddest weekend. Thanks for your support! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
