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Moving on up

Where is the drive?

Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

We’re moving the office over to Marsh Street. I barely remember the last time we moved. I do remember somebody waited until we were packed up and ready to go before they stole our computers.

I can’t recall the whole story— maybe they just got our design computer or something.

I suspected I knew who it was, but I didn’t have proof enough to do anything about it. I also kind of assumed karma would get him in the end. Karma, of course, is its own reward. He wouldn’t have been weasely enough to steal computers if he hadn’t been a greasy, untrustable little phlegmdoodle all his life anyway.

Funny the things you think about when you’re moving. We’ve been in this building 18 years or so. I’m throwing out some stuff that I didn’t even throw away when I left to become a freelancer in 2000. I guess I’m rehearsing for the next time I leave.

I’m donating books that I haven’t opened in 15 years to the Washoe County Library, and I took some up to the grad student library at the journalism school. Maybe someone in this new generation that doesn’t use books will find something useful about them— pictures of smoky newsrooms with typewriters and hot waxers to use for clip art.

The new place will be cool for consumption. The Brewer’s Cabinet and 1864 are within crawling distance for Friday nights. Even lunchtime will be better, with Newman’s and the Rubicon deli inside a stone’s throw. And you know the best thing? I won’t have to drive around those road closures for Hot August Nights or Street Vibrations or the Scamps, Tramps and CeilingLamps weekly special events downtown.

I’m not exactly sure why we’re moving. I think the general feeling is that the neighborhood has deteriorated since we got here. I think the deterioration started when the landlord installed the astroturf on our front lawn. I’ve done my job from mountain trails and deserts and gay bars in foreign countries; I guess I’ll do it from my standup desk with its task lighting on Marsh Street.

In my view, America has missed an opportunity to lead by telling itself it is the best in every competitive field without doing the work. America has grown lazy. In the days of my youth, I can remember watching Bruce Jenner and other athletic greats breaking records and achieving Gold medals in the Olympics. This year, I didn’t hear much about the Olympics.

I didn’t watch the Olympics. All I heard about was Russia’s anti-gay policies. Kids used to dream of the Olympics as a final destination, like the climber dreams of reaching the top of Mount Everest. This is one example of how America settles in and accepts mediocre.

Part of what makes greatness is the drive, the hunger within a person to achieve. It drives them in obsessive compulsive ways to overcome the everyday mediocre and stand among the select few icons in America. I have read books written by American writers, watched American athletes, and listened to American educators, but I have not heard that resounding voice coming from our nation that lifts spirits and produces greatness. I have heard complaints about working conditions, living conditions, hours, pay, lack of jobs, health care, benefits, overspending, gluttony etc.

When I was growing up, we did things because they were expected, because they were the right thing to do, because that is what we are supposed to do. We couldn’t afford much and didn’t expect much. We never owned $100 video games. We knew if we wanted something we would have to work for it. All my clothes came from Goodwill. I can remember the first pair of Levi’s I purchased new for $20. To this day, that is burned in my memory. Doing good things, doing the right things, is what makes us great. It isn’t the pay that makes us great. Every day that I wake up, I look down at the quilt my grandmother made from scraps of material she collected. She handstitched every little square into place.

She did not use a sewing machine for any of it. She had arthritis, but she

was determined to make something great for my mom, and she did. She didn’t do it for pay. This blanket is a treasure. Some people may see it as a waste of time, because they can buy a blanket. But, it wouldn’t be the quality of my grandmother’s quilt.

She was from the generation of hard workers. Is it a lost talent?

Patricia Pearson North Las Vegas

Winners don’t pay Time magazine published an article this week exposing the fact that $1 million dollars in bonuses was paid out to IRS employees who owed back taxes. I’m pretty sure if I owed back taxes the IRS would be knocking on my door and threatening to garnish my wages.

Why are IRS employees treated differently? It seems the all too familiar reason is that they work for the government and the government treats “their own” differently. If you are ever audited by the IRS—you are guilty until proven innocent and often the best course of action is to simply roll over and pay whatever they ask.

That’s state sponsored extortion. It doesn’t matter if you are right or not—it will cost you more in time and money to try to prove you are right. With a tax code approaching 80,000 pages that’s pretty much impossible.

It is time to eliminate the IRS and the oppressive income tax and switch to something that is simple, fair and visible. Something that is easy to administer, easy to comply with and difficult to cheat. That solution is the FairTax. A national retail sales tax with no tax on the basic necessities of life. No IRS, no income tax and millions of new jobs.

James R. Donnell Cameron Park, Calif.

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Philip Galbraith Reno Editor’s note: For those who don’t get the joke, this letter is a reference to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that an anonymous accusation is enough reason for police to search your property.

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Re “Two degrees of devastation” (Letters to the Editor, Jan. 24): Jan Freed stated in her letter to the editor that “many of us know the bitter taste of the weird weather

—D. Brian Burghart

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It’s the end of the world

Home is where the heart is

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their pets also considered homeless?

I thought the goal is “no more homeless pets.”

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out there, with just current warming of .8 deg C.” The many sources of panicking agencies you listed are disputed by other climatologists and other scientists. In the 1970s, the prediction was for another ice age, which didn’t arrive just as the predictions for an increase in temperature are predictions not likely to arrive.

However, the most important point she is trying to make by tying the Keystone pipeline to subsequent increases in the Earth’s temperature is flawed in a major way by assuming that if the pipeline can be stopped then all will be well. The simple fact is that whether the pipeline is built or not, the oil that would be transported through it will simply be transported in another fashion. Trucks and railroad tank cars will be used and they are certainly more dangerous. The truth is that no matter what is done, the oil will be burned somewhere in the world, and no change it possible pollution will occur. Pipelines have always been safer than any other form of oil transportation.

Fred Speckmann Reno

Open Yucca Re “Nuke advocate attacks Obama” (Upfront, April 17): I am a supporter of President Obama, but I am very unhappy with the political move on his part to shut down the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository project. Not only unhappy for throwing away the mountain of taxpayer money, but to ignore the scientific validity of this incredibly needed site, for what looks to me as a very poor political agreement that has not born much fruit, if any! The non-action on this one noble effort is as bad as our Congress not getting anything done in a world that needs much “fixing.” We have lost our respect from most of the world on issues like this, and for our propensity to kill thousands of innocent people with unnecessary war.

Rt. Rev. James A. Zinzow Waukesha, Wis.

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Rethink Your Choice.

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Interested in this year’s election?

Asked at the Reno main post office, 2000 Vassar St. Jeff Reidinger Retiree

Yes. I think there are a lot of good candidates. I think there are. I’ve had some by the house and talk with me. Very impressed with that.

Terri Smith Phone banker

Not really, because I’m not happy with the way things are. I don’t know. I really have no idea what they’ll do. I try not to follow politics.

Brittni Grider Student

Put student safety first The University of Nevada, Reno’s tendency to spend tens of millions of dollars on new buildings but not to look out for its students’ basic safety says a lot about its supposed standing as a Tier 1 university.

Remember when J.K. Metzker was killed crossing Virginia Street? After Metzker was run down, it seemed the community finally had the drive to fix the problem, but eventually some inconsequential changes were made, and the university was able to go back to talking about how great it is rather than taking the steps to becoming the thing it claims it already is.

How many students every year get hit or narrowly missed while crossing to and from the university?

A Tier 1 university that is more about using the big brains on campus to solve problems than cleaning out the parents’ big wallets would have fixed this problem decades ago.

True, this would require the city of Reno and the region of Northern Nevada to get on board with the IBM Smarter Cities plan for more collaboration, but we know that if the entities’ hearts were in the right places, this perennial problem would already be—just like the Getchell library—a thing of the past.

The traffic on Evans, Virginia, Sierra and Ninth streets needs to be slowed. Throughout Reno, traffic calming devices have been installed with great success in slowing the traffic down, at least in the specific area where the traffic device is placed. As a public service, the Reno News & Review would

like to suggest that the city of Reno and UNR work together to put every crosswalk that borders and leads to that university onto a speed bump that would rip the axles off anyone who travels faster than 15 miles per hour over it. Evans and Ninth streets could each have a few traffic calming devices installed. North Sierra Street could first go on a road diet and lose a lane, and then have traffic calming devices and raised crosswalk/speed bumps installed in appropriate places.

This is not a difficult problem. In fact, since the city and the university have both said that they want to increase interaction between the two spheres, it seems like a win-win: Make the area more pedestrian friendly, and there just might be more pedestrians.

There are many solutions to this problem, the fact that the city and the school have not gotten together to solve it makes the biggest statement about the quality of the school. “What, the School of Engineering can’t figure this out? Sure, sign me up.”

There’s the answer; now go ahead and just reappropriate some of that building money to a construction project that will help protect students’ lives.

Now if only the Integrated Marketing Department would just get the concept that the word “Nevada” has many meanings, but “UNR” is unique, we’d have a basis to begin talking in the same language and connecting UNR with the city of Reno. Connecting Reno’s business community with the university’s capitol improvement administration has plainly not worked in anyone’s favor. Ω

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I actually haven’t followed it at all.

I’m going to grad school, and I have an undergrad [degree] that I’m working on for public health, so I mean, I’m focused highly on public health policies, but I haven’t been following anything because I’m so focused.

Charles Christmas Lawyer

Always interested in elections. As a nation we have just, as citizens, not paid enough attention, which has given us the kind of officials that we have today, which has given us the kind of government we have today, which has kind of given us this decline in our culture. …

Shame on us for both not running for office and voting as we should.

Ruben Copa Finance company manager

I’m always interested, in looking at the issues. It’s important for all of us to understand what’s going on rather than listening to somebody. Doing your own investigation, you become educated that way and make more intelligent decisions that way.

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Patriotic hypocrisy I want to tell you one thing I know about the Bunkerville rancher.

He’s a freeloader, refusing to pay his fees. Most other cattle ranchers in Nevada do pay. He’s a self-proclaimed patriot who delights in riding his horse waving the flag of his country, while simultaneously by declaring he doesn’t believe in the Sheila Leslie federal government and won’t obey its laws.

His opinion is the one that matters, you see, and if challenged, he’ll rally an armed militia to his side, a militia proud to put its women at the battlefront, to take the government’s bullets first and thus incite America to rise against herself.

He relishes the attention of the national media and if the Battle of Bunkerville is over, well, the rancher will hold the media focus by expounding on his personal beliefs on race, showing the world how profound a thinker the Bunkerville rancher can be.

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Maybe now the rest of America will catch up to his way of thinking and recognize the patriot for who he really is. A fool.

It was only a matter of time before Cliven Bundy would go too far. Last week, as the media attention receded over the failed BLM round-up of the scofflaw’s cows, the rancher vowed to continue dominating the news cycle. He delivered off-the-cuff remarks that were racist and reprehensible, ignorant, and really, quite sad.

Here’s what he told a reporter from the nation’s most prominent newspaper, the New York Times: “I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said, telling a story about driving past subsidized housing in North Las Vegas. “And in front of that government house, the door was usually open and the older people and the kids—and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch—they didn’t have nothing to do.

“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do? They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”

While his prominent supporters from U.S. Sen. Dean Heller to Gov. Brian Sandoval quickly denounced his statements, the welfare cowboy wasn’t through. The next day he held another news conference to explain himself.

“Cliven Bundy’s a-wondering about these people, now I’m talking about the black community, I’m a-wondering. Are they better off with their young women aborting their children, are they better off with their young men in prison, and are they better off with the older people on the sidewalks in front of their government-issued homes?”

