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Back in the saddle Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Those people on the Daily Show are going to drive me crazy. Anyway, first they told me last Thursday, Sept. 25 (but that that could change) and then they told me this Thursday, Oct. 2 (but that could change, they’d let me know), so I still won’t know by the time this paper is on the streets.

They could elect to portray me as a fool, a genius, or just not run the segment at all.

I recorded the whole interview with Samantha Bee, and I took pictures, so you know I’ll be telling the whole story from my point of view in coming weeks.

It was one of the more surreal episodes in my life.

School and work in the meantime are going full bore.

I’m taking two awesome and challenging classes, Narrative Journalism and Entrepreneurial Journalism.

And now we have an election coming up. Is anyone paying attention yet? I’m sending out surveys to the candidates today, and I hope to have our election page up before the start of early voting. It’s as much about assisting voters to make up their own minds as it is about informing our coverage. I’m constantly conflicted and mutable in my feelings about how much impact I want this newspaper to have in elections. On the one hand, I’m often told that we’re the only local media people care about. I want us to be the best at what we do, but I have no illusion, and I don’t want our readers to, either, that we’re in any way comprehensive.

We’re a generally 40-page paper, and if we tried to be one of those weekly dailystyle papers you see in the cow counties, we’d be losing readers instead of increasing them by 35 percent over the last year.

On the other hand, if we don’t express ourselves from our obviously biased but informed point of view, our readers are left to totally fend for themselves. And to be honest, even with our immersive news existence, sometimes we’re left shrugging our shoulders when both candidates are uniformly good or uniformly bad. But what’s a little alt-weekly to do?

He probably means ‘Fred’ Re “150 things for 150 years” (cover story, Sept. 18): Once again, the juveniles that seem to have discovered a new word beginning with an F couldn’t resist using it.

Since there were several authors listed, it’s difficult to determine who the head juvenile might be. Nevertheless, it’s sad that the editor keeps insisting that such language is a valid form of expression in a newspaper. I’ve been ridiculed before for finding such language in your newspaper out of place and entirely unnecessary. While I’m somewhat in agreement about the demolition of the Mapes Hotel Casino, I would ask, what did the F word add to the article?

Fred Speckmann Reno Editor’s note: I’m the head juvenile.

And yeah, we get testy whenever someone wants to restrict our right to express ourselves the way we choose.

There are many newspapers out there that censor a lot more than the word you find so inappropriate. You’ll often find that willingness to restrict one aspect of the First Amendment indicates a willingness to surrender others. If you don’t find it a valid form of expression in this newspaper, maybe you should find another newspaper. I will, however, point out we’ve allowed you to say pretty much whatever you want without ever telling you how to say it.

Read between the lines Re “Civic Power” (This week, Sept. 18): I was all set to be snarky regarding my opinion of the “Civic Power” cartoon, even armed with a quote from the movie Go regarding the unexplainable compulsion to read “The Family Circus” in the old days of comic pages, despite knowing it’s going to suck. But then came your plea for submitters to “Be nice.”

So, I just want to ask: What is the point of this panel? Local contributor, of course. Local political commentary, as well? I know we are a small enough town that our City Council can be a

Our Mission To publish great newspapers that are successful and enduring. To create a quality work environment that encourages people to grow professionally while respecting personal welfare. To have a positive impact on our communities and make them better places to live.

Tesla helped Tesla, the governor and the Legislature have created a huge cash-flow problem for Nevada, causing taxpayers to pay for roads, sewage treatment plant expansion, and other infrastructure for one for-profit corporation, with no new revenue streams until 10 or 20 years from now. Meanwhile, the only new revenue stream is at our fingertips at the ballot box: Put a check beside “Yes” on Ballot Measure 3.

Those who were trusting that two-thirds of the state Senate and two-thirds of the Assembly would pass their own education funding bill are now reconsidering the likelihood of that happening. The initiative process, which requires only 50 percent of the vote, appears to be the only politicallyfeasible way to improve funding for Nevada’s K12 schools.

And those who thought that Nevada can’t afford to ask businesses to pay their fair share are also reconsidering. They watched Republicans and Democrats in both houses vote unanimously to donate $1.3 billion of taxpayers’ money to one private-sector business. It’s now time for businesses to pony up. Recent events are reminding us to vote Yes on ballot Question 3.

Fred Cooper Reno

More entries Re “150 things for 150 years” (cover story, Sept. 18): 150 things? Jinxed! With Bette Midler and Ken Wahl—loads of old Reno. Vanishing Point—too cool for school and Goldfield, too. The Cal

Editor/Publisher D. Brian Burghart News Editor Dennis Myers Arts Editor Brad Bynum Calendar Editor Kelley Lang Staff writer Sage Leehey Contributors Amy Alkon, Woody Barlettani, Bob Grimm, Ashley Hennefer, Sheila Leslie, Eric Marks, Dave Preston, Jessica Santina, Todd South, Brendan Trainor, Bruce Van Dyke, Allison Young

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Neva Lodge, second home for the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra.

Lucille Ball owned two condos at Incline. Come on; do your research a little better. An episode of Then Came Bronson. Almost forgot that.

Roberta Shaw Reno Editor’s note: The article, which was never intended to be exhaustive, was a way of showing how Nevada was seen over the decades through various media—books, radio, movies, etc.—and a hotel isn’t a medium.

bit Mayberry—OK, a lot—and can easily be the subject for satire and sarcasm, but “Civic Power” lacks both, and is also not funny or entertaining in the least. Yet I am still strangely compelled to read it, just so I can grind my teeth in frustration. If the idea is to just fill a space with something that seems generated at the last second by a middle school civics class, then you nailed it. Sorry, Woody.

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We don’t need no education Re “The ABCs of B2S” (Feature area, July 24): Having recently become a Renoite, I am having a great time reading your paper’s interesting articles and getting the latest on local events. It’s a great paper for the city.

Being a retired educator, I was quick to jump into a recent piece on the “ABCs of B2S.” Great piece and thoughtfully researched. However, unlike the days of yesteryear, when it was assumed that students were taught good manners and self-control at home, it is apparent to me that a couple of major questions were overlooked.

1. Does my child/teen/student really want to learn new knowledge to exercise their brain power? Information is often challenging to learn and, moreover, keep long term. With the technological boom, answers to questions are but a click away. The internet is our new “brain.” What matters is an individual challenge. Do I want to have the ability to store knowledge and exercise my neurons or do I simply want to run my life from youth to death on base animal drives and whatever consumer habits you were taught at home? Young people, teens and children, thrive today on drama, power and acceptance through material objects.

School, albeit important and relevant to the current state of the world, is not essential to be liked, courted and even loved. Dumb people like hanging around other dumb people. Since those numbers are growing, the percentage of inarticulate dumb tablet users is growing exponentially.

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2. Is my child/teen/student capable of functioning in an environment that is based on structure and discipline?

Parents have to know how their teen is going to behave in situations where self-control is essential. That part of school that helps curtail impulsive and selfish behaviors is an essential part as much as learning history, math or any academic challenge. I used to be so annoyed with my administrators because a student could tell me to “F-off” and even though they were suspended and lost assignments, they were allowed to re-enter my classroom without any kind of apology. Saying “I’m sorry for my behavior” is a way of planting the seed of accountability and empathy for others—again, as necessary as any academic endeavor.

What needs to be done to revolutionize our educational success in Nevada or in America? There is a strange correlation in the educational field between behaviors exhibited in the 3rd grade and 10th grade.

Statistically, it appears students who are ill-mannered and unsuccessful in the 3rd grade are the same in the 10th grade. Some educators are lucky because they only teach the upper level kids and smaller special needs classes.

These two groups are the shining stars of any school environment. The average, middle level teachers mirror average middle class America. They are shouldered with all the responsibilities of the environment to support the growth, just as middle class America pays the largest amount of taxes to support the country.

My solution to revolutionize education in America is two-fold: 1.

Get rid of all testing with the exception of diagnostic for placement. Rely on educators’ professional training and moral duty to critique their students based on what they see for nine months, not a test. 2) If a student is so selfish and impulsive that they don’t want to go to school, then let them leave the environment as soon as possible. ... The solution for education is not more money but to get rid of the rabble and have the remaining students and the school enjoy prosperity and a sense of respect by the community.

André Clayman Reno

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Have you ever taken a great fall?

Asked at Coffee Bar, 682 Mount Rose St. Chris Crowder Retail sales

Yes, I fell out of a car when I was 10.

I was leaning up against the door, and the car went around a turn, and the door swung open. This was before seat belts, so I fell out the car right on my bum.

Needless to say, I no longer lean against car doors.

Michael Millerick Retired

Yes, but none that I’m willing to share.

Ly Smith Stay-at-home mom

Recall the Gazette-Journal The Reno Gazette-Journal, impartial observer, is leading the fight to remove six members of the Washoe County School Board.

School board members screwed up royally by doing business in violation of the open meeting law when they dealt with a problem involving Superintendent of Schools Pedro Martinez. Their attorney screwed up worse by watching them throughout that process without once telling them they had wandered outside the law.

How did board members then respond? They admitted their mistake, reversed their action, paid a fine, and are trying to move on. Isn’t that the way we want public officials to act when they make mistakes?

How did the critics of the board members then respond?

The Gazette-Journal and some community figures want them to keep paying. Every time the board members try to get back to work on, you know, education, the newspaper launches another attack. Why? Here’s our theory: Pedro Martinez, like his predecessor Heath Morrison, is a graduate of the Broad Academy, a right-wing institution dedicated to making education an arm of the business community. “The business of urban education” is the way the Academy describes it (“Agendas,” RN&R, Oct. 6, 2011). The Gazette-Journal and developer Perry diLoreto, who promised to finance a recall campaign, are distressed that the business community they both champion must now be treated like any other players in this valley and no longer have special entrée into the school district.

In the case of diLoreto’s sudden interest in leading on education, residents need to ask themselves, should another rich developer still have more power in this valley that is already too heavily dominated by developers?

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I was out at Z Bar on a hot day, I hadn’t had much to eat but had drank a lot of water. I had a few drinks and wasn’t feeling well. My husband was about to take me to the restroom, but I didn’t quite make it. I fell and smacked my head. I had a huge goose egg on my head and a minor concussion.

As for the Gazette-Journal, champion of the overdog, it has for too long been far too cozy with the business community it is supposed to challenge and scrutinize. With the Gazette-Journal Building as recall campaign headquarters, how can the community trust its “news” coverage of that campaign? Instead of being a chamber of commerce newsletter, it would be nice if the Gazette-Journal would stop living down to A.J. Liebling’s description of the press as “the weak slat under the bed of democracy.”

Moreover, with the RGJ leading a campaign, other media entities—the valley’s television stations and the Sparks Tribune—have a responsibility to cover the newspaper as another political player, like DiLoreto, obtaining interviews with RGJ representatives on their strategy as the recall evolves. At a time when it is more and more difficult to drag good people into running for office, the Reno Gazette-Journal is making office-holding all the more intolerable. Officeholders who make mistakes and then correct them are, according to the newspaper, unfit for office.

The board members should not only not resign, as the showboating Gazette-Journal demanded in a front page editorial, they should proceed to choose a new superintendent who is independent and not tied to special interests.

That means excluding any more graduates of the Broad Academy.

We want a board and superintendent dedicated to the students, not to special interests with their own agendas.

Whatever their flaws, we have never doubted that all members of the school board have exactly that devotion.

Our students are safe in their good hands. The same cannot be said of the hands of the Reno Gazette-Journal or its corporate cronies. Ω |

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I was skiing in the park at Northstar.

I went off a box jump and fell. I tried to get up a few times, but my knee kept sliding out from under me, and I couldn’t get up. I ended up tearing my ACL and was done for the season.

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Yes, I fell down a mountain when I was 14. I thought it would be a good idea to run down the side of it, and I ended up just tumbling all the way down the mountain.

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Get thinking about that vote It’s time to start making up your mind.

In just two short weeks, early voting begins, after a lackluster campaign season. Although legislative races in the north have been a snoozefest this year, the candidates for the major constitutional offices offer a sharp contrast. by The office of lieutenant governor Sheila Leslie in Nevada is a part-time gig, with little power or prestige. We’ve had a lounge singer (Lorraine Hunt), a neurosurgeon/memorabilia collector (Lonnie Hammargren) as well as notable Nevadans who went on to succeed in bigger and better office, like Sen. Harry Reid and Supreme Court Justice Bob Rose.

The “excitement” around the race this year centers on Gov. Brian Sandoval’s possible plans to challenge Senator Reid in 2016, providing an opportunity for the lieutenant governor to move on up.

Half-term state Sen. Mark Hutchison is the Republican candidate, a man desperately trying to launch himself into higher office as Sandoval’s handpicked successor

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despite his arrogant conservatism and short fuse, a dangerous combination.

Democrats initially struggled to find a candidate, but are united now behind two-term Assemblymember Lucy Flores, a strong campaigner who is expected to motivate women and Latinos to go to the polls.

