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"When I stepped into Area15, I discovered a crazy new grocery-store experience filled with zany products and art installations that bills itself as “America’s Most Exceptional Grocery Store.” The space contains four themed areas and roughly 60 installation-filled rooms, terrains, and portals to other worlds created by more than 325 artists, including Beach House, Brian Eno, Amon Tobin, Shrine, and Android Jones, with additional works by Alex and Allyson Grey and Claudia Bueno. I started in a big-box–style grocery area stocked with over 100 custom products such as Wake Up Please! Energy Drink, Whale Song Antiperspirant/Antidepressant, Nebula Loaf, and Americanized Beef. On the second level, the Dramcorp Offices offer a look inside a fictional family-owned corporate entity behind Omega Mart in a Tron-inspired office space, The Factory showcases Dramcorp’s mysterious operations and bizarre production procedures used to make Omega Mart’s signature products, and the Projected Desert is an immersive two-story video projection artwork; the exhibition also includes the bar Datamosh. Omega Mart is open 3–9 p.m. Monday–Thursday, 3 p.m.–midnight on Friday, 10 a.m.–midnight on Saturday, and 10 a.m.–8 p.m. on Sunday, and tickets are available for pre-purchase ($45 general admission; $40 for children, seniors, and military; $35 for Nevada residents; $30 for Nevada children, seniors, and military)." - Susan Stapleton