Nightlife

’Dance Encounters

Your Sundance 2014 Playbook Is Here

Sundance is calling. Urgently. And you know what it wants... the same thing it always does: for you to eat, drink and dance with great abandon. And watch movies if there’s time. Which shouldn’t be too hard, considering we’ve got your playbook right here.

STAKE HOUSE

High-Stakes Poker with an Eastwood

Should you find yourself at Black Diamond’s high-stakes poker tournament, keep these numbers in mind...
2,000: Dollars it takes to buy in.
1: Players who are Clint Eastwood’s son.
$23 million: Lifetime earnings of your host, “The Magician.”
13,983,816 to 1: Odds you’ll beat “The Magician.” Or win the lottery.

SUPER 8

Legendary NYC Nightclub: Utah Edition

What: A pop-up version of NYC’s hedonistic pleasure factory, No. 8.
Who: Anne Hathaway, Nicole Kidman and some guy named James Franco.
When: It starts at 1am, so...
Why: Gin and dancing sounds about right after a long day of movies about war atrocities and fractured familial bonds.

CENTRAL PARK

What Park City Live Is Up To This Year

Park City Live. You know the drill. Listen to music. Jump around. Pray that Redford shows up and stage dives. Here’s what’s new this year:
1) A “sound lounge” for lounging in a sea of speakers.
2) A day club for, well... day clubbing.
3) Ludacris and Steve Aoki. Supposedly they’re big deals.

TAKES A VILLAGE

First You Eat Pig. Then You Dance.

Question: What will you find this year at Village at the Lift, the Main Street epicenter of pretty much everything magnificent?
A) Feasts of pig from Animal’s meat-carving chefs.
B) Gyrating go-go dancers.
C) The Japanese-ified mega-club from Vegas known as Tao.
Answer: You know the answer.

SKY CAPTAIN

Everyone Seems to Be Famous Here

CAUTION: This gastropub at Sky Lodge produces dangerous levels of celebrity. Do not operate if you have a fear of sitting across the table from Keira Knightley, crab cakes or paparazzi. Thus concludes this fake caution. Seriously, though, you should probably go here.