Hutchison performed poorly in a primary debate, and has avoided a replay with Flores, who has exceeded expectations on live TV with articulate answers and a captivating personality that has attracted national attention. Flores better represents the dynamic and inclusive Nevada I want to live in and will get my vote.

The attorney general contest features scions of two Nevada political families, the Laxalts and the Millers. Republican Adam Laxalt, the grandson of former U.S. senator and governor Paul Laxalt, seems to be an appealing and attractive candidate, until he starts talking. In a recent debate before the Nevada Press Association, he gave an appalling performance, confusing Nevada’s open meeting law with the public

records law, while giving rambling answers to unasked questions.

His opponent, Ross Miller, son of former Gov. Bob Miller, serves as secretary of state and came to the forum better prepared. Laxalt is attacking Miller for the $60,000 in gifts he’s accepted—and reported— over the past five years, but neglects to mention that he’s one of the very few elected officials to take the disclosure law seriously. Sure, the Legislature should pass a “no gifts” law to outlaw the golf games and free tickets, but Miller deserves credit for proposing much stronger disclosure and transparency legislation. He’s been thwarted by a bi-partisan consensus to keep gifts just as they are—hidden.

Laxalt has had to contend with the release of a very poor job performance evaluation from a law firm whose evaluators referred to him as a “trainwreck” and wondered if he was worth retaining. The cluelessness of his self-evaluation is astounding to read. Nevada needs an attorney general prepared to serve, and Miller is the clear choice.

Term-limited state Sen. Barbara Cegavske is running on the Republican ticket for secretary of state against state Treasurer Kate Marshall, a Democrat. During her legislative years, Cegavske proved to be reliably conservative in her worldview, but rigid and unmovable on many subjects. In the days before term limits, freshmen Democratic legislators were cautioned to avoid signing on to any Cegavske bill, known to sound so innocuous and uncontroversial just before exploding into an American Legislative Exchange Council-inspired mess.

Marshall has done a solid job as state treasurer over the past eight years and seems to have rebounded from a doomed candidacy for the U.S. House during a special election in 2011 when she morphed into an unrecognizable Republican/Bush tax-cutting persona.

She’s smart, hard-working, and tenacious. The secretary of state oversees the conduct of elections. If you want Nevada’s elections to be fair and open to all, vote for Marshall. Ω

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Court can be life-changing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is all around us.

In addition to those who suffer due to a specific trauma like a sudden death of a loved one, we know veterans can suffer from PTSD due to not one traumatic incident but the cumulative effects of combat. But did you know you can suffer a simiby Brendan lar form of PTSD from litigation?

Trainor Dr. Karin Huffer is working hard to let you know about it. She has written several books on the subject and also lectured internationally on what she calls “Legal Abuse Syndrome.” Not only does she write and lecture on PTSD caused by litigation, she also trains specialists who can advocate for those who suffer from these “invisible disabilities” through the Americans with Disabilities Act (As Amended). Full disclosure: I study with Dr. Huffer.

Many libertarians dislike the ADAAA because it is sometimes abused to generate frivolous lawsuits against small businesses

over minor violations of petty regulations. But part of the ADAAA is directed against government agencies that do not properly provide accommodations for the disabled. It is a classical liberal idea that most of what legislators do should be government oversight, instead of constantly meddling in our personal and business lives.

Huffer started her practice in Las Vegas as a family therapist for over 30 years. Since 1988, she has developed her idea of trained advocates in court to help those suffering from Legal Abuse Syndrome, a form of PTSD. A diagnosis of PTSD directs the court, through the Americans With Disabilities Act, to offer accommodations to the litigant. But why are accommodations needed in the first place? For one, you have an inviolate right to justice in the courts.

Huffer does not analyze the psychological effects of litigation from a conservative or liberal view.

Instead she analyzes PTSD from a

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rules. The ADAAA can help pro se litigants.

Would retaining an ADAAA Advocate invite the opposition to smear your mental health? The ADAAA forbids retaliation against the affected litigant or those who advocate for them. The advocate will work with the abused litigant to help him through the false guilt that often affects those with PTSD and to reframe his life to function better.

Advocates help litigants to recognize their symptoms, to stop blaming themselves, to combat the obsessive compulsive hypervigilance (OCH) that allows the litigation to completely take over their lives. If the presence of the power-centered litigant in court causes symptoms, the use of video appearance can be an accommodation. Sometimes the advocate will be in court seated with the abused litigant to advise the judge that a small break is required. Ω

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power-centered/conscience-centered framework. She contends that the judicial system can be dominated by power-centered litigants, attorneys and even judges.

PTSD is not a mental illness, but it is a psychic wounding that can severely impact core life functions.

Sleep deprivation, anxiety, ability to function in order to meet legal deadlines, and phobias are common symptoms. PTSD in veterans has a distinct moral dimension: Many veterans have experienced the horrors of war as a violation of their moral compass. Litigation, Huffer argues, can have a similar effect as the power-centered can manipulate the legal system and cause conscience-centered individuals trauma as their moral outlook on life is shattered.

Due to the high costs of litigation, many are forced to represent themselves. Pro se status can tilt the power of abuse to those attorneys and litigants who are often much more well versed in procedures and

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In 1978, local residents paid to expand the Reno Sparks sewer plant to accommodate new casinos that exhausted its capacity. A similar decision may be ahead to oblige Tesla.

Schools and mental health can wait A Colorado outfit called Southwest Energy Efficiency Project thinks Nevada is not doing enough for Tesla and other electric car manufacturers and should keep on giving.

SEEP wants the state to promote electric car use by providing lease or purchase rebates, deregulating power sales to foster charging stations, changing municipal government vehicle codes to encourage electric fleets, and increase registration fees for electric vehicles to raise money for road maintenance and charging stations.

Asked what state funding should be reduced in order to pay for these steps, SEEP spokesperson Mike Salisbury said, “Honestly, I’m not in a position to say exactly how the state should fund a rebate for EVs. My goal is to provide solid information on the benefits of electric vehicles to Nevada and provide suggestions as to how the state could further stimulate the sale of electric vehicles.”

Mine appeal launched Nevada ranchers and Native Americans are appealing a lower court ruling allowing a Eureka County molybdenum mine to go ahead to a federal appeals court.

Great Basin Resource Watch and the Western Shoshone will take the appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco.

On July 23, U.S. District Judge Robert C. Jones rejected an effort by tribes and ranchers to stop a Mt. Hope molybdenum mine planned by General Moly, Inc. The litigants had argued that the mine would put pressure on scarce water and despoil the environment. Jones found that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management had accounted for water and environmental impacts.

“We own the closest private property to the project in two directions,” said rancher Carolyn Bailey in a prepared statement.

“Our ranch and farm are located close enough to Mount Hope to be adversely affected by the mining caused impairment of our air, increased heavy truck traffic, and the very real damage to our business from the massive pumping and resulting drawdown of groundwater. Our water is not infinite.”

After Jones issued his decision, General Moly CEO Bruce Hansen said in a prepared statement that the corporation was still seeking financing for the operation. On Sept. 25 its shares opened at $0.79. It holds an 80 percent interest in the Mt. Hope project.

Strong convictions In our Sept. 18 edition, we reported on the Nevada Commission on Mineral Resources donating $2,500 in public funds to a mining political group, the Nevada Mineral Exploration Coalition.

We noted that the Coalition was one of at least seven mining industry groups that contributed to the Nevada Senate campaign of Republican Greg Brower, who opposed the reelection of Democrat Sheila Leslie, sponsor of the repeal of the industry’s “golden loophole”—an 1864 cap on mining taxes written into the Nevada Constitution, a cap enjoyed by no other industry.

The RN&R article prompted the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada to ask Nevada Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick on Sept. 18 for a probe “to determine whether the Nevada Commission on Mineral Resources illegally gave state funds to a private PAC that has supported candidates that push its anti-safeguard, pro-industry agenda.” Kirkpatrick chairs the Legislative Commission, which handles some legislative business when the full legislature is out of session. PLAN also urged its members to let “your legislators know you’re watching how your tax dollars are being spent, and demand accountability.”

On Sept. 25 the Coalition’s David Shaddrick responded with a letter calling Fulkerson’s action “irresponsible” and pointing out that the Coalition also contributed to Leslie’s campaign, thus attesting that not only is it a political organization, but it’s one that covers its bets by working both sides of the street.

Repeal of the golden loophole will appear as Question 2 on this year’s ballot.

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Curbing jobs blackmail Money replaced persuasion in ‘economic development’ While Gov. Brian Sandoval and his allies celebrate their success in attracting Tesla to Nevada with a deluge of tax by abatements, there are policymakers Dennis Myers around the nation discussing ways to keeping it from happening to taxpayers again.

“Tax exemptions intended to attract and retain technology companies are emerging as the next battleground in an income inequality debate that has drawn global attention,” Bloomberg News reported in

“We need a national law that prohibits corporations from extracting bribes.”

Mark Funkhouser Former Kansas City mayor For information on corporate subsidies, see www.GoodJobsFirst. org. A spreadsheet list of some of the more extravagant state and municipal corporate welfare is at www.

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April. The Tesla deal, accompanied by wide scorn in the business community, has fueled sentiment for federal restrictions on the use of economic incentives by state and local government, with chambers of commerce prominent among supporters of such restrictions.

The sheer amount of corporate welfare involved in some recent giveaways—Nevada’s most of all—have prompted calls for federal action to curb state and municipal giveaways

and their attendant impact on workers and taxpayers. One possibility is withholding federal community block grant money from governments that use incentives to lure business, which is a relatively new technique.

The Tesla deal came on the heels of “smaller” transactions in other states—$2 billion for Intel for a semiconductor manufacturing facility, for example, or $1.7 billion to the Cerner Corp. for expansion of the health care information technology company.

Such deals happened in markets far larger than Nevada, so their per capita impact was smaller. Until recently, according to the New York Times, Nevada had the lowest taxpayer burden for corporate welfare in the nation—$12 per resident. It’s unknown yet what the recent Nevada glut of various sales tax anticipated revenue (STAR) bonds, tax increment financing (TIF), tax credits, and abatement deals have done to that ranking over the course of a couple of governorships and legislatures.

The cost to states in subsidies have begun to reach sky-high levels, with some states paying nearly half a million dollars for each job. In the Tesla case, if the corporation actually creates the projected 6,500 jobs—the Sandoval deal does not guarantee any number—Nevada will lose $200,000 for each job.

Why a federal law? Subsidies in states and municipalities are such a flood now, local officials are unlikely to restrain themselves voluntarily.

The two Kansas Citys—which face each other across the Missouri/Kansas border—keep luring companies back and forth with ever-higher subsidies.

Chambers of commerce in both states finally convinced the Missouri General Assembly (state legislature) this year to enact a measure to crack down on the raiding. But Kansas balked at enacting corresponding legislation and, because the legislation is framed as a nonaggression pact, the effort has apparently failed.

In those circumstances, only action from outside can control the excesses.

Last year, Mark Funkhouser—former Kansas City, Missouri, mayor and now publisher of Governing magazine—wrote, “We need a national law that prohibits corporations from extracting bribes from state and local governments and bans governments from donating tax dollars to private entities—a sort of domestic equivalent of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits American companies from bribing foreign governments.”

Funkhouser says the practice of luring companies with subsidies is somewhat new, that until the 1970s, the money now used for incentives was invested in keeping infrastructure and schools up to date. On Sept. 15 he told the Washington Post, “If a state said, ‘No, instead of $3 billion for Boeing, we’re going to invest it in schools, and we’re going to invest it in highways,’ they would win. Nevada did not win on Tesla.”

In some states, legislators have taken on oversight duties because of the difficulty of policing incentive agreements. In New York, for instance, Republican Assemblymember Kieran Lalor called attention to secrecy surrounding an IBM deal and furloughs the corporation imposed after getting welfare— “New York has given IBM hundreds of millions in tax benefits. That should come with more transparency. We need facts and figures on the jobs those subsidies supposedly create or retain.”

In Nevada, state legislators spent only two days giving the deal a once-over-lightly, set up no subsequent legislative oversight, voted unanimously for the deal, and were all smiles as the governor signed it.

Legislators were anxious to believe wild claims made for the Sandoval deal and carefully avoided calling in independent experts to analyze it.

Among the matters that were ignored

by the lawmakers is the possibility that Tesla’s presence could cause a multi-million dollar expansion of the Reno-Sparks sewage treatment plant, a direct impact that the Sandoval deal with Tesla does not address—much less fund. The lawmakers are now politically invested in portraying it as successful instead of committed to rigorously policing its provisions.

Moreover, politicians are not economists or scholars. They tend to take for granted that subsidies are a positive factor without doing any homework to find out if it’s true. In fact, serious research shows things that never enter the politicians’ minds— that subsidies to small companies foster more economic growth than subsidies to large corporations, for example, and that subsidies tend to help those segments of the economy that need it the least. Subsidies are rarely if ever used in neighborhoods of the working poor.

