✦Weekender✦ Wizard awe | Tunes & pints | Adults vs. kids | CHUD hero | Winery sale | Mom rock | Impersonate the ATF 🕵️
FROM FLAMETHROWER DANCE parties to bubbly-fueled burlesque to caffeinated kitten throwdowns, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
⚔️ Friday August 29
- It probably says something about my worldview that I'm listing kids-vs.-adults game-off A Big Little Event as an opportunity to mercilessly flex on larval rugrats for the forcible extraction of their sweet, ambrosial, health bar-restoring child-tears. 6p, Valley View Recreation Center
- Props to Audio Bar for incorporating education into their intense EDM programming. Geared for UNLV students, Bassline 101 features helpful professors such as Flamethrower, CPR, and Wave Pilot teaching the basics of dubstep, house, and techno. 9p, Audio Bar
- Brrr! Friday's forecast calls for a chilly 91 degrees. Sounds like a great excuse to warm your bones with a hearthside pint and cozy up for Pub Tunes Friday with Whiskey & Ginger. 9p, McMullan's Irish Pub
- Somehow late-night The Clown Show accrues extra cred + intrigue by being held at – holy shit, I never knew this place existed! – a legit props store. I'd like one fake ATF badge and a "chunky guts" silicone blood puddle to go, please! 930p, Western Stage Properties
Also Friday ➤
We're gonna need a bigger boat to contain the soft-rock squeeze of Yachtzilla at Downtown Grand ✦ The season peaks with local music showcase Endless Summer at The Space ✦ Not gonna lie, sometimes I blast the hypertrophic, serrated tracks of Haarper when I'm driving on Maryland Parkway and pretend I'm a cartoon meme of a mysterious thug kingpin or something ✦ The brute, theroid patrons of Dive Bar probably wrestle with each other all the time, but It's On Sight is an actual, intentional wrestling event.
👉 ICYMI, here's a sack o' murderous robots, mountain music jams, and leather-masked saddle daddies:
Andrew Kiraly
😺 Saturday August 30
- Folks are going to be lining up around the corner to meet Oatmeal and Crepe. You haven't heard of Oatmeal and Crepe? No, they're not infuriatingly vacuous TikTok stars, they're the slinky feline celebs of the Coffee & Kittens Pop Up – and yes, you can take them to-go. 10a, Exit Zero Coffee
- Like bar trivia? How about some sand bar trivia? 😑 Red Rock Trivia will test your knowledge of our city's favorite conservation area/urban park/Summerlin patio. 6p, Red Spring Pavilion
- If you've ever imagined an alternate-reality version of First Friday minus the food trucks and vaping 11-year-olds, Summer Soirée is, uh, your 1,000-puff mango-peach-jelly Smok disposable. This open house features a chunk of Arts Factory spots activating for "an evening of art & vintage & handmade." 630p, The Arts Factory
- I have an admiration – not even a grudging admiration, just a straight-up admiration – for a fried chicken eatery that's throwing a techno/house party called, of course, Cluck n Rave. 8p, Crave Fried Chicken
Also Saturday ➤
San Diego's Blue Elephant and the Seven Snakes play skate punk the way it was meant to played – face-blisteringly fast – at Red Dwarf ✦ Tug on some creative threads at Sohn Vintage's HandMeDown Showcase with poets, musicians, and comedians ✦ How does a turbo lover celebrate his birthday? Ask me in July ha ha ahem jk actually Turbo Lover lead singer Videobob blows some candles with a night of Judas Priest metal at Dive Bar.
