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@JustKramer I would have gone to EDC

if Lionel Richie headlined

a stage.

@JayFarber Every time I play poker

Im reminded how much

I hate it. Playing the PLO

and the main and quitting.

Anyone for a prop bet?

@RyanRiess1 Guy at my table just

asked the dealer, Whats

the longest you have

gone in one day without

wanting to take your own

life? #WSOP2014

@FantasyHipster

Ive had Vince Neil

ranked ahead of Bon Jovi

in Feathered Hair Arena

Football League Owners

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@jaymohr37

This morning in packed

elevator in Vegas, I kept

saying Cmon 22 ... 22...

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walked out.

@WilliamShatner The @LAKings are at

the @MGMGrand too. I

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400,000 crazy kids in

Vegas. Electronic Daisy

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Switchfoot, Kanye West,

Kacey Musgraves and

Lionel Richie all play a

festival that also features

celebrity chefs.

Beauty Bar, Paris and the Outlaws

EVERYONE LOVES A MAKEOVER. Thatand little elseexplains why Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was on the air for nine seasons.But what are we to feel when

a makeover involves one of our most venerable liquortoriums? Well, pure delight, as it turns out. Beauty Bar, itself no slouch in the Downtown renaissance, was re-cently snapped up by a surprising duo: Darin Feinsteinveteran of the El Dorado Cantina, Fat Bar and Hollywoods the Viper Roomand Pawn Star pillar Corey Harrison.The duo is taking over July 1

and plans on fxing up the ol gal, Feinstein tells DTLV.com, giving it new booths, new paint and a new sound system. Theyll also be bringing back the manicures and pedicures the bar used to do back in the day. Harrison promises theyll be attracting top-level talent with minimal fanfare, hinting that, for example, you could drop by the Beauty Bar and Social Distortion would happen to be playing.But theres no way that could

stay secret long enough to be a truly surprise show. Someone would fgure it out when the citys pomade supply started drying up in the days prior.

Paris Hilton using Electric Daisy Carnival as a chance to play dress-up was no surprise. She stuck with the ruffy, sparkly outfts similar to what she sported in years past. But this years wrinkle was that she stuffed her poor dog, Peter Pan, into a tutu, too. This is where its worth pointing out that South Park did its Paris-centric Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset episode 10 years ago, and at no point in the last decade has it seemed more imminent that Hilton is one unhinged weekend away from buying a child and making him dress up like Mr. Biggles.Even the venerable (ish) name

of the Las Vegas Outlaws is going to get a makeover. That moniker had been reserved for our dear, departed XFL franchise, but Vince Neil wants to bring it back with an Arena Football League team after the Mtley Cre front-man earned league approval to

pursue a franchise.That would mean that the

Neil-owned Outlaws would go head-to-head in 2015 with the Gene Simmons- and Paul Stanley-owned Los Angeles KISS. Ugh. Frankensteinian supergroup projects were bad enough when they were confned to easily ignored albums. (All eight Damn Yankees fans are going to be irate when they read that.)Las Vegas has twice tried to make

a go of arena football, frst with the Las Vegas Sting from 1994-95, and then with the Las Vegas Gladiators from 2003-07. We lost the Gladia-tors to Cleveland. Cleveland. A city that couldnt even hang on to an NFL team when Art Modell absconded with the original Browns in 96.But Neil at least brings some ex-

perience. He already had a minor piece of the Jacksonville Sharks. And if hes curious he can always turn to Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, who were part owners of the Philadelphia Soul from 2004-08. Or, presumably, the guys from Ratt, who have to be scrambling on a business plan for a piece of the Orlando Predators now that its ap-parently Hair Metal Discount Night at the AFL ownership table.

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when we came up with the idea of cre-

ating a Las Vegas Bar Hall of Fame back in the

spring of 2012, we all agreed it would put a fresh

spin on the traditional bar-guide concept. It was one of

the last things we agreed on with respect to this project.

You see, asking a group of passionate barfies to

decide which watering holes belong on a list of the

citys best bars has proven to be as diffcult as asking

Congress to decide the merits of health care legisla-

tion. Unlike our elected public servants, however, we

can have a royal rumble (beverages included) and

come out with a consensus thats in the best interests

of our constituents.

Here, then, we present the third edition of the Las Ve-

gas Bar Hall of Fame, a list of nearly three dozen of what

we believe to be the citys foremost drinking establish-

mentsones that have fulflled our two main criteria:

Each bar must possess a signifcant amount of

quality and/or character, and have contributed some-

thing positive to this citys bar culture;

Each bar must be at least 5 years oldopened in 2009

or earlierto be considered (because Hall of Fame careers

arent built in a day or a year or even three years).

Now, once again, we turn to you for help: Through July

10, we invite you to visit VegasSeven.com/BarHall2014

and vote daily for your favorite nominees in each of fve

categoriesClassic, Neighborhood, Pioneer, Specialty

and Resort/Casino. Armed with your suggestions, our

panel of experts will reconvene and select the fve bars

that will join our 15 previous inductees (see Page 30).

