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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

As I type this, the Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada is reaching its conclusion. The results are tabulated, the editorial staff here knows the winners, and everything has been through one layer of proofing.

I’m looking forward to seeing it on newsprint.

But, since you’re holding it in your hands, you already know better than I do whether our somewhat experimental three-dimensional technique worked. I know it looks great online, but newsprint is a funny, spongy medium.

I got the idea two years ago when I saw an image on Howard Goldbaum’s office door at the University of Nevada, Reno done with this technique, which is called an anaglyph. It’s been so long I can’t remember for sure what it was, but I think it was a train. It came back to me when, toward the end of the spring semester, he posted a photo on Facebook by a student, Katie Romanko, of the John Mackay statue on the campus. Swearing Howard to secrecy, I told him of my idea for this year’s Best Of and asked if he knew anyone who could pull it off. He said Katie, the very one who shot the picture of Mackay, was my huckleberry.

Katie is awesome, and she’s going to be a great reporter someday. She didn’t quit, even when circumstances and technology warranted multiple shoots and reprocessing of the photos. I hope you’re seeing great evidence of her hard work. Gehrig Fry of Rainbow Symphony was another friend we came across during this process. He consulted on his own time and at no charge to help us with this. Truly an awesome person. And also, thanks to Nevada’s QB Cody Fajardo for gracing our cover.

But enough about 3-D. I don’t want to jinx it. Thanks to everyone else who worked crazy hard for this issue: The RN&R sales and editorial teams, operations giant John Bisignano and design maven Hayley Doshay. Congratulations to all you winners, and thanks to you readers who make this all possible.

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I am very concerned with the Regional Transportation Commission’s (RTC) proposed Southeast Connector (SEC) through the Rosewood Lakes Golf course.

1. Why has construction stopped on the widening of South McCarran from Mira Loma to Greg Street and not been completed in a timely manner? The widening up to that point has alleviated much of the prior traffic congestion.

2. Why have so many resources been devoted to the beginning and end of this SEC project while the “middle” has not yet been permitted or approved? The project is proposed through protected wetlands in a flood zone with much pollution of arsenic and mercury in Steamboat Creek.

We need to express our demand that a full Environmental Impact Study (EIS) be completed by RTC before any further construction begins. We citizens cannot sit by quietly as this project proceeds without accountability regarding realistic future ramifications.

Joan Boetcher Reno

Actually, it’s the mind-control that makes you think that

on company time and who will also be using a company vehicle to assist you in your personal business. If you work for any of the companies I have worked for, and you pulled this stunt you would, at the very minimum, receive a very stern reprimand with a note in your personnel file. You may even be terminated. If you work for RPD all you get is a statement from your superiors saying they have no problem with it and have no policy against it. Doesn’t really matter to me what you are selling out of the trunk of your patrol car. If you are on the clock, you should be performing the duties you are being paid tax dollars to perform, serving the people of Reno, not enriching yourself by selling personal property.

Keith Deutscher Reno

Plan ahead for breaks Re “Plan ahead for new breaks” (Editorial, Aug. 1): I am the director of Ginny’s Child Garden. I understand the point of your editorial is to discuss the new break schedule. However, after reading this article, one paragraph did cause me concern. I found the statements about child care centers not being prepared or able to accept the extra enrollment a generalization.

Ginny’s Child Garden wants to let your readers know that we have planned for this new change. We are offering several camps, Fabulous Fall, Wonderful Winter and Spectacular Spring for each of the new calendar breaks. We have plenty of space and have planned for proper staff at these times. I am personally aware of other centers in the area planning for this change as well.

While the new calendar will create challenges for the parents of young children, due to the present economy, many centers are looking for creative ways to fill spaces that may have occurred. I would not like to see any parents in the Washoe County School District feel that their options are so limited when in reality they are not.

A special section for any child care centers that will be offering care or camps during these breaks would be a

Warren Senders Medford, Mass.

I just thought I’d ask and see if you guys had any info on what’s been happening with our weather lately.

Hail and flash floods. Two mudslides in July. This is obviously a product of geoengineering, and we have had the chem trails lately to prove it.

Non-classified info on HAARP is available online and would be a great story for your paper. It has affected us a lot locally.

Jon Mccann Reno

Throw oil on the wildfires Re “The West is burning” (News, July 25): The sad fact is that as long as the majority of American news media are

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financially beholden to corporate interests allied with fossil-fuel producers, the grim and compelling evidence of climate change will never be presented on prime-time TV without a protective dose of false equivalence. Here’s how that works: A petroleum company provides generous funding to a “think tank,” which hires a videogenic person with a degree in a tangentially-related field (statistics, engineering, meteorology), gives them grand-sounding but semantically meaningless title, and equips them with a full array of obfuscatory talking points (“the science isn’t settled,” “action on climate change will damage the economy,” etc.). When a climatologist is scheduled to appear, TV programs call the think tank, which sends a “Senior Policy Analyst” to provide “the other side of the argument,” thereby creating the impression that there is a legitimate dispute. If this mechanism were in place elsewhere in our national discourse, we’d be hearing from flat-Earthers, lizard-people theorists, faked-moon-landing believers, and adherents of the medieval medical theory of “humors.” Could this be related the fact that responsible action on climate change will reduce oil-industry profits by a small but significant margin? I wonder.

Gun running cops This letter is addressed to people with jobs in the private sector. Public sector employees won’t understand. Try this when you go to work tomorrow: Tell your boss you are going to take a half hour or so to go conduct some personal business while on the clock. Tell your boss that this personal business could be conducted on your own time, but it is just more convenient to do it on company time. Make sure your boss understands that this personal business is in no way related to the job you are being paid to perform, it is only to personally enrich yourself by selling some personal property. Tell your boss you are going to use a company vehicle so you don’t have to spend any of your own gas money. Tell your boss your are also going to take along a co-worker who will also be

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The lawyers are the problem The USA’s government is in a coup d’etat status. How? First, lawyers shouldn’t write laws, as this is a conflict-of-interest. It’s as unethical as a lawyer can get, as they are human, and will write prohibitions only for themselves to make money. This is why they never should be allowed to serve in legislatures. Members of the bar writing laws? See how the president can obstruct justice in “Fast and Furious,” and how guns supplied to drug cartels from his administration were used to kill Border Patrol agents and Mexican police. Now, the US Congress has a quorum majority of lawyers, who serve the bar, which serves only them, and leads to authoritarian laws, which are enforced by brute force by police who get killed only for the lawyer’s “legal guild.”

Where’s the consent of the people? Oh, that’s why they keep us out, maybe? I hereby propose a constitutional amendment banning lawyers from Congress.

They can “counsel” like they do here in Nevada’s houses, and make sure law is codified correctly, but no more than that. End the conflict-of-interest, try the president, and give this nation back to its real owners, we the people.

AL Engleman Fallon

Correction Re “Picture this” (Editor’s Note, Aug. 1): We incorrectly identified Anthony Weiner as a Republican. Anthony Weiner is and was a Democrat. Our apologizes for any confusion our error caused.

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What’s the best thing in your life?

Asked at the Reno arch James Allen Construction worker

My family and my kids. They brighten up my life. I love spending time with them and waking up to them every day, and they just complete me.

Shomari White Computer programmer

Family. They’re always there for you.

You can’t trust too many people, but your family should always be there for you.

Robin Thomas Office manager

Glory days Congratulations, Northern Nevada! This Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada is the one editorial every year when you can count on us just to express our real fondness for this place where we live. The staff of the Reno News & Review are all here in Reno because we like it here. There’s not a staff person, on the editorial side at least, who has lived in this state for less than two decades. We’re here because we know and appreciate the culture. Our families our here. We pay taxes here.

Our roots are here. We choose to be here.

Although we write about some positive things in our region every single week, we don’t subscribe to the asinine notion that anyone who points out the weak points of our community is somehow an enemy of the city’s tourism industry. Some of the wags and media sources in this city need to grow some selfesteem and just tell the whole truth if they truly want things to improve in the long term.

Things can get better, but they don’t get better by people just saying things are great. They’re improved by people helping other people, like Evelyn Mount, who won Best Volunteer. They are improved by people like Art Farley, Heather Lee Jones, and Gino and Juli Scala who opened, respectively, Brasserie St. James, Happy Happy Joy Joy, and Great Full Gardens Cafe.

But these people, as do we all, stand on the shoulders of giants. We’d all be screwed if it hadn’t been for the pioneering innovators, the people and groups who’ve been around so long we don’t even remember them as groundbreaking—although the results of our poll

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My husband, just because we’ve been together for a long time, and we agree on a lot of things. And I would say that even if he weren’t standing right next to me right now.

shows they’re still on the cutting edge. We’re looking at you, Great Basin Brewing Co. It was not that long ago when there was no Bruka Theatre to win Best Local Theater Company. In fact, if not for Scott Beers and crew in 1992, and those who followed, we wouldn’t even have a Best Local Theater category, because there was only one professional theater troupe, the Reno Little Theater.

Collaborative arts groups like Artown, Holland Project, The Generator, Valley Arts Research Institute, or Reno Artworks? In 1990, there were Sierra Arts Foundation and the Artists Co-op Gallery of Reno.

The concepts of collaborative and innovative work and living spaces like Reno Collective or Dozen at the Delux simply did not exist in Reno back in the day. Burning Man and the explosion of the creative class it provided to Reno was barely a dream.

Practitioners of the local food movement, if there were any, were simply not a part of the mainstream discussion.

All this simply goes to show that those people who routinely underestimate what this community can do—does—are just pessimists. Yes, to take the reins of this community, people like those listed in our readers’ poll had to overcome 125 years of “vision,” but they’ve brought us all miles in the last couple of decades.

Those people who moan for Reno’s glory days ain’t seen nothing yet. We’re living in an age of wonders—and things are only going to get better. Ω

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My family because they’re just great.

The kids, they’re great kids. They do well in school. They’re respectful. They love God.

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My boyfriend because he’s my best friend. He’s my everything. I can trust him, and he doesn’t turn on me.

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Did cowardice rule the Legislature?

Who is punishing the kids?

Although a few people are questioning the need to rehabilitate 50-year-old schools, common sense says major repairs are needed in facilities that house hundreds of rambunctious children with vastly different technology needs than 50 years ago. by According to the Washoe County Sheila Leslie School District, the bill for such basics as heating and ventilation systems, plumbing, and roofing totals more than $500 million. The 2002 rollover bond that supported these capital projects expired last year, and now there’s no mechanism for generating funding to repair our schools.

During the 2013 Legislative session, the School District sponsored Assembly Bill 46 as a solution, proposing that the sales tax be increased by one-quarter cent and the property tax be increased by .05 cents per $100 of assessed value.

This would generate about $20 million annually to begin to address the backlog of delayed maintenance.

The estimated cost for the average taxpayer: about $8 a month.

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While the Washoe delegation was nearly unanimous in its support for AB 46, they were unable to muster the two-thirds votes necessary for increasing taxes, even though the measure was confined to Washoe County. The bill was kicked around all session with several suggested amendments, including an early one delegating the power for raising these taxes to the local school board.

Although the Washoe County School District sounds like it’s under the jurisdiction of the County Commission, it has its own elected board. Many objected to delegating the taxing authority of the Legislature to the school board, and that amendment was dropped.

After trying unsuccessfully to again convince Republican legislators to support the bill, Democrats reluctantly agreed to amend it and give the Washoe County commissioners the chore of deciding whether to raise the taxes or not, even though the commission has neither the constitutional responsibility nor the oversight function for our schools.

Disregarding complaints about the “tyranny of the minority” when one-third of the members can derail any funding bill in the Legislature, these same legislators imposed the tyrannical two-thirds rule on the Commission, thus requiring four of the five members to approve the measure.

The commissioners and many citizens objected to the Legislature dumping this decision on local government, but the first of several promised public hearings on the measure was held last month.

Despite abdicating their constitutional responsibility, legislators couldn’t keep away from Twitter during that hearing, and their tweets nicely sum up the debate.

Senator Debbie Smith, D-Sparks: “Let’s be clear. Yes #AB46 should have been done by #NvLeg. But it wasn’t. Minority rules. Let’s not punish the kids.”

Assemblyman Ira Hansen, R-Sparks, bluntly countered her sentiments, tweeting: “If I were you, I’d kick this #AB46 back to the #nvleg and tell them to stop being cowards.”

Meanwhile, the governor’s office remained silent, attacked by the antitax crowd for allowing AB 46 to pass without a veto while deftly avoiding the anger of parents and citizens who believe our kids deserve better.

Is it cowardice that caused the Legislature to shirk its duty and avoid putting its members and the governor on the record with a tax vote? Or is it the result of the greed of groups like the Chamber of Commerce who give lip service to education but continually influence elected officials to starve government?

To sum it up: the Legislature gave away its power and authority, the governor smiled but did nothing, the commissioners pointed fingers while promising to “do their duty” (whatever that means), and our schools continue to crumble.

We are all to blame for electing those who cannot even unite to make sure the heater works and the roof doesn’t leak at our neighborhood schools.

Who’s really to blame for punishing our kids? Ω

If this isn’t depressing enough, check out these before/after pictures of meth addicts: www. cbsnews.com/2300204_162-10014847. html.

Teachers must be judged on merit North Carolina recently pushed through controversial legislation to revoke lifetime tenure for teachers in public schools. By doing so, that state has increased the incentives for teacher performance, and it has reinforced the crazy notion that teachers need to be good at their by Chanelle Bessette jobs in order to keep them. While the origins of tenure come from educators at the collegiate level who needed protection when teaching contentious ideas, through unions, it has come to be applied to primary and secondary school teachers. In Nevada, the word “tenure” is not explicitly used, but the condition of protecting teachers who have seniority and have passed evaluations from firing still exists.

My parents were both teachers in Clark County for much of my childhood. They taught at both middle and high school levels and were well-respected by their colleagues and students. But for just as many dedicated and effective teachers who live in Nevada, there

are those who don’t care. Currently, Nevada’s school system adheres to a policy under which they are less likely to fire teachers for poor performance when they have what is tantamount to tenure. Instead, relatively new teachers have a higher probability of being laid off, even if they are better educators.

