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minority reports see news, page 8.

Reno City CounCil disses Reno City Greenies see Green, page 12.

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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

It’s April Fool’s Day here at the World Headquarters of the Reno News & Review. I’m sitting here trying to figure out how to pull a joke that will work retroactively for readers. So how would that work, anyway?

Would it be permissible for me to set up the joke today, but have it spring when you read this Editor’s Note from April 4-10, or to tell you that the joke was set up in the April Fool’s issue that ran last week?

All right. For those who didn’t believe the story we ran last week that suggested the new parking meter stations might be working, and everyone who parks downtown should go ahead and pay for their time using our public streets, it’s possible we were joking. And for those who believed us when we said we believe Marc Johnson when he said the University of Nevada, Reno has no secret plans for developing the university farm over by Wolfpack Meats, well, it was the April Fool’s issue.

And, for the individuals who read last week’s Editor’s Note and interpreted it as saying that the newsprint version of the RN&R is going away, I’d just like to say that I appreciate your kind words thanking me for my years of contributions to Reno culture, and I’d like to emphasize that had I actually written that, it would have been an awesome April Fool’s Day joke for today. What I actually wrote was that for local newsprint newspapers to exist in the future, local newsprint newspapers must accentuate what they do well: stories about local people and events that are paid for by ads that run next to the local content on newsprint, so readers get the information they crave, and advertisers get the results they demand. I also said that newspapers—even free ones—should consider ways to give print newspapers exclusive content. While I personally intend to learn how to make apps for tablets, the whole organization is absolutely committed to the print newspaper. The internet’ll take this newspaper when it can pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Re: “No, you!” (Letters to the Editor, March 28): Nuh-uh!

You get over it!

Flombaye Krishnabob Ellison Sacramento

Re “Isn’t that special?” (Letters to the Editor, March 21): Elizabeth Zbinden believes that the net proceeds tax on minerals is an additional tax burden on mining operations.

It is not an additional tax on mines.

In fact, it is a preferential method of appraising and assessing mineral deposits. All other property in the state is taxed on the value of the property and not on the annual net proceeds.

Net proceeds are equivalent to annual net income rather than the value of the property. In order to arrive at the value of the property, an appraiser would divide the proceeds by the appropriate capitalization rate. Thus, the value of the ore deposit would be more than the annual proceeds.

Improvements (buildings, etc) at the mine are appraised and assessed just like all other property in the state.

Preferential assessment is limited to the mineral deposit.

I recommend an informative book by Romanzo Adams, Taxation in Nevada: A History. The Nevada Historical Society published this book in 1918. Adams provided a thorough discussion of the controversy during the two constitutional conventions. It is clear from that discussion that mining interests were able to secure an exemption of mines from the general property tax for the tax on net proceeds. Two points are clear in that discussion. First, the net proceeds tax is not an additional burden. Instead, the net proceeds tax is in lieu of the general property tax.

Second, from the time-consuming and expensive effort mining interests engaged in on the constitutional conventions, they obviously thought that it was a preferential method for assessing their property.

The point of industry-specific taxes raised by Zbinden deserves comment, too. A tax on insurance premiums constitutes a sizable portion of the state’s general fund. Another example is the tax on hotel and motel rooms. These are truly additional taxes on these industries. The net proceeds tax is not.

Glen Atkinson Reno

When it comes to Social Security, pay me back just what I’ve paid in now, no interest, we’ll call it even.

Social Security has become nothing more than income tax to the government thrown into the general fund.

Seems to me that it would make more sense to curb population growth instead of offering poor health care through Obamacare, which will contribute to older people dying early and eases the burden on government by having to pay Social Security benefits longer. Is this Obama’s master plan? Is having people die off early the way Obama plans to pay for Obamacare?

Mike Arp Reno

Food for thought Re “Designer Genes” (Green, March 28): I believe Sage Leehey did a fine job of journalism, reporting both sides of an important, complicated issue in one short article. Leehey pointed out that the company patenting the new technology, Monsanto, performed adequate testing as required by the USDA who, in turn, reviewed the data and approved the release of these new organisms as “GRAS,” or “Generally Recognized as Safe.”

In another field, this research would be regarded as a conflict of interest and discarded as inappropriate.

Further researches conducted by independent scientific studies have found serious flaws in the Monsanto and USDA data.

Whether you believe that Monsanto has performed their testing with all due diligence and that the USDA would not allow harmful bioorganisms into our food supply and environment or you trust the independent studies and the reports of individuals and their health concerns, the ultimate answer is that you and I should be able to make our decisions freely, and not have this important information hidden from us.

The point is, as AB330 proposes, is to simple label genetically altered packaged foods found in our grocery stores so that we, the consumers, have the information to make our own decision as to what we want to put on our family’s plates.

Do you know what’s in your food? You might be surprised!

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Sunset in America Re “Jury is not out on sequester” (The Liberty Belle, March 14): The story regarding the sequester hit on several key points such as Congress isn’t willing to [cut their own spending], their salaries will go untouched, and fears of the sequester hurting the poor will most likely come true. I agree that the people have become numb to the economic situation unfolding around them. When we the people wake up, it may be to late for us to act on our given rights as a U.S. citizens, since our rights were taken away when Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act. At any given time the government can and will take from us our last and only means for change.

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Do we need to say more?

Congress and the government is broken, and we the people know it!

The government is not going to fix itself. When they gave the power of the vote and the voice to the corporations they took away the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness that was given to the people by our forefathers. When they put the power of the vote in the hands of the corporations for their own personal gain they became destructive of these ends.

The Declaration Of Independence further states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by there creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Is the government giving us life and liberty? Or is it sucking the life out of the people for Congressmembers’ own personal gain? Is there pursuit of happiness for the people in the land of the free?

The power has been given to the people by our forefathers to make change and we the people can make that change. If the government no longer serves the purpose for which it was created—to serve the people— then it is broken.

If we do not come together and make that change then our voices at some point will fall silent within the walls of the NDAA. Rick Carter via email

Correction In “The next scenes” (Arts & Culture, March 28), we reported that the film Massacre Creek would play the Black Box Film Festival. That film is still in pre-production and will not play the festival this year.

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What’s the next big thing?

Asked at the Reno Arch Pat Thomas Retiree

I think the next big thing is that we’re going to go totally to that object in your hand [iPhone]. No books or anything like that. We’re going to totally rely on those little computers.

Tanya Sisson Insurance agent

I would just say music. Hip hop in general. I think just some groovy beats coming our way will be the next big thing.

Scott Brooks Entrepreneur

Just legalize everything This sudden spate of liberal legislation feels surreal.

This newspaper has been advocating for the gay community, legalization of marijuana, increased taxes on foreign-owned businesses (like corporate casinos and mining), and a path to citizenship for immigrants for as long as we can remember.

Unfortunately, because we’ve also been advocating civil disobedience in the case of marijuana legalization, we can’t really remember when that started, but trust us, we were for common sense reform of fascist laws long before anyone else thought the idea was cool.

However, since none of this stuff—pot legalization, gay marriage legalization, mine tax reform or immigration reform—has actually passed, please allow us to add our voice to the freedom-loving cacophony.

Nevada should join Colorado and Washington in making recreational use of marijuana legal. At the very least, this state should make it easy for sick people to get their medicine. Reno should be prepared for the land planning issues of dispensaries, and we should go these other states one better and create a reciprocal agreement that enables card-carrying individuals to consume their medicine here, and people who are state-recognized medical marijuana producers elsewhere should be able to sell their produce here. It’s good business, good civic planning and good karma to help sick people.

People should be able to marry who they want.

That seems obvious. After the Supreme Court enjoyed the oral ... arguments ... on the topic last week, it also seems as though that court is unwilling to make sweeping changes to the laws of the land. We’ll know soon enough, but we were also disappointed that one argument near and dear to our hearts wasn’t made. In OPINION

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If I knew, I would open a business that does it. But if I had to guess ... I don’t know. New York pizza truck because there’s always Mexican food trucks.

That’s going to be my new business.

the Nevada Constitution the prohibition reads like this: “Only a marriage between a male and female person shall be recognized and given effect in this state.”

Shouldn’t this sentence at least be modified to include non-hermaphroditic men and women? Something like “Only a marriage between two people shall be recognized and given effect in this state”? How much more logical can we be, for pity’s sake? If we’re going to restrict definitions, it seems clear we should restrict the meaning of “person” to mean one individual. And that’d also proactively prohibit polygamy (although to be truthful, we’re not altogether sure that polygamy should be forbidden among people older than 18).

As far as a path to citizenship, again, we’re only looking for reason. Why isn’t there a statute of limitations for illegal immigration? In the vast majority of cases, these individuals that the haters among us want to send away have never been formally accused of a crime.

All other things aside, aren’t people with a demonstrated ability to be law-abiding citizens the very people we want at the front of the line? If the law was broken when they illegally passed into this country, can’t we accept that after seven years, enough time has passed in a common law definition of statute of limitations? In other words, you may have demonstrably broken the speed limit seven years ago, but nobody would say it is just to cite you now.

Finally, with regard to the mines. No business deserves a constitutionally established exception to being responsible citizens. Nevada has been treated as a colony to railroads, corporations and foreign-owned mining interests long enough. We want corporations who treat our land like a $2 whore to pay their $2. Ω |

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Cure for cancer. I think they’ve come a long way with gene mapping. They can target only certain cells and nothing else, so I think they can target just the cancer.

Raj Mainali Teaching assistant

I’m not from here, but I would say it’s going to be a new technology. Something to stop the chlorofluorocarbons and dangerous rays that we have problems with every day. I think it will be a new technology to stop that.

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Last Tuesday was a historic day for Meanwhile, on the same day on marriage equality in Nevada and in the other side of the country, the U.S. the nation. Rarely have we seen the Supreme Court heard arguments on country shift so decisively towards whether Proposition 8, a California justice over the course of just a voter initiative to define marriage as few years, a truly hopeful sign of a a union between a man and a woman, progressive future. violates the U.S. Constitution. The Even the Conservative Political court’s decision won’t be known for Action Conference (CPAC) experimonths, but it could directly affect enced a seismic shift in attitude this Nevada’s law. If the justices decide past month. According to an article same-sex marriage cannot be banned in BuzzFeed titled “At CPAC, the in the eight states like Nevada that Marriage Fight is Over,� conservahave approved the “benefits and tives in favor of marriage equality burdens of marriage through civil spoke to a big crowd at their annual unions but without the designation of conference while opponents of gay marriage,� Nevada’s constitutional rights proclaimed their views to a provision will not stand. mostly empty room.

Nevada is a state that allows In Nevada, a hearing was held civil on a proposed constitutional amend- 5“everything but marriage�

LA023107B 3/14/2013 unions based on our domestic ment, SJR 13, sponsored by Sen. KHOWARD partnership law, approved by the Tick Segerblom, D-Las Vegas. The 2009 LegislatureMining by a vote of exactly measure begins the five-year process two-thirds, after Gov. Jim Gibbons of removing marriage discrimination vetoed the measure. Earlier that from the state’s constitution after session, advocates were offered a voters approved the provision in 2000 and 2002, convinced by conser- compromise by then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio, to replace the vative groups that Nevada would be

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bill with language of “reciprocal beneficiaries,� essentially allowing any two adults to have power of attorney and name each other as an insurance beneficiary, something that was already allowed but through a more cumbersome process.

