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LETTERS Agnostics go to hell, too

Call me maybe Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

So, I’m trying a new body hack, starting this week. As many of you know, I’m a carnivore for health and weight reasons. I eat little processed grains or sugars. But I’ve come to believe that a restrictive lowcarb lifestyle isn’t any more reasonable than a vegan lifestyle. Nor do I believe that just because our bodies are omnivorous, that we’re meant to eat balanced meals all the time. I don’t think that’s the way our bodies evolved over the years.

Here’s my hypothesis: During the development of our hominid bodies up to about 30,000 years ago, we ate what was available when it was available. There was little food storage. We ate fruits, grains, vegetables and nuts— augmented by meats and fish—in the summer and fall. We ate meats and fish—augmented by dried plants materials like berries and nuts—in the winter and spring. There was no calendar, so please understand I’m just writing broadly; the switch would come with the seasonal maturity of plants and fruit.

It’s my guess that a “balanced” diet tends to enhance fat storage. In prehistoric times, the only time that there were both plentiful plants and animals (a “balanced” diet) was the autumn. We put on fat to prepare for winter (and we still do).

I’ve seen two schools of thought on this: Forks over Knives promotes vegetarianism over a meat diet and Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes promotes a low-carb diet over a veggie-based diet. But both kind of say, “This way is the only way.” I’m going to try to see if the pendulum should swing between those extremes.

••• Last week, I got a call from someone asking if they could offer their customers a discount or something to vote for them in our popularity contest.

“Buy votes? I don’t see anything that forbids that in the rules. Just don’t try to cheat with technology.” To my mind, this whole thing is just a metaphor for our democracy anyway. Just go to www.newsreview.com/reno/ ballot/BestOfReno12.

Re “Are you there God? It’s me, Jake.” (Feature story, June 28): I, too, went to the university, but instead of Thomas Paine, read Freud’s Future of an Illusion and thought many of the same thoughts you offered. My 6-year-old cut through the intellectual bog by simply asking, “Is God like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny?” After a good deal of seeking, I have come to peace with my spirituality and find hope in it. I am Christian and cannot speak of other approaches to the spiritual side of life.

Sorry you have been so disappointed in God and in the church as well as in the affairs of those who represent themselves as speaking on God’s behalf. All of us have reason to mourn how far human efforts have missed the mark of what faith and the gospels promise. It has been said that we should not blame Christianity for the state of the world, because it has never really been tried. You mention the doctrine of original sin.

Along with original sin comes the doctrine of free will, which is intertwined with the discussion of the impact of sin in the world of which you rant. Under the doctrine of free will, God does not force anyone to believe or to be good. That to me is what being made in the image of God is about: We have the freedom to choose life or death, good or evil.

Our rejection of godly lives on a very regular basis and our tendency to act in our egocentric self-interest, disregarding the harm we do, is the best support I know of for the doctrine of original sin. Persons do not engage their spirituality because of logic or reasoning; it is a right brain, not a left brain activity. The Scriptures all proclaim this: It is the child and the simple-hearted who find faith. We are urged to approach God in spirit and in truth. It is not the beautiful, proud, powerful, or greedy who find God, for the world’s standards do not apply to faith. It is usually those who are burdened by what they have done, by their responsibilities or by their fears, who find faith.

Atheism is a burden, because it leaves no room for hope. Being an

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atheist does not make a person smart or self-reliant or strong except in that person’s own eyes. One can proclaim all he wishes that there is no God, but that does not make it so. Since one can’t prove the existence or nonexistence of a Supreme Being, or Higher Power, possibly the only intelligent choice is that of the agnostic, who is waiting for the evidence to be all in. If you want to challenge God’s existence, simply pray for the truth to be shown to you and be patient. If we continue to pray, understanding will come.

R. B. Stacy Reno

A visionary, too Re “Are you there God? It’s me, Jake.” (Feature story, June 28): As an atheist myself, I was intrigued by Jake Highton’s essay.

But what I’m most looking forward to is the shit storm that will undoubtedly sprawl out over the letters page for the next month or so in response to this. So sit back and grab some popcorn.

Jonathan Daniel Reno

Me, too Re “Are you there God? It’s me, Jake.” (Feature story, June 28): I agree with everything Jake said.

Great essay. Thanks, RN&R, for publishing this.

Kay Warren Reno

Ditch the books, too Re “Are you there God? It’s me, Jake.” (Feature story, June 28): How could Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason confirm your atheism? Thomas Paine was not an atheist, he was a deist. That is, he believed in God based on the application of his reason on the laws and designs in nature. Deists believe the designs point us to the Designer.

Deism is the opposite of atheism.

Atheism teaches there is no God, and

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deism teaches there is a God. What aatheism and deism do have in common is the complete rejection of all the unreasonable claims made in the various “holy” books of the various “revealed” religions. Read Paine’s outstanding essay comparing deism to Christianity (www.deism.com/paine_essay_deism _christianity.htm ). This essay is found in The Age of Reason, The Complete Edition. I can’t understand how you could possibly see Thomas Paine as an atheist and his important deistic writing on God, deism, religion, etc., The Age of Reason, as an atheism-promoting book. It’s beyond comprehension unless you mistake Paine’s rejection of religion as rejection of God as too many people do.

That is one of the important points deism makes clear, that God and religion are (thankfully) two very different things. Progress!

Bob Johnson Clearwater, Fla.

A bite of the apple, too Before we get all giddy with glee about Apple parking their big, fat corporate butt in Reno, let me ask a simple question. Why don’t I get a tax break? Why don’t other businesses already here contributing 100 percent of their property and sales taxes getting a tax break? Oh, that’s right, we’re not big enough. Apple is too big to tax. Why do huge corporations get to pit one small city against another and bid down their taxes?

This is a fine example of how huge corporations get tax breaks while small businesses get nothing. GM pays no federal income tax. Exactly why are we subsidizing these huge corporations? Because they create so many jobs and are too large to fail?

We would increase the number of jobs in Reno by giving the same tax breaks to any number of existing Reno businesses. And that $1 billion in capital investment is for computer equipment. Who manufactures computer equipment in Reno? I’m pretty sure they’re going to buy their $1 billion in equipment from China. This deal sounds too good to be true because it is. Reno’s greed to get Apple here is the same greed other Executive Assistant/Operations Coordinator Nanette Harker Assistant Distribution Manager Ron Neill Distribution Drivers Sandra Chhina, Jesse Pike, John Miller, Martin Troye, David Richards, Warren Tucker, Matthew Veach, Neil Lemerise, Russell Moore General Manager/Publisher John D. Murphy President/CEO Jeff vonKaenel Chief Operations Officer Deborah Redmond Human Resource Manager Tanja Poley Business Manager Cassy Valoleti-Matu

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cities have when they give huge corporations tax breaks to move to their cities. And when there’s enough greedy cities, huge corporations wind up paying no or little taxes, so who winds up footing that bill? You, me, individuals, and smaller businesses that don’t get corporate welfare.

Ed Park Reno

Best Of, as well Re “We’re live. You’re the Best.”

(Editor’s Note, June 21): This is the third time tonight I’ve tried to express my opinion in the RN&R reader survey. Do you have a way to keep marketers and other business interests out of this voting process? I tried to vote last year, and was met with the same difficult bullshit. I’m a longtime Verdi resident, and lived in Truckee, Calif., before this. My frustration revolves around being unable to express an opinion and vote in this important survey.

Please make this survey available to me, and others who are getting derailed by business interests and others who seem to wish to make a simple thing like answering a survey difficult and convoluted. I’m guessing you realize this does not have to be. Please let me know what I can do, if anything, to cast my vote, as well as have it counted. I’m not trying to “stuff the ballot box.” I’m guessing you realize there is enough power politicking in this world, anyway. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Marsha Sidwell-Fronefield Verdi Editor’s note: In light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s re-affirmation of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, we no longer feel it is patriotic to block marketers and business interests from the Biggest Little Best Of Northern Nevada readers’ poll. However, if you’ll go to www.newsreview.com/ reno/ballot/BestOfReno12 you should be able to make your voice heard alongside theirs. It can only be said that people who don’t vote in the Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada readers’ poll hate America.

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THIS MODERN WORLD

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What do you get out of Artown?

Asked at Nevada Women’s Lobby meeting Roberta Ferguson Clinical psychologist

I love the music. I love the community involvement. I love the art. I love going to all the different galleries and the musical events—classical, jazz, I like it all. The drums are wonderful— the Reno High drummers. And I live near downtown so I can walk down to the park.

Joan Kruse Retiree

It gives me a lot of joy, the fact that our community does have a heart. … I have grandchildren, and I love to watch them in their activities at Artown.

Carolyn Miller

One bad apple?

In 1993, during a major national recession, Alabama officials announced they lured German carmaker Mercedes Benz to the state to build an assembly plant for its new sport utility vehicles. A smiling Gov. Jim Folsom wore a Mercedes button as he made the announcement.

Later, as Alabamians learned how the state had given away the farm to get the plant, Auburn University professor Wayne Flynt said, “It’s gone from euphoria to fright.”

Mercedes had played states off against each other, getting a huge package of goodies. Alabama officials had been unable to say no. They were so desperate for anything that would relieve a harsh recession that they accepted corporate welfare that in better times they would have rejected.

It became a national scandal. A Wisconsin newspaper called it “Getting the Benz.” The Associated Press reported that “few are familiar with the nuances of international banking and big-league industrial recruiting.”

Part of the problem was the secrecy. By not keeping the public informed, community groups could not participate in scrutinizing the deal. Public discussion was at a minimum. The public was presented with a fait accompli.

Reno is now saddled with an uncooked deal with Apple. It may turn out fine, but it may also blow up in the faces of the officials who were too anxious, too accommodating, too manipulative, too clever by half.

Secrecy was necessary, they tell us, because Apple insisted on it, and they might have taken their business elsewhere.

That’s entirely possible. Apple has previously threatened towns if it didn’t get its way. Steve Jobs appeared personally before the city council in Cupertino, Calif., to threaten to pull his operation out of town unless he got his way on a building project.

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Nevada columnist Jon Ralston has written about the existing Apple office in Reno—created as a tax dodge— and of the corporation’s executives “who gaze longingly at Nevada, their salivary glands in overdrive, thinking how easy it is to plant a few employees here and then grow astronomical profits while providing not one scintilla of assistance to the state.”

But at least Apple has the excuse that it’s doing what a predatory corporate monolith is expected to do. Public officials, however, represent the public, not Apple.

As noted in our news section this week, Nevada law allows confidentiality in economic development negotiations if “proprietary information” might be threatened. But no one made money off knowing that a corporation in 1984 wanted to move to Nevada and that the corporation’s name was Citibank. Indeed, a whole special session of the Nevada Legislature was held to make changes in banking law demanded by Citibank while other states competed with Nevada amid wide publicity. Nevada still prevailed.

Members of the Washoe County Commission, Washoe School Board, and Reno City Council sold out the public, approving the Apple deal after less than 30 hours of study.

Their staffs delivered a defenseless, uninformed public to Apple. The deal certainly appears to jam huge amounts of public giveaways into one end of the pipeline to produce a trickle of public benefits coming out the other end.

Officials like Gov. Sandoval and County Manager Katy Simon smugly said the information was there for the public if the public wanted it. It’s their job to make public informtion easy, not difficult, to find.

This community belongs to all of us, not just to officials. When government stops trusting the people, people stop trusting the government. Those officials better pray the Apple deal works, because they are on their own. Ω

I think it’s a wonderful opportunity to contribute to the arts. Also, what I like is that it showcases Reno to the outside world.

Catana Barnes Artist

I like to see the different artists and what different genres are taking place.

The different groups that come in from out of town to participate.

Kate High Non-profits consultant

It really emphasizes to me that Reno is becoming a thriving and holistic community that isn’t just about what it what it was always historically about.

It’s really a place where you can have a full spectrum of community activities. I love the fact that it brings people to town. I love the fact that so much of it is free and makes the arts accessible to all sorts of people, and it’s all over town.

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Nevada economic development director Steve Hill spoke with reporters at an event earlier this year.

Apple accused Apple Inc., which is considering putting additional facilities in Nevada, is facing discrimination claims and a possible U.S. Department of Justice probe.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, Iranian American Bar Association, Council on American-Islamic Relations and National Iranian American Council, sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook drawing his attention to incidents when IranianAmericans and speakers of Farsi were allegedly denied purchase of iPads and other merchandise by Apple store employees in recent weeks.

The letter asks that the company publicize its supposed antidiscrimination policy and train its workers on that policy and on export controls. It also asks that specific incidents be investigated. Spokespeople for the rights groups said they are waiting to see what corporate officers do in response, but that they also brought the incidents to the attention of the Justice Department.

In a statement to Al Jazeera, Apple said, “Our retail stores are proud to serve customers from around the world of every ethnicity. Our teams are multilingual, and diversity is an important part of our culture. We don’t discriminate against anyone.”

Apple has a small Reno facility that qualifies it for tax breaks and is planning to increase its Reno presence with the help of more tax breaks (see News, this page).

Deception Should public officials give their allegiance to the public or to Apple?

Moody’s: Casinos in decline Moody’s Investors Services has warned that legal gambling is facing a downturn.

“The improving trend in gaming revenues in place since the middle of last year appears to be stalling,” the company said in a prepared statement. “Momentum started slowing in March, and then in May gaming jurisdictions reported outright declines in gaming revenue. … Casino operators with significant near-term maturities or highly leveraged capital structures such as Caesars Entertainment Corp, Revel Atlantic City, LLC , and CityCenter Holdings LLC are at greatest risk. … While declining gas prices and low interest rates have boosted consumers’ disposable income and could arrest this decline in gaming demand, Moody’s points to a sharp decline in consumer sentiment, coupled with still-high unemployment and fear of contagion from the European debt crisis as troubling signs for the sector.”

Moody’s is noted for underestimating the subprime mortgage crisis and in 2010 failed to complete a contract with the Nevada Legislature for a study on the state’s tax structure.

Obama targeted The American Energy Alliance is spending $325,000 in Nevada to attack Barack Obama’s energy policy.

According to Source Watch, an organization that monitors political front groups, the Alliance “was founded in 2008 by Thomas Pyle, who previously lobbied on behalf of the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association and Koch Industries.” It stated goal is to “create a climate that encourages the advancement of free market energy policies,” particularly oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife refuge and in U.S. coastal waters.

The Alliance calls itself the “grassroots arm” of the Institute for Energy Research, which according to Source Watch “advocates positions on environmental issues including deregulation of utilities, climate change denial, and claims that conventional energy sources are virtually limitless.”

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If reader comments posted on news sites are an indication, some members of the by public think the city and the state cut a Dennis Myers crappy deal with Apple.

“Trade out 89mill for 16mill just for 241 long term jobs!” wrote one reader. “Say just for fun, 241 jobs at 100,000 per year per job is only 2.4mill a year. 20.4mill over ten years in wages.”

“Yea, that’s JUST what Apple needs—tax breaks.”

“Of course the City Council is only friendly to the big guys. Small businesses get picked clean with taxes, fees and regulations. I know, I used to own one here.”

“There should be ample opportunity for time for the public to review our staff reports.”

Jessica Sferrazza Reno City Councilmember Readers across the nation joined in: “Reno, if you think your tax structure is right why would you do this?”