Bundy wanted to know if they were “happier than they was when they was in the South in front of their homes with their chickens and their gardens and their children around them and their men having something to do.”

The real question is why Cliven Bundy is so determined to embarrass our state and Nevada’s noble ranching profession by uttering such ridiculous racist views, so far out of the mainstream you can’t even call them stereotypes from another century.

And that wasn’t the last of Bundy’s “a-wondering.” The next day on CNN he held a dead calf in his arms and compared himself to Rev. Martin Luther King.

We can only cringe and take comfort that the nation recognizes him for the buffoon he is and hope Nevada isn’t further tainted by media coverage of his distorted views of reality Nevada is so much better than Cliven Bundy.

But he’s never going to figure that out. Ω

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Pandora’s pinwheels When the BLM rounded up Clevan Bundy’s cattle in the “Battle of Bunkerville” in Clark County, they damaged or destroyed several desert tortoise borrows. The endangered desert tortoise was the ostensible reason why Bundy’s cattle were to be seized. by Brendan Washoe County is desperately Trainor trying conservation strategies to avoid having the Desert Sage Grouse listed on the endangered species list.

Nevada’s Western Energy Portfolio mandates that the state produce 25 percent of its energy by 2025 from renewable sources. Most of the controversy over the mandates has been economic, featuring dueling studies over the economic impacts of renewable energy. Economic impact studies are important, but they are not the stuff that causes folks to storm the barricades. The emotional opposition to large-scale renewable energy is coming not just from libertarians and conservatives, but from other environmentalists, and from local communities impacted by the energy development.

When even green liberals like former Sen. John Kerry block wind farms near wealthy communities, big solar and wind projects are built in wilderness. Wilderness is destroyed as access roads have to be built, damaging the soil and habitat. The land is fenced off and contoured.

This can introduce invasive vegetative species deadly to native plants and animals. Large power lines then have to be strung to get the energy out. Facilities must be built for battery energy storage. Construction and maintenance crews need continual access. Solar panels can be damaged and must be replaced.

Wind power has proven to require more maintenance than expected, as the enormous turbines frequently shear off under the wind pressure or lightening strikes. Electrical fires have occurred as well, causing more damage to wildlife habitat.

This is not counting the environmental damage done during construction of the devices. Solar energy panels require toxic chemicals, and are produced in China, a

developing country with far fewer environmental safeguards than the U.S. Green mandates seldom factor these externalities into their costbenefit analyses.

Once built, large industrial wind and solar farms have proven deadly to animal populations.

Wind turbines have been called the Cuisinarts of the sky as their rotating blades are invisible to birds, bats and insects. Raptors whose eyes focus on prey on the desert or forest floors simply do not see the blades until it is too late. Bats are blind to begin with and their built in sonar can’t save them. The government issues waivers to the large green energy corporations allowing the slaughter that angers nature environmentalists. When the wild flying predators are killed off, rodent and insect populations flourish, unbalancing nature.

Although the effects of wind turbines has been widely publicized, few are aware that the heat generated by solar panel arrays is also deadly to birds and other animals.

Birds that fly too close to the solar heat flux reaching 1,000 degrees literally burn up like shooting stars and are nicknamed “streamers.”

The desert tortoise, which digs its burrows to escape the heat, is adversely affected by the rising temperature of the desert floor around solar panels.

Libertarians oppose government planning to produce specific goals because central planning uses the force of the state rather than voluntary cooperation. Most mainstream historians speak glowingly of the transcontinental railroad claiming it jump started the 19th century national economy. They consider the slaughter of the buffalo herds and Native Americans merely collateral damage. The new transcontinental railroad is the green energy rush.

Like all government subsidized development, it brings unintended consequences to humans, animals and the environment. It is government power, not free market power, which is the worst violator of the environment. Ω

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The Bundy case has helped publicize the low grazing fees charged to ranchers.

Titus answers As we reported earlier, U.S. Rep. John Shimkus of Illinois—whose state contains a half-dozen nuclear power plants—argued in an essay in a Capitol Hill newspaper that by shutting down the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump project for power plant wastes in Nevada, President Obama is violating federal law that instructs the dump “shall” be built (“Nuke advocate attacks Obama,” RN&R, April 17).

Nevada’s U.S. Rep. Dina Titus came back in a subsequent edition of the Hill, charging that what should have been a scientific selection process for the dump was tainted by political interference.

“What started decades ago as a law authorizing the study and selection of two geological depositories suitable for the permanent storage of spent nuclear fuel transformed into politics at its worst,” Titus wrote. “With the passage of the ‘Screw Nevada’ bill in 1987 ... the goal shifted from how to find the best site for storage to how to make the Yucca site adequate. As the years passed, billions of dollars were wasted, and the misguided Yucca project changed from being a geologic depository to a man-made structure with barriers erected to attempt to mitigate the tectonic fault lines that run directly under the mountain, threatening the geohydrology of the area with leaking radioactive waste. The original plan was ill-conceived, and studies conducted over the past few decades clearly illustrate the dangers and costs associated with the project.”

Titus also wrote that “Lake Mead, Red Rock National Conservation Area, Tule Springs archeological site, Desert Wildlife Refuge and numerous other attractions” could be threatened by the dump. She didn’t really address Shimkus’s assertion that the law is not being followed.

Nevada has no nuclear power plants. A detailed account of the “Screw Nevada” legislation can be found in “Screw Nevada,” RN&R, July 21, 2011.

Why give up a good story?

A claim spawned by the Cliven Bundy standoff has been bouncing around the internet. Not surprisingly, it turned out to be false.

The theory was that U.S. Sen. Harry Reid was behind the federal effort to get organic rancher Bundy to stop using swaths of public land for grazing so that it could be used for a Chinese solar energy project promoted by Reid and his son Rory to enrich themselves.

Fostered online, the claim spread like a virus. It made it onto a few mainstream news sites—usually hedged with phrases like “Bundy’s supporters believe.” But it was mostly spread on opinion sites, conservative news sites like World Net Daily and the Washington Times, or by opinion writers, including Brendan Trainor in this newspaper (“The battle of Bunkerville,” April 24). In common internet fashion, they tended to attribute it to each other. (Trainor attributed it to “news reports,” and his column included a link to a Fox News report.) One mainstream reporter checked out the claim—Karoun Demirjian of the Las Vegas Sun. In an April 17 report, she assembled an array of facts that discredited the China tale and another allegation involving a different solar project.

For one thing, she found that the China project site is near Laughlin. Bundy grazes his cattle around Bunkerville. The two communities are 114 miles apart or 177 miles by car. They are separated by the Las Vegas Valley and the cities of Las Vegas and Henderson, the largest and second largest cities in the state.

Snopes, the website that checks out rumors, has also rated the Reid/China claim “false.” A few websites that posted the story as fact without checking it have retracted, including Breitbart.com, but most have left it in place online.

On a different note, in one of his New Yorker “news” reports, comedian Andy Borowitz wrote, “Republican politicians blasted the Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy on Thursday for making flagrantly racist remarks instead of employing the subtler racial code words the G.O.P. has been using for decades. ‘We Republicans have worked long and hard to develop insidious racial code words like ‘entitlement society’ and ‘personal responsibility,’ said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky).”

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Bundy’s example Proposals and strategies sprout in wake of standoff Even if Cliven Bundy ends up losing what he calls his “range war,” he can take some satisfaction in knowing he is by influencing politics.

Dennis Myers After watching a small interest group get their way by using guns, some unlikely groups are emboldened to ask whether they, too, should start packing heat.

And lobby groups are pushing to raise the very low grazing fees charged by the federal government that Bundy refuses to pay.

Then there’s the new life Bundy’s example has given to secession as a concept in the United States, long thought quelled by the Civil War.

“The way the federal grazing system treats taxpayers is criminal.”

Ryan Alexander Taxpayers for Common Sense

Western welfare In an essay in U.S. News & World Report, Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) president Ryan Alexander wrote, “Regardless of his convoluted read of the Nevada Constitution, Bundy owes all of us that tidy sum.

And he should us owe much, much more.” She said that ranchers get an amazing deal on grazing from the federal government compared to fair market value.

“Supposedly, the Bureau of Land Management takes livestock prices, cost of cattle production and private grazing fees into account when setting the fee per head of cattle for grazing on public lands,” she wrote.

“Government data pegs private grazing fees at roughly $18 per animal unit month (which represents the amount of forage [e.g. grass] a cow and her calf need for a month) throughout the West over the past two years. In Nevada, the average private land grazing fee was $15 per animal unit month. Yet this year, the fee for grazing on public land in Nevada and elsewhere is set at $1.35 per animal unit month. … Ranchers already graze cattle on public lands for a steal. Bundy is a crook, but the way the federal grazing system treats taxpayers is criminal as well.”

Alexander said if hearings on the Bundy standoff are held, as proposed

by U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, it will be an opportunity to get the fee issue on the national radar. “The Bundy standoff is just another thing that should bring them [grazing fees] to the top of the agenda,” she told the RN&R. Organizations like TCS and the Center for Biological Diversity in San Francisco—which has sued to get higher grazing fees—believe the fees are part of a web of corporate welfare in the west for ranchers, the lumber industry and mining.

Ranchers say such critics fail to consider the changes ranchers make on the land—pipelines and fences, for instance.

In 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama told the Reno News & Review his position on grazing fees: “We should work towards a reasonable compromise that protects federal land from overgrazing and recovers more of the cost of grazing programs, yet also takes into account the effects on small and medium-sized ranchers.”

As president, Obama did nothing during his first term, but finally proposed a small increase in grazing fees in 2013. His critics suggested his heart wasn’t in it. At the start of his second term, his budget included a $1 increase in grazing fees. “Even with the extra dollar, the fee fails to keep up with inflation,” the Wildlife News argued. Beef magazine, on the other hand, said, “[T]his budget proposal is further proof that this administration does not understand American agriculture.” (Interestingly, the industry publication defended the BLM, which Bundy’s followers demonize.)

The Obama proposal failed in Congress. Grazing fees have now been at the lowest level legally allowable for eight years straight.

My way The “win” scored by Bundy supporters may have been akin to the political strategy employed by a gunman in a liquor store, but it is spurring some odd discussions.

“Should guns at political demonstrations be monopolized by conservatives, or would it benefit leftwing movements to arm themselves, too?” Carl Gibson wrote at the liberal Reader Supported News. In Nevada, he wrote, “Fervent private property rights activists came heavily armed, with AR-15 rifles, plenty of ammunition, and even bullet-proof vests, ready and willing to pull the trigger on the BLM agents if push came to shove. ...

[T]he BLM backed down and allowed Bundy’s cattle to graze on public land for Bundy’s own private profit.”

In Asheville, North Carolina, a resident wrote his local newspaper that armed liberals like himself “would like to invite these right wing pistol packing mommas and papas to join us in showing up with our heavy armor to stop the jackbooted guvmint agencies from shutting down Planned Parenthood and abortion clinics.”

But generally, the notion seems to be a non-starter. While Bundy’s supporters won with guns a victory they have never been able to win at the ballot box, liberals believe that box will take them further than guns.

“It’s romantic to think so, and a part of me wants to say we can match them gun for gun, but it’s just not a winning road to go down,” said Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada director Bob Fulkerson.

He said many of the people he is associated with have participated in protests supporting the Dann sisters— tribal members who assert ownership of much of Nevada land—that could easily have involved gunfire.