The levels of bureaucracy that go along with such programs as well as the stranglehold of teachers’ unions have long held back the quality of education.

Teaching has always been considered one of the most difficult jobs in the public sector. Maintaining control over dozens of energetic young bodies at a time, doling out discipline, educating the next generation of citizens and doing it all on a shoestring budget for little pay is not a job that many would commit to. Sure, the summer and winter breaks are great perks, but much of that time is spent in preparation for and recuperation from the stress of the school year. It’s not hard to see why teachers might become disillusioned or try to be

promoted to an administrative level.

Going through the public school system myself, I saw my fair share of teachers who had either lost their inspiration to teach or had chosen teaching as a profession because they knew they could get what amounted to tenure with minimal effort. On the other hand, I had the pleasure of being taught by many competent, intelligent teachers as well who dedicated many hours to after-school help and made learning fun.

This ostensible tenure ultimately weakens the quality of a school overall because administrators can’t appropriately fire, hire and reward teachers. In fact, it seems like the only way to really get rid of a teacher is for outrageous or illegal behavior. Education has always been a highly regulated industry where the protection and growth of children is the number one priority.

The problem is that the lack of ability to fire poorly performing teachers is actually a detriment to the educational system. Every other business has the willingness and

capability to remove ineffective staff, but schools seemingly operate under special rules.

The aggressive nature of teachers’ unions and perceived tenure make the profession of teaching seem sacrosanct. But in reality, if quality education is the end goal, teachers can’t be given special treatment when it comes to employment protection. Good teachers needn’t be worried by such measures, whereas mediocre and bad teachers would have to improve their push for student success.

Granted, a lot of student success depends on parental involvement and individual ambition, but good teachers are easy to spot by their actions. Tenure for teachers takes away the incentives for high performance and rewards bare minimum effort. If we really care about the quality of education, it will be up to Nevada voters to push for the removal of preferential treatment for “tenured” teachers so that balance is restored. Ω

Here’s a provocative discussion of teacher tenure: http:// teachertenure.procon. org.

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Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki has a notable distinction in state history—the first official to be term limited in two different offices.

Mining corp donates to itself Comstock Mining Inc., under fire for its activities in the tourist areas around Silver City and Gold Hill, has adopted a public relations technique used by numerous other mining corporations in the state— making charitable donations to the area affected by its mining. CMI, however, has found a novel way of doing it.

On July 10, a non-profit corporation called the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture was incorporated at the Nevada secretary of state’s office.

Twenty days later, Comstock Mining Inc. announced it would donate a percentage of its proceeds from its Lucerne Mine: “Comstock Mining is providing resources that we consider an essential, foundational commitment, but we see many, many other constituents interested in supporting this regionally and culturally important treasure,” said the corporation’s CEO and president, Corrado De Gasperis The foundation’s board chair is—Corrado De Gasperis. He is also the resident agent for the foundation.

Silver City resident Joe McCarthy responded, noted that the foundation has named Ron James as its director.

“Sadly, a former state preservation official, who doesn’t even live in the Comstock, is being paid by CMI to recreate the same old tired ‘historic preservation’ model to ‘revitalize’ the lower Comstock,” McCarthy said. “More false promises. We end up with a self-congratulatory fix-up of an historic building here or there, maybe the propping up a head frame or, they raise enough money to put up a viewing platform with some hokey historical markers.

All the while, this former preservation specialist and CMI want us to ignore the environmental destruction of a cultural landscape that was once an aesthetically beautiful, natural combination of precious landforms, habitats for wildlife and backdrops of real history, not the Disneyland-type images that emanate from their imaginations.”

On July 2 the Storey County Commission approved an expansion of CMI’s ore processing.

Sandoval gets partisan If Democrats find a serious candidate to run against him, Brian Sandoval may have difficulty cutting into the Democratic vote in his reelection campaign as successfully as he did in 2010. Sandoval is employing language these days that seems designed to provoke Democrats.

He recently sent out a fundraising letter that brags about how he “vetoed the liberals’ attack on the Second Amendment that would have criminalized the transfer of a gun to a family member.”

“We’ve stopped not one but four attempts by Democrats to raise billions in higher state taxes,” said the letter from the governor who has twice renewed “temporary” taxes and dumped the job of raising school taxes on county bodies.

The Nevada Democratic Party quickly sent out a fund raising mailing of its own that quotes the Sandoval mailing. A letter over the signature of Democratic state chair Roberta Lange reads, “You won’t believe this—in a fundraising letter to his donors, Governor Sandoval touted his veto of a bill that would have closed loopholes that allow mentally ill individuals to purchase guns.” One Henderson reader put his name on the Democratic mailing and sent it to this newspaper as a letter to the editor.

Political analyst Fred Lokken said Sandoval’s mailing is typical of a strategy of using “literature that is aimed at a particular audience, the conservative wing of the party.” That section of the party is the most highly motivated, and to raise funds there, Lokken said, Sandoval is saying “what the base wants to hear.”

Lokken also said the Democrats’ reaction was deft.

“They want to call the governor out—is he a conservative or is he a moderate?” Lokken said. “Which governor do we have—the middle-of-the-road candidate or the fringe figure?”

That’s the Democrats’ “best strategy,” Lokken said, because it positions their party in the middle of the road.

Incidentally, contrary to Sandoval’s fundraising claim, section 7.8 of the bill he vetoed allows “transfer of a firearm that is a gift or loan between family members.”

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When the music stops Politicians learn to stay alive even under term limits It took a while, but term limits are becoming more of a factor in Nevada politics. First of all, politics has by become more partisan and more Dennis Myers polarized, which made the need for term limits less urgent because the polarization drove people out of politics and reduced the pool of people willing to get involved.

Zealots now make up a larger portion of officeholders than they once did.

“We lose a lot of knowledge and expertise.”

Kim Wallin state controller

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Then, for those willing to run, term limits created a new game of musical officeholders’ chairs.

Term limits were approved in the 1994 and 1996 elections, and the clock started running on them in 1998.

In the Nevada Legislature, term limits have been almost beside the point because few members can stand to stay in the legislature the full tenure of 12 years. More members jump than are pushed.

Since term limits began taking hold in 2010, according to legislative researcher Michael Stewart, just 21 legislators—10 senators and 11 assemblymembers—have termed out. Even William Raggio,

the 38-year warhorse of the Senate, resigned two years before he would have been termed out because, in addition to health problems, the partisan antics of the lawmakers had become so difficult to endure.

On the other hand, one of the few who did serve long enough to be termed out—Maggie Carlton of Clark County—simply moved from the Senate to the Assembly and kept legislating.

Term limits have also accelerated the effect of politicians in the legislature constantly looking for the next rung. Democrats Steven Horsford and John Oceguera put their eyes on the U.S. House even though they had influential positions in the legislature—Oceguera as Assembly speaker, Horsford as Senate Democratic floor leader.

There are legislators who say that leaders with one eye on the clock lack the qualities that earlier leaders had.

Nevada is now starting to experience politics more as a game of musical chairs—officials who serve out their time in one office and move to another.

In Reno, two city councilmembers with reported mayoral aspirations, Pierre Hascheff and David Aiazzi, were termed out earlier than Mayor Bob Cashell. They both ran for other offices—Aiazzi for school board member, Hascheff for justice of the peace—and

won, which keeps them visible until the 2014 election, when the mayor’s job falls open. County Commissioner David Humke is a possible City Council candidate, and Reno City Attorney John Kadlic is running for Humke’s seat on the commission.

Kadlic is the only official in this cycle who isn’t termed out.

He’s actually running for a reason unrelated to terms. “City attorneys don’t make policy, and I’m interested in making policy,” he said.

A variant on these kinds of machinations is Howard Rosenberg. He was elected to the Nevada Board of Regents until termed out in 2010. He stepped out of public life, then came back in 2012 to run successfully for the Washoe County School Board.

Tag! You’re it At the state government level, of the six officials elected statewide— governor, lieutenant governor, treasurer, controller, secretary of state and attorney general—five are termed out. They cannot run for their current jobs again in 2014.

Controller Kim Wallin is running for state treasurer, Treasurer Kate Marshall is running for secretary of state, Secretary of State Ross Miller is running for attorney general, and Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto has not yet announced her plans, though she is a prime candidate for lieutenant governor. Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki may have nowhere to go, but he can take some satisfaction in being a pioneer in this field. He is the first person in state history to be termed out of two different offices, state treasurer and lieutenant governor. (Krolicki could follow the example of one of his predecessors, Lt. Gov. Charles Laughton, who left Nevada after his term ended in 1887 and was promptly elected lieutenant governor of Washington.)

“Do we really gain something with term limits?” Wallin asked.

“We lose a lot of knowledge and expertise.” She said as controller, she and the treasurer have been working on a new accounting system, and she wants to stay as treasurer to see it through. But she could also have done that as controller if she were not termed out.

Gov. Brian Sandoval is not term limited, but would like a Republican lieutenant governor because it keeps him free to run for the U.S. Senate in midterm if he is reelected.

The Nevada Judiciary is exempt from all these maneuverings.

Judges were originally included in the constitutional amendment that enacted term limits. In a display of gall halfway through the 1994/1996 constitutional amending process, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that the Nevada Constitution’s requirement that amendments must be voted on “in the same manner” in both first- and second-round elections did not mean what it said.

For the second round, the court split the term limits amendment— which had already been approved in 1994—in two, giving judges their own amendment. The legal community then mounted a successful campaign to defeat term limits for judges in the 1996 campaign.

One of the consequences of term limits, of course, is that they are undiscriminating. They purge the occupants of ministerial offices like secretary of state as well as those of policy-making offices like governor.

And they purge the good and the bad officeholders, and term limits advocates have little faith that the public can tell the difference.

Cashell, for example, is credited with bringing cooperation to a city council that could not agree on lunch. He remains enormously

popular in Reno with both his fans and his critics. Few people argue that he could be reelected if he were free to run and the public were free to vote for him.

“I’m probably getting to the age where I should think about retirement, but really, I don’t want to,” he said.

“ I should think about retirement, but really, I don’t want to.”

Bob Cashell Reno mayor One Sparks businessperson said, “I actually voted for term limts, but”—she shook her head— “I wish Cashell weren’t leaving.”

It’s an interesting scenario. At least one possible outcome to the Reno mayor’s race was decided by voters who lived here 16 years ago and had no knowledge of who might be running or what the stakes would be in 2014. And many of those who cast those 1996 votes, through death or departure, no longer have any stake in the outcome. Cashell’s fate was decided blindly, when he was still running casinos. Ω

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John and Sharon Davidson are concerned about vanishing honey bees.

Buzz kill Locals voice concern over bee disappearances If honey bees weren’t buzzing from flower to flower, plant to plant pollinating everything from almonds and apples to cauliflower and cotton seed, we could be in a world of hurt—and, quite possibly, hunger. But honey bees have been by Sage Leehey disappearing rapidly since around 2006.

Beekeepers began noticing that a large amount of bees were simply s agel@ leaving their colonies and never returning; this is now called Colony Collapse news re view.c om Disorder (CCD). There are several different possible causes that are being examined as to why these bees are unable to return to their hives including parasitic mites, new viruses, malnutrition and habitat loss. Many believe exposure to neonicotinoid insecticides is the main cause of CCD, and the neonicotinoid insecticide, imidacloprid, is the most common and widely used insecticide in the world. In the United States, it is widely used on corn crops.

Neonicotinoids and their effects on bees have caused such a commotion that the European Union passed a two-year ban on them on April 29 with a vote of 15 member countries in favor, despite strong opposition from eight countries including the United Kingdom. (Four countries abstained.)

Restrictions on neonicotinoids had already been in place in several countries including Germany, France and Italy.

One of the more troubling parts about this to local activists Sharon and John Davidson is that global agricultural biotechnology giant, Monsanto— which incorporates neonicotinoids into some of its seeds—bought an international bee research company, Beeologics, in 2011. Beeologics “researches and is developing biological tools to provide targeted control of pests and disease, including those that are related to honey bee health,” according to a statement from Monsanto.

Sharon said that she was concerned about what Beeologics and Monsanto’s solution to CCD will be because it seems to be going in the direction of a bee that’s genetically modified to resist things like viruses and insecticides. John also voiced concern that Monsanto now has some level of control over the research about bee health and CCD since they own one of the companies conducting this research.

After looking into CCD and neonicotinoids, John became curious about alternative methods of pollination.

“They did a study at MIT on this, which is pretty interesting,” John said.

“They sprayed pollen from overhead onto the fields, and they measured what the fruit set was after spraying, what the cost of the aerial effort was, what the cost of the pollen they sprayed was. ... They had a 73 percent smaller crop yield as a result of overhead pollination. ... They estimated that it was going to cost $876,000 annually to do overhead pollination rather than the bees, which remember are free. So it’s not an option.”

John also noted that there was a better crop yield with hand pollination, but it didn’t seem feasible because of the enormous amount of man hours it would take.

John strongly believes that there is no good alternative to honey bees for pollination. And both he and Sharon believe that neonicotinoids need to be banned in the United States, at least until more research on the rapid disappearance of honey bees can be done.

“We need the bees,” John said. “That’s the bottom line.” Ω OPINION

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Best of NortherN Nevada looks for the tallest, widest aNd deepest that moment we’ve all been waiting for when we announce the results of our annual popularity contest, the Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada.

This year we chose to emphasize innovation. We hoped to highlight the individuals and companies that really exemplify Northern Nevada as a community of pioneers, and you, the readers and voters, certainly made our hopes come true. You called out the biggest, smartest, the most cutting edge, the most beautiful, the most popular, the techiest ... the best from all over our little section of heaven. And that’s what this popularity contest is about.

This is our 19th year doing this readers’ poll. While it has evolved and changed year after year, some things don’t change at all.

There are never enough categories to name everything and everyone that’s great about Northern Nevada. There’s never enough space to thank everyone who had a hand in making this results issue so great to look at.

There aren’t enough words to congratulate

all the winners who were able to stand out in our community enough to get other people to recognize them (or to wage a campaign for their own recognition). It’s all in good fun.