Some advocates wanted to take the Raggio deal, reasoning that “something was better than nothing� and anything that moved Nevada in the right direction was meaningful.

Others argued, successfully, that this was a point in time when there should be no compromise, preferring defeat over a reform that was little more than existing law.

The final vote was a nail-biter as rounding up the last few votes to get to two-thirds depended on finding solutions to objections raised by individual legislators, amid increasFREEP0001 ing pressure from religious leaders, especially on the Mormon and Catholic legislators.

In the Senate, a gay son convinced his Republican father to support the measure, much like the conversion of Sen. Rob Portman

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last month when he announced he favored gay marriage so that his son would “have the same opportunities as his brother and sister� to find happiness through marriage.

In the Assembly, the last vote was secured by Speaker Barbara Buckley through one-on-one conversations with a member who needed to be convinced that his wife would not be able to withdraw an inheritance from his children should he die, and she establish a domestic partnership.

The issue had little to do with civil unions, except in his tortured mind, but the Speaker was able to patiently address his irrational fears and convince him to join in an historic victory for civil rights in Nevada.

While Nevada awaits the Supreme Court’s decision, activists are once again split on how hard to push for replacing the prohibition on gay marriage with an affirmative vote for marriage equality. While compromise is a hallmark of the legislative process, on the matter of equal rights, compromise is just not good enough. Ί

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Support marriage equality Last week, a collision of civil rights, religion and politics shook the Supreme Court as hearings on California’s samesex marriage ban, Proposition 8, commenced and was soon followed by a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act. DOMA is a federal act that denies financial and other by Channelle legal benefits to married same-sex Bessette couples. Both Proposition 8 and the DOMA have acted as suppressors of the civil rights of homosexual couples, and while the Supreme Court hearings may not have been particularly effective in the fight to grant constitutional protection to same-sex marriages, the fact that they were being considered can be seen as important progress.

With nine states—Washington, Iowa, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and Maryland, plus Washington, D.C.—currently allowing same-sex marriage, it is clear that historical opposition to gay marriage is making a swift turnaround. According to a Gallup poll, 2011 was the first year when,

at 53 percent, more Americans favored gay marriage than opposed it. This percentage dropped down to 50 percent in 2012 with 48 percent opposition, which was still a high historical percentage. As homosexual representation becomes more prominent in media, politics and entertainment, it’s likely that support will only increase.

Opponents of same-sex marriage tend to primarily offer religious arguments for the continued repression of gay civil rights. These include such biblical classics as Leviticus 20:13: “If a man also lies with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: They shall surely be put to death,” or the rabid chanting of “Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Steve.” Besides the inane proposed precedent of using Bible scripture as a lens for sexual morality, religious belief deserves little to no consideration in a court of law where church and state are separate. Secular arguments are even more ridiculous. The primary

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claims that I have heard revolve around two issues: The fact that gay couples cannot naturally have children together and that same-sex marriages will destroy the institution of marriage as a whole. Apparently, people who make these arguments don’t care about the rights of infertile couples and think that Kim Kardashian’s 72-day marriage deserves more respect than Ellen Degeneres and Portia De Rossi’s long-term relationship. In short, I have yet to hear one compelling reason why homosexual couples should not get married.

I’m not going to put all gay people on a pedestal and assume that they will be 100 percent perfect couples and parents 100 percent of the time, but, ultimately, if two people who love each other wish to partake of the legal and social benefits that heterosexual couples enjoy, then let them. The government has no place to interfere. As it stands, gay people are treated as second-class citizens, not unlike black people in the pre-civil rights

era, who weren’t allowed to drink from the same fountains as white people, let alone have mixed-race marriages.

Here in Nevada, there is currently a resolution on the docket for discussion in this legislative session known as SJR13 that “proposes to amend the Nevada Constitution to repeal the limitation on the recognition of marriage.” I encourage all readers of the Reno News & Review to pay close attention to this bill and to use the opinion page on the Nevada Legislature website (https://www.leg.state. nv.us/App/Opinions/77th2013/A/) to show your support of a repeal.

That is, unless the federal government gets to it first and rightfully declares same-sex marriage legal across the whole of the United States. Like it or not, “the times they are a-changin’” for civil rights, and there is no doubt in my mind that same-sex marriage will be legal across the United States in our lifetime. Now, the question is, which side of history will you be on? Ω

To hear the arguments before U.S. Supreme Court, check out http://www. supremecourt.gov/ oral_arguments/ argument_audio.aspx.

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Elvira Diaz introduces her son Christan to Cesar Reyes and Chris Reyes, who—as the duo Eross—provided the music at the annual Cesar Chavez banquet in Reno on March 28.

Museums Inc.?

There is a dispute underway among supporters of the state’s historical museums about their future.

The focus of their concern is Senate Bill 145 and Assembly Bill 384. Those measures are being described as a way to make the museums private. Last week, historical appraiser Howard W. Herz, who has written books on casino history, sent out a letter calling attention to the bills.

“Initially, I was a supporter of the [Friends of the Nevada Historical Society] group, as I have been very active in helping the society since 2006,” he wrote. “I have been well aware of their financial burdens and excellent performance in spite of it. In 2012, I became aware that this group of supporters (now the Nevada Historical Foundation), had changed their focus and had begun to seek support to take the society into private hands, privately administer the society, fire the present employees (state employees), appoint their own director, strip the museum of its artifacts and turn the Society into essentially a manuscript research-only facility.”

Retired NHS employee Phil Earl said he was aware of the Foundation’s activities, but he did not take an unfavorable view.

S.B. 145 would regulate public/private partnerships. A.B. 384 deals with how historical material is handled after it comes into state ownership and authorizing the state Division of Museums and History to enter into contracts with private nonprofit groups.

However, Assemblymember Pat Hickey pulled the assembly version, saying, “The bill’s requesters thought they had a deal worked out to help privately fundraise for the Nevada Historical Society.

They did not.”

Getting straight Political parties mend their ways

Prevailing wage study released The University of Nevada, Reno economics department has released a study of prevailing wages and their impact.

Prevailing wage laws require that the approximate average local wage be paid on public works. Such laws are intended to prevent business from using its enormous influence to drive down wages. In Nevada business has made efforts in most recent legislatures to get the law repealed or its provisions cut (“Prescription for recovery: cut wages,” RN&R, March 14).

The UNR study compared effects on construction costs and construction wages among Mountain states that repealed prevailing wage laws (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho and Utah) with Mountain states where the laws were retained (Montana, Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming). It found repeal has only a minor impact on wages but drives substantial cuts in employee benefits like health insurance, resulting in increased use of government social services.

The prevailing wage is determined by surveys of the state labor commissioner, though some are caustic toward that office these days. “[T]he existing prevailing wage law has been only sporadically enforced,” wrote columnist Andrew Barbano recently. Responses from employers to the newest survey are due July 15.

Krolicki backs pipeline Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki joined 21 other state lieutenant governors in endorsing the Keystone XL pipeline.

“On behalf of 22 Republican lieutenant governors nationwide who have responsibilities for promoting economic development and job creation within their states, we urge that this Administration recognize the overwhelming benefits to the states and their citizens associated with the building of this critical pipeline,” read a letter to President Obama signed by Krolicki as chair of the group.

“We see a tremendous positive economic impact for states directly resulting from the construction of this national strategic asset. Welders, electricians, heavy equipment operators and families in virtually every state in the U.S. will be the recipients of more jobs and bolstered local economies.”

In January 2012, President Obama vetoed the pipeline application after protests about its environmental impact. The application has been retooled to try to satisfy those concerns.

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After decades in the wilderness, Latinos and gays are being fiercely courted by by politicians.

Dennis Myers In D.C., Democratic senators have been abandoning their previous positions on marriage equality with such alacrity that journalists have had difficulty keeping up-to-date tallies.

And their Republican counterparts, still smarting from the 2012 election, have begun shaving the edges off their most hard-edged issue policy positions, particularly immigration, to widen GOP appeal to Latinos.

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There are parallels to these kinds of activity back in Nevada, though with less intensity—in the Republican case, with only a low flame.

At the annual Cesar Chavez banquet last week at Circus Circus— organizers give the dinner to the casino/hotel because it is one of two union houses in Reno—Elvira Diaz wandered among the tables chatting with friends and musing on the GOP effort to get straight with Latinos.

“I feel very excited because now, Latinos, we will be going out and vote and now we count. ... [W]e

participate, and it’s very interesting for me because now they’re going to listen to our issues. And for us, it’s important they listen to our issues so we can have, you know, a better life here.”

Voter registration volunteer Zuly Lopez, working at the event, said of the change in GOP strategy, “I think that’s great. I think it’s about time.”

She said in her experience—such as at her church—there are Republican Latinos, which provides fertile ground for the party to till.

Evan Prostero Vargas, a community organizer working on voter registration, said he wants both parties to be pursuing Latino votes.

“We are definitely thankful [for the more welcoming attitude from Republicans],” he said. “We are pushing for the cause, which is immigration reform. We want both Democrats and Republicans to be on the same page.”

But the banquet itself was not exactly proof of the Republican effort to court Latinos. Though the event was an obvious opportunity for Republicans, no GOP party or elected officials attended. As best could be determined, there was one prominent Republican in the room, and that one didn’t want to be interviewed. A dinner organizer tried to find a Republican without success.

The single Republican present noted privately that Republicans make far more of an effort at the annual NAACP dinner. She speculated that while the GOP is courting Latinos, it’s

less comfortable running that courtship at an event honoring a Latino icon who was also a labor leader.

Veteran Republican strategist Pete Ernaut said later that he thinks candidates missed a bet.

“It certainly is disappointing not to see more Republicans at this important function,” he said. “The key to getting people in your corner is putting in the work, using the elbow grease, and I think most Republicans would be well-served to remember that.”

That left the hall to Democrats like Washoe County Commissioner Kitty Jung, whose commission district has the highest percentage of Latinos of the five commission seats. Perhaps surprisingly, she did not knock the new Republican tactics.

“I think it’s great,” she said. “I think every group and subgroup should have the political muscle that all parties want to solicit their vote. I think it makes Latinos stronger.”

The previous day, the Washoe Democratic Party had held a fundraising dinner at the same time as a campus commemoration of Cesar Chavez at which Democratic Sen. Ruben Kihuen spoke. Asked if there was a danger of Democrats taking Latinos for granted, Jung said that if she had anything to say about it, that would be avoided.

“Wow, I sure hope we don’t, because they’ve sure come out for us at the national level, the state level and certainly at the local level,” she said. “I guess I should be cautiously optimistic that we’re a little more progressive in advanced thinking than to consider we just automatically get somebody’s vote. I think we work pretty hard for every vote that we get.”

