Mikey Dread Dread Zeppelin Epicurean Affair Artwork of Greg Higgins

Thursday, June 12, 2003
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A/E Features

No, mon. It's a tobacco bong

The Reggae Music Festival features authentic Jamaican wares, music and food, food, food. So what do we focus on? The whole pot-smoking religion thing. We'd worry about our small-mindedness and shallowness, but frankly, we're too stoned to care. The show will include music by Pato Banton, Tippa Irie, Shinehead, Mikey Dread and Bom Shaka. The event is Saturday at the Government Center Amphitheater, you know, with the flat pyramid at 500 Grand Central Parkway. The show runs from 4 p.m to 10 p.m. Tickets are $14-$20. For information, including a long list of stuff you shouldn't bring, call 455-8200.

Ben Franklin, God, beer and you

Ben said, "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." What more reason do you need to go to the Seventh Annual Las Vegas International Beer Festival? The event features live music by a bunch of bands, including Dread Zeppelin and over 100 different beers, all you can sample. Sweet mother of glory, hallelujah! It's at Bruce Trent Park in Summerlin from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $25 in advance (through Ticketmaster, 474-4000) and $30 at the door and the price includes a free glass. For information call 807-3371. Now, as far as Ben's advice about farting proudly and lolling about fat and naked, use your own judgment.

Hey, this ain't Taco Bell

Top chefs from Las Vegas's finest restaurants will be cooking up the chow at the 13th annual Epicurean Affair. 13th annual? You mean we've wasted a dozen years with our annual Fast Food Slop and Mop when we could have been scarfing down haute cuisine? The Affair highlights the city's best food and booze and sexy bartenders and whatnot. The event starts 7:30 Tuesday poolside at Caesars Palace. Tickets are a mere $100, or you can get together with nine of your friends and buy a package of 10 tickets for $850. If you wait to buy them at the door, it's $125 a pop. Ah well, at least we poor folk can go back to the Slop and Mop. For information and tickets call 878-9272 or 878-2313.

Hey! We know that guy!

Frequent Mercury contributor Greg Higgins' work will be gracing the walls of the Arts Factory throughout the month of June. Now's your chance to see what his work looks like when it's not printed on newsprint and constrained by the demands of story-specific illustration. It's the most masterful show of this or any other city. Okay, it's in print now, Greg. Can we have our children back? The Arts Factory is at 101 East Charleston. For information call 676-1111.