This year, we sought to symbolize our interest in innovation with our threedimensional art by Katie Romanko and with changes we made in the balloting. This year, we did two things differently. First, we created an autocomplete list based on last year’s winners and including some of Northern Nevada’s newest businesses that readers could use instead of typing whole names in some 350 categories. We also broke up the individual chain storefronts in order to award the best individual efforts, as opposed to largest chains. Tallying the votes, it was obvious that while some readers found the autocomplete helpful, none felt constrained to the list. These two innovations made for the most accurate balloting ever, and set the stage for even more precision next year.

And so, Northern Nevada RN&R readers, take a deep breath and pat yourselves on the back. You went the distance. You are truly what makes this the best place around.

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A vintage cash register at Reno’s Best thrift store: Junkee Clothing Exchange.

Best thrift store Best cheap liquor store Best tanning salon Junkee Clothing Exchange Total Wine & More Sunsation 960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865 6671 S. Virginia St., 1450 E. Prater Way, Sparks, 853-3669 359-9955 Best local place to work Moonlite Bunny Ranch 69 Moonlight Road, Carson City, 246-9901 Best landscaping company All Seasons Lawn and Landscaping 657 Twin Lakes Drive, 329-1531

Best uncategorizical Best place to read store the Book of Joe The Red Chair, 6135 Lakeside Drive, is too specialized to ever likely win a place in the Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada. At least that’s what proprietress Aaryn Walker says. What the store mostly has is mid-20th century décor and furniture, but the best way to shop it is to tell Aaryn what’s on your midcentury wish list. “Yeah, I’m looking to replace my ceiling lights with something from the ’60s,” “Trying to find something cool to put on the floor in my basement.”

If it’s not in the store, she’s probably got something squirreled away in storage.

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A used bookstore is your friend. In Portland, there’s a multi-story one that occupies a full city block. In Hagerstown, Penn., a former Borders bookstore is now occupied by a used bookstore—though the justice is not that poetic: It’s a chain used bookstore. There’s even a book, The Protocols of Used Bookstores by David Mason. The Book Gallery in Sparks has survived as other local used bookstores have come and gone. Joe Chiapetto is now in his second tenure as its owner. Here you may find those books you loved as a child or soaked up like a sponge in college— and if they aren’t here, the store can track them down for you.

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Best women’s clothing Boutique Plato’s Closet 1535 S. Virginia St., 322-0110

Best frame shop Aaron Brothers 4809 Kietzke Lane, 827-2004 Best spa Lime 895 S. Center St., 825-5463

Best men’s clothing store Macy’s 5100 Meadowood Mall Circle, 826-8333

Best dry cleaners Peerless multiple locations

Best Bookstore Best children’s Best house Sundance Books & Music clothing Boutique cleaning service 121 California Ave., 786-1188 Sipee’s White Lotus 955 S. Virginia St., 329-2110 Best place to get 35 N. Edison Way, 856-2345 an auto smogged Best place to Best video game store Instant Smog Buy a firearm Game Force multiple locations Bizarre Guitar and Guns 1280 E. Plumb Lane, 2677 Oddie Blvd., 685-4867 Best place to Buy a 829-1950 musical instrument Best jewelry store Best gadget store Maytan Music Center Jared the Galleria of Jewelry Scotland Yard Spy Shop 777 S. Center St., 323-5443 13957 S. Virginia St., 1085 S. Virginia St., Best gym 850-2020 323-3232 (tie) Saint Mary’s Center for Best mall Best wine shop Health and Fitness The Summit Total Wine & More 645 N. Arlington Ave., 13925 S. Virginia St., 6671 S. Virginia St., 770-3800 853-7800 853-3669

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Best specialty ice cream store Cold Stone Creamery 299 E. Plumb Lane, 322-3110 Best pet store PetSmart 6675 S. Virginia St., 852-8490 Best pet supply store PetSmart 6675 S. Virginia St., 852-8490 Best pet BoarDing Pet Play House 2403 E. Fourth St., 324-0202 Best skateBoarD store Classic Skate Shop 26 Cheney St., 348-9440

Eric and Monique Baron, owners of the best place to buy playa garb: Melting Pot World Emporium.

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(tie) Sports West Athletic Club 1575 S. Virginia St., 348-6666

Best place to Buy cDs Recycled Records 822 S. Virginia St., 826-4119 Best specialty fooDs store Whole Foods Market 6139 S. Virginia St., 852-8023

Best tattoo parlor Aces Tattoo 681 S. Virginia St., 333-0915

Best Brothel Moonlite Bunny Ranch 69 Moonlight Road, Carson City, 246-9901

Best Beauty salon A Salon 7 495 Morrill Ave., 786-7770

Best tattoo artist Ron Rash, Aces Tattoo

Best motorcycle Dealer, shop Chester’s Reno Harley-Davidson 2315 Market St., 329-2913

Best place to Buy vintage clothes Junkee Clothing Exchange & Antique Mall 960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865

Best nail technician Stephanie Wilcox Caliber Salon & Spa

Best BarBer shop Maxwell’s Barbershop 555 S. Virginia St., 322-2466

Best place to get a car repaireD Landa Muffler & Brake 816 E. Fourth St., 322-0112

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Best car wash Hutch’s Mission Car Wash 6355 S. McCarran Blvd., 827-4222

Best Bicycle shop Reno Bike Project 541 E. Fourth St., 323-4488 |

Best hotel for a romantic getaway Peppermill Resort Spa Casino 2707 S. Virginia St., (866) 821-9996

Best garDen nursery Moana Lane Garden Center 1100 W. Moana Lane, 825-0600

Best home furnishings store RC Willey Home Furnishings 1201 Steamboat Pkwy., 337-4600

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Best useD car Dealership Internet Auto 1220 Kietzke Lane, 379-2252

Best Boutique clothing store Junkee Clothing Exchange 960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865

Best BarBer Patrick Sutton

Best antique store Junkee Clothing Exchange & Antique Mall 960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865

Best new car Dealership Bill Pearce Courtesy Honda 780 Kietzke Lane, 789-7999

Best shoe selection DSW Shoe Warehouse 6659 S. Virginia St., 852-9401

Best aesthetician Megan Griggs Caliber Salon & Spa

Best computer store Apple Store 13925 S. Virginia St., 333-5460

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Best place to get pierceD Black Hole Body Piercing 912 S. Virginia St., 329-6010

Best hair stylist Brian Jensen A Salon 7

Best aDultthemeD store Suzie’s 195 Kietzke Lane, 786-8557

Best useD clothing store Junkee Clothing Exchange 960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865

Best flower shop Sparks Florist 1001 Pyramid Way, Sparks, 358-8500

Best creDit union Greater Nevada Credit Union multiple locations

Best pilates instructor Sophia Sefchick

Best grocery store Whole Foods Market 6139 S. Virginia St., 852-8023

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Best photography supply store Gordon’s Photo Service 5067 S. McCarran Blvd., 826-6488 Best pilates stuDio Ball Fitness Studio 460 California Ave., 324-3224

Best mortgage company Wells Fargo multiple locations

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Best newspaper Reno News & Review 708 N. Center St., 324-4440

Best outDoor outfitter REI 2225 Harvard Way, 828-9090

Best puBlication (that’s not us) Reno-Tahoe Tonight

Best optical shop Adlington Eye Center & Eyeglass Gallery 500 W. Plumb Lane, 284-3937

Best new Business Brasserie St. James 901 S. Center St., 348-8888 Best place for music lessons Maytan Music Center 777 S. Center St., 323-5443

Best hospital Renown Regional Medical Center 1155 Mill St., 982-4100

Best place to Buy playa garB Melting Pot World Emporium 1049 S. Virginia St., 322-9445

Best Doggy Daycare Pet Play House 2403 E. Fourth St., 324-0202 Best athletic shoe selection Scheels All Sports 1200 Scheels Drive, 331-2700

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Best workout wear selection Scheels All Sports 1200 Scheels Drive, Sparks, 331-2700

Best sunglasses selection Sunglass Hut 5189 Meadowood Mall Circle, 826-8778

Best outDoor gear selection REI 2225 Harvard Way, 828-9090

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Best inDepenDent useD Bookstore Grassroots Books 660 E. Grove St., 828-2665

Best weDDing event planner Liane McCombs Wedding & Event Planning

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Best inDepenDent computer store Moondog Computers 4896 S. Virginia St., 332-6666

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Best selection of local art Never Ender Boutique & Art Gallery 119 Thoma St., 348-9440

Best veterinarian Klaich Animal Hospital 1990 S. Virginia St., 826-1212

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Best pawnBroker Palace Jewelry & Loan Company 300 N. Virginia St., 322-2863

Best local noncasino Business Pet Play House 2403 E. Fourth St., 324-0202

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The Ichthyosaur is one of the collaborations happening at the innovative art space the Generator.

Best local innovation: living space Dozen at the DeLuxe 1690 S. Wells Ave., 737-9735

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Did you ever get so drunk that you allowed yourself to be picked up by a cougar in Panther Valley?

And then when you woke up, you didn’t have a car, know where you were, or know how to tell people to find you? Us, either. But we heard in such a case, a friend can install “Find My Phone” on Android or iPhone, and through the magic of triangulation, track you down to the most hidden lair in the most remote trailer in the valley. We also hear tell this is a great app for keeping track of your children.

Free parking in downtown Reno is the absolute best innovation this city has to offer. Who would have guessed the last City Council would spend so much dough to make our parking free? Those neverhave-ever-functioned-ever parking meters had to be on purpose, right?

It’s hard to believe that those bureaucrats would have ever come up with such an awesome idea on their own, but that’s apparently what happened. We certainly have enjoyed the amenity of free parking downtown these last two years. It’s fingers crossed that the current City Council continues to operate with such competence!

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Best local innovation: working space Reno Collective 100 N. Arlington Ave., 391-0195 Best local innovation: collaboration Reno Collective 100 N. Arlington Ave., 391-0195 Best local innovation: service Design on the Edge www.designonedge.com Most innovative local cocktails Zephyr Bar (Z Bar) 1074 S. Virginia St., 348-1723 |

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Best local innovation: techology Renown CyberKnife

Most innovative local artist Ryan Ostler

Best local innovation: activism Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada

Most innovative local promotion Reno Winter Bachata www.salsareno.com/events

Most innovative local music Whitney Myer

Most innovative local company Design on the Edge www.designonedge.com

Most innovative local nonprofit Urban Roots 3001 W. Fourth St., 636-5105

Most innovative local teacher Donna Sosnowski Miguel Sepulveda Elementary School

Most innovative local menu Campo 50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555

Most innovative local startup business Happy Happy Joy Joy 955 S. Virginia St., 562-1113

Most innovative local casino Peppermill Hotel Casino 2707 S. Virginia St., 689-7050

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Best Person to recognize During the dark days of the Great Recession, businesses were closing left and right, but there was one bright spot in Reno: the Midtown District. Cool new businesses began to sprout there, and its influence spread throughout the community.

Midtown had one champion leading the charge. It’s difficult to rename streets, but there’s an alley that runs between Thoma Street and Junkee Clothing Exchange & Antique Mall, part of which we think is currently named Taylor Place. We believe the Reno City Council should honor the person who led the charge for Midtown and name that alley Jessica Schneider Way. 20 | RN&R |

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If you went to the Burning Man arts festival last year, you might have encountered “Pier 2,” the giant shipwreck out on the desert floor. Though that artwork was the result of the work of dozens of creative, talented people, Matt Schultz was the lead artist. This year, that crew is taking a fabricated Ichthyosaur skeleton out there. Schultz is something of a renaissance man. He’s the executive director of the Generator. He’s also a filmmaker. His documentary The Roots of Happiness has won a bunch of awards. He’s a guy with big visions, bigger dreams and the follow-through to get shit done. And perhaps most important, he’s a great guy to have a few drinks with.

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Best volunteer Evelyn Mount

Best photographer Jeramie Lu

Best visual artist Jeramie Lu

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Best muralist Erik Burke

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Best minister/ spiritual advisor Rev. Neal Anderson Universal Unitarian Fellowship of Northern Nevada

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Best local politician David Bobzien Best local athlete Colin Kaepernick

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Best local musician Whitney Myer Best local songwriter Whitney Myer Best local rapper Chari “Knowledge” Smith Best local filmmaker Jason Spencer

Best naturopathic practioner Tara L. Finley OMD

Best college instructor Howard Rosenberg University of Nevada, Reno

Best local tv news hairstyle Kristen Remington, KTVN

Best local radio dJ or dJ team Chris Payne, 104.1 KRZQ

Best police officer Patrick McCauley Reno Police Department

Best local columnist Cory Farley Reno Gazette-Journal

Best local actor/actress Mary Bennett

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Best creative writer Heidi Asher

Best massage therapist Tele Raack, LMT

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Best principal Krissy Brown Mount Rose Elementary School

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Best high school teacher Levi Watson Galena High School Best middle school teacher Joe Nannini Swope Middle School Best elementary school teacher Debbie Zunini Roy Gomm Elementary School

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The Universe Presents Perseid Meteor Showers!

The Perseid Meteor Showers will be boldly seen this coming weekend in the Black Rock desert and Friends of Black Rock is planning a spectacular weekend of viewing and events!

CAMP OUT DETAILS & SCHEDULE: Friends of Black Rock will establish a campsite approximately 8 miles due east from the 12 mile playa entrance. GPS coordinates will be posted closer to the event on Facebook though you can find our campsite if you don’t have a GPS. Camping is always at no-charge, thanks to this being a National Conservation Area, but there are small charges for the catered barbecue and Solider Meadows Ranch lunch! You don’t need to be a member to attend…but why not become a member today to support conservation work and enjoy barbecue for free!

Glamping makes it all quite fun so discover your camping style and bring it!

DIRECTIONS: From 12-mile travel due east about 7.2 miles, then cut to the right continuing south and slightly east. Our camp will be visible in about 2.5 miles. We’ll determine the site based on surface conditions so it’s exploration at its simplest…you’ll find us! Or, you can stay at Bruno’s. They offer discounts for all Friends compadres during our events!

