Where to go, what to see and where to shop this week

By Las Vegas Weekly Staff (contact)

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 | 5:46 p.m.

Shop

Topshop Fashion junkies, empty that piggy bank! The British power brand (and its Topman offshoot) opens U.S. store No. 3 in Las Vegas this week, with models, a double-decker bus and lots of printed shorts. Grand opening March 8, 4 p.m., Fashion Show Mall.

Go

Mountain West Basketball Tournament The Rebel men are the three seed, playing to improve their NCAA tourney draw. The Lady Rebels are two seeds, but might need to win the conference to get to the Big Dance. U-N-L-V! Through March 10, times vary, $20-$45 per session, Thomas & Mack.

A Bronx Tale Chazz Palminteri’s amazing one-man show brings a New York borough and its people to life. Storytelling doesn’t get much better than this. March 12-13, 15-17, 19-20; 7:30 p.m.; $50-$80; Mirage..

Eating Right and Righteously Environmental lawyer, rancher and author Nicolette Hahn Niman discusses the rights and wrongs of American eating and agriculture. March 8, 7:30 p.m., free, Marjorie Barrick Museum.

Hear

Michael Fournier He wrote the 33 1/3 series book on the Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime, and he’ll be at Blackbird Studios, reading from latest novel Hidden Wheel. March 9, 8 p.m., free, with Coastwest Unrest, Walker Rose.

Bela Fleck & the Flecktones Reasons to go: 1. You want a peek inside the Smith Center, 2. You’re hankering for some jazzy banjo, 3. You’ve got to know what a Flecktone is, once and for all. March 12, 7:30 p.m., $26-$79.

See

Forever Staycation Who wouldn’t want to see Shannon Eakins’ “cacophony of sculptural projects complementing and interfering with one another,” especially when it includes a 30-foot-tall inflatable gorilla? Through March 9, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery.

A Separation Weekly critic Mike D’Angelo says “nothing short of Armageddon should keep you away” from this Oscar-winning Iranian drama. Now playing at Century Suncoast, Regal Green Valley Ranch.

Monster Men SyFy doubles down on Face Off’s success with an entire series about one monster prop builder: Cleve Hall. Debuts March 14, 11 p.m.

The Daily Show on Hulu Re-watching Jon Stewart riff on “human cold shower Rush Limbaugh” while wearing a condom helmet is a way to stay sane in this mad, mad, mad, mad world. He holds public figures’ feet to the fire, so the rest of us don’t have to.