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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. It’s interesting to be back as a student working on a degree a generation after my last serious study at the university. How is it possible that the academic world changed so dramatically in the time it took to raise a child to nearly college age? That change is analogous to the journalism world. The journalism world is in a state of flux, but it was in the early ’90s, too. Digital was just coming on, so the journalism school was flailing trying to adapt its curriculum. We were on the pivot point. The Reynolds school was one of the first journalism schools to have Adobe Photoshop. I worked with a young woman named Heidi Walters (if I remember correctly) to learn that application. At the same time, I took photojournalism and part of that skill was developing black and white film in a darkroom. There were no digital cameras, let alone cell phones. At the same time, I took design (and most of my early time at this paper was as a designer). We used X-ACTO knives and hot wax and counted headlines, one-half for l and one for n. Do you get my point? Cutting edge in the same curriculum as old school. But now, there’s a difference. Everyone knows journalism is changing, but the direction it’s going is murkier. These students are still learning old-school skills, but it’s oldschool 2000-style, convergent media, where journalists have the skills to work in print, on the web, on TV as content providers of words and images. But where’s the futurefuture? You’d have to be blind not to see that journalism and the internet are going mobile. So where are the app creation classes? Where’s the Smart Phone and Tablet Design 363 class? Don’t get me wrong: It’s not just the school. It’s the profession. We specialized in content provision and abdicated modern skills to specialists—web designers or coders or technologists who have no stake in “journalism”—while we brandished the Bill of Rights like it would ensure us a place in the future.

Re “We’re for law abiding!” (Letters to the Editor, Sept. 19): I am wondering what the writer, Erik Holland, had in mind when he linked India to Abu Ghraib. Abu Ghraib is in a Muslim country, Iraq, and to my knowledge has no connection to India and their Hindi government. Was it a typo? Or hopefully it was just a comment to illustrate a senseless situation. Jon Harrison Reno

the people of this state who have every right to exercise their desire to hunt, fish, and any other lawful activity they desire. Who is he to call me a killer? Bill Young State Wildlife Commission

That’s what he said Sam Dehne warned about these (and myriad other) government boondoggle disasters more than all the other citizens added together. But the Scientology cult zealots who sign “their” checks and steal my votes shamelessly ordered the media (BURP!) to continue with its jealous rage and fear of anything “Sam Dehne.” How’s that been working for the career politicians and their “bosses” after all these years? And the citizens of Reno. Reno is as bankrupt as Detroit and all those other bankrupt cities and counties. And it all could have been prevented if “they” had just listened to Reno’s philanthropically humble Sam. Sam has more spunk and gumption in his baby finger than all of these lowest common denominator career politicians that the vote-stealing traitors can steal votes for. Sam Dehne Reno

Hunters are killers Re “Nevada’s killing fields” (Guest comment, Sept. 19): Mr. Voltz’s opinion about Nevada’s sportsmen and women is revolting and insulting. Hunting and fishing as done by the vast majority of Nevada’s sportsmen are a valuable and respected part of the eco-system and food chain Voltz refers to. He is a hypocrite to the nth degree every time he sits down to enjoy a steak dinner. The reality is Nevada’s sportsmen and women contribute far more to the preservation of wildlife and restoration of desirable habitat. As a fourth-generation Nevada who spends a significant amount of time in the field fishing and hunting I don’t believe I have ever encountered an eco-tourist, especially one spending money and time traveling to our great state to view the relatively modest numbers of easily viewed wildlife in the state. I believe a close look at the total expenditure of wildlife enthusiasts whether it be hunters or fishermen spend far more pursuing their interests than eco-tourists. From hunting and fishing licensing fees, boating and sporting goods expenditures, hotel, food, volunteer groups, sportsmen’s groups contributing significant dollars to the overall wildlife programs, his statements are absolutely false and ludicrous. Voltz needs to get a life and quit insulting

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Weapons of mass destruction President Obama’s policy of creating a world free of nuclear weapons is possible. However, it is impossible if the Obama administration keeps its first strike nuclear weapons policy. The first strike nuclear weapons policy only encourages North Korea and Iran to escalate their nuclear programs because they need something that will deter regime change and counter the first strike nuclear policy. Earl Ammerman IV Reno

Pay a living wage When I was in high school, it was time to seek my first job opportunity and so I decided to apply at McDonald’s. The first time I applied the store manager asked me, “Why should I hire you?” My response: “I need the money.” Wrong answer. The following year I applied to the same place and this time when asked the same question answered “because I can get the job done.” Result: hired. I only worked for this particular franchise for one summer because another store closer to home was opening, and it was owned by the franchise owners who had employed my siblings. With the small amount of experience I had attained, I was actually able to take charge of the rookie grill team and pull order out of chaos. This eventually resulted in my promotion to “swing” manager when I transitioned from high school to college in 1981. Exploitation of my services was the furthest thing from my mind as the goal was to earn enough money to pay for college. My coworkers were all my age with the exception of the “day ladies” who worked the morning shift. The commonly accepted idea was that this was a temporary stepping stone to better career opportunities once you

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graduated from college. I would certainly agree however that my experience at McDonald’s allowed me to utilize some of the talents and abilities I possessed by exercising various skills in particular situations. In other words, it wasn’t all just about flipping hamburgers. One time the owner of the franchise put his hands on my shoulders and stated, “I want this man paid $4 per hour.” It never happened, and I spent the remainder of my time there earning just a smidgen above what the crew earned. Today we recognize the dramatic demographic changes that have occurred in the fast-food industry over the last 30 years with most positions being filled by adults rather than teenagers. Consequently the industry has transformed from being a “temporary stepping stone” to a full-time career opportunity that still pays very little relative to the profits posted by McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s. One could argue that there is very little opportunity in our economy for someone with a high school diploma. It could be further argued that economic opportunity has been so slimmed down that these types of retail jobs are the only ones available and it will be that way for a long time to come. In the meantime people employed by these companies still qualify for public assistance because of the low pay and lack of medical benefits. We also read daily of the failure to teach people to read and write upon graduating college not to mention high school. If this whole situation doesn’t smack of a deliberate and carefully planned booby-trap then I don’t know what does. Accordingly I am in favor of increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour at restaurants such as McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s as well as the provision of medical benefits. There is no evidence that doing so will cripple these major chains in any form whatsoever. Joe Bialek Cleveland, Ohio

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Do not miss this amazing night of worship. Tickets available at Sparks Christian Fellowship, His Word, The Manger, itickets.com and Connected Music Ministries. Su, 9/29, 6:30PM, $20 for general admission; $25 at door; $30 for VIP. Sparks Christian Fellowship, 510 Greenbrae Dr. (775) 331-2303 HARVEST FESTIVAL Our 3rd Annual Harvest Festival and Artisan Fair. Come see the harvest of our local farmers and gardeners, enjoy great food, fun and activities. Sa, 9/28, 10AM-5PM and Su, 9/29, 10AM-5PM. Free. Rail City Garden Center, 1720 Brierley Way (775) 355-1551

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Is your business green? Asked of Sparks merchants

Steve Cartinella Blue Ribbon Meat Company

We recycle. We recycle all our plastic, all the plastic that comes off our packaged beef and so on.

Bonda Young Great Basin Brewing Company

At our Reno location … we recycle everything. We have two very small containers that go to the dump once a week. … And then we also recycle all of our [brewery] grain. We produce a lot of spent grain from our brewery, and we have farmers that come and pick it up and feed it to their cattle and their pigs.

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Is hunting moral?

Oh, absolutely, I recycle every chance I get—bottles, cans, papers, cardboard.

Last week we ran a Guest Comment called, “Nevada’s killing fields” by Fred Voltz, an activist who lives in Carson City. In it, Voltz wrote about Nevada’s hunting seasons, and how many of us Nevadans, who as residents of this state and stewards of its lands, don’t really “get” the concept of why a tiny minority of people get to kill animals that technically belong to all of us. That’s a forelock tugger, for sure. Some of us, even within this office, grew up hunting, so the fact that we’re willing to have an intellectual discussion on the topic doesn’t necessarily predict our conclusion or our level of hypocrisy. Still, the fact that our society doesn’t much talk about humans killing wild animals seems to suggest this is an area ripe for a conversation. Let’s start with the Sage Grouse (a.k.a. Sage Hen). Wasn’t it just a year ago our governor was touting a plan to keep the bird off the endangered species list by preserving some 13 million acres of Sage Grouse habitat? If that bird goes on the endangered species list, it could cripple parts of our state’s economy—agriculture, mining and recreation—and it could abort this new green energy economy people keep talking about. And yet, it’s Sage Grouse hunting season in the great state of Nevada. Can anyone rationally tell us why this isn’t irresponsible? What is the pro-hunt-to-extinction argument when so much of this state’s future is at risk? There are few who believe leg traps are humane. At most, the thinking appears to be that they’re effective, a necessary evil. Right now, the law states that OPINION

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a trapper only has to visit the traps every 96 hours. Four days to have a crushing steel trap on an animal’s leg, possibly grinding into broken bones, while it is helpless in the blazing sun or freezing cold, with no food or water, while predators are able to harass and kill the unfortunate creature. Four days is the longest period of time allowed in any state in the country, and the Legislature may choose to decrease that time. We’re not really sure what the opposing argument to this is. Maybe trappers are less inconvenienced if they check the traps less often, or maybe the trapped animals are less dangerous if they’re allowed to soften up before they’re killed? It’s possible that there are some creatures, like beavers for example, that could potentially cause problems with the human-centric infrastructure that can’t be controlled by methods other than trapping. We can’t say for sure. We would certainly not suggest poison over traps. Do bullet holes make the pelts useless? So we reach the root of the question. Aside from tradition, aside from target practice for people who might go into the military, aside from being extremely expensive food, is it moral for humans to hunt and kill animals when there are other methods of food procurement available? Again, here at this office, there are no vegetarians, nobody who doesn’t eat the delicious meat provided by animals often kept in horrible conditions. Why do we have to kill wild things? Ω

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The whole place is a recycling center. We sell used books.

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We recycle our grease. We keep our trash area in shape to keep insects away and prevent things from blowing away.

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Let the campaign begin It’s already begun. Elected officials are announcing their new campaigns on Twitter, pundits are busily pontificating on who should run for what, and the deadly cocktail party circuit invitations are piling up. Candidates are trying to tie up key endorsements before their rivals have a chance by to make the same call. It’s a good Sheila Leslie time to reflect on what you, the all important voter, might want to look for in 2014, no matter your political persuasion. What are the first words that come to mind when you think about whom you want to represent you? Honesty and integrity? Someone who agrees with you all the time? A candidate who is running for the right reasons? Are you concerned about electing candidates with hidden, or not-sohidden, agendas favoring a special interest group? What about candidates whose political views are so set in stone, their votes are 100 percent predictable? You can almost see the thought balloons over their heads. Taxes = evil. Liberals = whiners. Business = whatever they want.