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Friday / Saturday: Set up your camp. Meteors began to randomly cascade weeks ago. This is the crescendo weekend for the Perseids, which is why we’re camping!

Saturday 9am: Tour leaves for Soldier Meadows. Lunch provided by Soldier Meadows Ranch’s private chef. Cost for lunch $15. per person.

Reservations must be made by August 5th. Call: 775.557.2900. Leave a message if we’re not in the office and we’ll call back!

Saturday evening 7pm: Are you a member? Enjoy a complimentary catered barbecue by Reno’s #1 delicious finger-lickin’ spot: Carolina Kitchen!

Mom’s coming out to slather on the sauce and bring a feast to the table! Not a member? Why not? Join today for $35. RSVP at 775.557.2900.

NOTE: Single person memberships receive one complimentary meal.

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Saturday evening after sunset: Look up from your hammock, lounge chair or pad on the desert and simply be amazed at the sites the universe has brought you. Dust permitting, telescopes will be on site inviting you to gaze at other celestial wonders.

Sunday 8am: HAM class at Friends office in town. Take your lunch- be ready to be a new HAM person! Cost $50. which includes a new or renewal membership. Does that include the barbecue Saturday night? You bet cha!

Register with Michael by Aug. 5th / payment in advance required.

Stewardship projects will be on Sunday at Trego Hot Springs.

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Best cheesecake After an evening out downtown at the bars with our friends, we get hungry as all hell. High on our list of cravings are two things: bacon and cheesecake. At those desperate times, Tivoli Gardens in the El Dorado has become like mom’s kitchen. It’s open 24 hours, and it’s downtown, so it’s convenient, and mom doesn’t even have

to know what we’ve been up to. And here’s the clincher, they serve breakfast and dessert all day and night. One staffer’s favorite thing to get there is cheesecake—white chocolate cheesecake is especially tasty. It’s seriously amazing, especially paired with bacon ... and bacon, oh and eggs.

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Best place to cash your check Western Village Inn & Casino 815 Nichols Blvd., Sparks, 331-1069

Best casino restaurant Harrah’s Steak House 219 N. Center St., 786-3232

Best customer service Peppermill Resort Casino 2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

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OK, let’s review: Last summer, Chapel Tavern, a popular Midtown watering hole, moved from its a former location at 1495 S. Virginia St., at the corner of Virginia and Mount Rose Streets, up a couple of blocks north, to 1099 S. Virginia St., at the corner of Virginia and Caliente Streets.

The new location used to be the 1099 Club. The original Chapel Tavern, formerly Mr. O’s, is now 40 Mile Saloon. With us, so far?

The new Chapel is bigger and brighter, with great cocktails and staff, and is frequently bristling with beautiful people. But there’s something appealing and homey about 40 Mile Saloon. It helps that they’ve had a bunch of great rock ’n’ roll shows. Both are great bars, but whereas the new Chapel is a place to see and be seen, 40 Mile Saloon, on the other hand, is just a place to relax and party.

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Best self-esteem The arboretum. The rose gardens. The giant dog park. The Wilbur Day May Museum. The Basque monument. The Frisbee golf course. The tennis courts.

The log ride. The hiking trails. The mountain biking trails. The picnic areas. The ranch house—ideal for weddings, family reunions, random parties. The baseball diamonds. The petting zoo. The pastures. The playgrounds. The balloon races. The kite fliers. The soccer players. The grass. The plants. The animals. The trees. The long, romantic walks. The candlelit dinners.

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Best place to consider your heart If you’re into hiking, you need to try the Jumbo Grade.

During the Comstock era, ore was taken over the mountain and down into Washoe Valley, then across a bridge that spanned Washoe Lake to the Ophir Mill (which still exists alongside U.S. 395). In the 20th century, a mining camp called Jumbo sprang up along this route, giving its name to the road. It’s clearly marked on the Washoe Valley side. It comes out about where Gold Hill meets Virginia City. For hikers with less energy, starting at the top and coming down might be a better idea. Spring and autumn are the best times for this hike, particularly in these years of scorching summers.

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A&W restaurants had a hard time in Reno and Sparks in the 1960s and ’70s. One of them, on Prater Way, shut down and reopened as a locally owned establishment that has become a Sparks fixture—Scooper’s. It usually gets a lot of attention during Hot August Nights because it looks the part and is not a chain restaurant. It’s easy to imagine the Toad and Debbie and Curt and Milner here. The food is very good, and there is air conditioning inside—there’s a renovation going on and the walls have been stripped of memorabilia—and a |

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Best drive-in to reminisce aBout the ’90s

down to the classic drive-in chain. She still finds herself taking long lingering looks at the menu from the comfort of her car. But let’s just call that our little secret. Legend has it she was thrilled by the cute carhops rollerskating to her car. Maybe it’s the memories of going with her family, maybe it’s that tingle of a childhood crush on the carhops that keeps her coming back. “Nope,” she says. “It’s the slushes. I really, really love those things.” Watermelon is her favorite.

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Best cooking school Nothing to It! Culinary Center 225 Crummer Lane, 826-2628

Best thai Bangkok Cuisine 55 Mt. Rose St., 322-0299

Best hot dog Freeman’s Natural Hotdogs 106 California Ave., 322-3434

Best chinese Palais De Jade Fine Chinese Cuisine 960 W. Moana Lane, 827-5233

Best frozen yogurt Yogurt Beach 3882 Mayberry Drive, 787-2024

Best coffee roaster Hub Coffee Roasters 32 Cheney St., 323-3482 Best seafood Rapscallion Seafood House & Bar 1555 S. Wells Ave., 323-1211

Best salvadoran El Salvador Restaurant 517 Forest St., 329-3022

Best steak Harrah’s Steak House 219 N. Virginia St., 788-2929

Best french fries The Nugget 233 N. Virginia St., 323-0716

Best sandwich shop Deli Towne USA 3650 Lakeside Drive, 826-4466

Best pizza parlor Noble Pie Parlor 239 W. Second St., 622-9222

Best smoothie Jamba Juice 5140 Kietzke Lane, 828-5483

Best french Beaujolais Bistro 130 West St., 323-2227

Best Breakfast Peg’s Glorified Ham & Eggs 420 S. Sierra St., 329-2600

Best sushi Hiroba Sushi 3005 Skyline Blvd., Suite 100, 829-2788

Best salad Great Full Gardens Cafe 555 S. Virginia St., 324-2013

Best vegetarian Pneumatic Diner 501 W. First St., 786-8888

Best salad Bar Whole Foods Market 6139 S. Virginia St., 852-8023

Best Burger Awful Awful at the Nugget 233 N. Virginia St., 323-0716

Best mexican El Adobe Café 55 W. Arroyo St., 327-422

Best pastries Doughboy’s Donuts 57 Damonte Ranch Pkwy., 853-6844

Best italian Campo 50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555

Best Bagel My Favorite Muffin 340 California Ave., 333-1025

Best indian India Kabab & Curry 1091 S. Virginia St., 348-6222

Best Bakery Homage Bakery 519 Ralston St., 323-8952

Best Basque Louis’ Basque Corner Restaurant 301 E. Fourth St., 323-7203

Best fresh Bread House of Bread 1185 California Ave., 322-0773

Best Japanese Ichiban Japanese Steak House & Sushi Bar 206 N. Virginia St., 323-5550

Best coffee The Hub Coffee Co. 32 Cheney St., 323-3482

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Best wine Bar West Street Wine Bar 148 West St., 336-3560 Best cheap eats Beto’s Mexican Food 575 W. Fifth St., 324-0632

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Best tequila selection The Arroyo Mexican Grill 250 Evans Ave., 3347092

Best catering coMpany Dish Cafe & Catering 855 Mill St., 348-8264

Best late-night dining Golden Flower Vietnamese Restaurant 205 W. Fifth St., 3231628 Best food truck GourMelt Grilled Cheese Truck 410-4124 Best aMBience Brasserie St. James 901 S. Center St., 3488888

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Best outdoor dining Wild River Grille 17 S. Virginia St., 284-7455

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Most kid-friendly restaurant Red Robin Gourmet Burgers 4999 Kietzke Lane, 825-7246 Best weeknight activity Reno Aces game 250 Evans Ave., 334-4700 Best weekend activity Lake Tahoe OPINION

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Since opening about two years ago, the Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum has provided a place for people of all ages to learn about the ecology and environment of the Truckee Meadows, Lake Tahoe and Pyramid Lake through interactive exhibits and educational programs. Young visitors can ascend the three-story Cloud Climber structure as they learn about our region’s water cycle, generate an “earthquake” by jumping on a special scale or explore a mine or a Native American tule house. Youngsters are encouraged to play and create in galleries located throughout the building. The Discovery, 490 S. Center St., also hosts special events like The Discovery After Dark event for students in grades 7-9 and its Social Science evening event for adults. Call 786-1000.

Families looking for an inexpensive place to take the kiddos during the hot summer months should head out to Melio Gaspari Water Play Park for an hour or two of wet fun.

Located at the Lazy 5 Regional Park, 7100 Pyramid Lake Highway, in Spanish Springs, the water park has a giant sunflower sprinkler, spilling buckets, “spitting” horses, a water tower and other water features to cool down little hot ones. After they’ve had enough time in the water, they can continue their day of fun at one of the park’s two playgrounds or stop by the Spanish Springs Library to read a book. Admission to the water park is $3 per person. Kids age 2 and younger and adults over age 61 get in for free. The water park will close on Aug. 11. Call 823-6500.

Best charter school Rainshadow Community Charter High School 121 Vesta St., 322-5566

Best local liBrary Northwest Reno Library 2325 Robb Drive, 787-4100

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Best toy store Learning Express Toys 197 Damonte Ranch Parkway, 853-7884 5110 Mae Anne Ave., 787-5646

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Practice Emphasizing Criminal DefenseArrested? Get Help Now!

Phone 786-4188 * www.Houston-LawFirm.net

Would you represent yourself if you became the defendant in a criminal matter? No, of course not! You'd retain an attorney. But, it's difficult to know whom to call, unless you know someone. We'd like to help!

Criminal defense is not something you should consider lightly. You could spend significant periods of incarceration and large fines & assessment fees should you lose your case. Your personal freedom and your financial well-being are at stake when you are accused of a crime.

David R. Houston is engaged in the practice of criminal defense. His emphasis is in the areas of DUI, drug and sex offenses, crimes of violence, theft crimes and all other felonies and misdemeanors. He knows the laws and knows how to properly prepare your case. Call 775-786-4188 today for a confidential consultation.

Mr. Houston's office is located at 432 Court Street, in Reno, and he is prepared to offer you aggressive & experienced legal representation which may make the difference in retaining your driver's license, avoiding jail and large fines.

The editors of this Consumer Business Review feel you owe it to yourself to have David R. Houston on your side and be on the winning team. We're proud to recommend him to our readers for the 18th time!

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4th Street: 786-9966 * Foothill Road: 284-1301 "The Best Mexican Food In Town!" That's what you'll always find at Los Compadres! This outstanding Mexican restaurant features all of the traditional south of the border favorites cooked in the authentic manner.

Bring the whole family for a truly great dinner. Los Compadres is located at 1490 E. 4th Street, in Reno. And visit the new location at 25 Foothill Road, in Reno.

Hearty combination dinners are available and your appetite is the only thing that will stand in your way! Select from great tasting main dishes such as handmade tamales and carne asada. You'll also want to try some nachos. How about the fantastic shrimp cocktail before the main course? Whatever you decide, you can be assured that you are getting some of the finest Mexican food anywhere throughout the Truckee Meadows! Don't worry about the hot sauce...it's served on the side and you season your food to your own taste!

Make plans now to stop in at Los Compadres and enjoy a real Mexican dinner.

The editors of this Consumer Business Review, for the 10th time, recommend you soon become a regular customer at Los Compadres!

Jack's Café Great Food * Comfortable Dining Featured In Numerous Hollywood Movies "If You Don't Know Jack's…You Don't Know Reno!"

Sparks 775-331-8184 * Reno 775-284-3929 Outstanding breakfasts, quick and satisfying lunches and man-sized dinners are what they serve at Jack's Café. Jack's Café is known as the local residents' favorite when it comes to great eating and down to earth prices!

Jack's Café, located at 2200 Victorian Avenue, in Sparks, and in Reno at 7671 South Virginia, strives to make everyone who comes in feel welcome! You'll always notice a smile and a friendly greeting when you stop in for coffee, a sandwich or a complete meal. It's become a favorite of locals and visitors alike!

Families like the courteous service and outstanding food they specialize in. The management insists on spotlessly clean establishments, and it shows.

In compiling this Consumer Business Review, the editors are pleased to, once again, recommend Jack's Café to all our readers!

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It seems like "Self-Storage" facilities are everywhere. But, who has the most convenient, clean and secure storage units in the Truckee Meadows?

Stor-All Self-Storage at 777 Panther Drive, in Reno, has the perfect size storage units for homeowners, military personnel, business people or anyone needing a clean, secure and weather tight storage unit. Rest easy, knowing your business files, equipment, car, RV, boat, household items and furniture are safely and securely stored away. Plenty of space is available to store your RV, car or boat and you can be sure your possessions are completely secure, with electronic gate access 24/7, digital video surveillance and fully fenced and lighted.

The editors of this Consumer Business Review are pleased to recommend Stor-All Self-Storage to our readers, for the 7th time as self-storage facility of the year!

Call: (775) 358-8880 Buying of aluminum cans and scrap metals is the full time job of Western Metals Recycling. This established firm deals in all types, and pays top dollar for these commodities.

Western Metals Recycling, at 1325 Hymer Avenue, in Sparks, will pay cash or check by the pound for recyclables of all types. They buy scrap metals including aluminum cans, copper, brass, steel insulated wire and more.

By re-using these materials, we can prevent further dredging up of the Earth in order to obtain new raw materials and this is, of course, a big help to the ecology. You're doing a service to the ecology AND to your pocketbook when you make it a point to take all excess recyclables to Western Metals Recycling. They, in turn, sell materials to many places of business where they're converted back into useful products again. It's an excellent way to help the environment and the economy.

