If you’ve ever done the desperate crotch-clamp hustle in search of a bathroom while your bladder painfully balloons, you’ll appreciate “Urinetown.” It’s about a dystopian future in which an evil conglomerate owns all of society’s public restrooms — until a hero who has to pee REALLY BADLY challenges its reign.

A Golden Opportunity Pool season is just the around corner, and it’s easier than ever to get a head start on your tan with the latest in modern sun worship: mobile tanning. Stephanie Robertson of Illuminate You Mobile Tanning (spraytanlasvegas.

South Commercial Center District This unassuming stretch of Maryland Parkway is much more than a launch ramp from the University District to downtown. In its own right, it’s got eclectic eats, cool boutiques and spicy salsa — both on your plate and on the dance floor.

Editor's note: Cowabunga Bay has postponed its opening date until summer 2014. That’s the sound this total splash maniac makes at water parks.

Strap in the brood and load up the car. These family-friendly trips have something for kids of all ages (and your inner kid, too) Like dinosaurs had a mosh pit Nearly 200 million years ago, dinosaurs trod the earth around the shores of an ancient lake in southern Utah, and, in 2000, the first of thousands of tracks made by these dinosaurs and other animals was discovered.

Quest is such a freighted word. It suggests purpose, a bit of seriousness, and perhaps even a smidge of grandiosity.

Whether you’re seeking peace and quiet or pulse-pounding thrills, these trips offer it all — without the crowds, hassles and expense Stargaze in Great Basin National Park It’s like: Checking out the stars anywhere else — but with darker skies Look upward in Las Vegas and the Luxor’s blinding light clouds the view of anything star-worthy, so head north out of the city for the world’s largest, most spectacular, free nightly show. Once you reach Great Basin National Park, look upward on a moonless night for a feast of generally unseen celestial bodies.

Adam Bradley trekked nearly 5,000 miles from Reno to Alaska and the Bering Sea — through bears, bugs and bad weather. Why? The thrill of discovery — and to see firsthand a fast-changing Earth It all boiled down to the bugs.

World traveler, photographer, lawyer • Local attorney Patrick Reilly took his first overseas trip as a kid, when his dad set up an almost punishingly whirlwind tour of Europe. “It was one of those American Express tours where you’re hitting 14 countries in 18 days, which is great, but it’s way too much and you’re exhausted by the end.