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🐔 Weekend Mode: Shaq's Food Deal, Pool Closures, Live Music & More!
and live theater at the library
TODAY’S WIND DOWN BROUGHT TO YOU WITH
Happy Friday Afternoon, Neighbor!
Anyone else feeling hopeful? It’s just something in the air, isn’t it? Maybe the fact that the air is gonna be a good ten degrees cooler this weekend is part of it. I’m looking very forward to a morning out tomorrow where I don’t cook like bacon in the sun.
But, before we get to the weekend, today is “Ride the Wind Day,” which just sounds lovely. Technically, it’s a day to commemorate the first human-powered flight, but it’s also a day about floating on the wind, whether you’re up in an airplane or just enjoying the feel of the breeze on your face. Of course, wind gusts today could reach up to 40 mph, so, you know, enjoy with caution.
In today’s Summerlin City Wind Down:
Today's Happy Hours & Eats (Featuring Free Chickie!) 🐔
Did You Know? ✈️
Around the Valley 📍
Events & Live Music 🧛♀️
Beyond Summerlin 🚗
Let's get to it. See you on the other side.
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TODAY’S HAPPY HOURS & EATS 🐔
Want a free chicken sandwich, courtesy of Shaq? Well, his restaurant at least. The baller’s Big Chicken restaurant is doing a buy one, get one deal on Saturday (Aug 24). Buy one Ultimate Chicken Sandwich meal deal and get an Ultimate Chicken Sandwich and a Pepsi Zero free (while supplies last).
Unfortunately, the deal is only at the 4480 Paradise Road location, but, if you happen to be on the far side of The Strip tomorrow, and are feeling gluttonous, you might want to pop in.
Big Chicken (4480 Paradise Road): BOGO Ultimate Chicken Sandwich Deal
Just looking for a good Happy Hour to hit up over the weekend? Check out our daily Happy Hour pages:
Did You Know? ✈️
The first controlled human flight was over a hundred years in the making.
Well before the Wright brothers captured the glory in 1903, there was a whole line of dreamers and daredevils who helped make their flight possible. The difference? The Wright brothers mastered steering, while a lot of those earlier flights were a lot more, shall we say, "crash and burn."
It all started in 1799, when Sir George Cayley did something revolutionary: he stopped trying to strap on and flap wings like a bird and started thinking more scientifically. Cayley was the first to define the forces of lift and drag, giving us the blueprint for the modern airplane. He even sketched out a fixed-wing aircraft that looked suspiciously like something you could see at a local airshow today.
Then came the prototypes. In 1849, a kid (you know, ‘cause they’re lighter) made the first manned flight in a glider designed by Cayley. He went up, he came down, but he didn’t have a whole lot of control along the way. This brave attempt was followed up by Felix du Temple, who in 1874 attempted powered flight using a steam-driven monoplane. He didn't exactly soar into the sunset. In fact, he couldn’t really control the thing, but at least he got lift off.
Then, in 1894, Sir Hiram Maxim put his wits to flying. Like the others before it, his biplane test rig took off - but with all the control of a rogue shopping cart in a parking lot.
It was about this time that the Wright brothers arrived on the scene, with a century's worth of trial and error behind them. Inspired by Otto Lilienthal, and his successful controlled glider flights, the Wright brothers perfected the use of aerodynamic surfaces for control. Then, on December 17, 1903, they did it: they made the first controlled, sustained, powered flight. It was victory at Kitty Hawk! Humans could “ride the wind.” But not without millennia of wild ideas, a century of perfecting modern aircraft, and, quite frankly, a whole lot of crashes.
AROUND THE VALLEY 📍
Here are some things Around the Valley we think might be of interest -
Pool Closures at LVAC 🏊🏽♀️
If you’re a card-carrying member of Las Vegas Athletic Clubs, but haven’t been in a few days, don’t bother to take your swimsuit the next time you go. The fitness centers’ pools have been closed.
It’s all a matter of lifeguards, see. The Health Department says LVAC has to have them. LVAC says they should be exempt from lifeguard requirements, which they had been up until June.
It’s possible this will be a temporary closure, and it’s possible it won’t. But, until LVAC and health officials come to an agreement, you might want to find someplace else to swim.
Harry Reid Airport Is Killing It! (In a Bad Way) ✈️
Oh, Las Vegas Airport. How I remember you fondly.
When we first moved to the city, circa 2015, the airport was a dream. We would waltz right through the security line and flit happily onto our flight. We would come home and walk at leisure back to our car in the long-term parking garage, where there always seemed to be plenty of spaces.
The only problem area were those end gates, where the airport designers, for some torturous reason, put a gaggle of gates together with not nearly enough seats and wrap-around floor-to-ceiling windows, like it doesn’t regularly reach over 100 degrees in this city and wouldn’t be as hot as eight Hades in there.
But anyhoo… the point is, over the last couple of years when we’ve traveled, this airport has gotten a bit more realistic. It’s always frickin’ busy and finding a parking space without driving up four floors is a lot like finding a doubloon on the beach.
And, apparently, it’s not our imaginations. Over the past couple of weeks, Harry Reid has made two airport lists, landing at #6 for TSA wait times and at #1 for flight delays. So, if you have an end-of-summer vacation coming up, happy flying!
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EVENTS & LIVE MUSIC 🧛♀️
Need to get wise about money? You can get a crash course in financial empowerment tonight at Rainbow Library.
Or, if you’ve been churning out enough blood to share, you can donate some of it in the Rainbow Library parking lot tomorrow.
TODAY 💰
Total Wine & More Sampling Hours
Total Wine & More
730 S Rampart Blvd
2-8 pm
MoneyWise Academy with Credit Union
Rainbow Library (Meeting Room)
3150 N Buffalo Dr
3-4 pm
Sahara West Library
9600 W Sahara Ave
3-5 pm
Live DJ (E-Knoc)
Rouge Room (Red Rock Resort)
11011 W Charleston Blvd
11 pm-Close
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 🧛♀️
Rainbow Library (Parking Lot)
3150 N Buffalo Dr
Saturday
10 am-4:30 pm
Fine Company
10970 Rosemary Park Dr
Sunday
10:30 am
* Single, Divorced, Widowed, No Kids
LIVE MUSIC 🎵
Here’s just a taste of the live music around Summerlin tonight -
Friday Night Vibes
The Ridge Bar & Grill
4570 S Hualapai Way
5-8 pm
Brown Chicken Brown Cow Band
Frankie’s Uptown (Downtown Summerlin)
1770 Festival Plaza Dr
8-11 pm
The Spazmatics
Rocks Lounge (Red Rock Resort)
11011 W Charleston Blvd
9-11 pm
Nothing here of interest? Check out our full list of Summerlin Weekend Events.
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BEYOND SUMMERLIN 🚗
Looking to get Beyond Summerlin this weekend? There are some cool things happening at area libraries.
Windmill Library (Auditorium)
7060 W Windmill Ln
Tonight: 7-8 pm
Join Nevada Shakespeare Festival for an inventive retelling of Shakespeare's classic.
Clark County Library (Main Theater)
1401 E Flamingo Rd
Sunday: 2-3 pm
The Hypnotiques, led by Swinging Tiki Duchess Kitty Chow, play vintage Hawaiian, Tiki Exotica, and retro-lounge music plus classic and obscure gems from the 1920s-1960s.
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