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13 most beautifulSongs for andy warhols
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jet tilawith ben mckee
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mary sue milliken& susan feniger1:45-2:30
Pig & WiskeyHosted by: Kim Canteenwalla & Sven MedeDrinks by: Marcel VigneronLocation: The Flame Steakhouse
Berkshire Grand PixHosted by: Nicole Brisson & Jason NeveDrinks by: Kirk PetersonLocation: Park on Fremont
Amaro & AmareHosted by: Richard Camarota & Megan RomanoDrinks by: Michael ShetlerLocation: EAT
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Tongue & CheekHosted by: Rick Moonen & Gerald ChinDrinks by: Marcel VigneronLocation: Le Thai
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Oct. 31 Las Vegas Halloween Parade (TheLasVegasHalloweenParade.com) Nov. 2 Cards for Kids Under the Stars to benefit Childrens Heart Foundation (CardsforKidsUndertheStars.com)
SHAKESPEARES FINAL ACTLake Las Vegas turned back the clock on Oct. 19 as the
setting for Shakespeare in the Parks final installment
of the season. Before the main farce, students from
Coronado High School entertained the crowd of about
2,000 with a traditional Green Show. Afterward,
Henderson Councilwoman Gerri Schroder introduced the
Las Vegas Shakespeare Companys (LVSC) production of
the Bards The Comedy of Errors. The show was free for
all, but donations collected will benefit LVSC workshops at
local high schools and the Clark County School Districts
School-Community Partnership program.
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Gastro Fare. Nurtured Ales. Jukebox Gold.
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Once Upon a Midnight DrearyA lady and her ravens.
Karen Cornejo custom
costume, KarenCornejo.
com. Model: Chelsea
Crews
HOW TO GET THE LOOK
1. Apply a skin tone cream
foundation on exposed skin
(face, neck, body). Follow with
powder. 2. Insert blank
colored contact lenses.
3. Glue on false fashion lashes
and apply beauty makeup as
desired. 4. Mix glitter with a
glitter adhesive and apply to
lips using a brush, creating
blood drips from the hairline.
5. Using liquid latex or face
paint, draw on gloves.
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Welcome to the Doll HouseA twisted collision of
youth and horror serve
as the playground
for this doll. Fetisso
latex gloves, latex boy
shorts and latex bra,
FetissoLatex.com.
Ellie shoes, EllieShoes.
com. Karen Cornejo
latex skirt and capelet,
KarenCornejo.com.
Model: Sierra Sapunar
HOW TO GET THE LOOK
1. Use a pre-made prosthetic
cracked piece and apply
with prosthetic adhesive or
latex. Glue onto a clean face.
2. Apply white cream makeup
over face and neck with a
disposable sponge followed
by translucent loose powder.
3. Using pink lipstick and lip
liner, draw a small lip shape
and fill in. 4. Apply black eye
shadow into cracks with a
small brush as well as around
the eyes. Follow by drawing
stitches around the eyes. 5.
Glue on false lashesthe
bigger the better.
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A Monster and His MuseBear traps line the floor of this gruesome
dining room. Her: RuBen Permel custom ballet
dress, KarenCornejo.com. Jenny Leigh DuPuis
custom ballet shoes. Him: Karen Cornejo custom
costume, KarenCornejo.com. Models: Amber Voss
and Michael Tushaus.
HOW TO GET THE LOOK
Ballerina
1. Apply a skin tone or slightly lighter colored cream foundation
on exposed skin (face, neck, body). Follow with powder.
2. Insert red colored contact lenses. 3. Glue on false fashion
lashes and apply beauty makeup as desired. 4. Use a prosthetic
adhesive to attach sewing hooks onto face. 5. Affix lace or
netting onto hooks and pin into hair if needed.
The Monster
1. Use a pre-made prosthetic mask and apply on clean skin with
prosthetic adhesive or latex. 2. With a disposable sponge, smooth
a skin-tone cream on the face and neck. Follow with translucent
powder. 3. Fill in the outline of the mask and around eyes with
a burgundy or maroon color eye pencil to create depth. 4. Add
fake-blood where desired. 5. Insert false teeth.
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From Oct. 24-31, the cosmetic
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Tease
Hollywood makeup artist,
Brittney DAnelli will be at
Tease Boutique Salon on Oct.