Local reaction might have been otherwise if the state and city governments had leveled with the public about what was going on. But there was a careful effort by both state and local officials to deceive the public by withholding information.

The deal provides tax breaks—an overall 79 percent reduction in the normal tax load—to get Apple Inc. to build two facilities in the area in a billion-dollar investment over a decade.

The news about the Apple deal did not become public until the county released a document about it on June 22, and that document did not contain the kind of information needed to know what was going on. It did not even mention Apple, which—given the mammoth corporation’s reputation for raiding taxpayer treasuries—would have set off all kinds of alarm bells.

The city released data even later, Councilmember Jessica Sferrazza said.

“We didn’t get the staff report, like I said, until Tuesday—or late Monday evening. … There should be ample opportunity for time for the public to review our staff reports. That’s why our staff reports are put online.”

That staff report was posted online, but it concealed more than it revealed. It was in a non-searchable form and did not mention the word Apple, instead using a code term— “Project Jonathan.” Depending on how the term was used, it may represent a whole new kind of open meeting law violation—inserting false information into public documents in order to mislead the public.

At the state level, Sandoval administration officials said they did things by the numbers.

“This was not sprung on the elected officials or staff,” state economic development director Steve Hill told the Las Vegas Sun. “All along the way we have talked to the city of Reno and their staff, the school district and their folks, the county and their folks.”

It was sprung on the members of the public, and some of the elected officials Hill named, say it was sprung on them, too.

“I was made aware that it was Apple last Friday [June 22], when I met with a representative from Apple,” Sferrazza said. “[That was] the first I had heard about the project or any detail about the project.”

Some people who voted on the tax breaks didn’t have even that much notice. Sferrazza’s colleague David Aiazzi told the Sun he was not informed until Tuesday, when the Reno councilmembers were given the staff report on the deal. That gave them one day to absorb all the information and decide how to vote.

Hill also said, “I think the place to have that debate [on transparency] ... is at the Legislature. Once those tools are in place, I think then they have been provided for those who are elected, and those who are appointed to use those tools to really carry out what they’re intended to be used for.” That assumes the tools provided by the legislature were complied with. State law reads that meeting agendas must be “clear and complete” in describing the matters before a public body. The code term was used to keep the public from understanding what was going on.

The Washoe County Commission, Washoe County School Board and Reno City Council all posted agendas whose “clear and complete” wording is doubtful—Apple was not mentioned in any of them, and taxes were mentioned only in the county agenda. They were worded carefully to exclude information and to mislead the public: Washoe County Commission: “Discussion and possible action on application for endorsement of an application to the Nevada Commission on Economic Development for abatement of one or more taxes imposed on personal property and sales taxes for a new business to be located at Reno Technology Park, an area eligible for Community Development Block Grants and therefore qualified for such an application—District Attorney/ Finance. (All Commission Districts.)”

Washoe County School Board: “5.11 PROJECT JONATHAN - CONSIDERATION OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND WAIVER IN CONNECTION WITH REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT WITH CITY OF RENO.” Reno City Council: “J.11 Staff Report (For Possible Action): Discussion, direction, and potential approval of Amendment No. 1 of the Reimbursement Agreement dated June 8, 2011 by and between the City of Reno and Northern Nevada Urban Development and Management Company.”

The Nevada open meeting law allows information “which relates to proprietary information” to be kept secret—but the name of the corporation and public tax breaks hardly fall under the category of trade secrets.

The law also says documentation can be kept confidential, but only until Apple decides to relocate into the county. There would have been no votes on tax breaks unless Apple had made that decision.

One state legislator said, “I’d like to have public employee contract negotiations opened to the public, but how do you make that case after this?”

A Reno investment counselor said, “We’re essentially paying Apple to create jobs, and paying them more than the jobs are worth.

This deal should have been better.

They [city and state negotiators] were in over their heads. This is Apple, which is at the top of the game in tax breaks. Making it public would have made it possible to dissect it before it was voted on. A lot of people in the business community could have chimed in.”

Apple has a reputation for having built its success as much on corporate welfare as on its products. Earlier this year, the New York Times reported, “Apple, say former executives, has been particularly talented at identifying legal tax loopholes and hiring accountants who are known for their innovation. ... Without such tactics,

Apple’s federal tax bill in the United States most likely would have been $2.4 billion higher last year, according to a recent study by a former Treasury Department economist, Martin A. Sullivan.”

Against such expertise, were locals able to cut a good deal? And were elected officials given enough time to answer that question before they had to vote? The headline on one website that monitors Apple activities was, “Reno City Council unanimously approves 79% tax break for Apple data center” (MacDailyNews).

Sferrazza argues that the Reno deal is not yet firm, that there is a 30-day period before it becomes final. But any new information or public opposition would require elected officials not just to vote against Apple, but to change their previous votes in Apple’s favor, an awkward stance for politicians. Normally, the public debate on an issue takes place before elected officials vote.

In the end, the final decision was that of the members of the county commission, school board and city council, who went ahead with the votes scheduled by their staffs.

Nowhere was it required that they vote immediately. They could have delayed the votes to give themselves—and the public—time to know what they were voting on. But out of 19 members of those bodies, not one proposed delaying the vote to give the public more time. Ω

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Rescue

The Sierra Street Bridge was jammed, and traffic backed up on June 29 as emergency workers rescued a boy from the Truckee River. He and his family were downtown, and he was playing in the water with a plastic inflatable float when the rushing water pulled him into the current. Fortunately, the river was low, and he was caught on a gravel rise that had emerged from the river under the bridge.

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GREENSPACE Geothermal heats up Nevada It’s no secret that geothermal is one of Nevada’s hottest natural resources, one that the University of Nevada, Reno is encouraging scientists to tap into by hosting the second year of the National Geothermal Academy.

The academy is an eight-week intensive course that started in mid-June and will last until Aug. 10. Sixteen out of the 44 students are from other countries such as Japan, Saudi Arabia and Kenya. Students take classes about geothermal geology, energy utilization, geophysics and geochemistry, power plant design, and environmental and business policy, among others. Professors from universities around the country are also in attendance to help teach and advise the students. Participants will travel to various locations throughout the west to study geothermal geology and power production up close, including places like Long Valley Caldera near Mammoth Lakes, Klamath Falls, Ore., and geothermal sites like Rye Patch outside of Lovelock.

Nevada geothermal projects Ram Power, Geothermal Development Associates, Ormat, ElectraTherm, as well as the academy, are finalists in the Geothermal Energy Association’s 2012 GEA Honors. The winners will be announced on August 7.

Bike lanes gaining speed Although the RTC 4th Street/Prater Way Corridor Study was a step in the right direction for bicycle activists in Reno, the fight isn’t over for other areas in the city (“Changing lanes,” June 21). The Committee for Bicyclists on 4th Street sent out an email last week encouraging bicycle lane advocates to show up for an upcoming meeting, tentatively scheduled for July 10 at St. John’s Presbyterian Church, which will address a road diet on Plumas Street. According to the email, sent by committee chairman Scott Hall, “We need to have all bike advocates attend and speak about the safety and community benefits of having a complete road diet, down to two lanes of traffic, for the mile stretch between Moana and Plumb Lane. RTC will present a step-by-step description of their analysis, timeline and results that show overwhelming evidence that the corridor is excessively dangerous due to traffic speeds, and a road diet will solve all these problems without causing gridlock or increasing commute times.”

RTC’s application for the TIGER 2012 federal grant was denied, which means that “they have to work harder during the next year to find the initial $10-15 million to start construction” on the Fourth Street bike lane project, the email went on to state.

As of press time, no time or date has been confirmed for the Plumas Street RTC meeting. Check the RN&R Green Facebook page, www.facebook.com/RNRGreen for an update.

—Ashley Hennefer ashleyh@newsreview.com

ECO-EVENT Tahoe-Reno catering company Moody’s Catering hosts Dinner in the Barn on July 14 and 15. The dinner is a fourcourse meal using farm fresh produce harvested for the meal. Participants will dine inside a historical rustic bar overlooking the Sierra Valley Farms in Beckwourth, Calif. Reservations required. Call (530) 587-8687 or email info@moodyscatering.com.

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Whether it’s raining in June or dry in December, Truckee Meadows Water Authority always values responsible water use. That’s why we encourage

Weather-Wise Watering.

There are several billboards near the corner of Sierra and Liberty Street, some of which are owned

by Clear Channel.

Screen savers Digital billboards

Proper tree care begins with proper drip irrigation and Weather-Wise Watering to build a deep, strong root system.

The future looks bright—but that might just be the abundance of lit-up advertisements popping up around the country. Environmental nonprofit Scenic Nevada is one of many groups under the umbrella of Scenic America fighting against by Ashley an influx of digital billboards (“Bright blights,” Feb. 9). In order to prevent Hennefer these billboards from taking over Nevada’s streets, Scenic Nevada must go head to head with the advertising companies. ashleyh@ newsreview.com The last digital billboard workshop held by the Reno City Council was in April, at which three ordinances were submitted—one drafted by the council which was released in June on Scenic Nevada’s website, and two from Clear Channel Outdoor and Saunders Outdoor Advertising.

“We don’t know how it’s going to come out,” says Lori Wray, Scenic Nevada board member. “We made suggestions and went to a stakeholders meeting in June. The meeting lasted for two hours. We walked away a little confused, but a little encouraged because they seemed to listen. But our questions have not been answered yet. The billboard industry did what it likes to do which is remove restrictions, and Nevada did what it likes to do which is put on restrictions.”

One of Scenic Nevada’s suggestions was to not allow billboards, digital Read the city or not, in historic districts. ordinance draft at “That seemed to be accepted by everyone, so we might not see that, bit.ly/CityOrdinance. which would be good,” says Wray.

However, Scenic Nevada hopes that the next step is to close down the “billboard bank” loophole, which allows billboard companies to take down a bill board and bank the receipt, and put the board up again when a new location becomes available.

“The City Council keeps saying that they want to allow digital billboards to remove clutter by reusing the boards already there,” Wray says. “But if you do this, there has to be a way to keep the boards out of cleared areas in the near future, but that’s not in the ordinance drafts, from what we’ve seen.”

Billboard companies can also take another route by applying for a special exception permit which can be granted by the City Council. This includes billboards proposed “within 1,000 lineal feet of a primary or secondary school classroom building or a residentially zones and used parcel on the same side of the street,” according to the city ordinance draft For Scenic Nevada, preventing digital billboards is as much about public safety as it is about protecting the wilderness. In a letter to the city council, Scenic Nevada board member John Hara wrote, “Billboard messages are meant to be read in one to four seconds. So, how is this increasing our roadway safety when an driver’s eyes are pulled off the road for one, two, three or four seconds?”

The digital billboard issue persists in counties throughout the country. Salt Lake City stopped allowing digital billboards in 2011. In May, residents of Murray, Utah fought against digital billboards and the city council refused billboard company Reagan Outdoor Advertising’s application to upgrade a regular board to an electronic one. Reagan Outdoor Advertising filed a lawsuit against the city council.

An appeal filed by Scenic Nevada will be presented at a public hearing on July 11, 6 p.m. at city hall. Ω

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A MATTER OF

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death It’s the not knowing that makes life so difficult for Ramsey Farley’s parents

by D. Brian Burghart brianb@newsreview.com

Ramsey Jackson Farley just turned 7 on June 16. He may not live to 8. Or he may make it much longer. That’s a fact his parents accept. He’s going to die. We’re all going to die, but most of us had some kind of chance to live before we died. In many ways, Ramsey was denied that.

Ramsey and his mother, Tami Gardner, left, and his stepmom Jamie Farley.

Nobody knows exactly when or how Ramsey will die.

Not his parents, not the hundreds of doctors and nurses he’s seen. He’s got a disease that has no diagnosis, has apparently never been described in the medical literature. It’s that ignorance that makes every moment bittersweet. Not to be maudlin, but it’s a bittersweetness we should all probably experience with our loved ones. Life is short, and the difference between 8 years and 80 years in comparison to eternity is the wingbeat of a gnat. Nobody dies healthy.

“This is what scares me,” says his mom, Tami Gardner.

“The worse thing about it is he’s sits there with drool in his mouth. We don’t know if it’s going down the wrong tube [into his lungs]. He doesn’t feel it. He could literally die in front of us, he could drown, and we wouldn’t even know it. … Why would you send a child away who could drown on his own spit? Why wouldn’t you keep him there, put him in Ramsey’s dog, Lucy, sits on his lap.

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To Whom It May Concern

the hospital, put a monitor on him? Why would you just send him away?”

Look in Ramsey’s eyes as he sits in his black, hightech wheelchair, and you can sense a mind behind them, but it’s unclear how much thought happens. Neither Gardner nor Art Farley, his dad, nor Jamie Farley, his stepmom, can say with certainty how much Ramsey’s mind has developed. The most terrifying possibility is that he has a high level of thought—he just can’t express it. It is clear, though, that there’s a certain amount of recognition of people and things.

He wails, for example, when a cough-assist device is brought out—just the sight is distressing because of the pain it causes. No wonder—three times a day for 20 minutes at a time, the device is placed over his face and around his chest. It shakes him and forces air in and out of his lungs to loosen the phlegm trapped inside.

He smiles and laughs when the dog on his lap, Lucy, acts silly or when one of his moms holds his hand. There’s a constant stream of babble from him—punctuated by phlegmy coughs—like a baby but with the volume of a 7-year-old; no words, though. His disease causes him to slump. It has caused scoliosis, which eventually will require surgery to correct—but when he’s told to sit up, he does. Not being able to walk has caused his atrophied but stronger leg muscles to tighten to the point they pulled his hips out the sockets, requiring surgery.

From an outsider’s point of view—if you can ignore his size and accoutrement—he feels like a sweet-natured toddler. Maybe his stunted mind is a gift of nature because the pain caused by his treatments, surgeries and examinations is constant. Someone with a fully functioning mind could not remain sweet-natured. He goes to Donner Springs with other kids—not Marvin Piccolo, which is considered the special needs school, he’s too high functioning for that—but

This letter has landed in your hands in hopes that you or someone you know may be able to help us with our precious son, Ramsey Jackson Farley. Ramsey has faced multiple challenges in the course of his 7 years. Ramsey was born on June 16, 2005, normal vaginal delivery. There were no complications during pregnancy or during the birthing process. When Ramsey was about 6 months, we noticed that he wasn’t making any attempts to roll over or crawl. It was brought up to our pediatrician who suggested that all babies and children move at different rates and not to be alarmed. But being parents, we instinctually knew that something was wrong. At his year visit, the doctor acknowledged that something was wrong: Ramsey was not able to crawl, or walk.

This set off the last five years of testing, doctors’ visits, surgeries, and genetic testing. We have been seen by four hospitals out of state: UCSF with Dr. Elliott Sheer, Stanford with the neurological department and genetics department, Shriners with the orthopedic team and neuromuscular team, and finally UC Davis with Dr. Craig McDonald, neuromuscular department. Out of countless doctors seeing Ramsey, he still has no diagnosis. The only things that they have ever diagnosed are little to no muscle tone (hypotonia), and no reflexes. He seems to have an underlying neuromuscular disorder in which his muscles are not growing at the same rate as his body. This affects his walking (unable), talking (very little, just mostly grunts and high-pitched squeals), feeding himself (currently unable), but it also is having more drastic effects. His stomach and intestines are muscles as well, so going to the bathroom has been impossible without the use of a ton of laxatives given daily, his muscles in his legs have become so tight that they pulled his hip bones out of their sockets, necessitating double hip surgery in December 2011. Also his core muscles are no longer able to support his trunk, giving him a 54-degree scoliosis.