And though there is always a lot of political talk about job creation, subsidies don’t do that, either. The Tesla jobs were created in a boardroom in California. The only thing at issue in the competition among states was where they would be located. Not only does research not show subsidies create jobs, but a comparison by scholar Nathan Jensen of Kansas corporations receiving subsidies with those that did not found those not receiving subsidies created slightly more jobs.

The concern of politicians for workers in these deals is normally minor or non-existent. Washington provided $8.7 billion in incentives (the largest state corporate tax subsidy in history) to Boeing, which was threatening to leave the state at a time when the corporation was also (1) demanding concessions from unions, (2) increasing dividends by more than half, and (3) hitting soaring profits of more than 75 percent. When a vote by rank and file union members threatened to undo the deal, a couple of dozen states moved in to offer Boeing better deals, prompting the union to cave in. The other states had torpedoed Boeing workers, reduced the spending power of those workers, and weakened the regional economy.

Little wonder that a few weeks later, Seattle voters raised the local minimum wage to $15 an hour.

“Many working people, middleincome people, even upper middleincome people, are being left behind,” said San Francisco Supervisor David Campos at a protest against tax breaks given to Twitter Inc. (value of the needy corporation: in excess of $25 billion) to keep it in that city, breaks that the Service Employees International Union Local 1021 has calculated have cost the city $56 million in lost revenue.

Politicians out of work are naturally terrified by voters out of work, and executives are eager to exploit that fear. Ω

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Tom Stille eats a tomato in a high tunnel or hoophouse at River School Farm.

Feeding friends Local farm has changed greatly over 22 years River School Farm isn’t new to Reno. It’s been around in a variety of forms since 1992 when owner Tom Stille started it out as a nursery.

“Well, I started it because I was in the landscape business, and I wanted by Sage Leehey to start a nursery,” Stille said. “And for eight years we ran the nursery, and then some of bigger ones like Home Depot came. Then I did a kite shop for s age l@ a couple years because I liked to fly kites and my son did, too. And then we news review.c om changed and got more into the school because we built another building and then we had the dance studio and mirrors, and we started the farm.”

The business has three basic divisions now, according to Stille. There’s the landscaping division where landscape architects and gardeners build gardens for clients. And then there’s the school and farm divisions. RSF hosts many classes in farm-related activities, dance, yoga and drumming at various times as well as various events, programs and camps. It’s also meant to be a demonstration farm for locals to get inspiration and help.

The buildings on the premises have electric and hydronic solar to heat them and their water, and some of them are made with two-foot thick straw bale earth plaster.

“They serve to utilize our resources, but they’re also really good for insulation,” Stille said. “And then some of our wood came from a fire that was here about 15 years ago maybe, Floriston Fire. We harvested all this wood from the dead trees, so we do a lot of recycling.”

There is also a stage made of pieces of the old Mapes Hotel that is used during weddings. Stille said the farm is a relatively popular wedding venue River School Farm is and that they usually have about 3 weddings a month in the summer. located at 7777 White “One of the newer things we’re trying to do is grow food for the wedding Fir St. to learn more about this farm, visit dinner as well as cut flowers,” Stille said. “So the bride can walk down the www.riverschoolfarm. aisle with the same kind of flowers that are growing around here.” org.

They also dry fruits and vegetables—pears, grapes to make raisins, tomatoes, beans and others. Stille said he had done some of this before, but now does a bit more in a shade tunnel on the farm.

And Stille said they also use low, mid and high tunnels for growing, which have helped revolutionize farming in the high desert because they protect crops from animals and the weather, and they raise humidity levels.

One of the newest additions to RSF is a farm at nearby Patagonia where they sell food to the cafeteria. They also sell food to area restaurants as well and have their own online market. (The online-ordered food can be picked up at the farm on Thursdays.)

Stille said that an important aspect of RSF is that he is constantly trying to limit their inputs. They do this is in a variety of ways, including with a worm bin and with composting. They use kitchen and landscaping scraps from the farm and from landscaping jobs to make their compost and compost tea.

RSF has also started making hard cider and various types of vinegars inside their solar closet. They’re even making a malt vinegar from leftover beer from a wedding.

“Reno needs to be connected to our planet,” Stille said. “We need to be more sustainable, so doing many things locally including growing food, I think, is really important for Reno. … I think building community around the local economy is really important, so that’s why we do all this.” Ω OPINION

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his one has all the ingredients of a dreamed-up Hollywood blockbuster: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist uncovers a big story involving drugs, the CIA and a guerrilla army. Despite threats and intimidation, he writes an explosive exposé and catches national attention. But the fates Kill the Messenger, a film coming soon to a theater near you, is the true story of Sacramento-based investigative reporter Gary Webb, who earned both acclaim and notoriety for his 1996 San Jose Mercury News series that revealed the CIA had turned a blind eye to the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras trafficking crack cocaine in South Central Los Angeles and elsewhere in urban America in the 1980s.

One of the first-ever newspaper investigations to be published on the Internet, Webb’s story gained massive readership and stirred up a firestorm.

After being deemed a pariah by media giants like The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, and being disowned by his own paper, Webb eventually came to work in August 2004 at Sacramento News & Review.

Four months later, he committed suicide at age 49. He left behind a grieving family—and some trenchant questions.

shift. Our reporter’s story is torn apart by the country’s leading media. He is betrayed by his own newspaper. Though the big story turns out to be true, the writer commits suicide and becomes a cautionary tale.

Hold on, though. The above is not fiction.

“HE was bR avE, HE was fl awEd. … I fEll I N l o v E w I T H G a R y w E b b .”

JEREMY RENNER

Like others working at our newsweekly in the brief time he was here, I knew Webb as a colleague and was terribly saddened by his death. Those of us who attended his unhappy memorial service at the Doubletree Hotel in Sacramento thought it surely marked a conclusion to the tragic tale of Gary Webb.

But no.

Because here comes Kill the Messenger, a Hollywood film starring Jeremy Renner as Webb; Rosemarie DeWitt as Webb’s then wife, Sue Bell (now Stokes); Oliver Platt as Webb’s top editor, Jerry Ceppos; and a litany PHoTo by laRRy dalToN

Journalist Gary Webb, who worked at SN&R in the four months before his death, gained both acclaim and notoriety for his 1996 San Jose Mercury News series “Dark Alliance.”

of other distinguished actors. Directed by Michael Cuesta, the film opens October 10.

Members of Webb’s immediate family—including his son Eric, who lives near Sacramento State and plans a career in journalism—expect to feel a measure of solace upon the release of Kill the Messenger.

“The movie is going to vindicate my dad,” he said.

Renner spoke to the News & Review about his choice to star in and co-produce it.

“The story is important,” said Renner. “It resonated with me. It has a David and Goliath aspect. He was brave, he was flawed. … I fell in love with Gary Webb.”

‘ T h e f i r s t b i g I n t e r n e t- a g e j o u r n a l i s m e x p o s é’ There’s a scene in Kill the Messenger that will make every investigative journalist in America break into an insider’s grin.

It’s the one where—after a year of tough investigative slogging that had taken him from the halls of power in Washington, D.C., to a moldering jail in Central America to the mean streets of South Central Los Angeles—Renner as Webb begins to actually write the big story. In an absorbing film montage, Renner is at the keyboard as it all comes together—the facts, the settings, the sources. The truth. The Clash provides the soundtrack, with Joe Strummer howling: Know your rights / these are your rights …

You have the right to free speech / as long as you’re not dumb enough to actually try it.

It took the real Gary Webb a long time to get to this point in his career.

His father, a U.S. Marine, moved Webb around a lot in his youth, from California to Indiana to Kentucky to Ohio. He wound up marrying his high-school sweetheart, Sue Bell, with whom he had three children.

Inspired by Watergate reporting and in need of income, he left college three units shy of a degree and went to work at The Kentucky Post, then The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, where he rose quickly through the ranks.

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Dogged in his pursuit of stories, Webb landed a job at the Mercury News in 1988 and became part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for reporting the Loma Prieta earthquake.

It was the summer of 1996 when the lone-wolf journalist handed his editors a draft of what would become the three-part, 20,000-word exposé “Dark Alliance.” The series was exhaustive and complex. But its nugget put human faces on how CIA operatives had been aware that the Contras (who had been recruited and trained by the CIA to topple the Nicaraguan government) had smuggled cocaine into the United States and, through drug dealers, fueled an inner-city crack-cocaine epidemic.

When “Dark Alliance” was published on Aug. 18 that year, it was as if a bomb exploded at the Mercury News. That’s because it was one of the first stories to go globally viral online on the paper’s then-state of the art website. The series attracted an unprecedented 1.3 million hits per day. Webb and his editors were flooded with letters and emails.

Requests for appearances poured in from national TV news shows.

“Gary’s story was the first internet-age big journalism exposé,” said Nich Schou, author of Kill the Messenger, on which the movie is partially based, along with Webb’s own book version of the series, Dark Alliance. “If the series had happened a year earlier it, ‘Dark Alliance’ just would have come and gone,” said Schou.

As word spread, black communities across America—especially in South Central—became outraged, demanding answers. At the time, crack cocaine was swallowing up neighborhoods whole, fueling an epidemic of addiction and crime.

Rocked by the revelations, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, who represents Los Angeles’ urban core to this day, used her bully pulpit to call for investigations.

But after a six-week honeymoon period for Webb and his editors, the winds shifted. The attacks began.

On Oct. 4, The Washington Post stunned the Mercury News by publishing five articles assaulting the veracity of Webb’s story, leading the package from page one. “Oliver Stone, check your voice mail,” summed Post media columnist Howard Kurtz.

A few weeks later, The New York Times joined with similar intent.

The ultimate injury came when the L.A. Times unleashed a veritable army of 17 journalists (known internally as the “Get Gary Webb Team”) on the case, writing a three-part series demolishing “Dark Alliance.”

The L.A. paper—which appeared to onlookers to have missed a giant story in its own backyard—was exhaustive in its deconstruction, claiming the series “was vague” and overreached.

Even some of Webb’s supporters admitted that his series could have benefited from more judicious editing. But why were the “big three” so intent on tearing down Webb’s work rather than attempting to further the story, as competing papers had done back in the day when Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate scandal?

Some say it was the long arm of then President Ronald Reagan and his team’s ability to manipulate the gatekeepers of old media to its purposes.

Reagan had, after all, publicly compared the Contras to “our Founding Fathers” and supported the CIA-led attempt to topple the Nicaraguan government.

Others say that editors at the “big three” were simply affronted to have a midsize paper like the Mercury News beat them on such a big story. An article in the Columbia Journalism Review claimed some L.A. Times reporters bragged in the office about denying Webb a Pulitzer.

One of their big criticisms was that the story didn’t include a comment from the CIA. When reporters at the big three asked the agency if Webb’s story was true, they were told no. The denial was printed in the mainstream media as if it were golden truth.

It was falsely reported by some media outlets and many activists in the

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black community that Webb had proven the CIA was directly involved in drug trafficking that targeted blacks. He simply did not make this claim.

In some ways, Webb became the first reporter to benefit from, and then become the victim of, a story that went viral online.

After basking in the early success of the series, Webb’s editors at the Mercury News became unnerved and eventually backed down under the pressure. Executive editor Jerry Ceppos published an unprecedented May 11, 1997, column that was widely considered an apology for the series, saying it “fell short” in editing and execution. The apologia did partially defend the series.

Webb was soon banished to the paper’s Cupertino bureau, a spot he considered “Siberia.” In 1997, after additional run-ins with his editors, including their refusal to run his follow-up reporting on “Dark Alliance”, he quit the paper altogether.

But a year later, he was redeemed and vindicated when CIA inspector general Frederick Hitz released a 1998 report admitting that the

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Images from Kill The Messenger include (left to right) Renner as Webb, Oliver Platt as San Jose Mercury News executive editor Jerry Ceppos, Renner as Webb at work in Nicaragua talking to a source, and Renner with Rosemarie DeWitt as Sue Webb.

Eric Webb, 26 and living in Sacramento, says he feels Kill the Messenger is a clear vindication of his father Gary Webb’s life and career. “The movie is going to vindicate him,” said Eric, seen here with his father’s old typewriter. “If people see the movie, they’re going to know he was right.”

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CIA had known all along that the Contras had been trafficking cocaine.

Associated Press reporter Robert Parry called the report “an extraordinary admission of institutional guilt by the CIA.” A later internal investigation by the Justice Department echoed the CIA report.

But the revelation fell on deaf ears.

It went basically unnoticed by the newspapers that had attacked Webb’s series. No apology was forthcoming to Webb, despite the fact that the central finding of his series had been proven correct after all.

’ I n e v e r r e a l l y g a v e u p h o p e’ To Webb’s son Eric, 26, planning a journalism career, and Webb’s ex-wife, Stokes, a movie about Gary Webb was old news. A Paramount project had never come to fruition.

Things finally took off almost eight years ago, when screenwriter Peter Landesman called author Schou about his not-yet-published book about Webb. Landesman was hot to write a screenplay, said Schou. It was years later when Landesman showed the screenplay to Renner, whose own production company, The

Combine, decided to co-produce it.