“That ended peacefully, but there could easily have been a different outcome and what would that have gotten us?” he asked, suggesting that violence would have set back the cause, not advanced it.

Cutting out On March 23, the Republican caucus of Wisconsin’s 6th congressional district adopted, as a part of its platform, a call for “our right to secede, passing legislation affirming this to the U.S. Federal Government.” The secession plank will also be voted on at the Wisconsin Republican State Convention in May. The Republican Party was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1854 and went on to win the presidency for the first time under Abraham Lincoln, whose election prompted the secession of southern states and the Civil War. According to Green Bay columnist Bill Lueders, when the resolution was discussed, Lincoln was attacked by one delegate and a state senator commented, “Who’d have ever thought you’d be at a Republican function and have to defend Abraham Lincoln?”

Political reporters had difficulty knowing what to make of the development. A column in the state’s Madison Capitol Times ran under the headline, “Secession? Really? Who’s running this GOP show?”

Washington Post political reporter Dana Milbank wrote, “Called the ‘state sovereignty’ resolution, it is driven by the same sentiment that drives Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy to ignore federal law and court orders on grounds that they do not apply in the ‘sovereign state of Nevada’.”

“ It’s just not a winning road to go down.”

Bob Fulkerson Progressive Leadership alliance of nevada.

Milbank suggested the development had been fostered by Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and Sen. Heller encouraging Bundy. He specifically mentioned Heller threatening the Bureau of Land Management for supposedly abusing a “law abiding” rancher who admits breaking the law.

There are two secession organizations operating in California and an Alaska petition calling for secession and reunification with Russia has gathered more than 40,000 signatures in that state. Ω

Another raccoon candidate?

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A few weeks ago, for our annual April Fool’s issue, we “reported” that a rabid raccoon named Patchy had entered the already crowded race to become Reno’s next mayor. Well, apparently Patchy flipped open the manhole cover of local raccoon political aspirations. On the northwest corner of Kietzke Lane and Virginia Street, there’s a campaign sign for Radcliffe Raccoon, yet another raccoon running for local office. One of Radcliffe’s key endorsements is local artist Michael Lucido, whose website is listed at the bottom of the sign. Both raccoons appear to be just as viable and serious as some of the other local candidates.

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MENTALITY WHO IS THIS CLIVEN BUNDY AND WHY ARE ‘PATRIOTS’ LINING UP BEHIND HIM?

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lthough no shots were fired, some pundits are calling the recent standoff between the Bureau of Land Management and supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy “The Battle of Bunkerville” after a town near the confrontation.

On April 5, federal agents and hired cowboys began rounding up Bundy’s cattle.

According to the BLM, Bundy owes more than $1 million in back grazing fees and fines going back to 1993.

The 68-year-old rancher has refused to pay the fees—which he puts at $300,000—because his Mormon family settled in the area in 1877, which predates the creation of the BLM (though it followed both the birth of the state and the Emancipation Proclamation). He contends that the land is his and that the agency and the OPINION

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federal government have no authority over him. Bundy has tested his claim in numerous court cases and has lost every one.

So, after 20 years of discussion, the BLM issued a notice it would impound Bundy’s cattle and proceeded to do so. Many of Bundy’s large family—he has about 70 children and grandchildren—and supporters gathered at his ranch near Bunkerville to resist the roundup.

Over the next few days, some family members were roughed up in skirmishes with federal agents. On April 9, one of them was tasered after he kicked a police dog. The incident was captured on video which went viral after being posted on the internet.

A protest camp was formed the next day and right-wing militiamen and Tea Party activists flooded in by the hundreds, many of them armed and dressed in combat gear.

“It’s not about cows,” said Bundy relative Jack Faught. “It’s about the freedom to make our “a own choices close to home.”

One protestor told mENtalitY” Fox News his militia group was planning to put women in the continued on front lines if violence page 14

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broke out, a plan he later attributed to the women. By some accounts continued from as many as a page 13 thousand protestors left the designated “Free Speech” areas and advanced on the BLM encampment.

On April 12, the BLM blinked.

“Based on conditions on the ground, and in consultation with law enforcement, we have made a decision to conclude the cattle gather because of our serious concern about the safety of employees and members of the public,” BLM Director Neil Kornze said in a statement.

The announcement came just one week before the 21st anniversary of the federal assault that ended the 51-day standoff between followers of the Branch Davidians and authorities in Waco, Texas, that resulted in 76 fatalities.

Conditions continued to deteriorate as protesters blocked off a portion of Interstate 15 and closed in on the corral where 400 of Bundy’s 900 cattle were being held. The confrontation was diffused when the BLM released the cattle and withdrew its personnel.

However, the BLM said it was not through with Bundy, promising it would seek a solution “administratively and judicially” and intended to pursue court action.

An obscure Nevada rancher until now, Bundy suddenly became the darling of right wing groups and conservative commentators nation wide.

“My statement to the American people: I’ll do whatever it takes to gain our liberties and freedom back,” Bundy told conservative television host Sean Hannity during the standoff.

Bundy declared victory over the BLM and called on county sheriffs across the country to disarm federal bureaucrats. But if it was a victory remains to be seen. Some see the incident as having very dangerous implications in the growing anti-government movement among right wing extremists.

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The SagebruSh rebellion The federal government owns a substantial amount of land in 13 Western states. More than 80 percent of Nevada belongs to the government so most ranchers’ cattle graze on public land.

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majority of ranchers comply with these grazing rules, which are enforced by the BLM. The Sagebrush Rebellion began in the 1970s as a reaction to the growing environmental movement which caused federal agencies to begin a national wilderness assessment. The rebels believed that the land should be returned to the states for grazing, mining and other resource extraction activities.

They were initially supported by then candidate Ronald Reagan who declared himself a rebel. Conservative congressmen introduced legislation to return public land to the states but these went nowhere.

The rebellion simmered throughout the next few decades with occasional flare ups when a rancher would refuse to pay grazing fees and even one incident when a fertilizer bomb was planted near a federal building in Carson City.

However, these flare ups were regarded by most of the nation as local disputes between ranchers and the government and never galvanized public opinion to any great degree.

Bill of Rights, at the request of such parties in need of such defense, and the documentation and archiving of all defensive action taken by the coalition for accurate and prompt reporting to all concerned public venues and media.”

Where do they intend to carry out this purpose?

“Defensive posture shall be taken up in the optimal tactical position in relation to the people or property in need of such defense.

All local laws not in violation of the U.S. and subject States Constitution shall be observed. All laws in violation of the U.S. and subject States Constitution are hereby considered null and void, the enforcement of which most likely represents the need for such defense as herein outlined.”

The statement calls for a Quick Reaction Force to take up a defensive posture in the shortest possible amount of time at their determined location with the minimum force size to be determined by the leadership of the coalition.

The coalition reasons that, as the government derives its authority from the people, if it

I’ll do whatever It takes to gaIn our lIbertIes and freedom back.”

Cliven Bundy Antediluvian nostalgist

In an interview with Christian Science Monitor, Stanford history professor Richard White said this latest confrontation is somewhat surprising.

“A lot of this is decades old,” White said.

“What I think this did is spark into these kind of tea party property-right issues, which are new.

That’s where you’ve got all the people showing up. It’s a very old issue that suddenly tapped into a new clientele and got an explosion. … This is a brand new 21st century issue.”

One thing Bundy’s supporters and the BLM agree on is that this isn’t over.

Almost all of Bundy’s supporters have gone home, about 40 armed militia members remain, saying they will keep a permanent watch until Bundy asks them to leave.

There is a recent post on the Bundy Ranch website by an organization calling itself Operation Mutual Aid, a self-described group of militia men, freedom fighters and patriots.

Its stated purpose is: “Defense of public and private property, lives and liberty to exercise God-given rights, seen plainly in the laws of Nature, and codified in the Declaration of Independence and

should use that power against the people, it is the people’s responsibility to defend the country against the government.

But even some conservatives aren’t buying that argument. In an interview with Bundy, right wing broadcaster Glenn Beck, while expressing sympathy for Bundy’s position, said he took exception to many of the ranchers’ supporters whom he characterized as violent fringe types spoiling for a fight.

The law and Cliven bundy The reason so much of the West is federally owned goes back to the nation’s early expansion.

Congress passed the Morrell Act in 1862, which granted 40-acre parcels to homesteaders who could make a living on the parcels for a period of time. However, much of the land was too wild for homesteading so there were few takers.

By the turn of the century, the government still held large tracts of western land that no one seemed to want. In 1932, President Herbert Hoover proposed deeding the land back to the states, but the states didn’t want them, in part, because they were overgrazed, so the BLM was created to manage the land.

Bundy’s claim that the BLM has usurped Nevada sovereignty did not hold up in court and neither did his claim of inherited ancestral rights to the land that allegedly pre-empt BLM authority.

Bundy says he would gladly pay grazing fees to the state or county but refuses to “recognize the United States government as even existing.”

However, his position contradicts Article 1, Section 2 of the Nevada Constitution which states in part “the Paramount allegiance of every citizen is due to the Federal Government in the exercise of all its Constitutional powers as the same have been or may be defined by the Supreme Court of the United States.”

The article goes on to acknowledge that the government has the authority to use force against states or citizens who would forcibly resist execution of federal laws. Bundy and his supporters dispute this, but the Nevada Cattlemen’s Association while sympathetic to Bundy, said he has gone too far.

“In accordance with the rule of law, we must use the system set forth in our Constitution to change those laws and regulations,” the NCA said in a press release. “Nevada Cattlemen’s Association does not condone actions that are outside the law in which citizens take the law into their own hands.”

Although the Bundy standoff gave a strong visual context to the anti-federal movement, other forces are at work in state legislatures across the country. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been pushing legislation for decades in several states that would release public lands for private use that would include resource extraction.

ALEC is funded by private corporations such as Peabody Energy, Duke Energy and American Electric Power, and others including the Koch brothers. ALEC’s legislative agenda includes stand-your-ground and voter registration bills that passed at the state level often verbatim.

On April 16, Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., went to the U.S. Department of the Interior asking for an investigation into ALEC’s efforts to pass bills at the state level that undermine federal authority over state lands and thwart the agency’s duties.

“ALEC’s pattern of activity raises serious questions about how changes to land management laws and regulations, especially in the

Western United States, are being pushed by ALEC without public disclosure of its role or that of the corporations that fund its legislative agenda,” Grijalva wrote.

According to Grijalva, the consequences of ALEC’s positions are severe and deserving of careful scrutiny and are “entirely consistent with the position taken by anti-government rancher Cliven Bundy and his armed supporters.”

In 2013, Bundy spoke before a Nevada legislative committee in favor of AB 227, an ALEC-inspired bill that would transfer federal land to the state.

ALEC is not a registered lobbying group. It also enjoys non-profit status. Grijalva wants the Interior Department to team up with the IRS to determine whether ALEC is violating lobbying and disclosure regulations.

The Dann SiSTerS Bundy may feel he has ancestral grazing rights, but his claim only goes back to 1870—at least six years after Nevada became a state. The Western Shoshone claim to most of Nevada goes back for millennia.

In 1863, the Western Shoshone signed the Ruby Valley Treaty with the United States, which guaranteed safe passage of goods and people through Shoshone land. The Western Shoshone contend safe passage was all they offered, but in the end the federal government took most of their 40,000 acres.

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deemed to have been forfeited through “gradual encroachment.” In 1979, the Indian Claims Commission awarded a $26 million land claim settlement to the Western Shoshone. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1985 that the Shoshone land claims were extinguished by the financial settlement.