30-31 to help customers amp
up their looks. Spaces are
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9540 W. Flamingo Rd., 702-
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COLOR Salon
by Michael Boychuck
This salon at Caesars Palace
offers its Spooktacular Beauty
Package for $185 from
Oct. 25-31. Guests will be
transformed with makeup,
lash application, hairstyling,
a nail buff and polish change.
In Caesars Palace, 702-731-
7880, CaesarsPalace.com
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LORIN ASHTON WAS in sixth grade when the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake hit his hometown of San Francisco. He was rid-ing shotgun with his mother when they heard the God-synthesized sub-bass. The car bounced. Trees appeared to sway and melt. His mom screamed. Ashton remembers thinking to himself, Wow ... this is power. I was emotionally seized
by the pure force of that low frequency. I didnt understand or rationalize it at the time, but that was the frst time I remember feeling terri-fed and overwhelmed by a
natural power much greater than myself. And much more in control. It quite literally rocked his world. Humans were tossed aside like leaves, remembers Ashton. Roads bent in impossible ways, and trees and houses distorted. I sensed immense fear and vulnerability. It wasnt so much the destructive power I liked, it was the raw power. That theme has stayed with him in every form of music thats caught me, whether it was NWA or Ice Cube, Nirvana or Metallica, death metal or rave music. It was always the heaviness, that rawness that
crossed over the edge. It was potentially dangerous, yet all-powerfulwhen you can measure sound in terms of weight, not volume. An award-hoarding
screenwriter couldnt have conjured a better backstory for the man who now moves thousands of earthlings regu-larly as Bassnectar. Twenty-fve crewmembers and two semitrucks crammed with gear follow the longhaired Surrender resident around the continent, manifesting his tectonic sonic vision. I have high fucking standards, he says.
Witnessing Ashton cho-reograph bassheads into a hand-swatting, head-banging throng as he thrashes about behind his laptop is a sight to behold. I stretch almost every night before I go on. I learned exercises from Slayers ex-monitor engineer. We were playing Memphis. He showed me what they did [to warm up]. Those dudes
have been windmilling and whiplashing for 25 years. I learned from the best. Performing electronic mu-
sic with the physicality of a metal shredder certainly sets Ashton apart from his Jesus-posing peers. His eclectic taste is another quintessential facet of his allure. Ashton has reimagined everyone from Primus and the Pixies to Ellie Goulding and Fever Ray. A mammoth digital library is at his fngertips at any given moment. I run a program called Ableton Live, which allows me to play any and every song, loop or sample in any combinationfrom any start point. And to layer it all in an improvisational and limitless grid. I have this new technology called the Ultimate Nerd Server. It has a video clip synched to every single sound or song in my arsenal. Thats all triggered by me and layered real-time. It is literally immersive. Each performance is a mind-altering experiment in fresh fusions, an electric Kool-Aid acid test fueled by aural am-brosia instead of LSD-laced sugar water.Despite Ashtons colos-
sal appeal, there are those who dont initially think of Las Vegas as a natural fit for a yearlong Bassnectar residency, including Ash-ton. Im an unusual DJ for Vegas, he says. I dont play stereotypical dance music. I dont even usually go to clubs. I dont abide by a dress code. Yet, I love humans, and I love approaching music as an art form. Surrender gets so packed that it feels like an old party from 2001. I actu-ally get more creative and have more fun than I would at a normal Bassnectar show. Does it feel like a casino? It feels like a madhouse. Ashton plays his fnal 2013
residency appearance October 31 at Surrenders masquerade-themed party. And theres no dress code because its Hal-loween. Its the frst time Ive ever thrown a true masquer-ade. Think Eyes Wide Shut.
The Quake That Changed Bassnectar
The high priest of low-end will make the earthlings move at Surrender
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Will Bassnectar DJ in his birthday suit or a hooded cloak? I need something Im able to lose my mind in, he says. See for yourself Oct. 31 at Surrender. Tickets available at WynnSocial.com.