There was a certain amount of wishfulness that Republicans had come around without having to be hit over the head in the election, but also a we’ll-take-what-we-can-get attitude.

Diaz put it this way: “I would love to say they should do it because it’s the right thing to do, but sometimes you’ve got to train communities to do a mind change, and the important thing is, at the end of the day, if they do the right thing … we’ll work together and do good things for the community.”

The other side Last month, as March 26 Supreme Court arguments on marriage equality approached, Democrats in the U.S. Senate were scrambling to get straight on the issue, particularly after new opinion polls showed rapidly changing public sentiment. If the Supreme Court

overturned anti-gay laws, Democrats who failed to change would be stuck with anti-gay positions.

Senate Democrats Claire McCaskill of Missouri on March 24, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, Tim Johnson of South Dakota, and Mark Warner of Virginia on March 25, Jon Tester of Montana on March 26, and Kay Hagen of North Carolina on March 27 switched their positions in various ways. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans were spending up to $3 million to support the legal fight against marriage equality.

In Nevada, Democrats didn’t make a show of changing their stances as federal Democrats did. Until this year’s Nevada Legislature, only two state legislative Democrats were known to be outright supporters of marriage equality—former senator Sheila Leslie of Washoe County and Sen. David Parks of Clark County.

But if legislative Democrats did not call news conferences, they did reveal their changes of mind with a different kind of gesture. Nine senators and seven assemblymembers put their name on a constitutional amendment to let voters decide whether to repeal the state’s ban on marriage equality. Not one Republican in either house took a similar position.

In a Senate hearing last week, lawmakers’ testimony was overshadowed by those more directly affected, like Beverly Sevcick: “For me, if you love someone, you marry that person.

“It’s important they listen to our issues.”

Elvira Diaz Latina leader It breaks my heart that I cannot marry a person I love so much and have spent the last four decades with.”

Independent American Party member John Wagner countered, “God ordained marriage be between a man and a woman.”

Nevadans in 2002 approved a state constitutional ban on marriage equality, a vote that was a product of an initiative petition. Change was already under way—constitutional amendments sponsored by signatures must be voted on twice, and support for the measure declined by three percent in 2002 from 2000.

A constitutional amendment sponsored by the legislature must pass two legislative sessions by simple majorities and then be voted on by the public once. An opinion survey commissioned by the Retail Association of Nevada on various legislative issues and released in February showed that 54 percent of those surveyed support marriage equality. Approval of the legislative proposal would spare marriage equality supporters the effort of gathering signatures for an initiative petition as well as the financial cost of an additional election. Ω

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Inez Casale, known to her longtime customers as Mama Casale, spoke with a distinguished visitor, Gov. Brian Sandoval, at her Halfway Club in Reno. The Club, a bar and restaurant, has been a fixture in the valley since it opened in the 1930s on Fourth Street in the long gap between Reno and Sparks—when there was a long gap between Reno and Sparks.

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In the wake of the rezoning of 104 acres of the 1,000-acre Main Station Farm to commercial development, some members of the community feel as though the Reno City Council and the University of Nevada, Reno by Sage Leehey have betrayed them.

Amber Sallaberry, co-founder and general manager of the Great Basin sage l@ Community Food Co-op, said that community concerns were not heard. newsreview.c om “UNR is a land grant university, and we, as constituents, should have a say in this decision,” Sallaberry said. “UNR is treating it as their private ATM machines, so they can pay off debt.”

She expressed that she was frustrated and disheartened by the decision.

“Ultimately, as our city leaders, they should make visionary, large picture decisions for our community as a whole,” Sallaberry said.

“I’m super disappointed in our leadership right now, and I feel sad saying that.”

Marc Johnson, UNR’s president, said that the university took community opinion into account in their decision through “a large public forum and a number of small group meetings.”

“In the process, although the position of the opposition to the zoning did not change, we were able to address a lot of these issues,” Johnson said.

Sallaberry is worried the community is being stripped of a huge asset with this rezoning. She said the land at Main Station Farm has an incredible amount of biomass activity that is important to sustainable growing systems, particularly in the parcel. Its existence means farmers don’t need to use many chemicals or artificial amendments to the soil. These high levels are because the land is on a flood plain, and Sallaberry said it would take about 50 to 60 years for the kind of biomass activity in that area to be emulated in other areas, and even in other plots on that farm.

Sallaberry also voiced concerns for Wolf Pack Meats, the only USDA-certified slaughter and meat-packing facility in the area. She believes having businesses 100 feet away will ultimately cause its closure.

Johnson said he didn’t see any future threats to the facility because it has a legal right to be there since it is preexisting, and there have been odor complaints before.

During the Council meeting, Johnson pointed to the High Desert Farming Initiative to answer concerns about sustainable growing education being discontinued by this rezoning. It will consist of six hoop houses and a greenhouse. Johnson said it will be used “to demonstrate how you can make a viable business at fairly low cost with these technologies” and to be an example of local food production.

This project has taken longer than expected, but Sam Males, the state director for Nevada Small Business Development Center, said ground will be broken on the project in the next couple of weeks, and he hopes construction will be done by the end of June. This project will exist on only one acre of land, but Males expects it “to expand if it grows like [he] thinks it will.”

Johnson also said that there are currently no “immediate plans to develop the 104 acres,” and the rest of the Main Station Farm will continue to be used for agricultural research and education. Ω OPINION

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ith a quick flourish of a curtain, a woman disappears into a metal box. Then, with dramatic panache, magician Eli Kerr drives a series of flaming spears through the box. His assistants spin the box around, to show the audience every angle. Kerr removes the spears, waves the curtain, and the woman reappears—unharmed, of course. It seems the trick is over, until Kerr waves the curtain again and, unexpectedly, a second woman appears.

It’s a good little piece of magic—one that’s impressive for its athleticism and showmanship, even if you think you know how it’s done. Kerr performed it at his recent run of shows at Sammy’s Showroom in Harrah’s, and there’s a good clip floating around the internet of him performing it on the NBC show America’s Got Talent.

What some locals might not know, if they’ve only ever seen him on billboards around town, is that Kerr is a local guy who grew up in Carson City. And interestingly enough, just down the road at the Eldorado is another magic show— this one’s ongoing—called Kevin & Caruso’s Magique. And they’re also guys who grew up in Reno.

“I don’t think both hotels said we should do a magic show at the same time,” says Kevin Jeffrey, the “Kevin” half of the duo. “I think it just happened to work out like that, which is strange unto itself. … But Eli and I have been friends since we were teenagers, so there was certainly no bad blood between us about it, In fact, he allowed us to use his warehouse to rehearse our show.”

in magic, there’s tension between sharing knowledge and protecting secrets.

Jeffrey was born and raised in Reno, and has spent the last 20 years working in magic, staging big productions—lots of pyrotechnics and costume changes—in Florida and for Carnival Cruise lines. Kevin and Caruso’s Reno production is one of these big shows, also featuring guest magician Mark Kornhauser, another local magician with a national reputation.

“It used to be better to be from somewhere else,” says Kerr. But as tourism numbers have declined in recent years, the casinos have made a larger effort to appeal to locals, which has meant more locals in the spotlight. This isn’t to say that these performers are benefiting from a local favoritism— they’re fully legit magic acts that happen to be local. And

“We love to foster new magic addicts,” says magician Dean Hankey.

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magic shows are good for Reno stages because of the shows’ wide appeal.

“It’s one of the only areas of entertainment where you have the opportunity to reach such a huge demographic,” says Jeffrey, adding that audience members range in age from 5 to 95.

Though it might appear that the two magic shows were in direct competition, and were hosted by rival casinos, it’s interesting that there exists among the magicians themselves a spirit of camaraderie and collaboration.

Kerr owns an 8,000-square-foot warehouse east of Carson City that serves as an industrial magic shop. In addition to being an onstage performer, Kerr also builds props and illusion devices for himself and other magicians.

The warehouse, which he jokingly calls “the batcave,” is a workshop for building illusions, a storage place for the many props for his magic shows and his annual haunted house events every October. There’s also a lounge area, offices and a gym.

Kerr and a colleague, Erin Lopez, build all sorts of strange props and illusions there for Kerr, Kevin and Caruso, acclaimed local magic duo Kalin and Jinger, and many others.

“It’s not like you just go to work building a house and that’s how it’s done,” says Lopez.

“You’re working from an idea someone scribbled on a napkin, and you have to figure it out. … It’s not just hammering nails and collecting a paycheck.”

And though it was originally intended to be more of a workspace than a rehearsal space, Kerr’s warehouse has taken on that role as well. He rehearsed his show there, as did Kevin and Caruso. Kerr has also rented it out to a burlesque troupe or two as well as to other magicians.

“Magicians, especially those that do large illusions, often don’t have a place to do it,” says Kerr.

Kerr believes that collaboration is good for magic, which tends to be viewed as an underdog artform. He says he benefits from other magicians having successful shows.

“Someone else’s bad show would hurt my business more than a good one,” he says.

A bad experience at one magic show would discourage an audience from attending another magician’s show.

He says that growing up in Northern Nevada helped instill in him some of that collaborative spirit. Magicians from larger markets, with more firmly entrenched magic scenes, like Las Vegas or Los Angeles, tend to have an off-putting competitive edge.

One of Kerr’s most frequent collaborators is his sister, Katie Kerr—she’s one of his assistants, the woman in the box.

“He had a box and needed a girl to get in it,” she says. “After that, I was hooked. … It gets pretty physical, you get a lot of bruises—and impaled, and cut in half.”

Unlike being a dancer, she says, it helps for a magician’s assistant to be petite like her—getting crammed into various boxes and other tiny spaces is easier that way. And she agrees that there’s a collaborative spirit among local magicians.

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Local magician and prop-master Eli Kerr swallowing fire!

“magic, to magicians, really is an artform. Unfortunately it’s at the bottom of the list for traditional art people.”

Eli KErr magician “Everybody ends up working together,” she says. “We support each other, go see each others’ shows.”

And though he’s lived out of the state for several years, Jeffrey says Northern Nevada was a good place to come of age as a magician.

“I remember many times where we’d be at the rib cook-off or the state fair, and Eli was on one end of the street performing the ‘Metamorphosis’”—a famous trick where a magician seems to suddenly transform into an assistant or vice versa—“and we’d be on the other end of the fair doing the same thing,”

says Jeffrey. “It wasn’t like we were the only ones doing this. There was a community of magicians.”

Licensed to iLLusion Many of the local magicians cite Dean Hankey as a mentor figure. He’s the founder and president of High Sierra Magic Circle, a local magic club that meets once a month at a Denny’s Restaurant. (Where else?) He describes the club as “small, but proactive.” The group recruits international lecturers to give presentations about magic-related topics a few times a year.

Hankey describes the membership as ranging “from interested enthusiasts, hobbyists and collectors to full-time professional performers.”

The group formed five years ago. Guests are welcome to check it out a couple of times, and membership dues are $15 for a year—which goes to recruiting the guest speakers. A second, more informal group, Washoe Wizards, also meets once a month at the same Denny’s, 205 Nugget Ave., Sparks. There’s a lot of overlap in membership, but the Wizards tend to be experienced magicians. The High Sierra meetings appeal more to newbies looking to learn.