Focus Features, owned by Universal, now has worldwide distribution of the movie Kill the Messenger.

“When Jeremy Renner got involved,” said Schou, “everything started rolling.”

In the summer of 2013 Stokes and Webb’s children flew to Atlanta for three days on the film company’s dime to see a scene being shot.

“The first thing [Renner] did when he saw us was come up and give us hugs and introduce himself,” said Eric. “He called us ‘bud’ and ‘kiddo’ like my dad used to. … He even had the tucked-in shirt with no belt, like my dad used to wear. And I was like, ‘Man, you nailed that.’”

The scene the family watched being filmed, according to Stokes, was the one where Webb’s Mercury News editors tell him “they were gonna back down from the story.”

“I was sitting there watching and thinking back to the morning before that meeting,” said Stokes. “Gary was getting nervous [that day]. He said, ‘I guess I should wear a tie and jacket’ to this one. He was

’I’ve shot that gun so I know’ It was an otherwise routine December 2004 morning when 16 year old Eric Webb was called out of class at Rio Americano High School and put on the phone with his mother, who told him he needed to leave campus immediately and go straight to his grandmother’s house.

“I told her, ‘I’m not going anywhere until you tell me what happened,’” said Eric. So she told him about his dad.

“He killed himself,” she said.

Eric had the family BMW and he

Legislature’s task force on government oversight. When he lost that job in February 2004, a depression he’d fought off for a long while settled in, said Stokes. Though divorced in 2000, the couple remained friendly.

On the day that would have been their 25th anniversary, he turned to her, utterly distraught, after hearing he’d lost the job.

“He was crying, ‘I lost my job, what am I gonna do?’” she said. He knew the development would make it tough to stay in Sacramento near his children. She urged him to regroup and apply again at daily newspapers.

Surely, she thought, the controversy over his series would have waned.

But when Webb applied, not even interviews were offered.

“Nobody would hire him,” she said. “He got more and more depressed. He was on antidepressants, but he stopped taking them in the spring,” said Stokes. “They weren’t making him feel any better.”

It was August when Webb finally got work as a reporter at the Sacramento News & Review. Though he hadn’t set out to work in the world of weekly journalism, with its lesser pay and more hit-and-miss prestige, he was a productive member of the staff until near the end. During his short time with SN&R, he wrote a few searing cover stories, including “The Killing Game,” about the U.S. Army using first-person shooter video games as a recruitment tool.

“I was always happy to see his covers,” said Eric, attending high

everyone else, I’d been looking forward to getting to know him.”

In the days following his death, the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office came out with a preliminary finding that was meant to stop a flood of calls. The report “found no sign of forced entry or struggle” and stated the cause of death as “self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head.”

But it was too late to stop the conspiracy theorists. The CIA wanted Webb dead, they hypothesized, so the agency must have put a “hit” out on him. To this day, the Internet is full of claims that Webb was murdered. The fact that Webb had fired two shots into his own head didn’t dampen the conjectures.

Said Eric, “The funny part is, never once has anybody from the conspiracy side ever contacted us and said, ‘Do you think your dad was murdered?’”

The family knew what Webb had been through.

They knew he had been fighting acute depression, had purchased cremation services and put his bank account in his ex-wife’s name, had mailed letters to his brother Kurt in San Jose containing personal messages to each family member.

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school at the time. “We got SN&R on our campus, and I would be like, ‘Hey, my dad’s on the front page.

That’s awesome.’ ” It was the morning of Dec. 10 when SN&R editorial assistant Kel Munger entered editor Tom Walsh’s office with word that Gary’s son had just called saying, “Somebody needs to tell the boss that my dad killed himself.”

Within a few hours, SN&R was fielding press calls from all around the country, said Munger. A week later, it was she who had the gut-wrenching job of cleaning out Webb’s work cubicle, to pass his belongings on to his ex-wife and kids.

“There was bundled-up research material, a bunch of Detroit hockey paraphernalia, photos of his kids. … I remember he had a 2004 Investigative Reporter’s Handbook with Post-it notes throughout.”

“I was having a hard time keeping it together,” said Munger. “Like

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Receiving the letters “was actually a big relief for us,” said Eric. “We knew it was him. They were typed by him and in his voice. It was so apparent. The things he knew, nobody else would know. … He even recommended books for me to read.”

According to Eric, the “two gunshots” issue is “very explainable,” because the revolver Webb had fired into his head, a .38 Special police addition his Marine father had owned, has double action that doesn’t require a shooter to re-cock to take a second shot. “I’ve shot that gun so I know,” said Eric, who said his father taught him to shoot on a camping trip.

“Once you cock the trigger, it goes ‘bang’ real easily. … You could just keep on squeezing and it would keep on shooting.”

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Jeremy Renner, who starred in films such as The Bourne Legacy and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, was the driving force in bringing Kill The Messenger to the big screen.

He plays Gary Webb in the soon-to-bereleased film.

the viewer to “weigh in too heavy” with details of the death. Including Webb’s demise would have “raised a lot of questions and taken away from his legacy,” he said.

drug-runners. That wouldn’t have happened if Gary Webb hadn’t been willing to stand up and risk it all.”

Rep. Waters, who spent two years following up on Webb’s findings, wrote a statement calling him “one of the finest investigative journalists our country has ever seen.”

When Hollywood weighs in on the Webb saga, the storm that surrounded him in life will probably be recycled in the media and rebooted on the internet, with old and new media journalists, scholars and conspiracy theorists weighing in from all sides.

The film itself is an utter endorsement of Webb’s work.

“I want the audience to walk away and debate and argue about it all,” Renner said of his David and Goliath tale. And then, “I do believe [the film] might help create some awareness and accountability in government and newspapers.”

And what would the real live protagonist of Kill the Messenger have thought of it all? It’s at least certain he’d have been unrepentant. In the goodbye letter his ex-wife received on the day of his suicide, Gary Webb told her: “Tell them I never regretted anything I wrote.” Ω

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floored it to his father’s Carmichael home—the one his dad had been scheduled to clear out of that very day. Webb had sold it with the alleged plan of saving money by moving into his mother’s home nearby.

“I needed a visual confirmation for myself,” said Eric. He pulled up to the house and saw a note in his dad’s handwriting on the door. It read, “Do not enter, please call the police.” Eric went inside and saw the blood, “but his body had already been taken,” he said.

It’s clear from all who knew him well that Gary Webb suffered from severe depression. Some—like Stokes—believe in retrospect that Webb was also likely ill with undiagnosed bipolar disorder. Still, why did he do it? What makes a man feel enough despair to take his own life?

After leaving the Mercury News in ’97, Webb couldn’t get hired at a daily. He wrote his book, and eventually worked for the California

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nervous but hopeful that they would let him move forward with the story.”

Of course, they did not.

After a pause, Stokes said: “It was hard watching that scene and remembering the emotions of that day.”

In June, Webb’s family saw the film’s final cut at the Focus Features studio in Santa Monica. All were impressed with the film and the acting. “Jeremy Renner watched our home videos,” said Eric. “He studied.

All these little words and gestures that my dad used to do—he did them. I felt like I was watching my dad.”

Stokes has no regrets about the film.

“It was all very emotional,” she said. “But I loved the movie. And the kids were very happy with how it vindicated their father.”

Said Renner, “If [the family gets] closure or anything like that … that’s amazing.”

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It was eight days after Webb’s death when a few hundred of us gathered at Sacramento Doubletree Hotel for a memorial service. Photo collages of Webb were posted. There he was on his prized red, white and blue motorcycle. There he was camping with his children. There he was featured in an Esquire magazine article recounting his saga. Family members and friends, longtime colleagues and SN&R staffers packed into the room.

My own distress at Webb’s passing wasn’t fully realized until my eyes lit on his Pulitzer Prize propped just inside the entryway. It was the first one I’d ever seen. I wondered how many more exceptional stories he might have produced.

“He wanted to write for one of the big three,” said Webb’s brother Kurt.

“Unfortunately, the big three turned [on him].”

Praise flowed for the absent journalist, for his smarts, guts and tenacity, from friends, colleagues and VIPs. A statement from-now U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, then a senator, had been emailed to SN&R: “Because of [Webb]’s work, the CIA launched an Inspector General’s investigation that found dozens of troubling connections to

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Aaron Hapgood and Arryn Walker pose in Hapgood’s Gentlemen’s Mercantile.

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A husband-and-wife duo have started a miniature vintage goods district in Reno

et’s get the name thing out of the way first.

Aaron Hapgood and his wife, Arryn Walker, “used to be named Bob and Sue,” Hapgood jokes, looking a little weary of the subject, “but that was too boring.”

Their work lives mirror each other, too, but don’t be fooled. Each Arryn/ Aaron runs a Lakeside boutique packed with vintage furniture, home goods, art and a bit of clothing on the side. We’re talking about two different stores, though—a his-and-hers arrangement that speaks to closeness and space, boy and girl, and careful minimalism versus cozy clutter. Only a parking lot stands between them.

Red Chair, Walker’s place on Lakeside Drive, has been around since 2003.

Hapgood’s Gentlemen’s Mercantile opened just last year on Lakeside Court, under her ownership and his operation—a venture spurred by Hapgood’s growing interest in the flair and swagger of the ’50s and ’60s.

Her store is “more ‘starter’ Mid-Century,” as Walker puts it, with newer wares mixed in, affordable clothes and accessories, and a price range of around $150 to $800 for a piece of furniture. Hapgood’s is for the more devout collector, with curated designer furniture that can run as high as $5,000 (though some items can be yours for less than $100).

From time to time, he’s asked to combine the stores. She won’t budge.

“He would love that,” Walker says with a chuckle. “I’d be doing the housework”—which is to say cleaning and restoring furniture—“and he’d be spending the paycheck” on new inventory. “When we go hunting, I’m cleaning the kill, and have to prepare it.”

The hunt is apt to take them on the road, into the homes and lives of other collectors who are willing to sell and trade.

“You want to stay married? Well, we need two stores,” Walker says. “We live together. We are in the exact same industry. We travel to buy goods, and spend eight hours in the car getting to where we’re going, then a whole week together in a hotel room.”

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Walker’s cash register faces the door at Red Chair, but you can’t see her when you first walk in, because so many goods are in the way.

If you’re lucky, so’s a button-cute 4-year-old named Brooklyn, who’ll zoom right at you when she’s feeling bold. The little girl is often right at her mother’s side—charming customers, puttering around and delicately inspecting fabrics and baubles. There are plenty.

“Hiii-iii,” each visitor trills as she walks in. Most are female, and talk with Walker as if she’s an old friend. One woman scoots around a shelving unit full of colorful throw pillows, then stops in front of some abstract paintings that Walker made herself. Another shopper is here to find decorative signage.

Meanwhile, across a sea of asphalt from his ladylove, Hapgood is flicking on an old-school stereo. Stereos, especially ones with vacuum-tube amps, are his latest obsession. Space-age furniture, too.

“Listen to that bass,” he says, nodding a bit as a 1970s Pioneer amplifier lets loose a deep, warm thunk. “It’s so clean.”

The furniture and lighting he carries is mostly Mid-Century modern—think Mad Men—and either in mint condition or lovingly restored to look as fresh as it did in Don Draper’s era. Hapgood’s is obviously marketed to men—what with the whole “gentlemen’s mercantile” bit, and the hats and dopp kits also sold here—but women shouldn’t be deterred.

Hapgood has lamented the gendered name, actually, but Walker thinks it’s a good fit.

“Women will walk in and not even bat an eye,” she says, “but men won’t walk into a place that says ‘eclectic home décor.’ They’re more likely to walk into a place that truly invites them.”

Bold light fixtures in the store draw the eye upward, offsetting European and American furniture with sleek lines, slim legs and low-slung backs. If a La-Z-Boy recliner were a hippo, in other words, a Milo Baughman chair would be a gazelle.

The Postwar era “was a very fashionable time,” Hapgood says, especially in trendsetting places like New York and Palm Springs. “Men wore

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tuxedos for no apparent reason and drank scotch at 3 in the afternoon because they felt like it.”

And because quality furniture was such a given in those days, “we’re more concerned about the types of wood—the walnut, the teak, the rosewood—than what’s on it,” he says. “If something comes in and it’s not perfect, we will refinish it or reupholster it.”

A sofa or chair “will get new foam,” Walker says.

“Or new fabric,” says Hapgood.

They’re finishing each other’s sentences.

“So it’s essentially a new couch—.”

“—except for the frame.”

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friendship spans decades, and they first crossed paths at Vaughn Middle School.

Customers often ask if they’re each other’s competition in the vintage-furniture biz. Maybe so—but so what?

“There is a huge advantage,” Walker says, “to being next to your biggest competitor and your best ally.”

Walker chose Lakeside Drive because it’s set apart from Midtown, in an area she describes as both neighborly and commercial.

