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Listen to some cool (and arrogant) nerds. How’d they find a dressing room big enough for all these egos? You’ve got music’s bloviating crybaby-in-chief Kanye West. The well-read, National Geographic-reading Lupe Fiasco. And N.E.R.D., the hip collective fronted by an egotistical Pharrell Williams. April 25, 7:30 p.m., $70. Red Rock Casino-Resort, 547-5300.
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Suit up. Esquire is looking for a few good men. Well, to be exact, a few real men. As in really well-dressed. Fashion-forward men from the Las Vegas area are invited to visit the Esquire Style Lounge at Blush on Saturday, April 26 from noon-6 p.m. to sign up for Esquire’s Best Dressed Real Man in America competition and enjoy luxurious amenities. Gents, come dressed to impress the models who will snap your pic and load it up for voting at esquirebdrm.com. When the competition ends on May 15, five finalists will be flown to New York City for a photo shoot with Esquire Fashion Director Nick Sullivan for the magazine’s September style issue, and the grand-prize winner will receive a prize package worth $40,000, including a $10,000 wardrobe, an IWC watch, a round-trip flight on a Bombardier Learjet aircraft, a VIP trip for two to Switzerland and an opportunity to be on NBC’s Today. Bragging rights? Hells yeah!
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Walk in someone else’s Choos. Just in time for every woman’s favorite cautionary dating tale of a movie, Las Vegas Weekly, Pama and Absolut present Sex and Sin City, an evening of stilettos and cosmos at V Bar at the Venetian on Friday, April 25 at 6 p.m. Celebrating all things stiletto and all things cosmo, there will be Jimmy Choo giveaways, hors d’oeuvres and complimentary pomegranate cosmos, and ladies in heels receive a dollar off specialty cocktails for each inch of high heel they’re stacking that night! 414-3200.
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Get your fill of jazz and R&B. If you’re not familiar with the annual Las Vegas City of Lights Jazz and R&B Festival, get on the good foot and (apologies for the hip-hop euphemism) bust a move on over to Hills Park for the two-day music fest’s 16th installment. Day 1 includes the likes of soul-jazz scenester Norman Brown and songstress Chante Moore. Day 2 features a Stone Cold Soul Picnic with entertainment by, among others, Prince protégés Morris Day and The Time and Oakland trio Tony! Toni! Toné! It’s gonna be a stone gas, honey. April 26, 1-10 p.m.; April 27, 2-8 p.m. Hills Park in Summerlin. Tickets start at $60 for each day. Info at yourjazz.com.
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Hit the books. Give the babysitter the night off, put the kids on one of those controversial leash-things and prepare to earn your Parent of the Year award: Disney’s High School Musical is coming to Las Vegas, and this Saturday, April 26, you will have the opportunity to redeem yourself from that whole Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana debacle when tickets go on sale for the live, touring performance of the internationally worshipped ode to adolescent social-ladder construction. Performances run June 4-8. Tickets will be available by calling Ticketmaster at 474-4000, at Planet Hollywood’s Theatre for the Performing Arts box office, at any Ticketmaster outlet or online at ticketmaster.com/hsmvegas. This should give you just enough time to recover and prepare for the coming of High School Musical 3: Senior Year, scheduled for a 2008 release in theaters around the world.
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Get off your lazy butt, lace up your walking shoes and help a really good cause. It’s time for the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life, and there’s no excuse not to get involved this year—the event takes place at 12 locations throughout the Valley. There are plenty of options during the weekend-long event, but the one we’re heading to is at Coronado High School. To reflect the theme of “cancer never sleeps,” that venue’s 4 p.m. relay will go on for 15 hours—into the night, in other words. And how cool is it to know you’re part of something so massive? More than 4,200 communities across America will be doing the exact same thing you are. relayforlife.org/relay/about.