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Cinematic exploitation.
A good portion of their audience may be too young to remember the original grindhouse movie theaters, but filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez are out to re-create that scuzzy, low-budget exploitation feel that’s recognizable whether you saw it first at the drive-in or on late-night TV. Their double feature, Grindhouse, consists of a full-length zombie movie from Rodriguez, followed by faux-trailers from the likes of Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright and Eli Roth, and a full-length slasher movie from Tarantino. Our cup runneth over. With blood. Opens April 6.
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Solo queercore.
We imagine being called “Bitch” all the time must get tiresome, but after you make a name for yourself of it, what can you do? After the split of queercore outfit Bitch and Animal in 2004, the former embarked on a singer-songwriter solo career. Still as political, tender and unrestrained as she was in the duo, the green dreadlocked multi-instrumentalist (electric violin, ukulele and bass, to name a few) performs April 10, 8 p.m., at Michael Wardle Gallery, 107 E. Charleston, 383-8633. $10, all ages. Special instructions: enter through the back door.
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Go Speed Racers.
Driving our streets can often feel like navigating the Autobahn (thanks Californians), so perhaps it’s fitting that the Las Vegas Grand Prix will turn the streets of Downtown into an actual rubber-burnin’, first-across-the-finish-line-wins raceway. The 2.44-mile Grand Prix on April 8 will cap six days of concerts (Jon Bon Jovi & Friends), comedy (Jay Leno) and entertainment that’s sure to, ahem, get yer motor runnin’... head out on the highway. Sorry. Through April 8. Daily general admission ranges from $12 to $47; three-day passes start at $40. Vegas Grand Prix, 944-8661.
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Variety show!
Inspired by a menagerie of WTF elements—Pee Wee’s Playhouse, A Prairie Home Companion, Dean Martin—Sissy Hamstack and DJ Huevos Fritos host the first in monthly local variety show Lustre Flux. To be expected: a Hungarian Hat Dance, allusions to Jesus and Mork and Mindy, a Jubilee girl or two and artist Stephen Hendee performing “the unspeakable.” This Saturday and every first Saturday of the month at Aruba Hotel, 1215 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 383-3100. Free.
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Take in a site. 
Artist Olivo Barbieri took his camera to the skies to shoot Las Vegas from an angle that de-emphasizes its glitz and gets to its elemental structures. See for yourself in Site Specific: Las Vegas 05 at the G-C Arts gallery Downtown. Barbieri will be there for the opening reception April 6, 6-8 p.m.; at 7 p.m., sit still for the screening of a short film about the project. 1217 S. Main; gcarts-lv.com.