If you have a business that discards a lot of scrap metals regularly, make the most of it by contacting Western Metals Recycling for regular pick-up. Visit them on the web at www.WMRecycling.com.

The editors of this Consumer Business Review strongly recommend Western Metals Recycling for their significant contribution to the ecology!

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Call: (775) 885-2565 Silver State Window Cleaning in Carson City, wishes to take this opportunity to express their thanks to all those that have been instrumental in their growth over the years.

Silver State Window Cleaning provides their exceptional service to commercial, residential and industrial accounts.

People wonder who will treat them right, do quality work at a fair price, with a proven ability to make sure their valued clients are completely satisfied? Silver State Window Cleaning will!

The editors of this Consumer Business Review recommend Silver State Window Cleaning. If quality work at a fair price along with personal attention to your window cleaning needs is important to you…call TODAY, 775-885-2565!

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Phone 775-356-6439 Wouldn't it be nice to be able to take your car to just one place for all of your repair work? In the Truckee Meadows, there is such a place and we're talking about Blazing Wrenches! With facilities at 965 Glendale Avenue, in Sparks, Blazing Wrenches is one of the area's leading repair shops. Ask any one who's used their services, they'll tell you that this is the only stop you need to make on your way to worry-free driving!

From a simple oil change to a complete engine overhaul, Blazing Wrenches has the equipment, parts and skill to repair or replace most any part that may malfunction. With years of glowing recommendations behind them, Blazing Wrenches has established the type of reputation that other shops may be envious of, but just cannot compete with in terms of service and quality.

So, when you need anything done to your car, see the best...first.

The editors of this Consumer Business Review for the 15th consecutive year recommend Blazing Wrenches as the only stop you'll need to make!

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An accident in the workplace can happen to any working person. If you or someone you care about is involved in a work-related accident, you'll need the services of Barbara Gruenewald regarding your Workers' Compensation case. An accident at work is covered by Workers' Compensation insurance, no matter whose fault the accident was. Ms. Gruenewald can help. Her office is at 439 Marsh Avenue, in Reno.

She will be glad to answer any questions you may have and explain the range of benefits available to you under the Workers' Compensation laws. Workers' Compensation can be a long and frustrating process. Ms. Gruenewald will do everything possible to obtain a prompt and fair settlement.

The editors of this Consumer Business Review, for the 19th time, recommend you seek the assistance of Barbara Gruenewald. She cares about your problems, and invites you to visit her website at www.barbaralawnv.com and to call 775-322-3366 and make arrangements for a $45.00 initial consultation!

Specialized custom upholstery and design is done in the Truckee Meadows

by Classic Restoration. This is the recognized professional in upholstery and restoration and known as the place to go when only the best is good enough!

Stop in at their new and spacious location at 2995 Old Hwy. 40, in Verdi, and they will be proud to show you some of their fine quality workmanship.

With 38 years experience, Classic Restoration is unmatched.

Select from a wide variety of fabrics for that historically correct upholstery work. Their expert designer will help you choose from sample books and pictures. , With their experienced true craftsmen on the job, you know you'll get the best available anywhere. Remember to call Classic Restoration at 775-331-3533 for an accurate estimate.

The editors of this Consumer Business Review for the 14th year recommend Classic Restoration for anything that requires truly professional upholstery work!

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775-323-2200 * www.ShookAndStone.com

The "smoke shop" has been an American tradition since 1875. Washoe One Stop Smoke Shop, with 3 locations; at 2990 S. Curry Street, in Carson City, at 915 Mica Drive (inside the Chevron), in Carson City, and also at 996 Hwy. 395, in Gardnerville, maintains this tradition in their nostalgic shop. They feature everything for the smoker and some great gift ideas for any occasion.

Whether you smoke a particular brand of cigar, cigarette, E-cigarettes, chew or tobacco, you'll find your favorite type of tobacco always tastes better when you get it here. There's a reason for this. Fresh Coffee always on, beer, liquor, sodas, juice, snacks, sandwiches and Native American jewelry is displayed with pride.

The editors of this Consumer Business Review recommend that all smokers make Washoe One Stop Smoke Shop their one stop for all of their smoking needs. Stop in TODAY!

No one enjoys facing legal problems. And yet, all of us at some time or another find ourselves in situations where professional legal assistance becomes a necessity. In the Reno area, many people have learned to appreciate the personal approach that Shook & Stone takes in giving you the peace of mind that you, your business or family deserve regarding legal matters.

Shook & Stone is engaged in the practice of law with emphasis on: Personal Injury, Social Security Disability and Workman's Compensation.

Shook & Stone cares about your problems and invites you to call them at 775-323-2200 24-hours a day, 7-days a week to make arrangements for an initial consultation. Shook & Stone will handle your case professionally and confidentially at reasonable ratesâ&#x20AC;Śno fee if no recovery!

The editors of this Consumer Business Review urge our readers to contact Shook & Stone to handle your legal matters quickly, efficiently, and economically. You'll be glad you did and you'll have the assurance of knowing that you have found a law firm you can depend on.

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As any professional mechanic will tell you, the diagnosis and repair of electrical and computer systems on a modern automobile requires a thorough knowledge and the proper tools. The specialists at AAA Auto Electric Motor Sports have both the skill and the equipment to get the job done for YOU! AAA Auto Electric Motor Sports at 1200 S. Rock Boulevard, in Sparks, can quickly and economically diagnose and repair, or replace, any part of the electrical system on your car or truck. They are also one of the area's leading electronic fuel injection and computer engine control specialists, and they carry replacement units and parts for most makes and models. Bring your car or truck to "the pros" here for a complete tune-up. They will adjust, tune, and precisely calibrate the ignition and carburetion systems on your vehicle for maximum performance, economy and the fewest possible emissions. You'll be amazed at how smoothly your car will run!

Remember the name: AAA Auto Electric Motor Sports. They're your headquarters for ALL auto electric fuel injection and computer system service and repair.

The editors of this Consumer Business Review recommend AAA Auto Electric Motor Sports to all of our readers!

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If you are contemplating getting a tattoo, but are not sure where to get the best work for the money, contact Fondue Body Boutique, at 416 Greenbrae Drive, in Sparks. Fondue Body Boutique is the area's expert in beautiful skin illustrations and body piercings.

From their large selection of creative designs, they will help you select the perfect one for you. Choose an award-winning tattoo from their own creation. Fondue Body Boutique has received many awards for their work and are the recipients of the highest honors for displaying the most professional attitude and ethical practices.

Fondue Body Boutique has a reputation for being the finest in design as well as realistic initial cost.

Fondue Body Boutique uses the latest equipment and tools featuring auto clave sterilization, and will expertly create the design of your choosing.

The editors of this Consumer Business Review once again recommend Fondue Body Boutique to all tattoo and body piercing enthusiasts. We know you'll like the safe, businesslike way you are treated. The Consumer Business Review is happy to welcome Michelle back from her battles with cancer.

First Tattoo Shop Established In Sparks!

New Tattoo Artist!

Tattoos * Body Piercing * Over 30 Years Experience Huge Jewelry Selection * Ask About Special Orders Private Rooms * Custom Work * Clean * Safe

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If you're looking for bolt-on accessories, tires or custom wheels for your truck or jeep, you'll find an amazing selection of proven products at 4 Wheel Parts.

4 Wheel Parts offers expert service on drivetrain, suspension, and front-end components including alignments. Don't trust just any shop to service your truck, jeep or SUV. See 4 Wheel Parts today and rest assured you've made the right choice!

The editors of this Consumer Business Review are pleased to recommend 4 Wheel Parts to our readers. Stop in TODAYâ&#x20AC;Śyou'll be glad you did!

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775-829-7700 * www.WagerEvans.com Only once in a lifetime do we get a set of free teeth, which are our very own! Brian Evans, D.D.S. and William Wager, D.D.S. give you reason to smile your own natural smile with gentle personalized care.

Wager Evans Dental's reputation has been built upon dedicated service, caring attitude, reasonable fees and the good will of their many satisfied patients. People needing dental care go where they feel welcome and stay where they are well-treated. That, in our opinion, accounts in a very large measure for the success and popularity of Wager Evans Dental.

The best way to keep your teeth and gums healthy is to have regular check-ups and good, professional care. Wager Evans Dental can help you and your family keep your healthy, happy smiles.

The office is at 5220 Neil Road, Suite #100, in Reno, and you're invited to call 775-829-7700 for an appointment the next time you or a member of your family needs dental care. Appointments are available Monday through Friday, 7:30 am until 5:00 pm. New patients are ALWAYS welcome.

The editors of this Consumer Business Review recommend that our readers make Wager Evans Dental your first choice for family dentistry. They have all it takes to keep you smiling!

Call 775-884-9000 Nevada has one of the toughest DUI laws in the Nation. Those charged with a DUI are facing possible significant jail time and/or community service, mandatory loss or suspension of their driver's license, and costly fines and statutory assessments.

"Bo" Pollard has over 25 years of experience and has handled hundreds of DUI cases throughout Northwestern Nevada and Northern California. He has earned a reputation among his peers as an innovator in the field of DUI defense, and he approaches every case with the knowledge that the only battle that cannot be won is the battle that is not fought.

Mr. Pollard understands that a DUI charge can turn your whole life upside down, so he will fight hard to preserve your driving privilege, your liberty, and your dignity. Call for a free consultation and speak with "Bo" personally about your case!

The editors of this Consumer Business Review are pleased to once again name E.A. "Bo" Pollard as the DUI Defense Attorney of the Year, and we recommend him to all of our readers!

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775-329-8100 * www.TCReno.com Technology Center located at 1681 Glendale Avenue, in Sparks, deals in high quality computers and related components. People know that they can place their total trust and confidence in Technology Center. Call today at 775-329-8100.

In the computer industry, what you buy today can be obsolete tomorrow. Corporations, small business and home users wishing to expand or upgrade their computers, can be challenged when it comes to selecting a computer store to achieve the best results. Select Technology Center!

Technology Center has the experience, training and the right products to assist any size business or home user in upgrading their present system. They offer the latest software, computer, peripherals and repairs. They can still supply Windows 7 computers and assist with some of older Windows software. They can show you how to get the utmost use out of your system at prices you can afford. Technology Center also provides computer service and printer repair.

Technology Center is competitive with the mass marketers such as department or chain stores. Remember to buy local! It helps your local Truckee Meadows community, and you get the best quality with all the great service and support when you purchase from Technology Center.

The editors of this Consumer Business Review are proud to recommend Technology Center as your source for great value in technology. Stop in today!

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Call (775) 782-7933 * www.Nevada-Law.us Selecting the right attorney is not easy. It is difficult to know who to choose. The editors of this Business Review would like to help.

The Law Office of Karen L. Winters is a highly experienced practice in real estate law, business law and litigation, estate planning (including living trusts), wills and elder law.

The Law Office of Karen L. Winters is constantly keeping up with the latest laws concerning their fields of practice and can represent you efficiently and economically.

The office is located at 1594 Mono Avenue, in Minden, and invites you to call for a personal appointment.

The editors of this Consumer Business Review feel that you owe it to yourself to allow the Law Office of Karen L. Winters to handle your legal matters in estate planning, wills, trusts, elder law, business law and real estate law. You will be glad you have found such an efficient and thorough attorney!

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Kreature Komforts Animal Hospital treats the medical and surgical needs of all types of small animals, including dogs, cats, and exotics. From the time they're born, YOUR pets need regular attention just as you do. Take them to Kreature Komforts Animal Hospital for their vaccinations and for any treatment necessary when they become ill or are injured. They'll receive tender loving care every time, from their caring staff.

Kreature Komforts Animal Hospital features complete boarding and care facilities, as well as expert grooming of all breeds. Leave your pet here when you're going away for a few days. They will be in the very best of hands and will be fed, groomed and bathed by request, and cared for expertly. It's a "home away from home" for your precious pet!

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Phone 775-324-0202 www.PetPlayHouse.biz 2403 E. 4th Street, Reno NV No need to feel guilty about leaving your dog home alone or in a coldly impersonal kennel while you work or play. Pet Play House's unique facility for group daycare and boarding and luxury overnight accommodations is your solution!

Doggies that are social and love to play get to run freely through the state-of-the-art facility and large outdoor yards. They can take a dip in the pool, roll in the grass, or climb and jump on play equipment with their furry friends. When they are tired out they can lounge on couches and watch TV or a doggie movie in air-conditioned comfort. Dogs who do not particularly like the company of other canines or who just wish to have a private luxury experience at night get their own hotel room with dog furniture, décor, and TV's with DVD players and 24hour care and attention - very different than a traditional chain-link concrete kennel!

All pets entrusted to Pet Play House receive quality care from their professional and compassionate staff.

Numerous veterinarians in this area not only recommend them, but also entrust their own pets to Pet Play House.

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The editors of this Consumer Business Review are proud to recommend Pet Play House, for the 9th consecutive year, to our readers who are looking for the very best in dog care services!

Dayton Valley Service, at 105 Highway 50 East, in Dayton, features complete repairs on all makes of cars and trucks. They have become known as a fullservice auto repair center. Their technicians have had years of experience and use only the latest factory approved techniques. From a tune-up or a brake job to a complete overhaul, their knowledgeable staff will handle it. With their expertise and today's technology, they will be able to add years to the life of your car.

The editors of this Consumer Business Review recommend Dayton Valley Service to all of our readers!

Best Band to wear Black and purple to The band Cathedral Ghost was a fun part of the local scene for the last couple of years—upbeat, catchy, surfy, ’60s style garage rock. But there was a dark, goth undercurrent that would rear its dyed-black-hair-and-eyeliner head every once in a while, especially in the band’s lyrics (or, hell, the band name). So it wasn’t that surprising when, after Cathedral Ghost dissolved earlier this year, guitarist and vocalist John Ludwick resurfaced with a new project, Plastic Caves, which sounds a lot like Disintegrationera Cure. Over sympathetic support from versatile drummer Darren Barnes and rocker bassist Shandra Rivera, Ludwick uncoils melodic, psychedelic but sad guitar lines and intones moody vocals. It’s great stuff, still largely unseen, so keep your ears and eyes open—though the band is unlikely to ever appear before dark.