The most drastic and life-threatening effects though are in his lungs. The muscle weakness in his lungs makes his cough useless, causing him to get pneumonia with the slightest cold or flu. The last hospital visit was 29 days long, with over 10 procedures and surgeries. The most difficult part of this process is the absence of a diagnosis.

What will that change, you might ask? We know that there probably isn’t a miracle cure out there for Ramsey, or if there is, it is probably too late to reverse the damage done to his body. But we as a family would like to have an answer to the most heart-wrenching questions: How long will he live? How will he die? Is he in pain? What is the average mental retention of a child like Ramsey? Also, we have no support system of people that know or have dealt with a child like Ramsey. It’s heartbreaking every single visit when they bring in a new doctor or nurse and we have to explain all of the surgeries and symptoms and complications, without being able to have a look of recognition in response.

Our son is one of the nicest children, and I am not saying that because he is mine. His happiness is derived from holding hands, or touching others, or having his hair played with. He loves balls, penguins and his family. He is never unhappy, and he bears all of his hardships with a grace and magnanimous spirit that is heartbreaking and infectious at the same time. Everyone loves him: his teachers, his nurses, his numerous doctors, and his family.

Please, if you know anyone that knows anyone that could help spread the word about Ramsey’s condition, it would mean the world to our family. We cannot be the only parents of a child like Ramsey. Thank you so much for letting us share our story.

“We cannot be the only parents of a child like Ramsey.”

PHOTO COURTESY TAMI GARDNER

Thank you again, “One of the things that makes me most brokenhearted and frustrated is that for the better part of a decade, politicians argued about stem cell research, and whether cells from the unborn could be used in research,” said Ramsey’s father, Art Farley. “The entire human genome could have been mapped out. The reason they can’t diagnose him is because they can’t test for things they don’t know about. My kid is not the only kid that’s suffering because of that. At least, we could have known.”

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Tami L. Gardner – Ramsey’s Mom.

The following is a list of surgeries and procedures our little man has gone through.

Ramsey’s Procedures: • Several MRI over the years • Nerve Conduction Testing – 2 • Muscle Stimulant Testing • Ear tubes • Corrective eye surgery (for weakness in his eyes) • A surgery for a herniated belly button, muscle biopsy, and spinal tap • EEG • Double hip osciotomy surgery • Another muscle biopsy • G tube implantation • Bronchoscopes (3) • Full GI workup including lower and upper GI scans • Swallow testing (barium) • FEES swallow testing (3) • CT Scan • Numerous x-rays And these doctors are currently seeing him: • Dr. Budhecia – pulmonologist • Dr. Riar – pediatrician • Dr. Gregory – gastroenterologist • Dr. Kip – cardiologist • Dr. Davids – orthopedic surgeon • Dr. McDonald – neuromuscular • Dr. Hulka – surgeon • Dr. Johnson – optometry • Multiple speech and physical therapists This is a list of doctors he has seen: • Dr. Columbo – pediatrician • Dr. Rodriguez – neurologist • Dr. Kinman – pediatrician • Dr. Shirer – neurologist • Dr. Strober – neurologist • Dr. Manning – genetics • Dr. Wang – neurologist • Several orthopedics surgeons at Reno Orthopedic

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All the family wants is information, so they know how to prepare.

But then he’s got some muscles that have developed a bit. That’s one thing that confuses doctors: the high muscle tone mixed with low muscle tone.

The heart that moves blood through the body’s circulatory system is a muscle. The diaphragm that pulls air into the lungs is a muscle so he has constant bouts with lung dis-

ease. It takes muscles to swallow or to move food through the system so now he has a tube to put food in, and eventually he may have a colostomy bag to move the remainder out.

Maybe his heart, strong enough for an infant but certainly not for a 7-year-old will finally expire. Some would call that a blessing.

“When he was younger, when he was 2 or 3, it was, ‘Well, he’ll just be in a wheelchair,’” Jamie says. “But now, there are so many health problems that are starting to crop up, that are completely unforeseen. We have no idea where we’re going. It’s uncharted territory. Tami and I are so tired of going to a different doctor and answering the same questions. And then basically to have nothing.”

But, again, even though he’s been seen by specialists at the best hospitals in the West— UCLA, Stanford, UCSF, Shriners, Davis—and he’s had his case studied halfway around the world, his mothers’ pain can’t be eased because nobody, nobody they’ve seen anyway, none of the experts, can tell them anything.

“I feel like we’re living in this bubble and every time we go somewhere new, I feel like there’s going to be an ER episode—” says Jamie.

“—or House,” says Gardner, continuing Jamie’s thought, as happens frequently in the course of conversations with the two moms.

“Yeah, where’s our ‘House?’” Jamie says.

“This sounds really dumb, but why has no one ever seen anyone like him before? We’ve probably seen 70 or 80 doctors, and that doesn’t even include the nurses. And no one has ever seen anyone like him. It’s so frustrating.”

“It’s one thing to throw your hands up, but give us another avenue, another specialist or something. But it’s like ‘Oh, we don’t know.’”

PHOTO COURTESY TAMI GARDNER

he doesn’t get frustrated when he’s left watching alone at recess. He’s also got a busy schedule of therapies—occupational, physical, speech, special ed—that’s another drain on him and on all his parents.

But the pain caused by his disease is all the more poignant because all his parents feel it acutely. The psychic pain also has its foundations in ignorance. Nobody knows how the end will come. His disease’s most obvious symptoms are muscle-based. Essentially, some of his muscles have not developed since he was an infant. An infant’s muscles are not enough to move a 7year-old boy around.

Hope springs eternal, though. And Ramsey’s mothers believe that someone, someone they haven’t seen anyway, one of the experts, can answer their questions. They’ve sent many letters to national media stars, like Oprah Winfrey or Ellen Degeneres, who did not respond. And now they’re turning to their neighbors, folks here in the Truckee Meadows, for a little help.

What they’d like to ask you—and why they’re publicly exposing their private pain—is if you personally know any medical practitioners in your Facebook friends list, email contacts list, Twitter feed—here or abroad—send them a link to this story and ask them to forward it to anyone they know. They’ve set up an email account,

support4ramsey@hotmail.com, and a Facebook account, www.facebook.com/ramsey.farley, for people who have knowledge, any information at all, to connect.

Because as special as he is, Ramsey can’t be the only one. Someone on God’s green Earth knows something. Someone has seen this before.

Someone knows how their own child or patient died, how long that child lasted.

There’s no rational reason to hope for a cure. All the family wants is information, so they know how to prepare, so they know how to make Ramsey as comfortable as possible. Because not knowing anything is just too cruel. Ω

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Is Northern Nevada really

by JESSICA SANTINA illustrations by HAYLEY DOSHAY

This world is often a tough place for us parents.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot in the three years since I became a mother. Back when she was an infant, I used to take my daughter for long walks in the stroller. I got extremely frustrated when I found that none of the local malls had automatic doors that enabled me to push my stroller in to shop. It’s such a simple thing—why didn’t anyone think moms wanted to shop, too?

I’ve heard it said that the Reno/Sparks/Tahoe area is familyfriendly, and I think that in some respects that’s true, especially in July, when Artown offers a number of free activities for parents with young children. When I asked a few friends about their experiences raising children here, they seemed incredulous that I might think otherwise. After all, parks and playgrounds abound here, don’t they? And what about the programs at the libraries? The Discovery Museum? Aces Ballpark?

But then again, Nevada ranks 40th among all states for child wellbeing, according to Zero to Three, the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. And cities around Nevada rank very low for family friendliness; Las Vegas was the only Nevada city to even crack the Top 100 Best Cities to Raise a Family in a recent survey by Children’s Health magazine (just barely—it was No. 100).

From stroller-friendly doors, to kids’ meals that aren’t loaded with fat, to restaurant high chairs and booster seats that aren’t broken, to activities priced and scheduled to accommodate families, there’s a multitude of things that Northern Nevada communities and businesses could do to make this area more family friendly: 14

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1) Accommodate families’ schedules: Last

summer, when my daughter was two, I began looking for some toddler swimming lessons. After scouring parks and rec listings, I found few options; most of them took place between 9 and 11 a.m. on weekdays, which was impossible for me, a working mother. I found exactly one Saturday class scheduled to begin in August. Registration didn’t open until two weeks prior, at 9 a.m.

When I called the number at the city of Sparks to register her for it, at 9:15, I found it was already full.

Zero to Three says that 32 percent of Nevada’s children live with a single parent, and 65 percent of Nevada’s children under 6 live with working parents. If you want to encourage families to participate in family-friendly activities, scheduling more during evenings and weekends might help.

2) Consider cost: The swim

class option I found is a private swim school with evening and weekend hours. But as Cindy Johnson, president of the Reno Association for the Education of Young Children, points out, “Things like that school are wonderful, but there are a lot of parents in our community who can’t afford them.”

Affordability of family-friendly activities is certainly a concern.

Zero to Three says that 45 percent of Nevada’s infants and toddlers live in low-income families. If Northern Nevada communities and businesses want to improve their access for families with young children, pricing right is a great first step.

Then there’s your average restaurant kid’s meal, which here in the Reno/Sparks area ranges from $4 to $7 at restaurants like Chili’s, Applebee’s, Red Robin, Olive Garden, and P.F. Chang’s sampled. Tahoe restaurants are even less accommodating, with

kids’ meals starting around $8 for Steamer’s, The Beacon and Spindleshanks sampled. When you consider families with more than one child, and how the outsized portions leave much of the plate uneaten, that’s a considerable amount of money thrown away.

3) Consider kids’ health: My sampling of several

local parks reveals broken playground equipment, lack of shade, and slides that absorb too much heat and make sliding down them an exercise in scorched little bottoms.

And then there’s the food.

In a sampling of a 12 chain and independently owned restaurants in Reno, Sparks and Lake Tahoe, I found remarkably limited children’s food options. Kids’ menus rarely veer from spaghetti, Kraft macaroni and cheese, corn dogs, mini-pizzas, hamburgers, chicken nuggets/tenders and grilled cheese.

According to a 2008 study by The Center for Science in the Public Interest, of the 1,474 kids’ meals from national chain restaurants analyzed, 93 percent had more calories and 45 percent had more saturated fat and trans fats than kids need.

Why not offer half orders of regular menu items? Why assume kids don’t want variety?

The Center for Science in the Public Interest reports that Americans eat out more now than ever before, with restaurant meals providing more than one-third of our calories. Why not make them good ones? I applaud the occasional restaurant—thank you, BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse—that offers veggies and dip as a side item option.

Then, let’s talk about restaurant safety—broken high chair safety belts, booster seats that don’t firmly attach to chairs and diaper-changing tables with broken or missing straps (if they’re even present, and many times they’re not).

“I think it’s important to take kids out,” says Jackie Reilly, Child & Youth Development Specialist at the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension. “It helps them learn etiquette and social behaviors. Restaurants are so consumer-driven, if enough folks

complained, maybe they’d do something different.”

So heads up, parks and rec departments, restaurants and any other business catering to kids and their parents: Consider the child experience. Make safety a priority.

Offer a variety of healthy, affordable options, in portion sizes appropriate for young children, and cater to their unique seating and dining needs. Ω

Here’s a brief (and by no means all-inclusive) list of organizations and businesses deemed friendly to families of young children: Silver Bear Swim School ( www.silverbearswim.com ): With two locations, in Reno and Sparks, the swim school offers swim classes for kids of all ages, at times convenient to working parents.

Scheels ( www.scheelssports.com ): My family has spent many a cold day playing at Scheels. From the Ferris wheel to the giant fish tanks, clean indoor playground, family restrooms and stroller-friendly automatic doors, it’s a safe haven for families.

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P.F. Chang’s ( www.pfchangs.com ): This chain restaurant was ranked among Parents magazine’s Top 10 Best Family Restaurants, for its innovative menu of offerings for kids, which include honey chicken, lo mein, and veggie-rich “Baby Buddha’s Feast.” They even have kids’ chopsticks.

Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum ( www.nvdm.org ): Easily one of the best things this area has done for families in the last decade. Now with extended summer hours. (I might argue that the weekend hours could be longer—naptimes interfere with prime business hours—but I can make an exception now and then.)

Melio Gaspari Water Play Park ( www.co.washoe.nv.us/index/display_outreach.html~details=9430 ): At just $3 per person (free for kids under 3), your child can frolic in the water with zero chance of drowning. Parents are welcome to bring a picnic to enjoy on the surrounding grass or shaded tables.

The Playroom ( theplayroominfo.com ): Bring your little ones, from birth to age 8, for unlimited play all day for just $8 ($7 additional siblings). Bring food or find snacks there, along with safe, age-appropriate play areas, and places for tired parents to sit and relax while they wait.

The Mommies Network ( www.themommiesnetwork.org ): A 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to helping moms find support and friendship in their local communities.

Nevada Association for the Education of Young Children ( www.nevaeyc.org ): Among other things, sponsors the Week of the Young Child in April, featuring a host of free activities for families with young children. Ω OPINION

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November Wind … And Other Stories

In the Mix is a monthly column of reviews of albums by musical artists local to the Reno area. To submit an album for review consideration, send a physical copy to Brad Bynum, Reno News & Review, 708 N. Center St., Reno NV 89501 or a digital link to bradb@news review.com.

Smiley Mikey is a songwriter-singer rather than the other way around. He’s a songwriter first, and a singer second. In a different era, he might have been someone like Jimmy Webb, penning tunes for marquee names to sing. His new album, November Wind … And Other Stories, features a variety of vocalists—different singers to fit the different moods of each track and to portray the different characters that Smiley Mikey has created.

The diversity of vocalists and styles makes the album feel a bit like a sampler, and the production is tasteful to the point of being modest, which gives the album the feeling of a collection of piano-led songwriter demos to shop around to other artists, rather than a cohesive album.

Most of the songwriting is POP/COUNTRY good, with strong central melodies and funny, satirical lyrics. The problem is that some of the vocalists gel with the material better than others. Smiley Mikey himself sings three of the eight songs, and his voice, though thin, is able to convey the lyrical satire of songs like “Reno,” a song about deluded local musicians and artists who “pretend you are a star, then you hit the road and are told who you really are.”

Most of the other vocalists, including Cliff Porter of Jelly Bread, are technically better singers than Smiley Mikey, but here they sing in a straight, slick, studio manner that doesn’t help convey the nuances of the character-driven, narrative songwriting.

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And not all of the writing works. Smiley Mikey, who, as Michael Sion, is a writer who contributes to the Reno Gazette-Journal and other publications, relies a bit too heavily on hokey spoken asides. And “18,” about the Occupy Wall Street movement, is one of the record’s best songs in terms of production and performances, but is topical to a fault, not to mention condescending.

