Brooklyn Bowl

This guide to Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas follows Peter Shapiro, who caught the live-music bug at a Grateful Dead show and later built an unlikely concert hall bolted to a bowling alley in a Brooklyn iron foundry. It traces his decision to bring that idea west in 2014 as a freestanding building on the Linq Promenade, refusing to tuck it inside a casino the way the industry insisted a Strip venue had to work. Notice the thirty-two lanes rumbling on two levels beside the stage as you walk in.