BURGERS WITH A SIDE OF ROOFTOP SKYDIVING CRASHES ONTO FREMONT STREET

The newest restaurant at Neonopolis is now open — and this summer its rooftop will become home to a new skydiving attraction on Fremont Street. Located on the third floor of the Neonopolis — a small strip mall downtown anchored by a Denny’s — Crash N Burn is a bar and restaurant that also has Duck Pin bowling, vintage video games, and lawn games. This summer, Aero Vegas will introduce what it calls “the world’s first rooftop open-air skydiving experience.”

The 14,000-square-foot Crash N Burn (450 Fremont Street) is an indoor and outdoor venue with a 300-foot bar. The restaurant serves burgers, flatbreads, loaded nachos, and a bread pudding dessert.

When it opens this summer, Aero Vegas will launch flyers from above the roof of Crash N Burn. Similar to indoor skydiving, adrenaline junkies will hover over an open-air wind tunnel, facing out over downtown Las Vegas. That means people who prefer a top-down approach to Fremont Street can both zip line down the tourist corridor and hover over a really big fan in a simulated free fall. At that point, you may as well head over to the Strat and leap off the tower with the open-air Sky Jump.

No Really, It’s Going to Happen This Time

After decades of being promised a train connecting Las Vegas and LA, it looks like it’s finally going to happen.

Construction has begun on a new high-speed rail system. Brightline West aims to board passengers on 218 miles of new track by 2028. The $12 billion passenger bullet train linking Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area was dubbed the first true high-speed rail line in the nation yesterday. Brightline West says that the electric-powered trains will cut the four-hour trip across the Mojave Desert to just over two hours. It anticipates that more than 11 million passengers will travel each year.

Superfrico Hosts Its Inaugural F.A.B. Affair

The Italian-American restaurant in which performers amble through the dining room juggling hoops, precariously balancing, and — in the case of two ballerinas — engage in brutal hand-to-hand combat, is hosting a special dinner on Tuesday, April 30 at 6 p.m.

Hosted by Spiegelworld’s Impresario Extraordinaire, Ross Mollison, the F.A.B. event will be an opportunity to meet four of the visual artists who have their work featured at Superfrico: Matthew Day Jackson, Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, Chelsea Culprit, and Amy Turner. Mollison says that the first thing the Superfrico team did when creating the restaurant was to commission New York artist Adehla Lee to create her painting Psycho Pop Party. “It became the DNA of the restaurant,” says Mollison. “It grew from there.”

The dinner features a four-course prix fixe menu crafted by Superfrico’s executive chef Mitch Emge. Each course will be paired with wines courtesy of executive wine director, Drea Boulanger.

Reservations for a F.A.B. Affair are available online.

Harlo Steakhouse & Bar Introduces a New Happy Hour

Harlo Steakhouse & Bar at Downtown Summerlin introduces “Harlo Hour,” its rendition of happy hour, available daily from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The menu has $11 cocktails, $10 wines, and $9 beers, including a Harlo Martini. And specialty bites include West Coast oysters with yuzu mignonette ($3 each), beef tallow popcorn with sea salt and cracked black pepper ($6), a board of cured meats and cheeses ($15), and a lobster roll on house-made Japanese milk bread ($15), among other dishes.

The Flyover Attraction Soars Over the Windy City

Speaking of sky-high attractions, Flyover now has a Chicago experience. Disney adults will be familiar with the “Soarin’”-style ride, in which riders are suspended from a simulated hang glider over a large wrap-around screen. The new experience, Believe Chicago, flies around sights like Navy Pier, Millenium Park, and the Willis Tower (sorry — the Sears Tower.) The Lost Cactus Bar has new cocktails to go with it too — including one that comes with a small vial to dye your drink green like the Chicago River.

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