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MUSIC Festival founders prepare for change and look to the future of Life Is Sh--.
THE STRIP Ikons of Rock turns up the volume and the spectacle at the Strat.
FOOD & DRINK The Irish Spot fills a pub-shaped hole with authentic fare and drinks.
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PRESEASON: VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS VS. UTAH MAMMOTH 7 p.m., T-Mobile Arena, axs.com.
SANTANA 7 p.m., & 9/26-9/27, House of Blues, ticketmaster.com.
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NATURAL VIBRATIONS & THROUGH THE ROOTS 6 p.m., Brooklyn Bowl, ticketmaster.com. MAJESTIC 10TH BIRTHDAY CABARET 7 p.m., Majestic Repertory Theatre, majesticrepertory.com.
FRONT BOTTOMS 7 p.m., Brooklyn Bowl, ticketmaster.com.
DURANGO FEST With Los Principes, Alacranes Musical, Grupo Montéz De Durango, more, 8 p.m., Theater at Virgin, axs.com.
COMMON KINGS 7 p.m., LIV Beach, livnightclub.com.
ART GARFUNKEL 7:30 p.m., Reynolds Hall, thesmithcenter.com. LAS VEGAS GREEK FOOD FESTIVAL Greek Americans have a long history of feeding the people of Las Vegas, dating all the way back to the early 1900s. The tradition continues with the 53rd annual Las Vegas Greek Food Festival with entertainment, dancing, vendors, fun for the kids and, most importantly, food. This year marks the debut of a new four-minute shuttle from Durango High School, which will provide easy parking and complimentary rides back and forth to the festival. A new VIP area boasts a private bar, lounge and air-conditioned tent and the best seating to see the stage and dancefloor. Come enjoy the spirit of philoxenia, the Greek custom of welcoming strangers. Opa! Thru 9/27, hours vary, $10+, St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, lasvegasgreek festival.com. –Shannon Miller
ADRIÁN URIBE 8 p.m., Pearl Theater, axs.com. JIMMY JAM & TERRY LEWIS 8 p.m., & 9/26, 9/30, Voltaire, ticketmaster.com. HIGH STAKES FESTIVAL With Acraze, Getter, JoyRyde, more, 7 p.m., & 9/26, the A-Lot at Area15, area15.com.
YOU WILL GET SICK 7 p.m. (& 9/26, 2 p.m.), Clark County Library, apublicfit.org. DESERT ROSE FESTIVAL Thru 9/26, times vary, UNLV, unlv.edu. TUFF N UFF 157 6 p.m., the Pool at Sahara, eventbrite.com. JOE WEIDER’S OLYMPIA FINALS 6 p.m. (& 9/26, 7 p.m.), Orleans Arena, ticketmaster.com. DEADMAU5 10:30 p.m., Encore Beach Club, wynnsocial.com.
S P OT L I G H T E V E N T DRINK LAS VEGAS Drink Las Vegas takes over the Strip September 24–27, spreading across four MGM Resorts properties—Aria, Bellagio, the Cosmopolitan and Park MGM—for a weekend of world-class chef dinners, cocktail masterclasses and tastings from names like Wolfgang Puck, Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Masaharu Morimoto. The festival’s Signature Tasting events, including Opening Night and A Night of Excellence with the James Beard Foundation, bring the city’s top chefs and mixologists together for an unforgettable night out, with Tom Holland, Shaquille O’Neal, Alix Earle, Sammy Hagar, Sylvester Stallone and more joining the weekend lineup. Events start at $95. drinklasvegas.com From left: Roy Choi, Tiffany Derry, Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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ALI WONG 8 p.m., & 9/26, Encore Theater, ticketmaster.com.
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BIG LOVE 7:30 p.m., & 9/25-9/26, 9/30 (& 9/269/27, 2 p.m.), Alta Ham Fine Arts Black Box Theatre, unlv.edu.
SAMMY HAGAR 8 p.m., & 9/26, Dolby Live, ticketmaster.com.
SOCIAL DISTORTION 8 p.m., the Chelsea, ticketmaster.com.
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FOO FIGHTERS With Queens of the Stone Age, 5:30 p.m., Allegiant Stadium, ticketmaster.com.
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DO IT ALL GHOSTBUSTERS IN CONCERT The 1984 classic Ghostbusters gets thrown into the Halloween movie marathon rotation a lot. Who could forget the massive Marshmallow Man stomping around Manhattan? Or the group’s first encounter with Slimer? But what if you could re-experience it in a whole new way? Ghostbusters In Concert takes the iconic comedy and merges it with a live orchestra. Peter M. Bernstein—son of legendary composer Elmer Bernstein, who scored the original film—has signed on with Schirmer Theatrical’s creative team to bring the soundtrack to life. It’s Ghostbusters like you’ve never seen or heard it before, back to haunt you in the best way. 7:30 p.m., $41-$103, Reynolds Hall, thesmithcenter.com. –Amber Sampson
PRESEASON: VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS VS. SAN JOSE SHARKS 7 p.m., T-Mobile Arena, axs.com.
NEW VISTA WINE WALK 7 p.m., Downtown Summerlin, eventbrite.com.
LAUREN ALAINA & CARLY PEARCE 7 p.m., Fremont Street Experience, vegasexperience.com.
DANIEL TOSH 8 p.m., the Chelsea, ticketmaster.com.
DOMINIC FIKE 8 p.m., Theater at Virgin, axs.com.
KAT TIMPF 8 p.m., Agave Ballroom at Durango, ticketmaster.com.
THE PHIL COLLINS STORY 8 p.m., Resorts World Theatre, axs.com.
X AMBASSADORS 7:30 p.m., the Pool at Sahara, ticketmaster. com.
CROUCHING TIGER & BEYOND 5 p.m., Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum, rdamuseum.org.
CYPRESS HILL With Scarface, 8 p.m., M Pool, ticketmaster.com.
COMMUNITY NIGHT MARKET 4 p.m., Lee’s Family Forum, leesfamilyforum.com.
ISAIAH RASHAD With Alemeda, 7 p.m., Brooklyn Bowl, ticketmaster.com. JUSTIN MOORE 8 p.m., Bel-Aire Backyard, axs.com.
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JAKE JACOBSEN 10 p.m., Stoney’s Sunset, stoneys.com. VINCENT JOHN BAND 9 p.m., Rio Event Stage, riolasvegas.com. DETH RALI With Alex Okami, Pitch After Dark, 8 p.m., the Griffin, dice.fm. THE DAY PLAYERS BAND 6 p.m., the Space, thespacelv.com.