Then, in the July 17 issue of Vegas Seven, well unveil

the Hall of Fame Class of 2014followed, naturally, by

a huge celebration flled with food, drink and good

cheer. Now, that we can agree on

Care for a cold one? Aces & Ales (see Page 26)

serves up more than 100 craft beers, 22 of which are on tap.

GEOFF CARTER, SEAN DEFRANK, MATT JACOB, JAMES P. REZA,

LISSA TOWNSEND RODGERS and JASON SCAVONE

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immortalizing fve more iconic Valley watering holes. Heres the list of 34 nominees

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You guys met through an online message board?

Dzeko: We actually met online through a club community. It sort of was something to do with music, too. It had a DJ section on the website, and we started talking on the forums. Luis was a photographer; I started promoting, and thats how we met for the frst time.

Whats it like working your way up to being recognized in the industry?

Torres: Its cool; its exciting. When we frst started DJing in Julians basement, I dont think we would ever have a residency or a bunch of shows at Hakkasan in Vegas.

Dzeko: When I was 15, I went to Vegas for the frst time and had already started DJing for fun. I always

had this thing with Vegasthat was my dream gig. Back then, I didnt really know anything about Ultra or the festivals.

So Julian, when you were 15, that was around when Paul Oakenfold was in his heyday in Las Vegas as EDM was just beginning to be a main attraction.

Dzeko: Oh yeah, when were growing up, we were listening to guys like Oakenfold and obviously Tisto. It was back more in the trance-y days; house was starting to make its way into more commercial. On the website where we met, one of the things to do on there was to share music. Thats how we discovered a lot of artists.

Dzeko, when you came to Las Vegas at 15, what did you do here

since you were under 21?Dzeko: I went there with my family;

my dad had a tradeshow there. I would just walk around by myself and just walk by the clubs and look at them. [Laughing] Id look at fiers.

You grew up admiring Tisto. How did you ultimately get linked up with him and garner his support?

Dzeko: The frst time we ever linked up in regard to music was when a friend of ours sent him our tracks three and a half years ago. I guess our name was on the radar, but I dont think our tracks were good enough for him. I used to promote for Tisto concerts just so I could try to give him a CD of ours. Then he played one of our remixes on his Club Life radio show, and we started talking and became good friends with him.

Would you tell aspiring DJs to go the traditional route of physically putting music in a big DJs hand or to email it to their demo addresses?

Torres: Its a combination of both. You still want to send music to demo emails, because people do check their inboxes every once in a while. But there really is nothing like a personal connection, actually being there and giving somebody your music. One of the most important things that weve always done: If someone starts playing your music on their radio show or live, make an effort to go to their shows and try to fnd a way to introduce yourself, thank them and give them more of your music.

Follow Dzeko & Torres on Twitter

@DzekoandTorres.

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THE HOOKUP

ATTENTION WOMEN OF LAS VEGAS: Step away from the sequins. Las Vegas native, fashion consultant, stylist, model and blogger Chelsey de Leon of BohemianBirdy.tumblr.com shows us how to hit the Strip in style, while turning up the dial on class and comfort with just a few essential, up-to-the-minute fashion tips.

Is there a rule of thumb for how many articles of sequined/bedazzled items of clothing a person should wear at one time?No one likes to stare at a blinding disco ball.

Keep it to one sequined item and accent around it. Less is always more.

Whats the best thing to wear for getting noticed at the velvet ropes (without looking like a total skank)?Simply put yourself together in an effortless,

true-to-you way. Keep it natural and cool, and dont give it all away by wearing the most revealing thing you own. Try a sexy jumpsuit, pair it was some dainty heels, and a killer statement necklace. Add a pop of lip, throw on a cute fedorameow.

Its a million degrees outside waiting in the valet line, but its freezing indoors. Do you have any layering tips?The classic black blazer: light enough to wear

outside, warm enough to fght off over-air conditioning in the club.

Its going to be a long night of walking and dancing. I want to look sexy, but I dont want to end up with bloody feet. Ideas?First and foremost, sexy is being confdent

and comfortable in your own shoes, literally. Remember this and I promise you will never be seen walking out of a casino barefoot. If you arent sure if a pair of heels is going to kill your feet, bring a folding pair of fats in your clutch. And some Band-Aids!

Can you share your on-Strip go-to spot for after-dark fashion emergencies? Scoop NYC in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace.

Theyre open until midnight Fridays and Saturdays.

Whats the local fashionistas must-have for this season?The ultimate clutch/handbag. Every girl needs one

to defne their own style and personality. Fringe, studs or a bright splash of color, its the perfect way to polish off any outft. Check out Street Level Handbags, carried at Nasty Gal, Urban Outftters and Nordstrom.

Stiletto nails: Hot or not?Not. They had their glory moment. On to the next

nail trend, please.

Reveal one secret to looking great that models know but that we regular girls dont.Heres a cool makeup trick I learned: Try white

or nude eyeliner on your lower eyelid for eyes that pop. And coconut oil. Everywhere. Im not kidding. Its the Holy Grail.

What single item must you absolutely have for a night out on the Strip?My vintage rings. Weird, I know, but if I dont

have my best accessories on, something isnt right!