By far the best overall song on the album is the title track, a straight-up country song which appears in two different versions, opening the record in ballad form and closing it as a bar band honky tonk. The opening version especially is terrific, with duet vocals by Therese Curatolo and Troy Ferris of the band Whiskey Dawn. Writing country songs for competent country singers to sing might be the best direction for Smiley Mikey.

Rigorous Proof’s “Carolina” is just a one-song CD single, and the line-up on the recording is different than the current incarnation of this Reno rock band, but it’s a good song. The production, mixing and mastering sound super pro. It’s a radio-ready track that would fit well between, say, Kings of Leon and The Black Keys on a contemporary modern rock summer jams playlist.

The guitars and piano sound great, and the ROCK snare drum cracks in a vibrant, polished way.

The lyrics are nothing special—something about a girl— but they’re better than embarrassing. There’s a nice guitar solo that segues into the best part of the song: an atmospheric, out-of-leftfield organ breakdown that goes right back into an extended version of the chorus.

It’s a promising single, which speaks well for whatever these guys get up to next. It’s also streaming on their Reverb Nation page, www.reverbnation.com/rigorous proof, and worth checking out.

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Artist John Salminen speaks with Margaret VanDyken about his painting “Grant Lanterns,” which she purchased.

John Salminen Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, by but in having new eyes.” And what sharpKris Vagner ens the senses, amplifies your capacity for wonder, and makes the ol’ ocular system feel new again like traveling?

Painter John Salminen, who visited Reno last week for his exhibit at Stremmel Gallery, makes what are technically travel pictures. But you won’t see a Golden Gate Bridge or a Statue of Liberty in his New York and San Francisco street scenes.

“We live in northern Minnesota, 40 John Salminen’s exhibit “In Urban Light” is on acres of woods, so when I go to New York view at Stremmel everything I see is exotic,” he says. “I have Gallery, 1400 S. Virginia artist friends in New York City who’ve St., through July 31.

Gallery hours are seen these scenes, and they tell me they Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. would never think to photograph them.” to 5:30 p.m., and Instead, he finds the magic in the munSaturday 10 a.m. to dane. Salminen once noticed a dozen 3 p.m. For information, call 786-0558 or visit shades of liquid-eye-candy brown on a www.stremmel rusted security gate at a Manhattan dry gallery.com. cleaner’s shop. He mapped them out attentively as if they were one of those famous

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landmarks he “studiously avoids.” In a dreamy picture of San Francisco at rush hour, the frame is completely filled with buildings and steep streets crowded with late-model vehicles, with not even a peek at the sky. Somehow, it feels like a breath of fresh air.

He photographs on location, then translates the picture into a watercolor painting.

“The camera gives you too much information,” he says.

Salminen, who exudes a level of patience quite possibly honed during the 32 years he taught high school, likens his process to that of a playwright or a composer, who pores over details, making hundreds of decisions about what stays in the work, what gets edited out.

“The trick is not to show it,” he says. It doesn’t show. Though the process can be laborious—each painting takes maybe 40 to 60 hours—the paintings come off with definite spontaneity.

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orless but eminently present, or Central Park sunshine filtered through the leaves of towering elms (a technical challenge for a painter, tricky to the point of intimidating, he confesses), he uses the transparence of watercolors to its fullest effect. Once the paint is dry, light passes right through it and bounces off the paper, which helps him achieve that pitch-perfect sky.

“If you really get value, you can get a painting that’s not just an afternoon painting—it’s 3:15 p.m. in the northern latitude,” says Salminen. He understands value. He taught darkroom photography for many of those 32 years.

His speech is constructed a lot like his paintings, thoughtful and complete, with the range of details you could use on a given subject condensed down to a few choice morsels. He likes the way that

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works in his paintings, how it can leave a viewer’s reading of his artwork open to their own experiences or interpretations.

“If I can keep it a little detached, I can make a more general statement,” he says. Viewers have related strongly to one New York scene, for example, as sadly lonely or wonderfully exuberant.

Strolling through the mostly empty Stremmel Gallery on a quiet Friday morning, the calmly engaging Salminen, with neatly cropped gray-towhite hair, a sweatshirt, and hiking shoes, looks like his next appointment might be on a hiking trail. Actually, he and his wife were planning a bike ride at Lake Tahoe the following day. He might not even pull out his camera. A glorious, royal-blue, watery foreground with snowy peaks in the distance might be too iconic for his taste, and Salminen’s job isn’t to record what’s iconic. It’s to create it. Ω

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Pro sports Woody’s Grille & Spirits 960 S. McCarran Blvd., Sparks, 351-1010 The first things I noticed were the flat-screen TVs everywhere. If it looks like a sports bar and smells like a sports by Dave Preston bar, it must be a sports bar. Then I got to the food: yellowfin ahi davep@ ceviche, Mazatlan shrimp gazpacho, newsreview.com Asian steak salad—a brasserie of creativity with adventure and flavors on every line of the menu.

Joe Clements is the man at the front of the house. He grew up in the business, studied at the CIA Greystone in St. Helena, Calif., and worked at The Grill locally before taking the Woody’s job. The food aficionado in the kitchen is Chef Sergio Romero, an alum of The Grill, Washoe Steakhouse and Rutherford’s Catering. The menu offerings run the gambit from Italian, to Spanish, to Mediterranean, to Cuban, to Asian, to burgers. Four specials change every day, and all are done with panache.

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chow mein strands. Below the noodles was a bed of mixed greens with basil and—get this—mint. The dressing was an Asian lime vinaigrette. Mandarin oranges were tossed in, and then, if that wasn’t enough, firm, large cashews were added.

Where do I start with the flavoraroma-texture experience for the palate? The medium-rare hot steak grabbed the cold bite of the peppery noodles, and the crunch of the greens and cashews tested every one of my taste buds at once. It was so satisfying that I closed my eyes just to savor the moment. On the next bite, I got a sweet orange, and with the greens, came mint. Not only was it a sweet, aromatic experience for my mouth, it also provided an aroma high for my nose.

I probably should have stopped right there, but I forged on. The shrimp cacciatore a la Sergio ($13) was my next temptation.

Penne pasta was generously covered with black tiger shrimp in a sauce that was not thick but very rich and full of flavors. Cremini mushrooms, peppers, onions, capers, basil, green olives stuffed with pimentos, and oregano were the textures and flavor profiles evident, and they were held together by a somewhat light tomato sauce reduced with white wine. Using the white wine gave this sauce a slightly tangy flavor that helped accentuate the spices in my mouth while the hint of tomato was still tasted.

Topped with fresh Parmesan cheese, it’s a Mediterraneanlike creation.

Wine is not the big thing at Woody’s, but I did have a glass of Heron pinot noir ($7.75). The grapes for the Heron 2009 pinot noir grew in Paso Robles, Monterey and Russian River Valley. Lighter and “Burgundian” in style, this wine has a high acidity. It’s elegant and restrained yet zesty and fun at the same time—red cherry, tart cranberry, spicy vanilla and slightly mushroomy.

Woody’s will make you a fan, not necessarily a sports fan, but a fan of its food. Ω

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Family Guy creator and Peter Brady-lookalike Seth MacFarlane makes a competent feature film directorial debut with Ted, the story of a man, his teddy bear, and that bear’s propensity for smoking weed, banging hookers and various profane utterances.

MacFarlane lends his voice to Ted, a standard-looking teddy bear blessed with the ability to speak and screw after his owner, John (played as an adult by Mark Wahlberg), by wishes he could talk and be his best friend.

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One of the great things about the film is that Ted’s existence, after the initial and very funny shock expressed by John’s parents, is accepted around the world as no big deal.

After a brief brush with stardom, his fame fades, and he’s treated like any other guy, with nobody stopping on the street and screaming, “Holy shit! A talking bear!”

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When he proves to be a really bad influence on John, who keeps skipping work to share bong hits with the bear, Ted is forced to go into the real world by himself where he must get an apartment and a job. MacFarlane gives this element of the movie a consistent, absurdist feel that really works.

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knows that Wahlberg has masterful comic timing, and MacFarlane puts it to great use.

He trades lines with an imaginary bear with the best of them.

As for MacFarlane, he’s created something very memorable and very funny with Ted. Something that will probably be taken for granted is that Ted, besides doing and saying hilarious things, is a wondrous special effect.

He’s an example of flawless CGI, a computer generated character that integrates seamlessly into the action. If the Oscars were held today, I would submit Ted in the special effects competition.

I’ve never been a big watcher of The Family Guy. I don’t have anything against it, I think Stewie is funny, and the Star Wars stuff is awesome. It’s just one of those shows I never seem to have time for. Still, I’ve recognized MacFarlane’s talents in the past, and believed going into Ted that I had a good chance of laughing.

What I didn’t expect is how sweet the movie is. MacFarlane takes the human elements of the story seriously, and they wind up being quite charming.

It’s a major directorial feat when a first timer creates an animated teddy bear character that’s more wellrounded than most actual human characters in movies today.

For those of you simply looking for good, raunchy, super Rrated comedy, Ted has got the goods. There’s a scene with a roomful of hookers that will certainly go down as one of the year’s most memorable—and joyously disgusting—and the things Ted says during a job interview would curl a few clergymen’s toes.

A subplot involving a deranged Giovanni Ribisi—is there any other kind of Ribisi?— and his sicko kid stalking Ted gets some great laughs, especially when Ribisi busts out some dance moves while watching TV. I won’t spoil the tune to which he dances.

Given its box office success, I suspect this isn’t the last we’ll hear of Ted. The little bastard has franchise written all over him. I just did a search to see if there are any Ted teddy bears ready to purchase. Nope, somebody has dropped the ball on that one. There should be a talking Ted bear ready for me to by at Spencer’s Gift, right this instant! Ω

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Honestly, this was one of the movies I was most excited about this year. Abraham Lincoln killing vampires—how could they go wrong? Director Timur Bekmambetov has most certainly found a way, turning in a boring, redundant and humorless film that blows it in most categories. Benjamin Walker is given little to do as Lincoln. He walks around looking glum and occasionally swings an axe at very unconvincing vampires. The movie speculates that the Confederacy was full of vampires during the Civil War, and it has absolutely no fun with this idea. I was hoping for something that I could file alongside the likes of Evil Dead 2 with this one—good, sick fun with a dash of camp humor. Instead, we get a movie that’s as tedious and bland as the Underworld films. It will surely stand as one of the year’s biggest cinematic letdowns.

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The third in this franchise winds up being the best, and a decent comeback after a bland second installment. The zoo animals, still kicking it in Africa, wind up on a European tour with a circus, which gives writers Eric Darnell and Noah Baumbach the opportunity to introduce some fun new characters. These include a hoop-jumping tiger (voiced by Bryan Cranston), an evil animal control officer (Frances McDormand) and, most winningly, a dopey seal named Stefano voiced wonderfully by Martin Short. This one is a bit touched in the head, as evidenced by the “Circus Afro” sequence featured in the advertising campaign. Darnell and Baumbach write good jokes that will keep both the adults and children laughing. Stars the voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith.

Writer-director Wes Anderson’s return to live action after his animated gem Fantastic Mr. Fox is probably the most “Wes Anderson” Wes Anderson movie yet, and that’s a good thing if you love the guy (I do!).

The story here is set in 1965, where Sam the Khaki Scout (newcomer Jared Gilman) has flown the coop during a camping expedition, much to the worry of Scout Master Ward, (Edward Norton, in his funniest performance yet). Sam runs away with Suzy (Kara Hayward, also a newcomer), and they have themselves a romantic couple of days while parents and authority figures frantically search for them. The adolescent puppy love story is treated with the sort of storybook grace one would expect from Anderson.

Every shot is a thing of beauty. Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and Jason Schwartzman all contribute wonderfully in what stands, and will stand, as one of the year’s best films.

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In this prequel to his own Alien, director Ridley Scott explores all new angles in his monster universe via eye-popping 3-D visuals and intense storytelling. When scientists discover cave drawings that appear to be superior alien intelligence inviting us for a visit, an exploratory space mission travels to a distant galaxy in search of our origins.

What they find involves tentacles, slime, gnarly self-administered operations and general despair. Noomi Rapace takes on the female heroine role, with Charlize Theron along for the ride as a mysterious mission commander. Best of all is Michael Fassbender as David, a strange android who models himself after Peter O’Toole. With this, Scott proves that he is still a master of the sci-fi genre, a genre he hasn’t visited since his 1982 Blade Runner —he’s rumored to be working on a sequel to that classic, as well. The ending of this one, hopefully, paves the way for another chapter—a chapter I sincerely hope Scott is involved in.

The hit Broadway play featuring ’80s hair rock comes to the big screen courtesy of director Adam Shankman (Hairspray) and the results are a mixed bag. But one of the things in that bag would be Tom Cruise as jaded rock star Stacee Jaxx, a role that affords Mr. Cruise the opportunity to sing, and sing well. He belts out songs like “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and “Wanted Dead or Alive” with such authority, it’s a wonder we haven’t heard this guy singing sooner.

Julianne Hough is so-so in your typical “girl moves to the big city to make it big” role.

Other members of the cast, including Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand and Catherine ZetaJones all have some fun singing crap songs.

The movie is overlong, and not too bright, yet enjoyable whenever Cruise takes over. It’s sort of worth seeing for him.

The 347th Snow White movie this year is actually a fairly decent one, with Kristen Stewart doing a fine job as the title character and Chris Hemsworth contributing nicely as the ax-wielding Hunstman. Best of all the cast is Charlize Theron as Ravenna, a loony queen hell-bent on staying young and eating Snow’s heart. Director Rupert Sanders puts together a swell visual movie, especially in the way he creates dwarves out of actors like Nick Frost, Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins and Toby Jones. The movie is quite good when it features Snow White running around in various enchanted forests, though not so much in the final act, where it becomes a weird Joan of Arc movie. The last act feels tacked on, like it belongs on another film. Still, Stewart is quite winning here and Theron is a bona fide scene-stealer.

I’ve been hating—vehemently hating— Adam Sandler’s broad comedies of late.

Jack and Jill, Grown Ups, Just Go with It and Bedtime Stories all blew. Funny People was great, but that wasn’t a Sandler vehicle. It worked because Judd Apatow was at the helm.

Watching Sandler’s latest, in which he plays a former child star who got his teacher pregnant, I found myself almost liking it. It’s bad, but it’s almost good-bad in a Billy Madison sort of way. I’ve really been longing for the days when I could go to a Sandler film, shut my brain off, and revel in how creatively and comically stupid it could be. Andy Samberg stars as Sandler’s son, and jokes about whacking off to grandmas, pants shitting and incest ensue.

There are some solid laughs, but a lot of duds.

Will Sandler ever get his dumb comedy mojo back? He’s currently working on Grown Ups 2, so the future is bleak.

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After the severe misstep that was Cars 2, Pixar gets back to goodness with this, the tale of Merida (voice of Kelly Macdonald). Merida is a princess who doesn’t want to conform to tradition, shooting arrows better than any of the boys in or around her kingdom, and not really too keen about marrying any of them under arranged circumstances. When a spell is cast on family members, she must search for a way to restore normalcy, while convincing her mom (Emma Thompson) that she has the right to choose her own destiny. Merida is a fun character, and Macdonald is the perfect voice for her. As for the look of this movie, it is beautiful for its entire running time. While I’ve liked many Pixar films more than this one, that is not a dig on this movie. It might not be one of the best the studio has offered, but it is still a highly entertaining piece of work.