“When this center was new, it was the shopping center,” she says. “It was the place to go on Friday night or Saturday night, or for shopping or whatever. Everything has a cycle, and I felt like if I moved and brought the energy I had to bring, more good Mid - Century nerds energy could follow, and this could be the center again.” Before long, Hapgood crunched numbers in his a handful of vacancies in the area past life, and every last thing he sells disappeared. is cataloged neatly in his At Red Chair, “you accountant brain—a can find unique formidable index of pieces that you names, countries can’t find of origin, “there is a huge anywhere else difficult foreign a dva n tag e,” Wa l k e r in Reno,” says consonant says, “ t o b e i n g n e x t customer Chris sounds, materiGalli, who als, dates of t o yo u r b i g g e s t calls his own manufacture, C o M p e t i t o r a n d yo u r style “a little historical bit modern, a context and b e s t a l ly.” little bit bougie so on. … a little bit Walker isn’t ornate, and not too like this. cluttered.”

Where his store is Tammy Riggs, another crisp and streamlined, hers is packed and artsy and circuitous. Their devotee, found an old console elsewhere, and had Walker and Hapgood minds work accordingly, she explains refurbish it to great success. They’ve later. But their objective is the same: also outfitted her home and law sell unusual stuff to those who’re office. offbeat enough to want it.

“When you’re working with “I tell them straight-up, ‘I’m not older furniture, you can run the risk looking for 95 percent of the populaof making your home look like a tion or community,’” she says. ‘“I’m museum, which nobody really wants,” looking for the 5 percent who want Riggs says. Walker “has the taste to something unique.’ … When people help you make things eclectic.” walk in, they always have some type Among other things, Hapgood of big reaction, whether it’s really has sold Riggs a pair of club chairs by good or really bad.”

Heywood-Wakefield, a staple brand for “Nekkid baby!” Brooklyn interMid-Century nerds everywhere. The jects in a little voice. Her mother is chairs came from a local home, which dressing her. means everything to their new owner.

“People don’t know what to “Reno is such a transient town,” expect when they come to our stores,” Riggs says, “To have things from Walker says, adjusting a tiny 1950sthis community that fit into that style era jacket as she talks. You get the frame—really, to me its special.” Ω sense Brooklyn has a bunch of these.

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Local comedians including Jym Bettencourt, Cliff McGrady, Brooke Elizabeth and James Fleming will also perform. We sat down for an interview with Hutchinson.

At what point did you realize you could make people laugh?

It’s funny, it seems like everyone has the same story. I would just go out to comedy clubs, and I knew I could do it better than those guys. I did my first comedy when I was 19 and then took like 10 years off and didn’t start up again till I was 29.

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How would you describe your style of comedy?

Probably anything that has to do with butts. I love being a silly comic; I have no problem if you are laughing at me or with me at all.

What made you decide to film the special in Reno?

It is one of the last times we will both be in Reno. It’s a good way to say bye to Reno for a little bit because after this I’ll be moving to New York to do comedy over there.

Do you and Kyle write your jokes or do improv?

Just a tiny bit of improv on the stage, but we mainly write out all of our jokes and are prepared.

What is the process you go through when writing a joke?

Sometimes I’ll write 10 jokes in a minute, and other times it takes really long. It has to be a funny premise or not very topical or just a funny idea I have. Sometimes they are dumb, like they are the dumbest things ever. But you just got to write them all, and, really, the true test is on stage.

Have you ever had a joke fail on stage?

Oh, yeah! All the time, that’s part of the process.

What made you decide to perform your special now?

I’m at this point where I’m the best that I’ve ever been at it, and I’m just really comfortable with the material that I have. Also we are both at the stage

What is the largest amount of people you have performed for?

I don’t know. I think like 200 people at a club in Los Angeles. We have also both performed here at in Reno at the Knitting Factory for few hundred people. I feel like, for comedy, the smaller more intimate places are better. That’s why we are so excited for the Potentialist Showroom because it only seats 55, I’ll be able to see all the people. It will be so nice.

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What can we expect out of this special?

Well, I think one thing that makes us different is the fact we actually write jokes, they aren’t just stories. We are like caricatures of ourselves when we are on stage. I want to put on a show so people have an experience, not just stand up there. People get on stage and are like “Man, you see the Lakers game today?”

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Let me think of the dumbest joke: It makes sense that they make parachutes out of parachute pants. I mean can you image if they would have made them out of skinny jeans? We would have lost the war. That might be the dumbest joke I have. Ω

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They weren’t grandma’s buttermilk biscuits, but they did a fine job serving up that tasty gravy.

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The meat had just enough pink to be perfect, and although the bottom of the toast got a little soggy, it didn’t last long enough for me to care. I chose their signature garlic-parmesan fries and basil aioli—a favorite from the old menu—and it was like greeting an old friend you haven’t seen in a while. Brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it.

Rounding out our meal was a well-executed plate of eggs Benedict ($10.49), including veggie fritters that resembled hash browns, yet crispier and with more flavor. The usual suspects were in the mix, including thick-cut ham on an English muffin topped with perfectly-poached eggs and a very light, creamy Hollandaise sauce. Classic and satisfying, yet I look forward to trying all the other variations the menu has to offer. In a town full of brunch options, these two chicks have just started their climb to the top of the pecking order. Ω Photo/alliSon young

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Simpering rivalry The Skeleton Twins Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader take their respective careers to the next level in The Skeleton Twins, with both of them spreading their dramatic wings and proving their talents go way beyond things that are just funny.

Craig Johnson’s second directorial effort has some intermittent laughs, but it gets a lot darker than one might expect for the Target by Lady and Stefon. The movie should do a lot Bob Grimm for both Hader and Wiig’s careers, and stands as one of the year’s better, and more complibgrimm@ newsreview.c om cated, family dramas.

The duo play brother and sister twins, long estranged, who wind up back in each other’s lives. Milo (Hader) tries to commit suicide in L.A. after breaking up with his boyfriend.

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trying to do the very same thing back in New York when the call comes in that Milo is in the hospital. After an awkward reunion in a hospital room, Milo heads to New York with his twin sis to lay low for a while.

The two, both very depressed, try to rekindle their sibling relationship while coping with their own self-destructive impulses. Maggie has taken to cheating on her affable husband (Luke Wilson) while Milo tries to reenter the life of the former high school teacher (Ty Burrell) who slept with him when he was underage. Yes, the time Hader and Burrell spend on screen together is mighty awkward.

Wiig and Hader make for a convincing onscreen brother and sister. Their characters clearly love one another, but are capable of severely hurting one another. We find out late in the game that some stuff that went down in high school resulted in wounds that haven’t fully healed, and the resultant fiery scenes are very well played. Hader and Wiig have natural sibling chemistry, no doubt something that developed over their years together at Saturday Night Live.

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Johnson provides the duo with a couple of funny scenes for them to really cut up, including a lip synch of Starship’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” and a sequence involving laughing gas. The scenes help balance the movie out, giving some contrast to the heavier stuff.

I can’t say that this film contains the best Hader performance ever because he did play that pot-smoking guy in the beginning of Pineapple Express, and I’m not sure anything will ever top those five minutes.

That said, Milo is a great character, sensitive and sweet in moments but also a bit nasty, sarcastic and vindictive when backed into a corner or simply in a bad mood. Hader shows that he has the potential for a long, dramatic career ahead of him, following in SNL brother Will Forte’s footsteps. Now that I’ve said that, I want to see a movie where they play brothers.

Wiig, without a doubt, is the best dramatic actress to emerge from Saturday Night Live. Her work in Bridesmaids may’ve garnered big laughs, but there was an edge to that performance that showed she could handle the emotionally richer material. Her Maggie is a bit despicable, but always sympathetic, and Wiig hits not one false note. If she keeps this up, she’s going to start pulling down Oscar nominations in the future.

Wilson helps fuel some great scenes with his always optimistic and somewhat simplistic character. He’s a likeable dummy who believes he’s married to the greatest girl in the world. So that, in turn, makes his performance kind of heartbreaking because, as sweet and innocent as he is, you always know he has a rude awakening coming.

Burrell basically plays a creep with no redemptive qualities, and he does it well.

By the way, all of you folks who used to complain about the Wiig years on SNL—saying she was in too many sketches and was getting on your nerves—did you see the latest SNL season premiere? Are you missing her yet? Holy Hell! I know this is off the subject, but I had to get a dig in.

Lorne Michaels—you and your crew are slumming!

We are heading into that time of the year where movies will hopefully bring many wonderful, brilliant surprises. Hader and Wiig will surprise you with this one. Ω

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Liam Neeson plays a former policeman and recovering alcoholic in director Scott Frank’s sometimes interesting and always unpleasant serial killer drama.

Neeson’s Matt Scudder, after accidentally killing a civilian during a shootout, has gone rogue since his days on the force. Eight years have passed, and while he’s quit drinking, he’s doing some pretty unsavory jobs as a private investigator. He gets pulled into the world of a drug dealer after his wife has been kidnapped, and a lot of bad, bad things start happening. Neeson is very good in the film, but the script, written by Frank and based on the novel by Lawrence Block, has too many cardboard characters. Worst of all is a homeless kid sidekick (played by Astro).

There’s also the strung-out heroin addict, the whispery-voiced abductor of women, and the creepy guy who tends the cemetery and keeps pigeons on the roof … and he knows something. I liked Neeson here, and I wouldn’t mind seeing the character again.

Hopefully, the next film with this character— if there is one—trims the fat.

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Dolphin Tale 2

Call this one The Empire Strikes Back of Dolphin Tale movies, in that it is slightly better than the original (not much—just slightly) and it has Tauntauns (actually, that’s not true). The likes of Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd and Harry Connick Jr. rejoin annoying child actors Nathan Gamble and Cozi Zuehlsdorff (yes, the Cozi Zuehlsdorff) for another round of gooey sentimentality involving dolphins. This time out, and probably due to all of those current issues involving whales and dolphins in captivity, the story spends a lot of time on rehabbing and releasing animals rather than confining them for human amusement.

In addition to Winter, the dolphin with the prosthetic tail, there’s a pretty awesome sea turtle and a kooky pelican that kids will love.

The movie kind of works as educational fare, but when it drifts away from the aquarium tanks it’s a real hell ride. It must be said that Harry Connick Jr. can’t act for beans, Ashley Judd’s career has really hit the skids, and Morgan Freeman just has no business being within a million miles of this film. Gamble and Zuehlsdorff (yes, the Cozi Zuehlsdorff) are, I’m sure, a couple of exquisite human beings, but watching them in a movie is an annoying, tedious task. I love the dolphins and aquatic life in this film. It’s the humans who drive me crazy.

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The Drop

This film features the final performance by James Gandolfini, and it’s a beauty. Luckily for the viewer, it’s not even the best thing about the movie. That would be the central performance delivered by Tom Hardy as Bob, a seemingly meek bartender of questionable intelligence who works for Cousin Marv (Gandolfini). Hardy disappears into this role, and will have you in awe that this is actually the guy who played Bane in The Dark Night Rises. The bar that Cousin Marv and Bob occupy is a drop bar, where many of the gambling winnings in a seedier part of Brooklyn wind up in a safe. One night, the bar is held up, and Cousin Marv has to hand over five grand. This puts Marv in debt to scary Chechen mobsters, now proprietors of the bar Marv once owned. Bob and Marv must devise a plan to pay the mobsters back, and when they do, they find themselves in an even deeper dilemma. Gandolfini’s Marv owes plenty to his Tony Soprano. He comes off like Tony after his power has been taken away, and his wife has abandoned him. The screenplay even gives him a nagging sister and a father in a rest home. Hardy delivers a character that’s always sympathetic, even when he reveals himself to be a bit more complicated than he first seems. It’s just another great performance in what is starting to become a rather impressive list of achievements.

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The Equalizer

Based on a TV show from the ’80s that I never once watched, Denzel Washington plays Robert McCall, a quiet employee at a Home Depot-type store. Robert likes to go drink tea at a local diner and read his book, and it appears that there is very little to him. When a young prostitute (Chloe Grace Moretz) gets into trouble with Russian

mobsters, Robert springs into action, and major details of his past are slowly revealed.

Washington is pretty damn great in the role, playing a sweet, gentle man who can tear your face off in an instant without blinking an eye. The film is directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), and while Fuqua resorts to a lot of visual clichés (slow motion, rain) he totally owns those clichés. Marton Csokas is good and scary as Teddy, the film’s main bad guy. His confrontations with Robert are quite memorable. The movie doesn’t offer much when it comes to new things, but it does provide solid entertainment through and through. I’m hoping Washington gets a franchise out of this one, because I’d like to see more about the story of Robert McCall.

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The maze in the title is a fun spectacle full of shifting walls and weird spider robots. When the movie is in the maze it is good. When it’s out of the maze, it kind of stinks. Dylan O’Brien plays Thomas, a teenager transported to a camp surrounded by a large, constantly shifting maze. The camp is inhabited by other teens, including Alby (Aml Ameen), Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) and Gally (Will Poulter). They are all clueless about why they have been put there and how to escape, but they do send a squad of “runners” into the maze to map it out and search its outer reaches. The searches are fruitless until the mysterious Thomas takes charge. The mystery of the maze is intriguing, but the payoff is blah. The Lord of the Flies drama between the leads is typical, boring stuff. I liked the design of the maze, and the maze turns out to be the film’s most interesting character. Second place goes to Poulter, who is a long way from the comic territory he staked out in We’re the Millers.