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Oct. 25 Bobby French spins
Oct. 26 Jessica Who spins
Oct. 31 Heroween 2 with DJ Konflict
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Oct. 25 Sebastian Ingrosso spins
Oct. 26 Nicky Romero spins
Oct. 30 Alesso spins
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Oct. 24 Work Hard, Play Hard Thursdays
Oct. 26 Back 2 the Future
Oct. 31 Zombie Prom
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WHATEVER YOU do, dont call it granola. You may think it looks like granola, and that it even tastes like it. But Klara Charvatova and David Filipi hope that once you get the swing of perusing and choos-ing from the more than 100 ingredients at MixMyOwn.com, customizing your own blend of muesli will keep you from ever making that cereal faux pas again.People [in Europe] know
theres sugar in granola, that its made differently, explains Filipi, a 31-year-old former
software developer who in April 2012 moved to Las Vegas from the Czech Republic with his business partner and fanc Klara Charvatova. In Europe, several companies promote mail-order muesli online, he says. And while the couple was inspired by DIY mueslis success back home, Charvatova (which sounds like car-VAH-toe-vah) says she and her love are now trying to do it our own way on Western soil, catering to Americas bounty of specialty-foods consumers.
Hot or cold, mixed with yogurt, dairy or nut milks (and sometimes even baked), muesli is a European breakfast staple, a raw, unsweetened mish-mosh of dried fruits and grains, but mostly oats. Swiss doctor Maximillian Bircher-Benner invented muesli about 1900 as part of a raw, clean-eating diet to help heal his patients of what ailed them. Launched in July, Mix-
MyOwn.coms concept is simple: Within minutes of landing on the site you can be selecting components such as puffed rice, oat fakes, raisins, apricots, cacao nibs and hempvariety for even the pickiest eater. Cinnamon powder and the whole vanilla bean are two of the most popu-lar ingredients, along with chia seeds, matcha, quinoa puffs and
fakes, aa powder and all 13 freeze-dried fruits, especially berries. But with 100 ingre-dients from which to choose, there are close to a million possible combinations! Doing it their own way has
meant Charvatova and Filipi ensure for health-conscious Americans that MixMyOwn.coms ingredients are organic, not genetically modifed, have no added sugars or preserva-tives, and are healthy with the possible exception of the bitty marshmallows you can add. Nutritional labels give all the necessary information, and cost can be controlled by adding or subtracting ingredi-ents as you go along (a 1-pound bag might run you $10-$20, depending on your taste). And if all of this sounds like
way too much like work, there
are a variety of premade mixes: One is gluten free, and future plans include adapting a mix for Paleo diet followers, which Filipi and Charvatova have noticed is popular in the U.S. Although the couples plan
was to launch the business in California, Nevadas tax struc-ture for startups (i.e., there is none) made Nevada a no-brainer. And after a decade of vacationing here and loving it, theyre far from disappointed to be creating one of the citys newest exports. However, there is just one little oc-cupational hazard to packing and shipping in the desert. So if you had your heart set on lacing your breakfast cereal with some rich, chocolate chips, you might have to stick to Cocoa Puffs. They just cant take the heat. V
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muesli, and delivers it right to your door
By Jen Chase
Building a batch of MixMyOwn muesli begins with one of nine different bases. Vegas Sevens custom cereal started with a five-grain blend of raw, high-fiber oats, whole wheat, rye, barley and triticale, as
well as flaxseed. We added goji, mulberries and cranberries for energy; chia seeds for extra protein;
walnuts for omegas; and cacao nibs for crunch and, well, for fun!
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cleavage pushed up to their chin, he says. Me being a native of Vegas, thats just how I think. I wanted something eye-appealing like Elvira. So I took two girls.
Theres a grand tradition of horror hosts, going all the way back to Vampira in the 1950s. Theyre the late-night kings and queens of the basic cable interstitial, popping up at opportune moments with a well-placed eye roll that un-dercuts the sometimes grisly, frequently corny fare they can get their hands on. The horror host holds your hand through the haunted house. While Elvira stands alone
as the titan of the field, the
phenomenon is at its best when it wallows in the public access ghetto. Thats when it gets delightfully weird, regionally specific and where it serves as a bellwether for
the health of the genre. Like most horror hosts,
Smith combs the ranks of public domain films to give them the Mystery Science The-ater treatment. His show goes further than other regional hosts are often willing to do, trading in 70s Eurosleaze flicks and the like.After a couple of years
of Halloween one-offs, Smith started doing regular Midnight Massacre shows in 2005. He bounced around
networks, even picking up some national distribution in 40 markets in 14 states until landing on KTUD, Vegas TV, six months ago.Which was unfortunate,
given that KTUD shut down on October 10, just a few weeks before Halloween. Still, Smith said hell fnd another outlet for the show, and KCLV Channel 2 will air an episode on Halloween night. In the past, hed done a live
event at Underworldnow the recently renovated-by-Bar Res-cue zombie apocalypse-themed The End. Hed intended on do-ing another one this year until the Vegas TV departure. Theres a natural marriage
thereclassic horror staple paired with au courant boozy manifestation of our zombie Renaissance. If were not go-ing to get a regular infusion of high-profile horror treats, the least we can have are a couple of torch-bearers. You might need to borrow one when we all go chase the Summerlin Frankenstein.