Name three Las Vegas trends that must dieand soon.Fake eyelashes, tacky bedazzled manicures and

sequins for every occasion.

What are your favorite local, under-the-radar boutiques?Coterie: You walk in and instantly feel like

you stumbled onto a secret gem. They carry some one-of-a-kind brands that you cant fnd anywhere else in Vegas, plus the staff is always so much fun. Filthy Mouth Clothing, found online at FilthyMouthClothing.com: Local designer with the right idea in mind. Environmentally conscious fabrics and handmade pieces that are to die for. The Sienna Jumpsuit is my favorite. Scoop NYC: Right at your fngertips, modern contemporary brands in a boutique setting. Their on-trend, personal shoppers can locate and ship items directly to your house!

Dispel a fashion myth.That Las Vegas locals dont know fashion! I was born

and bred in this city. I have style, I know fashion be-yond the Vegas borders, and I am surrounded by indi-viduals who are very inspiring with style themselves.

Ladies Nightlife

Fashion 101Tips from a Model Citizen

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Lorin Watada, this one with a bar fo-cus. Amarket from DW Bistro own-ersmakes up the fourth prominent corner space opening onto the lushly landscaped circular courtyard. Other units include The Cuppa, a secondcoffeehouseby former Strip aerialist Holley Steeley, and a medi-cal spa with a possible juice bar byDr. 90210sDr. Gary Motykie, as well as a proposed sushi bar, healthier-choice concept, gym and salon.Like Tivoli Village and the District

at Green Valley Ranchandthe up-coming Downtown Summerlinthe Gramercy is looking for that just-right mix of dining options that will serve its urban dwellers and workers, as well as attract a destination diner. Guevara-Leone says that while she could have snapped her fngers and flled the retail and dining spaces with the usual mix (Pottery Barn, Subway, Starbucks), she convinced her part-ners to seek local up-and-comers and regional proven performers instead of chains and franchises.Stratta was among the frst to

come aboard.The most exciting and interest-

ing thing about the Gramercy, Stratta says, is that theres not that much in that area, but therearea lot of people who can afford to go out often. Its a part of their routine.Since parting ways with Steve

Wynn in 2011, Stratta has been bouncing around from the Bay Area to L.A. to a just-concluded menu-consulting gig with Las Ve-gasMarch Bacchus bistro and wine bar. He has since joined restaurant franchise company KCI Investments and plans to open Alex Stratta Ital-ian Steakhouse (working name) at the Gramercy, while also starting

a high-end catering company and developing new fast-casual brands.Its keeping me real busy, the chef

reports, but he still plans to run the steakhouse full time. Despite his ca-reer highs, this is the frst time Stratta says hell get to be his own boss. You can only go so far [at a hotel-casino], the chef says, and I think it went as far as I possibly could.Thats exactly the kind of partner

Guevara-Leone is looking for. Im putting it to the chefs that what-ever culinary idea or dream theyve ever had that they could not do in a casino, or it just wasnt the right time, this is your canvas. You are the artist.The space Strattas chosen in the

northwest corner of the Gramercys central park boasts foor-to-ceiling windows and a partial Strip view, which will be reserved for the private dining room. Italian elements will include fresh pasta and fatbreads made in a wood-burning oven, plus a shellfsh and raw bar. The steak-house menu will be straightforward American, he says, but Im gonna fancy it up a bit. And pricewise, It will be very approachable.Thats hugely important to

Stratta, who is eager to avoid the perception that hes going to charge Strip prices. He will focus instead on building a team that can deliver the quality of service diners have come to expect from Stratta restau-rants, regardless of price. It doesnt cost anything to have good service, he says. Its just a matter of train-ing. The spot will have a bar, happy hour, live entertainment and oc-cupy 5,300 square feet, including a patio. Watadas 4,200-square-foot Bachi Bar (also a working name) will also have a heavy bar focus, with an

emphasis on craft beer, twists on classic cocktails, and original cre-ations with an Asian infuence. He will also expand on the Bachi

model with entres, salads and appetizers. Both Stratta and Watada say

they are in lease negotiations, though Bachi Bar wont open until May 2015, as Watada is currently expanding into California with Bachi Burgers in West Los Angeles and Pasadena. Despite his brands growth, Im one of those people who cant stand chain concepts, Watada says. Ive always been a big supporter of local businesses frst. Steeley is another local business

success story, and was actually the frst to sign on to the project. Its a new style of business venture, Steeley says. This side of town is in need of a gourmet feel. Her 2,000-square-foot brick coffee shop and patio will also be a show-place for locally made artwork.Ferraro, meanwhile, is close to

signing. We like the project, and were very interested, he says. The chef is keeping the details quiet for now, but he says, its defnitely not 100 percent Italian. Its fun, hip, sexysomething I know I havent seen yet, at least not in this town.

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CARSON KITCHEN OPENS, MORELS WELCOMES SUMMER AND THE WIENERS CIRCLE IS A WINNERChef Kerry Simon just celebrated his

birthday, and along with it, opened his

newest eatery, Carson Kitchen (124 S. 6th

St., 702-473-9523, CarsonKitchen.com).