Eighty percent of the Shoshone refused to accept the money, which sat in an account drawing interest for decades. Shoshone elders Mary and Carrie Dann refused to pay grazing fees in 1973 beginning a series of clashes with the BLM that ultimately resulted in a roundup similar to that in Bunkerville.

After the first roundup, a group of Dann supporters formed the Western Shoshone Defense Project to mount a vigil over the Dann ranch in remote Crescent Valley.

Unlike Bundy’s supporters, WSDP volunteers were unarmed and not numerous. Their showdown with the BLM resulted in the arrest of family member Clifford Dann who, while pouring gasoline over himself as a first step toward self-immolation, accidentally splashed on a federal official. He was convicted of assault and sent to prison.

Dissidents formed the Western Shoshone National Council, which issued its own passports. U.S. officials refused to recognize them. Council members would cross the border into Canada in order to travel under their own passport.

The Dann sisters used the procedure to appear before various international justice organizations and to accept awards for their work.

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A United Nations committee condemned the United States for its breach of the Ruby Valley Treaty.

In order to resolve the dispute, U.S. Senator Harry Reid, D-Nev., pushed for a tribal referendum on whether to disperse the settlement money which had grown to more than $160 million. This passed, though some challenged the legitimacy of the vote, and the money was divided up among all the Western Shoshone. It amounted to about $20,000 per person.

A Clark County Commissioner when the project was approved, Rory Reid later went on to become ENN’s primary representative. While that may pose ethical questions for the senator, the project was scrapped and in any case wasn’t going to be built anywhere near Bunkerville.

Environmentalists question why the BLM didn’t act sooner to resolve the dispute with Bundy on behalf of the desert tortoise. But officials are closing down the tortoise program because of budget constraints and have euthanized half of them and are moving the rest elsewhere.

Most commentators on both sides of the issue agree that the BLM roundup was ill conceived and overreaching, particularly when there where judicial remedies readily available. And both sides also agree that despite the BLM’s pullback, and Bundy’s sudden fall as a conservative star with his ignorant, racist comments about African-Americans, that little corner of Nevada, Bunkerville, has not yet put this issue behind it. Ω

ConSpiraCy TheorieS In 1993 the BLM set aside most of the land around Bunkerville as a preserve for the endangered Mojave desert tortoise. The BLM cut back on grazing permits and most of the local ranchers moved away. Bundy, however, remained and stopped paying his grazing fees.

Conspiracy theorists question the timing of the roundup, which began as Reid’s former aide Neil Kornze was confirmed as the new head of the BLM. Some say desert tortoise and grazing fees have nothing to do with the roundup and the purpose was to clear the way for fracking permits, but those were issued in Elko County, hundreds of miles from the Bundy ranch.

Others say the area is destined to become a massive solar energy farm. Rory Reid, the senator’s eldest son, is involved in an effort by a Chinese ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar farm and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert.

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usual, there are plenty of films that have lots of things going boom or have comic book origins this coming blockbuster movie season. We’ll also be getting subjected to a massive number of sequels and, oddly enough, a large quantity of small films with James Franco in them.

Those Franco films are, for the most part, too small to announce in this column, although I believe I mention a cameo somewhere in the following text.

I’ve also noticed a fair number of comedies, and films with smaller price tags. Maybe Hollywood is starting to back off the big mega blockbuster after such busts as R.I.P.D. and The Lone Ranger last year. Sure the season has some big movies coming, but there seems to be quite a bit of cerebral fare on the way, too.

Also, this year is definitely frontloaded.

Most of the action will be finished with a month left in the summer. I won’t be surprised if some studios shift their dates to early September this year.

Here’s a sampling of what’s to come. As you will see, I’m not very optimistic about some of these, most notably the one where the dude shoots webs and whines a lot.

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(May 2): I didn’t like the first Andrew Garfield, Sam Raimi-less incarnation of Spidey, and this one looks like it could fall victim to Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 problem of too many damned villains in one movie. I hope I’m wrong.

nEigHBorS (May 9): Seth Rogen and

Zac Efron square off in this promising comedy about a mild mannered couple (Rogen and Rose Byrne) being terrorized by new frat boy neighbors (Efron and Dave Franco). This is not a remake of the Dan Aykroyd-John Belushi comedy with the same name.

godzillA (May 16):

My most anticipated film this year. Based on the trailers, I love the look of this giant monster reboot.

Director Gareth Edwards has an immersive style that puts you right in the action, as he proved with his low-budget Monsters. I’m also a big fan of Mr. Bryan Cranston, a.k.a.

Walter White, who doesn’t seem as if he’s just taking a paycheck and barking at green screens. It looks like he’s taking the gig seriously, and this could be one of the greatest 3-D IMAX experiences ever!

It could also totally suck.

million dollAr Arm (May 16): Mad Men’s Jon Hamm goes up against Godzilla, released the same week, in this one about a sports agent trying to find a pitcher in India. Good luck, pal.

x mEn: dAYS of fuTurE pAST

(May 23): Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) must save the world by traveling through time, enabling director Bryan Singer to combine some of the old and new X-Men casts. J.J. Abrams had nothing to do with this movie.

BlEndEd (May 23): Wow. Judging by

the tragically racist trailer for this Adam Sandler-goes-to-Africa movie, I can’t see how it will be any good. Drew Barrymore gets back with Sandler after the success of their 50 First Dates. I am growing increasingly impatient with Mr. Sandler.

Come on, man, do something that isn’t completely inane. Heck, at least take the time to cover Henry Winkler with bees again in your next flick.

A million wAYS To diE in THE wEST (May 30): Seth

MacFarlane directs and gives himself his first feature film starring role as a man in the old West who can’t help but notice that it’s a place where anybody could die at any time.

Charlize Theron, looking awfully cute in her cowgirl getup, costars. This looks like a blast.

mAlEficEnT (May 30): I run hot and

cold on Angelina Jolie. She looks super creepy as the famed Disney baddie. I’m not sure I want to look at those weird horns and freaky contacts for an entire movie. Hey, I’m allowed to be shallow sometimes.

(June 6): Tom Cruise dies again and again and again in this science fiction offering from director Doug Liman. Emily Blunt dies a lot too in a film that looks like a true mind screw.

How To TrAin Your drAgon 2 (June 13): Sequel to a big cartoon = Cash cow.

THE rovEr (June 13): Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce star in this strange looking movie about a guy going after people who stole his car in the Australian outback.

The guy who directed Animal Kingdom is making this one, so I’m intrigued.

22 Jump STrEET (June 13): Channing

Tatum and Jonah Hill reteam for another go at the undercover cop comedy. I hope Ice Cube curses a lot in this one, too.

JErSEY BoYS (June 20): Clint

Eastwood directs a musical about The Four Seasons and Frankie Valli. Sounds weird.

TrAnSformErS: AgE of ExTincTion (June 27): Shia

is out and Mark Wahlberg is in for Michael Bay’s fourth go at the robot trucks thing.

I hate the other Transformers flicks, and I hate Bay, so I will probably hate this. Yes, I’m saying I will probably hate it before I see it, which I understand is an unprofessional thing for a film critic to do. Hey, I know myself, people, and I’m nothing if not honest, so leave me alone.

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(June 27): Director David Wain, who so classically spoofed summer camp films with Wet Hot American Summer, takes aim at the romantic comedy genre with Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler as his stars. This … will … be … awesome. There, I judged something before seeing it yet again. Sue me.

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and So iT goeS (July 11):

Rob Reiner, who was awesome in The Wolf of Wall Street, directs this reunion with Michael Douglas— they made The American President together—written by the guy who penned As Good as it Gets. Diane Keaton is along for the ride.

dawn of The PlaneT of The aPeS

(7/11): While James Franco is in something like 572 small films this year, he doesn’t return to star in the sequel to one of his biggest hits (although there are rumors of a cameo). Caesar (Andy Serkis) remains pissed in the aftermath of a plague that has wiped out most of the planet. He and his ape army look to take advantage of a handicapped human race.

Boyhood (July 11): In what

I consider one of the summer’s biggest curiosities, Richard Linklater directs Ellar Coltrane from age 7 to 18. The catch? Linklater actually filmed the movie over 11 years using the same kid. Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette costar.

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(July 18): The Wachowskis pair Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis for this futuristic and rather strange looking movie. Thanks to the presence of Kunis, I have a bad Oz the Great and Powerful vibe about this one. Maybe that also has something to do with the fact I was writing about James Franco a couple of paragraphs ago.

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(July 25): OK, if Dwayne Johnson as Hercules is supposed to be stupid-funny, then I guess it might be goofy fun. But I think they’re going for a serious take on the legend, and I think it will be a disaster. It should be noted that this is 2014’s second Hercules movie, and the first one super-tanked.

guardianS of The galaxy (August 1): On

one hand, you could say Marvel is starting to truck out the less popular figures in their canon with the offbeat team at the center of this action adventure. On the other hand, Chris Pratt is a star waiting to happen, Bradley Cooper as a raccoon looks kind of rad, and films where Zoe Saldana is a radically different hue usually fare well.

Teenage muTanT ninJa TurTleS (August 8):

Michael Bay produces a reboot about the graphic novel turtles, starring his enemy Megan Fox. I hate Michael Bay. I really hate him.

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(August 15): This time out, Sylvester Stallone has recruited Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson and Wesley Snipes to join in the mayhem. I’m not a huge fan of these movies, although the second was an improvement on the first.

frank miller’S Sin CiTy: a dame To kill for (August 22): The long-

delayed sequel from Robert Rodriguez might suffer from the fact that the look he pioneered with the original has been aped many times since. Ω

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(July 2): Melissa McCarthy teams with Susan Sarandon (playing her grandma) for a road comedy. The last road comedy McCarthy made was the awful Identity Thief. This couldn’t possibly be that bad, right? It’s got the girl from The Rocky Horror Picture Show in it.

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(July 18): Director Zach Braff finally follows up his Garden State with something that looks gosh darned cute, and funded by Kickstarter.

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The duo choreographed a student performance of approximately 10 minutes, which, along with pieces by Trump and other dance faculty and their own 60-minute performance of O(h), will comprise the full Spring

casebolt & smith For many people, the problem with modern dance is that it’s so … modern. There seems to be by no method to its madness. Despite the skill Jessica it obviously requires, it appears to contain Santina odd, frenetic moves laden with symbolism that seem unreadable by all but a select few.

If that’s how you feel, casebolt & smith, appearing this weekend during the University of Nevada’s Spring Dance Concert, might be for you.

Best friends Liz Casebolt and Joel unR’s spring Dance Concert is in the Smith, both college dance instructors in Church Fine Arts Southern California, formed their modern Building, unR, 1664 n. dance duo casebolt & smith in 2006 as a Virginia st., on May way to explore their shared commitment to 1, 2 and 3 at 8 p.m., and sunday, May 4 the artistry and experimentation of modern at 2 p.m. For more dance, in a way that’s accessible to all. information, visit “We reveal the creative process as well caseboltandsmith. as expose some of the tropes of dance wordpress.com. making, and even occasionally poke fun at how overly serious modern dance can be,” they commented in an email interview. “We have a great love for the art form, but are sometimes bothered by its need to take itself so seriously and its tendency to alienate a non-dance audience.”

Describing their work is tough: They talk and dance, often ironically, riffing off each other and occasionally improvising, and the audience is invited to laugh at their self-awareness. For instance, in their latest show, O(h), as Smith circles the stage making exaggerated, flamboyant gestures, Casebolt sings into the mic, “Every dance show needs a gay break, watch the gay boy dancin’ all around the stage.”