What questions should you be asking the candidates who will be knocking on your door all too soon? Voters often have a litmus test on a particular issue such as reproductive choice, marriage equality, privacy concerns, or the ever-present instability and insufficiency of Nevada’s tax system. But some voters are already saying they’re not going to vote for anyone associated with the Republican Party until its members get a grip on their platform and candidates stop spouting antiwomen, anti-gay, anti-change rhetoric at every turn. They’re weary of waiting for the party to conquer its extremes and stabilize into a rational conservative philosophy. Candidates need money to get elected. And while the small donors are important to establish a base of support in any race, most candidates are going to have to reach out to the bigger donors to meet their budget goals. Depending on the race, there are certain moneyed constituencies who

try (and often succeed) in overly influencing election results through the power of the checkbook. In local races, these tend to be developers and unions. In legislative and statewide races, the donor crowd is broader, ranging from casinos to trial lawyers to the mining industry. Ever notice how these lobbyists and their clients often show up at fundraisers for both candidates in a race? It’s called insurance. Uber-wealthy individuals think nothing of dropping $10,000 into a race and giving more to a PAC that turns around and gives it to the candidates the PAC was organized to support, thus exceeding the contribution limits. Yes, that’s legal, although it shouldn’t be. You can easily review prior campaign finance reports for statelevel officials through the Secretary of State’s website at http://tinyurl. com/72pl8z5. Ross Miller, our current SOS, has improved the website’s search capabilities, making it very easy to use. Try it. See for yourself where the money is coming

from to elect your favorite, or not so favorite, official. While every politician will tell you campaign donations don’t mean anything more than “access,” in many cases access is what sways a vote. Most of the votes in the Legislature aren’t on major policy issues, but smaller parochial concerns creating an advantage for one industry over another (think banks and credit unions), or one profession protecting or expanding its turf (think doctors and nurses). Often, prior monetary support of a candidate does make the difference in pushing a legislator one way or another. After a little investigating, you may decide you don’t like any of the self-proclaimed candidates, leaving you another option: run for the office yourself. Filing for non-judicial state races begins on March 3, 2014, just six months from now. If you don’t want to run, then donate and volunteer. Otherwise, don’t complain about your choices. Ω

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California medical dispensaries like this have been victims of the Obama administration’s on-again/ off-again enforcement policies. In this 2010 photo, an El Camino Wellness Center clerk chats with Max Del Real.

Campus job protested A protest at the University of Nevada, Reno last week drew attention to the use of allegedly illegal labor on the campus. Members of Laborers Union Local 160 protested to throw a spotlight on what they consider shoddy practices by the contractor doing work at the former Getchell Library building, where asbestos is being removed in preparation for building’s demolition to make way for construction of a $36 million “student achievement center.” The union said numerous workers who are not employable in the United States are being used on the job. Asked how they knew this, Laborers’ organizer Eloy Jara said he knows many of them because they used to be members of the union. Many of those now listed on sign-up sheets from the Getchell job dropped their memberships in the union because they were unemployable, he said. Four of those on the sign-up sheets, he added, have previously been deported. “And some of these guys have been turned back to our local from some of our contractors because they’re not employable in the United States,” he said. “So, therefore, we’re not going to argue with that. That’s how we know. … He knows that he can exploit the workers because he can do whatever he wants with them because they’re not legal.” “I wasn’t aware of what their claims were, so I’m not prepared to comment,” said Tom Davis of Advance Installations, Inc., the contractor on the asbestos removal job. The union said both Jara Core Construction—the main contractor that selected Advanced for the asbestos job—and the university were informed before Advanced was selected that it had a history of “prevailing wage complaints, exploitation of undocumented workers and issues with the Nevada State Contractors Board.”

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A sign-in sheet for the Getchell building (in background) asbestos job. The dispute also revived angry talk on campus about why the university is tearing down the building in the first place, instead of converting it to another use. The structure is relatively new, completed in 1962, and faculty and staffers have been critical of the demolition in an era when the campus budget has seen the most severe budget cuts since the Depression. “A new building is a luxury when the existing building is available,” one professor said. Q&D Construction and Clark & Sullivan Construction are suing the university over the selection of Arizona-based Core as the contractor for the Getchell project.

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A few weeks ago, a California lobbyist involved in medical dispensaries in that state met with News & Review by executives in Reno. He had been Dennis Myers monitoring the new law enacted by the 2013 Nevada Legislature to implement a voter-approved medical marijuana measure intended to return marijuana to medical use for the first time in the state since the late 1930s. The businessperson said that under the new Nevada law, medical dispensaries were going to happen very quickly. Well, maybe not. Although both voters and the Nevada Legislature have now authorized medical dispensaries, local politicians are trying to block them by preventing municipal implementing ordinances. Thirteen years after voters mandated a means of supplying patients with their medicine, it appears this calendar year will not yet be the time. • Lyon County Sheriff Allen Veil has asked for a county ordinance banning the state-authorized dispensaries outright: “Where there’s marijuana, organized crime has a finger in it, if it’s not controlled by them. The potential is great for abuse and money laundering and there’s absolutely no reason Lyon County should want to be a part of that.” The legislative sponsor of the dispensaries said that a county with legal prostitution was getting kind of finicky. • The Reno City Council

discussed the matter in June and decided to wait four months before dealing with it again. Councilmember Dwight Dortch was particularly outspoken in opposition to medical dispensaries. (The council will return to the issue again this week.) • The Las Vegas City Council voted unanimously on Sept. 18 not to allow any dispensaries for six months. “I anticipated the foot dragging,” said Clark County Sen. Richard Segerblom. “As time goes on everyone will be begging to get on board. As long as there is one government entity in each county that will accept them we’re OK. The legislature really can’t do anything more until 2015, but I will be ready if we need to do something.” No one is hurrying at the state level, either. State implementing regulations aren’t expected until the end of the year.

State vs. local It’s not well known that there are local implementing ordinances for state laws, because they are usually automatic. Only rarely do local governments balk. In 1985, after grocery and other lobbyists pushed for it, the Nevada Legislature made it a misdemeanor crime to “knowingly possess … a cart that has been removed from the owner’s premises.” Some cities, such as Sparks, did not enact local implementation on grounds that

merchants should keep track of their own carts. (Sparks, in fact, eventually adopted an ordinance requiring store owners to follow a prescribed routine for getting shopping carts off city streets.) In 1983, after the legislature enacted a measure requiring that children under the age of 6 must be in restraint seats while being transported in vehicles, the Reno City Council resisted enacting a local ordinance. After some bad publicity for the council, members reversed their stand and approved local implementation. The municipal governments are within their rights to refuse to permit dispensaries, assuming they are willing to face voters. The new state law, sponsored by Segerblom, is “local option”—allowing municipal governments to decide for themselves whether to allow the facilities. Residents in all the counties where local governments are now resisting the dispensaries voted in favor of medical marijuana. There was a 57 percent majority in Lyon County and 67 percent majorities in both Clark and Washoe. Paradoxically, the small counties—which are a hotbed of defiance of federal law on public land issues—are now taking refuge behind the fig leaf that marijuana use remains illegal under federal law. More than 4,000 state residents have marijuana prescription cards. A county breakdown was not immediately available. The dispensary legislation is a product of a court rebuke of the lawmakers by state Judge Donald Mosley. When Nevadans approved the medical marijuana ballot measure in 2000, its language instructed state legislators to “provide by law for ... Authorization of appropriate methods for supply of the plant to patients authorized to use it.” Instead, the lawmakers adopted legislation that essentially said, “Grow your own”— but provided no legal way for them to acquire seeds. In a Las Vegas case, Mosley called the state adopted by the legislators “ridiculous,” “absurd,” and unconstitutional. He found that legislators either botched the job of implementing the ballot measure or deliberately tried to undercut it: “It is apparent to [Mosley] that the statutory scheme set out for the lawful distribution of medical marijuana is either poorly contemplated or purposely constructed to frustrate the implementation of constitutionally mandated access to the substance.”

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$ people are weird about money. Some people will whip out a credit card to buy new shoes, appliances, even entire weddings. They’ll get secured loans for homes or cars or boats. It’s easy to make judgments about other people’s characters by knowing what they spend money on. The process is our culture’s primary fuel. It’s the engine of consumption. But those items I just mentioned, with the possible exception of the house, are losing propositions. The first time you use any one of them, it’s worth less, and it’s worth less with every day that passes. Criminals can take them. Shoot, much of the time, the government is a party to the theft. But there are some things that appreciate in value and that have the feature that they can’t be stolen from you. Education, for example. A college master’s degree is worth $1.3 million more in lifetime earnings than a high school diploma, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. It’s a report called the Big Payoff, if you want to read it for yourself. And yet, people bitch about kids who get student loans. Spend $40,000 to make $1.3 million? Who wouldn’t take that return on investment? But again, it’s the fact that it gains value and can’t be stolen that I’m interested in. People buy $40,000 cars without blinking an eye, but in six years, those cars may lose $25,000 in value. I want to spend my money on things with true value. I’m not talking about “investing.” The fact that I had my retirement and my home’s equity stolen by the illegal actions of the finance industry informs this thinking, but it’s not just about that. That’s where my plan to put solar modules on my house comes in. People keep asking me, “So when will those things be paid for?” Like those kids with college loans, people question my wisdom, as though solar modules are frivolous because they won’t produce value until they produce savings on my power bill after being fully paid for. Well, it’s not just about the money.

Driving into the green economy costs less than you think, and it may put money in your pocket while saving the environment

Some people get it. If we’re going to move past the petroleum economy that’s destroying our planet, we have to help create the green economy. We have to move it forward by buying into it, even though the short-term costs are higher than buying oil. But then I’ve never heard of someone getting killed or tortured in the Middle East because we wanted their country’s sunlight. So how am I going to put my money where my mouth is? I have a three-part plan: I’m going to lease an electric car. I’m going to figure out financing. I’m going to power my house and car with the sun. OK, maybe not in that order. And you know what? While I do it, I’m going to try to convince skeptics that it makes financial sense—even for those people who want immediate return on investment.

EmpirE of thE Sun Let me tell you one thing straight up. You know those people you meet at Earth Day? They’re so nice, so loving. They’re probably not the people you’re going to meet when you’re moving into the personal power utility. People in the “green” banking business are just as cutthroat as your most traditional banker. The people who sell electric cars are still car salesmen. Upon making the decision to really go green, I contacted an expert, Bob Tregilus, president of the Electric Auto Association of Northern Nevada, so I wouldn’t have to waste a lot of time on car shopping. For cars available in Reno, he’s a fan of the Nissan Leaf. He also steered me toward Nissan of Reno. Nissan is running a national deal on a 36-month lease, $2,000 plus taxes, plus $199 a month (plus sales tax) plus $300 at the end. Insurance will be about $840. Call it $4,186 a year.