“It’s a common interest social environment first, but because our common interest is magic, we always get around to speaking about magic,” says Hankey.

“The meetings are great,” says Randy Cagle, who, at age 23, is one of the younger members of the group. “A lot of these guys have a wealth of knowledge. Even if I know all the tricks they’re doing I’m still learning something about it, they’ve doing it so long they know all the nuances. And they’re nice guys.”

In magic, there’s a hint of tension between the sharing of knowledge and the protecting of secrets. Topics discussed freely among dues-paying members might be taboo around outsiders.

“There is a considerable subculture in magic, both locally and internationally, and there is a level of secrecy, for sure, in the industry, but we love to foster new magic addicts,” says Hankey. “Most of us, especially of the male persuasion, were fascinated by magic when we were kids. And for some of us, it just sort of stuck. But largely because—and this is kind of a community conjecture or communal hypothesis—why we’re into magic is because we’re otherwise social reprobates. It was kind of a social coping tool. … It gave us a tool to more effectively cope in social situations—to be like, ‘Hey, let me show you this!’”

For some magicians, that “social coping mechanism” evolved into an artform. For Kerr, for example, that includes building unique art objects and performing on stage.

“Magic, to magicians, really is an artform,” he says. “Unfortunately it’s at the bottom of the list for traditional art people.”

Kerr has been dedicated to his craft since high school—he didn’t drink, didn’t do drugs.

He was working every weekend—building props, practicing tricks, performing at banquets, corporate events and whatever else. He’d often volunteer to perform at charity events.

“There’s not one charitable organization that doesn’t want someone to come perform at their benefit event,” he says.

Kerr says it helped people remember him that he’s unique looking. He has a very fair complexion, and long blond hair—he looks like either an ancient warlock or a 1970s blues guitarist.

Of course, magic has changed a lot over the years, partly because of the advent of the internet. Like record stores and video shops, brick-and-mortar magic shops have largely made like a rabbit and disappeared. This has eliminated one of the primary meeting places for magicians. The internet has also changed the way aspiring magicians learn tricks—many of them now do so by watching online videos.

They learn technique but not the showmanship that comes from learning the trick from

a mentor and then performing in front of an audience.

Dennis “Merlinski” Dobies, a member of the High Sierra Magic Circle, teaches magic courses at Truckee Meadows Community College. He hasn’t taught the classes in a couple of years, but will do so again this fall.

He’s a former school principal from Honolulu who moved here 10 years ago. He teaches magic in three tiers: first, tricks; then, routines; and finally, showmanship.

“It doesn’t necessarily mean entertainment if you know some tricks,” he says. “There’s a big difference. It’s all about presentation. You could have the best chops in the world and bore people to death. … What makes the magic is your delivery of it and how you present it.

That’s what my third class is—you’ve learned these things, you’ve linked them together, now let’s make it fun and entertaining for your audience. You don’t want to bore people or get arrested for loitering in front of a microphone.”

“There’s a ton of performers who do good magic but not good entertainment, because, again, the problem of the disconnect between the apprenticeship that comes from live teaching and developing a personality versus learning through a disconnected medium like video or the internet,” says Hankey.

But some younger magicians, like Cagle, seem to enjoy developing routines that aren’t revealed online.

“It’s actually really impressive how secretive magicians can keep it,” he says. “Even on

the internet you can find stuff but it’s surprising how much is even kept off YouTube. Most of the tricks I do, I’ve looked for on YouTube, and you can’t find them. It’s pretty impressive the brotherhood that’s formed over that.”

“We love keeping secrets,” says Hankey.

“We’re not going to tell you how to saw a lady in half, or do some of the classics and standards. But we love teaching people the basic principles of magic.”

But the illusions themselves are not why magic has such perennial appeal—as Kerr says, “Every 10 years, Reno blows up with magic”—it’s the personalities that present them.

There are a lot of analogues to music. There are boring virtuosi. And there are rock stars with barely better-than-amateur chops.

The key to magic is presentation—pacing a show well, and presenting it with humor and personality.

“For me to go to a magic show and be fooled is a pretty tall order at this point in my career,” says Hankey. “I go and I say, ‘What spectacular costumes,’ or ‘What fascinating staging,’ or ‘What an entertaining presentation of that classic piece of entertainment.’”

“If the most entertaining thing in my show was the expensive prop I rolled out, then something’s wrong,” says Kerr. It’s kind of like when you see a band and the best thing about them is their amps. “Hopefully when you leave one of my shows, you feel like you’ve made a new friend.”

The metal box illusion he performed on television is an ancient trick—sometimes called the “Indian basket trick”—but he added some modern twists, some technological updates, some pyrotechnics, some athleticism—he and his assistants tossing around flaming spears— and, most importantly the force of his own personality, and made the trick his own.

“Magic is not mainstream, and it never will be,” he says. “People are never going to jump in their cars and turn on their magic tricks. It can be a fun form of entertainment, but not every day.”

Then again, the whole point of magic is that it’s not part of the everyday experience. It’s unusual. Ω For more information, visit www.elikerr.com www.deanhankey.com/magic www.kevinandcaruso.com www.magicofmerlinski.com www.highsierramagic.com

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Squaw Valley Institute aims to bring brains to the beauty

by Tim Hauserman

W

hen people think of Lake Tahoe, they might think of skiing the powder, hiking the Tahoe Rim Trail, or dipping their paddle into the lake’s deep blue waters. In the winter, locals dash out before work for a skate ski at Tahoe Cross-Country Ski Area, while in the summer early mornings are spent carving turns on Tahoe’s classy calm waters on a water ski or wakeboard. For many who live in Tahoe, outdoor recreation is the primary focus of life, but Tahoe folks also crave a bit of intellectual stimulation. Over the past few years, one important place they go to for their regular dose of brain development is the Squaw Valley Institute, which brings world class speakers and events to the North TahoeTruckee community.

Squaw Valley Institute executive director Renee Koijane, who became the director about a year ago, says her goals for SVI are to “bring in people that are not accessible here otherwise. I want to make it something our community holds precious and dear. A place to keep on learning, exploring and discovering.” One recent event presented by Squaw Valley Institute was surfer Bethany Hamilton. She was the teenage girl from Hawaii depicted in the movie Soul Surfer, who returned to competitive surfing after her arm was bitten off by a shark. Also presenting at SVI in the past year were: Cheryl Strayed, whose raw memoir about her hiking the Pacific Crest Trail became an Oprah pick and New York Times bestseller; Pulitzer Prize winning financial author Gretchen Morgenson; and most recently, Joel Gallatin, small farm guru extraordinaire and a star of Michael Pollan’s best selling book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma.

As the packed house for Strayed’s event proved, when the Squaw Valley Institute brings fascinating speakers to Squaw Valley, the people will come. That seems

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to especially be the case if the speaker is also connected to our outdoor oriented proclivities such as hiking or skiing. For example, while Strayed’s bestseller was to a great extent about a woman trying to fix her broken life, the fact that she did so by hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, section of which is just a few miles above Squaw Valley, certainly helped bring in the crowds.

“We would like to make the Squaw Valley Institute more relevant and special for all generations and a multitude of demographics in the Tahoe Region,” says Koijane. “We want to reach out to more families, bring in more relevant topics for the community.” While Tahoe will continue to be known for the beauty of it’s natural surroundings, Koijane believes, “We have to work on a cultural, artistic place to live as well. My hope is SVI can meet that challenge.”

The Squaw Valley Institute is a nonprofit organization formed in 2002 by a group of North Tahoe and Squaw Valley people who wanted to bring speakers and events to the Tahoe region. Their focus in

creating the SVI was for it to be “an incubator for critical thought.” The renowned speakers they hire, however, don’t come cheap. The money for fees and the organization’s bare bones overhead come from memberships, grants and various levels of sponsorships. Since Koijane has come on board there has been a new interest in revitalizing the organization, and part of that effort has led to a doubling of memberships over the past year and a half. For a $100 annual fee, members get invitations to members-only events, preferred seating, and a tax deduction. But Koijane says that many members join simply because they “really want this organization to continue to exist.” They understand that organizations such as SVI “make sure that mountain towns are cool places to live.”

In addition to members, Koijane is working on attracting sponsorships.

“I would love to find a sponsor for each event,” she says.

Sponsors get publicity and marketing and can help people attend the event that otherwise wouldn’t be there. For example, a sponsor can provide tickets for one

hundred kids that would otherwise not get to see the show. Two of their largest sponsors are Squaw Valley USA and the Queen of Hearts Fund, a group of TahoeTruckee women who have joined together to provide funding for a number of organizations in the region. Several area hotels have provided venues for events without charge, including the Resort at Squaw Creek and Plumb Jacks in Squaw Valley and The Cedar House Sport Hotel in Truckee.

While bringing high quality speakers to the mountains is an expensive endeavor, Koijane says Tahoe has one major advantage: Speakers love the opportunity to visit Lake Tahoe, and some are willing to discount their fees for the chance to do so.

When Bethany Hamilton came to speak, she allotted extra time to jump on a snowboard and do a little surfing on the snow.

Koijane says that “whatever speaker we bring I want to be a leader in the field, the forefront of a conversation and discussion, and relevant to the community.” Ω

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Two days before the grueling 100 mile long Western States Run from Squaw Valley to Auburn, Diane Van Deren, one of the world’s best ultra runners will discuss the challenges of her own running career.

Van Deren suffered from frequent, debilitating seizures until she had brain surgery. The surgery eliminated the seizures, but changed her ability to judge the passing of time, or where she is going. She can now run for days on end with no desire for sleep, but sometimes she gets lost on the trail.

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A new way of painting: Works by Linda Besemer are on display at the Nevada Museum of Art.

Paint it cool Linda Besemer In Linda Besemer’s paintings, there’s no person, no landscape, no vase of flowers. There’s no by background, no foreground, and they look Kris Vagner nothing like the abstractions of Pollock, Picasso or Rothko.

There’s not even a canvas. Just paint.

Neatly cut sheets of acrylic hanging over a sleek, metal rod, or paint layered so many inches thick it takes two years to form and dry. Those pieces look like smooth, wood wall sculptures.

They seem to shout joyously, “Who needs to play by the old rules of painting?”

But the old rules of painting are deeply entrenched, and extricating yourself from them is no piece of cake.

Linda Besemer: Sine Talking by phone from her office at Language is on exhibit Occidental College in Los Angeles, where through May 19 at the she’s a professor of art and also gender studNevada Museum of ies, Besemer told the backstory of her work.

Art, 160 W. Liberty St. For more information, In 1983, when she finished grad school call 329-3333 or visit in Philadelphia, she says, “Painting had been www.nevadaart.org. declared dead many, many times.

The artist will give a “In the ’70s and ’80s painting got a talk at the museum at noon May 3. double whammy,” she says. It was criticized for being generally “loaded, outdated and

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anachronistic.” At the same time, feminist theorists attacked the medium, claiming, “abstraction was the distillation of all the misogyny you could find.”