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Jokers wild Them Sonsabitches For a true performer, there is no separation between the stage and the street.

They’re in performance mode no by Marvin Gonzalez matter where you find them.

Halfway through an interview with Them Sonsabitches, it’s no longer an interview, but more like a word association game or rehearsal for an improv troupe.

Them Sonsabitches—Scotty Roller, guitar and vocals, Jon Perry, guitar, Michael Young, drums, Greyson Beffa, keys, and Nate Alcorn, bass—are jokesters with quick tongues. Michael Young spelling his last name for the digital recorder quickly digresses to discussions of backstage trysts, and then to Jerry Sandusky. Perry’s proclamation that he likes Brussels sprouts morphs into musings on cannibalism and bath salts.

Them Sonsabitches is, clockwise from top left, Scotty Roller, Greyson Beffa, Nate Alcorn, Michael Young and Jon Perry.

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And, it might also be the reason that their latest foray into rock ’n’ roll with their self-titled album is so straight and to the point.

“There really is no angle to the music, it’s just flat rock ’n’ roll,” says Roller.

“I think that was our intention,” says Perry. “We just wanted to break away from the schtick or the act [of The Saddle Tramps] and just do something a little more satisfying musically.”

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As they talk about their new album, which was released on May 22, you get the feeling that they’re all proud and satisfied with how the final product turned out. But, as serious as they clearly are about their music, they can’t help but quickly fall back into joke mode.

“Our influences are early P.O.D and early Sugar Ray,” says Young, in a sarcastic voice meant to parody a musician engaged in an interview.

“I’m heavy into SWV—you know, Sisters With Voices,” adds Roller.

Alcorn, who had been sitting patiently the whole interview, brings things back down to earth.

“We’re really stoked about the record,” he says. “We recorded it at Beta Sounds Studios in Sparks. We are really excited about the sound we got.”

“I think that this record is the pinnacle for what I have done musically,” says Young. “The recording is right there. The songwriting was right there.”

Their first single from the album, “Can’t Let It Go,” is in rotation on AltNation on Sirius satellite radio, a fact the band is proud to announce. And, just as quick to make fun of. When Roller says, “We do have one single out playing on AltNation on Sirius satellite right now,” Young responds in a voice that can only be described as a gay-mobster-voice, “So if you want to get serious about radio you can listen to it!”

After years of performing on the road, the members of Them Sonsabitches seem happy to be taking on a more relaxed lineup of gigs. Their next shows are in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., on Aug. 3 and 4.

For the moment, they all seem happy to just sit on the final product of an album they all feel content about—or maybe not.

“I know I sound like every asshole musician who thinks their newest stuff is the greatest,” says Young, in all seriousness. “But, this is something we took time on. We went through the process and did it properly.”

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2905 U.S. Highway 40 West, Verdi; (775) 345-2235

THE ALLEY

The Dwarves, Dirty Filthy Mugs, Melvin Up Against It, Failing Plan B, Makes Machineguns, The Shames, 8pm, $15 The Wisenheimers, 8:30pm, no cover

906 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-8891

BAR-M-BAR

Jr. and Mike Show w/Hank and the Invisibles, Dr. Brandon, 7pm, no cover

816 Highway 40 West, Verdi; (775) 345-0806

BIGGEST LITTLE CITY CLUB THE BLACK TANGERINE

9825 S. Virginia St., (775) 853-5003

Bike Night w/live music, 6pm, no cover

CEOL IRISH PUB

July 5, 7 p.m.

Great Basin Brewing Co. 846 Victorian Ave. Sparks 355-7711

538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558

CHAPEL TAVERN

1495 S. Virginia St., (775) 324-2244

Sonic Mass w/DJ Tigerbunny, 7pm, no cover

Live music, 9:30pm, $TBA

’70s Disco Night, 9pm, $5

Neil O’Kane, 9pm, no cover

Blarney Band, 9pm, no cover

Celtic Sessiuns, 7pm, Tu, no cover

Good Friday with rotating DJs, 10pm, no cover

CLUB BASS

535 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-1774

Ladies Night w/DJs (dubstep, electro, house), 10pm, $5 for women

College Night w/DJs (dubstep, electro, house), 10pm, $5 with college ID

Comedy

COMMA COFFEE

Open Mic Night, 7:30pm, no cover

Community Drum Circle, 5:30pm, no cover

3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & Improv w/Wayne Walsh, W, 9pm, no cover

255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400 1) Cargo 2) Centric 3) Main Floor

1) A House Cursed, Enslave the Creation, The Harvest The Hunt, 7pm, $5

1) Lionel Young Band, Jason King Band, 7pm, 2) Independence Detox $15-$35, Forbidden Fridays, 11:30pm, $10, $12 w/Battleborn DJs, 11pm, no cover 2) DJ Double B, DJ Luciano, 11pm, no cover

COTTONWOOD RESTAURANT & BAR

Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777: Barry Friedman, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $17.95; Ben Seidman, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $15.95

10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee; (530) 587-5711

Emily Tessmer, 6pm, no cover

Pyle of Zen, 6pm, no cover

312 S. Carson St., Carson City; (775) 883-2662

COMMROW

The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Kivi Rogers, Frances DiLorinzo, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Rocky LaPorte, Ron Morey, W, 9pm, $25 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Sean Peabody, F, 8pm; Sa, 7pm, 9:30pm, $13, $16

DAVID’S GRILL

Mark Castro Duo, 6pm, no cover

DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY

Side FX, 9:30pm, no cover

Side FX, 9:30pm, no cover

Karaoke with Nick, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke with Phil, 9pm, no cover

6590 N. Wingfield Pkwy., Sparks; (775) 626-1000 275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917

EL CORTEZ LOUNGE

235 W. Second St., (775) 324-4255

Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

FRESH KETCH

New World Jazz Project, 7pm, no cover

FUEGO

Live flamenco guitar music, 5:30pm, no cover

2435 Venice Dr., South Lake Tahoe; (530) 541-5683 170 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-1800

GREAT BASIN BREWING CO.

846 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 355-7711

Charity of the Month

THE DWARVES Friday, July 6 w/ DIRTY FILTHY MUGS, THE SHAMES, MELVIN MAKES MACHINE GUNS, MIRACLE DRUGS Saturday, July 7 STRANGEPHLUX, UP AGAINST IT, WEISENHEIMERS, STORIES UNTOLD, FAILING PLAN B. FREE SHOW DIZZY WRIGHT Thursday, July 12 w/ DJ HOPPA + SPECIAL GUESTS Friday, July 13 TREVOR CROWS COSTUME PARTY HIP HOP NIGHT AGENT ORANGE Saturday, July 14 w/THE MARONES, FALCON A, WEAPON AND SILLY DIC & THE MCTESTIES Summer Giveaways include: 2 Tahoe Longboards, Jameson Snowboard, Northstar Seasons Pass, Show Tickets and More...come in and find out how!

ARTOWN

RAPSCALLION 35 YEARS & WE

THANK YOU!

Every month a different Charity will be participating.

Dine with us often & support your favorite Charity.

1555 S. Wells Ave. Reno, NV

www.Rapscallion.com

775-323-1211 • 1-877-932-3700 Open Monday - Friday at 11:30am Saturday at 5pm Sunday Brunch from 10am to 2pm

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Large Bills Accepted, noon, M, no cover

2) Blues Callin’ Band, 7pm, W, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, Tu, no cover Open mic, 9pm, W, no cover Karaoke with Phil, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, M, no cover Karaoke with Nick, 9pm, Tu, W, no cover

Fledermaus at Fuego, 6pm, no cover

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Dine with us during the month of July, mention ARTOWN and we will donate 20% of the food portion of your bill to

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Bourgeois Gypsies, 7pm, no cover

ARTOWN

SUMMER MUSIC SERIES Thursday, July 5 Hip Hop Edition

Sunday Night Acoustics/Open Mic, 8pm, no cover Open mic comedy night, 9pm, no cover

188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480

Bourgeois Gypsies

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 7/9-7/11

Custom Tattooing :: Body Piercing Clothing walk-ins welcome 11am-10pm 7 days a week

(775)786-3865

www.evolutiontattooreno.com

THURSDAY 7/5

FRIDAY 7/6

THE HOLLAND PROJECT

SATURDAY 7/7

Make It Reign, Corcid, Collisions, Drag Me Under, 7pm, $7

140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

SUNDAY 7/8

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 7/9-7/11

Dirty Hand Family Band, Farewell Belladonna, Mark Van Norris, 8:30pm, $5

JAVA JUNGLE

The Babies, Cathedral Ghost, Surf Curse, 8:30pm, M, $TBA Java Jungle Open Mic, 7:30pm, M, no cover

Sunday Music Showcase, 6pm, no cover

246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484

JAZZ, A LOUISIANA KITCHEN

Jazz Jam w/First Take featuring Rick Metz, 6pm, no cover

1180 Scheels Dr., Sparks; (775) 657-8659

Live jazz w/First Take featuring Rick Metz, 6pm, no cover

JUB JUB’S THIRST PARLOR

Reno We Have A Problem, The Moron Bros., 9pm, $3

71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652

KNITTING FACTORY CONCERT HOUSE 211 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-5648

The Flying Cars, 9pm, $5

Open mic, 9pm, M, Zombie Apocalypse Tour, 9pm, Tu, $5, Actors Killed Lincoln, 7pm, W, $8

Volbeat, Hellyeah, Iced Earth, Killinger, 7:30pm, $32-$65

The Mess Fess w/Prima Donna, Adam Bones, Warner Drive, Acidic, 7pm, M, $12

KNUCKLEHEADS BAR & GRILL

Open Mic Night/College Night, 7pm, Tu, no cover

405 Vine St., (775) 323-6500

PIZZA BARON

Acoustic Open Mic hosted by Roger Scime, 8pm, no cover

PLAN:B MICRO-LOUNGE

Open Mic Night w/Dale Poune, 7pm, no cover

THE POINT

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 7pm, no cover

1155 W. Fourth St., (775) 329-4481 318 N. Carson St., Carson City; (775) 887-8879

Open Blues Jam with Schall Adams, 7pm, no cover

Open jazz jam, 7:30pm, W, no cover

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 7:30pm, W, no cover

POLO LOUNGE

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

Corky Bennett, 7pm, W, no cover

PONDEROSA SALOON

Karaoke w/Steel & the Gang, 7:30pm, no cover

The Others Brothers, 8pm, no cover

3001 W. Fourth St., (775) 322-3001

July 6, 8 p.m.

The Alley 906 Victorian Ave. Sparks 358-8891

Steve Starr Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover Buster Blue, 8pm, no cover

1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864 106 S. C St., Virginia City; (775) 847-7210

The Dwarves

RED DOG SALOON

Jay Goldfarb, 7pm, W, no cover

76 N. C St., Virginia City; (775) 847-7474

RED ROCK BAR

Spencer & Morgan’s Funk Jam, 9:30pm, no cover

241 S. Sierra St., (775) 324-2468

RYAN’S SALOON

Otis with guests, 9pm, no cover

924 S. Wells Ave., (775) 323-4142

Buster Blue

Hillbilly Band, 8pm, M, no cover Live jazz, 7:30pm, W, no cover

Los Pistoleros, 9pm, no cover

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

Strange on the Range, 7pm, M, Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

STREGA BAR

310 S. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-9911

THE UNDERGROUND

555 E. Fourth St., (775) 410-5993 1) Showroom 2) Tree House Lounge

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Live music, 9pm, no cover

1) Music Dance Paint w/Zach & Smiley, Naked for Safety, Pan Pantoja, 7pm, no cover

1) Reno Video Game Symphony, 7pm, $10, $12 2) Interzone w/DJs Endif, TV1, Hyperkarma, 9pm, $3

WALDEN’S COFFEEHOUSE 3940 Mayberry Dr., (775) 787-3307

WILD RIVER GRILLE

Justin McMahon, 7pm, no cover

17 S. Virginia St., (775) 284-7455

Spontaneous Groove Party, 9pm, no cover

Sunday Night Strega Mic, 9pm, no cover

Local Band Listening Party, 9pm, M, Dark Tuesdays, 9pm, Tu, DJ Ahn, 9pm, W, no cover

July 7, 8 p.m.

Plan:b Micro-Lounge 318 N. Carson St. Carson City 887-8879

1) Please by Bruce Lindsay, 7:30pm, Tu, W, $15

Crush, Tyler Futrell, 7pm, no cover

Reno Music Project Acoustic Open Mic, 6:30pm, no cover

Local All-Star Jazz Workshop, 7pm, free with dinner reservation

Sample of Soul, 7pm, no cover

Colin Ross, 2pm, Milton Merlos, 7pm, no cover

Joel Ackerson, 7pm, M, Moon Gravy, Tu 7pm, Tyler Stafford, 7pm, W, no cover

L I V E O N S TA G E

0 One of the most EXCITING

live performance groups in Jazz

THESE THESE

DON’T DON’T

MIX MIX

Saturday, July 7th, 7:30pm

Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch

Tickets $20 $10 for students, FTLOJ members and RJO members

Think you know your limits?

Think again.

Tickets available at ftloj.com or at the door

Includes Afternoon Workshop with Joe Locke

If you drink, don’t drive.

Period.