Called an American gastro-lounge, Carson

Kitchen is a nice neighborhood-y departure

from Simons slick spot overlooking the

pool at Palms Place. While the view may be

different, the menu is all Simon: ingredient-

driven, creative and fun. Deviled eggs topped

with crispy pancetta and caviar are one of

the favorites from the Social Plates section,

as are crunchy Spam croquettes served

with jalapeo mustard. And everyones

talking about the lamb gyro tacos, topped

with the typical Greek accouterments of

tzatziki, cucumber and tomatoes.

Now that summer is officially here, Morels

French Steakhouse and Bistro (in the

Palazzo, 702-607-6333, MorelsLV.com) offers

a couple of prix-fixe menus that will get you

out of the house and into its dining room

during the hot months. The $22 two-course

meal (French onion soup or Caesar salad

with romaine hearts for the first course; steak

frites or roasted chicken for the second) is

a prime power-lunch option. For dinner, $56

gets you four courses, including an amuse-

bouche, a red salad with radicchio, endive,

walnuts and goat cheese, a 20-ounce sirloin

with ratatouille and profiteroles for dessert.

Also new, the Wieners Circle, just off the

sportsbook in Red Rock Resort (702-823-

7400) gets Chicago food just right. For those

who have never been to the one in the Windy

City, its a great, fast-casual spot that serves

proper Chicago-style hot dogs. Sure, if the

ingredients are sourced rightand they are

here, with Vienna beef hot dogs, neon-green

relish, sport peppers and poppy-seed

bunsyou cant go too wrong with stuff

like hot dogs and burgers. But the Wieners

Circle has even perfected the char on the

burgers and dogs, thanks to the super-hot

grill. (True story: We had to order two

cheddar char burgers, because I didnt want

to share one with my dining companion, who

also happened to be from Chicago. He knew

what was up.). Unlike in Chicago, the Las

Vegas restaurant serves Taylor Ham rolls

for breakfast, as well as an item that may

as well have been born on the Third Coast:

a breakfast sandwich on a Krispy Kreme

doughnut. And theres even a chocolate

shake on the Red Rock Resort menujust

not the one youd get at the original spot, if

you know what I mean.

Grace Bascos eats, sleeps, raves and repeats.

Read more from Grace at VegasSeven.com/

DishingWithGrace, as well as on her dining-

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Blood, Sweat and BeersThe artisans of Hendersons Booze District are poised to pour

By Xania Woodman

TAKE ME TO THE BOOZE DISTRICT! These words are music to Las Vegas Distillery owner George Rczs ears. Hes the unoffcial mayor of the bur-geoning neighborhood, which makes its home in the industrial complex near Interstate 215 and Gibson Road in Henderson. And he would like tosee this collection of artisanal manu-facturers become a destination in the way that Downtowns Fremont East Entertainment District has. But instead of barcades and rooftop parties, this district will offer you fights of fresh, locally made beer and a growler fll-up to go; a case of your own private-labelwine; chocolate bars the size of license plates; and bitters for your home bar. Walking tours of the Booze District (ta-gline: We make it, we love it, we share it) will soon guide guests from one business to the next. But until then, heres the latest:

LAS VEGAS DISTILLERY

Never one to sit still, Rcz just kicked the tires on the distillerys frst cocktail menu offered at the Hooch, a wooden bar inside the working distillery. He also just debuted Nevada 150 bourbon in honor of Nevadas sesquicentennial. But Rczs next project isnt liquidwell, not for long. Inspired by his son, Rcz will get his Wonka on in Septem-ber, inviting guests into the Chocolate Makery, where they can set tempered chocolate into the mold of their choos-ing and add any of up to 400 toppings

to their own foot-long (or 21-inch-long!) chocolate bar. Just back from a chocolate confer-

ence, Rcz says his goal is for the Makery to eventually be a bean-to-bar operationthat is, roasting its own beans, making its own chocolatea more than $200,000 investment. Till then, visitors will have their choice of white-, milk- or dark-Belgian, organic or Madagascar chocolate. Also tucked away in a corner of the

distillery is Mr. Fredricksons Artisan Bitters lab, where bartender Cody Fredrickson makes scratch bitters using Rczs high-proof grain alcohol. Expect to see them going into your Manhattan by December. LasVegasDistillery.com.

BAD BEAT BREWING

Can you taste it? The districts frst microbrewery opens with a ribbon cutting at 5 p.m. July 11 just a few doors down from the distillery. This poker-themed brewpub (Drink to win!) started cooking a few weeks ago, and on a recent visit was positively hopping with activity. Owner (and former pro poker player) Nathan Hall brought on former Joseph James brewer Weston Barkley and general manager Mike Dominiak to bring his vision to life and also to help him hand-sand, stain, frame and hang the intricate, rustic pallet-wood walls inside his 55-seat taproom. The spot comes complete with shuffeboard, darts, Nintendo and Cards Against Humanity.

