Let the 'shrooming begin

🍄 In Related News, Grateful Dead Streamings Spike

With the governor’s signature now on the enabling legislation, state health officials can begin exploring the use of psilocybin to treat serious depression disorders, PTSD, and other mental-health conditions. [Las Vegas Weekly]

• Macrodose with this podcast! Comedian and "psychonaut" Shane Mauss describes the experience of psilocybin. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

🚗 Additional Gentrifier Parking Coming to DTLV!

City leaders this week approved the $5 million purchase of land at Casino Center and Utah Avenue as the site of a multistory Arts District parking garage. It will have some 500 spots and a bunch of retail space. But don’t look for it to open until 2025. [Review-Journal]

⚖️ Deadly Parenting

A Boulder City couple has been arrested for second-degree murder in the November death of their 8-month-old baby. Turns out the infant overdosed on meth and fentanyl after allegedly climbing on the same bed where the drugs had been spread out earlier. [KTNV]

🛸 Alien Encounter

Your weekend long read is this account — in which the late Harry Reid figures prominently — of how Washington, D.C., came to “embrace” the UFO phenomenon. [Politico]

• More: UFOs are among the topics the podcast team plays verbal hackeysack with in today’s Friday news roundup episode. Also on the agenda: that big apartment fire, and the high cost of Adele tix. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

🎨 Reception for ‘The Visual Artist in a Post-Pandemic World’ | Tonight | 6-8 p.m.

Artists Patty Gillespie, Dennis Martinez, and Chelsea Martinez present work from the last five years at this community mainstay gallery. [Left of Center, North Las Vegas; free]

🪤 ‘Dismayland: Tales from the Park’ | Tonight-Saturday | 8 p.m.

A set of playlets and monologues that offer a bracingly dark and twisted take on the Disney fantasia. [Majestic Repertory Theatre, Arts District; $30]

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

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

🏜️ ‘Modern Desert Markings’ | Saturday | 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

An exhibit in which a new generation of artists critiques and celebrates previous generations of land art. [UNLV’s Barrick Museum; free]

🎸 DjangoVegas! Jazz Festival | Saturday | 6-10 p.m.

This year’s presentation includes guitarist Tommy Emmanuel, Brad Brose and His Bad Bros, and The Hot Club of Las Vegas. [Historic Fifth Street School, downtown; $25]

✍️ ‘Writer-Ready: The Art of Joyful Revisions’ | Saturday | 10 a.m. to noon

Clark County poet laureate Angela M. Brommel is out there doing the Lord’s work, helping writers of all levels up their games. [Winchester Dondero Cultural Center, McLeod and Desert Inn; free]

• Context: City Cast Las Vegas co-hosts Vogue Robinson and Dayvid Figler talk about whether Las Vegas is a poetry town. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

🎭 ‘The Therapist’ | Saturday | 2 & 7 p.m.

This play offers a fascinating scenario — a therapist teaches wellness to elderly incarcerated terrorists in Peru — realized by stellar Las Vegas talents, director Sarah O’Connell and playwright Gigi Guizado, who translated Gabriella Yepes’ drama. [Winchester Dondero Cultural Center, McLeod and Desert Inn; $10]

🏳️‍🌈 🎸 Independent Artists and Musicians Pride Showcase | Sunday | 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.

IAM celebrates diversity and inclusion with a talent-laden bill. [Artiface, Arts District; $10]

🪖 ‘100 Years of Military History’ | Ongoing | Gallery hours

Display of military uniforms and other gear from WWI through Iraq. [Sahara West Library, free]

$15K Adele Tickets, Aliens, and That Big Fire

Today’s weekly news roundup is a big ol’ grab bag of WTF: From the major fire that consumed an unfinished apartment building (biggest among a string of apartment fires since 2019) to Adele tickets reselling for $15,000 to the local alien sighting — Las Vegans want to believe! Co-host Dayvid Figler is joined by lead producer Sonja Cho Swanson and co-host Vogue Robinson to explain (some of) the madness.