“We often use speaking and dancing as a way of revealing our process—sometimes telling the audience what we are doing as we do it, sometimes questioning our choices in the dance—as part of the dance,” they explain. “We spend a lot of time in rehearsal discussing what is possible, and how different ways of moving or interacting read to an audience, and the conversation often finds its way into the work.”

Challenging conventional notions of gender, the two dress in a gender-neutral way, in matching pin-stripe suits or shirts, for example.

“We aren’t interested in showing a ‘traditional’ male/female duet—one that

normally places the man in a position of power, while the woman’s role is to be lifted and manipulated. We work to find democracy in our partnership.”

Rosie Trump, assistant professor of dance in UNR’s Department of Theater and Dance, was instrumental in bringing them to Reno, not only to perform but to work in residence with dance students this semester.

She says the approachability of casebolt & smith for any audience member is exciting.

“Sometimes modern dance can be seen as almost self-indulgent, and they poke fun at that,” says Trump. “They can be political a bit, too, dealing with issues like being a woman or gay man in dance, or the politics of the dance community, but in a light way. … It doesn’t hit you over the head. It’s smart, but you don’t have to have a lot of knowledge about dance to enjoy it.”

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The key tenet of comedic improv— the principle of always answering “yes, and …” when provided with a cue—became a focal point of casebolt & smith’s choreography process. “‘Yes, and’ is about agreement, about furthering the scene by not denying the moment,” they explain. “As we worked with the students, we gave each other permission to insert our ideas and opinions wherever we were inspired to, and set up the challenge for ourselves of always saying ‘yes’ to the other person’s input.”

The Spring Dance Concert is also an opportunity for a sneak peek at the newly renovated Proscenium Theatre at UNR’s Church Fine Arts Building, which officially will be unveiled in fall. Ω

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The peanut sauce was outstanding, completely opposite the thinned-out peanut butter often served in quick-service noodle shops. Thai peanut sauce usually

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Next came the golden triangles (six for $7.95), which the menu describes as minced fish and cream cheese inside deep-fried flour tortillas served with cucumber peanut relish. Although I didn’t detect any fish flavor, these crispy-yet-soft triangles paired very well with the relish. You’d never know a tortilla was involved, as the texture and flavor is more reminiscent of puff pastry. This most excellent appetizer is reason enough for a return visit.

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As for our entrees, there were only a couple of missteps. First, the portions were noticeably smaller than what we’ve received elsewhere for the same price. Not by a lot, but smaller. One could consider this somewhat of a blessing, being we’d pigged out on appetizers.

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“My Big Sister accepts me for who I am, doesn’t judge me, and helps me become a better person.”

Mann problems The Other Woman Leslie Mann is one of my favorite comic actresses, and I’ve been waiting for her to get that one project that would put her over the top as one of Hollywood’s premier go-to actresses.

I thought This is 40 would do the trick but, as it turns out, I was probably the only guy in the world who thought that was a good movie. by Now comes The Other Woman, a film that Bob Grimm casts her as a wimpy victim of Mark, a cheating husband (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). She winds b g ri m m @ ne w s re v i e w . c o m up befriending Carly, his mistress (Cameron Diaz), and she becomes a stronger independent person as the film progresses. Whatever.

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food in hand as a peace offering, and a big Great Dane in tow. I admit to enjoying this movie a little in its early stages, thinking it might be the showcase Mann deserved.

Then The Other Woman crashes into a creative wall, sending its stars through the narrative windshield and the movie into stupidity oblivion.

I’m not exactly sure of the precise moment when this one starts to go off the rails. Maybe it’s when yet another mistress, played by Kate Upton, enters the scene, and the women start working together to torture and destroy the cheater. Now, mind you, I am all for a movie where a cheater gets his comeuppance. However, I’m not actually up for a movie where one of the revenge seekers is played by the beautiful but bland Kate Upton.

If it isn’t Upton’s entrance that starts the film’s downfall, maybe it’s that moment when Carly pours a bunch of laxative into Mark’s drink at dinner and he proceeds to not only crap his pants, but have a bathroom stall moment very similar to the one Jeff Daniels suffered through in Dumb and Dumber. Now, Daniels made fecal apocalypse due to massive laxative ingestion high art. Coster-Waldau going through the same motions seems like diarrhea plagiarism.

Cassavetes has made some good movies in the past. She’s So Lovely with Penn and Travolta, and The Notebook, which gets credit for totally devastating movie viewers all over the world. The Notebook and, to a lessor extent, My Sister’s Keeper, also with Diaz, showed Cassavetes’ talent for making people weep.

The Other Woman shows that he can also make moviegoers groan, and groan mightily.

Tonally, it’s all over the place, as if he set out to make a raunchy as all heck comedy and then decided to beat a retreat into PG-13 territory.

Indeed, I caught a major moment when Diaz is clearly overdubbed with a more friendly F-word when screaming the big one.

Maybe Cassavetes set out to make a much uglier film, and the studio stepped in and said “Clean it up!” because they wanted a bigger box office draw.

I’m not saying an uglier film would’ve been much better, but at least the film would’ve felt more consistent.

By the time Coster-Waldau smashes his nose and blood is squirting out of his face near film’s end, the movie has ceased being funny and has become a total mess. Not even the mighty Mann’s expert mugging can pull it out of the fire. It’s a depressing experience.

The Other Woman is a minor hit at the box office, so maybe its relative success will put some decent scripts in front of the talented Mann and take her to the next, deserved level. It’s hard to watch her in this sort of squalor. Ω

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Like Thor 2 and Iron Man 3, this movie shows us how an Avenger deals with life after saving New York City from an alien attack.

Cap (an endearing Chris Evans) is just trying to catch up on modern culture now. His list of things to do includes watching Star Wars and Star Trek, trying Thai food and listening to Nirvana. He’s attempting to settle into a world after being frozen for 50 years. Of course, he’s not going to be able to just kick back and relax because evil still exists below America’s shimmering surface, and governmental wrongdoings are going to challenge Cap’s ability to remain loyal to the country he’s named after. After an attempt on the life of Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson just Samuel L. Jacksoning it like only Samuel L. Jackson can!), attention is called to the likes of somebody called the Winter Soldier, a fighting machine with powers similar to Cap and identity that won’t be revealed in this review. Cap’s mission eventually leads him to the discovery of HYDRA, an evil movement controlling members of the government, started back in the Nazi days. With Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Falcon (a well cast Anthony Mackie) at this side, Cap looks to take down HYDRA, kick the Winter Soldier’s ass, and possibly work in a date somewhere during the whole mess. The film packs a solid action punch, and some decent dramatics to boot.

In a film that feels more befitting a TV series than a theatrical release, Kevin Costner plays Sonny, general manager of the Cleveland Browns. It’s draft day, and Sonny has some big decisions to make after he trades away his future for the number one pick, much to the dismay of his head coach (Denis Leary).

This is all happening after finding out he’s having a baby with a member of his staff (Jennifer Garner) and shortly after the death of his dad.

Directed by Ivan Reitman, who usually helms straight comedies, this is a more dramatic offering from the guy who gave us Ghostbusters.

If there’s a big problem here, it is that we watch Sonny go through all of this stuff on draft day, and never get to see the fruits of his labors. The film ends after the draft day is finished, and we never get to see the team play. I’m doubting there will be a Draft Day 2, so I’m thinking this would’ve worked better as an HBO series or something like that. Still, Costner is good in the role, and Reitman has constructed something that is entertaining, while not altogether groundbreaking.

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James McAvoy delivers his best performance yet in this morally vacant take on Irvine Welsh’s (Trainspotting) sick novel.

McAvoy stars as Bruce Robertson, a Scottish cop strung out on drugs, hearing voices in his head, hallucinating and behaving very badly on the job. At the center of the film is a murder mystery that provides the film with a final twist that cements the movie’s nutball pedigree. McAvoy essentially gets to do his own riff on the Bad Lieutenant (a role that served both Nicolas Cage and Harvey Keitel well), allowing him to go completely gonzo. What makes his turn a little different is that the movie allows him to have some genuine emotional moments mixed in with the mayhem. This results in a surprisingly balanced, well modulated performance despite the subject matter. The supporting cast includes Jamie Bell as a fellow cop with a small member, and Eddie Marsan as Bladesey, a tightly wound member of the force who is Bruce’s best friend while also being one of his saddest victims. Robertson’s prank filthy phone calls to Bladesey’s wife Bunty (Shirley Henderson) are hilariously vile, and clearly indicative that Bruce doesn’t value his Bladesey friendship all that much. Bruce Robertson is one of those unreliable narrators, like Ed Norton’s character in Fight Club, who make viewing a movie like this a blessed adventure.

You never really know what’s truly going on until those final credits roll.

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Whether you are religious or not, the Bible is, no doubt, a pretty sweet platform for over-the-top cinema. With Noah, director Darren Aronofsky has concocted a totally crazy, darkly nasty disaster film befitting those few pages in the book of Genesis. In his best performance to date, Russell Crowe plays the title character, a good, passionate man in a not particularly good time. The people outside of Noah’s family circle have turned Earth into a place of carnivorous debauchery.

“The Creator” (this film’s go-to name for God) intends to wipe all humanity off the face of the Earth with a great flood, and Noah is tasked with saving all of the innocent animals on a huge ship to be built by him, with the help of large rock monsters. The movie, as spectacle, is quite good, although its CGI has a few moments of weakness. The flood itself is a frightening sequence, with a horrifying moment involving screaming people outside of the ark getting washed off a big rock by waves. I’m actually surprised this movie pulled a PG-13 rating. It struck me, very much, as an R-rated film due to its violence.

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takes a drastic turn when he is suspected in the murder of an elderly lover (Tilda Swinton in super heavy makeup). Stolen art, scary train rides and a high speed chase on skis ensue, with Anderson even employing stop motion animation at times, as he did with Fantastic Mr. Fox. Supporting performances by Jeff Goldblum, Adrien Brody, Jude Law, F. Murray Abraham, Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Saoirse Ronan and many more make this a can’t miss film. There’s something so joyous and fun about the way Anderson makes movies. This is a remarkable, tremendously enjoyable achievement.

The Quiet Ones

Here we go with another low cost, poorly lit, flimsily shot horror movie that substitutes loud, jarring noises and cheap parlor tricks for genuine scares. Jared Harris plays Professor Joseph Coupland, a snobby chain smoker who is conducting an inexplicable experiment on mental patient Jane Harper (Olivia Cooke). I say inexplicable because I never did really figure out what the hell was going on in this movie. I can tell you that the experiment is being filmed by an amateur filmmaker (Sam Claflin), which at least allows for some of that “found footage” horror movie feel we’re all getting sick of. As far as I could gather, Jane is possessed, but the professor is trying to prove that she is just sick, although he seems to believe there are dark forces at hand, or something like that. It’s all very confusing and, ultimately, very stupid. Director John Pogue provides what he would like to think are shock moments, but they are basically just irritating.

He favors sudden, loud noises, and there’s something about their timing that renders his scare attempts impotent. It was a true task watching this thing.