Hall, also a former homebrewer, will open with a fve-beer, year-round menu ($5 per pint; $8 fight of fve) as well as one seasonal, including Ace in the Hole Basil Pale Ale, the super-roasty Gutshot Dry Irish Stout, Hoppy Times IPA, Daily Grind APA, Ante Up Amber Ale and Bluffng Isnt Weiss He-fewiezen. Hall has an immediate eye toward distribution, and has signed on with Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada to get Bad Beat brews to your fridge. Facebook.com/BadBeatBrewing.

CRAFTHAUS BREWERY

Not yet open, Crafthaus already made its contribution to Nevada history when owners Wyndee and Dave Forrest got the state to separate gaming from the Brew Pub License, allowing them to open Crafthaus without mandatory video-poker machines. All the better for down-ing a few pints and chatting up the new husband-wife brewing team from Aus-tralia, Steph Cope and Steve Brockman. Head brewer Cope is, to our knowledge, Nevadas frst female head brewer. The Forrests recently got the keys to their 5,524-square-foot offce and warehouse, which will be demolished and renovated into a 48-seat taproom. Despite the fact the Forrests were the frst brew-ery owners to join the Booze District (they crowd-funded the project using Kickstarter to raise more than $25,000), theirs is slated to be the last of the three breweries to open, probably in late August. CrafthausBrewery.com.

VEGAS BREWING CO.

Of the Booze Districts three breweries, Vegas Brewing is the dark horse, a one-man show. And that man is Sean Geer, a former brewery consultant out of L.A. who is currently humping lumber around himself to build a huge, 72-seat taproom in his 5,426-square-foot space. On his 10-barrel system, Geer will make West Coast-inspired brews, including his signature Zythopsychosis, Triple Nut Brown Ale and Sad World Summer Ale. Like Crafthaus, Geer also launched a Kickstarter campaign in May to offset li-censing, build-out and equipment costs, but with a deadline of July 5 to raise $12,000; at press time the campaign had earned just $515. But his 100 barrels for aging and plans for a brewing school say he means business regardless. Come here in the next two to three months, Geer says. This place is really going to explode. He expects to be cooking by late July. Facebook.com/VegasBrewingCo.

GRAPE EXPECTATIONS

The Nevada School of Winemaking opened in 2007, but moved just around the corner from Las Vegas Distillery in August 2012. Happy in their new home, general manager Mike Schoen-baechler and the Professor KJ Howe continue to do the Lords work, making winemakers out of wine drinkers for whom mere appreciation is no longer enough. Students essentially buy a barrel for $2,800. Over nine months,and four fun classescrushing/destem-ming/pressing, barreling, racking and bottlingthey make their own red wine to fll it, yielding 240 bottles of their own private-label wine (comes out to roughly $11.50 per bottle). Try to beat that with a bottle of Two-Buck Chuck! GrapeExpectationsLasVegas.com.

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BAD NEWS FOR MANDALAY BAY and the Luxor during the angel-led apoca-lypse: Both resorts were crumbling ruins during the recent series pre-miere of Dominion on Syfy. The protec-tive wall that surrounds the haven city of Vega appears to start right at Tropicana Avenue.The good news is that the Strato-

sphere is moving on up in the world, as sort of an aerie for the archangel Mi-chael. So, nice job, Strat. He probably went up there trying to get good Pin Up tickets and decided to stick around.

Dominion is set after the events of the 2010 fick Legion, which is like Christ-mas for the tens of Legion fanboys. Its a clunky, chintzy, couldnt-be-any-more-Syfy ridebut, hey, thats why we fy Air Syfy.

Dominion was apparently blessed with a bigger budget than most Syfy fare (lookin at you, Blast Vegas). Its just that that budget clearly runs out about 45 minutes into the hourlong premiere. At least they bought their clichs in bulk and saved money there. (Everything has a price and You are the chosen one in one episode? Hell of a two-for-one sale.)Heres the Dominion world in a nut-

shell: God disappeared from heaven sometime around 2013, so the archangel Gabriel decided humans were the prob-lem and came to Earth to wage a war for extinction. Archangel Michael inter-venes as a champion of mankind, and after a long war that saw 6 billion people die, General Edward Riesen (played by poor mans Anthony Hopkins, Alan Dale) led a last-ditch effort that defeated Gabriels army. He sets up the perimeter around Vega as a refugee camp that saw the hotels turn into large-scale dorms for the last of humanity. Clever.The city runs with a strict caste sys-

tem, of which Alex Lannen (played by a poor mans Matt Damon, Christopher Egan) is in the second-lowest category as a soldier of thewere not making this upArchangel Corps. Hes in love with Riesens daughter, Claire (played by Game of Thrones Roxanne McKee).Which is convenient, because Do-

minion really, really wants to be Game of Thrones with more angels and less commitment to the subtleties of real-politik. Riesen is the lord commander of Vega, and the head of House Ri-esen. His chief political nemesis is David Whele (Anthony Head), who leads House Whele. They took as their

symbols the Caesars Palace wreath and MGM lion, respectively. Really. There are probably more houses, but frankly, none of them featured Peter Dinklage, so who cares?Just as in Thrones, the political infght-

ing ignores the more disastrous, super-natural threat. But instead of Stannis Baratheon keeping his eye on the prize in the North, we get Michael (played by poor mans Keanu Reeves, Tom Wis-dom), ready to rumble with any angels of ill-intent who cross the threshold into Vega. Like the one who suicide bombs the towns nuclear reactor.And if nukes, apocalypses (apocali?)