Bet on (Blood) RedForeclosed zombie houses aside,
can Las Vegas fnd a home in horror?
By Jason Scavone
OH, WELL DO comedies for days. Heist movies? Obvi-ously. Where else are you going to rob casinosAtlantic City? Well even dabble in your Oscar-baity miserablist drama occasionally. But when it comes time to roll up the sleeves and get down to the gritty business of disembowel-ment, Las Vegas is notably lack-ing from the horror landscape.Weve only had one recent
major horror movie set here: 2011s Fright Night remake. The less said about apocalyptic SyFy original Blast Vegas the better, and Hostel IIIabout a bachelor party gone bloodywas a direct-to-DVD dead-horse franchise beater. Yet were a town willing to fully embrace terror-based attractions such as the Las Vegas Zombie Run, Fright Dome, the Freakling Brothers haunted houses, Evil Dead: The Musical and regular Jay Leno bookings. But is Las Vegas really a
good ft for horror? Theres nothing inherently spooky here. No crumbling, Victorian mansions, no century-old cemeteries, precious few abandoned mental asylums where mad scientists con-duct experiments best left unspoken. If a shambling, reanimated monster thats an affront to God Himself started terrorizing Summerlin, Im not even sure you could rally more than a dozen pitchfork-wielding villagers.Still. What casts a darker
shadow than the brightest light of the Luxor? Theres a natural juxtaposition in Vegas-based chillers that would ft well with, say, Rob Zombies trash-horror sen-sibilities. The Jenna Jameson vehicle Zombie Strippers at least taps in to the spirit of that aesthetic, even if it was set in Nebraska. Its workable. More than workable, if you think the horror fan is driven
by the same thrill-seeking impetus that fuels half of our cultural institutions.Maybe it just takes time.
Horror deals in the eternalthe deathless zombie, the age-less vampire, the timelessly moistened creatures from various black lagoons. Which is something were on short supply of (both longevity and moisture, really). If the departure of Goreto-
rium taught us anything, its that were not exactly ready to support horror year-round (though a 365-day haunted house is, admittedly, a tough nut to crack). But aside from the 2009 Fangoria Trinity of Terrors, we arent even getting much in the way of horror conventions, despite Las Ve-gas role as a go-to destination for cons great and small. Most of that action is in the Midwest and on the East Coast.What may not thrive as big
headlining pieces can always fnd a home in niche, low-budget entertainment. For the last 10 years, theres been The Midnight Massacre Theatre, a
good old-fashioned late-night creature feature hosted by The Sinister Minister. Sean L. Smith plays the Ministera gruff-voiced wiseass who dresses like the devil-worship-pingest member of KISS. Hes accompanied, movie to movie and location to location, by his Altar Girls, a pair of Gothed-up, corseted ladies. Because Las Vegas.My character fts Vegas well
because of the adult-theme humor, and the girls with the
WHAT CASTS A DARKER SHADOW THAN THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT OF THE LUXOR? THERES A NATURAL JUXTAPOSITION IN VEGAS-BASED CHILLERS THAT WOULD FIT WELL WITH, SAY,
ROB ZOMBIES TRASH-HORROR SENSIBILITIES.
Haunted Vegas: (clockwise from top) The Sinister Minister with his Altar Girls, Hostel III and Fright Night.