Often, paintings are meant to create desire. “When we talk about painting and about the construction of desire, it’s always from a male point of view,” Besemer says.

Think about the historic paintings you’ve seen. In them, men are usually upright and dignified; women are very often reclining or looking away or generally looking desirable. The women are in the picture so you can want them. The men are in the picture so you can want to be them. Either way, a male viewpoint is assumed. Usually a wealthy, white one, Besemer adds.

Even though they’re made of just paint and canvas, paintings signify human postures and gestures, statuses and desires, loudly and clearly.

“I wanted to detach from that,” Besemer says. “If it really was just paint, how could it embody all this historical meaning? And if it did, how could I change it?”

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She aimed to find a new way to construct a painting. She began by making single brushstrokes on plastic, peeling them off, and hanging them on the wall with Velcro. No one else she knew was making that kind of painting.

If you really wanted to be current, you’d be more likely to find kindred spirits in other disciplines such as sculpture or photography.

“Initially I got kind of a bad reception, especially the detachable brush strokes,” she says. She kept working.

“It took 15 years, but I feel vindicated now,” she says. Her work was showcased in the 2000 Whitney Biennial.

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While these paintings without a surface make a serious statement about painting, motivated by Besemer’s observations on gender politics, they’re also joyous, bright, delicious eye candy. The lines swoop and move right at you, and the tricky optics are so satisfying that whatever desire they may create, they instantly fulfill.

Besemer says she’s comfortable with both the feminist reconstruction point of view and the yummy eyecandy point of view. In fact, she has a good story about that. On the way to one of her first exhibits, in a little-known, second-floor gallery in New York City, she asked the elevator operator if he’d seen the show.

“He said, ‘I liked the green one.’ Then a critic came in and wrote about the green one and put it into all these academic contexts. What I though was still interesting about painting was that it can still transcend language. I was fascinated about the way it could communicate across these barricades between us.” Ω

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Kid tested Sardina’s Italian Bistro 7499 Longley Lane, 828-0105 Sardina’s moved to a new location on Longley Lane about a year ago. Walking in, my friend Brett and I were a little by K.J. Sullivan confused by a small room with empty tables and a sign indicating k s u l l i v a n@ we should seat ourselves or head ne w s re v i e w . c o m upstairs for additional options. We decided to check out the upstairs, so we headed up a set of metal grate stairs. A small bar was set up in the corner, with wooden tables

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but honestly, my water paired well with the garlic spread. Brett and I decided to start with salads. I went with the Caprese ($4 for side), and Brett went with the Caesar ($4 for side). The Caprese was good but in addition to the tomatoes and mozzarella, it was paired with salad greens, which was a little unusual. The Caesar had a dressing with a nice tang, but it was overdressed.

I had a hard time choosing what to order, because Sardina’s has an expansive menu with lots of tasty sounding items What I really liked is they offer the choice of plates or bowls. Plates come with sides, like pasta, veggies or mashed potatoes, while bowls can be split into half sizes.

I wasn’t starving, so the half bowl seemed like a grand plan for me. I went with the eggplant lasagna ($8 for half, $14 for full).

Even at the half order, this was a good sized piece of lasagna. The lasagna consisted of two layers of fried eggplant separated by ricotta cheese topped with marinara sauce and mozzarella cheese. The bottom layer seemed a bit undercooked, but I liked the ricotta cheese paired with the eggplant. Brett went with the shrimp and artichoke bowl ($8.50 for half, $15 for full), which arrived with a plate of pasta filled with spinach, tomatoes, artichokes and large shrimp tossed in garlic butter. He liked his dish but wasn’t blown away.

Everything was fine at our dinner, but nothing was amazing—except the garlic spread. The staff was friendly and efficient, but something about the atmosphere just didn’t do it for me. I think the mixed styles of the modern building versus the décor just wasn’t working. However, you can get a decent meal for a decent price at Sardina’s, and if you have kids, apparently this is the place to have dinner with them. Ω

Servers Laura Rocke and Andrew Moses work upstairs and downstairs at Sardina’s Italian Bistro.

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The number of kids having dinner with their parents surprised me. The kids were all wellbehaved tweens but when I was that age, I don’t think my parents would have wasted their money taking me out to a nice dinner since my favorite food item was fishsticks. That, and I was annoying. We were brought some menus and waters by a young busboy who seemed to be making the young girls in the place all giggly and aflutter. Maybe that’s how the parents get the kids to come here and sit so quietly? The same busboy brought some bread, which unfortunately was cold, but it was served with an amazing roasted garlic, olive oil and Parmesan spread. I am not ashamed to admit I just started eating this by the spoonful—it was that good.

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Earthly possession The Host Hey kids, especially you aspiring filmmakers, gather around, because Uncle Bob has something to tell you. OK? Now, listen up.

I want you to make your next movie experience The Host. I want you to see it as soon as possible, because it’s an important step in your moviemaking education. It’s an important step because it’s the quintessential example of by how to make a movie so shitty, Satan would Bob Grimm actually turn his nose up and proclaim it too profane for his torture Cineplex down in Hell. bgrimm@ newsre view.c om This car crash of a movie is based on a novel penned by Stephenie Meyer, writer of the Twilight things and, at this point, one of my sworn enemies. Nothing good has been produced from this writer’s works, and I want

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her to take up full-time bowling or stenciling to distract her from her computer. Seriously, Stephenie—you have a lot of money now.

Please have mercy on those of us who can’t handle your pap. Stop hurting us with your crazy words and ideas.

The Host leaves the land of sparkly vampires and journeys to a future Earth where aliens have invaded. These aliens are CGI super white, flowing clusters of psychedelic sperm. They look like the trippy end result of a Daft Punk robot ejaculating (Daft Spunk?).

These aliens have traveled through the universe, “bonding” with species by entering through a cut in their necks and turning their eyes light blue.

In the opening moments, we see Melanie (Saoirse Ronan), a human resister cornered by alien-infected humans, chief among them The Seeker (Diane Kruger). They give chase, and Melanie plunges through a window to certain death.

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Sadly for Ronan, Melanie lives on. Her life is saved after a Tiger Woods-lookalike puts an alien in her neck. She becomes Wanderer (later, Wanda) and seems in line with the alien plan for global domination. But, wait, Melanie is still inside her head, and she’s got some whining to do about the whole body being dominated by an alien thing.

Watching Ronan having arguments with her inner voice is trash cinema at its absolute acrid apex. It reminded me of All of Me, that movie where Steve Martin’s body was possessed by Lily Tomlin. While Martin did a fine job arguing with the voice within, Ronan just sounds like a really whacky teenager with voices in her head.

Wanda winds up with Melanie’s still human uncle (William Hurt—oh, it’s so sad to see you here) somewhere in the desert. Her uncle and his followers eventually accept Wanda as a friend and family member. She entertains the advances of two boys (Max Irons and Jake Abel), one being Melanie’s old flame and the other being a dude who just thinks alien-possessed girls are super hot.

Here are some words you’ll probably see in a lot of reviews for this film: Poor Saoirse Ronan. Here’s a young actress with the talent to command great roles, and yet she finds herself in this swill. Sure, her peeps probably thought getting her a gig in the latest film based on a Stephenie Meyer novel would be a sure thing to get her blockbuster actress status.

It’s actually one of the biggest creative bombs of the decade, and will do nothing to move her career forward.

I value my minutes here on this Earth. I consider each minute a precious little diamond nugget that I will never get back. Therefore, I don’t normally wish for these minutes to pass me by quickly. I like to savor them.

When I was watching The Host, I found myself wishing I was some sort of amazing Time Lord, who could grab the minutes in The Host’s remaining running time—just grab them in my amazingly powerful Time Lord hands—and squash them to death, resulting in their passing without me actually experiencing them.

Alas, I just sat there watching The Host helpless and sad, jaws agape and eyes glazed over, aware that some moments on this Earth aren’t precious. They aren’t precious in any way at all. Ω

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A chilling documentary containing interviews with six surviving members of Shin Bet, the branch of Israeli Intelligence tasked with eliminating alleged terrorists. The six don’t recall their time in the agency with great vigor, but with a great sense of darkness, as if they are permanently damaged from the experience. Director Dror Moreh conducts these interviews mercilessly, getting surprising amounts of information from his incredibly candid subjects. They share inside information on everything from the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin to the circumstances behind the 1984 Bus 300 affair, when the Shin Bet executed two Palestinian bus hijackers. Watching this movie is a truly shocking experience.

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The Die Hard franchise has been one of the more reliable action movie franchises in cinematic history—until now.

Bruce Willis looks tired, beaten down and embarrassed in this useless installment of the adventures of John McClane. The action takes him to Russia this time, which is a mistake. While there, he helps his son with some espionage crap, another storytelling mistake. He goes up against villains who do not distinguish themselves at all, and this would be the film’s biggest mistake. Die Hard needs a big villain. All of the prior installments had good villains, and that includes naked William Sadler in Die Hard 2. I think McClane has got some good stuff left in the tank, but enough with this garbage involving his kids. And stay the heck out of Russia; that place has lost all of its cinematic bad guy appeal. Little in this movie makes sense and it just doesn’t belong in a category with the first four chapters.

Reboot, forget this thing, and start fresh the next time out, sort of like how Rocky Balboa forgot the previous two chapters and restored the Italian Stallion’s dignity.

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Yes, the sequel is an improvement over the original, but don’t get your hopes up too high. Dwayne Johnson joins something like his 18th franchise, as does Bruce Willis, in this confusing yet sometimes entertaining followup to G.I. Joe: The Sucky First Movie. There are some good action sequences, including a snowy cliff sword battle and the destruction of London. There’s also a lot of clatter about Cobra Commanders and Snake Eyes and a bunch of other toy names I simply lost track of. Channing Tatum and Johnson have a great rapport, and a whole movie with them together could’ve been fun. Unfortunately, Tatum makes an early exit, making way for The Smirk. Willis is OK here, but he doesn’t add all that much.

Jonathan Pryce is fairly menacing as two characters: the President of the United States and his evil imposter. I’d tell you some plot details, but that would be a waste of space. Just know that if you plunk down for this you will see a couple of good action sequences and a whole lot of mindless crap.

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This movie feels like it should’ve come out in the ‘80s, but it probably would’ve sucked then, too. Steve Carell stars as the title character, a Vegas magician who does a Siegfried & Roy type show with his childhood friend and current stage partner (Steve Buscemi).

Not only does Burt have a falling out with his partner, but he also gets stiff competition from a Criss Angel/David Blaine type played by Jim Carrey. Had the movie put the Carrey character as the focus, it probably would’ve been a little better. He gets a few good laughs as a human piñata or when he intentionally drills a hole in his head. Whenever it deals exclusively with Burt’s fall from grace, it’s a straight-up dud. Olivia Wilde actually gets more laughs than Carell in this movie, so that’s a problem.