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My experience with Nissan of Reno turned out to be a comedy of errors, all the things you hear about buying cars. Eventually, we’d sign a contract, which they would promptly break, although not through their own actions. (And when I got irritated, one of the managers pointed out that it’s written into Nevada law that the dealers have 20 days to back out of car sales contracts. “Usually, it’s because we found something wrong with your credit, but it could be for any reason,” he told me when I used the words “breach of contract.”) Eventually, they made good on their promises, and they threw some extras in to make good on the broken deal, although plainly I’ll have to pay for these “extras” at the end of the lease if I choose to buy the car. Let me do the car math for you. I have been driving a 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee with 170,000 miles on it. I spend an average of $240 a month on gasoline. I get the oil changed twice a year to the tune of about $100. The last couple of years, I’ve conservatively averaged about $2,000 a year in repairs. Insurance is about $50 a month. That’s annual cost of $5,140. Cha-ching, right? $954 a year in my pocket. And that doesn’t even include the $7,500 incentive the federal government took off the price of the car if I choose to buy it. 14 | RN&R |

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Your results may vary, and the only reason it works out so well for me is that I was driving an old gas guzzler that needed a lot of repairs the last few years. I’m not the only one who feels this way. In fact, according to Autoblog.com, the Nissan Leaf hit a U.S. sales record, last month, 2,420 of them sold for a 253.3 percent increase over last year. Chevy sold 3,351 Volts in August. “In the US, the Volt had an 18.4 percent increase over August 2012 numbers, and easily beating the Volt’s previous best sales month from October 2012, when 2,961 were sold. For the year, the Volt has so far sold 14,994 units, 11.1 percent more than the same time in 2012,” the blog reported. After calling to promise a callback, Nissan of Reno did not choose to do an interview.

Cartwright at Independent Power Corporation in 2001 or 2002, when I had the company repair some old domestic hot water solar panels on my house. It cost us around $2,800 at the time, money we really didn’t have, but just powering an electric hot water heater costs in the neighborhood of $60 a month. That’s $720 a year or $7,920 savings by having

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the solar panels working on the house. Obviously, four months of the year, the hot water solar modules don’t do as much, so let’s cut off 15 percent, which leaves a savings of $6,732 minus $2,800: $3,932 in the black. Cartwright has moved on, but having had a purely positive relationship with them since those days, when Bob Tregilus suggested I talk to Jeb Bateman, their current solar efficiency specialist, I didn’t balk, and I didn’t call any of the other solar installers for comparative prices. There are other contractors in the area, like Briggs in Carson City and Bombard in Las Vegas. Again, your

Next for the solar modules on the house. Modules are the correct name for those black photo-voltaic squares that you see on people’s roofs and arrayed frames. Most people call them solar panels. I want to run my house and charge the car off them. Turns out it’s going to have to happen in two stages, and I’ll explain why in a bit. With me, business is all about relationships. If I have a good relationship with the people involved with a business, I’ll stick with them. I first started working with Russ

results may vary, so I suggest you do comparative shopping. I’m happy with my decision. I’m not the only one making the decision, Grace Caldwell told me. “There’s sort of two aspects,” she said. “The solar thermal heating—water heating, pool heating—that’s been pretty stable. … In the PV world, with the prices coming down so dramati-

“i think [the green economy] really is coming on now,” she said. “with the lower prices and the housing industry coming back and the economy coming back, it’s going to keep building. Grace Caldwell

Owner, Independent Power Corporation cally, many homeowners can afford something now that they couldn’t afford two or three years ago.” And that means more people are doing these types of improvements now, although it still hasn’t reached the fevered pitch of the housing and credit bubble 2006-7. But unlike those halcyon days, this period may be based on real values. “I think [the green economy] really is coming on now,” she said. “With the lower prices and the housing industry coming back and the economy coming back, it’s going to keep building. That’s my feeling on it.”

The downside to all this? With the cost of technology dropping, companies like Caldwell’s have to do more work (gross sales) to make the same profit. The reason I have to do my solar module installation in two phases is because NV Energy gets to decide how much energy I can generate on my roof. Basically, I can put enough solar modules on my roof to pay for the equivalent of last year’s electric use because the power company doesn’t want to have to buy energy from me. I didn’t have an electric car last year, so that will be a large increase on my power use this year. To make a long story short, after a year with the modules on my house, I’ll be able to add modules to power the car. But to do this, I have to start with a system big enough to handle the add-ons in a year. Please understand, this story is going to give you just about enough information to be dangerous. I’m just a reporter, not an engineer, not a financial whiz. At any rate, the big difference between doing it all at once and doing it in two phases is that I’m putting a 6 kilowatt system on the house that will initially run a 3.4 kilowatt system. That’s 14 modules, a 6 kilowatt inverter, and since I’m going to remain tied to NV Energy, no battery backup. It’s going to cost me $18,497.

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Eighteen thousand five hundred effing dollars? Now hold on. That’s the upfront cost. Let me let you in on the real math. Again, your results may vary. Take $500 bucks off the top because Independent Power threw in the installation of a 240 volt charging station for my new car. Then take off the 30 percent federal tax credit at $5,399. Next, add in $595 per year from electricity savings. Then add in the annual PEC credit payouts from NV Energy. We’ve got it at $840 a year, but with the hot water solar, which we are installing the technology to measure, that’s likely conservative. With an annual monetary value of the system of $1,436 during the first year, that’s an 11.4 percent return on

Unfortunately, it also doesn’t include the interest on the loan I got to pay for all this.

investment the first year. Over the life of the system, about 25 years, and before I add in the less expensive half of the system, that’s $24,635 in power savings, $21,000 in PEC credits: $45,635. That doesn’t include the increased value of my home. That doesn’t include increasing energy prices. That doesn’t include the fuel costs I’ll save from not paying for price increases in petroleum. It doesn’t include the fact that the Nevada Legislature could decrease the payout for PEC credits with a stroke of a pen. It also doesn’t include the fact that big companies like Barrick Gold may start competitively buying green PEC credits, and some of the numbers I’ve heard bandied around are 5-10 times what NV Energy is paying.

Sunny money The weird thing about alternative energy contractor types like Jeb Bateman or Grace Caldwell of Independent Power Corporation: They know little about financing. If I were to presume to tell them how to do their job, I’d suggest they go to each of the banks in town and any bank on the internet with a green-focused loan, and I’d collect a one-sheet from each that describes their program. To that, I would add a one sheet that shows every possible tax rebate or utility credit, because nobody knows all the ins and outs of

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aul Baker Prindle is a big picture thinker in every sense of the word. He’s an artist and photographer, looking at social issues through a camera lens. He’s a curator, scouting the world for the best new artists. And he’s the new director of Sheppard Contemporary and University Galleries at the University of Nevada, Reno, enacting an ambitious vision for the future of Nevada’s art. Baker Prindle began his new position in August, taking over for former director Marjorie Vecchio, who left to pursue curatorial positions in San Francisco and a fellowship in Wyoming. His position oversees the six campus galleries. As an artist, he investigates trauma through different mediums. “I photograph hate crime sites,” he says. “I look at how mythology of the West is tied up to the gender of the landscape. … The construction of the American West.” He’s been as successful an artist as he’s been a curator, and travels globally on a regular basis scouting for new artists. Most recently, he went to Germany, and also works as a visiting professor of art at Minzu University in China. “The job lends itself to travel,” says Baker Prindle.

Born in Wisconsin, much of Baker Prindle’s experience and work is based there. He holds two master’s degrees—a master of arts and a master of fine arts, both in graphics—from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Before starting his new position full-time, he commuted regularly between Wisconsin and Reno. After a brief stint in California, he gravitated toward Nevada, where he plans to put down roots for a while. “My mom’s family lived out here in the high desert of Reno,” says Prindle. “The West is a big part of my family’s history.” But Baker Prindle speaks highly of Wisconsin and hopes to bring the state’s strengths to Nevada. “Wisconsin has an insanely amazing quality of life,” he says, citing Madison and Milwaukee as flourishing cities. “Much of that is due to how they’ve embraced the arts.” Seeing Wisconsin’s success firsthand has made Baker Prindle passionate about fostering the arts as a solution for the struggling economy. “Visual arts play a strong role in economic recovery,” he says. “The arts are great for the city. It’s about the rise of the creative class. In Milwaukee, I saw the arts driving economic recovery.” The “creative class” are the people thinking of new, adaptable career

paths, and starting businesses and projects based on the needs of the community. “Developing an arts infrastructure is important,” he says, noting the displayof atFourth the North Tahoe gentrification Street and Arts Corison Loftfor Gallery. M, W-Su Midtown. “It calls innovation 10/7. Free. 380 North across through economies.” Art Gallery & Gift ForLake him,Blvd. it goes further than Shop, Tahoe City, (530) that—a thriving art community581-2787, www.northtahoearts.com. transforms a city. “Visual arts are one of few disciplines meant for growing VFW BATTLE BORN POST 9211: ideas outside of the brain.” of Veterans He Portraits refers to Reno’s “post-, a solo exhibit by highaddressing school student gambling” economy, the Lokshin. 2-7pm declineJacob in tourism and W-Sa, the popularity Free. 255 Burris of localthrough business10/18. and arts. Creative Lane, (775) 825-7007. thinking helps tackle a community’s problems—poverty, discrimination and inequality. “How do we grow citizens to developLIFE solutions these KILLS to ME: Life issues?” and death says Baker Prindle. “Art has great embrace in this comedy about solutions for that, whether through a friendship. Tu, 9/24, 7pm. $7 theory non-members; and concept or $5 actual for members, demonstration.” bicyclists and students. Good Helping artists make a living from Luck Macbeth Theater Company, their art713 is S. theVirginia first step. St., (775) 322-3716, “Nevada has really good arts fundwww.artemisiamovies.org. ing and government funding,” says Baker Prindle. “I was pleased by the amount of arts funding here and how friendly it is.” THE IDAN RAICHEL However, many artists PROJECT: don’t knowThe collective is known for its ambihow to apply for funding or what to collaborado oncetious theycross-cultural receive it. According to tions thatmaking changed popular Baker Prindle, theIsraeli university music. Su, space 10/13,for 7:30pm. $25, galleries an open local artists $35. Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 is important. E. Second (775) 789-2285, “I want to putSt., a stronger emphasis www.renoisartown.com. on Nevada artists and West Coast contemporary artists,” he says. “I see RENO as CHAMBER This my position that of aORCHESTRA: cheerleader— begins an mom. arrangelike anprogram organizer, like awith PTA of a work that had I’m in ment a collaborative effort tobegun put artlife in Johannes Brahms’s mind as a out in the community.”