Too bad the rest of the movie feels like a patchwork of many movies before.

A husband and wife (Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss) struggling in their relationship visit a retreat on the advice of their therapist (Ted Danson), and they make a startling discovery in one of the guest houses. That discovery results in something that is beautifully clever in addressing the problems that plague many relationships, while also playing like a really cool Twilight Zone episode. The big twist results in one of the better romantic comedies in years.

Calling this a romantic comedy is almost an insult, but it has romance, and it is funny, so I suppose it falls into that genre. I do think it’s a movie that many therapists will hate, because it could save some couples a bunch of money. Duplass is making a name for himself as an understated, offbeat romantic comedy lead. He’s actually the star of another of the more recent great romantic comedies, Safety Not Guaranteed. Moss, star of TV’s Mad Men, has a movie career spanning over two decades, but The One I Love makes it feel like she’s just arriving. (Available on VOD, Amazon.com and iTunes during a limited theatrical run.)

When Wallace Bryton (Justin Long) goes to Canada seeking interviews for his strange podcast, he eventually winds up in the company of Howard Howe (Michael Parks). Howard appears to be a meek, lonely man who just wants to share stories, but after a poisoned cup of tea, Wallace finds out Howard has some nefarious intentions. Slowly, Howard works to transform Wallace into a Walrus, amputating his legs, fashioning tusks from his bones, and putting him in a permanent walrus suit. Writerdirector Kevin Smith birthed the idea for this movie while doing a podcast in 2013, and it’s surprising that it ever got made. The film is as weird as anything you are likely to see in a movie theater, and is even more of a departure for Smith than his horror film, Red State. Parks is wonderfully creepy as the old man who really, really likes walruses, and while Long plays a complete dickhead, he’s a dickhead we ultimately care about because Long is a talented actor who brings major depth to the part. The movie is gross and crazy, but not so much that the average moviegoer can’t handle it. Haley Joel Osment and Genesis Rodriguez are good in supporting roles, as is a mystery guest that I won’t give away.

On the edges Vague Choir “We don’t fit in, but I want to make it clear that that’s great,” Mark Earnest said recently. He’s the singer and guitarist by Brad Bynum of the band Vague Choir. “Everybody talks about ‘The Reno Scene’ in big bradb@ fat capital letters, but it doesn’t exist newsre view.c om because there’s like 17 of them, but with Vague Choir, I’ve noticed that we’re able to play within four or five of those.”

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2011, the group stabilized enough that seemed like a band with a specific sound and alchemy. So, Mr. Vague became Vague Choir.

Earnest begins most of the songwriting, but the songs are radically transformed by Mayhall and Thomas.

“I have songs, I bring them in, and then they beat them up wonderfully,” said Earnest.

All three are very capable players, and the trio format suits the band—this isn’t a trio that seems like it’s missing an element or two. But all of the playing is done in service of the songs.

Thomas is probably best known locally as the drummer of the progrock power trio Cranium, and in that context he’s know for playing fast, complex, polyrhythmic stuff, but in Vague Choir, his playing is restrained and tasteful, with just brief flashes of virtuosity when it seems appropriate.

“The songs don’t need to be overplayed to come across the way that envision them,” he said. “Sometimes we get a little flashy, and yes, I like to be creative with the beats, but sometimes I play the straightest possible thing I can play because it just seems necessary.”

“He takes my dumb little folk songs and turns them into epics,” said Earnest.

The band exists in a weird spot: too loud and heavy for the acoustic open mic nights, but too melodic and tuneful for the punks and metalheads.

It’s an amped up songwriting project that’s also a stripped down rock band.

It’s like a bizarro universe version of Pearl Jam where Eddie Vedder was hit by a bus and wanky lead guitarist Mike McCready joined Extreme or something. Although, Earnest doesn’t really sing like a grunge singer—he often sounds like Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs.

“We’re not a party rock band,” said Mayhall. “We’re a geek rock band.”

“That’s the story of my life, and I wouldn’t have it any other way,” said Earnest. “Almost every band I’ve been in has been like that where there’s something about it—even something like Dirt Communion, which was a little more obvious, still had some screwed up elements to it.

Everything has always had a little bit of a turn, but that’s appealing to me as a listener too. I tend to like bands ... that you can’t fit right into an exact genre. That’s what I like to listen to, and that’s what I like to write, too.” Ω

Marcus Mayhall, Jason Thomas and Mark Earnest of Vague Choir rock The Alley in Sparks.

“We kind of fit on the edge of quite a few different scenes,” said drummer Jason Thomas.

The three members of Vague Choir—Earnest, Thomas and bassist Marcus Mayhall—are all what you might call veterans of “The Reno Scene,” or several of those miniature Reno scenes all competing for attention, who have played in a variety of different bands. Earnest is also a journalist who writes a music column for the Reno Gazette-Journal.

Vague Choir is a bit of an oddity because it doesn’t fit neatly into any one genre or a specific corner of local music culture. The band members say they like this, though, because it means they have more diverse experiences than bands that fall into an easily recognizable genre and tend to always play the same venues with the same bands. When the band hits the road, they have similarly diverse experiences, fitting comfortably on bills with shoegaze bands in San Francisco and roots rock bands in Seattle.

Earnest started the band Mr. Vague back in 2003. Back then, it was an acoustic guitar act, with other players and other non-electric instruments.

The project got louder and louder for a few years and then became a solo project from 2008 to 2011. It was Earnest’s songwriting project while he also played in other bands, like the metal group Dirt Communion.

As Earnest’s songwriting outlet, the lineup was always shifting, but in

Vague Choir plays at monolith Bar, 100 n. arlington ave., with Fortune Club and dJ tiger Bunny on Saturday, oct. 11 at 8 p.m. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/ vaguechoir.

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7171 S.S. Wells Wells Ave., Ave., (775) (775) 384-1652 384-1652 1)1) Showroom Showroom 2)2) Main Main Bar Bar

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

The The Pretty Pretty Reckless, Reckless, Adelitas Adelitas Way, Way, Falling Falling Through Through April, April, 7:30pm, 7:30pm, $20-$100 $20-$100

Andre Andre Nickatina, Nickatina, Smoov Smoov E, E, Fam Fam Biz, Biz, 8pm, 8pm, $30-$80 $30-$80

An An Evening Evening with with Hank Hank 3, 3, 8pm, 8pm, $19-$40 $19-$40

MOODY’S BISTRO BAR & BEATS

Live Live music, music, 8:30pm, 8:30pm, no no cover cover

Live Live music, music, 8:30pm, 8:30pm, no no cover cover

Live Live music, music, 8:30pm, 8:30pm, no no cover cover

Acoustic Acoustic Wonderland, Wonderland, 8pm, 8pm, no no cover cover

DJ DJ Razz, Razz, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover

10007 10007 Bridge Bridge St., St., Truckee; Truckee; (530) (530) 587-8688 587-8688

PADDY & IRENE’S IRISH PUB

906-A 906-A Victorian Victorian Ave., Ave., Sparks; Sparks; (775) (775) 358-5484 358-5484

POLO LOUNGE

Gemini, Gemini, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover

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

Gemini, Gemini, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover

Richie Richie Ballerini, Ballerini, 8pm, 8pm, W, W, no no cover cover

RED DOG SALOON

Lonesome Lonesome Wayne Wayne Trio, Trio, 1pm, 1pm, no no cover cover Deep Deep Groove, Groove, 5pm, 5pm, no no cover cover

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

RUBEN’S CANTINA

Open Open Mic Mic Night, Night, 7pm, 7pm, M, M, W, W, no no cover cover

Karaoke, Karaoke, 8pm, 8pm, no no cover cover

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

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Oct. Oct. 3, 3, 88 p.m. p.m.

The The Holland Holland Project Project 140 140 Vesta Vesta St. St. 742-1858 742-1858

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

Oct. Oct. 4, 4, 88 p.m. p.m.

Knitting Knitting Factory Factory 211 211 N. N. Virginia Virginia St, St, 323-5648 323-5648

Bluegrass/Americana Bluegrass/Americana Open Open Performance Performance Jam, Jam, 7pm, 7pm, no no cover cover

148 148 West West St., St., (775) (775) 284-3363 284-3363

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

Dance Dance party, party, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover

445 445 California California Ave., Ave., (775) (775) 657-8484 657-8484

STUDIO ON 4TH

Ritual Ritual (goth/industrial) (goth/industrial) w/DJs w/DJs Rusty Rusty Burton, Burton, TV1, TV1, Pelikan, Pelikan, 9pm, 9pm, $3-$5 $3-$5

Sweetwater Sweetwater String String Band, Band, 8pm, 8pm, $5 $5

432 432 E.E. Fourth Fourth St., St., (775) (775) 737-9776 737-9776

Tuesday Tuesday Night Night Trivia, Trivia, 8pm, 8pm, Tu, Tu, no no cover cover

WILD RIVER GRILLE

The The Show Show Ponies, Ponies, My My Acoustic Acoustic Heart, Heart, 8pm, 8pm, $5 $5

Indigenous Indigenous Robot, Robot, 8pm, 8pm, Tu, Tu, $5 $5

Sunday Sunday Jazz, Jazz, 2pm, 2pm, no no cover cover

1717 S.S. Virginia Virginia St., St., (775) (775) 284-7455 284-7455

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1)1) The The Writer’s Writer’s Block Block Open Open Mic, Mic, 6:30pm, 6:30pm, no no cover cover

4275-4395 4275-4395 W. W. Fourth Fourth St., St., (775) (775) 787-3769 787-3769 1)1) Golden Golden Rose Rose Cafe Cafe 2)2) Green Green Fairy Fairy Pub Pub

1)1) Reno Reno Music Music Project Project Open Open Mic, Mic, 6:30pm, 6:30pm, no no cover cover

1)1) Saturday Saturday Night Night Music Music Showcase, Showcase, 7pm, 7pm, no no cover cover

2) 2) Jam Jam with with Jack Jack Di Di Carlo Carlo and and Red Red Dawn, Dawn, 5pm, 5pm, no no cover cover

1)1) Wildflower Wildflower Comedy Comedy Power Power Hour Hour Open Open Mic, Mic, 8:30pm 8:30pm Tu, Tu, no no cover cover

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 10/6-10/8 10/6-10/8 MONDAY-WEDNESDAY

2) Palmore Palmore Brothers, Brothers, 8pm, 8pm, no no cover cover 2)

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

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

2) Kick, Kick, 8pm, 8pm, no no cover cover 2)

2) Midnight Midnight Riders, Riders, 2) 8pm, M, M, Tu, Tu, W, W, no no cover cover 8pm,

2) Melissa Melissa Dru, Dru, 8pm, 8pm, no no cover cover 2) 1627 Hwy. Hwy. 395, 395, Minden; Minden; (775) (775) 782-9711 782-9711 1627 Valley Ballroom Ballroom 2)2) Cabaret Cabaret Lounge Lounge 3)3) TJ’s TJ’s Corral Corral 1)1) Valley

2) Melissa Melissa Dru, Dru, 8pm, 8pm, no no cover cover 2)

2) Melissa Melissa Dru, Dru, 8pm, 8pm, no no cover cover 2)

2) Greg Greg Austin, Austin, 6pm, 6pm, Tu, Tu, W, W, no no cover cover 2)

CRYSTAL BAY BAY CLUB CLUB CRYSTAL

2) Popa Popa Chubby, Chubby, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover 2)

Tumbleweed Wanderers, Wanderers, 1)1) Tumbleweed Rusty Maples, Maples, 10pm, 10pm, no no cover cover Rusty 2) Micah Micah J,J, DJ DJ JD, JD, 11pm, 11pm, no no cover cover 2)

2) Wake Wake of of the the Dead, Dead, 10pm, 10pm, no no cover cover 2)

The Polish Polish Ambassador, Ambassador, Liminus, Liminus, 1)1) The Mr. Lif, Lif, Ayla Ayla Nereo, Nereo, Wildlight, Wildlight, Mr. 9pm, M, M, $18-$40 $18-$40 9pm,

Spectra,, 7pm, 7pm, $25.95+ $25.95+ 1)1) Spectra 2) Left Left of of Centre, Centre, 10:30pm, 10:30pm, no no cover cover 2)

Spectra,, 7pm, 7pm, $25.95+ $25.95+ 1)1) Spectra 2) Left Left of of Centre, Centre, 10:30pm, 10:30pm, no no cover cover 2) 4) Rock Rock River, River, 10pm, 10pm, no no cover cover 4)

Spectra,, 7pm, 7pm, 9:30pm, 9:30pm, $25.95+ $25.95+ 1)1) Spectra Spectra,, 7pm, 7pm, $25.95+ $25.95+ 2) Left Left of of Centre, Centre, 10:30pm, 10:30pm, no no cover cover 2) 1)1) Spectra 2) Left Left of of Centre, Centre, 10:30pm, 10:30pm, no no cover cover 3) DJ DJ Chrissie Chrissie Chau, Chau, DJ DJ Jason Jason Chow, Chow, 2) 3) 11pm, $35 $35 4) 4) Rock Rock River, River, 10pm, 10pm, no no cover cover 11pm,