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Rum Runners Rehearsing and preparing to perform a musical is a task in itself. But performing an original by production for the first time—and asking Ashley Hennefer the community to give honest criticisms of it—is a true labor of love.

Last weekend, Renoites Bill Quinby and Marva Gregorio De Souza premiered their original musical, Rum Runners. The play was created and written by Quinby and De Souza, and, according to Quinby, “has been five years in the making.”

Quinby, a musician and music teacher, For more came up with the concept of the play information about the and wrote the score. De Souza, born in future of the play, visit England, is a poet and playwright whose www.facebook.com/ short story anthology, Pocket Full of MusicalRumRunners.

Bleeding Poesies, was published earlier this year. She penned the script.

The play is set during the Prohibition era in 1933, but is more evocative of South Pacific than Boardwalk Empire—it channels the politics and hardships of the time through cheery songs and a love story between law-and-outlaw that drives

much of the plot. The story focuses on Captain Harry “Lucky” Peters—played

by Quinby himself—and his crew of “rum runners” who collect and deliver contraband alcohol to clubs in New York City. Peters’ family, his daughter Josephine “Jo” Peters (newcomer Marissa Knapp) and wife Penelope (MOBY Productions founder Debra Hull), are in on the operation. Trouble brews when Jo falls in love with the handsome Alex Richards, an officer working to shut down illegal rum rows on the coast. Meanwhile, the rest of Lucky’s crew dabbles with morality and love in the midst of criminal activity.

The cast and crew rehearsed the show for less than a month—roles were still being cast as late as July 13. A dress rehearsal and three “workshop productions” were held on Aug.1, 2 and 3 in the Laxalt Auditorium to give Quinby and De Souza a chance to showcase their production for the public.

“A workshop production means the actors are working ‘off the book,’” says

De Souza, referring to the way actors have memorized their lines and won’t be using scripts. “It means the actors and props are often moving around. The set is more implied in places. It has a basic set and basic costumes. We’re mostly trying to see if the script works.”

Even so, De Souza jokes that they may still have gone “overboard” with the set and costumes. The props were fairly sparse but required a brief set-up time between acts. The main actors wore simple costumes with identifying items— Quinby donned a captain’s hat, and rum-drunk assistant Juniper “JD” Delano (played by Truckee Meadows Community

College musical theater student A.J. Gonzalez) wore suspenders. A couch, a bar, and a couple of podiums with ship’s wheels attached served as the set. The music is performed live by a band backstage.

At the performances, feedback forms were distributed to the audience with questions such as “Was the balance between music and dialogue OK?” They also asked the public to vote on their favorite song through a Facebook poll.

“This show is being put on for the others,” says Quinby. He reiterates De Souza. “We need to know if the script works. We need to know that the story works.”

Response to the play has been heartening, according to De Souza and Quinby, despite some technical difficulties during the performances. They hope to use the feedback from the surveys to improve the script and performances.

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Aroma Club is set up in two parts, with the fragrances in the front, and the café in the back. The café also has a patio space with a great water fountain surrounded with lots of plants. The space is comfortable and cozy. On the night I visited, a group was holding a meeting in the fragrance area so I didn’t get to check it out. Instead, my friends Brett and Tim and I headed to the back and grabbed a table in the corner while we looked over a menu.

The menu offers items such as wraps, salads, soups and some Russian items such as borscht, a beet soup, and pelmeni, a dumpling soup. There were also some specials including a yogurt soup ($4.99) and Russian potato salad ($7.95 per pound). I had never even heard of either of these, so I figured I’d better give them both a try. The owner

assured us that once you went Russian potato salad, you could never go back. She was not kidding.

The only thing Russian potato salad has in common with the more common German potato salad is potatoes and eggs. With Russian potato salad, the ingredients are chopped so finely that every bite is a different flavor combination of the ingredients, which include apples, carrots, cucumbers, sweet peas, pickled cucumbers and fresh herbs. We basically licked the bowl clean. The yogurt soup, which is served cold, actually had many similar ingredients to the potato salad. I usually hate cold soups, but this one was refreshing and flavorful, and I’m glad I tried it despite it sounding weird.

Tim went with the pelmeni ($6.99). With pelmeni, you have a choice of the type of meat in the dumplings, so he went Siberian, which is pork and beef. The pelmeni were flavorful and quite hearty without being overly heavy. They came sprinkled with fresh dill and cilantro. Brett ordered the Incanto wrap ($6.50 for a whole, $4.25 for half), which came with turkey, artichokes, tomatoes, lettuce and spinach wrapped in a whole-wheat tortilla. I went with the Forest Tale ($6.50 for a whole, $4.25 for half), which had marinated portabella mushrooms, Gorgonzola, dried cranberries, tomatoes, balsamic glaze and lettuce. We both ordered half wraps, but they came served as two smaller wraps that in addition to the soup and potato salad was more than enough. Everything in the wraps tasted incredibly fresh.

While we ate, the owner came out to chat with us. This woman knows her food. In addition to being a Russian transplant, she has traveled the world extensively, partaking of the foods and cooking methods of each place she visited. She and her sister make all the items from scratch, and there is a huge focus on balance of flavors. Herbs and fresh ingredients, not a bunch of cheeses or sauces, are used to provide flavor.

The food takes a bit of time here, as this isn’t a production line of pre-made crap. So if you’re in a hurry, call ahead, but otherwise, sit back, have a coffee and enjoy your surroundings. The food at Aroma Club is definitely worth the wait. Ω

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Bangkok, his life was so far from normal that the idea of going to a Buddhist rehab monastery in Thailand just seemed like one more weirdness.

“I was a shell of a person and it’s rough at Thamkrabok.

You get your little mat, a bell rings and you go vomit.

But the detox works - simple and true. It cleans your system out. People coming off drugs who could not sleep for months were able to sleep within a few weeks. I was brought to a place of health.”

After his 30 day detox at Thamkrabok, Austin moved to an associated community called New Life, which he feels provides cutting edge recovery. “New Life tries anything that will support a healthy life style meditation, yoga, 12 step, counseling, work-shops.

It’s a self-supporting community, so everyone has responsibilities.” Austin felt that it was the stepping stone that he needed and that it takes a lot more work than just 30 days in rehab to be able to hold on to sobriety.

Dynamic duo 2 Guns 2 Guns offers a couple of intriguing possibilities.

Denzel Washington, who has done fine on the dramatic and action side, has always shown a flair for the funny, yet he hasn’t made many comedies. He made Carbon Copy in 1981 and Much Ado About Nothing in 1993. He’s a drama guy, who sometimes dabbles in action. Let’s just say he hasn’t by been paid for providing belly laughs.

Bob Grimm Mark Wahlberg has made a lot of action films, but most of them stink (Contraband, b g ri m m @ ne w s re v i e w . c o m The Big Hit). His comedies, on the other hand, mark some of his very best work, with the action comedy The Other Guys being a shining example.

So, does 2 Guns provide a nice chance for Washington to be funnier, and an opportunity for Wahlberg to bring the laughs while shooting his gun in an action movie that isn’t completely lame?

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It was at New Life that Austin gained spirituality. He says he is closest to Buddhism, but feels no need for a label. “I saw the harm that I caused and the good that I’m capable of. I saw my choice. During addiction you don’t have a choice, you have to use. I saw that I had a choice to use or not.”

After New Life, Austin decided to go back to Thamkrabok and take his vows as a monk.

It was the beginning of giving back. Now he was the helper. In all, Austin spent 15 months abroad working on recovery. He follows Western recovery methods now that he is home, and believes they work, too.

Austin’s advice to parents: “Tough love. The only thing you should offer them is treatment for the addiction. Any other type of help is just helping them to be a better addict.”

Austin’s advice to addicts: “Ask and find help that fits you, then try what is suggested. Don’t talk yourself out of recovery. You will get your dreams back.”

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The answer is a mild “yes.” 2 Guns gets no accolades for originality, but the Washington/Wahlberg combo is a winning one for sure, and an extremely tasty and nasty turn by Bill Paxton as a satanic CIA man helps things along. It’s not a straight up comedy, but it has a good share of actioncomedy laughs.

Washington plays Bobby Trench, an undercover DEA agent trying to take down a Mexican drug cartel led by the dude from Miami Vice and Battlestar Galactica (Edward James Olmos). Wahlberg is Stig, AWOL from the Navy and looking to clear his name, and some other nonsense that I didn’t really follow.

Through a bunch of “only in the movies” circumstances, the two find themselves teamed up and robbing a bank, unaware that

each of them is undercover, or lying about who they are, or whatever. They rob the bank expecting to net a certain amount of money, but wind up with a lot more. Enter Bill Paxton.

Paxton proves mighty adept at playing a man of compromised morals. He has a bit involving Russian roulette that’s actually quite chilling, He chews on every delivery as if it were a mouthful of awesome beef jerky. I haven’t enjoyed Paxton this much in a movie since he wielded an axe and spouted religious claptrap in the underrated 2001 gem Frailty.

The film kicks into a higher gear when the Washington and Wahlberg characters realize each other’s true identities, and work together to overcome various betrayals and double crosses inflicted on them by the CIA, girlfriends, the Navy, the snotnosed kid down the street and Jesus.

Everybody seems to be out to screw these guys.

I like Wahlberg most when he’s trying to be funny. I especially liked a sequence where his character is berating a group of men for torturing chickens while he himself is chewing on a barbecued chicken leg. His character has a strange sort of exuberance about him—a goofy, childlike wonder coupled with a shooter’s deadeye that makes him a pretty cool actioncomedy partner.

Washington is often called upon to be serious or frighteningly badass, with the occasional chance to cry while totally not looking like he’s going to cry. (I will never forget that tear shooting out of his face in Glory.) Here, he’s allowed to cut loose in a way he’s never really done before, and Wahlberg proves a great counterpart.

The makers of this movie clearly have a dilemma if they go for a sequel. It’s not that we won’t be clamoring for another Washington/Wahlberg pairing, because they are good together. It’s just that it will be difficult to name the thing.

Perhaps they could call it 2 Guns 2?

Or 2 Guns II? Or how about 2 Guns: Even Gunnier? Why not Mark Wahlberg is Super Funny When He Acts Like a 10-Year-Old, and He Does it Again in this Poorly Named Sequel? I dunno … some decision makers have a legitimate dilemma on their hands. Ω

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This haunted house/demon possession movie from Saw creator James Wan delivers the scary goods. Lili Taylor and Ron Livingston move their family into a nice new home that has plenty of living space, a nice yard, and a bunch of ghosts freaking them out. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson play the Warrens, real life paranormal investigators who looked into this case, as well as the Amityville Horror. Wan teases you for the first chunk of the film, trying to get scares out of closing doors and creepy sounds. Then he pulls the sheet back and goes for some really good, in-your-face frights. This is one of those movies where the family stays in the house even though freaky things are happening, and that’s a bit annoying. Still, Wan, who I used to hate for creating Saw, makes up for the stupidity with scares created without too much help from CGI. He relies on creepy lighting and makeup rather than megabytes for the most part, and he’s fashioned a good old-fashioned haunted house story as a result.

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Writer/director Ryan Coogler has made one of the year’s best films with his bold feature-directing debut. It tells the true story of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), the man shot to death by a cop on New Year’s Eve 2008 while riding the BART. Coogler could’ve made a justifiably angry film, screaming in the face of a justice system that cost this young man his life and his daughter a father. What he has made is something far more important, effective and nuanced. He has made a movie that fleshes out Grant so that he’s more than those few minutes captured on frantic people’s phones. It’s a movie that concentrates on the life taken, the people he loved, and the lives that were to be lived together that were taken away. It’s a crushing, heartbreaking viewing experience anchored by a brilliant performance from Jordan. I expect this movie will get some notices come awards season. It’s the kind of movie that makes a mark on you, an important film about something that should’ve never happened, and a movie everyone should see.

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Grown Ups 2

Adam Sandler has done it again. He has made the worst movie of his career, yet again, as his films just keep topping themselves in horribleness. This one, a sequel to the Dennis Dugan disaster that joined forces with David Spade, Chris Rock and Kevin James, is twice as bad as the original. Considering how awful the original was, I didn’t think such a feat was possible, but Sandler has done it. The plot involves Sandler moving back to his hometown, where a deer enters his house and promptly urinates on him. Then he goes shopping with his friends who fart and burp a lot. Then he has a big ’80s party where everybody dresses up as people from the ’80s (Pat Benatar, Bruce Springsteen, The Terminator). Then somebody farts again, and then the movie is over.

I sat in a theater where people were laughing their asses off every time somebody farted.

It was one of the more depressing experiences of the movie going summer, and I had to sit through The Purge, so that’s pretty bad. I have officially given up on Sandler. This is a talented, funny guy who can’t seem to say goodbye to some of the people who drag him down. Given the box office performance of this piece of crap, he probably will be giving Dugan plenty of directing jobs in the future. This is our loss.

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Sandra Bullock might get top billing, and she’s pretty funny in the latest from Bridesmaids director Paul Feig, but, and there’s no doubt about it, this is Melissa McCarthy’s movie. McCarthy plays a vulgar Boston police detective whose world is turned upside down when an FBI Agent (Bullock) starts sniffing around her precinct and meddling in her cases. McCarthy and Bullock are good together, with Bullock taking the obvious, tightly wound route while McCarthy just unloads expletive after expletive. McCarthy is so natural when she delivers put downs in this movie, it’s a wonder she gets along with anybody in real life. The movie does succumb to some of

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I got a few good laugh-out-loud moments, a lot of chuckles, and a lot of smiles out of this silliness. Considering some of the big budget garbage coming your way this summer, McCarthy and Bullock provide one of the season’s more pleasant movie experiences.

