🫠 The unexpected bliss of your … hot car?

🚫 No Lizzo?

Lizzo has reportedly been bumped from consideration as halftime artist at the 2024 Super Bowl in Allegiant Stadium. This comes after recent sexual-harassment and abusive-workplace allegations by three of her former backup singers. [Review-Journal]

• Pairs well with our podcast episode about why touring musicians so often skip Las Vegas. [City Cast Las Vegas ]

☕ Roadwork Hurts Business

The downside of civic improvement: Dig It!, the downtown coffee shop noted for employing disabled workers, says its business has been decimated by relentless street construction. With the area torn up and parking hard to find, business has dwindled from around 200 people a day to about 40. [KLAS]

• 🚧 Roadwork is irritating, but at least it’s never going away. Grr! [Hey Las Vegas 📧]

⚾ Little Leaguers Stopped Short of Win

The Henderson All-Stars dropped a 3-1 loss in the first game of the Little League World Series — despite throwing a one-hitter. The other team scored on walks and errors. The next game is Saturday. [Review-Journal]

🌧️ Thanks, Hilary

Hurricane Hilary, that is. This Pacific Island storm is likely to bring rainfall and cooler temps to Las Vegas — and the Southwest — over the weekend and into early next week. Beware of flooding and maybe curtail your yard-watering. [KLAS]

📷 Photography by Pam Fields | Ongoing | Museum hours

Erotic and nude photography by the Las Vegas-based artist. [Erotic Heritage Museum, Sammy Davis Jr. Drive and Desert Inn; free with $29 museum admission]

🎸 ‘Rising Stars’ Finale | Tonight | 7:30 p.m.

In the last stage of a battle of this bands competition, five local acts — Steppadelic, Pure Sport, Lennon Roach, Michael Richter, Viaje Nahual — face off to determine which will get a spot onstage at the Life is Beautiful Festival. [The Space, near Polaris and Harmon; $23.50]

• 🆒 Several members of the City Cast Las Vegas team will be there, too. Say hello!

🏴‍☠️ ‘Treasure Island’ | Tonight-Saturday | Various times

Last chance to see Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic yarn of pirates and adventure, newly adapted for an all-female cast. [Majestic Repertory Theatre, Arts District; $30]

🤡 ‘Atomic Freefall’ | Friday, Sunday | Various times

A clown show. [Vegas Theatre Company, Arts District; $17-$12]

🎫 ‘The Tempest’ | Tonight-Sunday | Various times

Las Vegas Little Theatre and the Alchemy Arts Academy team up for this late-period Shakespearean classic, which features a shipwreck, magic, young love, and more. [Las Vegas Little Theatre, Valley View and Spring Mountain; $20-$10]

🎎 ‘Journey Through Japan’ | Saturday | 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

A hands-on celebration of Japanese culture, with kite-making, Taiko drumming, and more — including a sake tasting. [Atomic Museum, University District; free]

🌝 Rad Summer Night Market | Saturday | 4-9 p.m.

More than two dozen vendors, plus music, food, and kid activities. [The District at Green Valley Ranch; donations accepted]

🎸Taking Back Sunday | Saturday | 9 p.m.

Stand back, buskers, these emo mainstays are here to rock the downtown video canopy. [Fremont Street Experience; free]

🎻 ‘An Afternoon at the Movies’ | Sunday | 3 p.m.

Film soundtrack music as selected and performed by the Nevada Chamber Orchestra. [Summerlin Library; $15-$10]

The Great Influx, Pizza Robots, and We ❤️ Maui

Friday’s here, and so is our weekly news roundup: Today’s topics include the gush of new people moving here — 115 a day, we’re told — as well as the deep ties between Las Vegas and Lahaina. Also: pizza robots! Chef-journalist Lorraine Blanco Moss joins co-hosts Dayvid Figler and Vogue Robinson.