Locals Only: Forget flowers, eat lead, loverboy

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who hear Valentine’s Day and think of romance, flowers and those chalky little candy hearts. And those who hear Valentine’s Day and think of seven mobsters being machine-gunned against a brick wall.

If you’re in the latter category, rejoice! The Mob Museum is offering free admission to locals with ID on Friday to celebrate the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.

It’s all part of a special day for the attraction, more formally known as The National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement.

In addition to the museum’s second anniversary, Friday also will mark the unveiling of a short-term exhibition of two Thompson machine guns used in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. For a brief time, they’ll be reunited with the wall they were fired into, which is on permanent display at the museum, 300 E. Stewart Ave.

The Mob Museum is open 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday.

For more information, call 702-229-2734 or see www.TheMobMuseum.org.

Sound of passion

“Love, Passion, Betrayal.” Those three words not only summarize opera’s appeal, they provide the title for this weekend’s Nevada Opera Theatre concert, headlined by tenor Eduardo Villa, a frequent guest at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, and soprano Demetra George. Frank Fetta conducts the 2 p.m. Sunday concert in the Rando Recital Hall at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway. For tickets ($25-$75), call 702-895-2787 or visit pac.unlv.edu.

They know flapjack

Hash House A Go Go is celebrating National Pancake Week — and its new location at the Rio — with a Mardi Gras-themed flapjack. It’s made with M&M’s and dark and white chocolate chips and served with maple syrup and Mardi Gras beads and is $8.99 through Sunday.

Galilelo figaro ... magnifico

Boy, are we straining to find that joke to connect Presidents Day with the music of Queen. Maybe both are “Under Pressure”? Just know that for the next edition of the very popular “Mondays Dark” gathering of entertainers, the onstage band for “Rock of Ages” known as Arsenal will perform the hits of Queen with a host of guest singers. Showtime is 9:30 p.m. Monday in Vinyl at the Hard Rock Hotel, 4455 Paradise Road. The $20 ticket benefits the Saint Therese Center HIV Outreach.

Forecast calls for Ill Nino

More than any other band, New Jersey’s Ill Nino have made inroads for Latin metal in America, beginning with 2001’s “Revolution Revolucion.” They’ve sold more than a million copies total of their six albums, their heavily percussive jams capable of jarring fillings loose. See them at 9 p.m. Saturday at LVCS, 425 Fremont St. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 day of show; call 702-382-3849.