🚙 How Mount Charleston weather = Uber rage

🚙 Ride Rage

Rideshare drivers are protesting after what should have been a moneypalooza last weekend (thanks in part to Beyoncé) but wasn’t. The governor’s hurricane-related state of emergency was still in force — which prevented rideshare companies from imposing lucrative surge pricing. The emergency designation remains in order to assist with repairing Mount Charleston. [KTNV]

• Earbuds in, people: The podcast crew talks about this in today’s episode. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

🌳 Hot Trees

Many of the valley’s trees are in jeopardy, officials say, thanks to climate conditions like July’s record-breaking high temps. Plenty of species planted here already have or will soon surpass their heat tolerance. It makes for a grim feedback loop: lost shade from dying trees exacerbates urban heat islands, which imperils more trees — and residents. [Nevada Current]

• Context: The value of Las Vegas’ urban trees. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

🍎 All You Need Is Gov?

Gov. Joe Lombardo has now officially waded into the vapor-locked dispute between the school district and its largest teachers union. He’s spoken with both sides this week, and while the substance of those conversations hasn’t been reported, it surely involves the words “the Nevada way.” Talks are said to be ongoing. [Las Vegas Sun]

🐟 Koi Trouble

A couple in Henderson’s chi-chi Ascaya neighborhood (the one up on the hillside) is suing a local pool company for allegedly killing their valuable koi fish with pool chemicals — fish that the couple says could require six figures to replace. [Review-Journal]

🎨 Reception for Barrick Museum Exhibits | Tonight | 5-8 p.m.

A meet-and-greet for three new fall exhibitions — “The Emotional Show,” “Lined and Torn,” and “Tailings.” [UNLV; free]

🆒 Neon Lit | Tonight | 7 p.m.

Themed “work in progress,” this evening will feature open-mic readings and an auction (hosted by City Cast contributor Brent Holmes!) of partially finished artworks; the artists will complete them after purchase. [The Gather House, downtown; free admission]

😱 ‘Scream’d: An Unauthorized Musical Parody’ | Tonight, Saturday | 8 p.m.

From Troy Heard and Brandon Scott Grayson, a musical parody, loving homage, and off-the-rails theatrical experience based on the notorious horror franchise. [Majestic Repertory Theatre, Arts District; $40 general]

• Context: Get inside the wild mind of theater creator Troy Heard. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

⛓️ Punk Rock Flea Market | Saturday | 2-10 p.m.

Bands, merch, freak show performer Auzzy Blood, food trucks, and a raffle to benefit All Friends Animal Sanctuary. In conjunction with the Punk Rock Museum. [Cemetery Pulp, Sunset and Sandhill; free admission]

🚛 ‘Women in Trucking’ | Saturday | 3-5 p.m.

These days, the mighty convoy includes plenty of women. Thirty-year veteran Evonne Cowan tells you how it’s done. [Spring Valley Library, Flamingo and Jones; free]

🎸 Elevated Undergrounds’ Album Release | Saturday | 7-11:30 p.m.

Album meet world: The local noise-rock band unleashes “Drowning Spree.” [Fergusons Downtown; $12]

🥃🎭 Shotspeare’s ‘Othello’ | Saturday, Monday | 8 p.m.

A bawdy, adults-only, booze-intensive, alterna-Bard presentation of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Sounds wild! [Vegas Theatre Company, in the Arts District; $22.50]

🎸 Young the Giant | Saturday | 9 p.m.

The alt-indie rockers (“Cough Syrup”) rattle the big video canopy. [Fremont Street Experience; free]

🛍️ Labor Day Food & Artisan Festival | Sunday-Monday | Various times

Some 70 vendors in the alpine cool — organizers say that despite recent weather damage, the location is open. [The Retreat on Charleston Peak; free admission]

🎤 Sunday Sessions | Sunday | 5-7 p.m.

New biweekly open-mic poetry jam debuts, courtesy of Beyond the Neon. [Las Vegas UnCommons, 215 Beltway and Durango; free admission]

Lions! Drivers! A Mayor! Oh, My!

If there’s news to be rounded up, our Friday podcast episode will do it. This week? We have fiscally ambiguous lions in Henderson, a brand-grabbing mayor in Oakland, and protesting ride-share drivers all over the valley. Co-hosts Dayvid Figler and Vogue Robinson are joined by TheList.Vegas publisher Andrew Kiraly.