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Director Bryan Singer’s big budget take on the classic fairytale was delayed from last summer, and they should’ve left it in the vault. He’s put together a movie that lacks any real magic because the special effects are bad, and the performances are mostly flat. Nicholas Hoult, so good in Warm Bodies, plays the title character, a farm boy who gets some magic beans, lets them get wet and … ah, you know. Stanley Tucci and Ewan McGregor have supporting roles in what amounts to a whole lot of nothing that

cost lots of money. The budget is something in the neighborhood of $200 million, and that budget must’ve gone to Moon Pies for everybody, because it doesn’t show on the screen.

Too bad, because I was just telling somebody a couple of months ago how the world could really use a good movie about giants getting hit with stuff. Actually, that’s not true. I’m totally lying.

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Gerard Butler stars in one of the more ridiculous action films you will see this year. He’s a Secret Service agent on duty the night something very bad happens to the president (Aaron Eckhart), and he winds up with a desk job. When some nasty North Koreans hilariously infiltrate the White House and hold the president and his cabinet hostage in the bunker, it’s time for Gerard to dispense with the paper clips and pick up an automatic weapon! Yes, it’s Die Hard in the White House, or at least it wants to be. There’s some fun to be had here, but the movie has some tragic flaws, including terrible CGI and mawkish patriotic crap that distracts rather than making the heart swell (Melissa Leo screaming the Pledge of Allegiance as she is dragged to certain death comes to mind). You aren’t going to catch me calling this a good movie, but I won’t fault you for enjoying it to some degree if you choose to see it. It’s one of those “so bad it’s almost good” movies.

James Franco is in over his head for Sam Raimi’s mostly lame prequel to The Wizard of Oz. The title character calls for somebody with that old school Hollywood charm like Robert Downey, Jr., or Johnny Depp. Franco looks like a kid playing dress up here, and he’s not even the worst thing about the movie. That would be Mila Kunis looking completely lost as the witch who will become that witch we all know from the original Oz. I’m sorry—that witch isn’t supposed to be all corseted and hot. As for Rachel Weisz, she fares best as yet another witch, while Michelle Williams is just serviceable as Glinda the Good Witch. Raimi relies heavily on CGI effects—big surprise—and they look pretty crappy for the most part.

This is an underwhelming movie in much the same way his Spider-Man 3 missed the mark.

It’s overblown, misguided and odd.

Bradley Cooper is on fire as Pat, a troubled man recently out of a mental institution and obsessed with his ex-wife.

He’s so obsessed hat he can’t see the value in Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a recently widowed neighbor trying to befriend him.

Directed by David O. Russell, the movie is a funny, slick treatment of people with real problems that works because Russell and his performers find the right balance. Robert De Niro does his best work in years as Pat’s obsessive father, and Chris Tucker gets big laughs as Pat’s former mental institution buddy. Cooper and Lawrence make for one of the year’s most interesting screen couples.

They are certainly unique. Russell is establishing himself as one of the industry’s most reliable and innovative directors.

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This looked like it would be fun. A movie full of bikini-clad starlets, including Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez, going on a crime spree to raise money for a spring break trip, and then continuing the crime spree when they get to Florida. Director Harmony Korine blows a good opportunity for fun by making a repetitive, slow, sloppy movie with no script.

James Franco shows up as a rapper/crime lord who can’t rap for dick and looks like an idiot.

I was hoping Franco could bring some offbeat fun to the party, but all we get is him describing the contents of his room and making up stupid songs. This one feels like the director shot about fifteen minutes worth of worthy footage and stretched it out by repeating said footage or picking stuff up off the cutting room floor and throwing it back in. It’s getting some relatively decent critical acclaim, and this shocks me. This shocks me on many levels.

Secret life Chandelle She was a high school 16-year-old, and while the rest of the kids her age were getting their cell phones and car by Laura Davis keys revoked for skipping curfew, Chandelle Gleed was getting her songbooks taken away, for putting her teenage emotions into words that her parents couldn’t take.

Music, they thought, was bringing out the worst in her.

“They saw problems with it,” says Gleed, now 21. “They thought I was going to do something bad and get in trouble.”

She was putting her emotions into songs in lieu of a diary. Feeling violated by having her lyrics unwillingly read, and worse, discarded, Gleed continued writing her heartfelt songs in secret. She began stashing her notebooks away, and singing the words only behind closed doors.

“That was the only way I could write,” she says. “I had to be completely alone.”

Despite being so young, Gleed had plenty of inspiration to put onto paper. Growing up in the small town of Dayton, her parents were strict at best, and not only with her music.

“I wasn’t allowed out of my house,” she says. “I couldn’t go to parties.

But on one of the rare occasions she did get to hit the town at night, she got to see her cousin Jack’s Las Vegas-based band perform.

The experience struck her, and changed the course of her quiet, meditative life.

“That was the only way I could write,” says Chandelle Gleed.

“I had to be completely alone.”

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“It was the first time I’d ever seen live music, in any form,” she says of her cousin’s show. “That was when I started writing and using it as an outlet.”

That outlet turned out songs that may not have necessarily been about rainbows and butterflies, as her parents probably would have preferred.

“I was 16,” says Gleed.

“Everything pissed me off.” So she wrote about young love, the ease and the hardships, and also about her pent-up frustrations at being trapped at home in a slow-moving town, with, most importantly, no live music.

Although the first couple of song notebooks are gone, taken away, never to be returned—her parents thought it was just a phase she’d grow out of—Gleed does still remember her first song.

“It was a traveling song,” she recalls. “Because I was stuck in a room pretty much my whole life, at least that’s how it felt. It was about wanting to go out and explore the world.”

It wasn’t until the summer she turned 18 and moved down to Las Vegas that Gleed openly pursued her passion. Her grandma, whom she was living with at the time, took her to buy her first guitar—which she then taught herself to play. And her cousin Jack gave her the confidence to perform live.

“I played him a couple songs I was working on,” she says. “And he said, ‘Actually, that sounds all right. You should do something with this.’”

The rest is history. Written down in fresh notebooks, turned into poignant songs, and sung with vulnerable emotions, reminiscent of Cat Power, and with vocals as pure and raw as Jessica Leah Mayfield. She performs using just her given name.

As for her parents? They saw her perform for the first time on her last tour, during a stop through her native countryside of Northern Nevada—at a Reno venue. “I pulled them aside and said, ‘Hey, you know what these songs are about, so don’t get offended,’” Gleed remembers. “And to my surprise, they didn’t say anything [bad]. In fact, my mom was trying to promote me to people.” Ω

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SUNDAY 4/7

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 4/8-4/10

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Blues jam w/Blue Haven, 9:30pm, no cover

Jason King, 9:30pm, no cover

Moon Gravy, 8pm, no cover

THE ALLEY

Ensiferum, Tyr, Heidvolk, Trollfest, Helsott, Knightfall, 6:30pm, $20

kNOT SORRY, Hellbilly Bandits, Jukebox Rebels, 8pm, no cover

The Casualties, Goatwhore, Envirusment, Liver Scars, Havok, 8pm, $13, $15

125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005 906 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-8891

BAR-M-BAR

Battle Born Derby Demons Karaoke Bash, 8pm, donations

1up Wednesday, 10pm, W, no cover

Hellbilly Bandits, Matt Waage, 9pm, no cover

816 Highway 40 West, Verdi; (775) 351-3206

BODEGA NIGHTCLUB

Sunday Night Acoustics/Open Mic, 8pm, no cover

CEOL IRISH PUB

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Neil O’Kane, 9pm, no cover

Blarney Band, 9pm, no cover

CHAPEL TAVERN

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

Chandelle, 9pm, no cover

Derde Verde, Big Remote, 9pm, no cover

Open Mic Night, 7:30pm, no cover

Community Drum Circle, 5:30pm, no cover

538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558 1099 S. Virginia St., (775) 324-2244

COMMA COFFEE

Comedy

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

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

DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY

CORKSCROO BAR AND GRILL 10 E. Ninth St., (775) 284-7270

275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917

Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777: Tommy Savitt, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $17.95; Patrick Garrity, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $15.95

EL CORTEZ LOUNGE

The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Allan Havey, Don McEnery, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Chris Porter, Jodi Borello, W, 9pm, $25

FUEGO

Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Frankie Quinones, F, 8pm; Sa, 7pm, 9:30pm; $13, $16

JAVA JUNGLE

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

Karaoke w/Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

FAT CAT BAR & GRILL

Karaoke Night, 10pm, no cover

599 North Lake Blvd., Tahoe City; (530) 583-3355

DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover

Monday Night Open Mic, 8pm, M, no cover

7th Annual Yuri’s Night Reno Space Party, 9pm, $12-$20

555 E. Fourth St., (775) 378-4507

April 5, 10 p.m.

MontBleu Resort 55 Highway 50 Stateline (800) 648-3353

SATURDAY 4/6 ’90s Night, 10pm, no cover

214 W. Commercial Row, (775) 329-9444

Del the Funky Homosapien

FRIDAY 4/5

EDM Thursday, 10pm, no cover

170 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-1800

Thom Crowder & Friends, 9:30pm, no cover

Mary Jane Rocket, Victory Calls, 9:30pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Miss Amber, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

Open Mic and Art Show, 8:15pm, M, no cover Karaoke, 9pm, Tu, no cover Open mic, 9pm, W, no cover Karaoke w/Lisa Lisa, 9pm, M, Tu, no cover Karaoke w/Miss Amber, 9pm, W, no cover

Karaoke w/Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

Live flamenco guitar music, 5:30pm, no cover Takedown, 9pm, no cover

1100 E. Plumb Ln., (775) 828-7665

Open mic, 7pm, no cover Java Jungle Sunday Music Showcase, 7pm, no cover

246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484 1180 Scheels Dr., Sparks; (775) 657-8659

First Take featuring Rick (SAX) Metz, 6pm, no cover

Bill Davis, 6pm, no cover

JUB JUB’S THIRST PARLOR

The Rockets, Los Pistoleros, 9pm, $5

Actors Killed Lincoln, Dusty Miles and the Cryin’ Shame, 9pm, $5

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

CW and Mr. Spoons, noon, M, no cover

Reggae Night, 9pm, M, no cover Open Mic w/Lucas Arizu, 9pm, Tu, no cover

HARRY’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL

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Celtic Sessiuns, 7pm, Tu, no cover

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KNITTING FACTORY CONCERT HOUSE 211 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-5648 1) Main Stage 2) Top Shelf Lounge

THURSDAY 4/4

FRIDAY 4/5

SATURDAY 4/6

2) Boggan, 11:30pm, no cover

1) Spring Bling 2013, 10pm, $12-$15 2) Mike Madnuss, 11:30pm, no cover

1) Future, Slice 9, 9pm, $21-$40 2) Erik Lobe, 11:30pm, no cover

KNUCKLEHEADS BAR & GRILL 405 Vine St., (775) 323-6500

Truckee River Band, Oddly Enough, Chris Miles and guests, 8pm, $5

MO & SLUGGO’S BAR & GRILL

Mark Castro Band, 8pm, no cover

110 W. Telegraph St., Carson City; (775) 885-1888

PIZZA BARON

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

THE POINT

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 7pm, no cover

1155 W. Fourth St., (775) 329-4481 3001 W. Fourth St., (775) 322-3001

POLO LOUNGE

1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864

RAW BAR LAKE TAHOE

Live music/DJs, 8pm, $0-$15

31 Highway 50, Stateline; (775) 580-6029

RISE NIGHTCLUB

SUNDAY 4/7

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 4/8-4/10

Open Mic/College Night, 8pm, Tu, no cover

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

Smoke Signalz, 9pm, $5, no cover charge for women

DJ Battles, 9pm, $5-$15

RUBEN’S CANTINA

Corky Bennett, 7pm, W, no cover Karaoke, 8pm, M, Mixtape DJ/iPod jam session, 8pm, Tu, music/DJs, 8pm, W, $0-$15