DIPLO With Charly Jordan, 11 a.m., Encore Beach Club, wynnsocial.com. STEVE AOKI 11 a.m., Palm Tree Beach Club, taogroup.com. ZEDD 11 a.m., Tao Beach Dayclub, taogroup.com. ILLENIUM 10:30 p.m., Marquee Nightclub, taogroup.com. SWAMP IZZO 10:30 p.m., Zouk Nightclub, zoukgrouplv.com. RICK ROSS 10:30 p.m., Hakkasan Nightclub, taogroup.com.
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SUNDAY, SEP 27 ELEFANTE 8 p.m., Sahara Theatre, ticketmaster. com. OLEANDER With Crashing Wayward, Pure Sport, 6:30 p.m., Brooklyn Bowl, ticketmaster. com.
MONDAYS DARK 8 p.m., the Space, mondaysdark.com. EXHIBIT: THE NEW DEAL IN THE NEW WEST Thru 10/18, Thu.-Mon. 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Nevada State Museum, lasvegas nvmuseum.org.
MIKE DAWES 7 p.m., Myron’s, thesmithcenter. com. SPILLED MILK PLANT BINGO 11:30 a.m., Las Vegas Distillery, lasvegas distillery.com.
MIKE JONES 7:30 & 9 p.m., Vic’s, vicslasvegas.com.
DJ PAULY D 11 a.m., Omnia Dayclub, taogroup.com.
REVOCATION With Defeated Sanity, Fuming Mouth, Weeping, 6 p.m., Backstage Bar & Billiards, dice.fm.
LINSKA 10:30 p.m., LIV Nightclub, livnightclub.com.
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KYLE BUSCH TRIBUTE CONCERT With Brantley Gilbert, Filmore, 6 p.m., Stoney’s Rockin’ Country, stoneys rockincountry.com. KNUMEARS With Love Letter, Open Letter, Almost November, 5 p.m., Grey Witch, dice.fm. JASON CROSS 10 p.m., Stoney’s North Forty, tixr.com. NIGHT SHIFT COCKTAIL COMPETITION FINAL 6 p.m., High Stakes Vegas, tinyurl.com/thenightshiftfinal.
VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS VS. CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS 7:30 p.m., T-Mobile Arena, axs.com. PRESIDENT With Showing Teeth, 6:30 p.m., Brooklyn Bowl, ticketmaster.com.
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HOLDING ABSENCE & ARM’S LENGTH With Bloom, more, 6 p.m., the Portal at Area15, area15.com. MIND ENTERPRISES With Fred Fancy, 8 p.m., 24 Oxford, ticketmaster.com.
JAZZ VEGAS ORCHESTRA 7 p.m., Myron’s, thesmithcenter. com. THE NUMBER TWELVE LOOKS LIKE YOU 6:30 p.m., the Wall at Area15, area15.com.
THE TEXAS TENORS Thru 10/1, 7 p.m., South Point Showroom, ticketmaster.com.
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PARCELS Australian-born electronic quintet Parcels burst onto the global scene with “Overnight,” an incessantly catchy collaborative 2017 single with the genre’s royal duo, Daft Punk. Far from a simple nostalgia act, the Berlin-based ensemble’s ‘70s aesthetic and groovy fusion of electropop, funk and disco-soul— backed by signature upbeat five-part harmonies, pattering keys and warm analog guitar twang—translate into exceptional live shows. Following a 2025 arena tour that included selling out Red Rocks Ampitheater twice in support of their third studio album, Loved, Parcels will visit Vegas for their far more intimate fall U.S. run. 6:30 p.m., $58-$92, the A-Lot at Area 15, area15.com. –Tyler Schneider
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WEDNESDAY 13 With Dead On A Sunday, Above Snakes, 7 p.m., Backstage Bar & Billiards, eventim.us. SO FUNNY IT HURTS 7:30 p.m., the Space, thespacelv.com. VALENTINO KHAN 10:30 p.m., Encore Beach Club, wynnsocial.com.
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UNCOMMON HARVEST The Uncommon Harvest returns for another year of fall fun at UnCommons in the southwest. Every Friday and Saturday from 6-9 p.m. in October, visitors can enjoy live music, shop local vendors, pick out their favorite pumpkins, enjoy the petting zoo and so much more. An upgraded experience this year will create new family photo opportunities, connections with new friends, pet costume contests and a Kids Monster Mash Dance Party. Visit uncommons.com/harvest for the full schedule of events. *Spotlight events are sponsored
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Develop your photo skills by walking around Downtown Las Vegas BY GABRIELA RODRIGUEZ For locals, places like the Downtown Las Vegas area may seem comfortably familiar. But look away too long, and the scene changes—a storefront disappears, a mural is painted over, a motel crumbles to rubble. You shouldn’t miss your chance to impose a timestamp upon a fleeting moment through a camera lens. Photo walks have become one of the best ways to explore this city. Walking and shooting enables you to look past the obvious to the peeling facades, painted walls, forgotten objects and tiny visual cues that make a place look and feel lived in. On a Saturday morning, I set out with a Pentax K1000 loaded with one humble roll of Fujifilm 135. Those 36 exposures require intention—composing a frame, manual focus, adjusting the aperture, checking the light meter and negotiating with the machinery before pressing the shutter—making this roll of film a joyful, all-day affair. Downtown offers uniquely Vegas visuals—a motel sign, sans motel, framed against a clear blue sky; artist portraits in the heavily muraled Arts District; and lots of graffitied alleyways—not to mention neon signage. Whether shooting film, digital or Polaroids, you’ll thank yourself for getting outside and capturing images that live outside your phone’s camera roll.
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Resist the urge to simply capture the mural itself. Get closer. Look for chipped paint, old tags, passing shadows and the way a person interacts with the image. The best frame might be happening just outside the artwork.
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Few things feel more distinctly Las Vegas than a motel sign standing where its motel used to be. These remnants are easy to overlook, which makes them worth photographing. A faded sign or empty lot is compelling visual proof of Vegas’ mutability.
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Parts of Downtown glow, flash and announce themselves from every direction. But try to look past the spectacle. Neon reflected in glass, colored light hitting a weathered facade or a stranger passing beneath a sign can reveal a quieter side.
Fremont Photo Company hosts an instant photo walk from its Downtown home base, with 20% off film development for rolls shot during the event (fremontphotoco.com). Las Vegas Photography Group offers nighttime street photography walks focused on dramatic portraits and light-balancing techniques (lasvegasphotographygroup. com). At Atomic Liquors, the monthly Burgers & Bangers walk welcomes photographers of all kinds, from film to iPhone (instagram. com/nv.nick_photography). B&C Camera also offers classes, including multiple-exposure night walks and telephoto sessions at Hemenway Park in Boulder City (store.bandccamera.com).