and Las Vegas all sound vaguely famil-iar to you, its because this was ground trod in 1978 by Stephen King in The Stand. In that end-times showdown, the bad guys held Vegas instead.So what is it that makes Las Vegas

such a key ingredient in your escha-tological stew? Is it just the well-trod metaphorical ground of an opulent city in a harsh landscape? Is it the party-while-the-world burns ethos? (If the cave hippies of The Matrix Reloaded could have feasibly made it above ground, theres no way they would have spelunked to their dance-like-no-

murder-robots-are-watching rave.)Or is it that Las Vegas really is like

gold? Shiny, but malleable and con-ductive. Its easy to bend Las Vegas to your storytelling will when its a town that tries so hard to be everything to everyone. Is it the way the apocalypse brings out peoples basest instincts, and no other city has that base covered like a bottle full of lye?In a word: Nah. The secret to why Las

Vegas is such a natural post-apocalyptic setting is simple: Its the Dawn of the Dead playbook. You pick the smallest area with the most practical resources thats easiest to defend. As long as you can keep the power on and the water pumping, the Strip is like Americas Costco during a zombie outbreak. You go a block out to include the gun ranges? Youre set for as long as it takes society to rebuild. You think you could do that in Chicago? Way too much territory to patrol with all sorts of points of entry. It may as well be Stalingrad for vampires, mummies or angry, people-hating angels.

Dominion might drop the ball on a lot, but it got that part absolutely right. Now if they could just get a full episodes worth of budget.

Syfys Dominion Over Sin CityThe sequel to Legion gives Las Vegas some serious tough love

By Jason Scavone

Why does the apocalypse always hit the Strip first?

JERSEY BOYS THE MOVIE is a different, more sedate animal than Jersey Boys the Broadway musical. Often this happens when a stage success comes to the screen, even with many of the same performers and artistic team members on board. Changes are made; ardent fans of the original are variously pleased or disappointed. And in this case, those who have not seen the theatrical edition of the tale of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasonshow they found their sound and wrestled with temptationsmay wonder what the fuss is about.The hits keep coming: Sherry, Big

Girls Dont Cry, December, 1963 and that addictive gush of romantic 60s desperation, Cant Take My Eyes Off You. They may be enough. Full of genial showbiz clichs and mobbed-up sweet-ies, its an easy movie to take.It is also an uncertainly stylized one,

with a drab sense of atmosphere at odds with the materials punchy theatrics. Jer-sey Boys labors under a case of directorial miscasting, that of legendary flmmaker Clint Eastwood at the helm of a whiz-bang jukebox tuner.Onstage the show was nothing if not

speedy. The musicals librettists, Mar-shall Brickman and Rick Elice, adapted it for the screen, retaining (though downplaying) the basic structure allow-ing each of the Four Seasons to relay the groups origin myth his way. It begins in Belleville, New Jersey, in 1951 and ends with a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induc-tion in 1990. Valli and songwriter Bob Gaudio serve as executive producers of the flm, so you know theyre going to come off well in relation to the other two, Nick Massi and Tommy DeVito.What did the Four Seasons have that

so many other groups lacked? Start with Vallis falsetto, which in its heyday sounded like a duck-and-cover emer-gency siren played at 78 rpm. Jersey Boys argues that Vallis success, like Sinatras in a separate, imperious corner of su-perstar mythology, was all about the working-class Jersey roots and a natural overlap with the local capos.There were three ways out of the

neighborhood, DeVito says at one point, to the camera. You join the Army and maybe get killed; you get mobbed

up, maybe get killed that way. Or you get famous. For us, it was two out of three.The story skates through the decades.

Naming themselves after a bowling alley, the Four Seasons hit pay dirt with Sher-ry on American Bandstand; Valli juggles a nagging wife and needy mistress (the womens roles are neither central nor nuanced); DeVito nearly sinks the group with debts to the mob, represented by Gyp DeCarlo. As the kindly underworld kingpin bearing hardly a whiff of authen-ticity, Christopher Walken strolls off with every scene hes in.Valli goes up, then down, then up, and

the road along the way is paved by drugs, heartbreak and personal tragedy. Were left with a sense of conficting versions of events smoothed over by the harmonic convergence of a history-making quar-tet. Working with his usual collabora-tors, chiefy cinematographer Tom Stern (king of the desaturated, slightly sad color scheme) and production designer James J. Murakami, the director plugs along, following one narrator, then another, hitting the story points and

moving on. The casting of relative un-knowns, many from stage incarnations of Jersey Boys, helps in some cases, hurts in others. John Lloyd Young won the Tony Award for his Valli, but onscreen hes a tentative presence, despite a for-midable vocal range and powerful fal-setto. Far better is Erich Bergens Gaudio, a comfortable and natural personality who doesnt get lost amid the swirl of years and setbacks and triumphs.Some scenes are frankly theatrical,

such as the hardship tour of the famous Brill Building, full of hardened veterans impervious to raw talent. Other seg-ments are stiff Hollywood soundstage artifacts all the way, such as the boys early smash-and-grab robberies for the local gangsters. Others still are played out more or less realistically, until were hit with a deliberately fakey bit of rear-projection. Eastwood never pushes his approaches too far in any one direction. Those who show up for the songs, and only the songs, probably wont mind how theyre treated visually.

