🐍 Have you seen anyone carrying 30 snakes?

🛸 UFO Was Just Space Rock

Leave it to the killjoys at NASA to debunk the Las Vegas alien crash landing story. That was a meteor caught on video, the agency says. Hmm, really? What are you hiding, Big Space?! (Review-Journal)

⚖️ Faux Pot Getting Scrutiny

The city might finally crack down on ersatz cannabis sellers — those storefronts, plentiful downtown, that advertise “cannabis” or “THC” products but aren’t licensed dispensaries and sell bogus, unregulated, and possibly dangerous goods. A new law addressing this is apparently in the works. [KVVU]

• Context: We talk about this scam on the podcast. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

🐍 Wild Writhe

Some 30 snakes, including boas and pythons, were stolen from Wild Things, an Eastside exotic-pets store, the other day. Losses and damages total about $25,000. [KLAS]

💰 Hsieh It Again

With the new leadership of the Downtown Vegas Alliance planning to continue Tony Hsieh’s legacy, we assume that doesn’t mean the part of his legacy that involves kicking poor people out of residential motels and then letting the places sit empty for a decade. No, it’s probably more about, you know, creativity, getting people around a table, taking risks. [Review-Journal]

• More Hsieh: What he got wrong about downtown. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

🤬 Bad Driving 101

Keep this list handy for all your road-rage needs: R-J columnist Steve Sebelius breaks down the six worst habits of local drivers. You’ve surely seen every infraction; you’ve probably committed some, too. [Review-Journal]

• Listen while you swerve: Do our roads suck by design? [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

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👽 Last Words From Readers About the Aliens

Michael Red Earth: “I would take (the aliens) to a Las Vegas dog park so they would know we have a demonstrable ability for interspecies communication because — currently — our intraspecies communication abilities suck.”

Michael V: “What I want to know is … if a UFO ‘crashed,’ as has been reported … where is the wreckage? Nobody is addressing that.”

⚗️ Triple Down Saloon to Open!

This just in from Double Down Saloon impresario P Moss: The Triple Down Bar at the Punk Rock Museum will open to the thirsty, thrill-craving public a week from today. Public hours will be 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily, with 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. hours for museum visitors. Wednesday’s opening bash will include a taco truck, museum swag, and good times.

🏳️‍🌈 Rainbows on Rainbow

“It's not an easy time to be LGBTQA+,” emails a group calling itself the Rainbow Mafia, an anonymous cadre of valley LGBTQA+ artists and allies. Indeed, the situation has grown dire enough that The Human Rights Campaign recently declared a “state of emergency” for LGBTQA+ people in the U.S. The Rainbow Mafia is resisting with an awareness campaign to Pride-flag every street sign on Rainbow Boulevard that uses the word “rainbow.” “Our hope is that (it) brings a smile to people's faces and reminds our community that we're here, we're queer, and that pushing back with art and humor makes a difference!”

📈📉 ‘Demystifying the Capital Markets’ | Thursday | 6 p.m.

Financial markets can be a quagmire of specialized jargon and obscure economic functions. Start making sense of it with this talk by financial whiz Beth Burns. [Centennial Hills Library; free]

📚 ‘Up Close and Personal With the Mob’ | Thursday | 7 p.m.

As the title of his recent book — “Uncle Charlie Killed Dutch Schultz” — makes clear, Alan Geik’s family was steeped in organized-crime culture. Hear him tell his stories in person. [Mob Museum, downtown; $16.95 locals museum admission]

• Sorta related-ish: Why we’re so fascinated by the possibility that Lake Mead’s body in a barrel might be a mob-hit victim. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

🎬 Nevada Women’s Film Festival | Thursday-Sunday | Various

This year’s festival features 108 films from 22 countries. [UNLV; $10+]

‘A History of Juneteenth’ | Friday | 2 p.m.

UNLV African American studies professor Tyler D. Parry discusses the history and significance of Juneteenth, and brings it all the way home in a talk subtitled, “From Galveston, Texas, to Las Vegas, Nevada.” [Clark County Library, University District; free]

Must-Try Japanese Food in Las Vegas

For a desert city, Las Vegas has an amazing Japanese food scene. Today on the podcast, food influencer and veteran Vegas diner Phil Tzeng (aka Las Vegas Fill) takes co-host Dayvid Figler on a Japanese food journey around Las Vegas, with stops at every price point from $ to $$$.