Photo by Craig L. Moran . Singer Smoothie Jones jams with his band, the Angels, at the Hop nightclub Thursday nights. Photo by Craig L. Moran . Photo by Craig L. Moran . They jiggle to jams in buttoned-up shirts and tight sequined skirts, spinning and pointing through airy darkness over a giant compass of a dance floor.
People also come for the scene.
It's service-industry night, too, so workers from around town get in free. And radio DJs are promoting the club live on the air. The Rio dance floor isn't a place for pure salsa on Thursdays, because the music is a melting pot for the masses. With a few exceptions, that's true at other Las Vegas clubs. The equation works.