Presented by:

For the Love of Jazz with generous grant from the Robert Z. Hawkins Foundation

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ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 825-4700 1) Grand Ballroom Stage 2) Cabaret

THURSDAY 7/5

FRIDAY 7/6

SATURDAY 7/7

SUNDAY 7/8

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 7/9-7/11

2) Atomika, 8pm, no cover

2) Atomika, 4pm, Kick, 10pm, no cover

2) Atomika, 4pm, Kick, 10pm, no cover

2) Kick, 8pm, no cover

2) Escalade, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) The Motifs, 7pm, no cover

2) The Motifs, 8pm, no cover

2) The Motifs, 8pm, no cover

2) Steve Lord, 6pm, no cover

2) Steve Lord, 6pm, M, Tu, Vinny Messina, 6pm, W, no cover

2) The Beer Gardeners & Friends, 10pm, no cover

1) Super Diamond, 9pm, $20, $23 2) Rad Habbit, Crispylicious, 11:30pm, no cover

1) Will Durst, 8pm, W, $15, $20 2) Danny Corn, iNi, 11pm, Tu, no cover

1) Man in the Mirror, 7pm, $19.95+ 2) Capital Down, 10pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Man in the Mirror, 8pm, $19.95+ 2) Capital Down, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Skyy High Fridays, 9pm, $10 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Man in the Mirror, 7pm, 9:30pm, $19.95+ 1) Man in the Mirror, 7pm, $19.95+ 2) Capital Down, 10:30pm, no cover 2) Capital Down, 10pm, no cover 3) Addiction Saturdays, 9pm, $10 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Man in the Mirror, 7pm, Tu, W, $19.95+ 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, Left of Centre, 10pm, W, no cover 3) Spindustry Wed., 10pm, W

1) Viva Le Cirque, 9pm, $10

1) Viva Le Cirque, 9pm, $10

1) Viva Le Cirque, 9pm, $10

1) Viva Le Cirque, 9pm, $10

1) Viva Le Cirque, 9pm, Tu, W, $10

1) Nathan Owens Motown Legends, 7:30pm, $22 2) Arthur Hervey, 8pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 10:30pm, $20

1) Nathan Owens Motown Legends, 7:30pm, $22 2) Arthur Hervey, 8pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 10:30pm, $20

1) Nathan Owens Motown Legends, 7:30pm, $22

1) Persuasion, 9pm, $25, $30 2) Gabriel Rutledge, 8pm, $15, live local bands, 10pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire, 9pm, no cover

1) Persuasion, 9pm, $25, $30 2) Gabriel Rutledge, 8pm, $15, live local bands, 10pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire, 9pm, no cover

1) Persuasion, 9pm, $25, $30

5) DJ BG Weekend Jump-Off Party, 10pm, no cover

5) DJ BG Weekend Jump-Off Party, 10pm, no cover

CARSON VALLEY INN

1627 Hwy. 395, Minden; (775) 782-9711 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret Lounge

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

14 Hwy. 28, Crystal Bay; (775) 833-6333 1) Crown Room 2) Red Room

ELDORADO HOTEL CASINO

345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers 3) BuBinga Lounge 4) Roxy’s Bar & Lounge

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) WET Ultra Lounge 3) Xtreme Sports Bar 4) Mustangs 5) 2500 East 6) The Beach 7) Summit Pavilion

HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE

1) Nathan Owens Motown Legends,

15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 588-6611 7:30pm, $22 1) South Shore Room 2) Casino Center Stage 3) VEX

HARRAH’S RENO

1) Persuasion, 9pm, $25, $30 219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 2) Gabriel Rutledge, 8pm, $15 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

JOHN ASCUAGA’S NUGGET

5) Ladies ‘80s w/DJ BG, 6pm, no cover

1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 1) Showroom 2) Cabaret 3) Orozko 4) Rose Ballroom 5) Trader Dick’s

MONTBLEU RESORT

PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO

3) Joe & Danny, 7pm, no cover

2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 4) Bad Girl Thursdays, 10pm, no cover 1) Tuscany Ballroom 2) Cabaret 3) Terrace Lounge charge for women 4) Edge 5) Aqua Lounge

SILVER LEGACY

407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Ballroom

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JULY 5, 2012

3) Tony Vee, 9pm, no cover 4) Salsa dancing with BB of Salsa Reno, 7pm, $10 after 8pm, DJ Chris English, 10pm, $20

July 7, 9 p.m.

Crystal Bay Club 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay 833-6333

Karaoke Bottoms Up Saloon, 1923 Prater Way, Sparks, 359-3677: Th-Sa, 9pm, no cover Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 356-9799: F-Sa, 7pm, Tu, 6pm, no cover 3) Tom Braxton, 6pm, W, no cover

1) Comedians from Chelsea Lately: Brad Wollack, Jen Kirkman, Josh Wolf, 9pm, $25, $35

55 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (800) 648-3353 1) Theatre 2) Opal 3) Blu 4) Onsen Beach & Nightclub 5) Convention Center 6) Outdoor Event Center

Super Diamond

3) Tony Vee, 9pm, no cover 4) Rogue Saturdays, 10pm, $20

3) Jeff Jones, 7pm, no cover

3) Jeff Jones, 7pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

3) Dance party, 10pm, no cover

2) DJ REXX, 10pm, no cover 3) Salsa Etc., 7pm, no cover

2) DJ Tom, 9pm, M, DJ I, 10pm Tu, W, no cover 3) Dudes Day, 7pm, Tu, Mix it Up!, 10pm, W, no cover

Flowing Tide Pub, 465 S. Meadows Pkwy., Ste. 5, 284-7707; 4690 Longley Lane, Ste. 30, (775) 284-7610: Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover Red’s Golden Eagle Grill, 5800 Home Run Drive, Spanish Springs, (775) 626-6551: Karaoke w/Manny, F, 8pm, no cover Sneakers Bar & Grill, 3923 S. McCarran Blvd., 829-8770: Karaoke w/Mark, Sa, 8:30pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Sparks, 356-6000: Music & Karaoke, F, 9pm; Lovely Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover Washoe Club, 112 S. C St., Virginia City, 8474467: Gothic Productions Karaoke, Sa, Tu, 8pm, no cover

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For Thursday, July 5 to Wednesday, July 11 To post events to our online calendar and have them considered for the print edition, visit our website at www.newsreview.com/reno and post your events by registering in the box in the upper right of the page. Once registered, you can log in to post. Events you create will be viewable by the public almost immediately and will be considered for the print calendar in the Reno News & Review.

ARTOWN: The annual arts celebration

Listings are free, but not guaranteed.

Online and print submissions are subject to review and editing by the calendar editor. For details, call (775) 324-4440, ext. 3521, or email renocalendar@newsreview.com.

The deadline for entries in the issue of Thurs., July 19, is Thursday, July 12.

CAMP FIRE PROGRAM: Enjoy an evening presentation in the park at Eagle Meadows. The Monday Night Volunteers Bluegrass Band will perform. F, 7/6, 7pm. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Regional Park, 18350 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

Events ALL-AMERICAN BBQ FESTIVAL: This street festival will include great all-American barbecued food, more than 30 street vendors and two stages featuring tribute bands. There will also be appearances by the Monster Girls and Monster DJs plus death-defying demonstrations by Monster Energy’s freestyle motocross stunt teams. F-Su through 7/8. Opens 7/6. Free. Downtown Reno, Virginia Street, (888) 288-1833, www.downtownreno.com.

FAMILY SERIES: ERTH’S DINOSAUR PETTING ZOO:

offers nearly 500 events, more than 100 workshops and more than 30 ongoing programs. Festival highlights performances by Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Michael Feinstein, Chanticleer and Missoula Children’s Theatre and the closing night performance by Maceo Parker, as well as returning festival favorites such as the World Music Series, Monday Night Music Series and Movies in the Park. M-Su through 7/31.

Free for most events. Call or visit website for details, (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.

DAVID LUKAS: THE MYSTERY OF BIRD SONG: Lukas will answer questions and share his insights into the magical world of bird songs. Sa, 7/7, 1-2:30pm. Free. Sundance Bookstore & Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.

ELDORADO FIREWORKS 500: High Desert Racing Association’s off-road racing event features qualifying races, performances by the Monster Freestyle MX Team featuring X-Game and Ninja Stunt Team riders, race car displays, autograph signing and live entertainment at several locations in Reno and Sparks. On July 7, racers take to the desert at the Reno Tahoe Motorplex, off Interstate-80 Exit 32, for a 500-mile race—the longest off-road race in the United States. M-Su through 7/9. Call or visit website for details, (702) 407-3059, http://hdrarace.com.

ANIMAL ARK CHEETAH RACES: See the world’s fastest land animal in action. Animal Ark’s cheetahs run at top speeds off leash around the Animal Ark cheetah field. Children must be age 10 or older to attend. Reservations are required.

Sa, 7/7, 7-8:30pm. $30-$40. Animal Ark Wildlife Sanctuary and Nature Center, 1265 Deerlodge Road, off Red Rock Road, (775) 970-3431, www.animalark.org.

Travel with Erth’s multi-faceted performers on a journey through prehistoric ages in this fun, educational and imaginative performance.

Experience a selection of dinosaurs and creatures that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago. Audiences will have the opportunity to feed, water and care for these prehistoric marvels via simple lessons in animal husbandry. M, 7/9, 7-8pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 2 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.

FIRST THURSDAY: Nevada Museum of Art holds its monthly event featuring music

by Guitar Woody and the Boilers. Th, 7/5, 5-7pm. $10 general; $8 seniors, students; free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

GREAT INTERNATIONAL CHICKEN WING SOCIETY COOK-OFF: The 11th annual cook-off features a variety of bars and restaurants offering their version of chicken wings for “tasters” (Chicken Hawks) to taste for the awards contest. Visitors can also purchase sampler plates from each participating restaurant booth.

The festival includes live entertainment and arts and crafts booths. F, 7/6, 10am-

8pm; Sa, 7/7, 10am-8pm; Su, 7/8, 10am-8pm. Free. Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 233-4757, www.gicws.com.

LIVE SKYTONIGHT TALK: Learn about the nighttime sky during this informal presentation with the aid of state-of-the-art digital technology, followed by telescope viewing (weather permitting) at Rancho San Rafael Park. First F of every month, 6pm. $6 adults; $4 children, seniors.

Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4812, http://planetarium.unr.edu.

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PHOTO BY NEIL GIRLING

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NEWLANDS NEIGHBORHOOD WALKING TOUR: Take an architectural walk through one of Reno’s oldest and most prestigious neighborhoods.

Reservations must be made at least one day in advance of tour. Sa, 7/7, 9-11am. $10; free for Historic Reno Preservation Society members. My Favorite Muffin, 340 California Ave., (775) 7474478, www.historicreno.org.

OPEN HOUSE & TELESCOPE CLINIC: Visitors

TAHOE STAR TOURS—SATURN SEEKS VIRGO: Join

can explore the observatory at their leisure, ask questions of observatory volunteers, learn how telescopes work and even learn how to image celestial objects. First Sa of every month, 7pm.

Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 445-3240, www.wnc.edu/observatory.

star guide and poet Tony Berendsen for a unique and educational night under the stars. Sa, 7/7, 8pm; F, 7/13, 8pm; F, 7/20, 8pm; F, 7/27, 8pm; Sa, 7/28, 8pm. $30 adults; $15 children age 12 and younger.

Northstar California Resort, 3001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, (800) 4666784, www.northstarcalifornia.com.

REAL X-FILES: PARANORMAL INVESTIGATIONS: Ben

VALHALLA ARTS & MUSIC FESTIVAL: The 32nd

Radford, deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer science magazine, will share his experience and insights gained over a decade of experience investigating dozens of mysterious and paranormal phenomena. Class size is limited. Walk-ins will not be accepted. Register online. Sa, 7/7, 10am-1pm. $30 per person. McQueen Fire Station Community Room, Reno Fire Station 11, 7105 Mae Anne Ave., (775) 3355505, www.renoskeptics.org/Events.html.

annual celebration of the arts includes musical and theatrical performances, visual art exhibits, fairs, cultural festivals and art workshops. M-Su through 9/2. Prices vary. Tallac Historic Site, Highway 89, 2.5 miles north of Highway 50, South Lake Tahoe, (530) 541-4975, http://valhallatahoe.com.

WHOLE FOODS SPARKS FARMERS’ MARKET: The 20th annual farmers’ market returns with a family-friendly atmosphere and farmer-focused event. New highlights include a gourmet food truck court and expanded food area. Th, 3-8pm through 8/2; Th, 8/16, 3-8pm; Th, 8/23, 3-8pm. Free.

Victorian Square Plaza, Victorian Avenue, Sparks, (775) 746-5024, www.shirleysfarmersmarkets.com.

RENO FOOD TRUCK FRIDAYS: Reno Food Truck Fridays is a gathering of the area’s mobile food vendors and features live music and family activities. This month RFTF will be teaming up with The Sands’ free pool parties. Music by Steel Breeze. F, 7/6, 5-10pm. Free. Sands Regency Casino Hotel, 345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-2200, https://www.facebook.com/RenoFoodTruckFridays.

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ARTISTS CO-OP OF RENO GALLERY: Rockin’ Out. Artists Co-op hosts a month-long art show and sale to benefit the Nevada Rock Art Foundation. The exhibit features a variety of petroglyph and pictograph art, crafts and photography, produced by Nevada artists, co-op members and guests. The artists’ reception is July 8. M-Su, 11am-4pm through 7/31. Free. 627 Mill St., (775) 3228896, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

Traveler’s director of consumer news and digital community, will share her personal travel tips and stories. She’ll reveal up-and-coming destinations and hot spots that savvy travelers should have on their radar. All proceeds go to help READ Global build community library resource centers in Nepal, Bhutan and India. Tu, 7/10, 5:15-7pm. $5$200. Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 832-5454, www.readevent.org.

CCAI COURTHOUSE GALLERY: New Crop. Capital City Arts Initiative presents its summer exhibition featuring work by Northern Nevada artists Amy Aramanda, Kaitlin Bryson, Logan Lape, Kath McGaughey, Emily Rogers and Karl Schwiesow. M-F through 9/4. Free. 885 E. Musser St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

THE STRANGE & UNUSUAL: This evening of illusion and the paranormal starts off with a stage performance by James Anthony, illusionist, mentalist and magician. Bring your flashlights, cameras and meters for the last two hours for a paranormal investigation at Piper’s Opera House with special guests Janice Oberding, Sandie LaNae and Paula Burris. Sa, 7/7, 7:30-10:30pm. $20-$55 early bird pricing. Piper’s Opera House, 12 N. B St., Virginia City, (775) 847-0433, http://virginiacityparanormal.com.

GALLERY 3: Dan Ericson: The Signtologist.

Denver-based artist Dan Ericson, aka The Signtologist, recycles hundreds of street signs into unique homages to musicians, actors, public figures and athletes that inspire him. W-F, Su through 8/8. 3 N. Virginia St., (775) 2307333, www.gallery3art.com.

High Desert Steam and Reno Art Works present a fundraiser and art show featuring San Franciscobased performer Unwoman. Singer-songwriter Erica Mulkey, who takes her stage name from Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale, performs works in cello and voice often set to electronic beats. She also plays the piano, cello banjo and theremin. She has collaborated with bands such as Abney Park, Rasputina, Voltaire and other groups that fall under the “steampunk” banner. Unwoman often performs at major steampunk, goth and sci-events in the Bay Area and across the country, including a performance at last year’s WorldCon event in Reno. With five CDs under her belt, her most recent release is Uncovered Volume I, an album of “dramatic reinterpretations” of popular songs written between 19901995. Unwoman will perform along with Xtevion, frontman of local experimental pop group Schizopolitans. The evening also features artwork by Carole Ann Ricketts and Killbuck. A $10 donation is requested. Donations will go toward the musicians and RAW artists, and support the funding of the 2nd Annual Victorian Steampunk Ball in Virginia City on Sept. 29. The show starts at 7 p.m. on July 6 at Reno Art Works, 1995 Dickerson Road. Visit www.highdesertsteam.org.

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: In the Making.

Sculptural ceramics student Michelle Laxalt creates pieces that evoke a whimsical world of interactions and child-like wonder. Peter Laxalt’s drawing and paintings merge design and graffiti aesthetic into exaggerated figures and forms. Combined the siblings’ work shares the thread of moving the viewer from the common world into a more fantastical one. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 7/6; Something Honest, Nothing Profound.

Kelly Peyton creates pieces that explore and share how the seemingly cliche can become intimate. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 7/6; Hither & Thither. Rachael Scala draws from her experiences as a native Nevadan to create an installation exploring the passing of time through Nevada’s seasons. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 7/6. Free. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

MATHEWSON-IGT KNOWLEDGE CENTER: Far Out: The University Art Scene from 1960-1975.

The exhibit highlights the generation of leading-edge visual artists at UNR during the ’60s and ’70s. There will be a free opening reception on July 8 from 3:30-6pm, which will include guided tours, refreshments and live music by 1960s San Francisco psychedelic band Sopwith Camel. M-Sa, 9am-5pm through 9/9. Free. University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) (775) 682-5665, http://knowledgecenter.unr.edu.

