✦Weekender✦ Revenge music | Glue cult | Ogre party | Guitar expo | Pinball tourney | Martini yoga | French disco 🕺

FROM OGRE-BASED techno parties to volcanically emo opera to live-action art auctions, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍

💎 Friday May 30

• I'm listing this out of curiosity, intrigue, and as a Dude Who Wears Beaded Bracelets™: The Whole Bead Show, which promises a glittering, ambrosial wonderland of tiny round things, plus gemstones and various crafts. Note: Based on a recent visit to Palace Station, Palace Station still smells like Palace Station. (Through Sunday) 10a, Palace Station
• Dutch Interior fascinates me. The Cali band's gently shambolic slowcore – think Pavement on benzos – is oddly mesmerizing in a puzzling way, tufted with Rembrandt shadows and moody hidden grottoes. To get drizzled in their musical medium in the tiny Griffin backroom sounds kinda special. 8p, The Griffin
• Voraciously optimistic and inclusive rave culture won't be happy until every demographic has been subsumed in its glowing sphere of PLUR positivity. I'm fine with that! Shrekno (motto: "Cool is dead") invites folx of every shape, color, and ogre subspeciation to romp on the dance floor like a CGI monster. 9p, Area 15
• Opera is the original emo. All that melodically histrionic lung-buster singing was basically invented because mere acting couldn't properly express all those tectonic feelz. And it doesn't get much more operatic than The Dangerous Liaisons, oozing with revenge, betrayal, jealousy, and soul-exploding epiphanies. (Also Saturday) 7p, Charleston Heights Arts Center

Also Friday ➤

Pro tip: French disco is the best gym treadmill music, but you can also get a club workout at Daft Disko at Area 15 ✦ The folks at the Las Vegas Guitar Trade Show at the Silverton have hella axes to grind ✦ Punk from Salt Lake City? ECS imports SLC mosh to The Usual Place ✦ Couple Cake Picnic in Summerlin sounds like a nice slice of life.

🎧 Saturday May 31

• Pow! Kabang! Thwok! Collectors and fans of illustrated musclebound slappery are sure to get punch-drunk on this Old School Comics Library Show. 1130a, Sahara West Library
• I always go momentarily agog when I remember that the Pinball Hall of Fame – now an improbably commanding presence on the south Strip, but no less quirkily charming – got its start in Tim Arnold's backyard in Green Valley. Whether you're a seasoned flipperhead or a casual ball-plunger 🤔, their May Tournament welcomes all skill levels. 1230p, Pinball Hall of Fame
• Whether you wanna introduce a Young Person in Your Life to the world of art appreciation or wanna score some aesthetic goodies for yourself, May Flowers sounds like the perfect joint, melding a high-energy party scene with a gallery soirée, featuring 20 artists live-painting works for auction. 6p, Area 15
• Rare Aire x Transmission had me at "full sensory assault" and then had me again with a guest artist from Thailand named Robot Nipples. 8p, Arts District
• Silent discos used to be mostly sideshow bubbles encased in larger happenings. Now they're a thing all their own. Three Parties in One triples the fun with three DJs spinning different sonic flavors. Actually, make that quadruples the fun: You're also high. 8p, Nuwu Dispensary

Also Saturday ➤

The martinis aren't the only things that come with a twist at Soul Rise Yoga at Bar Bohème ✦ Jokes are weapons in the Thunderdome of nyuks that is Comedy Rumble at Wiseguys Arts District ✦ Do a deal in the parking lot at 702 Market at Fantastic ✦ What's red, white, and doing good all over? New Vista Wine Walk at Downtown Summerlin.

🏓 Sunday June 1

• If you're slowly caving to the breathless exhortations of diamond-eyed pickleball cultists to give the ragingly popular pastime a try, Sunday Bingo is a plausible entrée into the arcane realm. 11a, Chicken N Pickle
• The Silver Statesmen Barbershop Chorus are as squeaky-clean as they come ... but not today, pardner. In Dastardly Deeds in the Desert, they trade in bowties for spurs, six-shooters, and ten-gallon hats in a theatrical afternoon of dust-crusted Wild West ditties. 2p, Summerlin Library
• You'll be surprised how often you'll get a response when you make a Juggalo call in public. I suspect the loveable greasepaint hippies will be out in force for the lingually dexterous comic rapper Kung Fu Vampire. 6p, 18bin
• To this day, I still haven't definitively triangulated to my own personal semantic satisfaction what exactly the hell "immaculate vibes" are, but I strongly suspect they're in copious supply at Playful Pastime, a band jam + game night + hang sesh. 7p, The Composers Room

Also Sunday ➤

Brekkie with fellow biblioheads at Silent Book Brunch at Springs Preserve ✦ Musical metalheads serve meals for the homeless at Punx 4 Change at Voodoo Brewing Co. ✦ Slather on the mango butter and slide into Durand Bernarr's soulful excursions at Area 15.

🙏 Hope you have the raddest weekend. Thanks for your support! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