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Cultural highlights this month

Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo

Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo

April 18

Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo

The Joint

It’s 2015 — is love still a battlefield? I mean, it’s been 32 years; you’d think someone would’ve won by now. There’s only one way to find out: seeing this show. 8p, $39.50-$175, hardrockhotel.com

 

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April 24

Mr. Burns

Art Square Theater

Anne Washburn’s dark comedy mashes up the fall of civilization, the “Cape Feare” episode of The Simpsons, the evolution of pop culture into mythology and the enduring power of live theater. Through May 10, $16-$20, cockroachtheatre.com

 

April 23

Paul Koudounaris

The Writer’s Block

He sees dead people — that is, corpses and skeletons used in cultural rituals. And photographs them. And puts those photographs in books, like last month’s Memento Mori. And goes around with a slideshow of those photographs and talks about them. 7p, 1020 Fremont St., thewritersblock.org

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April 11

Great Las Vegas Festival of Beer

Downtown

Said to be Nevada’s largest craft-beer festival, with 300 beers from 100 brewer … what? We had you at “craft beer”? Well, you GO, Barney Gumble! 3-7p, Fremont East Entertainment District, $30 and up (with $40 early entry and $75 VIP tickets), greatvegasbeer.com

 

All month

Allison Streater

Winchester Gallery

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Thwarted desire is the theme of Streater’s mixed-media collages: Models clipped from fashion catalogs — where their clothing and surroundings represented a lifestyle the artist can’t afford — are placed into settings based more closely on Streater’s own life. 702-455-7340