Mamma Mia! turned into a blockbuster not because it was a great flm (or even a good one) but because it had irrational exuberance, and was in tune with the appeal of ABBA. Jersey Boys is rationally exuberant to a fault. The personalities feel curiously small within the story. Moderately entertaining, Eastwoods flm marches to a more methodical drummer. Its commercial fortunes are unlikely to rival that of the stage version.Goose it up too much, and it gets

cheesy, Valli says to Gaudio in Jersey Boys, about a song arrangement. Eastwood takes that line to heart. The unspoken B side of that warning, however, is worth heeding: No particular style leads to a movie of no particular style.

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X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG-13) Midway into Bryan Singers delightfully

convoluted flick, there is a prison break so

exuberant and uncharacteristic of superhero

movies that you sit up a bit. As much as

a pricey, box-office-savvy international

franchise can indulge in fun anymore, it does

here. The film brings together the cast of

the original X-Men films and the upstarts of

the clever 2011 reboot X-Men: First Class

teaming up generations of X-Men (and

ensuring that someone seated behind you

will be asking, Wait, who is that again?).

Edge of Tomorrow (PG-13) Insanely derivative, frenetically enjoyable,

Edge of Tomorrow takes gaming to a new

level of big-screen indulgence, sending

Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt through the

same alien-invasion scenario over and

over until they learn how to win, put down

the consoles and get off the couch for a

little lunch and some fresh air, maybe.

The climax involves Paris in flames and

up to its landmarks in water, and a certain

museum featured in The Da Vinci Code.

Think Like a Man Too (PG-13)A 105-minute ad for Caesars Palace, this

passably engaging sequel allows Kevin

Hart to hijack whole sections of the Las

Vegas-set hijinks as he lets loose with his

little verbal tsunamis of braggadocio. The

gang reunites in Vegas for the meticulously

planned wedding of Candace (Regina

Hall) and Michael (Terrence Jenkins). The

funniest scene is familiar, but it works: a

series of mug shots after the strip-club

melee lands everybody in jail, the morning

of the wedding.

22 Jump Street (R) The peculiar sweetness of 21 Jump

Street has taken a hiatus in this brazen

sequel thats both slightly disappointing

and a reliable, often riotous laffer. 22

Jump Street tests the bond of this police

partnership when the boy-men are

assigned to work undercover, again as

brothers, this time at a college where a

new designer drug has claimed at least one

life. Be sure to hang around for the closing

credits, which imagine all sorts of Jump

Street sequels to come, all of which look

funnier than A Million Ways to Die in the West.

MOVIES

A fixture on Vegas stages since 2008, Jersey Boys

hits the big screen.

Blended (PG-13) Adam Sandler is a bottle of cheap beer thats

lost all its bubbles. So lets focus on what

works in Blended, because he sure doesnt.

Drew Barrymore, in her third pairing with

Sandler, still brings energy and conviction to

her performance as Lauren, a mother of two

thrown together on an African vacation with

this lump. Jim, a widower, is raising three

emotionally stunted daughters who need a

mom. Every setup is an eye-roller. Sandler

is aimlessly going through the motions, a

character others dismiss as a buffoon, a

chubby loser in need of a fist-bump.

The Immigrant (R) This prickly period piece about hard times

starring Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix

and Jeremy Renner leaves you unsettled.

Although its far more about survival than

love, there is a sense of seduction in director

James Grays ambitious film. The sepia-

saturated scene evokes that vast influx of

refugees in the 20s and 30s. The theme

of compromise as the price of progress in

this country is a compelling one. The film

is sometimes fraught, but the ideas are so

rich, the look so lovely, Ewas journey so

heartbreakingly real, even the flaws suit it.

A Million Ways to Die in the West (R) A Million Ways to Die in the West is a grim

vanity project by Family Guy guru Seth

MacFarlane, determined to carry his own

movie in a romantic-comic leading role.

MacFarlane plays Albert, an inept sheep

farmer in 1882 Arizona. When his flighty,

shallow steady (Amanda Seyfried) dumps

him for a sniveling fancy man with money

(Neil Patrick Harris), Albert suffers a crisis

of confidence cured by the hot new gal in

town (Charlize Theron). What we have here

is a failure of craft.

Malefcent (PG) The formula works: humanizing characters

formerly known as evil, so that another tale

emerges from the story we know, driven

by female antagonist/protagonist hybrids

who arent bad, just misunderstood. So it

goes with Maleficent, Disneys bombastic

explanation of why the queen of all evil

from its 1959 Sleeping Beauty got that way,

and why she wasnt, really. This is Angelina

Jolies show. Maleficent is all about second

thoughts. Our anti-heroine is Auroras fairy

godmother, her heart warming, reluctantly,

to the girl under the spell.

