✔️ Your September to-do list
THERE'S A CRISP bite in the air, the kids are back in school, and the Halloween section at Marshalls is a feral Karen Thunderdome. Fall is here. Here's a month's worth of September must-dos!
- Get inspired and connected at this "Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home" reading and discussion that takes place Sept. 1 at the Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum.
- If your average open mic night is like a box of chocolates, Hola Habibi's MF Monday looks like roulette for your sanity.
- Looks like the Big Blues Bender is sold out, but you can still pregame at The Composers Room at this lively pre-Bender Blues Showcase Sept. 3.
- You'll have a head-banging, chakra-expanding good time at Sin Salutation Heavy Metal Yoga Sept. 4 at Sinwave.
- Get a headful of radical notions when smart + funny labor thinker + writer Hamilton Nolan discusses his book The Hammer at The Writer's Block.
- Say farewell to summer with a glug of the good pink stuff at this Crush Pad rosé soirée. Also on Sept. 6: The Sin City Burlesque Festival kicks off at The Space.
- Plunging pups and diving dogs make a splash at Dog Daze of Summer at the Desert Breeze pool complex.
- Yes, I know I made a solemn public pledge to ham-slap anyone who uses the word "immersive," but Particle Ink at The Luxor is actually immersive, generally hella neato, and meets the hype.
- Dark verse, cool bar, killer pizza. It's a monthly ritual when Doomed Poetry looms at Red Dwarf.
- Tuesday happy hour at Golden Tiki is always fortified with the swingin' 'n' crooning Dino à la Carte. He has, as they say, rizz.
- Is it a jam, an adult play date, a creative free-for-all? Playful Pastime at The Usual Place is all of the above. The Sept. 11 edition features musical artists B Rose and Danii.
- Dive into the world of bestseller Caucasia by Danzy Senna, interviewed by pretty much Vegas' smartest writer, Nicholas Russell.
- Catch a true-crime buzz with custom cocktails at this live production of the popular CreepTime podcast at The Space.
- There she blows! Sip the suds from 50 breweries at Beer Zombies' Free the Whales. Also get your beer, barbecue, and blues on at this meaty Saturday Blues Society jam at SoulBelly BBQ.
- Get a double dose of funny at Natalie Cuomo and Dan LaMorte at 24 Oxford.
- Go back to black as Swan Charisse performs her Amy Winehouse tribute, "To Mr. Jones with Love" at Backstage Bar & Billiards.
- Plunge face-first into late-night stochastic absurdity at quirkcore cult variety show Who Knows, which returns to Vegas Theatre Company Sept. 17.
- Spread some JOI at the Jazz Outreach Initiative's big band concert that regularly blows the roof off Notoriety.
- Take some ecstasy ... in the form of dance, that is, at Ecstatic Dance at Area 15.
- If you didn't get a stab at seeing Scream'd: The Unauthorized Musical Parody the first time, it returns this month to Majestic Repertory Theatre.
- Stroll 'n' sip 'n' sip some more at the Sept. 21 New Vista Wine Walk in Downtown Summerlin.
- Catch multiple eyefuls of amazing at at the reception for "Exploración del Arte Latino" at the Summerlin Library Sept. 22.
- Sonic experiments and novel sounds abound at this Sept. 23 "Solos, Duos, and a Concertino" SHOW put on by UNLV NEXTET.
- Nothing says fall, and perhaps terror, like "corn maze." Gilcrease opens its pumpkin patch for the season Sept. 24.
- Get silly over sushi at Hon Izakaya's Spotlight Comedy Showcase Sept. 25, promising comics "of all skill levels."
- Revel in the "Spectacle of the Showgirl" at this Sept. 26 reception showcasing costumes and accessories of the iconic Vegas showgirl through history.
- Celebrate Filipino culture, community, and cuisine at the Pinoy Pride Festival at the Gold Coast Sept. 27.
- If you love nostalgic musicals with heart, you'll love The House on Watch Hill – an original Vegas production – at Vegas Theatre Company.
- Set your clock for The Midnight Cabaret at Fat Cat Sept. 29, promising "music and debauchery."
- Scream out yr fave punk tunes at Berlin's famously fun Punk Rock Karaoke.
Have a great September! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