says. “I had to put together 13 shows in two weeks.” The current exhibition, Refigured by Los Angeles artist Ken GonzalesDay, expands beyond campus. Gonzales-Day, known for his research on the history of lynching ADDAMS inTHE the West, putFAMILY: up threeBroadway billboards to Reno opens with this of inComes Reno showcasing photographs musical locations. comedy. F,Accompanying 11/29, 8pm; lynching Sa, 11/30, 2 & 8pm; Su, 12/1, 2 photographs are on display at & 7pm. $44-$79. Pioneer Center Sheppard Contemporary. The for the Performing Arts, 100 S. billboards can be seen on the corners 686-6600, ofVirginia Center St, and(775) Moran Streets, Mt. www.pioneercenter.com. Rose and Virginia Streets, and West Moana Lane and Smith Drive, and ALL MY SONS: Little Sept. 30. the exhibition is Reno open until Theater presents Arthur Heeseop Yoon’s Lost in Found Miller’s drama. F, 10/25, exhibition, which opens on 7:30pm; Oct. 10, Sa,created 10/26; specifically Su, 10/27, 2pm; Th,new was for the 10/31, 7:30pm; F, 11/1, 7:30pm; Sheppard gallery. Yoon attaches Sa, 11/2, 7:30pm; Su, 11/3, 2pm; colored tape to walls to create Th, 11/7, 7:30pm; F, 11/8, 7:30pm; designs that resemble sketches on Sa, 11/9, 7:30pm; Su, 11/10, 2pm. paper or graffiti on buildings. The Reno Little Thater, 147 E. designs conform to the architecture Pueblo St., (775) 329-0661, of the room, circling door frames and www.renolittletheater.org. windows, embracing the vertical and negative space. THE OF ERRORS: As COMEDY part of Baker Prindle’s Nevadafor Repertory opens its the mission community outreach, season with comedy bya new university willthis begin hosting William that Shakespeare. program he calls theW-Sa, “Curators 7:30pm through 11/2. on Opens Conversation,” focused “making Su, 10/27, 1:30pm; Su, art10/25; relevant and meaningful, engaging 1:30pm. $5-$14. Redfield in11/3, conversations about how art in Studio Theatre, Church Fine public spaces works, who it serves, Arts Building, University of and why it’s important.” The first will 1664 N. Virginia beNevada, held onReno, Oct. 11, 1-3 p.m. St., (775) 784-4278. He’s also bringing together Reno and Wisconsin through Xeno:Reno, CREATURES: Brükagallery Theatreat West held in the Artspace opens its season. Th-Sa, Street Market. Xeno:Reno is8pm a website through by 10/26. Opens 10/4; W,artist facilitated Wisconsin-based 10/23, Hellstrom, 8pm; Su, 10/27, 2pm. Thomas who archived $18-$25. Brüka Theatre, N. and curated a collection of99 images, Virginia (775) 323-3221, stories andSt., other media submitted by www.bruka.org. Fifth Symphony, the String Quintet Renoites through the site. The result is Op. 111. Then young Grammy an outsider’s perspective of how Reno Shared space HOOTCHY view KOOTCHY: BESTcity. OF The award-nominated virtuoso inhabitants their own But before Baker Prindleperforms could SHOW: The Hootchy Caroline Goulding show opened on Sept.Kootchy 5 and will run bring the outside art world to UNR’s Girls Vintage Bruch’s tuneful Scottish Fantasy. through Oct. 7.Cabaret presents campus, the gallery space had to the audience favorites. Sa,next 9/21, Theodore Kuchar conducts And Baker Prindle’s change.concert, Sheppard Contemporary, 6 & 9:30pm. $20. Pioneer which concludes with project requires his favorite UNR’sSymphony main gallery which a new Underground, 100 S. Virginia St. No. in 9 by Shostakovich. pastime—traveling. exhibition opens 7:30pm; every sixSu, weeks, Pioneer on Virginia Sa, 10/19, 10/20, “I wantCenter to takeplaza Sheppard was recently renovated as part of and Mill streets, (775) 762-9870, 2pm. $5-$45. Nightingale Concert Contemporary on the road,” he says. the university’s $2 Fine million to www.renotahoecomedy.com. Hall, Church Artsplan Building, “We started a program to travel one updateUniversity the Church ArtsReno, build-1335 of Fine Nevada, weekend a month to towns within ings. The gallery—the first348-9413, of the N. Virginia St., (775) NEVADA radius OPERA:ofCARMEN: The a 40-mile Nevada and six to be updated—was repainted www.renochamberorchestra.org Nevada Opera’s new production of Sacramento.” and retrofitted with environmentally Bizet’s celebrates Street This Carmen opportunity will bring him sustainable and supplies Vibrations. with F, 9/20, 7pm; Su, YUVALmaterials RON ENSEMBLE: Partfor face-to-face Nevada’s landscape, exhibitions. 9/22, of the University of Nevada, and the 1pm. artists$30-$80. who are Eldorado born within it. So Reno’s it’s no surprise thatArts thisSeries. fall’s Hotel 345 to N. find Virginia Performing “It’sCasino, my chance out St., what exhibitions focus7:30pm. largely $5-$24. on public (775)need 786-4046, Th, 10/10, artists and who these artists are, spaces.Nightingale Many of the upcoming http://nevadaopera.org. Concert Hall, whether that’s a 40 year old making campusChurch showsFine opening semester Artsthis Building, art who doesn’t know how to sell her are collaborative group shows University efforts, of Nevada, Reno, work, or an artist out in Ely looking with artists by theme—looking 1335 united N. Virginia St., (775) for a gallery space,” he says. “It’s critically at socialwww.unr.edu/pas. trends. 784-4278, a huge state with plenty of people “We had to put together the who are really isolated. I want to see exhibition season rather quickly,” he what’s being made here.” Ω

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debris—photographs of paintings and paintings of photographs. Much of the work is very personal and autobiographical. One wall has a chronological sequence of photographs from Evans’ life—snapshots of friends and family members, as well as past art installations and other exhibitions. The many references to his past, especially in the images of previous exhibitions, create a hall-of-mirrors feeling and a sense of exploring the labyrinth of someone else’s memories. “It raises questions about memory, and memory always being present, and the shifting nature of memory,” says Evans. There are repeated patterns of color, and manipulated photos echoing paintings that appear elsewhere in the gallery—opportunities for gallery visitors to make textual connections within the installation. “There’s a lot of repetition,” says Evans. “You get the feeling that you’ve seen it someplace.” The work from other exhibitions, some of which demonstrate wear and tear from

audience interaction—images originally exhibited on stairs, for example—and the images of previous exhibitions create the sense that Evans is literally building upon an ongoing body of work. His background is in painting and though he now uses photographic technology, like a large scale digital printer, he says he uses it more like a painter than a photographer: “I’m not trying to make photographs. I’m not really picky about resolutions. I’m more interested in, what does the image start doing?” Much of the work and the installation process is site specific to the NMA’s Contemporary Gallery, responding to the

shape of the walls and the locations of windows. Evans is especially excited about working with the two-story wall on the north end of the gallery “It’s the biggest painting I’ve ever done,” he says. “I’m thinking of this as one big painting.” But as important as the location of the gallery is to Evans’ work, for this exhibition, there’s an even more important specificity. “I think of it often as context-specific,” he says. “So, here I’m telling the story of Franklin Evans who’s an artist who also lived here. ... I was a very sheltered person growing up here. I didn’t know you could be an artist. I’m a very different person now. I mean, everyone is, if you live long enough, you’re a very different person than you were when you were 17 or 18. And Reno itself has changed a lot. I think gaming is less prevalent. It’s interesting that there’s a more diverse economy. The world has changed a lot, too.” Ω

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He’s convinced the man knows something, and takes matters into his own hands, resulting in Keller kidnapping Alex and some rather harsh torture scenes. Up until this point, Prisoners is a “How far would you go?” movie, posing the moral dilemma of what lengths a parent would go to find a child. Keller brings Franklin to the torture chamber, and the two put Alex through hell. It’s brutal stuff, and credit goes to all three actors for convincingly conveying the humiliation, fear, regret and sadism that must go with such a situation. Detective Loki is off in what sometimes feels like another movie, trying to solve the kidnapping and stumbling upon other crimes along the way. As silly as his portion of the film gets, Gyllenhaal is rock solid as Loki. The film is set in an often gloomy, gray, rainy Pennsylvania where everything looks plain and safe, but dark things are happening in those old houses. Villeneuve and Deakins use this setting to maximum effect, and the film always looks interesting. The film keeps you guessing as to the identity of the kidnapper or kidnappers until late in the film. You will find yourself compiling a mental list of suspects as things transpire, and that list will basically include everybody in the movie. Everybody in the cast behaves suspiciously enough at one point or another so that they can’t be dismissed as possibilities. This ultimately hurts the film in many ways, as it strays from that core moral message and becomes a preposterous whodunit. The eventual revelation struck me as a letdown, perhaps even a copout. As kidnaping films go, there are stretches of this film that would draw comparisons to the 1988 Dutch classic The Vanishing (Spoorloos). Unfortunately, there are also stretches that can be compared to the crappy 1993 American remake of The Vanishing where Jeff Bridges took a shovel to the mouth. Prisoners does have a great final moment though, so it ends on a good note. The movie contains some of the year’s best acting, best visuals, and maintains a fierce intensity for much of its running time. That said, I can’t deny its flaws, which render it part goofy. It’s too bad—with a slight rewrite and tighter editing, this could’ve been one of the year’s best pictures. Ω

Blue Jasmine

There was a time in film history when Woody Allen was consistently making the best movies in the business. His latest, one of many movies he has made in the last 10 years, is that return to form that some of us former Allen fans have been waiting for, thanks in large part to a phenomenal central performance by the sure-to-be-Oscarnominated Cate Blanchett. Blanchett plays Jasmine, the wife of a Bernie Madoff-type financier (Alec Baldwin) who must relocate from New York to San Francisco after she is bankrupted and emotionally destroyed. She gulps martinis, criticizes her helpful sister (Sally Hawkins), and, quite frighteningly, is prone to bouts of talking to herself. Allen finds the dark humor in the story, and employs a supporting cast that includes comedians Bobby Cannavale, Louis C.K. and, most astonishingly, Andrew Dice Clay, who, doggone it, delivers one amazing performance as Ginger’s financially destroyed ex-husband, Augie. Above and beyond the humor, Allen makes his film a parable about how some deeds are irredeemable, and some folks are simply doomed. It’s as bittersweet as any movie you will see this, or any, year, for that matter. As far as the Allen film canon goes, it’s a top five installment. It’s one of those films where everything pulls together perfectly, with Blanchett at its powerful center.