The Fault in Our Stars (PG-13)In the discreetly assaultive film version

of The Fault in Our Stars theres a scene,

faithful to the one in the best-selling John

Green book, where Hazel and Augustus visit

the Amsterdam home of a novelist whose

cancer-related novel holds great personal

meaning for two teenage Indianapolis

cancer patients in love. The Fault in Our

Stars pushes every button. Shailene

Woodley is an ace at handling laughter

through tearsmy favorite emotion, as a

character in Steel Magnolias once said.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) In a world of tired sequels, this

DreamWorks Animation offering feels and

flows like a real movie. Its as satisfying as

the initial 2010 Dragon, based loosely on

the Cressida Cowell books. Now a young

adult, adorkable Viking lad Hiccup (Jay

Baruchel, voice) and his intended, Astrid

(America Ferrera), live the good life in the

remote village of Berk, ruled by Hiccups

benevolent father (Gerard Butler). This is a

coming-of-age story, and the film rewards

our investment in it.

How do you feel heading into this years Main Event, which begins July 5?Every year Im confdent going in. The feld

has gotten tougher over the last 11 yearsthe average player is a lot better. Eleven years ago when there were only 800 people, the feld was relatively tough. From 2004 to 2008, it got really soft; you had all these new play-ers who didnt know what they were doing,

which can be dangerous. The average feld is better now, which is good. You dont have guys over-betting pots all the time, forcing you to make tough decisions. You can last a little longer and play more secure. But its defnitely a grind. Its a little over two weeks to be out there for one tournament. Im just trying to get my sleep patterns in gear, and hopefully Ill be ready. PH

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how his rags-to-riches story has proven costly to others

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Do you still get excited about playing the World Series, or is it just another tournament at this point?I get excited when I play any

big tournament. I just enjoy the game. Poker is still fun to me, partly because I take breaksI havent played a hand of poker in a week and a half since a country-club game. I wont touch cards again until I get to Vegas. Im taking two weeks off. If I was out in Vegas right now and I had been grinding every World Series event for the last three weeks, Id probably want to put a gun to my head and end it. I would not enjoy poker if I did that. I like chocolate a lot, but I cant eat chocolate every night.

How often do you play now living in Tennessee without an online outlet?I dont play in Tennessee at

all. Ive picked up my travel schedule since Black Friday [April 15, 2011, when a federal indictment shut down Internet poker]. Its that or not play, and not playing isnt an option. Most of my travel has been out of the country.

Have you ever considered moving to Vegas?No, never in a million

years would I move to Vegas. Honestly, I only come to Vegas twice a year: for the Main Event and [NBCs National Heads-Up Poker Champion-ship]. Vegas was nice when I was in my 20s. Now Im mar-ried with three kids. Id rather just go back to my condo and get away from it all. Im there to play that tournament and lay low. Ill probably watch movies and things of that na-ture, but I wont do the Vegas scene anymore.

Whats going to be pokers next big thing?It has to be full [online] le-

galization in the U.S. Once that happens, you get it back on TV. The problem with poker back in the day on TV was they satu-rated the market. It got to the point where you didnt know if you were watching a tourna-ment from four years ago.Everybody wants to say a

woman winning the Main Event [would be big for poker], but I dont think women are going to start playing poker because a woman won the Main Event. The number of women playing poker has grown a lot in the last 10 years, but its obviously [still] a very male-dominated sport. I think it will stay that way .

The Moneymaker Effect is an oral history of your stunning 2003 WSOP Main Event victory and how it led to a poker explosion. However, some of the guys quoted in the book, including fellow pro Howard Lederer, were pretty blunt in their assessment of you as a player at the time. Was that diffcult to read?Not really. I played home

games. I was very inexperi-enced. I was playing over my head, against guys who played daily, and I literally played one day a week. Back then, online players were consid-ered second-class citizens. We werent really poker players; we were playing video games. People were very critical of my game. Its weird to hear some-one like Lederer say Ive never been very good, but whatever. It is what it is.

Since you won that bracelet 11 years ago, how many people have told you they quit their jobs to go pro, or moved to Vegas because of you?Theres more than I could

count. I probably ruined a lot of marriages, a lot of lives and also made new professions for people. I always tell young people I run across who have aspirations of going pro, Dont! I warn them of all the dangers, of all the things that could happen even if youre successful. You might love the game when youre 21, but are you going to love it when youre 31 or 41 and you have a family? Most every poker player knows being a poker player isnt conducive to having a family. You dont see that many married poker pros out there.

How do players react

when they join a poker

game and see Moneymaker at the

table? Read the full interview at

VegasSeven.com/Moneymaker.

THE MONEYMAKER

EFFECT BY ERIC RASKIN

is available at

ShopLVA.com,

Amazon.com and at

the Gamblers General

Store. Moneymaker, along

with several principals in

the book, will be signing

copies at the World Series

of Pokers main stage

in the Rio from

5:30-7:30 p.m. July 7.

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