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Southern Nevada is shaped by people who see what is possible and put in the work to make it happen. The women recognized in this year’s Women Inspiring Nevada are among them. Across healthcare, education, business, law, the nonprofit sector and the arts, they are leading organizations, advancing their industries, creating opportunities and strengthening the community around them. Women Inspiring Nevada celebrates not only what these women have accomplished, but the influence they have along the way. Their work reaches beyond individual achievements or job titles. It can be seen in the organizations they lead, the people they support and mentor, the ideas they champion and the lasting contributions they make to Southern Nevada. It is a privilege to share their stories and recognize what they have accomplished. To our 2026 honorees, thank you for your work, your leadership and the example you set for others. I’d also like to thank our sponsor, UNLV Lee Business School, for their continued support, as well as AREA15 for hosting this year’s celebration. Congratulations to the 2026 Women Inspiring Nevada honorees! Alexander Haase
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Market President, Enterprise Bank & Trust Vjollca Tarjan has built her life around three core principles: strong relationships, integrity and service. In banking, she found a career that brings those principles together with her interests in business, leadership and community engagement. Tarjan’s career has taken her from business banking at U.S. Bank to middle-market commercial banking at Wells Fargo, where she developed new business and mentored junior bankers. She worked with companies ranging from small businesses to multinational corporations, helping them navigate financial challenges and pursue growth. She joined Enterprise Bank & Trust as Las Vegas market president in January 2025, becoming the first woman to hold the position locally. In Tarjan’s first year, her team provided more than $100 million in new funding to businesses across the market while she expanded the team, its advisory board and community investment. Her community leadership includes board service with United Way of Southern Nevada and the Nevada Bankers Association, along with the Vegas Chamber Board of Trustees. Her involvement supports financial education, economic development and Southern Nevada’s business community.
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CEO, The Shade Tree For Linda Perez, the work of supporting survivors of domestic violence is personal. A survivor herself, Perez has built a career spanning corporate leadership and nonprofit work centered on helping women and families find safety and stability. Perez began her career in marketing and human resources before transitioning into nonprofit leadership, where she served as executive director of St. Jude House in Indiana. At the Shade Tree, she oversees fundraising, finances and operations while strengthening case management and extending support for women, children and pets in crisis, even after they leave the shelter. Under her leadership, services have expanded beyond emergency shelter to include a 24-hour crisis hotline and dedicated resources for survivors of human trafficking. Perez also serves as vice president of the Nevada Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence and supports organizations including Noah’s Animal House, Signs of Hope and Dress for Success of Southern Nevada. Her leadership at the Shade Tree draws on both her personal understanding of the challenges that survivors face and her years of experience helping families rebuild their lives.
Founder and Chief Advocacy & Innovation Officer, Cure 4 The Kids Foundation When Nevada families were being sent out of state for pediatric cancer and rare disease treatment, Annette Logan-Parker sought to bring that care closer to home. Drawing on her experience as both a nurse and a parent navigating a complex medical condition in her own family, she founded Cure 4 The Kids Foundation in 2007. What began as notes on napkins at a kitchen table has grown into Nevada’s only dedicated outpatient pediatric cancer and rare disease treatment center. Logan-Parker built a sustainable nonprofit model, secured funding and partnerships, recruited pediatric specialists, and expanded the organization to serve more than 8,300 patients annually. Cure 4 The Kids now employs nearly all of Nevada’s board-certified pediatric oncologists, turns no child with cancer away because of an inability to pay, and gives Nevada patients access to national clinical trials through the Children’s Oncology Group and National Cancer Institute Community Oncology Research Program. Logan-Parker’s influence extends into public policy. As chair of the Nevada Rare Disease Advisory Council, she helps bring patients, caregivers, clinicians and policymakers together while advocating at the state and federal levels for pediatric healthcare access and rare disease research.
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Throughout Maria Jose Gatti’s career, her work has always centered on people. Early roles in accounting, human resources and program management gave her experience developing teams and investing in employees, a focus she eventually carried into hospitality and philanthropy. As vice president of philanthropy at MGM Resorts International and president of the MGM Resorts Foundation, Gatti leads corporate giving, employee-funded grants and companywide volunteer programs. MGM Resorts employees contributed nearly 98,000 volunteer hours in 2025, and the foundation has distributed more than $120 million to nonprofit organizations since its inception. Gatti oversees programs that support employees and their families, including the employee emergency grant and community grant funds. She also helped advance a scholarship program for employees’ children, which awarded its 646th scholarship in 2025. Outside of her work at MGM Resorts, education remains a focus for Gatti. She serves on the Public Education Foundation board and the College of Southern Nevada Institutional Advisory Council, reflecting her belief in education’s ability to create opportunities and change lives.
Of Counsel, Kaempfer Crowell Melissa Saragosa-Stratton got her first glimpse of law through her father’s private investigative business. As a child, she cleaned his offices and occasionally accompanied him to the courthouse. She was fascinated by attorneys and judges, as well as the stories behind the cases they handled. By age 10, she had her sights set on law school. Saragosa-Stratton began her legal career in the U.S. Air Force, eventually serving as lead prosecutor for court-martial cases across 18 Western bases. After relocating to Las Vegas in 2000, she joined the Clark County District Attorney’s Office, handling hundreds of cases and developing its formal advocacy training and mentoring program for new prosecutors. In 2006, she was appointed to Las Vegas Justice Court Department 4, serving 18 years and ultimately becoming chief judge, overseeing a $65 million budget and more than 300 employees. Her military career continued concurrently, including service as an appellate judge on the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals before retiring as a colonel. Saragosa-Stratton now practices litigation at Kaempfer Crowell, where she mentors young attorneys and shares her experience with women entering the profession.
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Congratulations to Amy Naples, Chief Marketing Officer, on being named one of VEGAS INC's 2026 Women Inspiring Nevada. Your vision, creativity and leadership inspire our team and millions of people to see Las Vegas a little differently. We couldn't be prouder to have you leading the way. - Your AREA15 Family
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Vice President of Marketing and Communications, The Mob Museum Few cities have a history quite like Las Vegas and Ashley Miller has helped connect audiences with some of its most colorful chapters. Miller oversees marketing, communications and sales for the Mob Museum, which explores the history of organized crime and law enforcement. Under Miller’s leadership, the Mob Museum has found new ways to reach audiences beyond its Downtown location. She has led launches including The Underground Speakeasy and Distillery, three seasons of the Inside the Life podcast and the museum’s first retail store at Harry Reid International Airport. Its digital presence now attracts more than 2 million website visits annually, while the museum itself welcomes more than 400,000 visitors each year from all 50 states and 35 countries. Miller prioritizes free admission days, educational outreach and programming that has welcomed tens of thousands of local students, seniors and underserved audiences. She also mentors students through UNLV’s Harrah College of Hospitality and volunteers with organizations including Ronald McDonald House Las Vegas, Girls on the Run and Baby’s Bounty.