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For those of you hoping Johnny Depp would make up for that dick move he made playing Tonto last year by putting forth a fine offering with this picture, consider that hope dashed upon the rocks, swept out to sea, and ultimately devoured by sharks. This is another one of those “technology is evil” movies that suggest we as humans are slaves to computers. That may very well be true—I, for one, have been sitting at my damn computer all day—but movies haven’t really gotten evil computers right since 2001: A Space Odyssey and WarGames. Depp plays a scientist who uploads his brain into a computer before he dies so that he can keep hanging out with the wife (Rebecca Hall) and, oh yeah, take over the world. The computer Depp and his wife buy a small town, enlist a strange army of computerenergized supermen, and proceed to try and infect the world with some sort of computer dust. None of it makes a lick of sense, and all of it is lacking in entertainment value. This is a flat, boring affair that represents Depp at his slumming worst.

Writer-director Wes Anderson does it again with another wholly unique, beautiful, quirky movie that could’ve only been made by him. In a performance that must be remembered come awards time, Ralph Fiennes is magically hilarious as M. Gustave, the concierge at the infamous fictional hotel named in the film’s title. Gustave has a penchant for older woman, much older woman, and his life

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2nd ANNUAL PLAYHOUSE BUILD-A-THON Come join us in front of Lowe’s in the Legends Outlet Mall for our 2nd Annual Playhouse Build-a-Thon. Enjoy music, food and carnival games. Sa, 5/3, 9AM-5PM, free. Outlets at Legends, 1310 Scheels Dr. (775) 358-3800

CINCO DE MAYO 2014 Victorian Square is the location of Sparks’ second annual Cinco de Mayo Fiesta, WITH 8 to 10 live music groups and fun for the entire family! Sa, 5/3, 11AM-9PM and Su, 5/4, 11AM-9PM, free. Victorian Square, Victorian Ave., Sparks, NV 89431

SCHEELS KIDS KLUB: LAWN GAMES Join the Scheels lawn games expert to learn all about the new fun games you can play this summer with your family and friends! M, 5/12, 6PM, free. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Dr. (775) 331-2700

7th ANNUAL WALK FOR ANIMALS Nevada Humane Society is asking animal lovers to gather donations for the care of homeless dogs and cats by participating in the Walk for Animals! Sa, 5/24, 8AM-1PM. Sparks Marina Park, 300 Howard Dr. (775) 353-2376

SALUTE TO WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT The 23rd annual Nevada Women’s Fund Salute to Women of Achievement Luncheon will feature keynote speaker Lucille O’Neal, author and motivational speaker and mother. Th, 5/29, 11:30AM1:30PM, $125 per person or $1,250 a table. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

KIDS ACTING Learn to act while gaining self-confidence and poise. W, through 5/28, 4-5PM. $45. Alf Sorensen Community Center, 1400 Baring Blvd. (775) 353-2385

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PERFORMANCE AND MUSIC DJ BOBBY G

Create masterpieces inspired by the art of master classic and modern painters. Th, through 5/29, 5:15-7:15PM, $85. Alf Sorensen Community Center, 1400 Baring Blvd. (775) 353-2385

DJ Bobby G rocks The Cat's Meow at Bourbon Square Friday & Saturday nights! 8PM. No cover. Bourbon Square Casino, 1040 Victorian Ave. (775) 997-7177

CHIRUNNING INFORMATIONAL SEMINAR

COUNTRY NIGHT

Learn about this revolutionary approach to proper running and walking athat helps develop safe and effective life-long fitness programs. W, 5/7, 6:30-8PM, free. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Dr. (775) 331-2700

Thursdays, 6:30PM – 10PM, free. Bourbon Square Casino, 1040 Victorian Ave. (775) 997-7177

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CROCHET CONNECTION

F, 5/2, 8PM, no cover. Great Basin Brewing Co., 846 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-7711

Learn to crochet or share tips with other crochet enthusiasts. Th, 4-5:45PM, free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway (775) 424-1800

WICKED HICKS

CLICKETS KNITTING GROUP Jean Peters guides this class for knitters of all ages and levels. Yarn and needles are available. First and Third Su of every month, 1:303PM, free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, Spanish Springs (775) 424-1800

SCHEELS RUNNING CLUB Run with expert pacers and enjoy running in a group Tu, 6:30PM through 12/9, free. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Dr. (775) 331-2700

FOUR SEASONS BOOK CLUB

F, 5/2, 9:30PM, no cover. Sidelines Bar & Nightclub, 1237 Baring Blvd. (775) 355-1030

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER A tribute to that memorable night in Memphis when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis recorded at Sam Phillip’s Sun Studios. Sa, 5/3, 6PM, $45. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

MOON GRAVY Sa, 5/3, 8PM, no cover. Great Basin Brewing Co., 846 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-7711

The book club meets the first Saturday of each month. Call to find out each month’s book title. First Sa of every month, 1-2PM, free.

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CONVERSATION CAFE

LIVE MONDAYS WITH TANY JANE

The drop-in conversation program meets on the first Saturday of each month, 2-4PM, free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St. (775) 352-3200

Open mic night every Monday at 8PM, hosted by Tany Jane. M, 8PM, no cover. Sidelines Bar & Nightclub, 1237 Baring Blvd. (775) 355-1030

Sa, 5/3, 9:30PM, no cover. Sidelines Bar & Nightclub, 1237 Baring Blvd. (775) 355-1030

OPEN JAM WITH TAZER & FRIENDS W, 8PM, no cover. Sidelines Bar & Nightclub, 1237 Baring Blvd.

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ERIKA PAUL Enjoy Louisiana-style food and the soulful, breathtaking jazz sounds of Erika Paul on keyboards and vocals. No cover. Th, 6PM, no cover. Jazz, A Louisiana Kitchen, 1180 Scheels Dr. (775) 657-8659

BLACK AND BLUES JAM Tu, 8:30PM, no cover. Sidelines Bar & Nightclub, 1237 Baring Blvd.

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LIVE JAZZ Vocal and instrumental jazz from “The Great American Songbook”, performed by First Take featuring Rick (SAX) Metz. Fridays, 6PM through 12/27, no cover. Jazz, A Louisiana Kitchen, 1180 Scheels Dr., Sparks, NV 89441 (775) 657-8659 KARAOKE Th-Sa, 9PM, no cover. Bottom’s Up Saloon, 1923 Prater Way (775) 359-3677 Th, 7-10PM through 4/24, No cover Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave. (775) 356-9799 Sa, 8PM, no cover. 50 Yard Line Bar & Grill, 400 S. Rock Blvd.

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Core values We Predict a Riot For Carson City sextet We Predict a Riot, being metalcore is simultaneously their biggest catalyst and their biggest by Laura Davis obstacle. Defined as a combination of thrashing metal and hardcore punk, the band sees its genre as one of the fastest growing trends in music today—enjoying the company of popular national acts such as As I Lay Dying, Underoath, and Bullet for My Valentine.

Photo/Eric Marks

We Predict a Riot has participated in National Breast Cancer Awareness month. The cause is important to the band, whose members have had family members affected by varying forms of cancer. It has participated through changing its social media pages to pink and helping to spread an informed awareness of the disease to its fans. It also makes a point to be involved in charitable fundraisers specific to its community.

“We’re more than willing to help out,” Harrington says. “There’s a girl in Carson [City] that got in a quad accident, so we raffled off a bunch of our stuff to help out [with medical bills], like merch and our new EP.” It’s not just about convincing people the band does have a heart (that’s not cold and black). We Predict a Riot recognizes that having a microphone and a stage to stand on gives the members not only an opportunity to display their talents, but it also comes with a certain responsibility.

“As a band, we have a voice that a lot of people don’t have, we can actually put stuff into our music and say, ‘Hey, check this out. This is how we feel about it,’” Harrington said.

Despite its social responsibilities, the band knows that at the end of the day, fans just want to hear something they can relate to. We Predict a Riot answers by bringing its mix of screaming hardcore vocals from Romero, melded with Klein’s more melodic verses, to fans that can appreciate both sides of the spectrum.

“A lot of people can relate to our songs and we have a lot of crowd involvement,” Harrington said. “[The song] ‘Item 9’ is about coming out of addiction,” Klein said. “It’s not necessarily just drugs or alcohol. It can be about anything.

Everyone has different thoughts on that song.” Ω

Riot act: Ray Ramirez, Loaf, Richard Rameros, Danny Harrington, Eric Albright and C.J. Klein of We Predict a Riot.

The band’s members, Ray Ramirez on guitar, Eric Albright on drums, CJ Klein and Richard Romero on vocals, Danny Harrington on guitar and “Loaf,” aka Steven Landeros, on bass, continue to see a rising interest among fans, who primarily include high school age teens. But they are also constantly having to engage in the battle many bands before them in the hardcore scene have fought: Just because they scream and play loud music, they’re not talking in tongues and biting off bat heads.

“We wrote a song about that— it’s called ‘Beauty and the Beast,’” Harrington said of the constant misconception. “A lot of people look at us as a metal band and assume we’re Satan worshippers because we’re metal, but if you look deeper into it and read some of our lyrics and actually look at us as individuals it’s not like that at all. We have a voice and we’re trying to use that in a positive way. We’re family guys— we’re not Satan worshippers.”

True to its word, the band does make a point to bring an activist influence to its community. Every October since its formation in 2012,

We Predict a riot will be debut new songs from its upcoming EP a World Unknown on May 10 at the knitting Factory, 211 N. Virginia st. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/ wepredictariot.

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FRIDAY 5/2

SATURDAY 5/3

125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005

5 STAR SALOON

Karaoke, 10pm, no cover

DJ Boogi, 10pm, no cover before 10pm, $5 after

Fu Manchu, Electric Citizen, Ol’ Goat, Sisters Doom, 7:30pm, $12

The Alley Anniversary Bash w/Thursday Chapin’s “Get Rad, I’m Old” B-Day Bash Knights Out, Livitz Livitz, others, 8pm, $10 w/Moron Bros., others, 8pm, $5

132 West St., (775) 329-2878

THE ALLEY

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

DJ Boogi, 10pm, no cover before 10pm, $5 after

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

May 1, 7:30 p.m.

The Alley 906 Victorian Ave. Sparks 358-8891

CEOL IRISH PUB

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Blarney Band, 9pm, no cover

CHAPEL TAVERN

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

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

Good Friday with rotating DJs, 10pm, no cover

COTTONWOOD RESTAURANT & BAR

Fearless Kin, 7pm, no cover

Elspeth Summersgill, 7pm, no cover

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

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

DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY

Comedy

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

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

FOXY OLIVE

EL CORTEZ LOUNGE

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

Ciana, 9pm, no cover

Open Mic w/Steve Elegant, 7pm, Tu, karaoke, 10pm, Tu, W, no cover Reno Metal Heads Fundraiser, 7:30pm, W, $TBA

FUEGO

Dirk Spaldo, 9:30pm, no cover

Jake Houston with Rex, 9:30pm, no cover

Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

Turnt to the Max Saturdays w/Guda Mac, DJ Van Gloryus, 9pm, no cover

The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Bob Zany, Zan Aufderheide, W, 9pm, $25

THE GRID BAR & GRILL

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

GREAT BASIN BREWING CO.