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This is yet another horror movie spoof, this one starring the great Rob Corddry (TV’s Childrens Hospital) and Leslie Bibb as a couple moving into a creepy house in New Orleans. She’s pregnant, the place might be haunted, and there’s a guy (the funny Keegan Michael Key) apparently living in their crawl space. On top of that, Mrs. Nussbaum, an old naked lady from the mental institution down the block, is running around the house and doing lewd things to Corddry—really lewd things. Can the couple get the old house renovated in time for baby’s arrival, while keeping the wife’s womb un-possessed? Who cares? Most of the jokes bomb, with Corddry only managing to save a few. There are a couple of running gags that work, including a repeated bit involving Po’ Boy sandwiches, but most of the jokes fall flat. This was written by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon of Reno 911!, with the two playing the parts of hard smoking priests.

They’ve been responsible for some funny stuff in the past (The State) but they also wrote the lousy Night at the Museum movies.

This one is more in league with the Museum movies. Corddry tries hard, and it’s almost impossible for him to not be funny. (Available for rental on iTunes and Amazon.)

Writer-director Maggie Carey has put together a shockingly naughty sex comedy set in the early ’90s and featuring female protagonists. Aubrey Plaza continues her cinematic wonder streak as Brandy, class valedictorian and super virgin. After some discussions with her best buds (Alia Shawkat and Sarah Steele), she decides she needs to make a sex “to-do“ list to ready her for the rigors of college life. This results in a lot of awkward sex acts among high school grads, with some of them performed by best bud and secret admirer, Cameron (Johnny Simmons). Brandy gets a summer job as a lifeguard, where she pines for Rusty Waters (Scott Porter) and works for a deadbeat boss (the hilarious Bill Hader, Carey’s husband). Plaza proves she’s game for anything, including a fantastically crude play on the Caddyshack “doodie” scene, and all sorts of bodily fluid exercises. Clark Gregg just may be this year’s funniest movie dad, and Rachel Bilson scores uproarious laughs as Brandy’s bitchy sister. As far as the summer goes, this one has the most laughs per minute, and I can’t wait to see what Carey comes up with next. She writes a mean script.

I’m not an X-Men Origins: Wolverine hater. I thought it was stupid fun.

Still, many despised it, so this is a new attempt to take Hugh Jackman’s Logan into a freestanding franchise. Director James Mangold goes a darker, more serious route, but proves quite adept at making action scenes.

The opening scene in Nagasaki and a fight above a bullet train are incredible. Jackman, who has a lot more veins popping than the last time we saw him, still has a blast in the title role. The plot involves an old friend of Wolverine’s looking for the key to eternal life, which Wolverine actually has, so this makes him a mutant of extra purpose. Most of the action takes place in Japan, and Wolverine loses his powers for a stretch, so we get the odd sight of him bleeding and getting lethargic. Mangold and his crew must get credit for filming two of the year’s most beautiful women, Tao Okamoto and Rila Fukushima.

Good lord, these two are remarkable looking.

Famke Janssen makes some dream appearances as Jean Grey, and, yes, stay through the credits to get what some might consider to be the film’s best scene.

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Two-piece rally La Santisima Muerte On hearing the words “drum and bass,” your brain might jump to raves, breakbeats and, well, Burning Man. by Fil Corbitt There’s a good chance that crust punk and thrash metal don’t even begin to register. But La Santisima Muerte, a new band in Reno, might change that.

They’re a two-piece punk band that, as you may have guessed, is comprised of a drummer and a bassist. No guitarist at all, though you wouldn’t know it at a distance.

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Austin Bunnell and Josh Marche of band La Santisima Muerte, a band with no need for a guitarist.

la santisima Muerte plays August 10 at holland Project, 140 Vest st., with Plastic Caves and d6, at 8 p.m. All ages. $5. For more information, visit lasantisimamuerte. bandcamp.com.

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I pulled up to one of the band members’ grandmother’s house behind Shopper’s Square, and before I opened my car door, I could hear the muffled drum set from the front room. They didn’t hear the doorbell the first time, so I stood on the porch and waited for the song to end before ringing it again. Through the door, I would have said there were three or four people inside.

The two of them—Austin Bunnell on bass and vocals, and Josh Marche on drums—simply don’t need anybody else. As I sat on a couch next to a backpack full of drum parts, Marche counted into a song with a rapid-fire snare roll, and Bunnell immediately jumped in, playing a lead riff on the high strings of his bass.

They didn’t have a PA at this practice, but I could hear Bunnell yelling over his half stack … at least until he tapped his distortion pedal. The bass suddenly became a booming guitar with a deep low end, and he treated it like one, hashing out two-string power chords.

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Not only did the distorted bass tone make up for the lack of guitar, but it seemed to render the entire notion useless. Why have a guitarist play the same power chords that the bass can double up, especially when both tones are in perfect time?

“We just try to do more with less,” said Bunnell, citing influences like Rudimentary Peni and Dystopia, both three-piece bands.

“And it might not sound like it, but Alkaline Trio too,” added Marche—who are of course a trio.

So, La Santisima Muerte is a minimalist band, but that doesn’t really explain their sound, which can be mostly summed up like this: fast, thrashy, heavy, and like they just finished watching a horror flick marathon.

The name, which roughly translates to The Holiest Death, or The Holy Death, definitely backs up that horror influence.

“We were at [grocery store] Marketón,” explained Marche, “and there are all those religious candles in the back. And there’s one that’s just completely black with a skeleton on it that says La Santisima Muerte.”

“Did you buy it?,” I asked.

“Uh …” said Bunnell, “no … we’re kind of broke.”

The Rudimentary Peni influence definitely shined through with a series of dark but scrappy songs.

To be fair, some of the songs still sound new, with the two of them not quite clicking on some transitions, but that might be because the band is new. The band’s only been playing for about two months and already has a three-date tour to Denver booked in August.

Having to only coordinate two people, they said, makes the managerial side of it easy.

“We play on our own terms,” said Bunnell, explaining that when a show or opportunity comes up he only has to make one call.

It’s simple.

And that might be what defines La Santisima Muerte: It’s not what they have, it’s what they decide not to have. Ω

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MoFo Party Band, 9:30pm, $5

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1) Grease, 7pm, Tu, W, $24.95+ 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, Garage Boys, 10pm, W, no cover

1) ESC4P3, 8:30pm, $24.95 4) Tassles & Tease, 10pm, $25, $45

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

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2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) WET Ultra Lounge 3) The Beach 4) Reno Ballroom

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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 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 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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15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 588-6611 1) South Shore Room 2) Casino Center Stage 3) Peek Nightclub

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1) Judy Tenuta “The Love Goddess,” 8:30pm, W, $15, $20

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1) The Biggest Little Sideshow, 8pm, $25, $35 2) Travelin Band, 9pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire w/DJ I, 9pm, no cover

1) The Biggest Little Sideshow, 8pm, $25, $35 2) Travelin Band, 9pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire w/DJ I, 9pm, no cover

1) The Biggest Little Sideshow, 8pm, $25, $35

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2) Steppen Stonz, 4pm, Chasen 50’s, 8pm, no cover 3) Duo Brasileiro, 5:30pm, no cover 5) Karaoke Night, 7pm, no cover

2) Steppen Stonz, 4pm, Chasen 50’s, 8pm, no cover 3) Duo Brasileiro, 6pm, no cover 5) Thom and the Tikis, 6pm, no cover

2) Steppen Stonz, 1pm, Chasen 50’s, 5pm, no cover 3) Duo Brasileiro, 6pm, no cover 5) Thom and the Tikis, 6pm, no cover

2) Chasen 50’s, 7pm, no cover 5) Thom and the Tikis, 6pm, no cover

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

1) Whitney Cummings, 9pm, $45, $55 3) Andre Nickatina, 10pm, $25, $30

3) The Male Room, 8pm, $15

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

MONTBLEU RESORT

55 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (800) 648-3353 1) Theatre 2) Opal 3) Blu

PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Tuscany Ballroom 2) Terrace Lounge 3) Edge 4) Capri Ballroom

2) Tany Jane, 6pm, no cover 3) 3-D Thursdays w/DJs Max, Chris English, Kronyak, 10pm, $20

2) Mimic, 9pm, no cover 3) Salsa dancing with BB of Salsa Reno, 2) Mimic, 9pm, no cover 7:30pm, $10 after 8pm, DJ Chris English, 3) Rogue Saturdays, 10pm, $20 DJ ((Fredie)), 10pm, $20

2) Patrick Major, 7pm, no cover

2) Patrick Major, 7pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

3) Social Network Night, 9pm, no cover 4) Live music, 6:30pm, no cover

1) Howie Mandel, 8pm, $45-$59.50 2) Live music/DJ, 9pm, no cover 3) Fashion Friday, 7pm, no cover 4) Live music, 8:30pm, no cover

2) Recovery Sundays, 10pm, no cover 3) Midnight Mass, 9pm, no cover 4) Live music, 6:30pm, no cover

2) Gong Show Karaoke, 8pm, Tu, no cover 3) Step This Way (dubstep, house), 8pm, W, no cover

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For a complete listing of this week’s events, visit newsreview.com/reno Gatsby Festival Wear your favorite cloche hat or pair of spectator shoes, old sport, and head up to Lake Tahoe for the annual festival that celebrates the 1920s Jazz Age encapsulated in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel The Great Gatsby.

The two-day event begins on Saturday, Aug. 10, and features a variety of activities including vintage car shows, live music, wandering musicians and jugglers, a raffle, sales of period-appropriate items and sale of the annual Gatsby poster. The Gatsby Festival takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Pope and Baldwin Estates at the Tallac Historic Site. Admission is free. The Gatsby Tea and Fashion Show takes place from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 11. The 28th annual event features a 1920s-style high tea, “bootleg” champagne and a fashion and history presentation by Sherrie Oliver titled “The Life and Times of Jay Gatsby.” Tickets are $50. The tea party will be held on the Valhalla Lawn at the Tallac Historic Site, Heritage Way and Highway 89, in South Lake Tahoe. Call (530) 544-7383 or visit http://tahoeheritage.org.

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Nevada Museum of Art’s monthly hands/ON! and Second Saturday event pays homage to the upcoming Burning Man festival. The day’s activities begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10, with a display of art cars, followed by hula hoop and sidewalk chalk art demonstrations, children’s storytelling with Kathleen Durham and a hands-on workshop conducted by Controlled Burn and a performance by the fire arts group. Admission is free. On a related note, the museum will present Beth Scarborough, a.k.a. Bettie June, associate director of art management for Burning Man, who will offer a preview of the art to be installed on the Black Rock playa at this year’s festival. “Desert Art Preview” begins at 6 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 8. Tickets are $8-$12. Both event take place at Nevada Museum of Art is at 160 W. Liberty St. Call 329-3333 or visit www.nevadaart.org.

Brews, Jazz and Funk Festival Sample a brew and support homeless animals at the annual music and beer-tasting event which takes place from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Aug. 10-11.

The annual festival features beers from more than 40 breweries across the West, including Lagunitas, Deschutes and Tahoe Mountain Brewing. The music lineup on Saturday is Mojo Green, the Mark Sexton Band, Nigel Hall Band and headliner Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue. On Sunday, Terraplane, Jelly Bread, Zigaboo Moeliste and the New Aahkesstra and headliner March Fourth Marching Band hit the stage at the Village at Squaw, 1985 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley. Admission is $5 and beer tickets are $5 each. The festival benefits the Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe. Call (530) 587-5948 or visit http://www.hstt.org/events/brews-jazz-funk-fest.

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Campfire Friday: Bluegrass Music

Promising “three more days of peace and music,” this festival features live music, performance art, comedy, arts and crafts, vendors and food trucks. More than 25 local bands and DJs will perform, including Jelly Bread, Reno Video Game Symphony, Todd South, Grace Hutchison, Weapons of Mass Creation, Actors Killed Lincoln, Farewell Belladonna, Smiley Mikey and Love Like Wes. DJs Tigerbunny, Plan Cmajor and Darkemeth will spin late into the evening. Bohemian Burlesque and Controlled Burn will also perform at the gathering, which benefits the Wildflower Village, a funky little arts collective in northwest Reno that boasts art galleries, artist studios, hostel rooms, apartments and a bed & breakfast, as well as a coffee house, pub, wedding chapel, vintage boutique and gift shop. The village faces foreclosure if it doesn’t pay almost $50,000 in back taxes. The event takes place 6 p.m. until late on Friday, Aug. 9, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10 and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 11, at Wildflower Village, 4275-4395 W. Fourth St. Tickets are $10 per day or $25 for a three-day pass. Tickets are available at the Melting Pot and Prism Magic. Call 747-8848 or visit www.wildflowervillage.com.

Grab a low-back chair, a flashlight and a light jacket and enjoy an evening by the campfire. The Gabardine Sisters will present their old-timey radio show as part of Galena Creek Visitor Center’s summer Campfire Fridays series. Visitors will be transported to the sleepy town of Cotton Creek where the Sisters grew up and learned to sing and play. They will play bluegrass music and tell stories about their town while visitors to the park roast marshmallows and drink hot chocolate under the stars. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 9, at Eagle Meadows in Galena Creek Regional Park, 18350 Mt. Rose Highway. Admission is $5. Call 849-4948 or visit www.galenacreekvisitor center.org.

An Evening of Wine & Wisdom Local actor McAvoy Layne taps into the spirit of Mark Twain during this Chautauqua performance covering the author and humorist’s musings on life and his time in Nevada. Layne has portrayed The Ghost of Twain for almost 25 years on stages around the world and on television, including appearances on A&E’s biography of Mark Twain and in the Discovery Channel’s documentary on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He is a winner of the Nevada award for excellence in school and library service and the author of the memoir Becoming Mark Twain. After the presentation, there will be wine tasting, hors d’oeuvres and a social hour with Twain. The event begins at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10, at the Wilbur D. May Museum, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St. Tickets are $20. Call 785-5961 or visit www.maycenter.com.