Spectra,, 7pm, 7pm, Tu, Tu, W, W, $25.95+ $25.95+ 1)1) Spectra 2) Live Live Band Band Karaoke, Karaoke, 10pm, 10pm, M, M, DJ DJ Chris Chris 2) English, 10pm, 10pm, Tu, Tu, Cash Cash Presley, Presley, English, 10:30pm, W, W, no no cover cover 10:30pm,

2) Locals Locals Night Night w/DJ w/DJ 2Wice, 2Wice, 2) 10pm, no no cover cover w/local w/local ID, ID, 10pm, $15 after after midnight midnight $15

2) DJ DJ E-Rock, E-Rock, 10pm, 10pm, $30 $30 2)

2) Lex Lex Nightclub Nightclub Saturdays Saturdays w/DJ w/DJ Enfo, Enfo, 2) 10pm, $15-$30 $15-$30 10pm, 3) County County Social Social Saturdays Saturdays w/DJ w/DJ Jamie Jamie 3) G, 10pm, 10pm, no no cover cover G,

3) Arty Arty the the Party, Party, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover 3)

Dave Mason’s Mason’s Traffic Traffic Jam, Jam, 7:30pm, 7:30pm, 1)1) Dave $46.20 2) 2) DJ DJ Rick Rick Gee, Gee, DJ DJ SN1, SN1, 10pm, 10pm, $46.20 $20 3) 3) Arty Arty the the Party, Party, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover $20

2) DJ/dancing, DJ/dancing, 10pm, 10pm, no no cover cover 2) 3) Keith Keith Allen Allen Duo, Duo, 8pm, 8pm, no no cover cover 3)

2) DJ/dancing, DJ/dancing, 10pm, 10pm, no no cover cover 2) 3) Keith Keith Allen Allen Duo, Duo, 8pm, 8pm, no no cover cover 3)

2) Nothin Nothin Personal, Personal, 10pm, 10pm, no no cover cover 2)

2) Nothin Nothin Personal, Personal, 10pm, 10pm, no no cover cover 2)

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

CARSON VALLEY VALLEY INN INN CARSON

The Polish Ambassador Oct. 6, 6, 99 p.m. p.m.

Oct. Crystal Bay Bay Club Club Crystal 14 Highway Highway 28 28 14 Crystal Bay Bay Crystal 833-6333 833-6333

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

ELDORADO RESORT RESORT CASINO CASINO ELDORADO 345 N. N. Virginia Virginia St., St., (775) (775) 786-5700 786-5700 345 Showroom 2)2) Brew Brew Brothers Brothers 1)1) Showroom BuBinga Live Live 4)4) Stadium Stadium Bar Bar 3)3) BuBinga

GRAND SIERRA SIERRA RESORT RESORT GRAND

2500 E.E. Second Second St., St., (775) (775) 789-2000 789-2000 2500 Grand Theater Theater 2)2) Lex Lex Nightclub Nightclub 1)1) Grand Sports Book Book 4)4) Cantina Cantina 3)3) Sports

Karaoke

HARRAH’S LAKE LAKE TAHOE TAHOE HARRAH’S

Hwy. 50, 50, Stateline; Stateline; (775) (775) 588-6611 588-6611 1515 Hwy. South Shore Shore Room Room 2)2) Peek Peek 3)3) Center Center Stage Stage 1)1) South

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Elbow Room Room Bar, Bar, 2002 2002 Victorian Victorian Ave., Ave., Sparks, Sparks, 219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 Elbow 219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 359-3526: Th, Th, 7pm, 7pm, no no cover cover 359-3526: Sammy’s Showroom Showroom 2)2) The The Zone Zone 1)1) Sammy’s Sapphire Lounge Lounge 4)4) Plaza Plaza 5)5) Convention Convention Center Center Hangar Bar, Bar, 10603 10603 Stead Stead Blvd., Blvd., Stead, Stead, 3)3) Sapphire Hangar 677-7088: Karaoke Karaoke Kat, Kat, Sa, Sa, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover 677-7088: Murphy’s Law Law Irish Irish Pub, Pub, 180 180 W. W. Peckham Peckham Murphy’s Lane, Ste. Ste. 1070, 1070, 823-9977: 823-9977: Steve Steve Starr Starr Lane, Karaoke, F,F, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover Karaoke, Ponderosa Saloon, Saloon, 106 106 South South CC St., St., Ponderosa Virginia City, City, 847-7210: 847-7210: Steel Steel Rockin’ Rockin’ Virginia Karaoke, F,F, 7:30pm, 7:30pm, no no cover cover Karaoke, Spiro’s Sports Sports Bar Bar && Grille, Grille, 1475 1475 E.E. Prater Prater Spiro’s Way, Ste. Ste. 103, 103, Sparks, Sparks, 356-6000: 356-6000: F-Sa, F-Sa, Way, 9pm, no no cover cover 9pm, West Second Second Street Street Bar, Bar, 118 118 W. W. Second Second St., St., West 384-7976: Daily, Daily, 8pm, 8pm, no no cover cover 384-7976:

HARVEYS LAKE LAKE TAHOE TAHOE HARVEYS

Hwy. 50, 50, Stateline; Stateline; (775) (775) 588-6611 588-6611 1818 Hwy. Outdoor Arena Arena 2)2) Cabo Cabo Wabo Wabo Cantina Cantina Lounge Lounge 1)1) Outdoor

JA NUGGET NUGGET JA

2) Dyer Dyer Maker, Maker, 9:30pm, 9:30pm, no no cover cover 2)

3) DJ/dancing, DJ/dancing, 5pm, 5pm, John John Dawson, Dawson, 7pm, 7pm, 3) 3) DJ/dancing, DJ/dancing, 5pm, 5pm, John John Dawson, Dawson, 7pm, 7pm, 3) 3) DJ/dancing, DJ/dancing, 5pm, 5pm, John John Dawson, Dawson, 7pm, 7pm, 3) 3) DJ/dancing, DJ/dancing, 5pm, 5pm, Bikini Bikini Bull Bull Riding Riding 3) no cover cover no cover cover Competition, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover no no Competition,

1100 Nugget Nugget Ave., Ave., Sparks; Sparks; (775) (775) 356-3300 356-3300 1100 no cover cover no Celebrity Showroom Showroom 2)2) Rose Rose Ballroom Ballroom 3)3) Gilley’s Gilley’s 1)1) Celebrity

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

2) Drinking Drinking with with Clowns, Clowns, 7pm, 7pm, no no cover cover 2)

MONTBLEU RESORT RESORT SPA SPA CASINO CASINO MONTBLEU 55 Hwy. Hwy. 50, 50, Stateline, Stateline, (800) (800) 648-3353 648-3353 55 Theatre 2)2) Opal Opal 3)3) Blu Blu 4)4) The The Zone Zone 1)1) Theatre

SILVER LEGACY LEGACY SILVER

2) Bonzai Bonzai Thursdays Thursdays w/DJ w/DJ Trivia, Trivia, 2)

8pm, no no cover cover 8pm, 407 N. N. Virginia Virginia St., St., (775) (775) 325-7401 325-7401 407 3) University University of of Aura, Aura, Grand Exposition Exposition Hall Hall 2)2) Rum Rum Bullions Bullions Island Island Bar Bar 3) 1)1) Grand 9pm, no no cover cover 9pm, Aura Ultra Ultra Lounge Lounge 4)4) Silver Silver Baron Baron Lounge Lounge 3)3) Aura

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2) DJ DJ Chris Chris English, English, 10pm, 10pm, no no cover cover 2)

2) Drinking Drinking with with Clowns, Clowns, 8pm, 8pm, no no cover cover 2) 3) Fixx Fixx Fridays, Fridays, 7:30pm, 7:30pm, $10 $10 after after 8pm 8pm 3)

Kay Tse, Tse, 7:30pm, 7:30pm, $48-$138 $48-$138 1)1) Kay 2) Drinking Drinking with with Clowns, Clowns, 8pm, 8pm, no no cover cover 2)

3) Boogie Boogie Nights, Nights, 9pm, 9pm, $10 $10 3) 4) Karaoke, Karaoke, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover 4)

The Male Male Room Room,, 8pm.

8pm. $23 $23 3) The 3) Boogie Nights, Nights, 9pm, 9pm, $10 $10 Boogie 4) Karaoke, Karaoke, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover 4)

2) Aces Aces Up, Up, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover 2) 3) Fashion Fashion Friday, Friday, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover 3) 4) Rebekah Rebekah Chase Chase Band, Band, 8pm, 8pm, no no cover cover 4)

2) Aces Aces Up, Up, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover 2) 3) Seduction Seduction Saturdays, Saturdays, 9pm, 9pm, $5 $5 3)

2) Cash Cash Only, Only, 9:30pm, 9:30pm, M, M, The The Connor Connor 2) Party, 9:30pm, 9:30pm, Tu, Tu, Open Open Mic Mic Night, Night, W, W, Party, 9:30pm, no no cover cover 9:30pm, 3) Blackwater, Blackwater, 7pm, 7pm, W, W, Toughest Toughest 3) Cowboy Competition, Competition, 8pm, 8pm, W, W, no no cover cover Cowboy

2) Live Live music, music, 6pm, 6pm, no no cover cover 2)

2) Live Live music, music, 6pm, 6pm, M, M, Tu, Tu, W, W, no no cover cover 2)

2) Recovery Recovery Sundays, Sundays, 10pm, 10pm, no no cover cover 2) 3) Industry Industry Night, Night, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover 3)

2) Gong Gong Show Show Karaoke, Karaoke, 8pm, 8pm, Tu, Tu, no no cover cover 2) Country-Rock Bingo Bingo w/Jeff w/Jeff Gregg, Gregg, Country-Rock 9pm, W, W, no no cover cover 9pm,

For a complete listing of this week’s events, visit newsreview.com/reno weekly PIcks

Art WAlk reno The monthly art walk features works of local and regional artists on display in venues within the Arts District, between Liberty, Second and Virginia streets and Arlington Avenue. There are 15 stops in the art walk, including Sierra Arts Gallery, ArtSpace and Metro Gallery inside Reno City Hall. Other venues include Noble Pie Parlor, Singer Social Club and Neapolitan Gallery, inside the Monolith Bar. There will also be food and drink specials from participating businesses along the way. The walk begins at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 2, at Liberty Fine Art Gallery, 100 W. Liberty St., where you can purchase a ticket for $10, which includes a glass, raffle ticket and program for the evening. Visit http://artspotreno.com/art-walk-reno.

r e n o C e lt i C C e l e b r At i o n The annual festival features pipe bands, Scottish and Irish dancers, Celtic musicians, Highland games, Celtic animal breeds at the animal village, kids’ games, food and drink, and Celtic merchandise. Live entertainment includes performances by the Clarke Brothers, Ciana, 1916, Sierra Highlanders Pipe Band, the City of Sacramento Pipe Band and the Irish Pipers of San Francisco Pipe Band. Gates are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 4-5, at Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road. Tickets are $15 for a one-day pass and $25 for a two day-pass.

Admission is free for kids age 12 and younger with paid attendee. Call 378-0931 or visit www.renoceltic.org.

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The ballpark transforms from summertime green to gruesome scenes this weekend when Fright Fest Productions opens its indoor haunted house for the Halloween season. The house of horrors features a full redesign from previous years with new rooms and terrifying scenes that promoters hope will scare the bejesus out of guests brave, or foolish, enough to enter. Slaughter House opens Saturday, Oct. 3, at Aces Ballpark, 250 Evans Ave. Hours of operation are 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday through Nov. 2. The haunted house will be open late for the Reno Zombie Crawl on Oct. 25 and on Halloween night, Oct. 31. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $22 for a VIP pass. Call (877) 767-2279 or visit wwww.renofrightfest.com.

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This offbeat tradition—which began as a protest against a city ordinance banning outdoor toilets—pits teams of costumed outhouse racers against each other. One person rides and the remaining team members push, pull or drag the decorated outhouses down the racetrack. The Parade of Outhouses will begin at noon on Saturday, Oct. 4, along Virginia City’s main drag, C Street, with races to follow at 1 p.m. The races will begin again on Sunday, Oct. 5, at noon. Admission is free. Call 847-7500 or visit http://visitvirginiacitynv.com.

W e S t e r n h e r i t A g e F e S t i vA l Sparks Museum & Cultural Center hosts the fourth annual event, which observes Nevada’s 150th birthday with music, dance, activities and displays celebrating traditional Nevada arts and culture. The festival features demonstrations in basket making, spinning and weaving, quilting and saddle making, antique engine displays, square dancing and stage performances by cowboy poets, musicians and dancers. The festivities take place on Saturday, Oct. 4, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Victorian Square in downtown Sparks. Most of the events will be at Lillard Railroad Park and on the sidewalks of Victorian Avenue between 14th Street and Pyramid Way. Great Basin Brewing Co. and Cantina Los Tres Hombres will also feature outdoor entertainment as part of the festival on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 3-4. Admission is free. Call 355-1144 or visit www.westernheritagefestival.org.