Kanekoa Trio, 8pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Nitesong Productions, 9pm, Tu, open mic w/Frazzled, 8:30pm, W, no cover Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Andrew, 9pm, no cover

HACIENDA RESTAURANT AND BAR DJ and karaoke, 9pm, no cover

HIMMEL HAUS

140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

Open mic, 7pm, no cover Open Mic Night, 9pm, M, no cover Trivia Night, 9pm, W, no cover

3819 Saddle Rd., South Lake Tahoe; (530) 314-7665

THE HOLLAND PROJECT

Bass Heavy, 9pm, W, $TBA Cinco de Mayo celebration w/Dane Rinehart, 5pm, M, no cover

10580 N. McCarran Blvd., (775) 746-2228 1100 E. Plumb Ln., (775) 828-7665

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

Moon Gravy, 8pm, no cover

8545 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach; (530) 546-0300

HARRY’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL

Traditional Irish Tune Session, 7pm, Tu, no cover

Metal Mondays w/DJ Shreddie Van Halen, 8pm, M, no cover

170 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-1800 846 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 355-7711

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

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Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777: Max Dolcelli, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm, 10pm, $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 10pm, $17.95; Quinn Dahle, Tu-W, 7:30pm, $15.95

Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Cinco de Mayo Celebration with Dillon Garcia, F, 8:30pm; Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $15, $18; Dan Kimm: HypnoComedy Show Fundraiser, Sa, 2pm, $15, $20

Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 5/5-5/7 DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover

BAR-M-BAR

Fu Manchu

SUNDAY 5/4

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

Haunted Horses, 8pm, $5

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JAVA JUNGLE

Outspoken: Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover

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

JAZZ, A LOUISIANA KITCHEN

First Take featuring Rick Metz, 6pm, no cover

Bill Davis, 6pm, no cover

1) Whitebulbs, Buckle Rash, Dusty Miles and the Cryin’ Shame, 8pm, $5

1) Scarlet Presence Album Release Show, 9pm, $5-$10

1) Rock ’N’ Roll Suicides, The Tides, 9pm, $3

1) Blazin Mics!, 10pm, M, no cover Dah Wyrdoz, 9pm, Tu, $3

Grieves, Son Real, Fearce Vill, The Halve Two, 8pm, $13-$30

Hemlock, Soultorn, Up Against It, Cyanate, Quarin, 7:30pm, $8

Mike Stud, K Stark, New Car Smell, Jimmy Dukes, 8pm, $15-$35

CRVSH, Black Rock City Allstars, Weston Buck, Ryan Parker, 8pm, $6

The Glitch Mob, Ana Sia, Penthouse Penthouse, 8pm, W, $25-$45

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 8:30pm, no cover

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 8:30pm, Tu, 9:15pm, W, no cover

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

Corky Bennett, 8pm, W, no cover

Erika Paul, 6pm, no cover

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

JUB JUB’S THIRST PARLOR 71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652 1) Showroom 2) Bar Room

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

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

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

RED DOG SALOON

Haunted Horses May 3, 8 p.m.

The Holland Project 140 Vesta St. 742-1858

Open Mic Night, 7pm, W, no cover

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

RUBEN’S CANTINA

Karaoke, 8pm, no cover

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

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

RYAN’S SALOON

Blues, 8pm, Tu, live jazz, 7:30pm, W, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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

SIDELINES BAR & NIGHTCLUB

Wicked Hicks, 9:30pm, no cover

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

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY 445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

STUDIO ON 4TH

Fighting the Future, Na Na Nonchalant, Self Proclaimed, Trippy Milk, 8pm, $5

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

VASSAR LOUNGE

Rold’s Royce, Mimic, 9:30pm, no cover

Open Jam with Tazer and Friends, 8pm, W, no cover

Dance party, 9pm, no cover

Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover

May 7, 8 p.m.

Knitting Factory 211 N. Virginia St. 323-5648

Ritual (industrial, EDM, post punk), 9pm, $3 before 10pm, $5 after Karaoke w/Rock N’J Entertainment, 8pm, no cover

1545 Vassar St., (775) 348-7197

The Glitch Mob

Koolwater Karaoke, 7pm, W, no cover

WILD RIVER GRILLE

Sunday Jazz, 2pm, no cover

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

WILDFLOWER VILLAGE

The Writer’s Block Open Mic, 6:30-9pm, no cover

4275-4395 W. Fourth St., (775) 787-3769

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

Jason Resler Comedy Showcase, 8pm, $8

Wildflower Comedy Power Hour Open Mic, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover

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Are you having problems related to these experiences?

Would you be interested in possible PAID participation in research for a web-based treatment, if you are eligible to participate based on a brief phone screening?

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

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2) Palmore Brothers, 4pm, no cover

BOURBON SQUARE CASINO

1040 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 997-7177

Country Night w/DJ Bobby G, 6:30-10pm, no cover

Boys of Summer, 8pm, $10 per person, $15 per couple

Boys of Summer, 8pm, $10 per person, $15 per couple

CARSON VALLEY INN

2) Stew Stewart, 8pm, 10pm, no cover 1627 Hwy. 395, Minden; (775) 782-9711 3) Michael Martin Murphy, 7pm, $29-$35 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret Lounge 3) TJ’s Corral

2) Stew Stewart, 8pm, 10pm, no cover

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 5/5-5/7

2) Dale Poune, 6pm, no cover

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

ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA

Chris Robinson Brotherhood

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

May 6, 9 p.m.

Crystal Bay Club 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay 833-6333

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

ELDORADO HOTEL CASINO

Karaoke Hangar Bar, 10603 Stead Blvd., Stead, 677-7088: Karaoke Kat, Sa, 9pm, no cover

1) Ring of Fire, 7pm, $24.95+ 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Ring of Fire, 8pm, $24.95+ 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Skyy High Fridays, 10pm, $10 5) Rock River, 10pm, no cover

1) Ring of Fire, 7pm, 9:30pm, $24.95+ 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Four Play Saturdays, 10pm, $10 5) Rock River, 10pm, no cover

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The 15th annual celebration of Mexican heritage offers three days of entertainment for all ages starting on Friday, May. 2. The festival includes carnival rides, live Latin music, dance performances and popular local DJs. More than 100 vendors will offer games, prizes, specialty items, clothes, art, crafts, community information, Mexican food and other cuisine in Grand Sierra Resort’s north parking lot, 2500 E. Second St. Headlining acts include Los Tremendous de Mexico on Friday, La Raza Obrera and Efrain Elizade on Saturday and Los Morros del Norte and Banda Los del Pueblo on Sunday. The crowning of Miss Cinco de Mayo 2014 takes place on Sunday. Gates are open from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, May 2, and noon to 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, May 3-4.

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he 15th annual celebration of Mexican heritage offers three days of entertainment for all ages starting on Friday, May. 2. The festival includes carnival rides, live Latin music, dance performances and popular local DJs. More than 100 vendors will offer games, prizes, specialty items, clothes, art, crafts, community information, Mexican food and other cuisine in Grand Sierra Resort’s north parking lot, 2500 E. Second St. Headlining acts include Los Tremendous de Mexico on Friday, La Raza Obrera and Efrain Elizade on Saturday and Los Morros del Norte and Banda Los del Pueblo on Sunday. The crowning of Miss Cinco de Mayo 2014 takes place on Sunday. Gates are open from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, May 2, and noon to 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, May 3-4. Admission is $5 for people ages 12-65, and free for children under age 12 and seniors. Visit www.cincodemayoreno.com.

The Nevada Museum of Art will hold its monthly First Thursday event featuring fine art, beer and wine and music by the Coney Dogs. The event begins at 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 1, at the NMA, 160 W. Liberty St. General admission is $1-$10 and free for NMA members and children age 5 and younger. Call 329-3333 or visit www.nevadaart.org. After visiting the NMA, drop by Liberty Fine Art Gallery, 100 W. Liberty St., for its monthly event from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Visit www.libertyfineartgallery.com. Other galleries with First Thursday events include Noble Pie Parlor, 239 W. Second St., www.facebook.com/NoblePieParlor, Java Jungle, 246 W. First St., www.javajunglevino. com, and Artspace, RAWR, se7en and West Street Wine Bar at West Street Market, 148 West St., www.facebook.com/WestStreetMarket.

Genoa Cowboy Festival The festival celebrates the unique forms of cowboy poetry, Western music and the Western lifestyle all weekend long beginning Friday, May 2, in the town of Genoa. Free activities and demonstrations include open houses at various art galleries, a Western mercantile row, leather carving, blacksmithing, Dutch oven cooking and roving entertainers at various venues in Genoa and the Carson Valley.

Ticketed events include workshops, cowboy poetry readings, tours, Chautauqua performances and concerts by headlining acts Hot Club of Cowtown and Ronstadt Generations, among others. The celebration takes place from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, May 2-3, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 4. A day pass is $15 per person per day and $10 for kids. A three-day pass is $30 for adults and $15 for kids. Tickets for the Hot Club of Cowtown concert on Friday, May 2, are $35. Tickets for the Ronstadt Generations concert on Saturday, May 3, are $35. Both shows start at 7 p.m. and take place at the Mormon Station Main Stage Concert Tent. Call (775) 782-0326 or visit www.genoacowboyfestival.org.

SilverState Tattoo and Arts Festival Nightmare Studios, Kingpin Tattoo Supply and Tattoo Artist Magazine present the second annual festival featuring artists from all over the world.

There will be tattoo contests, exhibits, live tattooing, painting, seminars, live entertainment and more inside the Naples Ballroom in the Peppermill Resort Spa Casino, 2707 S. Virginia St. Doors are open from noon to 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, May 2-3, and from noon to 8 p.m. on Sunday, May 4. Call 324-0666 or visit www.silverstatetattoo.com.

Sunland No. 2: Art & Music The Holland Project hosts the second event in its quarterly salon-style discussion series, Sunland. The theme is “Art and Music” and the symbiotic relationship between the two. Omar Pierce of 1-800-Cherrys, Jon Kortland of Iron Lung and Feeding and Matt Sullivan from Light in the Attic Records will discuss the connection between art and music and the artists, photographers, designers and documentarians who help define certain bands, scenes and genres.

Kyle Bladow will moderate the event, which begins at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, at Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave. Admission is free. Call 742-1858 or visit www.hollandreno.org.

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All doc and no action I’ve been going to the same primary care doctor for a few years. I’m very attracted to him, and I believe he’s attracted to me. There’s always been a dynamic between us. I thought it was his “bedside manner,” but when I asked others, they didn’t have the same experience with him. I know he isn’t married. Also, I am very healthy and only see him annually for “well checks.” Do you have any advice on whether I should do anything?

It’s OK for your doctor to ask you, “Can I give you a breast exam?” But not if he adds, “Later tonight, in my Jacuzzi?” There are all sorts of places a doctor can go to meet women—bars, parties, bowling alleys, grocery stores, and hostage standoffs—but he can lose his license for dating those he picks up in his reception area. Not only does the American Medical Association deem current patients off-limits but a former patient can also be a no-go if it seems the sexual relationship started through an exploitation of trust, knowledge or emotions from the doctor-patient relationship. Because rules can vary from place to place, it’s wise to check with your state medical board to see whether they have stricter standards. For example, Colorado’s Medical Practice Act imposes a six-month waiting period before your doctor is allowed to see you in a dress that doesn’t tie in the back and expose your butt crack.

Even if your doctor does have the hots for you, he probably has an even stronger desire to avoid downscaling to “driving” a shopping cart, collecting cans, and

living beside a Dumpster. So, the first move, if any, must be yours—putting an unambiguous end to the medical portion of your relationship. Do this in writing, adding something like, “You’re an excellent doctor, but I would like to see a doctor closer to my house.” It doesn’t matter whether that’s true. It just has to get the message across—without impugning his skills—that you’re formally outta there. At the end, add, “I would, however, be interested in seeing you socially.”

That little addition might not seem like much, but as linguist Steven Pinker notes about a remarkable feature of human psychology, even the slightest veiling of what we really mean will allow people to pretend it meant something innocuous. The deniability “doesn’t have to be plausible, only possible,” Pinker explains in a paper.

