✦Weekender✦ Wine alley | Weird sale | Flight fest | Moon vs. Cat | Drunk plants | Cosplay vid | Slow art 🎨

FROM HIGH-FLYING love parties to sensually surreal theatre to ratty rock shows, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍

🏜️ Friday April 4

• So, wait, there's a cat-cow, a downward dog, even a bound lotus, but no blossoming flower? Just sayin' that someone at this Spring Yoga event should invite a trademark attorney and nail down that IP! 530p, Gilcrease Orchard
• If our actual desert looked anything like the soaring, imaginative, playful interpretations by Julie Notaro and Laura Esbensen in Expanse, I'd be typing this from my new home office, a floating pink cosmic dune. 5p, Fraiche Arts
• Flex that green thumb while lifting an amber glass at Plants & Pints, where botanical enthusiasm merges with barroom buzz for an evening of slightly tipsy horticulture. Host Val Shields provides the soil, succulents, and 3D-printed pots while Hola Habibi serves up the liquid courage needed to finally admit you've killed every houseplant you've ever owned. 6p, Hola Habibi
• Surrealism sizzles in the desert as José Rivera's poetic masterpiece, References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot, transforms a Barstow backyard into a hallucinatory playground where a military wife's loneliness bleeds into magical realism. May contain a violin-playing Moon serenading a cosmic Cat-Coyote and unexpected pangs of deep, mystical longing. (Note multiple dates and showtimes.) 7p, Charleston Heights Arts Center

• That one time you finally got up the nerve to fulfill your lifelong dream of cosplaying "Jessica Rabbit but with a beard and trucker hat" and you end up in a Garage Boys rock video that goes relentlessly viral. 7p, Millennium Fandom Bar
• DJs Heidi Lawden and Sydney Blu are in town to tweak knobs and drop beats – not just to pump up a dance floor, but to raise up other women interested in DJ/producer careers. At Change the Beat, they'll open up the book on their own success to pay it forward. 7p, Commonwealth
• If you're rolling through First Friday, take a beat to check out one of my favorite poets, Monarch – crisp delivery, poignantly funny, emotionally sharp – hit the mic at The Campfire Open Mic. 7p, Main Street
• It's ladies night at the Sand Dollar Downtown – but this one isn't about half-price rosé and some Spotify shmoe DJ spinning back-to-back "Unwritten" remixes from his Mac. It's The Ma'am Jam, a night of blues performed by the valley's finest women musicians. 8p, Sand Dollar Downtown

💀 Hella more weekend here, which may contain occult Latin dance parties and brainiac attacks:

🎋 Beer bash | Japan fest | Butterfly attack | Brain train | Robot concert | Adult prom | Creepy cumbia

The coolest things to do in Las Vegas this week, ever.

The ListAndrew Kiraly

🔮 Saturday April 5

• Kalifano is one of those blindingly gleaming Forum Shops at Caesars purveyors of glittering geodes, crystal-dripping trees, and awful-taste-but-great-execution novelties such as 200-lb. earth globes made of rare stones, and chiseled fossil chunks framed to, voila, turn it into high-ticket statement pieces. You just might mine some rockin' deals at its warehouse sale this weekend. 9a, 265 Pilot Road
• The matchup of the weekend: Industrial capitalist megamachines vs. toddlers. Who will reign supreme? [Rings bell] Let Touch-A-Truck begin! 9a, Downtown Summerlin
• This morning sound bath session is decidedly succulent. You might even mistake the insistent susurrus of traffic off Blue Diamond for cosmic emanations. 930a, Cactus Joe's
• In our swipe-and-scroll world, Slow Art Day invites you to pump the attentional brakes and actually look at art for longer than it takes to snap an Instagram story. Today, the Marjorie Barrick Museum becomes a sanctuary of prolonged observation where neuroscience meets aesthetic appreciation, proving that the longer you stare at a painting, the more it has to say back. 10a, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
• There's no better embodiment of the spirit of human invention than the realm of flight. Remember when we tried to fly around on those penny farthing tricycles with big-ass bat wings? Aviation Nation air show celebrates American military prowess with inspiring aerial demoROOAARRSHGHGH. 10a, Nellis Air Force Base

▼ Saturday cont'd

• Remember the good ol' days when everyone agreed that autocratic oligarchies were, like, a bad thing? Hands Off! remembers. 12p, New York New York
• New year, new you – if you're going by the Aztec calendar, anyway. And why not? Vibrant costuming and lively dances beat out glittery novelty specs and lukewarm margarita bongs any day of the week. Ring in the Mexica New Year with local Indigenous groups at this party rich with music, food, dance, and laughs. 1p, Winchester Dondero Cultural Center
• Highbrow, lowbrow, unibrow – whatever precarious socioeconomic strata you're tenuously bobbing at, we all bleed gold when our Vegas Golden Knights take the ice. Two watch-party options tonight: Revel in the festival energy at Uncommons with cheerleaders, corn hole, face-painting, and roving mascots, or scream between mouthfuls of cheese curds at Blue Ox Tavern. 7p, Uncommons / Blue Ox Tavern
• Love Fest is high-concept in every sense of the word. This dance-infused celebration of human connection – which even includes a couples pole dance workshop – should send your heart soaring at the sight of Joi of Dance's pro aerialists in romantic orbit above. 7p, Aerial Athletica
• As if a night of time-warping with the cultishly devoted Frankie's Favorite Obsession – a local Rocky Horror Picture Show performance troupe that's been around since 2001! – wasn't madcap enough, tonight's show is an extra-zany "April Fools Crazy Hat Show" edition. 9p, Tropicana Cinemas
• Yes, I'm admitting an abiding admiration for the gritty phenotype of Sunset Strip sleaze that Ratt brought to '80s hair rock. This ain't them, but I've heard Dirty Ratt hits the drills 'n' thrills. 9p, Vamp'd Rock Bar & Grill

🏮 Sunday April 6

• The $10 Experience is a scrappy little food fest popping off in the south central valley. Lest you just dented your larynx with an incredulous yelp of joy, do note it's $10 or under for each dish, not $10 for everything. Still, okay, I'll bite. 11a, Sunset Park
• And after you've stuffed yourself silly on banh mi slider injections and quesobirria smoothies, resolve to do better tomorrow as you float your wishes into the mouth of the cosmos at the Water Lantern Festival. 430p, Sunset Park
• After 15 years, 300,000 mimosas, and 9,712 instances of tipsy ladies faceplanting off their wedge heels into the shrubs due to those 300,000 mimosas, the venerable DW Bistro is calling it quits with one last epic brunch apotheosis weekend. This time, they're spilling out into the courtyard with live sounds, food stations, and the always-ominous-sounding "surprises galore." 12p, The Gramercy
• Etho is aiming to be more than just another lifestyle/wellness boutique. They're hoping to reinvent what it means to hang out. Less "Let's grab a cocktail," more, "Let's cold-plunge and grab an acai shot." Looks like their launch party is nearly sold out, but future happenings are worth keeping a (third) eye on. 12p, Fergusons Downtown
• Viva Verdi! is a rapid-fire "greatest hits" collection of the Italian maestro's most pulse-quickening arias and ensembles. From the hunchbacked court jester's bitter vengeance in Rigoletto to the tragically consumptive courtesan in La Traviata, Verdi's musical melodramas pack more heartbreak, betrayal, and passion into three minutes than an entire season of "Young Sheldon." 3p, Myron's

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