😬 A scary little device on Vegas streets

🏫 Schools Close for ‘Caution’

Two local schools with Jewish connections — a Jewish private school and a charter school headquartered in a former Jewish temple — are set to reopen today after closing Friday due to concerns about spillover violence from the war in Israel. [KVVU]

🪛 Deadly Device

It’s called a “switch” — a small 3-D-printable device that turns a handgun into a fully automatic weapon, and law-enforcement officials say they’re becoming more common on local streets: About 130 switched guns have been confiscated here in two years. [KLAS]

🏎️ Gate Isn’t Enough

A condo complex within the F1 race course footprint says it may have to shell out $300,000-plus because of the event. Two of its three gates will be closed during the event, and the third is too small to handle that much traffic — fixing it will come with a hefty price tag. [KVVU]

• Context: Our Friday podcast tackled the issue of F1 traffic. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

😲 From Straitjacket to Suit

Performer Jonathan Goodwin, once a Las Vegas danger-courting “escapologist,” is reportedly suing the show “America’s Got Talent: Extreme” for injuries that left him a paraplegic. In the trick, Goodwin dangled in the air, straitjacketed, between two swinging cars. Instead of escaping before they hit each other, he was caught in the collision, then fell to the ground — missing the airbag meant to catch him. He claims the show took insufficient safety precautions. [Review-Journal]

First, Where Was It? ⤴️

The previous challenge: This artful commemoration of the fall of The Landmark hotel-casino adorns a landmark of its own: the Winchester Dondero Cultural Center, at Desert Inn and McLeod. Big ups to the readers who got it right:

🏆 Joshua Cohen, Wayne Rorex, John S.

Now for This Week’s Challenge ⤵️

This shouldn’t be too hard for Las Vegans who get around the valley — or who love a good crustacean festival, which this place will host on Saturday. OK, enough hinting! Send in your answers using the button below — and be sure to put Where Is It in the subject line.

🦶 ‘What Do Your Feet Say About You?’ | Today | 6 p.m.

Do your feet have soul as well as sole? Foot-reading is said to be a millennia-old practice. Learn more! [West Charleston Library; free]

📚 Reading of ‘Rotten Evidence’ | Tuesday | 7 p.m.

Now a Black Mountain Institute fellow, Ahmed Naji was an Egyptian novelist when he was imprisoned for “violating public modesty.” “Rotten Evidence” is his enlightening chronicle of his time in prison. [The Writer’s Block, downtown; free]

🎙️ ‘Bugsy’s Shadow’ | Wednesday | 7 p.m.

Talk by historian and author Larry Gragg, who takes a deep look at the mob’s origins in Las Vegas, focusing on the often-forgotten figure Moe Sedway. [Mob Museum, downtown; $16.95-$21.95 w/Nevada ID]

😳 The Fright Stuff

Those footsteps you hear in the dark? That’s Halloween sneaking up. Ready to give your nervous system a jolt of benign chills? The Nevada Current’s Michael Lyle, a horror aficionado, joins podcast host Dayvid Figler with his rundown of scary film fests, haunted houses, and other worthy frights.

😬 If you want to rig up your own locally appropriate horror film fest, Chris Lawrence has a rundown of Vegas-set scare flicks. [Review-Journal]