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NEVADA WILDERNESS PROJECT: Wild Nevada Art Exhibit. The Nevada Wilderness Project’s Artown event highlights the power of art to convey the beauty of Nevada’s wilderness.

The exhibit features work by Erik Holland, Emma Auriemma-McKay, Craig Mortimore and Larry Neel, among others. Most of the artwork will be available for sale at the end of the exhibit with a portion of the proceeds benefiting Nevada Wilderness. M, 7/9, 9am-

5pm; Tu, 7/10, 9am-5pm; W, 7/11, 9am-5pm; Th, 7/12, 9am-7pm; F, 7/13, 9am-5pm; Sa, 7/14, 10am-4pm. Free. 333 Flint St., (775) 657-8430, www.wildnevada.org.

NORTHWEST RENO LIBRARY: A Very Special Art Exhibit. Work by young artists created in VSA Nevada workshops during the 2011-12 school year is on display in the gallery at Northwest Reno Library. There will be an art reception on July 14, 2-3pm. Tu-Sa through 8/24. Opens 7/5.

Free. 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 826-6100 ext. 3.

RENOWN SOUTH MEADOWS MEDICAL CENTER: Art For Healing. Sierra Watercolor Society’s exhibit of original watercolor paintings by local artists depicts the healing power of art. Through 7/31, 10am-7pm. Free. 10101 Double R Blvd., (775) 343-8100, www.sierrawatercolorsociety.com.

SHEPPARD FINE ARTS GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Nate Clark: LINE [repeat], Nate Clark’s paintings examine order, structure and time as they relate to mark making. The closing reception is July 13, 6-8pm. Tu, Th, 2-6pm through 7/12; Sa, 12-3pm through 7/7; F, 7/13, 6-8pm. Free.

1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658, www.unr.edu/art.

SIERRA ARTS GALLERY: Revolución: Celebrating a Rich Artistic Society. Art Slaves’ art show and sale features the work of communications professionals in Northern Nevada. The public will be invited to view and purchase

all displayed artwork during the July 12 reception. Proceeds from art sales will contribute to the AAF Reno Scholarship Fund.

M-Su through 7/31. 17 S. Virginia St., Ste. 120, (775) 329-2787, www.sierra-arts.org.

STREMMEL GALLERY: In Urban Light. John Saliman’s exhibition, depicts the abstract possibilities of photographic references and the atmospheric qualities resulting from the dramatic lighting found within vibrant cityscapes. M-Sa through 7/31. Free. 1400 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-0558, www.stremmelgallery.com.

UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX, NORTHERN NEVADA CAMPUS: Deon Reynolds Exhibit, The photographer’s work is on display. M-F through 8/15. Free. 10345 Professional Circle, Ste. 200, (775) 828-7999.

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Mourning breath At 19, I married the first man I slept with. He died last year after 23 years of marriage, and within a month, I was in a new relationship with a wonderful man I met online. I’m still grieving, but my new man understands, and he’s patient. He appreciates me and insists on my total commitment to him— meaning I can’t date anyone else. The problem is, he lives in another state, and in our year together, his work schedule has kept him from visiting me. He can make me quiver when we talk on the phone, but the distance leaves me lonely. Can a long-distance relationship ever work?

So, in an entire year, your Mr. Wonderful couldn’t line up a single weekend to come see you because of his work schedule? Well, that sounds perfectly reasonable—if getting out of work early means digging a tunnel with a spoon to avoid the electrified razor wire and the armed guards.

As a rule, internet dating should be composed of very little internet and a whole lot of dating. Phone dates don’t count. Until you spend considerable time in a man’s presence, your view of him will be part him and a good part you filling in the blanks with who you’d like him to be. And sorry, quivery romantic moments are just the sparkly topping on a relationship. The actual relationship is mostly the day-to-day stuff—how you are together at the grocery store and whether he’s mean when you forget to pick up the dry cleaning. And while your heart might sing for him across the miles, you could hate the way he kisses.

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Where you go right is in not appearing to buy into cookie-cutter ideas about how you “should” be mourning, like the widely held myth that there are specific, neatly ordered “stages of grief” everyone must move through.

When life as you knew it for a quarter-century suddenly developed a big husband-shaped hole, it’s understandable that you started rummaging around the internet for a scoop of human grout. But, being desperate for filler meant that any critical assessments about this guy were drowned out by “Cripes! I’ll be alone!” At the same time, maybe you weren’t quite ready to be with anybody, so it worked to have a boyfriend who demanded your “total commitment”— creepy!—while not actually bothering to show up.

You can strongly suggest he hop a plane in the immediate future, but chances are whatever’s prevented him from giving you a peek at the real him will continue to prevent it. Maybe now would be a good time to try to get comfortable being alone. Only when you are will you be able to choose a man for the right reasons—and not simply because he talks a good game, giving him an edge over the guy in the urn.

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WORLD MUSIC SERIES: DELHI 2 DUBLIN: Artown’s music series continues with a performance by the Vancouver, Canada-based band which plays an energetic mash-up of Bhangra, Celtic, dub, reggae and electronica with global rhythms and club beats. W, 7/11, 7:30-9pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 2 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.

Onstage THE 13 CLOCKS: Reno Little Theater presents this fairy tale and parable by James Thurber as part of Artown. Sa, Su, 2-3 & 4-5pm through 7/15. Opens 7/7. Free. Laxalt Auditorium, Warren Nelson Building, 401 W. Second St., (775) 343-8100, www.renolittletheater.org.

A CELTIC SUMMER’S EVE: Reno Irish Dance Company presents its annual Artown performance. Local Celtic group Ciana will perform at 6:30pm, followed by the dance show at 7:30pm. Sa, 7/7, 6:30-9pm. $10 donation requested. Wingfield Park, 2 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 829-7878, www.renoirishdanceco.org.

CURIOSITY CAT: TheatreWorks of Northern VSA NEVADA AT LAKE MANSION: Through Bipolar Eyes, A Child’s View, Eleven-year-old Haylee Davis, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 7, shares her digitally enhanced photos with the public, friends and family.

Artist reception is July 12, 4pm-6pm. M-F, 9am-4pm through 7/31. Opens 7/5. Free. 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100, www.vsanevada.org.

SUZANNE ROBERTS & JUNE SYLVESTER SARACENO: The writers and poets read from recent work. Su, 7/8, 7-8:30pm. Free. Prim Library at Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 831-1314, www.sierranevada.edu.

Music 22ND ANNUAL HIGH SIERRA MUSIC FESTIVAL: The

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four-day camping and music event features performances by STS9, Railroad Earth, Galactic, Ben Harper, Built to Spill, Toots and the Maytals and others. Th-Su through 7/8.

Opens 7/5. $40 and up. Plumas-Sierra County Fairgrounds, 204 Fairground Road, Quincy, (530) 283-6272, www.highsierramusic.com.

NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM (THE HARRAH COLLECTION): Mutant Rides: Origin of a Species, M-Su through 7/25. $10 adults; $8 seniors; $4 kids ages 6-18; free for children 5 and younger. 10 S. Lake St., (775) 333-9300.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Gail Wight: Hydraphilia, W-Su through 8/26; Jacob Hashimoto: Here in Sleep, a World, Muted to a Whisper, W-Su through 1/1; Southwest Pottery From Anasazi to Zuni: Selections from the Brenda and John Blom Collection, W-Su through 9/9; Gregory Euclide: Nature Out There, W-Su through 9/2; Arthur and Lucia Mathews: Highlights of the California Decorative Style, Tu-Su through 10/14; Andrew Rogers: Contemporary Geoglyphs, W-Su through 8/26; Ice Music, W-Su through 10/28; Tim Hawkinson: Totem, W-Su through 10/7; Edward Burtynsky: Oil, W-Su through 9/23; Anne Lindberg: Modal Lines, W-Su through 7/15. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

CELSO MACHADO: Sierra Nevada Guitar Society presents the Brazilian guitarist and composer. Tu, 7/10, 7-8:30pm. Call for info. Trinity Episcopal Church, 200 Island Ave., (775) 2981686, www.sierraguitar.org.

ERIC KAO: The pianist will perform popular works by Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert and Rachmaninoff. W, 7/11, 7-8:30pm. Free.

Steinway Piano Gallery, 500 E. Moana Lane, (775) 829-0600.

THE GABARDINE SISTERS RADIO SHOW & CAMPOUT: Join The Gabardine Sisters for a weekend of camping and jamming under the pines at Davis Creek Regional Park campground. The group will be in the main campground and will have an area designated as a “home base” for jamming all weekend. On Saturday evening, the band presents a concert at the park’s amphitheater. The concert is free. Camping fees apply. Sa, 7/7, 7-9:30pm. Davis Creek Regional Park, 25 Davis Creek Road, Washoe Valley, (775) 722-9877, www.gabardinesisters.com.

WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM, RANCHO SAN RAFAEL REGIONAL PARK: Sierra Watercolor Society Exhibit, W-Sa, 10am-4pm through 8/18. Opens 7/11. Free. 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961, www.sierrawatercolorsociety.com.

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HELIX COLLECTIVE: This concert includes a world premiere performance of the Biggest Little Dances, a work all about Northern Nevada.

The suite mixes jitterbugs, waltzes and tangos and poems by native Nevadans. Su, 7/8, 2:30pm. Free. St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, 341 Village Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 298-0075, www.tahoechambermusic.org.

MOVIES IN THE PARK: E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL: Artown celebrates the 30th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s film about a young boy who befriends an alien from outer space who’s accidentally stranded on Earth. F, 7/6, 9-11:15pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 2 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.

JOE LOCKE/GEOFFREY KEEZER GROUP: The jazz group features Joe Locke on vibes, Geoffrey Keezer on piano, Mike Pope on bass and Marvin Smitty Smith on drums. Sa, 7/7, 7:309:30pm. $20 general; $10 For the Love of Jazz members. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 813-1851, www.ftloj.org.

Poetry/Literature BRIAN TURNER & GAILMARIE PAHMEIER: The poets read from recent works. W, 7/11, 7-8:30pm.

Free. Prim Library at Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 831-1314.

KEN CAILLAT—MAKING RUMOURS: Ken Caillat, coproducer of Fleetwood Mac’s classic 1977 album Rumours, signs and discusses his new book Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album. Th, 7/5, 6:30-8pm. Free. Sundance Bookstore & Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188, www.sundancebookstore.com.

KELLIE PICKLER: The country music artist performs. F, 7/6, 9pm. $29 in advance, $35 day of show. Eldorado Hotel Casino Convention Center, 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700.

LAZY 5 SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: CRITICAL MASS BAND: The summer music series kicks off with a performance by the local indie rock band. W, 7/11, 6:30pm. Free. Lazy 5 Regional Park, 7100 Pyramid Lake Highway, Spanish Springs, (775) 823-6500.

PUBLISHING PANEL: April Ossmann, Suzanne Roberts, Patricia Smith and Alexi Zentner will

talk about literary publishing. W, 7/11, 1:302:45pm. Free. Prim Library at Sierra Nevada

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lawn; $20 general seating. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 331-3663 ext.

118, www.fbnn.org.

MEMORIES AT STEINWAY: Hear piano students of Sonnet Johnson, founder of the Steinway Series, perform beloved gems of the piano.

M, 7/9, 7-9pm. Free. Steinway Piano Gallery, 500 E. Moana Lane, (775) 829-0600, www.renoisartown.com.

MONDAY NIGHT MUSIC SERIES: RENO YOUTH PHILHARMONIC AND RENO YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA: The two youth ensembles perform their “Summer Serenade” concert. The Reno Philharmonic Youth Jazz Orchestra will perform the classical music of Liszt and Bizet while the Reno Youth Jazz Orchestra presents the classics of big band jazz. M, 7/9, 7:30-10pm. Free. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.

RIVER RANCH CONCERT SERIES: MOONALICE: The series kicks off with a performance by the American rock band featuring veteran allstar musicians Pete Sears, Barry Sless, John Molo and Roger & Ann McNamee. Their acoustic set is at 9pm, followed by the electric set at 10pm. Th, 7/5, 9pm. $10 in advance.

River Ranch Restaurant and Lodge, 2285 River Road, Tahoe City, (775) 337-8344, www.renegadeshows.com.

ROLLIN’ ON THE RIVER: BIG SANDY AND HIS FLY RITE BOYS: The American roots band kicks off RN&R’s summer concert series Keyser Soze opens the show. F, 7/6, 5:30-8pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 2 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 324-4440.

SWEET VIBRATIONS: BELLA VOCE: The women’s chorus performs as part of this Artown music series. Tu, 7/10, 7-8pm. Free. First United Methodist Church, 209 W. First St., (775) 322-4564.

TRIOS LAS AMERICAS: TOCCATA continues its summer season with chamber music performed by this Argentinian ensemble. They will perform works by Piazzolla, Bruch, Beethoven and Brahms. Tu, 7/10, 7pm. Free; donations welcome. TOCCATA Performing Arts Theater, 760 Mays Blvd., Incline Village; W, 7/11, 7pm. $20; free for youth under age 12.

Squaw Valley Chapel, 444 Squaw Peak Road, Olympic Valley, (775) 313-9697, www.toccatatahoe.com.

A TRIP THROUGH EUROPE VIA PIANO: Concert pianist Ron Williams takes audience members on a musical journey to Austria and Spain. Tu, 7/10, 7-9pm. Free. Steinway Piano Gallery, 500 E. Moana Lane, (775) 829-0600, www.spgreno.com.

WESTERN ADVENTURE: Carson City Symphony, will play favorite cowboy tunes from movies, television and opera. Organ soloist Michael Langham will play Alexandre Guilmant’s Allegro for Organ and Orchestra. Oboe soloist Yumiko Anthenien will play Astor Piazzolla’s “Oblivion.” Su, 7/8, 5pm. $10.

Trinity Episcopal Church, 200 Island Ave., (775) 883-4154, http://ccsymphony.

Nevada's production tells the engaging story of displaced children and homeless cats. The play by Chris Gabenstein features a cast ranging in age from 8 to 20, and is suitable for all ages. F, 7/6, 7:30pm; Sa, 7/7, 7:30pm; F, 7/13, 7:30pm; Sa, 7/14, 7:30pm; Su, 7/15, 2pm. $10 general; $7 students, seniors. Laxalt Auditorium, Warren Nelson Building, 401 W. Second St., (775) 284-0789, www.twnn.org; Su, 7/8, 2pm. $10 general; $7 students, seniors. Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 284-0789, www.twnn.org.

DANCING IN THE PARK: RENO DANCE COMPANY: Experience pop culture through a world beat of music and dance. Th, 7/5, 8-10pm.

Free. Wingfield Park, 2 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 225-2194, www.renoisartown.com.

EMPIRE IMPROV COMEDY SHOW: Empire Improv presents its long-form improv show in two halves. Empire’s house team Like a Banshee performs with either Hostel Greetings, The George Collection or The Level 2 Students.

Show recommended for those 17 and up. F, 10:30-11:45pm through 7/28. Opens 7/6. Free.

Good Luck Macbeth Theater, 119 N. Virginia St., (530) 414-0050, www.empireimprov.com.

FLEDERMAUS AT FUEGO: Nevada Opera presents the second act of Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus. This famous party scene includes special guests singing Spanish art songs and arias with an appearance by Fuego’s owner Miguel Perez. Sa, 7/7, 6pm.