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Director of Disability & Volunteer Programming, Goodwill of Southern Nevada Mary Brabant has spent much of her career creating pathways to employment for people with disabilities. Her work at Goodwill of Southern Nevada has focused on giving people the experience, skills and support needed to participate in the workforce. In 1997, a teacher approached Brabant about creating workplace opportunities for two students. Brabant helped launch Goodwill’s Student Work Experience Program that now serves nearly 600 students with disabilities each year in Clark and Nye counties. Brabant has also helped pioneer programs including Community Based Training, Skills To Enable Personal Success and the Work Readiness Summer Program. Those efforts provide opportunities for participants to gain practical experience, develop workplace skills and prepare for meaningful employment. Brabant has brought her experience to statewide workforce advocacy as well. She serves on the Nevada State Rehabilitation Council, collaborating with educators, employers, government agencies and community organizations to strengthen vocational rehabilitation and employment opportunities. Her goal remains straightforward: to ensure people with disabilities have the support and opportunities to succeed in the workplace.
Chief Marketing Officer, AREA15 The memory of a great experience can last a lifetime, and that realization is what ultimately drew Amy Naples to entertainment marketing. Her work has focused on how entertainment is presented, experienced and ultimately remembered by audiences. Naples’ career has spanned ticketing and entertainment marketing, including working with the Phoenix Suns and the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Paralympics. In Las Vegas, she managed multimillion-dollar marketing budgets and campaigns for Caesars Entertainment’s residencies, production shows and Strip attractions before leading the marketing division at Kirvin Doak Communications. At AREA15, Naples oversees marketing, partnerships, digital growth and guest experience for the expanding entertainment district. She directed marketing strategy for Zone 2: The Terminals, a 30-acre expansion featuring Universal Horror Unleashed, Universal Destinations & Experiences’ first year-round horror attraction, as well as new dining, art installations and other attractions. Her community involvement includes volunteering with Make-A-Wish Nevada and WISE Las Vegas, supporting charitable work locally and women in the sports and events industry.
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The Mob Museum, an award-winning, nonprofit museum located in downtown Las Vegas, explores history’s most intriguing tales through an immersive and interactive experience. Learn more at themobmuseum.org.
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On behalf of the entire organization, we congratulate Ashley Miller on this fantastic achievement! We celebrate her leadership and unwavering dedication to The Mob Museum and our Las Vegas community.
Congratulations, Kam! The LVMPD Foundation proudly celebrates Kam Green, Vice President of Mission Advancement, as a 2026 Women Inspiring Nevada honoree. A champion for people. A builder of community. A leader who inspires others to Get Up & Thrive.
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DARKNESS? Exploring a 2025 study ranking Nevada first in the U.S. for “dark personalities” BY TYLER SCHNEIDER
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mmortalized and perhaps glorified in films like Casino, the men of Las Vegas’ mob era wielded a mix of personal charm and callous ruthlessness to secure fortune, power and infamy. But is that history reflective of who Nevadans are today? According to a 2025 University of Copenhagen study, there’s at least some evidence it could be. In it, the Silver State topped the nation for a set of traits researchers call the Dark Factor of Personality, or a tendency to prioritize one’s own interests, sometimes even at the expense of others. While there’s plenty of nuance surrounding this finding, the research does raise questions worth exploring. Could Nevada’s struggles with housing affordability, healthcare access or violent crime play a role in its standing? If so, could the state curb its preva-
lence of “dark personalities” by addressing those issues? MEASURING DARK TRAITS The U.S. results were drawn from personality survey responses collected from 144,600 voluntary participants, which were then tallied up as a D-score—a five-point scale of dark personality traits—for each state. These scores were then cross referenced with an “Aversive Societal Conditions Index,” a composite of state and federal data for four key variables: corruption, inequality, poverty, and violence. The goal was to test the degree to which those external variables might shape dark personality traits, alongside genetic factors. The study’s lead author, Ingo Zettler, professor of personality and social behavior at the University of Copenhagen, first proposed the D-score concept in a 2018 study
in which he and his collaborators described it as “the common core of dark traits.” They built upon an existing framework known as the Dark Triad, a term first coined in a 2002 study to hone in on the socially aversive traits of psychopathy, Machiavellianism and narcissism. “While researchers were mostly interested in the differences between the Dark Triad traits—how people with high levels in psychopathy might behave somewhat differently than people with high levels in narcissism, for example—I had the feeling that they actually have quite a lot in common,” Zettler says. “The main difference is that we have a stronger focus on what drives any kind of unethical, aversive behavior, and other researchers have a slightly stronger focus on how different kinds of personality traits might relate to different outcomes.” UNLV associate psycholo-
gy professor and psychopathy researcher Stephen Benning is more skeptical. “By and large, you can see this as a way of describing how people are antagonistic against each other,” Benning says. “Antagonism is a personality dimension that has a decades-long history in the literature, but it doesn’t have the same popular ring as something being called ‘dark.’ And from my perspective, [that term] does the field a rather great disservice by sensationalizing the results, as opposed to describing them in less stigmatizing ways.” He points to the numbers. At 2.26 out of 5, Nevada’s chart-topping D-score surpassed New York, Texas and South Dakota by a few hundredths of a point, but it was also just three-tenths of a point greater than the lowest scorer, Vermont, at 1.96. Nevada’s sample size of nearly 1,600 was demonstrably higher than Vermont’s 347.
