Bar entertainment in Nevada
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Double Down Saloon
You just gotta love a punk bar where the tangy, blood-red house drink is named ‘Ass Juice.’ There’s never a cover charge, and the drinks (try the bacon martini) are cash only. Monday is the Bargain DJ Collective night, and there are lotsa lunatic-fringe bands other nights. Play pool, pinball, Asteroids or the legendary jukebox.
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Jc Wooloughan’s
This authentic Irish pub was taken apart piece by piece back in Dublin, then shipped across the Atlantic and put back together again. There’s usually live Celtic music Wednesday to Saturday evenings to accompany a stomach-warning menu of pub grub like potato and leek soup, sausage rolls and meats marinated in Guinness stout.
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Horse-a-Round Bar
If you’re a real wild child, you can relive scenes from gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas at this revolving carousel bar with dead-on views of the suspended stage where trapeze artists, contortionists and acrobats perform. Even without taking psychedelic drugs, it’s hallucinogenic.
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Art Bar
Hipsters, intellectuals, artists and other alt-culture vultures gravitate toward the neon atomic burst outside this art gallery serving libations. It’s best for a quiet drink on a weeknight. There’s a circular bar for meeting the local wildlife, retro velvet sofas for inviting tête-à-têtes and a closet-sized stage for live bands and DJs. Free wi-fi.
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Diablo’s Cantina
While we applaud the shelves of specialty tequilas, walk-up frozen drinks bar and a Strip-view patio with a stage inside set for DJs and live bands, the whole concept of netherworld temptresses dressed in go-go boots means they’re trying too hard. For something to soak up all that booze, the kitchen stays open until midnight (low-carb lettuce fajitas, anyone?).
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Pour 24
Finally, a bar with a gigantic list of American microbrews right on the Strip! It’s conveniently next to the casino’s skybridge entrance, so you can pop in for a quick draft pour or a bottle of anything from Abita’s ‘Purple Haze’ lager made in Louisiana to Oregon’s Rogue chipotle ale, maybe even Big Sky Moose Drool from Montana.
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Red Room Saloon
A locals’ hangout west of the I-15, this slick bar is staffed by serious mixologists (just try their vodka martinis if you don’t believe us). ‘Movie Mondays’ with drinking games ($10 buy-in), First Friday after parties and a variety of DJ nights, from ‘80s rock and reggae to soul and funk, plus bartending competitions, all keep the place packed.
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Rumjungle
Wannabe pirates get a whole lot more than just their bottle of rum here when the Caribbean-flavored restaurant transforms into a theatrical nightclub. For those who are more curious about their firewater than day-glo dancers, take a seat at the bar and sample a dark, light or spicy rum flight from the towering selection of more than 100 bottles. (Aficionados may lament that their favorite brands are oddly missing.)
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Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville
Parrot Heads, you’ve found your very own paradise on the Strip, with three floors, five bars and hundreds of fortysomething couples spilling onto the sidewalk every night. Inside, a faux volcano explodes hourly, pushing frozen margaritas with names like ‘Last Mango in Paris’ to overflow into big blenders. As the lead singer of the house cover band sums up the raucous scene: ‘Yes, we do play Skynnard.’
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Freakin’ Frog
College students adore this zany bar because it’s a short stroll from the UNLV campus. Beer geeks love it for Nevada’s biggest list of bottled beers (over 750 kinds at last count) and over a dozen brews on tap – ask your ‘beertender’ which ones to try tonight. Don’t miss snacking on the lip-smackin’ sweet potato fries sprinkled with cinnamon and honey either. Live jazz bands usually play on Tuesday.
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Beauty Bar
Swill a cocktail, watch the weekly manicure demonstrations or just chill inside the salvaged innards of a 1950s New Jersey beauty salon. DJs and live bands rotate nightly here, spinning tiki lounge tones, ’80s garage rock, punk, funk and soul. Make sure you wear your coolest vintage threads.
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