So, if Dr. McDreamy doesn’t want the romantic relationship you do, he can pretend you’re just suggesting it would be nice to bump into him at a gallery opening or something, not bump into him between your sheets. But before you do anything, you should accept that you may have misread the signals, and he may not be interested.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Dear As-

trologer: We Aries people have an intense fire burning inside us. It’s an honor and a privilege. We’re lucky to be animated with such a generous share of the big energy that gives life to all of nature. But sometimes the fire gets too wild and strong for us. We can’t manage it. It gets out of our control. That’s how I’m feeling lately. These beloved flames that normally move me and excite me are now the very thing that’s making me crazy.

What to do? —Aries.” Dear Aries: Learn from what firefighters do to fight forest fires.

They use digging tools to create wide strips of dirt around the fire, removing all the flammable brush and wood debris. When the fire reaches this path, it’s deprived of fuel.

Close your eyes and visualize that scene.

SAMMY HAGAR Friday, May 2 & Saturday, May 3

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “My

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personal philosophy is not to undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.” So said Taurus-born Edwin Land, the man who invented Polaroid photography. I have a feeling these might be useful words for you to live by between your birthday in 2014 and your birthday in 2015.

In the coming 12 months, you will have the potential of homing in on a dream that will fuel your passions for years. It may seem to be nearly impossible, but that’s exactly what will excite you about it so much—and keep you going for as long as it takes to actually accomplish.

MOONWALKER – THE REFLECTION OF MICHAEL Saturday, May 17

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I wish there

was a way you could play around with construction equipment for a few hours. I’d love it if you could get behind the wheel of a bulldozer and flatten a small hill. It would be good for you to use an excavator to destroy a decrepit old shed or clear some land of stumps and dead trees. Metaphorically speaking, that’s the kind of work you need to do in your inner landscape: Move around big, heavy stuff; demolish outworn structures; reshape the real estate to make way for new building projects.

ELVIN BISHOP Saturday, May 24

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the Trans-

formers movies, Optimus Prime is a giant extraterrestrial warrior robot. His body contains an array of weapons that he uses for righteous causes, like protecting Earth’s creatures. His character is voiced by actor Peter Cullen. Cullen has also worked extensively for another entertainment franchise, Winnie the Pooh. He does the vocals for Eeyore, a gloomy donkey who writes poetry and has a pink ribbon tied in a bow on his tail. Let’s make Cullen your role model for now. I’m hoping this will inspire you to get the Eeyore side of your personality to work together with the Optimus Prime part of you. What’s that you say? You don’t have an Optimus Prime part of you? Well, that’s what Eeyore might say, but I say different.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you finally

understand that you don’t have to imitate the stress-addled workaholics and selfwounding overachievers in order to be as proficient as they are? Are you coming to see that if you want to fix, heal and change the world around you, you have to fix, heal and change yourself? Is it becoming clear that if you hope to gain more power to shape the institutions you’re part of, you’ve got to strengthen your power over yourself? Are you ready to see that if you’d like to reach the next level of success, you must dissolve some of your fears of success?

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purgation of superfluities,” said Michelangelo. Do you agree? Could you make your life more marvelous by giving up some of your trivial pursuits? Would you become more attractive if you got rid of one of your unimportant desires? Is it possible you’d experience more lyrical grace if you sloughed off your irrelevant worries? I suggest you meditate on questions like these, Virgo. According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, experiencing beauty is not a luxury right now, but rather a necessity. For the sake of your mental, physical and spiritual health, you need to be in its presence as much as possible.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I’m pretty sure

God wants you to be rich. Or at least richer.

And I know for a fact that I want you to be richer. What about you? Do you want to be wealthier? Or at least a bit more flush? Or would you rather dodge the spiritual tests you’d have to face if you became a money magnet? Would you prefer to go about your daily affairs without having to deal with the increased responsibilities and obligations that would come with a bigger income? I suspect you will soon receive fresh evidence about these matters. How you respond will determine whether or not you’ll be able to take advantage of new financial opportunities that are becoming available.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The U.S.

military budget this year is $633 billion. In comparison, the United Nations’ peacekeeping budget is $7.8 billion. So my country will spend 81 times more to wage war than the U.N. will spend to make peace. I would prefer it if the ratio were reversed, but my opinion carries no weight. It’s possible, though, that I might be able to convince you Scorpios, at least in the short run, to place a greater emphasis on cultivating cooperation and harmony than on being swept up in aggression and conflict. You might be tempted to get riled up over and over again in the coming weeks, but I think that would lead you astray from living the good life.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Actor Matthew McConaughey prides himself on his willingness to learn from his mistakes and failures. A few years ago, he collected and read all the negative reviews that critics had ever written about his work in films.

It was a “really interesting kind of experiment,” he told Yahoo News. “There was some really good constructive criticism.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Sagittarius, now would be an excellent time for you to try an experiment comparable to McConaughey’s. Be brave!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Dear

Oracle: I might be hallucinating, but recently I swear my pet iguana has been getting turned on whenever I disrobe in front of it.

My naked body seems to incite it to strut around and make guttural hissing sounds and basically act like it’s doing a mating dance. Is it me, or is it the planets? I think my iguana is a Capricorn like me. —Captivating Capricorn.” Dear Capricorn: Only on rare occasions have I seen you Capricorns exude such high levels of animal magnetism as you are now. Be careful where you point that stuff! I won’t be shocked if a wide variety of creatures find you extra alluring.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Eat like

you love yourself,” advises author Tara Stiles. “Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.” Those four prescriptions should be top priorities for you, Aquarius. Right now, you can’t afford to treat your beautiful organism with even a hint of carelessness.

You need to upgrade the respect and compassion and reverence you give yourself. So please breathe like you love yourself. Sleep and dream like you love yourself. Think like you love yourself. Make love like you love yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If blind-

folded, most people can’t tell the difference between Pepsi and Coca-Cola. But I bet you could, at least this week. Odds are good that you will also be adept at distinguishing between genuine promises and fakes ones. And you will always know when people are fooling themselves. No one will be able to trick you into believing in hype, lies or nonsense.

Why? Because these days you are unusually perceptive and sensitive and discerning. This might on occasion be a problem, of course, since you won’t be able to enjoy the comfort and consolation that illusions can offer. But mostly it will be an asset, providing you with a huge tactical advantage and lots of good material for jokes.

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

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That kind of variety, where it goes from a country or mellow folk thing into something really heavy—that to me is kind of a Led Zeppelin aesthetic.

Michelle Belle The bluesy local rock duo Scarlet Presence is releasing a new album, Sing the Body Electric, with a record release party at Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, 71 S. Wells Ave., on Saturday, May 3 at 9 p.m. But the record release show will also be the band’s farewell show. Michelle Belle is Scarlet Presence’s singer and guitarist. For more information, visit scarletpresence.com.

Tell me about the new album.

It’s pretty crazy. It’s pretty different. It doesn’t sound like us at all. There’s only two of us so we played every instrument.

It’s really collaborative between the both of us. And there are a lot of different song.

There’s rock ’n’ roll. There’s country.

There’s soft songs. There’s ’60s. It’s a mash-up of a bunch of different genres.

I hear a lot of blues in there too.

Yeah, there’s some blues, as always.

I like the organ parts and things like that.

Oh yeah. And there’s slide whistles and crazy ridiculous instruments.

I can see that. We definitely made it as an album. You listen to it as an album.

The title, Sing the Body Electric, is from Walt Whitman or Ray Bradbury. Why’d you choose that title?

It still has at its core a vocalsguitar-drums thing, which I think is neat. There are these extra touches, but it still sounds like a stripped-down guitar and drums thing.

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Nice! We didn’t really want to do the White Stripes thing and just have those three instruments. When people hear the album and then they hear it’s only two people, maybe they’ll be like, I wonder how they do it live? There’s keyboard and so many other instruments. I got to go check it out.

Well, we need a change. When you say Scarlet Presence, a lot of people think the last six years of it, and we don’t really want the connotation anymore. We want a change. … We’ve had different members, and we’re so different now than we used to be. We thought it was time to put it to rest.

I hear a lot of ’70s rock influences, like Led Zeppelin.

Tell me about the show.

It’s going to be a lot of fun. We’re probably going to get up and play with The Kanes for a few songs. Post-War is going to play as well. It’s going to be a lot of fun.

Really? Cool. There were a lot of different influences on that. They’ve definitely always influenced me as far as guitar playing and Carter [Stellon] as far as drumming. But as far as songwriting, more like Beatles kind of influences I hear. But some of [our song] just sound different. They don’t sound like anything, which I think is cool. Every one of them sounds so different.

Fast to trash In the wake of the Donald Sterling flap, I have concerns. But they aren’t for Sterling, his team, or the NBA. They’re with the media, which has again shown itself to be reckless, undisciplined and downright bloodthirsty.

The Sterling flap broke on the morning of Saturday, April 26. The tape of the Clippers owner and his girlfriend was right there on TMZ, ready to be heard by a salivating world, hungry for a new rich guy punching bag. Within hours, journalists, columnists, pundits and talking heads were falling all over themselves to be the first to condemn Sterling for his racist utterances to his young trophy babe. The sentiment was understandable. But I couldn’t help but think, as I was watching this media firing squad line up to blast away, that it was all a little … premature.

There were points that simply begged for consideration. First, were we sure that the man on the tape was indeed Donald Sterling? Before you race to your laptop to make your pronouncements and denouncements, shouldn’t you be sure that he actually

From both. I really like The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury. He’s really cool.

And I just happened to see that [title] somewhere when I was looking at his books and though, that kind of fits the album perfectly.

And then there’s a quote from the Walt Whitman poem that put inside the album.

Anything else?

I hope everybody really digs the album! I can’t wait to hear what people think of it. Ω

∫y Bruce Van Dye said this stuff that he supposedly said? Many in the media seemed to care not one iota about any such restraint or about getting even basic confirmation. What was really important was to get atop this new dogpile.

Then, there’s the girlfriend, V Stiviano. For starters, she’s half-black, half-Mexican. Is this the kind of hottie that would attract a racist? Really?

Then there’s the lawsuit. Ms. Stiviano is the defendant in a suit filed by Sterling’s longtime wife, who says hubby was seduced into giving Stiviano four cars, a luxury condo, and tons of cash during their four-year affair. Shelly Sterling wants Stiviano to repay these gifts, to the tune of over $2 million. Is it possible that Stiviano set Sterling up, to get him to make embarrassing comments while taping their conversations, thereby strengthening her position in the lawsuit? Or hurting his? And why exactly was the L.A. chapter of the freaking NAACP all set to give this supposed racist a lifetime achievement award on May 15? I mean—say what?

On Saturday, these were all valid questions. Responsible journalists

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would at least ponder and research those questions before racing to declare their disgust and outrage at Sterling’s utterly repugnant and totally horrible horribleness.

But research and restraint don’t appear to have much place in the new, modern world of Instagram journalism. More important is to be one of the first to be outraged and disgusted. Too bad, thoughtful fact checkers.

You’re too slow. TMZ and Deadspin just kicked your ass. Again.

This is, after all, a man’s reputation you’re throwing down the toilet.

If you’re gonna trash him for being a racist dog, you better be damned sure you know what you’re talking about.

Now, here on Monday morning, I feel OK in agreeing that Mr. Sterling does indeed seem to have some genuinely unacceptable racial issues. All during the weekend, though, I had the distinct feeling that I was one of the few who wasn’t rushing to judgment. Ω |

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