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Nevada’s ranking also looks less remarkable when compared to the global portion of the study, comprising 1.8 million responses from 183 countries. China topped the charts with a D-score of 2.86 to Sweden’s 1.95, while U.S. differences were less drastic. “We’re talking about a pretty narrow range,” Benning says. “That leads me to think that the differences that we’re seeing—while perhaps being something that can be revealed with statistical means—might not be things that we would see a huge impact [from] in practical terms.” QUANTIFYING SOCIETAL CONDITIONS Zettler confirms the four variables measured in the Aversive Societal Conditions Index weren’t weighted equally. Corruption contributed less than half as much to the final score as the other three, with poverty holding the largest influence. “It’s not obvious that corruption is a perfect indicator of aversive conditions overall, because it leaves out many other things that might be bad,” Zettler says. “So, we decided to combine [the four variables] to get rid of a little bit of the noise that each has.” The mismatch is stark. Louisiana posted the worst societal conditions in the U.S., yet its D-score barely cracked
the middle of the pack. Nevada saw the inverse, landing just below the average at 43 out of 100, even though its D-score outpaced all others. To keep the global level ASC scores consistent, Zettler’s team pulled all four variables from the World Bank database rather than mixing sources between countries. They also cross-checked their findings against separate measures like press freedom and gender inequality, which didn’t make the final cut. “The results were all pointing in a similar direction,” Zettler says, offering some support for the index’s overall validity—with the caveat that U.S. state-level scores instead relied on state and federal data. ZOOMING IN ON NEVADA Despite Benning’s skepticism, he agrees that there may be some merit to Zettler’s theory that poor societal conditions can shape “dark” personality traits. Early life experiences like poverty and trauma can indeed influence, or even “generate,” genetically predisposed traits like psychopathy, he says. Especially for those who grew up in places ripe with “unpredictable social behavior.” “Generally speaking, if people ask me if a trait is due to nature or nurture, I say yes. And when they ask how much, I say
about half,” he explains. Another example is Nevada’s poor mental healthcare access. “Having a lack of mental healthcare would make it more difficult for people who are higher in antagonism to have resources to deal with high amounts of negative emotion,” Benning says. “That could allow them to act more antisocially, especially in the spur of the moment when emotions are running high.” To better explore how places can influence personalities over time, Zettler’s team notably sourced their societal conditions data from 2000 to 2004. But this may skew results for transient populations like Nevada’s, which has since grown by nearly one million residents. Some of them might have also moved to Nevada specifically to pursue a deviant lifestyle, however. Benning points to a decades-old theory that transience itself may encourage antisocial behavior precisely because it’s easier to
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The main difference [with this study] is that we have a stronger focus on what drives any kind of unethical, aversive behavior, and other researchers have a slightly stronger focus on how different kinds of personality traits might relate to different outcomes.” –Ingo Zettler, professor of personality and social behavior at the University of Copenhagen
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charm one’s way through a big city when you can disappear in a crowd or leave entirely. Zettler says it’s a bit of both. “Probably nobody has self-selected, let’s say, to Nevada, because there might be particularly bad societal conditions. But something around these conditions might attract certain kinds of people,” Zettler says. While Vegas seems primed for exploitation in this regard, Benning’s studies on “fearless dominance”—which describes a low-fear, high-confidence personality tied to elevated risk-taking and social boldness—paint a grayer reality. “What’s interesting about fearless dominance is we’ve found that it’s actually not strongly associated with gambling,” Benning says. “However, [it] might be overrepresented in people who really enjoy face-to-face gambling at tables. You might, for instance, expect high-stakes poker players to be low in fundamental level of stress, interpersonally dominant and enjoy taking risks.” A CALL TO ACTION Neither Benning nor Zettler is willing to draw any firm line between Nevada’s social conditions and its D-score. Still, Zettler can’t absolutely rule out the possibility that improved quality of life could impact the development of antagonistic traits—though he’s not aware of any strong supporting studies. Future research may expound on this, in which case Nevada may very well become just an interesting footnote in a much larger field. But Zettler’s study does offer some insights that can be applied to public policy. “If you make certain policies, they might have an effect on certain personality characteristics of the population in the years to come,” Zettler says. “It’s a small effect, but we believe it’s there.”
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On the savory side, guests can expect a modern take on deviled eggs topped with caviar and rice puff; avocado toast with ninja radish and extra-virgin olive oil; smoked salmon paired with citrus dill cream and cucumber; and chicken salad made with roasted pecans, celery and tarragon, served on housemade mini brioche. Then there are the sweets. House-baked plain and cherry scones are accompanied by blueberry-lemon preserves and mascarpone cream, while the pastry selection includes a botanical tart layered with lavender crémeux and berries. For something more decadent, the Brandy Aleksandra pastry combines brandy cream, chocolate and buttery sablé. Petite key lime and blood orange macarons provide a bright, citrus-forward contrast. Tea is just as much a part of the experience as what’s on the plate. The Tea Atelier features premium seasonal loose-leaf selections crafted by Palais des Thés for Resorts World Las Vegas. Guests can choose from black, green, herbal and flavored teas, ranging from the classic Earl Grey Queen Blend to Tropical Garden, a fruit-forward blend of mango, pineapple, papaya and peach.
For those inclined to raise a glass, the beverage menu extends beyond tea. Champagne and wines are available alongside cocktails such as the Belvedere Blossom, which combines Belvedere, elderflower liqueur, lemon, white peach and sparkling wine, and the Hennessy Honey & Earl, made with Hennessy, chilled Earl Grey tea, honey and orange bitters. Spirit-free selections include the fruit-forward Lady in Red and the espresso-based Almond Joy. Part of the appeal is the variety. Rather than centering the afternoon around a single dish or drink, The Royal Pour offers an assortment of smaller bites and beverages to explore at your own pace. Guests can move between savory and sweet flavors, revisit favorites or try something different with each pour. The format lends
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itself naturally to conversation, giving the experience a leisurely rhythm that feels distinct from a traditional lunch or brunch. For locals, it’s an easy way to turn a familiar Strip address into a weekend destination. Make it a birthday gathering, plan a special occasion, bring someone you’ve been meaning to spend time with, or simply give the afternoon a little more attention. With live music, an expansive menu and plenty of reasons to linger, it offers a different way to spend a weekend on the Strip.
The Royal Pour is offered Friday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for $65 per person. Complimentary valet at Crockfords is included with reservations.
Brunch has arrived at FUHU. Join us Saturdays from 10am to 2pm for a playful take on brunch, featuring Asian-inspired favorites and unexpected twists on classics. From Matcha Mochi Pancakes with Japanese whisky maple syrup to Wagyu Beef Omurice and Duck and Waae, there’s something to make your Saturday a little more indulgent.
PILATES + BRUNCH FUHU is teaming up with AYU Dayclub and The Good Place to pair a 10am mat Pilates class at AYU Dayclub with a prix fixe brunch at FUHU for $50 per person. Space is limited and reservations are recommended.
