✦Weekender✦ Rum tour | Jazz meatwich | Dirty impressions | Swimwear strut | Beat off | Meth gelato | Star watch🌟
FROM RUMMY TOURS of craft distilleries to raucous, R-rated impressionists to hi-fi cocktail hangouts, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
🍔 Friday August 15
- Tucked in a strip mall off Trop and Eastern, The Dispensary is a low-key quintessential must-visit Vegas spot if only for you to bemusedly remark on the archeological novelty of a carpeted bar with a water wheel. Ha ha, just kidding, it's actually all about the killer burgers and live jazz. Snag a juicy $4.90 meatwich today only in celebration of their, whoa, 49th anniversary. 11a-9p, Dispensary Lounge
- Talk about team spirit: Vodka, gin, whiskey – you name it, the Las Vegas Distillery is churning it out. The Henderson buzz-maker is celebrating Rum Week, and tonight Master Distiller Jonny VerPlanck is giving personal tours of their pirate-juice production system. Better, yet, price includes a yo ho ho (sorry) and a bottle of Las Vegas Distillery Rum. 2p and 6p, Las Vegas Distillery
- Hyper-competitive Justin and Heather are hopelessly addicted to a lifelong game of ruthless one-upmanship. Fortunately for us, they've sublimated this mental affliction into public entertainment in the form of Dumb Human Tricks. 7p, Mom's Basement Theatre
- I'm listing Jeffrey Peterson's purportedly scandalous Impression Impossible on faith buttressed by key phrases "R-rated," "mayhem," "sexy co-host," and the somewhat baffling "Tubi star Candace Foshee." 7p, The Composers Room
Also Friday ➤
Fashion and art splash in the deep end at the Swim Week Las Vegas Fashion Show at Area 15 ✦ If you ever wanted to experience the Double Down Saloon in its raw, scabrous quintessence, Vegas Chaos is the way ✦ Geez, looks like they've corralled a whole-ass herd of entertainment – music, sketches, dance , improv – into the promisingly zany-sounding A Space Cowboy’s Christmas at LVLT.
👉 ICYMI, here's a sack o' bigly Elvis channelers, Nosferatu-centric rock shows, and perky parties for the sober:
Andrew Kiraly
🍨 Saturday August 16
- I was today years old when I was reminded that affogato is espresso poured on gelato, so basically the Best Thing Ever. The Coffee Class is celebrating six years by serving up free scoops of the caffeine-drenched dessert at all three of their locations. 630a-4p, Coffee Class locations
- If you've ever been transfixed by the subcult sport of Ultimate Frisbee and are keen to plumb its arcane rituals and recondite mysteries, they're holding an Ultimate Frisbee Pickup Game for fresh
meatinitiates just like you. 830a, Estelle Neal Park - Journalist, raconteur, and personal friend John Glionna shares tales of the wacky and wild West personages at the launch of his new book, Rebels and Outliers. Knowing well that John writes with an arrestingly readable headlong gusto, I'm fast-tracking this on my reading list. 1p, Copper Cat Books
- If you haven't been to Chef Natalie's hi-fi cocktail lounge Echo Taste and Sound, Bites & Blues is a fine introduction. For $40, you get an appetizer, cocktail, all the vibes, and an earful of live music by Jessica Manalo and The Mood. 6p, Echo Taste & Sound
Also Saturday ➤
News flash: Here's a secret Blacklight House Party ✦ Look up and commune with the gaze community at Stars on the Summit at Lee Canyon ✦ The beatings will continue until morale improves at The Drum Circle Symphony at the East Las Vegas Library.
🗡️ Sunday August 17
- I think my favorite element of this Insta flyer about the interactive Killer in the Courtyard trivia whodunit game is the intriguingly cryptic yet offhand promise that "Winner gets prize." 7p, Taverna Costera
- Pardon me while I honk! honk! my bulbous nose to alert you to the fact that this is your last chance to catch Clown Bar, a lurid noir whodunit that cleverly clownifies the cult factors of underworld crime syndicates. 730p, Majestic Repertory Theatre
- I suppose, yeah, technically, it is a school night, which is precisely why you need a pre-emptive face-melting by longtime local bluesman Chris Tofield. 10p, Sand Dollar Lounge
Also Sunday ➤
Honestly I dunno how The Griffin is going to contain the loudness of the pure rawk jamz pumped out by Texas' Ratchet Dolls ✦ Be a ludic layabout at the super-chill, come-as-you-are Playful Pastimes at The Composers Room ✦ In case the wine doesn't do enough to snap those errant chakras into place, Sunday Soul Reset at Ada's Food + Wine should finish the job.
🙏 Hope you have the raddest weekend. Thanks for your support! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