The Family

This thing is just a mess on so many fronts. Director Luc Besson gives us Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer riffing on past mafia movie roles in something that’s supposed to be a comedy but winds up being freaking weird. De Niro plays a former hitman relocated to Normandy with his family after ratting on his pals, and Pfeiffer plays his wife. Together, with their two children in tow, they try to make a go of it while Tommy Lee Jones inexplicably pops in every once in a while as the agent assigned with keeping an eye on them. Apparently, nobody told the grouchy Jones he was supposed to be in a comedy. Obviously, De Niro has tried to mine his mobster role past with his Analyze This movies. This role requires a more subdued De Niro, accept when his character goes violently psycho. The movie goes for odd laughs and never gets them. It also tries to be a family drama, and in this respect it is insincere. Besson makes goodlooking movies, and this one looks OK, but not good enough to cover up the fact that he is working with a shit script and concept.

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Director James Wan was on a bit of a roll with the first film in this series and his recent The Conjuring. That roll doesn’t simply come to a halt with this film. That roll crashes into a concrete, steel enforced wall that Jesus himself built while reminiscing about his carpentry days. This latest attempt to make a haunted house movie with next to no money is a hilarious catastrophe. Wan basically uses the same tricks, including smoke machines, green lights, practical makeup and crappy music, to try and get scares out of a formula that clearly had a short shelf life. This one involves Josh (Patrick Wilson), the father from the first film acting a little strange after his trip into another dimension to retrieve his son. His wife (Rose Byrne) suspects that, gosh darn it, something must be wrong because there are still funny things happening with her baby monitor. The movie wants to be a poor man’s The Shining, with Wilson going all Nicholson wacky and Byrne doing her best Shelley Duvall impersonation. It’s terrible, but it’s a big moneymaker, so, as with the Paranormal Activity films, this isn’t going to stop anytime soon.

Lee Daniels’ The Butler

Director Lee Daniels, prominently mentioned in the film’s title after a much publicized lawsuit, delivers a fine emotional wallop with this historical epic very loosely based on the life of Eugene Allen, a butler at the White House for 34 years. Those going to this film for its true historical significance take note: the film contains much fiction. Allen is renamed Cecil (played by Forest Whitaker), and is given a fictional son in order to depict a family conflict re-

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garding the Civil Rights movement. So, this film, which shows the butler interacting with presidents from Eisenhower (Robin Williams) thru Ronald Reagan (Alan Rickman), is mostly made up. That doesn’t hurt the film’s dramatic significance. It’s an ultimately moving experience. What does damage the film a bit is horrible makeup, especially a goofy fake nose for John Cusack as Richard Nixon. The makeup is sometimes so bad that the film turns into unintentional comedy when some characters are on screen. Whitaker holds the whole thing together, and Oprah Winfrey, in her first starring role since her excellent turn in Beloved, does strong work as Cecil’s wife. Other stars playing presidents include a relatively makeup-free James Marsden as John F. Kennedy, and an absolutely covered Liev Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson.

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Vin Diesel finally makes it back as the shiny-eyed ex-con who growls a lot in this OK retread of Pitch Black, the original film in the Riddick series. This one, mercifully, gets away from the drearily baroque dealings of The Chronicles of Riddick and gets Diesel back on a desolate planet battling weird monsters. The first half of the movie has Diesel fighting scorpion-like beasties with the help of a CGI dog, and it’s actually pretty good. Things slow down in the middle when a bunch of bounty hunters show up and talk a lot, but they speed up again when the bounty hunters must also battle the monsters. Diesel, who I usually can’t stand, is actually in decent form for this one, obviously relishing the chance to revisit the character that made him a big star. Director David Twohy does a lot with a relatively meager budget, putting together a movie that looks good. While the movie isn’t anything to get all that excited about, it does manage to recapture a little of the spirit that made the first film fun.

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Jason Sudeikis plays a small-time drug dealer who gets in over his head and is forced by his boss (Ed Helms) to smuggle drugs from Mexico. Realizing that border agents seem to go easy on families, he hires a fake family to make the trip in an RV. The family includes a wife (a stripper played by Jennifer Aniston), a daughter (a homeless girl played by Emma Roberts) and a son (a hapless neighbor played by Will Poulter). The film has a Vacation movie vibe, especially because Sudeikis is charming in a way that Chevy Chase was for a brief time in his career. Aniston plays a mighty good stripper, for sure. She has another calling in case the whole acting thing doesn’t work out. Roberts gets perhaps her best role yet as Casey, delivering some great eye-rolling moments. As for Poulter, he steals scenes nearly every time he speaks, and his encounter with a tarantula is priceless. Sure, the movie gets a little gooey and sentimental by the time it plays out, but we’ve come to like the characters by then so it’s OK. It’s not a grand cinematic effort by any means, but it does provide some good laughs, with a fair share of them being quite shocking.

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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost star as part of an old gang of friends getting back together to finish a pub crawl they failed to complete 20 years earlier in their hometown. Pegg plays King, the group leader and now slightly disturbed man-child, while Frost plays Andy, the group pessimist who’s still recovering from a partying incident years before. They start drinking pints, only to discover that blue-blooded robots have overrun their old town, so in addition to completing the crawl they must save the world. This is the third film from Pegg and director Edgar Wright after Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, and it is a worthy conclusion to their “Cornetto” trilogy (named for a brand of ice cream that appears in all three films). It delivers a lot of laughs, great action, and even serves a significant emotional punch. One of the summer movie season’s great surprises.

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Name game T. Lee Walker & D. Lennon Tony Walker has a lot of names. For poetry, it’s Talik Talluah. For hip-hop, his name is Locus. His artist handle? Doodles. by Fil Corbitt And now, he has a new one for the list: T. Lee Walker, his moniker for the soulful two-piece acoustic project, T. Lee Walker & D. Lennon. In other words, T. Lee Walker is his singing name. “I feel like Reno still doesn’t know I sing,” Walker says, sitting at the center of an unpacked room in the Old Southwest. “I mean, I’ve been doing this longer than I’ve been rapping, so it’s time to have a project for singing.” Photo/Fil Corbitt

Danny Lennon and Tony Walker play the songs they like.

But Walker’s pile of personas doesn’t necessarily point to a scattered artist. Instead, they seem to compartmentalize a handful of mediums in which he is equally invested. “It helps me keep organized,” he says, claiming the separation between projects helps him promote one at a time without having to subject his fans in one medium to the group of people more interested in another. The new project, T. Lee Walker & D. Lennon, is comprised of Walker on vocals and Danny Lennon on acoustic guitar. It’s a simple lineup that allows for an easy-to-establish dynamic. The soul and blues project replaced a similar group Walker started early this year named Oddly Enough. That group was launched to a fast buzz fueled by Walker’s promotional prowess, but he dissolved the band just months later due to directional differences. He hopes that T. Lee can be the gigging project he was looking to start originally.

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Musically speaking, Walker and Lennon are mainly playing covers for the time being, but they already have a few originals and plan to let their own content take a much larger role in their set. The duo was formed to play a specific show, so they learned 36 songs in the first week. “I think the biggest challenge is taking a lot of these electric songs and making them acoustic without losing the feeling of it,” says Lennon. They cover a few songs whose original versions are drum and synth heavy, but translate them to a stripped-down format. They later play a version of the Black Keys’ “I Got Mine,” and the song sounds completely comfortable in an acoustic environment. They don’t pick songs based on what can be easily translated. “We just play songs we like,” says Lennon. The nice thing about such a simple line-up, Walker adds as Lennon tunes his guitar, is that it allows the two of them to really get to know each other. “Yeah, we’ve gone on trips together … rock climbing or whatever … I mean, it’s important to really know who you’re playing with both on and off stage.” And with that, Lennon starts playing a bluesy riff that Walker introduces as their own, and belts out a low, smoky verse. He slides from that register to high notes with ease, and the two play off each other as if they had been playing together for much longer than a month or two. Halfway through the second chorus, Walker’s son, who had been sitting on the living room floor throughout the interview, gets up and starts darting around. Walker doesn’t miss a note as he picks up a pillow and starts roughhousing with him. It might be a stretch to draw a parallel between this kind of multitasking and the multitasking Walker does between his dozen or so projects, but that’s exactly what he’s usually doing—20 things at once and doing his best not to compromise on any of them. “Performing is my true passion,” he says. “If I’m in a project … I’m really in it.” And as for this project, he’s definitely serious. Serious enough at least to take on a new name. Ω

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The Moron Bros., Priscilla Ford, Part of the Problem, 8:30pm, no cover

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Freestyle firespinning, 9pm, no cover

816 Highway 40 West, Verdi; (775) 351-3206 Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Blarney Band, 9pm, no cover

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

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

Good Friday with rotating DJs, 10pm, no cover

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Mark Diorio, 11:30am, no cover

Celtic/American Tune Session, 7pm, no cover

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

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Dan Frenchette & Laurel Thomsen, 6pm, no cover

Sheldon Felich, 6pm, no cover

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The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Allan Havey, Jann Karan, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Jimmy Shubert, Suli McCullough, W, 9pm, $25

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Fryed Brothers Band, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Miss Amber, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

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

CW and Mr. Spoons, noon, M, no cover ; Mark Diorio, 5:30pm, W, no cover

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Karaoke w/Andrew, 9pm, no cover

Bass Heavy, 9pm, W, $TBA

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

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10603 Stead Blvd., Stead; (775) 677-7088

Canyon Jam, 8pm, no cover

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

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Bark that Beat w/Crush, Tee Wrecks, Ryan Parker, Neil Degrasse Tyson Jr. High, 7pm, $7

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Cruel Hand, Force Fed, Ironclad, Badlands, 7:30pm, $7

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

Erika Paul, 6pm, no cover

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

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The Shames, End of the Line, Babs Johnson Gang, Cat Jelly, 9pm, no cover

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Matt Nathanson, Joshua Radin, 8pm, $25-$40

211 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-5648

Open mic, 9pm, M, no cover

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Club Sexy Movimiento w/Amplified DJs, 10pm, $12

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

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

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 7pm, no cover

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

POLO LOUNGE

Bobby G, 8pm, no cover

Bobby G, 8pm, Jake’s Garage 5.0, 9pm, no cover

Gemini w/Johnny Lipka & Andrea, 9pm, no cover

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

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Open Mic Night, 7pm, W, no cover

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

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Comedy Night hosted by Brandon Lara, 9:30pm, no cover