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BY CASE KEEFER To no fault of her own, A’ja Wilson became the subject of criticism as the summer wound down. The soon-to-be five-time WNBA Most Valuable Player opted to sit out of the FIBA Women’s World Basketball Cup in Germany to rest and recover from minor lingering injuries. Not everyone agreed with her choice to pass on the event as the WNBA paused for three weeks expressly to give players like Wilson the chance to represent their countries. But the Las Vegas Aces stood by Wilson and defended her decision. There’s no indication that the franchise encouraged Wilson to stay home, but they should be thrilled that she did. The Aces’ only chance to win a record-tying fourth WNBA championship when the playoffs begin on September 27 is if Wilson completely takes over and proves unstoppable for the rest of the league. It’s not out of the question, not after she’s done varying versions of that in three of the last four years to lead the Aces to titles. The 30-year-old’s career postseason numbers are actually a touch better than her regular-season counterparts, which is unbelievable considering the heightened competition and stakes. She averages .7 points per game fewer in the postseason but posts slightly higher marks in field goal percentage, rebounds and blocks. There might have been better reasons to believe those statistics could dip this year if Wilson wasn’t fresh. She’s still been the best
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player in the league this season, but she’s aging out of the traditional athletic prime and might not have been fully healthy at any point. After missing a stretch of training camp and the preseason, Wilson has also not played in three games including the Commissioner’s Cup Championship against the New York Liberty. She cropped up on the injury report with a back issue in the games leading up to the World Cup break. The United States rolled to World Cup gold without Wilson anyway, largely on the back of Aces’ sidekicks Jackie Young and Chelsea Gray as starters next to tournament Most Valuable Player Breanna Stewart of the Liberty. If Young and Gray can maintain their World Cup rhythm, the Aces will be even stronger for the playoffs. They’ve both continued playing at their customary high levels this season but, overall, the Aces’ supporting cast around Wilson has dipped—at least defensively. It’s been a season-long gripe of Aces coach Becky Hammon, who’s said the team won’t reach its goals if it doesn’t return to the tenacity displayed in last year’s run to the championship. The path to getting there became more difficult right before the World Cup as NaLyssa Smith, a starting forward and key addition that helped lead to last year’s title, went down for the rest of the season with a leg injury. The Aces addressed the loss by signing veteran center Kalani Brown, who many not be as
polished or athletic as Smith but gives the team a size boost with her 6-foot-7 frame. They’re also continuing to break in recently-signed Japanese Basketball League star point guard Mai Yamamoto, who played 10 games with the Aces before jumping to Team Japan in the World Cup. The late-season acquisitions show the Aces’ front office is still committed to doing everything it can to win the ultimate prize. That should be commended, as the biggest sin would be not pushing to the limit with the best player in league history, Wilson, still at the peak of her powers. Wilson has gone to her own lengths to make this another special playoff run. She doesn’t need to apologize to anyone for prioritizing what’s best for her own career with her choices. The choice she made for the World Cup just also happens to serve the Aces ideally.
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FOR THE NORTHTOWN Local rapper and producer Wave MMLZ talks new album, unique collaborations and hometown pride BY TYLER SCHNEIDER
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North Las Vegas rapper and producer Wave MMLZ’s promotional run for his newest album, Northtown Rick, took a dank turn this month when local cannabis company Matrix NV dropped an “extremely limited” supply of live resin cannabis vapes bearing the title and a QR code to stream it. A similar collaboration with Lowfi Coffee is in development. These hyperlocal promotions are just one tool in the self-taught beatmaker’s atypical arsenal. Across self-produced solo tapes, a longstanding alliance with friend and fellow Vegas hip-hop mainstay ChiefDVB and drumming in metalcore band Imperial Tide, Wave has always marched to his own beat. His experimental leanings shine in the fuzzy, sinister lo-fi soundscape of tracks like “8 Legged Freaks,” featuring former Odd Future ally Speak, as well as an interlude sampling both My Chemical Romance’s “I’m Not Okay” and Steely Dan’s scorching take on the record industry. Over a densely packed 15-minute spin, Wave’s sharp flows teeter between nostalgia, comedy and philosophy in equal measure. Though he typically prefers to take his time to “whittle” his analog-heavy recordings into a unified concept, the long-haired, “Make Music
Live Zen” rapper says Northtown Rick was intentionally crafted “within 90 days.” “I’ve never written a project this quickly, and that’s exactly what I wanted to do here,” Wave says. “My goal was to take one collective thought, throw paint at the wall and see what sticks—kind of creating it collage style. I just wanted something really concise and in the moment.” The record’s name came from his own “Northtown Rick Rubin” moniker—a jesting nod to both the eclectic hip-hop innovator and his own role as one of the busiest producers in the Valley’s underground rap community. “I like to put on a persona that isn’t necessarily me all the time—an alter ego or somebody it seems like everybody knows,” Wave says. “It’s creating a bit of a cinematic universe within a project. I wanted it to be a canvas for them to interpret.” While Wave plans to “put some mileage” on Northtown Rick in the short-term, he and ChiefDVB look forward to working on You Deserve Better 3, the latest installment in their joint album series. “Chief is my brother—not in blood, but spirit. We’ll both be on our f---ing deathbeds collaborating,” he says. All the while, having found his path into the local underground scene through fellow North Las Vegas rappers T.Rabb, Thelonious Gawd and Trade Voorhees, Wave’s heart remains firmly planted at home. Northtown Rick’s “The Internet Is Not Real” alludes to this pride in just a few bars. “Way too rare to compare myself/Internet sh-just bad for your health,” he spits over dreamy keys and jazzy strums. “I’m from the town where your hand get dealt/I’m from the town if you not we can tell.” Read more of this story at lasvegasweekly.com.
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LIFE IS SH-September 26, 4:20 p.m., $20 suggested donation. Dive Bar, badmoon booking.live.
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‘NEW WAY FORWARD’ Tsvetelina Stefanova and James Howard Adams talk Year 14 of Life Is Sh-- Festival as they prepare to enter parenthood
Sh-- is getting real for Tsvetelina Stefanova and James Howard Adams. The couple who performs in the local band Same Sex Mary are days away from producing the 14th edition of the Life Is Sh-Festival at the Dive Bar on September 26. After serving as the beer-soaked, punk rock antithesis to Life Is Beautiful for years, LIS is now one of the longest running indie festivals in town. “We like to say we won,” Adams says with a laugh. But outlasting the competition won’t be their only milestone. Stefanova and Adams are expecting their first child. That’s why this year’s Life Is Sh-- theme is “new life,” Stefanova says, and it comes with a crapload of exciting reveals to match. The bill is stacked with local bands like The Dirty Hooks, The Lurches, Spring Breeding, Desert Island Boys and Sakura, plus touring acts like sludge metal duo Pagoto. The fest’s zine returns as an 80-page book of artist interviews and poetry, done in partnership with Devoid Magazine as LIS
doubles down on its poetry and author lineup. “I think it’s a really beautiful juxtaposition to go from the inside stage, seeing the band and then going outside and somebody is like, pouring their heart out … in the parking lot,” says Stefanova, who promotes the festival with her company, Bad Moon Booking. LIS has become the kind of festival Stefanova hopes her own child will grow up attending. Since 2020, LIS has raised more than $10,000 for local nonprofit Girls Rock Vegas, Stefanova says. And many of its alumni, like Dan Pereira of Sakura and Swamp Brain, return to play the festival themselves. As for what’s next, Adams says he’d like to see the two of them ease off festival duties once the baby arrives—though he’s not entirely convinced that’ll happen. “Knowing Tsvet, I doubt she’s willing to,” he laughs. “She’s a hustler. She likes to work. She likes to keep busy. We get a lot of help every year from our friends, and so I would like to think that we can slowly step back.” That doesn’t mean the couple is fully slowing down, though. Same Sex Mary is currently recording a new EP. And Stefanova says more co-promoted shows are in Bad Moon’s future. “Music is just a part of both of our lives so much. It might change in the types of shows we play or how often we’re playing. Maybe we’re a little bit more picky, but I don’t see it being the end of anything,” Adams says. “It’s just going to be a new way forward.” Read more of this story at lasvegasweekly.com.