Reggae Vibes, 8pm, $0-$15

Hip Hop and R&B Night, 10pm, $5; no cover charge for women before midnight

1483 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-9424

RYAN’S SALOON

Karaoke w/DJ Hustler, 9pm, Tu, no cover Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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

Live jazz, 7:30pm, W, no cover

SIDELINES BAR & NIGHTCLUB

Open Mic Night, 8pm, M, no cover Black and Blues Jam, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover

1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks; (775) 355-1030

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

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

Dance party, 9pm, no cover

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

STREGA BAR

StregaPalooza w/Hella A Cappella, Bat Country, guests, 2pm, $5

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

STUDIO ON 4TH

Kate Elaine, Mel Wade, Liam Kyle Cahill, 8pm, $5

432 E. Fourth St., (775) 410-5993

VASSAR LOUNGE

Sunday Night Strega Mic, 9pm, no cover

INTERZONE w/DJs Endif, TV1, Hyperkarma, Christophe, 9pm, $3

Open Mic Wednesdays with Keegan Monahan, 7pm, W, no cover

WALDEN’S COFFEEHOUSE

Ten Dollar Pony, Todd South, 7pm, no cover

3940 Mayberry Dr., (775) 787-3307

Sunday Jazz, 2pm, no cover

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

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

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VooDooDogz, 8pm, no cover

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The Alley 906 Victorian Ave. Sparks 358-8891

Fusion Fridays w/DJs Kentot, Fredy G, 10pm, Rise Culture Night, 10pm, $10 $10; no charge for women until midnight

210 N. Sierra St., (775) 786-0833

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

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

THURSDAY 4/4

FRIDAY 4/5

SATURDAY 4/6

SUNDAY 4/7

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 4/8-4/10

2) Escalade, 8pm, no cover

2) Escalade, 4pm, Palmore Brothers, 10pm, no cover

2) Escalade, 4pm, Palmore Brothers, 10pm, no cover

2) Palmore Brothers, 8pm, no cover

2) American Made Band, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Melissa Dru, 7pm, no cover

2) Melissa Dru, 8pm, no cover

2) Melissa Dru, 8pm, no cover

2) Dale Poune, 6pm, no cover

2) Dale Poune, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Peter Joseph Burtt & the KingTide, 10pm, no cover

1) Tea Leaf Green, Hot Buttered Rum, 9pm, $23, $25

1) Magique, 8pm, $21.95+ 3) Skyy High Fridays, 9pm, $10 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Magique, 7pm, 9:30pm, $21.95+ 3) Addiction Saturdays, 9pm, $10 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Anthony Cools, 9pm, $10

1) Bobby McFerrin, 8pm, $25-$55

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

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

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ELDORADO HOTEL CASINO

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

April 9, 8 p.m.

Grand Sierra Resort 2500 E. Second St. 789-2000

1) Magique, 7pm, $21.95+ 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

Karaoke Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 359-3526: F, Tu, 7pm; Su, 2pm, no cover Celtic Knot Pub, 541 E. Moana Lane, 829-8886: J.P. and Super Fun Entertainment, Th, 8pm, 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, 847-4467: Gothic Productions Karaoke, Sa, Tu, 8pm, no cover

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1) The Postal Service, 8pm, Tu, $35

APRIL

1) Elvin Bishop, 7:30pm, $30.25

HARRAH’S RENO

219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 1) The Four Tenors, 8pm, $25, $35 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

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Flowing Tide Pub, 465 S. Meadows Pkwy., Ste. 5, 284-7707; 4690 Longley Lane, Ste. 30, (775) 284-7610: Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover Sneakers Bar & Grill, 3923 S. McCarran Blvd., 829-8770: Karaoke w/Mark, Sa, 8:30pm, no cover

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1) Magique, 8pm, Tu, 7pm, W, $21.95+ 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, W, no cover

HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE

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GRAND SIERRA RESORT

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) WET Ultra Lounge 3) Xtreme Sports Bar 4) Mustangs

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1) Elephant Revival, 9pm, Tu, no cover

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

2) Buddy Emmer, 7pm, no cover 3) Duo Brasileiro, 5:30pm, no cover 5) Ladies ’80s w/DJ Larry Williams, 7pm, no cover

1) The Four Tenors, 8pm, $25, $35 2) Renegade, 9pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire w/DJ I, 9pm, no cover

1) The Four Tenors, 8pm, $25, $35 2) Renegade, 9pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire w/DJ I, 9pm, no cover

1) The Four Tenors, 8pm, $25, $35

2) Buddy Emmer, 8pm, no cover 3) Duo Brasileiro, 6pm, no cover 5) Paul Covarelli, 6pm, no cover

1) Tracy Lawrence, 9pm, $35 2) Buddy Emmer, 8pm, Country at the Cabaret w/DJ Jamie G, 9pm, no cover 5) Paul Covarelli, 6pm, no cover

2) Buddy Emmer, 7pm, no cover 5) Paul Covarelli, 6pm, no cover

3) Del the Funky Homosapien, Bukue-One, DJ Zac Hendrix, 10pm, $15, $20

3) Boogie Nights at Blu, 8pm, $5-$10, free w/’70s or ’80s attire

3) Fashion Friday, 7pm, no cover

1) Jim Jefferies, 8pm, $20-$45 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5

2) Country at the Cabaret w/DJ Jamie G, 7pm, W, no cover 3) Phillip Denny, 6pm, W, no cover

MONTBLEU RESORT

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

2) Local guest DJs, 10pm W, no cover

SILVER LEGACY

407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 3) Ladies Night & Karaoke, 7pm, 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions Island Bar Social Network Night, 9pm, no cover 4) Jamie Rollins, 5pm, no cover 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Lounge 5) Drinx Lounge

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2) Recovery Sundays, 10pm, no cover 3) Midnight Mass, 9pm, no cover

2) Gong Show Karaoke, 8pm, Tu, no cover 3) Sin Biggest Little Locals Night, 4pm, M, Step This Way, 8pm, W, no cover 4) Jamie Rollins, 5pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

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Scraps·Arts·Music Canada’s Scraps·Arts·Music takes the saying “reduce, reuse and recycle” to another level.

The percussion group creates instruments from discarded materials such as scrap metal, dishwasher hoses, bagpipe reeds, accordion parts and anything else they can find in dumps and scrap yards. Their high-energy performances combine athletic choreography with jazz and world rhythms that’s a bit reminiscent of shows like STOMP! and Blue Man Group.

Scraps·Arts·Music performs at 7:30 p.m. on April 4 at Nightingale Concert Hall, 1335 N. Virginia St., inside the Church Fine Arts Building at the University of Nevada, Reno. Tickets are $5-$30. Call 784-4278 or visit www.unr.edu/pas.

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Have a drink, hear some tunes and check out the art galleries at Nevada Museum of Art’s mid-week gathering. Fan Tools will provide the music for this month’s event, which also features beer and wine for the adults and an open art studio for the kids. Admission is $10 for adults and free for NMA members. The kids’ art studio is $5 per child. The fun gets started at 5 p.m. on April 4 at the NMA, 160 W. Liberty St. Call 329-3333.

It’s a sign of warmer weather to come—food truck season is here! Some of the area’s best gourmet food trucks will gather at the old RTC bus depot at Fourth and Center streets. There will be various meal options to choose from, as well as live music and a Tumblebus, a full-sized school bus that’s been converted into a gym, for the kids. The monthly event kicks off this Friday, April 5, from 5-9 p.m. The gathering repeats on the first and third Friday of each month through October. Visit www.facebook.com/ RenoFoodTruckFridays.

Broadway Comes to Reno continues its 2012-2013 season with the Broadway musical based on DreamWorks Pictures’ computeranimated film about a swampdwelling ogre who goes on an adventure to reclaim the deed to his land and ends up winning the heart of a feisty princess. The fantasy-comedy, which was loosely based on William Steig’s 1990 fairy tale picture book Shrek!, won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2002. The Broadway version features all the main characters from the film, as well as its irreverent humor. Show times are at 8 p.m. on April 5-6, 2 p.m. on April 6-7 and 7 p.m. on April 7, at Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St. Tickets are $44-$79.

Call 686-6600 or visit www.pioneercenter.com.

It’s not exactly the same kind of alternative music festival as Lollapalooza, but there will be a lot of local bands providing a full day of music and entertainment. Acts scheduled to perform include Merkin, Scarlet Presence, Candyshoppe, Bat Country and Hella A Capella. The show kicks off at 2 p.m. on April 5, at Strega Bar, 310 S. Arlington Ave. The show will wrap up around midnight.

Admission is $5. Proceeds from the event will go toward remodeling Strega to give it the space it needs for a proper stage. Call 348-9911.

Rancho San Rafael Regional Park’s Wilbur D. May Arboretum and Botanical Garden features a collection of plants and trees that have thrived in our area’s dry climate. This Saturday, April 6, the May Arboretum Society, Rail City Garden Center, News Talk 780 KOH and other community partners will host the annual spring cleaning event at the arboretum located in the park at 1595 N. Sierra St. Local gardening experts will conduct hands-on workshops on pruning and planting during the event, which starts at 10 a.m. Bring a pair of gardening gloves and a rake and help tidy up the garden as it revs up for another growing season. Call 785-4153 or 823-6525 to RSVP.

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Will you flash mob me?

I’m going to propose to my girlfriend, and it seems there’s this trend of doing elaborate things to ask a girl to marry you. I can’t compete with guys like the New York City dude who threw down $45,000 to pop the question. And I don’t know whether I can make my proposal cool enough to go viral like the Portland guy who had his choreographed and filmed.

The New York guy is 27-year-old online marketing honcho Josh Ogle. He wrote on reddit.com that he actually spent around $13K on a lavish proposal evening. This price included $3,500 for a professional “proposal planner” and a $1,500 post-proposal private dinner cooked by a celebrity chef. Media outlets came up with the $45K proposal cost by adding in the $21K ring and the $10K post-engagement European “honeymoon.” As easy as it is to mock the guy, Ogle is reportedly a self-made multi-millionaire—apparently, after growing up poor—so for him, $45K probably spends like $45 does for the rest of us.

The Portland guy, actor and theatrical director Isaac Lamb, pulled together 60-plus friends and family members in an elaborate and adorable lip-synched songand-dance routine to Bruno Mars’ “Marry You.” Lamb then got down on one knee and said to his girlfriend, choreographer Amy Frankel, “You have already given me a lifetime of happiness. Will you let me spend the rest of my life trying to give you the same?” (Not surprisingly, she said yes.)