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RUBEN’S CANTINA

Hip Hop Open Mic, 10pm, W, no cover

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

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

SIDELINES BAR & NIGHTCLUB 1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks; (775) 355-1030

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

Renegade, 9pm, no cover

Mimic, 9pm, no cover

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

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

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Karaoke Night, 7pm, Tu, Open Mic Wednesdays, 7pm, W, no cover

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2) Hindsight, 4pm, Cook Book, 10pm, no cover

2) Cook Book, 8pm, no cover

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

2) Drop Theory, 10pm, no cover

2) Casual Dogs, 10pm, no cover

1) Grease, 8pm, $24.95+ 2) Brazen, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Skyy High Fridays, 9pm, $10 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Grease, 7pm, 9:30pm, $24.95+ 2) Brazen, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Addiction Saturdays, 9pm, $10 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

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Karaoke Bottoms Up Saloon, 1923 Prater Way, Sparks, 359-3677: Th-Sa, 9pm, no cover 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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1) Grease, 7pm, $24.95+ 2) Brazen, 10:30pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) The Unknown Comic, Susan Jones, 8:30pm, W, $15, $19

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1) Grease, 7pm, Tu, W, $24.95+ 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, W, no cover

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

1) The Rides, Beth Hart, 9pm, $35-$75

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219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

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1) Drive-By Truckers, 7:30pm, $44 3) DJ SN1, 10pm, $20

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1) The Biggest Little Sideshow, 8pm, $25, $35 2) Maxx Cabello Jr., 9pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire w/DJ I, 9pm, no cover 4) Rebel Soul, noon, Caravanserai, 7pm, no cover

1) The Biggest Little Sideshow, 8pm, $25, $35 2) Maxx Cabello Jr., 9pm, no cover 1) The Biggest Little Sideshow, 3) Club Sapphire w/DJ I, 9pm, no cover 8pm, $25, $35 4) Rebel Soul, noon, Skynnyn Lynnyrd, 7pm, no cover

2) Groove City, 9pm, no cover 3) Milton Merlos, 5:30pm, no cover 5) Karaoke Night, 7pm, no cover

1) Jimmie Van Zant, 9pm, $15 2) Groove City, 9pm, no cover 3) Milton Merlos, 6pm, no cover 5) Kyle Williams, 6pm, no cover

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Celebrate the change in seasons with German beer and food at the annual autumnal festival. Festival-goers can participate in games such as the stein-holding competition, keg-rolling race or the bratwurst toss or give their vocal cords a workout during the yodeling contest. There will be traditional Bavarian music performed by Joe Smiell and his 20-piece band on the main stage, as well as performances by the Almenrauch Schuhplattler Bavarian Folk Dancers and Alpentanzer Schuhplattler Austrian Dance Troop, accompanied by the Alpen Tanz Kapelle band. The entertainment is free although admission to the beer garden is $10, which includes a specialty glass and first beer. Proceeds benefit the Tahoe Truckee Lacrosse Association. The event takes place from 2-6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Village at Squaw Valley USA, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley. Visit www.squaw.com.

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THROUGH THE SCARY RICK FOUND 12-STEP TO BE A WAR ZONE OF REMINISCING AND A GOOD PLACE TO FIND SOMEONE

who would use with him. “12-step works for a lot of people,” says Rick, “but in the beginning, not for me, I had to completely get away from all addicts.” Rehab didn’t work for Rick either, although he considered it a great vacation. “When my supervisors at work found out I had a problem, I would manipulate the system into paying for me to go to high-end rehabs. I saw it as a vacation and a detox, so that when I got out, I could get high on less!” But it wasn’t a joke. He eventually lost his jobs, his wife and his kids. In time, Rick got “tired of being tried of being tired”. He felt he would die if he didn’t change. He had gone to church before, but never felt that he was worthy of even being in church. “Then I realized, we all have problems, and I began to pray.” There are many paths to addiction recovery, and Rick’s is through God. “When I gave it to God, I found I could keep my strength to stay sober. Even more important, I could begin to forgive myself.” When he was able to accept God, 12-step was easy. Rick does not drag out or defend his past. He feels that his job now is to serve his community. “If you give back, you receive. That’s the straight truth.” Rick started a drug and alcohol program at his church that still thrives, but he does not work with the program today. “It’s too painful for me. I still need to be away from people who are using.” Rick also gives credit to The United Way. “As long as I proved that I went every week, they paid for my therapy. They are a great resource. Between church and therapy, I survived my disease.” Rick even has his children back in his life now. Rick’s advice to parents and to addicts is “Never give up and keep the faith. Keep fighting and praying.” He advises parents not to support the addiction. “As soon has a parent notices, act fast! Try a 30 day program and if that does not work try a year.” “Everybody needs healing. I hope this helps,” offers Rick. Let’s help each other Through the Scary. Please share your successes. Contact me at Laura.Newman8888@gmail.com.

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Another brick in the wallow I’ve missed countless opportunities because I fail to speak up in the moment. A pretty girl smiles at me on the bus. Ten minutes later, I’ll wish I’d stayed on the bus and struck up a conversation. The same thing happens with business opportunities. At the critical moment I need to act, I go into a fog of some kind, weighing my options. Much later, I’ll realize that gold was put in my lap, and I’ll endure a lot of shame from not being present enough to recognize that. I’m all man when I have a girlfriend (which I don’t now) and will do anything to make her feel secure. But because of my problem with seizing opportunity, I’m much lonelier than I need to be. I’m realizing that I’m an irretrievable mental defective. You’ve heard that 80 ptercent of success is just showing up? Well, the other 20 percent is not acting like you got glued to the toilet seat shortly afterward. You diagnose yourself: “I’m an irretrievable mental defective.” Um, no—probably just a drama queen with risk aversion jets set a little high. You freezing in the face of opportunity is probably due to an “approachavoidance conflict,” a type of inaction-producing psychological stress that occurs when an opportunity has both positive and negative aspects that make it simultaneously appealing and off-putting. For example, with the girl on the bus, there’s a possible date versus a possible rejection. The closer and more possible the opportunity the larger the negative aspects loom. This leads to indecision and, in turn, inaction. When you have some distance—say, a few hours after you get off the pretty girl express bus—the positive aspects take center stage, and going for it seems the thing to do. Only then, this no longer takes a nervous “hello” across the bus aisle; you need one of those “missed connection” ads and $3,000 for a private detective. You need to practice opportunity-spotting and preplan what you’ll do when it knocks so you won’t respond like a bratty preteen girl: “Go away! Nobody’s home. I hate you!” Recognizing opportunity takes knowing your goals. Articulate them, and then identify five opportunities a day and seize at least two of them. This requires simply taking action despite your indecision. Assuming you aren’t weighing the opportunity to blow through a bunch of stop signs, what are the likely damages? Step back and do a little cost-benefit analysis. If, say, you’d talked to the girl on the bus, worst-case scenario, she might’ve glared back at you, giving you an ouchie in the ego for what, 10 minutes? Doing nothing

leaves you with lasting regret, shame, and self-loathing. Doing nothing repeatedly should help you get a headstart on becoming a bitter old man, thanks to all the years you’ve invested standing near the ladder of success yet never once having a woman in a bikini shinny down and hand you a mai tai.

Sum girls Why does my girlfriend say she loves me more than I love her? There’s no anger behind it; she says it teasingly. But it’s making me uncomfortable and a little annoyed. I’m beginning to wonder whether I love her enough. I mean, I thought I did. “I love you more than you love me!” is just the thing to say to a boyfriend—if you want him to take you in his arms so he can look over your shoulder for your replacement. The problem with the subtext—“You know, you could probably do better”—is the “principle of least interest,” sociologist Willard Waller’s 1938 theory that the relationship partner who is less emotionally invested calls the shots. Even if that less committed partner isn’t an exploitative creep, he’s likely to get his way in ways he wouldn’t in a more equal partnership, and Waller felt this didn’t bode well for the relationship. Current research supports this. Social psychologist Susan Sprecher, for example, found that unequally involved partners were less satisfied with their relationship and more likely to break up. If you aren’t already eyeing the door, ask your girlfriend whether there’s a problem—maybe something she needs that she isn’t getting from you. If she’s just playfully needling you, tell her you need her to stop. It’s OK, in a relationship, to ask that a phrase or two be a no-go zone. This “I love you more than you love me!” business, for example, is a cousin of the lose-lose question, “Do I look fat in this dress?” There is a right response to that question, and it isn’t “Yes, come to think of it,” “No!” or “No, you look like a cow landing with the world’s largest parachute”; it’s hiring somebody to be there to clock you with a tire iron before you can answer. Ω

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a

good feeling about your relationship with intimacy in the coming weeks. Judging from the astrological omens, I think you will have a good instinct about how to drum up interesting fun with your most important allies. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll just naturally know what to do to make your collaborative efforts synergistic. So, by all means, cash in on this potential. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just sit back and hope for the best; rather, call on your imagination to provide you with original ideas about how to make it all happen.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Would you

be willing to go to extraordinary lengths to transform aspects of your life that you have felt are hard to transform? Now would be a good time to do that. Luck will flow your way if you work on healing your No. 1 wound. Unexpected help and inspiration will appear if you administer tough love to any part of you thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s addicted, immature or unconscious. Barriers will crumple if you brainstorm about new ways to satisfy your frustrated yearnings.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I bet your

normal paranoia levels will decline in the coming weeks. Fears you take for granted wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make nearly as much sense as they usually seem to. As a result, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be tempted to wriggle free from your defense mechanisms. Useful ideas that your mind has been closed to may suddenly tantalize your curiosity. I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be surprised if you start tuning into catalysts that had previously been invisible to you. But here are my questions: Can you deal with losing the motivational force that fear gives you? Will you be able to get inspired by grace and pleasure rather than anxiety and agitation? I advise you to work hard on raising your trust levels.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes

people have nothing to say because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re too empty,â&#x20AC;? writes author Yasmin Mogahed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And sometimes people have nothing to say because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re too full.â&#x20AC;? By my reckoning, Cancerian, you will soon be in the latter category. A big silence is settling over you as new amusements and amazements rise up within you. It will be understandable if you feel reluctant to blab about them. They need more time to ripen. You should trust your impulse to remain a secret and a mystery for a while.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Insight is not a light

bulb that goes off inside our heads,â&#x20AC;? says author Malcolm Gladwell. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.â&#x20AC;? Take that as a constructive warning, Leo. On the one hand, I believe you will soon glimpse quite a few new understandings of how the world works and what you could do to make it serve you better. On the other hand, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to be extra alert for these new understandings and committed to capturing them the moment they pop up. Articulate them immediately. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re alone, talk to yourself about them. Maybe even write them down. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just assume you will be able to remember them perfectly later when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more convenient.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): After a storm,

