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Human Life4:00-5:00

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Poolside9:00-10:00

Wallpaper.1:45-2:20

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Turner1:05-1:35

Same Sex Mary2:05-2:35

Goldboot3:20-3:50

Beau Hodges Band4:40-5:10

Crazy Chief6:00-6:30

A crowd ofsmall adventures7:25-7:55

Rusty Maples8:50-9:20

RNR4:00-4:30

Tink5:20-5:50

Children of the night6:45-7:15

Chancellor Warhol8:10-8:40

Joey Bada$$9:45-10:25

Cayucas3:05-3:45

Youngblood Hawke4:30-5:10

Earl Sweatshirt6:00-6:45

Cults7:45-8:30

Portugal. the man9:40-10:25

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Capital Cities5:55-6:45

Purity Ring7:20-8:10

Childish Gambino8:45-9:45

Pretty Lights10:30-11:40

zz ward2:20-3:05

Dawes3:45-4:30

Alabama Shakes5:10-6:00

Imagine Dragons6:45-7:45

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the dig5:25-5:55

Knocked up Kids2:30-3:00

Learning

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13 most beautifulSongs for andy warhols

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jason tuley8:30-9:15

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jonathan waxman4:00-4:45

aarn snchez2:30-3:15

rick moonen7:45-8:30

grant macphersonwith rock photographer

robert knight6:15-7:00

jet tilawith ben mckee

of imagine dragons4:45-5:30

Todd english 3:15-4:00

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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jordan kate mitchell3:45-4:15

dusty sunshine2:25-2:55

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wildcat! wildcat!7:30-8:00

the kingston springs5:55-6:25

moondog matinee4:30-5:00

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Tongue & CheekHosted by: Rick Moonen & Gerald ChinDrinks by: Marcel VigneronLocation: Le Thai

Bones & BewsHosted by: Iron Chef Cat Cora & Jason TuleyLocation: Park on Fremont

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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

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Once Upon a Midnight DrearyA lady and her ravens.

Karen Cornejo custom

costume, KarenCornejo.

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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

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Ellie shoes, EllieShoes.

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latex skirt and capelet,

KarenCornejo.com.

Model: Sierra Sapunar

HOW TO GET THE LOOK

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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

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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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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

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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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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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