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YOU’RE WELCOME, EARTH.

Heavy meddle Is it OK to keep your income a secret from someone you’re dating? I recently started seeing a girl I work with (at an advertising company). She believes women at our company get paid less on average, and I suspect she’s right. Yesterday she came right out and asked me how much I make. I’m pretty sure I’m the highest-paid person on our team, but her question made me really uncomfortable, and I told her I make a lot less than I actually do. I felt bad lying to a woman I could get serious with, but I don’t want her or other co-workers knowing my salary.

Your girlfriend decided it was time to bridge the gap between conversation and colonoscopy. She snookered you into going along by asking you point-blank how much you make. This is really rude—on the level of yelling across the office, “Hey, Steve, ya still got that weird rash on your balls?” Because of that, it catches a person off guard, leading to a reaction like yours—stammering out an answer, but not the one the prying person actually deserves: some version of “up your butt with a coconut.”

Maybe she doesn’t believe you’re entitled to boundaries in a relationship, or maybe she decided she could erase yours for a good cause. And sure, you, like most people, probably want the person you’re with to really know you. But really knowing the person you’re dating means understanding their hopes and dreams, not having the same information you’d get if you duct-taped yourself to the awning of the ATM just before they deposited their paycheck.

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Beyond one of the biggest problems with lying— the tendency to get caught—by not standing up for your right to keep select areas of your life private, you’re paving the way for future info-hooverings.

To dial back your privacy settings, tell her you only revealed your salary because you were so unprepared for her to ask about it. Request that she keep a lid on it, and let her know the boundaries that work for you—like that the woman in your life has a right to know how much you make when you’re sharing a checking account, not a cubicle.

You could offer to help her come up with tactics for negotiating a raise. A book you might get her is Ask for It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever. Finally, prepare yourself for being put on the spot by her or anyone with what I call “the power of not right now”—recognizing that you can decline to answer a person’s question right then and there (perhaps with the exception of inquiries like “You gonna give me your wallet, or do I have to gut you with this rusty screwdriver?”). Ω

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): As I hike

through the wilderness at dusk, the crickets always seem to be humming in the distance.

No matter where I go, their sound is farther off, never right up close to me. How can that be? Do they move away from me as I approach? I doubt it. I sense no leaping insects in the underbrush. Here’s how this pertains to you: My relationship with the crickets’ song is similar to a certain mystery in your life. There’s an experience that calls to you but forever seems just out of reach.

You think you’re drawing nearer, about to touch it and be in its midst, but it inevitably eludes you. Now here’s the good news: A change is coming for you. It will be like what would happen if I suddenly found myself intimately surrounded by hundreds of chirping crickets.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In three

years, you will comprehend truths about yourself and your life that you don’t have the capacity to grasp now. By then, past events that have been confusing to you will make sense. You’ll know what their purpose was and why they occurred. Can you wait that long? If you’d rather not, I have an idea: Do a meditation in which you visualize yourself as you will be three years from today.

Imagine asking your future self to tell you what he or she has discovered. The revelations may take a while to start rolling in, but I predict that a whole series of insights will have arrived by this time next week.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The journey

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that awaits you is succinct but epic. It will last a relatively short time but take months to fully understand. You may feel natural and ordinary as you go through it, even as you are being rather heroic. Prepare as best as you can, but keep in mind that no amount of preparation will get you completely ready for the spontaneous moves you’ll be called on to perform. Don’t be nervous! I bet you will receive help from an unexpected source.

Feelings of deja vu may crop up and provide a sense of familiarity—even though none of what occurs will have any precedents.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the wild,

very few oysters produce pearls—about one in every 10,000. Most commercial pearls come from farmed oysters whose pearls have been induced by human intervention. As you might expect, the natural jewel is regarded as far more precious.

Let’s use these facts as metaphors while we speculate about your fate in the next eight months. I believe you will acquire or generate a beautiful new source of value for yourself. There’s a small chance you will stumble upon a treasure equivalent to the wild pearl. But I suggest you take the more secure route: working hard to create a treasure that’s like a cultivated pearl.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In June 2012, a U.S.

Senator introduced a bill that would require all members of Congress to actually read or listen to a reading of any bill before they voted on it. The proposal has been in limbo ever since, and it’s unlikely it will ever be treated seriously. This is confusing to me.

Shouldn’t it be a fundamental requirement that all lawmakers know what’s in the laws they pass? Don’t make a similar error, Leo. Understand exactly what you are getting into, whether it’s a new agreement, an interesting invitation or a tempting opportunity. Be thoroughly informed.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Oliver Evans

(1755-1819) was a prolific Virgo inventor who came up with brilliant ideas for steam engines, urban gas lighting, refrigeration and automated machines. He made a radical prediction: “The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines, almost as fast as birds fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour.” We may be surprised that a visionary innovator like Evans dramatically minimized the future’s possibilities. In the same way, I suspect that later in your life, you might laugh at how much you are underestimating your potentials right now.

In telling you this, I’m hoping you will stop underestimating.

routine in which he imitated various celebrities auditioning to become a spokesperson for troll dolls. With the doll by his side, he won the contest, launching his career as a comedian. I foresee the possibility of a comparable development in your life: an odd blessing or unexpected gift that inspires you to express one of your talents on a higher level.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Dear

So-Called Astrologer: Your horoscopes are worse than useless. Mostly they are crammed with philosophical and poetic crap that doesn’t apply to my daily life. Please cut way back on the fancy metaphors. Just let me know if there is money or love or trouble coming my way—like what regular horoscopes say! —Skeptical Scorpio.” Dear Skeptical: In my astrological opinion, you and your fellow Scorpios will soon feel the kind of pressure you just directed at me. People will ask you to be different from what you actually are. My advice? Do not acquiesce to them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Tomatoes are a staple of Italian cuisine now, but there weren’t any tomatoes in Europe until the 16th century, when Spanish explorers brought them from Central and South America. Likewise, Malaysia has become a major producer of rubber, but it had no rubber trees until seeds were smuggled out of Brazil in the 19th century.

And bananas are currently a major crop in Ecuador thanks to 16th-century Portuguese sailors, who transported them from West Africa. I foresee the possibility of comparable cross-fertilizations happening for you in the coming months, Sagittarius.

Do you have your eye on any remote resources you’d like to bring back home?

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

ago, you experienced an event that was so overwhelming you could not fully deal with it, let alone understand it. All this time it has been simmering and smoldering in the depths of your unconscious mind, emitting ghostly steam and smoke even as it has remained difficult for you to integrate. But I predict that will change in the coming months. You will finally find a way to bring it into your conscious awareness and explore it with courage and grace. Of course it will be scary for you to do so. But I assure you that the fear is a residue from your old confusion, not a sign of real danger. To achieve maximum liberation, begin your quest soon.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): This is

prime time to do things that aren’t exactly easy and relaxing, but that on the other hand aren’t actually painful. Examples: Extend peace offerings to adversaries.

Seek reconciliation with valuable resources from which you have been separated and potential allies from whom you have become alienated. Try out new games you would eventually like to be good at, but aren’t yet.

Get a better read on interesting people you don’t understand very well. Catch my drift, Aquarius? For now, at least, leaving your comfort zone is likely to be invigorating, not arduous.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your oracle

is built around the epigrams of conceptual artist Jenny Holzer. From her hundreds of pithy quotes, I have selected six that offer the exact wisdom you need most right now. Your job is to weave them all together into a symphonic whole. 1. “It’s crucial to have an active fantasy life.” 2. “Ensure that your life stays in flux.” 3. “I have every kind of thought, and that is no embarrassment.” 4. "Animalism is perfectly healthy.” 5. “Finding extreme pleasure will make you a better person if you’re careful about what thrills you.” 6. “Listen when your body talks.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When Jimmy

Fallon was a senior in high school, he received a weird graduation gift: a troll doll, one of those plastic figurines with frizzy, brightly colored hair. Around the same time, his mother urged him to enter an upcoming comedy contest at a nearby club. Jimmy decided that would be fun. He worked up a

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by Sage Leehey

Helping hand

Do you have to be specially certified or anything like that?

Jennifer Barioni is a yoga instructor at Pilates Studio Lake Tahoe, 31 Highway 50, Stateline. She teaches Vinyassa and Power Yoga as well as a class tailored for people suffering from multiple sclerosis. For more information, visit pilatesstudiolaketahoe.com.

I have my yoga teacher training. I’m certified with the Yoga Alliance. And then I also got certified with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society so that I am able to teach people with multiple sclerosis.

Why did you decide to do this?

Tell me about your MS yoga class.

It’s the MS Yoga Project at the Pilates Studio Lake Tahoe, and it is a free class for people with multiple sclerosis, and people’s families can come with them for support. We work on flexibility, mind engagement, strength. … And it’s once a week on Monday night from 5 to 6 p.m. … The goal of the class is to get all the benefits of yoga without overexerting the body because people with multiple sclerosis, it’s not good when they overexert the body.

How does it differ from traditional yoga?

It’s pretty similar to traditional yoga.

It’s linking breaths to movement, linking breaths and getting more flexible, however, we do it all from a chair. My goal in the class is to make sure everybody that has multiple sclerosis that comes can participate whether they’re in a wheelchair full time or they’re walking with a cane or, you know, they have no physical limitations to do this. Everything

is done from a chair, and we use props, and I’m able to modify to anybody’s level.

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What’s the benefit of yoga for people with MS?

We’re getting new members. It’s slowly starting to build. One of the greatest things that I’m seeing is that we’re building a sense of community. Unfortunately, Lake Tahoe doesn’t have a lot of services for people with multiple sclerosis, and there are no support groups here. This is helping bridge that gap and helping people get to know each other. …

They’re giving each other pointers on how to deal with certain issues with multiple sclerosis. And that’s one of the best benefits that I didn’t expect. Ω

This type of practice helps relieve some of the symptoms of multiple sclerosis.

This is definitely not a cure, however. But because it’s a central nervous system disorder, your brain tells the body what to do but because of scar tissue on the myelin that covers the nerves, some of it gets lost in translation. Yoga is great because it helps with attention spans, body-mind awareness, and it helps alleviate some of the symptoms of multiple sclerosis.

Blue skies and pain I’ve seen all the rebuttals, complaints, critiques and questions that have surfaced since the state put together its swift and extremely friendly “Welcome to Nevada!” wine and cheese basket for Mr. Musk and his dreamy little battery barn. Many good points have been made, and yes, one does wonder how this deal is ultimately gonna work out for both Reno and Nevada. One wonders and hopes like hell for the blue sky.

But I’m still supportive, and I’m still optimistic. Sure, it could get ugly if consumers turn their backs on Tesla’s cars when those mid-range 35k models get rolled out in a few years. But let’s not forget how badly this state and our town needed to win something big. Let’s not forget that ever since the dogdoo hit the blades back in '08, Nevada has been the worst of the worst in terms of real estate values and unemployment. The Depressing Recession hit everybody hard, and it happened to hit us the hardest. So just as a way to tell the country that we’re still

My mom has multiple sclerosis, and she was diagnosed in her early 20s. She was a really physically strong person, worked out all the time, but when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, it completely robbed her of her physical life. It was something that was hard for me to see my mom struggle with, and so now that I’m older and a yoga teacher, this is my way of helping others and giving back.

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alive, we’re still conscious, we’re still kickin’, and we’re still a player in some way, we needed to win the Tesla Sweepstakes. We needed not just to compete with, but to put a little whoopass on Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and, of course, our neighbors to the west. We needed some relevance, we needed some mojo, and goddammit, we needed to show people that there’s more to this place than goddamn Reno 911! with its constant national imprinting about meth heads, strippers and gun nuts.

Hell, probably half of the morons out there in TV land still think Officer Dangle is our chief of police or some damned thing!

So we needed Tesla to choose us.

Badly. And I don’t even think of the 3,000 construction jobs or the 6,000 20-bucks-an-hour regular jobs when I think of the upside for Nevada. I think the payoff for us could well be in some way that we can’t even predict or foresee at this time. Maybe it will be in 2020, when Forbes magazine puts Tesla on the cover after a

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record year in sales, and Forbes goes ahead and gets all crazed and raving with a cover calling Reno the new Detroit. Maybe it will be when the research and development section of Tesla finds a way to build a battery that boosts the range of an electric car to 500 miles, thereby putting the final nails in the coffins of dirty little fossil fuel suckers. Maybe it will be when Tesla announces its brand new and very affordable line of Jetson type flying saucer air cars.

Hell, I don’t know. But you get the point. Obviously, the state of Nevada is betting on something spectacular, or at least really good, coming out of the gigafactory. We wanted and needed to be part of something hot, hip, and happening. And who do you wanna bet on in this exciting and treacherous modern world—Elon Musk or Steve Wynn? Ω

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