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The Strat’s Ikons of Rock shakes the genre’s legends alive with live musicianship, exceptional stage presence and crowd interaction BY GABRIELA RODRIGUEZ When you hear names like Ozzy Osbourne, Joan Jett, Alice Cooper and Pat Benatar, it’s hard to dispute their iconic status within the world of rock ’n’ roll. Each has transcended generations, wielding a star power that has shaped their genre for decades. Now, those classic rock legends have returned to the limelight through Ikons of Rock at the Strat. This one’s got everything you want from a tribute show. It’s flashy. It’s nostalgic. And it actually sounds as close as you can get to the real thing. But beyond the surface, here are three other reasons you should check out SPI Entertainment’s latest production.
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Inside the Strat Theater, Ikons of Rock turns the volume and the visual spectacle up to 11. Rather than simply recreating 2 songs, the production leans the into the excess that made classic rock such a larger-than-life experience in the first place. Multicolored strobe lights fire across the room. Fog jets burst from the stage. And an interactive layout keeps the action moving from one side of the theater to the other. Here, all of those ingredients unite for a performance that feels like a 3greatest hits time machine.
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At the center of it all is show founder Darren Moore, a longtime musician and performer who steps into the boots—and, in some cases, the platform shoes—of rock royalty. Moore assumes the roles of Osbourne, Cooper and others while a talented lineup of multi-instrumentalists and vocalists brings an entire roster of rockstars to life. The cast tackles the distinct personalities of artists including Mötley Crüe’s Vince Neil, Kiss’ Paul Stanley, and Jon Bon Jovi, capturing more than just their vocal styles. There’s the strut, the swagger, the signature poses and charisma that turned these performers into cultural icons. That ability to shift between artists and eras is what keeps the show fresh. And for anyone who has ever air-guitared through a classic-rock chorus in the car, Ikons of Rock is essentially that fantasy personified.
These are songs that have lived in people’s collective memories for decades. Hearing them performed live taps into nostalgia without making the experience feel stuck in the past. That’s especially true when the big singalong moments hit. Whether you’re a classic rock obsessive or someone who simply knows “Livin’ on a Prayer,” the familiar hooks are hard to resist. There’s no homework required and no need to know every deep cut. Come for the nostalgia, stay for the spectacle and prepare to sing along to tracks you forgot you knew by heart.
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Saturday, October 3, 2026 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. The Lawn at Downtown Summerlin® Join us for a free outdoor event that promotes being a caring neighbor. Attendees engage in community-faced acts of kindness and take part in family-friendly activities. PBS KIDS’ beloved character Daniel Tiger will be on stage for guest appearances throughout the day. Scan the QR code to learn more or go to vegaspbs.org/bemyneighborday. DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD © 2012, The Fred Rogers Company. All rights reserved.
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Five DJs worth betting your night on at this year’s High Stakes Festival BY AMBER SAMPSON EDM hits differently in the open air. It’s euphoric, feeling the ground beneath your feet rumble in response to the ear-rattling bass. The crush of bodies writhing beside you generates warmth as fall creeps into your bones. That’s the pull of the returning High Stakes Festival, a two-night event bringing a stacked lineup of EDM hitmakers and local DJs to Area15’s A-Lot on September 25 and 26. To get you raved and ready, here’s a cheat sheet of acts to catch.
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The Crossover Pick If you’ve ever danced yourself clean inside XS Nightclub or Encore Beach Club, chances are you’ve heard Acraze’s global house hit “Do It to It.” The track samples 2006 R&B group Cherish, proving he’s the crossover prince who was promised. The techhouse producer loves a good lane-switch, even when it means turning the hook of Natasha Bedingfield’s “Pocketful of Sunshine” into a roiling bass groove on “Take Me Away.” There’s no limit to what this man might mix, so dance accordingly.
The Genre-bender Inescapable earworms define this Kentucky-raised hitmaker’s festival sets. The secret sauce lies in Daniel Allan’s ability to act as a chameleon. He can flow within virtually any genre, entrancing crowds with glossy house beats and scattershots of 808 drums when the moment strikes. Grooving feels inevitable when Allan’s behind the decks. Consider giving “Gloss” and “In the Middle” a spin to warm up.
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Your weekend just got a whole lot spicier with Juos on the lineup. The Latin tech-house producer delivers on those sweaty, hip-rolling rhythms built for dancing close and letting loose. His latest collab, “Tequila Bounce,” nails that energy with an intoxicating chorus, fueled by thumping basslines and sultry singalongs. Juos swaggers into every mix, whether he’s guesting on a track for G-house heavyweight Wax Motif (“Run It Up”) or remixing Daddy Yankee’s reggaeton breakout “Gasolina.”
Wuki’s transformative remixes have put him on the map as one of the most prominent producers around. He’s retooled a number of nostalgic tracks, turning classics like “Ring of Fire” and “Eye of the Tiger” into club contenders, and The Temptations’ soulful “My Girl” into a deliciously danceable house hit. The Grammy nominated DJ and producer creates beats with a bounce, magnifying everything that made the originals so great while leaving his own distinct twist on it. His High Stakes set will surely pay off.
The Wild Card Up to this point, we’ve been chilling. But Softest Hard wants to break through the reverie and really jack up our heart rates. The Vietnamese American DJ and producer rarely relents when it comes to her signature hardstyle. It’s aggressive and in your face, a blitz of noise that fluctuates between hard-hitting techno, distorted drums and heavy bass. That said, Softest Hard has been known to balance it out with blissful female vocals from artists like Kali Uchis and LE SSERAFIM, a K-pop group for whom she co-produced the track “Celebration.”
HIGH STAKES FESTIVAL September 25-26, 7 p.m., $70-$100. The A-Lot at Area15, area15.com.
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An iconic Las Vegas pub is reborn as The Irish Spot BY BROCK RADKE as Vegas may be a drinking town but there are few bars that have reached legendary status. The Crown & Anchor British Pub near UNLV easily qualified, closing in 2024 after three decades serving students, U.K. transplants, English football fans and pretty much all the rest of us. In early April, the friendly old building on East Tropicana came back to life—and now, it’s Irish. Thanks to managing partners Ryan Whelan and Kelcie Alder, who also operate the popular southwest sports bar The Spot LV, The Irish Spot has retained the cozy charm of the Crown while upgrading the building and focusing on authentic fare. “Everybody has such great stories and memories and they’ve been sharing them with us,” says Whelan, whose parents hail from County Waterford in Ireland. “We just want to give it back to the city. A lot of people love this bar. We’ve heard about funerals, weddings, first dates, celebrations for your first kid, a million different stories from this building.” Revisiting those memories is a special experience, especially if the new and different elements might inspire new ones. Take, for example, The Irish Spot’s fish and chips ($19), served the traditional way with fried potatoes, mushy peas and curry sauce. “We want to make sure we are doing stuff how it’s supposed to be done, no shortcuts,” Whelan says, and so he’s buying the whole cod loin and butchering it in-house because he doesn’t want pre-portioned pieces of fish. He researched the batter forever and the chips are fried in beef fat “because that’s how shops in Ireland do it.” (Pro tip: There’s an off-menu, all-you-can-eat fish and chips special Fridays for $30.) The sausage roll ($14) and shepherd’s pie ($17) made with lamb are getting similar rave re-views, and upcoming additions to the menu will include a beef cottage pie and a full Irish breakfast. The soccer fans have already come back. Have you?