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With her wide-eyed glare of grave intensity, the actress Chlo Grace Moretz appears destined for her share of artfully crafted, slightly un-necessary horror remakes. She starred in Let Me In, the American version of the ter-rifc Swedish vampire picture Let the Right One In. And now she takes on director Kimber-ly Peirces remake of Carrie, a work of smooth confdence and a humane, dimensionally human brand of horror.Youd expect this from
Peirce, who made Boys Dont Cry, among others. The direc-tor puts Moretz in the sad, ferce role of Carrie White, the put-upon telekinetic high school student introduced in the 1974 Stephen King novel. Carries psychotically fun-damentalist mother, played in the new flm by Julianne Moore, goes beyond the usual notions of helicopter parenting, and makes the concept of Bible-thumping literal. Moore seizes the day without going crazy with excess; like the rest of the flm, her portrayal takes care
to humanize the demonic cruelty onscreen.Those with little or no
personal relationship to the 1976 Brian De Palma-directed Carrie will find themselves in a different situation than I am on this one. I admit it. If I didnt love Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie quite so madly in that moviea film rep-resenting drive-in schlock elevated to Himalayan heights, with two of the great 1970s performances leading the wayI mightve fallen further into the world of the remake. With all movies, really, we bring the baggage we bring.Some things are different,
others are the same. Peirce delivers none of the voyeuris-tic nudity of the 76 edition. Even with the various killings in the prom-night climax, when Carrie, slathered in pigs blood poured by her enemies, takes revenge, Peirce stages and shoots the action tastefully by R-rated horror standards. Even this remakes arresting prologue, depicting the bloody birth
of Carrie into the conficted, scissors-wielding hands of her unstable mother, has an air of restraint.The director, in other
words, isnt an showboater or a sadist or a combination of the two, the way De Palma was behind the camera in the first Carrie movie, or the way Steven Spielberg tor-tured audiences with lan in
that other 70s black-comic thriller classic, Jaws.The question is: Is tasteful
better with this material? In its story contours the screen-play credited to Lawrence D. Cohen and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Cohen wrote the 76 version) hits its marks. It stays faithful to King and (relatively) to the De Palma flm and gets the job done in
workmanlike fashion. The actings strong; in addition to Moretz and Moore, Judy Greer is a welcome presence in the Betty Buckley role of the sympathetic gym instruc-tor. But somethings missing from this well-made venture. Whats there is more than respectable, while staying this side of surprising.
Carrie (R)
The Fifth Estate (R) Try as they might, filmmakers just continue
to have a tough time dramatizing the Internet.
This tale about the formation of WikiLeaks
and its mysterious founder Julian Assange
(Benedict Cumberbatch) doesnt quite achieve
the quality of The Social Network. Much of the
picture is a clash between new-school hot
dog Assange and old-school journalistic types,
embodied by The Guardian and The New York
Times. Cumberbatch is good but just doesnt
have a whole lot to work with here.
Captain Phillips (PG-13) Director Paul Greengrass brings us this
docudrama about the famous incident in 2009
when a U.S. Merchant Marine commander
(Tom Hanks) encounters a gang of Somali
pirates. Knowing what dangers they were in
sailing through those waters, Capt. Phillips
winds up on a lifeboat with his captors, on
dwindling rations, waiting for the Navy SEALs
to resolve a highly pressurized situation.
This is all Greengrass action and Hanks, and
the result is pretty entertaining. Sure to be
remembered come awards season.
Machete Kills (R) The latest grindhouse sequel from director
Robert Rodriguez is, well, a played-up joke.
Danny Trejo returns as the avenging, hacking
and cutting Mexican known as Machete. Hes
got catchphrases galore: Machete dont
smoke; Machete dont joke; etc. He survives
a hanging, battles with a drug lord (Demian
Bichir), and an assassin named El Camelen
played by Cuba Gooding Jr., Antonio Banderas
and Lady Gaga. There are cameos and vio-
lence galore, very little of it truly amusing, as
its meant to be. And there are trailers for yet
another film that hopefully does not get made.
Runner Runner (R) In this thrill-free thriller, we meet Richie Furst
(Justin Timberlake), a Wall Street dropout
whos trying to hustle his way through grad
school at Princeton through online gambling.
Turns out, he gets cheated, and after some
digging, he heads to Costa Rica to confront
the online gaming kingpin, Ivan Block (Ben Af-
fleck). Ivan likes his moxie, and next thing you
know, Richies his right-hand man, crunching
numbers, recruiting affiliates and making
eyes at the boss babe (Gemma Arterton).
This is a bad film, and not what we expect of
its stars.
Held-back HorrorThis Carrie re-make is almost too tasteful
for its own good
By Michael Phillips Tribune Media Services
Chlo Grace Moretz makes pigs blood look good.
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