Driverless cars coming to downtown

🤖 Look, Ma, No Driver!

No more human “safety drivers” for Halo.Car’s self-driving vehicles — at least downtown. When you rent one of these autos within a certain distance from the company’s Arts District HQ, it will be delivered to you driver-free. The DMV signed off on it after reviewing the company’s technology and safety record. [Review-Journal]

• Related(ish): How will AI impact the city’s hospitality industry? [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

⚖️ Teacher Attacker Sentenced

The 17-year-old convicted of brutally attacking an Eldorado High School teacher last year has been sentenced to a minimum of 16-40 years. The attack prompted heightened security measures at CCSD schools, including the implementation of “panic buttons” in classrooms. The attacker’s attorney blamed his actions on medications he was taking. [KLAS]

• Context: The rise and fall of restorative justice in Nevada schools. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

🎫 Fest4Life!

Want to grow old with your favorite bands while enclosed in a temporary hipster preserve in downtown Las Vegas? Register here to win free admission to the Life is Beautiful festival — for as long as you (and the festival) exist. Deadline: Aug. 13. [Life is Beautiful]

🤕 Cirque Injury

A male artist in Cirque du Soleil’s “O” show had to be carried offstage on a stretcher during a performance this week. He was injured during a newish act that involved plunging from a barge. The audience was told that he is OK. [Review-Journal]

• Also: Did you know there’s a world-class circus training center in Las Vegas? There is! [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

✂️ Reception for ‘Anatomy of a Ghost’ | Friday | 6-9 p.m.

Onetime Las Vegan Jim White is a wild and enigmatic collagist, and this exhibit shows his recent work. [ASAP Gallery, in New Orleans Square; free]

🌪️ Staged Reading of ‘Alabaster’ | Friday-Saturday | 7 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday

Audrey Cefaly’s play about a girl and her goat, lone survivors of a tornado, gets the staged reading treatment by A Public Fit Theatre Company. [Clark County Library; free]

🎹 ‘Poisoning Pigeons in the Park’ | Friday-Sunday | Various times

Long before there was Weird Al there was musical satirist Tom Lehrer. This show is a cabaret-style revue of his work. [Majestic Repertory, downtown; $35]

🍅 Henderson Farmers Market | Saturday | 7 a.m. to noon

In the market for a farmer? Or, more likely, some fresh produce? Here you go. [Cornerstone Park, Henderson’ free]

—Pairs nicely with: Our conversation about urban farming with the Obodo Collective. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

🎨 Closing Reception for ‘Body Blow’ | Saturday | 5-7 p.m.

Sculptor Chris Bauder’s work explores notions of ephemerality, aging, religion — even death. [Savidan Gallery, Arts District; free]

🇺🇸 ‘Patriotic Craft Show’ | Sunday | 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

More than 80 vendors get their red, white, and blue on! [Veil Pavilion at the Silverton; free admission]

🎙️ ‘Celebrate Independence With the Swing It! Girls’ | Sunday | 3 p.m.

Yankee Doodles don’t get much dandier than a concert of “patriotic boogie-woogie” by this vintage singing trio. [West Charleston Library; free]

😂 Comedy Roast Battle | Monday | 7:30 p.m.

Don’t you love the smell of roasting comedians in the evening?! Some of the city’s best young comics compete. [Wiseguys Live Comedy, Arts District; $10]

Unions! Ethics! Theft!

What a week in the news! The Venetian and Palazzo, long holdouts against unions, agreed to allow organizing activities on their properties. New Henderson City Councilman is the subject of an ethics probe. And — paging Steven Soderbergh! — a conman somehow posed as an owner of Circa and made off with a cool mil. Jacob Solis of The Nevada Independent joins co-hosts Vogue Robinson and Dayvid Figler to make as much sense of these events as can be made.