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2020 KING FEATURES SYNDICATE ACROSS 1 Striped gems 7 Owner of many packaged food brands 14 Designated to be a knight 20 Update the look of 21 Perigees’ opposites 22 Arctic natives 23 “See also” lexicon link 25 Selling place 26 Faxed, e.g. 27 Prayer ender 28 “Old Guy” actress Lucy 29 Country singer Steve 30 She sang “Only Time” 32 Loud quarrel 37 A bit amiss 40 Crooner Redding 42 Iron- - (patch types) 43 Journal 44 -- Alto, California 45 “Go on, I’m interested ...” 48 Big name in smartphones 50 Losing row in tic-tac-toe 51 Actor Brody 52 Prior to, in poems 53 School after elementary 55 Perspiration outlets 56 Sch. group 57 -- fide 58 Baseball’s Tony La -59 Deep anger 60 Flower organ secreting sugary fluid 62 Fiery passion 64 What a barometer measures
71 Nest egg funds, in brief 72 Eggy entrees 73 Gallery stuff 75 Holy images 78 They spit out moola 80 Taking after 81 SAG- - (labor union) 83 Crowd scene participant 86 Undivided 87 Cuisine with many curries 88 Sallie -89 Shaw of jazz clarinet 90 Remain firm in the face of adversity 92 Razor brand 94 Zero 95 Letter after upsilon 96 Advice tidbits 97 Pigs’ place 98 On-sale cost 102 Playpen items 104 -- cotta 105 Berlin article 106 Some pens and lighters 108 Fruit producer 112 Makes thrilled 114 Irrelevant ... or where eight ending words of this puzzle’s theme answers can appear? 117 Pick up on 118 People doing penance 119 Pink fish 120 Little particles 121 Genre of rap 122 Ukraine port
DOWN 1 Bow shapes 2 “Chicago” actor Richard 3 Mary Kay rival 4 Eat a bit of 5 Letters after els 6 Bronze skin acquired via a can 7 Cozy eatery 8 Uncorks, e.g. 9 Hide -- hair 10 Very enduring 11 Brainiac 12 Snip again 13 Enzyme suffix 14 Yankee great Joe 15 Deprive of weapons 16 Sackcloth 17 Pedicabs 18 Summer, in French 19 Summer hrs. 24 Inbox filler 29 Japanese mushroom 31 Memos, e.g. 33 Sharpen 34 Old-time actress Massey 35 Blocks up 36 Hubbub 37 Giraffe cousin 38 Hat worn by Frank Sinatra 39 Popular pet polecat 41 Draw roughly 46 Pizza unit 47 Infuriated 48 Pious sister 49 Ornate wall tapestry 53 Novelist -- Carol Oates 54 “The Handmaid’s Tale” streamer 56 Livens (up) 57 Cup edges 60 Secret govt. group 61 Bakery draw
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WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 24 BY ROB BREZSNY
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In niwaki, Japanese gardeners shape trees to dramatize their inherent character through collaboration. Experiment with this approach. Partner with the living processes in your sphere rather than imposing your will on them. Ask yourself: What is trying to flourish here? How can I coordinate my intelligence with nature’s intelligence? TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your spirit creature for the coming weeks is the slow-moving Galápagos tortoise. Conserving energy, these centenarians move deliberately and carry their protection with them. Embrace their ways. Refuse to be rushed or pressured by others or yourself. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A master perfumer composes a fragrance in three layers: vivid top notes, gradually blooming heart notes and deep base notes that cling longest to the skin. Let this metaphor guide your joys, Gemini. Relish the bright top notes that flare and vanish, but persist long enough for the heart to open and the deep base notes to emerge. CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s scary work for a crab to molt and grow a bigger shell. While waiting for new protection, its vulnerable body hides in rock crevices until its armor returns. Your situation isn’t nearly as dire, Cancerian, but as you power through your own personal molting season, enhance your psychic protection. You need to feel extra safe and secure right now. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Bats navigate by echolocation, but when competing for food, they jam rivals’ sonar with acoustic interference. Some noisy talk we hear is just other people’s jamming signals, creating interference that makes it harder for us to navigate. Now is a good time to distinguish between real information and meaningless hubbub. Refine your filters. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Jan Tschichold revolutionized graphic design but later rejected his own rules, critiquing his earlier work as too rigid. In this spirit, ask yourself if long-standing rules no longer serve you. Have your best practices calcified into unexamined dogma? You’re allowed to contradict earlier convictions; in fact, your vigorous evolution requires it.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the 18th century, Libran philosopher Denis Diderot helped assemble the Encyclopédie. Compiling 28 volumes of contributions from French Enlightenment figures, robust collaboration was key to its influence. Like Diderot, be an initiator and facilitator of rich cooperation in the coming weeks. Conversations, partnerships and shared projects could generate SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In Iceland’s volcanic seas, underwater eruptions build new islands of bare, black rock. Over time, wind, waves and seabirds seed them with mosses and hardy plants, transforming raw lava into living shores. A development that initially seems stark or unfinished could become fertile ground for growth. Be patient with raw beginnings.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Achieve minor miracles that let you humbly brag about creating something out of nothing. Show how reality can be coaxed into generosity if approached with imagination and chutzpah. Now is a favorable moment to turn scraps into usefulness, boredom into invention and vague hunches into tangible results.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here is a tough assignment: Dare to be startled by your own exquisite beauty. Be brazen in appreciating what a marvelous creature you are. Notice the ways you have underestimated your gifts, minimized your impact or edited your brilliance to make others comfortable. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian writer Virginia Woolf pushed her active mind to track down ideas but also gathered gems that arrived as her imagination wandered. These “moments of being” provided small treasures while she walked in nature, took a bath or did nothing in particular. In the coming weeks, pauses, lulls and intermissions will open unexpected portals. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I could expertly dispel that annoying curse you’ve been lugging around, but you are fully capable of zapping it yourself. Visualize an object representing the curse and hurl it into a bonfire, then roll on the floor laughing tears of giddy release.
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