British wildlife lover Gary Zammit found a baby heron cowering in a broken nest. Its parents were dead. Zammit took the orphan under his wing. He named it Dude, and cared for it as it grew. Eventually, he realized that Dude was never going to learn to fly unless he intervened. Filling his pockets full of the food that Dude loved, Zammit launched a series of flying lessonsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;waving his arms and squawking as he ran along a flat meadow that served as a runway. Dude imitated his human dad, and soon mastered the art of flight. Can you see ways in which this story might have metaphorical resemblances to your own life, Virgo? I think it does. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for your mind to teach your body an instinctual skill or self-care habit that it has never quite gotten right.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The desire

for revenge is a favorite theme of the entertainment industry. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presented as being glamorous and stirring and even noble. How many action films build their plots around the hero seeking payback against his enemies? Personally, I see revenge as one of the top three worst emotions. In real life, it rarely has redeeming value. People who actively express it often wreak pain and ruin on both others and themselves. Even those who merely stew in it may wound themselves by doing so. I bring this up, Scorpio, because now is an excellent time for you to shed desires for revenge. Dissolve them, get rid of them, talk yourself out of indulging in them. The reward for doing so will be a great liberation.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Just for a few days, would you be willing to put your attention on the needs of others more than on your own? The weird thing is, your selfish interests will be best served by being as unselfish and empathetic and compassionate as you can stand to be. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean that you should allow yourself to be abused or taken advantage of. Your task is to express an abundance of creative generosity as you bestow your unique blessings in ways that make you feel powerful. In the words of theologian Frederick Buechner, you should go â&#x20AC;&#x153;to the place where your deep gladness and the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deep hunger meet.â&#x20AC;?

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Imagine a scenario like this: The CEOs of five crazily rich U.S. corporations, including a major defense contractor, stage a press conference to announce that in the future they will turn down the massive welfare benefits and tax breaks the federal government has been doling out to them all these years. Now, picture this: The pope issues a statement declaring that since Jesus Christ never had a single bad word to say about homosexuals, the Catholic Church is withdrawing its resistance to gay rights. I am envisioning a comparable reversal in your life, Capricornâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a flip-flop that seems equally improbable. But unlike the two I named, yours will actually unfold in the course of the next eight months. If it hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t already started yet, it soon will.

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

Ricci was an Italian Jesuit priest who lived from 1552 to 1610. For his last 28 years, he worked as a missionary in China. Corresponding with his friends and family back home required a lot of patience. News traveled very slowly. Whenever he sent out a letter, he was aware that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be no response for seven years. What would you express about your life right now if you knew your dear ones wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t learn of it until 2017? Imagine describing to them in an old-fashioned letter what your plans will be between now and then; what you hope to accomplish and how you will transform yourself. Right now is an excellent time to take inventory of your long-term future.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The cosmos

is granting you a poetic license to practice the art of apodyopsis with great relish. You know what apodyopsis is, right? It refers to the act of envisioning people nakedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;mentally undressing them so as to picture them in their raw state. So, yes, by all means, Pisces, enjoy this creative use of your imagination without apology. It should generate many fine ramifications. For instance, it will prime you to penetrate beneath the surface of things. It will encourage you to see through everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social masks and tune in to whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really going on in their depths. You need to do that right now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): For four days

twice a year, the East China Sea recedes to create a narrow strip of land between two Korean islands, Jindo and Modo. People celebrate the Jindo Sea-Parting Festival by strolling back and forth along the temporary path. The phenomenon has been called

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the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Korean version of Mosesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; miracle,â&#x20AC;? although itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more reasonably explained by the action of the tides. I foresee some sweet marvel akin to this one occurring in your life very soon, Libra. Be ready to take advantage of a special dispensation.

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Party man Andrew W.K.

Absolutely. None of these tour dates are lecture dates, but those are always coming up. We had to reschedule some, but I’ve spoken at some colleges and universities and some freestanding venues, and now that school’s back in, I look forward to doing some more speeches.

Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Andrew W.K. is known for his upbeat, relentlessly positive, ecstatic rock music and his unusual personal philosophy, epitomized by his 2001 hit “Party Hard.” His Reno show will be at the Holland Project on Oct. 19. For more information go to www.hollandreno.org.

For your tour right now, the Party Messiah Tour, you’re doing solo shows with keyboards? The majority of the shows on the Party Messiah Tour are, as you said, a very special solo show, which I recently did, a few months ago, more on the East Coast and really enjoyed that. People seemed to have fun, so we extended it and added more dates on the West Coast. I’m also playing a few shows with my band—like tomorrow, we’re playing in Chicago. But yes, the show that I’m bringing to Reno is the special solo show. I’ll have my keyboard and my drum machine and of course a microphone. I’ll be playing songs off all my albums. It’s just a very more intimate, intense, up close and personal show where I really feel like the audience becomes my band.

The venue you’re playing here is the Holland Project. I don’t know the capacity, but it’s not

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super big. Are you choosing more intimate venues for this tour? We tried to pick venues that allow the most close interaction with the folks that are coming to the party, rather than having folks far away and behind barricades. We really tried to pick places that really feel more like you’re in a room, and you’re not watching performance, you’re hanging out, celebrating and partying with people in a really interactive way.

Is this the first time you’ve played in Reno? This is the second time, and I remember the first time really, really well. It was at an outdoor festival called Dot Fest, put on by a radio station there [KDOT]. It was one of my favorite shows we’ve ever done in terms of the feeling in the air and the time we had in Reno. For whatever reason, it was really memorable and a really good feeling. We’ve been wanting to get back there for a long time, and I’m excited to bring a different kind of show and see what happens.

Back at square one One of the realities I’ve been reminded of lately, while laying in hammocks and reflecting upon both the Big and Little Pictures, is just how often “They” have lied to me, “They” being (1) the powers that be, (2) the government, (3) the media, (4) multi-national corporations, and (5) all the sinister old fat cats who yank the strings of the first four from their ivory towers, island strongholds and black helicopters. Just for starters, “They” lied to me about Vietnam, Iraq, the safety of above ground nuclear bomb tests, marijuana, LSD, Christopher Columbus, How the West Was Won, and how using a certain deodorant would guarantee the procurement of highly desirable sex partners. They have been lying to me, in other words, since about first grade. So sooner or later, it’s inevitable I ask—did “They” also lie to me about this dude Jesus? In June, a book came out called Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. Initially, it made more news for a silly encounter that took place on Fox News than for the book itself. That was unfortunate, because the silly OPINION

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I just talk about partying for the most part. It’s a pretty open format. It’s a lot of questions and answers, a lot of conversation, and a chance for me to ask questions of other folks. It’s just another way to get to that place of excitement, hopefully. Music works, talking can work. I’m trying to use many different modes and ways to get this exciting feeling across.

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to have radiation that avoided that. She continued to work and live her daily life, but she did have a partial mastectomy. Eight years later, she was scheduled for a bone marrow biopsy for lymphoma, and she told her doctor that she had felt another breast lump. “He removed the tumor and told me he had good news and bad news,” Barton said. “The good news was that my bone marrow was fine, but I had breast cancer again.” This time she had to have chemotherapy, and one of her worst fears came true—she lost her hair. “It is bad enough to lose your breasts, but to lose your hair on top of it makes it all real,” she said. “I was sitting at my desk, and a handful of hair would just fall out into my hands.”

Her positive attitude, close friends and loving husband helped her through everything she would overcome after the reoccurrence. Her husband went to every treatment, every reconstruction, and was her rock. After hearing the news about her hair, he drove her to the mall, took her to a jewelry store and bought her a past, present, future diamond ring. “It is really hard on the person who has cancer, but it is even harder on the family because there isn’t really a lot they can do for you,” Barton said. Her friend Dana was holding her hand when she woke up from a total mastectomy, and helped soothe her with the words, “Everything is temporary, and it gets better.” Dr. Brian Juell’s, M.D., F.A.C.S., main focus is just that—it gets better. Juell is a general surgeon who is well regarded for his work with conditions of the breast. He is the current director for Renown’s Breast Cancer Center and a member of the American Society of Breast Surgeons. “We are very successful in treating patients with breast cancer,” Juell said. “There are about 400,000 women that develop breast cancer each year as a new diagnosis, and we successfully treat at least 70 percent of those patients.” Breast cancer is a malignancy that starts in the breast and can spread depending on its stage. Juell said that 1 in 8 women develop breast cancer in their life, and it is more common in 50 to 70 year old women. Breast cancer develops differently than other cancers because it can grow to a fairly large size before obtaining the ability to spread. This makes awareness essential to catching the cancer in the early stages so it’s curable. Women should look for any unusual mass on the breast, redness and unusual drainage from the nipple, or deformity on the skin. However, it isn’t always this easy. “We try to encourage women who are in vulnerable age groups to have screening tests by either a physician or a mammogram,” Juell said. “On a mammogram, we can find a tumor as small as a few millimeters in diameter whereas you cannot possibly feel that.”

Most cancers Juell discovers through screening are early stage cancers where treatment is primarily surgical. Other treatments include chemotherapy, hormonal manipulation and radiation. One treatment that Juell is looking to bring to Reno is Radio Frequency Inflation. This is a way of using high frequency sound waves or radio waves to heat the tissue and kill it with a “microwave treatment.” Genetics do play a significant role in the susceptibility of breast cancer for certain individuals who have a family history of cancer. For example, Angelina Jolie made headlines when she made the decision to have both breasts removed because her mother died from breast cancer at a young age. “BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes and other genetic defects can be identified through genetic testing,” Juell said. “We like to test patients and look at their history to give them the opportunity to subject to periodical screening, or in some cases like Jolie’s, have a double mastectomy to reduce the risk.” For Juell, it is all about talking with patients. He was drawn to this aspect of general surgery because he wanted to be the kind of doctor that spent time with patients and supported them. At Renown, there are programs for patients that focus on survivorship. “The fact that there are so many women who beat this type of cancer is critical to helping patients go back to enjoying their life without that constant fear of reoccurrence,” Jeull said. “It gives patients hope, and in a bleak period in their lives it is important for them to be optimistic.” For Barton, her experience helped her to live every day to its fullest and to not take things for granted. When her husband retires in February, they will hike, golf and fish in Hawaii, or if they don’t feel like doing anything, they won’t. “When patients see you doing well it really does give them hope,” Barton said. For more inF ormation on B rian Juell, m . D. , F. a.C. S. , v iSit w w w. premiereSurgiCal. net.

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RepRoductive he alth infoRmation and seRvices Jill Anderson works on various projects and programs in the Reno area to educate people about reproductive health topics as an employee of Planned Parenthood.

