When Downtown floods with locals for the monthly festival, this art-happy lounge is the grooving, schmoozing, boozing place to be. Whether you set up barside or take to the dancefloor, inside Artifice, Las Vegas feels like the city it’s bound to become. 1025 1st St., 489-6339. Daily, 4 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

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