Las Vegas Mixtape v14: Culinary Burlesque, Aisles of Treasures, and the Right To Rock

Track #4: “After Hours” @Beverly Theater, Downtown

So many Vegas locals I’ve spoken to still haven’t discovered The Beverly Theater— a newly built arthouse cinema housed in a modern mid-century building on 6th St. With that in mind, I held my roving “People Need People” mixer there on a recent Saturday night in late March when Martin Scorsese’s 1985 dark comedy classic “After Hours” was playing.

Newly radiant on-screen with its 4K restoration, the film is set in the early days of NYC’s Soho district and follows a bored computer programmer (Griffin Dunne) who suffers through a high-anxiety night while trapped in the city. He’s unable to get home and collides with an assortment of beautiful oddballs, including Rosanna Arquette, Teri Garr, Catherine O’Hara, and Linda Fiorentino. If you pay attention, you can spot playful references to “The Wizard of Oz.”

After the movie, my guests and I headed upstairs to The Beverly’s gorgeous outdoor terrace (Segue) for drinks and the views.  Alas, the weather was too cold to linger for more than 30 minutes (so much for the mid-March launch of Vegas’ “pool season”).

Throughout April, music and film aficionados can enjoy the theater’s “movies that rock” programming, cheekily billed as “Showchella.” There’s still time left this month to see two landmark films: Cameron Crowe’s ‘70s rock & roll opus “Almost Famous” (April 22, 24, 26) and the disco-era “Saturday Night Fever” (April 26, 27, 29).