What do you do here? I’m a community health educator and the lead Teen Success facilitator.

What does that entail? The community health education part means that I provide community health education, usually sexual health education. As part of that, we have a weekly program where we go up to Job Corps and provide their students with general sexual health education—healthy relationships, anatomy, kind of like the basics. I’ve also been involved in several other community health programs throughout the four years that I worked here, including Street Smart programs, and most of these programs are aimed at youth. We also have a program called Someone Else’s Shoes that I do,

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which is a program to help provide— basically, the focus of that program is on teen pregnancy prevention. And so it’s a program that we provide to different venues. We’ve done it for high schools, middle schools, college-age level, and it talks about teen pregnancy and its impact on the community and what we can do to best support teen moms to be successful, and also what we can do to help prevent unwanted and unplanned teen pregnancy. And then on the Teen Success facilitation side of it, the Teen Success group is a support group for pregnant and parenting teen moms, and the two main goals of that group are to help teen moms maintain their family size until after they graduate high school and also complete their high school education. That’s a really successful program. We’re really proud of that. In the general population, teen moms have a repeat pregnancy 20 percent of the time in Nevada, and girls who are members of Teen Success, only 1 to 2 percent have a repeat pregnancy. So that’s really successful. And as far as high school graduation rate, the high

school graduation rate for teen moms in the general population is 50 percent and of girls who are involved in the Teen Success program, there’s a 98 percent graduation rate from high school or getting their GED. … We do sometimes offer one-onone kind of like mini lessons ... for people who are interested in that—it’s usually for youth or children—but primarily, we do kind of like group programs. ... They kind of vary a little bit. Some are like ongoing multisession groups with an education focus. Some of the programs that we do, like my colleague does a lot of programming with UNR and TMCC, so he’ll go in and he’ll do one-off kind of sessions of general sexual education, topics around sexuality, how to talk to your kids about sex, that kind of a thing. That’s also what Someone Else’s Shoes program is, it’s a one-off program. And then the Teen Success program is an ongoing support group, so members come weekly to that group. Those are kind of the basics. Sometimes we also do other one-off sessions because community agencies will contact us and say, “Hey, we want someone to come and talk to social workers and psychologists and mental health professionals about how a person’s sexuality and sexual health can affect their mental health.” That’s a program that we’re putting together for NNAMHS (Northern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services) over on Galletti.

What are some of the things you talk about in a typical education program or session? It kind of varies depending on the program. For the Teen Success program we focus on goal setting, parenting skills and child development, healthy relationships, decision-making, sexual health and that kind of thing. And then the ¡Cuidate! program is aimed at a younger crowd and talks a lot about anatomy, puberty, birth control, including abstinence and STIs. Those are usually the main focus of our education programs— anatomy and sexual health, birth control, including abstinence and STIs. We also have a parents talk program where we talk to parents about how to talk to their kids about sex and sexual health at different ages. We totally have a wide range of topics. Sometimes we do a condom demonstration and condom negotiation—

when to talk about condoms, how to bring it up, reasons to use condoms, why it’s important, that kind of thing. At the Teen Success group, we also do a cooking class so we talk about nutrition and general health, too.

What’s your favorite part of your job here? Oh gosh. That’s a pretty tough question. I really like a lot of the programs that we do here. I think probably my favorite part is the Teen Success program. It’s one that I’ve been involved in pretty intimately and like heavily since I started working here. I just really enjoy the opportunity to get to work with young moms. It’s very motivating. It’s really inspiring just to be able to give them a safe space to come and have a nonjudgmental experience and being with other teen moms and getting to work with adult mentors, it’s pretty amazing. We do like a cooking class once a quarter, and we also have a scholarship opportunity for girls in that program. So we have a scholarship luncheon once a year, and that’s also like a really amazing opportunity for them. This year the girls did an amazing job. We had seven recipients of the scholarship and so that was a great time just at that luncheon.

What would be some of your advice for the general population about reproductive health? October is “Let’s Talk” month, so like talking to your kids about sexual health and kind of being able to start doing that. Studies have found that parents have a really big influence on how kids relate to sex and sexuality and their own experience with it. And so kids who have parents who are able and willing to talk to them and give them medically accurate information that’s age appropriate in kind of an environment that’s open and nonjudgmental, so that kids get to kind of generally get to explore, “Hey, this is what I’m hearing on the playground. Is that true?” I think that that’s some excellent advice that it’s especially important for parents to talk to their kids. One thing that I’ve found in doing sexual health education is that kids really are curious about sex and sexuality and sexual

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I think just like knowing that the services are available is really an important part of keeping the community as a whole healthier and safer and also knowing that it’s available in a judgment-free environment. So if someone were to come in and say they haven’t had a pap smear in five years or something, I think there can sometimes be some shame associated with that or like, “Oh no, I haven’t done this.” So Planned Parenthood is a good place to come to where you’re not going to get that kind of reaction. We just want you to come in and be healthy. We want the services to be as affordable as possible and available to anybody who wants them.

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round the country, adolescents are growing up in a whirlwind of vigorous change. This is both a blessing and a curse in modern society; allowing for some individuals the opportunity of choice, and for others, a padlock of unrelenting judgment. This can most evidently be seen in the rise, fall, rise again, fall again of sexual knowledge and acceptance. Two questions have been asked throughout modern history: Should Americans have access to information about sex and sexual health? How much information should they have? Christopher Daniels, a community health educator and outreach specialist for Planned Parenthood, questions the existence of a limit on the amount of information people should have. “Talking and asking questions about our sexual health can be awkward,” Daniels said. “And with rampant misinformation trolling the internet, it is crucial to have a space where anyone—men, women, teens, gay, straight, bisexual and transgender individuals—can get the answers they need.” “Sexual health and responsibility are the basis for intimate relationships, happy families and having healthy children. Proper sex education allows people to make informed decisions and choices about their sexual and reproductive health.”

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In a state with the fourth highest pregnancy rate in America, it’s important to have a sanctuary where people from all walks of life can go for information and support. “The goal of Planned Parenthood is to provide a safe space where people can receive medically accurate and age appropriate information,” he explained. “Free of judgment or stigma.” The opposition to this view, however, is that by educating young adults in sexual responsibility we are mass-producing an intimately indiscriminate and downright promiscuous youth. Since the dawn of the Common Era, there has been a desire to hide human sexuality. Planned Parenthood’s methods and morals have been under scrutiny for just as long as the organization has existed. To these questions, Daniels says accuracy is key: “Misinformation and lies breed paranoia. People are afraid that a proper sex education bill will promote sex among youth, normalize members of the LGBT community and throw abstinence to the wind.” A sex education bill passed on a 26-15 party line vote in the Nevada Assembly, but later failed in the Senate. The bill would have replaced a 30-year-old sex education program implemented in schools grade eight and above, but would also have enacted unrelated fields of study.

“This bill would have updated and standardized the sex education system across the state,” Daniels said. Currently in the United States, only 22 states and the District of Columbia require schools to include sexual education in their curriculum. Of these, only 19 mandate that all information must be medically, factually and technically accurate. The most recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) survey indicated that more than 47 percent of all high school students say they have had sex and 15 percent said they have had sex with four or more partners during their lifetime. Among students who had sex in the three months prior to the survey, 60 percent reported condom use and 23 percent reported birth control pill use during their last sexual encounter. “There is a battle that exists between parents and schools over who is responsible for educating our youth about sex,” he said. “This battle halts progress.” Sexual and reproductive health standards are always changing, but sex education has not. Recently, Nevada became the 16th highest for STD’s based on countrywide surveys. Still, though, many schools are teaching abstinence as the only option. “Programs need to be culturally appropriate,” Daniels said. “Sensitive to gender, sexual orientation, social class, etc. They cannot be one size fits all.” Planned Parenthood is doing everything in its ability to stay on the cutting edge of information, according to Daniels, including special workshops and classes designed to help different demographics. “¡Cuidate!” is one of these programs, which is customized for Latina women ages 1317 with an emphasis on pregnancy prevention. They also have programs focusing on helping teen parents complete high school and maintain their family size and educating parents on how to discuss sex and reproductive health with their children. “What could be more important than educating our youth about the consequences—both good and bad—of sex and equip our populace with the tools necessary to make responsible sexual decisions?” he said. Daniels believes the importance of reproductive health and sexual awareness goes far beyond just educating high school students on STDs and unplanned pregnancy, however. “Honesty is critical and essential in sexual health. Honestly communicating one’s wants and needs in a relationship results in a healthier, more equitable partnership. Much of the stigma surrounding sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancy would be eliminated if we were honest with our doctors, with our partners, and with ourselves. If we honestly admitted and openly faced the problems facing our country, our community, whether it’s teen pregnancy, health care, or STD prevalence, we can begin to properly address and solve these issues.”

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xperimentation could be the most popular college subject. Being on the cusp of an emerging adulthood manipulates one’s behavior in surprising ways. Maybe it was the cheap beer in the signature red party cup. Maybe he was carrying your books to class. It could have been the scent of the girl who sits in front of you in sociology. The forces of nature tend to take control in the college years. Fortunately, students have a home for the growing pains. No parental consent necessary. The Student Health Center is on the University of Nevada, Reno’s north campus area in the Redfield building on the medical school campus. They provide care for students that varies from immunizations to radiology. Enid Jennings, a health educator for the University of Nevada, Reno, decided there weren’t enough opportunities for check-ups in the down-there zone. It seemed like an excellent time to increase free testing periods. “We used to do free STD testing once a semester,” Jennings says. “But we piloted once a week testing last semester which was fairly successful, so now it’s once a week, always tailoring to students, always free on some level.” Jennings proved there was a real need for an increase of STD awareness. A consistent number of students showed once a week (ranging from

18 to 20 students) in the two-hour time period in which free testing was offered. However, there remains a number of students hesitant to take that step, so the health center encourages awareness starting from the very beginning of the college cycle. “We present on the importance of sexual health during orientation,” she said. “It’s really important that students understand that most STDs go untreated and there are serious consequences to this.” A wide array of STDs are spread on campus. The most common is HPV, human papillomavirus, which has been proven the major cause of cervical cancer. HIV, human immunodeficiency virus, is rarely diagnosed. Students are usually fairly intimidated when confronted with questions on sexual history, however there is no shame in blushing. “My advice would be not to be nervous,” Jennings says. “There are no stigmas here, it’s just another piece of health.” Soon the cause will come full circle. Next semester, students will run the program, answering questions for their fellow students undergoing the tests. Training is happening now with big hopes for the future. “We are adding a peer education to the program,” Jenning exerts. “It will literally be student to student.” F o r mo r e i n For mati on on the Stu den t h e a lt h C e n ter , vi S i t w w w.u n r .edu/ShC.

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