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PERFORMANCE AND MUSIC HOT AUGUST NIGHTS WITH THE CHASEN 50S Enjoy some live music after checking out the amazing cars. Th, 8/8, 8PM, F, 8/9, 8PM, Sa, 8/10, 5PM and Su, 8/11, 7PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 HOT AUGUST NIGHTS WITH STEPPEN’ STONZ Enjoy some live music after checking out the amazing cars during Hot August Nights at the John Ascuaga’s Nugget Casino and Resort. Th, 8/8, 4PM, F, 8/9, 4PM and Sa, 8/10, 1PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 DUO BRASILEIRO Spend a well-deserved evening out and relax in the beautiful atmosphere of the Orozko Lounge. There is no cover charge and parking is free. Th, 8/8, 5:30PM, F, 8/9, 6PM, Sa, 8/10, 6PM and Sa, 9/14, 6PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 ERIKA PAUL SINGS AT THE JAZZ KITCHEN Enjoy Louisiana-style food and the soulful, breathtaking jazz sounds of Erika Paul on keyboards and vocals. No cover. Th, 8/8, 6PM, Th, 8/15, 6PM and Th, 8/29, 6PM. Jazz, A Louisiana Kitchen, 1180 Scheels Dr., Sparks, NV 89441 / (775) 657-8659 BLUES MONSTERS Th, 8/8, 7PM, no cover. Great Basin Brewing Co., 846 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-7711 THOM AND THE TIKIS Enjoy an evening with great food and lively music at Trader Dick’s restaurant in the John Ascuaga’s Nugget. F, 8/9, 6PM, Sa, 8/10, 6PM and Su, 8/11, 6PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

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It’s scold in here Online dating isn’t going so well. I’m a 34-year-old professor seeking a relationship. I listed an age range of 18 to 35 on my profile, not because I particularly like 18-year-olds but simply to avoid limiting my options. I messaged a 24-year-old woman, noting that I loved that she “enjoys supporting people who have a purpose and a passion.” She wrote back: “You seem really cool, but the fact that you’re considering dating women as young as 18 is a deal-breaker. 18-year-olds aren’t people yet.

You’re a professor. You know that.” She then scolded me for failing to admire that she clearly has purpose and passion—she doesn’t just support those things—but considering my interest in 18-year-olds, purpose and passion probably don’t matter much to me anyway.

Huh?! Should I really be faulted for being open-minded?

Online dating can be so efficient. It used to be that you’d have to wait to say hello to have your first argument.

This woman probably couldn’t go out with you anyway, as busy as she must be getting the ignition lock replaced on her broom. However, she may have done you a favor.

Although most women won’t turn online dating into online berating, many probably share her anger and suspicion at the lower end of your listed age range. But, but, you protest, you’re just trying to be open instead of assuming that every single 18-year-old will be the dating equivalent of going out with a steak in a short skirt.

Your open-mindedness seems to be a rational approach.

The problem is, we aren’t the rational animals we smugly insist we are. Research by evolutionary psychologists Martie Haselton and David Buss suggests that we evolved to make protective errors in judgment—erring on the side of perceiving whatever would have been least costly for our survival and mating interests back in the ancestral environment. This makes us prone to believe there’s a snake behind every rustle of a pile of leaves because the embarrassment from shrieking like an idiot would have been less costly than dying from a snakebite. In the mating sphere, women evolved to be “commitment skeptics,” prone to overperceive men as hookup-seeking cads until they prove otherwise. For men, it would have been costly to miss any mating opportunity … leading to a 34-year-old man being “open” to a wide range of women, including a woman only slightly older than some of his socks.

You can turn this into a positive experience in two ways: by thanking your lucky stars that you won’t be the boyfriend she’s ripping into at the supermarket for eyeing the wrong potato and by listing an age range that’s less ire-producing. This actually shouldn’t limit you in OPINION

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Don’t just mall a woman I’ve saved some money to get my girlfriend something special for her birthday. I know what she likes at REI, Pottery Barn and Williams-Sonoma, but nothing feels special enough. Perhaps I’m an idiot for asking you, a stranger, what to get the woman I know and love, but maybe you can point me in the right direction.

Too bad the two of you aren’t cats, or you could just come by with a dead cricket between your teeth. But you are wise to think outside the cardboard box. Researchers Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton write in Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending that the purchases that ultimately make us the happiest are not material things but experiences. They cite research showing that new “stuff” soon stops giving us the same zing, while experiential purchases not only contribute to our sense of self and our connection with others but get more meaningful over time through the stories we tell about them. Also, they never need dusting.

So, instead of deciding between the espresso machine that’ll guess her weight and the one that gets basic cable, think about an experience she’d really love. It could be a Champagne balloon ride or driving a racecar around a track (nascarracingexperience.com). But fret not if these are too pricey. The research suggests that even when people spend just a few dollars, they get more lasting pleasure from an experience than a thing. And even when experiences go wrong, like a romantic picnic that ends in horrible poison oak, they tend to be viewed fondly in hindsight. Your girlfriend may not have asked for a series of hydrocortisone injections for her birthday, but years later, she’ll be laughing with you and friends about that and not the story of how you once got her a bowl from Pottery Barn.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to

participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings,â&#x20AC;? said author Elizabeth Gilbert. I recommend that you experiment with this subversive idea, Aries.

Just for a week, see what happens if you devote yourself to making yourself feel really good. I mean, risk going to extremes as you pursue happiness with focused zeal. Try this: Draw up a list of experiences that you know will give you intense pleasure, and indulge in them all without apology. And please donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fret about the possible consequences of getting crazed with joy. Be assured that the cosmos is providing you with more slack than usual.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am not

washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits,â&#x20AC;? writes Taurus author Annie Dillard, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but instead am wandering awed about on a splintered wreck Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air.â&#x20AC;? I recommend you try on her perspective for size. For now, just forget about scrambling after perfection. At least temporarily, surrender any longing you might have for smooth propriety. Be willing to live without neat containment and polite decorum. Instead, be easy and breezy. Feel a generous acceptance for the messy beauty youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re embedded in. Love your life exactly as it is, with all of its paradoxes and mysteries.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Studies show that when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re driving a car, your safest speed is 5 miles per hour higher than the average rate of traffic. Faster than that, though, and the danger level rises. Traveling more slowly than everyone else on the road also increases your risk of having an accident. Applying these ideas metaphorically, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to suggest you take a similar approach as you weave your way through lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s challenges in the coming week. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dawdle and plod. Move a little swifter than everyone else, but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t race along at a breakneck pace.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The key

theme this week is relaxed intensification.

Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to heighten and strengthen your devotion to things that are important to youâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but in ways that make you feel more serene and self-possessed. To accomplish this, you will have to ignore the conventional wisdom, which falsely asserts that going deeper and giving more of yourself require you to increase your stress levels. You do indeed have a great potential for going deeper and giving more of yourself, but only if you also become more at peace with yourself and more at home in the world.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Last year, a young

Nebraskan entrepreneur changed his name from Tyler Gold to Tyrannosaurus Rex Joseph Gold. He said it was a way of giving him greater name recognition as he worked to build his career. Do you have any interest in making a bold move like that, Leo? The coming weeks would be a good time for you to think about adding a new twist to your nickname or title or self-image. But I recommend something less sensationalistic and more in line with the qualities youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d actually like to cultivate in the future. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking of something like Laughing Tiger or Lucky Lion or Wily Wildcat.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): African-

American jazz singer Billie Holiday was the great-granddaughter of a slave. By the time she was born in 1915, black people in the American South were no longer â&#x20AC;&#x153;ownedâ&#x20AC;? by white â&#x20AC;&#x153;masters,â&#x20AC;? but their predicament was still extreme. Racism was acute and debilitating. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what Holiday wrote in her autobiography: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.â&#x20AC;?

Nothing you experience is remotely as oppressive as what Holiday experienced, Virgo. But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m wondering if you might suffer from a milder version of it. Is any part of you oppressed and inhibited even though your outward circumstances are technically unconstrained? If so, nowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the time to push for more freedom.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What resound-

ing triumphs and subtle transformations have you accomplished since your last birthday? How have you grown and changed? Are there any ways you have dwindled or drooped? The next few weeks will be an excellent time to take inventory of these things. Your own evaluations will be most important, of course. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to be the ultimate judge of your own character.

But you should also solicit the feedback of people you trust. They may be able to help you see clues youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve missed. If, after weighing all the evidence, you decide youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re pleased with how your life has unfolded these past 10 to 11 months, I suggest you celebrate your success. Throw yourself a party or buy yourself a reward or climb to the top of a mountain and unleash a victory cry.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Monmouth

Park in New Jersey hosts regular horse races from May through November. During one such event in 2010, a horse named Thewifenoseeverything finished first, just ahead of another nag named Thewifedoesntknow.

I suspect that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be a comparable outcome in your life sometime soon. Revelation will trump secrecy. Whoever is hiding information will lose out to anyone who sees and expresses the truth. I advise you to bet on the option thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forthcoming and communicative, not the one thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s furtive and withholding.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You

have both a poetic and a cosmic license to stretch yourself further. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best not to go too far, of course. You should stop yourself before you obliterate all boundaries and break all taboos and smash all precedents.

But youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve certainly got the blessings of fate if you seek to disregard some boundaries and shatter some taboos and outgrow some precedents. While youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at it, you might also want to shed a few pinched expectations and escape an irrelevant limitation or two. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to get as big and brave and brazen as you dare.

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

I was 19, a thug shot me in the butt with a shotgun at close range. To this day, my body contains the 43 pellets he pumped into me. They have caused some minor health problems, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always queasy when I see a gun. But I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t experience any routine suffering from the wound. Its original impact no longer plagues me. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your own personal equivalent of my trauma, Capricorn? A sickness that racked you when you were young? A difficult breakup with your first love? The death of someone you cared about? Whatever it was, I suspect you now have the power to reach a new level of freedom from that old pain.

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

take full advantage of the sexy vibes that are swirling around in your vicinity? One thing you could do is whisper the following provocations in the ear of anyone who would respond well to a dose of boisterous magic: 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Corrupt me with your raw purity, baby; beguile me with your raucous honesty.â&#x20AC;? 2. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I finally figured out that one of the keys to eternal happiness is to be easily amused.

Want me to show you how that works?â&#x20AC;? 3. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I dare you to quench my thirst for spiritual sensuality.â&#x20AC;? 4. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trade clothes and pretend weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s higher selves.â&#x20AC;?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Some people

put their faith in religion or science or political ideologies. English novelist J.G. Ballard placed his faith elsewhere: in the imagination. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world,â&#x20AC;? he wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.â&#x20AC;? As you make your adjustments and reconfigure your plans, Pisces, I suggest you put your faith where Ballard did. Your imagination is far more potent and dynamic than you realizeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially right now.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at (877) 873-4888 or (900) 950-7700.

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Katie Romanko is a 19-year-old senior in broadcast journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. She was selected as the artist for this year’s Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada after one of her professors posted some examples of her work with anaglyphs (images that create a 3-D image using red and blue glasses) on Facebook.

How did you come to learn the 3-D imaging process?

I took Howard Goldbaum’s photojournalism class at the Reynold’s School of Journalism.

We just learned pretty basic photography, but for an extra credit assignment, you could do 3-D. He taught us how to do it mid-semester. When I realized I wanted the extra credit, I decided to do 3-D. It was actually relatively easy, in comparison to other possibilities for extra credit. So I went and took a picture of the Mackay statue. It was on campus, and I thought it would look great in 3-D. It happened to work out really well, and I started to teach other students how to do it as well. And then he recommended me for this job.

How do you make the images appear 3-D? You really don’t need two cameras, you can use one, but if you’re doing action shots, you need to have two cameras because they both need to fire simultaneously. Basically,

you need to have two shots that are about an inch and a half to five inches apart. And then you take those two shots, naming them left and right, and process them through a Photoshop process, and it ends up being 3-D.

What was surprising about doing the Best Of for us?

It was a lot more work than I thought it would be. When I first got the job, I was all, “Oh it’ll be over, and I’ll get this all done in a couple of weeks.” That wasn’t the case, but I got real world experience, which was good, and I think all the work will pay off once I see it, when it looks professional and it looks clean.

Oh, it’s beautiful on the screen, but we’re not going to know what it looks like on newsprint until we see it on newsprint. So what makes for a good 3-D shot?

Will anything work, or how do you pick one?

A wording warning Us Breaking Bad types have been waiting for almost a year. It was on last Sept. 2 when—spoiler alert, skip to the dot if you haven’t seen the eighth episode of Season 5—we saw the light bulb go off in Hank’s head as he sat on the can at Walter’s house, flipping through that fatefully misplaced copy of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. We’ve been wondering ever since what the heck is gonna happen when Hank zips up and rejoins the lunch party with Walt, Skyler and Marie. This Sunday night, our wait is over. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!

I saw an interview with Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, where he talked about that final shot with Hank in the head. Vince joked about how he and the writers discussed having Hank rip a giant gasser right after his epiphany, but that idea, while good for a few sophomoric laughs, was quickly dismissed as just too damn low brow and Sandleresque to be taken seriously. He was, of course, spot on with that call. But I and another sicko Badhead had a slightly daintier inspiration. We enOPINION

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One of the biggest problems was you can’t really shoot a dark picture because it doesn’t come out well in 3-D with all the colors.

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visioned that just after Hank looked up from the Whitman book with his blown mind, we would hear not some gross and distracting flatulence, but an almost charming little “bloop,” as Hank dropped a single Milk Dud of shock. Alas ...

• Both Paula Deen and Riley Cooper have reminded us white people of a simple lesson in modern manners, and for that, we owe them. They both reminded us, very clearly, that N-bombs can still be big trouble when launched out of white mouths.

This is a timely reminder, because it seems that many young folk between 15-30 are getting a bit too comfortable in using this most loaded of racial epithets. Some confusion is understandable. It is a little bizarre, seeing that this most reviled of slurs has been appropriated and used openly by many of the most influential black artists of recent years.

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That was 40 freakin’ years ago, and since then, we’ve seen many black artists completely embrace the “N-word.” The reasons and justifications for this have been discussed and dissected by many, and are sociologically complex and multi-layered. But it’s safe to say— when Kanye West drops an “N” into a rap, you can bet he’s not using it to convey that he buys into the position that African-Americans are an inferior race. When Deen and Cooper were caught in their “N” moments, one couldn’t be so sure. Therein lies the problem.

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