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Although the trend toward extreme proposing is surely the lovechild of reality TV and social media, it has something in common with the mythic quest—an epic mission a man would go on to prove his love and worth to a woman.

These days, the most dangerous journey a man can usually take for a woman is a trip to 7-Eleven. So, conspicuous romancing can act as a stand-in proving ground—an extravagant display that a man’s somebody the woman can count on.

That said, you’re asking a woman to grow old with you, not auditioning for America’s Got Proposal Talent. Your proposal likewise needs to reflect who you are and tell your girlfriend that you get who she is—starting with whether she’s someone who’d be horrified to have an intimate moment take place on the Jumbotron.

Put your effort into telling your girlfriend why you always want to hold her hand, even when it gets all wrinkly. Couple that with an essential element from the elaborate proposers—the element of surprise. You can do this by planning your proposal around something your girlfriend once said or just by serving her toast a slightly different way: with a heart cut in the middle with the ring inside it. This sort of proposal sends a message—“I love you and want to spend the rest of my life with you” Ω

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best ideas come from having no answer,” said pioneer filmmaker John Cassavetes, “from not knowing.” I hope that testimony cheers you up, Taurus. As hard as it may be for you to imagine, you are on the verge of a breakthrough. As you surf the chaotic flow and monitor the confusing hubbub, you are brewing the perfect conditions for an outburst of creativity. Rejoice in the blessing of not knowing!

look back at the first three months of 2013.

How have you been doing? If I’m reading the astrological markers accurately, you have jettisoned a portion of the psychic gunk that had accumulated in you during the past six years. You have partially redeemed the shadowy side of your nature, and you have, to some degree, ripened the most immature part. There’s also the matter of your heart.

You have managed some healing of a wound that had festered there for a long time. So here’s my question for you: Is it possible for you to do more of this good work? The target date for completion is your birthday.

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modern,” said Austrian painter Egon Schiele.

“Art is primordially eternal.” I love that idea. Not all of the artifacts called “art” fit that scrupulous definition, of course. Katy Perry’s music and the film Wreck-It Ralph may have some entertainment value, but they’re not primordially eternal. I bring this up, Aries, because I think you have entered a particularly wild and timeless phase of your own development. Whether or not you are literally an artist, you have a mandate to create your life story as a primordially eternal work of art.

Hindi word that comes from a Sanskrit verb meaning “to be good” and “to be real.”

Personally, I know a lot of people who are either real or good. But few are both. The good ones tend to be overly polite, and the real ones don’t put a high priority on being nice. So here’s your assignment, Gemini: to be good and real; to have compassionate intentions even as you conduct yourself with a high degree of authenticity; to bestow blessings everywhere you go, while at the same time being honest and clear and deep.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you have the power to pull off this strenuous feat.

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Darwin formulated the theory of evolution, which has been one of history’s most influential hypotheses. A crucial event in his early development as a scientist was a five-year boat trip he took around the world when he was in his 20s. The research he conducted along the way seeded many of his unique ideas. The writing he did established his reputation as a noteworthy author. And yet, before his journey, his father tried to talk him out of embarking, calling it a “wild scheme” and “a useless undertaking.” Did your parents or other authorities ever have a similar response to one of your brilliant projects? If so, now would be a good time to heal the wound caused by their opposition.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’ve got three

sets of affirmations for you, Virgo. Say them out loud and see if they might work for you. 1. “I will be engrossed in fascinating experiences that feed my curiosity, but I will not be obsessed with grueling frustrations that drain my energy.” 2. “I will be committed to love if it opens my eyes and heart, but I will not be infatuated with maddening conundrums that jiggle my fear.” 3. “I will give myself freely to learning opportunities that offer me valuable lessons I can use to improve my life, but I will be skeptical toward rough-edged tests that ask far more from me than they offer in return.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Pole of inac-

cessibility” is a term that explorers use to identify places on Earth that are hard—and interesting!—to get to. On each continent, it’s usually considered to be the spot that’s farthest from the coastline. For instance, there’s a pole of inaccessibility near the frozen center of Antarctica. Its elevation is more than 12,000 feet, and it has the planet’s coldest average temperatures. As for the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, it’s an area in the South Pacific that’s most remote from land. By my reckoning, Libra, you would benefit from identifying what your own personal version of this point is, whether it’s literal or metaphorical. I think it’s also a great time to transform your relationship with it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Every April,

the ancient Romans celebrated a festival known as Robigalia. Among the rites they performed were ceremonies to exorcize the god of rust and mildew. I suggest you consider reviving that old practice, Scorpio.

You would benefit from spending a few days waging war against insidious rot. You could start by scrubbing away all the sludge, scum and gunk from your home, car and workplace. Next, make a similar effort on a metaphorical level. Scour the muck, glop and grime out of your psyche.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.” Tinkerbell says that to Peter Pan in J.M. Barrie’s famous story. Sometime soon, I think you should whisper words like those to a person or animal you love. It’s time for you to be as romantic and lyrical as possible. You need to bestow and attract the nourishment that comes from expressing extravagant tenderness. For even better results, add this sweetness from French poet Paul Valéry: “I am what is changing secretly in you.” And try this beauty from Walt Whitman: “We were together. I forget the rest.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Natu-

ralist John Muir (1838-1914) had an ecstatic relationship with the California wilderness.

He studied it as a scientist, and he worshipped it as a mystical devotee. During the course of his communion with the glaciers and peaks of the Sierra Nevada, he came close to seeing them as living entities that evolved over long periods of time. “Glaciers move in tides,” he wrote. “So do mountains.

So do all things.” With Muir as your inspiration, I invite you to identify the very gradual currents and tides that have flowed for years through your own life, Capricorn. It’s prime time to deepen your understanding and appreciation of the big, slow-moving cycles that have brought you to where you are today.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): American

author William Faulkner won a Nobel Prize in literature, an indication that he had abundant talent. The prose he wrote was often experimental, cerebral and complex. He was once asked what he would say to readers who found it difficult to grasp his meaning “even after reading it two or three times.”

His reply: “Read it four times.” My counsel to you, Aquarius, is similar. When faced with a challenging event or situation that taxes your understanding, keep working to understand it even past the point where you would normally quit. There will be rewards, I promise.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Dear Rob:

I just consulted an astrologer, and he told me that my planets are very weak because they’re in the wrong houses and have bad aspects. Please, tell me what this means.

Am I cursed? Is there any way to remedy my afflictions? —Paranoid Pisces.” Dear Pisces: Whoever told you that nonsense is an incompetent astrologer. You shouldn’t heed him.

There’s no such thing as one’s planets being weak or being in the wrong houses or having bad aspects. There may be challenges, but those are also opportunities. Luckily, the coming weeks will be prime time for you Pisceans to overthrow the influence of inept “experts” and irresponsible authorities like him. Reclaim your power to define your own fate from anyone who has stolen it from you.

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Foot soldier George Nelson

First of all, it was a wrong thing done to the man. I mean, he was a boxing champion, and he may have been a rapscallion, but that didn’t mean that he should have been convicted of a crime that was usually followed by a fine and a slap on the risk. It was an injustice. They couldn’t beat him in the ring, so they beat him through the law and so that’s why we need a pardon for him. … And after all, too, we’re getting different in our racial

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I have no idea. I’m not going to even comment because we sent it [a congressional resolution] to the president in ’09 and again in ’10 and, of course, it has been going to presidents since ’04. …

[Documentary maker] Ken Burns tried to get George Bush to give a pardon. That was ’04. Then he tried again in ’05 and ’06, and it didn’t work. So he waited until Obama became president and then he went up to Obama and was not [successful]. And that’s when McCain and [U.S. Rep.] Peter King from New York—these guys are really pushing it in the Congress [“Pardon effort continues,” RN&R, March 14].

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The White House says the Justice Department has never signed off on the pardon. How do you account for that?

attitudes from what we had in the old days, and times are changing. My father’s generation, they had a whole different attitude … and it’s just changing, so why have something on a person’s record?

And he still has a family. There are folks in Chicago who are related to him, and they don’t want that stigma. And he really didn’t do anything horrendous. …

Carrey it on In case you missed it, Jim Carrey recently came out with a statement concerning his reaction to the Fox News reaction to his new anti-gunkook video, called Cold Dead Hand.

Fox news commentators went all nutso on Carrey for the video, especially Greg Gutfeld, who called Carrey a “pathetic, sad, little freak” and hoped that the comedian’s “career is dead” and that he ends up “sleeping in his car.”

Well, Gutfeld and Fox found out that Carrey isn’t the type to ignore such diatribes, and Jim shot back with a statement that I suspect taps into many of our attitudes about the fourth network. Here are the best bile blasts from an obviously irritated comedian: “Since I released my Cold Dead Hand video on Funny or Die this week, I have watched Fux News rant, rave, bare its fangs, and viciously slander me because of my stand against large magazines and assault rifles. … I’ll just say this: In my opinion, Fux News is a last

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I can’t say. I feel bad that it has. And I don’t know if it will ever change. …

Jack Johnson was the first AfricanAmerican heavyweight champion, and it galled those white supremacists who, like Jack London, called for a great white hope to defeat him. Johnson defeated their best men, notably Jim Jeffries at the fight of the century in Reno on July 4, 1910. Then they turned to the law, using the Mann Act—which was intended to deal with prostitution— to send him to federal prison for his consensual relationships with white women (“The great black hope,” RN&R, July 1, 2010). A century later, members of the U.S. House and Senate are sponsoring resolutions calling on President Obama to posthumously pardon Johnson. Working to that end in Reno is George Nelson, a retired United Auto Workers member who hands out letters to the president for people to sign.

Why do you want the pardon?

Times are changing. But are you surprised by how much racism still hangs on?

I can’t say because I don’t know. … My whole goal here is kind of like a foot soldier—just get everyone signed up and then turn it over to someone a lot smarter than I am to try to make it work. Ω

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parks. This is assuming that one day, Nevada will emerge from its financial desperation enough to be able to actually consider adding new state parks to the roster. Hey, you know, it could happen. What the heck. Past Neon Babylon nominees have included the Fly Geyser area, 20 miles outside of Gerlach, and uh ... well ... uh ... yeah, some others, too.

I think.

Anyway, my latest nominee is for New Nevada State Park is the grand area of Joshua trees that one finds on the Extraterrestrial Highway about 15 miles south of the freaky town of Rachel. It’s simply a wonderful place if you like these giant yuccas, which I do. A lot. It would make a killer state park, and give travelers on 375 an overnight option besides that freaky collection of Alien doublewides in Rachel. Ω

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Which pretty much sums it up.

And just to remind all you gun-loving folks out there, who seem to fret sweatily on a regular basis—us lefties, pinkos, socialists, hippies, pagans, infidels, tribalists, perverts, wastrels, ne’er do wells and incense burners out here that comprise the newly formed Obamystic Oddfellows Society—we really, honestly, truly aren’t coming to take your goddamn guns. OK? Seriously. We’re just not.

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