Free. Fuego, 170 S. Virginia St., Ste. 103, (775) 786-4046, www.nevadaopera.org.

HOUSE: THE SCI-FI OPERA: The performance starts with a children’s opera filled with hilarious characters, fun words and a positive social

message and ends with music by Reno Video Game Symphony. W, 7/11, 7:30-9pm. Free.

Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 786-4046, www.renoisartown.com.

ORPHEUS DESCENDING : Brüka Theatre presents Tennessee Williams’ retelling of the Orpheus legend in which a guitar-playing drifter takes up with a married storekeeper with wonderful and tragic results. F, 7/6, 8pm; Sa,

7/7, 8pm; Th, 7/12, 8pm; F, 7/13, 8pm; Sa, 7/14, 8pm; Su, 7/15, 2pm; W, 7/18, 8pm; Th, 7/19, 8pm; F, 7/20, 8pm; W, 7/25, 8pm; Th, 7/26, 8pm; F, 7/27, 8pm; Sa, 7/28, 8pm. $18 general; $16 seniors,

students, military; $20 at the door. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.

PLEASE: This play by Bruce Lindsay is a dark, absurdist comedy about the finial days of Mom. Watch as a hospital waiting room transforms into an insane asylum, and reality unravels revealing that truth may be the biggest illusion of them all. Presented by Artown. Tu, 7/10, 7:30pm; W, 7/11, 7:30pm; Th, 7/12, 7:30pm; Tu, 7/17, 7:30pm; W, 7/18, 7:30pm. $15. The Underground, 555 E. Fourth St. Ste. B, (775) 410-5993, http://www.renoisartown.com.

THE TEMPEST: Good Luck Macbeth Theater presents Shakespeare’s final play. Th-Sa, 7:30-10pm through 7/29. Opens 7/6; Su, 3-5:30pm through 7/29. Opens 7/8. $14-$20. Good Luck Macbeth Theater, 119 N. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716, www.goodluckmacbeth.org.

YOU & ME: RENO 2012: This interactive performance takes place in multiple rooms and locations through the chosen venue. These performances occur for one person at a time.

The evening begins with dance, continues with one-on-one interactive performances and a community dinner together at one long picnic table and ends with a performance on the picnic table where guests are invited to dance with the performers. You & me explores who is the performer in a performance and brings both local, San Francisco- and Denver-based visual artists, performing artists and musicians to create an evening of intimacy and dance together. Tu-F, 6:30-10:30pm through 7/6. $20. River School Farm, 7777 White Fir St. off Woodland and West Fourth streets, (775) 7472222, www.tararyndershouse.com.

YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU: Ageless Repertory Theatre presents the classic play by Moss Hart

and George S. Kaufman. Th, 7/5, 1-3pm; F, 7/6, 79pm. Free. Circles Edge Center For Spiritual Living, 1117 California Ave., (775) 345-7323, www.renoisartown.com.

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Got Belly Fat?

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Members of

the Nevada Republican Party have concocted a bizarre version of family values. A large majority of them are opposed to gay marriage and yet are all in favor of legal brothels. Their wacky approach to morality is as weird as that of the family values crowd in Texas, which thinks it’s wrong to teach adolescents about birth control even though this has led to a high rate of teen pregnancies. My question is, why do we let people with screwed-up priorities claim to be the prime caretakers of “family values”?

In accordance with the astrological omens, I urge you to reject the conventional wisdom as you clarify what that term means to you.

It’s an excellent time to deepen and strengthen your moral foundation.

Hoping you’ll someday lose weight?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There’s a

term for people who have the ardor of a nymphomaniac in their efforts to gather useful information: infomaniac. That’s exactly what I think you should be in the coming week. You need data and evidence, and you need them in abundance. What you don’t know would definitely hurt you, so make sure you find out everything you need to know. Be as thorough as a spy, as relentless as a muckraking journalist, and as curious as a child. P.S. See if you can set aside as many of your strong opinions and emotional biases as possible. Otherwise they might distort your quest for the raw truth. Your word of power is empirical.

Learn HOW to burn stomach fat not merely a few temporary water weight pounds Learn WHY many people EXERCISE with ZERO results Learn WHAT is really behind a resistant metabolism

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Of all the

Dr. Layne Linebaugh, D.C./Alpine Wellness Center www.alpinewellnesscenter.net There will be a demonstration of the treatment and patient testimonials at the end of the workshop.

The secret to losing weight in the belly, hips and thighs begins with knowing your BODY TYPE.

You will learn: •The basic BODY SHAPES and how hormones can distort the body-blocking weight loss even when Diet & Exercise don’t work •How the body’s FAT BURNING hormones get triggered.

Find out the biggest mistake people make with exercising •Learn the 4 different causes of belly fat •How hormones affect what you crave. How Chronic Pain and SLEEPING PROBLEMS relate to your body type

6:30 – 8pm, July 12th Call (775) 657–9026 to sign up today!

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ONLY 2% of overweight people are successful FIND OUT WHY!

signs of the zodiac, you’re the best at discovering short cuts. No one is more talented than you at the art of avoiding boredom. And you could teach a master course in how to weasel out of strenuous work without looking like a weasel. None of those virtues will come in handy during the coming week, however. The way I see it, you should concentrate very hard on not skipping any steps. You should follow the rules, stick to the plan, and dedicate yourself to the basics.

Finish what you start, please! (Sorry about this grind-it-out advice. I’m just reporting what the planetary omens are telling me.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The epic

breadth of your imagination is legendary. Is there anyone else who can wander around the world without ever once leaving your home? Is there anyone else who can reincarnate twice in the span of few weeks without having to go through the hassle of actually dying? And yet now and then there do come times when your fantasies should be set aside so that you may soak up the teachings that flow your way when you physically venture outside of your comfort zone. Now is such a moment, my fellow Cancerian. Please don’t take a merely virtual break in the action. Get yourself away from it all, even if it’s only to the marvelous diversion or magic sanctuary on the other side of town.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In Norse mythology,

Fenrir was a big bad wolf that the gods were eager to keep tied up. In the beginning they tried to do it with metal chains, but the beast broke free. Then they commissioned the dwarves to weave a shackle out of six impossible things: a bear’s sinews, a bird’s spit, a fish’s breath, a mountain’s root, a woman’s beard, and the sound a cat’s paws made as it walked. This magic fetter was no thicker than a silk ribbon, but it worked very well. Fenrir couldn’t escape from it. I invite you to take inspiration from this story, Leo. As you deal with your current dilemma, don’t try to fight strength with strength. Instead, use art, craft, subtlety, and even trickery. I doubt you’ll need to gather as many as six impossible things.

Three will probably be enough. Two might even work fine.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This is a time

when your personal actions will have more power than usual to affect the world around you. The ripples you set in motion could ultimately touch people you don’t even know and transform situations you’re not part of. That’s a lot of responsibility! I suggest, therefore, that you be on your best behavior. Not necessarily your mildest, most polite behavior, mind you. Rather, be brave, impeccable, full of integrity, and a little wild.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Goldfish that

are confined in small aquariums stay small.

Those that spend their lives in ponds get much bigger. What can we conclude from these facts? The size and growth rate of goldfish are directly related to their environment. I’d like to suggest that a similar principle will apply to you Librans in the next ten months. If you want to take maximum advantage of your potential, you will be wise to put yourself in spacious situations that encourage you to expand. For an extra boost, surround yourself with broadminded, uninhibited people who have worked hard to heal their wounds.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Over the

years, you’ve explored some pretty exotic, even strange ideas about what characterizes a good time. In the coming days, I’m guessing you will add to your colorful tradition with some rather unprecedented variations on the definition of “pleasure” and “happiness.” I don’t mean to imply that this is a problem. Not at all. To paraphrase the Wiccan credo, as long as it harms no one (including yourself), anything goes.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

There come times in your life when you have a sacred duty to be open to interesting tangents and creative diversions; times when it makes sense to wander around aimlessly with wonder in your eyes and be alert for unexpected clues that grab your attention. But this is not one of those times, in my opinion. Rather, you really do need to stay focused on what you promised yourself you would concentrate on. The temptation may be high to send out sprays of arrows at several different targets. But I hope that instead you stick to one target and take careful aim with your best shots.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’ve

been meditating on a certain need that you have been neglecting, Capricorn—a need that has been chronically underestimated, belittled, or ignored, by both you and others.

I am hoping that this achy longing will soon be receiving some of your smart attention and tender care. One good way to get the process started is simply to acknowledge its validity and importance. Doing so will reveal a secret that will help you attend to your special need with just the right touch.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Due to

the pressure-packed influences currently coming to bear on your destiny, you have Official Cosmic Permission to fling three dishes against the wall. (But no more than three.) If you so choose, you also have clearance to hurl rocks in the direction of heaven, throw darts at photos of your nemeses, and cram a coconut cream pie into your own face. Please understand, however, that taking actions like these should be just the initial phase of your master plan for the week. In the next phase, you should capitalize on all the energy you’ve made available for yourself through purgative acts like the ones I mentioned. Capitalize how? For starters, you could dream and scheme about how you will liberate yourself from things that make you angry and frustrated.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Check to see

if you’re having any of the following symptoms: 1. sudden eruptions of gratitude; 2. a declining fascination with conflict; 3. seemingly irrational urges that lead you to interesting discoveries; 4. yearnings to peer more deeply into the eyes of people you care about; 5. a mounting inability to tolerate boring influences that resist transformation; 6. an increasing knack for recognizing and receiving the love that’s available to you. If you’re experiencing at least three of the six symptoms, you are certifiably in close alignment with the cosmic flow, and should keep doing what you’ve been doing. If none of these symptoms have been sweeping through you, get yourself adjusted.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at (877) 873-4888 or (900) 950-7700.

by Brad Bynum

Super man Matthew Goedert

Reno’s sixth annual Superhero Crawl, when folks dress like superheroes and walk from bar to bar, will be on Saturday, July 14. A percentage of profits will benefit the children’s educational camp charity Future Kind. For more information, visit www.superherocrawl.com. Matthew Goedert is the founder of the Superhero Crawl.

So this is the sixth year. Take me back to the first year and how it got started.

Well, I run the Reno Santa Crawl, and there was a lot of people asking to do another crawl. This was before Reno became inundated with crawls. ... The reason the Santa Crawl is great is because it sort of brings back your inner child and how much you loved Christmas, and for me, superheroes sort of encompass this magical period in my life where I was able to throw on a towel, wrap it around my neck, pull out this Pez dispenser, which I believed was magic, because it flipped out those little candies and gave me superhero powers, and I thought I could fly.

And I thought, wow, I bet people would really enjoy dressing up as their childhood heroes or make believe. ...

What superheroes have you gone as?

Well, the first year, my friend convinced me to be part of Ace and Gary, which is the Ambiguously Gay Duo, which I had no clue

what that was. He said, you could be Ace or Gary, whichever one you want, and I was like, what?

At the time, you didn’t know that was the Ambiguously Gay Duo? I agreed to be his sidekick. I had no clue! All I knew was he said it was on Saturday Night Live, and it was a spoof. When I figured it out, I was like, oh whatever. I’m OK with that.

[Laughs.] But I remember thinking he’d pulled one over on me. [Another year] I went as the Greatest American Hero. That costume was strange in the sense ... where people just had no clue who that was at all.

Is there something about Reno that makes it ideal for something like this?

It’s a couple of things. For one, I’m a fourth generation Nevadan. I grew up in Reno. I went to Jesse Beck Elementary School and Reno High. I graduated from the University of Nevada. A lot of my extended family still lives there, so I go up and visit. I think Reno’s great, and I’ll always consider—no matter where I’m living—for Reno to be home. ... I originally started Santa Crawl just trying to blow off

∫y Bruce Van Dye

Highway to health care In light of all the analysis, all the comments, all the rhetoric, and all the fallout from the Supreme Court’s Big Decision on Obamacare, this column should totally talk about something else this week. Yeah, right.

A review of the individual mandate is in order, because irony abounds here. Because the accursed, hated, individual mandate (IM) of the Affordable Health Care Act that was a big part of why the thing ended up in the Supreme Court was, in the beginning, a Republican idea!

Cut to November ’93. In response to the health care legislation that the Clintons are trying like hell to get through Congress, a cadre of Repubs, including guys like Alan Simpson, John Warner and Bob Dole, introduce the Health Equity and Access Reform Today Act of 1993. In it, we find, “Effective 1-1-05 [notice the 12 year cushion], each individual who is a citizen of the United States shall be covered under a qualified health plan.”

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If I may digress, what happened to guys like Dole, Warner and Simpson, Republicans you could actually converse with and walk away not wanting to strangle the bastard with his own entrails? (Well, Simpson was a bit of a ball breaker). Now, you’ve got a GOP led by pugnacious, obstinate obstructionists like Boehner, Kantor, Rove, Palin, Limbaugh, Hannity. Forehead, meet cinder block.

Back to that mandate. Just because the Republican plan didn’t pass in ’93 doesn’t mean they gave up on the IM. Far from it. In fact, it shows up in Republican proposals well into the ’00s. Indeed, when a certain governor from a certain state in New England had the chance to sign the IM into law, he did so.

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steam. Santa Crawl is 100 percent charity.

When I ran the Superhero Crawl, all of it went to charity. Ed [Adkins] gives a big portion of it to charity. … And I just didn’t have the time to give enough focus to my job and to the Superhero Crawl and keep the Santa Crawl continuing, so I decided, just for my own sanity, I needed someone to help me out. Ed was doing the other crawls. And we talk a lot, and we share ideas. … And I said are you interested? And we reached an agreement where at least 30 percent of whatever they take in goes to charity, and he said, yeah. That’s our agreement. … Reindeer Games is a 501c3 we put together … and our mandate is that we’re going to help Northern Nevada and local charities. … The Santa Crawl and other crawls provide a huge economic benefit not just for the downtown businesses that need the help. I know a lot of businesses that sort of survive off these events. These are the things that keep their doors open and keep people employed. In addition to that, there are people that travel from out of state to come to these things and fill up the hotel rooms. … Yeah, I grew up there, but Reno provides in downtown Reno a great environment for anybody who wants to go out and have a good time as an adult. There are plenty of opportunities to find great food. There’s tons of entertainment down there. You can watch movies, watch a baseball game, see comedians, a lot of bands. ... I live in San Francisco, and I think most people don’t realize how great it is to walk to place to place and not have to drive all the time. Because everywhere else, or a lot of places, you’re driving from bar to bar if you want to go to two bars. Reno provides the opportunity where people can have a great time and never drink and drive. Ω

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tem in the world realizes—you have to force the young, healthy people to buy health insurance or the whole damned house of wax melts down.

In fact, the Republicans of ’09 were still sorta into the IM. This is just before Republicans across the country started consuming 500 mg of powdered bovine sphincter on a daily basis, as ordered by the lovely and talented Grover Norquist. But something happened in ’09 that caused the Republicans to abandon the IM like heiresses fleeing a limo full of ticks.

That something was when President Obama begrudgingly accepted the IM into his health plan. At that point, the Repubs bailed. Very interesting.

As a rational, easy-goin’ American, what exactly am I to make of this? And why didn’t Tea Party types pitch a super hissy over every state in the Union mandating car insurance? Ω

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